Alright! So I have some good ideas for where this story is going, and I was really proud, because I looked at the paranormal activity map in my copy of Journal 3 and tried to pinpoint where each hot spot was approximately located. So the destinations are actual paranormal spots (At least according to Ford). But I know that I'm not going to have an endless supply of mysteries and monsters, sooooooooooooo . . . Comment and give me ideas! If there's a monster that you really want to see in a story, than say so. Now let's get this party started!

Dipper Pines crashes through a window, the glass shards opening numerous new wounds. He doesn't take time to catch his breath though, he is immediately back on his feet and running, sprinting as fast as he can to get away from the monstrosity following him. He trips, as all people in dramatic chase scenes do, on empty air, and falls hard onto the wooden floor of the nightmarish house that he is attempting to escape. He tries to rise, but shouts in pain, and collapses back onto the floor. He looks at his ankle and feels a wave of nausea hit him. It is twisted at an unnatural angle. Broken. He can hear his pursuer coming closer, its feet pounding on the floor, its rank odor announcing its presence. He tries desperately to crawl away, but to no avail. He can sense it now, standing over him. He closes his eyes and tries to shut out the terror. Dipper can feel cold air freeze the room, and turns around to face a swirling ball of darkness, seeming to absorb all the light in the room. It speaks one word, in a surprisingly light tone.

"Dipper."

"Go away!" Dipper pushes his hands into the air, as if he can make the monster disappear.

"Dip-Dip!"

"Please!"

"Dipping sauce!" The voice taunts him.

"I'm begging you!"

"Wake up!" The monster reaches out for him.

Dipper's eyes shoot open, his body drenched in sweat from his nightmare.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Mabel's face hangs over his, her smile unnaturally wide. "Mabel, what are you doing?"

"Come on Dipper, you know what day it is!" Mabel says happily, her smile growing even more impossibly wide.

"Is it mom or dad's birthday?" Dipper asks, now calming down after realizing that his nightmare was not real.

"No silly, I have no idea when their birthdays are! Today is the first day of our road trip!" Mabel shouts.

Dipper's eyes grow wide. "That's today?"

"Yeah!" Mabel begins to bounce up and down on the bed. "And Grunkle Stan and Grunkle Ford are picking us up in 30 minutes! I hope you're packed!"

Dipper gets out of bed to reveal that he slept with his outfit for the day on. "I was joking Mabel. Of course I know today is road trip day. I've been waiting for this for months!"

"Then I assume you're already packed?" Mabel asks.

"I've been packed for weeks." Both Mabel and Dipper's attention are pulled away from their conversation to the sound of an engine in the driveway. Mabel runs up to the window and looks out. "They're here Dipper!"

"They're a little early." Dipper says.

"But we're both ready, right?"

Dipper smiles. "Oh yeah."

Later, after goodbyes are said and hugs are exchanged, Dipper and Mabel walk into the driveway and are greeted by the same RV that they took on their ill-fated journey through the tourist traps of Oregon. Both of their grunkles walk behind them.

"You see?" Ford says smugly. "With as many PhDs as I have, even your school was happy to let you take an educational trip.

"Not that there will be much education going on!" Grunkle Stan laughs.

"No Stanley. I promised Dipper and Mabel's parents that I would give them education on this road trip, and I will!" Ford says firmly.

Both Dipper and Mabel's faces fall.

"But I assure you, we are still going to some amazing and wondrous places!" Ford says quickly. "I have planned this road trip through the heart of numerous weirdness hotspots!"

"Yes!" Dipper grins happily. "More paranormal investigations!"

"Yeah, yeah." Stan says. "Now let's get this road trip started!"

He takes the twins' bags and throws them into the RV. Inside, a familiar face grabs them and stows them away.

"Sup dudes."

"Wendy!" both twins shout.

"Yeah, I got out of school same as you, for an educational road trip." She make quotation marks with her fingers at educational. "Soos is here too. He got Old Man McGucket to run the Shack while he's gone.

"Whoooooohoooooooo! This here is the best fake creature I ever did see! Oh wait, did I say fake?" Old Man McGucket slaps his thigh. "Oops. Well here's a real attraction!" He whistles and a pterodactyl flies in and lands on top of the Shack, causing the tourists to run screaming. "Yup, that's gonna' cause some damage. Good thing I'm rich now!" McGucket laughs, and spits into a gold spittoon.

"You sure that's a good idea?" Dipper asks.

"Dipper!" Mabel scolds him. "He's a genius! What can he possibly do wrong?"

"I don't know, destroy the Shack?"

Soos leans his head in behind Wendy's. "I regret nothing!"

"Fine, fine."

"Alright, you kids ready?" Stan asks from behind them.

"Yeah!"

"Then let's go."

Both twins step into the RV, ready for adventure.