The Dawn of Our Love

Prologue

It had only been a few months since the no romance ban was lifted for people over 20 and to be honest, the idols of Shining Entertainment weren't sure what to do about it. There were a few of the idols that were interested in someone else who worked there but most of them decided to not try to pursue anything in case it would cause issues with each other. Like STARISH for example, they all liked Nanami but they decided to not go after her for the sake of their friendships. However there were a few that did indeed wish to go after their crush, and Adryn, Ember, Serin, and Arcadia are just a few of them. The four of them make up an idol group called DAWN.

Adryn is a 21-year-old who used to be in a band as the band's lead singer and lead guitar player. She also writes short stories and wishes to publish a novel one day. She is not only an idol but also a composer, which is why she is living in the same dorm room as Nanami as her mentor. The two get along fairly well even though their personalities are nowhere near similar. Adryn has been a huge fan of QUARTET NIGHT for a while now and she is an even bigger fan of Reiji Kotobuki. Though she tries to keep both her love for QUARTET NIGHT and Reiji Kotobuki a secret as she finds it way too embarrassing to admit she is a fan of them. She is also a fan of STARISH and HEAVENS, but not nearly as much. Adryn has a hard time making friends, so she is only acquainted with all of them, however, she actually is friends with HEAVENS as she wrote a few of their songs at one point. Her and Ember have been friends since they were 6 years old and treat each other as if they are sisters. Mostly everyone who sees them thinks they are twins anyway, so they tend to just go along with it.

Ember is a 21-year-old who got her start in singing anime openings and closings. She is an artist who aspires to create her own manga while also being an idol. She lives in the room next to Nanami and Adryn. She is a fan of QUARTET NIGHT and STARISH and is friends with all of them, however, she isn't a fan of HEAVENS that much and strongly dislikes most of them. She is especially close to Ai (age: 20). She knew instantly that he was a robot and told him about it, which fascinated him as no one had been able to tell what he was so quickly, not that many people even know in the first place. Ember is open with her fangirling moments over the things she's a fan of. She doesn't have someone to mentor, but she does give Tomochika advice every now and then as the two of them share the dorm room together.

Serin is a 21-year-old who is new to the idol business. She went to the academy to get to where she is now all because she saw one of Ranmaru Kurosaki's concerts. When she saw him as an idol, she wanted to be like him and decided to try to be an idol even though she didn't really like singing with other people all that much. She isn't familiar with QUARTET NIGHT's music or STARISH's and definitely doesn't know anything about HEAVENS, she only listens to anything with Ranmaru Kurosaki in it. Serin isn't close with Ember or Adryn but she seems to get along with Arcadia well enough that they speak to each other, rather than just be in the same room and tolerate each other. They share a dorm room together since they were able to get along so well and are fairly new to being an idol.

Arcadia is a 21-year-old who was only brought into the idol business on orders from her parents. They thought she was too quiet and lonely and made the decision to send her away to the academy. To her surprise, she was decent at writing lyrics and singing and agreed to go along with it. She still would rather be behind the camera and out of the public eye, but the support from her fellow group mates helps her go along with it. At first, she didn't care at all about the others working for Shining Entertainment but then she saw one of Camus' performances and fell in love with his look. She isn't too fond of his actual personality however and most days she would rather smack the attractiveness off of him, but still, she is a fan of him. She is slowly becoming a fan of STARISH and QUARTET NIGHT as well, but she has a hard time getting past the "way too happy" people that both the idol groups have in them, meaning Reiji Kotobuki, Natsuki Shinomiya, and Otoya Ittoki. She is only vaguely aware of HEAVENS existence.

Like the members of QUARTET NIGHT, the members of DAWN didn't get along too well. They were on a worse level than the guys though, as the guys can work together while the girls can barely be in the same room together without arguing. That is how the 8 of them ended up in Shining's office late at night after being summoned by Ringo and Hyuga. The president himself wasn't there, as he was off doing more important things.

"So since you four cannot get along, and you other four have an even worse time getting along, Shining decided to mix things up a bit." Ringo started, cheerfully once all the members of QUARTET NIGHT and DAWN were in the room.

"By mixing things up, it means you eight will be put in pairs and will exclusively work with that partner until you can learn to appreciate the members of your group and get along with people better." Hyuga continued after Ringo spoke.

"The new groups will be Adryn and Reiji, Ember and Ai, Serin and Ranmaru and Arcadia and Camus. Good luck." Ringo finished, smiling as if he just gave everyone some good news. With that, both the flamboyant man and the calm one left the room, leaving the 8 idols alone with each other.

"Um, what?" Adryn mumbled, reeling from the new situation.

"This is your fault." Serin suddenly snapped at Adryn. "If you didn't have such a bad attitude towards everyone we'd get along a lot better."

"My bad attitude has nothing to do with this. It was known from the start that I hate generally everyone. It's you and Arcadia that's the problem."

"I agree with that," Arcadia admitted, knowing full well that she was difficult to get along with. "At least we can agree that Ember didn't contribute to the issue at hand." Arcadia was trying to lighten the situation up a bit, however, that backfired quickly.

"Really? She's the biggest problem. If she weren't so damn friendly then it wouldn't be as obvious that we aren't." Serin growled, turning her anger to the girl with the dyed pink hair. Cue Adryn's "sister-protect mode".

"Don't blame her for this. It isn't her fault that she gets along with everyone no matter how annoying that is." Adryn said, defending her friend which honestly wasn't bothered by the comment. It was a natural reaction for both of them to defend each other, so it was expected to happen.

"Should we stop them?" Reiji hesitantly asked Ember, as the 5 of them watched Adryn and Serin argue with Arcadia throwing out conflicting agreements.

"No, this is completely normal, they do this at least 3 times a day, on a good day. Unless they start physically fighting we should leave them alone." Ember said, assuring the worried male.

"You mean they have physical fights? Like they throw punches and draw blood?" Ranmaru questioned, honestly a little shocked at that. Ember nodded her head, acting as if it was completely normal.
"Such undignified and appalling behavior. How dare they act like this, it will give us a bad reputation if we have to work with them." Camus scoffed, offended at the situation.

"We might behave "undignified" and "appalling" but at least we don't have an ice sickle shoved up our asses like you pretty boy." Arcadia snapped at the icy-eyed man, shocking the boys in the room. Even though she was quite shy when she got annoyed with anyone she tended to show another side to her, a much different side.

"Oh god Arc, you can't suddenly say that to people," Serin mumbled at her side, bursting into laughter at the offended and horrified look on Camus' face. Serin wasn't the only one laughing, Ranmaru, Adryn, and Ember were dying of laughter. Ember was nearly in tears and had to hold onto a chair to not fall over. Reiji was chuckling at the comment but tried to hold it in to avoid Camus' wrath. Even Ai was finding the situation a bit funny, but it wasn't as obvious.

"How dare you." Camus finally spoke once the initial shock wore off. No one had ever spoken that way to him before and to hear such language from a shy girl was just as shocking. Camus descended into an argument with the shy girl as Adryn and Serin's fight started up again, causing chaos throughout the group. Suddenly a loud "Hey!" boomed throughout the room, causing everyone to fall instantly silent.

"Okay, this is getting out of hand. Why don't we all get to bed and deal with this in the morning?" Ember finally said, in her loud voice, trying to put an end to the situation before Adryn could join in with the vulgar insults like she would usually.

"I agree," Reiji said, a little unnerved at how loud the pink haired girl was, before guiding his group mates out of the room while Ember guided her group mates out as well. They headed towards their dorm floors and that was the end of that little adventure, but also the beginning of a new one.