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Chapter 5: The Book of the Dead Pt. 1
Dipper reached for this familiar shape of the item as he is curious as well as anxious to pull out among the broken floor board. He was about the touch the item hidden among the shadows of the floor for when he felt a sharp object make contact on his index finger. He cried in pain as he notices a stream of blood running down from the tip of his finger. Lightly hissing in pain, he put the injured digit in his mouth so to wipe the blood off of his wounded finger and try again to get the item that was still underneath the floor board.
Trying to avoid getting anymore splinters with his empty hand, he felt he was just mere inches away from the item that was hidden in the dark. As he reached in farther, he was able to grab the item with one hand and without encountering the same fate as his poor injured digit. Gripping the item tightly, he finally brought up it out of the floor board and placed it upon his bed on his side of the attic bedroom.
With the item in his hand, Dipper takes a good look at the item and from what he notices, it is a black plastic bag with barbed wire tied around the bag like a garbage present. The barbed wire was all around the bag and looks as if it is trying to keep intruders away from it. Indeed, it also had a red stain on of the wire that must have been the drop of Dipper's blood when he injured his finger.
"Now why would someone leave something like this under the floor board?" Dipper asked himself for he was curious of this object's appearance. "I bet Stan was behind this as he was being cheap to hide every item in the Mystery Shack. Then again, he would sell junk like this to people for money. That is his lot in life after all."
In the kitchen of the Mystery Shack, everybody except Dipper were gathered around the rounded table as they were enjoying a great meal. They were having chicken, large ham, apple slices, hamburgers, scrambled eggs, and salad with drinks of soda, juice, water, and milk shakes. Spoon and forkfuls of food were in their mouths as they felt satisfied from their hunger.
Mabel was giving Waddles certain portions of her food, mostly table scraps, for she wanted to feed her pet that she missed two years straight. In that moment, Grunkle Stan stood up from his chair as he grabbed his soda can with his left hand and picked up his fork with his right hand.
"Alright listen up, I would like to make toast... and not just any toast, but a toast for the people who I worked with two years ago that made me Mr. Mystery of the Mystery Shack." Stan began his toast.
Mabel, Soos, and Wendy begin to laugh as they thought Grunkle Stan was joking.
"Why are you laughing?" Stan asked in confusion. "I'm serious about giving this toast. You guys helped me change and realize there's more to life than just wealth and greed. I could sale all of my junk right now and move to another city hands free."
Stan then began to grow a soft smile across his aging features, only revealing his old yellow teeth. He also began to laugh with the rest of his fellow members at the kitchen table on the sunny afternoon.
Dipper pulled out his pocket knife he got for his 14th birthday and began cutting the barbed wire from around the bag, cutting each side for careful measurements to remove the bag.
BANG!
Continuing to cut, he then heard a large bang, something in the area of an explosion, ring in his ears that made him jump to his feet.
From the kitchen, Mabel, Stan, Soos, and Wendy all heard the sound as well as if it came from the attic where Dipper was. The group stood up from their chairs and headed towards where the noise was heard. To them, the closest source where the bang happened was from the living room. They looked around to see if anything might of fallen from the walls, but nothing in the room looked as if it has fallen or was dropped.
"Where did that noise came from?" Mabel asked in fear with her pet pig in her arms. "Did it come from in here?"
"I don't know Mabel, but that was loud enough to hurt my ears." Soos responded as he was rubbing his ears as they continued looking around the living room.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Then suddenly, the banging sound happen again, scaring the wits out of everyone. Everyone was startled as the noise did come from within the living room. Indeed, the banging noise happened on the floor, underneath the mat in the middle of the room they are located.
"What's under the matter Stan?" Wendy asked the man of mystery curiously. "Is there something down there?"
"I don't remember putting anything under that mat." Grunkle Stan claimed. "I'll never hide anything from you guys."
Mabel began to walk towards the mat as she was fearful on the inside. Everything was silent as the sun of the afternoon was still shinning through the boarded windows. Every beat of Mabel's heart began to race as she was getting close to the point of panicking to death.
Reaching for the mat, Mabel grabbed the mat with her right hand while holding Waddles in her left arm and pulled it away from where it was laid. From this revealing, it shows a square door that was made along with the floor boards with chains besides it. Gasps were heard amongst the group at what they saw.
"What is this Grunkle Stan and why did you hide this from us?" Mabel asked as her innocent mind was confused by the secret of this door on the floor that she nor Dipper have ever seen from their experience at being at the Mystery Shack.
"I... I didn't know that was under the mat." Grunkle Stan quickly spoke up as all eyes were suddenly turned towards him and him only. "Honest, I didn't know I have a-a basement door... or something?"
While all eyes were on Stan, that same banging noise was heard and this time they noticed that the squared door was trying to open itself as if it were a mouth opening and closing. They backed away from the door as the top of the door was hit so hard, it successfully opened itself widely to them. Confusion and fear riddled their faces as they had no idea what was going on.
Dipper kept hearing the banging noises occurring in the living room, but he was too focused on trying to reveal what was in the bag he got from underneath the floor boards to really pay attention. He continued to cut the barbed wire that was surrounding the bag until the barbed wire completely tore away from the bag.
He removed the pieces of the wire gently to avoid cutting himself and finally reached his hands over the black plastic bag that was wrapped around it. He began to remove the bag slowly to be delighted as to what was inside of the bag. When the bag was completely removed, he saw something that chilled him to the bone. In front of him and that was wrapped in the plastic black bag was a book and a large tape recorder, but not the number three book or any number books he seen in the past.
Instead, what he had in his hands was a book with a demonic goat face on the front cover and the pages looked like they had been ripped at the edges and sides of them. The book also looked dusty and ripped. The sunlight that was shining through the attic window was shinning on it as if was a good thing to see, but in Dipper's mind, he knows that this book could be another mystery in the Mystery Shack, or is it?
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