Don't Mess with Curses

Inverse Grass and Codes

Mabel's pov

          "We're here!" I announced happily. 

           "Good I'm tired from all that walking," said Dipper back, sitting down. He pulled out a water bottle from his backpack and took a sip and then offered it took me. I took it and took a sip.

           "So, according to Ford's magnificent grammar and writing skills," Dipper laughed at my comment,"we take the this plant called the Inverse grass,and say, 'close your eyes and count towards three you'll soon be closer to a newer reality, open your eyes and see what you see and a newer reality you'll see,' while twisting it." I walked over to the bush and pulled off two sprigs of the silvery white flower flowers, handing one too Dipper and the other for me. 

           "Are you sure about this, that chant thing kinda seems ominous," he said with a slight voice crack at the end. 

           "Yep I'm sure! Now let's do this!" We began to twist the sprig between our hands till they were red as we chanted what was written in the journal three times with a slight pause where it said today count towards three. 

            There was a whirling noise that rose in pitch that suddenly ended with a loud pop. Dipper looked over at me in confusion, "what was that?" I shrugged. The journal page had ended there. It didn't say what it did or anything it just stopped. I wondered why, I didn't really care I thought that we could finish the page for Ford. 

               "Well then let's just go for a walk before our shift starts, that's probably what Stan was yelling as we left," Dipper said. 

              "Ok, good idea, dip dot," I replied with a smile. We walked a little past the bush and found a river. Or rather what I think was a river, I might have just been a big stream. Whatever. 

              "Hey, Mabel?"  

              "Yeah?"

              "Can I see the page with the Inverse Grass on it?" I nodded and handed it to him. He sat down and so did I. He went through the codes and found nothing on it really. There was one that just said, I'm not touching this stuff it's sparkly. I don't think that Ford wrote that one I think McGucket did. Switching on the black light, we got more information. 

            "Ok," Dipper began, as he decoded," this one says that the Inverse Grass is a curse, so thanks, Mabel," I gave him a sheepish smile," but, the second half says that all we did is active the curse, you have too touch it again to actually get cursed."

           "Good. Hey, Dipper, can you check the time?"

          "Yeah," he checked his watch," it's 11:51. So we should start heading back to the shack."

        "Ok," I said jumping up. I then proceeded to yank up Dipper." Race you!" I yelled taking off.

         "Hey! No fair, you got a head start!" I heard him yell behind me. I laughed back at him. 

Dipper's pov

        We reached the shack with a few minutes too spare after investigating what ever that was. I hadn't finished decoding everything on the page but we ran out of time so I figured that I'd finish it later. When we reached and entered the shack, I yelled to Stan that we were back. As Mabel swept, and I, organized the postcards, I couldn't shake what had just happened. I wondered what would happen I touched it. Would I die? Would my hair fall out? Would I die from my hair falling out? Probably not, but you get the picture. 

         By the end of our shift Mabel and I were both starving. Most likely because we were out in the woods running for so long. I solved codes while we ate lunch. We both had grilled cheeses and chips. 

        That's when I came across a very unique code. I first tried the veshenair cipher using the same key worda that had been on the page, nothing. I even used frequency attacks to find the same letter, nothing. Same with the Atbash, the substitution, and all the versions of the Ceaser cipher. I knew that it could not have been Morse code because of the obvious lack of dashes and dots. I let out a noise of frustration

        "What?" Mabel asked.

       "This code, it makes no sense!"

      "Why don't you just ask Ford?"

       "Because, I want too solve this with you. You picked this out so I want too do this with just you and no one else."

       "Awwww, you care!" She smiled. I smirked back.

      "Well don't try too act like you don't care about me. Anyway, no matter what code I use its just gibberish."

      "What if, you solve the first code, and when you get gibberish, you use another code?"

      "That, that might actually just work." So, I tried it. First I used the Atbash. Same gibberish as before. Then, the version of the Ceaser cipher where a=m. It worked. "Mabel! You're a genius!" I laughed.

       "Just doing my part! So what does it say?"

      I  cleared my throat. "It says, 'while I couldn't figure out just what this does, with a my research, I was unable to find a way too reverse the curse. Let's hope that we didn't just get cursed. There's one more left so I'll solve that and tell you what it says when I'm done."

      "Ok." I got right too work. This one was less complex, I only had too use the substitution cipher which is only 1=a 2=b and so on and so forth. 

      "Got it!" 

    "Tell me upstairs," she said as we walked up the old creaky steps. 

     "Ok." We walked the rest of the way in silence while Mabel smiled goofyly." Ok, so it says," I began as I closed the door," this is very important, it says, that the curse, I is transferred into water if it  comes in contact with it. And, another one of the codes said you could also get cursed by it if you ingest it. Freaky right?"

       "Y-yeah freaky." 

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Maximumgravity here, thank you too those who who are reading I honestly didn't expect to get really any veiws. So thanks. :) Also, there will be no shipping in any of my stories sorry.