Nestor's eyes widened. He ushered the girl and the cat inside and shut the door. "How much do you know?"
"Not much, sir, but you know the new Cartoon Network and the classic Cartoon Network war?" Katrina answered.
"It's very dangerous for a child, I didn't think it'd gotten worse than when we saw before our parents died."
"Can you tell me?" Katrina asked. "I'm not a normal child, but a werewolf."
Nestor sat on his bed. "It's a long story, the classic toons were getting old and they had to retire at some point, but they didn't want to, some of them started to rebel, they agreed to stay at some points, but some new cartoons came in and made a bad impression, some innocent lives were taken and some were destroyed before their families. John Mavinsky and his wife Miranda were the village leaders around a good time before it got worse, but they were instantly killed leaving their three children orphaned and sent to separate homes, their son ran away though before the news of their death came out."
"And their daughters," Katrina added. "What happened?"
"Their youngest child, Michelene, is trying to defend their home," Nestor continued to explain. "But her powers are getting weaker, though she has both shadow and wolf powers, her sister only had the wolf powers, and her brother had the shadow powers."
"Mike is alive and still has her powers."
"Yes, but there's this force that's trying to drain her powers and go after her family, John and Miranda are long gone, and soon the girl will be with them if no one helps her in time."
"Then?" Katrina prompted him to finish.
"If she has her powers taken away she could get killed and then evil forces will take over the world and who knows what'll become of us here?" Nestor frowned.
"Yes, you're right, but what else happened?"
"Morty and I ran and then once we got old enough to take care of ourselves, we got separated. I came to visit this village looking for a job and I became a vampire and worked in this school."
"Do you know who betrayed the New CN?"
"I'm afraid I don't."
"Cuz all I know is that Dawn and Jo were one of the betrayal. They are from the show Revenge of the Island, have you heard of it?"
"Television isn't allowed in the school, I've worked here for 100 years. I believe Dawn though is the daughter of one of Morty's old classmates."
"Here's what I know, after the war was over the classic CN won, Dawn made a special meditation to make Mike and Jen's powers grow stronger, now villains fear them."
"Well, if the war's over, what's the trouble?"
"Well, Dexter sent me and Jade to find you and your niece."
"Wren? What does she have to do with any of this?"
"Well, you see, he knows 'bout you and your niece. Does that answer the question? And also, I gotta ask you something, well do you want to come back?"
Nestor looked blank, unsure of what to answer. He knew this was all very important, but he had to protect his family like he did when his parents were killed for being a witch and a wizard. "I have to protect my little Wren. Ever since Morty passed and became a kitten, she's been my only family."
"Hey, you know Jamie, right? Miranda and John's oldest son?"
"Not personally, but I know he lives in New Jersey now."
"Not anymore, I heard."
Suddenly a tiny clock rang.
"I have to wake up the little vampires." he grabbed his gong and walked off.
"Wait!" Katrina called after him. "You should know that he may be coming here."
"How many people know about this school?" Nestor whispered sharply to his niece.
Wren shrugged, pulling a face.
"Well, have you noticed something weird?" Katrina asked.
"Besides squid surprise?" Wren joked.
Nestor looked at her in annoyance, then back at the other girl. "Like what?"
"Wren, where's Jade?" Katrina asked.
"In the library with Tinto finding out everything they can." Wren said.
'Bout the war?"
"Yeah."
"Wren, are any of your other friends awake?" Nestor asked.
"Yes, but Stoker wants to sleep in as usual." Wren grumbled, folding her arms.
"Hey, Nestor, you know Double D, right?" Katrina asked him.
"I actually knew his father," Nestor corrected. "He was my apprentice for a while..."
"He has a crush on Juniper Lee, the Tu Xuan Ze." Katrina explained.
"I knew a Tu Xuan Ze once." Nestor smiled in remembrance.
"What's that?" Wren asked.
"They fight monsters only they can see, they can't tell anyone about it unless they're of the magical world," Nestor explained. "It skips a generation."
"Yes," Katrina agreed. "It was going to her dad, but it skipped onto her."
"Juniper Lee's grandmother helped save my life, a hunter tried to stake me."
Wren rushed to hug him, feeling thankful he's now alive.
"Did you know about the Cartoon Network League?" Katrina asked the vampire male.
"Yes, but I didn't want to join." Nestor answered.
"Do you know, Wren?" Katrina turned to the young one.
"Never heard of it." Wren replied, still hugging.
"Dear, please let go," Nestor smiled. "I'm fine."
"Nestor, I think you need to tell the kid 'bout the Cartoon Network League and the members and their powers." Katrina spoke up.
"Let me wake the others and let them have their breakfast." Nestor got out of Wren's grip and got to their bedroom.
"Okay." Katrina said.
Morty came over, mewing.
"Oh, you hungry?" Wren asked with a smile. She then went to go and get the cat's food.
"So, did you know 'bout the league?" Katrina asked her once they were alone.
"Just that everyone has powers that can endanger their lives," Morty explained. "Juniper is that thing, the children have wolf and shadow powers, Ed Hill is a ninja..."
"And Dee Dee has ice powers."
"They're saving their lives, but it could also hurt them with villains."
"Along with Eddy has fire and Double D has psychic abilities. Wait, weren't you a member?"
"Briefly."
"Well, I'm already a member of the league, and so is Jade and Dawn. So, why didn't Nestor join?"
"He didn't know how to master his warlock powers," Morty frowned. "My genes were stronger than his."
"Oh, how many members were there when you briefly became a member? Cuz, I wasn't there at that time and who were the members?"
"About five. It was just starting up when I was there a bit, there were John and Miranda, myself, Dawn's father almost joined, but this couple came in first, I haven't seen them since it was our time to fight. I'm pretty sure they're long gone now."
"I heard from Eddy that Eddy's, Ed's, and Double D's dads joined, am I right? Along with Juniper's grandma, I'm guessing?"
"Yes, but the Ed's fathers were rookies then, they weren't full members," Morty told her. "Juniper's grandmother was our mentor, there was a young couple there, they weren't married yet, but they had a child together and had to put the baby up for adoption because the world may have been too dangerous for him."
"Who?" Katrina asked.
Morty stretched a bit, with her cat instincts. "David Osworth and Loretta Bennett."
"Otto Osworth's parents..." Katrina whispered, nearly in shock.
"Unfortunately, no one knows if they're dead or alive to this day, they went missing after the first war legion."
"My Dad was in the league with his werewolf abilities and Jade's mom too."
"What were their names?"
"My dad's name was Justin André and Jade's mom was Annie Summers."
"I think they joined after I quit and decided to start a family of my own."
"Now, we got more members in the league and Dexter is the leader of the league. So, think when Wren is older maybe she can join the league?"
"It's up to her."
"So, can you guess how many members we have now?"
"How many?" Morty then suddenly hissed, getting startled.
The vampire kids were leaving their bedroom and rushed to the dining hall to get some food.
"Hey, wait up!" Wren called, running after them.
"We have like around 20 members." Katrina told the cat once they were safely alone again.
"That considers of me, Jade, Dawn, Dexter, Dee Dee, Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup, Ed, Double D, Eddy, Mike, Jen, Jamie, Jo, Zoey, Dakota, Anne Maria, Brick, Cameron, Scott, another Mike with weird personality, Juniper, Courage..." Katrina listed.
Morty licked the back of her paw. "I see..."
Wren came over and give the kitten a piece of fish. "Here, saved you one." she then went back in the dining room with the others.
"I wonder how Jade and Tinto are doing?" Katrina wondered.
"Hopefully they found something." Morty assumed.
"Yeah, they need to hurry before I go werewolf on them."
"Maybe they're waiting for you," Morty told her, then started to eat the fish with utter delight. She moaned, eating the head off. "Boy, does my brother know how to prepare a fish..."
"So, how strong is The Count?"
"Next to Dracula, he's a mighty vampire, he's a legend around the village and strikes fear into ALL of the students, even the bad ones. He's the student Oskar's uncle."
Katrina burst out laughing.
Morty raised an eyebrow. "Something amusing?"
"It's just that you haven't seen Mike, Jen, and Jamie," Katrina explained. "The villains are scared of them, especially HIM."
Morty didn't take kindly to that. "Don't dis him, he had to risk his life to save his sister from being staked in the heart. If that's how you're going to be, I'm not going to help you." she pounced into the dining room and purred.
"WREN, YOUR STUPID CAT IS IN MY WAY AGAIN!" one of the vampire boys, Stoker, hissed.
"That's just how she says she likes you!" Wren teased.
"No wait, come back, I didn't know that!" Katrina tried to get Morty's attention.
Morty nuzzled against Stoker.
"Stupid cat..." Stoker groaned.
Katrina came in the room and grabbed Morty. "Excuse me." she said to Stoker. "Sorry 'bout that. You don't know me, do you Stoker?"
"Who in Dracula's name are you?" Stoker got edgy. "Are you another new student? Like we need anymore!"
"My name is Katrina André and I'm a werewolf."
"Why is there a werewolf in the vampire academy?" a crimson haired vampire girl known as Grufftine asked.
The girl next to her, Batoria, shrugged.
"It's because I'm not a student." Katrina revealed.
"Then why are you here?" Batoria asked.
Katrina turned to Wren, dropping her voice low to a whisper. "Wren, help me out here."
"Transfer student," Wren thought up quickly with an innocent grin. "There's another one with Tinto in the library."
"Oh..." the other vampires said, then went back to eating.
"You're not gonna bite me with your sharp teeth, are you?" Klot asked Katrina nervously.
"No of course not," Katrina told him. "Why do you think so?"
"You just look hungry." Klot said, then ate his cereal.
"Oh, I just had a pig's heart. Does that answer ya and beside, the full moon is rising. You know what that means?"
Klot and the other kids were silent. Sure, they once had a werewolf transfer to the school once, but he was already a wolf and they didn't pay much attention to Oxford's lecture on werewolves because they were afraid of what would happen to them until they met Wolfgang when he joined their class.
"So, kids wanna know who the other transfer student is?" Katrina asked, calmly.
"I never heard anything about new transfer students coming to the school." Oskar replied.
"Well, maybe they forgot?" Katrina shrugged.
Nestor slammed the kitchen door open with his foot and came in, carrying silver platter. "Wren, it's your favorite!"
"Potato bug salad!" Wren cheered.
"Hey, Nestor!" Katrina called.
Nestor set the platter down and served everyone. "Yah?"
"Got any raw meat?"
"There's some in the freezer, I'm on my way to get it, but it's too frozen for anyone to eat it now."
"Okay," Katrina looked to the kids. "So, you guys got questions for me?"
"When do your powers wear off?" Grufftine asked.
"It doesn't, I can transform whenever I want. Anymore questions?"
The Egyptian princess of the school filed her nails at her private chair of the table spread. "You better not bite me, I'm a princess."
"Yeah, you better not piss me off before I take that nail file and shove it up your ass," Katrina snarled. "Now, you don't want me to do that, now would you?"
The girl didn't answer, but just kept eating properly.
"Hey, Wren, who's she?" Katrina whispered.
"Who?" Wren asked as she munched.
"The one who's filing her nails."
"Nofre, she's an Egyptian vampire princess."
"I take it you hate her?"
"She's a spoiled brat." Grufftine added in, once the topic turned to the horrible girl in the school.
"She gives us girls a bad name." Batoria agreed.
"Indeed." Ravena finished.
"You're all just jealous." Nofre laughed.
"Hey Nofre!" Katrina yelled at her.
"What?" Nofre looked at her in annoyance.
"How about you just leave these guys alone?"
"How about you came back where you came from and let me be? We're all fine with ME here, right?"
Stoker looked at her like he were in love. Wren looked annoyed with Stoker in love, then kicked him sharply with a wicked smile.
"OW! WHAT!?" Stoker woke up.
"Excuse me, how about you shut the hell up, can you do that?" Katrina threatened Nofre. "Stupid fat cow..."
Wren then told Katrina the story of when Nofre came to the school. Nofre was known for downsizing Grufftine when she came and got all the boys to love her and do whatever she said. In the end, Grufftine challenged Nofre to a game of bat ball and Grufftine won. Katrina still thought Nofre was a cow.
"Am I right, Wren?" Katrina asked, nudging her new friend.
Wren wasn't paying much attention, she was reading a goth magazine. "I never cared for looks, but her personality sure is hideous."
Nofre gasped, then grew very angry with Wren.
"Hey, hear that, Nofre?" Katrina taunted.
"Whatever." Nofre scoffed, filing her nails again.
"You don't know who you're dealing with."
"You don't know who YOU'RE dealing with! My father is a pharaoh!"
Katrina scoffed. "Whatever, my dad is an alpha and a leader of the pack and the strongest."
"Wren, don't forget, you're helping me wash the dishes when everyone's done eating." Nestor told his niece while laid out the raw meat.
Wren groaned in annoyance.
"Thanks, Nestor." Katrina smiled, then wolfed down on the meat and licked the blood from her mouth. Delicious."
"Now, now, there's enough for everyone." Nestor told everyone with a smile.
"Do I have to wash the dishes...?" Wren sighed.
"You skipped it last week." Nestor explained.
"Oh, man, you just got burned by your uncle!" Katrina laughed.
"Whatever." Wren smiled, rolling her eyes.
"I'm joking, oh, hey, Wren, why don't you tell the kids 'bout the other transfer student, okay?" Katrina suggested. "You know who I'm talking 'bout, right?"
Wren looked at her, then at her fellow students. "There's another transfer student, her name's Jade."
"Still, it's kinda funny we didn't hear about this from the Professor or the Count." Oskar spoke up.
"Like I said, maybe they forgot, right?" Katrina shrugged.
"I guess, but it just seems odd, when the other students came in, we always knew, but oh well, I guess." Oskar said.
"Hey, have you guys heard a name of Justin André?" Katrina asked. The other students didn't respond right away. "Or know him? Well, how about you, Oskar, do you know?"
Meanwhile in the library with Jade and Tinto. The blonde vampire boy is looking through a book looking up any information he can find while the Texan red-headed girl looks with him.
"Hey, Tinto find anything yet about it?" Jade asked as Tinto was in deep focus.
"I'm not getting a good connection," Tinto said in dismay. "But I found a new site."
"What?" Jade asked.
Tinto pushed the computer screen to let her see.
"You think it gives us the information?" Jade asked.
Tinto pulled off his glasses and wiped them against his shirt. "The forces are weakening, I'm afraid some of your members have fallen, the Powerpuff Girls are in the infirmary now."
"Who's left?"
"The two Mike's, Jo, Jen, Jamie is nearly healing, the Ed's are almost down and out, but it's getting really bad over there."
"We have to do something."
"They need help before they get killed," Tinto said, gravely. "Jamie's heart rate is going down as we speak."
"Can't we bring everyone back to life?"
"We have this device in the basement to transfuse blood to anyone who had lost it when that human girl Sunshine was accidentally bitten by Oskar and made her a temporary vampire."
"Let's use it and bring everyone here!" Jade nearly screamed.
"It doesn't say how everyone got weak though." Tinto told her.
"I don't care, I don't want them dead, especially Scott!"
"Too many people can't know about this school, there's a vampire hunter next door, but thankfully he's terrible at his job, we beat him everytime."
"Can we do it now?"
"I don't know if the Count would allow it."
Suddenly, there came in a teal dressed girl with white sleeves, midnight blue hair with a tiny flowered hat on top. "Tinto, what are you doing?" she asked in a very angelic voice.
Tinto looked at her, blushing. "Erm..."
"Please!" Jade was still begging Tinto, avoiding the nice, well natured vampire girl.
"Are you one of the transfer students?" the girl asked, spotting Jade.
"Yeah, Jade Summers." the Texan girl replied.
"Hello, and welcome to our school." the vampire girl gave a smile.
"But, can you keep a secret?"
"Uhh... sure. You didn't do anything wrong, did you?"
"I'm not a transfer student."
The girl backed up, a little startled. "Are you a hunter?"
"No, of course not, I'm a member of the Cartoon Network League and so is Katrina."
"You don't happen to know anyone there called Robin, do you?"
"Why?"
"He's my father, he left home a long time ago for mine and my mother's protection and he told me in a letter he joined a league."
"Most of them are dead."
"I hope he isn't," the girl frowned. "I really miss him."
"Tinto, can you explain?"
"Sorry, I got nothing on Robin so far," Tinto said, then looked at the vampire girl. "Ravena, what are you doing here?"
"When you didn't show up for breakfast, I got worried." the vampire girl, Ravena, said solemnly.
"Wanna help us get the device and bring the league here and alive?" Jade asked her. "How 'bout it, Ravena?"
Ravena wasn't sure if she wanted to help them or not. It would risk her creature of the night life, but she loved helping people. This was a very hard decision as it overwhelmed her brain with possibilities that could happen to her if things went wrong.
"I wanna know if Scott is gonna..." Jade's eyes teared up a bit as she thought of her boyfriend back home. "Scott..." she found herself instantly crying.
"We'll try to see what we can do." Tinto assured her.
Ravena frowned and went to hug Jade.
"Please, Ravena, can you help us?" Jade asked, sniffling.
Ravena let go of the hug and released a heavy sigh. "I'll try... I don't believe in using my powers for violence."
"Hey what room is the device at?" Jade asked the boy genius of this world.
"It's in the science room right now." Tinto told her.
"Well, let's go then, is someone in there? Any teachers?" Jade asked before they would go right ahead and possibly get in trouble. "There's something you guys should know."
"What is it?" Tinto asked.
"I'm not a normal human being." Jade admitted.
"You were born a wolf." Ravena assumed this because of Wren said at breakfast.
"No, that's Katrina." Jade corrected.
"Oh, I thought you guys were sisters or something."
"No, just friends, you see, I have superpowers."
"Like what?" Tinto queried.
"I can control weather."
"Really? Pray tell how."
"Well, my mom had the same powers too just before it passed to me 'cuz my ancestor was Storm, a member of the X-Men."
Tinto listened, but something came up on the computer and he quickly did more research.
"What are you doing?" Jade asked him.
"Checking my email." Tinto grinned.
Ravena slightly rolled her eyes.
"Well, we have to save the league and bring them back to life," Jade told the boy. "Can you do that?"
"We can do the blood transfusions, it depends on how bad they've become." Tinto told her.
"TESTING!" Professor Oxford called to echo around the castle walls.
Ravena gasped and ran to the classroom.
"Well, let's go then, are you coming?" Jade asked.
Tinto saved the stuff on the laptop. "Come on, we better get you guys in class." he went to go in the classroom.
"I can create a mist clone and transform into you that way you won't miss it."
"I dunno, what if someone notices something's up?"
"Well, I got a Memory Wipe Ray in my pocket, that way no one will notice."
"Okay... Good luck with that."
"Okay, here we go," Jade then created a mist clone to transform into Tinto. "Well, what do you think, pretty good, huh, Tinto?"