Chapter 7: Get Your Dance On!
Stan realized that the "Kids these days" weren't coming to the shack. So he decided to hold a party for them.
"If those kids want fun, I'll smother them in fun!" said Stan.
"Maybe it's saying things like that is what makes them stay away." Said Dipper.
"Go make yourself useful and make copies of the flier." Said Stan.
"Oh a trip to the copier store." Said Soos, "Mugs, t-shirts, calendars and more they have it all at the copier store… it's not their motto, I just love it that much."
"The one in my office works just fine… just be a little careful… it's secondhand if you know what I mean." Said Stan.
Dipper blinked knowing it meant "It belonged to my brother so it has freaky properties."
He copied the fliers just as Stan assigned jobs. Soos got to be DJ.
"Okay, Mabel Wendy, I need you to take the ticket booth." Said Stan.
"Are you sure that's a good idea, it's outside, but if Mabel attracts a sudden downpour." Said Soos, "Same with Dipper."
Stan was about to argue, but the rumor of the whole cold water attraction seem to make sense.
He grumbled.
"You two get the night off, but you have to watch over the party in my place." Said Stan.
"All right." Said Dipper.
"Yes!" cheered Mabel.
Later as they got ready fro the party. Dipper sighed.
"What's wrong" asked Mabel.
"I wanted to dance with Wendy tonight, it was going to be perfect." Said Dipper.
"Was it one of the complicated listy things?" asked Mabel.
"My lists are never complicated." Said Dipper.
He took out a really big list.
"Step 1 would have been…" said Dipper.
Mabel sighed, "Just talk to her like a normal person, you don't know what lists like that do to people."
"What would you know." Said Dipper.
"I recently saw this show where the main character went crazy because she's allays overly prepared for something. It was one of the scarier episodes too!" said Mabel.
"What the show?" asked Dipper.
"That's not important." Said Mabel.
"What's the show." Dipper said again more firmly.
"My Little Pony Friendship is Magic." Said Mabel.
She took out her phone.
"But this was the face she made after she went off the deep end." Said Mabel.
She took out her phone showing him the face.
Dipper stared at the picture.
"Is this seriously from the show." Said Dipper.
Mabel nodded.
"Just put the list away." Sad Mabel, "And hopefully Wendy will ditch Stan and you can talk to her like a normal person."
"That's Step 9." Said Dipper.
Mabel stared at it.
"I'm taking that list!" said Mabel grabbing the list from Dipper, "There's only one thing you should worry about!"
"Which is…" said Dipper.
"Cold water." Said Mabel.
Dipper blinked.
"And besides Wendy seen you as a girl plenty of times." Said Mabel, "Can't you have one night where you're not overly prepared for something?"
Dipper looked nervous.
"Fine but you owe me if something goes wrong that nothing to do with cold water." Said Dipper.
"Agreed!" said Mabel.
And so the party was in full swing.
Mabel was dancing big time, but Dipper basically sat near the chairs waiting for Wendy to ditch Stan.
Some popular girls watching Mabel dance.
"Look at that loser." Said one of the girls.
"What is she wearing?" asked another.
But Mabel didn't listen, plus it was really loud.
However one of the popular girls seemed to be paying more attention to Mabel than Dipper.
"Hey!" said one of the girls.
The one staring at Dipper snapped out of it.
"Why are you looking at the loser?" asked the girls.
"No reason…" said the one who was staring at Dipper.
Mabel decided to take a break form dancing that when she sat down she sat next to two girls, one was a girl of Asian decent while the other was a large girl with a lizard on her shoulder.
"Whoa you have an animal"! said Mabel, then she noticed that the Asian girl had forks taped to her fingers, "Why do you have forks?"
She used the fork to eat some popcorn.
"Improvement of human being." Said the girl.
"I found my people!" said Mabel.
"I'm Grenda and this is Candy." Said the large girl.
"I'm Mabel, my uncle owns the place." Said Mabel, "Also I turn into a uniron sometimes."
"Really?" asked Candy.
"Oh yeah!" said Mabel.
"How?" asked Grenda.
"Jusenkyo Curse." Said Mabel.
"Of course." Said Candy.
"Still cool!" said Grenda.
That was when Soos made an announcement.
"Remember!" said Soos who took out a book, "Whoever parties the most hardiest… what… anyway… wins the party crown!"
He held up a toy crown.
"Wow!" said Candy and Grenda.
That was when the girl who was staring at Dipper walked over to Soos.
"Party Crown, hand it over." She said.
Both Mabel and Dipper saw this. Their eyes widened.
The girls was Pacifica Northwest.
Or as they knew her, Kitsu…
The girl who was cursed to into a Kitsune.
"Who is that?" asked Mabel.
"That's Pacifica Northwest, the most popular girl in town.," said Candy.
"She always makes us feel bad." Said Grenda.
"Sorry I can't this is a competition." Said Soos back at the booth.
"Who's going to compete against me." Said Pacifica grabbing the mike, "Lizard lady, fork girl?"
Both Candy and Grenda looked hurt.
Mabel got a determined look in her eye.
She went up to the booth.
"I'm going to compete!" said Mabel.
"You! You have an old fat lady name!" said Pacifica, "I mean what kind of kid is named Mabel."
Mabel looked at her.
She was planning to pretend not to know her as per their deal.
"How do you even know my name?" asked Mabel, "
Pacifica blinked then face palmed.
Dipper was watching this trying not to laugh.
"Look! It doesn't matter how I know your name, I will win!" said Pacifica.
"Okay!" said Mabel.
Pacifica walked away sighing. She noticed Dipper who was trying not to laugh.
"All right! We have a competition!" called out Soos.
Outside Wendy and Stan were taking tickets, Wendy heard that the party was getting into full swing.
"Hey Stan I have to use the bathroom, I'll be back soon." She said.
She ran off to join the party.
"You know she's not coming back." Said some random person in in line.
Stan's eye twitched when the person said that.
Back inside Wendy waved at Dipper who waved back.
Dipper sighed, remembering what Mabel said.
He headed over but Pacifica grabbed his arm.
"What?" asked Dipper.
"I want to dance with you." Muttered Pacifica, "I've never met you so I have no idea if you're a loser or not."
"Is that really a good way to put it?" asked Dipper.
She dragged him onto the dace float. The danced as they did.
"I thought you were going to pretend not to know me." Said Dipper.
"That's what I'm doing." Said Pacifica.
"It doesn't seem like it." Said Dipper.
Pacifica blushed.
"Why did you want to dance anyway?" asked Dipper.
"I just did okay." Said Pacifica blushing a bit.
"Okay…" said Dipper.
Once the song was done Dipper left her to talk with Wendy.
"Wow… aren't you the lady killer." Said Wendy, "How did you mange to get that dance."
"She wanted to dance with me for some reason." Said Dipper.
"But the way you remember Robbie, right?" asked Wendy.
It turned out Wendy was talking to Robbie.
"You remember Dipper from the convince store, right?" asked Wendy.
"No." answered Robbie.
Dipper and Wendy looked at Robbie.
Dipper wasn't sure if it was Robbie being a jerk or as Wendy put it.
"Have you went to the doctors after that incident?" asked Wendy.
"No…" said Robbie.
Wendy sighed.
"By the way have you seen my new guitar?" asked Robbie.
"Go sit down Robbie." Sighed Wendy, "You still haven't recovered from getting hit by the cash register."
Robbie blushed when she said that.
Wendy still stared at him and he sighed.
Robbie grumbled then walked to a couch.
"So… what's going on with Mabel and Pacifica?" asked Wendy.
"They're competing for the party crown." Said Dipper, "So who is Pacifica?"
"The richest girl in town, her family even founded the town." Said Wendy.
"Really?" asked Dipper surprised.
"Yeah, she's like crazy rich." Said Wendy.
Dipper looked Pacifica dancing, wondering why she would do something like go into the forest and pretend to be a normal fox.
Though the reason why kept the curse a secret made some sense now.
A rich girl trying to keep her reputation.
Back outside, Stan was taking tickets.
"What did they not allow you in because you're old?" asked a girl as she paid.
"I own the place." Said Stan.
"It's probably because you're old." Said the girl.
Stan groaned this was seriously going to be a long night.
Back in the party it was a signing portion. Pacifica went first and she ended up break plastic with her voice.
"I used to sing like that until my voice changed." Said Grenda.
"Try to top that." Said Pacifica with a smirk, "By the way Grenda you sound like a wrestler."
"I want to put her in a headlock and make her feel pain!" yelled Grenda.
Mabel took the stage.
"All right Soos! Play the 80ist crowd pleaseintst song there is!" yelled Mabel.
She sang "Don't Start Unbelieving" Of course the crowd loved it.
Pacifica watched and sighed.
She really wasn't sure how to take it.
She did enjoy the day in the forest (Well minus the part of being changed back by those strange wolves), but she also had a reputation to uphold.
"I have to keep my reputation… I'm a Northwest and we don't lose." Thought Pacifica.
Pacifica took a breath and went to the snack table to get some punch.
At the same time Dipper went to get some punch for Wendy.
"How is your sister beating me!" muttered Pacifica.
"Do you really have to ask?" said Dipper.
Pacifica slammed her fist on the on snack table sending the punched at the two of them.
"Seriously…" said Ursa.
She noticed the pile of clothes, that was when Kitsu appeared from the clothes, filling them out.
"Oh right, can't make myself blonde." She muttered.
She stole Ursa's hat, and tucked her hair in.
"Cover me so no sees the tail." Said Kitsu, "Do it and I'll give you back your hat."
"Come on!" muttered Ursa.
Ursa noticed the tail still stuck out and sighed, knowing if she ever wanted her hat back she would have to listen.
Besides she needed to change back too.
They both went to the kitchen and got to the emergency thermoses. Both of them used them and turned back
""Why do you even hide you have a curse." Said Dipper taking back his ha/
"You wouldn't understand." Said Pacifica.
"I don't …" said Dipper, "Because face it you probably have the best curse. You can talk, you can look human, you have powers, you don't switch genders, you don't have any weird addictions."
"Addictions?" asked Practice.
"Don't ask." Said Dipper.
She stared at him then remember Soos' picnic basket problem was well known.
"Why do you want to hide it?" asked Dipper.
"Like I said of wouldn't understand! Okay." Said Pacifica, "Besides you're not the first person to tell me that."
Dipper looked at her.
(Flashback)
A very young Pacifica managed to escape the house that day, she found herself at Jusenkyo.
"What is this place." Said Pacifica.
She looked around.
"Hey kid don't go near those pools!" yelled a voice.
Pacifica turned around and lost her balance and fell into one of the springs.
"Oh man…" muttered the guy, "Why did I even take this job again…"
(Cuts out of Flashback)
"Wait… he didn't swear at you?" asked Dipper.
"No… it was his first month on the job so he hadn't become jaded yet." Said Pacifica.
"Oh…" said Dipper.
(Cuts back to flashback)
A small fox kit emerged from the surface.
"Oh… man…" sighed the guy.
"What happened?" asked the newly cursed Pacifica.
The guy breathed a sigh of relief.
He picked her up.
"I'll take you my house, the pool skimmer is there... too so I'll get your clothes a bit later." He said, "On the bright since you can talk you don't have a bad one."
He brought her to the house.
"Do you think you can stay here for a few minutes." Said the guy.
He took out a pool skimmer and a few minutes later he came back with her clothes.
"We need to let them dry. There's some shirts you can use." He said.
"But I'm a fox now, what do I need clothes for." Said the newly cursed Pacifica.
"I'll show you soon." Said the guy.
He lent her one his shirt, she got in, then he poured warm water on her turning her back.
"According to what I read you fell in Spring of Drowned Kitsune." Said the guy.
"Kitsune?" asked Pacifica.
He nodded, "It's one the better springs." He said.
"Why?" asked Pacifica.
"Well as you can see you can talk, but you have powers of illusions, fire and shape shifting! IT might be officially a curse, but you got lucky." Said the guy.
"Oh wow…" said Pacifica her eyes were sparkling.
(End of Flashback)
"But why do you keep it a secret?" asked Dipper.
"I said you wouldn't understand." Muttered Pacifica.
Dipper sighed.
"However…" said Pacifica.
Dipper looked up.
"You and your sister are keeping a huge secret." Said Picric, "So in exchange…"
She began to blush.
"I'm helping you find that book." Said Pacifica.
"What?" asked Dipper.
"I said I'm going to help you find that book." Said Pacifica, "Of course I'm going to be Kitsu when I do it."
"You don't have to. "said Dipper.
"I insist." Said Pacifica.
Both of them left the room, Pacifica nearly panicked as they walked by a skunk dragging clothes on their way to the kitchen.
"hey Thompson." Said Dipper casually.
Skunk-Thompson gave a nod.
Meanwhile Stan was outside.
"Oh man I have to go use the bathroom." He thought.
He saw the long line of people.
His eye twitched at them.
"Maybe they're thin out soon and I can take a break." He thought.
He was going to be there for a long time.
Back inside Dipper found Wendy.
"hey… sorry about the punch…" said Dipper, "Got wet…"
"It's cool." Said Wendy, "Why did Pacifica steal your hat."
"You don't want to know." Said Dipper.
That was when Soos decided to bring it down.
"Oh man I love this song!" said Wendy.
Dipper noticed Mabel motion towards Wendy, he sighed and decided to ask.
"Hey, Wendy, you want to dance?" asked Dipper.
"Sure…" said Wendy with a shrug.
The light shined on top of Dipper.
"I should have listen to Mabel a long time ago…" he thought.
"Dude you okay?" asked Wendy.
"Oh yeah… I'm fine.: said Dipper blushing.
The two stepped onto the dance floor and danced.
Dipper noticed Robbie glaring at him, and tired to ignore him as best he could.
However Robbie pretty much sat alone in a corner as no one wanted to talk to him due to his possible head injury.
Meanwhile Wendy noticed Pacifica glaring at her while they danced.
"Why is she glaring at me?" thought Wendy.
She shrugged and continued dancing with Dipper.
Outside Stan's leg twitched.
"Hey you okay?" asked a Girl.
"I'm fine…" said Stan, "Just waiting for a good chance…"
The girl bit her tongue, "Well whatever you do don't think about rain!"
She went into join the party.
Stan blinked, "Oh crap." He said.
As the night went on the competition got intense.
And soon it was time to announce the winner.
"I'd like to say whoever wins it was a fun night." Said Mabel.
Pacifica bit her lip, she was a bit torn.
"Come on we can be friends after this right?" asked Mabel.
Pacifica's eye twitched.
"I'll think about it." She said, pretty sure that Dipper would tell her about the deal soon.
"All time to vote!" said Soos, "All for Mabel."
The crowd cheer loudly with Dipper and Wendy as the loudest.
"All for Pacifica." Said Soos.
The crowd cheered just as loud.
Pacifica sighed, she was really torn.
Part of her wanted to bow out.
Part of her wanted to bribe a sleeping old man into cheering.
A third part of her told to her "Don't lose to anyone"
And it was thanks to that third part had she did bribe the sleeping old man into cheering.
"The winner is Pacifica." Sighed Soos.
Pacifica took the crown.
"Thank you Jorge… after party on my yacht." She said.
The crowd cheered and most everyone lifted Pacifica and left the party.
As they did she noticed Dipper glaring at her.
She looked down.
She began to feel guilty.
Once everyone was gone Mabel looked at Candy and Grenda who reminded.
"Sorry I let you down, if you want you can leave." Said Mabel.
"But we would miss the sleep over." Said Candy.
"What?" asked Mabel.
"We want to call our moms and sleep over tonight!" said Grenda, "You're like a rock star!"
"Really?" asked Mabel.
The tow smiled at Mabel making her happy.
That was when there was a yell from outside "Finally"
Of course it was Stan, but no one paid action to that.
"All right! Soos we're taking this party all night!" cheered Mabel.
And so although Pacifica won (and cheated) it was clear that Mabel's new friends were going to stand by her.
And Dipper managed to score a dance with Wendy (plus a couple more during the after party)
However little did Dipper and Mabel know that night was far more important than it seemed thanks to the friendships they made that night…
Next Time: Pacifica joins Dipper and Mabel in searching for the Journal... however Dipper forget to tell Mabel... and Mabel forgets to tell Dipper she invited Candy and Grenda. What will happen? Find out next time!