Here's the long awaited update to one of my first stories. I know this isn't exactly the most popular of my stories, but, that doesn't I shouldn't update it. Last off, Clawd and Nightmare Moon finally came to a truce and are no longer captor and prisoner.

The sun had long set back in town; monsters and humans alike were either in their homes or were making their way home as businesses were closing for the night. All businesses, save one, a night club by the name of 'Crimson Sin', its lights, while dim, were still on, when a sleek, expensive black car rolled up to a parking spot next to the building.

The driver of the car, a young human man in his early twenties, quickly exited the vehicle and opened one of the back doors, allowing a tall, hooded figure to step out. The figure briskly walked away from the club carpeted doors and down the alley to a side door, which he knocked hard on, eyes on the slider that was near his eye level.

After a moment, the sound of a slider opening was heard, but the one he was watching hadn't moved as a young male voice said timidly said, "Yes?" The man blinked in confusion, "Down here," He looked down to see a much lower slider, which was open, a single green eye peering up at him, "Can I help you?"

"Wailliam T. Bones of Bloodmoon Asylum," The figure replied, voice deep and smooth, "I believe you sent me a request to meet with a Miss Fallen here this evening."

"Oh, right!" Tremor said quickly unlocking and opening the door, "Right this way, Mr. Bones, Lucifeena's been waiting for in the booth near the back."

Mr. Bones removed his hood to reveal he was a tall, bald, slender skeleton with a sharp, angular face and shrunken eye sockets with glowing poisonous green orbs for eyes. He followed Tremor through the club and along the tables and booths to the far, red-velvet-lined booth that Lucifeena was sitting at. The blonde had more or less draped herself across the bench-like seat.

"Ah, Mr. Bones, welcome," Lucifeena said straightening up a little, "So glad you could come on such short notice."

"Just so you're aware, Lucifeena, if it weren't for the respect I hold for your father, I wouldn't have responded to your request at all," Mr. Bones stated matter of factly as he sat down, "Since it's not a very good idea for me to go gallivanting off in the middle of the night, besides, your friend here said you had something that would make it worth the trip."

"I'm aware," Lucifeena began curtly, before smirking, "And I can," She then snapped her fingers, "Tremor." The Cyclops immediately rushed for his schoolbag, which was sitting on one of the bar stools. He took out a medium-ish sized bag and handed it to Mr. Bones.

Mr. Bones opened it and gave a tiny smirk-like smile that could rival a shark as he took in the amount of pure gold coins inside. Taking one out, he gave the ghoul his full attention, "I'm listening…"

"Here's the thing, I have my heart set on this boil at school, the next Head Alpha of the Wolfman clan, Clawd," Lucifeena explained as Tremor brought them drinks, including one for himself.

"The heir of the Wolfman," Mr. Bones said with a raised eyebrow, "You certainly have taste, Lucy," He smirked a little at the annoyed look she shot him, "Even the wolves in the asylum have…interesting things to say about him, certainly a smart one."

"Don't call me that…" Lucifeena growled under breath, fully aware he could hear her, but shook her head as she straightened fully and continued to explaining, "I'm even thinking of making him my perma-mate," Now Mr. Bones looked mildly surprised, "However, Clawd hasn't been the most cooperative with my…affections…"

"More like he turned you down flatter than the bottom a minotaur's hooves," Tremor muttered to himself as he started to take a sip of his drink. Overhearing this, Lucifeena glared at him and clopped him upside the head, making him splash his drink in his face and swallow too fast.

As Tremor coughed a little and wiped his face, Lucifeena continued to explain to Mr. Bones, "Anyways, I believe that a little…well devised…persuasion is required, to get Clawd to see things my way."

"Careful there, Lucifeena," Mr. Bones advised cautiously, "That sort of attitude could cause you more problems than it can to solve them," Lucifeena just rolled her eyes at that, "Besides, what part do I have to play any of this."

"Look, everyone knows that his middle sister, Clawdeen, is slowly becoming more of a lunatic with each passing full moon," Lucifeena said adopting a serious tone of voice, "Just last night she burst into my party, ranting and raving about a dark alicorn, of all things, in a castle in the nearby woods!"

"Raving, you say? Alicorn?" Mr. Bones inquired curiously, "Interesting, but all the same; Clawdeen is harmless, apart from being a little over imaginative, which comes with her interests in being a fashion designer, she's perfectly sane."

"Her mental state isn't the issue here!" Lucifeena said getting fed up as she stood up, trying to get her point across, before stating, "Look," She then leaned, "Clawd just adores his sisters, to the point he'd be perfectly willing to do anything to protect any one of them!"

"Yeah, even dating, and marrying, her," Tremor added with a small hint of distain. Lucifeena threw him a dirty look, which had Tremor's eye widening in fright, before miming zipping his mouth shut with a nervous grin.

"Let me see if I'm following this correctly," Mr. Bones said as he rubbed his long, slender bony fingers against his forehead, face more or less blank, "You want me to lock up a perfectly sane, harmless werewolf girl in my asylum, unless her older brother agrees to be your boofriend and perma-mate?" As he was talking, Lucifeena nodded seriously as Tremor remained silent, watching him with a nervous gaze.

Lucifeena adopted a smile that would've made her father proud as she held out a slender hand to him, eyes glinting like sharp shards of glass as she asked, "Is it a deal?"

Mr. Bones didn't make a response for a good long moment as his fazed shifted back and forth between them and the bag of gold. Lucifeena took out a little box from her dress pocket and slid it down the table a little. Once sure she had his attention on it, she said, "I'll even throw this in once you have Clawdeen save in a padded cell…" She opened it to reveal an assortment of little, shiny jewels; rubies, sapphires, opals, emeralds; at least one of every precious gem was nestled inside, making both Tremor and Mr. Bones to go a little eye-wided.

After another, minute or so of silence and serious staring on Mr. Bones' part, the skeleton said in a simple, serious and matter-of-fact voice, face still blank, "Lucy, this is by far, the most despicable, rotten, dirty, malicious and the most under-handed plan I have ever heard of…" He then flashed them a wide, shark-like grin of greed as picked up the bag and said, "I love it!" He then shook hands with her, "Your father would be proud…"

Lucifeena grinned back in response, too satisfied with his agreement to care he had called her 'Lucy' again.

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Meanwhile, in the Wolfman residence, Clawdeen, Draculaura, Frankie, Gil and Cleo were rushing about the house packing what they deemed as necessities into whatever bags they had on them. For Gil, that meant extra food, warm blankets, lots of water bottles, an extra compass, download a map app and getting an actual, hand-held map. As for the ghouls, that meant as much clothes and accessories their bag could fit, though, Clawdeen was actually being realistic by grabbing extra of what Gil was grabbing.

The rest of the she-wolf's friends were loading all the stuff in Draculaura's car.

"Stubborn jerks," Jackson was mumbling as he and Frankie jumped up to sit on the hood of trunk, using their combined weight to force it to close, "You'd think with all the things they see on a daily basis, an alicorn in general wouldn't be that hard to believe."

"Can you really entirely blame them, Jackson?" Deuce questioned watching the figures of his ghoulfriend, friend and the other two ghouls rush about through the windows, "An alicorn hasn't been seen in the last four millennia."

"That long, huh?" Frankie mused idly. "Remind me," Abbey suddenly said, "What is alicorn again?"

"Basically its kinda a human with horse ears, insanely physically strong, like more so than any werewolf and vampire combined," Heath explained as he shoved a few bags into the space between the backseats, "But has a pair of feathery wings and a magical horn." Abbey crossed her eyes in a comical fashion as she tried to picture such a thing as the voices of the four MH students got louder.

"...and I don't care if we're trekking through the woods or a five-star hotel!" They picked up the end of Cleo's shout, "I'm taking them!" As she, her two ghoulfriends and Gil came out of the house.

"Okay, Howleen's staying over at Twyla's, dad took Clawson, Howlie and Dain hunting," Clawdeen said as she and the other three hurried over, trying not to stumble or lose anything, "And the rest of the boys are at Aunt Hellen's."

"Okay, everyone," Draculaura said as they all started to pile in, with her in the driver seat, "We got a werewolf to rescue!"

While they were all maneuvering and squishing around, Jackson could not help but quip, "Now there's something you don't hear everyday..." But once they were all fitted, Draculaura slammed her foot on the gas pedal and they sped down the road. It was mostly a silent trip until they reached a fork in the road with a path that disappeared down into the woods, which Clawdeen pointed to, "That way!"

Without hesitation, despite the road being considerably bumpy and closed in from the trees, Draculaura turned onto it and drove into the woods. The bumps made it a little hard for the little vampire to keep a study grip on the wheel and made the car weave side to side a little, often bumping into the nearest trees as a result, making the other monsters uncomfortable. They all held in their complaints save for the occasional yelp or whine, mostly from the ghouls, but they kept it down for the most part, reminding themselves that they were all doing it for the same cause, rescuing Clawd from Nightmare Moon.

But without warning, they hit a particularly nasty bump, making everyone in the car yell out as Draculaura tried to keep the car steady, but accidentally banged one side a little too hard into a thick tree. "That...did not sound good..." Abby commented as she and Heath peeked through the back window to look at the tree they had hit as they kept driving, eliciting a whine from Draculaura. "I'll pay to get the damages fixed, Draculaura, promise," Cleo offered without hesitation.

This made Draculaura send the mummy a strained smile through the rear-view mirror, eyes still a little red from the crying she had done after Clawdeen explained what Clawd had done to set her free, as she started to say, "Thanks, Cl-"

But Gil, who had been sitting up front with one of the maps in hand, looked up just in time to see a shadowy shape jump in front of the road, just barely outlined properly in the headlights. "Draculaura, LOOK OUT!" Gil yelled in horror making her snap her eyes back to the road in time to see it and shrieked, quickly jerking the wheel out of reflex, forgetting where she was, causing the car to go off the road into a narrowed path between the trees.

Everyone started screaming and yelling in panic, fearing and anticipating colliding into a tree as Draculaura desperately tried to avoid it. The vampire gasped as they started to approach one, a really big one and realized with dread she couldn't go around it and slammed her foot into the brakes as she turned the wheel. The car slid in response, trying to stop before it hit the tree, kicking up dirt as it skidded to one side, but the momentum sent it tumbling, causing everyone to scream as they clung to their seats before it finally stopped on one side, leaning up against the tree.

Everyone groaned in relief that it finally stopped, a little bruised from the seat-belts, but otherwise, miraculously fine.

After carefully maneuvering around, Deuce kicked the door open, making everyone cringe as it flew off its hinges at the force. Deuce helped Clawdeen climb out first and the she-wolf carefully scanned the surrounding woods for any sign of whatever jumped in front of the care or worse, demons as she asked shakily, "Everybloody alright?" Before swinging her legs around and sliding down the car to the ground.

"We're still animated and talking," Cleo replied as Deuce lifted her up next, followed by Lagoona. "You okay in there, Gil?" Lagoona called through the driver window. "I'm good," Gil replied as they all climbed out one by one.

Once everyone was safe, outside and checked by a fussie Clawdeen for any cuts, Draculaura looked ready to bawl again at the sight of her completely totaled car, whimpering, "My...car..."

"We'll all chip in to buy you a new one," Frankie tried to console her friend, "Right, guys?"

"Yeah," Heath said. "We'll even let you get a custom job," Jackson added.

Cleo let out a sound of disbelief mixed with a whine, "Don't tell me..."

"Yep," Abby replied, "We walk to castle." She and Gil pulled out everything necessary for the trip: that being mostly everything Gil had packed along with a few other bags.

"Argh!" Cleo growled reluctantly following them deeper into the woods, seeing she had few opinions otherwise, "Clawd had better be at least bruised up when we find him and very grateful for this, or so help me Ra..." Deuce merely wrapped an arm around her and pulled her close and she ceased her angry mutters.

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Not too long after they had left town, a sleek, blood red and black 1961 Jaguar E-Type pulled up to the Wolfman residence. Termor getting out of the passenger seat and running around to open the driver's door for Luficeena, who briskly walked up the little porch of the house. Without hesitation, she banged on the door, shouting, "Clawd! Clawdeen! Open up! Howleen!"

She paused to wait for an answer; an immediate opening of the door by one of the thirteen Wolfman siblings, a shouted response to know it would be opened in a moment, to hear feet moving around or someone calling for the three werewolves she had called for, but there was nothing. The fallen angel frowned at this before backing up and calling again, louder this time, "CLAWDEEN!"

Tremor looked at the door curiously before giving the knob an experimental twist and gave a little push and to his amazement, it opened. "Hey, Lucifeena, its open!" He told her.

Luficeena immediately pushed past him and threw the door open, stalking into the house as if she owned it, whilst calling out, "CLAWD! CLAWDEEN!"

"Everyone must've went on a trip or something," Tremor mused as he looked in a cabinet to find it empty, "There's usual one of the Wolfman siblings here," But he shrugged with a grin, "Well, looks like this plan isn't going to work after all, may as well-"

"Wait until they get back, wonderful idea," Lucifeena interrupted, grabbing the last set of keys that had been in a basket next to the door, "Which is exactly what you're going to do."

"Yeah, I'll-" Tremor started to agree as he went to follow her out the door, only for it to close on him, "Wait, what?" He heard the door lock and immediately panicked, "Lucifeena? Lucifeena! C'mon, this isn't funny, open the door!" He tried in vain to get the door open, "Lucifeena! Let me out!"

"Oh, relax, Tremor," Lucifeena smirked as she looked into the window where Tremor appeared in, "Someone has to return eventually and when they do..." She leaned in with a vicious smile, "We'll be ready for them!"

"But I can't stay in here!" Tremor protested, "I'll get out through a window or the chimney!"

"YOU WILL NOT LEAVE THIS HOUSE!" Lucifeena roared at him, "UNTIL CLAWD AND ONE OF HIS SISTERS COME HOME!"

"But I have to be at school!" Tremor protested weakly, clearly intimidated, "My parents will wonder where I am!"

"You clearly underestimate my charm, Trev," Lucifeena responded smoothly, "I can just tell your parents you're staying at my place for a project we need to work on together and I can just as easy tell the Headmistress you're sick and that I can bring your homework to you so she won't call your parents."

"B-B-But...!" Tremor said. "If I catch you in town or at school or get wind that you aren't in that house I promise you, Tremor Clops, I will get you kicked out of Monster High and make sure you will never get into another school ever again!" Lucifeena vowed/threatened seriously making him gulp nervously and nod.

Lucifeena instantly smiled, all traces of anger gone as she said, "Excellent, text me as soon as they're back!" That said, she more or less skipped back to her car and drove off.

Tremor watched her go sadly and waited until her car vanished from his view entirely before he started to kick a book shelve out of frustration as he shouted, "Drat! Drat! Drat! DRAT!" But then, without warning, the shelve jerked hard enough to send several books from the higher shelf to fall off and right onto Tremor's head, who ended up tumbling onto his rear as a result.

Rubbing his now sore head, all Tremor could do was mutter, "Ow..."

And THAT took forever, wow! I hope you guys like this chapter, it was a hoot to write! I guess it was about time before I put more of a focus back on the Monster High part of this story. Sorry if this seems a little short, I'm just trying to work around with the new material with the new Beauty and the Beast movie.

How do you guys like Clawdeen having back up when she went back to go save Clawd? I think someone should have at least given Maurice a benefit of a doubt or at least followed to make sure he didn't get himself hurt or worse. Let me know what you guys think.

As for why I didn't use the 'Maison de Loon' song from the broadway show despite using them thus far is actually varied. The new movie actually has me a bit thrown for a loop as to how to proceed with the rest of this and to be perfectly honest, I never really liked the song. I just think it took away from the general creepiness that is the asylum owner (I forget the character's actual name) and the overall seriousness of the scene and gave the overall story a little too much humor, I mean, its a good song, I just don't think it would have generally worked for me. So let me think of what you think of that scene as well.

As for what's up next, well, the truce is still holding strong and Nightmare Moon wants to gift Clawd for helping her in her hour of need when he clearly didn't have to. Not sure I can guarantee it will follow that original movie, the new one or the show since I want to give it twists with the two shows gone into it. So leave me your reviews and let me know what you'd think she'd give him (apart from the library and doesn't send your thoughts into the gutter).

Well, anyways, just leave your reviews and I'll see you guys in the next chapter!

Till then everyone!