Chapter 2: A dangerous presentation.
In the woods there was Mavis, Jonny and Santi, enjoy reading:
-"Jonny is that you?"
-"Yes old friend, high five!" They began making a greeting that Mavis looked at strangely.
- "Haha, how long has it been since I last saw you Jonny? Four years?"
-"3 years, what are you doing here?"
-" I am assigned to Serbia to see that there was still peace, hedgerows and what happened there years ago, but now I am on holiday and I happened to go to the last place from which we spoke by phone to see if you were still there..."
- "You are assigned?" Mavis wondered confused because she didn't understand what that they had been talking about.
- "Oh yes, I am a soldier, more specifically I am a UN blue helmet, we go to problem areas to ease the fumes".
Mavis thought that her father would not like a soldier at the hotel and would be even more worried about what would happen when they tell their secret, who knows if he was armed.
-"Well Jonny are you going to introduce me to this beauty here".
- "Santi, she is Mavis, she's my ... my fiancée". Jonny feelt weird saying that in front of his old friend but knew he would accept.
-"fiancée!... It appears that at the end you have settled down, Jonny ehh ... but the fact is that I'm glad for it. I hope that he isn´t giving you too many problems". He said to Mavis joking.
- "Haha do not worry, I have highly trained him". Mavis was glad that Santi was as friendly as Jonny.
Jonny looked sulky while the two spoke but he liked to see them like this.
-"Hey Santi, Mavis' father has a very unusual hotel around here why don't you stay for a few days, we are celebrating the Mavis' birthday".
- "Yes, come with us, you will enjoy it". Mavis thought it was time that other humans knew of their existence.
- "Yeah why not, I think I need some relaxation, and do not worry Mavis I don't ask a woman's age". Mavis felt relieved to hear that, at least she would not have to lie about her age. "By the way why did you say that it is peculiar?"
- "Believe me you'll find out" ... Jonny saw the first light of day on the horizon. "The truth is that we should go now".
Mavis also saw the lights.
- "Yes, my father should be wondering where we are."
Meanwhile in the hotel Dracula was organizing the preparations for the party with his friends Frank and Wayne.
- "Hey Drac, do you think this year you will sing like when we met Jonny?" Frank loved that night and he will never forget it.
- "It will be fun, and you Mavis will be glad to take the chance to spend more time with her future husband". Wayne commented as he placed a table.
-"I don't think so, and I'm too old for that". Dracula said always with his Eastern European accent. "And I can't believe that my Mavy-Wavy is getting married. I still think it's too early".
- "Getting married is the best way to express your love, Drac". Franky always supported his niece. "What a shame that Martha is not here to see it".
- "She will always be with us Frank, always will be ..."
It was sad to hear about Martha but he knew not to be sad at times like these.
- "By the way guys, does anyone know if Murray and Griffin will come this year"? Wayne missed the jokes that he and Murray used to do to Griffin.
- "This year they will not, apparently they have also found their Zing".
None of them could believe that those two could have found their Zing but they felt happy for them.
Meanwhile outside the castle Mavis, Jonny and Santi had reached the entrance of the castle.
- "Wow, it must be cool to live in a house like this". Santi could not believe what he was seeing; he had always been fascinated by castles and fortresses.
- "Yes , yes it is but before you met Mavis' family and friends you must know that they are a bit peculiar but they are good people and I assure you there is nothing to fear". Jonny knew that if his friend could appreciate the monsters anybody could too.
-"Okay Jonny this has ceased being funny, what's up?..."
- "You must know that Mavis and the guests of this castle are ... monsters, and for a year myself too". Jonny said showing his neck where there were two fang marks.
-"Wait, wait, wait you are trying to say that monsters live here and that you and your girlfriend are something like vampires?"
- "Yes and my father is none other than Dracula ..."
Mavis was beginning to realize that it wasn´t a very good idea to bring Santi here.
- "How do you want me to swallow that ... I've suffered but this has lost all the grace".
Santi was getting angry but then Jonny and Mavis looked into each other's eyes and in a second they transformed into bats in a cloud of purple smoke and after that they opened the hotel´s doors revealing a crowd of man-fish monsters, ghosts, zombies, armors, etc...
Santi was now petrified, he had listened to a lot of stories about monsters and he believed that they were only that, stories, but now they were all true.
- "Santi, tell us something please ..." Johnny and Mavis were now in human form and began to panic waiting for a reaction from Santi. But it was not long until Santi drew his pistol from under his jacket and pointing directly at Johnny's heart...
-"I can only say that I can´t believe that I've been walking all this time with bloodsuckers and much less than my best friend was a monster!"
Jonny and Mavis couldn´t believe what was happening especially Jonny; his best friend was pointing a gun at him!
-"Santi, we're good people, we only drink blood substitutes." It hurt so much to when someone thought they were bloodsucking monsters.
-"ENOUGH! I don´t want to hear it, I just want to leave this place".
- "Santi, where did you get that weapon? I thought you were peaceful ..." Jonathan was still petrified to see that his friend could kill him at any time.
-"I'm a soldier, do you really think I don´t carry guns"?
-"WHAT IS THIS RIOT!?" A distinctive Eastern European accent could be heard from behind, it was Dracula with Frank and Wayne who went out to see what was happening.
Dracula couldn´t believe what he saw, a stranger was aiming with a gun to his daughter and Jonny. That made him angry making her eyes blood red and his fangs grow.
-"WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE AIMING THAT AT MY DAUGHTER!?"
To see the King of the Vampires was more than Santi could bear so he mindlessly pointed to Jonny and without even thinking about the consequences ... he shot.
I hope you are enjoying the story, and I know that a soldier is a new type of character and for some people it could be weird but we have had hunters but not soldiers so I thought that it could be interesting to make Johnny's friend one.
