Clawdeen walked along the creaky lockers and chattering teenagers. Throughout the day, as she walked to her classes, she noticed that students were staring at her. They whispered to each other and some of them would laugh as she walked by, and she got the hint that they were talking about her. They seemed as though they knew some sort of secret about her. Clawdeen had experienced this a few times, and she knew what had happened. This usually meant one thing; the ghostly gossip had written a juicy story on her!

She whipped out her cell phone at lightning speed. She almost didn't want to check the gossip website. She was frightened to death about what was written about her. She rushed into the girls room, nearly tripping on the slippery tile floors, before she checked the school's infamous gossip blog. She was worried that she might cry once she found out what had been written about her, her peers looked like they knew something really embarrassing about her. What Spectra had written about her had made her bawl her eyes out in the past. Of course, Clawdeen made sure she always cried over the stories in private. She had a "tough, independent wolf" kind of reputation around school, she did not want to lose this reputation under any circumstances.

But wait, what could they possibly know about her? What piece of irresistible gossip could possibly be out about her at the moment? As she darted towards the ladies room, she wondered if this could be about Romulus. No way it was about her and Rom! She'd been keeping quiet about it! How could anybody have known about it anyway? She hadn't been blushing that hard when she was around him!

She went into a stall, and went on to the website. Sure enough, the front page of the website displayed the hurtful and mortifying headline: "Clawdeen Wolf has Monster Crush on Brother's Childhood Friend!"

Her eyes began to sting and they filled up with tears, making the environment around her blurry. She felt a lump form in her tightened throat, and her body tensed up in anger. She sat down on the toilet, and placed her head on her thighs, her tear-soaked jeans began to feel wet against her face.

"Oh my ghoul!" she quietly said to herself, burying her face in her claws. She sniveled and gasped as quietly as she could. Why would Spectra do this to her? And who told her? And how did that person know?

This was her worst nightmare. It was embarrassing enough liking Romulus in the first place, even if nobody knew about it. It made her cringe just thinking about it.

Clawdeen heard a groan and a knock on her stall door. Clawdeen simply ignored it, and attempted to weep a bit more quietly. The knocks persisted, and the familiar zombie's groan continued to ask her to open the stall door and talk. After some more knocks and requests for Clawdeen to open the door, Clawdeen finally pulled the lock to the side and her tearful, bloodshot eyes looked up at Ghoulia.

Ghoulia moaned in zombie talk, "Clawdeen, what's wrong?"

Clawdeen handed Ghoulia the cellphone with the Ghostly Gossip web page pulled up on it. Ghoulia saw the picture of a love struck Clawdeen, and the reputation damaging headline. Ghoulia gasped once she saw it, she wasn't too surprised though. Spectra had a tendency to be a little insensitive with her stories. Although Spectra was far from malicious, she did have a tendency to go a bit too far.

"Oh my ghoul Clawdeen! I can't believe she would write something so defaming about you! Sometimes Spectra goes too far!" Ghoulia said in zombie speak.

Clawdeen, who understood Ghoulia perfectly, nodded her head in agreement, and continued to sob.

Ghoulia placed a hand on her shoulder and moaned, "Well look on the bright side, if he has absolutely any taste, he'll like you back."

"No Ghoulia, you don't understand, he can't know! And I doubt he likes me back anyway..."

"Sure he would! But if you really don't want him knowing, then I have an idea."

"Tell me more," Clawdeen requested to Ghoulia. The plan had to be something good, Ghoulia was the smartest ghoul in school after all. She didn't carry that label for nothing.

Frankie, Cleo, Abbey, Anna, Lagoona and Draculaura were all seated at their lunch table.

"Where's Clawdeen and Ghoulia?" Frankie asked the group.

"Well, the Ghostly Gossip revealed Clawdeen's crush, so she's probably off hiding in embarrassment," Cleo answered, "And I don't know where Ghoulia is."

Anna and Draculaura stayed silent. The guilt had been haunting them all day. Their gossip was the reason Spectra even knew about this.

Cleo's cell phone let out a brief jingle. She got it out, and read the text she had just received. "Oh my rah!"

"What is it?" Frankie asked her.

"Ghoulia just said that her and Clawdeen are now trying to hack on to the ghostly gossip website! They're gonna take the story off, than put up a new one claiming to be Spectra. 'Spectra' will be apologizing for libel and slander!

"Must be very big of deal to werewolf girl!" Abbey exclaimed.

"Yeah, she's really upset about it," Cleo said, still staring intently at her gold, hd iCoffin.

"Hopefully this will teach Spectra a lesson, I've had it with her!" Frankie added in, "Jackson and I nearly broke up last week because of what she wrote about me!"

The guilty Anna had her hands buried into her face. Draculaura was quietly crying next to her. The ghouls figured that the two of them just felt sorry for poor Clawdeen in this situation.

Clawdeen was writing up Spectra's fake apology letter while Ghoulia was typing away on her laptop. Hacking the Ghostly Gossip blog was insanely challenging, even for a technology prodigy like Ghoulia. Spectra had the best hacker protections in the world set up on her website, they were the strongest and most complicated Ghoulia had ever seen! Still, Ghoulia liked a good challenge, and that's what she saw this as.

Clawdeen looked up from the fake letter she was writing. "Hey Ghoulia?"

"Uhhh?" the zombie replied.

"Do you think Rom knows about this by now?" Clawdeen asked. Clawdeen put all of her attention towards Ghoulia, and was all ears. Zombie language was tough to understand.

"He might have, hopefully he will see the public apology letter on the Ghostly Gossip."

"Yeah, hopefully," Clawdeen sighed. She continued to write the letter for a few more minutes, then she handed the fake apology letter to Ghoulia. Ghoulia took out a red pen, and proceeded to saturate the paper with red ink. Ghoulia then typed the letter out on her laptop.

"Have you taken the story off yet?" Clawdeen asked her. Ghoulia nodded her head, and Clawdeen saw her go on to the Ghostly Gossip homepage. The article was now gone, thank god! For the first time that day, Clawdeen smiled. Ghoulia then pulled up a ton of strange, complicated computer programs, and she copied and pasted the apology letter into one of them. Ghoulia then went on to the Ghostly Gossip webpage, and saw that the apology letter was up. She called Clawdeen over and showed her the apology letter on the website. The two of them exchanged a triumphant high-five and a hug.

"Thank you so, so much Ghoulia!" Clawdeen exclaimed, relieved. Just as the werewolf said that, Spectra came straight through the walls, looking utterly outraged. The computer-smart Spectra had tracked them down. She was one of the best computer geniuses in the school, (second to Ghoulia). Although she didn't seem like she would be a tech-genius, she definitely knew what she was doing, especially when dealing with things like hackers.

"What are you guys doing?" Spectra asked them furiously, her whispery, shrill voice piercing their ear drums. "How dare you interfere with my news!"

"You wrote a fake story about me, and I figured that you wouldn't take it down, so me and Ghoulia took care of it ourselves!" Clawdeen screamed.

"But it wasn't fake at all!" Spectra defended, "Anna Cook and Draculaura were talking about it!"

Clawdeen then snarled, and stormed out of the room. The strong werewolf broke the door once she slammed it shut. Draculaura had a part in this too, but all Clawdeen was focusing on was Anna. How dare she? Clawdeen hardly even knew her! What the fuck was her problem? Clawdeen was gonna put her in her place!

Meanwhile, Romulus was sitting on a bench in the hallway. He was determined to talk to Clawdeen. He took out his cellphone and checked the Ghostly Gossip website again. Oh, how he loved seeing that headline! His heart sunk when he saw the headline gone. His smile formed itself into a solemn frown once he saw the apology letter. Tears formed in his eyes once he realized that Clawdeen liking him wasn't true. He went into the men's restroom, heartbroken.

Clawdeen stormed towards the front of the school, she went to where Anna was always hanging out after school. Clawdeen hid in a bush, the dark green pointed leaves and the small stems attached to them lightly scratched her. The werewolf looked around with her keen eyes, and she spotted her prey. There Anna was, chatting away to Abbey Bominable and Lagoona. Clawdeen went in for the kill.

She snuck up behind Anna, and tapped her long talon on Anna's shoulder. A spooked Anna looked behind her, and saw a furious Clawdeen standing right behind her. Anna looked into Clawdeen's golden eyes and immediately knew what she was confronting her about.

"What?" Anna asked sheepishly. Anna was frightened, she'd heard Clawdeen was one strong ghoul, and she could beat up even the toughest of beasts. What was Clawdeen going to do with her?

Clawdeen folded her arms on her chest, and stuck a hip out to the side. "Oh, I think you know why I'm here." Clawdeen's eyebrows remained knitted together while she quietly growled at Anna.

"What's going on here!?" Lagoona interjected. Clawdeen And Anna ignored her inquiry.

Clawdeen's sharp claws grabbed on to Anna's slender forearm. Clawdeen forcibly pulled the weak normie over to a brick wall, grabbed her shoulders, and pinned Anna against the wall.

"Why were you talking about me having a crush on Romulus?" Clawdeen growled.

"Well...um...it's just...well...-"

"SPIT IT OUT!"

"You were blushing when you talked to him, thats all," Anna responded quickly and nervously, her voice small and quivering.

Other students gathered around them in a sloppy circle. Many began to chant, encouraging them to fight. Clawdeen dropped Anna to the ground, and gave her a chance to get up. Black liquid was all over Anna and Clawdeen's arms. Anna looked up and down her arm, and saw that the black liquid was coming out of where Clawdeen had scratched her. The chanting suddenly shut up and gasped in shock. Clawdeen didn't notice anything.

Clawdeen tapped her foot impatiently. "Get up!" she commanded.

"Clawdeen, wait!" Anna begged desperately as she tried to figure out what was happening to her.

"GET UP YOU WUSS!"

"Clawdeen, I have black blood pouring out of me!" Anna said hyperventilating, "Please, I'm begging you, just...can we not do this? I didn't now Spectra was listening and I'm so sorry!"

"Get. Up." Clawdeen hissed to Anna with her fists tightened and teeth clenched.

"Bitch..." Anna muttered.

The crowd went silent. Clawdeen looked at her in outrage. A few werewolves went up behind Clawdeen and snarled at Anna. Oh, Anna really did it this time.

The werewolves growled at the normie threateningly. Anna knew by their growls that calling Clawdeen a bitch was very serious.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no!" Anna shouted at herself in her head, panicked beyond words.

The werewolves lunged towards her, Anna was defenseless against them. She was no match to them, all Anna could do was scream.

A blood-curdling shriek came from Anna's mouth. The scream sent the werewolves and all the teenaged spectators down on the floor. Everybody writhed in pain as disturbing images filled their heads. The scream was subhuman. It wasn't a banshee's scream, it was far worse. The monsters on the ground covered their ears, and tried to get away from the mind-disturbing sound. They couldn't move, the scream was paralyzing them.

Anna finished screaming once she realized the werewolves were somehow down on the ground and unable to attack her. She looked around her and saw people lying on the ground. They all had distant looks in their eyes, many were curled up into a ball rocking back and forth. Some were clawing into the grass, some were just sitting there, staring at her with a blank expression. Their eyes were dead from behind. She heard them whispering to themselves an incomprehensible language, and all of them whispered with the same demonic voice. The voice that came from all of them sent chills down her spine. Anna snuck away in pure fear. She tried to walk away as quietly as she could.

Once Anna had gotten a reasonable distance away from everybody, she ran off. She needed to get out of here. Was this a dream? She pinched herself. Nope, definitely not a dream. She got into her car and sped off, she needed to go back home. Monster High wasn't the place for her, she couldn't be there anymore.