Me: Well... what's there to say for this... pretty much... nothing. I'm sitting here and I write and that's it. It's just another 'I'm away from 4.10 - 9.10.' update.

Apps: Scooby Doo does not belong to her property.

Invy: What a boring beginning.

Me: Well, at least I'm writing one, many other authors only write a short note or, sometimes, there's nothing like it.

Invy: Ugh! That's so silly. The comments are fun to write!

Me: My speech. Oh. This chapter's going to contain more action and hardcore Shaggy ^^

If they would have asked themselves what had caused the whole mess later, they wouldn't find an answer.

Maybe it was the strange thing, to humans known as dog, but with dinosaurs totally unknown.

The dog's scent maybe. Or generally its presence.

Maybe the dinosaurs had sensed something, some danger, humans were not able to sense.

But whatever it was, it had happened.

When Scooby, smelling Shaggy's scent, had strolled off, he had gotten between the dinosaurs unknowingly and unwillingly. He simple got there.

Then, something went through the dinosaurs, which Velma would later refer to as triceratops. It was like an invisible bolt hitting all of them at the same time, making them look up in a fast move.

That was the moment, Scooby realized where exactly he was. He sensed the tension between the animals around him and knew, that one false move could bring the wild drove to snap and run. What would be pretty bad in Scooby's situation, since he was right in the middle and at least one half of the dinosaurs had to pass him when they would run. The problem was, that the triceratops wouldn't care to pass him if they would be panicked.

Not daring to move one muscle, Scooby was frozen in the middle, his eyes twitching nervously around, while his body sensed the rising tension between the animals around him.

And then, without any move or anything, no noise, nothing changed, but it snapped. All together, like a well trained show, they began to run.

And all Scooby could do was shivering, as he watched how his probable death came racing towards him.

As Shaggy and Velma came to a large meadow, Velma recognized the dinosaurs on it.

"Triceratops. Herbivores, though, if there's any danger around them, they-"

"Will get pretty mean and use this horn upon their head. I know them, Velma." Shaggy finished her sentence, but Velma knew that he hadn't really wanted to interrupt her, more likely talked to himself as he thought of her words.

"Oh. Yeah. I forget you've been here... long enough." Shaggy flashed her a smile, but suddenly, his expression fell, as he looked at something behind her, something on the meadow.

Turning around, Velma could only see the mass of Triceratops. "Shaggy, what's wrong?"

"There's... Scooby. Damn." he said, as he began to run, simultaneously with the Triceratops.

Velma was, in a loss of words, shocked. From the sudden running of the Triceratops, from the sudden appearance of Scooby and from Shaggy. She would have to get used to 'Hardcore Shaggy' eventually, but it was still strange, how he would rush to a wild mass of animals.

But even stranger was the next thing.

Shaggy, while running, somehow managed to get a rope out of one of his many pockets on his trousers, made a sling and - as unbelievable as it may sound - swung it in the air, the rope flew around one Triceratops' horn and with some more running and a high jump, Shaggy hung on the side of the big dinosaur, quickly scrambled upwards and sat on the back of the animal, holding himself up there with the help of the dinosaurs horn.

If he actually knew that it would bring something or not, Velma would never find out, but then, it didn't matter as she watched him pulling the horn slightly to the left, which brought the dinosaur to run more left, right towards the little spot, where a brown something nervously tried to run.

Scooby hadn't had any chance from the beginning.

He was fast, sure, but the Triceratops were faster, plus, they were in panic.

And at one point, Scooby had no chance to escape. His death near, he closed his eyes, one paw laid over them and got himself ready for getting trampled on. But then, something, or rather, someONE grabbed for his collar, he felt himself lifted in the air and then on something that felt like the back of an animal.

"Scoob? You okay?"

He didn't open his eyes at first, only his nose was stretched forwards slightly and as he took in a deep breath, there were many smells. The dino beneath him, the panic in the air, the grass of the meadow, but over everything was one just too familiar smell.

"RAGGY!"

The Great Dane leapt onto the back of the lanky man sitting in front of him, hugged him (as best as a dog can hug someone) from behind and licked over his ear enthusiastically, seeing that Shaggy's ear was the only thing he could reach to lick over.

Shaggy laughed at the soggy greeting, not only glad that Scooby was indeed okay, but also happy that he was finally united with his best friend.

"Ri've rissed rou." Scooby padded a big tear out of the corner of his eye.

"I've missed you, too, Scoob, but now, we should better do what we can best and, like, get outta here!"

Shaggy pulled the horn to the right, leading the animal slowly to the side of the herd. When he had gotten the animal to the right side, with no other dinosaur between them and the peaceful meadow, Shaggy called out to Scooby.

"Scoob! This gotta be a perfect 'off the dino roll', or else we're screwed!" noticing the fear his companion had, Shaggy carefully got Scooby in front of him. "I won't let anything happen to you, like, you trust me?"

"R-reah." the scared and trembling dog answered immediately.

"Okay." Before he made any other move, Shaggy took the rope off of the horn of the animal and pocketed it again, it could prove itself as useful later. Wrapping his arms around the shivering dog in front of him, he swung the leg which was on the left of the dinosaurs body over to the right before he let himself fall down onto the grass, rolling away from the herd as fast as he could, barely avoiding the legs of some Triceratops that came running after the one he and Scooby had just sat on.

Lying in the grass for some moments, just panting. It took Scooby only these few panting moments of Shaggy to get up and lunge himself at Shaggy to lick the panting man all over the face. Shaggy cracked up laughing as Scooby's tongue swiped over some ticklish spots, but managed to get up eventually, right in time to hear somebody calling his name.

"Shaggy! Scooby!" he swirled around to see Velma running towards him, her face red from running the long way he had been riding on the dinosaur. She arrived, only to pull him down on the grass again as she jumped in a hug, which was soon joined by Scooby, who began to lick Velma's face now.

Laughing, they got up again.

"Scooby? You've got any idea where Fred and Daphne are?" Velma asked him.

The dog nodded, already beginning to ran off into the direction he had last been together with them. Velma and Shaggy, still slightly panting, just looked at each other, shrugged, and ran behind him.

It didn't take them long to see Fred and Daphne, who had been jogging behind the herd when they had noticed that Scooby had left and could've gotten in real danger. Seeing Scooby relieved them, but as soon as they saw Velma and Shaggy, they totally freaked out.

The relieve, the happiness, the joy, everything meaning something like this took over all of them by seeing Mystery Inc. finally reunited and they ended up in a big group hug on the grass.

"You can't believe how glad I am to see you all alive and well, but..." Shaggy said, whose face had began to take on a blue color, because he was the one lying under everyone else. Quickly getting up, everyone stretched his hand out for him and he thankfully grabbed one of them.

"Shaggy! You...Jeepers!" Daphne said as she saw the slightly different looking Shaggy, the bandage and scratches, plus the knife... seemed so out of place. But it just needed one smile of him to get the old Shaggy back.

"I know, Daph." Velma spoke up. "The knife is the strangest thing." she joked about Shaggy's appearance.

"Hey, nothing against the knife. It's a life-saver." Shaggy defended himself, though he knew Velma was only joking.

And Mystery Inc. made their way over the meadow, vaguely wandering back into the direction of their chartered ship.

Invy: Yay! Hardcore Shaggy!

Me: You know how the german version of the 'Ducktales' theme song makes no sense?

Apps: Wrong story...

Me: Indifferent. It's kinda bugging me. In the german version, they sing something about 'Pluto and Goofy - everyone's with you'. But Pluto and Goofy are some of the figures living in Duckburg, who never made ONE appearance in the whole show. Where's the sense?

Invy: Yeah, that's... senseless.

Me: See?

Apps: It's up to me again, I believe. Please leave a review. You know you want to write one.

Me: *cough* No, I'm not watching Ducktales.... okay, okay. But just sometimes. Rarely. Only when I've got the sudden urge to.

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