Shaggy's Showdown

chapter 12

"Looks like florid acid," Tawny observed the clue that the others had brought to her. "We use it as a pesticide. But I dunno why it would've been where ya found it, that's right peculiar."

"Do you know of anyone who has a grudge against you or the ranch?" Katrina asked.

"Oh, I sure hope not," Tawny frowned. "We're struggling enough as it is. I've worried about losin' the ranch for a long time. It's the only home I've ever known. This ghost is just the last straw."

"Well, don't worry," Lil coaxed. "We'll take care of it."

"Thanks, partners," Millie replied. "We could use all the help we can get."

"I'm not afraid of any ghost, right, Scoob?" Shaggy asked.

"Reah," Scooby nodded. "Re reither."

Carol moaned and groaned as she had a bucket on her head and she was covered in milk as she wandered around. Shaggy and Scooby screamed and jumped into Jess's arms as he was coming back.

"I got you! I got you good!" Carol teased her sister.

Sharon took the bucket off her head with a smirk. "You totally got me! You got me good!"

The two sisters soon laughed to each other.

"And I'll get you a mop and some cleaning rags so you clean up that paint." Millie told the sisters.

"She totally got us." Carol and Sharon pouted before walking away together.

The Gunderson family soon came into a carriage.

"Hey, ain't you the cook?" Chicken asked.

"Well, I'm also the stagecoach driver." The cook replied as he walked to the stagecoach.

"Sorry about that," Shaggy told the others after the cook dropped them. "I just wish there was something I could do. If only Dapper Jack hadn't been so evil, maybe people wouldn't be so afraid of him."

"We'll figure this out, Shag," Mike promised. "Don't worry."

"Like, I sure hope you're right, Mike." Shaggy replied.

"Trust me on this one." Mike soothed.

"Hogwash!" Zeke muttered. "The whole town has been nuked around the legend of Dapper Jack! But that's all it is, a legend, it's all just a bunch of stories, but it's not true... None of it!" he then began to brush against the stables. "Take it from someone who knows the truth."

"Uh, do you know that you're brushing a fence?" Mike asked the old man.

"No good talkin' candy cane." Zeke muttered.

Meanwhile in town...

People all over were getting ready to leave as it looked like a literal ghost town now. The girls, minus Mike, Lil, and Katrina, noticed everyone was putting signs up.

"What kind of museum sells bait?" Ellody asked.

"One that's near a fishin' shop, and wants to make money?" Jade suggested.

"Well, yeah, it's a tourist town," Cindy added. "Come on."

"Actually, why don't you, Velma, and Ellody see what you can learn about Dapper Jack in there and Daphne and I can ask the local merchants?" Jade suggested as she looked at a dress shoppe.

"Daphne, you want that outfit, don't you?" Cindy asked.

"IT'S SO CUTE!" Daphne gushed.

"Oh, my gosh, it totally is!" Lisa added.