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Dipper ran. He ran as fast as his legs could go. They were being chased. Him and Grunkle Ford were being chased by some weird alien ball thing that was supposably the security. Ford said it he never had an issue with them. But here they are. Running.He was so scared he might trip or fall and Ford would keep running or something and he would get caught and die, then Mable would be sad, and Grunkle Stan, mom, dad…They were definitely going to die. His heart was pounding, he could hear it in his ears. Each step like like life or death when Grunkle Ford had stopped running.“Wh-what are you doing!” I spun around, Ford was holding the magnet gun at the security drone. He shot.There was a loud banging sound and the drone smacked to the ground as a eco warped through the hallways.They both sighed. Then the floor beneath them cracked.Oh my God“Dipper don't move” they both froze. He saw Ford grimaced and his eyes widened. Then he took a step back arm length to me… and BANG the floor caved in on itself.Fords hands rapped around my arm as he shot the gun at the underside of the floor. It clicked and they hung dangling over a giant void like hole.“Ohh-ha-hoo my God” I wrapped almost instantly around Ford legs. I looked down. It was like I couldn't move or we would fall. Ford breathing was out of pace witch was just freaking him out more. The author of the journals, for crying out loud, was freaking out.“Oh- okay Dipper uh.” Fords hands were stabbing into my arm. And it tightend. Then there was a red triangle that glowed.In the blackness of the void.The security drone was not dead.I screamed seeing it my scrambling my legs up to Ford. Ford made this weird whining noise.“Wh-what do we do?!” The triangle began to get bigger. I was coming closer.“Uhh… Dipper I have no clue. I can't think. There's-” Ford looked down, “uh. We could… we could” the triangle got closer.“We're gonna die!” I yelped out shoving my face into Ford coat. I didn't want to look at that triangle anymore. It was killing me from the inside out. Like a countdown.“Dipper I have a plan… it's crazy but just listen” I poked my head up. Ford grimaced.“Can you climb onto my back? Now?” I listen trying my best staggering up to his back. Almost falling a couple times.“Okay… this should theoretically work…” And they were falling.I screamed.Then another gunshot from the gun shot. And we went up a bit before hitting the ground. We lay their for a second.“Ha!-ha!.that actu-haly worked!” I listened to Ford swallowing thickly before rolling on the ground laying next to him. Ford was qlaying face down before pushing himself up and looking to the black void above them.We could have died. We could have fell and died. Ford didn't even know that would work… he used his magnet gun right when they were about to hit the floor. It boosted them up a little and they still fell, but they didn't die… We still might die. That security thing was still after them. I shot up to a sitting position seeing the red triangle change directions.“Uhh. Ford we got to go!” I pointed at the triangle and Ford nodded seeing the triangle. They both stood up. I thrown my bag over my shoulder and shone my flashlight.“Where are we?” I asked and Ford opened his mouth before closing it. He turned all the way around looking for something maybe?“What are you doing?” I pulled on his jacket.“I'm looking for something. Like some sort of markings, but I'm believe this is unexplored territory. I thought me and… my coworker, discovered everything but I suppose not.” The triangle was getting closer.“Which way?” They were in a hallway. A huge one.“Let's go. This way” Ford started walking and he slid his hand along the walls to the right as they walked.Every once and a while they turned but it was always following the right wall. Sometimes they would stray away to peak inside a room they saw. It was usually storage and nothing more. Then they found a room with weird markings on the walls. There were also several big, huge even garage like doors. There was some sort of liquid in them, it changed colors frantically, purple, pink, blue. One thing was that the colors were always a pastel shade.The room was huge. There was also many control panels and what Ford said were warning signs. But other than that he couldn't read anything else. There was also a big screen like thing above one of the control panels. It was a blue hazey color and there were little 2d boxes lining the top. They all had a green line under them, and below that was more unreadable text.“Interesting…” Ford turned to the control panel in the middle of the room and squinted at the screen.“Wh-what is it?” Ford turned to him.“Well. I'm just so surprised I never knew this was here. It's huge. I could have explored this area ages ago if I knew it was here. There probably is some pretty useful technology scattered around that might aid us to defeat Bill Cypher. I just need to learn how to read their language” Ford sighed. I hummed.Ford really didn't know this was here? We are definitely in danger. He doesn't know where the traps are or the randomly placed pits. Not down here.“So.. uh. Can we leave?” I stumbled my words out touching the back of my neck. I was so stupid. I wanted to hang out with the author and the one time I get scared I want to leave. I'm such a wimp. A useless wimp.“I would like to” his words were like someone sneaking up on me. I stumbled back.What?“Wh-why? I thought you-”“Calm down.. it's because. I don't want you getting hurt down here. It's clearly to dangerous” I looked downOf course it was me. I was just dragging him down with me.Ford looked at me and raised a brow.“Listen Dipper. I-I'm don't believe coming is even safe for myself. I didn't know the security was still running. Plus we almost fell to our deaths Dipper. I need a break” Ford sighed.“Wait really?” I just eyed him.“Ok… let's go before that drone catches up to us. Yes?” I nodded and we began walking. It was already to late. the doors slid open when they weren't even near It.The security drone. It hovered in place before it started shooting lasers. I screamed and cowered as Ford drug me behind a set of control panels. The drone was still shooting when a loud creaking noise sounded. The garage door infront of them lit with red lighting. It opened from the bottom and the purple-pink-blue liquid stuff poured out. It was like slow motion. Ford's eyes were wide and he was just staring at it. His mouth was wide open like he was about to say something.It splashed out and I hit my head on the control panel behind me from whiplash before another loud bang went off. Everything stung. The liquid flooded the ground and I felt hazy. I must've hit my head really hard. I felt Ford tug me up.“Dipper we-!” More of the garage door like things opened and the security drone shot. It hit the liquid before fire broke out and everything went white before going black. there was a huge loud exploding noise. My ears where ringing. The ground shook before everything went black again. What have I got myself into this time I woke up with my ears still ringing. They hurt. Badly. I put my hands to them, but they were soft… they were soft. I checked again. My ears were soft and pointed. I sat up and blinked a couple times my eyes adjusting to the dark. I groaned. Everything hurt. I also couldn't feel my legs.I felt my ears again. Rubbing them. Why were they soft. I looked down and saw deer legs. I panicked. I screamed seeing the legs move with how I wanted to scooting back. Trying to escape them.Deer? Half deer? Me? Me being half deer? How? The weird liquid. I turned to see Ford. Or what I think is Ford. He had wings. That's the first thing I noticed. His face was more… Lion like, I think. He has some horns. His nose looked triangular. His ears were kinda like dear ears but like more rounded. He also had a tail. His hands were now more like paws. His clothing was ripped in most places. And he was sleeping. He was also snoring, or I think a snore. It sounded more like a growling sound that would leave and come back. Kinda like a car starting, or a cat purring, but if the purring was more scary somehow.His glasses were on the floor cracked… cracked… THE RIFT.I felt my heart stop. I opened my bag. It was safe.I sighed. I looked back at my legs. I had four legs. I was some sort of cenitar now. I guess. I poked at them. Yup. Those were now my legs.I looked back at Ford.I should probably wake him up.I felt scared.I didn't know why.I pushed through my thoughts and crawled my way over. Because I didn't want to stand… definitely not because I don't know how to use my legs or anything… heh.I put my hand on Ford's shoulder and shook it.“Grunkle Ford wake up” I shook him again.He growled.I froze.He was still sleeping.I took a deep breath.“Ford…” I shook him again.His eyes opened slowly. He blinked a few times before staring at me.“I dont-”He growled.I froze.Ford got on all fours, it was weird… his tail was wagging back and fourth. He adjusted his wings to look bigger. It worked. And worst of all. Ford was actually growling. His ears flipped back and his teeth shone. I froze.He eyed me.Growling.He jumped. Swinging his claws at me. I dashed out of the way and ran. I ran. I ran. I could hear him behind me roaring. It was a dead end. “Oh no, no, no, no, no!” I felt the wall. “Common secret lever?” I pushed into the wall.Nothing.There was snarling behind me.It was Ford.Or whatever Ford was.I locked eyes.I couldn't see him very well.He jumped at me again. I cowered with nowhere to go. He was about to slash me when he just fell over limp.“Wh-” I looked at him. Oh my GodOh my GodHe was actually going to kill me! I stared at him. If he moved once twords me, Im getting outta here. Ford's eyes opened again. I saw him wince. This was Ford. He was back.“Ford! Oh my God you almost killed me” I blinked at him my head swirling.Ford growled.I froze.“Huh?” Ford looked at me and I looked at him. “Dipper.. why-” Ford stopped breathing heavily, “your legs?”“I don't know… I think it was that stuff that flooded that room.”Ford growled again. His ears flicked.“Dipper. Why do I keep making that noise-” he stopped breathing again,” it just happens…” Fords voice sounded really tired and whoozy.I looked at him.His claws.His tail.The wings.“I honestly don't know what you are” Ford's head perked up.“Wha-”“Look at me Ford. I'm a freaking half dear person!” I sat down next to lying down Ford.“What do i-” Ford coughed. “Well. You look. I don't know. Listen you have wings, and a tail, and claws, and weird ears like mine, horns.”Ford hummed.He wasn't even paying attention.“Did you even hear me”I looked at Ford. He was sleeping again. I frowned.Was he okay?How the heck are we going to get out of here if he is sleeping. Plus hurt. My walkie talky. I grinned.“Be right back Ford. Don't go anywhere… Please” and with that I left back where I came.My bag was sitting on the ground. It was soaked.Please don't be broken, please don't be-
Static noise broke the silence as I turned it on. I grinned. Yes!“Mable! Mable can you hear me?!”No one answered.“Mable! Answer me please! Ford got hurt of something also he kinda almost, kinda attacked me?”“Mableee! Answer I need you?” “Hi?” Mable responded!“Mablle! need help!”“What! Are you hurt?”“Uh no. But I think Ford is. We need help!”“Where are you?”I frowned.“Well. Listen aliens are real and there is a big spaceship under gravity falls” Mable laughed “oh Dipper.”“I'm not joking! Grunkle Ford is-”There was a growl from outside the room.“What was that Dipper?”“Uhh…”Ford pushed his way through the door looking at me on all fours. Again.“Oh no… Mable I need you to listen uh.. there is a clearing. You know like… there should be a map somewher-”Ford roared stretching his wings.“Dipper what is that?!?”“Mable! You need to come find me! It's near the river. Like on a cliff. You will see a giant hole in the cliffs shaped like a UFO. There will be a rock on top of a trapdoor lead- wait how will you? Nevermind I just need help I don't know what to do and-”“Calm down! I'm coming. Right now. I'm coming!”“Okay… I probably should hide or something. Be quiet please Mable”I scooted back seeing Ford crouch forwards. Like he was hunting.My breathing picked up I slowly backed up. Before noticing the garage doors… if I could trap him Ford in There he wouldn't be able to hurt me. I looked up. The door looked like it functioned like a garage door.I sighed.Man I'm going to die.I looked around for the magnitising gun. It was lying on the ground next to Ford's glasses.I slowly crawled my way over watching Ford from the top of my eyes and I grabbed onto the gun.I watched Ford use it. Yeah… I definitely could do this.I waited standing up in front of the door.PouncePouncePouncePounceThen Ford did. He pounced at me. I screamed ducking as he flew behind me and we both switched around to face each other. I pointed the gun upwards and randomly pushed buttons until it let off a blue beam and the door began to rappedly fall to the ground.“Dipper what's helping?!”I panicked jumping out of the way nearly getting crushed as I head Ford hit the metal door behind me.He roared.“That actually worked!” I put my hands to my head shaking.“Dipper!”Right Mable.I picked up the walky walkie and sat down against the wall. Eyeing my legs.They were weird.I hated it.“Okay uh. I trapped it in some sort of cage Mable can you believe it!”“What was it?” Mable gasped, “was it some sort of alien wherewolf!”“Uh no, it was.. it was Ford.” “You lost me”“Wellll” I spun my fingers in circles looking at my legs. I felt my ears flick, “me and Ford came in contact with this weird substance andd. Now I have dear legs, and he is feral creature trying to kill me”There was a bang on the door behind me I flinched. Ford roared.“I thought that that noise was familiar… wait you have dear legs?! Cool! Imagine if I got turned into a mermaid or a vampire, or” Mable laughed.“Mable this is serious! Ford is trying to kill me for some reason”“Right. Sorry… do you have any ideas how to fix that”“No”There was a loud scratching sound. It was probably Ford scratching his new claws at the metal door. I shiverd.“Well. Hey! I see that cliffs! Like the one the UFO crashed into. I see the outline!”“Okay Mable there should be like a rock somewhere.”“Uhh. I see it!” I heard Mable grunting, then I head a clank.“Wowza that rock was heavy. I opened the trapdoor Dipper. I'm going down!”“Wait. Be careful. There is these weird floating security drone things. You have to alert them first though. Witch might be hard vecause this place is old, but still. Be careful”“Oh ok.” Wait how was she supposed to get down the giant pit in the floor.“Oh no” I rubbed my face“What?”“There is a giant hole in the ground that you need to go down. You need a magnitising gun”“A magna-what?”“A magnitising gun. It lets you slide down or up metal and stuff”“Hmm. Why don't you just one and give it to me?”“Well.” That might actually work, “I guess, I'll try. But what about Ford?”“He will probably be fine right? He's like I beast or something?”“Yeah.” I reassured myself as I exited the room,” yeah he should be fine. I hope”

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I woke up hurting. Everything hurt. I blinked my eyes. I was still on the ship still.Dipper?“Dipper?” I sat up my eyes caring on my hands. They were orange, and fluffy. They looked like paws. I held both in front of my face I scrunched them. They ached. Along with everything else.I noticed my feet next. My shoes were destroyed, toes were popping out of the ends.My clothing was ripped. I looked at my arms and my legs and my everything. It was all different.I wasn't wearing my glasses. I could see perfectly. I blinked. I could see without my glasses.I had wings. Colorful wings. I pulled on one of them wincing before letting it fling back. They hurt really bad..I had a tail as well. Which somehow hurt too. What happened to me? I looked around in the room I was in. I was trapped. There were claw markers everywhere. Six claw marks. I swallowed.I did that. In metal. With my bare hands?I turned to my hands again placing it on one of the scratches. It lined up perfectly.I thumped to the ground laying down.What am I?I huffed.Right. Dipper.“Dipper!” I yelled. No one responded. I winced.“Dipper!”“Dipper!”“Dipper!”Okay I need to get out of here. I looked around. A plan. That's what I need. I tried thinking of a plan. It did not work. My head was jumbled.My thoughts were not thinking right.They were being unorganized. I think?They weren't being normal.I was thinking about everything.Everything that could happen.I started to panic.Why was my thoughts messed up?Why was I trapped.I began pacing.Why was I trapped.I didn't like it.I didn't like being in a cage.I'm trapped.I'm trapped and I'm going to die.I'm going to die.I felt my claws.I scratched the wall leaving a mark as I fell down hearing them screatch against the metal.I scooted away.Why did I do that?I focused on my breathing. Everything went back to normal. I was breathing normal and my thoughts were thinking.I was trapped.I whinned.I focused back on my breathing. Why was I so scared of being trapped? I've been trapped on many occasions. Many times over. It was okay. Well not the first couple times. I suppose it is never okay to be trapped. However I was familiar with it.It must be a side effect. Like with all the pain. Everwhere. I focused on my breathing. I found a way to get my thoughts back to me.I looked again at my wings. I had wings. Actually wings. Like that you can fly with. I tried to move them. Just like saying in my head to move or stretch.It didn't work. I lifted my palm to my face i saw them move a bit. I furrowed my brows.I moved my shoulder back down. My right wing slightly followed. I moved it back up, my wing moving slightly.It slightly felt like a weird like a stone or a lump was attached to specific spots on my both of my shoulders. Like I don't know leaches or something.I grimaced. Leaches? I tried moving my wings this time focusing on those spots on my shoulders. They twitched.I did it again, they twitched again.This was hard.It was better than nothing though.My thoughts were a mess.Whatever that weird substance did to my head was not something I liked. Nor was the new look.I tried moving my wings again. My right one unfolded. Well as far as it could go, it hit the other side of the wall.I froze.It felt so good to stream them. It was like standing after sitting for days straight (and nights).I did the same thing to my other wing yawning this time it felt so good to stretch. Even if I couldn't do it fully.I folded them back up as a small spikes of pain shivered down the base of my wings and into my back. I flicked my tail.I watched it slowly move to a stop. Then it would make a slight movement. Then it would stop again. Then it moved again. I narrowed my eyes at it.My heartbeat slowed in my ears. My eyes were locked on it. I felt my mouth fill with saliva.I heard a weird growl sound come from within my chest as I pounced on my own tail rolling to a stop with it in my mouth. I chewed on it.I spit it outWhy did I do that.I grimaced.GrossAnother side effect. Great. I felt my ears flick.I froze moving my ears and feeling them change.My ears were different too. They were long and thin rounded at the ends. They were slightly like a goats ears or a hourse possibly. That's when I noticed my face was different too. It was jolted outwards a bit. Like a small mussle and my nose was like a dogs, it was big and it had a leathy texture to it. I frowned. Attempting to run my hands through my hair. It was stopped by something hard on my head.I ran my hands to them feeling them spike at the top. They were id say medium sized. They had a slight bend to them, plus they were pointy.Horns? I had horns too. I sighed. Of course I had horns…I pouted into the ground feeling horrible. Everything ached. I had wings, tail, horns, weird ears, paw things. I'm some sort of weird creature. How in the world was I going to explain this to anyone and what about Dipper? Was he safe? Was he in danger. I breathed out. Stan would probably call me a furry. I chuckled at the thought. I layed there for what felt like eternity. It felt like I was fighting for my thoughts the whole time. Fighting for my own head.I wanted to claw everythingBut I also didn't.I didn't know why I wanted toIt was another side effect. Along with everything else.It felt like I was fighting against whatever I've become. It wanted to kill.It wanted to kill.I was so hungry.I wanted food so bad.It wanted meat..It made sense.Of course it did. Of course. I huffed annoyed.When you turn into a weird beast in a TV show they always are looking for meat, blood, flesh.I accidentally licked my lips flinching. I swallowed saliva pilling up in my mouth.Food. But I ate before I came here. I shouldn't be hungry. then again, me and Dipper had a big workout you could say. I pouted.I probably used all my energy turning into this or something.But then again it might just be because I'm now whatever this is and I need food more often then regular.That made more sense.That weird substance me and Dipper probably came in contact with most likely had enormous amounts of energy to turn change me this rapidly into this weird monster.MonsterThat's what I am a monster.My tail flicked as I heard myself growl.I don't like calling myself a monster.Weird.Add that to the list of side effects. I looked at the walls.They looked back at me They shrank.It felt like they were shrinkingI knew they weren't but I began to freak out again pacing. This time on all fours. Like it was natural. I stopped and placed on two feet. The all fours thing was to weird.Trapped.I had nothing to do and I'm trapped.I felt my ears flick again.I'm trapped.I whinned.I stopped.I focused on my breathing trying to calm myself. BANG, CRASH. I froze standing up and sckittering as far back into one of the corners as I could. There was something shooting out there “Mable run!” It was Dipper!. Shooting.My ears perked.The door opened creaking as one side of it creaked before slamming into the ground. I flinched.It was a security drone.I growled my tail flicking.I literally couldn't control myself.I tried to stop but nothing happened.It was like watching a movie. I felt myself get on all fours and I growled at it slowly creeping towards it.It shot.I flinched looking where it hit the ground.It sounded like I got more mad somehow.I leaped at it my wings boosting me upwards as I wrapped myself around the drone and dug my claws into it and dragged down making a loud horrible scretching sound. It shot one of my wings and I fell off loosing my grip.I fell to the ground readjusting my injured wing like nothing happened. I roaredI roared oh it was loud.I jumped at it again this time getting to a place where it couldn't shoot me. I clawed at the metal parts before ripping wires out with my mouth. They snapped in half as the security drone plopped to the floor. My arm got crushed under it.I whinned trying to get it loose. It was heavy. It stung. It was bad.I scratched at it again growling.“What do we do?!” My head turned twords Dipper. Food. I growled twisting my tail as I bit into my own arm trying to pull it free with my mouth.“No Ford! Hey kitty kitty kitty!” Mable leaped forwards and drug her attention twords herself. I eyed her. “Yeah. Look at me” she grinned. More food. I growled.“Mable I don't think that's-” I bit back into my arm pain shooting in it as I winced. It tasted so good. But it was my own arm.I pulled on it again. And again. It wasn't getting free.I roared again flicking my tail as I scratched at the dead security drone trapping me again.Trapped I was trapped again!I struggled with my arm trying to wiggle it free.“Kitty kitty kitty!” That stupid girl said again. I turned to her. She was smiling.“Mable this isn't going to-”“Shhhh” Mable slapped her hands over Dippers face crosseyed, “let me work my magic”Then a red dot appeared on the ground at my feet.I eyed it.“Mable! This isn't-” I tried to step on the door with my foot. It moved. I swatted at it with my free hand. It moved again.“Oh my- Mable that actually is!” Mable giggled at Dipper.That dot moved again. I eyed it making it with my tail as it darted to another spot.“Told you! He is like a big cat now!” Mable punched Dipper. Their words were hard to understand.It moved just outside my reach. I pulled on my arm. It hurt, I flinched back struggling myself out trying to reach it.“This is so cool! Mable now he won't try and get us!”I stretched my wings as the dot moved again avoiding contact with my feathers.“Yup! Told you it would work”I eyed it“Now we have to get that thing of his arm”I waited as it slowly crept back over to me. I tried my best to pounce on it as it moved on top of my hand before darting away again. I growled.“Maybe he could get it off?” Dipper shrugged.I followed the dot with my eyes as it moved out of reach“Yeah maybe. But how would we get him to go that without hurting himself. Like he's obviously big enough to get it off its just that” Mable did a odd finger movement at her head circling them around her ears.I heard my stomach make a weird noise, I shrugged it off as my wing almost kicked the red dot.I heard Dipper and Mable gasp “food!” They said it at the same time in unison. I was broken out of my trance.Food.I eyed them.Their eyes widened.I growled.“Maybe we shouldn't have said that out loud.” Dipper touched his neck nervously and Mable was grimaceing.I bit into my stuck arm again. The pain shot through it. I ignored it. I needed to get out.Then the dot returned.I narrowed my eyes at it.Mable was holding a weird thing.She moved her hand.The dot moved at the same time.It was her doing the dot.I growled. Bitting into my arm again.Hungry.Food.I felt the blood leak into my mouth and onto the floor. “Kitty kitty kitty!” Mable made that noise again. I perked back up narrowing my eyes at her. She grimaced. She help up the Lazer pointer and turned it on and off before shinning it back to the ground near my reach. It was a distraction.A good one.I needed a distraction from biting into my arm.I looked at it.But-Food.I eyed them. They would get me food.I trusted them.Why?It doesn't matter.I lowered. Dippers mouth was wide open, “how did you?!”Mable shrugged” I just saw him getting curious about the dot, them he got mad at me for using it, so I showed him the Lazer and how it worked”I didn't understand a single thing they were saying somehow.I watched as Mable cautiously walked closer to me and kneeled, she grimaced. She put her hand out.“Come on Grunkle” I narrowed my eyes at her, my stomach made a noise again. She raised an eyebrow.”we'll get you food” I sat up straight looking at her.She said food.“Okay” Mable bit the inside of her mouth, “you need to move that” Mable pointed behind him. I raised a brow.“Your arm?”I didn't understand what she was saying. I was so upset. Why couldn't I understand her words.She took the Lazer pointer out and flashed it at the security drone, then at my arm.I looked at it. I sniffed. Huffing air out of my nose.I didn't understand. Why am I so stupid. Mable stood up and got within reach she waited a second. I lowered. I peeked at Dipper who looked absolutely terrified, his mouth was open and he looked extremely pale. I felt a sting in my arm. I hissed.“Sorry!” Mable froze throwing her arms up. I lowered back down.I felt another sting of pain. I hissed again seeing she was trying to lift it off of my arm.I crept forward laying my back against the metal I grasped my free hand under and leaned upwards to a kneeling position hissing.It raised. Enough for me to snap my arm back. I scooted away from it as it hit the ground.Mable was frozen.“We good?” I didn't understand. She nodded “Okay” then she turned to Dipper“Come on Deerper we go a big pet cat now!” she began walking. Dipper followed“Deerper?” Dipper stopped raising a brow.“Yeah! Like Deer. Dipper. So your new nickname is Deerper.” Mable smiled.I followed them cautiously. Only for the food they would give. Maybe?If they don't they will be food.I followed. Saliva dribbling out of my mouth. As I limped on three legs. I followed these two for what felt like forever. It was getting annoying.I was hungry.I wanted food.I growled at them.“calm down. Were almost there okay, Cord”We walked through the grass and the trees. We got out of that dark other place for a while now.“Stop calling him that. It's stupid… plus he isn't even a cat!”“I know. He just acts like one” Mable laughed. Again. Me ears hated it.IWantedFood I growled again“Man hes getting mad”“We better hurry then right?”A building came into view. The two kids ran twords it and left inside.I chased them to be blocked my a door. I growled.I reopened. It was Mable and Dipper. I smelled food.They led me to the backside of the shack and they used a grappling hook to get into of the roof. Then they opened a triangle shaped window.“Comon!” Dipper dangled a package of unopened hamburger meat.I growled lepeing off the ground and using my wings as a boost to get on top with them.“Whoa look at his wings!” Mable looked sparkly somehow.They retreated inside the room through the window. I followed.They finally gave me the food. I tore it open.“Do you think he can eat raw meat Mable?”“I don't know? Probably he is like a cat and all!”“What no he isn't?”It was already gone.I was still hungry. I snarled at them for waistjng my time. I flicked my tail and leaped out the window. “Wait Ford dont leave!” I stopped.Something was familiar. about those sounds. I tiltes my head back at the boy. “Why'd he stop?”“i don't know” “Uhh. Ford?”I titled my head more. What was that sound to me? “Ha! He remembers his name!” Dipper was smiling.Suddenly everything hurt. I winced. My tail flicking. I looked between the forest and this warm area.I went back inside.I layed down and eyess them. They eyed me.“Now what?” Dipper was pacing.“Hey how about we see how many marshmallows Ford can stuff in his mouth in The morning” She laughedI bated my eyes at Mable hearing the familiar sound again. She smiled. I tilted my head.“Uh. Mable no!” Dipper stopped pacing he sighed, “how are we going to tell Grunkle Stan about this… I mean look at him,” he pointed at me. I tited my head “Look at me!” Dipper pointed to himself.“What if we tell someone else first. Like Soos or Wendy?” Mable drug her hand closer to my face before resting it on top of my head. She rubbed.I dug my face into my arms. I liked this. This was good.“Okay. Okay. That could work! Also. Stop doing that he probably doesn't like it”She scratched my head before abruptly stopping.I glanced at her growling. She continued. I layed back down.“Right.” Mable teeses.“Seriously? Why does he like you so much”Mable grinned. “Scritches” she continued petting.Dipper rolled his eyes.“Okay you need to go get Wendy… or Soos. Or both okay I dont Care” “Why cant-” Dipper pointed at his four legs interrupting Mable. She nodded standing up. She patted my head a couple times before leaving.I pouted. The boy was staring at me. It was weird.I eyed him back.He didn't stop.I growled.He looked away.I stopped growling.He walked closer and slowly put his hand on my head.He sat of the bed next to me. He pet.I like.He pet better somehow.I watched as Mable came back. Dipper almost had a heart attack. I sat up growling covering him with my wings.He bent them down.“Calm down it's just me!” Mable smiled. I narrowed my eyes before laying back down.Two other people walked in. One has red hair, the other had basically none.I narrowed my eyes.“Whoa dudes! He is totally like a cat!” the bald one pointed at me. I shrank.“I know right! We should call him Cord. Get it Cat, Ford. His name should be Cord” Mable smiled.I batted an eye at the sound again. What was it Ford?“He isn't a cat Mable! How many times do I have to tell you that?” Dipper stood up from the bed.“Whoa Dipper Mable wasn't lying about you legs” The red head said and Dipper's face turned red. I tilted my head.I looked back at them.I growled standing up and folding them over Dipper again.“Hey calm down!” Dipper moved from under them and got in my face. “Their frieds remember?”I growled.Dipper grimaced.I layed back down. “Should we fix his arm?” Wendy pointed at me. I shrank again.I didn't like when they pointed. “Oh I completely-” Dipper smacked himself in the face, “I'll go and-”“No dude aren't you like trying to keep this a secret? I'll go get it for you!” Dipper smacked himself in the face again.“Sorry”“No it's totally fine dude” and the bald one left. I felt a bit safer with less people being near me. “So… does he remember anything?”Uh I don't know. He seemed to remember his name.” They all looked at me.I growled.“Whoa sorry… okay he doesn't like being looked at” Wendy batted her hands up.“Maybe we should try other names or places?” Dipper ran hishand through his hair.“Like what?” Wendy scratched her head“Stanley!” Made shouted.I peaked up. That word was very fimmilar.They all smiled at each other.“Stanford?” Dipper looked at me. Stanford.Stanford.That was a name?What is a name? I looked down.My name. But what is a name? I looked back up. Before laying back down. My head stung.“I'm back dudes” the other person was back.They all smiled at him.I eyed him.“Got the medkit doods” he held up a weird white box with a cross In the middle. ***“This is going to suck isn't it” Wendy pouted.They had a plan to do this.The first time they tried to clean it ended horribly. Their plan was to get him passed out on sleeping meds. It was brutal but, you don't want an infection do you. There was absolutely no way this could work right?***I watched as they returned with food. I eyed it. It was the same thing they gave me before. But now there was too many people.I eyed it.They watched.I growled. “Dudes maybe it's because we are watching” “Makes sense” Dipper nodded.“ me and Dipper will stay in here if we need help we will go ‘Ahhh!” Wendy and Soos left. Not entirely.I could smell them behind the door.But they couldn't see me. I sniffed at the food before tearing the rest of it open and eating it. I eyed the other two out of the corner of my eyes. They were watching me. Still.I growled. They turned away. “Do you see his tongue! That was totally cat-like Dipper!”“He literally had wings Mable! Cats don't have wings!”“Well maybe this one does!” Mable folded her arms. Dipper sighed. Everything got hazey quickly after that. I layed my head down everything was heavy.This sucked. Everything stung. It hits me all at once. The pain.I had the weirdest dream. I opened my eyes. I was laying on my right side facing Dipper bed. How did I get here. My tail flicked.That wasn't a dream. I actually had that happen.I was covered by my wings with a weak blanket placed over it.My stomach was very upset at me for some reason.I curled in on myself. Everything hurt, my head, my arms, my thoughts, my stomach…. It specifically hurt really bad. I groaned closing my eyes.I didn't why it hurt. It just did. I couldn't tell if it was something other than being hungry. I was still hungry.I sighed annoyed. I needed to work.I needed to work on the rift.THE RIFT!I sat up and eyed Dipper. I scooted over to him and shoot him awake. He sat up nervously looking at me.“Dipper what happened to the rift?” My voice was weak and more scratchy than I expected. It even hurt to talk.Dipper looked stunned.“Wait did you remember what happened yesterday?” I raised a brow before pinching my temple.“Not really.” Dipper grimaced. “the rift is safe do t worry” Dipper smiled.I blinked hazley at him.“Dipper why am I in so much pain?” I looked up at him. He seemed startled at the question.“Wait your in pain? We gave you painkillers for your arm!”“My arm?” I looked at my arm. It was bandaged. There were slight blood splotches seeping through.“Dipper what happened? Also my arm is not hurting it's everything else that is”“Well I dont know” Dipper through the blanket off of himself. I froze.“What happens to your legs?”Dippers legs was now replaced with four deer hooves. He was a cenitar.“Well. It didn't only affect you” Dipper scratched the back of his neck. I hummed. “Dipper I believe that I might have a hard time with this”Dipper looked up“Talk about it”I sighed.“I will have to begin working on a cure soon. So we aren't like, this”Dipper nodded. My thoughts were getting hazy. I rubbed my forehead. It stung.“Are you okay?” Dippers voice sounded small.Everything got fuzzy“Grunkle Ford?” I looked up at Dipper. Everything was back.“Dipper I'm having a hard time stay conscious” I rubbed my head again. “Mm. Maybe you need sleep after, you know.” Dipper waved his hands around. I nodded.“You are most likely correct.” I looked at my hands again. They were still orange. I frowned.“Does anyone else know about this?” Dippers face turned red.“Mable.”.I raised my brow,” and Wendy, and Soos”Three people knew?“Does Stanley?”Dipper looked confused for a second.“He doesn't know yet”I slouched feeling a weight lift of my chest.I closed my eyes. Still sitting.“Oh yeah!” Dipper picked up my glasses from the night stand. I sat straight up. It was weird not wearing glasses. I technically didn't need them anymore however.I grabbed them from dippers hands and slowly slid them on my face. I blinked a few times before taking them off. My glasses made everything hazey. They made things harder to see. I frowned.“What?”I looked back at Dipper fiddling with my glasses.“Well. It seems I don't need glasses anymore. I can see completely fine without them now. It's just. My face feels weird without glasses” I squinted at my hands.“Wait it fixed your eyesight? How?”“I have not a clue”I folded my glasses back up and sat them in the table next to dippers bed.I leaned back in Dipper's bed. I was tired. My stomach yelled at me.My face decently turned red. Or orange? I looked down.“I can go get you some food right now. No one is up yet”“No. It's fine.” I think.“Right… I'm doing it anyway,” Dipper mumbled something under his breath, “plus I'm hungry to” He stood up and left.I sighed seeing the door close. I curled up on the floorboards the coldness seeping through my arm. It was like lying on concrete. I blinked.It probably was concrete or something under the floorboards.I rubbed at my eyes. The door opened. It was Dipper. He had two bowls of cereal in his hands as he stumbled over to me and sat my bowl of the floor.I don't dare move. I was so tired. I blinked again.“Sorry about the cereal. We ran out of meat” I glanced at him. “Meat?” “Right.. you forgot” Dipper touched the back of his neck, “sorry it's just that. We tried to feed you other stuff. When we were returning to the shack. Like candy bars or whatever but you didn't eat it.”“You also killed a rabbit and ate it… so?”“I WHAT?!” I sat up looking at Dipper. My wings frilled. Dipper shot his shoulders up scared before shrugging. I eyed him.“I killed a rabbit” Dipper nodded,.”and I ate it?!” He nodded again. Slower.I drummed my fingers. Add that to the list of effects or whatever. I felt sick. Dipper began to eat his cereal. I mirrored him.I never like cereal much but it tasted bad, like more than normal. I ate it anyway.Once I was done basically force feeding myself I asked Dipper a question that was haunting my head.“Dipper. How exactly did I act while I was blacked out?”“Well-”“Hi Grunkle Ford!” Mable shot out of bed smiling.How did she even do that? She was just sleeping.“You acted like a cat,” she smiled more. I eyed her.“No he didn't!” Dipper's arms folded.“What do you mean! He followed the Lazer pointer and everything” I raised a brow before standing up.“Okay. Firstly I am not a feline.” At least I think, he mumbled incoherent, “plus I do not recall ever seeing a Lazer, Mable”Mable smiled. “You did! You followed the Lazer like a cat! You also like scratches!” What. “This is too weird…” I pinched my temple, “Dipper she is lying correct?” Dipper didn't answer.“I would never lie!” Mable stood up and crossed her arms.I grumbled. “So this is true?”Add multiple other things to the growing effects list.Mable nodded. “You were like ‘ grr’ then you went like ‘eh’ then you like it when I pet you” she smiled.“Don't talk about me like that. It's weird.” I huffed.“But like you were like cute and stuff. Well I think you tried to eat Dipper but sill-”“I WH-” I pinched my temple, “I tried to eat Dipper?”“Well that's what he said” “Yeah you kinda did attack me.”“Dipper i- I'm sorry. If I didn't drag you down there this might not be happening” I drummed my fingers.“No- i-its okay Grunkle Ford. We just need to fix this” I looked at Dipper as he kicked his deer legs up.“I agree” my wings dropped. Mable gasped” Grunkle Ford! Can you fly!” I looked at her.“What of course not i-!” I stopped and shifted my wings. Could I fly?“You should try to!”“What absolutely not!” I stood up and I felt my ears slick back.Everything got dizzy and I stumbled backwards. I caught myself on the wall behind me.“Uh Grunkle Ford maybe you should get some rest. You can borrow my bed if you want!” Mable hopped up and went over to Dipper.“No it's fine-”Mable pushed me closer to the bed. Or tried to, I didn't move. I rolled my eyes.“Okay stop.” She listened. I was pretty tired, “I suppose I will get some sleep. Just. Stay safe” I sat on the edge of her bed flicking the covers open.Mable grinned. She looked more pale than I remember… it's nothing. I think “Oh and Dipper keep the-” I looked at Mable, “keep the rift safe, and explain it to Mable or so-met-hing” I blacked out.

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WELL, WELL, WELL, WELL, LOOK WHO WE HAVE HERE!”Gideon looked up. He was finally here!“B-Bill Cypher! You finally came! I was waiting for you”The cell was somehow even more gray, and it had static glitches every once and a while. Just like when I summoned him before.“OOH-HA-HOO SHORT STACK I'VE BEEN WATCHING YOU. LET'S CUT TO THE BIG STUFF SHALL WE?”Bill placed both his hands on him, it looked like he was placing them in his hips but he was a triangle so…I smiledI waited so long for him and he finally is here!“SO GIDEON, OLD PAL, I'VE GOT AN OFFER. ONE YOU CAN'T RESIST.” I nodded slowly and he continued, “I CAN GET TOU OUTA THIS PRISON. YOU JUST NEED TO GIVE ME A PUPPET.”“a puppet?”“YUP. THEN YOU WILL BE FREE, YOU WILL CAN HAVE MABLE WHENEVER YOU WANT. I JUST ASK ONE THING IN RETURN”“like what?”“WE ARE GOING HUNTING. YOU COULD SAY.” somehow Bill was grinning with no mouth.“Hunting? For what?”“HMMM. A MONSTER, A CREATURE. SO ITS A DEAL!”Bill held his hand out. “Hold up. So you need a puppet? Your-you won't just like. You won't use me right? Is that what you mean?”“OF COURSE NOT.” There.was a slight edge in his voice, “LISTEN SHORT STACK I WOULDN'T DO THAT IN A MILLION YEARS. JUST TAKE IT FROM ME. YOU CAN TRUST ME. REMEMBER WE ARE PALS! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I'D GIVE AN ESCAPE, MABLE, ANYTHING AND YOU JUST ACCUSE ME OF THAT. PATHETIC” Bill clicked his tongue.“Wait. Ill -i'm doing it okay, it's just. Don't pull any tricks!”Our hands met together and shook as a blue flame lit. Then a bill tugged on me and I spun backwards floating.“Who hey what?!”I watched myself open my eyes. They were yellow and had black slits for pupils.“Hold on! I told you not to do that!”“Too bad short stack” Bill chuckled stealing his voice, “listen, I'm getting you outta here. It'll be pretty easy!”I sighed.“Alright just don't do anything stupid” Maybe this wasn't a good idea. Bill smiled in my body and stood up stumbling, “wow it's good to be back!” He held his hands in front of his face, opening and closing them. “Now let's get outta here eh!”*** The kids were acting weird. They wouldn't leave their rooms, ever. Plus Ford was on some mission by himself all night. That's at least what the kids said.I huffed.Someone probably got hurt right? Ford shouldn't be gone that long. Plus I haven't seen Dipper once since he returned. Only Mable. I grimaced. She wouldn't lie right? Of course she wouldn't.I drug myself out of bed and into the kitchen. “kids! Do you want some Stancakes?” I smiled at the name. “No!” Dipper and Mable said together.“Why?” I opened a cupboard and took out the pancake mix. “We're sick!”Sick?I turned to the stairs.“Hold up I'll come up there and-”“No, it's fine! I don't want you getting sick right?” I grimaced. They didn't want me around?No they did right? They just didn't want me to see them?Obviously they were lying but still.“Okay!” I sighed. Darn kids probably like doing something illegal. I smiled. I laughed.They wouldn't do anything like that. I sighed, still smiling. I watched the pancakes slowly bubble in the pan as I flipped them to the other side.The smell Infected the kitchen.“Actually we might want a little bit of pancakes!”I smiled.“Okay!”***“How are you, officer!” they blinked at Bill.I watched. It was spectacular he got so far.“I know you like money and’ Bill smiled in my body, “I got quite a bit of it”The cops eyes narrowed.“What do you want”“Get me past those doors. Don't tell anyone”They froze before nodding.Bill smiled going into the opened door. “I could have done that the whole time!” I squeaked at Bill.“No, probably not. I know what they want. You don't”“What do you mean?”“I can see their dreams short stack. They were poor”“Oh-”“Anyway. You're free! Now it's my end of the deal” Bill smiled.“Okay. Monster hunting?”“Monster hunting” Bill replied, grinning impossibly much. “So what exactly are we hunting?”“Oh this and that” We went to my house. “What are we doing here?”“I need some guns! For hunting” I watched as Bill snuck into my own home and scurried his way to where we kept the guns. Bill chuckled.“Bill Cypher has a gun!” He held up a rifle showing me.I smiled. Nervously.“You sure do. So Bill, what exactly are you hunting?”Bill waved his hands. I swallowed thickly. “Don't worry yourself. It'll be quick” ***Dipper eyed the rift. Then Ford. He sighed. Probably should put it in a safer spot.He grabbed it and hid it on the top self in their closet before shutting it.He looked at his legs. Man they were weird. “Hey Dipper!”I screamed backing myself into a wall. Was it just Wendy?I am so stupid.“Sorry I'm just on edge” I nervously touched the back of my neck. Ford attacking me yesterday haired my thoughts.“No dude it's cool” she held out a hand and I took it.I sighed.We both sat on my bed. “Hey guys!” Mable came running to the room with Stancakes.She gave us each a plate of our own and set an extra one on the nightstand. Probably for Ford.“How's Cords arm doing?”“Don't call him that!”“Whatever” Wendy ruffled my hair and I swatted her hands away.“He's fine. He just says everything hurts. Except the arm that actually should be hurting”“He woke up?”“Yea. He didn't remember most stuff that happened I think” Mable chuckled, “cat”I glanced at her “Well. How about your new legs here” Wendy smiled.“Uh.” I kicked all four of them out, “it's weird” I let them fall back down to the bedside.“Yea can't imagine having that” Wendy leaned forwards.Mable left. Her pancakes are already finished, “Be right back!” She left. Probably getting more. “Maybe we should get out of the house when Ford does wake up”“Why?”“I don't think he will care about being quiet. Plus we don't want Stan knowing about this. Hell probably have a heart attack or something if he sees Ford like this” Wendy laughed. I smiled“Yea your right” I watched Ford shift his wings again. He did that alot. Even when he was awake.“Hey Wendy. So you think there is something wrong with his wings?”“Why would you think that there is something wrong?”“Well he keeps moving them”“Sounds normal to me.toy can check if you want. Not my fault if you get your head ripped off” Wendy laughed, punching me in the arm. I smiled.“Right…” I stood over and walked to Ford. He reshifted his wings again. I couldn't get a good view. I smacked myself in the face. I was probably going to get killed or something. I slowly grabbed onto his wings and unfolded them.I finally was able to see the base. After an eternity of unfolding. They were ripping out of his coat and I still couldn't see well. I huffed looking at it. They looked like they were in an unnatural position. They were trying to fold on themselves but his clothing was in the way. That was what was wrong“Hey Wendy come look at this” Wendy slowly made her way over, “I think his clothes are in the way”Wendy looked then nodded.“Yea” she looked back at Ford. “Are you scared?” I looked at her as her lips pursed. “No of course not” she looked away.“Right” I sighed, opening one of Mable's draws to her nightstand. There were four pairs of scissors in there. I didn't even have to look that hard. I took a pain and began cutting some of Ford's clothing in a way where his wings could rest properly.I swallowed. It was kinda terrifying every time he moved. It was like he was going to wake up and attack me again. I couldn't blame Wendy for being scared because I was absolutely terrified. I finally finished letting out air I didn't even know I wasn't breathing. I retreated sitting back on my bed.“Wow Dipper that was pretty impressive” Wendy touched the back of her neck, “how did you not freak out. Isn't that like your whole thing?” I looked at her.“I don't know! It's just. I know he is Ford right. He wouldn't actually hurt me right?” I folded my hands together.Wendy hummed. Mable returned with even more Stancakes than before grinning.“Food!”Ford shifted.“Food” Mable said it again but in a whisper. I should journal this!I got it out of my jacket and began writing everything that has happened in the past few hours. ***I blinked… wherever I was it was comfy. Food.I sat up and turned my head.It was those people again.I whipped my tail.Dipper looked excited for a second then he frowned.“It's not Ford”I eyed him. I was tired. I looked out the window. It was too bright. I wanted to go back to sleep. “How do you know it isn't?”“His eyes, their glazed over” Dipper stood up and shook Mable. She was sleeping on the ground. “I see what you mean,” Wendy nodded.Mable smacked Dipper in the face sleepily “I'm sleeping. Ehhh”“Mable come on we are going to get Ford outta the house for a little bit. He will probably break something if we don't”“Go, I'm tired” Mable rolled in on herself. She smelled sick. I huffed. They all looked at me.“Fine” Mable smacked Dipper in the face again before standing up and nearly falling. Dipper caught her.“Wait, are you actually sick or something?” Dipper looked at Mable. She shrugged.“You should stay here if you are,” Dipper scratched his head. “Kay” Mable snorted dragging the blanket higher up.Dipper unlatched the window and it opens“Okay com-on Ford”
Wendy and Dipper both hopped out the window. I eyed Mable. She was definitely sick.A sick that you can't leave alone. I went over to her and looked down. She opened her eyes wide.“Oh hey there” I looked back at the window and back at her.She grimaced and drug the blanket closer to herself. “Ford come-on” Wendy was leaning inside waving at me.I picked Mable up by the color of her shirt with my mouth. She freaked out standing.I titled my head as I got low to the ground for her to get on top of me. Her eyes sparkled.She grabbed her blanket and threw herself over. “Ha this is so cool” she laughed, wrapping herself in her blanket.“Wh- Mable your sick!”“I'm not going to give up an opportunity like this!” Mable grinned.We left the cabin. We were going back to the weird u see ground area. “Dudes we should totally show my friends this, they would freak!” Wendy and Dipper were ahead teasing each other.Mable was sleeping. She smelled very sick.I frowned. We finally stopped in front of where we came from yesterday. I watched as Dipper explained stuff to her before opening the trapdoor and went in. I followed.This building was covered in sickness. I stopped growling.They looked back. “What?” I looked back up to the trapdoor. Then at them.“We need to get some of that substance we came in contact with yesterday Ford”They kept walking. Fools. I sat Mable would just get more sick faster. “Ford com-on” I growled sliding Mable onto the ground.I needed to tell them that this place was infected with the sick. I looked at Mable then at the floor then at them.They titled their heads.I did it again. “I think he's trying to say something?”“Well no duh”“Mable, the floor? Then us?” Dipper tapped his foot. They weren't understanding. My tail pattered the floor and my ears tugged to the side of my face.“Maybe it's not safe here” Wendy looked at Dipper.“But it's supposed to be! Mostly…”“You literally got turned into a half deer Dipper! Plus he is whatever that is!” She pointed at me. Dipper frowned“Sorry I just. I feel off I guess”“Wh-what do you mean you feel off?”“I don't know, sick? Maybe I caught whatever Mable has” I huffed. “Wendy. Do you think what me and Ford have can be caught like a sickness?” “Dipper I swear if I turn into some weird gopher eating rat or something… no. I hope it's not a sickness. I probably just have what Mable has right?” “Well what if she has it too! She was around me all day yesterday and today!” Wendy frowned. I flicked my tail.“I'll stay with Mable you and Cord can go get the stuff or whatever” Dipper raised a brow at the name but ignored it.“Okay. Sorry Wendy I didn't mean-” Dipper steeped back sheepishly.“Dude it's fine. Go get your mystery liquid” Dipper smiled.“That sounds wrong” Dipper waved at me as Wendy sat down with Mable.“I know,” Wendy snorted.I guess going with Dipper was better than bringing Mable and Wendy deeper into the sick… I took his offer.***I haven't heard from the kids all day, plus there was no sign or Ford yet. I tapped my feet.“Kids are you up there!” No answer. “Kids!”I thumped my way up the stairs and carefully creaked the door open.No one was there.I pushed the door open all the way. The window was wide open.They left through the window. I sighed. Maybe they were doing something Illegal. I laughed. They would never. Mable doesn't even lie. Or does she.I huffed sitting on her bed. There were scratches in the floorboards. Six scratches. Five claw marks and one off to the side like a thumb Ford? That had to be Ford right? Or was it some weird cat or something.I placed my hand in the spot.Something big made that scratch. I flinched. Did they get hurt?But they would have screamed right? I looked out the window.Fine I went downstairs sliding my suit on and changing the open sign to closed. I walked out to the window and noticed two tracks of footprints. They were both clawed creatures. One was coming from the forest and the other was going into the forest.I followed them. Those kids better not be killed.***“Why are we here!”Bill drugged them to the mystery shack.“Just looking for something” he opens a closet. It wasn't there. He frowned.“Pine tree must have it with him”“Have what?”“Eh it's nothing” his body eyed the open window.“They are keeping the creature Short Stack”“Wait what? What is it!”“Dangerous! Really dangerous! That's why I need to get rid of it”I frowned.“Okay” His body leapes out the window.“Bingo! Tracks” he grinned, jumping off the roof.I screamed before my body did a roll and stopped on his feet“Don't worry, I won't hurt your precious body!”“Right”Bill adjusted my hair smiling as he dug his hand in the paw prints. They were big.“What are we hunting Bill? Why won't you tell me?”“Oh you'll figure out. Like I said, it's a monster.”***I woke up and everything was ringing. I blinked my eyes seeing Wendy passed out beside me with a flashlight.I sat up and rubbed my face. I noticed my ears were feathery. Uh oh. I looked at my hands, they were closed and I had a tail and wings. I had wings!I could fly! Probably.I grinned.“Wendy!” I shook her “Wendy, wake up!”She groaned and moved to her side. That wasn't working. “Mable is that you?”“Dipper! Where are you?”“Walky talky!” I nodded seeing it. I picked it up and leaned against the wall. Pain shot everywhere.“Ah” I dropped it and I hit the ground.“What's wrong! Mable?”“It's okay. I just hurt”“What do you mean you hurt?”“I don't know… I also have wings Dipper! I think I turned into the same thing as Ford or something!”“What? You?”“Yeah it's so cool! But everything smells funny down here.”“Mable how… is Wendy okay?”“Well” I looked at her. She was extremely pale and she was drooling in her sleep.Ew. I laughed.“She looks sick”“Sick?”“Yeah like when! Dipper like when I was sick”“Oh you gotta be kidding me! Well me and Ford are almost back”“Cool beans. Hey Dipper, where are we?”“Remember I told you about the alien spaceship last night”“Yeah”“Welp your looking at it”“Cool” I looked at everything, “hey Dipper? Why does Wendy have a flashlight? I can see fine without it”“Y- you have night vision too?”“Night vision? Cool” *** The track ended at a cliff.Did they jump off?I huffed worried.“Mable! Dipper!” I tapped my feet looking off the edge. I could fall and die.I stepped backwards, swallowing. I've been here going back and forth, pacing for a while. I was worried sick.I took a deep breath. They're fine. “Well, well, well” I froze and turned around. I knew that voice!“Gideon! What did you do to the kids!” He chuckled.“Wrong name Fez. But nothing yet!” Gideon smiled big. His eyes were yellow with slits, “any who, you're in my way anyway too! Knock two birds out with one stone right!”Gideon threw a rifle over his shoulder, pointed it at my chest and cocked it loaded. My eyes wided“Oh-ha! Gideon-uhh listen! Uhh-” I took a step back and tiny rocks fell off the edge.This surely wasn't how I was going to die right. “Goodbye Stanley Pines” Gideon smiled at the gun shot into my chest. I fell backwards and I grabbed onto the ledge. Holy hot Belgian waffles Gideon actually shot me! I looked down.It was so far down I was going to die from falling! I was going to die from Gideon for Pete's sake!Gideon cackled. Walking to my hands. I squinted at him, the sun getting in my eyes.“Oh. I know a perfect reference!” Gideon squared, squatting to his knees“Long” he crushed my other hand and it fell down spiking with pain.“Live” He smiled at me“The” he pointed the rifle at my other hand. I closed my eyes shut.“King” BANG. I screamed as my hand felt like it burst Into flames. I was falling. I was going to die.I laughed. Gideon killed me? He killed me and made a stupid lion king reference too. I didn't even get to do so much with my life. I didn't get to actually see my brother. And I was dying. Falling to my death. I wasn't ready. The kids. I winced. Poor kids. I can't believe I died to freaking Gideon of all people. Gideon.*** I heard a gunshot and a scream. And flew out the trapdoor. It was Grunk Stan. Gideon was kneeling at him as a nothing bang went off.Gideon shot Grunkle Stan. And he was falling off the cliff. I froze.I ran and jumped off. Wings, you better work. Stan fainted as I slowed us both down with my new wings. I don't know how to fly but they were definitely slowing us down.Another gunshot went off and a hole in my wing appeared suspiciously close to my head. I winced at the pain aa we slammed into the ground and looked up. Gideon was actually trying to kill us. I dragged Grunkle Stan behind some rocks as another shot went off where we just were.I froze and slid to the ground. He was bleeding. Like really bleeding. I stared at him and my heart was pounding. I cried.***Ford was running now for some reason. Or the beast version of him. He growled and boosted his way up the latter roaring. I stopped catching my breath.There was a gunshot. I froze.I looked backed up“Oh no”I heard a fight break out. And multiple shots taken. Who would be hunting here? Bill Cypher.I looked at Wendy and swallowed. I shook her awake.“What? I'm sleeping” I winced as another shot happened in the background. Wendy shot up eyes wide.“Run. Keep this safe… please. Don't let it break no matter what. Guard it with your life” I shuttered as I shoved the Rift into Wendy's hands. She froze.She opened and closed her mouth before nodding and taking off. Another gunshot. Roaring. I swallowed awkwardly climbing up the ladder with four legs. Gideon? But he had yellow eyes.Bill I was right.Ford growled at him. Gideon was bleeding on the arm.But he was still smiling. “BILL!” I poked my head out he snapped his eyes on me.“Oh hey there Pine Tree!” He waved, “just huntin.”“You have no right to be in his body!” I winced seeing him cocked the gun back.“Oh but I do. We made a deal” Gideon smiled.“I didn't tell him this would happen!” Bill cackled.“Oh of course I didn't!” I swallowed.Ford growled as Gideon began to lift the gun up. He leaped at it and swatted it out of his hands.“Well. Looks like this isn't my problem!” Ford towered over Bill as he fell backwards and his eyes rolled into the back of his head.Bill left. I sighed in Relief.Ford stopped and thumped to the ground breathing heavily. Where's Mable? *** “WELL WELL WELL!”I stopped running holding the weird snow globe Dipper handed me. Everything went static and gray as a yellow triangle appeared.I stared at it. Was I dreaming? “WELL HELLO THERE RED HEAD. YOU HAVE SOMETHING OF MINE” the triangle squinted at me.I held the globe closer. This guy was bad, right. Dipper told me to keep this thing safe.“Get away from me… whatever you are!”“OH I WOULD BUT I DONT THINK I'D BE GOING ANYWHERE IF I WERE YOU” the triangle spun around me.“TISK TISK. IF ONLY YOU KNEW” and it left.I kept running. My feet were sore. My legs finally buckled and I fell to the ground wheezing. I held out the globe and looked at it. It looked like space in a jar.I gasped for air pushing it further away from me. I rolled onto my back coughing. I closed my eyes *** “Mable!” I winced. Oh no“Dipper I'm down here” she sounded off.I looked over the cliff edge. “Oh no”I winced. Stan was hurt. “Mable, can you bring me down there? You have wings right?” she didn't answer.“Mable?” Ford had wings.I looked at him.He was hurt too.I sighed pulling on him.He opened his eyes.I pointed at the cliff edge. He grunted up and made his way looking down.I looked at him.His eyes narrowed and he lay down looking away.He didn't care??!I pulled on him.“Come on! He needs help!” He stood up and bit onto my vest. I screamed as he jumped off. We hit the ground still kinda hard as he dropped me into the ground and rolled Into a ball.My heart was pounding. I ran over to Stan. He was bleeding.Bad bleeding.Everywhere was red. I narrowed my eyes. “Ahhh! What do we do!?”Mable was in sweater town.I paced. I paced.What do we do?What do we do?!?!I stopped looking at Ford's face. His eyes were fixed right? I looked at Stan and swallowed, taking a jar of the liquid out. I looked at it, then at Stan.It's better than dying right? I opened it and walked over to him. I breathed faster, dumping It in Stan's gunshot wound on his chest. He weakly winced. I closed it concealing the rest for later.Please work.***Oh my GodOh my GodOh my GodI looked at my hands then at the gun.I'm such a fool.I'm so stupid.I looked at the gun.It looked at me.Why did I do that?Why did I trust that triangle!I was so stupid!I mean I didn't like Stanley Pines but killing him?!!No!No!I looked at my hands.That was my fault!I swallowed thickly.I looked at the hole in the ground.I looked back at my hands.My breathing was fast and uneven.I killed someone.I actually killed someone!I was stunned. I looked at the cliff edge.I killed someone.I looked at my handsI killed someone.I ran my hands through my hair. There was a growl that came from the trapdoor.I locked eyes with yellow glassy eyes. I swallowed as it crawled out snarling. It was some sort of werewolf.Its fur was black with orange stripes on its ears and paws. It was wearing ripped teal flannel clothing and its teeth were showing. I swallowed.Oh boy. It crept closer.I scooted back.It jumped.I screamed as it dug its teeth into my arm. *** We didn't say anything.We just looked. Red was everywhere.It was still dripping out of him.It looked horrible. I swallowed.This has to work right?I was tempted to pour more on himIt would work if there's more.It had to.My four legs gave out and I thunked to the ground.My eyes were locked on my Grunkle.He was still breathing thankfully.His chest was moving.Barley. “WELL WELL WELL!” Bill appeared.I narrowed my eyes.“GUESS WHAT PINE TREE, SHOOTING STAR. YOUR IN LUCK!”I ignored him.“I'VE GOT A GROUNDBREAKING DEAL TO SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS ONLY FOR A SMALL PRICE!”“DEATH!”Bill Cypher left cackling.What was that supposed to mean? I scowled. He was taunting us. I noticed Stan's fingertips turned a gray color. That was probably because of the weird stuff! It worked! Hopefully it works. I poked Mable.“I think the stuff is working. Maybe” I pouted.Mable lifted her head up“Look at his fingers”Her head poked up more.Her eyes were wet and red.She sniffled. “Mable. I gave Wendy the rift.”“Why?” Her voice was quiet.“I don't want It getting broken. There was a fight with a gun and- I don't know. I trust her. It's just that I'm scared and I don't know what to do and Stan is hurt and it's my fault and Bill might get to the rift, or Wendy and-”Mable lay her head on my shoulder. I sniffled.“Pat pat” Mable pat my back, her voice wobbling with sniffles.I swallowed. We curled up together in a ball. We slept. ***I woke up struggling.I couldn't breathe.I mean I could it was just hard to. Like rockets being sat on my chest.I coughed. Looking around.l Dipper and Mable were sleeping. They looked. Off. Whatever, probably some weird nerd magic. I coughed again looking at the night sky. My chest was hurting really bad. Along with my left hand, the two places I was shot. I was shot.I was shot in the chest and I fell off a cliff and I'm not dead. Wow. I have plot armor or something. I coughed again.I looked down at my hand. I couldn't see much. I could see that I was missing a few things here and there. A few fingers. All of my fingers. I gagged.I did have two tiny finger stubs and my thumb was thankfully fully intact. But I was missing my pinky, and the best finger to express yourself, the middle one. The other two, like I said, were tiny stumps.I gagged again letting my hand hit the ground. That's enough of looking at that. My chest sting every time it moved to breathe. I felt the bullet lodged in it. I winced. It was uncomfortable. I pulled my shirt up to look at it. Unbuckling the buttons on my suit.It wasn't even bandaged. How was I not dead from blood loss? I went limp hitting my head on the ground.Why didn't I die?I coughed. I drug my fingers across the bullet wound. I couldn't feel anything. I didn't feel my own fingers touching my skin there. But my fingers could feel it. My chest just couldn't sense that something was touching it. My fingers had a weird texture as I brushed them over the hole in my chest. Like stone. I followed it. It was a giant circle there then it faded out back to my normal skin.What the hell. I felt my destroyed hand with my working hand. It felt the same. Like stone. I winced at the pain as sleep tried to take back. I got tired.Very tired.I flipped onto my side facing the twins.Why did they look weird…. ***I winced.Everything hurt but more.I move on my back opening my eyes. I saw the moon. But it was light outside. I blinked. Night vision.Add that to the effects list.I sat up coughing. I looked and saw red dripping down my arm. There was a gunshot wound. I gagged looking away. Blood was never really my thing.
I saw the twins. My eyes widened.Stan.Stan had red all over him. Blood. Stanley was bleeding.I attempted to stand, failing as my face slammed into the ground. I coughed again crawling to him.He passed out. He was also still breathing. He was laying on his side and he had gray spots on his skin.There were gray spots on his skin? I furrowed my brows and felt my wings flick.His hand was absolutely destroyed. I looked at it. It was completely gray. It also looked a bit bigger than his other hand. I sat next to Dipper. I shook him awake. He jumped.“Calm down it's me Dipper!”“Oh”“What happened?” I ran my hand through my hair.“A lot.”Mable shifted.“Hi…” she sounded different, more ragged and less enthusiastic than normal. She sounded like she just finished crying.“Hello Mable”She sniffled, “he got hurt” he pulled her sweater over her head. I looked at Stan. I bit my lip.“He- seems like he is okay? Or recovering from whatever happened” Mable peaked her head out. She looked different. She had wings, tiny horns, ears like mine, she had black fur unlike mine however, she also had extremely colorful wings, she had the same thing I had, the nose, she had a tail too.She turned… but how?She wasn't there when we ran into that stuff.“Mable, when did you become like me?”“Earlier”“I think it's contagious” Dipper looked at me.“Like a virus?”He nodded.I huffed, “I should be doing research on this. Not sleeping”“Maybe that's just how that creature works? It sleeps all the time?”“No, that cannot be the case I cannot have that be happening” I pouted, “how in the world am I supposed to get any work done if I'm always sleeping”“Plus if this is some sort of spreadable disease or virus we need to contain it immediately”“And I can't be sleeping to do that”I drummed my fingers. “You're grouchy when you're like this,” Mable teesed.“I am not”Mable smiled. Okay, possibly it altered my personality… That's dangerous.Add that to the effects list. Wait altera my personality? It can't do that can it? Or does it change my mood? Or maybe it- I'm too tired to think about this. I thumped to the ground.“Are you okay?” “Yes,” I sighed. I wanted food again. My stomach yelled at me. I felt my face turn red. “Maybe you need more food?” “What does that have any correlation to sleeping” “It's a idea” “I'm hungry too” Mable smiled, grabbing into her stomach and making It look like it was talking. “Stop” me and Dipper said at the same time. She laughed. “We should return to the shack. It's safer there” I stood up.“Wait- the rift. Oh no! I forgot- I'm so stupid i-” Dipper started pacing.“Dipper calm down!”His breathing picked up more and he whined. He dropped to the ground.Mable sat next to him and patted his back. He calmed down. “I gave it to Wendy”“Who?”“Wendy?”“Who is Wendy”“What we were with her, like, all day yesterday!”“I don't remember yesterday Dipper”“Right.. sorry”I sighed.“We probably need to go up there,” Dipper pointed up to the cliff edge. The cliff edge?“How did we get so far down here??”I looked up.“Wings,” Mable smiled.“Okay.. so we need to know how to fly” I grimaced.Dipper shrugged.Mable was jumping up and down.“Okay”I unfolded my wings slowly.They were huge.I didn't even know how they folded to be so compact on my back. It almost took up the entire width of the area we were stuck in. They were also extremely colorful. Just like Mable's.I flexed them. I had an alarmingly surprising control of my wings. It would be a good thing if I knew how to fly. I tried many different attempts. I couldn't get myself off the ground. I could for maybe a second of two but other than that no flying.Maybe began trying to fly as well, she was having the same luck. I do not believe we can fly. Possibly gliding is the wings function instead. I turned my attention to my claws. That would work. Plus if I fell I had wings to catch myself with.I took Dipper up first. He was quiet the whole time. It was like rock climbing however because some rocks were not stable enough for me to dig my claws into.I went back down for Mable but she followed me up surprisingly. Next was Stanley. He was harder to take up.Mable has to come help me because he kept almost falling off my back.He was heavy. Really heavy.Once I finally got him up there we needed to find the rift.Dipper says Wendy was in the ship when she gave him the rift and she ran. We went down the latter and I carried Stan as we walked down the hallway.Maybe if he didn't eat so much- I sighed. Setting him in the ground for another break. It was like he was somehow getting heavier. I paused. More of his skin was that gray color. Plus his ears were changing and there were two small stumps on his head.He was changing into something just like we did. Interesting.I picked him back up and slung him over my shoulder, his skin felt cold and rough.That was mostly likely an effect of sorts, from whatever he was turning into. Maybe he was actually getting heavier. I looked at him, at the gray parts. Hmm. We kept walking. We saw it. The rift. It was right there. I grinned.I noticed two creatures sleeping. Werewolves. One was notability smaller, they were a yellowish white.and the other was black with orange stripes. They were both wearing ripped clothes. We stopped looking at them.“W-wendy?” they shifted.“Shh!” Mable smacked Dipper's mouth closed. I could go get it. But if we wake these two it has a higher chance of being broken. I turned to Mable. She had more movability, however I don't think she knows how to use most of it. She keeps tripping.“Dipper go get it. Quietly don't wake them” Dipper opens his mouth before closing it. He listened.I watched every step just in case he was attacked.. He got it. He held it up smiling. I smiled back.He began to sneak his way back over. I saw them open their eyes. They snarled, snapping at Dipper. He ran. We all ran. Stan was slowing me down. I was obviously slower. One of them nicked my knees and I fell. Stan flopped to the ground.I felt their teeth dig into my leg, I screamed. My leg flowed with pain.The black one ran ahead. I winced feeling my leg being torn apart by the whitish one.I kicked at it with my other leg, no success. I tried to stand up but it bit into my shoulder blade. I flopped back down.Pain. “Ahhhhh!” I saw Dipper chasing the black wolf with a floating extended grappling hook. He was using the magnifying gun to keep it in the air. Mable was laughing.I didn't even know you could do that with it. I watched them scare both of them off as I switched to a sitting position.“Are you okay?”I shrugged immediately regretting it.“Let's go”I slung Stan back over my shoulder. We had the rift safe, that's all that matters.

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We finally reached the shack after an eternity of walking. My feet were extremely poor and Stanley just kept getting heavier.I readjusted him on my shoulder as Mable turned the knob and we both walked in.The two werewolves were following us the whole time, which was actually a good thing because we can capture them and hopefully undo the effects of this.I drug Stanley hearing his feet drag on the wooden floor before sitting him on the ground. The light flicked on and we all stared at Stan.He was sleeping but he also was gray now, he also had small gray tusks going up out on both sides of his mouth.“What is he going to be?”I looked at Mable.“I am unsure”I looked at him leaning slack meshing with the ground.I blinked slowly, my eyes burning, wanting me to sleep. They were heavy and I was extremely tired. Great, I can't get any work done, can I?This was inconvenient.The two twins escaped upstairs.I looked at Stanley again and kneeled pulling his white muddy shirt up, there was the hole from the gunshot wound, it was a dark black color around it and everything else was gray and there were small splotches of normal pinkish skin color here and there. Was I supposed to bandage this? I let go of his shirt and it went back down.This was my fault. If I hadn't been so unsafe and overconfident. My ears flicked as I drummed my fingers.I caught my eyes on Stanley's arm. I lifted his wounded hand and looked at it. It was fully black, it looked slightly reminiscent of charcoal, with lighter gray spots in the less damaged areas. His hand still looked the same with the missing fingers.It seemed like I couldn't do much about this.I looked at Stanley's face again, his mouth was open as he snored his chest moving with his breaths.I sighed, removing his suit carefully so as not to cause any pain and placed it on the table next to us. He groaned in his sleep and flexed his injured hand, compressing his(non-existent) fingers together before they went back to a resting position. I felt sleep creep back into existence trying to take me captive before catching myself on the wall. I nearly passed out. I leaned over and heaved Stan back over my shoulder. I walked towards the living room and flopped him onto the couch sitting next to him.I fell asleep almost instantly. I woke up and I immediately felt horrible. My stomach swirled as I leaned over the couch and threw up. I blinked at it. Cereal…I stood up and stumbled avoiding the ick. I went and got some towels and soap returning as I cleaned up the mess I made.When I was finished I was hit with hunger. I leaned over my stomach yelling at me to eat something.Food. Great. My nose perked, I smelt something that made my mouth water. I just didn't know what it was. I followed the scent until I reached the stairs.No.I turned to the kitchen and opened the fridge. There was nothing.My nose perked again. This time from outside. I went to the door and looked. It smelt close, whatever it was. I accidentally fell onto all fours and left not even trying to close the door.Sniffing again I saw a deer. I froze. It didn't notice me. It put its head back down to a sleeping position.I crept forward. I leaped and slashed its neck, biting down into its fur. It tried to run but I bit harder causing it to fall and go limp. It tasted good. I bit into its flesh and tore it off as blood trickled down my mouth and off my chin. I ate until there was barely anything. I growled and continued walking sniffing the air.I turned back the way I came. That place was warm. Why was I walking on all fours? I stood up on the deck noticing my wet hands and face. I shined them in the light seeing red reflect back.Did I kill something? I looked back into the forest.Of course not right? I turned to the door, wide open and headed for the bathroom, clicking it locked. I flipped the light on. I was covered in blood. I gagged looking away. I immediately took a shower watching the red go down the drain.Once I was done I hand washed the blood out of my clothes and put some new clean pairs on. I need to find a cure for this, before it gets out of hand.I ran my hand through my hair. I actually killed something. I gagged remembering the blood.Work began. Notes~~~I wrote down every effect and everything I've noticed so far. It was annoying that the most info I knew about was about myself but that also means it's helpful for Mable, hence we are the same species.I believe if you come in contact with the liquid and catch it it is possibly based upon your personality or some trait that you have, Dipper is a deer, which could reference his skittish behavior. Stanley is a gargoyle (I believe) which you could say is because he is tough and rough and Wendy is a werewolf, I do not know much about her so I cannot make a correlation to why.But then there is Mable and what was his name Gardon? Gordon? Gideon? Yes Gideon, he was a werewolf and I believe he got bit by Wendy. I've captured both of them in the basement and they are still feral. But I know Gideon has been infected through a bite on his left arm.I also learned that this virus could potentially be spread through the air due to Mable being the same species as me, I was told earlier at some point that she was around me alot. Then she had her species the same as mine but her colors were skewered. I also asked Dipper about anything he had learned about it. There was a lot.Noticed effects: Stanford PinesPhysical traits:White Claws: retractablePaws: for hands and feetOrange fur: everywhere. I mean everywhere.Colorful Wings: est 20ft: gradient of orange, red, to a white: backside is a metallic dark blue-black coloration: they fold in on themselves quite easily: it's base is at the shoulder blades: moving my shoulders slightly moves the wings: possibly only used for glidingWhite slightly curved inwards hornsTail: can control: has a large tuft of white-red gradient hair at the endBigger in generalTaller: est +5in?Upside Down triangular nose: leathery texture and feelYellow eyes with orange pupilsThin long dear like ears, more rounded and big: controllableSharp kanie- like teethHair has a slightly orange tint to itWhite tufts of hair on chestTongue is large and resembles a large cat's tongue: it feels of velcroOther noticesPossibly dangerous personality changes? (It could also potentially be mood changes)BlackoutsNot remembering certain eventsFear of being trapped: new, I never had this fear beforeUncontrollable noises/tics: growls, whining, etcUncontrollable movements: leaping at certain moving things, attacking others, tail flicking, clawingStrange sense of hunger: it never leaves: too much saliva: only viable to eat meatIssues organizing thoughts: I believe this takes place when I am hungry: thoughts become scattered and everything becomes a problemIssues controlling thoughts: intrusive thoughts of usually wanting food in certain ways that are in-humanNeed to move: Est 20mins after sitting: painful leg, wing crampsOverwhelming tired at all timesFixed eyesightIncreased smell/sentIncreased hearing ~~~End NotesI did lots of other research while the others were sleeping. Now I am exhausted. I was so tired and hungry.I really wanted food. I left my room and paced, allowing myself to move once again releasing pain from my legs. Then I stretched my arms and wings releasing pain from them as well.I stopped checking the fridge again, I probably have done that at least thirty times. Nothing. I slammed it shut and my ears frisked back annoyed.I calmed myself down and allowed myself to pace again before abruptly stopping hearing something fall and shatter from the living room.Stan?I poked my head eyeing him as he looked back at me. His eyes were orange and glazed over. He had larger dark gray horns on his head that slightly curled to the back of his head he also had sharp pointy ears, tusks, sharp claw like hands, big lizard resemalanced tail and black wings.He was on the floor with his left arm holding him to a crouching position pushing on the couch.His tail flicked and he ran out of the room and down a hallway.“Stanley!” I chased him slowly trying not to startle him again. He must not be here? Or it's like when Mbale said I was acting like a cat. Which I don't and will not believe.I watched him turn a corner again. I followed as we arrived in the gift shop. He cornered himself and hissed at me, converting himself with his wings as his tail wrapped close to his legs.I kneeled.“Stanley it's okay” I blinked at him as he hissed at me again.I bit my lip. Now what. I slowly lowered my wings and tried to look smaller. Possibly that would work. Looking smaller, it usually worked on anomalies in the forest.He stopped hissing and stuck himself closer to the walls eyeing me.Then everything felt hazy. I blinked a few times catching myself in the floorboards as Stanley ran off hitting his tail on a table and multiple stuff fell to the ground shattering.Sleepiness. Again?I rubbed my forehead.I stood up the the ground stumbling as I got my balance.“Stanley!”I heard something else break.I ran after him seeing chairs knocked over and the TV as well. I watched as he cornered himself and hissed at me again covering himself with his wings.“Stanley it's okay”I kneeled again and lowered my wings.He did the same thing where he hugged the wall and stopped hissing. Then he stopped hugging the wall and his wing flung back to his back. He squinted at me. His tail was wrapped around his legs.“It's okay”I watched him slowly calm down seeing his shoulders drop. Tiredness hit me again. I rubbed my forehead looking away as the feeling rubbed off.I looked back at him and it returned… He has an ability to make people sleepy. I looked away again, yawning. Stan slowly began to approach me, this time curious. I watched him circle me at a farish distance as I heard someone else, small, walk closer. I turned to see Mable rubbing her eyes.Stan hissed and ran off again.“Was that Grunkle Stan?”“Yes” my voice shook with tiredness.“Hmm. I heard something break”“It was him”“What's wrong with him?”I shrugged.“Oh he is acting like you when you were acting like a cat!” Mable laughed.“Mable such a thing never happened!” I folded my arms seeing Mable smile.Something else crashed in the other room.“What was that?”“Probably Stan. He seems. Skittish?”I stood up and followed where the noise came from, Mable followed as well.“Stay close to me he might lash out”“Are you sure? It's Grunkle Stan he would never!”“Never say never Mable” we saw Stan ripping up the walls stop and begin at pace back and forth squished against the wall. We stopped in the doorway of the gift shop once more and he froze looking at us. Then he hissed and made himself small again clinging to the walls. I furrowed my brows. How were we supposed to calm him down and not get injured? “He looks scared!” Mable said, sympathetic as Stan tapped his tail around his legs.“Why though?” Possibly something scared him? Like a loud noise or when he knocked something over? He hissed again, then Mable looked at me, then at Stan. Then she scooted further away from me and smiled.“Grunkle Ford I think he doesn't care for me getting close to him”I watched her slowly creep up closer to Stan when he hissed again, Mable stopped and sat down.Mable was nearly close enough that if she wanted to she could reach her arms out and touch him.I was still at the complete other side of the room standing in the doorway.“Wait- so Stanley is scared of me? Why?”Mable shrugged. Mable reached out to touch Stan, he hissed and ran off to another corner of the giftshop. How did I get so close to him last time? Smaller, I have to look smaller than him. That worked.I sat down and lowered my wings in the doorway. He looked at me from the corner.Mable scooted over back to me smiling. Her smile is contagious, I might have to look into that. After some time Stanley began to move closer, slowly. I noticed he was limping. The hand which was injured was still being used, it was just that he would flinch every time he walked on it.He stopped and layed down. I sighed as I scooted a little bit closer. He didn't move but he watched me. I looked at his hand and it was completely black. How was I supposed to fix that? I watched as he moved the injured hand closer to me and dug his head into his other arm.I looked at it. I picked it up carefully and turned it in my hands. His hands were warm compared to mine. How was I supposed to fix this? I lay his hand back down and he retreated it, covering himself in his wings again.I turned to Mable and she was sleeping. I forgot to tell her about how he causes tiredness if you look at him, specifically his eyes. Right. I still had work. I stood up startling Stan a bit as he moved back. I turned and left the gift shop and returned to my room. I sat down and glanced over what I was working on. Right the cure.I began working for a small amount of time when hunger became unbearable. I whined and shoved my face into my arms. Why did I have to be constantly hungry? I pouted.And tired. My nose did the perking thing again and I ignored it. I am not killing anything else, nor did I. Nope I didn't I couldn't have. I closed my door and locked it. Just in case. I continued working. ***I woke up to see Mable not in bed. Ildhe must've woken up already. I went down the stairs slowly and saw chairs flipped over and broken glass on the floor. Oh no. I searched the house finding nothing. Ford's door was locked. Plus he wouldn't answer when I tried to talk to him.I sighed making my way through the giftshop when I saw Mable sleeping on the ground. Along with Grunkle Stan, he looked different. He was gray, had horns, wings, he also had tusks and his skin looked spikey.I bit my lip and went to the kitchen for food. I found out that I couldn't eat cereal, or pancakes. I threw both of them up. I opened the fridge.Nothing.I sighed, placing my head. Now what?Right! I ran over to Forda room knocking on the door as loud as I could. He didn't respond. I held the jared pink-blue-purple liquid.“Ford, wake up! I have something I need to give you”I head the lock click and the door creaked open.Ford was rubbing his eyes and yawned.“Here” I held out the stuff and he looked at it.“Dipper, how did you!?” He took it from me and eyed it, placing it in the sunlight.I felt my face turn red, “well… yesterday we went to the crash site so I could get some of it. I thought it would be helpful”“Dipper! This is more than helpful this is-! Thank you!” He turned to his room and placed it on his desk. I smiled.I did help. I was still hungry.“Hey Grunkle Ford” he hummed a reply, “I'm hungry but there isn't any food in the fridge” Ford nodded.“I uh- I agree” Ford drummed his fingers on his desk, “we need someone to take a trip to the store. But we can't, we are too-” Ford grimaced. “What about Soos! He hasn't been infected and he works here. He would do that for us. We just need to make some sort of shopping list” Ford nodded.“Alright you go do that”I turned towards the door before stopping.“Wait, what do you want?”“Uh- meat I suppose. It doesn't seem I can, uh, eat anything else” Ford rubbed the back of his neck.“Okay, so that means Mable will need that too right?” Ford nodded, “okay what about Stan?”“Stanley-” Ford hummed, “I'm not too sure. I'm guessing he will want meat as well but I may be wrong” I nodded and left. Oh man I'm surrounded by people that might eat me. No they wouldn't do that. I walked over to the phone and clicked Soos’s number. He picked up.“Hey dude, this is Soos”“Hey uh,”Crap how am I supposed to tell him that all of us are whatever now. I tapped my foot.“Do you think you could come over to the Mystery Shack? I need to show you something,”“Sure thing Dipper, be over in a jiff,” I waited In the mystery shack when the door finally was knocked on. I grabbed the list I made and shuffled over to the door.“Hey dude” he waved at me. I smiled, “How's that deer half working for you?”“Eh” I waved my hand ‘more or less’ he nodded, “Hey uh. All of us are now some weird creature by the way”“Cool” Soos thumbs up.“Do you think you could get us some food from the grocery store?” I handed him a list and some money I found in Stan's room.“Sure thing dudes!” He tipped his hat and left. That was easier than I thought it would be. I watched him begin to leave and closed the door. I heard a growl.Why did I say it was easier? I turned seeing Ford growling creeping forwards.“Hey there” I shuffled to open the door grimacing. I opened it just as he leaped at me as I screamed and closed the door trapping Ford inside.“You okay dudes?” Soos turned back. My legs were trembling as I heard Ford inside scratch at the door.“Hey uh can I come with you? You know just stay in the car?” Soos nodded. I sighed relieved, hoping In the back of his brown truck. ***I woke up hearing Dipper scream. I turned towards the noise hearing a door slam. Then I saw Stan wake up. He was still like when he won't remember this stuff. I heard scratching noises. Dipper might be in trouble! I stood up and rushed over to see Ford scratch at the entrance door. He turned to me.Uh oh. I stepped backwards as he slowly crept forwards snarling. He leaped at me but was attacked by Stan. Stan pinned him to the ground and hissed. Ford bit into his hand and he unpinned him stumbling backwards. Ford growled, flicking his tail. He went up the stairs. Stan hissed at him staying in place.I saw waddles running downstairs squealing, running into a different room.I followed Ford upstairs causing Stan to follow me. I dashed into our room and saw Ford out the window. We left it open. I saw him run off.“FORD WAIT!” I ran after him stopping at the window seal watching him disappear into the forest. Oh no.***I walked, seeing the trees pass by. I don't even know why I stayed there for so long. They were not giving me anything. The only thing that place had was the warmth from the house.I caught the scent of something again. I readjusted my aching wings and kept following it.I stopped seeing weird creatures talking to each other. They looked like small people with weird red pointy hats. I eyed them before turning around and leaving. They had nothing for me. I continued walking until I caught something else. I followed it and it was a farm with animals being trapped in cages. I crept closer, wary of it being a trap for me but nothing happened. I flicked my tail and looked around. There was no one there.***We returned home with scores. I saw Mable sitting on the porch as she looked up. I smiled unlocking my seatbelt as the truck came to a stop. I jumped out of my seat and grabbed a couple bags full of groceries making my way to the porch.“Ford left”“What?”“He escaped out the window! I looked around but I couldn't find him and-” Mable pouted frustrated.“Hey it's okay. I'm sure he will return later or something” I scratched the back of my head. She nodded. All three of us carried groceries inside.“So dude, can you like fly?”“I don't think so but they're so colorful and pretty!” Mable flicked her wings showing Soos.“That's totally rad” he pointed at the. With both of his fingers. Mable laughed. “Hey Soos I think you should leave- you know so you don't catch whatever this is?”“Oh right, cya dudes! Call me if you need anything!” And he left The whole time we did that Grunkle Stan was eyeing us from the corner of the living room.“So what's he?” I pointed at him and Mable shrugged. I hummed, taking out the third journal and flicking through the pages.“Maybe he is a vampire!”“Mable he is not a vampire” she laughed and I did as well.“I know” she punched me in the side of the arm. I smacked my hand on her face.“Yeah yeah whatever!” I laughed again. She licked my hand and I jolted it away, shaking the slobber off.“Mable ew!” She laughed and I did too. I continued flicking the pages of the journal. Nothing useful. I sighed, closing it and sticking it back in my vest.Mabel grabbed her stomach “uhhg I'm hurngryyy!”I laughed “ stop that” I batted her hands and she laughed.I stood up and looked at the food in the fridge. I looked at some of the vegetables and random plant stuff Soos got. I still didn't want to eat them because, well vegetables suck, but it's the only thing I can eat. I grabbed some carrots and sat at the table eating them.I saw Mable getting cereal. “Mable I don't think you can eat that”“What why?”“I don't know Ford said earlier that he could only eat meat”Mable shrugged and continued pouring milk into the bowl.She sat next to me sticking a spoonful Into her mouth. She spit it out.“Bleh” I laughed. “Do we need to come this?” I looked at Mable and she shrugged. I held the unopened chamber package and handed it to her.“So I can just eat it like this?” I shrugged.“I mean Ford did remember?” Mable nodded.“Yeah but it's a bit weird. My brain is like ‘Ahh’ it's raw dont eat!” I nodded.“Yeah I kinda felt like that towards vegetables, but they actually taste better than I thought they would”“Okay” Mable opened the package and eyed it. “I don't wanna”“Ford did it”“But it's like!” She waved at it“It's fine just like close your eyes or something”“Okay fine,” she closed her eyes and drug the fork closer to her mouth before stopping, “I can't, it's too weird!”“Okay fine. I guess you are not hungry” I smirked at her. She folded her arms. “Okay” she cautiously stuck the fork in her mouth. She hummed.“It doesn't actually taste bad at all” she took the fork out of her mouth.I smiled at her taking a bite out of the carrot. I saw Stan crouch forwards.“Do you think he wants food?” Mable looked at him.“I don't know” she stuck her fork in the meat and waved it at him close to the ground. He crept forwards.She smiled. He gently took the food off the fork and ate it, stepping back a little.“They're both like cats!”“No they aren't Mable!” she smiled“We have Deeper” she pointed at me, “Cable” she pointed at herself “Cartley” she pointed at Stan, “and Cord!”“Mable your insufferable” she laughed. I shook my head taking another bite of carrot. “Should we go after Ford?” I shrugged at Mable's question.“Probably, but what if he attacks us. Plus once he remembers who he is or whatever he will just come back”“But what if he doesn't” she pouted.“Okay, okay we'll go looking for him” I thought about the two times he attacked me and shivered. “What about Grunkle Stan?” She gave him another piece of food.“I don't know. We could wait for him to snap out of it” Mable nodded.“Okay” ***I woke up on the couch. Everything hurt. I winced. My back hurts, my face hurt, my legs, my arms, my chest hurt. And my hand stung. It was like constantly sticking my hand in fire and feeling it bubble boiling from the inside out. And my chest hurt everytime it moved to breathe or anything. It felt like something was lodged inside it and I felt it click everytime I breathed in and out.I opened my eyes, blinking at the light shining in from the windows and TV. Mable and Dipper were turned around looking at me. But they were different. Dipper had four legs, Mable had wings and paws. I squinted at them.“You're awake!” Mable ran up and hugged me. It stung. I pushed her away hissing at the pain.“Sorry-”“No it's fine” I grumbled, smiling at her. I blinked looking at them. “When did this happen?”“When did-? Oh yeah… we haven't”“Basically we got turned into cool monsters” Mable smiled showing sharp white teeth shining contrasted against her black fur. What “Okay… uh. I feel horrible” I winced, stuffing my face with my hand.“I'll get some Tylenol” and Dipper left I took my hand off my face and stared at Mable. She had black fur, paws, a small snout, pink upside down triangle, dearlike ears, tiny horns, tail, wings.What the heck happened while I was passed out. Wait shouldn't I be dead?I blinked. I got shot and fell off a cliff and I'm not dead. I must have plot armor or something.I glanced at my hands. One was black and it was missing some stuff. Fingers. It was missing fingers. My eyes widened looking at it. It was definitely missing fingers.I swallowed and noticed my other hand was gray and sharp looking, a rocky, spikeyish look. I flexed it seeing sharp gray claws plastered on the ends of each finger. What the hell.I felt two things poking on my upper lip and touched them as it led down into my mouth. I also noticed how hard it was to breathe. It was like I had a huge weight placed on top of me. I had to slightly focus on breathing because of that.I was also freezing. It was so cold. It was like if you were pushed into the pool for the first time and the cold water smashed down your back. Or if you're taking a hot shower and the water suddenly turns ice cold. I lay there. “Do you want to see yourself! You look, like, super cool!” I looked at Mabe as bounced away and left as Dipper returned with a cup and a cupped hand. I pushed myself up off of my stomach, wincing at the pain in my left hand as weight was toppled on it. I sat down, throwing my legs off the side of the couch and leaning backwards. It was uncomfortable.“Uh here” Dipper handed me two pills and a cup. I took them. I swallowed the pills with the water and handed the cup back slouching over resting my face in the palm of my good hand.Mable returned with a mirror and poked me with it. I glanced at it before taking it and looking at myself.I had yellow-orangish eyes with hard to see orange pupils, I had two white tusks jolting out of my bottom lips, I had gray horns on the top of my head, actually everything was gray and spiky looking my skin was gray. I squinted at myself in the mirror. Hell noI gave it back.Yeah this was a nightmare right. I rubbed my face whining at the pain and also because this did not seem like a dream. Which means it's not.I actually looked like that?!I blinked seeing Mable and Dipper look at me confused. “What the hell is going on?” I whinned out running my hand through my hair. “Well. We were exploring a new place. Me and Ford and we had an accident with a magic substance and we are now like this”“I didn't come with you two”“Well. I went back and got some samples with Wendy… wait Wendy! Oh my God were is she! I totally forgot about her!”“Huh?” I looked at pacing Dipper.“Well i-” he breathed in looking at me biting his lips, “I'll uh worry about that later. Anyway, me, Ford, Mable and Wendy went to go get some samples so when Ford wasn't being like the ‘beast version’ of himself he could research for a cure and-”“Beast version?”“Yeah uh. It's like when you don't remember anything and-”“You act like a cat” Mable grinned and Dipper scowled.“No you don't” he sighed, “you basically act in like instinct or something”“What”Dipper sighed, “like uh. You act kinda like a wild dog or wolf”“Cat” Mable mumbled under her breath and Dipper shot her a look. “Okay?”Ford acting like a wild dog, or cat. Nope I can't even visualize that. “Well basically we got the sample but-” he rubbed the back of his neck sighing,” how am I supposed?” he groaned, annoyed.“Okay there is also another thing to this, before we were monsters. There was this demon, anomaly named Bill Cypher”Demon?“Okay?”“Basically he makes one sided deals to trick you into accepting them”“Okay”“But he is a demon so he can like, possess you” I nodded.“Gideon made a deal with him and-” Gideon, I narrowed my eyes.“Well Gideon made a deal will Bill Cypher and he got possessed by him”“Wait so Gideon didn't shoot me?” “Yeah,” Dipper tapped his foot, “ it was Bill Cypher not Gideon. You can tell by their eyes, if there yellow and have black slits”I thought his eyes looked off. “Okay. How am I not” I folded my hands together, ”dead?” “I used some of the magic stuff in you that we got”“How does that even-? Whatever… didn't I also like fall of a cliff?”.“I caught you with my wings! Well kinda” Mable grinned.“Okay. Then Dipper used the magic mystery liquid on me and now I'm whatever this is?”They nodded. This is weird. “How am I just learning about this now?” they shrugged. “Oh yeah we need to go catch Ford!”“Wait, why? What?”“He escaped out the window”“Huh? Wait, do you mean when he is in the.’ beast form’” I made quotation marks with my hands.They nodded.“Okay just give me a sec” I stood up stumbling.Oh wow I felt heavy. I leaned on the couch to get my balance. I turned towards my room and left. I noticed I have a tail as well. It dragged across the flooring. It actually helped keep my balance which was surprising. I closed my door behind me as I noticed this might be harder than I thought. My clothes were ripped in multiple spots and whatnot and I noticed I'll need to cut my clothing because I have wings.I have wings. I looked at them in the mirror, they looked slightly like bat wings.l but I couldn't tell because they were folded.I attempted to unfold them to get a better look but nothing happened. I frowned. Trying again.I tried until it actually worked and unfolded, they were really light and whatever, and they were huge, they couldn't even unfold all the way in my room. I let them rest against my back again as I grabbed one of my knives and began cutting my red stained white shirt. Because my clothes were ripped through and my wings were so big that was the only way to take it off.I changed clothes cutting slits where my wings and tail would be so they could actually fit. It was annoying. Plus my clothing felt a tiny bit tighter, which was also annoying. I also get a little taller I think. I looked at my shoes before just walking out of my room. There was absolutely no way that would work. I went and found the twins as we headed out to search for Ford. Hopefully he was safe. “Ford!” I heard Mable yell out the window, “Ford!”I sighed. It was about lunch time as blinked again. Driving was definitely harder. My eyes were somehow even more messed up than they already were. Everything was blurry even though I was wearing glasses, somehow I didn't notice it in the house.We turned into the Northwest's house. This was the last place to check. I watched Mable hop out of the car and run up to the door. So far we have been saying we are wearing costumes. Which was surprising that it worked so far.I watched Mable come back with a frown on her face. Nothing again. I grimaced as she got in the backseat.“Nope,” Mable said, slamming the car door shut.“But he has to be here, it's the last place! We checked the whole town!” Dipper looked up from the journal and frowned as he continued writing in it. “He'll eventually turn up. You said he would wake up from. His weird ‘beast form’ eventually”“Yeah. Yeah. He should” Dipper clicked his pen as he stuck it in his mouth. I nodded and started the car back up.“Whatcha writing” I peeked at Dipper through the rearview mirror.“Stuff about this” Dipper kicked his legs and clicked his pen repeatedly.“Click”“Click” “Click”“Click” “Click” “Dipper, will you stop that?”. “Click” I frowned and rolled my eyes. Mable chuckled. We finally returned home and my hand felt like it was completely dipped in lava. If I touched it to anything a strong kick of pain stabbed me.I sat on the couch as my chest stung even more than earlier. I spralled out on the couch laying down on my stomach because of those darn wings.I listened as Mable and Dipper ran upstairs. I sighed.This was weird. I flexed my good hand eyeing the sharp tips and weird looking skin. And on top of that Ford was lost. And he is the only one who can fix this. I lay on that couch until my thoughts slowly drifted into mush as sleep creeped around taking me.