Googie walked down the quiet neighborhood street at a brisk pace frustrated her girlfriend, Velma was ignorant, if not uneducated, to the fact Shaggy had always carried his curse deep within him and had tried desperately to keep it as far away from the ones he loved as much as possible.

She knew Velma and Freddy did not grasp the gravity of turmoil she saw come out of Shaggy those rough last few months they were together after they got back from Transylvania. She had seen a man who was the timid yet courageous young race car driver she had fallen in love with at the track turn into a distant, quiet, angry the entire time monster who blamed her for not getting as far away from him as she could when she had the chance.

But Googie's heart was full of too much love and loyalty to Shaggy to let him mire himself into a quagmire of anger, depression, and resentfulness for an accident which wasn't his fault. Her heart told her to stick with Shaggy no matter how bad it got and no matter how bad he treated her as a result.

The months passed and things did not improve, in fact, they got worse when Shaggy decided to move out and not tell her he was doing it the day she went to work her job as a master mechanic at the track her brother owned on the outskirts of town.

When she came home late that evening to Shaggy's things gone, his red colored rat racer not in the driveway and both the dogs gone with him was the day her heart broke when the cold hearted reality of being dumped cut her up like a buzz saw slicing a log in a lumber mill.

She had thought she could make it work, but Shaggy had proven to her his problems were more important to him then getting married to the woman who accepted his quirky habits and could bring him out of the life he dreaded into the stable loving home life which could have excelled his racing career and made him into the dream racer she would have stood by and supported to great things.

Now, there she stood in a semi empty house, devastated, heartbroken, and angry over the cowardly callous actions of her former boyfriend who she thought was better then this. She didn't know what to do or what to think so she just walked out of the house and went to stay with her brother until she was ready to figure out what to do next with his and some of her family's help.

The next several months for her were a blur of being saddled with selling the house, getting rid of all of its contents while trying to figure out where she was going to stay since her brother who was married and had a family could not give her a room to stay in until she got back on her feet.

Somewhere during that time, Velma stepped in and gave her a room to rent in her own house until she could find a place of her own to live which was a huge help and one less thing she had to worry about as she slowly started to rebuild her life.

Velma and Googie had become close friends since Shaggy had introduced Googie to Mystery Inc well before the incident with Dracula had happened. She liked Velma's brains as much as Velma liked her hands on work she did with race cars and the fact she was a very attractive woman in her eyes.

Googie had known Velma was a lesbian, but Velma never pushed it in her face because she knew in her heart that Googie needed space to get herself back on her feet and probably would be dating men again as soon as she felt ready to.

So Velma and Googie remained close friends that did everything together when both of them weren't working. Velma liked to show Googie some of her favorite experiments she did at the chemistry lab she worked at while Googie would often take her to the races her brother would participate in at various race tracks including his own in Southern California.

One night after a race at her brother's track, Googie and Velma sat alone in the grandstands watching the sun set over the horizon when Velma asked Googie if she had ever thought about being with another woman. Googie her entire life had been into men and looked at Velma confused.

Velma had seen the way she looked at her and the way she had reacted when Velma was in a bikini or those few times lately she had found herself staring at Velma's naked body after she got out of the shower or was changing.

Googie felt her heart pounding as she thought about the times she was walking behind Velma staring at her ass bouncing in her skirt or getting peeks up it when she wasn't looking. Or the times when she would fantasize about having Velma in her arms all because Velma was the one woman in her life who had done what Shaggy could not and that was be that friend who stood by her when she was going through tough times.

She remembered the moment Velma asked her out on those grandstands they ended up kissing each other on after Googie had said yes. The first date and what followed after were some of the most intense intimacy Googie had ever felt and she had felt herself release from the pain and the agony of Shaggy leaving her.

She felt free, she felt like herself, and she finally could move on with her life until this blasted curse which had painfully separated her from Shaggy decided to play with her mind in the worst way possible.

It tormented her to no end to know she had to bring up these old wounds after she had worked so hard to get rid of them by starting another relationship with someone who knew Shaggy, but didn't need to know about this dreadful lycanthropy being the reason Googie wanted to move on in the first place.

She wondered if she should even tell Fred and Velma about Shaggy's curse like she did Daphne who had told her she knew too after Shaggy had told her in private one night after they had left his Uncle Nat's birthday party.

She knew Freddy was already resistant to it and Velma didn't want to believe anything other then what she did that it was all a hoax and Shaggy was the victim of someone in a werewolf costume with a big dangerous dog.

Googie kept walking until she saw a bench at the edge of the neighborhood which was across from a trailhead which started across the small ATV road and led into the hills above their neighborhood.

She plopped down on the bench not caring if her skirt rode up a little bit as she rested her arms on the top of her thighs and buried her hands in her eyes trying to get rid of the remaining sobs before she figured out what to do next.

…...

Scrappy could feel the pull of Dracula's hypnosis try to lure him into the trance even as he rested his back against the cage while forming an open ball shape with both of his paws ready to strike the center of The Count's chest when it became visible.

He could see the giant fangs of The Count dripping with his drool as the full mental power of his hypnosis made itself felt inside the cage threatening to engulf Scrappy into its evil darkness.

"You vill do as I say or face da wrath of my power" Dracula hissed feeling his nails on his long fingers getting sharper as his fangs dripped their own condensation while his hypnotic power took over his being and flooded the cage in a swirling dark purple colored cloud circulating around both of them.

Scrappy couldn't believe what he was seeing or hearing as he heard banshee like Romaninian cries drowning out the sounds, if there were any, of the outside world around him. He felt as caged in the middle of this out of this world hypnotic swirl as he did in the real world and he had only one chance to deliver this shot or succumb to God only knew what lay awaiting for him inside the purple vampuric swirl going around both he and Dracula who was about to unleash its full potential right between Scrappy's eyes.

"Do you hear me, you pathetic excuse for a Doo?" Dracula hissed with the hiss sounding more hypnotic then threatening.

"If you do not comply with my demands, I vill kill you vhere you sit, do you understand me?!" Dracula commanded with the sounds of the commands wringing in Scrappy's ears making his legs start to shake, the first sign to him that he was succumbing to the dominating power of Dracula's spell.

"You vill become a verevolf or die vhere you sit" Dracula commanded putting his hands on the bars on the outside of the cage after he opened the door which exposed his chest.

"THERE!" Scrappy's mind yelled at him snapping him back into reality.

"There's the shot you've been waiting for, do not waste it!" Scrappy heard his mind say to him and in a blur it happened:

"FLINTOG RINHOW!" Scrappy shouted as he felt the ball he had made his paws out of fill up with a big bright fireball which launched itself from his cupped paws and found its intended target dead on in the heart.

Dracula was unleashing his full hypnotic power by summoning all the ancients and banshees of his monster world to come help him put Scrappy into complete mindless hypnosis.

He could feel Scrappy's spirit starting to slowly succumb to the power of his hypnosis so he decided to put the full court press on by opening the cage door and sticking his head inside it.

However, what The Count didn't know or anticipate was that Scrappy had scouted his next move which put his chest on a collision course with a very hot ball of fire which was at that moment being cued up by the words "FLINTOG RINHOW!" which he barely heard over the deafening screams of the banshees who were now in a frenzy swirling around in the purple hypnotic tempest which rotated around both of them.

Before The Count knew what was coming at him, he saw a very hot very bright ball of fireball magic making a one way ticket for his heart.

His eyes quickly turned from red to their yellow as all he could do was brace for the inevitable impact:

"Oh Cheese…" he whimpered as brightness similar to God's finger dissolved his hypnotic swirl and engulfed his sight in a blinding red hot magical flash.

The impact Dracula felt was violent as it tore into his chest like sharp wasp stings launching him from the cage ten feet in the air as it violently pushed him from the air onto the ground while he felt his feet, legs, and groin getting viciously ripped open while he was ripped through the sharp brush at ungodly speed and smashed through part of the rock wall of the canyon behind the bat copter where he came to rest a few meters inside leaving a large crack in the canyon wall all the way up to the top of it.

Brunch, who had been kneeling on one knee the entire time froze when he saw his Master being launched into the air and drug along the ground until he hit the canyon wall and pieces of it hit him in the face after he had taken the violent beyond words impact.

Crunch, who had been gripping Brunch's back as hard as he could looked up when the bright light illuminated the area around them and saw Dracula being launched and drug across the sharp brush at breakneck speed by a magical fireball which had lodged itself in his chest and had sent him smashing violently through the canyon wall as pieces of the rock hit him on the top of the head and dropped by his feet.

"BBBBBBBLLLLLLAAASSSSSSTTTTEEERRRRRRRZZZZ" Crunch cried as he fell to his knees sobbing hard at seeing what could be the last breaths of his Master who had become entombed inside the giant crack in the canyon wall his back had created from the sheer force of the magical fireball slamming him into it.

Brunch, on the other hand, stood there frozen like an ice sculpture not believing what he had just witnessed his Master go through. He played the scene in his mind over and over again still not believing his Master could survive such an impact much less have to resort to THAT FORM in order to save his own life.

Regardless if his Master had to use THAT FORM or not, they had a huge problem on their hands and that problem was the bright light from the magic fireball had most likely tipped off the community around them of their location and snoopers would soon be there to investigate what was going on.

This was bad on two fronts because Dracula had so far failed in his conquest to make Scrappy a werewolf and it was only a few short minutes before their window of opportunity closed for good when the harvest moon moved out of the center position it was in above their heads.

One way or another, Brunch would have to let THAT FORM he dreaded more than his Master going through with his threats do whatever it had to do in order to get Scrappy to comply even if it meant putting both him and that despicable hound within an inch of both of their lives.

So Brunch resumed his kneeling even as the spittle from his frothy friend above him stained his shirted hump. He looked over at the cage and looked over at the massive crack in the canyon awaiting his Master to arise in a form he never thought he'd have to deal with again.

….

Googie had her hands buried in her eyes as she sat on the bench letting her remaining sobs leak themselves out of them. She figured she had nothing to lose when she told Freddy and Velma the truth about Shaggy's curse because she would have Daphne in her corner to support her story.

Win, lose, or draw, Googie felt in her heart it was the only way to cleanse herself of this horrible curse once and for all so she could help her friends deal with what they were going to face.

She took a few more seconds to gain her composure by centering herself with a little meditation before she made the long walk back to Velma's house. It was at that moment after she opened her eyes again that a very bright flash illuminated the hills above where she sat startling her out of her centering of her mind.

Then she heard a very faint crash like thunder a second or two after the bright flash stopped. It confused her because there were no storms nearby and the noise came from a section of the hills she knew well from her hiking in them with the gang. There was a canyon a half or so mile from there she and the gang had many picnics at when they were hiking in the mountains because it was a favorite spot for the ATV clubs and mountain bikers to start their races up to the top of the mountain which overlooked the entire city and coastline beyond it in all directions on clear days when the marine layer didn't sock in the view like it did most of time.

Nobody unless they were well experienced hikers or people who were part of the ATV and mountain biker clubs ever ventured upthere after dark because the trail was very treacherous and anyone who had tried without a light ended up being plucked out by rescue hikers the next morning or air lifted out and forced to pay the city the expense of getting them out by donation to the local rescue fund.

"Somebody must be in trouble, so I better go check to see if they are alright" Googie thought to herself as she stood up.

But then she looked down at how she was dressed and realized she did not have the equipment on her which was needed to help someone or had the correct footwear to deal with the very treacherous terrain of the hills.

However, where the flash came from was in a less treacherous area of the hills not so far up them where she and Velma had hiked to before when Freddy and Daphne weren't with them and that trailhead was only a half mile from where she stood by the bench she had been sitting on.

She also had her cell phone with her and could use the light to guide her to the trailhead and the mile and a half hike it would take to get to the part of the canyon the light was seen in. There was also a tower nearby so if she needed to call out for help, she could easily get ahold of 911 or Velma if she needed to.

So against her better judgment, she started up the trail after walking across the ATV road to the marker where it started. The walk to the trailhead leading to the canyon the bright light seen in was treacherous and Googie could feel each of the rocks wanting to twist her feet in a different direction so she pulled out her cell phone to give her some light even though the full moon above her was unusually bright on this night.

After nearly stumbling over some exposed roots she couldn't see and nearly tearing her skirt on some thorny bushes she brushed it across, she made it to the trailhead which went off to the left and led into a more flattened less hilly area. She shined her light down it to see if she could sit anywhere along it to catch her breath and make sure her shoes were not ruined since she had forgotten how treacherous this trail was in her haste to check on the source of the bright light she had seen.

She started down it at a slow pace to try to catch her breath as a high rock big enough for her to sit on came into view. She sat down on it picking up both her legs to see besides some dirt between the tred of the bottom of her shoes, they looked good otherwise. She looked around realizing she was the only one on this trail and the stillness of the night gave her the creeps. As soon as she caught her breath, she would go check out the source of the bright flash and get the hell out of there if she ran across nothing since she had an even longer walk back to Velma's in front of her.