Author's Note: Good news! This site isn't going to shut down at all after. I would've mentioned this in my Persona 5 story Desire & Hope, but writing another chapter on that story would've taken quite some time. I still feel stupid for believing in that horrid rumor and I sincerely apologize to anyone whom I told when I freaked out. I didn't publish anything else because I wanted to wait for a couple of days to see if this site stays, along with real live events happening and my sister's birthday as well. Anyway, here is a new chapter for Hotel Transylvania 3. Enjoy!
It was 10 PM that night at the Transylvania airport, the very same airport where Elona and Johnny had almost left in during the first movie. The Drac Pack, including Daniel and Sherrinford, were waiting outside the building for Elona's friends to get here. It wasn't long before a taxi rolled up to the side. The Fenwick family had arrived, all packed and ready to go. A lot of hugs and warm greetings were exchanged between families and friends. Melany gave her best friend, Bridget, a big hug. Frank had Gerald locked in a bone-crushing head lock, while the poor man struggled to let go, which he did, and Gerald took a deep breath.
During these happy reunions and warm greetings, two more people get out of another taxi which had followed them to the airport. Two people exited the car to find Sherrinford. A woman of British heritage judging by her accent when she said 'Thank you' to the driver and paid him. The lady was quite beautiful with a cropped bob cut of golden platinum blonde hair and ultramarine blue eyes which seemed to be studying the monsters out of caution and distrust. She wore a pale blue summer dress with a pattern of lavender flowers, ready for the trip.
Beside her is a young boy close enough to be the same age as Winnie, which makes him a year older than Melany, Dennis and Bridget. Apparently, he's the son of Sherrinford and the platinum blonde haired lady, inheriting his father's dark brown hair styled at neck length and forest green eyes, and his facial features looked exactly like his mother.
"ELLIE!" Amanda's famous perky voice interrupted their conversation.
Hearing that familiar voice, Elona asked Dracula to look after Mina in her baby carriage and, once the two women saw each other, they excitedly ran toward one another and locked arms around them in the most affectionate embrace ever.
"I can't believe you made it," Elona cheered, looking really happy to see her best friend.
"And miss out a chance to spend a vacation with my best friend and her family? There's no way I could pass on an opportunity like that!"
"Hey, aren't you forgetting someone?" Gerald had come over, eager for his next turn to hug his childhood friend. Thankfully, Elona came over to wrap her arms around him. He returned the gesture with equal affection. "I can hardly believe that we're actually going on a vacation with real monsters! It'll be like a dream!" HE looked ecstatic like a high school girl squealing over a crush.
"So, I hear your books have become a best seller online," Elona smiled.
"Thanks, but it's you I should be thanking." Gerlad flashed a proud grin, displaying two hard book volume copies read HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA. "I was inspired by your adventures at Hotel Transylvania that I wanted to write a novel series. Fans thinks those are better than the annoying Monsters Are Not Your Friends series." But his grin faded sadly. "Although I did promise my fans a third book, all I do is sit and stare at the blank page..."
"I'm sure you'll find inspiration while on vacation," Elona assured him.
Amanda glanced around at the rest of Elona's family and friends and politely commented about it. "The family looks beautiful. Your friends are looking great. Melany still looks cute as ever, especially the newest addition." She laughed at baby Mina burping and spitting milk in Dracula's face as he fed her.
But then, Amanda noticed two strange men she had never seen before. The first, a tall crimson-haired man standing by his lonesome while playing with his iPhone. The second, a ruffled dark-brown haired gentleman speaking to his wife and son. "Who are these guys? Are they chauffeurs or bodyguards?"
Elona realized who she was pointing to and explained, "Oh, the red-head is Daniel Belmont. And the other guy is Sherrinford Holmes, a detective from Scotland Yard. They're coming with us on the vacation."
A Scotland Yard detective accompanying them on their vacation sounded fishy. The reason why, Amanda and Gerald had no idea and wanted to find out. Daniel seems like a good person but...
Gerald's eyes popped wide open. "Wait, did you say Sherrinford Holmes? As in Sherlock Holmes?"
"Well, it's kind of hard to explain," Elona shrugged awkwardly, trying to find the right words to tell them. "But basically, to sum it up, Sherrinford is a descendant of Sherlock Holmes. And he's coming with us to... keep a close eye on Drac because... apparently, he's suspected of killing people by sucking blood and leaving a calling card at the crime scenes."
Amanda's jaw dropped, horrified. "Seriously!? That's so messed up!"
Gerald looked ready to punch someone. "WHAT!? There's no way Drac would ever-" His shouting nearly alerted some of the monsters close by that Elona had to slap a hand over his mouth.
"Shh! Not so loud! Look, the evidence is circumstantial, but the police are chomping at the bit to arrest Drac because... well, not everyone is a fan of monsters."
"UGH! Those heartless vipers!" Amanda growled, stomping her foot. "Just because some people dislike monsters, doesn't give them the right to arrest them."
Thinking hard, Gerald grasped a hand to his chin. "Sounds to me like someone has a grudge strong enough to frame Drac for these crimes to ruin his reputation. Do you know anyone who's capable of doing this?"
Before more words could be exchanged, Mavis grabbed everyone's attention to make the announcement. "Hey everyone, thank you for coming with us on this family vacation. But before we get ready to check in for our flight, I want to introduce you all to our new guests who're coming along with us." She gestured Daniel and Sherrinford, and his family, to come next to her so she can introduce them to everyone. "Everyone, this is Daniel Belmont He saved my baby sister's life a few nights ago. And this is Sherrinford Holmes, who broke up a fight between my mother and an... eh, unwanted visitor. And this is his wife, Violet, and son, Hamish."
The humans stared at the crowd of warm greetings and happy faces, some waving at them. Awkwardly, Daniel waved back with a strange smile. Sherrinford kept a good impression by bowing politely and waving. Violet and Hamish, on the other hand, just remained neutral without a shred of friendliness. As though everyone was ignorant of the mother and son's coldness, monsters were glad to meet the newcomers and say hello.
On their way through the airport, Daniel's happy expression shits to a frown of total disgust and frustration, eyeing the two species engaged in conversation or catching up like good times with such a look of hatred that no one the wiser seemed to notice. "Humans and Monsters are mingling together like they are friends! What is wrong with these people? Don't they know they're being corrupted by these devils? They're so ignorant!" he grumbled silently.
High in the nighttime sky, a white 747 jet plane flew smoothly across the sky. Those people on that plane were the lucky ones. However, behind that plane was another one. The jumbo Gremlin Airplane struggled across the sky with great difficulty. The junky old 1940s plane was bumping up and down while several unnecessary parts fell off, or what if they were necessary.
There were two green gremlin pilots flying the plane. When a bird's poop hit the window shield, one of the gremlins crawled out of the plane and smeared the bird poop all over the pilot's window. The pilot couldn't see, but he didn't seem to care, and he gave him a thumbs-up. Back in the cabin, there was chaos as the gremlin flight crew acted wildly like savages, throwing bags in the aisles and breaking every rule of human flight attendants, and it made the human riders uncomfortably scared.
A lady gremlin flight attendant stood in the front of the plane, announcing, "Ladies and gentlemen, please direct your attention to the front of the cabin." She held up a seat belt prop to do a demonstration. "For your safety, please unbuckle your seat belts."
A cyclops monster did as he was told and unbuckled his seat belt, just before the plane hit some major turbulence. He went flying through the roof of the plane and landed outside on the tail. He still hung on tight, but Violet looked concerned, so she disobeyed the rules for the right reason, and advised the other humans to wear their seatbelts.
"Nobody take off your seatbelts," Violet whispered, passing it along to the other frightened humans and buckling her son's seatbelt. "I wish I had known sooner that those filthy creatures were the pilots."
The flight attendant continued on with her speech, "In the unlikely event that we experience a sudden drop in cabin pressure, oxygen will be provided."
At that moment, a gremlin dropped down from the ceiling above Dr. Jekyll, who was quietly sitting in his seat. The gremlin grabbed Jekyll's face and blew into his mouth, making his eyeballs pop out like a cartoon character.
Another flight attendant went up to another monster who was holding his bag in his lap. "Can I stow that for you, sir?"
"All right, thanks," the monster replied.
The gremlin immediately took his bag and threw it out the plane window, barely missing a stunned Frank and Eunice.
Along came another flight attendant who pushed a snack trolley. "Beverages! Beverages! Snacks! Snacks! Beverages! A second gremlin was riding on top of the snack trolley, and he was also throwing food or drinks in every direction. "Beverages! Snacks! Beverages! Snacks! Beverages! Snacks! Beverages!" The trollies sped through the aisles, one of them hit a monster's elbow and it spun all the way around.
The Fly stepped into the aisle and was immediately run over by the snack cart, his eyeballs falling off in the process, grossing out Gerald to the point of nearly barfing.
"Beverages! Beverages! Snacks! Beverages! Snacks!" the gremlin kept on going.
A yeti shrieked painfully when his foot was crushed by the snack cart's wheel.
Another flight attendant met Murray, asking for his drink request, "Coffee?"
"Sure," Murray answered, but in response the gremlin poured hot coffee directly into Murray's lap to where the sun doesn't shine, causing the poor mummy to scream.
In the several rows behind him, everyone may be excited for their big trip, despite the humans' fear of the dangerous flight with gremlins, Dracula was the only one complaining, as he nervously fidgeted in his seat next to his precious eldest daughter Mavis.
"Mavis, pleeeease, you're torturing me!" Dracula whined to his daughter.
"This is a fun surprise," Mavis retorted calmly.
"You know I hate surprises!" he exclaimed, but whispered, "except when your mother has something special for me." Dracula resumed whining, "Just tell me where we're going." He looked around. "Why are we on a plane? We can fly, you know."
Vlad, who was sitting behind them beside Melany, chimed in, "Back in my day, people took trains. Now, that's classy."
Peering up over his seat, Dracula rejected his father's idea that trains were better, despite having traveled in one centuries ago before his unexpected reunion with a certain ex-girlfriend and crazed monster hunter. "Sure, Dad, forty hours in a closet-sized room with you and Uncle Bernie and his smelly cigars, arguing who was more attractive, Cleopatra or Nefertiti."
"Ahhh, Nefertiti." Vlad leaned back against his seat, sighing happily.
"Okay, Dad, thank you," grunted Dracula, sitting back down in his seat.
Mavis and Melany giggled in response.
Resigned, Dracula gave his daughter an affectionate look before it turned whiney, "Mavis, this is such an amazing surprise, and I can't wait to spend time with the people I love most, but I beg of you..." his voice got louder as he hollered, "TELL ME WHERE WE'RE GOING!"
"Nope, I've taken care of everything, so you don't need to worry," Mavis refused, gently placing a hand on her father's shoulder, making him smile a little. "You've been stressed out lately. It's time for you to relax."
Mavis pushed a button, and her father was suddenly leaned back against his seat, immediately put headphones in his ears, a neck pillow around his neck, and slipped a sleep mask over his baffled eyes. Then she took off his shoes and put on slippers. Dracula peeked out from his eye mask as Mavis covered him a blanket. Forcing him to relax, she took out some lotion and massaged it onto his face.
"Now, isn't that better?" Mavis asked, looking proud at all she'd done.
"Oh ho-ho, ye-he-hes. Soooooo relaxed." Dracula sat up in his chair, lotion smeared all over his face, his hair messed up and his mask slightly off. He looked, sounded, and felt ridiculous.
A little further down the row of seats, Elona glanced over her seat to check up on her husband and daughters. She was relieved they were fine, but the second Dracula caught his wife's green eyes, his expression darkened. Elona was briefly surprised, but she scowled at her husband's cold blue eyes. Neither of them had spoken to each other since their big fight over her decision to become a vampire. Descending back to her seat, Elona sighed and read a fashion magazine to preoccupy herself. Mina was seated in-between her and Amanda, sucking on his bat pacifier.
Amanda noticed how the scene played out, witnessing the married couple ignoring each other coldly. "What's wrong? You two are usually all over each other and Lovey-Dovie."
Elona glanced over her seat to make sure nobody would eavesdrop. "Promise me you won't tell anyone about this, especially my parents if they ever get involved." The maroon-haired lady nodded, and the blonde sighed, "I want to become a vampire."
Amanda couldn't believe her ears, staring at her childhood friend in disbelief. "YOU WANT TO BECOME A VAMP-" Her mouth was clapped by two hands since Elona covered her mouth to keep her from shouting it.
"Shhh! Keep it down!" Elona hushed her, before removing her hands and decided to explain herself. "Look, I thought about this for a while if it's the only way I can live alongside Drac as an immortal vampire."
"I understand," Amanda agreed. "But why hasn't he bit you yet?"
"Drac keeps refusing to do it because he believes I'll go crazy, lose all sense of humanity and hurt someone, which I will never do because I love my friends and my family."
"I know you'll never hurt us, even after you become a vampire..." Amanda assured her, even though she looked slightly upset, "and you get to live longer and I'll get older..."
The realization hurt Elona a lot more than a punch to the face. If she became a vampire, her human family and human friends will die of old age. If that wasn't bad enough, Johnny and his human family and friends will die of old age... unless Johnny could become a vampire, to spare Mavis and Dennis the heartbreak of losing him. Behind them, Johnny was sitting in the next row with Dennis and Winnie sharing the same seat. Johnny was gazing timidly out the window.
Taking this opportunity as a distraction, Dennis whispered over to his werewolf friend, "I'm gonna go check on you know who." Then he announced loudly, "I have to go to the bathroom." That way, his dad wouldn't guess the truth.
At the same time that Dennis snuck off, Johnny was startled by a gremlin growling outside the window. He turned to Winnie, asking, "Did you see that?"
Winnie was so nervous that Dennis could be caught that she blurted, "DENNIS WENT TO THE BATHROOM!"
"Uhhh... okay..." Johnny thought that sounded normal.
As Dennis, with an awkward grin, strolled down the aisle, he made it to the back of the plane where he snuck into the baggage area where he had hidden away his stowaway.
"Psst, where are you?" Dennis called out in the darkness.
Tinkles whimpered loud enough to get his attention. His huge eyes peeked out from a large pile of suitcases and luggage. The little red curly headed boy climbed up the pile to the top where he gently hugged Tinkles to calm him down.
"Don't worry, Tinkles. We're almost there," Dennis told his puppy, but then he heard a voice through the intercom.
The gremlin captain's voice came over the intercom, giving the opposite instructions of a typical captain upon nearing their destination. "Okay, folks. You are free to walk about the cabin as we've started our descent."
Outside the plane, a gremlin under one wing quickly smacked the engine with a hammer, forcing the plane to instantly nose-dive at a dangerous speed. Everyone held on tight to their seats, while the humans buckled their belts to keep them safe. Dennis flew back to his seat and gave Winnie a thumbs-up to let her know that Tinkles was okay. Elona shielded her baby from harm, while Violet was silently praying for everyone to make it out alive.
In the pilot's room, the two gremlin pilots didn't drive the wheel, carelessly allowing it to fall, while they warmed up some tea and had a little chat like nothing was wrong.
"So, any big plans for the weekend, Bob?" the captain asked the pilot.
"Oh, you know, the usual. Gotta take the kids to soccer," the pilot replied.
The plane continued to fall, its nose-dive going faster and faster than ever. It lost more parts, and it kept falling, until it crashed into the ocean with a huge splash. The gremlin pilot was behind the wheel, and he managed to calmly steer the damaged plane up to the surface.
When the plane bubbled back to the surface, the gremlin flight attendant announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, we've arrived at our destination - the Bermuda Triangle."
The plane, which was now a skeleton, still holding its passengers, floated toward the edge of a giant triangle-shaped hole in the ocean filled with an enormous tower of wrecked ships.
"Ooooo!" Frank and Eunice awed in amazement.
The plane floated to the triangle and plunged down the side of a waterfall. It splashed as it approached a sand bank where a ton of aircraft wreckage was stacked. All of the monsters gushed, "Oooh!" Especially the humans, despite their terrifying crash landing, were deeply impressed.
After everyone finally got off the skeleton plane, Sherrinford went around making sure everybody was present and counted for. "Everyone alright? Is everyone okay?" he asked, and every human or monster nodded.
Then the detective went over to his wife and son to see if they were safe too. "Are you hurt?" he asked them worryingly.
"We're alright, Mr. Holmes. Why do you ask?" Mavis replied.
"BECAUSE IT'S YOUR FAULT!" Violet retorted. Anger coured through her veins as she towered over at Mavis, who didn't understand. "How could you choose a flight piloted by incompetent gremlins!?" he yelled. "We could've gotten seriously hurt or worse!"
"Ma'am, I didn't-" A hurt Mavis tried to reason with her, but the British woman didn't want to listen to her.
"Shut up, I don't want to hear your excuses! This is the LAST time you're choosing a flight, you bloodsucking brat!"
Overhearing the fight, Daniel watched the scene unfold with interest. Perhaps not all of the humans at present would trust their lives in the hands of these creatures. An irked Dracula wanted to step in and protect Mavis from getting a reprimanding, but Elona decided to stop this before it got ugly.
"That's enough!" Elona furiously stands between her stepdaughter and the irked lady. "Yes, Mavis did choose the airline, but she probably didn't think this would happen." She gestured to the wrecked airplane. "However, I'd appreciate it if you NEVER insult my daughter again! So, let's drop this and go inside."
Violet kept glaring at both mother and daughter, but knew she didn't want to argue with her, so she reluctantly agreed. "Fine, but we're talking a different airline back home. Hopefully one with no gremlins on it!"
"Amen to that," Sherrinford mumbled.
The monsters and the humans exited out of the plane, carrying their luggage, and making their way through the wreckage. They discovered that this old ship was connected to a newer ship, then a submarine, then up through another damaged airplane, and finally they approached the door of an aircraft carrier at the surface.
The door gradually opened and there stood Stan, the half fish half man, the crew leader. Everyone stared at this monotone fish man for a while. Nevertheless, he politely greeted the monsters and humans at the door.
"Welcome to the Bermuda Triangle," Stan greeted in his usual tone. "Where you'll embark on a monster cruise of a lifetime!" He gestured to a giant and magnificent cruise ship that stood before them.
It was in that moment that Dracula finally realized where they were going. "A cruise?!" he gasped in shock.
"SURPRISE!" Mavis cheered.
"Honey, it's wonderful!" Elona scooped up Mavis in a loving embrace. "Thank you!"
"Wow, thanks, Mavis!" Melany levitated upward to hug Mavis's face before she moved back down.
"You won't regret it," Mavis announced.
"No, no, no, no!" Dracula refused, sounding disappointed. "But it's just like a hotel... on the water!"
"So, what? It looks perfect!" Elona grunted dryly, walking away from her glaring husband to go check on the luggage.
"I just figured you need a vacation from running everyone else's vacation," Mavis explained. "You've barely been out of the hotel since... well, since Mom died." Dracula's face softened sadly, knowing this was true. "But I know you left the hotel once to go on your honeymoon with my stepmother," Mavis gestured toward Elona, who seemed to glow in the northern lights above, making her appear angelic and more radiant than ever.
"I know you have a lot of memories there..." Mavis took Dracula's hands and tenderly swept him toward their loved ones, "but this is a chance to make new memories. With all of us. With Dennis... Melany... Mina... Mom... our family."
Johnny and Dennis stood side by side, gazing at the large cruise ship before them. "BOOOOOOOOOOAT!" Father and son droned.
"This is gonna be the best vacation ever!" Elona said, hoisting Melany in her arm while she held Mina in the other arm.
The lights of Aurora Borealis sent a glow of heavenly aura around the figures of Elona and Melany and Mina, as mother and children giggled excitedly at their awaiting cruise ship, but no one seemed to glow brighter than Elona tonight. His fight long forgotten with her had been replaced by adoration for his wife, Dracula felt his heart swell with love and pride over his family. He immediately knew at once that Mavis was right.
"Who made you such an amazing daughter?" the vampire asked lovingly, wrapping an arm around Mavis's shoulders to bring her closer.
"You!" Mavis smiled.
"Hehe, that's right. What a father and a husband I am!" Dracula boasted, before he rushed over to plant two surprise kisses on the cheeks of Elona and Melany and Mina, and then scooped up a giggling Dennis to hoist him on his shoulders, longing for the idea of spending time with his family. "Come on, Denisovich. Come on, Melantha. Let's get cruising!"
When he was alone, Daniel hauled his luggage beside him, grumbling, "I wish those creatures had drowned in the plane crash. Mrs. Holmes was right; they were so blind to put their trust in a vampire for 'safety' flying." When he looked up at the cruise ship, called the Legacy, Daniel sighed thoughtfully, "Let's hope this mission ends better."