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Dracula, Frank, Wayne, Murray, and Griffin all hopped into a car and sped across the bridge of the hotel. They went out the secret entrance and started driving down the narrow path of the spooky forest.

"Okay, okay, where am I going?" Griffin asked, as he drove.

"The human world. Before (Y/n)'s gone forever." Dracula told him.

"But what about the sun?" Murray asked.

Dracula looked up at the sky and saw that the sun was rising and peeking through the clouds a little.

"I don't know. I'll just have to roll." Dracula answered.

"He just rolls. Rollability." Wayne said.

As the car drove through the forest, they noticed two pairs of boot prints on the ground.

"So, we follow their boot prints. When they run out, that's where you come in, Wayne." Dracula said.

"Me?"

"There!" Dracula suddenly exclaimed.

The car came to a complete halt, and the headlights illuminated one of Johnny's shirts on the ground.

Dracula smiled triumphantly. "Yes! I knew something would fall out of that backpack."

Dracula picked up the shirt and sniffed it. "Yowch! That stinks!" He recoiled.

He extended the shirt to Wayne. "Work your magic."

"Wait, you want me to track the smell?" Wayne asked. "No. My sniffing tracking days are way behind me. Do you know how many diapers I've changed? How many number twos have destroyed this thing? But..."

Wayne put his fingers to his mouth and inaudibly whistled. Seconds later, a tidal wave of wolf pups came running at them. They started running around and climbing all over the car.

Wayne grabbed the shirt. "Smell." None of them listened. "I said smell."

Some of them went behind him and sniffed his butt.

"Not me, the shirt! The shirt!"

"Do any of your kids still respect you?" Dracula asked.

Wayne thought for a moment, before perking up. "Winnie! Front and center!"

The little wolf pup, who shoved her brothers off the table at the party, came forward. She spit her binky out and took a deep sniff of the shirt.

"They got into a car. A '86 Fiat. It needs a little transmission work, but otherwise okay."

She sniffed some more.

"It drove through town to the airport. Flight 497. 8 am departure."

"That's in 15 minutes!" Dracula exclaimed.

"Seats 23 A, and 23 B. They ordered the vegetarian meal." Winnie finished.

"Okay, thank you cutie." Dracula cooed before addressing all the wolf pups. "Now all of you, go back to your mother!"

The pups ran off and Dracula and Wayne piled back into the car. They sped off down the road again, and exited the dark forest, when suddenly a sheep blocked their path.

"Sheep!" Dracula yelled.

Griffin swerved the car off the road to avoid the sheep, and the road down a bumpy hill with lots of trees and landed on a mountain side road.

Griffin sighed with relief. "Whoo, high five! Don't leave me hanging."

They gang looked ahead and yelled, as there were now multiple sheep ahead of them.

"Lots of sheep!"

"I got this one." Wayne announced.

He hopped out of the car and proceeded to eat all of the sheep in the road, while his friends watched with shock and horror on their faces.

Wayne got back in the car, and the road was spotless. He let out a burp and some wool came out, and his friends all glared at him.

"What? Now there's no sheep in the road. Let's go." Wayne said.

"That was pretty sick, man." Murray commented.

"You eat lamb chops, it's the same thing. We don't have time for this. Come on, let's move it!" Wayne crossed his arms and huffed.

Griffin hit the gas, and they continued down the road, and spotted a human walking along the side of the street.

"Look, a human!" Wayne gasped, as if he spotted a rare species of animal.

The human saw them coming and turned to face them. They could now see that he was dressed as a werewolf.

"Welcome to Transylvania!" He greeted, before letting out a howl.

The gang all gave him weird and surprised looks.

"That was trippy." Frank said.

They pulled up to a large stone doorway that led to the town. The doorway had a banner hanging on it that said 'Welcome to the Monster Festival.'

"Monster Festival? What's a Monster Festival?" Wayne asked.

As they slowly drove through the town, they noticed signs and banners that had words of praise for monsters on them.

"Did they know we were coming?" Murray asked in confusion.

They stopped the car when they noticed a crowd of people walking along the streets dressed as monsters. There were vampires, witches, Frankensteins, werewolves, and one mummy woman that sent Murray a wink as she walked by. To their right, was a gigantic inflatable Frankenstein.

"They like us? Really?" Frank commented.

Dracula rolled down the window and got the attention of a passing man dressed as a vampire.

"Excuse me? Do you know the best way to the airport?" Dracula asked.

"Yes, fellow Dracula. There's only one way. Bleh, bleh-bleh." He pointed to a road that had a crowd of people blocking it.

"But it's all blocked. We'll never make it in time."

"You should have left an hour earlier, bleh bleh-bleh." The guy shrugged before walking away.

Dracula stuck his head out the window. "I do not say bleh bleh-bleh!" He yelled after him.

Dracula turned back to his friends. "Alright, let's just run through it on foot."

Dracula leapt out of the car and everyone followed. He lifted his cape over his head to better protect himself.

Frank looked over and grabbed a big floppy hat and put it on his head. "Here, this'll protect you."

"Bleh bleh-bleh." Dracula mocked.

"Imagine if that guy knew he was talking to the real Drac. He'd run for the hills." Frank comforted.

"Hold it now, hold it now. That sounds spot on. But the only way they'd know the real is is if we show the real us." Murray suggested.

"This could work." Dracula perked up.

"You mean, like, scare them? We haven't scared people in centuries. I don't even think I have it in me anymore." Frank let to let out some terrifying groans, but they all came out kind of weak.

"I got nothing. I really got nothing." Frank deadpanned.

"Let's just move this along." Griffin took out a matchbox and lit a match, and shoved it in Frank's face.

Frank's eyes widened and he let out a terrifying scream. It drew the attention of the crowd, as Frank stomped along the ground with his arms extended in front of him.

"Fire! Fire! Fire!" He groaned.

Frank climbed onto the shoulder of the Frankenstein balloon and let out a thunderous roar.

The crowd cheered at his performance, and Frank grew frustrated.

"I'm trying to scare you! The real Frankenstein!" He shouted.

"We know! We love you!" Someone yelled back.

"Can you sign my torch?!" Someone else yelled.

"Listen, before anything else, down there's the real Dracula!" Frank pointed.

"Prove it." Some guy snapped, glaring at Dracula.

Dracula used his powers to make the guy hit himself in the face with his mug.

"Alright, continue." The guy said sheepishly.

"Drac's son is in love, and he's gotta get to the airport! And he can't get through this crowd!" Frank explained.

"Why doesn't he fly?" One guy asked.

"The sun, you idiot. He's a vampire." Another guy stated in an obvious tone.

"That's right. Thank you, monster nerd. So people, if you really are our friend, clear a path for the man!" Frank requested.

"Okay, all Draculas, line up. Bleh bleh-bleh." The guy they asked directions for commanded.

Everyone who was wearing a Dracula costume stood side by side while the rest spread out and cleared a path.

"Everyone else, lift the capes. Protect our friend. Bleh bleh-bleh."

One person grabbed a cape and lifted it up, creating a protective covering for Dracula to go through.

"It's all for you, buddy. Go ahead." Frank smiled.

The crowd shouted words of encouragement to Dracula and he smiled with appreciation in his eyes.

Dracula used his super speed to fly through the path while the humans were still cheering for him.

He covering protected him all the way through the town until he ran into the forest. Once he reached the edge of the woods, he noticed a plane going along the runway. He used his super sight to zoom in on (Y/n) who was sitting on the window seat of the plane looking down sadly.

"There's no choice." He realized.

Dracula ran out of the tree line into the sun, and transformed into a bat just as the plane lifted off the ground. He yelped in pain as the sun burned him, but he pushed through it.

...

(Y/n) leaned her head on Johnny's shoulder, while Johnny put his arm around her to try and comfort her. He knew she was heartbroken about leaving Maven.

...

Unbeknownst to both of them, Dracula was flying after the plane against the literal burning sun. He managed to fly underneath the wing and grab onto the wheels of the plane, turning back into himself.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch." He whimpered. "Okay, okay, I must do this."

Suddenly, the wheels started folding back into the plane causing Dracula to slip off. He quickly shifted back into a bat and frantically flapped after the plane again.

He managed to catch back up and fly past several windows before finally reaching (Y/n)'s

He clawed his way along the window sill and called (Y/n)'s name.

"(Y/n)! (Y/n), can you hear me?"

His voice was too muffled for her to hear him, and he glanced up at the plane TV. It was playing a movie and a shirtless guy was standing in the woods next to a woman, wearing a dark expression.

"Tell me, do you dream of becoming a vampire?" The guy in the movie asked.

"This is how we're represented. Unbelievable." Dracula deadpanned.

"(Y/n)? (Y/n), can you hear me?" He called again.

...

(Y/n) glanced at the window and did a double take when she saw a bat on her window. "Woah, a bat! Wait...Dracula is that you?" She asked.

Johnny looked over as well. Dracula said something to her again, but she couldn't hear him.

"What? I can't understand you." She said

...

Dracula couldn't hear her either. "What? My hand's in a tan shoe?"

...

"What's he saying?" (Y/n) asked Johnny.

"Don't worry I read lips. He said Japan's eating lamb stew." He answered confidently.

Dracula rolled his eyes, and got an idea. He pushed off the window and struggled to fly forward. He flapped as hard as he could until he was in front of the plane. He turned around and extended his wings and the plane flew right into him.

Dracula looked through the plane window at the pilots, who were shocked to see him there.

"What the heck?"

"How'd a bat get up this high?"

One pilot spoke into his mic. "Folks, I'm gonna turn on the seatbelt sign. Just a precaution while we..."

Dracula used his powers to control one of the pilots.

...

(Y/n) looked out the window for Dracula when a voice sounded through the speakers.

"...while we hear a special announcement for my good friend (Y/n)."

(Y/n) peeked up at this. "Dracula?"

"My dear girl, I have made a terrible mistake. I was trying to keep my baby to myself, because I knew I would always protect him."

The people on the plane started to grow confused.

"But I realize now, children need to discover things for themselves. They'll stumble and fall, laugh and cry, but such is life."

(Y/n) started to smile at his speech.

"The truth is, you and Maven are meant to be. You Zinged. If he must give his trust to another, I'm thankful that it is you, (Y/n). I hope you can hear me and forgive me."

Suddenly, the people near them screamed and jumped away from her window. She looked over and saw Dracula staring at her. She smiled and gave him a thumbs up and he smiled back, gratefully.

"Okay, folks, we're going to make a quick turn around to refuel, and then we'll be back on our way."

The entire plane groaned.

"Quit your whining! I'm burning up out here!"

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