The Zing of Longtime Friends | Griffin, The Invisible Man [ONGOING]

14. Get back in time!

The fire was being extinguished when Drac's phone began vibrating. The gang watched as the firemen did their jobs. "What? It's Mavis! I'm not answering it!"

A fireman used the foam on Frank's head. "Come on, Drac, you have to." The Stein said. He began licking and swallowing the white substance.

"Alright!" Drac groaned. "Yes, honeybunch." He turned away from the fire engine and Frank, despite several sirens going off.

"Dad? Where are you?" Mavis was stern.

"Um... We're outside the hotel, having a little cookout. It's perfectly safe." He was so close that all Mavis could see was his eye.

"What's that noise? Is that a siren!?"

"Oh, those are just some wailing banshees checking in! Quiet, you banshees! We're trying to have a perfectly safe cookout over here."

"Mommy! I wanna say hi! Mommy, mommy!" Dennis exclaimed. Dana noticed and ran over as well. "Papa Drac just tried to teach me how to fly!"

"Hey, hey! Wait a minute, is that the mom?" Drac tried stopping Dana from grabbing the phone.

Drac smashed it into the instructor's nose and cracked it. "Oh, no! Static again!" He gargled.

"I am coming back to the hotel right now!" Mavis threatened. "And you better be there or I swear, dad, you're gonna be very, sorry!" She hung up.

"Guys! We gotta move!" Drac exclaimed. "We got no car! How we gonna get out of here?"

"Don't worry, I made a call." Griffin said. On cue, Blobby on his Rascal parked in front of them. All sorts of debris was in him, including small woodland critters. He made nonsensical noise.

"I'm sorry, Blobby. We really meant to call you, sooner." Drac lied. They all hopped on one another's backs, Drac being the first. Griffin sat in the basket and Irene, as a bat, on his shoulder. "Hit it!" The scooter barely made any speed. There was too much weight.

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Eventually, they made it to the hill-road. The slowness was painful, but they were making it. Half an hour later (what could've been two minutes in car), they made it to the motorway. Blobby made a noise. "You want to go now? When we finally have no traffic? You're killing me, Blobby!" Drac said.

They had to stop while the blob stood and peed against a tree from several holes in his front. They had all gotten off the mobility scooter and Irene stayed on Griffin's shoulder. A car went passed.

After what felt like forever, they were back in the road! Another car passed and the Rascal slowly began failing. "This scooter thing's out of juice! We're never gonna make it! Frank, blow." The Stein nodded and grabbed a part of Blobby, moulding it into the end of a balloon, puffing air into the goo. When they were at a large height, Drac called out: "Now!"

Frank let go and they went whizzing through the air. They all cheered as they whizzed passed the train. They were almost there!

Dennis and Drac laughed. "How fun is this?" He asked. He began ticking his grandson. "Why are you laughing? You like that? Watch this." He tickled Blobby and the monster began chuckling. Murray fell off and Frank gasped, grabbing his bandage. The mummy unrolled into a twig-like figure and was in the air like a hang-glider, screaming. "Now this is flying, Denisovich."

"Like a vampire!" Denny added and Drac held him up. "Whee!"

"That's my boy! Look at you go!" Dennis laughed at this. "You're the coolest guy who wears a cape, Papa Drac."

Blobby crashed into the hotel's courtyard and Drac set Dennis down. Everyone else were on their backs and Murray landed in the pile of his wrappings, a little unravelled once back in them.

Drac video called Mavis. She picked up. "So, hey, when are you going to get here, already? We've been waiting..." she looked very stern. Drac noticed where she was and lowered the smart phone. In front of them, on the steps, was angry Mavis. He gasped.

"Give me my son." She growled, approaching them. Johnny was behind her.

"We just went out for some avocados!" Drac claimed.

"Mommy! I flew!" Dennis smiled.

"I saw." Mavis retorted, eyes glued on the group of adults. She held out her phone and played a video of Dennis falling from the tower. One of the kids must have filmed it. It was a remix. It included footage of Drac saying "the mother's already nutsy-koo-koo".

A beat played in the background. "Nutsy-koo-koo! Koo-koo!". Dana followed: "Oh dear, oh, dear. Oh, my devil - I have to follow protocol." Drac: "That ain't happening, that ain't happening. Mother's already nutsy-k- k- k- koo- koo- k- k- mother's already nu- koo- nutsy-koo-koo!"

She brought the phone back to her side. Drac's head dropped. Dennis ran to his mother, smiling as he hugged her and she, crouched down, hugged him. "I was worried Dennis wasn't safe around other monsters," Mavis admitted, standing, "now I don't even feel like he's safe around you."

"But I was just-"

"What was it you said? Human, monster, unicorn. That it didn't matter?"

"Well, I just know his life would--"

"We'll have his birthday party here on Wednesday. Then we're moving." She frowned.

"Please, Mavey. Don't leave."

"Maybe you've let humans into your hotel, dad. But I don't think you've let them into your heart." She took Dennis, holding him to her shoulder, and walked up the steps. Johnny dropped his head and followed her.

Drac sighed.