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Chapter Thirteen: A Cabin in the Forest

The next night, Dipper looked at what had been accomplished that day. Mabel's crew had successfully carved ten bows and nearly 110 arrows that were in good shape. Marco's group had also managed to gather enough wood to last a while.

In fact, Dipper used some of the wood to create a small, controlled fire that would create a smoke signal in case a plane flew by.

Just before sunset, Dipper, Mabel, Miranda, Marco, Soos, Candy, Grenda, and three other volunteers met Wendy at the entrance of the forest.

Everyone but Wendy was armed with a bow and a few arrows.

Dipper looked around. "Okay, is everyone ready? Does everyone understand the plan?"

Mabel, Miranda, Soos, Grenda, Marco, Candy, and the three other volunteers nodded.

Dipper looked at Wendy. "Are you ready?" he asked.

Wendy took a deep breath. "As ready as I'll ever be." She entered the forest, walking on the vague path while Dipper and the others followed her while staying hidden among the trees.

After walking about 125 yards, Wendy saw Robbie and she walked up to him.

Dipper and the others, however, stayed ten yards back and remained hidden in the trees.

After a minute, Robbie and Wendy began to walk down the vague path, so Dipper and the others followed. After walking for about another 30 minutes, Robbie and Wendy walked into a circular clearing.

The clearing had a radius of about 50 feet. And right in the center sat a small, wooden cabin.

Dipper and the others walked up to the edge of the clearing to get a better look at the cabin. It was only one story tall and the side that faced them had a single door with two windows on either side of it.

"Oh my gosh!" Mabel said. "I can't believe it!"

"Me neither," Dipper agreed. "But now we have to confront Robbie." He, Mabel, Miranda, Candy, Marco, Soos, Grenda, and the three other volunteers stepped into the clearing.

Robbie scowled once he saw them. "Why are you here?"

Dipper, Marco, and Grenda drew their bows and advanced toward the cabin.

Robbie backed up against the door. "What is this? Are you guys taking over my cabin?"

Dipper, Marco, and Grenda stopped when they were three feet from Robbie.

"We are not here to take over the cabin," Dipper replied. "We just want to search the cabin."

Robbie glared at Wendy. "I can't believe you gave me up to him!"

Wendy shrugged as she went back to stand next to Mabel and Soos.

"Don't try anything funny!" Grenda yelled. "We have bows and arrows and are not afraid to use them!"

Dipper decided not to mention that he didn't think anyone in his little brigade knew how to properly use bows and arrows.

Robbie smiled slyly. "If you knew me better, then you'd know I'm a very humorous person!" He put his two pinkies in his mouth and whistled.

Suddenly, the front two windows of the cabin opened with Lee and Nate at the window on the right while Thompson and Tambry were at the one on the left. The four teenagers began to use slingshots to pelt pebbles at Dipper's brigade.

"We're under attack!" Grenda yelled. She fired an arrow at Robbie, but despite being six feet in front of him, she was off by ten feet.

Grenda grunted with anger. "Why is this so hard?" A pebble slammed into her arm. "OW!"

"TAKE COVER!" Dipper shouted. He, Grenda, Mabel, Marco, Wendy, Miranda, Soos, Candy, and the other three volunteers ran and hid behind a nearby fallen log.

Lee, Nate, Tambry and Thompson continued to use their slingshots to shoot their pebbles.

"What do we do?" Candy asked.

"We can't retreat; otherwise this trip would have been for nothing!" Dipper said. "We have to fight back!" He notched and arrow and fired it toward the cabin. However, he missed by a few feet.

Miranda put her head in her hands. "This is hopeless!"

"I beg to differ!" Marco stood up, notched two arrows, and fired them both.

Each arrow attached the shoulder part of Robbie's hoodie to the door, causing him to be pinned there.

"W-what in the world?" Robbie stuttered.

Marco notched another arrow and fired it through the open window of the cabin.

Suddenly, Nate screamed. "Oh no! I was hit!"

"There's blood!" Lee bellowed.

"We surrender!" Thompson yelled.

Miranda looked at Marco. "How did you do that?" she asked.

Marco winked at Miranda before responding: "I've been going to archery camp for the past six years."

As it turns out, Nate wasn't directly hit by the arrow. It had grazed his hand and drew blood. But nonetheless, Mabel sent the three volunteers back to the beach to get medical supplies from the yacht so she could treat Nate.

Robbie was visibly upset. He glared the whole time as he stood outside with Tambry, Lee, Nate, and Thompson while Dipper, Candy, and Miranda searched the cabin.

Marco, Wendy, Grenda, and Mabel were tasked with watching Robbie and his crew outside.

After searching the cabin for a few minutes, Candy and Dipper met in the kitchen.

"Hey, did you find anything?" Candy asked.

"In the bedrooms, I found sheets, clothes, and silverware," Dipper replied, "I wish we could take those items back to the beach, but as I told Robbie, we're only here to search. The only things we'll take are items that pose a threat to us, like a gun, or stuff that could help us find out where the heck we are. What about you?"

"I found some food that hasn't expired and some newspapers containing the top stories of last month," Candy said. "You know what that means, right?"

Dipper scratched his head. "Maybe…"

Candy sighed. "This means that at some point recently, someone was on the island and used this cabin!"

"We have to find them!" Dipper said.

"That's a terrible idea!" Candy said. "Do you even know how big this island is?"

"No," Dipper admitted.

"Exactly! If we just search this island blindly for people that may or may not still be on the island, it could take months before we find anything useful!"

"Then will this help?" Miranda walked in holding a black, tattered diary.

"Where did you find that?" Dipper asked.

"Under the cushions in one of the couches in the living room." Miranda handed the diary to Dipper, who flipped through it.

"This is in another language," Dipper said.

Candy recognized the language. "It's in Latin! I used to take a private Latin class in fourth grade! I could translate the journal. But it may take a few days."

Dipper held out the diary. "You really think you could do that?"

Candy grabbed the diary, but did not fully take it. "Yes."

Dipper smiled. "You're awesome."

Miranda stood next to Dipper and smiled. "I think this deserves a celebration. What would you say to the idea of me sneaking a 2 liter Pitt Soda to the beach for a small party?"

Dipper let go of the diary and shrugged. "I know I originally said we're not here to take anything, but I guess as long as Robbie doesn't notice…sure. Why not?"

~Jameer14