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--Cannibal-- by Kesha

Monster High

I'm shipping Toralei Stripe and Jackson Jekyll/Holt Hyde and it takes place like 20 years in the future.

Toralei Stripe - werecat. She graduated from Monster High with an okay GPA. She went into professional soccer, but she got a deal to make a cameo on a TV show and leveraged that to get into acting.

Jackson Jekyll/Holt Hyde - human/Hyde/fire elemental. I'm gonna steal the "heat" thing from the books. He turns from Jackson into Holt when his body temperature rises more than 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit. Since Holt makes fewer appearances, he is able to hold a steady career as a mad scientist.

Candy Barin - werebear. OC. She's an actor working on the same project as Torelei and is the current victim of Toralei's--not manipulation because she's past that now--passive aggressive remarks and general untactfulness.

Fangalicious - werewolf. OC. Inspired by Queen Latifah.

Mancy - minotaur. OC.

Candy Barin opened the door hoping anyone would be on the other side of it except for the one person she had gone out of her way to exclude from the party. She was thirty today. The guest list included many of her close friends from high school and college, several people she had worked with in the past, and almost everyone in the cast of her latest role with the exception of one person.

The smile on Candy's face melted like the chocolaty color of her fur at the sight of the first guest to arrive.

"Hello, Candy," Toralei said with a sly smile. "Happy birthday."

Candy swallowed her resentment for the werecat and forced a smile. "Thank you," she said, holding out her arms for a hug.

Toralei obliged, returning the hug.

Candy desperately hadn't wanted Toralei at her birthday party. She was tall, slim, and pretty, and everything Candy was not. She was short and curvy, and she didn't feel pretty. She had never been very confident in herself, her looks, or her acting skills, and Toralei was confident, pretty, and full of natural talent. On top of it all, Toralei was also a bitch.

Toralei pulled away first and squeezed her shoulder for a moment, sinking her claws into her shoulder, and purred, "Thank you for having us!"

"Us?" she squeaked. Toralei's silver sparkly evening gown was so attention-catching that she hadn't even noticed the man standing beside her.

"This is my husband," Toralei drawled slowly, obviously aware of Candy's obliviousness. She rested a hand gently on his shoulder and flashed one of her gorgeous smiles at him. His lips pulled into the feintest trace of a smile.

"A-a human," Candy stammered, thinking that Toralei was surely pulling a prank on her.

He furrowed his eyebrows and Toralei responded for him in a sweet voice, "My husband, Jackson, is a mad scientist."

He held out his hand, offering a handshake, and meekly said, "It's nice to meet you."

Candy hesitated, looking at his hand, and when she felt she missed her chance to take it without making the moment awkward, she simply stepped back to let them in.

Toralei rolled her green eyes and led her husband into the living room. Candy watched apprehensively as Toralei pranced right into her house and began looking around with a look of disgust on her face. Her husband didn't look particularly impressed, if he even was her husband. Knowing Toralei, asking Candy to call some nobody human her esteemed husband just to watch her kiss his ass didn't seem like something Toralei seemed to be above doing, especially if everyone else was already in the know.