Wolf's Bane

A Gravity Falls Fanfiction by: ScribbleCat13

Chapter 1

Dipper Pines walked through the forest of Gravity Falls, Oregon with a flashlight in his hand, looking for something. Apparently, there had been reports of cars with huge claw marks gouged into them and pet cats and dogs going missing after being let out of the house. So, naturally, after hearing about it on the news and having the reporters brush it off as just a rogue mountain lion or even a bear, Dipper decided to investigate. He had consulted the journal to find anything that could relate to what was happening, coming to a conclusion that it was really a werewolf that had done those attacks. Yet, after searching for hours for any sign that could have signified a werewolf living in the woods, he had still come up with nothing. He was originally planning to take his twin sister, Mabel, with him; but she was having Candy and Grenda stay over for a sleepover. His next choice was Wendy, but she said she was going to party with her crazy friends. And finally, he thought he could've asked Soos for help, but then he remembered that it was a Sunday and that the Mystery Shack wasn't open then, so Soos would've been at home. So here he was, out in the cold forest in the dead of night with nobody to accompany him and no evidence to support his theory.

"Great," he said to himself. "Just great. I've been out here for hours and still have no clue as to if the attacks were really caused by a werewolf or not. Maybe the news reporters were right. Maybe it was just a mountain lion."

But he couldn't shake the feeling that his idea was correct. He had planned everything out. He even made sure that the night he searched was on a full moon. But all he came up with was tired eyes and aching legs.

'Could this night get ANY worse?!' He thought to himself. He jinxed it. As soon as he completed his thought, the flashlight he was using to see went out. He stared down at it, his eye twitching slightly in frustration.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHGGGGGGG!" He yelled.

He began repeatedly pounding his head into a nearby tree, trying get rid of his anger. He finally calmed down and told himself that he was just going to try and find his way back to the shack. Disappointed, tired, and now with a headache, Dipper began trudging his feet along the grass, trying to find his way back through the blackness. He was so tired he felt like he could collapse right then and there, if it wasn't for a cold, eerie noise piercing through the night that made his heart stop beating. The noise sounded like a combination of a wolf howl and a feminine scream.

Only one word hit his mind when he heard that sound…werewolf.

Without any thought, he began running as fast as he possibly could away from the howl. As he ran, he heard it again. Only this time it was followed by a dog-like snarl, and it was much, much closer. He started panicking even more, if possible, his legs carrying him as fast as they could; which was actually very fast because of all the other monsters he and Mabel ran from. Unfortunately, it wasn't fast enough. The werewolf caught up with him in a matter of seconds. It was now directly behind him. Dipper felt long, sharp claws penetrate his shoulder. He screamed in agony as crimson blood started running down his chest and staining his shirt. He held his wound in pain as he fell to the ground as the massive creature leapt on top of him with such force, it not only opened his gash even more, but it knocked all of the breath out of him as he felt like he was being hit by a freight train; but not all of it.

With great effort, he turned his head to look at his attacker. His eyes met with a pair of piercing golden yellow ones, the pupils not even visible. The werewolf broke his eye contact and began lowering its head closer to his neck, its canine mouth opening as it did. It was going to bite him! But Dipper was not about to let that happen. With all the strength he could muster, he rotated his body and kicked the werewolf straight in the rib cage. It yelped and jumped off of Dipper, just long enough for him to get up and start running again. Luckily for him, the monster didn't follow, but he didn't know that. It was all sheer adrenaline that was keeping him going now, one of his hands covering his horrific gouge as best as he could as more and more blood continued to spill out of it.

'This is it,' he thought to himself. 'This is how I'm going to die. I'm never going to see Mabel, Grunkle Stan, Soos, Wendy, or mom and dad ever again.'

But a few seconds after he finished that thought, he saw the beautiful light of the Mystery Shack. He needed help and needed it now, and with every last piece of energy he had, he yelled out. The last thing he saw was his sister and her friends followed by Grunkle Stan. He heard a muffled scream come from Mabel when she saw her brother lying on the ground, surrounded in a pool of his own blood.

After that, it all went black.

AN: SO, this is the first chapter to my first story...hope you liked it. Let me know if you want to see more of this story, cause I've already prepared the next two or three chapters. Anyways, I hope you all have a very nice day, and don't forget to smile! Bye bye! :)