Another attempt at this kind of story and the first part of this chapter is reused from the beginning of the last two attempts I made. Want to take this slower than I did the last attempts. Welcome to ideas.
At the Royal Woods Elementary School; the student's in Lincoln Loud's friend group had been hanging about Principal Huggins' office on the second to last week before the start of Summer vacation and the end of their time at the school. However the group went with Lincoln and thought something must have been serious Lincoln's parents in there.
After some time the group was trying think of what was going on when they heard an outburst from Lincoln shouting "WHAT? YOU CAN'T? HOW ABOUT MY SISTERS AND MY FRIENDS? WILL CLYDE TURN INTO A TATTOOED LITTERBUG?"
Lincoln looked dejected coming out and it took some time to explain it to them. The higher ups in the school administration recommended him to instead of moving to the Middle School; to instead be transferred to this previously all girls school to see about having more boy students. They were stunned and Clyde looked like he needed to see Dr Lopez; the other boys tried to cheer him up by saying there will probably be all sorts of girls he could impress.
"Well, even if we won't be in the same school then nothing is stopping us from hanging out after school and on weekends..." Stella said but the group frowned as Lincoln looked even sadder.
"Except for the fact that... It's a boarding school quite a distance from here..." Lincoln explained making them speechless.
The sisters were gathered at home after school and their reactions weren't much better.
"...I am already getting over that Lori's leaving for Fairway and now I have to lose Linky as well!" Leni cried.
"...I have been telling myself that the siblings will have eachother to look after themselves... Who is going to look after Lincoln?" Lori muttered.
Lucy looked too depressed to make any comment with the rest of the younger siblings not falling much better, Lisa was refusing to meet anyone's look, Leni couldn't bring herself to try and joke and Lynn Jr shouted "what... I was supposed to show him how to survive middle school... We need him here!"
The next school week Lincoln's friends refused to leave his side and Lincoln managed to accept it and give it a try; even promising his friends they they will keep in touch with video chat like with Ronnie Anne.
After their last school day together the group of friends decided to make their Summer count with theme park visits, games of laser tag and trips to the arcade; off course with each activity at least two of the Loud siblings insisted on coming along before Lincoln was away. There was even a day out with Pop-Pop and Luna's band put together a going away concert for Lincoln. Lincoln's friend besides Clyde who was taking his leaving the hardest was Stella who didn't like that her first friend since moving here would be moving away.
It was a summer to remember and bittersweet when Lincoln's friends and the McBrides were there to see Lincoln off as the family would take the car ride to take him there. Clyde had to be pried off Lincoln. It was sad and especially with Lori unable to come with them on the trip; since to her regret she had to start moving her stuff away but she gave Lincoln advice:
"Don't worry too much about missing our sisters and your friends; you will keep in touch... Just, don't be too scared about making new friends... You might like the girls there..."
The car ride was long and it was one of the better car journeys because the Loud siblings wanted to savor talking to their brother in person for the last time in a long while. They came across the Colonel Calloway Military Academy next door and then there was the Ms Grimwood's Finishing School itself with them being unable to make out most of the below sign due to the mid day heavy rain.
Lincoln with his Ace Savvy Jacket came out with his bags and gulped looking up at the scary looking school building; "I bet by the looks you wish you were coming instead Lucy..." Lincoln tried to joke to Lucy but she just hugged his leg followed by the twins with the other ones with them having to be pried off. Then the other siblings had their turn hugging them with tears and then the parents.
"Remind you off me Lincoln..." Lynn Jr said giving him one of her dodgeballs when they saw a lanky man in a green shirt with an umbrella a great dane dog with him.
"Rhe rew roy Raggy!" spoke the dog stunning the Louds as the man smiled.
"Like you said it Scoob!" the man said to the dog and then looked to the family. "You must be the Louds and you must be Lincoln! I'm Norville Rogers but you can like call me Shaggy as everyone does! This is Scooby Doo and we are going to be your gym coaches here at Grimwood! Is that Ace Savvy? I was more of a Commander Cool kid myself!" Shaggy greeted them looking down at Lincoln being friendly and welcoming.
Lincoln was deep in thought thinking about the names of Shaggy and Scooby; "the talking dog is a gym coach?" asked Leni puzled and the others weren't much better.
"Much be some sort of experiment..." Lisa muttered.
"An evil interdimensional entity must have been at work; one who had been at work throughout time..." Lucy said.
"This man is going to be your gym coach? I am seriously going to need to train you extra hard when we see you again!" Lynn snapped incredulously with her arms folded.
"Shaggy? Scooby? As in part of that Mystery Inc group that went around van catching guys dressed as monsters when they were teenagers?" Lincoln asked and they looked and nodded.
"Yep; old times... Running away from monsters, finding food, Fred setting traps and volunteering us for bait, traps goes wrong but we catch the perp, the perp would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for us meddling kids and our dog and all that..." Shaggy said as Lincoln was jumping up and down excitedly surprising them all.
"No way! I have seen videos and read all about you! My best friend Clyde and I are like your biggest fans! Besides being ARRGH investigators; you lot had our ideal life! Can I get a picture please? Clyde will never believe me without proof?" Lincoln asked excitedly and they ended up chuckling as Lincoln passed his phone to Rita who took the picture with the three excitedly.
"Looks like you are going to like your time at this school in no time..." Luna laughed and the sisters looked amused as Lincoln got his phone back and texted Clyde it saying 'JUST GOT TO MY NEW SCHOOL, YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE WHO MY NEW GYM COACHES ARE'.
Lincoln gave one last goodbye to his family as Shaggy helped him with his bags to go inside; "please make yourself at home Lincoln and I will take these to your new room. Feel free to look around but I don't think you are ready for the kitchen; better wait to be told what is safe for you to eat because well... You will find out Lincoln..." Shaggy said and this made Lincoln worried and confused.
"But while it might be much to meet them... Trust me... They are friendly and nice girls and two of your new fellow students have already arrived..." Shaggy let him know as they reached the and entered inside as it looked like a mansion and Shaggy showed him up the stairs and to his new room which definitely looked like a proper bedroom with all the space that it entailed and a nice bed.
They went out and then there was a purple colored bat there; "Lincoln this is Sibella and don't freak out because she is friendly..." Shaggy said as Scooby was readying himself for him to start screaming but Lincoln actually held out a hand for her to fly down on it with him starting stroking her much to their confusion.
"My sister Lucy keeps bats and I have gotten used to them; especially when I come with her to the graveyard." Lincoln said as he smiled at Sibella. "Hi there, I'm Lincoln and you definitely seem friendly! Don't try sucking my blood and we are going to get along just fine!" Lincoln told her and the bat started giggling.
"Like Zoinks Scooby; I thought that Ms Grimwood told us that the new student was a normal boy!" Shaggy told Scooby looking on in disbelief.
"Rou raid it Rhaggy!" Scooby replied as there was Lincoln's phone calling.
Lincoln answered on video call and there was Clyde looking excited; "Nice to see you got there safely Lincoln but was that Shaggy and Scooby Doo of the mythical Mystery Inc in that photo? You are saying they are your new gym coaches?" Clyde asked excitedly and then Lincoln moved the phone to show the two who waved and there was excitedly screaming with Sibella flying away and he started calming down and said he would see him later before ending the call.
"Like should we be worried?" Shaggy asked in concerned but Lincoln shook his head.
"Clyde is like that sometimes and I think I am going to look around; might try and find the other students that have arrived." Lincoln said walking down the stairs before the two could stop him.
Lincoln stopped when he noticed a TV room and was excited as he looked through the door. He then felt a tentacle and jumped when there was a purple octopus with a bowtie and orange hair opening the door for him. Staring at him in shock to which the octopus raised an eyebrow, "Do you work here... Is the TV available for the students?" Lincoln decided to ask and the octopus rolled his eyes and nodded. "Well, thanks very much..." Lincoln replied hesitatingly as he entered and sat on the couch when he saw that there was a younger girl wrapped up in bandages with a pink bowtie there.
"Sorry; did you want to watch the TV? I could sit and relax somewhere... Are you the new boy here?" the girl asked looking friendly and apologetic. "I'm Tanis!" the girl introduced and Lincoln smiled.
"Don't worry about it; I'm Lincoln and are you alright with all those bandages?" Lincoln asked and Tanis giggled as if he was being silly.
"So nice of you to be welcoming of our new arrival at out school Tanis dear." said a voice and there was a smiling woman in a pink dress, red bandana and a red cape. "You must be Lincoln; I'm Ms Grimwood the headmistress at this school. I was just done doing some paperwork when Shaggy informed me that he had already welcomed you to our humble abroad." the woman introduced herself and Lincoln got up to greet her but then there was a small green mean looking dragon that made Lincoln step back in shock.
"Is that a dragon..." Lincoln muttered as the dragon faced his way.
"Down Matches; you are scaring the poor boy!" chided Ms Grimwood as she then faced Lincoln. "Sorry about Matches; he doesn't take well to newcomers. A very grumpy dragon he is." Ms Grimwood told him with Lincoln blinking and he saw Tanis clapping Matches. "Tanis is the Mummy's daughter." Ms Grimwood explained and Lincoln was open mouthed.
"So am I not just the first boy in a girl's school but the first human in a monster school?" Lincoln asked incredulous and Ms Grimwood's face said it all.
"Nothing was said to your previous principal or parents since I doubted I would be believed; I always want to teach my students how to coexist with humans and I thought why not have them learning with one?" Ms Grimwood said as Lincoln was ready to faint.
They heard voices and went to the area around the front door were Shaggy and Scooby were nervously greeting an actual wolfman and a little wolf girl, an old time phantom ghost and a smiling looking dark blue ghost girl and a Frankenstein's monster with a tall girl like him.
The girls happily greeted Shaggy and Scooby with Tanis running to hug them both; "Girls; so nice to see you all again and hope you can make your new classmate welcome here: Lincoln Loud. "Ms Grimwood told the girls and they went to greet him smiling.
"Hi; I'm Elsa Frankenteen!" said the Frankenstein girl taking Lincoln's hand smiling oblivious of her strength and Lincoln decided to run and hide in a closet.
"Monsters and ghosts are real... This is like super vindication as a lifelong fan of the paranormal like ARRGH but still..." Lincoln muttered to himself but then found himself face to the face with the smiling ghost girl who was waving to him.
"Oh; that show is a blast even if most of the ghosts aren't real. I'm Phantasma and you don't have to be so shy and hide because I know we are going to become great friends!" the ghost greeted him as ended up jumping out of the closet backward and landed doing some somersaults and landed staring up at the face of the wolfgirl.
"I'm Winnie you definitely move and run better than I thought you humans do." the wolf girl told him before howling.
"Don't keep the human boy up on his toes too much Winnie dear." laughed the Wolfman as Lincoln nervously waved to the monster parents as they looked at him and actually looked friendly waving back to him.
"You are going to love it at ghoul school Lincoln!" Elsa told Lincoln patting him on the back making him jump as the other 4 girls went up to him.
"So who is last? The other girl who arrived before I did besides Tanis who I have yet to meet? An alien? Daughter of a fish monster? Daughter of a goblin?" Lincoln asked resigning himself to this.
"Dracula's daughter actually Lincoln and you have already met her. She was like the first one you met." Shaggy informed him and he gave a humorless laugh.
"Off course Dracula, why wasn't that my first gues..." Lincoln muttered before pausing and looking up at Shaggy. "Wait, already met? First I met? What are you talking about Shaggy? Tanis was the first one that I met!" Lincoln asked confused and saw that Shaggy and Scooby didn't want to answer him.
"Remember upstairs?" Shaggy brought up hesitatingly and Lincoln thought it over.
"Off course; after I put my stuff in my room and Clyde called me. There was also the friendly bat Sibella... Don't tell me..." Lincoln answered and paused after thinking it over and then Sibella the bat came flying in.
She then turned into a girl with purple hair, purple skin and a dress and red belt who was taller than Lincoln with his eyes widening. "I missed you girls so much!" Sibella told her friends as they shared a collective embrace before she came up to Lincoln smirking gulping. "Please don't be like that; I'm disappointed that you ended up walking away before I got a chance to transform and talk to you. It's fangtastic to meet you Lincoln and I must say that you were quite a gentleman." she greeted him with that smile with the girls listening.
"Were you acting like one of the boys up town trying to put the moves on Sibella, Lincoln?" Winnie asked as Lincoln just fainted with the girls looking down in concern.
"I actually think Lincoln took to meeting all the girls much better than you both have done when you first arrived with Scrappy, Shaggy and Scooby." Ms Grimwood said with them both looking her way. She then clarified "not once did he try and run away from the school..."
"I had the weirdest dream... I had gone to my new school... Shaggy and Scooby Doo of Mystery Inc... It turned out to be a school full of monsters..." Lincoln muttered as he opened up his eyes to find himself on a bed as he looked and saw Shaggy, Scooby, Ms Grimwood, Elsa, Phantasma, Winnie and Tanis there. "You were there... And you... And you... And you... And you... And you... And you..." Lincoln said as he opened up his eyes fully to see that he was on top of the bed in his new room at Grimwood's. He blinked as he rubbed his eyes and realised it was no dream.
"Was I there in your dream?" Sibella asked with an amused look on her faceas she peered from the left side of the bed. Lincoln jumped as he looked at them.
"I carried you to your new bed to rest. Your new classmates wanted to make sure that you were alright when you became conscious again." Ms Grimwood explained as he groaned and facepalmed.
"So it wasn't a dream... Am I here to learn about sacrificial rituals or eating brains?" Lincoln replied as there were snickers from some of the students.
"None of the sort Lincoln. I want to welcome you as the first human male student at my school. I had been toying with opening it up to making it co-ed for some time. Your transfer is the first step and I thought why not put it further... The purpose of my school is to not only team the young ghouls of the world but help them prepare to co-exist with humans. What better way to do that than have a human student learn with them." Ms Grimwood said as Linoln stared up at her.
"So I'm here as your guinea pig. Thanks." Lincoln snarked as there were snickers from some of the ghouls.
"I like him. He's funny." Phantasma remarked floating up, moving close and putting her face next to his that almost made him jump.
"Come on Elsa. Give him some space." chided Shaggy getting the ghost girl to move back away from the weirded out boy. "Don't worry Lincoln... Believe me; we were scared out of our minds at first as well but the girls are really friend. You will like your stay here." Shaggy assured him and Scooby nodded.
"If you say so..." Lincoln said feeling like he can trust their word.
"Now I expect you girls to give him privacy at night. Make yourself at home in your room and we will call you for dinner a little later." Ms Grimwood said as she got the girls and the gym coaches out through the door.
Lincoln thought that this probably won't be too bad; he decided to text his parents and say:
Met the other students; they seem nice if odd.
No way would they believe him; what would Lucy say about this?
"What do you think of the new boy?" Elsa asked her friends as they got out.
"Reminds me of the coaches when they first got here. All screaming, running and being afraid." Winnie then said.
"He was really nice when I saw him. He might jsut need time to settle in." Tannis said innocently enough as Sibella pondered.
"Quite amusing that he didn't realise that I was a vampire when I saw him." Sibella said finding him a little strange like her coaches; but while his reactions to taking all this in was amusing. She couldn't help but think of how unusual that his first reaction to seeing her as a bat was to pet her. Said he had gotten used to bats because of his sister. He could be a fun one...