What if the 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo was different?

Obligatory Meme preface…

In the 1960’s Hanna Barbarah gave us the teen detective team of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and the much loved Scooby Doo… In the 1970’s they started experimenting with co-stars, other dogs from Scooby’s Family and eventually bringing in Scrappy Doo (One of the most divisive characters in the franchise). During the 1980s there were a few Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy stand alone TV movies… And then the “13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo”, in the late 80’s early 90’s they went back in time with “A Pup Named Scooby Doo”. The set up of the pilot for the “13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo” is Shaggy, Daphne, Scooby and Scrappy on a plane trying to get to Hawaii… but they end up in the Himalayas because Scooby is reading the maps and then crash land, and make their way to a Classic Horror Movie European Villiage. In the village they meet the one Asian kid among the European (werewolf) Peasants and flee to the Tibetan Monastery, where they open the Chest of Demons and the last re-occurring cast member (Vincent Van Ghoul) joins them with instructions on how to catch the ghosts and lock the chest back up.

Now in the series, it is shown that Shaggy and Daphne live together (and by extension Scooby, Scrappy and Flim-Flam) in their own house, and it is implied that Shaggy and Daphne are a couple… And that has lead to the fan theory that the Trip to Hawaii was for Shaggy and Daphne to elope for a destination wedding/honeymoon.

What If… ?

What if Shaggy and Daphne got married at a very different ancient and haunted “Monastery”?

[Based in part on an awesome picture by Exxxidor]

Aboard the “Flying Mystery Machine”

“Well Gang, like here we are…” Shaggy looked out the window of the cockpit of the old prop cargo plane they had gotten, “Honalulu Hawaii! Oh boy, just get a load of those white sandy beaches.”

“Look again Limberg,” Daphne said from the seat behind Shaggy, “That’s not sand, that snow…”

“Alright? Who is the wise guy that moved Hawaii?” Scrapy asked as he bounced on Daphne’s lap.

Scooby started to sing while strumming a cheap kids guitar.

Daphne got up and leaned forward to look at the Co-Piolt’s seat where Scooby sat with the map in front of him.

“Scooby you’re the navigator,” Daphne started to ask Scooby, “Where’s the map to Honolulu?”

“Ronaruru? Er, right rere,” Scooby said picking up the map.

Daphne grabbed the map and looked at it. She folded it and looked at Scooby.

“Scooby this a flight path map to Harlem Holand,” Daphne said more annoyed than angry.

“Harlem? Honolulu? What’s the difference?” Shaggy chuckled.

“They are on the opposite sides of the earth,” Daphne noted with her hands on her hips.

Scooby put his paws over his ears and shrunk in his seat.

“Opps?” Scooby said apologeticly.

“Oh, it’s all right Scooby, I guess we are having a European get away…” Daphne said as she rubbed his head.

“Like what’s this blinking light?” Shaggy asked.

“What light?” Daphne asked.

“Ruht?” Scooby looked at the blinking red light and then pulled out the manual, “Rumber Rirty Reven, Rumber Rirty Reven… Ruel Reserve Railure…”

“Fuel Reserve failure?” Daphne and Shaggy shouted in unison.

“But the fuel gauge is half full,” Shaggy said as he tapped the gauge, “Like oh no, it was stuck.”

The now loose needle drooped below the big “E” at the bottom of the gauge.

The sound of sputter caught the gang’s attention.

“Ruht Roo,” Scooby said as the blades one the right wing started to slow down.

“We lost engine one,” Daphne spoke everyone’s thought.

“Like this is not the time to panic Scoob,” Shaggy said as he held onto the controls, “We still got engine two…”

The sputtering of an engine and loss of propeller noises told Shaggy that he was wrong.

“Like now is the time to panic,” Shaggy coolly noted.

Shaggy and Scooby jumped up and hugged each other. The plane’s nose started to tilt down.

“Like we’re in serious trouble here,” Shaggy said as he pulled back on the controls trying to keep the plane level.

“Here, let me help!” Daphne said, “Scrappy find the landing gear controls.”

“Check,” the miniature Great Dane said grabbing the book, “Buckle up Uncle Scooby!”

“Like that looks like a highway,” Shaggy noted a long stretch of flat open ground.

“Well it’s better than those woods over to the right…” Daphne noted, “We could use the landing gear…”

“Landing Gear Down,” Scrappy said, “And these are the brakes…”

“Like buckle up yourself Scrappy,” Shaggy said, “We got this, right Daph?”

“Right Shaggy,” Daphne called back.

The plane came down and touched down on the road way…

“Rit rhe rakes,” Scooby bellowed

“We are hitting the brakes!” Shaggy called back.

“That white sand is ice and snow!” Daphne added.

The four yelled as the plane skidded down the empty road way…

{Insert Bumper with Scooby Sniffing a tail laying on the floor}

*

{Insert a Return to our show Bumper with a gagged Scrappy}

The Twin engine cargo plane came to a halt just short of a narrow in the road way created by trees. Inside there was gasps of relief as the four looked around at each other.

“Like is everyone alright?” Shaggy asked.

“Yes. But next time I am the navigator…” Daphne rolled her eyes.

“Rorry,” Scooby sang from the passenger’s seat.

“Is it me or is it getting darker?” Scrappy asked looking out a window.

“You’re not wrong,” Shaggy said.

“Look, up that hill,” Daphne said.

“Is that like a haunted church?” Shaggy asked.

“Looks like they are turning on lights,” Daphne reassured Shaggy, “How many ghosts turn on lights.”

“Like ok, we have spare jackets in the back,” Shaggy got up.

*

“Rappy?” Scooby called as the miniature Great Dane disappeared in the snow.

“I’m fine Uncle Scooby,” Scrappy barked as he stuck his head out of the snow, “It’s just a bit deep right here.”

Scooby jumped into the snow under the hatch and then Shaggy got down and sat on the floor of the plane and then jumped down. He turned and held out his hands to help Daphne down.

“Oh that’s cold!” Daphne said as her feet sank into the snow.

“Don’t you have boots?” Scrappy asked.

“No, we were suppose to go to Hawaii, I didn’t pack snow boots,” Daphne said.

“Roory,” Scooby apologized again.

“Well at least we are safe, and the snow isn’t as deep once we get away from where the plane pushed it up…” Shaggy noted.

The four walked to a off ramp to the left towards the hill. They found a strange structure covered in snow.

“What is it?” Scrappy asked.

Shaggy reached out and brushed the snow off it.

“It’s a road block,” Shaggy pronounced as he walked around it.

He kept brushing and cleared off part of a notice on the side away from the highway.

“Like what does it say?” Shaggy asked.

“I don’t read German,” Daphne noted, “Wait, brush the next line…”

“Is that a British flag?” Shaggy asked.

“Yes,” Daphne said before she read the notice, “It says to take the detour since the highway is under construction.”

“Hay what is this?” Scrappy asked.

Shaggy and Daphne turned and looked at another sign further back. The pair went over around the front of the sign and brushed off the snow stuck to the face.

“Here it says that due to weather, the highway is still closed, please continue to use detour,” Shaggy read the English part.

“Well it looks like this road went right up to the church,” Daphne pointed up one road path.

“Come on,” Scrappy said.

*

The Church was almost a castle by itself. There was a large front door.

“Should we knock?” Daphne asked.

“Ok,” Scrappy said and walked over and hit the door with his fist, “Anyone home?”

The door opened and a woman a bit taller than Shaggy looked at the group on the door step and said something that no one understood. She was clad in a long black dress with a black and white hood covering her head leaving her face open. She was a nun.

“We are sorry, we had a slight mishap and need to use a phone…” Daphne said.

“Amerikan?” the woman asked.

“Yes?” Shaggy asked as much as answered.

The woman said something else and was clearly gesturing for them to come inside. There was a short exchange between the tall nun at the door and another woman coming down a hall way.

“What seems to be the matter?” another nun said as she came over.

“We, like, ran out of gas on the highway,” Shaggy said to the new nun.

“But the Highway is closed,” the Nun furrowed her eyebrows.

“Yes, that’s why we had to use it for an emergency landing…” Daphne murmured with a guilty tone.

“Oh my,” the Nun said, “Well lets get some warm food in you. This way.”

*

Shaggy and Scooby were enjoying their bowls of soup.

“So why was that nun that opened the door so tall?” Scrappy asked.

“She is Dutch,” the nun smiled.

“Like, what kind of answer is that?” Shaggy said.

“A truthful one, the Dutch are renowned across Europe as the tallest people in Europe. When we have occasion to go into town, they can tell which sisters are from foreign countries by our height,” the Nun shrugged.

“So we are in Dutch-land?” Scrappy was confused.

“No Scrappy, the Dutch are the people that live in Holland,” Daphne corrected the little dog.

“And the formal name of Holland is The Kingdom of the Netherlands,” the Nun finished, “It all goes back centuries. But back to the present, what brings you to our convent?”

“We were trying to fly to Hawaii, but got the flight plans to Harlem Holland instead,” Daphne sighed as she ate a spoonful of the soup.

“What’s a convent?” Scrappy asked.

“You have heard of a Monastery and their resident Monks, right?” the Nun asked.

“Yeah…” Scrappy said.

“Well a Convent is a Monastery for Nuns,” the Nun said, “Now why were you two young folks flying to Hawaii by yourselves? And remember it is bad to lie to a Nun in a convent.”

“Yeah, like, Daphne and I were planning to get married without our families knowing,” Shaggy tried to return to hard gaze of the few nuns who were watching him.

“Really?” Scrappy exclaimed, “You two were going to get married? When was the wedding planned for? Was I going to be the ring barer?”

“Rah,” Scooby licked his lips, “Rey rure roing ro ro rit rhile re rere rin ronuntine.”

“Why would they do that Uncle Scooby?” Scrappy asked.

“So you wouldn’t freak out and tell the entire convent?” Daphne put her hands over her face.

Another nun came over and looked at the group before speaking to the American Nun.

“Sister Anita,” the Nun started in accented English before switching to an odd form of German, that Daphne didn’t understand.

Sister Anita clasped her hands in front of her and sat up.

“Sister Marelina wanted to make sure she understood what was said, English is her fourth langue,” the English speaking Nun said clearly, “You two were going to Hawaii to get married?”

“Like, yes… that isn’t a problem… I hope,” Shaggy said nerviously.

“Splendid, we have not celebrated a wedding in some time,” Sister Anita smiled before turning and saying something to Sister Marelina.

“You are not mad?” Daphne asked slightly shocked.

“We are Nuns,” Sister Marelina said with her thick accent, “Not Robot.”

An old woman came over and looked at the guests before she turned and said something to Sister Anita, Anita responded back in Dutch.

“This is Mother Superior Bernadate,” Anita said, “She has a few questions…”

The one woman just asked one work.

“She wants to know if you have already started having sex,” Sister Anita stated flatly.

Both Shaggy and Daphne couldn’t look at the nuns and rather looked down in their laps.

“Res,” Scooby said in a mater of fact tone.

Anita nodded and the Mother Superior asked another word.

“Are you pregnant?” Sister Anita pointed the question at Daphne.

“No, no, not yet…” Daphne at first was sharp but softened in her denial, “We talked about it, but want to be married first…”

Sister Anita relayed the response and the old Nun seemed to just nod. She asked something else and it seemed directed at Daphne.

“Do you have a wedding dress?” Sister Anita asked.

“Ah…” Daphne was like a deer caught in headlights, “The plan was for a beach side wedding in bathing suits…”

Sister Anita relayed the response, but this time the Mother Superior didn’t say anything at first, then after a long, dreadfully long pause, she snorted and started to chuckle behind a hand. She mumbled as much as laughed something to Sister Anita.

“She says that we can make the chapel as hot as you want with our furnace, but she doesn’t suggest going swimming afterwards,” Anita chuckled.

Both Shaggy and Daphne grinned.

“Like I think we will hold off on the swimming until we find a nice indoor heated pool,” Shaggy turned to Daphne, “That sound good to you?”

“Yes,” Daphne gave Shaggy a light kiss on the lips.

She turned red and looked at the nuns watching her.

“We aren’t the puritans, but that comes to another point,” Sister Anita smiled, “Tonight Miss Blake will have a cell among us nuns… Mister Rogers, and the Misters Doo can use a special room off the Priest’s changing room next to the chapel. It was put there in the event that a Priest or other male guests had to stay the night here in the event of bad weather.”

*

Daphne smiled at the sisters as they opened the door for her. In the room there was a bed, a set of dressers, a desk with a chair, a lamp and a clock right on the edge of the desk next to the bed.

“We don’t have much use for mirrors,” a Scottish Nun smiled, “There are towels, a bathrobe, and slippers in the bottom drawer, a prayer book and such in the top drawer of course. I have the room right across the hall. I will come wake you in the morning.”

“Thank you,” Daphne smiled.

She sat down on the brown blankets of the bed and poked it with her hand. The mattress was firm. Well tomorrow she would be Mrs. Daphne Rodgers. They had already made arrangements with the town register and a local hotel by phone. She would have her Wedding Night there with Shaggy. And there was nothing her father could say about it at this point. She took off the slippers that she had been given and pulled off her pink jumpsuit. She looked in the middle drawer and was relieved to see some rather plain granny panties and bra more or less in her size. A sort of flannel tunic was there as well. Daphne grabbed what she needed from the bottom drawer and went to the bathroom and shower at the end of the hall.

*

Shaggy and Scooby looked around the room.

“There is a toilet around here and the whole area there is the shower, I know these European showers took some time to get use to,” Sister Becky smiled.

She had been sent as a native English speaker to show Shaggy to the room, turns out she was from a town outside of near Boston.

“Yeah, I kind of learn that the first time Daphne dragged us to Europe.

“You have traveled before,” Sister Becky asked.

“A rit,” Scooby chimed in.

“Well if the boys need to go out, that door leads to a small garden, but I wouldn’t mess with the locked gate,” Sister Becky pointed.

“Like, locked gate?” Shaggy asked.

“Yes, we keep it chained,” Sister Beck said, “It was put there in the sixteen hundreds, that served as a path for the priest to do funerals.”

“Funerals?” Shaggy’s ears perked up as his goose bumps tingled.

“This Convent has been here since the fourteenth century,” Sister Becky said, “How old do you think we nuns get?”

“Yeah, silly me,” Shaggy said, “There aren’t any stories of the ghosts in the graveyard, are there?”

“No, why do you ask?” Sister Becky responded.

“Rust recking,” Scooby breathed a sigh.

“Did you want me to take a look at the gate in the morning? When did it break, last week?” Shaggy tried to change the subject.

“It was broken in the winter of 1944,” Sister Becky gravely said, “We leave it as a memorial of sort…”

“Oh, never mind, Ah look here is an alarm clock, when should I set it for?” Shaggy changed the subject again.

“Six is when the rooster crows and we start our day here,” Sister beck smiled, “I will be locking the chapel door… it is not that we don’t trust you…”

“Like it is fine,” Shaggy smiled, “We get it, you’re nuns, right Scooby?”

“Right,” Scooby sat up, “Rood Right Rister Recky.”

“Good night Mister Rodgers, and to you Mister Doo, mister Doo,” Sister Becky smiled and exited the chamber.

“Hay Shaggy, what is so special about the winter of 44?” Scrappy asked.

“You know those World War 2 films you love?” Shaggy said.

“Yeah Americ-Pup! He is my hero, after Uncle Scooby,” Scrappy said.

“Well each one of those movies happened between the Summer of 1944 and the Summer of 1945 here in Europe,” Shaggy said, “And from how she said it, I think the Gate was one of the victims of the war.”

“Oh… I don’t get it,” Scrappy said.

“Look Scrappy, if you need to out, now is the time, because I am about to get a shower and hit the sack,” Shaggy said.

*

Scrappy paced around as Shaggy and Scooby laid in bed sleeping. He looked at a map Shaggy had found while he and Scooby were “Outside”. Scrappy couldn’t read it, but it looked like the maps in the Americ-pup movies and he was right near the place where Americ-Pup fought the evil Marshal Mench! Behind him a hand reached out… a Steel ball baring sat on a shelf. With the flick of a finger the ball baring bounced off the wall behind it and out into the room, striking Scrappy in the back of the head. The miniature Dane slumped over and into sleep.

“You are no pure and chaste priest,” the figure said looking down over the sleeping man, “But you and your wife will become my prophets…”

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