Chapter 19: Power of Love
Determined to put an end to Van Helsing's evil music and to stop the Kraken from killing everyone, including hoping to save Ericka from committing a fatal mistake, Johnny stood at a spot across the dance floor from where the evil humans were stationed in the DJ booth and began unpacking his backpack with style. His backpack had contained a laptop, speakers, and headphones.
"Get ready for a DJ battle!" Johnny declared proudly!
"You just carry all that stuff with you?" Dracula asked, stunned.
"Once a bar mitzvah DJ, always a bar mitzvah DJ," Johnny replied, like it was normal for him to carry a DJ set without questions. "We're going to use good music to defeat his evil music!"
"What?" Dracula wasn't so sure about this.
"Trust me, I know the tunes, but you've got the power!" Johnny began scrolling through the files on his laptop. "Alright... okay... opening song is me off the she-zack." He knew the first song needed to be just right. And then, he found the perfect song to play. "Ooh! Got it! Play this!" Johnny told his vampire father-in-law.
With a determined frown, Dracula used his magic to zap Johnny's computer to power up the music, and the song 'Good Mood' by Adam Levine , began to blast loudly from the speakers.
The Kraken, who had struck down Nessie, was about to eat the Hydraberg, until he heard Adam Levine. He seemed to like it and started swaying his body to the rhythm as his eyes changed back to normal, gentle setting the Hydraberg back on the dance floor. Everyone began cheering with relief. Nessie also swayed her head to the beat.
"What is that noise?" Van Helsing wondered out loud.
"What happened? What did you do?" Quincy demanded, glaring at his godfather.
"I didn't do nothing!" Van Helsing retorted defensively.
Dracula's grin widened as this new tune seemed to be growing on him. "Whoa, I like this one," he said. "This feels good."
James looked beyond his DJ clamshell and realized it was Dracula and Johnny were the culprits playing Adam Levine."It's them! They're the ones doing it!" he yelled.
"You fools!" Van Helsing hollered, so to counter it, he waved his hands over the device to make the evil beat stronger than ever.
Soon the evil music overpowered Adam Levine, and the Kraken resumed back to attack mode. He roared, and the crowd began to panic. The Kraken swung his massive tentacles against the dance floor, creating more deep holes and dark chasms. Nessie tried to stop him, but the Kraken hammered two tentacles on her neck and spine, causing her to howl in pain as her body crashed through the ocean's surface.
The Kraken was towering over the spot where some monster children, including Sunny, was standing. Quick as a wink, Mavis and Luna worked together to save the children, catching them in mid-air, but neither of them had the chance to save Sunny.
Just then, Eunuch jumped out of nowhere and caught Sunny. As she gazed worriedly down at the baby wolf pup, Sunny smiled gratefully at her rescuer. Then Eunuch turned to Mavis and Luna , smiling to let them know she saved the baby werewolf. Mavis smiled acceptingly in response, but Luna scowled disapprovingly at the Captain still acknowledging her as the enemy.
"I'd be happier if Eunuch was eaten by the Kraken than be grateful to her!" Luna snubbed spitefully, and this caused Mavis give her little sister a dirty look.
Ericka, who had been wrestling against Andrei, came close enough to killing her own father as her swift hands latched around his neck, suffocating him as she leaned in for a bite. Like lightning, Charles took the opportunity to have a change of heart and grab her by the shoulders and flip her over his head, sending her flying back and crashing into the rubble. As Charles cast a concerned frown at his former friend, Andrei smiled in deep gratitude for the rescue.
"Whoa, the music is too powerful!" Johnny exclaimed, considering the problem "We're gonna need something even more positive." After a quick search on his laptop files, he found something. "Now, Drac!" he ordered.
Looking at the song Johnny had chosen, Dracula zapped the computer again to play the song and power it up again. 'Let's groove' by Earth, Wind & Fire started to play. Once again, the Kraken's eyes changed back to normal and a goofy smile spread across his mouth as he resumed back to his normal happy self.
"Really?" Dracula asked, frowning at his human son-in-law for such a cheesy song.
"It has a nice message," Johnny assured him.
The Kraken started to dance to Earth,Wind & Fire, while the rest of the evil humans were not amused.
"I've had enough with this nonsense!" Van Helsing shouted, but before he could resume conducting his evil orchestra, he was interrupted.
"Wait!" Quincy withdrew the orb from his inside coat pocket and used its power to summon his secret weapon. The pile of rubble exploded as Ericka burst through, looking more ferocious and violent than ever. "Ericka , would you be a dear and CRUSH that pesky slacker!" he instructed politely.
Obeying her master, Ericka let out an evil cackle, one that could raise the hair on your head, as she grabbed her golden spear, ran across the dance floor towards the red-headed DJ and her husband, dragging her spear across the ground. Van Helsing continued to play the keyboard to continue his evil beat, and the Kraken resumed his attack mode once again.
Approaching Johnny's DJ set, Ericka snarled at the horrified Dracula and Johnny as she reared her spear back prepared to stab them. But Dracula used his powers to push her back and right off the DJ set.
"Johnny, I can't continue powering up your DJ if Ericka keeps trying to kill us!" Dracula cried, glancing devastatingly at the creature that took his wife's form.
Thinking it over for a second, Johnny knew he was right. This positive energy music can't go on forever, but restoring Ericka to normal was more important. So he told him, "Drac, go save your wife!"
"But..." Dracula objected, baffled.
"I'll be fine," Johnny assured him confidently.
Just as Ericka made a counterattack, Dracula lunged for her to protect Johnny. Ericka began slashing and swiping her spear like a rabid animal to get at him as the vampire ran backwards to avoid her spearing. She barely slashed his chest, but Dracula blocked the second attack with his magic. Ericka leaped forward and slams her spear down, but Dracula already dodged the attack and broke her spear in half so she wouldn't use it again. She turned and slammed her body against his own, trying to force him off the cliff but Dracula dug his heels in the ground to slow them down, just as he was within inches of the edge.
As the Kraken twirled its tentacles around several pillars, knocking them down in a line like dominos, the crowd ran screaming for their lives, whilst Eunuch, Danny, Mavis, Andrei, Vlad and Tinkles tried their best to help shield, rescue and protect them from the collapsing debris. Suddenly a ship's horn caught everyone's attention. The Kraken felt something bump him at the bottom of his tentacles. Looking down, he saw the Legacy cruise ship jamming itself against his side. In the control room, it was Nosepicker behind the steering wheel, trying desperately to distract the sea beast to keep him from hurting anybody, even though she was just preteen and had no experience at driving a cruise ship. Baby Diavolo was sitting in a chair beside the young girl, giggling and applauding. How he got there or how Nosepicker found him, nobody knew yet.
"What is she doing?!" Kitty Cartwright cried, incredulous at her daughter's actions.
The mermaids took this moment to use their powers to create giant waves to carry them up to the Kraken's eye level, using their sticky seaweed lassoes to whip the Kraken right in the eyes. It stung the Kraken's eyes as he yelped. Eyes closed, he tried to swat at them, but Nessie appeared to chomp at his tentacle and the Kraken screeched. The two sea creatures bit each other or swung their tentacles or tail in the other's faces, trying to bring their opponent down.
Under Van Helsing's control, the Kraken swung his massive tentacles at the army of mermaids, knowing they were all so tiny the merpeople couldn't defeat them as the sea beast was indestructible. The merpeople were tossed or thrown everywhere in the water. Most of them retreated to the depths of the ocean for safety. The Kraken's tentacles struck the ship, sending it turning sideways and land beside the stone wall that held the dance floor up high, and Nosepicker tumbled to the floor with Diavolo shielded in her arms. Nessie was strangled by the one of the Kraken's tentacles, suffocating her so badly that she couldn't breathe. One of the mermaids distracted the Kraken by throwing a spear that bounced off his body like rubber. Momentarily distracted, the Kraken released his hold on Nessie as she slipped from his grasp and slid back into the water.
Horrified by her friends' defeat, Luna wanted to do something to stop this but Mavis caught her before she could do anything wreckless. The dance floor was almost gone as it crumbled down to the abyss, and it seems there was no way out, no way to stop the Kraken. However, she remembered watching her father help Johnny try stopping the Kraken by using the power of good music. Rushing over to Johnny, Luna gave him a determined look that said she wanted to help him stop the Kraken.
"Please, Ericka ! If you can hear me, listen to what I have to say!" Dracula pleaded to his love, still under the villain's control. He shoved her off his form so he wouldn't fall off the edge, and kept struggling to reach out to Ericka while he was dodging her attacks. But, he didn't want to give up. Dracula was determined to save his beloved. "It was all a love spell, Darling. Quincy's wife cast a spell on me to force me to zing with Ericka, so they could break our love and use you as part of his plan!" He desperately explained the events what happened between them, despite receiving a fist in the face.
"But, they're not entirely to blame," Dracula gasped in a heartbroken tone. "I knew there was something wrong with me the moment when we got on deck. I thought I had possibly zinged with Eunuch, but I chose to ignore it and not tell you because I knew you would resent me if you heard that I might have zinged with another woman. So, I tried to take care of the situation without telling you, only I didn't realize that the spell was taking full effect on me. And I should have told you in the first place because you are the most important person in the world to me, Ericka ! And you deserved to know the truth!"
Ericka didn't seem to hear him nor did she care, she wanted to destroy him for breaking her heart and abandoning her. After that, she will take care of her so-called friends and family. To Dracula's surprise, she did two spinning kicks coming at him. He ducked to miss the those kicks and lunged for her, but she flipped him over and slammed her fist in his chest. Dracula choked, and a gasp caught in his throat at the sudden pain in his chest. The demonic female vampire pinned him down and began to strangle him.
"Goodbye, Dracula!" Quincy cackled, witnessing what appears to be the end of the Prince of Darkness.
And then, something inside Dracula had snapped. He will not let those real monsters succeed in the fight. He will not let them control his beloved any longer. With all of his strength and a cry, "RAAAWRRR!" Dracula broke free from being pinned down and shoved Ericka right off him, feeling her claws removed from his neck. He quickly got up on his feet and cupped her face, gazing deeply into her black empty soulless eyes. "ERICKA , I LOVE YOU!" he screamed at the top of his lungs. In a flash, Dracula forcefully kissed Ericka unexpectedly right on her lips, and she immediately froze.
At the same time, Johnny instructed the little vampire girl to turn on the song he had chosen on his files. With a zap of her tiny finger, Luna powered up the laptop and 'You might think by The Weezer began to play. The Kraken was about to devour some of the merpeople until The Weezer's smooth vocalizing melody changed him back to normal and he let the merpeople go as they cheered.
"Hey, this song is from the Titanic movie!" Molly exclaimed in recognition.
In that moment, Ericka felt like she was stuck in the dark, lost in the shadows, nowhere to go and nobody to help her. Until a beam of light shines its way to her with somebody holding his hand out to guide her way out. Dracula was her light. He was her flashlight. He loved her. He cared about her. He risked his undead life for her. She could feel her sanity is returning to her and her mind in control again. She felt her frozen heart melting and tried returning the kiss, despite her inner demon struggling for control as her clawed hands trembled at the back of Dracula's head, torn between strangling him or sparing him. All the pain and hatred she harbored toward Dracula and her family and friends was gone (except for Eunuch). And she now understands that Quincy Parker and James Quinston were the sources and the cause of all the pain she delt with on this horrid vacation with her and Dracula.
Finally, her conscious regained control as the transformation took place. Her claws on her pale hands changed to a regular human hands with normal finger nails. Her pale bare feet with talons changed to normal human feet and regular toe nails. At last, those remorseful black soulless eyes and sharp canines began to shrink away and the pale skin regained its normal human skin color. Keeping his lips locked against hers, Dracula felt her fangs vanish and drew back in surprise. There standing before him no longer the foul thing that everyone dreaded and grown to fear; Ericka Van Helsing -Dracula, as he had known her forever, with her beautified sweetness and purity restored. Her once soulless black eyes replaced by those famous emerald eyes he was always enchanted by. The green essence that evaporated from her body had a defeated and disappointed expression that said 'Oh, nuts!' as Dracula used his powers to vaporize it into nothingness. But Ericka still wore that flowing white dress that didn't seem to bother her much.
Oh well, you might think I'm crazy
To hang around with you
Or maybe you think I'm lucky
To have somethin' to do
But I think that you're wild
Inside me is some child
You might think I'm foolish
Or maybe it's untrue
(You might think I'm crazy)
You might think I'm crazy
(All I want is you)
All I want is you
You might think it's hysterical
But I know when you're weak
You think you're in the movies
And everything's so deep
But I think that you're wild
When you flash that fragile smile
You might think it's foolish
What you put me through
(You might think I'm crazy)
You might think I'm crazy
(All I want is you)
All I want is you
And it was hard so hard to take (so hard to take)
(There's no escape)
There's no escape
Without a scrape (without a scrape)
But you kept it going till the sun fell down
You kept it going
Oh well uh, you might think I'm delirious
The way I run you down
But somewhere sometimes
When you're curious
I'll be back around
Oh, I think that you're wild
And so uniquely styled
You might think it's foolish
This chancy rendezvous
(You might think I'm crazy)
You might think I'm crazy
(All I want is you)
All I want is you
All I want is you
(All I want is you)
All I want is you
Dracula was stunned and amazed to see his beloved wife had returned to normal, while tears of joy threatened to pour out of his eyes as he threw his arms around her. "Ericka !" he choked, sobbing.
"Dracula!" she replied, sobbing as well, burying her face in his chest. "I'm so sorry! I couldn't control myself, I didn't want to hurt anybody!"
"Shhh, its alright, darling," he assured her, gently placing a fingertip on her lips and returned the embrace with equal affection.
Having seen the wicked essence vaporized by Dracula and when the Kraken had ceased his attacks, the crowd turned their heads to see what had happened. To their surprise and joy, Dracula was locked in an embrace with Ericka , who had returned to her normal state. A lot of jaw drops came from most of the monsters and humans to what they were witnessing if it was actually real or a figment of their imaginations.
The Drac Pack exchanged joyous expressions to have their oldest friend back. Molly started to cry tears of happiness and hugged Monica. Andrei had a hopeful smile on his face, almost crying that his real daughter had come back. Johnny's goofy smile was the biggest of them all as the other monsters and humans leapt or exclaimed joyously. Mavis and Luna smiled, realizing their father's love had worked in getting their mother back. Even Eunuch and Danny looked quite pleased and relieved that her destruction of anger and sadness had ended on a happier note.
"No, no, no, no!" Quincy screamed, his face turning red with rage at witnessing his secret weapon had failed in a stupid cheesy way.
Just as Ericka and Drac were about to share an embrace and a kiss, James quickly swooped in between them and hugged Ericka so tightly that she choked.
"Ericka , baby, I'm so glad you're-" before James could finish, Ericka immediately punched him so hard in the face, infuriated and remember he had some involvement of falling out with her husband.
"YOU MEANY! It's always you, James !" Ericka hissed. "When will you get through that thick skull of yours that I will never loved YOU! I still love Dracula!"
"You still want to be with that monster?!" James growled, "Even after everything he has done to you!"
"He's not the monster!" Ericka snapped. "YOU ARE! You ruin everything in my life!"
James was taken aback by her harsh comment. He gritted his teeth in anger, then an enraged scowl crossed his face as he glowered at the vampire. In his mind, everything that happened was all Dracula's fault. The bloodsucking beast had stolen the woman he desired long ago, and now she was declaring that he was the monster, not Dracula. Withdrawing a wooden stake from his coat pocket, James lunged at Dracula, preparing to stake the vampire through his heart, screaming at the top of his lungs, "YOU WORTHLESS SCUM! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS! YOU WILL DIE AT ANY COAST!"
"Nooo!" Ericka shouted as she quickly shoved James away from Dracula, preventing him from attacking her husband, but the shove was stronger than she realized when she had pushed him near the ledge over the chasm.
Waving his arms to try dodging a fall, he was too late as the ground crumbled beneath his weight. James lost his balance and fell with the rubble, screaming as he plunges into the deep chasm below, until his voice died in the atmosphere.
The entire crowd looks on in horror as they watched him fall to his death, including Eunuch, who was the only one to express her concern for her doomed cousin.
In their clamshells, Levon and Harper grew horrified at their friend's downfall, but Abraham Van Helsing only scoffed, "Heh. That boy was too dense to listen to reason. I guess the Legacy ends with only one Van Helsing." He resumed playing his evil music again as the Kraken started to turn violent again.
"Get rid of that hippie DJ!" Quincy ordered, having grown tired of Johnny's music.
As if in obedience, one of the Kraken's tentacles began grabbing the spot where Johnny and Melany stood. Seeing the danger his little girl was in, Dracula flew over and pushed his daughter out of harm's way, just as the floor crumpled around them and lifted into the air.
"DADDY!" Luna cried, reaching her arms out for him, but Ericka caught her to prevent her from the risk of getting eaten.
Dracula knew that both he and his human son-in-law had to save themselves as quickly as possible. "Johnny, we need the most brain-dominating, toe-tappinating song in history of all the universe!" he said.
Johnny panicked as he searched through his music list. "I don't know, there's too many choices!" he shouted.
The Kraken's enormous jaws opened up before Dracula and Johnny, preparing to eat them. The crowd watches in horror at the fate of their most beloved and closest friends.
Then Johnny's eyes lit up as he finally found what he needed to save themselves. "No, wait! This... is... it!"
When Dracula zapped the computer, the Kraken ate them and his mouth snapped shut, paralyzing their family and loved ones before them, believing they had lost two friends forever.
All was quiet for a moment, but suddenly a familiar music muffled from within the Kraken's mouth. He looked around, searching for wherever the music came from. It truly was the 'You got a friend in me' in Spanish by Gypsy King.
The Kraken's eyes suddenly changed back to normal, and he opened his mouth to stick out his tongue with Dracula and Johnny still on it. Johnny's body was bouncing or swaying to the beat, bending his knees up and down and letting his hips sway back and forth. Hands went on hips as Johnny placed his hands forward, on shoulders or behind his head. Then his hips rotated in a figure eight pattern or given sharp pelvic thrusts. Staring, Dracula had a mixture of surprise and bewilderment at those awkward dance moves he had never seen before.
"Boy, that stinks," Vlad said, looking on in bewilderment as if to say 'really?' while the witches standing next to him seemed to agree.
"Are you kidding me?" Lydia rolled her eyes, thinking this strange dance sounded stupid.
The Kraken started to dance as he followed the beat. Nessie, having recovered thanks to the merpeople saving her life, couldn't believe her eyes at what she and the merpeople witnessed. But it didn't matter anymore as Nessie decided to dance with him, and the merpeople began to dance along with them.
Inside the control room of the ship, Nosepicker was blankly staring at Diavolo as the baby was copying Johnny's dance movements, bouncing his little knees and thrusting his pelvic in a figure eight pattern. Trying not to smile, Nosepicker shrugged her shoulders and started to dance with the baby.
"Hey, Johnny's corny music is defeating the evil music. I kind of like it," Vlad said. He began to dance in the same movements Johnny did, soon joined by the other witches and Lydia had no choice but to dance anyway.
Soon, the rest of the monsters and humans joined in, thrusting their hips in a figure eight and swaying their bodies to the music. Even Dracula shrugged as he realized he should join in. His cape came to life and danced alongside him. The blood red sky had melted away to change a peaceful light purple color as the setting sun symbolled the true harmony between monsters and humans, dancing side by side. Surprisingly, Tinkles was dancing adorably to the rhythm alongside Dennis, Martha, Luna,Willie, Evan and Winnie.
The song was defeating the evil music from Van Helsing's device. He tried to play the keyboard again, but the Macarena was too powerful than his music. Van Helsing scowled as the evil music sheet began to shred itself to pieces. "No!" he yelled. Suddenly, Van Helsing began to dance uncontrollably, following the beat of the music. "Ahh! I'm a slave to the rhythm!" he shouted, unable to move to this catchy song.
At that moment, Levon and Harper found themselves surrendering to the beat, not caring that their group was on the loosing side at all. Then Kitty Cartwright noticed her body surrendering to the powerful Macarena, "Help! I'm being forced to dance against my will by these disgusting creatures!" she cried, but it fell on deaf ears.
Quincy had finally lost his nerve when he recognized his defeat. He lost his wife, his grandson, and now his family had joined the Macarena dance against their wishes. But he realized that he could somehow still finish off those monsters without the Kraken, without Van Helsing or his family. They were noting but a hinderance to his plan, except for his darling Celia. He should've foreseen it. Why rely on the device or the Kraken when he had the orb? It had supreme power. Surprisingly, he was the only one not dancing so he knew that he had seized his chance to escape and plan another attempt on Dracula's life. He had no choice but to go of his last resort.
"Quincy, I can't stop ourselves! Help me!" Van Helsing pleaded.
"I'm afraid I can't do that. Someone has to continue the Legacy." And just like that, Quincy callously leapt over the clamshell booth and disappeared, leaving his godfather staring after him in disbelief.
Just as Quincy left to hide, he triggered an unstable golden statue to tip over and come down right over where several others remained. Harper, Levon and Kitty managed to jump out of the clamshells in time, but Van Helsing was stuck in his imprisoned dance and trapped to where he would meet a horrible death. Instead, the statue came crashing down on the two clamshells behind Van Helsing's DJ booth. As the impact shook the ground, it made Van Helsing fell right off the DJ booth and down the abyss below.
"No!" Eunuch gasped as she watched what seemed to be her great-grandfather's last moments, sharing the same fate as the late James Van Helsing-Quinston.
Shocked, Dracula realized he had to do something, so at the last minute he turned into a bat and flew after Van Helsing.
"Drac, what are you doing?" Frank called out.
"Gotta be greater than the haters," Murray explained as they watched in admiration.
Rocking down the chasm, Dracula rescued Van Helsing right before he would have hit the water and, most likely, drawn his last breath. Without a word, Dracula then flew back to the dance party carrying Van Helsing, and set his nemesis down on the floor as he transformed back into normal form.
Eunuch took Dracula's hand to pull him in for an affectionate hug to show her gratitude for saving her great-grandfather's life, muttering, "Thank you." As Dracula returned the embrace, Ericka grew angry at his holding hands or hugging with that white cobra, so she shoved her way in between them, breaking the hug, aiming a death squint at Eunuch and then smiled innocently at Dracula, who briefly scowled at her actions.
Van Helsing looked up at Dracula with a mixture of awe and confusion. For some reason, he sounded angry even though he was actually grateful. "Why? Why after... everything... would you save my life?" he questioned.
"Because, basically," Dracula replied, "we are all the same. Claws or hands. Two eyes, three eyes-"
Harry Three-Eye stepped in beside the vampire and waved, "We are all one," he told Van Helsing to illustrate Dracula's point.
Then other monsters and humans spoke up.
"Green skin!" a witch added.
"No skin!" said a skeleton.
"Prickly!" Carl said.
"Brainy!" a floating brain added.
"Scary handsome!" Vlad smiled while he was showing off.
"We care for our families," Monica piped in.
"We have our dreams," Molly added.
"We love to dance!" Linda added.
"We all have emotions," Evan said. "Like fear, happiness, anger, sadness, you name it!"
"Yep, we are all one," Dracula told the once bad humans, and the monsters had proved his point.
"And it turns out, being half vampire isn't as bad as we thought," Danny told his family and the elderly robot man. "They've been rejected by humans who don't understand them like you. When society rejected them, they traveled to Dracula's hotel where they can be themselves and fit in. Like Drac said, we're not so different after all."
"Look, I know neither of you are that accepting of monsters because of their differences," Andrei spoke softy to them. "But I do know what it felt like to judge appearances before realizing how wrong I was, and how much it hurts to drive away your child when you give in to that hatred." He glanced solemnly at Danny and Ericka and Ericka , all whom looked at him in understanding.
Van Helsing felt so guilty and embarrassed. He realized they almost destroyed the monsters and humans with no good reason. They were as innocent as other humans. He couldn't believe his and the Parker's families' legacies got the best of him for destroying who were just like humans. And in doing so, it nearly coast them Eunuch and Danny . If anyone had sinned tonight, it was Van Helsing and his own godson. Everyone's words seemed to have a strong effect on them.
"I'm sorry," Van Helsing apologized.
"I'm so proud of you, Danny , but I too feel guilty," Charles added, bowing his head in shame gazing at all the staring eyes at him waiting for what else had to say. "What happened between you and Mina may have been our reason to hate you," he said to Dracula, "but I know its not enough of the damage we've done."
Surprisingly, their apologizes were accepted when Tinkles licked them all, much to their chagrin, except Charles who grew to like the giant puppy.
As for Eunuch, she was truly convinced and turned to Danny , taking both of his hands, said tenderly, "You are amazing." Eunuch looked up at Danny , a purple zing swirled in her eyes again. Danny looked down at Eunuch , a purple zing swirled in his eyes again.
Taking Ericka's hands into his own, Dracula turned her face upward by the chin to look at him. "You know I will always love you," he whispered out of affection. This brought tears in Ericka's eyes. Dracula and Ericka gazed tenderly into each other's eyes, and suddenly a purple zing casted on their eyes once again.
While Dennis and Martha watched happily for his grandparents and their former rivals, Winnie and Willie approached them and leaned their head on the side of his face. Dennis knew what she was doing as he tried avoiding eye contact with her.
"Look at us, Dennis and Martha . Look at us," Winnie insisted. "Come on, you can't deny it."
Dennis and Martha tried to resist eye contact with Winnie and Willie, but they panicked and ran, shouting, "No, We're too young to zing!" As they ran off, Winnie followed him.
While Luna laughed at Dennis and Martha's predicament, she turned and found herself making eye contact with Evan, who leaned in a little too close to her face. Shyly, she tried keeping her focused long and hard on his eyes. Luna knew what he was trying to do, and Evan knew it what it meant too. But then, a blue cloud separated the children at a couple of feet away from each other, and they knew who made that kind of mist appear.
"Daddy!" Luna groaned, angered by her father's interference.
"You know you're too young to zing, sweetheart!" Dracula scolded, disapproval written all over his face.
"What's wrong with that?" Ericka saw nothing wrong with her daughter zinging with Frankenstein's child.
As everyone noticed the merpeople standing in levitating water sprouts, Charles caught the eyes of Cordelia, an older mermaid, and another zing occurred between human and mermaid as they smiled at one another. However, the trio of mermaid sisters smiled wickedly at Danny as he began to sweat, recognizing those are the same mermaids who attacked him during the underwater volcano tour. Danny knew that if his uncle married the mermaid, it wouldn't be quite a big happy family.
Luna said, "Thank you," to Nixie and her mermaid family for all their help, including Nessie the loch ness monster, as the creature purred softly as her large head nuzzled the little girl.
Alone in the middle of the dance floor stood the embarrassed Van Helsing as all of the monsters and humans glared darkly at them.
"Heh, I feel kind of silly now," Van Helsing said. "For decades, I have hunted your kind, persecuted you... especially Quincy, and the Van Helsing ."
All of the monsters grunted in agreement.
"And you tried to hurt us humans, including our children!" Mike growled, and the other humans agreed irately.
"We were taught to destroy humans if they betrayed our kind for monsters," Charles explained.
"That's no excuse for what you've done!" Mike retorted, although Linda tried to calm him down.
"The only thing I can do to make it up to you is... give you a thirty percent refund," Van Helsing decided. He thought he'd get a big cheer, but no one was excited about that, and the crowd booed at him. "Oh, all right, a full refund!" he gave in.
The time, the crowd cheered, except for three humans whom refused to accept the monsters.
"Are you insane?!" Kitty Cartwright ranted, pushing her way through the crowd, followed by Levon and Harper whom looked quite annoyed. "You want to give a full refund to every monster present, after everything we risked for to destroy them! I refuse to participate in your ridiculous kissing up to those disgusting creatures! We can't live in a world with monsters! We have to-" Her mouth was clamped shut by a piece of tape Molly put on her mouth and Mavis used her powers to use the Vampire Killer chain to tie up that irritating woman and the two men.
"Put a sock in it, lady!" Molly sneered amusingly. "If I had a sock, I'd shove it in your mouth. Besides, my best seller novels are way better than your garbage."
Sometime a little later when everyone boarded the ship and sailed away from the City of Atlantis, the Kraken and Nessie waved goodbye to the cruise ship.
But what nobody knew was that as the anchor was hauled upward, Quincy held on to the chain as it pulled him inside an opening through the ship. His expression had an evil murderous smile. "If I can make you suffer once, Dracula, I can do it again!" He still possessed the orb as it began to glow a haunting green light.