Monster High - The School Grounds

[Tori Underbridge]

Suddenly she found herself face to face with the teacher demanding that she explain their conversation. She looks at Harry who shakes his head no. She knew he didn't want it getting out he likes 2 ghouls.

Tori gulps

"Umm well y'see..." she nervously looks around around seeing a couple sitting cloae to each other.

"We were discussing Biteology, and the effects and side effects of the hormones and chemical changes that happen monstrous attraction happen, but there are more then one variables, there for a hypotheses and theary must be made in the scientific experiment to find the beast end result for the main subject."

Tori tried her best to sound like she knew what she was talking about with oit blowing Harry's cover. Other students took notes while othe other half watch Tori in her hreat masterpiece.  

[Kai Merha]

Jacqueline O Lantern

"Yes....My father is Jack O'Lantern..." She Said in a very quiet tone.

The ghoul didn't say much after that. Kai thought that maybe she was a little bit embarrassed that her father was a pumpkin? His well-known reputation in the monster world was entirely misinterpreted in the normie world...and that was where Kai had mostly grown up, after all. Every now and then, Kai looked at Jacqueline, trying to determine if she too was a pumpkin. It wouldn't be the first plant person he knew.

"ALL RIGHT." Mr. Hackington suddenly howled. He'd finished pairing the students up. "It's the very first day of class, and I'm sure that you are all wondering what we will do first. Perhaps we'll review the first chapter of the text, or go over the feariodic table, or perhaps you think we'll do some safety lectures before going into the lab. Well.."

*BAM!* Mr. Hackington slammed his hands down on his desk, making half the student bodies jump.

"WRONG! POP QUIZ!"

Nomonster even dared to groan. Kai looked down at the pencil he'd accidentally snapped in two. This was going to hurt.

"You have twenty minutes to answer these five questions." Mr. Hackington's lips slid across his yellow, crooked smile. "Enjoy, I know I will..."

The quiz paper slid in front of Jacqueline, and then one in front of Kai. The first question was immediately about the effects of electricity on an acidic slime mixture. Kai could have sworn he caught Mr. Hackington cackling with glee at him and him alone.

"Hoo boy...." Kai whispered to himself. This was going to be rough.  

[Jacqueline O Lantern]

Jaki looked down at her text books, twirling a finger in her orange hair. She was thinking about something, She would glance every now and then at Kai, her orange hues twinkling like glitter. It wasn't until she heard the loud bam that she turned to the teacher, She didn't jump, she only raised a brow at all the other students jumping. When the paper was handed to her, she looked it over and only chuckled "These questions are exceedingly simple..." She said to herself, wondering what the beef was between kai and the teacher. Without second thought she picked up her pencil, ready to fill in the answers

Kai Merha

 

[Kai Merha]

Kai glanced at Jacqueline. Not to try to cheat, but to see how she was progressing. She was writing up a storm. Across the room waaaaay waaaaay waaaaaay too far away, Demona and Lin were working on their quizzes.

The second question was the type of question Kai dreaded most of all...Multiple Choice.

Quote:

If a monster mixes equal amounts of an acid and a base, they will get:

a) an explosion of green slime

b) a neutral and a salt

c) a portal to the nether dimension

d) purple stuff

e) all of the above

Kai made a distinctive, half-choking 'Glarg' sound. His pencil hovered over 'B'...then went to 'D'. Then he thought that maybe 'E' was correct....but then he was pretty sure he had seen 'A' happen to Glen Da West when he came by in the afternoons to help Kai's father in his mad science lab.

A...B...C...D...E...which one was it?! If only it was a question about color composition or the best types of colored pencils to use on Strathgore paper...

Jacqueline O Lantern

 

[Tori Underbridge]

The Biteology teacher taps his knuckles on the desk, pondering for a moment, mutters something then turns to Tori and Harry and says:
"You two see me after class."

That was all, before he turned back to teaching the rest of the students.

Tori looks to Harry who shrugs, he didn't know why they were asked to stay after, but Tori would be worried.

She sighed, and just listened to the teacher talk about the circulatory system and why the heart was so important.  

[Damon MH]

Damon looked Mari dead in the eye and spoke.

"People budgeted before phones, and you will do it too." He sighed, "turn to your packets that was handed out to you. there's a worksheet that will help assist you in budgeting. it's in the back of your packet, please do not loose it."

He leaned back in this chair scanning the room

"if you keep it off it wont be confiscated, and if you are really having trouble use a calculator" He shrugged trying to figure out why she was throwing such a fit about it when it wasnt something to fight for  

[Harry Herne]

Harry totally zoned out for the rest of class. He knew all about the circulatory systems of most monsters so it was all old news to him. Instead, he spent his time coming with ways of asking out Marinara and Atomica and the dates they would go on. A lot of hactivism date ideas were thought of and discarded before he was hit by an epiphany. He should take them on a date that THEY would like, not one he would like!

Before Harry knew it, class was over and both he and Tori stood before the professor's desk.  

[Rorrim Rory Bludworth]

Fortunately, the rest of Home Ick wasn't quite as dramatic. After iCoffins were surrendered, the student bodies DID pay more attention to Ms. Kindergruber as she went over everything they would be learning in the class. She even managed to make the budgeting assignment sound interesting....To Rory, at least.

Sitting between Glen (known for explosions) and Marianna (known also for exploding, but more of the shouty kind), Rory was a bit on his guard the whole class. But finally, the clock ticked towards the end of the hour, and everyone began packing up their things.

"Phew!" Rory wiped his brow as iCoffins were handed back. "I didn't realize how much Home Ickonomics actually involved!"

"Yeah, it's not just cooking and sewing." Glen replied, glumly. He had apparently been looking forward to cooking and sewing. Probably, he had discovered ways to make them explode. "Budgeting? Shopping for for appliances? Taking care of babies?!"

Rory sincerely hoped Glen would not find a way to make taking care of a baby an explosive project.

"I can't believe they're making us 'pay' a storage fee for holding our iCoffins during class!" Clawd Wolf glumly mentioned as he put his phone back in his pocket. Rory pulled out his Home Ick 'dreadit card.'

"Oh, I guess that's the first thing we're buying with our new budgets." Rory came up to the table where Damon was dispensing iCoffins and charging the dreadit cards. "Hello, I'd like my iCoffin back, please."  

[Damon MH]

Damon's eyes lit up hearing the word 'babies'. He smiled to himself to himself then looked up seeing Rory.

"Of course." He took out the Icoffin. Rory's was easy to figure out since it had a cracked screen. "The best part of this class in my opinion is the baby bit."

Damon handed him his phone then went to "charge" him

"it's ten.." He then leaned back to get something to eat. All through the class Damon was eating different things. Some monsters tried to guess what he'd eat next or time how far apart his snacks were from eachother.  

[Kai Merha]

"Time's up!" Mr. Hackington bellowed. "Pencils down!"

Kai groaned and looked at his paper. He'd at least answered every question, but thanks to his incredible power of indecision, he'd gone ahead and picked 'B' for every answer. Mr. Hackington walked by, picking up papers and glanced down at Kai's.

His hexpression turned into a frosty side-glance.

"Think you're pretty smart, eh? Well, we'll see how well you do once we get to the lab portion!"

Kai blinked. Wait, did he just....get them all right?! He leaned over toe Jacqueline.

"Pssst...did you get 'B' for every question?"

Jacqueline O Lantern

 

[Tori Underbridge]

"I'm very happy you are interestedin Biteology, to be conducting your own experiment, however, as your creater ill need to supervise. That being said ill need weekly reports from both of you." Beast smiled at the two forest creatures.

"and this will be hexille t extra credit for you both. Enjoy the rest of the day, students."

Then, Mr. Beast sent them to the next class.  

[Jacqueline O Lantern]

She only gave a nod to Kai. "You weren't 'comparing' answers were you?" She whispered to her lab partner "I take it you aren't exactly his favorite student...?" Jaki was once again twirling a finger in her hair, she seemed to do that alot....maybe a nervous habit?

Kai Merha

 

[Kai Merha]

Jacqueline O Lantern

"I take it you aren't exactly his favorite student...?"

"My dad's a mad scientist too." Kai hexplained glumly as all of the student bodies started packing up their stuff to head to the next class. "He and Mr. Hack don't see, uh, eye to eye on a lot of things."

Kai glanced at Mr. Hackington, and remembered how his father always said "Well, the HACK part is accurate..."

"My dad's a normie too, so he gets a lot of flack from monsters in Mad Science. And I guess it kind of makes them judge the next generation, even though Mad Science isn't really my thing."

Kai looked down at his schedule. Physical Deaducation next...at two Feariods long, that would take him through all the way to lunch.

"Hey, want to sit with me and my bluddies at lunch?" Kai offered to Jaki. Being a member of the Monster High New Students Committee, it was part of his duties to be welcoming to new student bodies, after all. "Demona and I usually sit in the East corner of the creepateria with a few others."  

[Atomica Servo]

"Defrag me with a SPOON!" Atomica hexclaimed to her friend Cassie as the two of them walked out of Art Class. "I can NOT believe that Ms. Moanatella said that pixel art isn't CLASSICAL art."

The automaton and the living doll had a lot of classes together this Scaremester, which was good. Unfortunately Atomica didn't have many with Gryff and none at all with Lin...which was bad.

And probably deliberate.

"What's next?" Atomica's core memory hummed as she downloaded her class schedule. "Physical Deaducation. Hmm...I wonder what Spring sports we'll be playing. Volleyhowl? Bat-ball? Tennhiss?"

It didn't matter what it was, Atomica knew she would be the absolute beast one out there. And Cassie would do okay too, of course.

"At the very least I'm sure we'll play Dodgeb-b-b-b-bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb-"

Suddenly, Atomica came to a complete stop. She stood stock still, frozen in mid-step like a statue.

"Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb-INCOMING MESSAGE INCOMING MESSAGE INCOMING MESSAGE"

The tips of Atomica's ear-antennae started blinking rapidly and her normally bright cyan LED eyes flashed a series of 1s and 0s.

"LANDING SEQUENCE ENGAGED REPEAT LANDING SEQUENCE ENGAGED ALERT LOCAL AUTHORITIES WE ARE NOT ALONE"

Then, Atomica fell completely silent. Her antennae stopped blinking, and her eyes faded to black. It was as if she was just an Atomica sculpture, rather than the real thing.

And then, just as suddenly as it had started, the incident stopped, and Atomica resumed normal functions.

"-ball? I wouldn't mind whalloping Manny Taur or Chase Q with a precision-perfect throw."  

[Rorrim Rory Bludworth]

Rory headed down to his next class - Driver's Dreaducation. This class made him nervous. Firstly, driving a car was dangerous. Secondly, the teacher was Mister Hackington, who pulled double or maybe even triple duty at the school. And Rory got the distinct impression from other monsters who had taken DD that Mr. Hack took great pleasure in making the driving course sort of...perilous.

"Let's see...down the stairs, to the right...ah!" The Driver's Dreaducation classroom was actually located IN Monster High's garage, next to the Chop Class classroom. In the front were the desks, enough to fit about ten students. And in the back, in front of the garage doors, were the student training cars. Rory saw a hearse, a ghoul bus, a horseless scarriage, and a few other automobiles that had been graciously 'given' to the school by various patrons.

"I hope those are all clawtomatic transmission," Gilda Goldstag said nervously. "I don't think I could handle a manual."

Rory agreed. Driving seemed hextra nerve-wracking.