Daphne couldn't believe it. Not now, not again. She suddenly became very aware of the cold metal pressing against her stomach. The locket. A constant reminder that it was her fault that Mr. E had found and tracked them down, if she had not been so nosy and left the locket be she wouldn't have a brown package in her shaking hands.

'Open it.' Velma's voice sounded distant. Daphne was only half aware of what she was actually looking at as the crinkly paper rustled beneath her manicured fingers.

News paper cutting spilled out on to the brown carpet.

'Shoot' Daphne stooped low to pick them up but the headline caught her eye.

'Hilton strikes again.'

'My Hilton Horror.'

'Booters and Looters across Rodeo's.'

'Hey, these headlines date back to the 19th century!' Velma exclaimed, pointing at the miniscule date underneath. 'So this must have been the real Hilton.'

Something glinted in the corner of Daphne's eye, she turned her head and found a memory stick poking from under a stack of newspaper reports. 'Put it in!' Velma said, her eyes shining.

The memory stick slid easily into the USB port. A video flashed across the screen. 'Hello, Mystery Incorporated.' The voice was eerie and jumbled, clearly under the influence of a voice changer, the person who was talking had his face covered by a computer generated smiley flower which unnerved Daphne further.

'Hogan Hilton was sighted in Winterbourne bank today, as you already know. Oh, the crimes he did to little ladies like in your little group, oh no mark my words if he's back, you want to keep an eye out for them!' Daphne felt Velma shudder a little against her. 'Now, I would be suggesting that the five of you should be getting your little hiney's down to The Winterbourne Hotel, I have already booked your rooms, all expenses paid. Hogan needs to be caught and fast, I'm sure you are familiar with the hideous crimes he has committed, well you can imagine the terror of Winterbourne at the moment, I hope you find my clues helpful, just remember that no matter who you think you trust or who you think is trying to help you, nine times out of ten they are not, believe me, I would know!'

The video went static and stopped playing.

'What do you think?' Velma turned to Daphne quickly. 'Should we go?'

Daphne almost said 'yes! Let me go and pack my bags' but caught herself at the last minute. 'Of course we can't, that would be crazy, it is so obviously a trap, even I can sniff this one out!"

The door bell rang for a second time. The girls stared at each other for a while, horrified. What if it was another package or Hogan Hilton or Mr. E himself or...

'Oh. It's just the guys!'

One of these days 'the guys' are gonna be the death of me! Daphne thought irritably. She heard Scooby bounding up the stairs, he skidded into the room and flung himself at Daphne, Licking her face.

'Scoob, ew, come on, hey, cut it out! I love you too, now come on, off you get!" She was sure at one point during that gross fest that Scooby's tongue had gone into hers. Yuck!

Shaggy was next in, he smiled warmly and waved at Daphne before settling himself on the compute chair.

Fred. It was like as soon as he entered the room, it lit up, her worry and confusion about Hogan Hilton and Mr. E melted away. It was as if she had been put under the Imperius Curse or something! Damn you J.K RowlingShe thought, begrudgingly.

'Hey Daph, Velma said you two had found a mystery in Winterbourne for us to go to, is that right?'

Say something, he is talking to you, say something!...Oh My God, you have to talk! What are you doing say something.

Shaggy nudged her with his foot. 'Ow, erm sorry. Yeah, I mean no, no we can't go it is so a trap. Even good ol' Danger Prone Daphne can get the whiff of something fishy here!'

She was babbling, again. Shaggy rolled his eyes. He knew Daphne, they were practically best friends, they told each other everything. Oh God, the time in the lighthouse! He thought smiling like an idiot to himself at the memory about Daphne's sister!

'So, are we going or are we staying?' Velma asked, they had just watched the video for a second time for the guys benefit.

'I say we go!' Fred chirped.

'NO!' Shaggy said firmly. 'Like, I'm with Daphne on this one! This dude could be anyone. It would be like rolling up to a kid in a van and asking if he wants candy, it's so obviously a trap.' Daphne nodded violently. It was nice that Shaggy was on her side but her main problem was convincing her parents to let her go to Winterbourne. They were so going to say no and then she would miss all the fun. The last mystery they had had was a giant cow thing and it turned out to be Mrs. Whittard the school librian who wanted to find the world oldest book. How lame is that? There was no way Daphne was going to miss out on this one.

'So it's settled then, we going to Winterbourne.' Fred clapped his hands together, always the sign of finality.

'Hold up, did I miss something?' Daphne said.

'Mum it is just a last minute road trip thing me and the gang are going to be doing. Pleeeeeeease, pleeease pleeease. You know how much of a good driver Fred is so there is no possibility we are going to crash and Scooby and Shaggy are in charge of food so there is no chance of us dying of starvation and we have already booked the hotel so I'm less likely to be swept off the streets by some giant eagle thing!' Why did you mention that?

'I said no!' Mrs Blake slammed her foot on the ground out of frustration.

'Mum, what is the worst that can happen?' Daphne said wincing at her words.Seriously, stop dropping yourself in it.

'Well, there was the time when you and Velma were taken to St Peter's church as sacrifices, that time when Fred's ex girlfriend had tried to blow you up, Norville ('it's Shaggy mum!') was kidnapped by some lunatic dressed as a clown and I distinctively remember Velma being hypnotised by Mr. Jenkins at the zoo that she was a man eating lion, so you will understand if I say no!'

'That was one time.. and anyway, we have grown into mature young people now and have learnt from our mistakes!' Daphne oozed cheesily.

'Daphne Ann Blake, you know full well that Velma was hypnotised a week ago! You expect me to let you go anywhere ever again after that?'

'Mum, I have to take risks because you know I'm less safe here with Delilah hunting my ass anyway!'

She had cracked it. 'Fine but if you get blown up, don't come crying to me cos I will have to kill you myself!