Okay, so this is right after a friend of mine came out of the Monster High Closet= which lead to my collection of Monster High dolls doubling in a week! I never meant to get sucked into this silly fandom but it's so silly and fluffy I can't help but adore it.
With my track-record of never completing stories I doubt I'll make it to 100 but I got a lot of ideas that I feel should be shared.
Here's the first one- it's set after Ghouls Rule and with some tweaks of mine own. Are there any fans that don't agree that Clawdeen/Toralei make the cutest couple? I'm sure you do exist but I choose to ignore you.
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(Setting; Gloom Beach, if that wasn't obvious enough)
Jackson arrived at the Monster owned Gloom Beach, holding his new girlfriend's black-nailed hand. Clair isn't scared of any of Jackson's classmates- even though a good number of them were staring at her with less than friendly intentions.
"I can't believe he brought the Other-Woman!" Clawdeen growled, she was out of their ear range.
Draculaura was clawing her parasol and leaving knotches, and said, "It's cause she's a Normie, isn't it? Jackson never deserved a ghoul as vonderful as Frankie and now- ohh! Now he's making it vorst for himself!"
Abbey cracks her knuckles, "I wonder if their blood is still blue when hit air."
Frankie walked infront of her friends. "Ghouls, I'm okay with this, really. So please be nice to Claire and Chad."
Chad and Claire were the first Normies invited to Gloom Beach. They were also the only Normies that talked to the monsters after Halloween was over. Frankie wanted to continue the progress of total integration during all days of the year. So she unstitched her arms and added extra limbs in-between her shoulders and elbows to have give an even bigger hug to her Normie friends. (not literally)
In comes Cleo being carried by her servants. "Make way for the guest of my honor."
"Aww, see Cleo's got the right idea!" Frankie was happily surprised at her friend's uncharacteristic friendliness.
Then she watched the Mummy Princess walked past Jackson and Claire. Lilth had arrived, Cleo's servants lifted the blonde Normie to sit on Cleo's throne with her.
"Darling-cakes!" Cleo held out welcoming arms.
"Honey-pie!" Lilth returned the affection, little kisses were exchanged.
"Think they'll full on make-out in front of us?" Clarie asked drily, she noticed Deuce lifted his iCoffin in the girls' direction (like he was hoping she'd be right).
Heath was standing next to Deuce. "Yeah, I remember those days- chasing tail and waiting for random ghouls to get in on in public- but not now, got the old-ball-and-chain to watch make-out with ghouls- hell, make out with me even!" His hair lit up in excitement. Heath didn't notice no one was listening to him.
Chad was right behind Jackson and Clair- carrying the bags of towels and food.
Then Operetta walked by- in cut-off jeans and a plaid-white&red t-shirt tied oh-so loosely, showing off her beautiful music notes.
Chad dropped all the stuff and just stared. Claire noticed and rolled her eyes.
"Hey, I warned you about googling!" She walked up to slap her best-friend's neck.
"I'm sorry, but I can't help it!" Chad pleaded with her.
Jackson knew where he was coming from- his first week going to Monster HIgh was incredible and horrible. Horrible because he was despised for being the only Normie (pre-Holt Hyde reveal). It was incredible because all the girls-oh, ghouls, that went to Monster High were all absolutely beautiful. The fangs, tails, wings and rain-bow skin colors plus their various super-powers made them all so much more extra hot.
Though it only took one prick from Audrey the Third's thorns for Jackson to realize these weren't hot chicks at comic con- they were really utlra-pretty freaks. Freaks was a cruel word, but they were not safe humans either.
"You gotta let him learn for himself- he's not gonna get eaten." Jackson tried to laugh the idea off.
"Chad saved my life in the 5th grade- I owe him, so I'm not letting him run loose to humiliate the respentation of humans we're giving off." Claire explained to Jackson (she never gave the actual story of how but Jackson thought it better to let her want to tell it).
She saw Chad had gotten into a conversation with gargoyle at a snack bar. Yeah, this could only end in bruises, Claire thought.
Chad was friendly and sweet, Rochelle was hesitant but wanted to give the Normie a chance.
"So, I gotta ask something." Chad smiled and tried to communicate honest curiosity with his eyes.
"Jes?" The pink-haired gargoyle waited.
"Are those real, or what?" Chad pointed to her upper-par of her torso.
By the time Claire got there, Chad was rubbing his bruised stomach. "I meant about wings!" He tried to say, but the wind was knocked out of him.
"Please hold back- these girls are a lot stronger than they look. Don't let their conversations about ribbons fool you- they have the power to crush you." Jackson told his friend.
"I'm just trying to be nice. I just wanna talk and get to know them as girls." Chad told them.
"Can you first see them as people, then as the toys of your kinky-"
"HAHA, you are so funny!" Jackson interrupted her by laughing fatly- he noticed two monster dudes staring at them in a not-to-friendly way.
In a hushed voice he told Chad, "Just reel it back a little, stay close to Frankie, she'll protect you."
Chad liked the idea. "Frankie's cool, okay, I will go do that!"
Clawdeen was grabbing a hotdog as she watched Chad walk by. He was uninteresting to her- not because he was a Normie boy, but because he was a boy.
Recently going to the LGFBJDTQ club, the young werewolf realized why she wasn't interested in dating like her friends did. As she stared at Venus and Robecca holding hands, Clawdeen considered what she'd really want; though she had no idea how to approach it.
"Jealous much?" Her stomach twisted when Toralei came up behind her.
"Ya know, I could help with that." The cat twisted a long nail in Clawdeen's curly hair. "I've noticed those puppy-dog eyes you've been having for me at club meetings."
Clawdeen pushed the fingers off her hair. "This isn't the you I wanna talk to."
In the LGFBJDTQ meetings, Toralei showed a different side to Clawdeen. A side that was kind of beautiful, but Toralei refused to show it around Clawdeen's friends and that got under her fur.
The were-cat purred, "There's only one me, sweetie, I wear it all in the open- can you say that?"
Clawdeen held a paw up to her, "I don't need a lecture- especially from you." The werewolf then walked back to the ghouls she knew whom would never lie to her.
Toralai thought to herself, hate to watch you leave but love to watch you go.
Chad walked towards the same direction Clawdeen was headed. But his view of Frankie and Abbey build sand-man was distracted by a tiny yelp.
He noticed a pink parasol had made the noise. Chad looked around it to find Draculaura searching frantically in her beach-bag. Chad noticed there was a hole in her parasol.
Putting a hand over the whole, Chad then asked, "Hey, are you okay?"
Though he didn't see her, she did respond to him. "NO! I'm nervous because I vasn't vearing enough sun-scream and, vell, I'm a vampire, and-"
"Wow, you're good now, I got that little sun-spot all taken care of; and I'll stand here as long as you need it." and Chad meant that.
The parasol moved, but Chad kept him hand over the spot. Draculaura looked from under her cover. "That is so sveet of you!"
Her big violet eyes were gentle swirls of cuteness. Plus the little fangs over her perfect pink lips, smiling the most feminine little smile Chad had ever seen.
Chad was truly, honestly, and totally in love with all the ghouls of Monster High. Yeah they were the children of vicious nightmares that could suck the life out of him, but he saw them more as lovely girls with cool side stuff going on.
"Ya know, it's really no big deal." Then a shadow came over him. "Hey, there's gonna be an eclipse, you'll good for the rest of the day I bet."
"Hi Clawd, look at how sveet this Normie vas to help me!" Chad looked over his shoulder, then upwards at the very tall werewolf behind him.
"Thanks for helping my ghoul, man." Clawd showed off his canine teeth as he talked.
"No problem, wolf-man, always happy to help a ghoul, ya know- in a total not expecting anything in return kind of way-" Chad made a face, then turned around to Draculaura, "Not that you aren't totally hot and all that, cause you so are, with all the frills and pink…"
After hearing a simmering growl, Chad smiled at Clawd and left the hole-covering to the werewolf.
That was scary, Chad thought. Then he thought of how Draculaura thanked him...swoon. Chad was the kind of guy to not let anything get his mood down. He concentrated on the good part- like seeing Draulaura's smile.
Completely in space, he didn't noticed Ghoulia until she moaned in anguish.
Chad woke up and saw that he had stepped on one of the open books the zombie had opened. She was trying to fit two ethnographic essays, an academic journal on advance medicine and translate a Russian novel into Zombie; ya know, to stay loose on a beach day.
Sadden by her book getting dirty with a sandy footprint, Ghoulia started to gather her things together.
"Wait, let me help." Chad bent down to help her collect her stuff. "I'm really sorry, I mean, I didn't even think, and wow- Nikan Asppangof! That guy is a mind-blow!"
Ghoulia was surprised the Normie knew of such an important contributor to put her head to the side in question.
"I mean, I only had to read him as a requirement for school, but WOW, he's just so….wow, ya know?" Chad wasn't trying to appeal to her intellect, he was just amazed that school was applying in the real world too.
Ghoulia gave a shy little nod in agreement.
"Not a talker, thats cool, I talk enough for everybody." Chad sat down next to Ghoulia, and continued to rant to the geek-chic ghoul about what he knew of stuff he thought she might like.
Jackson was explaining to Claire why they had to call it "Casketball" when all the rules to "Basketball" were the same. They then noticed Slow-Moe carrying a piece of Heath's broken guitar. He looked unhappy he walked, with the speed of a snail, towards Chad and Ghoulia.
Jackson went "Uh-oh", which cued Claire to grab Chad away.
"Hey Professor, got an emergency on the other side of this beach for you to deal with." Claire said as she pulled him up from his spot. Slow-Moe saw this and threw the guitar to the side before he sat down with Ghoulia.
Chad didn't love it because he liked staring into Ghoulia deep, rich blue eyes- she blinked so slowly…he could stare at them for hours.
"Hey, Claire, you're keeping me from having a nice chat." Chad told his best-goth-friend.
"No, I'm saving you from getting your brains drooled out of your skull."
"Claire, that is racist! Just cause she's a zombie!?" Chad didn't let her pull him any more, he didn't want to make a scene but didn't like her double standards.
"Not that blue-haired-fufiller-of-your-librain-fantasy, but her temper-mental boyfriend definitely wouldn't have been as patent."
Chad's eyes widened, "Ohh, well thanks then. And don't knock my fantasy-club when you're a card-carrying member!"
Claire rolled her eyes as she began pushing him into the water.
"Go for a swim, you'll be safe." She motioned to the rest of the gouls who were sun-bathing. "Monster-girls don't seem to swim so you have less chance of being eaten in the water."
Claire was the smartest person he knew, so Chad went with what she said. The water was a funny dark gray but it didn't feel bad.
He shrugged and ducked under. He went a few feet until he ran into a tangle of blonde curly seaweed. Chad rushed to the surface for air- the curly seaweed, actually hair, followed him.
Up came two bright green eyes to a beautiful blue face. "Sorry mate, didn't see ya coming."
Chad was star-strucked at this new ghoul, "Oh my God, You're a mermaid!" He grabbed his hair and smiled stupidly. "I've always- wanted to- I mean, you're so beauty- (the Claire in his head told him to shut up) Hey, I'm Chad."
He held out his hand to be shook in friendship. The sea-ghoul smiled kindly as she took his hand, "Lagoona, and I'm not a mermaid, actually."
She lifted one long, perfect blue leg above the water. "Got a cousin who is the real-deal, and she's a frightful tease, that one!"
Chad was dazzled by the fins and webbed toes. "So Cool!" he whispered, then turned his cute/ begging face to her. "Uh, could I, umm, touch your fin? It's like the first time I've ever met a….ya, girl like you, and I'm kind of geek-ing out here, and,"
Lagoona laughed at his honesty, "Sure, try it."
Chad was very respectful as he stroked her leg fin- his touch was light and though her legs were very well sculpted, he didn't do it in a pervy way- just a nerdy Normie way.
"This is such an honor, Lagoona, really, you are such a-" Chad didn't get to finish what he was saying because he was being pulled by something strong under the water.
In his panic, Chad only grabbed his mouth to keep the air in. Useless but he couldn't fight it away- Then he saw the jealous face of another, male, water-monster.
It was really weird, and really cool to hear him speak underwater, "Touch my girlfriend again I will gut you, I swear to the Gods."
The monster looked so terrifying and threatening, until Lagoona appeared, then he went limp and meek.
She grabbed poor Chad and brought him to the surface.
"I am so sorry about him, he's usually such an angel-fish."
Chad coughed up water and Lagoona held him up, his right arm around her for support.
In an annoyed voiced, she yelled at Gil, "How could you act like such a guppy!"
In a pathetic voice, Gil pleaded, "Please don't give him your voice! You have such a sexy accent!"
Heath was having a drink with his friend Bob. It was transparent that the Slime creature was sick of listening to the Fire Element but Heath didn't care.
"Yeah, Bobby-boy, those were fun we had, checking out the fresh meat and all that, but I got myself some prime-rib- no, wait, flame-men-yawn, minus the yawn and minus the men cause our flame is burning bright!" Heath bragged, so very happy to have found a girlfriend.
Lagoona left Chad with Deuce so she could argue with Gil in privacy.
"Dude, I'm getting a lot of complaints that you keep macking on other dudes' ghouls- it's not cool." The Gorgon calmly told the Normie.
Feeling less raw after surviving his near-death experience, Chad defended himself. "I know it's not cool, but I feel like a creep if the first thing I ask a girl is 'does your boyfriend mind?'"
Behind the sungalsses, Deuce absorbed his truth. "Dude, for your own safety, just try to hang with dudes, okay? Cause I can't think of any ghoul that isn't with somebody right now…well, except maybe…"
"Hey Deuce!" A young satyr yelled at the gorgon, "Cleo's getting in a brawl with the hunter-Normie; it's gonna be epic!"
For a second, Deuce's eyes left the safety of his glasses as he rolled them. "Please, Gods, let it be a vocal thing."
As he walked towards the forming crowd, Chad saw a stone seagull fall a few inched from him.
There was a crowd forming around the two divas. All of Cleo's 'subjects' wanted to see some action.
"So, what's the fight about? Nail polish? Shoes? Corsets?" Claire asked Cleo's best-zombie-friend.
Ghoulia moaned, and Jackson translated, "International politics…Lilth brought up Egypt's failing economy."
Things got heated when Lilth mentioned Iran having to bail out Egypt, and Cleo reminded everyone how many octaves she was capable of hitting.
Deuces notices an old friend he hadn't seen since his transfer, "Jackson, dude, how's the new school? Fun, boring?"
"Aren't you gonna try and stop this?" Jackson asked him. He thought, how can they be so calm all the time?
Shrugging, Deuce told him, "It's better to let her get it all out, try to hold her back and she gets worst."
With one good scream in outrage, the boys notice that Lilth was carrying metal-stakes in her heels. Cleo is ready to comply- with just hand gestures, she commanded her servants to form a circle around Lilth.
Being in a monster-expert-family, Lilth knew how to battle. She used years of acrobatics to jump over and threw Cleo's little army. The blonde landed a few feet from where Cleo stood; with stake in hand, Lilth ran toward the Mummy.
With the tiniest hand gestures, again, Cleo defended herself. The sand below them rose up in the animation like snakes. With a dark look, Cleo aimed for them to go for Lilth's 'cheap' bikini.
"Ya gonna do anything now!?" Claire asked Cleo's boyfriend. Ghoulia knew the Normie girl wasn't use to Cleomand her flare for dramatics.
"Better to let them let all hang out- get it off their chests and all." Deuce explained to Jackson's girlfriend.
Claire made a disgusted sound in the back of her throat as guess what the gorgon was really hoping for.
TO BE CONTINUED…