Chapter 10: The mermaid adventure
The monsters got ready to go on the water to see the volcano.
No one noticed as Eunuch got into a secret vessel and turned it on.
Then the monsters were giving special necklaces that can instantly turn them into mer-monsters.
" I can't wait Papa Drac to see the underwater volcano," Dennis and Martha said, while putting on their necklaces.
As they dive into the water they all could realize the legs were gone instead they had tails also known as merman and mermaid tails.
Few members were amazed by the view underwater. They were never being underwater before. It's like it was there first time. Stan the dog and his puppies has no difficulties for swimming, they have doggy paddles.
A brightly colored coral reef surrounded the volcano's crater, where red lava flowed slowly into the water.
"Right this way, everyone," The monsters' guide was Stan, the fish man, and he could effortlessly talk underwater. "Welcome to one of the true wonders of the underwater kingdom. I give you Volcano del Fuego! Or the local sea life call it…," He made bubbly language that only understand by fishes.
A song from their necklaces what is called the call of the mermaids. It is very beautiful and whenever they heard that song their voices sing.
It's the call
It's the call
Of the mermaid
The most enchanting creature in the sea
It's the call
It's the call
Of the mermaid
The ocean's greatest mystery
It's very, very hard to resist it
Here it is again in case you missed it
It's a little bit alarming
But also very charming
That's the mermaid's call
I find it quite difficult to place it
But when I hear it, I just have to chase it
The noise is kind of grating
Yet weirdly captivating
That's the mermaid's call
It's the call
It's the call
Of the mermaid
The most enchanting creature in the sea
It's the call
It's the call
Of the mermaid
The ocean's greatest mystery
Go ahead, you can try to do it
It's not hard, there's really nothing to it
Put your hands on your hips
Blow some air through your lips
That's the mermaid's call
That's the mermaid's call
The monsters were so busy exploring that they didn't notice when a fish-shaped submarine floated out of an opening near the bottom of the cruise ship. Ericka was inside, and she was trying to catch up with Drac so she could get rid of him, once and for all.
Dennis and Martha spotted a small yellow fish and followed it. Drac noticed his grandkids and followed him too. Suddenly a shark at the yellow fish, Dennis and Martha panicked and swam away. Drac hypnotized the shark to turn into a friendly shark. Dennis and Martha ran into the same shark again, but this time, he noticed their grandfather was riding on it and realized he hypnotized it and realized the fish it ate from its mouth. They jumped onto its back with Drac as if it were a horse and galloped along in the ocean.
Mavis as a mermaid also hypnotized a whale, and rode on it like surfboard while Johnny hung on its tail.
Ericka and Dracula dance a waltz in the water with the dolphins and the octopus , because we're in love.
Drac was having a ball. Then he saw a seahorse swim by and began to copy its movement. Johnny, Mavis, Dennis, Martha ,and Ericka joined in the fun!
Eunuch and Danny has steered their submarine behind a coral reef and wanted to try to hit Drac, and when they saw Drac and his family pretending to be a seahorse, then spotted a manta ray and copied its movement, making his family laugh, they couldn't help but giggle.
"Aww, what a cute family." Then they snapped to stay focus, "What? No, it's not! Dracula bad! Dracula bad!"
She pushed a button to release the wooden harpoons on felt a sudden disturbance. In her vision, she saw wooden stakes coming towards Drac. This alerted her. When she saw Drac sticking under the manta ray, she used her wandstaff to control the manta ray with Drac under it, and made it swam in sideways, avoiding the wooden stakes.
Soon hundred of fish swam by, and Drac noticed they were swimming to Eunuch's submarine. It looked a lot like a real fish, so he thought it was just another fish in the school. He waved his family to follow, and so they did.
Eunuch noticed the family was heading straight towards her. She tried to steer the submarine away from Drac, but he grabbed ahold of its tail. He was pretending to capture it and asked Mavis to take a photo of him with his 'catch'.
Eunuch panicked, took a huge breath, and launched herself out the submarine's escape hatch.
Mavis took the photo of Drac, and, with Ericka checking it, in the corner of the image, the two spotted two human feet. Mavis and Ericka thought they must be imagining it, but since they both saw them themselves, they became suspicious.
Back on deck, everyone changed out of their scuba gear, and the non-aquatic I teams took off their glass helmet, and Drac, Ericka,Mavis, Johnny, and Dennis and Martha were drying off when they saw Winnie and Willie pushing Tinkles, still wearing his disguise.
Dennis and Martha tried to think of something to hide Tinkles' identity from the grown-ups.
"Oh, hi Bob. Right, we promise you we play… uh, ping-pong now." They grinned sheepishly.
Mavis stared at the beast, who looked very familiar. "Um, Dennis, Martha who is this?"
Dennis and Martha said quickly, "Oh, it's our friend Bob."
"Say 'hi', Bob." Winnie and Willie instructed Tinkles.
"Hi, Bob." The dog repeated.
Drac, Ericka ,Mavis, and Johnny were quite suspicious, while Ericka cringed in fear. She knew this is a bad idea and tried to keep her mouth shut.
"Okay, time to go play Ping-Pong!" Dennis and Martha declared.
Dennis, Martha , Willie and Winnie ushered Bob away as everyone stared at them, watching them go.
Just then, Frank, Eunice Murray, and Griffin came running across the deck, knocking monsters and waiters over.
"Drac! Drac! Drac! Drac!" their voices rang in a chorus.
When they noticed Mavis and Ericka standing next to Drac, the slowed, knowing he wouldn't want Mavis and Ericka to know anything about Eunuch.
Hey,guys , where's the fire?" Dracula asked, squinting at them with curiosity.
"Oh, uh, well," Frank and Eunice stammered, staring at Mavis and Ericka . "Griffin here wanted to uh—"
"Yeah, he had something to tell ya—" Murray started.
They pushed Griffin to Drac, "Me?! Oh, uh, yeah, see… I got this bite on my hand, and since, you know, you're a biting expert, I thought you could take a look." It wasn't a good excuse, but it was something.
"Yeah, come on over here," Frank told Drac, calling him away from Mavis and Ericka .
"The light is better," Murray said.
Mavis watched them as they all walked away. "Okay?"
Ericka had a feeling something was us. She followed the other way around. She took the second floor of the deck, just under the private place around a corner.
She overheard what Frank, Eunice , Murray, and Griffin said to Drac, and she knew it was a big understanding. 'Eunuch loves the Drac' thing is not true. It was the opposite of what they were saying. She has to do something before anything else happen.
"So, Drac, you going to make a move on the captain or what?" Griffin asked.
"Yes… Maybe?... No. Ah. It's been a while. I don't even know where to start," Drac admitted with growing frustration.
This gave Aggie an idea. Aggie poofed up her spell book to search a magic spell that can ruin a question. She found a record-mix-play spell. She hoped this will do the trick. When she read the spell, Aggie used her wandstaff to record every word what Frank, Murray, and Griffin say.
"It's easy, Drac. Just make some small talk," Murray suggested.
"Remember to smile," Griffin suggested.
"Look into her eyes," Frank said.
" Kiss her on the hand,"Eunice said.
"Keep it casual," Murray told Drac.
"Say something funny," Griffin said.
"Ask her where her parts are from?" Frank smiled.
"Oh, and say that her wrappings look nice!" Murray smoothed his own wrappings.
"Do you like coffins?" Griffin thought that was a good one.
"Compliment her: Say 'your eyes looks beautiful.'" Frank laughed at his own advice.
When she finished recording, Ericka stored those words on the bell of her wandstaff and shook it harder to mix those words to make it a full sentence.
Drac was speechless. As he stood there, like a deer in headlights, Eunuch walked in as if she had just arrived.
"Okay, Drac, hit it." Griffin shoved him face-to-face with Eunuch.
Aggie was done shaking the bell, and attached it back on the handle, ready to fire that spell, "Or play it." She smirked as she released a white mist of energy that contained the mixing words from Frank, Eunice , Murray, and Griffin, and the mist flew into Drac's throat to control his voice.
It took him a second to get started, but then he said nervously, "Your delicious neck wrappings are in a nice coffin. Would you like to see my parts?"
The spell worked!
Aggie sure thought it was funny. She laughed quite hard, but she covered her mouth, so she won't be heard.
It was awful for Drac. The guys winced.
Griffin imitated the sound of an airplane crashing and burning. "Fwuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu… kerprrr!"
But then Eunuch answered Dracula, saying, "Yes, I'd love to go out with you."
"Dracula was stunned. He couldn't believe his ears. "What?" he asked.
"What?!" the guys and Eunice were surprised.
"What?!" Ericka thought her spell of making Drac foolish worked.
"Cantina. Midnight. Don't be late," Eunuch said coolly as she closed Drac's jaw, and then left the deck.
Dracula smiled goofily.
Ericka got angry. She thought her plan worked, but it got worst. Instead of making Drac foolish to make Eunuch feel disgust over him, Ericka was like helping him to ask Eunuch to go out with him. This isn't part of her plan to protect Drac from her.
"Oh, nuts!" She threw wandstaff on the ground, but it bounced back, crashing into her face, and she fainted.