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All through the afternoon, the hexcitement of the day grew. The food fright at lunch had only served to stoke the flames of the student bodies - in some cases, literally, as Heath Burns managed to start a fire in the middle of Swim Class.

It grew to a fever pitch as the clock ticked forward, moving towards the Pep Rally. The Fear Squad couldn't keep from belting out their best fears in the hallway, and the graveball players handed out copious high-five claws to anymonster who wanted one.
As the bell solemnly gonged across the Monster High campus, grimdicating that it was time for the final class of the day, a surge of hacktivity swelled up as the students all stood up and left their classes to filter into the Grimnasium.

Almost all knew what to hexpect - there had already been several Pep Rallies this school fear. Even the newest students, Harry Herne, Peggy Springwell, Arillena FaeDathana and Bobby Tube had an idea that this was going to be quite the event! The Fear Squad had worked hard all after school yesterday, setting up half of the Grimnasium with a stage. Behind it, a gigantic mural featuring the entire Graveball team had been unfurled. Above the stage hung a banner that the Art Class had all worked on painting that depicted a scene of Monster High Graveball teams through the centuries.

Creep-paper banners of Monster High's school colors of black, white and fuscia had been hung from all of the rafters. A giant net full of balloons in those colors awaited being released during the pep rally finale. The sound system had Monster High's famous 'Fright Song' cued up to play.

The Graveball team sat in their locker room, waiting for the Pep Rally to start. Coach Igor stood in front of them.

"All fright, team. Are you ready for this? Are you ready to go out there and give it your all?! Are you ready to stand up tall, stare evil in the eye and grin?! ARE YOU READY FOR TOTAL DESTRUCTION?!"

Perry Hartley raised a claw.

"Um, isn't this just the pep rally?"

"Yes." Coach Igor rubbed his hands together. "I hate these things."

"Juuuust checking."

Students started to line up outside the closed doors of the Grimnasium. The Fear Squad elbowed their way to the front. To gather every monster's attention, they formed their trademark Fear Squad formation - the Fear-A-Mid, with team captain Cleo DeNile on top.

"ATTENTION, SUBJECTS - I mean, students!" She announced, gathering everymonster's stares. "As soon as these doors open, proceed in an orderly fashion to the creature bleachers, so that we may begin the pep-"

"NO MORE WAITING. ABBEY MUST FEAR TEAM TO VICTORY." A call came out from the crowd, and the entire student body surged forward.

"But you need to be orderl-EEEP!" Cleo tried to command as the fear-a-mid crumpled under the sheer force of the wave of the hexcited students. The doors flew open, and the students streamed into the Grimnasium as one.


"WE ARE MON-STERS! WE ARE PROUD! WE ARE MON-STERS! WE ARE-" The rallying chant suddenly died out as the student wave streamed inside. It was replaced by the sounds of gasps.

"What...why did everyone stop-" Cleo asked, straightening her hair and pushing to the front of the student wave. "Oh. NO."

The scene every monster expected wasn't there. Instead, what they saw were Luna High colors of silver and blue everywhere. The creep-paper had been shredded and lay on the ground in a heap. The stage was covered in T.P. The mural of the
Nightmares Graveball team had been defaced, with giant heads of the Luna High team pasted up in place. And worst of all, the claw-painted banner of the history of Monster High Graveball had been destroyed, covered in Luna High graffiti.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Wailed Cleo DeNile, who collapsed into a heap in the arms of the rest of the Fear Squad.

"AWOOOOO!" Suddenly, the P.A. system started up...playing the Luna High school song!

"Wolfpac is back causin a mass destruction
guess who's here the bad boos of high school
just some competition in in the war destination
not and no mercy see the field is like the street
if you don't know you better find out the wolfpac
here to prove a point number one best believe
that you dont wanan mess with them
i be on a roll and im come on the field
and your never walking out again!"

The Monster High students were stunned. Slowly, each of them started to react to what they saw...

Jewels had been quietly using her diminutive stature to push her way toward the front when the entire student body just... stopped.

She frowned, she couldn't see over anyone so on she pushed till she broke free of the other monsters and let out a gasp.

Luna High... but... how? How had they gotten in here? Her eyes prickled with tears at the sight of all that hard work the art class had put in ruined. The beautiful mural that she knew had taken hours and hours, Kai's wonderful portraits, the bunting she'd helped to hang... all of it was in ruins.

Her clawed hands curled into tight fists as she wiped aside the tears and growled. "Who... DID this... "

Chase was the last member of the Graveball team to enter the grimnasium to see what all the fuss was about -- part of his upbringing, being a gentlemanster and all - to allow others to go ahead first.

Chase lifted his shades to get a better look at the altered decorations and he blinked ... then shook his head (making that noise horses make), then tilted his head and nudged Perry all friendly like in the shoulder.

"Yo, dude of dudes! That `spposed to look like that?"

Kai was not having the beast day so far. The deadtention for Saturday was a huge wrinkle in all of his plans. Despite everything, though, he had been looking forward to the pep rally. He and the rest of Art Class had slaved over the 'History of Monster High Graveball' banner for over a week, and he was pretty thrilled to get a chance to see it in all of...

it's...

Glory?

"Move, excuse me, look out!" Kai shoved himself to the front of the wave of students. He looked up at the banner, reading the spray-painted "Luna High Rulez, Monster High Drulz" covering his intricate renderings of the 1843 Championship team.

Kai fell to his knees.


"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" He flung his claws up to the heavens above. "MY ARRRRRRRRRRRTTTTT!!!!"

Jewels' head snapped around to shoot Glen a glare that could free the molten core of the earth. her eyes narrowed, her fists clenched and unclenched, but thankfully, before she could do anything Kai's wail rang out across the clawdatorium and Jewels' expression immediately softened.
She pushed past Glen, rather a bit more forcefully than was perhaps necessary, and rushed to Kai's side.

"W... we can fix it." She squeaked uncertainly. The werewolves had done a fairly good job of ruining all their hard work. Hesitantly, she reached out to pat the chimera on the shoulder.

"The brush-strokes...the brush-strokes....gone! All gone!" Kai muttered as Jewels gave Nero a pained look.

"Look at what Luna High did to our banner!" She informed the sphinx, who squinted, pushed his glasses up a little further and beheld the drippy, spray-painted 'MONSTER HIGH? MORE LIKE MONSTER TRY....AND FAIL!" covering half the banner.

"Ouch!" Nero winced as Kai wailed again.

"MY IMPASTO TECHNIIIIIIIIIIIQUE!"

"Not cool, not cool at all." Nero observed through clenched fangs. Not only was his beast bro bummed, not only was his contribution to the banner destroyed (bling-tastic gold lettering), but all of the pretty ghouls in school were upset. And upset ghouls was a thing that Nero could NOT abide.

"Jewels, give me a hand, will you?" Nero tried to pull Kai up from his knees, but Kai's artistic wailings seemed to have locked him in position as if he was a stone statue. Working together, the two of them dragged Kai over to the creature bleachers and sat him down.

"We have to do something about this." Nero punched one fist into his open claw. "We can't let Luna High just stomp all over us like this!"

"THE BANNER!" Nero and Jewels' heads turned (Kai remained in his artist-shocked trance) to see Layla Lamia, another Art Class student, shriek in horror at the vandalized sight.

"Whuh oh." Nero's keen sense of ghoul-distress told him there was another artist in need of triage. "Layla! Over here!"

Arillena had done her best to find and keep up with her friends as the last class ended- thought she was a bit late having finally gotten hungry and decided to quickly eat her cakelunch, but quickly remembered how she didn't have it anymore... The Fae girl sighed.

"At least now I understand why She seemed so angry with me the first time..." Ari muttered to the dragonfly that sat listening on her shoulder as they headed to the pep-rally. "I should have paid more attention- I..."

After the encounter with Marceline and Rory outside the Cafeteria Ari had been so shocked and confused that she couldn't say a single word as both of them took off in different directions. Having instantly understood the situation Ari blamed herself.

"Maybe I should talk to her.. Explain the whole misunderstanding?" She asked her winged friend. He shook his head at a loss. This has never happened before. "Well I have to do something..."

Ari halted her thoughts as her ears picked up distress in the direction she was heading. "What on earth?" Ari slowly walked up to the people last to enter and poked her head around them to see what the fuss was about. Eye eyes caught everything but her mind had trouble processing it. Something is wrong...Obviously.

"Oh, Draconia!" The Changling called noticing her friend. "What's going on?" She looked around again and any remaining excitement fell as she finally saw several of her new friends in utter agony. All of her that was concerned wanted to go to them but she couldn't think of how or what to say.

She studied the decor again- this time taking in the problem. "Please pardon me if I'm a bit slow on the uptake but... Those aren't our school colors... are they...?" She said as more of a statement then a question.

Instead of becoming overwhelmed by the confusion and noise- a new, unfamiliar emotion was building inside the Fae- pushing back all previous concerns. Her eyes began to reflect Red instead of green. Someone destroyed the hard work that everybody here built.. my new friends... and in doing so hurt them. She had never been angry before. But There was a first for everything, right?

Jewels waved a hand in front of Kai's face, but he was still mumbling about the mural.
A deep frown crossed her face, then anger. She looked to Nero and Layla.

"They can't get away with this!" She declared in an uncharacteristically firm tone.

Not only had these vandals ruined all their hard work.. they'd... they're broken Kai! How dare they!

"We... we need to do something." She wracked her brain, trying to think of any retaliation that wasn't in the realms of complete fantasy. But all she could think of involved drilling into the rival school's locker room and filling their gym shorts with itching powder.

"and... and." She put a hand on each of Kai's shoulders and looked him square in the face. "Kai?"

"brush strokes... Gaussian... " Kai was rambling incoherently.

"We should get him out of here." Jewels decided, looking to Nero to help her get Kai back on his feet. Maybe if they took him away from these scene of carnage, he could calm down a little.