Right, well here's the first chapter. As I promised Mystery Inc are in this one. This story is plit into 3 ( or 4 ) different Acts, each containing 3 parts- so you should all be kept happy with new stories for a while.

"I cant wait to see Sam again, I havent seen him since we were at college together"

"I know" Fred replied. " It'll be great, we can play football, watch baseball, talk about.."

"Go shopping"

"Why on earth would Sam want to take you shopping?"

"Well he's the mayors son, he has loads of money tucked away somewhere!"

"Oh, and so you assume that he'll want to spend it on you"

"Well…."

The rest of the gang groaned. Daphne and Fred had launched into another of their arguments, which would inevitably lead to playful slapping, play fighting, and them both going bright red when they realised how close they were tob each other. It seemed blindingly obvious to everyone except them that they were madly in love with each other, and yet they just sat there like school children, giggling and whispering.

The argument had just reached the slapping part, when the sign welcoming visitors to Sand Bay sprang into life. Everyone thought that this was a ludicrously stupid name for a town shoved in the of sweeping hils and forests, a good 100 miles from the sea. But according to a rather bored Shaggy, the girl who'd discovered it had been named Sandra Baynam, and the locals had named the village after her

"Where on earth did you learn something stupid like that?" Velma asked

"Like, it was on the back of this empty chip packet, speakin of which, haha, I'm starved!"

"Re roo!" exclaimed the big brown great dane.

By this time, Daph and Fred had progressed to the bright red stage, so Velma took this as the perfect opportunity to persuade Fred to stop at the local diner.

The place could hardly be described as 'classy', but they were only stopping for the idiots, and would be able to have a decent meal when they reached Sam's house.

The diner seemed strangely eerie, and the atmosphere wasn't improved by 30 seconds to mars' song 'The Kill' being blasted over the stereo (which naturally sent Shaggy and Scooby scampering behind Fred's legs)

The gang wandered over to the counter, only to find a strange man cowering underneath the counter, his arms wrapped around CD with a rather strange sheep on the front.

"Um, excuse me" Daphne started " but could we please order some food?"

The man jumped about 2 feet in the air, before spinning around to face the starnge group of people before him

" Right, sorry, I'm just rather jitte ry. What with everything that's been going on this evening. I was protecting my most prized possesion" he said, holding out the CD case. "I had it shipped over from Japan, it's got one extra song than the other edition!"

His speech was met with blank expressions and rumbling stomachs, and upon seeing the drooling pair sitting at one end of the counter, he handed 2 menus over, and whipped out a couple of glasses.

" Right, can we have 10 burgers, 4 spagetti and meatvalls, 12 orders of fries, 6…."

" I'm sorry" the waiter replied, "but we only have bread and cheese lest. I cooked everything else and gave it to the search party."

Mystery inc. stared at him with open mouths, silently begging him to explain.

" Well," he explained " I was over at my uncles house earlier, when Mrs Fisher from down the road came barging in saying that Peter Mills had vanished. Well obviously, my uncle sprang into action and dragged half the neighbourhood out of their beds to help search. He sent me down here to get more help, and old Mr Roosh made me stay behind and take care of any other customers who came in."

Shaggy and Scooby quickly demanded that he brought all the bread and cheese out, while the other three were left to sit in one of the questionable booths and think about what they had just been told.

"Um, excuse me" Velma said after a while. " Mr.."

" Lloyd, Lloyd Brooks"

"Right, Mr Brooks, you don't happen to know if Sam Martins, the Mayors son is in the search party do you?"

The round man considered this for several minuted before stating that he'd seen Sam and a few other local lads disspappearing off into the trees with everyone else earlier that evening.

" Well, that's just great." Muttered a very tired Daphne. " It's 2 am, we're tired, and the person we're staying with has gone galivanting off into the woods to chase pixies!"

Fred was just about to correct her, and explain that a missing boy was hardly a mythical creature, when Lloyd came out with

"It's alright, you can stay at my place!"

Lloyd is the name of an ex-boyfriend of mine, and just like the character, was a bit of a weirdo (except he was obsessed with dragons). Whoever is the first to review and tell me what the CD is can design their own character and I'll right them into the story. REVIEW.