Act II

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Eye rolls began to commence as everyone witnessed Dracula's idea of 'fun,' which consisted of boring bingo games at the library and even more boring rounds of charades in the gymnasium. Things kicked up a bit when Johnny pulled out his scooter and began riding it around, everyone marveling at the object and wanting to have a go at it.

"If we ever get a chance to own the hotel, Mavis, I'm totally gonna have folks ride around on those," Johnny said to Mavis. "They loved it!"

At the pool, Mavis and Drac's friends marveled over Johnny's travels around the world. Disliking how the monsters were warming up to the redhead, Drac stepped in, trying to convince Johnny to lie about a crimp in his back and then leave. When Johnny tried though, it only led to a massive chicken fight starting up. After being tugged into the pool from the frenzy, Drac swam down and unplugged the drain, letting the pool water sink down... right as Johnny was about to jump in from a giant octopus's diving board-like tentacle. Johnny's siblings shielded their eyes with a gasp, unwilling to see their brother splat on the cement, but let out a breath of relief when they saw that Drac had pulled in Blobby to catch him.

"Thanks for spotting me, man!" Johnny said, giving a thumbs up to Blobby.

Blobby gurgled a reply, returning the thumbs-up.

On screen, a very upset Dracula dragged Johnny away from the party, taking him to a nearby graveyard and threatening him to go away after a failed attempt to hypnotize the boy.

"You are never to return here. You are to stay away and never tell humans about this place. Or I will track you down and suck every ounce of blood from your body until you look like a deflated whoopee cushion! Be gone!"

"Poppa Drac?" Dennis's little voice piped up, unnerved. "You weren't really gonna drink all of my papa's blood, were you?"

"What? No, no, no, no, of course not, Denisovich!" Dracula quickly countered. "I just said that because I was, eh, in a bad mood!"

Dennis let out a breath of relief and continued to watch, seeing as his parents went up to the rooftop of the hotel.

"Looks like the rooftop's the spot to have some alone time, huh?" Ericka said with a snicker, elbowing Drac and recalling how it was the same place he used to propose to her.

The guys in the meantime were hanging out in the steam bath, where Drac was stating that Johnny's kind wasn't good enough to be with Mavis.

Frank frowned. "I'm sure glad it wasn't what it sounded like, Drac!" the Stein said.

They watched as on-screen Drac said, "I meant that she wouldn't be into someone with... uh... such, red, curly hair."

"What's wrong with red curly hair?" on-screen Griffin started up.

"Why are you getting upset?" on-screen Drac said.

In the audience, Griffin rolled his eyes. "Friends for over three centuries, and you didn't even know my hair color?"

"You're invisible, man!" Drac said, trying to defend himself.

Everyone began to awww when Johnny and Mavis had their moment watching the sunrise. Dracula, however, frowned.

"You took her up there so she could get burned?" he asked Johnny.

Mavis stepped into his defense. "He was being really careful, Dad."

"Yeah, Drac, I totally wouldn't do Mavis like that," Johnny said.

With a yelp, the on-screen Johnny fell straight down from the roof tiles and landed in Drac's arms... right as the vampire was telling his friends that Johnny had left. Drac's friends in the audience clicked their tongues and shook their heads, staring at Drac as he got caught in his lie.

"If he doesn't get an Oscar for this, he's totally getting the 'Worst Liar of the Year' award at the Academy," Murray said, the friends murmuring in agreement.

They saw as Drac led Johnny into the massive ballroom, tasking the boy with pushing all of the tables into place.

"Wow, that would have been super boring to do if the tables didn't actually fly," Johnny said, sipping his chalice.

Ericka looked at him incredulously. "Wait a minute... these tables can fly?"

The redhead nodded. "Oh, yeah! Right, Number 47?"

Number 47, the table that they were seated at, blinked its eyes on the tablecloth in agreement, and Ericka gasped.

She then watched as the tables on the screen began to levitate up in the air and all around as Drac and Johnny messed around in the ballroom, chasing each other in a fun game. They got so caught up, they flew all the way out of the ballroom and into the hallway, where they crashed into one of the knight guards. Drac laughed at the chaos of it all, but then quickly realized that Johnny was missing.

"Quasimodo," he hissed.

The audience groaned at the name. They had watched earlier scenes with the hotel's former hunchbacked chef as he scampered around, yelling at the kitchen staff, using his pet rat - Esmeralda - to try and sniff out Johnny, and ultimately 'rat' Dracula out for stowing away a human.

They saw as Quasimodo jumped around the kitchen, trying to cook Johnny and crying out that he was a human when Drac came in. The vampire eventually froze him, and walked off with Johnny in tow again.

"Boy, that guy is annoying," Ericka commented. "What happened to him, anyway?"

"Dad fired him and had the pumpkinhead coachman dump him back in Notre Dame," Mavis explained. "... and yes, he was still frozen," she added with a smile.

Ericka laughed. "Good."

Drac and Johnny walked out into the hallway, Johnny exclaimed all about the craziness that ensued and thanked Drac. The vampire stayed quiet, until he said, "There's something I need to show you."

Dracula tensed. He knew what was coming next, and he wasn't sure if he wanted to see it. Ericka could sense his discomfort and placed a hand on his. "Hey," she said softly. "You don't have to see this part if you don't want to."

"No, no," he replied, lacing his fingers with hers. "It's okay. I can manage. It's alright."

Ericka peered at him. "Are you sure?"

Drac nodded and smiled at her. She smiled back. Taking a deep breath, he sat back and looked up at the screen.

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