Author's Note: Sorry for not getting back to this story sooner. I've been so caught up in writing P5's Desire & Hope, along with trying to come up with ideas for my old Persona 5 story that I got rid of a year ago that I want to redo. And real life events had been going on at home and at work for me. This week, my birthday is coming up and I've been making plans. Anyway, you'll notice that I added in another OC to the story to help keep the plot moving and to change the Drac finding a date idea to him becoming suspect in a murder investigation. I'm not sure whether to make the police detective either descendant of Sherlock Holmes or not, due to my love of Holmes stories and movies.

Enjoy!

The night after yesterday's anniversary and chandelier incident was over, tonight was for another celebration: a wedding at the hotel. Zombies Beethoven, Mozart and Bach had been playing soft lovely music for monster guests in the pool's courtyard, waiting for the bride to walk down the aisle.

Dracula noticed that the groom, a spiky monster named Carl, was sweating nervously. The vampire followed Carl's eyes to where the bride, Lucia, should have been. Then Dracula began sweating too.

The Drac Pack and Daniel are among the guests. Melany sat beside her baby sister Mina to keep her preoccupied by making silly faces, which caused the baby to laugh. Wayne brought his newborn wolf pups. He was carrying them in multiple baby carriers, and they were starting to get fussy.

Five of his pups had grown up over the years and had grown to be very well-behaved and responsible in order to help their parents look after their siblings: Warren, Waylon, Winston and Wyatt. They demonstrated this by snarling and baring their fangs to show their authority over the younger siblings. Caught off guard, the pups froze and sat down obediently.

Wayne smiled gratefully at his sons, appreciating their help. "When is this thing starting?" he asked.

"Wow, you got them to behave," Frank teased, still finding the werewolf's misery amusing. "Oh, and how's the newest member of the family? Coochie, coochie, coochie!" He pointed at the only female baby wolf pup who had never cried, she was the smallest and cutest of the bunch.

"That's Sunny, she doesn't cry," Wayne explained.

As Frank tickled the girl pup's chin, Sunny bit his finger. "OOOW!" he yelped, prying her off his finger before he reattached his finger back to his hand.

"She bites." Wayne smirked at the golem's little punishment.

"So, where is the bride? She was supposed to be here," Daniel asked, starting to get a little impatient.

"It's probably wedding jitters," Murray assured. "It happens all the time... until the bride changes her mind." That didn't come out right as some of his friends glowered at him.

"Hey Daniel, don't you have a special someone in your life?" Frank tried to change the subject.

This caught Daniel off guard. "Uh, what brought that up, mate?"

"Well, seeing as you're an attractive guy and you came here alone..."

"I... I used to have someone, but not anymore," Daniel replied. This was true, because a relationship would only distract him from his mission. "I did try to get a few girls in my life, but girls never wanted anything to do with me. My..." he hesitated, careful to choose his words, "ex can be... controlling." This was true.

Frank, Murray and Wayne gazed at the crimson-haired man sympathetically. To them, Daniel was an incredibly handsome man and a nice guy, but he was lonely, and it seemed like the only cure for his loneliness was... this sparked an idea for the Drac Pack.

Up at the altar where the ceremony was waiting to begin, Dracula spoke to the groom. "This is a very special moment, Carl. Any second your beautiful bride is going to walk right down the aisle." But as they stared at the empty aisle, waiting for Lucia to show up, the bride didn't even show her face.

Carl gulped fearfully. "Oh no, Drac! She's not coming!" he replied, still sweating from nerves and leading up to a broken heart.

However, Dracula remained calm. "Don't worry. Elona and Mavis are with her, and I'm sure they have everything under control." Dracula turned and discreetly spoke into his headset ton get in contact with his daughter and wife, "Ladies, is everything under control?"

Upstairs in the bridal suite, Mavis and Elona were given the tasks of being wedding coordinators. Both of them also wore headsets to speak to Dracula.

"Uhmmmmm… yep. Just a slight case of pre-wedding jitters," Mavis replied nervously to her father.

"A little? I'm afraid it looks serious," Elona cringed.

Lucia was a spiked monster, like Carl. She was shaking so hard that spikes shot out of her as she cried. One spike cut through Eunice's hair, pulling it off and revealing that Eunice was wearing a wig. Elona tried not to stare, but Eunice quickly snatched the wig and tried to put it back on neatly. Another spike punctured a can of hair spray that then flew around the room, and another spike destroyed a small picture on the wall. Dracula heard all of the commotion over his headset, cringing.

"Yep! Everything is fine here..." Mavis told her dad.

"I'll handle this," Elona said, turning her attention to the bride. "Lucia, please try to relax. Mavis and I have taken care of everything. The wedding is going to be perfect."

"It's not that. It's just... how do I know I'm doing the right thing?" Lucia cried, as she blew her nose into a handkerchief, another spike shot out of her.

"We know just how you feel," Mavis comforted her.

"The night I married Dracula, I had doubts about us spending our lives together," Elona assured her, explaining her story. This made Dracula cock an eyebrow, overhearing the conversation. "But I realized that I was starting a new chapter in my life," she continued. "It was the start of something special for me."

"And the day I married Johnny was the best day of my life, but I was so nervous," Mavis told her own story.

Dracula was still overhearing the conversation on the headset and spoke up, "Not as nervous as I was."

Mavis blocked out his voice. "And you should've seen my dad. He was a mess!"

"I wouldn't get out of my coffin that night."

"I had to threaten you to get you out of there," Elona playfully teased him.

"But he knew it was meant to be," Mavis added, her expression gentle and soft. "It doesn't matter where you come from, or how different you are - a zing only happens once in your life, and you have to cherish it."

"But what about your stepmother? She made your father zing again." Recalling the story of the Count and his new love, Lucia gestured toward Elona, who seemed taken aback by this response. "What if it doesn't work, and I zing with someone else?"

"That's not gonna happen! Look, sometimes it's rare to have a second zing," Elona explained, gathering her wits together before she spoke soothingly, "but in Drac's case, he lost his wife centuries ago and the night I encountered him in that fake village, we felt a zing the second our eyes met. For me, it was a first time. For Drac, this was his second chance for love." She patted the bride's hand. "Carl is your one true love, he has been the right guy for you all along. Nobody else will ever come between you, no matter how ugly things get, you will find a way to conquer those obstacles together. When Quinston, Drac's father and my family caused a rift between us, things did get ugly, but we fought together to prove our love is stronger than their hate. Don't let anyone tell you different."

Empowered by the woman's wise words, Lucia smiled, and her eyes were filled with happy tears. All of the women in the room sighed. Mavis was deeply impressed at her stepmother's wisdom. Overhearing this, Dracula sighed as his heart melted at his wife's inspiring advice.

"So, it's very simple. When you first met Carl, did you zing?" Mavis asked.

Lucia thought about it before saying, "Yes."

"Then what are you waiting for?"

"Go to Carl! Make this a night you will never forget!" Elona encouraged.

"You're right! Thank you, both of you!" Lucia jumped forward and hugged the mother and daughter.

"Yikes!" Elona gasped, trying to avoid the spikes.

"Okay... all right..." Mavis awkwardly soothed the monster bride, while trying to move out of the way of those sharp spikes.

A few minutes later, Lucia and Carl were standing at the altar. Blobby had volunteered to be the minister for the bride and groom. He was leading the ceremony and asked the very important question, or rather blubbered the question to Carl.

"I do," Carl fondly gazed at his beloved bridge.

Then Blobby turned to blubber the question to the bride, and Lucia's response is this, "I do," she replied.

Blobby loudly pronounced the couple as husband and wife. The bride and groom shared their first kiss. The guests applauded and cheered for the couple. Suddenly, they heard a loud rumbling noise coming from within the hotel.

"Did you hear that?" Elona asked her husband and daughter.

"I thought we locked him in his room," Dracula looked ready to panic.

"We did!" Mavis insisted.

At that moment, Tinkles the giant puppy ran through the wedding ceremony with Dennis and Winnie riding on his back. Guests ran screaming to get out of the way. "Hi, Mom! Hi, Nana Ellie! Hi, Papa Drac!" Dennis greeted, as if nothing out of the ordinary was going on.

"DENNIS!" Mavis, Elona and Dracula yelled in union.

"Tinkles was crying, so we let him out!" Dennis tried to explain.

After that, Tinkles barked and shook his head rapidly, throwing blasts of drool everywhere and on everyone, including Daniel. "Ugh, gross!" he groaned.

Then Tinkles sniffed the air, as if something didn't feel right. His nose directed him toward Daniel's direction. The unfamiliar scent from this newcomer didn't smell good to Tinkles. The puppy's teeth bared, and he started barking violently. He began charging right at the horrified stranger to attack him.

"Get it away from me!" Daniel shouted.

"TINKLES, SIT!" Dracula ordered, throwing himself between the dog and his new guest. Tinkles stopped, puzzled at why his master would defend this suspicious stranger.

"You two, get off! Right now!" Elona ordered, glaring firmly at the two children sitting on the puppy's back. A saddened Dennis and Winnie slid off the dog's back, whilst Dracula clipped a leash onto Tinkles' collar.

"I apologize for that," Dracula told the redheaded man sincerely, before he led the giant puppy away. "Come on, Tinkles. A wedding is no place for a doggie."

"Poor Tinkles," Winne sighed.

Dracula groaned irately. "Ugh. Who's idea was it to let Dennis have a puppy?" he asked over the headset.

"Yours!" Mavis and Elona replied in union.

Embarrassed, Dracula knew they were right. After all, he was the grandpapa, and the kind of grandparent who wanted to give his grandkid everything he wanted. "Right..." he chuckled.

"Come on, let's get you cleaned up and find you a change of clothes." Elona offered a towel to Daniel, who wiped the drool off his face, and then lead him away to help him find extra clothes.

"Sure," Daniel replied dryly.

"Dennis!" Dennis and his werewolf friend froze in alarm when an angry Mavis is standing in front of them, however her face softened. "Look, honey, I know you love Tinkles, but we're not allowed to have dogs..." The second Mavis said that particular word, Winnie gasped since she was half dog due to wolves being part of the canine family. Mavis quickly corrected herself so not to offend Winnie, "Uh, I mean our pets anywhere, okay?"

Dennis hung his head sadly. "Okay..."

During the commotion, another guest had just arrived at the hotel - a human. He appeared a little older than Elona and Daniel, presumably in his late thirties. He dressed in a black suit with a dark grey tie. The man had slightly ruffled dark brown hair, a pointy chin and hawk-like nose and forest green eyes. Under his suit, he wore a white long-sleeved shirt and dark shoes on his feet. He had witnessed the commotion happen, wisely staying out of it. He watched as Dracula had taken the dog away, his sharp eyes watching the vampire leave the scene with a scrutinizing gaze. "Count Dracula," he mumbled. "That must be him."

Later at the wedding reception, Johnny is the DJ and everyone was dancing in the ballroom, mostly to the song in the background was I'm in Love with a Monster by Fifth Harmony.

"DJ Jazzy Johnny is in the house! It's time to welcome the happy couple, Mr. and Mrs. Prickles!" he announced. Lucia and Carl entered to the applause. Johnny began to play a slow romantic song. The couple took the floor for them to dance. "The bride and groom invite everyone to join them on the dance floor," Johnny added.

All other monster couples all joined in. Melany watched a lot of couples together, dancing and gazing into one another's eyes lovingly. She noticed Dennie and Winnie, despite their fiasco with Tinkles, began dancing with the other children. For some reason, Melany didn't want to go with them. She wanted to find someone to dance with, let alone find someone who will love her.

Meanwhile, Dracula looked at all the couples dancing, and sighed solemnly, saddened that he had no one to dance with. The vampire desperately checked his phone, waiting for Elona to call back, but he felt disappointed, feeling like he had been let down.

Just then, a graceful hand tapped him on the shoulder and a smooth feminine voice asked, "Care to dance?"

Dracula turned around to find a beautiful, ginger-haired, green-eyed Frankenstein woman standing there in an elegant sparkling red dress and a gorgeous hourglass figure. The vampire was awestruck by her beauty, but his heart still belonged to Elona, yet he decided not to appear rude, so he agreed to dance with her.

But the vampire didn't realize what his friends were up to; they had been trying to find a perfect soulmate for Daniel, but it seems like their plan had backfired. Frank, Murray and Griffin were hiding behind Bigfoot's giant ankle, watching to see what Dracula would do. They were shocked that their friend had agreed to dance with the lady they intended to set up with Daniel.

"Is that her?" Griffin asked.

"Oooo! Watch out, now! She got stitches in all the right places," Murray gawked, staring.

Griffin studied the woman's appearance and then back at the golem monsters. "Okay, there's no way that is related to you, Frank."

"Well, she's my right arm's cousin, Franken-Ginger," Frank replied.

They watched as Dracula politely held out his hand politely. It all happened in a flash. Ginger took his arm with a huge, strong, manly arm, and then dipped the poor vampire backward.

"Ah! I see it now," Griffin frowned, looking at Frank's arm to Ginger's arm when he finally noticed the similarity.

It was clear that Dracula was very uncomfortable, letting Ginger ensnare him in her grasp. "Uh... hehe... Are you here for the bride or groom?" he asked.

Ginger gave the vampire a hard look, then smiled. "I'm here for you."

Dracula didn't understand this. How could some other woman come after him when he was already taken? "Uh, excuse me?"

"Frank wanted me to meet some stupid human, but I can see you're pretty lonely. We're arm cousins twice removed." Ginger stroked the Count's face with her stitched-up hand, twirled him, and then dipped him again.

Dracula's eyes widened in horror. "Of course. Eh, I'd recognize that bicep anywhere."

"He thought since we're both single, we might hit it off. Maybe go on a date," Ginger suggested in a seductive manner.

This got Dracula very nervous. "A date!?" He was already married to his precious Elona and he could never betray her like this. Laughing awkwardly, he used his powers to zap Johnny's DJ booth and change the music to something fast-paced to get him out of the non-romantic moment, much to Johnny's chagrin.

"I love this song!" Ginger started dancing wildly on the dance floor. "Don't you, Dracula?" When she turned around, she realized the vampire was gone. "Oh, where'd he go? Dracula!" She ran off to look for him, unaware that he was hiding behind Bigfoot's giant ankle. He sighed in relief, glad to be out of there.

"He's right over here!" Having returned with a new red suite to wear for the party, Daniel pointed to the vampire and loudly exposed his hiding spot, knowing why he was hiding. He merely did it out of amusement, eager to see how this would play out.

"YOU IDIOT!" Dracula hissed, but it was too late.

"Oh, there you are!" Ginger caught the vampire with her huge bicep arm and hauled him back onto the dance floor.

Dracula knew he had to get out of there the hard way, by telling her the truth. "Uhh, look, you seem really nice, Miss Ginger, but I'm already happily married, so can you please let me go." He explained to her while struggling to get out of her grip.

Ginger chuckled sadistically, "What does that little tramp have that I can't give you, and I don't see her anywhere."

"TURN AROUND!"

The angry voice forced Ginger to turn around, still holding poor Dracula to see who said that to her. And who she saw was a very angry Elona, not happy at seeing this woman all over Dracula.

"Now you see her!" Elona snarled in a scorned tone, giving this unwelcome guest the mother of all death glares.

"Well, I don't see much." Ginger snickered.

"Look lady, I'd appreciate it if you'd let go of my husband now!"

Her tone of command did indeed for Ginger to release Dracula, who fell to the floor gasping for air. The haughty golem lady looked her up and down, rudely commenting, "When he told me that he was married, I didn't expect that you'd be a human!"

This got Elona's eye twitching. "Is that a problem?"

"Not to everyone, but it might be a problem for you!"

Their not so quiet voices drew the attention of the monsters, including Carl and Lucia. Everyone glanced in their direction to see what was happening. Melany, who decided to eat cake with Mina, curiously stared at the scene before her. Mavis's head peeked over the crowd, shocked and worried over what was happening. Johnny, trying to change the tune, paused when he overheard the two women locked in a heated argument.

"What's going on?" Eunice, for once, had a right to be concerned.

"It looks like there's going to be a chick fight!" Murray whispered, secretly getting excited about this.

"Should we stop this?" Griffin was worried.

"Don't worry, if things start to get out of hand, Drac will stop it," Frank assured him.

Back to the two women, things were just starting to get even worse. Not only that, but the ruffled, brown-haired man from earlier was also watching the commotion. He stood alert, ready to intervene, as though he had done this before in the past.

"What do you mean?" Elona questioned.

"Wake up sweetie, do you really think your relationship with Dracula is going to last forever?" Ginger sneered with a smirk.

Elona looked like she was about to punch this haughty tramp in her face, so Dracula decided to try and calm his wife down. "Wormbun, let's end this," he pleaded to her. "So let's just walk away and..." but he was immediately cut off by his wife.

"Stay out of this, Drac!" Elona shouted while gently brushing her husband aside. "You have no right to comment on my marriage, tramp!"

Ginger scowled dangerously at that last part. "Oooooo!" The crowd gasped at what the Countess just said. But then, a cruel sneer appears on her lips. "Oh sweetheart, don't you know? Dracula is a vampire which means he's immortal. And since he's immortal and you're not, he's going to outlive you. Plus, do you honestly think he's going to stick with you when he can have someone better!"

That earned another "Ooooo!" from the crowd when she sassed Elona like that.

That last part set Elona off. Her anger had reached a breaking point and clenched her fists, looking like she was about to blow. But then she took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. Then she pointed at Ginger's manly arm and smirked. "Oh, you have a loose stitch."

"Really, where?" Stupidly confused, Ginger examined her strong arm for the loose stitch.

"HERE!" And with that, Elona drew back a fist and punched Ginger directly right in the face, the impact knocking her backward to the floor, and then she tackled her.

The crowd cheered for the fight. Murray was secretly recording it on his phone while the Drac Pack chanted for Elona to win. But Dracula was panicking as he desperately tried to stop the fight before Elona got seriously hurt, but he couldn't get near them.

"Hey, get off her! GET OFF HER!" The man, speaking in a British accent, comes rushing in, grabbing Ginger's arm and abruptly shoved her aside. He kindly helped Elona get back on her feet. Behind him, Ginger got to her feet and the man doesn't hide his playful smirk. "Don't you think people might mistake you for a gold-digging prostitue when you throw yourself at a happily married rich man?"

"Ooooo!" The crowd awes at the man's snarky comment.

"WHAT THE...!? Who the hell do you think are you!?" Ginger snarled at the newcomer. It's bad enough she got attacked, but to see another annoying human tell her off, she decided to throw a fist at this meddling nuisance.

However, the man smirked almost as if he expected this. He quickly countered Ginger's punch by blocking her fist with his arm, then literally ripped her muscled arm apart from her body. Next, he judo-flipped her with the other arm and slams her to the ground.

"You should be careful on who you pick a fight with, lady." The man chuckles, looking down on his defeated opponent.

"This is assault! Somebody call the police!" Ginger shouted indignantly.

Suddenly, the man's face grew serious as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a golden police officer's badge. "Funny you should say that because... I am the police. Let's say I take you down to the station and we'll have a little chat, okay?"

The whole room falls silent. Every monster in the room felt their stomachs drop. Why a police officer had come here in the middle of a wedding party made them feel uneasy. Even though he did break up a fight, an aura of intimidation and authority radiates from this man. Daniel quietly scoots to the side, confused to why a member of the police is here. He had nothing to worry, since he's not on the Wanted list and the officer isn't looking for him, the redhead needed to remain cautious for the time being.

"Remind me never to get on his bad side..." Murray whispered to his friends, half scared.

Ginger's rage vanishes once she realized that she had just tried to attack an officer of the law. "Aah! I'm sorry! I'll just be going now!" And like magic, she made a mad dash right out of the ballroom for good.

"Hey, come back!" The man shouted as he tried to stop her, only to sigh when his attacker was out of reach. "Ugh, I'll just have to alert the authorities later." He turns around to face Elona. "Next time you fight someone trying to steal your husband, don't do it in front of an officer. Because it would look like you started the fight instead of her."

"Uh, sure..." Elona replied hesitantly. "And thanks."

"No problem. It's my job."

Noticing the crowd continuing to stare, Dracula hastily addresses the audience, "Alright, nothing to see here! Carry on!" He gestured them to resume what they were doing.

Elona stormed back over to confront Dracula and the Pack, thinking that they had something to do with that stein girl throwing herself at her husband, interrogating them like an officer in an interrogation room. "Okay! Which one of you invited that trash here? And why were you dancing with her?" she narrowed her eyes at the scared vampire.

"I was waiting for you, Blood Jewel!" Dracula tried to explain. "I didn't expect some one-muscled arm lady to come all over me. And furthermore, where were you?"

"I was helping Daniel pick out new clothes since that fiasco with Tinkles!"

"Obviously..." Dracula grunted, realizing the redhead was to blame for his wife's absence despite finding him a new suite.

The Drac Pack shared guilty frowns and knew they had to confess why Ginger was here. "Ellie, don't be mad," Frank admitted. "She's my right-arm's cousin and I invited her to come here because we thought we could set her up with Daniel."

Daniel couldn't believe his ears. This was clearly the first time someone had tried to pair him up with a girl, only for the girl to reject him for someone else. "What, why? You know she's not my type." Thinking back, Ginger didn't really seem like his type after all despite their matching colors. Especially after overhearing she thinks humans are stupid.

"Cause we know how lonely you were so we thought we could find you a girl," Murray said.

"We totally didn't think she would go and flirt with Drac, we swear!" Griffin told them.

Hearing the explanation, Dracula and Elona felt sorry for Daniel upon learning he was feeling lonely and never had a special person in his life.

"Look mates, I appreciate your concerns but I'm fine," Daniel sighed. "Plus, I'm not really into monster girls."

Then Elona went to comfort him, confidently placing a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, you'll find your zing someday."

"Zing? What's a zing?" Daniel was baffled by such a word.

"Well, it's a monster thing, it's like love at first sight" Dracula explained, "when someone meets his or her soulmate, that someone will spend eternity with their soulmate forever. It happened for me and Elona, it happened to Mavis and Johnny, and I'm sure it will happen for you."

"I'm not sure about that," Daniel replied, not confident that he'll ever find love.

"Ahem!" The officer cleared his throat to get their attention, which he did. "This zing talk is nice and all, but can we cut to the chase, please." The gang's eyes all turn to him, wary and confused. "Count Dracula, I need to speak with you."

Dracula's body grows tense. Something told him that this isn't just a friendly visit from the police. Whatever it is, he'll find out soon enough. "What is it?" he asked.

"Let's discuss this somewhere private." The man pointed to the exit as he left the ballroom first.

Shrugging, Dracula follows him. Elona decided to join them, determined to find out what's the reason behind this man's visit. "Sure, I'm not too busy," the vampire says. "I'll get back to the party after we talk about why you're here and blah, blah, blah."

"Um, did you guys hear that?" Frank asked. "He actually said 'blah, blah, blah!'"

"I don't say blah, blah, blah!" Dracula angrily insisted, but no one believed it, and he left.

"Sure you don't," Elona giggled.