Monster High - The School Grounds

[Demona MH]

Demona kept her head down as she walked out of Bloodgood's office, she was trying to get things ready to re-join Monster High for next Screamester, Demona held her warm claw-ffee in her manicured hands. She still had a severe case of jet-lag and wanted nothing more to take a nap...or at least get on Ista-grim. As a Demon of Vanity Demona religiously got on Insta. She went to walk out of the halls, she didnt feel like meeting with friends just yet...but things dont usually go as planned  

[Draconia St George]

Demona MH

Fortunate enough to finish a bit early with her Trigular Calculometry final, Draconia and a few other students were allowed to be hexcused from class. Many of them were going to go down into the catacombs and watch the last part of the Roller Maze practice, while others were going to Study Howl to furriously cram for their afternoon classes.

Draconia decided to go down to SKRM; her final hexam of the day was going to be Mad Science and if she wasn't ready by now, a few minutes of cramming wasn't going to save her from Mr. Hackington's notorious final. Besides, it would be good to cheer on Glen and the rest of the team as they prepared for the last match.

"No reply...darn!" Draconia looked at her iCoffin to see that Glen had never replied to her text. She'd have to ask him in person about Harry Herne and Glen's crazy "13 dates" plan. "I wonder if-"

Suddenly, Draconia saw somemonster she didn't hexpect. All of her books dropped onto the ground in surprise.

"DEMONA?!" Draconia gasped. She blinked several times. "Is...is that really you?!"  

[Demona MH]

Draconia St George

Demona MH

"DEMONA?!" Draconia gasped. She blinked several times. "Is...is that really you?!"

Demona turned "Draconia? Hey how have you been?" she rubbed the back of her neck softly. "How is everyone?" What demona really wanted to ask was how was Kai. Was it too desperate to ask about him so soon? was it rude not to? She forced an awkward smile before sipping some of her coffee.  

[Draconia St George]

Demona MH

"How is everyone?"

"Oh, doing quite well. I mean, it is all hexams today so there's a lot of fangxiety, but one would expect that, wouldn't they?" Draconia paused. All she knew about Demona since she'd moved to Grrmany was that she and Kai had broken up. He hadn't said much about it at all. Was it a mutual thing, or....

Draconia didn't want to seem like she was prying. That would be dreadfully rude! Instead she decided to take a different tactic.

"I'm about to head down to the Catacombs to watch the SKRM practice. Are you free to come with me? I'd uhh-dore hearing about your time in Grrmany! And Glen and Nero will be down there since they're on the team! You can surprise them as much as you surprised me."

Draconia realized her books were still on the ground. She quickly scooped them back up.  

[Demona MH]

Draconia St George

Demona MH

"How is everyone?"

" You can surprise them as much as you surprised me."

Demona bit her lip, "I look clawful, but yeah I would like that alot!" she chirped. Demona still looked on point even with somewhat messy hair, and faded make-up. "So what do you want to know about Grrrmany?" She said following Draconia  

[Draconia St George]

Demona MH

. "So what do you want to know about Grrrmany?" She said following Draconia

"Oh, EVERYthing!" Draconia gushed. She'd never been to Grrmany, though she did have an uncle, Fafnir, who came from there. "What was the fright life like? Did you get to see the remains of the Grrrlin Wall? How was Spooktoberfest?..."

The two of them chatted onward, with Draconia telling Demona about the last few months at school and Demona sharing details about un-life in Grrmany as the two went down the spiraling staircase into the catacombs...  

[Damyn Faolan]

Arillena cheerfully skipped down the halls. Her talk with Marceline earlier had gone well, and it looked like the play was going well, AND she hadn't felt the slightest bit scared or panicked by anything all day~ Damyn had curled up on the top of her head, purring slightly as he relaxed and thought about the gift exchange he had managed to get himself into. What did he know about Draconia. What did he know about anyone in this school next to the girl he showed up with.

"...."

"Wait a minute..."

"...?" The white cat looked up as his friend stopped in the middle of the empty hall.

"Where is everyone?"  

[HH Bloodgood]

*RIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGG*

Finally, the bell that signaled the end of the morning classes rang, and students lurched towards the Creepateria. It was finally lunchtime!

The lurch ladies braced themselves; the last day of the Scaremester was traditionally stressful and hectic for the student bodies and more than one of them were likely to cut loose and go a little crazy during lunch. They hoped it wouldn't end in another food fright.

A line queued up immediately in front of the food as some students grabbed tables and started saving spots for their friends.

"We're out of bagels!" One lurch lady informed a disappointed Golem ghoul.  

[Demona MH]

After stealing one of Damon's lunches and getting a visitors pass Demona walked into the lunchroom and sat down in the back next to the corner. She was alone and would shoo away anyone else who would try to sit next to her.... What did Kai mean by they had something important to talk about?  

[Estrella Espacio]

It was the designated time for lurch now. Essi had already left the group again to get in line. Monsters were still discussing the events prior, hopefully that manster from earlier hadn't spread negative truths about her. Some boo was staring at her though, and then blinked one eye. He continued to the ghouls he was talking to. What a strange vampire! She finally ordered her food. Two helpings of everything.
As she left the line she knew that avoiding her fellow welcome committee was useless. "Perhaps if I sung a little song....or hummed a few bars of...no that would be wrong.." Muttering to herself as she went to sit with Nekki, Astrid and Kai?
 

[Atomica Servo]

"No need to thank me!" Atomica informed some members of the SKRM team as they sat down to lunch. Atomica was walking past them on her way to the corner where she, Cassie, Lin and Gryff usually sat.

"Uh...for what?" Heath Burns asked her. He was still feeling a bit bruised from the big pileup at the end of practice. "You didn't even skate!"

"BUT I found us a replacement for the team after Robecca broke her leg." Atomica reminded him, trying to keep an undertone of annoyance out of her voice. "Which is more than YOU did. Just saying."

Heath didn't reply but simply looked glum instead of appropriately thankful. Atomica sighed, rolled her LED eyes and continued to sit down with her friends.  

[Kai Merha]

Kai waved at Estrella as she brought two overloaded trays with her to the table where Layla and the other new ghouls were seated. He boggled a bit at the sheer amount of food she'd gotten. It was like seeing Roswell Gray back. Did all aliens have black holes for stomachs?

Kai had sat them next to Demona, even though he would have liked to sit with her alone. It wouldn't have been fair to abandon the new ghouls, or Layla.

"Sorry about this," He said to Demona quietly as Essi took her seat. "I kinda wanted to talk alone."

At any rate, it gave him a chance to do another grimtroduction, he figured.

"Ghouls, this is Demona. She spent a scaremester abroad and is going to be coming back to Monster High. She's, uh, she's great to ask any questions about the school, too!"

A thought struck Kai.

"Oh, I know Layla wanted to invite you ghouls to the Howliday Ball she's hosting at the Monster Embassy next week. There's going to be fancy dress, dancing...food..." Kai looked again at Essi's plate. "And a gift hexchange!"

Kai glanced at Demona. He raised his eyebrows a little bit to see how she'd react. After all, he hadn't asked anymonster to the ball yet...  

[Gryff N]

Gryff fidgited slightly as he waited for his lunch creeppuccino delivery. Today it was going to have extra foam and a little cinnamoan sprinkled on top and he needed that to cut through the stench of the creepeteria's idea of "food." Certainly, the things the students were eating bared only the passing resemblance to cuisine and Gryff knew for a fact that none of the school's offerings were locally-sourced, goreganic or part of the New Nordic wave of cooking which Gryff was totally over anyway.

Gryff tried to focus, Lin was talking. Lin was always talking, usually enthusiastically, but this time the words "gears," "wires," "titanium alloy," "batteries," and "mild but totally not lethal explosion" were nowhere to be found.

Lin McGearloch

 

[Harry Herne]

In the creeperteria...

Harry had already picked up some mandrake and wolfsbane hummus as it was the only vegan option for the day. He thought about eating something with meat(as any Wail Street shark would) but he just couldn't bring himself to do it yet. Maybe after he crushed the dreams of the disenfranchised for the first time he would turn into a carnivoire. Sighing, Harry dipped a piece of bread into the hummus. Being a Wail Street shark was soul sucking....and he hadn't even done anything yet!  

[Draconia St George]

Draconia stepped into the Creepateria, followed by Glen and Rory. She had wanted to ask Glen about the '13 first dates' he'd set up for her with different boos at school...but Glen's 'bowling' accident seemed to have knocked him for a loop. When she asked him about it, he'd just blinked at her confusedly. She decided to give him some time to recover before pressing him.

The thing she wanted to know, was this: Glen had grimterviewed several different boos in the school in the hopes of finding some nice, safe and fun dates for his dragon beastie following her break-up with Manny Taur. He had settled on 13 different boos. So far, Draconia had done two of the dates: one with Lin McGearloch and one with Skelletorrence Keldor. Although both had been...interesting...neither was really much of a love connection.

Draconia knew that Harry Herne was on the '13 First Dates' list. However, whenever she had tried to speak with Harry before, he always acted very strange...sort of panicky and and overly eager to get away from her. She had a sneaking suspicion he didn't like her very much. A true date with him seemed like a rather bad idea.

And then she'd gone and drawn his name for the Howliday Ball gift hexchange! She really knew so little about Harry; what did Glen know about him that made him think Harry would be a good dating match for her? That's when the idea of going on a date with him to the SKRM match came to her...it would be a low-pressure, highly public place to fang out, and if things didn't go well, they could just sit back and enjoy the game. After all, Harry DID seem like a fan of SKRM - didn't she see him running out onto the track right before the big accident? This seemed like a hexcellent opportunity to get to know him and figure out what gift to give him for Cryptmas!

Draconia scarefully walked over to the table that Harry was seated at. He was dressed hextremely nicely, in a neatly pressed suit. Goodness, he took the last day of classes seriously!

"*Ahem*" Draconia politely cleared her throat, trying to get Harry's attention. He seemed very intent in his concentration on his hummus lunch and didn't respond.

Draconia hopped up and down on the balls of her foot-claws a bit, hoping the motion would catch his eye. No such luck as Harry glumly chewed a hunk of bread.

"Erm...Harry? Hello, Harry!" Draconia tried again, speaking up a bit this time. Her hand-claws were clasped behind her back and her wings fluttered a bit to get his attention.