Hey guys how are you doing? I know it's been a while but I was working on this, and trust me I had a lot of fun and writer's block when it came to this chapter, but I hope it was alright. Anyway I want to thank all of you who are supporting this story and me through your reviews or following and faving me or the story. So thank you from the bottom of my heart. Now onto the reviews! Gemm1st I'm sorry but hey this story is up and remember it's every ten chapters, so just focus on that the next big event is on chapter 40. 1786 I can't promise anything but I will work on it I promise. TheSpaceMan I'm glad you found it but sorry it wasn't what you meant, I will do better next time my friend. .Machine. I'm glad you liked the chapter and the pacing and I finally decided to provide some back story on Gigi's old dhampir friend and... spoiler alert he appears down the line. GasJr I know all about whatmustido's story but I lost interest in it when he made Nav a woman, I don't like gender/bent stories just a personal thing. Anyway now I am going to take a long, long break... Well not really I will be writing for the The Maverick tomorrow but for the rest of tonight I'm on break, anyway I will see you all in the next chapter :)
"Wait Monster High has been open for 200 years? But the school history says it's been open for 2000… This is very confusing." Magnus shook his head in confusion.
Frowning I looked at the bronze haired teen with a raised eyebrow. "I think the confusing thing is… Why are you here? Better yet how did you know about the Bite-Centennial…. I still can't believe they call it that." About two days ago Magnus and his girlfriend Darling both had shown up out of the blue and said something about winning some vacation or something from a Battle of the Bands thing… I wasn't really paying attention about why but apparently, they were coming to help celebrate the Bite-Centennial but I am still trying to figure who had told them… Because it wasn't me that's for sure.
"I was invited by Frankie, by the way have you seen Darling… I lost her in the crowd." Scratching his head Magnus looked around with a frown. "I seriously need to find her."
Shaking my head, I made a mental note to talk to Frankie about this all later, slowly I closed my eyes and sniffed the air, I will admit there are some perks to having super senses, and one of them is being able to track someone by scent. See a lot of people think that werewolves or dogs are the only ones with super noses, well they are wrong. A dhampir's sense of smell is pretty good… and if you tie in the fact that I drank the blood of a werewolf before and I could take powers from other monsters… Yeah, my sense of smell was REALLY good. Moving my head around for a few seconds I pointed down the hall once I picked up her scent. "She's that way."
Nodding both Magnus and I made some small talk but there was thing that was really bugging me about him so I decided to ask. "Magnus, why aren't you dressed like Van Hellsing?"
Looking down at himself Magnus shrugged. "Eh I found a way for me and Darling to wear our normal outfits, which believe you and me I like a lot."
"I will admit it suits you better then dressing like a wanna be monster hunter that's for sure." I grinned slightly seeing the bronze haired idiot pout slightly but then something caught my eye. "Hm… There they go again."
"There goes who now?" Magnus asked looking at me slightly confused before following my gaze, walking or in one's case floating through the hallway were four strange looking monsters, the first one was a male with gray skin, with some of it looking like a zombie one side, horse ears on top of his head along with a blue horn right in the middle of his head, he had long black hair striped with blues, yellows, and red, and his horse tail was the same colors, he wore a ribcage design shirt that had the primary colors on it, his pants were pretty strange as well, the left side was a leg bone with primary colors while the right side was all black.
Walking next to him was a girl with pale purple skin, but her bottom half was a horse and the fur was much darker on the horse part of her body. She also has feathery wings that fade from black to turquoise, and her blue eyes have bold pink feathers surrounding them. Both her head hair, done in a ponytail, and tail hair is blue. She has horse ears obviously. Her main outfit features a black top hat with red trim. On her hands are black gloves. Her entire outfit that resembles an equestrian rider's uniform, with blue ruffles along the collar and bottom. Around the waist of the top is a black belt with strands hanging off it.
Floating alongside her was well a mermaid only… she could float her skin was stark white skin that flows over into the scales of a tail that changes from silver to blue to black at the bottom. Her long, purple hair has lavender streaks through it and part of it is coiled and twisted, the rest flows down past her waist in side curls. She has blue eyes and from the elbow down her skin fades into black. She wears a golden or green one-shoulder top and has several long, black strands of fabric tied around her wrists.
And finally, the last member of the odd group was a pink skin girl, with pink eyes and green pupils, she had two spindly horns going through her long platinum blond, pink and black hair, she wore a tight sparkly dress. Her main features are two large pink and black moth wings with see-through yellow panes in the holes. Her torso and arms are skeletal while she has moth legs. Her heels have a design similar to her wings.
"Who are they?" Magnus asked looking at me with a raised eyebrow. "I don't remember them being here when I first visited, and question… What kind of monsters are they? Because I can only hazard a few guesses just from looks alone."
"They're new." I said watching them walk by with a sympathetic look. "And to answer the last question their hybrid monsters, each one has a mix monster heritage. Kind of like me and Jackson only we're half human."
"Ohh… Well they look lonely we should- "Magnus started to say but stopped when I grabbed his arm and shook my head.
"Don't bother they don't talk to anyone, expect each other. The only one that has tried is the guy but the horse girl forces him away from people." Sighing I let go of Magnus's arm and motioned for him to follow me. "Come on let's just find your girlfriend."
Nodding Magnus and I continued down the hallway until we found his girlfriend along with a few of our mutual friends standing in the hallways all of them were staring in the direction we just came in from, I'm guessing they were watching the hybrid monsters as well. Magnus walked up to his girlfriend and wrapped his arm around her waist and started to make some small talk while I was a bit distracted I kept on staring in the direction the new kids went and sighed, in many ways they reminded me of myself, maybe that's why I was going to try and talk with them. Telling everyone I would see them in class I followed the new kids scent and I found all four of them huddled together in a small alcove of the hallway talking amongst themselves.
"… What were you thinking Neighthan, you heard how they were talking about us." The centaur like girl said with a frown.
"That's because they don't know us Avea, and if we just let them- "Neighthan started to say but was cut off by the ghost mermaid.
"He's right Avea I think we could make some real friends here…. Ohhh who's that?" Floating/flying away from her friends the ghost mermaid smiled brightly as she got right in my face. "I'm Sirena who are you?"
Blinking I raised eyebrow before swallowing down my issues of my personal space being invaded by total strangers. "I'm D, and I- "
"You must come and meet my friends!" Sirena said excitedly as she tried to drag me toward her friends. "This is Neighthan- "She said pointing toward the zombie/unicorn. "That's Avea!" Sirena then turned her finger toward the winged centaur. "You've met me and that's Bonita!" Sirena smiled as she pointed to the pink skinned girl. "Everyone this is D!" The other hybrid monsters waved at me slightly expect for Avea who was glaring at Sirena and me.
Nodding at them I crossed my arms across my chest. "Nice to meet you all."
"You too, as Sirena said I'm Neighthan, what can we do for you D?" The zombie unicorn asked with a questioning gaze.
Clearing my throat, I tried to find the right words to say to them without coming off as a jerk or insensitive… Dang it how does Magnus even do crap like this? "Well, I've noticed ever since you guys showed up you haven't really… Well branched out of your circle, but hey I get it. I just wanted to see if you guys were doing okay."
"We're fine, but what concern is it of a normie- "Avea started to say but was cut off by my glare.
"I'm not a human, I'm only half. I'm a dhampir, if anyone can understand you guys. It's me." I said which caused the other hybrid monsters to stare at me in shock a little. "Listen I get your attitude Avea, I'm the same way, you just want to look out for your friends so you're abrasive, however if you looked around you would see you're not the only hybrids around. Besides you guys, you have me, a half human and half vampire, then you have Jackson who is half human and fire elemental and whatever that Jekyll and Hyde thing he has going on. So, if anyone could understand your problems it's us, hell I bet you guys keep your distance because you think no one gets what it's like being of two worlds, well we certainly do. Anyway, I'll let you be, but I just wanted you guys to know you're not alone."
The hybrid monsters looked at one another and bit their lips until the lead monster Avea looked at me with curious look on her face. "Listen… D, right? Thank you, it's just- "
"No one really understands our problems but…" Bonita started to say with a small smile. "It seems like you get it."
Nodding Neighthan smiled. "Yeah, I think it's nice to finally have someone else who gets it… You know I should go talk with Jackson you said, right?" I nodded. "Thanks, I've seen him in class before."
"Seee! He's nice." Sirena smiled as she floated around me before making an 'ohhing' sound and zooming off.
Blinking I raised an eyebrow and pointed in the direction she left. "Is that normal for her?"
"Yep." The other hybrid monsters nodded.
Rubbing the bridge of my nose I sighed and shook my head with a small smile. "What did I get into?"
"…. Which finally gets into the most important member of the De Nile family tree…" Cleo snapped her fingers as her guards removed a stone tablet and right behind it was another and rather quickly they craved out Cleo onto the tablet. "Me!" So, in conclusion because my family has more pharos and queens then anyone else's my scare-itage project should win first prize."
"The scare-itage project is a project it isn't a contest." Mr. Rotter rolled his eyes slightly.
"Well just so we're all in agreement that if this were a competition I'd win." Cleo chuckled to herself and slowly made her way back to her seat.
Shaking his head Mr. Rotter rubbed his face. "Robecca Steam your turn."
"That was perhaps the most boring and self-centered project I have ever seen." Magnus and I said at the same time.
"Oh, come now your just jealous- "Cleo started to say but stopped when I raised an eyebrow at me. "Cleo, I could literally eat everyone in this room, and just get stronger for it. I'm one of the most dangerous things in this room, the other is the bronze-haired idiot here."
"I'm richer then god himself, I have a sword that can cut through anything, a group of dragons for pets, and I'm dating the most beautiful girl in the world." Magnus said with a grin. "So why would we be jealous of you?" We both said at the same time.
"They got you there Cleo." Clawdeen smirked while Darling just squeezed Magnus's hand with a smile.
"Quite back there!" Mr. Rotter shouted at us while Robecca went on with her project about her father, it's funny in all the time I've known her Robecca barely mentioned her dad, but then again… I get it I mean when my mom wasn't in my life I didn't talk about her that much because it was too painful. Anyway, Robecca finished her project while Mr. Rotter kept on bragging about being her father's favorite student. Finally, it was Frankie's turn but it looked like she wasn't fully prepared for the assignment or at least that is what the teacher said. Personally, I thought it wasn't too bad she brought everything she had and was able to provide a decent history for herself. However, Mr. Rotter didn't feel the same way seeing is how is making her re-do the assignment and she had only till tomorrow to do it.
Well after Frankie was Abbey and she decided to start her project at the ice age. Banging my head into the desk I heard Darling laugh and make some comment about me acting like Magnus, while the bronze-haired idiot grumbled about copy right infringement. Luckily Abbey's project went over its time limit and the bell rang, and we all headed to lunch, after pushing some tables together, Darling, Gigi, Magnus and I all sat with Frankie, Draculaura, Clawdeen, Jina, Robecca, Lagoona, Ghoulia, Cleo and Venus, they were all eating. Well expect for Clawdeen who was drawing in her fashion book and only eating when someone nudged her.
"Don't fret love a bad grade on your project isn't the end of the world." Lagoona said to Frankie.
"No, it's not that Lagoona, you ghouls seem to know so much about you about your scare-itage." Frankie said, I guess she was still mopping about Mr. Rotter chewing her out. "I don't seem to know anything about mine."
"Eh don't worry about it, Mr. Rotter is a dick." Magnus chuckled only to be smacked by Darling which caused the ghouls that knew him to laugh at his expense. "What? He is."
"I agree." Shaking my head, I smiled slightly.
"Can't you simply speak to your father about your family." Jina asked with raised eyebrow.
"My parents won't even talk even talk about my grandfather and any time I ask my dad about it he gets into a mood and goes. 'Grr Grandpa bad!' "Frankie said imitating her father which caused everyone to laugh expect for Darling who was slightly confused, and Magnus who said he would explain later, I guess they don't have monster movies in fairy tale land.
"Ohh… Too cold." Lagoona said as she tried sipping at her soup.
"Allow me." Jina the dragon girl said as she grabbed the bowl and slowly blew fire on it only she burned the soup and everything else in it.
"Much… Better." Lagoona said with a sheepish grin.
"I miss being a dragon." Magnus grumbled which seemed to catch Jina's attention, and soon those two were talking about Magnus's time as a dragon, something even I didn't know, I wanted to hear the story and from what he was saying it involved a disease, magic and a very powerful creature of pure chaos. However, I was distracted by the other hybrid monsters walking by, all of them were headed for a table near the back, so I decided to stand up and follow them right after they rejected Frankie's offer. I told everyone I needed to have a talk with them, but before that I looked around the creepateria and found a certain nerdy looking guy and grabbed him. After explaining the situation to him he was more than happy to help. Together we both sat down with the other hybrids who looked a little confused as to why we were sitting with them.
"Everyone I want you to meet Jackson, Holt his other half is- "I looked at Jackson a little confused on how him and Holt's situation was.
"Is asleep, sort of. Anyway, it's nice to meet you all." The geeky teen said as smiled at the other monsters. "D here told me about you guys, and I have to say it's nice to meet other hybrid monsters. For a while I thought D and I were the only ones here, but then you guys showed up."
"You too." Neighthan said with a smile, while Bonita and Avera looked well not conformable with talking with us but I get that, and Sirena was more focused on building a model of Monster High out of food… And that look's good I need to ask her…Focus D. Shaking my head I tried to re-focus, I really have been spending too much time with Magnus. "I said that the six of us could talk."
"Talk? About what?" Avera asked with a frown, I guess my little talk with them earlier wasn't as affect as I thought it was. "How similar we are? I hate to break it to you but we're nothing alike."
"Avera! There's no need to be rude." Neighthan said softly.
"She's right though." Bonita said softly. "They don't know anything about us."
"But D seems like he knows what he's talking about." Sirena said floating in between Jackson and me, before taking off to look at something that caught her eye.
"Really?" Jackson asked with a raised eyebrow as he pushed up his glasses. "I think I do, your always on the move, you don't believe anyone will accept you because your too different? Join the club."
Blinking I stared at Jackson with some new found respect the guy was normally very shy or timid the complete opposite of his other half and yet here he was telling it how it is, color me impressed. "He's right, so tell me have you four ever been… Oh I don't know hunted or had someone wanting to harm you because you were different?" I asked with a raised eyebrow, when they shook their heads I growled slightly as I shifted into my vampire half in front of them, the change was startling for them to say the least. "I have, in fact my first day here I was almost killed by almost the entire student body because of what I am."
The hybrid monsters gasped, even Sirena who had floated back over to us. Ignoring the stares of horror, I kept on going. "Not to mention my mother's family they hate half breeds like me, and when I showed up on their doorstep they all tried to kill me, so please tell me how hard your life is because you got a few weird stares."
Frowning Jackson shook his head. "Not really helping our case here with the first bit, but let me explain something to you guys, D and I were just like you four when we first arrived here. We didn't talk to anyone, we tried to be apart from the others but then the strangest thing happened, we were accepted and embraced by the others. Heck despite D's abrasive personality he is the school's hero and a great friend. Here at Monster High they accept everyone no matter their freaky flaws." Jackson smiled at all of them.
Frowning the others all looked at one another thinking over what we had said well… Not Neighthan or Sirena they seemed to be okay with us, it was Bonita and Avera that we had to win over, in many ways they reminded me of myself now that I thought about it.
"Okay… You guys do know what you're talking about." Avera said with a small but thoughtful frown. "I'm sorry it's just- "
"-We're just so used to people pushing us around because we're different." Bonita sighed and rested her face on her hands.
"Well that can change here." I said with a very small smile. "But you should open up to people, it could really help in the end… And coming from me the king of anti-social loners that's saying something." Standing to my feet I patted Jackson on the back and nodded at the others. "Give it some thought alright?" Reaching into my pocket I pulled out my phone and frowned. "Hey, I will catch up with you all later, looks like I have some business to take care of, but here- "Putting my phone away I reached into my pocket and pulled out a pen and wrote down my number on a napkin. "If guys ever need to talk, call me alright?"
Nodding the other hybrids smiled slightly and waved as I walked off expect for Sirena who was doing something else… Man that girl can't keep focused for long, shaking my head I pulled my phone out and looked over the text again and raised an eyebrow. "What the hell are they doing in the catacombs of the school?"
Following the scent of my friends was enough, but getting to where they were, was another matter entirely. It was like where ever they were headed was completely booby trapped, granted most of them were disarmed but that's not the point, who leaves freaking booby traps in a school? A nut that's who. Sighing I kept on following the scent and after avoiding a sleeping dragon in a giant bronze room and stepping into a vault I found both Darling and Gigi standing in front of a giant mirror? I wasn't sure what it was but it just screamed 'Plot Device.'
"Hey what's going on? And where are the others? Also, what's with the sleeping dragon?" I asked jerking a thumb back toward the sleeping reptile behind me.
"D!" Both girls ran up quickly and explained the situation in a quick way, sighing I shook my head and rubbed the bridge of my nose. I knew what I had to do but I knew it was going to suck.
"I'm going after them, just stay out of the room alright?" Darling and Gigi wanted to come with me but I argued that fact they would be needed here if I wasn't back with the others soon. They relented but said if I wasn't back in an hour they were calling for help and then coming straight in after us. Nodding I found the lever that was pulled via scent and what the girls told me and re-activated the machine. Slowly the mirror started to spin faster and faster until it became a glowing blue portal, taking a deep breath and sighing I jumped through. The ride throw the portal was perhaps the most frightening thing I have ever experienced in my life, the jerking and twisting and pulling was horrifying in many ways and it made me sick to my stomach, and just as it started it ended and I was dumped out onto the ground.
"Oh, god I'm going to be sick." Grabbing my mouth, I fell over and closed my eyes. my stomach felt like it was doing back flips. Fighting down the urge to take a ride down the urge to look for the porcelain throne. Taking slow and deep breaths until my stomach calmed down, looking around I saw I was in the same lab only this version of it was cleaner… and it looked like someone could live in it. Frowning I slowly stood to my feet and came to one conclusion.
"I'm in the fucking past."
Getting out of the lab and the catacombs was easy enough but once I got out was when I faced the real challenge, blending in…. I decided to shift into my dog form and sniff out of my friends, of course the first one I find is Magnus and… he is trying to pick a fight with someone or someone got insulted by him… To be honest I don't care, this guy was about to break the number one rule about time travel, don't mess with the past!
"I bite my thumb at you sir!" Magnus shouted with his thumb underneath his front teeth.
Frowning the werewolf student crossed his arms and growled. "Do you wish to fight normie?"
"Not really but hey you insulted my friends and then had the nerve to act like a high and mighty twit." Glaring Magnus cross his arms and shook his head. "That just isn't right, now we can do this the easy way or the Magnus way and trust me you won't- "
"Magnus!" I shouted running up to him. "What the hell are you doing?"
Blinking the bronze-haired teen grinned at me. "Oh, hey D, I was just- "
"I don't care, you are coming with me, we are finding our friends and getting out of here!" I growled snapping at jacket and started to pull him away toward the nearest scent.
"But come on D you won't believe what this guy said about our frien- "Magnus tried to argue as I dragged him toward the school.
"Don't care." I said with his jacket between my teeth.
Turning his head back Magnus glared at the student and pointed at him. "I'm going to deck you when I get back."
Rolling my eyes, I let go of the bronze-haired idiot when I was sure he wouldn't wander off and looked for our friends, now we had a few options because it looked like every had spilt up. Sighing I told Magnus to go look in a general direction of Frankie and with the promise he wouldn't get into any more trouble. While he did this, I looked for Toralei, she was bound to cause as much trouble as Magnus if not more so. She was a friend but boy that cat liked trouble. Shaking my head, I followed her scent throughout the school and found her along with Jina and Clawdeen holding the cat between their arms, Toralei had a bunch of stuff from… Well this time on her, including two top hats, one on each ear and an umbrella. After getting the girls and finding everyone else we all headed back to the lab of Robecca's father and started the time portal again, but before we could go through we were interrupted by a young teen dressed like a mad scientist begging Frankie to teach him the secret of life.
Shifting back into my human form I grinned slightly at this guy's clumsy actions as he tripped over a wire and caused many things to fall over. "Man, this guy is a walking disaster area."
"You're telling me… Anyway, come on let's jump on through!" Magnus shouted as he and I ran and jumped into the glowing portal.
"God, I have a bad feeling about this." I muttered.
Darling and Gigi both paced inside the lab with worried looks on their faces, Darling was of course worried for her boyfriend and his friends, while Gigi worried not just about her friends but about her best friend D. As they waited both girls tried to make small talk but nothing could keep their minds off the fact the people they cared about were in danger or trouble. Suddenly the machine whirled to life and glowed brightly and all of a sudden Frankie was tossed out of the machine along with Ghoulia in a cloud of smoke.
"Ghoulia! Frankie!" Gigi called out as she and Darling ran up to them.
"Are you alright?" Darling asked looking over Frankie while Gigi checked on Ghoulia.
"I'm fine, you okay Ghoulia?" Frankie asked as she looked over at the zombie.
"Gahh."
"That's good, but where are the others?" Gigi asked with a raised eyebrow as she tried to peer through the smoke.
"I'm alright." Draculaura called out.
"Me too." Robecca said.
Slowly the smoke started to clear revealing a new figure, she had black laced up boots, with pink heels her skin was a tan pink, she wore a pink dress with blue stripes in the middle with a bronze spider web belt over her dress, on her back were two bronze bat wings, this new girl had black hair that was stripped with pink and blue and in her hair, was a set of bronze goggles. On her right cheek was a heart shaped mark. In essence whoever this was she looked like a perfect blend of both Draculaura and Robecca
The normal girls gasped staring at whoever this was.
"Wow…" The new girl said in Draculaura's voice as she looked over herself.
"Draculaura, Robecca!" Running past Darling and the others was a girl that looked like she was part werecat, part mummy. She had long dark pink hair with a few strands that were orange and black, on top of her head were a set of cat ears that were pierced while around her head was a circlet. She was dressed in a pone piece outfit that was yellow with black cats on it, she had on a black scarf, a short sleeve green jacket, with matching belt, black wedge heels with stripes on the wedges. Her skin/fur was tan with patch over one of her eyes. She looked just like Cleo and Toralei.
"You've been fused together."
"Oh my ghoul!" Draculaura/Robecca said.
"There not the only ones." Toralei meowed looking over herself.
"Oh M. Ra!" Cleo placed a hand over her head but quickly jumped out of the way of blast fire.
"Crikey!" The next monster looked like a fish monster and a dragon, she wore pink shell/dragon feet heels with a pink top with black sleeves a blue skirt with some pink patterns on it with a gold belt. She had a long tail with a fluffy end, her hair was long blonde with a mix of green and a huge puff with a pink hair ornate holding it up. She looked like Lagoona and Jina
"What's going on?" The last monster was a mixture of Clawdeen and Venus, while Clawdeen's features were prominent, she had an earthy shade of brown fur, long purple hair with some green and pink mixed in, along with a faux neon green and hot pink fur around her shoulders. Her outfit consisted off a purple dress with green flora pattern on it and a gold belt, on her wrists were several gold bangles, her wolf ears were pierced, while on her feet were black heels with pink around the top.
"Wow this is super freaky!" Clawdeen/Venus said looking herself.
"Umm…. Ghoulia…Gigi… Darling we have a problem…" Frankie said going pale as she stared at her combined friends.
"Wait where's Magnus… And D?" Darling asked looking around for her boyfriend and his friend.
"We're over here."
Slowly the entire room turned around to face yet another shocking sight, the figure standing before them was a perfect mixture of Magnus and D, the new guy had on Magnus's pants but on the pouches were silver and black lined skulls, his shoes were now more or less armored boots, his hands were covered in fingerless gloves with a red pentagram symbol on them, around his neck was D's necklace, his shirt was black with red on the sides, while he wore a short sleeve jacket with green armor on the shoulders while the rest was black. Looking away from his clothes everyone noticed his features were spilt down the middle, one eye was silver/green the other was orange/red/yellow, his facial features were a mix of both D and Magnus. He had Magnus's body type but D's pale skin, his hair was wild and spiky like Magnus's but had D's black hair color, expect all the spikes were tinged with bronze. D's signature beanie was now gone and it was now a large black hood attached to his jacket.
The figure grinned a very eerie grin, it was like Magnus's insane smile and D's vampire half cocky smirk. "Expect we aren't D or Magnus…. Hmm… What would you call a D and Magnus? Dagnus sounds good."
I had to admit I liked this body of mine, it was perfect I had all the brain power of Magnus, but with D's self-control so that means no weird randomness, I had all the power of D and the willingness to use it like his vampire half but with the perfect control but with the discipline Magnus possessed. Not to mention I had all of Magnus's confidence and none of D's doubts about anything. All and all it was the perfect package deal.
Though not everyone thought so. Mainly D's mother and Magnus's girlfriend, though Darling was handling it a lot better. I guess she was
"What do you mean you're fused together with this boy?"
Sticking a finger in my ear I rubbed it and sighed. "Okay first off… Ow." Blinking I shook my head. "Secondly D and Magnus fused together… Thus, making me."
"Mrs. Blood, that's the best we're going to get out of him, he's part my idiot. Magnus just loves acting like this, and sadly Dagnus inherited that trait." Darling sighed as she rubbed the bridge of her nose trying to fight an incoming headache.
Frowning Gigi nodded. "Not to mention that whole cocky attitude is D's vampire half but… My question is all the other ghouls were themselves, two minds in one body but… How come Magnus and D fused together so…" The genie tried to find the word for it.
"Perfectly?" I suggested with a grin.
"-Yes, perfectly thank you Dagnus, but why would the other's fuse just in body but keep their minds?"
Sighing Darling shook her head. "In a word? Magnus, he's… Odd and that is putting it mildly. Plus, Magnus has attracted the attention of strange things."
While the others were talking, I frowned and thought over the answer and accepted it, Magnus was a magnet for trouble and since I had all of his memories I knew what Darling was talking about. Shaking my head, I looked around, we were all at D's house hanging around and trying our best to explain the situation, sadly only D's dad was taking this alright, but given that his mom just came back into their lives it was understandable.
"Listen I get Mrs. Blood…" I started to say… Why didn't I call her mom? Easy she isn't my mother, she may be D's but not mine. "You just got your son back but Darling contacted Giles, and he will be doing some research not to mention that Wizard friend of Darling's will be coming here sooner or later, so for now let's just try and deal with this calmly and rationally."
Taking a deep breath D's mother nodded and smiled shakily. "Alright. I will try… Thank you... Dagnus is what you call yourself yes?" Nodding she smiled slightly. "Well… Despite everything you are half my son." Slowly she wrapped her arms around me and gently rubbed my back. I decided not to correct on the fact she wasn't my parents… If I had to say who was my parents it would be D and Magnus but she needed this.
Hugging her back awkwardly I pulled away from her and rubbed the back of my head. "Yeah, sort of… Now that we explained this situation can we go back to the school? There's a few things we need to do to take care of."
Mrs. Blood looked unsure but one look from D's dad she let go of me and nodded. "Very well but…"
"Be careful got it." Smiling I gently patted her shoulder and motioned the others to follow me back to the school, as we walked I had to say something that was on my mind, something that was really bugging me. "Gigi… why do you sound like Apple White?"
Once back on school grounds I found something really odd going on, it looked like the hybrid monsters were in the courtyard trying to help the fusion monsters… My name for them. In some way, shrugging Gigi, Darling and I walked over there, and while the fusion monsters were happy to see us the hybrids were confused. Quickly explaining that I was involved in the same accident as them, but I wasn't having trouble, so I was elected to help the hybrids with training their fusion counterparts in the use of their powers. However, there wasn't much I could do to help so instead I spent my time talking to the hybrid monsters. First one is Avera.
"So, wait how can you fly? I mean your wings are so small but…" I scratched my head still trying to figure it out.
"Simple enough Dagnus, Harpy's are the daughters of the storm wings, so it's not really flying per say it's more of I'm using the wind to move my body." Avera explained patiently.
"Ohhh… That make's sense… But wait how did your parent's- "I started to ask but stopped when she glared at me. "Ooookkkaaayyy then too personal… Ummm… I'll go help Bonita." Grinning sheepishly, I ran off to go find Bonita in the hope that I wouldn't get trampled by the angry half centaur.
Getting into the gardens I found Bonita going through some mediation and tai chi excises with Clawdeen/Venus, sadly I couldn't help here either so I started to talk with Bonita. "So, your telling me that you have clear skin or whatever it is moths have for wings in the spaces that look like holes?"
"That's right, otherwise I couldn't fly." Bonita explained with a nod.
"Cool, cool. Oh, so question if one of your parents was a skeleton how did they…." I tried to ask but got the same glare that Avera gave me. "You know what… Never mind… I'll go see Neighthan." Grinning I ran off, many these guys were touchy about their parents… I wonder if Neighthan will be the same way.
"Wait your mom can take on a humanoid form?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Mhm she can, and that is how I-Oh sorry Dagnus I need to get back to Toralei and Cleo, looks like they finally stopped fighting one another." The zombie unicorn smiled at me.
Nodding I waved at him and walked off to find the last of the hybrids which for me was lucky they were near the pool, and it turns it was being re-filed because Lagoona/Jina had turned the pool into a steam pit. Now trying to talk to Sirena was hard mainly because she was… Free spirited. That was the nicest way to put it but she was just as forth coming as Neighthan about his origins, in fact she was a little too forth coming.
"Okay, back up, back up your mother is a mermaid and your dad is a ghost and they were compatible because he's a sea ghost?" I asked with my eyes wide. "But that doesn't explain the mechanics…. Unless…." I thought over it and shook my head. "Nope I don't want to know, thanks Sirena… Wait Sirena? Where did you… go." I sighed and shook my head seeing that the ghost mermaid was flying off to mess with something or another.
Shaking my head, I sat in the audience with Darling and Gigi it had been a few hours since the fusion monsters came to 'terms' with themselves and the show about Monster High's history was about to start but things were interrupted when a giant monster busted through the floor and kidnapped Cleo/Toralei in its chest. It never rains… It poor's. Jumping into the stage to meet up with the other monsters and Sparky? When did mad scientist junior get here? After some quick explaining about what that thing was my mind raced with a plan.
"Alright everyone I got an idea." I grinned widely.
"Now there's my boyfriend." Darling smiled. "What's the plan?"
Waggling my eyebrows, I looked in the direction of the monster ran off. "Okay the thing on its chest is the time portal, which caused us all to fuse and if we let it absorb the fusion monsters- "
"Hey!" They shouted.
"-And if we reverse the polarity we could get you all back to normal and shut it down and get it to spit your friends out like normal!" Sparky grinned widely at me. "But how do we lead it to the catacombs?" The mad scientist asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Leave that to me." I grinned widely. "But the fusion monsters get in its way first so you guys can have a chance of getting separated."
Everyone nodded and ran off to go do their jobs expect for Darling who stared at me with a worried look. "Be careful, I know you're not Magnus but- "
"I got it." Smiling I gave her a thumb up and ran off following the path of destruction that was left behind by Sparky's monster. As I gave chase I found that most of my fusion friends were absorbed into the time portal device. Good things are going according to plan but the creature wasn't letting us lead him to the catacombs. Well if follow the leader won't work how about some good old fashion beat down.
"Hey ugly!" I shouted.
"Uhhh…." Turning to face the monster glared.
Grinning I flipped the thing off and winked. "Come at me bro." Groaning the monster ran toward me it's arm spread far out. Chuckling I jumped into the air and slammed my fist into its video like screen face and sent it into the floor. Quickly morphing into a bat, I flew just above it with a chuckle before dropping down onto its chest in my human form as hard as I could and sent the monster and myself into the catacombs. However, we still weren't in the lab, if my guess was correct we were close but not close enough. Jumping off the monster's body I grabbed it by its massive foot and began to drag it toward the lab, however the monster had other ideas, and it decided to pick me up and squeeze. Grunting in pain I quickly switched into my mist form which confused the monster to no end. While it wondered how I simply escaped I came out behind it and quickly switching back I kicked the thing's back and sent it forward into the entrance of the lab. The monster had landed right into the center of the lab.
"Quickly now!" I shouted as I incased my hand with a blue energy and launched it toward the monster's legs and it was incased in ice. Nodding the flying hybrid monsters attached the cables to Sparky's creature, but it looked like the plan worked…. And crap Frankie is in the mix now, and she's feeding it her own power…. Crap no! "Frankie!" Shouting I jumped toward the monster only to be blasted back by a back lash of energy.
"Dagnus!"
"Hey, look he's waking up."
Groaning I slowly shook my head and looked around, the entire room was complete dark expect for a few lights, the fusion monsters were now unfused, but everyone looked complete out of it there was no happy faces.
"Hey what's wrong? Your acting like someone die- "I started to say but stopped when the crowd around me parted to reveal Frankie…." No…No…" Growling I slammed my fist into the ground. She couldn't be dead…She couldn't be…. No. She gave her life to safe her friends…no what did Frankie always call us? Family?
"We thought we could save her but…the old charging station it didn't work." Sparky sighed and crossed his arms. "I just
"Well of course it didn't Viktor, because you have forgotten what I told long ago." Everyone turned to face the voice and standing before was a steampunk cyborg dressed in Victorian style clothing. "The secret to life comes not from this." He said pointing toward his head. "But from this." He smiled touching his heart.
"Hexiciah Steam." Everyone's eyes went wide at the man.
"Dad!" Robecca rushed forward and hugged her father who smiled. "I missed you."
"It's nice to meet you daughter." He smiled looking over the robot girl. "Hm? It's seem I did or will do a good job of building you. Now to help your friend, think Viktor what you are missing is the spark which is inside of us all." Hexiciah said with a smile. "And right now, there is two ways to save your friend, and one is much easier and may help save two more people." The old cyborg explained pointing towards me.
"Wait me? How could I- "I started to say but stopped with a frown on my face. "Oh…That's what you mean, but are you sure it could work?"
"Of course, it will my dear boy." He smiled at me. Everyone looked at us like we were crazy expect for good ole Sparky and Ghoulia they caught on and looked at me with a shocked expression. "Dagnus are you sure?"
I nodded and took a deep breath before slowly letting it out. "Yeah, I'm sure, now come on we have a friend to save."
Together Hexiciah and I walked up to Frankie inside the charging station, slowly I looked at Frankie then down at my hands. "Before I do this I have to know something… How did you know that I'm…Well…?"
"A complete fusion? I have seen it before and this way to not only save your friend but to return you to your normal state, by giving up the spark that makes you, you, you'll revert back to normal and with that influx of energy that is your own life it should bring back this girl here." The older cyborg explained with fatherly wisdom. "Your spark of life is much bigger than you would think, perhaps because part of you is a vampire, but I can't be sure. Now grab the bolts on the young lady's neck and focus all your thoughts and energy into her, every single memory you have of her."
Nodding I grabbed the bolts on Frankie's neck and closed my eyes and did as I was instructed. I thought about the first-time D and Magnus both met Frankie, I thought on how she was kind to them, how she was concerned about her friends that included not just D and Magnus… But me as well… Taking a deep breath I slowly felt something flow through my and straight into Frankie. Okay…This is what bleeding out must feel like because I swear I felt all my life energy flow out of my body and straight into the green girl who was now lighting up like a Christmas tree. However, that wasn't the worst of it, I felt like my body was splitting in two, straight down the middle. "Gah!" I shouted out in pain, then everything went black.
Groaning in pain I slowly sat back up and opened my eyes to find a very concerned werewolf and genie staring at me. "Uh… What did I miss?" I asked looking around only to be tackled. "My ribs."
"Oops… Sorry D… Are you okay?" Clawdeen asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Beside your ribs, we mean." Gigi grinned sheepishly.
Rubbing my face, I tried to figure out how I felt beside the ribs, sighing I shook my head feeling very dizzy. "Yeah… But I have a splitting headache."
"Same brother."
Looking for the other voice I spotted Magnus who was holding his head with one hand and in his other was his girlfriend who was sitting on top of him and fighting the urge to slap him. Shaking my head, I looked around and found we weren't even in the lab in the catacombs anymore. We were in the nurse's office. "Where is everyone else?" I asked looking around.
"Helping with the repairs, Sparky and Robecca's dad went back to the past." Clawdeen explained before turning to Gigi. "Now come on we need to leave and go help." Nodding Gigi smiled at me and squeezed my arm before leaving the room with Darling who said she would help since however she could. Clawdeen smiled at me and promised to visit later. Thus, it was just me and Magnus left alone in the nurse's office, it was pretty quiet but finally Magnus decided to break the silence.
"So… Do you remember… Anything from our time fused together?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
Sighing I figured this would come up sooner or later, so turning to face the bronze-haired idiot I nodded. "Yeah I do… I remember pretty much everything Dagnus did…."
"Do you miss it? I mean It's weird to think but you and I were one person man, how freaky is that?" Magnus shook his head and rubbed his face. "What about you?"
"Kind of… Not being racked with all the self-doubt to have your confidence?"
"Dude what about your calm thinking mind? You kept us on track."
Snorting we both started to laugh despite the fact we both were fighting a major headache. You know despite the fact this whole thing has been one giant cluster fuck, I… I kind of liked this. Maybe apart of Dagnus was left inside the both of us, because for some reason I felt more confident… Maybe this whole thing wasn't all bad.