Soon, the fun and games started, but they were far from what anyone had hoped for. They were in the library as a gremlin woman rolled a collection of skulls in a bowl before she would call out numbers as everyone sat at several tables with cards as a game was going on, but it was quite dull and boring to death, almost literally.
"N-27." The skull whispered to the gremlin woman.
"N-27." The gremlin repeated in a very dreary and dry quiet voice.
"G-61."
"G-61."
Johnny nearly fell asleep until he caught himself and looked around before he could fully doze off.
Eunice soon stamped her card before beaming once she saw something. "Bingo! Bingo!" she then cheered.
The elderly gremlin right beside her then reached out and swallowed her card suddenly before she could hand it in.
"How dare you!" Eunice glared at her. "Do you know what doctor made me?"
"I didn't do that." The elderly gremlin smirked innocently.
"...Yeah, this is just oozing with fun," Lionel commented sarcastically.
A large, man-sized fly was trying to do charades with his son and a yeti.
"Circles? Fly? Hands? Phlegm?" guessed the yeti.
The fly puked into his hands and rubbed them together.
"Vomit." guessed the other fly. "The Vomit? The Throw-Up!"
The fly sighed. "No. That wasn't a clue." he replied.
Dracula continued to look ecstatic while everyone else looked very bored to death. A zombie waiter was even walking along and serving people while they sat there in exhaustion from the monotony. Griffin was soon attempting to do charades with the many-headed hydra, though it was a bit difficult since he had no visible limbs to make gestures.
"Nothing?"
"Emptiness?"
"Glasses? Glasses?"
"Glasses shaking?"
"Glasses shaking sideways!"
"Through The Looking-Glass?"
Griffin groaned in sheer frustration as he looked defeated from their guesses. "I stink at this."
Cherry took out a basketball and was bouncing it randomly.
"Whatcha doin'?" Lionel asked her.
"Meh... Getting ready for a rematch between The MonStars and The Tune Squad if that ever happens." Cherry shrugged as she bounced the basketball against the floor dully.
"Gotta be better than this," Lionel replied. "Can I join in?"
"If you'd like..." Cherry said as she picked up the basketball in her hands. "I taught you how to play basketball, right? I know quite a bit."
"I don't remember you teaching me," replied Lionel. "So... I might need you to teach me whatever you know."
"All right..." Cherry said. "All I can say is that every shot is worth two points, unless there's a free-throw shot depending on who earns it and plus in the game of Horse, you stand wherever the person shot their ball in when they go first, otherwise you get a letter and then whoever ends up spelling out horse-" she then started to explain before gasping and yelping as she was nearly blown over to the floor.
"Head's up!" Johnny told them before he suddenly sped by on the floor with his scooter.
"Augh! Not cool, dude!" Cherry complained as she dropped the ball. "Um... Here, watch some of this." she then said before pulling up a video on her phone from the game she mentioned with The Looney Tunes against a mutant alien team who called themselves The MonStars in the year of 1996.
"Oooooh..." Lionel exclaimed, mesmerized by the video. He sat down nearby and watched intently.
Cherry looked at him before shrugging and decided to sit with him as Johnny rode his scooter all over the place. This began to intrigue the other monsters, even the grumpy skeleton whose bones were being chewed on by the pup mass that Wayne and Wanda weren't tending to before they ran out to see Johnny up close. The other monsters did the same while Johnny spun himself around on his scooter, showing off what he was made of to them. Murray soon took a turn on the scooter, so did the endless werewolf litter, Griffin, as did several other monsters including the yeti who stepped on the scooter, only to trip and then crash in the bleachers right on top of a zombie waiter which made the other two monsters there applaud that.
The elderly gremlin was soon shown again as she reached out for the scooter and then quickly devoured it whole. "I didn't do that." she then added after eating the scooter with a small smile.
"...I don't think they're supposed to feed her after midnight." Cherry noted about the elderly gremlin.
"Or splash her with water..." Lionel commented.
SHORTLY AFTER...
Some of the hotel guests were partaking in a water aerobics class that was being taught by the fly-man from earlier.
"And pull it back. And up. And push. And twist. And back. And up. And twist. And push." The fly began to tell the other monsters in the pool before he threw up in his hands suddenly.
The other monsters then tried to copy that as they held out their hands below their mouths.
"No. Don't copy that," The fly complained before he continued then. "And back. And up. And twist."
Frank soon walked over to the buffet table after a sea monster swallowed the food on the plate without taking the plate. "Let me get a bubonic moose nose omelet with cockroach paste and mouse jelly and with egg whites." he then asked the zombie chef.
"Hmm... That sounds good right now..." Cherry commented. "Either that or I need to get something to eat before I dip into the pool."
"Food does sound good," Lionel nodded. "I could eat, too."
"Let's get something from the cooks then," Cherry suggested before looking at the zombie chef. "Got anything that probably isn't swimming in maggots?"
The zombie let out a groan in response.
"Hmm... Somehow I feel like the blood pudding would actually have blood in it." Cherry noted in response.
"That or a blood substitute," Lionel replied. "Whatever suits you."
"Meh..." Cherry shrugged. "I'll try some."
The zombie chef groaned and nodded at her before giving her some blood pudding.
"Bonjour, Monsieur Dracula!" Chef Quasimodo greeted the vampire who came out that night. "May I make you an omelet?
"No, no, no, no. I'm not hungry." Dracula told him, trying not to be too nervous or suspicious.
A rat soon came out onto the hunchbacked chef's nose and seemed to squeak at him.
"What? Esmeralda, you smell it again?!" Quasimodo glared in response to his rat before crying out. "Human!"
"I am hungry." Dracula then quickly said before slapping away the rat, sending her flying in the air as Cherry and Lionel came to look for somewhere to sit before looking over as Johnny bonded with Mavis' family friends.
"Johnny, you've been to the Taj Mahal?" Eunice asked while cutting her food.
"Come on. No monster's been to the Taj." Murray shrugged off.
"Man, I wish I could go there." Mavis smiled in amazement.
"You know what? I'll take 50 omelets." Dracula then suddenly said before spying around to watch the wandering mortal in his hotel.
"You heard the man! Make them!" Quasimodo then told his cook urgently.
"How did you deal with the mobs?" Mavis then asked Johnny.
"Yeah, it does get pretty crazy in the summer, but you know, you just gotta roll." Johnny advised casually.
"He just rolls. That's cool that he rolls." Wayne noted.
"Taj Mahal... That's in India..." Cherry remarked as she and Lionel joined the table. "The closest I've been to India was seeing this boy by the name of Mowgli and another time with his new friend Shanti."
"I've met them, right?" Lionel asked.
"Oh, sure," Cherry replied. "That time Shere Khan and Baloo were sold to the circus and Mowgli found out, so we had to save Baloo from the circus... Then Shere Khan decided to become a changed tiger somehow." she then explained.
"Somehow, I don't believe that," Lionel remarked. "But I suppose stranger things have happened."
Cherry just smirked before she tried some of the blood pudding. She shrugged, not liking it, but not disliking it either, but she decided to eat it anyway.
"Yes, yes, cool," Dracula said as he stepped in suddenly and grinned as he brought out a bagel for his daughter. "Look, love droppings, I brought you a bagel with your favorite, scream cheese."
The cream cheese on the bagel soon started to scream randomly, seeming to be alive.
"Holy rabies! Thanks, Dad!" Mavis beamed as she took the bagel before offering to share it with her new friend. "Johnny, try some scream cheese, it's awesome."
"Oh, cool," Johnny smiled nervously. "But I'm scream cheese intolerant. So, polite pass."
"Yes, of course you are," Dracula grumbled before suddenly grabbing Johnny and going to move him out of the way from the table. "Johnny, can we party-plan talk for a minute?" he then asked before suddenly dashing off with the disguised mortal.
Mavis pouted before she ate some of the screaming cream cheese as it continued to wail.
"Scream cheese, huh?" Cherry asked Mavis.
"It's really good." Mavis smiled and nodded.
"Well, I've never eaten something that was alive at the same time." Lionel commented before he took a bite of it.
"It's a real screaming sensation." Mavis smiled.
"We can see that," Cherry nodded before looking at Lionel. "So... How is it?"
"It's actually pretty good once you get past the screaming," Lionel explained. "Which, at best, is mildly annoying."
"Hmm... Maybe I should try some later." Cherry shrugged.
"I highly recommend it." Mavis smiled and nodded at them.
Soon, Dracula was having a one-on-one chat with Johnny. "What are you doing?" he whispered firmly. "If they find out you're human, they'll go bat-poop!"
"Relax! No one suspects anything," Johnny told him before showing him that they had an audience surrounding them. "The only thing that looks weird is how much whispering you're doing."
Dracula looked wide-eyed as the other monsters were surrounding them and looked curious and confused until he took Johnny to a more private place to talk. "Just wrap it up!" he then quietly demanded. "You will say you are going in the pool and act excited. And then you will say you hurt your back and you have to leave!"
Johnny groaned before he hunched over and walked over by the pool. "Here come good times! WHOO!" he called out before stretching and wincing as he acted like he had hurt himself doing that. "Oh, dudes-! Oh, my back."
"I'm on your back!" A monster called out and smiled as he jumped right onto Johnny's back suddenly.
"No, no! He said, 'Oh, my back'!" shouted Dracula, waving his arms wildly.
"Yeah! Get on my back!" another monster exclaimed as he put on some goggles, before pulling Mavis onto his shoulders.
"Let's do this!" Mavis exclaimed.
"Looks like they think this is a chicken fight." Lionel commented, as Johnny and the other monster waddled into the pool.
"Aw, here we go!" Johnny exclaimed. "Chicken fight, push 'em off!"
At this, every other monster, minus Dracula, of course, jumped into the pool and joined in the fun.
"Ah... So that's what a chicken fight in a pool is..." Cherry noted and nodded. "I never participated in those."
"Chicken fight!" The monsters cheered and laughed, splashing in the pool.
Cherry and Lionel looked at each other before shrugging and decided to hang out in the pool, though a bit farther away from the chaos.
"We got you, Johnny," Mavis smirked as she began to grab the monster on Johnny's shoulders. "You're going down."
"Oh, yeah, we'll see, 'Mavey Wavey'!" Johnny smirked back as he carried the monster on his shoulders who would try to push down Mavis into the water.
Dracula looked around before crying out to his patrons. "Okay, calm down with the fight chickens! Everyone, stop the roughhousing!" he then told them.
But of course, the monsters didn't listen to him as they splashed into the water and even a tentacled monster did some flips and soon went high in the air with one tentacle as Frank climbed on top of it like the ladder to a diving board.
"Frank! If you hurt yourself-" Eunice warned her husband.
"I got it, honey. The Stein boys are bred for this kind of thing," Frank reassured before calling out. "GERONIMO!" he then yelled out before jumping from very high up. It took quite a while, but eventually, he splashed right down into the pool and his body began to unravel into pieces floating in the pool.
"...Well, good thing that's not a human body, otherwise that'd be kinda disturbing to look at." Cherry noted.
"Awesome, Dad!" Hank cheered.
While everyone was looking on, Wayne snuck over and pantsed Griffin.
"Kids, why did you do that?" he asked, feigning innocence.
Griffin shrieked and pulled his pants up. "I was just... In the pool! The water's cold..." he said, embarrassed, as everyone laughed. "...DON'T JUDGE ME!"
"Ohhhh, I get it." Lionel nodded, as the joke dawned on him.
"Poor Invisible Man..." Cherry tutted and shook her head. "What can ya do when there are troublemaking kids running about?" she then lightly chuckled.
"Yeah... I can't imagine what it'd be like if we had kids." Lionel replied.
"Yeah... Really..." Cherry nodded with a smirk before she looked away bashfully and nervously.
Dracula soon came close by and panicked since his mortal guest was getting wet and his make-up was starting to wash off. "Johnny! Your make-up. Your make-up!" he then warned before calling to him, grabbing him by his arm. "Time-out. Now."
One of the other swimming monsters then bumped Dracula, making the vampire splash down into the water below the others in the water.
"Oh, man! I guess the Count wanted to go for a swim." Johnny shrugged to the others with a small smile.
Dracula was soon under the water and panicked until he looked around, trying to see what to do until he saw the drain plug at the bottom of the pool.
Johnny was then lifted up by the giant tentacle, high in the air like Frank earlier and soon leapt right down. "Cannonball!" he then called out.
Eunice was soon helping reattach her husband back together and the werewolf pup litter then began to see that the water was draining in the pool suddenly. Johnny panicked once he saw that he would have a very fatal landing if he ended up in the pool and panicked before Dracula was shown, then snapped his fingers to stop Johnny in mid-air, then brought out Blobby the Slime Monster down as a cushion and soon unfroze Johnny and then stepped back. Johnny then landed right into Blobby and splatted a bit before he gave a thumb's up to Dracula who then had an exasperated look on his face after the squishy landing.
"I didn't know vampires could do that." Lionel said to Cherry.
"I didn't know myself actually..." Cherry remarked, a bit shocked.
"But it's pretty honkin' awesome!" Lionel exclaimed, his eyes wide with astonishment. "I guess there are powers you have that aren't fully uncovered...!"
"Hmm... Maybe I should do a little research while we still have this time together before we go back to Greendale." Cherry pondered as she smirked and glanced at her fingertips in wide wonder of what else she could be capable of as a vampire-in-training since she wasn't born a vampire like Dracula or Mavis.
"Sure, it couldn't hurt!" Lionel chimed in.
"Heh... Let's experiment a little..." Cherry smirked. "Care to join me?"
"But of course!" Lionel grinned.
"All right... Let's go on a self-finding journey then." Cherry replied.
"Right!" Lionel beamed, as the both of them poofed back into their hotel room.
While that was going on, Dracula soon took Johnny over to the cemetery to have a private talk after the pool incident.
"Oh, you messed up, man," Dracula complained to the mortal. "You messed up big time. I told you to take it down. You'll ruin my hotel if they find out."
"Well, maybe you're just jealous that people are finally making fun of this place." Johnny retorted a bit smugly.
"Oh, that? That was not fun," Dracula scoffed. "Everyone running, jumping, swimming with no order. That was the opposite of fun."
"...Do you even know what fun is?" Johnny asked.
"I invented fun!" Dracula retorted.
"Boy, the wrong people get to be immortal." Johnny rolled his eyes.
"Look at me," Dracula began to demand as he covered himself with his cloak, looking into Johnny's eyes with flashing hellish red eyes. "You remember nothing of this encounter. You have no memory of this place or the monsters you met. Now go and never return." he then commanded.
Johnny's eyes looked wide and red, seeming like he was going to fall for it until he snapped out of it rather quickly. "Wait, never return to the hotel?" he then asked.
"What? You were supposed to forget the hotel!" Dracula glared as it didn't seem to work. "I just used my powers to erase your memory. I looked straight into your eyes!"
"Huh. Oh, maybe it's the contact lenses." Johnny said before he stretched his eyelid a bit to poke around his eye a bit.
"What?!" Dracula snapped.
"These little plasticky doodads that help me see better," Johnny said, adjusting his eye as best as he could. "Here, let me just try and get them out real quick."
"Oh, that is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen!" Dracula grimaced as even HE had some standards.
"Almost got it." Johnny then said.
"Stop doing that! Please stop doing that! Fingers away from the eyeballs! Enough! Listen to me," Dracula complained before making him stop as he glared at the mortal one last time. "You are never to return here. You are to stay away and never tell humans about this place or I will track you down and suck every ounce of blood from your body until you look like a deflated whoopee cushion! Be gone." he then forced before turning into a bat and disappeared into the night in frustration.
"Ugh... I can't believe I'm leaving, man!" Johnny groused as he stomped off through the cemetery. "That could've been so great! That dude ruined everything! Suck MY blood...shoulda just told 'im, 'I'm stayin', old man!'" he did a bunch of goofy kung-fu poses. "Given 'im a Bruce Lee kick, BOOM! Right in the-AAAAAH!" he screamed as he saw a bat flapping nearby.
Fortunately, it was just Mavis. The vampire girl changed herself back and smirked a little as she sat on top of a headstone next to him.
"Oh..." Johnny smiled a little before he stood up and settled down, though leaned back as Mavis hopped down and leaned right into him to examine him.
"Follow me." Mavis quietly told Johnny before dashing off suddenly.
"Oh... no... No, Mavis. I can't," Johnny told her in regret. "I have to leave."
"You sure? It'll be fun." Mavis replied.
"...Okay." Johnny then gave in and followed her inside somewhere new in the cemetery as Cherry and Lionel flew by as bats in the background, doing their own thing.
"Those kids are into each other. I can feel it." Cherry remarked.
"Yeah," Lionel agreed. "Anyone could see it!"
"Pretty sure soon, we'll be hearing 'Grampa Drac' or something like that from Baby Bats." Cherry chuckled as Johnny and Mavis continued to explore.
Johnny and Mavis continued before Mavis stopped as she looked up at something in the endless midnight blue sky while Johnny attempted to hide around.
"He's not gonna see me, is he?" Johnny asked nervously before he found Mavis on the rooftop and looked all around in amazement. "Whoa."
They were on the rooftop and looked all around them as they were very high up and the view looked amazing, especially in the night sky.
"Wow, would you look at the view from up here?" Johnny smiled as he stepped out onto the roof before yelping as he nearly slipped, but luckily he caught himself before he safely walked down a bit more. "You could almost see Budapest." he then added.
"Who-da-pest? Is that near Ha-WiFi?" Mavis asked curiously.
"Huh? Oh, you mean Hawaii," Johnny replied before he came to sit on the rooftop with her. "Yeah, that place is a knock-out. I just went to a music festival there."
"A human music festival?" Mavis asked nervously.
"Uh, I believe so." Johnny said with a nod.
"So, did they all bite your toes and shove garlic bread in your face?" Mavis then asked, fearing about his experience.
"No," Johnny said to her before shrugging. "Well, one dude took a bigger bite out of my energy bar than I expected, but I blame that on the heat." he then added.
"It's amazing. You've been everywhere." Mavis said, very impressed.
"Well, you know, what's the alternative? Just staying at home, never exploring, never seeing what's out there?" Johnny said to her. "I'm only gonna be 121 once, right? Got to live it."
"Yeah." Mavis nodded.
"Oh, man. The sunrise from here must be 'amaze'." Johnny then said as he looked out into the sky as he saw the sun slowly coming up.
"Ow!" Mavis yelped as some sunlight hit her foot and she scooted back so that she wouldn't burn from the sunlight.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Johnny frowned at her before he realized something. "Man, you've probably never even seen a sunrise, have you?"
"No, not really," Mavis shook her head. "Why?"
Johnny then looked thoughtful before smiling. "Come on. I have an idea," he then said before he brought her over to a safer distance away from the sun, but also where they could watch the sunrise together easier. "Watch." he then told her so that she could see in a way that wouldn't hurt her.
Mavis looked at him before looking out with him in amazement at the sunrise and Johnny smiled as they shared this experience together.
"You gotta love these tender moments." Lionel commented.
"They really are nice," Cherry remarked. "I dunno how it'll work out in the middle so far, but I'm sure Mavis and Johnny will be just fine in time for the end."
"True," nodded Lionel. "Although in the middle will be plenty of difficulties in between!"
"Oh, no doubt," Cherry rolled her eyes before nodding. "You know how these types of stories can go, especially with a father, his daughter, and her new guy friend. I never had that trouble with Atticus, though... We never pursued each other romantically like that."
"Even though a lot of people assumed otherwise," Lionel remarked. "Luckily, fate took a different turn!"
"Tell me about it," Cherry smirked. "Now back to work for us."
And then, the duo continued to fly around in their bat forms to enjoy the rest of the night before they would head in as the sunrise would soon cover the atmosphere, bringing everyone a brand new day.
"So, what do you wanna do today?" Cherry asked. "I think Dracula said there was a sauna around the hotel somewhere that's powered by dragon breath... Hopefully it doesn't smell like it."
"That sounds like it could be pretty nifty," Lionel replied. "At least we kinda get a break from life-or-death adventuring stuff here. This is more of a relatively mild escapade."
"I'm sure something will come by later on, but yeah, I quite like it too," Cherry nodded. "Especially when the vacation ends up being a random and crazy misadventure on the spot..." she then muttered. "Not very fond of those."