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Talk-normal
Talk- 3 thinking/book talking
"Talk"-3 talking"
Warning's: 3's temper and violence
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Well after over a month of waiting, here's the 100 Reviewer's special, hope this will meet all of your expectations. Sorry it took so long again, the Christmas season was a nightmare and I broke up with my boyfriend so I was a little down for a bit. After this I will start on The Deep End and after that, I'll do the Society of the Blindeye then I'll cover all the episodes I've skipped over until they start releasing more new episodes.
3, what do you think you're doing? 2 asked tersely.
"What do you think? I'm reading." 3 said unconcerned as she flipped one of his pages.
I'm aware of that, but why are you whacking my cover with that thing?! 2 snapped after the Jack-o-Lantern amulet smacked him once again. 3 was sitting on Dipper's bed reading through 2's pages to find clues to the amulet, said amulet 3 was spinning around on her finger and unintentionally smacking 2 over and over.
She caught the amulet and smiled sheepishly, "Sorry."
2 sighed and said, "Where did you even get that thing anyway?"
"Remember Summerween, the Trickster had this on him and we're trying to figure out what it is, but so far, no leads." 3 sighed as she flipped to a page detailing a weird mushroom that could alter age dependent on their size.
"Maybe Father hadn't discovered it yet. I mean, how old was that Trickster thing anyway? Maybe he was created after we were hidden."
"That's true…" 3 admitted as she heard Stan yell from downstairs, "Kids! We have tourists at 1 o'clock! To your stations! We're bleeding them dry!" 3 groaned and yelled back, "I'm coming!" She looked around for her bookmark, but couldn't find it; improvising, she stuck the necklace in between the indignant 2's pages. "What the hell, 3!?"
"It'll keep my place until I find another bookmark after my living statue act!" She called back over her shoulder as she ran out the door. "3! Come back here this instant!" He called after her, but his voice faded back to silence as she left the room. She soon met up with Dipper and they reluctantly put on their costumes to entertain the tourists.
"Hey 3, did you find anything on the amulet?" He asked her as he struggled to pull the furry pants out from the chest.
"Nope, nothing yet; all I found that were interesting was a weird orange orb with 4 stars and a golden key an astrological sign stamped on it." 3 sighed in disappointment.
"Darn, maybe we should go over 2 again to see if we missed any information." He suggested.
"We've gone over him five times already. If there was something to find then we would've found it by now." 3 pointed out cynically as she painted herself silver with spray paint.
He grimaced and shrugged, "Maybe we should check 1? Or use the black light?" He said in an unsure tone.
"No, he gets cranky when we try to use him to predict the future, says it makes his entries void. But maybe we could try the black light idea." 3 said with a half-smile as they walked towards their stages.
"Deal"
She nodded just as Stan led the first wave into the area and they stopped chatting for a long day at fleecing tourists.
3 sighed with relief when the tourists surrounding her cheered and threw their money away from doing a dance. "Good job kids, we fleeced most of them. Now we milk even more from them. You guys are now on Gift Shop duty." Stan chuckled as he walked away, counting the money.
3 and Dipper sighed as 3 dabbed at her skin with nail polish remover to get the worst of the paint off. "I would be much easier to clean that up if you weren't so water sensitive." He pointed out as he was cleaning the paint on her back.
"Yeah, too bad I'll fall apart if I get wet." 3 sighed until her arms and face was clean.
"Let's go help Mabel and Wendy in front and then we'll check on 2." They walked back to the Gift Shop that was filled with tourists that were wasting their money on Stan's cheap merchandise when a boy stumbled down the stairs.
He looked similar to 3; he looked a few years older than the kids, he had the same red hair as 3 in a messy look, piercing gold eyes, and the same skin tone as her. He had on navy slacks, tennis shoes and a dark vest over a red shirt with a small, six fingered hand holding up two fingers stitched over his heart. What really got their attention was the amulet clutched in his hand, the same amulet 3 used as a bookmark. Before either of them could confront him, he stumbled out the door and into the gift shop.
"HEY! Get back here!" 3 yelled, chasing after the boy with Dipper at her heels. They burst through the doors and found themselves blocked by a wave of tourists as he went out the door. They shoved through the crowd and was about to exit when they were stopped by Stan.
"Where do you two think you're going?" He demanded with growl, blocking them. "I told you two were on store duty. So unless you have a pretty, darn, good explanation, you two are to park your butts behind the counter."
"Stan, we're chasing a thief! You know, he took something without paying." Dipper told him, leaving out what and where it was stolen.
"WHAT!? Well what are you two waiting for!? Go get the thieving urchin! Go! Go! Go!" They didn't need to be told twice, they ran past him and into the forest. After a few minutes they stopped to gain their baring's.
"Okay…maybe running headlong into a forest without checking to see where the thief went, probably wasn't our smartest move." Dipper admitted as they caught their breath. 3 nodded and looked around to see that they were in a clearing with a mini stream that ran next to a bolder.
"What I want to know is where we are? I don't remember this being here." She told him pointing at the aforementioned stream. Dipper looked and nodded in surprise as she inspected the rock and found it covered in old soot and scorch marks. "Was there a fire here?"
"Maybe it's another anomaly. We can come back here later to do another Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained." He said walking closer to the bolder when the ground next to him gave out, unbalancing and sending him sprawling down the newly made hole with a shriek.
"Dipper!"
"I'm okay! It wasn't too deep." He assured her; she looked down and saw that the hole was only 7 feet deep. (A/N: not sure if shallow or deep enough, I suck at height distances) "Stay right there, I'll get the rope and get you out. Don't touch anything!" She grabbed a rope from the bag they had taken with them when they ran out into the forest, tied it to a tree and climbed down to see Dipper wasn't were she left him.
"I tell him not to move and what does he do?" 3 growled as she went through a tunnel in the hole and soon found Dipper in a small chamber crouched down, looking at something in front of him. "Dipper? What are you looking at?" She asked him, causing him to jump in surprise.
"Jeez, 3! Are you trying to scare me to death!?" He cried.
"I wasn't going to leave you in this hole alone; besides, you knew I was coming to get you." 3 pointed out as she walked over to him. "What were you looking at any…?" She trailed off wide eyed to see a dark blue crystal the size of her head nestled on a ring of stones. "What…is that?"
"No clue. I found it when I saw a flash of light from where I fell. I came in and here it was and check this out." He cautiously held out his hand and it started to glow ominously he then drew it back, causing to dim. "It's been doing this every time and I can't figure out why."
"I don't think we should be playing with unknown crystals that could very well explode in our faces if we're not careful." 3 cautioned, for all they knew, it could be volatile.
"You've got a point there." He admitted, getting to his feet. "We should probably head back to the Shack now. Mabel will start to worry if Stan didn't tell her where we went."
"Good idea." They started to leave when the crystal started to glow softly once again, but as they turned to leave they heard a deafening crack. The kids froze and slowly turned around to see that the crystal now had a crack in the middle and was now moving side to side. They backed up and 3 nervously whispered, "Dipper, what did you do?"
"I don't know!" He whispered-yelled back as it shivered violently one more time and went still. They waited for a minute and sighed in relief when nothing happened. "What was that about?" Dipper asked no one.
"Don't know, but we should leave. Right now." 3 said, ready to drag him away when they heard another crack. They looked back to the rock to see that the crack was widening rapidly and a small, light blue snout emerged from the geode. They stared wide eyed as whatever it was shook again and the crystal, no egg, split apart to reveal a small, draconic creature.
The newly hatched baby was lizard-like with a light red body covered with blue fur, a long fish-like tail, small light gold horns and claws. It was currently sprawled in a heap of limps and was staring at 3 and Dipper with curious violet eyes.
Dipper, after opening and closing his mouth like a stranded fish a few times, finally said in a strained voice, "3, do you have any idea what just happened?" The little creature swung its head to face Dipper, who froze, into a tense staring contest that after a few seconds made the creature purr. "I think that crystal was an egg." 3 said as she cautiously approached the newborn. The newborn meeped happily as 3 was now in biting distance; in fact it stretched out its neck to gently clamp its jaws on 3's hand.
"3! Are you okay!?" Dipper panicked, rushing over when he saw the mouth close on the appendage.
"Yeah, I think it's a love nip." She reached out to tickle its spines that were its ears, causing it to release her hand in it's bless. "You know, it's sort of cute." She admitted as they watch the wingless dragon yawn and curl up to sleep, after batting away the egg remains.
"What do you think it is? I don't remember seeing it in any of your entries." Dipper asked quietly.
"No idea. Perhaps its information is with 2?" 3 said hesitantly, not wanting to wake the creature up.
"Yeah, maybe…I think we should leave, it may look cute, but I don't want to meet mom or dad." Dipper said nervously, looking back at the entrance, like he was expecting the mom to be glaring down at them, ready to bite them in half.
"Agreed." The started to walk back towards the entrance, when the baby shot back up in alarm and started to wail. They stopped and whirled to see the dragon clumsily scramble out of its nest to unsteadily follow after them. When it reached the kids, it leaped and tangled its self within Dipper's vest, causing him to fall over with a shriek of surprise. It meeped again and snuggled into his shirt as 3 looked at the two in amusement; Dipper craned his neck to glare at his friend, ignoring the baby who took it as an invitation to lick his neck.
"This isn't funny, 3."
"Actually, from my perspective, it's hilarious." 3 chuckled, and then sobered when Dipper glared. "But you're right. Let me just pry it off." She tried to pull the baby off, but it dug its claws into Dipper's skin.
"Ow! Okay, that's not going to work, so unless you have a crowbar in there." Dipper joked, wincing in pain. She checked and pulled it out, much to his confusion. "Never hurts to be prepared." She answered the unspoken question as she pried the talons off and carried the baby back to the nest where it started to wail again.
"What's wrong with it?" She asked in frustration. Every time they tried to leave, it would follow and then cry when they deposited it back in the nest. Dipper thought for a moment then gasped in realization, her turned to 3 and said, "This is bad, 3. Really, really bad."
"What?"
"I think it imprinted on us. It thinks we're its parents!" He cried. "What should we do? We can't take it with us or its parents would hunt us down! But if we don't, who knows when the parents would come back; it could starve not to mention all the potential predators!"
3 thought for a moment then remembered, "Dipper, remember how those burns on the rock looked. They looked really old; like whatever made them hasn't been here for a while. Perhaps this nest was probably abandoned by an inexperienced mother or this is how whatever it is raise their young."
Dipper still looked skeptical but sighed, "Well, either way, even if we tried to leave, it would follow us and it's bound to get into trouble if we leave it alone long enough. I say we should take it back with us until we figure out what the heck it is and what to do with it." 3 nodded and picked up the baby, which caused it to curl up happily in her arms. "But how do we sneak it past Grunkle Stan?" He asked in deep thought.
"It's about time you jokers came back. Did you catch the thief?" Stan asked them as they walked through the door with his back towards them.
"No Grunkle Stan, he got away from us." Dipper said after a minute of confusion; he had forgotten why they had run into the forest in the first place.
"Darn, well keep an eye out for him. If I know thievery, which I don't if there's cops around, then he'll come back for more. When you scamps see him, tell me and wham! I'll finally have a reason to punch someone." He turned and looked at 3 strangely. Her shirt was bloated and was squirming around like it was alive. "What happened to you Polaris?"
3 sweated and said quickly, "I ate an entire bush of wild berries!"
"Aren't some of the berries around here poisonous?"
"Well, we'll find that out later won't we!" she laughed loudly as Dipper yawned theatrically. "Well we're bushed, so we'll just go to our room and yeah." He said as they walked backwards towards the employee's only entrance, with 3 walking backwards and banging into the wall. Dipper quickly pulled her through the door after him. The kids heard him say, "I swear, those kids are getting weirder and weirder every day."
They ran up the stairs and 3 said, "I can't believe that worked." The creature's head popped out of her collar to look around before she shoved it back into her shirt. "Come on; let's ask 2 if he know what that is and what that guy wanted." Dipper told her as they opened the door to the twin's room to see Mabel and someone else with her.
The same boy from this morning was sitting on the floor surrounded by Mabel's stuffed animals and Mabel chatted endlessly with him. When the door opened, he whirled towards them and broke into a face of relief and mouthed 'help me' towards them.
"YOU!" 3 and Dipper cried, pointing at him.
"There you guys are! I've been wondering where you two lovebirds were!" Mabel said happily as she poured the grimacing mystery boy more Mabel Juice. "Did you meet Itsme Too? We met at the gift shop after you guys left." She said dreamily. "I just walked up to him and he said, 'Mabel! Thank god I found you. It's me 2, I've somehow turned into a human and I need your help!' Doesn't he have a way with words? Turns out he's been looking at me from afar all this time!" She squealed happily while 3 and Dipper shared a look of shock.
"Wait, WHAT!?" 3 yelped, dropping the bundle she was holding in her shirt causing the creature to drop to the floor. It looked at her in reproached and growled lowly.
"What the hey-hey is this!?" Mabel squealed, picking it up making it let out a keen of protest. 3 ignored her and searched for her brother around the bed but couldn't find him; she glanced at the boy who was looking back at her helplessly. "2? Is it really you?"
He nodded sadly as Dipper took the creature from his sister and explained to her what happened with them. "Wow!" Mabel said as she suddenly tackled her to the ground, "This is great, you're parents already! Between you and me it would've been better if you two got married first, but that's just me."
3 sputtered for a moment and burst out, "We're just watching it until we know what to do with it! Besides, we need to find out what 'it' is first! But with my brother like this, I'm not sure if we could find any clues what it is, even if he does have information on it."
"Wait, what about 2? Isn't he here?" She asked clueless, unaware that her latest crush was a book.
"Well, he is in the room but Mabel, your new boyfriend is 2, he somehow turned into a person when I wasn't looking." She deadpanned. There was a pause then Mabel burst out with a loud, "WHAT!?" causing the monster to yelp in pain and scramble under the bed in fear.
"I tried to tell you!" 2 said defensively. "You just, ah, misunderstood me is all?" He told her in an uncertain tone.
"Wow, 2, do you know what caused this?" Dipper asked, awkwardly gesturing at 2 as Mabel looked at him in incomprehension. 2 thought for a moment and started, "A few minutes after 3 left, the amulet she used as a bookmark started to burn and I lost consciousness after the room tilted for a bit. Next thing I know I'm back in the gift shop and I panicked a bit." He shot Mabel an apologetic look. "I guess I talked too fast and the message just got lost in translation." He finished with a shrug.
"Amulet?" 3 repeated, standing up with the dragon in her arms. Dipper exchanged glances with her and asked, "You don't think?"
"It's possible…"
"What? What is it?" Mabel and 2 asked at the same time.
"2, when we saw you, you had the amulet in your hand, maybe it had something to do with your transformation." Dipper explained to the others. "Do you still have it?"
2 clumsily checked his pockets and pulled the previously mentioned amulet out, which was glowing softly. "Maybe…" Dipper began, drawing their attention. "That amulet brought a pile of rejected candy to life, right? Then it wouldn't be too crazy to think that it could give a sentient book a body."
"It's plausible…" 3 murmured then she got a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. "Maybe we should test it." She took the amulet from 2 there was a pause then his body instantly crumpled like paper and shrank back down to his original form. 3 then placed the amulet back in his binding where the amulet glowed furiously and in a flash, human 2 was back with the amulet hanging from his neck. "Well, that proves your theory Dipper." 2 said as he cautiously rubbed the surface of the ruby. "This will take some getting used to."
3 grinned and slung an arm around her brother's shoulders and said, "Welcome to the club, when I first had a body, it took me about an hour to figure out how to control it." Dipper frowned and said, "Wait, didn't you have great control in the Dreamscape or in the wreckage."
"Body switching carpet, remember?"
"Right, forgot about that." Dipper nodded when Mabel got an idea, "Do you think it'll work on 1?" she asked excitedly, pulling 1 from his hiding place. 3 grinned and took the amulet from 2 to stick it in between 1's pages.
The amulet glowed once more and 1 grew right before there eyes into 19 year old teen with a dark red dress shirt, jeans, and a gold tie with the six fingered hand holding up one finger. He looked a lot like 3 and 2's human form with pale skin, narrowed gold eyes and red hair pulled into a low tail. He blinked in confused for a moment then glowered at 3 and growled, "Turn. Me. Back. Don't involve me with your shenanigans, 3."
"Who says shenanigans anymore?" Mabel giggled, causing him to send her a glare. "Cool your jets, 1. We were just checking if the amulet worked on you in case you need to be human." 3 assured him nonchalantly as she took the necklace back from her still glaring brother.
"When will I EVER need to be human, pray tell?" 1 said skeptically.
"Beats me. You tell me?" 3 pointed out teasingly referring to his future gazing.
"…Walked right into that one. Don't bother me." 1 said sulkily as he was placed back under the floorboard when the dragon, tired of being ignored by it's 'parents' whined and let out a puff of smoke, drawing the kids attention. "By the way 2, do you have any idea what this is?" 3 asked as 2 took a closer look at it, first by checking its head and fur then its mouth, causing it to puff out more smoke in irritation.
Coughing, 2 nodded, "Yeah, I think there's an entry that matches up." He put down the amulet and flipped his pages to the designated entry with the very creature in the room doodled on the page. Dipper picked up 2 with 3 and Mabel reading over his shoulder.
"The Saldine: A hybrid created from the union of a Salamander and an Undine. Extremely rare and powerful as they only hatch in the presence of a powerful aura or if the stronger parent incubates them; they are dependent on their parent(s) for the first few years of life until they're confident that they can live on their own." Around the text were various doodles, how long it would grow, and a small note that they need their mother to teach them how to swim.
"What exactly is a Salamander and an Undine?" Mabel asked them as Waddles waddled over to sniff at the newcomer. Said newcomer pounced on the pig and they wrestled with each other until they became bored; or rather the Saldine wrestled while Waddles squealed and tried to escape from the cross breed.
"Hold on a moment." Dipper flipped to another entry to show a lizard cloaked in flames. "Salamander: Unlike their normal cousins that share the same name, these lizards are physical manifestations of the element fire. There sizes range from the size of your hand to about 4 feet long. Its fur that covers its body produces temperature's so hot, that skin would blister within a meter radius of it. Yeesh wouldn't want to run into that in the forest." Dipper cringed as he turned to another page with a drawing of a beautiful woman made from water. "Undine: A water nymph believed to be the manifestation of the element water. They are mostly found in forests in bodies of water and have a bewitching voice that could be heard over the sound of running water."
"I see that it takes after the father in body type but its mother's coloring." 3 said, comparing the drawings to the baby looking curiously at her. "Well now we know what it is now the question is: what to do with it?" Dipper asked rubbing his chin as the Saldine started investigating the room by sticking its snout in everything it could get close to.
"Well duh! We name it of course!" Mabel said happily as she grabbed it in a tight hug. "How about Lulubell or Jazzmine! No, no wait! Sparkle Mcperiwinkle!" The Saldine whimpered from the decibel of her voice and sent a pleading look towards its 'parents.'
"Absolutely not." Dipper deadpanned as 3 took the Saldine away from Mabel. "Yeah, if any naming is to be done, then we have to agree with it. Besides, we don't even know what gender it is anyway so it should be gender neutral." 3 agreed.
Dipper facepalmed, "Not what I meant, I mean what should we do with it!?"
"We raise it of course." Mabel said as it was obvious.
"We can't raise it! We don't even know what it eats or what's dangerous for it to consume! Besides, how will we hide a dragon from under Stan's nose? You heard 2 it could grow to the size of a car!"
"Actually." 3 interrupted, holding 2 open and shining the black light on the entry to show hidden notes. "According to Father, it can eat anything but limestone and pumpkins. It also doesn't start growing until it's about 4 years old."
"Okay, but what about Stan then?" Dipper asked crossing his arms.
"This won't work." He said in frustration.
"Stop it, you don't know that." Mabel chided, not looking up from her work.
"I'm inclined to agree, as dense as the towns people are, I doubt Stan will buy it. Hell, he fleeces them day in night; we can't scam the scammer." 3 added dubiously.
"You two worry too much. Trust me, with my crafting skills Grunkle Stan will totally believe that you two snuck in a dog." Mabel assured them, finishing her latest project. Mabel had attached dog ears, a dog snout, and wrapped the fish tail with left over fur from Dipper's Summerween costume to make it look like a regular dog, if it wasn't for one, small detail.
"I'm pretty sure dogs aren't blue, Mabel." Dipper groaned. The Saldine did make for a convincing dog if it wasn't for the color, Mabel even spray painted the extra fur blue so it wouldn't clash with the coloring.
"We've encountered gnomes, time travelers, golf ball people, and dinosaurs. A blue dog won't be too out of the ordinary." Mabel pointed out. Before they could reason with Mabel that though they saw all those things, no one else knew about it so it would be out of place Stan suddenly opened the door.
There was dead silence as Stan looked from the Saldine to 3, then to Dipper, then Mabel and back to the Saldine. Dipper broke the silence by awkwardly clearing his throat to draw all the attention to him. "Grunkle Stan, what are you doing up here? Do you need something?"
Stan snapped out of his gaze to stare hard at him, "No, I was worried that Polaris poisoned herself because I heard screaming coming from up here and I didn't want her or your parents on my case because let it happen on my watch and I here find that you three bozo's had snuck in a flea bitten mongrel from the forest. By the way, why is it blue?" He said gruffly, placing his knuckles on his hips, waiting for an explanation. When one wasn't forthcoming he said, "Well?"
"Aw, well, we, uh…" Dipper grasped at straws for a reasonable explanation without revealing the Saldine's true nature when 3 cut in. "We found it in the forest chasing after the thief and it managed to take a bit out of him!" The attention turned to her and she continued, "Yeah, well since it chased the thief away, we figured that it would make a good guard dog for the shack in case he or his fellow thieves ever come around here. Free security for the low price of brown meat and all that."
Stan thought about this and smirked, "I'm listening, but you still didn't answer my question. Why is it blue?"
"I remember seeing some teens in town with blue permanent spray paint! Maybe the teens got to it! Plus, doesn't it look strange and I don't know, unnatural." Dipper added appealing to Stan's greed.
"Yeah, it's totally not a blue lizard that thinks Dipper and Aris are its parents or anything!" Mabel added while 3 jabbed her in the gut. "Too much information!" she hissed.
"Hmm…bribing my greed, eh?" He rubbed his chin then smirked, "Free security at the price of food and an attraction I didn't even have to think of, let alone make. I can see it now, 'The one and only blue dog! Can sniff out the tiniest of hints and a loveable pet!' I can work with this. Fine you can keep it, but you kids have to take care of it and do not, under any circumstance, let it chew my shoes or its outside for him." He began to leave when he remembered, "Oh yeah, almost forgot." He pulled out a bag and gave it to 3. "It's mail I've check for mon- I mean forgot to give you kids. Now if you excuse me, I'll be making some new attractions."
He left and the kids shared a sigh of relief. "I can't believe that worked." Dipper grinned taking the bag from 3 to sort out the letters between the twins as 3 petted their new 'dog.'
"When will you learn Dipper, I'm a master craftswoman, I can make anything look good and realistic." Mabel said smugly as she took hers that was filled with glitter and stickers.
"If you say so." Dipper teased then frowned when he found a brick of letters held together by a thick, baby blue ribbon. "What is this?"
"What's what?" the girls asked, gathering around Dipper to look at the block. "I found a load of letters; they don't look like anything our parents would send us." He said as the Saldine sniffed them and reared back hissing. Curious, he sniffed them and gagged, "They do smell like hairspray though."
"Did you check the address?" 3 asked as Dipper removed the ribbon tying them together, they shared a gasp when they saw that they were from the Gravity Falls Maximum Security Prison and they were from Gideon Gleeful.
"Gideon!" Mabel gasped while Dipper absently rubbed his scar; 3 growled and asked, "What does the twerp tyrant want?"
"Hmm, the letters are addressed to you 3." Dipper announced shocking the girls as 3 hesitantly took it from him.
"Be careful, 3. Who knows what he put in those." Mabel cautioned, as 3 opened the first letter. Before she lifted up the top, Dipper stopped her and said, "Mabel's right, we should be cautious around anything Gideon handled."
"They have a point, 3. I've known Gideon the longest and I wouldn't put it pass him for him to put something in a letter." 2 agreed
He grabbed some goggles, a gas mask and a golf club where he flipped open the envelop and shook it over the trash bin to get anything that didn't belong in letter out, but only a piece of paper fell out. They waited a few minutes then 3 slowly opened it with the twins reading it over her shoulders.
Dear Polaris Dirgel,
I apologize for over-reacting in the robot of lil' ol' me. Prison has taught me that I may have over-reacted, stabbing Dipper n' all. The idiotic people of this town bought your story versus mah' own. But, that's the past.
Never the less, I'll be (breaking) getting out soon, and you and me are gonna have a chat. Yes, yes we will, I just can't wait to gather again, you, me, Dipper, Mabel, and of course, Bill Cipher!
I'll see ya' sooner than ya' think.
Love,
Lil' Gideon. (Curtesy of Guest Reviewer Gideon Gleeful (Guest))
"Did he just threaten you?" Dipper asked in a deceivingly calm voice. "I think he just did…" 3 said conflicted. She wasn't scared of Gideon, she could easily take care of him, but she was worried about him mentioning Cipher. She grabbed another and it read:
Dear Polaris Dirgel
How ya'll enjoying your time outside? Enjoying ice cream while I have to made due with the slop that they are feeding lil' ol' me. However, I have made plenty of wittle friends such as Killbone, Bug Eye, Sassy, n' mah' personal favorite, Ghosteyes.
They are certainly looking forward to meeting ya'll when the Warden kindly lets us out.
Hugs and Kisses
Lil Gideon
The letters continued on to describe his status in prison as he converts all the inmates into followers and getting increasingly more agitated as he didn't receive a response. Until the final one read:
Dear Polaris Dirgel,
With all due respect, when I write to ya,' I expect y'all to write back! I'm not tryin' to be cruel, I just eagerly await ya' reply in prison.
I just have ta' ask. Where were you when I was taking that dirty old book? Unless your story was a lie, between you and me hon, I know you're not really a Polaris at all, isn't that right, "Miss Dirgel"?
Well, the warden'll be expecting me, with this letter, I'm mailing you an excerpt to my memoirs, and some sweat.
Don't forget me.
Love,
Lil' Gideon. (Curtesy of Guest Reviewer Gideon Gleeful (Guest))
"Well, at least he's still an annoying braggart." 3 grumbled, holding up an inch thick envelope covered in sweat with a golf club.
"Aren't you worried about the death threats, 3!?" 2 snapped at her in worry.
"This is Gideon we're talking about. Even with prison inmates, I can easily get rid of him now that he doesn't have most of the town wrapped around his chubby finger, especially now that he isn't so cute now. But, what I'm more worried about is that it seems Gideon's and Bill's partnership is still alive. Maybe Gideon had a hand in the mirror incident." 3 admitted as she tossed the excerpt into the trash and the Saldine set it on fire with a puff of fire.
"That's a possibility, though it is possible Bill may have been acting on his own." Dipper admitted. "I mean, Gideon doesn't have 2 anymore and he said so himself: he hid all the potentially dangerous items from him for like, ever."
"Except the summoning ritual." 3 pointed out.
"Sorry, he was on a roll that day and I missed that one after I warded him away from a frequency that causes insanity." 2 apologized.
"Anyways," Dipper cut them off, "If Gideon had even an inkling about what would happen, then he would have at least hinted at it. But I do think you should be at least a little concerned about the death threats he made, I mean, it is possible for you to…die and I don't want to take any chances. We have to prepare the eventuality that Gideon will escape and come after us."
"What do you expect us to do? The police here are useless and we don't even know Stan is planning with the portal downstairs, so who do we tell?" 3 asked tiredly.
Dipper was silent for a moment then said, "We should continue looking for your Father. It won't raise anyone's suspicions and if and when we find him, maybe he could help us find out what Bill is after."
It was silent until Mabel couldn't stand the tense atmosphere anymore and said, "Hey, what's with you two being all paranoid and in the dumps! We can be paranoid all we want after we concentrate on the baby!" She held the Saldine over her head and said, "So let's leave the grumpiness behind and decide on a name for the little guy!"
Cracking a smile, Dipper nodded, "Yeah, we should decide on a name before Stan does it for us. So, any ideas?"
"I still stand by my argument that it should be gender neutral since we can't properly figure out what it is until it's fully mature." 3 stated, pointing at the entry.
"How about…Morgan?" Dipper started.
"No." The girls chorused as the Saldine shook its head.
"Oh, how about Xyler!" Mabel asked excitedly.
"We're not naming it after one of your pretty boys! How about…Kai?"
"Not very imaginative, let's try Caleb!" The others shook their heads and Dipper asked, "How about Flamel?"
"Why Flamel?" 3 asked curiously.
"Flamel is a famous alchemist and its parents are related to alchemy and mysticism. Plus it has 'flame' in it which is perfect for a fire breathing lizard." Dipper explained. 3 turned to the Saldine and asked, "Do you like that? Do you like Flamel?" The newly named Flamel grinned and waged its tail in excitement, sending the fur flying off into Mabel's cat clock.
"We'll have to work on that." Dipper laughed as Flamel nested into his bed to fall asleep as 3 took off the rest of its disguise.
-Omake-
When Stan mentioned the screaming:
"Don't worry Dipper; I have the perfect disguise in mind. Could you look into the closet for the fur left over from your Summerween costume?" Mabel asked, wrapping the tape measurer around the whining infant.
"Sure, where would it…be…?" Dipper trailed off when he opened the door to find not the fur or even the closet, but a dark, high ceiling warehouse.
However, he did not notice that, he was too busy staring at a monster right in front of him, with one clawed hand still reaching for the door was a massive, furry blue and purple monster staring right at him with a deer in the headlights expression.
"Dipper? Is everything alright?" 3 asked with Mabel coming right behind her. "What's wro…!?" They froze when they also noticed the monster, but also a whole group of them also staring at them in horror.
A small green monster with one eye broke the silence with an awkward, "Hi."
The damn broke and the three kids screamed, "AAAAH!"
This caused the monsters in front of them to scream also, while all hell broke loose in the background with a siren going off and other monsters panicking and screaming, "It's a 23-19! It's a 23-19!"
"Someone call the CDA!"
3 grabbed the twins and threw them out of the way, while slamming the door in the monster's face and barricading the door.
"What the heck was that!?" Dipper shrieked, hiding behind the bed fortress.
"It was monsters in the closet! Mom and Dad were wrong! They do exist!" Mabel screamed, shaking her brother and clung to Waddles like a lifeline.
They waited for 5 minutes, but no monsters were trying to break down the door to get to them and finally, 3 got up to unblock the door with the twins on standby armed with clubs. They were the surprised and relieved to find it monster free and Dipper asked once again, this time more calmly, "What was that?"
In Monster land
Mike was holding an ice pack to Sully's nose while the CDA surrounded the Scare Floor decontaminating the entire area as Mr. Waternoose was chewing out his assistant for assigning Sully a door that was still in daylight.
Mike sighed as the door they just used was reduced to sawdust and their coworkers were lining up for decontamination. He tried to be optimistic and said, "Well, at least we get a week off."
Cue Monster's Inc.
Dipper and 2 Rises
While 3 was content to brush off the death threats by Gideon, Dipper and 2 weren't just going to let it slide. After the mirror incident, Dipper and 2 have become a little protective of 3 thought she didn't notice the little things.
From boys approaching her smugly being pelted by barf fairies to pickpockets being chased by demon caterpillars, they weren't going to let Gideon sleep soundly, content that they can't hurt him.
"So what's the plan?" Dipper asked 2 when the girls were asleep.
"I was thinking about shrinking some Gremloblin's and release them into his cell." 2 said, holding up the shrink/grow ray.
"No, he could be mistaken for their leader and I would blow up in our face again. How about we push him into the Pain Hole." Dipper suggested as it was shot down; they continued debating Gideon's punishment when 1 cleared his 'throat.'
"I believe I have a suggestion."
Gravity Falls Maximum Security Prison
Gideon cackled to himself as he lay in his cell. "Soon, soon I'll have my revenge on the Pines Family and that Dirgel girl. Then I will take the shack and those books. First Gravity Falls, then the world. HAHAHA!"
He was interrupted when a guard banged on the bars and slid a large package to Gideon, "Care package for prisoner #1232 Gideon Charles Gleeful. Light's out 10, you little creep."
Gideon glared at the retreating guards back and muttered, "When I rule this town you'll be the fifth to go." He picked up and opened it to find a thick, fleshy, egg nestled in the box.
"What in tarnation is this?" He poked it experimentally and it cracked open to reveal a spider, crab-like thing with a huge tail crawl out. "Wha!?" Before he could finish his sentence, it attached itself to his face and choked him out cold on his bed where sometime in the night it would crawl away and die in a cramped place. When Gideon would later tell the Warden or his prison buddies, they wouldn't find any evidence and would chalk it up to Gideon cracking up from jail time.
He would also find a note in the box that read:
Dear Gideon,
You'd be careful who you'd threaten from now on. Else we won't send you a neutered one next time.
~D12
A/N: …Yeah, not a good idea to start writing after watching Monsters Inc. and Alien or else it gives birth to the weirdest plotbunnies. I'll try to get the next chapter up soon as I'm able.