Monster High - The School Grounds

[Melody Nocturna]

Melody sighed as she flipped through the pages of her textbook after sitting down alone in the liscary.

"Today has been absolutely crazy," she whispered to herself, "coming back to hexams and having Shad ask me to the-" her head snapped up, "I didn't say weather I'd attend the dance with him or not!" She shouted in exasperation.

SHHHHH!!!! The liscarian whispered.

"Sorry.." she put her hand to her forehead, "and I don't even have his phone number to respond...Oh ghoul can this day get any more hectic?" she asked herself returning to her book.  

[Roswell Grey]

Suddenly Melody's iCoffin was playing a familiar boosical song, it was a song she'd heard before. Familiar and comforting. It was a power rock ballot, a one of a kind, and created and played specifically for her.

MAX glitched momentarily, have pushing itself to it's speed limits, and the musical signal was not only sent to Melody's iCoffin, But to all iCoffins in and around Monster High.  

[Kai Merha]

"Yipe!" Kai jumped when his iCoffin suddenly started playing in his pocket. He went to switch it off, hoping no one had heard...but fortunately Ms. Kindergruber was too busy berating Damon for eating somemonster's project and apparently didn't notice.

Kai looked at Demona, a little confused. What the heck?  

[Melody Nocturna]

Melody picked her head up from her hand, was her ICoffin ringing?

She raised an eyebrow and reached into her bag searching, in the midst of searching, she stopped, "It can't be..." she whispered to herself. She mustered up the courage and picked up her ICoffin, listening to a song she had only heard once before.

It was. It was the song Roswell had composed for her months ago before her hexchange trip, before they split.

SHHHH!!!!! The librarian scolded again.

She turned off her phone instantly and shoved it as far into her bag as she could, gulping down tears as the memories flooded back into her mind.  

[Demona MH]

Kai Merha

"Yipe!" Kai jumped when his iCoffin suddenly started playing in his pocket. He went to switch it off, hoping no one had heard...but fortunately Ms. Kindergruber was too busy berating Damon for eating somemonster's project and apparently didn't notice.

Kai looked at Demona, a little confused. What the heck?

Demona jumped as she was taking a selfie and she quickly shut her phone off. She looked at Kai. "That was a song Roswell wrote for melody, I know because she wouldnt stop playing it, I hate that song....I should check on melody.. but first lemme take a selfie, i look amazing in this lighting:  

[Felix Faun]

Felix leaned over and gasped for air as coach Igor shouted at him from the recline of a lawn chair, "Pick up the pace, Faun!"

He coughed as he glanced over at his teacher, "How much longer do we have to do this again, coach? It's freezing out here!" He yelled across the track feeling his horns shiver from the cold as other students passed by him.

"As long as I say so! So keep going!"

Felix groaned, stretching his back before continuing the miles long run, "This is the last time I try to sign up for a last minute grim class," he gasped between breaths.  

[Estrella Espacio]

Glorious victory fell upon fair Essi the hungry! She had found a vending machine and proceeded to empty it of it's contents. Ok not everything, low calorie items were left because they wouldn't help her body warmth.
She ate and walked the lap of the school, finding all kinds of things. Like Phy's Dead which was a concern if she needed to take that sometime during her stay. She found Home-Ick, fresh smells were radiating around her. That was a class where she planned to excel, perfect memory and all.
What in the name of Luna was that sound? She reached into her pouch...her Icoffin? Thought she finally managed to turn this off...strange...and what an odd noise...it made her cautious..  

[Draconia St George]

"Oh! 'Ello, Essi!" Draconia saw the sparkly little new ghoul in the hallways on her way to the Clawditorium. They'd had so little chance to talk in the creepateria, she was a bit surprised to see her wandering around. Even the hall moanitors must have been in final hexams. "Are you lost? You should be a bit clawtious just wandering around. There's a tentacled Grabby Thing living in one of the lockers and it's never clear hexactly which one..."

Draconia pointed to the doors of the Clawditorium.

"As soon as the hexams are over, all of the student bodies will be coming into the Clawditorium to watch the Drama Class as we put on our play. Will you be joining the clawdience?"  

[Glen da West]

"Da West! Bludworth! You're next." Mr. Hackington wheezed at the two boos sitting at the front of the class. Rory glanced over at Glen, who had a ridiculously huge, excited smile pasted all across Rory's face.

"Oh..okay..." Rory hesitantly agreed, standing up. Immediately Mr. Hackington raised an eyebrow and gave Rory (in Glen's body) a suspicious stare.

"You're actin' awful strange, Da West. Awwwwfully strange....."

Rory gave a little jump.

"I-I mean....science! Woo...hoo?! Yay." Rory spun one of his fingers in the air. Mr. Hackington gave the two witchy cousins one more suspicious look, then sat back in his chair.

"Very well...Proceed."

Rory looked at Glen, who was already setting up their elaborate chemical set. He crossed Glen's fingers...  

[Estrella Espacio]

"The sound stopped" Essi mumbled. Mrs Geode would be ashamed..
"Hmm?" looking up from her Icoffin was the kind Miss Draconia! She'd be a lot happier if she didn't remember the situation in the creepateria...no..Essi was taught to forgive those who "didn't know any better".
She put away the infernal device and started towards Draconia.

" I am not lost, I was learning the layout." Essi found secret things that were useless if you didn't know they were secrets. But a weird tentacle thing? Was Draconia talking about a student with tentacles? Never mind.

"A play?!?!" Essi's horns perked up. The Geode's took her to a play. Ok well it was more Boosical then play. It was both? They took her to see a special performance that was quite fascinating. "What play shall you be performing Miss Draconia?" Essi had her hopes on "BATS". ~  

[Rorrim Rory Bludworth]

The class let loose with a collective groan... well, all save for the newcomers, Nekki. She had just started attending classes in Monster High so she was unaware of the two witch cousin's reputation -- or rather, Glen's reputation. Rory just usually came along for the hexplosive ride.

She also wasn't entirely certain why everybluddy, Mister Hack included, seemed to have an emergency kit under their desks, compete with fire retardant ponchos that they were hurriedly slipping on.

Glen Rory stood on one side of the table filled with beakers filled with ... mad ... sciencey juice, and Rory Glen stood on the other. They had practiced their oral presentation for what seemed like forever, so when Glen, in Rory's body, started to talk...

"Rainbows! In..."

"Rainbows! In MY land of Oz...!"

Rory, in Glen's body, was forced to interrupt or else their secret would be blown sky high -- before the classroom could be! Glen blinked and stared at himself aka his cousin, momescarily surprised Rory had interrupted him until the ol' bulb lit up.

"Oh riiiiiight!"

The students were casting confused glances towards each other. This was the cousins most unusual presentation ever -- and the presentation part had not even started yet!

"As I was saying, in the land of Oz, rainbows are our worldly symbol! It's a sign of nature and magic! It's the only way into Oz unless we luck out and conjure a cyclone..."

The class let loose a collective gasp! Mister Hack leaned in and growled with one peeper scowling at the pair. Rory gulped, and Glen rolled Rory's eyes...

"But seeing as how that would be, dare I say it? DANGEROUS... Glen looked eagerly to Rory for the use of his trademark saying. Nodding, he turned back and returned t their presentation... "... we thought instead we'd take a different route and bring a rainbow to you! And mayb even get a little peek at Oz through it..."

"IF we're lucky! Rainbows are disturbingly not that common here in these parts. So we, my partner and I..."

"RORY! That's me!"

Mister Hack eyed them back and forth and exhaled. This one was a strange one!

"We did research and came up with the chemical composition to MAD SCIENTIFICALLY create a rainbow from scratch!"

Glen did jazz fingers...

"OOoooOoooOooOOOo!"

And the two each took a side of the table and one by one, they held up a tiny test tube beaker filled with a colorful liquid, and announced it before pouring it into the bubbling cauldrons they were each stationed in front of...

"Baneberry juice!"

"Chineek chomping cabbage!"

"Wolfsbane!"

"Fresh harpy feather -- and I want to thank Hellene for her contribution!"

Hellene growled beneath her breath....

"Stinkweed!"

"Ewwwwww!"

"Saltless sea water!"

"Hemlock!"

Cleo had just enough time to turn to Scarah and ask, "Did they say hemlock!?" before...

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The entire school rocked from the explosion...

From in her office, the Headless Headmistress reached out with her free hand to catch her falling head while she continued to grade reports. "Hm, Glen and Rory must be giving their presentation..."

In the Mad Science classroom, smoke billowed in every direction as did the flames while Mister Hack, prepared for this, used some device that looked like a combo fan/fire hextinguisher to put out the flames while fanning the smoke out of the new hole in the wall!  

[Glen da West]

Glen and Rory sat up from where the two had been blown clear across the classroom. Glen coughed, a puff of smoke emanating from his lips and he looked at Rory...

"Gee! That went better than I expected!"

Noting the giant rainbow successfully conjured clear across the classroom... Glen then blinked and looked down at himself, at his own body! He then looked wide eyed at Rory in HIS own body!

Glen threw his arms up in a double fist pump!

"YES!!!"  

[Rorrim Rory Bludworth]

"Wh-what...." Rory sat up, a little dizzy. Somehow, he had managed land squarely on the exact same pillows that Atomica Servo had set up for her Roller Maze demo.

Rory's eyes got wide.

"The counter-charm! We did it!" Of all the things in the many mirrored realms to work, Rory guessed it just sort of figured that the way to be un-Glenned involved a rainbow and an explosion.

"Hrm....very theatrical. Decent-sized hexplosion...very good presentation." Mr. Hackington nodded as he finished scribbling his notes. His stony, usually scowling expression seemed a bit softer than usual. True Mad Scientists appreciated a good explosion, after all.

"Checking for fractures, checking for fractures..." Rory muttered to himself as he made sure that the experiment hadn't resulted in him cracking any further or losing any limbs. Rory was distracted from his check by a huge hug from Glen.

"Oof! What was that for?" Rory asked his cousin. Behind them, students started gathering their things - with the presentations over, it was almost time for the end of class.

"Thanks! For taking such good care of my body!" Glen replied. "And I took good care of yours too!"

Rory grinned at his witchy cousin. Yes, he suddenly had a 'date' with Peggy Springwell he hadn't really planned on having, and no doubt that Marceline was even angrier at him now than before...but still. The body-swapping experience hadn't been as bad as he'd feared it would be. Rory hugged Glen back.

"Now. Let's never, EVER do that again."

"Agreed!"  

[Draconia St George]

Estrella Espacio

"What play shall you be performing Miss Draconia?" Essi had her hopes on "BATS".

"Oh, I won't be...I mean, I'm not an actor." Draconia blushed a bit. "I'm the, er, the student director. And I wrote the play. It's called 'Sinistaria!' and it's based on true events that happened earlier this scaremester..."

Draconia gave a slightly hexcited flutter.

"But I don't want to spoil it! Or raise your hexpectations too much...it's only the second play I've written. And the first one was, well, that was a completely different sort of thing, when my friends and I went to Boo York last spring." Draconia shook off the memory of her hexperience with a corrupt producer on Bloodway. "So I hope you like it! Blimey - I'd better get going! See you soon!"

Draconia slipped into the Clawditorium and gave a gasp. Up there, on the stage, the set was in place, and it was fully lit. It looked like...an actual play!

Draconia couldn't even be nervous, this was too much like a scream come true. She headed backstage to have final words with the actors before the Clawditorium started to fill up.  

[Damyn Faolan]

Draconia St George

Arillena Listened to the soft thunder of voices at the Clawditoruim filled up. The familiar feel of Excitement crossed with Nervousness. The only time she felt like she could fit in at her old schools were when she performed on stage. But this time it was different. This time she had friends out there that would still smile at her even off stage. That fact alone made her ready to go through the whole show a million times.

The Fae smiled at the rest of the cast and nodded bravely to Draconia. There would be no spacing out this time. Her friend's show would be great no matter what.