Ch. 1: The fall

It was a normal day (well as normal as it could be anyway) in the small Oregon town of Gravity falls. There was a small tourist trap called The Mystery Shack somewhere in the outer part of the town that was filled with gullible tourists who wanted to see all of the strange oddities that it stored. Inside there was a fairly portly man working on a strange contraption, a red headed teenage girl lounging on the front desk talking to her friends, and the owner of the store, a greedy old man by the name of Stan Pines was leading a group of customers through the store, while his great nephew and niece Dipper and Mabel, were outside.

"Let's see, what is this?" Dipper was talking to himself while flipping through an old book he would always carry around that contained some of the secrets to the strange town, however it was all things he had read before, gnomes, zombies, ghosts, and a secret about who founded gravity falls, but then he flipped on a page he hadn't noticed before.

"Reincarnation spell? That's new" he said to himself

While that was happening, his older sister (by five minutes) Mabel was playing with her pet pig Waddles, who she had won in a county fair.

"Come on waddles, come to Mabel" Mabel said to her pet, and Waddles who was rather obedient for a pig, did exactly what she said and came up to her.

Mabel had become incredibly giddy because of this, and picked her pet up to hug him, and in all of her excitement, without even realizing it, threw him up in the air, and got him stuck in a tree.

"Oops" she said "Don't worry Waddles I'll get Dipper out here, and he'll get you down" she yelled to her pig.

Meanwhile Dipper had been back in the Mystery Shack studying the reincarnation spell when he heard a faint screaming coming from the nearby woods.

"Dipper, I need you!" Mabel had screamed to him as she ran out of the woods, before he had any time to react his sister had already pulled him to his feet, and started dragging him back to the woods.

"Woah, woah, what's the matter?" he asked

"It's Waddles; he's stuck in a tree"

"What? How did he get stuck in a tree?"

"No time to explain, now come on I need your help"

When they had finally gotten to the tree where Waddles was stuck, Dipper noticed what it looked like, it was a rotted, old, and dead looking tree with no leaves, and Waddles was stuck on a limb in the center of it.

"Mabel, you can't expect me to climb that thing, can you?" Dipper asked, a little afraid for his own health

Mabel responded with the saddest face she could possibly make "Plllleeeaasssee?"

Dipper sighed, he knew he couldn't win "Fine" he grunted and headed towards the tree

Mabel hugged him "Oh thank you, thank you, thank you Dipper" she said

Dipper smiled and rolled his eyes as he began climbing up the old tree

He had managed to tuck his book back into the inner pocket of his vest.

He had finally gotten to branch Waddles was on "Alright pig, come on" he said as he put his knee on the branch, what he didn't know was the dead branch could barely hold Waddles weight, let alone the two of them together, and that's when he heard a snapping sound.

Dipper froze, he looked down at the branch he was balanced on, it was cracking "oh no" he said, and that's when the branch collapsed.

Dipper screamed as he and Waddles fell to the ground, he closed his eyes in fear as the ground grew larger and larger, only to feel a jerking motion, and open his eyes.

He had managed to catch a break, his vest was caught in a twig, Waddles however was still falling towards the ground, but luckily Mabel was there to catch him.

Dipper sighed, however his relief was short lived when he heard a ripping noise. He looked up to see the left portion of his vest get completely torn off.

He screamed as he began falling again, and hit the ground head first, breaking his neck, he was dead.

Mabel looked at the sight in horror; she let Waddles go and ran to her brother's side.

She began to cry when she saw him, his body was twitching, and he had a look of pure agony on his face.

She picked him up, hugging his lifeless body when she heard a thud. She looked back to see his book, it had opened up to a page as it landed onto the ground from the vest.

She looked at the book and let out a small squeal, it had landed on the page with the reincarnation spell on it.