CHAPTER 3: TREND SETTING

All four are at the Dragon Dojo and their all in what looks like 80s outfits. Adam is in a neon white suit with a neon red shirt. Dipper is in what looks like a rocker outfit, a coat and paints that are gold, with a black t shirt with a long blond hair wig. Mabel she is in a long sleeve and knee-high skirt dress that is magenta, and she is wearing a wild hair pink wig. Wendy she is in a wild looking rocker dress which is sleeveless and knee-high skirt. It's is a mixture of colors magenta, white and black with some tiger stripes on the left shoulder, and she wears a long blue haired wig. Wendy shakes her head.

"I can't believe you got us to wear these things."

Adam says, "I'm sorry our uniforms our in the dry cleaners and my washer for my other clothes is out of order; these party costumes were the only things I had."

"80's get up really."

"Could have been worse."

Dipper is then in one part of the dojo is walking back and forth in his usual insecurity.

"I can't afford to go out in the public eye like this, I'll get shot."

Adam looks at him.

"No, you won't will you can the insecurity, your making me nervous."

Dipper then stops and says, "Easy for you to say, who the heck is you supposed to be anyway."

Adam smiles and has his hands on the open edges of his neon white jacket.

"One of my heroes Crocket Johnson."

"Who"

"You know the show "Vice Paradise" detectives that dress cool, solve cases, fight crime, with a cool soundtrack playing."

Dipper looks puzzled, Adam then has his hand on his forehead in distain.

"What the hell do people watch these days?"

Mabel looks at what she's wearing, and she says.

"I actually like it."

Wendy then shakes her head.

"Alright I get the costumes, but do we have to wear the wigs."

Adam says, "No you can take them off."

Dipper, Wendy and Mabel take them off and throw them at Adam. Adam shakes his head from the action.

"Very funny guys, do you think we can get down to business now."

All four gathers at the table and Dipper brings out the big ancient text the book of Eibon and puts it on the table and Dipper opens it and turns to a certain passage on the Demonology section on Earth walking demons.

Dipper says, "I've looked for a while and have found out who our guy is."

Mabel says, "You mean the evil Kool Aid man."

Dipper reply dryly, "Yeah, him."

He flips the page and it's a sketch of the Demon Dhramathrax and there are some passages on him.

Dipper says, "According to the passage the demon's name is Dhramathrax the indestructible whom has gone by several other known aliases and known for his heinous acts throughout the years.

Dipper reads some of the references.

"Decapitator of clowns, head ripper of Kings and Queens"

Mabel, Wendy, and Adam look at the passage and read off as well.

Adam says, "Slicer and dicer of INS and Border Patrol men, destroyer of the sphinx nose."

Wendy says, "Eater of skanks and Café Bombers, stealer of the Scream painting."

Mabel says, "Parole officer for Rhan Johnson, spine ripper of business men."

The next passage Mabel is afraid of reading but does despite her feelings.

"Slaughterer…of…. cute…woodland creatures…. oh my god I can't read anymore."

Mabel cries and Adam hugs her having her cry on his shoulder.

Wendy then says, "Alright can we get the point Dipper, can we kill it."

"Well each Earth walker has a common weakness, but the problem is it's hard to classify which it is as each of them are different."

Adam then takes out a breath mint box called Snow Savers and is about to have one and then suddenly it hits him as he thinks back when Dhramathrax grasped both Dipper and him and they screamed, they thought he backed off because they had bad breath, but it was the opposite.

Adam looks at them and says, "I have it."

He then shows them the Snow Savers box.

Mabel looks at Adam a little puzzled.

"What you want us all to have a breath mint."

Adam shakes his head.

"No, I'm saying this is it, mint that's it's weakness, it backed off when I breathed on him,

Thank god I ordered the mint shake."

Wendy says, "That's good but now the question is how we are going to use it against him, we can't just all breath on him."

They all ponder for a moment and then Mabel immediately stands up and yells.

"WAIT, I'VE GOT A THUNDER STORM!"

Dippers looks at her and says, "You mean brainstorm."

"Same difference."

Mabel then gets everyone to gather up and then she whispers her plan to them. Dipper then shakes his head and says, "Wait a minute first how the heck are we going to get in and how will he know where to find us."

Mabel says, "I'm the manager of the place."

She then pulls something out of her purse and she shows them the key.

"Which means I'm aloud to come in to the office early before opening time."

"But it's close to midnight."

"Early enough"

Wendy while looking at Dipper's Book of Ebon stays, "As for how he'll find us according to the text it says the demon sometimes targets specific prey and is able to find them though scent sometimes even telepathy or empathy."

Wendy then looks up.

"So, he'll be back for us no matter where we go."

Adam then says, "Then we have no time to waste, let's do it; but let's get a few things first."

Adam then goes to the restroom and kneels and opens a cabinet and it has a couple of extra bottles of mint mouthwash. He then hands both to Dipper and Adam also finds a few packets of Floss and hands them to Mabel and then they all go to a table which has any product with Mint from 3 Chocolate Mint Bars, 2 Mocha Mint Bottles, 1 package of Mint Girl Scout cookies and Adam's box of Breath Mints, and even Toothbrushes with Mint Flavor. Along the table there is a blender and four squirt guns Blaster Drenchers.

Wendy opens one of the Mocha mint bottles and then she pours them both into the blender, Mabel takes on of the bars and then crumples the pieces, Adam takes a few Mini Cookies and puts them all inside a towel and takes a mallet and then smashes them. Then both Mabel and Adam come to the blender and put the pieces in the Blender. Dipper then scoops some Mint Ice cream and puts it in, and Adam with his breath mints puts a few into the blender. Mabel then closes it up and blends all the ingredients in after their blended she then takes the pitcher and Adam brings out the two handed 200 model Blast Drencher with a handle on top as the handler and trigger and one on the bottom and unscrews the two top cylinders and she pours it all in both. Wendy takes one of the other Mouthwashes and then Dipper takes the 100 model along with the 50 both are different in size and power if equal design as both have pump action. Dipper then unscrews them, and Wendy loads them up. Along with the 30-hand gun model which has no pump action but still lethally effective as it's capable of doing damage, Dipper loads the last of the mouthwash into that. Wendy then takes the mint floss and then finds a baseball bat, bo staff and arnise sticks she wraps the floss onto them good along with some duct tape to make sure they stick on the weapons.

Mabel, Dipper, Adam and Wendy load all of it to the trunk of Adam's muscle car and then they all drive down to the Flap Jack Cinema which looks like a stack of pancakes. They soon park and they all quickly go to the back door along with the stuff and then Mabel she opens the door and looks at the security key pad and then types in the code which deactivates cameras and everything and Mabel gives the all clear signal and then they all come in and start setting up a few traps in the theatre. Wendy she then pours some mouthwash on the floors of the theater, Dipper sets up some floss trip wires in a few hallways and thankfully a dark green color to camaflashe their visablity. Wendy takes a few motion sensors she was able to pick up from the dojo and had each of them placed in different places of the theater and each of them have a specific signal that is programed on each of their phones which also have a digital map of the theater, once the sensor is tripped then the intruder's blip will pop up.

Mabel takes out a mini mint candy box and then pours some into a box of popcorn and even uses the last of Adam's breath mints into a soda drink and she shakes it up a bit, so they'll dissolve and mix faster. Adam then eats a couple of the Mint Chocolate Candy bars and can fashion a chocolate throwing knife and shuriken.

All of them are a bit exhausted from the amount of preparation they all had to do, and all decide to take five. Dipper and Wendy go to one of the box offices to privately talk while giving Adam and Mabel their privacy at the Cosessions counter. Mabel then types in a code on the register and then it opens the drawer and she along with Adam take out their wallets and put in the right amount of money for the snacks they use in the theater and then shut it. Mabel and Adam then jump on top of a counter and they have their big tub of popcorn and a giant soda to share together.

Mabel then asks Adam something. "You know you never really told me why that cartoon is so special to you?"

Adam then looks at Mabel.

"I remember when both my brother and I lost both our parents, life just didn't make sense to us anymore, even the color of sunshine looked terrible."

Adam takes a cornel of popcorn and fiddles with it a little while talking.

"One morning around breakfast time I came down and saw my brother whom always gets up early in the morning to watch cartoons, I saw him stumble upon the last cartoon I've ever thought he would ever watch "Dimond and the Images." I had nothing else to do so I decided to join him and watch it."

Adam then looks at Mabel again.

"After seeing one episode with my brother and his happy look, I know our lives would never be the same but that we'd be okay."

Adam takes that piece of popcorn and puts it on the back of his right wrist. Gives his hand a gentle slap and the piece flies up into his mouth and he chomp on it and swallows.

"I'm not exactly sure what it was that drew me in, the girls, the color, the music, it doesn't matter all I remember is how it made I and my brother feel. It actually brought in a little happiness to our lives."

Adam looks down and is a little sad.

"I just hope once I find my brother again, I can find a way to bring it back to him."

Mabel she then rubs his shoulder with her right hand and Adam takes her hand and rubs it with his fore finger a little. Mabel then looks at him with a small smile.

"You know something, things are too quiet and dreary, this is a movie theater those things don't exist here."

Adam then looks at him curiously not sure what she has in mind.

"Well what do you want to do?"

Mabel's face brightens more and they both get off the counter together and then leads him to the open lobby.

Mabel then takes out her iPod and Adam does the same knowing what she's having in mind. Both turn them on and scroll down their playlists.

Mabel stops and says, "You know what I'll let you pick the song out first."

Adam looks up with a small smile.

"Wait, I have the perfect music for this occasion."

Adam is then dancing to the tune doing a lot of unorthodox moves which look like a combo of Elvis, Disco, Michael as well as hand dance movements if not very well. Mabel shakes her head He then takes his IPod out and finds a stereo pad, sets it on and then it plays the song "Dreaming of Life" one of the songs from the TV show "Diamond and the Images." Mabel shakes her head in bemusement at her boyfriend's terrible dancing and has a small smile.

"I sometimes don't know whose madder, me or you."

Adam then signals for her the join in and she does and

Both dance to the beat in utter enjoyment, throughout the night enjoying each other's company but also takes away some of the uneasy of the demon their hunting who in turn is hunting them.