In the famous Theatre House of Nosgoth:

Kain, along with Ariel, Vorador, and Umah are sitting in the back seats of the large theatre and watching the Lieutenants, as well as other people go onstage and try out for a new play. Vorador looks over the sheet in his hand and scoffs.

Vorador: "Romeo and Juliet," made by some guy called Shakespeare. Where do they make such things?

Umah: Oh, do be quiet. I want to hear them try out for the parts. (Looks very excited at the stage)

Ariel: Kain, what part was Turel trying out for?

Kain: Don't know and don't care. I am not coming to opening night and I sure as hell am not showing my face here again. Look at everyone, prancing around on the stage and acting like lunatics. You can't even understand half the words they're saying. What does 'ye' mean?

Umah: It's an older term of "you", Kain.

Kain: Whatever. Like I would really care.

Ariel: I thought you would be proud of your sons for going onstage and giving it their best shot. Why, even Dumah is trying out. (Waves to the serious vampire who is practicing lines with Raziel)

Vorador: (Reading from the paper) This play deals with the tragic love of two souls beating with one heart...¦I can skip through this...Well that's just stupid...This is going to be one sappy romance... that Janos on the stage as well?!

Kain: Oh my God, I think it is! I didn't know he was auditioning as well. And there's Malek that bastard. If I wasn't up here, I'd go down and punch his face it, the little...I'm too tired to do anything.

(Everyone falls silent as the director, a middle-aged woman wearing a flowing blue dress and a white scarf around her neck, along with too much perfume, comes through one of the side doors majestically with her helpers in tow. Sitting down, she looks at the people in the audience, staring an especially long time at the vampires and spirit, nods, then turns her attention back to the stage)

Director: All right, let us begin. I will call your names one by one and you will read your lines. At the end of the day, I will post up your names and the characters that you will play as. First up, Lieutenant Raziel. (Raziel walks onto the stage with a confident air)

Raziel: "Yonder window, open to the world. Juliet, come to me."

(Umah and Ariel sigh while Kain and Vorador give disgusted looks. This could go on for a while. Skip ahead five hours and twenty odd minutes in the theatre, everyone had auditioned and now are waiting nervously for the list to come up)

Melchiah: Do you think I did well?

Rahab: Not to worry, we'll all get parts. This play has a long list of characters and there is no shortage here.

Zephon: Yeah, you can be the stable boy!

Rahab: And you'll be the poisoner, a perfect part for you, dear Zephon. (Casts an evil look at his brother Rahab but is quiet)

Raziel: I know I've already got the part of Romeo; someone of my calibre will not settle for anything less. Turel, what are you hoping to be?

Turel: Anything that fits my character! Wild, loud, and a jokester.

Dumah: When the list comes we'll all receive our due. Guessing and then building yourselves up for the moment, especially when it never comes, is never a good thing. Oh, the list is finally up!!

(Everyone makes an awed hush as the director tacks the all-powerful list up onto the board. Before anyone can move towards it, she raised a hand for silence, which isn't really needed anyway)

Director: You have all come in the hopes of being part of the 1st "Romeo and Juliet" to grace the halls of the Nosgoth Theatre. Everyone has received a part and you will stay with that part until closing night itself. Now, view whom you will be. (Dramatic flair of hands and then runs out of the way as everyone crowds around the piece of paper)

(There are mixed reactions: some humans whoop for joy, others groan in disappointment. For the Lieutenants, they comes back to their seats, look over their four relatives/friends who had come to see them out, then flopped into the seats)

Kain: So what parts did you guys get?

Raziel: It's okay, I guess, but I am not going to say.

Turel: I'm happy. (Makes a peace sign and begins to do a little dance)

Dumah: Disappointed slightly, but I have a good part. I get to use a sword.

Zephon: I'm a...girl. A girl. (Kain and Vorador burst out laughing as they see the hurt expression on Zephon's face)

Umah: Kain, Vorador that is not funny! Not at all. Melchiah, Rahab, who are you playing?

Rahab: Check the list; I really don't feel like saying but I play two parts.

Melchiah: I am so embarrassed. You people can go and check the list for yourselves to see what we are for I am not saying.

(Goes off to sulk in a corner)

Kain: Will we! (Gets up with Vorador and the two move down the steps to look at the paper. They begin to laugh and look up at the Lieutenants but the laughs soon fade away into nothing as they look at the paper. Kain motions for Umah and Ariel to come down quickly. The female vampire and the ghost move quickly through the humans who are still milling about and look at the list. Director comes over)

Director: I thought you people would be happy for when I saw you four in the audience I knew I just had to place you in this magnificent play.

Kain & Ariel: No way!

Director: But these are the most sought after parts. Others would kill for them and you, Umah, have the grace and built to play your part magnificently and you, Vorador, have a voice that rumbles like thunder and will reach many people across the theatre.

Kain: (choked up) But we didn't even try out for this damn play!

Vorador: I refuse to participate.

Ariel: Same here. If you truly knew what Kain was like, then you would change me to another role. Isn't that right, Umah. Umah?

Umah: (Starry look in her eyes) I can be an actress. Oh, a dream come true for me, to stand in front of all those people and show that vampires are just as good actors as humans and even better. Come on guys; let's enter this play. Imagine all the people staring at us, throwing flowers our way. We will become stars!

(Kain, Ariel and Vorador look at each other, then back at the list)

Romeo Montague: (Kain) One of the protagonists, he falls in love with Juliet Capulet at a masquerade. He marries her, but after killing Tybalt he is forced to flee the city. Acting on a plan that Friar Laurence puts together, he thinks that Juliet is dead and drinks poison to kill himself while in her tomb.

Montague: (Vorador) the father of Romeo, and a mortal enemy of the Capulets.

Lady Montague: (Umah) the mother of Romeo.

Friar Laurence: (Rahab) Romeo's older friend who is involved in Romeo and Juliet's attempt to run away. He provides Juliet with the sleeping potion, but is unable to inform Romeo of his plan. Romeo returns to the city and, thinking Juliet is dead, kills himself.

Juliet Capulet: (Ariel) A young girl who falls in love with Romeo Montague at a masquerade. She marries him, but is troubled when he kills her cousin Tybalt in a street fight. She later takes a sleeping potion administered by Friar Laurence in an attempt to escape the city, but wakes up to find Romeo dead beside her. She takes his sword and kills herself.

Lord Capulet: (Janos) the father of Juliet, he is angry when she refuses to consider marrying Count Paris, unaware that she is already secretly married to Romeo.

Lady Capulet: (Melchiah) the mother of Juliet, she supports Juliet's father on the issues of marriage.

Tybalt: (Dumah) The nephew of Juliet's mother, he is killed by Romeo in a fight.

Nurse: (Zephon) The nurse of Juliet, and the woman she turns to for advice and help. The nurse turns out to be useless in helping Juliet with her marriage to Romeo, however, and instead encourages her to marry Paris.

Prince Escalus: (Turel) The Prince of Verona, he provides for law and order. After Tybalt is killed be banishes Romeo and orders the families to cease their feud.

Mercutio: (Raziel) A kinsmen to Prince Escalus and a friend of Romeo. He is killed by Tybalt, resulting in Romeo killing Tybalt in revenge.

Count Paris: (Malek) a suitor of Juliet, liked by Lord Capulet but hated by Juliet.

Apothecary: (Also played by Rahab) A man who looks like a skeleton, he sells Romeo the poison that Romeo commits suicide with.

Chief Watchman: Sarafan and lots of them!!!!!!!!!!!

Citizens of the Watch: People of Nosgoth

Kain: So I am the main character, right? Well, that does fit who I am in Nosgoth as I am the most powerful person around. Very well, then I will become Romeo.

Vorador: And I'm the father so it really doesn't change much. But I expect to receive top billing!

Umah: I'm already in! Just give me the costume and the lines and I will be ready in no time.

(Everyone looks over at Ariel, who has her hands folded across her chest and head held high in the air. That look has come across her face when she will simply not budge)

Director: Madam, you have been offered an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Besides, it is only a play and doesn't reflect what happens in real life. I am sure you will be a great Juliet, am I wrong?

Ariel: (Looks over each person in turn, eyes resting on Kain and giving him a LOOK) Very well. I will be the first of all the Juliets to come afterwards and I must show them how the job is done correctly.

Director: Splendid. (Claps hands) Oh dear, Lord Capulet and Count Paris are already fighting! (Malek is chasing Janos around the theatre, chopping stuff up and telling him to hold still so he can kill the evil vampire)

Kain: This could get interesting. All right, boys, we're going home to practice the lines!!! (Walks out of the theatre and into the carriage with an extra little step. Melchiah and Zephon are still in a sort of shock while Raziel can't believe he is going to be playing opposite of his father. Now if he really WAS the favoured son, he would have gotten Romeo's part)

Ariel: Opening night is in two weeks, so we really need to practice. I still can't believe I am doing this. Umah, why didn't you just leave me at home today?

Umah: I am going to be a star, a star. Imagine that!