Ch. 2 Hunt the Ghost, Break the Statue

Time Skip Night time

The limo ride was... interesting? to say the least. Dipper and Pacifica were sitting next to each other while Mabel, Candy and Grenda were sitting across from them, chattering and looking every inch of the limo.

Though Mabel just couldn't sit still or keep her hands to herself, which annoys Pacifica to no end. Pacifica had taken off her disguise revealing a beautiful purple gown with black puffs at the end and on the straps, a matching purple choker collar, diamond earrings, one inch dark violet rouge heels with a diamond on the middle like a buckle and dark violet rouge elbow length gloves.

Dipper only wears his casual clothes, red orange t-shirt, blue vest, dark lime green shorts, socks and comfortable travel shoes and of course his signature hat with a blue pine tree on the center.

Mabel and her friends were all wearing their new dresses; Grenda is wearing yellow-orange silk strapless dress, blue green flower sandals, a pearl necklaces and her hair is styled in a wavy ponytail.

Candy is wearing a mint green dress with a darker mint green ribbon tied into a waist bow while the top half looking slightly like a blouse and her hair was also in a ponytail but in a wavy curl that spiraled upward defying gravity somehow and matching mint green dress shoes.

And finally, Mabel is the only one wearing something that stands out then the rest of them. A feathery poufy dress with roses to match the color and a little hat with roses and a curl heart wires, her hair was down, but had curls at the ends.

Pacifica was about too loose it when she saw that they were pulling up to the Northwest main gates, the gates opened for them as the driver parks up to the main entrance everyone got out and with the heiress leading the way, the doors opens for them.

"Welcome to Northwest Manor, dorks. Try not to touch anything." Pacifica announces, but it would seem that Mabel didn't listen her and started to touch everything around her. "Everything's so fancy! Fancy floors, fancy plants *Gasps.* fancy man!" She then rubs the butler's face. Whom seemed he didn't mind it. "Mm, yes. Very good miss."

Candy came up with a gift bag in her hands "The rumors were true!" there really was a live quail in the bag, and it had chicks. The quail and its chicks jump out of the bag and the girls ran after them, passing Mr. and Mrs. Northwest without a second glance.

"Ah, if it isn't the man of the hour!" Preston said with fake joy in his voice, he leans in closer to Dipper "Hopefully you can help us with our little... situation, before the guests arrive in an hour."

Dipper wasn't sure if he can get it done in just that amount of time, all he could say is "I'll do my best." The seem to please the headmaster of the Northwest family, "Splendid! Pacifica, take our guest to the "problem room," and, uh... he's not wearing that, is he?"

He point to Dipper who was looking away from them while cleaning his teeth with his finger. Though no one could see that happening, Pacifica narrow her eyes in determined at her challenge "I'm on it."

Time Skip

It didn't take long for Dipper to change into a well dressed tuxedo, as he steps out of the dressing room with the collar choking him. "Ugh, it's like this collar is strangling me. Who do you guys think you're impressing with this stuff?"

Pacifica walks up to him and tied his bowtie "Um, everyone. You wouldn't understand. High standards are what make the Northwest family great." she turns to leave the room while Dipper walks over to the portraits of her family's ancestors achievements and Fiddles with one of the picture frame's tassel, and said "Funny, I thought it was lying about founding the town."

Pacifica turns around and yells "Don't touch that!" Dipper put his hands up in surrender and fallows her to the area where the ghost is causing the most trouble. "It's up on the second floor, none of us or even the staffs dares to enter my father's third trophy and pool table room." Pacifica took a candle holder and lit it. Leading them into the dark, empty staircase and hallway.

Meanwhile in the Main Ballroom

Mabel, Candy and Grenda were having the time of their lives, and the party hasn't even started yet. When the girls were wandering around the Main Ballroom, Grenda found the guest book list of who is invited to the party. "Oh wow, guys, it's the guest list!" She opens the book as Mabel and Candy approach over both her shoulders. "Whoa, check out this hottie!"

She points to a cute young boy around their age maybe a year older, he has fair skin, thick eyebrows, a large, pointed chin with a cleft, and shoulder-length brown hair, he also has a red mole on his left cheek.

"Marius von Fundshauser!" Candy excitedly exclaim, as she continues reading "He's a baron from Austria!" Mabel proclaim "Forget the quail, I'm putting him in my guest basket!"

But Grenda pauses Mabel and Candy for a moment with her hand "Hold up, ladies. I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but I think this boy is out of our league." Candy understands where her best friend is coming from "Grenda is right. He's a white whale. Hunting him will destroy us."

Even though Mabel wanted to meet Marius and get him to notice her and to be his girlfriend, she had to agree with her friends. Besides "There are tons of cute boys coming. Let's swear a sisters' truce not to waste time on Marius."

All of the girls place their hands in the center and said "Deal." but laughed nervously, not sure if they can keep the truce for long.

Back with Dipper and Pacifica

Dipper and Pacifica made it to the third trophy/pool table room, Dipper opens the creaky door and was amaze at all of the stuffed animals on display, the painting hanging above the fireplace, and lots of dark wooden furniture. The whole room is lit by the fireplace and gives it a dark reddish light. In short; just all of the eeriness in the room screams "Hunting" with a capital 'H'.

"This is the main room where it's been happening." Said Pacifica, Dipper agrees with her "Yep, this looks like the kind of room that would be haunted, all right. I wouldn't worry about it, though." He said as he dug out Journal 3 and flip through the pages to the Ghost Categories and shows Pacifica the scale level of ghosts.

"Ghosts fall on a ten-category scale. Floating plates sound like a Category 1." Pacifica snarked a little when she ask, "So what? Are you gonna bore him back into the afterlife by reading from this book?" Dipper didn't let her words get to him, so he replies back while getting small, round bottle of water out from his bag "Just gotta splash this sucker with some anointed water, and he should be out of your probably-fake blonde hair." He said that last part fast, but it would seem that Pacifica heard all of it. "What was that about my hair?"

Suddenly; Dipper's EMF detector went off buzzing, he quickly grab it, "Shh! I'm picking something up." and started to fallow where the ghost is located, leading him to the hanging painting of a lumberjack above the fireplace. For a moment the EMF detector went off, "C'mon, stupid thing." but after a few small hits it came to life again, "There we go." and it was in that moment that the lumberjack in the painting had completely vanish.

Seeing the lumberjack disappeared from the frame has set many warnings in Dipper's head, making him to back away a little "Uh, Pacifica?" AH!" her screams caught his attention as blood began to drip near her, looking up she let out a gasp as all of the dead stuffed animals were oozing with blood from their eyes and mouths.

Pacifica backs away from the bloody animals nearly bumping into Dipper in the process, as if it wasn't bad enough the fire unleash an enraging heat, flames dancing so dangerously and the dead trophy animals were starting to chant hauntingly "ANCIENT SINS. ANCIENT SINS. ANCIENT SINS." as books, furniture, and antique weapons are sent circling around Dipper and Pacifica, and the chandelier above crackles a storm dangerously.

"Dipper, what is this?" Pacifica cried fearfully as she clench onto Dipper's arm in fright, Dipper was equally scared as well as Pacifica "It's a Category 10." as soon as those words left his mouth, the bottle of anointed water breaks. Causing the two 12 year old's to scream.

"ANCIENT BLOOD AND BLACKENED SKIES. THE FOREST DARK SHALL ONCE MORE RISE." Pacifica turns around and starts to shake Dipper desperately asking "What do we do, what do we do?!" Dipper tries to reassure her "Don't worry. It can't get worse than this!"

But it did, it so very much did. The fire roared raging flames again, only this time a black skeleton hand emerges from the fire and soon a whole skeleton body drag itself out of the fire with an ax wedge in it's skull. Indicating how the it died long ago.

Dipper and Pacifica watched from under a table as skin and clothes crawls over it's skeleton body, this is the ghost that is haunting the northwest mansion. "I smell... A NORTHWEST!" and it's raging mad. Ax materializes in the ghost's hand, and he begins dragging the ax along the floor, scaring the two kids with his voice calling out to them. "Come out, come out, wherever you are!"

Pacifica whispers quietly as she can when yelling "Hurry! Read through your dumb book already!" Dipper whispers back as he flips through it "I'm looking! And it's not dumb, okay? This book is gonna save our lives! Alright, here we go. Advice:" using the black light on the page, only words that are shown were 'PRAY FOR MURCY!'

Both Dipper and Pacifica were in disbelief at this, "Aww, seriously?!" and luck wasn't seriously on their side today, the table they were hiding under floated away revealing their location to the ghost. "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE COME HERE!" the ghost yelled as he swung his ax down at them, it was a miracle that they moved out of the way in time. Otherwise the Northwest manor will have two more ghosts of dead children on its hands.

"This way! Hurry!" Pacifica yelled as both she and Dipper run for their lives. The chase was on.

Back at the Party

Preston was either completely unaware of what is happening upstairs or just didn't care or maybe both, as he opens the doors to the guest. "Welcome, dukes and duchesses, sultans, and sportsmen." One of the basketball team player spun a ball with his finger and greeted in slag "Yo, what up, Presto?"

Preston ignore his comment and continues on "And, reclusive 102-year-old mayor of Gravity Falls, Mayor Befufftlefumpter." with out warning, a swarm of vultures flew in and circle the old mayor. "It's okay, they're with me." the mayor reassures all of the guest, including the government agents who were in disguised, even though it was very alarming.

But this didn't phase Preston in the slightest, "Tonight we will enjoy only the finest of tastes and only the snootiest of laughter." One of the snooty rich man with a long noes and a bad combover laughs in a stereotypical French manner. "That's the ticket."

Meanwhile Candy was helping herself at the fondue fountains. Dipping her fondue fork into two fondues, not so sure which to have. "Cheese, chocolate, cheese, chocolate-" Thankfully Mabel came in to intervein.

"Candy, listen to me carefully. You're caught in a sweet-savory loop. Put the fondue fork down." Mabel tries to convince her dear friend to let go of the fancy food that has put her into a trance, only to have Candy to reply "I want to, but I can't." Soon the sound of a whine glass being tapped caught everyone's attention, "Introducing Baron Marius von Fundshauser." The butler announces.

The doors open revealing the handsome baron from Austria, and he was even cuter in real life. "Guten tag!" Marius greets the three girls, "Guten take-me-now!" and Mabel immediately runs after him, but thankfully she got held back by Grenda and Candy. "Mabel, we had a truce!" Grenda scolded at her for nearly breaking their truce.

Candy nodded her head in agreement before asking Grenda for something, "Yes yes, a truce! Uh, Grenda? Can you go fetch us some fancy napkins?" "Wow, okay!" Grenda happily walk away to get some, leaving Candy alone with Mabel to talk to.

"Listen, Mabel, I don't know if I can follow this truce! He is too adorable!" Mabel agrees, "Huh, me too, Candy. But what do we do? He's unattainable!" Candy then has an idea, "What if we flirt with him as a team? With our cuteness combined, one of us might have a chance!"

It was a brilliant plan, no more than brilliant, it was perfect! "It is the perfect plan, but what about Grenda?" said Mabel, Candy voice her reasons and concerns "I love Grenda, Mabel. But these boys are fancy! Her aggressive flirting style might scare them away!"

As if to prove her point, Grenda was flirting with one of the boys who are also attending the party, and that her flirting was more of an insult than a love flirt.

It was decided that Mabel and Candy will break their truce and flirt with Marius without Grenda. If only they knew how it'll turn out in the end.

Back with Dipper and Pacifica

Pacifica was leading Dipper down a decorated hallway on the first floor, while they were still being pursued by the ghost. As it laughs at their attempt to keep going and stay alive. Thinking of taking a shortcut to lose the ghost, Pacifica Guided Dipper to one of her family's gardens.

"Hurry through the garden, watch out for Peacocks." Pacifica shouted, but she and Dipper did hit one though. They made it back into the elegant hallway, but were tracking mud. Dipper flip through the pages and found what he was looking for. "Come on, come on- I got it! Haunted paintings can only be trapped in a silver mirror."

And would luck even have it, the next room ahead has what they need. "Look! There's a silver mirror right there!" Dipper and Pacifica run faster towards a pristine white room, where a large, rectangular mirror hangs on the rear wall. But Pacifica grabs his arm, "Wait! Don't go in there!" stopping him before he can enter.

"This room has my parents' favorite carpet pattern! They'll lose it if we track mud in there!" Pacifica explain with a bit fear in her voice, Dipper couldn't believe what he is hearing "What? Are you serious?!" He tries to get in, but Pacifica keeps holding Dipper back, preventing him from entering.

As if it wasn't enough, the sound of the lumberjack ghost's laughter and cries of "Come Out." were slowly but surely is catching up to them quickly. "Pacifica, we don't have time for this! Let me through!" "No, my parents will kill me!" the two kids soon found themselves in a tug-a-war fight with Dipper's Journal being the rope, "Why are you so afraid of your parents?!" "You wouldn't understand!"

Tugging on the Journal so hard made Pacifica tripping both Dipper and herself into a secret room that was hidden behind a painting of a skeleton dressed like a king, The ghost didn't seem them so he assumed that they continued running down the hall.

When they tripped and landed in the secret room, Dipper and Pacifica accidently knock a couple of stacked boxes some of them filled with bookends, head statues paper weights and multiple priceless items. The top box had the most heaviest of items fell down on Pacifica and Dipper, knocking them out. Not before hearing another Item crashing down onto the hard wooden floor.

The Statues of the Two Demon Lovers that went missing for 150 years.

They're BaAAaack~

So how do you guys like it so far? I've been so engaged in this story that I couldn't put it down, but my fall semester classes has started so I'll try to put bits and pieces of words for the new chapters in the future.

See ya' Later. ^v~*