Fred, Shaggy, Scooby and I all leapt out from our hiding places. Fred and Shaggy smothered the vampire with the quilt. Scooby and I grabbed a rope and prepared to tie up the vampire. Fred and Shaggy pulled of the duvet and Scooby and I quickly tied up the vampire. Success!
"Daph! Get out of the bed! You know what you have to do!" Said Fred
Daphne didn't move.
"I think she has fallen asleep!" I said
"Shaggy, help me wake her." Said Fred, who was gently shaking Daphne in an attempt to wake her. We tried everything! We even got Scooby to jump on the bed and bark in her ear. But nothing worked. The vampire sat in the corner of the room laughing
"Ha! You think she has fallen asleep! Fools! You'll never wake her!"
"Like what did you do to her?" Said Shaggy
The vampire didn't say anything. It just stared at the bedside table where a bottle of red liquid stood. I walked over and examined the bottle.
"Knockout drops!" I whispered, "Powerful ones!"
"What is it Velma?" Said Fred
"This bottle. It contains knockout drops, very powerful knockout drops. The effects can last for up to 96 hours." I said
"Zoinks! That's like 4 days!" Cried Shaggy
"Yeah, but that's not the only thing. Knockout drops as powerful as these ones are can cause serious amnesia." I said
I saw that Shaggy looked puzzled
"Amnesia is really bad memory loss. Sometimes it is mild other times it can be permanent!" Fred explained
"Like woah! That is like bad!" Said Shaggy, once he had worked everything out.
"Yeah well we can't do anything about it now. Velma, You had better go and wake Louise. Shaggy and Scooby you'd better go and phone the police. I'll stay here and watch…the vampire." Said Fred
"Like ok. C'mon Scoob" Said Shaggy and they went off to the telephone
"Don't worry Fred, she'll be ok." I said to Fred, he nodded and smiled.
I left the room and ran down to Louise's room and knocked on the door.
"Whassamatter?" She said groggily
"Louise. We have caught your vampire." I said proudly
"What!" She said, now wide-awake.
"We have caught the vampire. It's up in Daphne's room. C'mon" I said
Louise and I raced back upstairs. When we got to Daphne's room I gestured for Louise to be quiet and I knocked on the door.
"Come in." Said Fred
Louise and I went in, Fred was sitting on the bed holding Daphne's hand. The vampire was sitting sulkily in the corner.
"Did Daphne get tired of waiting?" Louise said
"No. She has been knocked out. The vampire used powerful knockout drops. She will remain asleep for around four days." I said dismally
"Oh gosh! Will she be ok?" Louise said worriedly
"Yeah she will be fine." Fred said, "I hope," He added quietly
Shaggy and Scooby came into the room, accompanied by Mr and Mrs Jackson.
"Like look who we bumped into!" Cried Shaggy, "Mr and Mrs Jackson were just returning from a 'hike' when they saw Scooby and me phoning the cops. We told them what had happened and here we are now!"
Fred, who hadn't moved from Daphne's side, suddenly got up and walked over to the vampire.
"Louise, Mr Jackson, Mrs Jackson, prepare yourself for a shock." He said, "The vampire is none other than…." Fred pulled off the mask
"Flo!" cried Louise, "But why?"
"Well, when Flo 'disappeared' for a few days, she discovered an underground cavern full of oil. She hired some men to begin pumping it out and smuggled it across the border where it was sold for a lot of money. When the hotel was handed over to you Louise she overheard your Uncle Thomas telling you the phoney legend. Flo then thought that she could use that to her advantage, and invented the vampire so it would scare everyone away. Then the hotel would be forced to shut down and you would leave and she could smuggle out all of the oil without and trouble."
"Well done kids! A nice night's work. We managed to capture all of the workers!" Said Mrs Jackson, "Just one question though."
"What?" I said,
"How can Daphne sleep through this?" Said Mrs Jackson
"She isn't asleep. That bottle of red liquid we saw down in the cavern was a bottle of very strong knockout drops. The vampire used them on Daph. She won't wake up for around four days." Said Fred dejectedly
The police arrived and carried off the workers and Flo
"I would've managed to get away with it! If it wasn't for you meddling kids!" Flo screamed
"Maybe you should've just stuck to hotel working Flo! You were good at that! Especially cooking!" Cried Shaggy, "Shall we hit the sack Scoobert?"
"We should all 'hit the sack' Shaggy." I said.