dye

dance

Location: the woods
Date:
POV: 3th person

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"Michelle?" Jake asks.
"Yes?"
"Put this jacket on, and pull the hood as far up as possible. We can't afford it to get recognized, so we won't. Understand?" He says, handing her a (seemingly) black jacket.

Michelle nods as an answer and takes the jacket from him. It's too big for her, and as expected covers her blonde hair and blue eyes.

Jake does the same with a similar jacket, but his has a green and blue  bear on the back.

"The spirit animals." Michelle mumbles.
He doesn't answer, just looks at her. "Let's go." Jake says.

He grabs her hand and runs into the woods, Michelle stumbling behind him and eventually picking up the pace. They run and run until they arrive at an old cottage. The windows are covered in black paint from the inside, so you can't see what's happening inside. There's a small garden in front of it with wild flowers everywhere, and a small pond. A path in the middle of the dreamy garden leads to a dilapidated door with black paint falling of it, seeing it wasn't waterproof.

The brick walls are covered in tags and paint, mostly by the spirit animal painter. They're colourful animals, like the one on Jake's back. You see wolves, fish, sheep, tortoises, everything you can imagine, in loads of colours."This is amazing." Michelle whispers. She walks onto the path. Jake follows her, until they stand in front of the door.

He knocks 5 times. The door opens, and he steps in front of her, so she can't see the person opening the door. "Hey guys. Cover your face, I have someone new, it's not sure if she will join yey."

Offended mumbles and whispers sound from inside, a few angry yells, as clothing is moved and Michelle waits, looking back into the woods.

"Come in Michelle."

She steps inside, next to Jake. It's at that moment Jake notices the royal blue dragon.

that appeared on her back. It has some shading with midnight blue and sky blue colours. There are glowing golden eyes, watching with every move.

"Welcome Michelle. We are the spirit animals, and you are one of us."
May walks in, the mask showing her animal, a green squirrel. "You have been asked by our boss to join us, with your role being the painter, but of course, you have to dance. So I'm asking you, can you perform Michelle, right here, right now, in a dance battle. Your opponment will be our Phoenix. Both of you can get a partner. Choose and get ready."

Michelle doesn't recognize her teacher, and she's scared. Scared that she won't get in. "Help me Jake."
"What made you think I wouldn't?"
"It's your place over there."
"And the boss asked you to join. You really don't have to worry Michelle. You'll see."

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Michelle actually sees the room when everyone places themselves in the sofas next to the walls, expect for a guy with blood red eyes, watching Michelle and Jake, and a girl with a neon pink fish as her spirit animal. The boy has a Phoenix.

All the walls are completely painted black. The lamps are hanging from a big metal construction in the middle of the big hall, they look sort of like stage lights. At the back there's an metal balcony, where a guy controlling the lights, and the woman that gave the speech are standing.
In the middle of the room is a big dancing floor, with neon lights, right now giving a purple colour to everyone in the room. The white sofa's on the side seem to light up, so one of the lights must be some sort of blacklight.

"Are you ready?" The woman announces, trough a microphone, which makes the entire room cheering.
"You got this Michelle. Trust me." She just nods and looks at the Phoenix.

The music starts in. Phoenix starts dancing, grabbing the hand of the girl next to him and moving perfectly on the notes. I just look at them. Unimpressed. They don't move with the music, they move on the music. It's just an extra, like the blurry background in some movies. It has to be there, otherwise it would be unlogic, but it's just in the way of their dance.

The beat changes and they nod to wards me. Michelle recognize the notes from an old dance of the Spirit Animals, in December 2015. Their moves weren't as good as now, that's why she doesn't perform their dance. She takes some parts from that dance trough, to fit the music nicely, and some moves from musicals and ballets she saw just to draw scenes.

Jake gets pulled into the dance as well, and he supports me as much as he can, but he's more of a background dancer. He knows exactly what to do for some reason, and supports me exactly when I need him to.

I hear the music slowly fading out, so I slow down dancing, and when I almost can't hear the music anymore. I make a jump and end right in front of Phoenix, looking straight into his red eyes. Phoenix stares back at her. "She's in." Phoenix says, turning around to the woman on the balcony thing.

"Yeah?" She says. "She knows the dance we performed with this song and made it better. The moves were almost unrecognizable, but they were there to bring the dance to another part of the story. I can see her in the group."
"Alright. I'll contact the boss. Red and Jake, you guys explain her position. The others, go practice the next dance." The woman explains. She puts the microphone down and all the people start talking and moving to positions.

"Michelle, this way please." Phoenix, or Red says. He leads me and Jake trough the crowd towards an old iron door in the back of the room. I didn't notice it before since it's underneath the metal construction of the balcony. Red opens the door, which leads to what I assume once was the kitchen.

It has white tile walls, shining clean. In the middle is a black island with on top a city plan. It's all in colours, with a small explanation of the colours at the side. Next to the island are black and white barstools, with cushions in rainbow colours, also used in the plan.

"Please take a seat Michelle." Red says.

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My favourite character finally arrived.
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usic for the dance included at the top skip to 37 seconds.
Suggestions for future song can be in the comments.