Monsters Within [Complete]

Only the beggining of change.

"Great. Lost in a forest. Just what I needed." Dipper thought aloud.
He was reading and trying not to trip on roots with his hooves.

"Where was it again?" He looked around to see everything look so... unfamiliar.

After a while he noticed he was going in circles! "Why couldn't I have brought Mabel or at least a compass or... anything?"

He imagined himself wheelbarrowing Mabel around. "heh" he sorta laughed at himself.

Crack

Dipper snapped his head at the noise. He looked nervous. Was someone watching him? The thought freaked him out, so he speed walked away.

He wasn't completely used to the 'deer body as legs' thing.

After he left a fluffy, normal bunny hopped out of the bushes.

Dipper was lost now, well, he was lost before but now he was lost. Not only did he not know where the place Mabel had gotten her flower from was, but now he didn't know where the shack was!

Once Dipper realized this he started freaking out. It was getting dark. Was it? He could hardly tell by the heavy shade the pine trees were emitting. After calming down (sorta) he flipped frantically through the journal's pages for some sort of map or compass, but with no luck.

What could he do? Thoughts came across his mind.

Should I continue my search? Should I try to find my way back to the shack? Or should I wait? But wait for what? Someone to stumble upon a boy who's half deer? What would happen then? Or would I be waiting for someone who has been trying to find me, like Mabel or Stan?

Then this thought crossed his mind.
Death?

No. He had just gotten lost! He couldn't loose faith yet.

"Wait." He thought aloud as he shook his head. "How long had I been pacing for?"

A voice came from behind. "Not long actually, Dipper the Destructor. About an hour." He said while using the sun to tell the time.

Dipper jumped and made a deer noise as he looked behind him. It was a manotaur!

"Uh h-h-hi you. H-how long have you been st-standing there?" Dipper said in a stutter. His last run in with them left on a.. rather unfriendly note.

Ignoring the question, the manotaur put his arm around Dipper's upper half.

"Nice legs by the way."

"Look, I-I'm sorry but... what was your name again?"

"You don't remember? I'm Chutzpar the manotaur!" He exclaimed.

"S-so I take it you're not still upset?"

"Nah, let bygones be bygones, although you aren't as welcome as before."

"O-oh."Dipper stuttered. Why am I so much more nervous than usual? He thought to himself.

"Here's a tip though." Chutzpar started. "To survive out here you've got to be manly. Remember what we've taught you before." Then he left saying "OH YEAH!"

"I guess I'm not going with you?" Dipper thought aloud in his state of confusion. But the manotaur had a point.
"I have to be strong. Be a man." He told himself.

He would have to survive if someone didn't come soon.

Dipper waited for hours. He'd decided to start walking. Were? He had no clue. Or at least until he found a sunny spot. Well, it wasn't too sunny outside. It was more like sunset.

"Night." Dipper said. He looked around to find a tree stump it was slightly tipped over, but the roots were still attached to the ground. "I think I've just found my shelter." Dipper said.
When he first got in it was roomy, at least as roomy as a tree stump could get, but it was cold, and there could be predators around.

He put leaves inside and over his den and pine needles around, hoping that there was a possibility that predators might not like it.

He got inside the den and managed to fall asleep for the night.

Back at the shack

No one could sleep properly. All for the same reason. Dipper was missing. Mabel couldn't rest knowing her twin brother hadn't returned yet. She was worried sick. She would look for him in the forest this time, with Wendy and Soos and... Grenda and Candi! how could she have forgotten about her besties?

They would all search in the morning.