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Candy says, "I don't get it, the answers within ourselves, how is that a useful clue."

Adam says, "Who ever created this message, knew our phone numbers, where are lockers are and the combinations, and who we are."

"Yeah, but that information isn't that helpful."

"Or, maybe it is."

Adam stops talking and then remembers all the people that were passing by, he then looks to Candy.

"Let's go to my dojo."

Candy and Adam before school ends, they both ran straight to the parking lot, Adam gets into his black muscle car and Candy her white Dodge Charger and they both just zip on out of school and they both park and go straight to Adam's dojo/home called the "Dragon Fury Dojo" and they both quickly go in and Adam locks the door. But before they step onto the Dojo, Adam stops Candy and points to her shoes, Candy then gives him a look that says really but goes along with out of respect regardless. They take their shoes off and put them on the rack and then they walk on the dojo mat.

Adam says, "Alright we're safe now we can think."

Candy says, "Could those creatures any of the monsters from your books."

"It's possible it will take a little time for me to look, but for now let's find that flash drive first."

"Where Adam?"

"I need to stop thinking practical and actually do some thinking."

Adam then breathes in and then crosses his arms and closes his eyes. Candy looks at Adam puzzled.

"What are you doing?"

"I saw this on a TV show once, I'm trying to access my mind."

"You just look silly."

"Shhh, it's starting to work."

Candy rolls her eyes a bit nonbelieving in the silliness taking place.

Adam says, "If I was in danger as I and my friends were under attack and I had only mere minutes, I would hide whatever I need to hide someplace only I would know never in the obvious place, something sacred to me."

Then Adam stops and then he looks at Candy.

"Candy remember the line from that riddle."

"I think it said something about me having the answer."

"Yes, and the other lines, you take it with you day and night, it shields you from the uncool."

"I think the last verse was comforts you from the uncool not shields."

Adam then thinks for a moment but then looks at Candy and as he looks, he notices something about her.

Adam says, "Candy pat your coat."

"Why."

"Just do it, I know what I'm talking about?"

Candy breathes a sigh and then pats her coat form then takes her hands out of her pockets after their warm enough and then puts her hands on both her shoulders and then slides them down her arms but then she feels something on her left side. She then takes her black coat off and looks carefully noticing some small indentation that shouldn't be there, she then puts her fingers on it and then goes to the top edge and then slowly peals it noticing it's some sort of leather camaflashe tape and within this covering there is some sort of Flash drive, she takes it out and it is magenta colored one. Candy looks at it is knowing whose flash drive this is. Candy then looks up and asks,

"Hey Adam, where's your Computer?

Adam guides her to the office and shows her his computer which is black and the usual flat screen monitor and light hard drive. She hooks it up and then immediately begins looking into it. Adam is standing right behind her watching her work. Once she then clicks on something it presents a window where it will take a minute to load. She then looks back at Adam.

Candy says, "How did you figure it out?"

Adam says, "The riddle was directed toward you and also I haven't seen you without wearing that black leather jacket ever since your dating my brother, makes sense."

Candy nods in agreement and then hears a chime on the computer indicating the load is complete. She then looks at what has been presented.

Candy says, "I think you need to see this too."

Adam comes a little closer and both see on the window there is a big roster of files which all have dates which range and date for two and a half weeks.

Candy looks at one of the beginning files and she clicks on it and has a video of Mable and Candy then clicks on the last file and then it's Mabel once more whom is sitting at some desk but here she looks tired, scared, and worn down a little and she looks up at the video and says, "This will by my last entry Candy if you managed to escape and you find this then that means the have me and we've failed."

She then suddenly hears some noises. "What you possess is a journal series of what we've all done for the past couple weeks and days, the reason you don't remember this now is to protect your mind as somehow these creatures are able to pick up on certain specifics on our minds, I don't know to what extent."

The noises soon get much louder and Mabel gets even more nervous she then moves her hand close to her ninja go which is right in front of the desk. Mabel then looks back at the camera.

"The bottom line is this, our town has been under attack for a long while and you along with our friends we've tried to repel these ancient invaders, but our efforts were fruitless, however there is one more chance…. Suddenly he creatures they break in.

Mabel looks at the camera once more, "The answers you seek are within the files." and Mabel immediately turns the camera off.

Candy is then desperately trying to find any more data in that time frame but realizes it's no use as there is no more, Candy then breathes a deep sigh. Adam then puts a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sure she's alright."

Candy then looks at Adam and says in a slightly harsh manner. "Why aren't you more upset about this?"

But then she looks at his eyes which convey deep sadness. Adam says in a slightly struggled tone. "I am."

Candy shakes her head realizes what Adam is doing. "I'm sorry."

"It's okay, I'm upset about this as much as you are, I should have protected Mabel better, I…."

He struggles to find the next words as he feels some emotion well up. "I have to remain strong for her sake, she would want me to."

Candy she then stands up and says, "We both do and for Dipper and Wendy as well."

Candy has a hand on Adam's shoulder and Adam he nods.

Candy says, "Now we better get back to work, Mabel says the answers are within these files but…"

Candy, she looks at roster and there are complete journal files on all of them Dipper, Wendy, Candy, Mabel, and Adam. "This could take a long while and I'm not totally sure where to start." Adam then looks at the screen and then points out to a symbol of a book with a five-star pentagram on a digital version of a leather-bound hardback which is position on his roster line. "Right here."

Candy goes right ahead and clicks on the icon and it suddenly reveals a digital video journal log, there is an empty picture at first as it just reveals a desk and a marker board. Someone comes in and it's Adam whom is in a black sorcerer's robe which has all kinds of archaic symbols but also a few of the start constellations and planets. He is then facing the camera and then says, "This is a record of what were dealing with in case anyone else ever finds this. Adam, he opens the book of Ebon and flips to a section about the current creatures.

Adam says, "I was able to find one of them according to the book of Ebon the creatures are called the Dark Children from the time of the first ones. These are predatory creatures that are the destroyers of whole civilizations and worlds, they date back to the time before Babylon, since the time of creation of the worlds."

Adam takes a breath and continues to read. "They are the offspring of Shub-Niggurath a fertility god or goddess that has spread offspring throughout the cosmos. Throughout time the Dark Children have walked among our realm in the shape of what is familiar to hide themselves from our sight. These tentacle monsters have no real strength except in their deception. The other creatures with them they grant the power of deception to. I have done my best to hunt these creatures down, but I fear there are many that have escaped my sight. As for the people they have taken form they can't simply do it at will; I have found certain captives hidden in certain nests placed everywhere, the captives in that nest are put into some sort of sleep and somehow the creatures use their physical connection to their flesh and mind to draw out their thoughts and feeling so they can better imitate them but also throughout the process absorb them completely. However, this veal of deception can be severed by somehow freeing the captives before both soon become one."

Adam then quickly flips to another page and he presents it to the camera. It is a sketch of the tentacle creature's civilization which are strange cyclopean structures and he sees the tentacle monstrosities in the sketch roaming around in their true form as if it's another day in town. He then looks at another sketch and it's the tentacle monstrosities that are within some sort of temple which has monoliths surrounding them with some strange scribes of a language. Adam and no one on the planet would ever know about as he sees in the sketch the monstrosities have gathered in worship and raised their arms as a form of worship for a really big creature another God they worship that is gigantic that has a reptilian like head but is sticking it's tongue out which is made up of a series of tentacles to act as its tongue and inside the tongue there is a human girl that is an obvious sacrifice as she is naked and is screaming but it does no good as the tentacles wrap all around her and are reeling her into the mouth of the god the reptiloids amphibian beings worship.

Adam then closes the book of Ebon and then says, "The location of one of these ancient civilizations is closer than you think, however I can't give specifics on this file or even on this roaster due to the possibility of this info falling into the wrong hands; it's within another flash drive I've given to someone I trust the most and now has it hidden, where it is you will have to complete the next challenge to find out, please we're counting on you." Adam then turns off the camera.

Candy says, "Did you really have to wear the sorcerer get up"

Adam says, "What I'm sure I did it for effect and the robe looked cool."

Suddenly there is some sort of new file after the message that appears on the computer, Candy clicks on it and then suddenly the window comes up and asks one question "Do you want to print" Candy then clicks on the print option and then suddenly the printer comes on and a series of pictures comes out.

Adam says, "Man I…. how is this possible, alright that's a stupid question but still I just remember the day before today and yet those videos they say otherwise.

Candy says, "I know lost time can be really trippy."

"I'm just want to know what happened to Mabel and our friends."

"Easy Adam, the answers will come."

Candy looks at the set of pictures and then breathes a sigh.

"Uggh I'm really getting tired of these games."

"Yeah, me too but nothing to do but play."

Candy clicks on the file with the papers and then gets the series of papers printed out, there are up to 40 sheets and each of them have a picture of what looks like a photo of land that is taken from a satellite. Adam then looks at one of the pictures and has a small smile.

"C'mon this will be easy."

Candy says, "Why do I get a feeling it won't be."

For about 15 minutes, Adam is on the floor, putting together the pictures in the right order. Candy through has the hardest time as she then goes back to one picture and then takes it back.

Adam says, "I remember my brother was the one into puzzles the most, he would always buy just a collection of puzzle boards and sometime both I and him we would just go over the jigsaw for hours, though he was the best at it."

Candy says, "Darrien that's what he does to help himself think, sometimes I would see him on the board." She looks at another picture and shakes her head. "I always participated with him, I'm not always the biggest fan of puzzles but I've always like putting things together."

"So did my brother."

Adam can put the pictures all together and both see what it is which is the map of the town.

Candy says, "I don't get it, it's basically a map of the Falls."

Adam looks carefully and sees something.

He says, "Here look."

Candy looks and sees there is a red dot on a specific location and from the land mass that surround it and the road it is right across she automatically recognizes it.

Candy says, "The Mystery Shack, I recognize that patch of land anywhere."

Adam then looks at Candy with a little cautiousness on his face.

"But wouldn't the fake Dipper, Mabel, and Wendy be around."

"That is where the next clue is, trap or not we can't let it stop us.

Adam says, "Yeah your right."

Candy says, "Alright let's suit up."

Candy goes to the trunk of her car and gets out a suitcase. Adam goes to one of his drawers and gets one of his ninja uniforms. Both go to the separate changing rooms of the dojo and they come out and Candy is in her tight black cat like uniform with two of the silver manacles and gloves along with some sort of silver compartmental belt and a set of glasses but with violet shades that don't show her eyes. Adam is in his black ninja uniform that completely covers his whole body. With a combat vest and a katana behind his back and a mask completely covering his face along with some silver knight like visors that cover his eyes. Candy and Adam go straight into Adam's muscle car and both drive away to the rescue.