Three years earlier...
it was a crisp morning at the grimwood school, bats could be seen flying around the tallest tower of the mansion, as the sun began to creep over it, casting an eerie yet calming glow over it, the bats soon took cover Inside the rafters as it did,
inside the sun began to creep the rough the windows as well, allowing for natural light to fill the corridors which had windows along them.
as soon as the sun had completely shined over the school, a zombie looking rooster sitting top of one of the school roofs began to crow signaling that it was now morning to anyone who could hear it,
inside her room, which was neatly done and looked well taken care of, was sibella, whom was resting inside her coffin like bed, with its. Cover open, she was
resting peacefully until the crows of the rooster invaded her slumber,
she opened her eyes and let out a yawn before she stood up and got out of her coffin, and was ready to prepare her self for the day ahead, but before she did she nearly made her bed before doing so,
she then slipped out of her night gown and slipped in her purple dress and red heels, before sitting down at her vanity table to brush her hai.
once that was done she then got to work on brushing her fangs until they were a sparkling white,.
once that was all taken care of, she stood back and admire herself in her mirror, which only reflected her dress and shoes...
" ah, simply fangtastic to look is great morning, never a better way to start the day, "
she said nodding during rubbing her chin,
" ooh, and still five minutes until breakfast, I should have plenty of time to reorginize this room, " she said looking around,
...
elsewhere in another room, Elsa was seen fully awake and down on her hands apparently looking for something,
" come on were is it now ? " she said as she shuffled things around,
she then stood up on her knees, and itched her head, " hmm, maybe it rolled under the chemistry table, she the began crawling over it and looked under, how ever did. Or see what she was looking for,
" drat, I can't go about my day with out it, "
she said rubbing her.
Chin, she then snapped her fingers, " oh I know we're it oughta be, "
the then hen stood up and bumped her head in her table, she grumbled as she rubbed it and crawled out from under it
she then went over to her bed, and took a hold of it and lifted it high above her head allowing to see what's under it,
she the beamed when when she saw what she was looking for, one of her neck bolts was missing and must have rolled under her bed when she was asleep,
she reached down and picked it up in her hand and began to screw it back into place in her neck,
once she did small sparks of electricity then shot out as she placed her bed back down, and jumped up,
" oh man does that feel great ! Now I'm ready for the day ! " she said as she made her way over to her door and headed out.
In phantasma's room she was seen still sleeping, how ever she floated a few inches above her bed as she did,
she was woken by the sound of the undead rooster suddenly screeching from inside like it had been lit on fire ,
she opened her her eyes and giggled. " sounds like matches it awake now as well, "
she then stretched as she hovered out of bed, she quickly got dressed out of her PJs and into her traditional blue dress,
" well I better get down to the breakfast room, " she said with a giggle she then simply allowed herself to float down floor and down into the second floor, were she made her way into the breakfast hall,
once every student that had gotten ready for the day, they all made there way over to the. Breakfast hall were they would all await the Morning announcements from miss grimwood,
down there, everyone was gathered around the long dinning table. , at least 15 students all together, chatting could be heard amongst them as they waited to have their morning meal served to them by the butler octopus named temptacles,
which that dish would be a plate of small poison ivy salad with a pair of large fried spider eggs on the side,
Elsa walked around the table and looked for a place to sit and enjoy her meal, she then smiled when she was an opening in front of her on a bench, she then went over to take it, the spot was in between a couple of zombies twins who were busily chatting up a storm,,she stepped over the bench right between the both of them, causing for them to jolted up a little by her force and strength of her sitting, they then were slid closer to her by her causing the bench to have a slight incline in the middle,
" Hey, mind if I eat breaskfest right here, " she asked cheerfully,
" oh., no not at all, " one of them said in a sarcastic tone,.while the other just huffed,..
phantasma giggled as she slowly floated over the table, she plucked up a plucked up a rotten crab apple of the centre of the table and took a bite out of it, the piece fell right threw here and landed on a ghouls head, much to there annoyance,
" he he sorry, " she said as she floated gently down into a seat, " she then took another bite of her crab apple with a cheeky grin,
Back up stairs...
sibella who was just finishing up the final touches of Her bedroom clapped her hands together to get the dust of them and then stood back to admire her work,
" well that about does it,looking even better then before if I do say so myself , " she then looked around and giggled. funny sense she was in fact alone... she then looked over at a clock on her wall and saw that it was now 8:30 am
" oh dear it appears I will be a little late for breakfast, better hurry ' " she said as she quickly transformed into her bat form and quickly flew her way Down to the dinning hall
Sibella flew down into the dinning hall and quickly turned back into her vampire self, where she then made here way over to he other students and took a seat at a table , she took in the aroma of the breakfast that was soon being placed in front of her,
" smells great huh. It was actually my idea to have this served for today, " a cheery voice said next to her,
sibella then looked over to See another ghoul sitting next to her, Leaona, who was almost human like in appearance, save for the light blue skin and sparkles of scale like flesh she had, she was a tall and slender with long brown hair, her clothing consisted of a long slim gothic blue dress that almost looked as though they were made of fish scales themselves.. the reason for that being , she was what one would call a Siren of the sea or also a sea witch ,, but now, like many of the other ghouls, she was a very kind and civilized person..well as far as ghouls standards will go
she was also the closest person sibella could call a friend, she had known her for about a year, ever sense she first started attending the school,
" I feel like those unfertilized spider Eggs build a greater amount of protein then rotten chicken eggs," Leaona said digging her fork into her dish,
sibella smiled and nodded in agreement, . " well they certainly smell much better as well, " she then picked up her fork and prepared to dig into her dish herself,
leaona chuckled at her statement" they certainly doo, I admit, I'll miss having nice home cooked meals prepared for me after I graduate from Here," Leona said taking another bit of her salad.
" yeah, I can't believe it's only a few months away, it's going to pass by so fast, " sibella said stirring her fork in her salad " and truth be told. I'll miss you being around, "
" i can say the same for you and all my other friends I made, but hey,, maybe you should volunteer to be head of the breakfest menu after I leave, I think you'd be great for that, sense I know you love to cook a lot, " leaona said trying to cheer her up a little,
" perhaps , " she said sounding a bit unsure, but also,fond of the idea, she was about to speak up when suddenly conversation was interrupted by the sound a small gong being rung,
everyone soon stopped chattering and turned their attention to the Front of the room,
Miss grimwood was seen standing there while temptacles was holding her mini gong his tentacles,
miss grimwood wood then cleared her throat as she began to speak,
" good morning my youthful minds, I hope you are enjoying breakfest, sense I have quite a bit of good news for you today, .
No one said anything as they all just listened on to what their headmistress had to say,
" ooh, new news ? this should be interesting " phantasma said cheerfully with a mouth full of salad. the got the attention of some of those sitting near her,
Miss grimwood chuckled a little, the began to speak again, " alright my ghouls, first thing is first, I'd like to inform you, that we will be having a fresh mind d be joining us from now on today, for I am talking about a new student has been signed in, " she stated,
everyone just looked a one another and some shrugged at others, not sure what to make of the new student they have not seen,
miss grimwood spoke up again, " Now I'd like you all to welcome them with open arms, sense we are to make everyone who comes here, feel accepted and right at home, " she then motioned for someone to enter into the room. everyone turned their gaze over to the door as they saw someone walk in,
" say hello to Winnie the werewolf, she is the wolfmans daughter, " she said as a young werewolf causally walked in like it was no big deal of being announced into a room full of new peers,,..in fact..she almost looked as though she didn't even appear to care, or even seem interested in the slighted,
" good morning to you Winnie, I hope you are ready to start your first day here at the grimwood finishing school, " miss grimwood sound in an optimistic matter, " I'm sure your eager to meet all the others as much as they are to you, "
winnie looked up at the mistress and shrugged, " yeah sure.,,whatever " was all she said, in a Tone that didn't seem to eager or...optimistic,
miss grim wood smiled then looked around..then back at the werewolf, " um well then, why don't you take a seat and help yourself to some breakfest, okay ? " miss grimwood said panting her on the shoulder,
" alright, sure thing " she said shrugging again as she began to make her way down the aisle,
with many of the students watching as she passed, seemingly judging her,
" i thought werewolfs were energetic and full of life, " a ghoul whispered to another,
winnie however paid no attention to any of them and took a seat down near the back, she placed her foot paws up,on The table and sat back with her arms behind her head in a relaxed manner,
" ooooh a werewolf, never had one of them around here..at least not in my time being here, , " phantasma said to some other ghouls who were sitting at her table, they just looked at her then continued to eat their breakfest.
sibella looked over and observed the werewolf who was picking up some fried spider eggs of her plate and dropped them into her mouth which she began chewing sloppaly,
sibella raised an eyebrow , " well would you look at that, already she's showing signs of poor mannerisms," she said looking over at Leona,
" well...she is a werewolf, It's natural for them to be a bit rough,,and after all she just got here...and well,,,she probably loves my fried spider eggs ," she said a little proudly at the last Statement.
sibella just looked a little unsure at the werewolf who she could see cleaning her ears with her claw...
" eh, your probably right . besides, I've never gotten to know one before, My dad never had gotten along with them that well, but that never stopped me from wanting to try,"
as winnie sat back and scooped the last bit of the egg's into her mouth, she then notice Phantasma peeking her head through the table, she then floated up all the way in front of her,
" Hi there, I'm phantsma, I just want to say it'll really nice having a Werewolf attend the school, I here they don't get a lot, " she said extending her arm in in a friendly gesture,
winnie twitched here ear a little, seemingly not sure what to make of the ghost girls open armed attitude,
" uh...yeah thanks, its um..nice to be here I guess, or what ever " she said with a slight sarcastic tone,
" oh but it will, this is only your first day, just you wait, there is tons to do around here, " phantasma said with a almost to excited grin, one that creeped out winnie a little,
Miss grimwood then spoke up once again getting everones attention,
" now, now everyone, we need to go down what needs to be said, " miss grimwood said pulling out a long sheet of paper and began looking through it.
" you see, the school is in need of starting and athletic program, we'd actually be the first ghoul school to do so in this formula and if this goes well, they'll start expanding this program to others, " she informed,
" as being so the first,, we have been assigned of starting up a sports team of a Random selected sport, which will be selected out of a draw, you see I had taken over a hundred sports known by both ghouls and even of human,
there was a slight mutter from the student's at the mention of humans,
' now then, I'll be taking the draw from that cauldron over there," She said pointing over to a small black cauldron she had paced on a table, " I will take a card out from the pot, and on it will. Be the sport that is selected. Once it is picked, we will be assigned a school with the same sport being played, " she said,.
" Matches. Bring me the pot, " she called out,
The small mall green dragon who was busy picking up scraps of food on the floor from the ghouls quickly stood up and Saluted, he then mad his way over to the cauldron, he hoped up onto the table and gripped in it in his tiny paws , he then hopped off the table and began to make his way over to. Miss grimwood,
how ever as he did, his foot had caught onto a cracked floorboard casing him to trip and throw the pot into the air, it soon came landing back down on top of his head sending wads of cards flying all over the place,
this got some of the students chuckling as one of the cards flew over to miss grimwood
" ah, Thank you matches ," she said kindly as she took the card in her hand, she looked down at it and read the sport on the card,
Matched just grumbled and huffed smoke as he poked his head out from the pot,
miss grimwood then cleared her throat, " alright , the sport will be...Volleyball ." She said looking over the students,
Many of them began to mutter to themselves and amongst one another,
" oh yes, volley ball, now that is a nice sport I hear, I bet it will be real fun to teach, " Miss grimwood said cupping her hands, " and with that, we will now be having a sports team be formed to represent our schools athletic program,
" volley ball ? um Isn't that you know, more of a human sport miss grimwood ? " Elsa then spoke up, sounding a little unsure,
miss grimwood then turned to her and smiled softly, " oh my dear elsa, it was a sport invented by humans indeed, but it has been adapted by ghouls over the years. so it won't be no trouble to learn, and besides, it will be fun, "
Elsa rubbed her chin and shrugged " I suppose your, right, " she how ever looked a little unsure,
" I think it'd be fun to try out for a sports team and play such a sport, and even if I don't make the cut, I always wanted to be a scream Leader ! " phantasma exclaimed
miss grimwood chuckled at her enthusiasm," well don't you worry, you'll all get a chance to try out today, cause right after school, we'll be having those tryouts in the backyard,, so I please ask that you will come and do so, now I leave you to finish your breakfast, I have some important things to go over until the first class,
with that, miss grimwood left the students alone to enjoy there meal, and to wonder, what will happen next with this new course they had been given the option of trying out...