Season 2 Episode 7

***DISCLAMER!!!!:*** This is written in part second person, part third person, and part first person, so caution.

This episode is the Demon Slayer Play Challenge.

Now the story. It is mostly written from Rinki's P.O.V.

## S2:E7 Budget Slayer

### Director

Mia Thompson

When we got home, we were told what the challenge was. We were dressing up as demon slayer characters and playing in a band. I only knew that me, Zane and Seth played an instrument. While there might be a slight chance that others played something, I have no idea how good they were. We went to bed, and the next day was my first school day in a long time. My friends were always asking where I was, but I wasn't allowed to tell them so I felt bad about leaving them in the dark. When the day was over, I grabbed my instrument from school. I was supposed to text Manny and Skyler what I played so they could make arrangements. I did just that. After I texted what I played, I was assigned to be Nakime. I liked her! Zane asked me who I got, and he said he was happy because he got Tanjiro which was the only character he knew. He also wanted to know what I played. I told him, and he seemed to like it. He played a double bass. We got onto the bus, and everyone was handed out their costumes. However, it still would take a really long time to pick everyone up from school. Yaromir asked who I got, and I told him. Apparently, he was playing the bass clarinet, so I was happy to have another bass line gang homie. We were put in the back next to Zane because of the fact that our instruments were bass ones, and we ended up asserting dominance on the other ones. The only other kid we were missing was Danny, because he played the tuba. Finally, Manny and Skyler passed out music. We were scared to see what we would get as music, but took it anyway. I nervously pulled it out, but before I saw the title, I saw Zane squealing and jumping, so I pulled it out faster. It was a piece called tripwire. I fricking played this in my actual band class, and it was gorgeous. Me, Zane, and Yaromir all knew this piece well, and started holding each other's shoulders and jumping up and down. Little did we know how torturous this was going to be. The first thing the other kid shad to do was pick an instrument. Then papers containing all the fingerings were handed out. We already knew everything, as well as how to play this piece, so watching the other kids was really the only thing we could do. Some kids knew what they wanted to play, and some kids legit took ten minutes to pick something. Everyone knew hw to read music, it was just the rhythm, tempo and the style of music. Mostly, the harmony and bassline to Tripwire were easy, its just the melody that was painful. The first time we played the entirety of the song, i was in shock. Like I actually felt like I was going to start shaking on the floor. It was, so bad... Yaromir actually looked like he was about to throw up due to the trumpets squeaking 75% of the time, Zane was cowering behind his double bass, and I was holding my head with my hands. Danny was really lucky that he didn't have to listen to this... Before it started to get good, it took kids who had the melody about two hours to play it correctly. Because our mouths were hurting like no other (except the four percussion kids of course), we were allowed to take a long break to recuperate. During this time, everyone was super excited about Tripwire, and all of the kids were talking about it. The kids were separated by the type of instrument they played, but they could walk around. It was separated by Bass kids, Tenor kids, Alto kids, and Soprano kids. Madison (who played a flute and was one of the Soprano kids) came over, and the first thing she did was go over to Yaromir, and take an attempt at "flirting with him." Me, Zane and Danny were trying our hardest not to laugh at Madison while Yaromir was trying his hardest to ignore her. She eventually got to saying in a REALLY stupid and uwu-sounding voice, "OMG Yaromir I love your saxophone!!!" Suddenly, we all snapped. However, it was mainly just me and Yaromir. He turned his head almost 180 degrees, and looked at her with a "you have 3 seconds to run" look. He eventually got up and just stared at her while looking down. I never realized how short she was, she was like 2 feet shorter than him! Madison tried to run away, but Yaromir picked her up by the shirt, and he said full of malice, "What did you call it?" Madison was kind of frozen with shock, and she couldn't do anything but stutter. He eventually just got sick of that and took her over to the Soprano table where he dropped her in her seat. He just kind of walked away after that. He sat back down at our table and picked up his bass clarinet, then started making circles on it while whispering in a goofy voice that everything was gonna be ok and that the bad lady was gone now. We heard this, and started laughing our heads off. After a while, we were called back to the chairs, and we finally played tripwire. Like all the way through. The melody kids FINALLY got it down, and my heart was fixed. I could live. We finally finished, and it sounded so good! Everyone was cheering, and then we got to go home.