One night, while her friends kept the guests busy, Aggie flew to the bridge where Captain Ericka operated the ship.

Aggie: Good evening, Ericka.

Ericka: Good evening, Aggie. (sighs) Beautiful cool night, huh?

Aggie: Uh- huh. A goodnight for date night. You know, you and Drac haven't date for several days now. Why didn't you two go on a date?

Ericka: Just doing what a captain should do. (sighs sadly) I can go on a date with him as soon as I got out of this ship or somebody else will handle this for me.

Aggie: Somebody else did when you're busy trying to kill Drac. Guess what? Why don't you two go and have fun while I'll take over the wheel?

Ericka: Really? Can you do that? Have you operated a ship before?

Aggie: Well, uh… no. I never did. But… (levitates a spell book from nowhere) I could look up a ship-control spell in the magic instruction book that came with my wandstaff.

Ericka: (surprised) What?! This whole time you had a magic instruction book?

Aggie: Yep. Whenever the previous owner of the wandstaff mastered a spell, they scribbled it down in here. (opens the book) But the book this big, it's a complete disorganized mess. It's gonna take me foreeeever to find (she immediately finds the spell) —Oh! Here it is.

Ericka: Really?!

Aggie: Yep. "Sailing and navigating spell". Hmm, close enough, and, according to this, my great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great-grandmother, Aquasha Galido, was also a captain of the ship, travelling around the world by sea.

Ericka: Well, I guess you'll do better like her. Are you sure you know what you are doing?

Aggie: Absolutely! Just reading this spell and I'll operate this ship without any trouble! Don't worry. I won't let this ship crash into an iceberg like in Titanic. Seriously, I won't.

Ericka: (leaves the bridge) Okay, if you say so. But what about Great-Grandfather?

Aggie: Don't worry. He's taking care of.

Meanwhile at Van Helsing's hidden room, the aggressive members of the I team; Rico, Renda, Reco, Rida, Buttercup, Butters, Terence, Olive, Taz, Tenz, Baby Taz, Baby Tenz, Burn, Raibow Dash, Lightning Dash, Bunty, Numbuh 3, Numbuh 5, and SmurfStorm, were watching over Van Helsing, who they tied on a chair while watching TV so he won't escape.

Van Helsing: Please, let me go! I won't attempt to kill monsters again!

Buttercup: (punches him on the head) Just shut up and let's watch a movie!

Back to Ericka and Aggie.

Aggie: They may be aggressive and tough minded, but they'll do.

Ericka: You're a life saver, Aggie! (leaves the bridge and runs on the deck) Thank you!

Aggie: You're welcome! Just go! (reads her book) Now…, let's see here…

Ericka quickly went to her cabin to prepare herself for a surprise date for Drac. She still doesn't want to wear that sunflower dress. Still the same reason. She wanted something different. Different than the color of her everyday clothes. They're white. Just then, she found something different, different that the few. A black dress. It's not as long as a gown, but the skirt part is only above the feet. It's perfect. Just as what she needs.


Meanwhile, Dracula also dressed up with the same clothes he wore on his first date with Ericka. He was practicing his sayings to her in front of a mirror if they'll meet up later, despite having no reflection at all.

Mavis: (watches Drac) Dad, you'll do fine.

Drac: (sighs) I'm sorry, Mavey-Wavey. You know I never had a date since your mother died.

Mavis: (fixes his shirt collar) I know, but Mom wants you to be yourself, especially to somebody you're now in love with.

Drac: Do you really think so?

Mavis: Of course. Mom doesn't want you to watch over me and be lonely forever. You'll do fine for what you're going to do with Ericka tonight. Oh, and you have to give her these flowers. (shows him a bouquet of sunflowers) I had this when Mrs. Galido redecorated the place with flowers.

Drac: (hugs Mavis) Thank you, Mavis. What will I do without a daughter like you?

Mavis: (breaks the hug) Now go to her.

Drac: Okay. Wish me luck!

Dracula marched towards the door confidentially with flowers in his hands, while Mavis waved him good luck.


When Drac walked at the front deck to find Ericka. But, suddenly, he bumped into someone, and his body fell on the ground.

Drac: OW! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to—

When Drac opened his eyes then looked up at who bumped into him, he saw Ericka in a black dress and a pink rose on her hair. He thought she looked beautiful in that dress. Very unique. Ericka looked up and surprised that it was Dracula who bumped into her. She didn't see him earlier while thinking what she will tell him on their surprise date. She's not ready for it since it was an unexpected perfected day to finally go on a date with him.

Dracula got up and offered Ericka his hand to help her get up. Ericka accepted his offer as she held his hand and got up.

Drac: I'm sorry. I was just looking for you and I didn't see where I'm going.

Ericka: No. I'm sorry. I didn't stay focus of where I was going.

Drac: But what are you doing here? You're supposed to be stirring the ship.

Ericka: Aggie takes the wheel. She used her wandstaff to operate the ship. Didn't you know that one of her ancestors was a captain?

Drac: No. Not at all. Anyway, where are you heading?

Ericka: I, uh…, just looking for you. Since Aggie's taking the wheel, I wanted to ask you if we can go on a date.

Drac: (chuckled) You asking me… to go on a date?

Ericka: I know it's silly, but… will you?

Drac: Are you kidding me?! This is why I've been looking for you. I also want to ask you on I date. But since you asked first, my answer is yes. I would love to go out with you.

Ericka: (giggles) You're such a gentleman.

Drac: (hands the flowers over to Ericka) For you. It's Mavis idea, and I thought you would like it.

Ericka: (takes the flowers and smells them) They're lovely. Thank you.

Drac: (offers again his hand) Now come with me. I'll show you where we can spend this romantic evening.


Meanwhile, Aggie has been using her magic to operate the ship. A white aura surrounded her and the ship while Aggie was concentrating making the ship move and stayed focus of where it's going in yoga style.

While staying focus on her spell, she took just a little peek, and saw drac and Ericka going somewhere. Aggie chuckled as she knew exactly what they're doing. She resumed on controlling the ship and concentration on her spell.

Ericka: Where are you taking me?

Drac: I just wanted to show you a place where it's peace, quiet, and alone, just the two of us.

Ericka gasped of what she saw. They were on the part of the ship where it was empty, but it's perfect spot where Drac set up a table with two chairs. On the table, there was a candlelight, a bucket of ice with a bottle of Champaign, and two serving platters

Ericka: Oh! All my years… no one's ever done anything like this for me.

When she looked at Drac, she noticed a black bow tie on his neck. She giggled at this. Drac thought it can make himself more charming, but the bow is too much already.

Drac: It is too much, is it not? (clears throat) Thank you, Fancy Pants.

The bow was levitated by a fancy unicorn.

Fancy Pants: (leaves with the bow) I thought it was a nice touch.

Drac: (holds Ericka's hand) Pretend you did not see that. Please, please, sit down.

Drac magically pulled out the chair for her and they sat down. He even used his magic to open the lids of the plates

Ericka: Are those steaks?

Drac: Exactly. One is rare and one is just regular steak… for you. So that we'll not eat garlic guacamole this time.

Ericka: (laughs) Oh, you!

Drac opened the bottle of Champaign, and poured each glass. They deserved a toast for their love for each other and drank their drink. The two started to eat their dinner as they carefully sliced their stakes and ate some pieces of it.

Ericka: It's so delicious.

Drac: Glad you like it. Thanks to Mrs. Galido, she told me to have these for our date. She knows what a vampire eat besides blood.

Ericka: Did she take it well when she found out her daughter was part vampire?

Drac: Of course. She and Leo knew in the beginning that they're both related to Eliodoro and Cathernia, and Leo and Bernadette let them see Aggie when she was a baby. The four of them never expect that Aggie had unleashed her vampire side.

Ericka: That's great, though.

Drac: So, uh… what do you think about… my friends and family?

Ericka: (takes another sip) To be honest, I thought, at first, they were weird, but they are nice people, and they were never shy to help me embracing my future. The I team, they were so incredible! Your daughter, she was an independent girl. Your grandson was the sweetest. Your dad was quite funny. And Aggie, she's very smart and understandable.

Drac: Thank you. I already let Mavis to do the things she likes and on her own now. Denisovich was the sweetest, kindest, most special boy I've ever met. Johnny… well, will be Johnny. And Dad, well, he could be cheeky sometimes, but he's a respectful father.

Ericka: Did he take it well when he found out your daughter was married to a human and have a half-human son?

Drac: No, he didn't take it well at first, but when Mavis and I talked over to him, he started to accept humans, and protecting us from his former minions. He's sort of an old school and depending on traditions. I guess he doesn't want to lose us, unlike he lose his parents and sibling by a curse.

Ericka: A curse? What do you mean?

Drac: You see. Centuries ago, before my dad became the king of darkness, a vampire name Thanatos cursed our family as revenge for banishing him from Transylvania. And that on, my grandparents, Ingrum and Narkissa, and my uncles and aunt, Thana, Orfeo, Amaia, and Denalo were killed. My dad and his grandmother, Eyota, escaped with my godparents' help, but they got separated by a storm.

Ericka: That's horrible! Maybe that's why your father depends on tradition. He just wanted to keep your family alive since he's the last surviving Dracula in his times.

Drac: It's true. He never told me, Lydia, or anyone else. Only Eliodoro and Cathernia knew, but they promised Dad that they won't tell us everything about our family and the curse. That was until the curse re-awakened after centuries of dying and haunted us. But we destroy that curse together, and that won't bother us anymore.

Ericka: Now that's terrific! No wonder Vlad never told me about that on our first meeting.

Drac; He doesn't want to talk about that anymore. He wants to move on. Except thinking Aggie as Amaia.

Ericka: What?

Drac: Aggie… has a strong resemblance of Aunt Amaia, and Dad thinks Aggie was the reincarnation of Amaia, his little sister.

Ericka: He is very close to her.

Drac: Dad was Aggie's third Zing. You already know that. She has a crush on dad… and me when she first met us.

Ericka: I was still thinking about your godparents. Are they always best friends with your father?

Drac: Oh yeah. Because of being his best friends, dad gave Uncle Elidoro the dark vampire magic, and Aunt Cathernia the light vampire magic. These two powerful magic kept every vampire's magic balance and they're emergency magic that can defeat a powerful villain that anyone can't they should kept by the King of Darkness himself, but since Grandpa Ingrum died and dad had no one to train him except himself, he kept the two magic on a mace and fan separately, and gave them to my godparents for safe keeping. Until now, they kept it safe and sound.

Ericka: Very interesting. I loved to learn more about you and your family, Drac. You know, I have a little secret. But I can't tell you.

Drac: You can tell me.

Ericka: But you'll get mad.

Drac: Why would I be mad? Come on. Tell me. (takes a sip of his drink)

Ericka: (sighs) Okay. I think I'm kind of… jealous of you.

Drac: (swallows his drink) Why? Why are you so jealous?

Ericka: Well, obviously, you have a big family, and some weren't related to you, like friends, you still treated them like family. My family's good for nothing. Your family is amazing. Sometimes, you fight and get into trouble, but it doesn't matter, because you, I don't know, love each other or something. I wish I had your family.

Drac was full of concern for Ericka. He knew how she felt when she told him that she never knew her parents and raised by her great-grandfather. He then placed his hand over her hand.

Drac: You sound like Aggie. I hope you can come with us in Transylvania. I have a hotel and everyone is welcome; humans and monsters. I can reserve a room for you.

Ericka was flattered that her boyfriend asked her to come home with him. She can finally leave the ship for good, but she still thought of her great-grandfather. He'll be alone if she go.

Ericka: Um… I'll… I'll think about it.

Drac: (frowns) Oh, um, okay. Take your time. So, still enjoying your dinner?

Ericka: Yes! It's delicious! I love it! I never eat this kind of food before. I only ate seafood.

Drac: On the plus side, you weren't a vegetarian.

Both of them laughed at that joke, and it's true.

Drac: After we're done with the steaks, it's time for dessert. (gets the dessert under the table)

Ericka: What is it?

Drac took out a big box from under the table, and opened it, revealing a circular chocolate cake.

Drac: Ta-da!

Ericka: Is that—

Drac: It is! Chocolate cake!

Ericka: Let me guess; Aggie or the Pie family baked this.

Drac: Um, no. I bake a cake before, but not as rich and modern like this. Aggie helped me. It's not as hard as I thought.

He cut the cake into two slices, and put each slice on each plate. When Ericka took a bite with a fork, she slowly chewed and tasted on it, and it was sweet.

Ericka: Wow! This is the best chocolate I've ever tasted.

Drac: I knew you like it. (notices a chocolate icing on the corner of her lips) You've got something here… (he wipes the icing with his thumb)

Ericka: (chuckles) Uh…, thanks. And you have one on your nose.

Drac: What?! (touches his nose) There's nothing on my nose.

Ericka: Yes there is. (secretly scoops an icing with her finger)

Drac: (touches his nose again) Where?

Ericka stood up and extended her finger towards Drac to put an icing on his nose.

Ericka: Haha! There it is!

Drac: Nice one!

Ericka: Oh! You should've seen your face, but you can't because you don't have a reflection.

Drac: I wish I could.

Ericka: I'll get that for you.

When Ericka took a tissue and was about to wipe the icing from Drac's nose, he trapped her by grabbing her arm, and used his spare hand to shove a piece of cake on her face.

Drac: Ha! That's for placing an icing on my nose!

Ericka: (laughs) That's not fair! That was a just small icing! Yours is a piece!

Drac: Now we're even!

Ericka: I don't think so!

Ericka took a hand full of chocolate icing, and shoved it on Drac's face.

Ericka: This is war, Dracula!

Drac: Oh, bring it on, Ericka Van Helsing!

Drac and Ericka had a food fight with chocolate cake as they throw pieces and icing of it at each other. When they ran out of cake, Drac has to defend himself by distracting the "enemy". He charged towards Ericka, grabbed her in his arms, and tickled her. This is one of Ericka's weaknesses. She can't move when she was tickled.

When they froze to look at each other's eyes, it's like the place around them didn't exist. They felt even more of what they felt when they were still in Atlantis or at their first date. Ericka placed her hand on dracula's chest, feeling his wiped the chocolate from each other's face with tissue, and leaned in for a kiss. Their first kiss.

Suddenly, they heard someone who just interrupted their moment.

Aggie: Didn't your mothers ever tell you not to play with your food? Or your great-grandpappy, in Ericka's case.

Drac: (releases Ericka as she stands up on her own feet) What do you want, Aggie?

Aggie: Yeah, I used my sailing and navigating spell for so long, I'm afraid that it might affect my baby.

Drac: Then, stop sailing and navigating. That's also stress. It's not good for the baby.

Aggie: That is not the only thing I'm here.

Ericka: Then what is it, Aggie?

Aggie: I was thinking, since I'm still in-charge for entertainment, we should stop by somewhere to get out of the ship. All of us.

Ericka: Like where? We just passed by the Deserted Island. Where else can we stop?

Aggie: (thinking) Hmmm…. What about one of the most beautiful, romantic and relaxing vacation places in the world? Hawaii!

All: (come out of nowhere) HAWAII?!

Ericka: Hawaii?! That's too far! We're in the Tropical part of the Earth!

Aggie: I have a spell do fix that, and it'll take less than a day or two to make it there.

Frank: That'll be great, Aggie. (To Drac) That's where Mavis and Johnny spent their vacation before they got married.

Murray: And the place where you and Martha spent time together.

Drac: (whispers) Guys, please. Not in front of Ericka. (to Aggie) Agafya, please, we'll not go to Hawaii. It's too much already.

Aggie: Come on. It's not just a relaxing vacation, but an adventure vacation. We'll have a proper adventure if we go to one place where everyone can relax!

Drac: How about we should keep entertaining everyone and taking the ship back to Bermuda Triangle so we could all go home?

Aggie: Let's got to Hawaii.

Drac: No.

Aggie: (whining with puppy eyes) Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase?

Drac: No!

Aggie: (whining louder with tears in her eyes) PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE?!

Penguins, kittens, and baby birds in Aggie's eyes: (whining with teary puppy eyes) Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaase?!

Drac: (groans loudly and face-palms) Okay, fine! We'll go to Hawaii.

Aggie: Yeah! Woo-hoo!

Drac: Just don't mess this up, especially when I take Ericka one date

Aggie: Drac, I'm a matchmaker, not a matchbreaker

Drac: Just promise me that after staying in Hawaii, we'll go home

Aggie: (grunts) Fine! Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.

Drac: I don't understand what you're saying


Later, Drac and Ericka walked together on the cabin hall.

Drac: Sorry about what happened. Aggie always has good suggestions. Hawaii is where I met Martha, where we date, had our honeymoon… Sorry.

Ericka: It's okay. At least you still remember her. I never remembered my parents because I never knew about them.

Drac: Everything's going to be fine.

Ericka: I'm glad you agreed earlier, because if we find this Cobra-porcupine in Hawaii, maybe we'll find out what happened to him, and uncover my great-grandfather's greatest secret.

Drac: You're right. (sighs) I never thought of that since my mind is still about you and my family.

Ericka: You're a family guy. You have lot of responsibilities for your family.

Drac: (chuckles) I guess you're right. (stops near Ericka's cabin door) Well, there's your cabin.

Ericka: Oh, yes. Thank you for tonight. It was lovely (she kisses him on the cheek) Goodnight (enters the cabin and closes the door)

Drac slowly smiled as he transformed into a bat, and flew happily around the ship.

Meanwhile, Aggie read a spell to make the ship sail to Hawaii even a little faster. When she finished reading, she stamped her wandstaff on the ground, releasing a powerful and electrical energy that spread out around the ship. The ship suddenly moved faster than its original spread, like a normal speed of a car or a little faster than that as it set sailed to Hawaii.


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