Last time on "Weirder Things", the story had reach over 200 Followers. Well, good news! The story has now reached 200 Favorites! And is now the six most followed and favorited Gravity Falls OC story, and the most followed and favorited OC x Wendy story.
I've really got to ask, how come there not a lot of OC/Wendy pairing stories? She a great character, and it makes a lot more scene to have her paired up with a boy her age instead of Dipper. But that's just me.
Thank you all for the support and hope you enjoy the chapter.
For Wendy, it was just another day working in the Mystery Shack. Standing at the counter and waiting for any costume to come into the store. However, she wasn't feeling like herself today. It was only yesterday that she found out that her ex-boyfriend Robbie had lied to her about a song that he said he wrote. Not only that, it had a hidden message that brainwashed her into going out with him.
She didn't want to come into work, as she was still very much hurt by the incident. And coming to work when it started raining didn't help her mood. Wendy sighed before hearing her phone buzz. With an irked expression she picked it up and looked at it.
Robbie: Take me back Wendy!
Wendy groaned. That was the fifth time Robbie's texted her to take him back and be his girlfriend again. He not even attempting to apologize for what he did.
Right when she was about to block Robbie, Wendy's ears picked up the sound of soothing and heartfelt music. It wasn't loud, but that was because it was coming from another part of the Shack.
However, what really caught her attention was that it was a saxophone.
Know who it was, Wendy got up from her stool and entered through the "Employees Only" door and followed the music down the stairs. Before she stopped in front of a door where the saxophone music was coming from. This was actually Patrick's new room.
From what he told her, Soos had found the secret room while cleaning and Dipper and Mabel got into a fight over who would get it. Patrick then explained that there was once this carpet in the room that can have people swap bodies. After a chaotic indecent, the twins decided that neither wanted the room. Patrick moved into the room, just so that he could have his own room away from the twins.
Knowing that Patrick was inside, Wendy pushed the cracked door open. The room looked old, was about the size of the attic, with a sloped ceiling and a bathroom off to one side. There were a bunch of tables, shelves and filing cabinets with random things on them. Patrick didn't know what some of them were, so he never messed with them. Under the window was a long couch, Patrick's bed was set up on the opposite side of the room.
Patrick was sitting on the couch, playing the saxophone, and Wendy has never heard anyone play so wonderfully. As listened to him playing, she remembered how her friend comforted her after the break-up with Robbie. How he held her and whispered how everything was going to be okay. How strong his arms were around her body, and how safe she felt. Like he was going to shield her from the world and never let go.
"Wendy?" The redhead gasped when she heard Patrick and snapped back to reality. With a slight blush, she brushed her hair behind her ear. "Hey, how're you doing?"
Wendy nodded. "I'm…I'm feeling better," she said to assure him, before walking over and sitting down next to him. Looking at him with a smile, she pointed to the saxophone she gave him. "That was a pretty song. What song was it?"
"'Space Lion'," he said, setting the instrument down. The two friends sat there for a moment, before Patrick broke the silence. "You sure you're okay? After last night with…you know…."
"I'm a big girl, Patrick. I understand that dating Robbie was a mistake, I just…" Wendy sighed. "I can't believe I actually believed all that sweet crap he was telling me."
Patrick nodded. "Yeah…I'm sorry about that. I shouldn't have meddled in your personal life, and I just ended up hurting you," he said. Wendy then playfully punched him in the arm.
"Ah, come on. You were trying to do the right thing," said Wendy with a smile. "You saved me from Robbie trying to control my mind."
Patrick looked a little surprised. "So, you're not mad at me," he asked.
"I can't get mad at a guy who comforted me when I broke down." Wendy saw him blush, and thought that it was cute. In fact, has Patrick always been this handsome? Where did that come from!? Shaking her head clear of those thoughts, Wendy got up and said, "Anyways, I'm going to head out and grab some sodas from the gas station. Wanna come?"
With a grin, Patrick stood up and followed her.
{Play Stranger Things theme by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein}
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At the beginning of the intro, there is nothing but blackness.
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Then about three seconds later, a bunch photographs started falling from above in slow motion.
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Getting a closer look at one of the photographs, while others twirled and spun in the background in slow motion, shows the town of Gravity Falls from a distance.
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Another picture shows the Mystery Shack during the night time, with bright lights shining thought the windows.
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One photo shows a thundering sky that had a large, flying creature's shadow being seen through the dark clouds. The camera then focuses on a picture behind the previous one, showing large claw marks on a tree trunk, as more photos were seen falling.
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Three photos are focused on now, one showing an angry Gnome, the second showing something that resembles the Long Ness Monster, and the third show a dinosaur tooth trapped in amber.
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The camera shows the cluster of photographs continuing to fall, before angling downwards to show all of them lying on a flat surface, collecting in a pile.
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The camera then gradually moves back to show more of the photos landing. After the last of the photos were on the surface, the camera moves upwards, displaying nothing but blackness again.
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Then the title of the story, including the red circle with triangle, appeared in a flash of light.
WEIRDER THINGS
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It then disappeared, before the chapter title appeared.
Chapter Fifteen
The Curse of the Were-Wendy
Patrick was the last one to walk out of the gas station with a plastic bottle of Dr. Pepper. "Still can't believe that soda is cheaper here than at the store," he said as he walked to the golf cart, where Wendy was waiting for him. It was still raining outside, so the two teenagers were wearing yellow rain jackets.
"I know, it's crazy," Wendy said as he jumped into the seat next to her. Her phone rang and she pulled it out. Looking at who it was, Wendy growled when she saw it was Robbie. Pressing the do not reply button, Wendy pulled the cart out of the parking space and speeded down the road back to the Mystery Shack.
Knowing that something was bothering her again, Patrick asked, "You okay?"
"I'm fine, it's just Robbie's been trying to get me to talk to him all day," Wendy said, calming down.
"Robbie? But I thought the two of you were through." He said, making circles with his finger.
"We are! I'm not going to date a guy that's going to constantly lie to me," Wendy said, getting frustration. She then sighed with a depressed expression. "I don't know what's wrong with me, man. I'm always been dating the wrong guys, and I thought that because I knew Robbie that I could trust him. Look what happened with that."
Patrick nodded and looked down. "Well, I'm not going to say the sappy 'there are other fish out there', mostly because I'm pretty sure you dated almost all the boys in Gravity Falls." Wendy snorted out a laughter before punching him in the arm. Patrick chuckled with her, while rubbing his arm. "Who knows, maybe you'll find that prefect guy soon. I'd say to—"
Her phone rang again, and Wendy interrupted Patrick by growling and pulled it out. "That's it! I'm ending this!" She yelled and was about to respond, but then Patrick he spotted something in front of them.
"Hey! Stop, stop! HEY STOP!" Patrick yelled, before moving in front of Wendy and used his arm to shield her, while pushing her foot off the gas pedal and slamming the breaks. The golf cart screeched to a halt, stopping before a huge body of fur in the road. It looked to be some kind of large black wolf creature.
"What is it?" asked Wendy, blushing by how close she was to Patrick and how…heroic his action was.
"It's a wolf, I think," Patrick said, before the two friends got out of the cart and cautiously approach the dead animal. He couldn't tell if it died from getting hit by a car, as there were no injuries on it. It was just lying motionless. "Should we like…move it or something?"
Wendy nodded and the two of them prepared to move it off the road. Patrick got behind to grab the hind legs, while Wendy was already reaching down to grab the forelegs. "Come on, lets—"
The wolf suddenly sprang to life and bit Wendy's hand. The redhead screamed in pain, before being tossed by the wolf.
"Wendy!" Patrick yelled and ran over to her when Wendy landed hard on the ground. He kneeled down next to her, as she grabbed her injured hand. "Wendy, you okay?" Wendy groaned in agony as Patrick helped her sit up, but the burning, highly painful bite was still felt. She held back the tears, trying to fight the burning pain.
"Hey, woah woah, watch it, watch it!" The wolf said, surprising Patrick as he got a good look at the creature. He looked exactly like a regular wolf, except bigger and much more humanoid. Despite his muscular appearance, his limbs appeared thin.
But while Patrick was shocked that the wolf was talking to them, Wendy wasn't too happy about being bitten and glared at him. "What the hell, man?"
"You guys think you could walk up to a guy in broad daylight and mug him without him fighting back," the wolf asked in an arrogant tone, with a Brooklyn accent.
"We weren't mugging you! We thought you were dead!"
"I was taking a nap!"
"In the middle of the road?!
"Oh, who are you, Mr. Queen Sand Man, telling people where they can and cannot sleep?" The wolf demanded rudely, getting aggravated. "Why don't you take your wimpy boyfriend and get lost, doll face."
"Hey! You leave her alone!" Patrick yelled, getting fed up with the wolf's attitude.
The wolf smirked egotistically. "And what're you going to do? Huh? Defend your little damsel in distress, big man? Oh, wait, I mean little man!" The wolf laughed.
Now it was Wendy who came to Patrick's defense. "Hey! Back off, you asshole!" She snapped.
But when the wolf heard her, he got angry again. "Oh, I'm an asshole?" The two teenagers' eyes widened in shock when the wolf suddenly became enlarged. With its back hairs sticking upon and claws extending. He suddenly grabbed Wendy and lifted her up into the air. "You think that you can stand up to me?! You have no idea what I am, and what you're going to be!"
"Let her go!" The wolf's glaring eyes turned to Patrick, who had pulled out his crowbar and raised it up threateningly. "Let her go or I'm gonna make you wish you were roadkill!" He glared at the creature, until he complained and dropped Wendy to the. "Now get lost!"
The wolf then shrank back down to its normal size. "You two are disgusting. I'm outta here!" He declaimed and started walking off towards a fenced off area of the forest.
"Wait, what did you mean when you said what I was going to be?!" Wendy called out to the creature.
"Yeah, right. Figure it out for yourself!" The wolf yelled back to her, before walking through a hole in the fence.
When Patrick and Wendy got back to the Shack, they told Stan and the others what had happened. The old man didn't believe that the wolf thing was standing upright and talking, but after some pleading from Patrick and the twins, agreed to take Wendy to go see a doctor.
They were now in a doctor's office, as Wendy's hand was being looked over by an Indian doctor named Dr. Vindaloo Quack. If Mabel remembered, he was the same doctor from when she was forced to date Gideon. The one that said the old woman was going to die if Mabel didn't say yes to going on another date.
Dr. Vindaloo held Wendy's hand up and examined it intensely. The bite was starting to swell and redden, with some strange veins popping out. "You have nothing to worry about. It's nothing to worry about, nothing at all," he said to the Pines family. "But there is nothing I can do."
"What!?" Patrick yelled. It was clear that his skills as a doctor were lackluster, and his powers of observation are even worse. "I call bullshit!"
"You can't just leave it like that. Look at it!" Dipper said, gesturing to how much Wendy's bite was swelling.
"The swelling will go down. Just keep soaking it," the doctor said, before walking over to the door. "You have nothing to worry about. Just keep soaking it."
As the doctor left the room, Stan frowned. "Well, he was no help."
"Are you sure you're going to be okay, Wendy?" Mabel asked. "What if that guy was a like a werewolf and you turn into one and have to fall in love with a vampire!? Just from experience dating one, I can tell you vampires are the biggest jerks on the planet."
Wendy, however, brushed it off. "Come on, Mabel. A werewolf? It was just some jerk wolf that bit me," she said with a laid-back smile.
"Well, you can't work at the Shack with that hand," Stan said, scratching the back of his head. "Just do what the doctor said and come back tomorrow!" Wendy turned her head back to her hand. Looking at it with a worried expression. Patrick then went over to a cabinet and grabbed some bandages. He walked over to Wendy and gently wrapped her hand in it.
"Just to be safe," he said, and Wendy nodded.
Night came, and Patrick was sleeping in his room. All was peaceful as it could be. Nothing to wake him from his dreams. However, he was awakened when he heard the sound of something breaking. Groggy and still a little sleepy, Patrick got up in nothing but his boxers and a tank up to go investigate.
As he looked towards the kitchen, he could the sounds of someone raiding the refrigerator. The all but the refrigerator's lights were off, so it was difficult to see who it was. "Hello? Who's there?" he asked, but all he heard was more eating and things falling over. "Mabel? Is that you?" No one responded, so Patrick pulled out his crowbar and walked towards the kitchen. "Girl, if you're sleep-eating again, then you're cleaning…up…tomorrow…" his sentence came to a stop when he saw what was really in the kitchen.
Making beastly sounds at it ate a roasted chicken whole was a large, hairy, wild humanoid creature with reddish hair covering every pair of its body. It had a long, furry tail, pointy ears, strong legs with canine-like feet, sharp claws, and long red hair flowing down from its head. It was wearing a tattered emerald green plaid/flannel shirt with a white tank top underneath, green stub earrings and blue jeans that were torn and cut halfway down.
The creature heard Patrick, and snapped its head towards him, and he gasped in shock. While it's face was more dog-like, with fangs that snarled at him and yellow eyes that glared right at the teenager, there was no way Patrick could mistake the person looking at him.
"W-Wendy?" He asked shakily.
Wendy let out a beastly snarl at him, before suddenly lunging at him. Patrick was too stunned to react and was backhanded by Wendy. Crashing into the wall with a loud thud, before a shelf came loose and drop some pots and dishes onto his head, knocking him out. Wendy then crashed through the door of the house, running out into the night.
Running at top speed into town, Wendy ran towards a local meat shop. Breaking the window with her fist, the werewolf girl entered the building and proceeded to eat almost every meat in the shop. However, with the alarms going off, the owner opened the back door with a meat cleaver and a flashlight. Wendy bolted out of the shop before the man could shine the light on her.
Wendy then broke into a house, ripped off the door of the refrigerator, and started eating all of the meat in it. "Hey! What's going on in here?" Asked a man, as he entered the kitchen. Just like with Patrick, Wendy attack him by slashing her claws at him. It didn't kill him, but it did send him flying back into a wall. He looked in fear, as Wendy jumped through the window.
With then moon high in the sky, Wendy crawled up to the top of the town hall and howled to it.
Patrick woke up with a startled gasp. He then groaned in pain and grabbed his head. "Patrick!" exclaimed Mabel as she ran over to him. Soos, Dipper, Stan, and even Dr. Vindaloo was there with him. They were in his room the next morning, with his head wrapped with a bandage.
Looking at them with a confused expression, Patrick sat up and turned his body so that he was sitting on the edge of the bed. "What's going on? And why does my head hurt?" He asked, rubbing his head.
"You had almost bought it, young boy. What is up with that?" asked Dr. Vindaloo, before walking out the room. "It's nothing to worry about. It's nothing at all."
As the doctor left the room and the five people in there. "Well, he's still useless. I've got a business to run, so you all can deal with this," Stan said after hearing a bus outside pull up to the building. So, he exited the room with Soos following him.
This leaves Dipper and Mabel alone with Patrick. The boy twin turned to his cousin and asked, "Patrick, what happened to you last night? When we found you, you were knocked out with an injured with the kitchen trashed."
"Did I have another sleep-eating incident?" Mabel asked, looking at him with curious eyes, before looking at her hands. "Do I have super strength when I sleep?"
"No, it wasn't you," he said, rubbings his eyes and tried to remember what had happened. "It was…" Patrick stopped, and his eyes widened when he remembered seeing Wendy as a werewolf, how she was eating from their refrigerator, and when she attacked him. "…Wendy."
Dipper and Mabel looked at each other with confused and surprised express. "Wendy?" They asked simultaneously.
"Turn on the news and call me if anything big is now it," Patrick told the twins, before getting up and walking towards the exit of the room. "I've got to find Wendy."
"Wait, Patrick! What's going?" Dipper yelled, but he didn't stop for the boy. Patrick walked up the stairs to find Wendy, but when he entered the gift shop, he didn't see her anywhere. He looked to his left, and then looked to the cash register. But there was no sign of her. Patrick then looked at the clock and saw it was past 9:00
Wendy was known for being late for work, but she was never really this late.
He then pulled out his phone to call her, but then the door of the shop opened with the bell ringing. That's when Wendy came walking in. Holding her stomach like she was having a stomach ache. Her hair wasn't as neat as it was before, and the redhead looked a little more pale than usual.
"Wendy!" Patrick exclaimed, pushing the fact that she was just a werewolf. He rushed over to Wendy and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Are you okay?"
"Oooooh, no. It feels like I ate one of Soos' Special Tacos," the redhead said, but then she saw Patrick's head wound. Worried about wellbeing, she placed a hand on his head. "Oh my God! What happened to your head?"
Patrick flushed a little, but he was confused by her question. "Wait. You really don't remember," he asked, grasp her hand and moving it away from his injured head.
"No, why?" Wendy looked at him with a confused expression.
"PATRICK! GET IN HERE! QUICK!" the two teenagers heard the male twin yelling from the living room.
With his hand still holding Wendy's, Patrick pulled her along with him as they ran into the living room. Dipper was sitting in the chair and Mabel sat in front of it, and when the teenagers arrived, the young boy grabbed the remote and turned up the volume.
"This is Shandra Jimenez with breaking news. Confusion and chaos erupted in Gravity Falls as some kind of creature rampaged through the town," said the news reporter, before showing film footage of trashed shops and refrigerators in houses that had all of its contents pulled out. Bits of meat on the floor. "Shops and homes were broken into and almost all the meats were eaten by this creature. During its attack, the thing attacked a man in his home with a critical slash to his chest, but thankfully he'll be making a quick recovery." The TV showed the man being carried out into an ambulance in the middle of the night. It then switched to showing security footage of Wendy as a werewolf breaking into the meat shop and wrecking the place. Eating all the meats that she was able to get her hands on. "As you can see from this security feed from a local shop, this is what the creature looks like…"
While Shandra Jimenez continued to describe Wendy's werewolf form, Patrick and the twins looked to the redhead. Dipper and Mabel with shock, wide eyes, and Patrick with a look of concern.
Wendy looked at the TV with shock and horror, as the news froze the feed so that it could zone in on her snarling and savage. Gripping Patrick's hand tightly as if afraid to let go, she turned to her friends with a pale expression. She took again glance at Patrick's head wound and started to breath heavily. "No…"
"Wendy, calm down," Patrick said, patting her hand. "Everything is going to be okay."
"How can you say that!" Wendy yelled, yanking her hand away from him. Backing away from the twins and Patrick. "I turned into a werewolf and hurt people! Including you!"
Dipper hopped off the chair and said, "Then we're just going to have to figure out how to cure you of the curse!" He then pulled out the 3rd Journal and started pacing around. Turning the pages to try and find something. "There's nothing in the Journal that'll be able to help us."
"The only think I know is that silver destroys werewolves," said Mabel, remembering what that vampire she dated for a day told her about werewolves. She then frowned when she remembered how the guy going to try and turn her into a slave. "David McFly was nothing but a jerk."
"Then I'm sure there'll be information online or at the library that'll get us the answers we need. We gotta find that cure before tonight!" Dipper exclaimed, slipping the Journal back in his vest.
"What if I can't be fixed?" Wendy asked desperately, starting to tear up. "Am I just being a werewolf for the rest of my life?"
"Don't worry Wendy," Patrick said with a smile. "We won't give up until you're cured."
Seeing that boyish smile on his face, Wendy felt calm and at ease again. Rubbing away the tears from her eyes, she nodded and said, "Thanks Patrick, you guys are the best."
"Ugh! Why is this so hard?!" Dipper complained. At the Gravity Falls library, Patrick, the twins, and Wendy were searching for the cure to the teenage girl's lycanthropy. The female twin was looking at a computer while Patrick, Dipper, and Wendy were looking at book after book after books of werewolves. But it was proving to be a difficult.
"Most of this stuff jut explains how to kill a werewolf, and some of these cures aren't even going to help," Patrick said, gesturing to a sentence that the book in front of him was telling him.
"Someone calls you by your birth name while you're a werewolf," Mabel said out loud from a list of old werewolf cures. Many of them weren't successful for the victim.
"I'm pretty sure I said her name when she broke into the house."
"Getting struck on the forehead with a knife 3 times."
"I want to live by the end of this ordeal," Wendy said with a scowl.
"Rolling in dew or plunging in water," Mabel said the last opinion. "Ew!"
Wendy slammed the book she was read closed and then pulled the next book in front of her. But when she looked at the book, the redhead was surprised to see that it was the same book that she looked at when investigating the Summer Trickster. Opening the leather covered book and turning the pages written in red link. Soon, she stopped when coming upon a chapter with the title "lycanthrope".
"I think I found something," Wendy said, before reading the pages. "'Werewolves are a race of partially-human supernatural creatures that are able to morph into a combination of human and wolf. Every night, werewolves must go out and eat to satisfy their insatiable craving for blood, meat, and flesh. However, unlike popular belief, werewolves don't eat people because they have to. Werewolves can live off of other animals, and it's up the werewolf to hunt and kill humans." Patrick gulped. That's disturbing to think about. "To become a werewolf, one must be bitten by an alpha werewolf, and will have only three nights of humanity left."
"Three days," asked Dipper.
"Apparently so," Wendy said before looking into the book again. "Because once the last night ends…I won't wanna change back."
"Is there a way to cure you?" Mabel asked, walking over to them.
Wendy looked at the book and read some more. "There is! It's just right over…" turning to the next page, Wendy was shocked to see that the page wasn't there. But instead ripped out of the book. "Where is it? Where is it?! Where is it?!" Wendy yelled, flipping through the pages. Desperate to knowing the cure.
However, to her horror…
"Someone ripped it out!"
Patrick and the twins ran around the table and looked at the book, as Wendy got out of her chair and backed away.
Patrick grabbed the book and looked at it. "Who would rip out the page for a werewolf cure," he said. "It doesn't make any sense!" Their attention was then brought over towards the sounds of grunting. Wendy was the one doing the grunting, hugging herself and her expression twisting in agony. "Wendy!"
"I feel…hot! Rrrrr!" Wendy growled beastly, hunching over and sweating from her skin, which has turned paler. Patrick and the twins looked at each other with concern.
With night coming, the Pines kids took Wendy back to the Mystery Shack and headed down to Patrick's room. They then tied up Wendy on the bed on his bed, then chained her down. Afterwards, Patrick covered his crush with bags of frozen peas. "This should help you with some of the heat," he said, placing the last bag gently on her head.
"Thanks, but why are we in your room," asked Wendy, turning her head to look at the twins and the teenager. "Couldn't we just do this at my house?"
"The Shack is the furthest place away from the town," Patrick explained.
"We're going to try and see if waiting out the night can break the curse," Dipper informed her. "If you can't transform under the full moon, we might be able to cure you by preventing the transformation."
"But what if I break out and hurt you guys again," Wendy asked anxiously.
"My room is the only one with boarded up windows," Patrick said, pointing with his thumb at the window that were boarded with planks of wood. "Plus, you have to get through Mabel and she's wearing a police attack-dog suit that we found in the trash."
Mabel is seen flexing her arms to test the suit. "Yeah, yeah, yeah!"
"You can get this under control, Wendy. ARE YOU READY TO OVERCOME THIS THING?" The teenager yelled.
"I think so," Wendy replied calmly.
"I said... ARE YOU READY TO OVERCOME THIS THING?"
"Yeah. I heard you. I said I think so."
"I'm tryin'a' getcha to shout."
"Oh. Okay." Wendy then shouted at the top of her lungs. "IS THIS GOOD?!
"Never mind." Patrick sighed before getting serious. "Now. I want you to think about eating a porcupine. How would that feel?"
"Prickly and painful."
"Good, good, you're doin' great!" Patrick said with a smile.
"Cool. So, can I be let out?"
"No, you can't," Patrick told her, shaking his head. "We've got to keep you here all night."
"But, Patrick, please! I...I... NEED IT!" Wendy yelled, trying to sit up, but struggled to against the chains and rope. This made Patrick and the twins back away, as she panted heavily then started growling.
As the clouds moved away from the moon in the sky, the light of it shined through the gaps in the broad. Hitting her in small places. However, this was enough for her to thrash around more, rocking the bed as she squeezed her eyes shut. Hair started to appear on her arms, her nails turned to claws, and her teeth began to sharpen. Wendy was yelling out in agony as she tried to escape the bindings.
"Oh, no, the transformation's already takin' over her brain!" Dipper exclaimed.
Wendy snapped open her eyes, which had turned yellow and animal like. "I want to see that moon!" Wendy growled fiercely, before making more sounds like she was in pain. She tried to move around and break free but couldn't.
When Wendy calmed down for a moment, Patrick swallowed the lump in his throat and asked, "Wendy? If you're still in there…say something to reassure me."
"I'LL BITE YOUR MOM!"
The three Pines members each made a frightened noise and backed away quickly. Wendy continued to struggle against the ropes and chains, before suddenly breaking them.
Patrick gasped. "She broke loose!" He yelled, before Wendy fell off the bed onto the floor. On all fours, she panted, before looking up. Looking at the three with her glowing yellow eyes and her hair messy than before, Wendy growled like the animal she was becoming.
"…run." Wendy simply said, before lunging at the Pines.
They screamed and ducked out of the way, but Wendy wasn't attacking them. She instead ran over to the window and pulled out the wooden boards with monstrous strength. Throwing them away and nearly hitting Mabel with one of them.
As the moon shined on her, Wendy growled while her body continued to transform. First, her hair grows out of her skin and covered every last part of her body. Her legs turned and twisted into wolf legs, with her feet breaking out of her socks and shoes. Her long tail then popped out of her pants, wagging around while the arms and hairs grew hair all over it. Wendy's face grows out a snout, her teeth became sharper, and her ears grew pointy.
With her transformation into a werewolf complete, she howled at the moon.
"What do we do!" Mabel yelled, before Wendy turned to them and snarled. However, she didn't attack the kids. Instead, she busted out of the window, howling.
Patrick, Dipper, and Mabel ran over to the broken window and watched as Wendy ran towards the town. They then ran out of the Mystery Shack and got into the golf cart, before speeding down the road to follow after her and to hopefully stop her.
When morning came the next day, the Mystery Cart pulled up to the barn of farmer Sprott. This was the last place that Wendy stopped at before the moon settled, and the sun rose. Just like the night before, Wendy left a trail of destruction in town, but was now starting to go after living animals too. Stray dogs and cats, even wild animals. Patrick tried to keep up with her, but Wendy was too fast in her werewolf form.
This was where the trail ended. When they pulled up to the farm, Patrick and the kids saw the strange farmer pulling out the carcass of a sheep that was ripped apart with its entrails hanging. Dragging it to a trailer that had more dead sheep in it.
"Okay, I'll go talk to the guy. Just stay here," Patrick, said, before stepping out of the cart. He then stopped and looked at the kids. "In fact, don't look over here at all, just look at the trees so you're not traumatized any further."
Mabel and Dipper just looked blankly into space, having already to traumatized by the things they've seen Wendy's done. "Too late," Mabel said quietly.
As Sprott threw the dead sheep onto the trailer, Patrick walked over to him. He glanced at the open barn and could see that there was blood on the floor and some splatter the walls. It was a bloodbath in there. Fighting his down sickness, the teenager approached the man. "Excuse me, have you seen a young girl with red hair wearing green?"
"Oh, you mean the Corduroy girl. Yes, when I came out this morning, I saw her laying with a bunch of my dead sheep with blood all over her," Sprott said with a casual tone. "Yep, she should be at the police station right now."
"What!? You had her arrested!?" Patrick shouted with wide eyes.
"No, actually. When the young lady woke up, she just said she's going to the police station." The man then shrugged. "Don't know what her problem is. I'm just trying to figure out what ate all my sheep."
In one of the police station's cells, Wendy sat on the only bench there as her sobbing echoed all throughout the hallway of empty cells. Crying into her hands, the redhead's front was covered in blood and she was without her shoes and socks. However, she stopped when she heard the sound of the door at the end of the hallway up and close. Then the sound of footsteps came towards her.
"Wendy!" exclaimed Patrick as he, Mabel, and Dipper arrived at her cell.
"What are you guys doing here," she asked with red eyes from her crying, before seeing that Patrick had the cell keys in his hands.
"We're here to bust you out, girlfriend!" Mabel exclaimed with excitement. Patrick then locked the cell and opened it for Wendy.
"Come on. Let's go figure out a Plan B," Patrick said with an encouraging smile. Trying to stay positive for his crush, especially after seeing the sighs that she's been crying.
Wendy sighed and approached the Pines. "Dudes…" she stopped in front of them and grabbed the door. "This is Plan B," the redhead said somberly and closed the door, locking herself inside.
"What?! What're you saying?" Patrick asked, taken aback by her action
"This is the only place that can keep me from hurting you guys anymore!" Wendy proclaimed. She didn't remember what she actually as she as a werewolf, but after walking up with dead sheep all around her, with blood all over her, Wendy had a good idea what she did. "After the horrible things I did last night, I can't say I mind being in jail for the rest of my life."
"You gotta let us try to help you!" Dipper exclaimed. "We just got started!"
"And I'm ending it! Just leave me alone, dudes." Wendy walked over to the bench and sat down with guilt and shame.
Patrick and the twins glanced at each other with worried expressions. She was really serious about this. Dipper and Mabel walked away towards the exit, but their cousin stood there for a moment. He grabbed the bars with both hands and said, "I'm not giving up on you, Wendy. Please don't give up on us." Wendy remained silent as he walked away. When the door closed, Wendy hugged her legs to her chest. Alone in the cold cell.
With the situation getting worse for their friend, the Pines kids walked out of the police station and headed to the Gravity Falls library. Trying one last time to find a cure for her before she turned into a werewolf. But as they looked for any solutions, the hours dragged on with no results. "Ugh! This is hopeless!" Patrick exclaimed in frustration.
"We've looked at every book, and there's still no clue to curing werewolves," said Dipper said, having almost given up hope.
But then someone came over to where the three kids were and looked down at the book Dipper was reading. "You kids looking at werewolves," asked Veronica, reading the page.
Her presence taken the kids aback with a yelp. "Graunt Veronica!" Mabel happily exclaimed, and hugged her. "Wendy's got bit by a werewolf and we've been trying to figure out how to save her."
Veronica's eyes widened. She was going to order a kill on the werewolf when it first attacked and then cover up the disappearance of the person it was. However, when hearing that it was Wendy Corduroy, she knew that it had to be called off and that they needed an answer to their situation. "I know of a way. It's simple, but extremely risky," she told them.
"Really!?" Patrick yelled with a happy grin. He then ran over to his grandmother and hugged her tightly. "Thank you so much! What do we have to do?"
"Find the alpha werewolf that bit her, alive and before it transforms, and take a fang from it. Then bring it to Wendy and stab it where she was bitten before midnight."
The three kids looked at her with wide eyes. "That's going to be difficult," said Dipper.
"That's an understatement," said Patrick.
The three kids ran out of the library and grabbed the cart. Hopping into it and drove off. Patrick drove them out onto the road that Wendy and he went down to go back to the Shack the day she was bitten. When they arrived at the fence that the wolf went through, Patrick pulled the cart to the side of the road and parked it.
Finding the hole in the metal fence, they crawled under it and ran through the woods.
"Where you at, wolf!" Patrick called out for the werewolf as they crossed a stream. Pushing the branches of a bush aside, they saw a cabin with the lights on.
"Is that his home," asked Dipper.
"Only one way to find out." Patrick ran up onto the porch of the cabin and started pounding the door, as the twins followed behind him. "Wolf, come out! I know you're in there!"
The door opens and the werewolf came outside. "What? Oh. It's you," he said, glaring at Patrick and the twins. "What are you doing here?
"Listen, I know that you're a werewolf and your bite's turning my friend into one of you," Patrick told the wolf, scowling at him.
"And let me guess, you're here for my tooth?" The wolf questioned the boy.
"Yes…" Patrick paused. "Wait…"
Mabel continued by asking, "How did you know we needed it?" The werewolf narrowed his eyes and pulled out something from behind his back. That something was—to the Pines' shock—was the missing page of the book from the library.
Dipper pointed a trembling finger. "You? You had it?"
"Thing is, kids, I'm sick of being the only werewolf in town. Always getting dirty looks, people thinking they're some big shot hero huntin' ya, people hatin' ya 100% of the time," the werewolf said, circling the kids with as they huddled together. Just waiting for the wolf to attack. "Nah, with your girlfriend as a werewolf, things won't be so bad." The wolf then grinned menacingly as he stopped in front of the doorway. "All the hatred: We'll be splitting it, fifty-fifty. I'll have a warm body to sleep with every night. It'll be the start of a new pack in Gravity Falls!"
"Not if we stop you!" Mabel yelled before grabbing a handful of glitter from her pocket and threw it into the werewolf's face.
"ACH!" The wolf stumbled and tried to rub the glitter out of his eyes. But then Patrick pulled out his crowbar and swung it into the creature's face. Knocking him onto his back into the house.
Patrick then stood over the wolf and started beating the werewolf without mercy. Only stopping when one strike from the crowbar knocked out a fang.
Dipper ran over to the tooth and grabbed it. "I've got it!"
With the fang in their hands, Patrick and the twins quickly left the cabin and ran away. But as they jumped into the cart and drove back down the hill towards the police station, the moon was rising high into the sky.
Driving as fast as it could go, Patrick looked to his cousin. "You still got it?" He asked, before making a hard-right turn. Dipper and Mabel held onto their seats during the turn, before the boy pulled out the tooth from his pocket.
"I've still got it," Dipper confirmed, putting it back into his pocket. "The night's begun, so we've only got a few hours before it's midnight."
"WE SAVED THE DAY!" Mabel shouted, before the boys joined her in cheers. "Nothing can stop…" However, just at that last word, the cart suddenly stopped in the middle of the road.
Patrick looked at the dashboard of the cart, trying to figure out what'd happened. He then saw the fuel gage and saw the arrow on empty. Shaking his head in disbelief, Patrick tried turning on the cart. Then again. Then again and again and again.
They got out of the cart and Patrick raised up the seat to look at the gas tank under it. "It's no good!" He exclaimed, slamming the seat down in frustration. "It's fucking empty!" Patrick then kicked the cart hard, rocking it a little.
"It's okay. It can't get any worse than this," Dipper said to calm down his cousin.
Suddenly the night air was pierced by the sound of a werewolf howling. Patrick and the twins slowly turned their heads and looked at where it was coming from. Seeing that it wasn't from town. They were looking in the direction they just came from.
"You just had to jinx it," groaned Patrick.
Meanwhile, the howl wasn't the only heard by the Pines kids. When Wendy heard it, she gasped. For the past few minutes, she's been in an extreme amount of pain. Like a junkie trying to force themselves to quit their addiction, the Corduroy girl's been forcing herself to not give in and go into the moonlight. Wendy couldn't believe that this was happening to her. This couldn't be her life from now on. Not when there were so many things she wanted to do.
When she heard the howl, her werewolf instincts were telling her it was the alpha werewolf. She could smell him. And it made her want to rip out his heart and eat it!
Wendy shook her head before grabbing it. Rocking back and forth in the corner of her cell. Pushing back against her primal side taking over like last night. But it was hard to do when that bastard was getting closer. But there was something else that her nose picked up. As she smelt in the air, Wendy gasped and let go of her head.
"…Patrick?" It was Patrick and the twins. They were near the alpha! Wendy looked down at her hands, examining all of the blood on them, her arms, and clothing. But then she reached into the pocket of her shirt and pulled out the drawing Patrick drew of her. The very same drawing that she's kept in her shirt.
Wendy's face, then changed to a determined expression. Her friends were in danger, and she was the only one who could save them. So, she got up and opened cell doors. Exiting the cell block, Wendy walked past the front desk of the police station, where the two policemen were snoring and sleeping.
Standing in front of the glass doors of the building, Wendy could feel her werewolf side trying to take over. Shivering as she took in a deep breath, she closed her eyes to focus. "You've got this Wendy. You've got to do this for your friends!" Wendy told herself, before opening her eyes. "I'M READY TO OVERCOME THIS THING!"
Grabbing the handles, she opened the doors and rushed out into the night.
They started backing away. Walking slowly backwards towards the town. Both twins hid behind Patrick as he used his body as a shield. All three frightened as the alpha werewolf came walking down the road, approaching them. Just like when Patrick and Wendy first encountered him, the wolf was larger than before with its back hairs sticking upon and claws extended.
Patrick pulled out his laser shotgun and aimed at the werewolf. But with incredible speed, the werewolf swatted the gun out of his hand. Sending it a few feet away. The werewolf then grabbed him by his neck, choking him and lifting him off his feet.
"Patrick!" Dipper and Mabel yelled and were going to attack, but the alpha swiped them away with his tail. Batting them away and sending them flying back. Both twins hit the ground hard and groaned in pain.
"You think you gonna stop me from creating more werewolves with your friend?" He yelled in fury at Patrick. The teenager tried to break his grip on his neck. Kicking his feet back and forth in a desperate attempt to hit the werewolf. But the alpha choked him hard, making Patrick's face begin to turn blue, and he started to lose consciousness. "You can't stop me. You can't stop nothin'!"
Suddenly, werewolf Wendy jumped down from the trees and pounced on the back of the alpha. Biting down on his neck and clawing his, making the alpha cry out in pain. Patrick was dropped to the ground, as the monsters fought each other. The werewolf grabbing Wendy from his back and trying to pull her. But all it did was make Wendy slash and dig her claws into him more. Drawing blood from his back.
Growling and snarling in pain, the alpha was able to grab Wendy's tail. So he yanked her roughly off his back, making her yelp in agony when he pulled her and threw her at a tree.
Wendy yelped when her back hit the trunk of the tree hard. Falling down on the ground where she whimpered. "Wendy!" Patrick yelled, before running over to her. He kneeled down next to her, picking up her head and cradling it. A shadow loomed over them, and when Wendy saw who it was, she snarled and got on all fours. Putting herself in front of Patrick in a protective stance.
Panting with his back bloodied, gashed, scared and all around messed up, the alpha werewolf growled as he walked over to the teenager and the red-haired werewolf. "Alright, you don't want to play nice," he said before getting ready to attack, "then I'm—"
BANG!
Suddenly, a gun shot rang out and a bullet went right through the head of the werewolf. Patrick, Wendy, Dipper, and Mabel were shocked and started by the it, and watched the wolf fall to his knees, before tumbling over on his right side. Dead.
"You kids okay?" The Pines kids turned their heads towards the direction and were shocked. Standing in the middle of the road in front of her car was Veronica with an M4A1 assault rifle. She lowered the gun and walked over to them. "I had a feeling that you were going to need some help," she said while approaching Dipper. She then grabbed his arm and pulled him up onto his feet.
"W-What did…what're you doing with a gun?" Dipper asked, completely stunned by the gun that his sweat great aunt had. Even more so that she actually used it to kill the alpha werewolf. And by the look of his sister, she was shocked too.
"Did you use a silver bullet," the young girl asked, knowing that it was the only thing that could kill a werewolf.
"Those politicians may not like it, but your grandma's packing heat!" Veronica said with a smirk, ejecting the bullet from the chamber and showed the kids that it was indeed a silver bullet as Patrick led Wendy over to the other. Surprising, she wasn't as feral as she was before. She was now relatively tame, and was even licking Patrick's face.
"S-Stop it, g-girl!" He laughed, pushing her away by her nose. Wendy, however, licked his hand like she was a common house dog.
"As nice as this is to see, you've still got to cure her," Veronica said, before pulling out a mallet from her pocket and handed it to him. "You guys got the fang before I, you know, blow his brains out, right?"
Dipper quickly reached into his pocket and pulled out the fang. He then handed it to his cousin. Patrick turned to Wendy, who looked at him with wide eyes that held confusion in them. "It's going to be okay, Wendy," he said gently, before grabbing the hand that was bitten. "We're going to end this." He placed the fang on the back Wendy's hand, and then struck it with the hammer.
Wendy yelped in pain and shut her eyes tightly when it sank deep into her skin. But when she opened her eyes again, they were back to normal. Her nails shrank back down to her body transformed back into its normal, as her body shed and fell off.
When she was finally cured of the curse, Wendy fell to her knees and hand. Panting heavily as the transformation back to her real self. Looking up at the Pines family, she stared at them for a moment. "Hey guys…"
"Wendy? Are you—" Patrick is interrupted when Wendy suddenly lunged at him and brought her arms around him in a hug. Breaking down in sobs as she clung to him. Whispering 'thank you' repeatedly. The nightmare was finally over.
Never in a million years had Patrick thought this could happen.
Afterwards, Patrick led Wendy to Veronica's car, as the twins and the elder woman got in. When Veronica started the car, she drove the kids back to the Mystery Shake. Figuring that it was best if Wendy slept with them for the night. Arriving at the Shake, Patrick led the traumatized and shaken Wendy to his room and closed the door. He let her have the bed, and he was laying on the couch located at the opposite end of the room.
While there was silence in the room, Patrick stared at Wendy, with her back was turned to face him. Worried about how she was feeling. Having her body twisted and transformed into something that it wasn't and having known that you've killed many animals wasn't something that any girl should have to go through. No matter how tough she was.
He rolled on his side, away from Wendy, and closed his eyes to try and fall asleep. "Patrick, are you still awake?" Wendy suddenly asked.
Patrick rolled back towards her, and saw the ginger looking at him with eyes that turned red from crying. It was heartbreaking to see the carefree girl so broke. "Yeah. Are you okay?"
There was a moment of silence before Wendy broke it. "I can't sleep," she said. Then paused with hesitation, she knew that she was already asking a lot from him, and what she was going to ask him was extremely weird, but she just couldn't sleep knowing that there will be nightmares of her being that thing. "Can you…lay down next to me? When mom was still around, she'd always do that to help me sleep whenever I was scared."
Patrick looked at her with wide eyes. Did she really ask for him to sleep with her? This couldn't really be happening. "…Okay." As much as he was reluctant to do it, Patrick got up and walked over to her in nothing but his boxers. He raised the covers and crawled into bed with her.
{Play music: A Real Hero by College and Electric Youth}
Right when he got settled in, Wendy surprised him by wrapping her arms around his body and rested her head at the base of his neck. Patrick's heart beats faster when they made close contact. With her cloths destroyed, Wendy was wearing nothing but one of Patrick tank tops and a pair of shorts. Leaving her bare skin to rub against him. Patrick fought hard against his hormones as he wrapped his arm around her back. Just like an angel, her touch was soft, tender, and warm, and it didn't help that she entangled her legs with his.
Wendy's breathing quickened, as she too struggled with her hormones. She began to intimately massage his chest with her small hand as she listened to his heart beats. It enticed Patrick, and it made their position more comfortable.
She stopped when she heard him sigh. Wendy looked up and stared at him, while Patrick had closed his eyes and started falling asleep. Their faces only inches away from each other.
That's when all of the time she's spent with him came flooding into her head. When they first met. All the times they hung out. Going with him on some of their adventures and having a genuinely good time. How she felt guilty when she turned her back on him at the Dust 2 Dawn. How worried she was after he killed his clone. The fun she had with him at the carnival. The horror and fear she felt for him when he was possessed by the Trickster, and the joy when he was freed. And when he was there for her after she broke up with Robbie.
She gazed at him with eyes that held a huge amount of emotions, as it became clear to her why she was feeling the way she was around him for a long time. Wendy had known ever since seeing his drawing of her that Patrick had feelings for her. After everything he's done for her over the last few days, and just being with him, she's finally could see who Patrick really is to her.
Patrick is a shield. A person that's willing to go through hell and extreme pain to protect her and everyone he cares about. It was his determination and willingness to save people that made him a hero in her eyes. Whenever she was with him, Wendy felt at ease and safe. Like she can be her true self and release all of her emotions—good or bad, around him and he would be there to listen, laugh, and comfort. He made her feel like every day was its own summer.
And now Wendy thinks it's obvious what she feels. But she couldn't really say it out loud. Maybe she was afraid of love, but with him, Wendy is more than willing to find out if her new feelings for him are true. But for now, there was one thing that was obvious to her.
She had a crush on Patrick Pines.
And there you go, whereas Boyz Crazy ended a period of sadness and loneliness for Patrick, this chapter brings us a romantic moment that I've been waiting to do for a long time.
So, this isn't like how I planned it to be. I was planning for it to be heavily inspired by the Regular Show episode 'Skunked'. However, I decided to take inspiration from multiple werewolf/were-animal episodes from other shows like Adventure Time, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and even Wallace and Gromit helped inspire the werewolf parts of the chapter.
A lot more bloodily and more on the horror factor that all my other chapters, but then again, werewolves and the concept of them is a very scary thing. Your body is violated and transformed painfully into something that will kill and you have no control of your actions. I've actually had to look up multiple cures for werewolves, and some of them weren't really working for me. So, I made one up, and rolled with it.
Lastly, there's the ending. A moment for Patrick and Wendy that brings them together like never before. We see just what Wendy sees and feels for our boy. This is honestly one of the most difficult moments that I've had to do, as I wanted for her to realize that she loves Patrick but also be realistic about it. We all know what Patrick's feelings are, so now it's Wendy's turn. She really does see Patrick as a perfect guy, a protector, and a hero that she wants in her life. However, what's holding her back is that after so many failed relationships, Wendy is afraid to say that she loves another boy in fear that it'll only hurt her more if that relationship ends badly. Neither may not have said "I love you", it's the safety and at ease feeling she has around Patrick that allows her to be open and admit her crush on him.
I'm not sorry to push their relationship to this point.
I'm now going to be moving on to a story that I've been needing to do for a long time, "Welcome Back, Mr. ED!" and I'm hoping to get back to Weirder Things in the future.
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