Disclaimer – I don't own Great Uncle Dracula. The canon characters for this series are Emily Normal, her brother Elliot, her mother and father, her Uncle Dracula, Winnie Witcherson, Wolfie Johnson, Hector Spector, Wanda McWitch, Ms. Vampira and Gregory Ghostmeister. The series is a book series written for younger readers (early elementary school) back in the early 1990's, but the content is meant for an older audience (preteens, teens and adults). For this story Wolfie is also Eurasian. Since I'm bringing in elements of Japanese mythology and may eventually bring in some elements from Lord of the Rings, I'm reclassifying as a crossover with Japanese mythology.

Okami Otaku
Welcome to Transylvania, Pennsylvania

Emily

Long time no see.

I've not seen you since you moved in second grade.

We kind of lost in touch with each other.

Mom says I need to write to you to let you know I'm going to be going to the same high school as you.

I'm really excited.

I'm leaving some of our old friends behind but getting to see you again makes up for it.

The fact we're moving.

I'm looking forward to seeing you.

Best FRIENDS Forever
Hillary

The sound of pen against paper stopped finally. The letter sat on the table in front of Hillary next to crumpled balls of paper. One of her hands decorated with flamboyant nail polish set the pen down as the fourteen-year-old looked up at her mother. "Am I done now?" Her mother stood at the end of the table with her arms crossed as Hillary pushed the paper towards her. The fourteen-year-old leaned forward on her elbows taking in her mother's facial features. "How come she looks so exotic? I wish I looked more Japanese."

The woman's brown eyes darted back and forth across the paper before letting out a sigh. "It's still not good."

Hillary flinched as she imagined her mother crumpling the paper again. "You're not making William or Tanya write a letter to Elliot."

"William and Tanya weren't friends with Elliot. Tanya may be in the same grade, but she never hung out with Elliot. William on the other hand is two grades lower. Plus..." The woman folded her arms across her chest. "Aren't you excited about seeing Emily again?"

"No. I mean yes. Just not all of this writing stuff. I don't like writing. Not unless it's..."

"Don't." Her mother's lips pushed together. "I don't like the stories you write."

"That's because you don't think fanfiction is a legitimate form of writing." Hillary leaned back while her mother continued to look at her. The fourteen-year-old shrunk back while her shoulders tensed up.

"Address the envelope."

A hand reached up to twist her brown locks around a finger as Hillary smiled at her mother. The smile left her face as she looked at her mother. "You're still not happy with what I wrote."

"Your English needs work."

Hillary's mouth formed into a pout. "I don't know why you make a big deal out of it. My grades that is. I don't get why we need all of those rules anyway, or why we need to study that stuff."

"Tanya and William don't give me these problems."

"Well Tanya and William don't have you nagging at them constantly."

"I don't nag at them because they don't give me reason to."

"You just hate the fact I'm into fanfiction and Anime. You hate your own culture."

"Just address the letter and put a stamp on it."

Hillary let out a sigh and complied. She tossed the letter onto the table before heading up to the room she shared with Tanya. Her younger sister lay on the second bed in reading a book. Hillary plopped onto her own bed. "I can't wait until I get my own room. William's so lucky to have his own room."

"William still sleeps with mom and dad."

"Which is why I don't understand why they just didn't give me his room." Hillary turned her head and squinted at the book title. "What are you reading?"

"Dracula."

"Boring. Twilight's better." Hillary reached her hands up to the ceiling and didn't see Tanya turn her head to look at her.

"Twilight better than Dracula?"

"Don't give me the whole 'the vampires are more realistic in Dracula' speech. If vampires and werewolves exist then why would they be nasty like that Dracula dude?" Hillary felt her body relax when her sister didn't respond right away. "See. She doesn't have an answer."

"Because they're psychopaths?"

Hillary's mouth twisted down. "Because, what's to say they are psychopaths? Wouldn't they interact with us?"

"Why would they want to interact with us when those of us who aren't vampires discriminated against them?"

"Why would anyone discriminate against monsters? They're cool. Like youkai are." Hillary reached out to grab her Mokona doll.

"You really don't get it sis."

"You're the one who doesn't get it." Hillary held the Mikona doll into the air. "I still don't think it's fair that mom didn't make you write a letter to Elliot."

"Elliot's gross. The one good thing about him is he's always been nicer than you and Emily though."

"No. Elliot's always been an obnoxious brat."

"If you think that then why are you so insistent that I write a letter to him."

"'cause you're an obnoxious brat too. That's why you two are friends."

"We're not. Have you decided what you're going to pack yet?"

"Pack? We've got to pack everything into boxes. You know that."

"I mean what are you going to pack into your traveling bag."

"My Twilight books." Hillary heard a sound of annoyance come from her sister, and she turned her head to look at the younger girl. "What?"

"Why?"

"I'm sure Emily is into Twilight too."

"You don't know that. You've not talked to her since the second grade. You've not even written to her. You're both now going into the ninth grade. That's seven years. She may be all geeky for all you know."

"Of course she'll be geeky. She's always been into grades and such, and all that. And not a wannabe like yourself either."

"You really don't have any clue." Tanya put a bookmark into her book before leaving the room.

Hillary turned back to talking to her Mokona doll. "No clue chu? She's the one with no clue chu. Give me a break chu. She's got mom's exoticness, and is prettier chu. So she thinks she's all that chu." She then pulled the doll to her chest and let out a sigh. "Us being otaku together is going to be great. Doesn't matter how nerdy Emily is. She's going to like it to."

Hillary glared at the inside of the car and the amount of space she had for her things. "Why do I need to sit up front?"

Her mother's head darted up. "You're the oldest so you get the privilege of sitting up front."

"There isn't enough room. William and Tanya get the middle seat between them."

"I told you already that Transylvania is only a couple of hours outside of the closed major city in Pennsylvania and Plains is only an hour away. That means we're only going to be driving for an hour. You could easily have packed that stuffed toy of yours back into the suitcases and had more room for yourself."

"Mokona isn't a stuffed animal and even if she was, what about William? You're letting him take a stuffed animal?"

"William is also younger then you are."

"He's going into middle school. Having a stuffed animal is childish." Hillary continued to hold onto Mokana and not get into the car.

"Come on Hillary. We need to get going. Emily's family is actually expecting us for dinner at their place, and we don't want to be late. You do want to see Emily again?"

A pout formed on Hillary's face and she finally plopped into the seat only to receive a lecture about closing the door and putting on her seat belt. Her mother started on her way and turned the music to the station Tanya and William liked to listen to. "I can't believe they still listen to this childish pop music. Anime music is so much better."

Green trees rushed past them, and sun shown down from a sky without a cloud in sight. Eventually they crossed a river and their mother told them to look out the window, but Hillary simply stared up at the ceiling with a rather unamused look on her face. Sometimes they drove past the suburban places Hillary and her friends normally talked about living, but mostly they drove through countryside until they got into Philadelphia and Hillary finally looked out the windows to see the tall skyscrapers.

Soon though the car turned in a different direction and she found herself being driven out of the city. Clouds began to appear in the sky and eventually their mother said they were driving into Transylvania. Hillary looked around the place and grimaced. "This place is plainer then Plainsville, and is like that stupid Quakertown mom took me to. I'd rather we moved to Forks as it's far more pleasant than either place. I hate this place already, but at least Emily lives here.