Mystery

Chapter Two

The next morning, you woke in your dusty old bedroom. You were wearing a white tank top and pajama pants. you yawned and got up, walking down the stairs.

"Morning Aunt Susan!" you yell from the kitchen, making yourself a cup of tea.

"Goin' to work! Bye!" Susan called through the house. You heard the door close and you finished your cup of tea.

You headed upstairs to shower and get dressed. You wore a clean black tank top with a red hoodie and denim skinny jeans. You brushed out your hair and ran downstairs, putting on a pair of converse. You left the house and walked a few blocks to the Mystery Shack, wanting to see what treasures were inside. You opened the door and saw, Dipper?

"Dipper?" you ask.

"Oh, hey." Dipper smiles awkwardly.

A girl about Dipper's age enters the room, with long, wavy brown hair and wearing a T-shirt with a unicorn on it. She smiled hugely when she sees you, then looks at Dipper.

"Ooooooo, you have a girlfriend?!" She squeals.

"I do not have a girlfriend!" Dipper retorts.

You glance at him and he sighs.

"(Your name), this is Mabel, my twin sister."

"Nice to meet you." you just have to smile at this girls cheerfulness.

Suddenly, an ancient old man lumbers in, drinking a Pitt soda.

"Morning Dippin' sauce, Mabel, and, who is this?" He asks, looking at you.

"It's Dippers girlfriend! (your name)!" Mabel yells, Dipper facepalms.

"Hot tamales! How did Dipper get a chick like you!?" The old man teases.

"Grunkle Stan, this is (Your name). She is not my girlfriend!"Dipper yells from behind the cash register.

You blush and begin to look around the shop with your hands in your pockets. You see a gigantic skull of some kind, a jar of pickled eyeballs, a supposed "Sasquatch Toenail" among lots of other tourist junk.

"Wanna go exploring? There's a cave I've been dying to check out." Dipper asks you.

"Sure, why not?" you reply, and Stan whistles.

Dipper opens the door and you walk out together.

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"Wow, it's nice down here." you look around in awe.

"Yeah, Mabel and I used to come down here because she thought everything was so sparkly." Dipper laughed.

You kept walking.

"So, where is this cave?" You ask, crawling across a huge fallen tree.

"Just a few more minutes this way." Dipper said, crossing a slippery patch of mud. He slipped, and you reach for his hand. He grabs it, and pulls you down with him into the sticky mud.

"Ewwww!" You say laughing. Dipper starts to laugh too and before long, you guys are exploding in laughter.

"Well, we failed." Dipper said, trying to stand in the horribly sticky and slippery mud.

"Yep, pretty much." you laugh, gripping on to Dipper to get to the other side of the mud pit.

Once you escape from the muddy hole, you collapse on the other side, laughing and gasping for air. You are pretty much covered head to toe in freaking mud.

"Well, we should get going towards that cave before it gets dark." Dipper suggested, helping you up.

"Sounds good." You smile. Dipper smiles back.

You walk until a steep hill rolls down into what seems to be a lake with sparkling blue water. Eight different waterfalls spill down into it, misting the area around.

"Woah." you say in awe

"Yeah, I know, right?" Dipper stares at the falls specifically.

You slowly tumble your way down the hill, towards the water. You stop free falling by the waters edge and Dipper brings out his book, flipping through the pages.

"Where is the cave? I don't see it" you ask.

"It's behind one of the waterfalls according to the journal. Dipper says, flipping through the pages of the ratty book. "It doesn't say which one though."

"Guess we'll have to figure it out." You smirk, getting an idea.

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"Are you sure about this?" Dipper asks, panicking a little.

"Positive, did you grab lots of rocks?" You ask.

"Yeah, there's twenty rocks and eight waterfalls, if you miss, you have the worst aim in the world." Dipper jokes.

You pick up a rock and throw it at the first waterfall. It hits the water, penetrating the surface before bouncing back; there's rock behind the fall. You continue to throw rocks until you get to the fourth cave, the one pretty much at the deepest point of the lake.

"Crap." you say.

"Crap, indeed my friend." Dipper replies.

"We could build a raft, maybe." You suggest, Dipper shakes his head. Suddenly his eyes go wide.

"I know what we can use." He says, flipping through pages wildly until he stops on one and shoves the book at you.

The image is of what seems to be a half horse half fish thing with a horse torso, but replacing its back legs is a fin. You read the swirly handwritten title at the top of the page;

Hippocampi

"Hippocampi?" You ask.

"Yep," says Dipper, snatching the book. "Says they are summoned with any kind of sweet fruit, and someone who can sing these words. I have an apple in my bag, but I can't sing if my life depended on it, can you?"

"Uh, I don't know. I've never tried." You admit.

"Well, now is a great time to start." Dipper says, giving you the book.

You clear your throat and Dipper drops the apple into the blue water.

Oh creature of the deep;

A horses mane and a sirens tail;

Accept my gift to you;

Please let us prevail;

Dipper stares at you like a complete idiot.

"What?" you ask.

"You're a fantastic singer." is all he says before the water begins to bubble and a hippocamp breaks the surface of the water, then eats the apple.

"C'mon, Dipp!" you yell, hopping on the creatures back. Dipper clambers on behind you and the hippocamp begins to leisurely swim towards the fourth waterfall.