Saint Wenceslas Square, Prague

The name on the passport said Christopher Dracul Nicholas Alexander Constantine Van Helsing.

"It must take you a while to write your name on documents if writing your full name is required," the Czech customs agent at Prague International Airport smiled at the Canadian vampire hunter.

Dracul nodded and smiled, "Yes, I often get writer's cramp just writing my full name."

As Dracul left the Customs area, he thought of how Czech customs agents seemed to be a lot more pleasant than Canadian customs agents and border guards.

Most of them acted as if they'd been suffering from constipation for the past 6 years.

One female Canadian border guard he and his father had encountered once on the Alberta-Montana Canada-US border had obviously suffered from the worst case of PMS in all recorded history (which was quite a major accomplishment for someone who was obviously such an ugly looking post-menopausal hag).

Dracul was to meet his associate the South Korean vampire huntress Hyung Grace Kwan in Saint Wenceslas Square.

Tonight was the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution which took place in Wenceslas Square back in 1989 and which saw the Communist government of Czechoslovakia toppled without bloodshed and replaced by a non-Communist government headed by Czech playwright Vaclav Havel who became the country's new President.

The Czech Republic's current President Vaclav Klaus had asked Hyung and Dracul to be in the Square to prevent any possible trouble from supernatural creatures to disrupt the celebrations.

At last week's 20th Anniversary celebrations of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Stalin's zombie corpse had shown up as an uninvited guest at a commemorative Berlin banquet.

And vampire Lev Tomi the Secretary of the UN Secretariat On The Environment and Climate Change (who in his mortal life had been Leon Trotsky prior to being turned into a vampire in Mexico City in 1940 by the Aztec vampire princess Qonzilqointec as he lay dying from an ice pick's blow to the head) might drop in just to annoy Czech President Vaclav Klaus since Klaus had once said, "Global warming is a myth and I think that every serious person and scientist says so."

Klaus was a vigorous opponent of the Copenhagen Treaty and had been a vigorous opponent of the Lisbon Treaty on closer EU integration refusing to sign it until Germany and France had threatened to put the screws on his country until he did so.

And of course if both Stalin the zombie and Trotsky the vampire showed up in Wenceslas Square, there was no telling what damage might be done if an Undead version of WWE Wrestling were to take place.

Fortunately for the state of tranquility in Wenceslas Square, Stalin the zombie was currently on an enthusiastic tour of Amsterdam's red light district saying, "Being a Red, I like anything red."

As for Lev Tomi (the vampire formerly known as the mortal Leon Trotsky), he was currently overdosing on egg rolls and chicken friend rice in Beijing in a desperate attempt to get China's government to sign on to the Copenhagen Treaty.

So Dracul and Hyung just enjoyed the night and the celebrations.

"You look beautiful in that red dress," Dracul said to Hyung.

"Thanks," Hyung smiled.

And so passed the 20th Anniversary celebrations of the Velvet Revolution in Wenceslas Square.

And so on this November 17th, the Feast Day of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, a moment of joy and celebration in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

To be continued.