Their revere was broken as they heard the noise of running people coming their way. Turning they saw Fred, Velma, and Scooby rushing toward them, Scooby arriving first and leaping into Shaggy's arms. As Shaggy petted him to calm him down Daphne turned to Fred and Velma and said, "Don't worry, we're okay."
Fred gave a brief hug before asking, "What happened to you guys?"
Daphne shrugged as she said, "Nothing that we couldn't handle. But did you find any clues concerning where the ghost is?"
Before a reply could be made a scream was heard coming from upstairs. They immediately stopped what they were doing and rushed for the stairs. The screams continued to come, and from that they were able to locate that the screams were coming from the second floor, and soon located the room from which they were coming from. Fred rushed the door and broke it down to reveal Victor secured to a chair with the ghost and an old lady standing above him, the ghost holding a red-hot brand which was getting closer by the second.
However that brand halted when the door had been busted open, startling both the ghost and the old lady, Victor being the exception to that feeling since he was focused exclusively on the brand. Quickly the ghost raised his hand and a burst a flame hurled from it toward Fred, who threw himself to the side to avoid the fire. The ghost walked over to Fred and raised his brand to impale it on him, but before he could thrust it Daphne threw herself at him, knocking him to the ground and forcing him to drop the brand. The old lady threw herself into the battle, landing on Daphne and commenced to twist her into submission. Velma, Scooby, and Shaggy joined in the fight, Velma and Scooby attacking the ghost while Shaggy attacked the old lady. When Fred joined in the battle it was soon ended with the old lady and the ghost subdued.
"And now," Fred said, reaching down, "It's time to reveal who the ghost really is." With those words he pulled a mask off of the ghost to reveal a young man. But the mystery was still unsolved, as no one knew who the man was.
As they were doing this Shaggy and Scooby were freeing Victor, who once free walked up to the two and, looking down, said, "Hah. You tried to torture me and mine, so I am going to see you rot in jail for the rest of your lives."
The old lady jerked as those words were spoken and with a snarl of anger she spat on him before saying, "You pig, you're the one who should rot in jail. It's your fault that my husband is dead, all because you couldn't take no for an answer."
Victor jerked back from the old lady and said, "Glo-Gloria Pats. Wha-What happened to you? Why did you run away from my help?"
She snorted as she said, "Like I would except help from a murderer. It was you that drove our car off the road, and it was you that refused to take Henry from the car, consigning him to that horrible fate. You took my husband, and I wasn't going to let you take the only thing left of him that I had." As she said that she turned to look at the man beside him, and everyone realized that they were looking at the son of the late Henry Pats. The look on Victor's face turned ashen, and he clutched at his chest as he gasped out in pain. Before anyone could react he collapsed to the floor.
As the van drove off from the town, the group inside was a more solemn one then the one that had arrived there earlier. Fred and Velma sat in front with Scooby between them while Shaggy and Daphne sat in the back. The road passed quietly, as no one was speaking because of what they had witnessed.
It had been too late to save Victor, so in the end the Pats had gotten their revenge, though that wasn't much of a condolence in prison. It had saddened them to see the young man with such potential being carted off because of the passion of revenge which had consumed him.
In the back Daphne leaned close to Shaggy and said, "Are you okay?' Shaggy nodded, but continued to be silent. A few minutes passed before Daphne said, "About what happened in the third hall, I know it was presumptuous, but it was the only option I had and…"
"It's okay Daphne; I understand why you did what you did." Another minute of silence passed before he added, "Of course, that's not to say that I didn't enjoy it." He smiled at those words, and she also smiled as well as they, covertly so the guys up front couldn't see it, reached out to hold each other's hands.