MU With a ZING!

Chapter 05 - Oh no, he's my WHAT and Whoa, What a Rush!

The day finally came to an end with all their classes over for now, while students headed off to enjoy the free time they had before the next day. Most of the majority were out lounging on the campus grounds, enjoying what little sunlight they had left before nightfall and then the real fun could come barreling in.

"So, I did some research on a few of the sororities here, and from what everyone has told me so far is that Eta Eerie Chi - or as it's called HEX - is suppose to be the best house on campus, right next to ROR, but it's like only the top elite get in, and then there's the fact that the presidents are usually the ones that are or were Scream Queens, so it's like they're royalty there."

Leda was telling all this to Marian on their way back to their dorms after they dropped the boys on their floor and headed for theirs. The vampire had noticed the odd buzz around the ground, hearing a few students talking out loud about this RUSH thing happening, reminding everyone about where it was located for freshmen to find it at and what time it all started. Marian went to ask Leda who immediately went to explain it in great details about the whole "pledge but really more like a party scene" that happened during the first semester and that it was located where all the frat-sorority houses were in one spot so it was easy to find your way around. She obviously had been doing her homework on them, given how she knew almost everything there was to know on the sororities/frats of Monster University.

But Leda was far from finished as she explain how while the ROR and HEX were the top dogs on the campus, they had different ways of letting anyone in. The ROR, while consistent of rich blue-blood high collar monsters, also wanted elite Scarers, the best of the best, to prove they were better than everyone else, while HEX would only allow those in after they performed certain "tasks" only if they managed to get all of them done before they were "in", no matter how degrading or humiliating they were. Then Leda did more digging to find that each member, mostly the head, were the likable candidates for the Scream King and Queen which made them even more notable and considered almost god-like in everyone's eyes especially when they got the crown.

Marian thought how she described both houses and couldn't help commenting, "Wow, the way you put it, it's like they are both vain and egotistical, and only take pleasure in seeing others who are beneath them make fools of themselves. That and the fact no one else stands to gain it if those are the only ones being selected among the hundred here. I think it's a bit unfair. I feel that it leaves everyone at a disadvantage if no one else even bothers to give it theirs instead of just handing it to those two."

The way Marian saw it, the crown was just a shoddy representation of how they used the crowd to make themselves look more superior than the rest, not really deserving the fame or privilege from the way they put others down to feel good over their own.

Leda had to agree with that statement. "True, plus I don't think I could stand being in that particular house. Like I said, I heard they do lots of hazing and that it's always a ten percent you get in."

Marian raised a brow and wonder why no one on campus had put a stop to it. As if reading her mind, Leda explained, "Because HEX has had a long standing history than the other sororities here and can pretty much get away with anything they want - well, except murder, of course, so there's that. I heard the current president's grandmother is one of those head honchos in the industry and makes a plentiful donation to the school, like a lot, to keep it up and running. Yet, I think the Dean has had time and again try to see that house remember that they're not allowed to do anything that could bring harm to the students and the school as a whole, yet don't know if all those rumors are true or not."

Leda was unsure, and her snakes also like her but made themselves look like question marks as they tried to guess the answer before she shook her head, making her serpentine tendrils disappear back into her hair again. "But anyways, like I said, I'm thinking I'll either try and go for the Slugma Slugma Kappa or Chi Phi Argma,; those two seem less intense, and if I'm brutally honest, I don't think I could pull off the whole Goth look at Eta Hiss Hiss. You maybe, but me not so much."