The next two days went very smoothly. The entire family became so accustomed to being around monsters of many shapes and sizes and they never once were shown any hostility or negativity that everyone really did feel like they were on vacation. The family members continued to bond with Mavis' extended family and they did not want to leave. Unfortunately vacations do have to end and Johnny's family needed to leave first thing in the morning.
Everyone was enjoying dinner when several armors all came running up to Dracula clearly distraught about something serious.
"Sir! Sir! Sir!" Several armors said at the same time, voices combining into one.
"What is it? Can't you see we are in the middle of dinner!?" Drac said.
Mavis had seen the armors come up to Drac more times than she could ever count, but she had never seen this many come at the same time, express things so urgently, and have such a grave tone of voice. This caused Mavis to have a chill go up her spine while Johnny also noticed something was seriously not alright. Johnny looked at Mavis and Mavis looked at Johnny both with worried faces and then looked to Drac talking to one of the armors.
"Sir, humans have been spotted approaching the castle." The armor said.
"We have had humans approach the castle before, what is the big deal, we can scare them off." Drac replied.
Johnny's family was getting concerned and was wondering how the monsters they have come to call friends would scare other humans away.
"Sir, there must be a hundred of them, and there are even these flying machines now approaching the castle." The armor said firmly.
"Do you mean helicopters?" Johnny said.
The monsters did not know what helicopters were, but knew of air planes and this did not look like an air plane so Johnny told them it must have been helicopters. He then told them that helicopters are usually used by news organizations.
"What are we going to do!" Frank said.
"How did they find us!?" Wayne asked.
All the monsters soon looked right at Johnny's family as it seemed a fairly large coincidence that other humans would find the hotel so soon after their arrival. Drac sensed this and took control of the situation and calmly but firmly asked.
"I must ask; have any of you talked to any other humans recently?"
Johnny's family all shook their heads except for Jim who began to slouch in his chair realizing the gravity of what he has done. Ann immediately shot him a glaring look realizing it was Jim who must have done something.
"JIM!... What did you do!?" Ann asked.
Everyone soon looked right at Jim and Drac's anger was building up. This human may have destroyed the one thing that has kept many monsters safe and all the hard work he has put into the hotel will be ruined.
"I… Um… I... may have sent some pictures and videos of this place to one of my friends back home." Jim replied weakly slouching more in his chair.
"YOU DID WHAT!?" every single person at the table yelled simultaneously.
"I told him not to tell anyone! I swear I was not trying to expose you, I just thought…"
Jim was cut off by a fairly angry Dracula.
"You thought what, that showing another human video of monsters won't cause him to immediately share that information with others!?" Drac yelled actually roaring the last word of the sentence horrifying Johnny's family as they had yet to see Drac roar in such a manner.
"Dad, calm down!" Mavis said while giving a supportive look at Ann and Aimee who were visibly trembling.
"I… I.. Just need to think!" Drac quickly said.
"How did they even locate us? Did you tell them where we were?" Murray asked.
"No, I only sent the videos and pictures i swear!" Jim replied.
Johnny slapped his hand to his forehead realizing how their location had been found.
"You idiot, you took all those pictures with your phone, and phones save your GPS location to the image details when you take images. Someone looked at the images details and saw GPS coordinates. They could them immediately lock onto the exact location of the hotel!" Johnny said.
Jim's face went pale, he did not realize this and made sure to not actually tell where he was even though his friend had tried and tried to get Jim to say.
"What are we going to do?" Wanda asked.
By this time all the other monsters in the dining room were near a state of panic but held their breaths for Drac's reply.
"We must get to the escape tunnels!" Drac finally said.
Immediately as he finished his sentence another armor came running into the dining hall indicating that humans had entered the tunnels.
At this point all the other monsters began to panic and started to run around as they did when they learned Johnny was a human.
"EVERYONE CALM DOWN!" Drac roared louder than he had ever roared before. This managed to stop everyone cold in their tracks.
Just then a beam of light came through one of the dining room windows startling all the monsters.
"The SUN!" a few yelled.
"The helicopters are right over the castle." Johnny said.
"We are all trapped!" a monster in the crowd yelled.
A gargoyle came into the dining hall and indicated that Humans had reached the far end of the bridge to the castle.
"Everyone calm down." Johnny said. "We can get through this. Perhaps we can make them believe that this is just a costume party at a castle owned by some rich folks." Johnny continued.
"How do we do that!?" Mike asked.
"We all go out front and talk to the reporters. Make them think that this is our castle and we are having a party." Johnny continued.
"That won't work, they are going to want inside, they will find something that gives us all away and then they will freak out like you did originally." Mavis replied to Johnny.
"We have to do something!" Ann said. "Things didn't go very well when we found out, how do you think the rest of the world is going to react." Ann said.
"Didn't go well, Mavis you said everything went very smoothly, what happened?" Drac asked.
"It was nothing really!" Mavis said squirming a little as she knew how her dad was going to react.
"What was nothing?" Drac asked firmly.
"I.. I shot her" John said weakly.
Everyone at the table, but especially the monsters all looked at John. A sharp look of pain and betrayal was evident on all their faces. Drac was stunned to the point that he could not move.
"You shot her?" Wanda asked timidly and with as much motherly care as she could muster at that moment but it was clear that her heart was broken by this news.
"I... I did not mean to! I swear, I was scared and I was startled and the gun went off." John replied.
Drac rushed over to John, ripped him out of his chair and was holding him off the ground by the collar of his shirt. His eyes were glowing red and his fangs had become longer. John prepared himself for what he thought was the end.
"You shot my daughter!" Drac roared right in his face.
Mavis rushed over and slapped Drac as hard as she could in the face. This caused Drac to release John who initially landed on his feet, but his knees buckled and he fell to the floor. Drac was stunned and did not know how to respond.
Mavis then used her body as a shield to protect John. Johnny quickly got up and stood next to her for support.
"He may have shot me, but I forgave him and that is in the past. We need to move forward. We cannot act like monsters if we want the humans to accept who we are!" Mavis yelled back at her dad.
Drac's heart sank. He was about to kill a human in front of his family. Mavis was right, humans would never accept them if they acted this way. Johnny's family was terrified but realized again Mavis had saved someone in their family. They knew that if Mavis could accept them even after how they reacted, then everything would be OK.
"I… I am so sorry, I let my anger get the best of me." Drac said.
"This is all my fault, I got what I deserve. I am sorry as well." John said.
"We have to tell them the truth." Johnny said.
Everyone in the room gasped.
"You got to be crazy; they will burn us all alive!" Wayne said.
"No they will not! Not when they learn the truth that you are all just normal people and will not hurt them." Aimee said, looking at Drac when she said the last part.
Aimee looked around and her eyes settled on Wanda. Wanda gave her a smile and a nod in agreement.
"This is crazy!" someone in the crowd yelled.
"What choice do we have, they have us surrounded" another voice said.
Just then a loud knocking came from the front of the hotel. The humans had reached the front door. The armors had closed the outside doors blocking the revolving door and windows so the humans could not get in or see inside.
"They are at the front of the castle!" someone yelled out.
"We need to go out there first; we need to get through to them that we are here and having the time of our lives." Matt said firmly. "We are here at a hotel full of monsters and they have shown us nothing but kindness." He continued.
"My family will go out first, and then you guys can come out when I give the signal." Johnny said pointing at Mavis' extended family when he said "You guys."
"What signal?" Griffin asked.
"You will know it." Johnny replied.
"I am going out there with you!" Mavis said.
"No, it will be too dangerous, you stay back." Johnny said.
"You will never be able to keep me back, I will be there at your side whether you like it or not!" Mavis Said firmly yelling slightly.
Johnny knew he was defeated. He gave Mavis a smile and let out his hand for her. Mavis grabbed his hand and squeezed it tight.
"OK, let's do this." Johnny said heading towards the hotel lobby.