I apologize for how late this chapter kind of is, but it was my birthday and I had to get ready for a trip I'm leaving on today so yeah... I was super busy. But oh well, I have this chapter done and ready to be read. I'll admit, I didn't quite enjoy it and ended up rewriting several scenes. I still am not quite satisfied with it, but I guess I'll just leave that up to you guys to decide.

supersexyghotmew95: Thanks a lot for your support!

Lisa: I try I guess. She's the one who should get all the credit though.

RockSunner: It does actually. But as the story progresses, you start to see how much he starts to place the twins safety as his top priority over the supernatural.


~The Search for the Gobblewonker~

"Mabel! Look! I made a smiley face on my pancake!"

Mabel groggily looked up from her plate of half-eaten pancakes at Dipper's own plate. Indeed on the stack of pancakes was a smiley face made from berries and syrup. Dipper always tried to make breakfast fun and creative. She sighed and turned back to her own plate of pancakes placing a spoonful of it inside her mouth. She was just so sore and tired from the incident with the Shadow Wraith. All night, she had nightmares involving either her or Dipper dying in a gruesome death. She had tried many things to sleep comfortably, but nothing she tried helped. Even the sleeping pills Stan had given her didn't help much with the nightmares.

"Sis, don't be such a sour pus. Look!" Dipper picked up a magazine from under the table and flipped through the wrinkled pages. After finding the page he was searching for, he gave the magazine to Mabel. "I found this on that dinosaur skull in the living room today. I thought it might cheer you up since you know after what happened."

Mabel took the magazine from Dipper and placed it on the table. She began to read the page he had flipped to.

"Monster Contest... $1000 prize for best photo of a monster." Mabel looked up at Dipper from the magazine now on to him. He never showed her these kind of things unless there was a good reason. "Okay Dipper, what are you on to?"

Dipper dramatically placed his hand on his chest as if he was just shot. "Aww sis, you wound me. I only want to be a good brother and cheer you up."

"And?" Questioned Mabel raising one of her eyebrows.

Dipper tapped his fingers innocently and looked down. "And maybe get a human-sized hamster ball with the prize money." He took the magazine from Mabel and flipped it to the next page where an advertisement for a human sized hamster ball was on displayed in bright colors. "I only want to use half of the prize money to get it. Oh please Mabel can we?!"

Mabel stared at the advertisement for a good few seconds before looking up at Dipper with a 'really' look. She sighed and looked away. Of all the things Dipper wanted, this was it? "Fine Dipper, we'll enter the contest. And if we do win, you can use half of the money for..." She looked back at the advertisement. "For that."

The Dipper smiled and leaped off his seat at Mabel enveloping her in a hug. "Oh thank you Mabster! Now let's go catch us a monster on camera!" Dipper stopped hugging Mabel and turned running out of the kitchen.

Mabel rolled her yes as she smiled and plopped another spoonful of pancakes into her mouth. As she was finishing eating her plate of pancakes, Ford walked into the room holding an odd large tooth. He placed it on the table as he took out a notepad and began taking notes. The most notable things about the tooth was the spots of red at the end of it and the large scratches covering it. It looked like it was forced out of whatever it belonged to.

"Great Uncle Ford..." Mabel said as she stared at the tooth mesmerized. "Where did you get this?"

Ford looked up from his notepad and sighed. "I found it by Lake Gravity Falls on the shores."

"What does it belong to?" Mabel asked.

Ford placed his hand on the tooth tracing the large scratches with his fingers. "Judging by it's size and appearance, I'll say it belongs to a Gobblewonker."

"A Gobblewonker?"

Ford nodded. "It's a creature that resides in Lake Gravity Falls. It is odd though that it's tooth was on the shore. The Gobblewonker normally doesn't try to make an appearance during the winter."

Mabel carefully thought over this when she realized something. "Wait, does that mean the Gobblewonker should be near the lake if it's tooth was on the shore?"

Ford nodded again as he went back to his notes. "Yes, it should be. But not for long. It can't survive too long out of the waters."

Mabel glanced down at the tooth as she innocently looked back up at Ford. "So if someone wanted to see this creature, could they?"

After hearing what Mabel said, Ford immediately placed the notepad down on the table and walked to Mabel with a stern impression. "No Mabel. The Gobblewonker is too dangerous. It gets aggressively territorial."

"But-" Mabel started to say, but Ford cut her off. "I said no. Yesterday you and Dipper were attacked by the Shadow Wraith. When I found out you two almost died, it made me realize that I can't have you two looking for trouble. It's just too dangerous here for you and your brother to casually walk around here as if it was another day at an amusement park. I just don't want you two to get hurt again..."

Ford looked down as if he was in pain at that thought and sighed. "I'm sorry... Just don't go anywhere near that lake." He turned and walked out of the kitchen leaving the tooth and the notepad behind. Mabel watched him as he walked out and glanced back at the tooth sitting by the notepad. She knew she should listen to Ford, but the idea of seeing the Gobblewonker was too big to pass. After some thought, she decided what she was going to do.


"So why are we at Lake Gravity Falls Mabel? I thought we were going to take a picture of a monster." Stated Dipper as he held a bag of cameras over his shoulder that he had packed beforehand in his luggage. Before they came, Mabel opposed the idea of him bringing that much cameras, but now thinking about it, she was happy that he did. To catch a creature like the Gobblewonker on camera, they were definitely going to need more than one camera.

"We are. We're going to take a picture of a lake monster that lives here, the Gobblewonker." Mabel answered as she walked to the frozen water kneeling down and placing her hand on it. It was dark blue and freezing to her hand, yet very thick.

"The Gobblewonker? That doesn't sound like a monster to me."

"I know," Mabel said as she stood up brushing snow off of her coat and pants. "But it lives here. I just know it does." Mabel opened her coat pocket and took out a notepad out of it. She flipped the pages over and began reading them to herself as Dipper looked at it curiously.

"Uh, Mabel, where did you get that?"

"I borrowed it from Great Uncle Ford," Mabel answered as she continued reading the notes. After some time she closed the notepad and placed it back into her coat pocket. "It says in Uncle Ford's notes that the Gobblewonker should be by a frozen waterfall somewhere near here. If we can just get a picture of it, Dip, then we can win that $1000 prize."

"Okay, but I still think we should get a picture of a werewolf."

Mabel rolled her eyes at Dipper's statement and began to search for the frozen waterfall described in Ford's notes. Her eyes took note of all the rocky features surrounding the lake until her eyes fell on a small streak of blue in the distance in the middle of a rocky cliff not too far in the east. She smiled and looked back at Dipper. "Found it. Let's go find that Gobblewonker."

Mabel took off in a sprint not even giving Dipper a chance to tell her what he thought about this. All she could think about was finding the Gobblewonker. It boggled her at the thought of what it looked like and it would act towards her. Until yesterday, she never gave it one thought that there was so much to explore in Gravity Falls and the creatures that lurked there. It took the encounter with the Shadow Wraith for Mabel to realize how puzzling Gravity Falls was. And now knowing that, all see she wanted to do was to see all the creatures she could find here. Back at Piedmont, the only creature she could call interesting was a three legged frog in her backyard. There were no supernatural creatures there hunt unlike here at Gravity Falls.

Mabel continued running towards the frozen waterfall slipping occasionally along the icy shores filled with snow. Behind her, Dipper continued yelling for his sister to stop. He didn't think it was a good idea to go find the Gobblewonker. They had no idea what it looked like nor what it could do. For all they knew, it could be just as dangerous as the Shadow Wraith that attacked them.

Dipper shuddered at the thought. The Shadow Wraith was dangerous and it scared him that he almost died yesterday. In fact, he didn't really remember too much because of that. Everything else after he got bit was too foggy, but he did remember saving his sister from being lunch. How could he forget about that?

After slipping and sliding for a good few minutes through the icy snow, Dipper finally caught up to his sister when she stopped without any warning. He collided into her sending both him and her to the snow with Dipper falling on top of her. Mabel in response pushed Dipper off of her standing back up looking straight at the lake. Dipper sat brushing the white powdery stuff off his shorts.

"What's wrong Mabel?" He asked.

Mabel placed a finger on her lips signaling for him to be quiet. Dipper got the message and stood up behind Mabel. He focused his attention towards the lake as he whispered words towards his sister. "Did you see it?"

"No," Mabel whispered back. "But I heard something. It sounded like a low growl."

Dipper nodded and drifted his attention from the lake to the forest near them. There was a slight possibility that what Mabel heard could be something else other than the Shadow Wraith. If that was the case, Dipper had to be ready. He slowly picked up a small rock near him and aimed it at the forest ready to hit whatever moved.

Seconds slowly ticked by in pure agonizing silence before a bush not too far from Dipper began rustling. Not even thinking, Dipper threw the rock at the bush. What he didn't expect to hear though was a familiar male voice saying, "Ouch!"

After hearing the voice Mabel and Dipper both turned to each other and ran to the bush and spread the prickly branches apart. What they found inside the bush was Soo's rubbing his head. He looked up at the twins and smiled while wincing in pain. "Uh hey dudes."

"Soos?! What- what are you doing here?" Exclaimed Mabel in shock.

"Yeah? I mean I threw a rock at you!" Dipper pointed out as he threw his arms in the air in exasperation. "I could have killed you." Realizing what he just said, Dipper dropped his arms to his aides as he looked down guiltily. "Sorry Soos."

Soos blinked and laughed. "Dude, I've been hit plenty of times on the head by pipes and wrenches back at the Museum." Soos picked up the rock Dipper threw at him and gave it back to Dipper. "So don't be bummed out all about it."

Dipper nodded as he placed the rock Soos gave back to him on the ground. Next to him, Mabel crossed her arms as she looked at Soos suspiciously. "Soos, were you following us?"

Soos stood up and rubbed his arm with one hand as he nodded. "Well at first I wasn't, but I saw you two walking towards here so I thought that you dudes were looking for buried treasure or something. You were right?"

Dipper shook his head. "No man, we're looking for a monster that lives here!" Dipper took a camera out of his bag as he held it proudly at Soos. "We're going to take a picture of it for a contest."

"Dipper!" Mabel exclaimed in shock that he had just said that.

"Aww dudes can I come with you? I love monster hunts!"

Dipper looked up at Mabel with puppy eyes. "Please Mabel! It'll be a lot easier if Soos was with us. The more people we have, the more pictures we can take."

Mabel considered this as she looked back at Soos from Dipper. Dipper was right. If Soos was with them. They could take more even pictures of the monster when they saw it. The more pictures they had, the more of a chance they had of winning the contest. To top it off, she would have more evidence proving that the monster existed. That would definitely help her become famous later on if she choose hunting the supernatural as a career.

Mabel smiled as this thought and took a camera out of the bag Dipper was holding and gave it to Soos. "Okay Soos, you're in. Just don't tell anything about this to Great Uncle Ford. We're sort of not supposed to be here."

"Don't worry dudes. I promise I won't."

Mabel beamed with gratitude and delight. She hadn't known him that long, but Soos was proving himself to be a really cool guy. After all, he found them knocked out after the Shadow Wraith attacked them. He helped bring them back to the Mystery Museum without even asking for something in return. Because of that, Mabel was finding it easier to warm up to him.

"Let's go then." Mabel said as she returned to walking. Behind her, she could hear Dipper talking with Soos. She wanted to tell them to be quiet, but decided against it. She wanted to hear what they were talking about. And as far as she could heard, part of their conversation revolved around their monster hunt.

Once the three made it to the frozen waterfall, Mabel immediately took a camera out of her coat pocket. "Okay, the Gobblewonker should be somewhere near here, so be ready."

"And what if it isn't?" Asked Dipper. "Because if it isn't, I say let's look for a werewolf!"

Mabel shot a look at Dipper. She couldn't believe that he had just said that. "What do you even know about werewolves?" She asked while looking back at the lake.

Dipper crossed his arms with a smug smile. "I know that they're super cool! They like doing cool stuff just like me! Like howling to the moon."

"You don't howl to the moon." Mabel pointed out looking back at Dipper now a bit annoyed.

"Yes I do. You just don't see me when I do."

Mabel groaned and was about to tell Dipper that she never once heard him howl before, when a unnerving sound could be heard. She widen her eyes as well as Soos and Dipper at the sound.

"Uh dudes, please don't tell I'm the only who heard that." Soos asked as he gripped his camera tightly to his chest.

Both Mabel and Dipper slowly shook their heads as their eyes were glued to the lake. It was a lake monster, so the smartest thing to do was look at the lake. What they didn't know was that the Gobblewonker didn't have stay just n the lake.

Soos was the first one to notice something was breathing on his back. When he did, he looked at the twins trying his best to stay calm. "Dudes, I think there's something behind us."

"It's probably a deer Soos. Just look for the Gobblewonker," Mabel said not really trying to pay attention to Soos. All her attention was directed towards the lake.

Soos gulped and decided to listen to Mabel. He turned back at the frozen crystal blue lake and placed the camera at his eye level. Seconds later, he could feel a gust of cold air on his back yet again. Soos began to shake knowing what he had to do. He slowly turned fearing for the worst and came face to face with dark blue green lake monster with glowing yellow eyes staring at him. Soos yelped both in fear and shock and dropped the camera. He found he couldn't tear his gaze away from the large lake monster in front of him.

Hearing Soo's cry of alarm, Dipper turned at him curious why he yelped. "Hey Soos, what got you-" Dipper turned at what Soos was looking at and widened his eyes in shock. He too dropped his camera letting it fall to snowy ground. "Mabel..." He whispered trying to get her attention.

"What Dipper?" She asked in an irritated tone. "Can't you see I'm trying to look for the Gobblewonker."

"Yeah... Um... About that... I think we found it..."

Mabel looked at Dipper confused at what he said and turned widening her eyes in shock. The Gobblewonker looked like a dinosaur like animal with a long neck that towered over them. She hadn't expected it to be as twice as tall as a regular sized truck, but then again, the tooth Stan brought in should have given her some clue about the Gobblewonker's size.

Remembering what she came for, Mabel hesitantly held up the camera to her eye level. Just as she was about to the click the button to snap the shot of the lake monster, it made a deafening roar and swooped it's head down at Mabel leaving her no time to react. It was Soos who came to the rescue pushing her and him out of the way just in time as the Gobblewonker's mouth slammed onto the spot where Mabel was standing.

"Soos!" Mabel said as she looked at him grateful for he did. Soos smiled at Mabel and glanced back at the Gobblewonker who was now rising it's face from the ground staring straight at him and Mabel. Seeing how much danger they were in, Soos picked up Mabel placing her on his shoulder and picked up Dipper placing him under his armpit. Dipper on all of the choas, dropped the bag of cameras.

"Hey Soos! What are you doing?!" Mabel questioned obviously resentful at what he was doing.

"Getting us out of here dudes!" Soos replied as he began to make a run for it. Just as he was about to enter the forest, a long blue green tail whacked Soos hard on his stomach sending him and both of the twins flying towards the frozen lake. The three landed hard on the lake and slid towards the middle eventually stopping.

As soon as she recovered, Mabel hastily got off of Soos and looked back at the Gobblewonker. It was already on the lake sliding fast at an alarming rate towards them. Mabel quickly turned back at Soos and Dipper who were both still on the ground and began trying to help them up. "Guys, we have to get moving!"

Both Dipper and Soos sat up with Mabel's help and looked back at the lake monster. As soon as they saw it coming towards them, Dipper stood up quickly and began trying to run. What he ended up doing instead was slipping and sliding. After a few more attempts, he gave up sitting up on his knees looking at Mabel. "Now what are we going to do sis?"

Mabel bit her bottom lip at Dipper's question. They were sitting ducks here in the middle of a slippery frozen lake waiting for their lives to end. One wrong move and they could either die by drowning or getting eaten.

Soos, seeing how worried Mabel looked, straighten his furry brown hat and stood up. He knew what he had to do. Once again, he picked up Mabel and Dipper placing them under his arms.

"Soos?" Mabel asked worriedly.

"Don't worry dude. I got this," Soos said as he winked at Mabel. He took a deep breath and placed one foot in front of and the next one after that. After a series of short baby steps, he began scootering slowly at first but eventually speeding up little by little. Both Dipper and Mabel stared at each other in astonishment.

"Soos, you know how to ice skate, but without skates?" Dipper asked excitedly.

"To be honest dude, no." Soos replied as he almost lost his balance. Behind him, the Gobblewonker roared and extended it's neck at Soos trying to bite him. Each time Soos heard a snap close behind home, he picked up his speed.

Knowing that this couldn't go on forever, Mabel took out the one thing that could help them: the journal. She opened it and began looking at every page for anything that could help them out of the predicament they were in. When she did finally find something, she closed the book shut and pointed at the frozen waterfall. "Soos, stop in front of that waterfall."

"Uh.. I don't know about this dude." Soos said hesitant with Mabel's idea.

"Yeah, Mabel, are you sure about this?" Asked Dipper.

Mabel tightened her grip on the journal in her hands. She wasn't exactly too sure if what she wanted to do might work, but she knew that if Soos and Dipper knew how she felt, the plan would fail. That was why she decided to tell both Soos and Dipper, "Just trust me guys!"

Soos nodded and glided towards the waterfall. As soon as he was close enough, he skidded to a stop barely hitting the frozen waterfall by an inch. The three turned back at the Gobblewonker who was not too far away from crashing into them. Mabel bit her bottom lip now feeling the adrenalin kicking in. She couldn't make any mistakes.

"Get ready to move Soos." Mabel called out as she watched the Gobblewonker inched closer.

"M-Mabel!" Dipper said with hesitation noticeable in his voice.

"Not yet..." Mabel muttered.

The Gobblewonker continued sliding at them. Just as it was a few feet away from them, Mabel looked at Soos and called out for him to move. "Now Soos!"

Soos nodded and glided quickly to the right. As soon as he was a few feet feet away from the waterfall, he turned just in time for the Gobblewonker to crash into the frozen waterfall causing it to crack into dozen large pieces with a large cloud of mist spreading into the air. Once the most cleared, Soos and the twins could see the Gobblewonker buried in large pieces of ice immobilizing it.

Mabel smiled in delight and hopped off Soos onto the frozen lake. After a few moments of trying to maintain her balance, she slid over towards the Gobblewonker and took her camera out. She held her over her eye and snapped a picture of the still lake monster. She laughed in triumph and moved her camera away from her face turning at Soos and Dippee. "I can't believe it..." She whispered. "We... We caught the Gobblewonker!"

Just as she said that, she heard a sound one would hear at a mechanical workshop. She turned to see sparks flying out of the lake monster's joints. She widened her eyes and slid towards the Gobblewonker placing her hand on a flipper. She hit it with her fist hoping that what the Gobblewonker really was wasn't true. When she heard the sound of metal being hit, she fell on her knees and loosened her grip on her camera letting it drop from her hands. "No way..." She whispered.

The whole big chase for the lake monster was for nothing. It was just a faux. A machine someone created to look like a lake monster. For all she knew, the lake monster probably didn't even exist.

As Mabel stared at the Gobblewonker in disbelief, she didn't notice a hand gently grabbing onto her shoulder. She looked up to see Dipper giving her a goofy smile. "Cheer up Mabel. We had fun right?"

Mabel blinked and looked back at the camera. "She scowled at it and picked it up throwing it at the snowy shores near them. She stood up and took a deep breath and slid towards Soos. "Let's go home..." She muttered with a hint of sadness in her voice.

Dipper sadly looked back at the Gobblewonker and turned away gliding towards Soos. Soos picked up both of the twins and glided away from the Gobblewonker towards the shore. Unknownst to the three the Gobblewonker was still on. One of it's yellow eyes was staring at their backs. In the center of the glowing yellow eye was a small camera watching them and taking pictures of what they looked like. Once it has enough pictures, it shut down but not before sending its pictures to the man who created it.


A man stood in front of a desk building another one of his contraptions. Just as he was about to put one of the finishing touches to his machine, a monitor beside him lit to life. He turned to see it bringing up pictures from the lake monster machine he had built to keep watch for any suspicious activity. When he saw the two kids that looked too much like each other, he dropped his screw driver in shock and took a step back. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. There were twins, a boy and a girl, that looked too much like the twins he knew. He scowled at the pictures both in disgust and anger and turned away from them. He walked to his computer and turned it on watching it as a figure was brought to life bowing at him. "Giffany..." The man said angrily with hate noticeable in his voice, "bring up all the data you have on the Pines family..."


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