Star the rebel: Awesome! I would love to see some fan art! You don't know how happy this makes me!
Hourglass Cipher: I couldn't really figure out how to show either of them panicking. This is the first time I've ever posted a story to the Internet, so I'm still trying to get the words in my head to match those on screen. (whenever i try to stockpile, i always stop after the first chapter because i dont know what to write) So, just try to imagine them internally freaking out.
And an announcement: once the last day of school hits ( June 8 for me) I will be uploading chapters more often because I have more free time!
And story begins now! (It's so stupid-cool!)
"Kids!" Stan yelled, running out of the forest.
"Stan! What happened?" Dipper said.
"You two changed to? Wait. Where's Mabel?" Stan said.
"We don't know. She got swept away when the stream suddenly overflowed," Raven told him.
"She could be anywhere, and with this strange magic, she could be anything!" Dipper said.
"Who are you talking about?" said a voice from below the rock, that sounded like Mabel.
"Mabel is that you? Hold on. That could be the shapeshifter. What's my nickname for Dipper?" Raven called out into the water below.
"Last time I checked, you called him Dipstick. Also, I found his hat and what appears to be a giant slug. Gross!" Mabel replied.
"Yup, thats her," Dipper confirmed.
"Mabel, sweetie, could you come out of the water?" Stan asked.
"No. It's kinda hard to get out of water and up onto a rock if you don't have legs," Mabel said.
Mabel came put from her hiding place, and it then was revealed that the magic had turned her into a mermaid, but instead of a normal mermaid, her tail looked like one of a koi fish. Everything except her sweater looked different.
"Maybe one of us could carry her back to the shack," Raven whispered to Dipper.
"Agreed. She can't swim back," Dipper whispered back.
After a brief argument with Stan (About the fact that he didn't think that was a good idea until his brain processed the thought that she couldn't get there on her own), the awkward foursome set off to the house with Mabel riding on Raven. Four years of horseback riding lessons helped her keep her balance.
Ford was waiting for them to come back. After having the kids gone for so long, he came accustomed to the quiet in the Shack (minus one group of all adult tourists that swore after getting ripped off) and didn't question it until he remembered that the kids did come back. After a day of waiting, they returned.
The group had come up to the porch when Ford confronted them.
"Who are you and what do you want. HAVE YOU COME TO STEAL MY EYES?" he yelled like the first time Stan had met up with him all those years ago.
"Nice to see paranoia still kicking in, Sixer," Stan retorted.