Back to the Otherside

Chapter 1: Where all the trouble started

The starting scene show as if was a large film projection, a fury snarling at three young monsters and three girls it stops as a purple red like monster with bunny ears steps forward.

He speaks while pointing at the picture, "That's me and my friends. How did we get into this mess? It's actually a very interesting story."

"Ickis!" A voice spoke, out came a black and white, upside-down candy cane monstress with eye stalks and red lips. "You should warn people this story involving the incident has many scenes that are considered rated R with violence and some NSFW. And this time tell the story right."

Ickis glared before retorting, "Oh you're one to talk, you embellished too when we explained about our scare when the viewfinder broke."

He turns back to the readers and speaks again.

"I've been asked to tell you that the following story involving the incident with our friends, has its scary moments in context, with stuff that might fuel nightmares. You see, there are some cowards out there, skeptics types mostly, who might be offended. If you are one of them, I advise you to click away from the --- what you call it -- webpage now."

Ickis looks about, then clears his throat and mentions, "It was like this another day another dull day in school, until something was brought up."

"And one more thing better make things go all squiggly if we're making a flashback". The scene changes as it rewinds to the events prior to the scene to how all the trouble started.

According to Ickis's narration at the monster academy, the students were showing their usual scares on the viewfinder, a chair like projection device used to replay the scaring activities of students. The Gromble had been looking back in retrospect on the latest scares of the class and rebukes everyone for their inept scaring.

One student was demonstrating their scare, The Gromble was about to berate their imminent scare until he spots something on the screen.

"Oh, that's your idea of a scare, can you get any-" The Gromble rambles before gasping.

"Stop, stop the picture," he instructed. The running picture stopped as told.

The students exchanged whispers and looks, something caused their teacher to look alarmed.

"Back it up rewind"

The memory shown is rewinded back to it and then asked to magnify the picture which the student did with much effort the color of his irises were shown.

The picture showed a human within their home but with a black shadow following the human.

"Stop freeze" instructed the Gromble, before looking up at the screen. Everyone was curious as they looked at the image themselves.

But it became more alarming when the black shadow looked directly at them, showing its red eyes, despite the image being frozen!

This makes everyone jump, right before the video shut off.

The Gromble, now feeling grim and feeling "adult fear", talks with his students in a serious tone. "This is serious, then I thought. You all deserve an explanation,"

Like in some schools including human ones and others, the Gromble believes discipline is the only to prepare their students "out there" that is the world beyond their school and dump.

This wasn't the first the Gromble spoke to us in a serious manner which usually involves something very bad, there was an incident concerning The Pool of Elders descending due to new humans arriving that haven't been scared, this was vital for the monsters to scare human because if the pool goes down any further, monsters will start to disappear.