Chapter 4
"Run!" Shaggy exclaimed.
The gang were running through the woods, with an army of cards and an incredibly angry Red Queen on the tail.
Daphne stopped running, the cards and the Queen weren't far behind them. "Daphne!" Fred exclaimed when he realised she had stopped.
"This is it!" Daphne exclaimed.
"Off with their heads!" The Queen's scream echoed through the woods, scaring some of the birds in the trees, and the Moneraths.
"Hello, not Alice." The familiar voice of the Cheshire Cat said, from in the tree.
"Can you help us out of here?" Daphne asked. The rest of the gang looked up at the cat, Velma peeking out of Shaggy's pocket, "Jinkies!" She exclaimed.
"You found the Mad Hatter!" Cheshire Cat exclaimed delightedly. "Yeah, we also found the Red Queen, and we need to get out of here now!" Daphne exclaimed.
The Cheshire Cat gasped, "She's is a grump, isn't she?"
"Off with their heads!" The Queen screamed in the distance.
"You had better get out of Wonderland." The Cheshire Cat informed.
"Can you help us out?" Fred asked. "Of course." Cheshire Cat replied, and he reached for a leave above him, and he pulled it.
A chunk of the tree trunk fell, like an arch drawbridge. On the other side, the gang could see a bright light, like the one that they saw before ending up in Wonderland.
"Let's go!" Fred exclaimed. And the gang climbed through the doorway and into the light.
"I don't think we're home." Fred said.
"No, we're not." Daphne replied.
She and Fred were stood inside a small room, and Daphne realised it was a kitchen. There was a stove behind them, in the middle of the room was a wooden table.
Fred walked over to the window, and he looked out into the dirty street. He looked down at his clothes, they were old and dusty. He looked back at Daphne, and she was wearing a white, long sleeve shirt, and a long brown skirt. Her hair was pulled back. Another thing he noticed, was they were both wearing aprons.
The door opened, and a lady stepped in. She wore a similar dress to Daphne's, but hers was navy instead of brown.
"Oh, hello, Baker." She said, "Are the fresh loaves ready?"
Fred looked at Daphne, she shrugged. The lady rolled her eyes, "Morning Mrs Baker."
"Morning?" Daphne replied.
"Ah, there it is." The lady said, she picked up a loaf of bread from the counter and put it into her basket. "One shilling." She said, and put a coin into Daphne's hand, and she left.
"What is that?" Fred asked, Daphne held up the coin the lady had given her. "Oh my god!" Fred exclaimed, "It's a shilling!"
Fred and Daphne exchanged looks, and Fred's widened.
"What?" Daphne asked. "That." Fred said, he pointed to Daphne's hand, when she saw it, her eyes went wide too.
A wedding ring on her finger. "You've got one too." Daphne said, when she saw the ring on Fred's finger.
"Are we married?" Daphne asked, they both turned bright red, and Daphne quickly stepped away, blushing heavily.
The door opened, Fred and Daphne both looked to the door, expecting another customer. But Velma walked through the door, and she looked angry.
"Oh, thank god I found you two!" She exclaimed, "What the hell am I wearing?"
Fred and Daphne tried to hold back laughter as they looked at Velma wearing a knee-length red dress and a red cloak.
"I think I know what story we are in." Daphne commented. "Red Riding Hood." Fred added, Daphne nodded.
"Let's just get this story over with." Velma said. "What happens in Red Riding Hood?" Fred asked. "You've never heard of Red Riding Hood?" Daphne asked, Fred shook his head.
"Ok, do Little Red Velma skips into the woods with a basket of goodies for her sick Granny who lives in a cottage, deep in the woods. She is followed by the Big Bad Wolf who wants to eat her, but he sneaks to her Granny's house first and eats her." Daphne explained.
"Is this supposed to be a children's story?" Fred asked. "There's more." Velma muttered. "Right, Little Red gets eaten by the Big Bad Wolf too, and then the Woodsman arrived and cuts open the wolf and frees Red and her Granny." Daphne finished.
"Can we all go together?" Velma asked.
"No, it's not called 'Red Riding Hood and the two bakers'!" Daphne exclaimed. "The two married bakers!" Fred exclaimed.
"You guys are married?" Velma asked. "In the story." Fred and Daphne said together.
"Take this is as a hint, Fred." Velma muttered. "Velma!" Daphne exclaimed, her cheeks were turning redder and redder.
Velma walked through the woods, "These shoes are so uncomfortable." She muttered to herself. "I don't even know where this house is!"
She looked around her and all she could see were trees, and several patches of daisies. She subtly looked behind her, nobody was there.
"Fred and Daphne won't be too far behind." She thought to herself, and she continued walking.
"Where do I find a house in the middle of the woods anyway?" She asked out loud.
SNAP
Velma whipped around, but there was nothing behind her. Someone or something must have made that sound. Maybe it was Daphne and Fred?
She decided to continue walking, but as she set off, she heard a blood curdling scream, and she froze.
It was Daphne's scream.
Quickly, she turns back along the path and into the direction of the scream, when she heard another scream, again it was Daphne's.
But this one was followed by a growl.
Velma stopped running. She looked around her, but she could see nothing but trees. Her heart was pounding in her chest.
Taking a deep breath, she continued to where she thought the scream had come from.
Ahead of her was a large oak tree which blocked most of her view of the path in front of her.
As she got closer and closer to it, she could see behind it. Her heart dropped and her stomach flipped.
Lying on the ground in front of her, bloody bodies of Fred Jones and Daphne Blake.
Their clothes were torn and bloodied, and blood splatters all over their faces. The cause of death was clearly the huge claw marks through their torsos, and the two were still bleeding over the ground.
Velma clasped her hand over her mouth, hoping to stop herself from screaming and crying, because this attacked happened only seconds ago and whatever had just killed her best friends, could still be lurking behind the trees.