All HALLOWEEN Characters © John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Moustapha Akkad, Anchor Bay, MIRAMAX, Dimension Films & Universal Studios.
All HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA Characters © Genndy Tartakovsky, Michelle Murdocca, Todd Durham, Columbia Pictures & SONY (Pictures, Animation, Imageworks & Releasing)
HALLOWEEN in TRANSYLVANIA
Chapter 1: The Masked Man
Date: Thursday 27th September 2012
Time: 18:15pm
Location: Hotel Transylvania, Transylvania, Romania
Count Dracula, The Prince of Darkness, walked out of the elevator of his hotel Castle, before sighing with relief & Relaxation, as several monsters & friends were relaxing themselves, preparing and settling into the hotel. Tomorrow would be the 118th birthday of his daughter: Mavis, But Dracula had done something totally against his daughter's wishes, which he hoped she would understand if she ever found out… Mavis's greatest wish and promise, was when she turned 118 years old, she could go out and explore the world, which Dracula agreed to, but unbeknown to Mavis, she set up a fake town not far from the hotel, where his Zombie Bellhops and staff, dressed up and pretended to be humans, and pretended to scare Mavis into going back and staying in the hotel… Permanently. Which Dracula's plan had successfully worked, which only Dracula and the Zombie staff knew and kept in secret. Dracula was hurt inside for what he did, but had no regret, as it would ensure Mavis's eternal safety, especially after Dracula lost his wife: Martha, to humans back in 1894, not that long after Mavis was born…
Just then, one of the Zombie Bellhop staff, groaned at Dracula, while wearing and holding his human mask, in an attempt to jokingly spook Dracula…
"Yes, what do you want? A Cookie? You did alright man, Move on already…" Dracula said unamused, as he moved the Bellhop on, before looking towards the Hotel Revolving Door, as he saw a dark silhouette figure, walking towards the revolving door…
Dracula didn't get a full descriptive look of the figure, until the figure walked through the revolving door, without even pushing the door open with his hands. Dracula then froze with fear, at the sudden sight of the figure's true form as he came into the hotel light, and stopped, standing still, with no signs of fear or fright… The figure was a human, he was wearing slightly weathered and heavily oil stained navy blue mechanic's coveralls with flap and zip chest pockets, & the neck collar up, a black oil stained T-shirt underneath, overshadowing some white clothing, black work boots, but his face was hidden by a slightly weathered fish belly Grey-ish Pale white mask, with slicked and frizzy Dark reddish Brown hair, matching eyebrows, and blank & emotionless expression, & his eyes were hidden by the dark shadowing of his mask, like his eyes were pitch black… The man then slowly turned his head, left to right and back, looking around where he was, almost like a mechanical doll like movement…
"A Human…" Dracula muttered to himself, as he remembered images of humans, with pitchforks and torches flashed back into his head, before dashing right towards the masked human, with an aggressive look in his face, before sending the masked human and himself out the revolving door, causing it to spin at an incredible speed…
"Who are you, & how did you find this place?!" Dracula growled at the masked human, looking straight him, as this human was somehow, the same height as Dracula himself…
The man didn't say a word, only breathing heavily, while tilting his head, left to right and back, in child-like curiosity, while keeping his eyes locked on to Dracula…
"Well, say something!" Dracula growled again in demand.
The man still didn't say anything, but then slowly turned his head, locking his sights on to one of the Zombie Bellhops, as Dracula followed his sight, realising, his plan to keep Mavis safe from humans, had attracted this unwanted masked assailant, before remembering what the builder of the hotel told Dracula long ago…
"But of course, be smart: No Bonfires, No firework shows…"
"How many of you are there?" Dracula asked the man nervously.
The man still didn't speak, but judging by his behaviour & movement, Dracula thought no human would even go near this human, so luckily, he was on his own…
"What have I done? This is all my fault, you have to leave!" Dracula said nervously, before grabbing the man, attempting to send him away from the hotel, but was blocked by several other monster guests, he had no choice but to take this human into the hotel, hoping his mask would hide his human face, despite still having exposed human hands.
Dracula then got the man into a dark closet room of the castle, as the man continued to look around, still in his child-like curiosity…
"You have to leave, No human has ever entered this castle, and if they should see you, the safety of the hotel, the Sanctuary, No one would ever come again! & Mavis, if she saw you, she would know that I lied, Noooooooo!" Dracula gasped and moaned in fear.
Still not a word came from the masked man's mouth, he just kept tilting his head in curiosity and confusion.
"You're lucky I can't kill you, it would set back monsters for hundreds of years…" Dracula said, looking at man again, who still showed no signs of fear… "& Stop that head tilting, you're freaking me out!"
(1 Minute Later…)
Dracula then came out of the closet, while guiding the masked man, now with morbid grey make up on his hands, to make him look less human, towards the door, when suddenly a hunchback dwarf, dressed as a chef, swung right down in front of the masked man…
"Ah, Bonjour, Monsieur Dracula." The dwarf said, as Dracula suddenly got the masked man behind him.
"Ah, Hello Quasimodo." Dracula replied, as he and Quasimodo spoke, a rat then jumped off Quasimodo's hat, before jumping and crawling up Dracula's arm and shoulder, and sniffing at the masked man, before returning to Quasimodo, speaking to him in squeaks.
"What? No, don't be absurd, that is not a human, but Monsieur Dracula." Quasimodo said, trying to ensure his pet rat.
"Hehe, Yes it's me, and not a Human." Dracula said with a nervous grin, before he threw the still squeaking rat into an open elevator.
The masked man continued to look around, before walking off, as he noticed a walking skeleton, he then walked up to the skeleton, unaware he was behind, as it backed into him, before screaming in a female voice, at the of seeing him, and then slapped him across his mask…
"What do you think you're doing?!" The female skeleton's husband asked angrily, as the masked man turned back towards him, tilting his head again.
"Keep your hands off my wife!" The male skeleton said angrily, as he punched the man in the stomach, breaking his hand, as nothing phased the masked man, as he walked away back towards Dracula.
As the masked man continued his way back to Dracula, he slipped on some slime, before running into slime like blob creature, before knocking a witch off her broom, which then rocketed into the air, taking the masked man with it, before flying uncontrollably all over the place…
Mavis then came down the stairs, along with her aunt Wanda, who was a pregnant werewolf, as they were talking about Mavis's first encounter with 'humans', unaware of the uncontrollable flying masked man, until…
"Mavis, Look out!" Wanda called, as she noticed the incoming flying masked man, but Mavis noticed too late, as the man collided with her, as the two then fell to the ground floor.
Mavis was fine, moaning and groaning but ok, while the masked man, who was lying down straight on his back, slowly sat back up, before he and Mavis noticed and looked directly into each other's eyes, as their eyes widened, and sparkled at each other…
"Mavis, Honey are you alright?!" Dracula gasped, as he appeared between them, using his cape to hide the masked man from Mavis.
"Yeah, I think so, that was weird, who's that guy behind you?" Mavis asked in concern, while pointing at the man through Dracula's cape, as he stood up from behind Dracula.
"Who is what? Oh That, Oh, That is nobody." Dracula said nervously but with assurance.
"Seriously Dad?" Mavis said with sarcasm, as the masked man tilted his head again, breathing heavily again.
"Ok, we got to go." Dracula said quickly, before flying off with masked man, as Mavis looked in their direction in confusion and suspicion, what was her dad hiding, & why?
To be continued…