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Nightw2: Glad you like the story. I ran out of ideas for this for a while plus ideas for 'Canary Mansion' were flowing like crazy. You'll like granny's reaction to when she discovers' Tweety and Aaooga are gone.
acosta pérez josé ramiro: Glad you liked the Sly-Aaooga interaction in the last chapter. I hold the view that Tweety's cheekiness towards cats has rubbed onto Aaooga. Sorry about your computer issue. Hope you get access to a computer to become a member at some point.
Apologies for the slow update. My ideas ran blank for a while. It's not easy having so many stories on the go at once.
Bird huntGranny awoke the next morning to the sound of birds chirping outside. She looked towards the birdcage and found Tweety and Aaooga were gone.
"Not again." Granny muttered. She went over to Sylvester's tent and opened it. He was still asleep, not awoken by what happened last night.
"Sylvester! Where are the canaries?" Granny asked sternly. Sylvester woke up, yawned and looked at her.
"Well?" Granny asked. Sylvester just shrugged. Granny looked at him tapping her foot.
"Playing dumb eh?" Granny asked. Hector entered the tent and glared at Sylvester. Sylvester looked at Hector and gulped.
"Did you eat my canaries?" Granny asked. Sylvester shook his head rapidly.
"Hector." Granny said. Hector went up to Sylvester and grabbed him by the throat, forcing Sylvester's mouth open. Hector forced his arm down Sylvester's mouth and started feeling around his stomach. He eventually pulled his hand out. Sylvester started choking on the dog's fur.
"Any sign of them?" Granny asked. Hector looked sad and shook his head. Granny looked at Sylvester.
"Ok, you were telling the truth when you said you didn't swallow Tweety or Aaooga, sorry Sylvester." Granny said. She was now getting very concerned. She went back to the birdcage and saw a small note, which she had overlooked before. She picked it up and read it.
"If you ever want to see your pet again, give up this case! You have 10 days to come to castle fire with a note resigning yourself from the case." The note said. Granny looked horrified.
"Oh my, someone's taken my canaries hostage." Granny exclaimed.
Scooby and the rest of the gang were still at the warehouse trying to figure out about the two monsters.
"So, we've got an octopus and a ghost of some sort." Velma said.
"Two monsters, twice the trouble." Shaggy added nervously.
"But which one is for the fake mystery?" Daphnie asked.
"And what does the other want?" Fred added.
"Like, how should we know?" Shaggy asked. He leant on the wall and accidentally leant on a secret switch, opening a secret door, which he fell into.
"OW!" Shaggy remarked as he hit the floor. The rest of the gang turned and looked at him.
"A secret door in the wall." Velma exclaimed.
"Are you ok Shaggy?" Fred asked.
"I'm fine." Shaggy replied.
"Wonder where the passage goes." Daphnie said.
"Only one way to find out." Velma replied.
"Uh oh." Shaggy and Scooby muttered. They gulped.
"Come on you two." Fred said sternly. He started to walk into the tunnel, followed by Daphnie and Velma.
"Looks like we don't have a choice." Shaggy muttered.
"Reah." Scooby replied sadly. They started running after the others and began to follow the passage.
Tweety had chased the people who'd taken Aaooga to a castle a mile away from the town. The castle was surrounded by a moat about 10ft deep and the castle itself was about 50ft tall and 50ft wide. There were four towers, one in each corner. Tweety hid behind a bush and watched as the 4x4 drove into the castle over the drawbridge. When the car vehicle was in the castle the drawbridge was raised.
"Now how am I going to get in there to save Aaooga?" Tweety asked himself. He looked around the area and saw a window at the top of the tower nearest to him.
"Well there's my entrance." Tweety said. He flew up to the window and peeped inside. The room had pictures of cats lining the walls completely; no stone was visible on the wall interior. There was a bed in the room as well. It was a small single bed with a cat duvet. There was a rug in the centre of the room, also decorated with cats.
"Wow, whoever owns this castle sure loves puddy tats." Tweety remarked. He took another look and saw a cat enter the room. It was a grey cat without a tail. It looked around the room and settled down on the rug in the centre if the room. After a final look around the cat went to sleep.
"Wow, a tat nutter. I have to be careful not to wake it." Tweety said to himself. He flew into the room and, sticking close to the ceiling, flew past the cat and out the door. As soon as he came out of the room he hid under a small box just outside the room.
"Phew, I should rest here for a bit before I go searching for Aaooga." Tweety said to himself. He used a small piece of wood to prop the box open so air could circulate and took a breather.
In the basement of the castle, Aaooga was trapped in a cage suspended over a metal trap door. Her wings had been tied together preventing her from flying. The floor of her cage was made of glass so she could see below her. Behind her was a small air vent. A masked man was looking through the cage evilly with a glint in his eye.
"Ok bird, now your owner has 10 days to give up the case if she ever wants to see you again." A masked figure said. He then went over to a lever and pulled it. The trap door beneath the cage opened revealing a pit full of cats. Aaooga took one look at the cats and gulped.
"If the 10 days passes, I'll cut the rope and you'll fall into the pit. The cage you're in is a light alloy so it will break when it hits the floor." The masked man said with a chuckle. He then pulled another leaver and a glass door came down, separating the cage from the man. The man then left the area, leaving Aaooga extremely scared. She looked down at the cats. They were jumping up at her and slashing at the air with their claws, missing her by only a single foot. She looked around and saw the key to the cage hanging on a nearby wall, but there was no way she could reach it. She took a deep breath and sat down.
"Come on Tweety, where are you?" Aaooga asked in a panic. She looked at the air vent expecting him to come through any moment. She started moving her arms quickly. To her surprises, the string used to tie her arms back came lose.
"Guess they weren't any good at tying knots." Aaooga muttered. She went up to the door of the cage and looked at the lock.
"There's no way I can open that lock, looks like I'll have to wait for my chance." Aaooga said. She then thought to herself for a few minutes and then had an idea.
"If a guard comes before Tweety, I can escape when they open the cage to feed me, now that my wings are free." Aaooga said to herself. She looked back at the vent.
"But I hope Tweety gets here first." She added.
Granny was pacing around the campsite, obviously worried about Tweety and Aaooga.
"We need to get to Fire Castle to save my canaries, but I don't know where that is." Granny said to herself. Sylvester looked around and saw the footprints leading away left behind from the kidnappers.
"Hmm, if I follow those tracks, I can get to those canaries before Granny, and then I'll have the best breakfast ever." Sylvester said evilly to himself. He left granny and began following the footprints. Hector saw him wander off and began following him.
"Hmm, looks like I'll have to go into town and ask." Granny said to herself. She packed up the campsite and realised that Sylvester was gone.
"Now where did that cat go?" Granny asked herself. She looked around but he was nowhere in sight.
"I've no time. I must get to Castle Fire." Granny said to herself. She got into the car and was about to drive off when she noticed that Hector was gone as well.
"I'm losing all of my pets, but I must learn where Castle Fire is." Granny said to herself. She drove off back to town. When she arrived on the main road, she was stopped by Elmer Fudd.
"Hi Granny, how's the investigation going?" Elmer asked.
"I need to get to Castle Fire. Someone's taken my beloved pets." Granny replied.
"Oh gracious, I hope you find them." Elmer said in shock.
"Do you know where Castle Fire is?" Granny asked.
"Yes, it's a mile north of here." Elmer replied.
"Thank you." Granny replied.
"You're welcome." Elmer replied. Granny noticed that he was in his hunting gear.
"What are you doing now?" Granny asked.
"I'm hunting Wabbits, huhuhuhuhuhu." Elmer replied. Granny looked to the air.
"Well anyway, I'd better get going." Granny said. She drove off in the direction of Castle Fire.
Scooby and the gang were following the passage that they had found in the warehouse.
"Like, which way are we going?" Shaggy asked.
"I took a survival course, I know exactly where we're going." Fred boasted.
"Duck for cover." Velma said sarcastically. She took out a small compass.
"Like, which way are we going?" Shaggy asked. Fred looked at the ground and dug a little.
"Hmm, I'd say we're heading south-east." Fred replied.
"We're actually heading north." Velma corrected, showing Fred her compass. Fred looked embarrassed.
"Wrong again Freddie?" Daphnie asked sarcastically. Scooby was sniffing the ground trying to find a bone. As he was sniffing, he walked into a tin of some sort.
"Ruh?" Scooby asked. He stood up and rubbed his nose. Fred looked at the tin.
"Silver paint." Fred said as he examined it. Velma had a closer look at it.
"And luminescent as well." Velma added.
"What's that doing here?" Daphnie asked. Shaggy then thought of something.
"Like, that ghost me and Scooby saw in the cantine was silver." Shaggy said.
"But we still don't know which ghost is for the fake mystery." Daphnie added.
"We'll have to capture both of them to find that out." Velma replied.
"Then let's continue down this passage." Fred said. They continued walking down the passage.
After resting in his little hiding place, Tweety lifted the box and had a look around the corridor that he was in. The corridor, like the room he was in before, was covered in photographs of cats. There were also a few pictures of Coolcat as well, but these had large red X's painted over them. The main carpet was decorated in golden cat designs.
"This guy is obsessed." Tweety remarked. He came out from under the box and flew up to a chandelier on the roof. He had another look around. He saw that the corridor wasn't' patrolled by humans, but by cats. Each one had a small bell on its collar.
"At least I can't be surprised by ambushed." Tweety remarked. He looked around and saw an air vent directly above him.
"Better play safe anyway." Tweety said. He flew up to the air vent and had a look at the grating. He felt the screws that held it in place.
"These bolts are loose, perhaps I could remove them." Tweety said to himself. He grabbed one of the screws and started twisting it to the right to unscrew it. "Eventually the screw came loose. Tweety dropped it and it hit one of the patrolling cats on the head. The cat looked up and hissed at Tweety.
"You look screwy with that look." Tweety joked. The cat tried to leap at Tweety but was unable to reach. Tweety grabbed the other screws one by one and undid them all, each one hitting the cat square on the head. When the grating covering the vent fell, it also hit the cat on the head, knocking it out cold.
"5 direct hits, now to find Aaooga. Logic tells me she's at the bottom." Tweety said. He flew into the vent and followed the path.
Aaooga was sitting in her prison looking down at the cats. No guards had come to give her food and she was trapped for an hour now. She hadn't eaten since the night before.
"I'm getting really hungry, if I don't get food, I'll be dead before the 10 days are up." Aaooga said to herself. She looked again around the room. She saw a pack of birdseed on a shelf on her side of the glass wall, but well out of her reach.
"Has that been done to taunt me?" Aaooga asked. She looked hungrily at the birdseed and sighed.
"Looks like I'll have to wait." Aaooga said. She then heard a tapping from behind her.
"What was that?" Aaooga asked. She looked behind her and saw Tweety tapping the grating on the air vent. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw him.
"Tweety, you came!" Aaooga shouted.
"Aaooga, I'll be there in a minute." Tweety replied. He reached through the grating and felt the screws. Luckily, these were loose as well. He undid the grating and let it fall to the floor. The grating and screws landed on some of the cats in the pit, making then even angrier. Tweety flew up to the cage where Aaooga was.
"Where's the key to your cage?" Tweety asked.
"Hanging on that wall." Aaooga replied, pointing to where the key was hanging. Tweety flew over to the key and grabbed it.
"These guys are probably the dumbest criminals I've ever met." Tweety remarked. He took the key to Aaooga's cage and unlocked the door. He pushed the door open and went to Aaooga. Aaooga leapt at Tweety and hugged him.
"Are you ok?" Tweety asked. Aaooga looked at him with admiration in her eyes.
"Tweety, you came to save me!" Aaooga replied.
"Yeah, but it wasn't easy. There are loads of cats around." Tweety said.
"Like those cats?" Aaooga asked, pointing to the cats below her. Tweety looked down and saw the rampaging cats trying to grab the cage.
"Yeah. Lucky for me, they were dull witted." Tweety replied. Aaooga laughed.
"What about granny?" Aaooga asked. Tweety's expression changed.
"Oh my, I left her without telling her. She's going to think puddy's eaten us." Tweety replied. Aaooga looked slyly at him.
"Shame we can't see what's going to happen to him." Aaooga replied. Tweety smirked.
"We'd better get going." Tweety said.
"Why don't we eat first?" Aaooga asked, pointing to the packet of birdseed.
"Why not, I'm starving." Tweety replied. They flew over to the birdseed and started having their fill. They were interrupted by a sliding sound coming from the room.
"What's that?" Aaooga asked.
"Don't know." Tweety replied. They looked out of the box of birdseed and saw a secret door opening.
(A/N: Sorry for the slow update. My ideas for this ran dry when I started my horror story. Now I can work on this and hopefully get it finished quickly.)