The sun rose over the island, and as Spike slept peacefully inside his tent with his many lovers snuggled around him, while everyone else were in the other tents, they were suddenly awoken by the sound of an air horn. The loud noise caused several birds in a particular area to scatter in fright, while the club members jerked around startled in their tents. They poked their heads out of the tents to see Bonbon holding an air horn.

“Rise and shine, campers!” she announced.

“What're you trying to do blow our ears off?!” Smolder shouted.

“I thought I was having heart attack.” Yona said.

“Bonbon, I told you not to bring that with you!” Lyra chided her.

“If I didn't we'd all sleep in, and waste the day.” Bonbon replied with a smug expression.

Lyra gave her an annoyed look, as Spike yawned, “Alright, give us a moment.” he said, as they poked their heads back into their tents.

Once they were all fully dressed they began taking down their tents and loading up all their stuff, “Ok, we've come this far since we started yesterday,” Lyra began, “If we keep this up we can find the treasure no problem.”

“So let's get back on the search, Moondancer.” Adagio motioned t the girl who pulled out the map.

“This way.” Moondancer motioned down a path.

“Moonlight, Sunshine, you two keep marking trees in a trail for us.” Lyra instructed.

“Yes, ma'am.” Moonlight nodded.

As they continued on with the trail, the succubus sisters started making trees with their club initials. They walked before noticing the trail started looking like a cobblestone road.

“Road's changed.” Sandbar noted.

“What does it mean?” Gallus asked the mermaids.

“We must be getting closer.” Adagio suspected.

Moondancer nodded, “We're coming up on the pirate graveyard.”

“Pirate graveyard?” Ocellus and Silverstream gasped.

“Charming.” Kiwi said dryly.

They pressed on, before coming up on what was the pirate graveyard. The trees were without leaves, and the ground was dried out. But what was most shocking to them was scattered all around the area were the skeletons or pieces of bones wearing what little remains of their pirate outfits.

“Oh!” Bonbon covered her mouth.

“Disgusting.” Spike felt nauseous.

“Looks like these guys all had bad days.” Gallus said sounding disturbed.

“What happened to them all?” Sunshine asked.

“Killed each other trying to find the treasure, my hunch.” Aria suspected.

“Or something else could've gotten to them,” Sonata added, as everyone looked at her, “What, you never know.”

“What I know is the jungle in there is looking thicker,” Supernova looked ahead, “We won't be able to get through there easily.”

“Then we're gonna need help,” Spike said, as he walked up to a skeleton and took the sword out of its holster, “Sorry, buddy. But I'm gonna need this.”

The rest of the club seeing Spike was right, each went to a skeleton who still had its sword on them before taking it.

“Gross.” Ocellus shuddered, as she took the blade off the skeleton.

“Ok, everyone armed and ready?” Kiwi asked.

“Ready!” they confirmed.

“Then let's keep moving.” Adagio said, as they continued on.

As they walked closer to the thicker branches and bushes, they started chopping away to clear themselves a path.

“It's starting to feel like we're in a Daring Do story.” Moondancer realized.

“Yeah, except this is real.” Lyra nodded.

'Which means the kind of things Daring deals with in her adventures are more real here.” Silverstream said.

Spike who had been walking behind Lyra and Bonbon up front saw where they were heading and shouted, “Girls, hold on!” he wrapped his arms around the two pulling them back causing everyone behind him to pull to a halt.

“Spike?” Bonbon gasped.

“What is it?” Lyra asked in confusion.

“Look at what you could've stepped in.” Spike motioned to the ground.

They looked down and saw they were almost going to step into quicksand, “Whoa, almost missed that.” Lyra gasped.

“Good eye, Spike,” Bonbon smiled, before looking awkward, “Though you can let go of us now.”

Spike looked and saw after wrapping his arms around the two to keep them from stepping into the quicksand, he realized he had been holding onto their breasts. He quickly let go and waved his arms around, “Sorry about that, I just reacted too fast I didn't look where I grabbed!”

“Don't worry, you stopped us from stepping in quicksand.” Lyra eased him.

“Let's go around it.” Kiwi said, as the group walked around the quicksand.

Once they were away from the quicksand they kept moving making sure to be aware of all their surroundings. As they walked Ocellus looked up at one of the trees and suddenly saw something moving within them. The girl blinked and saw the branches were still. Dismissing it thinking it was just her seeing something, she followed the others.

They kept walking, as Ocellus looked over and thought she saw something peeking through one of the bushes, before shaking.

Yona who had been closest to her spoke, “What wrong, Ocellus?”

“I have this strangest feeling we're not alone here.” she answered.

“What do you mean?” Spike asked, as they all stopped.

“I'm saying I think we're being watched.” Ocellus explained.

The group stood together back to back while looking all around them. When it looked like everything was all right they sighed in relief.

“Guess I must've imagined it.” Ocellus said.

“Obviously.” Gallus replied.

“Guess being out here for so long is starting to get to us.” Spike suspected, as they were about to continue on, until something dropped down in front of them blocking their way.

The group screamed, as Bonbon cried, “What the hell is that thing?!”

“No idea, doesn't matter!” Lyra cried.

The creature lunged forward to attack, only for Spike, Lyra, and Bonbon to slash it away with their pirate swords pushing it back. The creature however continued to try and lunge at them, but they kept swatting it back with their swords.

“That thing's persistent.” Moondancer said.

“I'll cut him down.” Moonlight extended her nails, before lunging forward and cut the creature in half.

“Well, that takes care of that.” Gallus said in relief.

“Um, I don't think so.” Sandbar moaned.

They looked and saw the two halves of the creature pulled themselves back together, and it got back up ready for round two.

“It regenerates, terrific.” Kiwi said dryly.

“Then let's cut it down so much it'll never pull itself back together!” Smolder called, as they all used their swords while Moonlight and Sunshine used their sharp nails to cut the creature down into smaller pieces.

They thought they finished it, but to their shock, the pieces started reassembling together again restoring the creature.

“Well, that didn't work!” Moondancer cried.

The creature started jumping around doing flips. When Gallus tried to swipe at it, the creature bent backwards like it was doing the limbo, and avoided the sword strike. When it swatted Gallus to the ground, the Dazzlings unleashed their hypnotic song hoping to distort it, but to no avail.

"That thing sure is flexible." Gallus said, as he got up.

“Our voices don't even work on it.” Sonata gasped.

“Whatever it is, it lacks sentience.” Adagio noted.

“It's like a puppet or something.” Moondancer added.

As they kept trying to slice its limbs off, they just kept reattaching, “It no use, it keeps regenerating!” Supernova gasped.

“There's got to be some way to neutralize it.” Lyra said, as they dodged the creature as it tried to jump on them.

Suddenly Spike was struck with inspiration, “I know what to do.” he picked up a rock, and tossed it at the creature's head grabbing its attention, “Hey, freak job, come and get me!” Spike started running, as the creature took off for him.

“Spike!” the group called, as they ran after them.

As Spike ran with the creature in hot pursuit, he picked up the pace. Suddenly he stopped and stared the creature down, “You want me? I'm all yours.” he stood his ground.

The creature charged in Spike's direction only for it to get stuck in place. It looked down and saw it had walked right into the quicksand trap Spike and the others avoided.

“Gotcha!” Spike smirked.

The club arrived and saw the trapped creature trying to escape, but it was futile. The creature ended up sinking down into the quicksand. When it was gone everyone sighed in sweet relief.

“That was freaky.” Silverstream said.

“What was that thing?” Gallus asked.

“And where did it come from?” Moondancer asked.

“Didn't feel too much like a zombie.” Kiwi said.

“And yet it lacked sentience.” Aria noted.

“Whatever it was, I hope we don't see any more of them.” Supernova said.

“You and me both.” Bonbon agreed.

“We better get moving.” Lyra suggested, as they all agreed and continued on.

They trekked through the jungle while hoping not to run into any more of whatever the creature was that got the drop on them.

As Moondancer looked at the map, she spoke up, “There should be a cave around here. And that's where the treasure is located.”

“Keep an eye out, gang.” Lyra instructed, as they all looked around.

As they looked all over the area behind trees or boulders, they came up with nothing. Spike sighed as he paced around, “Jeez, you'd think finding an entrance to a cave would be EASY!” he screamed the last word as he fell through a hole in the ground that had been covered up by fallen leaves and debris.

Everyone hearing Spike looked over, and cried, “Spike!” they ran over and called down the hole.

“Spike!” Kiwi called.

“Spike, are you all right?” Adagio called.

Can you hear us?” Sunshine called down.

“Check it out!” came Spike's voice.

“Huh?” the group looked at each other.

Lyra jumped down the hole and landed safely seeing Spike standing off to the side, “You found the entrance to the cave, Spike!” she cheered.

“I stepped into it that time.” Spike joked.

“Come on down, everyone!” Lyra called up to them.

One by one everyone jumped down and landed safely, “So this is the cave, huh?” Sandbar looked around.

“Gives me the creeps.” Silverstream said.

“Everyone, torches out.” Lyra instructed, as they reached into their bags, and pulled out a flashlight each.

“Treasure could be anywhere down here.” Spike looked around.

“So let's start looking.” Adagio instructed as they followed the tunnel while keeping their lights shining.

As they followed the dark tunnel they found more skeletal remains of pirates who were long since dead, “Got to give these guys props,” Gallus admitted, “They made it a lot farther than the ones back up there did.”

“I'm starting to bet that creature back there we faced was partly responsible for their demise.” Sonata said.

Well, at least it won't be bothering us.” Aria reminded her.

“This tunnel could go on for miles.” Moonlight sighed.

“Does the map say anywhere it could be located, Moondancer?” Lyra asked.

Moondancer pointed her flashlight at the map to check it, “Nothing. Only that this has to be where it's located.”

“This could take awhile.” Aria sighed.

“Good thing, these dead guys left plenty of shovels.” Sandbar motioned to several shovels laying around close to the skeletons.

Lyra looked at one skeleton that was lying on its side with its arms pointing in one direction. She looked seeing another skeleton in the same position with its arms pointing to another skeleton just like the other two, “Guys, look!”

They looked to the club president who spoke, “Those skeletons, they seem to be pointing in the direction to one another leading further down the tunnel.”

“You're right, they are.” Bonbon realized.

“Which means?” Yona wondered.

Moondancer gasped, “Yes! They're pointing to the direction of the treasure!”

“Let's follow the directions.” Supernova said, as the group followed each skeleton pointing in one direction which led them to another pointing them further.

They kept following the trail, until they stopped and saw up ahead on a pile of stones was a big treasure chest, “Oh, my gosh, that's it!” Sandbar gasped.

“The treasure!” Silverstream cheered.

“Let's get it!” Gallus called, as they started to race over, until Spike called.

“Wait!” they stopped in place, “Don't you know in Daring Do, there's always some kind of traps surrounding treasure or artifacts?”

The group recalling that kind of fact were glad Spike stopped them when they did. Spike taking a chance picked up a rock and tossed it at the chest. Everyone braced themselves for the worst but saw no reaction.

“Well, at least the chest itself isn't booby trapped.” Sonata sighed in relief.

Everyone started to toss rocks at the spot surrounding the chest seeing nothing happened. They sighed in relief seeing there were no traps surrounding the chest either. Still the proceeded with caution, as they approached the chest. When they stood before it, Sandbar jabbed a shovel at the old rusted lock breaking it off.

“Wait,” Spike stopped them before they could open it, “I want you guys to know if nothing's in there, I'm still proud to have had this adventure with you all.”

The group smiled, “Yeah, so are we.” Adagio agreed.

“But it would be nice if it wasn't empty. I mean, we got to save Sugarcube Corner and all.” Sunshine reminded them.

They nodded, as they gripped the top and lifted the chest open. When they did they were met with the bright glow old gold coins, jewels, diamonds, and rubies. The chest was in fact filled with the treasure they had been hoping for.

“It's beautiful!” Smolder gasped.

“We found it!” Bonbon cheered.

“We actually found it!” Kiwi cheered, while hugging Supernova.

“Like whoa!” Moonlight gasped showing more excitement than ever before.

“There is definitely enough here to help the Cakes.” Moondancer inspected.

“Maybe we can keep a bit for ourselves?” Gallus hoped.

“We'll see about that after we get out of here.” Spike reminded him.

“Right, it's gonna be tricky carrying this back to the boat.” Lyra noted.

“Luckily we left plenty of marks.” Moonlight replied.

They closed the chest, as Aria and Yona grabbed it by the handles, “First thing we got to do it get the chest out of this cave.” Aria said instructed.

Sandbar was the first to turn around to look back the way they came, only for his eyes to widen in horror, “Guys, that might be easier said than done!”

The group curious about Sandbar's shift in tone looked and to their own horror saw the same creature they dealt with earlier, only this time, there was an army of it. Some on the ground, and some clinging to the walls and the ceiling of the cave like spiders.

“Oh, come on!” Spike shouted in frustration.

Author's Note

The creatures Spike and his club are dealing with are modeled after the mindless minion in the Owl House episode Echoes of the Past. I don't know what it's called since it hasn't been identified in a particular class.