Author's note: Hi everyone; sorry for the delay in the publication of this chapter. I had to take care of a few items outside of FanFiction since my semester in College is coming to an end.
Anyway, I did not forget about my works on here. I now invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the chapter! :)
Weird Gesundheits
Dracula had just reached one of the elevators and pressed the button to head downward toward the lobby. Why was he heading down there? He had to address the main issues stated beforehand with the guest complaints, balancing the hotel's checkbook, and now finding a new phone system to replace the one he'd just smashed a few minutes ago. Before heading to where he is right now, he'd just given Mavis permission to head over toward the nearby village for a little while with her zing, Johnny while warning his daughter to bundle up this evening as it had been predicted by the local news to be extremely cold. While thinking about his daughter having a great time tonight, he was also worried that his little honey bat might get sick and that's the last thing he needs right now.
Anyhow, a small ding could be heard and the elevator door opened. Dracula stepped inside and pressed the button to send the elevator down to the lobby. After that, the doors closed and simple elevator music began to play. Previously, the elevator music consisted of a creepy organ score performed by one of the zombie musicians. However, it got replaced by regular common elevator music because of customer preference (not really by individual preference; the customers were persuaded after hearing some of Johnny's music from his smartphone). Despite that the general atmosphere was more calming and inviting by the music change, Dracula was not thrilled at all. He placed his hands over his ears in an attempt to drown out the tune. However, his attempts are futile as he can still hear the tune playing through his head. He was about to lose it and go insane with all the "IT'S TAKING MY SOUL!" stuff until the elevator stopped and the doors opened. Most of the lobby had stopped what they're doing and stared toward the vampire who then produced a nervous grin of embarrassment on his face. He stepped out and then walked over to one of the desks. Before he could reach it, however, one of his friends stopped him for a brief conversation. Who was it? Why it was his good friend, Frankenstein of course.
"Drac! It's colder than the abominable snowman in here!" Frank exclaimed. "Is there an issue in here?"
"I'm already aware of it Frank." Dracula replied. "I'm trying to find out how to fix the stupid heating system Johnny told me to install."
"Hmmm." Frank said. "Anyway, hope you get the heat back on."
"I hope so as well…" Dracula replied. "If I can't figure anything out, the entire hotel will go batpoop and they'll leave!"
After that, he rushed over toward his desk where he then took out some important papers and other business related items and began to read them thoroughly. While Dracula was rushing over to his desk, he failed to notice that Mavis and Johnny were heading for the revolving door. Both of them were well prepared for the cold as they had on the finest North face jackets available anywhere and they also had some pretty nice scarfs on as well. Johnny had a simple blue one while Mavis had a nice black and red striped one. They walked through the revolving door, one at a time, and the two then began their jog toward the nearby village.
-2 Hours later-
Dracula was still buried, figuratively, within his important paperwork. The good news is that he finally managed to balance the hotel's expenses, despite that he now had to factor in the cost of a new phone for his office. Now he has two issues to address now: one is with having someone fix the hotel's busted heater in order to calm the anger of the freezing customers and the other is finding a new phone to replace the one he smashed previously. After an additional hour, Dracula was finished with his business. He organized his paperwork into a neat pile and left his desk. He then decided to pay his daughter a quick visit before she left with Johnny so he got back in one of the elevators and rode up to the corresponding floor. After a slightly nice elevator ride…well…I wouldn't consider it nice because Dracula nearly went crazy with the complaints about the music…AGAIN, he exited and walked over toward the door for room 174. However, a voice shot out before he could land a single knock on the door. Whose voice was it? It's possibly the most sarcastic one you've ever heard: The shrunken head.
"Good luck getting an answer in there pal; she ain't here." The head declared to the count.
This made Dracula really confused. Usually, Mavis would be in her room or socializing with Johnny within the hotel.
"What do you mean she isn't here!?" Dracula questioned. "I only spoke to her like a couple of minutes ago!"
"Yeah, like Two hours ago you did." The head replied.
"Two hours!? How did that much time pass by already!?" Dracula exclaimed.
"Maybe because you were so busy looking at your paperwork that you didn't see them leave this place." The head replied.
Dracula stopped and narrowed his eyes toward the shrunken head. "Wait a minute…how did you know I was looking at some paperwork earlier?"
All of a sudden, a suit of armor approached the vampire with an urgent message.
"Sir! Sir! There's an emergency!" The suit declared.
"Ugh…I'm on it." Dracula said with an unamused tone. Usually when a suit of armor says there's an emergency, it's just usually some small items; like plumbing.
"It's not plumbing this time sir. It's two things: One is not really an emergency and the other is an emergency." The suit said.
"Alright, what are they?" Dracula asked.
"The first is that your daughter has returned sir." The suit replied.
Dracula, without saying a word, ran back into an open elevator and went down to the lobby, leaving the suit of armor and the shrunken head behind.
"But sir, the other emergency!" The suit exclaimed in an attempt to get the counts attention. However, he was already gone and on his way down to greet his daughter.
Down at the lobby, Mavis and Johnny had just walked through the revolving door. Besides their jackets and scarfs, they're also wearing some neat looking sombreros. It actually turned out that the local village was holding a huge fiesta for some reason. It can't be Cinco de Mayo because for one thing, it wasn't May and the other was that it was extremely cold out. Another big plus from this huge party? They also participated in a huge conga line and a few other customary party events. Before they could even start discussing the party that occurred, Dracula approached them.
"Mavy! Johnny! You're back! I didn't even see you two leave here!" Dracula greeted the two. "So how was your evening?"
"One word can describe it man and that word is AWESOME!" Johnny replied with excitement while removing his sombrero.
"I have to say, it was a lot of fun dad; probably the most I had in a while." Mavis commented while adjusting her sombrero.
"That's great to hear. By the way, where did you two get the hats?" Dracula asked while pointing to the sombreros.
"We got them by winning the limbo contest they had at the party!" Johnny exclaimed while dancing to the memory of the music that was playing.
"Wait…what is this 'limbo' you speak of?" Dracula asked in confusion.
"Dad, limbo is basically you have to dance your way underneath some kind of stick. If you hit it, you're out." Mavis explained to her father.
"Why would anyone ever go beneath a stick? Anyone can do it right?" Dracula asked.
"Yeah, but every time you go through it, it drops down further and further to the ground. Mavis here went through it when the bar was only 2 inches from the ground!" Johnny replied while demonstrating how close to the ground the stick was.
"Two inches?! But that's impossible!" Dracula rebutted.
"She did it though." Johnny said. "She actually told me how she did it as well!"
"Well…how did she do it?" Dracula asked.
"It's pretty interesting. She stood on one side while everyone was chanting her name. Then, without even moving at all, she-"
Mavis then sneezed, which interrupted Johnny's explanation to Dracula. Upon this, Mavis' father then produced a hankie out from his pocket and handed it to his daughter. After…uh…you know, Mavis tried to give her father the hankie back. However, Dracula told her to keep it for obvious reasons.
"Sorry." Mavis said while sniffling a bit.
"You alright my honey bat?" Dracula asked.
"Yeah. I'm actually gonna go to bed now since that party took a lot out from me." Mavis replied.
"You sure? I mean you just got back and all of your monster friends probably want to hear about that party of yours." Dracula asked.
"I'm sure. Besides, Johnny got all of the party on his phone so he can tell everyone." Mavis replied while starting to walk toward the stairs.
Dracula was quite surprised by this answer. However, if his daughter was tired, she was tired.
"Alright, good night my sweet blood orange." Dracula told his daughter.
"Thanks dad. Maybe I'll tell everyone a-about t-the-"
She sneezed again before she could finish her sentence. Without wasting time, she took out the hankie again and blew her nose. After that, she continued walking up the stairs and Johnny soon followed after her. Dracula then took the moment to think through some items.
"I hope my little Mavy Wavy isn't getting sick. That's the last thing I need to happen right now."
After thinking about that thought, and shaking it off, he decided to return to his important paperwork so he walked back over to his desk. However, Dracula was in for a surprise as his desk was nowhere to be found. The vampire just stood there with wide eyes looking at where the desk was originally. He then looked toward his left, followed by his right. Then he looked behind him and then put on a face of annoyance.
"Okay, who took my desk!?" Dracula shouted across the lobby with a tone of anger.
The hotel's patrons shook their heads in confusion and continued along with what they're doing in the lobby. All of a sudden, the suit of armor ran up toward the count.
"Sir! There's something you should know!" The suit declared.
"What is it?" Dracula asked while facing the suit of armor.
"You know that emergency I was trying to tell you about earlier? Well, part of it is that your desk is gone." The suit said.
"Yeah, you think I didn't notice?" Dracula asked with sarcasm.
"Yes sir." The suit replied.
Dracula then did a facepalm. After recollecting his thoughts on how to disperse his anger and how to demote the suit of armor for that remark, he then turned back toward the suit.
"What's the other part of the emergency?" The count asked.
"Well…this'll be obvious big time. The front door is gone as well!" The suit of armor replied.
Dracula then put on a face of shock. Without wasting time, he then ran toward the lobby and where the revolving door is supposed to be, it was gone; just like the suit of armor said.
"Okay this is getting weird." Dracula said to himself. "First, my desk and now the revolving door. Can't anything get any worse right now!?"
Right on cue, a suit of armor came rushing toward him.
"Sir! SIR! There's another emergency!"
Dracula just sighed in frustration and then turned toward the suit.
"Alright, what is it this time?" Dracula asked.
"The doors to rooms 160 to 174 just disappeared." The suit of armor stated.
"And just when I thought things couldn't get any worse." Dracula said to himself.
"What was that sir?" The suit questioned.
"Nothing." Dracula fibbed.
After saying that, he rushed over toward the corresponding rooms in order to address the current situation at hand. What he doesn't know yet is that things are about to get a lot weirder for him.
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