“Oh my goodness! This ghastly thing...”, the man said in displeasure, as soon as he stepped out of the movable statue he had been occupying for the past half hour. Walking towards the gang, he smiled. “My apologies. It’s a new toy; still trying to get up to speed with it. Anyway, welcome!”. he said, reaching forward to shake Fred’s hand. “I’m Emile Mondavarious; the owner of this amusement park”, he introduced himself. “You seem less...”, Velma piped up, almost a little skeptical. “Spooky”, Shaggy added, mainly as a mental note for himself. “...than we would have guessed”, the intelligent girl finished, still showing a face of slight disbelief. “You’re the one who brought us here?”

“Oh, no. What brought you here, is you’re insatiable appetite for a juicy mystery”, he signaled them to follow. Maggie’s eyes narrowed a little at the remark, and looked at Calla next to her, with an eyebrow raised, before proceeding to follow after the man with the rest of the gang. She wasn’t really sure what to make of this man. He seemed friendly, but the earlier feeling that she had, back on the plane, was lingering. “Now, I am in great need of help. I believe that somebody here is casting a spell upon the students”, he explained. “The ones arriving seemed normal, energetic, and fun. But the ones departing, well...they weren’t the same as when they had arrived.”

In the distance, one of the arriving male students approached a female, who he seemed to know for quite some time...until she suddenly assaulted him, surprisingly, in a physical sense. Maggie watched the scene in disbelief. It was kind of hard to believe what she saw was real, and that Mondavarious may be right on his claim. “I’m terrified for the young people here; they’re in great danger. Would you help me?”, the owner asked, almost as if begging for their help.