"... 'I want that Wand!' Tanis cried. Twirling her bandage above her head and heroically lassoing the evil witch's wand from her hand, as Revolta threatened to do something nasty to the captured Shaggy. Snapping her bandage back, the wand soared across the sky and landed into Tanis' awaiting hands. With prize in hand, she raced across the creepy witches lair to escape far enough away from the mean old witch, and be able to return Uncle Scooby to his rightful form, after being transformed into a Toad."
Waving his arms, and animating the whole scene, it was Scrappy who was telling the story to the rest of the gang in the main sitting room. There was some embellishment on his part, as he was just a small puppy then, but it was a pretty far out tale to begin with. So he had jumped at the chance to tell those who weren't there what exactly had happened that night. And the awesome adventure they had been on!
"The Creeper gave chase. But Matches was there to save the day with his fire, and drive back the evil henchman. Giving Tanis not only time enough transform Uncle Scooby, but to hand off the Evil Wand to her best buddy Elsa!"
With mention and flourished pointing from Scrappy, Matches took a bow and gave thanks in his own garbled dragon tongue as he was sitting upon Fred's Lap. The man didn't really know what to do, as the scaled lizard had wandered over earlier, and gave Fred one look before hopping up on his lap and settling like a content house cat. Only not only did this 'house cat' have teeth and claws, but could turn his ascot into a charcoal with one misdirected sneeze. So who was Fred to complain? So Fred just sat there as Matches took up residence for the story. Webbed paws tucked under, and tail wrapped snuggled against his side.
And when Scrappy told the story of her part in the grand tale he was telling, Elsa blushed as she looked away from everyone who had glanced over in her direction when her named was mentioned. She seemed huge, against the small chair that she found herself sitting on. Not wanting to crowd, and wanting to give the gang some room on the couch as they were still adjusting to the truth about monsters. It was rare to find someone that towered over Shaggy. Because even in his normal, poor posture, he was pretty tall for a human.
Elsa was in pretty normal looking clothing, compared to her overly frizzy hair that stuck out above her head and the stark white streaks that swooped up from either temple. Her jeans and two tops seemed almost out of place for the ghoul teacher. While having jeans shorter than they are supposed to is sometimes more of a fashion thing, Elsa had that problem just on her own. Finding it hard to find something in her size, even if it was from the Monster Realm. And she was wearing a deep green tank top that sat over her olive sleeved t-shirt. It was similar colors to what she wore when she was a student, though instead of a blue sash, she was wearing a similar blue colored jeans. And as usual, she was wearing her open toed, platform shoes.
"Raising up her mighty hand, she defied Revolta as the evil woman tried to command her to return the wand. 'I'm going to put it where it belongs' Cried out Elsa defiantly.'…in the fire!' With hand in the air, she brought it down with amazing accuracy and the wand went sailing directly into the bubbling pot."
Animating himself, Scrappy zipped back and forth to portray each of the characters in the moment. From posing all haughty and full of himself for Revota, to standing up tall and defiant for Elsa. And animating with his hands the wand flying across the room and taking a dip into the boiling pot.
"'My wand' the Witch cried out, as the wand landed into the cauldron. Turning a different color, the bubbles stilled only but for a moment, before a huge eruption happened! Revolta cried out about the wand overpowering the potion, while the rest of us daring heroes tried to find a way out. Sibella offered to take us out one by one, but there was no time! As Shaggy and uncle Scooby were about to lose hope... The Calloway cadets dropped a ladder into the roof of the building! Taking charge, I lead the gang up the ladder and motioned for the cadets to pull away... Just in the nick of time!"
Really hamming it up, Scrappy told his version and posed with as much dramatic flair as he was able to muster. Melvin was at the edge of his seat, while Daphne and Fred looked to Shaggy for confirmation. A shrugging nod, was all Shaggy could give in return. Since it was mostly true what Scrappy had been saying... Technically.
"As crazy flying contraption flew off into the sunset, the explosion rocked the castle! Blowing the whole top off of the building and sending chunks that nearly missed our group. Oh course I backhanded a few away, but soon we were on our way back to the school! With the girls safely returned, and Revolta full beaten... We had one crazy load of a shindig! With dancing and I sung a mean rap about what had happened with Matches rocking a boom box! I was so sad that we had to run right after that. Just before a group of new girls were just arriving too!"
With his story finished, he landed on his haunches with a sigh. The Alien, fish and giant Lizard girls looked so interesting for students. Scrappy in that moment, had really been looking forward to teaching the new girls' sports and all the other things that had taught to the other girls. But Shaggy was in charge and was driving away in the van before Scrappy really got a chance to say goodbye. Though they did managed to see the girls out of the back window and give a good old fashioned farewell howl as they drove off into the night.
"Well, that was quite a story. Tanis didn't tell her side of things… quite that dramatically." Mused Velma, as she leaned on the door frame. In the time Scrappy had acted out his whole production, Velma had woken up, been scared by Phanty, met and befriended Tanis and heard the whole story with time to spare to come back down and catch the end of act three of Scrappy's rendition.
At the sound of her best friends chipper voice, Daphne was quick to pop up and see for herself that her bespectacled companion was ok and not just putting on a brave face. Moving across the main room where Velma leaned, Daphne paused as she found herself almost looking at two Velma's. While her companion's relaxed position and classic look gave away which was which, there was enough of a similarity to make Daphne hesitate and take in the look of the other woman. From her dress, to posture and stature, no doubt she was the 'Tanis' Velma had just mentioned.
"See… just like Tanis." Elsa rumbled, as she snuck up behind Daphne and cast a shadow across the red head. Elsa tossed a smile towards her best friend, who happily smiled back and waved. Daphne didn't miss the look that Velma had as she scanned up and up to reach the top of Elsa's crazy hair. Nothing was lost on the detective, fully noticing the stitched skin, and shiny metal bolts that protruded from Elsa's neck. But while some color drained from her face, Velma stood rock solid. Though that might have been the wall holding her up, more than her own knees.
Watching Velma act more like Shaggy then Shaggy was at the moment, made the whole situation lighter for Daphne. There was a sense of normalcy to the chaos, even though the roles were reversed. But this wasn't the first time this had happened, Daphne recalling a time where Shaggy took point in a mini golf course, and Velma was hiding off somewhere with Scooby… Eating pizza and avoiding all responsibility and playing hooky due to her overwhelming fear of one of the holes, a clown. And well, the giant mechanical clown that had been trying to ruin the mini gold tournament, didn't help poor Velma's trauma. So this situation was familiar enough for Daphne know how to deal with the flustered Velms.
As Daphne moved to comfort Velma, Elsa seemed to be moving to do something similar to Tanis. Elsa had noticed the looks and hesitation Tanis had been showing. Paying a lot of attention to Velma and hoping that being exposed to the rest of her group, wouldn't overwhelm her hero and new friend. Or at least she hoped. So Elsa had moved to give emotional support at the same time Daphne had, bumping into each other. Earning the two ladies an exchange, and a snicker as it took a second for them to realize what had happened. Swapping positions, Elsa and Daphne moved to aid their best friends. Though the two women hadn't known what had already transpired between Daphne and Elsa that made them have such a similar and familiar reaction.
"Come on you…" "Come with me." Daphne and Elsa said at the same time, making the women laugh at each other.
"Is it me, or did something happen while I was gone?" Velma's eyebrow shot up and she suspiciously gave a look over at Daphne. Daphne just waved her hand and slipped the other around Velma's elbow to lead her back to couch that her, Fred, Matches and Melvin had been sitting upon. Elsa followed suit, plucking Tanis from the ground and carrying her perched upon one of her arms. The size was so vastly different, that Tanis easily fit sitting on Elsa's arm. And it also made Tanis seem like she weighted nothing to the stronger Elsa, which was true. And Elsa made sure to gesture to Phantasma to join her as well, earning a squeal and adding the ghost girl to her shoulder. Thankfully the ceilings were not only high enough for Elsa's hair, but also for a shoulder riding Phanty.
With the three last missing ladies joining the rest of the group, the main sitting room was complete. Velma joined most of the gang sitting on the couch, while Elsa placed Tanis on her lap when she returned back to her tiny chair. And Phanty just took a seat in the air, hovering nearby.
"Are you sure you are ok?" Daphne fussed, worried about her best friend. Velma put her hand on Daphne's and gave it a reassuring squeeze.
"Yeah, after talking with Tanis, I think I should be ok." Velma said looking over at the various monsters that were politely sitting in the room with her, making light conversation in the various chairs…. And air. Taking stock that the room had a Vampire, Werewolf, Mummy, Frankenstein monster, and a ghost. And an oddly small dragon was sitting on Fred. Matches gave her a look, before uttering something like a rumbling purr and then settled back into Fred's lap. Approving of the woman, before snuggling into Fred's legs once again.
"It kind of reminds me of when we met the Addams Family. Scary at first, but among the oddities they weren't bad people." Velma admitted, though the house had been really weird.
"Oh, forgive me for overhearing…" Sibella apologized, getting up from her seat and almost floated closer to the couch. "Did you mention the Addams? You ladies have met the family before? What a fangtastic coincidence!" Clapping her hands together, she seemed happy at the news. "Mortisha is one of the school's most important guest speakers, often coming to visit the girls and giving various lectures here and at their house. And Wednesday is one of our proud Alumni, having been a graduate before Shaggy was a teacher here at Grimwoods."
"Like' really Sibella?" Shaggy commented from the seat nearby. Earlier, not wanting to make the couch too crowded, he had choose to take a seat nearby with Scooby at his feet. The Dane lightly napping, since he had heard the story before and decided to get some rest instead.
"I'm not really surprised." Fred added, "They would fit right in at this place." Gesturing to the decor of the room, it was very similar to what the Addams used for their own house. Maybe Cousin It doubled as the Grimwoods Eerier-decorator. Suits of Armor, antique seating, creepy looking painting and the like. That, or maybe there was a Creep-emporium that they didn't know about, that all the old houses they ran across went too for furnishing. Fred wouldn't be surprised at this point.
"Looking around, I don't see or hear the new students anywhere." Scrappy commented, breaking off his light conversation with Winny to pose the question aloud, rather than just ask who he was talking too. Figuring that Shaggy and the gang might want to know the answer to his question as well.
"They are off on a small fiend trip with Lefty and our Butler." Sibella turned to reply to Scrappy, "They should be returning sometime in the afternoon tomorrow. Then you all will be able to meet the girls."
"Oh, cool!" Scrappy perked up, eager to meet the new girls soon. Looking forward to teaching the next generation students, and beating the Calloway cadets yet again.
GROWL~!
Though… not on an empty stomach! Letting loose a fierce growl, Scrappy's stomach made his hunger known! He had been in such a rush to get to the school, that he had dragged Melvin the whole way and hadn't gotten anything to eat since before they landed. Everyone turned to Scrappy, as the sound of his hungry rang out in the room. Making more than a few chuckle.
Standing up, Shaggy moved to wake Scooby up. The Dane grumbled against the shake, not wanting to wake yet. "Oh come on Scoob, I need you to get up and get the dogs from the van!"
Ears perking up from the mention of food, Scooby rolled over and popped to his feet. Ready to do whatever it took, for food. "R'ell what are re r'aiting for?" Claws clattering across the stone flooring, he ran off to fetch the cooler they had bought earlier. Red Hot brand hotdogs, a favorite food of the fire breathing Matches… Which reminded Shaggy.
"Hey, Like' Matches? I know Fred is comfy and all, but do you mind giving me a hand in the kitchen to get things ready? We have Red Hots!" Shaggy asked his scaly companion, hoping that the kitchen was still set up the way he remembered. Which meant that not only did he need Matches to light the oven, he was also hoping that the dragon had his hotbox that cooked the dogs up last time. It would cut down on the cooking time that way.
Ears shifting up at the mention of the brand of hot dogs, the Dragon was more than willing to lend aid to his buddy Shaggy. Especially for Red Hots! Patting Fred's lap a few times in thanks, he hopped off and wandered towards the kitchen. Muttering something cheerily to Shaggy as he moved across the room to where the kitchen was.
"But Shaggy…" Sibella spoke up as Shaggy turned to start moving himself. Her hands coming up as if to reach towards him and stop his actions."You are our guests…"
She tried to protest towards the beatnik, wanting to be a good hostess. It was her job as Head Mistress to make sure anyone in Grimwoods was taken care of. But Shaggy just smiled.
"Oh don't worry about that Sibella. You know us? Cooking is what we do! Plus it's just some hot dogs… and maybe some homemade eye potato fries." Pausing, he then added. "… Shrieky rice, soulslaw, and like whatever I might find in the kitchen. Eh heh heh."
Chuckling, he waved off Sibella cheerfully and moved to catch up to Matches. He had to see what the girls had stocked in the kitchen, so he could see what kinds of sides he could make to go with the Red Hots Scooby was bringing in from the van. And the Dane wasn't far behind, rushing through the room to bring the food to be prepared.
"Oh well." Sibella sighed with a smile. Remembering very clearly how good the guys were at making food. So she would let it slide and leave it to them to prepare. "Why don't we all retire to the dining room while we wait? We can continue talking, and can answer any questions you might have."
Being a good hostess, she waved for the rest of the humans and ghouls to follow her into the dining room for the meal. Hoping that Shaggy won't go TOO overboard with making food. Worst case, she could send Legs into to check on them, as she entertained the rest of the guests.
"Please follow me."