Author's Notes: Scooby Doo and all related characters and trademarks are copyright 2010 Hanna-Barbera Productions/Warner Brothers/Cartoon Network. I am not making any money off of writing this story, I am just a fan.

Author's Notes #2: Major major thanks to jjb88, Jazzola and LoveofVelma for plot and title ideas for this story, I greatly appreciate it and I enjoy getting advice, reviews and encouragement from fellow Fan Fiction writers.

Chapter 1

Daphne Blake is a fairly typical American young woman, she attended Coolsville High School, is a wonderful actress (she would get the lead roles in numerous school drama club productions), was a cheerleader and has the former quarterback of the Coolsville High football team as her boyfriend: one Fred Jones.

However, she's gone through a few things that most girls or women of her age would laugh at or scoff at; Daphne is a longtime member of a group of teenage sleuths known as Mystery Incorporated, or Mystery Inc. for short; as a part of this group, Daphne has been all over the world and solved hundreds of mysteries, not to mention faced countless dangers including getting kidnapped and being turned into a werewolf once upon a time.

Miss Blake also has something that most people and especially most girls her age would love to have and would work all their lives for; for you see Daphne was born into somewhat royalty, her parents are two wealthy business owners named George and Elizabeth, together they own a company called Blake's Bubble Bath, and as a result of this Daphne has gotten pretty much everything she has ever wanted in her life, but ever since she was in Junior High School she has learned not to flaunt it or tell people about it.

Although in her time with Mystery Inc. her parents wealth have provided her and her friends with great luxuries in their careers and travels, such as being able to travel all over the world and taking countless vacations, the group having their own private plane and last but not least the group's own vehicle: a colorfully painted green and red van known as the Mystery Machine.

Overall, Daphne has had a wonderful life and career and couldn't ask for better parents or better friends than her current ones, however fairly soon this red-haired beauty is going to uncover something that will change her life and the way she lives it forever; in fact conversely, what the red head is going to uncover will be something that will get she and her friends into another mystery and also one that if she's not careful could possibly kill her.

It all started one spring day at what has been the longtime base of Mystery Inc.: Blake Manor, home to Daphne and her parents; unfortunately as a result of living in Ohio the spring time often presents itself with some fairly unpleasant weather such as today, where at the moment a raging thunderstorm with pouring rain and strong winds is taking place, thankfully Mystery Inc. and the red head's parents are inside, of course as usual bad weather means that the Blakes' business appointments have been canceled or rescheduled so they are keeping Daphne and her friends company inside the palatial mansion.

At the moment the power is still on which means that all electronic equipment in the house is still in working order, which would normally mean that the Blakes' would be watching television or DVDs, but they are not; at the moment, Elizabeth Blake is reading a novel and George Blake is attempting to get some work done on the computer; as for the rest of Mystery Inc., Velma Dinkley is working on some experiments in the mansion laboratory, Fred Jones is engrossed in a game of Madden 2010 for the Playstation 3(and losing badly), Shaggy Rogers and Scooby Doo are in the kitchen of the mansion doing what else, making sandwiches albeit ones that would break the jaw of a normal person several times over.

As for the fifth member of the group, Daphne, she has been somewhat bored for most of the day; she started organizing her bedroom and her clothing, but that only took about an hour, next Daphne tried reading but even that didn't last long, finally the red head decided that if she and the gang didn't have a mystery she would do a little detective work around the house and what better place she figured to do detective work then the attic, so she red haired teen walked out of her bedroom and towards a staircase; the red haired teen then walked up the stairs and eventually found herself in an ancient looking hallway filled with cobwebs, dust and more than a few paintings.

"Jeepers, it doesn't look like anyone's been up here for quite a while; and it doesn't look like any cleaning's been done up here in a while either, ah ah achoo!" Daphne remarked before loudly sneezing; the red head then took out a handkerchief which she had thankfully brought with her (she had just gotten over a cold the previous week).

Daphne walked through the hallway past several dozen doors before coming to the end of the corridor and an unmarked door, which piqued her curiosity greatly.

"Hmm, I wonder what's in here?" the teen sleuth thought.

Daphne then decided to attempt to open the door, but with no luck, so she decided to a small bobby pin out of her hair; the red head then put the pin in the lock and within a few moments, was able to unlock the door and open it.

The red head pushed the old door open with a creak and she entered inside the dark, dusty room; after entering, Daphne left the door slightly ajar so she could leave quickly if someone was coming, which included her parents; although being an amateur sleuth Daphne always had a good sense of if someone was coming or if she or her friends were in danger, almost like a sixth sense, although it never seemed to stop her from getting kidnapped every so often.

The red haired young woman then began exploring the room, which was filled with various trinkets, trunks, books and other for lack of a better term, junk; as the red haired detective searched the room, she realized that she was exactly where she wanted to be, partly because she recognized some of the things in the room from previous trips up here, both by herself and with her friends or parents.

"You know I think this is the attic; I haven't been up here in so long I hardly recognized the place but it's definitely the attic" Daphne mused.

With Daphne now knowing where she was, she continued looking around the room; for the most part besides the old trunks, books and junk, there were a few old dresses and a couple mirrors scattered through the room, in addition to a couple closets among other things.

Since she didn't have anything better to do, Daphne decided to try on a couple of the old dresses in front of a mirror; one was a dark green dress that looked like it had been worn to a few fancy dinner parties or dances in the past; after modeled the first dress, she took it off and tried on a light pink dress that looked like it had also been worn on special occasions in the past, however Daphne didn't seem to like it so she took it off and resumed exploring.

After a few minutes of searching, the red head explored a side of the room where an old brown trunk with a gold plate on the front and what looked like the picture of an old woman and a moon carved on the top; Daphne's detective instincts got the better of her yet again, so she decided to try and open the trunk but was unsuccessful, so she used her bobby pin to open the locked trunk and after a few seconds of fiddling with the lock she was able to open the trunk.

Inside the box were a number old books, in addition to old papers, a few jewelry items and other assorted items; the red haired young sleuth decided to sit on the floor and look through these items and as she did so she was amazed and a little shocked by what she saw and found.

Author's Notes: I know this chapter seemed kind of short but the others will be a lot longer, plus I decided to end this chapter with a cliff hangar; I guess I really like cliff-hangars, although sometimes they can be somewhat annoying. Hope everybody likes this story though