Drell eventually woke up. "Thank goodness, you're all still alive."
"First, I'm underneath you and second, what do you mean by that?" Cherry asked.
Drell stood up. "There's a reason I didn't come with you guys, I don't wish to discuss it, but you have to leave this island as soon as possible."
"Because of zombies?" Cherry asked with a scoff.
"No, something worse," Drell shook her slightly in warning. "Far worse than that..."
"How much worse?" Discord asked.
"Like something so deathly to suck out your soul worse." Drell said.
"I've been doing research," Cherry said as she took out the book she was reading. "There's something funny about this place, I can feel it in my gut."
"It's about the two woman you and the others met." Drell said.
"Simone Lenoir and Lena Dupree?" Cherry asked.
Those names caused for Drell to get a chill down his spine in fright. Cherry smirked since that had frightened him.
"You don't know them like I do." Drell said.
"What do you mean?" Cherry asked. "You're over 600 years old, they're not witches... Aren't they?"
"Ever hear of 'werecats'?" Drell asked.
"Werecats?" Cherry replied. "Not really."
"Seriously?" Discord asked.
"Oh, like you know about werecats." Cherry glanced at the draconequus.
"Actually, yes I do." Discord smirked.
"Yeah, right..." Cherry rolled her eyes.
"I'm centuries old." Discord reminded with a chuckle.
"I should leave now..." Drell said nervously.
"Oh and why's that, Drelly?" Discord chuckled.
"Uh, I have dry-cleaning in the other realm..." Drell smiled nervously.
"Uh-huh, sure." Discord smirked.
"Drell, what's up?" Cherry asked.
"Uhh..." Drell drawled out before teleporting himself away.
"He knows something." Discord smirked.
"I know..." Cherry replied. "It was funny to watch him squirm."
"Yeah, and when you continued to hit him." Discord laughed.
Cherry hid a smirk as she had caused Drell pain. "Yeah, that was pretty funny."
"Oh, we can even rewatch the whole thing, I was recording it." Discord smiled as he showed hidden cameras.
Cherry took a look with him and snickered, but then shook her head. "What am I doing?! We could all be in danger if Drell is scared!"
"You're right." Discord said.
"I wonder what he meant by werecats?" Cherry then hummed and looked to Discord. "All right, spill, what do you know about werecats?"
"Well, they are ancient and need human souls to feed on," Discord said. "But they can only do it under the Harvest Moon."
"A-And when's the next Harvest Moon?" Cherry asked.
"Hmm... Let me check my schedule..." Discord took a look.
Cherry put her fingers in her mouth, nervously chewing at her nails.
It didn't take him too long to look.
"Uh-oh, it's tonight." Discord said.
"Tonight?!" Cherry's eyes widened.
"I'm afraid so..." Discord bit his lip nervously.
"I gotta get out of here..." Cherry backed away. "People are crazy over here..."
A cat came behind Cherry.
"Oh, hey, kitty..." Cherry picked up the cat. "I love cats..."
"That's one of Simone's cats." Discord said, stopping her from picking up the cat.
Cherry then backed away. The cat seemed to smirk darkly at Cherry then.
"I don't know what you're up to, but it won't work!" Cherry glared at the cat then.
Discord soon turned into a dog and started to bark at the cat to scare it away. The cat hissed violently in defense and scampered away.
"Good dog." Cherry said.
Discord smiled before changing back into his true form.
"We have to warn the others," Cherry said. "I knew once we got here, something bad would happen."
"Not in front of the Simone or Lena." Discord said.
"We gotta do something..." Cherry said.
Discord turned back into his human form. "Right after dinner, I hear Atticus is quite a good cook."
"I wouldn't know..." Cherry muttered.
"Well, tonight, you are about to find-" Discord started before getting interrupted by a crashing sound.
"What was that?!" Cherry wondered out loud.
They came out to see Scooby on top of Simone.
"Scooby!" Cherry and Discord called.
"Get this beast off of me!" Simone shouted.
"Rorry." Scooby smiled sheepishly as he tried to dust her clean.
"Scooby, what are you doing?" Cherry glanced at the Great Dane.
"That is quite enough." Simone glared before getting Scooby off her before standing up.
Velma and Daphne came in to help Simone up to her feet.
"Did you guys see another ghost?" Cherry face-palmed to Shaggy and Scooby.
Shaggy and Scooby nodded out of fear.
"This better be good..." Cherry walked into their room.
However, once there, there was no ghost in sight.
"Like, in the mirror, it was some Civil War guy." Shaggy pointed to the mirror.
"A Civil War guy?" Patch asked as he entered the room.
"That's what he said." Cherry shrugged.
"Well, there's nothing in the mirror now, guys." Fred pointed out.
"Maybe there's something behind the mirror." Big Mona said as she was still in her bowl in on Patch's back.
That gave a Velma an idea as she looked to the mirror. "Wait a minute..." she then moved the mirror to find a dusty plaque.
"What you find?" Darla asked as she entered the room.
Velma blew on the dust.
Cherry sniffled from the dust and then sneezed loud enough for her to fall back on the floor. "Ow."
"You okay?" Velma asked.
"That was quite a sneeze..." Cherry sniffled.
"Looks like you got your glasses dirty, I can clean them." Velma said before reached for something.
Cherry took her glasses off before they bulged out of her skull and she blinked a few times.
"Now, where's my cleaning cloth?" Velma hummed.
Scooby decided to handle the glasses.
"Oh, no, Scooby, that's-" Cherry tried to stop him, but he wiped her glasses with his tail and gave them back. "Uh... Thanks, Scooby."
"Rou're relcome." Scooby smiled.
Cherry came up to the plaque once her glasses were cleaned and she could see it clearly. "'Property of Colonel Jackson T. Pettigrew 8th Louisiana'."
"Who?" Darla asked.
"There were Confederate barracks on this island." Simone explained.
"Seems like one of the ghosts of one of those people must have came to Shaggy and Scooby and told them to go away." Darla guessed.
Atticus came over and wiped his hands dry with a kitchen towel. "Dinner's ready."
"Dinner?" Shaggy smiled.
"I thought that might take your mind off of this spookiness." Atticus chuckled.
And where it seemed to work.
Atticus laughed as they then went to the kitchen to eat their dinner, then looked to Cherry. "Are you gonna eat tonight?"
"Might as well." Cherry shrugged.
After getting a bowl of gumbo, each of them soon went to the dinning table.
"Looks great, Atticus." Darla smiled.
"Thanks." Atticus smiled back to his little sister.
Darla smiled back as she went to sit down with the others so they could have their dinner.
"I can't wait to taste it." Discord said.
"Wait no more." Atticus smiled as he sat down with the others for their dinner.
Lena sat close next to Atticus. "I'm sure it's delicious."
'Uh-oh.' Atticus thought to himself.
Mo narrowed her eyes firmly to Lena.
"Uh, Lena, why don't you sit next to Fred?" Atticus suggested.
"Oh, I like it over here," Lena replied. "Don't you want my company?"
Atticus scooted back slightly. "Thanks, but no thanks."
"Oh, very well." Lena said before getting out of her seat.
Atticus wiped his forehead in relief as Lena moved herself. Mo was still giving the black-haired woman the stink eye however. Daphne seemed to give Lena the same look. A white cat jumped into Simone's lap.
"Where's Beau?" Daphne asked.
"He usually has dinners in his room in the carriage house." Simone explained.
"I brought him some food, but he wasn't there." Lena added.
"That's strange." Atticus said.
"Figures." Fred commented as he ate a biscuit.
Patch secretly glared at Lena, not trusting her anymore. Scooby was overwhelmed by the cats as they were eating from their bowls around him. And where he began to chase them. Shaggy struggled to stop his best pal, but it was no use.
"So Atticus, where did you learn to cook?" Simone asked.
"Mom and Cind-Erm... An old friend of mine and Cherry's." Atticus smiled.
"You were about to say Cinderella, weren't you?" Simone smiled.
"Umm..." Atticus chuckled sheepishly. "Well..."
"It's all right." Simone smiled.
Atticus had a small smile back to her.
"Exactly, how long has Beau been working here, Miss Lenoir?" Velma asked.
"Several months, and it's 'Simone', Velma." Simone replied, sounding quite friendly right now.
"Well, I think that guy's pretty suspicious." Fred commented as he ate his gumbo.
"Yeah, but at least he's not giving us any trouble." Darla said.
Shaggy and Scooby came into the dining room, covered in cat food.
"Like, I don't think eating in the kitchen is a good idea," Shaggy said. "You know, cats."
"Rats..." Scooby grumbled about the feline species.
"Scooby, down boy." Patch said, holding the Great Dane back even if he knew that Simone had to be a werecat as well.
"That's quite enough!" Simone snapped. "The dog will have to eat outside."
"Routside?" Scooby replied before shaking his head. "Ruh-uh."
"Like, there's a dead guy out there!" Shaggy cried out.
"Would you calm down? I'm sure that dead guy is miles away from the house." Atticus said.
"May I make a suggestion?" Lena spoke up.
"What do you suggest, Lena?" Darla asked.
"How about they eat inside their van?" Lena decided. "They would be outside and safe from... Erm... Anything scary?"
"That sounds perfect." Atticus smiled.
Lena smiled back.
"Should one of us join them so they don't feel lonely?" Darla asked.
"I'll go." Patch decided.
"I'll come with you." Darla said.
"Anyone else?" Lena asked.
"I kinda wanna stay in," Atticus said. "Patch, look out for Darla, and Darla, look out for Patch, I'd hate for anything to happen to either of you."
"You got it, Atticus." Patch and Darla smiled.
"And what about me? Who's gonna carry my bowl?" Big Mona asked.
"Well, either way, you're in your bowl." Atticus took her bowl and put it on the table.
"I know." Big Mona said.
"It's you as a fish, I've barely seen her happy." Atticus said to Cherry.
"Maybe she doesn't like being a pet." Cherry replied.
"Are you kidding? If he hadn't caught me, then you-know-who would have somehow caught me." Big Mona said.
"Then why are you being such a sourpuss?" Cherry asked as she ate her gumbo. "You've been sour ever since Atticus adopted you."
"This bowl is just cramped." Big Mona said.
"I can make it bigger..." Atticus offered.
"Please." Big Mona smiled.
Atticus waved his hands around Big Mona's bowl to make it bigger so she would have more room to swim in. And where it was now big enough for two catfish.
"Awesome." Big Mona smiled.
"Better?" Atticus smiled back.
"Much," Big Mona enjoyed herself now as she swam around with more space, but still not as much as the water she came from. "Not as much water as I used to have, but it's better than nothing."
Atticus smiled, then continued to eat with the others.
