A/N: I don't own Gravity Falls or Nightmare Before Christmas
Chapter One: This is Summerween
Our story begins in a strange forest where six trees stand in a circle with large doors that are shaped like holidays, and then a voice is heard.
T'was a long time ago
Longer now that it seems
In a place that perhaps you've seen in your dreams
For the story you are about to be told
Took place in the holidays world of old
Now you've probably wondered where holidays have come from
If you haven't I say it's time you've begun
The pumpkin shaped door opens and reveals its world to us. At first there is only darkness until we pass a pair of scarecrows, one boy and one girl; that pushed around by a strong gust of wind. We then arrive at grave and the shadows of the tombstones begin to sing as we head toward a strange, twisted town.
Shadows: Boys and Girls of every age
wouldn't you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see
this out town of Summerween
Ghosts: This is Summerween
This is Summerween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Summerween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Summerween
Wax Larry King's Head: I am the one hiding under you bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red!
Jeff The Gnome: I am the one hiding your stairs
fingers like snakes and spiders in my beard!
Voices: This is Summerween, this is Summerween
Summerween! Summerween! Summwerween! Summwerween!
Boyz Crazy: In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
Quentin Trembly: In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise
Voices: Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting now to pounce and how you'll-
Tompson: Scream! This is Summerween!
Lee: Red 'n' black
Nate: And slimy green
Tompson: Aren't you scared?
Lazy Susan and Tambry: Well that's just fine
Say it once
Say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night
Manly Dan: Everybody scream! Everybody scream!
Manly Dan's sons: In our town of Summerween
Soos: I am the dude with the tear away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace
Voices: I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair
Summerween Trickster: I am the shadow in the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright!
Crowd: This is Summerween, this is Summerween
Summerween! Summerween! Summerween! Summerween!
Candi and Grenda: Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare
Blubbs: That's Our Job
Durland: But we're not mean
In our town of Summerween
Quentin Trembly: In this town
Don't we love it now?
Everyone's waiting for the next surprise
Crowd: Dipper and Mabel might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Summerween, everybody scream
Wont' ya please make way for some very special guys?
Our main twins are lords of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin Twins, now!
This is Summerween, this is Summerween
Summerween! Summerween! Summerween! Summerween!
Candi and Granda: In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
Crowd: La la-la la, Summerween! Summerween!
La la-la la, Summerween! Summerween! La la-la la, Summerween! Summerween!
La la-la la, Summerween! Summerween! La la-la la WEEEEEE!
The crowd cheered as the undead duo made their appearance as well as a job well done for another Summerween, thanks to the Pumpkin Prince and Princess's lead. Dipper was wearing a black suite with white strips with black shoes and black skull bowtie while Mabel wore a black dress with white strips as well, but she also wore a pair of black high-heel shoes with spiders on them as well as one orange sock and the other black, a pair of skull earrings and a pumpkin bow in her hair.
"It's over!" Soos the demonic clown happily cheered as he bumped his belly with smaller monster who went flying backwards from the hit "oops, sorry dude"
"Wasn't it terrifying?" Tompson the Werewolf asked his fellow monsters Lee and Nate
"What a night!" they answered in unison as Nate held a chain around Lee's throat
"Great job everyone" Mayor Trembly congratulated the townspeople
"I believe it was our most horrible yet!" Mabel declared
"Thank you everyone!" Dipper thanked the crowd
"No Dipper, thanks to you and your sister with your brilliant leadership" the mayor replied
"Not at all mayor Trembly" Dipper said
"Your were such a scream Dipper" Se'varl Times complemented as he and his fellow vampires approached the twins
"You're a witch's dream Dipper" Lazy Susan added dreamily
"You make walls fall" Tambry mentioned as she got closer to the Pumpkin Prince
"Walls fall? My brother made the very mountains crumble!" Mabel exclaimed as she slung an arm around her sibling's shoulders
Meanwhile in the crowd of monsters, a patch-work girl with red hair and sworn together body parts watched the twins from afar with amazement in her eyes. Her name was Wendy and she had always admired the Pumpkin Twins, especially Dipper. While she was friends with rulers of Summerween and even made their clothing, she always too shy to tell the Pumpkin Prince how she felt about him. As she kept her eyes on the twins a hand reached out and grabbed the girl by the wrist, it was none other than her creator Doctor Mcgucket
"The Deadly Nightshade you slipped me wore off Wendy" he growled as he began to pull his creation away from the crowd
"Let me go!" she protested
"You're not ready for this much excitement!" the mad scientist said
"Yes I am!" she shot back as she tried to pull away
"You're coming home this instant!" Mcgucket snarled
"No...I'm…Not!" she grunted back
Wendy then pulled the string out of the arm the professor was holding onto and slipped away in the teeming masses while her creator fell off his wheelchair and tumbled to the ground, still holding her now discarded appendage.
"Come back here you foolish-" Mcgucket tried to called out before Wendy's arm started to pound his head "Ow! Ow! Cut that out!"
Back with the twins, Mabel was enjoying the company of her boyfriend Mermando the Mer-Monster who was currently in the town's fountain.
"Oh Mabel, you make wounds ooze and flesh crawl" man-fish flirted to his beloved as he tickled her chin with his tail fin
"Ah sweetie you know how much I love it when you talk dirty to me" she cooed back
Dipper on the other hand, wasn't getting the same kind of treatment. Most of the townspeople were begging to surround him all the while praising him.
"Thank you-thank you all so much" he said nervously as he began to back away from his fans
"Hold it, we've still got to give out prizes" Trembly announced, making everyone turn their attention away from Dipper, who quickly snuck away "our first award goes to the vampire boy-band for most blood drained in a single night"
The Pumpkin Prince let out a depressed sigh as he walked away from the townspeople with his head hung low, as strolled alone he passed by the Manataur band who were playing a slow, sad tune. He took out a silver coin and flipped it into the one of the player's saxophone.
"Nice work, bone daddy" the band member known as Pubitor said to the undead boy
"Yeah, yeah, just like last year…" Dipper replied solemnly with his hands behind his back and his head hung low "and the year before that and the year before that…"
Out of the corner of her eye, Mabel watched as her brother walked out of the town and toward graveyard with a look of sadness in his posture. The Pumpkin Princess knew right then and there that her sibling wasn't enjoying himself.
"I'm sorry Mermando, but I gotta go" she told her lover "it looks like my brother isn't feeling the holiday spirit"
"I understand my love, you must go to him" he answered "in the meantime I shall feed on rotten fish and write romantic gothic songs about you on my black Spanish guitar"
After giving her beloved a quick kiss, she took off after Dipper, all the while wondering what was bringing him down so much.
In the Graveyard outside of Summerweentown, Wendy was attempting to keep any more leafs from spilling out of her now opened arm when suddenly the cemetery's gates opened and revealed that Dipper was stepping into the home of the dead and judging by the look on his face, the patch-work girl knew that something was troubling the undead boy. She felt compelled to go up to the prince of the pumpkin patch and ask him what was troubling him so much, but just as she was about to work up the courage to go up to him, a familiar figure came running up to the boy, making the red-head duck behind a tombstone.
"Hey grumpy gus, were are you running off to?" Mabel asked her brother "the after-party's that way!"
"I know Mabel I just…" Dipper felt to down to finish his words
"You're getting bored of all the scaring aren't you?" his sister finished
"How did you know?" was all the boy responded with a defeated sigh
"Because the truth is…" the Pumpkin Princess began "I'm getting bored with it too"
"Really?" Dipper said, a bit stunned "But you love Summerween!"
"Meh, you traumatize one kid, you've traumatized them all" Mabel shrugged before an idea popped into her head "hey, I know who can cheer us up!"
The co-ruler of Summerween as she sometimes referred to herself as then walked over to a small grave and patted her hangs against her keens, silently beckoning to the graves occupant to come out and play with her. A few seconds later, a ghost pig with a glowing orange nose phased through the ground and floated up to Mabel.
"Here's Waddles!" she announced to her sibling
As the Pumpkin Princess and her pet began to play around in the cemetery, Dipper only shook his head and walked further into the graveyard. Mabel saw that her attempt at making the prince happy wasn't working and truth be told, it wasn't working on her either. The boy stopped his walk and propped up against a massive gravestone and started to sing with Mabel shortly joining in as well.
Dipper: There are few who'd deny, at what we do we are the best
For our talents are renowned far and wide
When it comes to surprises in the moonlit night
we excel without ever even trying
With the slightest little effort of our ghostlike charms
we have seen grown men give out a shriek
Mabel: With the wave of my hand, and your well-placed moan
we have swept the very bravest off their feet
Dipper: Yet year after year, it's the same routine
And I grow so weary of the sound of screams
And I, Dipper, the Pumpkin Prince
Have grown so tired of the same old thing
Dipper and Mabel: Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones
An emptiness began to grow
There's something out there, far from our home
A longing that we've never known
Mabel: I'm a mistress of fright, and a demon of light
And I'll scare you right out of your pants
To a gal in Kentucky, I'm Mrs. Unlucky
And my brother's known throughout England and France
Dipper: And since were both dead, we can take off our heads
To recite Shakespearean quotations
No animal nor man can scream like we can
With the fury of our recitations
Mabel: But who here would ever understand
That the Pumpkin Twins with the skeleton grins
Would tire of their crowns, if they only understood
we'd give it all up if we only could
Dipper and Mabel: Oh, there's an empty place in our bones
That calls out for something unknown
The fame and praise come year after year
Does nothing for these empty tears
"Oh Dipper, I know how you feel" Wendy said sadly as she watched the twins walk into the nearby forest with Waddles floating close behind them
Even though the seamstress didn't want to admit it, but she had to return to the mad doctor's lab in order to get back her arm, however she wasn't going back to her 'home' without bringing some extra leaves of Deadly Nightshade as well.