Elysium

Disclaimer: I don’t own Shin Seiki Evangelion it
was created by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. Or the song Ode an die Freude the Lyrics belong to
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) and the

Music belongs to Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Ninth Symphony. So Welcome to the Wonderful World of Fanfiction.

Warning: So if you didn’t know this fic contains
at least BL (guys kissin’ and cuddlin’)
and possibly YAOI (explicit sex scenes between guys). There is some GL (girls kissin’ and cuddlin’). And implied suicide attempts.

Author’s Note: the translated lyrics to Ode an die Freude or Ode to Joy at the
website (remove spaces): http:// www. assamites.
de/odetojoy. html

Here is the spring concert and a bit of romance!

Happy Reading!

-Na

Elysium

Chaputa-juichi

The auditorium was restored—restored enough
that a large group of people could safely sit inside and not be afraid of
falling ceiling or rickety chairs. Not all of the auditorium chairs had been
salvageable, but for the concert they were replaced with folding chairs. And
every one of those chairs was full. It was a single night concert, which had
people in the community coming to see it even if they didn’t have any children
in the concert.

Backstage the students were running
around with nervous excitement. Some were off repeating the musical notes to
their pieces in the concert under their breath, occasionally giggling in
nervousness. The Iinchou was quietly arguing in one
back corner with Tabris, Lilim,
Asuka, and Touji (Shinji
was with the group as well, but he wasn’t arguing). It had been decided that
since their teacher wasn’t going to be helping with this project that the class
president would do the announcements. Hikari was
always of the belief that since it was Tabris’ and
Shinji’s idea that it would make more sense if they were the announcers. Asuka was on the Iinchou’s side,
and both Angelo’s were against the idea. Firstly, they were not sure how Shinji
would deal with that. Secondly, they didn’t want to shove NERV in the faces of
the community—a quiet quartet was one thing, but as an announcer it would be
completely different. Thirdly, Horaki Hikari already knew the line up of the concert and who was
doing what.

The audience’s voice grew above the
bustle of the backstage in their impatience as the time of the concert to begin
was close at hand. The group of six moved towards the curtain and their arguing
grew quieter. Finally Lilim gently pushed Hikari through the curtain and the remaining Eva pilots
turned to organise the younger children so that they could perform the first
piece. They didn’t have a conductor, but small children rarely understood the
point of one to begin with. Getting a signal from one of the stage crew the
five older kids moved off to the side and helped to get the next act ready as
the curtains opened.

The girl who opened the curtain was
also charged with starting off the players; she counted to three to cue the beginning
of the piece, her voice only heard by those on stage. The audience
automatically quieted as the notes of precorders
filled the air.

The concert went off without a hitch,
most people too nervous to remember their own name let alone how to read music,
and that was when the muscle memory kicked in. The result was beautiful. Some
of the pieces were performed by one type of instrument, others a mixture of
instruments it ranged from four players to every musician on stage.

Horaki Hikari stepped on stage at the end of
the night to announce the String Quartet and their piece, “Our next piece is
Ludwig von Beethoven’s Ninth Symphonie: Ode an die Freude Which will be performed by our very own String
Quartet, on Cello is Ikari Shinji, First Violin is
Angelo Tabris, Second Violin is Souryuu Asuka, and on
Viola Angelo Lilim.”

She stepped aside and the curtains
opened, it revealed a nearly empty stage with four chairs one occupied by
Shinji. The brunet looked up at the crowd and then down at his instrument and
struck a chord. It really wasn’t part of the symphony it was just there to fill
the air. Tabris walked out violin in hand sat down in
the seat next to Shinji and added his own notes after looking up at the crowd.
Next Asuka came out on stage,
she smiled at the crowd the whole way to her chair, sat down and added the tone
of her own violin. Finally out stepped Lilim, she sat
down in the last chair and began to play Ode an die Freude; the others joined in.

Küsse gab sie uns und Reben,

Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod;

Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben,

Und der Cherub steht vor Gott.

Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen

Durch des Himmels Prächt'gen Plan,

Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn,

Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen.

As the last of the notes of the symphony rang
out, the Iinchou stepped out on stage clarinet in
hand she smiled at the clapping crowd and when they quieted announced, “Thank
you for coming, we hope you enjoyed the show, now we would like to say good
night.”

Hikari stepped back and placed her clarinet to her lips, she began to
play a typical good night/good-bye song that often ended concerts in the area.
The String Quartet quickly picked up the tune and slowly the rest of the music
club made their way on stage to play in the last song.

When all of the players were on the
stage the stage crew students stepped out and stood in front and bowed. They
moved back and waited for the last note to end. The audience were on their feet
clapping the hard work of the students and after a prolonged moment the curtain
gently closed and the students scattered—putting away their instruments and the
props that had been used for the show.

The only people still sitting on stage
were Shinji and Tabris. The silver-haired boy turned
and smiled at the brunet, “You did a wonderful job tonight Shinji-koi.”

The brunet turned red, like all those
years ago, and Tabris gave him a winning smile.
Shinji shifted his large instrument and leaned over kissing Tabris
on the lips. It was an innocent kiss a simple pressure of lip on lip that
lasted a prolonged moment.

There was a loud clatter as the folding
chair that Asuka had intended to stack fell to the
ground. Shinji and Tabris ignored it. The redhead’s face
became as red as her hair and she angrily stomped further backstage. Lilim glared at the retreating Second Child and followed
her.

“Asuka stop!”
yelled Lilim catching up with the taller girl.

“Go away Rei,
you never were this outspoken before, why are you starting now,” replied Asuka with a snarl not looking at the red-eyed girl.

Lilim glared at the back of Asuka’s head,
reached out with a hand and forced the ex-Eva pilot of unit 02 to look at her,
red eyes narrowed and she stepped forward into the redhead’s space, “We talked
about this Asuka!”

Asuka took a step back, her back now to a wall,
she glared down at the shorter girl, and said, “I still don’t think that being
gay is all right! I told you that.”

“You’re going to have to change your
mind, then,” replied Lilim slamming her hands on the
wall on either side of Asuka.

“Why?” yelled Asuka!

Lilim leaned forward in one fast motion and pressed her lips to Asuka’s before he redhead knew what was happening. There
was a tense moment and then slowly the redhead relaxed against the wall and the
shorter girl.

They didn’t hear the cello and the
violin begin to play.

Freude, schöner Götterfunken,

Tochter aus Elysium,

Wir betreten feuer-trunken,

Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!

Deine Zauber binden wieder,

Was die Mode streng geteilt;

Alle Menschen werden Brüder,

Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

Author’s Note:  So
what do you think? See you next week. Please review.

-Na