"Can't believe he has me waiting outside like I'm some kind of dog!" Danny said bitterly.
Danny was in ghost mode floating outside a girl called Wendy's house. From what Mabel told him about her, Danny had found out that Wendy not only worked at the Mystery Shack but also that Dipper had a crush on her.
"Though since she's a year older than me Dipper has no chance with her" Danny thought.
It was then that a boomerang hit him.
"The BOOOmerang?" Danny said while holding it.
"Danny!"
"Sam! Tucker!" Danny said turning to see Sam, Tucker and Jazz fly up to him in the spectre speeder.
"Guys!" Danny said happily.
"What are you doing here?" Danny asked.
"We should be asking you the same thing!" Sam said.
"Yea dude, you kinda disappeared on us yesterday where have you been? And also what happened to your back?" Tucker asked.
"Oh that," Said Danny knowing he meant the sigil that was now on his back and Dippers wrist due to Danny being bound to Dipper.
"It's a long story," Danny said.
"Well tell it when we get home! I don't think its safe for you to fly about as a ghost even if we're practically in the middle of no where." Jazz said a little worried but clearly happy to see her brother was safe.
"About that guys, I can't go home right now," Danny said.
"WHAT!"
"Dude, what do you mean you can't come home?" Tucker asked.
"You see…" Danny started to explain when he was interrupted by the sound of Dipper leaving Wendy's house.
"See you tomorrow Wendy" Dipper said.
"See you later Dude" Wendy said before closing the door.
Dipper looked around him before looking up and was shocked to see Danny's friends with him.
"Oh no, that kid saw us!" Tucker said.
"Guys relax," Danny said before landing next to Dipper and turning back human.
"DANNY!" his friend said in shock.
"Are these friends of yours Danny?" Dipper asked.
"Yea, they were worried about me suddenly disappearing yesterday and came looking for me," Danny said sternly.
Dipper started to look nervous.
"Danny who is this kid?" Tucker asked.
"Come on I'll explain later. First we need to get away from here," Danny said.
"Why?" Sam asked a bit annoyed that Danny wasn't giving them any answers.
"Because the specter speeder might draw some attention we are near some ones house after all," Danny explained.
"Ok get in!" Jazz said bringing the specter speeder down so Danny could get in.
"Wait we're bringing him?" Jazz said in surprise when Danny started to help Dipper into the specter speeder.
"Trust me Jazz, this will just be easier" Danny explained.
"I'm assuming he has some thing to do with your disappearance yesterday." Sam said.
Both Danny and Dipper looked shocked.
"He has the Sam symbol on his wrist that you did on you back" Sam said.
"Wow, you figured out that fast." Danny said.
"I know," Sam said.
"Wow this is amazing," Dipper looking round the specter speeder.
"Sit down!" Danny said.
"So Danny what are we doing, we have a kid with us who has some thing to do with your disappearance yesterday so are we kidnapping him and taking him to Amity Park with us or are we just going to fly around until you explain the situation" Sam says.
"Well it's a long story" Danny said.
"We have time," Sam replied.
. . . . . . . . .
After Danny told her what happened Sam made Tucker land the specter speeder dragged Dipper out and then preceded to give him the longest lecture about how its wrong to force anyone/anything to serve someone against their will.
"Wow, I think Sam's been yelling at him for nearly two hours" Tucker said.
"Danny are you ok," Jazz asked.
"Yea I think so, I know the kid meant well and all but I'm still angry," Danny said.
At that moment Sam and Dipper re-joined the group.
"Ok Dipper and I have had a very good talk so what are next step?" Sam asked.
"Well I can't get too far away from Dipper, and it's too far away to take him with us to Amity Park and back on a regular basis. Maybe if there was a natural portal to the ghost zone we could work some thing out but…" Danny said before being interrupted by Dipper.
"What's the ghost zone?" Dipper asked.
"It's another dimension where ghosts come from." Tucker explained.
"Is it like a weird world with lots of doors or some thing?" Dipper asked.
"Yea! How'd you know?" Tucker asked.
"I think I've seen some thing like that in the journal!" Said Dipper taking the journal out.
"Here it is cursed doors!" Said Dipper showing the journal to them.
"This could work." Jazz said.
"Of course this town has natural ghost portals! Why wouldn't it?" Danny said sarcastically.
"Any way lets check it out." Sam said.
In the end they managed to find a natural portal that leads to the ghost zone to a place really close to the Fenton portal. Jazz, Sam and Tucker wished Danny good luck and then Danny took Dipper back to the shack. And then Mabel yelled at Dipper for going on a ghost adventure with out her.
. . . . . . .
The next day Danny, Dipper, Mabel and Soos went into the woods for the mystery hunt while the shack was being repaired.
Dipper banged his pen on his light.
"Thank you all for coming!" Dipper said.
"Hey when there's a mystery you can count on your sister-ie" Mabel responded.
Soos laughed.
"That was an amazing rhyme, when you want some good…. When, when you need a Soos! You've…. Oh, gosh I don't know." Soos said
"How about when you need assistance I can provide a-Soos-tance?" Danny said helpfully.
"Dude that was amazing" Soos said.
"We're here to solve the number one mystery in Gravity Falls. Who wrote this journal?" Dipper said taking out journal 3.
"Thirty years ago the author vanished without a trace but according to this new clue." Dipper explained while shining a black light on the pages of the journal.
"We may have found his secret hiding place! We find that author we learn the answers to every thing, and we can also get Danny free since the author wrote that spell." Dipper explained.
"So far so good." Danny said
"We just need to find a way to get down there," Dipper said.
"Chop it down dudes!" Wendy said coming up on her bicycle.
"Wendy!" Mabel said.
"Oh Hey!" Dipper said while waving excitedly.
"You came!" Dipper said.
"Dude, I'm so stocked about this. I've been wanting to go adventuring with you guys. Sure beats picking up after my dad at home." Wendy said.
"Hi, I'm Danny" Danny introduced himself while Dipper and Mabel talked to each other.
"I'm Wendy, your Dipper and Mabel's cousin right?" Wendy asked.
"Kind of" Danny said.
"Hey is it just me or does that branch kinda look like a lever?" Wendy asked.
"Huh? Yeah." Dipper said.
While Dipper tried to come up with a plan to get to it Wendy climbed the tree and hit the lever with an axe.
"Boosh" Wendy said.
Every one was impressed.
"Oh yea, my dad used to make me compete in these lumber jack games when I was a kid. Guess I kinda ruled at it" Wendy said.
It was then that the tree started moving to reveal a secret entrance.
"Alright guys this is it! Whatever happens down there we tell no one!" Dipper said.
Danny who despite himself was getting interested in the adventure nodded, Mabel gave the thumbs up, Soos turns his hat and Wendy makes the motion of locking her mouth.
Dipper holds up his lantern.
"Now who wants to go first?" Dipper askes.
The group makes its way down the stairs to find a fall out shelter.
"This is so stupid cool!" Wendy says.
"It's like a fall out shelter or some thing. It must have belonged to the author!" Dipper says as each member of the group goes to explore a different area.
"Wait guys I think this can was opened recently" Dipper says picking up a can.
"The author might still be alive! Down here!" Soos says excitedly.
"I think I know where he might have gone." Wendy says as she finds a hidden passage.
As Danny gets closer to it he feels like he hit a wall.
"Dipper can I talk to you for a sec?" Danny says dragging Dipper away.
"Danny what wrong?" Dipper asks.
"I think the author might have put some anti-spirit spells or something I don't think I can go further than this room, even in my human form!" Danny explains.
Dipper thinks for a bit.
"Ok, you wait outside and we'll come back as soon as we've check out every thing." Dipper suggests.
Danny sighs.
"I guess that'll have to do" Danny says before making his way back.
"Danny is going to wait outside." Dipper says to the others.
"What why?" Wendy asks.
"He's um claustrophobic! Yea that's it!" Dipper says nervously.
"Dude don't lie to me. Who is this guy? Its weird enough that you trust this cousin I've never heard you talk about, enough to take him with us on your secret missions. Especially since he seems irritated with you. And just now he was acting like he hit a wall!" Wendy said.
"I'm not lying! Any way lets go!" Dipper says even more nervous than before.
Wendy looks at him suspiciously but decides to drop it.
. . . . . . .
"I can't believe I'm waiting outside!" Danny mutters bitterly.
At that moment the sigil starts telling Danny that Dipper is in trouble.
"Dam it I can't leave that kid alone for a second can I!" Danny said.
"I'm going ghost!" Danny yells and flies down and hits the invisible wall.
"Oh that's right." Danny says luckily Dipper was out of danger as he had passed the safety room and the sigil was no longer warning Danny of danger.
After a while the sigil starts to tell Danny that Dipper is in danger and the longer Dipper is in Danger the more pain Danny is in with the sigil telling him to protect Dipper. It gets to the point that Danny starts slamming himself into the barrier that's keeping him out in his ghost form because he NEEDS to get to Dipper. The longer Danny can't get to Dipper the more panicked and enraged by the sigil he gets. The sigil eventually starts drowning out his thoughts until it feels like thousands of people are shouting at him.
"GET TO DIPPER! HE'S IN DANGER! YOU NEED TO PROTECT HIM!" Over and over.
So eventually when every one comes back they are greeted to the sight of a half crazed, very angry ghost. Danny immediately calms down once he sees Dipper is safe, but is left confused and tired and looking like hell from slamming himself into a barrier.
"Oh my gosh what happened to you?" Dipper blurts out.
"Just never do whatever you did in there ever again!" Danny says before flying off to get away from Wendy because she doesn't know who he is.
"Dude did you know that ghost! And where did you cousin go?" Wendy says.
"Who cares about that? Let get out of here!" Mabel says cheerfully.
"Dude I think I'm kinda adventured out for a little while. My face hurts from doing this all day." Soos says while making a shocked screaming face.
"Yeah, but you've got to admit we're all total heroes!" Mabel said.
"Hey who wants to get some hero's breakfast?" Soos said putting Mabel on his back.
"Syrup on cereal!" Mabel yelled happily.
"Mabel you're a visionary!" Soos said carrying her away.
"Look, Wendy, about earlier, in the heat of the moment I might have said some dumb things and- Can't we just pretend none of that ever happened? Please." Dipper said.
"Dude. Dude. It's okay. I always kind of knew." Wendy says.
"Wait. You did?" Dipper asks
"Yeah, man. I mean, you think I can't hear that stuff you're constantly whispering under your breath?" Wendy asks.
"Oh, man." Dipper says embarrassedly sitting on a log while Wendy sits down next to him.
"Listen, Dipper. I'm, like, super flattered. But, I'm too old for you. I mean, you know that, right?" Wendy asks.
"Mabel said confessing would make me feel better." Dipper says.
"Well, how do you feel?" Wendy asks.
"Anxious. Scared. Kind of itchy." Dipper replies
"Dude. Don't be itchy, man. Let me tell you something. This summer was super boring until you showed up. I have more fun with you than, like, practically anybody else. And if you ever stop being my friend, I would, like, throw myself into the bottomless pit." Wendy said
"So, things won't be too awkward now?" Dipper asked
"I just wrestled myself, dude. That was awkward. If you can handle that monster, you can handle a little awkwardness." Wendy said
"Friends?" Dipper asks.
"Yeah, dude. Friends." Wendy said
"Oh, and hey, Dipper. See you for movie night tomorrow. Your place this time, okay?" Wendy says as she gets on her bike and leaves.
When she looks back she sees that Danny is back and he has the same injuries that the ghost she saw earlier had.
"Interesting" Wendy, says to herself before heading home.
. . . . . . . .
"You ok?" Danny asked Dipper.
"Yeah, what happened to you?" Dipper asked.
"It's not important right now I'll tell you later." Danny said seeing that Dipper was having his first heartbreak.
"So how did it go?" Mabel said sitting down next to Dipper shocking him.
"What did you hear?" Dipper asked in surprise.
"Every thing! All the time!" Mabel says as Soos appears out of some bushes.
"I'm not here!" Soos yells.
"Mabel how can every thing be so amazing and so terrible at the same time?" Dipper asks.
"I'm sorry for being so pushy, Dipper. If it's any consolation, I'm already working on a list of your potential rebound crushes." Mabel said
"Thanks, Mabel." Dipper replied.
Soos sits down with Dipper and Mabel.
"I'm still bummed we're no closer to finding the author guy. At least I got his sciency coat and briefcase." Soos said.
"Whoa" Soos says as the briefcase opens up revealing it's a laptop.
"Soos that's not a briefcase that's a laptop." Dipper says.
"And a really busted up one too." Mabel adds.
"I bet I can get this thing fixed up in a few days! It's going to take a lot of duck tape!" Soos said.
"This could be our next clue!" Dipper says.
. . . . . . . .
The next day when Wendy shows up for movie night, she sees Danny around the shack and goes up to him.
"So hey that ghost thing yesterday was you right?" Wendy asks
"What? No it wasn't me, I'm not a ghost!" Danny says shocked
"Aw man it totally WAS look at you face, don't even lie, so like what are you? Some kind of magic thing like in Dippers journal?" Wendy asks excitedly.
At that point they would pretty much have to tell Wendy what was going on.
"So that's why you have that weird mark on you wrist Dipper. I knew you weren't the type to doodle on you arm." Wendy said.
"You told her you the sigil was some thing you drew on your arm?" Danny says.
"I panicked." Dipper says.
"Don't worry dude I won't tell any one!" Wendy assures Danny.
"Hey Danny do you want to watch bad horror movies with us?" Dipper asks.
"Sure! Why not?" Danny replies not admitting it but thinking he might be starting to like Dipper.