Welcome, Humans!

Chapter 3

Maureen woke up around 10:00 AM the next day. She did not even realize last night how tired she was. She sat up in her bed, looking around the room, all yesterday's recollections flooding her mind. She smiled to herself. She had so many questions, but yesterday was a good start. She remembered that Dracula and Mavis will probably be asleep, since it was day. She got up and changed into a purple T-shirt and jeans and walked out of the room. ,,Good morning!'' She said to the head and went to Davy's room before hearing the reply. ,,Good morning. Is Davy here?'' She asked the head.

,,Davy? Is that the name of the guy? No.'' The head answered, half-asleep

,,Huh.'' She thought. ''Maybe he went to the lobby already. Well done for waking up early, Maureen.''

She walked down the stairs, wondering why didn't she see anyone yet. Then she heard noise in the lobby. She entered and saw monsters gathered, all talking with Davy. The guy hardly got any breaths. To her surprise, she saw Dracula there, and Mavis with Johnny.

,,Good morning.'' She said

Everyone turned to look her way and collective ,,Good morning!''s were heard. Davy walked to her and said ,,Hey, we were just talking about how you dive. They want you to show them on the pool.''

She blushed as she didn't like being in the center of attention, but still smiled ,,Uh, sure, I will.''

Johnny offered her something for breakfast, but she wasn't hungry and everyone else ate before. She and Davy joined Dracula and his gang as they were talking.

,,Ah, Miss Maureen! Enjoying your stay?'' Dracula was polite as always.

,,Yes, quite a lot actually.'' She meant it.

,,I hope you don't mind me asking, but...humans talk about monsters as,well, monsters. But you guys seem so different...How is that?'' Davy asked, a bit uncomfortable.

Dracula paused and took a breath. ,,Well, in the old times, humans were different. Easily scared and much less open to differences. They saw us as a threat, because we were stronger than them. We, on the other side, enjoyed their weakness at times and scared them on purpose. But when we did not, they organized hunts. They were often far more cruel to us than we were to them.'' He started walking slowly down the corridor, followed by Maureen and Davy who listened carefully ,,As the time passed, monsters changed. We often took some ways of humans and, as they changed with technology and everything, fell back. But they never did. They hunted every last on they could find. They even hunted their own who were different or as they said ,,witches''! That...is how Mavis lost her mother...We are hiding ever since and fell back into human legends. They changed us a lot in their imagination, so what you know is mostly what your kind thinks of us'' He finished, looking at the two.

,,But now humans know about you, again.'' Maureen stated

,,Yes. And it has been a surprise. Now we might get along.'' He said, visibly relaxed around the two now.

,,I surely hope so.'' Davy added.

Just as they returned, Mavis called them. Apparently, Wayne's kids startled Murray while he was taking a nap and having a nightmare, so he jumped up and created a sandstorm. In the lobby.

,,What?!'' Dracula exclaimed

,,The lobby is covered with sand, Dad.''

,,Alright, fine. Everybody, to the cleanup.'' He yelled to those not covered in sand.

Johnny came whistling, then froze.

,,Um, Drac, what happened?'' He asked, looking from Dracula to sand.

,,Murray had an accident.'' Dracula answered.

,,Yeah, he was born!'' Somebody added from behind. ,,Okay, that is an old quote people.'' Murray stated, dragging himself out.

,,Whatever. Clean up. Now.'' Dracula ordered.

Unfortunately, Murray couldn't make all that sand disappear, so they had to do it, well, by hand. Dracula and Mavis used their powers while Johnny, Davy and Maureen used shovels.

,,Hey, guys, I found Frank!'' Johnny yelled as he dug Frankenstein out. He was just very confused and worried about what will Eunice say. That has proven necessary because when Dracula got her out, she started screaming at Murray, mentioning unrolling him and started chasing him all over.

Griffin called out to Davy, who couldn't see him because glasses fell of, but eventually found him.

An hour later, everyone was out and the sand was safely placed on a big pile outside the door. The zombies were now dusting the furniture and house-keeping was vacuuming the carpets, and, well, everything else.

,,Never do that again.'' Dracula stated before moving on to assure everybody that it is alright and to apologize to his guests.

,,Kids. You are so grounded.'' Wayne said tiredly, while even Wanda gave kids a stern look.

Mavis, Johnny, Davy and Maureen just snickered at poor Murray who came through the crowd, finally having escaped Eunice. Griffin shot something about being a wimp to him, while Frank was dusting himself.

,,I think I have to wash my hair.'' Maureen stated, noticing her blonde locks were full of sand.

,,Yeah, me too'' Johnny added, and the gang split. That was a (not) fun thing.