Spectra's school reunion.
Draculaura's being haunted, and Spectra is really confused as to why. See, all the teen ghosts are still at Haunted High since she's left, so how would they be haunting anyone? Confused, she returns to the ghost realm (or is yanked back there) to investigate. The ghouls see her taken away, and after getting Boogie Sand (which transforms monsters to ghosts) from Twyla, they follow Spectra to the realm.This special introduces the ghosts Vandala Doubloons, Kiyomi Haunterly, River Styxx, and Porter "Paintergeist" Geiss.
Tropes
- A Day in the Limelight: Spectra mostly, but also Scarah, Operetta, and Johnny to a much lesser extent.
- Ascended Extra: Johnny Spirit makes his second appearance in all canon (and first appearance in CG) here.
- An Aesop:
- Gossiping and spreading rumors is bad.
- Only you can take responsibility for your actions, avoiding doing so will not only make you suffer longer, but also make others suffer with you.
- Assimilation Plot: A variant; Principal Revenant's Evil Plan is to pass off all her detention chains onto the ghost students for her freedom. To speed this up, she plans to invade Monster High and convert it's student body into ghosts for more bodies to chain up.
- Bedsheet Ghost: There is a floating bedsheet ghost as a teacher.
- Big Bad: Principal Revenant, or The Red Lady.
- Bizarrchitecture: The Boogeymansion has an interior with incongruent dimensions, stairs that lead to random places and doors that act like portals. The entrance, covered with doors of all shapes and sizes, separates Sirena from the group behind one too small to go through even though she entered right behind them. It basically has all the disorienting logic you'd expect in a kind of nightmare.
- Blob Monster: Rochelle Goyle is temporarily turned into one when Sirena accidentally drops the wrong kind of Boogie Sand on her.
- Chained by Fashion: This special really emphasizes chains as a common accessory for ghosts. When Spectra goes to the Spirit World, and the ghouls are turned into ghosts, they all gain new outfits that heavily feature chains as accessories. New ghost characters also have chains accessorizing their looks, and the conflict of the plot involves chaining ghosts as punishment.
- Dance Party Ending: Of the Haunted High and Monster High students intermingling.
- Demoted to Extra: This is currently the only special where Frankie Stein plays no role at all in the plot.
- How Do I Shot Web?: As ghosts the ghouls all have trouble figuring out how to fly and struggle to keep from drifting through walls or spinning in place.
- Hybrid Power: Sirena exploits her half-ghost half-mermaid scaritage to perform a complicated diving routine in reverse.
- In the Hood: The ghouls do this in Haunted High to pass as ghosts. It fails.
- Kirk Summation: Spectra gives one of these to Revenant after her plan's revealed to be ineffective. It summarizes what she's doing as wrong so well it leads her to a Heel Realization.
- Muggles: The ghost mentality towards non-ghost monsters resembles this, only they call them "solids".
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Principal Revenant. The can is the school Haunted High, having been converted from her house.
- Ship Tease: Between Spectra and Porter.
- Supernormal Bindings: The plot device du jour are Detention chains, supernatural chains that can bind and anchor ghosts to a location. They can't be destroyed, only moved to another victim using a special key and are meant to be worked off as punishment. The ghost they originate from can generate more chains, lengthening their sentence, by avoiding responsibility for their punishment and trying to work around redeeming themselves of it.
- The Grim Reaper: Not here, but his daughter is.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Different kinds of ghosts are discussed by Spectra, using students from Monster High as examples like a wraith, banshee or phantom. Operetta is an interesting example, as a phantom, because she is the least obviously ghost-like with the only sign she counts as one being susceptibility to detention chains.
