Chapter 2

Elsewhere, while everyone was inside parting their pants off Dennis sitting on the edge of a pond with a thoughtful look on her face. He leaned forward a bit looked outward toward the horizon deep in thought also mindlessly tossing stones into the water. Denisovich saw his reflection in the water and in frustration he tossed a big rock into it, making the reflection messed up and murky.

He was so deep in thought in fact that he didn't even notice a certain werewolf girl running over on all fours and stopping right behind him.

"Dennis! There you are!" Winnie said.

Dennis turned slightly and nodded to her. "Oh, hey Winnie."

"I've been looking for you, good thing you have a very distinct scent." Winnie told him.

"Yeah, believe it or not my Mom still makes me use the aveeno moisturizer after every bath…" Dennis revealed. "I love that woman, but she makes Grandpa seem reasonably over protective… like my Dad, who by the way can't be trusted to watch over a goldfish."

The werewolf got a chuckle out of that. "So, whatcha you doing out here?" Winnie inquired, curiously and in a cute manner.

"Trying to avoid Grandpa Drac, that's what." Dennis stated.

"Oh, what'd he do?" she asked.

"He still wants me to run the hotel someday, even though he's not going anywhere any time soon." Dennis pointed out. "And he's been trying to talk to me about it for weeks. I wake up after a good morning's rest, thinking all is right with the world and then he shows up and goes 'Denisovich, you are the heir to the Hotel, I can think of no greater honor then to pass on to you my little devil, bleh, bleh, bleh!'.I just want to make people happy and smile, nothing more. He just doesn't get it…"

"Haven't you told him that?" Winnie asked him.

"I've already tried like a million times, it doesn't work!" Dennis shrugged. "It's like talking to a wall… that doesn't talk back!"

"Why not give the job a try? You might like if you give it chance. Never know." Winnie reasoned.

"Maybe, but still…" Dennis began as he got up to face his friend with sad expression. "I kinda miss the days of people telling me who I should be and what I should be… It was so much easier back then…"

"But that's no way to live." Winnie pointed out.

"I know, it's just how I feel." Dennis shrugged.

"Yeah… but hey, being the hotel manager isn't the worst thing in the world, right?" His werewolf friend asked. "I mean, it's a lot of responsibility yeah but… you get to tell the employee's what to do, plan parties, see all kinds of people… who wouldn't want that job?"

"Me. " Dennis sighed, depressed as he turned around and sat back down. "You know… after I got my fangs I thought I knew who and what I was, but I was wrong. Like… am I human… or a vampire…? I just don't know… and while everyone else around me knows exactly what they want to do with their life… I'm still looking and trying new things… rarely finding one that fits and maybe… I never will."

Winnie looks at Dennis sympathetically and walked over to sit down next to him like a dog would. "I'm sorry Dennis… but you should know that no matter what you choose to be, you'll always be my friend" she assured him.

"Thanks…" Dennis said, gratefully.

"What was it that your Grandpa said? 'Human, monster, unicorn, your perfect no matter what you are, bleh, bleh, bleh!', and he was right!" The werewolf girl stated, smiling which made Dennis smile, though it faded.

"But the world isn't perfect you know…" he noted. "And neither am I… I mean… I still don't know if I'm a monster or not…"

Winnie just shrugged. "Maybe not," she said as she put a paw on his shoulder. "But it's always there for us, just doing the best it can, that is what makes it great, just like you. Also, to me, you not a human or a monster… your something else, something better… your both."

Dennis and Winnie gazed at each other for a bit before a loud wail ruined the moment and made them cover their ears, wincing. They turn and see a zombie wearing red and white football gear, a blue scaled gill man, a giant green snake that was wearing golden accessories plus a banshee girl with white skin, light hair, dark circles under her eyes and wearing pale yellow rags. All four of them were coming up over the hill towards them.

"Becky! What did sssay about doing that!?" The snake man said, annoyed.

"Uh, hello! I'm a Banshee scaly! It's what I do, deal with it!" The banshee known as Becky shot back.

"Arggh…" The zombie groaned while the gill man spoke in a language that only monsters, as well as Johnny, could understand.

"They agree." Becky stated, smugly.

"Alex! Becky! J.P! Sssuresssh! What are you guys doing here?" Dennis asked, surprised.

"J.P sssaw you both heading for the foressst, ssso we decided to follow and sssee what'sss going on." The snake man called Sssuresssh replied. J.P the gill man babbled in confirmation.

Alex the zombie groaned. "Ggauaggg"

"Yeah, I'm ok Alex, relax dude." Dennis assured him.

"Is that why your cuddling next to her girlfriend?" Becky teased.

"Beck!" Dennis said, flustered while Winnie turned away smiling. "We were just uh… we're not uh…"

"Look, if you want to be alone, all you got to do isss asssk." Suresh told him, smirking.

"Yeah, we'd understand." Becky added before chuckling herself. The others also began to laugh until Dennis' eyes suddenly glow red and he makes a scary face similar to that of his mother's and grandfather's before snapping back to normal. His friends all look very startled by this. "Uh… never mind."

"Thank you." Dennis said, gratefully.

"So… why you out here?" Becky inquired.

"Avoiding his Grandpa." Winnie replied.

"Drrracc?" Alex asked with a moan. J.P added to that with a babble.

"Count Control Freak?" Becky questioned.

"Yep. The very one." Dennis shrugged.

Suresh sighed. "What does he want thisss time?"

"He wants me to run the hotel, even though I've already told him 'no'." Dennis stated.

"Ooooh." Alex remarked, sarcastically.

"Maybe we can talk to him." Becky suggested. "Now I'd give him a real earful."

"That's what we're afraid of…" Winnie told her. The others all nodded in agreement.

"What? I like things loud, sue me!" The banshee said, annoyed.

"Don't worry Beck, I'll talk to him… again." Dennis assured her.

"You do realize how hard it is to get that guy to change his mind, right?" Becky pointed out. "I mean, this is the guy who kept humans out of the hotel for a hundred and eighteen years."

"And look at usss all now." Sssuresssh said, proudly.

"Yeah, monsters and humans are finally living in harmony." Winnie added, smiling.

"For the most part anyway." Dennis reminded them. "Guys like Winston are still around and are super annoying."

"Boy I'll say." Becky agreed. Alex moaned in response and put his rotting hands on their shoulders.

"Alex isss right. The man is harmlesss…" Sssuresh stated.

"Like, like a baby mouse!" Winnie nodded.

"Where!?" Sssuresssh questioned, quickly as he glanced around looking for said 'mouse', even looking over the heads of his friends and getting too close, much to their annoyance.

"Relax Sssuresssh, it was just an expression." Dennis told him.

"Oh… sssorry…" The snake man apologized, sheepishly.

"But a funny one." Dennis smiled before suddenly saying. "Mouse."

"Where!?" Sssuresssh exclaimed again as he searched even harder while the others laughed.

"Dennis, your terrible!" Winnie said, very amused. They're laughter ended the moment they heard a noise close by and quickly got close to Dennis. "What was that?"

"I don't know…" Dennis admitted, looking around.

J.P babbled again, sounding a bit eager.

"Yeah, your right Jeep, we ssshould head back to the Hotel." Sssuresssh agreed.

Alex groaned in agreement, looking a bit scared. "Creepy forest…"

"Ah, come on! It's not that bad!" Becky stated before a rustling nearby the made her shriek a long scream that hurt their ears. When she finished she smiled nervously. "Uh… sorry I… thought I heard something…"

Winnie then began sniffing the air.

"Smell something Winnie?" Dennis inquired.

"Yeah… someone's close by," she revealed. She got down on all fours again and started sniffing the ground before moving ahead. The others tip toed behind her closely, each of them growing more and more anxious as she approached a large tree. J.P's teeth even started chattering until the others glared at him to stop. Winnie then turns to the others. "It's behind there…"

Dennis then turned to the others. "Ok guys, on three," he instructed them. They all nodded in agreement. Dennis held up three fingers which he lowered as he counted down. "One… two… three!"

At that moment all six of them rushed around the tree each yelling, growling and groaning, but come to a screeching halt when they see that it is only a mouse that blinks at them for a second before scurrying off.

"Mouse…" Alex groaned.

"Yes, Alex, that was a mouse." Becky said, deadpan.

"Alssso, known asss… dinner!" Sssuresssh declared as he slithered after it while the others paid what he was doing no mind. J.P babbled to Winnie.

"No, that wasn't it, it was human!" Winnie stated.

"A human?" Dennis said, surprised.

"Yes, and it… wait… it's gone." Winnie realized as she stood back up.

Dennis used his vampire vision and glanced around several meters ahead but saw nothing around. "Yeah… I can't see anything either…" he muttered before he ended up looking through the walls of someone's house and saw someone taking a shower. "Gah! Ugh, that's just sick and wrong."

"Ok, now that we've completely humiliated ourselves… let's get going." Becky told them. Both Alex and J.P groaned and babbled in agreement before they both began to follow Becky, who flew off ahead.

Dennis leaned toward Winnie and whispered. "Gee, she should join the 'Drill Sergeant Nasty club', she'd fit right in."

Winnie giggled at this till they heard Becky say…

"I heard that!"

Exchanging wide eyed glanced the werewolf and the half-vampire quickly began moving, with Winnie running on all fours and Dennis shifting into a bat and flying away.

Unknown to them, as left the one that they thought was watching them finally came out of his hiding place which was a ton of leaves he had covering him and that person was none other then Winston Hamilton, the crazy, monster hating guy from before. He noticed that some bugs were on him and shook them off in a squeamish manner before walking away.


Later, back in town and in the dimly lit home of Mr. Hamilton where multiple chemicals bubbled, several monster sized traps were ready to go and the walls were covered with papers with details on every monster known to man. There were also some grotesque dolls that looked like they were taken apart and put back together only with the wrong parts.

The door burst open as Winston entered and walked over a desk with some more papers all over.

"They think I'm crazy? They think I'm mad that the monsters will soon rise up against us? Fine! Let them think that! But I'm going to destroy them before they even begin!" Winston promised.

He then turned to one of his dolls and began speaking in a lighter tone of voice, almost as if he's speaking for it and pretending that they are all real. "But Winston, won't Count Dracula try and stop you? He is pretty powerful…"

Winston then snapped back to normal. "I know that he is!" he exclaimed. He then held up a vial with a bubbling purple liquid. "But with this, there will be no chance of the Count stopping me!"

He turned to another doll. "Duh… what does it do?"

"What does it do?" he echoed before chuckling evilly. "Oh you'll all see soon enough!"

Winston then threw the needle right at a picture of Drac, which was already full of darts nailing it already, and hit the very center of his face.

Yep, bad things were coming their way…


Voices:

Paul Brittain as Alex

Robert Smigel as J.P

Mandy Moore as Becky

Kunal Nayyar as Sssuresssh