A/N: What am I doing? Seriously. What the crypt am I doing?! Monster High. Is this the level I'm stooping to in life? I'm just joking guys. You know that. Surprise, surprise I'm a dude(duh). But let me explain. I like show, or webishow or whatever you call it. But I don't buy the dolls. I'm not that crazy about the show, but I still think it's awesome. If you didn't see the show, go watch it. It's great. And they have a lot of monster puns. Hmmm, maybe that's the reason I watch it. I like puns okay. Some puns. So I thought why not put a version of me in this universe. It's only fair. I'm gonna do a story on the reboot version too. So right now, I'm focusing on the original. I'm gonna tell you I also love Undertale. So if you didn't guess down below, Frisk is my mom. I hope you enjoy. And remember, stay determined.
It was a great-ish day in Jersey. I was a determined 14 year old French African-American bent on seizing the day on my first day of high school. My black hair was spiked up, my eyes were brown(my eyes are like Frisk), my red and orange striped hooded sweater was messy, my jeans were torn, I bought my backpack at the dollar store(laugh it up, you know you want to), my kicks were not fly just a regular pair of black bottes(boots). But I was very déterminé(determined) to make a name for myself. Justice Bottes(French), the coolest kid in school. I know that sounds bland but… Who am I kidding, that's not my goal. I just want copains(friends). You know. People to talk to and interact with. I mostly play video games and stuff. That's it. That's all there is to me. It's not like I can be a magical being who has the personality type of Dead Pool(Deadpool), an alien who might get a harem on a planet full of people who have inhuman abilities and crazy weapons and one dude that has regular sword, or a tech ninja who's a relative to Dead Pool(Deadpool) and goes to a school for gifted youngsters who fight crime with their super powers. Those guys sound exciting. I never knew who my papa(dad) was. Maman(Mom) said he was French and very crafty at times. She also said he liked boots, a lot. Which was weird. But she also said she loved him because of his optimism and how he always kept his promises. I always noticed that my mom was always déterminé(determined) and full of hope. Sometimes it looked like she got a blank expression on her face. I got my African-American side from my Maman(Mom)(duh). And I was very short for a kid my age. I'm like 4'1. Maman(Mom) was 4 ft. When she was like 7 or 8 years old.
I was running to school in a hurry(duh) and jumped over many objects in my way. Sadly, I fell over every single one. I suck at jumping. I just about suck at every sport. As I kept running, I run into an old lady by accident. Ow.
"Désolé Mademoiselle, laissez -moi vous aider vers le haut. (Sorry Miss, let me help you up)." I grab her arm and pull her up.
"It's quite alright young lad. I know it was an accident." She sounds like she knew this was gonna happen.
Something was off about her. Her hair was black and frizzled, almost as if she was a sorcière (witch) with purple highlights. Pfffffft! Nah! That ridicule(ridiculous)! There's no such thing as sorcières (witches)! (Garçon(Boy), was I about to be proven wrong.)
She scans my appearance weirdly and then ask me a question. "Are you Justice Bottes?"
I was about to continue running until I heard the question. "Oui(Yes). Qu'en est- il(What about it) ?"
She then takes out a bottle that looks like it came out of a science lab.
"Sorry about this." The old woman throws the flasks behind me on the ground creating some sort of portal that looks very scary. "But you're needed elsewhere."
"Huh?" I get pushed into the vortex by the lady who is surprisingly strong. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
As I fall in, I see the old woman waving goodbye. The vortex closes.
"Well, my job here is done." She vanishes into thin air.
It's been hours and I'm still in the portail(portal) falling slowly or fast. I can't tell. Everything around me was purple and black as a ombre(shadow). I feel very nostalgique(nostalgic) for some reason. Like I've been through a portal before in my life. Whatever. I quickly got bored since this has taken forever.
My face had a bored expression to go with my feeling.
"Hey portail, il nous sommes encore(Hey portal, are we there yet) ?!" I shouted.
The vortex made a weird sound, almost sounds like a girlish giggle. Génial(Great), I'm dealing with a femelle portail( female portal) with a teasing attitude.
"Tu jouais avec moi tout le temps , étiez -vous pas?(You were playing with me the whole time, weren't you)?" I understand what the portail de(portal's) deal was. "Vous vouliez un peu de compagnie me vous a pas(You wanted some company didn't you)? Nous pouvons être amis si vous le souhaitez(We can be friends if you like)."
And then the portail(portal) laughs with joie majeure(major joy). My voyage(French word for journey) down the portail(portal) came to an end when I saw a white lumière(light) below getting lumineux(brighter) as I got closer and closer.
I can tell this is going to hurt moi(me) very much upon impact.
"Allons-y(Let's go)!" I yelled as I got closer.
I fell out the portail(portal) and onto some dirt. "Beurk(Yuck) !" I spat out along with dirt that I got in my mouth. I kept swiping the dirt off my tongue and I look up and see the portail(portal) giggle and then disappear into thin air. "Génial(Awesome)." I said in awe looking in the air where the portail(portal) once was near the Soleil(sunlight).
I look in front of me and see a école(school). A école secondaire(high school) to be exact. Well, it didn't look like a regular one, it look kinda effrayant(scary), and there was thunder strike that added to the frayeur(scariness). Génial(Awesome). Again.
The ecloes(school's) bell rings, even that sounded very effrayant(frightening). Upon hearing it at first. I realized it was just a regular bell sound secondes(seconds) later. That was being banged on by living gargouilles(gargoyles). Attends quo(Wait what)?!
A bunch of monstres(monsters) that look like teens stampede into the school dragging me in with them without noticing.
The stampede settles and I now I can focus. I'm in the halls of the école(school) and everything seems normal. Except for the fact that there is a école(school) full of monstres(monsters). There are like loup-garous(werewolves), vampires, des morts-vivants(zombies), monstres marins(sea monsters), des fantômes(ghosts), étaient - chats(were-cats), a minotaure(minotaur) wearing a red chemise(shirt).
Just then, a woman wearing pre-Victorian clothing, a purple frock manteau(coat), white frilled shirt and red cravat, black trousers and black riding bottes(boots). She looked at me with a welcoming expression with her silver-ish eyes wearing purple eyeshadow and dark-purple lipstick. Her hair was a short bun with purple streak. Her skin was also pale. I think I'm in trouble. Like, major trouble.
I blink a couple of times before saying something. "Euh, salut(Uh, hi)."
One of her eyebrows rise in confusion. "I'm guessing that's a hello. I am Headless Headmistress Bloodgood. And you, young man, have wondered into Monster High. A school that encourages monsters everywhere to be themselves, freaky flaws and all, and possibly start enrolling humans too."
I look up at her with a confused expression.
"You must be confused." She extends her hand to help me up and I accept the kind geste(gesture). "Come with me to my office, and we'll sort this all out."
"Okay étrange femme(Okay strange woman)."
I follow her to her office and look around to see the élèves(students) give me strange looks like I'm some kinda caprice(freak).
Headmistress Bloodgood sat in her very odd office… Just gonna assume everything is weird in this école(school) full of monstres(monsters). And she a nightshade colored cheval(horse). Nothing weird about that. We talk for while, it was difficult since I only talked in French and barely talked any English. And I got even more nervous when Bloodgood's head got detached and she was still fine. Her body had no problem operating without it's head. Well she did say she was a Headless Headmistress. That's a bit of a phrase difficile à prononcer(tongue twister).
"From what I gathered of our conversation, or interview if you'd like to call it, you are a human from another world, seeing how you got pushed into a portal that seemed to be female, and landed in near Monster High getting dragged in by the crowd." She sounded really skeptical.
"Oui(Yes)!" I answered excitedly. Maybe she can return my domicile(home)… Do I even want to go back? A place where I had no purpose. I don't know I'll just have to find out. And stay déterminé(determined).
"Well, this all seems really, deranged Mr… I'm sorry what's your name?" The disembodied head asked me.
"Justice Bottes."
She looks at me very sternly when I told her my name. Her glare scared me even more since her head is off her body.
"I have to tell you, this school accepts everyone no matter who or what they are." She tells me for some reason. "But, the only species that can't enroll is humans or as we monsters like to call them, Normies."
Génial(Great). I have an insulting title now. Juste merveilleux(Just wonderful).
"However, a Normie enrolling in Monster High would be beneficial to strengthen the bond between humans and monsters."
Non(No). Elle ne peut pas être sériex(She can't be serious).
"So I'm going to enroll you in Monster High!" She announces very loudly. Ow.
"Quelle(What)!?"
"You can start today if you'd like. But if you wanna make some friends I suggest you start now." Her body hands me the schedule. "Just follow this schedule and you'll be okay. I'll call one of the students to guide you." Bloodgood presses her intercom thing. "Frankie Stein, please report to the Headmistress's office, immediately." She ordered in a commanding tone.
I give her a weird look, waiting for a response.
Bloodgood then responds with a calm and cheerful tone. "Oh, I sound like that sometimes just to make the students get here sooner. Waste less time for me having to wait for them to walk here. And Frankie should be here right about-"
The door slams open and a fille(girl) with like light-green skin appears. I was amazed at her appearance. She has stitches all over her body, but is still attractive, her white long hair was stylish with black streaks, her outfit is very hard for me to describe. She had a black tie with white polka dots. Her dress looks like it's plaid sorta bluish red lines, white base at the top. On her belt was a thunderbolt insignia. Her neck had Frankenstein's monster bolts on them. But what got the most attention was her heterochromic eyes. Left eye was green and the other was blue. She also had on some black and white pump heels. I don't know what to call them, I'm a mec(dude).
"You called Headmistress?" She asked breathing in and out heavily.
"Why yes I did. I need you to guide Mr. Bottes to all of his classes since the two of you have the same classes on your schedules."
Frankie looks to where I was sitting and was a bit surprised. She then smiles happily at me.
"Hi, I'm Frankie Stein. It's nice to meet you Boots." And she said my prénom(name) wrong. Well she's not entirely wrong. My last name does translate to boots, so I'll let it slide.
"Mon nom complet est la Justice Bottes(My full name is Justice Bottes). Ravi de vous rencontrer aussi Frankie(Nice to meet you too Frankie) ." I get up and walk next to Frankie.
Frankie was dumbfounded since she didn't understand a single word I said. "Um, I'm sorry. What did you say?"
"My apologies Frankie. Mr. Bottes seems to not be able to speak in any language but French."
Frankie looks back at me and I smile once I see her.
"That's okay. I'm sure we can work something out." Frankie states. "Right?"
"Oui, je l`esère(Yes, I hope)."
"Good, now run along you two."
She was astonished to see Nightmare licking my hair giving me a cowlick. Or a horselick if you will. Frankie giggles at this.
"It seems Nightmare likes you."
"Oui, je peur voir que Headmistress(Yeah, I can see that Headmistress) ."
Nightmare stops licking my hair, and me and Frankie walk out to the halls of this école(school). I keep getting insulting looks from the students. Frankie decides to break the silence between us.
"So uh, what kind of monster are you? You look very human."
Might as well tell the truth. "Je ne suis pas un monstres(I'm not a monster). Juste un être humain ordinaire(Just a regular human) ."
Frankie looked at me with confused looks again. "I have got to learn French. Say, you want to come meet my friends. I'm sure you and the ghouls will get along just fine." Ghouls? I'm guessing that's a monster term for filles(girls).
"Sûr(Sure). Je voudrais Les rencontrer aussi(I'd like to meet them too)."
We approach some 'ghouls' which I assume are Frankie's copains(friends). I was really nervous around them. Surprisingly, they weren't so effrayant(scary). Actually, they weren't effrayant(scary) at all. They were all attractive and élégant(stylish) in their own unique way.
The vampire fille(girl) didn't look like any vampire I've seen around this school. Her skin was pale pink, her eyes were pale purple shining greatly(which is weird I mean why is it shining if it's pale), her black hair with pink streaks formed into a big pigtails, a little pink heart thing under her left eye(looks like a birthmark to me), her earrings are weird though can't describe them if I wanted to, her pink necklace is incroyable(amazing). I think she's wearing heels just to look taller. I didn't work at all. Her outfit looks a bit old fashioned(Victorian style), but she makes it work. Looking like a belle fille riche(beautiful rich girl). She has fangs they look more adorable than effrayant(scary) to me on her pink lips.
The fille loup(wolf girl) has big auburn curls that go to her hips, her oreilles loup(wolf ears) seemed to have piercings on them, she had on rouge(red) lipstick, an amulet, a collier(collar), a veste(jacket) with purple fur lines with a pink leopard pattern shirt, a purple mini skirt, a weird pair of heels that I can't describe. Her eyes sparkled caramel with purple eyeliner. I feel incomfortable(uncomfortable) around her for some reason.
There is also another fille(girl) who looks very humain(human), but I knew better than that. She must be a momie(mummy) because she has gold bandages around her forearms and acts like a glove for her hands and around her body acting as pants and undershirt for her coûteux(expensive) looking blue top thing. Her eyeshadow was purple contrasting with her ocean blue eyes. Her hair looked like a mix between mostly gold and black. She was jolie magnifique(pretty gorgeous). But she had this drama queen aura around her. Must've been the coûteux(expensive) looking boucle(earrings).
And there's the zombie fille(zombie girl) that may look like the momie de(mummy's) assistant, but I sense great respect between them. She has light blue hair with a green hair thing, pale grey skin,and white cat-eye horn-rimmed des lunettes(glasses). I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I'm terrible at describing people's clothes including my own. But let me try anyway. Voyons voir(Let's see), she has a red and white striped shirt wearing a mini vest of some kind, fishnet arm things, big heel shoes with long laces. She stands awkwardly slouching and blinks one eyelid at a time, rather than both at the same time. People have kept on depicting morts-vivants(undead) as gross and hideous abominations of earth that want to eat us. But this fille- I mean ghoul, doesn't represent those horrible accusations at all. She looks attractive(duh).
"Hey ghouls!" Frankie shouts.
They all turn their attention to her.
The vampire fille(girl or 'ghoul'?) responded in a Transylvanian accent. "Oh, hey Frankie. How are-" She stopped talking once she saw me and backed up close to her locker. "Um, Frankie. Who is that?"
"This is Justice Boots. Justice, these are my friends."
The fille loup(wolf girl) walks up to me. "Hi, I'm Clawdeen. And that nervous ghoul over there is Draculaura." You don't need to be a genius to figure out that a vampire named 'Draculaura' is related to Dracula.
The momie fille(mummy girl or ghoul) then struts towards me. "The name's, Cleo, Cleo de Nile. You may have heard of me already. I'm pretty popular in this school."
I shake my head yes, even though it's a complete lie. This didn't settle well with her though. It was like she sensed that I was lying.
"Are you just shaking your head yes just to be nice and not hurt my feelings?"
Petit(Whelp). I got caught.
"Oui(Yes). J'ai jamais entendu de vous avant(I never heard of you before) ."
"What did you say? I don't speak French."
The zombi(zombie) ghoul translates for moi(me). "Ayeeee Ahhhhh(He said he's never heard of you before)." Wait, I can understand her. How? Whatever, thank Dieu(God) there's a translator here.
Clea(that's her name right?) seemed pretty okay. I thought she was gonna go fou(crazy).
"Thank you Ghoulia." She faces me. "That's alright. You are from a different country. So I'll let it go by." She stops smiling and glares poignards(daggers) at moi(me). "But make sure you don't get ahead of yourself. Alright."
"Cleo. Take it easy on him. He's new. I'm sure he'll fit in just fine." Clawdeen tells her.
"Alright." She turns to face me again. "I'll be keeping my eye on you."
Ghoulia rolls her eyes. "Ahhhhhhhhhh.(Don't mind Cleo. She's just being… Cleo.) Ahyeaaaah.(My name is Ghoulia Yelps.) Ahhhhh. (It's nice to meet you.) Ayyyyyyyyy?(What kind of monster are you? You look very human?)"
I think she already knows what I'm gonna say. I can just feel it. "Je ne suis pas tout type de monstre(I'm not any kind of monster). Je suis un humain(I'm a human)." I noticed Ghoulia was about to gasp. "Ça va(It's okay). Je comprends si vous voulez me exposer(I understand if you want to expose me). Les humains ne sont pas très populaires à partir de ce que j'entendu(Humans aren't very popular from what I heard). Il suffit de savoir que je pense que vous tous les goules sont merveilleux et très unique dans votre propre chemin(Just know that I think all of you ghouls are wonderful and unique in your way).
The zombie beauté(beauty) responds with a moan. "Ahhhhh Ayyyyyyyyy(He said he's a changeling from Scaris and his family just moved here to New Salem and enrolled him in Monster High)." Wow, she just met moi(me) and already she trusts me.
Clawdeen got excited when Ghoulia mentioned Scaris. "Oh my ghoul! You lived in Scaris?! You gotta tell me all about it!"
I lived in Paris not 'Scaris'. Is everything in this universe a monstre(monster) pun? If so I find it hilarant(hilarious). I'll be honest to Clawdeen of what I thought about 'Scaris'.
"En bien, pour commencer, même si no vivais là-bas pour que quatorze ans, il est une belle ville pleine de toutes sortes d'attractions, ce grand monument tout le monde connaît, il y a même des maisons faites complètement hors de la pierre pour gargouilles(Well, to start off, even though I lived there for like fourteen years, it's a beautiful city full of all kinds attractions, that big monument everyone knows about, there are even houses made completely out of stone for gargoyles). J'ai apprécié chaque instant de mon temps dans la ville, mais je details encore mauvais jours cependant(I enjoyed every moment of my time in the city, but I still had bad days though). Promenades tranquilles en bateau, des croissants, des escargots, et savoureux pain de blé qui est l'un de mes aliments préférés(Calm boat rides, croissants, snails, and tasty wheat bread that is one of my favourite foods). Ma famille a décidé qu'il était temps pour nous de passer à l'extérieur du pays à regarder de nouveaux horizons(My family decided it was time for us to move on out of the country to look at at new horizons). Depuis que je suis venu en Amérique et a vu ses merveilles, je suppliais mes parents de rester ici(Since I came to America and saw it's wonders, I begged my parents to stay here). J'espère que je peux apprendre beaucoup de choses ici(I hope I can learn a lot here)."
Ghoulia starts to translate. It's kinda weird having a zombi(zombie) translate for you. But for some reason I didn't mind her doing it. "Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy(He lived there for fourteen years and enjoyed most of his time since it was his birth home and a very beautiful city). Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh(He also said that the calm boat rides are awesome along with the snails, croissants, and one of his favorite foods wheat bread). Ayyyyyeeeeeeaaaaahhhhh(His parents came to Scaremerica to look at new horizons and he begged them to let them stay here hoping to learn a lot from here)." Vraiment(Really)? Scaremerica.
What next? The cafeteria is called the creepateria.
"That is fangtastic! I hope I get to visit someday. You know meet my idol, Moanatella Ghostier. She's like so legendary. Her fashion is always on point. I dream of being as good as her someday." Clawdeen looked like she was daydreaming for a bit.
I don't know who this Moanatella person is. Guessing she must be a famous fashion designer from what Clawdeen implied.
Draculaura then gets away from her locker and faces me. Honestly I thought I would never see the day that a monstre(monster) was nervous around moi(me). But I noticed before that she eased up when Ghoulia said I was a changeling. Should've known better, Bloodgood did enroll me to strengthen the bonds between humains(humans) and monstres(monsters). So I'm guessing humains(humans) aren't that popular in the monstre(monster) community.
"Hey, why do you look like a Normie? You don't have to hide your true self anymore?" The vampire asks. "Monster High is a place where you can be yourself, no matter what."
Feel like that doesn't apply to 'Normies'.
"Draculaura, I think our new friend here wants to settle in and get comfortable first. Right Boots?" And Frankie still said my last prénom(name) wrong.
"Oui(Yes)."
Frankie snickers. "Now I know that means yes."
I try to find my casier(locker), and coincidentally, it's right by Draculaura's, who's having trouble fitting her stuff in her casier(locker). It seems kind inconsistent to fill it with clothes. Mais salut(But hey). That's my opinion.
"Why is this locker so small?" She ask while struggling.
"It's the same locker you had last year." Clawdeen points out.
I'm just putting the little stuff I have in my casier(locker), making a mental note to go out and buy more supplies and clothing. And remember to get rid of this horselick. I wonder how my Mom is doing? She probably thinks I'm in the other school. I bet after today she'll realize I'm gone then. Call a search party that'll never find me.
"Yes, but I a have a whole year's worth of new clothes now. Plus makeup, shoes, color coordinated handbags-" Geez, next thing I know she has a closet the size of a shopping mall. Why do I feel like I'm gonna eat those words?
"Books, school supplies." Clawdeen added.
The petit(little) vampire still struggles to keep her stuff inside her casier(locker). "If there's room."
I decided to help her out. "Permets-moi(Allow me)." I jump in air and just slam the casier(locker), shutting it tightly.
"Wow, I didn't know changelings can be so strong." She said in her stereotypical Transylvanian accent. Seriously, are all the vampires I meet gonna talk like that.
"Moi non plus(Neither did I)."
Draculaura gets a notification on her coffin shaped phone. What is it called, the iCoffin? Hahahahahahahah! Oui en effet(Yeah right)! No one can be that banal(corny).
The rest of the 'ghouls' gather once they heard the ring from Draculaura's phone. I went to see it too. There was an image of a mec(dude) whose hair looked like it was made of fire. But he seemed to be frozen, including his flame head. I'm not gonna question it.
The petit(little) (why am I calling her little, she's taller than moi(me)) vampire ghoul announces the news. "It's from the Ghostly Gossip!" Yup. Not gonna question it. For now. "New girl gives Heath Burns the cold shoulder." Haha. Puns. Will they ever stop?
"Wonder who she is?" Frankie ask.
Clawdeen scoffs at Frankie's questions. "Who has time for new ghouls? No offence Boots."
"Hehe… Hey, I was a new girl." The jolie simulacre(pretty simulacrum) whined.
The école(school) bell rings.
"Ooh, I'm dying to know who I have for Biteology." Draculaura says. Hehe😂. I'm quickly starting to love these monstre(monster) puns.
Frankie asks a question. "Hey, has anyone seen Lagoona?" Monstre des mers(sea monster)… These des noms(names) make it so easy for me to identify them. It's like naming someone, uhhh, Deuce Gorgon, and he has serpents(snakes) as his hair and turns people into stone like Medusa.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh(I think she may be with Gil)." Another monstre des mers(sea monster). Come on, what kind of parents are these? Then again, I can't be talking because my Maman(Mom) named me Justice and my prénom(last name) translates to boots.
"Your right Ghoulia. She's probably with Gil. They haven't seen each other all summer." Cleoa states pompously.
"Hehe." I couldn't help but snicker at the prénom(name).
Cleon then glares poignards(daggers) at me again. "What's so funny, Boots?"
"Non, rein Clea(Oh nothing Clea). Hehe." I use both of my hands to contain my laughter.
"It's Cleo." She tells me grunting her teeth.
"Carlo."
All the ghouls started laughing with the exception of Ghoulia covering her mouth to contain her laughter. Cleota then glares at the ghouls and they instantly stopped laughing.
"Do you ghouls think that was funny?!"
Draculaura then responds. "Whaaa? No. We don't think- Pffffffft! Yes, it was funny! Carlo. Hahahahahahaha."
They continued to laugh and Claire got even more angry at moi(me).
'I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on him.'
We walk in the halls and the ghouls decided to listen in on the guidance counselor's office. Apparently there was this semeur(troublemaker) who got sent to a math camp messing with the ghouls and has to take advanced math classes too. I looked at the nameplate on the door and it reads G. Reaper. Hahaha! This place is a riot mec(dude).
Everyone backs away from the door when they heard footsteps. The door opens to reveal some sort of étaient-chat(were-cats). She has like a female biker jacket that looks like it's for les gars(guys), red biker gloves, orange ascot, weird shirt and torn up pants similar to mine, piercings on her cat ears, her green chat(cat) eyes showed great depression, it also looks like she has orange fur having a darker orange spot around her left eye. Her hairstyle is an asymmetrical bobbed hairdo, with the bangs being longer than her actual hair with tiger stripes running down it.
You know? She looked like a ghoul of great dignity. She must have a name that represents her in a respectful way. Not a banal(corny) one like-
Clarice(Cleo) interrupts my train of thought. "Hey Toralei." Never mind about that whole nom nom bébête chose(non-corny name thing). "How was your summer vacation?" All the ghouls giggled at the momie de(mummy's) sarcastic comment. "Oh that's right. You didn't get one because you were at math camp the whole time."
Toralei got upset at Clegg's insult. "You're the ones who got me sent there by messing around with the test scores."
"Serves you right." Clea walks up in front of the étaient-chat(were-cat). "You were trying to get the fearleading team disbanded."
"Who says I'm done? Anyway, it's not like I learned anything at that stupid math camp." She said as she walked off.
"What's the square root of 568?" Clawdeen asks.
"23.832…" She paused in her tracks when she realized what happened. "Hey! Rrrrrrr! I'll get you ghouls!" She then glares at moi(me). "And you, new kid, I'm gonna be nice and warn you to stay off my bad side. Got it?"
I nod my head yes.
She continues to walk off.
I have the feeling I'm gonna be on her bad side anyway.
Just then, a femelle monstre marin(female sea monster) bursts out the girl's bathroom in tears and this worried the ghouls. I'm gonna take a guess and say that's Lagoona.
Her entire body is covered in pale blue scales, her eyes are like seaweed green(of course they are, why wouldn't they be), her hair is curly blonde with blue streaks and a seaflower on it, she also has little blue freckles on her cheeks, her hands are webbed, and there are fins protruding from her arms. She's also wearing a gold seahorse necklace, a scale patterned hood, a pink scaley shirt, black booty shorts, and fishnet stockings(duh).
"Lagoona? What's wrong?" Clawdeen looked really concerned.
"*Sniff*, it's Gil. His parents were so mad, they *sniff* sent him away to another school." All the ghouls gasped at this chasing after Lagoona to comfort her.
So, everyone forgot about moi(me)? That's fine by moi(me). I'm not being sarcastic at all(seriously I'm not).
Frankie was about to follow but stops when this mec(dude) exits the boys room.
Oh, he's also human like moi(me). He wears glasses, has black hair with blonde ends, blue eyes, yellow shirt, checkered sweater vest, blue bow tie, and formal pants. He seemed pretty normal.
"Hey Jackson." Frankie sounded a bit nervous when talking to him.
"Oh. Hey Frankie." He sounded nervous too.
"I missed you at Cleo's party."
"Yeah, I was gonna show up, but I uh, had to change." He went back into the boys room. There's something odd about him.
Frankie was a bit concerned and then turns around to see me standing there with a stoic expression.
"Oh, right. Follow me Justice."
She took my hand to guide me to class. I felt like a child being guided by an older figure. It was a nice feeling. Like when I was young and Maman(Mom) held my hand to through a mirror maze at a carnival. She easily guided me through it as if she's been through it numerous times, even the guy who ran the mirror maze said he's never seen her before. And he has perfect memory. Maman(Mom) was like a master puzzle solver, and I seemed to have pick up that trait. I could've done the mirror maze by myself, but it feels good to have Maman(Mom) around. Even though sometimes her facial expression was stoic at times. People say I also picked that up from her. She always said I had a good sense of justice, bravoure(bravery), and of course, détermination(determination). The last one was always her charm, like a spirit animal or something.
Anyway, we arrive at class and everyone has already taken their seats. Except for moi(me), Frankie, and apparently Toralei. There seemed to be two other étaient-chats(were-cats) that are most likely twins. Both have grey fur and white facial markings. One has white hair, black and white striped lock of hair hanging on her left side. She also has white stripes running over on her right arm and left leg, while her sister(I think) is opposite. But they wear similar clothes. The black haired one wore a red sleeveless jacket with black striped sleeveless white t-shirt. The white haired one wore a black sleeveless jacket with white striped sleeveless black t-shirt.
I take a seat in between Frankie and some other girl. The other girl had a pile of snow next to her. She seems to be some sort of snow monster, like a yeti with. Her light blue skin had this sort of glittering effect, she had long white hair with a headband made out of yak fur and uneven streaks of pink, purple, blue mixed to look like they start as pink and blue on the edges and mix in the middle as purple. It looks like she has two small tusk protruding from her mouth, and has large hands with sharp claws. And of course, like all the people I've met in this school, she's taller than me, but bigger than most of the ghouls. I'm curious about her ice necklace though, must be a charm or something. Her wristbands, off-the-shoulder tube crystalline dress, and knee-high high-heeled boots, are all made with yak fur, except her lilac leggings.
She caught me staring at her and doesn't look too friendly. "What small boy looking at? Does Abbey have something on her face?" Judging by her accent she must be from the Himalayas.
I shake my head no.
"Then why you look at me?"
"Juste intrigué de voir un autre nouvel étudiant comme moi(Just intrigued to see another new student like me)."
And of course, she had no idea what I was saying. What are the odds?
"Was that insult toward Abbey?" Abbey was starting to get upset.
I shake my head no. "Non non(No no)."
Abbey cooled down.
"Reste calme(Stay cool)." I smiled.
Meanwhile, in the Underground. Two skeletons that seem to be brothers are waiting around in Dr. Alphys lab as she prepares an invention for them watching an anime she recommended they check out in her living room.
One of the two skeletons is tall, his mouth is in a smile shape and his eyes are supposedly pupil-less resembling vertical slits. His expression is formed by his skeletal pseudo-brows. He wears a white torso piece with various gold trims embroidered with a weird symbol, a red-orange scarf around his neck, orange-red gloves trimmed with gold, blue briefs with a golden belt, and long orange-red boots.
The other skeleton was short, has a dimpled smile, large orbits, and white pupils. He wears an unzipped blue hoodie, a white t-shirt, black shorts with white stripes, and a pair of sneakers.
The short skeleton laughed and this got the other skeleton curious.
"Sans. What are you laughing for?"
"Hehe. Somewhere, someone made a corny pun. I can feel it."
"Oh. Okay." He pretty interested in how the rest of the episode in the anime plays out.
"Alphys sure knows how to pick an anime. This is certainly entertaining. The fights are so, bone-chilling." A comedic drum was heard.
"Sans!"
"Come on Papyrus you know you like it."
"I like your puns more than anime. I'll give you that." Papyrus crosses his arms.
"Papyrus, we just started watching anime, and you hated it even though we've never seen it before."
"*Sighs*, I'll admit it's growing on me." He quickly got impatient. "Is Dr. Alphys done with that dimension thingy yet? I want to go see that other world and meet my nephew."
"So do I Papyrus. I bet that world will be a skele-ton of fun."
"Sans!"
A reptilian monster, wearing glasses and a lab coat, enters the room. She seemed kinda nervous.
"G-guys, it's r-ready."
All of them walked down to where the dimensional portal is. Papyrus and Sans looked in awe at the portal. The portal had these dark outlines and was purple. That's all.
"A-a-a-are you guys sure you want t-t-to d-do t-this? I-I-I haven't tested it out yet. There is a 10% chance that you'll make it through alive."
Papyrus was excited nonetheless. "I like those odds!" Without any second thoughts he jump through the portal.
"Wait for me! How I wish he had a patience-bone instead of a funny-bone." Sans jumps through after his brother.
Alphys stands there dumbfounded for a few seconds. "Better call Frisk to let her know her son is in good hands. I hope."
Back at Monster High. Toralei walks up to Abbey since she can't find a seat to be with her friends. Which I find kind of pointless since there is a seat near the two other étaient-chats(were-cats).
"Hey, new girl. Our seats." Again Toralei, there's a seat right near them.
"Do you know who I am?"
"Mean girl with sandpaper tongue."
Toralei scoffs at the yeti.
"Take your seats, everyone." Toralei listened and took a seat behind Abbey. "Class books open to page one." The teacher's name is Mr. Rotter. His accent was similar to Draculaura's. He is a phantom just like the phantom from 'Phantom of the Opera'. I heard it's impossible to get an A in his class.
I got my book and started reading. It seemed simple enough.
As I kept reading, a snowball was thrown at Frankie.
"Hey!"
Mr. Rotter turns around and sees Frankie sitting normally.
I look to Abbey without turning my head much to see Toralei throwing another snowball at Frankie.
"Clawdeen was right about new ghouls." Frankie throws a snowball at Abbey but I use my book to block it.
Toralei and her cronies got upset and I continue to read my book.
"Short stuff think he's gonna stop me." She grabs another snowball. "That's adorable." Toralei sneaks over to Frankie's side and throws a snowball at Abbey. She rush back to her seat at high speed.
Abbey look at Frankie with vengeful eyes. "You want game? I give you game."
A snowball fight ensues between the two ghouls. And one of the snowballs goes towards Mr. Rotter. I see this and try to block it, but it was too late. Mr. Rotter sees this and turns around to see Frankie and Abbey have some snow on them. He also sees me holding my book like I'm going to throw it. Sacrebleu(Not going to translate this, because even Americans know about this French phrase).
"You three, principal's office. Now!"
The three étaient-chats(were-cats) laughed at our misfortune.
Bummed out, we travel to Bloodgood's office. Frankie still can't believe she got in trouble. I see that Abbey is taller than Frankie and me.
"I can't believe this. I've never been in trouble before. Aren't you two worried?"
"You threw snowball at me first." I thought I blocked it. "Principal, will bring hammer down on you." She turns around to face Frankie.
"But I didn't. This is all a big misunderstanding." The jolie(pretty) simulacrum pleaded.
I just look at the two ghouls with my trademark stoic face.
"I understand perfectly. You want war with Abbey? You get war."
Frankie was terrified at Abbey's response.
At Bloodgood's, Frankie and Abbey stand next to each and I'm still near Frankie.
"We simply cannot have this kind of behavior." Her head is on a platter held by Nightmare and her body is polishing it. Just want you guys to know that. "Monster High stands for acceptance, understanding, and tolerance." Her body stopped polishing her head. "To help you learn these qualities, you well spend the entire day, together."
"What?"
"Not possible." Abbey states.
Bloodgood's body puts on bracelets on the ghouls' wrist. And I had to put my arm up for her to put a bracelet on my wrist.
"These magic bracelets will bond you three together." Her body then walks to it's head. "You must stay less than three feet apart. Until 3 o'clock, you will every second together until then. And I think, learn something valuable."
"And if more than 3 feet apart." Abbey tested this out by moving her arm away from us. This caused the bracelets to blare like an alarm and pull our arms to Abbey.
"The Study Howl of Eternal Homework." Nightmare neighs in terror upon hearing those words, dropping his owner's head on the floor near the ghouls' feet. "Oh, and fiery demon will descend upon all of your homes." I pick up her head. "But mostly that Study Howl of Eternal Homework thing."
We exit the room hearing Nightmare's neigh and me fixing the horselick she gave me before we left.
"Okay, being stuck with you three is less than the ideal sitch. So I say we make the best of it." We walk through the halls and Frankie tries to solve the problem between her and Abbey. "Just tell me. Why did you start the snowball fight? I don't get it." As she talks to Abbey, I get judging looks from the monsters here. Again.
I gave myself a mental note to tell Bloodgood what really happened later on.
"It was you who was instigator." Abbey told her.
"Well, I guess you don't want to tell me. We'll deal with that later. So, where you from?"
"Mountaintops. In Himalayas." Knew it.
"Oh cool. Which one?"
"I think you would not know."
"Oh. Okay. Um, I really like your necklace."
Abbey stopped right there. "This 'small talk' is not necessary. People here talk too much about too little. Except for little one here." She gestures to me. "Sometimes it's just better to close the mouth."
"Wow, rude."
Abbey looked a little sad once Frankie said that. She was surprised to see me hold her hand and smile at her. Her hand was supposed to be cold, but to me, it had a warm feeling. She smiled as we continued to find to our next class. The cool looking grandfather clock shows us that we are almost late to class.
"We must get to class." The yeti tells us.
Frankie gasps at this. "You're right. I can't get another tardy. Or I'll be in totes trouble. Let's go." Frankie starts to walk off.
I look at Abbey and see that she is thinking at the moment. She walks in the opposite direction dragging me and Frankie with her thanks to the magic bracelets. Frankie's hand got detached in the process.
"Hey, wait! Why have to stay together."
After class, Frankie went to get a drink.
"Stop. I fix." Abbey freezes Frankie's drink but Frankie doesn't seem to like it and has trouble breaking it away from the machine.
"Aw, you ruined it. I can't drink this."
Abbey seems sad. Hmm.
I get a cup and the machine pours the juice for me. I hold it to Abbey. She gets the idea and freezes my drink. I then proceed to lick it like a popsicle and this makes Abbey happy. Hey, that rhymed. Sorta.
"See? Little one got it." Can't argue with my nickname since I reach up to her waist.
Then, the guy I saw on the Ghostly Gossip post shows up next to Abbey. His name was Heath, right?
"Hey baby." He played it cool(no pun intended) until Abbey glared at him with a commanding stare. "I mean Abbey. Uh, I didn't introduce myself earlier. Burns." He kneels down and holds her hand. "Heath Burns. W-w-wow! Cold hands." Abbey looks at me and Frankie with an uncomfortable look. "But I know how to warm your heart." His hair sets on fire and he kisses Abbey's hand. His lips froze upon contact and broke off. "Mmmmmmm! Glacial facial." He covered his mouth and ran off.
Frankie laughed at Heath's misfortune.
"This Heath. He is hailstorm that thinks it is ice cold."
"Yeah, that's him." The jolie(pretty) simulacrum was unsure. "I guess."
We then heard what sounded like bull's cry to our right. All the students in the path stepped to side as the minotaure(minotaur) I saw before is chasing after a little red diable enfant(devil kid).
"You better run! Didn't I tell you I hate red!" The taureau(bull) yells.
The devil kid hides behind Frankie hugging on her leg. I step in front of them and to protect them from the bully.
"Si vous le souhaitez, vous allez avoir à passer par moi(If you want him, you're gonna have to go through me)."
I'm not going to fight him, but there's no way I'm letting him hurt an innocent monstre(monster) and Frankie.
He got even more upset once he saw me. "I'm coming after you now Normie! Prepare to enter a world of hurt!"
Once Abbey heard this, she stepped in front of me and flipped the bully over pinning him by his hand effortlessly. Wow, she's strong.
"Rules say, no horseplay in hall. This includes the bull." She then throws him at a wall knocking him unconscious.
"Wow. You really saved my bolts right there." Frankie said.
"Do not mention it." She then proceeds to walk forcing us to follow.
I hold her hand look up at her with a smile.
"Merci(Thank you)."
"Why would I give mercy to you? I not hurt you little one."
Frankie explains it. "I think he's saying thank you."
"Is this true?"
I shake my head yes.
"It is no problem." She then gets a questioning look on her face. "Hey, why did dumb bull call you a Normie?"
"Oh, he's not a Normie. He's a changeling. He wants to get comfortable in the school first and then maybe he'll get out of his shell." Frankie explains.
"I think it is wrong for you to hide true self, but if you want to look like that, it's on you."
It was lunchtime(good, I was starving), I could tell because of the bell.
"Now is lunch." Abbey starts to walk off without us.
Frankie starts to get nervous. "All my friends are in the creepateria." I facepalmed once I heard it. Really? Creepateria. "I can't let them see us together."
We get dragged towards Abbey by the bracelets.
At the lunchroom, we sit at the table with Frankie's friends, but awkward silence occurs between Frankie and Abbey. I sit near Ghoulia but still close to Frankie and Abbey. I drink my juice and not fazed by the awkwardness.
Abbey decides to finally break the silence. She points to Clawdeen. "Your eyebrows, they are like mountain." Then to Draculaura. "You are short, like baby yak." Then Clo. "This outfit, I think you try much to hard."
All the ghouls are shocked by this except for Ghoulia and me still drinking our juices.
"What time do these bracelet thingys come off?" Cleona asks.
"Three o'clock."
The momie(mummy) gets up out of her seat along with the others. "Lagoona's swim meet is at two, and she needs all the support she can get right now. You, shorty, and your cold blooded buddy, should not come." They all leave the table. Shame. I thought we could all talk like friends.
All three of us got up from the table and towards the incinerator. Frankie is now a little bit upset at Abbey.
"I've been trying all day to be nice to be nice to you. And now you're rude to my friends. You hit me with a snowball for no reason. What did I ever do to you?"
The magnifique(gorgeous) yeti starts to cry. Her tears turn to icicles.
"Are you crying?"
She wipes the icicles off her face but more formed.
"Am sad now? This so surprising?"
"Well, yes. You seem so cold. I didn't think you cared. Or like had any emotions."
"Well, I do."
I hug Abbey, my head on her stomach. I felt like she needed someone to hug. She then hugged me back, very tightly.
"*Sniff*. Thank you, Boots." I'll take whatever I can get. "But I have to go to restroom."
She runs off again, this time to the girls room. Oh geez. This is gonna be trouble for me.
Abbey goes to a stall to cry in and me and Frankie have to share a stall to stay close to her. Just then, Toralei and her cronies enter the bathroom.
"Did you see the two new kids and Frankie trapped together? They didn't even realize it was me who threw the snowballs at them to start the fight. Now we just have to get the rest of the Fear Squad." They laugh maniacally until the white haired étaient-chats(were-cat) started slipping on a wet area until Toralei caught her.
"Careful. That would've been embarrassing. I got it! When Cleo and her ghouls go down to talk to Lagoona after the swim race, we'll come from behind and push them into the pool. Total embarrassment. They'll be sorry they ever messed with me. Come on."
We exit the stalls when they left.
"Look. I'm sorry I thought you threw the snowball at me. I should've known it was Toralei. It wasn't cool. So will you come with us to warn our friends."
"No."
"What? Why not?"
I smell a plan.
"Because. I have better plan."
Knew it.
At the swim meet, we see Lagoona win the race and is joined by the three ghouls.
"Wow! Great race Lagoona." The vampire cheered.
"Thanks for coming mates. Hey, where's Frankie."
"Oh, she couldn't come. She's all tied up."
Toralei and her cronies get ready to initiate her plan, and so is Abbey. As they run towards the ghouls, Abbey taps the puddle of water with her foot, freezing it. This causes the étaient-chats(were-cats) to slip onto a ceiling lamp hanging on to dear life from the piranhas in the pool.
Clawdeen was amazed at the stunt. "Wow. That. Was. Awesome!"
"Thanks Abbey."
"I know to you I seem harsh. Where I'm from air is very thin. We cannot waste our breath with pleasantries. It is, just our way." The school bell rings and our bracelets vanish into thin air. "Looks like you are no longer stuck with me. Will be going now?" She starts to walk off but Frankie stops her.
"Hey wait. We were gonna go to the Maul, and hang at the Coffin Bean. Wanna go with?" I knew that they would get along at some point in time.
"This I would like. Very much." Abbey got close to Frankie, but accidentally froze her.
Everyone laughed at this, including me. Abbey picks up Frankie and walks off with the rest of the ghouls.
Draculaura stops to turn around and face towards me. "Um, Boots. Are you coming with us?"
"Je take vous rattraper goules dans une seconde(I'll catch up with you ghouls in a sec)."
"Alright. Um." She had no idea what I said. What a shocker. "We have to defrost Frankie anyway. So, we'll be waiting for you outside." She ran off to catch up with the others.
I look up to where the étaient-chats(were-cats) are hanging on, scared of the chance they might fall in the pool full of piranhas. I just exit the pool area and go to the janitor's closet. Luckily the janitor was nearby.
"What you need kid?"
I pointed to the closet.
"Échelle(Ladder)."
He opens the door with his keys. "Grab what you need kid, and make sure to put it back when you're down with it."
I grab the ladder and drag it to the pool area. I set it near the spot where Toralei and her cronies still are.
They seemed to be surprised that I'm helping them out. One by one, they leap towards the ladder grabbing onto it, making sure not to let fall over.
"Thanks." She said as she climbed down the ladder. "But, why did you help us? We were so mean to you and your ghoulfriends."
"Même si vous sortez en moyenne, je sais que vous avez un bon coer(Even though you come out as mean, I know you have a good heart)."
All three of the chats(cats) are confused to as what I said. I pet each of them of the head gently and left to meet up with the others.
"Wh-what was that?" Toralei asked the two sisters.
They both shrug their shoulders also wondering what just happened.
'Whatever it was, it was nice.' All of them thought at the same time.
In the cemetery near Monster High, a portal pops open and Papyrus falls out of it, face first into the dirt. And then his brother landed on top of him.
"Ow. Is this the place?" The taller one asked. "I hope this is the place."
"Hmmm." Sans looks around and sees Monster High. "Why don't we just find out? Just, don't make any grave mistakes bro."
"Sans!"
A/N: Yeah, forgot to mention. I'm French in this story... Bye.