Chapter 9: Death Dance & Monsterball
"I WILL KILL HER!" Ericka yelled as she rampaged back and forth in her room, making her husband worry. "Who does the captain think she is, flirting with you like that! Oh look at me, I'm the captain of a cruise and I can speak different languages. I'm so impressive, I like married men. BLEH!" She imitated her own version of Eunuch , mocking her with the utmost insult.
Luna had picked out her swimsuit from her kiddie carry-on luggage when she happened to overhear her parents arguing and she immediately grew concerned. Diavolo sat on the bed, gnawing on a voodoo doll to amuse him.
"Please, Dark Angel, calm down. It was probably nothing," Dracula soothed her, trying to calm her down.
"I'm telling you, Drac, there is something suspicious about her!" Ericka's eyes narrowed, suspiciously distrustful of that woman, before turning her gaze at him to call him out, "Especially around you!"
"Don't worry, Honeyfang, nothing is gonna happen."
"Oh yeah, what about when you went all googly eyes around her?"
"Blood Jewel, I'm telling you that was nothing, besides the only woman I want to be with is you!" Dracula retorted, slightly lying about the first part, hoping she would buy it.
"Fine, but... just don't be alone around her, okay!" She firmly instructed her husband. "I don't trust her with you."
"If that's what you want my darling, I'll do that." Dracula agreed, calmly approaching his wife and embraced her to ease her concern.
Feeling his masculine gentle arms around her body, Ericka caved in and returned the embrace. In the midst of their hug, Ericka noticed her daughter struggling to get her swimsuit on while sitting on the couch. So Ericka broke apart from the hug with her husband and came over to help Luna.
"Here sweetie, let me help you," Ericka offered, trying to help Luna fix her straps on her swimsuit.
But Luna held out her hand, saying, "No thanks, Mommy. I can do it myself." Able to figure it out all on her own, she was able to fix the straps perfectly.
This impressed Ericka surprisingly. Her little girl was able to fix her swimsuit without help. "Well, aren't you a big girl now," she chuckled, picking up her daughter and happily hugged her. "You're growing up so fast!"
But when Dracula heard that, he wasn't entirely happy. "No! Don't say that!" He immediately scooped up Melany from his wife's hands. "I want her to remain my little girl forever." Then Dracula started giving little kisses on his daughter's head.
"Daddy, heh-heh. Stop it!" Luna protested to her father while slaughing from those ticklish kisses.
Ericka just rolled her eyes and smiled at this adorable moment Dracula was doing with Luna. Then Ericka took her daughter away from Dracula and set her down on the bed close beside her baby brother. "If Luna does get older, we still have Diavolo ," she gestured to the baby tugging on his big sister's hair much to her chagrin, until his father stopped him.
"But what if Diavolo grows up?" Dracula pouted cutely. "I want him to remain my little boy forever."
"You know, if they do get older maybe we can have even more kids. How's about that?" Ericka playfully stroked Dracula's chest, getting him all flustered.
The vampire smiled slyly and pulled her closer to him by her waist. "Maybe we can start sooner then later, Ericka ." Then he started to kiss her cheek.
"Dracky!" The brunette woman started laughing at how coy he was being with her.
But Luna wasn't enjoying seeing all the affection her parents were giving each other. "Yuck!" she groaned, being grossed out by her parents.
"Bleh!" Diavolo stuck his tongue out.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything!"
The moment came to an end when Dracula and Ericka stopped at what they were doing and turned to the person who said that, to see who it was. To their surprise, it was Molly who made the sudden intrusion.
"Seems to me that you guys finally made up." Molly grinned in a sly tone. That comment made both Ericka and Dracula blush and separate from each other. "Anyways, I got the swimsuit you requested, Ericka " she said as she handed the bag over to Ericka.
"Wait, don't you already have a swimsuit? Why do you need a new one?" A suspicious Dracula questioned his wife.
"Well I do, but I specifically got Molly to get this special bikini just for you!" Ericka replied.
Then Dracula started to get excited by this and tried to peek inside the bag. "Oooh! Can I see?" He asked, ecstatically curious about the swimsuit.
But Ericka jerked the bag away from Dracula, so he couldn't see it. "Ah, ah, ah, not yet. You'll have to wait until we get to the pool."
Then Dracula started to pout, frustrated that he has to wait to see what the special bikini is.
"Now the girls, the kids and I are going to get changed, so we'll meet at the pool." Then she picked up Diavolo, Luna ran up to the door, and Ericka went up to her husband and leaned in close enough to his face, whispering in his ear, "And be sure to wear something nice for me as well." And they left the cabin.
After they were gone, Dracula decided to get his swag on.
The song '24 Karat Magic In The Air' by Bruno Mars starts playing in the background.
He put on his black knee-high dress socks, then his white loafer shoes, white shorts, and a skull-and-flower-themed Hawaiian shirt. He still had that goofy "I'm in love" smile as he exited his cabin and started to dance through the ship making his way toward the pool.
As Dracula was strutting and dancing happily on his way to the pool, Eunuch and Danny emerged from the secret passage. But when they saw Dracula coming there way, they quickly closed the secret door and acted casual, trying not to attract attention. But Dracula didn't notice them so they were relieved and decided to take action.
Danny , being the gentleman he is, decided to let Eunuch take the first move to killing Dracula. "Ladies first," he teased.
Eunuch found an emergency flare on the wall and smirked wickedly. While she took down the flare, Dracula rain into Blobby, who jiggled his jello-like body while joining him in his fun romantic jaunt across the deck.
As the two monsters moved side by side, Eunuch kept herself hidden inside a large pipe, holding the flare. She took dead aim at the unsuspecting vampire and fired the red gun. But as luck would have it, Dracula sidestepped as part of his happy-go-lucky stride. The illuminating flare missed and hit Blobby instead. The flare exploded inside of his green body. Blobby inflated like a balloon and then deflated, not even bothered that anything had happened.
"Grrr!" Eunuch grumbled at her failure.
"My turn!" Danny got out his cross bow, already loaded with sharp wooden stakes. He carefully positioned his aim and fired a stake at the vampire.
But because of the Count's groovy dance moves, he missed. This started to get on Danny's nerves and he carelessly shoots multiple stakes at Dracula. Amazingly, Dracula avoids all of the stakes, unknowingly with his dashing jaunt while he took out a photograph of Ericka and admired her face longingly, but most of the stakes did end up in Blobby's body, who still didn't notice what was going on.
Smirking amusingly at her partner's failure, Eunuch spied a lifeboat above the oblivious Dracula. Picking up a knife, she quickly cut the rope, which caused the boat to drop hard right on onto Blobby, because he saw the boat was about to fall and he moved the naïve Dracula out of the way just in time. Blobby regained his shape, but he still had the lifeboat stuck in his head, however it didn't stop him continuing following the happily strutting Dracula.
Laughing evilly at her success, Eunuch peeked around the corner only to her horror that Dracula was still alive and still dancing. "Ugh! Darn it!" Eunuch was growing frustrated. This wasn't as easy as she'd imagined.
"You know something," Danny started to tease her. "I guess like your great-grandfather you tend to mess up constantly," he chuckled flirtatiously.
Eunuch wasn't amused at this remark and grunted irately at him.
Then it was Danny's turn to kill the vampire. He withdrew a flute-like object, along with several darts. He decided to use blow darts thinking he could knockout Dracula and get rid of him. Sticking his head out from the vent, Danny put the pipe to his lips, took a deep breath, and blew out as many darts he could shoot. But as if the angels were on his side, Dracula moved out of the way just to admire Ericka photograph and gave it a big affectionate kiss, and the darts didn't touch him. The darts accidentally hit Blobby's body, along with a fish-man waiter and he fell over, passed out.
"Heh-heh, it looks like I'm not the only one who messes up!" Smirking, Eunuch teased right back at Danny , who growled inhumanly at his failure.
Nearby, while Dracula put away his photograph of Ericka back in his shirt pocket, Eunuch commandeered an operating crane that was used to life heavy supplies in crates. Taking the controls, Eunuch harshly steered the heavy supplies right into Blobby, just missing Dracula because he paused at the railing, distracting at seeing two dolphins jumping out of the water, making him think about one day swimming and riding fish monsters with his beloved Ericka someday.
Poor Blobby was clobbered by the heavy crate and launched right off the boat. Underwater, Blobby hit the boat's propeller, and then bounced back out of the water, landing right on top of Dracula, completely absorbed in the blob's body. But the vampire didn't seem to care as he casually stepped out of the blob's body and continued with his happy-go-lucky dance.
Just as an irked Danny emerged from the corner, withdrawing his dagger and was about to throw it at the unsuspecting vampire. However, his face fell in horror when he saw the heavy crate swinging right back, due to the extreme weight. He was then hit by the crate, and the spot where Danny once stood only had his knife dangling in the air for a while until it dropped to the floor. The crimson-haired man was screaming and holding on for dear life as he went swinging over the deck. He looked like Homer Simpson on the wrecking ball and screaming hilariously.
Eunuch couldn't believe this was happening, her multiple failures at trying to kill Dracula wasn't getting her anywhere. But the second she noticed Danny , his back to the crate as he held on to the ropes that held the supplies, she gasped worriedly, "Oh heck!" and was trying to stop the crane from spinning and regain control, but nothing she does seems to work.
Poor Danny was struck by another random crane's arm, then a seagull fly right into his face before it flew off leaving him spitting feathers out of his mouth. The romantic Dracula was obviously at the faint screams, turning and danced his way across the deck as he got closer to the pool area.
Finally, Eunuch regained control of the crane and stopped it. Wiping her forehead in relief, she then went up to check on Danny to see if he was alright, but when she pulled him down from the crate, he was so dizzy with his eyeballs rolling all around in his head, gazing at the female captain with a goofy romantic grin spreading across his lips.
While he was in her arms, Danny stuttered, "Y-you're h-hot." Then he passes out in her embrace, but an annoyed Eunuch just drops him to the floor afterword.
Arriving at the pool, Dracula continued to strut further along, attracting the attention of his daughter and friends.
"Work it, Dracula!" Mavis grinned at her dad, impressed.
"You know it," Dracula replied.
"Ooh, looking good, Drac," Frank said.
"Feeling good, Frank." Dracula swung into a fancy pose.
"Look at you, so fancy," Eunice complimented.
Dracula was always known to show off, and he was really showing off his new look. 'What, this? Please."
"Ooh, dressed to impress, huh?" Murray added, hopefully.
"Impress? Oh, who do I need to impress?" Dracula's body gently swayed to the slow ending theme of 24 Karat Magic.
"I don't know, maybe Ericka!" Eunice snarked playfully, pointing at Ericka's picture sticking out of Dracula's shirt pocket.
Dracula noticed at what she was pointing at and started to blush. He tucked away the picture in his shirt pocket while coolly laughing. "What? Is it a bad thing to dress up for my wife?"
"No," Murray responds. "Unless, you're doing it for someone else."
Hearing this, Dracula just stared at him angerly, "No, there is no else I want but my beloved Ericka !"
"Hey, isn't that Captain Eunuch?" Griffin jokingly pointed over in the far corner of the deck.
Hearing that particular name, Dracula instantly spun around and peeked, even though she wasn't there, he tried to hide under the deck chair pillow. "Ohhhh! Oh, no, no, no!" Dracula mumbled in terror.
"Oops, no, not her," Griffin chortled.
All of the other monsters found it amusing, but Dracula was a mess. He crawled out from under the deck chair pillow, with an awkward grin on his face, and slumped back onto the chair. "Hehe... Yes, yes, very amusing... Uhh, ah... hehe... imagine my wife's reaction if she knew..."
At the mention of Ericka , the other monsters became quiet. They felt bad for teasing the vampire while he was in a crisis over how to deal with the Eunuch situation.
"Sorry, Drac. You know it's just that we've never seen you like this," Frank apologized sincerely.
"I know." Dracula had found his voice, upsettingly. "It doesn't make any sense. I mean, before thought you can't zing twice, but I did with Ericka and I was happy. But you can't zing thrice! It's impossible! But I did, so now what?" Suddenly Dracula realized something else. "Huh, and what about Mavis and Luna ?" He gasped, scared at how his daughters would feel if they heard about their dad possibly falling for someone else beside their mother.
"If you explain it to them, maybe they'll try and help you fix this." Murray suggested. "They'd want you to be happy with the family. And I'm sure they'll go with the flow."
"Oh, no, no, no!" Dracula panicked, remembering the scowl of murder in Ericka's eyes since Eunuch flirted with him. "Mavis needs me. My little Luna needs her daddy! My baby Diavolo needs me! Ericka depends on me! I need to be home with my family."
"Murray here may be from Egypt, but you're the one in de-nial," Griffin joked.
But Dracula didn't laugh at his joke. Instead, he roughly elbowed the invisible man in his invisible gut.
Meanwhile across the deck, Danny had come to after Eunuch multiply slapped his face a couple of times.
"Hey, love birds!" A smirking Levon pops up from inside the pipe.
Danny gasps, seeing the small chubby man, he rushes right over to him with Eunuch before anybody could see him. "Levon!" He softly scolded him so he wouldn't attracted attention. "What are you doing out here? You're supposed to be down in the bottom bunkers with everybody else!"
"Well if you must know, I was just coming up here so I could make lunch from the kitchen," Levon explained, while showing his long half eaten baguette sandwich.
"Alright, you got your sandwich so will you please leave before you get caught!" grunted Eunuch.
"Ohh, this is the only reason why I'm up here," Levon added in a sly tone as he ate his sandwich.
"What do you mean?" Eunuch raised an eyebrow.
"When I was in the kitchen making my sandwich, I heard a strange commotion outside." Levon's eyes narrowed mischievously. "So I decided to investigate and what I saw was very interesting."
Eunuch and Danny looked at each other worryingly, realizing that they knew what he saw.
"I saw you Bonnie-and-Clyde-wannabes trying to kill Dracula!" shouted Levon, pointing an accusing finger at them.
"So what if we were!" Eunuch angerly yelled. "It's best to get kill him now!"
"Well I for one know that it would be a shame if your grandparents knew the both of you broke your promise," Levon threatened. "Especially that you failed so miserably at it!" Then he chortled a little, remembering what he saw happened to Danny . "Ha, ha, like how you got swung around like a wrecking ball!" Suddenly Levon stopped chortling rudely and something caught his attention. He was staring off in the distance with a goofy grin.
Daniel tilted his head in confusing, he didn't know what was up with the chubby man so he tried getting his attention by waving his hand in his face. "Levon? What are you looking at?" The gawking Levon pointed out to Danny and Eunuch what he was starting at, and boy were they shocked.
The song 'Top Down' by Fifth Harmony starts playing in the background.
It was Ericka and Molly walking across the deck wearing sexy two piece bikinis, especially Ericka in her brand new swimwear; a cherry red front cross bikini with a side tie bottom, her hips swayed with the music as she confidently walks. Beside her, Polly wore a sky-blue two piece triangle bikini. And far ahead of them, little Luna was racing further on eager to get in the pool, pushing Diavolo in his baby kart as he wore a little green and black striped swimsuit with floaties on his arms.
Levon continued gawking at the three women, and then snapped a picture with his smartphone. "Woah, I thought she was gorgeous before, but now that I'm actually seeing her in that bikini, she looks soooo hot!" He was practically drooling over her like he always did in the past.
Eunuch was starting to get annoyed by Levon so she asked Danny if he could send him back down now so he could stop fawning over these women. "Ugh, Daniel can you get chubb-o out of here!" But her partner didn't answer. "Uh, hello?"
But Daniel was caught off guard by the women's entrance and was blushing a little bit from seeing Ericka and her friend in that getup. "Blimey!" Is all he could say. His green eyes widen as he watches the trio make their way toward them. He couldn't help gawking at their appearances, seemingly walking in seductive slow motion as they got closer.
A dumbfounded Eunuch realized what was happening and a jealous scowl presented itself on her face. Sor she smacked Danny from the back of his head with all her might, so the red-head would snap out of it.
"Ow! What?" Danny cried in pain as he rubbed his head.
"Focus!" Eunuch growled. "We're here to kill Dracula, not to look at girls in bikinis!"
"Seriously, how does Dracula get a girl like Ericka ?" Levon baffled, his tongue and drool coming out of his mouth as he kept his gaze sincerely focused on Ericka .
Now Danny , having fed up with this idiot, decided to take matters into his own hands to shut him up. "Ugh, get your tongue off the floor!" He got out his tranquilizer and blowpipe.
Levon saw this and wondered what he was doing. "What are you-" but he was cut off when his brother shot a dart at his arm. "Oh, bullocks!" Levon grunted before he passed out, sliding down the pipe and out of sight.
The duo of gorgeous women confidently strutted passed Danny and Eunuch , either not noticing them or too engaged in conversation to see them. The partners in crime pretended to act casually as they allowed the women to walk by before they slunk away.
Right after Dracula elbowed Griffin in the gut, he spotted his wife and his kids approaching the pool with her friend and her stepsister. The vampire was extremely star-struck that his pupils grew larger and his mouth fell open. Ericka's new bikini made her look outstanding in it. Dracula was gawking at her like a love-struck idiot, that famous silly smile found its way to his lips.
Of course he wasn't the only one who noticed her or the other women. A lot of other male monsters at the poolside wolf whistled, cat called or commented them on how hot the girls looked when they were walking by. Luna didn't care over what was going on as she rushed over to her big sister, showing off her cute little pink sparkling swim dress, but not before she helped carry Diavolo to get in the pool and watched him kick in the water with his tiny feet.
"Hi, honey," Ericka greeted her mesmerized vampire husband.
"H-heh... h-heh... Y-ou look... very l-lovely... darling!" Dracula stuttered, getting all flustered and his shirt collar flapping like bat wings.
Ericka smirked at his reaction, pleased that he likes her new bikini. "Thank you, and you don't look bad yourself, handsome." She coyly eyed his Hawaiian shirt with deep interest. "Did you get all dressed up for me?" The brunette woman seductively stroked his smooth cheek, making the vampire blush like crazy and about to lean in for a kiss.
"ERICKA !" A loud booming voice called them. And to no one's surprised at who interrupted Dracula's and Ericka's moment was her brother Andrei, who was stomping over to them. "What do you think you're doing?" he shouted.
"Uh, I'm going swimming, Dad," Ericka answered, acting like nothing was wrong.
"Not in that you're not!" The older man pointed to her swimsuit. "You are showing to much skin. Cover yourself!" Andrei demanded, sounding like a typical brother caring about his sister dignity.
Ericka just rolled her eyes at her father. "Brother ! I'm a grown woman, I can wear whatever I want. Even if it's to impress my husband." She told him while wrapping her arms around the stunned Dracula, making his chest tighten at feeling her bosom come in contact with his chest.
At that moment, Mavis got up from the pool side and walked toward them, followed by Melany, who carried Adrien.
"Mavis! Luna !" Dracula happily yelled to his two wonderful daughters as he brought his wife over to them, but first he turned to his friends and hissed a warning under his breath, "Don't say a word, or I'll haunt your dreams!"
The threat worked and none of the members of the Drac Pack breathed a word.
"Having fun?" Mavis asked her dad, casually.
"I'm having even more fun now that you're here, girls," Dracula replied affectionately, as if nothing suspicious was up.
"I'm glad to see you girls are having a good time," said Ericka .
"You know, Dad... Mom... I feel really lucky to have this time with you," Mavis sincerely told her parents. "All of us together. It's really special."
"Me too, spider monkey," Dracula cast a loving arm around his eldest daughter's shoulders and levitated Luna and Diavolo up into his arms to give them a tender embrace.
"We all do," sighed Ericka, wrapped an arm around her husband's neck and bringing both her husband, her two daughters and infant son into the most loving family embrace ever.
Suddenly Mavis broke the hug and levitated up at her father's eye level, smiling evilly. "Now, are you ready for me to destroy you in monsterball?"
"Whoo-hoo! Monsterball!" Johnny cheered excitedly.
"Come on, Papa Drac!" Dennis, Martha encouraged as Johnny played with them in the pool.
"Oh, I am so ready for this!" Luna grinned evilly, before she rushed over and leapt into the pool.
"Not unless I destroy you first!" Ericka teased her daughter back, jumping into the pool.
"Oh ho, bring it on, for I AM KING OF FAMILY FUN!" Dracula cheered, making his way toward the pool's edge, before leaping into the air, tore off his shirt and shoes and shocks, until he was left in nothing but his shorts, and collided into the water below.
The entire gang immediately got into the pool, the monster volleyball game was set up in two teams. It was Ericka , Mavis, Dennis, Martha ,Dracula, Johnny, and Luna an one side. Murray, Frank, Eunice, Vlad, Griffin, and Crystal on the other side. Diavolo had to sit in a lounge chair with Lydia, so the baby won't get hurt by the group playing monsterball as he was too young to play.
"Go get 'em, Mom and Dad!" Hank, Alex cheered from the deck chair.
"It's so cool that our parents are on the same team!" Evan said.
"Your folks are going down! My main dad, Murray, is going to kick their butts! Go, dad!" Pedro hollered encouragingly as he ate a bowl of cockroaches for a snack.
"Are you going to join them, Wendy?" Molly asked the young female blob, sitting on the deck chair.
"No thanks, my dad's not feeling well since he got crushed by a lifeboat, destroyed by a propeller, shot by a flare, hit by tranquilizer darts, kicked off the boat by a crane and... ugh, hit by wooden stakes." Wendy shuddered at that last part, whispering it so not to scare the vampires in the pool. "But I'll be the scoreboard!" The little blob slid to the edge of the pool, bringing out a small board where two rows of pegs will hold the numbers of the points each team will make.
Unknown to them, Ericka had overheard their entire conversation with curiosity.
"Oh dear, but that is strange. Why would anyone bring wooden stakes when they know vampires fear them?" Molly wondered curiously, until she brushed it off like it was no big deal. "But I'm sure its nothing."
Unfortunately, Danny had overheard their conversation with his enhanced hearing and quietly in the shadows like the awkward hunter he is.
"Aren't you going to join us, Lydia?" Vlad asked his daughter, who was still lounging in the deck chair.
"No, thank you, Father. I never have time for such silly games." Lydia refused, trying to get some moon tan on her pale skin.
"All right, who is ready to get pummeled?" Murray received a volleyball and was ready to serve first.
"I gotta warn you, I played second-team coed intramural volleyball at Santa Cruz." Johnny did some funny stretches, including a double armpit toot.
"Sure, pal. Whatever you say." Frank calmly towered over the smaller Johnny with his massive size, knowing full well that his team will win.
"Everybody, just please, watch the hair." Eunice brashly reminded everyone. "Watch the hair!"
"Oh ho, let's go. Let's do this!" Dracula was eager to start, getting into position.
"Oh my gosh, this is gonna be so much fun!" Mavis added, happy to see her father having a good time.
Holding a whistle, Wendy took a deep breath and blew the whistle really loud to start the game.
"Get ready! Here comes the paaaaaaain!" Murray lobbed the ball up and served it hard over the net, straight at Vlad.
Vlad struck the ball, aiming it right at Eunice.
"OYE! Not the hair, not the hair!" the female golem screamed, before unknowingly hitting it over the net.
Johnny screamed as it passed over his head.
Mavis dove forward to reach the ball and hit it super high. "Dad, all yours!" she called.
Dracula levitated high into the air and struck the ball over the net toward Eunice, who missed it. The ball hit the water and the splash soaked her big hair.
"Two points for Uncle Drac's team!" Wendy shouted, placed a number 2 card on the left empty space for Dracula's team.
Everyone on Dracula's team cheered.
The ball got thrown back to Murray and, after Wendy blew the whistle, served it. The ball flew in Vlad's direction, and the elderly vampire roared frightfully with laser red eyes and longer fangs, just like how his son and daughter and granddaughters and great-grandkids do, scaring the ball to fly move back the other way.
Ericka dove forward, just in time to hit the ball right over the net. Griffin cringed, fearing he might get hit in the face, until Crystal dove inward and hit the ball.
"Thanks, babe. You saved me." Griffin smiled gratefully at his wife .
In the distance, Eunuch was hiding inside the pipe, staying out of sight of the players, and Danny just leaned against the wall. The two hunters watched in disgust as the monsters and humans kept playing their game.
"Ugh! This is pathetic." Danny complained, wishing he was someplace else other than here.
"I know what you mean." A bored Ericka agreed, placing a hand on her cheek to lean on.
The ship's whistle blew, and a fish man voice made a ship-wide announcement, "Captain Eunuch , you are needed on deck."
Hearing that announcement, Eunuch knew what it meant and it gave her an idea. They had made it to their first destination, but the guests had no idea what the captain had in store for them. "It looks like our luck has changed." She whispered in his ear. "Meet me below deck."
An evil smile spread across Danny's mouth, nodding, as he crept down the staircase.
"Bye-bye, Dracula," Ericka chuckled wickedly, as she slithered down the pipe.
Back in the game, Mavis bumped the ball super high over the net right to Frank, who spiked it back with his own super strength. The ball screamed as it flew higher and hung in the air for a moment until it came rocketing downward, straight toward Dracula. He was about to hit it, when Eunuch turned on the microphone so she could make an announcement of her own.
"Oh baby, I got this..." Dracula started to say, when he heard a familiar voice.
"Hey there, monsters!" Eunuch greeted nearby, her voice echoing over the PA system.
That voice was all it took to distract the vampire. Instantly, Dracula turned to look at Eunuch , and the ball crash landed on his head, creating a huge explosive splash. Ericka was the only one who have seen her husband's reaction when Eunuch made the announcement, and she felt her stomach churning nervously.
"Woo-hoo! What I say!" Frank celebrated.
"It's a tie!" Wendy placed a number 2 card on the right empty space for Frank's team.
"Alright, Dad!" Hank, Alex and Evan high-fived each other victoriously.
When Dracula broke the surface of the water, the ball was stuck to his head. His friends and family stared at him in confusion.
"Are you okay?" Ericka worriedly as she struggled to get the monsterball off her husband's head.
"We're arriving at our first destination," Eunuch announced, and suddenly there came a huge explosion in the ocean. "The underwater volcano!"
"Patooey! A v-volcano?" Linda shuddered, spitting out her smoothie drink, terrified at being so close to a volcano and knowing volcanos are a threat when they erupt.
"Ooh!" the crowd awed.
"Everyone, grab your scuba gear and get ready to explore the wonders of the sea," Eunuch advised. Then, looking at Dracula as Ericka helped him get the monsterball off his head but he got off and held the ball, she slyly called out to him, "Especially you, Count Dracula."
Dracula looked surprised over this. Nearby, Mavis glanced suspiciously at Eunuch's expression, but then got distracted when she saw Dennis and Martha swimming in front of her on their back.
When Ericka notices that flirtatious expression Eunuch gave at Dracula, the brunette woman got so angry that she took the ball and tried to resist the urge to throw the ball in Eunuch's face, the monsterball tightened in her grasp from trying to hold in her temper. The poor monsterball deflated like a balloon.
"Hey, you popped the ball!" Wendy pointed out, feeling sorry for the monster volleyball.
"I DON'T CARE!" Ericka snarled in her face, her left lower eye twitching as she angrily threw the deflated ball in the spot where Eunuch stood yet the Captain move to the side and the deflated ball hit the wall, but Ericka didn't realize she unknowingly hurt Wendy's feelings and her outburst drew the attention of frowns from the others in the pool.
Afterward Eunuch added with a slight smirk on her face to a certain accomplice, "Oh, and Danny, I hope you have a good time as well!" She told him through the mike and winks, giving him a new nickname.
Having come onto the deck, acting like nothing suspicious was going on, Danny heard this and he coyly winks back at her, letting her know that he understood.
"Wow, that sounds like a zing in full effect!" Murray said out loud, excited.
But Dracula overheard him and got confused by it.
Luna saw what her mother had done and asks her with concern, "Uh, are you okay, Mommy?"
"I'm fine, sweetheart," Ericka grunted, while she kept glaring at a departing Eunuch with a lethal death squint. "Totally fine." She thought back to Wendy and Molly's conversation about Blobby's dilemma, and her suspicions landed directly on the ship's captain.
Frank leaned in closer to his vampire buddy, worryingly, "Uh oh! See that, pal? I think my sister-in-law likes you!"
"No, no, no." Dracula protested, frightened but the spell seemed to allure him.
"Don't worry, Drac, we got your back and we'll make sure that you and Ericka stay happy and you don't get involved with the captain," Murray assured him. "Besides, maybe she's just a flirt or being nice."
"Oh no, no, no!" Dracula gasped.
"Oh yes, yes, yes." added Griffin, worried as well.
Dracula insisted, his grin changed awkwardly. "I'm just here to have family fun. Family, family, fun, fun."