A/N- Sorry for taking pretty freaking long :c Work, more job interviews (people love me :'D I think not xDD), family issues, etc.
BTW, the Zephonim (the ugly-ass spider vampires) and the Dumahim are property of Eidos Interactive. I forgot to put this in the previous chapter, so here it is. The creepy, flying vampires are mine. Their species name is going to be revealed in the future.
Please do me a favour and tell the GF Fans to read this fanfic!
The more reviews I get, the faster I upload the next chapter c: (Critiques are welcome too!)
Chapter X:
Bastet
"Are you still mad at me?" he asks "And where's Ramesses?"
Bastet growls in response and is ready to break his neck, until...
"Grunkle Stan!" Mabel yells as she approaches
"Mabel?" he asks as the lynx stops
The girl finally arrives, followed by Dipper, Soos, and Waddles. The boy goes rushes to the fainted Wendy.
"Wendy?" he asks while his panic starts to build. He moves her shoulder, but no response received. "Come on. Wake up!" Dipper keeps moving her, but nothing and looks at the lynx. "I think she's dehydrated! Please, we have to go back to the cave!"
"What? We can't do that! There are a lot of ugly creatures there!" Mabel protests.
"Then… the lynx, Wendy, Grunkle Stan, and I are going!" Dipper says and looks at the lynx. "Can you help me taking them to the oasis, please?"
Even if she's still resented with Stan, she nods and agrees to go with Dipper.
-xxx-
Dipper, Wendy, Grunkle Stan, and Bastet are going to the sacred place. The lynx's carrying the teen and old man. At the same time, she's remembering why she loathes Stanford Pines.
It all happened many years ago.
She, along with four more lynxes and other stuff, such as an electron carpet, some guns, an invisibility cloak, drugs, an old, Masonic Amulet, books full of conspiracies and truths hidden from the world, were stolen from the CIA.
She recalls her captors negotiated a lot when travelling and received giant bags of cash in exchange of small bags with drugs. After they sold the half of the drugs they had, both brothers thought it'd be a good idea to sell the lynx cubs. Bastet, Ramesses, and the other three were cubs at that time. Their genetic code, since it was modified, it also altered their life cycle.
Some months later, the Pines twins arrived to South America and started to sell the lynxes. They sold two out of five. Weeks later, a Colombian Drug Lord contacted them with the intention of buying the remaining lynxes and drugs. After talking and making a deal, they went to Colombia two days later, only to realize it was a trap. Stanford was captured, while Stanley managed to run away and took his time to set his brother free from prison by igniting explosives in the walls of the jail. When Bastet noticed, the other female cub vanished. She was about to do the same with Ramesses, until Stanley noticed them, caught them, and imprisoned them in a cage.
When they arrived to Gravity Falls, the two remaining lynxes were already in their adult stage. Stanford Pines noticed there was something odd with Bastet after they finished building the shack. She looked tired, sad, and gained some extra weight. The female lynx recalls she heard them discussing until one of them approached her and put his hands on her stomach for a few minutes and freaked out when he felt something.
When her cubs were born (a litter of five, by the way), she felt like there was still hope. Some days later, she and Ramesses, who was trained by Stanley in secret just to win extra money in illegal animal fights outside Gravity Falls, woke up as usual and noticed their cubs were gone. The male lynx didn't give a damn, while Bastet was very worried.
"Be glad I got rid of a heavy load off you, girl." Stanford Pines approached her and she turned her head. "Stanley and I made some calls last night and your cubs were sold to a wealthy German businessman." He lighted up a cigarette. "Don't worry about them. They're in good hands."
The female lynx attacked him and went into the Gravity Falls Forest. Stanley who saw what happened, ordered Ramesses to catch Bastet and not to return if she was not with him.
Now, Bastet, after recalling all this events, starts to cry and Dipper hears her.
"Hey, uhm. Bastis?" he calls her, trying to remember 'the name Mabel gave to her'. "Are you okay? Want me to help you?"
She shakes her head and continues crying.
"Is there someone you miss?" he asks.
She looks at Dipper and nuzzles him. He pets her back.
"I tell you what." He tells her. "Once you finish helping us from getting out of here, I promise I'll help you search whatever you're searching. My sister will so help you. I know. She tends to give a hand back when someone helps her."
The lynx licks him and they continue going down until they reach the pool.
Bastet kneels so both teen and old man fall to the ground. She then takes Wendy from her jacket and submerges her. The red-head wakes up and coughs as the lynx leaves her. She looks at the feline and freaks out.
"Wendy! It's okay!" Dipper calms her. "He's a friend! He's a friend!"
"Are you sure?" she asks
"I'm very sure." Dipper replies very confident. "This big guy here saved us from monsters. He even saved Stan and you from flying vampires."
Wendy ignores the 'vampire' part and thinks he might have been hallucinating, since she and Stan saw vultures and buzzards before passing out. She leaves the pool and recognizes Dipper was telling the truth about the purple lynx.
After a few minutes, Bastet submerges Stan to the pool and lets him go.
The old man wakes up thanks to the lack of air and tries to swim back to the surface. One of the flag's strings has caught one of Stan's now mid-broken legs as he's passing out.
*Flashback*
A 14-year-old Stanford Pines is being beaten by his brother, who's wearing broken glasses.
"You idiot!" Stanley roars as he asphyxiates him. "I cannot believe you've been using my glasses to pretend to be me all this time! Since when!"
"Since…" he coughs. "Since we were kids! The boys at the playground and school saw you were the toughest. And I wanted to pretend I was you so they would stop bullying me around!"
"I should have known you were distracting me hours earlier! WHY!"
"I wanted to impress a girl! I'm sorry I broke your glasses! It was an accident!" he tries to catch some air.
"Is that how you pay me!" he hisses at him. "Taking my glasses to pretend you're me? The toughest guy around? Huh?" he punches him in the face. "What about all the things I did for you? Remember when I took your place that day in school? When you had to demonstrate dad the boxing lessons he signed us up were totally worth it while you just buried your face in a book so he didn't notice you?" he suffocates his brother even more until he starts coughing. "Do you remember!"
"I'm sorry!"
"The worst part is that I couldn't stand a second watching how mom and dad kept praising you! I should have been praised! You didn't learn crap but the left hook! You skipped the boxing lessons because you were too scared! Be thankful dad doesn't know that part!"
"You did me a favour!"
"Because you asked nicely for it!" The enraged Stanley throws his brother near the river with abundant, sharp rocks. "And I could have lent you my glasses if you just asked for them!"
"I just wanted to be man enough!" Stanford is trying to get up, but his brother catches him and takes his head with one of his hands and drowns his brother.
"Man enough!" he yells at him as he punches his back. "Man enough!" he hits Stanford's head with one of the rocks. He turns his brother. "Man enough!" And punches him hard in the stomach until he starts to bleed from the nose and mouth. "Are you man enough yet!"
Stanley takes Stanford from his neck, ready to give the final punch. The young twin closes his eyes, waiting to be hurt. But, seeing his baby brother in peril only made him hold his urge to finish him.
He keeps looking at him, and recalls their father told him to look out after him, even if anything happened to him or his wife. And that happened the same night the twin brothers disobeyed and explored the deepest part of the forest just to find and meet the Slenderman.
"What am I doing?" he whispers and releases his brother.
Stanford opens his eyes and fondles his neck. "Aren't you going to… kill me?" he raises his head. Nose still bleeding, mouth partially full of blood, a black eye.
He shakes his head, looking shocked of what he did to his brother, and helps him to get up. "N-no. I'm sorry." He sighs. "I guess dad's going to kill me now when he sees you." He says worried, trying not to cry.
"Tell him…" he gasps for air. "Tell him a jackass beat me up because of a girl."
"What if he asks about my glasses?"
"You saved me and he broke them and left." He smiles. "Invent something credible."
Stanley gets what his brother suggested and both laugh.
"Come on; let's go back to the house before mom and dad arrive."
Both brothers leave to their house, laughing about what happened earlier.
*End of Flashback*
Stan, opening his eyes, now finds himself outside the pool. He's panting and looks at his surroundings.
"How do you know about this place?" he asks
At the same time, Dipper bear-hugs him.
"I thought you were going to die down there." He says and brings the lynx, who's still glaring at him. "This big guy here is our hero, right pal?" he looks at Bastet
"There are two things I want to say to you, Dipper." Stan says as the boy approaches. "One, thanks for saving me. I can feel my legs again." He smiles, moving his legs and feet at the same time and continues. "And two, the lynx is female."
"Female?" he asks him. "How do you know that?"
"Didn't I give you the 'birds and bees' talk some days ago?" he crosses his arms, sounding a bit disappointed and confused
Wendy screams and points to a random direction. Grunkle Stan, Dipper, and Bastet look to where she's pointing to.
A lot of flying, creepy-looking vampires start to appear from out of nowhere.
A/N- I also took long because I worked hard on why Bastet hated Grunkle Stan so much. At first it was "Behold, the mayor attraction!" but then neh, so I thought, 'What's the worst thing Stan (or his bro) could do?' And then it came to my mind that they sold her cubs. She's also resented with him because he and Stanley also sold her lynx friends when she was a cub. For those who were not aware, this is why in the previous chapter Bastet growls at Dipper and Mabel, because they kind-of smell like Stan since they're related to him. And because the lynx saw they were too young, she spared them.
Believe me, I'm still fangirling because of the 'Dreamscaperers' episode. And I'm fixing my version of Stan's background thanks to that. I'd like to hear about what you think of it :3
In the mentioned episode, when the memory of Stan fighting another kid plays, if you look at the kids sitting in the bench, there's a boy (his face is covered by a book) that has the same hairstyle, hair colour, and even skin colour from Stan and his father. Note here, in this one, Stan is not wearing glasses. As a child, he was wearing them. Then as a teen. Then, as an adult, he's no longer wearing them until he grows older. My theory? Stanley, his twin bro, used (will use past tense, since there's no mention of him in the actual series) to be the toughest kid around, and the only way to tell from the twins who was who were the glasses. So, in the memory where 9(?)-year-old Stanford is being bullied, he was using the glasses so he could fool everyone he was Stanley and not Stanford. Something went wrong and the bullies noticed he was not who he seemed to be. Then he mentions his dad signed him to boxing lessons. The Stan we see boxing could have been Stanley (admit it, he looked a bit different) while the real Stanford hid his face with a book to prevent getting him and his bro in trouble. I want to believe their father was able to tell who's who just when the two were together. Let's go to the memory where his relationship with Carla started. He was wearing glasses (even if the "I'm Stanley and not Stanford. See? I wear glasses" thing didn't always seem to work, he grew attached to use them while his brother was asleep)... I actually have no explanation for this. Let's say he wanted to be cool… or to pretend he was his brother to feel brave and strong and stuff (and at the end he confessed this to her and she didn't care because he was still handsome and attractive and they went on dates together until she dumped him for a hippie).
I still have to work on that. One of my theories is that Stanley might have taken interest in inventing and weather (explaining the satellite-antenna thingy and the tattoo (I will do my best to have the fanfic finished before the leaking of the episode. I already have an explanation, and it's in the last chapter of this fanfic (partially written, BTW))). I have to work a lot on this theory Dx.
Also, one of the fake screenies I did early June appears to have predicted the date between Lazy Susan and Grunkle Stan. I feel like freaking seer! I have seer powers yay! Many people have commented in it "NON-SPECIFIC EXCUSE" (with some of them even telling others already did it). I'd love to post the link, but FF is an ass with links, so go to my deviantART (TigerBlack62). The screenie is called "Stan's date". ADVERTISING FOR THE WIN.
I'd love if you suggest this fanfic to more GF fans. I'd so appreciate that *3*
Hope you like it.
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Oh! And if I have a grammar mistake or another kind of mistake, please tell me so I can fix it C: !