Monster High School Story/Dialogues

It's Halloween season once again! You and Autumn are walking through the halls of your school, taking in the sight of all the bright decorations!
MC: Orange ribbons everywhere, ghosts hanging from the ceiling... Halloween always brings out the fun!
MC: Uh, and I guess the drama too...
You and Autumn pass by the quad, where several of your school's high-profile couples are arguing loudly!
MC: Hey, Autumn, have you noticed lately that all the couples at school have been fighting a lot? Some are even breaking up...
MC: I wonder if it's over the Ghoulish Gala dance tonight over at Hearst. You're going, right, Autumn?
MC: ...uh, Autumn?
Beside you, Autumn has her nose buried in a dusty, leather book.
Autumn: Hm, what was that, MC? Sorry, I'm at the very end of this paranormal romance!
MC: You've been obsessed with that creepy old book for the last week! Where'd you find that thing anyway?
Autumn: Sitting on a shelf in the back of the library! I just felt drawn to it... who knew it'd turn out to be the most epic love story I've ever read?
Autumn: Now to find out whether Clara and her mummy boyfriend Cyrus ended up together. They're lovesick teenagers in the 1800s...
MC: I guess times don't really change, huh?
Just then, you notice four girls whispering as they sneak behind the Admissions Building. They're dressed in amazing costumes... Frankenstein's monster, a vampire, a werewolf, and an Egyptian mummy.
MC: Hang on, those must be some new students! Their costumes look awesome! I should go welcome them to the school!
You jog across the quad to where the four girls are whispering...
Frankie: A clue has to be around here somewhere!
Cleo: Can you please hurry it up? I'm starting to embalm over here.
Draculaura: Shhhh! Do you want the normies to catch us?!
Clawdeen: Kind of. Then I can ask that normie girl where in the netherworld she got that purse!
MC: Hello there!
Draculaura: Aaaaaah!
As you introduce yourself, the four girls tense up! One of them shrieks!
MC: Sorry, sorry! I didn't mean to spook you!
MC: I just wanted to say hi! I'm MC. You guys are new students here, right?
MC: Gotta say, you're totally going to win Best Ensemble Costumes at the Ghoulish Gala tonight.
The girls share a confused look.
Clawdeen: Riiiight... we're... in costume...
Frankie: Oh, yes! New students! That's us! Not sneaking around or anything!
Draculaura: Ah, I get it! We are totally normies! Say, fellow normie, don't you also like that hot new song by, ummm... Beethoven?
Cleo: Seriously? Beethoven? Could you at least try to reference pop culture from this century?
Draculaura: I've been alive for 1,600 years. It all kinda blurs together.
MC: Wait a second...
You narrow your eyes, studying each girl closely... the authentic detail of their impossibly perfect costumes...
MC: Are you guys... real monsters?!
if MC is Male then
   Draculaura: Aaaaaah! He knows!
if MC is Female then
   Draculaura: Aaaaaah! She knows!
MC: Are you guys... real monsters?!
Clawdeen: Okay, time to run!
Frankie: Everybody, bolt!
MC: Hey, wait a second! It's okay! Let's start over.
MC: My name's MC. What's yours?
Frankie: I'm... I'm Frankie. And these are my friends, Clawdeen, Draculaura, and Cleo.
Cleo: No way. I don't buy this act, and I buy everything. You mean to say you're not scared of us at all?
MC: I mean, this is new for me too. I've never met anyone... you know... like you before.
MC: But from the very beginning, this school has been a place where everyone gets to be themselves. And that's not about to change.
Draculaura: A place where everyone gets to be themselves, no matter what? Hey, Frankie, doesn't that sound a lot like Monster High?
MC: Monster High? Is that what I think it is? Because I think it sounds awesome.
Clawdeen: Well, our high school is an enormous Gothic dwelling, filled with secret rooms and mad science laboratories. No big deal.
Cleo: The students and teachers are monsters like us. Well, not like us. Everyone is so different. Not like here.
MC: You'd be surprised. Us 'normies' are completely different from each other too. You'll find out if you stick around and get to know us!
MC: What brings you girls to our school anyway? It seemed like you were looking for a clue?
Clawdeen: Here's the deal. Out of nowhere, all these couples at Monster High have been fighting and breaking up.
Draculaura: All of a sudden, Clawd and I can't find anything to talk about anymore! It's so... sniff... sad!
Cleo: I heard that Deuce is planning to dump me next time we talk. That is not happening... so I've had to avoid him for the last week.
MC: Whoa, seriously? My school's suddenly turned into Heartbreak Central too!
Frankie: Do you hear that, ghouls?! That means we must be on the right track!
MC: You know what's causing this?
Cleo: A heartbroken spirit just started floating the halls of Monster High last week. He won't talk. He just mopes and groans. Total drag, right?
Clawdeen: Frankie thinks that's what's making everyone's romance end in heartbreak too.
Frankie: We checked the Monster High yearbooks and recognized him. He was a student there named Cyrus... in the 1800s! Look!
Frankie opens up an old yearbook and points out a mummy with handsome, smiling features half-obscured by bandages.
MC: That's the spirit of heartbreak at Monster High? And who's this girl with him in the other picture?
Draculaura: That was his girlfriend Clara! She was a normie girl... from your town! That's why we're here.
Frankie: I think if we can reunite the spirits of Cyrus and Clara, maybe we can free both our schools of the heartbreak and save all the couples!
MC: Hang on... Cyrus? Clara? I think my friend knows something about them!
You lead your new friends from Monster High to Autumn's house. She answers the door and invites you into her room, where fascinating, abstract paintings decorate every wall.
Autumn: I was just trying on new shoes for tonight's dance. So, are you girls in town for the Halloween carnival? I just love your costumes.
MC: Autumn, you might want to sit down for this. My friends here... they're real-life monsters. They even go to a school called Monster High.
Autumn: Ha ha! MC, you're always joking around! If I--
Autumn: Oof... aww, I broke another heel.
Frankie: Ugh, I've totally been there, Autumn. Mine come off all the time. Look!
Frankie reaches down... and detaches her foot from her ankle! Autumn's face goes white.
She looks from Frankie's stitching... to Draculaura's fangs... to Clawdeen's fur... to Cleo's mummy wrapping...
Autumn: You weren't joking... were you?
MC: Nope. They're monsters. But everyone's got their own quirks, right?
Clawdeen: Totally. How do you boo, Autumn?
Autumn: How do I what?
Draculaura: How do you boo? It's a saying we have at Monster High.
Clawdeen: It's like, how do you do you? What do you do that makes you unique?
Autumn: Umm... I guess I'd say my paintings.
Draculaura: You mean, you made all these paintings yourself? They're so... different!
Autumn: Oh... yeah, I guess they are pretty different...
Frankie: Trust me, Autumn, that was a compliment. We love different and unique. Besides, we're gonna have to work together if we want to save romance at our schools!
At Autumn's house, the Monster High girls explain the mystery of the breakups... the heartbroken monster spirit named Cyrus, and his normie love Clara from your town.
Autumn perks up at their names and pulls out the dusty leather book she has been reading all week.
Autumn: Cyrus and Clara! Just like the two lovesick teens from the 1800s in this book I found in our school's library!
Draculaura: Hey, I don't think that's a novel at all. It must be... gasp! Clara's diary!
Cleo: That's no ordinary diary either. See those hieroglyphics on the binding? That's an enchanted diary!
Frankie: Cyrus must've given it to Clara as a gift! Books like that don't just contain words... they hold entire memories!
MC: A diary that holds actual memories? Sounds like Autumn reading it could have awoken Clara's spirit... and Cyrus's! That's why this is all happening!
Cleo: Ohhh. So me and my boyfriend are fighting all the time... all because Autumn read a book?
Clawdeen: It's not Autumn's fault, Cleo. She couldn't have known.
Frankie: Clawdeen's right. But we can fix this! We just have to put Clara and Cyrus's spirits at ease!
Frankie: Autumn, you read the diary. What's making Clara and Cyrus so heartbroken?
Autumn: That's the thing. I don't actually know how their romance ended... because the last five pages were torn out!
Clawdeen: Great. So nobody knows what happened to Clara and Cyrus.
MC: Actually, there's one person who does.
Draculaura: Who?
Choice
What do you say? 
   Clara! 
   Autumn! 
   Me!
if "Clara!" then
   MC: Clara knows better than anyone what caused their heartbreak!
if "Autumn!" or "Me!" then
   if "Autumn!" then
       Draculaura: She does?
       Autumn: I do?
   if "Me!" then
       Clawdeen: You do?
       MC: Yeah! Clara and Cyrus obviously... um... I think they...
   MC: Okay, maybe not. But there has to be someone who knows!
   Autumn: You're right about that. It's Clara! She would know better than anyone what caused their heartbreak!
Cleo: Um, obviously. But it's not like we can just ask her what happened.
Draculaura: Or can we?
Draculaura: ...I mean, can we? That was an actual question.
Frankie: Hmm. Autumn just reading from the memories in that diary stirred up Clara's spirit. I bet if we relived a really powerful memory, in a place that's special to her, maybe we could contact her!
Autumn flips through the diary's sparkling silver pages...
Autumn: Here! Clara talks about the five most magical moments as she fell in love with Cyrus!
Frankie: And she says their first kiss happened at the old clock tower right here in town! Autumn, you're a genius!
Frankie hugs Autumn tightly! Autumn flinches at first... but then she smiles warmly and hugs Frankie back, just as tight.
Draculaura: There's just one problem. I looked up the old clock tower on my phone, and it's all the way across town at a place called... Hearse High!
MC: That's Hearst High.
Draculaura: Hmm. Too bad. Hearse is much catchier.
MC: Hearst is our school's archrival. They really don't like us over there.
Autumn: Good thing we have an excuse to snoop around! Tonight's the Ghoulish Gala, remember? And everyone's invited!
You, Autumn, and the Monster High girls race back to your place to get your costume before the big Halloween ball at Hearst High.
MC: The Ghoulish Gala's starting any minute now! I think we can all fit into my car if we squeeze...
Cleo: Absolutely not. If you're going to a dance with us, you're going in style... monster-style!
Cleo dials into her coffin-shaped phone, and moments later, an enormous stretch hearse-limo pulls up outside your house!
MC: Whoa!
The girls shriek with glee, and the six of you climb into the limo!
Draculaura: You all look so amazing! Someone, tell me how I look. I can't see my reflection!
MC: You look drop-dead gorgeous, Draculaura.
Soon, you pull up outside Hearst, which is illuminated in brilliant orange and draped in billowing black curtains!
Autumn: Follow me! The dance is this way!
Autumn's leading you and the Monster High girls toward the Ghoulish Gala dance when--
Someone in a horrifying mask leaps out at you from around the corner!
Max: BOO!
Draculaura: Aaaaaah!
Choice
What do you do? 
   Yawn! 
   Yelp! 
   Yell! 
   Scream!
if "Yawn!" then
   MC: Yaaaaaawn... Oh, I'm sorry, Max. Were you trying to scare us? Kinda dozed off there.
   Clawdeen: You know, I think my ghoulfriends and I could teach you a thing or two about good scares.
   Max: Pfft, yeah, right. I totally got you guys.
if "Yelp!", "Yell!", "Scream!" or you run out of time then
   MC: Aaaaaaaah!
   Max: Hahaha! Yes! I totally got you!
   MC: Nuh uh! You did not!
   Autumn: He kinda did...
Max: And speaking of getting your heart pumping... how ya doin', ladies? The name's Warren. Max Warren.
Max winks at the Monster High girls.
Clawdeen: No. Thanks.
Max: Whatever. Nice costumes, losers. I guess dorks like you just gravitate to each other, huh?
Frankie: As a matter of fact, we do. Now if you'll excuse us, we have some dancing to do.
With that, you blow past Max and head toward the gym, where the music is thumping.
As each girl passes by Max, he squints at them suspiciously.
Max: Hmm...
Soon, you, Autumn, and the Monster High girls are breaking it down on the dance floor with students from all over town!
Clawdeen: You normies sure know how to let loose!
Frankie: Just don't forget why we're here, ghouls!
Draculaura: To party!
Frankie: Well, that, but we also have to check out the old clock tower and see if reliving Clara's memory from her diary lets us contact her.
Frankie: Otherwise, we'll never know why Cyrus and Clara's spirits are heartbroken, and we'll never save all the couples at our schools! Let's go!
Clawdeen: It looks like that Max guy wants to follow us. He keeps staring...
Clawdeen: Actually, everyone's staring!
Cleo: Sorry, ghouls. That's on me. When I look this good, people just can't help themselves!
Frankie: No, Cleo, they're staring at all of us!
Looking around, you notice that every other student is captivated by the Monster High girls' striking looks!
Draculaura: If we all leave together, we'll be followed!
MC: And if I know Max, he'll try to interfere. We have to sneak out without anybody noticing.
Clawdeen: We could try to blend in?
MC: There's no way ghouls as unique as you could ever blend into the crowd. Besides, blending in never fixes anything.
MC: I know! Earlier, you ghouls asked us, how do you boo? I think it's everyone else's turn to show how they boo!
Autumn: I get it... a distraction! That will grab everyone's attention and let you sneak out!
Autumn: You guys go ahead. I'll grab some friends who really know how to stand out!
Autumn heads over to the punch table, where Classmate 1, Classmate 2, and Classmate 3 are teasing each other.
Autumn: Hey, guys! I was wondering... which of you is the best dancer?
Classmate 1: Is that even a question? It's me! I mean, have you even seen this body?
Classmate 3: Excuse you! Who here taught you all the latest dance moves? That's right. Yours truly.
Classmate 2: You're both verifiably wrong, and I'll prove it! Let's settle this on the dance floor!
Classmate 1, Classmate 2, and Classmate 3 launch into a three-way dance-off, and soon they're breakdancing on the gym floor! A spotlight finds them, and a crowd begins to gather, cheering them on!
Classmate 2: Yeah, you like that move?! I call that the wave, son!
Clawdeen: Hurry, ghouls! Now's our chance!
You lead the girls to the back exit of the gym and slip outside!
You and the Monster High girls sneak out from the Ghoulish Gala and dart across Hearst High's campus to the old clock tower.
MC: Here it is! This is where Clara's diary said she and Cyrus shared their first kiss!
You wind up the narrow stone stairs until you've reached the peak of the tower. Massive cast-iron bells hang above you in solemn silence.
Draculaura: Wow... what a beautiful view from this high up!
Cleo: So we're here. But how exactly are we supposed to contact Clara's spirit here?
Frankie: We relive her memories, just like Autumn did when she first read the diary. At a place as special to her as this, I think we'll be able to reach her!
Frankie opens the diary and hands it to you. You read aloud...
MC: 'Cyrus took me up the new clock tower tonight. I was afraid of heights, but it was the one place in town we could be alone... where we could be ourselves.'
MC: 'I marveled at the view. You could see all the way to the Jacobs' farm in the next county... but I could tell Cyrus was only looking at me.'
MC: 'He stumbled over his words when he asked to kiss me. I didn't know green skin could blush so red. But when his lips met mine, even so high up, I've never felt so safe.'
At the last word, a warm breeze suddenly blows, flipping through the pages of the diary!
Draculaura: Something's happening! Clara, is that you?
The diary flips to the torn-out pages... and begins to glow in your hands! A page materializes out of a glimmering aura, and words appear as if written in pure light!
Frankie: It is Clara! She just gave us the first of the missing pages!
Clawdeen: We're one step closer to finding out the end to her love story!
Cleo: Well? What does it say?
MC: Let's get back to the dance and read it with Autumn!
Clawdeen: Good idea. I'd say this calls for a celebration anyway.
The five of you make your way back to the gym. You spot Autumn, now caught in the middle of a huge dance circle!
Autumn: Uh oh! How did I even end up here?!
Frankie: Come on, ghouls, let's go rescue Autumn...
You're heading toward her, when suddenly the music cuts out. You turn to look at the DJ booth... only to see Max grabbing the mic.
He points a finger at you and your new friends, shouting into the mic for everyone at the dance to hear.
Max: Cat's out of the bag, MC. Or should I say... the wolf's out of the bag!
MC: That... doesn't even make sense.
Max: Whatever! I know what your friends are!
Clawdeen: Uh oh.
Everyone around you turns to stare once more...
In front of everyone at Hearst High's Ghoulish Gala dance, Max shuts down the DJ booth and grabs the mic!
Classmate 1: Bro! I know you didn't just cut off my tunes, bro!
Max: That's right, MC! I followed you to the clock tower. I saw everything! I knew there was something wrong with your new pals... other than you having pals at all, obviously.
Everyone around you turns to stare once more. Spotlights swivel to focus on you!
Classmate 3: What's Max talking about, MC?
Draculaura: This is not good! Very not good!
MC: Max, as usual, you're in over your head. Put the mic down.
Frankie rests a gentle hand on your shoulder.
Frankie: It's okay, MC.
Frankie: Go ahead, Max. Say it. We're not ashamed.
Max: Everybody, get away from those girls! They're not in costume! They're not like us at all...
Max: They're monsters!
In front of everyone at the Halloween dance, Max declares the true identity of your new friends!
Max: They're monsters!
Clawdeen: Oh boy, here we go...
Classmate 2: M-m-m-m-monsters?!
The crowd gasps! Some students start backing away. Others glare at you in a mix of fear and anger!
Max: Come on, everyone! Help me kick them out of here! They don't belong here! Go on!
Some of the crowd starts closing in around the girls, herding them toward the exit... but you step up, standing between the girls and the mob!
MC: If they go... I go! Because I'm a monster too!
Draculaura: MC!
The crowd of students pauses, looking at each other with uncertainty. Just then, Autumn steps up beside you!
Autumn: Me too! I'm a monster! Go ahead, throw us out too!
MC: We're all monsters! All of us have something that makes us unique, that makes us an outsider... but we shouldn't be hiding that. We should be celebrating it!
Autumn: Yeah! Who wants to be ordinary anyway?
Classmate 1: I guess... I guess that makes me a monster!
Classmate 2: Yeah! I'm a monster too!
Classmate 3: Pfft, I bet I'm the biggest monster of them all!
One by one, everyone at the dance is declaring themselves to be a monster!
Frankie: MC... you stood up for us, in front of everyone. And you barely even know us!
MC: I don't have to. I just know that nobody should ever feel ashamed of who they are. Everyone's unique.
MC: After all, normies aren't that normal anyway.
Max: What, are you all stupid or something? Don't you get that they don't belong here?!
Classmate 1: Maybe you're the one who should get out of here, Max!
Frankie: No, we're better than that.
Frankie: Max, why don't you come dance with us? I promise we won't bite...
Clawdeen: ...much.
Draculaura: We're really pretty chill! And I'm not talking about my skin being cold to the touch.
Max: What? No way, I'm out of here! You monsters can have fun with your creepy dance!
Classmate 2: Thanks! We will!
Max takes off!
MC: Someone, turn the music back on!
Frankie: I'm on it!
Frankie shoots you a wink. You look over to the DJ booth, where Frankie's hand is crawling on its own over to the turntables! It drops the needle on the record, and the music kicks back in!
Classmate 3: DJ Frankie in the houuuuse!
The dance is back in full swing! You dance with friends, old and new, joining in as Classmate 2 teaches Cleo 'the robot.'
Cleo: That's cool and all. But now we're going old school. Way old. I call this 'the mummy'...
You're enjoying the dance with your friends, when you overhear a couple from your school get into a shouting match and break up!
MC: Uh oh. Looks like the heartbreak curse is still in full effect.
Draculaura: Let's read the new page and see if we can learn why Cyrus and Clara's spirits are still so sad...
With the dance still going on all around you, you and Autumn huddle together with Frankie, Draculaura, Clawdeen, and Cleo.
Cleo: Go on, MC, read the page that appeared in Clara's diary. It has to say what happened between her and Cyrus, right?
MC: Let's see... it says, 'When I got back from visiting Cyrus at Monster High, the house was dark. I climbed the lattice and snuck in through my bedroom window. I thought my father hadn't heard. But the next morning, there he stood with his coffee and that look of disappointment on his face.'
MC: 'He told me he knew everything. I gulped. Could he possibly? But then, from his words, I realized he only suspected I had a boyfriend. He had no idea who Cyrus was... or what he was.'
MC: 'I was so relieved. But as I walked away, he said, 'Better my daughter have a boyfriend than be cavorting around with those evil monsters from the woods.' I was speechless at how cruel he could be...'
MC: 'Then he kissed my cheek goodbye. As he always said, City Hall needed its mayor.'
Clawdeen: Whoa, whoa, timeout. Clara's dad was mayor of this town?
Autumn: And it sounds like he didn't like monsters much...
Cleo: No surprise there. Back then, normie-monster relationships were totally taboo.
MC: Sounds like trouble was brewing for Cyrus and Clara...
At the Ghoulish Gala, you and the girls from Monster High finish reading the newly appeared page in Clara's magic diary...
MC: We know a little bit more, but there are still four missing pages left! Finding them is the only way we're going to figure out how to help their spirits and lift this heartbreak curse from both our schools.
MC: And I'm betting if we relive Clara's other memories from her romance with Cyrus, we could get the other pages to appear!
Draculaura: We'd love to keep investigating here, MC, and we've had a blast hanging out with you... but the thing is...
MC: What?
Cleo: We have to go back to Monster High now. We have class, just like you. Only better ones.
MC: You can't leave! What about the curse? Cleo, Draculaura, what about your relationships? Romance is doomed unless we keep looking!
Cleo: Trust me, we know. But we can't not go to school.
An idea pops into your head!
MC: Then go to school with me!
Draculaura: Huh? What are you saying, MC?
MC: I'm saying you should enroll for a term as students at my school!
(pages + 1)
Draculaura: Hmm... we might be able to convince Headmistress Bloodgood to give us an extra scaremester abroad...
Clawdeen: I could say I'm studying normie fashion!
Cleo: This might be the only way I can save my relationship with Deuce. And I am not getting dumped.
Frankie: Then it's settled. MC, we would like to formally enroll at your school! That is... if you'll have us.
MC: I told you from the start. My school is a place for all students who want to be themselves.
MC: I'd say you'd fit right in... but I have a feeling you're going to keep standing out!
Looks like your school might be getting some extra-special exchange students! But will you and the ghouls be able to figure out the curse of the heartbroken spirits before romance is done for?
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