Author's note: And now...the sixth episode of my reboot of SDMI: The Song of Mystery, which like the previous episode will feature a massive rewrite in the storyline. The culprit remains the same as the original episode, but I'm changing the motive.

I don't own Scooby-Doo. Hanna-Barbera Productions and Warner Bros. does.

Chapter 1: Babysitting and some pan flute music

April 27, 2012

It has been a week since Mystery Inc. put a stop to the Man Crab's rampage at Crystal Cove beach. Since then, things has been quiet in town, other than the buzz of the upcoming municipal and county elections and countless attack ads on television.

That evening, at a typical suburban home, one nine-year old boy was watching television while his parents were away.

At that moment, the television program was broadcasting an old cartoon from the 1970s about a group of kids and their dog teaming up with a hero and his robotic canine sidekick to capture a caveman criminal.

"Blue Falcon!" One of the main characters shouted from the television.

"And Dog Wonder!" The second main character added.

"Away!" The two main characters shouted as their car took off.

"Oh yeah!" The boy watching television exclaimed excitedly. "Blue Falcon and Dog Wonder away!"

A little while later, the two main characters met up with the group of sleuths and their dog.

"What are you doing around here, Blue Falcon?" The orange ascot-wearing blonde-haired boy asked in the television.

"We're in pursuit of a villainous criminal type known as Lowbrow." The hero replied.

Later, the two vehicles took off to pursue the criminal and at the scene where the dogs were mixed up, the boy started laughing.

"We've got to find out a way to find Lowbrow's trail, Dog Wonder." The hero said.

"Rog Wonder?" A not-so-familiar voice asked.

"Scooby?" The hero asked when he saw the brown-furred Great Dane in the car.

The scene on television then cuts to the two vehicles that has stopped.

"Dog Wonder, you're in the wrong car!" The hero shouted to his sidekick, who was in the kids' van.

"Gosh, no!" The sidekick exclaimed as he leaped to the hero's car.

"Now that's funny!" The boy laughed as he watched the scene.

Eventually, the heroes managed to capture the criminal and were at a turkey dinner. However, the hero's sidekick malfunctioned and flattened the turkey, to the shock of two of the kids and their dog.

"Uh...anyone in for turkey pancake?" The sidekick asked as he holds the flattened turkey.

"Sheez." The hero remarked as the cartoon ends.

(Which animated series is being broadcast here? And which particular episode is the boy watching?)

"Now that's one funny cartoon." The boy remarked as he watched the credits roll. "Mom and Dad sure grew up at a time where cartoons were a whole lot better than the stuff that's on the network nowadays."

Just then, a hand reached in and turned off the television.

Through the moonlight shining from outside, the boy recognized his babysitter.

"Bedtime, Arthur." Daphne said to him as she turned off the television.

Moments later, Arthur was being tucked into bed as he recounted the cartoon he was watching.

"And it's probably just me, Daphne, but you look exactly like one of those kids I saw on the cartoon show featuring Blue Falcon and Dynomutt." Arthur said after giving Daphne a resume of the cartoon show he was watching.

"Oh really?" Daphne asked. "What's that kid's name?"

"Same as yours." Arthur replied.

"Jeepers!" Daphne remarked. "I guess it's just a coincidence that one of the kids on the show looks like and shares the same name as me."

"I suppose so." Arthur nodded.

Daphne then kissed him good night before leaving the bedroom.

After heading downstairs, she went to read a book in the arm chair as she glanced at her wristwatch.

Shaggy and Scooby are watching a movie at the nearby movie theater, and their movie is supposed to finish in about ten minutes.

Once they finished their movie, they plan on meeting with her outside the house once she's done babysitting and then head home together.

During this time, outside the house at a nearby intersection, a dark shadowed figure looks towards the house before beginning to play the pan flute.

At that moment, up in his bedroom, Arthur was sleeping cozily before the music played by the pan flute through the open window in his bedroom woke him up.

In that same time, Shaggy and Scooby were walking down the street after finishing their movie.

"Like, that sure was one good movie, eh Scoob?" Shaggy asked as they walked down the street.

"Reah!" Scooby agreed. "Ro bad they ran out of popcorn."

"Well, at least Daph's got some midnight snacks for us when we meet her at the Baywosenthals place once she's finished babysitting." Shaggy said.

"True." Scooby nodded before stopping as his ears picked up something. "Rey Raggy, did you rear something?"

Shaggy stopped and listened. "Like, sounds like pan flute music."

His eyes then caught sight of the dark, shadowed figure at the intersection up ahead.

"Like, and what's that?" He added, gesturing towards the figure.

In the same time, Daphne was about to flip a page on the book when she heard crashing from Arthur's bedroom.

"Arthur?" She asked as she closed the book and stood up.

Hearing trashing upstairs, she quickly raced up the stairs and bursted into Arthur's bedroom.

It was a mess, and she saw the boy facing the corner of the room.

"Arthur?" She asked as she walked towards him.

Just then, the boy turned and to Daphne's horror, he's been transformed into a zombie!

"Jeepers!" Daphne exclaimed as the zombified boy growled at her before charging towards her.

Without hesitation, the redhead quickly bolted out of the bedroom and raced down the stairs as the zombie chased her.

In the living room, she quickly reached for the front door, only to find the boy blocking her way.

"Arthur! Calm down!" She said. "It's me!"

However, the boy doesn't seem to recognize her and jumped towards her.

Quickly, Daphne moved towards the nearby window and opened it.

At that moment, Shaggy and Scooby heard noises coming from the Baywosenthals place and turned and looked.

To their surprise, they saw a zombie-like figure chasing Daphne, who managed to climb out of the window and leaped out.

"Zoinks!" Shaggy exclaimed when the redhead landed in the small front garden and faced him and Scooby. "What happened?"

Daphne quickly gestured towards the zombified Arthur, who hissed at them before closing the window and flipped away.

"Ripe!" Scooby exclaimed.

"Like, that sure was close." Shaggy said as Daphne joined them.

"Yeah." Daphne agreed. "Wonder what was that about?"

Shaggy and Scooby then turned and saw the dark, shadowed figure he and Scooby saw earlier gone with some smoke marking where it was standing at minutes ago.

"Like, was there a creepy-looking guy standing there playing the pan flute when you tucked the boy into bed, Daph?" Shaggy asked as he gestured towards the intersection.

"Not that I know of, although I thought I heard some pan flute music moments before I heard smashing coming from Arthur's bedroom." Daphne replied.

"Maybe that pan flute music was responsible for turning Arthur into that zombie, Daph." Shaggy said.

"Oh no." Daphne sighed. "What am I going to tell his parents?"

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