I'm not scared anymore

Chapter sixteen: Ritual

Amelia's pov:

Kaisarion started playing and the screams from the fans echoed in the big hall. The white curtain that was covering the stage dropped, revealing the band. Screams got louder as Rain, Aether and Sodo walked to the front of the stage with their guitars. I was peeking to the stage, waiting for my turn.

My heart was pounding in my chest and i could feel my hands get sweaty. I tried to calm myself down. I know all of the songs and i haven't made even the slightest mistakes in the last few practices. The song continued and my turn to go to the stage was getting closer and closer. I adjusted my guitar strap and took my guitar pick to my hand.

The song got closer to it's end and Rain, Aether and Sodo headed to their spots. Sodo's spot was on the right side of the stage, Rain's in the middle and Aether's on the left side of the stage. Copia walked to the front of the stage and was soon starting his speech. I knew that my turn was just around the corner."Do you guys know what?" Copia started. "I feel like we are missing something." Crowd gave him a confused look, not understanding what he meant. "I'm not sure but something like-" Copia said before i interrupted his speech by starting to play a short riff on my guitar. Confused and excited screams echoed from the crowd as they were trying to figure out where the sound was coming from.

"Yeah, that's exactly what it meant!" Copia exclaimed. "Do it again" Copia said, looking at Aether and Sodo. The both of them gave each other a confused looks, then looking back to Copia, shrugging their shoulders. "It wasn't you two?" Copia asked, looking at Sodo and Aether. He then moved his gaze to Swiss. Swiss lifts his hands up in the air in surrender, showing that it wasn't him either.

I now started playing the riff again and started walking towards the front of the stage. The crowd started to scream as i walked to the stage. I was pretty focused on my playing so i wasn't watching to the crowd. "Yes, that is exactly what we are missing!" Copia exclaimed as i walked next to him. I finished my riff and now lifted my gaze from my guitar and looked to the crowd giving them a little bow.

I have never seen that many people before, there were so many humans there, i couldn't even see the back row. In the front row there was a few girls that had their faces painted like Copias, they were going crazy. I gave the two of them a little wave and tossed them my guitar pick as i headed to my spot on the stage.

I had 4 guitar picks taped on my guitar so i had spare i could use. My spot on the stage was going to be in the middle with Rain, but since it was four of us now, Copia told me that i could also play at the both sides of the stage. That comforted me a little that i had Rain on my side on the stage. The amount of humans scared me a little. After what happened in the city with the two men, i have been a little bit more cautious with humans.

The next song that we're going to play is hunter's moon. Copia finished his talk with the crowd and we started playing the song. I loved how the crowd was all hyped up. They sang along with Copia, some of them were even dancing. They sure were having a good time.

I looked at Rain as i was playing, he gave me a little smile as he noticed me looking at him. The way he looked on the stage made me feel butterflies on my stomach. Even though it was pretty dark in the stage, the dim lights highlighted his body perfectly.

I still couldn't focus that much on anything else than my playing, but now i wasn't that nervous that i was before coming to the stage. After hunter's moon we played Mary on a cross, Kiss the Go-Goat, Jesus he knows me, Rats and then Cirice.

Copia had told us that the crowd loves when during Cirice someone gets ciriced by Copia, but Copia told us that we could do that too, i think i just don't feel confident enough to do so yet.