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 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:59 pm
The last day of the fall Scaremester....down in the Catacombs at...THE SKULLTIMATE ROLLER MAZE TRACK...
The final practice!
*BUM BUM BUMMMMMMMM*
"Glen! Stop pushing me! I can't... I can't do this!"
"Take it easy, cuz o' mine!" Glen/Rory said in his beast imitation of Rory's own voice as he possibly could. It was funny how this curse worked; as they switched bodies but retained their respective voices. "My booniform looks great on you! I mean, me! Or is it us?"
Glen gave himself pause at the universal implications of what was currently happening around them. He soon gave up and shrugged the thought away.
"I mean, look at you! It's a perfect fit!"
"Of course it's a perfect fit!" Rory trembled as he was slowly nudged along the path that led from the locker room to the stands. Rory grabbed hold of the nearest stalactite and tried to hang on but Glen gave a hard tug and yoinked him free and steered him around and back on track -- or at least in its general direction! "I'm in YOUR body!"
Glen froze momentarily, his eyes staring blankly off into the distance.
"Cosmic!" He then went back to 'helping' the trembling Rory towards the stands where a healthy gathering of student spooktators were seated. Rory TRIED to struggle but the fact his feet were in skates and Glen was simply pushing him from behind, didn't make it easy.
And why was Atomica giving them the stink-eye from the distance where the team was gathered down on the track?
"It's like i told you! I'm not scheduled to start until third round for this last practice so there's NO WAY you'll get put in!"
"I-I-I-I hope you're r-r-r-ght!"
"Of course I'm right! Things will be just swell! What could POSSIBLY go wrong?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:08 pm
Atomica skated up to the starting point of the SKRM track. Glen da West was already there. He was SO cool. SO confident. He wasn't even bothering expending any energy skating to the starting line himself. He had somehow convinced his panicky cousin to push him.
TALK about an ego!
"Ugh. You think you're SO cool, don't you?!" Atomica accused Glen as he skated/was rolled towards the Monster High Nightmares bench. "Well I hope you're happy with yourself! Robbing me of my spot in the starting lineup! Oh, I know you've been begging Robecca and Clawd for that starting spot. I've logged every instance of your manipulations in my core memory! And I'll never forgive you!"
Atomica spun around and flounced herself onto the bench, crossing her chromed arms in front of her. This was SO utterly un-fair. She added it to her database as another thing to inform Gryff and Lin about at lunchtime. She glared at Glen.
"Just who does that witch think he is anyways?!"
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:45 pm
"Wait...WHAT?!" Is what Rory tried to say, but it was too late. Glen turned him around and pushed him over to the starting line. Rory just sort of...coasted...too petrified to move at all, until he came to a stop bumping softly into Lagoona Blue.
"Cheers, mate, welcome to the starting lineup!" Lagoona greeted "Glen" with a big smile. "It's great how your cousin's getting so into SKRM too, you know?! Maybe he'll try out for next year's team!"
Rory couldn't even muster a word. He could barely squeak out a whimper. Lagoona's face turned into a look of concern.
"You alright, Glen? I didn't think it was possible, but you look more green than usual. Are you feelin' like yourself?"
"NO! I'M NOT-" Rory's mind unfroze and he prepared to come clean about the whole thing - about Glen's magical talismens, about the body swap, about trying get around Glen's grounding....but before he could unload everything in his mind, a piercing whistle filled the air.
Team coach Clawd Wolf was standing on the podium above the starting line. Next to Lagoona, Operetta skated up.
"All right, since we have our starting lineup ready to go and not a lot of time for this practice, let's get things started! Ready....set....GO!"
He blasted the whistle again, and before Rory could say a word, Lagoona grabbed him by one hand and Operetta by the other and the three of them started sailing down the track!
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:57 am
"Yay go team." Atomica sarcastically twirled one finger in the air. "Yay us we're so awesome yay."
She concentrated all of her anger at being bumped from the starting lineup at the image of Glen vanishing down the SKRM track. Look at him! Screaming in joy as they dodged the stalagmites of the first part of the track!
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:10 am
Kai led Necrolin down the stairs towards the front of the bleachers so they could get a good view of the action."You know, my stepmom and step-sister are both water monsters, too." Kai mentioned as they looked for a good seat. "I've got kind of a crazy blended family. Are you familiar with the Scarribean at all? That's where they're from." It'd be great, he thought, for when his step-sister came in for the howlidays, if there was another water monster for her to meet and fang out with. Especially one who seemed quiet and gentle, given Octavia's bullying problem....'Here we go! Right behind the bench - best seats in the catacombs!" There were probably a dozen other various students seated in the bleachers...probably students who either had study howl this feariod, like Kai, or who were in Physical Deaducation and didn't play SKRM. Most of them were either watching the practice or talking, since their iCoffins didn't get much signal that deep underground.
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:31 am
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"AAAH! AAAAH! AAAAAHHHH!"
"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
This went on for a little while.
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:56 am
Astrid shakes off Laylas grip and finds some spot to sit down. The horse with the attitude finds a seat directly above some sort of robotic ghoul... "Ah, so this place DOES have some form of entertainment!" Her eyebrows stay angrily crossed as she blows her hair out of her face, letting some special sparkle exert, accidentally finding a place on the robots hair and nose. Rude as ever, Astrid chooses to ignore it. She was royal compared to THESE little goblins. "so what's this, some poor imitation of space gliding? Wow, they're primitive."
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 11:05 am
"..... Wow..." was all the ghostly ghoul could muster. The smiles from fin to fin as the roller maze competitors were at neck to neck with each other. What ever they were doing, she wanted to do it too. After she and Kai find a seat, she decides not to sit down on the seat but... Sit down on the air instead. That way she could see easier. Necrolin hugs her Necronomicon close to her chest. "so... What is it?" in truth, she had no idea what was going on.
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:57 pm
Kai and Layla's crew of brand-boo students were seated right behind the bench on the bleachers. One of them seemed to have a TRULY BOGUS dandruff problem as little particles of ick kept drifting down on top of Atomica.
Grody to the MAX.
"so... What is it?" - The one with the faulty speakers asked.
"so what's this, some poor imitation of space gliding? Wow, they're primitive." -The one with the terrible dandruff problem said.
There was no way Atomica was going to let Kai Merha or Layla LaMia answer such ignorance!
"Um, hex-CUSE me, but Skulltimate Roller Maze is TOTALLY original and ONLY the biggest Monster sport on Earth. Even monsters who live under ROCKS know what SKRM is."
Well, fine! If she wasn't going to get to skate in practice today, Atomica figured she may as well deaducate these new student bodies (clearly, they were still in their beta testing phase and in need of an OS upgrade)! So she grimformed them how Roller Maze worked. Atomica gave those woefully under-informed, dandruff-shedding students a true data dump.
"In Roller Maze, two teams made up of three members each face off on a track. The goal is to be the first team to get one of your members across the finish line. If a team member gets knocked out, either by obstacles or by a member of the other team, they can be replaced by a new team member from off of the bench. The game is played in two separate heats, and a new set of three players can be switched out completely at that time."
The mer-ghoul was clearly more interested than Dandruff ghoul, so Atomica continued.
"The track has obstacles on it, but the obstacles and even the track can change depending on the path, so it's impossible to memorize what obstacles you'll have to get past. It requires a ton of skill, agility and even some luck to be a good SKRM player like me."
Atomica pointed to Lagoona, Operetta and the wildly screaming Glen da West.
"As you can see, Glen over there is shouting at the stalagmites to let them know who is boss. This is a strategy that some SKRM players employ to both give themselves strength and to intimidate their opponents."
Atomica knew that her understanding of the psychology and strategy of SKRM was super-impressive. It was obviously a good thing she was removed from the starting lineup. Otherwise, who would have educated these poor, not-SKRM-knowing monsters? Nero du Sphinx?! AS IF.
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:39 pm
Rory was actually starting to get the hang of this.
Maybe it was the instincts of Glen's body - maybe some sort of muscle memory-type thing, or maybe it was the skill with which Lagoona and Operetta were maneuvering him through the stalagtite-filled first leg of the maze, but Rory's screams eventually died down as he missed dashing into one rock outcrop after another.
This skating thing wasn't as hard as he thought it'd be! It was actually a lot like his usual way of walking through the hallways...always on his tiptoes, always ready to shift his weight to avoid being crushed by some larger, less-fragile student body. The skates reacted to his body shifts and he almost seemed to glide across the ground. Which was hexactly how skates were supposed to work!
"Heads up, mates!" Lagoona suddenly shouted. "Second leg of the track!"
"OoooooooooOooooooooooo!" Operetta sang a single, concentrated note at the last stalagtite, shattering it with her powerful voice, leaving the path in the clear. The next obstacle was going to be -
"Volcano! Oh, no!" Lagoona hexclaimed. Twenty yards ahead of them, the path split into two, and between the two paths was a giant, active volcano! The lava flowed in between the paths and underneath them. Every few seconds, flame, lava and ash spurted from the volcano top and scattered onto the path below.
"Looks like you should take point, Glen! The heat'll have me gobsmacked!" Lagoona told her green teammate. Operetta slowed her skating enough to rejoin the two of them. "Ready for the Fastball special?!"
"Remember not to melt your skates this time!" Operetta informed Rory.
Rory was completely bewildered.
"What is a Fastbal spec-AUGH!" Before he could finish talking, Lagoona grabbed his arm, and with all her might, she spun Glen around her like she was getting ready to throw a shot-put. As he whipped around her, Operetta reached out, grabbed his other arm and whipped him into another circle around her.
"And here..."
"We...."
"GOOOOOO!" The two ghouls released Rory-in-Glen's-body with such force from the spinning that he literally launched into the sky! He sailed up high...higher...so high that he was afraid Glen's heart was going to pop out of his throat and fall into the lava moat below.
"I'm not going to make it!" Rory gasped to himself as he sailed past a falling chunk of lava.
"I'm not going to make it!!!" He wheezed out as a choking puff of smoke hexploded underneath him.
"I'm...I'm going to make it!" He realized as he made it over the volcano and started to descend down towards where the two halves of the track rejoined each other on the other side of the spurting menace. "I am! I am going to make it!!!!"
Rory's Glen-feet hit the ground and sparks flew out from his wheels! It was...exhilarating! The most hextreme thing he'd ever done in his un-life! And he didn't shatter into a billion pieces!
There were DEFINITE advantages to being stuck in Glen's body.
Rory glanced behind him. Operetta and Lagoona were slowly picking their ways across the lava-covered tracks. Operetta waved him ahead.
"GO! KEEP GOING! WE'LL CATCH UP!"
"R-Right!" Rory nodded, and skated forward. Whatever the next obstacle would be, there was no way it could be harder than what he'd just TOTALLY NAILED!
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:59 am
"Whatever. It simply looks like a primitive form of space gliding to me." Astrid smirks, noticing how riled up she's gotten Atomica. "A bunch of cave trolls!" she whispers behind her breath. Obviously she was looking for a fight but before she says anything else, Astrid sits back down and fixes her eyes on the game. this does look pretty cool... She thinks.
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 6:41 am
"Boo! Look at Rory...er, me, go!" Glen thought silently to himself, from within Rory's body. You can see where he might get confused. And that battle cry! Rory must really been getting into SKRM! Glen knew his fragile cuz wanted to be more involved and this little body switch boo boo was really a blessing in disguise for the ol' Rorester!
Hm, how come blessings always wore disguises?
It was then that Glen tore his eyes away from the screen to glance up into the higher stands where he saw his bluddy Kai with -- oo! New beasties to be made! FUN! Dare we even say it? -- Wicked!"Kai!" Glen/Rory called. "Hey Kai!"One could never pass up the chance to make new beasties, so Glen, being Glen (and not thinking like Rory oughta), hopped up onto the banister of the stands that led upward and ala his Aunty Mary -- (no, not Rory's mom. The 'other' one. The one that adored being a nanny for normie children) -- proceeded to slide UP the banister to greet Kai and the newbies.
At least, he started to. Without his wand things got tricky and he started to 'put put put' halfway up, then ran out of 'gas' and started to slide back down. Faster. Then even faster. Glen frowned in confusion and looked down to thee end of the banister, where there was a rocky outcropping of the caverns surrounding the SKRM track.
It was about then that something somewhere in Glen's mind started to click. Rocky? Sharp? Rory's body?
Uh oh....
Glen/Rory quickly put on the brakes, grabbing hold of the banister tightly and a loud screeching noise emanated from the effort of pulling himself to a grinding halt! He finally came to a miraculous stop only a fraction of a hair of an inch from toppling off the end, and he hurriedly jumped off to the bottom step of the stands.
Whoa!
He looked around, wide eyed at what had almost happened in Rory's body! Boy would THAT have been embarrassing! And probably painful to boot! He brushed himself off and looked back up to Kai and held a forefinger up, then hurried off the track and ran for the nearest locker room supply closet....
..."Hey Kai."Kai turned around at the sound of the voice behind him and had to do a double take at the sight of Rory clad in a hockey mask ... and a football helmet ... and knee and elbow pads ... and hockey body armor ... thick gloves ... shin guards ... and what APPEARED to be a dog training bite suit?
"So! Who are the new friends to be made!?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 6:53 am
"Whatever. It simply looks like a primitive form of space gliding to me." Atomica suddenly realized that this poor, dandruff-infested creature had never seen REAL SKRM, only some sort of sad knock-off. No WONDER she had seemed so hostile. If you hadn't hexperienced the real thing, how lousy un-life must have been!"A bunch of cave trolls!" Atomica heard the girl whisper under her breath. Atomica had hextremely good noise sensors. She smiled.
"THANK you! As everymonster knows, Cave Trolls are the BEAST at Roller Maze because of their size, toughness and ability to navigate dark passages at incredible speeds. The Monster High Nightmares really ARE a pack of Cave Trolls when it comes to SKRM. You'll ALL get to see how good we are tomorrow night in the final match of the season against Granite City."Atomica turned and plopped back down on the bench. It looked like the team was about to hit the next leg of the track, and she wanted to see what obstacle she would have totally DOMINATED if she was the one out there.
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 9:58 am
"Hey!"The shrill call came from the vicinity of Astrid's knees and there stood a small gremlin, holding a coffincino in his claws. he was flanked by an impossibly tall second boo, also holding a coffin drink, with a scowl that rivaled her own."You're in Gryff's seat. He ALWAYS sits there to cheer Atomica on!"
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