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 Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:33 am
Meanwhile...Atomica was busy tapping the new wall of rock that was covering the cavern entrance. Her geological programming was calculating rock depth and stability. It seemed like the tremors had ceased for now, as if whatever had caused them had stopped. Perhaps a very large creature had been moving around further in the tunnel and now had left?"Helllooooooooooo...." Atomica called into the large pile of rock. "Meat-things! Have you all been squished to bits by rocks?"
There was the sound of...something...coming from the other side of the boulder wall. Atomica turned on her audio receptors and turned them to maximum sensitivity."Don't you dare. She'll just make things worse, she ALWAYS makes things worse!" Oh, good. At least Ronan was still alive. And still a jerk! He was being a jerk TO someone, so that meant at least one of the other monsters was in an un-smashed state as well."You have no idea how much chaos she's capable of! She'll blast the rocks and probably us as well!"
"Oooooh....why, he...." Atomica fumed. First he'd dragged her down here, despite knowing she was scared, then he'd ranted at her and insulted her and called her GLITCHY, then he'd abandoned her all alone, and now he was spreading vicious lies about her blast calibration techniques! "RONAN AALTO!" Atomica called out in her loudest voice possible. Fortunately, the rocks all remained completely solid."YOU ARE LIKE THE SCHOOL'S BIGGEST JERK OF ALL HISS-TORY! I HOPE YOU....I HOPE YOU SLIP ON A STONE AND BRUISE YOUR TAILBONE LIKE REALLY BAD!!!"Without bothering to turn down her audio projector, Atomica proceeded to stormily cry and not caring one jot who heard it.
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 10:03 am
"Hey I think she can hear us!" Perry seemed delighted as he got up off Ronan.
Ronan however frowned deeply as Atomica's tirrade. Was she... was she crying? Could robots even cry?
He got to his feet, dusting himself off.
"Are you crying?" He asked through the rocks, having a shout a little to be heard.
"Of course she's crying, ghouls always cry" Perry offered.
"You aren't helping." Motthew pointed out.
"What? It's true, they're ridiculous creatures. All jumping to conclusions and getting hurt when you don't return their silly crushes." Perry rolled his eyes.
"Ronan, you have to talk to her, she's our only chance out of here." Motthew tried to reason.
Ronan sighed and tried again. "Atomica?"
"OF COURSE I'M CRYING YOU JERK!" She shouted back.
"well.. at least she's still there."
"Oh my goth, really man? Hey, Atomica!" Perry called. "Think you can take a short break from the crying thing and get us outta here?"
"Why should I?" She sniffled.
"Well, if you get us out of here, i'll hold Ronan down while you pummel him."
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:39 pm
The Fae couldn't control what she was saying anymore as panic rose in her chest, so she continued to point out the obvious. Black shadows began forming over her skin and her eyes flashed in different colors while the Two crazy ghouls snatched them away. "Oh no... no..." Ari squeezed her eyes shut. She knew what was coming, but the other three most likely did not. Kai shouted for help and The Fae felt her back press up against something wooden and her arms and legs were strapped down. "Hold still you!" "Hey Annie, Look at this one." The voices closest to her said. Ari felt as if icicles were piercing out from beneath her skin. Ari's white hair was fading into a greenish blonde and black markings appeared on her face. The girl was properly terrified and losing control over her glamour- fast. Her eyes stayed shut tight. A fierce ringing blocked all of her senses. "Leave... Us... ALONE!"~~~ The Fae's arms transformed into thick black wrapped claws that tore through whatever was keeping her down. Ari's bat had followed them and was now buzzing around Annie and flapping it's wings warningly. Everything blue turned into black. Ari's eyes remained shut and grey tears poured from each end. "Téigh ar ais ó nuair a tháinig tú!" She shrieked lunging blindly towards the nearest body.
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:05 pm
A little shadow bubble encased Ari's bat and kept it far enough away from Black Annie that she could again focus on the two younger students.
"Ugh. I hate rodents!" Annie hissed as Stella Strigoi avoided Ari's swipes.
Stella laughed, "Oo! This werekitty has claws on her, doesn't she?" She looked gleefully at Annie and cackled, "She would have fit in quite nicely with us Mean Ghouls in the day!"
"Time enough for chat later!" Black Annie ducked a swipe and used Ari's momentum against her and wrapped her shadow coils around her, pinning Ari's arms to her sides while another shadow pulled Kai forcibly back towards the ghouls' little makeover station and pinned him to the ratty old chair.
Kai's eyes never strayed from Ari and the change that came over her. Not repulsed or shocked, but surprised; surprised she would hide her true form, and surprised she couldn't confide in him.
"No, don't!" Kai struggled as Stella Strigoi grabbed a clawful or grrlers and started to roll them up in his hair.
"Oh calm down!" Stella giggled with a slight wheeze. "This won't take long."
"And then it'll be time for..." Black Annie looked at Ari with wide, sinister eyes. "MAKEUP!"
"Makeup!?" Kai shrieked in alarm as Stella reached for a tube of Savage Pink lip gloss and floated around before the trapped boo and she grabbed his face roughly, squeezing it to pucker his lips and was just about to put the first application to his lips when...
"Hey Kai!" The mirror behind him glowed and out sailed Glen and Rory on Glen's flying skateboard. "We forgot to tell you to watch out for two WHOA!"
"Ha!" Glen laughed. "Kai suckered them in for us! Way to go bro!"
Glen immediately sailed right for Black Annie and pointed his wand at his own cousin and a bright flash of light reflected off of him, causing it to be magnified many times over. Black Annie shrieked, as all 'Black Annis' hated brighter lights! She let go immediately of Ari and Kai both, Kai running out of the chair and grabbing Ari and pulling her back away as the witch cousins took over.
The two boos sailed up and Rory twiddled his fingers and conjured a little whirlwind thanks to his cousin's lessons, and the small vortex lifted Annie up and along towards the mirror...
And a fraction of a second later, she popped up out of the mirror in the Deadtention Hall and like the others, found herself chained magically to her desk!
"Oh no! You too Annie!?"
"Yes me too Annie!"
"What about Stella!?"
Ari's bat and Glen's little Dorothy both started fluttering about around Stella's head and she swiped at both but couldn't touch either. She lost her balance and fell into her own makeover chair and Glen sailed at it and grabbed it and gave it a sharp spin...
"WHOOOOOOOOAAAA!!!"
"Around and around and around the Strigoi goes!"
"Where she stops... oh I don't feel so good!"
Rory, Glen, Kai and Ari watched as Stella spun about in wild circles... Glen turned a lighter shade of green and put a hand over his mouth as Rory got dizzy and staggered around... right up until he grabbed her chair to steady himself and it came to a sharp stop... and Stella went flying into the magical portal...
... And came out into the Deadtention Hall and captivity!
"Oh I think I'm going to need to conjur some Pepto Dismal after we're through." Glen moaned. He turned around and said, "Kai? Are you and Ari all... HEY! THERE'S ANOTHER!" Glen, who like Rory did NOT see Ari's change of appearance, was justifiably confused and he readied to cast another hex when Kai grabbed his wrist, stopping him.
"No, wait!" Kai called out. "Don't. Glen... that's Ari."
Glen blinked, looked at Kai... then at Rory, then at Ari, then back at Kai and smiled. "Get OUTTA here!"
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:17 pm
Ari's senses slowly started to return to her and she registered two different voices than the ones from before. She struggled to recall what had happened. I was walking in the catacombs with Kai... The two women appeared... The details were fuzzy.
At Glen's last comment did she finally regain her senses and open her eyes. After Kai had helped her away from the confrontation The Fae found herself sitting with her knees hugged to her chest and if she could fall any paler she would have. Oh no... She immediately shut them again and covered her head with her arms. She was still shaking from the Anxiety of the last several minutes. Her memories began to mix and for a moment thought she was still in the year 1680 being hunted by mortals.
"Ari?" She heard Kai's voice. The shivering blonde looked up with surprised and timid forest green eyes. Instead of seeing strangers with fire as she had anticipated there was only three faces she'd only met that day- in the present. One appeared slightly surprised, the other maybe a tad confused, and the one closest to her... concerned.
"Sh-Shíl mé ..." She shook her head. "I... I thought I was back in..." She looked down at her hands. "I thought I could... But I couldn't keep it hidden..."
"Why are you so worried about hiding?"
The Fae looked down ashamed. "I have nearly forgotten what I truly look like because all my life I've had to hide it in order to fit in with the Humans... I've hidden it for so long that I've become frightened of myself and even my own reflection so I..." She pulled her knees closer to herself.
"I'm sorry... I didn't mean to deceive..."
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:58 am
Ronan Aalto "Well, if you get us out of here, i'll hold Ronan down while you pummel him."
They also DID dream of electric sheep. Atomica got SO tired of being asked that!
That had very little to do with the situation at hand, though. Atomica ran her finger sensors up and down the rock face."I-I guess I could find the primary pressure point of this rock face and strike it hard enough to make the rock face crumble...." She offered. There was an immediate yelp from the other side of the wall."NO! Absolutely not! You'll send the whole cavern down on our heads!" "Well, how about I hacktivate my laser death beam and cut a hole for you to escape through?""It's CALLED a laser death beam, and you want to aim it at us?! Are you INSANE?"Atomica scowled."I could try to go back through the catacombs and find Lin to help!"
"THE GREMLIN?!" Ronan nearly screamed. "We want to get out of here, not be blown to smithereens!!!""WELL WHAT IS YOUR BRILLIANT PLAN, THEN, RONAN?!" Atomica shoute at the wall face. "You're SO good at saying what NOT to do, but you don't come up with a single suggestion that's helpful! Just like with our last Mad Science project!"There was quiet from the other side of the rock face. Apparently, all eyes were on Ronan."I'm just saying, those are all terrible ideas and they're not going to work." He replied, rather quietly."So you DON'T have any suggestions, do you?!" Atomica grumped. "This whole trip you've been telling me what a burden I am, and what mistakes I've made, but you know what, Ronan? You don't DO anything unless someone makes you! All you want to do is stand on the sidelines and think grumpy thoughts about how everymonster else is doing things wrong, because if you don't DO anything, then you won't mess anything up! Well, I'd rather do things, and constantly TRY, than just sit there and fixate on how horrible things are or could be."One of the other monsters inside the cavern snickered.
"Dude, just apologize to her! She's right - it's better to try SOMEthing than stay trapped down here. Besides. My memory card seems intact. Maybe I got enough pictures of that tentacle thing to ace this project.""I see no reason why I should apologize, everything I said is factually right." Ronan replied. "She is the reason I had to polish Mr. Hackington's car!""Big deal." Perry replied. "That's pretty light compared to some of the deadtentions I'VE had.""And our Mad Science project! Because she miscalculated the power level, everyone in the front row got splashed! It was humiliating!""...Aren't you in the same Mad Science class as Glen da West?" Motthew asked. "Do you really think anyone remembers being splashed with a little water with him doing science in the same room?!""And she never shuts up!" Ronan finished his rant. "She's constantly going on and on and on about gossip and events that I don't care about, and no matter how much I sigh or roll my eyes, she just keeps talking!"
"Except...for right now, that is...." Perry pressed his ear up against the rocks. "Atomica? Robo-girl, are you still there?"It had gone very silent on the other side of the rock wall. Motthew tried to focus his antennae to see if he could sense any movement on the other side of the rock face. Ronan could barely see, but there were looks of consernation on the faces of the other two monsters there."Oh manster..." Perry muttered, trying to hear on the other side of the rocks. "If your complaining made her leave, I swear I will spend my last moments alive making you regret it, and then my ghost is going to haunt your ghost for all eternity."
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:45 am
Deep down in another part of the Catacombs, the mournful melody of a grand pipe organ was drifting throughout the caverns. The melody was breath taking and the acoustics were by far even grander as not only did the bare walls of the world beneath Monster High cause the best of echoing chorus effects, but the sound itself drifted deeper and further into the Catacombs.
Perhaps, a bit too deep?
Operetta was playing a one ghoul jam session when she heard a crash from somewhere further down the corridors. She huffed, paused, then shook her head."That better not be that dern Lin blowing something else up." Operetta murmured. "I'd like to have at least one rehearsal without him..."*WHOMP!*"Alrighty!" She scooted back from the organ and stood up. "Ah'm gonna hafta have a talk with that li'l..."She turned around and was brought to an immediate halt as she looked up... up... and a little further up at the very large, and obviously hungry, One-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater! It was staring down at her and drooled hungrily."Violet..." Peter People-Eater smacked his chops. "Close enough!"And he brought his gaping maw down toward her and Operetta shrieked and dove out of the way! She took off out of her little hang out and ran for her unlife!
Harry was still searching for his friend Kai when he turned a corner in the caverns and was immediately crashed into by Operetta! Before he could begin to apologize, or ask if she were okay, she looked up and behind her."Oh no...!""Oh no?" Harry said. "What oh ..." He then looked where she was and saw what was coming for her! "Oh no...""RUN FOR YER UNLIFE!" Operetta yelled and she grabbed Harry by the wrist and took off, dragging him along with her, with her pursuer right behind!"You're only making me HUNGRIER!"
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:32 am
Arillena "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to deceive..."
"Tell me about it!" Kai replied, his arms still supporting Arillena's shoulders. "You would think Transylvania would be all about monster equality, but trust me, they're still stuck in the torch and pitchfork's era." "Anyways....I think you look nice. Uh...pretty! Without the glamour spell." Rory stumbled over his words, trying to give a compliment without sounding...you know, creepy. The bad kind of creepy."Look however you feel the most comfortable looking." Glen reassured Arillena. "The beast way to fit in at Monster High is to stand out!""Speaking of standing out..." Rory counted on his fingertips. "I count five Deadtention students we've sent back into the Eternal Study Howl of Doom, which leaves one outstanding.""Oh yeah...hm...the one-horned, one-eyed, flying purple people eater. Psshh. That's such a ridiculous sounding type of monster, I bet he'll be a total pushover!""And...this is your Mad Science project, somehow?" Kai asked, still sort of confused at what was going on. "Boy, I am not prepared for taking this class next Scaremester." "We sort of, uh, stumbled into it. I think most of the other Catacombs projects are a lot less dangerous." Rory reassured Kai. "I bet the other students are just digging for keys or observing the wildlife, or collecting moss samples! Glen, we should have collected moss samples. Nice, safe moss samples."
"Moss is boring." Glen rightly pointed out. "No moss project is going to get an A from Mr. Hackington! But saving the school from malicious deadtention students, that's at least a solid B-plus right there!""We should probably keep looking, then." Rory prodded Glen, who nodded vigorously. "Are you two going to be okay finding your way out?""Yeah, I think so." Kai replied. "Besides..." Kai glanced at his iCoffin."I think Harry might have come down here to meet up with us? His iCoffin seems to be sending me constant GPS updates right now for some reason. So we'll go and meet up with him." "All fright. We'll see you later then, okay? Maybe when we're done, we can all fang out at the Die-ner?" Glen offered. "Saving the school always works up an appetite for me!""Maybe!" Kai replied and waved as Rory and Glen got back on Glen's flying skateboard. Kai turned to Arillena. "So...hexciting first day so far?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:15 pm
Ari blushed bright red at Rory's compliment. "Y- You think so..." She managed a small smile. "..Thank you.."
The Fae stood up and smoothed her now black skirt. Somehow the words of these new friends eased her anxious mind. Ari nodded as if saying, I'll be okay now. The Elvish girl giggled. "It sound's like you both have been busy. Good thing you returned when you did." Though her memories were still a bit jumbled from the anxiety but she didn't let it bother her too much.
Ari waved a black clawed hand as the cousins flew off. The Fae hoped to see them again soon. She exhaled heavily, and turned to Kai. "I believe 'Hexciting' is quite the understatement at this point." She smiled. "Thank you," but for what she didn't specify.
"So... Is Harry alright? Your Device has been making a strange sound every few seconds." Ari stood a tad awkwardly with her feet crossed as she stood. Her way of becoming a costumed to her current state, she had never before been called Pretty in her natural form...
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:40 pm
Whoa...what? Everyone in today's soulciety was in such a rush. No one to the time to slow down and have rap session. Sit down with some munchies, some tunes to groove to, and just Hash Things Out. As Opretta drug him along, Harry addressed the Purple People Eater.
"Dude, can't we have a sit in and just rap? We' score some munchies and work this whole thing out. Like, peacefully, man."
"The only munchies I want are you two!"
"Dude, so not zen. Peace with Harry, guy...not piece of Harry pie."
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:57 am
"Atomica?" Tense minutes ticked by as the three boos waited for a reply.
"She's probably gone off to sulk." Ronan suggested.
Perry glared in what he hoped was the Selkie's direction, it was hard to tell in the dark. "Yeah, because of YOU."
"We're better off without her."
"No we aren't!"
"Ronan, you have to admit, we do need her help if we're going to get out of this mess." Motthew added.
"She'll make things worse"
"You're SO frustratingly stubborn you realise that right? Admit you're wrong and let's get out of here already!"
"We'll figure something out."
"We already figured something out! It was ASK ATOMICA. But nooo, you can't ask anyone for help can you? She's right about you, you never do anything useful!" Perry had had enough. "You just complain."
"What about you? You've spent the entire time down here complaining! Oh no, water... i'm so scared!"
"That's it!" Perry launched himself toward Ronan and once more Motthew was left pressing himself flat against the rocks to keep out of the way.
"This isn't helping." He tried.
"You're right, you got a torch?" Perry asked. "Hard to punch someone when you can't see them."
"For goodness sake, this is ridiculous. "
"You're right, it IS ridiculous, just apologise and admit we need her help already!"
"No"
"Arghhhh. What is your problem? You don't even have to mean it! Just lie or something!"
"If she is out there, I really don't think she's going to be happy about that suggestion." Motthew's antennae twitched.
"oh come on, it's not like we're asking you to compose a song of apology... though... can you sing?"
Ronan gave a low snort and went back to examining the closely packed rocks that trapped them.
"Fine, no singing. Eventhoughittotallyworks... " Perry sighed.
Motthew spoke up. "Ronan... Like it or not, she's your partner, she's our only way out of this mess and you alone are the only monster who can convince her to help us. You can continue your argument with her later, right now, we need her on our side."
"He's right! Stop being such a jerk and just say sorry, it's not hard!"
"Says the guy who ended up in a massive prank off thanks to his inability to just apologise" Motthew chuckled.
"Hey, that was different! She was being unreasonable! And besides, I learned my lesson. Always apologise."
"Even if you don't mean it?" Ronan sounded dubious.
"Especially if you don't mean it!"
"Shhh." Motthew warned.
"Well, what I mean is, even if you know she's being difficult and irrational, not saying sorry hurts YOU.. and us in this case. So swallow your pride and just make it right, a quiet unlife is greatly preferable to being punished by a grudge. Those always escalate... rapidly. "
"She'll make things worse, she'll blow us all up or something." Ronan sounded unsure though. A little less inclined to argue.
"Well at least it'll be a quick end rather than sitting here in the dark till we run out of air or something."
"please Ronan, just talk to her... and try not to be... yourself." Motthew smiled softly.
Ronan sighed. "Fine. But don't say I told you so when... "
"Oh shut up."
"Atomica?" Ronan spoke gently through the rocks, hoping she could hear him. "If you're still out there? We uh... " This was clearly very difficult for him. "We need your ... help" He almost choked on that last word.
"Look, i'm sorry for what I said. You're right, you are proactive.. and enthusiastic. And even when you're frustratingly stupid..."
Perry jabbed him hard in the ribs.
"That is.. at least you're always willing to try things. And, even though you were scared of the catacombs... even though most of these tunnels are completely safe and it's entirely irrational"
Another jab.
"Even though you were scared, you came. And... I respect that. Listen, I know I don't give you nearly enough credit, but you're right, you DID build the control module and it did work... ok you got a bit over enthusiastic... as usual"
Yet another jab, this time from Motthew.
"Ow... cutitout. where was I? right, so ... you've shown you CAN do things competently, if you put your mind to it. So... please Atomica, if you're still listening, i'm sorry I was a jerk. I'm not... i'm not good with other monsters. I'm so used to doing things my way and not having anyone there to tell me it's wrong. You're not useless, you're a technological marvel Atomica. I mean come on, a robot with so much personality she can actually annoy others? That's more than any toaster could achieve. And even though you do stupid things and even though you're frustrating you.. you take your share of the responsibility when things go wrong. You've gotten me out of trouble on several occassions and i've always been too arrogant and selfish to really thank you for that. So um... I really hope i'm not talking to thin air right now, because then i'll feel really stupid. But... Atomica, if you're still out there, please.... get us out of here. I know you can do it."
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:24 am
"Anything?...." Motthew asked, seeing Perry leaning against the cave-in face and straining to listen. "I can't tell if she's even still on the other side of the wall."
"Great. I did that whole apology for nothing." Ronan took off his cap and pulled at the collar of his jacket. It was starting to get warm in there.
"I am going to be just the most annoying ghost I possibly can." Perry mused, starting to plan for what seemed to be his inevitable future. "I think I'll haunt the photography lab. Ruin monsters' negatives and stick my image in the backgrounds of all their photos."
He leaned against the caved-in wall and started taking off Ronan's coat. The temperature was definitely rising.
"I guess I should have known it wouldn't do any good." Ronan lamented. "She wouldn't want to listen to me. Atomica is just so...so..."
"HOT!" Perry suddenly shouted, jumping up from the caved-in wall.
"What? No! I mean, I suppose she has a certain physical attractiveness to her-"
"No, that's not what I mean!" Perry rubbed his arm that had been touching the wall. "The rocks are HOT!"
"I can see into the infrared spectrum a little bit, and yes, they're definitely getting hotter..." Motthew confirmed. "In fact, I think we should all back up....like, a lot..."
As the three boos, huddled together, backed away from the cave-in, even Perry and Ronan were soon able to see that the rocks in the very center of the wall were starting to glow red hot. They became brighter and brighter, until they started to flow - the rocks were melting!
"This is so cool. I can't believe I don't have my camera right now!" Perry hexclaimed.
"Watch out for the molten rock!" Motthew warned Ronan, pulling him out of the way of a stream of red-hot lava. "Luckily, I think the water will cool it off."
A loud "HISSSS" sound confirmed Motthew's believes, and rapidly, the cavern filled with clouds of steam. The boos coughed, waving hands and claws to try to clear the air. As the steam started to waft away, there was a light up ahead. Where once there had been nothing but solid, caved-in rock, there was now a perfectly round, smooth opening.
Atomica's silhouette filled the opening, light from the flickering torches behind her illuminating their path of escape. The glowing gem in between Atomica's collarbones blinked a couple more times, and then shut off.
"There we go! Sorry for the silent treatment, but like, when my Laser Death Ray is cranked on that fast, it totes disengages my vocal modulator. It usually takes me over a day to get that much power to the beam!"
"FREEDOM!" Perry shouted, shoving ahead of Ronan and Motthew. He gave Atomica a victory chest-bump, just like out on the Graveball field. Motthew let out a little bit of a sigh and shrugged at Ronan before quickening his pace to rejoin his partner.
Ronan and Atomica were left at the new entranceway. Ronan traced his finger along the sides of the melted rock face.
"So...this seems pretty stable." He stated, idly, trying to avoid Atomica's LED gaze. "Probably won't cave in again. Too small for that tentacle creature to get through, too."
"You know, I could hear everything you guys were saying, even if I couldn't reply." Atomica informed her lab partner. "I have hexellent audio receptors."
Ronan winced a tiny bit.
"So you heard all of that, huh?"
"Yes, especially the part where you talked about apologizing even if you don't mean it."
Ronan winced just a tiny bit more.
"Yes, that was a thing...we discussed....but-"
"You and I are probably never going to be, like, super-beasties." Atomica told Ronan as he finally stepped away from the molten hole. "But...if you hadn't prodded me and pushed me, I never would have made it THIS far down in the Catacombs. You helped me face my fear, and that's not just standing off on the sidelines and grumping. That's doing something. Thank you."
"Oh. Well...du er velkommen." Ronan replied. He even cracked the tiniest bit of a smile. Probably out of sheer relief. "As long as we are down here, I promise I will not let you get lost and power down."
Atomica gave Ronan a tiny bit of a smile right back.
"There's still the matter of our mad science project, though." She reminded him.
"Ah. Yes well, I think we now have that well in hand. See?" Ronan pointed inside of the caved-in area, and Atomica looked inside. The pale light revealed that the Tentacle creature mother and her baby had returned, perhaps curious about the molten rock that had been flowing into their underground lake. The baby creature waved its tentacles in the remnants of the steam in the air, entranced by the smokey wisps. The mother cooed in a low, rumbling voice.
"The walls seem to have stabilized after that last cave-in." Ronan informed Atomica, who made a clicking noise as she took several candid pictures of the tentacle creatures. "And because this entrance is so small, the creatures will not wander any further towards the school. They can be safely observed now without endangering us or them."
"Wow, so we, like....totally made a great mad scientific discovery!" Atomica hexclaimed as they backed away from the entrance. "That's going to get us an A for sure!"
"I hope so." Ronan replied. Though to be honest, it almost felt as if the grade was the last thing on his list of things to be fangful for right now.
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:30 am
In the enclosed Lair, protected by the quadruple sealed doors, Gryff and Lin watched the happenings on the segrrity cameras gotten from Best Boo ala Lin and Atomica's chopping spree..."Okay Lin, now!" Gryff barked in command, and the small gremlin jumped up to wrap his claws around a lever and pulled it down...
Percy People-eater lumbered after Operetta and Harry, hungrily smashing his way past any obstacle that got into his path while the two students ran for their unlives, trying to avoid becoming a snack for a monster that's been in Maximum Security Deadtention for the past two hundred years!
Harry could have summoned, or accidentally more likely, his tu-tu wearing Wild Hunt hounds, but their uber cuteness probably wouldn't be much of a himndrance for this pursuing truant! Operetta and Harry then suddenly found themselves boxed into a corner and Percy guffawed in victory as he ran right up to them -- when a trapdoor opened beneath the huge Purple People Eater ... and his foot slipped inside and he tripped and crashed face first into the cavern floor!
Watching this on the moanitor, Gryff turned and looked at Lin who shrugged."I guess I forgot to finish digging the hole deep enough?"Operetta grabbed Harry by the wrist again and they ran up and over the stunned Percy and vanished down the receding cavern! Percy growled and slowly stood up and took off in hot pursuit!
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:08 pm
Percy People-Eater dug his feet into the floor to take a corner when he skidded to a halt in a perplexed state at the sight he was seeing before him...
Against the far wall of the cavern was a goremantic setup of a red velvet table cloth draped over a large, gothic carved dining table with candles lit around it and fine dining silver along with plates and goblets. And one lone, enormous chair fit for a big boo like Percy. On one side of the table stood Rory, clad in a traditional Frightalian waiter's uniform, complete with fake moustache and silk napkin draped over his arm. On the opposite side, was Operetta in disguise with a violin in her hands and Harry had been hidden beneath the table.
"Ahhh!" Rory said in his best phony Frightalian accent. "Misser Perci'! We weesh to welcome you to Frightdays! De most excloosive Frightalian eatery for de young monsters!"
Without pausing, Rory grasped Percy by the wrist and pulled him over to the table and practically shoved him into his chair. He then shoved a menu into Percy's claws, then pulled it right back out again.
"Tut tut tut! Zere ees no need for de menu!" Rory piped, fake accent and all. "E know juz what a growing boo like you needs! Oh Chef Gackon!?"
And on cue, an equally disguised Glen in a chef's outfit came through two swinging doors (that weren't there a moment before), wheeling a large cart with trays of all shapes and sizes on it, covering several dishes that were wafting a goreoma that made Percy drool even more, and the other kids cringe.
Arriving at the table, Glen whipped out a large napkin and threw it around Percys neck, tightening it...
"GRRKKK!" Percy gasped as Glen knotted it and then he and Rory posed on each side of the purple monster's head and Dorothy, holding Rory's iCoffin, snapped a flash picture, staggering backward at having it pointed the wrong direction.
"What was THAT for!?" Percy barked and Glen guffawed in an accent as fake as the others.
"Ees no need to worry! Eet ees for our advertisements! Such handsome monster bring in more ghostemers, no? Now! For de specialty of de `ouse!"
Glen whipped off the cover of one tray and Percy's eyes bugged out at the massive purple pileup and his eyes bugged out and tongue lapped at his lips.
"Enjoy!" Rory said and Percy opened his mouth wide and chomped down...
"OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!"
Percy shot up from the table, dancing around in pain and holding his throbbing hand, that the boos had slipped under the tray's cover. Percy then swiped his claw at the table, sending all the trays, goblets and other accoutrements scattering and the witch cousins looking up.
"Wassamattah sir?" Rory asked,a slight tremor in his voice. "Ees de service no satisfactory?"
"No the service is not satisfactory!" Percy roared. "I bit my hand!"
"You vould prefer Roast Gooble?" Glen asked innocently.
"NO!" Percy slammed a fist against the wall. "What I would PREFER is..."
"Boosic!" Rory snapped his fingers and Operetta stepped up, putting her violin under her chin.
"Heywaitaminute!" Harry, who was tucked under Percy's table where he was hidden and looked from under the table cloth. "Just what exactlly are you planning to...urk!" And before Harry could blow their cover, Operetta gave him a nudge on the noggin', causing him to drop the table cloth back over his head.
"Boosic soothes de savage beast!" Rory said with a smile.
"And nothing helps de stomach process food dan dancing!" Glen added.
"But I didn't get to EAT anyth..." Percy protested.
"Observe!" Rory called and Operetta started to play and Rory immediately broke into a soft shoe routine while Glen and Percy clapped their hands along with the rhythm. Rory brought it to a halt and held his hands out to Percy.
"Take it Perci'!"
And Operetta started playing a faster tune and unable to stop himself, Percy started tap dancing (very well we might add!) to the boosic, getting really into it! Percy swung his arms from side to side, then did a quick side step ... and walked right through the magic mirror Rory was holding up....
... And he appeared still tap dancing into the Deadtention Room, completely unaware until the magical chains snapped around his ankles.
"What...?"
"I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!"
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