Vocaloid Actors (Book #1 of Vocaloid Actors Trilogy)

Chapter 3

"Oh, one more thing before I leave," she says, grabbing my shoulders. "Come to the Vocaloid World tonight, and I will re-introduce you to the Vocaloid Actors, plus you will need to talk to the Vocaloid Masters now you have found your band."

"How do I do that? I can't remember," I ask, my memory fuzzy as ever.

"Before you go to sleep, touch your band, as you fall asleep you will be transported to the Vocaloid World," she explains. "That's not the only way, but it is the best one for the situation."

"But what if my mum comes to check on me and sees that I'm gone."

Rachel giggles. "Your body doesn't move. The best way to explain it is that it happens in your mind, except it is all real. Does that make sense?"

"Kind of, you mean like dreams?" I ask.

"Yeah, except real," she confirms.

"Could I have really been at the Vocaloid World in my dreams?" I ask.

"Maybe, you were invisible to us though, and the figures were all blurry to you as you weren't wearing your band," Rachel says.

~bedtime

Could I really do this? I gulp and touch the band before closing my eyes. I wake up in the location of my dreams.

I adjust to the new surroundings before someone barrels into me, almost knocking me over, and engulfs me in a hug.

"You came!" I look up and see it's Rachel. Her hair is shorter, reaching just under her ears. She kept the hairpins and a massive white bow sits on top of her hair.

She is wearing a school uniform mixed with a sailor outfit. She has a black collar with two thin yellow lines over a white shirt, and tying the collar together is a massive yellow bow not unlike the one in her hair. She is wearing booty shorts with a yellow strap hanging from the yellow belt and massive boots that seem to cave in at the bottom. A/N I have no idea what that thing covering her and Len's legs is so I am describing them as boots. She is also wearing what seems to be a futuristic wrist control, with buttons glittering from top to bottom. Above the wrist control is a red 02.

She finally lets go of me and I get a proper look of the new surroundings and myself. I am dressed exactly as Meiko was, and as I check my hair, it seems to be shoulder-length. I cringe, I may not care about my hair, but that is too short for me.

I look around and see several figures scattered around the room, who are all looking, wide-eyed and shocked, at me.

"You are finally back," says the turquoise-haired girl. I recognise her but I can't place my finger on her name. There is a pink-haired girl standing next to her who I have seen in my dreams but I can't remember from my patchy memories. Maybe I disappeared before she came.

"Oh, right, I guess I better re-introduce you and re-introduce my fellow Vocaloid Actors to you," Rachel says. "Hey everybody, this is Mia Gale and she plays Meiko as you can see. I only just discovered this myself. She has very patchy memories from when she was 5-6 years old of being a Vocaloid Actor. She seemed to have lost her band in her bedside table which explains her nine-year absence."

"Hey, Mia," several voices ring out.

"Mia, this is Maryann Ganz, she plays Miku Hatsune -," she points to the turquoise-haired girl. She has these weird black and purple bands that seem to be floating that support her twin-tails. She is wearing a grey shirt with a blue tie. She has the same sort of wrist control that Rachel has. Her shirt seems to split at the bottom to reveal a black skirt with several flashing yellow lights. She has a red 01 at the top of her left arm. She has thigh-high black boots with blue soles.

"Louis Parans, plays Len Kagamine -" she points at a blond-haired boy who I have vague memories of when we filmed a PV together. He looks a lot like Rachel except his hair is spiked up. He also wears normal shorts, not booty shorts. He wears a yellow tie instead of a bow. That's where the differences end. He has the same last name as Rachel which sounds slightly suspicious.

"Lucy Stone, plays Luka Megurine, appeared after you disappeared so you wouldn't remember her -" she points at the pink-haired girl. She is wearing a black top that matches perfectly with a long black skirt, it kinda looks like a dress. On the top there is some sort of golden decoration, I can't tell what it is supposed to represent. She is also wearing a wrist control which is gold in colour. Her skirt is topped with two gold belts and she is wearing knee-high lace-up gold boots. She has 03 written on her left arm in red like Miku, Rin and Len's tattoos.

"And finally, Kevin Hale, who plays Kaito," she points at a dark-blue-haired man. He is wearing a long white coat outlined with the same blue as his hair. He has a long blue scarf which flows out behind him even though there is no wind. From I can tell, he has a black top and trousers under his coat, and has knee-high boots.

I look down at myself and notice I am wearing brown knee-high boots as well. I look up and notice all of the Vocaloid Actors are wearing headphones apart from me and Kevin. Maryann has black, Rachel and Louis has white and Lucy has black with gold patterning.

"At least you are finally back, the Vocaloid Masters can stop panicking," says Lucy who has a low and calming voice. "Nice to see you at last."

"Y-Yeah," I say, a bit overwhelmed.

"That reminds me! You need to see the Vocaloid Masters and explain yourself," says Rachel, and I worry. This must show on my face as she adds, "Don't worry, they'll hear you out, they aren't that bad. They might be angry, but hey, you have been missing nine years, what do you expect?"

"O-Okay, how do I see them?" I ask.

She grabs my hand and takes me to a circle on the floor that is white. She presses a button and light obscures my vision. I blink and notice I am in some sort of office room. There is a black desk with two suited figures behind it. One is male and one is female and both are wearing sunglasses for some reason.

"What was that?" I whisper to Rachel.

"Teleportation," she whispers back. "Pay attention to the Vocaloid Masters."

"So you are finally back!" the male says in a deep voice.