Since Frida wouldn't be back til the next day Dipper and Steven took Pacifica to the hospital but Dipper went in disguise to avoid being arrested in case Preston told them who it was that attacked him and Steven hypnotized the doctors to treat Pacifica but not to reveal to anyone who she is. The two of them stayed there all night hoping that she would pull through they also called Connie and told her to have Frida come to the hospital as soon as she returned.

The next morning Manny and Frida came back from their trip feeling very happy that they had gotten to spend two weeks together. Unfortunately they would have to get used to action and danger very quick and it would start at the least exciting place they knew of. A local cafe they had stopped at for breakfast.

"Frida quick question."

"Yes?"

"Any reason why you ordered a blueberry muffin, a slice of apple pie, two chocolate chip cookies, a slice lemon pound cake, and a cup of hot chocolate for breakfast?"

"I'm really hungry for something sweet." She said drinking some of her chocolate. "So what are we gonna do now that we're back?"

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"Well is it back to sneaking around and kissing in closets?"

"I don't know."

"Well I'm worried about Gardner, I think he's getting suspicious." She took a bite of her pound cake. "Hmmm...This is really good, you wanna a bite?"

"I'll pass, anyway I don't really need-"

He stopped. His face went blank as his ears began searching for a sound.

"Hey you okay?" She asked.

He didn't respond, he sensed something. Something coming, something dangerous. It was coming fast, really fast. As quick as air as he grabbed Frida, shielded her body, and jumped to the side just barely missing a bullet that had shot from the glass window of the cafe followed by more bullets. The customers jumped to the floor and covered themselves from the firing bullets. No one sat up until the shooting stopped.

"Are you alright?" He asked her.

"Yeah I'm fine." She said. "What was that?"

"I have no idea? What sort of jackass would start shooting at a cafe?"

His question was answered when two men in uniform stepped in carrying guns. One older, one younger.

"Citizens do not fear us." One of them said. "We mean you no harm."

"Yeah right!" Manny said. "Are you insane?! You could've killed somebody!"

"We were only doing our job."

"What kind of crazy job requires you to start shooting like mad?"

"We are merely trying to do God's work."

"Who the heck are you guys supposed to be?" Frida asked.

"I am Victor Caldwell, this my son Andy. We are here to eliminate demonic beings."

"You two are nothing more than insane radicalists!" The owner of the shop said. "These two run around Maine claiming that they help us by killing monsters! But the truth is all you two lunatics do is scare away customers and cause property damage! Why you two aren't behind bars I'll never know."

"Well I'll have you know that we tracked a devil here in your cafe." Victor said.

Manny gulped.

"Ridiculous!" The owner said.

"It's true! That's why we started shooting, we hoped to kill the demon."

"Do you even have any idea who here is a demon?"

"No but we can't risk letting it escape."

"Even if it means killing innocent people?" Frida said. "You almost shot me in the head."

"Well you could've been the demon."

"She's a nun you idiot!" Manny said. "How is it even possible she could be a demon?"

"We'll see about that. Touch this cross Miss, if you're not a demon this should burn you."

"What are you blind? I'm wearing a cross?" She said pointing to her necklace.

"Okay she's clean but the rest of you come up and touch it!"

"This is absurd!" The owner said. "Get out of here! Before I call the police!"

"Fine but we won't stop our search! So far we've tracked a devil, a vampire, and a werewolf living in this area."

"Oh aye and did you find Frankenstien's monster here too? Get out! All of you!"

They left but you could tell by the look in their eyes that it wouldn't be the last time you'd see them.

"What a couple of freaks." Manny said as they walked home. "They wouldn't know a real demon if it bit them."

"True but they did manage to track you here." Frida said. "So I think it's best you and the other two lay low for awhile."

"Oh please you want me to hide from a couple of lunatics? In case you haven't noticed some of the people like me now."

"Some but not all and no I don't want you to not exactly hide but be cautious. Just because they're out of their minds doesn't mean they're not dangerous. Especially when they're religious fanatics."

"Trust me Frida I've encountered religious fanatics in my life and they are no match for me."

"Did they all have guns?"

"Well no but I'm sure I can dodge any bullet."

"Really because when we first met you weren't able to dodge my bullets."

"Well I was unprepared at that time. I didn't expect a nun to be carrying a weapon."

"That's your problem you don't consider the unexpected." She said rambling. "I know it's hard for you to believe, but for centuries humans have been taking down full fledged devils meaning a half devil like you could easily be taken down. Every time something that might pose as a threat to you shows up you have to challenge it instead of thinking about the risks and-"

But he had left and she was alone.

"And every time I try to give you advice you ignore me, sprout wings, and fly away. Great, he could at least tell me when he's going to fly away." She sighed. "Well looks like I'm walking home by myself."

Up in the sky, Manny was flying home. He loved Frida but sometimes he thought her worrying was for nothing. Suddenly a shot rang out. It came from below, being fired by the three men from earlier.

"Oh great not those two again."

"Surrender demon!" Victor shouted.

"Well this should be fun." Manny grinned. He dropped down, Victor held up a cross but it didn't do anything to him. "Yeah sorry guys but that doesn't really hurt me."

"Im...Impossible!" Andy gasped. "How is he immune to the cross?"

"We can still stop him with this." Victor held up some type of other bullets he had never seen which he loaded into his gun. Manny had every intention of dodging the bullets until he smelled a certain liquid inside that he sensed was extremely deadly even for a devil. As quick as air he flew away from them. Their guns went off like crazy. Manny did everything he could to dodge the bullets. He spotted Frida and landed by her while panting.

"Manny? What's going on?"

"No time to explain! We need to get out of here!" He scooped her up into a bridal carry. "Hang on!"

She clung to his neck nervously as he took off flying.

"Why have you stopped shooting?" Victor asked his son.

"He's holding a girl. If we shoot him we might hit her." Andy said.

"He's a demon we can't let him escape."

"But what if we hit the girl?"

"Sometimes sacrifices have to be made."

He shot one bullet which hit Manny's wing. He shouted in pain and crashed on to the ground. He sheltered Frida from the fall so she wasn't harmed.

"Are you alright?" She asked him.

"Yeah but I don't think I'll be flying for awhile my wing is broken."

"On no! They're coming!"

"Get on my back! I can't fly but I can still climb."

She got on his back and gently held on to his neck as he climbed a nearby tree. They managed to hide in the branches just as the two hunters arrived.

"It landed here." Andy said. "But I don't see it."

"Damn he managed to evade us." Victor cursed. "The reverend will not be pleased by this."

"And he might still have that girl Father. We must rescue her."

"Come on we better continue the search."

Once they had left Manny slid down from the tree.

"Phew! That was close." Manny sighed.

"You sure you're not hurt real bad?" Frida said.

"My wing hurts but other than that I'm fine."

"Good." PUNCH!

"Ow! What was that for?"

"For ditching me!"

"What's the big deal I ditch you all the time?"

"Well you can't do that now that we're together. You do that again and I might ditch you for good!"

"Alright, alright, come on let's just get out of here before those fanatics come back."

He changed back into his human form and they walked back to the mansion. Connie called them and told them what had happened to Pacifica so they rushed down to the hospital. The doctors refused to let her see Pacifica So Steven hypnotized them in a frozen state until Frida finished.

"Well can you help her?" Dipper asked.

"She has so many beatings." Frida said. "So many broken bones and bruises. She's alive but wounded fatally, it'll take awhile but I can do it but I need privacy so I can concentrate so do you mind?"

"No. Sure do whatever you need."

He left the room and went to sit with Manny and Steven in the waiting room.

"So her father did this to her?" Manny asked.

"Yeah." Dipper sighed.

"That son of a bitch, I hope he burns in hell.

"I know you should never beat a woman especially if she's your daughter." Steven said.

"Reminds me of Analia's bastard of a father. I would've sent him straight to hell if she hadn't of begged me not to."

"I didn't kill her father but I mauled his face off." Dipper said. "He'll live but he'll look like something ugly for the rest of his life."

"Serves him right if you ask me."

Hours passed and nothing had changed.

"What's taking her so long?" Dipper asked nervously.

"Frida knows what she's doing." Manny assured them. "Trust me."

Frida had spent hours, with her hand over Pacifica's chest and forehead willing her holy powers to heal every single wound on her body. Poor Pacifica had received so many over the years that it would take Frida longer than usual to heal her. But after eight patient hours of hard effort Frida was able to heal all her wounds.

"All done." Frida breathed. "Pacifica? Pacifica? Hey can you hear me? Can you wake up?"

Pacifica's eyes flashed open and she sat up screaming, crying, waving her arms, and kicking her legs.

"No! No! Stop! Stop Father! No! Get away! No Father! No!" She screamed.

"Pacifica stop." Frida said gently but firmly holding her.

"No! No! Let go!"

"Pacifica stop! It's okay! It's okay!"

"Get off of me!"

She was hysterical and she kept trying to grab Frida's throat and choke it. In response Frida slapped some sense into her.

"Snap out of it Pacifica! It's okay. It's me. You're safe now."

"Frida?" She said starting to calm down. "Oh my God, what happened? Where I am?"

"Calm down you're in the hospital."

"Last thing I remember was my father beating me, over and over again."

"It's okay now. Just breathe."

"He didn't." She started to cry then without warning and to Frida's surprise Pacifica hugged her. "I screamed, I cried and he didn't stop! He didn't stop! I know I shouldn't be surprised that he did this but he...He-"

"I know." Frida said hugging her back and letting her cry. "I know. It's alright, just let it out."

"He was actually going to kill me."

"Just breathe, you're alright just keep breathing."

After Frida soothed her she called the boys in to let them no that she was alright. Steven undid his spell on the people at the hospital and they all went back to the organization. She fell asleep on the way.

"So what are we gonna do with her?" Steven asked. "Obviously we can't send her home."

"She has an aunt so I think she'll take her in." Dipper said.

"What if she's a psycho like her parents?" Manny asked.

"She seemed nice but I don't know."

"Manny you're bleeding!" Steven gasped.

"Where?"

"From your back."

"Oh yeah that."

"What happened to you?"

"After I got back two mad men shot my wing with a bullet filled with some kind of acid."

"Acid?"

"That's what it felt like."

"By any chance do you still have it?"

"I think it's lodged in my wing. Why do you ask?"

"Oh no reason." Dipper said. "Can I take a look at it please?"

"Wait a minute I know that look. What are you planning to do?"

"Steven hold him down."

Steven pounced on Manny and held him down on his stomach. Dipper grabbed some nearby pliers and examined Manny's back until he found the bullet. As quick as possible he yanked the bullet out.

YAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Manny shouted.

"There we go." Dipper said.

PUNCH!

"Ow!" Dipper and Steven cried.

"What the hell did you two do that for?!"

"To know what this bullet was." Dipper said examining the bullet. It contained a liquid, he decide to unscrew the capluse and take a look inside but when he touched it, it burned him.

"Ow! What the? Was that bullet sliver?"

"No." Steven tried top grab it but it burned him to. "Ow! What is in that thing?"

"I have no idea. It's not made of bloodstone or sliver and it's not covered in garlic so how can it burn us? Manny do you the names of these people?"

"I don't remember their names I guess it was Cladwell. Their last name." Manny said. "And their after us."

"After us? As in they wanna kill us?"

"No they wanna take us out for tea, of course they wanna kill us!"

"Why?" Steven asked. "The people of Maine understand we don't mean them any harm."

"Steven we're half vampire, werewolf, and devil. There are always going to be people who are afraid of us. I mean we're freaks of nature."

"Looks like these people are very dangerous." Dipper said. "So I'll have to do a little research on them."

"Can we do that tomorrow?" Steven asked. "It's late and we're all tired."

"You're right, let's get some sleep."

But Dipper couldn't sleep, not until he saw that Pacifica was alright. She was still asleep in the morning so that made him even more stressed and anxious. So much that he couldn't eat.

"Hey are you okay?" Steven asked him.

"Yeah I'm just worried about Pacifica."

"She'll be okay. Probably better than most people around here."

"What do you mean?"

"Well I couldn't really sleep last night either because Manny and Frida were up all night fighting."

"About what?"

"Who knows?"

BANG!

"Oh here they are now."

"I'm not afraid of you, you know!" They heard Manny shout.

"Oh you should be!" They heard Frida scream. "Look at what you did to my nightgown!"

"It was an accident! I didn't mean to catch it on fire!"

"Yeah right! You just love to destroy things don't you!"

"Get off my back woman!"

He stomped into the organization lounge where they were and raided the ice box for his burnt and cared steak only to find it gone.

"Hey! Where's my beef?! I put in here last night and now it's gone!" He looked at Steven and Dipper. "Alright now which one of you pigs stole me meat?"

"Wasn't me." Steven said.

"Or me." Dipper said.

"Oh really, then who did?"

His question was answered when he saw Frida sitting at a table eating the last of the ten pound charred and burnt steak.

"Frida!" He shouted.

"What?"

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!"

"Finishing up my midnight snack."

"That was my breakfast!"

"It was?"

"Yes!"

"Oh...Sorry."

"Frida do you have any idea what you just ate?"

"Steak."

"A ten pound steak that was charred and burnt!"

"Really? I ate that?"

"Yes! Why would you eat that?"

"I was hungry."

"But you don't even like steak that way."

"Well last night I was craving charred steak with jelly."

"Steak with jelly? Eww."

"Oh what you're saying I'm a gross eater?!" She said getting angry.

"No but jelly on steak is kind of disgusting."

"So that's it! I disgust you! Is that it?!"

"No I'm just saying-"

"Oh you big jerk! You're always so mean to me!"

"What? No I-"

"Go jump out a window!" She ordered.

With that said his belt forced him to do that. Then she stormed off.

"What's wrong with her?" Dipper wondered.

"I don't know maybe something happened on their trip that made her mad." Steven suggested. "Hey I'm gonna go call Connie okay?"

"Alright. I'm going to study that strange bullet."

He called Connie and asked her to come over and help him gather books tgat might be useful to Dipper's studies. She had just arrived when she heard the sound of someone gagging. She followed the noise to the bathroom and found Frida throwing up into a toilet.

"Frida are you alright?" Connie asked concerned.

"Yeah I'm fine." She gagged. "I just ate some bad meat! Blehhhhh!"

"Are you gonna be okay?"

"Yes I just- Blehhhhh! I just need to get it all out! Blehhhh!"

"Can I get you anything?"

"Some ginger ale and maybe some crackers! Ugh! Blehhhhh!"

"Okay."

After helping Frida get over what appeared to be food poisoning, the two young ladies went to meet their half paranormal gentlemen in the library to discuss what research Dipper discovered.

"It have discovered that these bullets contain a fluid made from a plant known henbane." Dipper said. "Alone the plant serves as a deadly poison but if crushed down and mixed with ash from grave bones and boiled with fire from hell it becomes an incredibly dangerous acid that could destroy anything and anyone. Humans, devils, vampires, werewolves, you name it."

"Is there any protection against it?" Steven asked.

"So far there us no known defense system against it but what confuses me is how they created it."

"You just told us how."

"What I mean is humans shouldn't be able to make it because it's impossible for them to get the crucial ingredent needed."

"Which is?"

"Fire from the pits of hell. That fire cannot possibly be produced by human hands. Only devils, demons, and the occasional half devil or demon can create it, how were two mortal human beings able to create it?"

"Maybe they're not the ones starting the fire." Manny suggested.

"Then who is?"

...

Victor and Andy Cladwell returned to their temple of training where they met with the reverend they served.

"You didn't kill them did you?" He said. "That disappoints me."

"Forgive us Reverend Gideon." Victor said.

"I sense that one of you hesitated to shoot. It was...Andy wasn't it?"

"Yes sir." Andy admitted.

"Why?"

"Well the devil had a captured young woman. I was afraid that if I kept shooting I would've harmed her."

"Andy you do know the life of one woman is not worth the lives of thousands?"

"Yes but she was a nun. She was young and innocent."

"So is your little sister and now because of your follishness those creatures might make her their next target for blood. Tell me do you value a stranger's life over hers?"

"No! Of course not!"

"Then I expect you not to hesitate the next time you have a clear shot! These three monsters are a threat! And until they're destroyed no one is safe!"

"I understand."

"Good now threaten refill your guns and find them."

The Cladwells did as they were told. But before they left Andy went to visit his six year old sister Ellie. The little girl was sound asleep in bed when he crept inside her room. He gently stroked her hair which woke her up.

"Sorry sis I didn't mean to wake you." He told her.

"Where's Daddy?"

"Getting the guns ready."

"Guns? You're not going hurt people are you?"

"No we're just going to get rid of all the monsters. Like the one that took Mom."

"Are the monsters going to get me like they got Mommy?"

"No Ellie. I promise you I will never let that happen. I promised Mom that I'd always take care of you."

She got up and hugged her brother. He held her close and protectively. Six years ago when Ellie was just a baby and Andy was only fourteen their mother had been killed by a werewolf and ever since her death their father had been obsessed with killing all monsters which is how they ended up working with Reverend Gideon. When Victor learned that one of the three monsters they were hunting was a werewolf he was enraged and became more determined to kill him more than any other monster he had ever encountered. Although Andy shared his father's hatred of monsters he wasn't sure if he could kill innocent people to avenge his mother but to protect his little sister he would do anything.