Meanwhile with Jim and Drell...
"And so you see, that's why I eat mice." Drell said as he walked down the stairs with Jim, carrying the torch.
"That is just wrong, man." Jim said.
"Don't noc it 'til you try it." Drell defended.
"Anyway, let's get back at the topic at hand." Jim said.
"Mortals..." Drell mumbled under his breath.
"Now, what was it that the gypsy wanted us to look for?" Jim tried to remember. "The crypt with... The crypt with..."
'Oh, brother, this mortal is hopeless.' Drell thought to himself.
Jim kept trying to remember what Leota had told him.
"A crypt without a name, Uncle Jim!" Cherry's voice called, showing she was with Atticus and Megan.
Jim yelled out and looked to see his niece, daughter, and guests. "Oh! What's the matter with you?" He glared at cherry for startling him like that. "You can't just be popping out like that. I thought I told you to wait with Michael."
"He's fine outside by himself, besides, we had a feeling you would forget what she said." Atticus said.
"Anyway, she said 'Find the crypt with no name, or your fate will be the same'." Megan then reminded her father, using the rhyme that the gypsy had taught them.
"I think I found it..." Drell said as he looked to the darkened distance.
"That must be it." Jim said.
"Good hunch, Dad." Megan deadpanned.
"Yeah, what a genius." Mo added.
Jim glanced to them and walked to the crypt carefully and slowly.
"The gypsy made this sound like it would be hard." Atticus said.
"Like you don't, Wiccan..." Cherry mumbled with a dark smirk in a rather mocking way.
"Don't start." Drell said.
"Who's gonna stop me?" Cherry poked his nose.
Drell lowly growled.
"I'm officially starting to get sick of this place," Jim said as they came closer to the crypt. "And we're here 'cuz of who? Because I take seriously my responsibility as breadwinner. I want you guys to have everything I never had before."
"This guy is starting to annoy me." Drell whispered.
"Now I know why I don't visit often." Cherry whispered back.
"And a good thing too." Drell whispered back.
"For once, we agree on something." Cherry rolled her eyes.
"Yep." Drell nodded.
"I didn't know you had a bad childhood." Megan said to her father.
"I didn't have a bad childhood." Jim defended, which led to them having a small argument.
"Alright, who wants to open it?" Drell asked. "How 'bout you, Cherry, unless you're scared?"
"I am not!" Cherry shook her fists at him.
"I'll open it." Atticus said.
"It might need some muscle anyway." Drell agreed.
Atticus then went up to the crypt while rolling up his sleeves.
"Can I have your laptop?" Cherry asked.
Atticus glanced at her.
Cherry shrugged. "I'll be sad when you die."
"He's not going to die." Drell said.
"You can't tell the future..." Cherry's eyes grew shifty.
Atticus soon used all his strength and got the crypt open. There appeared to be a dusty and rotting corpse inside with the skeleton showing.
"Phew!" Jim grunted in disgust. "Oh, man!"
"There's the key..." Cherry walked and stood over the corpse, she then pried open the cold, dead hands with no hesitation while the others looked absolutely disgusted and sick to their stomachs about the dead body. "I'm so jealous of you right now." she said to the corpse as she took the key out of the hold.
"Okay, one of us has got to get the key." Drell said.
"Uh, Drell?" Attius pointed in slight disgust.
"And Leota said this would be hard, that was easy." Cherry turned to the others with the key.
"I can't believe you touched a dead body!" Drell grunted. "What is wrong with you?!"
The corpse seemed to sit up right behind her.
"Wait, guys, why do I hear bones moving?" Atticus asked.
The others slowly turned around and saw that the corpse was alive and roared to them.
"Dang!" Cherry yelped and accidentally dropped the key into the murky waters. "Oops..."
"Oh, come on!" Drell exclaimed.
"Drell, I'm so sorry..." Cherry said.
Drell picked her up by her hood and held her over the water.
"Drell, what're you doing?!" Cherry panicked.
"You drop it, you get it." Drell said before he started to let go of her finger by finger.
"But I can't swim!" Cherry yelped.
"Oh, for the love of... I'll get it." Megan told them.
"Whoops." Drell let go of Cherry and made her fall into the gross water.
Atticus caught his best friend the last second before she would splash into the water. Cherry screamed, then looked up and around and stopped once she saw Atticus had her.
"You can stop now..." Atticus told her.
Cherry cleared her throat and settled down. Megan began to make her way down to the water. Cherry dusted herself clean once she touched the solid ground again.
"Never do that again." Atticus said, glaring at Drell.
"Yes, sir!" Drell saluted.
"What do we do about our new friend?!" Mo gulped nervously as the corpse was coming toward them.
"We'll have to fight him off." Atticus said.
"Who's we?" Cherry whispered.
"Fine, the ones that aren't afraid to fight off the undead." Mo said.
"Who said I'm afraid to fight the undead?" Cherry asked. "I just got a key from his cold, dead hands!"
"Hey, hey, man, go back to sleep!" Jim got nervous as the corpse came closer and closer. "Go on now back to bed! Get in your bed, go back to bed, I'm Jim Evers of Evers and Evers Real Estate!"
"Will you stop talking and just start fighting him?!" Drell glared.
Cherry hid behind Drell and shivered slightly, but her medallion appeared to be around her neck and it seemed to glow as the zombie drew closer and closer, much to Jim's nervousness.
"Um, Cherry, why is your medallion glowing?" Mo asked before noticing her own medallion and Atticus's medallion were around her and Atticus's necks. "And where did our medallions come from, we didn't put them on."
"Atticus always wears his, I don't remember wearing mine at all today..." Cherry said as she looked down to her medallion.
"There must be a reason why they appeared." Mo said.
"We'll figure that out later when we don't have the undead to fight." Atticus said.
"Right." the others agreed.
"Beat it, zombie, go back to Thriller!" Cherry made a karate pose as she stood in front of the living corpse.
The zombie walked up to her and roared in her face. Cherry coughed weakly before falling backwards and twitched.
"That's a first." Drell said.
"Leave us alone!" Atticus glared at the zombie.
The zombie only seem to roar at him which got a punch to the face.
"Guh..." Atticus waved his fist. "That was kinda gross."
The zombie seemed to tumble over the small bridge and splash int othe water.
"Next time you're gonna think twice before coming back from the dead, ain't you?" Jim mocked the zombie.
"Have you found it yet?" Drell asked Megan.
"I'm looking, I'm looking!" Megan called back as she wasn't under the water, but trying to look for the key from where she was standing in the water.
"Well, take your time, relax, we have everything under control up here." Jim replied casually. "We have everything completely under control."
"Uh, Mr. Evers?" Mo pointed in slight horror.
There were more coffins that appeared to have more zombies coming back to life.
"Oh, come on!" Drell complained.
"We should help Megan find the key..." Atticus said as he sat on the edge of the bridge. "Mo, remember what I told you."
"Right." Mo agreed as she sat with him. "Ready, Cherry?"
"No." Cherry moaned.
"Ready!" Atticus and Mo dove into the water to help Megan find the key as she went underwater to track the key down.
"I can't believe I have to do this." Megan shuddered before diving underwater.
"Uh, yeah, I'll wait here until you guys get back..." Cherry smiled nervously as she sat on top of the bridge after Atticus and Mo became merpeople to help Megan get the key.
"Sure, then you can help us fight off zombies." Drell said.
"Gah!" Cherry shivered.
"Either you swim in the yucky water or you fight zombies, it's up to you, Yankee Doodle." Drell folded his arms.
"Ugh..." Cherry groaned, then took a deep breath as she dove forward into the water, turning into a mermaid as well as she joined her friends and cousin to track down the key.
"That's what I thought." Drell smirked.
"I hate you, Drell!" Cherry called out.
"Yeah, yeah." Drell rolled his eyes.
"Eww, everything in here's so icky and corpsy..." Mo shuddered as she was under the water with Atticus, Cherry, and Megan.
"Let's just keep looking." Atticus said.
The zombies were making their way for Jim and Drell.
"Jeez..." Jim muttered nervously.
"We can fight them." Drell said.
"We can?" Jim looked nervously to the warlock.
"Yes." Drell nodded.
"Uh, maybe you can..." Jim looked nervous.
"Oh, brother." Drell groaned.
"Now, if I were a mausoleum key, where would I be?" Cherry asked herself.
Megan pulled onto one of Mo's arms before pointing to the key.
"Aha!" Mo smirked as she came closer to the key.
"Talk about Night of the Living Dead..." Drell said as hordes and hordes of zombies were flooding in on dry land.
"How are we supposed to fight off all those?" Jim asked.
"Oh, you are so useless, here..." Drell handed the torch before crackling his knuckles and jumped in front of the zombies. "COME GET SOME!"
"Have you lost your mind?!" Jim exclaimed.
"Trust me, I know what I'm doing!" Drell replied.
"Well, alright, if you say so!" Jim replied back.
Drell rolled up his sleeves and cracked his knuckles at the zombies. "I didn't wanna have to hurt you, but... Oh wait, I like seeing other people in pain and misery!" he then charged for some of the zombies and tackled them down.
Megan swam down even further before grabbing the key. Once she got the key, a zombie came into view which made her scream out bubbles.
"Guys, we have a zombie down here!" Mo called out.
Megan jumped up to the surface, only to be surrounded by zombies herself. Atticus, Mo, and Cherry all joined her to see the same thing.
"Oh, my gosh..." Cherry muttered before screaming.
The four of them began to back away from the zombies. Drell roared as he swung by on a vine like Tarzan and wrapped Cherry, Mo, Atticus, and Megan in his arm, then landed on a high pillar with them in his arm.
"Wow, I did not think I'd ever say this to you, Drell, but... Thank you!" Cherry said.
"Don't get cute..." Drell glanced to her.
"But what about my dad?" Megan asked.
"You guys wait here, I'll be right back." Drell then went after the zombies as they came after Jim.
"Hey, stay back!" Jim ordered the zombies.
"Drell saved my life..." Cherry sounded surprised and touched.
"Not just your life." Megan said.
"Let her have her moment." Atticus said.
"How are we all going to get out of here though?" Cherry asked before her medallion seemed to cast over her and lifted her into the air.
Atticus and Mo's did the same and they were now floating too.
"Guys!" Megan yelped at them.
Suddenly, Cherry was no longer a mere earth pony, she had her own wings, and of course, Mo was in her Pegasus form and Atticus in his male Alicorn form.
"Whoa..." Megan was surprised.
"Our medallions changed us into our Equestrian forms?" Atticus said confused.
"I don't understand..." Cherry said, then looked down as the zombies crowded Drell and Jim which made her gasp. "Uncle Jim! Drell! Look out!" she cried out which made a blast come from her medallion and the holy light flashed in the zombies' faces to blind them. "Whoa, that's new," she then said before looking over to Mo and Atticus. "See if your medallions do the same thing."
The zombies snarled at Drell and Jim. Atticus and Mo glared and they used their Equestrian magic to slow down and beat the invading zombies.
"They're using the power of their medallions." Drell whispered to himself.
Atticus used his horn of course and Mo let out a sonic scream which came from her medallion and they used their Equestrian magic against the zombies.
"They are winning." Drell smiled.
Cherry flew over to the warlock and her uncle. "Are you guys okay?"
"Um, are you a flying horse...?" Jim blinked at her awkwardly.
"Yes, Uncle Jim, I am a... Pegasus?" Cherry nodded before realizing she wasn't an earth pony.
"Um... Wow..." Jim blinked.
"Come on, we gotta get out of here!" Cherry told the others.
"Yeah, before those zombies catch up." Atticus said.
"Uhh..." Jim wasn't sure what to say or do, still shocked that Cherry was a flying pony.
"Hop on!" Cherry said.
Drell jumped on her back.
Cherry grunted and whimpered as her wings weakly flapped. "Couldn't you have ridden on somebody else?!" she strained.
"Drell, you'll ride on me while Cherry's uncle will ride on her and Megan will ride on Mo." Atticus said.
"Fair enough." Drell said before getting off of Cherry.
Cherry panted and wheezed. "Jeez! What the hay, man?!"
"Hay is for horses." Drell joked.
Cherry lowly growled to him as her uncle climbed onto her back for a ride.
Mo flew back and turned around. "Quick, Megan, get on!"
"You don't have to tell me twice." Megan said as she got on Mo's back.
"Hang on tight." Mo said to her as she flew with Cherry and Atticus as the zombies were now standing up again and chasing after them.
However, before they could make it out the door, the door instantly closed and locked on them and could only be open from the other side.
"I'll try teleporting us out." Atticus said.
"You're the one with the horn." Mo said.
Atticus nodded, he then tried to charge up his horn to make them all teleport out, but for some reason, he, Mo, and Cherry became their human forms again and were unable to get out by teleportation. "What the?! How did that happen?!"
"Now's not a good time to unpony-up, you guys, get us out of here!" Drell demanded.
"I don't know how it happened, but we're stuck!" Atticus yelped.
Jim and Megan pounded on the door to get Michael to open the door, but he told them he couldn't since the door was now covered with spiders and he didn't have a magazine to swat them away.
"Listen, it's okay to be scared because I'm scared right now!" Jim told his son.
"But Dad, there's spiders, and I don't have a magazine!" Michael cried from the other side.
"Michael, you open this door right now or I'll kill you!" Megan threatened.
"Let's not scare him even more." Mo said.
"Michael, listen to me, I know you're scared of spiders, but guess what? So am I." Cherry said.
"You are?" Michael asked in surprise.
"Yes, but I don't let that stop me!" Cherry urged as the zombies seemed to be coming closer and closer behind them, now walking up the stairs to get them. "Listen, I go on crazy adventures all the time, sometimes I'm scared to go on one because I don't even know if I'll make it out alive or not. You can't let your fear get in the way, being brave isn't about being fearless, it means being scared, but not letting that stand in the way. Listen, Michael, I may not know you that well, but you can do this! Do it for your friends and family!"
"Yes and please do it before the zombies come and eat our brains!" Drell exclaimed.
Michael did his best to muster all of his courage as the spiders crawled around the door, he took a deep breath and walked to the door with the creepy crawlies and unlocked the door with ease and opened the door to let them all out before the zombies could attack them, even though he was now covered in spiders. Once everyone was out, they closed the door before any zombies could get out. Jim rushed to his son and gently patted the spiders off of him and gave him a hug, knowing he felt really scared because of what he had to do to save them.
"Did you guys get the key?" Michael asked.
"Oh, no..." Jim felt panicked as he patted his clothes. "Wait... Whoa..." he then found the key and brought it out to show everybody. "I've got it... I've got it."
"Then let's get back to the mansion and show it to Madame Leota." Atticus said.
"I wonder where this key goes to?" Cherry thought out loud as she put the key in her jacket pocket, knowing it would be safe in there.