A/N: Happy New Year, and welcome to the third installment of my series, 'High School with the Koopalings'! If you haven't read the previous two (the first one being on my old account, iLoveLarryKoopax3, while the sequel is posted on this account) I'd recommend you do so in order to understand this story. Also I'm super sorry for the delay in posting this, but at least it's going up now.
Now, in this story, we'll be not only focusing on Koopa Troop Academy (for newcomers: a high school in Darklands that the Koopalings attend) but also on their rival school in the Mushroom Kingdom - Mush High! As some of you can guess, or maybe already know, I'll be accepting OC's to be students in Mush High (I'm not accepting anymore students for Koopa Troop Academy)! Here's the layout for submitting a character to be a student:
Name:
Physical Appearance:
Personality Traits:
Friends?:
Enemies?:
Hobbies?:
Crush? (Except for Roy, Larry, Ludwig, Lemmy, Morton):
Any areas with a '?' means that it's not necessary to fill out, but would be helpful for me in terms of writing your character! However, the first three areas are required. Also, sorry that the 'crush' options are limited - this story is the third story in the installment, so some relationships are already established or will be established soon. Sorry about that!
I'll also only be accepting the first five characters! Please only submit one character per person. I'm accepting so few because it's a hassle to write about so many characters and write about them well. Thanks for reading! Let's get into the chapter, shall we?
Disclaimer: I don't own any Nintendo characters; I only own Lindsay, Abigail, Valentina, Venus, Mush High, Koopa Troop Academy, and the overall plot of this story.
2018 had finally arrived, and what a relief it was. 2017 had been an eventful year for, really, everyone. Koopa Troop Academy was happy though to return after the holiday break - a new year, a new start. Well… so they thought.
Let's recap. Right before the holiday break, rival schools Koopa Troop Academy and Mush High had a football game to decide which team had the better athletic department after a few years of debate. In the end, Koopa Troop Academy came out victorious (though they didn't quite play fair). It seemed great for them - lots of issues were recently resolved, and the win just topped it all off.
But… how exactly did Mush High take the defeat?
"It's not fair." Valentina sat in her room, brushing through her dark brown wavy hair. Her blue eyes were icy cold, piercing through the dark red bedroom. She wore a simple red sweatshirt along with black leggings and black skater shoes. She had just finished applying her bold makeup before the school day would begin - some mascara and dark red lipstick.
Her twin sister Venus sighed, sitting on the bed. She twirled a piece of her straight, blonde hair around a finger. She wore her usual outfit of a white pleated skirt and a Betty Cooper-esque baby pink sweater with a white collar, along with white heels. "What do you want us to do about it Valentina? I don't know why you're so hung up about that dumb game…"
"It wasn't just a dumb game!" Valentina exploded, whipping her head around to face her sister and their new friend in green - Mimi. "You agree, right? They're a bunch of cheaters and made our school look like a joke."
"Um," Mimi looked between the two sisters, not quite knowing what to say. "I guess? I don't know… I've kinda moved on from obsessing over that school."
Valentina groaned loudly before grabbing her black bookbag. "Whatever. Let's go to school, I'm driving." And with that, the short girl stormed out of the room. Venus sighed once more and looked over at Mimi with worrying eyes.
"Sorry about her."
"It's okay - you've already apologised about her."
"I know." The blonde stood up off of the bed. "I just feel bad, you know? She's so fiery. I don't even know why she's so upset! She was already upset about that traitor Zip, but even I moved on from that. She worries about the little things."
Mimi knew exactly how that felt. The little green shapeshifter was very bitter during her last few months at Koopa Troop Academy - hell, she even wanted to get rid of the Koopalings. Crazy idea. She regretted it, really, she did. She would've stayed but she felt as though she wouldn't be forgiven, and even if she was, things wouldn't be the same.
"You ready to go?" Venus was now at the doorway, looking back at Mimi. Oh well, this was a new start for her. She nodded and followed her new friend out the door.
Mush High was completely different to Koopa Troop Academy. The latter was dreary, dark, gloomy, and kinda unsanitary in places. Gross. Mush High though? It looked exactly how you would imagine a prestigious rich school would look. It had white marble floors and high ceilings, tall, fancy columns, and a bunch of golden chandeliers seemingly everywhere.
"Whoa." Mimi breathed out in awe. She felt like she didn't deserve to be here - it looked so formal, but really, it was just a public high school.
Venus smiled next to her, showing off her pearly teeth. "I know right? My mom put a lot of effort into this." Mimi knew that was true, and wished she could live in a place like this. "Come on, we have to get to our class to begin exam prep."
Lucky for Mimi, she had the same schedule as Venus - home ec., lunch, and then art. Mimi wasn't sure how exams were going to go down, seeing as she just started and they were only a month away, but she tried to assure herself it would be fine.
The two girls entered the large classroom and at the teacher's desk sat none other than Mrs. Toadstool. She smiled at the girls and gestured for them to take a seat. Venus sat front and center whereas Mimi sat a bit farther back. She was surrounded by new faces and felt a bit… insecure and afraid. New feelings for her.
The bell rang loud and clear, signalling the start of class. Peach smiled again at all the students, "Welcome back, everyone! I'm so glad to be back, I hope all of you are happy too. Why don't we go around the room and talk about how our breaks were?"
Mimi silently groaned in her seat - this would be a long day.
The Koopa Troop Academy students felt the exact same way. In the english class, Ms. Nastasia didn't even welcome them back, and hopped right into exam prep. "'K, everyone, for your exams you will be expected to write an essay about a surprise topic."
The students groaned loudly, showing dislike for the essay already. "Uh, whenever we get assigned an essay or really any assignment ever, you always say that they're not just stuff to write overnight, so how are we expected to write one in like two hours?" Larry asked curiously.
Ms. Nastasia just sighed heavily. "I don't make the rules, Larry. You won't have two hours to write one without any kind of preparations though…" She pulled out a ton of thick booklets. "Here are some organizers to help you think about how you'll write your essay. There'll be five topics, you have to be prepared to write all five - of course, you'll only write one, but it'll be random."
Ludwig was ecstatic to start preparations - finally, something interesting for him. He was bored all school year, there was no work that he had to put too much effort in. Of course, he still got all A's on his assignments. To him, it felt like doing third grade work. He just wanted to graduate from this year and begin doing preparations to rule over Darklands.
He sighed, a rare happy grin on his face. To be king seemed like a dream, but Bowser re-made him the heir three years ago. When he was first born, that meant that he was the heir, and that was known for quite a while! Until… that little devil-child came along.
Bowser Jr, his youngest sibling.
Look, it's not that Ludwig didn't love Bowser Jr, he did! Deep down. Deep, deep down. Like, way down in the very bottom of his heart. So far down that nobody can even tell that he loves Junior, not even Ludwig. On the outside, Ludwig really does not like Junior at all.
First of all, Junior's the loudest, most bratty sibling ever - and Ludwig is related to Wendy, so that's saying something. He was spoiled from the moment he was born, but did Bowser care? No. He was the only one to resemble the king himself, so the idiot made Junior the heir.
Ludwig sighed just recalling that memory. That was a dark time, when the king openly favoured Junior over him and his other siblings. He only let Junior come with him to capture Peach and completely ignored the Koopalings. It sucked, but they all got over it. A few years ago, it was like Bowser finally realized that even though the Koopalings were a bunch of brats who didn't even look anything like him, he was still their father and had been unfair.
Weird for Bowser to realize he was in the wrong, but he did, and boy were the Koopalings happy.
That's all besides the point though - the point is, Ludwig was the heir to the throne now and all was right in the world. He couldn't wait to be king, even if it meant sitting through the rest of high school. At least now, finally, he got to do something.
"Ludwig? Were ye listenin' at all, 'cuz I wasn't. What are we s'pposed to be doin'?" O'Chunks whispered from the side and Ludwig groaned - not out loud, of course, he didn't want to be very rude. Sometimes he nearly forgot O'Chunks sat right next to him in this class, and other times he felt as though his brain just blocked out that piece of knowledge - you know, how the brain blocks out some traumatizing events? Yeah, well, Ludwig personally thought sitting beside O'Chunks was very traumatizing.
English class dragged on for all the students but finally lunch came around. The students rushed out of their class and into the cafeteria, the room quickly filling with chatter. Everyone was trying to catch up with each other and talk about how their own winter break went.
One table in particular was exceptionally full, thanks to Lindsay. The people sat there were Lindsay herself along with Amethyst, Wolfe, Abigail, Cheryl, and Gabby - pretty much a bunch of girls in senior year. Lindsay's new year resolution was to get to know everyone better, so she invited a ton of girls to sit with her.
"So, guys, how were your winter breaks?" Lindsay asked the table, a grin on her face. She glanced around the table and Amethyst sighed quite loudly when nobody else spoke up.
"I'll go first," She leaned forward a bit, resting her chin in the palm of her right hand. "Well, let's see… uh, I spent a bunch of it sleeping." Gabby snickered next to her and Amethyst elbowed her lightly. "What? Look, I need my sleep! Geez… what else did I do?"
"You helped me and my grandfather deal with some ghosts." Gabby said nonchalantly and Amethyst gasped.
"Oh yeah! I did that aaand that's pretty much it."
"So…" Wolfe raised one eyebrow at her. "You slept, and were a ghostbuster?"
"Yup."
"Sweet." Wolfe grinned and Amethyst grinned back before Lindsay asked Wolfe what she did over the break. "Oh, right. Well I actually mainly read some novels, and - oh! I started writing one of my own!" The table cheered a bit for her, causing her to blush a bit in embarrassment. "I really want to be a writer when I graduate. I haven't gotten around to writing much of the novel, but it's coming along!"
A couple tables over, a group of guys sat and watched the girls with sharp eyes. Roy huffed loudly and put his drink down on the table. "You wouldn't think things would change so much after one stupid holiday break, but now it's like we can't even associate with the girls."
The others at the table - Mark, Lemmy, Ludwig, Larry, William - rolled their eyes at him and his dramaticness. "You're really over exaggerating here, Roy. We can still talk to them, Lindsay just wanted to bond with the girls a bit more and catch up." Ludwig muttered, reading some kind of novel.
"'Lindsay just wanted to bond with the girls'," Roy mocked his elder sibling in a high pitched, squeaky voice. "Whatever. From my point of view, I tried to sit with my loving girlfriend who then shoved me out of the seat onto the floor and said it was girl's only."
Mark couldn't hold back a laugh, and neither could Lemmy. Eventually, the others began to laugh too - well, all of them except Roy himself. Larry had to wipe away some tears from laughing too hard just imagining that scene. "Man, I hope someone recorded that."
"They did!" William cackled as he checked his phone. "Oh wow, it's all over Twitter!" The group laughed even harder as they watched the video while Roy sighed.
"Screw you guys."
"Lighten up, dude." Mark lightly nudged him with a joking smile.
"Yeah! It's just an embarrassing video of you getting pushed on the floor, it probably won't even go viral." Lemmy tried to reassure him with a grin until Roy narrowed his eyes at him.
"Actually, people already made it into a meme." Larry tried not to laugh as he scrolled through all the jokes on his own phone.
Roy lowered his head onto the lunch table in shame and embarrassment, wishing that there was another holiday break coming up soon. "When's spring break?"
Meanwhile, Wendy was actually in the library studying for her upcoming exams because she was a good student.
Okay, fine, that was a complete lie. What was Wendy actually doing? Digging for information on Mush High. Why? She was jealous, plain and simple.
Why would someone want to transfer over there? Okay, yes, she did see a ton of cute guys and girls, but is that why Mimi transferred over there? It seemed ridiculous to her that Mimi would go over there simply because she didn't think she could fit in here. Clearly she could, she had before.
You'd think Wendy would be a bit more upset with her for attempting to burn her house down, but not really. Mario was way more cruel to her family so she was kinda used to it. She sighed heavily as she sat herself in a corner, flipping through a ton of yearbooks.
"What are you doing?"
"Gah!" Wendy shrieked, getting shushed by a ton of people around her. "Sorry, sorry." She turned in her seat to see Zip Toad next to her, a worried expression on his face, nearly being covered by his long, blonde hair. "Why does it concern you?"
"It doesn't, I just… wanted to know."
Suspicious. Wendy narrowed her blue eyes at him, while he narrowed his eyes at the yearbook she was looking at - one from three years ago. "Wendy, oh grambi- please put that book away."
"Huh?" She looked back at the book - Mush High Yearbook, 2014-2015. What's so special about this one? "Why?"
"Just, please."
"You have a secret, don't you?" Wendy grinned evilly and watched Zip's face fall. Bullseye, right on the mark. "Aha! I knew it, you totally have some deep dark secret in here. But, why in here..?"
Zip gulped nervously - he was an idiot, why did he intervene? Now Wendy was going to know for sure that he used to go to Mush High…
"You probably hid something in here, stuffed in between pages, didn't you?" She flipped through the pages. "I mean, why else would you be so concerned with me looking through a yearbook of Mush-"
She stopped herself on a certain page and Zip grimaced. He looked away, he couldn't bear to see it. "Zip? Why are you in here?" He looked away and she began cackling, earning some glares from nearby students. "Oh my grambi - you used to go to-" Zip put a hand over her mouth so she wouldn't be able to continue her sentence.
"Shhh! Geez, you know I have a reputation, keep your voice down!" He moved his hand away and sighed, his sunglasses hiding his worried eyes. "Look, I can explain everything later. Lunch is almost over so I don't have time now, just please, Wendy, don't tell anyone."
Wendy pursed her lips together, thinking for a moment. Finally though she sighed and nodded. "Fine, fine, I won't tell anyone. But you owe me an explanation!"
"Whatever." Zip rolled his eyes and left the library. He was silently kicking himself - could he really trust Wendy O. Koopa with his biggest secret?
Another person who shared their biggest secret with someone was Doopliss - he didn't really do it on an accident like Zip. Back before the winter break, Doopliss confessed to Vivian that he was the one who set the Koopa's house on fire. Unlike Wendy, Vivian knew not to tell anyone, and she hadn't. The two actually grew closer due to that, and they were currently having lunch together in the corner of the cafeteria.
Doopliss was still a bit hung up on Mimi, even though they were now clearly broken up. He didn't even mean to fall that hard for her, he was a cool guy, he wasn't supposed to have a soft spot for a girl - at least, that's what he heard, but Vivian told him that that wasn't true at all and that apparently girls appreciate it when guys have a soft spot for them.
Speaking of Vivian, she couldn't help but develop a crush on the duplighost himself. She hadn't known him personally for very long, and it's not like he was a great person but… she couldn't help it. She got butterflies in her stomach whenever she was close to him and he seemed to act a bit nicer to her than to most girls. Maybe that was a sign, or maybe she was reading too much into it - she really didn't know.
Actually, Vivian didn't know very much about romance at all. She thought that it was all about being nice to people which is why she thought she had a crush on Ludwig. He was nice to her, they even slow danced together at homecoming, but she never felt any different for him than she did for any of her friends.
With Doopliss though, he wasn't even very nice to her. Well, he wasn't mean to her or anything, he just wasn't a super nice guy. So with that in mind, she had no idea why she had fallen for him. She finally knew that this was a real crush - she felt differently for him than her other friends - but she just couldn't wrap her head around why she liked him.
Maybe she could talk to Lindsay about it? Vivian looked across the cafeteria to see Ludwig gazing at Lindsay. She sighed and knew it'd be better to deal with her own love issues herself, Lindsay had enough on her plate. Well, most people didn't really know about it - honestly, she wondered if Lindsay even knew about it. It was obvious to Vivian at least that both Ludwig and Lindsay were fond of each other, though both have denied it. Vivian noticed the little hints though and put the puzzle pieces together. She wasn't an idiot.
"You good, slick?" Doopliss asked her once he noticed that she had been a little too quiet. Yes, Vivian was always a bit shy, but this lunch period she was completely silent. He was concerned for her.
She raised her head up and blushed a bit, not expecting him to notice her silence. "Oh! Yeah! Um, just thinking."
"About?" He turned a bit more to face her and Vivian grimaced. What could she tell him? 'Oh you know, just thinking about how I have a crush on you and don't even know why because you're kind of a bad person'? Yeah… no.
"Oh, y'know…" She looked back down at her lunch tray, looking at a rather burnt, bitter looking piece of meat, which kind of resembled... "My sister."
"Beldam? Or Marilyn?" Doopliss asked her and she was shocked to know that he knew who her sisters were. Then again, who wouldn't? Beldam was probably one of the cruelest students at this damn school.
"Beldam, actually." Now that she thought about it, her sister had been a bit too quiet recently.
Doopliss leaned his chin on one of his hands, "What about her? Ya still talk to her?"
"Well, yeah, she's my sister."
"Well duh." He chuckled a bit and Vivian noted that his laugh was kinda dorky, consisting of a bunch of 'yuk's. "I just know that she was kinda rude to you in the beginning of the year and then feuded a bit with… you know."
She remembered - Mimi had actually stuck up for her against Beldam, which caused a ton of tension between the two. Why was Mimi so nice then? Vivian didn't understand. She sighed, a bit of pink hair falling onto her face. "I know, but it's not like I can just ignore Beldam for the rest of my life. I'm just thinking about how she's been kind of quiet lately."
The two looked across the room to see Beldam chatting happily - for once - with Marilyn. Doopliss chuckled once more, "I think you're just overthinking things, slick. As long as she's not causing problems for you, she's fine in my book." He then stood up, "Class's gonna start soon, want me to walk you to yours?"
With a quick nod and small smile, the two headed out of the cafeteria, the warning bell ringing from above, signalling class was starting soon.
Before gym class started, Iggy noticed a familiar black-haired koopa in the halls. "Cheryl!" He called out, his usual big grin on his face. She turned around in confusion until she noticed who was calling her, and then she smiled back at him. "Oh, hey Iggy."
"Wanna walk together to gym class?"
"Sure." She smiled once more and he returned it, though he felt a bit awkward.
"Um… we're cool, right?" He asked nervously, and she looked up at him in confusion.
"Why wouldn't we be?" Cheryl asked, and Iggy thought back to before the winter break. He had somewhat friendzoned Cheryl even though he liked her, and worried that things were awkward between them. Cheryl seemed to understand why he asked that now. "Oh, don't worry about it, it's okay Iggy." She smiled at him and he felt his heart flutter.
He mentally scolded himself, he had told her they were just friends! He felt like he needed to move on but… he looked at her and noticed how nice her hair looked, and how bright her green eyes were, and... 'Damn it.' He thought to himself.
Look, it's not that he didn't want to have a crush on Cheryl - believe me, he did. He just felt now as though he'd be giving her mixed signals. Plus, he assumed she had already moved on from him. He had to change the subject. "So… how'd you spend your winter break?"
"Oh, it was pretty relaxing actually," She stared ahead of them, a smile on her face. "I spent most of it playing piano."
"You play piano?" This was news to Iggy - he had no idea she could play piano!
"Yeah. I also sing a bit." She was a bit shy to admit it, but it was what she loved, and Iggy could tell.
"Why didn't you ever tell me?"
"I haven't told anyone, really." Cheryl looked down at her feet, growing more and more shy. "It's kind of a hidden passion of mine, I guess."
"Okaaay, well, you know that you're gonna have to perform a song or two for me sometime, right?" He smiled down at her and her face went bright red.
"Uh, sure! If you'd really like to hear one…"
"I would!"
They finally arrived at the gym, Coach Daisy beaming and ready to go. Some students were already getting all warmed up - probably Daisy's orders. The bell signalling the start of class rang and within minutes, everyone was sitting on the bleachers, waiting for Daisy's orders.
"Welcome back everyone!" She smiled, clearly in quite a good mood. Like… a way better mood than usual. "I never got the chance to congratulate those of you who won the football game before the break!" That explained it.
The students cheered and Daisy tried her best to quiet them down. "Okay, okay! Gotta say, love the school spirit, but you lot are quite rowdy today. Anyways, listen, we should probably discuss your upcoming exam for this class."
"We have an exam in gym?" William asked in disbelief and Daisy nodded.
"Well duh! Jeez, just because it's gym class doesn't mean you won't have an exam." She crossed her arms and looked at the students who now had frowns on their faces.
Wendy raised her hand, trying to be polite, "Um, what exactly will the exam be? I don't assume it'll be a written one, right?"
Daisy sighed and pressed her fingers to her forehead as if she was getting a headache from these students, which actually might have been true. "Yes, Wendy, we'll have a written exam. Which will follow a bunch of physical exams, such as the beep test."
"NOOO!" Francis cried out, his voice cracking. "Please, anything but the beep test!"
Daisy sighed once again. "Look, I know, nobody likes the beep test, but it's mandatory!"
"What the hell's the beep test?" Roy asked Francis, who was sat to his right.
"Ugh…" Francis shuddered at the thought of it. "Basically, you have to run back and forth between two lines, like from one end of the gym to the other, as long as it's 20 metres apart. You have to do it within a certain time limit, which begins and ends with loud beeps. And to make matters worse, the time limit gets shorter, so eventually you're running 20 metres non-stop, and quickly."
"Pfft, that doesn't sound bad." Roy laughed, and Francis gulped.
"Just wait 'til we actually get to doing it…"
"Anyways!" Daisy interrupted them. "That's how your exam season will be in this class - we'll do physical exams, such as the beep test, and then we'll have a written exam which'll be about a bunch of sports and what the rules are."
The class sighed heavily - they actually thought that they wouldn't have an exam in this class. How wrong they were. They hoped that the drama class had to deal with an exam too…
"Oh my, welcome back everyone!" Madame Flurrie stood front and center in the drama room, greeting all of the students. "Now, did everyone have a good break? Yes, no? Oh well. That doesn't really matter!" She laughed a bit to herself while the class awkwardly watched. "Ahem, anyways… I suppose we should discuss your exam for this class, hm?"
The class watched as she walked - er, floated - to the chalkboard at the back of the room. She talked to herself a bit as she wrote on it, but nobody could actually make out any words that she was saying. Madame Flurrie was quite a character…
"Aha!" She moved aside to reveal a… sign-up sheet? "For your exam, you'll have the task of performing solo. You'll all get the same scene to perform so it'll be fair."
"Uh, what scene exactly will this be?" Wolfe asked her and Madame Flurrie grinned wildly.
"None other than a scene from my very own original play!"
The students were silent until Lemmy started laughing under his breath, which of course caused Mark to laugh too. Then everyone around them started laughing until eventually the whole class was howling with laughter. Poor Flurrie was standing with her arms crossed and her face red with embarrassment. "What is so funny here?! My play did very well, mind you!"
Angrily, she grabbed a stack of papers from her desk and began handing them out to all the students. It was the script for the scene, and at the very top read 'FLURRIE'S FABULOUS CHANCE'. "This play is all about myself, and my trip to stardom!"
"Oh great, I've always wanted to act as a dramatic retired actress." Larry muttered to Wolfe, who snickered at his sarcastic remark.
Flurrie narrowed her eyes at the two but ignored them. "Take the time to read the script. Memorize it, live it, breathe it! This will be the focus of our classes for the next month."
Everyone rolled their eyes, wishing that the final bell would ring already. The class seemed to drag on but eventually, the bell did end up ringing after what felt like years. The students scrambled out, except for Mark, who ended up having to go back to his locker for some textbooks. And of course, who other than Lemmy comes up to him? "Hey Mark!"
The boomerang bro nearly jumped in surprise before relaxing when he saw it was just Lemmy. "Oh, hey Lem. Excited about that play in drama?" He asked, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
Lemmy laughed a bit in his high pitched voice before nervously clearing it. "Um, no, actually I came here to ask if you…" He trailed off, getting more nervous. Mark looked down at him in confusion. "I-If you. Uh."
"Lem? You good, dude?"
"Yeah! I'm suuuper! Just, uh..." Lemmy was at a loss for words - he had just simply wanted to ask if Mark wanted to go check out a circus over the weekend, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. "I gotta go!"
He ran away, agile as ever. Mark felt a bit sad, knowing Lemmy wanted to ask him something important. He shut his locker and decided that he would try to talk to him about it tomorrow - he saw Lemmy everyday, so it's not like the small koopa could avoid him.
The day ended for everyone and everyone was already exhausted. First day back and everyone was stressed about exams. Or, in the case of Zip T, he was stressed over Wendy telling everyone that he used to go to Mush High. He didn't trust that bratty koopa very much, so he figured he'd better text her about it now.
'Hey Wendy - u alone? I can tell u about mush high now.'
Within minutes, he got a text back from her. 'Yep - so spill it, toad. Spill the tea, or whatever you wanna call it. I wanna know why you switched schools, and how Mush High was.'
Spill the tea? Zip had no idea what that even meant - he wasn't caught up in recent slang. Oh well, all he knew was that it was gonna be a long evening explaining everything.
A/N: And that ends the chapter! I hope everyone enjoyed it - please submit some characters to be in Mush High! I'm only accepting the first five. Also, just FYI, I'm thinking of making the chapters split in two - focusing on Mush High, and then on Koopa Troop Academy. Should I do that, or should I dedicate a whole chapter to one school and then have the next chapter be dedicated to the second school? Let me know, thanks!