Author's Note: Happy Memorial Day, everyone:)
Present Day
Everything that had all happened in the past - secret romantic rendezvous with Mina Harker, the need for disguises to avoid humans, being chased by Van Helsing, avoiding Leon Belmont - seemed like ancient history now that Dracula had built Hotel Transylvania. It was a hotel where, in the past, monsters could be safe from the outside world, from people like Van Helsing. It was the sanctuary for his precious daughter Mavis to grow up in to protect her from the outside world.
But all of that changed when two humans, Jonathan 'Johnny' Loughran and Elona Harker (although Dracula had long forgotten Mina and he had forgotten her last name when he first met Elona), accidently stumbled upon the hotel thanks to Dracula's scheme to selfishly deceive his daughter to never leave the hotel. Mavis and Johnny had zinged, which meant love at first sight, much to Dracula's chagrin. However, even the vampire had zinged with Elona, whom he had rescued as a child from falling off a cliff, causing Dracula to realize that his daughter's happiness and desire to explore the outside world was more important than keeping her confined in the hotel.
The most incredible thing to have discovered was that the humans love monsters now, and they were treated like celebrities. And then, Dennis and Melany were born, bridging the gap between humans and monsters during their family drama over what's important for these two kids when visiting relatives came along, including Elona's ex-admirer and harasser, Casimier Quinston, who appeared to be the only monster-hater in the world had been cast out, and his promise for revenge had been long forgotten.
A year has passed ever since the 5th birthday of Dennis Loughran and Melany Dracula. That night at Hotel Transylvania, it was the anniversary of Count Dracula and Countess Elona, a huge gathering of their closest friends and family and regular hotel guests in the Great Hall, all decorated for the occasion to make it sparkle while spiderwebs above read Happy Anniversary!
Outside by the pool, plenty of Tiki torches and glowing lanterns were set up or hung up around the area to give it a Hawaiian feel. Dracula wore a chef's hat and a red apron saying 'Bite the Cook' while flipping over pieces of spam on the grill. The Drac Pack friends either drank eyeball margaritas or ate spam mixed with side dishes. Melany, Dennis and Winnie played chicken fight in the pool. Vlad was relaxing in a lounge chair. Wayne sat in his chair, less than amused by his newborn pups crawling on him and chewing on his ears. Wanda and Eunice were engaged in girl talk with the female mummy and Crystal the invisible woman.
In the arms of Elona wriggled a tiny bundle in a velvet green blanket where Johnny made silly faces at the bundle to entertain the baby. The bundle turned her head to reveal the face of a vampire-human baby girl. The infant girl inherited her mother's facial features, golden blonde hair, and sapphire blue eyes like her mother. Her name is Mina, named in honor of her ancestor. The newborn daughter of Dracula and Elona, baby sister of Melany and Mavis.
After the last tune was done, Dracula suddenly raced up to the stage to make his announcement. "May I have everyone's attention, please." Everyone looked up, eager to see what their beloved Count has to say. "Honey, I have something for you," he said, beckoning Elona to come up on stage.
Curiously yet excited, Elona trotted up stage to see what her husband for her.
"My anniversary present for you is... well..." he smiled lovingly at her, shyly fidgeting his feet. "Before we get to it, there's just something I have to say. Ever since we met and zinged, my life has changed so much and for the better. I love you and I thank you for it, Elona."
"Awww," sighed the audience.
"Oh, Drac, I love you, too," she replied, pulling him into a loving embrace after his touching speech and starts crying tears of joy.
Returning the embrace affectionately, Dracula took this opportunity to slip something around her neck. Feeling the gesture, Elona pulled away to look down at her neck. Gasping in surprise, she saw a thin black velvet ribbon choker, or a necklace, around her neck, with a silver hook on her back neck to hook it together, and a small ruby shaped heart dangling beneath the choker. "Oh! It's so beautiful!"
"Happy Anniversary, my beloved," Dracula cooed, tenderly brushing some of her long brown locks aside so he could gaze into her alluring green eyes.
"Thank you, Drac!" Elona cried, throwing her arms around him and locked him in an embrace, to which he took this opportunity to slowly lean in to kiss.
The second their lips met, he pulled her closer in his arms so he continued holding and kissing her passionately. In the midst of the couple's making out, the crowd went "Ooooh!" and the kids groaned "Ewwww!"
"Get a coffin!" Griffin teased.
Rolling his eyes at the invisible man, Dracula closed his eyes to continue kissing when he grew concerned at why Elona pulled back from their kiss. "Darling, what's wrong?" he asked.
"Have you seen Mina?" Elona told him, worriedly looking around for her newborn baby.
"I'm sure she's fine." Dracula chuckled, waving off her concerns. But when he glanced in the direction of the table where the baby was supposed to be seated in her kiddie chair, his face turned paler than ever.
Outside the hotel in the distance, the origin of the noise was on his way here. It was a man riding a scarlet Yamaha motorcycle, a red helmet covered his face and his body coated in a red leather jacket, red gloves, red jeans and boots. Turning his motorbike on hyper speed, he crossed over the bridge to reach his destination and he pulled over in front of the staircase, screeching to a halt. He removed his helmet to reveal - Daniel Belmont.
Removing his leather jacket, he wore a crimson red dress suit with a white undershirt and a yellow tie and red pants and red shoes. Daniel gazed up at this dark ancient castle with distasted interest. This was the place he knew as the vampire's lair. But he knew he couldn't kill him yet, he had been ordered to win the monster's trust, but he had to create a dilemma so he could use it to worm his way into the vampire's trust. Shoving his motorcycle key to the zombie bellhop, Daniel picked up his suitcase and trudged up the staircase, squeezed through the revolving door, and entered the enemy's territory.
To his surprise, Daniel noticed a giggling female infant, wearing an emerald, green suit with a pattern of black bats, crawling her way through the lobby, gazing at this newcomer curiously. "A baby?" he muttered in mild surprise. However, this gave Daniel the opportunity to win over his enemy's confidence.
"Mina, where are you?" Dracula's affectionately called out for his child upon entering the lobby. As he did so, the vampire felt his heart leap into his throat when his eyes caught sight of the chandelier coming loose and falling - right where the oblivious infant crawled beneath it. "MINA!" Dracula screamed.
Suddenly, a flash of red lunged forward to scoop up the baby and tumbled across the carpet, just as the chandelier came down and crashed to the floor. Broken glass and light bulbs shattered everywhere as Daniel shielded the infant.
When Elona heard the crash, she had come rushing out to see what the matter was. Dracula used his cape to shield her from the shards of glass. As soon as it was over, Dracula snatched his child out of this stranger's arms, glaring at him suspiciously.
"Who are you, and what have you done!?" he demanded.
"Is that how you thank someone for rescuing a baby?" Daniel grunted.
Meanwhile back at the party, Mavis was looking around for her parents, wondering where they could've gone. "Johnny, have you seen my dad or mom?" she asked her husband.
"No," Johnny was too busy eating a burger freshly cooked off the grill. "I think they're looking for your baby sister."
"But where could they have gone?"
"I'm sure they're fine."
All of a sudden, Mavis heard a loud crash and used her clairvoyance sight, spotting a man carrying her baby sister when shards of chandelier glass spread everywhere, where her mother and her father were extremely terrified. Puzzled yet concerned, Mavis rushed out of the pool area and headed for the lobby, catching the attention of several Drac Pack members.
"Hey! Where's the fire?" Murray asked.
"Fire! Where, where?" Frank panicked, ready to jump up and run away.
"Not that kind of fire!" Eunice corrected him, making her husband calm down at last.
Once Daniel was helped to his feet by a grateful Elona, Dracula, still holding Mina in his arms, studied this newcomer suspiciously.
"Is she okay?" the man in red asked.
"She's fine." Dracula told him, cuddling his little Mina affectionately.
"That was amazing how you were able to save my baby in time. Thank you," Elona added, deeply impressed at this man's assistance.
Dracula grunted jealously and stared at him, decided to interrogate him. "Yes, that was impressive and all, but who are you and did you cause the accident?"
As calm as ever, Daniel feigned offense at the accusation. "Of course not. Why would I endanger a child like that? I saw one of your zombies carelessly messing around with the chandelier. I had to step in and do something. My name is Daniel Belmont..." He shook Elona's hand and kissed it like a gentleman, making the blonde woman blush.
Dracula paused for a second and was stunned to hear what his last name was. "BELMONT!?"
"Drac, have you met this guy before?" Elona asked her husband.
"No, we haven't met, but he knew my great-grandfather... Leon Belmont." Daniel explained, rather bluntly. "I read about you and my great-grandfather's exploits from her old diary, so I wanted to come down here and meet the vampire who outsmarted my great-grandpappy."
"Holy rabies! You're Leon's great-grandson?!" Dracula gawked, shocked to see that this man before him, his daughter's savior, was the great-grandson of his old enemy, Leon. On normal circumstances, the vampire would've evicted him if this newcomer had come to harm him and his family because of relation to Leon. However, he didn't seem like a threat because he just rescued Mina from a nasty accident. Accusations against him without proof made Dracula feel a little guilty.
"Hold on a second, who is this Leon?" Elona's eyebrows were raised, curious to know who was this man Dracula claimed to know a long time ago.
Embarrassed, Dracula was thinking of what he was going to say to her, but then decided to save the explanations for a different time. "We'll talk about this later." He lead them outside of the hotel.
After introductions were done of introducing Daniel to everyone else at the pool, and the awkwardness passed Dracula over how he knew Leon, Daniel decided to look around at the hotel's lobby for the first time and, despite hating monsters, he was secretly impressed that a medieval-looking castle was used for a hotel. He was even more impressed by the architecture and the 19th century furniture and tapestries. Soon everyone went their separate ways and Dracula went to get him a room key, leaving Daniel and Elona alone together.
"You didn't have to do this," Daniel told her. "Asking me to sleep here for the night, or day, as you call it."
"Of course I want to," Elona insisted. "I don't want to feel ungrateful for what you've done for Mina. It's my way of saying thank you. Although, I'm not sure how my husband would feel about it." Then she said something else, which sounded awkward to her. "So... you don't find it weird?"
"What's weird?" Daniel wondered what she meant.
"That I'm giving the descendant of a monster hunter a room in the hotel to stay in."
Daniel paused for a moment, not knowing what to think. He hated Count Dracula for humiliating his family name to his very core. He was even warned that any human who betrays their kind is a traitor. So he decided to make something up before it got awkward. "It's fine, really. It was a few centuries ago anyway!"
Dracula was about to head back to them with Daniel's room key, but he was stopped by his friends. "Guys, what is it?"
"So, Drac... how do you feel about all this?" Frank asked him.
"What do you mean?"
"You know, the whole situation with Daniel and all," Murray told him.
For a second, Dracula didn't understand until he realized what they meant. "Ugh... guys, it's not a big deal. I know he's the great-grandson of one of my enemies who tried to kill us. And yet, I don't know what to think."
"Anyway, I think you should try getting to know him," Wayne spoke up, trying to change the subject. "You at least owe that to his family, and he did save your son's life."
"Yeah, I mean he came all this way to meet you!' Frank added, trying to give the vampire a little push to interact with Daniel more. "I'd be ashamed that he came all this way for nothing."
Dracula wanted to object, but he knew his friends were right. He wanted to spend a romantic evening with his wife on their anniversary, only to nearly lose his infant daughter to a would-be death experience, and then rescued by the descendant of his former enemy. He had a difficult time explaining it to Elona, who was speechless at first, but she softened at wanting to repay Daniel for rescuing their baby. Then he left his friends to go talk to Daniel and give him his room key.
Once Dracula gave the man his room key and Elona had left to go check on Melany, he offered timidly, "Hey Daniel, if you'd like you can stay here for a while so you can ask me any questions you have, just not in front of my wife when it comes to my past, and I can show you around the hotel."
Daniel was surprised by this offer but he accepted it, realizing he had succeeded in winning over the vampire's trust. "Absolutely! I would enjoy that very much."
"Excellent!" Dracula grinned proudly. "And I would also like your help in preparing Carl's wedding for tomorrow, we need all the extra hands we can get. That is if you want to help?"
"Of course I'll help you," Daniel answered eagerly, although he lied at this last part. "Besides, I've always wanted to see what a monster wedding will be like!"