Hello~ Sorry if it took me a little while to upload, I had finals and I survived! (Dentistry school is hard!) but anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter n.n
a very angry ravage: I actually was going to talk about the two of them in this chapter:p I also mentioned Wendy, I hope you enjoy the chapter. Thanks for reading!~
Fester Drummond: Actually, I haven't read that book, so I don't know why this story reminds you of that book. Is it good? Maybe I'll look for it later n.n Thanks for reading!~
Luna: ¡Hola! Me alegra que te guste la idea de la historia, y lamento si tardo un poco en actualizar:'P ¡Gracias por leer!~
Spider-Pig 1986: Hi there! Hahaha I know who Alex is:3 I'm glad you are looking forward to the story :D I really enjoyed writing "Well, I am a boy again", so, I decided to write this little story n.n Thanks for reading!~
Well, let's start!
Chapter 3: Pages
"Maggie!" Lily hugged with full force Soos' daughter, making said girl laugh. "I missed you!"
"I missed you too." The twenty year old woman gave the girl a bright smile. She looked a lot like her mother, but hair color was a bit darker.
"How's college?" Alex asked while he and Lizzie arrived to her side.
"It's okay." Maggie smiled at the three siblings. "It's a lot of work, but things have been going pretty well."
"You'll be here all summer?" Lizzie asked while hugging her.
"Of course!" Maggie returned the hug the girl was giving her. "I have to help my parents after all."
Soos was now managing the Mystery Shack along with Melody. However, they didn't live in the shack. Stan and Soos had a good agreement, the oldest man would be still be the owner of the shack, however, Soos would be Mr. Mystery.
That didn't mean Soos wasn't allowed to visit Stan and Ford. After Maggie was born, the Shack became a second home to her, besides, Stan was the girl's godfather, and he kind of spoiled her all through all of her childhood.
"Do you know if our aunt Wendy will come this summer?" Lizzie asked, looking nervously at her hands.
"I think she will spent her summer in Nevada with her kids." Maggie gave the girl an apologetic look. "Sorry, you'll have to wait till Christmas to see Danny."
"Huh?" the girl blushed, earning amusement looks from her siblings. "I d-don't want to see Dan. I asked because of… Lucy, yeah."
"Lizzie." Lily put a hand over her sister's shoulder. "Sorry but, even if Lucy is a great friend of ours, we all know you want to see Danny."
"That's not true!"
"Girl, you kind of have a box full of photos of him."
"Alex, you are not helping!" Lizzie got out of the room with her siblings annoying her behind her, making Maggie laugh.
"Lizzie, where do you think you are going?"
Lizzie turned around to see her father, her attempt to go out of the Shack was ruined.
"Pff, you know." The girl rested importance to the subject with her hand. "I was going to… feed the goats."
Dipper raised an eyebrow at this. "You know, that would be believable if you were Lily, but I know that you don't really love goats."
"Well, some things change." The girl faked a smile, but her father only rolled his eyes at her.
"Sweetie, instead of trying to go to the forest without my permition, why don't you go help to organize things in the shack? Your uncles need to throw away some stuff." Dipper smiled at the girls frown. "I promise you, I'll let you go to the forest tomorrow."
The girl sighed "Fine."
The man smiled before ruffling her hair. "That's my girl."
"Ugh, this closet is full of useless stuff." The girl mumbled to herself. "There are old incomplete board games, useless papers… pug trafficking?"
The girl sighed; her siblings were helping to clean the Mystery Shack and she tried to go to the forest without no one noticing but…
"Dad is always watching us." The girl thought with frustration. "I don't get it, when he was young he always went to the forest by himself!"
The girl was about to tossed out some organized papers when something in one of the pages caught her eye.
"Gnomes?" the girl looked at the page. It looked like it was a copy of a bunch of notes about the creatures that tried to kidnap Lizzie's cousin. Now full of curiosity, the six fingered girl looked at the other pages she found.
And she decided that they were not trash.
"Alex!" the blond boy turned around in the porch to see his little nerd sister running at him. Lizzie had a bright smile and she didn't seem to care that her glasses were not properly placed on her face. "I found something amazing! Where's Lily?"
"She is helping mom and dad with dinner." The boy answered, gently placing correctly the girl's glasses. "What did you found?"
The girl showed the boy the bunch of pages that were on the closet. "These are notes about the creatures and anomalies that exist in Gravity Falls!"
Alex took one of the pages and read it. "Huh, interesting." The boy grinned at the girl. "With these, our excursions to the forest will be great!"
"I know! Tomorrow I'll go to town to buy some folders and organize these. There are actually more, but I kind of couldn't carry all of them here without them falling."
"That's okay, I finished here anyway, let's go check them!"
The two siblings ran to the attic. The pages were carefully placed in Lizzie and Lily's bed. The girl sat and hand her brother a bunch of papers while she took some others.
"Look! This page talks about zombies!" the girl grinned at the document she had in her hands. "I can't believe it! All this time all the information about Gravity Falls' weirdness was in the shack!"
"It's amazing." The boy agreed, looking at a page about ghosts "Whoever wrote these, is a genius."
The door of the attic opened and Lily entered.
"Guys, dinner is ready…" the girl froze at the sight of her bed. "Whoa, what is all that?"
"These pages have information about all the weird things of Gravity Falls." The girl with glasses answered, still looking at the page on her hands. "Read them! They are great!"
Curious, the girl with straight brown hair took one of the pages. "Eyebats?" the girl sat at her sister's side. "Hey, this looks good!" Lily, now smiling, took another page, and raised an eyebrow at the content. "Guys… looks, this page talks about Bill."
Both siblings looked at the girl at this.
"The guy who tried to make a weird apocalypse?" Lizzie asked frowning, while Alex took the page off his sister's hands.
"Yeah, but, I thought he looked different…"
"He is a nacho." Alex frowned at the page. "This guy is a triangle, he looks like a damn dorito, how pathetic." He commented before giving the text to Lizzie.
"Well, I don't think he is that pathetic" Lizzie took the page her brother handed her. "I mean, he did make a pretty good job with his apocalypse."
"Grunkle Ford called it Weirdmageddon " Alex said, feeling like he needed to remind the girl that. He didn't know why, but he always had been curious about Weirdmageddon. He didn't ask much to his dad or uncles about it, he didn't want to bring them bad memories. "And, I don't know, I just can't take this triangle guy seriously." The boy commented, looking at the drawing with an odd feeling in his chest.
"A-X-O-L-O-T-L
MY TIME HAS COME TO BURN
I INVOKE THE ANCIENT POWER THAT I MAY RETURN, IN THIS UNIVERSE"
Alex blinked a couple of times after that random thought.
"What was that?"
Dinner was peaceful. The girl had helped her parents cook some hamburgers and they tasted delicious.
"It's been a while since we eat burgers." Lizzie smiled to her sister. "These are delicious!" Lily laugh and made a small reverence to her sister.
"You're welcome." She said, before taking a bite of her hamburger.
"Nothing like a good dinner before going to the forest tomorrow." Lizzie smiled while saying this. "This will be so much fun!"
"Why is that?" Dipper raised an eyebrow at his daughter's comment. "It's not different than other excursions."
"You are wrong about that." Lily smiled brightly at her father. "Lizzie found these weird pages with info of Gravity Falls' weird things."
Ford and Dipper frowned at this while Stan froze. "Really?" asked the six fingered man.
"Yeah! There's info about zombies, ghosts, eyebats, gnomes…" Lizzie was dreamily thinking about her discovery without noticing Dipper's worried look.
"I thought you got rid of those copies." Ford frowned at his brother.
"I forgot about them." Stan responded quickly "I think I left them in the closet with a bunch of garbage."
"Garbage?" Lizzie didn't like that comment. "It's not garbage, it's amazing info!"
"Yeah, we are aware that the contents of those pages are great sweetie." Dipper sighed while saying this. "But I don't want you to go to excursions trying to find some of those creatures."
"What?" the girl's happiness completely disappeared, earning worried glances from her siblings. "Why?"
"Well, when I was a kid I didn't realize it, but following that info might be slightly dangerous" Dipper said to his daughter, who looked like she was about to cry.
"But I want to see all of this stuff." The girl told him with a little anger on her face. "From what you say, you looked for these creatures and nothing happened to you."
"Yeah, mostly because I was lucky." The man told her. "That's why, if you are going to look for the stuff you read about, you will only do it if I authorize it."
The girl knew she couldn't say no to that, but still, it was clear she was upset about the whole thing, so, without saying anything, the girl left the table and ran to the attic with her twin following her.
Dipper sighed and Pacifica put a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"You did the right thing, Dipper." Ford said. "Those copies' contents can be really dangerous for a ten year old kid."
"I know, I hope she understands." Dipper said with pinching the bridge of his nose in frustration
"Well… I think she does understand." Alex said, not really knowing if he should comment something about the whole issue. "But I think she is more frustrated by the fact that you were able to go freely to the forest when you were young while she has been pretty restricted with excursions."
"Well, when I was 13 years old I didn't realize how dangerous it could be to go there by myself. Then, you were born and being a father changed my perspective about lots of things." Dipper said with Pacifica nodding in agreement.
"Yeah, but come on, we are not going to look out for a deathly ghost or some dorito demon…" Alex, at seeing the adults' face after his words, quickly shut up.
"You already read the pages of Bill Cipher?" Pacifica asked, slightly concerned.
"Well, yeah." Alex rubbed the side of his neck nervously. "But we already knew some stuff about that nacho guy, so it's not really a big deal."
Dipper looked at his son with a serious expression on his face. "If you happen to find in the woods something about Bill, you will ignore it and turn around, do you understand?"
Alex gulped before answering, "Yes, I understand."
Ales opened the attic door to see his sisters cuddling with each other. Lizzie was crying a little while Lily hugged her.
The boy sighed before closing the door and heading towards the twin's bed. The boy cuddled with them.
"Don't cry, my little Sherlock" the boy said softly before kissing Lizzie's head. "You will be able to go to the forest."
"Yeah, with lots of rules that will ruin everything." The girl said sighing. "It's not fair."
"Dad only makes all those rules because he doesn't want us to get hurt." Lily said, earning a kiss in the cheek from her brother.
"Our little apple is right." The boy said, earning a weird smile from Lily.
"Apple? What kind of nickname is that?" the girl asked to her brother.
"Well, besides arts, you also like to cook, don't you? Apple is a good nickname for you."
"Apples aren't always used for cooking."
"It's still food."
That little argument made Lizzie laugh, making her siblings smile.
"You knuckleheads, let's sleep now, tomorrow we'll go to the forest." Alex said, before kissing his sisters' head one last time.
"A-X-O-L-O-T-L
MY TIME HAS COME TO BURN
I INVOKE THE ANCIENT POWER THAT I MAY RETURN, IN THIS UNIVERSE."
Alex opened his eyes after dreaming of a bright blue fire.
"What was that?" the boy thought. "And what the heck is an axolotl?" he asked himself with frustration, before trying to sleep again.