Chapter 5
Velma ran through the woods. She could hear rustling in the woods surrounding her and guessed that Fred and Daphne's killer was on her tail.
But to her relief, she was smoke ahead of her.
If it were not Granny's house, then maybe it would be someone who could help her! And she ran to it.
As she hoped, it was Granny's house. She could still hear the rustling around her, but she was relieved that she could finally escape it.
Granny's little house stood on a little island in the middle of the woods. There was water surrounding the house, like a moat around a castle. And there was a bridge to get from the woods to the house. Not that there was much of a gap between the woods and the island, but maybe an old Granny could not climb across it.
Velma ran across the bridge and pushed open the little wooden door open, and quickly slammed it shut behind her. She peaked out the little window, but there was nothing or nobody there.
"Fred and Daphne." She sighed, slumping against the door, her heart racing from running through the woods.
"Let's get this over with." She muttered, getting herself together, she crept through the small house.
The fire was lit in the first room, that was the smoke she had seen from outside, and she realised now how warm the house was.
"Old lady?" She called, "Granny?"
"In here!" A voice called; it was coming from the bedroom.
Velma knew how this story played out; the Big Bad Wolf was waiting in the bedroom for her, waiting to kill her like it had Fred and Daphne.
Hastily, she went to the kitchen and grabbed a large knife and tucked into her basket, so it was ready to use against the wolf.
"I'm coming, Granny!" Velma called as she walked through the house. "I've got cookies and bread for you."
She pushed open the bedroom door, and there was a figure lying in the bed, it wore a pink nightdress and matching nightcap.
"Hello, Granny."
"Oh, you've come to see me!" 'Granny' exclaimed.
"Yes, and I brought cookies and bread for you Granny." Velma replied, 'and a huge knife just for you dear Granny'
She stepped closer to the bed where the 'old lady' slept, but there was something off about the old woman.
"My, what hair hands you have Granny. What big ears you have and look at your big nose…wait, Scooby?" Velma asked.
Scooby-Doo jumped out of the bed, "Rookies, and read!" He exclaimed.
"Scooby!" Velma exclaimed, and she threw her arms around him, and he licked her face before he stuck his nose into the basket.
"Row!" He exclaimed, and he jumped back holding his nose.
"Oh Scooby! I'm so sorry I forgot about that!" She exclaimed, she took the knife out of the basket and put in onto the dressing table.
"Let me have a look." She said, pulling his paws away from his nose. "It's barely a scratch." She said, and Scooby licked his nose.
Velma suddenly burst into tears.
"Ronly a ratch, Relma." Scooby said, licking his nose. "It's not that, Scooby." She cried, "Fred and Daphne are dead."
Scooby looked deep into her eyes, "Ruh?" He asked.
Velma sighed, "I thought you were the wolf, that's why I had the knife. But I had to run through the woods, because something was following me, and whatever it was, it killed Fred and Daphne."
But before Scooby could saying anything, or even process what she had said, there was a crash from the front of the house, followed by a growling.
Velma grabbed the knife and stood protectively in front of Scooby, "Sshh." She whispered, Scooby nodded and hid behind Velma's legs.
Velma held the knife tightly in her hand. If it was the wolf, she was ready to kill it for killing Fred and Daphne.
She and Scooby heard a scuffling outside the door, it was close.
Velma watched the doorknob as it turned, and the door slowly opened.
Velma felt her entire body shake when she saw the wolf. It was a huge black wolf, and string of drool was hanging from its mouth, and when it bared its teeth, Velma saw they were stained with blood. She felt sick. This was the beast which had killed her friends.
The wolf snarled and crept closer to Velma and Scooby. Velma looked around the room, but there was no way she and Scooby would make it to the window and jump out before the wolf caught them.
She braced herself for the attack, and quick death from the wolf.
But she heard another pair of footsteps coming through the house. The wolf was too fixated on Velma and Scooby to hear the sounds.
Then Velma saw it, a shining axe came down on the wolf and beheaded it.
"Like, you guys ok?"
"Shaggy!" Velma exclaimed, she ran to him and jumped into his arms. "Velma, Scooby! You guys ok?" He asked.
"We're fine, Shaggy! Thank god you came!" Velma exclaimed.
"I just got here." Shaggy chuckled. "So like, what now?"
"Oh, Shaggy!" Velma exclaimed, "The wolf killed Fred and Daphne!"
There was a bright light, and everything disappeared.
"Daphne!" Velma exclaimed. Her friend was alive!
"Velma! Oh my god, you're ok!" Daphne exclaimed, and the two hugged each other. "What happened?" Velma asked.
"Freddie and I were following you through the woods, you know and keeping distance. Freddie was behind me, and the wolf…the wolf caught him and killed him! Then it attacked me, I thought it died?" Daphne cried.
"You did." Velma replied, "I saw your bodies. You were both dead."
"Maybe we can't die in these stories?" Daphne suggested, Velma shrugged, "Where's Fred?"
Daphne shrugged, "I don't know. Where the hell are we anyway?" She looked around, and realised that she and Velma were inside a small cottage.
"Oh my god Velm, what are you wearing?" Daphne asked.
"What am I wearing? What are you wearing?" Velma replied.
Daphne and Velma both looked down at their own outfits. Daphne was wearing a scruffy cream coloured dress and a scruffy brown cardigan.
But Velma was wearing a puffy red dress, "Oh not this again!" She whined. On her head was a small red hat.
"Zoinks!"
"Shaggy?" Daphne asked.
"Ro no!" Scooby cried.
"Scooby?" Velma asked
Their voices had come from the behind the door at the back of the room, both girls ran to the next room, but nothing could have prepared them for what they were about to see.
Shaggy and Scooby wearing dresses.
Daphne burst into laughter when she saw them. But Velma examined their dresses, and she realised they were the same style as hers, but Shaggy's was green, and Scooby's was blue.
Velma sighed, "I know where we are."
"Sleeping Beauty?" Daphne asked, finally collecting herself from the laughter.
"Like, why are Scooby and I dressed like this?" Shaggy asked. "You, me and Scoob are the three fairies from Sleeping Beauty." Velma replied.
"Then where are our wings?" Shaggy asked, a little disappointed.
"We're in the part of the movie where we don't have our wings." Velma said, "In the movie, the fairies took the baby Aurora, or Daphne, to this cottage to keep her safe from the witch Maleficent." Velma explained.
"Witch?" Shaggy asked, Velma nodded.
"Isn't there a book version of this story?" Daphne asked. "Yes, but it's grim, but this whole thing is giving me clues as to who our jewel thief might be." Velma said.
"What do you mean?" Daphne asked.
"Think about it, we got out of Alice in Wonderland before the Red Queen could behead us."
"But in the movie, Alice was always supposed to make it out of Wonderland, it was always a dream for Alice." Daphne explained.
"Ok, but then we get into Red Riding Hood, and you and Fred are both killed by the Big Bad Wolf, and it before it can kill Scooby and me, the Woodsman a.k.a, Shaggy Rogers, arrives to kill it, and now we're here."
"Your point is?"
"I don't think we're going to die in these stories." Velma said. "Yes, we've established that." Daphne replied.
"Think about it Daph. If the jewel thief wanted us dead, we wouldn't have been able to get out of Wonderland." Velma explained.
"Wait, you're saying, the jewel thief doesn't want us t'like, die?" Shaggy asked, Velma nodded, "Exactly! I think he sent us to this storybook land to get us out of the way, but not to kill us, he does not want us dead because he doesn't want to hurt us. That's why we can't die in these stories." Velma explained
"Don't you think that's a bit of a stretch?" Daphne asked. "I could be wrong, but that's my theory." Velma said.
"Hold up a minute!" Shaggy exclaimed, "If what you're saying is true, then does that mean we're stuck here forever?"
The gang exchanged looks.
"Oh shit." Daphne muttered.