A/N:chapter 2

Ages:

Mystery Inc. : 21 to 23 years of age, differing between each character. Scooby is an unknown.

Monster Force "kids": 18-19 years of age because it says they're teenagers but are going to a university.

Monster Force leader - Reed Crawley: I'm guessing anywhere between 28 and 31... It says he's young and he really doesn't look that much older than the rest of the group.

Chapter 2

Shelley stepped out of Tripp's jeep and sighed before turning back to get one last look at the guys before not seeing them for a week. Each of the three boys waved happily at her, trying to encourage her; they only got a weak grimace in reply.

"C'mon, girl, cheer up. You got this massive mansion to hang out in for a whole week, it'll be great!" Tripp Hansen urged her as her other friends Luke and Lance nodded for emphisise. Shelley simply rolled her eyes and frowned.

"Yeah...! Easy for you guys to say, you're not a girl that has your cousin chasin' you around, tryin' to get you to wear some stupid dress." She grumbled as them as Luke handed her, her bags. She snatched them away and he only smiled, forcing his glasses back onto his nose.

"Later, Shelley, have fun!" She heard all the boys yell as they took off, she just hoisted up her bags and rolled her eyes as she headed up toward the door.

'Thanks guys...' She mentally mumbled to herself as she rang the doorbell and waited to be greeted. The only opened to show a tall butler.

"Uhhh... Hiya, I'm Shelley Frank..."

"Ahh, yes... Miss Shelley, Miss Daphne has been expecting you." He stepped away from the door and opened it wide for her to come in, "The mistress is in the den with some friends." He took up her bags and guided her in, the semi-short auburn-haired girl looked around wide eyed at the foyer of the mansion; she hadn't visited in five years, since before she met Reed and the boys. He heard laughing coming from the den, where the butler was leading her.

"Miss Shelley Frank!" The butler announced to the small group of five in the room. Shelley walked in and was tackled by a lovely red-head in a hort purple dress.

"Shelley! It's been so long!"

"Grak! Daphs, get off of me, I can't breathe!" Daphne blushed slighty in embarrassment and released her gasping cousin. By now, the butler had taken away Shelley's bags and Daphne pulling her towards a group of three young adults and large dog.

"Shells, these are my friends; Fred, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby. Gang, this is my little cousin, Shelley Frank." The group greeted each as Shelley sat down, though she felt a weird nagging at the back of her mind like something was wrong but she simply pushed it away.

"So Shelley, Daphne tells me you're going to Lovecraft University. Is this true?" Velma, Daphne's female friend in an orange sweater, asked as she handed Shelley a cup of tea.

"Yeah, it's true." Shelley replied, a little distracted by the wired buzzing in the back her.

"Zoinks! Look at the time! Scooby and I gotta get home otherwise we'll miss the marathon!" Shaggy, Daphne's lanky male friend, practically screamed as he looked at his watch and his large started to wag it's tail. Shelley's eyes grew wide at the sight.

"I swear that thing understands english..." She whispered to Velma as she tried to drink her tea, the girl in the orange sweater giggled.

"Actually, Shelley, he does and he can speak too." The auburn-haired girl was shocked but before they test it out, Scooby and Shaggy yelled their good-byes as zipped out of the room. The remaining four were shocked at the duo's speed and could only sit there blinking before Fred too stood up.

"Well girls, I best be heading out too so you can get on with your girls night in." Daphne and Velma gave him a quick hug before he headed out and Shelley looked at her cousin.

"Girls night in?" After spending all her time with three strange teenage boys and a handsome older scientist, the girl was not used to spending time with members of her own gender. Daphne jumped to her feet and grabbed her cousin's wrist, pulling her to her feet and dragging her to Daphne's massive bedroom with Velma smiling and following behind.
Once there, Daphne plopped her cousin on the large overstuffed bed and headed for the closet while Velma sat next to Shelley. Shelley sighed and swiped her bangs out of her eyes and turned to Velma.

"So, what exactly does a girl's night out entail?"

"Shelley, with Daph, you don't wanna know..."

"Girls! It's make over time!" Shelley groaned and placed her face in her hands.

"Ugh... I'm doomed...!" Daphne plopped down on the bed in a purple silk robe with two silk robes in one hand and a make up kit in the other. She handed the orange robe to Velma and a marune robe to Shelley.

"Get dressed you two, we got a lot of work to do..!" With a sigh, the two grabbed them and headed to go get dressed; one to the fancy bathroom in Daphne's room and the other to her giant closet. A few minutes later, both reamerged wearing nothing but their undergarments and their robes.

'Kill me now. Ugh, I can only imagine what the guys would say if they saw me...!' Her thoughts ragged on as she came back to the bed, Daphne was gonna fix their hair first.; Shelley barely noticed that the nagging in the back of her mind suddenly left.

"So girls... How're you love lifves going?" Daphne asked in a sly voice as she prepared her hair items, the other two just blinked at her but said nothing.

"C'mon, Velma, I know you have a thing for Shaggy..." The rich girl cued as she nudged her best friend's shoulder, making her blush.

"Uuuhhhhh.. Hehe, yeah..."

"Well, have you told him yet?"

"Are you insane, Daphs? He'd totally freak if I did!" The two continued on as Shelley tried to block them out since she felt kinda jealous, she and the boys were always far too busy to think about such trivial things.

"What about you, Shells?" The girl mentally cursed her cousin for asking that question but quickly put on a emotionless expression.

"Nope, sorry, girls... No teenage crushes to talk about..." She said, trying to steel herself from their prying eyes but her slow talking were hints that Daphne easily picked up, the red-head grinned evilly.

"Ooooh... My little cousin's got a secret crush that she doesn't want us to know about, Velma..." She winked at the orange-clad girl who smirked back, this all made Shelley feel very uncomfortable.

"Well, Daphs, we know how to fix that...!" Without warning, the two bombarded a tickle attack on the younger girl to get her to talk. Being part of the Monster Force, Shelley had been through a lot of torturous situations but nothing quite like this.. Within moments, she was lying on the bed giggling and begging for mercy.

"*gasp* ok! *gasp giggle* Okay, fine! You win!" She finally squeeled and gasped for air as soon as the other two slowly stopped their tickle attack. Breathing hurt her aching lungs but she got them to stop, but she really didn't want to talk about her personal life.

"C'mon, cous, spill it!"

"Ugh, fine, but only if we can have the TV for background noise. This is awkward enough already!" Daphne sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Fine." She flipped on the large screen TV to a news channel, "Ok, now spill!" Shelley opened her mouth to speak but she quickly looked away from them and mumbled something. The two older girls looked at each other with raised eyebrows.

"What was that, Shells?"

"Yeah, Shelley, what did you say?" The younger girl picked pillow and buried her blushing face into it, repeating what she had said. Daphne gave an agriavated sigh and pulled the pillow away.

"C'mon, girl!" Daphne and Velma's eyes grew wide at the intense blush on the auburn-haired girl's face, who quickly hid said face in her hands until her the other started to poke and prod her.

"Urrgh! Fine! It's my boss!" She finally yelled out and stole the pillow back and hid behind, Daphne and Velma smiled like to school girls.

"Wow, cous, that's intense."

"Yeah... Is he cute!"

"What's his name?"

"What's his occupation?" Shelley poked her head up and glared at them but sighed when she realized they weren't going to give up.

"You guys suck... Fine... He's a scientist and his name is Re-!" Shelley was cut off by an urgent newscast came on the TV.

"Dr. Reed Crawley, professor at Lovecraft University, was found near death in his lab not ten minutes ago." Daphne and Velma watched as Shelley's eyes grew wide in fear and horror.

"No... Reed..." The words came out in barely a whisper before she scrambled to the edge of the bed to watch the news.

"Shells, what's wrong? Do you know him?" Daphne asked softly as she watched tears start to form in her cousin's eyes.

"Y-yeah... That's Reed, my boss and friend..." Shelley whimpered as they brought up Reed's teacher ID, showing the young brown haired scientist. The two older girls gasped as they watched the TV with a new sense of horror as they showed his lab; it was thrashed with chemestry sets mashed everywhere, claw marks across walls and desks, machines that only Shelley knew belonged to the Monster Force and blood was scattered across windows, walls and the floor.

"Dang it! I knew we should never have left him!" Shelley screamed as she slammed her fist down onto the nightstand, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Dr. Crawley has been rushed to Matterson Genera-!" The TV shut off, making Shelley look back towards her cousin, who was holding the remote.

"Hey!"

"Shells, you can just sit he and watch the news! That hospital is right around the corner, I'm taking you there, get your shoes!" The girl in purple informed them as she rushed for the door.

"What? In nothing but our robes?" Velma yelled after her but got no response, shrugging, she grabbed Shelley's hand and dragged her out the door. It was going to be a long night...