Chapter 2: Danny and Wendy's First Date Part 2
For those of you readers a bit curious I decided spilt the first date into two chapters because I felt that putting both of them into one chapter would have been too long. Anyway enjoy Chapter 2.
As the two teens left the diner and both Danny and Wendy continued to talk, mainly about the urban legends of Gravity Falls.
"Man and I thought my home town was full of superstitious and paranormal paranoia." Said Danny.
"It's not paranoia if it's true. I've seen ghosts and all sorts around here." responded Wendy.
"Ghosts?" Said Danny nervously.
"Yeah…Gravity Falls, what it lacks fun places and decent establishments, it makes up for in weird and creepy mysteries… like this one time, me, my friends, and my ex Robbie spent the night at an old convenience store that was being haunted by its old owners that hate teenagers." said Wendy, "We would have been toast until Dipper managed to get them to spare us. He fancies himself as a junior paranormal investigator and he figured out how to beat them."
Danny paused for a moment and then said, "So how did he convince them to spare you guys?"
Wendy paused for a moment as well, promising Dipper not to tell anyone about how he really defeat the two ghosts by dancing in a cute lamb costume. So she said, "Uh…he beat them up with a baseball bat."
Danny just shrugged figuring that's all she was going to say.
"Wanna see the cool spots of this town?" Said Wendy wanting to change the subject.
"Sure." Said Danny as he was curious what this town that can rival Amity Park in terms of weirdness.
As the two started walking they went by the cemetery and Wendy saw the last person she wanted see moping as usual, Robbie. She saw him earlier today with some goth girl who for some reason reminded her that blue hooded girl from the Teen Titans, (Wendy never really followed supers that much though she appreciated the noble deeds they did) apparently Robbie's date today didn't go so well. Danny didn't seem to notice Wendy looking at Robbie so she decided to ignore her ex and continue on with her current date.
After Wendy had shown Danny a couple sites such as Gideon's Tent and the local mall that she decided to take Danny to the Mystery Shack where she worked at. The walk took them about a half hour out of town in the forest surrounding the town usually walking past a sign to advertise the place.
"Wendy, I want apologizes for any rude behavior." Said Danny.
"You weren't rude. Why do you say that?" Said Wendy.
"My last date, Vicky, was a gold digger who ditched me once she found out I wasn't rich in the middle of the date and I later found out that she likes to beat up kids."
"Well, this Vicky sounds like she is a total jerk."
"I took a video of her bullying those kids and had a friend download the video online anonymously."
"Nice dude." Said Wendy, in her mind this Vicky reminded her of Robbie.
The two finally arrived at the Mystery Shack. Danny could already tell from first glance that this was a tourist trap especially with the tilted down S making sign look like Mystery hack, creating a sorta truth from the sign. They both walked inside to see a gift shop with various of stuff from knick knacks to postcards of the state and the room also had at the moment a couple of tourists.
Then a man wearing a suit, a fez and an eyepatch over his glasses appeared, who Danny assumed to be Stan based on how Wendy described him.
"Welcome to the Mystery Shack!" Said Stan, "May I introduce you to some… Oh, hey Wendy see ya got another boyfriend with ya, hopefully this one doesn't wreck the gift shop like the last one you had yesterday."
"Stan, Ron apologized for accidentally damaging your gift shop." Said Wendy trying to defend her previous date, "Anyway this is Danny Fenton from Amity Park. Danny this is Stan Pines, my boss and owner of the Mystery Shack."
Stan grunted and then said, "Amity Park huh, hear that's the town where all that ghost stuff happens. Do you have any spooky stuff that I can buy from you that could increase the amount of costumers I get? Also how about a tour of the Mystery Shack that will cost $30 each and after the tour why don't you buy something from the gift shop."
Danny knew after that that all this guy cared about was money under the showmanship facade and then said, "No for both the tour and to sell you "spooky stuff". Besides your tour sounds like a ripoff."
"Why you little…" Said Stan but Wendy interrupted him.
"Stan, please there are other people you can get money from." Said Wendy.
"Well at least he's not that Tenorman kid." Muttered Stan as he walked to a large family that just entered the gift shop, hoping to get some money out of them instead.
Danny and Wendy then walked out of the Mystery Shack, Danny in particular not wanting to deal with Stan anymore.
"Sorry about Stan." Said Wendy, "I know it seems at first that all he cares about is money but he does have a heart underneath all that greed."
"It's alright." Said Danny, "Besides I've dealt with worse."
Wendy continued to show Danny more sites and also meeting Wendy's friends Nate, Lee, Tambry, and Thompson who Danny thought that they were alright. They were currently at the local Lake where Wendy told about the rumors of a local monster that lived in the lake.
"So there's really a monster in this lake called Gobblewonker? To me that name sounds more like a type of hard candy than a lake monster." Said Danny.
"It is real. Well, kinda dude." The voice came from a large overweight man with buck teeth. "Hey Wendy."
"Hey Soos." Said Wendy, "Danny this is Soos, my friend and coworker. Soos this is Danny my current date. He's from Amity Park."
"Pleased to meet you Soos." Greeted Danny as he shake Soos's hand, "So what do you mean about Gobblewonker being kinda real?"
"Well dude, Dipper and Mabel, you know who those two are right dude?" Said Soos.
Danny nodded.
"Anyway dude, they wanted win money for a monster photo contest. So they decided to catch a photo of Gobblewonker and I decided to help them out by bringing out my family boat. We eventually found the monster, but the large beast gave us the chase. We went inside a large cave and the monster got stuck at the cavern entrance. Then Dipper took photos of the creature with his camera. Only it turned out that the monster was some sort of robot ship thing controlled by Old Man McGucket. He said he design just so he get some attention." Said Soos.
Danny looked towards Wendy and said, "You told me he was harmless."
"Mostly." Said Wendy.
Danny thought to himself to never get on McGucket's bad side.
"Anyway dude, after that we decided to go fishing with Mr. Pines." Continued Soos.
"What did you do with McGucket?" Asked Danny.
"Oh, we just let him be." Said Soos.
Danny wondered wether that was wise move or not.
Soos continued to tell his stories about the adventures with the Pines twins in Gravity Falls, including the time where they met the Summerween Trickster, the time where they alongside Stan and McGucket rescued Mabel's pet pig Waddles from a pterodactyl nest, and the time when nearly everyone swapped bodies due a electric carpet.
"Well those stories are interesting." Said Danny enjoy the stories and believing them due to having seen it all, although he curious on how two twelve year olds were not traumatized by those adventures.
"Yeah dude, so any way you're from Amity Park right. It's that town with the ghost superhero, right dude?" Said Soos.
"Yeah." Said Danny.
"Do you have any stories about him to tell to us?" Said Soos.
Danny told them about some the fights he'd "seen" with the Ghost Boy and the evil spirits of the Ghost Zone, including the times when school lunch has been interrupted by the Lunch Lady, the hunt's of Skulker, and the cardboard "menace" of the Box Ghost.
"Well, those were some really interesting stories, dude." Said Soos. He then looked at his watch, "Gotta go, later dudes."
Both Danny and Wendy waved goodbye as Soos left. Danny then decided to look on his phone to check the time.
"Man, I have to go now." Said Danny.
"Already" Said Wendy.
"Yeah, Wendy, I got to get going now before I'm late for curfew."
"Don't worry, I get it, let me at least walk you to the bus station."
The two arrived at the bus station 15 minutes later.
"Here we are." Wendy said upon arrival.
"Thanks Wendy." Said Danny.
As the two began to wait for bus they began talking.
"Anyway Wendy, thanks for showing me a good time today." Said Danny.
"Any time."
"No I mean. Thanks for being cool with me all day, after the horrible date from yesterday, I needed hanging out with somebody…" Danny paused not knowing what word to say next.
"Laid back?" Suggested Wendy.
"I was gonna say cool, but okay." Said Danny, making her laugh.
"No problem Danny and thanks for showing me a good time today."
"It was my pleasure."
"Also, thanks for being cool with Dipper. My ex Robbie was a real jerk to him."
"No offense, but your ex sounds like a real jerk." Said Danny.
"No offense taken since he was." Said Wendy.
"Hey it wasn't hard, Dipper kind of reminds me a bit of me at his age." Said Danny.
"Well thanks." Said Wendy as bus arrived.
Wendy then gave Danny a small peck on the check as well placing a note with her phone number and the words call me that she wrote while Danny and Soos were telling their stories.
"See ya around, Danny." Said Wendy.
"See ya." Said a still blushing Danny who was distracted until the bus driver honked his horn.
After Danny got on the bus Wendy thought of how wonderful the date was and defiantly give the date a rating of 10/10 on the service forum once she got home.
For those of you curious about who Wendy's other dates were here's the list so far.
Peter Parker aka Spider-Man = Marvel
Ron Stoppable = Kim Possible
James William Bottomtooth IV = Family Guy
Scott Tenorman = South Park
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Next time on Danny and Wendy: He said Yes
