All right, enough with the suspense! Here comes Part Two:
Brief history of Ben Ravencroft - Disclaimer: the following events took place in Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost which belonged to Warner Brothers and Hannah-Barbera, and I'm only writing them here for those people who are not familiar with this film and Ben Ravencroft:
This famous horror-writer tricked Mystery Inc. into finding the book of his ancestor, Sarah Ravencroft. Sarah was believed to have been an evil witch, but Ben led the gang into believing she was a good wiccan, who performed healing 'magic'. He explained his obsession with her book by saying it was her medical journals, and if he could only find them, it would clear his family name.
But when they found the book, and discovered it was a spell book and not a journal, nice-guy Ben Ravencroft became the evil, power-hungry warlock he had always been, and his first business was to read out the spell that would bring back Sarah's ghost.
By the bringing back of Sarah Ravencroft, Ben had almost been responsible for the destruction of life on earth as we know it. However, the warlock was more interested in ruling the world than destroying it, so after he tried and failed to return her to the book (only a good wiccan has the power to do that) Sarah had conveniently trapped him in a spherical force field while the Scooby gang desperately tried to stop her. After a very odd relay race which included walking pumpkins and a giant turkey, Velma managed to get the book and persuade Thorn, lead singer in the Hex Girls, who also happened to be one sixteenth wiccan, to read out the spell which would imprison Sarah back into the spell book.
As the effects of her magic were reversed and she fought to prevent the book from sucking her in, Ben was freed of the force field, but the desperate witch resolved not to go back alone, and she grabbed her ascendant by the ankle as the two of them were sucked into the spell book. As the book closed by itself, a burning branch of a tree fell down onto it, and the very pages holding the key to their return went up in flames, as Velma stated: "Ben Ravencroft's last book is a one the world will never read." Not one of them had ever suspected that Ben Ravencroft would one day return.
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Chapter 10: Superiority Complex
"What... happened here?" Daphne gasped as she and Freddie skidded into the room the cauldron had been dragged into. None of the others had yet dared to speak, and looked to the warlock in horror.
Suddenly, there was a flash of movement as the rat fiend threw himself down at Ben's feet, positioned on his knees.
"Oh, Master, Master! I did what you have asked of me - I brought you back, Master!"
"Yes," replied the Master in a deep voice, "you certainly were successful. I knew a rat turned human would make a good servant."
"Oh, you were right, Master! Master's always right!"
The warlock chuckled at the unthinking servitude of this hybrid creature, before turning his attention to the Scooby gang who surrounded him from different corners of the room. He smirked and began in a quiet voice,
"So, here we all are, once again."
Suddenly, Freddie spoke. "How are you here? How did you come back?"
"Yeah, like didn't you burn along with the spell book?" piped up Shaggy.
"Ha!" he mocked. "A foolish question indeed!"
Shaggy frowned at Ben's superiority complex.
"Nevertheless one I shall answer," he continued. "That spell-book was merely a portal to the world we were trapped in - destroying a portal will by no means destroy a world."
Daphne voiced a hesitant question. "The Witch's Ghost...?"
"Yes, she was there with me," the warlock replied, his face changing to an expression of resentment. He turned away for a moment in thought and his servant went to comfort him. They began to talk amongst themselves of how she had made his time in that world an utter nightmare, and Freddie saw his chance. They couldn't get Shaggy and Scooby down yet, as Ben was facing them, but he sneaked forward and grabbed the nearby key to unlock Velma's chains. She thanked him silently, then got back into position, with the unlocked chains around her wrists again, while Freddie went back to stand behind Daphne.
"Enough about her!" Ben roared as he turned around to face them again. "I should have known I had the power to do anything I wanted without her help!"
Velma still demanded some answers. "How did your servant know how to free you? And how did he know it was us who trapped you in that book?"
A sly look came about Ben's pale face. "I found a way to communicate with the outside world while I was trapped in that place. It gave me a distinct advantage in finding a way out."
Suddenly his eyes flared with rage. "I wouldn't have had to go through all that if it hadn't been for all of you!" he yelled.
As he said this, he shot an energy ball through his accusing finger, which hit the pulley for Shaggy and Scooby's rope.
The pulley shattered into a thousand pieces.
With the rope holding them up now unattached to anything, Shaggy and Scooby began to free-fall towards the huge tank filled with those terrible, vicious, and hungry beasts - the piranhas.
Phew finally have the time to write this again. Oh and don't worry, chapter 11 is on its way ^-^ Again, a big thank you to everyone who commented on this story so far :)
Brief history of Ben Ravencroft - Disclaimer: the following events took place in Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost which belonged to Warner Brothers and Hannah-Barbera, and I'm only writing them here for those people who are not familiar with this film and Ben Ravencroft:
This famous horror-writer tricked Mystery Inc. into finding the book of his ancestor, Sarah Ravencroft. Sarah was believed to have been an evil witch, but Ben led the gang into believing she was a good wiccan, who performed healing 'magic'. He explained his obsession with her book by saying it was her medical journals, and if he could only find them, it would clear his family name.
But when they found the book, and discovered it was a spell book and not a journal, nice-guy Ben Ravencroft became the evil, power-hungry warlock he had always been, and his first business was to read out the spell that would bring back Sarah's ghost.
By the bringing back of Sarah Ravencroft, Ben had almost been responsible for the destruction of life on earth as we know it. However, the warlock was more interested in ruling the world than destroying it, so after he tried and failed to return her to the book (only a good wiccan has the power to do that) Sarah had conveniently trapped him in a spherical force field while the Scooby gang desperately tried to stop her. After a very odd relay race which included walking pumpkins and a giant turkey, Velma managed to get the book and persuade Thorn, lead singer in the Hex Girls, who also happened to be one sixteenth wiccan, to read out the spell which would imprison Sarah back into the spell book.
As the effects of her magic were reversed and she fought to prevent the book from sucking her in, Ben was freed of the force field, but the desperate witch resolved not to go back alone, and she grabbed her ascendant by the ankle as the two of them were sucked into the spell book. As the book closed by itself, a burning branch of a tree fell down onto it, and the very pages holding the key to their return went up in flames, as Velma stated: "Ben Ravencroft's last book is a one the world will never read." Not one of them had ever suspected that Ben Ravencroft would one day return.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chapter 10: Superiority Complex
"What... happened here?" Daphne gasped as she and Freddie skidded into the room the cauldron had been dragged into. None of the others had yet dared to speak, and looked to the warlock in horror.
Suddenly, there was a flash of movement as the rat fiend threw himself down at Ben's feet, positioned on his knees.
"Oh, Master, Master! I did what you have asked of me - I brought you back, Master!"
"Yes," replied the Master in a deep voice, "you certainly were successful. I knew a rat turned human would make a good servant."
"Oh, you were right, Master! Master's always right!"
The warlock chuckled at the unthinking servitude of this hybrid creature, before turning his attention to the Scooby gang who surrounded him from different corners of the room. He smirked and began in a quiet voice,
"So, here we all are, once again."
Suddenly, Freddie spoke. "How are you here? How did you come back?"
"Yeah, like didn't you burn along with the spell book?" piped up Shaggy.
"Ha!" he mocked. "A foolish question indeed!"
Shaggy frowned at Ben's superiority complex.
"Nevertheless one I shall answer," he continued. "That spell-book was merely a portal to the world we were trapped in - destroying a portal will by no means destroy a world."
Daphne voiced a hesitant question. "The Witch's Ghost...?"
"Yes, she was there with me," the warlock replied, his face changing to an expression of resentment. He turned away for a moment in thought and his servant went to comfort him. They began to talk amongst themselves of how she had made his time in that world an utter nightmare, and Freddie saw his chance. They couldn't get Shaggy and Scooby down yet, as Ben was facing them, but he sneaked forward and grabbed the nearby key to unlock Velma's chains. She thanked him silently, then got back into position, with the unlocked chains around her wrists again, while Freddie went back to stand behind Daphne.
"Enough about her!" Ben roared as he turned around to face them again. "I should have known I had the power to do anything I wanted without her help!"
Velma still demanded some answers. "How did your servant know how to free you? And how did he know it was us who trapped you in that book?"
A sly look came about Ben's pale face. "I found a way to communicate with the outside world while I was trapped in that place. It gave me a distinct advantage in finding a way out."
Suddenly his eyes flared with rage. "I wouldn't have had to go through all that if it hadn't been for all of you!" he yelled.
As he said this, he shot an energy ball through his accusing finger, which hit the pulley for Shaggy and Scooby's rope.
The pulley shattered into a thousand pieces.
With the rope holding them up now unattached to anything, Shaggy and Scooby began to free-fall towards the huge tank filled with those terrible, vicious, and hungry beasts - the piranhas.
Phew finally have the time to write this again. Oh and don't worry, chapter 11 is on its way ^-^ Again, a big thank you to everyone who commented on this story so far :)