A/N: (Peeks out behind bulletproof shield) I know I know I meant to finish this chapter a lot sooner and I have no excuse except for laziness and college. To make up for it I've given you guys a somewhat long chapter. I hope you enjoy.

Third POV

Right after returning home and discovering the pups missing Zeus had proceeded to call the authorities and inform them of what happened. The gang had also continued to look around for any clues, but were unable to find anything. Poor Bella had refused to come out of the puppies room. Scooby usually stayed with her.

"It's been two days and still nothing." Phoenix said in frustration as he passed in the living room.

"We have to be patient." Zeus said trying to calm his son.

"This is all my fault." Regina said from her spot on the couch. "I should have done more. I can't even give them a proper description."

"None of this is your fault Regina."

"Dad's right. You tried your best Tía and the ones at fault are those who stole the pups." Phoenix reassured his childhood nanny.

DING DONG

Phoenix quickly got up too answer the door. He was both disappointed and happy to see Mystery Inc. at the door.

"Oh hello, sorry I thought that…" Phoenix said trying to explain his excited appearance.

"That we were the police?" Velma questioned with a sad look.

"Yeah." Phoenix replied moving aside so that the gang could come in.

"Does that mean you have no news yet?" Daphne asked.

Phoenix shook his head in reply. He led the group to the main living area where both Zeus and Regina sat. The newspaper laid around them showing many articles of the kidnapped puppies. Including pictures of the pups that were taken days before the tragic event.

"How's Bella and Scooby?" Shaggy asked.

"Upset." Zeus replied. "Bella hardly comes out of the puppies room and Scooby usually stays with her."

The gang sat around the room to discuss whom may have taken the puppies.

"Why would someone steal 12 puppies?" Fred asked.

"It could be for money." Zeus thought out loud. "They are purebred Great Dane's. Not to mention Bella being a Best in Show winner and Scooby being so famous those puppies would cost quite a pretty penny."

"Who could do such a terrible thing as steal those adorable puppies?" Daphne asked.

"I'll give you three guesses." Phoenix muttered angrily.

"Phoenix"

"Oh come on now dad! Who else do you know that would do such a thing!"

"I'll admit she's eccentric, but I don't think she would resort to stealing puppies."

"I'm with Phoenix on this one. That women always gave me a bad feeling." Regina growled.

"She's been investigated by the police already what more do you guys want?"

The gang looked between the three arguing and slowly came to realize that they were talking about Evelynn De Mona.

"It doesn't surprised me the least."

"Why would she do this?"

"Unless we have proof that can't search her again."

Scooby, who had come down to hear what all the ruckus was about, stood by the door unnoticed by the humans. He watched them argue and discuss and grew tired of it and walked back to the puppies room. Seeing Bella where she remained unmoved lying in front of the bed staring at it.

"Bella, it looks like it's up to us." Scooby said to his mate.

"What can we do?" Bella said, lifting her head to look at Scooby.

"There's always the Midnight Bark."

"The Midnight Bark? Scooby that's only a gossip chain."

"Bell its the fastest way to send news. If our puppies are anywhere near the city the neighboring dogs will know."

Bella nodded her head slowly. Scooby went over and lied down next to her and placed his head on top on hers.

"I'm sorry."

"Scooby we went over this it's nobodies fault, but the ones who took our puppies."

"But I promised that I would protect our family no matter what. No more being scared."

Bella smiled and looked at her love. He had admitted that he often got scared when he was out solving mystery's with his pet and friends.

"Then make me a new promise."

"What?"

"Promise me that will find our puppies."

Scooby stared at Bella with determination as he promised that they'll find their puppies. Bella licked the side of his head in appreciation which Scooby returned.

"It's already getting late. I better send word out before it's too late."

With one last nuzzle Scooby walked out of the puppies room towards a door that led out to the balcony on the second floor. Reaching up and opening the door Scooby walked out to the snow covered balcony and stood on his two back paws leaning them on railing. He barked and howled as loud as he could. He strained his ears hoping that somebody would respond.

A Border Collie who lay in his dog house woke up to the sound of barking. Turning over to block out the noise he suddenly jumped up when he heard the message.

"12 puppies stolen!"

Hearing the last part to spread the news the Border Collie got up and raced towards the edge of the fence and howled away. His howls made a Yorkshire Terrier pause from eating and walked towards the open window of her pets house.

"Great Dane puppies stolen!"

Gasping at the news the Yorkshire Terrier barked out the window spreading the news.

"Lily stop that!" The Yorkshire Terrier's pet said closing the window. Lily ran back out the doggy door and continued her message.

The message continued reaching dog after dog and slowly all dogs were awake. Every dog in the area knew about the 12 Great Dane missing puppies and the message spread far out towards even the most smallest of towns. Until the news spread to a small farm that woke up a Black Tri Australian Shepherd along with his barn mates. The barks of a neighboring husky howled and barked the news of the missing puppies.

"How horrid!" A large dark brown horse said once he heard the news.

"There's no puppies near hear though." A pig squealed.

"Not true I heard some puppy barks a few nights ago at the old De Mona mansion." A small tuxedo cat said walking on the horse's back.

"We better go check it out. I'll tell the husky to stand by." Barking his message the Aussie then along with his female cat companion walked towards the old mansion.

"This place gives me the creeps."

"Come on Star it's not so bad."

"Speak for yourself Maxwell!"

The two reached the edge of the fence of the property and Star jumped up in a nearby tree while Maxwell dug a hole to the other side of the fence.

Star jumped from branch to branch and leaped towards a window on the second story of the mansion. Pulling herself up from where the stone slightly crumbled underneath her. Peering inside Star couldn't see much through the murky window. Pushing the window open Star was now able to see light show at a double door at the end of the hall. Trying not to make too much noise Star slowly walked towards the door. Putting her head towards the door she could hear muffled noise. Noticing a vent that led to the room she tried to pry it open.

"Hey Star! Find anything?"

"Ah!"

Star let out a howl as she jumped up and cling onto some nearby drapes. Maxwell snickered as he watched his friend glare at him with a terrified expression.

"Would you keep it down! If the puppies are here we have to keep quite. We don't want to get caught." Star reprimanded the Aussie as she slowly climbed down from her spot on the curtain. Maxwell only rolled his eyes as he watched his friend finally reach the ground and walk over to a vent.

"Max, there's a vent right here that leads to the room that I think the puppies might be in. You think you can open it up?"

Maxwell walked over and pawed at the old vent until it became loose and proceeded to grab one end and pull it the rest of the way off. The vent was big enough for Star to fit through, but not Max.

"I'll be quick."

"Be careful."

Nodding to her friend Star crawled down the vent and ended up on another opening that was also loose. Pressing her paws up Star pushed the vent off and crawled out of the vent. Looking around she didn't see anything. Seeing a nearby chair Star jumped up and landed on the arm of the chair to get a better look of the room.

"Wow, that's a lot of puppies."

Looking around all Star could see was Great Dane puppies everywhere. Most of them were sleeping and a few were awake wrestling and playing with each other. Looking around she noticed that on the chair she was on sat a Merle pup who was looking up at her.

"Are you one of the 12 missing puppies?"

"12? I come from a litter of three." The merle pup nodded over to another merle pup and a brindle coat pup. "That's my my brother and sister over there."

"How'd you get here?"

"Sleeping next to my parents one night and next thing I know I wake up in a van and placed in here with the other pups. There's 99 of us all together."

"Wow! I didn't realize more pups have been stolen." Star looked out again to the other pups. It was hard to believe that someone could have stolen all these pups. "Any of these pups come from a litter of 12?"

"What about the pups with the green and purple collars?"

"Are there 12 of them?"

"Never counted them. There over there by the TV." The merle pup nodded over to the far end of the room where a bunch of pups sat watching the TV.

"I better count them." Star slowly began walking over to the group of puppies.

"Watch out for the bad guys."

"Bad guys?"

"Jeff and Maurice. There bad ones alright." Star lifted her to see where the up gestured to see the two males sitting on the couch. One sat drinking from a bottle while the other sat eating a sandwich.

Star climbed on some boxes that were behind the couch and began to count the pups. It took her a while since she kept on getting scared that the two males would see her. Once she quickly counted them out she made a quick get away. Not before telling the merle pup that she would come back to get them out.

"Well, did you find the pups?" Maxwell asked once his friend returned.

"Yeah, but we got a bigger problem on our hands."

A/N: I just want to tell you guys that this story will not completely follow the Disney animated version of 101 Dalmatians. I'm mixing it up with the live action one with Glenn Close and a little bit of my own twist. If you guys haven't seen it I recommend you should give it a try. It's on Netflix. I can't promise you when the next chapter will be out, but I will start working on it when I can and hopefully it won't be as long as it did to get this chapter out.