Author's Notes: Scooby Doo and all related characters are copyright 2009 Hanna-Barbera Productions/Warner Brothers/Cartoon Network. No challenge to their ownership is implied; I am not making any money from writing this story, I am just a fan and I am writing this simply for fun.
Chapter 1
On a rather dark and stormy night, inside the offices of a major newspaper known as the National Gazette, two familiar figures are standing about or rather floating about; the two figures are Weerd and Bogel and they are ghosts but not just any ghosts, they have spent their afterlives trying to lure mortals to open the infamous Chest of Demons to release the thirteen foulest specters on the planet; some time ago the chest was opened and the ghosts were released, at the present time the two ghosts wait for their new boss who has a nefarious scheme to dispose of Mystery Inc. and Scooby Doo forever.
A nearby door opens and a large green creature with strange yellow eyes walks inside the room of the building that houses the printing presses for the newspaper; Weerd and Bogel get a look at the creature and each of the ghosts has a crooked looking smile pass their lips.
"Weerd, Bogel where are you, you dimwitted ghosts?" the creature growled.
"Right here boss" Weerd said as he and Bogel floated over to the strange being.
"Ooh ooh, you must be Demondo, one of the thirteen ghosts" Bogel remarked.
"Of course he is, you dolt!" Weerd replied as he smacked his fellow ghost on the head.
"Ooh, that smarts!" Bogel commented rubbing his head.
"Will you two knock it off and pay attention!" Demondo bellowed as he glared at the two ghosts.
"Yes your awfulness" Weerd commented.
"Ooh, ooh of course" Bogel replied.
"Be quiet!" Demondo yelled.
"Sorry" Weerd and Bogel said in unison.
"Now pay attention," Demondo said walking over to the presses and picking up a newspaper.
"This is just one of hundreds of newspapers which will be delivered all over the world, inside of each of them is a special surprise" Demondo explained.
"Ooh ooh I love surprises, what is it? Toys, candy, something else?" Bogel asked.
"Will you two knock it off so I can explain my plan!" Demondo snapped.
"Yes your evilness, absolutely your scariness" Weerd remarked.
"Ooh, ooh we'll listen boss, just don't hurt us" Bogel replied.
"Oh for crying out loud, I don't know why I'm telling you two about this plan, you're both absolute turkeys" Demondo remarked shaking his head.
"Gobble Gobble" the ghostly pair replied.
"Now if you two are quite finished, I would like to begin" Demondo replied; suddenly a strange ink pen appeared in a small puff of smoke in the palm of his hand, the pen had what looked to be a small skull on the top of it as the two ghosts looked on.
"This pen which you see in my hand is not like any other pen in existence, for example the liquid inside this pen is made of a special spectral elixir which I can and will use to bring monsters from the newspaper comics to life!" Demondo chuckled evilly.
"But boss how is having the ability to bring creatures from paper into real life going to help us?" Weerd asked.
"I was getting to that you idiots!" Demondo replied, as he snarled at the two ghosts.
"Sorry boss" Bogel and Weerd replied.
"Now as I was going to say, all of the newspaper monsters will be under my control, then once each of the papers are delivered I will use the pen to bring the monsters from the comic world into real life and once they are in the real world I will use them as my army and I will command them in my conquest of the world" Demondo explained, laughing evilly; however this ghost's laugh almost sounded like someone trying to clear their throat and not a regular laugh.
"But Demondo, Scooby Doo and his meddling friends are still around; how are you going to get rid of them?" Weerd asked.
"I was getting to that, now here is my plan to get rid of those meddlesome kids and that dog: I will be inside the newspaper that you two will deliver to Scooby Doo's house, in addition my magic pen is a key to a door I have hidden somewhere inside this page; once the paper is inside I will come out of it and use my pen to trap those meddling mortals inside the comic strip world for good!" Demondo declared.
"Ah I get it, and then after Scooby Doo and those kids are trapped, you're going to use that pen to release the monsters from the comic world into the real world," Weerd replied.
"And then they'll be able to take over the world, not to mention capture the Chest of Demons!" Bogel added.
"Exactly and only I know where the door back to the real world is, now take this newspaper and deliver it to Scooby Doo and his friends' house, and do not fail! Demondo growled.
"Don't worry boss, you can count on us!" Weerd replied.
Demondo jumped into the paper and prepared to spring his evil surprise on Scooby and the gang.
"That Bogel and Weerd, I certainly hope they don't mess things up again; well at least I have other plans if the two of them screw things up" Demondo said from inside the newspaper.
Weerd and Bogel floated outside the window of the building and onto a bicycle where the two of them took off for Mystery Inc.'s house with Demondo in the bicycle's newspaper sack.
The scene now shifts to a two story house in the suburbs of Coolsville where the world famous Scooby Doo and his mystery solving, ghost chasing companions reside; for the moment things are fairly quiet, however given Scooby Doo and his friends history, things won't be quiet for long.
Inside a bedroom in the upstairs portion of the residence sits or rather lays the great warlock and friend of Mystery Inc Vincent Van Ghoul, he is wearing green pajamas and is relaxing as he ponders over his current situation.
"What a wonderful night's rest, I must have had a hundred nightmares, now for some breakfast, I'm famished" Vincent said as he reached over to a nearby nightstand, picked up a small bell and began ringing it.
Meanwhile downstairs Scooby Doo and company are not pleased with the fact that they have a houseguest, even if he is a warlock and their friend and ally; each of the members of Mystery Inc. are performing various tasks for Vincent: Shaggy and Scooby are polishing some of the warlock's shoes, Daphne is ironing some of the mystic's clothes, Velma is polishing up Vincent's Crystal Ball, while Fred for the most part is standing at the bottom of a staircase waiting to see and hear if the great mystic needs anything.
Sure enough the blond teenager and leader of Mystery Inc. hears a ringing sounds coming from upstairs which causes the gang great distress and discomfort.
"Not again" Velma commented sounding quite annoyed.
"I wonder what he wants this time?" Daphne wondered.
"I know Vincent Van Ghoul is a powerful warlock and all, plus he's been a great help to us in tracking down the thirteen ghosts from the Demon Chest ever since we met him; but now he's like the thing that wouldn't leave, I sure hope I'm not like this after I start my warlock training with Flim Flam" Fred explained.
"Don't worry Fred, Vince may be annoying sometimes but he's a great teacher; I think you'll really like him when we start our studies" addressed Flim Flam.
"I know he's a great teacher and a great warlock but this is ridiculous, he's been for three weeks and I'm already tired of him being here" Fred replied.
"Like yeah, who knew it would take this long for Vincent's castle to be recobwebbed" Shaggy wondered.
"At first it didn't seem so bad, but now it seems like he's the thing that won't leave" Velma replied.
"Right, well since he's ringing his bell again I guess he wants something, who wants to go up there this time?" Fred asked.
"Rell, ri ruess ri'll ro it" Scooby replied somewhat reluctantly.
Outside of the gang's residence the sun is rising and the two dimwitted ghosts named Bogel and Weerd are riding a bicycle delivering newspapers and are about to make a delivery to Scooby and company.
"Ooh, ooh, how much farther is it to Scooby Doo's house Weerd?" Bogel asked.
"It shouldn't be too much longer Bogel old buddy, and then old Demondo will spring his trap and then Scooby Doo and friends won't be a problem any more!" Weerd replied.
The two ghostly laughed wickedly as they continued riding the bicycle towards the gang's dwelling.
Back in Mystery Inc's house Vincent Van Ghoul continued ringing his bell waiting for someone to come up and see what he wanted; the door to the warlock's room was open as Scooby Doo poked his head through to see what the mystic needed, Vincent saw the canine in the doorway and began speaking to him.
"Rello, rister Ran Rhoul" Scooby said cheerfully.
"Well it's about time; the service around here is terrible, is my breakfast coming?" Vincent asked.
"Rabsoultely" Scooby replied.
"Well then don't just stand there, fluff my pillow" Vincent said somewhat impatiently.
"Rokie dokie" Scooby replied, unfortunately the Great Dane pulled the pillow out from behind the warlock while he was resting on it, causing him to fall flat on his back.
Scooby Doo fluffed and fluffed the pillow; however he must have fluffed it too much because it exploded in a barrage of feathers all over the room.
"Roops, rorry rister Ran Rhoul" Scooby apologized.
"Never mind, just get my morning paper and get out!" Vincent replied with a somewhat irritated tone in his voice.
Scooby Doo then quickly ran out of the room, making sure not to incur the wrath of the great warlock; back outside Bogel and Weerd were approaching Mystery Inc.'s house and were preparing to make a delivery to the teenage sleuths and their cowardly Great Dane.
"Scooby Doo's house is coming up in the next few buildings Bogel, get ready to deliver the paper" Weerd declared.
"Right Weerd, I'm ready" Bogel replied clutching a newspaper in his right hand.
"Here comes the Sunday edition, especially for you Scooby Doo!" Weerd laughed as his fellow ghost tossed the paper.
The ghost's throw was right on target and Scooby caught it in his mouth, problem is it sent Scooby backwards onto a rug, sliding through the front room and headed right for Daphne who was preparing to carry a tray of breakfast up to Vincent; the redhead saw this and tried to avoid colliding with the Great Dane but couldn't.
"Scooby stop, wait!" Daphne cried out.
The canine crashed right into the teenage sleuth, which caused the tray of breakfast to fall right out of the redhead's hands; the rest of Mystery Inc. saw this and didn't like what they saw.
"Uh oh, looks Mr. Van Ghoul won't be getting his breakfast today" Fred remarked.
"Like yeah, are you okay Scooby?" Shaggy asked.
Scooby managed to stand up, albeit with eggs on his face and a piece of toast coming out of his mouth.
"Reah ri'm rine" the Great Dane replied.
Once again Vincent began ringing his bell and Scooby Doo with the paper in his mouth went running back up to the great warlock's room; Vincent must have been expecting this because he had a pair of black reading glasses on and was eagerly waiting the canine's arrival.
"Ah the morning paper, I must read my horoscope" Vincent said somewhat eagerly, which was surprising considering he was rarely pleased with anything, other than the capture of the thirteen ghosts from the demon chest that is.
However as the warlock was reading he heard and noticed that Scooby Doo was whining as he laid his head on the mystic's bed.
"Oh now what section do you want?" Vincent asked with a somewhat impatient tone in his voice.
"The romics" Scooby replied, as he smiled and waited in a hopeful fashion at the side of the bed.
"Oh I see, you want to read the comic section, if I give you the comics will you leave and allow me to read the paper in peace?" Vincent asked.
"Rabsolutely" Scooby replied.
"Very well, here" Vincent said handing the Great Dane the comic page.
"Rhank you rister Ran Rhoul" Scooby replied as he began kissing Vincent's hand.
Scooby left Vincent's room and happily ran back downstairs with the comics' page in his possession, Vincent resumed reading the newspaper and as he did so he shook his head wondering why the canine was looking forward to reading the comic strips.
"That Scooby Doo, it's a good thing I have gray hair already, because if I didn't he would give me gray hair; not to mention the fact that I might start pulling it out soon, however I have to admit that Scooby and his friends have been very successful in tracking down the thirteen ghosts so far and if I had to do it over again I would have them track down once more" Vincent said, continuing to read his horoscope.
A few moments later Scooby Doo landed on the sofa in the living room and sat down; within a few more minutes the cowardly Great Dane was deeply engrossed in once of his great passions, mainly reading the comic strip Platypus Duck.
"Let me read Astrid 2000 Scoob" Shaggy commented.
"Rokay" Scooby replied.
After keeping the page of the comics which contained Scooby's favorite strip Platypus Duck; he then handed the comics' page which contained Shaggy's favorite strip Astrid 2000 to him.
"Man, like that Astrid is sure a fox" Shaggy commented with a whistle.
"Shaggy, you do realize that she's a fictional character right?" Velma replied looking annoyed.
"I know, I know but she's still a fox" Shaggy remarked.
Velma stood in silence watching her two best friends shaking her head; meanwhile Scooby began reading the Platypus Duck strip and as usual laughed at the comical waterfowl, however he along with the rest of the gang were about to receive an unwelcome surprise.
Scooby was preparing to read one of the panels of the comic strip when the friendly aquatic creature spoke to him.
"Don't look now Scooby old pal but your about to have a quack up" Platypus Duck remarked.
The Great Dane scratched his head wondering what to make of this statement but soon he and his friends would find out what the comic strip character was talking about.
Suddenly the paper began to glow a strange shade of yellow, Scooby placed the comic pages down as the rest of Mystery Inc. slowly moved backwards; the glow finally took the form of a strange green creature with bright yellow eyes, the strange being then jumped out of the paper and right into the room where Scooby and company were standing; the gang was quite awestruck by this and didn't know quite what to make of this, however the group of teenage sleuths and their Great Dane along with Flim Flam soon were about to have yet another remarkable adventure.
"So I finally get to meet the famous Scooby Doo and his friends; my name is Demondo and I am indeed one of the thirteen ghosts from the Demon Chest" the creature remarked.
"Wait a second, why are you telling us this; we're going to put you back in the chest anyway so what good does this do you?" Fred asked.
"Very simple, you six will not be trapping me in that accursed chest; instead I will trap you!" Demondo said laughing evilly.
Demondo took out his magic pen and pointed it directly at Mystery Inc., suddenly a large gust of wind came from the strange looking pen; it surrounded the group of investigators and began pulling them towards the ghost.
"Uh oh, we're headed straight for that creep!" Fred exclaimed.
"Indeed you are and now you shall all be my prisoners!" Demondo bellowed as the gang continued to be blown towards him.
"Maybe not" Velma remarked.
Velma fought her way through the strong winds and whispered something to Scooby Doo; the Great Dane nodded in agreement as the gang prepared to put their plan into action.
"What did you ask Scooby to do Velma?" Shaggy wondered.
"Simple, if we can get Demondo's pen away from him then we might be able to stop his plans" Velma replied.
"Good thinking Velma, I just hope this plan of yours works" Shaggy commented.
Scooby Doo fought and clawed his way through the intense winds towards Demondo; finally he reached the green ghoul and managed to knock the pen out of his clutches.
"Meddling dog! Give me my pen back!" Demondo growled.
Scooby and Demondo both tried to grab for the pen, however both failed in their attempts as Mystery Inc., Flim Flam and the ghostly Demondo were pulled into the incredible world of comic strips.