Hey y'alls! So I actually had time to write this chapter this week even with all the fucking crap that is going on. Yeah! Sorry that this chapter is the shortest so far.
Mabel's POV
So Grunkle Stan hadn't caught onto the previous nights events. That was good at least. But he had noticed Dipper's slow pace throughout the day and Dipper's reward… having to clean up the shop after closing. Mabel had offered to do the work for him but Stan would not hear of it. He had insisted that if you slacked off on the job it meant you had to do more work in the future. But he had praised Mabel for offering to do so much work that day with the laundry and all. Once Stan had left Mabel told Dipper she would do it for him if he was too weak but he stood firm, wore a soft smile, and insisted that he felt much better. She didn't believe a word of it but she thought it pesky to argue with her brother at this point in time and so instead went into the family room, grabbed her basket of supplies from inside the Dinosaur head, turned on the TV to watch some cartoons, and started making a new sweater. There was nothing on her usual channels of Japanese game shows, compilations of funny family videos, or animal planet. She decided to change it to one of Dipper's favorite stations since she wasn't paying much attention anyway and Dipper would be joining her in the room shortly after closing up shop. She was flipping through the stations and just about to land on channel 43 where Duck-tective would start up any minute when she stopped right before it, hypnotized by the song and theme of a show she had never heard of on channel 42. She thought she might as well check it out since it sounded interesting, and Mabel didn't tell a lot of people this, but she did really like pirate shows.
Dipper's POV
Dipper had gotten Mabel off of his back somewhere in the middle of the day. Dang she was protective. But near the end right before they were about to close up and Stan said it was Dipper's turn and he couldn't get out of it Mabel had gotten in the way. He had tried to reassure her that he felt fine and he could handle the nightly tasks of closing up shop but it didn't seem to him that she was actually taking in any of his words. "haaaaaa" he let out a small breath verbally. He was done with closing up and made his way to the living room where he knew Mabel would be watching something stupid on TV. Interestingly enough what he found her watching on TV almost made him wonder if she had hit her head. "Uhh… Mabel, what are you doing?" Dipper called to his sister who seemed to be hypnotized by the crackling static. "Oh Dipper you have to see this show I found." Mabel stated not taking her eyes of the screen. She was acting very monotone and unMabel-like. She was sitting so close that it almost seemed that if she leaned anymore forward she would fall straight into the glass. "Ok?!" Dipper answered with the infliction of a question more than an answer. "It's about this girl and these pirates, and there is an evil guy named the Skintaker and sometimes it's weird but I don't know I just can't turn it off." Mabel slowly replied. Skintaker? It sounded familiar to Dipper for some reason but he couldn't remember anything about hearing the name before. "Mabel? What even is this?" Dipper asks motioning toward the TV but Mabel isn't looking at him. "Candle Cove," is all she replies elongating all of the syllables. She looked like she had eaten one too many Smile Dips again. Her eyes were wide and she was sitting on the balls of her feet. Dipper was more than a bit disturbed and worried. He decided the best course of action would be for him to somehow pry the remote out of Mabel's shaking hands. Dipper carefully walked behind his twin to the other side to grab the remote. In one swift motion he had the disheveled and broken controller in hand and switched the channel to 41 the news. Immediately Mabel was brought out of her trance and looked up at her brother. Dipper quickly realized her glare held a certain deathliness to it. She lunged at him and they both fell onto the ground. "Put it back on." She screeched. They wrestled on the ground, Mabel almost reaching the remote in Dipper's hands but Dipper ever holding it farther and farther away, until their grunkle came into the fight to break up the twin's struggle. "Come on kids calm down" Stan yelled at us over our argument but Mabel and I still wouldn't calm. "I said 'CALM DOWN!'" Stan shouted. Then suddenly he took the remote from my hands and turned up the volume on the news. At this unexpected action both Mabel and I looked up from our fighting and back up at the Television screen. "-body was found this morning by her coworker Erick Corduroy aged 19 when he came into work this morning. It seems to be a robbery homicide but no money or valuables were stolen. Strangely enough the only items that seemed to have been stolen are the six cheesecakes that were sitting out in a display case. Miss Wentworth known to many by the name Lazy Susan was found bludgeoned to death by a pipe and further evidence shows that there were two assailants. This is one of three suspicious incidents that happened in the past 24 hours. One victim was abducted late last night and had his kidneys surgically removed before he was returned back to his house. Said victim had to drive two hours to the nearest hospital, arrived late afternoon, and has been in intensive care ever since. The prognosis is slim with no chance of recovery without a transplant. The third happening occurred last night when 'a large naked Dog-man' was sited at the Gravity Falls cemetery and attacked a local teenage goth girl. Luckily the beast fell into an open grave in the middle of the struggle and the girl was found alive and rushed to the hospital. When investigators went back to the scene with animal control they could no longer find the ferocious man animal. If anything is known about any of the aforementioned incidents police are imploring the public to contact their criminal hotline." Once the transmission had ended everyone finally realized that no one had moved or made a sound during the broadcast. This was something serious. Gravity Falls had fallen into hell in the span of one night.
Anyway... I have no clue what's happening next chapter. Anyone know who the creepypastas are in this chapter?*hinting eyebrow raise* If you do review! So I will see y'alls when I do! P.S. Happy Mother's day, tomorrow!
