Obsidian Shade (黒曜石シェード): Novella Prequel

1 - J'TASK: Japan Concert (Angel Wings)

February 1, 2021

Tokyo, Japan

"Everybody get up and get loud, Astro's on the mic!" Kim Maknae (or better known by his stage name as Astro) shouts out into a sparkling golden-orange colored mic as he stands on the edge of a stage platform.

Astro is looking out at a vast variety of faces in the crowd for his band, J'TASK's, latest concert in their home country of Japan. It is the final one, before the five K-Pop singers will head out on a month-long tour all over the United States of America, starting out with Denver, Colorado.

Tonight, they're running three of their songs, including two new ones, for their diehard fans.

"I can't hear you, Japan!" Astro shouts out.

The stage lighting of a variety of white shades causes Astro's orange-dyed hair to shimmer, looking brighter than normal. His light brown eyes shine with happiness. He loves the stage and performing for fans. Especially Japanese fans that helped aid in the K-Pop group's success. He turns his head to look at the rest of his fellow band members, who are all spread out behind him with varying expressions on their faces.

"Astro, I LOVE YOU!!" a young woman shouts out, tears flying from her eyes. She looks like the typical diehard fanatic that has come to fall in love with the latest K-Pop superstar group. She's crazy and in helpless love.

"Love you too," Astro responds, throwing up a sign language heart with his fingers.

Oh, the things you'd do for the diehards, the ones who allowed you to build up fame and soar up to the top of the charts, breaking K-Pop records. You'd do anything for those passionate, insane people.

"Careful now, Astro. Watch the swooning," someone's voice playfully scolds him.

Astro chuckles, playfully tossing his eyes at the remark and makes his way around the stage to join the others. In the background, as Astro moves, the opening instrumentals for their hit song from a popular, record-selling 2018 album, entitled: Angel Wings, begin to fill the electrified air. 

A dark brown-haired man with dark chocolate eyes, Min Soojin—or better known by his stage name as Suga—slips him a sneaky and playful low high-five. He'd also been the one belonging to the sly warning geared toward Astro. On the tips of his ears, he's got a pair of small silver hoop earrings like his fellow rapper.

Suga's outfit consists of a white jacket over a red and black striped t-shirt with light blue jeans and a pair of red sneakers to match with his bedazzled red microphone, while Astro is wearing a blue and red jacket over a black shirt with dark denim jeans and a pair of golden-orange shoes (which matches his microphone's color).

They both turn their attention to the stage where Astro had been standing, as Jimin Bakjin, moises his way forward, singing with his crisp, clean upper tenor vocals in his bedazzled, sparkling purple microphone:

"We get in such a rush

To fill our lives with things,

We seldom take the time

To feel the hush

As the world spins all around us."

Jimin's outfit contrasts with the two main rappers of the group as he has a glittery rainbow jacket over a plain white t-shirt with light blue jeans and a pair of purple shoes to match his microphone. To complete the outfit, he has two silver studs in his earlobe and two small dangling silver cross earrings hanging off the bottom tips. His silver dyed hair shines with a bluish tint as do the grayish-blue contacts in his eyes.