A Monster High Halloween/Dialogues

You're walking through campus with Cleo after school, surrounded by Halloween decorations and throngs of costumed classmates.
As you listen more closely, you notice that all of the couples are locked in loud, bitter arguments!
MC: Looks like this curse is getting even worse...
Cleo: At least it hasn't happened to Draculaura and me. Our boyfriends are back at Monster High!
Suddenly, a familiar voice calls to you!
Frankie: MC! Cleo! Come quick!
Frankie leads you to Clawdeen, who's comforting a distraught Draculaura!
MC: Draculaura? What's wrong?
Draculaura: It's my boyfriend, Clawd... he... he...
Clawdeen: He just broke up with Draculaura!
MC: Oh no...
Clawdeen: ...via text!
MC: Oh no!
Cleo: I wouldn't wish a text-breakup on my worst frenemy!
Draculaura: I don't know what happened! He hasn't been acting like himself...
Clawdeen: My brother Clawd would never do something this boneheaded normally! It must be the curse!
Cleo: I refuse to let this go on any longer. We have to put a stop to this heartbreak curse, once and for all!
Draculaura: But how?
Frankie: We've completed Clara's diary, and we know why the spirits are heartbroken...
MC: ...so if we find Cyrus's spirit and prove that Clara always loved him, we might end the curse!
Frankie: Exactly.
MC: Then it's settled. We're going back to Monster High to confront Cyrus... tonight!
MC: Just one thing... is a normie like me even allowed to visit Monster High?
Draculaura: Of course, MC! You're an honorary monster... and even more important, you're our friend!
Frankie: Besides, tonight's the night of Monster High's Halloween Festival. So the campus will be totally open... and crawling with monsters from all over!
Clawdeen: It might be tough to track down one wayward ghost in a campus full of monsters. We should bring some extra pairs of eyes.
Frankie: My dad might have some lying around his laboratory...
MC: I think Clawdeen meant we should bring some friends.
MC: And I know some who'd be happy to help if it meant they get to hang out at Monster High!
Later that afternoon, you, the ghouls, and a group of your friends pile into your cars and start the drive toward Monster High.
Classmate 1: I can't believe we're going to see Monster High!
MC: Me too! But remember, we're on a mission! We've got to find the spirit of Cyrus!
Your caravan of cars travels down a long, winding road, through the woods...
Draculaura: We're almost there...
Finally, you round the last corner, and a towering view opens up before you...
MC: Whoa!
You round the corner to find the Monster High campus before you! As you exit the cars, an imposing building with gothic spires and coffin-shaped arches towers over you.
As the dusky sky begins to darken, torches illuminate the banner for the Halloween Festival, and Monster High students socialize out on the front lawn.
MC: Wow! This place is so--
Cleo: Horrible!
MC: What?
Frankie: Look closely... the curse is getting worse!
You scan the crowd, seeing students of all shapes, sizes, and species... and notice that all the couples are bickering heatedly!
Classmate 1: It's go time, team. We've got to find Cyrus's spirit, quick!
The ghouls lead you inside, and you venture through the colorful, twisting hallways of Monster High.
Classmate 2: Think I'll get to meet any zombies? I've only ever seen them in games!
Classmate 3: How can you think of games when this is such a good opportunity for monster-normie diplomatic relations?
Cleo: Hey! Can we focus on what's important? Like me? And the fact that my relationship is at stake?
Classmate 1: Cleo's right, we've got a job to do. We should split up!
Classmate 2: Cover more ground. Good idea! Classmate 1, Classmate 3, on me! Alpha squad, move out!
Classmate 1: Aaaand break!
Classmate 1 and Classmate 2 head off down one fork in the hallway excitedly. Classmate 3 gives you a shrug, smiles, and joins them.
Cleo: Seriously though... you don't think this curse could have an effect on my boyfriend... could it?
Draculaura: Well... you could ask him yourself. Here he comes!
A tall monster with dark sunglasses and a slick mohawk of snakes comes sulking down the hall toward you, his head hanging...
Cleo: Ah! We can't let Deuce see me! Quick, in here!
Cleo panics, pushing you all through the nearest door and slamming it shut behind her!
Clawdeen: Cleo... ghoul, why did you stuff us into the janitor's closet?
Cleo: Well... if Deuce doesn't see me, and I don't answer my phone, he can't break up with me, right?
MC: I've got a better question. Is that a tentacle I feel on my shoulder?
Draculaura: Oh! Don't worry! That's just our janitor!
Frankie: Sorry, Mr. Kraken! We'll, uh... we'll be leaving now!
You and the ghouls spill out of the janitor's closet and back into the hallway!
Despite the scattered crowd of monsters giving you puzzled looks as they pass by, you all relish the sudden breathing room.
Frankie: Whew! It was a little too cramped in there!
Cleo: You can say that again. And I've spent 1,300 years in a tomb!
Clawdeen: Enough wasting time. We've got to end this curse!
MC: Right! If we can just find Cyrus's spirit and prove to him that Clara always loved him, I think we can bring them peace!
Draculaura: Proving it should be easy, now that we have the complete diary!
Draculaura reaches into her bag... and her eyes go wide!
Draculaura: Or at least... we used to have it! The diary is gone!
Draculaura: I... I had Clara's diary in my bag just a second ago, but now it's gone!
Frankie: Oh no! What could have happened to it?
You all scan your surroundings frantically!
You glance at a group of zombies shuffling by... and notice that one of them has a rectangular object hidden under its jacket!
MC: Hey... there's something strange about one of those zombies!
Max: Zooombieee... zooombieeeee...
Cleo: Zombies don't say 'zombie'! And they don't wear cheap Halloween masks!
Draculaura: Yeah! Our friend Ghoulia would find that offensive!
MC: Max? What are you doing here? And what are you doing with that diary? I can see you hiding it!
Max whips off his zombie mask and pulls Clara's diary from his jacket.
Max: Oh, is this what you're looking for? Well, I have one thing to say about that...
Max: ...later!
Max turns and bolts!
Clawdeen: Oh, no he doesn't! The hunt is on!
Clawdeen lets loose a howl at the moon... and dashes off in pursuit of Max!
MC: You heard Clawdeen! After him!
You and the ghouls run down the halls of Monster High, in hot pursuit of Max!
MC: Max, get back here! We need that diary!
Max: I knew if I followed you I'd find some more freaky stuff! And now I've got proof that monsters are real!
Max: I'm gonna take this magic book, or whatever it is, and get on national TV! I'll be famous!
Max: And there's nothing you losers can do to stop me! You don't scare me!
Max continues sprinting away, gaining distance!
Cleo: So... he wants a scare, huh?
Clawdeen: MC! Come on! He's running toward the auditorium! We'll head him off there!
You follow the ghouls to the darkened auditorium, where the stage is littered with spooky Halloween props... and soon Max enters, huffing!
He looks around frantically for an exit... when Clawdeen pounces out of the shadows, her claws outstretched!
Clawdeen: Rawr!
Max: Whoa!
Max stumbles back, startled, until he feels a tap on his shoulder... from Frankie's disembodied hand!
Frankie: Going somewhere, Max?
Max: Ugh, get this off of me!
Max scrambles over to a corner... and looks up to find Draculaura hanging from the ceiling above him, baring her fangs!
Draculaura: Hissss!
Max: Aah!
Clambering up the steps to the stage, Max runs into a sarcophagus! The door creaks open, and Cleo reaches out from the darkness, pointing a finger at Max ominously...
Cleo: We've been waiting for you, Max...
Max: G... Get away from me!
Wary and tense, Max backpedals... toward the spot where you are hiding! You wait for the right moment, jump out, and...
Choice
What do you do? 
   Shout! 
   Roar! 
   Howl!
if "Shout!" then
   You reach for Max with a sudden shout!
   MC: Boo!
   Max: Aah!
if "Roar!" then
   You channel your inner monster and let loose a bestial roar!
   MC: RAAAH!!!
   Max: Aah!
if "Howl!" then
   You throw back your head and let loose your best eerie howl!
   MC: Arroooooo!
   Max: Aah!
   Clawdeen: Whoa. Nicely done.
if you run out of time then
   You do nothing, standing eerily still in the shadows...
   Max steps backward, bumping into you! He whips his head around to see the ominous figure looming behind in complete silence!
   MC: ...
   Max: Aah!
You see a moment of fear in his eyes as he stumbles backward! He trips and falls into a pile of prop jack-o'-lanterns... dropping the diary in the process!
Max: Forget this! I'm out of here!
Max springs to his feet and sprints out of the auditorium!
The ghouls gather around as you pick up the diary.
Frankie: Great job, MC!
Cleo: You sure you're not part monster yourself?
MC: Hey, I just learned from the best!
You and the ghouls head back out into the halls, diary in hand.
Frankie: We got the diary back... but Cyrus could still be anywhere on campus!
Just then, you hear the bickering of a couple down the hall! As their argument reaches its peak, the lights above them begin to flicker, and books suddenly topple from the shelf beside them!
Peering further down the hallway, you notice a trail of fallen books... and more arguing couples!
MC: I've got an idea! Ghostly things happen around all these couples fighting... if we follow the heartbreak, we can trace it to its source... Cyrus himself!
Draculaura: Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!
Clawdeen: We can follow these disturbances all the way to Cyrus! Does anybody see more?
You scan around... down one hall, a backpack mysteriously levitates! Down another, a chandelier swings ominously high overhead!
Choice
What do you point at?
   The levitating backpack!
   The swinging chandelier!
if "The levitating backpack!" then
   MC: Right over there! That backpack is moving around by itself!
   Draculaura: MC, wait--
   You don't hear Draculaura, already running over to the levitating backpack. You grab it, and a boy's voice shouts in surprise!
   'Hey!'
   MC: Huh?
   Frankie: Sorry, MC, that's just our invisible friend. Sorry, Invisi Billy!
   MC: Okay, so that wasn't a disturbance from Cyrus's heartbreak... anybody else have any luck?
   Clawdeen: Over there, in the creepateria! Check that out!
if "The swinging chandelier!" then
   MC: Up there! That chandelier is swinging like crazy!
   As you get closer, you overhear a zombie and a centaur breaking up right beneath the chandelier!
   Draculaura: Fangtastic find, MC!
   Clawdeen: Let's keep following the trail! Check out the creepateria!
Clawdeen points to where trays of ghoul gruel are exploding!
Frankie: And look! Our friends Lagoona and Gil are arguing right next to them!
Cleo: Then what are we waiting around for? Keep following the signs!
You and the ghouls race through the crooked, winding halls of Monster High, chasing flickering lights and toppling bookshelves... finding more and more couples breaking up...
Until finally you push through a set of towering stone doors and find yourselves outside!
MC: Whoa!
The Monster High Halloween Festival stretches out before you, a sprawling fair of rides, games, and dance floors packed with thousands of celebrating monsters!
MC: Okay, you guys definitely win 'Best Halloween Party Ever.'
Draculaura: Well, we've had a few thousand years of practice!
Frankie: Ghouls! Look!
You follow Frankie's gaze... and spot a forlorn, barely visible ghost of a mummy, floating like a green cloud above the festival!
Frankie: We found Cyrus! Come on, we have to show him Clara's diary!
At the Halloween Festival outside Monster High, you and the ghouls squeeze through the massive crowd of monsters of all shapes and sizes, chasing after Cyrus's wandering spirit.
Frankie: Hurry, ghouls! We have to tell him how Clara really felt!
Draculaura: Oh, he's going to be so happy!
As Cyrus meanders overhead, couples that had been enjoying games together suddenly start bickering, causing popcorn machines to burst in a cloud of kernels and butter!
Finally, you catch up to Cyrus! Even from the ground, you can see the anguish of heartbreak etched on his ghostly face.
Draculaura: Cyrus! Cyrus, down here!
Cleo: Um, hello? We tried talking to him when he first showed up, remember? He definitely can't hear us.
MC: But maybe he can get the news from Clara herself. Let's show him the diary!
You grab the diary out of your bag and open it--
Whoosh! A burst of light explodes from the diary, and a ghostly blue apparition of a beautiful young girl rises out of the pages!
Clawdeen: Oh my ghoul, it's Clara!
The spirits of Clara and Cyrus swirl around above you like a hurricane of blue and green, while monster students at the festival look up in amazement.
Draculaura: It's happening! It's finally happening!
Clawdeen: Um, what's happening? They're just... floating there!
Clara and Cyrus seem to be mouthing things to each other, but no sound comes out. Finally, they both turn to look down at you, their eyes pleading for help.
Cleo: They... they can't talk!
MC: Then we have to give them a voice... but how?
Frankie: There is one way... but it might sound a little scary.
MC: It's Halloween, Frankie. I think we can deal with scary.
Frankie: If we had some volunteers, the spirits could come down and speak with their voices.
Clawdeen: Would that really work?
Frankie: It just might. MC, do you have any friends who look anything like Clara and Cyrus?
Two of your friends from school step forward.
Classmate 3: Classmate 2 and I volunteer!
MC: Are you sure about this?
Classmate 2: Yeah, Classmate 3, are we sure about this?
Classmate 3: Absolutely. Let's do it!
Frankie: Okay, you two, stand directly under the spirits... now close your eyes...
A hush falls over the festival as Classmate 2 and Classmate 3 stand in the middle of a large circle of both monsters and normies...
And slowly the blue and green wisps of the ghosts drain down toward them, dissolving into their bodies!
MC: Looks like it's working!
The ghosts disappear into your friends. For a moment, Classmate 2 and Classmate 3 stand there, facing each other, their eyes still closed...
But then... their eyes flutter open, falling on each other.
Classmate 3: ...Cyrus?
Classmate 2: Clara? Is it really you?
In the middle of Monster High's Halloween Festival, monsters and normies alike watch with bated breath as Classmate 2 and Classmate 3 step cautiously toward each other.
Frankie: It worked, MC! Your friends are carrying the spirits of Clara and Cyrus!
MC: Let's hope this heals the heartbreak curse!
Classmate 2 takes Classmate 3's hands in his.
Classmate 2: Clara... it's you, after all this time... I'd always hoped--
Classmate 2 bites his tongue and turns away.
Classmate 2: I'm sorry. You said you never wanted to see me again.
Classmate 3: No, Cyrus. I'm sorry. If I could take it back, I would. Because the truth is...
Classmate 3: I only said that to protect you from my father... from all the people who didn't want to see us together.
Classmate 3: I knew you would've done anything to be with me, and I... I just couldn't be the reason you were in danger. So I said what I had to say to protect you.
Classmate 2: So you mean...
Classmate 3: Yes, Cyrus. I did love you. I never stopped loving you. Not a day went by where I didn't think of you and hope you were well.
Draculaura: Sniff... it's so romantic! Did anyone bring any tissues?
Cleo: Just stay away from my bandages, okay?
Classmate 2: You know, Clara, what you said hurt me deeply. I moved on, and I lived a long and fruitful life... but I thought about you every day as well.
Classmate 2: And knowing now that you always loved me... it finally brings me peace. You were, and always will be, the love of my life.
Classmate 2 and Classmate 3 hold hands and turn to you and the ghouls.
Classmate 3: Thank you, my friends. Thank you for reuniting me with my long-lost love.
Classmate 2: I don't know how we could ever repay you. And I'm terribly sorry that my own heartbreak caused so much trouble for your relationships.
MC: We're just happy to help!
Clawdeen: See you around, lovebirds!
At that, Classmate 2 and Classmate 3 look deeply into each other's eyes and kiss...
The crowd gasps as another flash of light blinds you, and the blue and green spirits of Clara and Cyrus fly up and vanish into the night sky!
Cleo: Did we do it? Is it over?
Frankie: I... I think so!
You realize that Classmate 2 and Classmate 3 are still locked in a kiss!
MC: Hey, guys... they're gone. You're not possessed anymore.
Classmate 2 and Classmate 3 open their eyes and instantly pull away from each other, blushing!
Classmate 2: Ahem, um, cough, uh...
Classmate 3: Um... good work, team?
Classmate 2: Yeah. Totally. Solid work.
Classmate 2 and Classmate 3 awkwardly high-five.
All around you, couples that had been fighting suddenly stop, staring at each other with confusion... and then hug each other!
Frankie: Seems like the heartbreak curse has been lifted. Look!
Frankie points out Cleo and her boyfriend Deuce walking around hand-in-hand.
Cleo: Oh, Deuce, I missed you too. Well, most things about you.
Just then, Draculaura skips up to you, beaming!
Draculaura: You'll never believe what just happened!
MC: Your boyfriend Clawd apologized for breaking up with you, said he didn't know what had come over him, and begged for you back?
Draculaura: How did you know?!
MC: I had a hunch.
Draculaura: Oh, my friend Henry has one of those!
Frankie: Job well done, ghouls!
Clawdeen: I say we've earned ourselves a break! Let's enjoy Halloween!
Under the brilliant light of the full moon, your friends from both your school and Monster High mingle and party together.
Your normie friends rave about Clawdeen's look...
Clawdeen: You're right, that was me and MC at the Cici Beckham show. Oh, you want some fashion tips? I always say it's all about highlighting what makes you unique...
Nearby, Autumn finishes carving a pumpkin and turns it to show Draculaura...
Draculaura: Oh my ghoul, that jack-o'-lantern looks just like me! That's so good! Can I do one for you?
Autumn: I'd be honored. Here, I'll show you how...
Meanwhile, Cleo introduces students from your school and Monster High to each other...
Cleo: And you're all going to play nice. I can't have you not getting along. What would that say about me as your queen?
...and Frankie joins your classmates in a game of horseshoes, hooking them on a minotaur student's horns!
As she throws, her hand pops off, sailing with the horseshoe... Clang! It catches on the horn!
Frankie: Oh! Er--
Frankie: Bullseye!
Frankie: No, not literally, Manny.
MC: Now this is a Halloween party.
The Halloween Festival runs all night long, and soon the moon is setting. You watch it with Cleo, Clawdeen, Frankie, and Draculaura...
MC: We did it, ghouls. We reunited long-lost loves...
Frankie: We saved romance at our schools...
Draculaura: We made tons of new friends...
Clawdeen: And we looked fierce doing it!
MC: Does this mean you guys have to go back to Monster High?
Cleo: And leave your school behind? Of course not! Your classmates need me! I could never do that to them.
Frankie: I don't know about that, but Cleo's right about one thing. I plan on taking classes at both schools.
Draculaura: Me too!
Clawdeen: After all, I think we still have a lot to learn from each other.
MC: Couldn't have said it better myself.
As the last of the full moon sinks beneath the horizon, you and your new monster friends squeeze each other in a big group hug.
Draculaura: Happy Halloween, beast friends!
MC: Happy Halloween, everyone!
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