Boolia's Tales of Horror
Gravity Falls: Mystery Shack of Horror
"Kids, Soos!" Stan called as soon as he came in the door of the Mystery Shack. He covered something up in his hands. "Look, what I just bought!" The kids and Soos ran to him. Waddles waddled up to him as well, curious about all the noise.
"What is it?" Dipper wanted to know.
"Yeah!" Mabel added. "Show us!" Stan slowly uncovered it
"It's…" He uncovered it fully to reveal a plant. Dipper's face fell.
"A plant?" He asked. He looked at his uncle. "Why did you get a plant?"
"To attract customers." Stan answered. "Somebody told me that in order to attract more customers; we should have a plant in the window; thus why I bought it at the florist shop. I'll name it 'Stan Jr.'"
"You're naming it?" Dipper questioned. Stan shrugged.
"Sure; why not?" He went by the window and put the plant down on the sill. "There; nice and cozy! Now, I'm going to get the watering can and water it before we open up shop." And with that, he went off. The kids, Soos and Waddles went closer to the plant.
"So, this is what will attract customers?" Dipper wondered out loud.
"Yep!" Mabel piped up. "That's what Stan said." Just then, Stan came back, watering can in hand. He went to the plant and poured water on it.
"There!" He said when done. "All ready for when the shop opens in 15 minutes!"
"Come on Wads," Mabel said to her pig. "Let's play outside before we have to go to work." Waddles grunted and went after her.
Five minutes later, Mabel came back in.
"Grunkle Stan," She said. "Do we have a Band-Aid?" Stan came up to her.
"Why?" He asked. "What did you do?" Mabel showed him her index finger. There was a drop of blood on it. Stan looked at the pig, who just came in with a ball in his mouth.
"Okay," He said. He went to the pig and picked him up. The pig squealed frantically in his grasp. "This pig has to go."
"It wasn't Waddles." Mabel told him. "He would never harm me; not on purpose anyways." Stan put the pig on the ground again.
"Then what was it?"
"Waddles and I were playing catch when the ball rolled over in some bushes. I went to it to grab it, but I didn't know the bushes had thorns on them. I tried to be careful, but it didn't work out that way and a thorn pierced my skin, making me bleed. So now, here I am. So, do we have a Band-Aid or what?" Stan nodded.
"I think we do." He replied. "Just stay here and I'll see what I can find." He went off to find one.
"Gosh!" Soos said. "That must of hurt."
"It did." Mabel told him. "But a while with the Band-Aid on and it'll be all better."
"Did you cry?" Mabel stood tall.
"Nope!"
"Wow; you're so brave." Mabel just smiled.
"Yes, yes I am."
A raspy voice then spoke.
"Feed me!" It breathed weakly. Mabel looked at her brother.
"Dipper," She said. "We just had breakfast."
"And I think you can feed yourself." Soos put in. "I can."
"It wasn't me." Dipper admitted.
"Well, it wasn't me ether." Mabel thought about this. She looked at Waddles.
"Waddles?" She asked. Her pig looked and her and gave her on oink.
"How can it be Waddles?" Dipper wanted to know. "He's a pig. He can't talk."
"Well, this is Gravity Falls. Stranger things have happened." Dipper knew his sister was right.
"Fair enough." Just then, a vine whipped out and grabbed Mabel by the arm. Mabel screamed.
"MABEL!" Soos and Dipper shouted, both wide-eyed.
"Hey, what the?" She was then was pulled to the plant in the window. "What is happening here?"
"Feed me!" The voice said again. Mabel looked at the plant. The plant then lashed out its tongue and licked at Mabel's blood spot. Mabel pulled away.
"Eeew! Did Stan Jr. just lick me?" Dipper and Soos' jaws were agape; they were amazed at what just happened.
"I think it did." Dipper told her. Mabel looked at her finger. Her eyes widened. The drop of blood had vanished like it was never there at all.
"Hey; my blood's gone!"
"It must have been that plant." Dipper said. "It must have licked it clean." Mabel looked at him.
"You really think so?" Dipper shrugged.
"It's the only thing I can come up with."
"Stan Jr. drinks human blood. Cool!"
"I don't think so, Mabel. It might be dangerous and eat us alive and all of Gravity Falls! We got to get rid of it!" Stan then came in with a Band-Aid.
"Okay kiddo." He said. "I got the Band-Aid. Let's wrap up that bad boy." Mabel went to her uncle and showed him her finger. Stan looked at it, wondering what had happened to the blood.
"Hey, you already clean the wound, or whatever?" Mabel shook her head and pointed to the plant on the windowsill.
"It was the plant. He licked my blood away." Stan was puzzled.
"Stan Jr.?" Mabel nodded. "But it can't be."
"But it was. He's alive!"
"Well, thank goodness he's alive! I didn't think my customers would come if a dead plant was rotting up on my windowsill." Mabel shook her head.
"That's not what I meant. I meant…" Just then the door opened. The Pines and Soos looked up to see Wendy come in.
"Sorry I'm late." She apologized. "Robbie tried to get back together with me."
"Did he?" Dipper asked, hoping he didn't.
"No." Wendy told him. Dipper felt relieved. He still had a chance. Stan looked at his watch.
"Well, no time to get comfortable. We open in one minute." He looked at Mabel. "Now Mabel, get ready." He handed her niece the bandage. "Here; you still need this. I don't want my customers thinking I abuse my employees by making them work when they're bleeding." Mabel put the bandage on her finger.
"But Grunkle Stan," Mabel protested. "Stan Jr. really did come to life. He drank my blood."
"Mabel. I don't know what happened, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the plant. That's preposterous."
"But Grunkle…"
"Mabel!" Mabel sighed, feeling defeated.
"Fine!" She went to get ready.
"But it's true!" Dipper told his uncle. "The plant really did come to life. Soos and I saw it with our own eyes."
"Dipper, not you too. I won't have it. Stan Jr. didn't drink Mabel's blood and that's final!"
"But," He looked at Soos then back at his uncle. "Ask Soos! He'll tell you." Stan looked at Soos who only shrugged.
"Beats me, sir." He just said. "I don't know what this is about." He grabbed a broom and began sweeping.
"Well that's that." Stan said. Both Dipper and Mabel glared at Soos.
"Sorry!" He mouthed to them. He resumed sweeping.
"Dipper," Stan said, going towards the door. "Turn the "Closed" sign, so it says, "Open."
"Will do, Stan." Dipper replied. He went to the window and flipped the sign. He went near his sister.
"We're ready for business!" Stan said. "And now, we wait."
"Wow!" Stan breathed as he was done counting today's money when the store had closed. "We got more money then we've ever made before!"
"How much money did we make, Grunkle?" Mabel wanted to know. Her uncle looked at her.
"$99!" He replied. Mabel's eyes widened in amazement.
"Wow; that's a lot of cash, it's almost $100."
"You bet it is!" Stan patted the plant. "And it's all because of our new little money- maker, this plant."
"And not to mention that Stan Jr. got to be in the news." Soos put in. "Once people saw him on the TV; they just started runnin'!"
"At first I didn't believe a little plant like this would attract so many customers." Dipper put in. "But apparently, it did." He looked at his uncle. "When are we going to get rid of it?" Stan looked at him like he was crazy.
"Get rid of it?" He then burst out laughing. "What a joke! 'get rid of it', good one, kid!"
"I'm serious. If we keep this plant any longer, who knows what'll happen! We can't risk that, we got to get rid of it." Stan stopped laughing and looked serious.
"Dipper, this plant is a money- maker! We never made this much before; we're keeping it and that's final."
"But…"
"Dipper; I mean it." Dipper sighed, defeated.
"Fine; we can keep the plant."
"Great! Glad we're on the same page now." He stood up and went for the watering can. He grabbed it and poured some water onto the plant. He put it down and noticed his nephew looking at the plant.
"Why are you just looking at the plant like that? It's kind of creepy."
"No reason."
"Well, I'll just get supper ready." And with that, he went off. Wendy sighed.
"And the money I've earned." She added.
"Oh right. That too." He dug out his wallet and dug out some dollar bills. He handed the money to Wendy. "There you go." He put the rest of the money in his pocket. "See you tomorrow."
"Thank you, Mr. Pines." Wendy said.
"Yeah, whatever!" Wendy then looked at Dipper. "Dipper, seriously, why are
you looking at that plant? You're acting like it'll just change color at any minute." Dipper snapped out of it and looked at her, He smiled at her sheepishly.
"Oh, right." He said. Wendy then began counting her money, making sure that she had the right amount. When done, she counted again…and again.
"Shoot." She said. "Stan left out a dollar bill." She was about to go confront him, when she suddenly tripped on a loose nail in the floor. She fell down and hit her head.
"Oh my gosh, Wendy!" Dipper said, coming to her side. Soos and Mabel did the same. "Are you all right?" Wendy sat up. She now had a bloody nose.
"You tell me." She said. The kids and Soos cringed in disgust.
"Wendy, you have a bloody nose. I'll go get you a Kleenex."
"No; I'll go." Soos volunteered. Wendy smiled at Soos.
"Thanks Soos." She said to him. Soos smiled back.
"No problem." He went off. Wendy looked at the kids.
"You guys should probably do something about this floor."
"Yeah." Mabel agreed. "We should."
Suddenly, a vine grabbed onto Wendy's arm. Wendy's eyes widened as she was being dragged to the window. She screamed. The kids' eyes widened too.
"WENDY!" The kids shouted. Robbie then burst in.
"Hold my hand!" He shouted. Wendy grabbed his hand, but she and Robbie were pulled nearer and nearer. Dipper saw the bouquet in Robbie's other hand. Robbie put it down on the floor then pulled with two hands on top of one another. Suddenly, the plant jumped on Wendy's stomach and lashed its tongue out, licking Wendy's blood away clean. Robbie screamed and fell back on his behind. The plant then hopped back on the windowsill and burped, returning to a docile state. Wendy looked at the plant.
"Did that plant just hop on my stomach and drink my blood?" She wanted to know. The siblings nodded. Soos came back then. He noticed Wendy didn't have a bloody nose anymore.
"Where'd you bloody nose go?" Soos asked. He then remembered something. "Was it Stan Jr.?" The kids and Wendy nodded. Soos handed Wendy the Kleenex. "Here you go." Wendy put it under her noise.
"Thanks." Robbie sat up and picked the bouquet off of the floor. He was about to give Wendy the flowers, but it was too late. Wendy had left the Mystery Shack. Robbie threw the flowers down in frustration. He then glared at Dipper.
"You!" He snapped, pointing a finger at him. Dipper glared back at Robbie.
"What about me?" The 12-year old asked.
"Look, I don't know what happened with the plant but I know one thing."
"What?"
"You gave Wendy that bloody nose." Dipper was shocked. So was Mabel.
"What?" She blurted out. "That's crazy, no he didn't. My brother would never do that to her."
"That's right!" Dipper put in. "Wendy tripped on the floor and hit her head on the nail. I had nothing to do with it."
"Oh yeah?" Robbie challenged. He then gestured he was watching him. "I'm watching you, kid! If you try anything funny with my girl; you'll be sorry!" Dipper narrowed his eyes at him.
"She dumped you, Robbie." Dipper told him. "She's no longer 'your girl.' In fact she's not a possession to be owned!"
"She'll crawl back and once she does; you'll be sorry!" He was about to leave when he fell down the stoop. The kids ran to him. Soos ran to get him a Kleenex.
"Look out for that first step." Mabel warned, a little too late. Stan Jr. then hopped on Robbie's back, licked the blood on his face and hopped off, back into the Shack. Robbie stood up immediately. Horror was on his face.
"You're family is weird!" He said. "Just weird!" He then ran off. Soos has just come back a little too late. He was gone. The kids looked at the plant.
"We'd have to get rid of Stan Jr." Dipper told his sister. Mabel looked at him.
"But what about Stan?" Mabel wanted to know.
"What about Stan?"
"Stan loves this plant, if we get rid of it, he'll be really upset."
"But you saw what it did to Wendy, Robbie, and even yourself. We can't keep a plant that feasts on human blood. We have to get rid of it; Grunkle Stan will thank us in the end." Mabel sighed.
"You're right. We'll get rid of Stan Jr. before he strikes again, but where are we going to get rid of him?" Dipper thought about this. What were they going to do with a blood-eating plant?
"I think we need to kill it." Dipper finally said. Mabel was shocked.
"Kill it? But Dipper…"
"Do you have any other ideas, then?" Mabel shook her head.
"No. Let's kill it." She looked at Stan Jr. "Stan will be so heartbroken. Dipper put a hand on her.
"I know; but it's for the best." Mabel nodded in agreement.
"You're right. It's for the best." She looked at the plant again. "Let's get this over with." Mabel then saw a yellow ponytail out the window. She narrowed her eyes at her rival.
"Pacifica!" She hissed. Pacifica opened the door. She looked at Dipper and Mabel.
"Hello Dipper, hello weirdo." Mabel folded her arms across her chest.
"What do you want?" Mabel wanted to know.
"Duh! What else? To buy!" Before Mabel could say that they were closing, Pacifica pointed at the plant.
"I was looking at that plant over there from the news and I want it. How much?"
"Sorry Pacifica," Dipper told her. "But that plant is just a display. It's not for sale."
"So you can't have it." Mabel added. She went to the door and opened "Now go; you're just going to have to come back tomorrow if you want something."
"But I want the plant."
"Well too bad; you can't have it." Pacifica sighed.
"Alright." As soon as she was almost out the door, she ran and grabbed the plant, and ran out. Mabel and Dipper ran after her.
"GIVE IT BACK, PACIFICA!" Mabel yelled after her.
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTO PACIFICA!" Dipper shouted. "JUST GIVE BACK THE PLANT!"
"Ha!" Pacifica laughed. "Never!"
Suddenly, Stan Jr. turned his head towards the blonde.
"Ooh, you better do what they say, little lady." It told her.
"Never!" Pacifica told it. She then screamed when she realized a plant was speaking to her. She dropped him on the ground, breaking Stan Jr.'s pot. She fell to the ground herself and backed away. "Y-you just spoke to me."
"Indeed I did." The plant replied.
"But-but, plant's can't talk."
"I can. Look little lady, I'll shut off my yap if you feed me." Pacifica looked puzzled.
"Water?" Stan Jr. sneered.
"Your blood."
"Excuse me?"
"Your blood!" Before Pacifica could ask again, Stan Jr. wrapped its vines around her arm and gave her a tight squeeze.
"Hey! You're hurting me!" The plant snickered.
"I don't care!" A trickle of blood streamed out. Pacifica gasped, eyes wide. Stan Jr. smiled. "Jackpot!" He licked at it. Pacifica screamed. She withdrew her hand. Stan Jr. dropped to the ground again. He sneered at the three children.
"Did I tell you that I multiply?" The kids were confused.
"Huh?" They asked.
Just then, the earth shook. The kids all fell down and gasped as miniature versions of Stan Jr. popped out of the ground. Three of them scared Waddles who was lying in the dirt. The pig squealed.
"WADDLES!" Mabel cried. Waddles ran and hid behind Mabel. They then looked at Stan Jr. and gasped. Stan Jr. was growing! Soos gave Pacifica the Band-Aid and Pacifica quickly wrapped it around her finger.
"Ha!" The plant laughed when it had grown into the size of a big pumpkin. "Minions, dinner time! Have yourself some blood!" The mini-plants went all over the town. Stan Jr. looked at the kids and pig again.
"Don't think I'll let fresh blood get away from me when it's right in front of me!" He threw his vines at them. The kids screamed and ran. Waddles squealed frantically, and ran after them as fast as his hooves could carry him.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland were having doughnuts and coffee at the Gravity Falls Police Department when they saw the kids and Waddles running in fright from the vines of Stan Jr. The little plants were tipping over cars and causing havoc. People ran amok. Deputy Durland checked what was happening thought the windows.
"What's happening out there Durland?" Blubs wanted to know, taking a bite from his doughnut.
"Plants are wrecking the town, sir." Durland told him. Blubs was confused.
"Plants?" Durland nodded.
"That's what I said sir, plants." Blubs put down his doughnut and went to see this for himself.
"Unbelievable." He looked at his comrade. "Durland, inform the other officers about this. They're too many to do this ourselves." Durland nodded.
"Aye-Aye sir; right away." He went to the phone.
"We also need herbicide and lots of it."
"We need herbicide and lots of it." Dipper told his sister as they were still running from Stan Jr.'s vine. Mabel looked at her brother, confused.
"Huh?" She wanted to know. "What's that?"
"It's what kills plants. Now come on, let's hurry to the florist." Mabel nodded.
When they exited the florist shop, they had a lot of herbicide. Mabel and Dipper gasped when they saw Stan Jr. had captured Waddles, Stan, and Soos!
"WADDLES!" Mabel cried. Waddles squealed frantically, trying to wriggle out of the plant's grasp.
"SOOS, STAN!" Dipper called.
"Get us down from here!" Stan shouted. "I don't want to be a plant's dinner!"
"Me either!" Soos added. "I want to donate blood; but not like this!" Waddles squealed frantically again.
"Don't worry, Grunkle Stan!" Mabel shouted up to her uncle. "We got some stuff to kill plants!" Stan grew wide-eyed.
"What?!" He questioned. "Kill Stan Jr.? But I don't want to! He's my little, well now big, moneymaker. I can't possibly kill him."
"It's either kill him and his friends," Dipper said to him. "Or have Stan Jr. kill you. Now you decide. What's it going to be?"
"But…"
"Grunkle Stan!" Stan sighed.
"Fine; just kill him and SAVE US!" The twins nodded, opening the herbicides.
"I think NOT!" Stan Jr. said and flicked the herbicides away with his free vine. The kids went to get them back. Stan Jr. tied his vines around their legs, preventing them. They screamed and tried to get free. "You're not going anywhere!" Mabel looked at her brother, concern in her eyes.
"What are we going to do, Dipper?" Mabel wanted to know. "It's no use wiggling; he got us in tight!"
"I don't know!" Dipper replied. Stan Jr. brought them closer to his mouth.
"I know!" He hissed. "Why don't you be good little children and let me eat you?" He looked at Mabel. "I think I'll eat you first. I got a little taste of you earlier… Now it's time for the main course!"
"NOOOOOO!" Mabel shrieked as the plant pulled her closer and closer to its mouth.
"NOOOOOOOO!" Dipper yelled as he saw the awful sight of his sister about to be eaten alive by this plant.
"Bon Appetit!" Stan Jr. snickered.
Suddenly, Stan Jr. screamed and dropped Mabel. Mabel looked to see who made her captor scream. It was Sheriff Blubs and Dep. Durland with some herbicide! Durland was the one who sprayed herbicide on Stan Jr.
"Eat herbicide, you plant!" Shouted Durland.
"Yeah!" Blubs added. "There will be no people-eating planting in my town!" Stan Jr. grew smaller and smaller until he was back to normal. Dipper picked him up.
"No more human flesh for you!" Dipper told the plant.
"Curses!" He then looked up at him with a snicker. "But my minions will get you!" He looked at his minions. "Kill them; kill them all!" The other plants growled fiercely at them, hopping towards them.
"Quick!"" Dipper ordered. "Spray all the plants with herbicide!" And with that, he and his sister started spraying the plants with herbicide, freeing their uncle, Wendy, Robbie and Pacifica. Stan and Wendy joined in with fighting off the plants. Robbie and Pacifica just ran away screaming.
"Wimp!" Wendy and Mabel shouted after them.
"I'll radio a helicopter to spray all the other plants in town." Blubs told Dipper.
"You do that. This will take a while."
"Well," Dipper said several hours later. "It took us several hours, but we finally did it."
"Dipper?" Mabel asked her brother. "How long will it take for the plants to die?"
"It'll take some days, but they're harmless now."
"Durland and I would like to thank you for saving our town." Blubs said to Dipper.
"Sure, no problem."
"You know," Durland pointed out. "A lot of strange things seem to be happening recently. I wonder why."
"Yeah," Blubs agreed. "Me too." He then shrugged and went to shake Dipper's hand. "Thanks again kid." He and Blubs then left. Mabel turned to her uncle.
"So Stan," She said to him. "What have we learned today?" Stan looked confused.
"Not to buy a flesh-eating plant that'll multiply and wreak havoc in the town?" He guessed. "Look, I didn't know that Stan Jr. feasted on human blood, okay? Then again, I did buy him from a suspicious-looking man."
"AHA!" Mabel blurted.
"Okay, I won't buy plants from a mysterious looking strangers ever again. But, I'll still need to get money somehow. I know; I'll buy a stuffed puppy! Everybody loves cute puppies! They'll go in my store and ask for the puppy. I'll tell them the puppy's fake and force them to stay until they buy something. It's brilliant!"
"Uh, how about we just get money like we always do?" Dipper suggested. "And just hope for the best?" Stan sighed.
"Fine." And with that, he, Dipper, Mabel and Soos all went back to the Mystery Shack.
"What about fake candy and other sweets, like brownies and cookies? Fake kittens? Toys for the kids?"
"Stan!" The kids told him. He sighed again.
"Fine; there's just no pleasing you kids, is there?"
"Nope!" Mabel just said. "You got to be better than that to please us, Grunkle Stan, like ice cream!" And with that, they laughed and laughed.
"No, I'm serous."
Chorus:
Mystery Shack
Mystery Shack of Horrors
Mystery Shack
Mystery Shack of Terror
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