The last chapter and part of this three-parter.

Posted on 3/11/2025

I originally planned on posting this chapter at the end of February, but I couldn't because of schoolwork.

Izuku and Draculaura parted from their kiss, allowing them to stare into each other's eyes. After their kiss, they soon left to go to their shared dorm room and spend the night in each other's loving arms, not through sex.

But through genuine love for each other.

However, right before they could get out of the forest, they met with Valentine. He called her out to him so they could continue with their time together. But Draculaura couldn't leave Izuku behind after everything they'd been through. She loves Izuku, who is her current boyfriend, and loves him, while Valentine is her old boyfriend and once loved him. It was there that a clash of emotions waged within Draculaura's heart.

At that moment…

Valentine gave her an ultimatum…

One that he was sure that he was going to win and be able to complete his collection of broken hearts.

Stay with Izuku, or break up with Izuku and stay with him.

He was sure that she would go for him and win.

But he was wrong; Draculara couldn't decide on who she should continue going out with.

She said that she would have to think about it before turning into a bat and leaving the two teenage boys, who touch her heart in different ways.

Izuku and Valentine stared each other down, ready for the other one to speak or to enact anything. Neither came. Just a death glare was stared at Valentine. While Valentine had a smug smile and face on. He knew that Draculaura would go to him naturally.

What he didn't know was how wrong he was.

He transformed into a mist and then floated or scattered into the wind as the sun rose. The fact that the sun was rising was something that went past Izuku. He didn't realize or notice that it was close to sunrise when he did his practice fireworks display.

Hell…

He still didn't even notice the sun at all. To his mind, the romantic battle against Valentine was still raging on.

Just as Izuku was about to leave, he was stopped by Frankie, Cleo, Clawdeen, and Ghoulia before he could go back to the dorms. Or maybe ask Heath and Duce if he could bunk with them for the night until this whole thing blows over. "Girls, is something wrong?"

Ghoulia answers, "Izuku, uh, I have something on Valentine, and, uh, if you don't like him now, you'll HATE him after I tell you about this." Confusing Izuku.

Later…

The teens brought Izuku back into their dorm room to discuss Valentine, but when they arrived, they were surprised that Draculaura wasn't there at all. Much to Izuku's dismay. With whatever information they found on Valentine, he had hoped that Draculaura was there to listen. But she wasn't there.

Much to Izuku's dismay.

The girls sat Izuku down, and Toralei, Lagoon, and Abbey discussed the information they had found on Valentine.

After they set Izuku down to tell him, Frankie told Cleo, Abbey, Toralei, Clawdeen, and Lagoona to strap him down on a chair so he wouldn't overreact about the news. They used chains, seaweed, mummy wraps, and little cuffs and froze his feet to the ground.

Once strapped down, Ghoulia broke it down like this:

When they had access to his phone, they hacked into it and copied everything on it onto her computer. From there, they were able to access his past calendar events, texts, calls, and emails. They found out that Valentine had other girlfriends. He was cheating on them and dating them at different times. And each time, he played the same cards as he did with Draculaura.

They found this out by looking at the girls' social media and discovered they all are in the same chat room about how Valentine broke their hearts. After finding this chat room, they talked to the girls and got their statements about Valentine. He's done the same thing to these girls as he did to Draculaura. Making it seem that he is interested in them, showering them with his attention, going out on a romantic date, giving expensive gifts, and becoming an item. Weeks later, after dates and romantic gestures, he suddenly dumps them.

What's more is that he has a timeline.

In each of the girls' stories, they all have a timeline that Valentine has been following.

And going off of the timeline, he's done the same thing with Draculaura. But slightly different; instead of waiting for a week to break up with her, he was going to break up with her one day after her birthday. He would have broken up with her one day after her birthday if it weren't for that misunderstanding that Draculaura had with the local humans who mistook her for eating a tomato for drinking human blood.

Izuku sat there in anger.

Ghoulia asks the girls, as the room falls into a silence filled with Izuku's silent anger, "Is he okay?"

Izuku takes a deep breath, and through his anger, a small percentage of One for All ignites, and Izuku breaks out of his restraints like it was nothing with one simple move. He stood up from his chair. Seeing their shared boyfriend and friend break out of all of those restraints like they were nothing was honestly the scariest thing they'd ever seen.

He then walks towards the door in silence. Abbey couldn't help but ask, "Are uh, are you okay, Mint Chip?" Mint Chip was Abbey's cute little nickname for Izuku, even though he was an obvious cinnamon roll.

Izuku says, turning to his girlfriends and friends and holding the doorknob, "I'm going out for a walk and finding a tree to break." He then takes his leave.

There was a brief silence in the room.

But that silence ended when Lagoona asked, "...Is it weird that I found that sexy and hot…?" Before Lagoona started dating Izuku, she had a huge thing for the strong muscular type of males. But when she began dating Izuku, she was dating a kind, sweet, generous, and dorky boy who was also a strong, muscular type of male.

The next day…

The day of the birthday party…

So the party planning that Valentine took over was, painfully, and ball-kicking a success. The catacombs had completely turned into the dream party that Draculuara had envisioned in her dreams. Although it seemed a strange sight to see that everything that Draculaura had dreamed of was right in front of them, the atmosphere was a little off for a certain group of monsters and humans as well. While the rest of the students were partying to the loud and festive music that Valentine provided, which was exactly like what Draculuara had envisioned, and were having fun, the rest of the ghoul squad and their shared boyfriend weren't dancing or smiling from the fun of the party. No, they were standing over at a corner of the room watching as their classmates were dancing and, in a way, going through Valentine's plans in charming Draculaura for whatever reason he had come back to Draculaura. What's more is that the Ghoul Squad was looking for Draculaura so they could tell her about Valentine.

Or…

His ex-girlfriends tell her the truth about Valentine.

Izuku doesn't know this, but the girls, more specifically Lagoona, Clawdeen, and Cleo, flew Valentine's ex-girlfriends over to Monster High to tell Draculaura about their relationship with the teen male vampire. The other girls don't know the plan as well as Izuku. The other girls wanted to get some alone time with Draculaura and talk to her, especially after she left when she was confronted with the ultimatum of choosing either Izuku or Valentine. But she was nowhere to be seen at all. Izuku wanted to talk to Draculaura like the rest of the girls, but for other reasons.

He didn't want to tell her the truth about Valentine like the rest of the girls.

He wanted to tell her happy birthday and if tonight was their last birthday or night together as boyfriend and girlfriend then he was accepting she would go with Valentine.

But there was also the question that Clawdeen wanted to ask Draculaura if and when she found her. 'Who makes you happy? Like truly happy, Izuku who has been supporting you and your love of witchcraft? Who has been helping you ever since he's come to Monster High? Or Valentine, who has just been giving her gifts and sweet-talking your way into your heart? Who do you think would give you the happiness that you deserve?' But no one has seen her since last night.

As they searched for Draculaura, they spotted Valentine in the distance, also looking for Draculaura. Knowing that he had played with the hearts of other girls before made Izuku very, very, very, very angry. After knowing what he has done to other women, going out with them, saying how much they're perfect for each other, only for him to break up with them. Izuku loves Draculaura with all of his heart; he loves his girlfriends just as much, so for Draculaura being somehow swooned by this guy just for–something! He was beyond mad.

Finally, when Draculaura appeared at her party, she was dressed in her dream dress. She wore a stained, large, poofy, glittery pink dress with a spiderweb cage skirt and block gloves; around her neck was the necklace that Izuku had gifted to her. Izuku was surprised to see the necklace as part of her dress. A pearl collar that drapes over her shoulders and chest as well. Beautiful black boots with shaped hearts with bat wing designs. Her makeup looked amazing as it made her look beautiful than she already was. Over her head was a pink heart-shaped tiara with four small hearts and one big heart with bat wings on the side; the hearts were all braidled with various diamonds that made them shine. Everyone thought that she was beautiful and gorgeous; the girls, despite the situation, thought that their sister-lover was magnificent. As for Izuku, he thought Draculaura's appearance was different. To Izuku, Draculaura looked like a pink cotton candy angel or goddess.

Everyone cheered for her as it was her birthday, and her presence made them happy.

Draculaura put on a fake smile and waved at her guest, who didn't catch the fake smile. The only people who knew that she was putting on a fake smile were her friend, her boyfriend, and Valentine. Deep in her heart, she knows that what she is about to do is going to change everything in an instant. Sensing this decision, Valentine senses and knows that Draculaura's heart will go to him, or as he assumes. He assumes this as he can see that a large portion of her heart-love chart was taking up almost 92% of her heart with only a small chunk of her love for 'Izuku' left behind.

She goes to the mic and says, "Good evening, everyone." Everyone cheered, "As you all know, today is a special day for, today is my sweet 1,600." Everyone cheered once more, but this time even louder. "Because it's my party and my birthday, and most importantly, it's Valentine's Day. I wanted to spend today with my special someone." Everyone clapped. Izuku, the girls, and Valentine listened in as they were waiting for Draculaura to call out either Izuku's or Valentine's name. "F-For the last few hours, my heart has been off, and well, my heart called out to two people who have made their place inside. At first I didn't know who my heart should go out to, they're both great guys, but, after some time of thinking to myself, I have made my decision." Everyone was on the edge of they're seats to see who she chose to be in her heart and her life.

Izuku had a worried and anticipated look on his face, the same as with the girls. Valentine looked smug; he knew that she was going to choose him over Izuku, and then his collection would be completed.

Unknown to Izuku and the girls, Cleo had a remote in her purse that opened up a trap door. It's the same trap door where Valentine's ex-girlfriends would come out and expose Valentine for who he is.

"The person that I have chosen to be my Valentine and be my boyfriend is…"

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"Izuku Midoriya - will you make me the happiest vamp-teen and not only be my Valentine but also be my boyfriend?"

Hearing this shocked the girls and Valentine.

For Izuku, when he heard his name, One for All traveled around his body, and he zoomed toward Draculaura on stage. He kisses her lips and, in a surprising instance, lifts her off the ground and throws her into the air. When she comes down, he catches her and spins her around as he holds her in a bridal style. Everyone cheered at the sight, the Ghoul Squad were happy to make the right decision. With this, Cleo decided not to call on the exes to snap and bring out the true Valentine into the light.

Valentine stood there in shock, with his eyes wide like dish plates. He was just about to charge up there and do his usual suave-romantic-charm to get Draculaura back to him.

Just then, completely out of Cleo's control, out of nowhere, the remote for the trap door opened, and the girls came out of the floor, confusing the hell out of everyone. All the while, Valentine was worried and scared about his ex's appearance.

Draculaura asks, "Who, uh, who are you ghouls exactly?"

One of the exes spotted Valentine in the crowd, trying not to be seen by the exes. It was there that the girls broke and established everything that Valentine did when the two first met and after they're first encounter. How he showed interest in her/them, how he began slipping heart notes to her/them, how they began eating lunch together, showering her with the kindest compliments, going out on dates, and giving her/them expensive gifts, he gave you the greatest gift of all time, and then the two became boyfriend and girlfriend. A month later, out of nowhere, he breaks up with her, but for Draculaura, as you all know because I have repeated myself over and over again. Valentine wanted to talk to Draculaura a day after he made her birthday into a holiday, but before he could break up with her to complete his collection, there was a misunderstanding with the local humans, which caused Draculaura and her family to move to the US.

Hearing all of this, Draculaura rewinded and looked back at all of those events that the exes named and pointed out. And the samething they said was correct. But what convinced Draculaura was that they all said that Valentine said the same sweet and wonderful words that caused Draculaura to be Valentine's girlfriend. 'You're the only one who has the key to open and enter my heart.' Valentine does all of those things to Draculaura, who turns towards him and asks him, "Please tell me that none of this isn't true. Did they even mean anything?" Draculaura's heart would forever belong to Izuku, but Draculaura wanted to know if all of those kind words, those dates, those gifts, turning her birthday into an actual holiday… Was it love, or was it all fake?

He backed away as far as he nearly fell into that pit of the most putrid slime of all time. But he stopped himself before he could fall in. Just then, Izuku walked up towards Valentine and stood in front of him. Before Valentine could say anything, Izuku just said this one line before doing something bizarre that no one would ever believe.

"This is for Draculaura."

He then reeled his fist back and threw it square at Valentine's nose.

The force pushes Valentine towards it, and he falls right into the pit of smelly slime. He gags in utter disgust as he smells himself and finds himself putrid. Everyone was either laughing or covering their noses because of the rancid oder. Seeing and hearing everyone laughing at him, Valentine transformed into his mist form and disappeared and left the school.

Izuku turns to face Draculaura, who jumps to him and hugs him, and says to Izuku, "No one has ever done anything like that for me. Thank you."

Cleo claps her hands, causing everyone to look at her as she announces to everyone, "Now that the trash is taken out, I hereby declare this party as getting started! Let's celebrate Draculaura and Izuku's love! And that the fact that one of the biggest jerks is finally put down!" Everyone cheered, and the party got back on with the music, getting louder and louder with everyone dancing and, at times, singing along to the music.

Eventually, the night was about to end with some slow, romantic music. Everyone had a partner. Or for Izuku, it was partners.

One at a time, Izuku danced with his girlfriends. First was Clawdeen, then came Frankie, Cleo, Abbey, Toralei, and Lagoona, and because Ghoulia helped out a lot and she didn't have anyone to slow dance with, the girls encouraged Ghoulia to slow dance with Izuku as well. Finally, the best for last. Draculaura. For the remainder of the night, the two slowed dance like they were the only ones in the entire world, they're eyes staring into each other's hearts with the passion of a thousand exploding suns.

After five minutes of slow dancing, the two moved in close to each other and kissed. When they kissed, it was… Wow.

It was like whatever love or any thoughts about Valentine were truly gone, and she truly belonged to Izuku, and Izuku's heart belonged to Draculaura as his anger and jealousy towards Valentine was gone. Making him into a fluffy bear.

But the night was not over just yet. Izuku had one more present for Draculaura. "I, uh, have one more present for you. I hope that you like it." The present was that he used his Upgrade form to upgrade and turn a rusted old beat-down convertible into brand new with all of the designs and aesthetic look of Draculaura's style. He turned an old remote key into the key that would activate and turn on the car with a push of a button, and it was inside his pocket. As he was taking it out, he had trouble with getting it out, which caused him to drop the key. He goes down onto one knee to pick it up. Now then: Izuku didn't tell Draculaura what his present was to her. So because of this, along with Izuku loving Draculaura, and him going down onto one knee lead to Draculaura thinking.

"OH MY GHOUL, IZUKU!" In Draculaura's eyes and many others, it seems like Izuku is proposing to her. Before Izuku could clarify anything, Draculaura leaped into his arms, wrapping them around his neck as tears streamed down her face. She shouted, "YES! A MILLION TIMES, YES!" This scene, with Izuku proposing to Draculaura, was straight out of her dream birthday, where he would get down on one knee and ask her to marry him; now, it was a reality. She couldn't care less about the missing car that would truly make this night her dream birthday; this was more than enough to make it the best birthday ever—even if it was a misunderstanding.

Everyone cheered and buzzed in disbelief.

"Izuku proposed to Draculaura."

"Draculaura is going to marry a human!"

"Izuku, you dog!"

"Let's make this their best bachelor and bachelorette party!"

Everyone partied hard after this.

In the corner, the girls were stunned by the fallout of this misunderstanding.

Frankie asked, "You guys do know this is a misunderstanding, right?" Everyone nodded their heads. "Good, then it's not just me." They watched as Izuku and Draculaura danced some more, with Draculaura clinging to Izuku, tears and smeared mascara on her face. "Are we…"

"Going to tell her this is all a misunderstanding and that Izuku isn't proposing?"

"Yep."

"Nah, let's let this be her best birthday just for tonight."

"Can we join in on the party?"

"Absolutely."

And just like that, the girls returned to the celebration and danced through the night.

It was in that moment that Draculaura knew this was the best birthday party ever.

Post-credit scene:

After the night ended, the girls retreated to their respective bedrooms, with Draculaura sleeping peacefully in the loving arms of her boyfriend—not through sex, but through love. As the other girls were getting ready for bed, Clawdeen chatted with Cleo about the fun they had. Then Cleo remembered something. She grabbed the remote for the trapdoor and checked the batteries in the back, finding it odd. "Huh, that's super weird."

Clawdeen asked as she took her final sip of tomato juice, "What's weird?"

Cleo showed her the remote. "The remote for the trapdoor. For some reason, the batteries aren't there." She displayed the empty remote. "I must have forgotten to put new batteries in before we left for the party."

Upon hearing this, Clawdeen's mind sparked a question. "Wait a minute. If the remote didn't have any batteries, then how did the trapdoor even open?"

Cleo looked just as puzzled, struggling to answer. "No clue." Suddenly, another thought crossed her mind. "That's another thing: How did Valentine even know Draculaura was here? I mean, I guess it wouldn't be hard to find her online, but why did he come here anyway?"

With these questions, the two did their best to ponder the answers, but nothing came to them.

All the while, a shadowy figure of Charmcaster watched them and said quietly, "You'll find out soon enough, fools. Soon enough."

And just like that, every member of the Ghoul Squad had entered a dangerous and hidden game of Cat and Mouse. So, who would win? The hero? Or Charmcaster? Only time will tell.

Until next time.

Stay tuned for more Deku 10 at Monster High.