It was the first day of the new semester. Everyone was busy finding their way to the classrooms and some were guiding the new blood their way around. It was pretty much a normal day for the monsters, greeting each other and asking about their spring breaks, coming back with new looks and meeting new friends. A certain ghoul came walking in and was greeted by a group of her ghoulfriends, nothing changed much since they left for spring break.
"Hey, ghouls. How's it goin'?" A mint green-skinned ghoul beamed with excitement. She had her usual black and white hair down with a blue clip to clip back her bangs, her choice of clothes didn't changed much from last time she came, a dark blue checker dress with black fishnets under her skirt and her sleeves, a studded belt, polka dotted tie, and black and white striped pumps.
It had been a year since she first came to Monster High, she thought that she would end up being a loner during her first school year, but turned out to be exciting, went on many adventures and made new friends. She had a feeling that she would make more new friends this school year and new adventures were awaiting her.
"Hey, Frankie!" they greeted back, they all were chatting away about their spring break. It seemed that everyone enjoyed their break, all except a certain mummy girl, Cleo... her sister told her dad about the party she threw the other day, which Cleo didn't know about, and her dad had made her stay in her tomb for the rest of the spring break as punishment.
"Hey, have you heard about the new bloods?" the werewolf girl asked. Her brown hair was wild as ever, along with her purple and pink themed outfits. They all ponder for a bit and looked around their area, it was filled with familiar faces and some are probably never met during their year there.
"That depends, which one you were referring to?" Cleo pointed towards the group, which made her thought of recruiting more members for the fearleading squad. Her long brown and golden hair flowed gracefully, and her teal and gold outfits was stunning as ever under the sun along with her bandages. Although she had changed her spoiled princess attitude... sort of, she still kept her harsh training ways as fearleading captain.
"I heard from the Ghostly Gossip that they're pretty famous and Miss Bloodgood handpicked them to attend here for one semester." The werewolf replied. She wasn't sure who or what they were, or if they knew them from somewhere. One thing was for certain, they couldn't wait to meet them.
The first bell rang, signalling the first class had started. They quickly parted ways and headed to their first class. Frankie and then the rest of the students came in to the classroom, followed by their Math creature, Mr. Rotter. Everyone groaned in displeasure. He was known to be the strictest creature in this school, he never gave A's unless the work impressed him. The class went on with his boring lecture and some students paying no attention to him, until the headmistress made a public announcement through the school's PA system.
"Frankie Stein, Draculaura and Jackson Jekyll. Please report to my office, immediately." The system went off and leaving those three in confusion. It must be important to have them in her office that soon. "Huh... I wonder why she needed us for..." the vampire girl, Draculaura's mind wondered as they got up and left the classroom to her office, when they got there, they were greeted by the headmistress's head on the table while her body was busy doing the paperwork.
"I'm sorry to have called you three in on such short notice, but I have a favour to ask of you." The headmistress's head was put back onto her rightful place and went to get a file from the drawer. "I'm aware that you had heard rumours about the human-monster coexisting program starting next year." She reminded them. All three of them thought for a moment and recalled it, the Ghostly Gossip did mentioned that the coexisting program will be held next year where human students will attend Monster High for one semester and they have a choice whether to stay in Monster High or get their memories of the whole semester erased.
The headless headmistress gave them a look at the student transfer file. "Well, it seem we have to start it early." She stated and they got a look at the students' photos. Frankie was stunned, along her two other friends, the photo showed the individual photos of the transfer students. Normal skin-toned, no freaky features, and no monster vibe, just plain humans. Draculaura and Frankie were curious why Miss Bloodgood decided to have to program started early and why did they agreed to attend Monster High, as if the headmistress read their thought, she answered their questions. "I invited them to come, we want peace between the humans and monsters, so we can coexist with the humans without fail. They accepted my proposal, and they will be with us for the whole semester, maybe longer if they wish to."
"Umm.. Headmistress Bloodgood... Just asking... are they by chance in a rock band? 'Cause they seemed familiar" the half human asked, trying to remember some details about them, somehow he knew he saw them before, but it was all a blur. Draculaura took a second look at the photos and flipped through pages of one of their profile, when a flyer fell from it, she picked them up and read the huge font. "Black Pentagram? Where have I heard th..." she paused for a moment and checked her ICoffin, where all of a sudden, her shriek could be heard outside of the school.
"No way! No way! No way! No way! Headmistress Bloodgood, please tell me you're not joking. Are they really going to attend here in Monster High?" Draculaura asked as excitement took over her, she had gone to Shibuya for the exchange student program last year. During her stay, her new Japanese friends dragged her to one of their concerts, she enjoyed it and went ahead to buy all of their albums and posters, she even downloaded all of their songs to her iCoffin. Jackson seem to be excited as well, which left Frankie dumbfounded. "I'm confused... who are they exactly?" Jackson was about to answer her question when Draculaura butted in.
"They're THE most famous rock bands in the whole wide world, they're 4 members in the band, one heartthrob hunk, and three girls." Draculaura plugged in her headphones to her iCoffin, she browsed her music player for some music and hand it for Frankie to listen. When the loud music starts playing, she felt like she was the main character in their musical story. Jackson came towards Frankie with his phone in his hand and spoke up. "Their albums went viral and everyone loves them, no one in the world knows them personally or ever tried to socialize with other people outside of their show. So I'm quite surprised that they would even show up here, not to mention as new students."
Jackson showed Frankie the news about the aforementioned rock bands, she was surprised that just a song could make everyone their biggest fan, and no one have ever met them up close. But something seemed off for Frankie, for one thing, why did they agreed to join this school in the first place. Normally, the humans would reject the offer or scream at the sight of them. So, she asked the headless headmistress for answers.
"Why would they agree to enrol here? I know it's for the peace training and all, but humans are afraid of us, they would reject the offer, or in worse case, hunt us down." Silence filled the room for a moment, then the headmistress got up from her seat and walked towards the door. "Well... Why don't you ask them yourself?" she turned the doorknob and behind the door, four humans were standing there.
The girl with short black hair and blue streaks grinned, seemed excited to meet them for real. Next to her was a girl with long platinum blonde hair, she gave a soft smile to the ghouls and the headmistress. Behind them were a smiling red-headed guy and an emotionless black and purple haired girl. To sum it up, they looked exactly like the posters showed. The famous rock band, Black Pentagram, was standing right in front of their eyes. Draculaura squealed with excitement in her voice, she quickly fished out her autograph book and a pen, and went towards them, followed by Jackson
"Oh My Ghoul! Oh My Ghoul! Oh My Ghoul!.. I'm Draculaura, your biggest fan! Will you sign my book and my iCoffin? I really love your songs, I even bought every album you guys released. Do you like it here so far? Oh wait... you just got here. Silly me..." Draculaura kept on blabbering questions about their new song releases and other non-important stuff while they signed her book and iCoffin, until the black and blue headed girl spoke up.
"Wow... who knew that we had monster fans." She laughed, once they finished signing for her, they spotted Jackson standing there awkwardly, holding an album. "I guess we're not the only ones who look normal." The red head walked towards him and took the album out of his hands, he signed it and passed it to the others. He turned back to face him, opening his mouth to ask the half human.
"Are you here for the coexisting program as well?" once they finished signing his album, and handed it back to him. He stood there, trying to gather his courage to talk. "N-No, I'm a student here.. You see, I'm half human." they didn't seemed to be fazed after meeting them, which reminded Frankie about her last question she wanted to ask them.
"We're here 'cause we wanted to. Did that answer your question, Frankengirl?" the emotionless girl spoke up, she heard her question before they came in. Frankie seemed to be somewhat satisfied with the answer, they were famous in the human world, and it shouldn't be difficult for them to spread the news, maybe... "It's Frankie, and that kind of answered my question... sort of?" Frankie had nearly forgotten that they were here as new students for this semester, she introduced herself and her friends to them. "I'm Frankie, and these are my friends, Draculaura and Jackson." After that, it was their turn to introduce themselves.
"I'm Matthew Daemon, but you girls can call me Matt." He winked at the ghouls and went on. "Guitarist and vocalist of the band, these are my friends." The red headed guy introduced himself, he was wearing a red tank top with black leather vest, a pair of black jeans, black combat boots, some ear studs, cuffs and a simple light blue crystal pendant.
"Kaitlin Blacks, drummer and pianist. Nice to meet 'cha." The girl grinned, she seemed to be the cheerful and a trouble making type. She wore a blue turtleneck cropped top with a pair of black shredded shorts, black ripped thighs, long black ripped finger-less gloves and black knee high boots, she wore a cute moon brooch with a light blue crystal on the top right side of her chest and had a set of ten short claw rings rested on her nails.
"And that's Yuki Shirohana, the bassist and occasionally a violinist. She's mute, but you won't have trouble communicating with her." The blonde hair girl bowed. She wore a white off shoulder crop top with long half bell sleeves, pairing with short black skirt, black corset, black leggings and black geta boots. She had a black choker with a white flower pendant hanging down and a pair of light blue teardrop shaped crystal earrings.
"Raven Jinxx. Vocalist." The last girl greeted them without a smile. She was wearing a black toga crop top and black shorts, she paired them off with leather over knee platform boots, fish net stockings, spiked belt, a black choker and silver arm cuffs in shape of a snake. The short one on her upper left arm and a long one on her right lower arm, the head rested on the back of her hand. Her choker had a light blue crystal with bat wings on both sides hanging down, her long black and purple ombre hair were tied up in high bun and ponytail, decorated with hair sticks.
"Welcome to Monster High! Hope you'll enjoy being here for the whole semester, and feel free to be yourselves." Frankie grinned, hoping she will be friends with them during this whole semester. They all seemed excited, except for Raven, mumbling about if they managed to survive.
"Alright, these students will be your new guide, they are my most trusted students and I'm sure you all will get along." Miss Bloodgood said as she removed her head and her bod left to another room to sort the documents. The students were used to seeing her doing this in front of them, but the newcomers aren't. Kaitlin had trouble keeping herself from fainting or vomit at the sight of it.
"Can we get a short tour around the school for a while? We need to know our way around and I don't think someone will hold on for much longer." Matt said, his finger was pointing at the now sick Kaitlin, who was not used to the sight of a headless person. "Go right ahead, your belongings will be in the school's guesthouse and if you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'm sure you'll find this school rather pleasant." They all left the office and Frankie started the conversation.
"Alrighty then, let's start with the classrooms, shall we?" Frankie asked, none of them replied or said anything, they just kept quiet and looked around. All eyes were on them, most were filled with disgust and fear. Frankie took notice of that and remained silent, they walked down the hallway and it wasn't very pleasant like Miss Bloodgood had said.
"This is going to be a long day..." she thought to herself, they began their tour and found their way around; the restrooms, classrooms, labs, gym, creepeteria and even part of the catacombs. The tour went on for hours until they stopped at the guesthouse a few minutes away from the school, it was a black Victorian house with a hint of modern design, it looked as if it were newly built. The door was unlocked by Raven, who had the keys to the house and had trouble finding the right one, and they went in. "Wow... Now that's what I call a wicked place to stay." Kaitlin said in awe, everyone else seemed to think the same thing.
They were greeted with a red hallway, leading to different rooms, the left side of the hall was a living room decorated in red wallpaper, some lighting and wooden floors, and there were red and black couches, a decorated black coffee table, and some bookshelves. The walls were decorated in old paintings, mostly during the human and monster war. The dining room and the kitchen were on the right side of the hall, the room was decorated in black and red, in the middle of the room was a large dining table, with eight red chairs surrounding it. The table was decorated with black and red candles in the silver Victorian styled candle holder.
The kitchen was painted in black and white, the design was modern and simple with basic kitchenware and machines, next to the kitchen was a simple laundry room with washing machines, a wide table, iron and ironing table. All of their luggage was piled up in the middle of the hallway, blocking the staircase. They went for their respective luggage and moved them to their rooms upstairs. The floor was separated into four bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, every bedroom was decorated exactly the same; red wallpaper with black flooring, two beds, two nightstands with lamps, two wardrobes and two study tables, all were placed opposite to each other on two sides of the room.
Kaitlin and Yuki went in the same room, while Raven and Matt got their own rooms next to them. They settled their luggage in their rooms and went to the living room to chat, Frankie and the rest waited for them to ask any questions or anything to start the conversation, Matt seemed to have read her mind as he started the conversation.
"Now that we finished the tour and settled our stuffs in our rooms, how about we discuss about our classes? I have no idea whether the subjects we're taking are similar to what we had back in... you know." He took out his class schedule and re-examined the whole thing, the rest did the same. All of them had different classes from each other, though it is clear that all of them had two classes together, Music and Physical Deaducation.
Frankie looked over their schedules and thought for a while. "I'm pretty sure all of the subjects are the same as what humans teach and learn. Learning dead languages, making potions and reanimating something." She said, though she was not sure herself. The girls sighed, they were positive that the monster's stare was not the only the problems they'll be facing. "And to think we were expecting the same level of education..." Raven sighed, the classes she thought she had were exactly the same as her old school, if the strange name of the subject was ignored.
"I promise you that the school and classes here will be enjoyable. Half human's honour" Jackson beamed as he held his hand up to his side, he used to attend a human school before he transferred to Monster High, and he did experience what it felt like to be the only 'human' in the all-monster school, so he knew what they were dealing with. Raven noticed him staring at them, more like staring off into space. "It better, 'cause I don't wanna waste my time with boring lectures and even more boring activities." She poked him in the head and went to the door, she turned back to see them staring at her.
"Come on. Don't we still a class or two today? I'm not going to miss them because of you all, not that I care about classes or lateness." With that, she left for class. The rest looked at each other and nodded in agreement, they got up and left the house. Although they had to endure a few hours of staring and some harassment from some monsters, the rest of the day seemed normal and exhausting for them. Maybe it will be like what that half human had said, but their challenge had just begun.