Thu 1st Feb 2024 03:20

"Welcome to the Jungle" Hidden Track 1

by Edea of Mavros Lykos

Three days had passed during the long festival. The three rocker girls moshed, drank, sang, and partied. On the morning of the 4th day, Gerry sat in one of the covered booths, eating a breakfast of scrambled eggs, tortillas, and poc chuch. She sat before yelling in the direction of the pyramid. "Eddie! Remember to eat and drink! You're gonna pass out!" "Yea yeah," was heard in the distance, "Hell yeah surf this dude! Go for it buddy! Oh my turn! Throw me up high!" "Holy shit, she's really going at it," said a voice approaching. It was Satanica striding up seeming to be almost glowing. "Speaking of going at it..." quipped Gerry. "Wha..." Satanica started. "I saw you sneak off with that ttzitzimitl last night." Satanica blushed at Gerry's matter of fact statement, one of the very few times she was ever caught flustered. "Hey, it's cool. 'looks like you had fun. Besides it's a party. Though you can probably use some food too. Here, eat up. It's simple but it's really good and this chocolate drink goes great with it. I think it's called xocolatl." Satanica sighed and had a seat. "And splash some hot sauce on it too."
 
Satanica relaxed and began to eat. "Ya know...I admit I only came with you all because Lord Ozman ordered me to...but I'm glad I did. I feel all this inspiraton everywhere, meeting all these interesting new people, eating all this great food, seeing all these sites, " she said as she bit into a tortilla. "I gotta say you've both really grown on me...and I'm getting so many ideas!" Gerry chuckled. "We have that effect on people. We shouldn't just entertain our audience. We need to have fun too. And things are always fun when Eddie's with you. Ya just need to reign her in from time to time..." she said as she sipped the xocolatl. "Okay, speaking of...is she okay out there? I mean seriously did she like...sleep...or eat or drink?" asked Satanica. "Yeah, Edea has always gone hard, but even I'm getting a little worried now. When I went to sleep, she was still raging...and I woke up and she's already out there raging. I mean maybe she just got to bed after and woke up before me...but she never makes her bedroll so I can never tell if she slept in it or not." "Shit, even if she did...shouldn't she chill a bit?" replied Satanica. "FFFUUUCCCKKK YYEEAAHH!!" yelled Edea as she left the dancing line/mosh pit.
 
She quickly ran up and pulled a seat as the wolf girl proceeded to live up to her name and wolf down the pork, eggs, and tortillas. "Aw shit, these people are awesome! I could hang out here a whole damn year!" "Okay, that's great and all but did you find out..."started Gerry. "Yeah, yeah I found out. This is a festival to honor their rain god. Sounds a lot like Undine going between the gentle rains and raging storms...maybe some Volt mixed in there. And that dude up there is named Azlotl! He's the best musician in their people, so he got the honor of being up there and playing for a straight week to appease Huei Ati...still think that might be Undine and Volt." "Well you did your work," said Satanica. "Girl it gets better! I found out yesterday that the quauhquauhnochtzin can pick any promising revelers to come join them up there! How cool is that?!" "Oh so that's why you're going so hard, "said Gerry. "Yeah I gotta a little sleep and ate and drank a little! But I'm still good to go! He's gonna be our new bassist!" "Edea, calm yourself," said Satanica, "No time! I gotta get back out there!" she said as she bolted off again "gotta get my kythera!" The two musicians looked at each other and laughed. "Let's eat first." "Agreed."
 
Morning turned to afternoon and then to evening. The three women revelled and sang and danced. As the sun moved to dusk a booming voice could be heard. At once all stopped to hear the words of the quauhquauhnochtzin. He pointed and spoke a commanding word. All the revellers stopped and looked to see the wolf girl from a foreign land had been picked. She looked up with eyes of joy before the revellers scooped her up to carry her up. "I'm coming, Azlotl!" she screamed as she was crowd surfed up the massive ziggarut. Azlotl looked on with a bemused smirk on his face. "Maybe you're who I'm looking for..." he thought.