"Rally's a lesbian?"
It was the first thing out of May's mouth as the three friends sat down.
"How did I miss that?" the ex-hooker asked.
"I didn't I was sure that she was all the time," Misty said firmly.
"You're sure everybody's a lesbian," Becky snorted as she flipped through her files. "In any case, I have the information if you have the money."
"You're charging us for your help in protecting Rally?" Misty noted pointlessly as she and May put together the requested funds.
"No," she said. "I'm charging you to help you needlessly interfere in Rally's life."
May and Misty exchanged looks.
"So you don't agree with what we're doing but you're still going to help," May said.
"For the charge," Becky confirmed, holding out her hands. "Cash is fine."
"Mercenary blood-sucker," Misty said bitterly as she handed over the funds.
"Yes, yes," she said. "Now, the Aensland family has a small stretch of land in Northern Scotland that they've owned for centuries."
"So she's some sort of Scottish lord or something?" May asked.
"No, you don't understand," Becky said. "They've owned it, since at least the Britons were there. They've never been part of Scotland, or Britain or any other greater political entity. They got through thousands of years of conquerors and wars owning a castle and about fifty acres of land. They're their own political entity and they've just been left alone."
"She's Queen then," Misty said. "Of fifty acres of land."
"Looks like it," Becky said, shrugging. "But I've got some information on Morrigan Aensland herself. It must be an inherited name, because I picked up historical records of a Morrigan Aensland back two or three hundred years."
"Well, what about her then?" May asked.
"She fights in the Streetfighter circuits occasionally," Becky said. "One of two people to fight the current World Warrior champion, Ryu, to a draw."
May and Misty's eyes widened as they looked around carefully.
"You're saying she's on a level of personal power with the leader of Shadoloo?" May asked.
"At least," Becky said. "Other than that, all I can find is the expenditure of large sums of money for the mere privilege of being first served and any of a number of restaurants, hotels and other such facilities. And I've found more than a few exchanges of funds accompanying 'our apologies for the state of things when her majesty left' statements, so she tends to leave a bit of destruction in her wake."
"So, what you're saying," May said, calculating things. "Is that a rich, crazy bisexual woman who can take care of herself asked Rally on a date...didn't come to drug her, kidnap her, tie her up and rape her or what not, just asked her on a date."
"That's about the size of it," Becky said.
"And we're against Rally having a rich girlfriend why?" May asked.
"Didn't you hear? Leaves destruction in her wake," Misty said. "We've got to rescue Rally from this woman. It's got to be some kind of trick!"
Rally paced a bit, considering what to do about her situation.
A succubus had asked her on a date.
Correction, the Queen of the Succubi...no the Demon World, had asked her for a date.
To the fanciest, most expensive restaurant in town no less.
Should she wear the shoes? No, no, she couldn't walk on heels. Hell, what did she have to wear to match the expectations of that restaurant?
This would usually be the sort of thing she'd ask May about, but for some reason, May had gone off with Misty on some sort of business.
And she wasn't going to pay the fees to get Becky's very questionable date advice.
So...
She went to the phone and dialed a number.
"Hello, Roy?" she asked. "I need a favor, mind if I come over for a bit?"
"You have a date with a succubus," Roy said, and after she'd referenced the woman that had burst into a cloud of bats a week and a half ago, he found himself believing it. "Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't that akin to diving into a shark tank at feeding time while bleeding from an open wound?"
"Actually," Kate said, coming by with a round of coffee. "Succubi are rather playful. Much better than vampires, who take themselves too seriously."
Rally and Roy turned to face Kate with surprised looks on their faces as she produced her wallet and retrieved a card from it to hand over.
"Makai Feeder's Club," Roy read. "Member for five years...?"
"You're part of a club where you go and let yourself be...eaten?" Rally asked the sweet, innocent looking police woman who had all the apparent sexuality of a bright-eyed and bushy tailed small town girl.
"And it is such a stress reliever," she said with a sigh.
"So, the club you go out to each weekend," Roy said. "You're having sex with monsters."
"Don't be silly," Kate said. "I'm saving myself for marriage to a nice man. All vampires need is blood, Yuki-Onna can feed just from me holding them and succubi can feed off a good cage match. And there are benefits, hard to be scared of a thug with a knife when you spent your weekend being terrified by fear demon."
For some reason, the image of Kate in a no holds barred cage match with a sex demoness was even more wrong than the image of her in bed with one. The shiver of exultation she had at the mention of being terrified wasn't much better.
"So, who's the succubus asking you out?" Kate asked. "Because that sounds like an interest in something more than a feeding."
"Morrigan Aensland," Rally said watching Kate's eyes widen. "You know of her? She says she's royalty."
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