Disclaimer: All original characters belong to my cousin and me. Only the Sailor Moon stuff belongs to someone else. Yup. Also, I decided to take someone's advice and broke these chapters up to make them shorter. It's easier for the reader and for myself. Btw, since it's broken up, you won't see how this part connects with the first chapter until the later parts.

Episode Two: Monsters Galore and More!

Early HALLOWEEN EDITION!

It was a sunny day at Jujo High. From where Veronica Kaze sat, she could see the clear blue sky and the other school buildings. A crumbled paper ball flew over her head and hit the boy in front of her. She slumped forward, her bushy black hair touching the desk. These paper ball battles were now part of her daily routine. Another ball whizzed passed her desk. The boys were now beginning to increase their artillery.

Veronica sighed as the teacher continued his boring lecture. He obviously chose to ignore her particular corner. Thus, she picked up her pencil and began to scribble on her desk. She was intensely working on her doodle when the teacher called on her.

"Miss Kaze, can you kindly tell the class what the book was about?"

She didn't look up from her desk.

"Ummm... Pirates and missing treasure?" she answered, continuing to scribble.

"Well, well, well, it seems somebody's been paying attention," he said sarcastically. "Detention. An hour after class for not keeping up with the class!"

At this, she dropped her pencil. It rolled off her desk and clattered on the tile ground. She sat straight up with her hands about to rip out her hair. She held back a scream and managed to angrily mutter, "Not again! Angela's gonna kill me!"

Of course, making matters worse, four paper balls from four different directions managed to hit her head. Another held back scream...

Vivicka Kaminari raised her hand to answer a question. She bobbed up and down, causing her green pigtails to fly wildly about.

"Miss Tencho!" she said excitedly. "Pick me! Pick me!"

Vivicka was always enthusiastic about school, but ever since Ms. Haruna went on vacation for the last two weeks, she couldn't have been happier. Not to say that Ms. Haruna was a bad teacher. In fact, she was always ecstatic and gung-ho about education. However, she didn't teach in the same style as the substitute teacher, Ms. Tencho, whom Vivicka had come to admire.

Miss Tencho smiled as she finally picked Vivicka, "Alright Vivicka, you can answer."

"It's 100 volts!" she replied as she returned Miss Tencho's smile.

"Good job as usual! I'm impressed. You didn't even use a calculator, not even for the conversions!"

Vivicka reveled in her praise and beamed as she folded her hands over her desk. The other students looked at her as if she had something growing out of her head. They turned back to Miss Tencho.

"Alright class, we have five more minutes left. I'll pass back your literature exams and you can just relax or finish up some homework," she said as she adjusted her glasses.

She was quite young for a teacher but she had a lot of experience working with students.

Vivicka raised her hand again, "Can I help?"

Miss Tencho smiled, "Of course you can."

Everyone dashed out of class and went home, except for Veronica. She sat at her desk, humming a little tune. Her humming was interrupted by a loud 'Hurrah!'.

"Hey Veronica! I aced my literature test. Isn't that grand?" said the happy Vivicka who popped into Veronica's classroom.

The teacher looked at Vivicka and gave her a big smile, "Well little lady, your sister earned herself another detention."

Vivicka gasped, "You said the 'D' word!"

"She's not my sister, only a look-a-like," Veronica said to her teacher and then turned to her bubbly cousin, "You tell the gruesome twosome and Angela that they could go home without me. I'm stuck here for an hour."

Vivicka nodded and skipped out the door. The teacher glared at Veronica. Veronica returned the glare.

"We have a whole hour. I'm sure you've got something else to do besides looked at me," he said as he returned to grading papers.

Veronica sighed and began to hum a tune again while scribbling on her desk.

Once Vivicka got out of the classroom, she looked at her watch and pressed a button on the side of it. The face of the watch turned into a black screen. Suddenly, Angela's familiar face appeared. Usually, her shoulder lengthed blue hair was down but now it was tied up. She must have been working in the lab.

"Hi Viv!" she said.

Vivicka waved to her watch, "Hey Ange! Ver's got deten—I mean, she has to stay afterschool today."

Angela frowned but she soon smiled again, "Okay then. Do you mind waiting for Ver, Viv? I do not want her to go home by herself."

"Alright!" she replied. "I could go see Miss Tencho! Oh yeah, I aced my lit test!"

"I am proud of you Viv. Keep it up—"

Angela's face was now hidden behind two smiling faces. One had greenish-blue hair that was braided down to her waist. That was Maddy. She had to bend down a little to talk into Angela's watch. The other one was Annie who had long red hair that was tied up. She kept tapping at the watch screen.

"Viv! If you keep studying, you're head's gonna explode!" Annie yelled.

"Yeah, we don't want your brains everywhere, y'know!" Maddy said.

Somehow, Angela regained her arm and said quickly, "See you back home!"

The screen went black again and it returned to its normal watch face. Vivicka scratched her head and remembered that she was going to visit Miss Tencho. She walked to the elevator that was only a few feet away from Veronica's classroom and entered it. The doors closed as she waited to go down.

They had to relocate her class to a different room because they were repairing the broken windows of her former room. She also thought that they wanted to keep clear of that classroom for a while.

The elevator doors opened as she stepped out. She liked the new location of the room though. It was a floor under Veronica's so she could go meet up with her cousin faster. Vivicka got to the classroom and looked in.

"Miss Tencho?" she asked hesitantly as she walked in. "Are you here? It's Vivicka."

She looked around the classroom. It was odd that nobody was there, especially with the door wide open. Vivicka shrugged and sat down at a desk. She didn't think Miss Tencho would mind that she was in the room.

As she took out her homework, she felt something pass the door. She looked up but didn't see anything.

"Hello?" she said aloud.

Vivicka shrugged again and continued with her work.

"I'll just wait here until Miss Tencho comes back. I can show her my new project," she said to herself.

An hour later...

"Well Kaze, you are free to go," said the teacher.

Veronica got up in relief and ran out the door with paper flying out of her bag. She slid on the tile ground and collided with a short girl.

"Veronica! Watch where you're going!" Vivicka yelled who was slightly dazed from the impact.

"Sorry!" she angrily replied. "Why're you here anyway?"

"Well, Angela said to make sure you come straight home after school. That's what I'm doing," Vivicka said.

Veronica stood up and straightened her jacket, "Why'd they send a kid to watch me?"

Vivicka glared at her, "I'm not some little kid that you could push around and insult! I'm just a kid who demands some respect around here."

Her cousin looked down at her, "Viv, why are you talking like this? Did the teacher not give you extra credit or something? You want me to punch her?"

Vivicka looked alarmed, "No, no, no Ver! Don't do that! Don't hurt Miss Tencho! She just wasn't in her room, that's all."

Veronica raised an eyebrow, "Fine. But if you still need that punch, just tell me."

Both girls walked toward the elevator. As it opened, Veronica felt a weird shock in her head. It seemed like a warning. Just when she recovered, Vivicka had stepped into the elevator.

"Don't go!" Veronica yelled, but Vivicka could not escape the sliding doors. The last thing Veronica saw was Vivicka's scared expression as the doors closed abruptly.

"Ah great... just great..." she grumbled.

As Vivicka tried to get off, the elevator shut down. The lights dimmed and flickered. Finally, it just shut off. Vivicka kept pressing the emergency button.

"This cannot be happening! It can't just stop!" she said as she picked up the phone. Flinging it down, she realized that it too wasn't working.

All she felt was the coldness of the transparent walls. The darkness was beginning to settle in. She tried ramming against the sides, but nothing would budge. Looking down, she saw light. It was probably a few feet under her, from where she stood.

"That must be the first floor," she thought.

Kneeling down, she tried pounding on the floor when suddenly she stopped and heard a low groan. She squinted her eyes to see better. Three pale looking figures staggered toward the bottom of the elevator.

They managed to open the elevator doors and started to ram the bottom of the capsule Vivicka was in.

"What's going on?!"

Meanwhile...

Veronica tried to pry open the elevator doors. When that didn't work, she tried punching them but could only redden her knuckles.

"Damn door! Why won't you open?" she yelled furiously. She looked around for a teacher or somebody to help her. She finally decided to run back to her homeroom.

As she got to the door, she felt another shock. It was the same shock she got last time. Shaking the odd feeling off, she stepped back.

"This could only mean one thing—Danger," she whispered.

Veronica took a deep breath and entered the room. Nobody was in there, yet she knew the teacher had to be in there. There was only two ways to get off this floor, the elevator or the stairs. Obviously, she would have known if he wanted to take the elevator because she was busy pounding at it and he couldn't have taken the stairs because it was located past the elevator. No doubt, her teacher would have stopped and scolded Veronica for trying to deface school property.

"Anybody here? It's Kaze! I need some help!" she said to the empty classroom. Nothing answered her but the ticking clock. She slowly moved toward the teacher's desk. All of a sudden, a head popped up from under the chair.

"Well! Miss Kaze! Getting some help, are you? More like helping yourself to some answers off my desk?" the teacher said with a smirk. "Surprise, I caught you."

Veronica couldn't believe him. Her cousin was trapped in the elevator and he was busy setting up a trap for her.

"I wasn't trying to cheat! I came to ask if you could help me get Vivicka out of the elevator because it shut down or something!"

He grinned, "What a silly excuse! Vivicka came an hour ago! Don't try your little tricks on me. When I tell Principal Jujo—No, the school board!—what you've done, you'll be kicked out of her for good—"

Veronica stopped listening and looked at him with great vehemence, "Fine then, I'll get her out myself!"

The teacher stood up and was about to say something about her insolence when a hand from the wall grabbed his head. Slowly a head and a body emerged from the wall. The being that had appeared was pale and lifeless with blood dripping from its mouth.

"What the heck are you?!" shouted Veronica. The thing tightened his grip on the teacher's head and pulled him closer. He opened his mouth to reveal sharp white fangs. Then, something happened that Veronica wished she would never witness again.

The thing bit her teacher's neck and it seemed like the blood was draining out his body. Finally, when the teacher was as pale the thing that sucked it dry, his blood-drained body fell to the ground with a simple sickening thud.

Veronica stepped slowly back towards the door, hoping the thing wouldn't notice her. Unfortunately, the cold blue eyes rimmed with a thin dark red looked up at her. Veronica stopped moving. The thing had a dark blue velvet cloak draped around him. His clothes seemed like it was from the Renaissance era.

Veronica blinked and she regained her composure. Clearing her throat, she said, "Aren't you vampire things not supposed to be out right now? Ain't you... supposed to burn?"

Amazingly, the thing laughed, "Vampire? Pitiful..."

She began to inch toward the door again, "Then just what the hell are you?"

He paused, searching his mind for the word, "Zom... pire."

Before Veronica could make a break for it, he jumped toward her. Reacting instinctively, she kicked him square in the face, sending him back to the ground and stumbling backwards. The 'zompire' screamed in amusement.

Veronica ran out the classroom and toward the elevator. In the midst of her panic, she had forgotten that the elevator had broken down. She couldn't open it. Once again, before she could run away and get to the stairs, the zompire was right behind her, baring his fangs.

Vivicka was more than panicked at the moment. She was having a mental and physical breakdown. She couldn't move and she couldn't think. A bump was forming up on the floor. Finally, a pale hand punctured through. The pale hand grasped her leg.

"Ah! What's this thing?" Vivicka screamed.

Two more hands reached through. The hole in the ground was getting wider and Vivicka was standing right above it. She tried desperately to wriggle free of the hand that grabbed her leg but the grip was too strong. There was more groaning. A head emerged and it looked faintly familiar.

"M-Miss Tencho!" Vivicka shouted. Her teacher's eyes were dull and her skin was an eerie white. Her once well-groomed hair was an unruly mess, half of it covering her face. From what Vivicka could see, there was some red lipstick covering her face.

Vivicka's eyes widened as she realized that it wasn't lipstick. It was blood. Ms. Tencho was struggling to get through the hole but still held fast to Vivicka's leg. Vivicka frantically tried to move to the corner and away from the emerging teacher.

"Don't eat me Ms. Tencho!"

Ms. Tencho was leaning forward, half way through the hole. She opened her mouth to reveal gleaming white fangs and was about to devour the girl's leg when a huge clunk hit the top of the elevator capsule followed by a thud causing it to go all the way down. Splatters of blood and guts were everywhere. Somehow, Miss Tencho's upper body was strewn against the wall with blood pouring out of her waist.

"MISS TENCHO!!!"

Fifteen Minutes Earlier...

Veronica couldn't move as she faced the oncoming zompire. He dashed toward her at full speed. If she timed it right, she could cause some serious damaged to it. As he came closer, she ducked and before he could stop himself, he crashed into the elevator door. Veronica was crouched on the ground and the thing was right above her.

He growled ferociously as he grabbed her head until her whole body was off the floor. He did this, amazingly, with one hand and easily too, since he was almost six feet tall. Veronica kicked and struggled to get out his grasp.

"Cripes! Lemme go you bastard!" she yelled out.

The zompire flung her against the elevator door while still holding her head. Blood spilled from her mouth.

"Insolent wretch," he said, seething in anger.

Veronica, despite feeling the blood rise in her throat, rolled her eyes at his cliché. Does this guy take lessons from TV bad guys? Unfortunately, he saw this and became angrier.

"Allow me to introduce myself. I will be your master, your life. You will do all that I say for I am the ancient Azure and you will bow to me," he growled.

He hit her against the elevator door again with so much force that the door fell down and caused a big clunk . Veronica heard a scream and remembered Vivicka being trapped. Azure still held her head and she was dangling over the black hole where the elevator was supposed to be.

Veronica glared at him and spit blood in his face. She didn't know if this was to entice him or insult him. Either way, she wanted to aggravate him.

"Or better yet, I should just destroy you," he said.

When he was about to let her go, she grabbed his hand, pushed off the insides of the elevator with her legs, and pulled him down so that he would fall first.

"I won't die that easily, punk!" Veronica exclaimed with a fiery look in her eyes.

As they were falling, she jumped up and stomped on Azure's stomach with both feet. Thud He smashed into the top of the elevator capsule with Veronica standing on top of him. The capsule started to move down. Azure was knocked out. A deafening scream reverberated throughout the elevator.

"MISS TENCHO!!!"

Veronica hastily opened the emergency door on top of the elevator capsule and jumped down, landing amidst a bloody mess. Vivicka was in the corner, rocking back and forth. Veronica knew they had to start moving before more zompires appeared.

"Come on Vivicka, we gots ta go," she said as she grabbed her traumatized cousin and ran out the elevator. The zompires had opened the door previously.

They kept running down the hall. Veronica held onto Vivicka's hand tightly. She was practically dragging her. They had to get to the front door. It wasn't far now. All they had to do was run straight and there it'd be.

"Miss Tencho..." Vivicka said in horror.

Veronica saw the front door, "There! C'mon!"

They busted out the door and into the quad. She stopped and gasped for air. Vivicka fell limply to the floor. Veronica cursed as she saw what was ahead of them.

All the teachers, all the staff members, and some students were aimlessly reeling and lurching around the quad. All had a lifeless quality like Azure or Miss Tencho. They were, in short, zompires. Veronica looked past these creatures and saw a normal street and the normal McJujo restaurant [well, it's similar to a restaurant we all know...]. Normal people were actually walking by the school but didn't seem to notice the zompires. Veronica tried to assess the situation and see the best possible way to get out.

Veronica looked down at Vivicka. She was shaking and kept mumbling Miss Tencho.

"Viv, we gotta charge through the middle," she whispered to her cousin.

"Th-they're illusions, right?" Vivicka said frantically.

"Be smarter than that Viv. You saw Miss—I mean, those zompires. They're real."

For the first time, Vivicka saw how badly injured Veronica was. She was fighting for air and her head was bleeding. Vivicka took a deep breath.

"Lets go!" she screamed.

The zompires stopped walking and turned toward the noise. They were going toward the front door.

"Great, blow our cover Viv," Veronica yelled and grabbed Vivicka's arm, "Charge!"

The two girls ran across the quad with amazing agility. They dodged zompires when they could and when they couldn't, Veronica just had to beat them down. For some reason, the zompires were slow. They moved stiffly which was to the advantage of the two girls.

Finally, they got to the edge of the sidewalk and were about to step onto it when all of a sudden they felt time stop for a few seconds. It felt like they ran into an invisible wall. Time resumed again and they fell on the sidewalk. Vivicka looked back at they school.

"Whoa! Look!" Vivicka exclaimed.

Veronica saw the Jujo High buildings and the front quad. There were no zompires.

Vivicka fainted...

End: Part I of Episode II