Chapter 1
Akuma: Hey guys, Here's the awaited chapter of 'Black Heart, White Soul'. And for those who are asking why I had my OCs Japanese, I think it's a good addition to it. I read someone's review if it somehow relate to 'Ghost in the Shell', to be honest, I never watched that before, so I'm not quite sure. The whole idea came to me bit by bit and it took me days, weeks and months to work up a decent plot chapter by chapter, with help of some people to have a look at my outlines and correct them. Anyway, I don't own Monster High but I do own the OCs. Enjoy…
Welcome
It was the first day of the new semester. Everyone was busy finding their way to the classrooms and some were guiding the new blood their way around. It was pretty much a normal day for the monsters, greeting each other and asking about their spring breaks, coming back with new looks and meeting new friends. A certain ghoul came walking in and was greeted by a group of her ghoulfriends, nothing changed much since they left for spring break.
"Hey, ghouls. How's it goin'?" A mint green-skinned ghoul beamed with excitement. It'd been a year since she first came to Monster High, she thought she would end up being a loner during her school year, but ghoul was she wrong. She had a feeling that she would make more new friends this school year and new adventures were awaiting her.
"Hey, Frankie!" they greeted back, they all were chatting away about their spring break. It seemed that everyone enjoyed their break, all except a certain mummy girl, Cleo… her sister told her dad about the party she threw the other day, which Cleo didn't know about, and her dad had made her stay in her tomb for the rest of the spring break as punishment. "Hey, have you heard about the new bloods?" the werewolf girl asked.
"That depends, which one you were referring to?" Cleo pointed towards the group of new bloods, which made her thought of recruiting more members for the fearleading squad. Although she had changed her spoiled princess attitude, she still kept her harsh training ways as fearleading captain. "I heard from the Ghostly Gossip that they're famous in their country." The werewolf replied. She wasn't sure who or what they were, or if they knew them from somewhere. One thing was for certain, they couldn't wait to meet them.
They headed to their first class with their Math creature, Mr. Rotter. Everyone groaned in displeasure. He was known to be the strictest creature in this school, he never gave A's unless the work impressed him. The class went on with his boring lecture and some students paying no attention to him, until the headless headmistress made a public announcement through the school's PA system.
"Frankie Stein, Draculaura and Jackson Jekyll. Please report to my office, immediately." The system went off and leaving those three in confusion. It must be important to have them in her office that soon. "Huh… I wonder why she needed us for…" the vampire girl, Draculaura's mind wondered as they got up and left the classroom to her office, when they got there, they were greeted by the headmistress's head on the table while her body was busy doing the paperwork.
"I'm sorry to have called you three in on such short notice, but I have a favor to ask of you." The headmistress's head was put back onto her rightful place and went to get a file from the drawer, they had no idea what favor she asked for until she gave them a look at the student transfer file. "I'm aware that you had heard rumors about the famous new students, I need all three of you to help the new students find their way here and make them feel welcome." She stated and they got a look at the students' photos.
"Wait… are they humans?" Frankie was stunned, along her other two friends, the photo showed the individual photos of the transfer students. Normal skin-toned, no freaky features, and no monster vibe, just plain humans. Draculaura and Frankie were curious why they decided to transfer to Monster High, of all the schools in the world, then the headmistress answered her question. "I chose them to come, we want peace between the humans and monsters, so we can coexist with the humans without fail. They accepted my proposal, and they will be with us for the whole semester, maybe longer if they enjoy being here."
"Just asking… are they by chance Japanese? And in the band?" the half human asked, trying to remember some details about them, somehow he knew he saw them before, but it was all a blur. Draculaura took a second look at the photos and saw posters with the students in them, she read the huge font, a band name to be exact. Suddenly, her shriek could be heard outside of the school.
"No way! No way! No way! No way! Headmistress Bloodgood, please tell me you're not joking. Are they really going to attend here in Monster High?" Draculaura asked as excitement took over her, she had gone to Shibuya for the exchange student program last year. During her stay, her new Japanese friends dragged her to one of their concerts, she enjoyed it and went ahead to buy all of their albums and posters, she even downloaded all of their songs to her iCoffin. Jackson seem to be excited as well, which left Frankie dumbfounded. "I'm confused… who are they exactly, headmistress?" She was about to answer her question when Draculaura butted in.
"They're THE most famous rock bands in Japan, the all-girl band, 'Rebelles', and the all-boy band, 'INCUBUS'." Draculaura fished out her iCoffin and plugged in her headphones, she browsed her music player for some music and hand it for Frankie to listen. When the loud music starts playing, she felt like she was the main character in their musical story. Jackson came towards Frankie with his phone in his hand and spoke up. "Their albums went viral and everyone loves them, but they never had a world tour or left Japan for that matter. So I'm quite surprised that they would even show up here, not to mention as new students."
Jackson showed Frankie the news about the aforementioned rock bands, she was surprised that just a song could make everyone their biggest fan, and no one had ever seen them outside of Japan, nor met them up close. But something seemed off for Frankie, for one thing, why did they agreed to join this school in the first place. Normally, the humans would reject the offer or scream at the sight of them. So, she asked the headless headmistress for answers.
"If they're so famous and never left Japan the entire time, why would they decided to join Monster High now? I know it's for the peace training and all, but humans are afraid of us, they would reject the offer, or in worse case, hunt us down." Silence filled the room for a moment, then the headmistress got up from her seat and walked towards the door. "Why don't you ask them yourself? They are quite fluent in English." she turned the doorknob and behind the door, four human girls were standing there.
The girl with short black hair and blue streaks grinned, excited to meet them for real. Next to her was a girl with long platinum blonde hair, she gave a soft smile to the ghouls and the headmistress. Behind them were a smiling red-headed girl and an emotionless girl. To sum it up, they looked exactly like the posters showed. The all-girl band, 'Rebelles', was standing right in front of their eyes. Draculaura squealed with excitement in her voice, she quickly fished out her autograph book and a pen, and went towards them, followed by Jackson
"Oh My Ghoul! Oh My Ghoul! Oh My Ghoul!.. I'm Draculaura, your biggest fan! Can you sign my book and my iCoffin? I really love your songs, I even bought every album you guys released. Do you like it here so far? Oh wait… you just got here. Silly me…" Draculaura kept on blabbering questions about their new song releases and other non-important stuff while they signed her book and iCoffin, until the red headed girl spoke up.
"Wow… who knew that we had a big fans, and monsters at that." She paused, once they finished signing for her, they spotted Jackson standing there awkwardly, holding an album. "I guess we're not the only ones who look normal." She walked towards him and took the album out of his hands, she signed it and passed it to the others. She turned back to face him, opening her mouth to ask the half human.
"Are you here for the coexisting program as well?" once they finished signing his album, and handed it back to him. He stood there, trying to gather his courage to talk. "No, I'm a student here.. You see, I'm half human." they didn't seemed to be fazed after meeting them, which reminded Frankie about her last question she wanted to ask them.
"We're here 'cause we wanted to be. Plus, we could try to have every human listen to us. Did that answer your question, Frankengirl?" the girl with black and blue hair spoke up, she heard her question before they came in. Frankie seemed to be satisfied with the answer, they were famous in the human world, and it shouldn't be difficult for them, maybe… "It's Frankie, and that kind of answered my question, sort of." Frankie had nearly forgotten that they were here as new students for this semester, she introduced herself and her friends to them. After that, it was their turn to introduce themselves.
"I'm Akane Ketsueki, guitarist and backup vocalist of the Rebelles, also the one who started the band. These are my sisters." The red headed girl introduced herself, she was wearing a red strapless dress with a black leather jacket and a pair of black leggings, her black ankle boots had a cross design as her heels and her black choker had a cross with a light blue crystal in the center hanging down.
"Miyako Kuroneko, the drummer and pianist. Nice to meet 'cha." The girl who answered Frankie's question grinned, she seemed to be the cheerful and trouble making type. She wore a blue turtleneck cropped top with a pair of black shredded shorts, black ripped thigh, long black ripped fingerless gloves and black knee high boots, she wore a cute moon brooch with a light blue crystal, similar to Akane's, on the top right side of her chest.
"I'm Yuki Shirohana, the bassist and occasionally a violinist. Pleased to make your acquaintance." The blonde hair girl bowed. She wore a white off shoulder crop top with long sleeves, pairing with short black skirt, black leggings and white geta boots. She had a black choker with a white flower pendant hanging down and a pair of light blue teardrop shaped crystal earrings.
"Akuma Komori. The lead singer and the leader of the band." The last girl greeted them without a smile. She was wearing a black toga crop top and black shorts, she paired them off with leather over knee platform boots, spiked belt, a black choker and silver arm cuffs in shape of a snake. The short one on her upper left arm and a long one on her right lower arm, the head rested on the back of her hand. Her choker had a light blue crystal with bat wings on both sides hanging down, her long black and purple ombre hair were tied up in high ponytail and decorated with hair sticks.
"Welcome to Monster High! Hope you'll enjoy being here for the whole semester, and feel free to be yourselves." Frankie grinned, hoping she will be friends with them during this whole semester. The girls seemed excited, except for Akuma, mumbling about if they managed to survive. Dracula then noticed something amiss, the file Miss Bloodgood gave them showed that 8 of the new students will be attending the school, but only 4 girls were in the office.
"Umm… Where are the guys? I thought they were going to attend here." Draculaur asked, and her question seemed to be solved when the headless headmistress answered her. "Ah, yes… Due to their dated concert, the boys will be arriving next week." She took off her head and left it on her desk, while her body left to deal with something in the other room. Though the ghouls were used to the sight of her head, the girls had goose bumps at the sight of it.
"Can we get a short tour around the school for a while? We need to know our way around and I don't think someone will hold on for much longer." Yuki said, her finger was pointing at the now sick Miyako, who was not used to the sight of a headless person. "Go right ahead, these students will guide you throughout this semester. Your belongings will be in the school's guesthouse and if you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'm sure you'll find this school rather pleasant." They all left the office and Frankie started the conversation.
"Alrighty then, let's start with the classrooms, shall we?" Frankie asked, none of them replied or said anything, they just kept quiet and looked around. All eyes were on them, most were filled with disgust and fear. Frankie took notice of that and remained silent, they walked down the hallway and it wasn't very pleasant like Miss Bloodgood had said.
"This is going to be a long day…" she thought to herself, they began their tour and found their way around; the restrooms, classrooms, labs, gym, creepeteria and even part of the catacombs. The tour went on for hours until they stopped at the guesthouse a few minutes away from the school, it was a black Victorian house with a hint of modern design, it looked as if it were newly built. The door was unlocked by Akane, who had the keys to the house and had trouble finding the right key, and they went in. "Wow… Now that's what I call a wicked place to stay." Miyako said in awe, everyone else seemed to think the same thing.
They were greeted with a red hallway, leading to different rooms, the left side of the hall was a living room, the room was decorated in red wallpaper, some lighting and wooden floors, there were red and black couches, a decorated black coffee table, and some bookshelves. The walls were decorated in old paintings, mostly during the human and monster war. The dining room and the kitchen were on the right side of the hall, the room was decorated in black and red, in the middle of the room there was a large dining table, with eight red chairs surrounding it. The table was decorated with black and red candles in the silver Victorian styled candle holder.
The kitchen was painted in black and white, the design was modern and simple with basic kitchenware and machines, next to the kitchen was a simple laundry room with washing machines, a wide table, iron and ironing table. All of their luggage was piled up in the middle of the hallway, blocking the staircase. They went for their respective luggage and moved them to their rooms upstairs. The floor was separated into four bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, every bedroom was decorated exactly the same; red wallpaper with black flooring, two beds, two nightstands with lamps, two wardrobes and two study tables, all were placed opposite to each other on two sides of the room.
Akane and Akuma went in the same room, while Miyako and Yuki stayed in the same room next to them, leaving the rest of the two rooms, which located the opposite side from their rooms, to the guys. They settled their luggage in their rooms and went to the living room to chat, Frankie and the rest waited for them to ask any questions or anything to start the conversation, Akane seemed to have read her mind as she started the conversation.
"Now that we finished the tour and settled our rooms, how about we discuss about our classes? I have no idea whether the subjects we're taking are similar to what we had back in Japan." She took out her class schedule and re-examined the whole thing, the rest did the same. All of them had different classes from each other, though it is clear that all of them had two classes together, Music and Physical Deaducation.
Frankie looked over their schedules and thought for a while. "I'm pretty sure all of the subjects are the same as what humans teach and learn. Learning dead languages, making potions and reanimating something." She said, though she was not sure herself. The girls sighed, they were positive that the monster's stare was not the only the problems they'll be facing. "And to think we were expecting the same level of education…" Akuma sighed, the classes she thought she had were exactly the same as her old school, if the strange name of the subject was ignored.
"I promise you that the school and classes here will be enjoyable, better than your previous school." Jackson beamed, he used to attend a human school before he transferred to Monster High, and he did experience what it felt like to be the only 'human' in the all-monster school, so he knew what they were dealing with. Akuma noticed him staring at them, more like staring off into space. "It better, 'cause I don't wanna waste my time with boring lectures when I can get out and write my next piece of music." She poked him in the head and went to the door, she turned back to see them staring at her.
"Come on. Don't we still a class or two today? I'm not going to miss them because of you." With that, she left for class. The rest looked at each other and nodded in agreement, they got up and left the house. Although they had to endure a few hours of staring and some harassment from some monsters, the rest of the day seemed normal and exhausting for them. Maybe it will be like what that half human had said, but their challenge had just begun.
Akuma: Okay guys, that's all for this chapter. Sorry if it's short, but I hope you'll wait for the next one. If you noticed my OCs, they all had light blue crystals as part of their accessories, and the boys will have one on them too. As to why they all had matching crystals, I guess you'll have to wait for the rest of the chapters. So stay tuned…
