Euphoria Secret Party

    August 7th, 2009.

    The crew sat out in an open field with nothing to do that summer day. Emma lied on the grass smoking a blunt while Sid opened a beer.

    "/I think I'm depressed,/" Sid spoke up, breaking the long silence.

    "/You're not depressed, you're bored,/" Casper corrected. Sid looked at her with a blank stare.

    "/I'm bored and depressed,/" he complained. Emma looked over at him. She suddenly rose to her feet.

    "#No, look around you,#" she said as she looked around herself. The others looked over at her.

    "#This place is f*****g magic, man!#" she exclaimed as she took another smoke of her blunt.

    "Emma's shit and it's too hot," Fujisaki complained.

    "#I know,#" she brushed off, "#Listen, right, yes? You see this hill? Yeah, you think it was just like a hill and some woods. Yeah? But, there's much more than that." Shuichi gave her a puzzled expression on his face.

    "What?" he asked.

    "#I know,#" Emma went on, "#Seriously, yeah? Yeah? In history, like, like six hundreds years ago, whatever, right, there were these people called the diggers.#" Sid stared at her as she kept talking.

    "#Right, they didn't have any money,#" Emma said, "#They said, 'f**k that, f**k money, f**k tax, f**k chromewell, yeah, why don't we all just live on this hill and start diggin'!#" Sid looked at her in a strange way.

    "/Digging?/" Casper asked.

    "#Yeah,#" Emma said, nodding, "#And they were like proper party animals as well. Like grow their own drugs and stuff. And there was this lord, this genius lord who had like this massive house out in the woods, yeah? And he invited all of the diggers, down yeah? Yeah, down to dig. Little diggin' diggers!#" Ando looked up at Sid.

    "#It was f****n' insane!#" Emma said before taking another smoke of her blunt. The mates all stared at her.

    "/So?/" Sid asked.

    "#So,#" Emma repeated, "#We're diggers and tonight we're going to have a digger party!#" For a second there, she thought she saw her friends wearing kabuki masks staring at her. From there, an idea took off. Posters of kabuki masks went up all over Tokyo. Everyone made their rounds with work. Shuichi put up most of the posters and Fujisaki didn't the networking.

    "Toshio, it's Fujisaki," the keyboardist said in the first round of calls.

    "Hey," the other man said on the line sounding like he had just clearly woken up.

    "I need a another band," Fujisaki said.

    "Uh-hm."

    "Tonight."

    "Right, sounds cool."

    "Nice," Fujisaki said before hanging up. Meanwhile, Shuichi made it up the stairway to the bridge and placed another poster.

    "What's that?" juvenilee delinquent asked.

    "Well," Shuichi replied as he stood up, "If you follow them, you'll find a secret party. Don't tell anyone." Shuichi watched him as he himself headed off. The delinquent and his friends looked at the poster.

    "#I love history, man,#" Emma said as she and Sid were posting the posters in the woods.

    "/You're shite at history,/" Sid pointed out.

    "#Not books, the ancient stuff,#" she corrected, "#You know like, monsters and dragons and trolls and kings and hanging, brilliant.#" The pair paused and looked around. "#What was that?#" Emma asked.

    "/What?/" Sid asked. Emma looked and shook her head.

    "#Nothing,#" she muttered, "#Come on, let's go. This way.#" They continued their walk into the woods. Meanwhile, Shuichi, Casper, and Ando all prepared for the party. The vocalist put up more posters, Casper bought and new outfit, and Ando gathered up the instruments.

    Back in the woods, Emma and Sid kept walking.

    "/I'm tired,/" Sid complained, "/And I'm hungry./" Emma turned around after she slapped another poster on a tree.

    "#Come on man,#" Emma said, "#We've got to find the lord's place. You know where they all made history.#"

    "/I'm tired, and I'm hungry, and I'm going back,/" Sid argued, "/You coming?/"

    "#No, we're gonna have a party,#" the Aussie said. The Scottish-Brit seemed to speed talk in her high mind.

    "/That's all you have, mate,/" he said. The boy turned to walk away. Emma looked around and saw people dressed up in dirty clothes scampering through the woods.

    "#Diggers,#" she mumbled, "#Sid?#" The Aussie looked around for her friend. All she saw were the kabuki mask posters that started to look rather intimidating to her stoned mind. Emma looked around frantically panting.

    "Hey," she heard someone whisper. Emma tried to run away as fast as she could as she snatched down a poster. Moments later, she sat in the woods using the bathroom. Suddenly, a dirty-looking person appeared right in front of her. The Aussie screamed in panic as the person, man, screamed back at her.

    "#Who the f**k are you?!?#" she cried, "#F**k off! F**k off!#" The dirty man yelled something in gibberish, picked up a shovel, and smacked the Aussie in the head, knocking her out. Meanwhile, Shuichi put up another poster on an apartment building.

    "Oi!" a cop yelled. The vocalist took off running as fast as he could as the cop chased him down. The policeman even took a tumble on the path. Emma took off running in the woods as well. More posters went up in the city.

    "Ando!" Shuichi yelled as he ran by. His Buddhist friend took off running in the other direction. In the woods, Emma took off after the diggers in the woods. In the city, Shuichi and Ando both kept running. Back in the woods, Emma ran until she tripped on the ground. She got up and could hear the angels singing. The Aussie walked forward towards a giant house. The inside looked abandoned as she expected it would in her amazement.

    "Hello?" an old man spoke up. At least, she thought it was an old man in her blurred vision.

    "#Hello,#" Emma said back, "#Uh, who are you?#"

    "I, I am the lord of the castle," the old man said as he walked up to her. Emma blinked confused.

    "#Uh... I made you up,#" she said.

    "Am I better than you imagined?" the lord asked.

    "#You're naked,#" Emma pointed out. The old man looked down and looked back at her.

    "Sorry, does that offend you?" he asked. Emma shook her head.

    "#No, no, no, it's cool,#" she said.

    "Splendid," the old man said dressed again. The Aussie tried to get herself back together.

    "#Told them about your parties,#" she said.

    "Ah, my parties," the lord said, "They made history."

    "#What the digger parties?#" Emma asked.

    "Digger parties, foam parties, naked orgy parties, I had them all," the old man said. The whole time he talked, he danced around naked with finger gongs. Emma nodded with a high smile.

    "#Wow, man!#" she said.

    "And on that very four-poster bed there, Tokugawa himself sucked Hojo Masako's toes." The girl nodded impressed.

    "#F**k off!#" she said.

    "Language!" the old man said sternly.

    "#Sorry,#" she replied.

    "So what kind of party would you like to throw?" the lord asked. Emma looked at him with a glow in her face. The party kicked up with wild lights and a beating drum. Everyone danced to the live band on stage. Emma and her friends took the pills and danced together. Some couples made out in this impromptu rave. A few of the girls started stripping. Sid made his way over to a bathtub of sake and took a drink. He even added pills into the mix. Emma herself took a drink and a hint of pills from a cute guy's tongue. Sid got a kiss from a random girl after he puked on the floor. Ando threw up as well and got a kiss from the same girl on the couch. Casper got a few kisses herself. Shuichi flirted around with one of the band members on the stage. Ando fell on the bed and a girl fell on top of him. Fujisaki took a girl to a trunk on the back room and climbed in. The girl shut the lid behind them.

    The morning everyone was passed out and the place was trashed. Emma took her bottle of sake and the lord's jacket and headed off happy. She took a drink and smiled.