Sorry if it took a long time but I had school and work to deal with. But here it is!

Chapter 7

Mavis walked through the lobby with a light hop in her step. She had managed to find some worms wart soup with frogs breath (thanks to Sally) and was on her way up to bring it to the ghost boy when she noticed a familiar head of red hair disappear with her dad through one of the secret passages. Curiosity getting the better of her, she handed the bowl of steaming liquid to one of the suits of armor and told him to bring it to Danny while she took care of a guest. Transforming into mist, she followed the two until they got to one of the many lounges of the hotel. When her dad went off to talk to Frank, Wayne and Murray, she decided to investigate the boy, peeking at him from the ceiling, she spoke, catching him off guard.

"Hey. What are you doing here?" she asked, moving to the floor to look at the boy, who was shyly avoiding eye contact.

"U-Um just helping your dad with planning." he stuttered.

"Planning? My dad? That's hard to believe."

The boy rung his hands before sticking them in his pockets.

"I- um- never caught your name." He said, finally looking her in the eye.

The vampiress smiled at the red head and held her hands behind her back.

"My name's Mavis."

"Mavis? That's a pretty neat name." The boy said, seeming more and more comfortable around her, he tilted his head slightly as Mavis shrugged.

"Yeah, my mom picked it." Mavis leaned closer to the boy, interested in the fact he didn't seem like a monster. "So, are you going to tell me your name?"

"Me? My name? Uh... Good question. Well, obviously, I'm..." He paused as if having to think about it. "Frankenstein."

Mavis giggled.

"No, you're not. Frankenstein is my uncle over there." she said, turning to gesture to him. "The gentleman hugging Zombie Mozart."

Turning back to the boy, he looked slightly dejected and rubbed the back of his neck. A habit that made Mavis think about a particular ghost boy that was currently residing in her room, probably wondering about where she was. The boy spoke.

"Right. Of course, he's your uncle." His eyes lit up slightly at an idea, making gestures with his hands as he talked. "Well, see, I'm not the Frankenstein. I-I'm his cousin, Johnnystein."

"Johnnystein?" Mavis asked, crossing her arms as a spider lowered down behind Johnny.

"Hey, Mavis."

Johnny screamed and jumped forward, gracefully landing on one of the tables and destroying it easily. Frank noticed his appearance and stomped forward, only to be blocked by Dracula.

"Who is that?" he said, pointing at the redhead behind the vampire.

Mavis watched as the her dad muttered to Johnny before she sat down on the counter, watching them talk to her uncle. The two straightened and Johnny began to walk around, arms and legs stiff as he groaned and marched around acting like an idiot. Mavis raised an eyebrow at him as she leaned against a wall. Frank looked annoyed, glaring at Dracula, who just looked nervous and guilty.

"Is he making fun of me?" Frank asked as Murray and Wayne joined him.

"No, no." Drac stuttered, fixing the boy so he stood straight and quiet. "Of course he's not, because he's..." Dracula paused, as if trying to think of something.

Mavis decided to help him out a little. Despite it being strange behavior from her father that she was curious about.

"He's your cousin, Johnnystein." Mavis piped up, sitting on the bar counter.

"Yes, yes, yes." The vampire agreed.

"I don't have no cousin. (That grammar bothers me but that's how he says it)" Frank disagreed, confusion passing over his blue skinned face.

"No, no, you do. He's your sixth cousin, three times removed." Dracula explained.

"On your right arm's side." Johnny joined in, holding up said arm.

Frank held up his arm and flexed his fingers.

"You have a cousin?" he asked.

"Frank, if your arm could talk," Dracula explained, seemingly avoiding eye contact as his daughter watched him. "he would tell you that the original owner of your arm had a brother."

"Who married a woman." Johnny piped up.

"Who was-" Dracula ran his thumb over his neck, indicating that he was killed.

"For strangling a pig." Johnny finished.

"I have pig-strangling blood in my arm?!" Frank exclaimed before a huge grin passed his face. "That's kind of cool." He grabbed Johnny, his hand completely enveloping the smaller boy's and smacking him against the floor with his strength is what would seem to be a handshake. "Well, cuz, great to meet you."

Johnny nodded and rubbed his head from the pain.

"So, what brings you here, Johnny?" a voice asked from behind him, causing him to jump.

"Wah! What was that?" he exclaimed, jumping back much to the other monsters confusion.

Griffin, the floating pair of glasses that stood by where Johnny had been didn't seem to notice.

"Oh, sorry." he said. "I should really clear my throat before I speak. Anyway, what brings you here?"

"Oh. Uh." Dracula stuttered.

"Party planner." Johnny reminded him.

"Yes, I have recruited Mr. Stein here to help me with Mavis's birthday party." Drac said, setting a hand on the smaller boys shoulder.

The other four monsters looked at the duo in confusion.

"Wait a minute, you asked someone to help you?" Frank asked.

"Captain Control Freak?" Griffin asked.

"It's Count..." Dracula corrected. "And yes, I thought having a Mavis contemporary would be useful."

"Yeah, he totally needed a fresher perspective." Johnny agreed.

The monsters shared a look before giving Johnny a smug look, a frown prominently on the count's face.

"Okay, Johnny, Mr. Tight Coffin over here was planning to have these powdered lame-os play at the party." Wayne said, gesturing to the three zombies dressed as musicians. After dragging his friends over to him, he gave Johnny a small smile. "So, anyways, we thought we could liven things up a bit."

Johnny's eyes widened along with a big grin that grew on his face.

"Whoa! You all play? Let's check you guys out!" He said, the group rushing to the stage to grab their instruments.

To say it was slow was an understatement in Mavis' opinion. The four sang a song for Mavis' party and the trio watching were speechless. Unable to contain their shock to the song. It was when they started singing about Doritos that Johnny decided to put it to a halt.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, guys. Stop." Johnny said, waving his hands as the music slowed to a halt. "That's cute, but kind of old school."

Drac smiled and nodded.

"Yes, thank you, Johnny." he agreed, glad the teen was on his side.

"You got to totally tempo things up!" Johnny exclaimed, climbing up to the stage and grabbing the guitar.

Mavis watched, in awe, tucking some hair behind her ear.

"Here, let me show you..." Johnny said, setting up the guitar. "Werewolf man, give me a jam!"

Wayne gave a confused look but pressed down some of the keys on the piano.

"Two, three, four!" the redhead ran his hands over the strings.

Vampire girl with the fangy fangs

Hair real cute with the bangy bangs

Little princess gonna be a queen

Legal bat lady turning 118

"118!" The crowd that had gathered cheered.

"Say 118!"

"118!"

"Yeah! Stage dive!" Johnny yelled as he gave the guitar to Murray and jumped into the crowd only to fact plant the ground. "Awesome."

"I am so blown away right now." Mavis said after pushing through the crowd to get to where Frank was holding Johnny up by his jacket. "How did you think of that on the fly?"

"I'm a songwriter. Aside from party planning, I work on writing music. Yeah, I'm working on this song right now-" Johnny started but Mavis' attention was drawn to a certain white haired ghost.

"What's going on?" Danny asked as he entered the room, looking around as he rubbed his head. "It's so loud."

Mavis noticed the ghost boy immediately and grabbed him from his spot, yanking him like a rag doll to where Johnny stood. Luckily, the ghost boy was floating so he didn't really pose as much of a hassle to the vampiress, but of course since he was just pulled across the room, he hung limp in the vampiresses grip, his waist and his head throbbing.

"Danny?" Mavis asked, concerned as she looked at the boy bent over, one hand in hers with the other on his knee as he held himself up.

"Hold on. Just trying to get the room to stop spinning..." He mumbled.

Johnny seemed to notice the ghost boy's presence as a huge grin grew on his face.

"Dude! You are killing it with the white hair! What kind of monster are you?" He asked.

Mavis didn't seem to notice the red head's eyes flicker to her hand still holding Danny's as the ghost boy straightened. The two close in height as his glowing green eyes scanned over Johnny.

"I could ask you the same thing... " he said, maneuvering Mavis so he was slightly in front of her almost protectively. "I'm Danny Phantom. I'm a ghost. What about you?"

"I'm Johnnystein. Frankenstein's right arm's cousin." The redhead said casually.

"Johnnystein?" Danny raised an eyebrow, trading looks with Mavis before shaking his head and returning his gaze to the boy. "But you have a pulse. I don't sense any death on you. I'd think being made from body parts or even being aware of the hotel inquires having some kind of monster qualities but you seem human."

"U-Uh, no. Definitely not human. Hate humans. I'm for anything against humans." Johnny stuttered, scratching the back of his head.

"Against humans?" Mavis asked. "I know they're scary but they're not so bad."

Danny was only silent as Johnny stuttered to fix his slip up. The ghost boy could only stare at the redhead. There was something off about this boy and he was determined to find out. Mavis' safety might be on the line and that was one thing Danny wouldn't dare to risk.

'I won't turn into that. Ever. I promise.'

Danny blinked from the thought. Where had that come from? He rubbed his head, running his hand through his hair and finally dropping his gaze to the carpet, attracting the attention of the vampiress.

"Danny? Are you alright?" Mavis asked, setting a hand on the ghost boy's shoulder.

"Hm?" He looked up to meet her bright blue eyes. "Sorry, I was just thinking about something..."

Mavis nodded and Danny noticed that Johnny had disappeared.

"Where'd Johnnystein go?" he asked.

Mavis rolled her eyes, a small smile playing on her lips.

"He took off with my dad, saying they've got planning to do. I think they're up to something."

Danny nodded absently. His mind again running wild with questions. A new face appeared in his head. A tall figure with blue skin, red eyes and flaming white hair. A fanged smile made him shiver. Who this was, he didn't know. But he did know that they weren't good. His mind flickered back to Vlad. He had something to do with it. If Danny could only get into the sky, he might be able to either get Vlad's attention or at least get a hint to where he was.

"Hey, Mave. I'm gonna go for a fly. I need to think about some stuff." He said.

Mavis gave him a pointed stare before fixing him with a look.

"Well then I'm going with you." She said, crossing her arms.

"What? No."

"Danny, after what happened last time, I'm not letting you go by yourself. That guy got you pretty deep when he did hurt you and if he catches you off guard, you have no idea what he'd do and neither do I. I won't let you go out there by yourself and if I have to tell your aunt and uncle, I will. You are not going anywhere outside of this hotel without some sort of protection."

Danny held up his hands up in surrender to the intense blue eyes pinning him down.

"I know you're worried but I kinda need some time to think." Danny paused as Mavis' eyes narrowed. "I'll stay in sight of the hotel, ok?"

The vampiress sighed but nodded. Danny smiled and pulled the smaller figure into a hug. Their bodies fitting together perfectly. The ghost boy turned and took off through the walls before finding himself above the water. He smiled and took off.

'Danny, we know how much you want to protect us but don't forget, we'll always be there to help you too.'

'Yeah dude, we got your back.'

'I'll always be here, little brother.'

See you next Chapter!