26 Days Until Extermination...

Michael sitting on the couch as he was taking a break, while he was placing his blessing over the hotel. Charlie walked into the lobby to see that he was sulking about something.

"Michael, what's wrong?" she asked.

"I feel like I'm just a burden to everyone," he told her. Charlie's eyes widen and she smiled, nervously.

"No, you're not!" she tried to reassure him. Michael turned to her.

"Oh, really? Then what about the time I tried to cook but almost burned down the hotel?" he pointed out.

"Uh?"

"Or what about that other time, when I tried to greet the clients but had a nervous breakdown after I told them the wrong thing."

"Okay, so you're having a little bit of bad luck," Charlie told him. "We just need to find something that suits you." Charlie thought for a moment, before an idea came to her.

"Hey, how about you help put up signs for the hotel?" Charlie suggested, smiling.

"I'd be happy to, my favorite niece!" Micheal answered, happily. "I will not let you down!"

"I'm your only niece, Michael." the princess laughed and she handed the posters to him.

Michael took them from her and headed towards the front door, opening it. As he walked outside, Michael stopped when he heard a whimpering sound. He looked down and he squealed in delight to see a puppy with brown hair and a black spot on it's right eye.

"What are you doing out here?" He asked as he smiled, picking up the dog. "Are you by yourself?" He saw that there was no collar on it. It must be a stray. As he examined closer, Michael noticed that the puppy looked a little bit malnourished as he felt the dog's rib cage as he held it. The poor thing must be starving! He must do something about this! Michael looked around to see if there was anyone around the he turned back towards the front door and opened it, setting the puppy down on the floor.

"I'll be back in just a minute. I have to do something real quick," Michael said. "In the meantime, stay right there and I'll get you something to eat." The puppy let out a small bark in response as it started to headed straight towards him.

"Stay," Michael ordered. The puppy stopped as it stared up at him then plopped down on it's butt, wagging it's tail.

"Good dog," Michael smiled, closing the door.

The puppy looked around the lobby and began to wander around, sniffing things like the plants and furniture, having an accident on a few of them, and chewing on some of the legs on the chairs and tables. Next, it headed over towards Husk's bar, accidentally knocking over some expensive bottles and glass containers then happily ate some of the cherries that were in a bowl. Then, it began to wander further down the hallway, just as Husk came back only to see broken glass and other debris everywhere, as well as the half eaten bowl of cherries.

"I'm gonna kill that pig," Husk grumbled, angrily.

The doors to the elevator opened as a client walked inside of it, not noticing the puppy as did. The elevator stopped at a floor and the two got off, going separate ways. The dog stopped at an cracked door, curious, and pushed it open, walking into the room. Anna was sitting on the bed, with a towel draped around her, as she got out of the shower and was drying and brushing her hair. She didn't see the dog as she bent her head down, her hair covering her face, to dry the back of her head. The dog noticed her shirt and jeans lying on the bed and walked over and tugged them off. They fell on top of it as the dog wriggled it's way out of the pile.

It dragged Anna's shirt and jeans along with it, outside of her room, just as she flipped her hair back, to see them missing.

"Alastor!" she shouted, angrily.

The puppy discarded her clothes in a random room as it walked in to see Charlie and Vaggie talking to each other.

"I still can't believe that my father would do this to me?" the princess sighed. "I mean, I know that he was completely against my hotel idea, but I didn't think that he would stoop to this."

"Hey, hon," Vaggie said to her. "Look on the bright side, your hotel is becoming more famous and well known now that more sinners are redeeming themselves."

"That's true!" Charlie smiled but then it began to drop a bit. Vaggie noticed that there was something still bothering her.

"What is it?" she asked. Charlie sighed and looked at her.

"What about you? Don't you want to leave too?" she asked. Vaggie's eyes widen. "I mean, if you do, then I won't stop you-"

Vaggie stopped her. "Hon, I'm not going anywhere." she told her as took Charlie's hand, holding it.

"Oh, Vaggie," Charlie cried. Vaggie wiped away some of her tears with her thumb.

"Now, stop with the water works," she smiled. "Can't have the hotel's owner looking like this."

Charlie smiled and wiped her eyes. "I don't know what I would do without you,"

"Well, I can think of a few things we can do?" Vaggie smirked. Charlie raised her eye brows catching on to what she was suggesting, playing along.

"What are you offering?" she asked. Vaggie and her leaned in closer to kiss.

Then Vaggie felt something wet brush against her lips. The puppy had jumped up, just as the two were moving closer to each other, licking Vaggie's lips before Charlie kissed her. Vaggie's eyes immediately opened, staring at the princess in front of her with a shocked look. The dog walked out of the room, bored, looking for something else to do.

"That was unusual," Vaggie chuckled.

"What was?" Charlie asked.

"I didn't expect for you to lick me, before kissing me," Vaggie told her. Charlie looked at her confused.

"I didn't lick you," she told her. Vaggie laughed.

"Of course you did," she told her. "We are the only ones in the room. Who else could it be if it wasn't you?"

"Vaggie, I swear I didn't lick you!" Charlie replied. Vaggie frowned, thinking.

"If it wasn't you then who was it?"

"And why are Anna's clothes in here?" Charlie asked.

The dog walked further down the hallway when Fat Nuggets suddenly came out of Angel's room at the same time. The two made eye contact as they saw each other. The dog growled, scaring Fat Nuggets. It chased after Fat Nuggets down the hall barking as it did. After what seemed like an hour, the dog had given up the chase as it lost Fat Nuggets. It wandered down the hallway and walked down the stairs, heading to the lobby, while Angel was walking back towards his room.

Angel stopped when he saw Fat Nuggets, shivering, completely terrified, behind a potted plant.

"Nugsy? What are you doing out here?" Angel asked, picking him up. "And what happened to you?"

The puppy made it back to the lobby but stopped when it smelled something. The smell was coming from the kitchen and followed the scent, walking inside. Alastor hummed to himself as he was cutting up some carrots and tomatoes, tossing them into the pot, along with some shrimp and meat. As he reached to grab some salt and pepper to season his work, Alastor stopped when he felt something tugging on the edge of his pant leg. He kicked, hard, brushing it aside, thinking that it was one of his shadows. He heard a yelp and smiled as he returned back to what he was doing.

As Alastor was stirring the pot, he yelled and nearly jumped, when he felt something like teeth as it bit into his ankle. He growled, irritated, and looked down.

"What it is you pesky-" He froze with wide eyes and his whole body immediately went tense as he saw the puppy, latched onto his ankle. Alastor's eyes turned into radio dials as he stared down at the puppy. Horrible flashbacks from his previous life came back to him, as he felt the dogs teeth biting into his flesh, straight down to the bone and ripping his skin as they pinned him down.

"Get away from me, you filthy mutt!" Alastor shouted.

He threw back his leg, shaking the puppy off of him until it fell off, sliding across the floor. Voo doo sigils appeared around Alastor as he glared at the beast in front of him, while static emitted from him. The loud noise scared the dog and it ran away just as Anna walked into the kitchen, passing her as it did.

"Alastor, if your playing a joke on me, this isn't funny," she said as she walked into the kitchen, wearing only the towel. Alastor blinked. The symbols and static disappeared as well. He stared with wide eyes with a frozen smile, as she did, frozen in place. He felt himself began to panic.

Alastor blushed as he quickly looked away. "Have you no decency?! Cover up!" Anna frowned with her hands on her hips.

"I don't know what your problem is? I'm wearing a towel. You've seen me practically naked before,"

"Don't remind me," Alastor groaned. As he turned back, Alastor saw her stare at him, waiting for something.

"What?" he asked.

"Well?" Anna asked, gesturing to herself. Alastor was even more confused, by what she meant.

"Well, what?" he asked. Anna stared at him in disbelief.

"Give me back my clothes that you told your shadows to do!" she shouted.

"I did not tell them to do such a thing," Alastor told her. "honest."

"If it wasn't you then, who else was it?" Anna questioned.

"It was probably that mutt," Alastor muttered under his breath, spitefully. Anna's eyes widen in surprise.

"Dog? What dog?" she asked.

"Stop running away, you runt!" the two of them heard Husk shout at something in the lobby. Alastor and Anna peeked out from the kitchen to see Charlie, Vaggie, Angel, who was holding Fat Nuggets, still traumatized, and Husk surround someone in the corner of the lobby, close to the front door.

"What is going on?" Anna asked.

"Well, we found the culprit who's been terrorizing everyone," Charlie explained, gesturing over to the small dog, who was staring at everyone with big eyes, innocently.

"Well, toss that flea bag out!" Alastor shouted.

"How did it even get inside the hotel in the first place?" Anna asked.

Suddenly, while everyone was wondering the same thing, the front door open as Michael walked in, looking like he had gotten into a scrabble himself as well. He was missing a shoe, his hair was a mess, and his white suit was unbuttoned.

"I got mugged!" he shouted as he walked in, smiling. "But, I managed to put up every single poster so everyone can see them!"

Michael stopped when he saw everyone staring at him with unhappy looks on their faces then saw the puppy in front of them. It noticed him and quickly ran over to him. Michael cringed when he saw the damaged of the lobby, from broken glass, tattered and ripped couch cushions, chewed up furniture legs, and somehow a fire right in the middle of the lobby.

"After I find a safe home for this one," Michael told them. "I'll help clean up!"

"No!" Everyone shouted at the same time. "Please, don't! Just go back to blessing the hotel! We'll take care of this!"