Hotel Transylvania

Chapter 10: Liven in Things Up; Pool Parties and Chicken Fights Galore pt.1

Later that Day

Library Lounge

The first activity of the day was at the Library. The library was vast and huge, with comfortable couches and chairs, making reading a book vastly enjoyable. And the whole library was swamped over with bookshelves; every volume all over the globe. It was even adorned with marble busts of famous figures to give it a somewhat sense of decoration. Though the busts themselves were possessed, due to the eyes somewhat shifting around. All in all, it was a very quiet place to start off the party week.

To a five-hundred year old vampire, of course.

At that moment, an elderly gremlin woman was currently turning a cage of small skulls, roughly around the size of ping pong balls. She was sitting at a table with Bingo sheets, and a stamper. And boy, did she look excited, and by excited, dead bored was a better word for it. Once she stopped spinning the cage, she pulled out one of the small skulls, and brought it up to her bat-shaped ear.

And the skull whispered to her, "N-27"

The elderly gremlin spoke up on a microphone, as she marked it down on her Bingo card, ""N-27"

All the occupants were in the library as well, each playing the game as well. However, they all seemed bored out of their minds at this moment. Some of them looked like they were going to fall asleep, others looked like they were dead tired from the boredom of this game. Others… well, they were already dead, but they were still bored out of their minds. Even the teens seemed to be bored as well, in the most ridiculous image imaginable. Even Mavis was seemed to be bored as well, including Johnny, who was sitting next to her, and was about to fall off the chair.

Until she stamped her card, waking him up, "Huh? Wha? What's going on?"

Alerted to his startled awakening, Mavis woke up as well, and looked to him, "You okay?"

Waking up fully, Johnny groaned, "Yeah, I'm fine. Just nearly dozed off for a moment." He then looked around, and smirked, seeing something to brighten up a smile on his face.

Mavis seemed interested, and asked, "What is it?"

He nudged behind them, and took notice of a heart-warming scene. Behind them, Lucretia was playing along, with Edith sleeping at her side. Lucretia seemed a bit startled by the little girl's slumber on her. But as soon as Edith snuggled up beside her, the vampire woman seemed to smile warmly at her, bringing her arm around her, adding a little warmth to the girl's slumber.

Mavis smiled at that, "It's nice to see those two together. With Aunt Lucretia's work schedule, it's nice to know she and Edith have some mother/daughter bonding time."

Jonathan nodded, and thoughtlessly mumbled, "It's just nice to see Edith has a mother figure in her life." But then went bug eyed at what he said, as Mavis looked at him confused, as he tried to cover up, "Ah. That is…"

"Edith isn't my aunt's real daughter, is she?" Mavis interrogated.

Feeling in some way he could tell her the truth, and still keep a secret, he sighed, as he explained, "She's actually… adopted like me. Her real parents, my family as well, they were killed when she was a month old."

Mavis seemed shocked by that, as she asked, "Were they slain? By humans?"

Johnny shook his head, "Nah, they were actually well-liked people and devoted parents. It was actually a car crash in Canada. They were going skiing in the Canadian Alps, but along the way, a snowstorm blew in. And with all that white powder, it's hard to see, and the roads get slippery." Mavis seemed a bit taken by that, as Johnny went on, "Eventually a friend of our dad's, Whitey Duvall, looked after us. And then your Aunt Lucretia took Edith in; she instantly fell in love with the little girl." He motioned to his eyes, "Her big Sad Kitty Look; gets them every time."

Mavis had to chuckle at that last part, and looked to Edith and Lucretia, "Well, even so… those two look like my aunt really did give birth to her." Jonathan nodded, and she looked to him, smiling, "You know, I'm actually glad she did adopt Edith. Otherwise… I never would have met either of you."

"Either of us?" Johnny asked.

Mavis smiled, but hid a small blush on her face, as she looked to him, "Well, mostly you."

Jonathan had to smile at that, but turned his eyes away, as he smirked, "You know, I think the only one in this game who's actually having fun is your dad."

The two looked to the table next over, and had to smirk at seeing Dracula's enthusiasm at the peak, as he seemed to be the only one wide awake. Both Johnny and Mavis had to stiffen a chuckle from the scene.

"G-61," another skull whispered to the Gremlin woman.

"G-61," the Gremlin woman announced.

Eunice stamped her card, and then smirked, as she cried out, "BINGO! BINGO!" But then suddenly, a gremlin lady snatched it, and ate it in one monstrous gulp. Eunice frowned, as she snarked, "How dare you! Do you know when the Doctor made me?"

The Gremlin lady shrugged, "I didn't do that."

Basketball Court Stadium

The next activity wasn't the best after the tediously boring game of Bingo. It involved being in the Basketball stadium, which was a huge basketball court built indoors. Two teams of monsters were on the court at this moment, but it wasn't basketball they were playing. It was the most boring game of charades that anyone would have ever seen. Team one was being led by a human fly guy, who was currently waving his hands fluently like water, as a yeti and the human fly's son were guessing what he was doing.

"Circles?" the Manfly's son asked.

"The Fly?" the Yeti guessed.

"Hands?" Manfly's son guessed.

"Blech!" the Manfly threw up on his hands, and rubbed them together.

His son hopped down, and guessed excitedly, "Vomit!"

"The throw-up!" the yeti cried out.

The Manfly slumped his shoulders, as he corrected, rather dronely, "No. That wasn't a clue."

Team two wasn't doing any better for a challenge, for it was the Hydra… trying to guess what Griffin the Invisible Man was doing. Each head was guessing what the Invisible Man was trying to do. But when you're guessing what an invisible man was doing, with seeing only his glasses shaking and no sound, it proved that an invisible person was lousy for this game.

"Nothing."

"Emptiness?"

"Glasses?"

"Glasses shaking?"

"Glasses shaking sideways?"

"Through the Looking Glass!"

Finally, Griffin sighed in defeat, "Awwh! I stink at this."

Everyone else were sitting on the bleachers, half-dead tired, or just plain sleeping. In truth, there were only a few lively ones: Dracula, and the zombie servants shoveling around. Near to the breaking point in their boredom, Johnny and Edith were slumped together, as Mavis and Lucretia sighed from boredom as well. Even the others were doing their best to try and stay awake. Edith silently groaned to her brother, "Johnny… I think Dracula's trying to bore us to death. The legends were right about him: he's a silent killer."

"Tell me about it," Johnny groaned out, sighing deeply, "This party's deader than the zombies."

Edith sighed in deep boredom, and then lit up with a smile in her face, as an idea popped into her head. She jumped off the bleacher, and ran out of the room for a moment. Fifteen minutes later, she popped up next to Johnny, as she tapped his shoulder. He turned towards her direction, and he too lit up with a smirk on his face. In her hand, she held her scooter for him, as she wore a pair of black and blue roller blades.

"And we're just the duo to liven things up again," Edith smirked, as she took off, with Johnny following after her.

The two siblings zoomed out on the court floor, interrupting the two teams of their charade party. Edith performed a few good ballerina moves with her rollerblades, wowing the crowd forming around her and her brother. Johnny did a few skateboard moves on the scooter, as he would on his own board, earning a few good attentive stares to him and his sister. Murray and Moto smirked at the duo before them. Sensing their eagerness to try the scooter out, Johnny handed the scooter over to the Mummy duo, and each of them got a joyful trial run ride on it. Edith scooped up the wolfcup puppies, as they road atop of her, forming a pyramid of sorts. Ghoulie got her shot at the roller blades, clumsily gliding all around the floor, but laughing in joy. Even Mavis had a chuckle at the scene, watching all her friends having fun at this. But Dracula, on the other hand, seemed shocked, that such disorder was going on about.

The scooter slowly made its way to the Gremlin woman, as she gently grabbed it. And then suddenly in one gulp, ate Edith's scooter. The Gremlin lady shrugged innocently, "I didn't do that."

"Hey!" Edith protested, as she stomped towards the elderly gremlin woman, and frowned, "Gimmie back my scooter!"

The Gremlin lady calmly smiled, "Okay, but you're going to have to wait a while."

Edith went bug eyed on that, and backed away, "On second thought… you can keep it."

Dracula shot up, and bellowed out, "Aright, alright! EENOUGH!" Everyone stopped what they were doing, as Dracula smoothed himself out, "Okey-dokey, we've got at leest one hour before de Pool Party begins. So at dat time, you can all get ready or have de time to do… whatever eet eez you need done before de fun begins."

Everyone cheered on that, as they all ran out, with Gil shouting, "I'm not takin' my shirt off!"

"Nobody can see me without mine, if I want to," Billy shouted.

Before Mavis left, she went over to Johnny, smiling, "We'll save you a table, okay?"

"Eh, about dat," Dracula zoomed over, before Johnny could answer that question. "He and I have discussions on dis Saturday's Big Event."

Mavis sighed again, knowing full-well that her dad was trying to keep them apart for some odd reason. "Okay, Dad. I get it," Mavis moaned, but lit up as she looked to Johnny, "So… I'll see you at the pool, later?"

Johnny nodded, "Yeah, definitely. You, you can catch us there."

Mavis nodded with a smile, "Okay, see you there." And sped off to get ready for the pool party.

Johnny just stood there, dumbfounded and waving back until he stopped, smiling. Edith walked over as she smirked, nudging her brother, "Seems to me like you two are hitting off pretty good. Might not need me to meddle so much this summer."

"What?" Johnny denied, as he scoffed, "Oh, come on. Mavis, she's… she's a good, good friend. She just likes to hear my stories."

"And she seems to fancy you, stories or no," Edith insisted, and pulled him towards the door, "C'mon! We gotta get ready for the pool party."

"Oh no, you don't," Dracula pulled the two to him, as he sneered, "For de next two hours, I'm going to make sure you two don't get spotted in de pool party."

The two looked to each other, as Edith asked, "So… what are we gonna do during that time?"

Dracula's Office

Dracula's idea to keep the two humans occupied… and away from his daughter. The best idea he could think was to spend time with the humans and make sure they stay put. Even if it meant having to spend the pool party time alone in there with them. Strangely enough, Lucretia and the maids all joined up with them, insisting that she'd help ensure that the two would stay in place. The two were wary about the maids being with them, but Lucretia informed the Harker siblings that she told Nellie, Nero, and Nera the truth, making them swear not to harm/threaten/kill them at all. But at this moment, Edith wished that they would kill them, because for the past forty-seven minutes, they were playing Scrabble, and it was still Lucretia's turn.

She sat at her spot, still pondering for the past forty minutes on her turn. Everyone else was bored to tears. Even Dracula was getting impatient, as he tapped his fingers on his folded arms, and tapped his shoe to the ground impatiently. He sighed, as he rolled his eyes, and looked to Lucretia, "Lucretia, can you please just finish your turn now?"

She waved him off, "Oh, hush, Count. You're the one who wanted us to play Scrabble. Deal with it."

"But you have such an extensive vocabulary," Dracula pointed out, out ot the point of whining out. He just sighed, "Just finish your turn already."

Lucretia lit up for a moment, and took a piece to place on the board. She was about to place it on the board, but then frowned, shaking her head in disapproval of her move. "No, that wouldn't work…"

"ARIGHT!" Dracula finally lost it, as he stomped out of the room, "Look, I'm going down to see how de guests are doing. Lucretia! Keep an eye on our party planner and his seester." And slammed the door, leaving the five alone in the office.

Nellie walked over, and opened the door just a crack, to peek out. And looked to Lucretia, as she let a small smile out on her calm face, "Coast's clear."

Lucretia turned towards the kids, and smiled, "I knew I could break him."

Edith smirked, and complimented, "Hey… you psyched him out, that's pretty cool of you."

Lucretia nodded, "Thank you. Now you two get going."

"Huh?" Johnny asked, with his eyebrow cocked.

Nera insisted, "To the Pool Party. Lady Mavis'll be expecting you."

"Oh, right," Johnny clicked, and ran out of the room, leaving the girls to themselves, but stopped as he smirked at the vampire woman, "You rock, Lucretia." He then winked at the maids, "You guys rock, too."

"Have fun," Nera waved happily.

"Don't swim on a full stomach," Nellie droned out.

"If you break Mavis' heart… I'LL BREAK YOUR WHOLE BODY APART!" Nero roared out.

Johnny just nodded to their encouraging, and rather thretmantic, words and ran out the room. But Edith turned towards Lucretia, and smirked, "Well, let's get ready too."

Lucretia blinked at that statement in confusion, and asked, "What?"

Next Chapter: Liven in Things Up; Pool Parties and Chicken Fights Galore pt.2