Atticus stayed close to the ground as he saw his little sister's footprints with Patch's paw prints.
"I have a sneaky suspicion about that guy." Big Mona said.
"Who, the gardener?" Cherry asked as she kept a firm hold on the catfish's bowl.
"Yeah." Big Mona nodded.
"He does seem a bit odd..." Cherry had to agree with them there.
"Let's just hope he's not dangerous." Atticus said.
"You okay, Mona?" Cherry asked.
"Don't spill my water!" Big Mona warned.
Atticus soon used his magic to make the bowl spill free.
"I'm gonna need that with how clumsy I am." Cherry said.
"I know." Atticus said.
Cherry narrowed her eyes since Atticus admitted her clumsiness.
"What?" Atticus asked.
"Nothing..." Cherry sighed in annoyance.
They continued their way to look for Darla, Patch, and the others.
"Darla?" Atticus frowned. "Patch? Oh, come on, guys!"
"Where could they be?" Big Mona asked.
"Too bad I'm not a dog otherwise I could probably sniff them out..." Cherry shrugged.
"Hmm..." Atticus and Mo hummed in thought about that.
"What?" Cherry glanced at them.
"You just gave them an idea." Big Mona said.
Cherry sighed in long-suffering. "I always seem to."
Atticus then used his magic to turn Cherry into a dog.
Cherry became a tiny and kind of annoying dog like Scooby's nephew, she then put her nose against the ground and sniffed it. "Wait, I think I'm getting something."
"What do you smell?" Atticus asked.
"Strawberries with a hint of swampiness... Also some tuna fish breath." Cherry replied.
"One of them sounds like a cat." Atticus said.
"I think Darla's the strawberries, she always smells sweet." Mo suggested.
Cherry still sniffed, then grunted. "For some reason, I can smell the ferry engine, but I thought it didn't run at night?"
"I have a feeling Simone lied." Atticus said.
"I'm smelling... Fear..." Cherry said.
"Scooby and Shaggy." Atticus and Mo muttered about that.
"I also smell dog breath." Cherry said.
"Oh, thank goodness..." Atticus looked relieved.
"Anything else?" Mo asked.
"Something dead..." Cherry shrugged. "Not sure what though."
"That must be the zombies." Atticus said.
"Oh, boy..." Cherry said. "This is not good."
"Let's follow the scent of fear." Mo said.
"It's a very distinct scent." Cherry said as she led the way in her new dog form.
"It should be easy to follow it since; it's Shaggy's and Scooby's fear." Atticus said.
"Totally." Cherry agreed as she tracked down the cowardly duo with Atticus's spotted puppy and adoptive little sister.
"Maybe we should have brought Casper with us, so then Velma wouldn't have to be alone with Beau." Mo said.
"Ah, he wanted to get to know Mom and Dad better anyway," Atticus replied. "I'm sure if anything happens though, we'll spring into action."
Cherry then caught the scent of quicksand and it was in the same direction as Velma and Beau.
"What do you smell now?" Mo asked.
"Quicksand..." Cherry shuddered. "I don't like where this is headed."
"Uh-oh, we better go warn them then." Atticus said.
"Come on then!" Mo panicked.
They soon rushed off to where Velma and Beau were. Cherry was leading of course.
"Scooby?! Shaggy?!" Velma called out.
Beau looked with her, he felt a little hurt that he was being treated like a suspect. "Hey! Why do you keep treating me like I'm a suspect?" he then asked her.
"Because you are." Velma defended as she called out for Shaggy and Scooby.
Beau soon grabbed Velma's wrist to stop her from going further. Velma looked worried. Beau placed his lantern on the ground and grabbed a rock which made Velma cover her eyes and duck down. However, he threw the rock against a wet ground which was then revealed to be quicksand.
"Quicksand." Beau said.
Velma looked relieved he did that, but she still felt suspicious about him.
Cherry kept sniffing until she, Atticus, and Mo had ran into the gardener and the smartest of Mystery Inc.
"Velma, Beau, watch out, there's-" Atticus was about to warn them before he saw a rock in the quicksand.
"I knew I smelt quicksand." Cherry said.
"Cherry?" Velma looked strangely as the perky goth had been turned into a dog somehow.
"Atticus changed me into a dog with his magic." Cherry said.
"Oh, that makes sense..." Velma said then.
"Have you guys found Shaggy and Scooby yet?" Cherry asked.
"No." Velma shook her head.
"Well, I can still smell them." Cherry said.
"Then let's follow the scent." Mo said.
"I'm on it..." Cherry sniffled slightly as she kept following her path through her nostrils.
Meanwhile with Fred and Daphne...
Fred had his camera handy as he explored with Daphne. And where they soon found the Mystery Machine. Daphne opened the backdoor and screamed out as stuff fell on top of her. Fred winced at that for her slightly, he then took out the lantern to take a look to see what was in the van.
"What is it?" Daphne asked.
Fred looked at the objects. "Hm... Crawfish shells."
"Well, I bet the others liked your girlfriend's cooking too." Daphne smirked.
"She's not my girlfriend, Daphne; I just said I liked her cooking and what about Beau?" Fred asked as he went inside the van.
"What about him?" Daphne replied as a zombie hand landed on her shoulder which then made her gasp in fear and she put her karate skills into good use.
"Daphne, are you...?" Fred was about to ask.
Daphne patted her hands together once she used her own self-defense. "I can take care of myself thank you."
Daphne and Fred then continued to explore. And where Daphne soon used her karate skills again when she saw another hand come out thinking it was a hand of another zombie. It was actually just Shaggy and Scooby coming out of hiding along with Darla, Patch, Maisy, and Big Mona. Shaggy screamed when he saw a 'zombie' and it then landed on Scooby.
"Take it easy, guys, it's just a mask." Fred told them.
"That is not a mask!" Patch told him.
"Then that means it's real..." Darla said before her eyes widened. "ZOMBIES ARE REAL!"
"No way." Fred said.
"This mask does feel so real..." Daphne had to admit.
"That's because it is." Maisy said.
"Get away." Big Mona warned.
"I'm telling you, it's just a mask." Fred said.
"I know this is a weird thing to say, but I think you should listen to the fish." Darla advised.
"Let me try taking off the mask." Fred said.
"It is not a mask, you fool!" Big Mona warned.
But Fred didn't listen and began to try to get the zombie's head off, thinking it was a mask. Shaggy took the camera, but he was very shaky and nervous of the zombies.
"Either hold it still or give it to one of the others." Fred said.
Shaggy then handed the camera to Daphne due to his intense fear.
"So if it is a mask, who do you think it is?" Patch asked Fred.
"It's the gardener." Fred said.
"No." Daphne disagreed.
"It's the fisherman." Fred then said.
"No." Shaggy disagreed.
"It's the ferryman." Fred then said.
"Ro." Scooby replied.
"Maybe it's... Real!" Fred then said as he held a decapitated head and tossed it to Atticus.
"How did I even get here?" Atticus asked before tossing the head to Patch.
"Because I smelled something dead." Cherry replied.
"Oh, right." Atticus said.
"I-I told you it wasn't a mask!" Daphne replied out of fear to Fred.
"It-It must be an animatronic!" Fred exclaimed.
The zombies then all stood up and seemed to be coming to life and coming after the group.
"Oh, come on!" Mo exclaimed back.
"Like, it's deja vu again!" Shaggy exclaimed. "We all know what to do, eh, Scoob?"
"Reah, run!" Scooby nodded as he then ran with the others to escape the zombies.
"I am hating this island!" Maisy exclaimed.
"What was Nana Charlotte thinking?!" Darla panicked as she ran with her kitten.
The zombies kept going after the group as they did their best to escape.
"And I suppose they're animatronic, too!" Daphne glared at Fred.
"Well, there's a possibility, Daph!" Fred replied as filmed the zombies popping out from their graves.
"Fred, you're in denial!" Atticus exclaimed.
Shaggy and Scooby ran quicker than the others obviously enough.
Cherry kept running, then Atticus turned her back to a human so she could ran slightly quicker. "Thank you!" she then told him while running.
"No problem!" Atticus replied as they ran.
There was then a scream heard.
"It's Lena!" Fred realized. "We left her and Simone unprotected!"
"I'm sure they're alright." Discord said.
Daphne grabbed Fred's hand and they started running, but unfortunately, they then ended up tripping and ending up in the quicksand. Atticus soon used his magic to grab the camera and get it out of the quicksand.
"We need to get out of here." Mo said to Atticus with the zombie invasion.
"Not yet." Atticus said before going over to one of the zombies after handing over Daphne's camera to Fred.
Mo put her hands together anxiously as he went off. Atticus soon used his magic so he could understand what the zombies were trying to say.
Cherry panted from her running and needed a break. "What's going on?"
"We mean you no harm, what is it that you want?" Atticus asked the zombies in Zombie language.
"You sound dumb." Cherry smirked.
"Not now, Cherry..." Atticus said to her.
"Please, we're only trying to protect you, you have to leave the island." one zombie told the boy.
"Protect us?" Atticus asked the zombie. "Protect us from what?"
"The werecats, they're tricking you, they just want to drain you for their immortality." another zombie informed.
"Werecats?" Atticus asked before he knew who they meant. "Thank you for the warning."
"We're sorry to have scared you, but we've been cursed by those awful two." a zombie said.
"It's okay, you were just trying to warn us and we thank you for the warning." Atticus bowed.
The zombies nodded to him. Atticus then returned his normal speech and went off to tell the others that the zombies were not the bad guys.
"So what did they say?" Mo asked.
"They're not bad, we just have to watch out for the werecats," Atticus said. "They're gonna drain our souls for their immortality."
"So, they were just trying to warn us." Daphne said.
"Zombies are good..." Mo replied in surprise.
Cherry was then suddenly lifted into the air. "Discord, knock it off!" she then glared in mild annoyance.
"Um, Cherry, I'm not doing that." Discord said.
"Whoever's doing this better stop, I'm getting nauseous..." Cherry sounded sick.
"And where about us?!" Daphne yelped.
Beau appeared to be the only one still on the ground between the ones who were levitating in the air.
"How come you me and Beau aren't floating?" Mo asked Atticus.
"Wait a sec..." Darla remembered their last adventure here in Louisiana. "This has to be the work of voodoo somehow... But Faciler was destroyed when we got Tiana and Naveen together."
Patch wandered off for a bit and found Shaggy and Scooby and they were playing with dolls that resembled their friends who were levitating in the air. Now it all made sense.
"Guys! Stop! Those are voodoo dolls!" Patch told them.
"Patch?" Shaggy and Scooby turned to the dalmatian puppy.
However, there came bats which made Shaggy and Scooby scream and then dropped the dolls. Cherry fell flat on the ground first and everyone else then fell right on top of her.
"Oh, come on!" Cherry complained.
Atticus walked over, grabbed Cherry by her arms, and pulled her out from underneath everybody else. "You okay, Cherry?"
"Fabulous." Cherry deadpanned in pain and agony.
They soon heard Lena's screams again.
"That sounded like Lena." Mo said with slight hostility in her voice.
"We better hurry back and see if she and Simone are all right." Fred said.
"I've been doing research on the werecats," Cherry said. "Drell didn't come here for a reason, he came here hundreds of years ago himself and they tried to drain his lifespan and his magic for their Harvest Moon ritual."
"Wow." Mo said.
"We'll worry about that later, come on." Atticus said.
The others then went to the house to look for Simone and Lena.