Okay, I'm not going to lie. This was inspired partly by Gravity's Fallen Angel, but it's different. The description was already on the outside, so this is all I'm going to say. Gravity Falls belongs to Alex Hirsch and Nala belongs to me. Enjoy!
EDIT: Okay, I realized that I had to add something. Only the part of Nala being Mabel and Dipper's sister was inspired by GFA. The main story was all me.
Ah, summer break. A family sat on a bench in a sunny park. Two kids are running around while the dad grilled hamburgers.
"So, you want cheese on that hon?" the man asked his wife.
"Sure Hank," the woman replied in a sweet voice. A time for leisure, recreation, and takin 'er easy. A large 'Welcome to Gravity Falls' sign loomed over the happy family. Unless you're me. A golf cart burst through the sign, holding three kids. Once the cart landed on the ground, it took off, swerving dangerously. Trees were being knocked down behind them. A girl in a sparkly purple sweater looked over her shoulder.
"It's getting closer!" she shrieked. The red monster reached out with its giant hands. It tried to grab the golf cart, but missed by an inch. Surprised by the attack, the driver accidentally jerked on the wheel. The golf cart swerved and flew off of a rock in the path and landed roughly on the ground before continuing. My name is Dipper. The girl about to puke is my sister Mabel. The girl with the horrible driving skills is my older sister Nala. You may be wondering what we're doing in a golf cart, fleeing from a creature of unimaginable horror. Reaching to the side, the monster yanked a tree from the ground, roots and all. Angling it like a spear, it tossed the tree at the golf cart.
"Look out!" Mabel screamed. The three screamed in unison just as Nala jerked the wheel again, sending them all flying.
Rest assured, there's a perfectly logical explanation for this. Let's rewind. It all started when our parents decided we could use some fresh air. Cut to a scene with Mabel cuddling a cat, Dipper playing on a small handheld device and Nala on her computer. When their parents reach out and take away the cat and Dipper's game, Nala quickly shoved her laptop into her bag before the parents saw it. When the siblings are handed their bags, Nala shoved her laptop bag into it and ducked before her parents could rub sunscreen on her.
They shipped us up north to a sleepy town called Gravity Falls, Oregon, to stay at our great uncle's place in the woods. Mabel banged the attic door open and rushed inside, pulling her backpack behind her. Her older sister Nala followed with a less excited mood. Dipper walked inside after them and immediately scanned the room. There were two beds in the corners of the room and a hammock dangling from the rafters. A rope ladder is tied to a bar next to it so one of them can reach it.
"I call the hammock!" Nala shouted out, immediately ditching her bag and scrambling up the ladder.
"Is that safe Nala?" Dipper asked. He had a worried expression on his face.
"Probably not," Nala admitted, "but you gotta admit, it's pretty cool." Mabel was ignoring them and trying to hang up her posters. Pressing one to the ceiling with one hand, she reached for the tape with her other hand. Once she had successfully duct taped her poster to the ceiling, she spun around to face Dipper.
"This attic is amazing!" Mabel exclaimed, "check out all my splinters!" She held up her hands which had multiple large splinters sticking out of them. Dipper stared in confusion while Nala scurried down the ladder.
"Why didn't you tell me about these earlier!" Nala scowled as she dug around her bag. She finally pulled out a big white bag with a red cross on it. Pulling some tweezers out of the first aid bag, she walked over to Mabel. After a full minutes, the floor was littered with sharp pieces of wood and Mabel's hands were splinter free. Dipper was eyeing the first aid bag with a wary expression.
"Why do you carry around a huge first aid bag Nala?" Dipper asked his sister. Nala gave him a 'do you really need to ask' look.
"Because with you two," Nala began. She gestured to her siblings with the tweezers. "You never know when you're going to get hurt." Dipper shrugged and walked over to his bed. Standing on it was a goat. Gompers, in fact. Dipper eyed it suspiciously.
"And there's a goat on my bed." Mabel walked over to Gompers to 'investigate' him.
"Hi friend!" She said enthusiastically to the goat. Gompers showed no signs of hearing her and instead starting chewing on her sweater. Mabel giggled.
"Oh! Yes you can keep chewing on my sweater!" Nala sighed and walked over to Mabel, pulling her sleeve out of the goat's mouth. Nala grinned and pulled Mabel out of the room with a cry of, "Let's explore!" Dipper heard their feet clomping down the stairs and then Nala cried, "Come on Dipper! You'll have fun!" Dipper sighed and started down the stairs after his sisters.
My sisters tended to look on the bright side of things. Mabel was giggling and rolled down a hill covered with grass.
"Yay! Grass!" She cried out, stating the obvious. Nala was sitting up in the branches on a tree, seemingly staring at nothing. Her face was lit up with delight.
"Dipper come on!" She yelled, "you got to check out this view!" Dipper ignored his sisters and continued chewing on his pencil. A woodpecker landed on his head and drilled his hat a couple times.
But I was having a hard time getting used to our new surroundings. An old man popped up from behind Dipper, wearing an ugly green monster mask.
"Boo!" He yelled, scaring Dipper. When Dipper screamed, Stan pulled his mask off and laughed. Up in the tree, Nala giggled.
And then there was our Great Uncle Stan. Stan laughed again and slapped his knee, holding the mask in one of his hands.
That guy. Stan coughed and hit his chest in an attempt to get the coughing to stop. He kept coughing for a few minutes before saying, "It was worth it."
In the Mystery Shack, Stan is leading a group of tourists though the halls, showing off all the obviously fake attractions.
Our uncle had transformed his house into a tourist trap he called "The Mystery Shack." The real mystery was why anyone came. The antler of a jackalope breaks off as Stan announces another one of the attractions. Stan gestured to a giant monkey wearing underwear behind a orange rope.
"Ladies and gentlemen, behold! The Sascrotch!" The tourists start chattering and snapping pictures. Over in the corner, Dipper was sweeping with an annoyed expression on his face, Mabel was poking through all the items, and Nala was flipping through a book.
And guess who had to work there. Dipper sighed, only to have Nala gently hit him on the head with her paperback. He gave her the stink eye before going back to sweeping.
"Ooh!" Mabel cried out, reaching for a large glass eyeball, only for Stan to hit her hand with his eight ball cane.
"No touching the merchandise!"
It looked like it was gonna be the same, boring routine all summer. Until one fateful day…
"He's looking at it! He's looking at it!" Mabel was hiding behind a shelf of bobble heads, watching her newest victim - excuse me - crush read a note she had written.
"Uh, do you like me? Yes? Definitely? Absolutely!" His voice raised toward the end and he looked around, looking a little freaked out.
"I rigged it!" Mabel giggled. Nala sighed and swept over toward the boy, plucking the note out of his hands. The boy gave her a curious expression as she took her place behind the cash register. Mabel gave her a pouty face. Dipper finished rubbing a glass jar with a dirty white cloth before turning to his sister.
"Mabel, I know you're going through your whole "Boy Crazy" phase, but I think you're kind of overdoing it with the "crazy" part," Dipper scolded. Over at the cash register, Nala nodded.
"I agree with you twin Mabel," Nala told her younger sister. "I went through the same thing, but you don't need to flirt with every guy you meet." Mabel opened her mouth, about to say something.
"And you are WAY too young for an epic summer romance, so don't even think about it." Mabel closed her mouth. Nala smiled slightly, remembering all Mabel's failed flirting attempts. Nala had needed to sweet talk boys out of getting a restraining order for Mabel multiple times. Like her great uncle, Nala was an excellent conman-conwoman?
"Mock all you want, my siblings," Mabel scolded, "but I got a good feeling about this summer. I wouldn't be surprised if the man of my dreams walked through that door right now." She pointed over at the entrance to the gift shop. Just then Stan walked through the door, attempting to burp only to have it get caught in his throat.
"Oh! Oh, not good. Ow." Mabel made a face.
"Aww! Why!?" She cried out. Nala burst into laughter along with Dipper. Stan gave them a dirty look before starting to talk.
"All right, all right, look alive, people. I need someone to go hammer up these signs in the spooky part of the forest," he called out. The twins eyes widened and Nala didn't even look up.
"Not it!" Dipper quickly called. Mabel mimicked him.
"Um, also not it!" Soos called from the other side of the gift shop where he was fixing a shelf.
"Nobody asked you, Soos," Stan deadpanned.
"I know and I'm comfortable with that," the handyman replied, before taking a bite of a chocolate bar. Where did that even come from? The thought flew for Nala's mind for a moment before she went back to her book.
"Wendy, I-" Stan began, but stopped once he realized that Nala was in Wendy's normal place.
"She didn't come into work today," Soos explained. Stan muttered something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like, "I'd fire you all if I could" before turning to the twins.
"All right," he said, this time so everyone could hear him. "Let's make it...eenie, meenie, miney…" He pointed at Dipper. "You."
"Aw, what?" Dipper complained. "Grunkle Stan, whenever I'm in those woods, I feel like I'm being watched!" Stan rolled his eyes.
"Ugh, this again," he complained. Dipper furled his eyebrows.
"I'm telling you, something weird is going on in this town," Dipper insisted. He held out his arms, showing off multiple mosquito bites. Nala raised her eyebrow but didn't say anything. "Just today, my mosquito bites spelled out "BEWARE," Dipper continued. Stan took a close look at Dipper's arm before speaking.
"That says "BEWARB." Dipper nervously looked down before scratching his arms. "Look, kid," Stan went on. "The whole "monsters in the forest" thing is just local legend, drummed up by guys like me to sell merch to guys like that." Stan pointed to a fat, sweater tourist laughs oddly while looking at the stan bobble heads.
"So quit being so paranoid!" Stan insisted before shoving the signs into Dipper's arms. At this Nala poked her head up. She stood up and walked around the counter before plucking the signs out of her younger brother's arms.
"I'll go Stan," she said, her voice cheerful. "Since my scaredy cat brother here is too creeped out by the trees." Nala ruffled Dipper's hair, purposely ignoring the hurt look on his face before waltzing out the door. Stan watched her go before he walked out of the giftshop, muttering something about finding his pants. Mabel looked over at her twin and smiled, knowing exactly what would cheer him up.
"Wanna go follow her?" Mabel offered. Dipper looked over at Mabel to see if he was serious, and when he saw that she was, he smiled back at her.
"Do you really have to ask?" With a laugh, the twins ran after their older sister.
Nala walked through the forest, occasionally stopping to hang up signs. She winced, remembering the look on her brother's face.
"I had to say that!" She told herself. "If he knew the extent of this town's weirdness, he would go and try to investigate it and end up getting himself hurt!" Nala had been coming to Gravity Falls ever since she was ten, so she knew a LOT about how strange the town was. She had needed to escape from these people dressed in red cloaks multiple times. They called themselves The Society of the Blind Eye, although it turns out that they don't like black eyes. They mostly left Nala alone after that incident.
Nala stopped to hang up another sign, only for the tree to make a metallic sound when she hit it with the hammer. She gave it a suspicious look and tossed the signs asside. Pressing her ear to the tree, she began tapping it again. After a moment, she pulled away and ran her hand over the tree, wiping away some dust. Her eyes widened, for when the dust was removed, she could make out the outline of a small panel installed in the tree. She dug her nails into one side of the panel and pulled. It was jammed. Nala pulled harder only to go flying backwards when it finally flew open.
Nala stood up and brushed herself off before walking back to the panel. Inside was what looked like a metal control box with two switches on top. Nala peered at it for a moment before trying one of the switches. A grinding noise came from behind her along with the bleat of a startled goat. Nala spun around just in time to see Gompers bolt away from a newly opened hole in the ground.
"What in the world?" Carefully, Nala tip toed over to the hole and peeked in. Sitting inside of it was a red journal with a six fingered hand on the cover. She pulled it out and opened it to the first page.
"It's hard to believe it's been six years since I began studying the strange and wondrous secrets of Gravity Falls, Oregon." Nala's voice rose slightly as the neared the end of the sentence. Quickly, she flipped through the pages, stopping momentarily on one that said 'Trust No One'.
"Trust no one," she mumbled subconsciously, before continuing to flip through the pages. Her face went pale. Nala had seen everything in this book. I can never let Dipper find this, Nala thought. It was too dangerous. Out of the blue, a loud voice came from behind the log.
"Hello!" Nala screamed and jumped back just as Mabel popped up from behind the log. Dipper sat up next to her.
"Mabel!" He complained, giving his sister a look. "Do you even know the meaning of stealthy!?" His twin shook her head cheerfully. Dipper turned to Nala, his eyes immeadtly going to the journal in her hands.
"What's that?" Dipper asked. Nala tried to hide it behind her back, but Mabel pulled it out of her hands.
"Come on Nala!" She cried out. "Show us!" Nala yanked it out of Mabel's hands before giving the twins a nervous look. I suppose I can't hide it now.
"Alright then," she relented. "But let's go somewhere private." She looked over at the signs, wondering what to do with them. A devious smile spread across her face as she looked over at the newly made hole.
"Hey Dipper," she called out. Dipper turned around cautiously. "Put those signs in the hole, kay?" Her younger brother nodded and pushed the signs in with his foot. Nala walked over to the panel and flipped the switch, sealing the signs in the hole.
"If anyone asks," Nala warned, "we know nothing." Mabel and Dipper nodded in agreement as they started walking back toward the shack.
I hoped you guys enjoyed this. Please review and tell me what you think!
-Hourglass
