01x26 - The Monster Way

[bunniefuu]

- ♪ Monster, Monster High ♪

♪ We might give you a fright ♪

- ♪ Unique as can be ♪

♪ And friends forever,literally ♪

♪ We might walk, might swim,might fly ♪

♪ Either way we gonnarun the night ♪

- ♪ We're Monster,Monster High ♪

♪ Monster, Monster High ♪

♪ We might give you a fright ♪

♪ Monster, Monster High ♪

♪ Friendship never dies ♪

♪ We're Monster High ♪

♪ Monster High-igh-igh-igh ♪

[whispered]We're Monster High.

[mysterious music]

♪ ♪

[wolves howling]

♪ ♪

- Now, for the last act

of our Monster Enemies Through History class this semester,

please pass your textbooks to the front of the room.

[laughter]

Oh, it's been a joy to teach you all

about how a spirit of non-forgiveness

has shaped the monster world.

From the centuries-old feud between Dracula and Van Helsing

to the ongoing animosity

between Sea Monsters and Fresh Water Monsters,

every grudge shows us the power of the Monster Way.

A's for everyone!

- What? - No way.

- Yes! - Thank Ra.

- I am kidding. [laughs]

Oh!

[chuckles] A joke too far.

Tonight's Blood Moon Eclipse has me losing my head.

But giving out grades you didn't earn

would be against the rules.

And I must uphold the rules.

So I just want to say what a pleasure it's been

to teach such devoted,

disciplined--

[wind blowing]

Departed young monsters.

♪ ♪

- School's out.

[excited indistinct chatter]

[all cheering] - The semester's over!

- Oh, tonight we bring Clawdeen's mom back

and I go to my first formal dance?

[electricity crackling] Zaparonis!

I can't believe it's already here!

- I can.

The start of this semester

feels like an afterlife time ago.

Back then, I had a dorm to myself.

- We're going to bring back my mom, right?

Yes.

Everyone has their talismans, we've practiced,

we--whoa!

- Guess what poltergeist slayed their hauntonomics final?

Booyah! [laughs]

- First up, maniclaws, then--

Mama! - Oh, Toralei.

- You found the Students of the Lunar Cycle wall.

Aren't I impressive?

- Impressive would be you getting the moon claw,

since as Were-Ruler, that talisman should be mine.

Instead, you let that half-human keep it.

And she outperformed you

to be top Student of the Lunar Cycle.

- Just once. But remember?

I got it six cycles in a row last year.

- That's how humans work.

Give them a whisker, they take the whole kitty.

She's already changing this institution with her humanity.

- I don't care who or what her parents are.

We're friends.

- Her mother is my enemy,

and thus, my daughter is her enemy.

This is the wisdom of our kind, the true monster way.

Think about what kind of monster

you want to be, Toralei.

Now, I have business to attend to.

[phone ringing]- What's this?

- Hey, Squashies!Autumn Patch here.

Volume up!

You're about toget a sneak peek

of the spooky good time we'llhave at the Monster Ball!

[upbeat dance music]

- ♪ Catching us allon the upswing ♪

♪ Figuring outthis alive thing ♪

♪ Listen to me,we're scary but sweet ♪

♪ Being the changethat we wanna see ♪

♪ Wickedly darkand creepy fun ♪

♪ A ghoulish nightof celebration ♪

♪ Me and my friends,we here past the end ♪

♪ Living out loud ♪

♪ Let's do it again ♪

♪ So come alive and liveyour best monster life ♪

♪ Monster life ♪

♪ Monster life ♪

♪ Paws up in the airwith the claws out ♪

♪ If you got fangs,do your thing ♪

♪ Let it all out ♪

♪ I want to hear you howl ♪

♪ I want to hear you scream ♪

♪ If you lovethis monster life ♪

♪ And that is allyou want to be, yo ♪

♪ So come alive and liveyour best monster life ♪

♪ Monster life, yeah ♪

♪ Monster life, whoo ♪

♪ Come alive and liveyour best monster life ♪

♪ Monster life ♪

♪ Monster life ♪

♪ So come alive and liveyour best monster life ♪

- Mr. Mothmanson--

- Not another word needed!

According to my... [shakes jowls]

Impeccable foresight ability--

whoa!

The Monster Ball will now begin!

Have fun.

[upbeat dance music]

- [gasps] Look at those talismans.

[talismans resonating]

♪ ♪

- Oh!

Ew, got stuck in a little goo here.

- Oh, sorry.

- Lagoona, that dress is fin-tastic.

- Thank you, Gil. I'm excited to dance,

but first I must see to my duty as a talisman holder,

which will take five, ten minutes, tops.

- Lagoona, your presence is requested

and you are RSVP-ing a "yes." - Yeah.

Before we follow Clawdeen into the catacombs

to mess with a power with the potential to destroy us,

the school, and everything we love, we're gonna get a pic.

[robot motors whirring]

- Everybody say "Blood Moon Eclipse!"

all: Blood Moon Eclipse!

[shutter clicking]

♪ ♪

[phone ringing]

- Dad?

- So, that was Clawdeen and Clawd.

Oh, and here's the head of the dance committee, Cleo De Nile.

- You're live streaming?

- [laughing] Yep!

million monsters are watching.

- million?

[light upbeat music]

- Hello! Hi, hi, hello!

Did Autumn mention I am basically Monster Ball royalty?

[upbeat dance music]

♪ ♪

- Hi. I'm Twyla.

- Hi, I'm Autumn. You want an autograph?

- No.

Well, maybe yes, later.

But I wondered if you had any more of those headphones?

I left mine at home and it's quite loud.

- Yeah! I always have extras.

Can't hang out by speakers all night

without noise-canceling tech.

- Thank you! Now I can stay for the Ball.

Oh, dream-cheese puffs!

♪ ♪

[crow cawing]

- Clawdeen! Wait!

I was thinking I could offer my services for the Eclipse.

- Toralei, is this another scheme

to get Clawdeen's moon claw?

- Please, it doesn't even go with this outfit.

Any-meow, I could act as lookout,

in case anyone tried anything.

- Um, well, maybe.

- Seriously?

Clawdeen, did we risk fang and paw

to get Mom's journal just to ignore it?

- Clawd's right. Only the talisman holders can be there.

It's what my mom's journal says,

the way it's always been done.

Not even my dad and Clawd can come with us.

- Hmph. Doing things the way they've always been done?

Wow, Clawdeen, one semester here

and you're sounding like a full werewolf.

- Thanks, I guess.

Well, gotta go.

- I'm supposed to be here!

- Humans don't belong in the Monster World.

It's our biggest rule.

[suspenseful music]

- Dad?

- I brought cookies!

- We got ya!

- No humans at Monster High!

We've discussed this rule before!

- This is an exception to the rule.

- Oh, you're strong, just like your mom.

Look at you.

Guess my sweetie pups has grown up into a top dog.

- Hardly, but you know what they say.

You only get one chance to make a first impression

with the mom you haven't seen in ten years.

[wolves howling] - It's time.

[phone beeps]

- Draculaura, gather the council.

During the Blood Moon Eclipse,

the talismans guide the wellspring of power.

Encircle the portal with the talismans

and instruct the power to go there.

- You've read that part of your mom's journal

so many times, I have it memorized.

♪ ♪

- I don't know about the Founders,

but I know supernatural eye stuff,

and that means it's go time.

- Wow!

Lunar Eclipses are a lot more impressive

in the Monster World!

- Hey, no pickpocketing!

- Don't keep cookies in your pocket

and expect it to be a secret.

- So, Clawdeen calls when the portal is opened,

and we send this rodent back.

I'm sure everything's fine down there, right?

♪ ♪

all: Power of the wellspring, go to the portal!

Power of the wellspring, go to the portal!

Power of the wellspring, go to the portal!

- Ugh! Excuse me.

Pardon your shakiness, we have all six talismans!

- Uh, I thought Dr. Blunder's brain bit

said it would be stable with all the talismans.

- I told Clawdeen it would be unstable.

But humans never listen.

- Mrs. Stripe? - Toralei's mom?

- What's she doing here?

- Power of the wellspring, come to me!

[all gasp]

- What are you doing?

♪ ♪

- [exhales deeply]

Did you think I'd let you bring back Selena Wolf?

After all I did to get her stuck in Beheme?

- [gasps]

- It was the only way to stop her

from spreading her ideas through our community.

She was undermining the very values that make us Monsters!

- My mom never--

- Now, I have to take drastic measures

to save Monsters from this corruption.

- Clawdeen, the ritual!

- I even became the world's foremost talisman expert

so I could learn how to make my own.

And now that you've unleashed the wellspring,

I finally have the power I need to make it work!

I call it the All Monster Talisman,

and it will allow me to be the protector, defender,

ruler of All Monsters!

- Oh, stealing the power to become ruler of all monsters

must have been the disaster

that Dr. Blunder's brain bit was going on about.

- Hold her off. I don't have long to open the portal.

Power of the wellspring, go to the portal!

Power of the wellspring, go to the portal!

- Stay back, you villain!

- Yeti power sure is cool.

- [groans and strains]

- Frankie, team-up time!

- Zaps on.

- Golem forcefield!

[screaming]

- Frankie!

- No one messes with my boo crew!

[dramatic music]

- [screams] The banshee's wail!

- Mom, no! Please!

- [hisses] Toralei?

- Power of the wellspring, go to the portal!

- The portal--- Mom?

- You need the human talisman.It's at home with Apollo.

[all screaming]

- Yeti power!

- [gasps]

- A Franken-monster zap! [electricity crackling]

[all gasping]

And an onikuma throw!

Now, something I've always wanted to do!

Hades' teleportation!

[all shout and gasp]

- [gasps] The exits! We're trapped!

- Mom!

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- No! Mrs. Stripe stole all the power, shut the portal,

and trapped us here?

Ugh!

This is not how a mummy of my caliber

should be entombed.

- I'm sorry about my mom.

- You don't have to apologize, Toralei.

But I do. I'm sorry I didn't let you come with us.

If the "monster way" doesn't welcome everyone,

it's notmyway.

I should have accepted your help.

[thudding]

- [snarling]

- Here, Frankie.

- Oh, good ol' flesh and steel again!

- [grunting]

- I got this.

Power up and blast on!

- The talismans!

- Wellspring of power dude, go open the portal.

Please.

- No power and no way out.

- Wait, Mrs. Stripe blocked the exits

for monsters, not witches.

Boo crew, gather in.

[tense music]

[whooshing] [Clawd groans]

- Where's Mom?

- I couldn't get her, but I saw her

and she said there's a human talisman at our house.

- The talismans are for monster types.

No way humans are a type of monster.

Humans area type of monster...

type of monster...

[electricity crackling]

- [gasps] Clawdeen, alert! Breaking news!

[Clawdeen groans]

There's a human talisman

because a human was on the monster council

that founded Monster High!

That means humansarea type of monster!

[bones crunching]

- So us and humans, we're the same?

- Cleo, is now really the time to be checking your EekTok?

- [scoffs] How else would I know that

Mrs. Stripe is live streaming on Autumn Patch's EekTok?

She's at the ball and--

our ruler, Catarina Stripe--

[gasps]

- Sorry for the soaking,

but watching that video was bad!

- Vampires can do this thing called glamour.

It's like hypnotizing someone with your voice.

I think that's what she's doing with that All Monster talisman.

- She's hypnotizing our friends?

- And the ,, monsters

watching on EekTok.

- With the human talisman, we'll have enough control

over the power to get it out of Mrs. Stripe.

But we have to do it before the end of the Eclipse.

We have to get Frankie to our house to find the talisman.

- Hmm.

[suspenseful music]

[whooshing]

- Ah!

- Clawd, enough hanging around. We have a talisman to find.

- Hold the hot sauce.

Draculaura was the one doing witchcraft?

Isn't that against the rules?

- Uh, it is.

And I'd appreciate it

if you don't tell Headmistress Bloodgood.

- Ah!

Frankie, you going in?

- That's the human talisman!

[all straining]

[all yelp]

all: We will protect Monster High.

No one can come against our leader, Catarina Stripe.

We will protect--

[water splashing]

- Hide! - Guys, in my locker!

all: Catarina stripe...

- We're not all going to fit.

Oh, my Ra, it is bigger than my walk-in closet in here.

Who did your construction?

all: We will protect Monster High.

- Room for one more?

- Twyla? Wait, are you entranced?

Who is your leader?

- I didn't get hypnotized like them

because Autumn Patch gave me noise-canceling headphones.

- They're gone. Come on.

- Autumn gave you those? Can I see?

- Cleo, focus on the problem, not the celebrity accessories.

- For your information, I was thinking

that if we can get those headphones,

we can enact the rest of Clawdeen's plan

without getting all hypnotized by Toralei's mom.

- Now that you have all this covered,

I'm gonna go check on Dustin.

[soft upbeat music]

- It is an honor toascend from Were-Ruler

to ruler of all monsters!

I promise to preservethe monster way

and reverse the recent damageto Monster High--

admitting Yetisand half-humans,

allowing romances between enemies

like sea monsters and fresh water monsters,

even reports of witchcraft!

Disgraceful.

all: We will protect Monster High.

- Oh! - Clawd!

[thud]

- [groans] Oh, I hate teleporting.

- Just call me Frankie McFindy! The human talisman.

- Clawd, I need--

I need you to stay with Dad in case anything happens.

- You got it.

- Toralei, will you use this to help us?

- You want me to have the were-creature talisman

after how I used to treat you?

- Yeah, weren't you two like enemies before?

- Guess I like to change things.

- Thank you, Clawdeen.

For forgiving me, for believing in me.

- Aw, adorable.

- Attention! Mummy mission success.

Ready, boo crew?

[upbeat hip-hop music]

♪ ♪

- Anyone who dishonors our past,

breaks the rules, or goes against our way

will be thrown out of the monster community

by my bodyguard, former Headmistress Bloodgood.

- Incoming! [snarls]

- [yowls] How dare you soak the ruler?

- Oh, you really should not stand in the splash zone.

- [snarls]

[hisses]

♪ ♪

- Stop them, Bloodgood!

- [growls]

[Lagoona snarls]

- Unhand--unclaw me!

- You'll thank me for this when you're back to yourself.

♪ ♪

- Power of the wellspring,

leave her and return where you belong.

all: Power of the wellspring,

leave her and return where you belong.

Power of the wellspring,

leave her and return where you belong.

- I'll do it myself.

[whipping and snapping] - Ah! Ow!

- Stone her, Deuce.

- Watch out!

- [snarls]

- [grunting]

No matter what happens, just keep chanting.

all: Power of the wellspring...

- Now, not another word out of you!

I hate how humans never listen!

♪ ♪

You will succumb to my glamour power! [laughs]

Ow! - [chuckles]

Humans never listen, not even to glamour power.

You try to divide us,

but Monster High is where we all belong.

And I will not be silenced.

- Enough!

Soon humankind will be nothing more

than statues in my garden.

Starting with... [whooshing]

- What? - Dad?

No! [shouting]

Leave her and return where you belong.

[Mrs. Stripe screaming]

[Mr. Wolf gasps]

[dramatic music]

- [sighs] Why am I live streaming?

all: We will protect Monster--

- Oh. - What happened?

- How did we get here? - We should go back.

- No. - Sweetie pups!

- No, no! - I can create a spell.

But I need all your help.

[soft suspenseful music]

Werecat whisker, mummy wrap magnetized by Franken-zap.

Vampire fang, sea monster fin, eye of Gorgon, human friend.

Bound together, powers mesh.

Cast off the rock, back to flesh.

[upbeat wondrous music]

- Witchcraft?

[rock crumbling]

[Mr. Wolf gasps] - Yes! She's fleshy!

[squeals and laughter]

The eclipse.

- We still have time to retrieve your mama!

- No one makes my dad disappear and--

Oh. You good?

- Yep. Now to open the portal.

- Clawdeen, wait.

Here.

- You don't want it? - I do. I really do.

But I guess you inspired me to try something new.

That power's not for me.

I need to help my mom.

I hope you save yours.

all: Power of the wellspring, go to the portal.

Power of the wellspring, go to the portal.

[dramatic music]

- [gasps] Mom! - Mama!

- Selena. - My loves!

- Bye, kids!

[soft upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- Oh yeah, Mom's the Were-Ruler.

- No, you defeated Catarina. So now, you are the ruler.

- I'm the Were-Ruler?

- Congratulations, Clawdeen. - Woo-hoo!

[all cheering] - Yeah!

- Ooh, yeah!

[upbeat music]

- I noticed you looking at Twyla.

- Oh, is it that obvious?

I want to ask her to dance, but my heart goes thump-thump

and my hooves shake and getting to her is harder

than any maze I've ever tried.

- A few deep meditative breaths always helps me.

Here. Breathe in.

- [inhales deeply] - Yes.

- This whole semester, you were the one practicing witchcraft?

- Yes. And I know you have to expel me.

- You saved me, Clawdeen, the school.

I'll make an exception to the rule.

- We don't want exceptions.

- Yeah, the dance committee queen demands real change.

- I'll do my best. You have my word.

[all cheering]

- Everyone to the dance floor!

- ♪ Catching us allon the upswing ♪

♪ Figuring outthis alive thing ♪

♪ Listen to me,we're scary but sweet ♪

♪ Being the changethat we want to see ♪

♪ Wickedly darkand creepy fun ♪

♪ A ghoulish nightof celebration ♪

- This semester was clawsome.

Not to brag,but I got into Monster High,

found my boo crew, and passed all my classes.

Plus, I got a bling upgrade.

But still, I have a lot to learn.

Like what am I going to do with this Were-Ruler thing,

what does it even mean that humans are a type of monster,

how to deal with my family doubling in size,

and how to be there for Toralei

while she's dealing with the fallout.

- Clawdeen, dinner time!

- And I guess I don't need to do this,

since Mrs. O'Shriek's Monster Minute assignment is over.

But talking to you helps me sort through it all,

so I think I'll keep it up.

See you soon, iBall.

[laughter]

- [roars] Me? In the human world?

I can't believe

Headmistress Bloodgood agreed to this!

[roars]