It was soon time for Spring Break for students all over. Atticus and Mo both rushed home to get ready to visit Rio for their vacation while Cherry would go see the Monster High girls to hang out with them.
"This is going to be great." Cherry said.
"Are you sure you'll be okay?" Atticus asked. "I mean, I hate to leave you out, but, this'll be my first vacation with Mo as a couple."
"It's okay, you guys deserve it." Cherry allowed.
"Well, okay." Atticus said.
"Plus, there will be a carnival after your flight." Cherry replied.
"Okay... Stay out of trouble." Atticus smiled to her.
"I'll try." Cherry said.
Later on...
Atticus and Mo held hands while waving to everyone who came to tell them goodbye while going to their flight to Rio, and where Cherry went off to Monster High. When she got to the school, it was dark and there was a carnival going on for the Monster High students before they would have their vacation.
"Oh, a strength tester... Atticus would love this..." Cherry smiled. "And there's the Ferris Wheel, Patch loves sticking his head out..." she then frowned as she already missed her friends even though she didn't think she would. She soon saw the Monster High Ghouls.
"Cherry, hi!" Ghoulia moaned happily. "Welcome to the Monster High School Carnival!"
"Hey, ghouls." Cherry greeted.
"Hey, Cherry, isn't this carnival like a perfect way to kick off spring break?" Frankie smiled.
"Totes!" Draculaura beamed. "Everyone fanging out, having fun..."
"Even Headmistress Bloodgood is getting into it." Clawdeen added.
"Is she then?" Cherry asked before looking over curiously.
CA Cupid came to the school principal as she did a fortune telling gimmick.
"If you do all your homework, I see an A in your future." Headmistress Bloodgood told the cherub girl.
A gargoyle soon handed a caricature of Frankie to her once he finished.
"So, Cherry, where are the others?" Clawdeen asked.
"Atticus and Mo are spending their Spring Break in Rio," Cherry replied. "It's just me. I was hoping I could go to the Great Scarrier Reef with you guys."
"What about Patch?" Frankie asked.
"I'm sure he found something to do with other dogs..." Cherry shrugged.
"Probably." Frankie said.
"We're glad you could come though." Ghoulia smiled as she hugged Cherry.
"Thanks, Ghoulia," Cherry replied, trying to get out of the hug, but was stuck for a minute, so she simply patted the zombie girl on the head. "Um, so, Frankie, have you found the right guy yet?"
"Well, I tried to make amends with this one boy, but... It didn't really work out..." Frankie sighed.
"Who?" Cherry asked.
"Hoodude Voodoo..." Frankie smiled nervously while rubbing her arm shyly.
"Who?" Cherry asked.
"I made him..." Frankie replied.
"You made him?" Cherry did a double take.
"Well, you know, science kind of runs in my family," Frankie replied. "I mean, look at my grandfather."
"Hm." Cherry merely hummed.
The Monster High girls smiled to Cherry.
"So, who's ready for Spring Break, huh?" Cherry asked them.
"Oh, yeah, have you guys packed yet?" Frankie added.
"I have nine full suitcases!" Draculaura beamed.
"Nine?" Cherry asked.
"Oh, yes, and that's just for shoes!" Draculaura smiled.
The others giggled to her.
"So, how does Gil feel about this?" Cherry asked.
"Well, Lagoona hasn't told him yet." Clawdeen told her.
"Really?" Cherry asked.
"She wants it to be a surprise!" Draculaura beamed.
"Is Spectra coming at least?" Cherry asked.
"Sorry, ghouls," A certain ghost girl soon appeared through the walls. "I can't make it. My family's taking me some of their old haunts. Should make for some great ghost stories for my blog~... Oh, and Cherry, if you ever meet The Boo Brothers, let me know. They're my uncles~"
"You got it." Cherry said.
"Hey, I won this for ya." Clawd smiled as he came over and up to the vampire girl with a Shrunken Head.
"Oh, Clawd," Draculaura accepted as it winked to her. "So sweet~"
'That's romantic in a monster way.' Cherry thought to herself
"I'm gonna win you more!" Clawd smiled before howling at the full moon since a full moon made werewolves stronger than they already were.
"Oh, Cherry, have you met Howleen yet?" Clawdeen asked.
"Uh, I did see a younger werewolf... Kinda reminds me of Winnie back in Ms. Grimwood's school," Cherry replied. "Would that be Howleen?"
"Yeah," Clawdeen smiled. "She's the youngest and just started school here. Be careful around her though, she's a bit of a troublemaker."
"Just like Winnie." Cherry smirked.
"So, you've met my cousin." Clawdeen said.
"Oh, yeah, a long time ago," Cherry replied. "I went to Ms. Grimwood's school with Atticus, Patch, Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy."
"Let me guess; she was a handful, right?" Clawdeen asked.
"Well, at times, though she really enjoyed her time with Shaggy and Atticus during that Monster Road Rally, and last Halloween, she got to have her own big brother." Cherry replied.
The Monster High ghouls smiled to her.
"By the way, where is Lagoona?" Cherry asked as she looked around.
"I think she's with Gil." Cleo replied.
"That's nice." Cherry said.
"Probably gonna try to tell him 'the secret' about Spring Break." Clawdeen guessed.
"Probably." Cherry said.
There was cat yowling heard.
"Toralie..." Cherry narrowed her eyes, but she then snickered once she saw what the werecat girl was doing.
Toralie tried to cross a rope path, but soon fell through it, unable to keep her balance and landed in a mess that was tar with a mammoth wooden cut-out.
"Toralie, cats always land on their-" Cherry was about to say until she saw how Toralie landed. "Face? Man, what kind of cat are you?!"
"Shut it." Toralie said.
Deuce soon took his turn after Toralie's little fall. "Hey, this is fun, check me out!" he then laughed.
"Deuce, cheap carnival prizes don't win themselves." Cleo told her boyfriend.
'She's not wrong.' Cherry thought to herself.
Deuce let one of his snake heads ring a bell for Cleo then. A gargoyle vendor then handed a prize for Cleo.
"Yes!" Cleo beamed and hugged the toy.
"Happy now?" Deuce asked her.
Cleo smiled to him until she saw Draculaura walking by with Clawd who had won several prizes for her.
"Oh, this can't end well." Cherry groaned.
"WE NEED MORE!" Cleo told her boyfriend who then gulped nervously.
"Called it." Cherry said.
Cherry began to explore and saw Manny as he came out of a Haunted House which was filled with humans since the students were monsters.
"Cherry, are normies really that boring and weird?" Manny asked the perky goth.
"Most are." Cherry said.
"Man, talk about freaks!" Manny rolled his eyes.
"MANNY TAUR!" Frankie scolded as she pulled him by his nose ring. "You can't call someone a freak just because they're different! Now, go apologize."
Draculaura giggled to that.
"Haven't found the right guy, huh?" Cherry smirked.
"I'm just helping Manny to treat others with respect." Frankie replied innocently.
"Oh." Cherry said.
"You want me to apologize to the statues?" Manny asked Frankie like she was crazy.
"Go!" Frankie told him.
"Okay, okay." Manny said before going off.
"Minotaurs..." Cherry rolled her eyes. "Wait, did he say statues?"
"Frankie told him to apologize to them." Draculaura replied.
"What the heck, Frankie?" Cherry rolled her eyes again.
"Well, they were humans." Frankie defended.
"Really?" Cherry smirked.
"Oh, Cherry..." Frankie sighed.
Cleo came by with her arms full of prizes only to see that Clawd won a mountain of prizes for Draculaura.
"You're not going to stop wanting to win prizes, are you?" Cherry smirked at Cleo.
Cleo soon groaned and threw the prizes down while folding her arms at the vampire and werewolf couple.
"So, y'all are headed to the Great Barrier Reef?" Operetta asked.
"Yep." Cherry nodded.
"Awesome, right?" Draculaura added.
"You bet," Lagoona smiled. "The boat's picking us up at the catacombs tomorrow morning."
"Hoo-wee, that sounds like a hoot!" Operetta beamed. "Sorry I can't join ya."
"Aw, why not?" Cherry asked the daughter of The Phantom of the Opera.
"Sorry, Cherry, but I'm heading to the musical festival in Squalor's Holler." Operetta explained with a smile.
"That sounds musical." Cherry said.
"Oh, it is, I wish you could join me." Operetta smiled.
"Maybe next year." Cherry replied.
"I'd love to go with you guys too, but Deuce and I are heading to an X-Scream sports camp," Clawd said. "Seven days of shreddin', dunkin', splashin', and crashin'! Aw, yeah!"
"Sounds extreme." Cherry said.
"It sure does..." Gil sighed as he sounded jealous.
"Yo, Gil, The Great Barrier Reef?" Deuce asked Gil. "You must be pumped!
"Yeah, woo-hoo." Gil muttered.
"What's wrong?" Cherry asked.
"Gil's just afraid of meeting my folks." Lagoona told her.
"Oh, right," Draculaura understood. "Freshwater... Saltwater..."
"I told him no one cares anymore." Lagoona continued.
"Easy for you to say, you're from the sea," Gil sulked. "They're gonna hate me."
"I doubt that." Cherry said.
"Cherry's right," Lagoona smiled. "It'll be fun."
"Besides, what's the worst that could happen?" Cherry asked.
That night, Cherry went back home, and would meet the Monster High ghouls in the catacombs tomorrow morning to begin their vacation. Cherry checked her phone for any calls or texts from Atticus since he left for Rio with Mo, and where there was a text.
"'Hey, Cherry, made it to Rio okay, looking forward to a great vacation, #fruitsmoothiedate'." Cherry read aloud and saw a picture with the text that showed Atticus and Mo sharing a fruit smoothie together. Seeing that picture caused Cherry to be both gagged, but also happy for them. She soon sent a text back about how she felt before she crawled into bed to get ready for tomorrow.
Though she didn't know it yet, but Cherry would be in for an adventure. After a while, Cherry soon went to bed so she could get up early to meet the others in the morning. Once there, it was time for her dream training.
Princess Luna was reading a book until Cherry arrived.
"Hi, Princess Luna." Cherry greeted the Alicorn Princess of the Night.
"About time." Princess Luna said.
"Sorry..." Cherry replied. "Just making sure Atticus and Mo made it to Rio okay."
"That was kind of you." Luna smiled.
"Yeah, I hope they have fun, so, anything special going on tonight?" Cherry asked.
"Just the usual." Luna said.
"All right..." Cherry replied. "Let's get to work, I also promised the girls I'd meet them at the catacombs early in the morning."
"Alright." Luna said.
Cherry and Luna began to explore around the Dream Realm until they would find someone's dreams to visit. They soon saw a new dream door.
"A new dream door?" Cherry wondered.
Luna then nudged for Cherry to go inside of it. Cherry shrugged and then opened the door to check it out.
She soon saw that it was in black and white.
"Black and white?" Cherry groaned slightly. "Is this one of those dreams where Atticus is an old time detective and Mo is a dame?"
"Not exactly." Luna said.
"Then, what is this?" Cherry asked her mentor.
"This is a memory." Luna said.
"Oh... Okay... It kinda reminds me of the opening to the Phantom of the Opera..." Cherry replied before they soon watched the memory together. "I wonder whose memory this is?"
"I suppose we shall find out." Luna replied.
Cherry nodded as she watched the memory with Luna.
They saw that they were on an island.
"An island?" Cherry asked as she came out, suddenly wearing tropical clothes to fit in with the atmosphere. "What's this island?"
"Not sure." Luna said.
Cherry began to explore the island to see what it was all about. There were wooden and masked idols known as Tikis who seemed to inhabit the island, and there seemed to be some sort of beast monster, almost like Prince Adam when he was transformed into a beast before becoming human again after Belle proclaimed her love for him.
"Looks like a new monster." Cherry said.
"A beast..." Luna commented. "This doesn't seem like the Great Scarrier Reef though."
"If it is, it's not like I imagined... It kinda reminds me of Skull Rock on Never Land or Spooky Island." Cherry replied.
They soon brought out a map.
"This isn't the Great Scarrier Reef..." Cherry said. "This is a place called Skull Shores."
"I sense an adventure coming." Luna said.
"So much for a vacation." Cherry muttered.
"Vacations are their own adventure." Luna mused.
"Yeah... They are..." Cherry rolled her eyes with a smirk. "I guess like when Starlight and Sunburst went to meet their parents outside of Ponyville."
"Yeah, their parents and themselves were their own mission." Luna said.
"Welcome to Silas Hollow!" Cherry imitated.
Hearing her imitate caused Luna laughed.
"I know, it's annoying, but it was kinda funny when it annoyed Sunburst's mother." Cherry replied.
"Yes, it was." Luna admitted.
"I guess I got another mission..." Cherry sighed. "Oh, well, at least I won't have to use magic, I guess, that's more of Atticus's niche."
"Too true." Luna said.
Cherry looked all around and saw a girl who almost looked like Frankie, being worshiped on the island. "That girl almost looks like Frankie... Um, Luna, when in this memory?"
"According to my research, the early 20th century," Luna replied. "That would be the 1900's."
"Whoa." Cherry said.
Luna put her hoof around Cherry with a nod.
Soon enough, they left the door while Cherry hoped she could remember all of this by morning, but of course, she would. Cherry quickly wrote everything down and put the note in her pocket to give herself in the waking world. Luna took Cherry among many other dreams, though the memory one was the most important tonight as it would involve her and the other Monster High girls. One of the dreams was Frankie's dream of finding her true love.
"Aww... How romantic..." Cherry commented.
There was a door that showed a future event. Cherry looked to Luna who went off and she smirked, unable to resist the door, and to her surprise, she saw children of her and Atticus in Equestria, though there were fillies having a slumber party at Princess Cadence and Shining Armor's home with Flurry Heart who had a secret crush on a Changeling colt that Queen Chrysalis raised to rise up against Thorax, but the two had fallen in love with each other.
"Wow." Cherry said.
There were even children of the Mane Six.
"So, Twilight and Flash got married...?" Cherry asked.
The door then closed and Cherry smiled nervously when she turned around to see Luna, giving her a scolding look.
"That is one door that you are not allowed in." Luna said.
"Heh... Sorry..." Cherry smiled nervously.
Luna soon double locked the door to the future. Cherry backed away from the door before continuing to explore with Luna.
The exploration wasn't that exciting as there weren't that many exciting dreams.
"Ugh... This whole dream exploration is putting me to sleep..." Cherry said before doing a double take. "How confusing is that?"
"Well, this does tend to keep us up at night." Luna said.
"Is that why you eat banana peels for breakfast?" Cherry asked.
"That was from lack of sleep." Luna said.
Cherry grimaced slightly.