Chapter 2
While Scooby and company continued to celebrate Shaggy's triumph, thousands of miles away from the bright and cheerful small town of Coolsville in of the darkest and scariest places on Earth: Transylvania, the nefarious vampire and one of the most frightening monsters in the world: Count Dracula, meets with all of the creatures of his realm; however it is not a happy occasion as the vampire has just been informed of something quite unpleasant, which he decides to share with all the creatures of his dominion.
"I don't believe this, of all the nerve, of all the things to do!" Dracula remarked pounding his fist on a nearby desk.
"You don't believe what your evilness?" one of his monster henchmen asks.
"Look at this postcard I just received" Dracula responds.
"Greetings from Florida, I don't understand; what's the matter?" the strange almost wolf like creature asked.
"The matter is this: Dear everyone having a wonderful time in Florida in retirement, wish you weren't here signed the Werewolf" Dracula said reading the postcard.
"You're kidding" the wolf like creature replied.
"Does it look like I'm kidding?" Dracula remarked with an angry look on his face.
"I guess not" the wolf like being replied.
For the next several minutes Dracula found himself pacing around the room, wondering what to do about his current situation; unseen to him however, he was soon joined by a woman with black hair, sharp red fingernails and wearing an old fashioned maroon colored dress, the woman walked up to him and placed her hand on his shoulder trying to calm him down.
"Draccy honey, what's the matter? You look flustered, almost angry" the woman remarked.
"Oh hello dear, I didn't see you come in; you know you probably shouldn't sneak up on me like that, I might want to drink your blood or I might confuse you with someone else" Dracula replied, turning his head slightly.
"I understand sweetheart, although I really wouldn't mind having my blood drunk by you; heck the last time you did that, I kind of enjoyed it" the woman responded.
"Yes I fully understand that, but I just want to be careful" Dracula replied.
"I know you do Dracula and I know you won't let anything happen to me, besides who would marry you if I wasn't here?" the woman asked.
"Vannapira, do you really want me to answer that? Because I can," Dracula replied.
"You wouldn't" Vannapira said, with her hands on her hips.
"Of course I would, you know I could transform any mortal into a vampire and I'm sure any mortal woman would love to be my bride" Dracula explained.
"Yes, I'm sure they would" Vannapira replied, looking quite annoyed.
"I was just kidding dear, you know when I married you I meant every word that I said" Dracula remarked.
"Yeah right" Vannapira replied, still looking somewhat perturbed with her husband.
"I'm serious and if you don't believe me then I guess you won't mind if I do this" Dracula said as he took Vanna Pira in his arms and gave her a kiss on her lips; the vampire then let go of the black haired woman and placed her softly back on her feet.
"Draccy! That was, that was…" Vanna Pira replied sounding almost dumbstruck after her husband kissed her.
"You were going to say supernatural, right?" Dracula asked.
"Why yes, I was; Dracula, I forgive you, how could I ever think you would want to dump me for some mortal" Vanna Pira replied, sounding like a love struck puppy.
"Thank you dear" Dracula remarked.
"You're welcome sweetheart, you know you could always sweep me off my feet, even when we were first dating" Vanna Pira replied.
"Yes I could, couldn't I?" Dracula commented.
"I'm serious, you always knew how to treat me right and you were always so sweet and so kind, for a vampire I mean; plus you would always get the finest things for me, whatever I wanted you would acquire for me" Vanna Pira replied.
"Well of course I would, after all nothing's too good for you, my dear" Dracula said as he kissed her on the lips.
"Thank you honey, and I agree; now, why in the world why were you so angry earlier?" Vanna Pira asked, as she placed her right hand on Dracula's shoulder.
"Well dear, frankly it's not something I ever wanted to deal with, here take a look at this" Dracula said as he handed her the postcard.
"Dear everyone, having a wonderful time in Florida in retirement, wish you weren't here, signed the Werewolf; wait, you mean…." Vanna Pira replied, looking somewhat unhappy herself.
"Yes, I'm afraid so; only two days before the annual Monster Road Rally one of the longest tenured monster racers just up and retires, poof just like that!" Dracula growled.
"No Werewolf?" a swamp monster like creature asked.
"We can't have a monster car rally without a werewolf" a skeleton like creature remarked.
"Yes, that's absolutely true, I'm afraid we'll have to cancel the race this year; because as we all know there can be no Monster of the Year without a Werewolf" Dracula replied.
"Ohhh, awww, oh man," said the various monsters standing around the room as they all groaned in unison.
"Yes, yes, I know, it's not something that I enjoy hearing or talking about either and believe me there aren't that many things that are unpleasant to me, however this is one of them" Dracula replied.
"Isn't there someway to have the race without a werewolf, I mean don't mortal sports have their marquee events without their best athletes?" asked a green skinned witch.
"Yes, I've been reading about Michael Jordan retiring from the NBA a few years back, but they didn't cancel the league because he retired, another team just won the title and it wasn't any different" remarked another green skinned witch.
"Huh? I've never heard of that before, how does a monster know something about a mortal sport like basketball?" Dracula asked.
"I found something about it in one of my witch's almanacs" the second witch replied.
"Oh, I see" Dracula remarked.
"I still don't see what a mortal sport like basketball has to do with the Monster Road Rally" a creature similar in appearance to Frankenstein remarked.
"Wait, I think I see what the witches are talking about" a rather normal looking man remarked.
"How so Dr. Heckyll?" Dracula inquired.
"Very simple: you see in the example they gave the best athlete in that sport wasn't around, so what did that sport do? They found someone else to replace him as the best athlete" the man replied.
"I get it, if we found a new werewolf, then we could still hold the monster of the year rally and we could still crown a monster of the year" the Frankenstein like creature said.
"Exactly!" the rather normal looking man replied.
"Good work Dr. Heckyll, you know there's a reason why you and Mr. Snyde are the smartest monsters in my realm" Dracula commented.
"Thank you Master" the normal looking man said in a somewhat frightening sounding voice, although by this point the man's face had turned into a creature that looked like Mr. Hyde.
"Not a problem at all you two; now: the only question is how do we find the new werewolf?" Dracula wondered.
"I have an idea Draccy" Vanna Pira replied.
"What is it dear?" Dracula asked.
"Why don't we use the Grimness Book of Records" Vanna Pira replied.
"Of course, why didn't I think of that; I can use the Grimness Book to find out how to create a new werewolf" Dracula remarked as he walked over to a nearby bookshelf.
The leader of vampires then searched the old bookshelf for the strange book called The Grimness Book Of Records; this particular book as the title suggested was the monster realm's version of The Guinness Book of World Records, except that while the Guinness Book usually listed world records in hundreds of different categories, the Grimness Book listed everything that there was to know about monsters, including transformation spells, family records, lists of famous monsters and everything else that was notable about various supernatural creatures.
After locating the Grimness Book from the old shelf, the all powerful ruler of vampires walked back towards his wife and his fellow monsters; once he returned to face his subjects, Vanna Pira waited eagerly and hung onto his arm while he searched for the exact page that would tell him what he needed to know.
"Yes, now let's see, hmm this is very interesting indeed" Dracula commented.
"What's that dear?" Vanna Pira asked.
"It says here that every 300 years the moon comes into perfect alignment for three consecutive nights; it also says that when the moon comes into position, it creates the exact conditions necessary to create a new werewolf" Dracula explained.
"That's wonderful, what else does it say master?" the same wolf like creature who was hanging around Dracula earlier asked.
"Well according it also gives the exact name of the person who is to be transformed into the new Werewolf" Vanna Pira added as she looked over Dracula's shoulder.
"That's great, but who is it?" the same wolf like creature asked.
"According to the Grimness Book it says that the person who is to become the werewolf is named Shaggy Rogers; it also says he's an American and boy is he cute" Dracula's wife said reading the page.
"Sha-Gee? What kind of a name is Sha-Gee?" Dracula wondered.
"Good question Draccy; although it also says that he is a part-time private investigator along with his friends, he is apparently quite a big eater, he has a talking dog named Scooby Doo, his real name is Norville, go figure and that one of his life long time friends is his girlfriend" Vanapira said continuing to read from the book.
"He's a private investigator, his real name is Norville and he has a dog named Scooby Doo? hmm he sounds very interesting" Dracula remarked.
"And apparently he's a very talented amateur race car driver as well" Vanna Pira replied.
"You don't say Vanna Pira, you don't say; although we might have to do something about him being a cute werewolf, yeech!" Dracula said with some distaste in his voice.
"Come on Draccy, what's wrong with a cute werewolf?" Vanna Pira asked.
"Well for one thing, I don't want this Sha-Gee person to try and well, how shall I put this: pick up on you or take you away from me" Dracula replied.
"What? Draccy, I know this Shaggy person looks cute and he's probably really nice, but like the grimness book says: he's in love with one of his friends, so I probably wouldn't have a shot anyway, but still he is pretty good looking" Vanna Pira remarked.
"But what if he does try and pick you up? Frankly I don't want that to happen, although if it ever comes to that, it won't happen because I'll snap this Sha-Gee like a twig" Dracula said, gritting his teeth as spoke.
"Draccy honey, don't be so angry; believe me, he won't try and go on a date with me or anything like that, I mean when he gets here we can just be friends right?" Vanna Pira asked.
"Well…" Dracula replied.
"Please sweetheart? Promise you won't hurt him" Vanna Pira said as she held her hands together, pleading with her husband to not hurt his soon to be werewolf.
"Oh all right, besides I can't say no to that face" Dracula replied.
"Thank you" Vanna Pira said as she kissed Dracula on the cheek.
"Oh brother; now as I was saying: he sounds like the perfect Werewolf racer to me; I think I'll send The Hunch Bunch to take care of things" Dracula remarked.
"Oh no not the Hunch Bunch!" Vannapira remarked.
"Yuck they're awful," said a green skinned witch.
"Ooh, they make my skin crawl" added a creature that resembled a Dragon Fly.
"Ugh, man are they creepy," remarked a skeleton like creature.
A few seconds later two strange creatures could be seen entering the room, each of them looked like The Hunchback of Notre Dame as oddly enough the various monsters of Dracula's realm shuddered and gasped at the appearances of the two beings once they got a good look at them; interestingly enough one of the monsters looked very distinguished with a monocle over his right eye and had an English accent whose name was Brunch, while the other had the exact opposite personality, in fact he seemed to be something out of a nightmare, this monster meanwhile went by the name Crunch and together they served under Dracula doing various odd jobs throughout the realm, and believe me when I say most of the jobs they were involved with were indeed very odd.
"Buop, tetee, fsfdfs" Crunch said mumbling.
"Ah yes allow me to translate, Crunch says hello everyone" Brunch added.
The two horrific monsters then walked over to Count Dracula and pondered over why the powerful vampire had sent for them, and what their latest assignment was.
"So count what's the caper?" Brunch asked.
"Yeah, what's the caper?" Crunch added, albeit in a mumbling voice.
"I want you two to go to the United States and turn this Shaggy person into a Werewolf and then bring him back here so that he can participate in the Monster of the Year race, and while you're at it make sure to bring his friends here as well, they might be of some use to me as well" Dracula said before laughing evilly.
"Right your evilness, we'll bring your werewolf to the castle without fail, don't worry you can count on us" Brunch said as he saluted the vampire.
"Good, now remember: the moon is only in the alignment that will create a new werewolf for three consecutive nights, the next three nights as a matter of fact; I tell you this because if you don't transform Shaggy into a werewolf within those three nights, we will have to wait another 300 years for this opportunity, and I don't wish to wait that long" Dracula said, looking quite serious as he spoke.
"Like we said boss, don't worry about us; we'll have your werewolf here before the Monster race, or are names aren't the Hunch Bunch" Brunch remarked.
"You had better, or your names are going to be mud, or maybe even blood!" Dracula declared.
"Blood?" Crunch asked before starting to speak incoherently.
"Yes, so you had better succeed!" Dracula replied.
"Right boss, don't worry we won't fail you" Brunch said.
So after learning of their mission, the two horrible monsters called the Hunch Bunch took off in a helicopter called the Bat Copter and departed on their dastardly mission to transform the gentle, kind and cowardly college student Shaggy Rogers into a fur covered beastly, howling, snarling werewolf.
Author's Notes: Hopefully everyone is enjoying the story so far, also hopefully I've done a good job of writing the racing and romantic parts of the story, I wasn't sure how to write the romance as far as the story and plot are concerned and since I've never really written car or automobile racing as part of a fan fic I wasn't sure how that was going to go, hopefully I'm doing okay with both aspects of the fan fic and as always I'm happy that everyone reads and reviews my stories as always.