Here you go chapter 5, enjoy. Again I wish to apologize to all of you who have already read this chapter. I did a little bit of rewriting, but not to much. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Scooby, Shaggy or anything related to them. They are the property of Hanna-Barbera & Warner Bros. I also don't own Angel; he's the property of Josh Whedon.

Chapter 5: Looking for Clues

After a lot of explanations and headaches. The hotel was quiet again, Freddie thought it best to go and look for some clues.

"We know that the kidnapers goes after girls who range between the ages of 19-30." Cordelia said looking at her notes.

"And we have two of other clues," Daphne said.

" Yeah, Angel's calling card and, like, the hooded figure that throw Scooby in the closet back home." Shaggy replied.

"How is that card a clue?" Angel asked.

"It told us that somewhere in L.A. we would find Velma and the other kidnapped girls." Freddy told him. "And the only way is to go out, we'll dived into two groups."

"Good idea," Wesley said thinking. "We'll have the hotel the starting point, Freddy and his group start looking on the right side of the hotel and we'll go to the left. We meet back here at sun up." They all agreed and went their separate ways.

When Scooby and gang walked by an alleyway, an old beggar came stumbling out and scared the life out of the gang.

"Oh gee, I'm terribly sorry to have scared you," he said. Freddy told him it was all right and asked if he had seen or heard anything strange. He thought for a moment, and then disappeared back in the alley. When he came back out he had a teenage girl with him. She looked at them then back at the old beggar, he told her they wanted to hear the story she had told him.

"Well... it was just a couple hours ago. I was trying to find a place to stay, so I came to this old house and it looked empty. I climbed in through a window and curled up in one of the corners away from the open window and tried to get some rest..." she paused, shivering as she recalled that night. "Then I hear a voice, it was... I dunno... evil... I guess you can say. Anyway I noticed a hole not to far from me, so I crawled to it and looked in and there was this thing with big firry wings, it had white skin and hair, and it was looking at four figures, each of them had a girl in their arms. Then a mouth grow out of the things stomach and one by one, it devoured the girls. Then two of the figures left and came back with this one girl..." she paused again.

"What about her?" Freddy asked trying to encourage the girl to continue her tale.

"Well, her stomach was kind'a big..."

"Oh Freddy, that's Velma! It was to be her, we've got to do something!" Daphne cried out, afraid for her dear friend. Shaggy placed his hand on Daphne's shoulder; she could tell he scared, because he was shacking a little. When he told her to let the girl finish her story, Daphne calmed down a bit. Shaggy motioned the girl to continue.

"Umm... yeah... like I said her stomach was kind'a big and the thing's mouth started to grow again, but suddenly stopped. It placed a hand on her stomach and said that it would not devour her. It decided to keep her, till it was time for her baby to be born, then it would possess the baby and the girl would care for it until it didn't need her anymore. The girl told the monster, it would never be able to do what it wanted and when the thing asked her how she would stop it, she answered that she would kill both the baby and herself. Then one of the figures took her away while the thing laugh. I think she was crying, I dunno. After seeing what happened to those girls, I didn't want to be next so I left." Seeing that it was almost sun up, Freddy thanked her and they left.

No one said a word as they returned to the hotel. When they arrived they found the others had already returned.

"Did you guys fined anything?" Daphne asked them.

"It's not much, but Wesley found a page from a book he thinks he has. He's going to look it up. You?" Gunn told her. She told him about the homeless girl and what she told them.

"Do you think if we went back she'd be able to show us where this house is?" Fred asked.

"It would be worth a try." Angel said as he headed up the stairs. "Gunn take Freddy with you and find her and do what you can. I'll see you tonight."

Shaggy had gone strait to his room locking his door. He didn't feel like being with the others right now. He walked to his bed and put his head in his hands, wondering how Velma was.

"Would you really kill yourself, Velma?" he whispered to himself.

He almost lost her once, five years ago. They had lost their way and were trying to find a place to stay for the night. That's when Daphne spotted an old mansion and Fred decided to stop. He had also thought it would be a good idea to split up and look for the owner. While Shaggy and Scooby were looking around the old place, they heard two sharp screams that came from Daphne. As they tried to find their friends, Shaggy and Scooby stumbled on a room where Velma was tied to a chair and a man was standing over her. He had one hand on her shoulder and the other one was working its way up Velma's leg. Shaggy had found a metal rod and together they jumped the bastard. Scooby bit him on the arm and Shaggy struck him across the head.

Shaggy was close enough to a wall that he punched it, just thinking of Velma almost getting rapped made him so mad.

"Hey, don't destroy the place." a voice said. Shaggy looked up and turned his head to find Angel standing in the doorway.

"How did you get in? The door was locked." Shaggy ask with a little venom in his voice.

"I own this place, so I go where I went." Angel said narrowing his eyes at the man.

"Get out! Just, like, leave me alone!" Shaggy snapped at the vampire.

"And if I don't?" He taunted Shaggy.

"I... I'll punch your lights out," the skinny man shouted. "I did it once, I'll, like, do it again!" Standing up, Shaggy was getting ready to hit the man before him. But Angel moved before he could to anything and found himself pinned to the wall, Angel's face inches from his own.

"Now you listen to me," the vampire hissed. "I understand what you're going through..."

"How could you possibly know what I'm going through?"

"Because I lost my special someone."

"You lost... well that's where we're different, I haven't lost her yet." Shaggy smirked.

"Then shouldn't you be down stairs with the others trying to find a way of get her back." Angel said calmly, letting go of Shaggy. They stood there for a moment just glaring at each other. Hearing all the shouting, Lorne and Scooby came to see if everything was alright. When they said all was good, Scooby trotted over to his master, who scratched the back of his head. Angel proceeded to go to bed, as he passed Lorne he gave the demon a reassuring smile.

The boys found the girl and asked her if she'd be willing to take them to the house. She looked at them and told them they were crazy. "Come on, your the only one who knows where the place is." Freddy told her.

"Trust me, if you've seen what I saw, you wouldn't want to go back ether." she said. Gunn made a deal with her; if she helps them, he'd help her in return.

"How could you possibly help me?" she asked skeptically.

"I could help by getting you a job. I know this guy, he's looking for helping hands, I could talk to him in letting you work for him." Gunn told her. She thought about this for a while, and then agreed. Upon entering the hotel, they noticed Wesley was explaining what the page, he found was.

"So what'd we miss?" Gunn asked.

"Something about a demon and its eating habits." Fred said and told them what they had missed.

"You're telling me some freak of a person summoned this thing!" Freddy exclaimed. Wesley nodded.

"Is there a way of getting rid of it?" Freddy asked.

"We were working on that when you guys walked in." Cordelia said. It took them the rest of the day, looking through the books Wesley had. When Angel got up, they were still researching each had found a spot on the floor.

"Anything yet?" he asked. Cordelia looked up from her book and shook her head 'no'. She then got up to stretch out her legs and pointed to the homeless girl and told him that she was going to show them where the house is. No sooner had she said this, a hooded figure grabbed Cordelia and ran out the door. Angel yelled at Wesley to grab what he could, and then he ran out after Cordelia. Grabbing a big duffel bag, throw everything and anything that could help and they all left. Being a vampire, Angel was the fastest, so the others had trouble keeping up.

"Damn which way did he go?" Gunn asked.

"Scooby can find him." Daphne said. The dog looked at her questionly. When she said Scooby could fallow Angel's scent, Fred was going to tell them the truth about Angel. The homeless girl rolled her eyes and told them to fallow her. When they finally caught up with the vampire, they saw him slip into the house. Gunn told the group to be quit and fallow him. Fred looked at him as if to say 'who died and made you boss' but he just ignored her. As they reached the house the sound of crying could be heard. Looking in through the basement window, they could see some cages full of some very scared girls. That's when the homeless girl said goodbye and was gone before anyone could thank her.

I know cliffhanger, so sorry. I'm currently working on chapter 6. Till then. Later.