"Ah... This is relaxing..." Cherry smiled as she came to the ocean to soak her feet, but didn't go far enough to turn into a mermaid as she just wanted to chill out right now. "Nothing could possibly ruin this moment," She soon saw a familiar large shadow figure in the water. "Well, this could be bad..." She said stoically before running out of the water and getting as far away as possible.

Soon enough, Evil Manta came out with two birds in his hand, both having the same eyes as Atticus and Mo.

"Hi, Evil Manta..." Cherry smiled nervously. "Did you find Atticus?"

"Cherry, it's us!" The male bird told her.

"Atticus...?" Cherry asked. "You're a bird now?"

"Yes, I was able to recognize him after I recognized his eyes." Evil Manta smirked.

"Guys, I am so sorry..." Cherry told Atticus and Mo. "I didn't think he would find you, and he tried to get me to tell him, I felt scared! I didn't mean to let you down!"

"It's okay, Cherry, I knew you'd let us down." Mo slightly deadpanned.

"Wait, what?" Cherry asked.

"Oh, I didn't mean that in a bad way..." Mo replied. "Uh... It's just... Um... Uh..."

Cherry glared slightly before she shook it off. Evil Manta soon tightened his grip with a smirk before the magic went off in a poof and Atticus and Mo were back to their human forms. Atticus and Mo soon looked to each other.

"So, uh, birds?" Cherry asked them.

"Cherry, it was the strangest thing," Atticus said. "We just suddenly became birds in Rio and soon met these two birds named Blu and Jewel."

"And we were able to help them." Mo added.

"Until Evil Manta caught you, I see..." Cherry replied nervously.

"Yep." Atticus said.

"Heh... Sorry about that..." Cherry replied nervously. "I guess he's mad at you for something you did with your Aunt Athena and Uncle Triton...?"

"Guess I should have seen this coming." Atticus said.

"I just wonder how he even found me or knew who I was..." Cherry mumbled.

"Same here." Mo said.

"Atticus, did you talk about me during your last summer in Atlantica?" Cherry asked.

"Not a whole lot, honestly, I was mostly trying to help Ariel with the music ban that Uncle Triton put on the kingdom." Atticus shrugged.

"Well, that's good." Cherry said.

"Maybe for right now." Evil Manta smirked.

"Okay, what are you up to, sicko?" Cherry glared. "You are ruining my Spring Break!"

"Listen, this is a one time thing, but I've actually brought these two with me to help you and your friends and another monster off this island." Evil Manta said.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait," Atticus said. "Did you just say 'help'?"

"As in willing help?" Mo added.

"Is this a trick?" Cherry narrowed her eyes in suspicion.

"No, this isn't a trick," Evil Manta said. "The man on this island is evil; he even tried to capture me."

"Oh, poor Manta..." Atticus replied. "Wow, I never thought I'd say that... You sound more like your son now."

"Thanks, I think." Evil Manta said.

"Uh, sorry, I just thought you had a black heart and were pure evil like Ursula or Marina del Rey." Atticus replied.

"What in the world is a Marina del Rey?" Cherry asked.

"She was sort of a helper mermaid for Ariel and her sisters after... Aunt Athena died..." Atticus explained, his voice softening at the last part.

"It's true." Evil Manta said as he set Atticus and Mo before squeezing the strong wiccan tightly one last time before letting him go.

"Had to get that out of your system, right?" Atticus guessed at Evil Manta.

"Yes..." Evil Manta replied. "Some old habits are hard to break."

"Eh, I guess I can't blame ya..." Atticus shrugged.

"I knew that man seemed sleazy..." Cherry narrowed her eyes about Bartleby.

"Let me guess; he promised you would leave the next day, right?" Evil Manta guessed.

"Yeah, he wants us to stay tonight to throw a party for Frankie." Cherry replied.

"Really?" Mo asked. "Why?"

"I think it's because these statues look like her..." Cherry replied.

Evil Manta took a look at the statues. "Hmm... I suppose your friend looks like her..." he then said with a shrug.

"I guess I should explain," Cherry said. "Frankie's the daughter of Frankenstein's Monster."

"Yep." Mo nodded.

"You have strange friends, Atticus." Evil Manta said to the young Wiccan merboy.

"So, you're on our side now?" Atticus asked Evil Manta since he was an enemy to his mother's side of the family.

"Yes." Evil Manta nodded.

"This will be an interesting experience..." Atticus commented. "I never thought I'd say this, but welcome aboard, Evil Manta."

"We also have to watch out for The Brain Sponge." Evil Manta said.

"Uh... Brain Sponge?" Mo asked nervously. "Is that a monster of the sea?!"

"Mom's told me all about it." Atticus said.

"Oh... Um... What is it then?" Mo asked. "Please tell me it isn't dangerous!"

Cherry shrugged since she didn't know.

"Allow me," Evil Manta replied since this was his department. "Brain Sponge is my pet."

"Why is it called a Brain Sponge?" Mo asked.

"Eh, he kinda feasts on one's imagination..." Evil Manta replied nervously. "I tried to send him on Ariel, but my son sort of got in the way."

"So, how'd they survive?" Atticus asked.

"When I saw that my son was about to be taken by Brain Sponge, I stepped in to save him of course, but then I got trapped instead, but then my son and Ariel saved me..." Evil Manta replied. "So, this might or might not be my last time doing something good."

"We'll take what we can get," Atticus replied. "As long as you don't try to hurt Eric and Ariel on the surface world."

"I'll try not to..." Evil Manta replied. "I still can't get over that little mermaid marrying a human."

"After this, how about the two of you do a little sparring, so then you can see how much stronger Atticus has gotten." Mo suggested to Evil Manta.

"That's fine by me." Evil Manta chuckled.

"Just be ready to lose." Atticus smirked playfully at Evil Manta.

"Just don't cry too hard when you lose." Evil Manta retorted.

"Oh, you are so on!" Atticus smirked.

Later on, everyone else decided to have fun on the island. With the lucky help from Atticus's magic, Evil Manta was able to blend in with the crowd.

Cherry walked by but soon yelped as a volleyball was hurled towards her, hitting her stomach and sending her flying backwards. "I'm okay..." she then called weakly.

Evil Manta soon got took the volleyball and helped her up before throwing it back to where it came from. The Monster High girls and the Tiki people soon looked over.

"Atticus, Mo, we thought you were in Rio." Draculaura smiled.

"We were, but it was a short stay." Atticus said.

"Well, it's good to see you guys again." Clawdeen replied.

Cherry crawled back over after snapping her back in place.

"And we'd like to introduce you to a new friend of ours." Mo said.

Ghoulia groaned to them.

"She said 'who would that be?'." Cherry told Atticus and Mo.

Mo and Atticus began to think of a good name for Evil Manta.

"Manny!/Matthew!" Atticus and Mo said in unison. "Uh... Matthew/Manny!"

The Monster High girls glanced to them.

"Uh, Manuel Matthew, but Matt for short." Mo said before chuckling nervously.

'Well, that was awkward.' Cherry thought to herself.

"So, who is he?" Frankie asked.

"He's my uncle from far, far away come to visit!" Mo said with a sheepish smile.

Evil Manta knew that he had to go along with this lie.

"Volleyball anyone?" Atticus smiled nervously as he picked up the ball to change the subject.

They soon started to play volleyball. The ball then went too far and Frankie went to get it. Kipling was shown hiding behind a tree.

"Oh, hey, Kipling," Frankie smiled. "Wanna play?"

"I-I better not... I'm not like you guys..." Kipling said shyly as he handed her the ball. "My mask could slip, and Bartleby says I'm too horrible to behold."

"Yikes." Mo said.

"He reminds me of Quasimodo." Cherry whispered to Atticus and Mo.

"Aw, don't be silly, we're all monsters here..." Frankie replied. "Well, mostly anyway." she then added about Atticus, Cherry, and Mo.

"I... I can't..." Kipling replied.

"You sure?" Atticus asked him.

"I'm sure..." Kipling replied. "You go on without me."

"Well, okay." Atticus said.

"So, where's Lagoona and Gil?" Cherry asked.

"I think they wanted to take a slow walk around the beach." Draculaura replied.

"That sounds romantic." Mo smiled.

"Oh, it sure does," Draculaura sighed. "It's a shame I can't do the same with Clawd."

"I'm sure he misses you." Atticus said.

"Love is a fickle thing, I just say you make the best out of it when you can." Evil Manta advised.

"That's sweet advice, sir." Draculaura smiled.

"Yeah..." Atticus smirked to his family's enemy.

"Just giving some advice." Evil Manta said.

"I knew since we met Bartleby he had to be bad news..." Cherry narrowed her eyes. "Probably gonna sell us to some circus to make us preform for the rest of our lives, then my parents will be like 'Where's your friends, Cherry? You weren't look after your best friend, Cherry'... It'll end badly... 'They need your help sometimes, Cherry'..." she then got into an insane tangent. "'Brush and floss, Cherry'... 'WHERE HAS THAT FINGER BEEN, CHERRY'?!"

Mo soon smacked her to calm her down.

"Okay, I needed that." Cherry muttered.

"You sure did." Mo nodded.

Cherry rubbed her cheek while they stayed on Skull Shores, but Lagoona and Gil were actually exploring the ship since Lagoona didn't trust Bartleby either, but Gil thought she was just overreacting, but he would be proven wrong.