Category : Stories

Sub Category : Horror

Winter was about to come, they were finished with the concerts; band went back to Jersey and announced a break for the holidays. Now the most of the things they were doing was giving interviews and live stream videos. Their fans were more excited about live videos than their new album.
Will covered again his tattoo, the phoenix on his back, but he didn’t take the risk to make another one. Mike was talking with more countries for cooperation for the spring tour, European one bring them a lot of fame and money. Tonny found another band to play with in his free time, and Chester was taking care for his daughter soon she would turn three years old.
“Sabbath period is repeating” Will was mumbling, holding his strong arms crossed in front of his chest. Tonny and Alex were sitting next to him, Mike shush them and turned on the live stream.
“Maybe we should silence for a while…”
“Hell no„ Alex cut him. “We are rock band, we don’t “silence” when some fan starts crying.”
“Half of them are against us. Boyfriend of the dead girl started investigation against us.”
“He is just a kid.”
“His parents aren’t. They can bring us trouble.”
“Would you shut up?!” Mike turned the monitor so people could see him.
People started with questions which Chester was recording and asking, Mike was answering. Some of them he let pass some pretended not to hear. They wanted to make them look weak and guilty. 
“Would you explain why the teenage girl at France was murdered, if the problem was only with your vocalist?”
“For the thirty eight time” Mike bend forward. “We don’t know why thy attacked innocent girl.”
“Are you counting?”
“Yes, I’m counting. People killed for Charles Manson too. We never provoked anyone to do violence!”
“Get out of here”
Alex pushed him, moving him with force from his place. 
“Tell us, Alex, why that girl died because of you, if your band is nothing more than stage performance and a paint?”
“Our band is much more than a stage performance and fake blood” he growl so the monitor lost its picture for a second. “We are family; we share our music and our life and emotions with it. People we collect on our concerts share our idea for life. And you are douche bags if you think I will bite on your provocation. You poke the fire hoping that we all will burn in it. 
It’s not me who killed Leticia, if I could find the one responsible for her death, I would personally deal with him.”
Chester’s face was angry; another nasty question was on its way.
“Just a words.”
“And I am just an artist, who is singing in a band. If you want the killer to be found, ask the same questions to the police. I have no power in finding and punishing criminals.”
A repining came from other people, watching.
“Ignore those for our emissions from now on.” Said Alex.
“You would not hide from the question, shutting us down!” said the little media before Chester block them.
“Nope. But I will spare myself from the headache!”
A few hours later at the living room were just him and Michael, other guys went to their rooms. Alex was sitting on the sofa turned his back at the door and reading one of the many printed papers around him. 
“What are you doing?”
“Writing. Look at this.” He gave him one of the pages, which Mike recognized as a song lyric.

Awaken from your corrupt desires
Were you lonely without me here?
Your sense of justice turns into evil
In your heart breeding me


“I know this one.”
“Japanese band” answered Alex.”It’s old, most of their lyrics are like this. 
“It’s too much for now, too much violence. We can’t afford releasing something like this, not now.”
“And what, we will hide like mice?”Alex shoot with his hand on the table and pages flied in different directions. Mike stood still.
“You should understand we are walking on very thin edge now. It will define if we will exist as a band, or the rumors will bury us.
Vampire looked at him for a few moments, then hit the laptop and crossed the dark room standing next to the window with back turned to him.
“Not a rumors, my friend. That girl died because they were after me. I killed before, you know that.”
“What do you mean?” Mike took a step to get closer to him. “You never were defeatist. You quit?!”
Alex turned to look him in the eye and his raven black hair waved after him.
“Are you crazy?” he smiled mocking. “We will make a concert for them that even gods will hear. And those who are against us – screw them. We are B.L.O.O.D., we never ask for charity!

Band was announced a break for the holidays, but when they came with the new there will be another concert at the exactly day of Christmas; fans spread the rumors for less than a day. 
Alex organized the things with the tickets and reserved one of the biggest stadiums in Jersey. 
“Our fans will freeze, man, it’s -3C° outside!
“I’ll take care for them not freeze.”

Stage was built for a day, stadium’s doors closed for anyone from outside, they wanted to avoid any information to be shared before the day of the concert.
The entire scaffolding was covered with red pall, upper part was decorated as long white teeth, front part of the stage too, so if you watch from a distance it was looking like a huge jaws. Blood was painted to drop from the upper teeth.
When they came out at the stage more than one hundred thousand people already stood in front of them. The concert started early, at five a clock, at six the sky was already ink blue.
Will came out half naked, golden phoenix wings were painted on his back and arms. He stand before them so fans could see him, and suddenly a fire burst around him, hiding him from their eyes, people started screaming.
It was his idea to build a small circle at the center of the stage, and he to stand at its center. When fire grow tall enough to hide him, he run backstage.
“How are your eyebrows?” joked at him Chester, who was trying his guitar for last time, ready to go out at stage.
Well his eyebrows were fine, but his arms were burned on many places during the performance.
“They will lynch us.” said Maike.
“We will make a show that nobody would dare to talk about us anymore!” told him the vampire.

At the front part of the stage there was a lower level where six extremely beautiful and half naked ladies were dancing, wearing leather corsets and long heeled boots. The show started with unseen by that moment fireworks, for which they hired a guy from Japan. Red cloak literally burned into the fire orbs, people could feel the heat from the sixth and seventh rows including. Under the burning pieces of cloth predatory white teeth came out, the entire stadium was holding recording devices at that scene.

And then Alex came out, followed by the boys, all of them wearing red contact lenses and fake blood, dropping from their mouth.
“Let me hear you, Jersey!” he screamed at the microphone, which stand was made as a stem of a rose with all the thorns and details.
“We are B.L.O.O.D!”
“Mike” – he turned to the black haired at his right.”Phoenix” – pointed at the man holding black Flying V. ”Tonny” their drummer stand up and threw his sticks at the public. “Chester” he showed the one at his left. “And Alex. This concert we dedicate to Leticia “Mortis” who died at Paris. She was one of our most sworn fans!
Public burst in applauses.
“If I could” he said “I would turn her so she would become one of us, one of our family. But that day I was late.”
He made a few step back, looking at his legs, then back at them. 
All the people raised their hands at the air, pointing at him with the sign of rock. 

At the background was installed huge video wall, which was black at the beginning. Then two yellow eyes appeared. A scream raised from the amps, the concert starts with one of their emblematic songs “Victim”, and then Alex went to the lower level, grabbed one of the women and bite her in front of everybody...