Authors note: Another chapter already? Something's wrong here, I know it. But yeah, I'll probably upload one tomorrow as well, I'm really into this story myself, maybe even more than you guys, so except chapters to be churned out quickly for a while. Also, I've been playing around with some ideas I wanted to put in this story, if you want to know what you think of them, PM me to ask but don't tell anyone. Other than that, I hope you enjoy the new chapter.
Chapter 5: Parenthood
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The twins managed to sleep soundly throughout the night without any disturbances, early morning had risen on Gravity Falls, and the morning sun dawned upon the Mystery Shack, signaling a new day to begin as the twins woke up, or at least Dipper did, since his thoughts about last night still plagued him even now. How did Stan know the fairies and the Kajiu? What was Stan's problem with Godzilla in the first place? What else did the fairies know about Kajiu? Who was this William demon? But there was one question that got his attention the most.
Who is Godzilla?
His thoughts were interrupted when he could hear high pitched cries from outside, and looked out the window to see Godzilla and Mothra crying out loudly for the twin's attention, but he also noticed that their Kajiu looked different, as in they grew a few sizes. Instead of being ten meters from yesterday, they were each twenty meters now, which reminded Dipper to ask how big Kajiu could get. The loud cries were enough to wake up Mabel from her slumber, which was not an easy task since she was always a heavy sleeper, stretching her arms and yawning while hearing the Kajiu's cries.
"Morning Dipper." Said Mabel. Looking at her brother who turned from the window to see her awake.
"Morning." Dipper replied back, as the cries for attention continued.
"Sounds like they need us." Said Mabel, smiling at her brother as she put Waddles down from her bed. "You're going to love your friends."
"Our bigger friends." Said Dipper. "They got bigger while we were asleep, take a look."
Mabel walked up to the window next to Dipper to see the now twenty meter Kajiu, looking at Dipper with an excited expression.
"Wow. They grow up so fast." Said Mabel, amazed at the Kajiu's growth spurt. "Do you think Anguirus and Rodan got bigger too?"
"Probably." Replied Dipper, just as amazed as her sister. "Let's get dressed so we can see what they want. The Shack doesn't open until ten."
Mabel nodded as the twins got dressed in their clothes for the day, the twins wore their usual clothes with Mabel picking the tacky sweater for the day, a purplish pink sweater with a question mark, heading downstairs to do the usual morning stuff like brushing teeth, as the twins, along with Waddles who followed Mabel, went downstairs in the living room to see Stan asleep on the his chair.
"Did he stay up all night?" Asked Mabel, seeing that her Grunkle was fast asleep.
"Yes he did." Replied two voices, spooking the twins as they saw the fairies on top of the chair.
"I forgot how tiny you two are." Said Dipper, looking at how small they are. "Were you two talking about Godzilla last night with Stan?"
"Yes. It took the whole night, but he will let Godzilla stay here with Mothra for now." Said the fairies. "He also knows about Anguirus and Rodan."
"Anything else?" Asked Dipper, curious to know what else they talked about.
"Stanford has told us about your curious tendencies. We will answer most of your questions, except anything that involves Stanford." Said the fairies. "We gave him our word."
Dipper, while disappointed that he would have to get answers to some of his questions the hard way, he was glad that others could be answered.
"Okay. But first we want to see how Godzilla and Mothra are doing." Said Mabel, wanting to see what was up with the two Kajiu. "You want to come with us?"
"It is best that we rest now. Even fairies need sleep." Said the fairies, as the twins nodded at the two fairies to leave them, and go outside to see their Kajiu.
The twins walked out to see their now twenty meter Kajiu, who cried to them as if they wanted something, with Mabel hugging Mothra and introducing her to her pet pig Waddles, who licked the giant caterpillar and quickly became friends with her, while Dipper was licked by Godzilla, who bended down to his level to do so, covering the boy in Kajiu drool and shook it off.
"Good to see you too, Big G." Said Dipper, giving Godzilla a nickname as the dinosaur roared, still high pitched and adorable despite the size difference, as Dipper tried to figure out what was wrong with him.
Mabel then noticed piles of chewed leaves on the ground, or at least what was left of them, already providing the answer to the Kajiu's needs. "Are you two hungry?"
Mothra chirped in response, as if in agreement with Mabel.
"You must be really hungry then," Commented Dipper, staring at the chewed leaves. "But at least we know what to give you."
"Do we have any food left in the fridge? Or did Stan eat all the good stuff again?" Asked Mabel.
"I'll check. If not, we have to go to the supermarket." Said Dipper, as he quickly ran back inside to check the fridge.
Dipper then came back out with as many vegetables as he could find, holding cabbages, celery, radishes, carrots, etc., bringing them to the Kajiu to eat.
"Not sure this is enough but-
Godzilla then bended down and grabbed most of the vegetables from his arms, chewing and swallowing them in a matter of a few seconds, as the Kajiu let out a monstrous burp that could cause a tremor, while Mabel grabbed the rest of the food before Godzilla could eat the rest and gave them to Mothra, who ate her food more slowly and was not as rude as Godzilla by gobbling them all up in one sitting.
"Okay. We're going shopping." Said Dipper, not too thrilled about that prospect while Mabel was more gleeful about it.
"I'm already liking this summer." Said Mabel, happy to go shopping early.
"We're going to a supermarket, not a mall." Said Dipper, wondering why Mabel was excited to go shopping for food. "There's nothing but food."
"Shopping is shopping Dipper. Nuff said." Said Mabel, while Dipper just rolled his eyes, knowing that he'll never understand some of Mabel's likes. "Besides, that's how I feel with you and your mysteries."
Dipper was about to make a snide comment until he could hear a loud squawk from above, looking up to see it was Rodan, who was also twenty meters big now, along with Wendy on the ground pedaling towards the twins on her bike.
"Hey dorks." Greeted Wendy, as Rodan landed gracefully next to Wendy, walking over to Godzilla and Mothra and squawked to the Kajiu in greetings as well.
"Wendy? What are you doing here so early?" Asked Dipper, surprised to see her here so early.
"Stan wants me to come early to work today for being late yesterday." Said Wendy, rubbing her eyes to keep them open since she was still a bit tired. "And Rodan didn't make it easy for me to get some proper shuteye."
"I don't think having a giant pteranodon would make you sleep soundly." Said Dipper, pointing at Rodan as he eyed Waddles with every move the pig made, worrying Mothra and chirped at him to get his attention. "And look how big he is now."
"It's not just that. He kept squawking at me and even pecked at my window, which broke by the way, because he was hungry all night." Said Wendy, shaking her head from remembering last night. "And when I ran out of food…"
Dipper could then sniff something awful, making the twins cover their noses from the strange stench. "Do you smell that? It smells horrible."
"Um… when I ran out of food in the fridge for Rodan, I had to improvise and I found some bugs, normal bugs, for Rodan to eat." Explained Wendy, as she sighed heavily at what she said next. "But Rodan wouldn't eat them alive unless I… well, since he's like a bird I had to… you know."
Wendy didn't want to elaborate any further, since it didn't take long for the twins to figure out what Wendy meant by what she said, as they gagged in disgust from the thought.
"Eww." That was all Mabel could say, while Dipper could only shake his head at Wendy, who gave the twins a stern glance.
"Hey, I had to do it! It's either that or let Rodan starve." Said Wendy, arguing her point. "You would have done the same thing."
"Our Kajiu like to eat plants, so… yeah." Replied Dipper, making Wendy groan in frustration.
"You're never going to let me live this down, are you?" Asked Wendy, as Dipper just kept shaking his head.
"On one hand, this is only going to be between us." Said Dipper, giving Wendy some relief. "But on the other hand, you DID eat bugs, but hey, they have a lot of protein"
"I did it for Rodan!" Exclaimed Wendy, trying to empathize her point. "And I never swallowed them."
"If you say so." Said Dipper, holding up his hands to calm her down, while Wendy pulled the boy's hat down to cover his eyes, making Dipper temporarily blind until he pulled the hat up.
"I gonna get back at you." Warned Wendy, making Dipper slightly nervous. "You'll see."
"SQUEEE!"
A loud squeal from Waddles was heard from behind the humans, turning around to see Rodan pick up Waddles with his beak, making Mabel panic like no tomorrow.
"Waddles!" Screamed Mabel, s the humans ran up to Rodan while Mothra was chirping at Rodan to stop, Godzilla was just staring at the whole scene.
"Rodan! No!" Exclaimed Wendy, getting Rodan's attention as he looked at Wendy. "Drop the pig! Drop it!"
Rodan tried squawking in protest with Waddles still on his beak, as the pig squealed frightfully, making Mabel faint as Dipper caught his sister in his arms.
"Drop the pig!" Repeated Wendy, until Rodan listen to her command and gently let the pig down, who ran up to hide behind the twins, while Wendy gave Rodan a stern look. "Bad giant Pteranodon! Bad!"
Rodan bowed his head down sadly, trying to look innocent to Wendy as he gave her a look, a look of pity and sorrow that was pulling on the red head's heartstrings.
"Don't give me that look! I know what you're doing." Said Wendy, trying to look stern as much as possible, but gave into the look as she went up to Rodan, who lowered his head to pet her. "Aww, you didn't mean to."
"Wendy!" Exclaimed Dipper, who turned to Dipper to see him give her a look while Mabel finally woke up and hugged Waddles tightly.
"Oh no. it was just a dream." Said Mabel, hugging her pig closely.
Wendy then tried giving Dipper the same look Rodan gave her, making Dipper sigh in defeat.
"Why do you have to cute too?" Asked Dipper, also giving in to Wendy's look, as she raised an eyebrow at him.
"What?"
"I mean, uhh." Dipper got nervous now, letting that complement slip. "I'm going shopping with Mabel, you want to come?"
"Oh um, sure." Agreed Wendy, pretending not to hear what Dipper said, though it did flatter her for some reason even more than usual. "Better than eating bugs."
As soon as the group agreed, a pickup truck was seen with Soos driving it, while it could barely hold on to the twenty meter big Anguirus on the back. Soos parked his truck in a free parking space, as Anguirus got off from the truck barely managing to keep the vehicle intact while Soos got out and followed close behind to see the group, as Anguirus roared in greetings to the other Kajiu, who replied back softly, confusing Anguirus as he suspected something happened.
"Hey dudes. I came to drop off Anguirus cause he was like, eating my backyard and stuff." Said Soos, who noticed that Dipper and Wendy were looking away from each other nervously, while Mabel was still holding on her pig. "You dudes alright?"
"Hey Soos, we're going shopping! You want to drive us there?" Asked Dipper rapidly, hoping to get rid of the tension.
"…Sure." Said Soos suspiciously, as the group turned to their Kajiu, who were looking at their caretakers with full attention.
"Okay guys, we're going out to town to get you some more food. You think you can handle staying here for a while?" Asked Dipper, as the Kajiu stared at their caretakers.
"We'll be back as soon as we can, just don't try to eat anyone." Said Wendy, making Rodan lower his head.
"Mothra. You seem like the wisest one here, you can control things if they get out of hand, err, leg, caterpillar limb thing, right?" Asked Mabel, which made Mothra chirp in an assuring manner, while Godzilla growled defiantly at the decision.
"I think Godzilla want to be the leader." Said Dipper, noticing Godzilla stepping forward for Dipper's approval. "Look, we'll only be gone for a few minutes. Then you can be the leader all you want, okay?"
Godzilla roared in agreement lowly, disappointed that he wasn't chosen to keep things under control as the human group got inside Soos's truck, taking Waddles with them just in case Rodan wanted some more bacon, and said goodbye to their Kajiu, who saw them drive off to town.
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"So Rodan tried to eat Waddles?" Asked Soos, looking at his rear view mirror at Mabel holding Waddles, sitting in the back next to Dipper while Wendy rode shotgun.
"Yeah. I thought he was going to eat him for breakfast, then I fainted." Said Mabel, telling Soos about the whole Rodan situation.
"Luckily, Rodan dropped him because I told him to. God knows what would have happened next if I didn't." Said Wendy.
"And then you forgave him for the whole thing." Said Mabel, still disappointed at Wendy for giving into Rodan's look.
"If Mothra did the same thing, wouldn't you forgive her?" Asked Wendy.
Mabel stayed silent and looked down, kind of agreeing with Wendy on that.
"Look, they may be growing quickly, but they're just starting to grow up. Cut them some slack." Said Dipper, not wanting this argument to go any further.
"Easy for you to say. Your Kajiu just sat there and did nothing." Said Mabel, pointing out when Godzilla just stared at the situation before. "He could have stopped Rodan but he chose not to."
"Like Rodan is going to listen to Godzilla." Said Wendy, who seemed like she was backing up Dipper. "But he still could have done something."
"And he didn't. Which is why you should have both told them to not eat pigs and stop each other if they did." Said Mabel.
"Yesterday was a long day and a lot of stuff happened. Remember Stan?" Said Dipper, reminding Mabel about last night.
"What about Stan?" Asked Wendy, also getting Soos's attention as he focused on driving.
"Stan tried to shoot Godzilla." Said Mabel, shocking the two friends in the front of the truck.
"Okay, I'll admit Mister Pines isn't a nice guy, but he's not that bad." Said Soos, not really believing that Stan would go that far.
"Doesn't Stan know about all the crazy things that go on here?" Asked Wendy, wondering what would make Stan try something like that.
"Yeah, but when we tried introducing Godzilla to him, he just stared at him and went to get a gun to kill him." Explained Dipper.
"He kept saying that Godzilla was a menace and would destroy the world." Said Mabel, finishing for Dipper.
"Godzilla doesn't sound like a name you would give something unless it fits, but yeah, Stan was out of line when he did that." Said Wendy, siding with the twins on this. "He didn't say anything about the others right?"
"Well, he fine with Mothra. He also knows about Anguirus and Rodan but he's probably fine with them." Said Dipper, rising some curiosity with Wendy.
"Probably?" Asked Wendy.
"Well, the fairies told him about the others. They also know a lot more than they're telling us about Godzilla so maybe that's why Stan flipped about Godzilla." Said Dipper, making Wendy and Soos confused at what Dipper meant. "Oh yeah, he knows Lora and Moll too. Apparently they're old friends."
"Mister Pines has a lot of strange friends." Said Soos, somewhat surprised at the revelation.
"Yeah well, I'm glad they're also our friends." Said Dipper, relived that Stan didn't shoot Godzilla and was okay with the Kajiu.
The group then shared a small moment of silence, before Mabel broke it.
"Hey, what were we talking about earlier?" Asked Mabel, forgetting that they were arguing about Rodan and Waddles.
"It was nothing. Something dumb." Said Dipper, not wanting to remember the argument.
"Hey Soos, do you have gum?" Asked Wendy, to which Soos pointed at the glove compartment, which Wendy gladly opened to grab a pack of mint gum she found and chewed on a piece.
"Is it me, or do you guys smell something funky?" Asked Soos, smelling a strange scent in the truck, while Wendy decided to take every piece of gum instead to make sure the scent was gone.
"Nope."
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Godzilla growled lowly at the sight of the town in the distance, already bored at staying at the Shack, he didn't want to stay and listen to Mothra, and he wasn't in the mood to play with Anguirus and Rodan, he wanted food and he wanted it now. Godzilla roared lowly at Rodan, as if he asked him if he wanted to search for some food in Gravity Falls that their caretakers talked about, with Rodan's response to squawk back in agreement, just as hungry as the Big G.
Mothra warningly chirped at the two Kajiu, as if she told them not to go anywhere, but Godzilla just snorted rudely at her, ignoring the caterpillar's chirp as he walked past her, with Rodan walking ahead of him, wanting to compete with Godzilla to see who would win a race, as Godzilla roared to Anguirus, asking him if he wanted to join the Kajiu on their little march.
Anguirus was torn between his loyalty for Mothra, who chirped at Anguirus to stay, and with Godzilla who he looked up to as some sort of sidekick, though he went to follow Godzilla regardless, since Mothra followed Godzilla as well, trying to stop them from their march to the town, knowing full well that this is not what their caretakers wanted them to do and it being her responsibility to watch them.
Godzilla then picked up the pace, walking faster to catch up to Rodan and best him in the race, not before the giant Pteranodon decided to truly best Godzilla and flapped his wings, and began soaring in the sky while Godzilla roared at the Rodan for cheating, while Mothra and Anguirus were still far behind, as Mothra chirped at the two monsters to stop, while Anguirus was more interested in what was at the town, curious as to how life goes on there, and maybe find some food.
As if things couldn't get any worse, while the human's Kajiu march towards Gravity Falls, other more wild Kajiu from the woods were watching at the town from the woodlands, those Kajiu being the Meganulon from last night that searched for prey, spotting the town and determining the town to be a possible source of food, and prepared to move into the town to hunt, while close behind them was their larger predator, the giant rock crab who was tracking them, and willingly followed his Meganulon prey as well for the same reason as the Meganulon, to hunt.
The Kajiu's antics also attracted the slim figure, who just watched from a distance as the Kajiu converged in the town, and sighed sadly at the sight.
"It's a shame I'm going to miss this fight and a few others while I'm gone, but it'll be worth it." Said the slim figure to himself, as he walked towards the Mystery Shack and eyed at Stan's old car. "But if I'm leaving, I'm leaving in style."
The slim figure then walked up to the car, smashing the side window to the driver's seat, covering his hand in shattered glass and unlocked the car door from the inside, luckly Stan was too cheap to by a car alarm so the slim figure managed to get inside without any problems, besides shattering a window and embedding sharp glass in his hand, which he looked at quite casually.
"Eh. It'll heal." Said the slim figure, not worried about his bleeding hand as he pulled out a bobby pin from his sleeve and managed to start the car. "I still got it."
Before the figure could back up, he just remembered to do something important, making him run out the car and post a sticky note on the front door, while using the blood dripping on his hand to write "I.O.U." and ran back into the car, before driving off with the car.
"Oh yeah! I gotta get snacks first." Said the figure to himself happily, as he drove towards town to go to the supermarket, while humming a tune to himself as he drove.
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Meanwhile, unaware of the situation outside, the human group was now inside the supermarket, which as pretty quiet for the most part. Not many townsfolk were shopping at the moment since it was still early morning, as Soos was pushing the cart down the Aisles, with Wendy and the twins grabbing anything the Kajiu could eat, filling the cart with as much food as possible, and rushed to the register to wait in line behind someone, eager to leave soon so the Kajiu would be satisfied with breakfast.
"Okay. Let's go over the list I made in the car one more time." Said Dipper, taking out the list he made. "Sixty pounds of vegetables including cabbages, celery, carrots, radishes, and lettuce?"
"Check." Replied Soos. "Along with sauce for flavor."
"Twenty pounds of meat, only beef and poultry?"
"Check." Replied Wendy. "And no pork."
"Gummy Koalas?"
Dipper looked at Mabel, who had a large bag of Gummy Koalas with her.
"Mabel, this is for our Kajiu. Gummy Koalas aren't healthy for them." Said Dipper.
"But they're so good." Argued Mabel, pointing to the bag. "And this bag has the new blueberry flavor, berries are healthy."
Dipper gave a look at Mabel, who gave Dipper an adorable look from before.
"Oh my god." Said Dipper annoyed, tired of giving in to those cute looks, with Mabel's being the strongest since she's naturally adorable. "Fine."
Mabel squealed with joy and hugged her brother, who patted her on her back as she let go and put the candy on the cart, while the customer in front looked behind to see the filled cart.
"That's a lot of groceries." Said the customer, who wore a shirt with a pizza, surprised at how much food the group had.
"It's for a… a party." Said Wendy, coming up with an excuse for the large amounts of food.
"A party? Can I join?" Asked the customer, hoping to be invited.
"No." Said Wendy bluntly, disappointing the customer as he got his groceries and exited the store.
"Okay, who has money to pay for all this?" Asked Dipper.
"I have like, five bucks." Said Wendy, holding out a five dollar bill.
"Three quarters." Said Soos, holding out four coins before taking a closer look at them. "Wait, I mean four quarters."
The twins didn't really have any money on them, making Dipper scratch his head out of embarrassment. "Maybe we should have waited for Stan."
While the cashier was checking out the group's groceries, he stopped in shock when he heard screams from outside, making everyone in the store turn to the large windows at the exit to see people running away from something in horror.
"Monsters!" Screamed someone from outside, making everyone in the store panic from what they heard, except for Wendy, Soos, and the twins, who knew what monsters everyone was panicking about.
"They have abandonment issues, don't they?" Guessed Soos, while Wendy groaned in frustration.
"Oh jeez, it's too early in the morning for this." Said Wendy, as the group caught sight of the Kajiu outside.
But they became just as scared as everyone else when they saw what everyone was panicking about, it was the slimmer brown Meganulon they saw in the cave from yesterday, about a dozen of them they could see just from inside the store, surrounding the area from outside.
"Maybe they're just passing through?" Guessed Mabel, hoping for the Meganulon to go away.
Unfortunately, the Meganulon saw the humans in the supermarket, and set their sights on the trapped shoppers as they smashed through the windows with their pincer claws, sending the shoppers inside in a panic to run away as far as possible from the incoming swarm, while Wendy just cursed to herself.
"Shit."
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Disclaimer: I do not own Gravity Falls or Godzilla.