Darla hummed dreamily in her sleep.
"Wake up, Darla, we're here." Amber said.
"Five more minutes..." Darla mumbled.
Patch came up to Darla's face, then licked her.
"Okay! Okay! I'm awake!" Darla giggled.
Patch smiled to her. "Good!"
Soon, Patch and Scooby looked outside one of the windows. There was a young woman who was traveling and getting some groceries. Patch smiled and waved at the woman.
"Who is that?" Annabelle wondered.
"I hope someone who can help show us around." Patch looked back to her.
"Oh, that's our new friend." Fred smiled.
"New friend?" Patch asked hopefully.
"Let's get to work and then get some food before we find this certain house." Fred suggested.
"More waiting?" Darla pouted.
"I know." Amber groaned.
"Ugh!" Darla groaned herself and flopped back.
"So boring!" Annabelle groaned.
"Now, calm down, it'll be just fine." Daphne promised.
The little girls scoffed and rolled their eyes as they got certain work done before they would then stop at a Cajun Restaurant to talk about their progress.
"Some food would be good." Mo said.
"Well, come on and you guys can have whatever you want." Fred smiled.
Cherry then woke up and held her stomach, feeling instantly hungry.
"Then, let's go find some food." Patch smiled.
With that, they all came out of the van and decided to take a break from their latest going around until they would get on the road, talking about a place called 'Moonscar Island'.
"Hopefully someone who knows the island well enough can come with." Mo said.
"Yeah, but who?" Darla asked. "My nana's busy with Naveen and Tiana."
"Who knows?" Atticus shrugged.
"What I want is a house that's really haunted," Daphne said as they ate. "I mean, there must be one somewhere in Louisiana."
"There is." a female voice called out to them.
"Who said that?" Atticus asked, looking for the source.
"Over here..." a young woman said. She had long black hair with a red headband like apparel on her head, golden hoop earrings, a red vest with a lavender top, red skirt, and red shoes. "I work in it. Sorry, I couldn't help but overhear. I work as a chef at a house on Moonscar Island, a house that is really haunted."
"Jinkies." Velma commented.
"My name is Lena," the woman introduced herself. "Lena Dupree."
"Pleased to meet you, Ms. Dupree; my name is-" Atticus said about to introduce himself.
"Oh, you don't have to introduce yourself, I already know who you are, Atticus Fudo." Lena smiled.
"You know his name?" Cherry asked in surprise.
"Of course I do, who doesn't?" Lena giggled.
Atticus smiled shyly in response.
"And these are Mo Brown and Cherry Butler," Lena then noticed the other adventurers, then glanced to Darla. "I feel like I've seen you somewhere before."
"You mean in a movie?" Darla highly assumed.
"I don't think so, we don't have television out here." Lena said.
"No television?!" Annabelle's blue eyes widened.
"But we do get the newspapers delivered." Lena smiled.
Darla looked a little nervous.
"Don't worry, I know that you have changed your ways since that little incident." Lena said.
"Oh... Thanks..." Darla smiled to that.
"You still remind me of someone I once knew..." Lena said. "It'll come to me eventually though."
"So, where's Moonscar Island?" Daphne then asked the Cajun woman.
"It's in the bayou not far from here," Lena explained. "A pirate named Morgan Moonscar died on the island and his spirit still haunts the place."
"Maybe he's trying to get revenge or something." Atticus said.
'Uh-huh..." Fred sounded doubtful. ""Well, no offense, Lena, but it's probably an old man dressed up in a pirate suit, trying to scare off the local kids."
"The ghost is real," Lena insisted. "Of course, if you're too scared to go-"
"Us scared? No, no, we're not scared." Atticus said.
""If you want to check it out, you're welcome to come by," Lena invited. "I'll be leaving as soon as I finish shopping."
"Well, uh, we'll think about it..." Fred replied before looking to the others. "Well, what do you think?"
"If it's a real haunted house, I say let's go for it," Atticus said. "Besides we've faced a witch's ghost."
"And a rather wicked descendant of that witch's ghost..." Cherry narrowed her eyes.
"Yep, who are inside spell books." Atticus smirked.
"Hopefully we'll never see those guys again..." Cherry agreed.
"What do we have to lose?" Daphne sounded excited. "It's the best lead we had all day."
"True." Mo nodded in agreement.
"Hmm... I better do some research on this island..." Cherry said. "I brought my laptop with me."
"Great." Atticus said.
Cherry took out her laptop and decided to look up this 'Morgan Moonscar'. Velma began to also do research on the island.
"Adventure..." Annabelle smiled excitedly.
"So exciting." Amber smiled.
"Yeah!" Annabelle beamed. "I haven't had one in a long time!"
"It sure has been a while." Darla smiled.
"That's why I'm so excited." Annabelle smiled back.
"Found it!" Cherry called out.
"What'd you find?" Atticus came to her side.
"Apparently the island is roaming with zombies," Cherry informed. "That, and there have been mysterious disappearances around the island for years!"
"Sounds like a mystery waiting to be solved." Atticus said.
"Sounds good to me," Fred said. "Especially that Lena, she's pretty..."
"Fred..." Daphne said in a warning tone of voice.
"I thought she would look good for the footage for our segment." Fred covered up.
"Nice cover up." Atticus smirked.
Fred smiled nervously and shyly.
"Well, this island sounds promising anyway," Daphne replied. "We better find Shaggy, Scooby, Patch, and the girls before Lena takes off."
"Where are they anyway?" Fred asked.
"I'll give you one hint: Food." Atticus smirked.
"Of course..." Cherry darkly smirked herself.
The others were by a place called Pierre's Poor Boy's Sandwich Shop.
"These guys eat more than Charlie at Thanksgiving." Annabelle laughed.
"And Rolly." Amber added with a laugh herself.
"Sounds like it." Atticus laughed.
"I see you boys like it hot." the man behind the stand chuckled to Shaggy and Scooby.
"Like, mo' hotter, mo' better, eh, Scoob?" Shaggy asked.
"Ro' rotter, ro' retter." Scooby agreed.
"Just remember you guys save some for me." Patch warned as they were given their sandwich.
"Like, don't worry, Patch, we will." Shaggy smiled.
"Good." Patch smiled then.
They soon added peppers on their sandwiches.
Patch sniffed the vegetables. "Peppers..."
"You like peppers, Patch?" Shaggy asked.
"Never tried them before." Patch said.
Shaggy took out one pepper and held it out to the dalmatian puppy. Patch then bit into the pepper and ate it, looking calm at first.
"Wow, like you're taking that rather well." Shaggy smiled.
"Yeah, I don't get what the big deal i-" Patch replied, but then he started to sweat despite not having sweat glands and his face seemed to turn a spicy hot red and he yelled out like his mouth was on fire. "HAAAAAWWWWWWWWT!" he then panted and rushed to a body of water and drowned his muzzle into it to cool himself off.
"Looks like his mouth couldn't handle the heat." Shaggy said.
Patch panted and relaxed himself as steam seemed to come out of his ears.
"Here you go." Amber handed Patch a carton of milk for the spiciness.
"Oh, thank you!" Patch smiled before chugging down the milk.
"Better?" Amber smiled.
"Much..." Patch licked his muzzle after he guzzled down the milk. "Thank you so much, Amber."
"You're welcome." Amber smiled.
Patch felt a lot better and shook a shudder. "No more peppers for me..."
"When you guys are ready, we gotta get going." Velma walked over to the others.
"Why? Where are we going?" Patch asked.
"That kind woman named Lena offered to give us some help and we're going to see this creepy house..." Velma sounded excited about the creepy atmosphere.
"Cool! So it'll be like a mystery." Patch smiled.
"That's what Daphne is hoping for." Velma smiled back.
"Well, let's hope so too." Patch said.
After getting enough food, everyone returned to the Mystery Machine and were going to follow this Lena.
"That woman seems familiar somehow..." Atticus said to himself.
"I know what you mean..." Darla agreed.
"How so?" Mo asked.
"I'm not sure, she just seems familiar..." Darla scratched her head in thought. "Like... I saw her in a dream maybe..."
"Same here." Atticus said.
"I'm sure you guys are just imagining things..." Mo merely shrugged.
"Maybe..." Atticus and Darla said.
Cherry seemed to have similar thoughts, but she didn't say anything.
"So, are we all ready?" Patch asked.
"I'm ready when you all are." Fred said as he got into the driver's seat.
"We're ready." Everyone said.
"Okay, let's go then!" Fred said as he then started the van and drove off once they were set.
And where they started to follow Lena. As they were driving, Lena was leading them to the docks to meet a ferryman.
"Ooh, a ferry." Amber smiled.
Cherry yawned as she seemed to doze off again.
"She sleeps a lot better in a car than she used to," Atticus said to the others. "I remember there was a time when she couldn't do that... She couldn't even sleep on the way to Jurassic Park with Lex and Tim Murphy."
"Maybe she's changed a bit since then." Fred said.
Atticus then gently shook Cherry. "Hey... Get up..."
"Hmm...?" Cherry's eyes cracked open slightly, she then sat up, unfolded her glasses and put them back over her face. "Oh, are we at the docks now?"
"Yep." Mo nodded.
"Okay..." Cherry said and then stretched.
And where Mo was right, they did make it to the dock.
"This is gonna be so cool, I haven't been on a boat before..." Darla said as she stared out the window to the ferry where there was a man on board already.
"That must be the captain." Annabelle said.
"Hope he's more pleasant than Captain Kiddie..." Cherry hid an eye roll as she remembered her first adventure with Tom and Jerry.
"I'm sure he is." Atticus said.
The gang had met Jacques the ferryman and he helped them aboard to continue their travel in Louisiana.
"This is going to be so exciting." Patch smiled.
Cherry looked rather fluish, then popped out a pill and popped it in her mouth and drowned it with her cool water bottle.
