Chapter 6
"We had one job!" Shaggy exclaimed.
"I can't believe we lost her!" Velma exclaimed.
"We're going to have to hurry up and find her!" Fred exclaimed.
Fred found the cottage and the gang, and Velma shared her theory with him. He was relieved that they could not die, but he wanted to get out of storybook land and go home.
But now they had bigger problems; something was going on.
Velma, Scooby, and Shaggy suddenly started arguing with each other, and whilst they were not looking, Daphne disappeared. Even Fred did not see her go; it was as if she vanished into thin air.
"She couldn't have gotten far!"
"I don't know, Shaggy. She just vanished!"
"I think I know where she might be." Velma said, and she pointed to a tall dark tower in the distance.
"No way!" Fred exclaimed.
"Creepy tower!" Shaggy exclaimed, and Scooby gulped, "Ru-roh."
"How are we going to get there?" Fred asked.
"Simple. Me, Shag and Scooby can fly there." Velma said. "How we don't have any- oh my god! Zoinks!" Shaggy exclaimed, and a pair of wings grew on the backs of himself, Scooby and Velma.
"Ok…but how am I going to get there? I'm not a fairy." Fred replied. "Jealous." Shaggy whispered to Scooby, who nodded.
"Easy Fred. Prince Charming always arrives on a noble steed." Velma said, and Fred turned around and saw a beautiful white horse standing behind him.
"Oh no, I can't ride a horse!" Fred exclaimed. "Freddie it's fairyland, you can't die either." Shaggy replied.
Fred rolled his eyes, "Alright, but how am I going to ride it, there's no-oh of course." As Fred was complaining, a saddle and bridle suddenly appeared onto the horse.
"We'll meet you there Fredster." Shaggy said, and he, Velma and Scooby quickly flew towards the tower.
Fred climbed onto the horse. "Huh, that's weird." He suddenly knew how to ride. He kicked the horse's side and was quickly galloping through the woods towards the castle.
As he was riding the horse, he thought about Velma's theory; about how the gang can't die in this storybook land and how they were going to get home. He had never seen Sleeping Beauty before, but he knew there was a darker book, and he hoped nothing bad was going to happen to Daphne or the rest of the gang.
The horse was suddenly startled by the lightening bold that lit up the sky, nonetheless it carried on.
"Up this way! Quick!"
Velma, Shaggy and Scooby flew up the staircase; literally.
They had seen Daphne come into the tower, and quickly followed her. But Maleficent had set a trap for them to get caught at the door. Luckily for the gang, they were very experienced in getting out of traps.
Velma waved her wand and the three flew into the castle.
Daphne, under Maleficent's spell, moved a lot quicker than usual. But she did not respond to the calls from her friends.
"Come on, quick!" Velma exclaimed. The door at the top of the staircase closed as they were halfway up. But it took them less than a few seconds to get to it, and after the three of them pushed the door a little bit, it swung open.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy exclaimed.
There was a dark figure in the middle of the cold room, Maleficent. She sneered at the three fairies, "You are too late."
And she pulled back her black cloak to reveal Daphne, lying on the cold ground beneath the witch.
"Raphne!" Scooby exclaimed.
"Only one can break the spell!" The witch exclaimed, and with loud bang followed by a puff of smoke, she vanished. All that was left was a crow which squawked and flew out the window.
"We're too late!" Shaggy exclaimed. "We can't die remember Shaggy!" Velma exclaimed, "We need Fred!"
There was suddenly a great roar outside, Velma and Shaggy flew to the window and were both horrified to see a huge black dragon outside the tower.
"There's Freddie!" Shaggy exclaimed, pointing to the tiny figure, which was Fred Jones on the white horse, galloping towards the dragon.
Velma gasped, she pulled out her wand and gave it wave.
A sword appeared in Fred's hand, and the horse suddenly stopped when it saw the dragon ahead.
"Ok, and I thought the hard part was riding the horse." He mumbled and jumped off. "I guess I'm going to have to kill this thing, huh." He looked to the horse, but it had vanished. "Talking to myself."
The dragon roared fire at Fred, but he dived out of the way before it could hit him. Then he charged towards it.
He was fast enough to dodge the flames from the dragon, and its huge claws. He quickly dived behind a boulder and hoped the dragon could not see him.
"Think Fred, quick!" He looked around him, and he saw a few dead trees and large boulders. "That's it!"
He dived out from behind the boulder and charged to one of the dead trees, and quickly climbed up it; the dragon had not seen him.
"This is." He thought to himself and jumped from the tree and onto the dragons back, just as the dead tree fell broke in half.
The dragon roared as it felt Fred climbing up its back.
There was no was Fred was going to be able to stab the heart from where he was, but he thought if he could make it to the dragon's head, he could kill him.
So, he climbed.
The dragon roared, trying to shake the human off its long neck, but Fred held on and he kept climbing.
Climbing and climbing, until he finally reached the head, the dragon was getting more and more fierce, trying to shake him off.
But Fred was determined to stay on.
Taking the sword in both hands, he raised it and brought it down on the dragon's head.
It roared it pain, Fred pulled the sword out and brought it down again, and again and again, until the dragon could take no more, and it collapsed.
Fred jumped off the dead beast. He gave it a little kick hoping it was dead, which it was.
Then he ran to the tower.
He charged up the stone staircase and burst through the door into the cold room, where Daphne lay on the floor, Scooby standing next to her, protectively.
"Is he dead?" He asked, dropping to his knees, and crawling towards her.
"Fred we can't die here." Velma reminded him.
Fred tried to shake Daphne awake, but it was not working. "What do we do? How are we going to wake her up?" Fred asked.
"You know what you have to do, Fred. Like its in all the fairy tales." Shaggy said.
"I don't know what happens in fairy tales, I don't read them!" Fred exclaimed.
"You have to kiss her." Velma said. "What?" Fred asked. "You know, true loves kiss." Shaggy said with a wink.
"But I'm not…" Fred muttered, feeling his cheeks go pink.
"Fred Jones! You know you love her, and you know she loves you too! So just kiss her already!" Velma exclaimed.
"Well don't look!" Fred exclaimed, his cheeks turning even redder.
Velma, Shaggy and Scooby all looked away.
Fred took a deep breath, brushing Daphne's hair out of her face, he leant down and pressed a kiss firmly to her lips.
A few seconds later, Daphne was suddenly gasping for air.
"Oh my god, I can't believe it actually worked!" Fred exclaimed, wrapping his arms around Daphne, and pulled her against his chest.
Daphne was panting against him, "What happened?" She asked.
"Like you were knocked out by a witch who turned into a dragon which Fred killed then he raced up here to kiss you awake." Shaggy smiled.
Daphne looked up at Fred, "You kissed me?" She asked. "Uh, yeah." Fred replied, though he smiled, he was blushing heavily.
But before they could say anything further, the bright light appeared and transported them to their next story.
"I've seen this place before." Daphne said, the gang looked at their surroundings.
"I've seen this before too." Shaggy replied.
"Guys, where are we?" Fred asked.
"We're in Oz."