Song: In the dark of the night
From: Anastasia
Start song at (1)
As PPE bowed and appreciated the applause no one noticed a swarm of bugs: big, fat, creepy crawlies, that came up from the ground with gusto. When they did notice them there were so many that no one could move without stepping on one. A few of the audience tried to step on them and found them stretchy and aggressive. The bugs swarmed and started to climb on top of each other creating a pile of insects that towered to the size of a full grown man. Then, like a wave cresting the bugs toppled over to reveal a man in brown robes underneath. The man stretched and popped his neck. Greasy, long, black beard swaying back and forth.
"Ahhhhh, it's good to be out and about!" He rolled his shoulders and with a crack his right arm went slack. Undeterred the man popped the soket back into place and took out a glass tube with a stone skull top and stone snakes wrapped around it. "I'm shocked you started without me, you all know that I have a song to beat all!" He slammed a fist on the sage and his thumb went flying.
PPE huffed! Picking up the thumb he walked over to the man and screwed the finger back into place. "Always have to make a gruesome statement, don't you."
Flexing his hand the man smiled cruelly. "Gruesome! You honor me!" The bugs crawled under the man and lifted him up like a living eskalator. "Now, are you going to step down or am I going to have to make you?" The man leaned forward and gave PPE the lazy eye, causing his eyeball to pop out.
PPE caught the eye in his hand and sighed. "Your lucky that your not purple." He open palmed the man in the face and when he moved away the eye was back in its place. "Go on Rasputin. Have you time in the light." Unbothered by Rasputin's attempts to scare him away the flying purple people eater took to the sky.
Rasputin smiled, showing all his crooked and yellow teeth. Tooth shrieked causing everyone to look at her and Rasputin to laugh like a maniac! Green smoke came from the stone skull's mouth and created smoke creature that looked like green skinned, long eared, pointy tailed gremlins.
(1) A whirlwind started gusting and and green lightning arced out of the glass tube.
"In the dark of the night I was tossing and turning!" The bugs, some picked up in the whirlwind, started to wave to the xylophone music. "And the nightmare I had was as bad as can be! It scared me out of my wits," Rasputin literally fell apart, his bones, hands, skin, and head bouncing around the stage. "A corps falling to bits. Then I opened my eyes and the nightmare was me!" In the blink of an eye he knitted himself back together and looked at the images created by the green smoke mirror. He growled in anger as he told about his past glory days and how he cursed the royal family that betrayed him. Then he racked his fingers viciously through the mirror as the image of a young woman came into view.
The bugs, all of them now free from the whirlwind, started singing in a high pitched choir. "In the dark of the night, evil will find her. In the dark of the night just before dawn."
"Revenge will be sweet, when the curse is complete." Rasputin sang.
"In the dark of the night."
"She'll be gone!"
The bugs brought a wig, a bottle, a brush, and a sash towards Rasputin.
"I can feel my powers are slowly returning." He took the wig. "Tie my sash and a dash of colon for that smell." The bugs did as he instructed. Taking the brush he started working on the wig on his head. "As the pieces fall into place, I'll see her crawl into place. Dasvedanja Anya your grace, farewell!"
The bugs chorused again. "In the dark of the night Terror will find her."
"Terrors the least I can do!"
"In the dark of the night evil will brew!"
Rasputin picked up two handfuls of bugs and cradled them lovingly. Only to squeeze them cruelly and flung them in every directions as he cheered the plans of demise he was crafting.
One deep throated bug echoed the chores of the other bugs as Rasputin came to the apex of his song.
"My dear here's a sign, it's the end of the line!" He placed the tube in a pedestal erected by the bugs. From the stone skulls mouth a tornado of green smoke, green lightning, and green gremlins spewed! "Come my minions, rise for your master, let your evil shine! Find her now yes fly ever faster."
The bugs chanted their chores three times as the tornado grew!
"Now she'll be mine!"
The tornado turned in mid air and started coming after the audience. The guardians turned to run but saw everyone else just staring bordly at the on coming threat. The tornado hit and went through everyone without even causing their cloths or fur to ruffle.
"Vhat?" North asked confused.
Rasputin became covered in bugs again as his laugh echoed. When the bugs dispersed he was nowhere to be seen.
"He is such a blow hard, he dose the same thing every year and thinks he'll scare us each time. When is he going to get that he's more gross than creepy?"
The crowd shrugged to each other as the Guardians continued to look confused and on edge. Tooth in particular was disturbed. "Did you see his teeth?" She whispered to Sandy.