Our heroes kept following the footprints that Scooby was sniffing out.
"Dude, can you sniff any faster?" asked Shaggy "My feet are killing me and I'm sleepy"
Just as Shaggy finished, Scooby lead them to another bookshelf.
"This is where the trail ends" said Scooby.
"Seriously, another bookshelf?" Velma asked as she folded her arms.
"Hold it Velma" said Fred "I just thought of something"
Freddy walked over to the bookshelf and started pulling out a few books until...one of them started to make the shelf move from the floor.
"Yikes" Scooby said as he jumped into Shaggy's arms.
"Like, another secret switch and a secret passageway!" Shaggy said. "That must be how the Reaper disappeared!"
"Indeed, Shaggy" Fred nodded as they looked down the secret passageway.
"And it leads underneath the school" Madelyn added "That must be where all the others are"
Daphne bent down and pet Scooby's head "Looks it wasn't a bad idea following you after all, was it boy?"
"Here Scoob" Shaggy said as he fed Scooby another treat "You're such a good boy"
As Shaggy feeds Scooby the snack, Fred said, "Now let's see where this passageway leads us to."
Everybody went downstairs into the dark, secret underground.
"Guys, I can't see" said Daphne "It's too dark"
"Well, I hope this flashlight can light things up." Marcie remarked as she turned on the flashlight.
Sure enough, the flashlight did light up and find their way.
"Come on" said Marcie "We don't want to attract any attention"
The gang carried on down the passageway with Scooby picking up the trail of scent.
"Scooby?" Shaggy asked him "Like what's going on, buddy?"
"I found the scent." Scooby replied. 'Follow me!"
Everyone else nodded as they followed the Great Dane, unaware that a set of creepy-looking eyes was watching them.
"V-v-Velma" Shaggy shivered "D-d-d-do you get the feeling we are being watched?"
"I hope not." Velma replied. "Besides, I remember that Reaper didn't have a visible set of eyes, which means it probably can't see."
"I hope you're right, Velma." Daphne said. "Because I'm getting a funny feeling about this."
As they were speaking, the figure watching them started making a ghostly-sounding holler.
Madelyn gasped and clinged onto Shaggy's arm, while Scooby jumped onto Shaggy's shoulders.
"F-f-f-Freddy, what was that?" Daphne asked Freddy as she clinged onto his arm.
"I hope it's not the Reaper." Fred said nervously.
Everybody slowly turned around and saw none other than...
"AAAHHH!" they all shouted "THE REAPER!"
"I thought I got rid of you" he shouted.
"J-j-jinkies" Velma stammered.
"Like run!" Shaggy shouted.
The seven members started to run for their lives while the reaper started to chase them.
"You will never escape the wrath of the Library Reaper!" The Reaper hollered as he chased the gang.
The Reaper started chasing the kids throughout the whole underground caverns from cave to cave.
The gang kept running from the reaper until Velma tripped on a rock and her glasses fell off.
"My glasses!" She exclaimed as she crawled on the floor, trying to locate them. "I can't see without my glasses!"
"Velma!" Fred exclaimed as he pushed Daphne away and raced over to Velma as he saw the Reaper gaining on her.
"Marcie, help me get Velma up" he said as he bent down to help Velma.
"Sure thing, Freddy" Marcie said as she started to help Fred pick Velma up.
During this time, Shaggy saw the Reaper gaining on them.
"Like, hurry Fred!" He shouted. "The Reaper is gaining on us!"
"You four go on!" Fred shouted back as Marcie located Velma's glasses. "We shouldn't be long!"
Shaggy nodded as he grabbed Daphne and Madelyn's hands while Scooby led the way.
Scooby led them to another cave, where they decided to hide.
"Alright, now what do we do?" Shaggy asked them as they sat down.
The others tried to think of something.
While they were thinking, Fred and Marcie came in carrying Velma, who was wearing a pair of broken glasses.
"Guys" said Marcie.
"Oh dear" Madelyn said when she saw her sister's broken glasses. "It's a good thing I've kept Velma's spare pair of glasses with me at all times."
She then took out her sister's spare pair of glasses and handed it over to Marcie, who helped replaced the broken pair.
Marcie put the glasses on Velma's eyes. Velma started to blink her eyes and could finally see again.
"That's better" she said "Thanks, sis"
"No prob, sis" Madelyn smiled "That's what siblings are for"
"Okay gang" said Fred "Now that that's taken care of, we need to capture that reaper"
"You're leader, Freddy" Scooby said to Fred "Why don't you think of something?"
"Yeah" said Shaggy.
"Surely you've learned something from those trap magazines" Madelyn remarked.
"I might have." Fred nodded as he tries to think of something.
After thinking it over for a while, Fred finally came up with something.
"I've got it" he said as he snapped his fingers "All we have to do is catch him in a net and then we'll unmask him"
"Great idea, Freddy" said Daphne "But how are we gonna get him into the net?"
Before Fred could answer, the familiar-sounding ghostly-holler followed.
"Zoinks" Shaggy exclaimed as he shivered.
"Rit's the reaper" Scooby said as he cowered with fear.
"We'd better move." Marcie said. "The Reaper could spot us anytime."
"Like run, Scoob" Shaggy said as he started to run.
"Right behind you, Raggy" Scooby said as he followed Shaggy.
"Hold it you two" Velma said as she grabbed Shaggy by his shirt and Scooby by his tail "We need to all be here to find out Freddy's plan"
"Besides Shaggy, I need a brave, strong man to protect me" Madelyn said as she batted her eyelashes at Shaggy.
Just then, the Reaper found them.
"Aha!" The ghost hollered. "I know you kids won't hide from me long!"
"How about you tell us of your plan later when we're safe for sure, Freddie?" Daphne suggested.
"Like, gangway!" Shaggy exclaimed as they took off running.
The gang all kept running as the reaper chased them. Once again, they were chased from cave to cave, with a lot of weird mishaps happening along the way.
"Like what?" Fred asked the narrator.
Like ending up carrying each other or running out of an entrance completely different from the one you entered or even, running into another you.
"I sure will like to know how I ended up exiting this door after entering that other door over there." Shaggy remarked.
Just then, Shaggy heard the reaper again.
"Zoinks!" he exclaimed "The reaper!"
Everyone continued running trying to lost the Reaper.
Finally, they found another corner and they hid right in it to hide from the reaper.
"Okay guys" Fred huffed "I've got a plan, but it's going to require live bait"
As Fred was speaking, Shaggy and Scooby were deep inside the room they were hiding at when one of them noticed something in the darkness.
Revealing his special belt, Shaggy turned on the light on his belt. It was weak, but as he leaned closer to the light, he noted that the light was shining on a pile of papers on a desk. The top sheet appeared to be a floor plan of sorts.
In the darkness, the gang can hear some papers shuffling.
"Shaggy, Scooby!" Velma said. "Why aren't you guys listening?"
"Like, shine your flashlight over here, guys." Shaggy replied. "I think Scoob and I just discovered something."
"Like what?" Velma asked, annoyed.
"It's a floor plan of sorts." Shaggy replied. "And this top sheet looks like a floor plan of the school library."
"What?" Everyone exclaimed as they grouped around what Shaggy was gesturing at.
Velma and Marcie leaned in to take a closer look at the papers while everyone looks on.
"You're right, Shaggy." Marcie nodded. "It is a floor plan for the renovations of the school library, which was done a couple of years ago."
"And those squares pinpointed the locations of the trapdoors." Velma added. "As well as the secret entrance."
"And take a look at this beauty." Fred added as he pulled out a sheet. "It's an old floor plan for the old high school that Daws Butler High was built over following the Coolsville Flood."
"Flood?" Scooby gulped "What flood?"
"It happened many years ago, Scooby." Velma said. "And the interesting part was, the flooding occured when the town was about to bury a time capsule."
Scooby and Shaggy gulped.
"I heard there are a bunch of things buried in that capsule" Marcie said.
"Like what, Marcie?" Fred asked her.
"Beats me" Marcie shrugged "All I know is that it's buried somewhere underneath the school and it probably contains something very interesting"
"Perhaps that's what the Reaper was searching for." Madelyn offered. "Although I don't get why kidnap our schoolmates just for the capsule?"
"Unless he needs more people to help him search through the large area." Shaggy said.
"You could be right, Shag." Daphne nodded.
"Anyways, as I was saying, to capture the Reaper, we need a live bait." Fred said.
"And who's going to be the bait?" Madelyn asked as she folded her arms.
Fred pointed to Shaggy and Scooby.
"Us?" Shaggy asked as he pointed to himself "Nuh-uh. No way man"
"Yeah" Scooby shook his head "No way"
"Come on guys" Fred said "You two are the fastest guys in the group and this is a foolproof plan"
"And what better way to test out a foolproof plan than with a couple of fools?" Marcie remarked.
"I don't know, Freddie." Daphne said. "I'm sure there's a better way to lure the Reaper over without the need for Shag and Scooby."
"Yeah, like, we can tell him that we discovered the time capsule!" Shaggy said.
"But we need to convince him we do" said Velma "He probably won't believe us if we just tell him. We need to find the capsule itself if we want Fred's plan to be put into motion"
"So I guess that's what we're going to do, then." Fred sighed and nodded.
"One teeny, weeny little problem, though" Daphne said "WE DONT KNOW WHERE THE FREAKING CAPSULE IS!"
"Raphne's right" said Scooby "We need to find the capsule"
"Marcie, does your CSI detective kit have a metal detector?" Velma asked Marcie.
"Yes, it does." Marcie nodded.
"Like, then what are waiting for?" Shaggy asked. "The sooner we found the capsule and capture the reaper and rescue our friends, the better!"
Author's Note:
Will our heroes find the capsule? And what would anybody want with something in a dinky old capsule? Hopefully, we'll find out soon.