The New Student

They started heading to Pinkie's house, Rainbow turned to Danto, "Aren't you coming?"

"Nah, It looks more like a girls night thing with you and your friends. We need to practice anyway. See you tomorrow Rainbow."

"Alright, See you Danto." Rainbow said waving to Danto as she went to her friends heading to Pinkie's house.

Danto waved to Rainbow in return. He turned to his friends and sighed, "Well, let's get to practicing."

"Alright, let's head to my house and we'll practice there."

"You guys practice at Aldon's?"

"Yeah, all our equipment is there."

"Yep, my bass, El's drums and Aldon has a mic setup and everythin'. Hey, Aldon didn't you have a guitar somewhere in your house?" Clem said.

"Oh yeah, I forgot. Danto, it's kind of obvious with what you're going to have to play."

"Yeah, yeah, get the message. Come on. The sooner we get to Aldon's house, the sooner we can practice."

"Alright, let's go." Aldon said as they walked to Aldon's home.

Later...

They entered his house as Danto looked around, seeing everything was neat and clean.

"Alright, welcome to my house Danto."

"Wow. You keep this place tidy now, don't you?"

"Yep. So what do you want to do? We can practice now and do whatever we want later or switch it around."

"Let's practice now." Danto said as Clem and El agreed.

"Alright, to the garage."

They went into the garage where Danto saw a microphone, drums and bass setup. He then noticed a case and wondered what was inside.

"Aldon, is this the guitar you mentioned earlier?"

"Yep, open that thing, hook it up, and let's rock."

Danto opened the case and saw the guitar and knew what it was.

"A Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar?"

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"I always had a thing of wanting to play a guitar."

"Well, let's see what you can do with it."

"Really?"

"Yeah, go ahead. Try it."

Danto plugged the speaker cord to the guitar and was thinking of what solo to play.

"I got it." Danto said grabbing a pick and raising high getting ready to play a solo from a song he listened to once in awhile.

Danto finished the solo as his friend applauded.

"I've never seen anyone do so much on a guitar before." Clem said.

"Well, that guitar is yours now." Aldon said.

"Really?"

"Yep, you've earned it."

"Thanks, now let's get to practicing."

"Right, and I have the song in mind." Aldon said. "Places people." he said as he and his friends got in place with their instruments.

"What song are we doing?"

"Don't Stop Believing."

"Oo, nice."

"1, 2, 3!" El said clapping the drum sticks as he counted as Aldon press 'Play' for the song.

They put their instruments up after they finished the song.

"That was a good take."

"Yeah it was. Let's get some food and call it a night."

"Alright, let's order the classic food for a time like this. Pizza."

"Perfect."

They call the restaurant and waited for the pizza to be delivered.

*Ding-Dong*

"Pizza's here."

"16.46" the pizza guy said giving Aldon the pizza as Aldon paid him the cash and cents exact.

"Now, let's dig in."

After they ate the pizza, they were getting tired and are starting to fall asleep one by one.

They all were asleep as Danto texted Rainbow to see how she's doing.

Hey Rainbow.

Danto?

Yeah?

What are you doing?

I don't know. I'm just checking on you.

Why?

Just seeing if you were up doing something.

I was asleep when my phone buzzed so now I am. How are you?

Good, we're down for the count from the pizza

Same here.

You ready for tomorrow?

I think we got this.

Same here. Hey rainbow.

Yeah?

What happens if both our bands face each other?

Oh, we didn't think of that.

Well, we'll find out soon enough

Yeah

Well, I'm gonna go back to bed

Alright, same here.

Night Rainbow

Night Danto

Danto put his phone down and fell asleep to be well rested and wide awake in the morning.

Later that morning....

They woke up to the sunrise and were a little more awake from Aldon's alarm going off.

"What time is it?" El asked rubbing his eyes.

"8:30 A.M."

"Alright, everyone up." Danto said, "We need to get ready for the Battle today."

"Fine." El groaned, forcing himself to get up. After they all got up, they needed to see who did what do speed up the preparation for school.

"Alright, we need to take a shower, practice, eat, and then head to school."

"Who taking the shower first?"

"I think Danto should, he's new in this house after all. Who agrees?"

"Aye."

"I."

"Thanks guys." Danto said then remembering something. "Shoot, my stuff is at Rainbow's. I need to call her real quick. One of your three can take the shower first." he said grabbing his phone and calling Rainbow.

"Hello?"

"Rainbow, I need your house keys."

"Why?"

"My stuffs at your house."

"Alright, come to Pinkie's house, knock on the door, and I'll give you my keys. Lose them and you're paying for new ones."

"Deal. See you later."

"See ya." Rainbow said hanging up.

"I'll be back."

"Alright, hurry up though, we need to practice."

"Got it." Danto said walking out the door to Pinkie's house.

*Knock-Knock-Knock*

The door opened as Rainbow saw Danto, "Hey."

"Hey, the keys."

"Here." She said as she gave him the keys to her house. "Don't lose them."

"I won't. I'll give the back when we meet up at the school."

"Alright, see you until then." Rainbow said closing the door.

Danto went to Rainbow's house, opened the door, grabbed his bag with everything he packed, locked the door, and left.

"Well, that's everything. Now just need to take a shower, eat, practice and head to the battle." he said to himself as he walked to Aldon's house as he put Rainbow's keys in his pocket.

Later, he made it back, took a shower, ate, and was getting ready to practice with his friends.

"What song should we do next?" Asked Danto.

"You know what, how about you choose."

"Really?"

"Yeah, go for it."

Danto thought and had a song in mind. "I hope you guys know this one." he said as he started playing his guitar as they began practicing.

Later after they finished practicing, they walked to school to see if Rainbow and her friends made it there before them. When they looked across the way, they saw them heading to the door as they did.

"Hey Danto."

"Hey Rainbow."

"You ready for the battle of the bands?"

"Yep. We're bringing the best we got. You?"

"We're ready to take the Sirens."

"Let's do it."

They all headed to the gym to get the Battle of the Bands started.