The drive was a bit long and it was soon night time.
"Grand Tomb? Please!" Velma scoffed as she read a look. "It's barely 800 pages, and most of it's the index!"
"Velma." Daphne said.
"What do you want me to say?" Velma replied. "It's full of nonsense! Like the Chest of Demons can only be opened by the living!"
"That's true." Scooby smiled.
"Of course it's true!" Velma rolled her eyes. "Because the dead don't open things, they don't do anything! THEY'RE DEAD!"
Fred shifted a bit, but he was sleeping on Daphne's shoulder.
"But Velma, we've dealt with real monsters and you saw what we all can do, so you can't be going around and saying there's no such thing." June replied.
"She's right." Daphne added in agreement.
"Anything on the 13th ghost?" Brianna asked Velma about the book.
"Well, according to what you told me, the one who got away is Asmodeus: The King of Demons," Velma replied. "The most powerful of all evil spirits."
Shaggy and Scooby yelped, shivering and hugging each other.
"Oh, man! Like, we should've gotten rid of that crystal ball when we had the chance!" Shaggy whimpered.
"Oh, it's just an old story." Velma scoffed.
"What the...?" Daphne muttered as she looked through the rear-view window to see someone following them.
"There's no such thing as ghosts!" Velma cried out.
"What happened to her?" Cindy sighed.
"I don't know, Cin." Mike replied.
"Do you think we were born cowards?" Shaggy remarked to Velma. "Sister, the reason we're always on edge about ghouls and goblins, even fake ones, is that we've seen and fought 12 of the real thing!"
Scooby nodded in agreement.
"Not to mention all that crazy stuff that happens in Cartoon Network City, especially with Billy and Mandy around." June added.
"And I have an inter-dimensional evil uncle in my mind," Jo added before turning sarcastic. "Oh, yeah, but I just remembered. There's no such thing as ghosts."
Velma pouted to that as Fred laid on her shoulder this time.
Dee Dee soon looked out the window as a car was following behind them. "Jo, I didn't know that you brought your car with you?" she then said.
"I didn't." Jo replied.
"Then what's that?" Dee Dee asked, pointing behind them.
Jo took a look. "Not sure... Dig the paint job though." she then said.
"Hang on, gang!" Daphne told the others before accelerating.
Fred suddenly woke up from the speeding van. "What's going on?!" he then asked in a panic.
"We're in for a ride, that's what!" Mike replied.
Fred began to panic and worry as the van drove fast as they tried to avoid the car behind them.
"I think it's gone." Brianna told Daphne.
"Whoa! What's happening?!" Fred asked.
"We thought someone was tailing us, but I guess-" Brianna began to explain.
Headlights appeared behind them.
"I think whoever was there is back." Cindy commented.
The car soon zoomed up behind them and rammed up behind them.
"Yikes!" Fred yelped.
Daphne then went back to driving to get away from the other car which was chasing them.
"Whoa. Check out the green flames." Eddy commented.
"Maybe it's from the Ghost Zone?" June shrugged because of the green flames.
"I... I hope he's got insurance!" Velma yelped.
Shaggy and Scooby soon freaked out.
"Insurance follows the driver, right?" Shaggy asked.
"Yes!" Velma replied.
"Well, then we've got a problem!" Shaggy said as there was no driver.
"What are we gonna do now?!" Eddy cried out.
"Don't panic!" Jo told them all.
"Too late for that because now a truck is heading right for us!" Eddy called out.
Both Daphne and the other car swerved out of the way, passing the truck luckily enough. They were close to an edge, but luckily made it out and continued to drive off.
"Shaggy, Scooby, pull it together and deploy counter measures!" Brianna told the cowardly duo.
Shaggy and Scooby nodded before they soon did as told.
"Counter measures?" Mike blinked out of confusion.
They turned around to find Shaggy and Scooby by a giant computer with buttons.
"Here goes nuthin'!" Shaggy said before pressing a button and oil soon came out of the van's exhaust pipe.
"It shoots oil slicks?!" Fred asked.
"What is this, a missing car from the Wacky Races line-up?" Cindy muttered.
The car soon drove through the oil puddle and drove on the rock wall beside the road before going back on the road, continuing to chase after them.
"Take that!" Scooby smiled as he pushed a button which emit some sort of gas from a tire.
The gas seemed to slow down the car behind them.
"That should keep him busy." Shaggy smiled.
"It has a smoke screen?!" Fred yelped.
Daphne turned around to find the car gone. She sighed in relief, but gasped as the car was now right in front of them.
"This guy is just impossible." Jo grunted.
The van soon stopped in front of the car before they backed up.
"We must be in a Stephen King novel." Cindy commented.
The car soon continued to chase after them even as they rode backwards.
"Somebody really doesn't want us on the road!" Velma yelped.
Brianna looked at Daphne. Both of them smirked.
"Well, why didn't they just say so?" Brianna remarked.
"Whatcha girls thinking?" Cindy asked.
"Don't worry, Cindy, it'll be okay." Brianna promised.
Fred got nervous. "That's a really sharp turn back there, Daphne, maybe you should slow down? You know safety fir-"
Nearly everyone yelped as the van was soon right off of the road.
"ARE YOU NUTS?!" Jo scolded Brianna and Daphne. "ARE YOU JUST ABOUT AS DUMB AS ED AND DEE DEE?!"
"Be patient!" Brianna told her. "We have a plan!"
"You had better." Jo narrowed her eyes as this annoyed her as mostly everyone else was screaming and freaking out.
They soon splashed into the water. The car seemed to watch that and drove off, thinking they were gone for good.
However, a giant rubber duck raft came out as the van reached the surface of the water and they were all okay.
"Hm... Not bad," Cindy smiled. "That was kinda cool."
"See, Jo? Brianna smiled to the jockette. "I told you that we had a plan."
"Hmm... All right." Jo shrugged.
"That was... Awesome!" Daphne beamed as she pushed a button so that they could travel through the water. "This'll be faster anyway."
They soon rode up on dry land over to a very creepy and grim looking mansion which looked like something straight out of a horror movie.
"Vincent lives here?" Double D asked.
"Only during the winter holidays," Daphne said. "He's a snow bird."
"Looks like Sabrina Spellman's house." Cindy commented.
They soon walked up to the mansion with their flashlights and the gargoyles seemed to be watching them.
"More like a snow bat." Shaggy commented.
Fred soon rang the doorbell which sounded like a woman's shriek and it scared off some bats.
"That's odd, the door is open." Mike commented.
"Come on, gang, let's-" Fred and Daphne said together until they looked to each other.
"Let's follow Daphne inside." Fred then rolled his eyes.
"No way." Scooby soon said.
"Like, I'm with you, Scooby Doo," Shaggy agreed. "Like, no way we're stepping through those doors!"
"Ah...?" Daphne smiled as she took out a box of Scooby Snax from her bag.
"Me? Uh, okay..." Fred said as he took the box, coming in front of Shaggy and Scooby. "Say, guys! Would you do it for a couple of-"
"Ahem! One," Shaggy whispered to him. "You start with one, and then we haggle."
"Where did you two learn to haggle?" Fred asked.
"Flim-Flam of course." Brianna smiled.
"Flim-Flam?" June raised an eyebrow.
"That little huckster that travels around catching ghosts with us, about 3'6." Daphne explained with a small smile.
"Sold us all of that snake oil that we loaded from the garage," Brianna added. "We never mentioned Flim-Flam?"
"Vincent van Ghoul? The Chest of Demons?" Fred reminded. "The Miss-Tery Machine? And now a whole other member of the gang? There's a lot you've never mentioned!"
"Excuse me, I believe we were haggling?" Shaggy said, tapping Fred's shoulder impatiently.
"I-I'm gonna say one Scooby Snack, you're gonna say three, then we settle on two, okay?" Fred groaned. "Let's just cut to the chase."
Fred handed Shaggy and Scooby two Scooby Snacks, then the cowardly duo ate the Scooby Snacks given to them.
"Like, the easiest negotiation ever." Shaggy commented.
"Thanks, Daphne." Scooby smiled.
"Uh, I'm Fred, not Daphne." Fred deadpanned.
"Uh-huh..." Scooby replied.
The others looked to each other before they came to the mansion. There was definitely an eerie atmosphere in the air as they began to travel inside the mansion.
"Ugh! This place gives me the creeps." Velma commented.
"I thought you didn't believe in creeps?" Cindy smirked.
"Holy, cow! When did Cindy become so savage?" Mike laughed to that.
"I'm starting to believe a little." Velma smirked back to Cindy.
Eddy and Cindy soon snickered.
"This place looks deserted." Trent commented.
"If Vincent took off, maybe he left a clue to where he's headed to." Brianna suggested.
"Let's split up!" Shaggy replied. "Scoob and I will check the kitchen, the pantry, the kitchens, and the snackatorium!"
"The snackatorium?" Fred deadpanned.
"Like, I'm sure that's a thing," Shaggy smiled. "Where's your sense of discovery?"
Scooby soon sniffed something before he began to follow the scent.
"You better keep an eye on Louis & Bark over there." Daphne suggested.
"Got it." Velma said, following after Shaggy and Scooby.
"Eds, Jo, and Cindy, you better follow them too." Daphne then suggested.
"Sure thing, Daphne." Cindy replied.
The crystal ball soon glowed again.
"What was that?" Fred asked.
"That's strange... I wonder..." Daphne paused as she took out the crystal ball and came over to the door, but it then stopped glowing. She then came back inside which made it glow again.
"What do you think it means?" Fred asked.
"They work like phones," Daphne explained. "Vincent called us on this crystal ball, which means he was calling from another crystal ball. So maybe... It's a homing beacon. The crystal balls are connected somehow, so..."
"All we have to do is follow the glow, and we'll find Vincent!" Fred smiled.
"Fingers crossed!" Daphne smiled back.
They soon went to come downstairs, but bumped into each other before they kept going to find Vincent. Mike, June, Dee Dee, Trent and Brianna followed them downstairs as well, unknown to them, the portrait's eyes moved, looking at them.