Chapter 1:

Prologue

June 1st 2016.


It is hard to believe, that Dipper and Mabel are still visiting Gravity Falls, every year since 2012. The summer 4 years was something new to them, the supernatural stuff, friends, those crazy events, like when the whole U.S. government was wanting to arrest Grunkle Stan, the appearance of the author, and of course the fight with Bill. It was like a new world to them. If they didn't count Piedmont as a boring town, now they did. Gravity Falls, was like a paradise, I mean they did get what they wanted, even Mabel who, though, wanted to taste Smile Dips or do unexisting things.

Certainly, It was one of the greatest time in their lives.

However, their parents were super-flabbergasted when they saw their kids overwhelmed with joy and happiness. Their demeanors were seemingly changed, but not into the right direction. Their past good kids were turned into wild ones since Dipper was fully avoiding the public and wasn't talking with anyone, nowadays he stepped out of his dark corner. It was one day when the bullies reached the final limit. However, now, it is always nobody bullying Dipper and if was then, well, y'know.

All his time, Dipper Pines was bullied because of his nickname, he was lurking underneath nearly all his life and of his unusual birthmark. His nickname was created by Mabel, who one day decided to call him from his birthmark. Since Dipper didn't really like his real name, that's why he was calling himself Dipper, so far everybody thinks that "Dipper" is his real name, but they are far away erred.

Now, Dipper and Mabel are more spending their time outside, always somewhere in the forest, trying to find something (their parents didn't know about supernatural stuff from Gravity Falls), which caused their parents to worry. Especially their mom, because as we all know it is a matter of fact that almost every mom is super sensitive.

From Dipper's and Mabel's strangely updated behavior's, it gets them to assume that next year their short stuff will want to visit Gravity Falls again. Dipper and Mabel, especially Dipper, were always sad for some time post their return, it made them think of a permanent move to Gravity Falls. But since twin's dad has a very good work there, it left them only to desire.

Though, siblings thought they wouldn't make it this year, but after they remembered about Grunkle Stan, Ford, Soos, and Wendy, it gave them a handful of motivation to work harder and get a better grade. It wasn't hard for Dipper since he is a nerd, he was ten miles ahead of a theme his classmates were learning. So he wantonly spent the entire time of classes, playing on his phone, trying to complete one very impossible level, Wendy challenged him recently.

Mabel at the other hand wasn't that type, she was a simple school girl. She hadn't much brain to quickly process every task, which caused her to spend more time on homework, unlike Dipper. But since, her homework was secretly done by Dipper, Mabel certainly made it well.

And after, Ford offered them some incredible lessons for Dipper, dad agreed in one moment. It wasn't a total lie, who would tell about unexplainable or unbelievable things for normal people like twins mom and dad. They played it off, telling them about some unexplainably hard physics and other things that were simply known for world's biggest nerds.

So far, Dipper without saying was going one hundred percent, but after they looked at Mabel's now-condition, their heads were building second thoughts about her going with Dipper, her enthusiastic, positive and carefree spirit was still alive, though, she was far ahead of her emotional changing age, her soul simply didn't accept it.

It didn't mean any bad, but it would affect her adult life in a little. But so far, their parents were easily convincible, so Mabel was just following Dipper like a puppy to its owner. Her cutesy and skills to pressure on someone's pity were working on her mom's weak point.


As the bus was riding up the hill, Dipper opened his eyes because of a strange feeling. Also, he felt some weight on his shoulder, who was, however, sleeping Mabel. As the odd feeling didn't leave his mind, he gazed out the window. Outside, were located world's simplest trees, as usual as ever. The biggest riddle, for now, was that feeling, like something, is missing or it is just something they wanted for so long and finally got it.

Well, the bus was extremely slow, as it was driving up the slope. It barely moved at all. But soon, the bus passed the incline and instantly, Dipper was able to see the "Gravity Falls" sign.

"MABEL! WAKE UP!" He shook her by the shoulders, increasing his strength and vivacity, just because it is nearly impossible to wake up Mabel.

"WE ARE IN GRAVITY FALLS!" Dipper happily screamed at her. Hearing those words, made her jump out of her seat and press her entire face into the window.

"OH M GOD! DIPPER!" She entered into the loss of words, as her astonished mind tried to treat every inch of the mark. With such a delightful feeling raising in their heads, increased their impatience to leave the autobus.

At one moment, it started to slow down, eventually, mitigation reached the zero miles per hour. The door's opened and the bus driver commanded to everyone to leave, who had to. As they left, the bus severely accelerated and was far away in seconds.

Twins looked around unable to stop flooding with joy. Gazing around was the first idea that struck their heads. However, nothing changed, the trees were still green, everything was like it was four years ago, only the asphalt got excessively cracked. Since they were got an agreement from Grunkle Stan to pick them up, they didn't move forward, just were standing and waiting for his arrivals.

Not much time passed, some figures drew afar. They moved closer each second and as soon as they weren't like small dots in their sight, siblings recognized the first figure as Soos, the second one as Grunkle Stan, third one as Candy and finally; fourth one as Grenda. Soon, when they saw them too, Grenda and Candy were sprinting towards Mabel, not even acclaiming Dipper.

Dipper, in return, didn't even look at them, since he was busy with Soos and Stan. Both of them were very happy to see twins again because they didn't make it her three past years.

"KIDS!" Grunkle Stan screamingly greeted them.

"Grunkle Stan, we are not kids anymore! We're mature teens!" She triumphantly proclaimed and raised her fist in superman style. Dipper facepalmed because his sister so far didn't stop to surprise him with her enthusiasm.

"Huh, so what do we do now?" He asked Grunkle Stan.

"First of all, we need to settle you down," He made a strict voice a little, and ended with a happy one. "And then, as a tradition, you'll spend time with me! 10 hours of fishing!"

"Oh, not again!" Dipper and Mabel said in a unison, both were horrible singers, but it somehow, their votes really matched.

Forest's tranquility was the best thing for them as they thought because it was removing all the stress, fatigue, and even distress. It was an effective cure for sleepless people also. However, if something is full of goods then it has bads at the same time.

In the woods were lurking and living lots of creatures. And it was a very sparse phenomenon if there was a harmless being. All the mysterious animals, Dipper (sometimes with others) discovered them They, though, were attacking or at least defending themselves. Since they knew who's territory it was, they didn't step in. Recently his interest in supernatural stuff slightly reduced, as there was a lack of undiscovered mysteries, long story short; he was starting to live like a normal person. He personally thought Gravity Falls wouldn't be the same in the second year, and his think came true. Since Bill Cipher was wandering in Mindscape or was entirely dead, the town was nearly harmless from creatures. And from people too, because, there wasn't any robbers or criminals in this city, it was super peaceful.

But the best thing in Gravity Falls was, however, Tyler! He was furiously improving the town since he became a mayor. The quantity of money Gravity Falls had, made him build some parks, transport networks, and other "city styled" things. And also, because of himself, he built his own statue in the middle of our favorite town.

But the Mystery Shack wasn't doing great as always since Gideon rebuilt his tent-o-telepathy, and bought lots of advertisements on the internet, his business was doing great. The Shack, though, after that, became kinda left behind.

Who, was running poorly for now. That's why Grunkle Stan didn't have money to advert his hut.

So far, they approached their main destination, the Shack. It was looking lightly older, but however, repaired and upgraded here and there. We can globally say: nothing changed at all. Only the fallen 's' letter was glued once more.

Entering the Mystery Shack wasn't anything than the strong outflow of nostalgic emotions.

It felt like the hut was their home and twins weren't there in 30 years. But since it was only four, it was oddly enough. Soon a wish to collapse in bed and do nothing for 10 hours, reached the siblings. The long 6-hour trip made them very, very exhausted, sleepy and tired. Plus, it was too late to do duties or hard work from Grunkle Stan.

With that said, Soos helped them to attribute their bags to the attic. Barely, making way up, Dipper with all his weight fell apart on the door, he threw his bags on the floor and laid on his bed. Scarcely, caught his consciousness, but it was too late, so he fell asleep, not even knowing, what's going on with his sister and others…

"BEEP BEEP!" Was the sound of his alarm.

With a slight groan, Dipper Pines opened his eyes, trying to adjust for the bright light and remove the blurriness. Once he was done, Dipper got up and stretched his arms with a large yawn. He didn't sleep so well, recently, so this one gave him a great mood and energyful feeling. With a smile, he tip-toed to the door and employing his skills, he tried to open it up with the smallest amount of creak.

It sounded like it wasn't opened for years, maybe weeks, but since he hadn't visited four years, the clue is nowhere to find. After, the most intense work, he calmly walked to the bathroom, glancing upon everywhere, inspecting every aspect of walls and surroundings. Only, the number of cobwebs increased, so he created a mental note to clean up this horror.

After he reached out for the door and pulled it aside, Dipper Pines looked at the mirror in front of him. The sleeplessness he has was full shown as violet bags neath his eyes. Instantly, he remembered himself standing here and looking at the mirror, four years ago. Since he was still listening to BABBA, it was fun to bear it in mind.

With that said, his eyes started to shift thru his face. The baby fat he had on the face was removed, leaving only slim cheeks like he wanted to. His hair grew half a time longer, still messy and brownish like Dipper had always. He desired for a big change, but still Dipper was Dipper.

So far, he was ashamed for his unusual birthmark. Strangely, on his forehead formed a copy of a Big Dipper. At first, it was oddly enough, but for now, everybody got used to it. Since he wasn't a bully magnet in school anymore, Dipper got a mental privilege to freely go anywhere he wanted. Do anything he wanted and say everything he wished.

It was the penultimate year in his school, and when Dipper will have a chance to graduate it, he'll use it without any doubts, and leave this dark and cruel place alone. The school wasn't the place to have friends or to have fun for Dipper, he counted it as a time-wasting place because he nearly didn't learn anything because of his smarts.

With Gravity Falls, on the other hand, was an entirely different thing: here was his Grunkle Ford, who, however, was always taking Dipper to some kind of missions or adventures. Here he felt like he needed to be here, the place was totally made for him. But sometimes he wondered, how would look his life if his parents would send him and Mabel to the other place?

It's an unimaginable story here, Dipper would be the same dark and bully-magnet person, he wouldn't have any friends if there wasn't Wendy, everything would be completely opposite. Gravity Falls, though, changed his whole life…

With that said there, Dipper took off his clothes, revealing his not-so-but muscular physique, his body changed into an athletic one through the last years, since he was going to some gyms and other things. Not like he had the best body, but it was way prettier than the previous one. If you haven't been good friends with him, you wouldn't recognize him at this moment.

After he stepped inside the tub, he turned on the water somewhere midst of a cold and hot, just for a best, relaxing temperature, he usually had in the mornings. Actually, he wouldn't imagine himself without taking a shower at this time.

After he was done, Dipper without any hurry dried himself, took on his clothes and made his way downstairs to the kitchen. After he opened the fridge, his eyes tried to find something eatable. This refrigerator wasn't refilled yet. With a lack of food, Dipper was trying to think of a something. Since Mabel taught the basics of the cooking to him, Dipper wasn't eating only cereal each morning from then.

But as the fridge was empty, he had to come back to the old times; eating cereal. Once, he poured himself a bowl of cereal, he ate it. During the time he was eating, Dipper thought of his future plans for today. Since the fridge had nothing in it, it was evident that nobody without twins here would keep stock of diversification food. Of course, today, Dipper will have to go shopping.

Although, he hated it with all his heart because the mall and the shops were always making him tired somehow. Since, Mabel loved to spend her money on clothes, (jeans, socks, no top ones because she has sweaters), she was always bringing Dipper with herself. With her strong hyperactiveness, it is twice times harder for Dipper to stay alive. Thank god it is happening only once a year.

After finishing his meal, Dipper got up, grabbed some money and went to the city.


Blah, writing this chapter made me so exhausted.
K, I will rewrite this story because reading it myself, I thought this is the worst piece I ever wrote. Not because of an idea but because of my writing skills, they were so awful back then, now, I practiced a little bit, so I tried to describe everything in the most smallest parts, secondly, I tried to make this story comfortably readable, since everybody nowadays reads only those stories who has great writing and vocabulary enhancement.

Since I learned English only from fanfictions, I am not very experienced, and I think I kinda, shouldn't stick my nose inside the entire fiction thing, but myself just really wants to publish my story. But the worst thing is, I am very lazy.

So I hope, you enjoyed this chapter, next 4 chapter wouldn't have anything new, so stay tuned!

P.S. Looking for beta readers that will help me with the narrative stuff, and by the way, thanks to Really Bored Guy, for helping me!