Chapter 19: Camp Fear
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At Monster High, Mary Rogers was placing some soil in what she was hoping would become the new Monster High gardens…at least that's what she was trying to do.
"Ugh I have a PHD and yet I can't get these stupid plants to grow." Mary groans when Clawdeen and Cleo walk over.
"Hey Prof. Rogers, what's going on?" Clawdeen asks.
"I'm trying to get a garden going here, but this proving to be a bit of a challenge getting anything to grow." Mary sighs.
"So you just get your hands dirty for the fun of it?" Cleo asks confused.
"Yeah I guess since you grew up in a tomb there wasn't much green life?" Clawdeen asks.
"Pretty much." Cleo nods.
"Well maybe when this garden gets started, I can show you ghouls how it's done." Mary said when Lagoona runs out.
"Ghouls we got another monster who wants to join our school." Lagoona said.
Interested getting the better of them Cleo and Clawdeen walk inside to see Drake, Frankie and Draculaura looking online while Drake's grandpa was sitting down nearby reading his book.
"So who's the lucky new student?" Clawdeen asks.
"Says her name's Venus." Draculaura said as Matt walks over so they could see her location which was in a forest just outside of town.
"Hey I know that place." Matthew said surprising them.
"You do?" Drake asks.
"Yeah and so do you. I used to take you there when you were little for summer camp. What was it called? Camp Opinocon." Matthew said as Drake's eyes widen in horror and his skin turned pale.
"Uh Drake is everything okay?" Frankie asks.
"You look like you're about to turn into a ghost, mate." Lagoona said.
"C-Can you ghouls handle this one without me?" Drake asks surprising them.
"What? Why wouldn't you want to help us?" Frankie asks.
"It's not that I don't want to help you, it's that I never want to set foot on that nightmare ever again." Drake said.
"Drake it was just summer camp." Matthew said.
"Not it wasn't! It was the worst!" Drake said.
"Drake just didn't like it because he kept getting picked on by those two boys." Matthew said.
"Cash Murray and J.T, they made my time at camp a nightmare." Drake said.
"What they do to you?" Cleo asks.
"Everything, they beat me up, hung to a tree by my underwear, took my lunches, shoved my face in my art projects." Drake said counting down just a few causing the girls to cringe. "Until one day I finally had enough and tried to stand up to them, but that just ended horribly."
Flashback:
At Camp Opinocon, a scream echoed as we zoomed in to see an 8-year-old Drake running for his life as two boys were chasing after him, these were Cash and J.T.
"Get back here Drake, you're a dead man!" Looking at Cash's face they saw he had glue and macaroni all over his face.
Drake went deeper into the forest until he saw the path was blocked by some big trees.
Drake turned around to see the two boys glaring at him and cracking their knuckles. As Cash and J.T walked towards Drake they didn't noticed a shadowy figure watching them while hiding in the tree leaves.
A few minutes later Cash and J.T walked away while leaving a beaten-up Drake who was lying on the ground beaten up, with a black eye and crying.
Sliding down the tree the figure reached their hand out to reveal it was green and had vines wrapped around it. Touching the ground a flower grew next to him.
"That should help your eye." The figure said as Drake looked up to see a figure looking down at him.
Flashback End:
"I'm sorry you went through that Drake." Draculaura said.
"And that's why I never want to go back to that camp ever again, ever." Drake said.
"Drake that was years ago I doubt those two are even still there." Clawdeen said.
"We really need your help." Frankie said.
"I uh I don't know." Drake said.
"Maybe I should go with you kids." Matthew said surprising them.
"You want to come with us? Are you sure grandpa?" Drake asks.
"Yeah I've been interested in seeing how you kids do things." Matthew said.
"We should warn you things tend to get a little dangerous." Draculaura said.
"I'm a Plumber, I think I can handle it. Plus, if Drake is gonna freak out the whole time you might need help calming him down." Matthew said.
"Fair enough." Cleo said as they took out the Skullette.
"Venus, Exto Monstrum!" They all said as they transported away.
On the highway outside the forest, all of them appear and land on the grass except for Matthew who lands on his feet.
"Ugh you're gonna have to teach us how to do that." Frankie groans when a figure comes out of the shadows to reveal a kid with blonde hair.
"They're coming! Help me!" He screams before passing out.
"A normie!" Draculaura gasps as they ran over to help the kid up.
Taking him off the highway they laid him down on the grass to see his name tag read Gilbert and he had some weird fungus growing on his arm.
"What happened to him?" Frankie asks.
"And what is that disgusting thing on his arm?" Cleo asks grossed out.
"He's wearing a Camp Opinicon shirt, we must be near the camp. Hopefully, they have a nurse." Matthew said.
Making their way to the front gate they entered to find the mess hall completely abandoned and a mess.
"Yikes this place is a dump." Cleo cringed.
"No wonder you hated this camp so much." Clawdeen said.
"No it wasn't this mess when I came here." Drake said.
"Where is everybody? They must've left in a hurry." Frankie said when the power went off startling them. "Hang on." Frankie snaps her fingers and makes sparks appear allowing Matthew to grab some flashlights.
"Alright everyone stay close and look around for anyone." Matthew said.
Walking into the kitchen Drake and Clawdeen looked around when they suddenly heard a loud crashing noise causing Clawdeen to yelp and jump into Drake's arms.
"Uh Clawdeen." Drake said nervously as a blush appears on both their faces.
As Drake put Clawdeen down the door opened to reveal Matthew and Draculaura.
"We heard something what is it?" Draculaura asks as Matthew shines the light around and sees two little kids hiding in the closet.
"Hey who are you kids?" Matthew asks walking over.
"I'm Andy." The boy said.
"I'm Mandy." The girl said.
"We're twins." They both said at the same time.
"Matthew Rogers and this is my grandson Drake and some of his friends. Where is everyone?" He asks.
"We heard something outside." Andy started.
"But we were too scared to come out." Mandy finishes when thunder echoes scaring them.
Drake looks around and sees a land line. Walking over he grabs it. "The landline's dead."
"And we can't get any service." Frankie said as they all took out their iCoffins.
"Let's see if we can find a bed for Gilbert." Matthew said as Andy and Mandy walked out and a light shined down to reveal the ghouls and they all screamed.
"Monsters!" They screamed.
"Ugh rude much." Cleo scoffs.
"Hey hey it's okay we're not gonna hurt you. We're friendly monsters." Lagoona said.
"So you're not gonna eat us?" Andy asks.
"Eat you? Of course not." Draculaura giggles.
"We're just looking for a friend who might be here." Frankie said.
Andy and Mandy look to Drake who nods saying they could trust them.
Placing Gilbert on the bed in a cabin all of them sat down when Drake started scratching his foot.
"Unbelievable, I haven't set foot on this stupid campus in years and the second I do it acts up." Drake said.
"What does?" Clawdeen asks.
"Athlete's Foot." Mandy said.
"Everyone at camp gets it here." Andy said.
"Ew." All the ghouls said grossed out.
"Don't remind me." Drake said as Andy holds out some foot powder. "I'm good." Drake looks away but Andy still holds it out for him. "Fine." Drake takes the powder and puts in his pocket.
"I'm gonna see if I can rustle us up some food." Matthew said walking out causing Drake to gulp.
"Oh boy." Drake said when Gilbert woke up screaming.
"They're coming!" He screams startling everyone.
"Uh who's coming?" Frankie asks when they heard Matthew screaming outside.
"Grandpa." Drake gasps as he was about to run out when Gilbert tackles him.
"Don't go out there. They'll find you." Gilbert said.
"Don't worry we have animal instincts." Drake smirks.
Soon Blitzwolfer was rushing through the forest with Clawdeen following him in wolf form and Draculaura flying after them in bat form.
"You girls see any sign of him?" Blitzwolfer asks.
"Look over there." Draculaura points up the hill and they saw a bulldozer parked up there.
Looking to each other the three of them ran up the hill to see a large hole in the ground with glowing plants.
"Whoa." Clawdeen said as she and Draculaura changed into their normal forms.
"You think whatever took your grandpa is down there?" Draculaura asks.
"Only one way to find out." Blitzwolfer said as they walked over to examine the hole unaware of the plants looking at them.
Suddenly large roots shot out of the hole and grabbed Blitzwolfer surprising everyone.
"Drake!" Clawdeen yells as she and Draculaura tried grabbing him by the legs but Blitzwolfer was yanked down the hole.
Reaching the bottom Blitzwolfer struggled against the roots when he saw Matthew tied up nearby.
"Drake!" He yelled before getting pulled away.
"Grandpa!" Blitzwolfer said breaking free of the roots before the watch beeped red turning him back to human.
"Ugh stupid watch!" Drake groans when suddenly a figure from the shadow saw him.
"A human." It growled.
Drake dusted himself off and was looking around from Matthew. "Grandpa? Grandpa?"
"Get out." A female voice said startling him.
Emerging from the shadows was a girl with green skin, pink hair and vines wrapped around her arms. This was Venus McFlytrap.
"Huh?" Drake looks at her and sees a smaller shadow in her place for a brief second. "Uh hey there. Can I help you?"
"Get out!" Venus roars as multiple mushroom monsters appeared and chased after him.
Running as fast as he could Drake looked to see Clawdeen and Draculaura grab his arms and pull him to safety.
"What are those things?!" Draculaura asks.
"They don't look friendly!" Clawdeen said as they ran to the bulldozer but as they were about to get in Venus climbed out.
Narrowing her eyes she held out her hand and multiple large plant roots shot out of the ground and threw the bulldozer across the field.
"Uh ghouls, I think we found our monster." Clawdeen said as they saw Venus glaring at them.
"Yeah but something tells me she doesn't want to talk." Drake gulps.
"Anyone got a suggestion?" Draculaura asks.
"I got one." Clawdeen said as they ran away as fast as they could.
Arriving back at the cabin, the three of them slam the door shut.
"You won't believe what we found out." Draculaura said.
"The monster we've been looking for is leading an army of killer mushrooms." Lagoona said.
"And they're taking over the camp." Frankie said.
"Okay so you do believe." Clawdeen said surprised.
"They've also got my grandpa." Drake said.
"But why is she doing all this?" Cleo asks.
"It all started when the camp started digging in that area." Gilbert said standing up. "We gotta get outta here."
"No way, I'm not going anywhere without my grandpa." Drake said heading back out when suddenly multiple mushroom pods shot out of the ground all over the camp.
"Well this isn't so bad." Cleo said trying to see things on the lighter side.
"Actually those are pods are holding Mushroom spores if they open thye could release pods all over the country." Gilbert said.
"That's right." Venus said walking out of the forest surprising them. "And it's what you humans deserve for ruining the environment."
"You must be Venus. Hi, we're your Monster High outreach committee." Draculaura said as they tried to calm her down.
"Wait, Monsters? With humans?" Venus asks surprised.
"Yeah, we got to a school called Monster High. We help monsters come out of the dark and learn to live among humans." Frankie said.
"Drake is one of the few humans we go to school with." Cleo said.
"Drake?" Venus said turning to him.
"It's true me, things are different." Draculaura said.
"Why would I want to go to a place where humans are? They're the cause of all the things wrong with the world. Chopping down trees, polluting the ocean, ruining the ozone layer they have to pay." Venus said.
"Look I know you're angry, but revenge isn't the way to solve your problems." Lagoona said.
"It'll only make things worse." Clawdeen warns.
"What am I supposed to do? The humans refuse to listen, so it's time I took action. I've been living in this forest for years and every year this Normie camp does something worse. Well no more!" Venus snaps as she lashes vines at Andy, Mandy and Gilbert causing the kids to scream when at the last second Drake gets in between and is knocked to the ground.
"Drake!" The ghouls said as they ran over to him.
As Drake picks himself up Venus' eyes widen to see a black eye on his face and remembers seeing another human with a face like that.
Flashback:
In the forest of Camp Opinicon, a young Venus was laying in the trees enjoying the peaceful day when she heard screaming waking her up.
"Get back here Drake! You're a dead man!"
"Huh?" Venus looks down to see two normie kids beating up another kid. "They beat up their own?"
When the two kids walk away Venus saw the boy had a black eye on his face causing her to cringe. Looking around she saw that it was just them, climbing down the tree she made her way towards him and touched the ground causing a flower to grow. "This should help your eye."
Looking up the boy looked up at Venus and when Venus looked at him he didn't see any fear in his eyes as he picked himself up.
"Uh…thank you." He said nervously as he grabbed the flower.
"Why did they beat you up?" Venus asks.
"Because they're bullies, they love hurting anyone that's not them." He sniffles.
"That doesn't sound right, how come your friends didn't help you?" Venus asks.
"Well I don't really have many friends." He said sadly.
Venus looks at him and holds out her hand. "I'm Venus."
"D-Drake." He said shaking her hand.
After that Venus remembered Drake bringing various games from the camp and the two of them spent the rest of his time playing together.
When Drake had to leave to go home she was sad because the one human she met who wasn't afraid of monsters was gone.
Flashback End:
Walking up to them a look of concern appeared on Venus face as she made her way towards Drake.
Drake's eyes widen in fear at what she was going to do but Venus smiles seeing it really was him.
"I don't believe it…Drake Rogers?" Venus smiles surprising them.
"Drake? You know her?" Frankie asks.
Drake looks at her and as Venus pulls her hair back to reveal her face Drake's eyes widen and remembers the only pleasant memory he had at this camp. "N-No way. Venus?"
Smiling Venus gives him a hug surprising everyone.
"She's crushing him!" Gilbert gasps.
"No…I think she's just giving him a hug." Andy said.
"But a second ago she was trying to kill us." Mandy said.
"See, not all humans are bad." Draculaura said.
"Look as fun as this is, we gotta start chopping these things down, mate or everyone is in trouble." Lagoona said.
"It won't work, with mushrooms you have to take out the brain or they'll keep growing." Gilbert said.
"Wow, you know almost as much as I do about plants." Venus said impressed.
"Venus, I promise you, we'll fix this, but first we need to stop this." Drake said as Venus paused to think this over.
Soon rushing back to the hole Venus and Drake see multiple large mushrooms rising out of the ground.
"Is this your doing?" Drake asks.
"Nope." Venus shook her head. "We better move fast, there's no telling what could happen."
"I'm on it." Drake said slamming down on the Omnitrix and turning into XLR8 surprising her.
"Whoa, Drake…are you a shapeshifter?" Venus asks.
"Eh it's a long story. Get on my back and hold on tight." XLR8 said as they sprinted down the hole in search of Matthew.
Back at camp the ghouls were leading Gilbert, Andy and Mandy to safety.
"Is there anywhere we can hide?" Frankie asks.
"If we make it to the Dining Hall, maybe we can barricade ourselves in the kitchen." Gilbert suggests.
"And fight those things off with what? A spatula?" Andy asks.
"We are so dead meat. I hate it hate it hate it here." Mandy whines when suddenly a large mushroom appeared out of the ground and tried to eat them.
"Hang on!" Cleo throws her bandages and yanks the two of them to safety as Frankie zaps the plant burning it to a crisp.
"We need to get to higher ground!" Lagoona said pointing to the climbing wall.
"But the climbing wall is for older kids." Mandy said.
"I think this would be the right time to break the rules." Clawdeen said as they looked to see some mushroom monsters coming out of the forest.
As Matthew slowly woke up he looked to see XLR8 and Venus arrive.
"Grandpa." XLR8 said running over.
"Who are you?" Matthew asks.
"A friend." Venus said.
"Hang on I'll have you out in a second." XLR8 said when suddenly the hourglass icon beeped turning him back into Drake. "Ugh why does it this thing torture me like this?"
Suddenly glowing roots shot out tying up Drake and Venus.
"Hey what's going on?! It's me!" Venus said.
Back at the camp, Draculaura flew up to the top of the wall and helped everyone up.
Looking around Clawdeen saw that there was a zipline that led across the campus.
"This could work." Clawdeen said when Andy and Mandy started fighting over who would go first.
"Me first!"
"No me!"
"It doesn't matter who goes first! We're all going!" Clawdeen said as Mandy swung down first with Andy and Gilbert right behind her. "Honestly they're like my brothers." Clawdeen groans before they ghouls followed them.
Underground Matthew, Drake and Venus were struggling to break free of the roots.
"Venus these are plants, can't you use your powers to get them to let us go?" Drake asks.
"I can't, something else is controlling them." Venus said.
"Drake can you reach your watch?" Matthew asks.
"I'm trying but I think it's still recharging." Drake said when suddenly his watch glowed blue as it activated on his own turning Drake into a green plant like monster. It had vines growing on his arms, a yellow leaf on his head, spikes on his elbows and green vest.
"What is that?" Matthew asks.
"Drake…you're a plant now. Why didn't you tell me you had form?" Venus asks surprised.
"I never turned into this one before." He said before he cut himself and the others free with ease. "But I like what he can do. I'm gonna call this form…Wildvine." He grins.
"Let's get outta here." Venus said.
"You're not going anywhere." A voice said.
"Who was that?" Wildvine asks.
"Who was what?" Matthew asks when Venus steps back in fear when roots came out of the ground dragging the three of them under to reveal an incredibly large mushroom brain.
"I communicate with all vegetation on a telepathic level." It said shocking Wildvine.
Back at the camp, as everyone was riding the zipline down. A mutant mushroom cut the line causing everyone to fall landing on multiple mushrooms before the ground.
"You know Drake was right, this camp is the worst." Cleo groans.
"No kidding." Frankie said looking up to see an army of mushrooms in front of them.
All of them back up in fear when Gilbert notices a sports shed nearby. "Over there!"
All of them sprinted inside and closed the door shut before they were captured.
"We wouldn't even be here if you didn't make us hide in the kitchen!" Andy snaps.
"Me? It was your idea to hide in the first place!" Mandy snaps.
"Well you didn't have to listen!" Andy said.
"Will you kids shut up!" Clawdeen snaps.
"He/She started it!" They said.
"I don't care who started it, I'm finishing it!" Clawdeen said.
"We all need to work together to fight off those things, so that means no more fighting." Draculaura said.
"At least until Drake and Venus can stop the mushrooms." Frankie said.
"You really think they can?" Gilbert asks.
"We know they can." They grinned.
With Wildvine and Venus, they were being lowered towards the brain.
"Venus, I'm disappointed in you. I thought you could have helped me." The brain said.
"What you're doing is wrong. You can't eliminate all living things." Venus said.
"Why not? Once my spores are released I will consume every living thing on this planet." The brain said.
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Wildvine said as he broke free of roots and slashes Venus and Matthew free. "You ready to help save the environment?"
"Gladly." Venus growls. "I can't believe you used me for this!"
Reaching to his back Wildvine pulls multiple pods and throws them which explode on impact.
Matthew reached to his bag and pulls out a Proto tool and starts shooting the roots while Wildvine and Venus attacked.
"Resistance is futile, for even if you destroy me you cannot destroy the billions of my spores I'm about to release into your atmosphere."
"We'll deal with them after you!" Wildvine said when the timer went off turning him back into Drake. "I hate this stupid watch." Drake groans before the roots tie up him, Matthew and Venus again.
Opening his mouth the three of them were about to eaten alive.
"I'm sorry Drake. I started this whole thing because I was angry and now we're about to be eaten by a plant." Venus said.
"Well if I'm going down I'm not giving this fungus an easy meal." Matthew said when Drake got an idea.
"Wait, that's it." Drake reaches into his pocket and pulls out the powder Andy gave him. "This thing works against all kinds of fungus." Throwing the bottle down its throat the brain screams in agony as it exploded.
Back at camp, the ghouls were fighting off the mushrooms trying to protect the kids when suddenly all the mushrooms started to shrivel and drop dead.
"Uh what just happened?" Andy asks.
"Drake happened." Draculaura smiles.
"This camp rocks!" Andy and Mandy said.
"Oh yeah I can't wait to come back." Gilbert said when Drake, Matthew and Venus walk out of the forest covered in plant guts.
"You did it." Frankie smiles.
"And you smell horrible." Cleo said grossed out.
"We're not done yet, we still have to stop those spores." Drake said when he looked to Andy. "Hey didn't you say everyone here gets Athlete's Foot?"
Andy nods as they led them to the Nurse's where they saw cabinets of the foot powder.
Venus opens one and sneezes. "Yep, this will definitely work."
"But how are we going to get these to all the spores?" Lagoona asks.
"Leave that to me." Venus grins.
Using Venus' plant powers they were able to distribute foot powder killing all the spores.
Afterwards, Venus had a nervous look on her face as she saw Draculaura take out the skullete.
"Are you ghouls sure you really want me to come to your school? Even after everything I did?" Venus asks.
"Everyone's welcome at Monster High." Frankie smiles.
"Monsters, humans, aliens, you name it." Clawdeen smiles.
"We know that it's not going to be easy but I bet if you gave us all a chance you would really enjoy it." Drake said offering a hand to her.
Looking at it Venus looks at Drake and saw the same smiling face of the first human she ever connected with. Smiling softly Venus took his hand and they all went back to Monster High.