Enchanted

Chapter 8

(Dipper pov)

In Antonio's room Ford pours a wide cirlce of sand around us before setting a strange pile of plants in the center of the cirlce. "Dipper, there is no guarentee that this is going to work. I mean I haven't looked into the future for a very long time."

"I know, but it's worth a shot isn't it?"

"Just......please don't get mad if it isn't what you want to hear."

"What do you mean?"

"People often asked me to see in the future and when it wasn't good news, they blamed me like I was making it happen. But I don't control what I see, yet I get blamed when someone's fish dies." He sits on the ground. I take a seat across from him. "They always just assume I make the bad things happen."

"People assume that I can't do a lot of things on my own or that when something goes wrong, I had some part in it. I think the black sheep just tend to get a bad reputation."

He smiles slightly before holding his hands out to me. "You're going to want to hold on." I grab onto his hands. He closes his eyes as he takes a deep breath in and out. The sand starts flying around us in a kind of dome and when he opens his eyes they are glowing green. Looking into the sand I see the moving images of the house falling apart. The cracks spreading everywhere, me seeming to be in the center of it. "No no it's just the same thing......I-I have to stop."

"No, Ford please. There has to be something here that we're missing."

"You're looking at the same thing that I am kid."

Looking at the images I see one that is different. It's a golden butterfly on a plant that is typically found in the water. "There!" I point to the golden butterfly as it flies off the plant.

"That is new." We stand up as the butterfly changes into the candle. The candle glows brighter, the cracks healing themselves. I see me and another figure that is out of focus. "You are....you're embracing someone. You embrace them and the candle glows brighter. That's how you can save the miracle."

"Who am I hugging?"

"It's getting clearer."

The figure pulls away from the embrace and it's only now I realize who in disbelief it is that I am supposed to hug. "Mabel!?"

The images stop and the sand falls around us. Ford is now holding a green tablet with the image of me and Mabel embracing each other. "Your sister, of course."

"Are you freaking kidding me?!" I see him flinch back at my reaction. "Sorry, sorry. I am not angry at you Ford just......why this? It is so stupid. She isn't going to just want to willingly hug me, she will want something of me because of course miss perfect can't just help anyone but herself."

"She isn't perfect, Dipper."

"Yeah she is. You even told her that she would be perfect and her power would grow stronger."

"I didn't say perfect. I said the life of her dreams would be hers. Meaning whatever future or life she wanted. It could be a perfect one or a messy one, that was up to her. And that wasn't the whole future....."

"What do you mean?"

"When you two were little she asked if I could see into her future, she wanted to know what her gift would be. I saw that and something worse that I couldn't bring myself to tell a little girl."

"What exactly did you see?"

"......it'll be easier to show you."

We both sit on the ground again. He holds his hands out and as I take his hands his eyes start glowing green again and the sand swirls around us again. I see Mable sitting on her bed in her room, looking down at a rose in her hand.

"Never do the unexpected
Stand up straight
Stick it through

Uphold the family that hurts and harms
And asks too much of you

What else could I do?" A tear goes down her face as she crushes the rose and stands up walking around the room.

"Bury weakness that exposes
Kill the wild with a smile
Watch as wonder decomposes
How could you when I was just a child?

Support the family
Don't stray, display, obey
You must be perfect
Oh, oh

You suffocate the ones you love
That's not just something you forget
But I'm done with your games
I'll go my own way" She wipes her tear away as different plants I've never seen her grow before start growing all over the room. These plants look really really dangerous and deadly. I've never seen her grow things aside from a simple flower but these are on a whole new level. She looks down at her frilly dress before she starts ripping off the frilly parts of it.

"A hurricane of jacarandas
Strangling figs, hanging vines
My life is mine to do with as I choose
I owe nothing to you

When you neglect a flower it will wilt and fade
Until all of its color has drained away
Paint its petals, the outcome's the same
You've lost the bloom you plucked and pruned
The only one to blame is you

Your prized precious flower is no more
As new shoots arise
The rose isn't there, just the thorns
And it's time to see how I shine" She goes to the bedroom doors throwing them open, her dangerous looking vines and plants growing all over the house now.

"How I shine" She looks down towards the courtyard where the whole family is. Raising her hands vines rise out of the ground creating diferent cages all around us. She sits on one of her vines as it lowers her to the ground.

"A hurricane of jacarandas
Strangling figs and hanging vines
My life is mine to do with as I choose
I owe nothing to you

What could you possibly expect
Was gonna happen when you made me?
Oh
Tend to a plant with poison and expect a flower,
Are you crazy?!" She walks up to Stan's vine cage and I see her whole body is trembling in rage as she glares at him.

"You're weak and you're helpless
To stop me destroying you
My powers made anew

And so now you'll see
What else can I do?
Woah

What else can I do?"

The images stop as the sand falls around us again. I'm left speechless. I mean, that is something that is going to happen? Mable looked so angry, angrier than I have ever seen before.

"I don't know for certain when that is supposed to happen to your sister. I just know it will. But maybe it doesn't have to. Maybe if we can heal the miracle it could help her too."

".....alright, lets go find her."