"That was when I realized I loved her," Shaggy accidentally blurted out. He slapped his hand over his mouth.
Scooby, Fred, and Daphne stared wide-eyed at him. Daphne was the first one to speak.
"Aww," she squealed, "how cute!"
"I knew it!" Fred burst out.
Shaggy blushed and turned away, signaling that he didn't want to converse on the subject anymore. "Like, what are we waiting for? We need to get to the shark exhibit!" Shaggy said, changing the subject.
The four of them jogged to the shark exhibit. They arrived about ten minutes later, trying to remember where it was.
"Well, now what?" Daphne asked, looking to the other three for answers.
"Let's look for anything out of the ordinary," Fred suggested.
The other three nodded and the four of them split up by themselves, wandering around the exhibit.
Scooby walked around near an area where they stored the sharks' food. His tail accidentally knocked over a can of dead fish. He whirled around, scared, then realized it was nothing to be afraid of. He picked up the container and placed the fish back in it, after which he set the can back where it was. He then began scolding his tail to be more careful, but stopped when he noticed the scars from the accident Shaggy had described moments earlier.
Daphne searched near an area of chemicals for approved and legal experimentation and medicine for the sharks. She found nothing out of the ordinary.
Shaggy walked towards the pool where the sharks were swimming. He bent down and watched as one shark was swimming around aimlessly, obviously bored. Shaggy watched as he relived that terrible day. The day he almost lost his two bet friends.
Fred investigated around the rest of the shark exhibit, aimlessly looking around at everything. Where are you Velma, he thought silently, then sighed.
Daphne walked over to him, recognizing his signs of stress. "What's wrong?" she asked, wrapping her arm around his, looking in the direction he was.
"Nothing, I'm just tired," he said, not really wanting to discuss the issue at the moment.
"Somehow I don't believe that's all of why you're stressed," Daphne said. "If it's because of the Velma situation we're in right, don't worry. We're going to get through this. We always do. You'll always lead us out of these things. We'll get her back."
"Thanks, Daphne," Fred said softly, hugging her. Both of them returned to searching for anything abnormal around the shark exhibit.
Shaggy continued walking around the shark pool. He stopped short when he saw a sign with graffiti on it. Shaggy slowly walked toward it. "'Look'?" Shaggy read aloud, confused. The graffiti was on the sign that had an arrow pointing in the direction of the next exhibit.
He walked in the direction the sign originally pointed him to, and found another sign with an arrow. This sign also had graffiti on it. He walked towards it.
"'Towards'?" Shaggy said out loud, again confused.
He walked to the other sign.
"'The'?"
"'Mountains'?" Shaggy stopped, still confused. "Hey, Fred! Daphne! Scooby! Get over here!"
The three of them hurried over to Shaggy.
"What did you find?" Fred inquired.
"Read the signs," Shaggy said, monotonously.
Fred, Daphne, and Scooby looked at each other after reading the graffiti.
"This is suspicious, but how do you know it's directed towards us?" Fred commented.
"Because of that," Shaggy said flatly, pointing to the last sign.
Fred, Daphne, and Scooby read the last sign.
"'Mysteries, Inc.'" Daphne read aloud.
Fred looked up, when a small light of orange, under a thick blackness caught his eye. He slowly walked up a couple of feet.
Daphne, Scooby, and Shaggy saw what he was transfixed by and walked toward him.
"Like, what is it?" Shaggy asked.
"I don't know," Fred said, "but I think that's our clue,"
The four of them rushed to the Mystery Machine.
