Chapter 7: Luck of the Draw

It was a day that Dipper and Mabel were a little nervous about. Well more like Dipper was nervous about, Mabel was counting down to this day.

The day of the fair.,

"Behold Mabel! The cheapest fair money can buy." Said Stan who looked that line, "I spared every expense."

"Oh man! I can't wait!" cheered Mabel.

"Yeah, you've been waiting for this day for a while." Sighed Stan.

"Yeah, yeah…" said Dipper nervously.

"Seriously, what's your problem?" asked Stan.

"This was the day with the time traveler." Said Dipper, "I don't know what's going to happen today."

"You don't have to worry!" yelled a very whiney voice.

"Who said that." Said Stan.

"Over here." Said the voice.

They turned to see Blendin fiddling with his watch.

"Seriously?" he asked.

He was no longer in camouflage mode.

"You don't have to worry about today and time travel since it already happened… technically.' Said Blendin.

"Really? Weird." Said Mabel.

"Yes, Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey." Said Blendin.

"Seriously?" asked Dipper.

"That's the official term." Answered Blendin, "Since this is one of two check ups is there anything you want to tell me about."

"Oh yeah!" said Dipper, "There's something I need to tell you about."

Dipper knew Mabel would be able to tell the story better so both of them told it.

"I heard this might happen." Said Blendin.

"So should we be worried?" asked Dipper.

"No, it's just something to expect." Said Blendin, "You caused small changes that caused this. For all we know there's someone who will change how today went."

"But today already is going differently." Said Mabel.

"Not to mention Wendy's not going to date Robbie again." Said Dipper.

"Plus there you talking to us here." Said Mabel, "And Dipper avoided the sky way."

They heard a snapping sound and a crash.

"Okay… you have a point." Said Blendin.

There was a somewhat awkward silence.

"So what are you doing for the rest of the day?" asked Mabel.

Blendin shrugged.

"I have the rest of the day off." Said Blendin.

"Oh that's cool." Said Mabel, "Why don't you spend the rest of the day at the fair."

"Seriously? That's not going to work again." Said Blendin.

"After what happened last time and considering we're already messing with time I think she's just giving you an idea." Said Dipper.

"Oh… okay." Said Blendin, "I do kind of deserve it."

"Yep!" said Mabel.

"Where should I put my belt?" asked Blendin.

"Just put in the shack for now." Said Dipper.

Blendin did so and the twin knew they had to do their job and spread around the fake grades.

"You don't think there's going to be any big changes today?" asked Mabel.

"Well I'll see if Wendy still wants that toy." Said Dipper who then shuddered.

"Hey she won't date Robbie this time around." Said Mabel as the two passed by a fortuneteller that defiantly wasn't there before.

As the fortuneteller set up.

"This will be the perfect day to gain more power." She thought to herself with an smirk.

And so the fair official opened.

The moment it officially opened Mabel practically ran over to the Pig Stall.

She looked around and saw Waddles.

"Sir I want that pig!" said Mabel.

"If you guess the critter's weight…" said the man who ran the booth

"15 pounds." Said Mabel.

The man blinked, "Are you a witch?" he asked.

Mabel shrugged, vaguely remembering a mob a couple times she went back the first time around.

"Well you'll be needing these." Said the man running it giving her a plate with a knife and fork.

She glared at the man.

"Suit your self." He said.

Mabel walked a bit away, then hugged Waddles.

"I missed you so much!" said Mabel hugging him.

Waddles oinked happily while unwire of the previous timeline, her love for him was infectious.

With Dipper and Wendy, they were enjoying the fair. Namely the corndogs.

"I still don't know how they got it in that shape." Said Dipper.

"You should have asked last time." Said Wendy.

"Guys! Look who's back!" said Mabel running over, "Waddles!"

"You've been waiting for this day for a while." Laughed Wendy.

"Sure did!" laughed Mabel.

She ran off to show other people who was back.

Both of them shrugged.

They decided to look around.

"So you still want that panda duck thing?" asked Dipper.

"Oh yeah." Said Wendy.

"Would you two like to know your fortunes?" asked a fortuneteller they walked passed.

"No thanks." Said Dipper.

"Eh… minds well." Said Wendy.

"What?" asked Dipper.

"Come on it will be fun." Said Wendy.

Both of them sat down at her table, she began to read some cards.

"Oh I'm sorry both of you are ready for an unlucky day," said the woman.

"Seriously?" asked Dipper.

"Oh yes,. I see bad luck all day for you." Said the fortuneteller with a smirk.

Neither one of them saw a golden light escape from their bodies and into a jewel around the fortuneteller's neck.

Wendy paid the fortuneteller and both of them left.

"That was a pretty bad fortune teller." Said Wendy.

"Yeah." Agreed Dipper who seemed worried.

That was when Wendy suddenly tripped.

"Hey you okay?" asked Dipper.

"Just tripped in a gopher hole." Said Wendy, "I'm fine, I've had worse."

"Okay." Said dipper.

Little did they know was that was only the start of their unlucky day.

They found the stall with the panda ducks.

"I'm sorry in advanced if the ball hit you in the face again." Said Dipper.

"Relax I'm sure it was just a freak accident last time." Said Wendy.

"Yeah…" said Dipper somewhat nervously.

Dipper paid for the ball, he tossed it, he missed, not only did it miss, but it hit the crate the jugs were on, bounced back and hit Wendy in the face.

However the ball wasn't done this time, it bounced on the counter then hit the strange net of balls, they spilled out and hit Dipper, hard.

He fell down covered in bruises and Wendy noticed Dipper was in pretty rouge shape.

"Hey Wendy." Said Robbie noticing what happened to her eye, he held up his sno-cone.

"No thanks… I'm more about Dipper" said Wendy.

Wendy pickled up Dipper to a bench.

Meanwhile Mabel was walking around with Waddles ,when she passed by the fortuneteller.

"Would you like to tell me your fortune?" asked the fortuneteller.

"Oh sure!" said Mabel, "By the way I love the whole mysterious fortune teller thing! And I love your necklace."

"Oh thank you…" said the fortuneteller blushing a little.

She began to look at the cards and she sighed.

"You're going to have a very lucky day." Said the fortuneteller.

"I'm already having one." Said Mabel as she hugged waddles completely unaware of the gold lighting entering her body.

Mabel paid the fortuneteller and the fortuneteller sighed when she left.

"I could take it." Sighed the fortuneteller, "There should be plenty of other rubes to take from later to balance it out."

On a bench, Dipper was nursing his wounds when Wendy came back with a whole back of ice.

She took out cubes put in napkins and gave all but on of the makeshift ice packs to Dipper.

"Man that was worse than last time." Muttered Dipper.

"You said it." Sighed Wendy completely unaware of Dipper's time loop.

Pacifica and her girl squad saw them, by this point Pacifica's friendship with Mabel was well known thanks to the whole rescue thing. So being nice to Dipper in public wasn't a big deal.

"Ow… happened to you?" asked Pacifica.

"A bunch of baseballs." Mumbled Dipper.

"I'm sure the rest of the day will be better." Said Pacifica.

That was when a bird flew over and pooped on Dipper.

"Uh…" said Pacifica.

"Let leave before their bad luck spreads to us." Said Pacifica's magenta haired friend.

"Sorry…" said Pacifica wincing a little.

Meanwhile Blendin was having a fun time, it helped he didn't really have to worry about anything.

That was when he walked passed the fortuneteller.

"Would you like to heard your fortune?" asked the fortuneteller.

"You know what, why not." Said Blendin with a shrug.

He sat down and the fortuneteller did the cards, she stared at him and sighed.

"You know what, today's going to be your lucky day." Said the fortuneteller.

"Oh wow!" said Blendin not noticing a gold light entering his body.

He left after paying.

"He wouldn't have much to take away." She sighed, "Oh well from what it looks he deserved a day."

However Pacifica and her friends walked by. She recognized Pacifica and smirked.

"excuse me would you girls like your fortunes told?" asked the fortuneteller.

The girls shrugged and decided it might be fun.

With Mabel and Waddles they were walking around when they heard a crying child.

It was a little boy and Mabel looked at the little girl, she looked scared.

"Hey there are you okay?" asked Mabel.

"I can't find my mommy." Said the little girl.

"It's okay to be okay!" assured Mabel.

Waddles looked at the little girl with his cute little piggy eyes and the little girl stopped crying a little.

"This is Waddles! I named him waddles!" said Mabel.

The little giggled.

"Is it okay to pet him?" asked the little girl.

"Of course!" said Mabel.

The little girl did so.

"You want to help look for your mom?" asked Mabel.

The little girl nodded and Mabel took her hand to look for her mom.

After a few minutes they found her.

"Mommy!" called out the little girl.

"Rosie!" said the mother.

She hugged her daughter.

"Aw…" said Mabel hugging Waddles who just oinked.

"Mommy that nice girl helped me." Said the little girl named Rosie.

"She did?" asked the mother, the mother took out 10 dollars and walked over to Mabel.

"Here, for helping my daughter." Said the woman.

"Oh wow! Thank you." Said Mabel.

"Oh no thank you for helping Rosie!" said the mother.

The two went to go on a ride while Mabel wondering what to use the money on.

Meanwhile, with Dipper and Wendy they decided to ride the teacups.

As they ere spinning the wheel ripped off in Wendy's hands.

Now normally this would just stop the teacup from spinning but somehow this made it goes even faster.

The carnie who was a some teenager called up the guy who owned the ride.

"Mr. Applebee… it happened again." Called the teenager.

Meanwhile Mabel decided to play some carnival games.

She was on a winning streak, she was carrying a sack of stuffed animals.

"Today is great!" cheered Mabel.

Nearby Blendin and Soos were chatting.

"It's too bad that you don't have the infinite pizza slice anymore." Said Blendin.

"Yeah, I lost it anyway before we went back in time." Said Soos with a shrug.

"Oh…" said Blendin.

That was when he noticed a wallet on the ground.

"Oh man! There's my wallet!" said someone who was riding the ride earlier.

"Here." Said Blendin.

"Here's five bucks." Said the man giving him five bucks.

"Thanks…" said Blendin surprised.

"That was lucky." Said Soos.

"That fortune teller seemed to be right." Said Blendin.

"What did she you're having a lucky day." Said Soos.

"She did." Said Blendin.

Meanwhile Dipper finished vomiting.

"You… you want to go for a walk?" asked Wendy.

"Sure… no rides just a walk…" said Dipper.

They walked through the fair.

That was when they were close to the dunk tank, some poor sap hit the target, but it bounced off and hit Dipper in the face.

"Dipper! Are you okay?" asked Wendy.

"I hate today more than last time…" muttered Dipper.

Mabel saw what happened and thankfully was eating a sno-cone.

"Here Dipping Sauce." Said Mabel.

"Come on let's go to a bench." Said Wendy.

They took Dipper to the bench.

"What is it today!" muttered Dipper, "Everything's going worse than last time."

"I don't know about you." Said Mabel holding up the sack of stuffed toys, "By the way go two panda ducks! Saving one for you Wendy."

"Thanks." Said Wendy.

"It's too bad because I'm having a lucky day." Said Mabel, "The fortune teller said so."

"Wait..." said Dipper.

"You don't think…" said Wendy.

They heard screams, and they saw Pacifica with her friends. All three were covered in what appeared to be sno-cone syrup.

"I'm going home"! yelled her magenta haired friend.

"no way I'm staying here while cursed!" yelled her African American friend.

"What happened?" asked Mabel.

"Ever since we saw that fortune teller bad things have been happening to us." Said Pacifica, "This is going to take forever to watch out…"

"I knew it, that fortune teller is doing it." Said Dipper.

"What?" asked Pacifica.

"She wasn't there before." Said Dipper, "Now all of us but Mabel have bad thing happening to us!"

"Oh come on… I'm sure it's all coincidence." Said Mabel.

That was when Blendin walked over.

"Hey, future guy!" said Mabel, "Have you seen that fortune teller?"

"Yes I have, why?" answered Blendin.

"Did she say you have a lucky day or an unlucky day?" asked Mabel.

"She said I have a lucky day." Said Blendin, "Why are you asking?"

"She wasn't here last time." Said Dipper.

"Should we talking about it to them," said Blendin noticing Pacifica and Wendy.

"They're two of the ones we chose." Said Dipper.

"By the way this is the future guy." Said Mabel introducing him to Pacifica and Wendy.

"Hey…" said Wendy.

Pacifica sighed.

"Have really good things have been happened you today?" asked Dipper.

"Yeah, I'm having a great day." Said Blendin.

"That doesn't prove that something weird is going on." Said Mabel.

That was when they heard a snapping sound, a scream Blendin held out his arm and a beautiful woman fell into his arms.

"Oh… oh… thank you." Said the woman, "I fell out of the sky way… but you saved my life."

She decided to give her hero a little kiss on the cheek and then walked away.

Blendin was blushing while the others there including Mabel were shocked.

"Okay… maybe you have a point." Said Mabel.

"See!" said Dipper.

"We have to go find out what she did to us." Said Wendy.

"Yeah!" yelled Pacifica.

"I really shouldn't meddle too much." Said Blendin.

"Hey it's okay." Said Dipper realizing it would probably be a bad idea to get Blendin involved.

"Go enjoy the rest of your lucky day!" said Mabel.

"You saved my girlfriend!" said a man showing up with the woman Blendin saved earlier, "Thank you so much! Here's a 100 dollars."

"Thanks…" said Blendin.

They all found the fortuneteller who was counting cash.

"Counting the money I made, got a lot of luck…" she sang.

"You!" yelled Dipper.

The fortuneteller look up.

"Do you want another fortune done?" asked the fortuneteller.

"Who are you and why did you give us bad luck?" asked Wendy.

"Oh I'm just a humble fortuneteller… I have nothing to do with your unlucky days and…" said the fortune teller sighed, "You're not buying it are you?"

"No." said Pacifica.

"not one bit." Said Wendy.

"Not at all." Said Dipper.

"Well I've sucked out the luck of a good chunk of the people. And that's enoguh to fill my power for quite a while… and to make sure the fair don't become a hell hole." Said the fortuneteller.

"What?" asked Mabel.

The fortuneteller smirked and removed her fortuneteller get up and was now wearing a strange green dress that upon closer inspection was made up of four leaf clovers and wore a circlet around her head that resembled a horseshoe. Around her neck as the jewel and her long black hair flowed freely

"I am the Luck Witch!" said the fortuneteller… well luck witch.

"The luck witch?" asked Mabel.

"Oh wait… you're one of the two people I gave good luck to you? Why are you confronting me?" asked the Luck Witch.

"He's my brother and he's my friends." Said Mabel.

"Oh…" said the Luck Witch.

"So why did you curse us?" asked Pacifica.

"I didn't curse you, I just sucked away your day's good luck." Said the Luck Witch, "It will back tomorrow as if it was there all along."

"Why would you do that?" asked Wendy.

"And why did you give me good luck." Said Mabel.

"Because you were nice to me." Said the Luck Witch.

"Oh…" said Mabel.

"Why did you give Blendin good luck?" asked Wendy.

"He didn't very much good luck in him, and I felt sorry for him." said the Luck Witch, "It's like with Toby Determined… expect he's more far more unlucky… I honestly want to give him a lucky day but it would take away everyone else's luck that it would be impossible with out destroying the town in bad luck."

"That still doesn't explain why you took away our luck." Said Dipper.

"If you must know, I still luck and that become my magic!" said the Luck Witch, "Not only can I influence luck! But I have other spells that run on people's lucky days, weeks, months or even years…" said the Luck Witch, "I prefer days and the occasional week… I'm not evil… I'm more of a medium gray that's a bit more towards light than dark…"

"What?" asked Mabel.

"I'm not saying it again." Said the Luck Witch.

"Give us back our luck." Said Dipper.

"Uh… no." said Luck Witch, she floated a Crystal ball and gazed into it, "Interesting… you're future or rather past is quite interesting… man all four of… geez…"

"You can look into the future?" asked Dipper.

"I can." Said the Luck Witch, "But the whole fortune teller shtick is just a way to steal luck, plus it would be a waste of my magic as opposed to this."

"What would looking in our future accomplish?" asked Wendy.

"You want a know, it's quite simple." Said the Luck Witch, "A lesson…"

"What?" asked Mabel.

"What you four and your six friends need to leer is that you can't win them all! A danger is coming to Gravity Falls and just because you averted the original time line doesn't mean you comply avoided the tragedy that's to come! Because of that I won't let you even fight me for this! Because you must an important lesson! Dipper! Mabel! Wendy! Pacifica! Tell Candy, Grenda, McGucket, Soos, Stan and Ford as well. You can't win them all! With each loss become stronger and learn from the mistakes." Said the Luck Witch.

"Seriously…" said Wendy.

"Did you just pull that just now." Said Mabel.

"Yeah! But your little group gots to have a trickster mentor! I'm taking that job!" said the Luck Witch.

The four of them stared at the Luck Witch.

"I've always wanted to be one, okay." Muttered the Luck Witch, "Luck Witch Out!"

The Luck Witch disappeared.

They all sighed.

"Looks like you all have to deal with bad luck for the rest of the day." Said Mabel.

"Great…" said Wendy.

"Maybe if you just hold up in the shack for the rest of the fair or something." Said Mabel.

"Yeah, probably be the best thing." Said Dipper.

"Yeah try to avoid everything is the best way to handle this." Said the Luck Witch who was back at her both.

They stared at her.

"I forgot my money!" said the Luck Witch, "Luck Witch Out! For reals this time!"

She once again disappeared.

"So should we try to find her." Said Pacifica.

"I still say you should hide for the rest of the day." Said Mabel.

"Hey Wendy." Said Robbie.

"Not up for talking right now." Sighed Wendy.

"Hey… you can use our stuff." Said Mabel to Pacifica since she was still covered in snow cone syrup.

"Fine." Muttered Pacifica.

Sometime later Dipper, Wendy and Pacifica (dressed in Mabel's llama sweater while her clothes were in the wash) were watching a bad horror movie.

Blendin came in.

"So what happened?" asked Blendin deicing to head back to the future.

"The fortune teller was a witch that stole all of our luck." Said Wendy.

"Decided to give up this time." Muttered Dipper.

"Oh.." said Blendin.

"So…" said Dipper, "When's the next time we see you?"

"July 13th." Said Blendin.

"Oh yeah, Soos' birthday." Said Wendy.

"See you then man." Sighed Dipper.

Blendin shrugged and went back to the future, causing fires to spread thought the room.

All three of them patted them out.

"I can't wait for this day to be over." Said Pacifica.

"You said it." Muttered Wendy.

Little did they know was that the Luck Witch was watching them.

"Bill Cipher is planning something horrible and they're need my help." She said out loud she then squeed, "I get to be a trickster mentor to a group of heroes! Sweet! Oh man it's going to be awesome!"

That was when Gompers started eat part of her dress.

"Hey stop that! Do you know how hard this dress to make?" asked the Luck Witch.

She sighed and then disappeared, knowing that she would have to appear again to teach time all lessons somehow.

And hopefully the lesson she came up with on the fly would stick with them.

Then again she came up with it on the fly. So who knows if it would stick.

But the truth was they had to worry about the Luck Witch… even if she was technically trying to help…

Next Time: A group of forest citizens attack the mud flap factory. It's up to Dipper, Mabel and Pacifica to try to save the factory... But is a really a good idea? Meanwhile Wendy tries to figure out a way to let Robbie down. What will happen? Find out next time!

A/N: The Luck Witch will be a recurring character who pops in every now and then to cause chaos in order to teach the group a lesson in some way. Ford will reappear before he next appearance though...