Diagnosis


So far, things were not going well at all. First off, Dracula had just figured out what was causing the various items in the hotel to disappear; with the culprit unintentionally being his own daughter unexpectedly. He found this out after taking Mavis out for a short walk around the hotel and, unfortunately, experiencing how it happened beforehand in the elevator. After that ordeal went by, Dracula had done something to possibly get the situation under control; he called in one of the best physicians in the monster universe available. It wasn't easy though…just kidding. The physician Dracula called gladly took on the case and he said that he would be there tomorrow.

We now advance forward a complete 24 hours and we find Dracula and his friends conversing in the lobby. The reason why they are in the lobby is that Dracula could greet the physician personally and face to face. While waiting, he was in the middle of a conversation between him and his friends. What were they talking about? Let's zoom in and have a listen…

"So drac, what does this doctor fellow look like anyway?" Griffin asked.

"He shouldn't be hard to miss. Besides, when I talked to him yesterday, he was pretty excited to come over here." Dracula replied.

"Hopefully, he can determine what's up with Mavis." Frank added. "By the way, who was behind the disappearance of all those items anyway?"

"Uhh…I do not know." Dracula lied in an attempt to cover for Mavis.

"Well; whoever it is, they've been doing it without being spotted; they must know their way around here." Wayne added in.

"If that's the case, how are they even moving the stuff out of here!?" Murray asked.

"That I have no idea." Dracula replied. "Hopefully I'll be able to-"

He was interrupted by the sound of knocking on the cold, damp cement wall. Dracula and his friends quickly turned around to find a hunchback medium sized male knocking at the side of the wall. This character is the important person Dracula was expecting. His title is Dr. Victor Igor and he is one of the best physicians available in the monster universe.

"Ahh there he is." Dracula declared while turning and walking toward him.

"Why hello there old chap." Victor Igor greeted the count in a strong British accent. "It's been a while since I last saw you here."

"It has been a while. Thanks for coming here today." Dracula replied while shaking hands with Victor.

"Anytime." Victor Replied. "Now…to business. You called last night about your daughter?"

"I did; she's been acting very weird lately and I'm not sure why." Dracula said.

"Did you notice any symptoms of any kind?" Victor asked while pulling out his iPad mini 3.

"Uh…let's see…" Dracula replied while placing his index finger on his chin. "First, she was sneezing frequently at different periods."

"Mmmhmm, go on." Victor requested while typing.

"Then she recently got pale." Dracula added.

"Wait…aren't vampires supposed to be pale?" Victor asked.

"Usually, but Mavis is paler than normal." Dracula replied.

"Interesting. Speaking of, I would like to take a look at her. Can you lead me to her room please?" Victor asked.

"Of course; right this way." Dracula answered.


Dracula then led Victor Igor toward one of the elevators to go up toward Room 174. Following behind the two were Frank, Wayne, Murray and Griffin. Oh, and before we go further, the author would like to mention that after the third chapter was done, Dracula unfroze his daughter and let's just say that something else disappeared as a result. What was it? You guessed it, the entire reservation system for the entire hotel.

After a good 5 minutes of navigating throughout the hallways, the party finally reached Mavis' room, room 174. Considering that the door was gone because of one of Mavis' earlier surprise sneeze, everyone just walked right in. The party found Mavis lying in her bed while reading another issue of "The Gothic Chronical". On the bedside table, there were multiple tissue boxes as well as a half-full trash bin nearby filled with…uh…you know. Anyway, when everyone walked in, Mavis raised her head from the magazine page toward the group.

"Hey guys…*yawn*…what's this about?" Mavis asked.

She then turned toward Victor Igor and turned back toward her father.

"Who is this?" She asked.

"Mavis darling." Dracula started. "This is Dr. Victor Igor. He's another good friend of mine and I called him here today to have a look at you."

"*yawn*…why's that?" Mavis asked.

"Well…after the last two days, your condition was concerning me and I just wanted to make sure you weren't getting sick my little dead-ums." Dracula clarified.

"W-What makes you think I might be sick?" Mavis asked while blowing her nose afterward with a tissue.

"Like I said, I was getting concerned about your health and I wanted to make sure my little honey bat is alright." Dracula reassured.

After Dracula finished, Victor Igor approached Mavis, stopped, and turned toward Dracula.

"So this is the patient, huh?" Victor asked.

"Yep; that's my daughter." Dracula replied.

"Alright." Victor said. "I'd like to perform an examination of Mavis here if you don't mind."

"You're the physician here so go ahead." Dracula said while giving him thumbs up.

"Good. If you don't mind, I'd like to have some privacy here with the patient." Victor Igor declared while reaching for his doctor's kit.

"Oh…alright; whatever you need." Dracula replied.

He then turned toward his friends and ushered them all outside. Due to various privacy laws, (yes, even those apply to the monster universe for some reason), they all had to wait outside until Victor Igor informs them that the examination is over and they may return inside. For the time being, Dracula and his friends all chilled outside in the hallway, standing around and doing nothing.


15 minutes later-

While everyone was standing around, waiting around to kill some time, Johnny happened to show up.

"What's going on guys?" He asked while approaching the group.

"Ugh…nothing really. We're just waiting for Mavis in there to be done." Wayne replied.

"Done with what?" Johnny asked with a face full of curiosity. "Done with packing so we can travel the world together?"

"It's not that." Wayne said.

"What is she up to then?" Johnny asked.

"Uh…Drac? Would you like to explain to Johnny boy here?" Wayne asked.

Dracula approached Johnny and tugged him over to the sidelinesfor a quick talk. At first, Johnny didn't know how to respond to this kind of thing, but after Dracula told him it wasn't anything too serious, he sighed in relief.

"Look, the reason why we're standing out here is because I'm having Mavis here looked over by a physician. Her condition over the past two days was concerning me." Dracula finished.

"I bet Mavis will be OK. She was probably tired from that huge party we went to two days ago." Johnny reassured the count.

"I hope that's the case becau-"

"Hey Drac! The docs done and he wants you in here." Frank called out.

Without wasting any precious time, Dracula zoomed right into Mavis' room. He found Victor Igor tapping in some info on his iPad while Mavis was on top of her covers laying down with her knees bent and she was resuming her reading of the magazine. Unknown to Dracula, the others had their ears glued to the stone wall in anticipation of the doctor's verdict.

"Okay Dracula…I have some good news and some bad news about your daughter here." Victor Igor started. "Which one would you like to hear first?"

"Ugh…I might as well get it over with; Give me the bad news first." Dracula replied.

To him, bad news wasn't a new term at all. He constantly got a boatload of bad news every day for the last 2 days, everything from constant emergencies with the various hotel items going missing and usual ones everyday like plumbing and all that.

"Okay, here's the bad news…" Victor began. "It's…" He then paused for a good minute and a half.

"It's what? C'mon, tell me!" Dracula exclaimed impatiently.

"Mavis here has a temperature of 103…." Victor declared.

Dracula cringed for a good bit.

"…and she has the flu."

Dracula then just stood there without saying a word or moving a muscle. Those exact words from the doctor clearly hit the vampire hard like a 130 mph split window corvette charging right at him. Again, he couldn't believe what he just heard. This was clearly the thing he needed right now; his daughter getting sick on top of trying to fix the broken heater and replacing his office phone.

"Uh…Drac?" Victor asked while waving his hand in front of Dracula's face.

"Oh, sorry." Dracula apologized while clearing his mind of the horror of his constant 'to-do' list piling up and up. "Anyway, how much will this cost me?"

"Well…considering that we doctors don't make house calls anymore today and that we go way back…I'll just give you the family discount." Victor replied.

"Which is…?" Dracula asked with suspicion.

"Five hundred eyeballs." Victor declared.

"FIVE HUNDRED EYEBALLS!?" Dracula exclaimed in shock.

Clearly, this kind of price for a doctor visit would make pretty much anyone flip out in shock. In the monster world, an eyeball is equivalent to about 10 dollars in the human world. If a human were to do the math for Dracula right now, let's just hope they have a huge wallet...

"Yep. Without the discount, it would've cost ya 1000 eyeballs." Victor pointed out.

Dracula was about to faint, but he caught himself at the last minute.

"Fine…can you just bill it to the insurance?" Dracula asked.

"Of course." Victor replied.

Dracula was about to pull out his insurance card until Victor realized something.

"Oh phooey! I forgot to give you the good news about Mavis!" He realized.

"Let's just hope it's better than this bad news right now…" Dracula said with a face full of pout.

"The good news is that it's nothing serious. It's just a mild strain." Victor pointed out.

"Okay…*phew*…So what do we have to do now?" Dracula asked.

"I'd keep her in bed for the time being, just to be on the safe side." Victor added. "Also, I must go back to my office to pick up something to treat it."

"How long will that take?" Dracula asked.

"Three…"

"Days? Weeks? Months!?" Dracula asked in anticipation.

"Yep maybe five." Victor finished.

Dracula's faced turned into shock.

"Joking aside, it'll take three days tops and I'll be back then." Victor finished.

"Okay then." Dracula concluded. "Now…about those 500 eyeballs."

"Oh, right! Just hand me the insurance card and you'll be set then." Victor requested.

The count produced the card and Victor immediately began taping on his iPad. Mavis, meanwhile, lowered her magazine and asked her dad over.

"Hey dad, Can I ask you a question?" Mavis asked.

"Sure my little dead-ums." Dracula answered while placing his hand on Mavis' warm forehead.

"Since when did us vampires and…*COUGH COUGH*… other monsters have health insurance?" She asked while a cough broke through.

"Ugh…ever since last year." Dracula replied while groaning. "Stupid individual mandate."

"What?" Mavis asked.

"Nothing my honey bat." Dracula replied.

"Alright Dracula, you're all set!" Victor declared while handing the insurance card back. "Like I said, keep her in bed for three days and I'll be back around that time too."

"Three days!?" Mavis exclaimed in disbelief. "What am I supposed to do during then!?"

"Rest up and maybe read a book or stream a movie." Victor replied.

Mavis immediately picked up her magazine again and resumed her reading.

"Wait…what is this 'streaming' you speak of?" Dracula asked in confusion.

"One of your friends out there is doing that right now so you can go ask him. Anyway, I must be off." Victor replied while heading out the door.


Upon hearing that, and the laughter of everyone outside, he zoomed right outside of the doorway. When he got there, he saw Johnny and the others watching some kind of movie with his Samsung Galaxy.

"Oh hey Drac!" Johnny was the first to speak. "You wanna watch this movie with us?"

"No. Besides, I already got a huge list anyway." Dracula replied sarcastically.

"Aww c'mon! It's really funny!" Johnny rebutted.

"Like I said before, no." Dracula reassured.

Griffin was the first to speak. "Anyway, we overheard what the doc was saying about Mavis and…"

"Wait…you guys were eavesdropping!?" Dracula exclaimed in shock.

Nobody talked and Johnny and the others whistled out loudly.

"Ugh forget it. I'll just cut to the chase." Dracula admitted.

"So Mavis has a thing called the 'flu' apparently. What does that mean?" Murray asked.

"I don't know! Besides, I'm no doctor anyhow." Dracula replied.

"Hmmm. Murray replied.

"So what do we do now?" Johnny asked.

"For three days, we have to tend to Mavis for anything she needs. She can't leave her room once so ever." Dracula declared. "To do that, I'm going to have you guys…"

He didn't get to finish as everyone had run off to prepare to attend to whatever Mavis needs during her downtime.

"Impressive. I didn't know they're super eager to help out so quickly." Dracula admitted.

After saying that, he immediately ran toward the nearest elevator to go after…on second thought,…he had to take the stairs because one of Mavis' sneezes caused the elevator to disappear. If he thought he was in a pickle now, he has no idea what the next three days have in store for him.


Author's note: Hello Everyone, AirlineFlyer here once more.

I'd like to send out a huge apology to the followers of this story regarding the time frame of this update. My college semester so far has been eating up a lot of my free time and I'm also in the process of moving to a new house.

I hope you understand and I hope you guys will continue to enjoy this story as well as my other and upcoming works. :)


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