Stonewall Prep

* 2020
* 6775

**Stonewall Prep** was a prestigious academy in River City from the World of the Exceed for magic students that academically rivaled River High. However, it was later destroyed when the Quantriux invasion occurred.

## Basic Info

Stonewall Prep was a prestigious prep school that focused on the magical abilities of its students. It was built before the introduction of many races, making it one of the oldest buildings in the human nation. It is very difficult to get into and requires extraordinary intelligence as well as superior magical abilities, and contains a competitive nature.

## Affiliates

* Frostnova Belov (student)
* Nicholas S. Claire † (student)
* Nightshade † (student)
* Fangs Fogarty (student)
* Adolf M. Luna † (student)
* Rinne Berlinetta † (student)
* Rosmanta Issei † (student)
* Ch'en M. Luna † (student)
* Tashkent † (student)
* Fubuki Shirakami † (student)
* Kawakaze Shirakami † (student)
* Gabe Miranda † (student)
* Ptilopsis Moth (student)
* Rupert RuPont † (deputy headmaster)
* Francis Diping † (creative writing teacher)
* Dr. Gause † (research teacher)
* Mr. Payne † (human geography teacher)
* Mrs. Burble † (counselor)

* Frostnova Belov (vice president)
* Nicholas S. Claire † (secretary)
* Nightshade † (recording secretary)
* Fangs Fogarty (reporter)
* Adolf M. Luna † (treasurer)

## Former Secret Societies

* Ghost Casters
* Bone & Feather

## Competitions

Competitions at Stonewall Prep are used to settle disputes between any students.

**Weston-Wallis Competition**

The Weston-Wallis Competition is used to settle a disagreement between two students at Stonewall Prep. This is a basic competition that is usually used for a disagreement between males and is mainly a battle for honor. It consists of three rounds, the first being a fencing match, the second being a magic duel, and the third being a battle of intellect, usually using a chess match if the competition comes to a tie.

**Forsythe-Pendleton Competition**

The Forsythe-Pendleton Competition is used to settle a much more major disagreement between two students, usually males. This competition is for much more serious things such as violence offenses. This competition consists of only two rounds, one of them being a fist fight, and the second being a debate. If it comes to a tie, then a group of eleven students chosen at random will vote for the winner. The loser usually ends up being expelled.

**Donna's Competition**

The Donna's Competition is used to settle disagreements between two students, usually those being females. The competition consists of five rounds, all of them consisting of various magical duels that are chosen by the host. This is usually a battle for honor, and in some cases, money.

**Sweett Competition**

The Sweett Competition is used to settle major disputes between two students, usually females. This competition entirely consists of intellect using one round, a chess match. The loser always ends up being expelled.

**Joan-Jonathan Competition**

The Joan-Jonathan Competition is used to settle major disputes between two students, usually one being male and one being female. The competition consists of five rounds, one of them being a fencing match, the second being a fighting match, the third being a magic duel, and the fourth being a chess match. If the challenge comes to a tie the challenge is a final serious magic duel, where the students may get hurt or seriously injured. The loser either dies from injury or is expelled forever, and if the ex-student is found on the grounds of Stonewall again the staff has the right to shoot them.

## History

### The Stonewall Five

Stonewall Prep was created in 1856 by French architect Francis Stonewall. The school was notable for being a prestigious academy for years, as well as the most exclusive private school in the entire world at the time. It later dropped from popularity in the 1900s, but remained popular in the state that it resided in.

In 1973, the school had many happenings with its students with the introduction of the secret society, Quill & Skull. The most notable students in the society were Forsythe Pendleton Jones I, Francis DuPont, and Jane Dallas Brown in the school's writing seminar, as magic had not yet been discovered. Forsythe had written a story called the Baxter Brothers for the class, and DuPont bought it for $5,000 dollars, as well as buying the character Tracy True from Jane Dallas Brown. DuPont didn't want anyone to know what he had done, so he killed off the members of the Quill & Skull some thirty or forty years later, the only one surviving being Forsythe, as he hid.

Over the years, DuPont chose ghost writers to continue the Baxter Brothers franchise from Stonewall Prep's Quill & Skull, and their challenge every time would be to commit the perfect murder to win the book contract. DuPont once chose Rupert Chipping as the ghost writer around the early 2000s, and Chipping later went off to become a teacher at Stonewall Prep in his later years.

Around 2020, a new group of students arrived. Bret Weston Wallis, Donna Sweett, Jonathan, Joan Berkeley, and Forsythe Pendleton Jones III. DuPont wanted to catch Forsythe, so he decided to make his grandson the sacrificial lamb, making him a member of the Quill & Skull along with the others.

Along the way Forsythe started theorizing that DuPont had stolen the Baxter Brothers from his grandfather, and confided in Chipping. Chipping agreed to help, but the next day, he jumped out of a window, most likely to being psychologically pushed by DuPont to do so.

Later, Forsythe ended up winning the Baxter Brothers book contract by DuPont's rule, and it became the challenge of Bret, Donna, Joan, and Jonathan to murder Forsythe. They plotted with DuPont to antagonize Forsythe by accusing him of plagiarism, and Jonathan claimed that he had written the short story that had gotten Forsythe into Yale, a prestigious college at the time. Forsythe accepted the charges against him due to blackmail and was expelled from Stonewall, later being invited to a Stonewall Party by Bret as "one last hurrah".

Forsythe attended the party with his girlfriend Betty Cooper and two other friends. At the party, Bret lured Forsythe into a clearing in the woods where Jonathan and Joan later followed as Donna lured Betty into the woods. Forsythe was hit in the head by a rock from Joan while Jonathan checked the pulse, and at the same time Donna blew a powder known as Devil's Breath into Betty's face to make her in a subconscious state. Donna then lured her into the clearing and had her stand over Forsythe's body, as well as placing the bloody rock into her hand.

However, their ultimate plan failed, as Forsythe didn't really die. He wasn't hit hard enough, but let the town believe that he was dead as he hid in a secret underground bunker trying to figure out how and why the Stonewall students tried to murder him.

He found out the truth that it was the Baxter Brothers' book contract challenge to commit the perfect murder, and confronted all the students. His half-brother and FBI agent, Charles Smith, was to arrest the almost-murderers, but DuPont was able to get away by jumping out of a window and committing suicide in the same spot where Chipping had died. But the rest were evenly punished. Bret was imprisoned as the mastermind, and Donna transferred schools. However, at Donna's new school, she would have the book contract for the Baxter Brothers' spin-off series, Tracy True. It was later found out by Betty that Donna was the granddaughter of Jane Dallas Brown, and wanted revenge from DuPont for killing her grandmother.

Joan decided to flee the country, as her father was an ambassador and she could avoid jailtime if she ran away. Jonathan's whereabouts are unknown since he went missing. Donna claimed that he had food poisoning, but it is believed that Jonathan was murdered, as Joan revealed that it was Jonathan's job to check Forsythe's pulse after he was hit.

And then, with Stonewall Prep's tainted reputation, it became less prestigious and fell in popularity tremendously, even having to deactivate its secret society. The story presented is known as the Stonewall Five, the five representing Bret, Donna, Joan, Jonathan, and Forsythe. It is unknown whether the story is true or not, and is known as only a legend among most Stonewall students. However, just a few weeks after transferring here, one of the students, Mikasa Ackermann, found a suspicious online article called "Stonewall Prep Scandal". It was on an abandoned school newspaper website called "Blue & Gold", and the story was suspiciously similar to the story of the Stonewall Five, including the attempted murder of a student known as Jughead, whose real name was Forsythe Pendleton Jones III.

## Trivia

* Although Stonewall had issued school uniforms, none of the students except the Stonewall Stormers wore them.
* Stonewall didn't have an official competitive magic team since the football team had been banned centuries ago for unnecessary violence.
* The Stonewall Five story was used to scare trespassing children away from school grounds.