Chapter 2

While Scooby Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, Fred and Flim Flam continued in their attempts to track down the trio of sorceresses that possessed the black book of spells which might just make them the most powerful witches in the world, if Scooby and company couldn't track them down, Vincent Van Ghoul remained in the Zone of Eternal Evil, home of the darkest, foulest and most fiendish spirits, specters, ghosts, ghouls and monsters of all time attempting to track down the source of the strange mist which had given the trio of witches the black book of spells in the first place.

"I can't see a thing, just darkness everywhere" Vincent commented as he walked around trying to find his way through the foggy mists of this strange land; as the powerful warlock was in the midst of doing this, he heard a peculiar noise coming from a few feet away.

Vincent looked over and saw that a creature almost the size of a small child wearing what looked to be a pair of pink pajamas had it's leg caught in a strange magical vortex of some kind; the warlock felt somewhat sorry for the small creature and showed his softer side by walking over and helping the creature out of it's precarious situation.

"You poor creature, what are you doing here?" Vincent asked; a few seconds later he aimed his green necklace at the magical vortex which made the strange current disappear, this event also caused the creature to jump around for joy as he was finally free from the strange vortex.

"You're very welcome" Vincent said as he waved to the creature and wished him well; suddenly there was a strange flash of lightning right in front of the warlock, which caused Vincent to cover himself with his cloak; in addition to the lightning, a strange green mist appeared for a few moments and when it disappeared a tall woman with gray hair that was similar to flames, as well as dark green eyes and wearing what seemed to be a violet colored dress and what looked to be pink shoes stood in front of Vincent Van Ghoul; the woman smiled somewhat evilly as her glance fell upon the powerful warlock, clearly the look on her face said that she had something planned for Vincent, only he didn't know it yet.

"So we meet again Vincent Van Ghoul" the woman declared as she sat down in a large stone chair.

"Marcella, so you're the evil mist! But how did you wind up in the zone?" Vincent asked.

"I was swept here by a spectral wind after I escaped your Chest of Demons" Marcella replied.

"From one trap to the next huh? You never were terribly clever were you Marcella?" Vincent questioned with a slight chuckle.

The strange woman then responded by standing up from her chair and aiming a strange green energy at the warlock which trapped him inside a large lock which had a series of white energy stripes connected to it.

"No!" Vincent yelled as realized what was happening.

"Yes, Van Ghoul! While you rot here, my sister witches will set me free at last to haunt the heavens and the earth! Marcella explained.

Meanwhile said group of witches were now in Egypt, in one of the pharaohs' tombs as they had found the first of two ingredients they needed for spell thirteen.

"Ooh, ooh Wanda, look on the stand, the golden cobra rattle!" the blonde haired witch said.

Unfortunately for the group of witches the rattle was guarded was by you guess it, a large cobra which made the sorceresses quite nervous; but luckily for them the black haired witch who was the leader of the three was paging through the black book of spells until she found a spell that would assure the trio of success in their mission.

The black haired witch then read an incantation which transformed the blonde haired witch into a snake, with the exception of her head of course; the blonde haired sorceress was not quite ecstatic about this event and decided to give the black haired witch a piece of her mind.

"What are you Wanda, a comedian?" the blonde haired witch, now snake asked.

"Just keep that Cobra busy butterball and we'll do the rest!" the black haired witch declared.

With that the transformed witch began slithering towards the Cobra, which as you would expect made him quite happy; so he began following the witch turned snake as they began a very strange date or whatever it is that they would be doing.

Meanwhile several hundred miles in the air, inside the Mystery Flying Machine Scooby and company figured out what the witches were up to and had made their way to the land of pyramids, pharaohs and of course mummies as they were attempting to figure out just exactly where their foes were.

In the cabin of the large crimson aircraft, Shaggy sat in the pilot's seat guiding the plane through the skies, while Velma sat in the navigator's seat reading a map; Fred and Daphne were sitting at what looked to be a combination GPS/radar/computer/phone system, and as the plane continued to soar through the skies, the blond teenage leader of Mystery Inc. spoke up,

"Guys I think we found them, they're inside that pyramid" Fred said pointing to the screen.

"And this time I've got a great plan to trick those witches, it can't miss, right Scooby?" Flim Flam asked dressed in an Egyptian style merchant's outfit and reading his book.

"Right don't rnow Rlim Rlam" Scooby replied dressed in an Arabian belly dancer's outfit.

Meanwhile inside the pyramid the blonde haired witch was distracting the cobra while the red haired witch and the black haired witch slowly stepped out from the shadows towards the stand with the golden cobra rattle on it.

"I got it" the red haired witch said as she grabbed the cobra rattle which made a sound as she took it from the stand.

This naturally got the snake's attention but before the reptile knew what hit him, the three witches took the rattle and ran out towards the entrance to the pyramid; back inside the Mystery Flying Machine, which had now landed, Flim Flam stood outside the plane while Velma stood beside him dressed in a belly dancer's outfit.

"See I told you guys this was a great plan, those witches will never recognize us in these disguises" the young boy said.

"Flim Flam, this is the dumbest plan I've heard of and trust me I've come up with some silly plans before" Fred remarked as he, Shaggy, Daphne and Scooby stepped out of the plane, all dressed in belly dancers outfits.

"I agree with Freddie Flim Flam, this isn't going to work" Daphne added.

"Come on guys trust me, besides have I ever steered you wrong?" Flim Flam asked.

"Yes!" the rest of the gang replied in unison.

While this was going on, in fact at the exact same moment this was going on the three witches walked out of the pyramid and saw a familiar group of teenagers and their dog walking towards them, which caused them to duck back inside the pyramid for a few seconds.

"Hey, it's those same kids again!" the blonde haired witch said.

"Let me have the book Wanda, I wanna zap em, come on!" the red haired witch replied.

"No Ernestine, we can't mess around now, we have work to do" the black haired witch explained.

"Yeah, yeah, we still have to get that Paris sewer water, yummy!" the blonde haired witch said.

"But we don't have enough time to go to Paris" the red haired witch replied after looking at a watch on her arm, or three watches to be exact.

"Well then we'll just have to make Paris come to us" the black haired witch remarked.

"With a magic spell, allow me Wanda" the blonde haired witch replied as she took the book of spells from the blonde haired witch and began reading an incantation; however, must have read the wrong spell because suddenly there was a bright flash of light, but instead of Paris, the ground and surrounding area was covered in snow.

"Jinkies, what have those witches done?" Velma wondered as the gang noticed the sudden change in climate.

"I don't believe it; we're in Nome, Alaska!" Fred said with a somewhat stunned look on his face.

"Well, you know what I always say: when in Nome, do as the Nomans do" Shaggy commented.

With that Scooby and company quickly changed into the appropriate clothing; winter clothing to be exact, with the cowardly Great Dane leading the way, dressed as a reindeer.

"You knucklehead, you read the wrong spell!" the black haired witch declared with an angry tone in her voice.

"Ooh, ooh, that's impossible, I don't know how to read" the blonde haired witch replied.

"Here let me do it" the red haired witch remarked as she took the book from the black haired witch and began reading what hoped to be the right incantation; a few seconds later with the gang still in winter clothing the scene switched from snow and sand to the majestic city of Paris, France.

"Success!" the black haired witch remarked with a triumphant tone in her voice as the trio of witches headed for the Paris sewers; meanwhile the gang peeked out from behind a nearby bush and were wondering just why the sorceresses were in Europe.

"I wonder what those witches would need here of all places?" Fred wondered.

"They need Paris sewer water for their spell" Velma replied.

"And this next plan spells success, to the sewers!" Flim Flam explained.

"Sewers? Yuck!" Scooby bemoaned.

Meanwhile back in the Zone of Eternal Evil Marcella was sitting in her throne and was grinning ear to ear at her temporary good fortune and at the fact that Vincent Van Ghoul might not escape her clutches.

"In a short while Vincent, my loyal sisters will rescue me from this zone" Marcella explained.

"I wouldn't count on those three witches if I were you Marcella" Vincent replied.

"I do appreciate your concern, but with the book of spells they can't fail; once they reach Stonehenge and make a brew, they'll chant spell 13" Marcella said.

"Which will set you free" Vincent replied.

"Precisely and I'm afraid you can't follow me, at least not without your lovely necklace!" Marcella declared as she snatched the piece of jewelry from around Vincent's neck.

"Get used to Mister Van Ghoul Idesvygg; he'll be staying here quite a while, in fact until the end of time!" Marcella explained as she walked away laughing evilly and clutching the warlock's necklace while Vincent Van Ghoul struggled to escape his ghastly fate in the Zone of Eternal Evil, hoping that the place's name wouldn't also turn out to be a clue to the warlock's future; at the moment Vincent knew that this foggy, dark, dismal place figured that this would indeed be his final resting place, or would it? One thing was for sure though: if Marcella was going to be captured and the witches plan was to be foiled, it would be up to Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, Velma and Flim Flam, the six members of Mystery Inc., but could they defeat the evil Marcella and save the day once again before the witches cast spell thirteen? If they were able to do this however, time was not on the gang's side; in fact it was slowly, but surely slipping away.

AN: Sorry for the short chapter, the next one will be a lot longer; also, hopefully everyone likes this series of stories and continues to read and review them.