Chapter 14
While the six other boys began to wander around the lobby looking and touching every little thing, much to Dracula's annoyance. The forty-seven year old woman, who had bright, vibrant, short, red hair like Johnny's step forward. She was a couple of inches shorter then Johnny and was a bit pudgy but had warm and friendly eyes and a grin on her face. She wore a purple plaid shirt with a white collar and her sleeves were slightly rolled up. She immediately hugged Johnny tightly, making him cringe a bit.
"Oh Johnny! It's so good to see you again, sweetie!" she said. "We've missed you so much!"
"Yeah, it's uh… great to see you too Mom!" Johnny smiled, returning her hug. Mavis smiled at them fondly but also with hidden envy as she knew she'd never get to hug her mother the same with, what with her being dead and all but she didn't let it bother her too much and let her fiancé and his mother enjoy their reunion.
Johnny's mother looked him over. "Have you been eating well hon? You look thin," she remarked. "And look at those circles under your eyes! You haven't sleeping much have you?
"Oh, Mom…" Johnny practically whined.
The forty-eight year old man, who presumably was Johnny's father, stepped forward as well. He had short, cropped auburn hair and a thick handlebar mustache. He looked very well built and muscular and was just a few inches taller than Johnny. He wore a white tank top and green cargo pants held up by a brown belt and tucked into a pair of combat boots.
"Hello there, son." The man said patting his son on the shoulder with a smile. "Good to see ya again."
"Dad! Oh it's good to see you too!" Johnny smiled as he hugged his father tightly, who chuckled and patted him on back. Johnny then turned his attention to Mavis.
"Uh, Mavis, these are my parents; Joan and Jed. Mom, Dad this is Mavis, the girl I told you about." Johnny said.
Joan approached Mavis. "Well I'll be! Aren't you pretty as a peach?" she smiled. "It's so good to finally meet you, sweetie!"
Joan gave Mavis a little yet hug which surprised Mavis at first but she quickly returned it.
"Thanks! It's really great to finally meet you, Johnny's told me so much about you guys!" Mavis said.
"And he's told us a lot about you too." Johnny's Dad told her. "He's quite taken with you young lady."
"Dad…" Johnny said, embarrassed, which made Mavis giggle.
"He's also told us that you're a monster as well. A vampire to be precise" Abraham added, which surprised everyone, aside from Johnny a bit. Mavis was a bit less surprised considering she knew that Johnny had already told them.
"You told them?" Wayne asked.
"Well… yeah, they're my family, I can't keep anything from them!" Johnny defended.
"Please don't be mad, Dad. He asked for my permission to do so and I gave it to him." Mavis told her father, hoping he wouldn't be mad at Johnny for letting their secret slip. "If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at me."
"Oh no, no, no, I'm not mad, in fact I'm glad you told them. After all we've all seen what happens when you keep secrets locked up for too long. Dracula said, everyone nodded in agreement, remembering a particular secret that came out during Mavis's 118th birthday.
"Yeah and besides all the folks down at that Monster Festival place know about and love us!" Murray pointed out. "Including all the folks staying here for the wedding!"
He gestured to a few human photographers taking pictures of them nearby before running off.
"See?" Gill pointed out.
"Exactly. Although it would have been nice if someone had told me ahead of time so I'd have time to prepare." Dracula said with a bit of an edge as he looked Johnny in the eye, annoyed. Johnny chuckled nervously. Joan and Jed then approached Dracula, amazed.
"Wow! So you're THE Count Dracula?" Joan asked, excited.
"Yes…" Dracula said slowly.
"Well I'll be, I've heard stories but I never thought he existed until Johnny told us." Jed remarked.
"Well as you can see I am VERY real and also VERY powerful." Dracula stated proudly while posing like a wrestler.
"He forget to mention 'VERY big headed'." Wayne whispered to the others.
"Yeah, really!" Frank agreed. Everyone chuckled until Dracula gave them a sharp glare while in mid-pose. Mavis face palmed and groaned in embarrassment.
"Uh… Oh! And here are some of the other monsters; Gill, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, The Mummy and their wives Eunice and Wanda!" Johnny said, gesturing to the others who waved a them in a friendly manner, which they returned. "Oh! And The Invisible Man, who I don't see any…"
Joan suddenly yelped and grabbed onto her husband in fear.
"You touched me there!?" she questioned alarmed. A floating pair of glasses then appeared.
"Sorry ma'am, couldn't resist!" The Invisible Man chuckled.
"Hey! You touch my wife…" Jed began to say as he approached the invisible man threateningly, who began to back away fearfully. Johnny then got in-between them.
"Whoa! Hold on Dad, I got this." Johnny assured him, before turning to the invisible man. "Hey Mister Invisible Man, could you hold this slice of baloney that I have in my pocket?"
Johnny took out the slice of baloney and handed it to the unseen man, who seem to make it float in mid-air.
"Why do you want me to… Oh no…" The Invisible Man groaned, after he realized he's been tricked. Before he could do anything, the pups suddenly showed up and grabbed onto all parts of him, trying to get the piece of meat.
"Ah! Help! Get 'em off! Ah!" he screamed. Everyone just laughed at this.
"Nice one." Gill smirked to Johnny. The two fist-bumped.
"Say… why did you have baloney in your pocket?" Mavis asked Johnny.
"Not sure really…" he admitted. "But I'm sure it's totally safe to eat! It went through the wash!"
It was Dracula's turn to face palm this time, while his parent's just chuckled,
"That's our boy, always looking at the bright side." Jed mused.
"Yes… and being quite annoying at times, too." Dracula added.
"We'll there's that…" Joan admitted. "But hey, we're all going to be one big happy family now, aren't we boys?"
Joan turned around, expecting some people to be there but instead no one was there.
"Huh? Well that's odd…" she remarked. "Honey, did you see where the boys went?"
Jed shrugged. Then the sound of something shattering was heard nearby, getting everyone's attention.
"Oh no…" Dracula groaned in dismay. He made his way over and saw what appeared to be two younger and smaller versions of Johnny, who appear to be twins standing near what appeared to be broken antique vase. Pieces of it were scattered across the floor. He glared angrily at them, like he was about to strangle them.
They both pointed to each other. "It was his fault!" they both cried.
Another version of Johnny, who was wearing glasses stepped forward. "Oh please! You both did it and you know it!" he said.
"Back off James! And aren't you the one who knocked down that painting back there?" One of the two boys stated.
"You what?" Drac snapped.
"I was admiring it's beauty, it's not my fault the frame was a hundred years old." The one known as James said, defensively.
A chubbier version of Johnny stepped forward licking his finger. "Yeah, you guys have got to try out the desserts in the party room!" he said. "It's delicious!"
"Hey! Those were for the guests!" Dracula told him harshly.
"Which we technically are." James pointed.
"Don't start with me smarty pants…" Dracula warned him. He then heard giggling nearby, he turned and saw a very skinny version of Johnny laying on the floor making what appears to be a parody of a 'snow angel' in the rug.
"Look! A rug angel! Whoo-hoo!" he cried, happily.
"Ok…" Gill said, looking a bit bewildered. The baffled look on Mavis' face suggested that she was thinking the same thing
"Hey! Cut that out! You're gonna wrinkle it!" Dracula told him as he pulled him off the floor. "Now, is there anymore of you that I should be looking for or is that it?"
"Let's see… there is me, Jake, Jordon, Jack, Joe and…" James began to say before he realized something. "Hey… where is Jason?"
Everyone looked around for any sign of the aforementioned 'Jason' character but none of them saw much of anything until they heard chuckling from nearby.
They turned and saw a version of Johnny that was close to Johnny's age but had slicked back hair, was more muscular and wore a black leather rocker type jacket. He seemed to be flirting with a mummy girl in front of a picture of Martha.
"Hey baby, how you doing?" he asked. "What do you say we unravel those bandages and take a little peek, you know what I'm saying?"
The mummy girl giggled, practically blushing while everyone else just groaned in exasperation and disgust.
"Oh good grief." Gill groaned.
Dracula then made his way over to Jed and the mummy girl. "Ok, that's enough! Break it up you two!" he told them, as he got in-between the two. "Everyone's stomachs have been there quite enough and I do not want to be cleaning up any more chucks today and neither do the maids, that's for certain."
"Hey, lay off! We we're doing nothing Pops!" Jason exclaimed, annoyed.
"His name isn't Pops!" Johnny and Mavis both said in unison. The two little Johnny's then popped up.
"Hey she just said what you said!" The two of them pointed out to Johnny while pointing at Mavis and looking amazed. "Hey! So did we! Technically I just said it."
The two of them glare at each other as they continued to speak in unison. "Ok, you need to stop doing that." They both said. "Stop! STOP!"
The two boys are quickly silenced by Dracula, who magically sealed their mouths closed. They both let out muffled screams and yells which no one could understand.
"Boy… I wish I could do that!" James said, marveling at Dracula's power.
"Don't we all, brother." The big version of Johnny said while eating.
"Just go while I still have control over my temper." Dracula ordered the mummy girl, who pouted as she left. He then turned to Jason. "And you! Stop harassing my guests!"
"Whatever…" Jason breathed as he bumped into the picture and caused it to fall over onto the ground, much to everyone's surprise. They turned to Drac who looked absolutely stunned. "Uh… whoops?"
Dracula closed his mouth tightly as he begins to boil turning red from the bottom up as steam practically hissed from his ears, the sound of a kettle whistling was practically heard.
"He's gonna blow!" Gill exclaimed. Them Johnny quickly got in front of the Count and put his hands up.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Easy Drac! EASY! It was an accident I swear!" Johnny said, trying to calm him down. "These are my younger brothers I mentioned when we first met, remember?"
Mavis walked over also. "Dad, please! They didn't mean to do this, so please just try to take a deep breath and Calm. Down. Alright?"
This seemed to break through Dracula's rage, though he was still bottling up an angry scream that he just had to let out so he rushed over to a box and screamed into it. He closed the lid when he was done.
"I-I think he's angry…" One of the two trouble making versions of Johnny said to the other.
"Oh no, Drac's cool, he just needed to blow off steam." Johnny assured them, before chuckling. "You get it? Blow off steam?"
Johnny and his family began laughing until a look from Dracula made them stop. Johnny cleared his throat.
"Uh… Drac, allow me to introduce my brothers…" Johnny began. "Guys?"
The glasses wearing version of Johnny known as James stepped forward. "Greetings, I am James. The smart one," he said. "The big one eating is Joe."
"Hi!" The fat version of Johnny known as Joe said, waving while eating a bag of chips.
"The little ones are Jack and Jake, the twins." James continued.
"And the family trouble makers." Johnny added. Both boys smile proudly.
"Jordon is the skinny one." James said, as the skinny version of Johnny known as Jordon waved. "And… well your already well acquainted with the second oldest; Jason."
Dracula and Jason glared at each other after he spoke.
Meanwhile, close by Quasimodo was sneaking around with a bag full of strange foods inside. It appeared to be heavy as he was having a bit of trouble carrying it over his hunched back. He eventually set it down and looked through it.
"Curses! Still a few ingredients short!" he muttered. "Without those ingredients the ritual won't work! Unless…"
Quasimodo looked towards Johnny, Drac, Mavis and the rest of Johnny's large family. The look on his face suggests that he now had an idea.
"Anyways… this is my family! Family; The real Count Dracula" Johnny finished as he presented his family, who waved in a friendly manner. "So what do you say, Drac? Can they stay? Just until the wedding is over that is? I promise; they won't break any more of your stuff."
Dracula looked at Johnny's family and then at Johnny's pleading eyes, as well as the pleading eyes of his daughter and friends until he finally sighed in defeat.
"Oh alright…" he said. They all cheer with joy. "Just make sure they do not break any more of my stuff, got it?"
Dracula finished that last part with a growl that made Johnny flinch a bit. "Got it…" he said.
Dracula approached Johnny's parents. "Uh… sorry about that, I guess I've been a tad stressed lately," he said. "What with the wedding and one particularly crazy guest to deal with…"
"Oh, it's ok hon, we understand!" Joan told him.
"Yeah, you should have seen Joan here on our wedding boy… THAT was a nightmare!" Jed stated. He let out a light chuckle but stopped when his wife gave him a bit of a look. "Ahem. Anyway, seeing as how your already stressed enough as it is Count me and Joan were thinking that maybe we could take Mavis, Johnny and the boys for a night on the town!"
"You know, as a way of getting to know our future daughter-in-law better." Joan added.
"Wow! Really?" Mavis asked, excited. They both nodded. "Oh thank you! That sounds like a great idea!"
"Me too!" Johnny agreed. "Don't you agree Drac?"
"I don't know…" Drac muttered. "I kind of have to check them in first and there is still a lot to be done for the wedding and maybe your nice and annoyingly similar family could help a bit…"
Quasimodo then popped up out of nowhere.
"Oh pish-posh monsieur Dracula!" he said. Everyone yelped, startled by his sudden appearance.
"Someone should put a bell on this guy!" Gill stated.
"What do you want Quasimodo?" Dracula demanded. He turned to Johnny's face. "Johnny's family; Quasimodo. Quasimodo; Johnny's family."
"Hello!" Johnny's family said with a wave.
"Bonjour." Quasimodo said with a bow before hopping onto Dracula's shoulder. "Now Monsieur Dracula, while I know I am still on probation I have to say I believe that strapping young Jonathan and your lovely would have a wonderful time with the family and I insist that you let them."
"Really? You mean that little man?" Johnny asked, surprised and happy.
"Yeah, do you?" Gill questioned, his red eyes narrowed at him.
"But of course! I may have wanted to eat you in the past but that is what it is; in the past and now we are friends! No?" Quasimodo said.
"Eat you?" James echoed, surprised.
"It's a long story, kid." Wayne told the smart one known as James.
"Why are you so being so nice?" Dracula asked suspiciously, while also being creeped out by Quasimodo's close proximity.
"What? Would you prefer it if I acted cruel because that I can do!" Quasimodo said.
"No, no, never mind! Carry on with your… new attitude Quasimodo." Dracula told him.
"Oui, oui, Monsieur Dracula!" Quasimodo exclaimed as he saluted him. "I am off!"
Quasimodo then zipped off leaving everyone a bit speechless.
"Well a nice man!" Joan smiled.
"So? Are we heading out or what?" Jason asked, impatiently.
"Please?" Jack asked Dracula.
"Please?" Jake added.
"Pretty please?" Jordon inquired, as he bowed to Dracula.
"With sugar on top?" Joe said. "Hmm… sugar…"
The twins continued to say 'please' over and over again until finally the Count relented.
"Alright, alright! You may all go spend a night on the town together." Dracula said. "Maybe it would be a good thing for you all to bond."
"And not break anymore of his stuff." Gill added with a smirk to the others.
"Yeah, really." Frank chuckled. Dracula looked a bit annoyed by that last remark but ignored them.
"Do you really mean it Dad?" Mavis asked, excitedly.
Dracula smiled as he put his hands on her shoulders. "I do," he stated. He then whispered into her ear. "By the way, I think I'm close to finding a way for you and Johnny to stay together but just in case it fails you must make this night special for you both, ok?"
Mavis nodded in confirmation before Dracula turned her to the others and gently pushed her forward. "Alright! She's all yours!" he said.
"Thank you Count Dracula, we'll make sure she has a great time!" Jed promised. "Come on kid's let's head out!"
"Alright!" Johnny's brothers all cheered as they along with their mother, Johnny and Mavis began to make their way to the door.
"Boy this is gonna be so exciting! A whole evening with your family!" Mavis said to Johnny excited.
"I know right?" Johnny agreed, just as excited. "Oh by the way… there's a few things you need to know… about my family. As you've seen they can be a bit energetic… like me and somewhat destructive… like me. Plus they are also… inappropriate and… loud, very loud. There also embarrassing, stubborn, at times a little overbearing… but you know they mean well and…"
"Johnny." Mavis said, cutting him off and putting a hand on his shoulder. "They sound wonderful. And they already seem wonderful I mean look at them."
They both look towards the door and saw that some of them were having trouble getting through the door, since they all seemed to be trying to go through at the same time.
"I told you boys; one at a time!" Joan told them. "Do y'all need to turn on your hearing aids?"
"But we don't have hearing aid's Mom." Jordon pointed out.
"If only." Jed said.
Johnny chuckled a bit. "Yeah… I'm looking at them," he said, before sighing. "Just another day at the circus… you'll see what I mean."
Johnny walked up to the door, which his brothers were stuck in and gave it a good kick, freeing them and causing the door to spin.
"Thanks!" They all called out.
"No problem! Just make sure you disinfect that door soon or Drac will get really steamed! I'm talking hot sauna steamed, which they actually have here! Yeah, who knew?" Johnny said with a laugh. He and his parents all exited the hotel, with Mavis being the last one, she waved to everyone.
"Bye everyone!" she called out. "We'll be back soon!"
"Ok, see you later my honey!" Dracula waved.
"Have fun Mav!" Gill added.
"But not too much…" The Invisible Man began.
"Don't even!" Everyone yelled, cutting him off.
"Alright, alright! Sheesh! Tough crowd!" The unseen man grumbled. They then heard a little chuckle behind him and saw Quasimodo scurrying behind them to another room in the hotel.
"Well someone seems to be having fun!" Murray remarked.
"He sure seemed to be in a hurry…" Wanda mused.
"What's that little shorty up to Drac?" Eunice asked, suspiciously.
"Uh, he said something about cooking us up some kind of stew." Dracula shrugged.
"Huh, you know I could go for some stew." Frank smiled, rubbing his belly. "I wonder when it'll be done."
"Yeah, so you can some more pounds to ya…" Eunice remarked sarcastically.
"Hey!" Frank protested.
"I just hope it's good stew and not something that tastes like feet like the last stew I ate." Wayne said.
"Come on fella's, this is Quasimodo were talking about! He may be a bit of weirdo but he's the best chef in the hotel! What could go wrong?" Dracula asked.
As Dracula said this Gill looked back toward the direction Quasimodo had gone in and narrowed his eyes. He still seemed very suspicious of the little monster and something told him he wasn't wrong to suspect him of being up to something because little did he know… he was.
Then the Invisible Man walked over to the box Dracula screamed into, opened it and received a loud echo. He quickly closed it back up again and walked away, whistling.
Voices
Brian Sommer as Jed
Jeanie Kelsey as Joan
Fred Armisen as James
Rob Paulsen as Jordon
S. Scott Bullock as Joe
Josh Keaton as Jason
Tara Strong as Jake and Jack
Author's Note: This chapter uses bits of inspiration and references from various forms of media that I like, admire and honor but I do not own them. This is not for profit, it is merely for fun. No flames please and thank you. BTW to those reading this, fanfiction writer ghost of fantasy says that he approves of my stories and wanted me to tell you all flamers and haters and lousy guest reviewers that you should all go eat spaceballs FYI that's a much nicer version of what he would have really sai