I'm back with another chapter done! Enjoy!
It was a quiet morning at Gravity Falls and its people began waking up to start their day. At the Mystery Shack, things were still a bit quiet, as everyone were still sleeping, except for a certain blonde teenager.
Joshua was currently in his room, resting his bed and watching Youtube videos through his phone, since the room he was staying didn't have its own TV. He began slowly visualized the twins and his boss' rooms, having one leaving him with getting the second class treatment, much to his annoyance and dismay.
After a moment or so of sulking, he quickly calmed down and resumed watching Youtube. Despite being treated as a low level employer from his boss, he was determined to tough it out, because he made a promise to Mr. Pines back in California and he planned to keep his promise. Plus, he had nowhere to go anyway and being on the run going from place to to place didn't sit very well for him either.
"I'll just have to toughen it out," Joshua stated. "I will get through this, even if my boss is an asshole."
Just then he heard a door creaked opened and it made him jump a bit. "Who's there?!"
When he got up off his bed to get a better view of whoever it was at the door, he saw a small snout that was sticking out from the frame Joshua then walked towards his door and opened it, revealing a small pig that was pink as a bubblegum, with a brown collar surrounding on it's neck.
"Huh? A pig?" Joshua raised his eyebrow in confusion. "What is a pig doing here? And how did it get inside?"
Joshua picked up the pig and made his way to the twins to inform the two. When he got there, he knocked on the door a few times before he got a response.
"Who is it?" A sleepy Mabel asked.
"Mabel? It's me," Joshua replied. "Listen, a pig got inside here."
Hearing the word "pig" made the brunette wake herself up. "Hold on, is that Waddles you're talking about?"
"Waddles?" Joshua then glimpse at the pig's collar where he saw a gold coin name-tag that read "Waddles". "Uh, I guess it is."
Mabel quickly opened the door and grabbed the pig from Joshua's hands.
"Waddles, bad pig!" Mabel scowled her pet. "You should know better than to enter Joshua's room."
Waddles look down sadly in regret, causing his owner to hugged him.
"Oh I'm so sorry Waddles for scolding you like that." Mabel apologized as she affectionately nuzzled her pet much to the shock of Joshua who was standing there.
"Please excuse Waddles. He doesn't know any better"" Joshua nodded his head.
"It's fine, Mabel, though I'm still shocked that Stan allows you to have a pet, let alone a pig, for the matter."
Mabel frowned at the blonde teenager. "You're making it sound like Grunkle Stan is the worst person in the world!"
"He isn't," Joshua objected. "At least, not yet anyway, but he's on the road on gaining that title. He should be honored."
"Not funny Joshua," Mabel rolled her eyes in annoyance, as she watched Joshua chuckling away.
"Anyway, I'll head back to my room. See you in a bit," Joshua made his way back to his room, with Mabel watching him, before closing the door and retreat back to her back, carrying Waddles with he.
"I hope Joshua can later see Grunkle Stan is a nice person, once he knows him better," Mabel muttered, laying down on her bed and went back to sleep, with Waddles resting alongside her.
After almost a couple of hours have passed by, everyone started to slowly wake up and start their day off, but a bit late than usual. Stan, Joshua and the twins were currently in the kitchen, with Stan making breakfast. As their paternal guardian is fixing their meals, Mabel started a conversation.
"Hey Joshua, how are you?" The brunette asked.
"Oh I'm fine, Mabel," Joshua replied. "But I'm still a bit shellshocked from finding out that Kappa exist."
"I know, but what I'm more surprised of your knowledge about them!" Dipper chimed in on the conversation. "Like seriously, how did you know about them?"
Joshua smug upon seeing his friend going a bit bewildered, recalling Wendy's words. "I know a thing or two about Japanese mythos, Dipper."
"Why didn't you tell me about your interest in supernatural?!" Dipper asked still retaining his excitement tone in his voice.
"Well, I didn't think you were into creatures from Japanese mythology," Joshua bashfully scratched his head. "Given that some are into one specific mythos but don't show interest in other myths outside what they like."
Dipper nodded. "That make sense."
"Breakfast is ready!" Stan announced.
Grunkle Stan served the kids bacon and eggs. While the twins were happily eating away their food, Joshua was very hesitant, remembering the last time his boss served him food, he found strands of hair inside and since then, he does his best not eat any food that Stan served him, in fear that he might find strands of hair in his food or worse.
It didn't took Stan too long to notice Joshua's reaction, as he gave the blonde teenager a look. "Shrimp, are you going to eat what I gave you this time or are you gonna play the whole not hungry card again?"
Joshua bit his lip trying not to lose his temper while simultaneously glared at him before sighing. "No, I'll eat."
Joshua took his fork and look at his breakfast. He didn't spot anything gross and the food looked good. With this in mind, he took a bite of his eggs and afterwards, munched away his meals, much to his delight, with the twins followed suit, leaving Stan staring at Joshua as he sipped his coffee.
"I swear, that kid ain't right."
After the gang finished their breakfast, they got dressed for work. Since it was Monday, Wendy have school all day until mid afternoon, leaving the twins and Joshua to help Soos with the Mystery Shack, much to Dipper's dismay, as his crush wouldn't be present. It was a about a half hour until the shack opened for business, so the kids decided to watch TV in the living room as Stan was still in his room.
"Say," Mabel started. "How about we take a nice stroll around town?"
"You know, that's a good idea, Mabel," Dipper agreed. "We can show him other places to go and to have fun as well."
Joshua shrugged with indifference. "Sure, I don't mind. As long as it beats being indoors all day."
Mable clapped her hands in happiness. "Perfect!"
"When we do go out please try not to do anything that would cause trouble," Dipper insisted.
"You sound like everything I do will instantly spell back luck!" Mabel childishly pouted.
Mabel and Dipper begin to argue while Joshua watched the twins in slight amusement.
The morning went by fairly quickly ,as the trio helped around the Mystery Shack. As usual, the twins were stationed at the cash register, while Joshua cleaned around the shack and helping Soos out with his tours. When lunch hours arrived, the twins and Joshua decided to go into town and eat, a suggestion that Soos and Stan approved, but the latter did warned to come back at a specific time, unless they get punished for being MIA on the job.
When they left, the trio head towards the only diner in town to grab some grub. It was also the nearest place, since other fast food deemed it too far for them to travel on foot and taking the bus around Gravity Falls was rather some-what infamous for it's unusual long wait time.
As they entered inside the diner, the smell of fresh foods caused Mabel to form a smile. "How long I miss this place."
"It sound like this is your favorite spot to eat," Joshua spoke as they followed the waitress.
"The food is good," Dipper chimed in. "I can tell you that much. Plus it's the nearest place to eat."
"Fair enough," Joshua nodded as he took a seat at their arrived table.
The trio glanced at the menus for a good few moments, before each of them decided what they want and waited for another waiter or waitress to take their order. It didn't took too long as a certain middle aged waitress approached them with a huge smile on her face.
"Hey you two," The waitress greeted. "Long time no see!"
Dipper waved. "Hey Lazy Susan!"
Mabel gasped. "Lazy Susan! How have you been?" The waitress chuckled.
"I've been alright, Mabel. But you certain have grown into a fine young woman."
Mabel blushed by Lazy Susan's compliment. She did came a long way over the past four years; she had her braces removed after having on wearing them throughout childhood and early teens and her appearance went into slight change as well. While she maintain her looks and personality, her hair grew considerably that it covered her mid back and her freckles darkened a bit. From those few years alone, she matured from a gushy pre teen to even an gushier teenager. It wasn't much of achievement, but Mabel is very proud of what she had and displayed it with no shame at all.
"Why thank you, Lazy Eye Susan," Mabel playfully changed her tone to match that of a lovely woman from an upper class. "The past four years have been really good to me."
Lazy Susan only chuckled. "Now what do you like to have, youngsters?"
"I'll have…" Mabel started. "Number twenty four."
"And I'll have number thirty one." Dipper said.
"For me, I'll have number thirty nine." Joshua added.
Lazy Susan nodded as she wrote down the orders. "Any who is this young fellow right here? A friend of yours?"
"Why yes, yes it is!" Mabel spoke with enthusiasm, followed by a high class accent. "His name is Joshua and he's a very nice person."
"Mabel!" Joshua shouted in annoyance. "It's nice to meet you, Lazy Susan."
"Likewise," Susan winked. "If you need anything don't be afraid to ask. Anyway, I'll be back with your food. Oh! I almost forgot, what drinks do you three want?"
"I'll have myself a soda," Dipper replied.
"Pink lemonade, my good lady friend." Mabel answered.
"Mabel!" An irritable Joshua snapped. "I'll have myself a soda too.."
Lady Susan nodded and headed back at the kitchen to get their orders up and ready to be made leaving the trio alone.
"Wow, age hasn't slowed Lazy Susan down," Mabel said happily. "She's still working after all these years."
"Mabel," Joshua started firmly. "What was that all about?"
"What do you mean?" Mabel asked.
"You speaking in that high class accent," Joshua point out.
Mabel gave Joshua a look. "What's wrong with it?"
"Yeah what's wrong with my sister imitating a high class person?" Dipper asked.
"It's…" Joshua began to speak before shaking his head. "Never mind. Just forget I brought that up in the first place."
The pines twins looked at each other before Joshua himself. Judging from his distress, it became a bit evident that something was bothering him and Mabel's mimicry of an upper class accent just caused Joshua to be more distressed. Mabel wanted to speak up and talk to him about it, but with Dipper's interference, she decided to leave it as it is for now.
After waiting for a few minutes, the trio got their drinks followed by a fifteenth to twenty minute waiting time before Lazy Eye Susan delivered their food. Mabel ordered up a bacon cheeseburger that comes with regular seasoned fries, Dipper ordered a steak burrito that came with refried beans with shredded cheddar cheese sprinkled on top of it and rice and Joshua ordered salmon that came with mac and cheese and greens beans and a hot steamed roll.
As the trio ate their lunch they engage into typical teenagers conversation. Mabel talked about typical girl stuff much to the two boys dismay as her topic were mostly about what you can expect from her like vampires and boy bands. In fact she had to resort using Joshua's phone display sexy vampires since her phone is a bit old fashion in contrast the blonde teenager having a smartphone furthering adding Dipper and Joshua's annoyance.
The trio finished their food and paid the cashier at the front before leaving a tip for Lady Susan and left the diner. Upon leaving the diner Mabel let out the biggest belch she stored inside.
"Ahhhh, that hit the spot." Mabel proclaimed happily.
"Seriously Mabel?" Dipper glared his sister for belching so close to him.
"What? It's not good for a person to hold in gas." Mabel pointed out. "Be lucky I didn't fart."
Dipper formed a disguised expression. "Ew! No Mabel!"
As he watched the twins bicker one another, Joshua spotted something strange behind his back and went to investigate. When the twins notice Joshua leaving, they followed him to the back of the diner, where the garbage pin was located. Joshua hid himself and spy on whatever that passes him and what he saw surprised him.
"Joshua!" Mabel shouted. The blonde teenager silenced her.
"Shh! Not so loud!" Joshua scowled the brunette. "Listen I found something unusual. Look!"
The twins glanced over Joshua's shoulder and saw a familiar face: The gnomes.
"Gnomes?" Mabel asked in slight surprise.
"What are they doing here?" Dipper added scratching his head. The twins familiarity with the gnomes caused Joshua to confront them.
"Wait you know these gnomes?" Mabel was the first to speak.
"Yeah, the gnomes were the first thing we discovered upon arriving here for our summer vacation four years ago."
"The gnomes disguised themselves as a brooding teenager who my sister was fawning over, before I saw that something was amiss," Dipper explained.
"And here I thought hoping he would be a vampire," Mabel sighed with disappointment. "But instead, they were gnomes and attacked my brother and I into forcing my hand in marriage!"
Joshua only blinked for a moment, until he let out a few snickers of laughter much to the dismay of the brunette who irritably glared at the blonde teenager.
"Joshua, it's not funny!" Mabel scowled.
"I'm sorry Mabel, but gnomes attacking you and you both had a hard time? That's so pathetic it's funny! How can you NOT laugh at something like that!" Joshua humorously pointed out.
Mable rolled her eyes, while Dipper only shook his head in disbelief before noticing the gnomes were gone.
"Hey, the gnomes are gone," Dipper said. "Well, let's head on back to the Mystery Shack."
"Wait, look!" Joshua point his finger at a few noticeable objects that stood out and walked towards it. "Oh crap! You guys got to see this!"
The twins walked closer to the large garbage stack where the objects are sitting and what they saw almost made their jaws drop. On the left side laid a emerald green necklace with the chain coated with gold and small emeralds jewels, on the middle sat a red colored cap that matched the size of Dipper's cap, but it was decorated with small crimson red rubies embedded in the center that formed a distinctive but strange shape and lastly on the right side is a deep blue sapphire bracelet embedded with small sapphires and silver. All three of them gave out a slight glow.
"Whoa!" Dipper stared at the expensive looking items.
"It's beautiful!" Mabel added before instantly grabbed the sapphire bracelet. "I called dibs on the bracelet!"
"The necklace is mine!" Joshua stated.
"What? I get the cap? Come on!" Dipper complained, before signing in defeat and took the ruby encrusted cap.
The trio try on the items they found before begin to head back to the Mystery Shack but as they walked towards their destination the three items begin to glow very unnaturally until it completely consumed them. After a few seconds, the intense light finally dissipated, leaving each of the teenagers dumbfounded on what just occurred.
"What just happened?" Joshua asked in shock. Dipper was freaking out as well.
"I dunno! Mabel, are you okay?"
"So far, so good," Mabel replied as she scanned her body and find nothing unusual on her body but did noticed something happening to her brother. "Ah! Dipper! Your body is…is…"
"What about my body Mabel?" Dipper asked. Joshua's eyes widened in complete shock.
"Dude, your body is vanishing!"
Dipper looked down and saw that his bottom half was gone! Dipper panicking, before Mabel slapped him to calm her brother down.
"OW!" Dipper groan in soreness. "Mabel!"
"Your welcome, bro bro!" Mabel smiled.
Joshua only shook his head before getting back the situation at hand. "Dipper, I think that cap turned you invisible."
"What?!" Dipper was confused by Joshua's claim. He then took of his cap and suddenly his lower half appear from his eyes, before putting the cap back on and instantly resulted his lower half to disappear again, confirming Joshua's claims.
"Hey, your right! It does turn me invisible!"
"Awesome!" Mabel praised. "I think these items have powers!"
"I wonder what power this necklace bestows on me." Joshua said as he scratched his head in wonder causing both twins to gasped.
"Joshua! Look behind you!" Dipper shouted.
Joshua did just that and saw a random pipe in the air moving up and down in mid air ,much to trio's shock. Joshua stuck out his arm in front of it, causing the pipe to fly backward at immense speed. The teenagers learn that the necklace Joshua wass wearing granted him telekinesis.
"Sweet! I have telekinesis ,baby!" Joshua smiled brightly.
"Aw! You boys get all the good stuff!" Mabel complained before spotting a mouse from a distance, resulting her body to change, much to the boys shock. "Huh, why do I know have the sudden urged to eat all the cheese in the world right now?"
"Mabel," Joshua spoke in caution. "Your ears.. They are.."
"Grey and round!" Dipper finished. "And you have a tail growing out your butt Mabel!"
"Huh? Did you say something boys?" Mabel turned around and the two boys saw a pair of two large teeth grown in front of her adult teeth. Mabel then noticed her tail rubbing her arm, resulting her letting out a big scream.
"I…I've turned into a mouse!" Mabel cried in dismay.
Dipper shook his head. "Just partially, you're still human, but have gained characteristics of a mouse like rodent teeth, a tail and the urge to eat cheese."
"I think Mabel has the ability to change into an animal she sets her eyes on while wearing the bracelet. But it's uncertain if she can fully transform into an animal." Joshua stated.
"That's…so… cool!" Mabel smiled, before playing with her new grown tail.
Just then, Joshua came up with a idea. "Hey how about we have some fun with these powers on our disposal."
Both twins looked at each other before facing Joshua each of them having devious smiles on their faces which instantly gave Joshua their answers. With no exchange of words needed they decided to head back to town to test more of their powers.
'This is gonna be so much fun!' Joshua thought, as a mischievous smile formed.
For the past hour, Dipper, Mabel and Joshua went around town and test their newly discovered powers in secret. While they knew how wrong it was to mess with the townsfolk and after the added promise to never use their power to cause physical harm, the trio proceed to cause some havoc.
First, they went to the jewelry store to browse around. This was when Dipper decided to test out his invisibility powers; After using the jewelry store bathroom, he put on his cap and began taking a few jewelry, but not before successfully pick pocketing from a few people and the owner's keys. His actions had caused quite a stir, as people were trying to find who was the thief and even ended up cornering one unfortunate woman in her twenties. After it was confirmed that she was not the thief, the store went into full on lock down, but not before Dipper stormed out of the store still invisible with a few expensive goodies in his pockets.
Their next destination the trio went was the pet store. Mabel decided to use her shape shifting powers to free all the animals that was held captive. The pet store owner was not only ill tempered to everyone around her, but also didn't take care of the animals well. She first transformed into a cat and slowly walked inside the shop, limping to give the owner the impression that she was sick or weakened. The plan worked like a charm and after she was carried inside and into her cage, Mabel did her thing and broke all the animals free behind the owner's back. With her mission complete, the trio left the pet store, with Mabel having the biggest smile on her face, while the boys only shook their heads as both of them were mostly oblivious about the pet shop owner awful personality.
Their last destination the trio stopped by was the furniture store not far from the Lazer Tag place where Soos usually spend his time there. Without delay, Joshua used his telekinesis and lift up most of the furniture. Predictably, everyone inside the store instantly became terrified and scream the word "GHOST! GHOST! GHOST!", while running away for dear lives. After having a few good laughs or so, Joshua ceased his telekinesis powers and left the store, but not before putting everything back where it was.
As the trio is continually walking towards the deep end into town, the teenagers engage in conversation.
"Holy hell, that was fun!" Joshua shouted.
"I agree," Dipper smiled. "That was very awesome!"
"Uh, Dipper? You know that we are going deeper into town, right?" Mabel noticed their surroundings.
Dipper begin to flustered a bit. "I-I know that! I just wanted to go somewhere before we head back at the shack."
"Where?" Joshua asked before him and Mabel being stumbled by a tall building that the brunette instantly recognized.
"Hey, this is the college where Wendy attends." Mabel then looked at her brother with a playful smirk. "Dipper, you sly dog!"
"Wait a minute, so the whole reason you came here is to spy on Wendy…" Joshua smug a bit. "Stalker much, Dipper?"
"Shut up Joshua!" Dipper's face was flustered bright pink. "I'm not a stalker!"
Both Joshua and Mabel looked at Dipper before snickering at him much to his annoyance.
"Ugh! If you need me, I'm going to see Wendy!" Dipper huffed as he put his cap on and entered the school leaving Joshua and Mabel alone together.
"If Dipper gonna go inside, so am I!" Mabel declared, using her bracelet and transformed herself into a pigeon, as she laid her eyes on one a second ago and took off flying, leaving the blonde teenager to himself. With nothing else to do, Joshua decided to take a seat at a nearby bench that was located a couple of miles from college.
He relaxed his body on the bench and decided to take a quick nap.
Meanwhile, inside Gravity Falls College, Dipper walked around the hallways exploring the school. It was surprisingly big, despite the building having its usual classrooms, such as a inside basketball court, a track field and a few labs. It was where Dipper saw Wendy in her PE uniform from afar.
Despite only wearing blue shorts and a grey t-shirt, her beauty enamored Dipper from the distance as he began to drool over her, even though he was turned down by her and mostly moved on he couldn't help but a small part of him still being infatuated.
He continued to watch her until she went inside the basket ball court along with the rest the class.
"Okay, now it's time for me to skedaddle," Dipper said.
Dipper walked back inside the building ,so he can take his leave, but found himself lost a bit due to the building being so big. Taking a guess, he randomly choose a door and entered inside hoping he would lead him to the school entrance but instead he found himself inside the locker room.
"Dang it I entered the wrong door." Dipper complained as he made his way to the door.
Suddenly he saw the door being opened and who it was shocked him. It was Wendy herself followed by many girls entering inside much to the shock of Dipper who was starting to to sweat a little. After a moment o so of watching his hormones spiked drastically as he witness the girls undressing themselves to change back into their regular clothes. It was at this moment that Dipper made a terrible revelations of where he is at.
"Oh Man! I'm in the girls locker room!"
Meanwhile, Mabel was sitting on the edge of a small window of the boys' locker room in her pigeon form. Since PE was over, the boys were currently in the locker room, getting changed out of their PE outfit where the brunette gold full view of them and while she was a bird she could subconsciously feel herself drooling.
"Oh yeah. So many handsome boys in my sights, I'm SO glad that I can shape shift into any animal I see."
After a minute or so of watching, she decided that she had her fill of watching boys and flew off to find Joshua, where, after a few moments of flying, saw him resting on a nearby bench. She descended down there so she can change back into her human form. Her plans were shattered in a form of a young boy whom, look to be no older than a middle school student, flung a rock at her with his slingshot and managed to hit Mabel, causing her to let out a painful bird screech, as she plummeted down to the ground, much to the boy's pleasure.
"Yes! Bullseye!" The young boy shouted in satisfaction.
"Nice shot, Adam!" Another young boy praised his friend.
"Yeah man, I wish I can have such a aim like yours!" A third boy complemented.
"Hey," Joshua got up and charged towards the boys, having witnessed the boys cruel antics and realizing that pigeon was in fact Mabel. "What the hell are you doing to that harmless pigeon?!"
"None of your business, mister!" The young boy with the slingshot snapped, who had chocolate brown hair, light brown skin tone and black eyes.
"Yeah, buzz off!" The second boy spoke, who had pale skin, blue eyes and light brown hair.
"Aren't you suppose to be in school at this hour?" Joshua challenged the misbehaving boys. "Where are you our parents!?" The third boy groaned, who had brown eyes, moderate brown skin tone and black hair.
"Leave that poor bird alone. It done nothing to you," Joshua ordered.
Adam and the other boys glared at Joshua, with their teeth gritted and their temper rising in a heartbeat. How dare a mere teenager ordered them around like they were slaves. It was time for them to show the blonde teenager that they not an average middle school delinquents.
Dipper was still in the girls' locker room, frozen in place and sweating profusely. Even though he was safe from being invisible, Dipper possessed an unhealthy level of dread and fear of being caught and for good reason; although the cap granted him invisibility, it didn't grant him intangibility. He also had to be mindful of how much sound he made, since there was someone who will know his voice. Dipper feared that should he made so much of a scream or even an 'Eep', he would be in big trouble and very likely jeopardize his friendship with Wendy.
Dipper got a good look at Wendy's undergarments; her bra and panties were green that matched the color of pines on pines trees; her bra size were big and it made Dipper stared at them for a moment, even though it seemed to like an eternity for the younger twin. It seemed for Wendy that time served her well, with her figure already a few years back since first coming to Gravity Falls and meeting the redhead for the first time. Dipper considered her cute and attractive and she now that both of them are older now she went from cute to a total hottie.
'Oh my god, Wendy. You became even hotter than before,' Dipper thought, unable to control his urge…as well as his flatulence.
"Huh?" Wendy sniffed the air a few times before making a cringe and disgust expression. "Ugh! Who the hell farted in here?!"
"Obviously you, Wendy! You know the saying goes, you smelled it, dealt it!" One girl joked.
The snappy remark earned the redhead's wrath. "Oh come on, you know how I feel about that phrase! I don't follow that crap at all, so it's obviously not me!"
"Sure it isn't," The girl sarcastically remarked, before she exited the locker room leaving Wendy fuming.
"UGH!" An irritated Wendy groaned, as she put her green jacket on and made her way to the door, leaving Dipper alone in the girls' locker room.
"Whew! I need to get out here now." Dipper muttered as he too took his leave as well.
"Ow."
"What just happened?"
Adam and his friends were currently on the ground, groaning in pain, while Joshua was sitting on the bench, catering to Mabel, now back in her human form, but due to Adam's actions, her whole body is badly sore and in pain.
"Are you okay, Mabel?" Joshua asked in concern.
"Yeah, I'm okay and thanks," Mabel assured him. "You should have gone easy on them. They didn't know any better!"
Joshua let out a sigh. "Mabel, they try to hurt you! Even if you weren't in danger, I still would have confronted them. If it wasn't for me, who knows what they would done!"
Mabel nodded. "Yeah, but still-"
"Those boys are cruel towards animals and I can't stand that. There is nothing more that needs to be said."
Mabel looked at Joshua, then at the boys, before sighing. "Okay, I'll let this slide, but please try not to lose your temper next time, okay?"
"I can't make any promises, but I'll try my best from here on out," Joshua honestly answered.
While it wasn't the answer that Mabel was hoping to hear, she nodded her head nevertheless. Both Mabel and Joshua got up on their feet, waiting for Dipper to show up; after a minute of waiting, he exited the building, before taking his cap off and suddenly appearing in front of them. Both of them were taken aback by Dipper's flustered face.
"Hey Dipper, what took so long?" Mabel asked.
"N-nothing!" Dipper hastily answered. "L-L-Let's just go, okay?"
"Um sure, bro," Mabel raised her eyebrow. "Come on Joshua, let's go."
Joshua rolled his eyes. "Don't have to tell me twice."
The trio began walking back towards the shack, leaving Adam and his friends continue wailing in pain, with Adam glaring at the three teenagers afar, especially towards Joshua.
"You won this time, but I will have my revenge! Just you wait you bastard!" Adam yelled and raised his fist before quickly put it down due his arms being sore. "OW!"
The trio made their way back towards the Mystery Shack. During the several minutes trip Dipper was quiet the whole time due to him thinking about Wendy as his head was still visualizing the redhead in her undergarments that he luckily saw earlier today before shaking his head as he try to shake the image off. He need to keep it a secret because should Joshua or god forbid his sister things would instantly go from bad to worse for him because the last thing he want is to be labeled s a peeping tom or a pervert. Dipper wouldn't live his exposed secret down.
The trio finally arrived back at the mystery shack and for the rest of the resumed work. Since Stan was asleep by the time they got back they were able to avoid getting yelled at and with Soos promise to cover them for being gone for so long they will be able to dodge a bullet much to each of the three teenagers relief. Since Wendy is devoting her time in school, she had to leave the shack earlier.
The Mystery Shack closed at around eight o'clock and Soos did the honor of closing up shop and bid the teenagers and Stan a farewell and head on home. Afterwards, the gang decided to have dinner and because Stan didn't feel like cooking, he let the trio to order take out for tonight, with the teenagers decided on Chinese food for dinner. They got their food, pay for it and then ate in the living room, watching TV with Stan.
After a rather enjoyable night the twins, they bid Stan a goodnight and the trio went upstairs to call it a night, but not before wrapping up one loose end.
"So, what are you we gonna go with these?" Mabel asked.
"I say we destroy them." Joshua suggested.
"What?! NO! DO you know much all three jewelry be worth!?" Mabel opposed. "I say we keep it for ourselves!"
"No way!" Now it was Dipper's turn to object. "Let's just get rid of it!"
Joshua shook his head. "And have someone to stumble upon these and be a victim of it's power or some scumbag abuse their powers? Not happening, dude."
"Ugh!" Dipper threw his arms in frustration before laying down on the bed in defeat. The trio are currently residing in Joshua's room trying to make a decision on what to do with the three jewelry but each of them haven't made a decision on the matter and Joshua is brainstorming on what to do.
Selling the jewelry isn't a good option, despite having a fair chance of getting paid handsomely from the pawn shop or any jewelry store. Doing so would end up having someone obtaining these jewelry and fell prey into temptation of using the powers and ended up literally turning to the dark side of the force and wreak havoc.
Getting rid of it was another option, but the blonde teenager ended up shooting that scenario down. That would have been similar to selling the jewelry off, but it would be even worse; this would guarantee that anyone would pick it up and take for themselves and they can easily fall in the wrong hands to someone who was power hungry or have a mean and cruel streak like Adam.
Keeping it, while seemingly to be the better option out of the other two will only spell bad news for the trio as each of them had a gut wrenching feeling that should anyone sees them possessing them they would go after them putting them and everyone such Stan, Wendy and Soos in danger all for the sake of greed.
All of these routes were mind numbing for Joshua, but with their options being limited and the looming consequences hanging over on all three choices, Joshua thought long and hard, before letting out a big sigh.
Joshua had came with a decision. "Okay, It would be best that we keep them."
"What?!" Dipper was in shock from his friend's answer while Mabel happily jumped in joy.
"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
"However," Joshua was not finished talking. "They would under tight security and under my care."
"Say what?!" Mabel then glared at Joshua. "How come it has to be you?! What about us?!"
Joshua let out a sarcastic laugh. "Not a chance in hell! Both of your powers falls under the infiltration category. Dipper's hard on obsession with Wendy and Mabel, your head is full of fantasizing on boys and sexy vampires almost twenty four seven, so you two obviously can't be trusted!"
"What?! I don't an obsession with Wendy!" a flustered Dipper objected harshly.
"I beg to differ, bro," Mabel countered Dipper's denial, before turning to Joshua. "And I do not fantasize boys! Okay maybe I do, but not twenty four seven, I can assure you!"
Joshua only glared at the twins and blinked once. It was clear that he wasn't buying their words and was set on having the jewelry to be under his care, since Joshua only have telekinesis, while the twins have the ability to concealed their appearances, with Dipper having the power of invisibility, while Mabel herself can change into animals and since they ended up being irresponsible with their powers, it would be under his watchful eyes.
So after much thought, the twins gave in. "Ugh, fine!" Mabel groaned in defeat, causing Joshua to smug.
"I thought so," Joshua took the bracelet and and cap from them and set it on his bed along with his necklace.
"Well, it's getting late," Dipper pointed out. "So we're heading on to bed. Night Joshua."
"Night you two." Joshua said as he watched the twins leaving his room. Joshua closed his door and changed out into his clothes and into his pajamas. Before going to bed Joshua put the jewelry in a purple chest and put it up somewhere that only he can find it and no one else. After that was done he turned the bedroom lights off and went to bed.
'Man, today has been a surprisingly fun day. I hope my grandmother is holding up okay,' Was the last thing Joshua thought before yawing and closed his eyes and drifted into slumber.
Later that night, Mabel was currently using her stealth to sneak inside Joshua's room to reclaim her bracelet.
"Like hell I'm gonna allow Joshua to keep my precious bracelet!" Mabel thought bitterness filling her subconscious. "I'm gonna show Joshua why I am the Alpha twin!"
With careful movement Mabel slowly opened the door and entered inside where she sees Joshua sleeping peacefully. No time to spare she quickly began her search; first she looked in the closet, then the bathroom followed by drawer and then finally under the bed. After searching practically everywhere Mabel quietly bit her lip in frustration and left the room in defeat. As soon she entered her room she collapsed on her bed and let out a groan that thankfully didn't wake her brother up due to her head was buried on her pillow.
She took out her diary, turned on the lamp on her night stand and begin to write her latest entry.
Dear Diary,
Ugh! What a day has it been. Joshua, my brother and I found three awesome looking jewelry! Normally, jewelry isn't nothing special, aside from how gorgeous it looks, but this is an exception, because it gave us powers! Joshua can lift things without touching them, Dipper has invisibility and as for me, I can shape-shift into animals! We used these powers to cause some mindless and harmless fun, but Joshua decided to keep them, so he can safeguard them, which I can understand, but I can be trusted too! In fact, I even sneak inside his room so I can reclaim my bracelet so I can prove to him,but I searched everywhere and ended up with nothing! That sly fox! Ugh! I wish he can see we can be trusted as well. Anyway, It's very late right now I'm going to bed. Don't want to be cranky at work in the morning.
Mabel closed her diary, turned off her lamp and went to bed.
Back at Joshua's room, laughter echoed the room and the sourced the laughter is Joshua himself.
"Heh. You didn't think I was asleep now, did you, Mabel?" Joshua whispered, holding the purple chest containing the three jewelries, before putting it back, where it was via a secret small door, located under his bed that blended well with the wooden floor.
"You gonna have to better than that to outsmart me, Mabel," Joshua said as he drifted off to sleep. "Way better than that."
And that's wrap another chapter! Looks Like Dipper's crush on Wendy hasn't fade in the slightest and as Joshua has unknowingly made a new enemy. Anyway hope you enjoy the chapter and rest assured Gideon will return in the upcoming chapters. And don't worry, Pacifica will appear as well. I just want this story to progress so it will connect upcoming chapters in the future and the last thing I want to do is to rush things and that's including the romance that will happen.
So I hope you all understand and see you in the next chapter! Ciao!