Mabel shook her head as tears gently slid down her cheeks not wanting to believe that. She clutched Dipper even tighter to her chest looking back at the Shadow Wraith. "Don't hurt him. He doesn't deserve this."
Below her, she could faintly hear Dipper saying her name. "M...Mabel..."
The Shadow Wraith tilted it's head at Mabel's words. "Fine..." It's eyes started to change a darker shade of red. "You can die first."
The Shadow Wraith lunged at Mabel with it's mouth wide open ready to bite Mabel. Hoping to buy herself some time, Mabel threw the one half of the branch she still had in her hand at the Shadow Wraith. The sharp end of the branch gouged itself in the creature's eye causing it to stop and roar in pain. It began twisting and turning struggling to get the branch out of it's eye with no success.
Realizing that the Shadow Wraith was too busy with it's eye now, Mabel quickly picked up Dipper along with the journal and dragged him with her into a large bush near them. Ignoring the sharp thorns pricking at her, Mabel continued to drag Dipper until they were out of it. The second they were out, Mabel glanced around her surroundings looking for anything to hide in. She needed to find a place to hide Dipper in. When she found a large gray rock covered with moss sitting over a small hole, Mabel hastily ran to it with Dipper and examine it. It was just big enough for Dipper to hide in comfortably. Mabel pulled Dipper into the small hole and placed him in there. After making sure no limbs were sticking out of it, she covered the opening with scented plants and thick green blades of ferns. Once she was finished with the work, she stood up wiping her sweaty hands on her pants. It was time for her to tell Dipper what she wanted to do.
"Dip, you're probably going to hate me, but I'm going to have to leave you here for now. Don't worry, I'll be back as soon as I find something that can help you."
Not long after she finished the last word in her last sentence, she heard a loud growl not too far away from her. Mabel cringed at how loud it was and wiped some of the tears off of her face taking out the journal. She had to do this for Dipper.
"Dipper, don't die on me okay? Just please don't die on me."
Mabel gave one last plead to Dipper before she turned running into the opposite direction from Dipper. As she ran, Mabel opened the journal flipping back to the page with the Shadow Wraith. "Come on..." She mumbled to herself as she ran reading the page to herself. "There has to be something in here about an antidote."
Behind Mabel, she could hear the Shadow Wraith running extremely fast. Mabel hastily devised a plan and headed for the bushes entering them crawling through them. They were not as thorny as the bush she went in with Dipper, but they still stung her skin. After going deep in the bush, Mabel set the journal down looking everywhere on it for the word 'antidote'. Just as she was about to give up on the page, she found it. The information was very tiny and was on the corner of the page in odd letters barely readable. But it was enough for Mabel to know how to save Dipper.
If someone were to get bitten by the Shadow Wraith, you only have an hour before the poison shuts down the immune system and cause immediate death. The only antidote for the poison is the dew from a nightshade flower. It is located in very few numbers in the Shadow Wraith's forest but multiply when death is in the air. Make the victim swallow the dew from the flower to stop the poison."
Next to the words on the page was a small sketch of a flower with thorns on it's stem. The center of the flower looked like something of a nightmare appearing in the shape of a mouth coated in red with the five petals surrounding it growing inward as if it were it's teeth. After memorizing the picture of the flower for several seconds, Mabel shut the book and placed it in her pocket. There was no time to waste. She had to find the flower.
Mabel crawled out of the forest and took off in a sprint. The flower was located by death. If so, she had to find something that was dead. But how could she find such a thing? Wouldn't the Shadow Wraith make sure to erase all traces of death?
As Mabel pondered over this, she started to notice an extremely pitiful odor in the air. Mabel covered her nose and held on to a tree next to almost wanting to vomit. The smell was too much for her. It smelled like something was rotting for too long like the meat her parents forgot about in the fridge that one time. Immediately after thinking this, Mabel's eyes widen. This had to be a joke right? The odor couldn't be coming from where she thought it was coming from?
Gathering all her courage, Mabel walked to the direction the odor was coming from. She wanted nothing more than to turn around, but she knew she couldn't. She had to be brave. At least for Dipper.
