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// Excuse Contest. 
// Story: Aria's Aria 
// by OneOverTwo 
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	Aria Blaze was anxiously waiting for her turn to come up. She had entered a contest to prove something to herself.
She was going to prove to herself that she couldn’t sing anymore.

It was a small contest she entered, a local singing competition small time fundraiser sort of deal. She hadn’t really paid attention to what the contest’s purpose was, but it couldn’t have been too important. They had let her enter the competition without checking for whether she could actually sing after all. That was a good thing for Aria, she wanted hear their disapproval, she wanted to hear the crowd boo her, she wanted to be sure that she would never sing again.

Aria had often tried to use her powers after she had lost them, but failure there was inevitable. Aria always felt weak when that happened; Aria hated feeling weak. So she decided that just one more angry crowd would be the catalyst for her new way, she didn’t quite know what that would be, but she knew that it didn’t involve any singing.

All those who went on and sang before she did were all at the very least passable with maybe one or two stand outs, but then came Aria Blaze’s turn and she knew that the audience would be disappointed.

That was what she wanted.

She sang her song as loud as she could, her voice was unsuitable, it cracked constantly, and she was sure that not even one part of the song was sung remotely right. Aria finished and awaited the audience’s response.

She heard a small amount of  laughter, but that was to be expected. No one really jeered her either, but that was fine, she could still use that for her internal purpose. But something happened that caused her plans to go disarray: someone in the audience clapped for her.

Eventually a few other people started to clap for her too. The enthusiasm wasn’t really there or it didn’t feel like it was at least, it felt like they were pitying Aria to her. Aria scowled at them and scanned the small crowd for the first person who started clapping. When she found her it was someone who was obviously hiding their face, similarly to the way celebrity would. The only distinguishing thing Aria could pick up was that she was female, but that didn’t exactly narrow it down.

Aria would have trouble finding the person who clapped first, but she would. That person had robbed of the one thing she needed. She robbed her of what she needed to make herself finally stop trying to sing.

Aria would make that woman pay.





Sapphire Shores had been searching for something for a while. She had been putting on disguises and going to small time singing competitions all over to find it. 
She had nearly given up hope by the time she came to the one where she finally found what she was looking for all these years.
Sapphire Shores had found the world’s worst singing voice. She applauded the voice in excitement, she was eager to make what she wanted to happen happen.

She going to teach that voice how to sing, how to REALLY sing.

Sapphire Shores was going to prove to all just how truly SENSATIONAL she really was.