A/N: 025284: Hi, I think I've found a way to incorporate your idea into the story, but it will be a couple chapters ahead. In the meantime, here's chapter 6

Mavis and Ericka had just arrived to Van Helsing's basement laboratory. Van Helsing had the crystal ray hooked up to some intricate contraption and was running a series of diagnostics on it. The computer screen he had beeped angrily several times as it ran through.

"Well," Van Helsing finally sighed. "It's broken. The crystal cracked, and it cracked beyond any repair."

Mavis was stunned. "Wh-what? Can't you get a new one?"

"Well, I wish I could young lady, but these crystals turn out to be VERY rare and VERY difficult to come by," Van Helsing reported. "Why, this one that you see here took me a good three years to find! The three years right before I came into guardianship of Ericka. I was but a young monster hunter at the time - okay, maybe not so young, but I felt young - with many more years of monster-hunting still ahead of me - "

Ericka put a hand up. "Okay, great-grandfather, please, you can save it for another time. We're on a little bit of a time crunch here." She turned to Mavis and whispered to her. "When my great-grandfather starts to tell a story of his monster-hunting past, you will never hear the end of it."

Mavis chuckled. "Kind of the same with my dad when he starts talking about his life before building the hotel. That's like 400 years worth of stories!"

The girls laughed a little and brought their attention back to Van Helsing. He continued.

"Yes, well, luckily my brilliant professor mind was able to think of installing a crystal locator on the ray itself, just for this very situation." He held up the ray, switching a hidden lever on it. It bleeped with a loud ping, and a hologram of the earth showed up before them. It swirled a few times, trying to pinpoint a location on the hemisphere, before indicating a location on the map with a bright red dot. Van Helsing announced where it had landed. "There it is! South America! That's where the new crystal will be!"

"South America?!" Mavis repeated incredulously. "All the way over there?"

"Oh, it's not so bad, Mavis," Ericka assured. "I've navigated through a jungle before. My great-grandfather had me train in the African vegetation for a few years for when I was still learning to be a monster hunter, and I'm sure South America won't be any different. We can just go there and grab a new one."

"I wish I could say it was that simple, Ericka," Van Helsing interrupted. "First, you will have to overcome the most perilous obstacles - jungle that stretches for miles and miles, under blistering heat, down a perilous river, with danger around every corner, not to mention the predators that will want to attack you!"

Ericka scoffed. "Oh come on, Is that all? I thought you knew me better than that great-grandfather."

He chortled a bit. "Yes, but then you will have to enter the cave of the REFLECTION!" His voice boomed, and Mavis's head shrunk in her shoulders. "Escape is impossible! For in your reflection, the guardians shall awaken, and you will soon be faced with an unspeakable EVIL!" He caught his breath from the outburst, almost sobbing at the traumatic memory. "It.. it… It cost me my right back wheel!"

Mavis and Ericka looked to where Van Helsing was pointing. The back wheel on his iron gray-body was now a smaller, sparklier purple one.

"I'm awfully sorry to hear that," Mavis commented politely.

Van Helsing tossed the ray to Ericka and wheeled off. "Well, happy hunting girls!" he told them.

Mavis groaned in exasperation. "This is disastrous!" She sat on the floor, tugging her knees up close to her head in order to conceal her distraught face. Ericka came up to her and patted the girl on the back.

"Hey, don't worry, Mavis. We'll get the crystal, change you back into a monster, and then everything will be back to normal before you know it." She got up and made for the door. "I guess I better tell your dad where we're off to. He'll want to know the reason I'm sure as to why he'll be spending his wedding night alone."

Mavis started. "What? Oh, no, you shouldn't tell him!"

Ericka looked at her, confused. "But why not?"

Mavis had to think quickly. "Oh! Because he will, uh, want to join us along on the trip! He'll slow us down with the sunlight and all getting in the way, and we otherwise wouldn't be able to travel during the day and night. And, if you want me to be honest…" She peered up at Ericka with what she hoped was a convincing look. "I kind of wanted to just hang out, together on our own. Haven't really had an opportunity since you and your great-grandfather moved in."

Ericka thought about this for a moment, and then her face softened. "Aw, of course I understand, Mavis. I'm sorry if I've been hogging your dad all to myself." She blushed considerably, but Mavis patted her hand reassuringly.

"It's all right. Now, let's go! We don't have any time to lose!" She leapt up in the air, flapping her arms wildly and expecting to mist and take the form of a bat. But instead she fell back down to the ground with a harsh thump. Mavis grumbled and sat up. "Right, of course. I forgot I was still human…"

Back over in the hotel's ballroom, the reception party had come to a close. Witch maids were cleaning up the remainder of the streamers and confetti that littered the floor while some lingering monster guests eventually went and retreated back to their rooms.

From the pool patio deck, Eunice, Wanda, Crystal, and Mandy returned back indoors. They were still reeling about the bizarre transformations that had just occurred with Mavis and Ericka.

"I can't believe how totally cool Ericka looks as a monster!" Crystal commented.

"Tell me about it!" Mandy agreed. "She's even more gorgeous!"

"Right?" Wanda input.

"There's just one thing I'm just not quite understanding," Eunice said.

"What's that?" the girls all questioned at once.

Eunice crossed her arms. "I mean, why go through all that trouble - you know, getting transformed into a monster and all - just to be able to tolerate some monster punch? I mean, there are other easier solutions that Dr. Jekyll or Dr. Gilman could have suggested for her. But then again, she did go to that strange old Van Helsing…" The Frankenwoman tried to wrap her head around it, but eventually shrugged it off. "Oh well!"

Just then, her phone buzzed in her pocket and she pulled it out to check.

"It's from Mavis, girls!" she exclaimed. The female monsters gathered around her as she read the text message out loud:

"Hi Aunt Eunice! We just went to talk to Van Helsing. Looks like this trip is going to be a lot more involved than we originally thought. I just left with Ericka to go and find a new crystal for the Monsterfication Ray so that we can both turn back to normal. Please, please, please, don't tell dad! (or else I'm positive he'll have a heart attack)"

"Huh. I wonder where they could be headed…" Wanda pondered when Eunice had finished.

"Ah, who cares where they're headed, as long as they come back unharmed," Eunice replied. She then pocketed her phone again and approached the punch table to pour herself some of the bubbly green monster punch.

"Thank goodness I'm a monster, because I just love this punch!"

"Oh, I hear you, sister," Crystal agreed, scooping a couple of glasses for herself, Mandy and Wanda. They raised the glasses up as Eunice called a toast.

"Here's to a successful and safe trip for Mavis and Ericka!"

"For Mavis and Ericka!" the girls repeated. And then, they tilted their heads back and downed the contents, licking their lips once it was all gone with a content sigh.

At first everything was normal between the four women. Then, suddenly, Mandy's glowing yellow eyes began to flicker. She blinked a couple of times startled at what felt like a sudden change coming unto her. She caught her reflection in the shine of the chalice she was holding and yelped when she saw that her eyes had turned into human eyes!

"Uhhh, girls! Something is going on!" she shouted. Then, her mummy wrappings began to loosen. She stared with panic at Wanda, who was too occupied looking down at her own arm which had begun to shed fur at an extremely rapid pace. The werewolf's eyes widened and she yipped in horror.

Crystal's situation was no better. A button nose began to manifest in midair. Then Eunice's stitching started to come apart, her body parts actually fusing together! She screamed as her wig embedded into her scalp.

"Oh, my HAIR!"

In the next instant, Mandy's wrapping dissipated completely, leaving her a human princess in ancient Egyptian clothing. She gasped in disbelief of herself. "What the - ?!"

Wanda's fur then fell clean off from under her dress and off of her now-flattened human face, the only reminder of her former werewolf-appearance being the small bob that hung neatly around her ears.

Crystal shrieked in embarrassment as more and more of her bared figure became exposed, and she quickly yanked a tablecloth and wrapped it around herself like a makeshift dress before it could all be revealed.

Eunice, while petrified at what was happening, suddenly became a little more relaxed for just a quick minute when she saw her human self in the reflective surface of a nearby window. Her luscious black hair flowed beautifully, and her contours were spot on. "Oh!" she exclaimed, and quickly took a selfie. As she looked up to see her friends, the reality of the situation sunk in and she felt that same petrification again. Eunice, Mandy, Wanda, and Crystal were all humans now.

Four transformations were complete, and four voices screamed out in utter terror.