Chapter 305:

Gramps the scheming vamp

En Passant Grandmaster

As the dinner hour arrived, Okisato sighed as he made his way to dining hall. As he made it there, he noticed a scene occurring, with members of the Romanian team at it's center.

"Come on Viorica, grandpa wants to test his new love potion, and ya said ya had someone here you're into," an elderly man with pale blue skin frowned as he twiddled his cape and held up a vile filled with a dubious yellow liquid.

"Ugh, I'm hanging out with friends! WITH FRIENDS! I don't have time to drink your piss or whatever that shit is," a girl with pale skin and frilly pink hair glared.

"Relax, Vior. We like, just kick this old geezer in chess," a girl with purple hair smirked.

"Sinta-"

"We win, you piss off, but we lose, and like whatever, we'll drink your love piss potion or whatever."

"You got yourself a deal! Decebal Drăculești. I'll be smothering ya in your own butter," the old man grinned as he summoned a chessboard with his WWCF card.

Viorica put her hand into her face as Decebal sat down with a fat cigar in his mouth and opened by moving his pawn to e4.

"Like, Vior, could you like, tell your gramp, smoking's bad?" Sinta scoffed as she moved her pawn to c5.

"Huh? What's bad about it?" Decebal asked as he moved his knight to c3.

"Um... EVERYTHING!?" Sinta cringed as she moved her knight to c6.

"Heh, smoking's cool, still is," Decebal smirked as he moved his pawn to f4.

"The grand prix attack? Why that?" Sinta scowled as she moved her pawn to g6.

"Cuz I love drag racing, that's why," Decebal proudly huffed as he moved his pawn to a4.

"Um... What?" Sinta blinked as she moved her pawn to e5.

"Drag racing, ya know, at the racetrack, ya race two cars and the parachute comes out. And if ya forget the parachute, well hope ya got a strong boy that can grab the back and slow ya down as ya do donuts," Decebal chuckled as he moved his bishop to c4.

Sinta cringed in confusion, not understanding a thing Decebal was alluding to as she captured the pawn at f4 with her e-pawn. Decebal shrugged and moved his pawn to d3, but raised an eyebrow as Sinta moved her queen to g5.

"Oh no, Sinta's screwed. I know what that glint in grandpa's eye means, it means trouble!" Viorica thought as Decebal moved his knight to f3.

Sinta didn't see any danger of the sort and promptly captured the pawn at g2 with her queen.

A grin spread across Decebal's face as he exhaled a puff of smoke, annoying Sinta, but terrifying Viorica as she knew exactly what he was about to do.

"POW! No try getting out of that check," Decebal proudly huffed as he captured the pawn at f7 with his bishop.

"Um... I take?" Sinta scoffed in confusion as she captured the bishop at f7 with her king.

The move caused Decebal to widen his eyes with shock, but it was all theatrics as he moved his rook to g1, showing he knew what he was doing.

It was then that Sinta's jaw began to drop as anger quickly flooded into her. "... You kidding me!? Sasodīts vecs geezers [Damn old geezer]!" Sinta fumed as she captured the rook at g1 with her queen.

"Whoops, sorry, I don't speak Latvian. Could ya say that again in Romanian?" Decebal asked as he captured the queen at g1 with his knight.

"Sialan tua bajingan [Fucking old asshole]," Sinta snarled as she moved her bishop to h6.

"Huh? What even was that? Viorica, you know?" Decebal asked as he moved his queen to f3.

"Indonesian," Viorica begrudgingly replied as Sinta moved her knight to d4.

"Oh... Never heard it," Decebal shrugged as he moved his queen to f2.

"Well you'll be hearing more of it if you piss her off," Viorica thought as Sinta moved her knight to f6.

Though her temper wasn't as bad as Santa's, Sinta did have a notable temper. Though Decebal actually had her beat on that front too. One time he was so pissed off after a kid caused his potion brew to explode that he turned him into a gorilla, and 60 years later, that kid still is a gorilla. But Decebal wasn't currently pissed off. He had no reason to be since he was winning, and he knew it. And when you're winning, you trade off pieces, which is exactly what he did by capturing the pawn at f4 with his bishop, forcing Sinta to take said bishop with her bishop or be in for a rough time. And with that, Decebal was free to claim his bishop by capturing the one at f4 with his queen.

"Alright ya geezer, get fucked! Check!" Sinta growled as she captured the pawn at c2 with her knight.

Decebal simply stared in disbelief, exhaling a puff of smoke as he moved his king to d2.

"I'm winning you know! So stop acting like you're acting surprised!" Sinta fumed as she slammed her rook down on e8.

"Heh, kids these days. Check," Decebal shrugged as he captured the knight at f6 with his queen and exhaled another puff of smoke.

"AGAIN!? HOW MUCH DO YOU SMOKE, OLD MAN!?" Sinta fumed as she covered her face with her elbow and moved her king to g8.

"A cigar a day, keeps the doctor away too," Decebal chuckled as she moved his knight to f3.

"And how are you not dead yet?" Sinta snarled as she moved her pawn to h5.

"Vamps just built different," Decebal shrugged as she moved his knight to g5.

"Clearly. Check," Sinta glared as she moved her knight to b3.

Decebal merely smirked at the feeble attack and moved his king to c3. Both he and Sinta knew mate was close. Sinta's rage slowly began to subside, being replaced with dejection as she moved her pawn to a5.

"And I'm open to resignations you know," Decebal smiled as he captured the pawn at g6 with his queen.

"I'm going to lose to this old geezer... FUCK!" Sinta thought as she let out a frustrated groan and slammed her king down on h8.

"And checkmate. Now time for you and Viorica to help old gramp the vamp with his love potion," Decebal smirked as he moved his knight to f7, winning the game.

"Ugh, we shouldn't have made that dumb bet with him," Viorica groaned as she grabbed the dubious vile and chugged it's contents.

Immediately, Viorica's eyes began to glow as she pinned Sinta to the ground, attempting to bite her neck and suck her blood.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!?"

"Huh, guess it heightens senses. Well it was just a little diluted lemon juice," Decebal shrugged.

"L- Lemon juice!? THAT TASTED LIKE PISS! AND MAKE ME STOP! I'M VEGAN!" Viorica shouted as she struggled to control herself.

Okisato meanwhile decided to just ignore what he just saw and grab some food for everyone.

As he did, a large man with green skin passed by holding a bottle of olive oil. "Here Viorica, try this," he smiled as he handed the bottle to Sinta, who promptly shoved it into Viorica's mouth.

Viorica tiled her head back and chugged, returning to normal. "Well... thanks, uncle Bogdan-Danny.

"Anytime. Oh, you seen Dacian? He looked pale as a sheet when he was watching my game."

"He always looks pale, just like how you always look green," Decebal grumbled.

"Only after I drank that potion of yours, father."

"If he's looking worried, it's probably cuz we lost. You know ma gets pissed when we lose," Viorica grumbled.

Bogdan-Danny nodded and proceeded to head for the dinner line which appeared to be held up. Thanks to his tall height, he was able to peer over everyone to notice that at the front of the line, two people were arguing.

"We nearly got our blood sucked because of you!" Justin fumed.

"Ayane didn't know," Ayane sheepishly shrugged.

Okisato, also annoyed with the state of the line, peeked out from the side, but upon noticing the source of the hold-up, sighed and got out of line in order to go fix the problem.

"Ah, you from yesterday! Kick her ass!" Justin pleaded as Okisato approached him and Ayane.

"Actually I think I will. And this time, make her pay for a nice steak dinner."

The full game:

White: Decebal Drăculești (2680) Black: Sinta Kļava (2040)

1. e4 c5

2. Nc3 Nc6

3. f4 g6

4. a4 e5

5. Bc4 exf4

6. d3 Qg5

7. Nf3 Qxg2

8. Bxf7+ Kxf7