For the past ten minutes, Courage has tried desperately to opened the door, he tired using a giant log, that didn't work. He then was swinging an ax on the door but it still didn't work. Courage then tried a jack hammer on the door. It still didn't work.
Courage was panting from exhaustion from trying to do something simple, getting the door open. "I don't think I can get the door to open. It's shut tight." He said in despair.
"So we're like trapped?!" Shaggy asked in disbelief.
Scooby and Shaggy began in cry in each other's arms.
"Guys let's not panic here." Courage said to his frightened friends, although he wanted nothing more to panicked to, but he's gotta stay strong for his friends. "I'm sure there's a way out around here, right?"
Scooby and Shaggy looked each other, they realize that Courage was right, doing nothing and cowering wasn't going to help. If they want to get out of here, they have to explore around the house to find an exit.
"Okay, come guys, like let's find a way out of this creepy place." Shaggy said, as he lead the way.
Scooby gulped, he had no idea what's in store for them in this house. "I hope we find a way out soon."
"Me too Scoob." Courage replied, he really hope they can all get out of here before something else happens. He also felt really guilty, that he got them into this mess in the first place. He desperately hope they'll get out soon.
"What time is it?" Scooby complained. It had been ten minutes since they tried to find a away out of here.
"Like, it's about 10:PM." Shaggy responded, leading the way.
The trio had looked around most of the first floor of the house, not enjoying one minute of it. They had jumped every little noise that creaks in the floor, but yet nothing confrontational. They're now standing in the middle of the carpet in the living room. Scooby and Courage began to whine. It was clear to Shaggy they wanted to stop.
"Like, I'm sure we're almost finding a way out by now." Shaggy comforted the two dogs, although we wasn't entirely sure if that was true. Shaggy prepared to continue to find a way out when he lifted his right leg, it wouldn't move. He tried again, but his legs still wouldn't lift up from the carpet. "Uh guys, like I'm stuck. I can't move.
Courage tried to move closer, but suddenly realized he couldn't move his legs either. "I'm really stuck too!"
Scooby confused of what's going on, tried to walk up to Courage to help him, when suddenly his paws were stuck, he was unable to move either. "Roh no!"
"Hey fellas?" Shaggy asked, now knees deep into the carpet. "Is it me, or is the room getting taller?"
Scooby looked down and noticed his legs sinking deeper into the carpet, and the same was happening to Courage.
"We're sinking!" Courage cried out.
As the three started flailing in the carpet Scooby shouted, "It's like quicksand!"
"Quicksand?!" Shaggy echoed in shock, looking down at the carpet. He continued to move his legs in hopes of getting out the makeshift quicksand carpet, but it just kept sucking him down. Each movement caused the carpet to climb hid knees and up to his thighs. "Like, how's the carpet turning into quicksand?!"
"Help!" Scooby screamed. "Is anybody in here! We're in quicksand. Or Carpet…. Whatever! HELP!" Even though they're in the house, he was pretty sure nobody could hear them from miles away, but in instinct, he couldn't help to cry for help.
"Don't panic!" Courage stuttered calmly as the best he could, as he sank up to his thighs "I read on the computer that if you panic, you'll only sink faster."
Shaggy struggled to follow these instructions, but he the carpet-quicksand was pulling him deeper into its grip. His heart continued to pound as he did everything to stay completely still. How did staying still help anything? You still sank. "How are we gonna get out of here?" he asked in panic.
Courage's heart was pounding. His mind started racing, growing more hysterical. Slowly, Courage took a moment to calm down. His heart was beating so fast that he couldn't think straight. Courage analyzed their surroundings. "Remember to stay calm!" Courage instructed, trying to keep calmness in his tone, despite his growing panic.
"I'm calm!" Scooby shouted in obvious panic. "I'M CALM!" He was now buried to his knees.
"Like, how do we get outta here?!" Shaggy shouted, also in panic to the point of hyperventilating. Shaggy was up to his waist in the quicksand-carpet.
Courage's head moved around as if it were an owl trying to find anything to pull himself free. Calm down, Courage said to himself. Panicking only makes everything worse. He looked up, and saw a statue of a man frozen with fear. That statue started to creep him out, but then a lightbulb went off in Courage's mind. "I got it! Shaggy grab the cape from Scooby's collar!"
"My cape?" Scooby asked in confusion.
"Little pink dude, where are you like, going with this?" Shaggy asked, also confused at Courage's suggestion.
"Just trust me." Courage insisted.
Shaggy turned to his Great Dane, and gently unattached Scooby's cape from the collar, although it also caused him to sank a little further, he looked down and squeaked, "ZOINKS!"
"Don't look down!" Courage said, trying to keep his cowardly teen friend calm, "now swing it to that statue by me."
Shaggy did was he was told, and he whipped the cape like a cowboy did with a rope. He was able to tightly wrap it around the arm of the frightened statue. "Got it!"
"Great" Courage encouraged, struggling to stay afloat. "Now, pull yourself out!"
Shaggy then very carefully started pulling himself out, climbing out like a rope.
"Raggy you're doing it!" Scooby happily said as he saw his friend slowly pulling himself out of the carpet.
It was requiring a lot of muscle work, but Shaggy was determined and after a few minutes of scaling and pulling himself across the surface, he finally got his legs free of the carpet he was stuck in. He lay face down for a moment to catch his breath. When he turned back to his friends, Scooby rose past his belly and Courage was up to his chest.
"Guys, I'm coming! Scoob like, hold still, grab the cape!" Shaggy extended the green cape.
Scooby grabbed the cape with his jaws, as Shaggy began to have on the cape. Scooby felt himself being hauled forward and upward. Shaggy and Scooby grunted with effort as the cowardly teen slowly dragged the Great Dane way from the quicksand-carpet. Kicking out with his hind legs, Scooby managed to scrabble out of the carpet. He collapsed, panting on the floor.
However just as Scooby was trying to catch his breath, he and Shaggy turned to Courage and to their horror, the pink beagle was already up to his chin.
"Help me!" Courage pleaded, he was unable to hide the fear in his voice, he was now panicking, as he realize he was almost completely under. The liquid carpet crawled into his mouth. Courage fought to keep his head out of the liquidity substance "Help me–mmpphh!"
"Courage, hang on!" Scooby called as he got his cape off the and got into position, and swung it to Courage, who could now only breath through his nose.
"Come on little pink dude you can do it!" Shaggy urged him on.
Courage's eyes went wide in fright as he sank up to his nose again and knew if he didn't succeed now he was done. But he closed his eyes shut and put his arms forward one last time, he managed to grasp the cape firmly, moving his paws in a way to really get a secure hold on it.
Scooby struggled to tug on the cape with his honorary brother holding onto the other side as the carpet pulled him in. Shaggy went up behind Scooby and held onto the back of his tail, pulling him in order to give him some help. After a while, Courage began to budge out of the quicksand-carpet, He gasped as his mouth surfaced, gulping in air. With one more huge tug by Shaggy and Scooby, the two toppled backwards and Courage fly out of the carpet and onto the safe ground.
Scooby and Shaggy held onto Courage rather tightly as he gasped and coughed a bit before releasing Courage and rolling to the side to catch his breath.
"I...I thought I was done for that time..." Courage gasped a bit.
"You nearly were but, you manage to pull through in the end," Scooby commented as he retrieved put his cape back around his neck.
"Like thanks to you little pink guy, without you, we would of been goners." Shaggy said, really glad that Courage was okay.
"It was all thanks to that statue I eyed on." Courage said, as he pointed the the petrified statue.
"Zoinks! Like, that is one creepy statue." Shaggy was startled, at the sight of the frightened statue.
Scooby couldn't help, but shuddered, at the unnerving sculpture. "It's so life like." He stuttered.
Courage sniffed at the statue, it smelled like it has been human before, but now it smelled that it has been collecting dust and it has been here for years. It made him shivered with fright. He didn't want to say anything to his friends, they had been freaked out enough. "Let's just keep finding our way out of here." He stuttered.
"Like you read our minds little pink dude, come on Scoob, let's get out of here of this creepy joint." Shaggy remarked, as he lead the way to another room.
"You said it Raggy." Scooby agreed, as he followed his owner.
"Yeah, let's do it." Courage laughed nervously, he glanced over his shoulder to look at the statue one more time. There's something weird going on, or my name is Jack Skelleington. And it's not. He shook it off, he desperately hope it was just a statue and nothing else. He followed his friends close behind.
The boys continued to try to find their way out of this place, they hope they do soon because something about this house made them feel every uneasy. When they enter the hallway, they were beginning to notice several strands of silk that were formed in various areas such as the corners of the platforms that they were walking on, the strands stretching out from the side of the platform to the wall at the far side and connecting together as well.
If the cowardly trio did not know any better, they resembled spider webs. This added one with the scent of cobwebs that was filling the air in this place, would not ease their rising tension. They turned to the right to see a large entrance that had several cobwebs lined about around it. The three friends glanced at each other with uneasiness before swallowing up their fear and continuing forward, going through.
"Like man, guys... That's a lot of spider webs." said Shaggy nervously.
"Yeah, no kidding." said Scooby, clinging to Shaggy, he then turned to Courage, who was shaking and had a lot in his mind "Courage, are you okay?"
Courage was quaking in general fear, this brought back a lot of frightened memories when he and his old owners, Muriel and Eustace visit the motel, that was run by one of Courage's old enemies Katz. He almost succeeded of feeding him and his owners to pack of hungry and ferocious spiders. Thank goodness Muriel came to save him in a nick of time, before Katz made him spider-chow.
"Courage!"
Scooby cut off his thoughts. "Y-Yeah." Courage stuttered, while swallowing his fear. "I uh-let's keep going."
The three friends pushed forward. It looked to be a titanic cavernous region, but with several or numerous doors or windows. The doors and windows in question were also covered in cobwebs, not only that, but the entire area had multitudes of strands of spider web, stretching far across in various directions. It was as though the trio have entered some sort of spider nest.
"Like, this place just gets creeper and creeper…" Shaggy said, while trying not to faint.
"Yeah, it's getting really creeper," Scooby agreed, nervously.
"Yeah," Courage shivered with fear. "I just really hope we find another way out soon."
The area was dimly lit, but they swear that they saw movement around the giant webs. Courage stopped to a halt with a grunt, and looked down to see that he stepped on a web patch. "Yuck." He groaned in disgust before tugging his foot off the patch tearing the web in the process.
The three continued their journey to the long hallway of webs, but each step they would be slowed down from stepping on patches of web. They were almost immediately slowed down from feeling the thick webbing that was plastered all across the pathway that they were walking on.
Then Scooby much to his horror, that he can no longer move, with his paws now completely tangled and stuck in the web, "Ah! Guys! I'm stuck!" He cried out to his friends.
Gasping as he turned to his pet. Shaggy attempted to reach out to his dog, "Scooby! Oof!" He grunted only to realize that he too had his feet and legs tangled in the web on the ground.
"Guys!" He raced forward to help his friends, but he was horrified to find that when he tried to remove his paws from the webs , he found that it stuck to them like glue. Try as he might, Courage could not pull his paws free.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage glimpsed a multitude of glowing red orbs appearing in the darkness around them, and from the way that they were patterned, they did not need any sixth sense to tell them that they were surrounded by massive spiders who were crawling down and about from where they were stationed in the cobwebs. The cowardly trio began to struggle more in a desperate attempt to free themselves.
"Like, I can barely move!" Shaggy whimpered as he and his friends struggled to free themselves from the webs.
"It's like glue!" Scooby frightfully added as he tried his best to break free but it was no good.
"This isn't happening! This isn't happening!" Courage yelped in terror.
Suddenly, webs were shot down from above, capturing the terrified trio and earning cries of fright from the three, and immediately tearing them out of the trap, pulling them to the main with great speed and wrapping them up. They gasped in terror seeing that they were surrounded by millions of monstrous spiders, some being quite large, others even being as large as the three frightened friends. The cowardly trio gasped again with wide eyes of horror as they hung by the web.
Many of the spiders hissed and growled, drool even salivating from their fangs while crawling towards them menacingly preparing to eat them. The cowardly trio struggled fiercely for freedom.
"Agh! Ugh! Guys, what do we do!?" Scooby panicked. He and Courage froze when they heard Shaggy shrieking and looked to see that a massive spider was about to grab him with its legs and opening its mouth to show rows of razor sharp teeth.
"HELP!" Shaggy screamed.
Courage frantically looking for a way to free himself, he saw a small knife that was on the floor, before an idea flashed in his mind. He quickly unzipped his lion costume. It work! He was free from the web!
Another large spider launched at Shaggy and Scooby, as they screamed in terror.
"Hang on, you guys. I'll get you out." Courage assured, he slice his two friends free with the knife. The two friends were free from the webs clutches.
"RUN!" Courage shrieked.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage shot off like a rocket. The spiders chased after them, they're determined to catch their prey.
"Like, run, Scoob!" Shaggy screamed as the hungry spiders kept chase.
"I'm running! I'm running!" Scooby replied.
Courage kept running through the hallway, and he, Shaggy and Scooby were horrified, to find more lifeless statues on the way. The spiders would soon be on their tails and nothing else matters expect for getting away. They ran to a door, which seems like a 'safe place' to get away from the nasty spiders.
Courage ran to the door and opened it, Shaggy and Scooby zoomed into the room, with Courage behind them. As soon as they entered the room, they slammed the door shut, but with a mob of giant spiders charging towards the door. It was difficult to keep the door shut as the spiders are trying to charge into the room. With one final push, one of the spider's legs came off and Courage fully closed the door and locked it.
The trio stopped for a second, as they panted for breath.
"That was a close one." Courage said, breathlessly. It was official now, he really HATED spiders.
"You could say that again, little pink dude." Shaggy panted.
"Thanks for saving us Courage." Scooby smiled in fatigued.
Courage gave a smiled to the Great Dane, but frowned as he immediately remembered the statues during their escape. "Did you guys see more of the statues?"
"Like, did you have to remind us?" Shaggy shuddered.
"Where did they come from?" Scooby asked, getting a little freak out by the 'whole statue thing.'
"I don't know." Courage replied shivering, "But I know is that we need to get out of here now."
Shaggy and Scooby agreed, they all have a feeling something bad was going on here, especially with all the statues everywhere in the house.