A/N: Thanks for all the readings and views, of Chapter 1. Also thanks to morganoth for faving, and Yara Touin for following. Also to everyone please comment and review. Also sorry, sorry, sorry for the long wait. (I know it's long, it's been about a month and two-three weeks).
Of Ever After: Monsters, Myths & Writers
Myths:
During her day off, Cupid got summoned back to Mount Olympus. It wasn't weird -to her at least- that she was called back. Her father had seem very anxious when sending her to Ever After High, or at least more so than when sending her to any other school. So of course, on her most recent break she would get called home. And walking the halls of Mount Olympus, she was at ease, the memories of her childhood flooded her mind, and brought an oddly pleasant, yet sad smile on her face. The halls were lined with painting of various renditions of their myths, and she began to do her childhood habit of running her hand along the wall. Soon the those paintings became doors with numbers above them, the apartments.
"Hey C.A..."
"Welcome back C.A.."
"How long are you here, C.A.?"
The myths that were hanging around the apartments greet Cupid on her way home, she smiled politely and wave back.
Soon enough, she landed in-front of the house marked with the numbers 703
Home.
Was went through Cupid's mind, and she didn't realize how homesick she was until she was back here at Olympus. She entered the door, and breathed in the smell of breakfast, freshly cooked. Cupid's home was interesting to say the least. Once entered, the first site was the entertainment room; obscured and blocked by a wall was the kitchen, to the left was a glass window leading to the outside, and stairs lead up to Cupid's and Heddie's room, as well as their parent's room. The entire place was the color of a light dirt brown, accented with white columns, and gold trimmings.
"Hey sweetie." A voice called form the kitchen.
Cupid rushed in a saw her dad doing the dishes with breakfast in containers stacked by the fridge. If you looked at Eros and Cupid, you wouldn't think Cupid was adopted. Eros and Cupid both had pale pink skin, Cupid's eyes were a more pinkish version of her dad's red eyes', and her dad's hair was anywhere from a strawberry blonde to an almost black red, compared to her constantly pink hair. They also had the same wings and monster features.
"Hey dad." Pause. "Where's Heddie and mom?"
"At a conference at Heddie's school."
"So will Heddie-"
"No."
"You didn't let me finish."
"Heddie is not going to your school, it's not her destiny. She-"
"That's not fair!"
"You know only myths go to Ever After High." Pause. Sigh. "And Heddie's not one of them."
"But I am."
"You know... I thought you wanted to follow in my footsteps?"
"I do but..."
"But...?"
Cupid sighed. "Dad, I want to be the next Eros but... my myth...I mean I know...that it's not...but...it..."
"I get it."
"Why don't you come with me, I have some things to do and I have to go to Monster High to finish them."
Cupid smiled. "Sure!"
"Helloooooo Narrators?"
"..."
"Broooke."
"..."
"Is everyone there or did Cerise or Kitty take you guys some where?"
"..."
"How about some tea and snacks?"
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"Fine! But don't come to me when you need tea or snacks!"
"..."
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"Is she gone?"
"Hey Brooke!"
"Brooke!"
"Sorry mom, dad!"
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"Let's continue the story!"
Monsters:
Frankie Stein, Draculaura, Jackson Jykell and Deuce Gorgon was sitting in Headmistress Bloodgood's office, along with their parents.
"I just don't understand why I or any of us have to go to Ever After High!." Draculaura exclaimed
"For fifteenth hundred time, it's because-"
"Knock, knock, knock." A voice said outside the door.
"Come in." A weary Headmistress Bloodgood replied.
Eros and Cupid walked in. Cupid raised her eyebrows at the scene before her, techncally speaking , she like her friends, had to go to both Monster and Ever After High. The first to teach her about her monster abilities and the second to prepare her for her destiny. However. unlike her friends, neither school would have been her first pick. She would rather go to school with her sister Hedone, or Heddie for short. She, Cupid, could never be herself around anyone, not the monsters or the tales at school, the only time she could be herself was around other Myths. And it wasn't her fault, like her father and all the other myths, that had certian aspects that came out in different worlds. Like how she fell for Dexter, it wasn't because she was in love with him-
"Wait!"
"Broooooke!"
"Sorry, but Dexpid has been my ship... and they're not together and now I can't belive it! Cupid doesn't even like Dexter and what the fuc-"
"Broooooke!" The narrators screamed.
"Now back to the story."
Monsters:
"Are we interrupting something?" Eros asked.
"No. just finalizing some transfer papers and such."Bloodgood replied. "This meeting is over and everything is final. Stop arguing." Bloodgood directed at the monsters. "Now, leave. I have business to attend to,"
Frankie, Deuce, Jackson and Draculaura left grumbling while their parents shook their heads. Then they leaned in on the door and listened on the conversation happening in the Headmistress office.
Myths:
Cupid and Eros sat down and stared at the Headmistress at Monster High.
"As you can understand I'm in a very precarious situation. Your daughter and as you can see some of her friends are the first wave of monster that I'm going to loose to Ever After High."
"I know this, but I and many parents agree that the reason our children came to your school was to deal with their monster side...to come to terms with it before going to Ever After High to accept their destinies."
Cupid winced, wondering what her father's opinion on the Rebel-Royal conflict was.
"I know this but Monster High is going to loose a lot of it's numbers in the up coming years and when others hear of why, well no one's going to come to Monster High, anymore."
"But Headmistress Bloodgood," Cupid interject. Shit I shouldn't be doing this, dad's sooo not going to be pleased about this. "I don't see that happening. You make this school a place where you can be whatever and whoever you want to be. I just don't see how kids going to Ever After High, is going to change this."
Headmistress Bloodgood regarded Cupid for a moment, before flicking her eyes at the door.
"I don't like eavesdroppers." She said as the door flew out and Frankie, Deuce, Jackson and Draculaura fell in the room. "Sit, all of you, this should interest you."
"Ever After High and Monster High while both help students discover who they are. They are in ideological conflict. Monster High belives you dictate who you're going to be, not what you are. While Ever After High belives in the reverse, that what you are is going to dictate who you are."
"I still don't understand what that has to do with losing people."
"Many parents wish for their children to follow in their footsteps, and many people take whatever the cost is, and there are many stories, that have monsters as villains or antagonists and a few with monsters as the "Good Guy", many paths that parents can get their kids to follow, paths that the parent wants, not the kid."
"But...but how many monsters in this school-" Frankie began
"About sixty to seventy-five percent, Ms. Stein."
Everyone said a collective "Shit!".
"Now please no more eavesdropping out of you guys, and if you please."Bloodgood said gesturing to the back.
Eros gave a nod. "Cupid?" he inquired from behind him, calling at her to come help him. Cupid followed her father into the room as her friends went out, to go to Ever After High in the next few days. Cupid turned her head to the wall, with it's golden light illumitaing and radiating the room to a golden-yellow.
"Now as you can see, the Love in our world is stabilizing mostly and soon, all that'll be left is Ever After and your consistent, perfectionist maintenance over the..."
Headmistress Bloodgood's voice faded away, as Cupid either fainted or blacked out. She herself wasn't sure and her last memory was, "Cupid!" that her father cried out in sheer horror.
Writers:
Laura Carroll was sitting in a chair in the resting room, of her family's castle, when one of her best friends, Edward Adam Poe, plopped down right next her and asked.
"So what do you think of going to Ever After?"
Before she could say any word at all, her friends all flooded the room with their various answers.
"It's abloustle awful!" Nora Evers, the future Raven from the Raven, cried out.
"I think it's the perfect start, plus me and Laura can bug, our big sis." Christina Hannah Anderson, aka Laura's older sister, squealed with zeal, mischievousness and joy.
"I can't say whether it's good or bad," Wilma Shakespeare replied. Miriam "Mary" (Bianca) Shelly-(Stoker), (Maria) Briana (Shelly)-Stoker and Perseus "Percy" Shelly-(Stoker), all siblings, agreed with Wilma.
Helena signed out that "She was excited but also nervous about what could happen, and added on that she shouldn't spend too much time on it, or unless her or any of them for that matter would either imagine the worst and they all freak out or imagine the best and have horribly unrealistic expectations of what could happen."
The Grimm siblings, Gwen and Marco, agreed with Helena and promptly stuffed their faces with the various snacks and drinks left for them while their parents talked.
Paul I. Tchaikovsky, aka Tchaikovsky, said "His opinion didn't matter because he had to go any way."
Jane Tenniel, Laura's illustrator, said that "She would follow where ever her beloved, Laura, went even if was the depths of hell." Then promptly kissed Laura on the lips and left everyone flabbergasted and Laura stuttering like an idiot out of embarrassment.
The chuckles of their amused parents laughter at the scene that just unfolded before them caused the writer teens to feel their cheeks redden with heat and embarrassment. Laura's face was filled red. And her parents laughed even harder.
"So how would you guys like to be apart of a...experiment...project...I don't know what to call it but something to help easy the transtion of writers into Ever After High." Mara Grimm asked
"What would we have to do?" Wilma questioned.
"Simple, start school a few weeks earlier that the rest."
"Are you guys in?" Henry Anderson asked.
A round of "Sures","Of courses", "What else am I going to do?", "Why not." and "Duh!" were the only replies. Now how would it all go down is another story.
End of Chapter II
A/N: So this chapter is on the short side, 1830 words, sorry about that but I wasn't sure on how to completely introduce everyone and start the beginning of their stories. Note that I'm not even done introducing everything needed for the fairy tales, and the writers may not even be at Ever After High until chapter 5 or 6. Not to mention I have more OC's, thought they're myths and Tales. Not to mention I have the main EAH cast to deal with and the Monster High crew I'm bring in. Also as as a side note, I'm always actively deciding which OC's to introduce and when, because after a while I will have to stop, or it's too much. So you should consider the First Arc to be the Introduction+setting up arc. Though a lot of secrets will be reveled, as well as everyone destinies by the official storybook of legends. Oh and you'll find out soon enough how writers fit into this world as well as Myths. Though you should have some more updates since school's officially over for me. Though there may be another long pause between chapters 2 and 3, as I need time to finish planning out this story as it seems it's going to be long, very long. (or at least over 20 chapters.) Also sorry for any typos. (And point out any mistakes I made (though if their spelling please remember I'm American so make sure your not pointing out the mistakes in "American vs British or any other English spellings") and comment/review/PM they make me happy and I promise I won't bite)
Until then,
Caio
~Zarsla