Wow, why was it so freaking hard to get time on this computer?! Ugh, I'm sorry. I had a bunch of testing yesterday. I think I did well, I passed the math test I know that. Whoot...I hate math. Math is the devil, that's why he's represented by numbers.
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Okay, so monster movie madness? Total success, it was awesome! Everyone had a good time…..well after the whole search for Dracula thing. Johnny still couldn't get that conversation he overheard out of his head. He didn't know how to broach the subject without letting Dracula know that he overheard that little spat.
He was tempted to ask someone for help, but who? Mavis was out, her dad had been right about the fact that it would hurt her. He wasn't sure if he could trust anyone else with the full information and they would know if he was keeping something from them. Plus there was no way to tell anyone without having to also inform them about Dracula's friend Inmoon. If no one else knew about her yet it was because Dracula had chosen to keep her a secret for some reason or another.
Things were not allowed to be so difficult right now. His head was spinning with thoughts, ideas and all the reasons those ideas wouldn't work.
It was odd walking around the hotel during the day, when not a soul was in sight but Johnny couldn't sleep. He had to find some way to fix this. He wandered for hours as he thought and all sense of time escaped him and he would have continued like that had the ringing of his phone not echoed through the hallway. He jumped and fished it out of his pocket, continuing to walk as he answered.
"Yo."
"Hey dude! It's Lawrence and the rest of the old band is here too!"
Johnny winced and held the phone a small distance away from his ear as the four people shouted their greetings into the phone.
"Wow, I like haven't heard from you guys in forever!" Johnny's mood lightened considerably.
"Yeah, I know right! Anyway me and the rest of the band totally went to film school together and we were watching the news. We saw what happened in Transylvania dude, totally righteous! We like, couldn't believe it dude! They're real! Anyway, we're coming over to the hotel to film a documentary! I know awesome right!? We'll be there by sundown man! Can't wait, see ya dude!"
Oh this was bad, this was very bad!
"Hey, wait Lawrence dude!" Johnny tried to talk him out of it but the only thing that greeted him was a dial tone. "Dawwwww man…..What do I do now?"
The monsters were still getting used to having Johnny around, and now his friends were going to be here? Filming a documentary?! Oh no. He ran to a window and threw open the curtains to see the sun already sinking closer to the horizon. Sundown would be in less than an hour. A cold panic settled in his gut as he quickly closed the curtains and took off through the hotel at a dead run.
"DRACULA!" His slightly panicked voice carried through the empty corridors of the hotel.
He bolted up to the Vampire's room as fast as he could and threw the door open with a resounding boom. He flipped around and slammed the doors closed drenching the room in darkness.
"Dracula!" He could barely see the vampire's coffin illuminated by the sparse candlelight scattered around the room.
It was odd watching the centuries year old monster wake up. The man never startled awake, his eyes would just open and he would sit up after opening the coffin lid. Johnny waited a few seconds for Dracula to open the coffin lid and sit up. He could barely see the white fingers curl around the bottom edge of the coffin lid. The long nails reflecting the candlelight eerily. There was no groan from the coffin lid, it slid open silently. He sat up slowly, long fingers curled elegantly around the edge of the coffin and his bare pale chest gave him a ghostly appearance in the darkness.
He turned his head to look at Johnny, his normally neatly combed hair was mussed and his eyes reflected the dim candlelight like a cat's, two beacons of blue in the surrounding shadows.
"Johnny?" He asked as he stood from his coffin, placing bare feet on the floor and looking at the boy with a confused expression. "What is it? What's wrong?"
Johnny held up a hand as he gasped for breath, the run up here had stolen the air from his lungs. As soon as he had regained his breath he spoke.
"I just got a call from my old band. Drac, they're coming here! Tonight!"
"WHAT!?" Oh he was definitely awake now. "What do you mean they're coming here?! How do you know this?!"
"They….kinda called me."
"And you didn't tell them to go away!?"
"I didn't get the chance dude! Lawrence hung up on me."
With a flick of his wrist Dracula was dressed and his hair combed neatly. He leaned heavily against his coffin after closing the lid and sighed heavily.
"Why are they coming here? What do they want?"
"Hey, chill Drac. They're not going to hurt anyone, and I wouldn't let them anyway. They said they wanted to film a documentary about you guys."
There was a long pause, the weight of this new information settling on Dracula's shoulders.
"When will they be here?"
"Lawrence said sundown but probably a little after the moon rises knowing him. He's always a little late."
"…..Then we have to prepare everyone."
He straightened and moved to the door. Once he exited into the hallway he found a suit of armor and ordered him to begin waking up the guests and have them come down to the lobby. He had to warn them, more humans showing up could cause a panic and he had to take measures to prevent that. Maybe set up security, both for the monster's safety and for the safety of the humans.
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Inmoon hated this place, she hated coming here, the horrible cold and darkness seeping into her bones was the worst feeling she had ever felt. If you listened hard enough here you could just barely hear the furious screeches and a steady pounding like drums in the deep corners of this evil place.
But she could not abandon her duties as Gatekeeper so she pressed further into the suffocating cavern.
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Dracula put on a calm façade as he stood at the top of the stairs attempting to quiet the frightened guests. They had quickly spiraled into a slight panic before Dracula even had a chance to fully explain.
"Calm down everyone!" He shouted. "There is no reason to panic. These humans will harm no one I will make sure of this! We all knew this was going to happen when we allowed Johnny to stay."
"When will they be here Drac?" Murray asked.
"They will be here by nightfall. They are Johnny's friends," Johnny waved at the monsters from his hiding place behind Dracula. All you saw of the man was a waving hand and then it promptly disappeared. "and are filming a documentary. Security will be updated and no one will harm them. I don't want an incident that could rekindle the humans' anger toward us."
It took some time but eventually the guests settled down and accepted the idea, they were still nervous but they were no longer in a panic. Dracula paced the room trying to think of something to make the night less stressful for everyone. A chaotic night wouldn't help matters much at all so what event could he organize that could be easily controlled.
"How about a dinner?" Griffin's voice broke through his thoughts. He turned to look at the glasses confusedly. "You that oh-god-what-do-I-do look on your face."
It really was scary how well Griffin knew people. A dinner sounded great, so he moved off to get one set up as fast and efficiently as he could.
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The firelight only illuminated a small bit of the immense cavern Inmoon was in and she drank in the warmth of it before beginning the ceremony. She took her knife to her palm splattering the blood around the fire and herself in a circle before flicking the last on the fire and allowing the wound to heal. She took various plants, bone dust and animal parts holding each to her painted face and whispering a chant before tossing them to the flames. She threw sage, ground deer antler, hawk talons, ox hoof, nightshade, a tooth akin to those around her neck, and human blood to the flames as she chanted and rocked.
The cavern vibrated and pulsed from the energy of her ceremony. She swayed this way and that to her rhythmic chanting as her own voice seemed to overlap itself and the world around her seemed to spin away. She threw her head back and gasped opening eyes that had become a swirling storm of purple. As the cavern thudded with every beat of her heart the reason she came here appeared before her.
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Okay, everything was in its proper place, the tables were set in the dining hall, a room was set aside on the far end of the hotel with suits of armor stationed there, and Johnny was helping to prepare a few human dishes. Even though it seemed everything was going to go off without a hitch, Dracula had this horrible feeling in the pit of his stomach that something was going to go wrong tonight. He was terrified, though he would admit it to no one.
There was something nagging at him, some instinct in the back of his mind screaming at him to take everyone and run, run and hide and be quiet. He did his best to ignore it but he couldn't push the feeling away completely.
Instead he focused on doing his job and making sure everyone in the hotel was comfortable and that everything was running smoothly. He had just managed to work himself into a somewhat calm state when Johnny's friends arrived, huge smiles decorating their faces and a good sized camera in tow. That human smell hit him like a smack in the face but he choked down his hiss as he and Mavis went to welcome them to the hotel.
The four were shown to their rooms and informed about the dinner being held, Johnny showed up and the room got pretty noisy pretty fast. Johnny introduced Mavis and decided to give everyone the grand tour. Dracula, of course tagged along. He wasn't about to just go off and leave his daughter with a group of humans he didn't know!
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Inmoon ran, down on all fours she ran with a cold panic in her belly urging her to move faster with every second. Pure fear filled every corner of her mind as she ran so fast her surroundings were naught but a blur. Only one coherent thought made it through the panic and it consumed her.
"I have to get Vlad. I have to tell Vlad. He'll know what to do."
She would be at his hotel within the night and she could only pray that she had discovered this fast enough to fix it. Fix it or warn people and help them hide while she and Vlad and everyone else fought those things again.
They were the only things in existence she was truly afraid of and she begged everything in creation that she did not have to face them again.
But all she could do was run as fast as she could.
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Well now we get into the plot. GASP...there's a plot to this?! Why yes there is! AMAZING! Please review guys and I'm sorry for the late update, and shorter chapter.
