Cherry's tail fin soon glowed and changed back into her legs once she was on board with the other Monster High ghouls.
"Thanks so much, mate." Lagoona smiled.
"Oh, you saved us." Draculaura added.
"It's nothing." A masked man replied softly.
"On the contrary," Another man smirked. "It is our distinct pleasure having you aboard our humble watercraft."
"We're just glad you came." Cherry said.
"Allow me to introduce myself," The unmasked man said to her before bowing loyally. "Bartleby Farnum, at your service."
"What an interesting boat..." Cleo said as she looked at the chains and cages. "What do you do?"
"What do I do?" The man smiled to her. "The better question is: What don't I do?"
The masked man soon played an accordion.
'Oh, please, just don't sing.' Cherry thought to herself.
Much to her dismay, Bartleby sang about who he was.
"Barfing again!" Cherry cried out before leaning over. She started to vomit while he sang.
"I entertain." Bartleby soon concluded.
"Is that what he calls it?" Cherry deadpanned. "Because I feel tortured."
Bartleby shook his cane and it soon made a huge firework in the sky after puffing out a dud.
"Mr. Farnum, do you think you could drop us off at the Great Barrier Reef?" Lagoona requested. "If it's not too far out of your way."
"It will be to my great delight, madame." Bartleby smiled.
'Looks like we won't be going to Skull Shores after all.' Cherry thought to herself.
Bartleby took a long look at Frankie while Gil was nervous.
"Frankie Stein," Frankie smiled to the man. "Nice to meet-"
'Why do I have a bad feeling the way he's looking at Frankie?' Cherry thought to herself.
"Kipling, see to her needs, I'll be in my cabin." Bartleby told his masked friend before walking off.
"That was rather rude he interrupted you." Cherry said to Frankie.
"Yeah, a little..." Frankie admitted. "I guess something was on his mind."
"Yeah..." Cherry hummed out of suspicion.
"Come on, girls, I'll help you get settled in." Kipling offered.
The girls soon accepted his help.
"Why do you wear a mask?" Cherry asked Kipling.
"Oh, um, Bartleby says no one should see what I look like." Kipling told her.
"Why?" Cherry asked.
"I'm hideous." Kipling sulked.
"I've heard that before." Cherry said.
"You have?" Kipling asked. "Surely no one's told you that though."
"Only one person." Cherry said.
"Oh, no, they couldn't have..." Kipling replied. "You're gorgeous."
"And you're sweet, but yes..." Cherry hid a small smirk.
"Who?" Kipling asked.
"Eh, it's not important," Cherry replied. "Sticks and stones."
"Huh?" Kipling asked out of confusion.
"Don't you know the saying?" Cherry replied. "'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me'."
"But those sticks and stones sound like they might." Kipling winced.
Cherry paused a moment. "Yeah, that's true," she then admitted. "I guess that saying can be confusing for most people or monsters."
"I better get back to Bartleby... You girls let me know if you need anything." Kipling said.
"All right, see ya later." Cherry told him.
Kipling soon left the girls.
"Strange guy... A little nice though..." Cherry shrugged before she got settled in with the others. "I'm just happy that we're on our way to The Great Barrier Reef."
"At least you're happy." Gil mumbled to her.
"Just be happy it's not an adventure." Cherry said.
Everyone soon fell asleep, but when they would wake up, they would end up anywhere but the Great Scarrier Reef, and where it would be an adventure.
The others were soon woken up by the foghorn.
"Ugh!" Cleo groaned about the loud noise. "Oh, my Ra!"
"What's with the loud awakening?" Cherry groaned.
"Hurry, hurry, step right up!" Bartleby smirked like a con artist carnival showman. "All aboard Skull Shores!"
"No, no, no, no, no, no!" Cherry panicked.
"What's wrong, Cherry?" Clawdeen asked. "This place looks amazing."
The other girls agreed that Skull Shores looked pretty cool.
"Oh, don't be shy," Bartleby chuckled to them. "Feast your eyes upon the most magnificent, mysterious, monstrously marvelous island that time ever forgot!"
"Fine, but not for a long time." Cherry said.
"What about the Great Scarrier Reef?" Lagoona asked.
"This is merely a temporary stop, my dear," Bartleby smiled to her. "One night only. For recuperation, and supplies."
Lagoona looked almost like she couldn't trust this man.
"Just one night, right?" Cherry asked.
"Of course, of course." Bartleby assured her.
The boat soon docked and they came out onto the docks while Kipling stood by to help them out.
"And now, may I present this island's indigenous people: The Tikis!" Bartleby introduced.
"The Tikis?" Cherry asked out of confusion.
Soon enough, there came natives that wore Tiki Masks.
"And, just like that, I have Wiki Tiki flashbacks." Cherry muttered.
"Um, are they dangerous?" Gil asked as he hid behind Lagoona out of fear.
"Far from it," Bartleby chuckled. "The Tiki people are the friendliest, most welcoming beings I have ever encountered in the multitude of my travels."
"That's good." Cherry said.
"The Tiki people will show you to your quarters, and as an added bonus, one member of your troop will be getting the royal treatment." Bartleby smiled.
Two tiki people soon came out with a wooden chair, approaching Gil and the girls.
"You shouldn't have." Cleo smiled until she saw they ran past her.
"Well, that happened." Cherry smirked.
"WHAT?!" Cleo shrieked as the Tiki person soon took Frankie's hand.
"Well, this is interesting." Cherry said.
"Me? I don't know..." Frankie smiled before being placed in the chair. "Ooh... A ghoul could get used to this."
The Tiki people then walked off with Frankie.
"Why is Frankie getting the royal treatment?" Cleo huffed.
"Not sure." Cherry shrugged.
Eventually, everyone came to explore Skull Shores to see what it was like.
"What's going on, Abbey?" Ghoulia asked the yeti girl.
"Cell phones no work on this island!" Abbey glared at her phone before tossing it over her shoulder.
"Wait, so we have no communication to the outside world?!" Cherry panicked.
"It is seeming so, but we will not be here long anyway." Abbey shrugged.
"I hope." Cherry said.
"Pretty sweet, right, D?" Clawdeen smiled to the vampire girl.
"Totes!" Draculaura beamed.
"Let's just hope this is just for one night." Cherry said.
"You're telling me..." Cleo sighed as she had to carry her own bags. "It's not exactly the Four Scream Inns, but it'll do, I suppose."
A tiki stopped her and gestured for her.
"Ooh, I get my own place?" Cleo smiled. "Finally, treatment befitting my-"
"Uh, Cleo?" Cherry asked as she pointed to a hammock that was outside and didn't look very clean. "I don't think you'll be treated royally."
"Royal stature..." Cleo muttered as a fly buzzed onto her cheek.
"Well, this is interesting." Cherry said.
Cleo rolled her eyes.
"This island is crazy!" Clawdeen beamed. "I've never seen anything like it!"
"If only Cleo could enjoy it." Cherry replied, trying not to laugh at the Egyptian Mummy Princess.
"Don't make fun of me." Cleo said.
"Oh, uh, hi there." Cherry smiled nervously.
"Wow, who sandblasted your sphinx?" Draculaura asked Cleo.
"I don't want to talk about it..." Cleo rolled her eyes melodramatically.
"Anyway, let's have fun." Cherry said.
Lagoona and Gil soon came up.
"Hey," Draculaura smiled. "Isn't this place amazing?"
"You guys notice anything familiar about the statues?" Lagoona asked quizzically.
"This island actually is familiar to me from a dream." Cherry said.
"Couldn't you had dreamt up something more glamorous and respectful to a Pharaoh's daughter?" Cleo muttered.
"What do they look like though?" Clawdeen agreed about the statues. "Somebody famous or somebody we know?"
"Oh, my ghoul!" Frankie gushed as she appeared which seemed to make everyone get the idea now on the strange statues. "My hut is so amazing! The room is three stories, the monster fruit baskets, and the flowers!"
"That's amazing." Cherry said.
"Cherry, don't you see what we see?" Lagoona asked.
Cherry looked and then did a double take as she saw that the statues did in fact look like Frankie. "No way..." She said.
Eventually, everyone decided to get settled on Skull Shores since they were spending the night.
"I hope this isn't an adventure." Cherry said.
A coconut soon landed on her head.
"And that's where babies come from..." Cherry said in a daze before falling off balance. She was soon unconscious.
Abbey took the coconut and split it in half before cooling the milk with her snow powers. "Want any, Cherry?" She asked the unconscious girl.
Cherry soon stood up and looked brave and heroic suddenly. "There is no Cherry, I am Cerise: Lady of the Jungle Island!" she then said in a heavy accent almost like she forgot who she was.
"Are you feeling okay?" Clawdeen asked her.
"I am feeling better than ever!" Cherry smirked. "I seek adventure!"
"Does anybody know why Cherry is acting like this?" Clawdeen asked.
"She hit her head on coconut." Abbey replied.
"Oh, okay." Clawdeen said before hitting Cherry's head again.
Cherry looked dazed a moment and then suddenly spoke random Japanese. "これまでのこの話が好きなら、読んでレビューしてください。本当にありがとう!"
"Next!" Clawdeen called out as she hit Cherry's head again.
"Ugh... What happened?" Cherry groaned as she was now back to normal.
"Whew, you're back." Clawdeen said.
"Did I go somewhere?" Cherry asked.
"You were not Cherry." Abbey told her.
"Um... Thanks..." Cherry felt even more confused since English was not Abbey's first language.
"She means a coconut hit on your head and you acted like a different person." Draculaura explained.
"How cliche..." Cherry deadpanned. "That sounds like the new Chipmunks movie where they get shipwrecked and Simon loses his memory."
The others glanced to her.
"I was forced to watch that..." Cherry rolled her eyes. "Those movies don't know the Chipmunks like I know the Chipmunks, why, next to Frankenstein and the Wolf Man, we even met The Easter Chipmunk!"
"The Easter who?" Draculaura asked.
"Nothing..." Cherry muttered.
Abbey handed her the chilled coconut.
Cherry soon took it and tried it. "Mm, chilly~" she then smirked at the taste.
"Thank you." Abbey smiled.
"Nice job, Abbey." Cherry gave a stoic thumb's up.
Abbey smiled back. A Tiki took a cold coconut, but froze up and fell over.
"Heh..." Cherry smiled nervously to the yeti girl. "Maybe a little bit too cold."
"I wonder why all the statues on this island look like Frankie." Clawdeen wondered.
"We should ask Mr. Farnum." Draculaura suggested.
"Yeah, I guess we should." Cherry said.
They soon came to find the man as he was with Kipling and soon asked him about the statues.
"Yeah, it's kind of odd." Lagoona added.
"And why are they treating me-" Frankie was about to ask only to be interrupted by Cleo.
"The way I'm supposed to be treated?!"
"Oh, let me answer your question with one of my own," Bartleby smirked. "Do you like surprises?"
"Not after that smirk you just had." Cherry said.
"Well, I can't say anything or I'll ruin it," Bartleby replied. "I can say however, that all of your questions will be answered tonight!"
"Tonight?" Cherry replied. "But you said you'd help us to the Great Scarrier Reef!"
"But then we'd miss the party." Bartleby replied before gasping and cupping his mouth almost like when Scar 'accidentally' told Simba and the others about The Elephant Graveyard.
'Oh, how classic.' Cherry thought to herself with an eye roll.
"Oh, no, I've said too much." Bartleby put his hand to his forehead in dismay.
"Cool~" Draculaura beamed.
"Party?" Lagoona asked.
"Oh, the Tiki don't get many visitors here, so when they do, they like to make their guests feel special," Bartleby smirked to the Monster High girls. "So, with my help; they're going to throw you the most splendorous party the world has ever known! And you, my lady, will be the guest of honor." he then added while gesturing to Frankie.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Cherry said.
"You and me both, Cherry." Lagoona agreed.
"Seems the Tiki have been quite enamored with you." Bartleby smiled to Frankie, taking her hand.
"Oh, wow, I've never been the guest of honor before." Frankie giggled with a smile back in excitement.
"This all sounds fantastic, but we really should be going," Lagoona said before whispering. "My parents are gonna be worried sick if we're not there soon."
"Yeah, so let's not keep them waiting." Cherry added.
"Oh, okay..." Bartleby pouted. "I suppose I'll just tell them the party is off, and break their precious little hearts... Not to mention ruin your friend's chance of being the guest of honor, but if that's the way you feel..."
Cherry and Lagoona looked to each other before back at the sleazy man.
"Right, well, I guess we can stay, but just for tonight." Lagoona replied.
"That's the spirit!" Bartleby beamed. "We'll set sail in the morning!"
'This man seems more like a con-man.' Cherry thought to herself.
"Uh, Mr. Farnum, I was wondering if I could take a look at some of the maps on your boat?" Lagoona asked as the others soon left. "Just so I know how close we are to me home."
"My boat?!" Bartleby gasped. "Uh, no, there's no reason to go there. We're very close, Missy, I assure you."
"That wasn't suspicious at all." Cherry deadpanned as she soon came to the water.