Footsteps signaled someone approaching their small group. Mina looked up to see Wendy walking over to them, a slight smile on her face. "Hey guys, Soos," she greeted. "What are you all up to?"
"Oh hey!" Mina waved her over excitedly. "You know how we ran into that spooky ghost a couple days ago?"
"How could I forget?" Wendy chuckled good-naturedly. "That was super intense. How are you feeling, by the way? That fun dip seemed to take a lot out of you." Mina winced, wishing everyone would just drop that incident. It was bad enough that Shouto was constantly reminding her of it, even if he was being nice and getting her water at the same time.
"I'm fine, thanks," she hastily replied, desperate to move on to a different topic. "Well, we did get a good thing out of it! Izuku figured out that there was a whole different section to the journal that talks about Gravity Falls."
"That's right." Izuku held up the journal and pointed his pen-light at it. The page he was on was all about the tree with the hidden switches in the woods, where he had found the journal, and where they were gathering now. "It looks like the author created this secret bunker hidden underneath this tree. We're gonna go down and see if he's down there, or if he left anything behind that could help us get home." He patted the bag of items the five had gathered to help them with whatever could be down there. Mina felt for her grappling hook. She was sure it would come in handy sometime soon.
"To your own dimension, right?" Wendy clarified.
"That's right," Ochako agreed. "It's been like, twelve days already that we've been stuck in this town. We need to get home, no matter how much we like it here."
Wendy held up her hands like she was surrendering. "Don't worry, I wasn't doubting you guys or anything. That makes total sense. I'm just still wrapping my head around the whole 'alternate universes' thing."
"Don't worry, you'll get used to it." Soos assured her.
Wendy scratched the back of her neck. "Yeah, I'm sure I will. So… mind if I join you?"
"Not at all!" Izuku assured her. "We need all the help we can get!"
Shouto studied the tree, and the switch which had apparently opened up the hole in the ground where Izuku had found the journal. "Now the problem is getting down into the bunker." He turned to Izuku. "Did you try any of the other switches when you first opened this thing?"
"Yeah, and none of them did anything." Izuku shrugged apologetically.
"Well then, we just have to cut it down, right?" Wendy suggested, rummaging through their bag of supplies and pulling out the axe they had kept from those wax figures, then tucking it in her back pocket. Mina had decided to bring it along, just in case. "Nice thinking by the way, bringing an axe. Always a good tool to have."
"Nah, dude, that won't work." Soos knocked on the tree, the hollow sound it made echoing through the forest. "This thing is made of metal, not really good material for cutting down."
"Hmm." Wendy stared up at the tree, scanning the branches with her eyes. "Hey, that branch kinda looks like a lever." She gestured upwards. Mina followed her gaze, and sure enough, one of the branches had a lot of obvious nuts and bolt in it.
"I got it!" Ochako grabbed her amulet, and the familiar blue surrounded it …before sputtering out. "What the?" Mina's brown haired friend squinted at the tree. "It's not working! It's never done that before!"
Izuku studied the notebook, before exclaiming, "Don't worry, it still works! It's just that the author magic-proofed his bunker, so magic won't work on it." He squinted upwards. "Guess we'll have to find another way to reach it. Should we go back and get a ladder?"
Wendy waved him off. "Nah, I got this." Wendy shoved her hand back into their bag, and pulled out a rope, tying the ends of it around herself. Then she swung the rope around the tree, and used it to pull her body upwards, quickly shifting the rope up again before she could slide down and repeating the action. Once she reached the leaver, she pulled out the axe. Spinning it around in her fingers, she knocked the leaver up.
"Woah," they all gaped. Mina saw her friends mouths dropping open, and she couldn't help but grin up at the older teenager. "That was amazing!" She called up to Wendy.
"Haha, thanks," Wendy grinned. "My dad forced me to compete in these 'lumberjack games' when I was a kid. I guess I kind of ruled at them."
"No kidding! I can believe that." Izuku laughed, somewhat incredulously.
The tree shook, and began leaning sideways. Wendy quickly undid the rope and jumped off, hitting the ground with a role. Shouto and Soos pulled her to her feet and away from the bottom of the tree as the ground around it slowly sunk downwards. Planks of wood shot out from the side of the hole, forming a staircase.
"I guess that's how we're supposed to get down," Mina remarked, peering into the darkness.
Izuku straightened. "Alright guys, this is it. Everyone ready to go?"
Soos grabbed their bag. "I'm ready dude. Let's just be careful, okay?"
"He's right," Shouto agreed, looking suspiciously at the staircase. "We don't know what's down there, and we don't want to be taken by surprise."
"Of course," Izuku assured him, taking a few cautious steps down the staircase. When nothing funny happened, he beckoned for them to join him. Shouto grabbed the lantern and followed, passing it to Izuku. Mina and Ochako followed after, Wendy and Soos trailing behind them.
They stepped deeper and deeper into the darkness, with only the light of the lantern to let them know where the stairs were, or that they were heading in the right direction. Mina looked around nervously. "How far do these steps go? It feels like we've been walking for a while."
"Looks like they go to here," Izuku answered, stepping off the steps and into a dimly lit doorway. Mina chuckled, somewhat embarrassed. The rest of them followed him inside, all of them gasping as they looked around the room.
"This is so stupid cool," Wendy announced. "Totally worth the steps." They ventured further into the room.
"Guess this was the author's Fallout Shelter," Shouto said, motioning to the poster on the wall with the picture of an atom and the words 'FALLOUT SHELTER' printed on it. "He disappeared when the cold war was still going strong, right? It makes sense."
"Unless it was for a different kind of fallout," Ochako countered, examining the dusty books on the rusting metal shelf. "My amulet still isn't working. People don't need magic counters in atomic fallout. At least, I don't think so."
Wendy pulled the poster off the wall, dusting it off with her hand. "This is totally going over my bed."
"He seems to have been preparing for a disaster." Izuku looked over a shelf filled with rations, the contents labeled in years, ending around the 2070s. "But what kind of disaster would need supplies for almost a hundred years?"
"Oh my gosh," Soos gasped. Mina looked over to where he had opened a cabinet filled with different kinds of weapons. The repairman reached inwards and pulled out a brightly colored Pez-dispenser with a dog head on top. "A Smez-dispenser! I remember these things!"
"Smez?" Ochako questioned.
"Y'know," Soos motioned in the air. "Where they put the little square candies in, and they've got cool tops and stuff."
"Oh, I get it." Ochako looked over Soos' shoulder at the candy with interest. "Well call them 'Pez-dispensers. Must be a difference between worlds."
Izuku rummaged through the weapons locker. "Oh, I remember this from the journal!" He pulled out what looked to be a long ceremonial knife. "A magic dagger! The author mentioned this. Didn't say what it does though." He examined the blade with interest, then tucked it in his jacket pocket. "Oh, and some flare guns! That could be useful."
"When do you think we'd need those?" Ochako asked.
Izuku shrugged. "I dunno, but better safe than sorry, right? I mean, we've gotten into so much trouble here in this town, it could be good to have a way to call for help."
"Oh, okay." Ochako took some of the flares from him and tucked them away in the bag. "That's really smart. Good idea." Izuku gave an awkward smile in return.
"Look at this," Shouto held up an empty can of food. "This was opened recently."
Izuku went over and took a closer look. "Yeah, that was definitely opened not too long ago." He looked back up at them with a smile. "Looks like the author might still be down here!"
"Don't jump to conclusions just yet," Shouto warned.
Wendy seemed to focus on something right behind Ochako. "Wait a minute." She walked over and pulled a map off of the wall, revealing a circular door, that was painted with 'CAUTION, STAY OUT' on top of it. "I think I know where he might've gone."
Mina pulled on the wheel-lever, and it opened with a hiss. "Looks like the rabbit hole goes even deeper." She made an exaggerated bow. "After you guys!"
Shouto crawled through the small tunnel, near the back of the group. He crawled out right after Ochako, to find himself in a room filled with cobwebs and squares, lining all of the walls, as well as the ceiling and the floor.
"Was this room built in the past or the future?" Wendy wondered aloud.
"No kidding," Soos agreed, eyeing the different symbols with interest.
Izuku flipped through the journal. "Well, the author obviously knew his stuff. Who knows how ahead of his time he was?"
"Seriously, this is awesome!" Mina walked backwards after climbing out of the tunnel last. She walked into the tile in the middle of the floor, which sunk into the ground with an ominous hiss. The symbols on the walls all lit up a bright red, and the whole room shook, different tiles on all of the walls closing in on them.
Of course. Because this couldn't be easy in any way.
"Is it as awesome now?" Shouto muttered to Mina. She winced.
"Okay, maybe I walked into that one."
"Guys, not the time!" Ochako backed into the center of the room. "The walls are literally closing in on us!"
Wendy rammed her body into the wall, to no avail. "It won't stop!"
Heart racing, Shouto turned to Izuku, who was rapidly paling next to him. "What do we do, what does the journal say?"
"Um, right!" Izuku flipped through the pages, landing on one that was labeled 'Security Room'. He shone his pen's light on it. "I really need to get a bigger light for this. Right, there are a few symbols we need to press. Here!" He showed everyone the different symbols. "Someone step on each of these!"
Shouto noticed one of the symbols on the ceiling matched a symbol in the book. "I've got this one," he called out, scrambling up the steadily moving tiles to slam his palm against that specific marking. It sunk inwards and glowed blue.
"Got one here!" Soos yelled, plunging his fist into a different tile.
Wendy stomped on a tile that was still on the floor. "I've got one too!"
Mina pushed in the final marking just before another tile covered it. "That's all of them!" With multiple creaks, and the spewing of steam, a door slid open on the other side of the room to where they had gone in. "Let's go!"
Shouto jumped down from his tile and raced after the other five, barely making it before the tiles covered the door behind him. It slammed shut and he sank against it, letting out a small gasp in relief.
Mina laughed from her place sprawled out on the ground. "We survived!"
"That was kind of close," Ochako agreed with a relieved grin. "I guess we really do need to be more careful."
Wendy pumped her fists in the air. "Wow, that was nuts! We all ruled back there." She held out her fist, which Soos bumped his against eagerly.
"Yeah dudes, we were awesome!" He turned and wandered throughout the room they had found themselves in, grabbing something from the shelves. "Check it out dudes!" He put two flasks in front of his eyes, making them look massive, and stuck out his tongue.
Mina laughed at his antics, and Wendy gave him finger guns. "Soos, Soos. That is hilarious."
Soos grinned at slipped on a lab coat, picking up what looked like a briefcase off of one of the tables. "Do I look smarter with this briefcase or what?"
Shouto gritted his teeth in frustration. The whole point of coming down here was to find the author, or at least to find something that would help them all get home. And yet everyone was treating it like it was some casual adventure. Did the others just not care that much?
"This must've been some kind of surveillance room," Izuku mused, running his fingers over the machines on the walls, which looked like they came straight out of an old spy movie. "I wonder what he was looking at."
"Hey guys! Check out this weird metal closet." They all looked at Wendy as she hovered in the next doorway. "I. Am. A. Robot," she joked, swinging her arms around.
"Coming!" Mina raced over, everyone else not far behind.
"Kind of a tight fit dudes," Soos said, squeezing into the closet.
"I think we can all make it." Izuku pressed his back against the wall.
Shouto looked around the room, noting the distinct lack of a door, save for the one they had just come through. Could the 'closet' be the key to getting further in the bunker? All the other rooms had tricks to move deeper in. He stepped in the closet and pushed his way past the others, heading for the back.
"Ow! Hey Shouto, what are you doing?" Ochako complained as he bumped past her.
Shouto didn't look back. "Checking something out." He felt the back wall, and sure enough, there was a crack in the middle, like an elevator door. "I think this is the key to getting into the next room."
"Yeah?" Wendy looked around. "Let's put on some light, to get a closer look." She pulled some sort of lever near the ceiling. Before any of them could say another word, water sprayed down from above, drenching them all. Then puffs of wind hit them from all sides, pushing the six of them together.
Mina rubbed her head. "Ow! Was that really necessary?" As if in response, the closet flashed red and made an alarming noise, before a sign near the top of the wall lit up, saying 'DECONTAMINATION COMPLETE'. The doors in the back of the closet opened to reveal a scene right out of a mad scientists abandoned lab, with mist and dust and broken tubes.
The light's flicker on, and they all piled out into the room. "This is so cool!" Ochako whispered, looking over at the broken equipment.
"This must've been his hidden lab," Izuku agreed. "Maybe the author did experiments down here."
Shouto's eyes were drawn to the broken tube near the center of the lab. "And maybe the experiments didn't like that."
Soos wiped some sweat off his brow. "I'm getting a bad feeling about this guys. This place gives me the spooks."
Wendy leaned down near the dirt walls. "Huh. What do you think dug all these tunnels?"
"Escaped experiments," Shouto suggested. Mina chuckled nervously.
"Shouto, you know I like a good joke as much as anyone, but now's not the time for that, okay? This place is seriously weird."
He raised an eyebrow at her. "Who said I was joking?" Just as he said that, a rumbling growl sounded from inside the tunnels. Shouto could see something's head poking out from one hole in the wall.
"Okay dudes, back to the other room!" Soos took off, the rest of them on his toes, but before they could reach the door, it slammed shut.
Wendy pulled at it desperately. "We're trapped!"
"We'll find another way out!" Izuku ran back in the opposite direction, and, lacking options, they all followed him. There was a tunnel behind the tubes, and they took it, running down the path until they reached a dead end.
Ochako let out a strangled gasp. "Oh no, that's not good!" She clutched her amulet, as though that would help. "What do we do?"
"I- I don't know!" Izuku half-sobbed. "I don't know!" The shadow of the monster loomed nearer, reaching up to its full height and roaring, before another shape, this one human sized, jumped on it. The monster threw it off in retaliation, and snarled in its face. The figure grabbed its tongue and pulled hard, ripping it clean out of the thing's mouth. The monster yelped and scurried away, as the human drew nearer.
Shouto finally got a glimpse of him. The man had slicked back grey hair and goggles, a tan trench coat, and a red vest. He held up his prize. "Welp, I just ripped out a monster's tongue." He threw said tongue on the ground.
"Oh my god," Ochako managed to spit out. Shouto couldn't agree more.
"Sorry for the mess," the man (the author?) said as they followed him back down the tunnel. "I wasn't expecting guests. I've been down here for a long time. Years. Weeks, maybe. I miss orange juice. Hurry now," he called to the back. I scared it off, but it'll regenerate."
Ochako was almost bursting with questions, but not nearly as much as Izuku, who looked like he was about to explode with curiosity.
"Okay," her friend started, "I have like, a million questions to ask you. I mean, we've been looking for you for a while now-"
The author turned back, surprised. "You have?"
"You have no idea," Shouto deadpanned. Mina stepped on his toes lightly.
"Yeah, we have! I mean, your the guy that wrote the journals, right? You must know all about the info we're looking for! We seriously need your help."
Wendy turned to Ochako. "Wait, this is the guy?" Ochako nodded eagerly. "Sweet!"
"Dude, these kids have been looking for you for like, forever," Soos said. "It's great to finally meet you."
"Why thank you," the author said, looking somewhat bemused. "And I'll answer all your questions soon enough, but we have more important matters to deal with at the moment." They exited the tunnel and back into the main lab. "One of my experiments. A shapeshifter, that can take the form of whatever it looks at. It broke from a cage of solid steel." He motioned to a broken cage. "I've gone half crazy trying to catch it alone. But now you're here! Will you help me?"
"Of course!" Mina agreed. "This'll be awesome!"
"Fantastic! Follow me!" The author lead them down another tunnel. "Sorry for the state of things. I don't get many non-mole people down here." He stroked his chin. "Now, the creature must have some weakness we could exploit. I used to have my research on him, but alas, I lost my journals a long time ago."
Izuku brightened. "Hey don't worry! I've got one of them!" He pulled out Journal 3 and held it up for the author to see. "It's how we tracked you down here!"
The author leaned closer, intrigued. "Could it be? After all these years? Thank you, my boy!" He reached for the journal. Izuku held it out for him, but then pulled it back at the last second. The author frowned. "My boy? Is something wrong?"
Izuku narrowed his eyes at the author. "Hang on a second. If you 'lost your journal', how come it says here that you were going to hide it somewhere no one could find it? And I found it in that hiding place. Something doesn't add up."
Shouto looked at the author with suspicion. "Now that I think about it, he's right. And if you were down here for years, wouldn't you have figured out his weak points by now, even without the journals?"
Ochako caught on, her nerves tingling. "You seemed to know it would regenerate. And it was obvious from reading the journal that the author was smart, you should've caught on to its weaknesses by now. Not to mention, if it was one of your experiments, shouldn't you automatically know those things?"
"You're not the author, are you?" Mina demanded. "He's not even here, is he?"
"Let's get out of here," Wendy started to walk away.
Then the man changed. It's eyes became slits, its neck elongated and became skeletal, its mouth went wide and its teeth went inwards. "You're not going anywhere," It hissed, it voice deepening. It crawled up the wall, spider-like legs sprouting from its torso. It roared, and a scream tore itself from Ochako's throat.
"How do you like my true form?" The shapeshifter said, as it changed completely into a monster. "Go on, admit it, you like it."
"What did you do to the real author?" Ochako yelled at him.
"Hah! You'll likely never find him," the shapeshifter sneered. "That six-fingered nerd hasn't been himself in thirty years. But thank you for bringing his journal to me. He used to write in it while I was in my cage. I think it'll have so many wonderful forms to take." The thing leaned closer. "I'll be taking that now."
Izuku leaned back, hugging the journal tightly to his chest. "No way! This is our only way home, we're not letting you take it! Everyone run!" Ochako took him at his word and sprinted in the other direction as fast as she could. A screech sounded from behind them as the shapeshifter gave chase.
Mina ran over to Soos, who was still carrying their bag, as well as the briefcase he had picked up. "Sorry, I need to find something in there!" She poked her hand in, running sideways alongside Soos.
"No problem," Soos panted. "What are you looking for?"
Mina didn't reply. "Found it!" He pulled out a flashlight, then turned it on and threw it down another tunnel. "Everyone hide!" They all found a stone pillar to hide behind. Ochako held her breath as the shapeshifter crept closer, then turned and followed the light down the other tunnel.
"That was a close one," Wendy sighed. "Nice thinking Mina." Mina beamed.
Izuku flipped through the journal. "Okay, we still need to find a way out of here."
"I think we need to deal with the shapeshifter first, actually," Shouto suggested. "If that thing get out, he could and would turn into anyone to try and get that journal. We would never be able to trust anyone again."
"So how do we take care of it?" Soos asked.
"Well," Wendy pulled her flannel jacket off and ripped the sleeve, tying it around a scrape on her knee. "He brought us into his home, tricked us, and tried to destroy us." She narrowed her eyes. "I say we return the favor."
"Come out, by boy!" The shapeshifter called, followed by a squish and a grunting noise. "I must speak with you!" Izuku pulled the journal closer to his chest. The thing shifted again. "Reveal yourself, you single form human weakling!" It called out in a low voice, slamming some part of itself against the ground.
Izuku looked to Mina, who gave a smile and a thumbs up. That was the signal. Izuku willed his hands to stop shaking as the two of them stepped out from behind a hole in the wall and started walking down the tunnel. He desperately tried to ignore how open and vulnerable they were.
"Oh boy, 'Zuku!" Mina announced cheerfully. "That journal sure has some great monsters in there!" They walked right over to the shapeshifter, who had taken the form of a monster with a thin spider-like body and a massive head. Izuku gulped, and stood his ground, ready to move.
"Ah there you are! Two of you, wonderful!" The thing shifted into Mina. "Should I be one?" He shifted into Izuku, who was suddenly face to face with another version of himself. "Or the other?" The thing smirked. "How about both? It shifted again, changing into some terrifying amalgamation of the two of them that would possibly haunt Izuku's nightmares for a while.
With that, he and Mina took off, the shapeshifter not far behind. They dashed down the tunnels, right to where the others were, standing next to a tube labeled 'H2O'. "He's here!" Izuku yelled. "Do it now!"
Soos and Shouto turned the wheel on the tube. "It's not working!" Soos called out.
The shapeshifter stuck his tongue out, wrapping it around the journal. Izuku pulled back hard, but the thing had latched on tight.
Shouto pulled on the wheel. "Move, the water's about to come!" Izuku felt for anything that could help him, fingers landing on the dagger he hand taken from the weapons closet. Drawing it, he swung the dagger down onto the shapeshifter's tongue, cutting it clean off. The monster screeched and withdrew the rest of his tongue, but before Izuku could celebrate, the water burst out of the tube, catching him off guard and sending him flying away from the rest of his friends. The journal flew out of his hands as he washed back into the main lab with the shapeshifter.
Izuku heard his friends calling out his name as he struggled to his feet. "I'm okay!" He called back, noticing the journal and running to grab it. Before he could reach it, however, someone knocked into him and made their own grab for it. Izuku registered another version of him reaching for his and his friends' way home, and shoved the shapeshifter back. The thing kicked him in the stomach and he winced, before swiping at it's knees. While the thing stumbled, Izuku grabbed the journal. The monster was quick to try and grab it back.
Wendy came charging in, axe in hand. "Wendy!" The shapeshifter called out. "I need help, he's trying to steal the journal!"
Izuku fought to keep the rising panic down. "Don't listen to him, he's the shapeshifter!"
Wendy looked back and forth between the two. "Okay, say something only Izuku would say!"
Izuku was quick to the draw, not letting the shapeshifter get a word in. "We went to the abandoned store together, and I exercised that ghost!" He searched for another thing to add. "And on the second day we were here, you gave us the golf cart, and told us not to hit any pedestrians."
Wendy grinned. "That's right, I did!" She lunged for the shapeshifter.
"No!" The thing called out. "Don't listen to him! No!" But it was too late, as Wendy sunk her axe into the monster's stomach. The thing changed back and roared, pulling the axe out of its chest. Mina and Shouto caught up to them just as the light for one of the pods started blinking green.
"Push him in!" Shouto yelled, stepping forward and pushing against the shapeshifter. Izuku, Wendy, and Mina joined him, shoving against the weakened monster with all their might. A final push did the trick, and the shapeshifter went flying into the pod, which closed around him.
Mina pumped her fist in the air. "Looks like Ochako and Soos did it!"
"No!" The shapeshifter banged against the walls of the pod, changing from human to bulky monster, to raging flames, and back again, but nothing seemed to work. Izuku let out the breath he didn't know he'd been holding.
Soos and Ochako walked back into the lab. "Let's get out of here dudes," Soos said. They all turned to go, but a deep laughter coming from the pod made them turn back.
"You kids think you're so clever," the shapeshifter said, "but you have no idea what you're up against. You will never find the author, and if you keep digging, you'll meet a fate worse than you can imagine."
"We'll take our chances," Shouto said dryly, turning and walking away. After a moment, the rest of them followed.
"Hey wait, I wasn't done threatening you! Hey!" The shapeshifter protested. But Mina closed the door to the lab behind them has the cryopod finally took hold.
They all hovered in the surveillance room for a moment, tired and unsure of what to do next. Ochako finally spoke up. "Let's just get out of here." Her voice was exhausted. A few nods and murmurs of agreement, and they were on their way.
"So the bunker was a dud," Shouto sighed, as the wooden stairs closed up behind them and the tree rose back into position. "We're not any closer than we were before to getting home." Izuku's friend slumped down onto a tree log.
"Hey, look at the bright side," Mina offered. "We just got to go on another awesome adventure! And we stopped a shape-shifting monster! That's pretty heroic, right?" Shouto glared at her. "Or not. Geez."
"Hey, even if this didn't work out, you guys were awesome down there," Wendy offered. "I can totally see you guys as heroes."
"Thanks Wendy," Izuku said gratefully. He could admit that he was pretty disappointed their lead turned out to be a dud. He'd been so sure they could find some clue as to how to get home in the bunker.
"I'm really sorry we couldn't find the author, guys," Soos sat down next to Shouto. "At least I got his science-y coat and briefcase." He held up said briefcase. Then it opened, to reveal that instead of documents or the like, the briefcase itself was an old laptop. "Woah! What the heck?"
Izuku gasped. "Soos, you did it! That could be-"
"The author's laptop," Shouto finished, looking more excited than Izuku had seen him be all day. "Aka a new lead on how to find the author and get home."
"Looks like it wasn't a dud after all!" Mina poked at the laptop. "It's pretty busted up though. Doesn't look like it'll work."
"I bet I could get this thing up and running again," Soos offered. "Just give me a few days and a lot of duct tape."
"We can do that." Ochako smiled. "Thanks so much Soos! You're amazing!"
Soos chuckled. "It's no problem dudes. Now, since we spent all morning being heroes, who wants a heroes lunch, on me?"
"Absolutely!" And the six of them walked back into town, stomachs empty and hearts full, ready for the next adventure, whatever it would be.
In case anyone's worried, I'm not skipping the rest of season 1. Episodes will be out of order because the four UA students are doing things differently than Dipper and Mabel did. In fact, the next chapter is based off of an episode from season 1.
For anyone who's curious, Journal 3 does mention a 'magic dagger', but it doesn't say much else about it, or what it does, so any abilities it has aren't actually canon.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed.
