That Night, at exactly 8 PM, on the Made-K Channel, most of the fans of Boys Republic were watching the program..
The first elimination was announced and the sad backs of the unlucky and unpopular trainees are shown as one by one the passing trainees move forward leaving the group to another room.
the final two, Wooseok and Xion were announced as the last candidate that passed the first elimination with 10M views after Kim Yohan's little speech... The scene then changed to the dressing room where the surviving trainees are having fun and changed their clothes with the official uniform of the show and was seeing talking and laughing and teasing each others, the atmosphere was merry.
After the ad-breaks, the show continued with Wooseok entering the banquet room.. continued with Xion and then Yeonjun, everyone that was watching was laughing hard seeing the prank.
Every Dreamcatcher's Company staffs that decided to have another watch-together for supporting Xion was present. They were laughing hard listening to Xion's explanation for Bae Yoonjung, and laughed again as Yeonjun answered Rain.
The scene continues with the banquet for the trainees in a festive atmosphere. Everyone was having a small mukbang story as they consumed the food.
The mentors then leave the banquet hall as the trainees talk among themselves. Kim Yohan then re-appeared in a wide projection wall as he announced the official song of the program and the snippet of the group dance was played.
The scenes then continues as the trainees struggling with the dance practice, some of the trainees complained about the dance, some are learning it with seriousness and some are struggling, as Wooseok and Xion was announced as the center, the production team give another struggling story for both of them and Juyeon was rallying the other trainees and depicted as the villain to steal the center spot.
Rain and Bae Yoonjung were seen as mediators and decided to put on a dance battle and the center position as the bet. The team was split 45 vs 5 which makes the audience see the underdog vs the boss scene-like for a story..
After another break, Kim Yohan was seen announcing the 2nd task for the trainees as they picked their position. Chan, Ravn and Yeonjun were seen picking their spot, then a flashback to the dance battle was seen as the team of 5 discussing their part, the other story is about Juyeon and his team picking their representative for the dance battle, the internal struggle and small dance battle was commence as they are picked by the trainees votes.
Everyone was called to come back to the dance hall and Bae Yoonjung told the rules of the dance battle to the trainees and then the music played. All the other trainees then dance in the stage one and another to heat up the dance floor.
Everyone was giving their best for extra exposure for themself that night, some good and goofy dance moves are shown one by one.
Finally, the dance battle commenced, it was a duo battle dance as Jun and Kai jumped to the stage and started moving their bodies to every beat in the song, Chan and Ravn then counter them with their amazing duo choreos interchangeably one by one which amazed everyone, the audience was pumped up on their seats that night, seeing the battle.
Every audience was glued to their seats and really enjoyed the performance on TV, but all the Dreamcatcher's Company staff were on edge as Xion was being challenged in the story.
Jiu's feeling was complicated as she doesn't know how to react. If she supports him, the other staff will tease her, if she doesn't support him, it makes her a bit sad.. Everyone in the room exhales deeply one by one.
As Chan and Ravn were announced as the better dancers, everyone was screaming yes, but Jiu poured another cold water as she said it wasn't over yet. Bae Yoonjung then announced the second part of the dance, the Killing Part with the specific rules to kill the opponent's will to battle for more, the other trainees were grasping and some of them were giving their comments on the rules..
The staff then played a song for Juyeon's team since they are the challengers so they danced first.
Juyeon and his team of five danced with precise kills on certain parts of the song nicely, the audience was hyped as they watched the show, as the song neared its end, Xion and the rest were seen taking their position.
Then the song changed as Wooseok dance gracefully and entered the formation, Xion and his team did the killing part nicely as the whole trainees screamed with great fervor, the combined dance really looks epic.. the camera then panned to Juyeon as Xion do the final killing part, Xion dropped to the floor while doing some upwards body spin to pull him back and added with a backflip finished with freeze which landed on his left heels on a balanced position.
Everyone was mind blowing that instant! All the Audience at home and the Staff at the office were screaming loudly while the replay was being played again, a long shoot was taken as Juyeon continues to do a double backflip but Xion just killed his opponent's will with an air backflip, landing with his chest and standing straight instantly with a smug face facing the camera dashingly.
Another loud cheering was heard, Sua was screaming his lungs out seeing the dance battle, as the reply was played once again from Xion's part in the group dance, till he landed on his chest with a smug face, Rain and Bae Yoonjung was caught standing amazed as the other trainees erupted with loud cheering as Juyeon hugged Xion.
That night, everyone in Seoul replayed the scene over and over again. The show continues with the small talk as Xion and his four friends shows a snippet of their modified dance to Bae Yoonjung as the PD told her that they had modified the dance.
Bae Yoonjung then told them to dance as a 5 center for their reward in winning the dance battle. As the finale for the second episode, the complete dance of the official song was being played on TV for the first time.. It was the first time in survival show that the center position was divided among 5 member, but the dance itself was great as the audience then understand why Bae Yoonjung added it in the dance break part.
In the end, Kim Yohan is giving the invitation for 800 people to come and be the live show Jury, as 200 other current Idols will also came to became the special Jury for the live show.
In the morning, at the live show preparation, one by one the trainees performed, some were good, some were mediocre, some were bad, some were just better not performed..
Rain nodded in understanding, not everyone can quickly recover from such mental pressure, I wanted to know how Xion can make them like this.. even though he is just a one month trainee, no, two months.. Considering the time he has spent on the program also, hopefully tomorrow's episode can enlighten me.
Rain was contemplating things when one of the staff came and told him that except the sound produced by Xion, no lyrics were present in his song. Rain frowned deeply and decided to talk to Xion, while letting his manager write some names for him to arrange the whole performance.
Rain comes toward Xion who is sitting with his eyes closed. He waited till Xion opened his eyes and asked, "Xion, do you have any trouble with the lyrics? Why don't you have any lyrics in your recording?
Is there anything I can help? Xion looked back at him, gave a weak smile as he replied, Rain-songsaengnim, i am afraid that i have to perform straight at the live show, if i do a rehearsal, i am afraid that i lose the courage to performed the same as the rehearsal as i can't made the same feeling bottled up inside.."
Rain just looked at him back, then put his hand on Xion's shoulder while staring at the former's eyes.. "I know that feeling well…"
Rain was reminded about one of his dark past. He was in a group with two others idols, but both of his friends ended up in frustration as their fame rose high..
Both of them was later found death in their apartment, the cause was suicide, one of his friend often tells him that he can only performed once and can't do another one since it tooks a great tool on himself..
He was found death one day and after his funeral, his other friend commit suicide the next week due to heavy toll it takes off of him of losing close friend. For one year after that, Rain was engaged in self pity and self destruct mode, until Kim Sangmin came and took him out of his dark days.
Rain then said to Xion attentively, " you only got one shot! Make it worth it, no regret afterward, you heard me?
Rain waited for Xion to reply, Xion waited for some seconds, he looked back at Rain, changed his listless eyes and said with enough confidence, "I can do it! no, I will make it unforgettable as people will recall it as a legendary performance that.... I can assure you"
Rain just nodded and asked him back " can you just stand on the stage for the cameraman to take some angles before your performance, no need to sing, just stand there.." Xion says yes and gets up to queue below the stage.