"GUYS HURRY UP! WE'RE SO CLOSE I CAN SMELL IT! IT KINDA STINKS!"Shun yelled, making them all roll their eyes.
"Haruka-sama, why is she so happy about this?" Mei asked rather boredly.
"She's odd." Haruka said simply.
Honoka laughed, "She's just excited cause this place is rumored to be monster friendly." She shot up a picture of the castle in purple glitter.
Mio looked around the area with a frown, "Sure is creepy though."
Yui nodded and scooted a little closer to Mio. Honoka looked at them, "Dude our forest is protected by horned goblins that shoot fire. This is nothing." She said letting a spider with a skull on its back climb all over her.
"U-Uh Honoka-san that thing looks deadly." Rina said with a slight stutter. Honoka just shrugged and tossed it back onto its web, "Sorry forgot you had that phobia Rina." Rina just nodded and looked away.
"GUYS I CAN ACTUALLY SEE IT! IT LOOKS SOOO COOL!" Shun yelled from her spot in the sky. Honoka pushed back a bush and they all saw a beautiful medieval castle that lights were shining from it. A small old sign read "Hotel Transylvania", Mio switched into her wolf form allowing Yui to hop on.
Haruka cut through the bushes with her claws, "This place needs to get a gardener." Mei said looking at the trees.
Honoka grabbed a half-dead looking green guy, "Oi guys! They have people that lose their heads too!" She popped off the guys head and spun it on her finger like a basketball.
"Honoka put that down before it tries to eat you like the last one." Haruka said monotonously.
"Oi! It didn't eat me it just sucked on my head for a while." Honoka yelled.
"Same thing."
Honoka huffed "Oi green guy!What are you anyway?" She said bringing the face up to hers.
"Groooarr ooarr arroea." It groaned.
"You're a zommmbie?" She said drawing out the word in confusion.
The head groaned in reply, "Oi oi! Don't get angry, I ain't insulting you!" The others watched dumbfounded at it, "FINE! I apologize! Just stop getting angry. Anyway you know where the entrance to the castle is?" The zombie head groaned, "OHHH. Its a really big door." She put the head back on the body.
She looked and saw everyone staring at her, "What?"
Mio just laughed, "Well, uh we weren't expecting you to be able to understand him."
Honoka tilted her head, "They speak the exact same language as most of the onis. Although it's a bit more drawn out here." She said. She picked up the green guy, "Lead the way Larry!"
"Grrrraaor."
"Oh sorry, Jerry!" The zombie trudged forward down a path towards the castle, with them following him.
"People people! Mavis's birthday is only in a few days! Pick up the pace people." A pale man with a long face, long nose and blue eyes shouted to a bunch of green women sitting on brooms.
The women dashed away, the man sighed, "Her party will perfect Martha." He murmured looking at a photo of him and a beautiful woman holding a baby.
"Hi daddy!" Mavis appeared in front of him startling him a little and making him fumble with the picture.
"O-Oh hello darling. I bet you're ready for your birthday."
She smiled happily her blue eyes sparkling, "You bet! Anyway do you think we could, oh I dunno talk about something?" He nodded curiously, interested at what she had to say.
"Soooo you know how I've always wanted to see the humans?" He nodded again, narrowing his eyes, "Since it will be my birthday...do you think I can go see them?"
He looked at her sternly, "No. You know how I feel about humans Mavis."
Mavis sighed. "But daddy-"
"No buts Mavis, we aren't going to talk about this anymore."
Mavis glared at him and walked away, clearly angry with his verdict. He sighed once again then sped off to the lobby. Everything was looking beautiful, cobwebs everywhere that sparkled with dew spelling Mavis name.
He turned his head when he heard the door open, Jerry was leading 7 girls in each looking more pequiler than anything monster he had seen. "Thanks Jerry! I knew you could get us here faster than Shun!" A girl with purple hair, eyes and six purple tails, popped the zombies head off and hugged it.
"Oi! I can get us anywhere! I only followed him cause I was tired!" A girl with dragon wings and a scythe proclaimed.
"Sure Shun and I'm not 400 years old." A small girl without clothes on and tribal paint said boredly.
"U-Um guys, we should just be happy we got here." A ghost girl said quietly.
"Rina is right guys, it's a surprise we even got here." A beautiful white fox said.
The little girl with a huge cloak that was on the foxes back, nodded along with her, "Mama knows more than you all. She has been alive for thousands of years." The fox glowed in a bright light, and a woman with white hair, white cat ears, golden eyes, and the same fluffy white tail, stood where the fox did.
A woman with white hair and red eyes, looked his way and stared at him, studying his stance, "I believe I have found the owner of this place. We should stop fighting, we do not need a mess to clean up." She finally said without emotion.
The naked girl looked at her, "Haruka-sama, may I cast a spell on them if they refuse to stop?"
Haruka nodded still staring at him, "Do what you need, don't blow anything up."
The girl bowed, "Hai Haruka-sama!"
The girls hands glowed blue, "Furīzu!" She said in an unfamiliar language. All the girls fighting froze in place, "Baka wa, Haruka-sama ga anata no oroka-sa o hitsuyō to shimasen. Damatte jibun o furumaimasu. Matawa watashi wa sonobade anata o korosudeshou. Ima, anata no subete wa hoka no yoi kōdō, matawa ue ni aru koto o yakusoku shinakereba narimasen!" She yelled at them all in a foreign language, her eyes glowing red in anger. They didn't respond to her, "Anata wa tsumori furumaudesu!"
"H-Hai!" She finally let them down, and ran back over to Haruka.
"Haruka-sama the situation has been resolved."
"Good, we don't need any trouble."
POV CHANGE
The woman in front of me was clearly on guard, "Sir, I apologize for my companion's behavior. We came here to ask if we could stay here for a week or two while we let the situation back home clear up." I raised an eyebrow,
"Sure, but mind me asking what the situation is?"
The woman shrugged, "Some demon hunters are trying to purge our home of demons. They don't know we escaped, and probably will never." "Where are you from?" "The outer forests of Japan. It's a world famous demon forest area there so we all split."
I looked at her with an eyebrow raised. "How many rooms would you need?"
She took a minute to respond, while tapping her fingers, "Mei and I will share a room. Mio and Yui will share one as well. Rina can be put with anybody as she doesn't care. Shun and Honoka would prefer their own, but you can have one share with Rina." She said pointing to each girl.
I nodded, "Tom we need four rooms!"
The zombie behind the desk grumbled and trudged over with four keys, the woman took them thanking the zombie. "Thank you Sir for your gratitude, here is the money I apologize if it's not exactly the amount, as changing the money to this currency was a little harder than we had thought."
She handed me a wad of cash that she pulled out of nowhere.
"Oi! Idiots! Get your butts over here! I will freeze you if you don't!" Mei yelled angrily, causing them to appear as if by magic in front of her.
The woman who I think was named Mio stopped me, "Thanks for letting us stay here. And I hope your daughters 118th birthday goes amazing for her."
"How did you know that?" I asked stunned by the woman's words.
She smiled lightly, "I'm really thousands of years old like they said. I can hear your thoughts, you are clearly stressed out about her party. Coming from a woman who had her own child, don't stress over stuff like this, spend time with them. You never know when you may have to leave them." She said, her eyes watering at the last part. She walked away after that, clutching the girl in the hood tighter.
I stood there still, she seemed so much like Martha... The way she spoke said she had to leave her child, the little girl she was holding onto tightly evidently wasn't her real child. She left her real child's life too soon, and she never wanted to, perhaps that's why she takes care of Yui.
"Uh Dad?" I tuned back in, and noticed Mavis waving her hand in front of my face.
"Uh yes my little vamp?"
She rolled her eyes at the little comment, "Who were those women?"
"They are demons from Japan, their home is currently unsafe so they are in a sense, hiding out here."
"Wow! I thought demons weren't real?"
I looked at her, "Oh they are real, just rare. Most are seen as goblins and trolls, not actual human-like ones. That and they're exclusive to China and Japan, so seeing one out here is odd."
She blinked, "Think they would mind if I go say hi?" I shrugged and handed her a card, "She wouldn't mind can't say the same for the rest though." She nodded and sped off to the room written on the card.
I rubbed my forehead, "This can't get anymore odd, can it?" I asked myself, right then I heard the familiar rumble of Wayne's kids. "Great..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Mavis POV
I looked at the card "Room 268, didn't even know there were that many rooms here." Ignoring all the "Do not Disturbs", I finally found it. Knocking on the door gently, a little girl in a huge cloak opened it, "Mama, someone is at the door."
A woman who looked like a goddess, picked up the little girl. "Sorry, I was trying to find something and I wasn't exactly at the door."
She laughed. "Come on in."
I walked in following her, "I assume you wanted to talk to someone in the group?" "Yeah, but how did you know?"
She put the little girl on the floor, "I can hear other people's thoughts, your father doesn't really trust anybody else in the group." I nodded at her explanation.
"So I heard you're a demon?" I inquired and she happily nodded.
"Yes, people refer to me as the Kuzunoha in my homeland, personally as Mio." Mio explained with a smile.
"What about her?" I said pointing to the little girl.
"Yui is what we call an emotion demon, humans that suffer from so much emotion at one moment can either change into a demon or die."
"How about your life?" I asked her.
"Well I was being hunted down one day and I ran into a man. He helped me flee but was hurt by the hunter. I nursed him back to health, and we soon fell in love and got married. I had my son and had the best five years of my life. Until he saw me shift into my fox form while I was asleep one night. Demons are feared, so I left a note that next morning telling them to meet me in the forest. I left them a golden box and a crystal ball, and never saw them again. I soon heard my son and become the greatest Sorcerer in the land." She ended with a tear hitting the ground.
I nodded, "My mom died from an angry mob of humans a little after I was born." I felt myself getting hugged soon after and noticed Mio holding me tightly.
"Then she died protecting you. There is only one job in a mother's life and that's to protect her child." She stated softly.
"I never thought about it like that..." I mumbled.
"Most people don't realize the true purpose of mothers, a girl in our group named Rina I think may get an award for being the best mother." I tilted my head, causing her to laugh lightly.
"Rina was just a teenager when she ended up pregnant with twins. She was giving birth to them and died from blood loss, her female twin survived however. Rina actually begged anybody to take the baby, one day she saw a mansion she remembered. The owner and his wife couldn't have children so she asked them to take care of her child, they agreed and she was able to finally rest in peace, until the deities kicked her back down here of course." She giggled at the last part.
"So even in death she still protected her child?" I said in shock.
Mio nodded, "She fought for her child's life, she begged for food for the baby until she had given the baby away."
"That's amazing.." I murmured in stunned amazement.
Mio looked at Yui, "Funny enough it was Rina who inspired me to take Yui as a daughter. I had originally only planned on letting her live with me." Mio thought. "But Anyway, you might need to get ready for that party of yours, new outfit and what-not." She said walking towards the door.
"Holy rabies! I completely forgot about that! Thanks for the reminder!" I blinked before smiling at her.
Mio giggled, "No problem, if you ever need to talk I'm here." I nodded and dashed out.