Well a Happy new year to everyone and hope it was a nice start of the year for you all. I had a few issues at the start but I manage to get through them and back to writing. Christmas was very kind to me as well as I got my hands on Journal 3 myself and it has been a real enjoyable read to see what Dipper has read and also a bit of back story of his adventures when he added to the journals. I found dates for the events, extra story line and adventure after the cannon episodes and much more. Also I noticed that Ford has a bit of an ego or slightly narrow minded when it comes to some things like his brother or the portal itself. Also after reading I noticed a few things like how Ford actually knew the gnomes could stack up into a giant and that there is a mosquito that does spell out warnings in their bites but tend to misspell them. Nothing major that needs me to correct them but now with the book I can actually add a few details more such as the location of journal 2 in a way and more. Hopefully it will make the story more believable or at least make it feel that way. But enough of that time for the chapter.
Disclaimer; I do not know the wonderful series called Gravity Falls nor the story I am reacting to. The story is made by Wolfpackersson09 and shadowwriter329. I hope the characters are as close to cannon as possible and the reactions would be close to it.
Gravity Falls Dimension Files: Gravity Falls for Devils
Chapter 3: Hollowed Inconvenience
Ford groaned, pinching the bridge of his nose, "I can't believe that kid found the journal."
"Where did you hide that anyways?" Stan asked, honesty curious. He could never find that one until they took Gideon down.
Ford sighed, "I actually hid it near the elementary school. I figured no one would search there and any adult trying to find it would be notice hanging around a school for children and be reported. I never though a child would be cleaver or cunning enough to find it."
"That explains a lot," Stan muttered, agreeing that he would never have thought to check there.
It was just another normal day at the mystery shack. Wendy was reading a magazine, Mabel was sitting on a large globe that was spinning, Soos was fixing something and Dipper was reading the Journal. "Huh, did you know that the author has an entry on ghosts?" asked Dipper.
"Ah I remember that," Ford said with a small chuckle, "took me a while to figure out the different categories for them."
"You made that journal with all the stuff and ghost in it?" Pacifica asked with slightly narrowed eyes.
"Indeed I did," Ford admitted adjusting his glasses. "Why you ask?"
"I have a bone to pick with you," Pacifica said turning towards him, "what kind of stupid advice is 'pray for mercy?' huh?"
"Excuse me?" Ford asked confused.
"Her house was haunted by a ghost beyond category ten," Dipper explained.
"Oh really?" Ford asked surprised. "I never found a way to stop a category ten or even a ghost type beyond that. How did you defeat it?"
"I'll explain later," Dipper said knowing it would take forever to explain at the moment. "Plus I had the entry in the journal now."
Ford nodded making a smaller note to check and see what Dipper has added to his research.
"What kind of ghost?" Mabel asked. "Like actual ghosts that haven't moved on yet, or cursed imprints?"
"Don't know yet." Dipper admitted. "Maybe I should show Yuzu and Karin. They'd know more than I would."
Mabel, Dipper and Ford blinked at this. Mabel wondering what was she talking about, Dipper for the two unfamiliar names and Ford wondering what a curse imprint was.
Mabel laughed still spinning. "Yeah, and they aren't big dorks like you."
Dipper simply touched the ring part of the globe and froze it. This forced the globe to stop spinning, thus causing Mabel to fall off.
"They found like fun," Mabel pointed out for the names.
Stan walked in through the front door. "Wendy, Soos." he called out.
Soos quickly ran over, panting slightly before he asks, "What's up Mr. Pines?"
Wendy didn't even look up from her magazine. Stan however didn't notice as he said, "I'm heading out. You two are going to wash the bathrooms right?"
"Yes sir!" said Soos with a salute.
"Absolutely not" added Wendy with her own salute.
Stan laughed, before he said with narrow eyes. "Stay out of trouble you two." Before he closed the door and left.
"Where did you go Mr. Pines?" Soos asked.
Stan just shrugged, "I don't really remember. I don't even know when this was."
Wendy however walked over to one corner of the gift shop. "Hey guys, what's this?" she asks pulling back a curtain. "A secret ladder to the roof?"
"Uh…" said Soos nervously, "I don't think Mr. Pines will like that."
Stan just gave a small 'meh' and a shrug not really caring or worried.
Wendy started to tease Soos by reaching her hand out to grab the ladder and then pulled it back. Soos grabbed his hat. "You're freaking me out dude."
"We can actually go up there?" Dipper asked.
"Sure we can!" Wendy said already climbing up before she started chanting, "Roof time! Roof time!"
"Roof time! Roof time!" cheered Dipper and Mabel as they followed up after her.
Soos watched them nervously as they climbed it. Once they reached the roof Wendy lead them over the top, passed the sign, which the S had fallen off spelling Mystery Hack, and to another section of the roof. "Alright, check it out."
On that flat section of the roof was a cooler, a lawn chair, umbrella and a bucket of pinecones. The twins found they cool as they climbed down. "Did you put all this stuff up here?" Dipper asked.
Stan hummed, "I wondered where that stuff came from."
Wendy smirked, "I may or may not sneak up here during work…all the time, every day."
Stan scowled and shot Wendy a look. Said girl just smirked and gave Stan the thumbs up
She took a pinecone from the bucket and threw it hard the twins watched as the pinecone flew before it hit the bulls-eye placed near the top of the totem pole. Wendy pumped her fist at the hit before the twins grinned and decided to try. The three were throwing pinecones before one Dipper threw bounced off the totem pole, hitting the center, and hit a car, which caused the alarm to go off.
Dipper looked embarrassed but Wendy was impressed. "Jackpot! High five."
Dipper stared at Wendy who had her hand up and her hair flowing in the wind. "Don't' leave me hanging" Wendy said after a minute.
Dipper grinned and gave her a high five. Wendy heard a car horn and looked. She knew which one it was. "Hey it's my friends!"
The car pulled to a stop and a hand was seen out one of the windows. "Wendy!"
Wendy glanced at them. "Hey, you're not going to Stan about this, are you?"
Stan growled annoyed that Wendy just skipped out in work. Yeah he wasn't having her do anything but it was the principle of the matter.
Dipper smiled, zipped his lips, and made a motion that he was throwing the zipper or key away, which Wendy copied. Then the red head turned to leave. "Later dorks."
She jumped to the closest pine three and the tree bends downward before she jumped to a pine tree. The tree bent down to the ground allowing Wendy to jump to the ground then enter the open car door. Once inside the car took off with the teens inside cheering.
"Later Wendy!" Dipper called out laughing nervously.
"Uh-oh," Mabel in a teasing tone.
"What?" Dipper asked confused.
"Somebody has a crush." Mabel teased poking him.
Dipper groaned, knowing this was going to bite him in the butt.
Dipper rolled his eyes. "Yeah right, Wendy's just cool okay."
"It's always the redheads huh Dipper?" Mabel laughed a bit when she asked the question while working her way down to the main shop.
"Huh?" questioned both Dipper and Mabel together, wondering what that Mabel meant by that.
"It not always the red heads!" Dipper denied with a huff. "Besides, it's not like I lay awake at night thinking about her…"
Later that night Dipper was lying in his bed, wide-awake. "Oh crap…"
Again Dipper groaned and just held his face in his hands. Next to him he didn't see Pacifica scowling slightly.
The screen changed to show the shack the next day.
Dipper was waiting in the TV room, as the Sitri family seal came and two individuals came out of it. Both of which were girls.
"Hi Dipper-kun!" One of the two girls, both were clearly Japanese, said as she raised a hand in greetings. They were the same age, but looked different, the first girl with brown hair in pigtails, a decent developing bust, and wearing a sailor uniform.
"Yo, what's up?" This girl was different, save for the same eyes, but had black hair that was tied in a ponytail and had an attractive, if slightly fierce, look. Both were attractive, and were decently busty.
"Who are they?" Candy asked seeing the new girls.
"Have we been replaced?" Grenda asked fearfully.
Mabel however reassured her. "Girls relax. If I'm right about this then this is before Grunkle Stan threw that party so I never meet you two yet. You two are still my girlfriends!"
"Yuzu, Karin, thanks for stopping by." Dipper addressed the two girls, the brunette being Yuzu and the ravenette being Karin.
"Oh the two my guy was talking about," Dipper said, surprised to seeing the girls.
"We should hang out more often." Karin started, and her companion agreed.
"Yeah, we always have time for friends!" Yuzu was definitely a very bright and innocent girl, despite being a devil, but she still was curious. "What did you want to talk about?"
"Okay, I found this old journal in the woods, we're in Gravity Falls by the way, and it has a section on ghosts." This got the attention of the two girls, as they started moving with Dipper to the gift shop. "I wanted your opinion on what kind of ghost the author was talking about."
"So…" Mabel started stretching her head, "they're ghost experts?"
Dipper shrugged, "maybe."
They entered the gift shop as Wendy and Mabel were dancing. Wendy took a break to notice the two newcomers. "Whoa, where'd they come from?"
"Oh, these are my friends, and they're devils like me and Mabel." Dipper said as the two looked at Wendy, being around the same age and all.
"I'm Kurosaki Yuzu, it's very nice to meet you!" Yuzu stated, and that's when Karin stepped forward.
"I'm Kurosaki Karin, Yuzu's sister." Wendy shook the hands of the Kurosaki sisters. "We're twins."
"Neat," Mabel said happy for the new friends her character seemed to know.
"How are they twins when they have the same first name but different last names?" Pacifica asked.
"Actually Kurosaki must be their last name," Dipper pointed out, "several Asian countries have a tradition that has their family name first then your given name."
"So weird," Pacifica muttered.
"Oh, that's cool. I mean, the only devils I know are Dipper, Mabel, and their mom. So, it's cool to meet new devils, or people, however you want to call yourselves." Wendy was kind of excited, even if she didn't know everything about devils. The only reason she knew was through Stan summoning them on occasion to help with an attraction of some sort.
"Oh! You met Lady Leviathan! She's so cool, and a celebrity!" Yuzu said with stars in her eyes. Karin and Dipper just rolled their eyes, since Yuzu loved to meet celebrities.
"I guess this really proves mom is a TV star" Mabel said, as she wasn't sure at the time.
"Yeah can't fake being a fan girl like that," Wendy added seeing how Yuzu was acting.
Wendy looked at Mabel. "Your mom's a star?"
"She has her own TV show in the Underworld." Mabel explained. "I sometimes appear on the show."
Yuzu nodded, "It's always a fan favorite to see Levia-tan and Chibi-Levia working in the same episode."
Mabel beamed, wanting to know more about the show now that she knew her character was on it.
"That's kinda cool," Wendy said before she looked at Dipper, "You ever been on the show?"
"Nope," Dipper said, "And I never want to."
"That bad?" Wendy asked.
"I don't want to talk about it," Dipper muttered, not wanting to talk about his mother's magical girl style show.
Dipper frowned, "I'll take my word for it."
Mabel blew a raspberry, "C'mon Dipper, it can't be that bad."
Karin smirked, deciding to tease Dipper a bit. "I'm sure your mom would love it if you went on the show."
Dipper gave her a pointed look. "Maybe we should have your dad take you on a father/daughter bonding trip."
Karin grimaced at that threat and she knew he would do it. "Touché."
"Ah one of those types," Stan chuckled, "I've seen a few of those with tourist. Always fun to mess with."
"Didn't it backfire on you one time?" Wendy reminded him.
Stan thought for a minute and then shivered, "yeah that freak with his son were too much even more me. A man of that size should not be wearing a leotard. Plus, I'm pretty sure both their thick eyebrows were alive."
Mabel blew a raspberry. "It's not that bad Dipper. Mom could do worst, like the time she forced you to learn the Lamby dance."
"That what?" Pacifica asked while Dipper stiffen in fear.
Dipper chuckled nervously before he said through gritted teeth. "Mabel now is not the time to talk about the Lamby dance."
Mabel however didn't listen. "Mom used to dress him up in a lamb costume and get him to sing a song about grazing."
"Really?" Wendy asked chuckled, and even Yuzu and Karin were giggling. "Like with little ears and a tail and everything?"
"Oh yeah." Mabel answered.
"You can't prove it," Dipper countered.
Mabel however made a photo appeared.
Dipper groaned and covered his face again. He had a hunch what will happen in this reel and he didn't want it to happen. Pacifica glanced at Dipper before looking to Mabel. Seeing her look Mable mouthed 'Later' to her to which Pacifica nodded. She was interested in the photo.
Ford felt pity for Dipper, "man, I'm glad mother never did that to either of us."
"Amen brother," Stan agreed with a grimace, "Amen."
The other girl tried to see but a wide-eyed Dipper quickly made an ice dagger and threw it through the photo and got it stuck into the wall. "None of that!" he took a deep breath, "Karin, Yuzu, let me show you what I was talking about."
Mable leaned over and whispered to Wendy, "I have more copies."
Dipper didn't notice the other girls glanced at Mabel as she gave the thumbs up showing she did too.
"Show me later," the red head said before she focused on Dipper, who was showing the second pair of twins the entry that talked about ghost.
Wendy watched them as Dipper read and explained the entry out to them. The two girls were fascinated by what the journal was showing them. Karin whistled, "Whoever made this was really smart. Even if he made different categories for them he got different forms of plus, demi-hollows, and even curse imprints."
Ford hummed seeing as they spoke a few terms for different ghost he hadn't heard before. He wondered if that was only for that dimension or if it is also the same here. He would have to try and study it again. He just hoped it wasn't in that damn cabin again. Plenty of research there but he did regret it afterwards.
"It's a shame we can't show Ich-nii, he might find it interesting." Yuzu added with a slightly frown.
"What?" Pacifica asked confused "what kind of name is Iche-nee?"
"It's a suffix actually," Ford explained, "mostly used in eastern Asia counties mostly Japan. It is a term added to a name to describe them, show importance to you, or even nicknames. The 'Ich' must be a shorten version of his real name and 'nii' is a suffix used for an older brother."
"Great," Pacifica muttered half understand it. "sounds annoying to learn."
"Why not?" Wendy asked, "Just have Dipper scan and copy the pages then you can bring it to him."
"We can't read this, not yet at least." Karin then explained from the questioning look on Wendy's face. "As reincarnated devils we can understand any spoken languages, but we can't read and write them unless we study."
"Reincarnated?" Wendy asked, "What did you two die and became devils?"
"Oh yeah!" Mabel said, "We never got around to explaining the evil piece system did we?"
"The what?" Mabel asked.
Ford hummed before getting his notebook out as did Dipper seeing as they figured they would find out more information about that dimension.
"The what?" Wendy asked confused.
Dipper cleared his throat, "You know how the Great War is in a state of cease fire to rebuild and regain our numbers right?"
"Yeah," Wendy said with a shrug.
Dipper went on "Well, us Devils had a second war known as the Underworld Civil War between the Old Satan Faction, who fit the evil devil stereotype, and the Anti-Satan faction, the good devils. It left half of the seventy-two pillar houses and more dead. The current Satans are the rulers of the Underworld, mainly because the Old Satan faction had the ruling houses like Lucifer, and to remember the past the Four Satans are given the name of Lucifer, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, or Leviathan. Mom's from the Sitri clan, but is the current Leviathan."
"Interesting," Ford said writing this information down, "to go from one war to another must have been hard on their society."
"And it looks like our mother is one of the four Satans" Dipper added stunned, "I know they said she was high in the ranks but to be one of the four leaders."
"So awesome!" Mabel said, "Not as awesome as being the star of her own show but still awesome."
"But she's both," Candy reminded her, causing Mabel to gasped and be even more excited.
"Still didn't tell us what the evil piece thing is though," Wendy said but didn't have to wait long.
"The history lesson is cool and all, but what does this have to do with the Evil Piece System?" Wendy asked, wanting to get to the point.
"I was getting to that." Dipper said as he was getting back into the explanation. "You see, Devils are in a sense immortal, we can die but it's hard and waiting won't really work sense we seem to have eternal youth, and that means a lower fertility rate, meaning we don't have kids as often. So Ajuka Beelzebub thought, why not make more? That led to the creation of the Evil Piece System."
"Make more?" Stan asked "But didn't they just say they have low birth rates or something?"
"Lower fertility rate," Ford corrected "but yes it sounds like they are making devils rather than them being born."
"Like clones?" Soos asked.
"No it seems to be more than that," Ford said interested in this puzzle.
"They look like chess pieces!" Mabel proclaimed, "and they can turn almost anyone into a devil."
Dipper and Ford raised a brow, making a small note but paid close attention to hear more details."
Dipper nodded. "Once a devil gets a high enough rank, they can petition to gain a set of Evil Pieces of their own. Each piece can turn people and other creatures into devils or half devils. Each piece has a special power and worth."
"Sounds amazing," Wendy admitted, "But what's stopping devils from just turning anyone into one?"
"Well it is not that simple." Dipper explained, "For those still alive they have to accept it willingly. It is either for their desire or for a contract. You can't force someone with an evil piece and turn them into a devil."
"Unless you died, or you're like near dead, then they can turn you." Mabel added.
"Amazing," Dipper said, "to have something to do all of that."
"To be able to bring the dead back to life," Ford whispered, "I've only heard whispers of somethings to have such power."
"Wait." Wendy then asked stunned at what was said. "You can bring back the dead?"
"Only the recently deceased." Dipper explained. "If you just died, like a few hours ago, a devil can bring you back as a devil. At least, I think that's how it works."
"Sounds crazy." Wendy said, "Yet kinda awesome."
"Totally," Wendy agreed with herself, "you think we'll get to see those evil pieces in action?"
"It's a possibility," Dipper said knowing if he had some who he might want to use them on, "we can't rule it out either."
Up on the wall a clock chimed showing it was six o'clock. "Quitting time!" Wendy smiled as she took her nametag off. "It was nice meeting you Karin, Yuzu. Sorry to leave yea hanging but the gang's waiting for me."
"Wait, maybe we can hang with you?" Dipper suggested as Wendy thought it over a bit.
"I don't know; my friends are kind of intense. You sure you can handle it?"
Dipper, Mabel and Wendy blinked at this. They remembered this night as it was the night the first hung out with Wendy's and now their friends.
"Yeah, the four of us can handle anything your friends throw our way." Dipper said confidently as he looked at the girls. "Right?"
"Meh, if I can live with my dad without nearly murdering him, then I can handle your friends." Karin said as she might as well hang out with the group, she didn't have anything better to do just yet.
"It's always cool to make new friends! And this will be the first American friends I'll make other than Dipper-kun, and those in Mabel's peerage!" Yuzu said as bright and cheerful as can be.
"Well, duh! I'm a superstar magical girl, that can kick ass with a scythe." Mabel added, and it was true since she did join her mother on the occasional autograph session.
Mabel gasped, "a scythe! Awesome!"
"I fear for my other's life and every else's," Dipper muttered getting Wendy to laugh.
"Alright, I like your moxie guys." Wendy let them join in, they were devils, and it was kind of cool to hang out with something not human.
"And you get to hang with your newest crush." Mabel said to Wendy missed it because she had already stepped outside. While Dipper tripped a bit with Mabel's choice of words.
"It's always the redheads isn't it?" Karin asked as Dipper rolled his eyes, wondering why people think he has a redhead fetish. Wendy was just cool.
"Why is everyone saying that?" Dipper asked aloud.
"Maybe some of the crushes you had before Wendy were redheads" Soos suggested.
"How many redheads do I know?" Dipper countered to which he couldn't get an answer for.
The screen showed outside the shack to a bunch of teens.
"In the belly! In the belly!" Came the chant of two teenage boys as a third was tossing little balls, possibly candy balls, into a fourth boy's belly, the belly button to be exact. He kept missing, and was about to throw another. Someone beat him to it, and it was, "Wendy!"
"Hey guys," Wendy greeted before pointing to Dipper, and the girls. "These are my pals from work Dipper and Mabel. And these are their friends from out of town, Yuzu and Karin."
"Ladies." the tall blond and the dark skin boy said together winking at the girls.
Wendy laughed "oh god, I can totally see those two doing that."
Karin rolled her eyes while Yuzu bow politely. Mabel laughed while Dipper just shook his head. Wendy chuckled before she introduced her friends, "Okay the flirting boys are Lee and Nate." The two stood tall before Nate shot a jab to Lee's side. "This is Tambry." The only other girl of the group didn't even look up from her phone but waved at them. "Thompson, who once ate a run-over waffle for fifty cents."
Thompson looked embarrassed, "Don't tell them that."
Ford frowned looking the group over. He may have been gone for thirty years but this is how teenagers acted like?
Wendy rolled her eyes before she pointed to the last guy playing the guitar. "And Robbie, I'm sure you can figure him out."
Robbie looked at them, "Yeah I'm the guy that spray painted the water tower."
"Oh, you mean the big muffin?" Dipper said as he commented on the look of the spray paint.
"That is a very nice muffin." Yuzu commented as she looked at it as well.
Robbie scowled. "Uh, it's a giant explosion."
Everyone then started looking at the water tower, and the painting on the side. While Robbie said it was an explosion, really did look like a muffin.
"Oh that's what that's supposed to be," Ford said in surprise, "I thought someone was advertising the bakery."
"Same here," Stan admitted.
"Me too," Soos added, "Now that I think about it the bakery got a large increase in muffin sales ever since that was painted on the water tower."
"I don't see it." Karin muttered, not seeing what Robbie was trying to go for.
Lee chuckled and said. "Hey it kinda does look like a muffin."
This caused Nate to laugh as well which had Dipper joined in. Robbie scowled and glared at Dipper and Yuzu slightly for being the first to comment on the muffin-plosion. Karin noticed this, and moved between them, then glared harshly at the dark haired teen wearing a stitched heart hoodie. Robbie held back a flinch and looked away. "Enough clowning around guys!" Wendy said pointing to the car beside them. "I got big plans for tonight."
"Can we all even fit?" Karin asked rising a brow.
"It'll be a tight fit but we can squeeze in." Wendy assured her as they started to pile in.
"Shotgun!" Dipper called opening the door.
However, Robbie stopped him. "Sorry but I ride shotgun around here."
Dipper scoffed before Wendy added, "don't sweat it Dipper, he always calls shotgun from everyone."
Dipper rolled his eyes and muttered a quick "Whatever" before climbing into the back.
Dipper got into the back with Mabel while Yuzu and Karin shared a seat next to him. Lee, Nate, Tambry and Wendy were in the middle seats while Thompson was driving. As Thompson started the car he turned back to look at them "Okay, just before we go; my mom says you're not allowed to punch the roof anymore. So..."
The other teens stared before Robbie, Nate, Lee and Wendy started punching the roof of the car while chanting, "Thompson! Thompson! Thompson!" Thompson just sighed before he put the car into gear and started to drive off.
Wendy laughed at this before Soos asked, "but won't Thompson's mom be md of you guys?"
Wendy waved him off, "she knows how we're like. No big."
As they rode off Yuzu and Karin were watching the scenery as they drove by while Mabel was looking around the car. She took a marker from Dipper and on the armrest to the door she scribbled out 'You Stink' and wrote 'You look nice today!' underneath with a little heart over the 'I'. Mabel was pleased with herself as she laughed, "This is going to blow someone's mind."
"Remember that," Dipper told Mabel.
"Why?" his twin asked but she didn't get an answer.
"Mabel behave!" Dipper said annoyed.
Mabel scoffed at the command. "What? Am I embarrassing you in front of your new Girl-" she tried to shout this last word by Dipper slapped his hand over her mouth to keep her quiet.
Before Mabel could do anything Dipper added. "Lick my hand and I will freeze it to an embarrassing ice sculpture tomorrow."
Mabel narrowed her eyes and scowled but did as she was told, as she didn't want another incident like last time. Making it look like she was licking a dog's tongue was bad enough the first time, and she didn't want to think what Dipper would do to top it.
Mabel scowled while Dipper smirk, their opinions of this very clear to everyone. The screen changed to show Stan sitting on his chair watching TV.
While the teens were driving off to hang out, Stan was watching TV.
Welcome to the boring black and white old lady period movie channel. Tonight's movie is The Duchess Approves.
"Kids, I can't find the remote and I refuse to get up!" Stan said as the movie was showing the stars of the movie. "Kids!? NO!"
Stan had screamed as the movie itself had started.
Ford just stared before he sighed, "well that reminds me of how our mother was with her soaps."
"Huh, that creepy," Stan said not liking the comparison, "Still the movie is actually a better watch then mom's soaps…though not by much."
The screen changed to the group of teens outside a fenced off area.
"Check it out, the old abandoned Dusk 2 Dawn store." Wendy motioned to an abandoned convenience store that certainly looked abandoned. It was aged and not quite falling apart.
"Why did they shut it down?" Yuzu asked, curious on the store as it looked like it could still be operational.
"It might just have been a health code violation or something, and never got around to fixing it." Dipper suggested, but he wouldn't admit that it was creepy, even for a devil.
"Try murder." That got his attention, as well as Karin and Yuzu's. Lee continued on with. "Some old people were killed and the place has been haunted ever since."
"Wait seriously?" Ford asked astonished.
Stan nodded, "Well it wasn't murder but the two elder couple that owns the place did die years ago. A double heart attack or something."
"Wow," Ford said, "Shame I never meet them."
"You never been to the store?" Dipper asked.
Stan shook his head, "I rarely went into town. Fiddleford was the one that mostly did the shopping when we needed something or to stock up on food."
"This town has such a colorful history." Mabel commented on how it has a supposed murder site still there.
"Is that true?" Karin had to ask, and she was beating Dipper to the punch.
"Yeah, we're all gonna die!" Wendy stated with sarcastic fear before easily turning back to her normal voice. "Just relax guys, I'm sure we'll be fine."
"Boy was I wrong," Wendy muttered remembering that night.
Of course the fact that Dipper, Yuzu, and Karin noticed that the sign saying 'trespassers will be prosecuted' had the word 'dead' over prosecuted didn't exactly help, it was probably a joke for scaring kids. It wasn't long before they started climbing over the fence, since they had found a gap in the barbed wire at the top that would have prevented them from entering without tearing themselves up. Then came another problem.
"It's stuck or locked or whatever." Robbie stated as he tried to push and then pull the doors open, but couldn't get them open.
"A real genius that one," Ford said with a deadpan tone, "did he think that they would leave the place unlocked after it was closed down?"
"Knowing Robbie possibly," Wendy answered with a shrug.
"Maybe I should take a crack at it?" Dipper offered, and figured he might as well try to have some fun. If it did look like it was haunted, then he, Yuzu, and Karin would cross that bridge when they get there.
"Yeah, I can't get it open, but nerdy here's going to break it down like Hercules." Robbie joked, not believing that Dipper could do something he couldn't.
"That's not cool." Wendy was sympathetic to Dipper, since he was a Devil and didn't share that fact with just anyone. She only knew thanks her time with Stan, and when he summoned a devil for a workshop of ideas or to go get a few supplies, it became a norm.
"Where's Dipper?" Karin noticed first that Dipper had already left the group, but where he was she wasn't sure.
"Up there." Yuzu pointed out as Dipper had already, whether flying or not, gotten to the roof and was carefully taking a grate off to access the air ducts.
"Who wants to bet he doesn't make it?"
"He'll make it." Karin commented on Robbie's question, noticing he was feeling pretty smug about something, and just as she finished, Dipper opened the door to let everyone in.
"Impressive," Stan said at how Dipper was breaking and entering. He figured he might have something to teach Dipper after all.
"Indeed," Ford agreed for completely different reason. He figured with Dipper's logical mind he might decent explore once he got older and honed his skills a bit.
The only one of the group not impressed was Robbie as the teen scowled at Dipper. The rest were laughing as they walked inside, "Good call bringing this manic!" Lee said high-fiving Dipper.
"Your new name is Dr. Fun-times!" Nate agreed walking in with Tambry.
As the rest entered Wendy told him, "nice work," which had Dipper smiling. Karin and Yuzu smirked at one another before softly laughing at Dipper's expense. After they entered and the door closed, none of them noticed the sign flipping from 'come in, we're open' to 'get lost we're closed'.
Dipper, Mabel and Wendy grimace seeing this. "That would have been a nice little clue for us."
Dipper nodded to Wendy's statement, knowing it would be the first clue to the night they were about to receive.
Inside the teens were exploring, seeing the dark store that had a large amount of dust and cobwebs. Dipper, Mabel, Karin and Yuzu had no trouble seeing the details of the store but they can tell it has been abandon for a good number of years. "Man this place is creepier then I imagined." Wendy said next to Robbie and Dipper.
Mabel was swiping her finger in the counter to see how dusty it really was. Dipper grabbed a newspaper on the rack. Wiping the dust away revealed the date to be May 2, 1995 since the store no doubt has been open last.
In one aisle Lee asked Nate, "Hey dude, where'd you think they keep the dead bodies?"
"Shut up man." Nate said pushing him slightly.
"No one is dumb enough to keep a dead body here." Karin said passing them, "not even you two are that dumb."
Wendy laughed at the burn her two friends got, "this girl is awesome! I would love to hang out with her."
The two boys glanced at one another before Nate said, "She's talking about you dude."
"No way! She's talking about you!"
Wendy however found the light switches, "Hey guys check it out! You think these still work?"
Dipper just shrugged as Wendy flipped the switches. It took a minute but the lights all turned on, all the machines turned back on and even the small security TV turned on. The teens were surprised but the non-devils thought it was better by far. "Huh," Karin muttered, "you think they would have the power to here shut off if it was closed."
"Maybe they forgot?" Yuzu suggested.
"That makes no sense," Ford said, "even if they are not using the power the plant should be able to notice it still connected and with it abandon there is no way any bills can be paid for the power in the first place."
"I don't know what to tell you great uncle Ford," Mabel said, "we turned on the lights and everything else one like it was normal."
"Jackpot!" Mabel said seeing the swirly machine on as well as the other snack machines.
"So what do we do now?" Dipper asked Wendy since it was her idea to be here.
She just grinned at them. "Anything we want."
The group grinned at this and started to have fun. They took many of the snack cakes and treats to eat, which were surprisingly still good. They found a bunch of balloons, which Lee and Nate made into water balloons before the group split into two teams and had a small fight using the aisles and cover. Lee and Nate had fun using big bags of kitty litter to smack each other with. Karin and Dipper surprised them both by attacking them from behind but the four just laughed it up. Yuzu and Mabel were mixing different flavors of slushies to figure out which combo was the best. The boys then took a large container of diet soda and dropped several Mentos into it. They all cheered when the soda sprayed out of the top, which Yuzu found very cool. Karin and Yuzu were having fun the whole time, not really able to say they ever experience this before.
"I wished we could have be with you guys," Grenda added slightly sad she missed out.
Candy nodded "It does look like fun."
"It was," Mabel admitted, "but it won't last girls. You will be thankful you never went with us."
Mabel down on of the aisles before she slid to a stop and notice a candy stand. It was full of candy with a picture of a yellow smiling dog on top. Several ribbons over the stand all saying 'Do Not Sell'. But Mabel was focusing on the candy itself, "Oh my Gosh! Smile Dip!" she took a packet off the shelf as Yuzu, Karin and Dipper walked over to her. "I thought this stuff was banded in America."
Mabel shivered remembering that stuff. It was one of her biggest regrets.
"Maybe they had a good reason." Dipper stated crossing his arms.
"Never heard of it," Karin said confused, having never heard of Smile Dip before.
"I don't think we should try it." Yuzu advised, after checking a packet's ingredients before putting it back on the shelf.
However, water balloons splashed all three of them. The three wiped their faced and armed themselves again before charging at the laughing teens, "You're going down Nate!" Karin said as she dashed off with Dipper and Yuzu.
Mabel however decided to sit down and enjoy the candy. She opened it up and dipped the candy stick into the power treat…. before she dumps the rest of the bag into her open mouth. This is not going to end well.
Mabel groaned, but glad they won't be able to see the things she saw. "Should we be worried?" Ford asked his brother.
"I have no clue."
Some time had passed as Dipper and Wendy were just sitting on top one of the aisles eating some ice cream, which was suspiciously not melted and still good, despite the Neapolitan bar was way passed the expiration date.
"Something not right," Ford said with narrow eyes. "even if we ignore the fact that all the food should be expired," he paused in thought, "expect maybe the trinkies since they can last forever." He cleared his throat to get back on track, "the power was off so the freezers should have been shut down. That should be all melted by now."
"None of us got sick from the food," Wendy pointed out "and it tasted like it was still fresh."
"I have a theory on that," Dipper said getting his great uncle's attention. "I believe the ghost there has place the store in a form of suspended animation to keep the store in the relative condition since they died. It would explain why the store still had power coming to it as well as keeping all the food the same."
"It does have some merits," Ford said thinking it over, "what category would you place these ghost?"
Dipper thought it over, "I would say something combining the categories of one, two and four. At least that is the closest I could imagine."
Ford hummed, "I never considered the possibility of ghost being in more than one category I might try and look into this later."
"It's been a long time since I've seen the gang bonding like this." Wendy commented as the group was happy at their revelry, "I don't think I can remember the last time Tambry looked up from her phone for this long."
Tambry did look up from her phone, for a second or two before going back to texting as Lee and Nate were once again doing something stupid but fun.
"Huh, she really should get off the phone." Karin said, as she was right behind Dipper eating a bar of ice cream herself.
"Well, Mabel should've listened to us." Yuzu, who was next to Karin, pointed to Mabel as the girl's eyes were dilated and she seemed to be hallucinating.
The two great uncles frowned seeing the state of the Mabel on screen.
"I think I've had enough, what do you think?" Mabel said, but she was in the Smile Dip hallucination, which seemed to have everything made in candy. Then a yellow dog, like the Smile Dip mascot, jumped next to her.
"Tsurtsim elknurg Nats." It said before another came up to Mabel asking, "Would you like to eat my candy paw?"
"Of course, you adorable angel." Mabel said and started chewing the paw. Back in reality, Mabel was just chewing air.
Mabel groaned at the fact they did get to see what she was seeing. The two adults grimace at this. "That's not right," Stan muttered.
"Agreed," Ford said, "I can see why it was banned."
Stan turned towards his niece "Mabel you are never to touch that stuff again, you hear me?"
"Don't worry Grunkle Stan," Mabel said shivering, "I am never going to touch that stuff again. It's evil."
"Yeah." Dipper had no other words for that, but that's when Lee, Nate, and Robbie called out, "We need some more ice!"
"I'll get it." Dipper figured it would be too suspicious to use magic to create the ice, so he went to get a bag of ice, knowing it would be shoved down Thompson's pants. He went to the icebox of the store and opened the door. He stared a bit at the floating brain like creature with eyes before slamming it shut.
Some of others screamed seeing that scary image. "Is that what you saw?" Wendy asked Dipper who nodded.
"What is that?" Ford asked.
"I don't know" Dipper admitted, "I never really went back there to find out."
Ford nodded "probably a smart move on your part."
He took a minute to slow his breathing before he opens the door again, his magic ready this time in case it was still there. But he found the brain thing was gone. Confused he closed the door but everyone else, besides Mabel, were coming over. "What's going on?" Lee asked.
"You freaking out man?" Nate said chuckling.
Dipper just shook his head, "Nothing. I'm sure I was seeing things."
"You scared?" Robbie asked with a smirk.
Dipper ignored him and looked to Yuzu and Karin, wanting to ask them something. But with everyone else here he couldn't luckily he found a distraction, "Hey!" he points to a dance machine in the corner, "Is that Dancy Pants Revolution? The game that tricks you into exercising?"
The other teens seemed excited and headed towards it. Karin and Yuzu however waited before Dipper asked them, "Do you two sense anything?"
"Not really," Karin said with a frown.
"We haven't really sensed anything since we got here. If it's here, then its hiding." Yuzu added.
"So they can sense ghost it seems," Ford said. "Make sense with the conversation you had with them before this crazy trip."
"You saw a ghost or something?" Karin asked.
"I don't know," Dipper admitted. "I never heard of a ghost that was just a brain, veins and eyes."
"We'll keep our senses up," Karin said to which her twin nodded.
Nodded to the twins they joined the others around the dancing game. Thompson was trying his luck in playing and following the rhythm. He wasn't very good but he was trying his hardest while his friends chant, "Go! Go! Go! Go!"
"You can do it Thompson!" Yuzu cried out to encourage him.
"She's so nice," Mabel said with a smile.
Wendy chuckled and elbowed Dipper, "Wow, he's really terrible at this."
Dipper chuckled before something caught his eye. In the refection of the front doors were skeletons dressed like Wendy, Robbie, Tambry, Yuzu, Karin, and himself. They all turned his way as one and it really was unsettling to him. Dipper rubbed his eyes but found the image was gone and the refection normal.
Dipper rubbed his forehead as Wendy looked at him. He just nodded to the unasked question.
He glanced to Karin and Yuzu but one was still cheering Thompson on and the other was frowning. "I'll be right back," he said before going to find Mabel.
Fortunately, he found Mabel in her same spot in front of the Smile Dip. "Something's not right here Mable. I have the feeling something is wrong and I think I am seeing things but Yuzu and Karin haven't sensed anything yet. I don't know if it's a ghost or a curse or something." He turned when he didn't get a respond and stared amazed, "How did you make that so fast?"
The group blinked at what they were seeing. "what…is that?" Pacifica finally asked the question.
"Aoshima," Mabel said simply, "He's something I found when I was out of it."
Dipper raised a finger and open his mouth to asked for clarity but decided it wasn't worth it.
Mable was now riding an ice sculptor, no doubt made herself, of a giant dolphin with two man arms posed as if flying superman style. Mabel was holding on the dorsal fin and shouting, "The future is in the past, ONWARD AOSHIMA!"
Dipper rubbed his forehead seeing the state Mabel was in. Mabel eyes were wide and dilated and she was slightly foaming pink foam around the mouth. "Mabel!" Dipper cried pulling her down and shaking her, "How many of those things did you eat!?"
"Eleven-teen," Mable muttered still out of it.
"Mabel! Now is not the time to go on a drug trip!" Dipper called out before he moaned, "Mom must never find out about this ever."
"Same here Mabel!" Dipper said to his twin to which she nodded in full agreement.
While Dipper was trying to find a way to get everyone out without looking like he was scared, Robbie was messing with some scratch off lottery tickets before he dropped a coin.
"Whoa." He got everyone's attention as they came and saw that there were police markings of two people, the kind that the police draw when a death or homicide is investigated.
"Then the rumors are true." Lee said as they all looked at them. Yuzu and Karin were now feeling something, and like Wendy, Dipper, and Tambry were not as happy or excited as Robbie, Lee, and Nate seemed.
"Dare you to lie down in it." Lee dared Nate,
Ford scowled, "Do none of these kids have any respect for the dead?"
Wendy flinched slightly at this but didn't give a reply. If anything she tried to make herself smaller in her chair.
and before he could.
"Let's not!" Dipper said, it was better to protect others then being proud.
"Yeah, don't you know that bad things happen when you disturb the place of a soul's death?" Karin said as she glared at the boys for tempting fate.
"Yeah right buzzkills, it's not like ghosts are just gonna pop out and haunt us." Robbie said before anyone can stop him, he decided to lie down in the sketch. "See, who cares about what some old dead people think!"
"So Robbie was the one who did it this time," Dipper muttered, now feeling even more of a jerk since he pretty much did the same thing.
Then came a sudden dark howl, and for those that were sensitive to it, their hair stood on end. It wasn't a normal howl, but it was as the howl of a monster.
The group froze and stiffen hearing the sound through the speaker. Dipper gulped "That didn't happen here."
"I think it's going to be much worse," Wendy added, fearing for her friends.
"H-hollow." Yuzu said, but no one knew what she meant before Tambry suddenly vanished. Dipper grabbed her phone and read what was there.
"Status update: AHHHH!" He read as Tambry suddenly disappeared, but soon reappeared on a surveillance screen that was in the corner of the shop, completely frightened at the experience.
"Oh this is not good," Dipper said looking around.
"What's happening man!?" Nate screamed.
"It's all Robbie fault!" Lee shouted pulling Robbie up by the front of his hoddie, and shouted sarcastically, "Let's lie down in the lines where they died. Yeah real smart man!"
"Wasn't he the one who suggested it in the first place?" Pacific asked.
Dipper nodded "he did but fear tends to make people do stupid things."
Before anyone could do anything else Lee's form glowed and he vanished as well. They heard his scream and they found him on the cover of an off brand cereal, getting attacked by the bird mascot. "How is this happen?" Dipper called out.
"I think these hollows kept the abilities they had as ghost," Karin guessed, "I know they're here but I can see or sense where they are."
"You're talking crazy!" Robbie shouted, "Let's get out of here!"
"Probably the smartest thing the guy has said so far," Stan said.
Ford was worried for his niece and nephew "get out of there kids."
They headed for the door before Wendy stopped, "Where's Thompson?"
They heard his cries of pain and they saw he was inside the dancing game, getting the arrows stuck in his body as he cried in pain. Nate pounded at the door to get out but it was locked.
"Out of the way!" Robbie shouted grabbing the cash register and threw it at the door. However, the glass seemed to bend like rubber and sent it back at Robbie, knocking him out.
The group winced seeing this. "Those ghost or hollows aren't giving up on you just yet," Ford observed.
Nate screamed in panic and shouted to the ceiling, "Let us out of here you freaks!"
"Stop it!" Karin tried to warn him but Nate vanished as well. He did appear again rolling on the hotdog rack…as a hot dog.
"On man," Dipper said getting really freaked out now, "What is this hollow doing?"
"You called it that before." Wendy said looking at Dipper, knowing he had an idea what was happening, "What is a hollow?"
Ford and Dipper got their notes books ready as they were sure it would be explained.
"A hollow is a corrupted soul," Karin stated looking around and ready to fight. "They're souls whose form turns into that of a monster with their heart gone. The only thing they can do to ease the pain in their hearts is to eat souls."
"Oh god," Dipper whispered hearing this and everyone else had looks of horror.
"That sounds actually worse than a category five," Ford muttered thinking of the small soul sucker he encountered when studying ghost.
Wendy however was staring worried that her friends were going to make it out okay. This wasn't a movie or a show where the characters can make it out okay in one setting. 'Guys.'
Wendy looked in horror, "So everyone is?"
"They're still alive," Yuzu assured her, "Their bodies and souls are moved into the different forms and places. We can free them but we have to find the hollow first."
Dipper looked around and gasped, "Mabel!"
They turned to see Mabel floating in the air, not with her wings but as if she was held. Mabel giggled still out of it, "Man you are one ugly dog."
"I can see them?" Mabel asked.
Ford hummed in thought, "You mind must be able to interpolate the hollow's form in your, uhhh…." He tried to find the right words for it, "out of body experience."
They hear the hollow roar again and Mabel moved up. Mabel however looked down and grinned, "You want to play? Okay then…snowball fight!"
Suddenly ice formed around Mabel and spread. An arm was covered in ice holding her and was quickly covering a body. The hollow screeched and released Mabel before it became fully visible. The body looked large with long arms, short thick legs and floated in the air. It had a mask that was rounded out except for several curvy spikes as if it was solid flames. Wendy saw the in the middle of the hollow's chest was a large hole, a hole where the heart should be. She watched stunned as she could see completely through the hole and knew this creature wasn't human.
The younger kids screamed seeing the hollow. Wendy stared at it while Soos was covering his eyes. Stan and Ford were on the edge of their seat, worried for the kids. Pacifica pointed at the screen, "There's a hole in the chest…I can see right through it. How is it even alive?"
"It isn't," Dipper whispered but the answer wasn't really comforting.
Karin and Yuzu focused on the hollow while Dipper quickly flew and grabbed a falling Mabel out of the air. The hollow roared and reached for him but jerked back as several arrows hit its hand. The hollow turned towards the second pair of twins and narrowed its yellow eyes. Yuzu held her hands on a bow made that she had brought to her using magic and a quiver of arrows and she had another arrow ready to fire, charged with magic. Karin however held a sword in her hands, looking like a katana but with a slightly thicker blade. Karin narrowed her eyes and held her stance, "No more hiding hollow."
Dipper sighed in relief, "It seems that are able to fight it. Thank god."
She vanished and the hollow jerked before it roared and the hand with the arrows in it was cut completely off. Karin appeared above the hollow ready to hit the mask but was force to dodge as one of the machines on the counter flew at her.
Dipper pulled Mabel behind the counter with Wendy. Wendy was watching Yuzu and Karin fight the hollow, Karin with her speed and sword and Yuzu with her bow. The hollow was keeping its distance by floating in the air and making more machines and items around the store move. "Don't worry," Dipper said seeing her watch the pair, "They have the abilities to deal with ghosts and hollows."
"Can all devils do that?" Wendy asked, not taking her eyes off the fight.
"Well, devils are considered supernatural so it is a possibility," Ford said thinking it over.
"Well no," Dipper admitted, "At least without training. But even before devils their family has experience with ghost. Heck their brother deals with hollow in greater number and power than this. They can handle this no problem."
"But why is this happen?" Wendy asked and Dipper could see tears swelling up in her eyes, "I didn't want tonight to be like this. It's all my fault for getting everyone here."
Wendy looked down with a sigh, "She's right. It was my fault."
Dipper turned to her shock and he wasn't the only one. "Wendy no it isn't."
"I thought we would have fun there," Wendy said, "And you remembered what happen. Both times it was my idea."
"You couldn't predict what would have happened," Dipper tried to explain.
Mabel nodded "yeah. It's not like you have future vision or anything."
"They're both right Wendy," Ford said, "No one would could have known this would happen.
"No it's not," Dipper assured her. "The ghost has been here since 1995. It was bound to become a hollow sooner or later. We just came and Robbie made it upset and sped the transformation up. None of this is your fault."
Wendy said nothing but watched, as Karin was force to cover for Yuzu and slice a machine in half. Suddenly Wendy stood and ran out of hiding.
"Hey ugly!" she shouted.
Everyone stared stunned at what was going on. "Wendy get down!" Dipper said unable to believe what he was seeing.
Everyone turned to her. "Wendy move!" Karin shouted to her.
But Wendy didn't listen as she shouted, "You're mad at us for being here right!? You're mad that we broke into your home and messed around with everything right!? That we disrespected your death like that right!? Well it was my fault!"
The others started shouting at the screen. From Stan's "Wendy what are you doing!?" to Pacifica's "Are you crazy girl!?"
Wendy herself was just watching, seeing her character confronting the hollow. She agreed with her character and figured she would do the same, no doubt to give an opening for the others.
"Wendy! Get down!" Dipper shouted as the hollow's eyes narrowed at her.
"It was all my idea!" Wendy kept shouted with tears falling from her eyes, "None of us would have come here if it wasn't for me! So leave everyone alone and take it out on me!"
"Wendy stop!" Yuzu called out as the hollow roared.
"Wendy please!" Soos said covering his eyes. He knew that in movies Wendy would end up dying at this. He just couldn't bare to watch.
"Stop being stupid and stay down!" Stan shouted.
"You're only going to get hurt!" Ford added unable to help himself.
Mabel, Candy and Grenda were holding each other close, hoping that beyond hope that Wendy will be okay.
"That's right come get me!" Wendy said staring down the glaring hollow "Do you even understand me!? I said, it! Is! All! My! Fa-"
Wham!
The group screamed seeing Wendy get hit. The girls hugged each other while Pacifica hugged Dipper. Wendy just stared unblinkingly at the screen, her arms going limp, unable to believe what she was seeing. Soos cringed but didn't dare uncover his eyes. Ford and Stan nearly jumped seeing this while Stan shouted Wendy's name. He might be annoyed with her most of the time but he wouldn't wish for something like that to happen to her. Ford only knew Wendy for a short time but he didn't like seeing anyone of the Shack to get hurt.
Wendy stopped when she felt something big blindsided her and sent her flying. Her side hurt from the blow and was caught unprepared for when she clashed into the glass door of one of the coolers. The glass door shattered from the force and Wendy fell to the ground.
"onmygodohmugodohmygod," Dipper muttered quickly holding Pacifica tighter unknowingly.
"Is she going to be okay?" Pacifica asked not sure what else to say. She didn't know Wendy at all but seeing the older girl take such a hit terrified her since it was right in front of her eyes.
"That blow no doubt cause a lot of blunt force trauma," Ford said with a wince. "bruising or broken bones at least and internal bleeding at worst. And that doesn't include the broken glass she slammed into with heavy force. She'll need medical attention immediately."
Soos couldn't take hearing this anymore even if he couldn't see it and fainted in his seat.
"Why can't you just listen Wendy!" Stan cried unable to help himself.
Wendy winced hearing this, praying that her character would make it. She didn't want her to die even more so in front of her friends.
"Wendy!" Dipper shouted horrified, as a second hollow was visible, exactly the same as the first expect for blue skin instead of green. It roared and slowly marched towards Wendy. Wendy shook, in pain from the blow and the glass cutting into her skin. She gasped, as it was hard to breathe. She didn't even notice the second hollow nor that it was coming right at her.
"No!" The three devils yelled, but Yuzu and Karin couldn't keep themselves off the current hollow. Dipper had to rush, as Wendy was bleeding and still barely conscious. The second Hollow was ready to deal the final blow before eating her soul, but that's when a blue magic seal appeared and stopped it. "I won't let...I won't let you hurt Wendy anymore!"
Dipper yelled out furiously before using his magic to create a chilling, freezing wind. It began to freeze the Hollow in place as Yuzu saw a chance for a shot. She fired an arrow at the Hollow's mask, and struck true. Unlike a normal arrow, this was infused with magic that was meant to purify the Hollow, and it vanished just as Wendy passed out.
"Oh thank god," Dipper muttered seeing that Wendy was out of danger of the hollow. The others did as well but they were still worried as Wendy was still hurt,
"Alright, time to end this!" Karin said before using unleashing a great burst of speed to get behind and purify the hollow as well. The Hollow also vanished, as if it never was there. That's when the Kurosaki twins rushed over to assist Wendy.
"Way scarier than what happen here," Mabel said as her friends were also relieved the monsters were gone.
"But Wendy still needs help."
"Is she going to make it?" Dipper asked as the two did what they could. Yuzu tried using magic, but she was still trying to get stronger in her healing spells.
"I'm doing all I can, but if we don't get her to a hospital soon then..." She didn't want to finish the statement, as they knew that they weren't going to make it without raising some serious questions.
"There has to be something that I can, wait, there is something." Dipper reached into his pocket and pulled out a crimson colored knight piece.
"A chess piece?" Mabel asked.
Dipper however understood "I think it's one of those evil pieces."
"Those turn people into devils right?" Pacifica asked able to remember just that much.
Wendy was surprised by this, "So you're going to change me into a devil?" seeing Dipper's nervous look she smiled, "That's kinda cool."
"If they can bring someone back from the dead then they should be able to help heal Wendy," Ford guessed even if he really didn't have any evidence.
"As long as no one is dying on us," Stan said not carry if Wendy turns into a devil or not.
"You mean?" Karin asked, but the answer was clear. The girls stood back as Dipper prepared a magic seal.
"I command thee, Wendy Corduroy, upon my name of Sitri, to return to the world once more, and possess great joy as my knight." The knight piece vanished within the redhead's body as everyone began to heal. Glass was ejected from the redhead's body, bones began mending, and flesh sewed itself back together. Wendy soon stirred awake as the healing was setting. Yuzu decided to pitch in with what she knew of healing magic to help things along and get Wendy conscious.
The group sighed seeing Wendy was waking up. Wendy smiled seeing how the Dipper there saved her character's life. She just hopes he doesn't freak out because of it.
"Ugh, what happened?" She asked, but this time she was joined by various groaning's. Her friends were restored from whatever purgatory they were placed in, and thus had no further need to be rescued. Even Mabel was getting up with the help of Yuzu, "Ugh, I'm never going to eat or do anything ever again."
"I think there's some left." Yuzu said picking one packet up.
Mabel went stiff as a board before she slapped the Smile Dip pack from Yuzu's hands, "Evil!"
"Agree other me," Mabel nodded, "agree."
"What happen?" Lee asked.
"Yeah everything went all weird." Nate agreed.
"You idiots messed up!" Karin stated sternly, after she made sure her sword vanished. "You messed with the place a ghost died. How did you think that was even a good idea?"
Dipper winced since he pretty much did the same thing, even if he regrets it.
"Lighten up man," Robbie said but she turned her glare to him and he flinched.
"You were the biggest reason this happen. I'm all for having fun but disrespecting the dead crosses the line." Karin said while keeping her glare on him the hooded teen.
"At least some kids have morals still," Ford muttered slightly assured at this.
"I think they all learned their lesson." Yuzu said looking their slightly ashamed faces. Well mostly Thompson, Lee, Nate and Tambry. "I say we go back home and rest."
The teens muttered in agreement and slowly left the shop. Karin kept her glare to make sure they leave which made Dipper ask, "Taking lessons from your brother?"
Karin nodded, "You have to admit Ichigo can be scary when he's serious."
"She did have a scary glare," Wendy pointed out.
"Make you wonder how scary their brother is," Dipper added slightly worried for his character for some reason.
"Tell me about it," Dipper said recalling being on the receiving end of that glare when he asked the twins to join his peerage. If he hadn't already gotten to know Ichigo, and if he wasn't such a nice guy, then he might not still be alive today.
Now Dipper understood as he gulped, relieved that this Ichigo isn't real….at least he hoped not.
As they exit the store Wendy looked around, noticing that she was seeing the night as if it was as clear as day. She glanced at Dipper who looked nervously at her. "Dipper…did something happen?"
Dipper flinched and the two stood in the doorway of the store. Dipper sighed, "Listen Wendy…you got hurt, like really badly hurt. I couldn't get you help because I didn't know where the hospital is and even then there would be questions and even then I wasn't sure you would make it in time. So I had to…. I changed you into a devil."
Dipper winced knowing that this was a big deal. Wendy noticed this and sighed slightly.
Wendy stared taken aback, "you what?"
"I had to Wendy," Dipper said "If I didn't then you would have died. I can't let my friend end up like that." He started pacing back and forth, "I didn't want it like this. I'll admit I thought of asking you to be one of my pieces but that would not be until we've gotten to known each other, and you learned more of devils and then you would make that choice yourself."
Wendy stared at him and she can see how torn up he was. She felt fine though she could remember the hit she took out of nowhere and how much pain she was in. she stopped his pacing by placing a hand on his shoulder, "Hey, was there no other way man?"
"No," Dipper said, "Not without you dying."
"Then I forgive you." She said with a small smile, "You saved my life and you had no other choice."
Dipper looked uncomfortable so Wendy reached over and placed a hand on his shoulder, "dude, you saved my girl there. You have nothing to be worried about."
"But he turned her into a devil," Dipper said, "Against her will."
"And if you didn't she would have died" Wendy reminded. "besides since I can tell she's like me I can say I might have said yes if you had asked."
Dipper smiled slightly at this. Pacifica said nothing as even she knew they needed to get Dipper to calm down and relax. She pouts though at how Dipper was acting now, it was not like it affected them or anything.
"Really?" Dipper asked, "You're not mad?"
"A little numb from all of this," Wendy admitted, "But I'm not going to hate you for this. Heck if we went with your plan I might have just said yes anyways."
"Really?" Dipper asked trying not to sound pleased.
Mabel, Soos (who had recovered when it was all over), Wendy and Stan rolled their eyes at this while Ford chuckled good naturally at his great nephew.
Wendy laughed "Yeah I'm pretty sure I would. Let's just go home, let me adjust for a few days and then you can show me this whole devil business."
"Sure," Dipper said with a smile "not a problem."
Then headed towards the car where everyone else was already settled. "God, what a night," Wendy muttered before she cried out in pain and held her head.
Wendy blinked, "What happen now?"
"Yeah quick warning," Dipper added, "The big guy doesn't like us devils saying his name. Even the new ones."
"Seriously?" Wendy asked rubbing her forehead, "lame."
Wendy frowned annoyed, "not cool."
"Though it makes sense in a way," Ford added "Since devils are things against the bible and religion."
Dipper asked as they climbed the fence and got into the car. Dipper noticed Mabel groaning, holding her stomach and looking at the message she wrote hours before hand, "What kind of sick joke is this?"
Dipper chuckled and patted his twin's back, enjoying the irony.
"Oooooh," Mabel drew out, now understanding what Dipper meant beforehand.
"Did something like that happen here?" Candy asked.
"It wasn't as bad though we still had ghost to deal with," Mabel said as the screen changed to a different street with several houses. "But while it was fun it was better that you didn't come."
Everyone else was dropped off at home and Dipper and Mabel assured the Thompson they were fine after dropping Wendy off at her house. Dipper waved goodbye to Wendy as she went inside and the four devils walked a short distance out of sight to teleport home. "Well that was crazy" Karin said.
"But fun," Yuzu admitted, "Until the hollows came."
"Indeed," Candy agreed.
"But Mabel is right that it was better we miss it," Grenda admitted though.
Karin smirked at Dipper, "Well at least you got a new knight out of this."
"I didn't plan this," Dipper said blushing, "But while I regret how it happen, I don't regret having her a part of the peerage."
"Always the redheads huh Dipper?" Karin teased as they stopped to go home.
Dipper and Mabel slowly vanished as the boy scowled, "Why does everyone say that?"
Dipper scowled, "Why is everyone saying that?"
The others snickers or giggled at him. All but Pacifica who was just frowning at this.
Karin and Yuzu just laughed as he vanished. They active their own teleportation seal before Yuzu asked her sister, "You think if we dyed our hair red then maybe he would notice us?"
"Oh what's this?" Stan said in a teasing tone. The others chuckled again while Dipper blushed.
Karin smirked, "Who knows…but if we did Ichigo would kill him, and Dad would constantly flip between crying about how we're leaving the nest or that he has a new son."
"True," Yuzu admitted as they vanished and returned home.
The screen changed to the outside of the Mystery Shack with the twins walking into view.
Dipper and Mabel appeared outside the Mystery Shack and were just happy to be home. As they walked towards the door they could hear Stan scream in fury and then to their surprise the TV was thrown out the window. They stared as Grunkle Stan looked outside and noticed them, "Ummm…. couldn't find the remote."
Ford blinked and glanced at his brother. While it seemed like that would be something Stan would do he did have a different line of thought. Base on Stan's comment and how long it seemed for his brother to make the effort to throw the television make Ford think that Stan actually ended up watching a few movies and overreacted to a scene in the movie. Personally Ford thought Stan lasted longer than how their mother would in that situation, and still more graceful.
He ducked back inside and the twins shrugged, too tired to care and would have Soos fix everything tomorrow.
The group sighed seeing the screen turn dark showing the reel was coming to an end. They felt that one was more intense than the others. Soos pointed to the screen "Another Code dude!"
D QHZ GHYLO NQLJKW ULVHV
Ford and Dipper wrote it down before they slump in their chairs. The group was quite before Wendy asked, "So…do we take a break from this one?"
Okay and the third chapter for a Gravity falls for Devils. First update of the year and will take a break from this to try and work on some of my other stories. The question however for this series is what world will the gang see next?