The Die-ner

[Melody Nocturna]

"No, Roswell and I do not wish to join..." Melody started.

Wait turnips? Day and night?

She looked at the monsters; they looked noticeably tired, yet seemed totally energized. Maybe along with those turnips they had an unlimited amount of Red Ghoul to slurp.

She couldn't figure out why they were acting so different, "we were just wanting to ask a few things involving the circus, if you don't mind."  

[Vanissha de la Luz]

Jewels Underne

A flustered mole girl burst through the door of the die-ner, panting heavily, hair dishevelled and eyes wide. "It's all wrong!" she yelled to nobody in particular. "This circus thing is bad, and wrong and just... just not gneiss at all! And not shiny either... not at all shinyyyyy" She wailed, tears welling in her oversized eyes.

Vanisha's wyws lite up, Who was this ghoul thinking she could day those things?! So untrue! The circus is the greatest place there ever was!

"You're just jealous!" Vanissha yelled at the ghoul who just walked in. "Jealous since you're not in the circus!"

She was very bothered by this, but wasn't sure why! Just that she needed to defend it with everything she had! This was a reputation to protect!

"And what do you mean it's not shiny? I'm the brightest star there! Everyghoul knows the animal trainer is the beast!"

Then it clicked.

"Unless..." She said far more calmly, it was unlike her, but the passion was still there.

"You could join us!" twisted  

[Ascreama Poweurgh]

Ascreama huffed as she nearly crashed into the mole girl blocking the doorway to the die-ner. "Eaah!" She squawked as they collided. "I suppose I deserve that for hexting and not paying attention to where I was going," She laughed, wobbling on her feet. For a moment there was silence as the die-ners occupants turned to the door..

"Are.. Are you okay?" The blob ghoul asked her school friend. "What's not shiny? It's okay!"  

[Jewels Underne]

"no!" She cried at Vanissha, "It's all some sort of freaky mind trick, i'm not going to be hypnotised by you and your.. your.. carnie friends!" Ascreama almost knocked her down. Interrupting her rant. She turned and collapsed into Ascreama's goopy arms, sobbing wretchedly.
"It.. it's all wrong. Kai and Nero.. they.. they were rapping!" She wailed, tears flowing down her face.  

[Ronan Aalto]

Much like Vanissha, Ronan felt the need to defend his new home and livelyhood, rising to his feet as he spoke. "She is clearly hysterical and not thinking straight. Anyone with any sense would see how perfect the circus really is." He took a step toward Ascreama and Jewels. "You should come with us, see for yourself. I am certain once you're there, you'll understand." As he came closer, Jewels clung tighter to Ascreama's sticky goop.

Ronan reached out a hand to the mole girl, smiling. "Let us show you."  

[Jewels Underne]

Jewels choked back a scream. "No! This isn't right!" She pulled away from the goo ghoul with a sticky sluuuurp and glared up at the taller Selkie boo. "You... You're boring! I've seen you in class, all Mr Serious About Everything. You don't SMILE!"

His smile did falter and he frowned, clearly confused by the ghoul's outburst.

"Well you're clearly hysterical... not to mention delusional..." he began.

She cut him off, slapping his hand away as he tried to guide her to a seat.
"Don't touch me! I'm not hysterical! And i'm not the delusional one! You're all... all... Brainwashed! That's what it is! They got you brainwashed!" Yeah, that had to be the only explanation. Maybe it was aliens or accountants or... or... major league baseball!
"Snap out of it! All of you!"

Ronan shook his head. "Please calm down." He looked to his companions to back him up here, but as he looked away Jewels snatched up a pitcher of water conveniently lying on the table and threw the contents into his face.

"Stopit! stopitstopitstopit!"  

[Doriana Taylor]

"Roswell..."

Doriana pulled Roswell to her, causing Melody and Roswell to drop hands. Melody looked shocked. "You have trouble understanding English, right?"

Doriana gave an almost... Evil smile as he nodded honestly. "Aren't you... Tired of all of these misconceptions? In the circus, there barely any talking... Just music."

Doriana gave his arm a patt, and Melody looked at her with anger. Doriana turned to Roswell again. "I mean, if you join us, you won't have to worry about any of these misconceptions anymore. You can be free like the rest of us."

Doriana tapped her foot before singing a little toon. "Join us, oh join us, little alien. The circus is music's very best friend..."  

[Roswell Grey]

Roswell looked bewildered, stunned and strangly curious. That was indeed and interesting facial expression.

"Uhh...."

He looked at Melody. She looked angry, was she angry at him...? Would she help him? Why do they want them to join? What happned to Vanissha? And to all of them?

"Uh no thank you." He tired to be polite, in his decline. Although he was an entertainer by trade this was not what he loved. "I can to this planet for many things. But I stayed for one. Knowledge. I I don't learn knew things, i might as well stay home."

The mole ghoul was screaming and crying. It was unpleasant to the ears. It was making him uncomfortable. More so anything Ronan was doing wasn't helping, her hysterics were far worse.

"You should all leave!"

Roswell bellowed, it was loud but it was not in anger. He demanded this out of fear. He didn't know what brainwashing was, but it did sound very painful.  

[Melody Nocturna]

Melody's eyes had glowed a deep crimson red. Her patience had already worn to it's end, and the conversation wasn't even half way through.

Two ghouls wailing on end about the circus being awful, which she already knew, obviously. Vanissha and Ronan defending their big top prison, and Doriana touching places along Roswell's arm as a confused look was spread across his face.

Melody was infuriated, but she couldn't make a scene in the small Die-ner, too many things would get shattered.

Her hands clenched so tightly that her fingernails dug into her thin palms; her teeth, grinding so hard they'd begin to give off dust at any moment. Her toes curled so tightly they seemed almost invisible in the shoes.

She had to leave.

"Excuse me, I have an appointment I need to attend to.."She sternly said through her closed teeth.

She stood straight up and she marched out the door, slamming it behind her.  

[Jewels Underne]

Ronan backed away from the hysterical mole ghoul, glancing over to a member of staff who was carefully edging toward the scene. He grabbed Vanissha's arm and motioned to Dorianna. "We got what we needed, come on."
The scene was getting tiresome and he really would rather not be kicked out of the place due to some ghoul's inability to control her emotions.
Besides, they really should be getting back to the circus, there was important practice to be done, a routine to come up with and a plethora of teeny tiny drinking vessels to dive into.

Jewels had just buried her head in her hands and stayed there, shuddering with sobs every so often. How humiliating, but she knew in her heart she was right about the circus.  

[Roswell Grey]

Melody Nocturna

"Melody!" Roswell cried after her reaching his hand out to her dramatically. But it was too late she'd left!

Soon enough the situation in the diner was safe enough to leave once the circus monsters left. But could he reach Melody in time?!

Chasing after her he called her name.

"Melody Melody!" There was worry in his voice that she too soon would be taken to the circus!  

[Gryff N]

The Die-ner's door hit the wall with a slam as Gryff kicked it open. The little bell gave a sad clonk as it was flattened against the sash. Gryff walked in with his shoulders hunched and one of his best brood faces. Atomica followed, spitting sparks.

"Ohmigod I should have known Lin wouldn't join the circus on purpose, who wants to sit in a big stinky tent with big stinky monsters doing stinky shows?"

Atomica began snatching napkin dispensers from the tables as Gryff sprawled into a booth, legs outstretch to take up an entire side. She started wiping coffee sludge her SKRM wheels before retracting them. He leaned his elbow against the table, twirling the salt shaker, concentrating. His eyes had relaxed a little so that instead of being narrowed in fury they were now merely narrowed in contemptuous contemplation.

"This is so gross that we have got to be able to sue them for their grossness."

Gryff grunted acknowledgement. His mind turned over the past few hours.

"You said you recognized one of them?"

"I did?"

"Yeah. When the normie grabbed you."

"Eugh," she replied, automatically wiping her arm where Farnum had the gall to touch her, "I have to check me memory banks, their importance is so low that I probably shuttered it into an unused subroutine. I'm running a recall diagnostic."

"Lin did not join the circus willingly. Werechickens may have a pie fetish but I'll bet Ms. Sushi doesn't, and Kai, even at his most pathetic and derivative, doesn't paint backdrops. That normie and his self-hating witch shill put spells on everyone."

"This is so bogus, look at my arm, is that a scuff?! Did that stupid coffin engine dent my arm!? Oh we a so totally wiping their motherboards!"

Gryff mentally counted off the monsters that he saw in the circus and pulled out his phone.

"There are too many of them. It's a whole army of brain-washed, slack-jawed monsters who are willing to do whatever some normie," he spat the word like a curse, "tells them to do, no thinking required. It's worse than Justin Biter fans, at least they want to do be there in their addled tiny brains. It's only their own poor taste that keeps them in thrall."

His talons clicked over his screen with amazing speed as he began setting up a mass text.

"Well I can get my own army, and we'll teach them not to touch my gremlin."

merabell3

Felix Faun

Tori Underbridge

Hellene Harpie

Glen da West

Jewels Underne

Shadeaux D Gloom

Anne Arctica

Ascreama Poweurgh

JD Leeds

Roswell Grey

Melody Nocturna

Layla Lamia

[text] You want your "bros" back? It's time to kick this psycho circus out of town. Meet me at the Die-ner. Bring coffee. ~Gryff [/text]  

[merabell3]

Merabell went into the die-ner and saw Gryff "I can't believe this circus it has gone to far taking our friends and students at MH " she felt mad about he circus taking her friends.  

[Atomica Servo]

"DING. I totally found it!" Atomica's search function lit up, reminding her where she had seen the normie and the witch that ran the crooked circus. She started rattling off facts, picking up Gryff's iCoffin to display the pictures he took at the Cirque Sinistaire.

"This is Bartleby Farnum. Last year, he tried to INVADE the school pretending to give a talk on tolerance that was actually a trap to try to capture Frankie Stein and that Andy Beast kid that only seems to show up in the background these days. He was tarred, feathered and arrested by normie authorities."

Atomica swiped through the pictures and stopped at Hagetha.

"Hagetha Mistie. She was in the picture of the original teachers at Monster High the Headmistress showed me in the school charter! According to Spookypedia, she was the first Home Ick teacher, but she was kicked out of the school when she tried to hex her students into becoming a mindless monster army to take over the normie world.....and to get better grades. The Witches Council exiled her to the swamp."

Atomica swiped through the pictures, stopping at one showing all of the ensorcled kids.

"And now, it looks like they've teamed up to create this circus to trap the kids of Monster High! It's weird, though...Hagetha Mistie's magic was supposed to have been, like, TOTALLY nerfed by the witches council. She shouldn't have enough power to entrap minds anymore."