Mabel's POV

It had been two days since Dipper's disappearance. Grunkle Stan had called a meeting; my job was to let people know. The police were searching, and some others knew the situation. Candy, Grenda, and I walked through downtown, hanging signs calling the meeting together. We each had a small suitcase full of posters giving the purpose of the meeting, the meeting place, and time, and date. The meeting was tomorrow at eight A.M. I held the hammer Stan gave to me, found a spot on a wooden building, and hammered in the poster. "Do you know where he might've gone?" Grenda asked. "No idea," I said. "Is anything else missing? He might've taken something with him, it could give us a clue," Candy said. I remembered earlier, I asked to use the cart, Wendy looked for it, but never found it. "Well, yes, the Mystery Cart's gone," I said. "He took a golf cart? So, he left in a hurry, then?" Candy asked. "I suppose, I just hope he-" I hadn't been paying attention, and ended up hitting my hand with the hammer. "Ow!" I held my hand, shaking it. "Mabel, I'll hammer in the posters from now on," Candy took my suitcase and hammer. "Thanks," I said. "Mabel, you should be careful hanging things up," Grenda pointed to the wooden wall, which, by mistake, had been partially bashed in, we ran, and hoped no one saw us.

The next few hours, we spent hanging up posters, talking about where Dipper might be, and what happened to him. We were outside until eight P.M. "Hey, Mabel, I think I'm going to head home," Grenda yawned. "Good idea, we'll need to save out energy for tomorrow," I said. "See you later," Grenda ran down the street, and Candy and I kept hanging up fliers for thirty more minutes until Candy left, so, I hung up one more flier, and headed back to the Mystery Shack. I walked in, and saw Wendy was still here, sitting on the couch, eating popcorn. She was watching Friday the 13th, not the remake. "Hey, bud, popcorn?" she asked, patting the spot on the couch next to her. "Shouldn't you be at home?" I asked. "Nah, I called my dad, I'm staying here so I can help out earlier tomorrow, c'mon, sit," she held out the popcorn bowl. Wendy and I watched the movie, well, I knitted through most of it, I needed to take my mind off Dipper for the moment, I needed to relax a bit, I kept telling myself we'd find Dipper, I just hoped it was soon.

At the end of the movie, I'd knitted three whole sweaters. One, white with a blue pine tree for Dipper, the second was white and had a pink pine tree for me, and the last was green with brown camo with a dark green pine tree, I wanted Dipper to have the first and third, I based the third on his hat he lost when the gnomes attacked us when we first came here. It was nine thirty, and I was getting tired. "Wendy, I'm going to bed," I yawned. "Me, too, I need to get up early," she said. I walked upstairs, and got in my bed. Wendy came in later with pillows and blankets, making a makeshift bed. I remembered when she did that when that psycho came to Gravity Falls. Within ten minutes, I'd fallen asleep.

I woke up at around seven fifteen, I got up, and put on my clothes, and I put on the pink pine tree sweater I made yesterday over a pink tank top. I brushed my teeth and walked downstairs, Stan was trying to get the microphone on the stage outside to work. Wendy was putting up chairs, and Soos was helping her. I spent forty five minutes helping them with whatever they needed. When everyone arrived, Grunkle Stan walked up to the stage, I followed. I looked at the people who had come to help. Toby Determined, Candy, Grenda, even the Gleefuls, and Robbie. There were more people who I'd seen around town, they all looked concerned. I smiled, if all these people were here to help, we would find Dipper. "Alright, as we all know, my great nephew, Dipper has gone missing, and we need help to find him," Stan began. "It's been two days, the last time he was seen, he was here, but the Mystery Cart is also gone. This leads me to believe he left in a hurry. We should look closer to here, in case he stopped for some reason, and expand the search outwards. Now, let's get searching!" He walked down from the stage and got into his car, and drove off, several others followed. "Where should we look?" Wendy asked. "Well, we're the only ones left, let's help look downtown," I suggested. Wendy and I walked down the road to town. We would start looking at the arcade.

We searched high and low for Dipper, but we never found him downtown. By the end of the third day, we had taken to searching the woods, and Robbie found something. The Mystery Cart was at the bottom of a hill, the seats were torn open, the engine was broken into pieces, most of the front was smashed, and the roof was torn open. I looked in, and pulled out one of the only salvageable items in the small vehicle, a white hat, a blue back, and a blue pine tree on the front.

Dipper's hat.

The top was torn, and as the cart was covered in black burns like it was burning, the hat had a large amount of black burns on the left side. I noticed this was the only item of Dipper's I could see, so, we resumed searching. An hour past before I found something familiar in a nearby cave. I looked closer. There, tattered and shredded, was Dipper's blue vest, and his book, 3. Before anyone saw the book, to preserve his secret, I put the book into my sweater, and showed them the vest. The evidence was not good, Dipper was gone, and we only found two articles of clothing, and one book. I found something else in that cave, blood. A small puddle of blood was on the floor of the cave where, if the vest was put in the exact position it was found, it appeared to have a large bite mark on the side on the vest. I was disturbed, even though the blood was not fresh. It had been there for at least three days now. After another few days of searching, we had to call off the search. I spent the next day crying. I would never see my brother again. I regretted everything I'd ever done badly to him. Yelling at him when he thought Norman was a zombie, teasing him about being smaller than me, I regretted everything, no matter how small of an issue. Eventually, Wendy walked into my room, walking in on me crying at the window.

"You okay?" she asked. "Leave me alone," I said monotone. I sobbed more into my sweater. "Mabel, you can't stay up here all day. You need to accept Dipper is…" I glared at her. "He's not what?" Wendy looked down, she looked sad. "If he's… around," I turned away from her and continued to cry. "Mabel, I can't imagine what you're going through," Wendy's voice sounded as if she was on the verge of tears. "But I do know he'd want you to let go. He wouldn't want you to be depressed your whole life," I looked up at her; tears were streaming down her face. I smiled, and laid my head on her shoulder, and she comforted me. I calmed down, and we went downstairs, and watched TV, the news. The anchor looked at the screen, he was talking about Dipper. "After Dipper Pines went missing last Tuesday, a search party was created two days later. After days of searching, Dipper Pines had been declared dead, the only evidence found were two items belonging to the child. A blue vest, and his hat," I felt like crying again, and headed upstairs, putting on a new sweater. I walked over to the door, but Wendy stopped me. "Where're you going?" Wendy asked. "It's eleven o' clock!" "I'm going back to that cave, if that's where we found the vest, maybe there was something else there we missed," "I'm coming with you," she said. "Let me run over and get my car," Wendy said. "Your car?" I asked. "Yeah, plus, I have to tell dad that I'm coming home tomorrow," she said. She walked out the door. I knew why Wendy had stayed for an extra day. Somebody needed to watch over me, Soos and Stan were too busy to watch me, so Wendy had stayed. When Wendy came back, I saw she was in a Jeep Commander. I climbed into the passenger seat, and strapped on my seatbelt. "Nice car," I said after a few minutes of riding in the car."Thanks, usually, I prefer a color like red, but I think white looks cool on this," she said.

I got out of the car as soon as we arrived. This was the last look in this cave, if we didn't find anything, I would give up. Things went smoothly for a while, however, we found nothing. Rain had started to pour. I looked up at the moon. I realized this was it, I hadn't found anything, and I began to cry. I searched four two hours, but nothing. Wendy walked over, and hugged me. I was so sad that I'd never see Dipper again. I could only hear my crying and the rain, when I realized that there was another sound. A disturbing one. The low, deep growl of some creature. I heard Wendy gasp, and I turned around. I was face-to-face with the most disturbing creature I had ever seen. It was nearly seven feet tall, it had blond fur, and lifeless white eyes. The creature grabbed me and pinned me to the ground. Wendy tried to punch it, but it punched her, and she toppled to the ground. The creature sank its teeth into my left arm, but it did not rip or tear my arm. It slowly removed its teeth, and ran off into the woods. Wendy had slowly gotten up, helping me to my feet. "Are you okay?" she asked. I didn't know how to answer that question, well, it wasn't that, but it was like I couldn't talk. I head pounded, and my arm ached. I tried to answer, when a sharp pain rang throughout my entire body. I found it hard to stand and breathe. "Mabel? Answer me," she said. I fell backwards, and clutched my arm, my eyes shut tight.

"Mabel!"

I blacked out.

A.N

Cliff hanger! Just so you know, she's not dead. This chapter is longer than what I usually write, and I skipped through most of time passing. I could've done better, but I don't think it came out bad. Anyways, this is the first official chapter, chapter one was a prologue. I hope you enjoyed! Please post a review, or maybe favorite? It's up to you.