A/N: As mentioned last time drakin6345 came up with Nathan Northwest as well as the basic plotline of the chapter.

Though I should be honest if the chapter isn't up to par I'm still dealing with my mother's recent death.

Either way I hope you all enjoy!

Chapter 82: Gone Batty

IT was just a normal day in Gravity Falls. The sun shined, the people went about their business and over all it was normal.

Then suddenly, giant bats flew down and started to attack people. It was insane.

"Someone call Fairy Tail right now!" yelled one of them.

Meanwhile at the Guild Hall, Pacifica was getting ready for her dinner that night with her uncle. With Cancer doing her hair and everyone else was tacking it easy so everyone just chatted.

"What's the weirdest thing anyone ever had to deal with?" asked Michelle.

"Oh I know the answer!" said Mabel.

"Oh you mean that cult right?" laughed Dipper.

Yep!" said Mabel.

"What cult?" asked Natsu.

"The one trying to resurrect Mister Rogers." Said Mabel.

"Who?" asked Michelle.

"The host of an old children's TV show." Explained Dipper.

"There was a cult trying to resurrect him and…" said Mabel.

But before she could finish the story, there was a call.

"Hello?" asked Mirajane.

Her eyes winded in shocked.

"I see… we'll send as many as can go, I'll also contact Ford." said Mirajane who then hung up the phone.

"What's wrong?" asked Erza.

"The giant bats are attacking the town for some reason." She explained.

Everyone in the room looked at each other in concern.

"So what do you think is causing it?" asked Natsu.

"I don't know…" said Ford, "But I believe the first thing we should do is figure out how to calm them down. I don't think it's a good idea to fight them back. We can temporally incapacitate them, but not harm in any way…"

"Seriously?" asked Natsu.

"It's rare for them to act like this at all." Explained Ford., "Sure once in a while one will attack but for this many, something is very wrong."

"Not to mention in the middle of the day. " pointed out Dipper.

"You're right. The first step is to lure them away from the town." Said Ford, "And to do that we bait them with their favorite food."

"Is that blood?" asked Grenda.

"No it's not, they're giant fruit bats." Explained Ford, "We just need a few tons of fruit to lure them in. I think I need some help with that."

"Of course I'll help." Said Dipper, "My magic can creates some of the fruits."

"I'll volunteer as well." Said Levy.

Ford nodded not surprised by it.

"Any other volunteers?" asked Ford.

"Not me…" said Pacifica.

"It's okay, this dinner isn't something you can just cancel." Said Dipper.

Pacifica blushed slightly when she said that.

"Yeah, we got plenty of people to handle this." Said Lucy, "Don't' worry."

"Thanks." Said Pacifica.

"WE should also do some rescue of the people while we get the bats away form everyone." Said Ford.

"We'll do it!" said Natsu.

"It will take a real man to do it!" called out Elfman.

"Remember, you're not going to fight them." Pointed out Evergreen.

"I know…" said Elfman blushing.

After getting more volunteers to help with Fruit Gathering they began their plan.

Meanwhile Pacifica left to head to her uncle's new mansion. It was built in the last few years somewhere in the forest, but roads were also built to lead to it as well so that it wouldn't be completely isolated.

She had made her way to the front gates when her parents arrived.

In the intervening years and with Jude's help they had managed to regain much of their money that they were able to afford chuffers again.

"Oh hello Pacifica." Said Pricilla, "How is everyone at the guild."

"Everyone's fine, just a little problem with some of the giant bats." Said Pacifica.

"How are things with Lucy?" asked Pricilla.

"Oh fine…" said Pacifica not wanting to get into Lucy having to protect a powerful magic artifact and that if the enemy gets their hands on it Lucy would also be in danger.

Preston looked at Pacifica knowing she was lying.

But before anyone could say anything the gates opened. They entered and soon entered the house.

The foyer was decorated with all sorts of taxidermy animals, along with mounted heads. While Pacifica grew up in such a house but there were far more than at her old home.

That was when Nathan Northwest came down, he looked a lot like Preston, however her a bit shorter and had a beard instead of mustache. He was also very muscular.

He walked over to his family and held Pricilla's hands.

"Pricilla, it's been such a long time." Said Nathan, "it's so nice to see you again."

"Oh Nathan." Laughed Pricilla.

"And Pacifica." Said Nathan, "I've heard so much about you growing up. Although I'm more interested to hear about your job. A Guild Wizard."

Pacifica blushed a little.

"I've heard a lot about what you have done for the guild and you have quite a reputation. The protégée to Lucy Heartfilia." Said Nathan, "I can't wait to hear many of your stories."

He looked at his older brother.

"Preston." He said with contempt.

"Nathan." Preston said in the same tone.

"And now for the Grand Tour." Said Nathan.

And so he led his brother's family for a tour through the house.

Meanwhile in town the giant bats continued to act erectly and attack the town. The other guilds of the town had gotten involved as well.

No many people were hurt the ones that were ushered to a healing tent where Marvelous and Sherria were helping everyone who was injured.

Many members of the three guilds were helping as many people as possible without fighting the bats.

Gideon was using his telepathy to find people crying out for help and then used his telekinesis to remove any thing that was trapping them.

"Hey! I was truing to hide." Muttered someone he found.

"Well sorry…" muttered Gideon rolling his eyes.

Meanwhile Marius was using his magic to blind the bats…

Oh yes… forgot to mention he uses Light Magic.

Sherry used her magic to compete stop the bats, but of course they were struggling.

Ren managed to blow them away.

At the same time Robbie took out his guitar to disorient the bats as he used magic based around playing the guitar.

However before he could use Yuka and Dog Toby tackled him.

"Seriously! Yelled Robbie.

"You want to make those things more angry." Said Yuka.

"What do you mean?" asked Robbie.

"Bats have extremely selective ears, you using your magic will probably drive it nuts." Pointed out Yuka.

"Oh yeah… I didn't think about that." Said Robbie.

Remember that little fact by the way.

Thought it was hard for some of them trying not to actually fight them.

"You want to fight!" yelled Natsu.

"Stop trying not fight the bat! We're not supposed to be fighting them!" yelled Lucy.

Meanwhile the group in charger of fruit gather were doing the plan. The group consisted of Dipper, Mabel, Mirajane, Lisanna, Levy, Wendy, Gajeel, Panther Lily.

And since it was easy, Millie also volunteered .

"What's going to happen once we gathered all of the fruit we need?" asked Millie.

"Some of us are going to make sure they don't leave while the rest of us go to their cave and see what's wrong." Explained Dipper.

"Okay!" said Millie.

"You should head back to the Guild Hall when this happens." Said Levy.

"Okay." Said Millie with a nod.

"Hey we need more fruit to fill up this crate." Said Lisanna.

"On it!" said Levy creating some fruit with solid script.

"Do you think the bats have started to smell it?" asked Millie.

A few giant bats started swooping in to eat some of the fruit.

"Well it looks like it's starting to work." Said Ford.

Meanwhile at Nathan's mansion he continued to give the tour of the mansion when they came across a mounted head of a Kodiak Bear.

"This is a very special piece in my collection." Said Nathan.

"Oh yes this…" muttered Preston.

"Now I has your father told you this story?" asked Nathan.

"No, what story?" asked Pacifica.

"Our parents had taken us to Kodiak Island for a little trip, while playing near the cabin, this bear showed up. We were close enough to the cabin so I could grab the rifle and shot it dead. It was at the moment, I knew my calling in life is to be a big game hunter." He explained, "Also Preston fainted at the site of the bear."

"Seriously dad?" asked Pacifica.

"That's not important." Muttered Preston.

"Now this is a Northern White Rhinoceros I managed to hunt before they became critically endangered." He told them.

"How long ago was that?" asked Pacifica.

"I'd rather to say." Said Nathan.

Pacifica sighed figuring it was just like her family to dodge such a question.

Back at the edge of the part of the woods where the bait for the bats were Dipper was working on a Jutsu Shiki that would or event the bats from leaving (but still allowing them to enter).

A call card was activated.

"Hey all of the bats seem to leaving." Said Natsu's voice on the other end.

"We'll meet you at caves." Said Ford.

"Okay!" said Natsu on the other end.

"I'm going to say here to make more fruit." Said Levy.

"I'll stay behind to make sure she's all right." Said Gajeel.

Panther Lily nodded.

"I'm going to watch the bats since I shouldn't be going to the caves." Said Millie.

"Remember to stay outside the Jutsu Shiki." Said Dipper.

"I know!" said Millie.

"Okay… let's go." Said Dipper.

He, Mabel, Wendy, Mirajane, Lisanna and Ford all headed to the cave.

Back at Nathan's mansion he was showing off a rather sparse room compared the rest. There was a dodo and a Tasmanian Tiger

"This is a new wing. Thanks to the Magicing cloning technologies have hit a new boom. While it has brought many dead creatures back to life thanks to that fete, it still an uphill battles for most creatures. They're still working out the hiccups for Placentalia Mammals, so this wing is small compared to most, one day I hope to have cave lions, wooly mammoths and quagga."

"Only two, I've heard of plenty of giant birds you can hunt right now and only two things?" asked Preston.

"It's been pricy buying the creatures to hunt. Even if moa farming has taken a huge boom in recent years, they're still quite experience and don't get me started on the price of elephant birds." Said Nathan.

"Moa?" Pricilla silent asking her daughter.

"A bird from New Zealand." Said Pacifica.

Pricilla nodded knowing she probably got that information from Dipper.

Meanwhile at the cave where the Bats lived, the group had arrived.

"This is the cave that the bats normally call home." Said Ford.

"Let's go in…" said Mabel requipping into the her shooting star armor.

The others looked at her.

"What if something's messing with them it's best to be prepared." Said Mabel with a shrug.

Wendy requiped one of her smaller axes and Dipper unsheathed his sword.

They headed into the cave and soon they saw the strange frog bat things.

"Oh these things… I hate these things." Muttered Mabel.

The frog bats began to fight them.

"Are these what's casing the problems?" asked Lisanna dodging one of their tongues.

"No… they're pretty much peaceful with the giant bats." Said Ford.

"Then why are they attacking us?" asked Wendy dodging the tongue.

"Because they're huge jerks who don't like people entering caves!" Said Mabel.

Meanwhile back at Nathan's Mansion they were getting seated for dinner.

"And now for dinner." Said Nathan.

The servants hands out large hard-boiled eggs.

"Our first course will be hard-boiled Dodo eggs." Said Nathan.

"Simpsons did it." Coughed one of the servants.

"What was that?" asked Nathan.

"Nothing… just a cough." Said the servant.

"I should point out that I have been giving quite a bit of money in cloning." Said Nathan.

"So you can hunt them?" asked Pacifica somewhat glaring at them.

"Yes, that would be why." Said Nathan paying no attention to the glare, "Tell me Pacifica you're a wizard working for the strongest guild in Fiore… I'm sure you've had to hunt things."

"Sometimes, usually if I'm part of a team." Said Pacifica, "And even then the animals or monsters are a threat. I'm not doing it for fun."

"It's not just all fun." Said Nathan, "I do make money from this. And don't worry it's all legal."

"Seriously?" asked Pacifica.

"Don't worry I'm not going after endangered animals. I'm going after animals I'm permitted to hunt and I'm able to sell that parts that I can legally sell such as their pelts and mean. I don't deal ivory trade, don't worry." He explained.

"Seriously?" asked Pacifica.

"It's all legal. A man of my standing can't be caught dealing in such illicit trade after all." He explained.

"I have to use the restroom." Said Pacifica.

"Show her the way." Said Nathan to a Maid.

Once they were out of the dining room.

"You might want to be prepared." Said the maid, "You're not going to like the bathroom."

"What could be the problem." Said Pacifica.

She entered it and screamed when she saw it, while there were plenty of space it was filled with many of his trophies. There were several heads adoring the walls, and many full-bodied taxidermy animals. Once she stopped screaming her eye started to twitch.

"You have got to be kidding me…" muttered Pacifica.

"I wanted you didn't I…" said the maid on the other side of the door.

"Yeah." Sighed Pacifica.

Back with the group exploring the cave. They left and waited for the Strongest Team to Arrive.

Meanwhile with the strongest team and Elfman, Natsu was getting more and more irritable.

"Oh man…" he grumbled.

"Natsu what's wrong?" asked Happy.

"There's a sound that's really bad." Said Natsu, "It's like nails on a chalk board and it's just getting more and more annoying as we get closer!"

"I can't hear anything." Said Michelle.

"A dragon slayer has a much better hearing than most other humans. So if Natsu is hearing it then that means we can't." said Happy.

"Oh okay." Said Michelle.

That was when a giant squid like monster showed up.

Natsu set it on fire yelling, "Not in the mood to deal with you!"

Another monster showed up, this time a giant mantis looking for a fight.

However Natsu burnt it to a crisp.

"Natsu Dragneel!" yelled a voice.

They noticed a Manotaur.

"You looking for a fight!" yelled the Manotaur, "Oh hey Elfman…"

"Hey!" said Elfman who in recent years had become great friends with the Manotaurs.

"You're kid pop out yet?" asked the Manotaur.

"Not yet." Said Elfman.

"Hey! I thought you wanted to fight and not talk!" yelled Natsu.

"Oh right! Time to fight!" yelled the Manotaur.

And so Natsu began to fight the Manotaur.

"Natsu are you feeling okay?" asked Happy.

Natsu punched the Manotaur hard.

"No that noise is driving me nuts!" yelled Natsu.

"I wonder…" said Gray as he was ignoring the fight with the Manotaur.

"What?" asked Lucy.

"If that noise is driving Natsu nuts, what do you think it's doing to the bats?" asked Gray.

Meanwhile Pacifica was having a hard time at the toilet, mainly because many of the trophy were looking right at the toilet. A rather large rabbit was staring right at the toilet. Thankfully she managed to do her business and rejoin the family.

"Is everything okay?" asked Pricilla.

"It's fine." Said Pacifica.

"The bathroom is filled with his trophies?" she whispered.

Pacifica nodded.

"Now since you're back the main course." Said Nathan.

A large plump roasted bird was put on the table.

"Is that what I think it is?" asked Pacifica .

"Yes, roasted dodo." He explained.

And so they ate the dodo as they were eating Nathan decided to spark another conversation with Pacifica.

"Tell me Pacifica." He said, "What is the strongest thing your any of your guild mates have ever encountered in Gravity Falls."

Pacifica began to think, then she remembered the conversation earlier that day.

"Well to be honest, it had to be that cult trying to resurrect Mr. Rogers." Said Pacifica.

"Seriously?" asked Nathan.

"There was a cult like that?" asked Pricilla.

"IT was something the Pines faced." Said Pacifica.

"Oh yes… they do seem to have a strange hatred for those resurrection cults." Said Pricilla.

{Pacifica just sighed knowing she really shouldn't' tell her mother the true reason.

"Let me rephrase that… what is the strangest thing you have ever seen that wasn't human." Said Nathan.

"What?" asked Pacifica.

"I mean I've heard stories… you helped fill in for Lucy recently. Not mention that you've gone on jobs with the Pines' as well." Said Nathan.

"There's been so many, I'd have to think about it." Said Pacifica.

"Is this about the ghost?" muttered Preston.

"What?" asked Nathan.

"You know I'm talking about." Said Preston.

"Oh yes that mess" muttered Nathan, "TO be honest I would have handled it better than you did."

"What…" muttered Preston.

"Honestly I heard word that it turned many of the guests into wooden statures and brought our family's trophy's to life." Said Nathan, "All because you refer used to let common people in."

"What was I supposed to do!" yelled Preston.

"Let them in for at least one time." Muttered Nathan, "Durring my travels I learned that even the common man has some use! Do you know much help they were in my hunts, multiple times I found myself in danger they and they saved my life! I would have let in the people! At least to celebrate 150 years of our family's greatness!"

Nathan took a breath and calm down.

"No that's not why I'm angry with you…" said Nathan.

"Oh so the layout spare is angry." Said Preston.

"What did you call me." Said Nathan.

"Lay about spare!" mocked Preston.

"I am not a lay about spare!" yelled Nathan, "My hunts had brought money to the family name… unlike you who lost in some sort of weird stock market scheme that caused you to sell the family mansion to crazed hillbilly!"

"If you knew what was going on at that time!" yelled Preston.

"Well you know what! You won't tell me!" yelled Nathan, "I'm guessing you're too embarrassed!"

Preston "I'm legally not allowed to say why." He muttered.

Nathan laughed, "Oh that story again! You honestly think I'd believe that it's illegal for you talk about your embarrassment?" his tone however quickly changed, "You're nothing but failure and a disgrace to the family name. I'll never know why mother and father left the mansion to you!"

Preston grew more and more angry.

"We're leaving." Said Preston.

"Good!" yelled Nathan.

Preston left Pricilla and Pacifica were going to follow. But Nathan briefly stopped them.

"Pricilla it was good seeing you again. And Pacifica I'd like to hear more about your guild adventures." Said Nathan.

Before she could answer.

"I am forbidding you from coming back here!" yelled Preston from down the hall

"I'm 19! I haven't lived with you in almost two years!" yelled Pacifica she sighed and turned to her uncle, "I'll think about it."

She and her mother left.

"Are you really?" whispered Pricilla.

"Maybe with Lucy or another one of the girls." Sighed Pacifica, "I am not going into that bathroom alone."

"I'll just take your word for it." Said Pricilla.

Pacifica sighed.

Back in the cave they continued to fight off the Frog Bats.

"Look! If we leave would you stop attack us!" yelled Ford creating some shields.

The Frog bats all looked at Ford and seemed to sigh.

"Looks like they're stopping." Said Dipper.

"That was a bit anti-climatic." Said Wendy.

"You still want to fight these things?" asked Dipper.

"Nope." Said Wendy.

They left the cave when the call card activated.

"Hey… we have good news and bad news." Said Lucy from the call card.

"What?" asked Ford.

"The good news we might have a reason for the bats attacking. A sound." Said Lucy.

"A sound?" asked Ford.

"Yeah. It seems to be driving Natsu nuts." Said Lucy.

"ALL RIGHT! I WIN! NOW I CAN DESTROY THAT SOUND!" they heard Natsu yell.

"He's kind of gone nuts…" said Lucy on the other end.

"Kind of…" said Gray on the other end.

"That's the bad news…" said Dipper.

"No the bad news seems to be Natsu wanting to fight everything." Sighed Lucy on the other end.

"Who wants to fight me now!" yelled Natsu.

"Come over here Natsu and I'm sure Mabel will fight you." Said Ford.

"I'm up for it!" said Mabel.

"ALL RIGHT!" yelled Natsu on the other end, "I'm all fired up!"

He ran towards the sounds, which was just outside of the cave and got there in less than a minute.

He went into one of the nearby trees.

"I found it!" yelled Natsu.

He jumped out of the tree.

"And now to destroy this thing!" he yelled.

"Solid Script Silent!" yelled Dipper hitting the thing he was holding.

Natsu blinked.

"Hey the sound stopped." He said.

"What is it?" asked Lisanna.

"It looks like a camera." Said Wendy.

"Hey!" called out Lucy.

Turned out Gray and made a cart that Elfman pulled

Ford started to analyze the camera with his magic.

"It's giving off a frequency that I'm guessing is what is driving Natsu and the bats to act this way." Said Ford, "It's clear it's malfunctioning."

"Why is there a camera right outside the cave?" asked Dipper.

"Must be someone making a documentary about Gravity Falls or something." Said Gray.

"PR trying to prove the rumors about the weirdness." Said Lucy.

"So can I?" asked Natsu.

Ford nodded.

Natsu smashed the camera.

"What do we do about the bats?" asked Dipper.

"Once everything calms down it should be fine." Said Ford, "Wait… was that the only camera?"

"Seems that way." Said Natsu with a shrug.

Hours later the teams sent to deal with the mess returned to the guildhall, to find Pacifica sitting at the bar drinking a milkshake.

"So how was dinner?" asked Lucy.

"Didn't get dessert. I understand why dad never wants to talk about them. They hate each other." Said Pacifica.

"Well that's family." Sighed Lucy, "Besides the fighting how was it."

Pacifica groaned.

"Every room seemed to be trophy room… even the bathroom." Said Pacifica with a shudder.

Lucy patted Pacifica's back.

"I don't know what to think about him though." Said Pacifica, "He seemed nice... but I don't know… there's something off about the way he talking about my guild work."

"That's weird." Said Lucy.

"Yeah…" said Pacifica.

That night at Nathan's mansion, he was watching the news.

"Reports have come in that a malfunction camera was the cause for the bats rampage. The camera was destroyed and the bats seemed to have calmed down." Said Shandra.

Nathan sighed and turned off the TV.

He got up and walked to another room, inside were various computers and one of his servants was at one just showing static.

"I'm the sorry to report that whatever was causing the noise also cased other parts to malfunction too." Said the servant.

"So there's no video of the ones who found it." Said Nathan.

"No I'm sorry." Said the servant.

"Damn it…" muttered Nathan, "Who ever found the camera might be on to us…"

"Sir your ship has arrived." Said a maid entering the room.

"Very well… put them in the Weirdness Hall." Said Nathan.

The maid nodded and Nathan went to enter the a room that didn't have any trophies however men with boxes entered the room.

They opened the boxes revealing various creatures from Gravity Falls, including a Question Mark Quail, an Exclamation Parakeet and a Hawktopus.

"So I heard something went horribly wrong with the bat?" asked one of his servants helping him decorate.

"Yes… but I will find more creatures." Said Nathan with a smirk, "The weirdness hunts won't end because of one failure."

And indeed the one who caused the chaos with the bats. But neither him or Fairy Tail knows that the other was the enemy. And who knew what will happen in the future. Especially with what other hints that Nathan has in mind.

Next Time: Leader of the Legion Platoon steps up to steal the clock hands. However Erza knows she has to fight him. Thanks to a magic object will they finally get away with the Clock Piece or will the TSA still save the say... and will that last part ever not sound weird? Find out next time!