A dark and broody place despite River Styx's partyboat seen sailing up above the misty green sky, paper confetti sometimes landing into lakes and puddles of black muck. Around the area, one can notice random blotches of darkness, eyes, and slimy apendages. As the apocryphal books describe, these masses of death seem to be portals into different places of the Monster world. Nameless boos and ghouls, residents of Apocrypha, are occasionally seen entering and leaving these portals.

The ghastly mermaid Nekki pulls herself out of a slimy portal, raising her book so it stays clean. Apendages wrap themselves around her tail, trying to pull her back into the void but she quickly slaps them off as if it was a normal thing. The ghouls sighs in relief but is abruptly cut off by a middle-aged female voice, "Necrolinnnn~!" Her necromancer mother. Nekki clenches her teeth. She didn't expect to be caught so quickly. "Hi, mommy." She forces a smile as she turns around. A tall woman stands before her, wearing a black ghostly cloak, not much is seen of her face except a pale chin and large, circular scholarly glasses. "How was school?"That was an unjudgemental question. Nekki perks up. "It's great!" she enthuses, "I made a lot of friends already, which is new, plus I've entered a sport! Aren't you proud of me?" her mother frowns. "A sport? Like casketball and scream team?" She asks concerningly, "Are you sure?" Shaking her head, "No, I will not allow it. You're too young and frail to be joining any kind of sport." Nekkis face turns blue. "B-but I've learned all about it! They've found a way to let me play by adding skates to my tail and-" mother interrupts. "SKATES?"
After a harsh lecture, the poor little mermaid escapes through the portal she came from in tears.