Johnny spends the next hour or so talking to everyone about the news piece making the monsters look evil and also about his new state as a vampire. They could all hear yelling coming from outside as the group of protesters was growing bigger demanding that the monsters leave and others calling for their deaths. Horrible memories surface in Drac's mind from when He, Martha and a baby Mavis were in their castle surrounded by angry humans and the resulting death of his beloved wife.
"I have to go out there; they have to know the truth!" Johnny says.
"How are you possibly going to convince them? That report made me start to believe and I know the truth!" Ann said.
"I do not care! We have to try something!" Johnny said.
With the help of Mavis, Johnny gets out of bed and dressed. They make their way to the front lobby of the hospital. Johnny sees the damage caused when Mavis rushed through the doors.
"Open doors much?" he jokes.
Mavis could not help but laugh, even in these dire circumstances Johnny can still find ways to lighten the mood.
"You were not there to open it for me like a gentleman." Mavis says smugly and with a smile while elbowing Johnny in his side.
Drac was a dozen or so feet behind them and still dreaded what was about to happen. They could attack and hurt his daughter. How could he defend her without risking looking like the very monster the humans say he is.
"Mavis." Drac says lightly.
Mavis and Johnny stop and turn around.
"Be careful." Drac finished.
Johnny and Mavis both nodded. They knew what was at stake. As they turned the corner of the door way, they were hot by bright lights from news crews. It again took a few moments for their eyes to adjust. What they saw made their hearts drop. There were perhaps thousands of people many holding signs with very negative things on them. They were all yelling profanity and death threats. Some began to throw objects at them but they stood their ground with Mavis giving Johnny support as he leaned on her.
"Everyone please listen to me!" Johnny yells as loud as he could. "I do not know what you have heard but they are all lies! Please do not do this." he continues.
"Look, he is one of them! Kill them! Kill them before they kill us!" several people in the crowd were yelling.
Suddenly gun fire was heard and Mavis and Johnny dart back into the hospital. Mavis was hit in the leg, but luckily it was a regular bullet and she healed quickly.
"They will not listen." Johnny said.
"We have to get back to the castle" Drac replied.
"How? They will follow us everywhere we go! They will try killing us!" Mavis said.
"I think I have a way for you to get out of here." The doctor says. "There are old catacombs below the hospital. I have seen them as it was a regular thing to be dared to go into when I was just starting out here. You can escape through them and into the woods."
There was little time for discussion as everyone knew it was their best shot. They all made their way down to the sub-basement of the hospital and through a barricaded entry that said "Danger – do not enter." The doctor told them how to navigate through the catacombs to get to the woods.
"I do not know how to thank you." Mavis says as she gently hugs the doctor.
"Do not worry, I have seen things and learned things that I could only have imagined. Your thanks are more than enough." the doctor replied.
As everyone entered the catacombs everyone shook the hand of the doctor until Wanda comes up last and also gives the doctor a hug. The doctor returns the hug, closes the barricade up so it looks like no one came through and proceeds back up to the first floor. When he gets there police and swat officers are waiting.
"You! Stop! Where have they gone!?" an officer asks.
The doctor pretends to have been hiding in one of the offices scared for his life and did not know where they all went. The officer believed him and let him go.
"Get a group over to the castle, that must be where they are headed of they left!" the officer says.
As the doctor promised the catacombs eventually led them into the woods surrounding the castle. No one appeared to have come through this part of the woods yet. Dracula knew where they were and started walking.
"This way, there is a hill over here that will give us a view of the hotel."
When they made it to the hotel they were in shock. The hotel was surrounded on all sides by thousands of people. It appeared the witches must have cast some kind of spell as there was a glowing green dome over the castle keeping the people out. It unfortunately appeared they did not get the dome up soon enough as there were areas on fire, and a few areas had even collapsed. Drac, Mavis, and Johnny could see with their vision the armors, witches, and gargoyles trying to put the fire out and work to keep the remaining parts of the hotel safe. Humans were attacking the dome. Every time something hit the dome a ripple like on still water in a pond would form. People were throwing fire bombs, shooting guns and doing anything else they could to get through the barrier. The remains of a few armors could be seen outside the barrier as they tried to keep the humans at bay before the barrier was made.
Everyone stood, tears rolling down their faces. How could this be happening? IS everyone else in the hotel safe! How will this all end!?
"This way! Hurry!" Drac said. "one of the escape tunnels leads this way. Hurry, we may be able to get through." He continued.
"I thought people had entered the tunnels." Johnny asked.
"Not all of them. There are more than I can even count, i do not think they could have found this one." Drac says.
After walking a few hundred feet, they stopped at a huge old tree. Dracula started to pat the trunk apparently looking for something. He eventually pushed lightly on an old knot on the trunk and a door suddenly appears.
"Everyone, inside! Hurry!" Drac said.
Everyone walked for what seemed like a mile or so until they hit the barrier surrounding the castle. It appeared to even encircle the castle below ground as well. Just as everyone thought they were at a dead end an armor comes running up to the barrier and says.
"Keep back! Keep back there is no way through here!"
It soon realizes that it was talking to Dracula.
"SIR! Sorry sir! I did not realize it was you!"
"Quite! Is everyone safe!?" Drac asks.
"All the guests are safe in the dungeons. 20 armors have been destroyed. One gargoyle has been killed and a witch was captured. I do not know how she is sir."
Drac was both relieved and infuriated by the news. On the one hand all the guests were safe, but the humans have nearly destroyed the castle, killed one of his employees, and captured another to do who knows what. All of this out of fear; fear for the unknown. If they could only have listened to the truth.
"Let us through!" Drac snarls.
"Yes SIR! One moment sir." The armor replies.
About a minute later, an opening appears in the barrier to let them all through.
"Take us to the guests!" Drac says.
The armor brings them to the Dungeon and all the guests are over joyed to see that they have returned and are safe. Everyone is told of the events leading up to this moment. How more explosions were set off around the castle. How the humans began to siege the castle. How the armors worked to fight back the humans to give distance between the castle and them. Explained how the witches used all their combined power to erect the dome to protect everyone inside.
Everyone continued to talk about what was happening outside and about what they could possibly do now.
Johnny gets up and goes over to his parents. He asks them to join him over by Drac and Mavis. When they all get there Johnny says.
"I think I have a solution. Mom, dad, you are not going to like it."
Ann asks confused.
"What do you mean!?"
"You are all going to have to forget any of this ever happened and you are going to have to forget me…" he trails off unable to finish his sentence.