Here it is chapter 12 guys and let me say sorry for the wait but I was busy with the Maverick and other things but I will try to keep the updates going but this week will be a little slow because I have a lot of papers do for school plus work this weekend, we got Ghost in the Shell and Boss Baby, add that alongside Kong, Power Rangers (Which you should see by the way pretty good) and Beauty and the Beast. Now onto the reviews I see you all want D to struggle so he shall suffer!-cracks my fingers.- Oh this will not be pretty my friends because next chapter is chapter 13! Which means bad luck...Oh what kind of things could happen at a costume party on a Friday the 13th? Now onto something Savvy pointed out with Clawdeen and Frankie, yes Frankie has fallen and "been" with a bunch of guys around the school but none of them stick, weird right? While Clawdeen never had anyone well...Your right but I think just for the heck of it I will have D go out on dates with some of the ghouls from Monster High down the line, but we won't see an official pairing until...Say after chapter 20 so you guys give me a list of girls you want to see D go out on a date with and we will see what will happen. Anyway I will see you guys in the next chapter update thank you all for your support!
"D, could you hand me that pencil over there?" Wydowna asked never looking up from her work.
Grabbing the pencil, I handed it over to the six-armed girl who smiled at me. "Thanks, how is the work on your panel coming?"
"Not too bad, but I am having some problems with the shading." I grumbled looking over my own work. "Do you think that you can check it out?"
"Sure, not a problem." As Wydowna came over to check my recent work I shook my head not really believing what was going on. It had been a week since my powers had settled and things in school were… Well they were what you except when being in a school filled with teenage monsters, during this past week I was talking with Frankie… Well more like being talked at, since she dominated the conversation, what was discussed you ask? Simply Frankie wanted me to try and be more open and to make more friends, I would have walked away but I was trying to do what she wanted, plus she was always nice despite how I treated her in the past. I tried to argue with her that it would be hard because I didn't share a lot of the same interests as other people, so she asked me what I did like to do…. I made the biggest mistake of my life by answering that question. I told her that I like drawing, comics, anime, manga and video games and a few other things…. And because of that I met Wydowna Spider a redheaded spider-girl who is kind of creepy but in a nice way, I found out early on she liked messing with people by acting like a spider… Yeah, I made her knock that crap off.
Anyway, after Frankie explained some of the things I liked doing Wydowna took an instant liking to me, and ever since then every day after school I was in the comic-club which consisted of Wydowna, Twyla of all people, Ghoulia when she could attend, and now me. Wydowna had everyone single one of us help draw a comic series she was working on, which I didn't mind it was interesting, enough. Now we all had different jobs, Wydowna drew the entire thing which with six arms didn't take long, I oversaw the shading while Twyla filled the rest of it in and did the dialog for the story.
"I think your shading is just fine D, but maybe switch to a different pencil." Wydowna smiled and went back over to her work.
Nodding I went back to work looking over the panel I sighed changing to a different shading pencil and found that it was working better than my first one. Quickly finishing up I passed over the paper that I was working on over to Twyla who smiled at me and went back to work. Stretching out I popped my back and looked over at the clock. "It's almost six… I should probably get home, knowing my dad he may end up burning the house down out of hunger."
Giggling both girls nodded since they had met my dad before and knew what he was like. "It is getting around that time, we can pick this up tomorrow." Wydowna smiled.
"Cool, I will see you two later." Twyla smiled and slowly faded into the shadows. Rolling my eyes, I muttered. "Show off."
"I heard that." Twyla's voice came through the room causing the spider-girl to laugh. Waving to Wydowna I grabbed my things and left the room and started to head home, as I walked through the halls in the school it felt like something was following me, but every time I turned around that feeling vanished and this wasn't the first time it has happened either, ever since the fact I could change my shape I felt like someone was secretly watching me while I was at school. "Okay…Either it's one of the ghosts again or that invisible kid…what was his name? Bill?" Shaking my head, I turned back around and kept on walking, but as I walked I looked out of the corner of my eye and spotted something oddly purple hiding behind a locker but the moment I turned around it vanished. Frowning I eyed the spot where I thought I saw something… raising an eyebrow I rubbed my nose. "Please if your following me, come out."
Unsurprisingly no one answered me, shaking my head I turned around and found myself face to face with a purple skinned girl. "Ah!" Jumping back in surprise I looked over at the purple girl and frowned. She had a large staff and a doctor's bag, she had strange marks around her eyes, long black hair with purple? Pink? Highlights in her hair and her clothing looked like a mix of tribal and modern things…Yeah, she is a little strange, no not a little a lot…and she kept staring at me with a very confused expression.
"Can I help you?" I asked in a slightly annoyed tone. "And why are you spying on me? It's creepy."
Blushing in embarrassment the girl tried to hide behind her staff which didn't help at all as I kept on staring at her. "I... I am sorry… but I was observing not spying."
I was about to say something but then I noticed something, she was gently tapping her fingers along her staff, she was twitching slightly…This girl was acting just I did…Taking a deep breath I slowly backed up, Frankie wanted me to try and be a nicer person… So, I guess I will start with someone like me. "No… I'm sorry." Sighing I shook my head. "I didn't mean to be rude."
Looking up slightly she turned her head. "No I didn't mean to spy on you, it's just I'm not used to dealing with… other people." Rubbing the back of her neck she sighed and looked down.
"Join the club." I nodded.
Looking around I didn't know what to say, and I am guessing neither did this girl. Finally, after a few awkward moments I bit my lip. "Okay enough is enough… I'm D."
"Jane Boolittle." The girl smiled and nodded.
"So… Jane… Why were you spying on me?" I asked, finally asking.
"Well you see… "She frowned and shook her head. "Come on Jane you can do this… You see D I grew up in a jungle with my father Doctor Boolittle, and I spent most of time watching and observing everything." Jane explained rubbing the back of her neck. "I never really broke the habit."
"Makes sense I guess… But why spy or observe me?" I asked confused my foot tapping up and down.
Biting her lip Jane looked over near a vent and smiled before taking a deep breath and letting it out. "Well the reason is D… I never met a dhampir before so I wanted to see what you were like, plus I heard a rumor that you can turn into animals."
Frowning slightly, I sighed and nodded. "I can turn into three and that is because of my vampire heritage, and why would me being able to change form interest you?"
"Well… I can deal with animals a lot easier than people, my father even taught me how to talk- "She started to say but stopped when she saw me facepalming. "Are you alright?"
"Just… having an aneurysm from the sheer coincidence…God this is how Magnus must feel." I groaned rubbing my face. "Anyway… You can talk to animals?"
"Oh, well yes… You know it's funny when Magnus and I met he said and did the same thing…how curious." Jane pulled out a notepad and some paper and started to jot some notes down. "D… Could you perhaps change forms please?"
"If I do will you stop spying on me?" I asked.
"Observe and yes." She smiled looking rather eager to learn something new.
Nodding I took a deep breath and focused, I felt my body shift and re-arrange itself, part of the trick was my body shifted into that inky shadow stuff and then reformed into what I was thinking of. "Oh, my is that a Kangaroo mouse?" Bending down Jane slowly scooped me up in her hands and held me close so she could get a look at me. "Your fur coloring… Same as your hair, interesting you have a small fringe of fur on top of your head, looks like your hair and your eyes are the same color as well, very impressive."
So, she thought me being a mouse was impressive, jumping off her hands my body shifted again and I took on my fox bat form. "Oh, wow that is fangtastic! You can turn into a fox bat as well?" Jotting some notes down she looked at my form. "Hm interesting all your clothes vanish expect that necklace, anything else?"
Guess this is it, my last trick. Slowly landing on the ground I placed my wings out over my head, and right before her eyes my body grew longer and fuzzier, my entire form filled out and finally a tail grew. Slowly stretching out and yawning I looked up at Jane with a raised eyebrow ridge. "And this is it."
"Amazing, I don't think I have ever seen a breed of dog like you before." Jane smiled excitedly as she walked around me jotting down notes.
Watching her I slowly turned my head to the side. "You seem…less shy."
"I told you before, I am more comfortable around animals then people." She bent down and reached out a hand but stopped. "Do you mind if I pet you?" Seriously? What is it with people wanting to pet me in my dog form. "Go ahead." I shook my head as she started to run her hand up and down my back…. Okay that feels nice.
"D, can you talk to other animals when you're like this?" Jane asked as she was petting me.
"Never tried…But maybe later, so any more questions?" I asked eyeing her.
"No, no you answered them all so far." She smiled scratching my ears.
Leaning into her hand I eyed her with a curious look. "So far? You mean have more?"
Giggling slightly Jane nodded. "Well of course but they can wait until later, plus weren't you heading somewhere before you stopped?"
"Heading somewhere-OH crap my house!" I shouted taking off like a shot.
"Well it was nice meeting you." Jane waved slightly.
"Yeah you too." I grunted out as I ran down the halls and out the door of the school and toward my house. As I ran home my mind raced with the fact that my father may have set our house on fire, and he and Gigi could be hurt but I stopped when I realized something… I was still in dog form…And I was home already…And it wasn't on fire…Huh…Looking down at my legs I shook my head. "Guess four are faster than two." Walking up to the door my body slowly shifted back into its human form, taking out my keys I unlocked the door and stepped through. Sniffing the air, I smelt…food…but it wasn't burning and it didn't smell like takeout or fast food…It smelt good…
"Oh, D you're home!" Gigi said walking into view wearing an apron. "I was starting to get worried."
Looking down slightly I bit my lip. "Yeah sorry Gigi, I got talking to someone and lost track of the time."
"It doesn't matter, I'm glad your home." Smiling Gigi walked back toward the kitchen. "Why don't you go play some video games with your dad, dinner should be ready soon."
Huh…Okay blinking I set my bag down by the door and slowly walked toward the living room where my dad was indeed playing some video or another. Noticing me for the first time my dad grinned and patted the ground next to him, shrugging I sat down and started to play the game with him as we waited for dinner. While I was getting, my but handed to me by my dad in Mortal Kombat…seriously when he isn't writing he spends his time play video games… the guy is good, we both talked about my day.
"Boys come to the table." Gigi called.
"Yay dinner! Last one has to do the dishes!" My dad shouted, pushing my down as he ran to the table.
Laughing I quickly jumped up and raced him. Despite the fact, he had a head start I was faster. Getting to the table I smirked at my dad. "Sorry dad looks like you have to do the dishes."
"No fair!" My dad pouted crossing his arms across his chest.
"To bad you tried to cheat and you lost, so suck it up like man." I grinned.
Giggling the former genie of the lantern placed a large bowl of beef stew on the table, along with some fresh loaf of French beard. Looking all over the food I felt my stomach rumble, this all looked and smelt amazing. "And here are your drinks, a glass of water for me, coke for Mr. Jason and a dr. pepper for D, along with your 'medicine.'" Gigi said placing a collection of drinks in front of us and a small bottle of blood next to my soda can.
"Thanks Gigi." Smiling at the pink skinned girl I drained the contents of my bottle and went straight into eating. Now before Gigi got here this would hardly ever happen, me eating the same day I needed to drink blood. You see before she showed up and my need for blood took over, I thought all I needed was the small amount of blood to function and I would be alright, boy was I wrong. Turns out I needed food and blood…I have been starving myself without even knowing it. So, when Gigi moved in and found out that I was just drinking blood in subsite for meals she got worried and talked to Headmistress Bloodgood who explained that I should be eating alongside the drinking of blood…. Boy, did I get the talking to of a lifetime from the pink genie…SO she has been forcing me to eat ever since.
"You're welcome D." Smiling Gigi sat down at the table and we all began to eat.
"Mmm…This is delicious Gigi, I think you may have D beat when it comes to cooking." My dad grinned as he scooped out a large piece of beef and took a bite out of it.
"Oh, I don't think I'm that good, but thank you." Gigi blushed slightly as she slowly ate.
"I think dad is right Gigi ever since you moved in your cooking beasts mine by a landslide." Smiling I nodded at her. "I tip my hat at you."
"But you're not wearing-Oh wait I get it." Gigi smiled. "Thank you, D."
Chuckling I nodded and continued to eat, while eating we all discussed whatever came to mind… To be completely honest this was nice, I never really thought that my life would be like this but I am starting to realize that when Gigi moved in something critical that was missing from me and my father's life was suddenly filled. I belonged to a family… Yeah me and my dad had each other and Aunty Helen whenever she would visit but something was always missing but now? It felt like we had a family… I hadn't had this kind of feeling not since my mother had lived with us.
"Hellooo? Earth to D, Earth to D. Come in space man. Anyone home?" My dad said looking at me wide eyed and knocking on my head.
Shaking myself from my thoughts I grinned slightly. "Sorry… I was a little lost in my thoughts, what were you saying?"
"Not me son, Gigi she asked you a question." He grinned…I don't like that grin it means something horrible is coming my way.
"What did you ask Gigi?" I asked looking at the genie girl with a sheepish grin. "And sorry."
"Oh, it's alright D, anyone I asked if you're going to the costume party this Friday." She smiled.
Blinking I raised an eyebrow. "We are having a costume party? Since when?"
"Well it is Cleo who is throwing it, and she said it was an open invitation, you going?" She smiled hopefully.
Looking between Gigi and my dad I raised an eyebrow and sighed. "I don't really get a choice in this, do I?"
"Nope!" Both my dad and Gigi laughed.