From: chrismg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (christian gadeken)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Miyu/Frame (Part 7)
Date: 2 Oct 92 04:18:34 GMT
Reply-To: chrismg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (christian gadeken)
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		Who Framed Vampire Princess Miyu?
			    Part 7

	The next morning, Rob was sitting in the kitchen unenthus-
iastically eating some toast.  Matthew came in, bleary-eyed.
	"Partying like that is a great memory refresher.   (Pause
while Rob declines to rise to the bait.)  It made me remember why
I don't do it often."
	Rob snorted.  "Eat something, it's doing wonders for me."
	"Mmm."  Mathew took out some cereal and milk.  "The last thing
I remember was getting clobbered after I told you Miyu couldn't
be a mother-figure, a mother's supposed to give milk, not take
blood."
	"Sorry, I don't remember *that* at all.  What I do remember
is you pounding Larva for no apparent reason, with a hammer that
appeared out of nowhere."
	"Oh,God, don't tell me I did that again."  Munch, Munch.
"I've been hanging around with animates too much, that's the only
explanation."
	"What'd you do it for, anyway?"
	"Something he'd said earlier convinced me it *wasn't* a
coincindence he was causing a fuss at the prison while the second
murder was happening.  He was being cute about telling me what
it was."
	Rob looked puzzled.  "I don't remember him saying a word."
	"Well, he doesn't usually talk out loud,  but I got Miyu
to teach me how to... um... she called it 'listening with your
heart.'"  Rob looked at him.  "Well, it works."
	Rob shrugged.  "So, what was it?"
	"He... *sensed* a vampire passing by, but didn't realize
what it was for a few minutes.  He had to decide between trying to
prevent the murder or giving Miyu an alibi."
	Rob stared at his cereal.  "Ah."
	Matthew stared at him.  "You disapprove?"
	"No, it's not that, I just... I'm not sure I believe..."
	Matthew blinked.  "You think *he* did it?"
	"No..."  He looked up.  "You remember last night I was
trying to get the sheets for the couch out of the closet?"
	"Yeah, and you spilled my bedroll on the floor, so?"
	"Well... *this* was inside the bedroll."  He handed Matthew something
that had been resting on his lap.
	Matthew stared at what he was holding:a white cotton kimono with
a red obi tied around it.  A brief search found a torn place on the 
neckline, where a man being attacked by the wearer might grab.
	"What the *hell*..."  He looked up.  "This wasn't there when I
rolled it up last night..."
	"Maybe you just didn't remember it being there."
	Blank stare.  "What?"
	Rob took a deep breath.  "Matthew, you've been bitten every week
for eighteen months by a vampire.  In the stories, what happens to
someone bitten by a vampire?"
	"They... become one..."  He stared at Rob.  "Okay, lemme get
this straight:  You think I go through some kind of personality switch,
dress up in one of Miyu's kimonos, and go out to find someone to bite?!"
His voice was rising.  "What the hell do you base that on besides a
piece of cloth *anybody* could have planted, even you!"  He paused
and stared at Rob.  "Waitasec.  Both murders happened right before you
showed up, you didn't get sick when Larva teleported you to the
airport, and you reached right for Miyu's manga that first day!"
	"That was just coincidence!"
	"Yeah, I thought so too, but it'd be a pretty clever way to
cover up the fact you *already knew about her*!"
	"You know what I'm hearing?  *Denial*.  You don't want to
face even the possibility that you might be a vampire so you start
attacking the-"
	"What I'm attacking is the idea that I don't know what's going
on in my own head! You implied-"
	"I don't-"
	"I can't-"
	WHOOOOOM!  A huge burst of red flame erupted between them,
throwing them both to the floor.  Matthew shook his head and looked
towards the hall, at-
	"Miyu, what the Hell are you doing?"
	She glared.  "Cooling off your heads."
	The two men glared at each other.  Rob held up the kimono.  "He-"
	Matthew jabbed a finger at him.  "You-"
	Miyu overrode them.  "It was PLANTED last night."
	They both stared.  "Planted?"
	"Yes.  Larva sensed a presence in Matthew's room, and was trying
to lock onto it when *somebody* hammered him."
	Matthew looked at his toes and mumbled,  "That's the other reason
I don't like to get drunk, I do stupid things."  He looked up.  "So, can
Larva track him now?"
	She cocked her head- "Maybe, if-" And broke off as Larva appeared.
	Everyone paused a moment, then Matthew jumped to his feet.  "Just
now!?  Can you track it?"
	Larva nodded.
	"Gimmee a sec to get dressed-"  He dashed into his room.
	Rob gaped after him.  "What the-"  He swung towards Miyu.  "The
whatever from last night-  Larva-"
	"Yes, but,"  she turned towards the hall,  "it's FADING FAST!!"
	Matthew charged out.  "I'm here let's go go go!"
	Rob grabbed his shoes.  "I'm coming too!"
	They piled out the door, Matthew yelling at Rob,  "What?  We're
going to fight a vampire! You're just a human!"
	Rob raised an eyebrow.  "So are you, supposedly..."
	Matthew paused.  "Er, well..."
	Miyu called back to them,  "Hurry, Hurry!"  She looked forward.
"Larva, don't do that to the taxi driver, he's just trying to do his job."
	A moment later, two humans and two animates roared down the
street in a "borrowed" taxi, in pusuit of something more dangerous
than any of them realized.

			T S U Z U K U . . .

	
-- 
			C h r i s t i a n  G a d e k e n

Yakumo: "But I really did destroy a monster in Hong Kong!"
Saru  : "Ahem, ahem"
Yakumo: "Saru, do you believe me?"
Saru  : "Where's my Hong Kong souvenir?"