Author note: While this is technically a crossover, it will have nothing to do with any Harry Potter Storyline: I'm just using the Mahoutokoro as a setting. Thank you for giving this fic a try, and please feel free to write reviews about the story: I will make sure to read every review and get this story to be as good as it can.

"Mason, Mable, we're going to Tokyo!"

Breakfast started differently from the usual, which was a rare case in the Pines family. Ever since the twins confessed about their supernatural experiences last summer, the worrisome parents of the duo made sure that the two never had to worry about anything deviant of the standard.

On this particular morning though, Ariel Pines was so excited about the prospect of visiting a foreign land, that she forgot all about keeping a calm demeanor in front of the children, and let her excitement show.

Dipper gave his father a questioning glance. Mabel, still dumbfounded but with equal enthusiasm, leapt out of her chair and started bouncing on the floor hand in hand with her mother.

Bruce Pines mocked a cough to gather attention.

"As your mother said, the company is branching out to Tokyo, and I was chosen as the direct representative, which means that I will have to move to Japan. I'll leave it to the two of you to decide whether you want to stay in Piedmont, or if you would like to move with me to Tokyo."

Dipper paused for a moment to take it all in, then continued eating his cereal.

He did not particularly care about staying in Piedmont. He already had a job offer waiting for him in the Investigation of Mysteries and the Unknown, a private firm ran by none other than his great uncles Stanford and Stanley Pines. It was only his mother's tearful face that had stopped him from taking the offer the moment it was given. He was still insistent on leaving once he finished high school though.

Ever since the events at Gravity Falls, Dipper had become fixated with the various anomalies around the world, and the effects they had on the various communities around them. He knew that researching and hunting for these anomalies was his calling, and was driven to find out everything that he could about the abnormalities in this world. He also knew from personal experience that mystery hunting wasn't exactly an indoors activity, and so made it a point to, at the very least become as fit as the average of his age group. Dipper being Dipper, naturally overdid the whole process, straining his body to the extreme. This came as an added bonus as his body was also stimulated to finally grow proper muscle mass, though it had left Dipper with an exclusive experience of what Hell must feel like for the whole duration of his training session. Thanks to that, Dipper's physical abilities went far beyond what was expected from any 14 year old, and left the gym adviser with high expectations of his future growth, were he to continue his training. This was done while he was still properly studying, which naturally led to him becoming sort of a leading model in his school, as he excelled in both the athletics and academics.

As an expected result, Dipper was basically able to go to any high school of his choosing, with the board of directors of schools all around the state practically begging at his feet to take their scholarship. He already had decided that he would go where Mabel would go, though. He knew that if he went somewhere far away from Mabel, she would miss him, and he would her.

While Dipper knew that it was somewhat silly to base his future academic environment around his sister, he couldn't help it. There just was no way he could possibly imagine a future without Mabel, and he was somewhat sure that she felt the same way.

This was why when Dipper was given the opportunity to choose between staying at Piedmont and going abroad to Tokyo, he first waited for his sister's reaction. Fortunately he did not have to wait for long.

After a long shriek that wasn't exactly pleasant to hear, Mabel started jumping up and down, screaming a jumble of words that vaguely resembled a repetetion of the phrase, "omigosh."

Dipper took that answer as a definitive yes, and so without looking up from his bowl, said "Sure, sounds like fun."

If only he knew what lay await for him over in the Eastern island, for Dipper certainly would have changed his answer,

His father smiled, "It's decided, then."

And so after a long few weeks of phone calls, tears, hugs and goodbyes, the Pines family boarded an ANA plane, complete with a pretty lady who spoke English with a cute Japanese accent, and headed towards Tokyo.

A day after the Pines left, their old house now had a single FOR SALE post stuck out in the front, the only color in the otherwise dull, lifeless husk that used to house one of America's most interesting household. To only the most observant of viewers, though, can a critical difference be seen. What would otherwise seem like a tree in a forest reveals to be a lone humanoid shape, hidden in the shadows, on the lookout for someone. It bore its eyes into the house, yet cannot find its target. It slightly raises its head, and a subtle sniffing motion is seen, before the shadows disperse, and the thing is no more.