From: vdeniger@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Miyu/Frame (Part 7)
Reply-To: vdeniger@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:04:43 GMT

In article <80908@ut-emx.uucp>, chrismg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (christian gadeken) writes:
>
>		Who Framed Vampire Princess Miyu?
>			    Part 7
WHEN DID #7 COME OUT, AND HOW CAN I GET AHOLD OF IT!!!
Desperatly seeking Miyu.....A.R.Morrisey-----Email <vdeniger>
>
>	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?"