Meanwhile...
"Like, that was 'snow picnic'!" Shaggy exclaimed.
"Why does it smell like wet-Oh..." Vincent asked before Daphne and Brianna turned on their flashlights as they ended up in the temple, but it was as dark as night.
"Relax, Scooby Doo," Shaggy soothed as he pet his best friend on the head. "We're still alive."
"Are you sure, Raggy?" Scooby whimpered nervously.
"Well, of course we're alive, ya silly!" Dee Dee giggled.
They soon saw a gust of wind which made Shaggy and Scooby hold each other, shivering.
"How very lucky the door gave way," Vincent observed. "We could've been crushed."
Vinny took out her training wand and gasped as it appeared to be broken in half. "Oh, no! My wand! It's broken!"
"Ooh... That looks bad..." June said. "Can't you fix it with some magic?"
"An older witch or warlock or wizard has to, but Uncle Vince seems to be having trouble with his powers." Vinny pouted.
"Okay, that is really bad." June said.
"You're telling me." Vinny replied.
"Well, don't worry about it right now, at least we made it in the temple." Mike soothed.
"Yeah, but we're completely snowed in!" Brianna replied.
"Then, dude, how're we supposed to get out of here?" Shaggy asked as he held onto Scooby.
"I have an idea," Daphne said. "Follow me and watch out. Places like this are always filled with booby traps."
"And who better to show us around than Danger Prone Daphne?" Brianna teased.
"Very funny." Daphne smirked to that.
The others followed Daphne into another room, but it turned out to be a dead end.
"I don't suppose anyone has some rope?" Cindy suggested.
"It looks like we'll have to find another way out." Brianna suggested.
"Like, come on, Vincent," Shaggy smiled. "Don't you have a spell that can make us fly?"
"Oh, kids, I'm so sorry," Vincent frowned. "I-"
"Are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Daphne asked before she turned to see some kind of shrine.
They walked over to take a closer look as one candle had a rather large flame.
"So somebody left a candle burning, big deal," Shaggy shrugged. "CANDLE! WHO LIT THAT CANDLE?!" he then panicked.
"I'll give you three guesses." Daphne said nervously.
"Ooh, it wasn't Eddy, was it?" Dee Dee commented. "It was so nice of him to do that for us."
"It wasn't him." Vinny said nervously.
"I'm BACK!" Asmodeus's voice called out.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy yelped as the demon was on the rooftop before flying down.
A fireball was soon shown and luckily, no one was hit by it. Asmodeus came up to a stone wall and lifted up the door before flying inside as the door closed behind him. Daphne soon slid in, grabbing the lit tree trunk and slid inside before holding the door open with the trunk. There was a piece of paper floating in the air. Daphne caught it and looked at it. She looked over gestured to the others to follow her.
"Come on, let's go." Brianna told them since Daphne signaled them.
Shaggy and Scooby were of course nervous about coming, but made it in just as the branch snapped and the door slammed shut.
"Yah!" Cindy yelped, but sighed softly. "That was loud."
"What is it?" Vincent asked Daphne.
"It's the Chest of Demons!" Shaggy gasped as he rushed over to take a look at the paper. "Like, Asmodeus has it!"
Scooby then ran into all of them by accident and they soon crashed into each other.
"I think they should call you Scooby Don't instead of Scooby Doo." Abbey said as she tried to make a joke.
"My hip!" Vincent called out.
"My leg!" Cindy added.
"And he's getting away!" Scooby pointed out nervously about the demon.
"No, he's not," Daphne glared as she got up with the others. "Come on, gang!" she then whispered to herself. "I'm gonna miss this."
The others followed Daphne sneakily and quietly as they looked to see Asdomeus as he was putting the chest down. Brianna grabbed the drape and swung across, grabbing the chest and landed on the ground safely. She turned around and saw that the demon was flying after her. Daphne dodged before tossing the chest over and Cindy soon caught it, slightly stumbling, but stood back up. Asmodeus soon chased after her as she ran off before somehow sliding back against him and he took the chest away from her.
"Oh, man." Cindy frowned.
The demon just laughed at her failure. Cindy glared at the demon and blew a raspberry at him until he soon smashed her down with his fist, flattening her like a pancake. Asmodeus soon ran off with the chest until Shaggy and Scooby came out in scary masks which made the demon jump slightly as the chest flew out of his hands. Shaggy and Scooby then caught it before running off and ran even faster since they were exposed for their costume attempt.
"Shaggy! Scooby Doo! Over here!" Mike called out. "I'm open!"
Shaggy and Scooby looked to her and tossed the chest over to Mike as she ran before catching it.
"Got it!" Mike smiled.
The demon roared and now chased after the tomboy now.
Mike just laughed as she ran from Asmodeus. "Kinda reminds me of when I had to save Lancelot from those birdbrain pirates."
"GIVE ME THE CHEST NOW, FOOLISH GIRL!" Asmodeus demanded.
"Nah, I don't think I will." Mike replied as she kept running.
"I WILL PLAGUE 10,000 YEARS OF SUFFERING ON YOU AND THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!" Asmodeus threatened.
"Oh, in that case..." Mike said. "No, I don't think so."
Asmodeus just roared and was still chasing after the tomboy.
"Meh, at least I'm getting some exercise." Mike said as she kept running before suddenly taking a sharp turn which made Asmodeus run into the wall since he didn't have time to react.
"Mike, I'm open!" June called out to her best friend.
Mike then threw the chest over to the Te Xuan Ze. June soon caught it with ease.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS?! SOME KIND OF A GAME?!" Asmodeus complained.
"Yeah, and you're losing!" Mike laughed.
"WHY, YOU-!" Asmodeus snarled. "GIVE ME THE CHEST NOW!"
"I don't have it." Mike smirked.
"Dummy," June muttered as she ran with the chest. "This is lighter than I thought it would be. Maybe I'm a bit stronger than I thought."
The demon roared as he now began to chase after the Te Xuan Ze.
"You think you can scare me? I've seen a lot," June replied. She went into a room which had both doors shut on her and even the ceiling lowered onto her. "That doesn't scare me 'cuz I can just go underground."
June soon came through a trapdoor as the spiked ceiling nearly came down on her, but she got away just in time. June then looked around before she found herself face-to-face with Asmodeus before she soon ran off with the chest. Dee Dee made a snow angel until she sat up and took the chest once June handed it to her and she soon ran off since it was her turn now. Dee Dee ran away happily, but stopped when the demon was right in front of her. She yelped and turned, only to find him in her face, but she ran up the stairs only to find Asmodeus flying towards her. Dee Dee kept running with all of her might like whenever she would have to save Dexter from getting into trouble. Asmodeus roared in frustration and chased after her.
"Whee!" Dee Dee beamed and soon threw the chest without thinking.
"Dee Dee!" Brianna complained, but luckily, she was able to catch the chest.
"Good luck, Bri!" Dee Dee called out.
"Thanks, Dee Dee." Brianna deadpanned.
Asmodeus soon chased after Brianna as she ran as fast as she could, leaving the demon in actual dust before she hid away in the shadows as he looked around for her. Asmodeus came right in front of her and soon breathed a ring of fire around her, trapping her for right now. Brianna looked around in a panic and was soon picked up and smiled once she saw that Daphne was swinging overhead of her until Asmodeus breathed fire on the tarp, ripping it and Brianna landed on a clothesline. Brianna bounced from it and soon jumped up with a kick to Asmodeus's stomach, making him grunt and she took the chest back from him with a smirk. Asmodeus growled and flew after her. Trent narrowed his eyes and pulled out his guitar and made a soundwave, hitting the demon.
"Man, this guy doesn't quit, does he, Uncle Vince?" Vinny asked.
"I wish I could use some of my own magic to help, but I'm afraid that I can't." Vincent frowned to his young niece.
Asdomeus carried the chest went into a room, looking around when he heard a bell rang, looking around to find Shaggy and Scooby dressed as monks, meditating.
"Ooh, this should be good." Vinny commented.
"Like, Namaste." Shaggy greeted the demon.
Asdomeus looked at him in confusion.
"You're just in time for the complimentary hour of light meditation, Brother," Shaggy smiled before running up behind Asmodeus and pushed him onto a pillow. "Let me relieve you of your burden." he then tried to take the chest.
Asmodeus soon roared right in his face as he held the chest in his clutches.
"Okay, so you're not quite ready to part with those Earthly possessions," Shaggy replied. "No problemo. Don't mind Brother Scoobert, he's reserved here a ten year vow of silence."
"I am?" Scooby soon asked.
"Well, he was," Shaggy nudged Scooby before he went to sit down beside the demon to demonstrate. "Better restart that clock, old buddy, old pal. All right, first, you'll need to pretzel your legs like a lotus, and no, I don't know what a lotus is, but who doesn't love a good pretzel, am I right? Man, I love pretzels!" he then began to meditate on his own.
Asmodeus tried to get into a lotus postion, but had a hard time. Luckily, Shaggy and Scooby helped get into the lotus postion.
"Oh, my gosh! We haven't gotten you a robe!" Shaggy realized before he soon ran off to do that. "What are you, a size six?"
"Seven and a half?" Scooby guessed.
Asmodeus just glared at him.
"Seven?" Scooby replied.
The demon still glared at him.
"Seven and three quarters?" Scooby tried again.
"Thirteen!" Asmodeus snarled at him.
"Thirteen? Zoinks! You're a big one, dude!" Shaggy smiled as he came with a giant robe which was actually a curtain. "Now, just slip your arms through the sleeves."
Asmodeus tried to do that only to see his hands were covered as Scooby got away from the chest.
"Namaste! Namaste! Nama-Stay away from you as possibly-ay!" Shaggy called out as he soon ran off with Scooby, ditching their Buddhist disguises.
They soon ran off with the Chest of Demons and slammed the doors shut behind them. Asmodeus snarled as he engulfed himself in the flames and soon chased after the cowardly duo. Shaggy and Scooby were hanging on the clothesline, but they couldn't hold it anymore and fell into the ground. Soon enough, they ran away, running into the others were was coming up the stairs after the statue moved itself.
"My tailbone!" Vincent cried out.
"You got the chest!" June told him.
"Good work, you guys." Mike told Shaggy and Scooby.
"The darkness is still right on our tail though," Brianna said. "Scooby, start digging!"
"Reah! You got it!" Scooby smiled as he began to dig through the snow, but slipped and fell.
"Like, it's all iced over!" Shaggy cried before grabbing a hold of Vincent. "What we need now is a good, old-fashioned snow melting spell!"
"I've tried to tell you," Vincent sighed to him. "Ever since Asmodeus showed up, I haven't been able to cast a single, successful spell. I'm having Wizard's Block!"
"And we have company!" Vinny added in.
The demon was coming towards them, looking really angry. "GIVE ME THAT CHEST!" Asmodeus roared at them.
"You have to try, Vincent!" Cindy urged the wizard. "It's our only chance!"
Vincent soon took out his crystal ball to give it a shot. "Spirits of the Scorpio, reveal your power, Let it flow, Into this realm with heat and the glow, And melt this icy, blasted snow!" he then recited as he held out his crystal ball towards the snow.
Unfortunately, nothing seemed to happen.
"What's wrong, old man?" Asmodeus smirked to the wizard. "No powers?"
"Uncle Vince, do you have any emotional attachment to this crystal ball?" Vinny asked, taking her uncle's crystal ball. "I have an idea."
"No, it's all right, because I always carry a spare." Vincent told her.
Vinny nodded and threw the crystal ball in front of the demon, casting a great light in his face. Everyone flinched from the bright light as Asmodeus seemed to let out a roar of pain.
Everyone soon seemed to wake up on the outside as it was dark out now.
"W-What happened?" Daphne asked.
"Like, it worked! You got us out, Vincent and Vinny!" Shaggy beamed before looking around for the two. "Vincent? Vinny?"
Something green soon glowed from Daphne's backpack and she took it to open it up to see what was going on.
"Vincent!" Daphne gasped.
"Daphne, you're safe," Vincent said on the other end. "It worked!"
"Oh, thank goodness." Brianna said once she saw the male wizard.
"How did you do it?" Cindy asked Vincent.
"If I told you how the trick was done, it would no longer be magic." Vincent replied.
"But if Vinny destroyed your ball, how are you broadcasting now?" Trent asked him.
"Like I said, I always carry a spare," Vincent replied. "Listen! I don't have much time, I'm just calling to say goodbye."
"Goodbye?!" Scooby frowned.
"Yes, Scooby, you kids need to run," Vincent said. "This is between Asmodeus and me now as it should always have been."
"No, you cannot do this!" Abbey frowned. "We are team! We can't-"
"You must!" Vincent replied. "I'm sorry I brought you all into this," he then heard a noise before looking around. "Do not fear, I have the chest... For now. There's still time for you to get away from the pain. Save yourselves! Tell Vinny to go back to school, she'll be safer there!" he then signed off.
"Vincent? Vincent!" Mike cried out.
"No Vincent..." Daphne said softly in remorse.
"This is not good." Abbey pouted.
Vinny sat up, getting out of the snow and soon hugged herself while shivering.
"Vinny, your uncle wants you to go back to school." Daphne told the young wizard girl.
"But why?!" Vinny replied.
"You'll be safer there." Brianna said.
"I can't go back!" Vinny said. "Not when Uncle Vince is in trouble!"
"You have no choice!" Daphne replied. "He told you to go!"
"Well, I'm not leaving!" Vinny replied. "My wand may be broken and I'm a student, but I am not a little kid anymore! I'm going to help save Uncle Vincent and take care of that Asmodeus, and I don't care what happens to me on the way!"
Everyone was soon silent until they heard a scream.
"What the-?" June asked.
They soon looked over and saw the others fall into the snow then.
"Oh, good, your other friends." Vinny said in relief.
"What on Earth?!" Daphne gasped.
"Hi, guys," Fred shivered with a small smile. "Mind if we drop in?"
Shaggy and Scooby soon laughed as that was kind of funny.
"Get off of me, Ed!" Eddy grunted.
"Ed!" Dee Dee smiled.
"Dee Dee!" Ed smiled back.
The two soon ran into each other and shared a fond hug.
"...I'll admit that's pretty charming." Eddy commented.
Double D and June soon had their own reunion hug.
"Uh... Mike?" Eddy asked.
"Ah, okay, for old time's sake." Mike said before she soon hugged Eddy with a small smile.
"What happened?" Cindy asked them.
"Something unexplainable." Velma smiled.
"Where are your glasses?" June asked.
"I don't need them!" Velma smiled. "I see everything clearly now! Yes... Everything..."
"She sounds creepy now." Cindy muttered.
"I think Velma just had her first real ghost encounter." Fred commented.
Scooby soon waved his paw in front of Velma's face, but she didn't react.
"I think she's still having it!" Shaggy commented.
"Say, where's Vincent?" Fred asked.
"He's in the temple with Asmodeus and the Chest of Demons." Vinny pouted.
"Well, let's-" Jo was about to say.
"No, Jo, it's over," Brianna cut her off. "The doors and windows are frozen shut. Even if Eddy could melt the ice down, by the time we'd make it to the chest, it would already be opened..." she then concluded with a sigh. "Maybe the Sheriff was right... We're out of our debt."
"Because of some frozen doors?" Fred replied. "Come on! We've fought harder things than this!"
"No, Brianna's onto something," Velma remarked. "I mean, what's the point? Ghosts exist, and they're about to take over the Earth! There's nothing we can do about it."
"Yeah, like, we're pretty good against guys in rubber masks, but when the monsters are real..." Shaggy added before shaking his head.
"We're just not equipped." Daphne frowned.
"So, you're saying that we should give up?" Eddy asked. "After what we've been through?! You're forgetting that you still have us!"
"That won't be enough," Daphne replied. "He's gonna take over the world, and there's nothing we can do."
"Hey, now, you guys can't quit, that's my job!" Cindy said. "Oh, Scooby, don't cry."
"Actually, Cindy, those are tears of joy," Shaggy smiled. "You guys took the Scooby Snax with you and we haven't seen you in hours!"
"It's true! It's all true!" Scooby cried out as he clung onto Cindy. "Oh, Cindy!"
"Aw... Here, boy!" Cindy smiled, giving him some Scooby Snax.
Shaggy tapped Cindy's shoulder which made her look at him until he began to cry. "Like, boo hoo. Boo hoo. Boo hoo."
"Just take them." Cindy deadpanned as she handed him the box of Scooby Snax.
Shaggy and Scooby then smiled to each other.
"Oh, and, uh, here are your keys." Fred said to Daphne, handing her the keys to the van.
"You keep them," Daphne sighed. "I don't know what got me thinking I was cut out to be a leader in the first place."
"Daphne, you can't quit," Vinny pouted. "You're like the big sister I've never had!"
Fred looked around to see the gang, looking upset. Even Shaggy and Scooby who looked upset after their Scooby Snax box was empty.
"So, we're just gonna run away like a bunch of cowards?!" Jo snapped.
"Okay... That's it," Fred soon said. "That is it!"
"Fred?!" Mike, June, Dee Dee, and the Eds replied in shock.
"I've had enough of everybody feeling sorry for themselves!" Fred glared. "So, you're a little hungry, right?"
"Mm-hmm." Shaggy and Scooby nodded.
"Me too a little." Ed added.
"If you want your situation to change, you have to take action," Fred said before making a snowball and shaped it into a burger. "Here."
"A snowburger?" Shaggy replied before taking it. "Like, wow!"
Ed and Scooby both drooled over it after Shaggy took a bite out of it.
"It's okay to get scared," Fred said as he walked over to the jockette with a glare. "Everyone gets scared once in their lifetime. Even tough girls like you get scared."
"No one's calling you weak, Jo, sometimes it's all right to be scared," Cindy added. "My grandmother says that fear even helps you from doing something stupid."
Jo didn't say anything, but turned her head, not saying anything as Fred went to Velma next.
"So you were wrong about ghosts," Fred then said to the smart girl. "They're real and out to conquer the world! Are you just gonna let them?"
"No," Velma soon narrowed her eyes in determination. "No, I'm not."
"As for you-" Fred then came up to Daphne.
"Don't bother," Daphne told him. "Look at yourself right now! Leading your friends back from the cliff's edge! You were born for this! You're heroic and kind, and above all, honest."
"I find that very admirable," Mike smiled. "You remind me of a younger version of Jamie."
"Oh, really?" Fred narrowed his eyes. "Is that what you think?"
"Well, yeah." Cindy replied.
"Then it's time you knew the truth," Fred said. "All of you."
Everyone looked concerned to the leader of Mystery Inc.
"I lied!" Fred soon cried out. "Last summer, I went to cheerleading camp!"
Eddy soon laughed out loud which made Ed laugh with him.
"What?" Mike asked. "What's so funny?"
"Fred's a cheerleader!" Eddy laughed. "Cheerleading's for girls!"
Fred glared to that.
"Did you guys know that my big brother was a cheerleader?" Cindy glared to them.
"That means your brother's a girl!" Ed laughed then.
Cindy soon showed them a video of her older brother doing cheerleading moves which looked a bit professional and athletic as there was a whole lot to it more than gender stereotyping.
"Whoa, your brother's pretty good." Mike commented.
"Yeah, he had to quit though," Cindy said. "He had too many sports going on, so he had to cut down when he was in high school."
"Give him my respect, I could never do that." Jo commented.
"Sure thing, Jo." Cindy replied.
"Oh, that makes sense." Velma smirked to Fred.
Shaggy and Scooby then snickered to Fred.
"Jo, can you punish Velma or something?" Cindy asked.
"Send her to your mind, that'll shut her up." Eddy suggested.
"Or send her to Evil Tim!" Ed added.
"Meh, maybe later," Jo rolled her eyes. "I don't really care what happens to her."
"Well, you think I'm some kind of a leader, Daph?" Fred soon continued. "Well, you're only half right, I'm a cheerleader! I've been down in the dumps because I thought everyone had a job, but me, but now I know what my job is and what it always has been," he then pulled out a pair of tiny pom-poms. "I'm the one who always believes in this heart in the rest of you~"
"What is going on?" Brianna muttered as she felt dumbfounded.
Fred soon made up a cheer for Daphne as he showed his new cheerleading skills. Cindy giggled, not making fun of Fred for being a boy cheerleader, but because she thought he was being funny.
"Like, wow," Shaggy commented. "This day has really taken a turn."
"Sooo, everybody rise and shine!" Fred smiled to the others. "Get on your feet and get in line! Let's bust a move and bust a rhyme, and catch some ghosts, it's busting time!" he then did some flips around Daphne. "What'll be, Daph? Are you gonna rally your troops and take this demon out to lunch, or are we just gonna call it quits?"
"Fred, I can't-" Daphne frowned.
"Daph!" Fred called out before standing beside her. "You're the one that drives stick! You're the one with a plan! You always see things from above, and knows exactly what the next move should be!" he then lifted her up in the palm of his hand.
Daphne looked in the sky as the sun was coming up. "From above..." she said as she soon felt motivated again. "Okay, gang, we're going to the airport!"
"I'm not going back to the Academy until I know that Uncle Vince is safe." Vinny said.
"Okay, Vinny, you can come too." Mike decided.
Vinny smiled proudly to that.