(Reedited 5/09/22)
In the living room, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage were on the couch watching a movie, but fell asleep in the middle of the movie, while Eustace was in his chair, he also fell asleep. Suddenly Muriel came into the room, she was clutching her hand. The door opened woke up Shaggy, Scooby, Courage and Eustace.
Muriel was already clutching her hand tightly as Courage let out some whines and a howl, "Oh my gosh, Muriel what happened to you?"
Eustace however looked more annoyed than anything else. "Muriel, what did you do to yourself?" he demanded.
Muriel groaned from the pain and said, "I was tending to my garden when a wee little rabbit came hopping up to me and I wanted to give him a carrot. But I guess he didn't want one since he bit me."
"Wow, like, talk about a ungrateful rabbit," Shaggy said, he never knew rabbits could be so aggressive.
"Reah," Scooby agreed, "Rungrateful rabbit."
Eustace groaned and said, "So much for a quiet night at home. Everyone in the truck, we're going to the doctor."
Everyone complied and followed Eustace out to the truck, making sure to bind Muriel's bite wound before leaving the house.
It didn't take them long to get to the doctor's office and even less time than that to get in and see him. By the time they got into the office, Muriel's hand was now enormous from all the swelling. There was no way that was normal and the doctor was incredibly nonchalant about it.
The doctor scratched his chin and said, "Hmm, there's nothing to worry about. Nothing at all. Nothing at all."
Courage whined, while Shaggy and Scooby looked at each other in concern, feeling an icy dread about this bite.
"W-What should w-we do then?" Shaggy asked, nervously.
"The swelling is going to go down, to go down. Just keep soaking it, nothing to worry about. Just keep soaking it," the doctor stated.
"Rare you sure?" Scooby asked, feeling very worried.
"B-B-But, but, but, but," Courage asked as well as he pointed at Muriel's hand. Stabs of anxiety was rolling in him right now.
Muriel patted Courage on the head with her swollen hand and said, "Now now you three, I don't want there to be any trouble."
"Then you shouldn't have gotten bit," Eustace said angrily and yanked on Courage's leash, yanked it hard and making Courage choke. "Come on stupid dog."
Shaggy and Scooby looked at each other and sighed, before following Eustace and Courage out.
The very next day passed without incident. Muriel soaked her hand all day and every now then she'd check to make sure that it was getting smaller and smaller. Sure enough it was, and before the day got long, the sun was going down and the now full moon was coming up. Shaggy had taken care of dinner that night so that Muriel could focus on soaking her hand. Once everyone was finished with dinner and dishes were done, Shaggy, Scooby, Courage and Eustace retired to the living room to watch TV.
"Muriel! You're missing your favorite show," Eustace called out. "MURIEL!" he growled, turned to the cowardly trio and said, "You all, go find her!"
Moving over to the kitchen, they're were about to call out to Muriel when they heard snarling coming from the kitchen. Confused, the trio moved quietly the rest of the way until they're were at the doorway. Taking a peek inside, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage saw a truly strange sight. Muriel was hunched over where Courage's bowl was located and seemed to be tearing into something.
"Like, Aunt Muriel?" Shaggy asked, as they stepped into the kitchen.
"Ruriel?" Scooby asked, getting nervous.
"Are you okay?" Courage asked, worried and nervous.
The three stepped closer, but as they did so, the floor creaked which got Muriel's attention. She turned to the worried trio with a feral look on her face while showing huge razor-sharp teeth and growled at them.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy choked back a cry of horror.
"Ripes!" Scooby cried, in terror.
Courage let out a terrified scream, he place a paw against his chest, as a horrible stabbing pain grew in his chest. He let out a weak cry and toppled to the floor. Then his vision went black and unconsciousness took him.
"Rourage!" Scooby burst out, his eyes widened with shock as he kneel down, and cradled the unconscious Courage.
"Zoinks! Courage!" Shaggy screeched, horror-struck as he kneel down, and felt Courage's forehead.
"Raggy, call 911!"
It only took a few minutes for an ambulance to arrive and load Courage into the back. Since Muriel was still missing and Eustace just didn't notice or even care for that matter, Shaggy and Scooby chose to ride along with them to the hospital. The same one that they had been to the night before for Muriel's bite. By some weird circumstance, Courage was even in the care of the same doctor from the night before.
All that registered in Courage's mind was a dull ache, he groaned and slowly opened his eyes, blinking several times to get rid of the blurriness he looked to see Shaggy and Scooby watching him with dull eyes, that immediately brightened when they saw him awake. "What happened?" he murmured groggily.
"You almost bought it boy. What is up with that?" the doctor asked.
"Like, almost bought it? What does that mean?" Shaggy asked confused, he hold his arms to stop them from trembling, at least he knew his friend was alright.
Scooby can only shrugged his shoulders.
"Don't worry. None of you have nothing to worry about," the doctor told them. "It's nothing at all."
The doctor's cluelessness spark anger in Courage, ignoring his aching stiffness he sat up and snapped, "COME HERE!" he jumped off the bed and picked up the doctor before running out of the office, with Shaggy and Scooby.
The trio didn't stop running until they were approaching the farm once again. They all stepped into the living room, with Courage carrying the doctor.
"Here," Courage said as he placed the doctor in the living room.
Much to the trio's surprise, Muriel was sitting in front of the TV in her rocking chair and watching the TV.
"Like, that's weird," Shaggy said. What was going on?
"Reah," Scooby added, "Rasn't she just a monster, when we left."
Courage pointed at Muriel, babbling a bit. Out of nowhere, he made his teeth look sharp and growled horrendously as he continued to point at Muriel.
The doctor approached her and said, "Excuse me ma'am, your son and his friends say that there is something wrong with you. What is up with that?"
Muriel continued sitting and watching the horror movie in front of her, just rocking in her chair as she did so. But as the doctor got closer, she turned towards him and even looked normal to all of them.
"Shh! I'm watching my favorite show," Muriel said.
"Huh?/Ruh?" Scooby, Shaggy and Courage said, as they looked at each other in confusion, wondering how Muriel was looking normal right now and not looking like a monster.
The doctor continued standing there and said, "Now, I want you to open your mouth and say ahh."
Suddenly, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's hearts lurched, as Muriel's mouth opened wide, revealing many sharp teeth as she then chomped down on the doctor, leaving his lower half hanging out of her mouth. She chewed for a second and then began shaking the doctor around like a rag doll. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage screamed with fear and clasped onto one another as the grisly scene continued. This went on for a few more seconds until Muriel released him and the doctor scurried away from her as she let out a vicious roar. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage watched in horror as Muriel's hands morphed into something more inhuman. She continued to roar as she dug down into the floor and vanished from sight.
The cowardly trio gasped and ran over to the hole, Muriel had returned and now she looked far more animalistic than before. Her white hair had even turned red. She stood in the hole and roared at three who then screamed and suddenly jumped so high that they actually jumped through the ceiling.
Eustace was humming, as he was taking a bath and scrubbing his back. When suddenly Shaggy, Scooby and Courage came out of nowhere in the tub.
"Wha!" Eustace gasped out in surprise.
Shaggy and Scooby's expressions went awestruck when they saw that Eustace was naked, while Courage was not faced, he babbled to Eustace, as he morphed in Muriel, only with sharp teeth.
Eustace, however NOT amused, pushed all three down into the tub. "Stupid dogs! Stupid nephew!"
The three thrashed wildly, wondering why Eustace was trying to drown them. As the three were in the water, Eustace suddenly screamed, the three grabbed onto Eustace, as he ran out of tub, with the three breaking the surface, with Muriel growling at them behind.
Eustace, now with a towel on, was walking downstairs, with Shaggy, Scooby and Courage.
Courage pointed at the hole. "Muriel turned into some kind of creature and attacked Dr. Vindaloo before digging her way through the floor to the basement."
Eustace glanced at the hole is disdain. "Mice?! Mice in my house? Gonna get me a mallet," he said and began walking away.
"Not a mouse, Muriel, it's Muriel," Courage said while drawing on the wall a mouse before crossing it out. He then drew Muriel and circled it to show that it was her and not a mouse.
"Reah," Scooby stepped forward, his paws trembling, "Rand besides, how can a mouse made a hole that big?"
"Eh, where did I put that mallet?" Eustace asked ignoring the two dogs before walking up the steps.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage give uncertain glances at each other, they all couldn't understand how Eustace could be so stupid.
Courage sighed, before turning his gaze towards the hungry duo, "We need to find more information about how Muriel is turning into a mole."
Back up in the attic, Courage was quickly typing away on the computer. "Muriel... big mole... eating people... ugly teeth... search, search, search," he said as he typed it into the computer.
The computer chuckled and said, "You are such a lousy typist."
This earned him a glare from Shaggy, Scooby and Courage.
"Oh, yeah, thanks a lot," Courage said, sarcastically.
"You're welcome. What you've got here is a weremole," the computer said as it flashed the word 'weremole' in red.
"We-We-We-Weremole!?" Shaggy and Scooby, stuttered, as they shiver and both felt thrills of fear, what did the computer mean by a 'weremole?'
"Don't tell us that," Courage said, a bud of fear began to swell up inside him as he looked into the computer screen. Does he mean that it was a weremole that bit Muriel? he thought.
"They come out in the full moon and they got a taste for rabbits and people," the computer continued while showing a were mole holding up a dead rabbit and human.
Shaggy swallowed hard, as he felt worry in him like a dark cloud enveloping in him and pulled himself closer to Scooby as he and Courage let out frightened gasps at the sight of the demonic looking mole.
"Looks like I'm on the menu for the weremole," Shaggy said with his face draining from color, and he felt a thrill of horror, as he realized he might be next.
"And if you are bitten by a weremole, you become one yourself," the computer explained and displayed the equation on screen.
Courage howled, as he felt a jolt of fear, while Shaggy met Scooby's eyes, he could tell they were both thinking the same thing. Muriel has been bitten that weremole!
Scooby said, "Ro what do we do about this?"
"If I were any of you, I'd get a big mallet-" the computer began but the trio quickly stopped him.
"No, no, no. A cure, a cure," Courage corrected.
"Oh... that's easy. Just eat a little hair of the mole that bit you," the computer said.
The three of their mouth's just dropped agape. The cure honestly sounded more dangerous than the condition itself. But if they wanted to fix Muriel, this was likely the only way to do it. The trio turned away from the computer and began to leave the room.
But they paused as they heard the computer mockingly say, "Just don't get bitten."
The cowardly trio whined, as panic seized their hearts, before the computer said, "Just kidding. Dogs aren't affected by weremole bites. But I'd be cautious if I were you young man."
Shaggy gulped in fear as his heart lurch, if he wasn't careful he could be the next victim. "So like, how do we lure the mole out?"
"With this," Courage answered as he reached under Shaggy's bed and pulled out a rabbit costume for him.
"RA rabbit costume?" Scooby asked, confused.
"I'll take this on to attract the weremole. And while it is distracted, Scooby, you take a piece of hair from the creature." Courage answered, before turning his gaze towards the cowardly teen. "Shaggy you stay here, you'll less likely to get infected by the weremole."
Shaggy and Scooby, although frightened, knew this was the only way to save Muriel, this was not up to negotiation.
Shaggy took a deep breath, "Okay got it."
"Ret's do this," Scooby added, his face grave thinking about going up against the weremole.
Outside Courage shivered in fear and began hopping around the ground, pretending to be a rabbit. He was sure that the thing that bit Muriel still had to be digging around here somewhere. He just hoped that he could this quickly before he or anyone else got hurt.
Scooby was nearby, trying to keep a lookout for the creature. Scooby met his gaze, his eyes filled with fear. Courage also feared that Shaggy was in great danger as well, but he knew thoughts like that would only push him into panic. He had to be strong for this sake of Muriel and his two friends.
Back inside, Eustace was digging around under the bed in his bedroom, muttering to himself as scoured around. Shaggy stepped in to see him ranting to himself.
"Where is that darn mallet? Can't bop a mouse without me mallet," he said.
"Like, angry old Uncle, please just listen to me. It's not a mouse that is tearing apart the house," Shaggy tired to explain, half afraid that Eustace would just yelled at him. His uncle was not likely to listen to his nephew.
Eustace ignored his anxious nephew, and then began digging underneath his bed again, pulling out various objects. There was a loud SNAP from under the bed and Eustace pulled his arm out with a scream, revealing that he had gotten it caught in a giant mouse trap that had been stashed underneath the bed for some reason. Shaggy couldn't help but chuckle at his misfortune.
"That's not me mallet!" Eustace yelled as he shook the device off of his arm.
He dug under the bed once more, this time pulling out a large wooden hammer. Shaggy's heart sunk at the sight of it.
"Ah! Me mallet," Eustace said excitedly.
Before Shaggy could get a word in edgewise, a section the floor in front of Eustace broke open and Muriel's animalistic head popped out with a roar. Eustace and Shaggy both let out screams and Eustace tried bringing the mallet down onto Muriel's head. But she retreated too quickly for him to gain a successful hit.
Meanwhile, Courage and Scooby were shivering in fear, they really want to get this over with, they both couldn't help but wonder where that weremole is. The stars tonight looked so bright in the sky, so neither Scooby nor Courage had no way to judge the passing time.
Each heartbeat Scooby felt followed the last, he began to worry that something had gone wrong. Why was it taking so long? Had the weremole gotten into the house? Scooby pictured Shaggy being bitten and becoming a weremole himself, he had to force himself not to go back and see what had happened.
Rhat if this was all a huge mistake? He asked himself, had he and Courage led Shaggy into even greater danger?
Then above the noise of the crickets, Scooby and Courage heard the ground rumbling, rapidly it grew. Courage saw that the creature was appearing from behind Scooby.
"The things I do for love," Courage said, as he stood shivering in the field.
Scooby's heart stopped, as the weremole was dashing towards the pink beagle, "RATCH OUT ROURAGE!"
But it was too later as the weremole bit Courage's feet, as pain stabbed into him and started to shake him about the place, all the while screaming. His limbs flailed helplessly as the weremole shook him from side to side, the farmyard spun about him, he was were of growling and Scooby screaming for his friend's life.
"Okay Uncle Eustace, like, I think it's time we got out of the house," Shaggy said but was ignored.
Then the floor right in front of him burst open as Muriel reappeared and tried to bite into his foot, Shaggy shrieked but was quick to move his foot back. That's when Muriel popped out of the floor behind Eustace and tried biting at him again. He dodged the bite and tried bringing the mallet down on her again. Muriel pulled back under the floor once more.
Scooby, now pushed his fear aside, he flung himself at Courage's tormenter, pinning onto him. "Rot you," he hissed, as he knocked out the weremole.
Dazed, Courage sprang to his paws and spun around. Scooby! "Thanks Scooby, now we just need a hair sample," he murmured drowsily, as he stumbled his back over to the Great Dane.
"Rot it," Scooby said, as he held onto a piece of hair, feeling pride swelling up in his chest.
Courage couldn't help but feel impressed, in spite of how vicious the weremole is, Scooby had manged grab a piece of hair from it! He gave the big dog a thumbs up, then he and Scooby heard Shaggy screaming with fear.
"Shaggy!/Raggy!" Scooby and Courage wailed, they both ran up to the farm to save the cowardly teen.
Back in the bedroom, Muriel was no longer popping up out of the floor and was instead chewing through the floor as she made her way towards Eustace and Shaggy. Shaggy pressed his back against the wall, shivering severely and completely scared to death.
"Please Aunt Muriel," Shaggy begged, "Like don't you reginzized me? It's your nephew Shaggy."
But of course his pleads were ignore as Muriel kept chopping. Shaggy closed his eyes tightly, and waited for his fate. Like I hope, Courage and Scooby get out okay. He thought.
Just as Muriel was about to chomp down on Shaggy and Eustace, Courage and Scooby hopped in through the window and Courage launched onto Eustace's head. He was able to deposit the single strand of fur in her mouth. Muriel felt the hair enter her throat and began grasping her throat like she was choking, making horrific gagging sounds and then fainted back into the hole. And then all was silent.
Eustace broke the silence by turning to Scooby and Courage and angrily said, "What'd you do? I almost had it. You ruin everything!"
"Uncle Eustace, they just saved us from being weremole chow," Shaggy argued, knowing it was futile regardless.
Eustace grumbled and said, "They stopped me killing that mouse. Stupid dogs!"
Shaggy shook his head at his obliviousness and kneeled down to Scooby, "Thanks for coming back pal."
"Ranytime, Raggy," Scooby smiled, as he licked his best friend.
"Come on, let's go check on Muriel," Courage said.
They all left the room and crept down the stairs into the living room. The TV was still playing the movie from earlier and they could see that Muriel was sitting in the chair again, watching the movie. But they could not see her face for a true conclusion.
So the four of them snuck up behind her, the squeaks of her rocking chair were louder than their footsteps. Shaggy began to take shallow breaths, Scooby chatted his teeth with his paws, as Eustace began to sweat bullet and Courage blinked rapidly.
"Like, Aunt Muriel?" Shaggy asked, when they're were near enough.
Their fears were dashed as Muriel turned towards them.
"Where have you been? You've missed the whole show," Muriel said worriedly.
"MURIEL!/AUNT MURIEL!/RURIEL!" Shaggy, Scooby and Courage shouted.
Courage jumped right into Muriel's lap and snuggled right up to her as she began to rock the chair. Shaggy and Scooby smiled and took a seat on the couch right next to Muriel, glad that this ordeal was now over. They could worry about the damage that was done to the house tomorrow.
But Eustace still had his mallet held high and said, "Now where'd that mouse get to?"
But Muriel looked back at Eustace and said, "I swear. All of this bother over a wee mouse?"
The trio merely smiled... that is until the floor right by Eustace began to rumble.
"Do you hear that?" Courage asked, as he heard low rumbling. His stomach lurching with fear.
"Rhere is it coming from?" Scooby asked, dreading of what that was.
A part of the floor broke open. Right behind Eustace was Dr. Vindaloo now a weremole beast as well, and Shaggy, Scooby and Courage just watched with terror as the doctor grabbed Eustace and pulled him under the floor as well. This was followed by the sounds of Eustace pounding around his mallet, his laughs, biting and chewing.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage screamed.
"Is there a doctor in the house!?" Courage asked, Shaggy and Scooby, who both just groaned, this was gonna be a long night.
Well that's all for now. VK IS OUT PEACE!