Thank you everyone for the lovely feedback you gave last week, The truth is I had been wondering if the story really was worth continuing for a while, but with how many of you wrote in to express how much you were enjoying it I knew I couldn't give up. So thank you all once again. 

I am once again going to say I am still desperately looking for an artist for the story so if anyone if anyone at all is interested please let me know!! 

Also this seemed to be everyone after the last chapter.

It's the middle of the night at the Jones estate. Fred was fast asleep in bed snoring, in his hands was a traps illustrated magazine. "Pitfall...rat trap...bear trap..." Fred says talking in his sleep.

On the other side of the house was Mayor Jones's room.  Unlike Fred he was awake as he studied an item in his hands. It was in fact a piece of disc similar to the one that the Mystery gang had found recently. A large lion's head hung on a trophy plaque over mayor Jones's bed. He puts his hand on it and pushes moving the plaque away revealing it to be housing a safe behind it. Mayor Jones puts in the code and opens the safe door, He looks at the disk piece in his hand for a moment before he puts it away in the safe locking it. Just as he closes the trophy plaque over the safe the door to his room opens slightly getting the mayor's attention. 

"Huh? Hello? Is someone there?" He says pulling his blanket up to his knees. "Oh, cart wheeling kitchen camels, Fred. If you've snuck in here again to conserve body heat by lying across my legs..." Mayor Jones says but the bedroom door opens fully now with no one behind it and a ghostly chuckle can be heard. Mayor Jones shivers as he grabs his blanket fearfully. "Fred?" He asks hoping it is him. His bed suddenly begins to levitate now however as it rocks up and down before kicking Mayor Jones out of it. As he picks himself off the floor a ghostly figure now appears in his room and the mayor yelps.  "You. No, not again!" He says as the figure gets closer and Mayor Jones lets out a scream now. 

Fred wake up in his bed half asleep. "Santa? Wait, no Dad!" He says fully awake now as he rushes out of his bed, Fred rushes out his room and into the hallway but he quickly ends up running into his dad as the two get knocked on the floor in the progress. 

"I've gotta get out of here! Let me go!" Mayor Jones shouts as he gets up and runs down the down the stairs now. 

"But Dad what happened?" Fred asks but he never gets an answer as Mayor Jones runs away. Fred can hear the ghostly chuckle himself now as he turns around to see his father bedroom door shut.

It's the next day and the gang are at school. Daphne's body leaned against Y/n's own as his hand lay idle on her waist, The six were walked through the school hallways as Y/n looked up to see several of the male students giving him glares as they past but he just brushes them off.  

"So like, you guys are like, dating for real now?" Shaggy asks. 

"That's right." Daphne says with a smile and let's out a love sigh. 

"Congrats you two." Velma says as she looks at Shaggy and he gulps. 

"Right, um. like, Velma and I have decided to give it another go." Shaggy says now as he laughs a little nervously. Velma smiles while Scooby grumbles.

"Oh that's so romantic!" Daphne says gushing.

"So like, Y/n." Shaggy chuckles nervously getting his attention. "Could I um, maybe speak to you, privately." Shaggy asks and Y/n raises his brow slightly surprised.

"Of course Shaggy. Daphne I'm going to need my arm back." Y/n says and Daphne lets go of him now. 

"Sorry." She says with a smile but Y/n doesn't mind.  Daphne and Velma watch as Shaggy start to walk down the hallway. "I wonder what there going to talk about?" Daphne then says and Velma muses.

"So, You wanted to talk." Y/n starts. 

"Huh? Oh like, right. So Velma and I started dating again."  Shaggy says.

"Yes...you already said that." Y/n says and Shaggy chuckles nervously.

"I just thought that like, now you're dating both Daphne and Dusk that maybe, your like, good with woman..." Shaggy starts.

"Shaggy...you're not trying to start a polyamorous relationship are you?" Y/n asks.

"What no dude I just...I don't want things to be like before and neither does Velma." Shaggy says.

"Ah..." Y/n says immediately catching on. "You mean the "Velma and Scooby" not getting along situation." Y/n says.

"ah-ha right." Shaggy says glad Y/n is quick to understand. "So like, what can I do?" He now asks.

"Well, What you should have done from the start. Set ground rules to your relationship. Sit down with Velma and Scooby and explain that either both them get along or they both lose out, that you won't pick one or the other. That they have to get along." Y/n says giving his advice.

"Right, ground rules." Shaggy repeats. 

"And one last thing." Y/n says and Shaggy looks at him. "Be confident when you say this to them, otherwise they won't take you seriously."

Fred sighs and closes his locker. "Gang, there's something wrong with me dad. Everyday for two weeks now he runs screaming down the hall and ends up sleeping in the yard. Is that normal?" Fred asks the gang as Y/n and Shaggy return now.

"For your dad? Probably." Velma replies.

"My mom was doing that for a while, but it turned out to be bad gas according to the men who took her away." Daphne says. 

"I hear that. Like a couple late night jalapeno stuffed clam poppers and it's another all nighter on the porcelain..." Shaggy starts.

"Shaggy, please..." Y/n says stopping him but the school bell rings now. 

"Dude, Fred. If you want Scooby and me could sleep over tonight." Shaggy offers.

"And my mom has a whole section of herbal sleep remedies at her shop. We could stop by after school." Velma adds.

"I'd really appreciate that, thanks gang. See you after class." Fred says as he gives them all a wave before he leaves.

"Have you guys noticed something off about Fred recently?" Daphne asks the others now that Fred's gone.

"Yes, His behaviour lately has become more obsessive in a way." Y/n says knowing what she is talking about. 

"Like, what do you mean?" Shaggy asks. 

Y/n quickly undoes Fred's locker and as soon as he opens it a large wad of paper falls out. "This Fred's schedule...for just today. Scooby, Shaggy keep an eye on him tonight and see if he's... alright." Y/n says.

It was after school now and the gang were at Velma's mom shop. 

"Here you go, a sampling of my best herbal teas guaranteed to relax body and soul. Who wants to try?" Velma's mom says as she places down a tray of teas, each one of the, appears to be green and bubbling unnaturally.

"You're father don't need no tea man." A voice says in a thick Caribbean accent and the gang turn around to see an middle aged Jamaican woman with an eyepatch stood by the bookcases. "You father need an exorcist man. a ghost hunter." She says as she points at Fred.

"I'm sorry but who are you and what are you doing skulking in my mom's bookcases?" Velma asks. 

"It's okay Velma. This is my new barista, Lady Marmalade." Velma's mom says.

"Barista? Is that like a massage therapist? Because I have got this knot..." Daphne.

"She makes coffee's Daphne." Y/n says stopping her.

"The boy be right, Espressos, chai latttes, mocha chocalata ya-yas and the like. I also cast evil spirits out of unclean souls." Lady Marmalade says. "You boy over there." She points to Y/n now. "Your soul is needing a deep detox."

"Noted..." Y/n says unimpressed.

"Hey you think my dad's soul could be unclean?" Fred asks her now.

"Hmm...From your aura, it could definitely use a good washing. If you need me boy, I'll be behind the milk steamer." Lady Marmalade says as she slinks back behind a bookshelf and Velma's mom laughs to herself.

"Isn't she great? I'm just a sucker for that accent." 

It's now night time and both Shaggy and Scooby were at Fred's house.

"Hey guys thanks again for spending the night." Fred says to the two as he helps them set up in the living room.

"Like no problemo Fred, if Mayor Dad is in trouble..."Shaggy starts.

"We're here to help." Scooby finishes. Shaggy unfurls his sleeping bag but the draft it causes as he does knocks a photo off of the nearby fireplace and Scooby catches it with his tail. "Ooh! Whoa! She's hot." Scooby says.

"Cool it Scoob!" Shaggy says before he leans over to Scooby. "Like, that's Fred's mom. She left when he was a baby. He doesn't..."

"Talk about her much." Fred finishes Shaggy's sentence.  

"Sorry Fred, I didn't mean anything." Scooby says as he hands the photo in the frame back to him.

"Aw it's okay Scoob. She was pretty." Fred says placing the photo frame back on the fireplace. "Maybe someday I'll get to tell her that in person. So, uh, anything else you guys need?" Fred asks now.

"Uh, well, maybe just one other thing." Shaggy says.

Scooby and Shaggy open the doors to the kitchen and hug the large fridge that sits in the room. 

"Ahh! heaven." They both sigh.

It was late now, Fred had gone to bed and both Scooby and Shaggy were now sat on the couch watching a Vincent Van Ghoul movie. As it comes to an end Shaggy turns off the TV. "Like man, I am stuffed. ha, ha." He says. The table is completely littered with empty plates.

"Yeah. I need another stomach for my stomach." Scooby says.

"Pre bed pizza?" Shaggy asks.

"Absolutely." Scooby says and the two get up making their way to the kitchen where they begin to make pizza. Scooby was busy shaping the dough as he twirled it in the air and then sets it down in the prep area of the kitchen. He pours some tomato sauce over the the dough getting it ready. Nearby Shaggy was busy cutting up some peppers and she spreads them on the pizza with some cheese.

Fred was snoring in his room having fallen asleep reading Traps illustrated again. "No!" Mayor Jones voice cries out and it wakes up Fred.

"Dad? I'm coming!" Fred says rushing out of bed. He runs down the hallway to his dad's room but as soon as he opens it he can see many items items in the room floating as if it had a small tornado in it. Fred looks up to see his dad stuck to the ceiling. 

"Tottling timber monkeys, Fred help!"  His dad cries.

Scooby and Shaggy were making the finishing touches to their pizza downstairs now.   

"Shaggy, Scooby! I need you now!" They can hear Fred cry.

"Zoinks! That sounded like..."

"Fred." 

The two rush to go help Fred but as they reach the doors to the kitchen they slam shut. Confused both Scooby and Shaggy look at each other but their attentions are soon caught as a ghostly voice whispers behind them, As they turn around they can see their pizza begin to stand up on it's crust somehow as the toppings from a face and a mouth. 

"Going somewhere?" It asks them in a ghostly voice as it floats to the floor and chuckles. "I am an evil pizza." 

"Like that is so wrong!" Shaggy says freaked out. The pizza cackles again as it throws itself at the two but they dive out of the way. It turns around and leaps at Shaggy now who catches it in his hands as he yelps. The pizza attempts to bite him and Shaggy quickly throws it to the floor. The Pizza growls and picks itself up off the floor but when it finally turns around Scooby and Shaggy are nowhere to be seen. 

"Hold on Dad." Fred cries out as he tries to reach his dad now. 

"To what? I'm on the ceiling!" Mayor Jones replies but then yelps as he is caught up in the clutters of items flying around in his room. Fred looks around and spots something as he pulls out a golf club. 

"Grab this. It's a fairway wood, It's safe." Fred calls out to his dad and he does so but as soon as he does Fred is pulled into the mess as the two are thrown around the room. 

Scooby and Shaggy were hiding in a small island cupboard in the middle of the kitchen. 

"It's quiet out there." Scooby whispers to Shaggy but as soon as he finishes a set of the cupboards doors open and the pizza roars at them. Both Scooby and Shaggy scream as they rush to open the doors on the other side and crawl out. As they do the fridge doors open now and food begins to fly out it at the pair. They are chased out of the kitchen into the hallway where they see both Fred and his dad also running into it. The four all quickly run to the front door crashing onto the ground outside. Once they make it outside the front doors slam shut and the ghost can be heard laughing once again and a shadowy silhouette can be seen in one of the rooms as it's light goes out. 

It was the next day and the gang were all gather in Mayor Jones office. 

"Forget it Fred, I'm not going back." Mayor Jones says as he unpacks some clothes from a case.

"Dad, please. I can solve this mystery." Fred says.

"Fine. Solve away. Oh, and when you're driven mad and screaming into the night without me...could you remember to grab me some more socks? I'm short a few pairs." He says holding up a sock. Out of it falls some seeds. "And what is with these Sunflower seeds? I've been finding them all over the house." He says annoyed. 

Fred crouches down and looks at them. "I...I don't know." He says. 

"You don't understand dude, Like food turned against us." Shaggy says to Velma now.

"There's no reason to go on living." Scooby says hanging his head low. 

"I'm sure you two will eat again, probably in the next 10 minutes or so." Velma says.

"Listen to me everyone, something's trying to hurt my dad and I'm going to figure out what it is. But I can't do it alone." Fred says.

"We're here to help Fred." Y/n says.

"Thanks, I'm gonna need all of your help, including yours dad." Fred says to Mayor Jones now. 

"What? I can't hear you I'm too comfortable." Mayor Jones who was now lying on the couch says feigning ignorance. 

"I'm serious and to prove it, If I can't solve what's happening to you...I'll give up mystery solving forever, and I'll be whatever you want me to be." Fred says now. 

"Really!?" Mayor Jones says shooting up. Y/n goes to say something but Mayor Jones gets up now. "Too late! He said it. No going backsies. I've got witnesses Fred."

It was night and everyone was back at Fred and Mayor Jones's home. 

"With these camera set up around the house we'll be able to record anything that comes after my dad. There's only one problem. I'm a trap guy. I have absolutely no idea how this stuff works." Fred admits holding a bunch of cameras in his hands. 

"Don't worry. I've been stripping dielectric insulation off my coax since before I could walk. Get ready to worship the Velma." Velma says confidently.

 The gang now begin to set the camera's up around the house under Velma's instructions. As they set them up in Mayor Jones's room his eyes look towards the trophy plaque above his bed. 

Once the camera's were all set up the gang settled into the living room where Velma had now set up several monitors that displayed different parts of the house. "We're all set." Velma says proud of the work. The front door knocks now getting everyone's attention as they look up from the monitors.

"Oh I almost forgot. One more part of my plan." Fred says as he moves to the answer the door and when he does so everyone can see Lady Marmalade. 

"Lady Marmalade?"

"That's right. Now let's get started man. I got a pile of chicken bones and scented candles stinking up my butt bag." She says pointing to bag attached to her waist as she walks inside. 

Everyone had moved to Mayor Jones's room and were sat in a circle on his large bed. Lady Marmalade lit one her candles and set it down. 

"Couldn't we have done the Séance somewhere else? This comforter is genuine ermine." Mayor Jones says annoyed.

"Afraid not, Mayor man. This room is the focus of the haunting." Lady Marmalade says as she begins to shuffle some cards.

"Are we going to talk to ghosts?" Scooby asks.

"Yes barkie, With this spirit board." She replies taking out a Ouija board and Y/n groans.

"Are you okay Y/n?" Daphne asks him worried as she puts a hand on his shoulder.

"There are some people who are dead that I would rather not speak too...." Y/n says but puts his hand on Daphne's own to signal to her he appreciates her concern. 

"Like, I saw one of these in a Van Ghoul movie once. You ask it questions right?" Shaggy asks as he picks up a piece of wood with a hole in it. "Spirit board, If Scooby Doo and I were superheroes what would our names be?" He asks the board and then puts the wood down. His hand moves with it seemingly spelling something out. "Steel..panther...and...the amazing Fangglourious."

"Cool. Uh, who's who?" Scooby asks.

"The spirit board is not to be trifled with." Lady Marmalade says as she snatches it away from Shaggy now unamused. "This is serous stuff, man." She puts down the piece of wood on the board now and the lit candle sparks for a moment causing Daphne to gasp. Everyone puts the hand of the board now including a reluctant Y/n. "The spirits have heard us. Now, who would like to ask a real question?" She asks the group. Everyone looks at each other now but no one says a word until Daphne finally speaks up. 

"I guess I will. Um, hi, spirits. Thanks for coming. I'm Daphne, and I guess my question is when you start dating a boy..."

"Okay that's it. We're done." Lady Marmalade says as she starts to pack up her things. 

"But Lady Marmalade, the haunting." Fred pleads. 

"I am a forth generation Voodoo goddess. I sleep on a bed of alligator skull and hot coal. That takes skill man. I'm gone." Lady Marmalade says. 

"No one's going anywhere. It's my haunting. I'll ask the question." Mayor Jones says now as he picks up the wooden piece. "Okay, spirits listen up. Who are you, and why are you doing this to me?" He asks and puts the wooden piece down. It suddenly begins to move on it's own causing everyone to watch on as it spells out words. 

"What does it say?" Y/n asks slightly interested now.

"I am an old friend." Fred slowly begins to read out. "And I want what you took from me." Fred looks at his father now. "Dad, does this mean something to you?" 

"No, of course not." He says but Y/n looks at him out of the corner of his eyes with doubt. "Lady Bouillabaisse..."

"Marmalade."

"Whatever, is obviously trying to pull some sort of scam." Mayor Jones says but as he finishes his sentence the board on the bed bursts into flames shocking everyone as they jump off it.

"Aah! My Ermine!" Mayor Jones cries out. 

"Oh you done it now man. You disrespected the spirits and now they are mighty angry." Lady Marmalade says fearfully as she watches Y/n and Fred put of the fire.

Scooby backs up a little scare now but beside him is a set of drawers that  being open before slamming shut repeatedly. A ghost cackles as clothes from a nearby wardrobe are thrown out onto the floor and the gang are soon attacked by random objects in the room. 

"Like this is worse than being attacked by our favourite foods." Shaggy says as the pictures on the wall begin to spin. 

"I'll say. Run!" Scooby cries out. Agreeing with him everybody rushes out of the room but they receive a shock when all the animals on the wall seemingly sprout into life. 

"Everyone outside!" Y/n calls out from the top of the stairs as he ushers them past him, Daphne is the last one to catch up but just as she does a moose's head on the wall grab her hair in it's teeth trapping her.

"Knock it off Tyler!" Fred cries out. 

"Stay still I've got you." Y/n says to Daphne as he delivers a blow to the moose's face and it lets go of Daphne now. He wraps his arms around her pulling her away as the two are the last to make it down the stairs. 

"Why is there a moose called Tyler?" Y/n asks Fred now as he and Daphne catch up to him. 

"I uh, spend a lot of time alone. He's a good listener." Fred says truthfully.

The three rush to join the others at the front door now and everyone clamours out.

"Dudes, like that was close." Shaggy says letting out a sigh of relief. 

"Thanks for saving me." Daphne says as he pecks Y/n's cheek now.

 "Dad I don't know what's in there, but it sure hates you." Fred sighs but he gets no response. "Dad?"

"Fred!" Everyone turns around as they hear Mayor Jones cry out from the doorway before they see Mayor Jones being pulled inside and the front doors to the house slam. 

"Dad!" Fred cries out and he rushes to the doors trying to pull them open. "Dad! Can you hear me? Dad!"

"Lady Marmalade, You've dealt with this kind of thing before. What do we do?" Daphne asks.

"Voodoo is very clear what to do in situations like this girlie." Lady Marmalade says calmly before she screams and starts to run away. 

"Like, wow. All this time I had no idea running away from monsters had anything to do with voodoo." Shaggy says.

"What are we going to do!?" Fred says starting to worry. 

"Fred. The monster broke one of the windows." Y/n says now looking at one of them. 

"What." Fred says confused as she stops pacing and looks at the house. "But all the windows are fine Y/n."

"Ascot please." Y/n says holding his hand to Fred who starts to undo his ascot before handing it to Y/n. Y/n looks at it before he wraps it around his hand and walks up to one of the nearby windows.

"I said..." He punches the window with his ascot covered hand shattering it as the glass falls to the ground. "The ghost, broke the window.  At least that's what we'll tell your dad." Y/n says as he unwraps his hand and gives Fred his ascot back. 

"Jinkies!" Velma says surprised.

"No Y/n's right it's an emergency we have to get back inside and save my dad!" Fred says agreeing with Y/n's decision.  

"As much as I hate to admit it, I'm very good when it comes to breaking and entering." Y/n sighs as he climbs inside carefully avoiding cutting himself on the glass. He hold outs his hand. "Fred." Fred nods and takes Y/n's hand as he pulls him up and inside and the two start to help the others in. 

"Daphne." Y/n says holding out his hand to her. She takes it and Y/n gently lifts her up but as she crosses through the window frame her hands rest on his shoulders as he continues to hold her up. Y/n and Daphne look at each other for a moment before the moment is unintentionally ruined by Fred. 

"Dad! Can you hear me? If can't speak just blink twice. Oh wait...that only works if he can see me." Fred says.

Y/n gently sets Daphne now and the two give each other a gentle smile before turning around to focus on the task at hand. They rush into the living room where Fred is to see him aimlessly looking around. 

"Fred." Y/n calls out and Fred looks at him. "What about the camera's we set up earlier." Y/n suggests. 

"We can rewind them and see what happened." Daphne says catching onto Y/n's thinking. 

Velma rushes over to the camera's now and begins to type away on the keyboard. "I'll cue it up right before the door slammed." She says as he begins to work. 

Fred sighs as he turns away but Y/n notices and joins Fred a little away from the others. "Are you okay Fred?" Y/n asks. 

Fred picks up the photo of his mother on the fire place now as he looks at it. "It's just...the people around me, people I care about...I keep losing them." Fred says before he sighs again and turns to look at Y/n. "I'm sorry, You're the last person I should be saying this too..."

"It's okay Fred." Y/n says with a small smile. "I understand. But just remember you have the gang and they'll always be there for you." Y/n says to him and Fred lets out a smile.  

"Got it!" Velma calls out getting both of their attentions as they now walk back over. Velma stops the footage just as everyone tumbles out of the front door and they see Mayor Jones stood in it as Velma pauses the footage.

"That's right before he was grabbed. Play it forward Velma." Fred says. 

Everyone is surprised however as they watch Mayor Jones pretend to be pulled inside before slamming the doors shut himself. 

"He like did it himself." Shaggy says confused. 

"That can't be, we missed something. Find another camera." Fred says not wanting to believe it. 

Velma does so and the next camera shows footage of Mayor Jones opening his secret safe and taking out it's disk piece. 

"That looks like the thing we found in the Darrow mansion." Daphne points out. 

"No. The markings are different. It must be another piece." Velma says. 

"Question is, Why does Fred's father have it?" Y/n says before anyone can say anything however they sound of Mayor Jones screaming can be heard alerting the gang. 

"Dad? but why is he screaming he's all alone." Fred says.

"What were watching is a few minutes behind. That could mean..." Velma starts to explain but Fred takes off.

"Dad!" He cries as he runs up the stairs. As he reaches the upstairs Fred begins to open all the doors. "Dad! Where are you? Are you in here?" But he's not behind any of the doors. "No." Fred says falling to his knees. "He's gone and I've failed." 

"You haven't failed yet Fred. We will get him back. Then he can answer our questions..." Y/n says. 

"Come on you two. Velma says turning to Shaggy and Scooby. "There has to be clues around here somewhere." 

The three walk off leaving Y/n and Daphne to try and brighten Fred's mood. As they walk down a the hallway however Shaggy suddenly stops and both Velma and Scooby look at him. 

"What wrong Raggy?" Scooby asks. 

"Like, Scoob, Velma. I have something important to say." He says and the two look at each other before looking at Shaggy. Shaggy remembers what Y/n has said to him earlier and he exhales. "I want you two to start getting along otherwise, like I'm not hanging out with either of you." Shaggy states.

"What?" Velma says not understanding. 

"Velma. Scooby Doo is my best friend, We've like, been together since I was a kid and I'm not just going to abandon him." He says before he turns too Scooby. "Scooby Doo. Velma, Is my girlfriend and I need you to like get that." Shaggy says rubbing the back of his neck. "Sometimes, I'm going to spend time Velma and sometimes I'm going to spend time with Scooby but I just don't want you two to argue anymore." Shaggy sighs. "You're both like, super important to me, But I can't do this if you can't get along." Shaggy finishes not even sure if he was able to get his point across. 

Scooby looks at Velma now and she looks back at him. "I guess...I can try." Scooby says and Velma smiles a little. 

"Me too." She says and Shaggy let's out a sigh of relief. 

"Like, dudes you have no ide how good that is to hear." He says. 

"We can talk more later, We'd better get looking for some clues." Velma says now remembering Fred's dad was missing.

Scooby begins to sniff the floor now and his search leads him back to Mayor Jones's room. Scooby sniffs around some more before he smells something strange and he looks up to see something on the floor. "Hey, I found something." He calls out. All of the gang make their way to Scooby and can see what he has found. Fred bends down a little. "Sunflower seeds? My dad said he'd been finding these all over the house."  

Scooby continues to sniff now eventually his nose reaching under the bed before Scooby lets out a sudden yelp alerting the gang before they rush over to him and it appears to be a mouse trap had set off getting stuck to his nose as he whimpered. Y/n's fingers moved quick as he removed it from Scooby's nose freeing him. 

"Like , what is that thing?" Shaggy asks. 

"It's one of my traps." Fred says and Y/n hands it to him. "But it look's like someone has modified it.." Fred presses a button and a large flame bursts out of it. "To shoot fire." 

"That would certainly explain the spirit board setting ablaze." Y/n says looking down at the large hole caused by the fire in Mayor Jones bed. 

"But why would it be under Mayor Jones bed?" Daphne asks. 

"I've got traps all over the house." Fred answers. "I mean, how would it look me, an expert trapper letting someone break into my house and not trapping them?" Fred says. 

"Oh you must be kidding me..." Y/n groans and starts rubbing his eyes as he finally understands what has been going on now. "Someone, has been using your own traps against your father." 

"But that's impossible, They'd have to outsmart me first. I mean, come on." Fred says but everyone looks at him. "Okay...maybe if they hacked my computer. It controls everything I've set up. But still it would take a genius." 

"Let me make a guess, Your password..is trappin guy..." Y/n says crossing his arms. 

"Well...uh..." Fred nervously chuckles. 

Y/n sighs. "We've established the how, And I have a pretty good idea on the who." Y/n says as he picks up a sunflower seed. "Now all we need is to trap them and find out why. Before we set a trap however we need to fortify the house and make it unescapable." Y/n says. 

"But like, dude. You broke the window." Shaggy points out. 

"All we need is some tarp to cover it up. Fred I'm assuming you have some?" Y/n asks.

"Of course! I keep it under my bed." Fred replies. 

"Good, Please fetch that and your laptop, Velma will need it." Y/n instructs and Fred nods as he leaves to get them both. 

"Daphne I noticed some tape in the sitting room earlier, Can you use it to tape down any hatches that will open any of the other windows in the house?" Y/n asks her. 

"No problem." She says with a smile.

"Like, what are me and Scoob going to do?" Shaggy asks. 

"You and Scooby are going to move some of Mayor Jones's animal skin rugs. One to the front door and several in the sitting room." Y/n says. 

"Um...Okay." Shaggy says with a shrug not really understanding why but he doesn't question it at all. 

The gang were all busy with their tasks now, Daphne was finishing up taping the windows as Velma was busy on Fred's laptop. Daphne let out a dreamy sigh as she watched Y/n covering up the broken window with the tarp Fred had given him. 

"Gee Daphne you really seem to be in love." Velma comments. 

"Sorry." Daphne says. "I can't help it. I just love it when a guy takes control in a situation like that." 

Velma just looks over at Shaggy who was moving the animal skin rugs with Scooby and she smiles a little. "Yeah." She comments.

The gang all finish trapping the house now as Velma rewrites the commands for Fred's traps and Y/n sets up a final trap on the staircase.

 "Like, we're all done over here Y/n." Shaggy says. 

"Good. Now we leave." Y/n says surprising the others.

The house sat silent and empty as a ghostly figure appears in it. "Scared away so easily. I'm disappointed Mystery Incorporated. I expected more from you." The figure says. In a claw like hand is the Mayor's piece of the disk. The ghost now having acquired what it wanted hovers over to the front door. As it reaches for the handles however they move surprising the ghost. Lay down on the floor was a large bear skin rug and it lets out a roar as it stand up scaring the ghost as it flies over to the fire place now. It tires to fly up the chimney but finds it's passage blocked off.  It can hear the bear roar close by again now and the ghost moves to fly up the stair case unaware of a thin piece of string that was tied to the banisters. The disc piece in it's hand sets it off and two spears are fired at the ghosts cloak pinning it in place. The shock of the event causes the the ghost to drop the disk piece as it flies down the stairs stopping at the feet of Y/n who crouches down and picks it up. The bear takes off it's head now revealing Fred to be inside it. 

"We got him!"  Fred says as he and the other Mystery gang come out of hiding.

"Nice plan Y/n. You'd make a pretty good trapper." Fred says impressed. 

"I'll leaving the trapping to you in future." Y/n says as he hands Fred the disk piece then slowly ascends the stairs. As he does the ghost tires to scare him by speaking in whispered tones but Y/n doesn't care as he reaches it.

"It's over Pericles..." Y/n says pulling the cloak's hood down and revealing Professor Pericles.

"Well, Hello. children. How did you know?" He asks slightly impressed. 

 "Simple. There are only two brains large enough, beside my own that could have pulled this off." Velma says. "We found the Trojan horse program you put on Fred's laptop." 

"The one that let you control Fred's traps remotely." Daphne adds.

"Fred really should have come up with a more secure password than...trappin guy." Professor Pericles elaborates and Y/n shakes his head that his guess earlier was actually correct. 

"Once you had control of the traps it was, like totally simple to simulate a haunting and terrify the mayor." Shaggy says. 

"Your Avian attributes helped provide the means for you ghostly disguise to float like a real ghost would." Y/n says.

"Too bad your diet gave you away." Daphne says. 

" What can I say, A bird's got to eat." Professor Pericles chuckles. 

"It still doesn't explain where my dad is and why you were haunting him." Fred says now. 

"Why do you think? I wanted his piece of the Planispheric disc, of course." Professor Pericles says and Fred looks at the disc in his hands. "I knew he would have it close. I just didn't know where. So I decided to scare it out of him."

"Planispheric disc? But how did you know he had it in the first place?" Fred asks now. 

"Because, Dear Fred. He stole it from me a long time ago." Professor Pericles reveals and Fred looks disappointed. "Don't believe me? Ask him yourself." Professor Pericles says as he pulls himself of his costume and in his claws is a remote control, Before anyone can react he presses a button in and the stairs everyone was stood on turn into a slide and they fall into a large hole at the bottom. Fred had accidently let got of the Planispheric disk piece during his fall and Pericles seized his opportunity as he grabs it. "I am the smartest criminal parrot in the world. Did you not think I would have a back up plan." He laughs as he hovers above the hole. "Until we met again...auf wiedersehen, Mystery Incorporated." He says before he flies away. 

The gang had landed in the basement on a pile of old mattresses. Daphne had fallen on top of Y/n while Velma had done the same to Shaggy. 

"Did you know we were standing on a trap?" Scooby asks Fred. 

"Honestly, there's so many in the house. I've kind of lost track." Fred says.

Y/n groans as he sits up slightly with Daphne falling into lap. "I really dislike that parrot..." He sighs. "This is my fault, I should have guessed it would not be that simple to trap Pericles."

"Are you kidding? That was awesome Y/n." Fred says. 

"You did great." Daphne says wrapping her arms around his neck and hugging him. 

The moment is ruined however when the sounds of muffled grunting can be heard. 

"Zoinks! Another ghost." Shaggy says as he tightly hugs Velma terrified.

"Wait, Dad!" Fred says quickly getting up now. He rushes over to the where the muffled grunts are coming from and sees a figure covered by a sheet. Fred pulls it off to reveal his dad who was tied up. "Dad! You're okay." 

"Dimpled puppet eggs, Fred, I am clearly not okay. Untie me." Mayor Jones says and Fred quickly does so as the gang get up now. 

"The house wasn't haunted at all, It was Professor Pericles." Fred says. 

"Pericles? Are you sure?" Mayor Jones asks worried. "Did he get the...

"Planispheric disc that you had hidden in the safe in your room? Yes." Y/n starts. "He says, That you stole it from him." Y/n points to Mayor Jones.

"That...That's absurd. We confiscated it from him years ago, when we locked him up. I felt it best to keep it here. Safe. That's why I went back for it." Mayor Jones says.

"Why would Professor Pericles want that piece of the disc so badly?" Y/n asks now putting pressure on him. 

"How should I know?" Mayor Jones chuckles nervously. "Are you kids implying something? Because if you are..."

"No, No dad. We're all just really happy you're okay. That's what important. Right gang? The Mystery is over." Fred says to them but none of them look sure. 

"No. This mystery is far from over." Y/n says.     

And that's the chapter! So events of the past are beginning to unravel but what does this mean for the Mystery Gang? If you liked this chapter or just the story in general then please don't forget to leave a vote and a comment as it really helps and I shall see you all next week in....

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