* * * BACK AT THE BAR (yeee-hahh!) * * *
*the pub's resident Succubus sits stirring a Bloody Mary with her index finger*
SUCCI: So begins a new year upon the mortal world.
NATHAN: [from behind his newspaper] Mm. A fresh start with renewed possibilities.
SUCCI: Or a clean slate to completely fuck up from scratch. Whichever comes first.
- You know poppet, one thing we could always count on from you was to have such a nice, positive outlook on things.
*Nathan drops his paper at the sight of the approaching demons*
SUCCI: Well strip me, skin me and call me a bloody mess...
SULACO: Now there's an image. How goes it, Marti? [nods towards Nathan] Nate.
SUCCI: Unbelievable. The most twisted fuck in all of hades returns to the cursed grounds of Drac's crib. Are you here for the master, Sulaco?
LAC: Maybe I'm just nostalgic.
NATE: [gathering his paper] I'll believe *that* when heaven's holy hosts drop their togas and do the Full Monty in Vegas.
*Lac turns to give Nathan a "what-the-bloody-fuck?" look*
SUCCI: Spikey's got a point there, slick. You aren't exactly the sentimental type, let's face it.
Oh you are just so incredibly perceptive of the painfully obvious, aren't ya?
SUCCI: Eat me, dragon-girl.
*Mobi leans in towards her chest eagerly, her jaws stretching and splitting open in a most disturbing yawn of six razor-toothed mandibles already dripping with inhuman saliva*
SUCCI: [leaning back] - LET ME REPHRASE THAT!
LAC: Good idea. Anyway, our dear and beloved scarlet-headed people-eater here just so happens to be the main reason I'm back on Earth for the time being.
*Mobi winks as her mouth returns to normal*
SUCCI: What-...? Her?
NATE: You're babysitting the one female that even Dracula would think twice about chewing on?
LAC: Keeping her within sniping range would be a more accurate assessment, but yes.
SUCCI: I would have thought such a high and mighty demon of your calibur would have had much better things to do than watching over children, old bean.
I'd have thought a professional skank who gets off on draining mortals of their souls during sex wouldn't have so much time to be dallying around sipping cosmos in a bar this early.
LAC: Spare me your cliched villain's banter, Marti. I just don't care to see my little pyrotechnic partner here torch an entire continent in her pursuit of happiness anytime soon.
[pouts] *pssht!* Can't ever do NO-THING here, man!
NATE: ...So you're really just here with the sole intention of keeping tabs on what she's up to?
LAC: Not entirely. Marti here wasn't completely off when she asked me if I was here for her boss. It so happens that I do indeed have some business with the master of the castle.
SUCCI: ...Oh? [glancing over her wing] And uh... Is he aware of it?
*Sulaco turns and grins at her*
NATE: [mutters] I'd call that a big NO.
SUCCI: Didn't think it would hurt to ask.
As we all know the Big D believes he has come across the ultimate means to dupe the good guys at last. Even now he and his necrophiliac sorcerer Shaft are progressing their plan to strike back against the Belmonts. - For like the umpteen-thousandth time.
LAC: Indeed. This turn of events kind of mucks up the whole light/darkness equalibrium balance -thing, upsetting the very cosmic foundation upon which the physical realm and the demon plane co-exist, which has led me, inexorably, here.
NATE: Whoa... Anyone else feel like Keanu Reeves right about now?
SUCCI: Wait-wait-wait, hold the clunky late-90's cell phone here. You're saying Dracula's latest Pinky-and-the-Brained scheme to conquer the known world and get in some payback is what got you back up here?
Well, that and his complete lack of gettin' any for the past few months. And we're talking any and all species of tail here.
It'll be your tail I'll be pumping. --My foot into if you step out of line, Mobius. Any problems with the slightest inkling of a certain demon's paw prints and I'll be having words with you. - After breaking a few limbs off in your ass. Anyway... [turning to Nathan and Succubus] Gentleman? Lady?
*nods cordially and exits stage left with Kregan behind him*
(K: Oh. Finally, a mention. Great. Yeah, nice to get one quick shout-out just before the fade to black, isn't it? Shit.)
I'll be watching you, little one, so best be behaving yourself.
Thanks dad. I'll be sittin' pretty right here with bells on.
*takes a seat at the bar, pops the top off a bottle of vodka from behind it and downs the whole thing in one swig before tossing it out the nearest window*
SUCCI: Uhh.... I can see by the writing on the wall, this new year is off to a long and grueling start.
[grabbing another bottle] Bite me, sperm-bucket.
SUCCI: [resumes sipping her own drink] Honey, not for all for the gold in Castlevania.
NATE: [goes back to reading his paper] I do not know you people.