Hello, Everyone. My name is Scooby-Doo. And I am here to tell you a story about me. First let me tell you little about me first. My real name is Scoobert. Although I like the name 'Scooby' better. Anyways I am the title character and main protagonist of Hanna-Barbera's long-running Scooby-Doo franchise. I am the mascot of the teen mystery solving club, Mystery Inc. I am a big brown dog (A great dane) with black spots and a black nose and I always a blue collar with a yellow diamond shaped dog tag with the letters SD in them.
My creators William Hanna, (The founder of Hanna-Barbera) Joe Barbera (The co-founder of Hanna-Barbera) and their artist guy Iwao Takamoto created me for a kids' TV show called Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and they made me the star.
My co-stars on the show were four teen-aged humans: One of them is my best friend and owner, a skinny kid named Shaggy Rogers, who has messy orange hair and usually wears a Green short-sleeved V-neck T-Shirt, brown pants and black shoes. We both love eating tons of food. The others are his three school friends. A blonde boy named Freddy Jones who usually wears a white long-sleeved shirt, a blue under shirt with a collar, a red ascot and blue jeans, a red-headed girl named Daphne Blake, who usually wears a green scraf, a purple long-sleeved shirt, a purple skirt pink stockings, purple shoes, and a Burnett girl named Velma Dinkley, who always wears glasses and usually wear a baggy orange turtleneck sweater, a red skirt, orange knee-high socks and red shoes. Together we formed Mystery Inc. and drive around our home town of Coolsville in a groovy blue, green and orange painted technicolor van called the Mystery Machine and solve mysteries. And I don't mean your usual run of the mill murder mysteries. The mysteries we solve involve monsters! Me and Shaggy, We're scared of monsters! But don't worry. The monsters aren't real. They're only people in costumes.
Our first show, Scooby-Doo Where Are You? aired on CBS on September 13th 1969 and was hit because of me! Soon, our show started a big fad called "Teen Mystery Teams", there were lots of shows that were just like mine, only they had different stars. For example: Jabberjaw was about a talking great white shark and an aquatic human band, Chan Clan was about a band of Asian teens, and Captain Caveman was about a 1000 year old caveman and a trio of beauties. It was the good life, the best years of our lives. Soon, we got a new series called "The New Scooby-Doo Movies". In this, we'd team up with tons of celebrities including, The Addams Family, Sonny and Cher, The 3 Stooges, and more. It was the best! We got another new show too, called "The Scooby-Doo Show", sometimes my cousin, Scooby-Dum would help us in our mysteries. Of course, he was stupid and a hillbilly, so I had to get him out of a jam every time.
However, things didn't last long for our big careers. When we were about to finish our first decade as a franchise in 1979, The TV companies were threatening to the plug on our TV careers. So Hanna-Barbera made two things to boost our slipping ratings. First they made a TV movie that starred me and my friends called Scooby-Doo goes Hollywood. Then they made a 4th Scooby-Doo TV series called Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo which introduced my nephew Scrappy-Doo. He's this little dog who looks like me, except he isn't scared of monsters. So he's my total opposite.
Here's how it happened; I was told to come to a train station. I didn't know why, but me and my friends were told to be there. I saw a box jump off a train, it was a little puppy inside the box. He looked just like, except he was bipedal and spoke like a normal human, not to mention unlike me and my quadrepal relatives, he had 4 fingers when standing upright. He told me his name was Scrappy Doo and he was my nephew. I couldn't believe I had a nephew I didn't know about. It was a little weird, but I had to let him into the gang, my sister secretly didn't want him around. Of course, Scrappy didn't know about that.
After 16 episodes, he saved the show. Afterwards, Fred, Daphne and Velma left, leaving me and Shaggy with Scrappy. And the mystery solving conscript was done and we went on random adventures. In 1983, Daphne returned to the show. And Freddie and Velma came back the following year.
Years later, Daphne got a new look, she wore a purple jumpsuit and got her hair shorter. Soon, Shaggy, Scrappy, Daphne, and I decided to go to Hawaii for a nice vacation. Meanwhile, Fred became a writer and Velma continued to work at NASA. However, Shaggy lost his way to Hawaii and we ended up in the Himilayas. Little did we know that two ghosts named Bogel and Weird were sabotaging our new plane that Daphne's parents lent us. We ended up in a village where we met a young Hispanic boy named Flim-Flam, who we adopted and decided to take him to Hawaii with us. But as we went to get our plane fixed, I was tricked into opening a chest that contained 13 demons and released them into the world. Vincent Van Ghoul, a very powerful warlock decided to aid me and the others in getting the ghosts back.
After we caught the ghosts, Daphne left to become a new reporter with Freddie, and Flim-Flam disappeared afterwards. I had no idea where he could've gone, I guess losing Daphne affected him dearly. Daphne had taken him in as her little brother, they were inseperable, and she left him when she had the chances of fame and fortune.
Later, Shaggy, Scrappy and I starred in TV movies as part of the Superstar 10 package.
In these, we got different jobs as we traveled all over the country.
In the first one, we went to Shaggy's great uncle's mansion where we met a trio of ghosts named the Boo Brothers.
In the second, Shaggy took a job at a boarding school for girl monsters, Scrappy got along with the girls very well.
In the third, Shaggy's new girlfriend, Googie joined us in the Monster Road Rally when Shaggy got tunred into a werewolf.
Afterwards, Shaggy broke Googie's heart and we never heard from her again. Of course, Shaggy didn't feel guilty at all. Shaggy and I then saw how people blamed Scrappy for how the franchise was being ruined, so I had to kick him out of the gang. Scrappy was shocked, he couldn't believe he was kicked out. I had no choice but to let him fend for himself and send him back to his parents, maybe they would've grown to love him by now.
Shaggy and I tried to find new jobs but we had no luck keeping them, we kept eating our own merchandise. Just then, Freddy called and invited us to come for Daphne's birthday, which she had forgotten about. I was so happy to finally see Velma, Fred, and Daphne again after so long.
We went to New Orleans to solve a mystery on a ghost pirate and zombies. We defeated the zombies and finally were put back into business.
We got big and amazing again like we were before. On our next adventure, we met the Hex Girls, an eco-goth rock band. They soon became close friends of ours and we started solving mysteries with them several times. We reunited with them in Australia at a big music festival where we performed a concert with them and then, they invited us to be in their new music video, they even made a special one for us. Dusk, the drummer for the gang even kissed me on the cheek.
Shaggy, Velma, Fred, Daphne, and me had also done so many other cool things; we went into cyberspace, went on a video safari, won a rollercoaster design contest, went to ancient Egypt where I learned all about my ancestors, and so much more. It was the good life as usual.
Author's Note:
This is Forgotten Land told from Scooby Doo's POV. Well, let's see how this turns out! Stay tuned!