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Chapter 68: The Chimera

"A abomination?" Raven repeated looking down suspiciously at the suitcase the Chimera was carrying. She already knew about the Shadmok, knew the role it was to play in demolishing the school and how it would do that, from that the contents of the suitcase was obvious. "That's a bit of a harsh thing to say isn't it? Without providing good reason that is."

"What more reason do I need to speak of? This place encourages something that never should have been."

"And what would that be? The 'something' escapes me." Raven stated as she intentionally avoided making eye contact with Clawdeen behind the Chimera as she took a guide post from outside the Headmistress's office for use as a bludgeon.

"Snik. Chimera of course." The man stated almost amused with his self depreciation. "This place encourages peaceful cooperation between the species, some of you even foolishly think we should be mixing our blood together."

"But you are a Chimera aren't you? Is this simply a act of self hatred in it's most violent form?" Raven was now actively wondering what was taking Clawdeen so long.

"You are familiar with Mulard's law yes?" The Chimera asked cocking a suspicious brow.

"'Unless proper and extensive documentation is completed a hybrid of two or more species of monster shall not be created sighting matters of the safety and security of the public and the health of the child.'" Raven stated familiar with the law. "'The creation of a hybrid for the use of a weapon shall not come to pass under any circumstances. If a couple taken from two separate species wishes to produce a child then they will subject the aforementioned offspring to extensive genetic alteration to ensure the subject's health, and keep them within the threat level of the lower leveled parent.'" Various different monsters are categorized according to threat level, so that if someone does decide to turn to the life of crime then the authorities know what level of fire power is appropriate to deal with them. Obviously taking two entirely separate high leveled creatures, combining all of their strengths while eliminating all of their weaknesses would create something considerably dangerous, doing this on the scale of a army would mean that the world could potentially be yours for the taking. Ignoring the matter of the potential for abuse the health of the child in question would be threatened from having different sized organs and other body parts randomly assembled together, that Shadmok being a prime example of such irresponsible parenting. "Have I gotten that right?"

"You have indeed, now only if every one was as familiar with the law." The Chimera stated letting out a self depreciating smile as he gestured to himself, proof that someone had created a considerably dangerous hybrid.

"Now I don't suppose that you mind just leaving here and getting some self help yes?" Raven stated performing the diplomatic equivalent of going for the jugular.

"You can try to convince me." The Chimera's tail pulled out from the hallway, dragging along with it a barely conscious werewolf sweating profusely. "But some how I don't think your friend here has the time."

"I see." Seeing Clawdeen's state, Raven's hair stated fluttering into the air as power started to vibrate off of her body and the color of her eyes turned red. "My apologies for trying to convince you to stop. I can see now that you came here with the intent to die in the process, it was considerably rude of me to try and stop you." Raven seemed to move so fast that she disappeared.

She grabbed hold of the Chimera by his head and slammed him into the ground so hard that the three of them all went into the floor below, in the school's in built hospital wing. Immediately Raven went to the nearby cabinet for a vile of foul looking liquid, a undead slime, the perfect neutralizing agent for all manner of poisons, one that once it's job was completed would then harmlessly dissolve into a person's blood stream. Thus Raven took the vial and injected it into the arm of Clawdeen, or rather tried very hard to.

"Now now. We can't have that." The Chimera recovered a lot quicker then Raven had planned for him to be able to and now the same blighted tail which had poisoned Clawdeen in the first place was wrapped around her arm. "After all I need a couple of moments if I am to get serious."

The familiar tearing of skin and muscle echoed out from the transformation process, similar to when Ramona goes full Gigan the Chimera grew to a length of about forty feet from butt to head, eighty feet easily if you factor in the snake for a tail. The lion front half of the body roared in unison with a dragon's and goat head while talon wings moved to begin climbing up the hole Raven had made earlier, still gripping Raven's arm in the vice grip of the snake tail.

"Grr." A pang of pain echoed through the Chimera's body from his tail, naturally he brought up his prisoner to investigate only to discover that said prisoner, along with the top five feet of the tail, had disappeared. Looking down the now three headed monster looked to see that Raven had completed her original objective of injecting Frankie with the undead slime. The dragon head wasn't amused by the development, and made his displeasure known by firing off a stream of fire directly into the hole that they just climbed out of, with Raven and Clawdeen narrowly avoiding being roasted by getting the heck out of dodge.

"You okay Clawdeen?" Raven asked though a single look told her that Clawdeen was a moment too slow.

"No." Clawdeen replied covered in burnt hair and her painter's scrubs reduced to ashen tatters. "Do me a favor and kill that guy would you?"

"Don't worry about that. He'll be back down here in a minuet, which means you should probably get lost." Raven explained watching the hole.

Re-entering the office the Chimera's snake tail had already regenerated but that was of no immediate concern to it. No what had his attention was the letter opener that had severed the cable leading into the combination phone and intercom on the Head Mistress's desk.

"Grr." It mattered little, the Shadmok's voice was only their most convenient weapon, if the school suddenly fell apart in it's current state people would just chalk it up to the ruined infrastructure as a consequence of the fight with the alien. Now it would seem that he would simply have to use his impressive brute strength to demolish the school all by his lonesome. Already the heads had divided tasks between them as they prepared to attack Raven again. The snake head used heat sensitive eyes to scan the floor below them and made out two heat signatures, one moving away and the other staying put for the time being. The Lion head took that and ran away with it, using lion claws to start tearing apart the floor and jumped down to face Raven.

"A word of advice." And landed in a large magic circle that had been drawn on the walls and floor by Raven. "Never give a witch time to set a trap." The floor and walls suddenly snapped shut on the Chimera forming a huge tangled ball of twisted rock and tangled metal which then fell to the floor below, the floor below that, and so on until hitting rock bottom in the dungeon. Like some kind of bizarre egg the ball burst open with a shatter and three of the four heads made their displeasure known.

"""RRRAAAOOORRR!""" The Dragon head loosed a huge jet stream of fire up into the air at Raven who did nothing to dodge the attack which harmlessly dissipated before it could reach her.

"You know those are known as mid range weapons for a reason." Raven reminded with a hint of mockery.

The four headed monster growled as he prepared to leap up to attack Raven directly, but was stopped by a sudden mass of stone that assembled itself right in front of him. Of course the dungeon's automatic self repair subroutines were still working, that part of the school was largely unscathed in the battle with the aliens. The Chimera on the other hand let out a scathing growl at the interruption.


Clawdeen had gotten down on all fours to run as fast as she could out of the school and arrived in time to witness the Shadmok and the Gil-man both being tied up by Cleo and Ramona working together.

"Clawdeen, what was that crash about a minuet ago?" Ramona asked looking at the other girl suspiciously.

"There's another one in the school, Raven's fighting it now." Clawdeen stated thumbing behind her. "He's in your weight class, and breaths fire."

"A dragon?" Ramona asked looking to be extremely confused.

"And a Lion, and a Snake, and a Goat." Clawdeen followed up. "What did Raven call him again? A chimera?"

"Oh crud." Ramona stated letting out a sigh. "What's the big deal? I've met Chimera before and they'll all dime a dozen weaklings made out of spare parts." Cleo stated before the ground started to shake again.

"Those must be some pretty swole spare parts." Ramona commented sarcastically while she face palmed herself. "You two grab everyone else and get the heck out of here, I'm going to see if I can help Raven out." The other two girls nodded to each other while the Public Safety Officer went back into the school.


The Chimera had shrunk back down down to his human form, stripped naked and left with nothing but hair that covered every thing from the waist down as he used a piece of rebar to check for traps, there were none though, this was a school after all, but after the stone egg he erred on the side of caution. More importantly his other hand was pressed against the wall as he looked for a way out of the dungeons, fortunately for him though this was just another layer of the school and thus was relatively easy to navigate. Unfortunately though there was only one entrance going into the dungeon from the school and right now it was being blocked.

"What's the matter?" Ramona had positioned herself on the stairs leading back to the ground floor. "You and your little demolition crew didn't have it in the budget for some custom transforming clothing?" Ramona asked whacking stick at the ready.

"I wasn't under the impression that I would need it." The Chimera admitted more of his self depreciating humor in his voice.

"We'll call that fatal mistake number one." Ramona stated as she turned around. "Come on, there's enough room in the entrance hall for us both to kill each other." Saying that Ramona walked up the stairs, using her stick to smack away the snake tail as it tried to sneak up on her and bite her not unlike what it did with Clawdeen.

The entrance hall for the school was made to accommodate all of Monster High's students, including those who were over fifty feet tall, true many of the hallways broke down into ones that were clearly meant for smaller students but the thought still counted. The entrance to the dungeon was in the approximate middle of the hallway, Ramona used her stick to direct the Chimera's attention to the entrance as she headed to the opposite side of the room her intentions clear. The Chimera was given the option to leave, he didn't take it.

"So you have chosen death then?" Ramona smirked in response. "Funny, I was thinking the same thing."

Both Ramona and the Chimera stated to run towards each other, the Chimera loosed a mass of flame from his mouth and Ramona responded by wrapping her stick in wind and chucking it at him like a spear, the wind spear bore it's way through the fire and over the Chimera's head, who by now was on all fours as he once again grew to being close to eighty feet long, seven limbs, and three more heads. Ramona's final form was far less impressive turning into her standard giant wolf form and pounced towards the Chimera with a leap through the air. The Chimera responded by spraying poison gas from the snakes tail filling up the area around him, intending to poison Ramona when she landed. Ramona responded with a blast of wind from her mouth blowing the fog away and knocking herself back just into lunging range. Ramona clamped down hard on the dragon head's neck, the Lion head responded by grabbing hold of her shoulder with his jaws and the snake head followed up by striking at her from above, grabbing hold of her around her waist, picking her up, and smashing her on the ground behind him. To the Chimera's surprise far from being down Ramona actually grabbed hold of the Chimera's tail with her jaws, used wind magic to suspend herself into a tornado and swinging the big stupid lug around several times and chucking him into the air ripping his tail off, again, in the process.

"Grr." It should be impossible, the Chimera injected Ramona with enough poison to drop a mammoth, let alone whatever brand of mutant werewolf she was.

"Surprised?" Ramona asked as she shrunk down to her mid sized form and retrieved her whacking stick. "My family has been cultivating immunity to poisons for three hundred years." Ramona took the stick and gave a few practice swings before pointing it accusingly at the Chimera. "Lemme guess, a lamia? Echidna? Or did whoever make you combine your DNA with something deadlier? Based on the way that you keep putting yourself back together, I'm gonna say Hydra."

Brains and Brawn. Oh this was going to be a long and brutal day for the Chimera. The Goat head, largely remaining inactive throughout the battle, suddenly has energy sparking between it's horns as it began casting magic freezing the entire room solid and covering Ramona in a layer of frost, spared such a fate himself by virtue of a draconically high natural body temperature.

"Grr." Ramona did not fail to see the Dragon head lining her up for a second shot, jaws already readying the flame to roast her.

Not wishing to end up like a frozen turkey that someone tried to idiotically roast in the oven without thawing it out first Ramona pooled as much strength as she could and loosed a quite literally howling gust of wind and pushing the flames just barely away from her body surrounding her in a wall of flames. The fire thawd out her body, her natural healing ability able to recover her strength as she brushed the flames by her like sweeping dust with a broom.

"Is that it?"

The Chimera looked to Ramona with a displeased look on it's faces. As long as this fellow was going to keep blasting ice magic then it was easier for Ramona to fend off with her mid-size form, where her high metabolism could keep her entire body warm. The issue here was that it also left her ill equipped to fend off the high fire power of the Chimera who was loosing repeated bombardment in Ramona's direction. Towards this end what Ramona had to do was force the battle into circumstances that she was comfortable with, chiefly by forcing the fight into somewhere that was way too small for a eighty foot long four headed seven limned monstrosity could not fit into. Gathering wind under her feet Ramona zoomed by the Chimera's goat legs and put the snake head into a choke hold.

"Let's you and me go for a spin shall we?" The Dragon head loosed another burst of fire, the heat was mixed with the cold and the mixing motion created wind. Ramona absorbed the wind into her own Tornado and started to rapidly spin around like a ball and chain toss. Ramona evidently was a pro at the sport, as the Chimera was expertly lodged into the hallway for mid sized students it's wings lodged in grooves it carved through the walls while the goat hooves were pinned down to the ground beneath it's body, the snake tail was the only one pointed at Ramona still snapping and biting at her. She gave it no quarter, charging at the Chimera with her whacking stick, knocking the snake head aside, before ramming the stick deep into the hole that was made so readily available.

""""HHHYYYAAAHHH!"""" Ramona cut the snake head off with a choke hold pinning it to the ground.

"I would advise against trying to turn back right now, if you shrink down in this state That stick will thoroughly violate your organs, and you will die with the other end sticking out through your mouth!" A fact that Ramona reinforced as she held in place both the stick and the Chimera by the base of it's tail, twisting the stick just in case the Chimera somehow forgot about it's presence.


Starlord Master: Good to know. Probably.