Prologue

My summer was supposed to be boring like I would imagine from the first place. I was hoping to spend my summer reading books for excitement rather than going somewhere. But of course I was forced to, along with my twin sister Mabel Pines who`s actually have no problem of going somewhere not that I`m surprised. So you see, our parents decided that we could use some fresh air away from the city filth. They send us to stay at our great uncle Stanford Pine`s place in the woods at Gravity Falls, Oregon.

However, that`s only the half of the reason; the real reason was that they were worried about us. It`s because we`re not actually humans; we`re sort of monsters. I`m a cervitaur and my twin sister is a mermaid. I know it`s sounds weird that we`re not the same monster species since we`re twins, but we were born this way. In order to hide our identities, my sister was able to become human whenever she`s out of the water; I used a blanket and my favorite cap to hide my deer legs and ears to pretend that I have paralyzed legs. (A.N. I`m so sorry if this offends anyone with paralyzing defects)

Our great Stan is a monster too; he`s a gargoyle.

As recalled, my sister tended to look on the brighter side of things like our unexpected vacation in Oregon, while I`m still getting used to our new surroundings, though the woods were beautiful when I look more closely. So moving back to our new summer home, our great uncle Stan turns his house into a tourist trap filled with fake exhibits that overcharges unsuspecting customers, and he called it "The Mystery Shack". He tends to use his monster form as an attraction fooling his customers into thinking he was wearing a costume. Though the real mystery is why anyone came.

And guess who have to work there…me and my twin sister.

I mean, I don't blame my parents for sending me and my sister here, because I know they`re just wanted to get us closer to nature which I`m grateful for, but not like this. I thought my summer will be a total bunk, until everything changes in one fateful day.

Mabel were hiding a shelf of merchandises, spying on a boy who were holding a note that she`d written and placed on the shelf of postcards near the front door. "He`s looking at it! He`s looking at it!"

My sister is having a high illness of boy-crazy. She wanted to spend her summer chasing boys and maybe dating one she`s thinks she`ll like.

So as the boy held the paper, he read it off. "Uh, "do you like me?", "Yes", "Definitely", 'Absolutely'?"

"I rigged it!" Mabel cheered softly, before I questioned her.

"Umm…Mabel, I know you`re going through your whole "Boy Crazy" phase, but I think you`re kind of over doing it with the "crazy", part."

"What…?" Mabel sticks her tongue. "Come on, Dipper! This is our first summer away from home. It`s my big chance to have an epic summer romance. I think you need one too."

"Mabel, the whole point of being in love is that you`re going to waste all your life with someone while you`re dying in boredom," I deadpanned.

"Aw come on Bro, it`ll be fun! Besides remember, there were others who wanted to date you!" she grinned.

"And those were boys, Mabel; they thought I was girl, because of my hair," it`s true, though. I was asked out a lot because my hair makes me look like a girl. It`s long as my sister`s for some reason. You don`t usually get long hair in such a short time when you`re underage. I guess it was a genetic mutation or something. I don't like it, so I just stuff it under my hats. But since my sister likes it, I grew to like it as much as I like how my sister braids it. Still, I just stuff it to make me look like the boy I am.

"Whatever, besides you will find love soon enough~" Mabel beamed.

"What Mabel! I don't go crazy for romance like you do!" I argued. Okay, I`m not very good around girls. It`s just because I`m a little too shy ever since I was five, and my parents understand that, so in other words, I`m very shy, like really shy.

"What? Ha, name one," she challenged, which will be an easy one to win for me.

"Okay like the last time you were batting your eyes at a boy trying to flirt with him, but then you joked around before pushing him fall onto a postcard stand. Then another boy who has a turtle in his hand while sitting on a bench, and you surprised him by popping your head off the bushes saying the comparison between you and him the likes for turtles. That was a bit creepy. But what`s even more creepier is that you hiding behind a set of colorful balloons to a teenage boy who wore a savings king costume as an employee who works in a mattress store, behind his back and pop out to take you with him which obviously freaked him out," I recalled all her past times chasing boys.

"Mock all you want, brother, but I`ve 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 to the other door as our great uncle walked out with arrow signs and a Pitt Cola while belching. He has brown eyes with cataracts, gray eyebrows, and gray hair. He also has wrinkly skin, a hearing aid, dentures and a slouched posture. He wore a black suit, with the jacket buttoned closed, a bow tie similar in color to his fez, and a white dress shirt. He also wears big, light brown shoes and the aforementioned fez and glasses. He frequently carries an eight ball cane with him and wears an unnecessary eye-patch over one of his eyes while working.

"Oh, why….?" Mabel was disgusted when she accidently gestured our gross uncle as the man of her dreams, while I chuckled at her mild foolishness.

"Alright, alright, look alive, people. I need someone to hang up these signs in the spooky part of the forest," he holds the arrow signs.

I and Mabel refused in unison. "Not it!"

"Also not it," Soos refused. Soos is a cool guy, and I like him as a friend.

"No one asked you, Soos," Stan deadpanned.

"I know, and I`m comfortable with that," Soos replied, before he took out a chocolate bar and started to eat it.

"Wendy, I need you to put up these signs!" he turned to the teenaged cashier, Wendy Corduroy. She has green eyes, a fair complexion, and some freckles. She has long copper-red hair past her hips and is usually seen wearing a tan and dark brown lumberjack hat; most likely because Manly Dan Corduroy, her father, is a lumberjack. Her standard outfit is a jade plaid shirt with a white tank top underneath, green earrings, blue jeans and muddy rain boots, with yellow and orange socks underneath. She also wears gray/blue earrings, and wears a name tag at work.

She`s lazy but when from the first time I met her, she was fun to be with.

"I would, but I can`t, ugh, reach it," Wendy grunted while she barely tries to reach the signs as she distractedly reading a magazine.

"I could fire all of you if I could. All right then, it`s make it….eenie," he pointed to Mabel, then Soos. "..Meenie…" then he points to Wendy. "…Mieney…" then he points to me at last. "…You…"

I was disappointed when he chooses me. "Aw, what…? Grunkle Stan, whenever I`m in those woods, I feel like I`m being watched."

"Ugh, not this again," he`d face-palms

I scowled at him before I explained. "I`m telling you, Grunkle Stan, there`s something strange going on in this town. Just today when I was outside, my mosquito bites spelled out, "Beware"." I held out my left arm to show him my bites.

He looked at it. "Kid, it said "Bewarb". Look kid, the whole "Monsters in the forest" thing is just local legend, trumped by guys like me to sell merchandises to our customers like that guy," he points his finger to a fat sweaty male tourist while looking at a Stan bobble head on a shelf. "So quit being paranoid...!" (A.N. hey, did you know that "Bewarb" means, to make a request in German?)

He held out the signs to me as I wheeled myself out of the shack with an annoyed sign escaping my mouth. So I went into the forest to put up the signs nailed to the trees, while I grumbled in irritation. "Ugh, stupid Grunkle Stan, nobody believes anything I say."

Just when I tried to nail another sign onto a pine tree with my hammer, the tree made a metallic sound which confuses me. Trees don't make metallic sounds, unless it was made by a man! I tapped the tree again with my hammer to make more metallic sounds. I then wiped away the thick dust away from the now rusted metal before I accidently discovered a secret opening. I opened the small door more to reveal an ancient book resting top of a broken control box.

I carefully grabbed the book, not wanting to damage it. It has the main color of burgundy and has various rips and tears on the cover due to age, it has two gold lines on its spine and all four of its corners are gold. In the middle of the book there is a gold hand with six fingers and the number 3 in the middle. On the back, it shows various alchemist symbols.

I looked around if no one there, except for Gompers the goat, who`s bleating before he run away. Then I opened the book at on first page to see who own this book, but the owner`s name was erased. I turned to another page to begin reading. "It`s hard to believe it`s been six years since I began studying the strange and wondrous secrets of Gravity falls, Oregon." Then I flipped through three pages. "Unfortunately, my suspicions have been confirmed, I`m being watched, I must hide this book before "He" finds it. Remember, in Gravity falls, there`s no one you can trust." No one you can trust, huh….

But before I continued to read on, Mabel came out of nowhere behind me, startling me. "Hello!"

"Mabel, I told you not to do that!" I scolded.

She ignored me. "What` cha reading? Some nerd thing, cause I do….!"

"Mabel—uh…uh…it`s nothing!" I stuttered nervously.

She mimicked me, "Uh…uh...it`s nothing!" then she laughed.

I blushes a little in embarrassment.

"Are you actually not going to show me?" she said, smiling.

I had no intention of lying to my sister, so I told her what I had found. "Uh…" my eyes turned to see the goat nibbling the journal. "…let`s go somewhere more private."

So I told her back at the mystery shack while she was braiding my hair.

"I`m telling you Mabel, it`s amazing! Grunkle Stan said that I was being paranoid but according to this book Gravity Falls has a secret dark side!" I flipped through the pages from the journal.

"Whoa! Shut up!" Mabel exclaimed.

"And get this, after a certain point the pages just stop, like the guy who was writing it mysterious disappeared," I could feel determination and a new sense of adventure coursing through my veins, giving me excitement; until the doorbell ringed.

"Who is that?" I asked.

"Well time to spill the beans," Mabel finished braiding before she pushes over an empty of beans with her finger. "Boop, beans. This girl has a date today!" She cheered as she pointed her thumbs at herself proudly.

"So let me get this straight? In the half-hour I was gone, you already found a boyfriend?" I looked at her confusedly, surprised that she already got a date.

"What can I say? I guess I`m just irresistible." Mabel flipped her sleeves.

The doorbell ringed again.

"Oh, coming!" she ran out to get the door.

I continued to read the journal more until Grunkle Stan came walking in.

"Whatcha reading there?" he asked, startling me as I hid the journal under my blanket and grabbed a random magazine.

"Oh I was just catching up on "Gold Chains for Old Men Magazine"?" I looked at it weirdly.

"That`s a good issue," then Mabel came to the room with a boy in a jacket who has his back turned.

"Hey family! Say hello to my new boyfriend!"

The pale boy greeted in a teenage way. "Sup!"

"Hey! How`s it hanging?" Stan and I greeted.

"We met at the cemetery. He is really deep," Mabel hugged his arm. ""Oh, little muscle there. What a surprise." She blushed.

"So what`s your name?" I asked him.

"Uh…normal…man!" his voice sounded rasped and hoarse.

"He means Norman," Mabel said.

I noticed there was something bleeding from his face. "Are you bleeding, Norman?" I pointed out.

His eyes looked around nervously, "It`s jam."

Mabel then gasped and pushed him in the arm in excitement. "I love jam! Look at this!"

"So you wanna go hold hands or…whatever?" "Norman" asked her.

"Oh," she grinned. "Oh my goodness, don't wait up!" she went upstairs to get ready for her date while Norman followed her but not before smacking into the wall twice. I could hear him staggering afterwards when I heard glass breaking.

After witnessing Mabel new "boyfriend", I grew suspicious of him. It`s not because he was dating my sister; no, it`s far from that. There was something wrong about him that I don't trust about, and I attend to find out—by looking through the journal.

I found myself in an empty room upstairs sitting near the window as I look through the journal.

"Ghost—nope, if he were a ghost, he should be passing through walls. Bat demon? Gnome, nope definitely not," I kept on turning the pages until I found a page with a skeleton figure wearing a black hoodie and decided to read. "Be known for their pale and bad attitudes, these creatures are often for…teenagers! Beware Gravity Falls nefarious ZOMBIE!"

My voice echoed with fear hinted in them.

"Okay, calm down. Now think logically here, what`s the chance of Norman ever being a—oh my gosh, what is he doing?" I suddenly looked out the window to see Mabel sitting on a picnic table while Norman was slowly walking in a creepy fashion toward her. "Oh no, Mabel—no, no, Mabel—watch out!"

Norman continued to walk towards Mabel as he raised his hands and…..simply placed a flower necklace around her neck? Mabel looked at him through her eyelashes, blushing from this kind of affection.

I relaxed a little, but I began questioning myself. "Is my sister really dating a zombie, or am I just going nuts?"

"It`s a dilemma to be sure," Soos suddenly appeared in the room randomly, screwing a light bulb in the ceiling lamp. He startled me since I didn't notice him. "Sorry, I couldn't help but hear you talking aloud in this empty room."

"Soos, you`ve seen Mabel`s boyfriend. He`s gotta be a zombie, right?" I asked.

"Hmm…how many brains did you see the guy eat?" he asked, making an absolute point there.

I looked down in defeat. "Zero..."

"Look, dude, I believe you. I`m always noticing weird stuff in this town—like the mailman, pretty sure that dude`s a werewolf. But you gotta have evidence otherwise people are gonna think you`re a major league cuckoo clock." He finished.

"As always Soos, you`re right," I complimented him.

"My wisdom is both a blessing and a curse," Soos said, and then Stan yelled for him. "Soos, the portable toilets are clogging again!"

He shifted his cap on his head professionally. "I am need elsewhere."

Then he walked out the room backwards into the shadows—dramatic but interesting….

"Soos is right, but Mabel could be in trouble! It`s time to get evidence," I was filled with determination as I went downstairs to get my camera.

After fifteen minutes later, I left the shack to follow Mabel and Norman around town on their date while videoing. I know that this is like stalking, but this is for my sister`s safety first. Everything Norman did was walking so awkward and zombie-like, but Mabel doesn't seem to notice. I followed them everywhere from the diner to the cemetery until I had seen enough, so I went back to the shack where I waited Mabel to come back home.

When she did, I went to her at our room.

"Mabel, we need to talk about Norman," I said.

"Isn`t he the best Check out this giant smooch mark he gave me!" she turned her cheek to reveal a giant pink mark on her face causing me to be startled.

"Ha, ha—gullible, it was just an accident with the leaf blower!" she laughed. "That was fun."

"No! Mabel, listen! I`m trying to tell that Norman is not what he seems!" I brought the book out from my vest.

She gasped. "You think he might be a vampire? That would be so awesome!"

"Guess again, sister. Sha-bam!" I accidentally held up the page about gnomes. Mabel was confused and slightly disturbed. (A.N. did you know the page about gnomes was a hint of the next scene?)

"Oh wait—uh, sorry," I turned to the page about the undead. "Sha-bam!" I exclaimed a less enthusiastically.

"A zombie…?" Mabel tilted her head. "That is not funny, Dipper."

"I`m not joking! It all adds up! The bleeding, the limping, the random crashing into everything—he never blinks! Have you noticed that?"

"Maybe he was blinking while you`re blinking," Mabel reasoned, but not enough to convince me.

"Mabel, remember what the book said about Gravity Falls? Trust no one!" I whispered if someone was hearing us.

"Well what about me, huh? Why can`t you trust me?" She joke it off while putting on gold star shaped earrings.

"Mabel, he`s gonna eat your brains!" I shook her shoulders.

"Dipper listen to me, Norman and I are going on a date at five o' clock. And I`m gonna be adorable, and he`s gonna be dreamy—"she started to wheel me away to exit our room.

"Wait, b-b-but, but," I stuttered.

"—and I`m not going to let you ruin it with one of your crazy conspiracies," she slammed the door in my face.

I sighed as I rest my chin on my palm. "What am I going to do?"

After Mabel went on with her stupid date, I was at the living room while watching over the video tape. I signed in boredom, thinking to myself.

"Soos was right; I don't have any real evidence. I guess I can be kind of paranoid sometimes and—"I stopped when I saw Norman`s arm fell off. "Wait-what!?" I set the tape in rewind and watch as Norman`s hand fell off and he glanced around before putting it back on.

"I was right!" I shouted before spinning out the room to outside. "Oh, my gosh—!"

I tried calling out for Stan, but he was too busy showing the tourists about a rock that look like a face while answering stupid questions from them.

Until I saw Wendy so I went to her and asked her desperately, "Wendy, I need to borrow the golf cart and save my sister from brain-eating zombie!?" she just stared at me before giving me a relaxed smile as she gave me the keys.

She said, "Try not to hit any pedestrians," she winked at me before walking away.

I grinned as I called for Soos.

Soos came, "Yeah dude?"

"I need to get in the cart, so could you help me?!"

"Sure thing dude," Soos lifted me up (including the wheelchair too) and placed me in an empty space that Soos specially put for me (in case I need the cart), while I fiddled with the key before inserting it into the keyhole and simply turning it causing the cart to come back to life. I smiled as I backed up the cart but stopped when Soos gave me a shovel and a baseball bat. "This is for the zombie, and the other is for just in case you see a piñata."

"Thanks and thanks…?" I took the shovel and the bat putting them in the back seat. I pressed on the gas and drove off.

"Better safe than sorry," Soos shouted after me.

I drove off as I head towards the forest. I don't know where I`m going honestly as well as where Mabel is—until I heard my sister`s scream from my left in the distance.

"Hold on, Mabel, I`m coming!" I shouted, determined as I made my way into the clearing where I found a group of gnomes tying my sister down on the ground with ropes.

The brunette gnomes named "Jeff" said, "The more you struggle, the more awkward this is gonna be for everyone! Just. Ha, okay. Get her arm there, Steve!"

"Let go of me!" Mabel cried, punching a gnome while kicking another in the stomach causing him to throw up a rainbow at a nearby tree. As for me, I was confused.

"What the heck is going on here?!" I exclaimed, and then a nearby gnome hissed at me.

"Dipper, Norman turned out to be a bunch of gnomes! And they`re total jerks!" Mabel yelled, before a gnome beside her puller her hair. "Hair, Hair!"

"Gnomes…? Huh, I was way off," I took the journal out of my vest and opened it. I turned to a page about gnomes and read aloud. "Gnomes, little men of the Gravity Falls forest; weaknesses are unknown."

When I lowered the book, I saw that the gnomes had managed to tie my sister on the ground.

"Aw, come one!" Mabel shouted.

"Hey, hey, let go of my sister!"

"Oh! Ha ha…Hey there! Um, you know, this is all really a big misunderstanding," He said "You see your friend's not in danger. She's just marrying all one thousands of us and becoming our gnome queen for all eternity! Isn't that right honey?"

I just looked at him like he was crazy.

"You guys are butt-faces! –Mmmphhh…!" She shouted before her mouth got covered by a gnome's hand. Katy growled.

"Give her back right now!" I threatened. "Or else..."

I lifted up the shovel menacingly.

"You think you can stop us boy!" Jeff said darkly, glaring at me. He scowled. "You have no idea what we're capable of. The gnomes are a powerful race. Do not trifle with the-"

I interrupted him by simply scooping him up with the shovel, throwing him aside. "Ahhh…!" He screamed comically.

I dived instantly into action as I slammed the shovel down onto the roped that held Mabel, freeing her. She ran to the Mystery Cart quickly, dodging gnomes.

"They're getting away with our queen!" Jeff shouted. "No, no, no!"

"Seatbelt…!" I said offhandedly to Mabel as I drove away. Mabel then looked more concerned about the gnomes we just left behind. "Hurry before they come after us!"

"I wouldn't worry about it. See their little legs?" I jokingly made a running motion with my index and middle finger. "The suckers are tiny." Then right after, a loud stomping noise echoed through the forest, causing birds and other animals to leave the area in frenzy. I stopped the cart and I could literally feel the vibrations coursing through my body. I slowly turned around.

"Oh come on!" Mabel mouth dropped open.

The gnome giant came and towered over us, casting a large shadow. Now I know how mice feels when it`s being targeted by a cat; fear.

"Hit the gas!" Mabel shouted. And just like that, I pressed hard on the gas to have the cart speeding forward. Mabel gripped onto the seat from the bumpy ride before looking behind us.

"It's getting closer!" She warned. I could hear the frightening heavy stomping of the giant moving towards our cart. The giant then threw three gnomes that crashed onto the cart. The first one landed on the roof trying to tear it apart. The second jumped onto me but I caught him and hit him several times on the wheel before I threw it outside. Until another gnome was attacking my face while scratching and pulling at it. I screamed, trying to tear it off.

"I'll save you Dipper!" I heard Mabel yell before she started punching the gnome off me until the gnome finally flew off my damaged face onto the ground outside.

"Thanks Mabel," I thanked Mabel, but my face was hurting when she was accidently punching me.

"Don't mention it," She said. There was a loud noise and as we looked back to see the gnome giant uprooting a tree, it threw the tree in front of us, blocking the pathway.

"Look out!" Mabel screamed. I could barely squeeze the cart through the space underneath the tree that I`d swerved so hard the cart crashed. We fell out of the cart; my deer form was revealed when I fell out of my wheelchair. We groaned in slight pain as we dragged ourselves out the damaged cart. The gnome monster stomped in front of us. We all stepped back, shivering in fear.

"Stay back, man!" Dipper shouted and threw the shovel at the gnome monster. The monster stopped it in mid-air and smashed it with its fist.

We all screamed and held on to each other.

"It's the end of the line kids!" Jeff shouted. "Mabel, marry us before we do something crazy!"

"There's got to be a way out of this!" I was trying to think of a solution.

"I got to do it," Mabel said.

"What!" I shouted.

"Mabel, don't do this! Are you crazy?" I looked at her like she was crazy.

"Trust me."

"What…!"

"Guys, just this once, trust me!" She insisted. I looked at her before sighing and backing away. I didn't want to do it, but when I looked at her eyes, I somehow have to trust her.

"All right, Jeff. I'll marry you," Mabel said.

"Hot dog! Help me down there, Jason! Thanks, Andy! All right, left foot there we go. Watch those fingers, Mike," Jeff said as he climbed down the giant to show her the ring. "Eh? Eh?"

Mabel allowed Jeff to put the ring on her finger. "Bada-bing—bada-bam, now let's get you back into the forest, honey!"

"You may now kiss the bride!" Mabel stopped him from leaving. Jeff looked surprised at first then his mouth curved up in a boyish smile.

"Oh! Well don't mind if I do!" He said, puckering his lips. Just before Mabel was about to kiss him, she stopped and took out a leaf blower from behind the bushes. She turned the leaf blower on.

"Hey, hey wait a minute! What's going on?" He tried to run away but the leaf blower sucked him in.

"That's for lying to me!" She said, increasing the sucking power. "That's for breaking my heart!"

"Ow, my face…!" He cried as his mouth and nose got sucked in.

"And this is for messing brother!" Mabel grinned over at me making me feel a warm sensation in my gut.

I grinned back at her as I went up beside her on opposite sides.

"Wanna do the honors?" She asked me and pointed the leaf blower at the gnome monster.

"On three…!" I said.

"One, two, and three..!" We counted down together then we blasted Jeff towards the gnome monster and he knocked them apart like a bowling ball.

"I'll get you back for this!" He shouted as he flew into the distance.

"Anyone else want some?" Mabel asked, blowing the gnomes away with the leaf blower. They all scampered away into the woods on all fours. One got stuck in trash and struggled. A goat came and picked it up in its mouth, carrying it away as the gnome screamed...

We walked back to the door of the Mystery Shack slowly, tired and bruised. The adrenaline rush from the whole adventure had died off, leaving them exhausted, thirsty and sleepy.

"Hey, Dipper…" Mabel called. I turned to her. "I um…I'm sorry for ignoring your advice. You were really just looking out for me."

"Hey! Don't be like that," I said to her. "You saved our backs back there!"

"I guess I'm just sad that my first boyfriend turned out to be a bunch of gnomes," She picked a leaf out of her hair and looked at it sadly before letting it fall out her hands.

"Look on the bright side. Maybe the next one will be a vampire!" I smiled softly.

"Oh, you're just saying that!" Mabel pushed me playfully.

"Awkward siblings hug…?" I asked sheepishly.

"Awkward sibling hug," She agreed and we both hugged.

"Pat, pat," They said comically before laughing.

"Oh Dipper, your hair! And oh, your legs…!" I looked over my hair to see that I lost my cap that twigs and leaves were sticking out, and then down to see that my legs were revealed.

"Oh gosh, I hope nobody saw any of this," I searched everywhere to see there`s any witnesses.

Mabel reassured, "It`s okay, no one here besides I just remembered that it should be closing time by time. Now come one, let`s go get your hair fixed right after I get your wheelchair."

When we went inside, I saw Stan counting his money behind the cash register happily.

"Yeesh, you three get hit by a bus or something? Ha!" He joked. Usually we would have smiled, jabbed him back or give some sign of recognition, but today was exhausting that we don't have enough energy so we started to walk tiredly to the other door.

"Uh hey…!" He stopped them, sheepishly rubbing the back of his head. "W-Wouldn't you know it? Um, I accidentally overstocked some inventory! So, how's about each of you take one item from the gift shop? On the house, y'know…?"

"Really…?" Mabel said, her eyes gleaming.

"What's the catch?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"The catch is that you should do it before I change my mind. Now take something," He tried to play off his act of sympathy.

Mabel and I walked around, looking for something that suited us. I choose a blue pine tree hat and stuffed it on my head.

"Hmm…" I said, looking into the mirror. "That ought to do the trick!"

"And I will have a…grappling hook! Yes!" Mabel shouted, holding up a grappling hook gun. Stan and I shared a look.

"Wouldn't you rather have, like, a doll, or something?" Stan asked.

"Grappling hook!" she shouted and used it to hang off one of the beams on the roof.

"Fair enough," Stan shrugged.

Night came and we were in our bedroom. I was writing on my journal while Mabel jumped on her bed.

'This journal told me there was no one in Gravity Falls I could trust. But when you battle a hundred gnomes side-by-side with someone, you realize that they've probably always got your back,' I wrote in the journal, glancing over at my sister while smiling.

Then I flipped to the page about the gnomes where it said 'Weaknesses: Unknown'. I crossed out the unknown and put "Leaf blowers"

"Hey, Mabel, could you get the light?" I asked.

"I'm on it!" Mabel grinned and aimed at the lamp, her tongue sticking out in concentration. But she knocked it out the window with the grappling hook.

"It worked!" She screamed as we laughed. "Ha, ha, grappling hook."

I thought I was going to have a boring summer, but today had changed my mind. If there`s gnomes, then there would be more creatures out there to be explored and studied. Who knows what other secrets are waiting to be unlocked?

Once everyone was asleep, Stan walked in front of a vending machine while holding a lantern. He entered a code and the secret passage way was revealed which he entered it before looking for other witnesses. Once he entered, the vending machine closed and flickered out.