A smiling Mavis popped out from one of the smoke stacks and climbed out to get on the rooftops of the hotel.

Johnny followed after her, but he grew weary while he peeked out and looked around, expecting Dracula to pop out of nowhere and suck his body dry of blood. "He's not gonna see me, is he?" he asked nervously.

"My dad doesn't know we're here," Mavis reassured him. "C'mon out."

Climbing out of the smoke stack and climbing up the roof to catch up with her, Johnny gasped "Whoa!" in awe of the view.

Before him was an incredible view of the area surrounding the castle. The tall mountains and the mist-covered forest that surrounded and protected this isolated castle from the human eyes. It was incredible.

"Wow! Would you look at the view from up here?" Johnny climbed to the other side, nearly slipping on a loose tile, before he recovered from this little mishap. "You could almost see Budapest!"

"Budapest? Mavis asked, eager to hear more. "Is that near Ha-Wi-Fi?"

"Huh? Oh, you mean Hawaii," Johnny corrected. "Yeah, that place is a knockout. I just went to a music festival there."

"A human music festival?" Mavis' eyes widened.

"Uhh, I believe so." Johnny remembered he had to be careful with the words he used while remaining in his monster disguise.

Worry crossed over Mavis' features as she expected the worst. "So did they all bite your toes and shove garlic bread in your face?"

"No." Johnny found the idea ridiculous, just like Elisa did. "Although one dude took a bite out of my energy bar than I expected, but I blame that on the heat."

Mavis slunked her shoulders from all the tension and worry she felt from his stories for no reason. "It's amazing," she confessed. "You've been everywhere!"

"Well, you know, what's the alternative?" Johnny stood up to spread his arms out while he spun around. "Just staying at home, never exploring, never seeing what's out there? I'm only going to be, uh...121 once, right? Gotta live it."

Mavis thought about what he said and then looked away, sadly muttered, "Yeah." She had been kept inside the hotel all her immortal life, except she visited a village where humans attacked her and she believed her father had been right after all. But Elisa had told her not all humans are terrible, and she could try a different village to meet humans that are friendly and welcoming to monsters. Now Mavis wasn't so sure what to believe.

Just then, Johnny took notice of a crack of sunlight appearing from the top of the mountains. As the light slowly touched the rooftops he said, "Aw, man. The sunrise from here must be amaz..."

"OW!" Mavis cried, pulling her feet out of the sun's rays the second she felt her toes burn and her shoes started smoking.

Johnny whirled around, just in time to see what happened. Remembering that Mavis is a vampire and vampires burn in the sunlight, he felt guilty for not realizing it sooner. "Oh! I'm sorry. You've probably never even seen a sunrise, have you?"

"No, not really," Mavis replied, but she was confused. "Why?"

"C'mon," Johnny held out a hand for her to take. "I have an idea."

Though puzzled, Mavis took hold of his hand so he could help her up. He pulled her over to one of the bigger chimneys close by, one of them where the shadows still lingered from the sun's rays.

Once he made sure Mavis was safe, Johnny peered over the edge of the chimney. "Watch," he said.

Mavis was confused as to why she was supposed to be looking at a sunrise. But as she watched, the rising sun created a beautiful atmosphere as it gradually crept up above the mountains. The colors of the sky created a mixture of fantastic gold and pink. To Mavis, it brought a stunning amazement to the young vampire girl's astonished blue eyes. Johnny smiled, knowing he had helped her by sharing what she had missed out for two centuries.


A dragon lit the heat in the hotel's private sauna, creating thick hot steam to fill up the entire sauna, raising the temperature high enough to make even the most undead monsters sweat. Dracula and his friends, all wearing nothing but white towels, sighed happily as they settled in for some relaxation time.

"Ahh. Didn't I tell you guys we'd have fun in here?" Dracula sighed in satisfaction with a smile. "Is this not the best?"

Blobby took a piece of himself off his body and let it steam on a pile of hot rocks, while Wayne panted and slurped in enjoyment.

"Yeah," Wayne added as he licked his muzzle. "I'm working up a nice sweat. When's that Johnny kid gonna be done party planning? And how's Ellie working on that assistant-manager job thing? They're a great hang."

"Yeah, he's an animal," Frank agreed. "You know, it was so nice seeing Mavis laughing and hitting it off with him."

Dracula began to feel uncomfortable at the mention of those despicable humans, his innate overprotective nature of his only child grew along with his irritation at his friends' even mentioning those pests, whom he had finally gotten rid of. "Who's hitting what off? Please!" he scoffed dismissively. "Mavis could never be with...someone of his kind."

Frank arched his eyebrow, feeling insulted. "I'm sorry? His kind?" He got visibly cross, while quoting with his fingers. "You're saying our kind's not good enough for you, Your Lordship?"

Dracula realized a second too late his unintended insult, clearly having forgotten the human boy's disguise and cover story as Frank's right arm's cousin. "No, no, no! Frank, I didn't…" the vampire nervously tried to reassure his friend, never intending to insult him, but he needed to clear things up with a good excuse. "I meant that she wouldn't be into someone with...uh...such, red curly hair."

"Uh...What's wrong with red curly hair?" Griffin asked, now the one feeling insulted as well.

"Why are you getting upset?" Dracula asked.

"I HAVE RED, CURLY HAIR!" Griffin shouted angrily.

"WELL, HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT?!" Dracula yelled in frustration.

"C'mon, Drac," Murray cut in. "At least give the kid a chance, he's a great guy. Didn't you see how happy Mavis was with him? Speaking of which..." Murray had a weird smug on his face. "What's going on with you and Elisa?" he asked teasingly, while he wiggled his eyebrows.

Dracula suddenly got tense at this sudden question. Even in the hot steam and through thick sweat he blushed, though perhaps there was more to sweat than just the steam. "WHAT?!" he huffed, insistently. "Where did you get such a ridiculous idea, Murray? There is absolutely nothing going on between me and Elisa!"

"You sure?" Wayne asked, his eyebrow raised. "Because ever since she got here, you've been giving her funny looks...and you looked ready to tear apart the next monster who tried to flirt with her."

"Nothing is going on!" Dracula responded, in a harder tone. "Martha was the only one for me, the only one I could ever love! Elisa means nothing to me..." His tone changed to one of affection, "...even though she is friendly, spunky, and attractive." Slip of the tongue.

"Oooooohh," his friends whooped.

"Sounds like somebody zinged!" Murray teased.

"Give it a rest, guys," Dracula scoffed in displeasure at his friends' teasing, hoping to drop the subject. "And I didn't zing with that witch!" he added snippy.

"Fine." Frank shrugged his shoulders. "So what about Johnny and Mavis? You think there could be something going on?"

"No!" Dracula frowned in distain. "He's not perfect for my Mavy! Besides I'm certain he's a bad influence for her, just like Elisa has been a bad influence on my daughter."

"A bad influence?!" Griffin's glasses clearly showed he was scowling.

Frank decided to speak up. "Mavis isn't a kid anymore, and your helicopter parenting skills is influencing your judgement. Not too many monsters her age come to the hotel often because of you, so it's hard for her to meet anybody. My cuz is a great kid, and you should give him and Mavy a chance! You should give Ellie a chance, cause we've all seen how you behave around her, other than acting rudely!"

The others voiced their agreements. Dracula had hoped after he finally got rid of the humans, it was the end of that, but his friends weren't letting it go. This conversation wasn't what he had in mind at all when he wanted to relax with his friends.


Around that time, Mavis and Johnny were still outside and watching the sunrise. Johnny noticed the sun's rays slowly coming closer to Mavis' feet, and he knew she could get burned again. So being very gentle and careful, he took hold of her arms and slowly led her back into the shadows.

"This is the most incredible thing I've ever seen," she whispered, eyes still focused on the rising sun.

Johnny smiled, satisfied to have shown Mavis her first sunrise. But the moment came to an end when Johnny suddenly fell through a weaker part of the roof. He screamed the second he vanished down the hole.

Startled, Mavis looking down through the open hole where Johnny had once stood. "Johnny?" she called out, concerned.


Back in the sauna, things were not looking so good. Dracula tried to win back his friends' good sides. So far, his friends were all glaring at him, upset for his rude comments on Elisa and Johnny. Although, Blobby was the only one not glaring since he looked quite scared.

Hoping to salvage the situation since his friends had gotten irritated with him about Johnny and Elisa, Dracula said as reasonably as he could, "Look, settle down, fellas. This is all a mood point. Because Elisa and Johnny, they...they left."

"Wait a minute. They left?" Murray asked in disbelief.

"Yes!" Dracula exclaimed as he scratched his chin, "Elisa realized she never wanted anything to do with me, or us. And Johnny, he decided he didn't like Mavis, or any of us." He leaned back casually and crossed his legs as he tried to relax, thinking it was the end of the conversation.

Suddenly as if by the work of fate, the ceiling collapsed above him and a screaming Johnny fell through the hole, landing right on the unsuspecting Dracula's lap, catching him on impulse.

"Hi..." Johnny greeted nervously, but Dracula shot an angry death glare at this continuous human nuisance.

Frank leaned in closer to them as pointed out the obvious, suspiciously, "Hmm, I guess Johnny had second thoughts."

This caused Dracula to panic on the inside.

"Uhh, about what?" Johnny asked.

"Dracula said that you...you hated us," Frank explained, hoping this wasn't true.

"Hate? I don't hate anybody! I like you guys!" Johnny told them with sincerity.

"Really?" Murray's face brightened up joyously.

"Yes!" Johnny nodded, while Dracula had a look of displeasure and annoyance.

"But, if you're still here...than Elisa must be here, too!" Wayne exclaimed, excitedly.

"So, you still want to hang out with us?" asked Griffin.

"Sure," Johnny nodded. "I'll hang with you whenever you want."

"You promise?" Frank asked.

"He promises!" Dracula yelled in irritation.

"STOP YELLING AT US!" Frank yelled back at him, loudly, as Johnny tightened his arms around Dracula's neck, looking just as scared as he was.


In the hotel spa, resembling a Medieval dungeon complete with spa equipment looking mostly like torture devices of various kinds; such as an iron maiden said to be used for acupuncture treatment, tables for stretching, and an octagonal shape cauldron which was the hot tub, where Elisa was now relaxed in, the water covering her nude form. It had been forever, she needed a chance to unwind, and this had to be the best hot tub she had ever been in, if not the only one in her entire life.

Her new monster friends, Eunice and Wanda, were also enjoying themselves; Eunice and a lady gremlin were getting deep tissue messages from Gustav, who happened to be the hotel's spa supervisor and head masseuse, while one of his other arms adjusted the temperature for Elisa in the hot tub, and Wanda and a purple faced hag lounged comfortably nearby with their eyes covered with cucumbers. These ladies wore nothing but white towels or robes that covered their own bodies.

"Ahh. I definitely needed this," Elisa sighed in content.

"I told you we needed some girl time," Eunice grinned.

"It's not often we get time away from the boys, but I hope they're having a good time like we are," Wanda added.

Eunice sighed in content. "You said it. But, I'm still curious. What's going on between our new friend, Elisa, and Drac?"

This caused Elisa to sit up straight in a snap when she heard this, startled by the very mention of the vampire. "WHAT?!"

"You and Dracula," Eunice said, "What's going on with the two of you? Do you like him or what?"

Elisa scoffed bitterly. "Pfft! Are you kidding me? I can't stand him. He is such a control freak...even though he is way hotter." She finished her sentence with a dreamy look in her eyes.

Eunice and Wanda, who removed one cucumber to look, glimpsed first at Elisa and then to each other at what she recently said.

Wanda removed both cucumber slices from her eyes to say, "Well, I think you should give him a chance. He's really not so bad once you get to know him. It hasn't been easy for him since he lost Martha."

"Maybe..." Elisa sighed, remembering what almost happened before coming to the spa.

"And..." smirked Eunice, "with a pretty face like yours, he'd be an idiot not to see how special you are. Darling, you have a lot to offer."

Elisa smiled, thinking they may be right. She had a hard time admitting to herself she might actually like Dracula. Heck, she even developed a crush on him and perhaps he feels the same way. But then, why did he act like a jerk toward during their encounters? Perhaps they were wrong, and Dracula kept true to his word of his loathing for humans. He would never feel the same way about her.

She thought about this for a moment, before noticing something strange with the color in the water of the hot tub. Elisa gasped when she realized it was the dark green paint of her makeup. She took out her hand and bits of green had already faded away, which meant her makeup was starting to wash off. Quickly, she got out of the hot tub and wrapped a towel around her nude form, hoping it covered enough of her true human complexion to keep Eunice and Wanda from suspecting anything.

"Where are you going?" Eunice asked.

"Sorry, girls, I have to go, uh...take care of, uh...something I promised Dracula and it's personal. So, uh, I gotta go." Elisa ran out of the spa, hoping she didn't look too suspicious, and it wasn't long until she ran into the last person she expected to see.

Dracula mumbled rude remarks while he forcibly lead Johnny away from his friends and out of the sauna. Not only had both humans returned after he seriously threatened to suck their blood, fatty though it may be, this one had fallen right into his lap while the vampire wore nothing but a white cotton towel. And that female human is still lurking around in his hotel somewhere. He was a Count of noble high class blood and breeding, so he shouldn't have to suffer such humiliation. Especially with these kind of humans.

"This can't get any worse," Dracula grumbled moments before bumping into somebody.

It was Elisa. In nothing but a white cotton towel.

"ELLIE!" Johnny gaped loudly, his mouth widely agape when he saw her. "OHH, MY GOD!" He covered his eyes to hide his view of her, blushing beneath his own makeup.

Dracula, surprised to see her still at the hotel, felt his eyes pop out of his head. "What're you doing here?!" But as he gazed at her figure the vampire goes hot under the collar once again when he sees her beautiful body hidden beneath a towel.

Elisa remained briefly silent from this awkward embarrassment, stuttering, "I...might ask you the same thing." She eyed his figure and looked up, smiling genuinely at him. "I had no idea that you look so gorgeous."

However, Dracula could only stare at her. Eyes so wide in embarrassment and astonishment. He blushed a beet red at her comment. The air between them suddenly a few degrees hotter than before. Both of them tightened the towels they wore to themselves, both unsure of what to say or if to say anything at all in this crazy encounter.

"Uh...I uh, maybe I should, uh...get dressed," Elisa mumbled bashfully, while she turned a different direction to go find her black dress.

"Yes, of course," Dracula agreed, clearing his throat while trying not to stare at this beautiful human girl before him.

Peeking out from behind the sauna door, Griffin smirked, "I guess Elisa couldn't stay away from the old vampire charm."

Dracula shot the Invisible Man an icy scowl, but tried to maintain his dignity like nothing happened while using his telekinesis to slam the sauna door right in Griffin's face as he cried out, "Ow!"