Mau5in' Around

Chapter 20

“London, London! Are you ready to party?”

A loud roar of shouts and screams boomed in the stage hall.

“Tonight we have a very interesting guest tonight. All the way from Canada, may we present… Dead Mau5!”

More screams followed. The hungry crowd didn’t know who exactly they were screaming for, but at this point, they didn’t care. The majority of the lot were eighteen year-olds to twenty-five year-olds. They were just dying for entertainment of some sort.

Out merged the rodent DJ himself, throwing his hands in the air for his audience. Raven stepped out right behind him. Part of her felt the urge to hide herself as much as possible, in case a friend of hers was out in that crowd (because after all, London was just a drive away from Essex). Perhaps Alesia was out there? Probably not with Raven missing… It wouldn’t really matter, because who would recognize her in this mask and wig?

“Hiiii, friends~” Mau5 shouted, his face glowing with glee.

The young people in the front began to hysterically jump up and down, clawing at the stage. They were desperate to touch either Mau5 or Raven with their greedy hands. Just like Paris, Raven thought. She expected better from her home country. Was Essex the only city that seemed to be civil when Dead Mau5 came through?

Raven felt Mau5’s presence loom over her. He whispered in ear just loud enough for her to hear: “Gonna start with Cthulhu Steps as the opening… And that’s the short version. Okay~?”

Raven nodded over her shoulder. Mau5’s grin became visible in the dark; the inside of his mouth was gleaming a slight cyan color. Someone was a bit happy, she thought, chuckling to herself.

Mau5 then turned and slinked behind the giant syncboard on stage. The crowd was shouting so many different things, it was slurring into loud noise. She could pick out things like “bloody hell,” “the fock is that?” and “mouse face”, but most of it was all gibberish.

Suddenly, the sound of electronic whips and syncs began to flood the speaker system above. Immediately afterward, the bright lights around the stage sparked to life and the colors of green and blue lit up the entire room. That rubbish of noise quickly melted into cheering and more excitement.

“Watch out!” Mau5 shouted in his mic, “You’ll awaken Cthulhu~”

Only Raven understood his comment, but the crowd just shouted at him in confusion. It didn’t, however take long for the crowd to start jumping, spinning and dancing. Raven started with a simple swing, moving just her hips, core, arms and head from side to side. She was going to avoid using up too much energy for this show… she’s need it for later.

“Move, friends… move~!” Mau5 shouted, as he whipped the syncs up a notch.

You aren’t referring to me, are you?

The crowd was jumping and dancing with so much aggression. The were making the stage tremble. He had to be talking to Raven.

“Feel me~ Move~”

Raven stepped it up a bit, adding some more stomps and dramatic swings. But she kept the jumping to a minimum.

Cthulhu Steps continued to play on, hypnotizing everyone in the giant room. They started off jumping all over the place, but after two minutes in, there was a swaying wave that pulsed through the audience as they moved to the music. It almost hypnotized Raven to mimic them, but she stayed strong and kept with her independent dance.

Lights. Off. Lights. Off.

Thump-whip-kraz-thump-whip-kraz-thump!