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CHAPTER 11 - The Harsh Reality
The vampire did not answer for a moment. She turned to her father, took his arm with her hand and looked him straight in the eye.
"What do you mean 'we cannot do anything'?"
Mavis sat up on the stretcher leaning towards her father, and came face to face with him, but he continued to avoid his daughter's gaze and did not respond, so she yelled:
"WHAT DID YOU WANT TO SAY!?"
"Mavis, I'm sorry, it's too late for him, he's already dead..." Dracula replied sadly.
These words shocked everyone present. Jonathan was the first to bring a wave of modernity and fun to the hotel, so all the monsters felt affection for him.
Wanda burst into tears and hugged her husband who was also upset. Murray fainted, falling limp on the floor leaving only the long linen bandages scattered on a bed of sand. Griffin took off his glasses so no one knew how he reacted to the news. The one who reacted the worst was Frank. Among all the monsters he was the one who loved the boy the most. He began to short circuit, have convulsions and emit sparks from all over his body, while Eunice tried in vain to calm him down.
Mavis was horrified, then with a trembling voice said:
"No... No... No... I know jokes. You just want to punish me for escaping like I did; now you bite him and he turns into a vampire..." She forced herself to smile, but Dracula was serious and he was looking down without answering.
Mavis turned to Jonathan lying lifeless beside her and softly said:
"Come on sleepyhead, wake up..."
"Mavis, please stop!" Dracula broke the silence in a desperate voice.
"Jonny ... Jonny ... JONNY!" The vampiress gasped, and then she jumped down from the stretcher taken by grief and reached Jonathan to hug him, the tears streaming down her face. Choked with sobs she began to shout:
"Jonny, nooo! Please don't leave me now! Open your eyes!"
"Mavis calm down! You're hurt; you shouldn't shake like that!" Dracula tried to calm his daughter. He tried to make her leave the boy's body by force, even with assistance of Dr. Jekill, but the more they pulled the more she clutched him.
"I will find a way... I will not abandon you... I will never abandon you... because you're my Zing and I want you here, beside me!"
"Mavis, I'm sorry, but there's nothing we can do for him."
"NO! You're lying, as you always have! If he can't come back as a vampire we can bring him back as a zombie."
"Mavis, you must understand that zombies are just humans without a brain, he will not remember you or love you, and he would be less than a shadow of the old Jonathan..."
"I can't abandon him... it's all my fault"
"My honey, do not say that, it is not your fault."
"I shouldn't have avoided that arrow, it was meant for me!"
"Mavis, stop fidgeting, please!"
"I should have bitten him when I had time; it's my fault that I continue to listen to what you say!"
"Mavis, now you're exaggerating!"
The vampire was now desperate, fearing his daughter could worsen her wounds; he took her hair and arched her head back violently in search of her eyes. Doing harm to his beloved child killed his soul, but he knew that it was necessary.
"Now you will fall into a deep sleep." The vampire pronounced solemnly, with an aura of red energy around him.
BOOM!
A muffled bang echoed through the hall, Dracula and Jekyll were pushed backwards falling on the floor.
"Damn, her emotions are giving her an uncontrollable power, she even rejected my hypnosis ... I am left with no choice, I'm sorry my little Mavy..." Having said that Dracula got up and walked over to his daughter.
"Forgive me... Mavis" He whispered in her ear, his words were full of disturbance.
"Aaaaaaaaargh" The girl cried out in sudden pain, her father had taken the silver arrow and was moving it, also causing his hand to burn, but the heartache he felt in being complicit in the torture of his beloved daughter was too strong of a pain to be able to also feel the physical one.
"Pant, pant, pant..." The breath and pain left Mavis without words.
She was too exhausted to grip Jonathan so she started to slip down. Dracula held her gently, but the girl's head fell back as a dead weight, her eyes were empty and lost, as if trapped in a fog.
He picked her up and put her back on the stretcher, the vampiress's ears hissed and her vision was blurred. She stood on the bed, while the nursemummys were carrying they away.
Dracula put a hand on doctor's shoulder to stop him and said:
"I want to talk to her as soon as possible"
Jekyll replied with a nod of his head.
"Security! Find out who was the responsible for the ambush and where they are!" The vampire Ordered to armor suits who were standing at attention:
"Yes, sir!"
At the request of her father, even if not directed at her, Mavis said:
"He said his name was Simon... Simon Van Helsing..." After pronouncing that name, she stretched out a hand towards the boy, as if trying to reach him, maybe for the last caress, but all the voices became muffled and distorted then she felt herself falling into a dark and silent void.
A bit short chapter, but full of emotions. It's my favorite for this.
Jonathan died, Mavis ended her first love story in 4 days and they lived unhappily ever after...
Ok, the story is not over yet...
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