Dipper simply refused to believe that his luck was this bad, despite all of the evidence to the contrary. On his second day back in Gravity Fall's he had already had to beat down Gnomes and deal with Bill, and now he was being faced with some sort of monster interrupted his first meet up with Pacifica. "Name yourself!" Dipper called out, stepping in front of Pacifica. His body was protected by a few of his shield spells, so if the creature attacked at the very least he could hold the blow.
"Name name went away, won't be bound another day!" the ghoulish voice sung from its place amongst the mist.
"That's not good." he said under his breath, running through his index of spells in his mind.
"What do you mean?" Pacifica asked, slipping her hand into her purse.
Dipper put a pause in his search as he found a good enough spell to use. "Most supernatural creatures are bound by ancient rites to give some form of identification of itself, even if it's just a title, if someone made it so that it didn't have too."
"Then you would be left in the dark!" the creature laughed and the mist began to surge toward Dipper with murderous intent.
"Bingo, but there is one other thing I know that is almost universal about monsters," he grinned dangerously and raised his right hand, summoning a green ball of fire to it. "Unless you are made of it, you don't play well with fire!" he chucked the ball directly into the mist, getting a satisfying scream of pain from the creature.
"You cretin!" the monster screamed, charging forward and revealing its weapon at the front of its misty form, a massive saw toothed meat cleaver, complete with dried blood stains running along its sides. "Pay for your sins!" the creature raised the blade up and brought it in a downward arc straight for Dipper.
Dipper raised both his hands to stop the blade, creating a small force field to hold it in place above his head. But it was obvious that holding it back was straining Dipper, as even just a moment of holding it was already creating a few beads of sweat on his forehead.
"Pay with this," Pacifica pulled her hand out of her purse to reveal what looked to be a stun gun, with a sleek black coloring and an odd blue bit on its side. She aimed the weapon directly at the creature.
"Mortal weapons do not scare me wench!" the creature laughed from its home inside of the mist, its red eyes forming once more to mock the girl as he pressed down more with his blade.
"Oh yeah?" she smirked and pressed the trigger, sending out a number of small wires from the stun gun and into the mist, finding purchase directly on the head of the creature. "Well this stun gun is modified with the same technology that powers Iron Man and the wires are tipped with iron conductors, so lets test your theory." she tapped the blue bit on the side and sent a powerful arc of electricity through the wires and directly into the creatures unseen body, causing it to let out an unholy scream.
Dipper took advantage of the creatures discomfort to knock the blade back up and activate his telekinesis, throwing the beasts form through the walls of the diner. The mist followed ever surrounding the creature, and Pacifica's stun gun retracted the wires. "Why do you have a stun gun with the direct output of one of Iron Man's cannons?"
"A lady can never be too safe," she said with an air of humor before frowning slightly. "That being said it takes a few minutes to fire a second time, most people tend not to get up under their own power after getting hit by that."
"Wench, witch, whore, thou would dare strike me with hated iron and burning light?" the mist began to expand and the red eyes began to burn with literal fire. "Let your bravery be rewarded by fear, and let your nightmare be my form!" the mist began to slowly draw back in around the creature, creating a human like shape before becoming solid, creating a truly frightful image. The creature was dressed in bright colors, a multitude of greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. Its outfit was obviously too large and bounced as the creature drew breaths. Its face was colored bone white with long and uncombed orange and green hair, with a smile filled with vicious razor like teeth. In its left hand it held the same blade from earlier. The beast let out a laugh that sounded like a multitude of horns honking before a bright red nose appeared on its face. "Time for kiddies to go to sleep!" the beast said, dribbles of slime coming from its mouth as it spoke.
Dipper tilted his head to the side and blinked at the beast. "Uh…okay?" he asked in a voice that showed just how 'scared' he was of the beast's new form. "I mean, am I supposed to be scared?"
"Not you brat, the other."
Dipper turned his head back to look at Pacifica, who was slowly backing away with fear plain to see on her face. "Really, all the things we fought and 'demonic clown' is really on the top of the list when it comes to scares?"
Pacifica wrapped her arms around herself and shivered. "Clowns are abominations, have you seen them make balloon animals?" she reached out and grabbed Dipper's shoulders, shaking him a bit. "You can't make animals out of air and latex Dipper, its black magic!"
"I...I don't know how to respond to that," he said, simply at a loose for words.
"You won't need to soon," the beast leaped forward to strike at them with its blade, only just missing the two as they dodged away from it. "For I never let go of my prey!"
"We'll see about that," Dipper slammed his hands into the ground and muttered a few words in Latin. Green energy flowed from his body and into the ground, and moments later a massive pillar of stone shot up beneath the creature and sent it flying into the air. "And for my next trick," he drew back his hand and launched another green fireball directly toward the creature, a satisfied smile coming across his face as it exploded against the creatures body. "Now that's how the clown…gets set…on fire?" he paused for a moment. "Okay banter isn't really my thing but that was awesome right?" he turned back to get confirmation from Pacifica, who was still staring up toward the sky. "What?" he turned his head and felt his heart drop.
Where he had expected to see nothing but ash left behind by his attack, instead he saw the clown creature, slowly descending from the sky and back to the ground with the same demonic smile. "Was that all little mage?"
Dipper cursed under his breath as the creature realized he had hit his limit. In order for him to use his magic he had to spend a certain amount of time charging them. After two fireballs and an earth manipulation all he had left was a minor ice spell and a defensive charm. After those were gone all he would have were his basic protection runes and telekinesis, neither of which would be able to do much against the creature. "Pacifica, you need to run." he said calmly, watching as the stone pillar slowly retreated into the ground once more without his magic holding it in place.
She turned to look at him with shock plain on her face. "What are you talking about, I am not just going to leave you with this thing!"
"I don't have any more attacks, and we can't run…" his eyes flashed for a moment as a number of clues clicked together in his head. "I can name you." Dipper suddenly said toward the creature.
"Oh?" it asked, tilting its head to the side in curiosity. "And what would you name me human?"
"Fetch, I name thee as a Fetch." Dipper saw the creatures eyes narrow and knew his assumption was correct.
A Fetch was what happened when a weak summoner attempted to summon a number of fairies to them in order to control them. If they lost focus the fairies would rip apart the summoner and use their magic to fuse to it and form a Fetch. The mist before had been its base form, the fairies projecting the cloud to hide the skeleton underneath, the weak point that Pacifica had hit with her stun gun.
It also explained why his magic wasn't doing any real damage, the fairies would be able to disrupt it so it would only do minimal damage, and now that it had taken a form based off of the fears of a person it would be even harder for him to fight. Not only that, but he couldn't even seal the creature with a name, Fetch was a title, and he would have to learn the name of each fairy within the creature.
"A Fetch indeed small mageling, so sad that no further help will that bring." the clown leapt forward with his blade at the ready, aiming not for Dipper but rather Pacifica.
"No!" Dipper jumped in front of her and closed his eyes, ready for the coming blade to attack him. It wasn't ideal, but even if he died the creature he had sealed would still be trapped until the end of time.
But before the blade could land the creature went flying to the side, struck by a blur that had come from its side during the charge, kicking up a large amount of dust from its speed. "You know normally I don't really mind monster attacks, but this is the first time my brother has actually hung out with a girl I like for him," the dust cleared revealing Mabel, dressed in a skirt with a pair of shorts under it, and a sweater with a picture of a cute dragon on the front of it. "As my brothers number one shipper I am afraid that you are going to have to die for ruining my dreams of being an Aunt."
"Mabel!" Dipper called out, an obvious blush on his cheeks. Not that he wasn't happy to see her, but saying that kind of stuff was embarrassing for the more reserved twin.
Pacifica wasn't too concerned over the shipping talk, but was more amazed by the fact that Mabel had apparently hit the evil clown with enough force that its body skipped twice off the ground like a smooth stone across a calm lake.
The creature pulled itself up and sneered at her. "You would dare strike me?"
Mabel turned her back on the creature and smiled toward her brother and Pacifica. "Oh my gosh Pacifica you look really good, can you believe it's been five years, we totally need to hang out again!" she grinned goofily toward her old friend, ignoring the monster completely.
"You would dare…!" the creature leapt forward with intent to strike her, but Mabel simply stepped to the side and slammed the back of her fist into the monsters face, sending it flying back again with a grunt of pain.
"So what up with the clown?" Mabel asked, pointing back toward the beast she had just sent flying.
"It's a Fetch, super resistant to magic, if you can shatter the skeleton then it goes down." Dipper smiled and raised up his hand, launching his defensive spell at Mabel.
"In other words," a green aura surrounded Mabel's body as the defensive charm went into effect. "Punch him a bunch and he goes down." she reached into the pockets of her sweater and pulled out two iron knuckle dusters, putting them over her hands and taking a boxing stance.
"Foolish child, I draw my power from fear, from darkness, I am a nightmare!" the clown creature opened its maw wide and launched out a number of tied together handkerchiefs at Mabel.
She quickly stepped to the side and grabbed a hold of the handkerchiefs with a smile. "Now I want you to think very carefully about what you have done," she pulled back hard and the creature went flying forward toward her, its face slamming into her waiting first. The creature went flying back again with a howl of pain. "Not done yet!" Mabel yanked again and pulled the creature toward her, delivering a punishing uppercut that sent the creature flying into the air. As it flew up Mabel brushed off her sweater and pulled out a hand mirror, checking her reflection and turning around. "My makeup look okay?" she asked Pacifica.
The blonde haired girl blinked. "A little too much blush." she said, still slightly in shock from seeing her greatest fear getting knocked around by a girl she remembered mostly for her goofy sweaters and playful demeanor.
Mabel huffed and closed the mirror, putting it back into her pocket before stepping a bit to the right and raising her fist in the air. "Yeah I thought so to but I was in a bit of a rush," the creature landed back first onto her awaiting first, letting out a hellish scream as it did. With a smirk Mabel tossed the creature up and stepped back, bringing her shoe directly into its face and sending it tumbling. "And stay down."
The creatures body began to toss and turn on the ground, its limbs resetting and a number of bones popping could be heard, before the creature stood up, hefting its blade toward her. "So long as I draw fear there is no power strong enough to claim me!"
"Say what?" Mabel asked, turning her head to look back at Dipper.
"If someone is afraid of it then it keeps healing," Dipper turned toward Pacifica and tried to think of anything that could be done, something that could draw away her fear of the creature. Phobias weren't broken in minutes through, and she was still shell-shocked from everything that had happened. Just like the first time they had gone adventuring and she was presented with her first adventure after the mansion. A light clicked on in Dipper's head as he remembered that event, and a plan went through his head. "Pacifica," he called to her, trying to get her to turn away from the creature. "Pacifica!" he called louder.
The blonde haired girl finally turned her head, fear still plain in her eyes from being confronted by a monster straight from her nightmares, only to be pulled into a hug by Dipper, which she froze up from for an entirely different reason.
Dipper felt a slight blush rise to his cheeks as he remembered the breathing technics that had been taught to him, better to not have his heart racing a million miles an hour for this. "This thing isn't invincible, it's not some unbeatable force of nature, really it's just a bunch of angry bugs surrounding a dumb persons bones." he put his hand on the small on her back and pressed his forehead against hers.
Pacifica's blush only grew deeper as he put his forehead against hers, and slowly she felt a sense of calm come over her. When she was younger and had nightmares a butler had always come in and helped calm her down just like this, a gentle hug and soft words explaining away her fears. It had made her feel safe. And suddenly as her fear slipped away her rational mind began to take hold of the situation. It was just a dust cloud in the shape of an evil clown, even if the outside was scary the inside was just some harmless thing. She stepped away from Dipper and gave him a small nod of thanks before turning to Mabel. "Mabel?"
The girl smiled slightly. "Yeah?"
"Show this thing the door." Pacifica said, a smile brimming with confidence taking a hold of her face as she stared down the creature.
"No, impossible," the creature grabbed its chest and winced in pain. "I can feel your fear, but I am blocked, I can't feed from it!" in desperation the beast leapt forward with its blade, bringing it down toward Mabel.
With a smirk the young girl raised her hand and caught the sharp blade in her open palm, the protection Dipper had provided her more than blocking its now weak attack. "Darkness rises." she said, glaring the creature in its dark eyes and shattered the blade by pressing down on it.
Dipper stepped forward and smiled, his body glowing with green energy. "And light falls."
"But when Might." Mabel's fist began to glow a light golden shade.
"And Magic." Dipper called out, continuing the chant as he prepared his final spell.
"Work as one!" Mabel tossed the creature into the aim and crouched low against the ground.
"Darkness's plan." Dipper brought his hands together while aiming toward the Fetch, sending a freezing blast of air toward it, freezing its outer form solid.
"Will be undone!" Mabel launched herself into the air at the falling ice statue, slamming her glowing fist into the beast and shattering it into a million pieces, before landing perfectly on the ground.
The ice began to turn to steam in the air and a number of small glowing lights began to exit from the steam, flying off in multiple directions. A small cloud of them stayed and formed the words Thank you before disappearing.
"Did we win?" Pacifica asked, looking at the glowing lights as they disappeared.
"Yeah, after the skeleton shattered the fairies had no reason to hold onto their anger and despair at being summoned, now they are free to go back to their homes," Dipper put a hand on her shoulder. "In other words, we win."
A number of town folk exited their hiding places and began to cheer at the two twins, some of them recognizing them from years ago, and others who knew nothing other than the fact the twins had just fought off a clown monster.
Mabel gave a wink toward her brother and Pacifica. "You go ahead and get Pacifica home, probably a bad idea if when the press gets here they find out she was in the middle of all this."
Dipper gave a nod and used his telekinesis to pull Pacifica's purse to them, handing it to her. "Still remember how to run away from the scene of the action right?"
"That's one lesson that is rather hard to forget." she put her purse over her shoulder and began to run in the direction of her house, Dipper following close behind.
Mabel gave a sly smile at the two of them as they made their way toward the other girl's house. That would give the two enough alone time, and now it was time to do what her Grunkle Stan had always taught her to do. Play up an audience.
"Hello Gravity Falls, if you want to see more strange and mysterious things like the 'Monster Clown from Planet X' then make a journey over to the Mystery Shack, where we are having a buy one buy two more sale!"
The crowd cheered and began to pile into the vehicles in order to go to the Mystery Shack. No doubt Stan would be over the moon about the influx of customers, leaving her time to go back to getting her hair done with the girls.
"Who is going to pay for this wall?" Lazy Susan called out from inside of her dinner, looking at the massive hole in her wall.
"Uh…" Mabel tossed down a smoke bomb and disappeared from sight, only a small snicker left in her wake. "Heh, ninja tools."
Pacifica laughed and shook her head. "You can't be serious."
"No I am serious," Dipper held back a laugh. "First time we worked together he actually managed to get caught in his own web, we still caught the bad guy but man did we get chewed out by Iron Man."
Pacifica smiled a bit as she walked beside him back to her house. She hated the fact that they had only gotten to hang out for a short amount of time, but it would be dangerous for her to be out and about with all of the attention that would be leveled toward the town. "So I have a question for you."
"If you are going to ask for either of the Spider-Men's secret identities I won't be able to answer." he said, a smile on his face but serious from the tone.
"No nothing about your superhero stuff, more simple," her eyes glanced away from him for a moment, as if the road had suddenly become very interesting. "Did you ever find a…you know…girlfriend?"
Dipper blinked in surprise at the question and shook his head. "Nope, I mean you know busy trying to figure out things about the demon, guess I just never really had the time," he blushed a bit and suddenly seemed to realize that the direction opposite of Pacifica had quite a few interesting things to look at. "Heh, you are probably going to laugh, but I haven't even really kissed a girl other than…well not like that actually counted right?"
Pacifica chuckled a bit at the memory that Dipper's blundering had brought up. It had been near the end of that summer, and she had managed to slip away from her parents in order to go on a camping trip with the twins and a few of their friends. It had been an odd experience for her, due in no short part to having to sleep in tents and not massive moving homes. But at the end of that night the teens and kids had somehow gotten roped into a game of Truth or Date by Mabel. After everyone had been well and truly knocked out by the massive amounts of sugary foods Pacifica had been dared to kiss Dipper, a dare she had gone through with to the cheers of everyone there. "No, I suppose it wouldn't."
The two finally paused at the front gates of the Northwest Manor, looking at the walls with frowns on their faces. "You know I can probably convince Stan to let you crash in the guest room for the night." Dipper said with a scowl toward the gates.
Pacifica shook her head at that and smiled. "As nice as it would be to do that I need to find those letters, my dad is too lazy to have bothered throwing them away, probably just handed them to a servant."
"If you say so," Dipper stood awkwardly for a moment, not really quite sure what he was supposed to do. A handshake? A hug? Maybe just a wave and exit. He had no baseline for this situation. "Um…"
"You are utterly hopeless," Pacifica stated before leaning forward and pressing her lips against Dipper's in a light kiss. After a moment she broke it off and smiled lightly at him. "Now you can say you have had a real first kiss," she gave him a smile and entered through the gates. "Make sure you call me so we can set up a day to hang out without being attacked by evil nightmare clowns." as soon as she was out of view Pacifica's entire face went red and she quickly made her way into the house.
Dipper meanwhile was still standing frozen on the spot, blinking a few times before pinching his arm to make sure this wasn't just some weird dream. When the pain set it he realized this wasn't a dream and smiled brightly, before blushing darkly, and then choosing to simply start walking back to the Mystery Shack and figure out what had just happened later.
By the time Dipper got back to the Mystery Shack it was in full on sale mode, and he got quickly conscripted into the madness. Helping hawk product was a skill that one never tended to forget, and even Ford seemed to get in on the spirit of it, despite trying to sell some actually magical charms at times.
By the end of the day the four were too exhausted to do much else other than eat a quick dinner in front of the t.v. and separate to their rooms. "That was crazy, I didn't even know Gravity Falls had that many people!" Mabel collapsed on the bed and groaned.
"Yeah, gonna have to admit that no amount of training under ancient monks or mages really put me up to doing that," Dipper sighed and sat up on his bed. "Did you put out the emergency message?"
Mabel rolled to her side and gave a nod to her brother. "Yeah, meeting is in ten minutes."
Other than the weekly meets ups that the group had they would occasionally hold emergency meetings if something came up that was too unusual, just to make sure every stayed on the same page. And despite their various adventures the attack on the two of them had been strange. They didn't exactly have enemies per say, mostly of the people they had fought were actually aiming at other people at the time, and few of them would have bothered sending a Fetch. Heck the ones that could even have the power to control one were way bigger than them on the food chain.
"So how did things go walking Pacifica back?" Mabel inquired.
Dipper blushed a bit at the memory of the kiss. "It was uh…you know…just a walk and stuff…nothing to write home about…"
Mabel's eyes went wide. "Oh my gosh you guys kissed didn't you?" she jumped off her bed and grabbed Dipper's shirt in her hands, shaking him a bit. "Was it magical, did fireworks explode, did she do some weird rich girl kiss thing, oh my gosh did you guys make out or-"
Dipper felt his blush coming on harder than ever and quickly levitated Mabel back to her bed. "It was just a quick kiss Mabel."
"But that's even more romantic! She is taking it slow because she is probably super in love with you and doesn't want to make a mistake!" Mabel's entire body began to shake as hearts appeared in her eyes. "Oh my gosh this is super exciting!"
"Oh wow look at the time," Dipper looked down at his wrist, which didn't have a watch on it. "Time to go to the meeting." he quickly took his meditation pose, knowing that Mabel was doing the same before slipping out of the bounds of his body and traveling along the pathway and into the meeting room.
Once inside the meeting room they saw the table was a lot fuller this time around, as emergency summons were a lot more important than the usual meeting. Phineas and Ferb were both still there, as was Randy, Alex was sitting with a worried expression on her face and Ron looked concerned. Jake was missing, but that was to be expected with the Shadow Dragon's gaining most of their power at night. Cody was sitting next to his twin brother Zach, who was a fully registered ground trooper for SHIELD.
In addition to them other members of their club sat at the table.
Sitting next to Alex was a slightly taller boy with a bit of a lanky build, wearing a wizard hat with moving stars and moons swirling about on it. Justin Russo, head mage of a magical academy stuffed inside of another reality, hidden away from those who would attempt to manipulate it. He was one of the best versed in magical theory, and Alex's older brother.
Next to Dipper sat a shorter figure with a black full body outfit with web like trimmings around it. Spider-Man 2, or rather Miles Morales. After having been dropped in from another reality and sealed here he had taken on the mantle of Spider-Man while the now older one had taken on the role of Iron Spider in a more full time role on the Avengers and Reed Richards Future Foundation. Despite only being sixteen years old he was probably one of the more competent fighters in the room, also one of the bravest, having landed on Galactus before and hitting him with his stunning blasts.
Next to Ron was a rather tall man wearing a full button up shirt with a pair of jeans, with rather slick brown hair. His name was Charlie Landers, or rather Aaron Stone, secret agent against some of the world's most dangerous enclaves and hidden groups. He was way more on the full time hero job then most of the rest of the people in the room, but the fact he had started out as teenager had given him more than enough room to join in. He was already pushing twenty two.
The two other figures in the room sat next to each other, despite having no real relation. The first was a young woman with long brown hair in a skin tight battle suit. Bree Davenport, one of the three members that made up the black ops team known as Lab Rats, one of the words most powerful bionic humanoids, even at the age of eighteen.
The second was another young woman wearing a long red dress with pictures of various trees on it, with black hair and tanned skin. Her name was Lilo Pelekai, agent of SWORD and one of the few people that had clearance to make Nick Fury back down. She was an expert in all things alien, but wasn't a slouch when it came to the supernatural either. When she was younger she had managed to basically tame a small army of unique aliens and helped form a number of treaties to make the Earth a protected planet. Now she was one of the younger members in SWORD at the age of twenty three.
"Let's get this emergency meeting called to order," Dipper said, taking the lead since he had his sister, who had just appeared at his side in her false body wearing a sweater with her signature shooting star on its front, had been the ones to call it. All eyes in the room drew to them, concern plain to see in their eyes. "The first and most important thing that happened today was…"
"Dipper kissed a girl!" Mabel blurted out, excitement still plain to see in her eyes.
The entire room went silent as the various members in the room tried to process the complete one hundred and eighty degree turn that had just occurred.
"Okay so I realize this probably doesn't have anything to do with the actual thing, but this should probably be discussed," Zach suddenly spoke up, looking around the table. "I mean Dipper, our Dipper, kissing a girl?"
"True, we could be looking at a sign of the end of days," Alex turned to Justin, who simply rolled his eyes. "What it could be?"
"Hm," Phineas looked at a small holoscreen in front of him. "Ferb are you detecting any hell gates opening on the planet?"
"Seems not, through that doesn't quite link up with the situation at hand." Ferb replied with his usual dry tone.
Miles laughed from under his mask. "Maybe we should check if the Skrull's finally want a peace treaty, or maybe Doctor Doom is going to set up a dance studio in the Broncs."
"Nomicon isn't giving off any end of day warnings," Randy added on. "But that doesn't prove away the fact that it isn't happening."
"Oh forget them, who was it?" Bree asked, leaning in a bit.
"Was it one of us in the group?" Lilo asked, opening a holoscreen. "Because if it is then I might just be coming into some money." she gave a playful wink toward the boy.
Dipper realized that there was no way out of this without actually just talking about it. "Pacifica Northwest." he said, blushing a bit.
"Wait a minute," Randy quickly waved his arms in front of himself. "You kissed an heiress to a multibillion dollar company?" he looked around. "Come on I save the world on a regular basis, where is my super cute heiress?"
"Is this the same girl that you have been pinning over for like five years?" Charlie asked, getting in on the fun.
"Oh yeah you mentioned her back when we hung out," Ron snapped his fingers in recognition. "You were all puppy love stuff about her."
"I know and it's great, they went on a date, he saved her life, and then walked her home and got a kiss!" Mabel said, bursting with pride over the fact her brother had actually gotten a kiss.
"I feel like there is only one thing to do in this situation." Cody suddenly said, causing the room to fall into silence for a moment as everyone nodded.
And then all at once they sang. "Dipper and Pacifica sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G."
Dipper banged his head against the table and sighed. "We are some of the most advanced technicians and future heroes of the next generation, are we really doing this?" he asked the assembled group.
The group looked to each other for a moment and shrugged. "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage!"
Dipper simply slammed his head into the table again. This was going to be a long meeting.
Far away from the meeting in the sky sat a group of figures cast in shadow sitting around a stone table. Some of them were simply holograms being projected into the chairs, with only three people actually physically sitting around it.
Those three were the very same group that had released the Fetch to capture Dipper.
"Your agent failed Gideon." one of the projected voices said calmly.
"Failed is a pretty harsh word, seeing as I never thought he would succeed in the first place," Gideon was busy cleaning his nails as he answered the mysterious voice. "That was me getting a feelin for what kind of power we could expect from the Pine's, now that we know we just up the game a bit."
"You have a suggestion?" another one of the voices asked.
"Indeedy I do, they are pretty tough against a foe they can see, but what if we faced them with something they would never see coming?" Gideon waved his hand into the air, summoning an image of a silhouetted creature. "The Hide-Behind is one of nature's most deadly predators, mostly due to the fact it has the ability to hide anywhere, if we contract one of these little beauties then we will have Dipper in our hands."
The assembled crowd talked for a moment before giving a nod. "We authorize use of the Stone Table for the purpose of contracting and controlling this creature."
The young man nodded. "Very well, all hail the Illuminators."
"May light forever guide our path." with that said the holograms disappeared from around the table, leaving the three alone.
"Now then," Gideon stood atop his chair and smiled, a hazy blue aura surrounding his hand as the table began to glow blood red. "Let's get to work, shall we?"
The two figures, the tall and short one both gave nods of their own and held out their own hands. The tall ones hand glowing with a light brown color, while the short ones glowed dark black.
All of the lights died in the room for a moment, and when they came on the feeling of them no longer being alone fell over the assembled three.
"Now then Mr. Hide Behind, lets discuss business." Gideon laughed heavily as the darkness seemed to almost shift about. It now held a certain feeling to it.
Hunger.
Dipper breathed a sigh of relief as his spirit entered his body once more, collapsing down on the bed in exhaustion, no doubt with Mabel doing the same. They would talk more in the morning, but for now both of them needed sleep.
Their friend within the group would keep their eyes and ears open for any big supernatural stuff going on, and reach out to their contacts. It would take a while before they had anything concrete, and until then they simply had to stay strong. The Shadow Dragon Rebellion was drawing a lot of resources from the magic based community, and pulling any significant amount to help them would be too selfish for Dipper to handle.
Before he let sleep take him Dipper quickly checked his phone, seeing that he had a call from a number he didn't have connected.
Hey there, I found your letters, my butler Nigel kept them hidden away for me. I really liked the post cards, and poetry? Isn't that a bit cliché ;)?
Dipper chuckled a bit under his breath and quickly shot a message back to Pacifica.
Hey you try living with a bunch of guys who literally study only magic for a living, you pick up weird habits. Getting ready to pass out, ttyl?
It took a moment for her next text to come.
Count on it.
Dipper turned off his phone and set it to the side, laying back against his pillow and closing his eyes to allow sleep to take him away.
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