Chapter 6: The Horrible Answer

Strangely enough Maine was crawling with devils and monsters who terrorized innocent people and the cops weren't really much help. But Frida being an exorcist and Manny having the ability to fight and slay devils they opened a business recommended by Father Gardner and Sister Nora to serve as exterminators for the creatures. Every time a devil was on the loose it would be detected by a machine run by Sister Nora and if one was detected in Maine she would call Frida and alert her.

Ring-ring!

It was five o'clock in the morning when the phone in the manor went off. Manny sleepily reached for it.

"Hello?" He yawned.

"Where is Frida Suarez devil boy?!" An angry voice screamed into the phone which was loud enough to wake Manny up completely.

"Who is this?" Manny asked.

"This is Sister Nora! And I demand to speak to Frida Suarez now!"

"It's five in the morning. Can't you wait lady?"

"Now!"

Manny tiredly walked into Frida's room and put the phone to her ear.

"Frida phone for you."

"Tell whoever it is to go away." She yawned.

"I think not young lady!" The phone screamed.

"Sister Nora? What are you doing calling here at five o clock?"

"No time to explain there's a devil attacking the higher level of the town. I need you to get down there and exercise it."

"At this hour?"

"Frida it's a devil and it's attacking people!"

"Okay, okay I'm on it." She yawned.

Now wide awake the two got dressed and went down into town.

"Okay where's the problem?" Frida asked.

"Who are you two supposed to be?" A man asked.

"Sister Frida Suarez at your service, the wet blanket is my assistant Manny Rivera."

"Hey!" Manny groaned.

"Are you two the monster exterminators Father Gardner and Sister Nora recommended?" The man asked skeptically.

"Yep."

"But you're just children."

"Don't let our age fool you sir, we're professionals well I am at least. So what's the issue?"

"Well..My hotel is being invaded by this revolting creature. I've never seen anything so disgusting."

"Worry not sir we're on it just direct us in the direction it is in."

"It's on the third floor."

They went into the hotel and upstairs to the third floor where the devil was causing trouble. It was a stink devil, a large and disgusting creature made entirely of mud, sludge. and tar which wreaked to high heaven. People were running for their lives while trying to escape the putrid odor that the devil was giving off.

"Oh dear God what is that?" Frida coughed. "It smells like evil!"

"That's exactly what stink devils smell like. Evil, sin, greed, wrath, jealousy, suffering, and any other negative emotion you can think of it." Manny said. "It's purpose is to spread the stench of evil every where. There's only one way to stop it."

"And what's that?"

"We have to cleanse it with a bath of holy water and salt."

"Bath of holy water and salt huh? Good thing I keep a spare bottle of holy water with me and as for the salt well I think I can get that from the dinning hall."

"Yeah but how are we gonna get it on him."

"I've got an idea. Keep him busy."

"How?"

"Fight him."

"You mean I have to touch that thing?"

"Manny!"

"Alright."

He took a deep breath and transformed into his devil form while Frida went downstairs into the dinning hall where she grabbed a salt shaker off of a table. Then up to the front desk where the man running it was hiding under some books.

"Excuse me but do you have a sauna?"

"Yes."

"Where is it?"

"On the second level to the left."

"Thanks."

She went to the second level and found the sauna then began doing a little re-engineering the water pipes, (a trick she learned from Father Gardner) to spray a mixture of holy water and salt. Once done she went upstairs to the third level where Manny and the devil were having in all out fighting match.

"Manny do you think you can lead that thing into the sauna downstairs?"

"Sure." He punched the devil in the eye and flew up toward the lower stairway. "Hey over here! Your mother was a stink bug!"

The gross devil lunged after Manny as he flew down toward the second level where the sauna was. He led him into the sauna and quickly flew out. Frida slammed the door, locked it, and turned on the water pipes. A mist of holy water and salt filled the room, the monster screeched in horror as it started to disintegrate until there was nothing left but a small clump of dirt.

"There we go." She said. "All gone. Nice work dude and- Oh man! You stink!"

"I know!" He growled.

"Also your devil voice is kind of scary, try not to get so angry."

Manny changed back, received the money the hotel owed them for their services, and went back to the manor where Manny took a long shower. It was like this at least once a week. Once a week a monster or devil would appear in Maine and cause trouble only for Manny and Frida to exterminate it. This week's creature attacked only at night and hadn't been seen by anyone. The only clues were strange footprints around a church.

"What do you make of this?" Frida asked.

"I'd say this is the foot print of a werewolf."

"Werewolf? Those are real?"

"Yes."

"Witches? Werewolves? What other supernatural monsters are there that actually exist?"

"Well there are also vampires and ghosts but that's not important right now."

She led him to where she found them. Manny examined and sniffed it carefully.

"Let's see." He said sniffing it. "About yay tall, male, skinny, not much muscle but still strong and incredibly fast."

"How could you possibly know that by smelling it?"

"It's a gift anyway."

"Are you sure you two can catch this beast." A worker at the church said. "We're worried this wolf might be after our priest."

"What would a werewolf have against a priest?" Manny asked.

"Well I don't think the priest here is exactly holier than thou." Frida said.

"Who is this guy?"

"His name is Gideon Gleeful. I learned about him back in New York. He's a mysterious priest who claimed that he could create miracles and get rid of sinful beings. No one knows where he came from or how long he's been around."

"What's he like?"

"There have been different views. Most people say he's a holy man and act like he's the second Jesus or something but others say he's a con artist who makes people pay for forgiveness from God and that he made a deal with a demon."

"Those are all lies." The worker said. "Minister Gideon is a good holy man! And you should not believe those horrible rumors! That aside are you going to stop that thing?"

"Well if we're going to catch him it will have to be at night. Werewolves look like regular people during the day so it has to be at night."

"Luckily that wolf won't go after him tonight because he'll be at the Northwest residence."

"What's he doing there?"

"Another one of his charity jobs, be sure to have that wolf exterminated before tomorrow."

After dark they waited by the church. So far nothing happened and everything seemed calm.

"I think we'll cover more ground if we split up." Frida said.

"I think that's a little unsafe."

"Don't worry I have my gun with me and it's loaded with sliver bullets."

"Alright but be careful and keep that sliver cross around your neck okay? Werewolves hate sliver so don't take it off for even a second."

"I won't."

She went to search around the left side of area while he looked on the right side of the area. Just like at the church everything seemed quiet. Suddenly a wind blew against her and it made her hair start flying around in a big mess. A strand of it got caught on to the chain of her necklace.

"Ow! Oh great!" She started trying to pull her hair out of the chain unaware that a pair of glowing yellow eyes were watching her. When she realized that she couldn't get her hair out while wearing she undid her necklace which was just what the pair of yellow eyes had been waiting for. "There we go. I hate it when that happens."

Suddenly she heard twig snap and growl.

"Who's there?"

But instead of an answer something ran up to her and grabbed her.

"Frida!" Manny sensed. He began sniffing for her scent but for some strange reason he couldn't sniff where her scent was coming from. All he found was her cross which had been dropped on to the ground and was surrounded by werewolf prints. He picked it up and clutched it in his hand. "Damn wolf! When I find you I'll skin you to make a pelt!"

...

When Frida awoke it was morning and she was in an apartment.

"What happened?" She thought. The last thing she remembered was walking home when a wolf appeared then everything had gone black after that.

"Hello." She looked up to see a young man across the room. "I hope you slept well. I'm terribly sorry for bringing you here against your will-"

"That was you last night?!"

"Yes and I am very sorry for-"

"Kidnapper!" She screamed. She grabbed a frying pan and started hitting him with it.

CLANG!

"Ouch! Will you stop- "

CLANG!

"Ow! Careful"

CLANG!

"Oof! Please Madame-"

CLANG!

"Stop!"

CLANG!

"Doing!"

CLANG!

"That!"

CLANG!

"Enough!" She shouted stopping her arm. "Alright have you got that out of your system?"

"Just one more time."

CLANG!

"Ow!"

"Okay I'm good. Now who are you and why have you brought me here?"

"My name is Dipper Pines and if you haven't figured it out yet I'm a werewolf well half werewolf anyway and again I apologize for abducting you but I need your help with something."

"So you're not going to eat me?"

"No."

"You just want my help?"

"Yes."

"Then why didn't you just ask for help instead of kidnapping me?"

"Well I was going to but your guardian threatened to turn me into a duck and eat me if he ever saw me near you."

"What do you need me to do?"

"Well I read in your files from an asylum that you may be physic either that or you're crazy."

"I'm not crazy!"

"So you are physic?"

"I...I don't know. I mean sometimes I see things that no one else can see but I think it's just my imagination."

"When I read that you were a nun and that you moved here I thought you were at the church which is why I went over there for the past few nights. What I need your help is communicating with ghosts."

"And why is that?"

"My sister killed herself years ago and no one knew why. She just jumped off a cliff and that was the end of it but I have reason to believe her ghost is haunting me. Trying to tell me why she did it. I was hoping that maybe you could talk to her."

"I don't know. Even if I could I don't know how."

"Well that's where I come in. I'm going to preform a ritual that will summon her or whoever is haunting me you just have to talk to them."

"I'll try but I don't think I can do this."

Dipper lit a few candles and began reading strange words from a book. At first nothing happened then suddenly Frida felt a chill run up her spine. Next thing she knew she saw a girl floating above her. She looked battered and bruised, like she had been crushed by stones or rocks. She was about to point out the girl's presence in the room when the girl flew into Frida's body causing her to lose consciousness.

Warning things get dark here.

In the darkness of her mind Frida saw a vision. She saw the inside of an old house where a girl was pacing back and forth across the floor. She looked like Dipper except she had long, beautiful brown locks and a bright feminine face. She wore a pinkish-white, long sleeved dress with ruffles and frill. She looked very worried and nervous. There was a knock on the door, the girl went to answer it. The person on the other side of the door was a young, white haired man dressed in church robes. He looked like a priest.

"Minister Gideon." She said. "Good evening. What brings you by?"

"Terrible news I'm afraid." He said.

"What is it?"

"It's about your brother Dipper, he's dead."

"What?" She whispered in shock.

"I'm terribly sorry but he was shot on the battle field and died from his injuries."

"No." She denied. "No! No! You're lying! That's not true!"

"This letter proves it."

He handed her a sheet of a paper. She began reading it, tears streamed down her face as she read the letter.

"No...No....Oh God! No!" She fell to her knees sobbing and crying bitterly. "Oh No! Oh Dipper no! You promised! You promised!"

"Allow me to console you my child." The priest said kneeling next to her. He hugged her while she cried and she let him until he moved his hand toward her lower area.

"What are you doing?" She asked pulling away. She tried to stand up but he held her in place tightly.

"I am merely comforting you."

"Could you please leave me to grieve in peace?" She asked.

"I'm sorry Mabel but I can't do that."

"Why?"

"Well you see Mabel as you know I have been awfully generous to your family and you did promise to repay me in any way for my kindness."

"Yes but...But now is not the time."

"I think now is the best time especially now that your brother isn't here to protect you from me."

He then forced her to the floor and began tearing her dress. She screamed in terror while trying to fight him off but it didn't do any good then everything went black. Another vision appeared after that, this one showed the girl lying on the floor with her dress torn to pieces, her face and body bruised, and blood dripping from her lower area. She was sickly pale and appeared to be in shock. Then the door was opened by an older woman and an old man.

"Mabel! What happened?!" The woman gasped rushing to her side but the girl didn't make any response.

"Mabel talk to us. What's wrong?" The old man asked. He went to help her up but as soon as he touched her she started screaming like a mad woman. She slapped the old man, stood up, and ran out of the house. The woman and old man quickly chased after her.

"Mabel where are you going?!" The woman called. "Come back!"

She kept running and screaming, ignoring the calls of the concerned people chasing her. Ran toward a cliff and stopped at the edge. She looked down at the bottom of the cliff where the waves crashed against the hard rocks.

"Mabel! Stop!" The old man cried. "Don't do it!"

" My brother is dead." She said. "And my virtue is gone. I see no point in living anymore."

And before anyone could stop her, she jumped off the edge and fell from the cliff, crashing on to the rocks which ended her life.

"Mabel!" The woman and old man shouted in horror.

That was the last thing she saw before going back into darkness. Meanwhile Dipper was trying to wake Frida.

"Miss? Miss? Are you alive?" He asked.

Just then the door to the apartment was busted down by a flame and Manny entered the room.

"You dare take my lady from me! I hope you're ready to pay severely for what you've done!" He looked over at her unconscious body and felt great rage boil in him. Manny rushed to her side and placed his ear on her chest. To his relief she was alright just stunned from whatever shocking event she went through.

"Just what did you do to her?!"

"I-I-I can explain." Dipper stuttered nervously. "You see I-"

"Explain it over a fire you filthy dog!"

Manny snapped his fingers and turned him into a fish. Manny grabbed him by the tail and held him over a fire he made in his hand.

"If I may ask how does it feel being grilled alive?"

"Ma-Manny?" A soft voice asked.

He dropped the fish and looked over to see Frida waking up. He quickly went to her side and held her close as if he were to let go she would surely die.

"Frida you're safe now. Thank goodness."

"Manny? Wha...What are you doing?"

"Just making our dinner. I do hope you like grilled fish."

"Manny is that Dipper?"

"Maybe."

"Change him back."

"Why? He kidnapped you."

"It was a misunderstanding now change him back."

"Fine."

He snapped his fingers and Dipper was restored to his original form.

"Are you alright Frida?" Manny asked.

"I'm okay. Dipper just wanted me to help him figure out what happened to his sister."

"That again? Dipper for the last time your sister is dead! There's nothing you can do to contact her! She's not a ghost!"

"I wouldn't say that." Frida said. "I think she is a ghost and that she was trying to tell us why she killed herself."

"You mean you saw her?" Dipper asked.

"I think so. Was her name Mabel?"

"Yes! Did she tell you why she did it?"

"She didn't tell me she showed me. She went inside my body and she showed me her memories."

"What did you see?"

"I don't think you wanna know."

"Tell me! Please! I've waited God knows how long to know."

"Alright. She wasn't thinking clearly when she killed herself. She was in shock."

"But why?"

"She thought you were dead. A man had given her a letter saying that you had been killed in a war and she just went to pieces after reading it. Then...Then..."

"Then what?"

"The man who had given her the letter he...He...He raped her."

"What?"

"He raped her and she was so traumatized and ashamed and devastated that she just didn't want to live anymore. I'm really sorry."

"My sister...Was raped?" His eyes turned yellow and started to transform. Sensing what was about to happen Manny grabbed Frida and shielded her protectively. The two watched in fascinated horror as the wolf creature began destroying everything in the entire room.

"Who did it?!" Dipper growled at Frida. "WHO?! TELL ME?!"

"I-"

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!" Manny roared shielding her further from the wolf while threatening to change into a devil and attack him. Frida didn't want this turn into a fight.

"Both of you please calm down." Frida pleaded. "Listen I...I don't know who he is. But he looked like a priest. He was young and he had white hair, he also wore a strange looking amulet around his neck."

"Gideon? It was Gideon?"

"The priest here? He did it?" Frida said.

"He's here?! He's still alive?!"

"Well maybe. There's a priest at the local church called Gideon Gleeful."

Dipper felt his whole world shatter at what he had been told. He knew it, he knew that Gideon wasn't to be trusted and yet he accepted his charity and he left his sister alone and unprotected against that animal. His uncle was right, Gideon was a demon in priest's clothing. A horrible monster who acted like a holy man when in truth he was fraud who preyed on innocent young women like his sister.

His poor sweet, happy, and wonderful sister who had been tainted by that filth who called himself a man of God. He understood why Mabel thought her life was over by being rapped. Back then if a woman lost her virginity to any man except her husband she was declared a whore til the day she died. Poor Mabel must've thought she would've been persecuted for the rest of her life and thinking that he was dead she wouldn't have had anyone to protect her from those who would torment her.

"Are you okay?" Manny asked.

"I...I...I don't know. How? How is Gideon still alive? It's been a hundred years!"

"Frida you said he wore an amulet. What did it look like?" Manny asked her.

"It was round, crystal, and in the shape of an eye." She explained.

"Amulets like that usually come from demons."

"It did." Dipper said. "It belongs to the demon Bill Chiper."

"Who's he?"

"A chaotic demon who is known for making deals with mortals. Gideon must've given him something in exchange for immortality."

"Oh God." Frida cried in realization.

"What is it?"

"Sister Nora once told me that if a demon gives a mortal immortality then in order to keep their immortality the human must sacrifice human lives to the demon. Do you think?"

"I wouldn't put past the idea." Manny said. "I've seen people like that through out the years."

"That bastard raped my sister and lied to her. He caused her death." Dipper breathed. "And yet people still see him as some kind of idol. He'll pay for this! I swear! What do you two know about him?"

"Not much." Frida said. "Except that he's at some Northwest place tonight."

"What Northwest place?"

"I'm not sure. I'm guessing it's the last name of a family."

"Thank you for the info, I'm sorry for all this."

Dipper changed into a wolf and jumped out the window, running off into the woods leaving the young half devil and nun confused. He had gone to city hall to get information about the Northwest. It didn't take long for him to find a file on him. They were a wealthy and aristocratic family, probably the richest people in all of Maine. Apparently they had been working with Gideon for years by what exactly they did was unknown. Doing a little more digging he found out they were having a charity event at the Northwest mansion.

He stole a fine suit from a nearby shop, dressed into it, and snuck into the mansion. It was full of rich people drinking and chatting about different things. In the mist of it he saw a middle-aged couple talking with a man. A man who Dipper recognized right away, he hadn't changed since the last time Dipper had seen him. Gideon Gleeful still alive, still young, and still looked at like some saint. It sickened him greatly. How dare he laugh and enjoy pleasure after what he did to his sister and God knows who else. He wanted to tear his race right off of his body but he couldn't risk exposing himself to all these people. He would wait until he was alone then he would strike. Then he would have his revenge.

"Who let you in?" A voice behind him asked. He turned around to see a girl no older than seventeen glaring at him. She had long blonde hair that almost covered her entire back and icy blue eyes that could kill if it was a weapon. She was beautiful but frightening and somewhat mean looking. She reminded him of ice. Cold, hard, and beautiful ice. "Hey answer me! Who let you in?"

"Nobody. I came in on my own."

"Well you should know this is a private party. Invitation only so where's your invitation?"

"Sorry must've left it in my other pants."

"Like I've never heard that one before. You're just some dirty peasant who snuck in."

"Dirty peasant? You do realize that we're not in medieval times right? And who are you anyway?"

"Pacfica Northwest. My parents own this house."

"Oh..Figures."

"What?"

"Oh nothing it's just that you fit the stereotypical spoiled, rich girl to a point."

"Excuse me?"

"Look I won't be here long I'm just looking for someone."

"Who?"

"None of your business blondie. Just know that I have my reasons and they don't concern you."

"Well then in that case. Security!"

At her word two large men grabbed him and threw him out of the mansion.

"Ow! Hey!" Dipper snarled. "Hmmph! What a brat! If I never see her again it'll be too soon."

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