Chapter 8: The Wrath of the Dusk 2 Dawn Ghosts
Some of you guys are wondering who's going to end up with who? Well you guys don't have to wait anymore! The answers with be expose in this chapter. I received your reviews if Arackniss and Molly are going to make an appearance. Sadly no, not in this chapter, but after the second Journal Entry they will.
Also about the whole don't take your anger out on Mabel because she's a kid thing, isn't going to stop me from what I have plans. I said this once and I'll say it again; this is my story. And I decide what to do about it. And to the person who asked, 'why I have Mabel be called "Ma Bell" aka May Bell', I don't know why but I thought it would be fun and so random just for it to rhyme with Mabel's name. I didn't expect for it to have a meaning or a translate word for something.
Another day, another slow day of business at the Mystery Shack Hazbin Hotel. Gompers was on the rooftop letting out a baa. While inside the shack, Dipper was reading a segment in Journal #3 about ghost, hoping it would take his mind off from what the guys at the Hazbin Hotel had told him this morning. While Mabel is sitting on a globe spinning in circles.
Looking up from his book, Dipper ask, "Mabel, do you believe in ghosts?" Mabel replies, "I believe you're a big dork! Ha ha ha!" not liking her answer, Dipper took a pencil and puts it against the globe, and with all his strength he stop it from spinning making his sister to fall off. Stan came in from the outside and shouts to his employees attentions, "Soos! Wendy! Baxter!" Soos comes in running and out of breath while Baxter calmly walks in and Wendy puts down her magazine she was reading.
Soos ask, "What's up, Mr. Pines!" "I'm headin' out. You three are gonna wash the bathrooms, right?" Soos gave stan a salute, "Yes, sir!" Wendy also gave Stan a salute, but said, "Absolutely not!" while Baxter said, "I'll see what I can do." Liking their responds, Stan laughs and said, "Ha ha! You stay out of trouble!" and then leaves the shack.
Once Stan was gone, Wendy walks over to the other side of the shop, "Hey guys! What's this?" she unveils curtain and said, "A secret ladder to the roof?" Soos walks over to Wendy feeling very unsure of she's thinking, " "Uh, I don't think Mr. Pines would like that." What Wendy did next is funny, she put her hand out in front of Soos and waves it up and down saying, "Huh?" a few times until Soos couldn't take it no more. "You're freaking me out, dude!"
"Can we actually go up there?" Baxter asked, only half way up the ladder, Wendy turns to him and the twins and said, "Sure we can! Roof time! Roof time!" "Roof time! Roof time!" Dipper and Mabel join in on the chant and follow Wendy up the ladder with Baxter tailing behind.
As they climb up and over the roof, Wendy shows them her hidden spot, "Alright, check it out!" the twins were in awe at it while Baxter didn't see what's so great about it, besides having it as a secret get out of work spot. "Cool! Did you put all this stuff up here?" Dipper asked, with a hand behind her head Wendy replies, "I may or may not sneak up here during work, all the time, every day." Baxter smiles at her answer, he sees her grabbing one of the pinecones in the bucket and throws it, hitting dead center on the target taped to the totem pole, "Yes!" Wendy fist pump.
Impress with her throw, Dipper and Mabel gave it a try, "Cool!" "Me first!" the two throw their pinecones, but none of them made it to the totem pole, "Come on, Baxter. Try it!" said Mabel, Baxter gave in a took a pinecone and with analyzing the trajectory and throws it. It bounces off from the totem pole, missing the target, and onto a car, causing the alarm to go off.
Blushing in embarrassment, Baxter felt that the kids are going to be laughing at him, but to his surprise they didn't. Instead Wendy congratulated him, "Jackpot! High five." She hold up her hand to him. And at that moment with the wind giving a slight breeze and the setting sun, Wendy Corduroy is the most beautiful women Baxter has ever seen. "... Don't leave me hangin'."
Coming out of his trance, Baxter returns the high five to Wendy. Soon Wendy saw her friend's car pulling up, "Oh hey, it's my friends!" she exclaimed, as the car door of the van opens up and everyone waves at her and called out her name. Wendy turns back to Baxter and the twins, "Hey, you guys aren't going to tell Stan about this, are you?" she asked, Dipper made a zips lips sign, while Baxter did a key in the locks sign on his lips. Wendy returns those two signs and said, "Later dorks!" before sliding down on a few trees and gets into car. "Let's get out of here!" one of her friends say as they drive away.
"Later Wendy!" Baxter called out as they leave. Mabel look at him with a grin that reads 'I saw that' and 'I know what's going on'. "Uh, oh!" Mabel said smugly, while Dipper was shaking his head in his hand, not believing what his sister is doing. Baxter looks at her and said, "What?" she starts poking at him, "Somebody's in love!" Baxter swatted her hand away from him, "Cut that out, I don't like to be touch. And besides, I just think Wendy's cool, okay? It's not like I lie awake at night thinking about her!" "That's the same thing Dipper said." Said Mabel.
Baxter looks at Dipper who groan at Mabel's words, "I told her I've talk to Wendy about it and we've cleared things up and just keep things as it is between us, friends. Also it's really weird how people tend to like others who are a bit or more older than them." Dipper explains, "Are you still denying about you feelings for Wendy, Dipper?" Mabel asked, ever since Dipper had told her that he did told her about how he felt for Wendy and that they were now on the same ground of how they see each other as friends and nothing else. Mabel still refuse to except the fact that Dipper is madly in love with Wendy.
"Mabel, I don't want to get involve, but I believe Dipper is telling the truth." Said Baxter, "And just so we're clear. I have no romantic feelings for Wendy!"
Time Skip
Later in bed at night, Baxter was wide awake at 2:30 in the morning with the thoughts of Wendy in his mind.
The only word to describe that he is indeed in love for a mortal human girl, would be...
"Fuck."
Time Skip to the Next Day
"Random dance party for no reason!" Mabel shouted as she turns on the boom-box and starts dancing, Wendy soon dances while chanting "Go! Go! Go! Go!" Charlie, who was helping counting up the stockage in the gift shop, giggled at their fun, and Baxter was there looking up from his catalog journal. Which is now filled with drawings of Wendy and not equations and notes.
Seeing neither of the guys joining in, Wendy calls out their names, "Dipper! Baxter!" startled by Wendy's voice, Baxter throws his journal into the air and manages to catch it before it hits the floor. "Uh what, yes?" he asked, while Wendy said, "Aren't ya gonna get in on this?" "I've never been into dancing." Baxter replied as Dipper said, "I don't really dance." Mabel being the sister who likes to say everything about their family lives and what they did when they were little to new people, including the embarrassing times, said, "Yeah, you do! Mom used to dress him up in a lamb costume and make him do... The Lamby Dance!"
Dipper glares angrily at his sister, "Now is not the time to talk about the Lamby Dance." 'This is the 250th time she's said this to people outside of our family!' Dipper thought angerly, "Lamb costume?" Wendy question, "Wow, is there like little ears and a tail or...?" Dipper tries to change the topic and the answer, but Mabel holds up a picture of himself when he was little in a cute, adorable, and embarrassing lamb costume with a pink ribbon bow tie. "Dipper would prance around and sing a song about grazing."
Seeing Dipper looking very upset at his sister's actions, Charlie decided to take the photo out of Mabel's hands and said, "Mabel. How long have you've showing this to people outside of your family?" Mabel smiles and said, "All the time. Every chance I get to put Dipper out there." To say that Charlie was shock was an understatement, "Mabel. I think you're doing this the wrong way. You're humiliating your own brother, instead of helping him to stand out. So no more of this." Said Charlie as she took the photo out of Mabel's hands, "Hey!" Mabel cried as she tries to reach for it. But Charlie puts it behind her back and gave it to Dipper, who torn it up to shreds.
Suddenly the cuckoo clock goes off, "Hey, look at that! Quittin' time! The gang's waitin' for me." As Wendy was exiting the shack, Baxter quickly stops her, "Wait! Why don't I-or we come with you?" he said pointing to himself then to Charlie and the twins. Wendy turns around to face him, "Ooh... I don't know. My friends are pretty intense. How old did you guys say you are?" "Eighteen." "Twenty-one, but I already made plans for a movie night." "I'm sure they'll be fine, besides when's the last time you ever hang out? Or do any fun for yourself?" said Wendy, as Charlie was giving some thought about it and text Vaggie about what she thinks she should do. While Dipper said, "We're thirteen! So, technically a teen."
"All right. I like your moxie, kid! Let me get my stuff." Wendy leaves the shop as Mabel turns to her brother and ask, "Since when are we thirteen? Is this a leap year?" Dipper turns to Mabel and said, "Come on, Mabel. This is our chance to hang out with, you know, the cool kids." "And Wendy and whatever." Baxter mumbles under his breath.
With sparkles in her eyes, Mabel squeal and said, "I knew it! You both love her!" she then dances around Dipper and Baxter, while pointing at them and sings the word, "Love love love love love!" repetitively. Baxter glares and growls at her, but before he could do any harm on her, Dipper stops him with his hand and silently said, "I'll handle this." Dipper pretends to be shock as he points behind Mabel and said, "Oh hey, what's that?" "Huh?" Mabel turns around to see what it was, while distracted, Dipper flips her hair over her face. Mabel then tries to spit out her hair out of her mouth, "Bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh."
Laughing at the scene, Baxter felt glad seeing Mabel getting a little payback for the teasing. "Well, Vaggie's going to be in charge tonight." Said Charlie, "Does that mean you're coming?" the Hotel owner nodded her head, smiling ear to ear. With nothing else to discuss, everyone headed out the door with Wendy taking the lead.
Meanwhile out side of the shack were a couple of teens waiting hand making up a game of throwing a jelly bean at a hefty size teen's belly while the guy is doing a hand-stand. A jelly bean hits the guy in the face as he cried, "Hurry up!" the guy, Thompson, was being held up by two other guys, Lee and Nate, to prevent him from falling as the guys chants, "In the belly! In the belly! In the belly! In the belly!" As another jelly bean hits Thompsons stomach.
A punk goth teen, with a long noes that looks like a dick, was about to throw his jelly bean only to see a bean already hits in Thompson's belly button. Confused, the guy looks at his bean but then looks behind him to see that it was Wendy who threw the bean. All of the teens shouted "Wendy!" while one of them chanted her name.
"Hey guys! These are my pals from work, Charlie, Baxter, Mabel, and Dipper." Wendy introduce them, Charlie was about to greet them, but Mabel went ahead first, "I chewed my gum, so it looks like a brain! BLAH!" "Ew! Mabel! That's disgusting!" Charlie cringe at the sight of Mabel's wad of gum sticking on her tongue. "She's not much for first impressions." Said Dipper, "After that, I don't think many people would want to be friends with her." Baxter whispers to Dipper.
Robbie "So are you, like, babysitting, or—" the goth punk trailed off his sentence trying to make himself more cool and make the four look like losers. But Wendy wasn't having it. "Come on, Robbie! Guys, this is Lee and Nate." The two guys punch each other and laugh as they did. Charlie can tell these guys are the best of friends. "Tambry." The only teen girl, besides Wendy, was busy texting on her cellphone, "Hey..." was her respond, "Thompson, who once ate a runover waffle for 50 cents." "Don't tell them that!" Thompson pleads, "And Robbie. You can probably figure him out." Wendy points to the jerk, "Yeah, I'm the guy who spray-painted the water tower." Robbie boost his ego to them.
Charlie recalls the vandalism image on the water tower, "Oh, you mean the big muffin! Although that was a bad thing to do." "Um, nobody cares, and it's a giant explosion." Robbie rudely replies back. Everyone turn their gaze up at the water tower and true to Charlie's words, "Hehe! Kinda does look like a muffin!" said Lee as he and Nate laugh out loud, while Robbie glares at Charlie.
"Let's hurry it up, guys. I got big plans for tonight!" said Wendy, as she and everyone else gets in Thompson's car, well everyone but Robbie. "Just a sec. I want to spray-paint this." Just when Robbie was about to shake his can of spray-paint, Charlie grabs him by the wrist. "I would appreciate that you don't vandalize my hotel." Robbie gave Charlie a confusing look, "Uh, your hotel?" he asked, "Oh yeah, Charlie's owns this hotel. She's in a partner business deal with Mr. Pines." Said Wendy. Not wanting to get in trouble or have the police on is tail, Robbie scoffs and said, "Whatever. Didn't want to paint this lame hotel anyway." And walks back to the van just as Dipper was about to take the passenger seat. "Sorry kid, I'll ride shotgun alright?" and forces Dipper to sit in the back with Mabel, Charlie, and Baxter.
Before Thompson started up the car, he turns to his friends and said, "Okay just, before we go, my mom said you guys aren't allowed to punch the roof anymore, so..." the next second, everyone except for Thompson, Charlie, Baxter and the twins punches the roof of the van while chanting Thompson's name as they punch. Thompson signs and just drives the car.
During the ride, Mabel takes pen from Dipper hand, crosses out, "You stink!" on her side of the door, and writes "You look nice today!" she smiles at her work, "Ha! This is gonna blow someone's mind!" "Mabel, please!" Dipper scolds her, but she retaliates with, "What, am I embarrassing you in front of your new GIRLFRI-" Dipper slaps his hand over his sister's mouth but pulls it away quickly in disgust. "Ugh! Did you just lick my hand?" "What is wrong with you?" Baxter cried, "Are you trying to make us miserable?" Mabel just smiles and shrug her shoulders. 'There is indeed something wrong with Mabel. And I'm getting to the bottom of it.' Charlie thought to herself as she makes a note of having Mabel to come in for a session.
Meanwhile at the Shack
"So Charlie and Bax aren't joining us?" said Angel as he carries two big bowls of popcorn into the living room while Vaggie carries their drinks. "She's been working so much, and I figured she needs some time for herself to enjoy and, you know, hang out with some of the humans here. Same thing for Baxter. He's been hanging around in his little laboratory room and hardly goes out." Vaggie explains.
Upon entering, they see Stan sitting in front of TV with Alastor and Husk sitting at the table, Niffty was on the floor on the left side to where Stan is sitting, and that left the two bean bag chairs for Angel and Vaggie on the right side of Stan.
Soon the TV announcer made its announcement, "You're watching the black and white period piece old lady boring movie channel!" Stan looks around his chair and shouts, "Kids! I can't find the remote and I refuse to stand up!" "They're not here, Stan." Said Niffty, "And we're having a movie night here, I threw away the key so to speak." Said Alastor with a smile never leaving his face.
The TV announcer then states the next show coming up, "Stay tuned for the Friday night movie, The Duchess Approves, starring Sturly Stembleburgiss as "The Duchess" and Grampton St. Rumpterfrabble as irascible coxswain "Saunterblugget Hampterfuppinshire!" "KIDS!" Stan cried, "We told you, they're not here. Their hanging out with Wendy." Said Husk as he sips more of his beer, "You guys are young, that means you're kids to me!" "Whatever."
No sooner than later, 'The Duchess Approves' begins playing leaving Stan to face his fate of watching this movie, "NO! NOOOO!" "Man, and you guys say I was majorly over dramatic." Said Angel as he pops in some popcorn in his mouth.
Back with Charlie, Baxter, Dipper, Mabel Wendy and her Friends
The Sun was starting to sink, as the teens, demon, sinner, and the twins were standing in front of a fence boarding an abandoned convenient store. "There it is, fellas! The condemned Dusk 2 Dawn!" said Wendy, the two bros laugh and said, "Cool!" while Mabel said, "Neato!" not knowing what condemned really means.
Feeling a little bit unsure about hanging out at a place that was shut down for the public, Dipper had to ask, "Why'd they shut it down, was it like a health code violation, or—" "TRY MURDER!" said Nate, Lee spoke, "Some folks died in there, the place has been haunted ever since!" "Wait, are we actually going in there? That's disrespecting the dead!" said Charlie, but Robbie scoffs at her, "So what? They're dead. They wouldn't care."
Tambry changes the topic, "Speaking of dead, there's been a report of a missing biker. People are saying he's been murdered, and his body is missing in this town." "This town has such a colorful history!" Mabel said happily, while Baxter and Charlie gave her a look that says 'What-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-her?!' with everything that has happen to Dipper so far, he was starting to have second thoughts, "Wha... Are you guys serious?" taking Dipper's question not too seriously, Wendy fakes a panic frighten respond, "Yeah! We're all gonna die!" before saying, "Chill out man!" and punches Dipper on the arm friendly, "It's not as bad as it looks!"
After everyone got over the fence, including the reluctant Dipper and Charlie, everyone was looking inside through the store's windows, "Wow! This place is amazing!" said Wendy, as Robbie tries to open the door, but it wouldn't budge, "I think it's, it's stuck!" he proclaim, "That's because the authorities locked it up, ignoramus." Said Baxter, "Hey! I'm not! Whatever that is!" Robbie shouted back. Seeing that Robbie doesn't know how to unlock doors, Dipper suggested, "Let me take a crack at it!" Robbie turns and scoffs at him, "Oh yeah. I can't get in, but I'm sure Junior here is gonna break it down like Hercules!" Wendy tries to get Robbie to calm down. "Come on, leave him alone. He's just a little kid."
But her words made Dipper upset.
Seeing a dumpster resting up against to the building, Dipper walks over and jumps up on it. Using the height of the dumpster, Dipper easily climb on top of the roof of the store. "Kid, what are you doing?" Tambry called out. Dipper walks over to the only air vent that is big enough for him and starts punching it to get the grates to loosen.
"Go Dipper! Punch that metal thing!" his sister cheered, once the grates were out of the way, Dipper crawls in. "Hey Dipper, take it easy!" Wendy calls out to him, while Robbie crosses his arms and said, "Who wants to bet he doesn't make it?" feeling very confident that Dipper is going to get stuck in there and cries for his mommy. But Dipper proves Robbie wrong, he came out of the doors now unlocked. And then gestures for everyone to come inside.
Everyone but Robbie cheered as they enter the store, few of them gave comments to Dipper, "Good call inviting this little maniac!" said Lee, as Nate said, "Your new name is Dr. Funtimes!" Mabel gave her brother a high five and Wendy punches Dipper's shoulder friendly and said, "Nice work!"
The only ones left were Charlie and Baxter, "Where did you learn how to break in?" Charlie asked, feeling very concern about Dipper's future life choices, "Back home, some of our doors get locked by accident or on purpose." Dipper explains, "Why?" Baxter asked, "I don't know why Mabel does it, but it feels like it was intended." "Wait, your sister locks you in a room?" Charlie asked in shock, "Yeah, I always find away to get out of a locked room or closet. I tried telling my parents, but they didn't believe me saying I was making it up, and that I should be more respectful to my sister."
Charlie and Baxter were shocked, how could they not believe their own son? Do they really care more for Mabel than Dipper? "Hey, you guys coming?" Lee called out to them, not want to keep everyone waiting, the three entered the store. As they entered Charlie made a texts a memo on her hellphone to call Mr. and Mrs. Pines and give them a piece of her mind. But when the door closes behind them, everyone failed to notice the sign turning from "Yes, we're open" to "Get lost! We're closed."
All of the human teens voiced out their thoughts of the store, "Do you guys really think it's haunted?" Nate turns to the fat teen, "Na! Thompson are you kidding me?" as he and lee walk down one of the store's aisle. Wendy Robbie, Baxter, and Dipper walk down another aisle, taking in at their surroundings, "Whoa man, it's even creepier than I imagined!" said Wendy.
Mabel wipes off a change slot and then licks the substance off her finger, "Yep. It's dust." She announces, Charlie gave her a confusing look that reads 'Why would you do that when you know it was dust to begin with?'
Dipper spots a newspaper stand he takes one of the newspapers and wipes off the dust to see the date of when this store was shut down, May 2, 1995. And the headlines were something about a pizza company that has delicious cheese pizza. 'Must have been a slow news day.'
"Hey dude, where do you think they keep the dead bodies?" Lee asked Nate, who responds with a shove and said, "Shut up, man!" Charlie walks by them and said, "Their bodies might have turned to ashes by now and their souls are living in either heaven or hell in their afterlives. But no one in their right mind would hide them in the store." The two guys stare at Charlie as she walks away, they look at each other and shrugged their shoulders.
Wendy calls out, "Guys, check it out! You think these still work?" she turns on light switches and all of the power in the store got turn back on in full operational. Everyone was impressed to see the contents in the store, all of the old stuff that looks like it's from the 50's to the 90's. "Jackpot!" Mabel exclaimed, Dipper turns to Wendy and ask, "So, what are we going to do now?" Wendy casually answers back, "Anything we want."
And so, the fun in the store began.
Grabbing any kind of food that they could find, everyone split into two teams and start having a food fight war. Lee and Nate were whacking themselves with bags of cat litter. Baxter manage to find a tank and have the guys to put different kinds of large sodas bottles in them and dump all of the pop mints into each and everyone of them. And the results were an exploding mess of crazy insanity fun.
Mabel runs around the corner of the aisles only to skidded to a stop when she saw a candy stand that she hasn't seen in any stores but really wants to try them. "Oh my Gosh! Smile Dip! I thought this stuff was banned in America!" Dipper appears in front of her and said, "Maybe they had a good reason." Before getting hit by a balloon full of food and ran after the one who threw it.
Taking the candy stick into the Smile Dip. Mabel looks at the stick covered in sweet sugary goodness, before pouring the entire package into her mouth.
Time Skip
Wendy, Baxter, Dipper and Charlie were on one of the shelves eating ice cream pops, which is surprisingly still good and hasn't gone bad over the years, watching everyone having fun and doing their own thing. "Hey, come here we got it ready!" the four heard Nate called out to Thompson who jogs over to the other guys and shouts, "Whatever it is I'll do it!"
Wendy laughs at her friend's antics and shouts, "Thompson!" before turning to her new buddies and said, "Guys, this night is like, legendary." "Really?" said Baxter, "Yeah, man. Just look around. The guys are bonding." Robbie and Nate were stuffing ice into Thompson's pants, must have been a dare or something. "I've never even seen Tambry look up from her phone this long." Tambry was texting on her phone only to look up for just a second before going back to her phone. 'She must be a phone addicted.' Charlie thought, as Wendy said to Dipper, "And your sister seems to be going nuts with that Smile Dip."
She points over to Mabel sitting by the Smile Dip stand with a box that's now empty of its candy, she groans and pats her belly, "Ugh, maybe I've had too much." Said Mabel as she turns her head and said, "What do you think?" In Mabel's eyes, she is seeing a wild brightly colorful world with crazy pop music playing all around her, changing color rainbows, Purple tongue hills with trees of candy and waterfalls, and a big golden retriever puppy dog with a purple caller speaking to her in what appears to be gibberish, "Elknurg...tcurtsed...tsum..." suddenly another golden retriever puppy dog with a purple bowtie caller jumps over to Mabel and ask, "Would you like to eat my candy paws?" Mabel happily took it's paw, "Of course you little angel!" and starts chewing on it. But in reality, she was chewing on air with dilated pupils.
The four of them stares at Mabel with mixture of shock, and uncertain of what to make out what she's doing. "Looks like Angel's going to have to take care of her when we get back." Said Charlie, "Now I know why they were banded in the first place." Baxter commented, "You know Charlie, Baxter, Dipper. I wasn't sure if you guys could hang with our crew at first, but you're surprisingly mature for your age and great to hang out."
Charlie smiles at her and said, "Thanks!" "I'm glad." "It's been a cool experience for us." The three replied. Suddenly, Lee calls out holding an empty bag of ice, "Hey guys! We need more ice!" "We're on it!" Dipper called back, as he and Baxter jumps off the shelf and head over to the ice freezer. But just as Dipper was taking out one of the ice bags, the two boys look up to see a floating brain with eyes and veins muscles spreading everywhere. The guys let out a scream, drop the ice, and shut the door before the monster could come any closer to them.
Taking in a few gasps, Dipper slowly reopens the door. But to his and Baxter's shock the monster wasn't there.
Soon, everyone was coming over to them. "What was that? I thought I heard some lady screaming back here." Said Lee, Nate ask, "You freakin' out, kid?" "Uh, no. I'm cool." "we're good." "Everything's cool." Both Dipper and Baxter answered, but then Robbie points to the spilled ice, "Then what's all this about?" he said, "No one was hurt, right?" Charlie said worriedly.
Thinking of away out while not trying to sound like a jerk was hard for Baxter, luckily Dipper manage to change the topic "Hey look! Dancy Pants Revolution! The game that tricks people into exercising!" all of the human mortal teenagers went over to the game and have Thompson be the one to play the game.
Once they were out of ear shot, Charlie turns to them and ask, "What really happened here?" "We saw some kind of ghost monster!" said Baxter, "Ghost monster?" said Charlie, "It was in the freezer when we first opened it, and the second time it was poof! It was gone!" Dipper explained, "I knew coming here was a bad idea." "What?!" the two boys exclaimed, "Why didn't you say anything?" Baxter asked, "Because I didn't want to ruin anyone's fun."
Baxter and Dipper stare at Charlie in shock, she was putting everyone's happiness before hers. "I guess being born in hell does have it's uses." Said Charlie, "Charlie, you- I mean, we should speak up. These guys need to know what's going on." Baxter pointed out, but Dipper felt very unsure about this. "Hey Dipper, Baxter, Charlie! What are you hang back for?" Wendy called out to them, the three look at each other before heading over to the Dancy Pants Revolution game.
They see Thompson playing the game at an alarming fast pace trying to stomp on the arrows as fast as he could, while everyone was cheering him on. Whine the two bro were shouting "Go!" repeatedly, Wendy commented, "Wow. He's really terrible at this." Not really paying any attention to the game, Baxter replied, "Heh heh, yeah. That's, that's great."
Suddenly, Dipper saw something in the glass door that made him even more scared then ever. Following his gaze, the two demons saw Wendy's Robbie, Tambry, and Thompson's reflection not as humans but as skeletons. But what made them more scared besides is seeing themselves as their true inner demons. Is Dipper's reflection melting layers of skin to skeleton and then transform into a demon, though the form was a silhouette with wings a top hat and golden eyes and white teeth grinning at them. The image gave the three a wink before vanishing, leaving everyone's reflection back to what they were.
"I'll be right back." All three of them said at the same time as they ran off to use the telephone or their hellphones, "Come on, Grunkle Stan, pick up! Ugh, what is he doing!?" Dipper mutters in frustration, while Charlie was getting nothing on her call end to Vaggie. "Vaggie, please pick up!" and Baxter was cursing at himself for not charging his.
Meanwhile back at the Shack
The phone kept on ringing, but no one was moving to answer it. For they were so focus on watching The Duchess Approves. Even everyone's hellphones were on mute. They ran out of popcorn and started to eat huge tubs of different ice cream flavors. Stan has Chocolate, Angel has spumoni, Vaggie has black raspberry, Husk has Chocolate rum, Niffty has vanilla with chocolate syrup, and Alastor has strawberry.
Duchess stands firmly on her ground and announces, "I don't care about Dukes, or Commoners, or His Royal Highness Lionel of Cornwall! I'm not afraid anymore, Mother!" her mother grasp her scepter tightly in her hands, narrowing her eyes at her daughter, Duchess, "Duchess, I forbid you." With tears forming in her eyes, Duchess proclaim, "I may be a Duchess, but...I'm also a woman!" and takes her hat off to reveal her long hair flying in the wind. Signifying that she is her own person and can make her own choices.
Everyone cheered for her, "Whoo!" "Go Duchess!" "You tell that royal bitch!" "Take that lady!" "Well said, Duchess. Well said." "Yes! Yes! In your face Elizabeth! It's just like my life!" everyone turn their heads to Stan sobbing in his hands.
Looking up, Stan sob out, "In a way." as to explains his reasons. "I'm pretty sure everyone here can agree." Said Alastor, no one needs to raise their hands in the air, because they all agreed with their radio overlord friend/acquaintance.
Back with Dipper, Charlie, and Baxter at the Dusk 2 Dawn store
Leaving the phone hanging from the cord, Dipper, Baxter, and Charlie walks over to Mabel who was sitting by the Smile Dip. "Mabel, I need your advice." Said Dipper, "We're hanging out in a haunted convenience store." We can't get a hold of Stan or the others." Said Charlie, "And if we try to say anything about it to any of these guys they'll just think we're scared and mock us relentlessly!" said Baxter.
Charlie turns to the boys, "Guys we need to tell them what's going!" "But—" "No buts. Like what my dad told me, "you don't take shit from other demons!" or in this case, other people." Said Charlie, leaving the guys to think of what to do in the situation they're in. "Mabel, what do you think?" Dipper asked. But the only respond that Dipper receive from his twin sister was a gurgling sound. "Mabel?" Dipper asked again but more concern about her than her opinion of the situation.
Mabel has Smile Dip covered all over her face, clothes and some of the candy was foaming from her mouth. And her eyes were small but were now green. She was still on a drug trip!
In her hallucination fantasy, Mabel was flying in the air with more crazy pop music playing loudly than before. "The future! ...is in the past! Onwards Aoshima!" Mabel shouted the being that is Aoshima, is a blue dolphin with big fists. It move it's fist in a circular motion, it somehow got a second head in the back of his head, its then mouth opens to reveal a fist coming out of them, and all of the fist's open out spitting out rainbows.
Back in reality, Dipper grabs Mabel's shoulders and starts shaking her to wake up, "Mabel! How many of these did you eat!?" Still out of it, Mabel answered her brother's question, "Beleven.. teen..." "Oh man." In a moment of panic, Dipper drops his sister and continues to panic more, "Oh man, oh man, oh man." "Okay, that's it. We're getting out of here and putting a stop to this before it gets even more out of hand." Said Charlie. Just then, Robbie called out by the cash register, "Whoa guys, you might wanna see this."
Everyone, except Mabel , gather around Robbie and saw the tape markings of the bodies of the couple who died. "Whoa. Then the rumors are true!" said Lee, while Dipper and Baxter gulps in fear, while Charlie was worried for everyone's safety.
But for the teenager's mind to come and tempt fate, Robbie bump an elbow to Lee and said, "Dude, I dare you to lie down in it." "Good idea!" said Lee as he passes the dare to Nate, "Go lie down in it!" as Nate started to mock of being a dead person, Charlie believe enough is enough. "What's wrong with you guys?!" she shouted, stopping Nate from stepping on the markings. "These are their final moments, don't you guys have any respect for the dead?!"
There was a pause of silence until all of the teens booed at Charlie, "Guys, all we're saying is that this place might actually be haunted. So why tempt the fate that it is and get everyone one of us killed?" said Baxter coming to Charlie's defense, but the teens started to boo him. "This guy's scared!" said Lee.
"Yeah, take it down a notch, Captain Buzzkills!" said Robbie, "I thought I was Dr. Funtimes." Said Dipper, "Well, you're all acting like Captain Buzzkill!" Robbie turns to the others, "Right?" they all nodded in agreement, even Wendy admitted they were being a buzzkill, "Yeah, little bit." "Well, sorry for being concern for everyone's safety! If you guys really want to die then go right on ahead, I'll see you guys in hell when that happens." Charlie snaps at them.
"I'll take that bet!" said Robbie as he lays down in the markings, "Who gives a fuck about the dead anyway!" just as those words left his mouth, the tape markings lit up and all of the lights turned off. Looking up from her text about being trapped in a store with a worry wuss, chicken, and a scared 9 year-old, only to be dissolved into nothingness.
Everyone gasp in fear and alarm, Dipper picks up her phone that was left behind and reads the texts out loud, "Status update: AAAAUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH!" suddenly, the security camera TV screen flickers on and inside the screen was Tambry. But she wasn't in any where in the store, she was literally inside the TV banging on the screen and screaming! "AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" "AAAAUUGGH!" Seeing their friend and companion inside a TV really frighten everyone.
Scared for her friend's life, Wendy cries out her name, "Tambry! Tambry!" "Can you hear us!?" Baxter called out to her, but it would seem that she couldn't hear them, her confused expression on her face as she looks around speaks volumes.
Nate and Lee turn to each other, "What are we supposed to do!?" Nate asked, Lee responds, "I don't know man! I don't know!" "Let's just go already!" Robbie hollers at them, wanting to leave already. Wendy calls out, "Thompson!" to get his attention to leave, but he was still playing Dancy Pants Revolution. "Wait! I've almost got the high score!" he calls back, only to be dissolve and reappears inside the game. "Uh? What?" "It's time to shake what your mama gave you!" said the game narration as many arrows falls down on the poor teen stabbing him everywhere. "No! So many arrows!" "You're a dance machine!" "No! You're a dance machine!"
Seeing their second friend taken everyone started to panic even more, "Oh no!" Dipper gasped, while Wendy stares in shock, "Thompson!" Not wanting to stay any longer, Robbie shouted, "Forget them! Let's go!" Charlie grabs him by the shoulder, "Are you seriously going to abandon your friends and leave them for dead!?" Robbie didn't answer to her.
Wendy tried opening the doors, but they wouldn't budge, "What the... Guys... It's locked!" pulling his shoulder out of Charlie's grasp, Robbie grabs the cash register, "OUTTA MY WAY!" he yells, as he throws it at the doors, but it dissolves once it made contact to the glass and green light flies at Robbie and the others. "Everybody, wait! Whatever's doing this has to have some kind of reason!" said Baxter, as Dipper pulls out the Journal and goes to the page that talks about ghost, "Baxter's right. Maybe if we can figure out what it is, they'll let us out of here!" said Dipper.
"Uh-uh they'll let us out of here! Yeah, that makes a lot of sense!" Robbie snarl back at them sarcastically, but with everything that's been happening, Wendy is now fully trusting Dipper, Baxter, and Charlie, "I don't know guys, maybe they got a point!"
Lee then sarcastically says, "Yeah right, I'm sure the ghost just wants to talk about his feelings!" "Hey there's nothing wrong about talking about feelings!" Charlie scolded Lee as he levitates off the floor screaming as he dissolves and reappears on a cereal box. "W-what?" he says confusingly as milk pores on top of him, looking up he sees a fruity toucan looking at him with hunger, "I'm bonkers for eating you alive!" said the Toucan as he raises his spoon in the air. Lee cries out, "No!" before he was stabbed with a spoon and got devoured by the tropical bird.
Seeing his best friend getting eaten alive, Nate backs away takes off his hat and wipe the sweat from his forehead, "Lee! Okay, okay.. I'm with you guys! 100%, man!" suddenly Mabel flies up glowing pale blue with no pupils in her eyes and spoke in a very deep voice, "Welcome." Everyone screamed while Dipper pointed to his possessed sister, "They got Mabel!"
"Welcome to your graves, young trespassers." The ghost spoke again, kicking his legs and laughing manically, "We're super sorry for hanging out in your store!" Wendy apologies while Nate and Robbie nodded their heads agreeing with her, "Yeah! Can we just go now and leave forever?" Dipper points to the door. "We'll make sure that no one, and I mean NO ONE, comes in here and disturbs your resting place." Charlie promises.
The ghost thought for a moment before saying, "Well... okay. You're free to go." He opens the doors and floated over to the hot dog stand, "But before you leave, hot dogs are now half off. I know it might be crazy, but you gotta try these dogs!"
Baxter politely answers, "Thank you, but I'm going to kindly pass on the hot dogs. Don't want to spoil tonight's dinner." The ghost gave Baxter a faint smile before seeing Nate and Robbie screaming and making a run for the doors, only to have them shut in their faces, "Just kidding about the hot dog sale!"
Fed up with the ghost's tricks, Nate shouts, "Just let us out of here already!" Robbie tries to hold him back from attacking the possessed girl. "I don't like your tone!" the ghost yells and made Nate Dissolves and reappears inside the hot dog machine as a, "No! I'M A HOT DOG!"
"It begins." The ghost then makes everything, and everyone float to the ceiling, Dipper jumps out of the way of the security TV from falling on top of him, as many food and other items in the store falls around or on top of Charlie, Wendy, and Baxter. Robbie got knocked out by a freezer smacking up against his head. "Welcome to your home for all eternity!"
Wendy turns to Dipper, Charlie, and Baxter, "Guys, what do we do?!" "DUCK!" they shouted, dodging the flying ice slushy machine. Spotting an open cabinet in the ice machine, Charlie shouts, "Quick! In there!" everyone rushes over to the huge cabinet and shut the doors. Feeling safe and secured, they all let out gasp and pants to catch their breaths.
"What do they want from us?!" Wendy cried, "Revenge, I guess?" Dipper suggested, "What did we do wrong?" Charlie and Baxter gave Wendy a glaring look, "Hmm. Let me think; trespassing, breaking in, made a mess in their store, and Robbie lay on their markings where they died." Charlie listed off the things Wendy and her friends were doing. "I'm ashamed of myself for not stepping in to speak out sooner." Wendy looks down now feel completely ashamed of her choices, and now they're going to die here and it's all her fault.
Not one to give up, Dipper said, "Okay, so most of us did stupid things today and made bad choices. Let's try to figure out the pattern here. Why was each person taken?" Baxter think back at how everyone was taken and for what reason, "Tambry was texting, Thompson was playing a video game, Lee was being sarcastic; it doesn't make any sense!" Wendy agrees with him, Yeah! I mean, those are all just normal teenage things."
Three out of four heads shot up in realization, "Wendy, say that last part again." Said Baxter, Wendy gave them a questionable look before repeating, "Normal teenage things?" "Of course! Stay here until we get back!" Charlie says as she along with Dipper and Baxter crawls out of the freezer. "Hey, what are you guys doing?!" Wendy calls out to them, but either of them responded.
With courage in his heart, Dipper yells, "Hey ghost!" to get the ghost's attention. The ghost twisted Mabel's head around like an owl, almost as if it were about to snap. Luckily, the rest of her body turns around before it could really kill her.
"We've got something to tell you!" said Charlie, "I'm not a teenager!" "I'm already dead!" I'm an adult!" everything froze in the air for a second before falling to the ground, or ceiling, and the two ghost appeared. They were an old couple with the nametags that reads "Pa" and "Ma". Pa was the one who was possessing Mabel by holding her up by the hair. "Hohoho! Well why didn't you say so?" Pa lets go of Mabel causing her to fall into a pile of candy.
"How old did you say you were?" Pa asked them, Dipper reluctantly answers, "I'm twelve, technically not a teen." "I'm eighteen, but I've died some time in the 1910's." said Baxter as he turns into his demon form, "And I'm a demon from hell." Seeing the two ghost getting cautious at Baxter, Charlie quickly interfered, "I was born and raised in hell, I'm over 200+ years old. And we didn't came here to the human world for any evil, we just got sent here by some mysterious force." "Really?" said Ma, "I don't know how it happened, but I swear, all of us are trying to think of away to get back home." Said Charlie.
Wendy couldn't believe what she is seeing and hearing, Charlie, Baxter, and the others are demons from hell! She isn't quite sure if she is excited or scared to know her new co-workers are real actual demons.
Baxter then changes the subject, "I'm curious, why do you two dislike teenagers?" "We don't dislike teenagers." Said Pa, "We hate them." Ma then begins to explains why they hated them and how they died. "When we were alive, teenagers were a scourge on our store!" "Always sassafras sin' costumers with their boomy boxes and disrespectful short pants! So we decided to up and ban them! But they retaliated with this new-fangled rap music." Said Pa, "The lyrics, they were so, hateful! It was so shocking, we were stricken down with double heart attacks!" said Ma, "That's why we hate teenagers so much! Don't we, honey?" Ma turns to her husband and the two old couple nuzzled noesis together.
"I am so sorry you went through that." Charlie says sympathetically to them, "I've been struggling to achieve my goals." The ghost couple felt sorry for the young lady, "Do you wish to talk about your troubles, sweety?" Pa asked, "Is it okay if I sing it?" Charlie gave them hopeful eyes, "Yes, just as long it isn't rap." Said Ma, "And in exchange, we'll set you and your friends free." Charlie smiled at them, "Don't worry. I'm more of a musical type of girl."
With a spotlight shining down on her, Charlie clears her throat and starts to sing, "At the end of the rainbow there's happiness. And to find it, how often I tried. But my life is a race, just a wild goose chase. And my dreams have all been denied." Charlie takes in a breath and cast her head down in shame, "Why have I always been a failure? What can the reason be? I wonder if the world's to blame. I wonder if it could be me? I'm always chasing rainbows. Watching clouds drifting by. My schemes are just like all my dreams. Ending in the sky!" Using a little bit of her powers, Charlie shoots a small flare of fireworks above her, Dipper, Baxter, and Wendy's heads. They were spellbound at Charlie's beautiful singing voice and were also moved by her feelings she puts into her song and her struggles she's been facing. "Some fellows look and find the sunshine I always look and find the rain. Some fellows make a winning sometime I never even make a gain, believe me." Tears were starting to form in Charlie's eyes, as a sob escaped from her throat. "I'm always chasing rainbows. Waiting to find a little bluebird. In vain."
As Charlie finishes her song, Pa and Ma were balling their eyes out, "Oh! That was so beautiful, deary." Said Ma, "I do hope you will reach your goal one day, sweety." Said Pa, Charlie smiles and gave them a small curtsy of gratitude, "Thank you, I do hope you'll rest in peace." "You are very kind. Though Usually we do like to see a funny little dance, but your song was so emotionally beautiful it lifted our hearts." Pa explains, and then he realize he nearly forgotten the exchange, "Oh, and you're all free to go. Just don't come back."
"Well I don't think you have to worry about us coming back." Said Dipper, as Baxter and Wendy nodded their heads in agreement. The elderly ghost couples disappears from them and brought everything back to the floor and freeing all of the prisoned teens in the process. Seeing the teens starting to wake up, Charlie and Baxter reverted back to their human forms before anyone else besides Wendy notices.
Mabel gets up slouching and holds her stomach in her hands, "Ugghh... I'm never gonna eat or do anything ever again." She moans, Dipper walks over to her and picks up a package of Smile Dip. "Hey! There's still some left!" shotting strait up, Mabel cries, "EVIL!" and slaps it out of his hands.
Robbie was starting to come back to his senses, "What-what happened?" he asked deliriously, Baxter marches up to the goth teen. "What happened is that you made the ghosts of the covenant store angry and nearly got everyone killed!" "Hey man, chill out." Said Robbie, "I will once you start using your brain before getting yourself or your friends hurt, you dick noes!" Lee, Nate, Tambry and Thompson cried out "Oooh!" as Robbie's face turns red. "Let's just leave this dumb place already." Robbie grumbles angerly.
Soon everyone was out of the store and in Thompson's car fast asleep, except for Dipper, Wendy, Baxter, and Charlie. "Dude, I still can't believe you two are demons. That is so cool." Said Wendy, "Well, we weren't sure how you or anyone in town would react." Said Baxter, "So that hotel, that's yours?" Wendy ask Charlie, "Yes, it once belong to my family and now I own it. Hoping to rehabilitate demons to prove that they can do better, so that they can go to heaven." Charlie explains.
"That's some dream you got there, Charlie. Hope it'll be a reality." Said Wendy, "So about Demons and the hotel, can you—" "Hey." Baxter was cut off by Wendy, who made a lock and key sign to her lips, and Baxter returns the sign.
"Well, I'm probably scarred for life." Said Wendy, "Yeah, that was pretty crazy." Said Dipper, "Not as crazy to what's goes on in hell, but still I'll give it a 3.5 out of 10 scale." Charlie commented, while Baxter nodded in agreement. Leaving Dipper and Wendy to ponder of what kind of craziness they endure in hell? Shaking those thoughts out of her head, Wendy then says, "I think I'll go stare at a wall for a while and RETHINK EVERYTHING." "That's a good idea." Baxter agrees with Wendy, "Hey, next time we hang out, let's stay at the Mystery Shack or the Hazbin Hotel. Okay?"
Baxter was startled to hear Wendy say that. "Next time?" he asked, "Yeah man, you guys are fun and cool to hang out. And I kind a want to know more about ya and what hell is like. Plus, it would be better to do some less life threatening situations." Wendy admitted.
"So are Me, Dipper and Mabel the only ones who know about you guys being demons? Or does Soos or Mr. Pines knows too?" Wendy asked Charlie and Baxter, "Dipper and Mabel knew about our true selves from the beginning, Soos later found out about us, and as for Stan. No he doesn't but for some reason he doesn't mind having our hotel next door to him." "Probably to get more money out of it." Said Wendy jokingly, They chuckled because it's true.
"Alright, let's head out of here guys." Wendy walks over to the other side of the car and woke Thompson up to get ready to dive. As everyone was getting, Baxter couldn't help but smile. 'Maybe today wasn't all that bad.'
Mabel, still sick from eating all of that Smile Dip, leans over to the side of her seat moaning "OHHHHH..." and sees the what she wrote earlier "What kind of sick joke is this?" Dipper, Baxter, and Charlie laugh at her own work backfired on her. Just as they droved away the lights in the store goes out.
Meanwhile
Stan and the rest of the hotel residents were still watching the movie, but thankfully it was coming to an end. Vaggie was nearly nodding off to sleep trying to keep her head from falling on Angel's shoulder. Husk is already a sleep, but Niffty shook him awake. "Husk wake up! You're going to miss the wedding!" Rubbing his eyes, Husk replies, "I'm awake. I hope I haven't missed anything yet."
Stan sighs happily, "Ah, the wedding. We've waited so long for this." Niffty awe at Duchess' wedding dress, "Oh, look at her in that dress!" Angel playfully nudge Vaggie and said, "Thinking about yours and Charlie's having a wedding like theirs?" "Are you thinking same thing about yours with your special someone?" Vaggie replied back. "Touché"
Suddenly, the doors of the church burst open causing all of the guest to gasp in shock, Stan and the others were just as shock as the people on the screen, "Count Lionel?" said Niffty, "What the fuck is he doing here?"
As if to answer Husk's question, Count Lionel announces his reasons, "I've come to reclaim my bride!" "WHAT!?" everyone shrieked, Angel glares at the screen and said, "Are you shitting me!?" "Is this dick for real!?" said Vaggie, while Alastor said, "The nerve of this man!" Stan points to the TV and said, "You had your chance at the cotillion, you!" in the movie, one of the male guest stands up and said, "You had your chance at the cotillion, you!" "That's what I'm SAYING! UuuaaaAAAAGGGHHH!" out of a fit of burning rage, Stan stood up, grabs the TV and throws it at the window.
A couple of seconds earlier
"I wounder how everyone is doing with their movie night?" Charlie thought as she, Baxter, Dipper, and Mabel walks over to the Mystery Shack's family door. But as they got closer, the television flies out of the window nearly hitting them.
Stan pokes his head out of the now broken window and from behind him was everyone else frozen in place. Thinking up an excuse of how to explain this, Stan said, "Uh, couldn't find the remote." And duck back in the shack. "What he said." Everyone, but Stan, said at the same time as they left the shack and headed back to their hotel.
The four standing outside only shrugged their shoulders, they'll deal with this in the morning and Soos can fix the window. But as they were leaving, everyone failed to notice a few bags of Smile Dip fell out of Mabel's sweater or that Angel had picked them up.
The Next Day
"Hey, has anyone seen the extra packages of Smile Dip? Mabel forgot that she stash some of them in her sweater." Said Charlie, but before anyone could answer her question, they heard Angel shouting, "il futuro! ... è nel passato! Avanti Aoshima!"
Putting a hand to her head, Charlie sighs and said, "Never mind." Knowing that Angel got into the Smile Dip.
Dah-na-na-na-naaaaaaaaa!
I have finished my seventh chapter! The next one is going to be the second Journal Entry and after that Chapter 9. The Hellish Ways into Becoming a Man.
I was giving a suggestion if I'm going to have the three V's making an appearance, and that they would be in Gravity Fall just like the rest of the Hazbin Hotel characters. I have an idea of having Valentino because Valentino is Robbie's last name. The choices of the possibilities are endless. But I will see what I can do. Plus I need to think about what their human forms are going to be. I think Val would be bald because I didn't see any hair and he is a moth demon, so maybe a tad weak on the muscles but still has strength to pack a punch.
Translate: Italian
il futuro! ... è nel passato! Avanti Aoshima!- The Future! ...Is in the past! Onward Aoshima!
See you guys later. Stay safe and healthy.