Dipper was face down on the ground as he bled out, a hole in his chest as he began to lose consciousness. "Hello, my name is Mason (Dipper) Pines, and I was just murdered by some pansy ass coward that attacked me while my back was turned. Yeah, I did manage to get a glimpse of him, mostly because I heard his wings flapping. His first spear missed, I punched him in the face and knocked a tooth out… Thinking back, he might have just been making an attempt to scare and mock me, because he was rather quiet up until his single flap that revealed his position, but what would you do if you turned around and found some creep standing there with a spear? Did he expect me to say hi and give him flowers? Dumbass…
Well, this story shouldn't start with the MC dying like this. Yes, I am the main character, not the sidekick, who said I was the sidekick? Have people really been saying that? Anyway, you might be wondering about why I am in the middle of a park in Kuoh, Japan bleeding to death. Well, it all started during the summer I and my sister turned sixteen…"
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Earlier in the year during the summer, in Piedmont, California=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Dipper and Mabel were having a bit of trouble lately.
With their bond as siblings getting stronger during their first Summer in Gravity Falls, there were also some other changes as well. Dipper had grown more mellow about his unique features and has grown more confident after surviving a rampaging demon, Mabel jokes by calling him an evil flying Dorito monster. Dipper has been working out a bit more in his free time, hoping to follow in Ford's footsteps and continue to investigate the many weird anomalies across the world and be able to explain the very concept of the supernatural to the everyday man.
Mabel had decided to try and be like Stanley was to Ford. Her counterpart in their grunkles had continued to go about ways to make money for their expeditions, and somehow, he was able to do it while they were out at sea, or in the suburbs or the countryside, he always found someway to con people out of their hard-earned cash.
Ford has claimed that was his weird feature, his ability to con a squirrel out of its nuts was no less weird than his own six fingers. Or that time he conned a couple of old witches into getting married to each other instead of the two of them, a situation Ford had gotten them into, and he had gotten them out of. They did not want to marry a hundred or so year-old set of witches that were using questionable means to escape death.
But back to the younger twins, Dipper had to get into shape so he could tango with the nastiest of beasts, and Mabel was going to be working on selling her artworks. She has been complimented more than once on her excellent craftmanship with the wax statue, she just had to curb her enthusiasm, and be honest with what she makes things out of. Which consists of none of her bodily fluids at all.
They wound up returning to Gravity Falls just two other times since the first visit, and nothing really happened either time. Things having calmed down, people were working with the weirdness instead of ignoring it, and everyone was happy to greet them, and Dipper even got his own cap back, declining the swap after the first time. He had also been doing his best to let his birthmark get some air, showing it off proudly rather than hiding it away.
Yes, Dipper has officially gotten over his crush after his second summer and was able to come to terms with the facts. Wendy wasn't interested in him like that, and he was okay with it. So, they kept their original hats afterwards, and everything moved on. Mabel has given up looking for a boy in Gravity falls, after one too many heartbreaks in the town, she had lost hope for love blossoming there.
This summer, as they were turning sixteen, was not a good summer, one where they stayed, because their mother was having a new baby, and everyone had understood about them wanting to be there to help support and raise the new addition. Ford and Stan even showed up to help, excited to meet the new member of the family.
The summer was filled with small hijinks, Stan doing his best to not draw the ire of the officials, so he didn't cause stress to the newborn and his niece. So, Stan wound up helping Mabel with her legit business of selling her art projects, which they were rather successful at.
Ford and Dipper had spent a good deal of time studying and going over each other's notes, Dipper having his own journals now, the blue covers decorated with silver pine trees. They were mostly filled with theories and formulas, and maybe his thoughts on one thing or another.
Mabel had been her usual friendly self, getting Dipper and herself invited to a couple parties, where the issues actually got started. They were reaching the age where meeting older kids that found it cool to do adult things, before they were legally allowed, and they were beginning to be pressured to join in their fun.
Every time Dipper and Mabel talked with their family about the issues, the adults would express how proud of them they were for resisting the temptations. Mabel was still trying to find her people here, still trying to meet friends and find the love of her life, so when she gets an invite, she pulls Dipper along to the party, and she sticks close to him, neither accepting drinks. And it was at one of these parties that things went horrible. Mabel had gotten drugged, and Dipper had to save her.
Dipper had seen how Mabel was excitedly chatting, and wound up forgetting about not drinking things, and ended up dropping unconscious after a single drink, being caught by the guy that gave it to her and his two friends.
That night, Dipper had hospitalized three guys as he reached them, having reached them as they were walking upstairs, people too drunk or stupid to realize what the guys were doing. The guy holding his sister was groping her one moment, flying down the stairs the next.
The first guy was hospitalized with a broken arm, half his ribs broken, and a concussion. The second guy had a broken nose, a concussion, a broken kneecap, and a broken foot. The last guy came back up the stairs with a wooden bat, until Dipper took it and smashed it over the boy's back, breaking both, and proceeded to get his sister away from them.
Dipper had bloodied and broken the three boys, walking away with a split lip, a couple bruises, and a torn shirt. Dipper called the police and was the only person there conscious when they got there, the person throwing the party having been too drunk to remember they lived there. Mabel had been having nightmares about it since, and even being extra clingy to her brother.
Seeing as the police found more of the drug on one of the boys, and Mabel still had some running through her system, his story of defending her against three boys trying to rape her, was easily proven. His fingerprints being nowhere on the drugs used helped, while Mabel's story and the size of the handprint bruises, her shirt for fingerprints, and even the nanny cam that was in the living room that recorded everything when the home owners came home and found out. Open shut case.
That didn't stop the trauma it caused Mabel though, three boys she had thought of as friends had drugged her and left bruises on her chest, and she had not gone to a party since. Their parents and grunkles were each talking about what they should do, when Stan wasn't shouting about Dipper kicking ass, something all three of the men had made sure Dipper knew how proud he had made them.
Ford had been explaining how he and Stan had come across another area with similar readings to Gravity Falls and were planning to move there and stay for a good amount of time in order to study and archive the readings. The grunkles both made the suggestion that the kids spend a bit of time there with them in order to get them away from all this. Ford even went and did some research into the schools in the area and found a nice one with top-of-the-line education, and after a mock exam, both the kids were able to pass it easily. The school also had the added benefit of having just turned co-ed, so fewer males would be attending, which actually made Mabel happy.
She didn't swap what team she batted for, but having less boys around sounded rather nice right now if you asked her. Dipper had already been learning Japanese and was able to help Mabel learn enough to get to a passable level, but she had a clear accent, that Dipper was actually able to curb from his own.
Stan chuckled when he heard Dipper speak Japanese, before responding in Japanese himself. "Boy sneezes like a kitten but can speak fluent Japanese in a serious voice that can make any young lady weak in the knees."
Dipper blushed as Stan said that, giving the man a small glare, before smiling when he heard Mabel giggle over it. Mabel wasn't able to speak fluently, and her speech did break at a couple points, but as their parents heard her giggle, they chose to let the kids go with heir grunkles. It was the first time she had laughed in the week since the incident, and it still sounded scared and sad. Maybe letting them spend some time away from the kids here in Piedmont's school, which was apparently filled with so many terrible children their kids couldn't even make friends.
It was a tear-filled goodbye, Soos even brought Wendy and Melody down to see them off, having gotten the story over a phone call. So, after everyone got in their hugs and said their goodbyes with the promises of pictures from all three groups, the two sets of twins were off to Kuoh, Japan.
And so, after a nice calming ride in a plane, our four Pines found themselves in a whole new world. Mabel had already felt lighter and started to smile more, though not anywhere close to how much she used to. Dipper and Ford, in an attempt to cheer the girl up, decided to make a type of sugar that was far healthier than regular sugar, so healthy it allowed Mabel to have more sweets in her diet, which helped.
Mabel was all tears and hugs when she found Dipper and Ford making a whole new type of sugar to help her cheer up, and she started to learn to bake, so she could make things with it. Dipper hadn't been drawn to baking but found himself learning the ins and outs of candy making.
Mabel had been so happy when Dipper asked her to try the rock candy he learned to make, and enjoyed how it gave her a good and tasty snack to crunch on after her baked goods melted in her mouth. She even snagged some of his rock candy to add to her cookies every now and then. and finally, after having a couple days to relax, they had to get ready for their first day of school.
The moment Mabel and Dipper walked through the gates, they felt like they stood out like sore thumbs, almost everyone realized they were foreign, several people were even whispering about it, nothing was said that implied they would have a hard time, though they did hear a couple girls comment on how cute Dipper was, talking about how handsome he was, how exotic his birthmark was, and with as tight as his uniform was, they were also commenting about his strong arms.
Mabel also drew attention, her figure, her hair, and even her eyes and lips. She was the first person to wave and greet people, though looking nervous, everyone still returned the greeting and smile. Even though they were somewhat few, the boys also waved and greeted her respectably, none of them leering.
Until everything went downhill, after everyone, including the boys, were so nice and respectful as they returned her greeting, she was feeling better than she had in a while, until she greeted three boys that were staring at her differently. Mabel gave the boys the benefit of the doubt, even as one mumbled three numbers off, all three were staring at her chest, their eyes roaming her form periodically, as the three started to ramble about how her accent sounded, about how firm her breasts were, how sexy her ass was.
Dipper pulled Mabel behind him as he glared at the three, causing them to glare back, insulting him for standing in their way of appreciating her, and though complimenting her, they were not endearing her to them. Dipper was really angry that neither of them had any of their weaponry on them, because these boys were starting to get on both their nerves.
Before either of them could actually do or say anything, the three boys were chased away by several other girls, all yelling at them for scaring the new foreign girl. Several of the girls even threw a couple rocks at them.
Sona Shitori (Sitri) came from the building and walked over to them and went about greeting them, explaining that she chose to come greet them, seeing as she wanted them to have a good first impression of the school. She said that she wanted to explain things because she knew they were foreign and wanted to offer her assistance to them as they adjusted to the differences within the culture.
Dipper and Mabel introduced themselves, Dipper using his real name Mason, explaining that he also answered to Dipper and explained the nickname. Sona smiled as she took notice of the boy's slicked back hair. Mason having decided to do so to test the waters, for lack of a better term, and everyone so far had found it entrancing, or enchanting, depending on who you asked.
Sona, while indeed coming out to help them with adjusting to the difference in culture, also had another mission. She had seen the entrance exams for both of them, and while the girl had done good enough, it wasn't much to write home about, Mason, or Dipper as his friends called him, on the other hand.
Dipper had a perfect score. A score only comparable to her own, and even then, Sona would admit that his answers were smoother, quicker, and after seeing the time it took him to complete the exam, she was forced to admit that it implied he was smarter than her. Yup, Sona was out here personally, when she could have had her vice president out here doing this, because this boy had caught her attention. She wanted to assess him herself and evaluate the two of them.
And with that, Sona gave the two a short, but detailed, tour, ending with their classroom. Mabel looked to have recovered from the scare the perverted trio gave her, seeing as she was back to being happy as she said goodbye, and made the mistake of calling her nee-san. Dipper had explained to Mabel in English her mistake, and She proceeded to apologize and reword her farewell to sempai.
Sona couldn't really help but to smile as she turned to return to her usual schedule, a simple farewell as she left them to their classmates. Sona also left them an open invitation to come to her if they needed anything, obviously hoping to interact with Mason more to assess his worth and if she should reincarnate him. Mabel wouldn't hurt to assess either, if her brother was worth the work, she might be as well.
As the two enter their classroom, they were met with their classmates, and noticed they only had three or four males in the classroom. Obviously, it was more common for the second and third years to have boys that would work hard enough to enter so they could be around so many girls. The younger guys had a harder time entering apparently.
Though what neither really knew, was that a certain magical girl and a dimwitted gold hearted idiot were responsible for this, seeing as they didn't want too many perverted boys around their siblings, though there were still some that were just perverted enough to get past their exams, and jump any hurdle they threw in their way.
Sirzechs would only truly admit to Grayfia, but Issei was one determined pervert when it came to getting into their school. So determined it was equally commendable, as it was worrisome.
Dipper stepped up and spoke in clear and strong Japanese, making several there begin to think he wasn't as foreign as they thought. Then he introduced his twin, who was all too happy to excitably talk about herself for a full minute without breaths, getting several people to chuckle over the girl's enthusiasm, finding it adorable how she spoke over her brother correcting her.
Every time she said the wrong thing, Dipper would speak up and correct her use of words or phrases, and she just continued talking, only speaking lower so he could be heard as he corrected her. In the end, she was all smiles as he chuckled over it all.
One of their classmates watched them, a little envious of their sibling bond, remembering a time when she had something similar to it, a single unseen tear was shed as she watched them take their seats.
As lunch rolled around, Mabel and Dipper were still the center of attention as almost the entire class were at their desks and asking questions, eating their lunches with them, until Mabel pulled out a second larger box, which somehow fit into her bag, one of the girls even being curious enough to poke the bag and reach in to see how deep it actually was, only for Mabel to pull her back out after she almost fell in.
Dipper had to explain that it required a lot of work on temporal distortion, particle displacement and several other advanced concepts. He had gone into a bit of detail that caused several people to just go braindead for a couple seconds, before he sighed and said he and his grunkle Ford made a device that looked like a bag that held a portable portal that stretched with the mouth of the bag, but it allowed them to put things in a box and pull them out when needed. The box was just simply in their room, and the portal opened from the underside of the lid, so they could store and retrieve from either the bag, or just going to and opening the box itself.
Mabel had made a good number of cookies to share with people today in hopes of making a good impression and making some friends. These ones had both white and milk chocolate chips, with what looked to be shards or gems in them. So Dipper had to show them his own candy bag, this one looking like one of those rupee bags from a popular game. Reaching in to show he had actual rupees, or what looked to be rupees, seeing as he took a bite out of one, showing it was just rock candy.
Dipper had almost put his own bag away, until he was stopped by a white haired, petite girl with a black cat clip in her hair, placing her hand on his forearm and giving him an adorable look as she batted her eyes at him. Dipper just rolled his eyes as he gave her a couple pieces, Koneko introduced her self as she sat next to him, enjoying the candy and sweets they were sharing. And each time Dipper was asked about his rock candy, Koneko was right there to ask for more pieces.
The half of the class, which included the other guys, came back and wound up getting a cookie themselves, Mabel even getting comfortable enough to offer each boy a cookie herself, showing that she was getting better from after the incident.
And their days went like that more often than not. The twins came into the grounds together, Dipper doing his best to verify what Mabel was meaning, seeing as she kept getting the words wrong, or using the wrong suffix, calling a couple girls kun, or boys chan, which did get chuckles or giggles. No one had taken her mistakes too badly, since Dipper was always there to help her realize her mistake before she would apologize and correct herself.
The only real issue they have run into throughout the days, were those three jerks from the first day. They had been caught peeping on the girls while Mabel was in the changing rooms, and it did not have a good effect on her psyche, causing her to refuse to use the changing rooms since.
Sona had to confront the girl, and she did her best to reassure her, having looked into the history of the twins, she knew what had gone down for the girl to be so nervous about the boys.
Dipper, in order to keep his sister from getting into trouble, decided to go full 007, and snuck in, avoiding what cameras were there, swapped out the windows for new ones made by him and his grunkle, while also replastering the walls with a plaster made by them that stopped holes from forming permanently, while suiting up the ceiling and vents, with tiles that were impenetrable, and grates that prevented vision from within.
If those boys tried anything with any of the locker rooms, they were going to just waste their time. Mabel had convinced them to not trap them with electricity, fire, ice, thorns, or poison, venom counted as poisons according to Mabel…
She didn't actually hate guys, and the trio were still keeping their distance and not trying anything, so she didn't actually want them dead or hurt, they just made her uncomfortable after the event back home. She grew nervous and scared when guys showed too much interest, or tried to make physical contact. These three were obnoxious and loud, and she hated that they insulted him, and she really didn't like the things they said they wanted to do with any girl, including her, but they were at least respectable with keeping their distance from them.
Them spying on her just hit too many sore spots in her head, and she just couldn't get over it.
Sona had been charged with discovering who messed with the locker rooms, no one noticing the changes to the vent covers. And she didn't have to think too hard about the culprit, seeing as Mabel was feeling more confident in using them. Dipper had broken into the school in the dead of night, fixed up all the locker rooms, and all for his sister's comfort.
Every girl benefitting from it was a major bonus for the boy, and made him further popular among them. That day had been the first day that Koneko had sat on his lap to take his candy from him, smiling and telling him she knew what he did when asked why she did so.
Koneko had enjoyed the fact that Dipper messed with the perverted trio's peeping spots, finding it funny to hear the three boys cry out in misery as they only saw their reflection in the windows they normally used to watch girls change. So, Dipper wound up having his picture taken by Mabel as he sat there, his rupee pouch in her hands as he pats her on the head, somewhat pouting at her.
That was also the day people found out he sneezed like a kitten, when Koneko's hair tickled his nose.
The rest of the school had managed to get together to give the two a moniker, and they were so proud of it too, claiming it was actually a good one, instead of their simple ones they gave their great ladies, prince, or mascot. They started to refer to them as the Twin Stars, Alcor and Mizar, Dipper and Mabel respectively, after the twin stars in the constellation on Dipper's forehead.
Dipper tried to get them to stop the silly moniker, telling them about how it implies Mabel, or Mizar as they say, overshadowed him, while his own, Alcor, was the forgotten, or hidden one. After everyone learned this, they all took it as Mabel protecting Dipper, making sure he was pulled into the light seeing as she always pulled him along and made sure he was included in things. After that failed, he resorted to mentioning the implications from Indian astronomy, about how Alcor was the wife of Mizar.
That made things worse for him.
People started to ship them, Mabel having so much fun with the rumors as everyone made it sound so romantic, going on about a forbidden love and how they had to fight everyone so they could be together. It also didn't help when some girls talked about if they could woo one, they would be invited into the taboo relationship.
This, the girls talking about sleeping with both Dipper and his sister, along with the interest of Sona, the student president, as well as Koneko, the school mascot, all being paired up with Dipper by the other students, caused Dipper's reputation among his fellow males to plummet somewhat.
Especially after the perverted trio figured out it was him that ruined their peeping spots. They confronted him, calling him cruel names, insinuating all the things they assumed he was doing with Mabel, Sona, and Koneko, throwing in whatever random girls were there at the time, saying he was stealing their dreams of having a harem.
So, tired of all their bullshit, Dipper called them out on their own manliness. It did catch everyone there off guard, not expecting the boy to have gone so far as to return fire with the insults, let alone challenge them to something like this.
Mabel had defended her brother when he got fed up. "Hey, challenges happen all the time in Gravity Falls, and usually the person being fought over gives a reward to the winner. I even promised my cups to someone manlier than my brother."
That one sentence caused all three boys to be fired up, shouting about how they accepted any challenge the boy had in store. Too bad the challenge was issued in the morning, so Sona had to come out and put a stop to it.
The perverted trio were all crying out at the lost chance to win Mabel's cups, each of them mumbling about how her cups would feel, how soft or firm. Mabel was trying to hide her giggles over what they were talking about, seeing as she knew something they didn't.
Sona was caught off guard herself however, when Dipper challenged her, a challenge for the freedom to do the manly trials. So, Sona chose to deal with things his way this once and had Tsubaki retrieve her chess board. Since he was requesting something from her, they would play her game.
That he won.
Sona, her peerage, as well as Rias and her own, were shocked over how fast Sona lost the game. Dipper had been fully focused on the game for seven moves, each one taking slightly longer each time, before the rest of the game he took barely a second to complete his turn. The speed in which he took his turns had caused her a level of nervousness, and how well he predicted how she would move her pieces.
Dipper had read her like a children's book, before turning and declaring the manly trials to begin.
Sona and the rest of the devils all knew about how she used chess to get out of her own engagement, the same way Rias planned to use a rating game to escape hers. Sona had declared she would never date anyone unable to beat her in chess, and her parents took that literal. Sona had chosen chess as her trial for her hand, because she valued the intellect of her equivalent other, and would never date a man too dumb to match her in wits.
She never thought she would lose to someone younger than her, let alone a human.
But, a deal is a deal, so Dipper was allowed to set up the manly trials, starting with the pain hole. Sona had to go give the administrator, Lord Gremory, a call to explain and get approval to cancel the school day. She got permission, but now, the higher ups that were close to Zeoticus were watching the event for a small amount of entertainment.
Which means that her parents would soon find out she lost in a game of chess, to a human. And would you look at that, on the roof she saw her parents, as well as Rias' parents. Watching, listening, and judging the boy that she was now engaged to.
Dipper finished setting up a metal box, it was on a small table, but it was easily accessed for anyone that wanted to try it out. "Okay, so because the real pain hole is in Gravity Falls, we will have to settle with this, a stand-in of my own make, not nearly as painful as the original, but it will do for this. Just put your hand in, if you man it out long enough, and reach the back, you will be able to press a button that turns it off. Allow me to demonstrate."
Dipper reached in, the box beginning to shake and rattle as he got his hand fully in, the shadows of the box hiding what was happening to him, but the shaking of his arm that didn't align with the movements of the box spoke volumes, even as the box shook worse as Dipper got his entire forearm in and there was a click before the box stopped shaking. Pulling his arm out, revealed all the red marks, along with some bruising here and there, his arm did not look fine. "Next."
Matsuda was the one to step forward, shouting about how manly he was gonna be to earn the right for oppai. Rias and Sona felt truly embarrassed when they heard a facepalm from the group on the roof, especially when they heard Sirzechs' laugh. Matsuda was pulling his arm out after two seconds, screaming about the pain as he rolled around and cried.
Several people were shocked over the level of pain the boy was showing, and actually flinched when Motohama joined him, lasting just a second longer. Issei stood tall, sweating a bit as he pulled his hand back, taking courage from his friends' shouts, he also shouted "For Oppai!" before punching into the box, his arm plunging far enough that he managed to quickly press the button, the time it took him to do it, allowed him to last seven seconds, the box stopping, the pain causing Issei to just collapse, his arm landing on the rough and sharp objects that he just got done stopping.
Issei and his two friends were each crying about the level of pain they were feeling, everyone, including the hidden guests, consisting of a couple Satans and their parents, were looking at the box and wondering what was in it to make the three boys like this. Koneko stepped over to look inside, curiosity and all that.
The perverted trio all shouted for Koneko to not go near it, each saying her cute little arms couldn't handle it. So, as she glared at them, she stuck her arm in, and pressed the button, gritting her teeth in real pain all the way. Shedding a tear as she pulled her arm out, and similar with Dipper and Issei, who both put their entire arms in, hers was now red and bruised as well, but she still turned and smirked at the three boys that now stared dumbfounded.
The other devils were also surprised, seeing as Koneko was a rook, that box shouldn't have been able to damage her skin, let alone bruise her. Whatever Dipper used inside that box, could bypass a devil's natural defenses, even to the point of ignoring a rook's defense boost.
Dipper laughed as he watched everything happen. "Looks like Koneko here is manlier than you three wimps. On to the next trial!"
Dipper's shout actually got a couple cheers as he moved on, and on, and even as people thought they were finally going to end it there, Dipper made the trio do another trial. Around the seventeenth trial, he admitted that there were actually fifty trials, just to get everyone to stop asking him if this next one was the last. And every time the trio looked ready to throw in the towel, Mabel talked about them holding her cups, or something like putting their mouths on them, and they would jump right up with a shout of "For the Oppai!", ready to suffer further for the entertainment of the crowd watching.
The hidden guests were actually enjoying some popcorn and recording the whole debacle, it was just that entertaining. From watching the boys jump between modified bear traps, drink from a fire hydrant that somehow was in the middle of the courtyard, (Sona has yet to puzzle out its origins), they had to jump across man made trenches, which Dipper just made from some of the gymnastic equipment, and that was just leading to challenge thirty, where they had to get the other students involved so they could weigh down the carts they were pulling.
Koneko, since joining at the beginning, has been able to keep up, avoiding cheating with her demonic traits, but still coming in just behind Dipper himself, all the while, Mabel played a rad montage mix for them. It somehow mad things feel sped up and skipped, while they all realized how much the trio were doing. It confused and astounded them all. The devils were confused more by it, seeing as they could sense no magic actually being used, while Mabel answered the students that asked her how with, "That is the power of a radical montage. No one questions it."
Sona wanted to argue that it didn't work that way, but it was working that way…
As Dipper made to go a third trip around, having stopped at the starting position for a different set of students to swap with the previous group, Mabel was delivering water to the three boys, seeing as Koneko was already in Dipper's cart having completed her lap. As Mabel gave each boy a water, they were reinvigorated and pushed themselves to work harder with their catchphrase, except for Issei.
Mabel had been feeling slightly sorry the three were suffering, and she wanted to make sure they didn't have a stroke of any kind. But as she mentioned the three taking advantage of this little challenge to get their hands on her cups, Issei took it a little different from his friends this time.
As the rest of the students watched as Dipper issued the challenges, completing them himself, before the four followed after him, Koneko completing the challenge with slightly worse time, while the perverts had to take a second or third try. Issei had started to do slightly better after the cart pull, working slightly harder, and something that actually caused a couple people to cheer for him, was he stopped with the trio's usual catchphrase, and just braced himself and took things more seriously.
They finally made it to the final challenge, with the hidden guests having expanded slightly with the other two satans, as well as a couple more friends that were around to hear the invite. They weren't going to interact with anyone, but they fact that all of them were laughing and enjoying the event, while recording, was something. Hell, Azazel had even shown up, cheering the three boys on, having sensed so many devils, he was curious enough to pop on by and ask what the big deal was.
Though nervous at first around him, they all calmed down as the action down below, as well as the fact that they were all hiding and didn't want to draw attention, they got back to enjoying watching the event. Azazel making a comment about how they should set something like this up more often, Sirzechs in full agreement, talking about how they should see who was the manliest among the devils and fallen angels.
Dipper looked among the four taking his trials, "The final trial is among us!" Dipper was hamming it up at this point, causing several people to cheer. "The final trial is a battle with a sworn enemy. My challenge from my twelfth year of life, was to scale the tallest mountain and claim the head of the multi bear. But seeing as there is no way for you three to make it to the nearest mountain, let alone face a normal bear, let alone the multi bear. You shall face me in armed combat."
Dipper tossed the three boys a stave each before turning to Koneko, before speaking normally. "Hey Koneko-chan, you mind waiting for me to flatten these three real quick before you have your turn? You are pretty much the only one I will have to try against."
Koneko smirked, a slight blush on her cheeks as she nodded, happy that he was complimenting her and taking her seriously. Both twins had wormed their way into her heart, and she would always enjoy the sweets they brought, the stories they told, and even how Dipper was willing to explain things, so they were simpler to understand. This day had been absolutely fun for her, everyone cheering her on, and even though only the smaller girls had hopped into the cart when she pulled it, she still had fun doing these challenges. It was fun to push herself like this, getting in some small training, limiting herself to more human feats rather than her feline or devil physique.
It was also funny to see the three boys' reactions as she breezed through these things as they struggled to even get back up after failing.
Dipper removed the top of his uniform, showing off how well fit the boy was under it. He had, over the summers in Gravity Falls, worked up a six-pack, an obvious claw mark across his chest, giving credit to him fighting a bear. Everyone was surprised, while a good number of the girls squealed over the view. "Come, fight, knock me down once and the battle, and manhood, is yours."
Matsuda and Motohama gave their battle cry, once again getting deadpan looks as they once again shouted for boobs, before Dipper stepped forward, before they could begin their swings, and punch them off to the sides. The three realized that Issei hadn't gotten up, Motohama got an idea. "You have fallen into our trap, now you are surrounded."
Dipper rolled his eyes as he kept his attention on Issei, watching as the boy stood up, getting his stave and staring at it with he most serious face he had ever seen on the boy. Motohama and Matsuda once again rushed towards him, shouting their battle cry, this time, throwing the staves as if they were javelins. Dipper and Issei made eye contact, as Dipper stepped back and avoided both staves, as they continued their courses and struck the two boys in their tenders.
As everyone flinched, though there were a couple laughs in the distance, Issei sighed as he looked at his stave and let it fall to the ground. "I give up."
Dipper frowned. "Are you sure, what brought this on all of a sudden? You are so close to being able to call yourself a man, and here you are throwing it away."
Issei sighed as he looked over at Mabel behind Dipper. "I, don't want to take advantage of anyone. Let alone a nice girl like Mabel. She has been supper sweet, even let us have a cookie after all the stuff we have been saying. I know a lot of people don't like me and my friends, especially not my dream. Mabel doesn't want to show her boobs to anyone, and I, none of us should be pressuring her into doing something that makes her uncomfortable. If I want to hold and love Oppai, I shall hold and love Oppai the right way, not in a forced way."
There was only three people, one that was hidden, who were moved to tears by Issei's speech. Everyone else just looked at the boy with deadpan looks. He started out on a high and respectable note, making several believe he was learning something properly from this day. Then he has to go and finish with that…
Idiot/baka.
Sirzechs slapped Azazel upside the head as he looked at the man, "pull yourself together man."
Dipper smiled as he looked at Mabel to see her smiling, before he had to step back when Koneko dropped down in front of him. "Since the perverts are out, it's my turn, sempai."
Dipper got into a bit of a boxing stance, followed by Koneko getting into one as well. Dipper smirked as he noticed a couple flaws in it and took notes to point them out when this was over.
Koneko rushed in, spinning clockwise as she threw out a kick, Dipper bending back to avoid it as he threw out a flat hand strike towards her thigh, causing a pretty rough smack to sound out, causing the perverted trio to shout about how they were jealous for not being able to do something like that. A lot of the people watching were rather angry over the action. Koneko jumped back favoring her right leg as she shook it to get rid of whatever Dipper had done, giving it a good thump herself to get it to stop feeling cramped.
Dipper smirked at the girl, ignoring the crowd as they started to question him. "Sorry, but I have to take you seriously, unlike with the three pervs, you know what you're doing. I use a boxing stance because I know boxing, but my strength is in how well I can read your muscles and locate where to strike to limit you. I have memorized every clump of muscle tissue and know exactly where to strike to cramp up your limbs to basically make them useless in a fight."
Koneko rolled her eyes as everyone continued to glare at Dipper for his perceived assault on her. Some people are just so whiny. "I know, not like you actually copped a feel. You struck quickly and pulled back immediately, not enough time to actually do anything. They are just too stupid to understand how fights work. It would be insulting if you treated me with kid gloves just because I'm a girl."
Koneko, having calmed everyone down after her own words, and giving herself the time she needed to get proper feeling in her leg back, rushed towards him once more, this time throwing her foot out in a straight forward kick. That Dipper managed to use the heel of his right palm to push upwards, as he used his left hand to smack the back of her calf with his knuckles and flip her away, where she landed on her hands, thankful Mabel gave her some biker shorts to keep herself from flashing people with all these flips.
Turning as she slid, feeling numb in her right lower leg, she dropped into a stance on all four. Using her hands like claws to get more traction and give her more speed while her leg was like it was. Koneko kept low as she spun around to throw both her legs at Dipper, too low for him to properly stop with his previous methods, he was forced to jump, before going for a stomp towards her torso.
Koneko finished her spin, spinning into a handstand to avoid his own stomp before she managed to send a double kick into his own chest, and with Dipper in the air, barely having the chance to get a foothold, he was knocked back a good number of feet, losing his balance and flopping onto his back.
Mabel rushed forward and lifted Koneko's arm. "Winner!"
Everyone looked at the girl with slight confusion, so she answered. "Dipper said you had to fight, and knock him down, and you did both, so you win."
Mabel was all smiled as she walked over to her bag and pulled something as she rushed back over and presented them to Koneko. They were two teacups, both were well made, colored black, one had shooting stars with rainbow tails flying across the sides, flying through the open galaxy, small jewels floating about like stars, while the other had blue pine trees along the sides, the glass being black with small jewels placed to take the appearance of the big dipper constellation in between every set of trees.
All in all, they were each well made, beautiful teacups. And Mabel was proudly explaining how each one represented her and her brother, twin teacups for a set of twins, and how she had handmade each of them. As his two friends pouted over being tricked like that, Issei actually chuckled over everything. He was feeling bad ever since he and his friends began to do their best to see Mabel's cups, all of them hearing it as her bra cups.
Mabel smirked as she looked at Matsuda and Motohama. "If you two really want pictures of my sweater puppies, here."
She handed each boy a picture, but as they looked at them, they were pictures of two old men, each wearing a sweater, one red the other green, the red sweater had an image of a puppy in a green present, while the green sweater had an image of a puppy in a red stocking. The sweaters were adorable, no doubt, but the boys became upset over having their hopes crushed once more before they even got them up.
Issei was surprised when Mabel walked over to him, smiling. "Thanks for not attacking my bro, Issei."
Mabel gave the boy a kiss on the cheek, before running back over to her brother and Koneko, the action actually surprising Issei, though his happiness was ruined when his friends tackled him, having dropped their photos and started to fight with their friend over him getting a better reward for quitting.
The extra guests, seeing that the show was over, teleported away, some making notes for later plans. As they were all gone, and everyone was calming down from seeing the 'prize', Issei was shocked once again this day.
On his way home, he was invited out to a date that weekend by a pretty girl from another school. The events of the days leading up to it were all same old same old. Sona did call Dipper to play another game of chess with her, which although a completely different strategy, he did the same thing. Seven turns before he tore her down with ease the following turns.
But that Sunday, Dipper had to go get more ingredients, so he stepped out to grab a couple things from the convenient store, and on his way back, he noticed a weird barrier form over the park. "Yeah, we are reaching the point where you came in, I didn't mention this before, but my great uncle and I have repaired and improved his thought scrambler machine, and after using it on me, my sister, and Stan, we are immune to pretty much every form of mental push there is. That is why I can see the barrier and ignore the way it is pushing me to ignore it, I can tell because of the gentle nudge I get that is telling me to stay away. My stupid curiosity gets me killed as you may remember though."
Dipper snuck through the trees, spotting Issei and some winged chick that was practically naked, some BDSM outfit, the boy must have been lured in with the promise of fun, only to be murdered. As Dipper heard a flap, he turned and noticed a smug looking guy with wings, and as you probably recall, Dipper's first instinct is to throw a punch, which knocked a tooth out of his mouth. The guy looked pissed as he quickly created a small spear that he launched through Dipper's chest.
"See, what did I tell you, knocked the tooth right out of the bastard's mouth. Though I guess this is goodbye. I hope my story was entertaining enough for you guys. Hopefully my next story will have a happier ending."
"Well, what have we here? I guess as her best friend, I should rescue her adorable fiancé, don't want to lose you before you two can experience where your lives will take you."
The last thing within sight was crimson red hair.
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Was that better? I will be honest with everyone, I had felt the previous chapter wasn't good, but I also feel like all my stories suck.
This rewrite, along with the inspiration to get it started and to work it out like this is all thanks to dmandog056. His review, and my consequential messages between the two of us, got me feeling I could do better with this chapter sooner rather than later, and after getting the idea flowing, I rolled with it and rearranged some events, gave a bit of exposition on the history of the world we are seeing, and decided to end it where I did.
We all know what is going to happen with this story, Dipper didn't get a summoning seal, but because Rias' familiar gave one to Issei on his date, Rias got summoned so Issei could die while in the arms of a busty beautiful girl. And because he wasn't too far away dying, she noticed Dipper and decided to save him so Sona wouldn't lose him permanently.
Now that is another thing I need to talk with you people about, which peerage should Dipper be in?
Sona won't pressure Rias to give her Dipper until after the Riser arc, so we will get to see Dipper fuck with our favorite KFC meal. But since Sona will understand Rias' need for more muscle to face Riser, she will wait to request to trade, but how much should Rias want to keep him.
You all can respond in reviews with your reasoning, or opinions, this choice won't impact the pairing. Which is a harem, Dipper will be getting his own peerage, and I can see a couple of characters joining it, but I figured I would go to you guys with this as well.
Reviews with full reasonings and or unique choices for this one. Good reasoning and votes of confidence in which Peerage gets Dipper, while there is just one, place taken on Dipper's peerage, the rest are open for votes and opinions for who he can add. All franchises are open for who he can add to his peerage, and I am hoping to see plenty of unique and fun suggestions for each piece. The piece that is taken is a bishop, he will have a mutated rook, and if someone rather powerful get picked, I might mutate his queen.
I am also a little torn on whether I should reincarnate Mabel into his peerage, what are your opinions on that, and her piece, maybe the other bishop? I am a bit torn on that one.
I am going to keep this short message from the last rendition, because I am sure it should be spread among the masses. I learned this from the guy that had started this. He puts it in his author notes in one of his stories, and I know it was a Naruto/DXD crossover, but I can't find it again. Maybe he will see this crappy little thing and give me a heads up so I can give proper credit.
Did you know there wasn't an actual massacre of nekoshou, it was added as a plot point in someone's story and the fandom inflated it till it was the norm. That tells me I am not the only one who looks to other fanfiction to learn about the worlds in which we write.