Hey, everyone! I struck lightning when I was in the middle of reading a reading a Gravity Falls fanfic and I just had to start writing about it. This is probably gonna be a long one, so enjoy!
Wendy, Dipper, Mabel, Grunkle Stan, and Soos were all searching the woods for a 'legendary creature' rumored by many citizens of Gravity Falls to live there. Some of them say that the creature is some sort of morbid Centaur, some say it's a giant flying mutant rat and others say it's a it's a giant bloodthirsty Cyclops. There have been multiple sightings of the beast and they all usually have different descriptions of what they look like, but there's no physical evidence or proof that the beast exists.
It is also rumored that it only been seen between 12:00 A.M. and 4:30 A.M. This is a more logical rumor because most stories say that they witnessed the beast 'in the middle of the night'. Stan heard about these rumors and he thought if he could get an actual sight of it himself, or maybe even a picture of it, he could not only tell the press, but also make a fake model of it, put it in the Mystery Shack on display posing as the real thing, and he could make tons of money! But with multiple different descriptions of it, he needed a lot of backup with him so he could get multiple eye-witnesses and pictures of it.
"Grunkle Stan, can we go back to the shack? We've been searching for hours and we haven't found anything and we're all really tired", Wendy said to Stan while barely holding a camera. "Same for the rest of us", Dipper said, trying to backup Wendy. "Ahh, quit your yapping. We're getting closer and I can smell him AND the money", Stan fibbed with an evil grin on his face.
A few hours earlier
Everyone at the Mystery Shack went to bed at 10:00 P.M. except for Stan. He was waiting for the clock to strike 12:30 A.M. to go hunt for the creature. He didn't inform anyone that he would bring the rest of the gang to come with him. So after two and a half hours of snacking, preparing equipment like cameras and long pointy sticks, and watching silent T.V., the time came. He splashed buckets of ice water over everyone's faces to wake them up fast, quickly gave them their equipment and forced them all out of the house before they realized what was going on. About two hours of searching for the creature went by slowly and there was no sign of him so far.
Present time
"Stan, can we please go home? Please?", Wendy begged. She was obviously the most tired one in the group. "If it reaches six in the morning and we don't find him, then we'll go ho-". Stan's sentence was interrupted when the sound of loud rustling and flocks of crying birds flew over their heads. Then footsteps. Loud ones. They got closer and closer to the gang. "RUN!", Soos shouted. Everyone started running in the opposite direction of where the footsteps were coming from. Everyone except Wendy and Grunkle Stan. "I'M GONNA BE RICH!", Stan said.
Cliffhanger moment. Sorry for how short the chapter was, I was tired when I was writing this. What happened to Wendy and Stan? Will anyone survive? Will Stan become rich? Find out!