Ok, sorry this took me so long to finish. I was busy with school and what not. I was also lazy.

Chapter 4

"We cannot see the end from the beginning/ we cannot comprehend/ all the journey has in store"

Joy in the Journey

Dipper Pines had been uneasy since coming to his conclusion about Stan. He'd been keeping an eye on the old man in hopes of preventing him from releasing any more monsters, and so far it seemed to be working. That is until the boy lost track of his great uncle, making him even more uneasy.

"Dipper, if you're worried about Grunkle Stan, just ask him if he has something to do with the attacks." Mable advised her brother.

"Mabel, if he is behind it, he's not gonna tell us just because we asked!"

"Ask who about what?" Stan asked, startling the twins. Judging by the toilet paper stuck to his shoe he'd just returned from the restroom.

Dipper stammered nervously, but his sister cut right to the chase. "Grunkle Stan, Dipper thinks you're the one letting dangerous monsters into the school."

"Mabel!"

"Grahahahaha!" Stan chortled, "Yeah, right! If it was me, I'd do a lot better job cleaning up, I can tell ya that!"

"Well then why did the attacks start right after you showed up?" Dipper asked, finding his words again.

"What, you don't seriously think I'd let a bunch of monsters into the school just to make a quick buck?" Stan asked indignantly, "I would never senselessly endanger so many people… over a measly hundred dollars."

"Then why did you just happen to have Runespoor antivenom with you?" Dipper continued to interrogate the old man.

"I just so happen to carry a lot of stuff with me."

"And what were you doing when you left dinner?" He was becoming more confident with each question.

"Boring old man biz, now get off my back!" Stan turned to his niece, "Mabel, you don't buy any of this do you?"

She tapped her chin thoughtfully. "Mmmmmm, I dunno, neither of you really have any evidence to back up your claims."

"I can't believe you ingrates!" Stan threw his arms up in the air and stormed off.


"I can't believe you left the door open!" Dave groaned breathlessly as he, Erika, and Timmy chased after the Lethifold. But as they left the cafeteria they could see no trace of it.

"I can't believe that thing didn't go after us instead, we were easy prey!" Erika exclaimed.

"I didn't know there'd be a monster!" Timmy defended himself. "How do we stop that thing?"

"The only thing that can stop a Lethifold is a Patronus charm." Wanda said, remembering her own magical education.

"Great, you guys are seniors, you can do a Patronus charm!" Timmy said, looking at the two teens hopefully.

"Yeeeeeeeeah." Dave said slowly, "Here's the thing. Not a wizard."

Timmy and Wanda both facepalmed. "And let me guess, you're not a witch?" He asked Erika.

"I'm sorry." She replied sheepishly.

"Well that's just great! Now what do we do?"

"Well obviously we need to warn the staff, they'll probably be able to handle the Lethifold." Dave said. "But we also need someone to close that time portal so we don't have to deal with any more monsters on top of this one." Someone gave a panicked scream nearby. "And someone definitely needs to go check on that." He added, running towards the scream. "Erika, come on!"

"Well, I guess that leaves me to go warn the teachers." Timmy said with a touch of disappointment as he watched the teens run off.

"And us to close the portal!" Cosmo added jovially. Wanda sighed. This was not going to be easy.


After the excitement of the argument had died down, Dipper felt a little guilty for fighting with Grunkle Stan like that.

"Come on Dipper, don't you trust Stan?"

Mabel wasn't really making him feel any better.

"Well, with some things yeah, but not with everything! Like how you won't trust him alone with Waddles anymore."

"Yeaaaaaaaaah…" Mabel admitted.

"He lies to us all the time!" Dipper exclaimed with an edge of bitterness in his voice.

"But I don't think he's lying to us about this. I may not be the one who reads all the detective stories, but when you think about it, it doesn't make sense for Stan to be the one behind the monster attacks."

"Maybe you're right." He admitted, "Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions."

The twins' talk was cut short when a shadow jumped out at them. They screamed. Luckily a whole summer of dealing with monsters made them experts at dodging and running from various dangerous creatures, but this one was fast.

"What is that thing?" Mabel asked in a panic.

"A Lethifold!" Dipper gasped. "They smother you and then swallow you whole!"

"Well how do we stop it!?"

"Uh…" Dipper turned and pointed his wand at the creature. "Lumose Maxima!" A blinding beam of light erupted from the tip of his wand, but it barely fazed the thing. "You wouldn't happen to know the Patronus charm and just never told me, would you?"

"You're the one who's good at charms!" Mabel shouted in exasperation.

They turned a corner in the hall and came face to face with a couple of teenagers who looked almost as panicked as the twins.

"Did it eat anyone yet?!" Dave asked.

"No, but it's about to!" Dipper exclaimed.

As if on cue, the Lethifold shot around the corner. It reared up to cover the four young people, when suddenly a buffalo-shaped Patronus charged right into it. There was an unearthly shriek as the monster dissipated into smoke.

"Is everyone ok?" Stan Pines looked around the corner to see four stunned faces staring at him.

"Grunkle Stan!?" Dipper exclaimed, "Was that… was that your Patronus?"

"Yeah." Stan said shortly, "Are you ok?" he repeated sternly.

"I-I'm fine." Dipper stammerd.

"I'm ok." Mabel said breathlessly.

"Well I had the air scared out of my lungs, but I think I'll recover." Dave said dryly, "Not that anyone's asking."

"Dave, don't be rude!" Erika elbowed her cousin.

"Alright, where the heck did that thing come from?" Stan demanded.

"Sorry." Erika said sheepishly. "It's our fault. We had a problem with a temporal vortex and a book. Long story."

"Speaking of which, we need to go get that portal closed before we have a dragon or something on our hands." Dave said, and he dashed back to the cafeteria.

Erika groaned "Uhg, why do you have to run everywhere?"


The time travelers were surprised to find Timmy with the Principal. They were even more surprised to find Cosmo and Wanda had closed the portal, and were holding a tattered copy of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them".

"How did you...?" Dave asked, astonished.

"Well it wasn't easy." Wanda said. "We had to go into the portal and get past a lot of magical creatures to get to the book, but once we did that the portal closed on itself and we just poofed back here."

"You… went into the portal!?" Erika asked, bewildered. "Are you two crazy?"

"You're lucky you got out alive." Dave said, slack-jawed.

"Well, I had Cosmo to protect me." Wanda smiled, gesturing to a battered and bruised Cosmo.

"Take that Meat Loaf!" The green fairy said hoarsely, "I would do anything for love including that! Hah!" He suddenly bent over and clutched his stomach. "Oh my spleen!"

"So there aren't going to be any more monsters appearing out of nowhere?" Principal Oldsdotter asked.

"There shouldn't be, no." Dave assured here.

"And somebody already killed the Lethifold?"

"Yep."

"So basically," The old woman turned to Timmy, "You pulled me out of my office for nothing."

Timmy smiled sheepishly.


The following night was the end-of-year banquet, followed by a school dance. Timmy was very proud of himself for getting involved in solving the mystery of the monster attacks, even if, as Jimmy was quick to point out, he did next to nothing.

"If anything you made things worse by interrupting the time travelers while they were trying to close the portal and leaving the door open." The fudge-haired boy concluded.

"You're just jealous because I got to have a great big adventure this year and you didn't!" Timmy said, crossing his arms.

"Yeah, because a few minutes of chasing after a Lethifold and then going to get the Principal is totally a big adventure." Manny snickered.

"TIIIIIIIMMY!" A pair of voices called behind the friends.

"Mom, Dad?" The bucktoothed boy asked in surprise. "You actually came!"

"Oh you bet son!" Mr. Turner said cheerfully. "We'd never miss a chance to come see your magic school!"

"I can't wait to try some of their magic party favors!" Mrs. Turner said gleefully.

"Oh man, I can't wait to show you guys all my new friends and all the cool spells I learned and—they're gone already." Timmy watched his parents run out onto the dance floor to investigate the magic dance. "Well, better late than never."

Danny placed a comforting hand on his friend's shoulder. "Hey, it's ok! Your parents showing up is more than you expected, and you got your end of the year adventure! That sounds like a pretty good ending to me."

"Eh, it's a start." Timmy said.

THE END