A/N: So, I can't believe that I'm actually posting something lol. Allow me to start off by saying that I'm no writer or literature major despite English being my primary language, so forgive me there. Honestly, more a visual artist than a literature artist so this whole thing is two things for me, 1. exploration into a new medium and 2. creative writing practice. The majority of the things I write usually tend to be things meant for Illustrations so yeah, I expect to be ripped a new one here! Well enough of my babbling, into the trenches, I go! Oh also, sorry about the current sketch for the cover art, it is the most recent little Gravity Falls sketch that I've done and it is the only thing I currently have that can fit the bill, but I plan to draw something more accurate to the story.
The Speedy Beaver bus slowed to a complete stop as it reached its next destination, a single bus stop sign sitting along side an old wooden bench which appears to be in the middle of nowhere. Yet unlike many times before when the bus took this route, there was a small group of individuals anxiously awaiting the buses arrival.
"We have now reached our next stop, Gravity Falls Oregon." The bus driver said over the intercom as the doors to the bus slowly opened.
This prompted the only two passengers to gather their belongings before making way to the front of the bus. The first to reach the driver was a young man, with messy brown hair, brown eyes which felt like they could pierce into the very nature of whoever he fixed his gaze upon, and pale skin. On his head sits his trademark blue and white hat with the minimalistic symbol of a pine tree on it. He wore a similar navy-blue vest but this one seemed to be covered with even more pockets on both the inside and out. The vest itself covered a similar orange T-shirt which had a black minimalistic design of an open book covering the front. On what would be considered the pages of the book, lines of orange could be seen which was meant to represent writing on the page. Covering slightly past his knees were gray cargo shorts and black combat boots.
The young man waved to the bus driver which was only acknowledged with a simple smile and a nod. As he stepped off the bus, the only luggage he seemed to possess was a medium black backpack which was flung over his left shoulder and an Outdoor Sports 80LTravel Hiking Camping Luggage Backpack which he carried in his other hand.
The young man was shortly followed by a young lady. She had long flowing brown hair which reached down to her hips, her brown eyes were filled with blithesome sparkles as the baby face carried a whimsical smile which showed that she still possessed her metal braces. Her body had grown curvier over the years, or at least the bottom half did as her hips and thighs had developed slightly wider than her shoulders and chest making her the prime example of a pear. She wore a large pink sweater that covered down to the middle of her thighs. The sweater itself was covered in a pattern that was reminiscent of a star shower. Whatever pants or skirt she was wearing was completely covered by the pink sweater.
As she reaches the driver, she was carrying multiple backs filled with clothes, crafting supplies, and junk food. This caused the driver to just chuckle before leaving his seat to help the young lady carry her luggage off the bus.
"Dipper, welcome back! I've missed my adorable spellcaster." An alluring voice caught the attention of the Pines boy.
"Well, if it isn't the princess of Gravity Falls herself, Pacifica Pines, I mean Northwest," Dipper said, enticing laughter out of the group before stepping closer and embracing the blonde following with a deep kiss.
"Hey, you two have all summer for that so how about showing the rest of us some love dude," Soos said jokingly, putting his arm around Melody's shoulder.
"GIRLS!" Screamed Mabel, running to embrace Grenda and Candy.
"MABEL" Grenda and Candy screamed as they embraced Mabel and each other, or more accurately as Granda embraced then followed by scooping them up off the ground since she was the biggest person there second only to Soos.
While the three musketeers laughed and greeted each other, Dipper and Pacifica had released each other from their embrace and turned to Soos, Melody, and Wendy while Pacifica interlocked her arm with his.
"Hey, I'm glad to see that you all are still doing OK, how has everything been in town since Mabel and myself left last summer?" Deeper asked nonchalantly.
"Dude, the usual just a random monster or weird occurrence happen here or there, but nothing major," Wendy answered as she crossed her arms while giving the couple a playful smirk.
Not much had changed about Wendy, she still wore the same style of clothing, but her physique had grown more athletic over the years due to the fact she has been more working in the family's lumberjack business.
"Yeah man, the real fun doesn't happen unless the Pines family is here. Like, remember last year when you summoned that God of dead dude, baron whats-his-face?" Soos interjected as he rubbed his face trying to remember.
"Baron Samedi, he is a head of the Guede family of Loa. A very powerful deity from the Vodun religion." Dipper replied with a nervous chuckle as he remembered the event.
"Yes, I would like the request that you do not summon any more deities, demon's, or spirits within the shack, or within twenty miles of me. I still feel those pinches on my bottom that he kept doing and laughing about." Melody stated bluntly as she rubbed her ample bottom followed by Pacifica doing the same while turning her gaze away from Dipper to hide her soft blush.
"One would think a god would perpetrate stereotypes like that one," Pacifica added under her breath.
"Hey, just be called it wasn't Zeus I called too... That wouldn't have ended pretty." Dipper said semi jokingly, but his arm seemed to pull inward as if it was attempting to pull Pacifica into a protective embrace.
"Hey, all this talk of Gods and what not is fun and all, but we all still have to say hi to each other and then Dipper and I need to unpack at the shack!" Mabel said interrupting the current conversation to get a hug from Soos and Melody and then began to stalk around Pacifica like a tiger ready to pounce on its prey.
"M...Mabel, I will sue you! Don't you dare gl..." Before The blonde haired heiress could finish her sentence, the female Pines twin had leaped forward, through in all of her weight into a single sisterly glimpse which dragged Pacifica along with deeper to the ground.
"Mabel, why? Dipper asked as he pulled himself up and then helping Pacifica to her feet.
As he slowly began to help her dust herself off, you started to take in all her features. She painted her beautiful long blonde hair which much like Mabel, reached down to her thighs. Her figure was nigh-idealistic, the textbook definition of an hourglass figure despite the fact Mable beat her in the hip and thighs
department. The feel of her body, even through the fabric that currently covered her body, was soft and tender showing that she was truly someone who took great care in her body, but didn't push it to the point where it would be more reminiscent of an athletic build the dress she wore was a purple, long, sleeveless, backless, velvet dress. Which had a high slit and the "V" in the back of the dress just ending at the lower back.
A cough could be heard coming from Melody, as Dipper finally got a hold of his senses and realized that he had just been staring at Pacifica while brushing the same spot on the side of her hip for about five minutes now to which the blonde didn't mind at all.
"You know, most boyfriends are usually out of the infatuation face after about three years of dating." The heiress said joking as she took him by the collar and started walking to the limo on the other side of the street.
All of Mabel's luggage had already been loaded into the trunk, Grenda, Mabel, Candy, and Wendy were also already seated in the limo while Soos and Melody were now making their way there just a few steps ahead of the two.
"My family is having another dinner party tonight, and since you just got back into town I won't be dragging you to this one."
Dipper's eyes shot wide open as he mentally begins to thank every god of mercy that he could possibly remember. Which wasn't many since his eyes were transfixed on the exaggerated sway of his girlfriend's hips.
"But don't think you're free, we will be having dinner with my parent's tomorrow evening. The limo and I will be at the shack around 6 pm, the dinner with my parents will be at 7 pm. I'm sure you'll need a refresher in table etiquette and just getting you in a tux alone will take about 30minutes." She stated without looking back at him, but Dipper could tell that a small and slightly alluring smile was forming on her face as she spoke about getting him into a tux.
"It only takes that long because someone likes to help me get..." Before he could finish, she continued this time looking back playfully showing that she was going to help him get 'dressed' again.
"Also, this time there will also be no talismans, no runes, no charms, no enchanted items of any sorts! No spell book and yes that includes those journals you've been using to create your own spells. No chants, no incantations, no hexes or curses, rituals, nothing magical or paranormal during quality time with my family."
Under any other circumstance, he would never agree to such a requirement, but this was Pacifica Northwest he was dealing with here, his girlfriend of what is going on of three years. On top of that, despite the fact she was able to get from under the elitist control that her parents had on her when she was young; she was still a Northwest and still possessed the skills to get her way when needed. Especially when it came to Dipper Pines, though she had never abused the ability she possessed to entice the boy she did find it fun to tease him from time to time.
"So, does my little wizard understand?" She asked in an almost sultry voice.
"Uh huh" He simply replied while nosing, still focusing on her hypnotic hips climb into the limo, taking a seat by Mabel who along with Grenda, Candy, Wendy, and Melody playfully laughed out how bewitching Pacifica could be if she wanted to.
The limo ride to the Mystery Shack had been quite a pleasant one. Talk ensued between the group, Pacifica talking about the dinner parties and dances with Grenda, Candy, and Mabel. Dipper explaining more about the occult with Soos, Wendy, and Melody. especially Melody who seem to grow more and more interested each year in the things that Dipper had learned to do. At first, she was quite skeptical a few years ago because while she did have to deal with a sentient killer AI on her first date with Soos, that was still scientific. A computer program created by the hands of man, regardless of how it might have gained its sentience. Even the single eyed demon that brought madness to the town many years ago was a being of another dimension. But, Dipper was just an ordinary human. The concept of magic done by men in the real world were just illusions and trickery.
As the years going went on and Melody saw the things that Dipper was messing with, her disbelief slowly faded but her worry and concern for him grew since some of these things were unknown to men for a reason.
The limo finally pulled up the Mystery Shack, and everyone helped the Pines twins carry their luggage into their home away from home. Ever since the twins turned fifteen, they had stopped sharing a room. The old to that the twins use to share became Mabel's room and Ford had given Dipper the watch that gave him access to what use to be forwards private study which Dipper had long since converted into both his bedroom and private study which only Mabel, Soos, Melody, and Pacifica had access to at any time of the day even when he wasn't there.
Dipper and Pacifica were in his makeshift 'Batcave', the blonde heiress was sitting on his bed watching him as he pulled the books out of his pack and sat them on his desk. Pacifica could instantly tell what the books were, just by the custom bound handmade leather journals that she bought for him on his last three birthdays. He had turned them to his own personal journals which are filled from page to page with everything from incantations to instructions on how to enchant items to influence the world around them positively or negatively.
"So, Mr. Pines." The blonde said with a hint of playfulness.
"Yes, Mrs. Pines?" The brown haired individual responded with the same playful manner.
"Mrs. Pines, I've always enjoyed the sound of that." She chuckled at the thought of marriage.
"I would have to pull off something monumental just to get your parents blessing for our wedding. Just remember what I had to do just to get them to be accepting of our relationship." He replied as the two started reminiscing back to when they were fourteen.
Flashback
After the events of Weirdmageddon, the Northwest had to sell the pride of their families fortune just to maintain their status as millionaires, the Northwest Manor. During this time of financial and political weakness, many of the Northwest business and social opponents moved against him to oppose every opportunity for the family to regain its once grand social and financial standings among the social elite.
Preston and Priscilla sat together in the den of a moderate to high class looking house that Preston had paid a decent sum to have built for his family. The two were sharing a bottle of Dom Perignon Brut Rose Champagne 1996 when they heard their daughter call out to them.
"Mom...Dad... I need to talk with you." Called out Pacifica as she walked into the den.
"Not now Pacifica, daddy is trying to relax after dealing with the snakes trying to stop the Northwest return to their proper place on top of the social elite!" He stated before taking another sip from his glass while his daughter just sighed in dismay.
"Fine, I'll make this quick. I like this boy and he likes me. Despite everything that had happened to us and between us all. You're still my parents and I still care for you two deeply. I want your acceptance and approval of our relationship." She stated, with only her mother noticing the increasing amount of cheerfulness in her daughter's voice as she spoke and waved in the boy.
"Absolutely not!" Preston stood up out of his seat and made his way over to the two.
"But fath..."
"Due to our current position, I have been lenient on you for many things! The rabble you choose to surround yourself with. The rabble infested places that you choose to visit, and even the music that you choose to listen too, that 'hip hop' and that 'rock and roll'" Preston said as he began to massage his temple. "But this, this is where I draw the line! You'll end this immediately and that will be all I will hear of it. Preston gave his daughter a stern look.
"B..but da.." She tried to argue but Preston wouldn't let her get another word in edgewise.
"I said no more! Now begone from my sights, and take this trash back to the gutter from which you picked it. The elder gentlemen said coldly as he made way back to his seat to take another sip from his glass.
The blonde haired teenager stood there, fighting back the tears slowly forming at the bottom of her eyes before Dipper placed a warm comforting hand on her shoulder.
"It's alright Pacifica, I expected this to happen. Now it's my turn to speak, do just dry your tears." He smiled at her before turning his attention to Mr. Northwest. "Well Mr. Northwest, you had always struck me as an 'intelligent' man but I guess I was wrong." Both Priscilla and Pacifica looked at Dipper with a great deal of shock on their faces.
"What did you say to me, boy?" Preston said as he sat the glass down and made his way back over to Dipper.
"I said an intelligent man would first humor the would be suitor on what he actually has to offer for your daughter," Dipper said as he stood his ground. He knew that he would need to carefully choose his words, playing on Mr. Northwest's pride was the bait and now he needed to carefully pull the bait away far enough so that he couldn't snatch it while remaining interested enough to entertain the thought him his head.
"Rabble like you have nothing to offer the Northwest Family. You're either just trying to waste my time or you're truly delusional." Preston scoffed.
"This very rabble not too long ago saved the life of the Northwest Family. This rabble this very year can possibly save it again." Dipper replied looking Preston sternly into the eyes.
"Oh, really boy, and do tell how do you plan to do that?" Preston said smirking while he folded his arms.
'Got him,' Dipper thought to himself before continuing. "A man of your stature no doubt have many enemies who stand in your way and due to the events of last year, you have seen things that most in your social class would only call a child's fairytale.
"Get to the point boy!" Preston said
"Well, I can offer you something that they cannot contest against." He then reached into the neck of his shirt and pulled out two gemstones that he was wearing on strings as a necklace; a Bloodstone and Celestite gemstone,"Thaumaturgy!"
As Dipper spoke, the deep green and red Bloodstone started glowing a light that was varying in its wavelength of the two colors, purifying Preston's and Priscilla's body of intoxication from the alcohol they were consuming before he had arrived. While the light from the sky-blue stone was calming the mind and emotions of everyone it touched.
The hurt that Pacifica was feeling just moments before had quickly drained from her while the light was making the callous Mr. Northwest more open to reason.
"So, how about we make a deal Mr. Northwest if I could use my knowledge to help you regain some of your lost fortunes then you'll not only stand down but publicly show support for our relationship. If my magic fails, then you'll leave Pacifica, no not just her but this will be the last summer Gravity Falls will ever see Dipper Pines again. So, what do you say, do we have a deal?" Dipper asked holding out his hand.
"DIPPER, NO!" Pacifica screamed, but as soon as anxiety and fear entered into her mind and body, the light of the Celestite crystal washed it away.
Preston only stared down at the Pines boy for what seemed to everyone in the room to be an eternity before a smile appeared on his face and he reached forward, taking Dipper's hand in his hand and shaking it.
"Well then Mr. Pines, return here tomorrow at this time and my lawyer will have the contract for this agreement written up for us. Now, I believe that you know the way out, I would much prefer to use what little time I have left of my relaxation period before I have to get back to my business engagements." Preston said, releasing the young Pines hands and returning to his seat.
Flashback Ends