"No luck with your mother?" Ben asked.
"No, I don't get it..." Cherry sighed. She then looked up to him. "Why are you so obsessed with my mom anyway?"
"I have a feeling someone used to have a crush on someone and still has it, but has become obsessed over it." Atticus said.
"What're you talking about now?" Cherry looked annoyed that Atticus mentioned crushes because he suspected her having one on the older male.
"I think Ben Ravencroft used to have a crush on your mom and is obsessing over it." Atticus told her.
Cherry had a shocked face. "That's ridiculous! My mom is married and so is he! ...I think..." she muttered the last bit.
"I just go with what I've observed." Atticus said.
Cherry rolled her eyes. "That's disgusting..." she murmured, a tad bit hypocritically.
'I know what I see.' Atticus thought.
The Hex Girls came as soon as they found their musical equipment had been messed with.
'Hope they're not angry with their equipment being used.' Atticus thought.
Thorn, Dusk, and Luna came as Shaggy and Scooby were examining their instruments.
"Step away from the keyboard." Luna snapped to Scooby as he played the keys with his tail.
Shaggy wondered why the music stopped, then looked a little alarmed as Dusk was staring him down. He then grew very nervous and scared.
Thorn looked to them all. "What are you doing here?" she asked, curious with a hint of impatience.
"We could ask you the same thing." Fred said, rather defensively.
"We're here to set a trap for the witch's ghost." Atticus explained.
"The ghost?" Thorn sounded doubtful.
"I'm sure you've heard of her if you live around here." Cherry spoke up.
"Well... Yes, I have,..." Thorn shrugged.
"And we're going to set a trap for her to prove she's not a real ghost." Atticus said.
"She is too, man!" Shaggy was too scared to believe anything else.
"Reah, reah!" Scooby agreed.
Cherry rolled her eyes. "How do you guys not know by now there's no such things as monsters?"
And then they all felt a gust of wind.
"She's here." Atticus said.
The ghost threw her fireballs on the stage, making everyone try to jump out of the way. Now everyone could see the ghost Shaggy and Scooby had been talking about. Velma ran with the others, but she had tripped onto the ground. Even if they were afraid because of the ghost, Shaggy and Scooby actually helped Velma up to continue running away from Sarah's ghost. Atticus went to help Velma as well and hoped that the ghost would get trapped.
"NOW!" Velma yelled when she was helped.
Scooby and Shaggy pulled back a tree branch, smacking the ghost in the face and making her land into a nearby soccer net, making everyone cheer in victory.
"Now, let's see who's behind all of this." Fred smiled to his friends, eager to do this.
"Atticus, would you like to remove the mask?" Daphne offered to him, knowing how big a Mystery Inc. fan he was.
"It would be my honor," Atticus said before walking over to the witch to remove the mask. "But I think I might know who it already is, isn't that right, Mr. McKnight?" He then removed the mask of the witch's ghost to see it really was the pharmacist Mr. McKnight.
Everyone questioned him, but the most surprising was one of the Hex Girl's reactions.
"Daddy?" Thorn was surprised.
"Hello, Sally." Mr. McKnight said his daughter's birth name.
"Your dad's the ghost?" Luna asked.
"Your name is Sally?" Fred added, which made Thorn look annoyed that she was called that.
Atticus elbowed Fred, telling him that Thorn didn't like to be called Sally by anyone else.
"I don't believe this, Daddy," Thorn came closer to her father. "Why would you do something like this?"
"Wait, you mean you guys aren't involved?" Cherry asked the Hex Girls.
"The girls have nothing to do with this." Mr. McKnight explained.
"What in the world is going on this evening!?" Corey rushed over to the group.
Cherry looked for her mother, but still didn't see her. Where was she? Wasn't she worried about Cherry and Atticus? Atticus showed the mayor to Mr. McKnight. Velma spoke up and explained how she knew what might had been happening with the false witch's ghost. Even Jake and a few people in Oakhaven were involved with this mysterious case. The Mayor was also revealed to be a major part, which disappointed Ben even more, and even Scooby was ashamed with him. Now the only question was where was Cherry's mother.
"Do either of you know where my mom is?" Cherry asked the townspeople.
"Your mother?" Corey asked, blinking. "I haven't seen her in hours."
"Are you sure?" Cherry frowned in disappointment and worry.
Ben glanced to everyone, keeping himself silent.
"We better look for her then." Atticus said.
"Where could she be...?" Cherry sighed, she held her phone, she may had been outside, but she should've had missed calls or texts she missed by now as she walked with Atticus.
Atticus helped her get a better signal by putting her on his shoulders.
Cherry kept trying, she called her mother's cell phone number, but she only got the voice mail. "That's so unlike her..." she mumbled as she made sure not to fall.
Atticus then placed her back down. "I wish there was a way we could find out where you mother was." he said.
"I can't imagine where she could be..." Cherry sighed.
Thorn, Dusk, and Luna were going to to join Mystery Inc. to go to Ben's studio, then passed the two.
"Don't you guys like have a curfew or something?" Luna asked them.
"I can't get a hold of my mom and I don't know what else we can do." Cherry said to her.
"Bummer." Dusk mumbled.
Thorn looked ahead with a shrug. "We were on our way to Ben's studio, you wanna come with us?" she offered.
"Sure, maybe Cherry's mother is there right now." Atticus guessed.
Cherry shrugged, she walked with Atticus and the Hex Girls then.
"Atticus, have you been to one of our concerts?" Thorn asked. "You seem very familiar..."
"No, I don't think so, but you also seem strangely familiar," Atticus said. "Were you there on the day I was born?"
Thorn tried to think that far back to when Atticus was born in the hospital. She saw her younger self with crimson red hair before she dyed it black, she was visiting family, but on today, she was about to be given a new cousin.
Flashback
"Sorry this had to happen on a visit, Sally." Patrick apologized to his sister's daughter.
"That's okay, Uncle Patrick," Sally looked up to her uncle. "It's the most exciting visit of my life now." she smiled, chuckling sheepishly.
Patrick ruffled her hair, chuckling himself.
"Would you like to see your new baby cousin?" Mr. McKnight asked his daughter.
Sally smiled. "Yeah! Was it a boy or a girl?" she rushed in with her father, who led her in with Patrick.
Jessica looked over, her hair was in pigtails then. "I'm a big sister!" she cheered for herself.
Emily chuckled as she held the bundle wrapped in a blue blanket. The baby was shown as a baby boy.
"Meet your baby brother/cousin: Atticus." Emily said.
Jessica and Sally looked over and awed at him.
"He's so handsome." Sally smiled.
"Yeah, but he's not doin' anything..." Jessica pouted, she expected her baby brother to do things like ALREADY coo, babble, sit up and crawl like in commercials.
"Atticus?" Mr. McKnight thought that was an interesting name to use for the child.
"Yes, we thought it fit him perfectly." Patrick said as he held his wife's left hand.
Emily smiled, gently squeezing his hand back. "He reminds me of my father too."
Jessica had wanted a little sister, but she supposed that a little brother would have to do.
Sally smiled down. "Hi, Atticus..." she whispered to him.
End of Flashback
Thorn blinked, shaking her head at that memory. "I guess I did..." she looked down to him.
"You guys are cousins?" Cherry asked, surprised.
"Yeah," Thorn scratched her chin a little. "I think my mom was his dad's sister."
"W-What was your mother's name?" Atticus asked.
"Delilah," Thorn remembered with a smile. "Delilah Fudo, married to Haggett McKnight."
"Th-That was the name of my father's sister." Atticus said.
"What's your father's name?" Thorn asked.
Dusk, Luna, and Cherry were surprised of what was happening around them.
"My father's name is Patrick Fudo." Atticus said
Thorn blinked. "That means we're..." she started.
"Cousins." Atticus finished.
"Twisted..." Dusk blinked, she wasn't expecting that.
"Wow." Cherry was just as shocked.
Luna was shocked, but she looked like she didn't care.
"This is amazing news." Atticus said.
"I guess it is..." Thorn chuckled. "I guess that means you're 1/16th Wiccan too."
"Yeah," Atticus said. "I've learned everything I could about Wiccan's and where that means we also have their magical powers."
"I don't know about that, but yeah, I guess." Thorn smiled.