...Chapter 2…

~Crystal Cove - Hospital - 20 years ago~

Maggie Rogers watches her comatose brother sleep in a hospital bed. The preteen girl can only helplessly watch as Shaggy breaths with the aid of a machine. He had just gotten out of surgery to remove a bullet out of his chest. The Doctor watching him is talking to their parents, Police officer George and his wife Violetta Rogers. "Your son is very lucky to be alive! If that bullet was just an inch closer to the patient's heart, he would not have made it."

George looks at the front page of the local newspaper "I don't look forward to telling him about his friends." Then the police officer punches the wall in a fit of rage. "It's my job as a father and as an officer of the law to prevent this shit from happening! Now kids are dead!" He throws the newspaper onto the ground, the headline reads "Local Paranormal investigators Mystery Inc found dead in Abandoned sanatorium! Sole Survivor in Critical condition!"

~Shaggy's House~

Shaggy Rogers, a man who gave up mystery-solving two decades ago now has a mystery coming after him. Sibella, one of his former students from his first teaching job at Grimmwood, daughter of Count Dracula himself. saved him from a monster pretending to be his long-dead friend Velma Dinkley. Twenty years have been very kind to the purple-skinned vampire girl, she has certainly grown up. Her figure filled out into an hourglass shape and her long dark hair straight bangs covering her right eye. Her mouth twists into an elated smile, blushing even. "Hello coach, it has been far too long." She offers her hand to help him get back up to his feet. As soon as Shaggy is standing up, Sibella bear hugs her former teacher. Tears of joy flowed down her face, confusing Shaggy to no end. "I am aware time is meaningless to an immortal vampire like myself, but you can't imagine how happy I am to see you once more!"

Shaggy despite the mutual pleasure of seeing a former student again, feeling increasingly more uncomfortable with the intimacy behind her hug, especially with something big and squishy pressing against him. Then he begins to feel twinges of pain from her squeezing too hard. "Like Sibella not that I don't appreciate seeing you again, but this is starting to hurt!"

The purple vampire is now embarrassed over letting her strength get the best of her. "Oh bats, My sincerest apologies I didn't mean to do that." Her face becoming a darker shade of purple when she looks down at the body of the imposter being eaten by her bat familiars. Then tendrils break through the skin of the corpses. "One of Revoltas Creepers!?" She creates a spear out of her bats and nonchalantly finished the imposter off.

"Revolta? Like she's dead isn't she?" Frightened Shaggy comments remembering the events of his days teaching at Grimmwood. An evil witch kidnapped his students and him and Scooby had to save them with the help of Grimwood's military school rivals. When she was defeated her castle crumbled around them before they narrowly escaped with their lives. "Her castle is nothing but rubble with her underneath…" He cuts himself off with a facepalm. "Look at me trying to apply logic to events of MY life. Of course, Revolta is alive why wouldn't she be?"

Sibella is agasp at how cynical her old teacher has become and just now notices something about the house. The smell of living human blood similar to Shaggy's in the next room. "There is someone else here!"

Before she goes off to attack the other scent Shaggy blocks her from entering the hallway when she bared her teeth. "Like No shit, that's my nephew Travis!"

Sibella lets out a slight giggle at the thought of him being protective over one of his charges. Nostalgia fills her heart once again. "Nephew and not your son?" She leans in to fix his loss tie, Shaggy can smell the perfume. "A surprise to be sure, a man like yourself could have any woman he would want." Even after she fixed his tie she didn't let go, her emerald green eyes not blinking when they meet his. An uncomfortable Shaggy turns his head slightly, her lack of personal space making him uneasy. "Or do you prefer a lady that takes the initiative in matters of the heart?"

"Uncle Norville?" Travis stands there looking confused at a purple woman being all over his uncle. The boy takes one look at Sibella and his turns as red as a tomato. "S-Sorry I didn't know you had company over. Don't mind me I was just getting a soda."

The daughter of Dracula pats him on the head. "So you must be the nephew? I am a former student of your uncle, Sibella Dracul."

"I didn't ask for your name but whatever?" He rudely replies with a monotone expression. Shaggy is just happy to see him talk for once, a rarity for the depressed boy. Travis then looks at the dead body being consumed by a swarm of carnivorous bats in the living room. Before he can scream Sibella's eyes glow.

"Sleeep!" She whispers after forcing him to look her in the eyes and on command he falls asleep in her arms. She holds the boy in her arms as she spots a worried look on Shaggy's face. "He will wake up in an hour with no memory of the body. My familiars would have completely devoured the body long before then. Which reminds me..." A bottle of wine is telekinetically lifted out of her purse. "If you would be as so to indulge me, We have much to catch up on." After putting Travis to bed the two get two glasses and crack open the bottle and catch up on old times. Before long the body is gone without a single trace, even the bloodstains on the rug are gone. "So after I graduated from Grimmwood I was inspired by you and Scooby to become a teacher myself and eventually I became the headmistress of Grimwood after Madam Grimmwood herself retired. Speaking of where is he anyhow?"

She asks innocently asks with confusion when she sees Shaggy look down at his glass, staring vacantly at his reflection in the red liquid. "He isn't with us anymore…" He turns his gaze to the old photo of the old gang hanging on the wall. "Mysteries only lead to tragedy!"

Sibella is left speechless at the news of Scooby's passing. "Forgive me, I didn't know!"

"Your note said and I quote 'Unfortunately, I am not writing you simply for pleasantries…'. What do I owe the pleasure of seeing one of my first students from the world of monsters?" He asks while passing her the letter. "Does it have something to do with the monster that impersonated my dead friend?"

Sibilla has no idea what to say for once she has no idea what to say. "The other girls have gone missing, I suspect Revolta must have indeed survived and is now targeting us all in revenge. The creature that attacked you must have been her doing." Her hands start to tremble from anxiety. "Some of my students have even gone missing and I need your help to track them all down." She starts to cry into her wine glass at the thought of her friends and students being harmed. "I know of your past but please help me, I'll pay you whatever it takes for your services!"

Shaggy's mind is going a mile a minute, he gave up Mystery solving when he was the only one to survive it. Now the old life is calling him back in, and he has no clue what to do. "I try to get out and they pull me back in! Summer vacation just started…" His hands begin to clutch his chest as he hyperventilates, near his heart and the spot the bullet missed. Sibella tries to comfort him by holding his hand. All Shaggy has to do is look into her eyes again to see she is also afraid. "...but I won't forgive myself as a teacher if any student of mine came to harm, former or otherwise."

An overjoyed Sibella jumps over the table to hug him in gratitude. "Fang-Tastic! Thank you!" She fails to see his depressed expression on his face.

"I just hope this doesn't turn out like last time."