Chapter 17: Happy Birthday, Dracula
A couple of days later, after a pleasant if awkward visit with the future in-laws, the Loughrans returned home to Santa Cruz, and while things were quiet for a short while at Hotel Transylvania, the planning of a another special celebration was in the making; a party for Dracula's birthday.
One afternoon, many familiar monster guests began to arrive early for another birthday celebration and Dracula had made his way to the main lobby, this time happier than he's been in a long time with Ericka on his arm, as well as all his friends, his daughter Mavis and her boyfriend Johnny with him.
Many monsters gathered nearby in the lobby with smiles as their long time hotel host greeted happily, "Welcome back, everybody, to Hotel Transylvania!" There were plenty of loud murmurs of 'thank yous' or 'congratulations' as he began shaking hands, fins, or claws with monster guests as he handed out itineraries and a schedule of activities. "The fun starts early tonight," he added. "And I expect everyone to be there."
It was then Ericka had noticed some of the monster guests looked less than thrilled with the itineraries and scheduled events they'd been handed, especially Mavis and the Drac Pack, all whom frowned in disappointment, but still gave polite smiles to Dracula. She separated herself from her husband, saying, "There's something I need to take care of, Honey, so you keep greeting you're guests and I'll be right back."
Dracula was a bit disappointed that she had to dash off, but he gave her a quick passionate kiss and smiled when she made her way back to their friends and family.
"Hey, everyone," Ericka greeted. "Why the long faces?"
They all had less than amused faces, so Mavis spoke for them, "Look at this, it's almost the exact same stuff from my last birthday party, before you and Johnny livened things up finally."
Ericka took a closer look at the schedule and frowned when she saw things like Bingo and Charades again, alongside musical chairs and pin the arms on the zombie. "What is he, an 8 year old?" she said in disbelief.
"You should've seen him try to force me to use a kiddie wheel on my 115th birthday on my Fangceanera," said Mavis.
"Drac has always liked old fashion stuff," Frank droned in boredom. "Especially the same old kind of parties every year."
"Over and over, year after year, nothing new or different," Griffin agreed.
"You'd think he'd want to do something different now," Murray added. "Especially now with you two here to help plan parties. I know you aren't really a party planner, Johnny, but the way you livened things up Mavis's party was OFF THE HOOK, totally DA BOMB!" The mummy did a kind of cross arm gesture at the later sayings like he was a '90s rapper.
Johnny couldn't help blushing while everyone voiced their agreements excitedly. Mavis smiling the biggest and she hooked her arm into Johnny's and leaned her head proudly on his shoulder.
"Ah, jeez, guys," gushed Johnny. "It was nothing, really."
"We need to get Drac to do something like that again," Wayne decided. "Maybe something better, and I'm sure you can come up with something, Johnny, even on such short notice."
The others agreed enthusiastically, even Ericka was on board for the idea as she said, "That's a good idea, we need to get Drac out of his party rut and do something new for his party, something exciting and new, maybe some more adult activities mixed in with the more family friendly games. At least make a start there."
"Yeah, there's gotta be other things he likes to do besides what's on this list!" Johnny agreed. "Hey, guys, what were some other things Drac liked to do at parties?"
The Drac Pack just shrugged at not knowing, but started thinking off the top of their heads when they tried to remember what they did when they were all younger, before some of the them got married, but Ericka and Johnny had come up with ideas of their own to liven up the party. Afterward, Ericka told them her plan is to distract Dracula while she, Mavis, Johnny, and the others got everything ready, and it was agreed.
It was then decided the human Countess and her vampire stepdaughter needed to take a quick trip into town for what was needed and some shopping for gifts everyone thought Dracula would like, and a little less than two hours later, they both returned to the hotel with wrapped presents bags of party decorations. Johnny had went to the kitchen when the girls had left and ordered the gargoyle cooks and waiters to begin making new kinds of party platters and foods alongside the finished party foods, a giant birthday cake for Dracula, and drinks for the night.
As everyone talked about the new plans for Dracula's birthday party, the Vampire King in question happened to walk back into the lobby to notice his friends doing something odd since they were all gathered around the storage closet.
"Now, what in the bat blazes are you all up to?" questioned Dracula.
The Drac Pack let out startled cries as they pushed and shoved a bunch of miscellaneous items into the closet and tried to act all pseudo-casual. Frank blocked the door with his entire ginormous figure.
"What?!" Murray cried, a big awkward smile on his face. "Uh, nothing, Drac, we're just uh..."
"Just hanging out here," Wayne shouted, his toothy smile awkward.
"Yeah, we're not doing nothing, heh-heh, we're just uhh, admiring the décor of the lobby," Griffin added nervously. "Like that pretty closet door, that's a really nice door. Oomph!"
Murray elbowed Griffin really hard in his invisible ribs as the mummy glared at him to shut it. Dracula gave all of his monster friends a suspicious raised eyebrow while he narrowed his eyes, but they all had weird smiles while Frank whistled to himself as he polished his finger nails on his shirt, and gave his own awkward shrug of innocence.
"You guys are so weird sometimes, even for you," Dracula grunted. "Have any of you seen Ericka , or Mavis? I haven't seen them for a while and I'm getting worried."
"Uhh..." was all any of them could say, not wanting to reveal they had gone to the Grand Ballroom to do some redecorating, but were spared the pressure when mother and daughter suddenly reappeared.
"We're right here, Darling, we were just taking care of a few last minute details before tonight," Ericka called out.
"Oh, why thank you, Ericka , Love Fang," Dracula said affectionately, while his friends sighed in relief, but it made him look at them with a suspicious raised eye brow, certain they were up to something as he accused, "Alright, what are you all hiding in there?"
The Drac Pack became tense when Dracula made his way towards the closet, but Ericka suddenly took his arm, saying, "Wait, Drac, uh, Mavis said she wants to spend some time with you before the party tonight."
"She did?" Dracula had a hopeful smile.
"I did?" Mavis repeated in surprised confusion, but saw the look on her mother's face that told her to play along, quickly saying, "I mean, yeah, I did. A little father-daughter time together, we don't do that so much anymore, Dad, and uh, I just wanted to spend a little time with you for your birthday before the party tonight."
"Of course, my precious sweetie bat," Dracula cooed affectionately as he hugged Mavis. "So what would you like to do? How about some Bingo, or we could play Hide and Go Seek Sharp Objects in the auditorium?"
"Actually, Dad..." Mavis hesitated. "I was hoping to spend a little time in town with you."
"In town?!" Dracula gasped in disbelief. "Mavis, have you gone nutsy-coo-coo?! The sun is still out, we should be asleep, but there's so much planning to do."
"I know," Mavis continued with a hesitant shrug, but saw the desperate look on her mother's face. "But don't worry, Dad. Mom and Johnny bought us lots of sunscreen and hats, just in case. Besides, the sun will be gone soon and it will be dark before you know it. Please, Dad. I want to see more of the human village, and there's some stuff I want to try out, but they're only open during the day."
"Ugh, alright," Dracula groaned while he shrugged. "I can never say no to you, Honeybat."
Mavis smiled in relief, then noticed Ericka mouthed a 'thank you' and Johnny gave her a big thumbs up.
Later, Dracula and Mavis took a hearse from the hotel to the town with Mavis driving, while Dracula seemed to slump into his shirt, but also with a suspicious look on his face, certain everyone was up to something on his birthday.
Soon they made it to a place Mavis had seen other times while in town and wanted to see after Johnny told her what it was, but Dracula looked very confused.
As Mavis parked in a lightly shaded area close to the building, Dracula asked, "Mavy, what is this place? Why did you bring us here."
"It's a place I've been wanting to try. Johnny said it's called a bowling alley and it's sounds like a lot of fun," Mavis explained.
Dracula looked at the building and it's strange looking sign with a black ball with holes and hitting strange looking white clubs that reminded him a little too much of the ones used by angry human mobs back in the day.
"I don't know, Mavy," he said doubtfully, while Mavis put an umbrella on his head to protect him from sunlight. "It might be dangerous."
"Oh, stop being such a party pooper, Dad," Mavis groaned, putting on her own wide brimmed hat and he glared slightly. "Just give it a try, I'm sure it'll be fun."
They got out of the car, and quickly made it inside before the sun could truly begin to singe them, and what they saw inside made their eyes grow wider, though Dracula gave a startled gasp of fright when he heard loud crashes and bangs upon entering, while Mavis gazed in child-like wonderment.
"Mavis, what noisy crashing, banging, danger zone have you brought us to?!" he had to yell over the crashing of bowling balls into pins.
"I told you, it's a bowling alley. It's a game humans play, like the games we played with Johnny's family. First we have to pay for some shoes and reserve our own balls and bowling lane," she told him and went to the check-in counter to pay for everything.
The young cashier grew excited at the arrival of two vampires, recognizing Dracula from the Monster Festival a couple of months ago. He even offered to let them in for free and give them bowling shoes for free, but Mavis insisted on paying and told him her's and her dad's shoes sizes, though Dracula wondered why he couldn't just wear his own shoes. Mavis told him some rules of the bowling alley, and one of them was wearing a certain kind of shoes because the floor was very slick and his sharp dress shoes would be too slippery and didn't have enough grip for the floor. Dracula was still reluctant to wear shoes that had been on other humans' feet, and the sanitation spray overwhelmed his vampire sense of smell, certain it was meant to poison him and his daughter, which embarrassed her a lot.
After some brief arguing, Dracula finally went along with it and put on the shoes, though he felt very awkward while he and Mavis went to their reserved bowling lane, drawing the glimpses of other nearby humans who must have recognized who he really was. As Mavis wrote in their names on the score panel and explained how to play, Dracula was still confused by all the human stuff and fidgeted around with his feet.
"Dad, stop it, you're embarrassing us," Mavis groaned in slight annoyance.
"I'm sorry, Mouse, I can't help it, they're really itching me fierce," Dracula complained.
"You'll get used to them," she told him, and got up to take a ball from the rack and showed him how to play as she remembered from how Johnny taught her from their vacation to Hawaii.
Dracula raised a confused eyebrow at his daughter while she held a black ball near her face as she took some coordinated steps as she brought it back to a swing and rolled the ball down the lane and they watched it slide and knock down most of the pins.
"You see, Dad, it's easy," Mavis explained with a grin. "The point of the game is to knock down all of the pins and get a strike, and which ever one of us gets the most strikes at the end of the game wins. So give it a try, Dad, I think you'll like it."
Dracula was still skeptical of the whole thing, but he got up to pick up his own black ball with swirling lines on it that sparkled, and as he looked it over he didn't understand how Mavis held it until she showed him what the holes are for and how to hold it and do the walk like she showed him, though he momentarily got distracted as he watched the pins get replaced as metal arms of some kind knocked Mavis's remaining pins into a dark hole behind them and more were magically lowered into place.
"Dad, focus!" Mavis growled.
"Huh? Oh, sorry, Mavy, that's too weird," Dracula said as watched the pins get replaced. "What sort of magic is that?"
Mavis groaned and rolled her eyes in response, though she also thought it was strange, but told her father to take a shot. Dracula got confused as he did the walk, but threw the ball too hard as it went flying across the other bowling lanes and nearly shattered the pins two lanes over.
"Whoa-hoo!" he cheered. "Did you see that, Mavis? A strike! Does that mean I win?"
But Mavis facepalmed, complaining, "That doesn't count, Dad, you threw the ball into the wrong lane those people are playing in!"
Dracula looked over to some humans Mavis pointed to, and the humans shot him irritated expressions, making him blush and shrug in embarrassment, yelling out with a wide fanged smile, "Sorry!"
When they saw his fangs and realized who he might really be, the human bowling team nervously told him it was okay, but he should be a little more careful with his ball, making him chuckle in embarrassment.
Mavis took up her ball again and showed him how to do it again, and this time Dracula copied her by her side thinking he might have gotten the hang of it. Mavis took another turn to bowl and this time hit almost all of the bowling pins, but it wasn't a strike for her, but she was still in the lead
Dracula took his turn again, but bowled a little too carefully this time since his ball drifted into the side gutters and slowly rolled past the pins, completely missing them, and disappeared into the dark void behind.
"Sorry, Dad," Mavis said with a prideful smile. "Gutter ball, so no points for you."
Dracula groaned in disappointment. "Ugh, some fun. What's really the point of this game if I can't hit a few lousy pins at the end of a slippery floor?"
Mavis tried to reassure him, "It's okay, Dad, you'll get the hang of it. It just takes practice."
He was doubtful of this, but felt a little better when she told him because of the Gutter ball that he was allowed another turn to bowl. As he did the moves he slid the ball a little harder, but saw it steadily drift to the side to the gutter again. Getting a sneaky smile on his face, he waved his hand and Dracula telepathically made the ball slide to the center of the lane in a blue mist and it hit all of the pins for a strike.
"Whoo-hoo!" he cheered with his arms punching the air. "Yes! First strike! Hah-Hah!"
But Mavis glared at him, knowing what he had done, scolded, "Dad, I saw what you did there. That doesn't count, no cheating, and no powers!"
"Nngh!" Dracula groaned as he crossed his long arms.
"Dad, don't be such a spoil sport and I don't want to fight. We're here to have some fun and spend some time together on your birthday, remember?" Mavis gave him a loving hug.
Her father actually softened up and returned the embrace as he said, "Okay, Mavy, you're right."
So they spent the rest of the afternoon trying to enjoy the game and have fun, though Mavis kept a close eye on her father to be sure he didn't try to cheat again. Finally, their game came to an end and unsurprisingly Mavis won, though Dracula came very close to her score.
They returned their shoes and balls as they left the bowling alley later that afternoon, and Dracula saw most of the town was covered in more shadows, meaning nightfall wasn't too far off and it was time they should be heading back home.
But instead of driving back to the hotel, Mavis drove them a little deeper into town to a street with plenty of shopping and restaurants, eagerly taking her father into a few shops to do some 'window shopping' of pets, clothes, shoes, candy, bakery, butchers, jewelry, furniture and sports. This confused Dracula since she took him from one shop to another and mostly looked around without buying anything.
As the streets got a little darker, Dracula tried to tell her they needed to be getting home, but Mavis thought the party wouldn't be ready in time, saying, "Not yet, Dad, there's a couple more places I want to look at before they close."
But Dracula started to get suspicious of his daughter's strange behavior, including irked with the continued delaying, as he spoke a little too loudly in his stern fatherly voice, "Mavis, this has been fun, but we have to get home right now to finish planning my birthday party. Now give me the keys to the car and let's go!"
Mavis became a little tense as she chewed her lower lip a little and tried to say with a nice smile, "Sure, Dad, but please just one more stop before we go?"
But Dracula frowned at her, shouting a little harder, "Mavis, this has been wonderful, but we are going home right now or my birthday will be over before we get back!"
"Wait a minute," asked a nearby human woman shopper. "Do I understand this right, Count, it's your birthday?"
Dracula and Mavis looked at her and he raised an eyebrow, saying, "Uh, yes, it is."
The woman got so excited that she drew a lot of attention, squealing, "Happy Birthday, Count Dracula!"
And this drew the attention of more human townspeople, many of them recognized him immediately, even many of them from the Monster Festival not too long ago. Many of them came up to him and shook his hand to wish him a Happy Birthday, and even some of the shop keepers that had overheard offered him 'presents' as he walked by their shops, or ones he already been window shopping with Mavis in.
Among the gifts from the humans Dracula got a coo-coo clock modeled like a medieval castle from the local clock maker; a bag of cookies from a local baker, candy and lollypops from a candy and treats store keeper; a long sub sandwich from a sandwich shop; a book about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes from a book shop manager; a snow globe with a mock-up of him wrapped in his cape with a big bat and Gothic castle in the background and some bat shaped sparkles floating in the water from one of local souvenir shops; a beautiful landscape portrait from a street artist selling his paintings; a young boy shared his birthday crown with Dracula as it was his birthday too; another shop keeper from one of the clothing stores gave him a manly wide brimmed hat to replace his umbrella hat; and finally a little girl came up to him bashfully and wished him a Happy Birthday as she gave him a small bouquet of flowers she had picked, which warmed Dracula's heart as he kneeled to her eye level and thanked her by kissing her tiny hand like a gentleman, and Mavis gushed, "Awww."
After all his new gifts were given to him, Dracula's eyes got all puppy-dog like and teary eyed as he smiled warmly and whispered heartfelt, "No humans have ever given me this much before."
"You see, Dad," Mavis said as she helped him carry his presents to the hearse. "They love you, as much as I do. You know what, you're right, we should be getting back home."
The Count thanked everybody for all their wonderful gifts, even if some of them were strange and funny, but he and Mavis had to be getting home, and so a path was cleared for them when they headed back to their hearse and drove down the road that took them through the Haunted Forest and back to the hotel.
The two vampires finally made it back to the hotel as twilight came, and they were greeted by an out of breath Johnny as he said, "Hey, guys, how was your trip into town? Whoa, awesome, what's with all that stuff, go crazy with all the shopping?"
Mavis smiled at her fiancé, replying, "Nope, birthday presents from the humans for my dad. When they heard it's his birthday, they just went on a giving spree, and he's still in shock from it."
An irked Dracula shot Mavis a look, though he couldn't help smiling about it, but then he got serious, saying, "As nice as it was, I still have a party to plan, and maybe there's still some time left to save it even with how late it is. I don't know what you're really up to Mavy, and as wonderful as our time together was, I'm way behind schedule now."
"It's okay, Drac," Johnny said as he helped them carry everything inside and lead them to the ballroom. "Ericka and I took care of everything, and I think you're going to like what we did."
A shocked Dracula glared suspiciously at the young man as he demanded accusingly, "Jonathan, what did you do?!"
But Johnny responded with a smug grin, which made Mavis hold back a chuckle with her own smile, as he lead them to the ballroom.
As the door opened, there came a loud bang as brightly colored confetti and balloons came raining down from the ceiling, blanketing the new arrivals, and dozens of loud voices bellowed excitedly.
"SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
And there came a loud chorus of cheers and high pitched toots of party flukes and horns.
Dracula remained staring and gawking at what he saw; the entire ballroom brightly decorated with long streamers, lots of balloons were tied to chairs and tables, and at the end of the ballroom was a long buffet table with inter mixed and traditional monster and human party foods; a giant spider web banner by his decorating comity spelled out 'Happy Birthday Dracula' and on one table sat a giant five layer birthday cake. Dracula continued to stare in surprised silence at what he saw, clearly not what he had expected for his birthday party at all.
"Whoa! What's going on?" Dracula asked in confusion. "What is all this?"
Mavis couldn't help giggling, and was joined by Johnny and Ericka , as she then explained to her father, "I'm sorry, Dad, but I had to get you out of the hotel for a while to get the party set up and we wanted to surprise you."
"You did?" he replied with a slight gasp. "But this isn't what I was planning for my birthday. It looks too... humany."
"I know it's not what you were expecting or planning, Honey," Ericka said as she put her arm through his. "But you've been doing the same party stuff for a long time and we thought there should be something different for you, like we did with Mavis's party, remember?"
Dracula only gave his brunette wife a small disappointed frown with a raised eyebrow and a shrug, which she explained that the vibrant and colorful decorations he now saw, along with the cake and buffet, were part of traditional human birthday parties, and she and Johnny wanted to show him how fun human parties and games could be along with monster party traditions.
Everyone then noticed all the stuff Dracula and Mavis were carrying so Ericka asked, "Where'd you get all that stuff? Did Mavis take you birthday shopping and you went overboard?"
"No, not really, Corpse Plum," Dracula chuckled.
"The townspeople overheard him say it's his birthday today and they just gave Dad all this stuff as presents," Mavis explained.
Some murmurs and laughs could be heard while Dracula blushed and smiled in embarrassment, while Ericka smiled at him. The gifts from the townspeople were placed with loads of other wrapped gifts to be opened later.
Ericka coaxed Dracula over to the first game to get the party officially started, Limbo, and Dracula's eyes were as big as saucers and Mavis gushed with nostalgic enthusiasm for the game they used to have for her birthdays when she was younger. Ericka signaled for the Day of the Dead band to start the music and she danced her way to the Limbo pole as she steadily leaned back and made her way under it, making Dracula's heart race in desire for his wife at how nimble she was in that moment.
Next under the pole went Mavis and she barely made it under; then went Griffin, with only his glasses and a conical shaped party hat to be seen, gave a whoop as he went under; a giant snow white Yeti struggled a bit to make it under but fell flat on his bottom, which made everyone laugh; then a short Gremlin easily walked under the Limbo pole without needing to lean back.
Everyone then encouraged Dracula, the birthday boy, to take his turn, and he walked up to the pole when it was lowered more as a challenge for him, but he gave a sneaky smile and in a puff of blue mist he suddenly shape shifted into a long black snake and easily slithered under the pole before changing back into himself in a ta-da pose. While everyone else cheered for him, Ericka and Mavis shook their heads in amused annoyance at him.
At the end of the Limbo contest, which unsurprisingly Dracula won, Johnny took out a long stick of some kind, confusing his future father-in-law again as they were taken to a brightly colored object made from ribbons, shaped like a donkey, and hanging by a long black string from a hook on another pole. Johnny explained it was called a 'piñata' and he and his siblings had these all the time for their birthday parties when they were kids, and Mavis's eyes widened with awed enthusiasm while Dracula was a little confused by its real purpose, which Johnny then demonstrated as Griffin tied a blindfold around Johnny's eyes.
Ericka turned Johnny around three times, which Dracula asked why, but Ericka told him to watch. Johnny stopped to face a direction way off from the brightly colored piñata and gave the long stick a hard swing, some monsters had to back away to keep from being hit. Johnny gave another swing a little closer to the piñata but completely missed and the swing made him make a 180 turn, he then took a final hard swing but hit poor Frank on the head, making the giant golem yell a painful, "OW!"
Johnny removed the blindfold to see who he had accidently hit while Frank rubbed his head and shot Johnny an irked scathing frown, and the young man apologized sheepishly was, "Oops, sorry, big guy."
Others were given turns at whacking the piñata, and the crowd made sure to give the swingers wider berths to keep from being hit. Very few came close to the piñata, and those that did unknowingly missed because someone pulled on the rope to raise the piñata out of reach.
"I still don't know what the point of this is," Dracula complained.
Ericka got a sneaky smile as she then said, "Well, it's your turn, Birthday Boy, and you're about to find out the real fun behind it." She then tied the blindfold around Dracula's eyes and shushing him as he asked why. She then turned him around three times to put him a bit off kilter and he just stood there for some long moments as everyone watched him in expectation.
Dracula turned his head this way and then gave a small swing, looking for the piñata, and when he the end of his stick found it he swung a bit harder but missed as Murray pulled on the sting to raise the piñata out of reach. Dracula took a second swing and still missed but almost hit poor Murray on the head and he had to duck. Suspecting something was up, Dracula used his x-ray vision to see through the blindfold and spotted the piñata as he gave a sneaky grin. A moment too late that Mavis noticed what her father was up to. Dracula swung the stick his hardest with increased vampire strength and the piñata just exploded open as dozens of little wrapped pieces of candy rained down all around them. The crowd cheered and gregariously grabbed whatever candies were within easy reach.
Dracula removed the blindfold and looked proud of himself as he looked back at Mavis, Mina, and Johnny, the later two cheering for him, but Mavis shook her head as she called him out, "Dad, that wasn't fair, I know you cheated."
Ericka and Johnny stopped cheering and a steady silence came over the party guests, wondering what Mavis was talking about, and she told about how she and her dad went bowling earlier that afternoon and he cheated with his telekinesis on the bowling ball.
An awkward disappointing silence followed as Dracula blushed, but Ericka gently encouraged, "From now on, no more cheating, okay, Drac? No point in crying over spilled milk now, but next time we might blindfold you with a piece of lead."
"Lead? Why?" Dracula asked, and Ericka chuckled at her joke.
"So..." Johnny interrupted with an excited grin. "What do you want to play next, Drac?"
Dracula got his own sneaky grin as he said, "There is something I've wanting to do for a while now, Johnny, and I challenge you to a table racing rematch!"
Everyone murmured in confusion at what was table racing, and why did Dracula want a 'rematch?'
But Johnny smiled boldly and announced, "You're on, Drac."
Both of them ran to different white clothed tables, and Johnny told the ghost as it's face appeared, "Table 18, up!"
And he rose moments before Dracula ordered his ghost table, "Table 40, up!"
Everyone watched in awe as the tables rose up with their passengers to the high arched ceiling and began to fly around the grand ballroom. The party guests cheered as Dracula and Johnny raced round and round the grand ballroom, Johnny holding on tightly and whooping enthusiastically while Dracula just sat casually like it was no big deal for him, but then he got on his hands and knees as he rapidly and randomly yelled for more tables to rise and he and Johnny jumped from one to another as they made their way to the floor, and unsurprisingly Dracula over took Johnny with a graceful flip as he landed on the floor before Johnny set his first step on the titled floor and stood proudly with the cape draping his figure and smiling proudly to himself.
"I win!" Dracula exclaimed pridefully.
"Whoa, Drac, that was awesome!" Johnny yelled excitedly and congratulated the vampire.
"That looks like so much fun," Murray said with his own wide smile as his glowing green eyes light up more brightly. "I challenge you to a table race, Frankie!"
"You're on, bandage boy!" Frank challenged back with a big daring smile.
Both climbed onto their own tables and told them 'Up' but nothing happened, and they looked to Dracula with some pleading looks.
Rolling his eyes, Dracula ordered the tables, "26 and 17, up!"
Both tables rose up high and the two friends raced each other wildly around the hall. The other guests cheered in vigorous excitement. The race got a bit out of control near the end. Murray slowed down enough to jump from table to table and make his way to the floor, but Frank lost control of his and cashed into a far wall and fell to pieces, making some of his friends wince in sympathy but then burst out laughing.
Griffin then challenged Wayne to a race and the werewolf accepted with reluctance, and again Dracula ordered their tables to rise into the air; Griffin flew around the ballroom like a madman while Wayne flew more slowly as he hung on for dear life shaking with fear, and just barely made it to the floor as he and Griffin leaped from on table to another, Wayne seeming to forget about his natural werewolf agility.
It was then decided for Dracula to open his presents, along side the ones given to him by the townspeople. As Ericka brought him his first present, Johnny placed a vibrantly colored conical party hat on his head that said in bold silver letters 'Birthday Boy' and put a party fluke between his lips and told him to blow. Dracula gave Johnny a displeased look as he blew a high pitched toot and seethed at Johnny that he'll get him for this, while Ericka and Mavis, and everyone else tried to hold back their laughter.
Dracula spat out the fluke as Ericka handed him his first presents, and he opened it with some weariness but then smiled as he saw what it was; painting equipment such as different kinds of brushes, small canvases, and some oil paints from Mavis. He gave her a big 'thank you' hug and kiss on the forehead while Ericka got his next present. The gifts he got included a manly casual suit from Frank and Eunice; a soccer ball from Wayne and Wanda; and he gave a look at Murray and the 'snakes in a can' as he opened it and a bunch of long brightly colored things popped out. He couldn't help feeling a real sense of appreciation to Johnny and the big flat screen TV he gave Dracula for him to use in his chambers with Ericka , even shaking his hand in gratitude.
As Dracula was about to open another present, Griffin invited him to have a seat as he tried to hold back an obvious snicker, and this made the vampire raise an eyebrow in suspicion as he sat down and there suddenly came a rather loud flatulent sound. This made everyone burst into laughter, Griffin the loudest of all as Dracula found a deflated pink whoopee cushion from under his bottom.
"Happy Birthday, Buddy," Griffin cackled. "That's my present for you, Hah-Haaahh!
Dracula could only give Griffin a dirty look that told he's going to get the Invisible Man back for this prank.
A moment later, Dracula realized he hadn't yet received and opened a present from Ericka , asking her, "Honeyfang, I don't think I opened your present. Is it here, or did you forget it?"
But Ericka only shrugged, either embarrassed or ashamed, that Dracula couldn't tell which as she said sorrowfully, "Sorry, Honey, I forgot to get you one."
Dracula frowned sadly at this, but then the gargoyle waiters brought over to him the giant five layered birthday cake with dozens of candles softly burning, and everyone sang 'Happy Birthday' to him, and it made him briefly smile.
"...happy birthday to you," everyone finished singing, while Dracula took a deep breath and with super vampire speed he flew around the giant cake to blow out all of the candles.
He then noticed the elderly gremlin lady standing way too close to his cake and got a hungry longing look on her face, and quicker than she could grab the entire five layer cake and gobble it up whole, Dracula's eyes turned red and let out a deep roar of warning to her to back off, making her take a couple of steps back as she look at him timidly and he glared at her as she said her usual, "I didn't do that."
Dracula gave a stern nod so that the gargoyle waiters began cutting the cake, and as the birthday boy, he got the first and biggest piece. As he took his first bite, his eyes lit up at how it was strawberry, another delicious human flavor, with chocolate frosting, and everyone got their own piece, and he even shared a bite with Ericka.
After eating cake, the party got into full swing as everyone enjoyed the giant cake, and even the buffet was everyone enjoyed the mix of both traditional human and monster party foods, including different kinds of pizza with monstery toppings, mixed vegetables with dip, bagels with scream cheese, deviled lizard fingers, spleens in blankets, chocolate deviled eggs, a variety of cookies and cupcakes, sandwiches, chips, and so much more.
To burn off the calories, a dance competition was then held the contest was Dracula. He began to bust a move with a break dance spin and in his Russian style dance upside down and did a split in the air as he spun on the floor and did a back flip and he finish with a bow and back seat with everybody applause for him.
Then Johnny began to do the worm dance and then in his own wacky dance then he did twist and took bow, and everyone clapped. While Mavis decided to dance in her own graceful moves and sways side for to side and after she a twirl she did a curtsy.
Frank and Eunice did a personal tango together Frank gave his wife a kiss on the hand put his hand on Eunice's back and started to dance the tango and he finish the dance by dipping his wife with a rose in her mouth, and Wayne tried to do the same with Wanda, but because of her large belly he accidently dropped her to the floor.
Murray danced in Egyptian-like movements while Griffin's glasses just swayed back and forth wildly, nobody really knowing how he danced since he was invisible.
Ericka began a hip roll before she worked her torso muscles, then she did the hip roll before doing the wave, and the booty pop to shake her butt to the rhythm and did a complete split on the floor, even though this hurt her legs. She had won the dance contest because of those strange yet sexy moves. All eyes were on her as monsters, including Mavis and Johnny, stared in disbelief as in 'Holy Moly!' Dracula's jaw fell open by what he had seen, and he had to cover his pants with his cape due to his erection. The rest of the Drac Pack's reactions were just the same as the time Wayne gobbled up all those sheep. A slightly jealous Eunice and Wanda had to pinch the ears or smack the arms of their husbands to get their attentions.
As the night wore on Dracula even suggested finishing the party out by the pool, where it was decorated with luau torches, and lit by vibrantly colored paper lanterns and fireflies. Pool games were played, and even Dracula finally got into Johnny's quirky human game of 'Chicken Fight' with Ericka on his shoulders as she knocked Mavis from Johnny's shoulders into the water, and they laughed hysterically.
As much fun as everyone was having, Dracula had to declare the party over when he saw the first hints of dawn, but he took the time to thank everyone for coming as he redressed, and wished everyone, even Mavis and Johnny, a pleasant day's sleep.
He briefly looked around for Ericka and became worried for her, but then thought maybe she was so exhausted she had gone to bed early in their chambers. So he made his way to his chambers soon after the sun began to rise, and as he opened his door his jaw dropped at what he found. The lights were low but he could still see clearly as a few candles were placed in strategically and sparsely around the room to give the chambers a romantic and intimate ambiance as his eyes went to his own four poster bed and who laid in it; Ericka , dressed in nothing but the black lingerie he got her during their honeymoon, as she lay on her side in a seductive tempting position as she leaned up on her right arm and smiled alluringly at him.
"I didn't forget your birthday present, Darling," she said with a sensual come-closer tone in her voice. "I'm your present."
Dracula's heart began to beat faster in his chest as he was upon her in a microsecond. Ericka yelped when Dracula grabbed her in a lustful frenzy and his mouth captured hers with his own in a pent up desire.
"Ohh, Ericka !" he moaned through his kissing. "Thank you, thank you so much, I'd hoped for something like this from you, I'm so glad you didn't forget."
She giggled through the kissing, returning it with equal desire, but she hoped to make this little personal finale to her husband's birthday a bit more fun and interesting. So she grabbed his jacket and vest coat tightly as she wrapped her legs around him, and with a burst of strength rolled him to be under her as she started unbuttoning his clothes and his cape was tossed aside.
They continued to passionately kiss each other's faces, covering each other with light coats of saliva, even tongue dancing while Ericka stripped her husband of his vest, tie, and then his shirt and finally his white undershirt, while he lightly nipped at the nape of her neck, making her moan with arousal.
Dracula squeezed to himself and his bare upper body as she reached down to unzip his pants, but in their lustful frenzy, to flip Ericka atop himself Dracula rolled too hard and fell right onto the hard cold stone floor, taking most of the bed coverings with them and ripping the curtain from its rings, both laughing at their unintended fall.
Ericka felt a bulge growing inside his pants as she blanketed Dracula with licks on his neck and chest, ripping his pants from him and throwing them far away, and they were quickly followed by his bat boxers. Her eyes widened in exhilaration as she saw Dracula's long hardened dick pointing straight up and already leaking hot cum. She smiled mischievously at him as she leaned down and began an open mouthed blowjob on him as she almost swallowed the entire end, making Dracula go nuts and give a surprised but aroused cry as she began to pleasure him with her mouth.
"Oooohhhhh!" he cried, beginning to freak out. "Oh, holy rabies! YES! Ohhh!"
His eyes glowed their deepest and starkest laser red yet, his fangs grew as he cried out in glorious agonized ecstasy while Ericka sucked on his prick, sucking it like a lollipop and playfully biting gently as she would swallow it to almost choke herself.
Dracula suddenly gave a rumbling vampire growl as something seemed to momentarily snap in his mind as he couldn't take it anymore, yet he wanted more too, and just as he cummed in her mouth he suddenly grabbed Ericka , making her give a startled cry as she found herself with Dracula atop her in a frightful lust driven frenzy as he smiled wickedly at her and practically tore off her bra and began licking and tasting around her breasts.
"Ohhh," she gave in a moan as she combed her fingers through his night black hair, "Oh, Honey, you're wicked. Ohhhh..."
She gasped as he suddenly began suckling on both her perky nipples, bringing to life her own lustful hunger. She gasped even deeper as he kissed his way down her torso to her midriff as he then ripped off her panties and began to crazily lick and taste at her nether lips as he lifted her legs onto his shoulders and held her hips up as he playfully squeezed and playfully spanked her ass, which made her scream in agonized pleasure.
Dracula nearly brought her to the peak of orgasmic fulfillment, but brought his face up with a wicked smile again as Ericka breathed heavily from his oral tasting of her pussy. He positioned her again beneath himself as hugged Ericka tightly closer to his body as he simultaneously squeezed at his hardening cock to harden it further and guide their bodies into once more connecting to be as one.
Ericka gave a faint cry of slight agony yet glorious pain as he became sheathed within her so quickly and easily, mainly due to her overflowing wetness. He began with very powerful thrusts before the connection was complete, giving faint grunts as he was driven to pleasure and claim his wife.
Somehow, an interesting idea then made its way into his cock possessed brain, and the two of them, along with the fuchsia bed covering and torn bed curtain they had become entangled in, became enveloped in a light blue fog of mist and Dracula flew them up to the ceiling while he continued to thrust in and out of his wife.
Ericka gave a brief grunt as she felt her body hit a new hard surface, cushioned a bit by the blanket and ripped curtain as she was suddenly pinned with Dracula above her, or rather beneath her, as it was amazing how her sense of direction was barely recognized as her wild lust filled vampire husband somehow willed them against the hold of gravity and make love to her at the same time, as well as kissing and tasting her with such gusto as they hugged tightly to each other they rolled around on the ceiling, neither really knowing which way was up or down, or even who was supposedly atop whom.
"Rrrgh, Ericka !" he growled with lustful hunger as he began to thrust into her a bit faster and harder. "Ohhh, Ericka , Erickaaaa! Ohh, holy rabies,rabies!"
"Ohh, ohh! Ahhh!" she began to yell as she felt the building pressure within her loins, the burning inferno within them both all consuming. "Oh, Drac! Oh, Drac! Ohh, Draaac!"
At last, the peak of an epic climax surged through them as Ericka screamed in overwhelming erotic ecstasy, while Dracula screamed at the top of his lungs, "THIS HAS BEEN THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVERRRAAAAGH!" followed by his crazy, yet happily lust filled vampire roar.
Again they became frozen in time as the wave of their orgasmic climax slowly ebbed away to leave behind another wonderful memories between a love making couple. But Dracula lost his concentration on being on the ceiling when he and Ericka suddenly fell.
But luck was their ally as they were right over their own sturdy oaky bed, and Dracula was the first to the take the shock of the fall as he held Ericka protectively in his arms as they fell right through the canopy and ripped it wide open before bouncing onto the mattress, separating a bit painfully from each other while still entangled in torn bed covering and a torn bed curtain. They laid there for a few minutes, panting heavily from exertion and wonderfully invigorated.
"Oh, Ericka ," Dracula sighed tenderly as he caressed his wife's face, and she smiled back at him. "That was amazing, the best birthday present I've ever gotten. Thank you so much. Do you think you have enough strength to go again?"
She smiled at him as she said, "Need you ask? I can go as long as you can, even if it kills me."
"Oh, Honeybat," he scoffed with displeasure at the very thought. "Never."
He pulled her close and steadily rolled to be atop her once more, kissing and tongue twirling her mouth deeply as she hugged his body tightly around his own and guided him into her when she felt his prick harden as he became connected within her cunt.
"Ohhh, yeeesss!" he breathed with a heavy moan as they began another wild love making carnal dance, enough so to begin making their sturdy bed shake and creak with their rhythm, content to remain this way for the rest of the day.
The next night came like clockwork, and most everyone had awakened to enjoy a nice breakfast and another night of celebrating Dracula's birthday, but he nor Ericka were anywhere to be seen. Johnny figured he and Ericka decided to 'sleep in' late and shrugged it off, but had noticed not long after that Dracula forget his big flat screen TV present, and decided to take it to Dracula's room so he and Mina could set it up later. He was barely up a flight of stairs as he strained and struggled to get it to his future father-in-law and Mavis found him and offered to help, easily lifting the long and cumbersome box due to her vampiric super strength.
"Thanks, Mavy," he said. "I'd thought Drac and Ericka would want to check this out after the party last night, I guess they just forgot about it."
"Maybe," Mavis shrugged.
When they arrived at her parents' private chambers, she lightly racked on the door but no one answered, so she slowly opened the door and helped Johnny carry in the new TV.
Through the faint lighting, they then went wide eyed as they saw a sleeping Dracula and Ericka cuddling happily together, and while this was expected, the younger couple were stunned and perplexed by the state of the fore poster oak bed; the covers and sheets were wadded and messed up and showed signs of rips and tears, while on all of the posts had various deep scratches, and Dracula and Ericka were covered across their torsos in their loving embrace with their hair all mussed up.
"Whoa!" Johnny whispered in surprise. "What happened in here?"
"I don't even want to know," Mavis whispered quietly as she guided her fiancé out of the room, strongly suspecting what happened and couldn't help smiling about it, but at the same time shiver uncomfortably at the thought and knowing she lied through her teeth she didn't really want to think about what her parents were doing in their room.
Only mere seconds after the door quietly clicked closed, Dracula and Ericka stirred from their peaceful sleep to say good morning to each other. For a moment, Dracula felt frisky again, but Ericka reasoned they both needed a shower and he got things ready in the bathroom, while Ericka went to pick out their clothes from her wardrobe and his closet.
As she picked out his clothes, which was easy since Dracula wore the same old world gentleman's wool tux and noble class cape all the time, she then spotted an old wooden box in a dark corner of the closet. Normally Ericka would respect her husband's privacy, but curiosity got the better of her and she quietly opened the box as maybe it was a birthday present he forgot to open.
Inside the box, Ericka found old painted portraits in frames of Dracula and Mavis when she was a child and Ericka couldn't help but smile at how close the vampire father and daughter were in the portrait. But two particular pictures seemed to catch her interest and pique her curiosity. One was a picture with a younger Mavis and her group of monster friends her age, the names on the back read Hank N. Stein,Alex,Billy,Cindy , Pedro, and Wendy Blob. Ericka chuckled at looking over the photos.
The other picture was of an older vampire woman, but it wasn't Martha, this vampire woman looked too stern and cold, and her features resembled Dracula a little more strongly, and the name on the back of the picture read Lydia. Ericka wondered who this vampire woman was and should ask Dracula about it, but then heard his footsteps as he called to her. Ericka quickly put the pictures back into the old wooden box and went to join her husband for their quick shower.
Their showering together didn't get very far as Dracula smiled wickedly as desire once more grew within him and his eyes glowed a deep red. He embraced Ericka tightly to his body and she didn't resist, having looked forward to another moment like this with some anticipation. He pinned her against the stone wall and soon easily pulled and shoved his manhood in and out of her womanhood again as he made harsh thrusts, faster and harder as they panted heavily through the pace. Soon, he cummed inside her with an epic catharsis, Ericka's scream and Dracula's roar echoed down the halls throughout the entire hotel, waking some more still sleeping guests, including a dozing Frank and Eunice.
"Oye, there they go again," Eunice complained. "We should really talk to them about keeping it quiet."
"You can certainly try, Baby ," groaned Frank. "But I doubt they'll listen."
Eunice rolled her eyes as she scoffed and tried to get some rest.