This story takes place in the Monster High reboot! Enjoy and no flames please!
It was a sunny afternoon and driving down the suburb street on a black motorized scooter was Helen.
Helen zipped up to a cozy looking house. She pulled over and took off her helmet, tossing back her long black hair with purple streaks.
"It's hunting time!" Helen said with determination in her silver-blue eyes.
Ever since she was a tween, Helen has always been obsessed with ghosts, monsters and the supernatural.
And she was determined to find proof.
Many non-believers called her crazy, but that didn't stop her. So, she started her own paranormal hunting business, dedicated to find anything ghost, monster, or both.
Most teenage girls play sports or surf on the Internet for hobbies, but not Helen. Paranormal hunting was her hobby.
Helen knocked on the door and was greeted by an elderly woman.
"Oh! Thank goodness you're here, Helen! I saw a winged creature in my attic!"
"Can you tell me exactly what happened?" Helen took out a pen and notepad.
"Well, I was in the attic looking for some old photos, when something big swooped down and almost attacked me!"
"And then what?!" Helen asked eagerly.
"Well, I turned my tail around and got out of there of course!" the woman replied to state the obvious.
"You did the right thing." Helen followed the woman to the attic stairs and took out her flashlight. "Stay right here while I check it out."
With her flashlight in hand, Helen began her hunt in the silent attic. Cobwebs hung from the shadowy ceiling. Dust floating from piles of old junk tickled her nose.
Her heart thumped rapidly. But she had to keep her cool.
She raised her light to the ceiling to look up.
The moment she did, a creature flew across the room!
With a yelp, Helen grabbed the nearest object and wildly swung at whatever it was.
BAM!
Helen hit her mark.
She saw the creature writhing on the floor. Using her light, she saw it was a little black bat.
"Ah-ha!" Helen took out her phone and snapped a picture. When she looked at the photo, she frowned.
A few minutes later, Helen came down with the bat wrapped up in a dusty bed sheet.
"Oh, my! You caught it!" the woman gasped.
"Yeah, unfortunately it's just a normal bat." Helen said, throwing the bat out the front door.
The woman looked confused. "What's unfortunate about that?"
Helen showed her the bat's picture. "If this were a real vampire, it wouldn't have shown up on film." She blinked. "Hmm, bit how did the bat get there? It could have been a vampire spy!"
Helen went back outside, but the bat was long gone.
"Nuts!" Helen returned to speak with her customer. "Madame, do you have any garlic-related products?"
"Uh, I have some garlic powder in the kitchen. But-"
"Good! Sprinkle some around your bed and always wear a lei of garlic once the sun goes down!" Helen instructed. "And eat plenty garlic bread and really garlicy pizza too! Vampires can't stand garlic, especially garlic breath!"
After her wise words of wisdom, Helen departed the woman's house and drove off.
The old woman watched her leave. She shook her head. "What will this modern generation come to?"
With a cup of chocolate soft-served ice cream, Helen retired to the park to take notes on her "monster sighting."
"Plausible Fact: Vampires send bats to spy on humans during the daytime."
Helen heard snide laughter behind her. "Sounds like the Dork Patrol struck again."
Turning around, Helen as two people she didn't want to see; Kelsey and her boyfriend Marco. They were filming her and posting the video online.
"Don't you guys have anything better to do?" Helen said. She turned her attention back to her work.
"And can a dweeb like you get any lamer?" Kelsey said, typing away on her phone. "Hashtag: Whataloser."
"Yeah, Helen. When are you gonna learn there's no such thing as monsters?" Marco said. "Even I know that."
Helen slammed her notebook shut. "Aren't you guys even a least bit curious about the supernatural? There are things in this world that we can't explain! And I'm gonna prove it!"
"Yeah, you're proving that you'll go viral with this bogus monster crud!" Kelsey laughed.
"Look who's talking, Miss Bottle-blonde." Helen said, pointing at Kelsey's roots.
Kelsey scowled. "We've been around you too long. Don't wanna catch your craziness too. Later, loser!"
The two laughed as they walked away.
As upset as Helen was with Kelsey and Marco, she just let it go. She had bigger things on her mind, to prove the existence of the paranormal.
After a day of monster hunting and taking notes, Helen came home and went to her room. Her mother was out to work, she was always working, so Helen was always alone.
But she didn't mind, Helen liked being alone.
With nothing else to do, Helen decided to see some ghost pictures on her laptop.
Helen scrolled with a bored look on her face seeing bogus photos of ghosts.
But she paused when her eye caught something.
It was a photo of Tash, a world famous Bohemiam-style pop star. Helen was never really a fan, but she now took notice of Tash when she changed her image.
Tash used to have light tan skin, sandy blond hair, and magenta eyes. Her trademark colors were magenta and silver in her outfits.
But just recently, Tash's look changed completely.
Now Tash's hair was purple, her eyes were purple, and her skin was pale white.
Pale as a ghost...
Everyone thinks Tash's new look was just a costume, but Helen wasn't convinced.
Helen did some research of Tash. There have been some reports of this new Tash going to what is said to be a "haunted castle in the middle of the woods."
The words 'haunted castle' had Helen immediately hooked on her next assignment.
"Now this is worth investigating." Helen close down her laptop. "Tomorrow night, I'm going to find this haunted castle."
