Back to Hollywood

chapter 12

*Over twenty years into the future...*

Darla was all grown up and holding her little girl's hand as they were traveling into Hollywood together.

"Hey, Mommy, what's that?" the little girl pointed to the Chinese theater with the wet and dried cement of celebrities in the past, present, and future.

"Hey, I remember this," Darla smiled as she knelt down with her daughter to take a look, then saw her name in one stone that read 'My Time Has Come- Darla Dimple'. "This was from the premiere of my final movie when I was about your age."

"You mean this is where you first started out as a movie star, Mommy?" The little girl asked.

"Oh, yes," Darla smiled. "I thought I was happy being adored by millions of people, but they all could never give me the one thing I desired the most in my life: A warm and loving family..." she then leaned down and hugged her daughter. "I love you, sweetie."

"I love you too, Mommy." the little girl hugged her mother back.

This was truly a happy moment no one would want to forget. It may had only been a dream, but it was a wonderful one.

In a corner, Cherry was watching Darla embrace her dream daughter and had a small smirk since her work here was done. She then saw another door and where it had the symbol of an eye on the middle it and saw Atticus's name on top of it. "Eh, what the heck?" she shrugged, then decided to go to Atticus's door and opened it before flinching from the bright light to take her into Atticus's subconscious.

She saw monsters that the Mystery Inc unmasked, but only they were real and this wasn't a video game.

"What is going on here?" Cherry muttered. "Must be one of his visions..." she then guessed as she explored the dream. She was encountered by the Pterodactyl ghost.

The ghost screeched and flapped its wings above her, not catching her.

"Okay, I think this is what foreshadowing means..." Cherry said to herself. She then heard the evil laughter of an unfamiliar masked villain.

"Who is that...?" Cherry narrowed her eyes, wondering who that was, it sounded mysterious, yet, only slightly familiar.

She looked to see an unfamiliar masked villain.

"MYSTERY INCORPORATED MUST PAY!" the villain demanded.

"If this is Scrappy and Annette again, I'm gonna be very upset..." Cherry said in a warning voice.

Mally then pulled Cherry out of the vision. "I assure you it isn't either of those pups." she told her granddaughter.

"Grandma!" Cherry gasped in shock.

"I had a feeling you would go into one of his visions." Mally said.

"Well, it's hard to distinguish the two sometimes..." Cherry shrugged.

"Anyway, be careful when entering a vision." Mally warned.

"Yes, ma'am..." Cherry replied respectively. "Guess curiosity killed my inner cat."

Mally hid a small smirk from that, but shook her head and returned focus. "Terrible things could happen."

"That doesn't sound like such a big deal..." Cherry shrugged.

Mally zapped her finger to make Drell appear. "Drell, could you...?"

"Oh, sure..." Drell nodded, he then cleared his throat. "Terrible..." he said in a normal tone at first. "Terrible..." he then added with a slight echo, then put his finger up before making his voice very loud. "TERRIBLE!!!"

Cherry covered her ears as that was a bit too loud for her.

"Thank you." Mally then sent him away, she had him over to emphasize her point so Cherry would know better next time.

"Okay, okay, I get it..." Cherry groaned.

"That's a good dear..." Mally hugged her granddaughter. "Oh, it feels so great to hold you in my arms again..."

"Feels great to be held..." Cherry replied softly as a tear was coming down her cheek from hugging her long-lost grandmother she believed had been dead for a long while now.