Chapter 1: The Mysterious Cousin
3rd POV
Ahhh, summer break. A time for leisure. Recreation. And takin' her easy. Unless you're these three that is. "Ahhhhhhhhh!"" Yell out three figures riding along in a golf cart, crashing through a sign that reads "Gravity Falls". After it lands on solid ground again, said golf cart swerves as the person driving it tries to dodge the multiple holes in the dirt ground they're riding along. One of the two smaller figures looks behind them with wide eyes.
"It's getting closer!" They exclaim, the voice signifying that the speaker was female. A roar can be heard as a large shadow is cast over the trio riding, right before two large hands try to grasp them, only for the driver to speed up and drive out of its reach. They manage to use some smooth rocks as a ramp, and continue driving. The female of the group that's about to puke is Mabel, while the one sitting in the middle is Dipper, Mabel's twin. Next to them is their taller cousin. He wears black shoes with white outlines, and blue jeans. He also wears a black jacket over his white T-shirt that has a red oval in the middle. His raven hair waves in the wind as he drives, and his blue eyes are focused in determination.
Now, you my dear reader, may be wondering why it is that these three are fleeing in a golf cart from a creature of unimaginable horror. "Look out!" Yells out Mabel, referring to the large tree that said creature had just thrown in their path. The two twins shout in horror, while their cousin tightens his grip on the wheel. Rest assured, there's a perfectly logical explanation to this.
Begin Theme song: With the twin's cousin added. (Note, this only changes slight things, so if you aren't interested, just skip past it to the next line break.)
Clouds speed overhead as a waterfall can be seen in the distance.
Next, the same clouds speed over a statue of a lumberjack next to a gas station
Finally, the clouds speed over a water tower with "Gravity Falls" written on it, before they're cut off as a bus passes along the "screen", changing to show two of the three kids from before standing there with bags and suitcases on the ground next to them.
The shot pans to show a puff of smoke that clears to show a man dressed in a business suit and fez, holding a cane that has an eight ball at the top, who then gestures to a house that has a sign above it that reads "Mystery Shack". Only for the S in Shack to fall off and onto the ground.
Next, the two twins walk through the shack, looking around at the different "exhibits". Dipper looks on in skepticism, while Mabel looks on with a slight smile.
In the next shot, Mabel and Dipper are showing the man in the business suit a large footprint in what appears to be a ditch while it's raining. The shot pans out to show their cousin showing a smirking red haired girl as tall as him the supposed ditch, which turns out to be a larger footprint just before lightning flashes.
In the next shot, the shadows of trees can be seen moving as the sun moves in the sky, for a few seconds, a figure can be seen that's wearing what appears to be a white cloak, just before it disappears again.
Next, a weathervane in the shape of a question mark can be seen turning in the wind, which just happens to stop so that the letters on it spell out "what"
When the shot switches, Dipper can be seen with a candle looking at what appears to be ruins, until he turns around and finds a skull with horns behind him, prompting him to drop the candle, and be thrown into darkness. His name appearing in the top left.
Next, Mabel is shown rubbing cheeks with a pig, before showing off a sweater that is plugged into the wall, with light up stars, and her name on the front which also lights up. Her name also appearing in the top left.
In the next shot, the man in the business suit can be seen running from something with an opened cash register that has money coming out of it, before it shows him sitting in a chair with an eye patch over his right eye, before he moves it over to his left eye. The name "Stan" appearing in the top left corner.
In the next scene, the twin's cousin can be seen in the background behind a desk with the red haired girl sitting next to him, a glass jar filled with eyeballs closer to the audience, before said eyeballs suddenly turn to look at said audience all at once.
The next scene shows the group around a campfire. A chubby man wearing a green shirt and hat sitting on a log next to Mabel, with Dipper on his other side. While on a different log, Stan is sitting with the twin's cousin to his left, with the red haired girl sitting on his left. Stan wriggles his fingers around as he leans in towards the campfire, saying something. The chubby man holding his hands over his mouth, while Dipper and Mabel seemingly listen with rapt attention as the red haired girl rolls her eyes, and the twin's cousin just waves to a shadow wearing a green jacket that appears when the campfire flares up for a second.
Next, a finger can be seen reading the pages off a book with a golden hand on the cover that has the number 3 in the center. Then, the twins are shown in a room, Dipper lying on a bed, while Mabel reads on the floor. Suddenly, everything in the room besides the furniture starts to float in the air, causing Dipper to look up in confusion.
In the next shot, different photos can be seen being thrown into a pile, with some of them including a hand with long fingers, what looks like some sort of baby vampire head, a gnome with sharp teeth, and the final one being a picture of all the people from before. With the chubby man giving a piece symbol all the way to the left, Dipper standing in front of him with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face. The man in the business suit has one foot on a rock, with one arm resting on it while Mabel stands in front of him with a large smile. Finally, the red haired girl can be seen sitting on a larger rock with a smile, while the twin's cousin stands next to her being slightly taller since he's standing instead of sitting, with a smirk and crossed arms.
Finally, a new shot shows the words "Gravity Falls" With "Disney" written above it, and written beneath it is "Created by Alex Hirsch, Adapted by Theboblinator" While in the background, is what appears to be a postcard of Gravity Falls, where there's a stamp in the top left corner, while to the right is a waterfall with what looks like a UFO flying above it. Suddenly, the shot switches so that everything is upside down, before it changes for a split second to show a triangle being, surrounded by a circle with writing in it.
And then the shot goes black.
The two twins shout in horror (again), while their cousin tightens his grip on the wheel (again). Let's re-wind. Shall we? It all began when the twin's parents decided that they could use some fresh air, and sent them out to a sleepy town named Gravity Falls, Oregon to stay at their great uncles place in the woods. However, it turned out that they weren't the only ones that were going to be living there. A cousin of theirs was also going to be living there. But for what reason? He hadn't told them yet. And when they tried to ask their great uncle, he just replied with "It's… complicated."
Currently, the twins had just set up their new room in the attic that they'd been given by their great uncle. For Mabel, she looked on the bright side of things, while Dipper had a harder time getting used to their new surroundings. Shown by the woodpecker thinking that he was a tree, right before his great uncle scared him with a sea monster mask on. In the end, he started coughing after laughing, but declared that it was "worth it." Said uncle had transformed his house into a tourist trap he called "The Myster Shack" Though in Dipper's own words, "The real mystery was why anyone came." His cousin had heard him say this, and chuckled a bit. This surprised Dipper since he hadn't heard his cousin make a sound anytime beforehand.
To pay off the "rent" of living with him, Great Uncle Stan made the twins and their cousin work at the Shack. The twins started out by cleaning, while their cousin helped the original cashier, Wendy, with her job, as well as helped the twins clean. Though one time when Mabel tried to touch one of the "artifacts", Stan wacked her hand with his cane and declared "No touching the merchandise." To Dipper, it appeared as if this would be the boring routine all summer long. That is, until that one fateful day.
Currently, Mabel was talking to Dipper about her supposed "Summer Romance" While their cousin was sweeping the floor next to them. He only stopped when he heard Mabel's next sentence. "I wouldn't be surprised if the man of my dreams came through that door right now." She tells Dipper, pointing over her shoulder to the entrance of the "museum" part of the shack. Only for their great uncle to step out with his stomach out, before proceeding to burp and clench said stomach. "Oh, gross!" Mabel exclaims, as Dipper bursts out laughing, their cousin smirking at the situation.
"Alright, alright. Look alive people. I need someone to go hammer up these signs in the spooky part of the forest." He announces.
"Not it!" Dipper exclaims, followed closely by Mabel. Before a chubby man on a ladder speaks up.
"Also not it." He declares, currently screwing a new shelf onto the wall.
"Nobody asked you Soos."
"Yeah I know. And I'm comfortable with that." The man, now known as Soos, tells them, before eating a chocolate bar that he pulls out of nowhere.
"Wendy! I need you to put up these signs!" Stan shouts at the red haired girl currently reading a magazine behind a cashier register.
"I would." She replies. "But I can't, ugh, reach them." She announces, stretching out her hand and grasping at air while continuing to read from the magazine. The twin's cousin chuckles at that, prompting a smirk from the red haired girl known as Wendy, and surprised faces from the twins.
"I'd fire all of you if I could." Stan announces, before turning back to the twins. "Alright, let's make it… Eenie, menie, minie, you." He tells them, pointing at Dipper.
"Aw, what? Grunkle Stan whenever I'm in those woods I feel like I' being watched." Dipper tells him. Only to receive a grunt of annoyance in response.
"Ugh. This again." Grunkle Stan complains, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"I'm telling you something weird is going on in this town. Just today my mosquito bites spelled out "Beware" on my arm." He tells Stan, holding said arm up for Grunkle Stan to read. Not hearing his cousin mumble "I am the box ghost." under his breath.
"That says "Bewarb"." Stan tells him, Dipper taking a second glance just to make sure, and noticing that his great uncle was right. Scratching at his arm as he was reminded of the need to do so. "Listen kid. The whole "monsters in the forest" thing is just local legend. Drummed up by guys like me, to sell merch to guys like that." He tells his great nephew, gesturing to some tourist holding a Stan bobble head. "So quite be so paranoid." Stan tells him, throwing the signs into Dipper's arms. Dipper decides to try one last thing before he's forced to go out into the woods.
"But, what about our cousin?" He asks, turning to look over his shoulder to look at the cousin in question, who looks up at the mention of his "title", only for Stan to answer.
"He's working right now. You and Mabel were talking." Stan tells Dipper, who sighs, before walking out to hang up the signs. The rest of the people in the gift shop continue what they were doing while Stan walks off to check the exhibits, before Mabel walks outside to do something besides be stuck there. About half an hour later, Dipper and Mabel come back, but they return in the front entrance of the house instead of the door leading to the gift shop. A few minutes later, Stan tells the twin's cousin that he can have a break. He replies with a nod, waving to Soos and Wendy, before walking to one of the vending machines, grabbing a soda, and walking into the house part of the… house.
When he walks into the living room area, he sees Dipper reading some kind of book. But once Dipper sees him, he quickly stashes it behind the pillow he was resting against, and pulls the nearest reading material in front of him. "Oh, hey. Don't mind me. I was just reading up on… "Gold Chains for Old Men magazine"?" He tells his cousin, questioning the turn of events. His cousin simply shakes his head and smiles while he walks past Dipper to stand by the chair.
"That's a good issue." Stan speaks up from the door, walking over to the side of the chair opposite Dipper's cousin, just before Mabel speaks up from the doorway.
"Heeey, family. Say hello to my new boyfriend!" She exclaims. Gesturing to the hooded figure standing next to her. At that announcement, the twin's cousin does a spit take, and then stares at the hooded figure with a glare that sends chills down Stan's spine.
"Sooo…" He trails off. "Boyfriend, huh?" He asks, surprising Dipper and Mabel at the fact that he actually spoke. The latter is the first to break out of her stupor, and grab onto her boyfriend's arm.
"Yeah. We met at the cemetery. He's really deep." She tells them, before noticing something. "Oh. Some muscle there. Heh, what a surprise." She says with a smile.
"So then Mabel's boyfriend. What's your name?" The twin's cousin asks. Stunning the others by speaking again.
"Uh, Normal… MAN!" He says, the cousin's twin narrowing his eyes, before Mabel speaks up.
"He means Norman." She tells them.
"Are you… Bleeding? Norman?" Dipper asks, referring to the red substance that's leaking off "Norman's" face.
"It's Jam." He replies. Mabel gasps at that.
"I love jam!" She exclaims, pushing "Norman" slightly when she says love. "Look, at, this!" She exclaims. Pointing between the two of them with every word.
"Oh, I'm looking alright." Her cousin says, narrowing his eyes again as he continues to take on the big brother role.
"So, you wanna go, hold hands or, whatever?" Norman asks Mabel.
"Oh. Oh my goodness. *giggle* don't wait up!" She exclaims to the others in the room, before rushing off. Leaving Norman to hold up a finger and point at the rest of the family, before turning around and walking off after Mabel. But not before walking into one side of the doorframe, and then knocking over some other stuff on his way out. For Dipper, he didn't think that Norman was all right. For the twin's cousin… It reminded him too much of something that had happened in his past. So he was already out the door after the duo by the time Dipper was walking up to the second floor.
The twin's cousin watches as Norman gives Mabel a daisy necklace, plays Frisbee, but fails to actually catch said Frisbee before falling to the ground, smashes through a window to open an already unlocked door, and fails at walking multiple times. One of which causes him to fall into an open grave. During all this, the twin's cousin sees Dipper also watching the two, and nods his head in approval. Until Dipper tries to talk some sense into his sister, and she utterly refuses to believe him, before shoving him roughly out of the door to their room. Not that long after, five-o-clock comes around with Dipper and his cousin in the living room, and Mabel going out with Norman.
While Dipper continues to watch the tapes he'd taken of Mabel and "Norman", his cousin standing off to the side of him, also watching them. Until he notices a clip that makes his eyes widen. "Dipper! Re-wind! Now!" He exclaims, getting over the shock of his cousin speaking once again when he's hardly spoken at all for the past few days he was here, Dipper quickly does as he's instructed, and sees what his cousin did. Norman's hand falling off behind Mabel, before he reaches down to the ground and picks it up. As Dipper freaks out and topples the chair, his cousin is already running out the door. As Dipper makes his way out the door, his cousin is already in front of him with a golf cart ready.
Dipper quickly jumps on, before his cousin starts driving. "Where did you get this?!" Dipper exclaims as they drive along the road.
"Wendy." Is his cousin's response, before they continue driving. After a little while, they hear a yell for help… Which turns out to be Mabel.
"Don't worry Mabel! We'll save you from that zombie!" Dipper exclaims as his cousin drives the golf cart over a bump and uses it as a small ramp, before turning and driving down a side road that leads into a small tunnel. Down said tunnel, they find Mabel being attacked by some… Gnomes? One of which she kicks away, causing it to start puking a rainbow. "What the heck is going on here?!" Dipper exclaims, making one of the gnomes turn to him and his cousin and hiss at them. Dipper recoils, while his cousin meets this with a glare that makes the gnome go running.
"Dipper! Cousin! Norman turned out to be a bunch of gnomes! And they're total jerks!" She yells out to them, before bonking one of said gnomes over its head. Making it retaliate by pulling on her hair. "Ow! Not the hair, not the hair!"
"Gnomes? Woah, I was way off." Dipper says as he pulls out a red book with a golden hand on the cover and the number 3 written in the middle of said hand. A few seconds later, the gnomes manage to tie Mabel to the ground with strings that appeared out of nowhere. "Hey! Let go of my sister!" Dipper exclaims as he stalks up to the lead gnome.
"Oh, hey there. Um, you know, this is all just a big misunderstanding. You see, your sister's not in danger. She's just marrying all 1,000 of us and becoming our gnome queen for all eternity. Isn't that right honey?" He asks, turning to the subdued Mabel.
"You guys are butt faces!" She exclaims, before one of the gnomes puts his hands over her mouth and turns to Dipper and the twin's cousin.
"Give her back, or else." Dipper tells the gnome leader.
"You think you can stop us boy? You have no idea what we're capable of. The gnome's are a powerful race. Do not trifle with the-" The lead gnome is cut off as Dipper's cousin steps forwards and kicks the lead gnome away, before turning to Mabel, walking over, and pulling the strings from the ground freeing her. She gets up and shoves the gnomes that try to attack her away, before she's picked up by her cousin along with Dipper, before he puts them down in the golf cart. "They're getting away with our queen! No, no, no!" The lead gnome shouts out, running towards the golf cart.
"Seatbelts." The twin's cousin tells them, before backing away, and spinning the cart in a 180 degree turn so that he can drive straight out of the hole. Mabel looks over her shoulder, before turning to her cousin.
"Hurry! Before they come after us!" She exclaims. Dipper just scoffs.
"I wouldn't worry about it. Did you see their little legs? Suckers are tiny." Dipper declares. His cousin just shakes his head.
"Tiny can sometimes mean more dangerous." Their cousin tells them, seemingly thinking about something as he says this. Then, the trio hears loud sounds as the ground shakes. Instead of stopping to look, the twin's cousin pushes down on the pedal harder, while said twin's look behind them to see a giant gnome monster made up of all the tiny gnomes.
"I stand corrected." Dipper says in fear.
"It's getting closer!" Mabel exclaims, before the giant gnome seems to throw some tiny gnomes at the golf cart. Two manage to get onto it, but are quickly hit off by Mabel, as the other is hit into the steering wheel by the twin's cousin. This causes the horn to go off each hit.
"Shmebulock." The gnome says painfully, before the twin's cousin throws him into the steering wheel one last time, causing him to bounce off into the forest to the side. As he disappears in the distance, another gnome manages to make it aboard, and jump onto Dipper's face. Mabel quickly punches it off, but the gnome takes Dipper's brown hat with it.
"Thanks Mabel." Dipper thanks her in a daze.
"Don't mention it." She replies, before their cousin drives through a sign reading "Gravity Falls", with the giant gnome close behind. Then, said giant gnome throws a giant tree in their way. "Look out!" Mabel exclaims, pointing towards the tree. The twins shout out in fear, but their cousin notices a space to drive beneath the tree. He grips the wheel harder and takes it, before drifting the golf cart to a stop in front of the Mystery Shack. The giant gnome catching up to them and standing above them. The reason for the stop being that the twin's cousin doesn't want the giant gnome to either smash through the shack, or use it like it did the tree earlier. That, and he has a plan.
"Where's Grunkle Stan?!" Dipper yells out in fear as the trio backs up to the wall. Unknown to them, Stan is talking to tourists in the museum.
"It's the end of the line kids! Mabel, marry us before we do something crazy!" Yells out the lead gnome. At this, the twin's cousin gets a hard look in his eyes, and he steps forwards.
"What are you doing?!" Dipper yells out in fear for his cousin.
"Dipper, Mabel. Get back in the shack. Now!" He yells at them. The recoil a bit.
"What do you mean?!" Mabel yells out.
"Yeah! We're not just gonna let you stay here alone and try to-"
"Just trust me!" Their cousin yells at them over his shoulder. The twins face each other, and then turning back to their cousin to nod. Then, they turn and run towards the shack's door. Hiding instead next to the porch. As the giant gnome turns towards them, it suddenly hears a yell. "Hey! Garden gnomes!" The giant gnome turns to the voice with a grunt, only to see the single human that stayed behind.
"What did you call us boy?!" The lead gnome on top yells at him. The figure just smirks.
"Garden gnomes. Oh, I'm sorry. Was that offensive? Or maybe you didn't understand. After all, are those dunce caps you're wearing on your heads? They sure don't seem like hats." The twin's cousin says with a smirk. Getting a growl from the giant gnome in response. "Well, you had it coming since you tried to kidnap and marry my cousin without her consent." He says, glaring at the gnome sitting on top of all the others. The gnome slightly flinches back at this. "Now, I might let you continue to live your life like you do already, if you turn around and forget all about this." He tells the gnome, crossing his arms in front of his chest. The gnome smiles.
"And what if we don't? What can you do human?" He asks, making the giant gnome cross its arms with its own smirk. The twin's cousin's smirk widens, which unnerves the gnome on top. Then, he holds out a hand and looks at it.
"Well, I could talk to The Great One about what you did." He says. Unknown to him, Dipper and Mabel are listening in, and glance at each other questioningly. After their cousin says this though, all the gnomes suddenly freeze up.
"Y-y-you know th-the great o-o-one?" The gnome on top asks nervously. The twin's cousin smirk widens at this.
"Oh yeah. Heck, I knew him even before he became the great one." He says, causing the gnome's eyes to widen considerably. "Now, what are you gonna do?" He asks. In response, the giant gnome turns around, and promptly runs away. The twins watch on with wide eyes as their cousin smiles, and turns around to walk towards the shack. As soon as he walks onto the porch, Mabel runs over to him from her place next to it.
"That was so cool! How did you get them to leave?" She asks him, getting a smile in response before he ruffles her hair.
"Oh, we just had a little talk is all. Now come on. I think we could all go for a shower right now." He tells them, pointing at the leaves that covered them, along with the dirt that was thrown up at them as their cousin drove the golf cart. Dipper nods in agreement as he also walks over to them. When they walk into the gift shop, they're greeted by the sight of Grunkle Stan sitting behind the counter counting his money. Wendy and Soos having left a little while before the trio came back.
"Yeash. You three get hit by a bus or something?" He asks, before slamming his hand onto the counter and laughing. The trio's only response is to walk by him. There's silence for a minute as Stan looks at the money in his hand, before speaking up again. "Uh, hey! Wouldn't you know it? I accidentally overstocked some inventory so, uh, how about each of you take one item from the gift shop. Each of you. Okay?" He asks them. Mabel smiles while Dipper and his cousin share a glance.
"Really?" The girl asks, while the boy and teen cross their arms.
"What's the catch?" They ask in sync.
"The catch is do it before I change my mind, now take something." The twins and their cousin smile at this, before looking around. Dipper chooses to take a blue hat with a pine tree on it, and Mabel grabs a…
"Grappling hook!" She exclaims. When the trio hears and sees this, they all share glances.
"Wouldn't you rather have, like, a doll or something?" Stan asks, only for Mabel to grapple onto one of the rafters.
"Grappling hook!" She exclaims.
"Fair enough." Stan says, before turning to the twin's cousin. "What about you?" He asks. The twin's cousin goes to a specific shelf, and grabs something that had grabbed his attention earlier. The reason he hadn't gotten it was because despite the extra work he did for Stan, he still had to pay off "rent" and wasn't able to make much money despite said extra work. He pulled it out, and showed his Grunkle. It was a necklace. This necklace's string was black, and had black and white beads alternatively strung in some places tight enough so that they didn't move. There was a clasp at the back so that the person didn't have to worry about fitting it over their head. The main jewel in the front was a bright green, and shaped like a hexagon. When Stan sees this, his eyes widen. "Woah there. I don't think-" He's cut off by the twin's cousin.
"Ah, ah, ah. You said any item. And besides, I think I deserve it after all the extra work I do." He replies. Grunkle Stan slumps at this. Just as the twin's cousin is about to leave, Dipper speaks up.
"Hey!" His cousin turns around at this. "We never got your name." He says. His cousin smiles at this slightly.
"Danny. My name is Danny." He tells them, before walking away.
"Hey, why do you think he grabbed a necklace? *Gasp* Do you think he likes Jewelry?" Mabel asks with a smile. Grunkle Stan laughs slightly at this, before turning to his great niece and nephew.
"Oh man. You kids don't know? Hehehe. Get this." He waves them towards the counter and leans towards them as if he was sharing a secret. Which in a way, he was. "I think Danny's got a thing for Wendy." He tells them with a smile. Mabel gasps at this.
"Get, out!" She exclaims.
"No, I'm serious!" Stan exclaims. The twins share a look, before Mabel starts grinning, and Dipper frowns slightly. Whenever Mabel got that certain grin, nothing ever ended well.
AN: Alright, so, I've started yet another fanfiction. What a surprise? Right? But, this one will probably just be one I do when I'm not focusing on my other stories. (I think) Since there aren't many episodes for me to work off right now, and season 2 for Gravity Falls has just started not too long ago. So, something could come up in that season, and I don't want to write in something big, and then have to change everything that stems off it because of something that happens in a later episode.
Also, I already have pairings planned. (Relatively. Like I said, something could come up in later episodes of Gravity Falls season 2 that make me change stuff.) But the one that I know for certain is DxW (Danny/Wendy) This is because to me, Wendy is the closest one to Sam in Gravity Falls. So, it would make sense, to me, to pair Danny with her.
Alright, in terms of Danny telling the gnomes to "back off. I know The Great One". This will not be a thing that happens often. The only reason it did now, was because the gnomes are relatively weak in regards to Danny. So, this won't work for every supernatural being. Especially since it's possible that not every supernatural being in Gravity Falls will know about "The Great One" Aka Danny Phantom. Also, just wait until episode 5. I have plans.
Well guys, thanks to all of you who read this long and took the time out of your day to do so, and see you all next time!