Later that night, everyone gathered around and decided to finally get some food after a long day of hard work.
"Oh, this is going to be so delicious." Patch beamed.
"Yeah, I'm starving." Atticus added.
"The skipper is going to be very happy when you tell him that you saved The Dixie Queen by use for playing a gig." Valerie commented.
"Cool it, guys, someone's coming." Fred said as he stood by the door.
"G-Ghosts?!" Alexander guessed nervously.
"If it is, our ghost traps will catch them." Velma reassured him.
They then a heard a noise coming from outside.
"And it sounds like it was a success." Atticus said to the others.
"Then let's get a look at what we caught!" Lionel declared.
"Now you'll see professional ghost hunters in action!" Fred told the others. "C'mon, gang!"
And so, the group ran off.
"Y'ALL LEMME OUTTA THIS BLASTED CONTRAPTION, YA HEAR?!" yelled Captain Cannaby, who was stuck under a glass dome.
"Heh... Oops..." Atticus grinned and chuckled nervously. "Sorry about that, Captain."
"Guys, hurry up and deactivate the trap!" Sabrina cried out.
"I dunno, that might be an improving look for him." Salem smirked.
"Salem!" Sabrina quietly hissed.
Valerie soon went to deactivate the trap as Shaggy and Scooby pulled the rope.
"One ghost trap, comin' up!" Shaggy announced.
The dome soon lifted up from Captain Cannaby who looked quite cross with the teenagers, though luckily, not TOO angry.
"Sorry, skipper, I guess we goofed." Fred said.
"No need for apologies," Captain Cannaby smiled. "Not after what you kids have done. Not for fixin' up The Dixie Queen, but for stayin' on with an old soul like me."
"And we've only just begun," declared Josie.
"C'mon into the dining room," Valerie said as she led Captain Cannaby along. "We've got a big surprise for you!"
"And you're gonna love it." Sabrina added.
"I just can't tell you kids how touched I am for the benefits of the show." Captain Cannaby smiled as he followed the girls into the dining room to see just what this big surprise was going to be.
"Uh, but aren't you still worried about Mr. Briggs?" Sabrina asked.
"That's right," Captain Cannaby nodded. "The sheriff wasn't in, so I made the check for nuthin'!"
"Captain, suppose Johnny was in on this haunting scheme?" Fred asked.
Captain Cannaby's expression grew angry. "Nonsense! And if you really feel that way, you can leave right now!" he bellowed.
"Whoa! Hey! No one's saying that!" Atticus defended as Patch quickly nodded in agreement.
"Oh, gee, we didn't mean anything!" Daphne added as the man suddenly got up from the dining room table and began to storm off, feeling very angered all of a sudden. "Where are you going, Captain?"
"Back to town; I gotta find the sheriff!" Captain Cannaby replied as he soon left the dining room. "I won't let The Dixie Queen sail without Johnny!"
"Oh, come on! Please, come back!" Atticus cried out. "Did we do something wrong?"
"I... I'm not sure..." Cherry said softly as she rubbed her arm suddenly.
"Oh, Captain, give us another chance!" Mo frowned as she came out the door with Fred, Daphne, and Atticus.
"NO! Just go away!" Captain Cannaby huffed as he kept on walking.
"Well, I guess Cannaby considers Johnny a good friend," Lionel replied. "So we offended him by suggesting that Johnny could be behind the trouble happening onboard. So I'd say we did do something wrong."
"I was hoping we didn't." Atticus said with a sharp sigh.
"What do we do now?" Patch pouted.
"Well, so much for our celebration." Alan frowned as he shook his head.
"Yeah... Who can eat now?" Josie added.
"I'll forage myself!" Shaggy beamed. "Please pass the chicken."
Melody looked very sad for a change as she soon passed the chicken over to Shaggy. However, before Shaggy could get any chicken, Scooby took some instantly.
"All gone already?!" Shaggy's eyes widened before narrowing them in deadpan. "You really have a healthy appetite, Melody."
"Thank you." Melody said before giving Shaggy a giggle.
"Typical Shaggy and Scooby." Patch shook his head.
"Aw, well... please pass everything else!" Shaggy replied.
And so Melody did, but everything that Shaggy got passed was yanked off his plate.
"There's only one way food can vanish so fast..." Shaggy remarked as he pulled up the tablecloth. "Scooby-Doo! What do you have to say for yourself?"
Scooby let out a groan.
"Well, I'd groan too if I ate like that!" Shaggy remarked.
"Aw, Uncle Scooby, what're we gonna do with ya?" Scrappy sighed.
"I guess keep him." Cherry shrugged with a small smirk.
They soon heard some laughter which sounded quite chilling.
"Uh-oh," Daphne said. "Guess what's coming to dinner?"
"Now, now, maybe it's just Sidney Poiter," Cherry remarked before looking to the fourth wall. "Ask your parents, kids. That's an obscure reference for you 'Millenials' out there born in Generation Z."
"What dinner?" Shaggy replied.
"It's the ghosts of Captain Scavenger and Injun Joe!" Alan gasped once they saw who it actually was.
"Since you failed to abandon ship, I'm coming for you!" Captain Scavenger cackled.
"We're 22 mortals to one ghost," Fred declared. "Let's get him!"
"Right on!" Alan agreed.
But when they came outside, Captain Scavenger disappeared in a flash.
"H-He vanished!" Valerie exclaimed.
"That takes out any idea he might be a fake ghost." remarked Daphne.
"But what was that humming sound just then?" asked Velma.
"I didn't even recognize the tune!" Melody giggled.
"Our only chance of saving The Dixie Queen is to get to the bottom of this mystery." Fred told the others.
"Right," Josie agreed. "All we need is a plan."
"Got one! Let's huddle..." Velma said as they soon huddled together to go over the plan. "First, we all act scared-"
"Shaggy and Scooby don't need to act." Cherry smirked.
"Cherry!" Atticus cried out in a scolding tone of voice.
"It's true, Atticus." Cherry smirked.
"Please continue, Velma." Atticus soon said with narrowed eyes.
"Then we'll pretend to leave the ship," Velma continued. "But then-"
"We'll hide and spy on the ghosts?" Josie guessed nervously.
"Sounds perfect to me." Sabrina nodded.
"All right," Atticus said with a nod. "Time to put Darla's acting skills into good use."
"That moment when your little sister is a better actor than you are." Cherry snarked to herself.
"And yet it's justified." Lionel shrugged.
"You win, Captain Scavenger!" Josie called out. "We're splitting!"
The group soon made it look like they were ready to go until they soon found something.
"Hey, look!" Alan cried out as he pointed up ahead of him.
They then saw an open hatch in the middle of the floor.
"Good idea, Alan," Cherry nodded. "We can hide out in there."
Everyone soon took turns jumping inside of the hatch.
"Geronimo!" Shaggy called out on the way inside.
"Matoaka!" Cherry added as she came in after.
"Sitting Bull!" Scooby cried as he joined them.
"CRAAAAZY HORSE!" Lionel whooped as he flew down after them.
"Now that we've scared those brats off, the ship is ours!" Captain Scavenger exclaimed.
But Injun Joe wasn't so certain. "Hmm, maybe not yet," he replied. "Listen."
And they put their ears to a nearby pipe.
"Great," said Velma. "Our plan worked!"
"We sure fooled those ghosts!" Alan exclaimed.
The two ghosts glared at each other and soon stalked off suddenly.
"I'd like to see those ghosts' faces when I knew that I was onto them." Alexandra bragged.
"Yeah? Well, here's your chance." Cherry replied sardonically.
"What makes you say that?" Alexandra asked.
"Because the ship's speaker tube is off the hook and you're blabbing right next to it!" Cherry told her.
"Oh, brother!" Fred frowned. "Anything or anybody on this ship might've heard us!"
"E-E-Even the ghosts!" Alexander trembled with Shaggy and Scooby.
"Especially the ghosts!" Josie gulped.
"In that case... ABANDON SHIP!" Shaggy cried out as he went to run with Alexander and Scooby.
"Woman and children first!" Alexander added. "After chickens."
The three of them threw each other out of the way to try and climb through the pothole.
"You'll never make it, brother dear," said Alexandra. "Unless you lose 10 pounds of fat... between your EARS!"
"Gosh... Harsh much?" Mo asked.
"Mind your own business, Butch." Alexandra retorted.
Mo glared before she suddenly tackled Alexandra.
"Ow! Get off of me!" Alexandra cried out.
"Don't. Stop. Come back." Cherry snarked dryly.
Shaggy and Scooby soon opened up a barrel before jumping inside and suddenly coming back out.
"What? Is it water?" Sabrina asked them.
Patch sniffed the substance before grimacing. "Eugh... Actually, Sabrina, I think that's grease." he then said to the teenage witch.
"Take your pick, Scoob!" Shaggy told his best friend. "It's either the greasy pit stuff or the ghosts!"
Scooby nodded before going back into the barrel with Shaggy, deciding to put up with it anyway.
"Now what?" asked Valerie.
"I say we split up and split!" Daphne replied.
"Good idea," Alexandra smirked before she took Alan by the arm. "Alan and I can be 1 group, and the rest of you can be the other!"
"Go ahead," said Josie. "But I wouldn't desert that nice old captain for a million dollars!"
"How about...?" Melody asked as she brought out money from the bag she was sitting on. "2,000,000?"
"That's bribery!" Mo scolded before glancing at the blonde girl with wide eyes. "Uh, Melody?"
"Yeah?" Melody smiled.
"Where did you get that money?" Mo then asked her.
"From this bag here." Melody giggled.
"Weird... A bag of money... Just lying here..." Cherry commented as she put her hands on her hips.
"Make it 3,000,000, please," Alexander replied. "I'm a big spender!"
"Something tells me Melody's sitting on a million-dollar clue," stated Velma.
"You are, and you're about to find it very costly!" cackled Captain Scavenger, as a large net pulled itself up around the gang.
"Whoa!" Atticus, Patch, and Mo yelped.
"Captain Scavenger." Cherry glared at him.
"Listen, you ectoplasmic creep," Alexandra glared. "Either you let us down or I'll let you have it!"
"I will, my dear, but it is you who have had it!" Captain Scavenger called.
Injun Joe soon rode out into the water on a different kind of boat and Captain Scavenger lowered the crane with the net into the boat.
Captain Scavenger then swung in on a rope and landed next to his fellow ghost up in front of the boat. "Full speed ahead, Injun Joe!" he then told the Indian.
And so, the boat took off through the water with the group bunched up together in the net, trapped like carrots.
"What a bust!" Alexandra huffed as she crossed her arms. "Now no one will find us!"
"I'm betting a million dollars someone does!" Josie replied, as she threw out the money to leave a trail.
"What a waste of good money," Cherry remarked. "Hopefully it's counterfeit."
"Either way, it should be helpful to us." Josie replied.
Meanwhile...
"No wonder we didn't hear anyone, guys," Shaggy said as he looked through the porthole with Scooby and Scrappy. "Nobody's here! Oh, boy, looks like we gotta climb our way out of this place."
"I see no harm in that," Scrappy replied. "But I do see a rope."
They soon went to grab onto the rope to get out of the room.
"Come on!" Shaggy told Scooby and Scrappy before they began to climb up the rope to get on out.
As they poked their heads up, they saw a surprise.
"Yikes!" Shaggy whispered. "It's that no-goody Goodwin!"
"Now that those kids are gone, I can get on with this Dixie Queen business!" Lance declared as Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy hid.
Scrappy shushed Shaggy and Scooby as they soon tiptoed right behind Lance as he looked around. Scooby soon gulped as they hid behind a periscope and his teeth suddenly began to chatter.
"Shh, Uncle Scooby!" Scrappy shushed.
"Hmm... Just as I suspected!" Lance glared as he looked right behind his stance where Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy were hiding. "Come outta there, you!"
"Quick! Let's use Plan 33B!" Shaggy soon told Scooby and Scrappy as he jumped out and called out towards Lance as he pointed aside. "MAN OVERBOARD! Man the lifeboats! Man overboard!"
"Man overboard?" asked Lance. "Where?"
"HERE!" Shaggy called, as he, Scrappy, and Scooby were now inside the boat and dropped it down into the water. "Now... let's find the others."
"Yessir!" Scooby gave a salute.
"But how are we gonna track 'em?" asked Scrappy.
Shaggy listened until he heard a humming sound. "A motorboat! That's gotta be them!" he exclaimed. "But it's too dark to see the trail!"
"Hold on, Shaggy, look at that!" Scrappy piped up as he pointed something out into the water.
They soon found the trail of money that Josie had left behind for them to find.
"Well, we might not find 'em, but we'll sure get rich quick!" Shaggy smiled.
Meanwhile, the motorboat continued to ride off as Josie continued to leave the trail of money in the water as the others simply dangled in the net.
"I'm getting claustrophobic," Cherry complained. "Someone transform into a superhero already and get us out of this!"
"Besides, I'm running out of trail money!" Josie added.
"Don't worry, there's still Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy!" Daphne informed as Lionel took out a pocketknife and began cutting away at the net.
"Those clowns?" Alexandra scoffed. "In that case, we are doomed!"
"Let's try to remain positive." Atticus suggested.
"All right, I'm positive that we have had it!" Alexandra smirked.
Atticus then rolled his eyes and shook his head at her.
"And maybe sooner than we think if those ghosts aren't watching where we're going." Fred warned.
A giant boulder was shown, but surprisingly enough, a couple of doors opened up from inside and they began to ride inside the boulder with the ghosts still steering the boat that way.
"Jinkies!" Velma gasped. "It's opening by itself!"
Once they were inside, the doors shut behind them.
"Gee, they didn't even say 'Open Sesame Street'." Melody giggled.
"She is very interesting." Patch muttered to himself.
"If that's whatcha wanna call it." Lionel shrugged as he kept on cutting at the net.
They were soon inside the new secret room.
"Oh, wow! It's some kind of a cavern!" Alan remarked as the motorboat soon came to a stop.
"I hope you enjoyed your little cruise down the Mississippi." Captain Scavenger chuckled.
"Personally, I'm used to traveling First Class, you Third Class phantom!" Alexandra glared. "Now get me out of here right now!"
"Why of course... Injun Joe!" Captain Scavenger signaled.
Injun Joe raised the crane to bring the net up.
"I hope you enjoy your quarters," Captain Scavenger smirked. "They may not be First Class, but you'll learn to love them!"
"Gee!" Melody giggled. "Injun Joe's ghost must be losing weight! I can see right through him!"
"Injun Joe has to be an ectoplasmic spirit," said Velma. "How else could he be transparent?"
"Don't ask me, I just fainted." said Alexander as he keeled over.
"Oh, brother." Salem snarked to himself.
"Well, at least we made it out of the net." Sabrina shrugged bashfully.
Just then, Injun Joe's image vanished.
"G-G-Gone!" said Scooby's voice.
"He must've seen the movie!" Shaggy's voice chuckled.
"That must be Shaggy and Scooby up there," Lionel remarked. "And Scrappy as well!"
"Shaaaaggy!" Fred soon called out.
"Scooby-Doooooo! Where are yooou?!" Daphne added.
"If you're ghoooosts, we can't heeear yooou!" Shaggy soon called back, trying to sound spooky as he held onto Scooby while they felt scared.
"You guys, it's just our friends!" Scrappy reassured as he walked over. "Come on! We gotta help 'em!"
"You'll really hear from me if you don't get us out of this pit!" Alexandra said sharply.
"And people say I can be a jerk sometimes," Cherry rolled her eyes. "Nothing compared to Miss Skunk Hair over here."
"I see you really got to the bottom of our mystery!" Shaggy chuckled.
"Stifle it, Shaggy," Daphne replied. "Just lower that crane and get us out of here!"
"And hurry!" Velma added. "Before the ghost of Injun Joe comes back!"
Just then, they heard a sinister cackling nearby.
"Too late." Cherry and Atticus snarked.
"Aw, great," Salem rolled his eyes. "This ghoul again."
"It's no laughing matter, Shaggy!" Fred scolded his cowardly friend.
"So who's laughing?" Shaggy shrugged in defense.
"I'll give ya 50 guesses." Mo remarked.
The laughing soon got stronger and closer as Scrappy put his fists up, looking ready to fight while Shaggy and Scooby were scared again.
"G-G-Ghost!" Shaggy and Scooby cried out as they soon dashed off.
"Lemme at 'em! Lemme at 'em!" Scrappy glared. "I'll take care of this!"
Shaggy immediately began to lower the net into the pit, as Captain Scavenger and Injun Joe came back into the cavern.
"Someone's in the cavern." said Injun Joe.
"Then someone's going to be very sorry!" Captain Scavenger replied.
Everyone held onto the net as strongly as they possibly could.
"Hurry!" Josie gasped.
"Never fear, Shaggy's here!" Shaggy proclaimed bravely.
"And Scooby and Scrappy-Doo too!" Scooby and Scrappy added.
"And it looks like the ghosts are coming too!" Sabrina cried out as Captain Scavenger and Injun Joe rushed into the scene.
"Aw, great." Salem complained.
"We have you now!" Captain Scavenger mocked.
Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy soon moved out of the way with the net, swinging over the pit, luckily enough for him.
"Let's split up and find a way out of here." Fred told the others.
"I'm with you." Alexander replied.
"No, you're with me." Josie told him.
"Haha, just try to get away!" Captain Scavenger smirked.
"Okay, if you say so," Cherry shrugged with a small smirk back. "Whatya say, guys? You ready to try to get away?" she then asked sneakily as she had an idea.
"Sure!" Lionel replied. "I'm ready if you are!"
"It's gonna take some running." Cherry smirked.
Captain Scavenger and Injun Joe soon came running only for Cherry to throw a net on them, trapping them suddenly.
"Okay, run!" Cherry told the others while they still had the chance.
The others shrugged at each other and soon took off running.
"Don't gotta tell us twice." Atticus remarked.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Cherry replied.
When the two ghosts got free from the net, they were suddenly faced with a snarling white tiger that had dark purple stripes.
"YEOW!" The two phony ghosts shouted as they ran for their lives from the tiger.
"Attaboy, Kimba!" Lionel declared.
Kimba snarled as he chased after Captain Scavenger and Injun Joe.
"Not so tough now, are ya?!" Cherry called out mockingly.
"Where in the heck did you get a tiger?" Alexandra asked Cherry.
"I've got friends in high places," Cherry smirked. "Jealous?"
Alexandra scoffed and rolled her eyes in annoyance. "So, what's your plan?" she then asked. "Your overgrown cat friend chases them for the rest of our lives?"
"Not for the rest of our lives," Cherry defended. "He'll catch them soon and when he does, we can find out what's going on here. Besides, why would ghosts need to run for their lives when they're already dead?" she then retorted.
"So then they're not really ghosts!" Valerie exclaimed.
"Exactly!" Cherry smirked.
"We'll take a look at my notes and we should be able to find out what's really going on around here then." Atticus suggested.
"Yes," Cherry nodded. "Listen to him. He's a future detective after all."
"Maybe we could borrow him to solve some of our own mysteries someday." Valerie smirked.
"Get your own, sister." Mo smirked back playfully as Kimba snarled as he chased the ghosts in the background.
"Alright, so whaddo we got?" asked Lionel.
"Well, let's see..." Atticus said as he began to flip through his notepad pages. "Captain Cannaby acted strange during dinner for one thing, especially with how he sorta gave up quickly and how he got mad suddenly."
"And also, we haven't seen Johnny for most of this adventure!" Lionel added.
"He did just sorta... Vanish..." Cherry nodded in agreement.
"Yeah." Patch added.
"Weird." Mo remarked.
"So, what do you think?" Josie asked. "Johnny and Captain Cannaby are behind this?"
"That's one of my guesses with the clues I found," Atticus replied. "I just can't figure out their motive though."
"Could have something to do with that funny money we found in the cave," replied Lionel. "Maybe it was counterfeit?"
"I think it might be... At least, I hope so." Cherry remarked.
"That could be a good point too." Atticus agreed with both.
"Alrighty then." Mo nodded.
Kimba soon tackled down the two ghosts and licked their faces a bit to show that they were wearing powder.
"Kimba got 'em," Cherry said as she walked over with her hands on her hips. "Well, well... Isn't this an interesting image?"
"Gee, it looks like you lost your flour power." Melody giggled.
"I never thought I'd say this, but well said, Melody," Cherry said to the dumb blonde girl before mumbling an aside. "For once."
"Good work, kids; you got 'em!" said Lance as he came inside.
"You sure aren't acting like a Mississippi gambler, Mr. Goodwin," said Velma.
"Nobody here is what they appear to be, Velma," replied Lance as he held up a badge. "For example, I'm really a U.S. Treasury agent!"
"Really!" Cherry replied as she crossed her arms. "Huh... I never would've guessed."
"Now it's time to see who these ghosts really are." Atticus remarked.
"Boy, it sure feels like it's been a while since any one of us has last said that." Velma commented.
Atticus nodded before looking over. "Although, I may already have an idea." he then said.
Lance soon took off a mask to reveal the true face underneath the ghost's mask.
"Captain Cannaby?!" The group gasped.
"Wrong again," Lance replied, taking off another mask as the captain was not who they thought he was. "It's actually Jack Cannon: a nefarious counterfeiter."
"A double-disguise!" Valerie exclaimed.
"Now that's what I really call 'two-faced'!" Melody giggled.
"And this fake Injun Joe was his partner!" Lance explained.
"I thought Johnny was his partner?" Daphne commented.
"I was, but not in crime," replied Johnny as he came onto the deck. "When I bought the Dixie Queen, he bought in as a partner; not to help restore it, but to hide his secret activities."
"So he used the ghost gimmick to scare you away too!" Fred concluded.
"Right, and then when I got wise, he threw me in the brig where Josie and her pals found me." Johnny nodded.
"Now the clues all add up," Atticus said as he checked his notepad. "The counterfeiters used their secret cave in Tom Sawyer's cavern to print up their fake money."
"And The Dixie Queen was their distribution to the rest of the gang." Johnny nodded.
"And the phoney ghost scheme was to scare everybody from their crooked operation." Atticus finished up with a smile.
"But thanks to you kids, it's all over," Lance replied. "Especially for the would-be ghosts."
"And The Dixie Queen will sail again tomorrow!" Johnny smiled.
THE NEXT DAY...
Everyone let out a rousing cheer as the Dixie Queen was sailing across the river once more.
"Now this is a band I could get used to." Salem smirked as he watched Josie, Melody, and Valerie.
The three girls soon began to play in their band known as Josie & the Pussycats with Josie on guitar, Valerie on tambourine, and Melody on the drums, as they sang their traditional song as Salem began to dance along to the song. Alan smiled proudly as he watched this from afar, though Alexandra didn't seem to be around.
"Hm... Alexandra's missing... I think I know where she went..." Cherry said suspiciously.
"Well, let's just see what it is," said Lionel. "And how it backfires."
"Isn't karma just delicious?" Cherry smirked.
Alexandra was at the top of a balcony with a bucket as Sebastian was asleep next to her. "I'll prove to Alan that Josie is all wet!" she then glared assertively as she grabbed the bucket and tossed out the water.
Sebastian then suddenly jumped down as the wind soon blew the water right back into Alexandra's face.
"Argh!" Alexandra growled in frustration as she dripped wet while Sebastian snickered at her misfortune.
"Yep! And it tastes better when wet." Lionel chuckled.
The song and dance from Josie and her friends was a really nice treat.
"This band reminds me... I should probably give my cousin a call." Atticus suddenly said.
"Which one?" asked Lionel dryly.
"Thorn," Atticus smiled. "It's been a while. I'm sure we could book a visit to her and the other Hex Girls if we're lucky."
"Sure... that sounds good." Lionel replied.
Atticus nodded as he took out his cell phone and walked off to take a call.
"Full speed, ahead!" Johnny announced.
"Aye-Aye, Captain!" Valerie replied. "More steam!"
"More steam comin' up!" Fred nodded as he began to put the fake money in the fire with Alexander.
The steam seemed to make dollar sign shapes from the top.
"Boy, that's something you don't see every day." Patch commented to Scrappy.
"I've heard of having money to burn, but this really takes the cake!" Lionel remarked.
"As a reward, Shaggy, order anything you want." Lance told Shaggy as they met up in the kitchen.
"I'll eat to that," Shaggy smiled. "One triple-decker burger, please!"
"Comin' up!" Scooby smiled as he soon flipped a pan with the burger in it before he soon jumped up after it and caught it in his mouth before running out of the kitchen suddenly.
"Hey!" Shaggy glared and chased Scooby. "Hey, come back with my reward!"
Shaggy and Scooby soon ran on the water wheel.
"Scooby-Doo, where are you going with my burger?!" Shaggy glared.
Scooby ate the burger.
"Doggone!" Shaggy glared.
"No, burger gone." Scooby laughed before licking his face.
"Oh, you two." Scrappy shrugged as everyone had a good laugh about that.
Some time had passed as Josie and her friends had to get going and they all shared their goodbyes and hoped to maybe meet again someday.
"So, what did your cousin and her friends say?" Cherry asked Atticus after he got off the phone.
"They said they'd love to have us," Atticus smiled. "They also think you might love their new house."
"All right then," Cherry remarked. "Looks like we're due for a Hex Girls visit next. Sabrina, Salem, you want in on this?" she then asked the two.
"Sure," Sabrina beamed. "That sounds wicked cool."
"I don't have any other plans," Salem shrugged. "So okay!"
"Yeah!" The group then cheered as this adventure came to an end, but not the story, as there was still more to come after this.
So stay tuned!