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"Uh...Clawd...?" Draculaura waved her hand in front of his face but the werewolf kept staring at (Y/N) with a dazed expression. The said cat blinked in utter confusion. Did she have something on her face? Jay, noticing his friend's stupor, nudged his shoulder making Clawd snap out of his daze.

"Oh, s-sorry..." Clawd rubbed the back of his head nervously. "You're just, umm..."

"Okay!" Jay interrupted him (more like saving him). "We need to get back to practice. We'll see you ghouls later." Jay dragged the werewolf away from them, whispering incoherently to him. Draculaura and (Y/N) turned back and walked out of the gymnasium.

"Is he always like that?" The Cheshire couldn't help but ask.

"Not really." Draculaura replied. "He's super cool so this is the first time I have seen this happen."

"Okay." The (H/C)-nette responded. "What about you and Jay?"

Drac's pink face immediately became pinker that it already was. "W-What do you mean?"

"I may be new, but I know a crush when I see it." Just as she said that, the bell rang and monsters began to file into the classrooms.

"What's your first class?" The pink vampire asked. "It's Clawculus." "That's great, that's my friend Frankie's class right now too!"

She led (Y/N) to the classroom and talked to the creature, explaining who the new ghoul was and why she was late. The creature (who was a six foot five inches tall cyclops with light blue skin and a turquoise blue eye) understood and allowed the (E/C) eyed into the classroom. She was sat next a ghoul with light, mint, green skin that was littered with several stitches on her body. Two bolts were fixed to her neck and (Y/N) could see some sparks of electricity fly from it. Her eyes were of two colours: one green and one blue. Her hair was white with black streaks and held with a clip.

"Hi there." The green skinned ghoul cheerfully greeted. "My name is Frankie Stein, daughter of FrankenStein. Nice to meet you!" 

"Nice to meet you too. I'm (Y/N) Cheshire." She shook Frankie's hand and got a mini heart attack when her hand detached from her body. "Oh that happens a lot. Sorry." She apologizes and takes the hand back, smiling sheepishly.

The day went on without any major events, meeting new monsters and ghouls alike and adapting the new curriculum which was an entirely new world compared to EAH's, which is justified cause it kinda was.

Soon, lunchtime came around and (Y/N) made her way towards the creepateria. The lunch held a variety of foods that was compatible with different types of monsters in the school. From large amounts of steak, different sizes of brains, variety of salads and other (un)delicacies from dead to living.

The (H/C) haired ghoul opted for some salad and some meat, with some blood juice (it was mostly for vampires but it was also recommended for predator monsters) and an apple. After serving, our Cheshire protagonist looked around the lunchroom for an empty table to sit at. They were several, rectangular, cream coloured, tables that were around the room and filled with different types of monsters, may it be the same kind or of different kinds. 

As (Y/N) looked around for a table, she spotted a familiar blue finned hand waving at her. At looking closer, she realized it was Lagoona, the first monster she met here. Next to her on her table were Draculaura, Frankie and Cleo along with three other unknown faces. The (H/C)-nette smiled and made her way towards them. Unfortunately, someone happened to step into her view, surprising her. 

The one in the middle had  orange tannish skin, or fur, with a darker orange spot around her eye. She had dark orange tiger stripes running up her right arm and left leg and four on her face. Her hair is styled in an asymmetrical bob and is dark orange with black stripes on her bangs. She wore a deep pink tiger-striped top with a black, open studded bolero jacket over it, an orange scarf around her neck, reddish-orange biker gloves, a yellow belt around her waist with a Monster High logo-stamped buckle, black leggings with deep pink tears, and open-toed shoes with deep pink laces and wedges.

The other two have a grey skin or fur and white facial marking and white stripes running over their legs and arms, but one had her stripes on her right arm and left leg, while the other had them on her left arm and right leg. One had white hair while the other's was black. In line with the white markings on their limbs, one has a black-and-white striped lock of hair hanging from her left side, which the other ghoul has hanging from her right side. Their outfits were somewhat similar. The main colors were white, black, crimson, and orange, with black and orange.

"Well, well, well." The orange cat purred. "What do we have here?"

"So the new ghoul is like us?" The ghoul on her right said with a smirk.

"The Ghostly Gossip wasn't joking about her looks." The other twin spoke up.

"Um, who are you?" (Y/N) asked hesitantly.

"Oh right, how rude of us." The orange furred ghoul pointed at herself then to the two behind her. "My name is Toralei Stripes, and these are the twins Meowlody and Purrsephone."

"Oh, nice to meet you three. My name is (Y/N) Cheshire and I'm new here." Our protagonist smiled and tried to walk away from them. "If you excuse me, I want to go-"

"Now wait just a minute, (Y/N)." Toralei blocked her with her hands and wrapped her tail around her shoulder. "Now where you going to sit?"

"With Lagoona and her friends, why?"

"Why sit with them when you can sit with us? You're a feline ghoul, aren't you?" 

"She doesn't have a tail though." The three immediately looked behind her at where her tal should be, finding that indeed she did not have a tail.

"U-Umm..." (Y/N) nervously stuttered. "My breed of cat monsters don't grow tails. It's weird I know but you learn to live with it, haha..."

"Hmm." Meowlody was suspicious but Toralei dismissed her. "It doesn't matter. You're a cat so you should hang out with us from here on out. From today, you're part of our group so you should hang out with us and do stuff with us."

"Woah, woah wait. Why do you get to decide what I do?" (Y/N) was shocked at her audacity. She momentarily wondered where she found it before the orange cat continued.

"Because we cats should stick together." Purrsephone spoke up.

When she said this, (Y/N)'s senses began to tingle. Her mind was saying to get away from this trio immediately and that they were bad news. If the (H/C) haired girl knew anything about herself, it's that she should always trust her instincts. She shrugged away Toralei's tail from her and took a step back.

"Okay first off," She began. "You are absolutely no one to tell me who to hang out with just because we're the same kind of monster. Second, I may have not known you for a long time but I can already tell that you have one of the worst attitudes out of anyone here. Lastly, that eyeliner looks so jagged. It looks like you did it in the dark."

There was utter silence in the room before some monsters began to laugh, pointing at Toralei. The said ghoul, seeing this, growled at the Cheshire before stomping out of the room with the two twins behind her. (Y/N) felt bad for blowing up like that but before she could do anything she was hugged from behind by Draculaura.

"Oh. My. Ghoul!" She squealed. "That was so cool! You put Toralei and her gang in their place and they totally deserve it after all the crap they've done." She pouted slightly at the end before it was quickly wiped off with a smile. "Come on, let's take you to meet the others." She dragged the new ghoul to their table.

"Hey ghouls!" The pink vampire exclaimed. "This is (Y/N) and she'll be sitting with us from now one. (Y/N), you've met Lagoona, Cleo and Frankie already." The three waved at her excitedly, well two of them. Cleo simply acknowledged her with a simple curt nod.

"The rest are my other close friends: Clawdeen Wolf..." The wolf showed her a toothy grin and waved her amazingly manicured hand at her. "...Ghoulia Yelps..." The zombie moaned lowly and blinked slowly before going back to writing something. "...and Abbey Abominable." The yeti said a 'hello', her voice laced with a thick accent.

Clawdeen had golden yellow eyes, caramel colored fur, and shoulder-length brown and auburn curls. Due to her werewolf heritage, she had white fangs, sharp wolf ears and sharp claws. She was wearing a peach or black tiger striped tank top with peach sparkles, along with matching peach sparkle stockings. On her feet, she wore purple open-welded boots with gold buckles on the bottom of her short purple skirt. A black belt that had gold studs around it was around her waist. Her lips are purple with purple eyeshadow and red lipstick.

Ghoulia had long light blue hair with dark blue streaks and pale grey skin and a green headband on her hair. Her eyes were light blue, matching her hair. Sometimes, she would have her hair tied up in a high ponytail with a red or green scrunchie. As accessories, she wore deep pink zipper-like earrings, a silver chain necklace with a zipper-tag pendant, cat-eye, horn-rimmed glasses.  Her outfit consisted of an off-shoulder, white black-and-red striped shirt that stops halfway below the elbows with a white cherry-printed tank top with red straps over it and a Monster High logo in the center, fishnet gloves that start from the elbows and end at the palms, red black polka-dotted capris with black straps around the thighs and a piano belt around the waist with the same logo on the belt buckle and black knee-high, high-heeled Converse sneaker boots with red laces and heels and the same logo on the side of the heels.

Abbey had light blue that had a shimmering effect. Her hair is long, white with uneven pink, purple and blue stripes, made to look as if they began as pink and blue and ended as purple. She had light purple eyes.  Her mouth had two tiny tusks and her hands are large with sharp claws. She wore a ice crystal necklace along with a white fur headband, purple snowflake earrings, usually blue spike earring resembling an icicle. Fur wristbands, off the shoulder tube crystalline dress. White knee high boots, all made of yak fur with the exception of her lilac legging.

"Nice to meet you all. Hope I won't be a bother." (Y/N) bowed slightly.

"Don't worry about it ghoul." Clawdeen patted her shoulder. "Anyone who stands up to Toralei like that is a good monster in my book."

"But I hope you will learn to respect me as the queen." Cleo said proudly.

"Cool down, Cleo." Clawdeen said monotonously, probably tired of the mummy's antics.

The rest of lunch time continued with the ghoul squad discussing various topics such as boys and fashion, and not forgetting to include (Y/N) into the conversation, which the Cheshire was thankful for. Soon, the bell rang once again signifying the end of lunch and beginning of class time for the students. The (H/C)-nette picked up her tray and dropped it off at the trashcan before entering the hallway.

The rest of the day passed by and soon the last lesson of the day ended. (Y/N) had originally planned to go back to the ghost house however Frankie had encouraged the ghoul to look around more so as to decide on which club to join. Since she was new to the area, the (E/C) eyed Cheshire decided not to tour too much otherwise she would get lost. Monster High may seem like a normal school from the outside but the abnormal activity lingering in the walls calls for high alert.

Her first stop was the indoor swimming pool where she found several water-based monsters swimming and/or relaxing. Luckily, Lagoona was amongst them and called (Y/N) over after seeing her looking around confused. The Cheshire ghoul happily did so and walked up to the edge of the pool where the sea monster was resting.

"Hey ghoul!" Lagoona greeted happily. "Whatcha doing here?"

"Oh I was just looking around the school and I wound up here." (Y/N) replied. "So this is the swimming pool, huh?"

"Yeah. It's built to accommodate different types of water monsters that come to Monster High. But it's highly encouraged by the school if you don't have a good swimming ability you don't swim here 'cause the pool doesn't have an end."

"Seriously?" The new monster was shocked.

"Crazy right? The amount of things I've lost in that pool are too many too count." A new voice spoke up making the (H/C) haired ghoul look at them. They were coming out of the pool, right next to where Lagoona was. He had light blue skin (or scales) and spiky fins protruding from his neck, forearms, and legs along with one big fin on the top of his head styled like a mohawk and flips over to one side. He had pale yellow eyes. 

"Hi, my name's Gillington Webber, but you can call me Gil. Nice to meet ya'." He extended out his finned towards our protagonist for her to shake, and she did.

"Nice to meet you Gil." She smiled at him. "I'm (Y/N) Cheshire and I'm new here."

"Wait, you're (Y/N) Cheshire?" He repeated with a brow raised. "Oh, I've heard about you."

Lagoona and (Y/N) turned to him in confusion. "What do you mean by that?" Lagoona asked.

"Oh, I heard about you from..." Gil trained off from his sentence as he looked at something behind (Y/N). The said ghoul looked behind her only to find a manster with fiery looking hair whistling and kicking a ball on the ground.

"From where?"

"F-From..." Gil's eyes began to move around quickly. "From the Ghostly Gossip! Yeah! The Ghostly Gossip!"

"The what?" She turned to Lagoona for an explanation.

"It's a blog ran by a monster student at Monster High. No one knows who they are but the post stuff about the school and other students like gossip, stuff like that." (Y/N) hummed in understanding and looked back at the manster.

"So, you heard from me from this site?" She asked him, to which he nodded hurriedly.However before the (E/C) eyed ghoul could question him farther, he dragged Lagoona away claiming that the coach was calling a meeting for the swim team. (Y/N), still being new in school and to the whole monster world in general, decided to let it and left the pool area.

She walked down the hallway, paying attention to the decor and the layout. Observing the different types of monsters, ranging from the undead to immortal, parading through the school due to their after school activity. (Y/N) was amazed by the smooth functioning of the school as well as the cooperation amongst the different monsters. Looks like that book she read about the monster realm was false after all.

Just as she turned a corner, the (E/C) eyed ghoul bumped into someone. Before she could fall to the ground, they caught her by the elbow.

"Woah! Careful." She looked up to see the handsome werewolf from before: Clawd.

"Oh, thank you very much." She averted her gaze from his out of embarrassment. Unbeknownst to her, he did the same.

"No problem." He rubbed his neck. "So what are you doing here so late?"

"I was just checking some extra curriculars to see if there's anything I would like to join."

"I see." He looked at her. "Can I join you?"

(Y/N) looked at him in mild confusion. " I thought you already have Casketball."

"I do, but I'm done with practice for the day and the other guys have gone for the day." He smiled. "Also, I doubt you know your way around here."

This made her flinch, proving his statement. She agreed and the two went on their way. Clawd happily showed her around, giving some sort of background about each club. The two also got to know about each other a bit, talking about various topics and laughing and smiling regarding some of them. 

What (Y/N) observed was how the taller werewolf was friendly to every monster they passed and/or talked to. His smile was bright, his voice loud and kind and his body language relaxed and calm which allowed for the other manster/ghoul to reciprocate a happy conversation or smile. This made the (H/C)-nette smile at him, looking at him with pure admiration.

"What?" Clawd asked her. "Hmm?"

"You're staring at me. Is there something on my face?"

"No, I just can't stare at you?" Our protagonist asked with a smirk. "Do you want me to stop?"

The sheer boldness of her statement surprised Clawd to the point he had no reply. All he could do was blush, the tips of his pointed ears turning crimson. This made the Cheshire giggle at him, further embarrassing him. Before she could tease him further, the sounds of fast paced footsteps reached her ears. 

Interested, she followed the sound, leaving behind a still flustered Clawd, and found herself in front of another gym similar to the one Draculaura and her had visited earlier that day. When she opened the door, she saw several monsters running on what seemed to be a track. Some were in the center of it, stretching and doing other sports while those on the track were running (as expected) as others were timing them.

"This is the Crack and Shield Club. It's a sport club like Casketball." Clawd came from behind her and explained.

"Really now?" (Y/N) looked at him and crossed her arms. "I would have never guessed."

"Hey." Clawd looked at her, his voice laced with a mock threatening tone. She merely smiled at him, making the poor werewolf blush once again. 'Why is she so cute? ' He couldn't help but ask himself as he stared into her beautiful (E/C) coloured eyes. After what seemed like minutes - but it was just seconds - they both looked away from each other, realizing they had been staring at the other.

"CLAWD!~" A new preppy high pitched voice called out making them look at the source. Running towards them was a pretty ghoul, wearing a tight black shirt that had the Monster High logo on the chest and short black shorts with pink and white accents. Her skin, or truthfully fur, was a light orangish- yellowish colour with black spots all over them, as well as her long tail. Her eyes were big and golden in colour. Two large white canines protruded from her gums as she smiled happily at the werewolf.

"Oh..." The werewolf's smile seemed to fade but it quickly reappeared before (Y/N) could see it. "Savannah, hey..."

"Hey, handsome." The ghoul named Savannah walked up to him rubbed her body onto his side. She was almost as tall as him. "What are you doing here?~" (Y/N) had moved a few steps back and was watching the scene unfold before her.

"Oh, I'm here giving the- Stop that!" He interrupted himself and took a step back, tired from the ghoul continuously rubbing herself onto him. As a result, he backed into (Y/N) making her also almost fall over. Luckily Clawd caught her by wrapping his hand around her shoulders. This made the cheetah ghoul look at her and glare.

"Oh, is this the new pretty ghoul every monster seemed to be talking about?" She snidely asks while plastering a cold smile on her face.

"Be nice." Clawd growled at her, surprising the two cats. The (H/C) haired ghoul gently places her hand on his (very buff) arm, essentially calming him and angering the other ghoul.

"My name is Savannah, captain of the