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*Quick information* I've always wanted to watch Gravity Falls, but I never had cable or dish. Last week while browsing my Hulu after work I found the series, I watched the entire series in three days. So upset that there's no season three, there were so many questions and mysteries left unanswered. However, that's why we have fanfiction writers. My favorite episode is Northwest Mansion Mystery, which means, you guessed it, I ship Dipcifica, so if you don't like that ship, then don't read this story. If you don't like Dipcifica but want to read a new Gravity Falls fanfiction, then I apologize for making you put up with my ship. This isn't a Dipcifica story but it has Dipcifica in it. The first chapter sort of follows Pacifica, but not as a Dipcifica thing but more because I want to introduce that she has a bigger role in my story.
Gravity Falls: Return to the falls
The wind whirred quietly in the early winter morning, outside of a classroom at a small school. A group of kids, all around the age of thirteen, were chatting happily in the classroom. In the far back corner of the classroom was a blonde girl, the two desks in front of her were empty, Gideon was sitting in the desk beside her, in front of him were Candy, Marius and Grenda. The blonde girl was Pacifica Northwest and her desk was the farthest away from anyone. Pacifica sighed and looked out the window at the snow blowing.
"After the incident with the curse at my mansion, my parents punished me in multiple ways, one of them is sending me to this mediocre public school. Marius moved here and started school just so he could be with Grenda all year," Pacifica thought to herself as she looked out the window.
"UGH! Marius you are smothering me!" Grenda exclaimed angrily in her gritty voice.
"I cannot help it, you are just, exquisite, I can't help myself," Marius said as he grabbed Grenda's hand.
"I know this is a foreign country, but you've been here long enough you should know our rules, and smothering her in class is frowned upon," Candy added while adjusting her glasses.
"Curse these rules, at least the day of Valentine's is coming up," Marius exclaimed.
"That's right," Pacifica thought to herself again as she looked out the window, "Valentine's day is coming soon. After what my father did when Bill attacked I've been outcasted, all of my old friends look down on me. Most of the class views me as just another terrible member of my family, another link in the world's worst chain. To make it worse, my father broke into our old mansion, stole a bunch of the paintings and he and my mother have done multiple other terrible things to get the money back. We live in a huge house again, and I hate it because most of my parent's finances is dirty money. Every one looks at me and all they see is a Northwest, of course all the high class people still like my family. I wish those Pines twins were still here, they were the only true friends I had."
"Did you here we're getting new students today?" one of the other students spoke.
"Yeah, that's why there's two empty desks in front of Northwest," one of the other students said.
"When they get here we all have to make sure we warn them and tell them what her family did and who she is," another student said.
"Agreed!" most of the class said in unison, Pacifica buried her face into her arms, against her desk.
"Idiots, I'll sue all of them," Pacifica said to herself.
"You still got little ol' me as a friend," Gideon smiled happily, no one messed with Gideon because he had his prisoners beat up anyone who picked on him. If only Pacifica had body guards like him.
"Boy are mom and dad good at picking punishments," Pacifica thought to herself.
"Alright class, everyone settle down," their teacher said as he walked into the classroom, "before we start first period I have two new students to introduce." While he spoke footsteps were heard as the new students entered the room, Pacifica still had her head against the desk. Surprised gasps were heard by the three people around Pacifica and a few others. "Alright, introduce yourselves to the class," the teacher said.
Chapter 1: The Return
"Well, I'm really excited to be here!" a female's voice spoke happily. Pacifica's eyes opened wide with surprise as she shot her head up. "Hello everyone I'm Mabel Pines, I like glitter, my pig Waddles, matchmaking, sweaters, glitter again," Mabel droned on.
"I said introduce yourself, not give your resume," the teacher said.
"But I have so many interesting things about myself! Alright fine, hi, I'm Mabel Pines, I hope we can all be good friends!" Mabel said happily. She still had her braces and her shooting star sweater, she had the goofiest grin on her face. Pacifica looked at her and then looked over at Dipper. Dipper was a little bit taller than he was before, and noticeably taller than Mabel, he looked the same except he wasn't wearing a hat.
"Hey everyone, I'm Dipper Pines," Dipper said casually, but yet he seemed nervous at the same time.
"We're twins!" Mabel exclaimed happily.
"Yes, well take your seats, there are two empty ones over there, pick whichever," the teacher said. Dipper and Mabel both looked over at Pacifica and smiled, Pacifica smiled, only slightly, back.
"They're smiling at Northwest, do they know who she is?" one of the other students said.
"We get to sit by Pacifica," Dipper said to Mabel.
"And Candy and Grenda, what are the odds!" Mabel said happily.
"They do know who she is?" a small amount of students said in unison.
"Don't forget about little ol' me," Gideon smiled at Mabel.
"Ugh," Mabel shook.
"Don't worry sis, I'll take this one," Dipper smiled. Dipper sat in the desk in front of Pacifica and the one close to Gideon, who looked disappointed. Mabel sat in the desk in front of him and started conversing with Candy and Grenda.
"I'm so excited you're back!" Candy said tearfully.
"You back forever?" Grenda asked happily.
"Well, at least until we're eighteen!" Mabel answered as happily.
"YAY! We have to have a sleepover!" Grenda and Candy said in unison.
"Yeah, and we can invite Pacifica!" Mabel added. Dipper looked back at Pacifica who was staring at her desk.
"Do you not have a pencil?" Dipper asked.
"No… I forgot mine and nobody… nothing, I don't take charity," Pacifica responded, looking away from Dipper, Dipper reached into his bag.
"Here, I always have spares, and if you feel like it's charity then just give it back to me at the end of the day," Dipper smiled as he handed a pencil towards Pacifica, "you need a pencil for school work!"
"Okay, but only because I need a good education to fix my family name," Pacifica said, taking the pencil from Dipper, "Of course you have a bunch of spares, Nerd."
"I missed you to, Pacifica," Dipper laughed, Pacifica hid her face.
"Alright class, calm down, every one take out your notebooks, we're taking notes today!" the teacher said.
The lunchroom was full of people who were talking obnoxiously as they ate, Pacifica walked up to her table in the corner, no one was sitting at or near that table. She sat down at the edge and sighed as she looked at her food. Dipper and Mabel were walking with their trays of food, laughing with their group of friends, Dipper looked up and around the crowded lunch room, Dipper's smile disappeared and he started walking quickly.
"Might as well eat," Pacifica said as she looked at her food. Pacifica heard footsteps approach her, she saw a tray of food drop onto the open spot beside her. Dipper sat down beside her and started shaking his milk, Pacifica stared right at him.
"Hey Paz," Dipper said, "what?"
"HEY PACIFICA!" Mabel screamed happily as she sat across from Pacifica. Candy sat beside Mabel and across from Dipper. Grenda sat beside Candy and Marius obviously sat beside Grenda. Gideon sat down beside Dipper, and slowly a few more students sat down at the table. A lot were to meet the new kids, others remembered their feats from the previous summer.
"Look at that, you're not alone," Dipper smiled.
"No, they're only sitting here because you two are sitting here," Pacifica said.
"And we're only sitting here because you're sitting here, so they're all sitting here because you're here," Dipper said right before drinking some of his milk. Pacifica's eyes widened a little.
"Yeah, Dipper and I will always be your friends, we have to have sleepovers, and go golfing," Mabel started.
"Fight monsters," Dipper added.
"Can't forget that, go to parties, have group study sessions, hang out and do nothing all day," Mabel kept going.
"You guys…" Pacifica started, her eyes getting watery.
"Are you crying?" Mabel asked.
"No, my food is just really hot and I ate it too fast and burned my mouth," Pacifica said, looking away.
"Sure, that's what it is," Mabel laughed. Dipper smiled and Pacifica's sadness seemed to vanish.
"So what are you guys doing back in Gravity Falls?" Candy asked.
"Well, we wanted to come back the second we got back home," Dipper said, "no, we didn't get back home, we had left it."
"You cheesy dork, we need more cheese on your plate," Mabel said playfully as she pushed his lunch tray. "We proceeded to spend the next few months trying to convince our parents to move to Gravity Falls."
"They said yes?" Grenda asked.
"No," Dipper said, "they repeatedly said no, they especially couldn't because of their jobs. With Grunkle Stan and Grunkle Ford out exploring we didn't have any family here to move in with."
"Somehow Grunkles Stan and Ford figured out what was going on, I think Ford used some sorta magic thingy, well my parents got a letter telling them that they fixed the anomaly and would be heading back to Gravity Falls." Mabel explained.
"However, they probably wouldn't be back until the summer, so they told our parents about Soos, his grandmother and the Mystery Shack," Dipper added.
"So until our Grunkle's come back we're living at the Mystery Shack again; we get our room in the attic back!" Mabel said happily.
"The Mystery Shack, I get to see Wendy again, wait until she sees how much I've grown," Dipper laughed.
"Creep," Mabel teased, "oh yeah, we have to hand out invitations!"
"Invitations, for what?" Candy asked.
"Are ya'll gonna invite little ol' me?" Gideon asked.
"Uh, I guess…" Dipper said after getting a hesitated thumbs up from Mabel.
"We're having a party at the Mystery Shack tonight to celebrate our return!" Mabel exclaimed happily as she reached into her sweater pocket, pulling out invitations. "Dipper and I both have personalized invitations for the people we want to invite!"
"We even already had one for Gideon," Dipper said as he pulled an envelope out of his pocket.
"You guys are allowed to bring anyone, it's an open party for everyone, but I wanted to make cool little invitations!" Mabel exclaimed.
"She hand made all of them, even mine, she's way better at arts and crafts then I am," Dipper added. Mabel had a large amount of invitations in her hand that she started to hand out, while Dipper only had five or six invitations in his hand.
"Here," Dipper said, handing an invitation towards Pacifica. Pacifica looked at him and then slowly took the envelope from Dipper, "Pacifica" was written in Dipper's handwriting on the envelope.
"First the pencil, now this, you like giving me things don't you Dipper," Pacifica said.
"Well, after the party last summer I decided it'd be better if I gave you your invitation," Dipper smiled.
"Thanks, but I'm still on punishment from that party, plus my parents wouldn't ever let me." Pacifica sighed.
"What could your parents possibly do, you should go anyway!" Mabel exclaimed happily.
"The bell…" Pacifica said sad like, Mabel had a look of confusion on her face. Dipper started writing on one of the envelopes and showed it to Mabel, "I'll explain after school, so please don't say anything about it." Mabel nodded in acknowledgement.
"Bro, that's terrible," Mabel said as the school bus dropped them of at the Mystery Shack, "hey, did Pacifica really hug you, and try to get you to stay at the party and was happy about you coming back?"
"Why do those details matter?" Dipper asked.
"Pfft, no reason," Mabel smiled.
"Mabel, you're not planning anything, are you?" Dipper asked.
"You're the one who has to plan out everything dummy," Mabel laughed. "Knock knock," she said as she lightly tapped Dipper on the head, they were taking off their coats. Dipper was wearing Wendy's hat; he was glad he had it because of the cold weather. Dipper and Mabel saw Wendy at the register.
"He… hey… We… Wendy," Dipper stuttered as he walked up to her.
"Dipper, dude!" Wendy smiled as she playfully punched Dipper's shoulder.
"I… I took care of your hat… here, you can… can take it back…" Dipper said as he took her hat off and handed it to her.
"Thanks man, the winters pretty cold without this," Wendy said, she looked at Dipper's smiling face and she had a look of guilt cross her face.
"What's wrong Wendy?" Dipper asked.
"Look man… you know how my dad is kind of, destructive… well, he sort of accidentally destroyed your hat, sorry dude," Wendy answered.
"Oh, that's okay," Dipper said.
"That okay dudes," Soos said as he walked to the front with a box in his arms, "we like, totally never sell any of those hats, seriously, nobody ever buys them. Well, as the new owner I'll let you take another hat, for free."
"Thanks Soos!" Dipper smiled as he went to the shelf of hats, he picked one up, looked it over and placed it on his head, "I miss seeing this pine tree," Dipper said looking in the mirror.
"I bet you don't miss being called Pinetree," Mabel teased.
"Oh shush you," Dipper teased back.
"OH! OH! SOOS!" Mabel jumped up excitedly.
"Yes little Ms. Dude?" Soos asked.
"Can I have something to! PLEASE!" Mabel asked.
"Of course you can, hey what's yours is mine… wait…" Soos said as he put his hand to his chin.
"You're not going to take another grappling hook are you?" Dipper asked.
"No I still have the old one," Mabel said happily as she ran around the store, looking at various things. "OOO! Shiny necklace!" Mabel said happily as she put it around her neck.
"Mabel that looks cheaply made and like it might break any moment," Dipper said.
"I like it!" Mabel exclaimed happily.
"Um, Soos," a voice called from behind the employee only door, Melody walked into the front, "why is there a pig eating our supplies?"
"Waddles," Mabel said as she walked past the curtain, "Don't eat that Waddles!" Mabel laughed.
"Hey Dipper," Melody said as she walked behind the counter and put some stuff by Wendy.
"Hey, we have to get ready for the party!" Dipper exclaimed.
"That's right dudes, we gotta, like, party hard, I'm going to DJ again," Soos said. Dipper, Wendy and Melody laughed. "What's so funny dudes?"
"I better go help Mabel with Waddles," Dipper smiled as he left the front part of the shop.
"Pacifica!" Preston called as he held an envelope in his hand. Pacifica came running down their stairs and walked up to her parents.
"Yes, what is it?" Pacifica asked curiously.
"What's this thing that we found in your bag?" Preston asked.
"It's, it's an invitation, Dipper and Mabel Pines are back in town and they're throwing a party to celebrate them being home, they invited me to the party," Pacifica answered.
"No," Priscilla said.
"What?" Pacifica asked, "I've gone to their parties before…"
"That was before you betrayed us and starting liking them, and that Dipper is directly responsible for you betraying your family, we forbid it!" Preston said.
"You… you can't…" Pacifica said.
"If you go to that party then we'll give you an even worse punishment then when you let all those common folk into our mansion!" Preston declared.
"You," Pacifica started, Preston started ringing his bell and Pacifica backed off.
"That what I thought," Preston said, he and Priscilla started laughing as they walked away. Pacifica walked up to her room, her room was a lot smaller and had less nice things as part of her "punishment." Pacifica face planted onto her bed, she looked up at the broken silver mirror laying on her dresser. Pacifica sighed before rolling over and staring at the ceiling. She jumped up when a loud "thunk" was heard right outside her window.
"Come on bro, we gotta hurry!" Mabel's voice was heard.
"Yeah, and we also have to be quiet," Dipper said. Pacifica ran up to her window and threw it open, she saw Dipper climbing the rope of Mabel's grappling hook, Mabel was on the ground, constantly checking their surroundings.
"Pines, what are you doing?" Pacifica whispered.
"We're breaking you out of here, we figured your parents would be jerks and not let you come to the party, come on, grab your coat, it's cold out here." Dipper said as he got up to her window. Pacifica had a huge smile cross her face as she turned and went to get her coat, she bumped into her bed. She stopped, turned towards Dipper, laughed a little, then went to get her coat. "Why does that scene seem familiar?" Dipper asked, confused.
"Let's go," Pacifica said as she ran up to him, she was wearing the llama sweater from Mabel and a fluffy hat.
"Come on," Dipper said as he reached his hand out, Pacifica blushed a little as she grabbed his hand, they zip lined together to the ground. Mabel retracted her grappling hook and the three laughed as they ran into the woods. An ominous shadow suddenly appeared in Pacifica's window. Dipper, Pacifica and Mabel ran up to the Mystery Shack were the party was already going strong. Wendy was dancing with her group of friends and others were drinking diet pitt and just hanging. Dipper, Pacifica and Mabel took off their coats and other winter gear and got ready to party. After a while Dipper and Mabel were leaning against the stage.
"Bro, so many people are excited that we're back!" Mabel laughed.
"Or, they just want to party," Dipper said.
"Debby Downer," Mabel teased as she elbowed Dipper.
"Guys," Pacifica said as she walked up to Dipper and Mabel.
"What's up Paz?" Dipper asked.
"Is something wrong?" Mabel asked. Pacifica suddenly jumped forward and hugged both Dipper and Mabel, wrapping one arm around each.
"Thank you," Pacifica said as she held both of them.
"No problem," Dipper said as he and Mabel hugged her back.
"Yeah, this isn't the first time you've hugged Dipper," Mabel teased. Pacifica broke free and glared at an anxious looking Dipper. Pacifica then smiled and hugged the two again. A loud noise was suddenly heard as the front door blew open.
"PACIFICA ELISE NORTHWEST!" Preston yelled as he and Priscilla walked into the Mystery shack. The two spotted Pacifica and Dipper stepped in front of her, guarding her and Mabel.
"You are coming home right now young lady," Priscilla said.
"NO!" Dipper said, angered.
"What did you say young man?" Preston asked.
"He said no, and so am I. No, I am staying here, with my friends!" Pacifica said.
"We'll see about that!" Preston said as he pulled the bell from his pocket and started ringing it, Pacifica flinched worse than usual. Dipper ran full speed at Preston and knocked the bell out of his hand. Mabel quickly pulled out her grappling hook and shot it at the bell, breaking the bell.
"We said no!" Mabel said.
"Why you little!" Preston started.
"STOP! You're not going to do anything to either Mabel or Pacifica!" Dipper said.
"Or what?" Preston laughed.
"We may not be able to touch you legally because you're rich, but I've defeated Bill three times, I'm not afraid of you!" Dipper said as he glared at Preston.
"I'm staying here, partying with my friends, and then, I'm having a sleepover with Mabel, Candy and Grenda, like a normal teenage girl!" Pacifica demanded.
"EEEEE!" Mabel, Candy and Grenda screamed in unison.
"Okay, but when you get home," Preston started.
"You will do nothing to her," Dipper glared, Preston stared at Dipper.
"Mr. and Mrs. Northwest, dudes, if you don't leave my property, like, right now, I'll call the cops, and those two like, care more about these two dudes then they do you," Soos said. Preston and Priscilla were taken back by Soos' threat, both sighed and then left, closing the door behind them. The entire room cheered at Dipper, Mabel, Pacifica and Soos.
"Soos, thank you," Dipper said.
"No problem dude, it's what I do," Soos nodded.
"SLEEPOVER!" Mabel said as she wrapped her arm around Pacifica's shoulders.
"Yay, sleepover," Dipper said as he drooped his head, as the four girls laughed at him the scene panned out away from the Mystery Shack, and into the forest, were a snow covered statue of Bill was visible. The statue started glowing and then suddenly vanished. Bill was back in the body but was in some strange, vast and barren world.
"What… were, were am I?" Bill asked.
"Bill Cipher," a voice called, Bill's eye grew wide as Bill turned and saw a group of mysterious and hidden figures.
"The… the council…" Bill shook; Bill's voice was filled with terror.
"It took a lot of my magic to put you back in your body and bring you here," the leader of the council called.
"I… I'm sorry… it's just…" Bill started.
"Silence, I only brought you back so I could give you a punishment worse than the fate you were given by these, lesser, life forms!" the leader of the council called, snapping their fingers. A small black portal opened and started pulling Bill into it.
"Not the oblivion plane, do you know how horrible that place is!" Bill called, trying to not get pulled into the portal.
"Of course I do, I created it," the leader said and Bill got sucked away and the portal closed.
"We still have a major problem," another council member said.
"Yes, this world was able to defeat Bill, one of the most powerful of our kind," another said.
"Do you think?" another started.
"There's no doubt about it, he must be there," the leader said.
"What do we do?" another asked.
"I'll go, and destroy this world that beat Bill and verify whether or not he is there," a voice said as its owner stepped out of hiding. The owner was a blue circle, with black arms and legs, like Bill's. This Circle had the same brick pattern on the bottom of its body, it also had only one eye, and a black long tie. The circle was wearing a more rounded and flat hat compared to Bill's top hat.
"Very well, Joe Cipher, we will leave it up to you, just know, if you fail, you shall face the same fate as Bill," the leader said.
"Don't worry, I never fail," Joe laughed.
"How do you plan on doing it?" another council member asked. Joe started laughing.
"Trust me, I've been planning this for a while," Joe said, snapping. The scene changed to Preston Northwest pacing around his study, anger on his face. Suddenly a piece of paper appeared in the air above him and slowly fell down into his hand. Preston looked at the piece of paper, it had the same summoning circle as Bill, except the symbols were different and Joe was drawn in the middle. There was an incantation and a set of instructions written beneath the drawing. Preston smiled as he looked up from the paper.
(End Chapter 1)