Hunter's Shadow

Chapter thirty-four

" What just happened?" Fred asked realizing he had a bloody nose. You felt like you needed to say something since at this point they had seen pretty much everything. 

"Where's Rhaggy?" Scooby asked looking around for his best friend. You suddenly remembered that he got thrown out the window and saw Shaggy hanging onto a beam for dear life outside. Your scream altered everyone else to what you were seeing and Scooby jumped after his best friend, once he began falling. Castiel followed them both using his wings to slow down their fall, despite that Shaggy still got his arm broken. Shaggy is laying on the ground, moaning and holding his arm, the remainder of the gang came running outside. 

"Shaggy are you okay!?" Daphne asked. 

"Like, do I look like I'm okay?" Shaggy sarcastically asked. 

"It appears his arm is broken," Castiel explained. 

"What? That's not -- I have jumped out of a biplane in a museum and was fine!" Shaggy exclaimed. "How did this happen?!" Velma made Shaggy a sling while her friends tried to process what had happened. 

"I don't I...Something threw me across the room," Fred said still a bit shaken. At least his nose wasn't bleeding anymore, realizing that they needed to know the truth you pulled on your Dad's arm. 

"Dean, we have to tell them the truth," Sam said picking up on what you were trying to say. 

"What truth?" Daphne asked. 

"The truth about the phantom," you finally said. It felt good to finally tell the truth, even though the entire gang blinked at you like you were crazy. 

" Look, this phantom isn't like other ghosts you've faced. He's real, he is a real ghost," Dean explained. 

"Huh?" The Scooby gang asked standing up. 

"I'm totally not following you," Fred admitted. 

"Look, that isn't a guy in a mask and a costume. It's a vengeful spirit that's come back from the dead," Sam explained. Velma took her glasses and asked if everything he had told her up in the attic had been true. You wondered exactly what had happened up there but you didn't have time to think about it, since the entire gang began to freak out once your Dad nodded. You stood there unsure what to say and thought that maybe telling the truth hadn't been the best move. 

": We've been stopping real estate developers when we could've been hunting Dracula?" Fred asked as he banged his head against a tree. " Are you kidding me?!" he continued. "My life is meaningless," 

"Now I wouldn't say that," you said trying to help them feel better.

"If there are ghosts... that means there's an afterlife. Heaven. Hell. Am I going to hell?!" Daphne screamed. 

" We told you every freaking time! But did you ever listen to Scoob and me? No!" Shaggy exclaimed. 

" We're doomed," Scooby added in. 'Oh dear,' you thought to yourself. Luckily your uncle managed to boost their confidence after an inspirational pep talk. 

" All right, knock it off! Come on! Scooby Gang does not have nervous breakdowns," Dean said sternly. "Now you may not have tangled with the supernatural, but you've fought monsters, real freakin' psychos." he continued. "Well, you stopped Zeke and Zeb. Shaggy figured out that the sharks Old Iron Face rode were really just torpedoes disguised to look like sharks," he kept going. " And what about the Black Knight? Huh? Mamba Wamba?" 

"The Space Kook," Sam added in. A sudden thought came to your mind as he said that and you remembered for a brief second reading picture books about the Scooby gang.