Second Short Preview for Chapter 21 of “Musical Espionage”
Hey guys. Quick announcement, I decided to take a short break from writing. Probably a week or maybe two. It just depends on how long my mood improves. I’m just more burned out with school more than anything and it’s really starting to affect my writing. I am almost finished with writing this chapter so, until I get off my break, just enjoy this short preview.
A radio broadcast from the hottest rock radio station coming from Mushiori City, MOON ROCK began their broadcast. The radio show’s host who was none other than Koashura spoke into his microphone, “Good afternoon ladies and gents, this is Kool Koashura standing in for Moon Doggy but, never fear Moon Doggy fans, he’ll be back from his vacation tomorrow. Be sure to call in and congratulate him and his wife and their new addition to their family along with your awesome requests.”
Koashura paused for a little bit to take a sip from his water and spoke into the microphone again, “Moving on to today’s main objective before I play some great tunes by Green Day, Nirvana, Weezer, Alice in Chains, No Doubt, Garbage, Hole, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Stone Temple Pilots, we have a special guest at the station with us today.”
He paused again to take another sip from his water bottle and spoke into his microphone again, “Right here with us we have Sammie Doomass from the hottest currently underground upcoming band that’s been getting all kinds of positive buzz around Japan for these last several months, Exit Strategy.”
Koashura then turned on the second microphone to let his fellow band member, Shunjun, speak into it. The blue haired SDF captain then spoke, “Hey Kool Koashura and what’s up Mushiori City?”
“Thanks for coming in man.”
“No problem, glad to be here.”
Speaking into his microphone, Koashura then began his little talk radio segment, “So Sammie, we folks here at MOON ROCK having been hearing about the buzz of how Exit Strategy is now currently in the process of recording their debut studio album. Do you want to tell our listeners all about that?”
Shunjun then spoke, “Yeah. Actually, Korrie and the whole band are going to start recording the album next week. Since everyone in the band has jobs, school, and other stuff going on in their personal lives, along with the planning of this album and other bands working on their recording processes, we all decided as a group and at the advice of our manager and our producer that we will start going into the studio and record the songs that could possibly make it onto the record and those that might not make it later on in the upcoming week.”
“Do you know which ones are going to be on there?”
Shunjun thought carefully about his next response and answered, “Yes actually but we all have been sworn to secrecy because we want to surprise our fans and the general public with which ones they’re going to be.”
Koashura took another sip from his water bottle and asked his band mate still keeping his pretense of just being a normal radio show host, “So will some of the stuff we’ve already heard will be on the record or should we all expect it to be just new stuff we’ve never heard before?”
Shunjun just chuckled in response, “All I can say is that it’s going to be a mixture of both. There will be some stuff that the fans and the public have heard but, they will be more polished and clean sounding while still keeping their edge along with the new stuff that Korrie and John have been writing and composing. It’s seriously going to rock, people will love it.”
“Sounds great, myself and all of our listeners are looking forward to it.” Koashura sipped from his water bottle again and ending the short interview, he then said, “Thank you for coming in Sammie. We greatly appreciate it.”
Shunjun then responded, “No problem.”
Speaking into his microphone again, Koashura then added, “There we have it ladies and gents, Sammie Doomass, the drummer from the coolest upcoming rock band, “Exit Strategy”. Be sure to keep your eye out for their debut album which will be released at your nearest record store this spring. The actual release date will be announced soon. Now shifting gears, to kick off on our nonstop music hour, here’s the latest from The Red Chili Peppers off their new album “One Hot Minute”, their new single, “My Friends”.”
Finishing off his current broadcast, Koashura turned off his and Shunjun’s microphones, going off the air and started to play the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ song. Shunjun took a sip from his water glass and Koashura then broke the small silence between them, “Thanks for doing this at such short notice.”
The young SDF captain finished off his water and set the glass down on the table, “It was no problem at all. We had to promote the album one way or the other. Lord Koenma and Jorge still have to keep making appearances and act like everything’s normal so, what better than to get help from someone who’s one of our few connections to the Living World?”
Koashura leaned back in his chair and put his hands behind his head, “I wanna get back at the king as much as you do.” He then sighed, “I will never forgive him for allowing Kotennyo’s near death experience. You know what; he’s going to regret kicking us out of Spirit World now.”
Shunjun started to laugh, “Right? I’m almost tempted to resign my position but, I’m afraid if I do, one of Ootake’s cronies will take over and it wouldn’t be good at all.”
Eyeing his band mate with a curious expression, Koashura then asked, “I take it you have a major beef with some of the guys or gals in the defense force?”
Shunjun poured himself another glass of water sipped from his glass and sighed, “Yeah. Some of those guys never thought I was trustworthy to begin with. They know that I was never really loyal to the king but, with Koenma instead and as a result, I have overheard some of them saying things about me behind my back since I became the new captain.”
“What have they been saying about you?”
Shunjun scratched the back of his head and simply replied, “I heard them say things about how I should resign or how I’m too young to be captain and other bullshit. Fuck, I try not to let it bother me though....Ooake’s former right hand man, you know the dude with bowl-cut and the crooked nose?”
Switching to the next song when the song from The Red Hot Chili Peppers had ended, Koashura replied, “That asshole? Yeah.”
Shunjun leaned in close so only him and Koashura can hear what he was about to say next when the ordinary human station manager passed by, “I think he’s trying to sabotage me. I don’t know what he’s doing but, I just have a really bad feeling about it and I think he’s one of the reasons of why I was kicked out of the other band I was in.”
Giving him another curious expression, Koashura asked with a hint of concern in his voice for his friend, “What is going on? Dude, how?”
Shunjun shrugged his broad shoulders, “No fucking clue. He’s making the other members with the exceptions of the two women, Oho and Ryohi and my buddy Rinbai turn against me. He’s beginning to suspect that I have been going against the king but, so far, he doesn’t have any proof.”
Still fearing for Shunjun, Koashura then warned him, “Be careful man. I don’t know what I, Koenma and Jorge would do if something were to happen to you.”
Grateful that his red headed friend cared about his safety, Shunjun chuckled and gave him a smile trying to keep his cool demeanor so he wouldn’t show his paranoia, “You needn’t worry me. I know how to play it. Trust me; if things do get rough for me, I know where to turn to.”
