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2024-10-29 19:42:56It was dark and almost everyone was asleep in the academy. Floopy was in a good mood and his blind roommate could tell by the humming of an unfamiliar song.
"Is that for the musical?" Klick Batley asked but Floopy didn't reply. The panotti was too absorbed in his fantasy of having the first good day since coming to the Academy.
"Earth to Floopy!" the bat threw a well-aimed eraser at the dreamy musician's head and that effectively made him snap out of the trance.
"Huh?"
Not impressed, the bat demon crawled over to Floopy's bed and hugged his friend tightly. "Tell me! What's made you so happy today? Did someone confess to you?"
Floopy smiled and shook his head. "Nothing like that. I just met someone nice."
Interested, Klick demanded for details. For someone to not bully the panotti and was even nice to him? That's rather rare and a cause for celebration! Then again, the bat was worried. What if this person was simply nice to Floopy because the
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Klick was revising for tomorrow's test when Floopy returned. He was slightly surprised because the composer was back earlier than expected. Was his inspiration really good? How did he finish composing an entire ensemble piece in less than an hour?"Did it go well?" the bat demon asked but didn't receive a reply. Instead, he heard Floopy throw himself on the bed with a sniffle.Alarmed, Klick put down his books and went over. "Hey," he approached with a soft voice. "What's wrong? Did someone bully you on the way?"Floopy shook his head and cried harder. How could he put this into words? The sound of Syris' screaming still haunted his ears and Floopy hugged Klick who was taller than him. The bat demon bent down awkwardly and sat on the small boy's bed, patting his back and pushing his ears out of the way. Floopy might be bullied a lot but he never bawled like this before and the roommate found himself worrying if things had gone too far."What happened?"
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Writing a letter to Syris was more nerve-wracking than getting approval from Amanda about the new musical. Floopy had discarded more than ten drafts and Klick remained silent, trying to not add more pressure to the panicking panotti who didn't think he was eloquent enough."I'm done! Klick, give me some opinions?"The bat demon stopped his revision, It should be around three in the morning now and Floopy still hasn't revised for tomorrow's test. The panotti was going to fail at this rate being sleep-deprived and labelled stupid when the test results came out again."What did you write?" he tried to keep his voice even and Floopy cleared his throat."Dear Prince Syris, you have a great personality and are very kind. Thank you for fixing my glasses and sorry that I ran away. If it doesn't bother you, could we become friends?"Klick deadpanned. "Are you sure this is what you want to send?" Clearly Floopy knew that it defeated the purpose of an anonymo
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The test was easy and Floopy let out a sigh of relief after the papers were collected. Klick was fast asleep even though it was lunch and the panotti left a note for his friend before sneaking out of the classroom. He was going back to the greenhouse for lunch before the bullies could steal his food.At the greenhouse, Floopy's stomach growled and the panotti dug into his meal quickly. He spent the time listening to the sound of nature and thought about how he could write a song that would suit Prince Syris. Although he had damaged his vocal cords badly, Floopy thought that there was an unusual charm to his voice that was different from the other creatures and stage actors.Syris' talking voice was like wool. It was warm and a little scratchy but soft to the ears and very pleasing to listen to. Due to the damage done to his cords, Floopy wasn't sure how the original voice sounded like. While it didn't seem like Prince Syris was going to have a very honey-like voice or
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Klick was worried. Floopy had refused to go anywhere else apart from classes and back to his room. The composer was so absorbed in making the 'perfect song' that he started neglecting his meals and sleep. It had been going on for a few days and Klick had never seen his friend in such a state. It was worrying."Come on, you have to sleep."Floopy ignored the bat demon. "One last round," he mumbled and looked through the sheet music again. Today was the fifth day and Floopy did a lot of research about rap music. He even thought about the entire choreography for the musical that featured Syris as his muse. This was the theme song and he wanted it to be flawless when he delivered it to Syris.Knowing that his little friend wouldn't budge, Klick sighed and went to bed on his own. There was no use in persuading Floopy to do otherwise, the panotti was dead set on writing the best love song in the world. Who was he to stop a friend who was serious in the pursuit of love
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To save his friend from crying at the bad news, Klick spent the whole night thinking of a good way to make Syris come to Floopy instead. Knowing that the panotti had low self-esteem but great musical talents, Klick decided to propose for Floopy to make the song without vocals so that they could turn this undelivered song into an advertisement over the academy's radio program.Floopy cheered up when he heard that it wasn't Prince Syris who rejected his songs but the shark bodyguard who was overly protective. Not wanting Klick to get eaten by the foul-mood shark merman, Floopy agreed to go with a different approach. He wasn't going to give up on helping Syris secretly. One good turn deserves another.The duo worked hard with Klick attending classes and buying food on Floopy's behalf. After classes, Klick would teach Floopy what he missed during lessons and the composer would eat what Klick brought him. When he wasn't eating, sleeping or studying, Floopy was writing songs
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The night of the audition finally arrived and two hundred auditionees gathered by the pool of the forbidden forest. Floopy was as nervous as the auditionees and Klick had to smoosh his friend's cheeks together to get him to stop talking."Don't think about useless things," Klick told his friend sternly. "From now on, you're not Floopy the unwanted panotti. You're Floopy the great musician that everyone loves. Even if something goes wrong, nobody can take music away from you and I know that there will be at least one person among the auditionees who wouldn't hate you for who you are. Just go out there and do your best. He will show up and you're doing this for him, aren't you?"Floopy nodded and took a deep breath after Klick let him go. He was dressed up in a very ridiculous costume that Klick borrowed from an unknown source. The reason why they chose such a hideous thing was to make Floopy look a lot more intimidating than he actually was. The assassin proposed that F
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Klick was still recovering and Bruce was taking care of him so there was nobody around to disturb Syris and Floopy in the greenhouse. Nobody bothered them for cutting class either so they were able to make some progress for the musical that Amanda refused to cancel despite the poor response.They went through the songs that Floopy prepared and invited a few friends from the forest to help.“Alright, this part is the chorus. It’s going to be singing instead of rapping. The melody will sound something like this. In three, four!”Syris listened to the birds singing each note according to Floopy’s gesture and found it very interesting. He often listened to other people sing, usually his siblings. However, none of them was able to bring out such a harmonious blend of noises. IN fact, it was usually awful if more than one person sang at a time.Likewise, Syris noted that the voices of the crickets and birds normally clashed badly with ea
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It was almost time for the curtains to be lifted up. Floopy wasn’t the only person nervous. On the stage, Syris was dripping water everywhere. It was a good thing the costume was waterproof because they had to start from inside of a tank.The musical was about a lost siren who spent his days singing to anyone who would listen to him but nobody cared about him or pitied him. In fact, they bullied him until the lost siren found a dying crab and saved it. The two became fast friends and eventually fell in love. They then spent the rest of their days travelling the world together. Naturally, this script wasn’t written by Floopy. He only made the songs. It was Yang Yang’s idea when he heard that there was a musical to be written. The three-legged crow volunteered to do everything from scriptwriting to costume designing. When Soubi heard about their troubles from Kenma, he offered to teach Syris how to act and dance on top of singing.Of course, the musical
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