AN: Here it is everyone! I hope the wait was shorter! Oh, and I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! (Or whatever Holiday you celebrate!)

The Interior and Taku's Nephew

As the gang made their way inside the hotel, they could only say that they were more impressed with the inside than the outside.

The lobby looked like one of those large lodges in a cabin. The entire walls were made from lavish sapelli wood that shined brightly when the sun shone at them from the large black Victorian window. The curtains were cartridge pleat that seemed very smooth and rich, which made Daphne drooled at the sight of them.

There was also a large carpet that was cache and holds designs with artistic black vines. The couches were black and rubbery, but also very comfortable. And there were a few brown tables place in some areas of the room.

Right above them was a very large, modernize crystal chandelier. It shone brightly like a star when the sunlight hit it.

"Wow! This is amazing!" Daphne exclaimed as she surveyed the room. By then, Taku and Peggy have walked in, the latter was once again busy with typing away on her IPad while the former was giving them warm smiles.

"I'm glad you like it." Taku said, "When I bought this place it was crumbling and barely standing, after I was done with it it looked like that Overlook Hotel in Colorado." Though, the mentioning of that hotel made Shaggy and Scooby hold each in fear. They knew of the "Incident of the '80" that took place on that hotel.

"So, what do you think of the interior, Sally?" Taku asked Sally, who was eye-gazing at the sight before her.

"I-It's amazing!" She stuttered out. "Since the rumored hauntings, nobody decided that the Hotel was worth fixing. It began to rot and sink ever since! Now, it's…" Sally trailed off, unable to finish her sentence as the beauty of the hotel struck her.

"Bah!" Derek exclaimed, hating all the praise that his rival was getting. He stalked off, grumbling to himself.

"Man, doesn't that guy ever smile?" Shaggy whispered, leaning slightly towards Taku.

"Only when he beats me at something." Taku whispered back.

"Say, speaking of those haunting rumors," Fred began, seeing as it was the perfect topic to discuss this mystery. "Do you by any chance know what they were, Mr. Ketchum?"

Taku sighed, figuring that since they were the World's Best Detectives, they were bound to figure out why he really brought them here.

"Very well, Mystery Inc. there's a real reason why I brought all of you here wasn't because I wanted all of you to be part of the endorsement team. I brought you all here to solve a mystery." While they might have figured it, it still lead the gang to be curious.

"What's the mystery, Mr. Ketchum?" Daphne asked. Before Taku could answer her, Peggy suddenly spoke.

"Uh, Taku? I just got a message from the limo driver. Your nephew and his friends have just arrived and are now just getting inside the Hotel." Taku looked like he wanted to hit himself once Peggy finished, but thought better of it. Instead, he nodded towards Peggy.

"Thank you, Peggy." Said woman nodded before going back to her IPad.

"We'll talk about this later…" Taku muttered to the gang, before he began to walk down the entrance hall.

"Let's go meet his nephew," Fred muttered to his friends. "If we're lucky, we'll see what he knows about the rumored hauntings."

"I highly doubt that," Velma said. "But if the rumored hauntings are true, then it's obvious that Taku's nephew and his friends are in danger. It's better we keep an eye on them."

"Or if he's the one behind all of this?" Daphne added in.

"But like, how can a kid know how to do this?" Shaggy asked.

"Hey, I'm just saying what I think." Daphne shrugged. "I think it's weird for Taku to send that message to his nephew that he can't come, but goes anyway."

"Anyway, let's just go meet them." Fred said. The gang nodded and follow after Taku.

"Now, when you see my nephew and his friends, I beg you all to be tolerate of them when they see your dog." Taku told the gang as they walked down the entrance hall. "Back in the Pokemon World, their government decided that if the Pokemon weren't going allowed in your world, then your animals wouldn't be welcome either. So, don't act weird when they asked strange questions."

"Believe us, Mr. Ketchum, we've heard a lot of weird stuff in our experiences, so I think we can handle anything your nephew has in store for us." Fred laughed. Taku only shot him a look that said 'if only you knew' before continuing on walking.

They arrived at the doorway to see the assistants that Fred had a ruckus with earlier were having trouble carrying what looked like a large metal suitcase. Besides them, they were other assistants taking a group of four children's luggage as they made their way inside.

As soon his luggage was taken, the boy with black hair took a look around the hotel. When his eyes caught Taku, his face broke into a big smile.

"Uncle Taku!" He shouted, before breaking into a run with his arms stretched out. Taku laughed as the boy, who was obvious that he was Taku's nephew, launched himself on Taku. The two laughed as they hugged each other deeply.

"Ah, Ash! How's my favorite nephew been doing?" Taku asked after putting Ash down and bending down to his height."

"Uncle Taku, I'm you're only nephew." Ash laughed.

"But still, how are you doing? How's your journey been going, by the way."

"It's going great! I already have seven badges! One more and I enter the Kalos League!"

Someone clearing their throat brought the two Ketchums out of their family talk. They turned to see Ash's friends walking over to them, with Serena holding Pikachu.

"So Ash, aren't you going to introduce us?" Serena asked with a slight teasing smile, making Ash laugh and rubbed the back of his head once he realized his friends were here.

"Right, guys, this my Uncle Taku. Uncle Taku, these are my friends. Serena, Bonnie, Clemont, and Dedenne." Ash said, gesturing towards each person respectively. Pikachu suddenly jumped out of Serena's arms and landed on Ash's shoulder, tickling him a little. "And you remember Pikachu!"

"Of course!" Taku smiled brightly had he petted Pikachu's head. "How can I forget my nephew's number one partner!"

"Excuse me, Mr. Ketchum." Bonnie suddenly spoke up after Taku was done petting Pikachu. "But when are we gonna see any cute creatures!" She stomped around impatiently.

"Bonnie!" Clemon chastised.

"You know Scoob, I imagine them to be older…" Shaggy muttered to Scooby.

"Reah…" Scooby giggled softly.

Despite his giggling being soft, Bonnie still heard it and once her eyes caught the Great Dane, her face soon broke in a bright smile.

"Doggy!" She shouted cheerfully before breaking into a run.

"Bonnie!" Clemont called out once again, but his sister continued to ignore him as she flew her arms around Scooby, who stumbled from the sudden weight.

"Oh, he's so cute!" Bonnie kept shouting over and over, while Scooby looked like he was getting uncomfortable from all the sudden affection.

"Bonnie, enough!" Clemont shouted, managing prying his sister off of Scooby (who quickly took a deep breathe once his throat has been free) and turning to Shaggy. "I'm so sorry about my sister!"

"Like man, chill," Shaggy told him reassuringly. "It's not like the first time Scoob gets some affection from girls." When Shaggy laughed, Scooby shot him a glare.

Clemont sighed in relief that they weren't in trouble, before he turned and glared at his sister. "Bonnie, how many times have I told you not to run off like that?!"

"I just wanted to see those cute creatures!" Bonnie shouted back. Meanwhile, Ash, Taku, Pikachu, and Serena had already made their way over to the arguing siblings.

"Well, you shouldn't have jumped on him like that!" While the two siblings were arguing, Serena had asked Shaggy if she could take a picture of Scooby, who politely agree with "Like, sure kid."

"You always do this, Clemont! I can't help it if the creatures here are so cute!" Serena began to take multiple pictures of Scooby, who kept doing some strange stances.

"But do you think they enjoy it when you tackle them like that?"

At that last part, it made Bonnie look down ashamed. Okay, so maybe she was a little forceful.

"Okay, I'm sorry Mr. Dog…" Bonnie eventually apologize, turning to Scooby, who was just in the middle of doing an Elvis Presley Pose.

"Rog? Where?" Scooby quickly looked around for the "Dog" while Serena took one last picture of him.

"Thank you!" She cried thankfully before looking through them.

"Ash, I want you and your friends to meet Mystery Incorporated. This world's best detectives." Taku introduced.

Once he heard that, Clemont's face broke into a bright smile. "AH! I've heard about all of you from that Sly One Star incident! Boy, was I worried when I heard that you didn't make it from the moon!"

"Well, it's going to take a lot more than a crazed astronaut to get rid of us." Fred laughed.

"Right, uh, listen Ash," Taku began as he turned his nephew around to face him. "There's something I have to tell you."

"What is it, Uncle Taku?" Ash asked, growing concerned once he noticed how shaky Taku looked.

"Uh, some unpleasant things have happened, things that I unfortunately couldn't tell your mother about when you and your friends left-" Ash cut his Uncle off once he heard about why his Uncle was so nervous.

"Did something bad happened?" This makes Taku sigh.

"Alright let me start over." He looked at Ash straight in eyes as he continued. "Something turned up, and I can't stay with you in the hotel."

"I'm not going to see you?" Ash asked, looking downcasted. The only man in his whole life that always made time for him saying he couldn't be with him. That brought the pain from the hole inside his heart to resurfaced.

"I'm sorry Ash," Taku said quickly. "I-I know you were excited to see me again, you haven't seen me since you left on your journey. B-But you look on the bright side, you remember Peggy White, right?"

Once his uncle mentioned his assistant, Ash's dull and downcasted look turned into one of horror and shock as his mouth dropped open.

"Well, I'm going to have her stay to look after you and your friends. It'll just be like old times!" Taku continued cheerfully, not noticing how horror-stricken Ash looked.

"Not Peggy White!" He finally manage to yell out. The last thing he wanted was to be in the same room with Peggy again.

"W-What do you mean Ash?" Taku asked, confused. "You know Peggy you're whole life."

"She's always on that gigantic phone of her's every single day!" Ash argued. "And don't forget that perfume she wears everyday makes me sneeze!"

"I'm sorry Ash, but with all the bad things happening so quickly, I didn't have time to find someone else to look after you and your friends." As Taku continued to discuss with his nephew, Fred, Daphne, and Velma shouted each other looks. By the looks of it, Ash didn't seem to like Peggy White one bit even when he knew her his whole life. Not that they blame him, she seemed to have an IAD disorder and not that good with kids. It suddenly gave them an idea when they looked towards Shaggy and Scooby began to pet Dedenne, but accidently touching its' red cheeks making yelped in pain when they felt a shock.

"Uh, Mr. Ketchum?" Daphne spoke up, making the two Ketchums look towards her. "If you need someone to look after your nephew, then Shaggy and Scooby can."

"We can?" Shaggy and Scooby asked together after sucking on their burnt fingers.

"They can?" Taku, Ash and his friends asked together. After Serena took Scooby's pictures, learning about Shaggy's vocabulary, and their little encounter with Dedenne they never thought them to be good with kids.

"Yeah, Shag and Scoob are great with kids!" Fred told them.

"We are?" Shaggy and Scooby asked again, forcing Velm to elbow them in the ribs. Giggling nervously while rubbing his ribs, Shaggy said, "Uh, like sure! Me and Scoob love kids! We can look after your nephew while you're away!"

The Pokemon Citizens blinked confusingly at the two, before Taku finally said, "Well, I guess you don't have to worry about Peggy's perfume now Ash."

"Yeah…" Ash mumbled. He didn't know what to make of these two, but then again, it's better than being with Peggy and have to endure her perfume the whole time he was here.

"So, Ack-" Shaggy began.

"Ash…" Ash corrected him, again someone said his name wrong? Honestly, it's not a harder name to say like 'Bob'!

"Right, Ash," Shaggy corrected himself, "Why don't me and Scoob show you and your friends around the hotel?"

"Uh…" Ash looked towards his friends to see what they think. They only shrugged, figuring they could go either way. "Sure… I guess…"

"Like, great! Let's-" Before Shaggy could finish his sentence, he ended up walking right into a door frame with a loud bang! The people in the room winced when they heard the loud noise. Shaggy laughed nervously as he glanced at the concerned kids before continuing on down the hall with Scooby following him.

"Um, while those two are looking after you, can you do use a favor and look after them?" Velma asked the children, making them nod quickly. Once they heard a loud crash! and Shaggy muttering "Oops…" Our heroes quickly hurried down the hall were the two misfits walked down.

"While they're gone, would like to explain to us what's the mystery on this hotel?" Fred asked.

Taku sighed deeply before turning towards the remaining members of Mystery Inc. and said "Very well, but please, may we discuss this in my office. I don't want anybody to listen and be frighten." They nodded and began to walk down the hall that leads to Taku's office.

Unknown to everyone, there were a pair of glowing white eyes staring right down at them from the darkside of the ceiling. Once the remaining people were gone, it moved its gaze towards the hall that the children and those two dofus walked down. It growled a little before crawling away.

AN: So that's it! Oh, who do you guys think those eyes were? Was it the Ghoul? Are Shaggy, Scooby, Ash and the others are in danger? Find out in the next chapter! Oh, can I say just something? Is it wrong for an author to be scared by her own Monster creation? Cause I feel like whenever I'm alone I feel like the Hotel Ghoul is with me and is waiting to jump at me! Also, I' going to be telling you guys the clues, just to see if you can figure the mystery. Here are the clues so far-

Clue 1#: Someone hacked in Taku's email, stopping him from delivering a message to Delia that Ash and his friends couldn't go to the hotel. Who would do that?

SHOTOUTS-

Joltile: I'm glad you enjoy on how I written the characters! I always worried about writing a canon character out of character, but I'm glad you said I didn't! Yeah, Taku(Glad you like the name! Since I figured Ash was Japanese Descendant that his family must be Japanese related) did learned about the Ghoul and is now worried about Ash's safety. Oh, well let's see if you can solve the mystery. Base on what you know so far and the clue I just gave, who you think is a main suspect? Hope you like this chapter!

Matt: Here it is, hope you enjoy it!