Chapter 2
Akuma: Hey guys, sorry for the super long wait. It's quite hard to write with my family around, plus being a tutor is tiring and I need to move my things and settle a few things for class. Anyway, someone private messaged me about the dialogues for the OCs, and it confused them whether they are really Japanese or just fluent in English. So to clear this up, yes they are Japanese who're fluent in English. I made some adjustments to the dialogues from previous chapters. Just a heads up, I didn't really changed all of the text to 日本语 or romanji, just their conversations in bold (reason why I didn't type in romanji is because I'm not that fluent in Japanese, and google translate didn't help much. Plus, too lazy to change their whole dialogue to romanji or kanji.). Think of it as a subtitle... Now on with the story, I don't own Monster High but I do own the OCs. Enjoy…
"Japanese"
"English"
Rough
"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's POV
My eyes hurt, the first thing I saw every time I woke up was the morning rays shining through the window. I got up and went to close the curtains, I don't know how they managed to not have their eyes burned, or maybe it's just me… I looked around and saw Akane still asleep on her bed, all our stuff was put away and the room looked livelier than before. I checked the time on my alarm clock, its 7am… 3 hours before class starts.
I headed to the bathroom to freshen up myself, it's a habit of mine. After I was done cleaning up myself, I went to my closet and picked out my signature outfit. A black toga crop top, black shorts, fishnet pantyhose and a pair of black over knee platform boots. I paired them with my favorite spiked belt, snake arm cuffs, earrings and ear cuffs, and the choker with the crystal Akane gave me that day.
I tied my hair up in my usual high ponytail and decorated it with my sai-like hair sticks. I put on my usual makeup, dark purple eyeshadow with black bat wing shaped eyeliner and topped it with black lipstick, every rocker girl's best friend. I checked my phone for the time and it showed 8:13am, still too early.
I went downstairs and to the kitchen to make breakfast, it's a good thing we did some grocery shopping a few days ago. The ingredients they provided us… we rather not use them, and I doubted that the monster mall had anything decent. So, we had to go to 'the human world', as they like to call it, and buy them ourselves. I recall the first few days after our arrival, we had to deal with all of that.
Flashback
We managed to survive a whole day of classes, the 'creatures', I learned that it's their way of saying teachers, were being nice and understanding to us. Not gonna lie, I kinda liked Mr. Rotter's class and his strict grading, gives me challenges. I was the first to score an A in his class, he was impressed, and I don't know why, but I received many glares from the other monsters.
When I headed for my locker after class, rude comments like 'we don't want you here', 'normies', and 'stupid humans' were sprayed on my locker. I shrugged it off and wiped them with wet wipes, luckily the paint wasn't permanent, and it took me minutes to get them all off. When I was done cleaning, Miyako came to me with Yuki drenched in dirty water.
"Let me guess… the monster girls pulled a dirty prank on Yuki while the other monsters locked you up in the locker?" it wasn't just a guess, Yuki's condition was pretty obvious, and I happened to overheard some students gossiping about the human in her own locker incident. "I don't suppose you had it any better." Miyako said, she's right on that one, we're all being bullied and tortured by them.
We've all gone soft on them, what's the point of the program if they all won't cooperate? If they won't accept us for who we are, then why should we waste our time to fit in? I have to keep my cool, they'll accept us sooner or later, right? We all went back to our home and both of them went to clean themselves up, while I went to prepare dinner early. I checked the cupboards and found witches fingers, pickled eyeballs and other body parts in a jar, nothing useful… I even found I-Scream and other gory looking stuff in the fridge.
"Guess we'll have to go shopping." I removed all of the unwanted ingredients and called Miss Bloodgood, asking the route to the nearest human supermarket. I wrote it down and headed there with the others, the distance was quite far, mainly because we were going there by foot. Remind me to call a taxi next time we go somewhere, and we did, we bought a lot of stuff which lasted us a good month and we needed a ride back home.
I made my special teriyaki salmon, fluffy omelette and miso soup for each of us with the ingredients we bought that day. And just in time too, Miyako, Yuki and Akane came down all freshened up. "Morning." I greeted them and went to get the silverware, they greeted back and sat down for breakfast.
"YUM! Akuma-neechan's cooking is the best!" Miyako savored her salmon like it was the best food she had tasted, the rest agreed. Akane's cooking is great too, but nowhere near better than mine. At least that's what they said when I first learned how to bake devil's food cake, my all-time favorite food. We finished our meal and Yuki went to do the dishes for us, while we got ready for our classes.
"Can I skip this one out? I don't feel like going to any classes today…" Miyako groaned, we all felt the same way. The whole school, except the creatures, hates us, I feel like everyone's a hypocrite. The first time we came here, only a few accepted us, but as time went by, they all avoided us like the plague. "Neither are we, but we have to if we want to finish this whole semester and get over with the program" Akane told her. That's right, we only came because of the human monster co-existing program. And I don't think it will work out for all of us, no one's trying to get to know us better, nor talk to us.
"Honestly, I don't know why we tried… No one likes us, so why should we try to be like them?" All of my inner thoughts came out, I can't stand them being all 'I'm better than you humans'. They thought for a second and agreed, we all had enough of their stuck-up attitude, so let's fight fire with fire. "Let's teach those monsters who we are, Rebelles style."
At school, and like any other day for us, we received glares from them, overheard them badmouthing us, and our lockers' a mess… Then one of the monster girls came to us, she looked pretty stuck-up with her cat features and all. "Well, look what the cats dragged in… Here's an advice, why don't you and your buddies go back to where you came from, along with those trashy clothes." I looked at the girls and gave them the 'it's time' look, they got the idea and backed up.
I did a quick move on that stuck-up werecat with a twist on her arm and made her kneel with her face hard against the locker. "That's kind of you to give us your advice, so let me give you ours. Harass us again and this won't be the only thing that'll hurt you. And FYI, we're here for the co-existing program that YOUR school organized. Until then, we're stuck together for the rest of the semester. And in case you all haven't noticed, we're more famous than you low class monsters, so think twice about calling our sense of style 'trashy'." With that, I let her go with a bruise on her arm. Everyone except the girls were stunned by our sudden change, that werecat glared at us and left with the other werecat twins.
Akane and the others came to me and were quite happy with their reactions, but I'm not done yet, I turned to face them with a dark look in my eyes. "Listen here, you monsters. I grew tired of being nice and friendly… From now on, the 'Rebelles' are going to rule this school." We turned our heads to the side and head straight for our class, ignoring the shocked looks from them.
We parted for our class and I had Mad Science class with that Frankengirl and half-human nerd, they seemed to treat us nicely, but I'm sure they're the same as them; hypocrites. Just as I entered the lab, the said devils were preparing for the class and had their equipment set up, even mine. "Oh, you're just in time, Akuma. We were helping you getting the equipment ready, so you don't have to fight for one when needed." She said, I took a good look at them, and they seemed genuine, but I have to keep a close eye on them. I gave them a short and quick thanks, and went to get my seat. The class went on about how to make a Sweet potion that to make anything into sweets or something sweet, and gave us a task to make a working one ourselves. This task was quite boring actually, right after our first day of classes, I did a lot of studying and practicing, along with some trouble on the terms, chemicals and ingredients. So everything I did, was way ahead of them, to prove to them that we were not as low as them.
I finished the potion in just few minutes and handed it to the creature, he tested it and was impressed with my work. "Your work is truly remarkable, as always. It's an A+ for you." I gave him a short thanks and went back to my seat. "You all should learn a thing or two from her, very diligent, creative and smart." That praise was not the only thing that made me grin in delight, but the sight of the other students' annoyed looks had made my day. Soon the whole school will bow down to us, they will not think of us as lowly humans anymore.
Frankengirl turned her head towards me and gave me a thumbs up, I just rolled my eyes and faced out the window. The sun, the clouds, the noise… it's like I'm back in Japan, and I hate it. I don't know how long I've been staring out the window, until someone tapped my shoulder. I turned around and saw Frankengirl holding a note, I assumed it was for me. I took it from her hand and started reading it, soon a grin shown on my face. It was from that werecat, saying she wanted to challenge me to a fight after school in the graveyard, what a drama queen.
Frankengirl read the note from my hand and frowned. "Ignore her, she never likes anyone, nor plays fair." She said and left for the next class. Of course, being me, I ignored her and left the room with the note in my hand. I met up with the girls and showed them the note. Then, Miyako started laughing.
"She wants to challenge us to a fight? She has got to be joking." We all agree, doesn't she know when to stop? Or maybe she's just stupid. "I heard that she'll do anything to have it her way, even if it means cheating." Yuki said. Akane smiled and, as if she read my mind, started planning for the fight.
"If it's a catfight she wants, then a catfight she'll get. If this note was supposedly addressed to Akuma and because of what happened back there, then I'm sure she'll bring in more monsters to gang up on her. So, here's the plan." She whispered us her plan, we agreed with it and went on with our next class, waiting for the perfect moment.
When it was already 5pm, we left our last class of the day and headed to the graveyard. Along the way, I heard a twig snap and it wasn't made by anyone of us, I assumed someone was following us. I looked at Miyako and Akane, they got the hint and left separate ways, while Yuki and I sat on a fallen log, pretending to chat about something. After a few minutes, we heard a yelp from the bushes. We turned around and found Akane and Miyako with familiar and unfamiliar faces.
"What are you doing here?" I nearly growled, it was tough to have that werecat and other monsters making your life hell and challenge me for that morning, which I did it out for our defense, and now we have those guys following us. "Look, we know Toralei is mad about what you did and challenged you. But you're all human and we're… you know… monsters. You won't be able to survive that." Frankengirl said, she seemed to care about us, but I can't trust her just yet. Akane stepped in and reassured her.
"Thanks, but we know what we're doing, and so is Akuma." We left our spot and continued our journey to the graveyard. I took a glance at them and they seemed to be worried about us, until Miyako showed them a magazine. "You should really look it up." They were confused at first and wanted to ask her, and that's when we arrived. True enough, it wasn't just that werecat, there were others as well, backing her up. "Glad you could join us, trash. And you brought friends, this is going to be fangtastic, for me of course." Toralei grinned, and so were we.
"Sure you still want to fight us? Or maybe you just wanted your face to break." I taunted her, she hissed and called a minotaur to fight us. His body was quite well-built and looked tough, but with those muscles, I bet his brain is as small as a bottle cap. "Calling the big one? What? Afraid of getting beat up by us, scaredy cat?" Miyako and I laughed so hard, our tears were starting to fall.
Toralei was fuming, and told the minotaur guy to hurry up and teach us a lesson. Boy, I really would like to see the look on her face when we win the first round. "Akuma, we'll leave everything to you." She told me, I was grinning from ear to ear and got ready. When the fight started and that bull guy charged at me, I quickly stepped aside and punched him in the gut; hard. He fell and landed on his back, with his arms wrapping around his stomach. He's pretty weak with his tough guy look. "Aww… over already? But I was just getting started." I grinned, everyone except the girls were shocked, wondering how we humans can take out a massive bull. Miyako then turned to Frankengirl and pointed at the magazine
"I don't know if you noticed, but read the page of the magazine about us if you like." Frankengirl was confused, she turned to the said page and read aloud. "4 girls of the all-girl band, Rebelles, graduates of Sakura Middle School and attended Ishiyama High School. Not only they're gifted in music, but are well trained fighters as well. These 4 amazing girls, along with the all-boy band, INCUBUS, were champions and finalists in Japan Winter Sports Game and Worldwide Martial Arts Championship at age 15 above, all of their fighting skills and sports were well trained, practiced and polished in the Martial Arts Club and most sports club, which they started joining since the first year of middle school. And with the lead singers from both bands being the strongest and ruthless opponent, no people would be foolish enough to try to kidnap or hurt anyone of these dangerous members."
Everyone was afraid after listening to the article, some were confident they'll win. It was the werecat twin's turn, and they'll be going at me two on one. "Two opponents? Now that's more like it." I licked my nearly dried up lips, and waited for them to strike. They both surrounded me and came from both directions, I dodged both attacks and hit both of them in the gut, a hand punched one of the twin's stomach and a back kick on the other's. While they're still standing, I did a tornado roundhouse kick on one of them, and quickly turned to the other to do an axe drop on her. They both passed out from my blows, I won this round, but that still didn't satisfy me.
"I'm bored, if our fight is going to be like this, might as well just give up or you'll lose half of your life." I smirked as I heard no responses from anyone of them, Toralei was furious and attacked me without a warning, like a crazy cat she was. Luckily I dodged it in time and did a sweep kick to make her fall, and with my hair stick, pressed the tip on her neck.
"Or, in your case, leaving only one life." I got off from her and headed towards the girls. I placed my hair stick back to where it was, until I heard an angry scream from behind me. I turned around and saw Toralei dash towards me with her claws out, only a foot away from my spot. Unable to respond fast enough, I shut my eyes and waited for the pain from her claw marks. That pain never came, so I opened my eyes to see someone got a hold on her wrist.
Akuma: Sorry for the cliff-hanger, but that's all for this chapter. Hope you'll wait for the next one. For the competitions and schools mentioned above are fictional, it does not relate to real life or in anime. Feel free to leave a review, and make this story your favorite, so you will get an update on the next chapter. Thanks and have a good day.