[Spamfic] "The Vamp and the Letch"
$Id: vamp_letch.txt,v 1.2 1997/05/14 14:09:11 hcobb Exp $
By Henry J. Cobb

A subaverage-looking boy of seventeen walks along a Tomobiki
street. behind him floats an Oni, of about the same age, but much better
looking.  She is dressed in a tiger-stripe bikini with matching boots.
Her green hair hangs freely from around her horns.

"Leave me alone, Lum!  I want to go out on a date", he complains.

"Darling!, why don't you date me?"  As she speaks she displays an
impressive set of fangs.

An evil leer spreads across his face for a moment, but before she can
see it he straightens out his features.  "I just can't, that's all."

"Shinma, show yourself!"

"Huh?", the boy looks up at a girl sitting on the archway in front of
him.  She is thirteen or so and wears a white kimono with a red obi.
Her brunette hair is tied off to her left with a red ribbon that wraps
around her ponytail, a brown cord is wrapped around her right foot.  Her
eyes were gold.

"And who are you?"  He asks, moving around to try and look up her
kimono.

She shifts around then blows into her palm, igniting a flame.  She
gestures and flames leap down to surround the boy.  "Very well, I will
drive you out."

"Don't you dare attack my Darling!"  The Oni flies up and throws
miniature lightning bolts at the smaller girl, who jumps to the side,
aborting her attack.

Suddenly a tall, black robed figure appears behind the Oni and his
white, inhuman hands grab her.  She responds with an electric charge,
but he hangs on.  His expression is unreadable behind his white mask,
but he gives a quiet grunt of pain.

The smaller girl jumps down next to the boy and is about to resume her
attack, when a dwarfish figure emerges from him and he slumps, lifeless,
to the ground.

"Darling!"  The Oni summons hysterical strength and breaks free to grab
the boy from the ground into her arms.

"Happi is here!"  The dwarf announces as he grabs ahold of the sides of
the smaller girl's kimono and rubs his face in what there is of her
thirteen-year-old cleavage.

The tall masked figure gestures and a red streak flies down to strike
the dwarf.

"Ouch!"  The dwarf leaps away, one hand rubbing his backside as he pulls
out a small bomb with a hissing fuse with the other.  "A tough guy, eh?"

The masked figure gestures again and a streak flashes to the bomb,
detonating it.

Stunned, the dwarf does not resist as the smaller girl uses one hand to
readjust her kimono, the other to set the flames around him.
"Happousai, I banish you to the outer darkness!"

A portal opens above the dwarf and he is sucked in with a final cry of
"Akane!"

"My Darling is dead!"  The Oni looks up from the boy, tears falling
freely from her eyes.

"That is the nature of the Shinma, they steal lives", The smaller girl
approaches her, "You seem consumed with grief... I can help you with
that."

"You -- you!"  The Oni's eyes fill with insane rage as she looks at the
smaller girl, "You killed my Darling!"

"Maybe some other time."  The smaller girl says as she is chased by the
lightning-tossing Oni.

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb