Discalimer; The only character I own is Kitty, the other's belong to my friends, cuz it's really them... except the canona, those don't belong to us. This story is not an invite, nor are any others that I may read, wright or cowrite, auther or co-auther or any varient there of.

Chapter one Florida, Food and a Frightening New Mystery

"In the middle of Jacksonville, Florida, there sits a school that

was left to the elements for as long as any Ed White student can

remember. For just as long we've heard stories about what happened

and how haunted it was. Velma, I'm scared…" Liz pleaded with her

cousin from a green and orange sparkly cell phone.

"Calm down, Lizzy, and tell me how it happened," Velma replied,

stressing the word "how." She looked around at her companions, who

consisted of a gangly thing, no bigger around than one about half

his height, and a spotted Great Dane.

The dog had black spots on red-brown fur. The man, Shaggy, was tall

and rather thin, despite of how much food he was used to consuming.

"OH NO!" Shaggy bellowed from the driver's seat, "Fred and Daphne

have their cruise and we are going to have four ghost free days

before we meet them in Miami. We are not – repeat, NOT…" The dog,

Scooby, echoed "not" before he continued, "Taking any detours

between here and there."

"C'mon Shag," Velma pleaded, covering the receiver and

ignoring the muffled words from the other end. She removed her hand

from the phone momentarily," Just a sec, Liz," she covered it

again," Shaggy, remember me telling you about Ragline's?"

The dog's ears perked as if someone had just blown a

whistle, or like a cat's at the sound of the can opener. "Rah Res-

raunt?"

"Yes, Scooby, the restaurant. It's not far from the site of

a new mystery." She told them.

"Fine, but we eat first…" Shaggy said, stubbornly."

"Fair, enough," Velma replied.

It was a short drive to Jacksonville, considering they had

only been in St. Mary's Georgia. At this particular moment the gang,

or what there was of them, were sitting in the middle of Five Points

in Riverside, Jax. They had arrived there early and were already

eating by the time Velma's cousin and her friends arrived.

"This is Zack, that's John and the short one over there…"Liz

tried introducing but was interrupted by said short one.

"Hey!"

"Is Kit."

Kit was sitting there, arms crossed, looking stubborn and

trying to look unfazed, but looking mopie instead.

Velma nodded to each in turn, ignoring the sounds of the

hound and the emaciated boy chowing down in her right ear. "So tell

me, again, how she disappeared." Velma looked to her jaded cousin.

Liz busied herself with the art on the walls, noting that

they were showing an exhibit on ancient gods. After scanning the

various pieces, a figure of the goddess Hekete, rising from a circle

of fire, Venus playing poker with Isis, an elaborate font design

stating, "ISIS, ISIS, RA, RA, RA" and others, Liz spoke," We, well,

they, "she gestured around her," thought it would be fun to visit

the old haunted school. They wouldn't listen, Kitty telling them

it'd be safe. Normally-"there was a collective gasp"-Oh, cut it guys-

They don't like the," Liz lowered her voice to a conspiratorial

tone,"The N-word." She gave a giggle, the first since Kitty

disappeared."Well, anyhow, Kitty, who is usually right about everything- yes it gets annoying- was wrong this time. I told her not to go the it was an evil place, but her curiosity got the best of her and now something has her..." Liz started to cry.

John came over, wrapping an arm around her, patting her head, making little soothing noises, before taking the story up where Liz had left off. "A group of us- Kitty, Zack, Kit, our friends Dani 'n Chelby and I- went to School House Four about two days ago. Chelby thought it would be funny to lead Kitty off and get her lost, let her wander for a bit and jump out at her. You know the classical prank. Well, Chelby went looking for her and found us. we had been searching for them and Dani, who had wondered off after them, knowing instinctively what Chelby meant to do. The place was creepy enough without turning against each other. When we were all together, except Kitty, we went looking. That's when we heard a scream. There was a crash and then silence."

Zack held up a pink ball cap with a scull and cross bones on it."We found this next to some toppled desks..."

Velma took it and flipped it over and her eyes went immediately to a sticky substance around the bill of the cap. She squinted at the greyish goo. It was in tendrils and rolled a bit, but it was sticky. "Jinkys..." She mumbled, then looked up. "I think we're going to need to talk to this Chelby. Seems she's the last to see her."

Zack nodded,"I think she's doing that Tall ships things down town."

"Then we'll head there now." Velma said.

Shaggy looked up, disappointed,"But I'm not finished Eating."