SORRY!!!!! POSTED THE WRONG CHAPTER, IT WAS THE SAME AS 35! MY BAD! LOL!!!!
Hello All! Hope all is going well for you in the new year so far! Yes, it’s been awhile since there’s been a header from the authors . . . but there’s a reason. Firstly, we’d like to of course, thank you all for becoming such loyal fans of our lil twisted space of alternate universe fun! It’s been almost, 4yrs since we first posted this story back on Nifty; and it’s been a lot of hard work and dedication to continue on, especially at points where we didn’t want to. But, there was always that, “well, what if we did THIS?” or “I got this idea for another story!” or “I was thinking about it, and I really can’t wait to write this part, so we gotta finish writing that part to get there” and as long as it was fun for us, and as long as we kept getting requests for more, we never through in the towel. We may get fits of laziness and bit by the procrastination bug, but we always manage to work on some part of the story. Why this long speech, when all you really wanna do is just read on and find out what happens when vampires stop being polite and start getting slain? Well, like it was said, it’s been awhile since there’s been a header from us, so . . . we just wanted to let you all know that we appreciate every single one of you for your support, all 8,481+ of you who have visited our site, read our stories and told your friends about it. Never did we think that it would get this far, or be this popular. We never thought that we would even get to a point where people were more interested in the storyline itself than who’s sexing who in the *NSYNC group, or that people would begin to see this as a story of 5 friends, rather than just another fanfic of a popular boyband. We cannot begin to thank you enough for letting us share the gift of fine story-telling and good old fashioned kick-ass vampire slaying!
The second reason for this long-ass novel, is to let all of you know that we’ve been nominated (so far) for 8 East Water Alternate Universe FanFic Awards (www.eastwaterflorida.com/auawards -- hence the banners and links you’ve seeen). We would like to humbly thank whoever it is that nominated us, for we never expected to be nominated for any type of award after we left nifty. Whether we win or lose, it really is an honor just to be nominated, cause it means that y’all really do like us! We really don’t pay too much attention to awards; we do these stories because we like to write, and take the frame of mind, that these stories would be able to stand on their own even without the boyband reference. So you will not see any pleas for votes on our behalf. If you would like to vote for us, it is greatly appreciated, if not, we’re just glad to have such wonderfully dedicated fans that continue to read as long as we have words to write. So once again, thank you to all of those who nominated and whoever decide to vote, and congratulations to all the other nominees, and whoever wins!
Thank you once again!
Now, without further ado, ON WITH THE SHOW!!!!!!!! (I haven’t said that in a REALLY long time! lol)
Last Time . . .
“Hey guys!” Lance said entering the atrium.
“Hey Scoop!” Joey said, causing Lance to smile at his former nickname.
“How’s everything going? Find anything?”
“No, not really!”
“Oh . . . what about them? How are they doing?” Lance asked pointing to Beryl and Vanessa.
Just as he pointed to them, the flames of the candles started to flicker wildly.
“Um . . . what’s going on?!” Joey asked, confusedly.
“I have no idea!” Justin responded.
This Time . . .
“You ready to go back?” Beryl asked Vanessa as they met in the garden.
“Yup! What about you?” She replied smiling.
“Yeah, let’s go!”
“Dude . . . what the hell was that!?” Lance said as the flames from the candles shot up in the air and returned again to their normal height, just like they had before, as Beryl and Vanessa rejoined hands.
They both opened their eyes, looked at each other and smiled.
“That . . .” Vanessa said looking over at Lance. “Was us returning to the physical realm!”
“Whoa!” Lance said startled.
“Cool!” Joey said smiling.
“Good timing! I just came by to ask how you guys were doing!”
“Well, I found out some VERY useful information!” Beryl said standing up.
“As did I!” Vanessa said also standing.
“Well good!” Cause we’re all gonna regroup in the library to compare and contrast info!”
“Cool! Let’s go!”
“You heard the lady!” Joey began. “Let’s go!” He said mimicking Vanessa’s voice.
“Whoa!” Vanessa said turning quickly to Joey. “Don’t EVER do that again!” She said laughing.
“Psh . . .” Beryl sighed, “Again, why waste time walking when we can take the quick route?!” He said while waving his hand, taking them all to the library.
“I love it when he does that!” Justin said laughing.
“Whoa!” The rest of the Dream Masters simultaneously shouted.
“So . . .” Josh said entering the library. “Are we ready to compare notes?”
After about 2 hours of filling each other in on what they found out, they narrowed down to when exactly everyone was going.
“Ok, so it’s settled!” Josh said at the close of the meeting. “Chris will be going back to Beryl's past on the night his parents were killed. Beryl will be going back to my past when the house burned down when I was little. I’ll be going back to Chris' past during his first year in college. Joey will be going back to Lance's past when he was looking for that murderer in the woods. Lance will be going back to Justin's past when he was on Star Search, and Justin will be going back to Joey's past a month before he moved to Orlando. If there are no more questions, I’m gonna go take a quick shower and get ready. I suggest you all do the same and change into something that you’ll be able to fight in, cause chances are, when we wake up, we’re gonna have to fight. The sun starts to set around 4, it should be down by 5. The other teams will start to get here around 2, we should have everyone in their post around 3 and we should start to prepare for our journey around 3:30. Any questions? No . . . good! Dismissed!” Josh said as he got up and started towards the exit.
The Slayers got up and followed him, leaving the Dream Masters in the library along with Johnny and Little Justin. As the guys walked through one of the hallways, Josh took off his shirt, to reveal a black wife beater. On his right shoulder blade, Justin noticed the same tattoo on his shoulder that Beryl had on his neck.
“Since when did you have tattoo Josh?” Justin asked.
“Huh?” Josh said turning around. “Oh . . . that . . . it’s
not a tattoo.”
”Then what is it?”
“It’s the mark of the Chosen Ones.”
“Okay . . .” Joey said looking at him. “Care to explain what that is?”
“It’s the mark that all the leaders of each team receive at some point in their lifetime.” Beryl said replying for Josh.
“Oh . . .” he said. “Well I want one!” He mumbled under his breath.
“Well come here! I’ll burn one in your skin!” Justin said chasing after him.
“AAH!” He said running.
After they stopped trying to kill each other, and continued to walk through the hall, the Dream Masters were just behind them, also going to get ready.
“There comes a day . . .” Justin started to sing lowly, thinking no one could hear him. “When I’ll be the one, you’ll see, yeah . . .”
“It’s gonna . . .” Lance jumped in.
“Gonna . . .” Joey echoed.
“Gonna . . .” Justin continued.
“Aw fuck it . . .” Josh said smiling, “Gonna . . .”
“Gonna . . .” Chris completed.
“It’s gonna be me!” Justin belted out.
“All that I . . .” They began being cut off by Josh.
“Hold up, hold up, hold up . . .” Josh said as they all stopped and looked at him, all expecting him to tell them to stop. “If we’re gonna do this, let’s do this right! Come on!” He said as he led them to the work out room, where there were a few large mirrors where they could see themselves.
“Just like old times!” Joey said as they placed themselves in the familiar positions, Lance, Joey, Justin in the middle, Josh, and Chris.
“CIDS . . .” Josh said. “Play the instrumental live funky version of ‘It’s gonna be me’!”
“Processing request.”
“Y’all ready?” Josh asked.
“Let’s see if we can remember all this!” Chris said laughing.
“Come on . . . sit down, enjoy the show, it’s probably the only time you’re ever gonna see us do this again!” Josh said smiling on the outside.
As the music started, they missed their mark, they all
laughed, as Josh gave CIDS the order to start it again. This time, as if no
time had passed, as if they were back in dance rehearsal, preparing for tour,
they hit their marks with pinpoint accuracy. Justin began the first verse, his
voice slightly deeper then it had been when they first recorded the song back
in the beginning of the millennium.
The Dream Masters sat back and watched in amazement at how well they moved and sang together.
“And they broke up again because . . .” Sonia whispered to Buffy.
“Shh!” Vanessa said concentrating on the performance.
As the song came towards the end, the feeling of performing with his brothers again started to get to Josh. As they came to the last couple of choruses, that’s when he broke down.
“There comes a day, when I’ll be the one, you’ll see, yeah . . .”
“It’s gonna . . .”
“Gonna . . .”
“Gonna . . .”
”Gonna . . .”
“Gonna . . .”
“It’s gonna be me”
“All that I do, is not enough for you.”
“Is not enough for you babe!” Justin belted.
“I don’t wanna lose it, but I’m not like that. When finally,”
“Finally.”
“You get to love,”
“You get to love”
“Every little thing I do,”
“I Do” Josh sang
“Never seems enough for you,”
“For you baby.”
“You don’t wanna lose it again,”
“Don’t wanna lose it.” Justin said looking intently at Josh
“But I’m not like them. Baby when you finally,”
“Get to love somebody,”
“Love.” Josh sang as the room filled with wind.
“Guess what, it’s gonna be me!”
“Hooooooh!!!” Josh belted out, breaking down into tears and running out of the rooms
“Every little thing I do, never seems enough for you . . .”
“Josh!?” They all said as he took off.
TBC . . .
Hehehe…
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