New Ghoulette

Chapter 1

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It was a rainy, cool day, about the middle of fall. Papa Emeritus IV was looking through a summoning book.

"I can't decide who to pick. ." Papa said, looking up from the book. Sister Imperator walked over to where Papa was sitting and looked through the book. Then she pointed to a photo on the page. "What about her?" Sister questioned. He looked at the photo and read the page. A smile appeared on his face. "Sister, get the summoning things!" Papa said, excitedly jumping out of his chair. Sister Imperator nodded and went to fetch the items.

About an hour or two later, there was a makeshift pentagram drawn on the floor of Papa's office. Black candles surrounded the pentagram, wax dripping on the wooden floor. Papa and Sister began to chant the summoning spell (you get to use your imagination on what they are saying). Once they finished the chant, the candles went out. The whole room was dark, with the exception of the occasional lightning outside the window.

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It was warm in the Pit, it felt like summer. I walked around the town, greeting the other ghouls and ghoulettes. The other ghouls would give me weird looks since I wasn't a fully-fledged ghoulette. I still had a human look to me, but I still had small horns and a tail. I got to my apartment, locking the door behind me. I had decided to take a short nap.

I'd let out a yawn, slowly walking to my room. I paused for a moment, my head felt like it was spinning. I would crouch down to the floor, clutching my head. A few moments later, I passed out.

I slowly gained consciousness and sat up, my head still slightly spinning. I opened my eyes and looked at my surroundings, I saw two people standing in front of me. The man had a friendly smile on his face, but the lady seemed like she had a scowl on her face.

"Hello, dear ghoulette! I am Papa Emeritus IV, or just Papa for short and this is Sister Imperator." The man called Papa cheerfully said. The man added, "Welcome to the ministry! Ah- I almost forgot. You have been summoned here to help out around the ministry, and there are eight other ghouls that you will be living with."

I looked at the man, processing all of the information he just told me. Papa extended his hand to me, helping me up. I held onto his arm, still a little dizzy, as he brought me over to a chair. The woman that he called "Sister Imperator" walked over to me and handed me some new clothes. "Come with me, I'll show you to the bathroom." She said, I got up, not too dizzy anymore, and followed her.

Sister Imperator helped me change into the new clothes. The clothes were all black with some gold accents. I looked in the mirror, admiring the clothes. Sister had something in her hands, it was a mask. It looked like a gas mask, but with holes for my horns, and the mouth was cut out. She placed it on my head, adjusting the mask. Sister took a step back, making sure everything was fitting properly. She took my hand and brought me out of the bathroom. Papa turned to look at me, a smile was on his face. He clapped his hands and said, "You look wonderful! Now, shall we head to the Ghoul's Wing?" I nodded.

I followed Papa down the long hallways, almost losing him a few times. After the long maze-like hallways, Papa said we had finally arrived. He opened the door. The sound of laughing and chatting filled my ears. When we entered the room, the lights were dimmed and the laughing and chatting stopped. Papa cleared his throat, "My dear ghouls and ghoulettes, this is - uh- I don't remember your name-" He said with a nervous chuckle. "Sleepy. ." I would whisper into his ear. He nodded, then he said, "This is Sleepy! I hope you all will treat her with respect and kindness. Ah- and for her task, she will be helping out around the ministry." A ghoul walked up to us, his tail swaying, he was a bit taller than Papa and had a grin on his face. "Hey, I'm Swiss. Nice to meet you." The ghoul said as he looked down at me, extending his hand for me to shake. I nodded in agreement then took his hand, shaking it.

After meeting the other ghouls and ghoulettes, I remembered something about there being eight ghouls, but I only met seven. I was curious about who this eighth ghoul was, but I didn't question it. The ghouls started up their laughing and chatting again, before putting a movie on the TV. Swiss would occasionally interrupt the movie, saying something along the lines of, "This movie is so shitty! Who even chose it?"  Mountain responded with, "Swiss, you chose the movie." Which caused the other ghouls and I to laugh.

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A/N: Thanks for reading!! This is my first story so I don't expect many people to read it- but if you are reading this, please send me some feedback on how I can improve my shitty writing skills and if you have any suggestions on what should happen next! Now time for me to enter my dungeon and struggle to multitask writing chapter 2 and homework

Have a wonderful day/night

-Sleepy <3