Summer Meets Scooby Doo! and the Witch's Ghost

**Summer Meets Scooby Doo! and the Witch's Ghost** is an episode of the 3rd season of Summer's Adventures Series. It's one of the first of a few adventures where Terra, Ventus, and Aqua join alongside their friend/niece figure and the first to include Oswald and Ortensia joining along after Summer's Adventures in Epic Mickey 1 & 2.

## Summary

The autumn season has came upon the Toon Rangers, and Summer decides that they need some sort of a break from dealing with villains, so the team (Alongside Donald, Goofy, Terra, Ventus, and Aqua) travel to the cozy town of Oakhaven, where they first encounter Mystery Inc! But when they arrive, something ghostly is afloat, as well as a mysterious dark magic that is casted around the town, with the help of Mystery Inc. Can Summer and the team figure out what's going on, manage to capture the ghost, or is something more sinister being made behind the scenes.

## Plot

After Ben Ravencroft, a famous horror writer of whom Velma Dinkley is a fan, assists her and Mystery Inc. in solving a case at a museum, he invites them to his hometown of Oakhaven, Massachusetts. When they arrive, they find the town's Mayor Corey has converted it into a tourist attraction based on the ghost of Sarah Ravencroft, an ancestor of Ben's who was persecuted as a witch and executed by the Puritan townspeople in 1657. Ben disputes this, claiming that Sarah was a Wiccan who used herbal remedies to heal the less fortunate and that he has spent years searching for her medical journal to prove her innocence.

While Scooby-Doo and Shaggy Rogers are chased by Sarah's ghost, the gang is drawn to the Hex Girls, an all-female gothic rock band led by Sally "Thorn" McKnight, during one of their rehearsals. Fred Jones and Daphne Blake follow Thorn and, upon discovering her seemingly performing a ritual, believe the Hex Girls are witches.

Upon capturing Sarah's ghost, Velma reveals her to be Mr. McKnight, Thorns' father and Oakhaven's pharmacist who dressed up as the ghost as part of a town-wide publicity stunt meant to stimulate Oakhaven's failing tourist economy and that they did so after digging up Sarah's grave despite not finding her body. Additionally, Thorn reveals the "ritual" she was performing was actually an herbal remedy for soothing her vocal cords and that she is 1/16th Wiccan.

Upon realizing that a buckle Scooby found earlier is actually the lock from Sarah's journal, he returns to where he found the lock and digs up Sarah's journal. To the gang's horror, Ben reveals it is a spell book, he is a warlock, the stories of Sarah being a witch are true, and she had been trapped in her spell book by the Wiccans of her time. Furthermore, he engineered the museum mystery to manipulate Mystery Inc. into helping him, and though he did not account for Oakhaven's publicity stunt, used it to his advantage nonetheless. He subsequently awakens his magical powers and releases Sarah in the hopes that she will help him rule the world. However, she chooses to destroy it in retaliation for her imprisonment instead.

Disillusioned, Ben attempts to re-imprison Sarah, but she reveals only a Wiccan can do so and traps him in a magical sphere. Mystery Inc. attempts to get the book back, but Sarah brings several pumpkins and trees to life and enlarges a turkey to stop them. Amidst the chaos, Velma convinces Thorn to re-imprison Sarah. As the plan succeeds, everything Sarah changed is restored, the turkey is freed from her control, and she is pulled back into her book, taking Ben with her. A burning branch falls on the book, incinerating it. Afterwards, Mystery Inc., the townsfolk, and the turkey celebrate with a concert held by the Hex Girls.

## Characters

### Heroes

Summer Lucis Quarles/Caelum

Bugs Bunny

Daffy Duck

Woody and Winnie Woodpecker

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Ortensia the Cat

Donald Duck

Goofy

Terra

Ventus

Aqua

### Villains

Hyena R. Droid

Bendy the Ink Demon

Ben Ravencroft

Sarah Ravencroft

## Transcript

*Summer Meets Scooby Doo! and the Witch's Ghost/Transcript*

## Trivia

* Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Fred become new allies to Summer and the Toon Rangers for the rest of the Adventure Series.
* Ben Ravencroft later gets revived by Dark Summer and becomes a villain ally to her and her empire.