Hey everybody, this is my first fanfiction. Ever since I saw Scooby-Doo Meets Courage The Cowardly Dog trailer, I been wondering, what would be like if Scooby and Shaggy (just being by themselves, like they did with Scrappy-Doo) met Courage during the original series, and what if Muriel and Eustace's we're Shaggy's aunt and uncle? And That is we're this story is born!
Now this is the first time I'm righting a fanfic, so please keep in mind that I'm probably not the best writer, but I'll do my best. So please enjoy.
Chapter 1: Night at The Katz Motel (1/18/22 reedited)
In the middle of a thunderstorm, an old truck filled with suitcases rattled down the highway in Nowhere, Kansas, it's five occupants three in the front and two in the back. The old man driving was Eustace Bagge, The old woman sitting next to him was his wife Muriel, The shaking dog on her lap was Courage, their pet dog. In the Back there was a teenager Shaggy Rogers, and his Great Dane Scooby-Doo
Shaggy and Scooby, were taking a break from solving mysteries with the gang, and thought they could visit Shaggy's aunt for the summer. Muriel happily let them stay, Eustace was less than thrilled about having another dog in the house. And Courage, nervous at first but quickly bond with the two, as he can related to being cowards and all that.
A couple of miles down the road, the motel finally came into sight and they pulled into it. It looked like your generic, run of the mill motel that you see all along the highway. Nothing too out of the ordinary and looked normal to the family. At the very least it was a place to sleep for the night.
Eusatce took one look at the place and said, "This looks like a crummy place to end a crummy vacation."
"Like man, why does that Motel give me creeps?" Shaggy asked.
Scooby whimpered, as he looked at the motel. It didn't look friendly as all. Scooby and Shaggy weren't one only ones scared, Courage was shivering up a storm on Muriel's lap. Lightning suddenly crashed.
"ZOINKS!" Shaggy screamed as Scooby jumped into his arms with teeth chattering.
Courage is seen on Eustace's neck, shaking, while Eustace is angrily frowning straight ahead. Eustace ignored the dog, and got out of the truck with Muriel, Shaggy and Scooby making their way to the main building to check in for the night. Upon entering the building, a bell rang, signaling the manager that customers had arrived. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage could see that it was pretty barren, only having a single chair next to a leafless plant, a few posters tacked on the yellow wallpaper. The front counter had a brass bell to ring for service and a book for travelers to sign in. Behind the counter was a brown slanted door with the word "Private" on it in red letters.
Eustace rang the bell a few times, Courage is still on Eustace shaking with fright, as he ring the bell three times with a scowl still on his face. Muriel just looks at the bell, while Scooby and Shaggy nervously looked around.
A humanoid red cat appears behind the counter in front of the book. "Welcome to the Katz Motel," the cat said as he looked down at his book. "I'm Katz. Would you please sign in?"
His eyes then suddenly landed on Scooby and Courage and with a look of anger, he snapped his fingers and pointed to something up on the wall. They all turned their heads to look and saw a sign that read, 'No Dogs Allowed.'
"Rog? Where?" Scooby asked as he looked around, forgetting that he's a dog.
"But! But! But!" Courage gasped out.
Without another word, Eustace took Courage back outside.
Muriel holding her hand to her mouth in surprise, her other hand clutching her purse. "Oh my," She said.
"Are you sure I can't bring Scooby in? He's just like a person. Really he is!" Shaggy argued.
Katz didn't bat an eye and said, "I'm sorry dear boy, I just don't want the other guests to be disturbed in the middle of the night."
Scooby and Shaggy pouted, they had no choice but to obey the red cat's orders. They sadly walked back outside.
As Eustace walks to a column holding up the motel, plucking Courage off his neck, with Scooby and Shaggy. Eustace sets Courage down, puts his collar on and ties the leash to the column, Scooby sitting right beside the pink dog. Courage looked at his leash, then bow his head, being very depressed, as Scooby pats his back.
"KABOOOOOOOO!" Eustace yelled out, as he scares poor Scooby, Shaggy and Courage, causing him to laugh.
His joy doesn't last long, as Muriel walks up behind him and whacks his head with her purse.
He turns to her while rubbing his head asking, "What did I do?"
Muriel just frowned and hands him their room key. He just grabbed the key grumbling, "Those dogs."
Muriel walks up to the two. "Aw Courage don't worry. It's only for a short time, besides Scooby will be with you," Muriel said, as she wrap them both with blankets and kisses their heads.
"Goodnight Courage, Goodnight Scooby," Muriel wishes, as she walked away into the motel.
"Maybe a goodnight to you. You'll be in a warm bed," Courage replied.
"It's just one night, Scooby-Doo. I'll see you in the morning, buddy," Shaggy said.
"I rope so," Scooby said.
The two cried and hugged each other, making Courage feeling sympathy for the two. Muriel came up to her great nephew and give a sympathetic pat on the back. "Don't worry dear, Scooby we'll be alright. He's got Courage."
"Do you like think they'll be okay?" Shaggy asked concern, worry about the two being out all night.
"I'm sure they'll be fine my dear. Come along let's get you into bed," Muriel said, as she guide the teen away from the two dogs, and Shaggy sadly wave bye to Scooby and Courage, while Scooby and Courage wave sadly at him back.
Shaggy felt incredibly tired, but something was keeping him awake… The thought of Courage and Scooby outside kept gnawing at his mind. He lay staring into the empty darkness, trying his best to think about something, anything really, to take his mind off it-but nothing seemed to work.. not even thinking about food. His mind filling with images of all sorts of unimaginable things on the other side of the door waiting to spring on him.
That's crazy! He told himself, trying to get the thought out of his head. He couldn't take it anymore. That's it. Like I'm sneaking Scooby and Courage in. I like don't care if it is against the rules. There is like no way I'm letting my best pal in the whole world and that small dog sleeping outside.
As he got out of bed, he felt as though he as being watched. Shaggy hope it was just his imagination. He took deep breaths and went out the room. Unbeknownst to him he was being watch by Katz by looking through the panting above the bed.
Back outside, Courage and Scooby are shivering badly. Not from the cold air, thanks to the blankets that Muriel had draped around them, but from the fact that the place was still giving them the creeps. Courage wanted nothing more than to fall asleep or simply wait until morning came because he highly doubted that sleep would be happening in this place. Scooby huddled against Courage, trying to keep him warm, he wanted Shaggy and go back to the farm.
Then the dogs heard the sound of footsteps approaching them from nearby.
"W-Who's there?" Courage whimpered.
The duo turned their heads in the direction that they were coming from and saw a shadow standing at the corner of the deck. A shadow shaped a lot alike the manager of this creepy establishment.
"R-R-Raggy?" Scooby stammered, in fright, hoping to was just his best friend
The appearance of the shadow terrified the duo as Courage gasped and his eyes began to bug out. Scooby stood back huddling in the blanket. From around the corner wall came the manager's arm as he set a box down on the deck and then opened the front of the box before backing away. The duo couldn't help but shiver even harder, whimper and clang onto each other. Their worst fears were confirmed when a big red spider skittered out of the box towards them.
Courage and Scooby did the one thing they could think of that moment. They screamed and howled at the horrific sight of the arachnid skittering towards them. "Come on! Come on!" Courage begged as he kept pulling on the leash. To Scooby's horror, Courage still couldn't move from this spot because of his leash being tied to the post of the deck. He tugged on the leash as hard as he could, but couldn't get it loose. The spider kept on coming.
"Run Scooby! Save yourself!" Courage shouted to him.
"Ruh-ru. Ro-ray!" Scooby protested.
"Okay. Just stand back!"
The next thing Courage tried was blowtorching the leash, but to his shock and surprise the leash was still unharmed. So he tried using a chainsaw, nothing. A chemical explosive? Nothing.
The spider was getting closer and closer and Courage was no closer to getting himself free from the leash.
"Rourage, hurry!" Scooby cried, frightened that Courage was gonna be spider-chow
So Courage went with the only option he had left. He began gnawing on the leash like a wild animal. "Come on, Come on," he grunted
Scooby then begin to tugged at the leash. "Rold…on!" Scooby grunted, tugging at the leash with all of his might, determined to save his friend.
And then the leash snapped. Courage and Scooby sat surprised for a second before Courage hollering, "Yay!"
"Ret's get out of here!" Scooby shouted.
And the duo run off right as the spider reached the spot and stopped there in aggravation.
As Shaggy walked down the hall, he felt like he was being stalked. "Guys?" his voice squeaked out, "Aunt Muriel, Uncle Eustace..Courage?..Scooby?" He waited a moment in the silence, hoping for a response. He repeated himself, saying it louder this time-and waited.
Nothing. Shaggy gulped His heart started to pound. Unbeknownst to him, a certain red cat stalked up behind him. A red paw clamped over Shaggy's mouth while another arm wrapped around his waist. Shaggy tried screaming but it came out muffled. He was then dragged into the darkness.
Scooby and Courage moved silently through the halls, searching for the room which their owners had gone into. Scooby whined, as he looked around the dark way, this motel was giving him an uneasy feeling, Courage also felt the same way.
"I rope Raggy and Ruriel are okay," Scooby commented.
"Yeah," Courage nodded. "Me too."
Suddenly a loud scream was heard by the two dogs, as they looked at the door, that leads to a room.
"It's Muriel. She's in trouble," Courage said as the duo ran inside the room. Or they tried. But it was locked.
"Muriel/Ruriel!" Courage and Scooby shouted as they banged on the door. When this failed, Courage rushed off but quickly returned with a cannon.
"Better put this on," He said as he gave Scooby a helmet.
After putting on their helmets, they crawled into the cannon
"I rope this works," Scooby said.
"Me too," Courage replied.
Courage shot himself and Scooby into the room through the window. They could see Muriel in the bathroom, actually managing to hold off the spider.
Muriel saw the two dogs and said, "COURAGE! SCOOBY! GO AND GET HELP! HURRY!"
"Ruh-Roh!" Scooby exclaimed in horror, as they now had to deal with more spiders.
In a panic, he and Courage jumped onto Eustace's bed, trying desperately to wake the old man up.
"WAKE UP!/RAKE UP" they shouted as they jumped on the bed. Eustace didn't even stir. They tried loud music from a bunch of trumpets. But it still didn't work. They tried banging a box on him and still he didn't wake up.
"Ree, Rustace is sure is a heavy sleeper," Scooby commented.
Courage howled in disbelief, as he and Scooby heard Muriel scream again. They goes into the bathroom, while Eustace just snores.
"Courage, Scooby, did you get any help?!", Muriel asked, as she holds the spider away with her toes.
While this was going on, Eustace's bed flipped around and he disappeared into the floor. Scooby and Courage returned to find him missing and the means of salvation gone. Courage screamed as the situation was growing more dire.
"Row what!?" Scooby, cried in dismay.
"COURAGE! SCOOBY! GO FIND SHAGGY! MAKE SURE HE'S OKAY! SEE IF HE CAN HELP!" Muriel shouted from the bathroom.
Courage and Scooby did just that and ran from the motel room, running as fast as they could towards Shaggy's room. Scooby, was praying that his best pal is okay. Thankfully his room door was easier to open than Eustace and Muriel's and they're able to get in no problem.
"Raggy? Raggy?" Scooby called, pleading that he'll answer.
They found his suitcase on the floor, but there was no sign of Shaggy anywhere.
"Raggy!? Raggy!? Are you okay!?" Scooby cried, getting worried by the second.
He and Courage looked around frantically, but saw no other signs of him in the room.
"RHERE'S MY RAGGY!?" Scooby cried in terror, now really anxious of what's happening to his owner right now.
Shaggy tugged at the sticky strands that were holding him off of the ground, but no matter how hard he tugged he'd remain hopelessly trapped in the web. So all he could do was lie back and hope that someone would come find him and soon. He didn't have to wait long for someone to arrive though.
After a few minutes, he could hear the sound of footsteps approaching. These were followed by a clicking and jingling sound from the door. It opened and in stepped the manager that Shaggy had seen earlier, a box was tucked under his arm.
"Like you?" he gasped out.
Katz stood at the door before him and said, "Good evening and how are you enjoying your stay at the Katz Motel?"
Shaggy fearfully looked up at his captor. "Wh-what are you doing? Why are you doing this?"
Katz hummed to himself before responding, "It's not what I'm going to do, but what my loves are going to do. They need to eat, and human's are their favorite food."
With that, he walked back over to the box. Shaggy, nervously followed his movements and it was here now that he noticed that the box itself was shaking. His heartbeat started to beat faster, as he begin to breath in heavily. He watched as he opened the box and pulled something out. Something alive and feisty. He turned back to him and Shaggy could see that he was holding a large orange spider. It took one look at Shaggy and it began to go wild with a ravenous appetite. It's maw snapping and drool running from it's mouth.
Shaggy tugged even harder than before nervous laughter drifting out of his mouth, "Can't you like feed them something else?" I'm really don't taste that good, and like I'm skin and bones."
Katz chuckled, "Oh, you silly boy. There isn't enough nutrients in bugs for them so I give them a much bigger meal. In this case, you."
Shaggy shook in fear and stammered. "Please, I don't wanna be eaten! Li-Like s-stop this!"
"It's nothing personal, boy. It's just business. Now…" the cat grew a sly grin, before sinisterly commanding, "Succumb to him."
He laughed evilly as he brought the spider down towards Shaggy's feet. Shaggy squirmed in the grip of the web with nowhere to run and a hungry spider wanting to make him it's meal. He finally took a breath and screamed.
Seeing as he had no place else to go, Scooby and Courage ran straight for the Motel's main office.
"Help! Help! Help!" Courage yelled out. He turns into a cobra, then a dragon, and finally a lizard with a large frill on its back and horns, before turning to normal.
"Uhh, Rourage.." Scooby patted his back, trying to get the panicking dog's attention.
It wasn't until Courage's panic subsided that he finally realized that there was nobody at all in the room. No manager or anything. Just an empty office with the back room door hanging open.
"Where is everybody?" Courage wondered, while Scooby shrugged his shoulders, a worry look on his face. Then suddenly they heard a scream.
"HELP!"
"Raggy! We're Comin!" Scooby shouted, as he ran to the door with Courage by his side.
Inside the room was a large web. In the very center of it was Eustace... wrapped all up in webbing and still snoring like nothing had bothered him at all. And skittering down from one corner was a large purple spider with it's maw snapping and drool dripping from it's mouth.
Scooby and Courage took a breaths and let out one of the loudest howls they had ever released.
"Scooby-Doo!"
Scooby and Courage turned, and to their horror the spider pulled a ribbon of silk from it's abdomen and wrapped it around Shaggy's ankles and began working the silk up his calves. Shaggy kept wiggling and struggling, but it was no. He was stuck real tight. "HELP!"
"Raggy!" Scooby yelled.
"What do we do? What do we do?" Courage asked.
Scooby turned to the small dog, "Ro and get Rustace. I'll ret Raggy!"
Courage nodded, he and Scooby both grabbed two floor boards and pulled off the floor. Before the spider was able to get a bite on Eustace's face, Courage managed to get the plank to hit the spider and squish it.
"Like, HELP!" Shaggy cried out as he struggled against the web. Already the webbing was up to his waist as the spider snapped it's maw quickly with drool running out. "Scooby-Doo!"
Scooby ran as fast as he could in pursuit, with a floor board in his arm, "I'm comin Raggy!"
With one strong swoop he was able to bring it down on the spider, squashing and killing it. He quickly climbed up the board and was able to easily pull Shaggy off of the web and run back down. Swiftly, the Great Dane moved quickly to free Shaggy and untie him.
"Like, boy am I glad to see you, Scoob old buddy!" Shaggy said.
"Raggy, you're alright!" Scooby said before proceeding to lick Shaggy.
Feeling ticklish from the licking, Shaggy laughed. "Ah, down Scoob," he laughed. "Down!"
Courage, although happy to see the cowardly teen alright, knew they had to get out of here now, "Coming on guys let's get out of here."
Scooby and Shaggy nodded, got up and immediately getting the the door. But before the three could run out of the room with Eustace, the trio found that his escape route was blocked by a familiar red cat.
"Leaving so soon?" Katz snarled as he slammed the door to the office closed.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy panicked.
"Rikes!" Scooby screamed.
Courage howled again and in an instant, he threw Eustace right at Katz.
"LIKE, RUN, GUYS!" Shaggy screamed at the top of his lungs. He, Courage and Scooby zoomed right out the door and through the hall, screaming.
Katz was able to pull himself out from under Eustace's still sleeping body and said, "I wish you hadn't done that."
Scooby, Shaggy and Courage run into down a flight of stairs, just as they stopped in front of a door.
"Now what do we do? Now what do we do?" Courage asked.
Scooby turned and pointed to the door, "Rn there!"
The trio dashed in, only to find that the room was dark with no light shining anywhere.
"Oh no, it's dark in here," Courage whined.
Shaggy felt around beside the door and found a light switch, "Like hang on guys. I think I found a light switch," he said.
Only he quickly regretted turning on the lights. All along the room were shelves. Shelves loaded with many jars containing even more deformed versions of the spiders that Shaggy, Scooby and Courage had already witnessed. Indicating that the things that he had seen certainly were not normal spiders and that someone had taken great time and effort to create them. The three looked at each other, with horrified expressions, and screamed in total horror. Courage didn't even bother opening the door as he ran out, he simply knocked it down and crushed Katz as he, Shaggy and Scooby ran away from the freak show.
"I wish you hadn't done that," Katz said angrily from under the door.
The trio screamed as they sprinted down the hall, Katz just walking calmly after them. They ran until they hit a dead end.
Courage gasped, "Oh no."
"Like it's a dead end!" Shaggy screamed in terror.
"We're trapped!" Scooby panicked.
They turned to run back... only to see Katz stepping out of the shadows, just glaring at the cowardly trio. "There's no place to run and no place to hide," he said in a surprisingly calm voice.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage were huddling together, frightened, clutching on to one another, as Katz approached them. To their surprise however, Katz pulled out a rubber bouncy ball and began bouncing it against the floor.
"A little sport before dying dear boys?" Katz asked.
"Do we have a choice?" Courage countered.
Katz hit the ball as it bounced off a wall to the trio, Scooby hitting it back first. Going back and forth the ball hits the wall, as they played the game to either freedom or death. They're was having a hard time, but Katz was having it easy. They just hit the ball once again. Just as they ended up hitting the wall with their backs. The trio managed to hit the ball as they jumped. But they landed on the floor really hard. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage were getting tired as they hit the ball again before bumping into the wall again. Katz was taking a sip of tea as he used his foot to kick the ball. The trio didn't think they can keep up much longer after hitting the ball again.
Katz was reading a book about spiders as he used his tail to hit the ball, "How lovely."
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage were out of energy after they hit the ball again.
"Like…Must….Keep….Going…." Shaggy panted.
As it slowly bounced back to Katz, the villainous feline wound up to hit the ball with a racquet. He swung and the ball rocketed off the wall and hit Courage right on the forehead. Courage's head spun before he collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
"Courage/Rourage!" Scooby and Shaggy cried as they went to the corner and Shaggy cradled Courage.
"Like Courage, are you alright?"
Courage rub his head and groaned, "I think so Shaggy."
Scooby turned and immediately panicked, "Ruys!"
Shaggy and Courage looked up and to their horror, Katz was blocking their way out. Katz stood over them, setting his tennis racket off to the side. Katz popped the muscles in his neck and kneeled down to the boys' level.
"Now you three are going to learn why no one EVER checks out of the Katz Motel," Katz said with a sneer.
The trio found themselves backing into the corner as they're currently being cornered by murderous cat, they're shivering in terror. Katz raised one of his hands, revealing one of his spiders as it snapped it's maw at the trio. He began to laugh maniacally as held the spider up high and stared down at frightened trio, ready to finish this once and for all. Shaggy and Scooby found themselves panicking from within, they're completely cornered. Courage howled, knowing what was coming his way. Not only in fear, but in despair. He had failed. He'd failed to save Scooby and Shaggy and he had failed to save Muriel. He had even failed to save himself.
Thinking this to be the end, the trio all embraced each other, eyes close to await their awful fates. Katz still laughing evilly, the spider still in his hand. Suddenly, a badminton racket goes through Katz head to his arms, as he lets go of the spider. The spider falls to the floor, before scuttling away. Katz falls to the ground, too, revealing that the one who saved Scooby, Shaggy and Courage was Muriel, who had a frown on her face.
"Come on, boys, we're leaving. The service here stinks, Muriel said angrily.
"Aww man, like, that was close you guys," Shaggy said, in relief.
"Rou said it Raggy," Scooby agreed.
"Ditto," Courage added.
Meanwhile, because Eustace was still sleeping, Muriel had to be the one to drive them back.
"Look at the fine sheets Uncle Eustace has. Maybe we should get some for you three," Muriel said.
Courage, Shaggy and Scooby looked at each other. Just before screaming all the way home.
Well that's it for this chapter more to come.
Shaggy: Like I hope the scariest parts of the show are over.
Scooby: Reah
Me: yeah… (nervous chuckle) (Thinking oh boy….)