Matches buried a volleyball, chuckling with himself.
"Matches, how many times do I have to tell you 'don't dig in the pumpkin patch'?" Ms. Grimwood walked over with Thing and Forte, scolding her pet dragon. "We need them for our Halloween Hoedown, and you certainly can't carve THAT into a Jack-O-Lantern..." she gestured down at the buried ball. "Now, get rid of it!"
Mathes sighed, but he did as told.
"He's trouble, but I love him..." Ms. Grimwood smiled up to the maestro.
"It looked like he was trying to bury that volleyball." Forte said.
"You know household pets," Ms. Grimwood chuckled as she held him again, despite him telling her numerous times not to. "They'll grow out of it hopefully... I think he got that ball from next door, I'm not too sure."
"I think those boys at the other school over did it with their practicing." Forte said, pointing to the military school.
"Perhaps..." Ms. Grimwood leaned against him, looking lovingly.
Matches grunted and kicked the ball back over the hedge to the school next door, he wanted to still play with it, but he had to obey his mistress.
"Like, I hope we get to eat something good soon." Shaggy said.
"Meal time is next," Cherry said as she looked at the schedule. "And it looks like an outdoor banquet."
Shaggy and Scooby liked the sound of a banquet.
"I'll get things sorted in the kitchen and get back to you all," Ms. Grimwood said, heading inside the school. "Care to come along, Chuckie?"
"Erm, no thank you, Glynis... I'll keep an eye on things out here..." Forte backed out of it.
"Very well." Ms. Grimwood said as she got inside her school.
"Dude, she's so into you." Cherry mocked him.
Forte groaned. "Don't remind me..."
"And where she won't stop being into you until she knows how you feel." Patch said.
"Females..." Forte sighed.
"Go out with her," Cherry nudged him. "You could use someone..."
"I'm not interested in her like that..." Forte argued.
"Ah, you're so picky... You need to get hitched... I think you only cling to me cuz you're lonely..." Cherry scoffed, though little did she know, she would grow up to be the perfect woman for him once she would officially 'grow up'.
"She's just not the woman for me... I only like her as a friend..." Forte said as he watched Shaggy, Scooby, Scrappy, and the girls come back, looking very hungry, he then smiled to them. "Ms. Grimwood will be right back with our meal, you can catch your breaths or take a water break until then."
"Man, I'm hungry like my family!" Winnie said as she patted her growling gut.
"Man, I haven't had this much exercise in a long." Patch said while panting.
"Good for the heart." Elsa said to him with a smile.
"What should we do until Ms. Grimwood comes with our food?" Scrappy asked.
Tanis sucked her thumb as she tugged Cherry's jacket end. "Why don't you tell us some stories?"
"Oh... Um... I dont' know..." Cherry said as she picked up the little mummy girl again. "Like what..."
"I heard about you guys from Uncle Lawrence." Winnie said to Cherry and Atticus.
"Daddy says he knows you guys too!" Elsa added.
"No way, I didn't know that Frankie had a kid." Atticus said.
"Well my Daddy is Frankenstein." Elsa gave a nod.
"Well, I'm glad he found someone..." Cherry smiled as she held Tanis.
"Do you know our parents as well?" Phantasma asked as she floated with Sibella.
"I think I may know your mother..." Forte said to Sibella. "Is her name Mavis?"
"Yes, she is, how do you know her?" Sibella asked.
Forte rubbed the back of his neck. "She's the one who actually turned me into a vampire 300 years ago."
"Oh, dear." Patch said.
"Isn't Mother just a delight?" Sibella smiled.
"Well, she was defiantly charming to me before she met your father I believe." Forte chuckled.
"Cherry, did you know my Mummy Daddy?" Tanis asked.
"Maybe... I'll have to see..." Cherry shrugged as she kept rocking the mummy girl.
"Like, I'm glad it's not Parent's Night..." Shaggy was afraid of the monster relatives of these little girls.
"Ruh-huh." Scooby agreed.
"I think it's cool to know monsters!" Scrappy beamed.
"I hope we're good enough for Monster High when we get old enough." Winnie grinned.
"I'm sure you girls will be good enough for Monster High." Atticus assured her.
After what felt like an eternity for Shaggy and Scooby, Ms. Grimwood finally returned with food for the students, teachers, and assistants.
"Come and get it, my little ones!" Ms. Grimwood called as Thing rang the bell for them to get them at the outdoor dining room table.
In a flash, Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy dashed over.
"Zoinks! Like, I thought you'd never ask!" Shaggy smiled. "About time to wrap up the appetite, huh, Scoob?"
"Reah, rappetite!" Scooby grinned as he opened up the platter to see a few steaks.
"Wow, this looks pretty tasty!" Scrappy chirped.
"Yeah, it really does." Atticus said as soon as he came over to the table.
"Yes, I certainly hope so," Ms. Grimwood smiled at her guests she then took the platter away and went to the meat-eating plants. "Nothing's too good for my garden."
"Can I feed one, Ms. Grimwood, please, can I?" Tanis asked adorably and sweetly.
"Of course, Tanis, now be careful." Ms. Grimwood smiled down at her.
"Yeah those Venus meat-eating flytraps will eat the hand that feeds it if you're not too careful." Atticus guessed.
Thing proved to be a true example of that, but he got out. Tanis giggled as she helped Ms. Grimwood feed the plants.
"Like, let's split up, there must be something to eat in this garden." Shaggy suggested.
"Reah!" Scooby agreed.
Cherry gigled a little.
"What's so funny, Cherry?" Shaggy looked to her.
"You sounded just like Fred for a minute." Cherry said between giggles.
"Yeah, you really did, Shaggy." Atticus said.
"Hey, we found some tomatoes!" Scrappy said as he stood with Patch next to a big and ripe patch. He then picked one, but it instantly squashed into his paws. "Some rotten tomatoes..." he muttered.
"I'll take some of those next time I go see an Ashton Kutcher movie." Cherry joked a little.
"Look, Atticus, some squash!" Shaggy pointed to the vegetable.
"Cool." Atticus said.
However, the squash also squished instantly in their hands. Cherry came up to a watermelon with her hands in her pockets, then hit it with her foot and it deflated and went around like a balloon.
"Like, everything in this garden's totally rotten!" Shaggy exclaimed in defeat.
"Every so often, something fresh comes in." Ms. Grimwood said like rotten was good and fresh was bad.
Elsa grabbed a corn plant, then tossed it away like it was garbage. "Ripe corn, YUCK!"
'These girls are very strange.' Patch thought.
"Perhaps I could give you all something with a Transylvanian diet." Sibella said to them.
"Something we mortals would like, please." Cherry requested to the vampire girl.
"Get them garlicless pizza or something, Sibella..." Forte shrugged.
Sibella turned herself into a bat before flying off for them. "I'll see what I can do."
Shaggy fainted from Sibella's bat transformation.
"No garlic will do!" Atticus said.
"Got it!" Sibella called back as she flew off to get food for the humans.
Scooby and Patch sniffed around for some food around the garden they could eat.
"You want anything, Chuckie?" Ms. Grimwood asked her friend.
"Nothing thank you... I'm not hungry..." Forte assured everyone he would be alright.
"You sure?" Atticus asked.
"Trust me," Forte assured everyone. "Are you going to eat today, Cerise?"
"Yeah... I worked up an appetite myself with that running and that I hadn't eaten a full meal in three days." Cherry nodded her head.
"I've been noticing that." Atticus said.
"Cerise, you shouldn't skip meals to lose weight..." Forte put his hand to his head, shaking it.
"You know how I feel about living..." Cherry mumbled.
Forte sighed, what happened to this girl while he was away from her after so long?
Winnie howled after a while. "You won't be hungry for long, guys!"
Sibella came back, flying as a bat and turned back into herself as she held a pizza box. "One pizza to go with everything on it." she told them, removing the top with the steaming pizza for the hungry humans.
"Yay! Pizza!" Atticus cheered.
"How wonderful!" Shaggy happily took a slice.
Scooby, Atticus, and Cherry took some too.
"Remember, give him a little bit..." Cherry told Atticus because pizza was bad for puppies.
"I would prefer it if it had spider webs and dragon scales, but I hope you all enjoy." Sibella said to the humans and dogs.
Atticus then gave half of his slice to Patch. Patch smiled as he ate it, happily joining the others in their pizza. Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy to go inside while the girls helped themselves to some pizza.
"This pizza ain't half bad." Patch said while tasting his half.
After everyone finished, they went inside and someone had rung the doorbell.
Ms. Grimwood was busy typing Tanis's bandages back together after a little accident. "Will you get the door for me, Sibella?"
"You bet I will!" Sibella said while turning into a bat.
"I'll go with you." Cherry said, following her to the front door.
"Who could that be?" Atticus asked himself wondering who was at the door.
