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Anyways this is the chapter establishes well, the main characters in a sense... I hope you enjoy the story...
Chapter 8: The Fellowship of the Journal
Dipper was reading the Journal trying to find clues about the whereabouts of the 2nd Journal. However as he did the phone rang.
"Dipper it's for you!" yelled Stan, "Some girl named Kitsu."
Dipper sighed and got up to get the phone.
"Hello." He muttered.
"Hey… I was wondering when you were going to search for that book next time." Said Pacifica on the other end.
"Seriously have that stunt you pulled at the party." Said Dipper.
"Look I owe you okay." Said Pacifica on the other end.
"Seriously?" asked Dipper.
"You need help finding your book don't you and you know my secret." Said Pacifica, "I'm sure your sister might forgive me."
Dipper sighed.
"Fine." He uttered.
They worked out the details and once they were done he hung up the phone.
"I guess I should tell Mabel about it." He sighed.
He went up to their room… that was when he found something wrong…
Candy and Grenda were there and Mabel was May Belle.
Now Grenda brushing her mane was natural.
No it was what Candy was doing.
It looked like she was going to lick May Belle's neck.
"It's not what it looks like." Said May Belle.
Dipper began to slowly back out of the room completely forgetting to tell her about Pacifica joining the next search for the journal.
"Okay that was awkward." Said May Belle.
"Can I still see if the stories are true?" asked Candy.
"OF course!" said May Belle.
Candy heard stories if you lick as unicorn's neck it tastes like your favorite flavor.
However as it turns out this conversation eventually happened.
"So you're trying to find a journal?" asked Grenda.
"Yeah, we don't know where it is, but there's a chance it might have a cure for Jusenkyo in it." Said Mabel hiding the other reason to find.
"I thought you didn't want a cure." Said Candy.
"I don't, but it's for people who do, like Dipper and Soos." Said Mabel.
The two nodded.
"Do you think we can help." Said Grenda.
"Sure! I'm sure Dipper will be okay with it." Said Mabel.
"All right!" said Grenda.
"I'll come up with plans." Said Candy.
Turns out Mabel would forget to tell Dipper about it.
And so the next day they decided to go find the journal came.
Both of them waited, that was when both of them realized.
"I forgot to tell Mabel!" thought Dipper.
"I forgot to tell Dipper!" thought Mabel.
That was when Kitsu showed up.
"Hey Dipper, hey Mabel." Said Kitsu.
"You're here?" asked Mabel surprised.
"You didn't tell her." Said Kitsu looking at Dipper.
"I was going to… but then… I saw something weird." Said Dipper.
"I keep telling you! Candy told me if you lick a unicorn's neck it tastes like your favorite flavor." Said Mabel.
Kitsu got really weirded out.
"I can see why you forgot to tell her." Said Kitsu.
"You don't mind?" asked Dipper.
"No… what happened at the party is all water under the bridge." Said Mabel.
"Good." Sighed Kitsu.
"But… I forgot to tell Dipper something too." Said Mabel, "If I knew you were coming I wouldn't have invited them."
"What?" asked Dipper.
"Oh no… you didn't." said Kitsu realizing something.
"Hey!" yelled out Grenda and Candy as they showed up.
Kitsu jumped up.
"Hey guys, this is Kitsu, she's helping us too." Said Mabel.
"You kind of look like Pacifica Northwest." Said Grenda.
"Expect for red hair and that tail." Said Candy.
"I'm a Kitsune, I just happened to like looking and sounding like her." Said Kitsu.
"Um. Okay…" said Grenda.
"Let's just search." Said Kitsu.
She looked at Dipper.
"She was trying to lick her neck." Whispered dipper.
"I know, I know." Sighed Kitsu.
Mabel laughed nervously.
Dipper pulled out map of where they were going to search.
"All right the red Xs are the area of where we already searched but haven't found it yet." Said Dipper.
"So you think it might be around here?" asked Candy.
"We have no idea." Said Dipper.
"Let's go see if it's here!" cheered Mabel.
As they searched, Candy decided to asked this, "So what kind of abilities does a Kitsune have?"
"I can create illusions transform and create fire." Said Kitsu.
"So how did you meet Dipper and Mabel?" asked Grenda.
"Met them in the forest." Said Kitsu, "Doing the same thing, found a way to get into contact with Dipper."
"That's cool." Said Grenda.
"So does a unicorn's neck does taste like your favorite flavor?" said Kitsu trying not to laugh.
"I don't want to know…" muttered Dipper.
This just made the girls laugh.
"It's not funny from my perspective." Said Dipper.
After trying to find some suspicious looking patches that might be hiding under something.
"So you been looking under rocks and area where the ground seems uneven in some way?" asked Candy.
"Yeah." Said Dipper, "The last resort is me turning on my curse and using that to find it."
Candy nodded.
They all stared at Kitsu's food, which looked really deicloius… and fancy.
"Where did you get that food?" asked Grenda.
"IT looks so good." Said Candy.
"I stole it." Said Kitsu.
She looked at the twins, Mabel trying not to laugh, Dipper just mouthed "Why did you bring that food."
Kitsu blushed when he did that.
Once they were done eating the twins breathed a sigh of relief.
"Why?" asked Grenda.
"There's a lot of strange animals out here, I'm guessing thanks to one of their searches they showed up because of the smell of their food." Said Kitsu.
And so they continued their search once the stomachs settled.
Dipper found some rocks that looked like it could be a good spot.
He tried lifting them but was having trouble.
"Let me"! said Grenda.
Grenda lifted the rock without even trying.
"Thanks." Said Dipper.
That was when something came out of the rock. It was a strange monster with tentacles that got bigger.
Dipper took out his journal.
"Inflate-apus…" read Dipper, "Weakness… sharp things fire."
Kitsu sent out fire at the Inflate-apus. Immediately shivering it up.
However even more showed up.
"However if one is defeated then other nearby one show up in droves." Read Dipper.
"Yo should have mentioned that earlier!" yelled Kitsu.
"Get me some cold water!" yelled Mabel.
Dipper handed her one of the bottles and splashed him self as well.
Grenda found a very large branch that was sharp.
"All right! Let's do this!" said May Belle.
As they fought, it seemed there's no end to them, the more they took down the more showed up.
Candy seemed to notice this this. She took out a pen and paper from her bag and began to make some calculations.
"Dipper, if you take out of the one your left and move the root to the left of it, you'll take out at least 10 more." Said Candy.
Ursa nodded and tried that. Turns out she need up whipping a good chunk of the Inflate-api.
"All right! Kitsu! Aim for the one behind May Belle." Said Candy.
She noticed one that was right behind May Belle and hit it, turns out the left over fire shivered a couple others.
"All right Grenda threw the branch!" called out Candy.
Grenda did so impaling a good chunk of them.
Only a few remained and May Belle was a to stab them with her horn.
"Looks like they're all gone." Said Ursa, "That was amazing."
Candy blushed a little.
"Shouldn't you check the area." Said May Belle.
"Oh right." Said Ursa.
After about a minute.
"Not in this part." Sighed Ursa taking out a thermos.
Candy helped May Belle turn back to normal while Kitsu crossed out the part of the forest they were in on the map.
"Hopefully we'll find it soon." Said Mabel.
"Yeah!" yelled Grenda punching the air, almost hitting Ursa.
However she did end up hitting the thermos.
Which thanks to the luck of Jusenkyo went flying to Kitsu.
"You have got to be kidding me." She muttered.
The hot water hit, turning her back to Pacifica. Who of course was naked.
"Dipper!" she cried out.
Thankfully a bush already covered her with Ursa blushing bright red.
Both Candy and Grenda stared Pacifica.
"Look like the jig is up." Sighed Ursa.
After turned Ursa back and activated Pacifica's curse, they all sat down to talk.
"What do you want to keep this a secret… I'll pay or do anything…" said Kitsu
"You're serious?" asked Grenda.
"No one can know I have a curse." Said Kitsu
"What about Dipper and Mabel?" asked Candy.
"She helping us find the journal as payment for keeping our mouths shut." Said Dipper.
The two girls began to whisper to each other about their payment.
"All right, we want the same thing." Said Candy.
"Which is?" asked Kitsu.
"You have to be nicer to use in public." Said Grenda.
"What?" asked Kitsu
"You were actually pretty nice when we didn't know you were Pacifica." Said Grenda.
Kitsu tried to respond but couldn't find her words.
"Fine, but if I'm with my friends expect some insults." Said Kitsu.
"Fine." Muttered Grenda.
Candy just glared at Kitsu with that response.
There was an awkward silence.
"So are we going to do this again?" asked Grenda.
"What?" asked Kitsu.
"It was fun." Said Candy.
"Their right!" said Mabel, "We made the perfect team. We're like a five man band! With me as the Leader, Dipper as the Lancer, Candy as the smart guy, Grenda as the bug guy and Pacifica as the chick we're an unstoppable team!"
"Have you been going to TV tropes again?" asked Dipper.
"Have you?" replied Mabel.
Dipper blushed.
"Come on! We make such a good team!" said Mabel.
"All right, but that's only because we haven't found the Journal yet." Said Pacifica.
"I'm cool with this! Maybe I'll be up more monsters!" yelled Grenda.
"I was fun today." Said Candy.
Mabel put her hand in, and the other girls did too.
Dipper smiled and put his hand in.
"All right from day we're the mystery team!" said Mabel.
"Not going to call ourselves that!" said Dipper.
And so the team was formed… of course they still need to a get along a bit more, but they could always work on that another time.
Next Time: Candy and Dipper get to know each other a little better thanks to their shared interests. However Candy isn't sure how she feels about Dipper. What will happen when Pacifica notices this? Find out next time!
A/N: Oh just to clear something up, the whole five man Band thing is from Mabel's perspective, it's really Dipper as the leader and Mabel and Pacifica each having aspects of Lancer and the Chick... There's not arguing about Candy and Grenda.