A/N: Hello there, and welcome back to another chapter of "The Evil Falls." I want to tell you guys that the contest between The Samurai Prince and I has been decline due to The Samurai Prince's condition. I want to give him a good luck to get through his condition, get well and thank him for being a friend to me as I'm a friend to him. I would also like to thanks to one of the best author to deta this chapter, Alisi Thorndyke! I also want to thank her for editing this chapter, which means so much to me.
Chapter 6: The Book of the Dead Pt. 2
Dipper was curious while gazing on the mysterious book. He wanted to know what kind of book it was and why it was hiding in the space in the attic. Why was it hiding under the floorboards? When did this book arrive in the Mystery Shack? So many questions and possibilities was going through his head as he gazed at the ancient book. The book was another mystery like all the other strange things going on in Gravity Falls. He was going to reach for it, but someone came in the room and grabbed Dipper by the arm.
"Come bro, we found something really strange in the living room." Soos voiced urgently while dragging Dipper to his feet.
He knew that Soos hasn't seen the book he found as of yet, but instead, he wanted Dipper to see what's in the living room. Dipper gave the mysterious book one last glance before they left the attic in a rush. Soos continued to drag him, which exhausted Dipper for not using his legs to walk the rest of the way until they made it to the living room. He notice everyone in the Mystery Shack was staring at something, so he looked in the direction they were staring to see just what was so important. From there, he found the small square door everyone was afraid of. He looked towards them and back to the small door.
"What's going on?" Dipper asked in confusion towards everyone in the roon. "Anyone know what's happening here?"
"What's happening is that that door that was banging by itself and we were scared to death!" Mabel voiced in a panic. "Then it opened itself for us! I don't want to know what's in there, but there's something scary down there Dip. There's definitely something down there."
"It's true, didn't you heard the banging noises in the shack Dipper?" Wendy questioned in a worrisome tone.
Dipper thought about the banging noises he was hearing when he pried that mysterious book out of the floor boards. Maybe that was the banging he heard, it's just that he thought it came from the room because there was something in the room too. Maybe something is going on in the Mystery Shack. It started ever since that nightmare he had when Mabel and himself was on the bus. Maybe that nightmare had something to do what's going on right now.
"Alright guys, I'll go check it out," Dipper voiced with confidence.
"Me and Soos will go down with you Dipper," Grunkle Stan voiced with a smile that Dipper has never seen on his face before that moment. "Let's get flashlights to see what's in there."
Dipper looked at the small door and could swear he heard some whispering behind it. He couldn't understand what to make of it as the whispers were too quiet to be heard from his or anyone else's ears. He turned around to see Grunkle Stan and Soos holding on flashlights and they both smiled at each other before giving Dipper a flashlight. He flipped on the switch of the flashlight and started walking towards the door with his uncle and his great friend behind him. The three descended down the stairs through the door so to check out what was going on underneath the surface. Mabel and Wendy looked down at the small door to see the three entering the darkness with caution.
Dipper finally stepped to ground and scanned everywhere in his surrounding area, seeing that it looked like an abandoned basement. There were cabinets wide open with jars shattered on the dusty shelves and on the dusty floor boards and tree/grass roots were covering most of the walls and the floor. It was mostly cold as it felt like 60 degrees with a bit of humidity thanks to the everyday summer heat. He never remembered seeing the basement in the Mystery Shack, unless you count the bunker, but there was actually no sign of a basement there so there was no way the two could be connected.
Grunkle Stan and Soos looked stunned to see the basement they knew was there. It was the first time any of them had seen a basement in their Mystery Shack. The three males used their flashlights to get a good look at their surroundings. There was nothing around that would cause the door to be banging for as much as it did. Dipper turned to his right to notice a red door exposed to his view. The door stood out like a sore thumb, which gave Dipper the inkling that this could lead to another mystery.
"Hey you guys, you might want to see this," Dipper informed Stan and Soos, his tone a bit nervous.
They looked to the direction where Dipper was staring and aimed their flashlights in that same direction. The bright light revealed a wooden door with a solid wooden cheery wood finish. What hides behind the door they all thought? Where does the door lead to? The same questions ran through their minds as they kept their attention on the door. They began to walk towards the door with the flashlights still aiming at the door. In the complete silence, they heard the floor creaking with each step they took. The door was now just mere inches away as Dipper reached for the rusty doorknob. He breathed heavily as the door was moving as it creaked before them. Grunkle Stan gulped to see what he didn't want to see. He admitted to himself that he was afraid of what was in the room.
It didn't take that long before they all entered the secret room from the opened door and with their flashlights, they also could finally see what was in the room in a perfect view. The room smelled awful as there were cats with black fur hung from barbed wires as their blood was leaked onto their fur and onto the floor. The three males covered their nose with the collar of their shirts. They could tell the cats have been rotting for weeks and it was undeniable that that was the most disgusting scene they have ever viewed. They walked through the string of hung cats to further investigate the room, particularly, what was causing the banging noise. Dipper looked further and something interesting caught his attention. He continued to walk in the direction he wanted to go, yet he turned around only to find that he was in the room by himself. That's funny as Soos and Stan where there mere moments ago.
"Grunkle Stan? Soos?" Dipper called out to them.
It was silence at first before he began to hear the same whispering he heard before he came in the basement like room. He turned around with the flashlight, shining the light everywhere it could reach, but he found no one in the room with him. He then began to hear a high pitch m*** sound, so he looked to see the cats meowing while blood was still leaking from their necks. He back away from every cat that was close to him. When continuing moving back, he was stopped by a large familiar body on his back.
"Whoa Dipper, are you alright? It looks like you've seen a ghost dude." Soos voiced to the scared Pines.
"You alright kid?" Stan asked with worry as walked towards him with worry on his face.
Dipper calmed down from what he had seen, but nodded in confirmation that he's alright to his dear grunkle while knowing there was something definitely wrong in the Mystery Shack. He looked back to where he wanted to go with Soos and Stan following behind him. He stopped to where he saw a wooden table with small tapes of records, an ax, and a piece of paper.
"Why is this stuff here?" Dipper asked.
"I didn't know dude, but this is just crazy being here," Soos said as he scanned the entire room with the flashlight. "Seeing those dead cats just made me sick."
"Grunkle Stan, do you know what all this stuff came from?" Dipper asked as he kept his attention on the table.
Grunkle Stan didn't respond to Dipper's question, yet he walked to the wooden table to grab the piece of paper and crumbled it up into a ball before throwing it far into the darkness of the room. He looked back at Dipper with the same smile he had when they were in the living room. This made Dipper aware of his great uncle acting strange, like he didn't want his nephew to discover something dark possibly from his past.
"I have no idea where this stuff came from," Stan finally spoke before leaving the room.
Dipper looked back at Soos, who was looking through the small tapes. He picked up one after another, scanning each one carefully.
"These tapes are from few months ago." Soos observed while looking back at Dipper. "I don't know if Stan knew all this."
"Soos, do you think Grunkle Stan knew all of this at all? Did you ever notice something strange or him acting differently?" Dipper continued asking his questions to Soos.
"I gotta be honest dude, not once." Soos answered. "Stan has never acted differently when I visit him every day. He could know about all of this, or else he could be a suspect of a crazy fiasco. I believe he's the same Grunkle Stan we love. It just he has been left alone for quite sometimes if you know what I mean."
Soos walked away from Dipper to the exit of the room. Dipper looked to the wooden table to see the tapes himself. He wondered if they're from the recorder he found with the book before gathering all the tapes and putting them in his pockets. He then walked away from the table and exited the room, back up to the living room where everyone else stood. He looked through the opened door to see Soos talking with Wendy and Mabel while Grunkle Stan was with them. Dipper climbed the steps from the door's passageway to quickly head back to the attic.
Dipper entered his room to place all the small tapes on his bed as he walked back to close the door. He then walked to the bed again and started scanning through each tape. Each of them had a number and a date as to when the tape was recorded. He put them in logical order to discover something amazing. Each of the 12 tapes were recorded twelve weeks in a row, the latest date was last week. Dipper then grabbed the first tape, which was #1 recorded on 8/29/13. He then placed the tape inside the recorder beside the book and began to listen to the tape.
"I have found something in the Mystery Shack I haven't notice before. I found the basement of this place. I actually never knew there was a basement, but this ain't no ordinary basement. It contains thousand of latin writings I can't understand, but it appears many sacrifices has been made from pet cats. I don't know if this was a religious thing, but I do feel there is an evil presence surrounding me here. I have to be careful around here and watch my back as this could be no ordinary evil of this town, but what could be considered ordinary in Gravity Falls?"
"I also found a book. This book is not the same books I know like all the number journals. It appears to coincide with this religious ceremony, but there is something about that makes my skin crawl. I discovered it contained descriptions and writing of Latin cultures, but it's unclear whether or not it's useful. I must read through the book."
The tape stopped, which Dipper replaced it with the next tape. He could hear that was Grunkle Stan talking in the tape, surprising Dipper of what he have done when he and Mabel wasn't with him when summer almost ended. He then decided to continue hearing the recordings.
"The book I mentioned earlier is not for good purposes, but it's for demonic activities. I have read the book carefully to know that this book is pure evil with descriptions and illustrations of demonic possessions of a soul. The book has been used many times, but it appears that recently, the book has been untouched for many years... until now."
"The Naturon Demonto, Necronomicon, or Book of the Dead as you could simply call it, has unleashed the evil presence here with me now. I hear thousands of voices around me, sometimes making me lose my mind, but I try with everything in me to ignore it. The evil spirits and demons tried to kill me, but I stopped them by not letting them get the best of me. I just locked myself in the basement, which strangely they can't harm me here. The evil that was unleashed was from saying these exact words: Gat… Nos-feratos… Kanda… Amantos… Kanda. These are the words that kept this evil with me. Gat… Nos-feratos… Kanda… Amantos… Kanda, Gat… Nos-feratos… Kanda… Amantos… Kanda…."
Dipper stopped the tape before the recorder could continue the incantation. A cool breeze rushing past him grabbed the boy's attention to the bedroom window to notice that night had fallen. He looked to the window to see it was dusk and the leaves were blowing through the sky.
"Goodness, its night time already." Dipper voiced. "I didn't notice time went by that fast. I just hope Grunkle Stan is alright and I know why now everything I faced is happening; it's all thanks to these tapes and the book I found. Poor Stan, I didn't know you were that lonely."
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