Post by Satoko on Mar 5, 2015 23:26:26 GMT -6
~Flashback~
We open with a shot of Mattaki Fukushuu in the driver's seat of a large U-Haul truck as Neptune sits in the passenger seat hardly able to sit still as he looks down at his phone with a huge smile on his face.
Neptune: We're almost there, WE'RE ALMOST THERE!
Mattaki: I'm telling you, you shouldn't get your hopes up.
Neptune: It's a house, our very own house!
Mattaki: That was given to us by Tanaka....
Neptune: Come on, he isn't bad all the time.
Mattaki: I would say that the only time he isn't is when he sleeps but he probably dreams about clubbing baby seals and selling their fur.
Neptune's Phone: In 100 feet, turn right.
Mattaki turns the truck around the corner and into a neighborhood.
Neptune: So close.... I can't wait.
The slowly creep through the neighborhood.
Neptune's Phone: Your destination is on the left.
Neptune: Oh, oh, WHICH ONE IS IT!
Mattaki: I'm willing to bet every dollar I have that it's the one with the police tape on the door and the boarded up windows.
Mattaki points over to a house that obviously hasn't been touched in a while. Aside from the police tape and boarded up windows, the grass is outrageous, and it could use some fresh paint.
Neptune: What makes you think it's that one?
Mattaki: Ta-na-ka
Neptune looks down at his phone and then at the numbers on the mail box in front of the house and his heart sinks.
Neptune: It's that one....
Mattaki: It's hard being right all the time, you realize that right?
Neptune: Shut your face.
Mattaki: Hey, don't get mad at me, I told you it was going to be something like this. Just be thankful it isn't a one room shack in the middle of some creepy woods. Then when we go inside it turns out the previous owners did all kinds of demonic rituals and one night while you're asleep you awaken to a shadow demon standing over you that promptly rips your face off.
Neptune: ........
Mattaki: Or maybe you wake up to it biting off your toes one by one.
Neptune: OKAY, OKAY, IT'S NOT SO BAD, IT'S NOT SO BAD! Thanks a lot jerk, I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight.
Mattaki: Well since you'll be awake I can think of a few things we can do.
Neptune: Nope, sorry, a shadow demon might get me.
Mattaki: I doubt it, but a dragon definitely will.
Mattaki parks the U-Haul in the driveway of the run down house then playfully hits Neptune in the shoulder.
Mattaki: Come on, let's see how bad it really is.
Neptune and Mattaki exit the truck and walk up to the front door of the house with blank expressions on their faces knowing full well that they're in for a lot of work if they plan on living there. Mattaki inserts the key into the door and pushes it open before tearing down the police tape and stepping inside. Neptune follows right behind him and they soon notice that the white carpet of the living room is covered in red stains.
Mattaki: I'm pretty sure that's.....
Neptune cuts him off.
Neptune: Don't say it.
Mattaki: Blood, it's probably blood.
Neptune: I told you not to say it.
Mattaki: Me not saying it wasn't going to make the blood magically vanish.
Neptune: No but I could have imagined it was something else.
Mattaki and Neptune now start to look around the house, it's pretty big, three bedrooms, two bathrooms. Besides not being kept up it was a nice house, well, if you could get past the fact that it seemed like no matter where you looked, there were red stains. Whatever happened in this house was not good, not good at all. Mattaki sighs as he pulls out his phone and dials someone.
Tanaka: Hello?
Mattaki: Hey there Tanaka, we're just checking out that house you gave us. Yeah... did it ever occur to you to mention the fact that.... PEOPLE DIED IN THIS GOD DAMN HOUSE!?!?!?
Tanaka: Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down Fukushuu-san. Nobody died in that house.
Mattaki: What? Really?
Tanaka: Of course not, I'd never buy a house that somebody died in.
Mattaki: Well, that's good to hear.
Tanaka: Yeah, nobody died there. There was some kind of big fight there and a bunch of people got stabbed but nobody died there. They died in the hospital.
Mattaki: I almost forgot who I was talking to for a second.... that doesn't make it any better and you know it.
Tanaka: Look Mattaki if you don't want the house then that's fine, I'm sure I can find somebody who would love to have it. Meanwhile you and Neptune will be struggling to pay bills because I'm not so sure you're going to be able to make it on what the federation is going to be paying you in the beginning.
Mattaki: And this is exactly why I hate you.
Mattaki hangs up the phone and looks at Neptune.
Mattaki: Well, lets get to work so we can make this place livable.
Neptune: Yeah, I think I'm going to go look up a priest.
Mattaki: Really?
Neptune: Yes really, do you know how many horror movies I've seen that start this way?
Mattaki: Fine.... But whoever you get better be cheap.
Neptune: This is not the time to bargain shop!
Mattaki grunts and shakes his head as we fade to black.
