This is a season finale so please review but be kind.
At the organization the team prepared their weapons and supplies needed to stop Django and whatever evil forces he could have working with him.
"Alright so we all know the plan right?" Manny asked his teammates.
"Yep!" Steven answered.
"Okay let's go."
"Manny wait!" Solomon protested. "Gardner is awake and he wants to talk to you."
Manny went into the clinic. Gardner looked horrible, his body broken and beaten with a nasty gash from where he had been stabbed luckily it was bandaged up however he looked like he was on the break of death.
"Hang in there old man." Manny told him.
"Manny..." He breathed. "Where is Frida?"
"Django took her but don't worry we're going to get her back I swear."
"Your father feared this day would come."
"What do you mean?"
"On the night your mother gave half of her soul to your father, he and Dagon had fought which ended with Dagon tearing off his horns but your father ripped out his eye, giving him the power to open those horrible gates to hell if he wished but instead he devoted his time trying to keep you and your mother hidden from him. When your powers were activated, Dagon picked up your scent and came to retrieve his eye and seek revenge which is why he had you swallow the eye before he went to challenge him. It was on that night he and your father fought each other to the death."
"To the death?"
"They both destroyed each other though he was sad to leave you and take your mother with him into death he was relived that at least you were forever safe from Dagon. Unfortunately there would be others who would force you to use that eye for evil, Django is trying to do that. You mustn't give in to his demands."
"I won't."
"Don't underestimate him because he knows how to bring you to your knees. Resist his influence, stop his plan, and please...Please save Frida...Please save my daughter."
He passed out after that.
"Don't worry I will. I promise."
With that vow he left with the others. The reason why Dipper couldn't sniff out Frida's scent was because she along with Django's lair was under a barrier that made it completely invisible to sight, sound, and smell unless you were the one who cast the barrier. Gardner was the only one who knew how to undo such a barrier and they were able to do it using his notes. With that done Dipper took a whiff of a strand of Frida's hair and was able to track her down. They were led to a mausoleum in a graveyard for demons and evil spirits.
"Wow how original Django." Manny said sarcastically. "He chose the mausoleum where he was buried in."
They opened the stone door and found a stair way leading down into the darkness. Manny lit some torches and lanterns then the four of them walked down. It was cold, dark, and leaky with hundreds of dead corpses lying around.
"Oh gross." Dipper said. "Would it kill him to clean up a little down here?"
"Let's just find Frida and get out of here, this place gives me the creeps." Connie said.
"You're not the only one." Steven added.
"We'll be alright as long as we don't separate." Manny said.
On cue stone walls rose up from the ground and between Manny and Dipper and Steven and Connie separating them. Manny and Steven tried to take the wall down with brute strength or fire but it was fire proof and apparently Devil and Vampire proof.
"Great. That's just wonderful." Manny said sarcastically. "You guys okay back there?"
"We're good." Connie called.
"Alright change of plans, we'll have to split up and meet back here later okay?"
"Gotcha."
Manny and Dipper went right, Steven and Connie went left. Hoping that they would be able to find Frida and the tablet before things got any worse. Speaking of Frida when she awoke she found herself lying on top of a bed in a very nice looking bedroom but it was surrounded by metal bars. Looking around she realized that she was in a jail cell or cage, the most comfortable jail cell or cage she had ever seen but nonetheless it was still meant to keep her locked up. She didn't like being locked up, it reminded her of when she used to be kept in the asylum. How did she get here anyway?
"Hey she's awake."
She heard a voice and turned to see living corpses all staring at her with bleeding red eyes, drooling fangs, and slobbering jaws. Startled, she screamed and jumped back.
"What a beauty." One of them said.
"Such a fine virgin there's no way Django would pass over something like you." Another of them said.
"It's not fair that Django and that half devil always get the most beautiful women." Said a third one.
"Well he's not here." Said a fourth one who was especially hideous and nasty looking. "So why don't we take advantage of this opportunity and have a little fun."
He started to reach for the door. Frida desperately went to her garder to get her gun only to find it gone.
"Oh crap!" She thought.
Luckily before the corpse could get any closer something grabbed it by it's throat and blown to ash. She saw that the thing that had killed him was Django.
"Naughty, naughty." Django said waving his bony finger. "You filthy pigs know not to touch my things."
"Yes sir! We know that sir!" They blubbered.
"Good now get out of here!"
She watched in horror as Django transformed into a devil that was much more terrifying than Manny. His eyes were redder than blood, his face looked like a corpse from hell, and he had a long, long, black tongue that was dripping hot acid. The corpses scurried out of there like cockroaches who just be exposed to too much light, determined to get away from the scary figure. Once they were gone he returned to the form she normally saw him in, looked at her, and smiled. But it was a smug and wicked smile, one that only a person with nothing but hatred in their hearts could give.
"Right now your face is more beautiful than anything Analia." He told her.
"My name is not Analia!" She snapped. "It's Frida!"
"Oh silly me." He chuckled. "Forgive me but you look so much like her I made a mistake."
"Well I'm not her." She insisted.
"It's true that most of you isn't, but a small part of you is."
"What are you talking about?"
"You're her reincarnation that means when she died instead of going up to heaven she came back to earth and began a new life as you and for what reason?"
"Um...I don't know."
"To be with Manny. Can you believe it? She didn't want Manny to be alone when he woke up from his stone nap so she gave up eternal paradise and chose to go through the pain and hardships of living just to be with him again. Of all the stupidity! Foolish woman!"
"I think that's one of the greatest sacrifices anyone could ever make. To give up heaven and go back to earth just so he wouldn't have to be alone...I can't imagine anyone loving someone that much."
"Hmmmph! Figured you'd say that."
"Are you going to kill me? If you are then you should now I won't go down without a fight."
"Relax my dear I'm not going to hurt you, let's not forget I had a soft spot for Analia so I wouldn't dream of hurting her or her reincarnation."
"Then what do you want with me?"
"I have a little offer for you."
"And what's that?"
"When I unleash hell on earth I shall rain supreme and be able to do anything I please including give you anything you desire, whatever you wish will be yours in an instant and all you have to do is give your heart to me and rule by my side as my queen."
"Not gonna happen."
"Don't provoke me Frida! Remember I can reduce you to nothing but ashes!"
He grabbed her face and tried to kiss her like he did before but she wasn't having it this time. So she spat right in his face. He hissed, released her face, and glared at her.
"You can do what you like!" She cried. "Bribe me! Threaten me! Kill me! But you cannot have me! You couldn't have Analia and you can't have me! Not ever! Because as long as I live on earth there is only one man I will ever love so you cannot have me!"
He reached to grab her face she moved out the way and got as far away from the bars as possible. For a moment it looked like he was going to unlock the gate and come in there to do whatever horrible thing he wanted to do to her. But then his anger subsided and his calm demeanor returned.
"That strong will always irked me." He said. "But in time perhaps I'll manage to break it."
"I'm not afraid. He'll come for me, he always does."
"Oh I'm planning on it. You think I only abducted you to give you an offer? That was just a bonus, you're here as leverage for that mistake of nature. He'll come for you alright and when he does he'll be right where I want him, ready to do my bidding."
"If you think for one minute that he'll help you in your psychotic plan then you must be completely out of your mind! He won't do it!"
"Oh Frida how little you understand. You see when you have the right leverage you can get a man to do anything and I know that this man in particular would do anything to prevent you from suffering as Analia did, even unleash hell on earth." He turned away from her and began to walk off. "I'll give you time to think it over here. Until we see each other again Analia."
Frida growled a little while wishing that she could put a bullet through the psycho's head but now that he was gone she could focus on escaping.
"If you think I'm just going to stay here and let you use me as leverage you've got another thing coming pal." She pulled a hair pin from her hair and began trying to use it to pick the lock to the cage door. "Ah-ha! There we go."
When she got the lock off she checked to see if anyone was around then opened the cage door and began searching for the nearest exit though it was quite difficult considering she didn't know where she was. She heard whispering and went to see if it was anyone who could get her out of here or at least someone she could follow to an exit. The whispering was coming from down a catacomb tunnel, she followed it and found it only led to a dead end where living corpses were digging around for God knows what.
They hadn't seen her yet so she had a chance to escape. She began to back away real slow like until she accidentally tripped over a stone, fell down, and made a noise that caught their attention. When they saw the living woman there they lunged for her. Frida picked herself up and ran as fast as her legs could carry her until she reached a dead end.
"Oh God you've got to be kidding me!"
They were closing in on her, her heart was pounding. Here she was surrounded by a bunch of walking corpses who wanted to kill her and she had no weapon to defend herself and no way to escape. She was so done for unless...No, Nora had warned her that using Heaven's Light was a bad idea but she had no other choice. But how the heck do you get it to work? Maybe you had to think about it.
However just before she could start and just before the corpse could get closer to her something came down from above and burned the first few to ashes. It was fire, green fire.
"Fire?"
She looked up and to her relief and utter joy she saw Manny jumped down from a hole he had busted open in the floor of an upper level and landed right in front of her with open arms.
"Frida!" He cried joyfully hugging her.
"Manny!" She said returning the hug. "You came for me! I knew you would!"
"Are you well?" He asked her.
"Yeah."
"Thank goodness you had me so worried."
"Um hate to break up this sweet reunion." Dipper said having jumped in after him. "But there are still these guys."
He pointed over to the mob of corpses coming at them.
"Dipper protect Frida, I'll handle these freaks."
He began throwing more fire at them, burning them into ash but more of them just kept coming. They kept grabbing him, trying to hold them down and rip out his flesh and organs then devour his soul. Manny was strong and he manged to throw them off but he couldn't keep it up forever.
"Oh God there's too many of them!" Dipper realized.
"Get your frickin dead hands offa me!" Manny demanded throwing them off one by one.
"Oh no!" Frida cried running to his aid.
"Frida no!" Dipper said stopping her.
"They're gonna kill him!" She screamed with tears running down her cheeks. "Do something!"
"What can I do? If I get close I'll be barbecue!"
"I have an idea!"
"What?"
"Dipper you need to go into a corner and close your eyes."
"Why?"
"Just do it!"
"What are you doing?"
"Something that may damage my body and kill you if you don't listen to me but I have no other option here so I gotta do it!"
"Frida you can't-"
"Move! Now!"
"Lord I hope you know what you're doing!"
He got into a corner and closed his eyes.
"Alright light, you did it before now I need you to do it again please. Think light, think light, think light."
She kept telling herself this over and over again in her head then her birthmark started to glow, a match to it appeared on her other wist, two more on the fronts of her feet, and one more on her forehead. They all began to glow and gave off the same bright blue light before only this time she wasn't holding back. It burst out into the entire room, destroying all the corpses in an instant but it was so strong that she wasn't sure if she could handle it. The force of it began to tear her dress, veil, and the rest of her clothes while straining her body immensely. It didn't destroy Dipper or Manny since they were half human but it caused a powerful strain on them too. When the light from her body finally faded the corpses were destroyed but the three of them had all lost consciousness.
...
Dipper and Manny were the first to wake up and they found themselves chained up across from each other inside some demonic sacrificial room. At the head of the room was a large door with strange markings made in blood and Frida lying down on alter still unconscious with a white blanket covering her. Both boys tried to break free but for some reason when they tried they felt a burning sensation.
"Struggle all you wish." A voice chuckled. "Those chains were made from sliver and blood stones so it will do neither of you any good to try and break out."
Django walked out from behind the door holding the tablet.
"After so many years of endless searching, reanimating corpses and using their parts to make me whole, having my own blood bleed out to track it, I shall finally achieve my dream. All you have to do is open one door Manny."
"Your dream is sheer madness! Don't do it Manny!" Dipper protested only to have a corpse bash him on the head with a stone.
"Silence!" Django demanded then turned his attention to Manny. "Imagine it, a world where we can be our own rulers, where we can make our own laws, where we can have anything we want."
"You're out of your damn mind." Manny huffed. "I already told you I want no part of this! How many times do I have to say it?"
"Then maybe a different route will change your mind. If you cannot do it for the freedom we rightfully deserve then do it for her. Open the door in exchange for her soul which I can easily take."
"You're bluffing! You can't do that! No one can! At least not without making a deal with Satan! Ha! Do you honestly think I'm that stupid?!"
"I can assure you I can take her soul but I won't if you open the door."
"No."
"As you wish."
He walked toward the alter.
"What are you doing? No! Stop! You lay one finger on her and I'll burn this whole place to the ground! You hear me?!"
But his threats were ignored. Django lifted up Frida's face and opened his mouth. A misty substance was then sucked out from her lips.
"No! No! NO! NO! NOOO!" Manny cried out in his demon voice. "YOU BASTARD! YOU BASTARRRD!"
He struggled in vain to break free but it was a futile effort and he was forced to watch him steal away her life. He heard her give out one last breath before her body lost it's color, her pulse stopped, and life was gone. She was dead. Manny felt tears of rage and heartbreak stream down his cheeks. It happened again, he watched the woman he loved die right in front of him and he couldn't do anything to stop it. He fell to his knees and began to weep silently. Dipper could only just watch with eyes of pity. He had never seen him so hurt in all the years he had known him.
"I'll give her back to you." Django said. "If you open it."
Manny knew he shouldn't do it. He knew of the horrible consequences that would come with performing that horrible act, the countless lives that would be lost if he did it. But he couldn't do it, he couldn't loose another woman he loved and live with it for the rest of his life. He couldn't bear it.
"For her." He said reluctantly. "I'll do it."
Django grinned and using his skeleton key he unlocked Manny's chains.
"All you have to do is transform into your devil form and touch the door." He told him.
Manny stood on his feet and transformed into his devil form. He slowly walked toward the door and raised his hand up.
"May God forgive me." He thought.
"Don't do it!" Dipper shouted getting his attention. "Please! Manny you don't have to do it!"
"Yes he does!" Django shouted. "He is half devil! He was born to bring mankind to it's knees and unleash hell! Evil is his destiny! He has no choice!"
"You always have a choice Manny! Just because you're half devil doesn't mean you have to be evil!"
"If you don't do it then the woman you love will be lost to you forever!"
"He's lying! Manny you and I both know he won't bring her back! I'm sure he won't! He just wants her for himself and once you do what he wants he'll kill you and take her!"
"Be quiet you stupid mutt!"
Django's corpse minions began to attack Dipper at his word.
"Open the door! Now!"
Manny looked at the door then back at Dipper and then at Frida.
"You are a devil! You have no choice in this world! You serve one purpose and that is to cause destruction!"
"Promise me that no matter what the world says or does to you, you will choose who you are, you will choose the life you live. Promise me."
His father's words echoed in his head. That's what he had meant when he told him that. He wanted Manny to have a choice, to choose what he wanted to do and who he wanted to be. This was his life and he made his own choices.
"What are you doing?! Open the door! Open the-"
"DJANGO!"
Manny lunged for him and plunged his claws deep into his back.
"Manny you...How dare you!"
"DIE AND REPENT YOU BASTARD OF HELL!"
He pulled his claws out then sent a huge flame that destroyed his corpses. He then went over to the alter and gathered Frida into his arms, holding her in a bridal carry. She felt so cold and her body was limp but she wasn't completely gone yet.
"Let's get out of here." Manny told Dipper.
"I'll lead the way."
Dipper sniffed for the exit and the two of them ran toward it. Once outside Manny gently laid Frida down and made sure that nothing could harm her out here.
"What are you doing?" Dipper asked.
"He still has her soul, I gotta get it back or she's done for. Stay with her and keep her safe okay?"
"Hey I'm a dog remember? I'm supposed to be a loyal protector." He joked.
"Thanks." Manny said smiling. Then he went back down into the mausoleum and to face his greatest enemy. He found Django on the ground looking like a pathetic undead creature.
"What do you want?" He asked in a voice of pure hatred. "You've already destroyed my dream. What more can you do to me?"
"You have something that doesn't belong to you. Give me her soul!"
"Never! She is my consolation prize and if you want her soul you're gonna have to rip it out of me."
He then transformed into his demonic form. Manny had seen him like this before so he wasn't surprised or startled and he might have been scared if he wasn't so angry at Django and determined to save Frida. They two devils spread their wings and flew up to fight each other. While they were equal in strength and agility, Manny's body was alive while Django's was just made up of rotting corpses so if he could just hit him in the right place he would crumble to pieces. He took a whiff of the monster blood, bleeding out which gave him a quick understanding of all his body parts and knowledge of where just to strike.
He plunged his claws deep into Django's body and searched around for a soul that didn't belong. He found many but there was one that was pure and angelic like. That was hers, no doubt about it. He absorbed it into his own body and then stabbed Frida's crucifix necklace right Django's decaying, black heart causing his body to split apart and crumple into ashes.
"Damn you Manny."
His finally words ever said. Manny took a few panting deep breaths then went back out to the exit where Dipper was. He kneeled down at Frida's body, gently lifted her chin up, and leaned in. When his lips were inches from hers he opened his mouth and her soul flew back into her lips and returned to her body. All they could do now was wait and hope that he had gotten her soul back to her just in time. For minutes nothing happened then she took a deep breath and the color came back to her face. When she opened her eyes Manny's smiling face was the first thing she saw.
"Manny." She said softly. Her arms went around his neck while his went around her waist. They held each other close, afraid that if they were to let go they would loose each other forever. "I had the most horrible nightmare, I dreamed that those corpses had killed you and that I couldn't do anything to stop them."
"It's alright now, I'm here. The nightmare is over." He assured her.
"Manny."
"Yeah?"
"I love you." She said trying not to cry. "So much."
"I know." He said smiling into her hair. "I love you too."
They looked at each other, his flaming green eyes met with her angelic blue eyes, their hearts were beating, and their cheeks were blushing. Their feelings for each other were flying like they had done many times before only this time there was no hesitation or resistance. They leaned in, his lips touched hers, and they shared their long awaited kiss of love. Frida was so happy, this kiss was a thousand times better than the last kiss she gave him, this time he was kissing her. He returned her feelings and she couldn't be happier. For Manny he felt like he was kissing the face of heaven. After a hundred years of misery and guilt, he finally felt love again and this time he wasn't going to let it go.
Dipper smiled as he watched them kiss. He thought it was a very sweet moment until he realized something.
"Uh guys where's Steven and Connie?!"
...
"Hello?!" Steven shouted. He and Connie had become completely lost in the mausoleum. "A little help?! Anybody out there?!"
"Manny?! Dipper?!" Connie said.
"If they leave us here they are so dead."
