“Where’s Witch?” says Werewolf. “Don’t know, I’m sure she’ll show” says the Count. "How’ve you guys been?” interjects Ghost. “I’m fine” says Mummy. “Yes, you don’t look a day over 2000” says the Count. “Right back at ya, kid” smiles Mummy. Witch then shows up. “Hey Witch” all cry out. “Hi everybody!” “I want to suck your blood!” “Please, you wish, you know green blood is your poison” “so worth it” Count winks. “You’re such a cad!” Witch smiles. “Don’t you ever learn?” “I’ve had many years to learn.” His eyes sparkled.
“Can we get down to business?” Scarecrow says dourly.
“But we’re waiting for our gracious host” Ghost adds.
“Sorry I’m late” walks in Father Jones. “traffic.”
“Thank you all for coming, to get the proceedings underway, I hereby open the 9547th annual general assembly of the League of Stars. Are there any new issues to discuss this year? To start, as custom, I’ll cede the floor to our senior ambassador to bring opening remarks”
Mummy stands and starts “Thank you my galactic brothers and sisters. Ever since the end of the Great Star War 10,000 years ago, we have strived to keep dialog among our species in order to maintain peace and brotherhood in this sector of the galaxy. We must remain ever diligent in that mission. Now about an issue, my nation is still waiting for compensation in the Lupus incident.”
“That was over 8000 years ago!” roared Werewolf.
“Might as well be yesterday. Blowing up a star could be seen by some as an act of war” Mummy glared.
“You didn’t even have a valid claim to that system anyways. We were testing our zero-point propulsion technology at the time. Obviously there were a few ‘setbacks.’”
“You could say that” Count whispered over to Witch. Werewolf made a ‘polite’ gesture back at Count who laughed to himself. He and Werewolf didn’t have the best working relationship.
“Ok, that issue has already been raised and the suit is being arbitrated by the Interstellar Court. We’ll let them settle that” Witch added. “Anything else?”
“I’ve heard rumors that the snowmen are rebuilding their thermal inversion weapons? Has there been any intelligence to verify that?” Ghost inquired.
This time Werewolf replied “We have seen some irregular temperature readings on some of our systems. If they have rebuilt, it will be threat to peace. Before we turned the tide in the War, they had turned a couple thousand worlds into big ice-balls.”
“Yes, the last Ice Age did slow down progress somewhat” Father Jones replied wryly.
“Where is the representative from the snowmen, anyways?” Scarecrow added.
“I’m here, I’m here” says a voice as he was coming through the door. “Whew, it’s getting cold out there.”
“Haha, very funny” Witch says “we’ve heard that joke before”, “We were just talking about you.”
“All good I hope” the snowman said.
“Some of us are concerned that your nation is rebuilding its arsenal of thermal inversion weapons.”
“What!? Us, we are harmless, why would we want to start another war with our galactic brethren? And after so long with relative peace”
“Indeed” snarled Werewolf.
“I can assure you, we are not doing any such thing.”
Father Jones then breaks the tension by admonishing “Oh, it’s time to go and enjoy the parade, let’s adjourn and then we’ll come back to discuss this further.”
All of the ambassadors filed out into the street to join the other revelers.
Witch feels a snowflake alight onto her nose. “Burrr, it’s freezing out here, and so early” “Here borrow my cloak” the Count replies. “You are a persistent one” Witch opines. “You don’t live a thousand years by slacking off” he smirked.
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