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Yu-gi-oh! 5Ds after hours
Chapter eleven: Yusei and friends do New Salem
Yusei Fudo was sitting at the dining room table in the Atlas Penthouse one morning in New Domino City, a suburb located in San Francisco, California. As Yusei read the paper, he was joined by his roommates and friends, Jack Atlas, Crow Hogan and Kalin Kessler, plus Kalin's talking dog best friend Dukey. "So Yusei," Kalin began, "How was the honeymoon?"
"And don't skip any details," Dukey added, "We want to hear the whole story."
"During breakfast on the first morning of me and Akiza's honeymoon," Yusei began, "We were at the hotel's dining area where a really fat lady released a huge fart that smelled so horrific, it knocked Akiza out up until the night we had to leave to come back here," Yusei explained as he sat his newspaper down. Picking up his mug of coffee, Yusei took a sip from it before he said, "So yeah. Pretty much nothing happened."
"Well that stinks," Crow remarked, "Both figuratively and literally."
It was true; Yusei had recently married his longtime girlfriend Akiza Izinski, who is now known as Akiza Fudo because of course she is. "Although me marrying Akiza does have me worried," Yusei remarked.
"What do you mean, dude?" Crow asked.
"I have to make sure I keep a roof over her head," Yusei explained, "Not to mention the fact that she has a kid on the way. My kid. I need to find a more stable source of income to make sure Akiza and our future child won't be left out in the cold, you know what I'm saying?"
"Yeah, we do need to find some bloody employment," Jack agreed with a nod.
"I hope we find some work and fast due to Oh my fucking god I can't believe that happened!" Yusei said, changing his line of dialogue midsentence as he read something in the newspaper.
"What did you just see in the paper, Yusei?" Dukey asked before taking a sip from his coffee mug.
"There's been a massive number of killings over in New Salem," Yusei explained. Hearing this made Dukey spit out the coffee he had in in mouth at the time out of surprise.
"Hey wait a minute," Jack began in a mildly confused tone, "Isn't New Salem the city populated by monsters?"
Nodding a few times in the affirmative, Yusei said, "Apparently, the entirety of New Salem's zombie population has been killed."
"Jolly good show to that, I say," Crow remarked as he held his coffee mug up in a toast.
"Well whereas paranoid nuts like you think this is a good thing," Yusei remarked to Crow, "The locals are mourning the deaths of friends and colleagues. Hell, one New Salem woman is mourning the death of her family!" The guys all got up to walk around to where Yusei was sitting at the table as he pointed to something in his newspaper.
"It says here that, in an interview," Yusei began, "That a local woman cried as she explained that her husband and her teenage son were both killed. After talking, the woman reportedly turned into a unicorn and galloped away. She has not been seen since."
"Holy shit!" Crow exclaimed, "That woman was an Animorph?!" (1)
"The article further goes on to say that Monster High, the local high school in New Salem, lost a small but noticeable percentage of its population, students and faculty alike, due to the slaying of New Salem's entire zombie population," Yusei continued as he read the article aloud, "Memorial services have already been held for the slain, and now Monster High is in the process of starting its recovery." Taking a look at the end of the article, Yusei said, "Huh. Apparently, Monster High is not only looking to hire some new staff, but due to time constraints they'd be willing to hire humans if they can't find enough monsters to fill the roles."
"Maybe I can help with this," Dukey offered, "I mean, I am a genetically enhanced dog who can walk and talk like a human. I might be able to work things out at this Monster High place."
"Plus, there's a good chance some of the students may still be upset with what happened," Kalin added, "I could be, like, a grief counselor, and Dukey can be my assistant. Animals have been used to help those going through the grieving process."
"I can see how that can work," Yusei remarked. Folding up his newspaper, Yusei said, "Alright, boys. The five of us are going to teach at a high school for monsters!"
"Yokai Academy?" Crow asked, a mildly confused look on his face. The broom-headed turbo duelist's question drew a punch to the back of his head from Jack.
Later, Yusei and the rest of his group hopped out of Yusei's Volkswagen van, which was parked in the front parking lot. "Hey Yusei, I have a quick question," Jack began, "What's the average monster's opinion of humans?"
"I don't know, why?" Yusei replied.
"What if the human-monster relationship is rather poor, and most of Monster High's population treats us like shit because of it?" Jack continued.
"That's an excellent point, Jack," Yusei remarked as the group entered the school. As they walked down the hall, Yusei said, "Hopefully, everyone will respect us enough to at least let us do our jobs. Keep in mind that we don't necessarily have to become friends with everyone here in order to get a few classrooms worth of high schoolers ready to take their next big test or whatever else they have going on."
As the guys walked, they bumped into one of the students at Monster High. The student was a girl with pale pink skin, long black hair with pink streaks in it that were up in girlish pigtails, and there was a heart-shaped mark under her left eye. As for her outfit, she wore a dark pink girl's sleeveless tank-top over a long-sleeved black blouse, a black pleated skirt that seemed to have a resemblance to bag wings for some odd reason, and dark pink sports sneakers with black soles and bright blue shoelaces. (2)
When the girl turned around, the five guys instantly noticed that she must have been crying about something earlier, as dried lines of tears ran down the sides of her face from the corner of her eyes. Seeing Yusei and the others, the girl jumped back a bit out of mild fright. "Who are you and what are you doing here?" the girl asked.
"My friends and I are looking into applying for the available positions on the school staff here, and we need to speak to the principal or whoever else would be in charge of stuff like that," Yusei explained, "I don't suppose you can give my friends and I directions?"
After sniffling a few times, the girl replied, "Sure. I can take you to miss Bloodgood's office."
"Are you okay?" Kalin asked, "You seem to be upset."
"You want I should get you a box of tissues?" Dukey offered.
After a few more sniffles, the girl asked, "Where did you guys get a talking dog from? Some lab experiment or something?"
"I was given the ability to walk and talk like you and my friends here," Dukey replied, "But that happened long before I met Kalin and his roommates. But this is getting off subject. Why are you so upset?"
"I…I think I should just take you to see miss Bloodgood now," the girl replied. Turning around, the girl gestured for the guys to follow her. Giving each other concerned look, Yusei and the others nonetheless proceeded to follow the girl. As the guys followed the girl to see this Bloodgood person, Kalin felt that his idea of being a grief counselor was starting to look more and more like a good idea.
Walking into an office, Yusei, Jack, Crow, Kalin and Dukey were surprised to see that the head of the school was a woman whose head was currently sitting on the desk. "Oh, I didn't know we'd be having visitors," the woman remarked. The headless body sitting in the chair suddenly snatched the head and placed in on. "There we are," the woman remarked before getting up and walking over to greet the guys.
The woman wore a rich purple frock coat, a white frilled shirt, a fancy red tie of some kind, black pants and black boots. The woman had fair skin, and black hair pulled back into a tight bun. "Sorry if I gave any of you fine gentlemen a fright," the woman remarked, "I wasn't expecting any visitors."
"These guys are looking into applying for the open positions here, Headmistress Bloodgood," the girl who brought Yusei and the guys to the office said.
"So, you're the head nacho of the school here?" Crow asked, pointing to the woman, "How'd you learn that head removal trick of yours?"
"It's head honcho, Birdbrain," Jack corrected as he facepalmed, "Not head nacho."
"I'm a headless horseman, sir," the woman explained to Crow, "It's just something that we do." Holding her hand out, the woman said, "My name is Nora Bloodgood, and I am indeed the headmistress of Monster High."
"Well it's great to meet you, miss Bloodgood," Dukey replied as he was the first to accept her handshake.
"Ooh, a talking dog," Nora remarked, "Haven't seen one of those in a while. The closest I get to that nowadays are werewolves."
"Ma'am, what sort of positions are you looking to fill here?" Yusei asked.
"Well we need a teacher for one of the Mad Science classes," Nora began, "We also need someone to cover one of the auto shop classes, we need a new Physical Deaducation tea-"
"Education," Jack interrupted, "It's pronounced 'education'." (3)
"…The four of you are humans, aren't you?" Nora replied as she pointed to Yusei, Jack, Crow and Kalin.
"Yes, my friends and I, aside from Dukey, are humans," Yusei answered, "We saw that the school was willing to hire humans, so we were hoping for a shot."
"Well I can't turn away the only people who've bothered to apply," Nora remarked, "So yeah, like I was saying, the previous teacher I had for Physical Deaducation had to quit for family reasons, so I need someone to fill the role. Finally, I don't suppose any of you all can act as a grief counselor?"
"I was actually going to ask about that, ma'am," Kalin replied as he raised a hand, "I can fulfill that role, if necessary." Pointing to Dukey, Kalin continued, "Dukey here is my assistant, as I figured having an animal the students could pet would help them open up about how they feel."
"Would you be willing to also cover being a regular counselor?" Nora asked, and after receiving a nod in the affirmative from Kalin, Nora clapped her hands and said, "Good! I've been needing to fill that post most of all, given how many students here at Monster High are still shaken up about what happened to some of their friends." Gesturing to the girl that brought the guys to Nora's office, Nora continued, "Draculaura is one of the many students here who's still upset about what happened to some of their classmates and teachers."
"Yeah, I've been meaning to ask that girl for her name at some point," Yusei remarked. Turning around to face the girl, Yusei said, "So it's Draculaura?"
Nodding a few times in the affirmative before speaking, Draculaura said, "A lot of us students here at Monster High are still upset that we lost some of our classmates." Sighing in a somber tone, Draculaura continued, "In fact, my friends and I lost our friend Ghoulia due to what had happened." Sniffling, Draculaura said, "Who could do something like this? Why would someone do what happened to New Salem's entire zombie population?"
Seeing that Draculaura's tears were starting to flow again, Kalin said, "Well I see that Dukey and I have our work cut out for us."
"We do indeed, Kalin," Dukey remarked as he nodded in an agreeing manner, "We do indeed."
…
A few minutes later, Yusei and the others were walking through one of the halls of Monster High. Jack was going over a list that he was provided by Nora. "Uggh, listen to this," Jack said to his friends, "Ghoulish Literature, Biteology, Home Ick?!" Handing the list over to Yusei, Jack said, "Shit. This school is going to be flowing to the brim with puns, isn't it?" (4)
"Try not to let it get to you, Jack," Yusei replied, "The five of us came here for work, which we were all lucky enough to get. Try not to piss off anyone enough to get yourself into any trouble, alright?"
"The puns are going to be a pain in my fucking ass to deal with," Jack complained.
"Ah come on, Jack," Crow said, "It can't be too bad. I mean, we get to interact with actual real-life monsters. How cool is that?"
"You're an actual real-life monster, Birdbrain," Jack retorted, prompting Crow to flip him the middle finger in response.
Later, Yusei went into one of the classrooms to teach the Mad Science class that was in need of being covered. When he entered the classroom, Yusei was surprised to see Draculaura standing at one of the tables next to another girl. This girl had long curly brown hair, caramel colored fur (surprisingly enough), and she wore a pink tank-top under a sleeveless black jacket. As the table that she was standing at with Draculaura was tall enough, Yusei couldn't see the rest of the girl's outfit, but he was pretty sure that it was considered stylish by teenage girl standards. (5)
"Oh, you're that Draculaura girl who helped my friends and I earlier find the boss's office," Yusei said to Draculaura, "Thanks again for the assist."
"Hey, you know the new teacher?" the girl next to Draculaura said when she turned to face Draculaura, who seemed to be her friend.
Turning to face the girl, Draculaura nodded once in the affirmative before saying, "Yeah Clawdeen. This human along with three others, plus a talking dog, are new teachers here."
"Humans?!" the girl, apparently named Clawdeen, nearly exclaimed as she took a half-step back out of shock.
Sighing, Yusei muttered to himself, "I might as well get this out of the way." Walking to the front of the classroom where the chalkboard was located, Yusei took a stick of chalk and wrote his name on the board. Turning around to face the class, Yusei said, "Attention, students! My name is Mr. Fudo. My four friends and I have recently joined the Monster High faculty as teachers, so you all will be seeing us around the school. Before I begin today's lesson, there are a few things that I feel need to be made clear."
Clearing his throat before he began, Yusei continued, "Yes, three of my friends and I are humans, with the other member of our group being a talking dog. No, we don't care how other humans view monsters, nor do we care how monsters as a whole view humans. All my friends and I want to do here at the school is to do our jobs. So, if you all would at the very least respect us enough to let us do that, that would be fantastic. Are we good? Is there anything else that I should be made aware of?"
Yusei noticed that one of the girls in the class raised her hand. This girl had long white hair that had black streaks in it, very pale greenish skin, and stitches over her neck and arms, along with two bolts sticking out of her neck, one on each side. The girl also wore a blue sleeveless tank-top over a casual white t-shirt. As she was standing behind a lab table, Yusei couldn't see the rest of her outfit, but it must have been undoubtedly very stylish.
Pointing to this girl who had her hand up, Yusei called on her. "Yes, miss…" Yusei replied, trailing off as he didn't have the girl's name.
"Frankie," the girl replied, "Anywho Mr. Fudo, today was actually supposed to be a free period."
Looking over a clipboard he had really quick, Yusei said, "It says here that you kids are supposed to be dissecting frogs."
"No, that's old info," the girl named Frankie explained, "You see, we don't have frogs to dissect, so until a new order is placed, we have free period."
"But I was told that there were enough frogs to cover all of the Mad Science classes today," Yusei replied, "What happened?"
"Me, Frankie and Clawdeen's friend Lagoona took all of the frogs we got for dissection and threw them into the school's main furnace down in the basement," Draculaura explained, "She said that she couldn't stand to see aquatic creatures like frogs being disrespected in such a manner, so she decided to give them a proper send off by cremating them."
"So that explains that horrific smell from yesterday," Clawdeen remarked, "My brother and some of his friends thought that someone was burning tires or something like that." Yusei could only sigh as he facepalmed.
"This is going to be a long day, I just know it," Yusei thought as he proceeded to sit down at the teacher's desk.
Over in the gymnasium, Jack was standing in front of a group of male students, all of which were wearing what looked like the school's standard basketball uniform. "Okay, kids," Jack said as he looked at his clipboard, "Today we're going to be playing…casketball?" Lowering the clipboard to his side, Jack said, "No. It's called basketball. Not casketball, basketball. Do I bloody well make myself clear on this?!"
"Hey teach, I have a question," said one of the boys; this boy had pale yellowish skin and hair that looked like a flame.
"Yes, mister…" Jack said as he pointed to the student, "…Umm, what's your name again?"
"Heath Burns," the student replied.
"Okay, mister Heath Burns," Jack replied, "What's your question?"
"You stink!" Heath said before pointing and laughing at Jack, getting a few of the other boys to laugh as well.
Facepalming, Jack thought, "I think that I may have just found Birdbrain's illegitimate son." (6) Shaking all thoughts about his insane roommate out of his head, Jack said, "Look, kids. We're going to be playing basketball. And if any of you are worried about how to play it, it's rather simple. It's just like your silly little casketball, except there's no fucking puns involved. Sound good to you?"
"Excuse me, sir," said one of the other boys, "But can I ask something first?" This student had a piercing in his left ear (which looked canine rather than human), he had long sideburns, and caramel colored fur.
"Well seeing as how you don't seem to be an idiotic jokester like your fire-headed friend here, I suppose I'll give you a shot, mister…" Jack said, trailing of as he expected to be filled in.
"My name's Clawd," the boy replied, "Anywho, the boys on the team and I would like to observe a moment of silence. Some of the zombies who were killed in recent events were our friends, and one was even on the team with us."
"Oh," Jack replied in a tone that showed that he was surprised to find himself touched, "By all means, boys."
Nodding in acknowledgement, Clawd held the index and middle fingers of his right hand together, kissed the fingerprints, then held the right hand up in a salute. The other boys on the team did the same.
"…This is going to be a VERY long day," Jack thought, realizing it to his dismay.
Kalin and Dukey were sitting in a counselor's office, with Kalin fulfilling his role as a grief counselor and Dukey fulfilling his role as Kalin's assistant. At the moment, Kalin and Dukey were currently talking to one of the girl students at the school. The girl had long dark brown hair that had gold streaks in it and tan skin that showed an interest in tanning. The girl wore a teal tank-top, a pair of dark teal pants that end just a little bit past her knees, blue sandals, and, to Kalin's mild interest, burial wrappings around both her arms, albeit from writs to elbow.
The girl also wore a lot of accessories; earrings with triangle-shaped charms, an elaborate necklace, a bangle that resembled a coiled snake, and a ring with a scarab-shaped charm on it. All of these accessories were gold-colored; Kalin suspected that all of them were actually made out of real gold. But that's beside the point; the girl was currently crying her eyes out.
"There, there," Dukey said as he gently patted the girl's right shoulder. Picking up a cube-shaped box of tissues, Dukey handed it to the girl while saying, "Kalin and I are here for you and the other students to let out how the recent events have left you all feeling, no there's no shame in letting it out, miss…Umm, what did you say your name was again?"
Sniffling a bit, the girl took a tissue from the box Dukey was holding. Before blowing her nose on the tissue she took, the girl replied, "Cleo." After blowing her nose, the girl continued, "Cleo de Nile. Of the de Nile family. Don't go forgetting that, peasant."
"Great, she's one of those spoiled brat types from a rich family," Dukey whispered to Kalin, "Just what we really need right n-"
"I'm sorry about that," Cleo said when she interrupted Dukey's whispering without even having heard what the talking dog had said, "I mean, I've been trying to shake off behavior like that for a while, but given what happened to Ghoulia, I can't-" Cleo couldn't continue as her crying restarted and redoubled. "Why?!" Cleo exclaimed as she cried, "Why did this have to happen?! She was just too good of a person! Why is it always the good ones?!"
"She's not truly gone, if you think about it," Kalin said. Cleo looked over to Kalin and regarded him with a confused look as tears ran freely down the side of her face.
"He's right, you know," Dukey added, "You still remember your friend. You still hold the fond memories you have of her deep in your heart. So long as you keep that up, your friend will live on in spirit."
Sniffling, Cleo replied, "You really think so, sirs?"
Nodding in the affirmative, Kalin replied, "We know so, young lady."
Taking another tissue from the box Dukey was holding, Cleo blew her nose on it before tossing it into the waste basket. "You know, of all of the counselors I've been to, you and your talking dog partner are the best that I've met," Cleo said to Kalin, "Coincidentally, you're the first one that's a human. Are humans better at being counselors than monsters or something?"
"I…guess so?" Kalin replied in a confused tone.
Standing up, Cleo said, "Thanks, Mr. Kessler and Mr. Kessler's talking dog. You guys must really know what you're doing, because I feel a little better. Sorry again about calling the two of you peasants earlier."
Cleo then walked out of the office, and walking in after her was a somewhat shorter girl with pinkish-purplish skin, pointy ears, and pink hair with blue highlights. She wore a black shirt that had sleeves that resembled blue and pink pixels, a pinkish skirt with blue ruffles under it, bluish socks that almost reached her knees, light purplish shoes, corrective glasses, and a knitted cap that, for some reason, resembled a horned Viking helmet. The first thing Kalin and Dukey noticed about this girl was that she was engrossed in a handheld video game system that she was currently playing.
"And you are…" Kalin said as he expected to be filled in. After a few seconds of getting no answer from the girl, Kalin clapped a few times, getting the girl to look up from her video game. She flipped her system closed, then plopped down into the armchair that Cleo was previously sitting in.
"Can Dukey and I get your name, young lady?" Kalin asked.
"Oh, sorry," the girl replied in what sounded like a Norwegian accent, "The name's Kjersti Trollson. The teachers here think I need to see you for something for some reason." Giving Kalin a mildly confused look, Kjersti continued, "You really are a human, aren't you? I thought that was just a rumor that Heath was spreading."
"Yes, Kalin and his roommates really are humans," Dukey stated.
"Your teachers feel as if you have something that you'd want to get off of your chest," Kalin explained, "Particularly about something that happened recently."
"Yeah, there is something, now that you mention it," Kjersti replied. Taking a deep breath, Kjersti said in a tone of complaint, "I couldn't go to the big video game convention!"
Both Kalin and Dukey exchanged confused looks with each other before they turned back to face Kjersti. "Umm…is there a reason why you couldn't go to this convention?" Kalin asked.
"I had an asthma attack the night before I was set to go, alright?" Kjersti replied in an annoyed tone. Flumping back against the back of the armchair she was sitting in, Kjersti said, "I mean, it's bad enough that my stupid asthma not only made me miss the biggest video gaming event of the year, but I had to spend a few days recovering in the hospital. To make things even more stupid, today's my first day back at school, and when I walk in, everyone I run into is upset!" Standing up, Kjersti said to Kalin and Dukey, "Thank you for your time, but the best way for me to feel better is if I go pwn some noobs." Opening her handheld video game system, Kjersti said as she played more of her game, "Later."
After Kjersti was gone, Dukey turned to face Kalin. "Wasn't that girl supposed to be one of Ghoulia's closest friends?" Dukey asked, "She wasn't acting like a close friend of hers was killed. Does she not know what happened?"
"That seems to be the case," Kalin replied, nodding in agreement with his talking dog best friend.
Later, Yusei, Jack, Kalin and Dukey were walking somewhere on the school grounds. "So apparently, one of the girls in my class isn't fond of the idea of dissecting frogs," Yusei remarked to his friends, "From what I've gathered, it's due to protectiveness for aquatic and semi-aquatic creatures more than anything else."
"Then get the school to order some dead rats for dissecting," Jack replied in a mildly annoyed tone, "Can't be any more of a bloody pain in the ass than hearing pun after pun!"
"I'm pretty sure that if there was a pain in the ass that was bloody, that it would require examination by a health care professional," Kalin remarked.
"Okay, you see, that was actually pretty funny," Jack said to Yusei while jerking a thumb at Kalin, "All of the puns I've been hearing, not funny."
"Well try to hold out," Yusei replied, "We've all been doing good so far, and I don't see any reason for any of that to-" Yusei was cut off when a student came walking over to him, Jack, Kalin and Dukey. The girl had pale blue skin (that, upon closer inspection, was seemingly composed of fish scales) and long blonde hair that had streaks of blue in it. She wore a hooded sleeveless jacket that exposes the midriff over a light blue and white-striped tank-top, a pair of khaki shorts that were blue, and aqua-colored boots that had pink laces. For some reason, this girl also had fins coming off of the backs of her shins and forearms.
"Excuse me, mates," the girl said to Yusei and the others in something of an Australian accent, "But I don't suppose you all could help me really quick? One of the new teachers is doing something that my friends and I don't quite understand."
Sighing in a tone that showed that he was expecting Crow to do something to mess up at some point, Jack replied, "My friends and I would be glad to help you, miss…"
"The name's Lagoona, sirs," the girl replied with a playful salute, "Lagoona Blue."
"Are you the same Lagoona responsible for throwing all of the frogs for dissection into the school furnace?" Yusei asked when he pointed to the girl.
"Frogs deserve better than to be dissected, mate!" Lagoona replied, "I had to give them a proper send-off!" Her tone taking on a somewhat firmer resolve, Lagoona continued as she shook a fist, "And if I see any fish being lined up for that fate, I swear I'll-"
"Didn't you say one of the new teachers was doing something you didn't quite understand?" Kalin asked, hoping to get everything back on track.
"…Oh, oh yeah," Lagoona replied. Jerking a thumb over her back, Lagoona said, "The new auto shop teacher, Chief Crowfeathers, gathered all of the students in class outside of the auto shop for something."
"Chief Crowfeathers?" Yusei said as he facepalmed.
"I was beginning to wonder when Birdbrain was going to do something offensive this week," Jack said to the guys as Lagoona led them to the outside of the auto shop. When they got there, they ran into Draculaura, Frankie, Clawdeen and Cleo, who were standing together among the crowd of students waiting for something.
"What's going on here, girls?" Lagoona said to the girls.
"Chief Crowfeathers said he had to go inside to get a radio with a built-in CD player," Frankie explained to Lagoona and the guys, "I'm not sure what he needs it for, though."
"Something offensive, that's for sure," Yusei said, "Girls, I don't suppose one of you can do me and my friends a favor and go get-"
Yusei was cut off when Crow's voice called out, "Okay, students, I'm ready to perform the dance of my people now!" Not waiting for a second, Yusei and the other guys pushed their way through the crowd and saw Crow.
When they did they were half surprised half unsurprised; Crow was wearing a pair of Native American men's pants (with fringes on the outer sides of the legs) and an elaborate feathered war bonnet that had a long trail of feathers running down from the main body of the bonnet. The feathers were mostly white, save for the ends which were red. Crow also had lines of white paint under his eyes.
"What the fuck is he doing?!" Jack hissed to Yusei, Kalin and Dukey.
They all saw Crow walk over to where he sat the radio down, he bent down to press a button, and traditional music started to play as Crow hopped around on one foot while saying, "Hey-o, hey-o, hey-o, hey-o…"
As Crow did his performance, the other guys all turned to face each other. "I don't know about the three of you," Jack said to Yusei, Kalin and Dukey, "But I want to strangle Birdbrain in his sleep for this."
"Well at least the students here know better than to give this much consideration, right?" Yusei asked rhetorically in a somewhat hopeful tone.
"One of the students just joined Crow in his dancing," Dukey said as he pointed to where Crow was giving his performance. The other guys looked over and saw that one of the student girls was dancing with Crow.
The girl had pale light-brown skin except for a whitish area covering the upper part of her face, long light bluish hair, wore a red long-sleeved shirt and black pants that both had patterns on them that were either Native American or Aztec in appearance, a pale reddish-brown headband, a simple orange beaded necklace, and a pair of blue ruffled sandals. The guys noticed that this girl also had hooves instead of feet, and that she had antlers coming out of her head.
"Birdbrain's a fucking terrible role-model for these kids, I swear," Jack muttered to himself as he face-palmed.
Later that day, Yusei, Jack, Crow (still in his 'Chief Crowfeathers' outfit), Kalin and Dukey were standing outside of the front entry gate to Monster High, which was letting out for the day. "You know, guys," Yusei began, "Despite a few hiccups here and there, I think we're doing pretty well here at Monster High so far, all things considered."
"I think that things went smoothly for me, given how the students enjoyed watching me perform the dance of my people," Crow stated, "Hell, I even gave that Isi Dawndancer girl some extra credit for joining me! I swear, she is a dancing machine!"
"Crow, there's a few things that we apparently need to go over," Kalin began, "One, if you want to do something like the performance you gave earlier, at least clear it with boss lady Nora first, two, you need to change back into some regular clothes, and three, weren't you supposed to be-" Kalin was cut off when a limo rammed into him and sent him flying forward a good few dozen feet. After Kalin was sent flying, the limo stopped and the driver, who looked sort of like a mummy for some reason, got out of the driver side door.
"Oh dear, I didn't see that fellow standing there just now since I was too busy texting on my cell phone," the chauffeur remarked in a worried tone, "I hope that he's going to be alright." Yusei quickly ran over to where Kalin fell, then bent down to see if Kalin was going to be okay. Yusei got back up and ran back to where Jack, Crow and Dukey were standing.
"Yeah, Kalin's dead," Yusei replied. (7)
"Oh, about time my ride got here," Cleo's voice called out. Yusei and the remaining guys turned to see Cleo walk over to the limo. She was accompanied by Draculaura, Clawdeen, Frankie and Lagoona.
"Your limo driver just killed Kalin by hitting him with the limo!" Jack snapped at Cleo.
"I was busy texting!" the chauffeur defended in a panicking tone.
"We'll be having words with your employer," Dukey said to the chauffeur in a warning tone.
"Hey wait," Cleo said to Jack, "Isn't Kalin the first name of the new counselor Mr. Kessler?"
"It is indeed, young lady," Jack replied with a nod in the affirmative.
Turning to face the chauffeur, Cleo snapped, "He was the coolest of the new school staff members! My father will totally be hearing about-" Cleo stopped short when a car pulled up behind the limo, getting everyone's attention. When the car stopped, one of the rear doors opened, and a teenage girl around the same height as Cleo and her friends came out.
The girl had long, light-blue hair with streaks of dark blue in it, and pale gray skin. She wore a long-sleeved shirt with black and dark-pink horizontal stripes under a somewhat baggy t-shirt that had a Video Game convention logo on it, a pair of mildly dark red pants with the legs going into black boots with pink laces, a pair of white-colored horn framed glasses, and a simple green-colored hard plastic headband. (8)
Pointing to the girl who just got out of the car, Yusei said, "Who the hell is that?" Yusei got his answer when Kjersti walked up to the girl and gave her a friendly hug.
"About time you got back from the Video Game convention, Ghoulia," Kjersti said to the girl after breaking away from the hug, "Sorry I couldn't go with you. I had a…medical emergency." The girl, who turned out to have been that Ghoulia person who everyone thought was dead, made some groaning noises that sounded like they were in an understanding tone before she turned around to reach into the car she got out of. Ghoulia then pulled out a t-shirt exactly like the one she was wearing. Ghoulia handed Kjersti this extra t-shirt.
"EEEEEEEE!" Kjersti squealed in an excited tone as she threw her arms around Ghoulia's shoulders for another hug, "This is so awesome! Thanks a lot, Ghoulia!" The two monster girls then looked over to where everyone was standing. Seeing the stunned looks on the faces of the other girls, Kjersti said in a confused tone, "What?"
"We…we thought that Ghoulia was dead!" Draculaura said as tears started to well up in the corners of her eyes, "Well, dead in the traditional sense, but we still though that we wouldn't see her ever again!"
"Don't worry, girls," Kjersti replied with an understanding nod, "Our girl Ghoulia here is alive and well. Well, not alive in the traditional sense, but you get my point."
"What do you mean by 'not in the traditional sense'?" Yusei asked.
Ghoulia made a few moaning noises, which prompted Lagoona to say to the guys, "In case any of you blokes don't understand what she's saying, Ghoulia's explaining that her not being alive in the traditional sense is because she's a zombie."
"A zombie, you say," Crow replied as he began to reach behind his back for something, "Well that's really fascinating to-"
"Don't you even fucking think about it, Birdbrain," Jack snapped as he saw Crow reaching for something. Yusei and Dukey proceeded to watch as Draculaura, Clawdeen, Cleo, Lagoona and Frankie go over to Ghoulia and give her a group hug, which Kjersti was also a part of because she was still in the process of giving Ghoulia a second hug. Jack and Crow didn't see the display of female friendship because Jack was struggling with Crow to keep him from doing something incredibly stupid. Jack and Crow's struggling continued into the background, where Jack rammed his right knee into Crow's stomach, making Crow fall over onto the ground.
END, CHAPTER ELEVEN
Author's Notes:
1. Remember those books? Ah, memories.
2. I figured due to what the cartoon's based off of, original outfits might be neat. Also, keep in mind that the girl's upset at the moment; it's not too much of a stretch to think that she probably wouldn't care too terribly much about keeping up her usual sense of fashion.
3. This is a sign of how Jack is going to enjoy most of his time at Monster High.
4. Uhh…yeah. Puns. This is going to be SO much fun.
5. At least eighty percent sure.
6. Which would be rather hard, considering that Crow's a human and Heath is a fire elemental.
7. Don't text and drive.
8. Oh, come on. Like I was really going to kill her off.
Well, there's chapter eleven done and over with. The show that I have lined up for Yusei, Jack, Crow and Kalin to visit in chapter twelve is something of a popular childhood staple that has seen a reboot in 2017.
Quack.