Chapter 13: The Race Home

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Lis parked the car at the hotel and she and Mavis ran to get their luggage. Mavis and Lis took off into the sky with their luggage and flew fast towards home.

Mavis and Elisabeth, both in bat form, were desperately flying over Quebec when Elisabeth yelled, "Quebec! About 200 years ago I got bit by a centipede there and threw up. Never went back."

"Sounds cool I guess!" called Mavis.

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Blobby's scooter hit traffic on the interstate and the other drivers didn't even look at him.

"Come on, Blobby!" Dracula yelled. "Squeeze through!"

Martha asked, "Why are you mad, Daddy?"

"Oh, I just want to get home. I miss Mommy and Mavis so much."

"I miss Mommy and Mavis! And I miss –"

"You miss who? You miss Conner?"

"Yeah. But we're just friends."

Dracula chuckled. "Sure, Honey bat, that's how it always starts." He noticed the traffic again. "Come on! Squeeze already!!"

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Mavis and Elisabeth were dodging lightning as the weather worsened over Dublin, Ireland.

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The traffic had finally cleared, but Blobby needed to stop for a minute.

Blob gibberish.

"Now?" Dracula was upset. "When we finally have no traffic? You're killing me, Blobby!"

Blobby yelled in angry gibberish.

Dracula waits, annoyed, as Blobby pees into some bushes.

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Mavis and Elisabeth emerged from a rain cloud, sopping wet, but unshaken.

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Dracula was on slow scooter looking at his watch. He made everyone get off. "We're never gonna make it like this!" He turned into a bat and picked up Martha by the back of her shirt.

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Mavis and Elisabeth cold finally see the hotel in the distance and Elisabeth frantically scanned for her kids and Count Dracula.

Elisabeth, still a little wet, landed in the court yard and rushed inside. Her phone began to ring. On her phone Lis saw Dracula's happy face on the phone, his background the court yard. Lis stepped back outside and answered.

"So, hey, when are you gonna get here already?" Dracula asked. "We've been waiting-" He looks up.

Mavis and Elisabeth were waiting angrily for him at the entrance.

Elisabeth run up to Dracula and took Martha. "Give me my daughter."

Dracula tried to cover. "We just went out for some fresh field mice."

Mavis angrily held up her smartphone and played a YouTube clip titled "Miracle Rescue at Vampire Camp 2" with over 2 million hits. In the clip, Martha was screaming before getting picked out of the air last minute by Jack in his bat form and Frankenstein was very clearly on fire in the background.

Busted, Dracula handed Martha over.

Mavis put her phone away. "Why couldn't you just accept who she is, Dad?"

"We'll have her birthday party here on Friday." Elisabeth shook her head and looked at the ground. "Then we're leaving. For good."

Dracula looked down, completely lost for words.

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