Chapter Five: Lessons About Monster Life

"Why do you want me to study about monsters, Mrs. Hey?" I asked her. Even though the lights were still off, she began to glow. She only smiled, and started floating towards me. "I'm not interested in learning anything you teach about monsters destroying humankind," I said, frustratingly. "You can't scare us students this way!" I shouted, almost stumbling at a desk behind me.

Mrs. Hey growled, and she narrowed her bug eyes at me. "The more we teach humans to respect our monster community, the better off they'll be with nothing to worry about in this troubled town," she explained, reaching her pale, claws out as if to struggle with me. 

Suddenly, I turned and spotted a boy's backpack hanging behind me on the wall. There was what looked like a stake, poking out of it. I looked at it suspiciously. Turning back to Mrs. Hey, I smiled, "You know what? As much as I do appreciate monsters, I'll do what I can to protect them," I said, honestly.

Mrs. Hey stopped floating, and looked hopeful. Her glow softened to normal and she turned back on the lights. "I never had a student who felt important enough to understand us," she said, with sad eyes. "You don't know how special you think we are. We don't mean to be unattractive monsters. But really we're misunderstood and need to control our monster abilities. Will you go beyond the extra mile to help control our powerful need to feed on young students? It's not our fault, you see. But if we can find some other food source, it would save so many innocent children," Mrs. Hey explained, reasoning with me.

"We've traveled all the way from our place in outer space to find the perfect subjects to make us all powerful. But our planet was destroyed by a vampire king who overtook my throne in my palace. King Thing wants every subject here in this school to be his spawn of evil. Pretty soon, all the planets will be overruled by monster kids to end humanity. King Thing wants me to be his queen. He thinks we'll make good parents for our children of darkness. If you don't stop him, you'll be on the next menu for our main course diner party at the Halloween celebration," Mrs. Hey explained, and I stared confused and hopeless. 

"Cannibals? You eat children while they're alive?" I gulped, nervously. She nodded and looked somewhat guilty about it. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I thought I was always hungry. But it was too much for me to handle. I started to walk backwards to grab the stake out of the boy's backpack. She noticed I was stalling her. I almost tripped over my loose shoelace, and fell down, knocking my head on the desk to my right…

Mrs. Hey gasped and looked at my unconscious body, suspiciously. Looking for a special opportunity, she walked me. Unexpectedly, the classroom door swung, opened, and the principal entered. Mr. Shine, looked shocked to see me unconscious. Even worse feelings about Mrs. Hey who started glowing again and were hovering over me, while I was out cold.

The teacher snarled and snapped her long snout at Mr. Shine. The young-looking principal wore glasses and a suite, took out a stake in his jacket pocket, and threatened her with it. Mrs. Hey didn't look surprised. She snapped her pointy fanged snout and morphed into a vampire bat. The teacher monster flew out the open classroom door and disappeared down the hall, screeching the entire way.

Mr. Shine shrugged, like it wasn't anything unusual. He walked over to the door and closed it carefully. He turned to look at me, confusingly. Taking the wooden vampire stake, he raised it in his hands like he wanted to dust me with it.

The principal slowly bends down on his knees to check on my neck for bite marks. He jumped when I slowly started stirring awake. I started to open my eyelids slowly. When I began sitting up, Mr. Shine roughly pinned me back down on the floor. Taking the stake, Mr. Shine jumped on top of me. Threatening the stake at my heart.

Fully awake, I tried to defend myself by punching my right fist at his face, knocking the stake out of his reach. I gasped when I realized I made his nose bleed. Taking a white tissue from off the teacher's desk, Mr. Shine plugged his blood-stained nostrils. "Dude, was that necessary?! I only wanted to check on you. You earn a detention slip, for assaulting me," Mr. Shine said, looking for the wooden stake he dropped.

I apologized softly, and handed Mr. Shine his wooden stake. He snatched it out of my grasp and took a seat at a student's empty desk. "I don't belong in this school, Mr. Shine. I want to drop out before it gets worse," I explained, truthfully.

Mr. Shine wasn't paying attention to me. He held his hand back, letting the blood from his nose clear up. "Mr. Shine?" I said, my voice squeaked. Turning to look at me disappointingly, I knew I made a bad decision.

"It's not going to happen, kid," Mr. Shine said. "All children must require an education to succeed in their life. If you drop out, it's going to suck. Life will get harder and you won't understand how to control your emotions. Have you thought about getting a tutor to help you with your homework assignments? I'll find one to help you finish school," he said, smiling. Mr. Shine dabbed blood off his chin, to keep from ruining his school business uniform.

I looked at him like he wasn't interested in my learning disability. "Mr. Shine, this school is not a safe place to earn an education," I said, looking around the spooky classroom. "All the teachers want to take our responsibility to make us study about monsters who want to make a meal out of us," I complained, pouting. 

Mr. Shine looked upset. Standing on his feet, Mr. Shine smiled, and gave me a hug. I didn't understand. I hugged him back. The principal started sobbing. "It's my fault, Monty. I invited a teacher to come visit this school, because she was different and interesting. She made me promise not to tell her secret, if she made all the faculty members into teacher monsters. Because this is the very same school where she attacked the kids during Mrs. Hey's graduation twenty years ago. She didn't want the kids to finish graduation. So, Mrs. Hey made a secret formula in the science lab that allowed her to become a vampire queen. She drained the life force out of every fourteen students on graduation day. Before she could get away with ending the ceremony, I went on stage and put a wooden stake through heart," Mr. Shine continued. "The kids returned to normal health. While Mrs. Hey flew away into the night as a vampire bat, I thought we'd never see her anymore. So, we let the kids graduate in 2003. Now, she's back twenty years later. To hunt down the students to ruin their reputation. Because she has every desire to make us all undead vampires to gain ultimate power in the underworld." said Mr. Shine, confused, finally.

I didn't know how to respond, or how to react. I was worried about becoming the next victim. The classroom lights flickered some more, and the door swung open. Letting in more fog from the hallways. "You got that right, kid," Mrs. Hey said, tuned as if reading my thoughts. Drinking from a bloody energy drink can, Mr. Shine and I looked at each other nervously. I fainted again.