A/N: This chapter will be completely different from the original one, making three tiny and totally different stories and add Pacifica, or anything related to Ladybug into them seems too much work, so I'm going to do something a little bit more original here. Expect the same with the other three tiny stories chapter. Hope you like it.
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Dipper, Mabel, Pacifica and Jack were taking a walk on the forest, looking around and enjoying the view, the company, and the moment. As usual, Dipper had his nose stuck into the journal, Mabel was marveled by everything, and I mean EVERYTHING! The grass, the trees, the animals, everything and anything was 'the cutest squirrel', 'the tallest tree', 'the most beautiful flower', well, you take the pic, and Pacifica, well, as usual, she wasn't so enthusiastic about being in the forest, even with her friends, her bodyguard, AND her kwami with her, she wasn't used to it. And Jack was just there, following Pacifica closely and checking around for any threat.
- "Are you sure this is a good idea guys?" -Pacifica asked them, not getting to far behind Dipper, and keeping Jack as close to her as possible.
- "Don't you worry Pacifica. The forest isn't as dangerous as it seems." -Dipper assured her, looking at her for a brief moment, before going back to his journal.
- "Says the guy that brought a giant monster that destroyed half of the Shack last week." -Mabel said with a big smile on her face, making fun of her brother, who blushed but covered his face with his journal. Pacifica giggled at that.
- "Well, I'm not saying that some creatures aren't a little bit dangerous, but most of them are harmless. Like this one. A cow with multiple limbs all over its body." -He said, showing them a draw of the creature.
Both girls looked at it and were a little disgusted by it. Dipper noticed it and rolled his eyes. - "Come on! It's not that bad. It won't try to kill and eat us." -
- "How do you know that?" -Pacifica asked him.
- "Because it's a cow." -He answered her kindly.
- "A mutant cow! Maybe it just looks like a cow, but in reality, is a man-eater monster." -Mabel said making fun of Dipper.
- "Uh! You mean like the monster in that movie we watched with dad a few days before coming here? That was a GREAT MOVIE!" -Dipper exclaimed happily while Mabel shivered.
- "Huhuhu! Don't remind me of that!" -Mabel claimed him and he smirked.
- "What? What movie are you talking about?" -Mabel asked them a little interested, she wanted to be part of the conversation more than knowing about the movie.
- "Uh! It's a movie about an alien that can replicate any living being and possess them, even their memories can be replicated, no one knew who to trust anymore, because no one knew who was human and who was the alien. And we never know what's the alien's real form, or if it survived in the end! And that's the greatest part! It's named 'The thing'1!" -Dipper explained enthusiastically while the girls looked at him, and Jack grumbled and smirked at him.
- "Do you know the movie, Jack?" -Pacifica asked him when she noticed his smirk and he nodded. - "Is it good? Should I watch it?" -He grumbled giving her a thump up. - "With my parents or someone else beside me? Is that scary?" -He nodded at her. - "Ok then. I'll see what can I do about it." -She giggled.
- "I wonder how would it be to face something like that?" -Dipper said and stuck his nose in the journal again while walking ahead. (A/N: Spoilers for second season).
They kept walking, looking for something strange and unusual, until they arrived to a cliff and could see a beautiful valley below, with a river crossing it and some deers drinking water, butterflies flying around, beautiful flowers from many colors blooming, squirrels going and coming. The summer sunlight made the place sparkle. Mabel and Pacifica were astonished and marveled with the place, but Dipper… Sigh, he was so focused on the journal that didn't notice the cliff, until it was too late.
- "WHOA!" -He yelled while slipping by the mud, all the way down the hill.
- "DIPPER!" -Both girls yelled looking at him going down like a barrel. There's no way to stop him. When he hit the bottom, face first, it took him around ten seconds to react and look at his companions.
- "I'M FINE!" -He yelled at them smiling widely, with his face covered with mud.
Both girls and Jack went down carefully by the same hill to go and get him, when they got to him. He was cleaning himself up, he had some bruises and scratches her and there, but nothing to be worried about. Once they were sure that he was fine, they started to laugh crazily, having a lot of fun. Dipper turned around to look at the place. - "WOOOOOW! This place is amazing!" -He was marveled too.
It was a really beautiful place. A clear valley without any trace of civilization around, no trash, or cars, or people, just the four of them.
- "This could be our secret garden2!" -Pacifica suggested, but Dipper and Mabel looked at her doubtfully. - "What? Haven't you ever read the novel? Or at least watched the movie or T.V. series?" -She asked them.
- "I mostly read mystery novels." -Dipper answered sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.
- "I prefer the most classic fairy tales. My favorite book and movie are 'The last unicorn3'" -Mabel answered next, smiling at her friend.
- "Anyway, this place is awesome! I didn't know a place like this was hiding deep inside the forest." -Pacifica said, marveled by all the beauty of the place.
- "I'm surprised that no one else has found it by now. I mean, it's not like it's too deep in the forest. I mean we just walked like… ahm… guys, how long were we walking into the forest?" -Dipper asked them but no one answered him, the girls went straight to the river to play with the water, Jack kept an eye on Pacifica and ignored Dipper too. Then he noticed that something was missing. - "Uh? My journal! Where is it?" -He started to look for it going back on his steps, when he heard his sister and turned around.
- "DIPPER! COME HERE! THE WATER IS GREAT!" -She called him and he tried to ignore her to look for his journal, but she called him again. - "DIPPER! COME ON! DON'T IGNORE ME! COME HERE AND PLAY WITH US!" -He turned to look at her.
- "I'LL BE THERE IN A SECOND!" -He yelled at her and went back to look for the journal.
Then, Pacifica called him. - "DIPPER! COME HERE! THIS IS GREAT!" -He turned to her and… For some reason, he couldn't stop looking at her, she glowed with the Sun and seemed even cuter than usual. He instantly forgot what he was looking for and decided to go to them, he heard a whisper calling for him from far away but didn't pay attention to it. He just rubbed his earlobe.
Once he was there, he took off his shoes and socks and got into the river with them and started to splash water with them. They enjoyed their time, with Jack watching them closely, and smiling at them. After what seemed like hours, the three kids got out of the water, laughing hard, they laid on the floor, over the warm and comfortable grass, and let the sun dry them off.
- "I'm getting a little hungry." -Mabel said suddenly, interrupting Dipper and Pacifica's rest, because they realized that they were getting hungry too.
- "Yeah! Me too! I guess it's time to get back to the Shack." -Dipper said getting up, rubbing his ear, he heard that whisper again, but couldn't get what it was saying.
- "What do you mean? Here's lunch already!" -Pacifica said taking a sandwich and offering one to him.
- "Oh! Great! Thanks." -He took it and bite it. - "Oh! Good! Pastrami and mustard My favorite! Thank you, Pacifica! How did you know?" -He asked her and kept eating, but stopped when he noticed her face.
- "Wait, what? I thought you brough the sandwiches?" -she asked him dumbfounded, rubbing her earlobe.
- "No? uh? I thought you did it." -He was as dumbfounded as her.
They turned to look at Mabel, who had her mouth full and a sandwich in each hand, she noticed how they were looking at her and swallowed her food, she looked like a cartoon character doing it. - "What?" -She asked them.
- "Did you bring the sandwiches?" -They asked her at the same time. She looked at them and to the sandwiches in her hands back and forth a couple of times, bit them both sandwiches again and said no with her head. She rubbed her earlobe too.
They then turned to Jack, but he wasn't there anymore, they looked for him around them, but couldn't find him. Pacifica got nervous.
- "Relax! Maybe he went back to the Shack for something." -Mabel said without care and finishing her sandwiches.
Dipper and Pacifica looked at each other, smiled and shrugged it off, finishing their own sandwiches. After that, they kept resting on the grass, looking at the sky and the clouds. Trying to figure out their shapes.
- "Oh! Look! That one looks like a unicorn!" -Mabel said pointing at a cloud. Dipper and Pacifica didn't see it.
- "You see unicorns everywhere!" -Pacifica accused her.
- "No! I don't!" -
- "Yes! You do!" -
They discussed a little, laughing all the time, while Dipper looked at them, he was having fun with them. He paid attention to Pacifica, and again, found her incredibly pretty. - "She's so pretty!"- He thought, then blushed a little and turned back to look at the clouds, some of them changed and Dipper noticed that were forming letters, he read them. - "Wake up?" -He didn't understand. Then, he heard the whisper again and could identify what it said. - "Wake up Dipper!" -He heard the voice, but couldn't point out who was calling him. He rubbed his earlobe again to shut it up and turned again to see the girls. They had finished their discussion about the cloud and were laughing again, but now, something changed, they weren't wearing the clothes they brought with them, they were wearing one-piece swimsuits. Pacifica had a purple one, like her usual clothes, and Mabel a red one, like her favorite sweater.
- "When did you change clothes?" -He asked them.
- "What do you mean? We came here like this! Silly Dipper." -Pacifica said giggling, but Dipper didn't buy it.
- "No, no, no! We came here wearing our common clothes!" -He claimed looking straight at her.
- "That's not true! We came here with swimsuits, just look at yourself." -Mabel said and Dipper looked down at himself, to find out he was wearing swim trunks, he didn't understand what was going on.
- "Wake up!" -He heard the whisper again, louder this time, he shut his eyes for a couple of seconds to think a little bit more.
- "Babe? Are you ok?" -He heard Pacifica again and opened his eyes and found Pacifica in front of him, but she wasn't the same Pacifica, he had a 15-17 years old Pacifica in front of him, wearing a two pieces purple swimsuit, looking at him with worried eyes, his eyes turned to her breasts and he gulped. She giggled. - "Silly pervert! What are you looking at?" -She blushed and covered her chest, faking being embarrassed. - "Don't worry. Today is the day we'll become one." -She pecked him on the cheek. He looked over her and saw… Mabel?... making out?... with… Gideon?! He tried to get up and stop them but Pacifica kept him with her.
- "I hope you brought protection." -She whispered on his ear and licked it a little, making him shiver and shut his eyes again.
- "Wake up!" -That voice again, but this time, it was pretty clear what it said, but he couldn't figure out who it was.
- "Honey? Again, your headaches? Don't worry, I brought some aspirins, hold on." -He opened his eyes to find a full adult Pacifica in front of him, around her thirties, with a big bulge on her tummy, wearing another pink swimsuit and looking for something in her purse. He was astonished, looking at her. She was more beautiful now.
- "Dad? Are you coming to play with us?" -He heard another voice and turned to his right, there, in front of him, was a 10-12 years old girl, wearing a childish two pieces yellow with brown spots swimsuit, extending her hand to him. He took it but didn't know what to do.
- "Go ahead Dippy! Gwen is impatient, go with her. I'll stay here with Phillip, or Pearl." -Pacifica said while Dipper got up, pulled by the girl's hand.
- "Phillip? Pearl?" -He asked her, looking at her rubbing her tummy.
- "Oh! This again?! We already discussed it. We promised my parents to name this little one with an initial 'P', and agreed to name it Phillip if it's a boy, and Pearl if it's a girl." -Pacifica rolled her eyes and kept rubbing her tummy.
Dipper was extremely confused at the time, looking at Pacifica, and at the same time, feeling the tiny hand in his, pulling him to go to the river.
- "HEY DAD! Uncle Gideon says he can defeat you! Come and show him that's not true!" -He heard a boy's voice and looked at the river, where he saw a boy around the girl's age, they looked a lot alike.
- "Twins?" -Dipper whispered and started walking to them, holding the girl's hand.
- "Don't fool yourself Dustin! There's no way your dad can defeat mine!" -Another boy said. He looked a lot like Gideon, but he was brunet and around two years older.
- "Shut up Jake! My dad defeated a god!" -The first boy yelled.
- "Yeah! But my dad was there too, along with our moms!" -A girl the same age as the young twins said, she looked just like Mabel when she was that age.
- "You too shut up Sara!" -The first boy said. The girl started to cry and Mabel went to comfort her.
- "Am I… dreaming?" -Dipper wondered.
- "YES! WAKE UP!" -That voice again.
Dipper followed the girl to the river and they all started to splash water to each other, Dipper and the twins against Gideon, Mabel and the other two kids. They were having a lot of fun when Gideon splashed water on Dipper's face and made him shut his eyes.
- "DIPPER! COME ON! WAKE UP!" - That voice again.
He opened his eyes and saw everyone having fun in the river, the kids seemed a little older and Pacifica didn't have the bulge anymore, she came to him, wearing the same swimsuit, but for some reason, she looked even more beautiful.
- "How is it possible? She's a goddess! Why is she with me?" -Dipper thought and felt tears on his eyes.
- "Is everything ok honey? Is Phillip behaving like a good baby? Does he need a diaper change?" -Pacifica asked him when she was close enough and noticed his tears.
- "What?" -Dipper asked her and looked down, he was holding a baby with one arm and had a baby bottle in the other, keeping it in his mouth to feed him. The baby looked at him and kinda smiled at him, and he smiled back. - "Nah! We're ok, you go and have fun with the others, right Phillip?" -He said, turning to the baby, who couldn't look away from him, and smiled warmly.
- "Well, ok." -Pacifica turned around to go back to the others.
Dipper stayed there, feeding the baby, when Gideon yelled from his picnic zone. - "Dang it! All these bees and ladybugs are a total plague!" -
- "Bees?... Ladybugs?... P… Plague… Plague… P… Pla… Plagg… Plagg!... PLAGG!" -Dipper reacted and put the baby on the floor.
- "FINALLY! COME THIS WAY! QUICKLY!" -Dipper finally recognized the kwami's voice and followed it. He just got up and ran to the forest that passed the river. He heard everyone yelling at him to stop him, but he didn't look back and kept running, he heard the girl's voice screaming 'Daddy please! Don't leave me!' that made him feel pain on his chest, but he kept running through the forest.
- "Plagg! Where are you buddy?!" -Dipper yelled in the middle of the forest.
- "Over here pal! Just look down!" -Plagg said and Dipper saw a big, deep and dark hole in front of him.
- "Are you down there?" -Dipper asked.
- "Yep! You gotta do a leap of faith." -He heard Plagg's voice coming from there.
Dipper heard the others voices coming to him, they seemed worried and angry. - "Agh! Isn't it any other way?!" -He asked.
- "Nope! If you want to get out of here, that's the only way to do it." -Plagg answered him and Dipper hesitated.
- "Daddy! There you are!" -Dipper heard and turned around to find the girl that posed as his daughter going to him, but she didn't look the same, she looked like a zombie, a walking dead corpse with worms all over her, rotten flesh, missing chunks on her body, where her bones could be seen, her eyes were injected with blood. Behind her came the others, with pretty similar looks, even the baby had blood and bugs coming from his mouth. Dipper was terrified. - "Let's go back to the picnic, daddy! I want you to carry me piggy style." -The girl said with a ghostly voice, going closer to him. Dipper gulped and glimpsed at the pit behind him. He took a deep breath. - "Daddy?" -The girl called him again with an even darker voice, as if she was a monster. Dipper jumped into the pit. - "NNNNOOOO!" -Dipper heard a deep dark voice yelling behind him while he fell down, with his eyes closed in the cannon ball pose. He didn't know how long it took him, time and space faded away, he just fell down, or up? He wasn't sure, he didn't dare to look, he turned older and younger in mere seconds, back and forth, he became a baby, then an elder, then a teen, then back to 12 years old, then a young adult, then back to a toddler. After what seemed an eternity, he noticed a strong light, he opened his eyes to see how he went closer to the light until it surrounded him. He yelled from the bottom of his lungs and… - "AAAAAGGGHHHH!" -He woke up, falling down from his bed and hitting the floor, hard. - "OW! WHAT THE HELL?" -He yelled again, rubbing his head, when he finally regained self-control, he noticed he was in his room, and Mabel was on her bed, sound asleep, without moving, and barely breathing. He went to her and try to awake her.
- "Don't do it." -He heard Plagg's voice beside him. He was extremely serious, with his arms crossed.
- "Why not?" -He asked him.
- "She's under a spell, a strong one. If you try to wake her up, you'll just make things worse for her in dreamworld and it won't work. No one outside dreamworld can awake anyone inside it under these circumstances. She has to wake up on her own, like you did it." -Plagg explained him.
- "Was I under the same spell?" -
- "Yep!" -
- "How did you wake me up?"-
- "I didn't. You did it yourself. You have a very strong will." -
- "I heard your voice in there." -
- "Yeah? Well, I called for you, many times, trying to reach you, but it was useless most of the time, but suddenly, you called my name, and I used that open to call you back. But you were the one that decided to wake up." -
- "What now?" -Dipper asked confused.
- "I don't know, this seems to have happened all over the town, almost as if it was… No, that can't be." -Plagg whispered the last part, as if he was considering something.
- "What? What is it Plagg?" -Dipper asked him impatiently.
- "I… I'm not so sure. But if this is what I think it is, we have to go and find someone in particular, someone kinda possessed and help him, or kill him before this gets out of hand." -Plagg explained and Dipper thought about it. Then he looked at Mabel. - "Don't worry, once we fix this, she will wake up without any harm. She's safer here anyways." -Plagg said, but Dipper wasn't convinced, he sighed and shrugged it off.
- "Ok, let's do this. PLAGG! CLAWS ON!" -Dipper transformed and jumped off the window, leaving Mabel sleeping peacefully.
- "Uff! They finally left." -Pollen said coming out from below Mabel's bedsheets. - "Now I have to keep trying and reach you to wake up, Mabel." -Pollen said putting her hands on Mabel's forehead and focusing her energy. - "I hope this isn't what we think it is, right Plagg?" -she whispered and then started to focus her energy, her eyes started to glow and she started to call for Mabel over and over again.
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Mabel was enjoying her annual escape picnic with her friends in their secret valley.
At her sixteen years old, this teenager kept her joyful and childish personality, but that, instead of keeping people away from her, just helped her to get tons of friends and admirers. But, this picnic, is exclusive for her, Dipper and Pacifica.
But, when she formalized her relationship with Gideon, she invited him to go with them, which made Dipper and Mabel to get angry at her. But she defended herself by saying that they were dating already and it would be unfair for her to be left aside by them for being all lovey-dovey all the time.
Neither Dipper or Pacifica could discuss that, so they sighed and shrugged it off, but they made Gideon promise to not tell anyone, and they meant, anyone, about that place, ever. He accepted and joined them.
Today, Mabel was fulfilling one of her deepest dreams. Ride a unicorn. She was over the magnificent and mythical creature, while it jogged around the field, she kept an eye and waved at her friends while riding the beast. Meanwhile they were trying to put the picnic in order to eat. When everything was ready, they called her and she went to them. When she reached them, she clapped her hands and a magical breeze lifted her from the horse and placed her gently on the floor.
- "Take a rest, Starbeam! Go and eat something." -She said to the unicorn, caressing its horsehair.
- "As you wish Mabel. By the way, try to wake up." -The unicorn answered and disappeared in a glittering puff.
- "What?..." - She wondered, but shrugged it off immediately. - "What do we have for lunch guys?" -She asked her friends.
- "Every delicious thing available Mabel!" -An extremely enthusiastic Pacifica answered. - "We have peanut butter and jam sandwiches covered in chocolate fudge, gummy bear cupcakes, with extra rainbow frosting, fried cotton candy with whipped cream, and as a dessert, all flavors ice cream with sprinkles!" -
- "YAY!" -Everyone cheered and ate everything they had at hand, but it seemed like the food was endless because every single thing they picked to eat was immediately replaced by a new one, so they ate until satiation, and fell to the ground completely full, they stayed there, looking at the pinkish sky where they could see dolphins flying around.
- "Ah! This is perfect!" -Mabel said stretching, looking at the sky, then a dolphin's herd passed by and Mabel noticed that they wrote the words 'wake up' in the sky. Again, she ignored them. - "I wish we could stay here forever and get older!" -
PUFF!
- "Wha! What happened?" -She wondered and looked around at the others. Just like that they were on their twenties.
- "We just grew up Mabel, as you wished it!" -Dipper said happily. - "YAY!" They all cheered.
- "Wow! This is great! I'm a woman now!" -Mabel celebrated. - "But wait! Now that I'm a woman I should have babies!" -She said happily.
- "Hey! That's not fair Mabel! We want babies too!" -they all whined.
- "Ok then! I wish we all had babies!" -Mabel yelled.
Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
Suddenly, they all had babies on their arms, they all were baby versions of themselves. - "YAY!" -They all exclaimed and started to play with the babies. Gideon and Dipper played basketball, using baby Gideon as a ball, while Pacifica juggled her baby self and Dipper's. Mabel played at 'the house' with her baby self, she fed her and burped her, snapped her fingers to change her diaper by magic and dressed her with baby size versions of her clothes. It was really cute. She was enjoying herself; hearts were floating around her. She made a tiny flowers crown and put on the baby.
- "AAAWWW! You're so cute!" -She picked the baby up.
- "wake up!" -The baby said.
- "WHAT?!" -Mabel was astonished.
- "Wake up!" -The baby repeated.
- "GUYS! She said her first words!" -Mabel called them while hugging the baby.
- "Wake up Mabel!" -The baby said.
- "Oh no! no! no! I'm mommy! Not Mabel! Mommy!" -She lifted the baby again.
- "No! Listen to me! You need to wake up!" -
- "Wow! You're a smart baby!" -Mabel giggled and hugged the baby again.
- "Sigh… I guess we have to do it the hard way. Put me down." -The baby said and Mabel complied. - "Look at me." -The baby said and Mabel looked straight at her. - "A step to your left." -Mabel stepped aside. - "Ok, keep your eyes on me, and take 3… no, 4 steps back." -The baby said and Mabel obeyed giggling all the time.
She took 1, 2, 3 steps back, giggling. - "Oh! You're such a cute and beautiful baby." -Mabel sent her kisses.
- "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Just one more step, please." -The baby said hurriedly.
- "Oh no! I'm not doing it until you call me mommy." -Mabel teased.
The baby rolled her eyes. - "Mabel, this is serious! Take a step back." -They started to discuss.
- "Mommy!" -
- "Mabel!" -
- "Mommy!" -
- "Mabel!" -
- "MOMMY!" -
- "Sigh… Can you PLEASE, take a step back? Mommy." -The baby said and Mabel squealed and went to grab the baby again. - "NO! NO! NO! STEP BACK! BACK!" -The baby yelled and Mabel stopped. - "Please! Please! Please! Do as I say, step back, just step back, please." -The baby begged her.
Mabel hesitated, she wanted to hug the baby so much. - "B… But… You called me mommy. I have to hug you and eat you with kisses for like… ever!" -She said impatiently.
- "Believe me. This is the best for everyone. Step back. Keep your eyes on me and STEP. BACK." -The baby was very serious.
Mabel hesitated. - "Sigh… Fine, but after this game, I'm gonna hug you and kiss you so much that my lips will burn." -She said and stepped back.
- "Sorry 'Mommy'. But that isn't happening." -The baby said when Mabel fell on the big pit behind her.
Mabel was surrounded by everything that was on the valley, the colors, the food, the animals, everything, her eyes sparkled at the sight of that wave of colors and lights around her. A bright light engulfed her. She couldn't but laugh all the time.
She opened her eyes and blinked a few times to get used to the darkness. - "Phew! At last!" -She heard Pollen's voice, who appeared in front of her. - "Quite an experience, right?" -She giggled.
- "W… What happened?" -Mabel asked really confused.
- "Long made short. The town is under a spell and everyone is trapped in their dreams. No one can wake up unless we find who's doing this and stop him." -She said while Mabel got up.
Mabel looked at Dipper's bed and found a still bulge there, she sighed.
- "Ok, let's go Pollen. POLLEN! LET'S BUZZ!" -Mabel said and transformed in queen bee and jumped off the window. - "I hope Ladybug and Black Cat are on their way there too." -She mumbled while jumping on the trees to go to town.
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Pacifica was happy and sad at the same time. Happy because she had an awesome summer with her family and friends. And sad because it ended. Happy because her parents allowed her to get enrolled into school, a real school. But sad because her best friends left Gravity Falls and went back to their home in Piedmont, California.
- "Sigh. I'm going to miss them a lot." -She whispered, a little disappointed. - "But at least I can keep in contact with them." -She then thought happily.
After that awesome improvised picnic in that valley in the forest, they promised to keep the place a secret and join there at least once every year, in summer.
Now, Pacifica was walking through the school's aisle, going to her locker to get her stuff for her first class, in a classroom full of kids her age, ever, she was quite excited.
She was mumbling some song that was stuck in her mind, getting her books, when someone stood beside her.
- "Sigh… This is my first day, but I'm not that confident to make a new friend so soon, thank you very much." -She said without even looking at the guy.
- "So good we already know each other really well." -He said and she immediately recognized the voice. She was so surprised that she hit her head with the locker's top and turned to him with her eyes wide open.
- "DIPPER!" -She yelled and threw herself at him in a big hug. They laughed happily at that. - "W… What happened? I thought you went back to Piedmont?" -She asked him.
- "I did… buuut… sigh. I asked my parents if I could get back to Gravity Falls and stay here for a while. It was really easy to convince them, but Mabel… well… she wasn't so thrilled about it." -He explained.
- "Yeah! I suppose. She's your very first and best friend, right?" -She asked him and he nodded.
- "But… What are you going to do? I mean, where are you staying?" -
- "At the Shack. I'm under gruncle Stan guardianship. And now I have my very own room, just for myself." -
- "That's so good! What's your first class?" -She asked him and he checked his schedule.
- "Algebra." -He answered happily.
- "No way! Me too! Let's go together!" -She said and he offered to carry her backpack for her, she accepted and they walked together, unaware that they were holding hands. Pacifica was really happy then, and closed her eyes to give Dipper one of her best smiles. She heard a whisper and rubbed her earlobe.
She opened her eyes and found herself in the valley again, wearing a two pieces purple swimsuit. - "Wha… What happened? I was going to my class with Dipper!" -She wondered.
- "Hey! Paci! Are you coming to play?" -She turned to the voice and saw Mabel, Dipper and Gideon, ready to play a volleyball match, but, they looked older, like 15 years old. She stood up and noticed her budding breasts in her swimsuit, she felt really happy then. - 'I'm becoming a lady!" -She thought and went to them, a little confused.
- "What's wrong Paz?! You don't want to play anymore? Are you afraid?" -Mabel teased her.
- "Ha! You wish! Remember that I'm a Northwest!" -She said and both girls laughed while the boys looked at them.
- "So… How are we doing this? Couple's match? Or boys versus girls? Or…" -Gideon asked with his arms crossed and a broad smile.
- "I guess that we could play both matches, but first, Dipper and I gotta teach you two a lesson about teamwork." -Mabel teased them with a broad smile, and Dipper, beside her, just copied her.
- "Mystery twins!" -He said and high fived with Mabel.
- "That's unfair!" -Pacifica whined.
- "Sorry bestie! Life's unfair!" -Mabel mocked her a little more and they laughed together. They played the match, and obviously, Dipper and Mabel wiped the floor with Pacifica and Gideon in just two sets.
Then they changed and played the boys versus girls' game, it was a "little closer" match, but it was obvious for everyone, that Gideon and Dipper held back their strength, they didn't want to hurt the girls, the game finished after three sets, the boys won the first and third sets.
Then, it came the couple's match, Dipper and Pacifica, versus Mabel and Gideon. It was the tightest match, each team won a set, but barely. And the third set wasn't different, they were tied and tired.
- "Guys! After this, we gotta eat something. I'm getting really hungry." -Dipper said between huffs.
- "Agreed!" -They all said at the same time. - "Go ahead Paci!" -He told her to start the point. And they played, they passed the ball from side to side a few times, but then, Mabel got the ball and passed it to Gideon.
- "Get it babe!" -She said and Gideon made a strong shot. Unfortunately for them, it hit Pacifica straight on the face, making her fall to the floor and shut her eyes, she heard many things around her, all of them calling for her, asking her if she was ok, Gideon apologizing while Mabel scolded him, Dipper crying her name over and over again, and a tiny voice telling her to wake up.
- "W… What happened?" -She asked opening her eyes.
- "What's wrong sister?!" -She heard Mabel by her side.
Again, they were wearing swimsuits, Mabel was beside her, snuggling at her with a broad smile, she was incredibly happy. At the distance, she saw Dipper and Gideon grilling food and drinking… beer? They seemed to be in their twenties. - "I'm SO happy Pacifica! Now we are real sisters!" -Mabel said while kept snuggling at her.
- "What?" -Pacifica asked.
- "Are you regretting it now?" -Mabel asked her pouting first, and then getting angry. - "I can't believe you're doing this to him! He's my brother! I mean… You just said yes!" -Mabel claimed her.
- "W… What are you talking about?!" -Pacifica didn't understand.
- "I'm talking about… THIS!" -Mabel took her hand with some rudeness and showed it to her. Pacifica gasped at the beautiful engagement ring she had in her ring finger, she felt tears in her eyes.
- "Is something wrong girls?" -Dipper asked them, he went to check if everything was ok. Mabel shut up and stepped away, looking at her angrily.
- "Tell him!" -Mabel dared her, crossing her arms, she was really angry.
- "What is it, Paz?" -Dipper asked her, getting really anxious.
Pacifica looked straight at his eyes and saw how much he loved her, and the worry he had at that moment, she looked at the ring on her finger, and realized that she loved him too. She threw herself at him and kissed him passionately on the lips. They fell to the ground while kissing. Pacifica started to cry from happiness, with her eyes closed.
- "Pacifica! Please wake up!" -She heard the voice again.
"Waaahhh! Waaahhh!" -Pacifica opened her eyes at the crying, there was a portable crib beside her. There was a cute little baby girl with a white overall with a big yellow S on it.
- "Is everything ok honey?" -Dipper asked her, he was on her side, taking the sun, like she was doing before hearing the crying. - "Is Samantha, ok? Do you want me to feed her?" he asked her gently while rubbing her shoulders.
Pacifica was confused again, but shrugged it off, because Dipper's massage was very relaxing. - "No, it's ok honey, I can handle her." -Pacifica picked the baby up and calmed her down, just to feed her next. There was a baby bottle, but she decided to nurse her. She noticed how Dipper looked at his two special girls with an unfathomed love and thanked God for her life.
They were enjoying the moment when. - "Then it's settled now! If it's a girl, her name will be Fionna!" -Mabel yelled at Gideon while walking to them, she had a huge belly.
- "Yes! Yes! Whatever you say babe! But please, don't stress yourself that much now, we don't want to rush the labor, we're not that close to the town now." -Gideon begged her.
- "Well, we shouldn't have come to our annual escape picnic this year!" -She protested.
- "But you were the one that insisted to come." -Gideon rolled his eyes at her.
- "No! I didn't" -She protested.
- "YES! YOU DID!" -The three of them said at the same time and she pouted and sit on the ground carefully. Then she turned to see her niece being fed and her eyes sparkled.
- "I can't wait anymore to do that!" -She daydreamed about it.
- "Yeah! It's just a magnificent experience, every single time." -Pacifica looked at her baby girl sucking her nipple and taking the milk. Pacifica loved that girl more than anything in the world and was thankful that her life turned that way, with a great companion and partner like Dipper, and such a loving family by her side. She was focusing on the baby, when.
- "Dang it! All these bees and ladybugs are a total plague! They'll ruin our Hawaiian tiki party!" -Gideon said moving his hands all around.
- "Bees?... Lady… Ladybugs?... Plague… Ti… Tiki… Tikki… TIKKI!" -Pacifica reacted and opened her eyes widely.
- "Finally! Over here Pacifica! Follow my voice!" -Pacifica heard her kwami, handed the baby girl to Dipper, got up and started to run to the forest, to a dark part of it, she heard her friends' voices at the distance, along with a baby crying, which hurt her, but she didn't look back. She stopped when she noticed a big dark pit in front of her.
- "Tikki! Where are you?" -Pacifica yelled.
- "Inside the pit Pacifica! You gotta jump in it!" -Tikki's voice came very clear from inside the pit. Pacifica stepped back.
- "Isn't there any other way?" -She asked her.
- "No. Hurry up. It's coming." -Tikki said, trying to hurry her along.
- "What?" -Pacifica asked, but then, she heard Dipper call her from behind, but his voice was different, very scary.
- "Pacifica!" -She turned around and what she saw made her feel like puking. A giant mass of flesh, blood and bones was coming to her. All her friends' faces were on it, including the baby and what seemed to be Mabel's unborn baby. All the eyes were injected with blood. - "Come back with us! The party has just started." -Dipper's voice was extremely scary and threatening. Pacifica was terrified. The mass went closer to her and Pacifica stepped back and looked at the pit behind.
- "Pacifica! It's now or never!" -Tikki said. Pacifica gulped, closed her eyes and jumped in before thinking it better. She heard Dipper's voice yell at her, calling her homewrecker.
Pacifica went through the same as Dipper went while falling down, aging, de-aging, over and over again, the light engulfed her and…
- "DAAAAGGG!" -She jumped off her bed and fell backwards on the side of it, wrapped in the many bedsheets she had. She struggled to make her way out of them, and when she finally did it, she noticed that Tikki had turned on the lights already, and was looking at her with a few tears on her eyes. - "What's going on Tikki?" -She asked her getting up.
- I'm not sure, but if it is what I think it is, then, it means she's still alive." -Tikki said, letting her tears fall at last.
- "What? Who? What are you talking about?" -Pacifica was getting angry.
- "Right, you haven't faced it yet. Let me explain. It seems the city is under a spell; all the citizens are trapped in their dreams with very little chances to wake up by their own. We have to find who is doing this and stop him before he gets what he wants." -Tikki explained with a little smile on her lips.
- "Ok, but… Why do you seem so happy about all this?" -Pacifica asked her, worried for her.
- "Because… sigh… just an akuma can cause a mess as big as this one." -Tikki celebrated, instead of worrying, which made Pacifica worry even more.
- "Akuma?" -She wondered.
To be continued…
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A/N: This was meant to be one single chapter, but it got too long, so I cut it into two, so you don't get tired reading it. I'm already writing the second part and hope to upload it before Christmas eve. But don't get desperate if I fail, please. But, in case I do fail: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE! .
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1 - "The thing" from 1982, directed by John Carpenter. Based on the 1938 novel 'who goes there?' From John W. Campbell Jr. There's a prequel from 2011 with the same name. Really good movies. Not for kids.
2 "The secret garden." Novel from Frances Hodgson Burnett 1911. There are movies and animated T.V. series. Really good and pleasant. Family friendly.
3 "The last unicorn." Novel from Peter S. Beagle 1968. Animated movie from 1982, a 'must watch' jewel of animated movies.