Well so far there is no sign of the vampire, and it's one-thirty in the morning! I think I'd better get some rest, Looks like the vampire is a no-show again! Oh well. I settled down and fell asleep. I don't think I had been asleep long, before I was a woken by a piercing scream. I jumped out of bed, pulled my sweater on over my pyjamas, and hurried out onto the landing. I bumped into Fred.
"Who screamed?" He asked breathlessly. His question was answered by a second scream from the room where Daphne and Louise were sleeping! Shaggy and Scooby came running out of their room looking scared. All four of us burst into Daphne and Louise's room and found Louise hiding in a corner, and Daphne sitting up in bed, looking white, clutching her neck.
"Jinkies! Let me guess, the vampire showed up?" I said
"Yeah!" Cried Louise shakily
"He was reaching for my neck! He was going to bite me! He would've done if Louise hadn't of screamed and woken me up! I woke up and saw tall, pale and creepy leaning over my bed, fangs bared, about to bite my neck!" Said Daphne fearfully
"Louise." I said, "What woke you up?"
"Well I felt a gust of cold air and woke up to see that thing bending over Daphne's bed. I screamed and the vampire turned around, so I ran across the room and screamed for help, then Daphne woke up and you guys came in!" Said Louise
"Well the vampire is back. Daph I think your Uncle Thomas was telling the truth. Or that's how it seems. That vampire is back to get one of you two." Said Fred
"Hold on a minute!" I cried, suddenly realising something, "Daphne's real room is across the corridor. Louise's room is downstairs. How did the vampire know that those two would be in the same room tonight? And how did the vampire know exactly which room to go to? I'm not sure that you're right Fred. I don't think that the legend is true." I said thoughtfully.
"There's something funny going on here." Fred said pensively.
"Well why aren't we laughing?" Said Daphne uneasily.
After that Shaggy and Scooby went back to bed, but Fred, Daphne Louise and I went downstairs and got some spare mattresses and brought them upstairs. Daphne took one and set up a camp bed in Fred's room and Louise came and set up a camp bed in my room.
Louise fell asleep quickly but I lay awake thinking. How had the vampire known what room to go to? We had only arranged it a few hours ago in the sitting room…Hold on! The sitting room! Some of the guests were in there with us last night. That means the guests that were with us last night are suspects. Well there's not much I can do about it now. It will have to wait until morning, when I can tell the others. I turned over and soon fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning I was woken up by Flo.
"Have we been having slumber parties? I went and found a young lady sleeping on a mattress in the blonde gentleman's room." She said
Louise briefly explained what had happened. Flo looked shocked.
"Well, Ms. Blake, if it were me, I'd be out of here faster than a speeding bullet." Said Flo'
Once Flo had left and Louise and I were ready we went to see if Shaggy, Scooby, Fred and Daphne were ready. They were, so we went downstairs to Louise's office and I shared my thoughts with the rest of the gang.
"So, you are saying that one of those people who was in the sitting room with us last night is the vampire?" Said Daphne
"Exactly. Now all we need to do is remember who was in the sitting room last night." I said.
We all thought back to yesterday night.
"There was Mrs. Fleur." Said Louise
"Oh there was that creepy old man with the glasses." Said Daphne
"That's Professor James." Said Louise.
"A couple, in hiking gear, with gooey black stuff on the boots." Said Fred
"Mr and Mrs Jackson. They come here for the walking." Said Louise
"Hey! Like, Velma didn't you say you found like some kind of black gooey stuff on the floor where the vampire had been seen?" Cried Shaggy
"You're right! Quickly! We need to check the sitting room floor and then we need to go upstairs to the room where the vampire was last night." I said. Shaggy was right! If we found the same substance on the floor of the sitting room and on the floor of the bedroom, then our list of suspects is going to get suddenly smaller.
On the way to the sitting room we bumped into Flo
"Oh Ms. Blake. The group of tourists are here. They are waiting at the front desk." She said
"Thank you Flo." Replied Louise, she turned to us, "Sorry guys, I'm gonna have to leave you. Tell me if you find anything!" Then Louise rushed off.
When we reached the sitting room, we all fanned out and started checking every inch of floor.
"Rere! Rere! Rack ruff! Rere!" Shouted Scooby suddenly. We all rushed over and looked at where Scooby was pointing. Sure enough there were traces of black gooey stuff on the carpet.
"What is it?" Said Daphne.
"I dunno. I suspect it is oil. Like I found in all of the other places the vampire had been" I said, before bending down and examining the substance closer, "Yeah. It's oil alright."
We ran upstairs to the bedroom and checked the floor. Traces of oil were on the linoleum.
"So now our only suspects are Mr and Mrs Jackson." Said Fred.
"Like what now?" Said Shaggy, apprehensively,
"Well I'm pretty sure I know what they are up to. But I want to do some night time snooping to find out how they are doing it."
"Doing what?" Said Daphne confusedly
"Well if the oil is anything to go by. I think that somewhere near here there is oil. Mr and Mrs Jackson must have discovered it whilst out hiking. And now they are smuggling it out somehow." I said.
"Do you think we should tell Louise what we suspect?" Said Daphne
"Yeah. We should tell her what we plan to do tonight." Said Fred, "Shall we make a plan for tonight?"
"We ought to." I said.
And so we began to arrange the night's activities. Then we went and told Louise what we planned to do tonight. The rest of the day we spent relaxing and sleeping. We would need to be wide awake tonight!