Happy Memorial Day everyone if you are from the US like me and to others I wish you a good day as well. Yes it is another chapter of this story and I am sure it came as a surprise at how fast these are coming out. Truthfully we are going through them since Wolf and I are having so much fun and hopefully it shows.
Once again two people got the code for last chapter right: Wolfpackersson09 (who help write the chapters but not the codes so no cheating there) and deadpoolio99. Nice work you two, you got it right. Now onto the important stuff.
I said in the first chapter that I got this idea from somewhere but I had forgotten where, thankfully I had manage to find her (I think it's a her) The Cowardly Christian as the one that inspired this whole story. She not only approves but actually likes the story so far. So now the stakes for an even better story have gone way up.
This chapter will be one that is very different, due to the extra characters and how they are, we needed to raise the stakes a little otherwise this would be boring. What do I mean? One way to find out.
Disclaimer: Wolfpackersson09 and I don't own anything from Gravity Falls nor any other franchises that are featured in this story. They below to their respected owners and we earn no profit from this. This is simply for fun.
Strange Engagement
-Chapter three: A Scary Fun Time-
It was late afternoon in the Mystery Shack and most of the gang was in the Gift Shop. Mabel was spinning on a large globe with Lilith and Mimi keeping a constant spin to it like Chi looked bored next to Mimi. Soos was fixing something like normal while Wendy was talking to Rias about some plans too hang out with the rest of Wendy's friends. Dipper however was showing the ghost entries in the Journal to Dani for her opinion, seeing as the ghost girl would be the best to ask. "So, what's your take in the author's research? Is it accurate?"
Dani flipped to another page while giving a small hum. "It's not bad actually, for a human researching. Ghost also have their own ranking system, much different then how the author has it but that's mostly because he had limited ghost to work with."
Dipper tapped his chin in thought. "That would explain a few things. What's the official ghost ranking like?"
Dani closed the book and smiled at her, "well we only have five categories or classes instead of ten. Ghost go into class D, C, B, A and S in order of weakness of strongest. The higher the ranking the more powerful you are or the most unique your abilities."
Dipper nodded as he started to taking notes in his section of the journal. "So, I can assume your dad as the king of ghost is S class."
Dani nodded, "yep. Both mom and dad are S class and some of the strongest among them. Officially I don't have a rank yet since my powers are still developing, but I am told I have the potential to become S class."
Dipper looked amazed, "That's so cool. Man, I can't help but wonder how the ghost in Gravity Falls would be ranked."
"That's because you're a big dork!" Teased Mabel from her still spinning spot.
Dipper didn't reply but got payback by pressing the eraser end of his pencil to the globe which stop its spinning. Mabel flopped to the floor with a yelp to which Lilith, Mimi and even Chi held up score cards for the fall; getting a 5, 4 and 2 in that order. Oops Chi's had a decimal point in front of her number. Dani got a small laugh from that but still answered Dipper, "I actually meet a few here."
This took Dipper by surprise. "You did?"
Dani nodded, "yeah, I was exploring and found this closed down convenient store. The owners died and hunt the place still. Once I explained I wasn't a teenager yet they were much more friendly. It was actually kinda refreshing seeing ghost not know who I was."
Wendy blinked as she heard this part. She glanced over and asked, "the store you found them wouldn't be called Dusk2Dawn would it?"
Dani was surprised but still nodded, "yeah, how you know?"
"Huh," Wendy muttered before she explained, "I heard rumors that the owners died in there but didn't think it was true."
"Yep, double heart attack," Dani confirmed for her. "They hated teenagers so much they banned them from the store. The teens protested with hateful rap music which gave them the heart attacks."
"Are we talking actual hateful rap music or a censored Disney like version?" Chi asked with a raised flaming brow.
This got Lilith to laugh, "oh I want to find out what a Disney version of a hate rap would be. I bet it would be hilarious."
"I never asked," Dani admitted, not seeing it as a big deal.
Off to the side Wendy rubbed her chin in thought, "good to know. Looks like I need to make a new plan for the gang this week."
As she was contemplating what her new plans could be, Stan walked in through the front door and called out to his employees. "Wendy, Soos!"
Soos quickly ran over, panting slightly before he asks, "What's up Mr. Pines?"
Wendy barely glanced up to her boss which he didn't even seem to notice. "I'm heading out. You two are going to clean the bathrooms, right?"
"Yes sir!" said Soos with a salute.
"Absolutely not" added Wendy with her own mock salute.
Stan laughed, before he said with narrow eyes, "stay out of trouble." Before he closed the door and left.
"Hey guys, check this out." Wendy then moved a curtain to show a ladder. "Secret ladder to the roof."
"That's cool! I mean, I can fly to the roof and phase through it, but we can actually go up there?" Dani asked as Wendy nodded, but Mabel did remember something.
"Didn't you go on the roof when we fought those cursed wax figures that tried to murder Grunkle Stan?" Mabel asked as Dipper recalled the incident with the wax figures.
"Someone tried to murder Stan?" Rias asked as she was curious. Lilith knew there was a story involved.
"Story time!" Lilith said as Chi didn't seem to care. Dipper felt like he was called out on the spot with that comment, he gave a short answer to that.
"I didn't go this way, I used the window to get to the roof, and some wax figures Stan had were cursed to come alive when the moon is waxing and tried to kill Grunkle Stan, but they killed a wax figure Mabel made."
"My expert handcrafted statue, besmirched!" Mabel dramatically said as she recalled the time she put in to crafting the statue while everyone climbed up the ladder to the roof, much to Soos' discomfort. Dipper then continued.
"So we looked for the killer and thought it was Toby Determined, but after a funeral for wax Stan, we fought killer wax statues of people to the death. I decapitated Larry King." Dipper finished as they all assembled on the roof to see that Wendy had put up some supplies.
"Did you put all this stuff up here?" Junior asked seeing a pair of lawn chairs, a cooler, an umbrella and a pail full of pinecones.
Wendy gave a smirk, "I may or may not sneak up here…all the time, every day."
Rias shook her head at her friend but had a smile to show her amusement as if she expected nothing less. Lilith chuckled "Oh Wendy, why didn't you say you were this entertaining?"
Wendy didn't answer but simply picked up one of the pinecones. After a few soft tosses in one hand before she winded up and threw it at the totem pole. Near the top was a small paper bulls eye target was tapped, the pinecone hitting the center. Wendy picked up another and gave the others a grin, "Anyone up to beat that?"
The only ones that didn't seem to care with was Chi who pouts and sat in one of the chairs, and Mini. They did however seem to cheer for Mimi and Junior respectfully. Everyone else was taking pinecones and took turns throwing at the bullseye. Many were short and some hit the totem pole, but few were close to the bullseye. Mimi got tired of missing, so she pulled a wooden slingshot from behind her back and used it to aim. Not wanting to be outdone Lilith used her back wings to make her own slingshot though her aim wasn't much better. The group were having fun, just acting goofy and being kids. Dipper threw one cone and it overshot the totem and hit a parked car, which cause the alarm to go off. "Jackpot!" Wendy cheered.
"Nice shot," Junior agreed, laughing as he high fives Dipper.
"Hey don't leave me hanging," Wendy said getting a high five from Dipper as well.
"This is a joyous activity for all parties to relax," Mini said, liking how not only Junior and Dipper were enjoying themselves but the other girls as well.
Chi huffed; her cheeks puffed up in her pout. "I'm sure Mimi would have gotten a better spot then the boy. We both could enjoy this much better."
"Then next time you can put your money where you mouth is," Wendy teased, getting the Japanese demon to glare at her.
A car could be hear speeding up and screeching to a stop. They looked down to see a van slid into the parking lot before a hand could be seen waving from an open window. "Wendy!" A voice called out.
"Welp that's would be my friend," Wendy said with a grin. "You up for hanging out with the gang Rias?"
Rias shrugged, "perhaps another time. Sorry but my mother wishes to talk to me tonight about some of my magical studies."
"It's cool," Wendy replied, not too upset but the refusal. "I need a few days anyways to find a new place for the gang to hang out. I know they would be physicked to see you again. Later Dorks!"
And with that Wendy jumped off to the roof and to a nearby pine tree. The sudden weight and force from the jump made the top bend to another tree where Wendy did the same action and landed on the ground next to the car. The door slid open by the guys inside and Wendy jumped in before the van took off. Everyone stared at this feat, Mimi held up a score card with a perfect 10 on it.
"Okay I got to admit," Junior said, stunned by the display. "That was pretty cool."
"I mean any of us can fly or survive without anything to break the fall," Dani added, also at awe from the move. "But for a normal human girl? That is so cool."
Rias giggled, "yeah she is pretty cool. I'm glad I manage to make so many fun contracts with her."
Chi turned and huffed while crossing her arms. She wasn't willing to admit it, but she thought Wendy was pretty cool too. Not as cool or attractive as Mimi in her opinion but she would privately admit once she and Mimi finally married (Dipper never included in her mind) she wouldn't say no to having Wendy as a consort for them.
(scene change)
Two days later the group was relaxing inside the gift shop of the Mystery Shack. The activity?
"Random Dance Party for No Reason!"
The group was dancing to party music played over the radio. Mabel going crazy and spinning with Dani, Lilith swaying and shaking her hips while winking at anyone paying attention to her, Rias and Wendy were dancing and laughing in place while occasionally pumping their hips together. Mini seem to be dancing very formally and with grace even without a partner though she was enjoying herself by the smile on her face. Chi was content with sitting near and watching Mimi dance, who was doing the robot of all things. Dipper and Junior also sat at the sidelines and watch; neither one willing to join in. Mini giggled as she shared a bow with Wendy for fun before she turned to her brother. "Come join us brother" she asked with a giggle.
"No happening," Junior deadpan.
Lilith had a glint in her eyes, "not even with your fiancé Mabel?"
"An even bigger hell no," came the reply.
The girls laughed at his respond before Rias turned to Dipper, "and what about you Dipper? Care to care with any of your fiancés?"
"I don't dance," Dipper explained, his cheek turning a slight red. "Never learned how."
"I can teach you," Lilith said, her teasing smirk returning in full force.
Mabel however denied the claim. "That's not true. Mom taught you the Lamby-lamby dance."
This got everyone's attention, even Chi's, as they looked at Mabel. Dipper grits his teeth and said to Mabel. "Now's not the time to talk about the lamby dance."
"And may I ask, what pretell is this lamby dance?" Mini asked, probably one of the longer full sentences Mini has ever said to Mabel.
To Dipper's horror Mabel explained and even produced a single photo. "A song and dance our mom taught him. She dressed him up in a lamb costume and made him sing a song about grazing."
The girls gathered around to peer at the photo while Dipper covered his face and groaned. Junior winced and placed a hand of comfort on Dipper's shoulder. "You have my pity my friend."
"Thank you," Dipper mumbled behind his hands.
Lilith got an even bigger grin and glint in her eyes as she asked Dipper, "care to show us? We promise not to laugh."
"I'll will promise no such thing," Chi added, an amused smirk on her face. Mimi even went as far as pull a lamb costume from behind her back and offered it to him.
"Never gonna happen!" Dipper denied, crossing his arms in protest.
The clock on the wall chimed, showing Wendy that her shift was over. "Quitting time!" she said happily before turning to her devil friend. "The gang should be here by now. Ready for tonight girl?"
Rias smiled, "I'm honestly looking forward to whatever you are keeping from me."
"Hey can we come!?" Dani asked, getting some of the others to nod as well.
Normally Wendy might be concerned since she knew her friends can be a little intense when they go out to have fun, even more when Rias adds her magic to the mix. But since everyone besides the Pine twins were supernatural, she felt it couldn't hurt plus even the twins had the others for help. "Sure, but I warn yeah; my friend can be a little crazy."
"Please we can handle anything" Junior said, not wanting to be brushed off so easily.
Wendy chuckled "I like your moxie Junior. It might be a tight ride in the van but I think it would be worth it. Follow me."
And Wendy went out the door, the whole group following as even Chi and Mini were curious about Wendy's friend. Mimi and Chi paused a moment to take a more human appearance (since the friend might know Rias as a devil, they didn't want to be bothered by their natural looks) before exiting the gift shop.
"In the belly! In the belly!" The group heard as they stepped outside and saw two boys, one a light skinned blonde with the other a tan guy with brown hair, chanting as a third boy, with dark hair and a hoodie of a stitched heart, was throwing small candy at a large bodied fourth boy who was upside down. There was also a girl with purple hair and a pink highlights with olive skin texting away on her phone standing.
"Watch this." Wendy whispered as she grabbed a green spherical candy and threw it before the pale dark haired boy (who was holding a red candy) could, hitting the belly button perfectly. This gathered the attention of the other teens as they noticed the two red heads. "Wendy, Rias!"
"Meet the guys, Lee and Nate." Wendy referenced her group of friends to Dipper and the others, with Lee and Nate posing. "Thompson, who once ate a run-over waffle for fifty cents."
"Don't tell them that." Thompson said with embarrassment that he did that, even if it was just to be popular.
"The girl on the phone is Tambry, and last is Robbie, you can probably figure him out." Wendy finished as Robbie looked at the group.
"Yeah, I'm the guy that spray-painted the water tower." He said in a that was proud and nonchalant, like he was trying to brag without bragging.
"Oh, you mean the big muffin?" Dipper asked as he had seen the spray painting on the tower.
Robbie's smirk dropped at this question. "Uh it's an explosion" he explained to then.
Luckily the water tower in question was in view of the shack and they all turned to judge for themselves. Robbie was firm in his stance but the others… "I don't see it," Chi said, getting some of the others to nod.
"An explosion would be cool but…" Junior tried to be nice since he like that kind of art but he clearly saw a muffin.
To add insult to injury Mimi pulled a plate with a muffin on it from behind her back, to show what she thought it was.
"It kinda does look like a muffin," Lee agree, getting a chuckle from Nate.
Robbie scowled at them all before he glared at Dipper, before a sharper one at Mimi who offered the muffin to him. "Who are these kids anyway? You babysitting Wendy?"
"Nope, just a group of friends" Wendy said pointing to the second cabin. "They're staying with Mr. Pines for the summer. Mabel and Dipper are Mr. Pines' niece and nephew whole the others are from down below."
Normally this phrase wouldn't matter much to people but since Wendy's friends knew of the supernatural with Rias as a devil they all made the connection quickly. "So are they all devils or…?" Thompson asked, more to make he didn't offend any of them.
"Only Rias is a devil," Dani told them. "Some of us are demons, I'm a ghost and Junior and Mini are the children of the Grim Reaper."
"Wait You're Grim's kids?" Robbie asked the two, the main thing that stuck out to him.
Everyone looked at him. "You know Grim/dad/father?" The group asked him, Junior and Mini taken aback the most.
Robbie shrugged, "He's cool and all but I see when he sometimes appears at my parents' work. He likes mom's snack when she makes them for him. I only talked to him a few times but he seems…weird."
Junior and Mini sighed, "sorry/I apologize" both of them said softly.
"To be fair their mother is way scarier than their father," Rias said, which the other children of the underworld nodded in agreement. Wendy, Dipper and Mabel also nodded as even if they saw her once, they felt it was a very, very dumb idea to mess with her.
Wendy clapped her hands to get attention back on her. "Okay I know there are more then expect but that just means more fun to go around. I got something special planned tonight so let's get going."
"I don't think we will all fit in my van," Thompson pointed out, seeing as he was the driver of the group.
"Can you magic the inside to be much bigger?" Lee asked Rias, being the one he knew more about.
"Won't be needed guys," Dani said, with a smirk on her face.
Everyone looked at her before Dipper asked, "And why's that Dani?"
"Because we can summon our own ride."
All the human members of the group were still confused while the others realize what she was talking about. "Huh?" Mabel asked, being the first to voice her confusion.
Mini addressed the group, "Our families did not wish us to rely on Stanford Pines alone so we are able to call upon a chariot if need."
Junior nodded and held up a small key that was attached to a keychain that seem to be made out of bone. "Yeah we can fit everyone in it."
The human teens looked at each other before Thompson, who was the main/only driven said, "it would be nice to save on some gas."
Wendy beamed at this before addressing Junior, "then what are we waiting for?"
Junior grinned before he gave the key a light toss and it bounced on the ground a few feet in front of them. They waited before a small hole seem to open up and the key fell inside. The ground suddenly shook before cracks formed around the area where the key fell. A massive hole broken open with fire and shadows spilling out from the opening. The flames rose up and blocked everything before they suddenly ceased and the hole sealed back up. In it's place was a large chariot much like the other the engagement group came in a week ago. The black and gray style seems to fit the tone with bone designs covering the doors, wheels and sides. Two horses that were nothing but skeletons were in the front with a skeleton driver waiting for the group. A second smaller skeleton appeared by the door and held it open for the group. The human members were amazed with Tambry taking a picture of the ride. "Seems kinda small," Robbie pointed out as the rest started to climb inside.
Inside it didn't look like a chariot but a large lounge with several sofas, mini tables and a snack bar with drink tabs. "This is awesome!" Lee said as he spun around the take everything in.
The others teens agreed while Junior looked pleased with himself. Dipper noticed and offered a fist bump to his friend, feeling he earned it. Wendy stepped inside last and the door shuts behind her. "Okay I just told the driver where to go so we should be all set."
They could hear the bone horses neigh and started off. Amazingly they barely felt the movement of the chariot besides a very subtle bump every no and then. Everyone started to pick their seat, some also getting snacks before settling down. Seeing as they had nothing to worry about until they arrive, the new members of the group started to them. "Are you really a ghost?" Nate asked Dani. "You look normal to me."
"Same," Lee agreed, giving the ghost girl a thumbs up.
Dani smiled, not really bothered by the question. "This is a disguise that also acts like a limiter to my ghost powers. I can barely do anything else like this and would need to transform to fully use them."
"That is so cool," Lee said before turning to Chi, who he was sitting next to much to the girls' displeasure. The only thing keeping Chin from moving to a new spot was Mimi was sitting on her other side. "What about you guys?"
Chi herself huff she turned her head up. "Mimi and I chose to look human in order to have some peace and quite. No doubt our true beauty will have mortals scream in panic."
As if to prove the point, Mimi pulled a small sign from behind her back, showing a detailed picture of their true forms. The guys glanced at the picture to which Robbie scoffed. Lee and Nate however proclaimed, "cool!"
Thompson, who was the other side of Mimi, looked at the picture and was trying to think of something nice to say without it seem offensive. "Ummm…nice fire eyes." This earned another huff from Chi but you can barely see the tiniest of smirk on her lips. Thomson glanced up to Mimi as the girl puts the picture away. "the claws were kinda cool too."
Mimi looked at him before reaching behind her back. She pulled out the same muffin she first offered Robbie as well as two rubber claws much like her own. She offered them to Thompson who was surprise by the motion but took them gently. "Oh thank you."
Chi's eyes narrowed, not liking how 'her' Mimi was being so nice to the boy. She didn't noticed or didn't care of how Lee and Nate were trying to talk to her. On another sofa, Wendy noticed this and gave a small chuckle. "Those two are barking up the wrong tree."
Tambry, who was simply texting along next to her, pause and glanced at her friend. "Huh?"
Wendy lends back and pointed to her friend still trying to talk to Chi. "Chi from what I can tell only like girls and has a real lady boner for Mimi."
"And you aren't gonna tell them," guessed Tambry, looked amused by the joke.
"Nope," Wendy replied. "More fun for us."
"True that," Tambry said as she took a picture of them failing to flirt with the demon girl. Once done she made a new post, knowing the guys don't really follow what she post most of the time. It was the picture she just took that said, "Trying to Romance a Lesbian". Tambry was very pleased with herself for that, knowing she would be able to hold it over her friends heads once they find out.
Robbie glanced at Junior and asked something that has been bugging him. "So if Grim is your guys dad, hw come neither are you are bones or something?"
Junior shrugged at the question. "For one our mother was human before she became immortal. The second is this isn't our natural forms."
"Huh?" Was the intelligent reply from Robbie.
Mini answered for her brother, "My dearest brother means that much like Chi, Mimi and Dani, the forms you see are nearly false images. Ones we naturally take when visiting outside the Underworld.
Junior nodded, "yeah we heard plenty of stories from our parents about how people can react to dad and how they tried to harm him. We decided to mostly avoid that all together and even when we got here we never had a reason to remove them." He turned to Dipper and added, "Honesty I thought you would have already asked that."
Dipper smiled since it was partially true. "I wanted too but figured I should ease into that question and also not to seem rude."
"Unlike the goth wannabe," Chi added amusingly.
"Oooh! Burn!" Lee and Nate called out, laughing at the dis.
Robbie glared at them, "Shut it you idiots!"
Lilith giggle, enjoying the free entertainment, "Ladies, ladies…you're both pretty."
This caused everyone to laugh, besides Robbie and Mimi. The silent girl had a small smile forming, though you would have to look to see it. Wendy took a moment to collect herself. "Well where we're going you don't have to worry anyone seeing us and can get rid of the human looks if you want."
"Where are we going Wendy?" Mabel asked, being the first to voice her curiosity.
Wendy chuckled at this question but had no issue answering, "It took a while to fund a place to hang out and go crazy since Dani told me of the teenager hating ghost at Dust2Dawn so that was a bust."
This had the human members glanced at the ghost girl who waved cheerfully. Wendy went on, "but I manage to find one. It's an old abandoned sawmill, far enough from town so it is the perfect place to act wild, break stuff and not care of the conciseness.
"Abandoned?" Thompson asked, slightly surprised to hear that. "But isn't your dad a lumberjack? Why not still use it?"
Wendy shrugged, "no idea why. No one used it in thirty to fifty years now. Personally, I just think dad prefers hands tool and to him power tools for chopping wood is for weaklings."
(Scene Change)
The group arrived at the old abandoned sawmill. "Whoa, check this place out guys." Wendy said as they saw the various parts of the sawmill.
"It's not that impressive." Chi wasn't impressed with anything as Junior looked at the belt that brought the logs to be sawed in half for making planks.
"This place is not so bad. Could be fun if we had something to strap to a log while we pretend to be an old-fashioned cartoon villain." It might have been fun to recreate something like holding a hostage with a toy or something that wouldn't have been easily missed.
"I'm still curious why it's shut down." Dipper said as his sister wiped some dust off of from another part of the area. "Everything here looks like it's still in working order."
"No idea," Wendy admitted but wasn't too concerned. "But their lot is our gain this place is perfect."
"To do what?" Lilith couldn't hep but ask.
Wendy just have a large grin, "Whatever the hell we want."
This made everyone pause before grins also appeared on their faces.
(Scene change)
Not far from the not far from the sawmill, deep in the woods, a group was traveling in the direction of their home. They moved fast through the trees and underbrush, all while grunting or making odd noises that sounded like hands slapping something. They grunted and argued with each other in their own language, mostly over an unsuccessful hunt. They were hungry, hungry for days now and wanting nothing more then to get their fill of blood. The leader smacked on of his comrades with his hat before started to move towards their home once again. They did pause in fear as they heard something.
It sounded like a low howl, mixed together with an inhuman like moan. The group were heavily frightened by the call and scampered off towards the safety of their home even quicker. They knew the creature making the sound wasn't something they were willing to mess with. Through the thick branches of the forest, an antler head slowly turned in the direction of the clearing where the group stayed a moment ago. A slow raspy breathing was heard in the chilling silence. Time seem to stand still before the creature slowly stalked in the same direction, following the trail of new pray. It wasn't moving fast as it didn't seem to be in a hurry. Truthfully it didn't feel like it was in a hurry. It wasn't even feeling anything. All it felt…was hunger.
(Scene change)
"Mw-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Junior laughed evilly from his position by the control panel. "Pray to whichever god you believe in for you shall be meeting them soon!"
Junior was being a total ham and he knew it but he was playing the role of a villain. On a convilerbelt, tied to three logs were Chi Thompson and Dani in that order, waiting as they traveled to a roaring saw-blade, ready to slice them in half. "You wont win!" Dani declared to play her part. "The heroes will stop you and save us!"
"They will never find you in time!" Junior denied at once. "I have placed several fake locations, all with traps to stop them. Victory is mine!"
"Not today!"
Lee and Nate jumped into view, both standing heroic like poses as grinned at Junior. "X-Ray and Vav are here!"
"Yeah that's great," Chi said nonchalantly, tilting her head towards them. "But we're kinda busy so can you leave so my hero can show up?"
Lee and Nate blinked at this, "but we're the heroes here" Lee pointed out to her.
Chi raised one flaming eyebrow at them, as she and Mimi had no reason to keep the human form if they already knew the truth. "My hero is Mimi, not you two idiots."
The two stared at her before Nate pointed his thumb over his shoulder. "But she's not even playing this game with us."
It was true, Mimi wasn't even looking in their direction. She was standing next to Rias and Wendy, each with their own weapon to hit flying pieces of wood that Dipper, Lilith and Robbie were throwing in the air. Mimi fired rapidly with her slingshot while Rias used a magic blast for her targets while Wendy was throwing small hatchets.
"She'll be here any second now," Chi denied before she gave a scoff, "so leave me be so she can rescue me."
Junior gave her a deadpan look, leaning on the controls with his chin propped on his hand. He should have seen this coming but it didn't make it any easier to deal with. Thompson leaned his head up and seemed nervous as they crept closer to the saw blade. "Should we be worried?" he asked Dani.
Dani blew some hair out of her eyes before she said, "We should be fine. We had Chi go on first because she not only felt it would be more dramatic for Mimi but because even if the saw cut her, it wouldn't hurt her and melt. Even if it doesn't, I will use my ghost powers to phase through the woods and be free." She paused and glanced down at him "are you okay with this? I mean Chi and I can get out easy so no danger for us but if we weren't here then you would be in trouble."
"It's fine," Thompson admitted. "I'm used to abuse and can take it. It helps the gang through stressful moments and keeps everything together."
"That is very mature" Dani said with a smile before pausing once more, "or dark…not sure which."
"We're gonna be here a while huh?" Thompson asked as his friends still failed to get through Chi.
"Come on, just play along."
"No."
"Most likely," Dani said with an eye roll.
Dipper laughed as he chuckled several pieces of wood up only to have them blasted by Rias's magic. "Wow I didn't know you can use this kind of magic Rias."
Rias giggled, looking pleased with herself "It's a special magic my father and I can use. It's a very destructive magic but no where as powerful as my father's."
"Who is your dad?" Robbie couldn't help but ask. "You barely mentioned him other then he is a devil like you."
Lilith gained a glint in her eyes telling Dipper she was planning something. "Would you believe me if I told you he wasn't just any devil but 'the' devil?"
Robbie scoff at the idea, "yeah right."
Rias blinked at this statement, making her miss her target and Wendy to take them instead. "I'm sorry?" she asked, giving him a flat look. "And why do you say that?"
Robbie returned the look, "because if your dad was the big D, then there is no way he would allow his daughter to hang out with a bunch of dumb teenagers."
Rias puffed her cheeks and spoke on defense of her human friends even though it was one of them insulting themselves. "You know none of our friends are dumb."
Robbie didn't respond, only pointing to Lee and Nate still arguing with Chi. Rias had to pause and rethink her statement, "correction: only the guys are dumb."
"Sound accurate" Tambry mumbled from her spot, not even looking up from her phone.
Wendy just laughed, seeing no reason to correct Robbie. She doubted he would believe her anyways. Their game was further interrupted when Mabel came running over with something in her arms, "hey check this out!"
Mable was carrying several cans of what looked like spray paint. "I found these in the back with a bunch of different sized overalls. We can totally make a bunch of art with this."
"In the back?" Dipper questioned as he took one of the cans and examined it. It didn't look that old and still filled with a decent amount of paint. "That doesn't seem right."
Mabel shrugged, not sure what to tell him. "They were near this cooler filled with red meat. It smelled bad so it must be old."
Dipper frowned as it wasn't making much sense to him. Robbie however took a can and grinned, "Well I'm always one to tagging anything."
"I bet I can make the best art!" Mabel objected, holding her own can ready for use.
Robbie blinked before he glared at her, "Oh no, I ain't losing to a kid."
"Those are fighting words," Lilith said as she also took a can for herself. "Find a spot and get tagging, and may the best succubus win."
"Yeah!" Both Robbie and Mabel cheered as they took the challenge. Robbie however lowered his hand slightly as he asked, "wait what?"
"Ready set go!" Lilith said quickly, getting both her and Mabel to run off to find a good spot to spray their art.
Wendy laughed as she watched them go. "Well since they got something planned; lets find something else to destroy."
Rias and the others shrugged and agreed. Each taking off in different directions to find something they can mess with.
Hours later each member of the group was doing different things. Junior had enough of Chi throwing a hissy fit with Lee and Nate and helped Dani free Thompson before they took turns destroying the belt. Actually Chi was the first to do any sort of damage as the saw-blade did manage to reach her body while she argued. She didn't even notice the blade cutting into her body but it did more damage to her clothes as less then thirty seconds after making contact the saw blade started to melt. This is when Junior decided to change the game and offered sledgehammers to the humans so they wouldn't be left out.
Thomson was stronger than he looked and got some good hits in with a large sledgehammer. Dani used her ghost powers to wrap and bent the metal and take pieces out with with little effort. Junior did the most as he actually formed his scythe, much to the awe of Lee Nate and Thompson, before slicing the belt into pieces. Chi didn't even bother to play as she noticed that Mimi wasn't paying attention to her again and was carving a large block of wood with tools. The demon girl slipped through the chains tying her down and went to pose as a model for Chi to carve. The clawed girl did nothing to stop her and kept working on her art.
Wendy, Rias and Tambry ended up outside by the river and knocked several logs into it. Wendy and Rias eagerly jumped on and started to roll to get the other one off. Wendy had the more skill, but Rias brought out her devil wings to keep herself steady. Tambry mostly ignored them as she laid on one log while typing on her phone, only moving her phone to avoid it getting splashed.
Dipper himself was exploring the sawmill more. He was always up for hanging out with cool kids like Wendy and her friends and would have no issue breaking and messing around with everything here, his mind was working on this small mystery. For a place that was suddenly abandoned it was still held together decently rather then being completely broken. Not to mention something other things didn't make sense to Dipper like how a cooler of meat was here still even if the meat went bad. Add the fact Mabel found a bunch of overalls and cans of spray paint, something that shouldn't even be in a place like this.
"I believe the human expressions is 'Penny for your thoughts'?"
Dipper turned to see Mini had walked next to him without her noticing. "Oh Mini, sorry I didn't see you. How's everything going?"
Mini offered a small smile. "I am doing quiet well thank you for asking. It is wonderful to see my brother making more friends and enjoying himself. He has been most vocal about his objection to the engagement to have him return to a normal state of mind eases me greatly."
"That's good," Dipper said, a bit happy his new friend was relaxing a bit now. He glanced to his fiancé and asked, "are you okay with everything? I'm sure you are upset you are being forced to marry me."
Mini offered him a small smile, "while I was troubled that my destiny seem to have already been made for me, my emotions for it are not directed towards you. You played as much of a role in this fate as myself and you are no more to blame then My dearest brother and I. That blame is to my father and the other fathers as well. But I am fortunate enough to believe a fate that seem horrible can have something wonderful become of it."
Dipper was confused, "what do you mean?"
Mini gave a small laugh, "I am talking about the story of my father and mother."
And Mini went into the story of how Grim tried to take the soul of a dying hamster from Mandy and her friend Billy. How Mandy, a normal human child younger than Dipper was made a wager with Grim. Grim lost in the game of limbo and not only kept the pet's soul safe but was also Billy and Mandy's best friend forever. How Grim was treated pet and servant for many years and how the reaper hated it. Dipper was amazed by all of this and even kept Mandy from dying when she was supposed for many years, up until the day he asked her to marry him. "Wow…that is one crazy love story if you can call it that" Dipper summarized his thoughts before he added, "yet still a better love story then Twilight."
Mini giggled at this, "yes it seems strange but with the birth of myself and my brother, we are proof that their love is real even if our mother doesn't show it to others. She is strict and stern with us but we never had a doubt that she loves us."
Dipper recalled how commanding and scary Mandy was in the short time he saw her and knew she wasn't a woman to mess with. He smiled at Mini, feeling a bit better about this whole thing. "Maybe this contract might not be so bad after all. At least we aren't starting out like how your parents did."
Mini couldn't help but agree and also thought of Junior and how he interacted with Mabel. While she disliked the girl on principle alone, she felt if her parents could find love then perhaps they all can even if she felt part of her heart breaking while doing so.
(scene change)
Night had started to fall and now the group was nestled around a small campfire, roasting marshmallows and other treats they pulled from the carriage. It was getting a bit hard for the group to see and mess around inside the mill but everyone was still in good spirts. Even Chi was enjoying herself as she tried to get Mimi to share a marshmallow with her. The demon girl wasn't upset with the daughter of Him when Mimi finished her carving and instead of Chi modeling it was all of the group, human teens included, just having fun in the mill.
Even Robbie wasn't too upset that he all but lost the small spray paint contest he had with Lilith and Mabel. The goth made a much larger version of his explosion with a skull coming out of the top which the others dubbed the 'Death Muffin' much to his annoyance. Mabel had made a large childish landscape with rainbows, hills made of yarn and stuff animals everywhere. Lilith won their contest with a piece of art none of the teens was expecting. She painted a large detailed version of her mother, Morrigan, wearing a dominatrix suit holding a whip and gazing at them as if she was a predator.
All the boys were stunned and blushing, even Dipper and Junior. Mabel herself was confused by the outfit while the other girls were either blushing, (Dani Tambry and Chi) had no reaction, (Mimi and Mini) or were highly amused like Rias who giggled and Wendy were fell to the floor laughing. Needless to say not only did Lilith won but was very pleased with herself.
"I am so glad you have so many snacks with us," Lee said as he roasted some marshmallows.
Junior grinned, "After the day we had, it would be bad if we ended the night without some good food."
"Can't beat a nice campfire," Wendy agreed, having many moment camping with her family but she wasn't once to not enjoy herself around her friends. "I'm just surprise you guys got this fire going so fast. But with your demon magic or whatever I'm sure a campfire was easy."
This had all the underworld members look at her. "but we didn't start it," Dani said glancing at the others, "right?"
They shook their friends before everyone look to Thompson since he was the one that seem to find the fire. "I thought you guys started it," the boy said, dropping his marshmallow into the fire.
The fire suddenly sprang up, the logs bent as if legs and shuffling around like a spider, showing two small eyes made of burning coals blinking at them. The teens jumped, now sure what the hell that was. Tambry took a picture mostly out of reflex but made sure her phone was nowhere near the creature for fear it might fall in. After a minute Dipper paused, "wait. I've seen this before." He pulled out the journal and shuffled through the pages. "here we go. 'Scampfire: these spiderlike beast pose as campfires, then spring to life when you get close. They like to eat campers marshmallows and beans, but will feed on pretty much anything combustible. Can be doused with water, but will hiss.' Looks like they are mostly harmless."
"Cool," Lee Nate and Junior said as he took marshmallows and toss them to the creature. The scampfire ate with eagerly while the teens made sure it didn't get too close.
"That was unexpected," Wendy admitted, calming down. She glanced at Dipper and grinned, "So that's the journal Soos was telling me about. Any crazy secrets in there?"
Dipper was about to explain what he knew and theorized before they all heard a strange sound. Everyone paused listening in. the scampfire did so too before it seem to shriek and hide itself was a normal camp fire again. Robbie frowned at what he heard and recognized it, "ugh, bluegrass music? Who the hell is playing that?"
Then out if the wood something jumped out. A short dirty man around Thompson's height with a large head, a wide fanged mouth and glowing eyes. It's skin was a dirty red with skinny limbs, large bare feet and hand with long claw like fingers. It wore a dirty and worn our flannel shirt with broken overalls and a large hat with holes on its head. It grunts and slapped itself on the body arms and legs as about a dozen more of the same creatures appeared out of the woods.
"What are they?" Thompson asked, getting scared.
"They aren't any demon I recognize," Rias admitted with narrow eyes, trying to see how dangerous these things are.
"I think I've seen these in the journal," Dipper said as he checked quickly. Luckily they were on the same page as the scampfire. "Kill Billy: Feral fanged glowing eyed hill men will suck your blood and steal your overalls. Communicate through grunts and ham-boning. When you hear bluegrass music run to the convenient store, they can't get in. No shirt, no shoes, no service."
"Well that's helpful," Robbie muttered, not liking how they were looking at him.
"This must be their home," Dani guessed, her eyes glowing green as she readied herself to transform.
"Maybe their friendly?" Mabel suggested, trying to look positively at this.
"I doubt it." Junior said as he then referenced the page Dipper just read. "They look like they're about to feast at a south sea soiree."
"And that means?" Robbie asked as they started to slowly back away, with Junior holding an arm in front of Mabel and getting her to back away with him.
"Long story short, a bunch of a cannibals get together and eat the neighbors." That started to get the others, including Tambry, who would've dropped her phone from shock if she hadn't been holding on to it tightly.
"So that means?" Lee asked as he didn't like the answer that was going to come.
"That we're on the menu." Dani said as she was getting ready to get into a fighting stance. That last bit caused Lee and Nate to panic and start screaming.
"There go the idiots." Chi said in a bored voice, but that moment was when the Kill Billys decided to pounce in full force.
"Dipper, go!" Lilith said as she unveiled her wings to fight.
"And get Mabel out of here!" Junior knew that if Mabel died she might likely get resurrected as something else, likely a living zombie, but it didn't set well with him to let his fiancee get killed.
"What about you guys!?" Dipper asked as Mini summoned a scythe of her own.
"Do not tarry, for we shall protect thee!"
"Everyone's lives are on the line, you get the humans out and we'll keep these guys away." Rias added to Mini's statement. But the Kill Billies were quick to scatter and hide, as Dipper ran before any spells could be fired.
Dipper held Mabel's hand as they entered the saw mill once more, the rest of the human members of the group quickly following after them. Luckily the moon was out and the holes in the roof as well as the bare open windows allowed the to see enough. "Are we safe here?" Tambry asked, holding her phone to her chest as a form to calm herself.
"Why didn't we head to the bone car or whatever that is?" Robbie asked looking around as he didn't feel safe at all.
"It's was too far away and too close to the woods," Wendy explained. "You saw how easily they manage to hide and move through them. If we tried to make a run for it we can easily get caught."
"We got to stick together," Nate said, trying to keep his panic to a minimal. "I fear they might just pick us off one my one."
"Just like in the horror movies," Lee added, pulling his friend into a hug, not caring how weird it might look.
Robbie then seem to have remembered something. "Hey Tambry, your phone! You can call for help!"
"And who would I call? The cops?" She asked sarcastically. "No one would believe me if I told them and even if they did, Blubs and Durland are useless and everyone knows it."
"Guys!" Wendy shouts to get to stop any fighting before it got too much. "We need to stay calm and keep an eye out. Rias and the others should be able to take those things on but we can't drop our guard."
The boys kept quite and did as they were told, hoping to get out of this. Dipper looked to Mabel, "Mabel you found explored the most; did you find any back room or area we can safely hold up?"
Mable shook her head, "all the rooms I found had open doorways or holes in the wall. No where to really hide."
"Let's stay in the middle for the room," Wendy advised picking up an small hatchet. "It gives us the most light plus we can watch for anything coming at us from all side."
None argued with her plan and they slowing made their way over to the spot, eyes watching every direction. Tambry even set the flashlight setting on her phone to give more light for them to see. Setting it to the brightest setting, she pointed it to the darkest corner; only to show a Kill Billy stalking in the dark. When the light revealed it, the Kill Billy let out a loud screech before leaping right at Tambry, claws ready to tear. Tambry lets out a scream in terror and tried to back away but tripped over her own feet. Everyone turned at the scream and saw the Kill Billy on the attack. Without even thinking Dripper quickly grabbed a piece of a broken log and threw it right at the Kill Billy. It smacked him right in the face, slowing his decent and causing him to miss Tambry and crash onto the ground off to the side. It shook its head to clear the daze and growled at them but Wendy kicked it in the head, forcing the Kill Billy to fall back. Wendy stood in front of her friends with hatchet in hand. Her eyes glared into the Kill Billy's glowing blood thirsty eyes as they sized each other up, waiting for the other to make a mistake.
Dipper helped Tambry up and stay behind Wendy. "Thanks," she said recalling how he manage to save her skin literary.
Dipper barely nodded "No problem but we still got much to worry about."
He dared to glance towards the entrance, wondering how his friends were doing outside.
(Scene change)
"Come on you hilly billy reject! Fight like the men you pretend to be!"
Dani's taunt didn't seem to affect them but that was more to let her frustration out. She had transformed into her true ghost form and floating in the air and firing green energy beams from her hands at the scattering monsters. After the human members of their group went inside the mill the Kill Billy pack hid in the woods to use the darkness to their advantage and ambush them. Unfortunately for the Kill Billies, the underworld kids were perfectly able to see in the darkness. When the first tried to jump Lilith, the succubus grabbed the creature with her wing, which morphed into a hand and pulled it to her other wing where she shot him off like a bow and arrow, right into another member of its pack.
Junior and Mini were back to back as they twirled their scythes, waiting for any to try and get close to them. One Kill Billy jumped overhead at them but the Reaper children easily noticed and smacked him with their weapons. He was luckily not cut but the Kill Billy was still weary of the weapons they hold.
Rias flew with her wings overhead and fired off several different destruction spells at the pack. Thankfully her spell completely destroy their targets so none of the bushes and trees caught fire from stray hits. She kept out of reach with her wings and was trying to keep track of them all but they were moving around so fast and so many she has having a difficult time.
Mimi stood with two Kill Billies on either side of her but she didn't looked bothered at all. Both monsters grunts and circled her before one tried to pounce from behind. He took too steps before he slipped on something and crashed to the ground, scattering the marbles that somehow got there. Not deterred by his partner's mistake, the second Kill Billy rushed her from the front. At first Mimi didn't move and seem to be easy pray until he held her hand up with a large iron held in her claw. The Kill Billy kept running at full seeds and hit the iron face first. The monster staggered before it too fell to the ground.
The first Kill Billy pushed the marbles away in Avery and got up to attack again. But several dark tendrils lashed out and captured its limbs. The Kill Billy struggled but was lifted into the air. A large twisted mass moved around him until it spilt and Chi's face was formed, her eyes glaring at the Kill Billy with her flaming eyebrow extending and flaring up. "You dare attack my beloved Mimi? You will pay for this."
The Kill Billy let out a series of grunts, mumbles and shouts before ending in a large raspberry right in Chi's face. Chi didn't seem to respond as she gave an annoyed look. Her face shifted and stretched into her face and mouth became a huge crocodile like maw with jagged teeth.
It was then the Kill Billy knew…he fucked up.
Rias ignored the loud sickening crunch as she lunched another spell at the pack, one getting hit and turning to ash but the others are moving away from them. Suddenly a loud shrill scream filled the air; coming from the mill itself. "The others!" Rias realized in a panic.
"Let's go!" Junior agreed as he want with his sister towards his friends. The others quickly followed, either by flying or running since the danger with their friend was worst then the remaining pack outside. The pack didn't stay idle as they regrouped and made to follow inside the mill as well.
Dani was the fastest as she simply went through the wall while Rias had to blast a whole for the others to quickly get through. They saw their friends near the center of the room with a Kill Billy stalking towards them. Dani flew faster before and did a superhero landing between her friends and the monster. Quickly getting back into her feet Dani shot a green energy beam that sent the Kill Billy crashing through the broken wall.
The human teens all let out a breath in relief and Wendy lowered the hatchet. "Is everyone okay?" Rias asked.
"We're good," Wendy said. "We were just taken by surprise."
"Thanks for the save by the way" Tambry said to Dipper now that they have a chance to breathe.
Dipper nodded, "No problem, but I don't think we done yet."
The rest of the remaining Kill Billies started to stalk out of the darkness, circling the group and moving in short jerking like motions. The human members stayed in the center while the others covered them with their powers up or weapons drawn.
The Kill Billies started to close in as one group, and they had a drive to feed on the intruders that entered their home. They had an unsuccessful hunt, but fortune seemed to smile on them with a group of teenagers that entered their domicile. It was ruined though as it turned out that some of the intruders were not human, and one made a leap, only to be sliced by Junior's scythe.
"Bring it on!" He said, completely ignoring the severed flesh and spilt guts as he was ready to fight. Mini also had an elegant hand on her scythe, but the Kill Billies learned a bit and were trying to think of a way to attack. That was when they heard a noise. The same inhuman mix of moan and growl and their demeanor suddenly changed from feral hunger to outright fear as they quickly scampered away.
"What was that?" Robbie was the first to ask as everyone was starting to wonder what was next. Dipper opened his book and Tambry supplied him with light to read through as he tried to find an entry that described the moan. It was soon enough that he stopped to answer.
"I don't know, but we should probably get out of here fast!" He said as everyone planned to hightail it out of there.
"This way!" Wendy said, pointing to the way that had the skeletal carriage and horse that would get them to safety, but the entrance to the mill was now blocked, showing the source of the sound.
It was a tall and lanky creature that was built like man at least until you get a closer look at it. Its skin is a pale grayish blue with little to no muscles visible. The skin was stretch taunt over bare arms and legs that were practically only bone. Its waist and stomach area was none existent with barely anything and the torso wasn't much better either with the skin pull taunt over the ribs making them visible. The skull was bare with no hair but two large stag like antlers. The teeth were dirty, gnawed at and stained with a dark red all around the mouth. It was breathing laboring and its sunken barely visible eyes gazed upon them. The group felt a great about of dreed but it wasn't the human members alone as those from the underworld felt it as well.
"Not good," Rias said, sweat starting to form on her brow.
"Rias what is that?" Wendy asked, even more worried if the other supernatural were acting like this.
"It's worst then the monsters we faced before," Lilith replied, her wings slowly turning into blades to defend herself at a moment's notice.
"How is it worst?" Thompson asked, not liking that answer.
"This is a monster born human that has become worst then a monster," Mini explained with her eyes narrowed. "When a human soul gives into the worst of dark temptations and feasts upon the flesh of their fellow man, their body and soul twist together to forever walk the earth trying and failing to cease its forever hunger. It is called a Wendigo."
"Long story short you do not want to mess with these things," Dani concluded knowing mostly everyone is in danger.
"It's can't be that strong," Robbie pointed out, mostly to try and steady his nerves. "It looks like a breeze could knock it over. If you don't want to fight it then we can easily run pass it."
"Don't underestimate it," Chi scowled but it wasn't with her usual flare of arrogance. While she was certain that the Wendigo wouldn't be able to hurt and eat her, (and perhaps Dani as well since she was a ghost) it wouldn't stop it from trying and worst it will try and eat the others. Mimi was her main concern but even she knew that she couldn't let Dipper and Mabel be killed either, even if she would never admit it out loud.
"We might be able to hold it back enough for everyone into the carriage" Junior said as he tightens his grip on his scythe. "If we have to, we can have the carriage take us to the underworld to lose it before coming back to the shack."
"Run and live, a plan we can get behind," Nate said, Lee nodding rapidly next to him.
During all of this the Wendigo seemed to have been studying them doing nothing else besides the labor breathing. Before they even seem to finish on a plan the Wendigo took a deep breath before letting out a terrifying screech. The air shook around them as the group covered their ear to try and dampen the sound. It didn't help that as one the ground felt a great amount of fear flooding through them. Many dropped to their knees or falling to the ground. The human shook and struggled to even move. Robbie fainted while Lee and Nate laid on the ground and hugged each other in comfort. Thompson rocked back and forth whimpering while hugging his knees. Tambry was crying with shuttering breaths, hugging her phone tightly to her chest without even thinking of glancing at it for fear of what she might see. Dipper struggled on his knees, shaking while trying to figure out what happen. It didn't help that fear was slowly overcoming up until he felt someone hug him. Dipper turned his head to see Mabel, tears falling from her eyes and holding onto him for dear life. Dipper hold onto his twin to try and keep them both steady.
In the front of the group Wendy was on her knees, her hatchet falling from her limp hand and her eyes shaking and unfocused. She had trouble breathing as she thoughts rapidly. 'What is this? Why can't I move? Why can't I breathe? Am I dying? I don't want to die. I don't want to die!'
When the scream finished the Wendigo stalked towards it frozen prey. No hurry as it sized them up, its hungry increasing seeing the many choices of meat it was consume. One hand with long gripping fingers and broken and blunt nails reached out to grab one to take a bite. But before it could even get into arms reach the Wendigo's instincts told it to dodge and leapt to the side. Just in time as a green energy beam nearly struck its body. The Wendigo growled seeing Dani was the one that attacked it.
The ghost girl was shaking slightly but she was no where as crippled as her friends were. She wasn't the only one still able to fight as Junior and Mini kept their hold on their weapons and still able to fight. Dani because she was a ghost was resistant to the fear attack it created but also while training she faced ghost with similar fear inducing abilities. Junior and Mini dealt with the fear much like how they were taught to. When training with their mother Mandy, she sometimes forced them to face their fears with Horror's Hand to assure they would not be crippled when against their fears. Plus they found that their uncle Jack used fear much better than the Wendigo.
The others were helpful as Rias was on her ass, shaking while her hand hang loosely in the air; the spell she was powering dispelled. Lilith was floating in the air, her wings becoming large hands wrapping around herself with her head wings doing the same to her head. Chi was on the ground, her form mostly together though her flames seem less active and her body seem to spill out more like she was liquid. Mimi was curled into a ball, her arms and tail hugging herself as she whimpered like a puppy.
"Dipper!"
Said boy turned towards Junior but found that he and Mini no longer looked the same.
Junior now had an appearance similar to his father. His skin was down leaving only bones with a small tuff of hair on top of its skull. His left eye seemed empty though his right eye had a slightly glowing grey pupil. Next to him was Mini and she also looked different. She wasn't a skeleton like Junior but a form reminding Dipper of a ragdoll crossed with a zombie. She now has grey-purple skin, rows of stitches covering her body, and her right eye socket is empty and black. Her blonde hair is pointed up at the sides, resembling horns rather then her down style from before with a pink bow holding a tuft of her bangs together above her face. Her outfit also changed into a long-sleeve purple dress that is tattered at the bottom and on the sleeves and has a tattered black cape with a daisy flower pin holding it on the front.
"Dipper," Junior said again helping him to his feet. "We'll keep it busy. Help get the others to the carriage."
Dipper nodded and looked to his sister. She wiped away the tears from her eyes as they both ran to their friends. Junior nodded to his sister and they held their scythes at the ready before charging the Wendigo.
Mabel reached Nate, Lee and Thompson and started to shake them. "Guys! Get up! We need to move!"
"Mommy," Thompson muttered.
Mabel frowned before she got a determined look. She lifted her hand up and rapidly smacked all three of the boys.
Slap! Slap! Slap!
This seem to shock them out of their fear induced panic. "Guys we need to go now!" Mabel said as she pointed to the others, "help me get these guys to the carriage!"
The boys nodded before they got up, a bit shakily at first but managed it soon enough. Mabel ran towards Rias, leaving the boys to help with the others. Since he was the biggest and strongest Thompson ran to grab Chi and Lilith while Lee and Nate carried Robbie. Luckily even in her fluid like state Chi pretty much stayed together. So he lifted her up, surprised at how light she felt, before draping her over his shoulder like a towel. "Get…off me…" Chi mumbled, barely coherent.
"You can hit me later!" Thompson called out as he ran and grabbed the floating ball that was Lilith and ran with them. The magic that was keeping the young succubus afloat made carrying her much easier and manage to beat the others to the carriage where he laid both girls inside.
Wendy just shook from her position, barely noticing anything around her. "Wendy!" Dipper called out as he shook her. With responds he took a leaf from Mabel's own action and slapped her across the face.
Slap!
This seem to have worked as Wendy shook her head and look to her friend. "Dipper?"
"I'm sorry I hit you!" Dipper explained quickly, "but-"
"No thanks for that," Wendy interrupted as she got to her feet. "Let's get our friends and go."
Wendy ran to Tambry while Dipper got to Mimi. Dipper knelt before Mimi and tried to shake her. "Mimi…" he paused seeing how affected she truly was, making the first sounds he ever heard from her even more heart wrenching. He slowly shifted Mimi so she wouldn't panic and held her like a child, her head on his shoulder as he held her steady while rubbing her back. "It'll be okay Mimi," Dipper said softly, standing up with her in his arms. "I got you."
Mimi whined and barely wrapped her arms and claws around him, her tail around his waist for support. Once secured Dipper took off to the carriage, seeing the others making their way there with the help from each other.
Wendy frowned at the state her friend was in but lifted her up bridle style, making her friend's body was close to her chest for comfort. "Wendy?" Tambry whispered, barely opening her eyes.
"I got you girl," Wendy said, making sure she was safe as she ran after everyone else.
The Wendigo screech in fury as he agilely moved and dodge attack after attack. It was much faster than his prey but all this was doing was agitating its hunger. It swiped at Dani but his hands went right through her as she vanished before its eyes. It growled and jumped away as the ghost fired another ecto-beam while also avoiding the two scythes. The Wendigo reached out and grabbed Junior by the body and pulled him closer before he had time to react. The Wendigo pulled him close and towards its mouth when it paused. A quick study of his prey showed there was no meat at all to be eaten. The Wendigo roared in fury and gave Junior a mighty toss. The son of the Grim reaper collided with his sister, the force knocking her down while Junior's body broke apart.
Turning the Wendigo searched for proper meat only to find it was escaping from it. with hunger driving it, the Wendigo wasn't going to be denied. It unleashed a fear inducing screech once more, the force slowing Dani down while his prey dropped down as well.
Wendy was the last one to head towards the carriage with Tambry in her arms. She saw that everyone else was getting inside with Dipper stepping in and laying Mimi down next to Chi and Thompson. But then the fear cry was head, causing Wendy to stagger and drop down, Tambry rolling out of her arms and away from her. Wendy clenched her fist nd shook as she tried to get up. She lifted her head to Tambry who was shivering and crying worst then before. Then Wendy noticed a shadow over her and with effort manage to turn herself over. Wendy lost her breathe as the Wendigo towered over her. Its hand reached down, grabbed her by her neck and effortless lifted her up. Wendy struggled, her hands pulling at the Wendigo's wrist but the hold was too strong. Wendy whimpered as the Wendigo's teeth chattered together and reached for her face. Wendy thought her live was flashing before her eyes, from all the things she has done and while she love the trouble she caused with her friends and Rias, part of her felt she hasn't even done anything with her life. She closed her eyes in fear, waiting for it to end. She didn't even notice someone shouting, "get away from her!"
There was a thud and the sound of metal on flesh before something cold sprayed on her face. Wendy opened her eyes to see the hatchet she held before now buried into the collar area of the Wendigo. The monster screeched in pain before the weapon and pulled out and struck again closer to its neck, blue blood spraying out onto her body and face. Wendy glanced to see Dipper on the Wendigo's back with the hatchet in hand as he swung at the monster. The Wendigo dropped her and tried to grab Dipper. Dipper's attacked again and this time his hatchet struck the neck of the beast, the thin organ with barely any bone and muscles nearly severed completely. The Wendigo trashed and screeched in pain before Dipper pulled the weapon out and swung again. This time the blade cut into the jaw of the Wendigo, completely ripping it off. The beast staggered before Dipper pulled back with both hands on his weapon and swings with all his might, the blow hitting the neck once more and beheading the Wendigo. The Wendigo gurgled out before it collapsed in a heap, blood spilling out from the neck. Dipper stood over it, panting as he waited to see if it was dead. Not taking any chances Dipper swung down the hatchet into its torso once, twice and once more for good measure.
Wendy sat up, gapping as Dipper stood over the monster before he turned his head up and give a war like yell to let out his emotions from this experience. Everyone's fear was lifted when the beast died and were getting up and looking out of the carriage all at Dipper, all stunned at what happen.
"Whoa, you just killed a Wendigo!" Dani said as she floated and landed amazed that Dipper just killed a beast that could cause fear.
"Yeah, and that is awesome! A little rough in the beheading, but pretty good for a first time."
"Skeletons and zombies!" Lee said freaking out at the sight of Grim Junior and Mini's true forms as they had yet to return to their usual appearance.
"It's Pet Cemetery for real!" Nate added as the two were freaking out until Mini stepped closer.
"Please, I ask of thee to calm thyselves and look, tis only us in our true form." Mini said before her hair started to go back down and her flesh returned to normal with no scarring. "For the children of Death are the undead, and thus walk between the boundary of life and death."
"Yeah, but still Dipper you did pretty good to get a head of the game." Junior said before laughing at the grim humor he invoked.
"Huh, I guess I did kill it. I don't know what happen. But how come you three weren't affected by whatever fear thing it did?" Dipper asked as he looked at the three.
"I was in training to fight other ghost, and some of my sparring partners had a slight fear aura so it came in handy." Dani answered with no problem as she returned to her human form, which, along with Mini and Junior's return, relieved the two boys who were on edge.
"Mother desired us to be able to act in spite of fear, and thus forced us to face fear by subjugating us to the might of Horror's Hand."
"That, and uncle Jack is a lot scarier than that guy." Junior added to Mini's comment before saying one more thing, "How about we head back to the shack so you guys can go home?"
"I'm all for that," Wendy said, getting back up and whipping the blood off her face. "after tonight, I just want to stare at wall and rethink my life."
The others nodded and climbed back into the carriage, feeling more tired that they seem to ever remember. Dipper paused and started to walk back with Junior. "So that's what you really look like. It's kinda cool."
"Thanks" his friend replied with a grin. "I just wish the reason I showed you was better than this."
"It can't be helped," Dipper agreed but not too upset. "I got so many questions I just want to ask now."
Junior just laughed, happy his friend didn't react badly to his form as he recalled several different stories of his father and some people 'overreacting' to him.
Inside the group said little as most were getting a bit of rest before they got back home. Thompson noticed that Chi was giving him a look. He sighed and said, "make it quick."
"You man handled me and disrespected me," Chi started with an annoyed tone. "You may be willing to take any punishment for it but that fact you were willing to do so was unacceptable. You did this and disobeyed me, all for my safety." Here she turned and puffed her cheeks out, "you are an annoying example of a boy…but you would make a good servant."
Thompson blinked at this and glanced at her, but Chi's focus was on the sleeping Mimi. While it seemed an odd thing to say, but compared to some of the other things she has said before it could almost be compared to a compliment so Thompson took it as such.
The trip home wasn't long and soon they all got out in front of the underworld cabin next to the shack. The human teens got up and slowly made their way to Thompson's van so he can take them all home. The two groups said their goodbyes softly and the second group entered their cabin, even the Pine twins wishing to just go to bed and sleep. Rias paused as she noticed Wendy off to the side, watching them go. But as she moved closer she noticed just who Wendy was watching. "You okay Wendy?" the devil asked her human friend.
"Huh?" was Wendy's clever respond. "Yeah why?"
Rias nodded her head to a certain boy. "with the way you have been watching Dipper, one might think you have a crush."
Wendy jerked and then laughed, "no way. I mean he was kinda cool when he jumped on that monster and ended up killing it. he totally saved my life and I respect him for that." Wendy started off towards the van with small laugh that didn't sound like Wendy's normal one to Rias. "It's not like I stay awake at night thinking about him. Whelp, night Rias."
Rias raised a brow as Wendy shut the van door and it started off towards the town. Rias shrugged before heading off to bed, thinking that she was imagining thing.
Hours later Wendy could be found on her bed, arms spread eagle and gazing at the ceiling. Wendy couldn't sleep as she had something on her mind; or rather someone. "Crap," she muttered aloud, realizing she indeed have a crush.
Whoo! Done and man that was a crazy and long chapter. So how did you guys like our original chapter? We felt that we couldn't do Dust2Dawn justice since Dani alone will notice ghost would be dear and can easily defeat them on her own, making it for a one sided and boring so we scrapped it and went with something else. We used a monster from the cannon Journal 3 and a monster from folklore. Hopefully we did both justice for an interesting chapter.
And that the last surprise as you see Wendy is the one that gained the crush on Dipper this time around. Now with the contract we found that Dipper gaining a crush when he has to deal with several other girls for his attention was unlikely and I don't recall seeing any story where Wendy gained a crush on Dipper without him first getting it first. So, for shits and giggles as well as bring future drama we deiced that Wendy would be the one with the crush. We hope the reason for it getting formed wasn't too crazy and can make sense. We ain't planning on changing that any time soon.
So how was it? Did you think we didn't do enough or should we have kept the storyline the same. Leave a review on what you think. And Remember all flames will be brought to Stan Pines who will gather them up as an attraction for the Mystery Shack so keep them coming.
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