The next few chapters are a little shorter.

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Chapter 8: The City's Secret

(Dipper and Wendy enter the hallway as the door closes, separating them Pacifica and Jeff.)

Wendy: (sigh) Well, that's more like it.

Dipper: You don't think they're a couple, do you? They're not a couple.

(She just shrugs. At the end of the hallway is a huge room with walkways up along the walls. A pool of water is in the center of the room. At the back is a large statue of a Buddhist god with six arms. It holds a trident, a dagger, a vajra and a shrunken head in four of the arms sticking out the sides and a round blue object in the other two in front of its stomach.)

Wendy: (amazed) Get a load of him...

Dipper: This is definitely the right temple.

Wendy: Well, that looks like the Cintamani Stone all right.

Dipper: There must be a hidden entrance here somewhere. (realizes) Wait, I've seen this guy before.

(He opens his journal and finds a drawing of the statue. Its arms are in different forms than the one in the room.)

Dipper: It's something to do with the arms...

(He looks up at the statue.)

Dipper: I gotta get up there. But how?

(He finds a broken pillar and uses it to climb up to the walkways above.)

Dipper: Hang on... I'm gonna get a closer look at this thing.

Wendy: Sure, I'll just... wait down here.

(He goes up to the statue's left arm that holds the trident. He looks at the picture in the journal and tilts the arm into the correct position.)

Dipper: How's that look?

Wendy: Well, how am I supposed to know? You've got the damn book.

(Dipper then climbs up bricks on the wall to get to the higher arm holding the vajra. Wendy watches him.)

Wendy: Oh, I'm exhausted just looking at you.

(He gets to the arm and moves it into place.)

Wendy: Nice work.

(Dipper jumps off the arm and into the pool.)

Wendy: (amused) I can't believe you just got in.

Dipper: (smirks) C'mon. The water's fine.

Wendy: (rolls her eyes) No way. You just wanna see my t-shirt wet.

(Dipper gets out and heads to the other side. He again climbs the pillar up to the walkway. As he goes across, it suddenly collapses from behindollapses from behind.)

Dipper: (surprised) Oh, God!

(The walkway turns into a ramp and Dipper maintains his balance.)

Wendy: (relieved) God, you're lucky.

(He goes up to the arms on the right side and moves the position of the vajra.)

Dipper: Okay... alright.

Wendy: Nice one.

Dipper: Thank you.

(He climbs up to a bar near the top left hand of the statue.)

Dipper: (smugly) Alright, come on, admit it. You're impressed.

Wendy: (sarcastically) I am, I'll throw you a banana.

(He jumps onto the top right hand which is holding the dagger and it lowers. He falls off the hand and lands onto the lower right hand and onto the ground. His hat falls off.)

Wendy: You alright?

(The orb that the statue is holding opens up. Dipper puts his hat back on.)

Dipper: Oh, yeah. I got the arms right, didn't I?

(He looks up at the orb and sees it revealed a big keyhole in the shape of a triangle.)

Dipper: (curious) Wait a minute...

(He takes out the Phurba dagger.)

Wendy: What is it?

Dipper: (smiles) Wendy, this isn't just a dagger. It's a key.

Wendy: Hmm... well, let's find out what it opens.

(Dipper climbs up to the keyhole.)

Dipper: It's pretty creepy but... say 'ahhh'...

(He slots the dagger into the keyhole and turns it clockwise. The keyhole is pushed into the statue.)

Dipper: There... that do anything?

(The pool of water in front of the statue is drained.)

Wendy: The water's going down.

(She jumps down into the pool. Underneath the statue, the wall slides away to reveal a hidden path.)

Wendy: And… I found the door it opened. We've done it!

Dipper: (chuckles) Well, technically, I did it. Be right there.

(He drops down into the pool and sees the passage.)

Wendy: (smiles) Whaddya think? You game?

Dipper: (smiles) Ladies first.

Wendy: If you say so.

(Wendy goes through the door and down a narrow stairway. Dipper follows.)

Dipper: Thank God I'm not claustrophobic...

(They make their way through and get to a wide empty tunnel. They walk through it.)

Dipper: (smirks) You know, it's actually kinda romantic down here.

Wendy: (flirtatious) Alright... where's the chocolates and flowers?

Dipper: (chuckles) You never were a chocolate and flower kinda girl.

Wendy: Oh, you know me so well. You're not going to get us trapped in a small dark space thirty metres underground, are you?

Dipper: (shrugs) Probably.

(They walk down the tunnel and turn some corners. They eventually find a carved picture of a tree with lots of branches on the wall.)

Wendy: (curious) Whaddya make of this?

Dipper: Looks like some kinda tree.

Wendy: (confused) And... what's that got to do with the Cintamani Stone?

Dipper: (confused) Ya got me.

(They keep moving until they find a ledge and climb up it. They see a bright light at the end of the passage.)

Dipper: It's opening up down here.

(They move through the passage until the floor opens up and they fall through a trapdoor. They enter a chamber and the door closes above them.)

Wendy: (annoyed) Oh, you've gotta be kidding me.

Dipper: Oh, c'mon. It could be worse, right?

(Dozens of sharp spikes come out of the ceiling and slowly descend toward them.)

Dipper: (shocked) Okay, that's worse.

Wendy: (sarcastically) Yeah, this is really romantic.

Dipper: Spike. I hate spike!

Wendy: (hears something) What's that noise? Something's spinning.

(Dipper looks to the wall and sees gears spinning together. He realizes that it controls the spikes.)

Dipper: Wait... that mechanism!

(He takes out his gun and shoots the gear wheels. They stop moving and the spikes go back up.)

Dipper: (laughs) We did it!

Wendy: (relieved) Thank God.

(An opening appears in the wall.)

Dipper: Let's get the hell outta here.

Wendy: Sorry, my life is still flashing before me.

(They go back up to the passage and reach the end where the light is.)