The Perfect Symphony

Chained To The Rhythm

Harmony looked at the necklace in her hands, tears still silently leaking from her eyes as she couldn't help but admire how detailed it looked and the fact he had chosen a golden songbird to represent both sides of her.

She is pulled away from admiring the delicate-looking necklace by a firm knock on the door, standing up and making her way to the door to see who it is. "Did something happen, Will-" She is stopped mid-sentence by dust being blown right in her face, making her cough and swipe at her face to get it off, only to start swaying and fall to the ground. She looked up with hazy eyes to see Ethan smirking down at her before his hair blocked her vision. He wraps it around her, dragging her out of her dressing room. Harmony passes out, surrounded by the smell of his cheap hair gel, as Ethan carefully takes her to a location set up for them.Unknown to him, the necklace she was holding is resting on the ground, streaked with the dust he had used on her until it is eventually found a few hours later by Poppy, who had finally decided to talk to Harmony alone in hopes of trying a shot at mending the bridge between Floyd and Harmony. Noticing the necklace on the ground, Poppy bends over and picks it up, a quizzical look on her face before makes her way from the opened dressing room door and back to Rhonda, where she heads up the steps. "Hey guys, look what I found," she tells them as she holds out the necklace, which was taken from her by Bruce."Where'd you find this?" He'd ask as he curiously rubbed his finger over the dust between two fingers."I found it outside Harmony's dressing room door." Poppy would say, looking a little worried just as Bruce decided to lick his fingers to see if the powder had a taste, earning a disgusted look from Branch and John Dory, which would turn into panic as Bruce began to sway and talk in a sleepy slurred manner before dropping like a ton of bricks. "Bruce!" Branch calls out as he rushes to his brother's side to ensure he is ok.Floyd reaches down and grabs the necklace as the rest of his brothers check on Bruce. He looks at it briefly before closing his hand around it and glaring at the ground as he has a bad feeling about all of this. He knows that something has happened to Harmony, and there is only one troll he can think of who could be involved. He wanted nothing more than to run out of Rhonda and track Ethan down, but he had no idea how. He could have Rhonda track down Harmony's scent with the necklace, but with the dust on the necklace, he did not want to risk her falling asleep and wasting time. For now, all he could do was pray that Harmony was alright and hopefully figure out how to save her with the help of his brothers and Poppy.What may have felt like hours but was about 30 minutes, Harmony starts to wake up with a weary groan, raising her hand to try and rub at her face only to find that something was stopping her arm from moving. That had her snapping into focus as she realized cold metal was wrapped around her wrists, her hands bound behind her with one long chain keeping her in place to what she can only assume was an altar as she slowly made her way to her feet. "Oh good, you're awake! It'd be awkward starting our wedding with you sleeping," a slimy voice that she recognizes fills the space as Ethan makes his presence known with a fake grin. She would see that he was wearing a tux, and his hair was gelled back as it usually was in a way that made it look greasy. "I told you, Ethan, I'm NOT marrying you!" She tells him with a glare as she tugs on her constraints, gasping as she sees she's wearing a wedding dress that was definitely not something she'd ever pick out for herself as it was gaudy and way too bedazzled for her to like it. "Ethan, where did this come from?!" She hissed at him as she jerked forward to get at him but was once again stopped by the chain before she could reach him. Ethan seems unphased by her reaction as he runs his hand through his hair in a way he thought looked attractive, but it no longer affects the now-angry Harmony. "It's the dress I picked for our wedding, Sugar Pie! I saw it and thought, 'Wow, this would look amazing on the magazine cover taken on our wedding day!" He tells her.Harmony rolls her eyes as she tests the chain to see if it has any weaknesses. As she does this she'd begin looking for a way out of this situation. Her eyes freeze when they see that cameras are positioned on the wall of, what she can only assume, is a chapel that is currently filming the whole thing. Harmony whips her head to Ethan with a glare. "You're filming this!" She hisses at him as she jerks on the chains even harder than before to get out. "I told you if I got married, I didn't want it filmed, Ethan!" She growls at him.Ethan shakes his head with a chuckle Ethan shakes his head with a chuckle. "Oh, sugar pie I know you're just being shy. It's ok, I know what you really want. Before we get married I'll play nice with that ex of yours, Roid, was it? I sent him and those wannabe bandmates of his a special invite to our special day, of course not a physical one, mind you. I don't want their presence to ruin this for me" He tells her as he pulls a switch out of his pocket and presses it, activating the live broadcast for all to see as he makes his way over to her. All over the city, the broadcast begins to show up on different screens, catching the attention of Harmony's fans, who were in shock when they saw her chained to an altar wearing a dress even her fans knew was out of the normal for her and her hair in such a tight bun it looked painful. One such broadcast was privately sent to Floyd and his brothers via the screen attached to the outside of the stadium, making the group pause in confusion as they were pretty sure there had been no planned show that day. The screen then comes to life after a moment to reveal a chained Harmony in her monstrosity of a dress and Ethan with his tux, causing Floyd to angrily step forward "Ethan!" He growls out as his brothers hold him back. "He can't hear you, bro." John reminds him as Ethan turns towards the cameras at that exact time to give a wink making Floyd even angrier. "I have to save her! She wouldn't want this!" He tells his brothers as he turns around and makes his way to Rhonda, holding up the necklace to her and hoping that she wouldn't fall asleep from the residual powder on the necklace. "Floyd, we're coming with you," Branch tells him, refusing to budge as he couldn't sit by as his sister was being forced to marry someone she didn't love. As they make their way into Rhonda, Branch and Floyd, make their way to the driver's seat. "Hang in there, Harmony. We're coming," He says quietly as Rhonda quickly takes off, tracking the scent from the necklace.Back in the chapel, Harmony continues to pull on her chains, ignoring the way they make her wrists hurt as she tries to get loose. "Stupid Ethan and his stupid ego," She hisses under her breath as she gives up for the moment to give her poor wrists a break. For once, she was grateful that his ego had him go into another room to check his appearance, spouting that he had to look perfect before their ceremony started.She was shocked that he wasn't just getting it over with, but another part of her wasn't very shocked at all. He always had to make a spectacle out of everything, and a marriage would be the biggest one of them all. She had a moment to look down at the dress she was forced to wear; her nose scrunched up as she took in the way too many gems all over the gown. If the gems weren't there, it might have been a decent dress, but it stands; it was definitely not one she'd ever pick for herself.She groaned in irritation as her skull began to ache, the way too tight bun that no doubt Ethan had put her hair in making her head hurt she wished more than anything she could free her hair so she could strangle Ethan with it to shut him up already. Her eyes become downcast as she thinks about the necklace she dropped when Ethan kidnapped her, while she was still hurt and angry she did love the necklace and had wished she didn't lose it. If she was to be married, even if it was against her will, she wanted a piece of Floyd to be with her for some comfort.Eventually Ethan would saunter back into the main room, a smug grin on his face as he makes his way to stand in front of her. "Well ready to become mine?" He cooes at her as he makes his way closer to the woman who was currently glaring at him. "Never! I will never be yours Ethan! My fans won't love you like you want them to! This marriage won't stick no matter what you do!" Harmony smugly tells him, happy to have put a whole in his plan. Her smile fades when Ethan only chuckles at her and shakes his head. "Oh my dear foolish Sugar Pie, I could care less if your fans love me, all I need is their love for you! Your fame is all I care about, the more fame you harness the better it'll be. Yes you can try to break up our marriage but we both know a marriage signed via contract can never be broken." He tells her as he pulls a contract out of his breast pocket and shows it off to her, his signature on the piece of parchment along with hers. Harmony looks shocked as she tries to think of when she could of signed any contract. "How did you-" She is interrupted by Ethan's smug tone. "It's easy to get your signature on anything when your distracted and surrounded by fans." He tells her as he puts away the contract. "Now let's finalize our marriage with a kiss shall we babe?" He says as he begins walking over to her only to be stopped by the sound of someone pounding on the door until it bursts open, revealing...

(Hello again lovelies! So sorry for the wait, I was waiting for some feedback from my beta but they unfortunately never got back with me so I decided to edit the best I could by myself. I hope I didn't miss any errors but if you spot something wrong or something too ooc for certain characters then please feel free to let me know. The dress is how I envisioned Harmony's wedding gown to be that Ethan has picked out for her minus the crown and the earrings and the male troll in the tux is how I envisioned Ethan to look like. The necklace in the photo is basically what the necklace looks like that Floyd gave to Harmony. As always I love and appreciate you all very much and I hope you'll leave a comment for me. Y'all are special, strong and the very best and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!)