When Mabel saw the sight of decaying flesh meat on the ground, the vomit she was holding back ended up coming out on a patch of grass next to her. After vomiting, she closed her eyes and kneeled down begging for the corpse to not be a human. It took her a few minutes for her to open her eyes to look back at the corpse. To her surprise, it wasn't a human. It was an odd creature that looked like a human. Next to the corpse was nightshades growing in large quantities from the ground. Mabel took a deep breath, walked next to the corpse, and plucked one nightshade from the ground with her hands ignoring how much the thorny stem made her hand shake in pain. Dipper was hurting a lot more than her right now.
After placing the flower carefully in her coat, Mabel began to walk back to the bushes when she heard growling behind her. Mabel turned to see the Shadow Wraith glaring at her with a small part of the branch still gouged in it's eye. It roared in rage at Mabel baring it's teeth at her coated in saliva and blood.
"You will pay for what you did to my eye, child, with your life."
The Shadow Wraith snarled at Mabel and lunged at her. Mabel wasted no time to get out of the way. As soon as she hit the ground, she felt The Shadow Wraith pinned her down with it's paw. Mabel struggled as she grunted in pain. It couldn't end like this. She was so closed to saving Dipper.
As Mabel struggled, she heard the Shadow Wraith's breathing inced closer to her ear hearing it's toneless voice. "It is over child. I hate playing games with my prey. You will die."
Mabel bit her bottom lip and closed her eyes awaiting the inevitable. It was over. The Shadow Wraith was stronger and bigger than her. What could one little girl like her hope to accomplish? She was weak and often bullied for that. And now because of her being weak, Dipper was going to die. It was all her fault.
Seconds ticked by as Mabel waited for the cruel hand of death. Even when she knew she should fight, she didn't. She had given up, but a shrill growl woke something up inside of her. Mabel opened her eyes to see Dipper holding rocks glaring directly at the beast that was on top of her. Mabel was speechless seeing her brother. How could he be up? He was suppose to be unconscious and unable to move. But there he was standing having a hard time breathing ready to throw another rock at the Shadow Wraith.
Then something clicked inside of Mabel. Dipper hadn't given up yet. Even when he knew he was going to die in a few minutes, he was going to keep fighting. And so if that was the case, Mabel shouldn't give up either. Not when she still could move her body and fight.
Mabel grabbed the nearest rock near her and pounded it hard against the Shadow Wraith face causing it to roar once again in pain. It released Mabel from it's clutches allowing her to get up and run to Dipper. As soon as she felt his hand in hers, she grabbed some rocks from Dipper and both of them continued throwing rocks at the Shadow Wraith.
Each hit at the Shadow Wraith made it roar even louder in agonizing pain. After awhile, it stopped roaring and jumped on to a tree limb snarling at the twins. All throughout it's body was dark red spots with blood pouring out of it's damaged eye. It howled to the sky and glared at the twins. "You two will pay for what you have done to me. I will make sure of it that you both will."
After making the threat, the Shadow Wraith gave one last cry to the sky and disintegrated into red particles flowing into the sky disappearing. After waiting for a few minutes to see if it would come back, Mabel gave out a breath of relief and turned to Dipper who was sweating and barely able to stand. She helped him to the ground helping him lay on the soft blades of grass. While taking out the NightShade flower out of her coat pocket, Mabel smiled at Dipper.
"Thanks Dipper."
Dipper softly chuckled grunting in pain. Mabel took the pain as an alert that his time was almost up. She held the flower over Dipper's mouth that was wide opened. She knew he was struggling to breath. She shook the Nightshade and watched as one single droplet dropped from the petals to inside Dipper's mouth. As soon as it slid down his throat, Dipper erupted in a fit of coughs. Mabel quickly helped dipper up in a sitting position as she placed the flower down next to her.
It was going to be alright. She had given him the antidote, so there was no reason to be afraid. He was going to be okay. Mabel shed tears happily at that thought and placed Dipper back down on the ground. He had fallen unconscious, but already she could see the his color coming back on his face. Dipper really was going to be okay.
