The Fellowship of the Band Nerds

Prologue

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Author's note: This fic is written by Megan (ravenslyth) and Sami (o0opyralishao0o). Read + review our other fics...please? *pleading look*

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The band is changed. I hear it in the brasses. I hear it in the woodwinds. I feel it in the percussion. Much that once was is lost For none now live who remember it.

It began with the forging of the great instruments.

Three instruments were given to the drum majors, immortal, wisest, and fairest of all beings.

Seven to the guard members, great performers and artists.

And nine. Nine instruments were gifted to the section leaders, who above all else desire power.

For within these instruments was bound the strength and will to govern each section. But they were all of them deceived.

For another instrument was made.

In the land of Sdrendnab, in the fires of Mount Tune, the dark director Mullins forged in secret a master oboe to control all others.

And into this oboe he poured his obsessiveness, his musicality, and his will to dominate all bands.

One oboe to rule them all.

One by one, free bands in the St. Louis area fell to the power of the oboe.

But there were some who resisted.

A last alliance of band members marched against the armies of Sdrendnab. And on the slopes of Mount Tune, they fought for the freedom of the bands.

Victory was near. But the power of the oboe could not be undone.

It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Katy, the assistant drum major, took up her director's saxophone.

Mullins, the enemy of the free bands of Illinois, was defeated.

The oboe passed to Katy, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever.

But the hearts of drum majors are easily corrupted, and the oboe of power has a will of its own.

It betrayed Katy to her death.

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend; legend became myth. And for five seasons the oboe passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, it ensnared a new bearer.

The oboe came to the creature Erica who took it deep into the tunnels of the Consumer Sciences hallway. And there it consumed her.

The oboe brought to Erica unnatural long life. For two years, it poisoned her mind. And in the gloom of Erica's closet, it waited.

Darkness crept back in the world of the band. Rumour grew of a shadow in the east, whispers of a nameless fear.

And the oboe of power perceived its time had now come.

It abandoned Erica. But something happened then, that the oboe did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable.

A band nerd. For the time would soon come when band nerds would shape the fortunes of all...