Chapter 19: Return of Pumpkin Guts p1
Things were relatively quiet at Hotel Transylvania after Dracula's fabulous birthday extravaganza, yet another celebration was now on the horizon as it was the day before the popular human holiday, Halloween. Since the castle already had the permanent feel of Halloween year round as a hotel for scary monsters, Ericka and Johnny wanted to officially bring the holiday to the hotel as they began decorating the lobby, and directed the gargoyle waiters, the zombie bellhops, and witch maids with what to do to get the lobby ready, but to their surprise the entire staff responded to panicking at the mere mention of Halloween, baffling the two humans.
With no other choice, Ericka and Johnny decided to work on the decorations themselves. While the decorating comity of spiders gave their own touch with interwoven and glistening webs, going all out to show off their artistic talents to even impress Ericka and Johnny, the two human residents of the hotel helped to add traditional Halloween decorations such as plastic bats and cats, fake ghosts hanging on the ceiling, glowing skulls, along with glowing Jack-O-Lanterns scattered around the corners of the lobby, three silhouettes of a werewolf howling at a full moon in the background and a vampire rising from his coffin and a witch flying on her broomstick, and painted cardboard cutouts of generic versions of zombies, witches, vampires, and werewolves.
In the middle of the lobby, Ericka and Johnny took another look over at all of the decorations put up so far. While Johnny thought the place looked awesomer than ever, Ericka agreed but still thought it could all use something more or it was missing something. She just wanted this to be the hotel's perfect first Halloween, though part of it may have been due to having so few chances to celebrate with her friends and sisters during her childhood as well.
Before Johnny and Ericka could brainstorm any more ideas for decorating he lobby, Dracula and Mavis appeared, walking down the staircase engaged in conversation, until they noticed the strange decorations around the lobby. Their eyes widened at what they were seeing, both gawking in surprise.
"Ericka , what did you and Johnny do to my lobby?" he questioned irately.
"What don't you like it?" Ericka asked her husband sweetly.
"Like it? Why would I like weird and strange decorations around my lobby!" Dracula replied in a disliking tone.
"Come on, Dad. The decorations aren't so bad. Some look cool." An impressed Mavis pointing out some of the neat decorations.
"Anyways, why are you two decorating my lobby with weird monster rip-off looking decorations?" Dracula asked wanting to know why they were doing this.
"Aw come on Drac don't you know what today is?" Johnny smirked.
But Drac shook his head no, as did Mavis, both not knowing what's so special about today.
"Its a special holiday that you guys will be psyched about. It's Halloween!" Johnny hollered excitedly.
But the second Dracula heard that today was Halloween his eyes grew big with fear. "Oh no, that's TODAY!" Then Dracula quickly rushed over to his knights to order a lockdown of the hotel. "Initiate Halloween lockdown! This not a drill!"
No sooner he ordered it, all of the monsters raced up to their rooms, screaming like their very lives depended on it. The knights rushed all over the hotel and locked every single entry way and guarded them.
"And I also want you to get rid of all this Halloween stuff right now!" As Dracula ordered that, all of the knights grabbed or snatched off the Halloween decorations in the lobby, everything Johnny and Ericka worked so hard to make the place festive was being torn down forcibly.
Ericka and Johnny weren't really happy about all this. Then Ericka decided to put a stop this nonsense, but her husband stood in her way and prevented her from doing it. "Drac, stop this! Why are you doing this?" she demanded angrily.
"I'm doing what needs to be done!" he retorted.
Once the knights came up to him with all the decoration gathered in their arms, they wanted to know what to do next. "Sir, what do you want us to do with the decorations?" asked the leader of the knights.
And what Dracula ordered next would definitely upset Johnny and Ericka . "Destroy them!"
Once the orders were given the knights threw all of the Halloween decorations into the flames of the fireplace, devoured by the fire.
"NO!" Ericka and Johnny cried in union, trying to stop the knights but two guards blocked their path with spears.
While Johnny and Ericka were forced to watch the knights throw all of the decorations into the fire, they were completely heartbroken. All they wanted was to liven up the hotel for a holiday they thought that they could all enjoy. But when Dracula had ordered to destroy the decorations, it put a strain on both of their hearts.
Whirling around, Ericka faced her husband. Face full of fury. Eyes full of hurt. She wanted to know is why? Why would he do this? "Dracula, what on earth is wrong with you? Why would you destroy all our hard work to celebrate a fun holiday!" she demanded, angrily out of her mind.
"Not cool man, just not cool!" Johnny reproached, upset at the vampire for his actions.
Even Mavis was upset with her dad. True she understood why he did it, but she thought he went overboard with his orders. "Dad, I'm not that thrilled about Halloween either, but I agree with Mom and Johnny that you went too far!"
"I only did that to ensure our protection from celebrating Halloween!"
"What do you have against Halloween?" Ericka asked.
"I don't have anything against the holiday," explained Dracula. "I just want no monster to celebrate it so we can be safe from the dreaded beast - Pumpkin Guts." His face scowled at the mere mention of the name.
Ericka and Johnny exchanged confused expressions at what he told them. Seriously, a monster named Pumpkin Guts is the reason for Dracula's behavior? The name sounded so strange it doesn't make any sense.
"Um... who is this Pumpkin Guts?" Johnny was the first to break silence.
"Shh! I'm about to get all nostalgic and flashback-y." Dracula decided to tell them the tale of Pumpkin Guts. "The legend of Pumpkin Guts, the ancient beast who terrorizes and lays punishes any monster that dares celebrate Halloween by participating in the human ritual of trick-or-treating. But then one little monster got curious and disobeyed the rules. The last time he was risen again, it was because of my own daughter! She snuck out to participate in trick-or-treating!" The vampire frowned at the memory. "So to ensure the monsters' safety we stay inside throughout the whole holiday until morning. So now do understand why I had those things destroyed!"
Johnny and Ericka were surprised and intrigued by this strange story, but Ericka was still angry with Dracula for destroying the Halloween decorations.
"Look I understand why you don't like Halloween, but did you have to go too far in destroying the decorations!" Ericka growled.
"Any form of celebrating Halloween will anger Pumpkin Guts' so i had to get rid of them." Dracula argued, behaving like he had done nothing wrong.
"But did you have to burn them, Dad?" Mavis reproached. "That was harsh."
"Mavis, you stay out of this!" He told off his daughter as he resumed arguing with his wife.
"You could've just told the knights to put them away in the attic!" Ericka retorted to him.
"And have traces of Halloween stuff in my hotel and anger that beast, it's like you want him to come here and attack us all!"
When Dracula said that last part, he hurt Ericka so much that small tears glistened in her eyes and she couldn't deal with him right now. "That's it, since you're so set on not celebrating the holiday all night, I'm not talking to you for the rest of the night!" And with that, Ericka left the group to be alone for awhile, which got Dracula really upset with her.
"Ericka , don't you dare walk away from me! ERICKA !"
But she didn't respond to him and she walked into the elevator, the doors slammed shut in the vampire's face when he tried to stop her.
"You kind of deserved it from the way you argued with her," Mavis commented, knowing her father had it coming.
Dracula, who was still angry after the fight, decided to send both his daughter and her boyfriend to their rooms. "Both of you, go to your rooms, NOW! And don't come out till I say it's okay to come out!"
"This is totally unfair!" Johnny sulked, stomping back and forth in Mavis's bedroom. "I mean, it sucks that we all can't go out to celebrate Halloween!"
In the room, Mavis sat cross-legged on the bed with her arms folded and a pouting scowl upon her young ivory face. Hank, Alex and their father , Pedro and Wendy stood close by, not one of them spoke a word since all they did was watch Johnny stomping back and forth. Charlotte (the she-wolf with blonde hair in short ponytail) and Sophie (the she-wolf with longer blonde hair with black highlights in a braid), Mavis's two werewolf friends from her Ghoul Guide troop, either leaned on the wall pouting or laying on Mavis's bed staring up at the ceiling for no reason. Little Winnie, still sucking in her binkie, sat on the bed and only watched Johnny's furious pacing.
"Ugh, I'm with you Johnny. It does suck." Mavis grunted, agreeing with her boyfriend.
"That was so harsh, even from your dad," added Sophie. "He's probably gonna get kicked out of their bedroom tonight."
"Especially how your dad dealt with the decorations you and Aunt Ericka put up!" Hank, Alex commented. "But who knows, maybe he's right about Pumpkin Guts' possibly returning."
"But what if he doesn't." Mavis wondered. "Remember when I told you guys how me and my Dad lured Pumpkin Guts away to Mrs. Cartwright's house and that she practically carved Pumpkin Guts' into pumpkin pie." Her friends nodded yes, having been told of the story by Mavis four years ago. "Well maybe he's gone forever, seeing how Mrs. Cartwright to care of him."
Mavis's friends and uncle stared at each other for a moment, thinking it over that she could probably be right
Johnny was thinking to himself for a moment when he came up with an idea. "Guys, I have an idea! Why don't we all sneak out of the hotel's lockdown and go to the village to celebrate Halloween, then we sneak back to the hotel before sunrise comes before Drac figures out we're gone!"
"That's a wonderful idea Mavy".said Frank
"That's a great idea, Johnny!" Mavis happily agreed. "Right guys?"
The rest of the group looked at each other feeling conflicted on going out to celebrate Halloween at the human village.
"I don't know, Mavis. It does sound like a foolproof plan, but we all don't want to get in trouble. Especially by your dad, remember how he acted when we broke the rules last time," said Pedro.
Then Mavis thought of an idea to convince them all to come with her. "Well, if you guys what to stay her all night bored out of your minds, be my guest. I guess me and Johnny will get to eat all of the delicious candy all by ourselves."
When her friends heard her mention candy, they jolted right up and decided to join them.
"Did you say candy?" Wendy asked joyfully.
"Okay, you convinced us we're totally in!" Pedro said with excitement thinking about all the candy.
"But wait, how are we going to get out?" asked Charlotte.
"Your dad locked down the whole hotel," added Sophie.
"Yeah, how are we going to get out?" The stein's were wondering the same thing.
"The same way as last time." Mavis smirked, opening her bathroom door and pointed at the toilet.
This got Hank really upset. "Oh no, no, no, NO!" Hank, Alex,Frank shouted, disliking the idea.
The scene cuts to Mavis, Johnny, and everyone else sliding through the sewer pipes after Mavis was able to shrink down everybody to fit through the toilet hole with her vampire magic.
They all screamed with delight, except for Hank, as they slid through the pipes like they were on water slides at a water park. Soon they all finally made it out the sewage pipe and once they landed to a screeching halt with their butts on the ground outside, the group cheered that they made it out in time, for the opening of the sewage pipe had closed, mostly due to Dracula pulling the switch to lock every open area in the hotel grounds.
"Let's do that's again!" Charlotte and Sophie cheered simultaneously.
"No! Never!" Hank, Alex,Frank cried, not wanting to do that again.
Then once everyone picked themselves up, Johnny pointed out the roadway to the village. "Come on, guys! The village isn't that far, so let's get our Halloween on!"
"Yeah!" Everyone cheered as they all raced through the woods making their way towards the village to enjoy Halloween and get some candy.
Meanwhile back at the hotel in Dracula's chambers, Dracula was trying to get Ericka to talk to him but she was still angry with him.
"Come on Ericka , please talk to me." Dracula begged to his beloved Ericka .
But she continued to face away from him and continued to give him the silent treatment. Dracula tried everything to get her to talk to him, he even gave her the pouty bat face but she still gave him the cold shoulder. He was starting to get upset that she wouldn't talk to him because what he did earlier.
"Seriously, you're still mad at me because i burned some tacky decorations."
That statement triggered Ericka and caused her to have an outburst towards her husband. "It's not just about the decorations, Drac. It's more than that."
"Ah ha! I got you to talk to me!" Dracula felt triumphant that he made her break her silent treatment towards him. But her realized what she said at that last part. "Wait, what do you mean more than that?" he asked her.
"I was so excited to spend a holiday with you that's practically about monsters. I thought you'd be excited too, until you blew all my hard work in my face by burning the decorations." Ericka stated sadly.
It was then Dracula started to feel guilty for what he'd done and didn't consider how Ericka would feel. So he then sat companionably beside her.
"I'm sorry, my Blood Ruby. I guess I did go a bit far by burning them. I see now you just wanted to spend the holiday with me. But I was so scared to cause Pumpkin Guts might get mad again and hurt everyone." Dracula said with a sad tone at the end.
"Wait, what do you mean by again?" Ericka asked him.
Sighing, Dracula decided to make his confession of a tiny detail he left out on the story. "The reason for Pumpkin Guts' existence is all my fault. You see, I was the little monster who disobeyed the rules." Ericka gawked at him in disbelief as he continued. "I was only a child back then. You should've seen me in my dinosaur costume." he chuckled, until he frowned. "But because of me, Pumpkin Guts was angered and he laid waste to monsterkind."
While Ericka heard his story she felt terrible that he had to go through all that. "Oh, Drac." She comforted her husband by hugging him and then he returned the hug, feeling better after it. When their hug ended, she continued to comfort him. "I'm sorry that happened to you. You must have been traumatized."
"It's okay, beloved. I've gotten over it." Dracula assured her.
"But, what does Pumpkin Guts want?"
"A world where every monster is like him - with a pumpkin face! Ever since, he's turned each trick-or-treating monster into a jack-o-lantern victim. The humans thought it looked all spooky and stuff, and kind of ran with it." He tenderly stroked his wife's brown hair. "I understand my daughter's curiosity, darling. I was once curious too."
"All children get curious, Drac," she assured him. And then an idea came into Ericka's head on how they can still have fun on this holiday even though they can't celebrate it. "I know you can't celebrate Halloween because of Pumpkin Guts, but since I'm a human I guess I can show you the costume I was gonna wear for you, would you like that?" she purred seductively.
Dracula was surprised by her actions. What is so important about this costume that he needed to see her wear it? But if it made her happy, then he should make her happy. "I guess there's no harm for you to wear your costume, Love Droppings, but why are you so eager for me to see you in it?"
Then Ericka grew a big smirk on her face and got up to change in the closet. "Let's just say that when you see me in this, you're gonna find it irresistibly hard to keep me wearing it!" She closed the closet door to get changed.
Dracula rolled his eyes, finding that statement silly. "Swamp Dumpling, you are already drop dead gorgeous. I don't see how a costume can make you-" But before he could finish what he was saying, Ericka opened the closet door to reveal her costume to him.
When Dracula saw what her costume was, his jaw literally feel to the floor. She wore was a sexy vampire costume; the sweetheart neckline tightly hugged her breasts to show off the top of her bosom, the black dress was above her knees with a black belt having a bat symbol in the center, black high-heeled boots, a black choker with a red jewel in the center, and her vampire cape was the same length as her dress. The appear of how this costume looked on Ericka was completely astounding. It complimented her curves perfectly and the way it held her breasts out to show there circumference was perfect.
Dracula was at lost for words. The only thing he could say was, "Holy Rabies!" He felt his undead heart rattle against his ribcage.
Ericka chuckled at his reaction, as if knowing he would react that way. "So does it look good on me?"
"Look good?" Dracula grinned devilishly as grabbed hold of her and pinned her down on the bed. Then he started to aggressively yet passionately kiss her, capturing her mouth with his. Though momentarily surprised, Ericka gave in. Tongues shifting and lips sliding, he grinded his increased erection and pelvis into hers, while she responded by wrapping her legs around his waist, feeling her crotch dampen. Their arms snaked around their bodies to bring each other closer. They broke the kiss with trails of saliva connecting after their lips separated to catch their breathing. "You look ravishing," he whispered softly.
Ericka smiled lovingly at him, and Dracula continued to kiss her by sliding his tongue into her mouth. But before they could go any further, Ericka remembered something and stopped their kiss. "Wait!" she cried.
Concerned, Dracula wondered why she wanted to stop. "Honeyfang, what's wrong, was I being to aggressive?"
"It's not that, Drac," Ericka told him, thinking about her daughter and her friends. "Its just that before we can continue with this, I want you to check on Mavis and Johnny, so you can apologize to them for how you behave earlier."
Dracula knew she was right, but he wanted more naughty stuff with her. Then he thought of an idea. "Well the kids aren't going anywhere since I made them stay in their rooms, so how about we finish what we started and then go check on them because right now all I want to do is get you out of that outfit!" he rasped seductively.
Ericka wanted to argue with Dracula, but he began to kiss her neck softly and she couldn't hold herself back anymore. Soon they began to rip off each other's clothes off and go wild.
Johnny took the lead in bringing Mavis, Hank, Alex,Frank, Pedro, Wendy, Winnie, Charlotte and Sophie down the road and found the human village where Mavis and her friends visited four years ago during Halloween. The group was clearly excited for what they were going to see and decided what they wanted to do.
"I can wait to see what other costumes the humans are wearing!" Pedro exclaimed with a huge grin,."I want to see more girl mummies, bandages are what's going on, baby!"
"Get real," Sophie scoffed. "After Uncle Drac's popular costume the humans wore, most of the humans love dressing up as werewolves."
"No way, it's more of my dad the humans like to dress up," Hank, Alex argued. "Besides, I'm really looking forward to getting all that candy!"
"That shouldn't be too hard with your enormous bulk," Charlotte teased, and Hank, Alex shot the she-wolf a dirty look, but Charlotte ignored him just as they passed the gateway entrance to the village and she happened to notice the humans dunking their heads in barrels of water and come back with an apple in the mouth. "Besides, I want to give this bobbing for apples a try."
"I want to see if the haunted house is as scary as Johnny says it is," Winnie chirped. "Or if it's any scarier than what I'd find in my brothers' rooms at home."
"Uh, I don't think a wolf your age should go to a haunted house, sweetie," Sophie didn't like the idea of her cousin venturing into a haunted house if it's as frightening as the humans say it is, and judging by the look on Wendy's face she felt the same way.
"Trust me, guys," Johnny announced confidently. "There's a lot of awesome things to do at a Halloween party. As for me and my girl, let's go see the fortune teller first, so we can get her to tell us of our future together, forever."
"Trust me, Johnny," Pedro interrupted."If you're marrying into the Dracula family, you'll know the meaning of forever. Take Aunt Ericka , for instance. She knew the meaning of forever as soon as she married Uncle Drac."
"Just to ask, what if the humans don't like us if they see us?" asked Sophie, looking slightly fearful.
"There's nothing to worry about," assured Mavis. "The last time my friends and I came here, the humans thought we were in costumes and gave us a lot of candy!"
The group strolled into the village square and entered the neighborhood, but as soon as they made it, the gang was speechless at what they were witnessing. It was even more of a spectacle and flamboyant celebration than the Monster Festival earlier that year, and it seemed to make the teenage monsters more excited about what was in store for them. All around on the main street and side streets (decorated with orange and black balloons, huge carved smiling pumpkins, fake skeletons and ghosts hung from the lampposts) were delicious food and game vendors, a monster roller coaster, a scarecrow-making contest, a pumpkin painting contest, a what's in the cauldron game, and all of the stores and restaurants were opened and looked to remain open into later than usual hours. Everywhere they looked every last human was dressed up in different costumes, or just a Halloween themed clothing, adults walking around with rather big groups of children wearing various costumes of not only monsters, but other things and characters as well, though mostly it's monsters like vampires, zombies, Frankenstein, werewolves, and witches were still popular.
Mavis broke their silence, squealing, "Holy rabies, this looks like a blast! I want to try everything they've got here!"
"Easy, Mavy, you will, but not all at once, okay," Johnny spoke as if he were the parent and Mavis was the child, as he lead his girlfriend to one of the game vendors and told the monsters they will catch up with everybody else a little later.
"Look at all those adorable children," Charlotte gushed as she held Winnie. "They look so cute in their costumes. Why don't we go join them on their trick-or-treating group so Winnie can play with them."
"Great idea, sis!" Sophie sighed with a reserved smile. "As long as we keep Winnie away from that haunted house."
"How about we all go trick-or-treating together!" suggested Johnny, and judging by the chorus of cheers his answered was responded.
The group made their way deeper into the crowded streets through the excited crowd of costumed humans, but were startled when a human dressed up as a wizard walked up to them and threw sparkly confetti at them like he was supposedly doing magic, and then held up a poster in their faces.
"You look like a group that can win first prize in tonight's costume contest, and boy, oh boy, are those costumes on the mark!" the 'wizard' announced.
"Costume contest?" Wendy asked intrigued, as he took the flyer from the 'wizard.' "Whoa, man! The first prize is a golden trophy for the year's best costume, and 500 cash!"
"That's right, my cute green friend, you can sign up in the booth right over there, and the contest starts at 8:00 on the dot, so don't be late if you're called."
The 'wizard' walked away as he continued to pass out flyers for the costume contest, as well as other activities to do around the fair. The kids exchanged grins of interest, even Wendy was up to the idea of entering a contest and winning through her blob cuteness.
The gang rushed into a nearby costume store where they found costumes to their liking. Hank,Frank wore some pirate costumes with a eye patch over his eye and frank a hook for his hand. While his twin sis Alex wore a vampire princess costume with a cape and some fangs. Wendy wore a sassy dress called a flapper from the 1920s. Having left the store, they told their friends all about it and it sparked their interest of entering the contest.
Later on, Winnie emerged wearing a little angel costume which made her so adorable that Wendy had to contain her jealous streak. Mavis and Johnny were dressed up as Cinderella wearing a short yellow hair wig in a blue dress and Prince Charming with a well-trimmed brown hair wig in what looked like old fashioned thief garb with a white suit, red pants, with a gold belt, and dark brown polished shoes. Charlotte and Sophie wore matching costumes, two sexy nurses.
Before starting their trick-or-treating ritual, the kids wanted to participate in the gregarious Halloween festival. They enjoyed a game of tossing balls into monster themed heads of their parents with huge gaping mouths. Pedro won the game, though his friends strongly accused him of cheating.
"Oh, sure, just because I carry ancient amulets must mean I'm a cheater," Pedro snarked sarcastically. "You guys are just a bunch of sore losers."
"We're not!" yelled Wendy. "I'm sure you used an amulet to magically put those plush balls into Frankie's mouth and we didn't see it."
"Whatever," Pedro groaned. "I still won the prize."
"And I think Uncle Drac is going to hate you for that," Hank groaned as he eyed the plush Dracula doll, and while Pedro smirked about it.
"C'mon, I'm hungry, let's get some grub before trick-or-treating and the costume contest, it's in two hours, guys. Besides, think of the candy as a dessert for after dinner," Sophie announced as she lead her friends over to a vendor serving a kind of sausage like state fair American hot dogs.
Pedro ate three of sausages like a pig. Winnie's, Charlotte's and Sophie's sausage were devoured by the werewolf girls. Mavis ate with more lady-like demur reserve. Johnny ate two sausages ravenously. However Hank, Alex,Frank got six of them and ate them in one loud gulp as they chew loudly. Wendy shot him a dirty look as she put a hands on her hips before she resumed eating her sausage.
Nearby, two young woman dressed in costumes, one a turn of the 19th century lady of class with a wide brimmed feathered hat, elegant long high class fuchsia dress, and matching ribbon umbrella, while her friend was dress more scantily in a Slave Leia metal bikini from Return of the Jedi. They made their way to the same sausage vendor and ordered their own sausages when they noticed the teenage monsters.
"Why are they staring at us like that?" Wendy asked.
"Hey, it's you guys!" Slave Leia yelled with excited fangirling.
"Your the monsters who came to the Monster Festival a couple of months ago!" her classy friend squealed.
"Actually, that would be our families, but yep, that's us!" Pedro bragged quickly before any of his friends could said anything. "And I hope a couple of lovely ladies like yourselves won't mind some company."
The two girls squealed excitedly at the thought of hanging out with the offspring of the infamous monsters on Halloween. This drew the attention of more people nearby when they suddenly recognized the descendants of the Drac Pack right away. Dozens of humans began to gather around wanting pictures or autographs with the monsters, but the kids backed managed to slip out of the crowd when they became gradually overwhelmed with a crowd of mobbing fans.
Making a run for it to another part of the festival, the kids stumbled upon a bobbing for apples contest. Johnny smugly volunteered to show them how its down having done it before as a child. However, the kids laughed as they watched Johnny try and fail for a third time at bobbing for an apple, but instead he got his head soaking wet. He had taken a deep breath before he dunked his head into the water and he came back up only to lose his Prince Charming wig.
"I swear I was really good at this as a kid, guys," Johnny insisted as he took his floating wet wig out of the water and placed it back on his head.
"My turn!" Mavis said eagerly and took her place with the other humans, kids and adults alike, next to a big metal tub close to the brim with water and floating apples.
Doing what she saw Johnny do, Mavis leaned over as she held her Cinderella wig, eyeing the nearest floating apple she took a deep breath and caught it. Everyone applauded for her as she smiled at her victory in her first time bobbing for apples.
But then Mavis got distracted by something else. "Wait! What's that giant ball on a stick?" She rushed over to a vendor selling caramel apples and, in a flash, Mavis picked one and took a big bite. "Johnny, have you tried this corameal apple?"
"Sure, but it's very sticky," Johnny warned before he corrected her. "And it's called 'caramel.' It's chocolate." He bought his caramel apple as he happily told her, "You're awesome at everything, Mavis. I'm gonna be the luckiest guy in the world when I marry you."
"Aww, thank you, Johnnystein," Mavis gushed.
"Hey guys! We're supposed to go trick-or-treating! We can't fill up on snacks!" Hank interrupted their moment.
Johnny tried to answer but it was muffled by a mouth full of sticky candy apple. He gave the golem a thumbs up as he tried to get the sweet confection out of his mouth.
"Oh, right. Sorry, Hank," said Mavis. "I just wanted to know what a candy apple tastes like."
The next moment she noticed Johnny's predicament with his candied apple, so Mavis helped by yanking it out of his mouth the moment he finally got a full bite. He muffled a painful scream and he covered his mouth as she handed the candied apple back to him.
Johnny rubbed his jaw, moaning in slight pain, "I think you almost yanked out half my teeth."
Realizing what he meant about the candied apple and how sticky they were, Mavis was momentarily silent with embarrassment, grinning sheepishly, "I'm sorry."
But Johnny brushed it off since it didn't matter. "Nah, it's cool. Now let's go trick-or-treating!"
"YAHOOOO!" the gang cheered, pumping fists in the air and leaping for joy, looking giddy as excitable children at a birthday party.
Johnny bought a Halloween-themed bag to carry his candy, while the others used different objects, he did bought Winnie,Alex two plastic pumpkin bucket for them to use. Mavis used an empty flowerpot, Pedro and Wendy used green bags, Hank,Frank used a trashcans, Charlotte and Sophie used buckets.
Racing through the neighborhood, laughing and squealing, the group bean racing from house to house in the neighborhood, stopping at the first house where a human in a superhero costume tossed several pieces of candy into their awaiting carry-ons. Leaving the front porch, the gang made it to another house where a tough-looking human politely dropped loads full of candy into their sacks. Leaving the second house, they group knocked on the third door of the next house where a lady dressed as a cowgirl handed out more candy for the eagerly smiling monsters. Sometimes they either said 'Trick-or-Treat' or 'Stick-of-Meat' as they smiled hugely when the candy was given out to them.
A short while later, the gang took a rest stop on a curb to devour their delicious sweet-tasting candy.
"Wow! This is so good! I can't believe we never had any of this stuff back home or at the hotel," chirped Sophie, her mouth full of candy.
"Yeah, we should do this on every Halloween," Charlotte agreed, licking a lollipop.
"Check it out! We got a lot of M&Ms." Hank, Alex, Frank announced, gazing into their trashcan and plastic pumpkin bucket .
"I got some licorice," said Pedro.
"I got a pack of gun," said Sophie.
"I got tootsie rolls," said Charlotte.
"I got a popcorn ball," cheered Mavis.
"I got a bag of cookies," squealed Wendy.
"I got gummy worms," added Johnny.
"I got a Hershey bar and four quarters," chirped Winnie.
"We got bag of cookies, and gummy worms"added Billy and Cindy.
"I didn't know the humans were generous enough to give out money," Sophie smiled. "You should save it for a new toy, Winnie."
"And I got a lot of chocolate stuff," Mavis announced proudly, and when she looked over to Pedro she asked smugly as she noticed the mummy grew strangely silent. "What else did you get, Pedro?"
Pedro glumly pulled out what he had. "I got a rock."
While most of his friends looked confused and pitied looks, Hank, Alex and Johnny snickered at the classic joke. Winnie kindly handed one of her lollipops to Pedro to make him feel better, which he did.
"I cannot believe our families are missing out on this. They're on lockdown for no reason and we haven't seen a sign of Pumpkin Guts anywhere," Mavis said, her mouth full of sweets staining her cheeks. She stood up proudly. "Look at us! Once again, out in the human world with real humans and we don't have to hide anymore, especially without having to worry about Pumpkin Guts!"
"Plus, we got all the candy we could eat," Hank, Alex agreed, stuffing chocolate candies in his mouth.
"After this I'll take you guys to the haunted house, play what's in the cauldron, the roller coaster, and then we head for the costume contest and finally there's this dance party after the contest!" Johnny announced, wiping the candy smears off his face with his sleeve.
"Holy rabies!" Mavis gushed excitedly at her boyfriend's plan. "We're having the best night of our lives, and it looks like nothing's going wrong for once!"
However, during their time of trick-or-treating, the carved pumpkin jack-o-lanterns at every house in the village and neighborhood the monster kids had been to had suddenly lit up a sickly green light followed by a green flame. Their expressions changed to evil maliciousness and began rolling down the streets, disappearing out of sight. Wherever the jack-o-lanterns would go, more jack-o-lanterns would come to life and joined their companions. No one had seen them roll off nor seemed to realize the danger they would be in.
Little did Mavis know how totally wrong she was.