Chapter 71

5 Pieces' Magnae (5)

Hannah laughs loudly when they are walking backstage after the press conference and Julia just said that Hannah must never have talked that much in front of the press before. Her members are joking with her that they should be more in Japan so Hannah can get to talk some more – since she never talks when they are in Korea or another country.

“Our cute little baby,” Maria says and hugs Hannah while they are walking. “But now when we can talk in a language I understand; do we get something to eat before the concert starts?”

Hannah laughs. The members always think of food, at all kind of situations. Hannah hugs Maria’s arm when they come back to their room, smiling. In the room she lets go of Maria’s arm as the leader goes to ask if they have anything to eat, and since the cameras for the Swedish TV is there, Hannah quietly walks to the side to check her cell phone and at the same time she talks to f(x)’s Sulli who is sitting by the table next to. When Hannah looks up from her cell phone she sees that she is being filmed by the camera, and she puts her hand on Sulli’s shoulder.

“This is our sister,” Hannah tells the camera and Sulli smiles at the camera too. “The members of f(x) have come to help us with our concert.”

Amber comes up behind them, waving with her V-signed hand behind Hannah before both Hannah and Sulli turns around and they laugh. Amber walks up to stand next to Hannah and they hold their arm around each other with Sulli still sitting down on the chair.

“We will have fun today,” Hannah says happily, using Korean so the two friends can understand.

“So fun,” Sulli agrees, sounding really cute.

“5 Pieces’ concert will rock!” Amber says charismatically, which makes both Hannah and Sulli laugh. Amber smiles at them, her expression looks to be saying ‘I did well, right?’ before Hannah gives her a friendly hug while still laughing. She is fun. Amber keeps talking: “We were bought to come to Japan and be on stage with 5 Pieces. They told us they would give us cookies and kisses.”

Hannah laughs even more and she wants so badly cover Amber’s humorous mouth while Amber playfully puckers her lips towards Hannah for a kiss. Hannah puckers quickly back and the moment Hannah does that, both of them just laughs and leans back.

“It’s a joke,” Hannah tells the camera and smiles when Amber pinches her cheek. They are of the same age, and just how Hannah thinks Amber is cute, Amber thinks Hannah is cute.

Some minutes later, Hannah is walking with Carolina and Emelia along the corridor. Carolina says they are on a mission for the camera following them, and after saying ‘mission’ she puts her hands together for a gun and she pretends to be suspiciously walking forward. Emelia walks normally and disappears from the camera as she isn’t walking as slow as Carolina now. Hannah, who had walked behind Carolina, laughs and joins in the secret mission play. But just for some seconds, since Emelia seems to have found something.

“Our dancers have disappeared,” Hannah jokes to the camera when walking by. Not completely true, the girls had just forgotten where their room was.

“Are you ready?!” Emelia screams when entering the room where the dancers are. Loud roars from both female and male dancers are heard and Emelia gives a shout of excitement. It is a lot of noise, everyone talking and chatting and somehow releasing the excitement for the concert to begin.

“Have you heard the noise out there?” a dancer asks Hannah who shakes her head. “You will.” Hannah chuckles over the joke before heading out from the room.

The concert is just minutes away from starting and everyone is starting to head towards the stage to take their positions soon. Julia comes up to Hannah and the two of them starts to walk towards the stage together, the others probably coming behind them. The two girls are chatting of the excitement to start the concert, going through things and repeating talking about how many fans they saw waiting outside before.

“Jul!” Emelia calls behind them and the two girls turns back. A camera is filming in front of them, but the girls aren’t taking much notice of it. Emelia waves with a ring and Julia remembers that she had forgotten to put it back on before.

Maria comes running to the members who are waiting by the side of the stage. She had been at the bathroom in the last minute and she joins the members to get their microphones on. Now when it’s just minutes away, the girls who have earlier been practicing and talking nonstop, warming their voices and all that, now quietly looks at each other and barely able to encourage each other. Until Maria tells them to put their hands together. Last minute cheer, but it is needed.

“Who’s excited?” Maria shouts and the girls shout excitedly for answer. “I’m excited!” The girls shout again and you can see Carolina unable to be still with her feet and she is smiling brightly. “Ladies, we have reached Japan and there are fans talking a language I still struggle to understand waiting to have a blast with us. Let’s have fun tonight! Enjoy the stage and shout until your voices die! LET’S SHOW THEM, WHO ARE WE?”

“5 PIECES!”

“WHO?!”

“5 PIECES!!” everyone shouts loudly and their hands fly up in the air with a cheer just before the opening video is starting to show. The audience starts to cheer and Hannah looks like she is about to fly up in the air of excitement.

For SM’s facebook page, a staff is taking pictures from the concert. Some pictures were taken during the day; the staff writing on facebook ‘5 Pieces at the final rehearsal’ and ‘EM asks if Osaka is ready?’ along the pictures. Now, the staff doesn’t tell Hannah anything when taking the picture. When the photo is uploaded a few seconds later on facebook, the staff writes ‘Hannah is excited for the concert to start’.

They take their positions, all five members looking excited. They kind of know how the concert will go, since they have experience from the concert in Seoul, but since it is in another country they can’t help but to be nervous too. The introduction of the concert and the members are going and Hannah closes her eyes, hearing the fans cheer for each member’s cool introduction. 5 Pieces; the pirates from the world to the world, and they will concur.

When the members appear on the stage, Hannah sees the purple sea in front of them. Japanese fans are known for quietly enjoy the performances, but though they aren’t screaming like fans did in Korea, they are still jumping and waving. [Original] has already started to play with Maria singing coolly. They are still standing above the stairs when Maria finishes her part, and Hannah sings her. Standing there, singing the first part of the song, all members are just charismatic. When the chorus comes, they all dance the choreography that in 2010 became a hot topic since it was easy to follow along to the song.

*Another day passes by, I can’t recognize you* Carolina starts to sing after the chorus and the girls are heading down to the main stage.

*You’ve changed, I can’t recognize you anymore

Those clothes aren’t you; you changed everything,

PUT ON A FAKE MASK

That’s not you; that is not your ORIGINAL*

When Carolina’s part ends, 5 Pieces starts the usual dance performance of the song on the main stage. Hannah is up in the middle of their formation.

[Hannah] *Don’t change and stay as the person I always loved,

Prove them that you are the best as yourself

I love you like you are*

Maria comes up next to Hannah; the two of them doing the part that made fan girls love them as a ‘couple’. Maria smirks at Hannah when singing *this world is yours; you can grab it and take it* and Hannah sings her part *no more hiding, step out and show them, ORIGINAL* without loosing the focus on the performance and the choreography.

Hannah kind of glides a meter to the side for Maria to be in the middle of the formation and they sings the addicting chorus.

[ALL] *You, you, you (ALWAYS YOU) You, you, you ([EM] IT’S YOU)

We are who we are, be proud of yourself

You, you, you – you, you, you ([EM] YEAH)

Don’t try to be someone else, be proud of yourself

You, you, you (DON’T PUSH, YOU) (YOU) You, you, you

You, you, you*

[EM, Rap] *YEAH! OSAKA~

I AM, FOREVER, ORIGINAL

I will never go around, acting like someone else. I am me, forever, no matter how hard I try; I am still me

DON’T BE SCARED of who you are. A different person is better, everyone are different (UNIQUE)

Every single creature on this planet, all of them are different. Don’t say against my words,

I’M THE EM, I KNOW WHAT I SAY*

Emelia rapped in the beat of the song, and you can hear how excited she is – especially at her ‘Osaka’ shout at the beginning that is so little “girl group” it can be. After the rap, just after Emelia’s charismatic ending, they all starts to dance. When the singing comes back, Julia is the one taking the main spot.

*I was once the same as you, wearing a mask everyday

The pain, I can understand

But no more, I am ORIGINAL*

[Maria] *Everyone are hiding, hiding their true selves

How come they are afraid? Nothing can hurt us~*

[Carolina] *This world is mine; I grabbed it and took it*

[Julia] *No more hiding, step out and show them, ORIGINAL*

[CHORUS 2] *I, I, I (ALWAYS ME), I, I, I (I, I)

I am who I am, I’m proud over myself

I, I, I – I, I, I, (I, I)

Don’t try to be someone else, I’m proud of myself

I, I, I (DON’T PUSH) I, I, I

I, I, I*

[Hannah] *This world is mine; I grabbed it and took it*

[Maria] *No more hiding, step out and show them, ORIGINAL (whoa~)*

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Three songs later, the greeting is. The hilarious introduction has just ended and the girls do their group greeting in Japanese. Hannah waves happily to the audience who now are cheering when the music has ended.

“Are you excited?!” Emelia shouts in Japanese and the audience screams.

“You are?” Hannah asks loudly in the microphone; you can hear on their voices they are excited. Hannah laughs happily when the audience screams again. She looks at her members before in her good Japanese says; “Let’s have a lot of fun together and please enjoy tonight with us! We will perform our next song now … [Now and Forever]!”

Hannah had slowly walked to take her position while talking, just like the other members had been doing too, and she takes her position just when finishing talking and the dance remix starts to play.

Maria performs [Deep Blue Eyes] with Amber and Krystal while the other members are getting ready backstage. Hannah is in no hurry. She changes clothes and wipes off the sweat while talking to the others backstage. She can’t help but to say she wants to hurry back up on stage again, because it’s so much fun. Hannah is told to go to the stage to wait for her turn, and she smiles when seeing a camera in front of her.

“My heart is beating so fast,” Hannah smiles with her hand on her chest. “I still can’t seem to realise that we are having a concert, but it is so amazing to be on the stage that I want to run around on the stage.” She takes a deep breathe, still feeling the adrenaline from the stage. “I will sing a ballad now, so … so I have to calm down a little.”

She reaches the side of the stage, meeting Luna who she will perform with and Hannah quickly asks if she is nervous. Luna is nervous, and Hannah is nervous. Luna and Hannah go to take their positions, giving each other courage on the way.

It is the first time Hannah performs [Endless Love] with someone else than Honggi, but Luna is amazing in her way and the two of them are having a lot of fun performing the song even if it is a ballad. They don’t do anything particular, beside from when the song comes to an end and they hold hands to bow at the audience.

After the fun video {Land Ahoy!} that makes everyone laugh over 5 Pieces typical behaviour on, the girls comes up on the stage to perform [Let Us Sing], a pop song. This outfit is still focused on the pirate concept, but a little simpler than the opening outfit. For this song the girls are walking around on the stages, waving and posing for the fans while being their typical selves. Hannah, who had said backstage for the camera before that she is so excited that she wants to run around on the stage, now actually runs from the beginning of the left arm to the end of it. Emelia teases by pulling down her jacket a little so her shoulders are visibly, putting out her tongue for some fans with cell phones/cameras. All of them are happily using their Japanese words they were taught for the concert, telling the audience to sing along and Carolina does a poorly try to shout ‘scream’ and put the microphone towards the audience in the middle of the song. You can’t hear any scream.

[Let Us Sing] comes to an end and while still walking around on the stages, the next song starts to play.

“Do you guys know this song?!” Hannah asks and her voice goes higher. “[Victory]!”

The song [Victory] is supposed to be in Korean for the concert, but since the song was first released as a Japanese OST track for the popular drama Hannah was in, they perform it in Japanese tonight for the Japanese fans. You can see they know the song. Hannah looks out over the audience, smiling at some of the fans nearest and they tell her something “Fly kick?” Hannah asks with a laugh. The fans did say ‘side kick’, but in the end it is the same since Hannah can’t do a fly kick. Hannah takes the position of a boxer – a boxer holding a microphone – and she playfully does a side kick. When she has done it, hearing the fans scream, she smiles and does a satisfied grimace to the fans before jumping away.

The next song is [Without You] and it is introduced with a video intro. When the girls perform it, they have all put on something. Emelia has sunglasses in her jacket pocket, Carolina has taken off her jacket, Maria has taken on a cool customized hat, Hannah has a jacket, and Julia has changed her top. The next song is [Give Back], the hip hop song where today f(x)’s Amber, Sulli and Victoria features.

After the songs from their individual activites, the talk segment is. Maria tells Hannah and Emelia to hurry up on the stage in the microphone, then asking someone in the audience with her princess style what she is laughing about – obviously, it’s Maria’s jokes she is laughing at.

“Did you have fun so far?” Hannah asks in Japanese when standing on the main stage. “Did you enjoy the songs?”

She nods and does the thumb up when the audience is giving an answer and she laughs at Julia who just stands next to her. “Do you like me?” Maria asks out of the blue and the audience screams, since she asks it in Japanese. Maria looks proud and puts her arms in the air to take in the screams. She then thanks them in Japanese, saying she likes them too. Though the audience loves it, the members looks strangely at her.

“I don’t like you,” Carolina acts cutely, also saying it in Japanese. This is just what they have learned for the concert…

“Though we lack in the language, it is so fun to be able to perform here at Osaka Hall for all of you today,” Hannah says in Japanese. Emelia is about to say something when Maria bursts out;

“DO YOU LIKE THE CAPTAIN?!”

Emelia quickly rushes towards Maria and the audience screams loudly while Maria laughs and apologizes to their rapper. Maria stays quiet to let Emelia talk, but she is doing some of her infamous poses and grimaces that only the princess captain can pull off. Emelia glares at Maria, saying ‘you’ in a dark voice. Carolina laughs.

“A lot of people came here today,” Emelia says, deciding to ignore the captain. “And we have prepared a lot to show you. We hope to be able to show varies of… sides… of… of ourselves, for you today.” Emelia laughs awkwardly when stuttering, since she had to think of how to say it in Japanese. “But still, thank you all for coming here today and we do hope you can enjoy the concert.”

“Are you having fun?!” Carolina shouts in Japanese, looking really happy.

“I don’t know if all of you have heard this but … one of us is going to debut in Japan soon,” Hannah mentions and she smiles when looking up at the audience that cheers – they have heard it. Hannah glances over at Emelia who nods.

“Will you welcome me?” Emelia asks charmingly. She laughs before talking again. “Next month, I will make my solo debut in Japan. I have been preparing for the debut for a while, and I hope all of you will really like it.”

“I won’t,” Maria says, understanding barely half of what Emelia said. Maria waves her hand when talking, stuttering when trying to find the Japanese words to say that they should go to Japan together, and not just one member. The audience loves to hear that and though Maria struggles to say it and gets help from the other members, the meaning of it is really innocent.

“Emelia will be without us in Japan for a while starting next month, so please take good care of her,” Hannah ends the topic and she bows towards the audience when asking them to take good care of her. The other members’ follows her to bow at the audience. Emelia stands up straight first, playfully doing a grimace behind the other members. She is caught, of course, and Maria kicks her when Carolina scolds her.

They don’t talk much more, just joking around a little and entertaining in their way. At the Seoul concert, Hannah had introduced the next song in a tough version, but today it is Emelia who introduces the next song in a charismatic version. She looks really cool with the heavy make-up around her eyes, glaring at the audience with the members standing around her to see how she does it.

“The next song … start”

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SuperShannon
#1
Chapter 74: Please upload the next story please?
It's Halloween week ;')
I'm begging you!!!
min2key
#2
Chapter 74: thank you for this series of stories you have been updating it may not be new but still thank you for transfering them here in aff they are all good and entertaining that I can't keep on looking if it still has some more parts to come... ^^