Welcome to Gravity Falls
It's good to have a big family, you get all kinds of people related to you and they can tell so many crazy stories, like Cousin Jesus up in Organ. Based on his crazy stories it seems like an interesting place, so of course I'm going to Gravity Falls!
Dear Journal,
Congratulations on being the record keeper of all my thoughts in as I visit my Cousin Jesus and his Abuleta this fall in a little town called Gravity Falls somewhere in Organ, had to really dig into the internet to find a proper map to locate it but I'm taking the bus there anyway, well buses. It's a long way just to get out of Houston, Texas, like two hours!
Anyway, I'm in Organ now so it's not gonna be long before I reach Gravity Falls and what my cousin calls 'The Mystery Shack'. While it sounds like the normal tourist trap, I'm wondering if half the stuff Jesus talked about in his e-mails and Video chats with me are true. I mean some of the stuff was pretty out of this world, literally! Like some dream demon named Bill Cipher form another dimension causing chaos and destruction in the town. It was a bit creepy but fascinating to learn about. Sure there's other stuff like a Zombie invasion, old man in a robotic sea monster costume, and even going inside the mind of the man he thought of as a father figure, Stan Pines.
I've read his fan fictions about the man. While he paints the man in a glorious light, some of what he's told me about the man makes me think that Mr. Pines is a pretty shady character and a cheapskate. Who hires a 12 year old to be a repairman? Sure Jesus is pretty good with fixing things but really he was 12! Well at least it takes his mind off his dead beat dad, whatever hole that bas-
"Last stop, Gravity Falls." The uniformed bus driver called out into the nearly empty bus. The only other person inside was a young woman who looked to be in her mid teens, with dark brown curly hair done up in a messy bun, tanned skin, dressed in a black My little pony t-shirt that stretch over her impressive assets, pudgy belly, and exposed the edge of a blue, long sleeved under shirt, a purple Pokemon seatbuckle belt holding up some dark green, cargo pants that were tucked into black combat boots. She looked up from the pages of a blue and silver covered journal; large blueish sliver eyes looking threw sliver rimed oval glasses with an eager smile. Closing the journal and slipping it into a black back pack covered in patches the girl rushed off the bus, much to the driver's annoyance she stopped on the lowest step, breathing in the scent pine tree forest around them.
"Ah~, smells like pure nature." She muttered happily before stepping off the bus completely before a large puff of smoke exploded in front of her, and the wind blew it away quickly as a rather chubby man ran over to there the smoke once was, huffing as he spread his arms out.
"W-Welcome to the Mystery Shack. I'm your host, Mr. Mystery Jr!" The man presented himself, dressed in black slacks, and jacket with a white shirt and a maroon ribbon around his nonexistent neck with an eye patch over one eye and a red fez on his head, smiling at the young woman who smiled brightly.
"Hey Soos. So your Mystery Shack Heir fanfiction came true huh?" she asked, as she opened up the cargo hold of the bus, only two black duffle bags, pulling them out as Soos took one of them for her.
"Ha ha, you betcha Mars. I'm so glad you're moving out here. It's gonna be like when where were kids." Soos told her excitedly s the bus left and the two walked over to the Mystery Shack. "We can play video games, I'll show you what's new around town. Well technically it's all new so it's gonna be an adventurer for both of us." Soos rambled as they walked in threw the gift shop where a brown haired woman in a green shirt with a '?' on it greeted them.
"Hello, Welcome to the Mystery Shack." She greeted the woman besides Soos with a smile.
"Melody this is my Cousin form Texas, Maria Selena Martinez-Ramirez." Soos placed a hand on his cousin's shoulder as she waved and smiled at Melody. "Hey. So you're the girl Soos has been telling me about. Nice to finally meet cha." She held out her hand to the woman who then shook it.
"Nice to meet you Maria. Soos told me you were coming, how long are you staying in Gravity Falls?" She asked politely and Maria looked away nervously and Soos only smiled. "She's not going anywhere! She is staying with us for like, ever." Soos pulled his cousin close into a side hug, Melody could see a forced smile on the girl's face as if she didn't choose to live with her cousin.
"Really, well I hope you will come to like Gravity Falls as your new home then." Melody tried to assure the girl who only sighed sadly before Soos pulled her away. "Abuleta even has a surprise for you. Hint: It's really cold." Soos told his cousin as they went to the kitchen part of the shack.
-Later-
Maria sighed as she ate her strawberry chocolate Sunday, sitting on the bed to her new room up in the attic of the shack. It was pretty bear with only two beds pushed to either side of the slanted roof, two bed side tables near each bed and lamps on each one. Her bags were set on the bed to the right as she sat on the left eating her ice cream sadly as the sun set gave a warm glowing light around the room.
"So this was the twin's room during summer, huh?" she mutters, recalling the details of the younger set of Pine twins, Dipper and Mable. It was easy to tell which bed had belonged to which twin. Mari tried to shake off the glitter dust she had on her clothes from just sitting on Mable's old bed.
"At least my other clothes will be glitter free." She muttered and set the half eaten Sunday on the night stand, trying to dust off as more glitter before going to her bags.
Opening the first one contained tank tops, graphic t-shirts and long under shirts of dark colors, the brightest color she had was a crimson red shirt with a black green eyes dragon on it. Putting whose away first as the layers under them contained mesh shorts, jeans, and slacks. Carefully putting them away she got to the final layer of her bag which was of her under wear, nothing but dark bras and underwear, also a blue corselet embroidered with silver stars and moons, held together by black satin ribbon.
Looking at it, Maria sighed before putting it back in the bag, zipping it up and going to the other one that contained her sandals, running shoes, and some 3 inch healed black boots, still in their original box.
Groaning, she left the boxed boots in the bag and arranged the others near the foot of the bed before taking out the res to her stuff and fixing up the room to her liking, leaving the glitter bed alone. Once done she started to drink her forgotten Sunday when someone knocked on her door.
"Hey Coz. You all done in there." Came Soos's voice from behind the door.
"Yeah, come in." came Maria's weak replay as she poked at the bits of strawberry in the Sunday glass as he came in, looking around at the cleaned up and decorated room. "Hey looking nice in here. See you settled in real quick. You even saved a picture of your brother and sister." He said looked at the photo of a little boy and girl that looked like Maria on the night stand. "You wouldn't think that you-"
"SHUT UP!" Maria yelled at him and Soos stopped talking, looking at her with wide eyes as she only looked down at the glass in her hands.
"Hey, calm down. No one is blaming you for-"
"I said SHUT UP!"
She yelled at him, this time looking up to glare at him angrily, bearing her teeth.
"I know it wasn't my fault, okay! I just... I-i should have been quicker. I-I just froze! This isn't one of your stories Soos. No one was alright! No one was the hero!" Maria yelled at him as tears built in her eyes, and Soos frowned, reaching to pat his cousin on the shoulder before she smacked it away. "J-just leave me alone. I don't want to talk about it."
Maira pulled her legs to her chest and wrapped her arms around them as Soos looked at her worriedly.
"Okay Mars, just know we are here for you." Soos told her backing out of the room slowly, leaving his cousin alone to cry as she looked at the photo that was in a new frame, but the photo itself was burned around the edges, leaving only the two smiling children in the photo that looked like it once had four people in it from the extra arms in it.
"I would give anything too have saved you two." Mari muttered as she let her tears fall. Not knowing her voice carried softly into the forest until it reached an odd looking triangle stone half buried in the ground with what looked to be a top hat and an eye.
Then the eye glowed a dark red before a picture of Mari was seen on it crying as she looked at the burned picture, making the triangle stone start to shake a little before it became still again.
-Morning-
"Good Morning Maria Chikita. Did jou sleep alright?" Abuleta asked Maria as she came into the kitchen rubbing her dry red eyes, as the old woman was at the stove cooking something for breakfast.
"Not really, Tia Maria." Maria yawned as she addressed the old woman before going to the coffee maker and pouring herself a cup of the hot brown liquid. "Oh? What is the matter?" she asked as she plated what she had cooking as Maria drank the coffee and gagged on it.
"What is this, discount decafe!?" Maria asked as she went to the sink and poured out the coffee in her mug and gargling some water from the sink to rinse out the taste.
"Coffee is bad for jou. Come. I make you pancakes, turkey bacon and eggs. Just how jou like it." The elderly woman showed the plate to the young woman who sniffed the food, just for her stomach to sound its need for sustenance.
The elderly woman smiled as she watched the young woman gobble up the food, mixing it with maple syrup, not caring if her food mixed in with each other.
-Later-
Maria sighed as she walked down a dirt road, looking at all the pine trees that lined the road into town; some had rather strange marks on them, like an X over what looked like an eye, a muffin or an eye inside a triangle. Curious about the markings and how many trees had them she started counting how many she could find along her way, so far she counted 21 signs before reaching the first building in Gravity Falls.
"Wow, that's a lot of construction." Maria muttered as she looked at all the incomplete buildings, some only in their bare bones state with only plumbing and empty wall frames, others more further along had walls and a roof. People looked busy as they worked, but it was not only men, but women and a few small children to young for school helping with building.
"I wonder if they'll pay me too work?" she muttered as she walked around finding more of the same where ever she went, a few stores where open for business so she looked around inside for a bit, inquiring about work only to be disappointed when it seemed no one was hiring at a paying rate. The people rebuilding their town after Weirdagedion as her cousin called it.
Finding a convince store, she bought herself a drink and picked up the local News Paper to search threw the classifieds for a job as she sat on a newly constructed bus bench.
"Ahem."
Maria ignored the attempt to get her attention as she skimmed the listings for interesting jobs, but some of them, like Unicorn Hair stylist and Gnome Queen/Bride made her wonder about people's sanity in the town.
"He said, Ahem." Came a rather out of place southern accent.
Mari looked up to see two men dressed in tan uniforms and hats, she assumed it was law enforcement of the town as the short black male with sunglasses and a gray mustache had his arms cross as well as his white hillbilly looking partner.
"Aren't you supposed to be in school?" the hillbilly asked her as she just went back to her paper. "Nope." She told them with a pop at the P, looking for reasonable sounding jobs like, tour guide, lab assistant, or personal assistant before the paper was pushed down by a night stick; Maria looked up at the black officer. "You know playing hookie from school isn't cool." He told her as his partner agreed with him. "That's right! It's for fools." He added, both sounding like a bad stay in school commercial when it clicked.
"Oh! No, I'm not a high schooler. I'm 24. Just moved up here from Texas yesterday." She told them, as the black man nuggled the hillbilly. "Right, well how about we take you on a tour of our town in the back of our squad car then?" he offered as the other giggled. It was obvious to her what they were trying to do. "If I show you my ID will you believe me then?" she asked setting down the paper and pulling out her wallet which had her ID in a slot. Pulling it out she offered it to the black man who seemed to be the more intelligent of the two.
"Oh! Do you need us to find your mommy and daddy little girl?" he asked in a rather babying tone, getting a glare from the young woman. "No, and I'm 24! So stop talking to me like that." She growned at them as they looked to each other. "Looks like some one's cranky. Is it past your nappy time?" the hillbilly asked and she glared at him.
"I'm TWENTY-FUCKING-FOUR! I'M NOT A TOLDDLER!" she yelled at them as the hillbilly hid behind his partner crying in fear. "Not according to your driver's license, sweetie." The black man pointed to her birthday on the ID, 02/29/1992. Maria groaned as he pointed out the only day that came once every four years, which technically made her 6 instead of 24.