Bodur woke up in his own room, feeling very much alive, but he still had a pit of worry in his stomach. He looked to the side, and bolted upright and screamed at the sight of Laurence, sitting like a gargoyle on top of his nightstand. "It wasn't a dream, bro. We gotta get this band started." he murmured. Bodur groaned and flopped back down on his bed. "Nice metal scream btw." Laurence added.
Soon, Bodur padded barefoot into his instrument room, tying his black kungfu belt tighter. Laurence's eyes widened behind his skeleton mask at the sight of all the different playables lining the walls. "Woooaahhh." he whispered. Unable to contain himself, he unhooked a guitar from the wall and immediately started shredding on it. Bodur watched in amazement at the seemingly bored ferryman breathing new life into the instrument. Bodur blindly reached for the closest instrument to him-an accordion. If it was possible to "shred" on an accordion, he made it possible, whilst Laurence rewrote his own identity with the electric strings at his fingertips.
He lifted up the guitar, now discovering the word
A P P L A U S E on the back. Of course, Bodur applauded without question! But then, Laurence discovered something else on the guitar. "Cool, what's this button do?" he asked, pressing it anyway. A blast of energy bursted from the guitar, shooting a drum set...and reducing it to ashes. "Lol my bad." Laurence chuckled as Bodur's mouth hung open in disbelief. "THAT WAS MY ONLY DRUM SET!" he panicked. Laurence, still unbothered, examined the guitar. "Dude why do you have a death ray on this anyway?" he laughed. Bodur pondered this. "I...thought it would be cool." he murmured bashfully. Laurence smiled behind his mask. "It IS cool. We can get another drum kit!" "AND A METAL BAND IN 24 HOURS???" Bodur suddenly panicked again.
"Totally, dude." Laurence calmy replied, patting Bodur on the shoulder blade. But then, they hear a monstrous roar, followed by the sound of clashing cymbals and loud thumps. The two masked men looked at eachother through their eye holes. "DRUMS!" they said in unison.
They carried their chosen instruments outside to follow the noise. What they found were...not drums. Well, not exactly drums. It resembled a monster, crawling on metallic legs. It had a round gaping mouth filled with large human-like teeth, and big round demonic eyes. "Looks like a possessed drum kit. Do you think we can un-possess it?" Bodur wondered out loud.
"You fool! That is Sloar The Insatiable! He is The Seventh Horror from The Beyond! No mortal man can tame him!" Laurence suddenly turned serious and edumacated Bodur on his foolishness. "Well you're immortal, and you're gonna help me tame him!" Bodur ordered, running off toward the beast of a drum kit.
Sloar The Insatiable was too busy gobbling up a man wearing a tie to notice the funny masked man Naruto-running towards him. Bodur tripped on a bump in the road and fell right on his face. Laurence facepalmed, and went after his clumsy friend. "You're really living up to your name, my dude." Laurence teased as he helped him up, then collected the tie-man's soul and put it in his pocket.
Suddenly, they realized Sloar was barreling towards them, causing quite a commotion with his cymbals and thumps. Bodur lifted a traffic cone and threw it at the beast, while Laurence did the same with a job-johnny. Another masked man, this one in pink, joined them in throwing all sorts of objects at Sloar to slow him down, including a construction barrel, a Men At Work road sign, and a manhole cover. Sloar just kept coming after them, for he was indeed Insatiable. But since the manhole cover was removed from the ground, he fell in, now causing a commotion underground. "Man, that was underwhelming." grumbled Laurence. The pink masked man who helped them trapped the beast underground by re-covering the manhole.
"Uh thanks dude, but we needed him for our metal band. Because he is a drum set." Bodur explained. The man in pink smirked in determination, then hoisted a construction barrel over his shoulder. He began beating on it in a funky rhythm, prompting Laurence to pluck his Applause guitar. Bodur grinned, and squeezed his accordion. They rocked out in the middle of the construction site...then realized they were still in the middle of a construction site, and should probably leave.
"I'm Mumutits, by the way." said the man in the pink mask. Laurence and Bodur snorted humorously at his funny name, causing him to make a sour face. "Aw what's with the sour face, Mumutits The Sour?" Bodur teased. "I could leave right now. Then you'll fail your quest." said Mumutits. Bodur suddenly changed his tune and begged on his knees for him to stay. "That's more like it." said Mumutits, his determined smirk returning.
