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Chapter 1: Danger – Keep Away

The sound of music rang out of a small house in the occasionally peaceful town of Peaceville. Four friends jammed out in the garage of said house, playing fast and hard rock that shook the windows of houses on the other side of town. Some might find it odd that no one would make a noise complaint to the police. But that would make for a very short story, and not an entertaining one at that.

One last chord rang out from the garage, followed but a loud cheer.

"That was awesome!" the blue haired lead singer/guitarist cheered as he jumped down from the stage, "Just a little more practice and we'll have this song all rapped up!"

"Um, Core, about that" the redheaded bassist and only female member called to him skeptically, "Isn't this supposed to be a sad song? Y'know, not one so energetic or aggressive?"

Corey scoffed jokingly, "Oh silly Lanes. Just because its a SAD song doesn't mean that it has to be 'depressing' or 'gloomy'"

The drummer of the band scratched his head, "Aren't those the same thing?"

"C'mon guys, you just gotta think outside of the box" Corey drew a box in the air and stepped trough it.

The drummer thought deeply (seemingly) on this, "But if we keep our thoughts out of the box won't we lose them?"

"You raise a good point, Kon" Corey, now trying to rethink his strategy.

"Does he?"

"That he does, guy"

Laney sighed, "And aren't we still missing something? Something important? Something that we're always missing and usually have to go on some sort of crazy adventure to find?"

Corey thought about it for several minutes (everyone waited patiently) and broke out into a grin. He suddenly moved towards Laney and drew her into a big hug, "Friendship?"

She was seeing hearts flying around at being embraced by her best friend, and quickly shook it off, "No!"

"Pyrotechnics?"

"No!"

"A motorbike?"

"No!"

"Cheese?"

"No! When was the last time we went on a crazy adventure to find cheese?"

"Last Friday"

Oh. That's right. Laney was still trying desperately to forget about that, "Still no! I'm talking about lyrics, Core!"

"Ooooooh, right, right. Well, we can still get some from Trina whenever she explodes next"

"You can't rely on Trina's diary forever, Core" Laney pointed out, casting a quick glance upstairs to make sure Trina wasn't listening, "With all the meltdowns she goes through on a weekly basis, she might just completely break one day. Then you know what would happen? We'd be screwed!"

"I got it! We can make a purely instrumental song! Who needs lyrics? Not this guy!" Corey grinned at his totally awesome and totally foolproof idea.

This was starting to give Laney a headache, "So we're going to make instrumental songs?"

"Yup yup"

"And are ALL of our songs going to be like that from now on?" Laney led on.

"That's right"

"And that's not going to get super lame after while?"

Corey pouted, finally letting go of Laney after forgetting that he was still holding her, "But writing lyrics is hard!"

"Then don't you think you should come up with some sorta plan?"

Ignoring Laney's question, Corey shouted with a sudden spike of optimism, "I know! All we need to do is think of some sorta plan! Any suggestions Kin? You haven't had an introduction yet"

"Hm? Oh right, the story" Kin put away the magazine he was reading and pretended like he was playing his keyboard the whole time, "Weeeell, we could have Corey sit in a corner by himself until he comes up with something"

"Anything that won't make me go insane?"

Kin pondered shortly, looking for an idea, "We could ALL sit down in a corner by ourselves and help Corey until he comes up with something?"

"Hmm. That sounds slightly less boring"

As the Corey's friends climbed off of the stage, Laney sat on the couch, "Okay let's do this"

Kon ran for the kitchen, shouting "I'll get the root beer!"

Corey sat down on the couch next to Laney, " Are you guys sure about this? I mean, this could get really boring"

Laney laughed, "C'mon Core, we're your friends. We're here whenever you need us"

"Thanks Lanes" he noticed the annoyed look from Kin, " and others"

Kin sat on he table in front of Corey and Laney, "Yeah it's cool. I mean, it's not like its going to us five hours to do this"

Exactly 5 hours later~

"Uuuuuuugh, I'm sooooooo boooooored"

Exactly five hours have passed since Grojband sat down to cook up the best lyrics ever created by mankind, and so far they've made little to no progress. Playing music while they tried to do it didn't seem to help and they were running out of ideas. And root beer.

By now Kin went back to reading his magazine, Kon had somehow managed to fall asleep while still playing his drums, and Laney was banging her head against the table. All in all, they seemed pretty hopeless. Ah friendship.

Even Corey was beginning to doze off. For the last couple of hours, he could whistle the notes that he wanted to sing for the song, but he just couldn't put words to the sound.

"Lyrics...Have..to...song...sing..."

Kin looked up form his magazine, "So Corey's asleep"

"Does that mean we can finally go home?" Laney asked with her head resting on the table.

"Might as well. Although I don't think Kon is going anywhere"

"No...Lanes...stop it..."

Kin stopped from getting up "Did you hear something?"

"I think so..."

They stopped and listened again, only hearing snoring and Kon's drumming. But as they were about to move again, they were stopped short by the sound of a soft giggle.

"Was that Corey?" Kin looked at the guitarist who was resting his head on the arm of the couch, drooling with a wide grin on his face. Laney had to hold stifle her own giggle at how cute he looked sleeping.

"...No...stop...it's mine..."

"I think he's talking in his sleep" Kin stared curiously at his friend.

"...It's my...banana shake... no...Lanes...I'll share..."

"What did he say?" Laney wasn't sure she hear that right.

"Something about rain on his banana rake?"

"That doesn't make any sense"

"He's dreaming. What do you expect?"

Corey shifted on the couch and the grin dropped from his face, "...We...too...feel alone..."

This made the two even more confused. They moved closer to hear Corey more clearly as he began to speak softly in his sleep.

We too feel alone

That place in my mind
Is that space that you call mine
That place in my mind
Is that space that you call mine

Where have I been all this time?
Lost enslaved fatal decline
I've been waiting for this to unfold (Good)
The pieces are only as good as the whole

Severed myself from my whole life
Cut out the only thing that was right
What If I never saw you again
I'd die right next to you in the end

That place in my mind
Is that space that you call mine
That place in my mind
Is that space that you call mine

I won't let you walk away
Without hearing what I have to say
Without hearing what I have to say
Without hearing what I have to say

Corey's words turned into snoring and silence overtook the garage. Except for the snoring. And the drumming. Okay so it was still pretty noisy that garage.

Kin and Laney could hardly believe what the just heard.

Corey just sang lyrics.

A/N: My god...after going on a 3 year hiatus (long enough to forget my old username and password and had to create a new account) I've actually started writing another fan fiction. And it's for my new favorite cartoon and shipping. I'd like to think that I've improved over the last few years of not writing. I've actually made an outline of the story up to the near end and reread this chapter...three times (My god...typos... typos everywhere!).

This chapter was actually supposed to be a bit longer but I decided that it seemed like a good place to end. And I'm tired. And I felt like uploading it tonight. And 15 hundred words isn't bad. And *insert excuse here*. But all that means is that chapter 2 is gonna be longer then I planned it to be.

This story was inspired by a story by Chris Nest - "Corey Unleashed". Great fic, everyone here go read it. If you already have, then go read it again. There's gonna be quite a few differences between our stories. And a several similarities. But meh, that's unavoidable, really.

The song is "Danger - Keep Away" by Slipknot

Cya guys. I hope you enjoy this story.