Dragon's Pride

Aftermath

WENDY:
Dipper was still passed out in Mable's arms and was making the sound a cat would if it was happy. "How did you know about that Wendy?" Mable asked. "Well, he reminded me of an upset dragon and I remembered something from my childhood but you need to explain yourself first!" I said noting how she tried to change the subject. She sighed then frowned. "Well, you probably already figured this out but Dipper is a dragon mixed with something else. It seems like all of the supernatural creatures here respect, fear, or worship him in some way." She said. It was one thing having my theories but it was another to actually hear it from her. "But he doesn't look like a dragon from the stories I heard." I said looking at his now more human form. She nodded. "He's still what the supernatural call a pup. So I think he's like a young dragon or something." She explained. "Does this mean he'll get more powerful?" I asked a little frightened of how much strength the kid would have as an adult. "I-don't know..." she said just as lost as I was.

"Why did he try to attack me too?" I asked. "That you'd have to ask him yourself. I don't know the reason but whenever I'm in danger or hurt he gets to the point like you just saw. Only I have ever been able to calm him in those situations, did he hurt the ghosts?" She asked and I frowned then nodded hesitantly. "They attacked you and you passed out. Then he used some weird magic and put you down. I ran to you to wake you up and explain but when I poured the water on you, you coughed. It got his attention and he used his wings as an umbrella shield." I said and she frowned. "It was probably the fact that I coughed and it signaled him of danger. Sorry." She apologized. "Well it defiantly explains a lot." I said trying to reassure her I wasn't mad and if anything I was just confused. "So who told you about that strange trick?" She asked and I remembered the ghostly lumberjack. "Ironically a ghost. It was the ghost of a lumberjack that kept me company as a kid." I said and she looked intrigued. "I'll explain the rest later but the others are waking up." She said pointing to the fallen teens who got up and scrambled to their feet.

"What happened?!" Nate asked. "Why am I wet?!" Robbie was upset. The teens turned to us and then I started to explain how the place was actually haunted and Dipper grabbed a baseball bat and made the ghosts leave. I knew Mable and him were keeping it a secret so I decided to do the same and Mable smiled. We left the dusk2dawn and Mable asked if I wanted to stay over. I agreed since tomorrow was another work day anyways and I had to finish the story. We got situated in the twin's room and then Mable urged me to continue. "Right so, he told me this fairy tale about how a demon of pure chaos and a dragon of pure magic had a child and the trick they'd use to calm the baby of pure chaos and magic. The method was to scratch behind its cheek bone. It then described how dragons had a spot that would immediately calm them or put them in a trance like state." I said looking at Dipper curious as to why he was a dragon and his sister wasn't. She looked amazed but then wondered what kind of book that was for such a specific fairy tale. I shrugged. "I'm not sure, I just know that it was a story he liked to tell along with his story about how he met a dragon before." I said and she made puppy dog eyes to hear it.

I laughed and told her we needed to go to sleep. She nodded and then almost instantly fell asleep. I looked over at Dipper in his bed and he was very quiet. He stirred a bit in his sleep then fell still again. "I wonder what you really are." I muttered drifting off to sleep. I was woken up the next morning by the creaking of the floor boards and seeing Dipper exit through the window. I waited until he was out then made haste to follow him. He ran around the town and then he went to a water fall. I watched as he went behind the falls and decided to follow him, it was there that I saw a cave and it had multiple book shelves lined with journals and piles of crystals, animal Skulls, Treasure, and Stuffed animals. I stepped on a stick by mistake and he quickly turned around to face me. I tried to hide but he called my name and so I slowly revealed myself. "What are you doing here Wendy?" He asked calmly and thankfully not in the distorted tone from last night. "I was uh, curious when I heard you leave." I said truthfully. He looked at me calculating then motioned for me to come in.

"So... you know about me right?" He asked surprising me. He sounded sad. "Yeah..." I said expecting some backlash of some kind. "Are you freaked out?" He asked expecting me to say something terrible. "Not really. I think it's because I know it's still you but also because I heard a legend about dragons as a kid." I said and he turned around with a shocked look on his face. "Really?" He asked skeptical. I nodded. "But.. I'd like to know more of your story if you don't mind." I said and he looked on the brink of tears. I wondered what I said that could cause him to react this way then a thought came to mind, maybe this was why he and his sister were living in gravity falls.