Mystery Inc. Haunted Past

By: RisingGear

~Grimmwood School for Girls~

Shaggy Rogers found himself the PE teacher of a boarding school for Monster girls. A school that is built like an ancient castle, despite being in the southern united states. What most people never notice is that this school is connected to the world of monsters.

Together with his best friend Scooby Doo, the due stayed on for one whole semester. During his tenure, they looked after a relatively small group of students. All of whom are the daughters of legendary monsters.

One night as him and Scooby return to their private room to sleep. Sweaty and exhausted the plop down onto their respective beds. "What a ray!" Says Scooby, his face buried into his pillow.

"Like, We shouldn't be surprised we have trouble keeping up with the Girls." Shaggy replies as he finds a box with a bow on it under his pillow, a card falling off of it. "They literally are monsters and we are just two normal guys." He picks up the card to read it, noticing the aroma of perfume coming off the little piece of paper. "Like still they are good kids. I almost can't believe we were actually scared of them. I guess monster children are still children."

Shaggy picks up to read the note before opening the mysterious package. "From your secret admirer." Scooby sees the note in his best friend's hand, teasingly nudging him in the back. "Hehehe! Somebody likes you, buddy."

"Not funny." Embarrassed Shaggy replies back, rolling his eyes at Scooby's playful teasing. Then after ignoring him, he opens the box to find a black heart-shaped cake. "Sweet… literally!"

Unbeknownst to them, a purple bat watches them open the box from the window. As it watches Shaggy with his dog, it smiled with a blush. "What are you doing Sibella?" A disembodied voice says from behind the bat, frightening the tiny animal. *POOF!* In a puff of smoke, the bat transforms into a purple-skinned teenage girl. Sibella falls out of the tall tree, only to be caught by an invisible force.

"That was not very fang-tastic of you, Phanty!" An embarrassed Sibella shouts as a ghost girl becomes visible, with crazy eyes and a shit-eating grin. The purple vampire girl bares her fangs and her violet face gains a flush of pink. Then the two ghouls laugh after a small stare down between the two friends. Then the two panic when the creaking sound of an opening window catches their attention.

"Like Scoob did you hear something?" Shaggy asks as he looks out of his window, finding nothing out there. "Guess it was nothing, like nevermind." He feels a chill from the breeze, then closes the window. "

The two girls come out of hiding behind the tree when the coast is clear. The cackling ghost girl gives Sibella a knowing grin. "hehe! I guess this is why you've been in the kitchen all day baking." She looks up at the window to their teacher's room. "Very surprising you would be crushing on the coach!"

Sibella's body becomes a black shadow with glowing green eyes looking through her ghostly friend. Shadowy tendrils grab Phanty, despite being a ghost she can't remove herself from them. The vampire girl's hand gently moves a bang of hair. "One more word out of that mouth and I will feast on your soul!!"

Phanty floats there frozen in fear, then the tentacles stop attempting to crush Phanty into oblivion. Sibella suddenly realized what she just did and drops her friend. "Oh Bats, please forgive me! I don't know what came over me!"

Phanty giggles like an excited fangirl, grinning ear to ear like a Maniac. "That was unimaginably horrifying, do it again! Do it again!" The two friends laughing so hard they fail to notice the school's headmistress, Madam Grimmwood right behind them.

The next morning Shaggy is in the academy's cafeteria, finishing off the mysterious cake he received. Only to feel a chill go up to his spine, the feeling of being watched by a dark force. "Like Scoob, do you ever feel like your being watched?"

The talking dog sighs heavily before replying. "Every day of my life!" Scooby's tone is one of a grizzled veteran. "I know it hasn't actually been that long, but it feels like it's been going on for forty years!"

"Like those speech therapy sessions are really paying off!" The self-proclaimed beatnik comments with a smirk. The students enter one by one, starting with the young reanimated Elsa. *THUMP! THUMP!* The lumbering undead girl's footsteps could be heard from a few yards away.

"Morning coach!" Says the undead schoolgirl as she removes the silver lid to her breakfast platter, leaving a car battery and jumper cables. "Alright my favorite!" Elsa plugs the battery into her neck-bolts, causing her to belch. *BALCH!* Smoke comes out of her mouth with the loudest burp filling the room. "Sorry, this has got more spice than normal!"

"Oh, Nice one!" Phanty replies as she comes down from the ceiling, giving Elsa a round of applause. "Yo Teach enjoying that cake?" Phanty slyly asks with a knowing smirk, confusing her teacher. Then Shaggy's ominous chill returns as Sibella lands on his head in bat form, eyes glowing green. Overhead them is the vampire's shadow taking the form of a massive bat.

~Crystal cove - 20 years later~

Shaggy after giving up Mystery solving for good, returned to his hometown to start over. Putting his teaching degree to good use, working as a high school English teacher for the past twenty years. His laid back nature served to make him popular with the student body, being able to make the class easier to sit through.

After school, he picks his ten-year-old nephew Travis drive back to their home, a modest three bedroom house. An emotionally withdrawn kid who keeps to himself, despite Shaggy's best efforts to help him feel better about himself.

"So I was thinking about ordering out tonight, what would you like?" Shaggy asks before noticing Travis has already gone inside. A frown comes over his face as he soon walks into his house. He passes by several pictures of the old gang and photos of family members. Among them is Shaggy's sister Maggie, Travis's mother. Shaggy's finds that particular face down on a table, likely done by Travis himself. "We miss you, sis!"

After checking his mail he finds a purple letter in his mailbox, marked with the wax seal of a gold bat. A chill goes up to his spine when he sees, almost instantly. Shaggy's next door neighbor approaches with a worried look on his face. "Hay Rodgers, you got a moment?"

"L-like sure thing what's up?" Shaggy replies back, his old speech habit accidentally resurfacing from shock. The letter has a perfume scent that is becoming increasingly familiar to him. His neighbor gets closer so what he is about to say stays between them, a concerned

"There was a couple of scary looking people casing your house, Hooded in robes!" After a quick look around them, he continues talking. The man seems conflicted about what he is about to say like he believes Shaggy would not believe him. "You're going to think I'm crazy for telling you this but I thought I saw them turn into bats and fly away!"

Shaggy immediately knows he isn't making this stuff up, from a lifetime of weird events. From his neighbor's description, it's obvious vampires are after him. The question is why Shaggy specifically? The only vampires he personally knows… "ZOINKS!" Shaggy screams internally after trying to maintain a straight face the entire conversation.

"Thanks for the heads up, I am definitely glad I investing in a home security system." The two shake hands before Shaggy walks back inside. Once Shaggy enters his home he drops the calm facade. He props his back against the door, nearly having a panic attack. The last time he had to deal with the lord of the undead himself it nearly killed him. Why is Dracula after him this time? "Think Shaggy what did you to piss off FUCKING DRACULA!!" He says to himself as he begins breath into a brown bag, hyperventilating from past trauma.

He then smalls the perfume from the letter, reminding himself to actually read it. Opening the envelope Shaggy begins to read it apprehension. The neat calligraphy like handwriting makes him wish some of his students had this level of penmanship.

"Dear Mister Shaggy Rogers

It has been many years since we've last met, Those many years ago. Not a day has gone I haven't been thinking of you, I've missed you terribly. Unfortunately, I am not writing you simply for pleasantries…" *KNOCK! KNOCK!*

A hard violent banging on the front door behind Shaggy, reminding him how grateful he is to be wearing brown pants. *KNOCK! KNOCK!* The pounding on the door grows even louder, more aggressive with each knock. Photos hung on the walls getting knocked off and broken. Shaggy actually has to prop himself against the door itself to prevent it from bursting open. "I'm not letting you in, whatever you are!"

"Jinkies, Looks like Shaggy doesn't want to see us again!" The voice of Velma Dinkley is somehow on the other side of the door. Shaggy is so shocked to hear her voice again after so many years, everything else mutes itself in his mind. "Why don't you… let us in?"

Outside in the trees are two bats watching and waiting, almost expecting something to happen. However inside Shaggy has trouble processing hearing Velma's voice again, picking up a damaged photo off the ground. Looking at the old gang reminds him of an unpleasant reality. "You aren't Velma, they all died years ago! You aren't her!"

"Can't we talk about it…" The figure passes through the door, like a ghost. This aggressive figure really does have a convincing likeness to the real Velma. A bullet hole right between the eyes drips blood onto the carpet. She is wearing white hooded robes that are stained red from the constant bleeding. She gives Shaggy a crazed smile the implies bloodlust. "You look like you've seen a ghost."

Slowly Shaggy takes a step backward, hoping to get Travis and run. With each step the figure slowly creeps forward, almost tauntingly so, Blood dripping from her nails. Shaggy is using every ounce of willpower he has not to panic, he knows this thing wants him to scream. "I get the feeling that most of that is not your own blood."

The figure laughs confirming the worst, it killed someone right before coming after him. Then it lunges at him, violently swinging her claws. "Your neighbor spoiled the surprise!" Shaggy ducks out of the way, causing the figure to crash into an end table.

Then a swarm of bats floods through the fireplace, overwhelming the figure with endless bites. Then the front door is kicked open by a grown purple-skinned woman steps in. "I planned for a most Fang-tastic reunion and I find myself saving your life this time, Coach."

Shaggy can hardly believe what he is seeing right now the Vampire casing his house wasn't Dracula. "Sibella?!"