Chapter 14
"A Tiger by the Tail, Part 2"
One moment, we were looking for clues to see if there were any connections to what happened at River Country and the next minute, Shaggy, Scooby and I were running for our lives through mountains of bamboo. We could hear the sounds of a creature roaring loudly at us and it got closer and closer.
"Keep running! It's still chasing us!" I screamed to Shaggy and Scooby, trying to push the bamboo out of my way. Suddenly, I tripped over and fell on my face with my glasses falling off as well. Scooby and Shaggy also had the luxury of falling on top of me. "Like, I don't want to be kitty cat food!"
"Bad kitty! Bad kitty!" Shaggy cried as he threw a stick at a scar faced tiger, but the creature wasn't buying it and kept charging. "Come on, let's get out of here!"
I could feel Shaggy trying to pick me up, but without my glasses I couldn't see properly. Scooby couldn't fight off a tiger, and the next thing I knew was being dragged by my shoulders and then I felt myself being carried up as someone was holding onto my legs.
"Hold on, Velma!" Shaggy shrieked and quickly came to a stop.
"Shaggy, my glasses!" I cried, my thirst for seeing properly continuing to grow more and more.
"Like Velma, this is no time to be Maculay Culkin in that bee movie," Shaggy said. "Scooby, help me get her up this treehouse!"
But in all the chaos and confusion, the tiger seemingly caught up with us and I suddenly felt something bite down on one of my shoes.
"SHAGGY, IT'S GOT ME!" I screamed as through my blurred vision, I saw what appeared to be the tiger biting at my left foot. "IT'S GOT ME! HELP!"
But in his usual Shaggy manner, both he and Scooby couldn't fight the beast off and instead just merely tried to get me up as quickly as possible. But the more they tried, the more the tiger tightened his grip on me.
"Come on, Velma! You should at least go on a diet!"
But Shaggy and Scooby were beginning to lose their grip on me as the tiger pulled me down further and further. This was it, the end was near for me. Many years solving mysteries and I was about to become food for a tiger.
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Then, I suddenly heard the sounds of gunfire and my foot was freed as the tiger roared loudly in pain. I could feel pain of my own as Shaggy and Scooby pulled me up while the gunfire continued followed by the painful roars of the tiger. About 2 minutes later, the gunfire stopped and the tiger was silenced.
"LIKE, CAN SOMEONE HELP US?!" Shaggy yelled, followed by the sounds of commotion surrounding the treehouse. "VELMA'S HURT!"
So, that's why I was in pain…it wasn't a surprise, but I was in pain nonetheless. I could also feel something runny trickling down my leg and I knew that the tiger had sunk its teeth into me. I was bleeding…bleeding very fastly.
"What…what's happening?" I moaned, before falling in and out of conscisnous.
"Like hold on, Velma!" Shaggy said and that was the last thing I heard.
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The next thing I knew, I opened my eyes and once again, I found myself back in a hospital bed. I couldn't believe that it was happening to me again. I was just in the hospital for a broken leg during the Six Flags New Orleans mystery, now I was in the hospital for a bitten leg.
"Velma, thank heavens you're all right!" I heard Daphne cry out to me and being fully awake, I saw that my left leg was covered in a cast and raised up. "You lost a lot of blood."
"What…what happened?" I asked. "How did I get here?"
"Like, we tried to save you from that tiger," Shaggy answered. "Scooby and I did!"
"Why…why was a tiger on Discovery Island?"
"That's what we're trying to figure out," Beau said as he stepped into the hospital. "But just be thankful you escaped alive. The doctor said you lost a good deal of blood in your left leg."
I was grateful to be alive, but at the same time, I couldn't believe I was on the sidelines again.
"Anyways, I had the technicians run through some more on the footprints you and Daphne found, Fred," Beau explained, handing him a report on what was found. "They belong to a rodent like creature with flat big feet."
Now, I was starting to really feel sick to my stomach. There is only one character I know on this Earth that had feet like that.
"What about the tiger?" Daphne asked Beau.
"We're autopsying it and Clarice is checking to see if the tiger was possessed."
A possibly possessed tiger, two amoeba like Kraken killing FBI agents and wounding one of our own. Something was beginning to tell me that our suspect was closer than we thought.
"I think I may know who it is," I said, much to the shock of everyone in the room. "I think I may know who is behind all of this."
"Velma, let's not jump to any conclusions," Fred said as he turned his attention back to the report. "We still have…"
But Fred stopped mid sentence when he saw something on the report.
"Is it true?" Fred asked Beau who nodded that whatever name was on the report, was on the report. "That son of a…"
Angrily, Fred handed the report back to Beau.
"Fred what is it?" Shaggy. "Like, spit it out, man!"
"Gang, I think we may have a suspect," Fred declared. "Beau, is Team Disney still open at this hour?"
"Why?"
"I think we need to ask the main mouse a few questions," Fred answered.
None of us could believe it, we were about to pay an unexpected visit to Mickey Mouse himself!
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