Wow, chapter two and almost 10,000 words for this one chapter, granted that many of the details are straight from the show, so not much in major changes just yet. It will start showing that there are more changes next chapter. So far, I will warn you now that some episodes might be skipped, due to being avoided or there is no real change to the episode as a whole. Now, someone left some questions and to answer them:
-The reason that Serafall is the mother is that of the High-ranking devils, Serafall is the only noted individual that would probably have kids with a human if he was interesting enough.
-The Gnomes are made stronger so they can actually be a threat. This is also true since they are physically far weaker then other creatures.
-Dipper and Mabel are not weak, but they do lack active combat experience. They have some and are training, but for the most part, they never went into a life or death situation as of yet. Will change over the course of time.
-Why they didn't use teleportation is: 1) too many people to really use teleporting, and 2) even though it's used often in fantasy series, it is actually a high-level skill that requires memorizing maps and visualizing places, or risk being killed by becoming part of a wall, or being dumped in lava.
-Finally, the twins are aged up to make use of DxD being an ecchi series.
Now, I hope you all enjoy this chapter, and before that, the disclaimer. Also, as an afterthought, I hope you leave a review, and I might make a special mention if you can solve the code first at the end. Also, it helps to know if I did it right or not.
Disclaimer: Neither shadowwriter329 or myself own Highschool DxD or Gravity Falls. If we did, we would not be writing fanfiction now would we?
-The Hand that Rocks the Mabel-
It was another day at the Mystery Shack, the sun was shining, and Stan was swindling people with attractions such as the Outhouse of Mystery and the Bag of Mystery. As for Dipper and Mabel...
The Tiger was extremely injured, but we repaired him with a fist! Tiger Fist!
"Whoo, Tiger is the hero!" Dipper exclaimed as the twins, along with Soos, were watching TV in the TV room of the Mystery Shack. They had some fun in the days that passed, going fishing with Stan, after looking for a legendary lake monster called the Gobblewonker, and solving a mystery of a decapitated wax Stan. The culprits where the wax figures, and they wanted to kill the real Stan for locking them away when they proved to not be a consistent attention holding attraction.
"It's that commercial I was telling you about." Soos brought the attention to a commercial that was one.
"Are you miserable or depressed?" The commercial started as a man exclaimed that he was. "Then you need to see Gideon!"
"What makes him so special?" Dipper pondered as the commercial showed a silhouette of a male teen with an unusual hairstyle.
"He's a psychic." Mabel made a sound of curiosity while tilting her head at the fact that he was a psychic. "So don't bother with other so-called 'men of mystery'." It had footage of Stan coming out of the outhouse, as if he had been trapped or using it. Kind of disturbing the twins, and they never noticed a blue light shining behind them.
"Learn about tomorrow tonight at Lil'Gideon's Tent of Telepathy, right at this location." It revealed the location as well as disclaimer about not accepting certain things and something about someone still in love with someone named Carla and that he never had the guts to say it. That was when a figure struck from behind and dragged the twins in a sudden hug.
"Ma-tan, Dippy-tan, It's been soooo long!" The person in question was a dark haired teen girl with a large bust, and her long hair was in twin pigtails, and that's not counting the fact that she was dressed as a magical girl of sorts.
"Mom!" The twins said, as Mabel hugged back, and Dipper was trying to escape the clutches of his mother. That was when Stan entered, surprised that their mother had decided to show up.
"Uh, Serafall, nice to see you." He said, as she gave him a light glare, not enough to see malice in the amethyst purple eyes that she shared with Mabel, opposing Dipper's chocolate brown, but enough to know that she was still not happy about something that happened some time ago.
"Stan, you're still on watch for that stunt you pulled that one Family Bonding day." Serafall as she recalled what happened, and so did the twins.
The three members of the Pines family were in a room using their skills to make counterfeit 100-dollar bills as Stan looked over the work.
"You call this Ben Franklin? He looks like a woman!" That was when the sirens came, indicating that the police where on to them.
Mabel shivered as she recalled that. "The county jail was so cold."
"Okay, so I made a little mistake in dragging the kids along with that, but it's not like I haven't been keeping an eye on them." Stan said, but then Mabel decided to ask something.
"Can we go see Gideon?" Stan frowned at the mention of Gideon Gleeful.
"NO! That kid's a monster, and he takes every moment to make my life miserable!" Stan recalled one moment where Gideon's tour bus took two whole parking spaces just as Stan was about to park, and bringing a bunch of fans. "Either way, no one under my roof is allowed under the roof of that Gideons'!"
"Do tents even have roofs?" Dipper didn't think that tents have roofs. Since they are tents.
"I think we found our loophole, literally." Mabel brought up a bit of string that had a loophole, even if it looked more like a noose. "So can we go see the psychic?"
"Sure, since this is a good way to get back at Stan for that stunt." Serafall agreed and she brought the kids with her, as well as Soos, to go to the Tent of Telepathy.
That evening, Serafall walked with her children towards the large Tent of Telepathy with Soos joining them. A crowd was walking in for the evening show as well so at least people seemed to enjoy it. At the entrance a large man with a Hawaiian shirt holding a sack with the tent's star on it. "Step right up folks! Put your money in Gideon's psychic sack!"
People found that agreeable as they gave money before entering. Serafall just shrugged and paid seeing as it was for entrance. Inside was simple with wooden seated benches a stage, the poles keeping the tent up and an organ player to the side of the stage. "Wow, this is like a bizzaro version of the Mystery Shack. They even have their own Soos."
Soos followed where Dipper was pointing at the handy man. He did look a lot like Soos but a different nationality, cleanly shaved, black hair and the nametag said Deuce. Soos himself narrowed his eyes at this Deuce.
Serafall frowned slightly, "This feel way too much like a church setup."
"I can see that," Soos agreed, "Minus the cross and other things that go in a church."
"Oh," Mabel said as the lights dimmed down. "It's starting. It's starting."
"Let's see what this monster looks like," Dipper said crossing his arms.
The spotlights shined on the stage where a large shadow of a man appeared behind the curtain. They open up to reveal…a tiny child wearing a blue suit, white magic cape and white Elvis like hair. "Hello America," The boy said. "My name is Lil' Gideon." He clapped his hands and five doves flew out of his hair.
The crowd cheered and clapped. The devils of the group looked amazed, Mabel for seeing the magic (even if she's seen real magic before) and the other two more stunned. "That's Stan's mortal enemy?"
"But he's so 'Lil'," Mabel said.
Serafall tilted her head, "He looks like a doll. I could carry him around like he was my widdle doll."
"Please don't," Dipper begged his mother in a deadpan tone.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it is such a gift to have you here tonight" Gideon said to the crowd, "Such a gift. I have a vision." Dipper raised a brow before Gideon said, "I predict that soon you'll all say, 'Aww'," and with that he turned his head away from them but when he turned back his eyes was wide, his face was blushed and he gave off a cute look.
As one the rest of the crowd said "Aww."
"It came true," Mabel said in awe.
"What?" Dipper asked his sister annoyed, "I'm not impressed."
"My babies and I are much cuter then that," Serafall stated crossing her arms and pouts.
"So true," Soos agreed.
"Hit it dad," Gideon said to the man from before who was now playing a tune on the organ player. Gideon threw his cape to the crowd and a woman in the front caught it. However, she was swarmed as other women jumped her and tried to get the cope from her.
"I can see, what others can't see. It ain't some shideshow trick, it's innate ability. Where others are blind, I am futurally inclined, and you too could see, if you was widdle ol' me." Gideon started singing in a catchy tune about his abilities. "C'mon everyone, rise up. I want you to keep it going."
Dipper then found himself surprised that he also stood up as well. He could understand Mabel and the rest since they were interested but he didn't want to stand up and yet he did. In fact, the only ones not standing were Serafall, who was sitting normally looking around at them, and a few elderly. "Huh? How'd he do that?" Dipper asked but got no answer.
"You wish your son would call you more." He sang a verse to a woman with a large amount of cats.
"I'm leaving everything to my cats." The cat owning lady angrily declared, with the large number of cats. Dipper just rolled his eyes at the prediction, since it probably would've been obvious.
"I sense that you've been here before." He directed himself to Sheriff Blubs.
"What gave you that idea?" Dipper again, rolled his eyes when Blubs made this comment. Anyone trying to be psychic would've seen as the Sheriff was decked with Gideon merchandise.
"I'll read your mind if I am able." Gideon approached their row and then stood next to Mabel. "Something tells me you're named Mabel."
"How did he know?" Mabel asked, forgetting that she had sewn her name on a sweater.
Once Gideon was done he was
"So welcome all ye, to the Tent of Telepathy. Thanks for visiting. Widdle ol' me!" Gideon finished, with firework sparklers spelling his name. Almost everyone in the tent was impressed, and Mabel was clapping hard. The only ones not clapping were Dipper and Serafall again. Once done Gideon took a couple breaths and a drink from a water bottle. "Thank you! You people are the real miracles."
With the show ending the devils plus Soos left the tent. "Man that kid's a bigger fraud then Stan. No wonder he's jealous."
"C'mon, his dance moves were adorable." Mabel said. "It was great show."
Serafall huffed, "My show's much better. Even more when Mabel's in it!" she smirked at Dipper. "Now we just have to have Dipper appear on it more, and then we can do a ton of family episodes."
"Not happening mom." Dipper replied at once. He then pointed to Mabel. "And you're too easily impressed."
"Yeah yeah," Mabel said as they walked back towards Soos's truck. "Hey mom, what do you think about us getting human size hamster balls?"
"Awesome!" Serafall declared holding her magic wand up. "They will be pink and super adorable! Let's have them on our next episode together."
"Yes!" Mabel cheered pumping her fist in victory.
Little did they know that someone was watching them leave. Gideon focused on Mabel and was greatly interested.
"Look Dipper, I successfully bezazzled my face!" Mabel got her brother's attention as she had shown the various fake gemstones on her face; she blinked, but showed she was in pain.
"Why did you do it?" Dipper was genuinely confused on why Mabel thought it was a good idea to basically snap those things on her, but she just looked a little sad.
"No one appreciates an artist in their time." She did perk up when the doorbell rang, volunteering to answer it. "I'll get it."
Dipper just rolled his eyes as he went back to his reading. He then noticed that his mother was walking in the room. "Hey mom did you know-"
"Know what?" Dipper couldn't really finish because his mother had also bezazzled her face. Dipper just decided to leave the TV room and go to where he and Mabel were sleeping.
"Never mind." Was what he said before he decided to go read somewhere else, while wondering why his family was strange.
Mabel reached the door, and when she opened it, she saw someone she didn't expect. "It's widdle ol' you!"
"Yeah, my song's quite catchy." Gideon Gleeful, the 12 year old from the show last night, had come to the Mystery Shack. "Now I know we hadn't formally met, but I couldn't get your laugh out of my head."
"You mean this one?" Mabel laughed after asking, but it was kind of forced. Not too unnatural, but it was still a little faked.
"Who's at the door?" Stan yelled out, wondering who it was, and whether or not to make plans to run or lie his out of a situation.
"No one!"
"Thank you for keeping this between us. Stan's no fan of mine, and I wonder how a lemon so sour could be related to a peach so sweet." Gideon flattered when Mabel decided not to tell Stan who was at the door. "I could tell you're a kindred spirit. Someone who enjoys the sparkly things in life."
At that point, Mabel coughed a bit, and unintentionally bezazzled part of Gideon's suit, the areas that would make it look a bit better. "Enchanting, simply enchanting. Would you like to have a makeover in my dressing room?"
"Would I!?" Mabel pretty much agreed to go with the younger Elvis like boy, if only to see what it was like. Sure she got some backstage pass when on her mother's show, but she was never invited by someone that wasn't her family that was famous for a backstage tour of something.
Mabel stood in the dressing room in awe of how much stuff was there, and it was all a bit fancier then the Llama sweater she was wearing, it was a great quality home-made sweater, but this was different.
"You see something you like? I know I do."
"What?" Mabel was now a bit weirded out by Gideon's remark, but weirdness aside, she wanted to have girly fun today. So dealing with this bit of weirdness would be no problem.
It was a few hours later before Mabel returned to the shack. When she did she found her brother reading the journal in the lazy boy and her mother messing with her script for her show. "Hey Dipper!" Mabel greeted leaning over him and wiggling her newly extended and painted nails over his face, "What's going on?"
Dipper slapped Mabel's hands away. "Whoa, where've you been?" he sat up and noticed Mabel had makeup on and her hair done. "And what's with those finger nails. You look like a wolverine."
Serafall glanced over to her daughter and gasped excitedly, "Oh you had a makeover Mabel!" she pauses and then pouts, "Why didn't you invite me?"
Mabel rolled her eyes actually expecting this. "It was just me and Gideon giving each other a little makeover. He's a dapper little man. Besides I don't have any girlfriends to hang out and do makeovers with. Rias always wants to watch anime and other Japanese stuff, and Sona grew out of that faster than anyone else."
"I wouldn't trust anyone who's hair is bigger than their head" Dipper said.
"Leave him alone!" Mabel said, "You never want to do girly stuff with me. You and Soos get to do boy stuff all the time."
"What do you mean?" Dipper asked almost offended.
At that moment Soos entered the room, "Hey dude, you wanna go blow up these hot dogs in the microwave one by one?"
"Do I!?" Dipper said excitedly and ran with Soos to the kitchen. Soon they could hear the boys laughing and microwave going and hot dogs popping, while Dipper chanted one at a time.
Serafall looked at Mabel still pouting, which Mabel sighed. "Mom I love doing stuff with you. But I want to do girly stuff with other people closer to my age. Sure he's twelve and I'm fifteen, but it has been a long time since I did anything like this with friends and not family or my peerage. We'll always have time together, on and off the show, but I want more than that. Does that make me a bad person?"
Serafall looked at her daughter before she smiled and pulled the girl into a hug. "Not at all. It makes you a perfect little devil. You can have your fun with Gideon." They pulled apart and Serafall got a determined look, "But next time he does a major makeover with you then I want to be invited too. I love makeovers."
Mabel laughed, just happy her mother wasn't upset with her.
Since Mabel had gotten her mother's permission, she decided to hang out with the younger male a bit more.
"The view from your family's warehouse is amazing! Good thing we brought our...Opera glasses!" Mabel said with Gideon joining in to finish in synch, taking out a pair of opera glasses to view the town with. It was sunset, and the view was indeed lovely as the setting sun illuminated the town.
"You know, when I look down at all those little people I feel like I'm king of all I survey." Gideon finished that statement in a manner that was quite creepy before turning to Mabel. "I guess that would make you my queen."
"Ah, shut up! You're being so nice to me!" Mabel gave Gideon a light punch, but it had hurt a bit more then intended. Gideon said a light 'ouch' but otherwise shrugged it off.
"I can't because I'm speaking from the heart."
"The what now?" Mabel was starting to feel uncomfortable at Gideon, and it was somewhat noticeable in how she was confused at what Gideon was getting at.
"It would be an honor if you would accompany me on a date." That was something she wasn't expecting from Gideon, and it was definitely uncomfortable. Maybe he was talking about something else.
"You mean like a play date?" Gideon shook his head. "A shopping date?"
"It'll be just one little o'l date. I swear on my lucky bolo tie." Gideon made a mention to said bolo tie, as it not only was a bolo tie, but it also had a greenish gem in the center of it.
"I guess one date can't hurt." Mabel said with discomfort, as she hadn't intended on going on a date with him, and he didn't seem to notice.
"Mabel Pines, you have made me the happiest man in the world." Gideon went into a hug with Mabel, and the half-devil girl decided to hug back. Before she noticed something.
"Are you sniffing my hair?"
"It's just one date. I figured I'd just throw him a bone you know." Mabel said as she was playing a game with Dipper and their mother, Smash Brawl. Dipper was playing Link, Mabel as Luigi, and Serafall as Princess Peach.
"Awe, Ma-tan's got a date! Just let me know if you need dating tips, or other things to know." Serafall commented as she continued to use Peach's abilities as a pretty good combatant.
"Okay, mom gross." Dipper replied to his mother before addressing Mabel. "You probably shouldn't have done that. He's gonna fall in love with you, and some younger guys develop crushes on older girls."
"Come on, I know I'm adorable, but not that adorable." Mabel then saw that her mother and brother were in a prime position for a finishing strike. "Kaboom!"
"I guess we can agree on that." Dipper sighed, losing to his sister in Smash.
"You are both my adorable babies, and that means you so adorable that you have to beat off guys with a wand!" Serafall happily chirped, but that was when the doorbell rang. Mabel and Serafall left to answer it, and what surprised them was that Gideon was there, riding a white horse.
"A night of enchantment awaits my sweet." Gideon offered his hand to Mabel to help her on the horse. Serafall wasn't that impressed, but it was an impression to act like a prince on a white horse, almost literally as it was missing an actual prince.
"Alright, have fun you two, and make sure she comes back before bedtime!" The two trotted off with Serafall's words embarrassing Mabel a bit as Gideon was glad.
"Well I must say, that your sister is a nice, lovely gal like you."
"That's my mom." Gideon was a bit confused when Mabel mentioned it, but managed to play it off.
"Oh, I knew that. I was just commenting on how young she looks." Gideon stated as if he had known that the busty black-haired, twin-tailed teen was Mabel's mother.
Gideon took Mabel to a high-end seafood restaurant. It was actually a nice place with a calm atmosphere with tridents and shells on the walls as well as portholes with painted waved to make it like they were on a ship. With several different forks and the water was bubbly. They even had a real working fountain off to the side, which the horse they rode on was drinking out of. Mabel and Gideon had their own private booth inside a space in the wall. Several customers were watching them and Mabel had to remember that Gideon was a celebrity here. "I can't believe they let a horse in here," Mabel could not help but say seeing the horse now moved from the fountain and was nibbling on a salad one other guest was eating.
"Well, people have a hard time saying no to me" Gideon said almost smugly as he leans back and placed his feet on the table.
"Ah Mr. Gideon," their waiter said in a French accent (that Mabel believed to be fake) as he refilled their water. "The feet on the table. An excellent choice."
"What did we speak about eye contact?" Gideon asked turning his head, raising his head and making a face Mabel thought looked like it belonged on the face of a snotty rich nobleman.
"Yes, yes" the waiter said straightening up and not looking at Gideon. "Very good." And with that he walked away backwards making sure not to make eye contact.
Mabel chuckled awkwardly, not sure what to think about that.
At the shack everyone was relaxing in the gift shop. That was until Stan came with a newspaper. "Hey! Hey! What the heck is Mabel doing in the paper with that crazy pickpocket Gideon?"
Indeed, on the front page was a picture of Gideon on Mabel taken yesterday as they walked through town, holding hands nonetheless, though Mabel looked surprised at the picture being taken than anything else. "Oh yeah, it's like a big deal" Wendy said checking on her phone. "Everyone's talking about Mabel's and Gideon's big date tonight."
Stan didn't take it very well. "What!?" he crumbled up the paper before pointing at Serafall "Why did you let this happen? I thought you of all people would disapprove of this."
Serafall frowns at him, "Gideon is a harmless boy that is taking my baby on a sweet date. And if he does anything to her then he will have to deal with my magic wand!"
"You know any warning signs if that happens right?" Wendy asked Dipper to which he nodded. "Cool think you can at least teleport me out of town so I can avoid the blast radius?"
"This is no laughing matter!" Stan said before he left the room and came up dressed in his suit. "If Serafall won't stop it then I will!" and with that he exits the shack, slamming the door.
Everyone watched the door stunned before Soos said, "You know what would be funny? If that was a closet and he had to go out through the real door."
"That would be funny," Serafall admitted.
Soos smiled and went to the door and opens it before he frowns, "Nope it's the real door."
"I'll change it next time!" Serafall declared, "That way he'll be all turned around and maybe learn his lesson."
"Mom's still upset with Stan for that whole counterfeiting scheme." Dipper explained.
Wendy shrugged "As long as she doesn't kill him and leave me out of an easy job, then more power to her."
Mabel was looking at the fancy water, and trying to enjoy the date. It was just awkward, since her date was younger, but wasn't exactly terrible. Although, "aren't lobsters normally cooked first?" Mabel had to ask since she had ordered a lobster, and it was still alive. She then decided to change the topic. "Ooh, fancy water. Ooh la la, oui oui."
"Oh, do you speak French?" Gideon spoke in very good French. Apparently he studied different languages, and that made him incredibly intelligent.
"Oui monsieur." Mabel would've felt really foolish if not for her Devil heritage, granting her the ability to speak and understand any language in the world. She could translate for anyone and had no need to take language lessons, save to learn reading and writing of that language.
"Mabel, I believe that this date was a complete success, and I promise the next one will top this one." Mabel was surprised, since there was no mention of a second date, and she didn't agree to one.
"Wait, you said just one date, and this was it." Mabel was feeling much more uncomfortable about it, and that wasn't ending.
"Do I spy a South American red crested Macaw?" Gideon said as the bird in question and landed on Gidoen. "3...2...1."
"Mabel, will you accompany Gideon to the ballroom dance this thurbsday." Gideon shook the bird a bit for the mispronounced word. "Thursday." The macaw then spat out a letter and flew off.
"Gideon, I have to say." Mabel started as people were gathering around. They commented on how Gideon got a girlfriend, how cute the couple was, Blubs being on the edge of his seat, an old woman saying she would die of sadness if he were rejected, and a doctor confirming.
Mabel returned to the Mystery Shack feeling a little shameful as Dipper was just reading. "So, how did it go."
"I dunno, I have a lobster now." Mabel put a still living lobster into a tank. Dipper caught on to Mabel's tone, and that she was feeling bad about something.
"Okay, what happened?"
"Something wrong Ma-tan?" Serafall came in and noticed. Mabel didn't want her mother to actually kill Gideon over a bit of emotional discomfort.
"Oh, nothing much. I just have another date with Gideon. I just couldn't say no." Dipper rolled his eyes at this, and that his sister probably didn't want to go.
"It's easy, just say n and o."
"Is he hurting you?" Serafall said before starting out the door. "I'll have a talk with his parents, and keep an eye on Stan before he does something that he might regret."
"Okay, just don't go too far please." Serafall promised that she wouldn't break out the magic wand, she just couldn't say no to her kids, unless they were in danger.
"Close call, otherwise we would've had to evacuate the town before an early winter hit." Dipper commented as they had dodged a frozen nuclear bomb.
Luckily enough Stan was visiting Bud Gleeful at this moment. When he first left the house he went straight to Gideon's house to keep him away from Mabel. It might have been the rivalry between Stan and Bud, and recently Gideon that forced this, but then Bud gave a proposal how they can use their niece/son dating circuit as a way to pool their profits instead. Ever the Conman Stan was for it. However, as greedy as he was he wasn't an idiot. He knew the crazy stuff in the town and the other supernatural factions, and knew when to make it seem like he didn't know anything. He also knew what his limits and one of the limits he knew were when it came to his niece and nephew. "Look Bud, I can't really go with the two of them getting married."
"I know it seems like we are rushing things," Bud explained, "But the two are a couple made to happen. The town loves them, and my son is really smitten by lovable Mabel. I'm simply seeing what will most likely happen. I'm just saying when it happens we'll make the most out of it."
"Yeah, in any other case I'd agree with you." Stan said rolling his eyes. "But it's not that simple. Their mom's really protective of them, and if she finds out I tried to get Mabel married then I'll be on ice." Stan choosing to forgo the 'literally' from the sentence.
"Seems harsh to kill you like that," Bud said truthfully.
Stan shrugged "Yeah well, you can say she's a devil."
The door was knocked open with a large amount of force before Serafall entered the house. She was frowning as she looked around before spotting Stan and Bud sitting on the couch and lazy boy. "Speak of the devil and she'll appear. Like a mother-in-law." Stan joked seeing as he would never have the opportunity to make that joke again, though he was nervous seeing the frown on the woman's face.
"And who might you be young lady?" Bud asked politely but had a slightly firm tone, which matched his frown.
"Bud this is Serafall," Stan introduced. "She's the twins mother."
"Really?" Bud asked surprised, "I never would have guessed. I could have sworn she was Mabel's older sister."
"Are you Gideon's father?" Serafall asked, with her hands on her hips.
"That I am." Bud said getting up and reaching out a hand to her, "Bud Gleeful. It's a pleasure to meet you Mrs. Pines."
Stan coughed uncomfortably. "Pines is my family's name. She never got around to marring my nephew before he died. In fact, Dipper and Mabel have her maiden name with Pines being their middle name."
"Say no more." Bud said holding his hands in surrender, "It's none of my business and I mean no disrespect."
"I'm here to talk about Gideon." Serafall stated getting to the point.
"Well that's good!" Bud said happily. "Well, we were just talking about him and your daughter, and well, they're singing in harmony so to speak." He didn't see Serafall shot Stan a look and he smiled nervously. Bud continued. "Now Mabel is just a peach, and from what I heard about your son he one smart cookie."
"My babies are amazing!" Serafall stated with glee but was still focused. "But I'm here to talk about what Gideon did."
"Oh dear." Bud said his smile dropping slightly. "I hope he didn't cause any harm."
"I want to know his intentions on forcing Mabel onto another date." Serafall said firmly without making a scene.
"Now I mean no disrespect." Bud said firmly, "but I will say my Gideon would never force anyone to do anything, let alone a girl he is crushing on. I will admit I am not a strict parent, but I did teach my son to be respectful and how to treat a lady."
"Mabel didn't want a second date!" Serafall said. "But she was pressured when asked in front of the whole restaurant."
"Alright that might not have been fair for Mabel." Bud said looking uncomfortable for a second, "but you know how us boys are when we're young and pining, pardon the pun, for a sweet young lady. I have done a few things to try and impress my wife and I'm sure your late fiance did the same. Heck I'm sure Stan can tell you a tale or two."
"Don't bring me into this!" Stan said, wanting nothing to do with this. Heck he was keeping Bud alive in his opinion by not telling Serafall about Bud wishing them to be married.
Bud rolled his eyes at Stan before he said to Serafall. "All I ask is that for Mabel to give Gideon a chance. Nothing more, and it is all up to Mabel."
Serafall narrowed her eyes before she huffed. "Fine! But he better not and force her into anything."
"Thank you dear." Bud said before holding a hand out to the couch. "May I offer you some coffee?"
But Serafall was already turning and leaving the house after slamming the door. Bud stood there for a minute he sat back down. "Woo, your niece-in-law is one heck of a lady Stan. I feel like I dodged a bullet."
"Oh you did, Bud." Stan confirmed leaning back, happy that Serafall was upset with someone else now, "like you wouldn't believe."
"Boating at night, boating at night." Was the words that Mabel and Gideon were hearing from McGuckit, the old hillbilly of Gravity Falls that everyone knows about, and is assumed crazy, his hobo-like appearance and long beard didn't help his case. Aside from that, Mabel was not enjoying the boat ride.
"I thought dancing was going to be the end of the evening." She was most definitely not having a good time, even though her, loosely called, date's face was filled with joy and ecstasy.
"Wouldn't you want this evening to last forever my sweet?"
"NO! I mean yes." Mabel really didn't want to continue the evening, but she also didn't want to be a bad person. She wanted to break it to him gently in some way. "I mean, I'm always happy to hang out with a friend, buddy, pal, chum, another word for friend."
"Chum?"
"I already said that." Mabel said to McGuckit before going back to Gideon. "Mate?"
"How about soul mate?" Gideon asked, and that was when fireworks shot up in the night sky that managed to form a heart with Mabel's name in the middle of it.
"Well, you can't say no to that." McGuckit's comment made Mabel very uncomfortable and nervous, because she was again forced to say yes to something she really didn't want to do.
"I don't want to do this, but I can't just say no. Argh, there's no way out!" Mabel was walking around in circles in the TV room when she came home from her date. Dipper had walked in, immediately noticing how his sister was acting.
"Mabel, what happened on that date, you did tell him no right?" He asked, and that's when their mother walked in as well, and with the atmosphere tense, she was ready to help in any way possible.
"So, how was your date?" Serafall asked, but had a feeling that she wasn't going to like the answer.
"Blargh! I don't know what happened! I thought I was in the 'friend zone', but then I realized that I somehow got dragged into the romance zone!" Mabel was stressed by the unwanted attention, and really needed to vent or get it over with.
"Well, I talked with Mr. Gleeful, and he should be speaking to Gideon about his behavior. If Gideon does do something to force you, then we'll be seeing some new ice sculptures and a mysterious disappearance of a certain psychic." Serafall hoped that she put the fear of a devil in him, without needing to resort to showing she was a devil, but for some reason she was going to doubt it, call it a mother's intuition.
"Don't! I mean, I do like Gideon, but in a friend-slash-little sister kind of way. I don't want to break his heart." Mabel really did mean what she said. Yeah, she didn't like him on a romantic scale, and he was pretty creepy, but he did give her the feeling of a younger sibling. The phrasing was just personal preference.
"Ouch, that's a shot to the manhood, but the good news is that you don't have to marry him." Mabel smiled a bit at Dipper's comment, glad that she still had a choice in what she could do, as Gideon seemed to take those choices away without being seen as a jerk. At least until...
"Uh, Mabel. I know it's still your choice and all, but it might be a good idea to consider marrying Gideon. It was Bud's idea, but there's a lot of money that could be tied into this." Stan had come in with a 'Team Gideon' T-shirt, courtesy of Bud Gleeful, and made a mention of the money, causing Serafall to give him a glare. Mabel had enough and ran to the attic screaming at the stress of things. "Bodies change sweetie! Bodies change."
"Stan..." Stan knew that he was in trouble when Serafall said his name in that tone. Then Serafall placed her attention on her son. "You talk with Mabel, since Stan and I need to have a...discussion."
"Just don't kill him please. I'd rather not lose my grunkle." Dipper agreed as he followed Mabel up to the attic, where they made their room. He ignored the likely pain Stan was going to go through from 'the talk'.
Dipper found his sister doing something he figured she might do. "Mabel, can I talk with you?"
"Mabel's not in right now, she's in sweater town." Mabel had needed some time to think, and this was one of the main ways she tried to cope with a difficult problem. She'd wrap herself in a sweater, blanket, or other means and say she was in that town.
"Can you come out of sweater town?" Mabel just shook her head, determined to stay in sweater town.
Dipper sighed. "Okay enough is enough. If you can't break up with Gideon, then I'll do it for you."
Mabel peeked over the top of her sweater. "You will?"
Dipper nodded before Mabel popped out of her sweater, playfully hitting her brother chanting "thank-you" over and over again.
It took a little bit to get her to calm down and they came down stairs. Dipper took a moment to peek inside the living room. "You still alive Stan?"
"D-d-d-de-define a-a-a-alive!" Stan stuttered from the cold. His entire body was frozen on a block of ice with only his head expose.
"He's fine,. Serafall stated simply standing before him with her hands on her hips. "He's not getting off easy by dying on me."
"At least keep him in one piece," Dipper suggested, "Would be hard to explain why he lost a finger or toe to frostbite in the beginning of summer."
"Not…. f-f-f-funny!" Stan cried as the twins leave the shack.
Dipper and Mabel arrived at the spot where Gideon was bringing Mabel for their new date. It was a fancy club/restaurant a short drive from town into the mountains. It was call, and I kid you not, "the Club" and had a big theme of using the suite of clubs from cards. Dipper entered the place along and found Gideon at a booth at one end of the room sitting in a large poofy chair. He was looking at the menu so Dipper cleared his throat to get his attention.
Gideon lowered the menu and saw Dipper. "Oh, Dipper Pines, how are you? You look good, you look good."
"Thanks," Dipper said to be polite before he sighed, "Look Gideon we need to talk. Mabel isn't joining you tonight. She uh, doesn't want to see you anymore. She's kind of weirded out by you, no offense."
Gideon just sat there before he said in a strain voice. "So what you're saying is…. you've come between us."
Dipper saw how Gideon's eyes were narrowed and his smiled strained. "Look Mabel would say this herself but you have been all but forcing her into these dates. As her brother I am taking her burden myself. I hope you understand."
Gideon looked angry for a second before he looked taken aback, "Oh gosh darn I am so sorry. I would never want Mabel to feel that way."
"Yes well these things happen, so we can let bygones be bygones, but hey, thumbs up!" Dipper said starting to walk away.
"Indeed…" Gideon said softly. As Dipper walked away he didn't see Gideon's face turn meaner and then whispered. "Thumbs up indeed my friend."
Outside Mabel was waiting for her twin and was relieved that Dipper came out a few minutes later. "How'd it go? Was he mad? Did he try to read your mind with his psychic powers?"
"Don't worry Mabel, he's just a kid." Dipper said confidently to his sister. "He doesn't have any powers, so we don't anything to worry."
Gideon didn't take the fact Dipper tried to break Mabel and him apart in his mind. In his room that night he was breathing hard and angrily, trying to calm down, while talking to himself in his dressing room style mirror. "Dipper Pines…you don't know what you've done."
Gideon reached up and grabbed his bolo tie. The gem glowed an eerily blue before a candle next to him shook and floated upwards as if there was no gravity. All around his mirror the lights broke one by one in rapid secession leaving the room dark. Several more items started to float as well, including a small dresser, a wardrobe, a lamp and some small stuffed toys. "You just made the biggest mistake of your life!" Gideon said angry before he turned, holding a hand up in the air and thrust it down, causing the floating items to slam into the floor and break.
The door opens up and Bud came into the room slightly angry. "Gideon Charles Gleeful! Clean up this room this instance!"
Gideon growled before he turned, pointing at his father and shouted. "I can buy and sell you old man!"
Bud looked at Gideon before he shrugged and stated. "Fair enough." and then closed the door.
Gideon glared at the door, which had several pictures of Mabel on them as well as her name spelt in big letters above it all. He glared at one picture which had both Dipper and Mabel before the photo glowed the same blue before the half that held Dipper was burned way slowly, leaving only his love Mabel.
The next day Serafall was all smiles as she hung out with her babies on the porch of the Mystery Shack. "How many days do you have off left mom?"
"Just one," Serafall admitted. "But I will spend it all with my adorable babies."
"I'm just glad everything is back to normal," Mabel said happily. That was when the phone rang, and Dipper went to go get it. "Hello?"
"Hello, this is Toby Determined of the Gravity Falls Gossiper, am I speaking with Dipper Pines?" Toby Determined, the owner of the local newspaper asked on the line. It was definitely better to talk with Toby on a phone or something because of his strange appearance that often shocked and frightened people.
"Oh, yeah this is Dipper, and sorry for accusing you of murder last week." Dipper recalled the time that he had hunted down the cursed wax figures, since the initial clues pointed to Toby Determined because of a hole in his shoe and his left-handedness. The wax figures, on the other hand, were easily dispatched through the use of water magic, and the fact that Dipper and Mabel knew how to use a weapon. The Gnomes were a bit harder, but they didn't want to really deal that much with them.
"Water on the bridge." Toby was being a surprisingly good sport about it. Whether it was because of something else, or that he was just going with the flow no one knew. "I wanted to ask you if you've seen anything strange in this town."
"Huh? I guess someone was going to ask about this eventually, but I've seen a few things and have a few theories." Dipper then wrote down an address and headed off to meet with Toby for an interview about the strange things of Gravity Falls, it didn't really affect the underworld, so it was somewhat okay to say something about it.
Toby hung up the phone and looked to the individual in front of him. "There, I did your dirty work. Now you hold up your end of the bargain."
The figure then gave a slip of paper to Toby and he was overjoyed. "Shandra Jimenez's phone number! Bless you little Gideon!"
Gideon simply stood up and left the Gravity Falls Gossiper, it had served its purpose.
Dipper arrived at the scene, and already felt something was off. The place was a warehouse, which was not a good place for an interview, and it was dark. He didn't need the lights to be on to see where he was going, score one for Devil night vision. The warehouse was packed with boxes and at the far end was a chair turned around so the back was to him. Dipper glanced to the door only to find it slam shut. "Yeah that's not suspicious at all," he muttered he muttered sarcastically.
The lights came on one by some leaving a straight line to the chair, but it benefited the person trapping him more than it did for Dipper. The chair turned to show Gideon sitting in it, stroking a tiny stuff doll of himself on the head.
"Hello friend." Gideon said slowly.
Dipper gave him a deadpan look, "Are you seriously pulling a Dr. No on me? Or are you Dr. Evil since you are stroking your 'mini-me' like Mr. Bigglesworth?"
"Well you do fit the stupidity of Austin Powers." Gideon said with a dark grin. "But I digress. So Dipper Pines, how long have you been staying in this town? A week? Two? You like it here? Enjoy the scenery?"
"What do you want from me?" Dipper asked crossing his arms.
Gideon placed his hands on the arms of the chair and leaned forward. "Listen carefully boy. This town has secrets you couldn't begin to comprehend."
"I've seen worst." Dipper said before he asked. "Wait, is this about Mabel? I told you she's not into you."
"Lair!" Gideon shouted standing up from his chair and pointing at Dipper, "You turned her against me." He started to walk to Dipper with on hand on his bolo tie. "She was my peach dumpling."
"You did it to yourself man." Dipper stated.
Gideon however raised his hand and Dipper found himself floating in the air by a force he recognized as magic. He was taken by surprised at this before Gideon threw him across the room and Dipper crashed into several boxes, spilling more dolls and foam peanuts. "So," Dipper said knocking one doll off of himself "You know magic too?"
"Reading minds isn't all I can…" Gideon stopped as Dipper's words caught his attention, "What do you mean by that?"
Dipper stood up and closed his right hand. Ice formed between his fingers and now he was armed with three ice daggers. "And here I thought you were a fake." Dipper said before he threw the ice daggers at the child psychic.
Gideon quickly swiped his hand and a box flew from the side and knocked the dagger out of the air. Gideon narrowed his eyes. "Oh I am very real. And I am going to end this."
Gideon lifted his hand again and all the remaining boxes opens up and the items floated around them. Most were random but they either had Gideon's name or face on them. Dipper wasn't impressed as he formed more ice daggers. "You're at least three years too soon to beat me in magic."
The two stared determined at each other before they sprang into action and attacked.
Evening was coming at the Mystery Shack and Mabel sat on the porch thinking and feeling slightly guilty. Serafall and Wendy both came out of the gift shop and sat down next to her. "What's wrong Ma-tan?"
"Nothing, well. You've broken up with guys before right?"
"Oh, tons of them." Wendy said before starting on an extensive list of ex-boyfriends that she broke up with, including a number of guys from her highschool and the guy with the tattoos.
"You know, I honestly don't think I had any real dating experience besides your dad, and I'm not sure if that can count." Serafall wasn't sure if Mabel and Dipper's dad could count since their relationship started from a contract, and eventually turned into having twins from there. She did not regret having her babies, because of how adorable they are, and never will.
"It's just, I thought things might be back to normal after breaking up with Gideon, but now I just feel bad. Maybe it was a mistake asking Dipper to do it for me." Mabel was guilty over the fact that her brother had to do it for her. Serafall knew that she was feeling bad, and sat down.
"Mabel, if you bad about it, then you should give Gideon a proper breakup. If I was dating and got a breakup from a letter or something, then I'd feel really bad, and pissed as hell!"
"You're right. I should go tell Gideon myself about it!" Mabel said as her mother gave her a big hug.
"That's my girl!" Serafall then had her cell phone ring as she answered it. A brief conversation later and she ended the call. "Sorry I can't stay longer, but I've been caught skipping work. And I need to get the human sized hamster balls for the next episode for Levia-tan and Chibi-Levia-tan!"
"Ignore." Wendy said as Mabel left to talk with Gideon. "What? I don't think I ever properly broke up with the guy and he keeps texting me."
Dipper and Gideon hated to admit, but the other was a decent opponent. Dipper wasn't going all out because it would cause way to much attention to be grabbed, and Gideon also didn't want the attention, harder to convince people of innocence if they see you use psychic powers to commit murder.
"Gideon, just give up!" Dipper said as he threw a few more ice daggers. "She isn't going to date you!"
"That's a lie!" Gideon said, and managed to find an opening by not only shoving Dipper with a crate, but also catching him in his field of levitation. Dipper felt his body moving against what he wanted it to do as Gideon moved the body, but at least he was able to resist, even if Gideon was concentrating on him. "I'll make sure you never lie to me again!"
That's when Gideon grabbed some large scissors that were used for hedge clipping and moved in position to slice Dipper's head off. Dipper felt Gideon's power weaken, but not enough to fully break free as he did it.
"Gideon, we have to talk!" Gideon lost concentration at Mabel's voice, as he knew she was here. How she knew to find him here he didn't know.
"Mabel!" Gideon said turning around and quickly dropping the shears. "My marshmallow. What are you doing here?"
"I'm sorry Gideon." Mabel said, "But I can't be your marshmallow. I needed to be honest and tell you that myself."
Gideon looked confused as he squeezed his amulet. "I don't understand."
Dipper however felt the magic squeeze his neck, trying to chock him. "Mabel!" he cried holding his hands to his neck, "Can you at least get me down before being brutally honest with him!"
"But hey, we can still be makeover buddies right?" Mabel asked walking towards Gideon and holding his hands. "Wouldn't you like that?"
"Really?" Gideon asked hopefully.
That was when Mabel struck, as she noticed something. Her hand shot out and grabbed the amulet and ripped it off of Gideon. "No not really!" she shouted holding the amulet out of his reach. Dipper was released and he landed on his feet as Mabel kept shouting at Gideon, "You were attacking my brother, what the hell!"
Gideon however was trying to reach his tie from the taller Mabel. "My tie, give it back!"
Mabel however threw the tie and Dipper caught it, "Ha! I knew you were a fake!" he gloated to Gideon. "Not so powerful without that amulet are you?"
However, as he gloats Gideon charged at Dipper, taking him by surprise as the smaller boy did a flying tackle. The two were actually knocked into the window and went through it. However, the problem was the side they fell out of was that facing the edge of the cliff, causing them to fall fast. "Dipper!" Mabel cried out before she noticed the amulet was dropped and left behind.
The two boys kept fighting, hitting and slapping each other as they fell. Finally, Dipper had enough and made his wings appear and pushed himself away from Gideon. Gideon stared in disbelief. "How the heck did you get magical wings?"
"Sorry kid." Dipper gloats watching Gideon fall pass him as he slows down "Magicians don't reveal their secrets."
Gideon screamed in horror as he noticed the ground was coming up fast. Now Dipper wasn't really going to let him hit the ground, and was just wanted to scare Gideon. As he flew down to save the boy he noticed Gideon's from began to glow and then stopped just before he hit the ground. Gideon noticed he wasn't falling either and when he opened his eyes he saw he was less than a foot from the ground. He looked up to see Mabel's from in front of the full moon, her wings out and the amulet glowing in her hand. She set Gideon down as Dipper lands off to the side before gently floats down and lands in front of him. "Listen Gideon," Mabel said slowly and clearly, "It's over. I will never, ever, date you."
Gideon watched as the amulet was covered in ice before she squeezed her hand and crushed the magical gem. "My powers!" he cried out before he stood up and glared at them. He pointed at them and stated to walk backwards. "Oh this isn't over. This isn't the last you'll see of widdle…ol'…me."
The two devils watch him move through the dark woods clearly even if Gideon thought he was being dramatic, stealthy and epic. The two just looked at each other before they shrugged and decided to head home.
"Sorry you feel that way Stan." Bud Gleeful said that night as they shared two glasses of coffee. "But even if I don't agree I must respect a mother's wishes."
"Yeah she made her point very clear." Stan said, happy to still be intact and no longer frozen. He was upset since it was good money, but he knew the money would be worthless if he was frozen or dead.
The door opens and Gideon entered the house, looking angry and upset. He noticed Stan on his couch so he stood on the coffee table and pointed at the old man. "Stanford Pines! I rebuke thee!" he shook his fist to show his point. "I rebuke thee!"
"Rebuke?" Stan asked confused, "Is that a word?"
Gideon went on however, "the entire Pines Family has invoked my fury. You will all pay recompense for your transgressions."
"What you got a word a day calendar or something?" Stan asked not getting what Gideon was saying.
"But sunshine," Bud tried to say, "It was actually Mabel's mother that…"
"Silence!" Gideon ordered still glaring at Stan.
"Well Gideon seems to be in one of his rages, so I guess this deal is over." Bud said nervously. "Looks like we'll won't be having anymore issues with this."
"Okay, okay," Stan said standing up. "I can see when I'm not wanted."
However, he reached behind him and took the clown painting he had his eye on since he gotten here. "Stan, I need you to put that painting back." Bud said as Stan made for the door. "Stan! Stan!"
"Try and catch me sucker!" Stan cried as he ran out the door.
Back at the Mystery Shack Stan was hanging up the painting he stole. He sighed, "I could've had it all." He turned to see the tired forms of his niece and nephew. "What the heck happened to you two?"
"Gideon" they both replied.
"Gideon," Stan muttered with narrow eyes. "The little mutant swore vengeance on the whole family. What's he going to do? Nibble my ankle or something?"
"Oh yeah," Dipper said with a smirk "How is he going to destroy us now? Try and guess what number we're thinking of?"
"He'll never guess what number I'm thinking of," Mabel said before she exclaimed, "Negative Eight! No one would ever guess a negative number."
The family laughs at this, not at all feeling threaten by Gideon.
Inside Gideon's room, said boy was making the finishing touches of his model of the Mystery Shack. He painted the faces of the four models for Mabel, Dipper, Stan and Serafall. He picked Mabel up and spoke as if it was really Mabel speaking, "Oh Gideon, I still love you. If only my family wasn't in the way."
He moved Stan's piece, "Look at me, I'm old and I'm smelly."
He held up Serafall next, "if you want to date my daughter you gotta beat my on."
He held Dipper's piece last and spoke in a dumb down voice, "hey, what you going to do without your precious amulet?"
He glared at the doll and sets it down, "Oh you'll see boy." He reached over and closed a book, which was open to the page that showed the amulet. The book was a red journal with a golden six-finger hand and a large '2' in the center. "Oh you'll see."
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