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Chapter 28: Junk Mail

Morgan was sitting in her living room sorting through mail, one pile was growing next to her gradually absorbing paper from the dining table in front of Morgan, but letters that did not go into the second pile were instead going directly into a lit fire place. Corvo watched this happen with a look of suspicion, especially since he knew that those were suppose to be college acceptance letters for Raven that Morgan was treating as kindling wood.

"What are you doing?" Corvo asked suspiciously.

"Sorting through garbage." Morgan stated as she found one that she disapproved of.

"Shouldn't Raven be the one to decide that?" Corvo asked crossing his arms.

"Why don't you see for yourself?" Morgan asked handing Corvo one of the letters in a accusatory tone of voice. "The site is over there on the mirror."

Corvo went over to the laptop mirror that Morgan had put on the table and started reading through the information.

"'How the hell did this crummy school get off of the ground?' 'What did I spend all that money for if none of the industries recognize this place's graduates.'" Corvo began to understand Morgan's selection process now.

"This is just the ones that survived the first stage of the selection process. Hel Help Raven if she decides to go to Wexler." Speaking of whom Morgan picked up the university in question from the pile and with a look of disgust threw it over to the fire.

"I thought you went to Wexler?" Corvo stated as he caught the letter before it flew over to the fire.

"Yes, so I speak from first hand experience!" Morgan snapped as she snatched the letter away from Corvo and tossed it into the fire pit again.

Morgan could not be called uneducated, nor for that matter under-qualified when it came to the fields that she worked. If she had to summarize her complaints with Wexler with one phrase, it would be that it was an environment like a living hell. Which still made it only the second worst school Morgan's ever gone to, for it at least teaches it's students valuable life skills.

"Yes yes I know I go to horrible schools." Morgan on the other hand sounded like she was tired of this conversation already. "Unless it has something useful to say then Peanut Galleries should remain quiet!"

"Honey you're talking to yourself again." Corvo stated reminding Morgan once again that not everyone could hear the 'Peanut Gallery' as she had so fondly dubbed it.

"Lucky them." On that note let us turn our gaze elsewhere...


...No not to Ever After High were conspiracies are being hatched to disturb the peace of the Konigan family, but rather to Monster High where another disturbance was slowly brewing. Preparations were going smoothly for the Samhein festival, so Raven moved on to other parts of the ceremonies. Aside from the need for temporary vessels there was also a need for permanent ones as well, immigrants who wished to move to this realm and who had a limited amount of opportunities to do so, suitable receptacles needed to be prepared ahead of time. Several of these individuals would be students at the school and good money was to be made in preparing bodies for them, with her independently wealthy Mother supporting her Raven had no real need for wealth, but she did have access to quality raw material that could be used in the fabrication process. Morgan kept several dragons and dragon subspecies as pets, the cells of their bodies were extremely high quality raw material for the manufacturing of bodies, most recent of her additions was also the most valuable. Brogan was a monstrously powerful dragon, as Raven understood it was Morgan's first dragon much like Nevermore and her, but he was killed back when she was in high school, and so it seemed that he had spent the past twenty years trying to get back to her, only to wind up in Ever After instead of Salem where Morgan actually lived. Because of this Brogan was now part demon and his flesh had a high compatibility rating with other demonic beings. That said it wasn't like Morgan was willing to part with the bits and pieces of her dragon with out payment, several of the demons would be wealthy clients who would compensate Morgan handsomely for her services, others interns in her various business holdings. Raven's current task was to take the applicants resumes and find out whom would be best suited to the task, take for instance the...

"Gods above and below why is this so hard!?" Raven slammed her head against the table having failed quite miserably to filter out from the mountain of applicants a single person that met the requirements set for her, mostly because she had this feeling of inadequacy in comparison to many of them.

Graduates of prestigious colleges and universities in the nine Hells, members of powerful and strong species, highly intelligent driven and focused came up a lot. It was hard for Raven to deny the position that they were looking for when she herself felt no right to judge them.

"This is Nepotism isn't it?" Raven saw in no way shape or form how being Morgan's daughter qualified her to work at any of her various holdings. Raven's issue here was that she cared too much, what she needed was someone cold blooded enough to be able to dash the hopes of someones future and deny them entry. "I feel bad for saying that." But at the same time Raven also had to be realistic, she could not offer all of them resources and positions that were ultimately not her's to give, and they needed to pursue fields in which they would be the most qualified. "Right then, so let's break it down to broad categories!"

Raven started by organizing the people coming in by which of the nine rings they were coming in from. Each of Hells rings should be treated as a penal colony, which one they are sent to reflects what 'crimes' that they committed. Each ring is designed to break down and re-shape the souls that enter it into a new form, so that once they are sent to the land of the living they can do so as a new person. When a soul is in the middle of this transitional phase then it is known as a demon:

Ring one was Limbo, the nicest of the rings here are where the ones who committed no sins other than not believing in the gods are sent to live out their after lives in peace: the most educated and civilized of the circles.

Second was Lust, where the Cubine, more accurate their male and female counterparts the Incubus and Succubus originated from, with the ability to enter the minds of a target they were quite good at psychology, plus they could fly which was useful at all sorts of things.

Thirdly was Gluttony, home of the Orcs, pig like monsters with high regeneration abilities, handy for working hazardous environments or at her Father's PMC.

Number four was Greed, wolf like demons who had multiple arms who oft acted like merchants, they would be the most likely to be able to say do the job that Raven was trying to do right now, they were also the ones who could most easily pay for the body's as well, this was also the realm where the Hell hounds came from.

"Hmm. Maybe I should put that one aside for now."

If a bunch of wealthy merchants want to cross realms to get here they can buy a body like a normal person, so for now Raven cut off a certain measure of wealth for the selection process.

Moving on Anger was home to aquatic types, they would be good for wet works jobs and areas that were in need of their specific ability to survive deep aquatic environments.

Heretics were where those who did not believe in the afterlife are laid to suffocate in underground tombs, again home of some of the most normal people by the standards of the rest of the realms, and adapted well to underground life so... construction and maitenance work for them.

Circle number seven was violence, which for some reason Raven's mother was having her avoid, well based on it's name it was likely designed as a prison by Hell's forces, a penal colonies for their penal colonies where the most unruly and dangerous are locked away.

"So no one from here, alright what's the last two." So that was two circles she could mostly write off right now, good to know.

Heresy was where the liars, deceivers, scientists and mages were all locked away: evidently trying to decipher the inner workings of the gods was frowned upon severely, letting a super intelligent lot like that rot was a crime of the highest regards so she would see how many of them she could bring over.

The ninth circle was the most troublesome though: Treachery, the land of traitors, the prevailing theme about them was that they were adapted to live in a massively cold environment, but that place was geared towards the use of betrayal and backstabbing to survive, not something Raven wanted to bring into the fold.

"So three realms written off." Raven noted as she successfully manage to cross off a third of the incoming candidates to the school.

Speaking of which there were the outgoing to be of concern about as well: Bellfry and Crescent Moon were only ever going to be temporary arrangements, and the time that those arrangements expired were rapidly approaching. But not all of the Belfry and Crescent students were leaving, nor were all of Monster High's students staying, in spite of the stunt pulled by Kieran they were... moderately successful in proving that their formula worked, that monsters of multiple species were able to get along with one another in close quarters. When some students ran wild others remained calmed, helped each other to avoid the violence, Ramona had been training several students in the art of fighting monsters and now as part of the exchange program Raven would be going over to her place to check in on them.


"Martial Arts are not purely about combat techniques." The red haired woman wearing yoga pants and giving off a aura of violence stated as she paced back and forth through the bamboo lined dojo. "Like magic it uses energy to produce an effect." It was a long time since Ruby was the long suffering teenager that cleaned up Morgan's messes. She had grown into a down right Amazonian woman in terms of stature with a clear preference to loose fitting clothing, her eyes also had the yellow of a werewolf in them, eliminating any doubt in those who met her what species she belong to and whose mother she was. "The key difference is that instead of relying on a outside force you instead make use of the energy your body naturally produces to produce a super natural phenomena." It was a lecture that Ruby used to start each of her lessons, originally this was a class meant to teach self defense to some of the weaker species of Monster. Since some time ago though Ramona had been dragging off members of the public safety commission over to her families Dojo to have her mother beat some proper fighting techniques into them. The Results? "Today we will be reviewing some of the basics in the interest of our associates from Bellfry and Crescent. You will be using 'point' in sparring practice against one another."

Point was a useful skill for teaching Martial Arts. It sent energy to pin ball around inside of the body of a enemy and wreak havoc and in order to expel it one needed to grab hold of it with one's own energy and punt it out of the body. Thus Ruby's more skilled students, A Minotaur, A arachne, A zombie Girl, Ramona and a harpy girl, stood face to face with a group consisting of Vampires and Werewolves. Chief among the wolves and bats as they had been nicknamed were Gory and Romulus, although they were intelligent enough to manipulate their respective schools and have them maintain a peaceful atmosphere as they transition from single species into multi species more direct means of controlling the school's more unruly elements were also necessary. As long as at least one of them could learn how to use point they could continue their studies in their respective schools, who knows without her influence they might even develop some unique techniques too.

"When you can start manipulating the flow of ki yourselves you can start learning to channel Ki into attacks." Ruby explained looking over to where a familiar young man with a cane was lounging about reading one of Morgan's spell books. "Kieran if you're not here to learn how to fight then you can leave."

"Learning magic is not too different from learning how to fight." Kieran stated reading his book.

"What are you reading anyway?" Gory promptly walked over to Kieran and plucked the book before skimming it's contents.

"Demon magic!? Are you trying to make more rubies you bloody junk-GAH!" Gory was interrupted by Kieran's cane in her gut pushing her backwards and deftly catching his book. "You... You can already use Point?"

"I know right? It seems that the fellow Mrs. Konigan sacrificed to make this thing was quite good with Martial Arts." Kieran stated tapping the head of his cane on the jewel in his forehead. Ruby narrowed a glare at Kieran, she didn't approve of anything in that sentence one bit so she figured she needed to check in on Morgan.

"I have business to attend to, bicker among yourselves for a while. And Ramona..." The wolf eared girl in question looked up at her mother's command. "Get him off my couch." Saying that Ruby picked up a wolf skinned cloak she had on a coat rack leading into the door and on her way out was met by Raven who was just entering the Dojo.

"Oh, Good night Mrs. Wolf." Raven stated as she entered the Dojo.

"Good Night Raven." Ruby stated as she put on her cloak and quickly assumed the form of a wolf with red colored fur.

"RAMONA WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"

Ruby made a point of ignoring Raven's screeching in her ear as she ran out of the Dojo. Ruby ran all the way to the tower where the Konigan family made it's home, arriving outside their home Ruby dropped the hood of her cloak and yanked on the chain of the front door ringing the bell.

"We hear yah we here yah!" A gargoyle that gave the impression of a long suffering bell hop stated as he looked down at Ruby. "What do yah want anyway!?"

"I'm here to see the mother of my god daughter." Ruby stated glaring at the talking statue with a look of being complete and utterly annoyed.

"My aren't we high and mighty tonight." The Gargoyle stated with a eye roll.

Annoyed Ruby went back down the trail again, before using her running start to get several feet into the air and use the chatting statue as a foot hold to jump up higher.

"HEY!"

Ruby was already climbing up the tower now. Though Morgan wasn't one for over the top decorations her tower had enough windows on it that she could get some decent footholds, in absence of one though she would make one using martial arts to enhance the piercing power of her boot knives and lodging them into the side of the tower when necessary. After several minuets of climbing Ruby successfully pulled herself onto Morgan's balcony and saw her and Corvo at the dining room table sorting mail.

"What about this one?" Corvo asked holding out a letter for Morgan to examine.

"Football coach was arrested last year for sexual harassment, released early for good behavior and got his old job back." Morgan stated before returning her attention to what she had already been reading.

"How exactly?" Corvo asked gawking in shock.

"The incident in question had him getting three members of the cheer squad to forcibly undress a female student and redress her in the squad's uniform, in front of her entire class." Morgan's tone of voice was more disapproving than amused.

"So how many does that make?" With a flick of his wrist Corvo chucked the letter into the fire place.

"A quarter of the way through." Morgan replied as she sorted the next batch of mail in the bag. "After that we can actively begin pursuing criminal records."

"What have we been doing!?" Corvo asked sounding like he had been wasting his time.

"Academic records, occasionally picking off bits I heard from the news." Morgan stated before she made a satisfied face and added the letter to the approved pile.

"What the heck have you two been up to!?" Ruby snapped sauntering over to the pair with the pile of mail in between them.

"Junk mail." Morgan replied looking at another letter, as her face suddenly screwed with blatant distaste.

"I was referring to the fact that you turned some random bloke..."

"It wasn't a Random Bloke it was Ace." Corvo stated prompting a look of surprise from Ruby. "It took him a while but he crawled his scrawny hide out of hell."

"And the most psychotically unstable student at Ever After High since Morgan coming out of the blue to kill Morgan was something you guys didn't feel the need to tell me because?" Ruby asked leveling a glare at Corvo and Morgan.

"Because if he did manage to get past us we needed someone in place to grab the kids and run." Corvo stated prompting a Eye Roll in the process.

"I fact I would've like to know about that in advance." Ruby stated with a sour look on her face. In the defense of Morgan and Corvo if Ruby had known that Ace was back then she would've come after him with as much righteous fury as Morgan had. But speaking of the Witch Queen... "Oi Morgan, it isn't like you to be so silent all of a sudden."

Ruby and Corvo looked over to what Morgan had in her hands and saw the university that had so much of a her attention: Olympus Heights.


Review Section:

rmarcano321: That's fair it's where I got the name from. I believe they are equally important, at the end of the day science and magic are tools used to implement the slightly more unbelievable phenomena that occurs in the story and keep your suspension of disbelief. Oh there are many things, like for instance how not having a physical body means that it's not technically possible to kill it, or the fact that it's literally made out of fear, but the clincher has to be that it can't actually hurt you on it's own, it has to get you to do that, it will make you do that.

ChimaTigon: Which is fair.

Zwei Eis: If you say so, she always seemed more Kleptomaniac then junkie.