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Chapter Three
Anomalies

"That was stupid."

"I know."

"You could have died!"

"Already half way there."

"Danny!" Jazz grabbed her brother's arm, "This isn't a joke! Why is Skulker after you again?"

"I think the better question is why there's a ghost portal under the Mystery Shack." Danny responded, ignoring Jazz's question. Partly just to irritate her, but mostly because he didn't know either.

However, Jazz considered the question, "If Wendy has a job there, she must know something about it, right?"

"Not necessarily. Vlad was under everyone's nose the whole time."

Jazz huffed, "You, Danny Fenton, are impossible."

"I'm aware." They'd been in Gravity Falls for a few days, but Danny had only just told Jazz that the ghost had been Skulker. He'd been trying to figure out what the flaming ghost was up to, along with that Portal.

"Look," Jazz huffed, "all I'm saying is that Wendy might be able to-"

"I might be able to what?" Came their cousin's voice. She was leaning in the doorway to the guest room Danny and Jazz currently shared, grinning at them, "I hope it's illegal, because I'm all about that kind of stuff."

"Would you be above breaking and entering into the Mystery Shack?"

Wendy snorted, "Why would you need to break in? Stan's got nothing against me."

"Because there's something dangerous in there." Danny snapped.

"I know. They've got a portal in the basement Ford built like 30 years ago. Stan fixed it up last summer, but they took it apart after Weirdmageddon."

Danny and Jazz looked at each other. Which one of them had false information?

"I think they fixed I up though." Wendy continued, "Why, you think it's dangerous?"

"We know it is." Jazz said, "We have a source telling us that that portal is a Ghost Portal."

Wendy snickered, "Yeah, and who is that source?"

"..."

"Well," Wendy flopped down on the bed, "I could always ask Dipper and Mabel to show me the lab, and you guys could just show up, and say that you have nothing else to do."

Danny and Jazz grinned.

"I like the way you think."

…

"Dipper! Go over the security tapes and remove anything incriminating for me, will ya?"

"Grunkle Stan, isn't that- oh, I don't know- a little bit illegal?"

Stan laughed, "It ain't illegal if there's no proof, kiddo."

Dipper sighed, not bothering to complain. He could hear Ford starting to argue with Stan about it, but Dipper wasn't in the mood to be pulled into it.

Mabel had been so excited at seeing Danny Phantom a few days ago, she talked about it non-stop. Dipper knew of her strange celebrity crush on a dead ghost kid, but he had never thought that she'd actually get to see him.

She'd babbled to him about her plan to win his "no longer beating heart" and Dipper had learned long ago never to try and stop Mabel from talking- just pretend you're not listening and fall asleep.

Dipper slipped into Stan's office, and pushed in a security tape. It was from the night before- the camera around back.

Dipper fast-forwarded it through the night, pausing when a figure came into view.

It was... Danny? Wendy's cousin?

What the hell had he been doing here at 2 in the morning?

He watched Danny kick a stone in frustration.

"Damn portal!" He complained, "Ugh, why does my life have to be so frustrating!" Dipper watched him look around in anger, then gasped as he paused the tape.

…. Danny's eyes...

"GREAT UNCLE FORD!" Dipper shouted, "COME HERE FOR A MINUTE!"

Ford came quickly, "What did Stanle-"

"It's not about Stan." Dipper cut him off, "It's about Wendy's cousin. We met him a few days ago. Just watch this."

Dipper played the 30 seconds of film again, and watched Ford's face. He looked intrigued and asked Dipper to continue playing the tape.

"You're getting yourself worked up." Tape-Danny said, "You just gotta calm down."

He stood there for a minute, before grumbling, "Ugh, this isn't helping. I guess I'll just go sleep."

They watched as Danny faded from view, no sound from his footsteps or anything else for the rest of the tape, which cut off about 2 minutes later.

Ford hummed, and thought for a moment before saying, "It's very possible that Wendy's cousin is either a ghost, or, more likely, possessed."

Dipper shuddered at the memory of being possessed, "But by whom... Or what?"

"That's a very good question, there, Dipper." Ford turned to look at him, "You told me last summer that you encountered ghosts in Gravity Falls, correct?"

"Um, yeah." Dipper started to explain, "There were those ones in the convenience store, and the ghost at the Northwest Manor..."

"Hmm... You followed my notes in Journal 3, right?"

"Well, yeah..."

"Did you ever read the section on possession? By creatures of this dimension, more or less?"

"Imma be honest, Great Uncle Ford, I haven't read your Journals in a really long time. I mean- yeah, I probably read it at some point, but I only read Journal 3 back to front and-"

"It's alright, Dipper. Then I'll explain. Unlike creatures like Bill, ghosts are spirits of the deceased and can inhabit a living host without the need to rip the host's soul from their body. Ghosts don't need a host to appear on the physical plane, but it helps. The Ghost Zone, as I told you about earlier, is a world parallel to ours, and therefor, ghosts are creatures of our dimension. Got it?"

"Umm..." Dipper frowned, "Yeah, mostly."

"If Wendy's cousin is in fact possessed, then as I'm sure you know, we'd need to preform an exorcism."

"And if we're wrong?"

"Then it will have no effect on him. But exorcisms on a possession victim are painful, so... If we're right, he'll be in a lot of pain."

Dipper didn't waver, "If it's what we have to do, then so be it."

…

Hello yes this is 1-800-MISLEADING-INFORMATION Dipper Pines speaking

OKAY SO THAT TOOK LONGER THAN EXPECTED AND IT'S SUPER SHORT

BUT I'M SORRY I HAD EXAMS

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