Mira looked in the coffin, but noticed something peculiar; The kids noticed this. "What is it?" Gary asked.
Mira looked at the bottom of the wax figure and so that there was a hole under its foot. "How come wax Stan has a hole in his shoe?"
Mabel replied, "All the wax guys have them. It's where the pole thingy attaches to their stand dealy."
It was only than when Dipper had realized something. "Wait a minute…" He said, "What has a hole on its shoe and no fingerprints? You guys! The murders are-"
"Standing right behind you."
The four of them turned around and were in for a shock. Standing before them was the wax figures themselves; all of them were suddenly alive. They all stood up from their seats and walked towards the children. The four of them gasped when they saw that the leader of the wax figures was holding the head of wax Stan.
"Wax Sherlock Holmes!" Dipper exclaimed.
"Wax Shakespeare!" Mabel yelled.
"Wax Coolio?" Mira and Gary said in unison.
"Sup, Holmes?" Wax Coolio said.
A wax figure by the name of Lizzie Borden took the ax from Mabel. "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!" Mabel said with panic.
The wax figure named Sherlock had said to the four children, "Bravo children, you've discovered the truth and our secret, applaud everyone."
All of the wax figures started to applaud.
"No, no, that's too sincere." Wax Sherlock said
The wax figures started to clap even slower than before.
"There we go." Wax Sherlock said, "Nice and condescending."
"Wait a minute, you're all alive!?" Gary exclaimed, "You're not just some creepy life like figures you'd see in a museum!?"
"But, you're made of wax!" Dipper said, "How can you move!?"
"Or even talk for that matter!?" Mira shouted.
Mabel asked them, "Are you guys… Magic?"
Wax Sherlock started to laugh at this, "Ha! Magic she says! She wants to know if we're magic!" All of the other wax figures started to laugh at what Mabel had asked. But as quick as the laughter came over the crowd, it had stopped abruptly when Wax Sherlock had shouted-
"WRONG! We are cursed!"
The other wax figures chanted the word cursed over and over, stopping at one point.
Wax Sherlock had started to explain it to them.
"Cursed to come to life whenever the moon is waxing. Your uncle bought us many years ago at a garage sale. He had no idea that we were cursed and brought us without a second thought. And so the Mystery Shack Wax Collection was born. By day we would be the playthings of man."
"But when your uncle and cousin went to sleep, we would rule da night." Coolio said.
Wax Sherlock continued.
"It was a charmed life for us cursed beings… That is until your uncle closed up shop. We've been waiting ten years to get our revenge on Stan for locking us away… But we got the wrong guy."
The four children gasped at the last part when they had realized what he meant by that.
"So… You were trying to murder Grunkle Stan for real!?" Dipper exclaimed.
"You monsters!" Mira couldn't help but shout to the wax figures.
"You were right Mira! Wax people are creepy!" Mabel said to her sister.
"Ditto to that." Gary added.
"Enough!" Wax Sherlock shouted getting the four children to stop talking, "Now that you know our secret… You must die." All of the wax figures eyes rolled to the back of their heads and they had approached the kids. The four backed up as they trembled and shook with fear.
"What do we do, what do we do?" Mabel said.
"I don't know!" Dipper exclaimed.
They hit the table that had snacks and such on the table. "Quick! Start throwing things!" Gary said. The four grabbed the first thing they felt and threw it towards the wax figures. Though they didn't seem to have an affect on them as they kept on walking towards them.
"GET BACK!" Mira said, grabbing a full coffee maker and spilled it on one of the figures which was of Genghis Khan; his arm melted as he let out a scream.
"That's it!" Mabel said, "We can melt them with hot melty things!"
The four of them grabbed electric candles and prepared to swing at them as they started to walk towards them and the wax figures began to back up. "ANYONE MOVE AND WE'LL MELT YOU WITH CANDLES!" Dipper yelled.
"DECORATIVE CANDLES!" Mabel shouted.
Wax Sherlock said to the children, "Do you really think you can defeat us?"
The four of them mumbled things like "Not really, worth a shot though."
"So be it." He said turning to his fellow wax figures, "ATTACK!" The figures closed in on the four kids, and attacked them. Wax Lizzie Borden swung at Mabel, wax Robin Hood attacked Mira, wax Genghis Khan went after Gary, and wax Larry King charged at Dipper.
Mira dodged Robin Hood's attacks with ease, and with just one swing she had decapitated him. Wax Queen Elizabeth was about to attack Mira from behind, when suddenly wax Lizzie Borden had accidentally cut off her head.
"Thanks." Mira said to her sister, as she stabbed Lizzie with the candle. Though she had shouted to her sister when she noticed that Shakespeare was behind her, "MABEL BEHIND YOU!" Mabel quickly turned around and chopped off his hands; though Shakespeare's hands had a mind of it's own and grabbed her neck. Mabel started to gag as she struggled to breath. She moved to the open door and started to slam on Shakespeare's hand repeatedly.
Dipper and Gary in the meantime was fighting against the other wax figures. "INTERVIEW THIS LARRY KING!" Dipper shouted as he decapitated his head.
"MY NECK!" Larry King exclaimed, "MY BEAUTIFUL NECK!"
Wax Groucho was about to attack Dipper from behind. "JOKES ON YOU GROUCHO!" Gary shouted slicing him in half.
"I've heard about cutting remarks but this is ridiculous!" Wax Groucho said as he started to slide off, "Hey why is there nothing in my hand?"
Wax Genghis Khan charged at Dipper and Gary; Dipper grabbed Gary's arm and moved so that he had hit the fireplace instead. He exploded with wax covering the walls, and floor. "Ha Genghis Khan!" Dipper said, "You feel harder than the… I don't know, uh, Qin Dynasty?" Both Dipper and Gary stood up and continued to fight against the wax figures.
Mabel had swung the head of wax Coolio and hit the other wax figures with his head. "OW! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT ?!" Coolio shouted as Mabel finally threw him across the room. "DIPPER, BEHIND YOU!" She shouted to her brother.
Wax Nixon tried to make a grab for him but Dipper had cut off both of his legs. But than-
"GUYS! HELP!"
Dipper turned and saw wax Sherlock had gotten ahold of Mira; his arm was around her neck. The Wax Stan's head was on the rhino's horn. "OH NO! HE'S GOT MIRA!" Gary exclaimed.
"What do we do!?" Mabel shouted.
"Hang on Mira! I'll save you!" Dipper shouted.
"Alright, let's get this taken care of." Wax Sherlock said, taking out a sword.
"Let go of my sister!" Dipper shouted.
"If you want her, you're going to have to fight me boy." Wax Sherlock said. He swung his sword at Dipper and he quickly ducked. Dipper tried to attack him with the candle but it was knocked out of his hand breaking it in two. Wax Sherlock had managed to trip Dipper and he landed on his back. He aimed his sword at Dipper.
Mabel grabbed a poker and heated it in the fireplace. "CATCH!" Mabel shouted to her brother throwing the poker. Dipper caught the poker and blocked wax Sherlock's sword with it. Thus they started to fence as they had gone out of the room. They had went up the stairs still fighting one another, eventually ending up on the attic floor. He ended up getting cornered by wax Sherlock.
"Once your family is out of the way, we'll rule the night once more!" Wax Sherlock said.
Dipper looked to the window that was on the attic floor and hatched an idea.
"Don't count on it!" Dipper yelled, lunging the poker so that it hit his foot. Wax Sherlock let out a shriek dropping Mira.
"Come on! Run!" Dipper yelled grabbing her arm. They both crawled out of the window and climbed up the sign.
"GET BACK HERE YOU BRATS!" Wax Sherlock shouted going after them. They managed to get to the top of the sign, with Mira standing behind Dipper; They both slowly backed up as Dipper's poker and wax Sherlock's sword clashed with one another. He tried to hit them both with his sword but ended up missing; the "S" on the sign fell off and landed on the ground. Dipper had accidentally dropped the poker, and they both climbed up the rooftop of the Shack.
"YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN OUT WIT ME!?" Wax Sherlock shouted as he went after them, "I'M SHERLOCK BLEEDIN' HOLMES!"
They managed to get there but was quick to learn that they would be cornered. "Dipper what do we do!?" Mira exclaimed with worry, "We'll be trapped!"
"Trust me Mira, I know what I'm doing!" Dipper reassured her. Mira soon let out a scream when wax Sherlock kicked him so that he landed on his back and his foot was on his chest.
"DIPPER!" Mira yelled, running to kick at wax Sherlock, despite the fact that she was short on a candle, "LET GO OF MY BROTHER!" She was hit away by wax Sherlock, ended up getting knocked out. With her out cold, wax Sherlock raised his sword high in the air.
"Any last words?" He said prepared to finish him.
"Umm…" Dipper said, "Got any sunscreen?"
"Got any-? WHAT?"
It was only than wax Sherlock had realized that he was starting to melt. He turned around fast and saw that sun had started to raise. "No." Was all that wax Sherlock had said. Dipper sat up, "You know, letting me lead you outside? Probably not your sharpest decision."
"Outsmarted by a child?" Wax Sherlock said with disbelief, "In short pants no less!" He started to melt faster as the sun rose even higher.
"FIDDLESTICKS! HUMBUG! BUTTER HULLABALOO!" Wax Sherlock shouted.
"Case closed!" Dipper said as he wiped his hands together making dust fly up. That had caused him to sneeze. Wax Sherlock laughed, "Ha! Ha! Ha! You sneeze like a kitten! Those policemen were right you're adorable!" With that, wax Sherlock had turned into a puddle. Dipper groaned in disgust, but realized-
"Oh my gosh, Mira!" He exclaimed.
Dipper ran over to Mira who was still unconscious; a fresh bruise was seen on her forehead. Dipper lifted her in his arms and shook her awake. "Mira, Mira wake up!" Dipper said.
Mira let out a groan, and her eyes started to open, "Dipper?"
Dipper sighed with relief and hugged her, "Oh thank goodness you're okay! I was worried when he hit you! How do you feel?"
"I think I have a headache." Mira said as she rubbed her head when they broke out of the hug.
"To be fair, you did get hit with a back of the sword." Dipper said helping her up, "Come on, we'll get you some ice." Mira nodded and with effort they climbed down the roof and back inside. Mabel and Gary were throwing what remained of the wax figures. They were just finishing up and were down to wax Shakespeare.
"Though our group be left in twain, man of wax shall raise again." Wax Shakespeare said. Mabel picked up his head, "Know any limericks?"
"Uhhh…" Wax Shakespeare said trying to think of one, "There once was a dude from Kentucky…"
"Nope!" Mabel and Gary said in unison. Thus she tossed his head into the fire. They soon realized that Dipper and Mira were back in the room, though they noticed that Mira was holding on ice pack on her head. "Dipper! Mira!" Mabel exclaimed running to them, "You guys are okay!"
"What happened to your head?" Gary asked Mira.
"I was hit with the back of the sword." Mira replied, "But don't worry, I'm okay."
"You solved the mystery after all." Mabel said to Dipper with a smile. Dipper went ahead to get the head of wax Stan from the rhino had, after using a chair for support.
"Well, I couldn't have done it without my sidekicks." Dipper said to them.
"Yay!" Mira and Gary cheered.
Though Mabel on the other hand said, "No offense Dipper, but I always thought you were the sidekick."
Dipper stammered, "Wha-what? Who's saying that, are people saying that? Have you heard that?"
Mabel, Mira and Gary couldn't help but stifle a laughter. Stan and Sky had soon entered the room, but were both shocked to see what was in the room.
"HOLY MOSES!" Skyla exclaimed.
"HOT BELGIAN WAFFLES!" Stan yelled, "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PARLOR!?"
"Before you ask mom, this wasn't me!" Gary said to Skyla, before mumbling to himself, "Mostly."
Mabel explained to them what happened, "Grunkle Stan, your wax figures turned out to be evil and we fought them to the death!"
"I decapitated Larry King." Dipper said.
"And I decapitated Robin Hood." Mira said.
Gary said, "And I cut Groucho in half."
Stan and Skyla looked at another before they started to laugh out loud. "Oh, you kids and your wacky imaginations!" Skyla said.
Dipper showed Stan the wax head, "On the bright side though, look what we found."
Dipper handed the head off to Stan, "My head!" He exclaimed, "I've missed this guy! You done good kids! Alright, line up for some affectionate noogie-ing."
Before any of the kids could protest, Stan had started to give them each a noogie. "Mira, what happened to your head?" Skyla asked finally noticing that Mira was holding an ice pack to her head.
"I tripped, but I'm okay now." Mira lied which earned a concerned look from Skyla.
They heard the sound of a car outside; they turned and saw that it was officer's Blubs and Durland. "Solved the case yet boy?" Blubs asked, "I'm so confident you're gonna say no, that I'm gonna take a long, slow sip from my cup of coffee."
Blubs did as he said, and started to take his long slow sip from his cup of coffee.
"Actually, the answer is yes." Dipper said. This had caused Blubs and Durland to spit take back and forth until finally they drove away; Everyone couldn't help but laugh.
"They got scalded!" Stan said through his laughter.
"Serves them right!" Skyla said.
"That reminds me." Dipper said to Mabel and Gary, "Did you guys get rid of all the wax figures?"
"Yup!" Gary said.
"We're 99% sure that we did!" Mabel said.
-That Night-
Everyone was sound asleep at the Shack after another long day of work and fighting evil wax figures. Everything was all quiet at the Shack, only the sounds of the animals outside were heard. In the attic, the kids were all asleep and in there own dreamland, that is except for Mira who was tossing and turning in her sleep and practically gasping for air.
Finally she sat upright and let out scream, after having another nightmare. She looked to her brother and sister, and then Gary; she sighed with relief when she saw that they were still asleep. She got out of her bed and tip-toed out of the room, then down the stairs to go to the bathroom.
She went to go wash her face; after the nightmare she had she felt that she needed it.
She took deep breaths and looked in the mirror, but her eyes by what she saw when she looked at herself; she saw that a certain something was missing from her forehead.
"The bruise… It's gone…."
Next time on the Adventure of the Pines:
The Key to Manliness