Still working on it.
This is getting exhausting!
-grungekitty
"Mabel go stand against that wall!" Dipper ordered.
"Why?" Mabel cautiously asked, staring at the worn book of enchantments in her brother's hands.
It wasn't all spells. Some of the book was written about other things. There were instructions on how to deal with different magical and paranormal creatures for example. They didn't really care about those bits really.
They had both decided to keep the magic a secret from their caregiver, if such a word could be used in this circumstance. They had been reading the book and practicing spells in secret for a few weeks now.
Dipper had been reading it more. He was more a book person than his sister. He shared every spell he mastered with her, but she needed hands on lessons. She had a hard time learning from the book. Dipper had to learn each spell out of the book first. So Dipper was more or less in charge of the thing.
He definitely didn't mind. No more late nights reading stupid fiction books! All he ever wanted to read from now on was this book and others like it. Magic was the best thing to ever happen to him!
"Just trust me!" He said cheerfully.
"What are you going to do?" His sister asked.
"It's a surprise!" He bellowed in excitement.
He couldn't wait to see the look on her face. He'd thought of her the second he saw this spell. He had been dying to use it for her! A sort of early birthday gift! They were only a few weeks away from turn ten after all.
Mabel sighed and stepped against the blank wall.
"Alright, now what?"
"Just try to stay still ok?"
She sighed again.
Dipper looked to his book marked page. He was so excited he was shaking a bit. He carefully read the words while giving the correct hand motions.
"Dentes Redintegro Recte!" He chanted.
Pale blue sparks streaked to Mabel's mouth. She recoiled in shock at first.
Dipper was so satisfied.
Until she started screaming.
He panicked, thinking he must have screwed it up somehow!
Mabel screamed in pain, keeling over in her agony. While Dipper reached for her, she fell to the ground, still screaming.
"Mabel I'm so sorry! Here, let me...I can fix this! I think. Let me see!" Dipper stammered in distress, switching between holding his sister and flipping frantically through the journal.
He hadn't meant to hurt her! Now he didn't know what was happening or how to stop it.
Mabel reached into her mouth to try and stop the unbearable pain. Tears were spilling down her flushed cheeks. She was scared. Her fear only intensified as she pulled out a metal wire covered in rhinestones.
It was a part of her braces.
She didn't know what was happening, but something in her told her pulling out the rest would make her feel better. So without thinking she pulled out one metal shred after another. They clattered to the ground at the shoes of a mortified Dipper.
After a few minutes, she had pulled out a full mouthful of metal and had finally stopped screaming. She stayed on her hands and knees, trying to catch her breath as she stared at her destroyed braces.
Dipper helped his heavily breathing sister up.
"What did you do?" She asked, gasping when she could speak again.
Dipper looked down in shame.
"I didn't mean it." He pathetically whimpered.
Mabel glanced to her ruined braces again.
"How bad is it?" She asked hesitantly, opening her mouth towards her brother.
Dipper gasped. Mabel cringed.
"Is it really tha-" She started to ask, but was cut off by her excited brother.
"It worked!" Dipper yelled in shock. "Mabel go look!"
"I don't think I want to...what worked?" Mabel said after some thought.
"Just go look!" Dipper said proudly.
Mabel walk slowly over to the bathroom and turned to the mirror. Her own puffy face stared back with the expression of a captured deer. She didn't want to see.
"Trust me." Dipper pressed.
Mabel sighed and smiled to her reflection.
She gasped when she saw the result.
Her teeth were perfect! She didn't need the braces anymore, they were flawless now!
"How's it look?" Dipper smiled expressively from the door.
"Oh my gosh! It's beautiful! They're perfect! This is amazing!" Mabel squealed in a constant run of her mouth, gushing over her new smile.
Dipper silenced her with a more somber face.
"Sorry about hurting you." Dipper frowned, his face coated in guilt.
Mabel hadn't stopped smiling though.
"WHO CARES!?" She yelled in joy.
Dipper was about to reply before his words were hugged out of him, alongside his breath, when Mabel tackled him in happiness.
"Thank-you!" She beamed with her new nonbrace-filled smile.
Dipper smiled at his sister, then wiggled out of her strangle hold of a hug.
"Happy early birthday!" He choked out.
That was when they learned the important lesson that magic is painful.
I bet a lot of you were wondering why rev!Mabel had braces right?
Well just FYI, her braces had gemstones in them.
The reverse Gleefuls have more money than the cannon Pines, so their baby girl got the pretty fancy braces, while the Mabel we all know just has normal ones.
Also, the more powerful/complicated the magic, the more it hurts.
This isn't a universal rule, but it's a decent general scale.
The twins will get higher pain tolerances though. In a year or two what Mabel just went through will be barely worth a sharp breath.
They're still getting used to it.
-grungekitty