Chapter 8:The True Boogeyman
As the day became night, every monster guest in Hotel Transylvania was waking up, after a good day's sleep… all except Wayne. Though Wanda and their pups had all had a decent sleep, Wayne had been kept awake all night, by all the snoring from the pups. But as Wayne felt he was about to finally fall asleep, closing his red veiny eyes, the bedside skull phone, started wailing, causing Wayne's eyes to shoot open, as well as the pups howling as they all awoke…
"I didn't order a wakeup call!" Wayne said, as he answered the phone.
"Count Dracula arranged it for all the rooms." A female voice answered back through the phone, before putting the phone down, then it started wailing again.
"Where's the snooze button?" Wayne asked, trying to turn the phone off.
"There will be no snoozing, The Party's today! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The phone replied, before continuing to wail, as Wayne was desperate for some sleep.
(Meanwhile…)
Mavis was decided on what to wear for the 118th birthday party, hoping to impress everyone, especially Michael… Mavis then took some of her black dresses, before cutting and sewing parts of them up, to make a cape, as she laughed and danced, wearing her new cape.
(Meanwhile…)
Griffin was preparing for the party, shaving his face, combing his hair, and so on…
Dracula then quickly entered Mavis's room, before placing a gift for Mavis's 118th birthday, from her mother (Martha), before Dracula quickly left to join the party…
(At the Party, in the main hall…)
"Girl, I can't believe it's your big night. You ate the frogs, now the party's so right. Where did the time Go, Girl?" Frank sang, as everyone was cheering and dancing, from Winnie knocking her brothers off one of the flying tables, to the Zombie dancing, while swapping heads and bodies…
"And Girl, you use to suck a binky, now look at you now. Sucking Blood right out of the cow. Where did the time Go, Girl?" Murray sang, continuing the song, while rocking his guitar, from what he'd seen Michael do.
Michael was rocking to the music, before he noticed a blue fiery smoke coming towards him, revealing to be Mavis, wearing her casual attire, but with her new cape….
"Wow, you look beautiful." Michael said in aww, as he secretly blushed underneath his mask…
"Thanks. Thanks for the party." Mavis thanked Michael.
"Oh yeah, do you like my little touches?" Michael replied, as small colorful fireflies began flying around, forming shapes of a plane, as well as many cities around the world…
"It's… Amazing!" Mavis replied in amazement, before looking back at Michael, with a devilish smile on her face.
Mavis then fell back coffin style, but as Michael attempted to catch her, she turned back into her blue fiery smoke form, before wrapping her cape around Michael's waist, and towing him more into the crowd, in which Michael complied. After finding their way into more of the crowd on the dancefloor, Mavis returned to her vampire form, as she & Michael, began dancing together…
"Terrific Party." One monster said, as Dracula entered the hall, with a smile on his face.
"You really outdid yourself Drac." Another monster said, as he patted Dracula on his shoulder.
"Got to be the best one I've been to in 500 years." A female monster said, as Dracula's smile grew.
All the monsters were all dancing and enjoying themselves, and the party. Michael & Mavis were also enjoying the party, as well as themselves, and each other…
To Michael, this was much more fun, than killing people. Michael was still afraid of what Mavis would think of him, if she ever found out he was human, but worse if she found out of any of the worst things, he had done in his life… but for now, Michael didn't let that worry get the better of him, as he was enjoying dancing with Mavis… as he accidently backed into a large monster, while dancing…
"Sorry big guy!" Michael apologized, as Mavis smiled and laughed, as they continued dancing, but then Mavis stopped, as Michael noticed…
Michael & Mavis starred at each other, Mavis had a big smile on her face, as Michael's eyes through the darkness of his mask, began to widen… Mavis then blinked at Michael, as her eyes widened too, as Michael returned the blink too…
Dracula began dancing on the dancefloor, somewhere nearby, as several monsters and suits of armour, began cheering for him…
"Uh… Mavis, Normally I don't admit this but… I'm crazily scared right now…" Michael said nervously, as Mavis slowly walked towards him, causing him to back up slowly.
"Maybe that's a good thing…" Mavis replied, as she leaned up, pressing her lips against the lips of Michael's mask, as Michael's eyes widened even more with surprise…
As Dracula continued dancing, a suit of armor pointed out to him, as he saw Mavis kissing Michael… Dracula's eyes widened with shock and fear, as blue fiery smoke exploded everywhere, before Dracula dashed over between Michael & Mavis in a second, giving Michael an angry look, as Mavis gave a little giggle from her kiss with Michael…
"HOW COULD YOU, AFTER I SHARED MY PAIN WITH YOU?!" Dracula snapped at Michael.
"Wait, no, I…" Michael tried to reply, but he was too embarrassed & worried to say a straight answer…
"Dad, leave Michael alone, it was just a kiss…" Mavis explained, but Dracula wasn't having it…
"No, you're not allowed to kiss!" Dracula replied sternly.
"Dad, I'm allowed to do things, I'm not 83 anymore, I'm allowed to like people, or go and see the world again." Mavis replied, trying to her father to understand.
"What?! You saw it, you said you didn't like it!" Dracula replied, desperate to keep Mavis safe from the outside world.
"Maybe I wanna give the village another chance, I just need to learn, you know, I need to roll with it, Like Michael does…" Mavis continued to explain, But Dracula still was desperate to keep things the way it was.
Michael began to feel something wasn't right, as Dracula and Mavis continued to argue, as Michael tiled his head, trying to figure out what it was with Dracula, that was making him so determined to keep Mavis away from the outside world.
"No, no you can't go to the village again!" Dracula continued to protest.
"Maybe, you could make them see we can be friends?" Mavis suggested.
"No, that isn't possible!" Dracula still protested desperately.
"Well, you can't be sure, its all how you present yourself." Mavis suggested again.
"No, that won't make a difference!" Dracula still desperately protested.
"How do you know?" Mavis asked in concern.
"Because it just won't!" Dracula protested still, nearing his breaking point.
"Why? Why won't it?" Mavis replied, demanding why her father was so reluctant.
"BECAUSE THAT VILLAGE DOESN'T REALLY EXIST!" Dracula yelled, as he reached his breaking point, as the whole party stopped, looking at Dracula, as one of Frank's guitar strings broke in the process…
"What do you mean 'Doesn't exist'?" Mavis asked nervously in concern.
"What did you do?!" Frank asked, demanding to know the truth, just as much as everyone else, even Michael…
"I… I did what I had to do." Dracula replied, trying to leave it at that, As Frank, Eunice, Murray, Wayne, Wanda, and Griffin walked over, with stern and betrayed looks on their faces.
"What? What was it that you had to do? TELL ME!" Mavis demanded sternly, causing Dracula to get nervous, before he nervously explained what he had done…
"I… I built the town… The Staff put it all together… The Zombies dressed up as the town's people…" Dracula nervously explained the truth, as the Zombie Bellhops groaned in disappointment… "Please, I… If you went out there, and something had happened to you, I, I just couldn't live with myself…"
"But you can live with this? Lying to me? Tricking me? Keeping me here forever when you knew my dream was to go?!" Mavis replied sternly, feeling betrayed by her own father…
Before Dracula could answer, Quasimodo appeared in wheelbarrow, with Esmeralda, still frozen with his finger up his nose, yelling in freeze talk, as Dracula got confused on what he was saying…
"Oil?" Murray asked in confusion.
As Quasimodo tried to call out that Dracula had lied more, & that Michael was a human, Michael slowly tried to sneak out unnoticed by anyone…
"English Please! your voice is really annoying!" Eunice said with annoyance.
"Wait, I speak frozen, He says: 'Dracula has brought a creepy human into the Hotel.'." The Fly said, as he flew in & explained what Quasimodo was saying, causing everyone, including Mavis, to gasp in shock and worry.
Michael was slowly walking backwards, as he was so close towards the doors exiting the hall, just as Quasimodo spoke in freeze talk, in Michael's Direction…
"He says: 'There is the creepy human.' He has a French accent." The fly explained what Quasimodo was saying, as everyone turned to Michael…
But Michael turned to exit the hall, the doors slammed on him, as Esmeralda blocked the doors, growling at Michael. Michael gasped silently, the Dracula, then everyone else, as Michael looked back nervously…
"Michael's not a human, He's the Boogeyman! He's Lying!" Frank said, as he aggressively got in Quasimodo's face.
"Yeah, and why is he picking his nose?" Griffin asked in concern, as Quasimodo spoke again in freeze talk…
"He says: 'It's a long story.'" The Fly explained Quasimodo's language again.
"Hey! Wait! NO! GET OFF ME YOU LITTLE RAT!" Michael growled, as Esmeralda scuttered allover Michael's face, as he tried to get Esmeralda off his face, until Michael accidently pulled off his mask, revealing what he was underneath, as Esmeralda squeaked…
Michael appeared, as a young looking human, looking around in his early 20s, with long messy Dark Brown Red Hair, with matching-coloured eyebrows, Caucasian white skin, a brown right eye, and white left eye with some scars around the eyelids.
As Quasimodo spoke once more in freeze talk, Michael grabbed Esmeralda, before launching her at Quasimodo, hitting him, knocking him over with the force of a football…
"He said: 'Behold the creepy human.'" The fly announced, as everyone started screaming and panicking, running everywhere, at the sight of Michael's humanity…
"I don't believe it…" Frank gasped in shock, as Dracula hid his face behind his cape in shock.
As everyone ran everywhere, some even bumping into Michael, Michael tried to put his mask back on, even though it was now pointless, as everyone now knew his wasn't one among them… But then he saw Mavis, looking at him, with a sad look on her face, as she slowly walked over to him… Michael too was now looking sad…
"Is it True? Are You a human?" Mavis asked in sadness.
"Yes…" Michael replied nervously, knowing he couldn't hide his true form anymore, before looking down sadly… "I'm so sorry…"
But instead of revolting him, Mavis suddenly put her arms around Michael's neck, hugging him…
"I don't care, I still wanna be with you." Mavis said, embracing Michael, not caring that he whether he was human or not, she still loved Michael…
Michael couldn't believe it, Mavis still loved him, knowing he was a human, as he too let Mavis hug him, as he genuinely loved Mavis back, causing him to give a little chuckle, as her hugged Mavis back too… Michael no longer felt the anger and rage impulses, that caused him to kill over the years, he couldn't even hear the voices that instructed him to kill anymore…
But in those seconds of love & Care, Michael then looked up, and saw Dracula, who was looking at him, & from what he could tell, he knew what could happen, If Mavis went with him… Michael wasn't worried about Dracula attacking, and most likely biting him, draining him of his blood, but he was more worried, that even if Mavis still loved him, even if she knew what he had done in his life, he was afraid, if anyone who was hunting for him, captured him & Mavis, they would either lock her up away from him, or even kill her, everything Michael Didn't want to happen or have Mavis experience among the humans… Michael didn't want to risk her life…
"Uh… Well… Tough, Because I don't wanna be with you, because you're a monster, & I hate Monsters… Goodbye…" Michael Reluctantly said, as he broke from Mavis's hug, as Mavis's eyes widened in shock… Michael didn't really mean what he was saying, he loved Mavis, and monsters for that matter… but he didn't want Mavis to be in any danger, all because of his past crimes & mistakes…
Michael then slowly walked out the hall doors, before closing them behind him, as he shed tears from his eyes, that no one could see, as he put his mask back on…
Dracula slowly approached Mavis from behind, attempting to comfort his daughter, by putting his hand on her shoulder…
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Mavis instantly turned & Roared at her father, before transforming into her bat form and flying off, in pinkish purple fiery smoke, before all the other monsters exited the hall mumbling on how badly Dracula had covered up his lies, as Dracula looked up to where Mavis had flown off, with a sad look on his face…
(Meanwhile…)
Michael was slowly walking, more like wandering, through the haunted forest, like a lost soul, looking down in sadness, shedding tears… Michael then stopped, before removing his mask, before looking down at it for a few seconds, as memories of all the murders he had committed, all the innocence blood, that he had spilt from 1963, to 1978, all came back to him… Michael wanted to destroy his mask, but instead, he threw it away, leaving it laying somewhere in the grass from his path, before he continued wandering on…
Michael then came to some open woodland within the haunted forest… when suddenly, bright blinding headlights from unknown vehicles lit up, as humans with guns then appeared, before shooting Michael from all directions. Michael tried to stand, but he was defenseless, as he felt to the ground, covered in tranquilizer darts, knocking him unconscious…
Some of the men then got Michael onto a stretcher, before loading him into truck…
"Dr Wynn, we have him… We have Michael Myers in custody…" Carpenter said, over radio…
TO BE CONTINUED…