Chapter 8: Plans of Destruction
It was everyone's first night at sea. It took a while for the guests to check in their rooms before they started to have fun. An audience of monsters gathered together to hear the fish men band play. In addition to dancing, other activities were happening all around the cruise.
Outside on the deck, Andrei and Monica sat at a bar sipping martinis, relaxing and gazing at each other romantically. Lydia was sitting in lounge chairs nearby, and a group of old witch ladies lounged by the pool. Diane was seated in a nest beside Lydia's chair, sipping on a cool drink and sighing peacefully.
"Ahh..." Andrei inhaled the fresh night air deeply. "This is the most peaceful night of my entire life."
Suddenly a familiar blue-skinned vampire strolled by, wearing a skimpy man-like swim trunks, and it displayed the blue man's slightly chubby stomach, making the human couple feel disturbed as they stared after him in silent shock.
"And now it's over," Andrei sighed.
One of the witches tipped her sunglasses down to get a good look at the old man who casually strolled by and was humming to himself. The witches sat up from their lounge chairs and gawked like a bunch of dreamy school girls gushing over a gorgeous jock.
It was Vlad, who had walked past Ericka's brother's and sisters and the witches, chuckling and puffed out his chest to show off his once muscular now slightly chubby figure, looking like a high school jock who had been working out at the gym, or rather he used to in his youth.
"Ugh, father. Cover yourself." An appalled Lydia shielded her eyes, embarrassed by her father exposing himself, while Diane's jaw-like beak dropped open and clucked, 'Eww.'
"Oh hush, Lydia. You should be proud you have a father who's still got it!" Vlad set his towel down onto an empty chair, leaning over enough to give the witches a clear view of his bottom.
"Yummy!" one of the witches flirted as she gazed at Vlad's rear end.
Vlad did some stretches just to impress the witches with his figure, and settled into his chair to relax and enjoy the evening. He wiggled his toes at the witches, flirting with them, causing the witches to giggle.
"Yeesh!" Lydia groaned, turning away to relax and not be embarrassed by her father.
Other monsters were playing a game that swung a club to hit a disc until it slides over to the drawn out silhouette of a man from white chalk, which sort of resembled the kind of chalk-drawn silhouette of men murdered on a crime scene.
The kids played with multiple activities; Luna , Dennis, Diavolo , Evan and Winnie squealed with exhilaration as they flew inside the Ripcord tubes. Dennis and Martha's cousins, Luna's cousins, and Molly's children all splashed joyously at a water park playground. The older kids Hank, Pedro, Billy and Klaus played basketball at a small basketball court against the girls; Wendy, Alex, Arianna, Cindy,Charlotte and Sophie. Charlotte and Sophie beat the boys thanks to their werewolf speed and agility, having inherited from their Uncle Wayne, much to the boys' dismay.
The adults were doing find as well; Rose and Molly rode the flowrider, but it ended when poor Molly lost his balance and fell off, taking Rose with her. Johnny's brothers rode the zipline that flew over the entire ship, followed after by Johnny's sister afterword. Mike and Linda were dining at an outdoor restaurant. Dr. Gillman and Gene were playing a racecar X-Box video game inside the deck at SeaPlex.
As for Blobby, he was on deck leaning against the railing, feeling seasick. He turned the color purple, until he finally threw up... a little blob. The baby blob happily hugged his new father, cooing, "Papa."
Meanwhile, the exhausted Wayne ,Wanda ,Eunice and Frank were walking across the deck with all their crying and rowdy pups and baby stein while in their multiple baby carriers, until they all discovered a doorway with a colorful sign that said KIDS CLUB.
"Kids club? What's a kid's club?" Wayne wondered.
When they peeked in, they saw monster children or toddlers having fun, sliding a kiddie slide or climbing a little kiddie playground or crawling through a tunnel. A fish man employee picked up the toddler and placed him in a kiddie pen with other monster children.
Wayne didn't understand what was going on, but he,Frank, Eunice and Wanda walked inside anyway.
"Fish!" Sunny and Gina squeaked at the fish man worker.
"That's right, dears," Wanda,Eunice calmly shushed their babies .
"I'm still not sure I understand," Wayne told the kids club worker, who was at the sign-in desk. "You take my kids and Frank's kid, all day, on purpose?"
"Fish!" said Sunny and Gina.
"That's right," the fish man replied. "What exactly don't you understand?"
"Why?" Wayne,Frank questioned, but he howled "Owww!" when Wanda, Eunice elbowed them in the ribs.
"So they can have a great time and you can have a great time," the fish man explained.
"Fish!" Sunny and Gina cooed.
Wayne started to cry tears of joy at the idea of leaving his kids at a kiddie club so he and his wife can enjoy some alone time together.
The fish man didn't understand why the werewolf cried, he thought Wayne was honestly sad. "Don't worry. You get them back at the end of the day."
The news was disappointing, and it displayed when Wayne's expression fell.
"Fish!" repeated Sunny and Gina.
"Ok" said Frank and Eunice put Gina in a baby swing and they kissed her on her cheeks before they said good bye.
"Oh, well. It's better than nothing," Wayne said. He gave a loud whistle, and the fish man's jaw dropped as the huge tidal wave of wolf pups rushed in, knocking over the fish employees.
The werewolf parents left the Kids Club alone, stunned at their good fortune. Behind them, on the other side of the glass doors, the wave of wolf pups were already making a mess and terrorizing the fish workers.
Wayne stared off into space, but still spoke to his wife. "So, what do we do now?"
"I think... I think... we do whatever we want?" Wanda replied, but she wasn't sure what to do as she kept staring off into space.
"Whatever... we... want," Wayne said.
"Whatever... we... want," Wanda repeated.
The werewolf couple grew giant maniacal grins as the realization dawned on them when they understood that they were finally free. The continue repeating "Whatever we want!" over and over again excitedly.
In the Kids Club, the poor fish workers tried to escape from the insane wolf pups, crawling to the door while shouting, "Aaah! Stop! Help me!" But he was dragged back inside by the little ravenous wolf pups.
Down below the Kids Club balcony, Captain Eunuch was checking up on the Hydraberg monster and a few other guests.
"Oh, hi. Hello," the Captain greeted politely. "How are you all doing?'
"Good evening, Captain," said one of the male heads of the Hydraberg.
Eunuch was briefly startled, but she gave a friendly smile. "Oh, well, hello. Oh, my goodness." She scooched over to give him space, but she bumped into the Hydra's tail. "Would you mind, uh... lifting, uh... lifting your tail? You know?"
"Oh, certainly." The Hydraberg lifted their tail up, allowing Eunuch to pass through.
"Okay, thank you so much," Eunuch said.
Through the crowd of partying monsters and humans, a wondering Danny spotted his beloved Eunuch in the distance.
"There she is!" he whispered to himself. Checking himself in a small hand mirror, Danny straightened out his red hair to make sure it wasn't messy. He checked his teeth to see if no fangs were growing, thankfully they weren't. He tossed a breath mint in his mouth so his breath wouldn't stink. And finally he gave his hair a quick comb to make sure it didn't look like a rat's nest.
Danny took a deep breath. "Alright, mate. Get yourself together. You can do this." Then he started to walk coolly through the crowd of monsters to reach Eunuch, whom he saw go off to a corner of the ship, so he followed her.
"Welcome aboard," Eunuch greeted Harry Three-Eye, before making sure he left as she snuck into a hidden passageway in the wall.
The second Danny made it to the corner, he was stunned that she was gone. Danny was confused, he could've swear that he saw her go through here. "Where could she have gone - whoa!" He had leaned against the wall, but turns out the wall he was leaning on was the secret passageway and he fell threw it.
Picking himself up, Danny noticed Eunuch climbing down a staircase tunnel. He decided to follow her, but at a distance so not to startle her. The more he trailed her, the more the light in the tunnels grew darker with only bits of light to guide his path. Eunuch rounded a corner, her face grim in the scarlet light. Later, Danny peered out from the corner to watch her go, then continued his pursuit. She climbed down a ladder and walked down a corridor. He came afterword, stealthy and quietly as a mouse. Danny didn't know where she was going or why she would go down deeper in the bowels of the cruise ship, but he still had his heart set on courting her. Reaching the home base, Eunuch slid down a pole to approach a secretive doorway that she snuck and made her way into a hidden stateroom.
The room was dark and old with wood paneling, and on the walls were framed clippings of Van Helsing and his exploits of hunting down or destroying monsters, but there were multiple yellow pieces of paper attached to a board where red lines were connected to the name ATLANTIS on a map, followed by a few destinations the ship will stop at before traveling to Atlantis.
Once inside the room, Eunuch's cheerful, friendly and flirty demeanor had faded when the mask removed itself to expose her true persona; cruel, cunning and power-hungry. "Ugh! You were so not right, Great-Grandfather." She gazed up at the portrait of Abraham Van Helsing, whom she happened to be his descendant. "Monsters aren't disgusting!" Eunuch punched the air with her fists, indicating she wanted to not beat up the monsters.
A shadowed figure spoke in the room. " But they're animals!" When he emerged into the light, the figure was none other than the real Abraham Van Helsing, the oldest man in the world. His body operated in an old-fashioned machine wheelchair, it was steam operated with a machine helped him breathe and stay alive.
Pullin a lever, the old man used his machine-like wheelchair to approach his great-granddaughter Eunuch, who folded her arms and waited impatiently. "I'll be right there!" shouted Van Helsing. Struggling with his incredibly slow wheelchair to try making it go faster.
Witnessing this dark secret from a crack in the doorway, Danny felt his evil grin spread across face. "Eunuch is a Van Helsing? And she hates Dracula as much as much as I do!" His quiet tone became cheerful. "YES!" Danny pumped a victory fist in the air, thrilled that the woman he likes hates the vampire as well. This mission had just gotten better than he thought it would.
However, he realized too late he had leaned in too far and the door swung open, and Danny landed on the floor with a thump. When Eunuch and Van Helsing heard the loud thud on the ground, they whirled their heads around to see what caused it. Whom they both saw was Danny on the ground, chuckling awkwardly at his entrance.
"SPY!" Eunuch shrieked, lunging forward to pounce on him.
Tumbling on the floor, a flash of red and white collided together as Eunuch threw her arms around Danny's neck in a chokehold. The man in red didn't know what to do at first. He liked her, but he didn't want to hurt her or get hurt by her. Danny struggled to get out of his aggressor's grip, but to no avail.
"How did you find us?! What are you here for?!" Eunuch interrogated him angrily.
Thinking fast, Danny used his right elbow to strike her in the stomach, causing Eunuch let go of him as she cried out in pain. The Captain grasped her stomach at the harsh pain he brought her. She had never been beaten by a man in her life, but she had quite enough of him and wanted to lock him up before he could tell anyone her identity. Eunuch tried to punch or kick him, but Danny maneuvered side to side with incredible speed and agility, catching hold of her arms and pinned her body against the wall, his face leaning extremely closer to her own.
"I could do all sorts of things to you with your back to the wall," Danny snarked, causing the Captain's eyes to widen.
"ENOUGH!" A bitter male's voice ended the quarrel immediately.
Danny and Eunuch glanced over in the direction of the voice. Van Helsing, having gone silent over watching his great-granddaughter fighting the intruder, snapped his head in toward the shadows.
"Eunuch , calm down. That's just my grandson, Danny . He's with us." Quincy calmly emerged from the shadowy corner of the room.
Quincy Parker had aged over the years as much as his wife Celia did, but looking as old as Vlad or Abraham that didn't mean he had blue skin; his face wrinkled, his entire head was bald, a snow white thin moustache connected to a small white beard, and his eyes red and his figure still muscular as ever as a result of the vampire's blood his aging slowed but still kept him aging like any human being. He wore a dark coat with its collar resembling a vampire's caped collar, his clothing attire looked to be late 19th century style, complete with a dark shirt with a red tie, dark gray trousers, a belt, and sharp brown shoes. He was joined afterward by his nephew, Charles, James Quinston, his two lackeys Harper and Levon, and finally a middle-aged bitter Kitty Cartwright.
Charles Parker was a tall middle aged man, his attire was a cream-colored vest with a crimson shirt and slender tie and trousers, pale skin just like his Quincy, his short gray hair was arranged in what people could only describe as a well-maintained mullet, his eyes a golden amber, and the look in his eyes told not only he was strict but very caring toward his nephew. He appeared to be the same age as Andrei.
And last but not least, a young girl about twelve or thirteen years of age, short ginger red hair in thick curly buns, dull green eyes, her attire a white sleeveless shirt and wavy green skirt and white high socks and yellow slip on shoes, stood close beside Kitty Cartwright. This was Nosepicker all grown up, and not entirely pleased to be in the presence of these people. Everyone separated in the room to give each other space for the meeting. The symbol of a bat impaled by a crucifix imprinted on a flag was hung up on the wall, indicating that these people are monster haters and monster hunters, all whom share grudges against monsters.
"Wait a second! Quincy Parker is your grandfather?!" Eunuch gasped in disbelief, surprised that this man was the guy she was supposed to meet earlier was also the descendant of her great-grandfather's godson.
"Pretty much," Danny confirmed as he unpinned her from the wall. "Your great-grandpa was my grandpa's godfather, so I guess this means we're all family here, Love."
"So, I've taken that the two of you have already met," snickered James .
"Ugh! Yes,James ," Eunuch greeted the muscular man annoyingly.
"You know each other?" Danny demanded.
"Of course, she's my cousin after all," James stated in a smug tone.
"She's the cousin that I was supposed to meet?!" Danny yelled in disbelief, stunned to hear that Eunuch was James's cousin, which makes James a Van Helsing by relative.
"Yeah, how could you not have known that? My late mother was a Van Helsing! I mean, she's the only human that works on this ship, I told you that! Are you so dumb to not have realized it!" James insulted him, provoking the red-headed man to attack him when...
"QUIET!" Quincy snarled at them, his teeth bared two sharp fangs in his mouth, causing several people in the room to draw back in fear. Calming himself down, Parker inhaled deeply, the fangs resumed to their normal blunt teeth. "Now, I take it everyone is present and accounted for?"
Voices murmured in acknowledgement.
"AHEM!" Clearing his throat loudly, Quincy started the meeting. "Thank you all for coming to the Legacy. As you know, we are here to destroy those monsters who have plagued and corrupted our planet. But you must lie low until we reach our destination; Atlantis. And the one monster you need to be careful around here is Count Dracula."
Boos and jeers sounded at the mention of the vampire's name, except for Nosepicker, her arms folded. Everyone started arguing with each other on how to kill Dracula.
"We should capture him and burn him!" Kitty shouted.
"No, we should shoot him with silver bullets!" Harper argued.
"That's for werewolves!" Kitty retorted annoyingly.
"Let's drown him in garlic oil!" added Levon.
Awkward silence filled the room followed by a cricket chirping.
Kitty and Harper just gawked at him thinking, 'That's a dumb idea!'
"We did give Vlad and his daughter a little scare a couple nights ago," sneered Harper, "but I wish we could've finished them off."
"Dracula... is he on board?" Van Helsing asked his great-granddaughter first.
"Yes, I saw him face-to-face," Eunuch assured him, groaning, while grasping her head, "Ugh! I was nice to him! That pale face of his, and his goofy smile, showing off his fangs. But then his wife, a human, shot up in my face and looked at me like I wanted to steal him from her! Ugh! It's just like you taught me."
"You have no idea what it's like to pretend to be friendly to Dracula. He's got a hotel that looks like a castle, hidden within the mountains and a piranha-infested lake. He's got a human wife and two hybrid children!" Danny agreed, shaking his head dismissively. "His giant dog almost attacked me and they nearly killed us in a plane piloted by gremlins! But the juicy piece of news is the humans on the plane were terrified and Mr. Van Helsing blamed Dracula's daughter for almost killing them! And now, they've gone back to being friendly with each other like it never happened."
"Maybe it wasn't that bad," Nosepicker tried to reason calmly. "Everyone probably thought it was a roller coaster ride."
All eyes were fixed on the young girl as if she had grown a second head.
"Young lady, if you were on that plane, you could be seriously injured in a crash by those disgusting creatures!" Kitty Cartwright hollered, infuriated that her own daughter would say such a thing.
"But..." Nosepicker wanted a say in this, but her mother clapped a hand over her mouth.
"No buts!" Kitty reprimanded.
Rage and shouts of disbelief echoed in the room.
"Be quiet, Mrs. Cartwright!" Quincy shouted, easing the tenseness in the room.
"It's even worse than we feared," Celia lamented, upset and disappointed. "The world is falling apart. Monsters and people mixing with each other. Where does it end?"
"If the humans can't be brought to their senses, those traitors will have to be destroyed with the monsters! It's just like how you taught us, father!" Vincent declared, earning a tremendous roar of approval from the crowd.
"He's even worse than I did. If I couldn't defeat him in my prime, how could you even stand a chance?" Van Helsing paused, flashbacking to two centuries ago.
After landing in the water beneath the cliff, a fuming Van Helsing screamed, muffled, his frustration at his failure. An anchor attached to a rope hit him on the head. Confused, Abraham took the rope and got pulled up to the surface. He was surprised to see it was a fourteen year old Quincy Parker and Leon Van Helsing who had come to rescue him.
"It was that fateful night that I realized a human could never defeat a monster," the old man explained. "But I was saved from drowning by my oldest rival, Leon, and my godson, Quincy."
After hauled to shore, Leon explained why he had had come down to help him after his failed ambush against Dracula, nodding respectfully at him. Abraham and Leon shook hands to propose a partnership. The trio hated monsters and determined to wipe them clean off the earth for good. Quincy was given a friendly tussle in the hair by his Godfather.
Taking them back to his manor, Abraham walked past a long line of old family members going back generations. "But I wouldn't let our family legacy die. And so I began... to search for an answer."
A little later, Quincy assisted the two men in looking through the books of his godfather's library. "I dug deep in the annals of history... then I saw it... in an ancient text! An Instrument of Destruction. So powerful, it destroyed Atlantis, a whole city of monsters. And laired deep within new runwood lane, waiting." Abraham found what he was looking for in the history of Atlantis and he showed it off to Quincy and Leon, the entire group grinning in success.
Since the device was in the rubble of Atlantis, Abraham had used an old map to Atlantis's location, hoping to find it. "Thus began my quest. Endlessly, I searched for the lost city."
"Time passed, and my body began to fail me." Van Helsing gazed upon himself in the mirror at his reflection. "Oh, it was so fragile. First, my liver then my spleen. Followed by a kidney or two. And my good looks. Oooh! But I wouldn't let that stop me. I replaced my failing organs with technology. And look at me now!"
"Mmm-hmm." Eunuch mumbled, not even caring about her great-grandfather's backstory, especially everybody else in the room.
"Oh, girl, it's an improvement, really." Van Helsing scowled.
"Um... sure." Ericka sighed.
"After a hundred and twenty years, I have finally found Atlantis!" Van Helsing announced proudly.
After Van Helsing finished explaining his plan, Quincy haughtily scoffed at his idea, "Yeah right, like that'll work."
"And what do you mean by that?" Van Helsing asked angrily.
"Well, if this plan is anything like all your other ones, Godfather, it will fail miserably!" Quincy smugly stated.
"Oh yeah, well do you have a better plan to kill Dracula?" Van Helsing questioned.
"As a matter of fact I do!" Quincy claimed as he started to explain his plan. "Daniel has provided us with valuable information since he befriended the monsters, especially since we heard from him that Dracula has claimed a new human wife!" The old man cued Daniel to share more on that info with everyone.
Daniel stood up straight. "Oh, uh, her name is Ericka Van Helsing . She's the sister of Andrei Van Helsing and married Count Dracula eight years ago. This is what she looks like!" He reached in his suit for the picture of Ericka to show them, taken a photo of her from the prickly monster wedding. He handed the iPhone to his grandfather for him to see. But then the iPhone is swiped away by Levon, whom began commenting on how hot Ericka is, letting out a wolf whistle.
"Y'all see this? Dracula might be a monster who cursed your family, but you have to admit he has great taste in women, especially her." Levon exclaimed. "It's no wonder her maiden name, Belmont, means beauty! She was the beauty back in high school!"
But the chubby man noticed everyone else was staring at them confusingly or annoyingly, especially a jealous James.
"We're not talking about Ericka's good looks, you idiot!" Harper scolded them, while he turned to Quincy.
Levon's chuckles become awkward, then he handed the iPhone back to a fuming Quincy. "Sorry," he apologized meekly.
And when Quincy got a good look at the picture of Ericka , his eye twitched a little. Because when he saw her face, she had a close resemblance that reminded him of Dracula's first wife, Martha Lubov, minus the different hair color and eye color. "She has little resemblance to the Lady Lubov." He thought this over quietly. "Could it be possible that she married Dracula because she's his wife's reincarnation?" But Quincy shook his head, believing it to be impossible. "No, it's impossible." He decided to think about it later, returning the iPhone to Danny .
"Listen up, here's the rest of the plan!" Quincy bellowed loud enough to gain their attention. "During my years of plotting revenge on Dracula, I discovered a legend of an orb that lies in the ruins of Machu Picchu. Legend says that whoever obtains the orb will be given abilities beyond imaginable!" He displayed a photo of the orb, a grayish round object with carvings, on the board for all to see.
"How will we get there, Mr. Harker?" questioned Harper.
Quincy picked up a knife from the wooden table. "We will make a stop at Machu Picchu, on the pretense that the ship needs to refuel. That will give my grandsons time to search the ruins and find the orb! And once we have it we will use that, along with this device in Atlantis, and Dracula's wife, to destroy Count Dracula FOREVER!" At those last words, Quincy threw the dagger straight toward a torn picture of Dracula, its blade piercing the vampire's nose, earning him a brief moment of silence of fearful stares.
"Excuse me, question... why do you need to use her against Dracula?" Kitty raised a hand, doubtful about using Dracula's human wife in their plot.
Leaning against her face in a threatening manner, Quincy sneered, "I want to be sure that we are victorious. I want to use someone special against Dracula. When I heard about this human girl, it all came together." He backed up as the frightened Kitty backed up against the wall. "Besides, it would be a bonus to my revenge. He turned my mother against humanity, so I want to turn his wife against him, so he can feel my pain!"
"But you still haven't told us how you plan to do that. How will you convince her to help kill Dracula?" Danny questioned.
"All in good time, dear, all in good time," instructed Celia. "We'll tell you everything. Right now, we need you and Eunuch to work together and keep an eye on Dracula! Got it?"
"Wait a minute! What about us? Or me?" James objected, and a chorus of groans and disappointments agreed with him.
"You can't risk being seen!" Quincy severely silenced the objections, immediately shutting them up. "Everyone will remain below deck until we reach Atlantis!"
"You know I'm not comfortable at being stuck in a room with half-vampires... and I don't want my little girl sharing the same cabin with either of you!" Kitty snapped, seething at the Parker relatives who shot her dirty looks, as she protectively held Nosepicker in her arms, much to her daughter's dismay.
"What other choice do you have, lady?" Charles snorted. "In case you haven't noticed, none of us are fond of being half-vampires, so why don't you get your own cabin with your kid?"
However, Eunuch was so impatient that she was intently focused on killing the vampire, thinking the plan was ridiculous, trying to protest, "Oh! Forget about all this! Let me get rid of Dracula right now! I was so close to him, I could have just-"
"You will do no such thing, until we reach Atlantis!" Quincy tugged on her arm, which seemed to make Ericka cringe at the pain of this old man's strength as he twisted the Captain's arm. When he let go her arm, Eunuch massaged her arm while Quincy addressed to the rest of the group, "And that goes for all of you!"
Groans of disappointment rung in the air, whining like a couple of little kids.
"But can't I just-" Ericka protested.
"No, no, no, no!" Van Helsing's face shot up in her's, his robotic neck stretching outward to meet her at eye level. "We have to stick to the plan. Lure the monsters to Machu Picchu, steal the orb, lure them to Atlantis, retrieve the Instrument of Destruction, trap them there, and then flush them out! With both devices, we'll destroy them all. It's temporary now. Now, promise me. You won't try to kill Dracula," he ordered.
Eunuch pouted like a child, but she had no choice. Everyone in the room was against her wishes. "Ugh! Fine, I promise."
"Danny ..." Quincy turned to his third grandchild, threateningly towering over him and the female stein Captain. "That goes for you, too. Promise me you won't try to kill Dracula again. I mean it!"
"Yes, Grandfather," Danny obeyed, sighing disappointedly.
"Promise what?" The two elderly grandfathers nudged their adult grandchildren, giving them stern expressions.
Eunuch and Danny exchanged irritated looks before giving in, blurting in union, "I promise I won't try to kill Dracula. Okay?!"
"Good. Meeting's adjured!" Quincy hollered, and the entire clan of monster-haters single filed out of the room to go further below deck.
Everyone exited the room retiring to their private family chambers to rest. Quincy and Celia retired to their private chambers. Van Helsing had fallen asleep since the nap meter dial on his chair moved to full blast, beginning to snore. However, those two monster hunters were not ones for keeping promises as malicious smirks crept on their faces.
"Sorry, old man, but I don't like to keep promises," Danny said cunningly, making sure the old man was asleep and nobody else was around.
"Don't worry, Great-Grandfather," Eunuch whispered softly, smirking devilishly. "I won't try to kill him. I will kill him."