There we were, within the vampire's inner sanctum of the castle.  It was after countless dark halls and passage ways, filled with the most vile monsters ever, that we finally came to the final confrontation.  Inside the dark throne room, we slowly walked up to the figure in the distance.  There was nothing but silence, and our footsteps echoed across the grand room.  Until we finally met her.  The head vampire who had been kidnapping the village's women and terrorizing the countryside.  Her long hair an emerald green, her batly wings behind her.  Wearing leotard that left the shoulds and neck bare, the vile creature stood there as if she awaited us all along.  My warrior companion unsheated his blade while the champion hero who had came to help destroy this vile creature prepared for battle.  And with that, the epic clash began!

Well, actually, the halls were really well lit, the vile monsters were mostly just crazy otakus, and this was just a normal suite hotel room.  And the head vampire didn't seem like she was awaiting them at all.  In fact, she seemed really surprised that they were there.  Then there's the fact that Juni's champion was just staring dumbfoundedly while their warrior friend let himself collide head first into a flying table that a sailor scout threw at him for looking at them oddly, but at least Serina was right about the vampire thing.  Though... Juni wasn't sure if vampires were supposed to look like that.  In fact, she looked more like a succubus than a vampire according to the pictures Juni looked at on the Baxter Network.

But dammit, Juni was so NOT going to record into her hunter logs that she fought her next vampire in a run down hotel!  That was not how things were supposed to work!  Sure, lots of other hunters probably had to go through this drudgery but... but it was so drudgerous!

That's when the vampire lady calmly looked up from reading her book on family values.  "Can I help you?"

Oh just great.  Odds were she was just another cosplaying otaku, as were all these french maid sailor scouts in the room.  Of course, Serina kept insisting that this was the vampire, and the customer IS always right (though technically maybe Janet was the customer since the money that got Juni here came out of her wallet, even if she didn't know about it.  Or maybe Baxter Corp was the customer, since they were the ones paying a majority of the bounty.  Or maybe... um... something something.)

She could only hope that her hero and his big burly samurai gaijin friend would help them get this over with, quickly.

The problem was that her hero was currently doing mental flipflops attempting to decipher what was going on and his big burly samurai gaijin friend was barely conscious on the floor.

Belmonts they ain't, she thought to herself.

Normally by now if she took them along, the Junivelle hunter guild would probably have waxed this vampire by now, or at least unleashed some weaponry.  But Juni was NOT going to rely on those guys.  They weren't even her guild anyway and she had to prove to Avelle that she could do this, herself.  All by herself... well, her and her world champion shotokan master, big burly samurai guy, and Marzche and Serina tagging along for reasons she didn't have a clue as to why.

She would have said something to break the silence, except Serina beat her to the punch.

"We're here to defeat you and bring back Sailor Moon, so watch out, evil VAMPIRE!"

Good thing she was a member of an underground evil organization that was below the law far enough for Juni to not get sooo sued for this fiasco.

"Oh, really?"  Juni expected the otaku to ask Serina what she was talking about, but instead the vampire succubus cosplayer surprised her by dropping the magazine to the floor and standing up from the chair.  "You and what army?"

"We don't need an army!!!"  Serina exclaimed.  "We have the all powerful Wonderful Hunter Miss Junivelle, Samurai Gaijin Man, and the BishouKen!!!"

Ken glowered. He HATED bishounen.

Sodom groaned. He HATED concussions.

"Morrigan-san!  We need to get going.  You shouldn't keep Lord Demitri waiting."  The Sailor Scouts were really good cosplayers.  They even sounded very servant like.  "We already searched the convention.  Our friends are too busy to force us to go back."

"Wait."  Morrigan grinned.  "I'm curious.  I want to see what these people are up to.  That is quite the... mmm... bishouken, they have there."

"Lady Morrigan!!!"  Another sailor scout exclaimed.  "You're betrothed!"

Ken was momentarily taken aback. Was the green haired broad actually coming onto him? Maybe it was the fact that he hadn't had any female contact for weeks now, or maybe it was the Satanic mind control that the succubus was exerting on him, but he felt himself become strangely drawn to her...strangely drawn...

"Ken-san! NOOOOO!" Sodom screamed. He leapt to his feet...or rather, he stumbled to them, clutching his head.

"JU-CHAN!!!!"  Serina's own scream that followed almost sent Juni to the ground in Sodom's place.  "SAVE OUR BISHOUKEN!!!  The evil vampire's going to pull out the lobotomatrix nastiness of the ecchi and summon the great hentai spirit to destroy him!!!"

Juni didn't know WHAT that was supposed to mean, but considering the dirty connotations it seemed to have, maybe it was better that way.  She did catch the 'save the BishouKen' part, though.  And look, she walked right up to him!  Obviously, Morrigan was using a spell to charm Ken then was going to rip into his neck!

"YAH!!!!!"  With a quick diving kick, Juni's foot headed straight for Morrigan's head.  Except she looked up then moved out of the way and pushed Juni aside after she landed.  Juni hated it when they did that.  Then Morrigan began...

Come to me, my dear...

Ken blinked. OK.

I can make it all better...

Cool.

You don't sound enthusiastic. But oh...you will soon, my precious.

Gollum, gollum.

WHAT?

I don't know either.

Oh.

Ken continued in his trance-like state towards the succubus.  Serina continued to stare in horror, Sodom slowly tried to save his friend but was too disoriented to not notice himself walking into the wall behind Morrigan instead, and Marzche popped a piece of bubblegum into her mouth and casually blew another bubble.

Things did not look good.

"Morrigan chan-san!!!!"

"Oh what is it, now?!"  The succubus' trance stopped long enough for her to address one of her sailor servants.

"What about Lord Demitri!?  Shouldn't you at least wait a few months before you start doing this?"

"You don't understand."  Putting her harm around Ken, Morrigan had that casual grin again which was fast becoming her trademark.  "It's much more fun here.  Maybe this BishouKen fellow can show me around, maybe... mmm hmm..."

Everyone stared wide-eyed at her.

"Take me shopping!"  Morrigan almost beamed.  Albeit, in a rather classy style.

"But Morrigan-chan!  If Lord Demitri finds out, he might..."

"Oh stop it.  Demitri never does any shopping for me."

"You can't take our BishouKen shopping!!!!"  Serina screamed.  "He is occupied and already taken and he doesn't need to hang out with vampires the likes of you and WE WANT SAILOR MOON BACK!"

Marzche apathetically waved a flag to cheer Serina on.  "Rah rah rah."

The succubus, however, wasn't even paying attention to Serina at all, and continued to argue with the sailor scout.  "I'm sure Demitri understands that I have needs.  He hardly is the type that would say, throw a little fit simply because I decided to play around for a night.  Besides, it's the wife that's supposed to do that to the husband, not vice-versa."

Ken stared at the wall as Sodom ran into it a few times.

"Ju-Chan!!!  Stop her!!  Or Ken-sama will be a dieeeee!!!!!"

"Because Morrigan will kill him?"

"NO!  Because he is maaaarried!!!!"

This made Juni stop to think.  How would Ken being married have anything to do with him dying after being... erm, vampiricized by this Morrigan girl, anyway?

Sodom had a rare burst of insight, despite his unconsciousness. "If he's a vampire, he'd be the undead anyway, so he really COULDN'T die."

"No no no noooo! Haven't you ever seen Vampire Hunter D where they specifically KILL the icky icky vampires?"

"But he'd be dead to begin with..."

"Silly Samurai Gaijin Man! Logic is for-"

During the heated debate over whether or not the undead is considered legally dead, Morrigan had decided to escape with her prey. Juni looked at the open windows and fluttering sashes, then attempted to discover the perfect word for the situation. She found that word and said it. Then said it again. And one more time.

"Tee hee! Ju-chan sorta sounds like a chicken!"
 

"But we don't want to go back!!!"

"Quiet, you!  I'm not in a very happy mood.  The vampire is NOT supposed to run away like a coward!  That's not how things are supposed to work!"  Dragging French Maid Sailor Mars by the arm, Juni continued the walk back towards the sidewalk.

Sodom pondered whether or not to go after Ken and try to save him, but he also still had to get some more autographs.  Unfortunately, Sailor Moon didn't seem to be in a very happy mood, either.

"No!  I am not signing your Sailor Moon poster!"

The large otaku continued to persist, but to no avail.  In fact, Sodom soon found that he had quite the opposite effect.

"LADY MORRIGAN DOESN'T WANT ME TO DEAL WITH YOU BIG DUMB OTAKU FREAKS ANYMORE!"  Sailor Moon, beautiful blonde Goddess of the really really short sailor skirt, was calling him a big dumb otaku freak.  "That stupid show isn't really even mine because she finally made me realized that it's been twisted by freaks like you who butchered our series and want nothing more than to stare at me when I do my Sailor Moon transformation and STOP STARING UP MY SKIRT!"

That sorta was the only place where Sodom could stare since Sailor Moon's slap knocked him to the floor again.

Perhaps the ringing would stop soon, Sodom thought.

A kick to the temple from the blonde girl reassured him that no, no it would not.

"JU-CHAN!!!"  Above the sound and the pain, Sodom could still hear Serina's voice.  "This mission is a failure!  The Sailor Senshi aren't responding!"

"Well, obviously..."

"NO!!!  We have to go back and kill the evil vampire that did this to them and I think we saw the wrong one but she must know where the real evil vampire is and until that day Sailor Moon is goooone!"

"Serina, Sailor Moon is right here.  Beating Sodom up.  See?"

"Hey, look!  It's Sailor Moon!"

The voice of many a crazy otaku made Sailor Moon stop her assault on the poor beaten samurai.  She soon became swamped with a bunch of people, many of whom wanted a lot more than his autograph.

"Can I have your autograph!?"            "Look!  It's Sailor Moon!"    "I love you!!!  MARRY ME!"
            "I got a piece of her hair!"  "Hey, when are you finally having a new series?"
"Hey Sailor Moon, getting it on with Tuxedo Mask?"        "I got her skirt!"        "Why isn't there a hentai series!!?!?!"

"Hearts Fire Ice Justice Sweet Candy Make Up Power Raven Star Blast!!!"

Sodom soon realized that Sailor Moon was not acting very heroic today when she vaporized an entire crowd of all his Japanimation-loving otaku brethren.

"AAAAH!   I'm on fire!"            "Ow ow ow!"    "ARGH!  She's giving me the gift of S&M!"
            "She vaporized m hair!"  "OW!  What did you do that for!?"
"I'll take that as a no?"        "I still have her skirt!"        "OW!  MY SPLEEN!"

Sodom somehow pulled himself to his feet and brushed aside some ashen fellow fans.

"So, should we follow the demon and see if she leads us back to the vampire?"

Juni blinked. "Yes, that's exactly what we're going to do."

"Can I stop for a second? I saw the coolest Hello Kitty lollipop stick and I wanna buy it. Of course, it sorta shook when I touched it, so it's probably possessed, but oh well."

Sodom didn't understand why Juni was staring at him with a raised eyebrow trying to comprehend if he was talking about what she thought he was talking about, but it didn't really matter since at that moment, he saw that Morrigan girl at the store and Ken was with her!  This was great!  He could buy his Hello Kitty lollipop and save Ken at the same time!

Except the two exitted the store.  No hello kitty lollipop for him.

Ken stumbled around holding a wide assortment of wrapped boxes and shopping bags while Morrigan brushed her hair to the side.  "Mmm hmm... that Hello Kitty thing was just... real girls know how to get the real thing.  Don't you agree, Ken?"

At that moment, Sodom could almost picture Ken's wife angrily charging out of the store next door and beating Ken up.  Except Sodom didn't have to picture it. Eliza charged out of the store next door, slapped Ken across the face, and disappeared as quickly as she had come, with no explanation of what had just transpired.

Unfortunately, this did not cure Ken of his trance.

"Okay, mean vampire!!!  Give us Sailor Moon back!"

"Oh, you again."  With a snap of her fingers, Sailor Moon and the other sailor scouts were quickly by Morrigan's side again.  "You still don't have an army.  And now I have your BishouKen too.  I must say, you humans are a very interesting bunch."

"Oh yea!?  We don't need an army!!!"  There was a big blinding flash as Serina spun around then pointed her microphone at Morrigan.  "We are the SUPER SAILOR SHADOWLAW SENSHI!!!!  You are no match for Sailor Juniper,"

Juni sighed.

"Sailor Marz!"

Marzche blew another bubble.

"Sailor Saterina!!"

Serina slapped Morrigan with the Microphone.

"And their friend, Samurai Mask!"

Sodom bowed.

Morrigan stared at them. "Look, I'm a very busy woman. Do you have anything important to say? Anything at all?"

Suddenly, Morrigan stepped out of the way as Juni dive kicked at her, then shoved Juni aside, again.

"OW!  Serina, this really isn't working."  Juni muttered.

"FINE!  Have it your way, vampire!  I'm going to go get an army, then you'll finally be brought to justice for all your evil vampiricisms that you've been doing!"

As Serina dragged Juni and Marzche dragged Sodom away, Morrigan laughed.  "That I'd like to see!  Crazy girl..."
 

This... was it.  So maybe even Serina and Marzche couldn't do it.  Maybe Serina and Marzche couldn't save Sailor Moon.  But it's okay!  That's life, Serina, and it's important to know when to quit.

Of course, it's also important to know when to call for back-up, too >:D

So now you called a meeting.  By having Marzche hack into the system and change the scheduling a bit!  Good work, Serina!  Yay for Marzche!  But you need to keep calm now.  This... is a special instance.  It's time to call everyone together, and finally destroy this evil vampire once and for all!  Someone has to do it!  They might not listen to you or they might even laugh at you.  Or they might just look at you wierdly like they usually do.  But it doesn't matter because you're giving it your best shot!  So don't be scared, Serina!  Just do what you always do, and in the end, everything will be great!

Off with the lights!  Everyone is watching intently as the spotlight switches to you.  They know what's going on.  They finally realized that Sailor Moon might be gone forever!  Hoards of tearful otakus thinking that one of the biggest bestest animes will be away, but they need to know the truth!  Slowly, the soft piano music begins, it's time to give out your song out to the entire crowd...

"Oh.... my goddess has smiled upon you, this daaaay...

The fate of an anime... in your haaaaands...

And blessed be... the otakus, we,

who embark on Yoyo's insane tomfoolery,

For eeevery biiishouneeeeeeeen."

The music quiets down,and  several TV screens turn on  Behold as they display every known anime ever to have the unfortunate luck to not even be translated into English, or who's translation was ridiculously horrid and blah  Never brought to the west from the east, never cleaned up for people to be able to see.  Some where far off, Morrigan is telling the Sailor Senshi that that was wrong though.  Blaming it on the otakus that their series has fallen, but in truth, it was the bestest ever.  Marzche continues to observe the lighting, and Juni is there off in a dark corner for some wierd reason. And next to her is poor poor Samurai Gaijin Man, who lost his friend before this all even started but nothing could be done.  Until now.  The beat is picking up, and it's time, Serina, to resume.

"For example, Escaflowne,

it came to us that night.

But they killed off the first showing,

and nothing else was right.

And though the new voices really SUCKED,

we're still 'sorta' sad it's gone.

Though it was cancelled, the petition lives on!"

They know what you're talking about, Serina!  They understand!  Lead on the chorus, send in the band, and let the new hope arise!

"Because a man had breasts,

they said Pokemon wasn't clean.

But because we didn't rest,

we got back episode eighteen.
<And yet out there Morrigan waits, vampiricizing the sailor senshi to be eviller than thought possible>
His episode might have caused seizures,

<Kill Otakacon!  It's Otakon!

Because they've gone too far,

tomorrow night they'll be seeing stars!>

<Tomorrow night!

Our lives will change!

For the best,

since when they came,

they butchered our series!

We're truly right!

To our old time...

TOMORROW NIGHT!>

What would Ki and Marget do?

Oh Ken-Sama, why aren't you here to sing alooooooong?!?"

"They may fubar the translation,
                                            <Tomorrow night!
and change some stuff around.
                                            Our lives will change!
Give us corny resurrections,
                                            For the best,
and mess up all the sounds.
                                            since when they came,
But when they take away Sailor Moon,
                                            they butchered our series!
then across the line they've far long gone, now!
                                            We're truly right!
Though it was cancelled,
                                            To our old time...

Let the cheers ring through the air!  March!  Forward!  Stop the vampire, Serina!  No more standing by, and no more letting the vampires get away with this!  Lead the masses and everyone shall come together to finally bring back Sailor Moon!  Because that's what you're here for, and that's what you're going to do!
 

"Yes!!!!  Did you see that, Marzche-sama!?"  Juni didn't know how Serina did it, but she did it.  "We're going to take back Sailor Moon and finally stop the vampires because everyone unites together and the vampire doesn't stand a chance!"

Of course, Marzche was nonchalant as always.  "Yea."

"And when we rescue them they will be all ecstactic and stuff but we have to beware because that's actually a bad thing and we need to take that ecstacy feeling away from them in order to finally free them from the torment of the lobotomatrix which decided to involve their very avatarhoods in all of this!"

"Yep."

Juni stared at the enormous legion of convention goers and otakus behind her, then at one of the commanders.  Well, sorta commander.  Well, he was important because Juni recruited him first before recruiting the rest of the loons.

"I'm really sorry about what happened to your friend, Mr. Sodom.  Maybe I shouldn't have dragged you both into this.  Who knows what horrible awful things Morrigan could be doing to Ken right now?"
 

"And how do I look in THIS, studmuffin?"

"Cool."

"Why, we might be too late already."  Juni bowed her head down.  "Ken might get caught in the cross fire from all of this and it'll be all my fault and maybe I should have just brought along Avelle's........ hmm.  Nevermind.  I know!"

Perking up, Juni turned to look at the big samurai man.

"You can save Ken, right?  You're his friend!  BESTEST FRIENDS FOREVER!  Only you could reach him!  Or his wife.  But she doesn't seem to be here right now.  So you'll do it, right Sodom?  For friendship!"

Sodom puzzled over this. Yes, Ken had forsaken him. Yes, Ken had hurt his feelings. But something within him began to rise to the top. A sort of burning spirit that imbued him with a sense of nobility and honor that is sadly lacking in the world today. Was it the spirit of a true samurai? Nobody could be sure, or ever would be, but Sodom's eyes lit up.

"Yes. Yes I will."

"Hooray!  Ken will be saved!  All we need is a plan..."

Juni didn't have the time to think up of one though.  Since there on the sidewalk was Morrigan again.  Complete with the sailor scouts and Ken, facing the otakus ready to rumble.  Or something.

"Hmm... not bad."  Morrigan crossed her arms.  "You realize that I have pissed off super sailor scouts who despise your little convention like the plague protecting me, right?  As in, super sailor scouts with big exploding blasts of death?  While all you have are mostly skinny pimply otakus or overweight ones or people who really need a life!!"

Hooboy.  Serina probably had to really had to put lots of effort after that remark to keep the other convention members from breaking into a riot and thus probably killing Ken in the process.

"DON'T BREAK INTO A RIOT AND KILL OUR BISHOUKEN IN THE PROCESS!!!"

Her loud shoud nearly made the entire convention deaf.

"You know..." Morrigan was still cringing as she covered her hurting ears.  "Your 'bishouken' is mine, now.  And I think I'll have you all wiped out right here.  You're starting to get annoying."

"But Morrigan, we can't have a slaughter so soon."  One of the sailor senshi protested.  "What would Lord Demitri think if you had that so soon after your engagement?  Someday perhaps he might even want to come to Earth again and this whole 'kill everyone around the time of your marriage' thing might just be so... barbaric."

"Hmm.  Perhaps.  Well, fine.  Go beat them up but don't kill anyone.  I need to get back soon, anyway.  Ken, come along."

"Never!!!!"  With a dash, Juni quickly zipped right through the sailor senshi and grabbed right onto Morrigan, then spun high into the air with a shout before slamming Morrigan down to the ground.  "Sodom!  Quick!  Save Ken now!"

Sodom dug around in a pouch he kept at his side. Not that it had ever been used for anything or arguably even existed before, but it was going to be used now, dammit. He pulled out....a pair of Dragonball Z boxer shorts reading "Home of the Super Saiyan".

"Ken! Your underwear fell out of your bag!"

Ken's eyes regained their fire. "THOSE ARE NOT MINE GODDAMMIT!" he screamed as he rushed at Sodom.

"Ken-san! Ow! You're ow! back!"

Morrigan quickly looked up from her pinned position, but was unable to even comment because Serina quickly screamed "NOW!" resulting in her being trampled by a sea of swarming otakus.

Well, and Juni too, much to her dismay.

"OW OW OW!  STOP IT!!!"  With a flash, all of the crazy anime lovers were quickly pushed back.

"ARGH!!!"  Morrigan quickly threw Juni off of her.  "What does it take to get rid of you?!?"

"We'll never go away, evil VAMPIRE!"  Serina snapped back.

"Vampire?  Darling, I'm not a vampire.  If you paid any attention to your stupid vampire stories at all, you'd notice that..."

Morrigan quickly looked down at her battish outfit then glanced over her shoulders at her batty like wings.

"Hmm.  Well, okay, maybe I do LOOK like a vampire..."

Juni was just glad that everyone else simply thought of Morrigan as a person cosplaying a vampire.  It really wouldn't look good on her Baxter Corp record if this was under any other condition.  They had something against unleashing the cool shiny fireworks out in public and letting others know that vampires like, existed, for some reason.

Not that that stopped Serina from unleashing the cool shiny fireworks though.

"Quick!  Marzche!  Use the Beat-Down Mania super!"

With that, Marzche stopped blowing her bubble gum bubble and quickly threw out what looked like a large flower at Morrigan.  It slammed into her then exploded, and Morrigan found herself on a sort of mini-stage with a dance pad and lots of shiny multicolored spot lights.

"DANCE!"  Serina shouted.

"Dance?"  Morrigan glared back at her.  "I'm not going to..."

With that, the buttons on the dance pad flashed and electrocuted her.

"HEY!!  OW!"

Marzche continued pressing buttons into her computer while Serina was screaming various directions which Morrigan had to follow quickly before getting zapped again, until the small stage finally poofed in a puff of smoke.  Morrigan was rather smoking, herself.

"Okay, you stupid annoying idiots!  What will it take to get you to stop thinking I'm a vampire!?"

Serina beamed at Morrigan's question.  "Take this basket with three loaves of bread and two fish and feed this entire convention with it!"

Morrigan stared at the small amount of food in the basket, then at the huge crowd of otakus in front of her, then at Serina again.

"Um... no."

About this time, Juni suddenly realized that Ken was still beating up Sodom during all of this.  Aw, that was really nice of him to... um... have such a wonderous S&M relationship with his friend.

Morrigan, as she slowly began to stop billowing smoke, got an idea.

Preying on the otaku's natural ability to do whatever an attractive woman tells them to do regardless of personal reward or risk, she began to put them into a trance, and they began to fall under her spell.

Hundreds, almost thousands of otakus began a slow, trance-like march towards our hapless heroes.

"Morrigan-chan, you promised us that we could beat them up!"  One of the Sailor Senshi protested again.

"Not now.  You can beat them up later."

Serina stared at the otakus, then shook her head.  "AHEM!  Did Morrigan sing you all a pretty pretty song?!  Nope nope nope, I don't think so!  I don't think she did, at all!"

With that, the otakus all stopped then started babbling amongst themselves about how Serina had a point.

Morrigan rolled her eyes. "I'm an attractive woman who will willingly have sex with you and all I ask is your soul in return. It's probably the only offer you'll ever get. Take it or leave it."

The otakus conversed amongst each other once again and agreed that yes, Morrigan had a point too.

The sailor scouts with her, however, were exasperated.  "Morrigan!  What about Demitri?!?"

It was at this point that Morrigan must have finally reached a breaking point or something.

"When Demitri gave you all over to serve me, did he tell you that you could keep protesting like whiny brats!?"

"Well, no, not really, but we were only thinking about you and Lord Demitri's best interests and..."

"Do YOU want to handle this?!"

"Well, no, not really, but..."

"You know what I think?  I think I need to punish you all for your insolence!"

"But what are you going to..."

Morrigan turned to Serina and smiled.  "Here, you, nutcase girl, you wanted your Sailor Moon TV show back?  You can have it back.  And it'll be acted out with the actual Sailor Senshi, themselves.  Live action!"

Serina beamed in reply.  "WOW!  Really?!"

"Morrigan-chan!  You wouldn't!!!"

Now it was the sailor senshis' turn to feel Morrigan's wrath.  "You were ordered by Demitri to obey my every command.  We start filming the minute we have the time.  But right now, I suppose Demitri has been waiting long enough."

Morrigan turned to leave with the whining sailor scouts following after her as Juni stared in surprise.  She didn't really even notice Serina's cheer very much.

"Oooo, Morri-chan's going to tell the real vampire that he needs to back off!  Did you hear that, Marzche?  We're going to get back Sailor Moon and we won and we showed her muchly!!  Right, Juni?"

"Um... yea, I guess so."  The blonde quickly fliped through her Baxter Corp rule book.  "Hmm... I guess since she's leaving, I really don't have much of a reason to kill her now.  And I think I'm too tired from all of this to try, anyway.  Of course, I guess that means we don't get paid but hey, Ken's the only one who really needed the money and he got something much better than that, anyway.  Friendship!"

Ken looked up from Sodom, who he had been pummeling the entire time. He said a string of rhythmic and similar yet naughty words.

"Tee hee! BishouKen sounds like a chicken too!"

"Hey, it's okay, right, Ken?"  Juni beamed.  "Now that you and Sodom are back together, you can... um... go do whatever you were doing.  I wonder if that tournament thingy is still going on."

"It's not."  A random member from the crowd answered.

"Oh.  Doh!  Oh well.  Anyway, thanks a lot, Ken."  Happily shaking Ken's hand for a while, Juni eventually realized something.  "Um... even though all you really did was get hypnotized by Morrigan into doing unspeakable things with her."

Ken shrugged. "So long as I was of some use," he said with blatant false modesty.

"You weren't." Marzche said apathetically.

Ken frowned as Juni tried to figure out what to say for the awkward situation.  She decided to just cut to the finish.

"Um... well, guess this is goodbye then.  We'll be seeing you, Mr. Ken and Sodom!  Or... um... maybe not."

Ken was incensed. "So where's my money?"

Juni and her friends continued walking off into the sunset.

"C'mon! Tattered gis don't pay for themselves!"

Juni decided to stop to finally address Ken's concerns.  "Oh.  All right, um, here.  Why don't you just turn all that stuff that Morrigan brought for you when you took her shopping into a pawn shop?  That'll get you lots of money, won't it?"

Ken blinked. "Why yes, yes it would!"

"See?  So everything's okay!  Glad I could help!  Later, Ken!"

And so, yet another story in the adventures of the great vampire hunter Juni (not to be confused with the great vampire Avelle.  Nope, not at all) had ended, and everything was great.  Juni didn't understand why Ken needed money so much though.  I mean, Morrigan was probably able to buy all that stuff for him to give to her by simply using that little credit card thing in his wallet, and from Juni's experience, it was easy enough to get lots of fake credit cards.  Just needed to be careful not to abuse them lest those mean cops start coming by again.

And oh yeah, so ended another chapter in the adventures of Ken and Sodom, but nobody really cares because they're not as cute.

"HEY!"

Good night, everybody!
 

"I'm sorry, Ken-san."

"It's OK."

Sodom looked at Ken expectantly for a moment.

"What? Do I have some sort of ungainly growth on my forehead?"

Sodom's eyes didn't waver.

"OK, I'm sorry."

"It's OK."

The awkwardness continued for a moment or too.

"So, um, let's go."

"Where? The convention's over and so is the tourney."

"I left my jacket inside."

"Oh."

What Ken and Sodom didn't realize is the swelling of the orchestra at that exact moment.
 

Well, they would going back to Mrigranka now.  The convention was being packed up.

Were you paying attention?

It was a good thing that she had the spare time to do this.

Morrigan said that this Demitri guy might decide to come to earth, himself.

Juni felt a bit bad though.  She really had to do something for Shadowlaw.

She knew how Dark Stalkers came to and from Earth and you let her get away!

Underground criminal organizations don't succeed in bringing out a better world if everyone within them doesn't do anything.

Do you have ANY idea how much Baxter Corp would have paid to get that info?

Having power is important, but someone actually has to USE it, too.

Do you have ANY idea how much prestige you just let walk away while you stared dumbfoundedly like a stupid idiot?!?

And Juni... apparently, according to Avelle, wasn't using it.

I told you you should have listened to me.

"Avelle, shut up!  I'm not listening to you!"

Several custodians who were cleaning up around the convention center stared at Juni, before getting back to their work.

Avelle was taking this all in stride.  "Dear, I told you once and I told you again.  But you aren't listening to me.  You aren't listening to yourself.  That's who you're not listening to.  Keep believing otherwise.  You're only going to screw things up again, like you did, today."

"You are not ME, Avelle.  You jerk!  Why won't you leave me alone!?"

"You can't leave yourself alone, darling."

"Stop it!!!"

The man who wanted to give her the paper was pondering whether to or not.  This was just so embarassing.  Why was Avelle doing this to her!?

"Um... Maam?"

"WHAT!?"

The man quickly held the paper.   Juni slowly stared at the drawing she was holding in shock.  "I... drew this?"

"It was signed with your name, Miss Junivelle.  That is your name, right?  That's the name you registered under."   The man stared at the picture, himself, then shuddered.  "Not that we never said you couldn't do hentai, and please don't take offense, but a mustacheless Hitler in red attempting to rape a girl in a leotard seems to be a rather interesting taste in hentai, I think."

What is one supposed to do when they are faced with the proof.  The evidence.  The fact.  That they are wrong.  That they didn't know, the entire time?  Juni was positive that Avelle wasn't at that CG workshop doing the drawing.  But what did she draw, there?  Was the picture drawn by her?  Or was it drawn by someone else.

The name she signed... she didn't recall registering under that name, and yet...

She stared at her Otakon name tag.  She wasn't facing the proof.  The proof was facing her.

Over in the corner, Avelle.. no, Junivelle, because that's who she was, and no one else, put her hand to her chin and leaned her head down.  "Hmm... now, dear, do you see what I was talking about?"