Crazy trouble with love part 8
Female Gnomes and Dipper
Series: Gravity Falls
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Dipper sighed as he dusted off some exhibit case of a fake monster that looked like a beaver with a wig on it and saw Mabel looking at some of the items on sale. "I really wish I was somewhere else right now."
"Why, this place is awesome! Hey, do you think I could get one of these for our house?"
"Mabel, that's a dead skunk with wings glued to it's back." He deadpanned as Mabel patted the back.
"I know, it's so cool." She spoke with awe while Dipper rolled his eyes.
"Trust me Mabel, the last place you can find something authentic or real is here. I mean look at this." he pointed to a mask on the wall, which was a paper plate with a scary face drawn on it. "The Mask of Death? Grunkle Stan literally drew this up this morning."
"Correction, I stole it from an elementary school, but don't tell anyone." He said as he walked past them.
"Aw come on Dipper, it's not gonna hurt to at least pretend it's all real. What harm can it do?" She asked while her brother reached down and patted the journal hidden under his vest.
"I'm just saying, there are other things that could be more useful than feeding into this sham." 'Especially when it takes up time I could use to read more about this journal.'
"Dipper, we're here for the whole summer, so you can either keep telling yourself you're going to hate it here or get used to it and look for the upside!"
"And just what would be the 'upside'?"
"Well, you could do what I'm gonna do." She smiled widely. "Find that special someone."
"Oh no Mabel, not this again." He sighed. "Going boy crazy for you is one thing, but I'm not gonna get roped into you trying to set me up, again."
"Come on grumpy pants, it could be fun!" She beamed. "Just imagine it, maybe your dream girl is waiting for you somewhere in this town."
"Mabel, I'm not real into the idea of dating anyone at this moment. I just wanna get this boring work done and over with so I can catch up on some...reading."
"Booo, boring! Ok, time for some twin intervention, I'm getting you a date!" She smiled making him shake his head.
"No Mabel, no dates!"
"Yes Mabel, and yes dates! Hey! Who here wants to date my nerdy twin?" she called out to the store making Dipper blush and run over before covering her mouth.
"Ignore her folks! She's just...just a little bit woozy from all the dust in here." he chuckled bashfully.
"Lies, he is lonely and wants a girl BAD!" Mabel got out making Dipper try harder to cover her mouth.
"No I am not!"
"Yes he is, so who wants a piece of this scraggly, voice cracking twelve year old?" Asked Mabel, only to get silence in return as the people there went back to looking at the exhibits or deals. "Your loss!"
"Mabel, stop talking!" Groaned Dipper facepalming. "You're just making things worse."
"No, I'm doing great, any second now I'll find a girl for you~"
"Or give Grunkle Stan a reason to make you one of the exhibits." He said with a frown.
"Hey, not bad, I think I got a costume for the pre-pubescent werewolf somewhere around here." Spoke said man walking past them again with Mabel frowning.
"Come on bro, a girl might help you be less...you know, geeky."
"Hey, I am perfectly fine, and am not that geeky!" He frowned crossing his arms. "Name one geeky thing about me."
"Ok, well there's the fact that you're obviously hiding a book in your shirt, the fact that you didn't have many friends back home, you don't want me to get you a girlfriend." She listed before he groaned.
"That stuff doesn't technically count as geeky. Just….me."
"Yeah, but you still need a girlfriend!"
"Why?!"
"Because she might have a cute brother!" she beamed making Dipper look at her like 'really?'.
"Mabel, the odds of some girl coming in here, seeing me, and thinking 'hey, I should ask him out' is as likely as Grunkle Stan letting me leave early."
"You can't leave until your shift is over!"
"Stop eavesdropping on our conversations, and we don't work here!" He called back while not noticing a figure walking towards him. "So look, no one is going to want to be my girlfriend here, ok? This is a tourist trap, everyone here is just passing through."
"Excuse me…." came a raspy female voice behind Dipper.
He turned to come face to face with what looked like a pale girl wearing a torn and dirty black sweatshirt with baggy sweatpants and boots. "Um, yes? Can I help you?"
"Uh, I couldn't help but notice you and thought, maybe you and I could...hang out?" She asked with part of her brown hair covering her left eye and looking away nervously.
"Yes, he would love to Miss…?" Mabel said quickly before Dipper could respond.
"My name's….Normal...Girl." She let out awkward.
"Cool, can we call you Norma for short?" Mabel asked with a smile.
"Uh, Mabel, can I talk to you quick?"
"Not right now Dipper, can't you see Norma here is interested." She smiled and looking close to squealing. "When do you wanna hang out with him?"
"How about...now?" She offered hesitantly.
"He's in!"
"Give us a sec." Spoke Dipper before dragging Mabel over behind the counter. "Mabel! What are you doing?"
"I scored you a date with Norma, duh. Why do you ask?"
"Uh, maybe because you did that, without talking to me." He frowned.
"Aw come on Dipper. This is a sign! A sign that you may have found….the one." She whispered with wide eyes making her brother deadpan.
"Or it could just be a random girl who felt pity for me after you went and opened your mouth." He said with a groan. 'Plus we're twelve, no one finds 'the one' when they're twelve!"
"But you did! Oh, I am so jealous!" She squealed. "Ok, while you two go on your date, try to subtly ask if she has a brother."
"I never said I was going on any date." He crossed his arms with Mabel sighing.
"Alright, you left me no choice." She looked at him serious. "If you give this a try, and TRY to have fun, I'll owe you one."
"...and it can be anything at all, right?"
"Anything at all, no expiration date and no complaints when you cash it in, I swear."
Dipper looked at her a let out a sigh and shook his head. "I know I should say no, but...alright, I'll go on a date with 'Norma'."
"Great! Now go out there, woo her, and ask about the brother, or cousin, or very young uncle!" She spoke as Dipper walked out and over to the girl.
"So, uh Norma, what do...you wanna do?" He asked awkwardly while looking away.
"We can….go for….a walk?" She suggested slowly.
"Sure, that sounds good to me." He said with a small sigh of relief. 'Ok, a normal walk, I can do that.'
"Great." she spoke as she walked to the door, although she did seem to stumble a little to the sides making Dipper raise an eyebrow.
'Is she ok? Does she need some help?' He thought as he followed her.
"Ah, my baby bro is growing up." Smiled Mabel while Grunkle Stan walked by and looked around.
"Hey, where's Dipper, I found the pre-pubescent werewolf suit, where is he?"
"Oh just going on the time of his life." She smiled with the old man raising an eyebrow.
"Well tell him to make it a short one, I want him to try this out before the afternoon rush of suckers, I mean customers comes by." He said before looking her over. "Actually I think I have a new plan for the suit."
"Why are you looking at me like that?" She asked as we cut to Dipper and 'Norma'.
Both of them were walking down the street with Dipper quiet and looking at the ground.
'Ok Dipper, you have zero experience with dating, so this is the time to try and gain some. Maybe if I start some small talk it'll make things easier.' he cleared his throat. "So...how long you lived here?"
"Ninety yea….I mean all my life." She said quickly, making him cock an eye.
'That was odd.' "And what do you like about it?"
"The mushrooms….they're nice…" She groaned as he noticed a small fog rolling in.
"Careful, that fog looks pretty thick." 'And came out of nowhere, strange.'
"It's fine….. fit's the mood….. watch out for loose tombstones."
"Tombstones?" He asked before noticing they had been walking into a graveyard. 'Ok, that's weird. Weren't we on the street?'
"This is...a good place….right?" She asked while Dipper stepped over a root.
"Yeah, real...cool." He spoke unsure. 'Is she into spots like this? Well to each their own, but I gotta be nice and sound like I'm really interested and not to judge.' He thought as he watched her move a bit ahead and stumble and he swore he saw her hand almost fall off. He blinked and tried to look closer, but yelped and wound up tripping over a rock and fell into an open grave. "Ow….:
"Careful, some of these are empty….for reasons…." She said as he looked around to see he was in what looked like an empty coffin, except it looked like the lid had been clawed open from the inside.
"Ok, that's not creepy." He muttered before getting out quickly and climbed back up with a sigh. "Maybe we could walk somewhere a bit more sunny."
"Uh...maybe not, the sun is a bit bright, I prefer the dark…." She groaned glancing away while Dipper raised an eyebrow.
"Ok...well...uh...oh! We could go for a walk near the forests if you want." He suggested, trying to take a chance and make a decision on his own. "I mean, it'd be more open and you could feel nature around, or are you not into that?"
"That works great….I know just the spot…"
(Later)
"Um, where are we going?" Dipper asked as he looked around in confusion.
"A great spot...to really feel one with nature…" She spoke leading him through some foliage that was dark and hard to see any sunlight around. "It's just up ahead…"
"Um, are you sure? This is really far away from any normal trails…" He replied getting a bad feeling, but saw her pull some branches away and saw what looked like glowing mushrooms in a small cave, making his eyes widen in awe as she walked in. "Woah….what is this place?"
"I like to call it home… I read somewhere that it's the home of the gnomes." She spoke sitting on a mushroom while Dipper walked in and looked at some of the mushrooms that glowed different colors.
"It's so...beautiful. It's like some kind of fungi that radiate a bioluminescent glow in pitch darkness."
"Yeah...or magic." She said as she let out a yawn and stretched, and rested her arm on his shoulder.
Dipper stiffened up and blushed while inwardly panicking. 'Easy Dipper, she's just a bit tired, she probably just needs a sec to regain her bearings. I mean after all, for all I know she's anemic. Yeah, that'd explain why she stumbles, she just has a condition."
"You feel nice….haven't felt like this in ages…." She grumbled while Dipper felt touched and smiled.
"Well I guess I do have that effect." He praised himself.
"Yeah….I just want to stay here forever…." She muttered before closing her eyes. "Night night…."
"Wait, what?"He said in confusion. "You know I can't sleep here, right? Right?"
"Zzzzzzz." She let out in a snore making Dipper go still.
'Alright Dipper, let's analyze this. You're alone in a dark cave, with a girl you're on a date with, and she just started sleeping on your shoulder. By all logic, I could either A, wake her up and make her cranky, or B, enjoy this moment and keep perfectly still.' He thought as he tried not to move. 'Maybe you can get some reading in too, the light from the mushrooms make it possible.'
He tried to reach into his vest and carefully pulled the journal out and made sure Norma was out before opening it and flipped through some pages. 'Wow, there's so much in here, where do I even start?'
He flipped randomly while briefly stopping to look at an entry for a smiling creature called a Gnome. 'Wow, gnomes actually exist? I thought they were just lawn decoration.' He read on how they lived in the forest before flipping by and found one regarding Zombies. 'Huh, weird, this picture kinda looks like...Norma?' He thought as he saw a picture of a shadowy figure in a hoodie with half of their face decomposing. "Zombies are usually unintelligent, but some special cases show intelligence, just enough to pose as humans as to eat fresh victims after luring them away from civilization?!"
Norma gave a grumble making Dipper shut his mouth quickly and stay still while hearing her go back to lightly snoring.
'Ok, that one might be a bit creepy for now.' He thought to himself. 'But she can't be a zombie, this book doesn't contain stuff that's real...right?'
"Mmm….dirt…."
'Ok, that has to be a coincidence, right? RIGHT?!' He thought in slight panic before recalling Mabel saying he was dorky and the reasons why making him frown and shake his head. 'No, no way, it's not real. Look at me, I'm getting all freaked out over stuff that might not be real. Besides, am I really gonna mess up my first date because of a picture in a journal? Tons of teenagers dress in black.' He thought as he shook his head again. 'There has to be a logical explanation!'
"Zzzzz…. Dipper…..feast…...mine…."
Dipper gulped before trying to push down his fear. 'S-She's probably just thinking about dinner at her house, yeah that!' he tried taking deep breaths to relax and looked around at the mushrooms. 'Maybe I should try and relax myself, freaking out won't do anything.' He thought as he began to lean against the wall. 'Everything is fine, and she is definitely not a zombie.'
(Later)
"That was...fun…" Spoke Norma as she and Dipper were heading back to the shack, her stumbling a little with Dipper catching her.
"Yeah, it was...something." He blushed, due to the fact he wound up falling asleep next to her with her having to wake him up.
"Yeah...wanna do it again...tomorrow?"
"Uh...yeah sure, why not." He smiled.
"Good...that you, this was….perfect…." She said as she leaned over and hugged him.
Dipper blushed and hugged back while noting she seemed lighter than he expected before she backed away and walked off while her arms swung around and he went inside the shack. 'That went...really well, maybe this wasn't such a bad idea after all, I guess I owe Mabel an apology.'
"Dipper!" Came said girl's voice as he looked and saw her running over, with fake wolf ears on her head and tail.
"Hey Mabe- whoa, what's with the get up?"
"Grunkle Stan had me dress up as a preteen werewolf, but that's not important, tell me everything that happened!"
"Well, we went on a walk, she took me to a graveyard, then this really cool cave where we kinda dozed off." He admitted while Mabel frowned.
"Dozed off? Booo!"
"Hey to be fair, she's the one who leaned on me and dozed off, I just...happened to feel tired and figured I should do the same." He admitted looking away with a blush. "Besides, it's farther than you've ever gotten with any guy, right?"
Mabel opened her mouth for a rebuttal, but stopped and nodded. "Touche bro. So wait, you two were all alone, in a cave, and slept next to each other?"
"Yeah, though I did read a book a little bit before that… hey, was is just me or did Norma seem...odd to you?"
"No way, she seemed great. Oh! That reminds me, did you ask her?"
"Ask her what?" He asked in confusion.
"If she had a brother! Or cousin! Or really really young uncle!" She spoke shaking him.
"Aaaah! No, I didn't, it never came up!"
"What?! You betrayed me Dipper!" she cried dramatically while he got her to let go.
"Look, I'll try and remember to ask her tomorrow, alright?"
"You better!" She said with a huff.
"So was Grunkle Stan upset when I had to ditch?"
"Kinda, especially after I tried to leave to get out of this stupid costume."
"It looks better on you than me." He chuckled.
"Hey, keep it up and I'll convince Grunkle Stan to make you wear it tomorrow!" She said with a huff.
"Then how can I ask Norma?" He threw back with a smirk.
"B-you- I….argh! Stop playing these mind games with me!"
He let out a laugh and headed to the stairs. "I will when it stops being so easy!"
(Later)
Dipper and Norma were currently at the local arcade playing a game together, and Dipper was winning.
"Come on Norma, you have to use your fingers!"
"Ugh….I'm trying." She said as her hands slammed down repeatedly on the buttons, her fingers never moving apart.
"You don't play video games I take it?"
"Yeah… haven't had much practice." She groaned.
"Well maybe we could try something less handy." He spoke as the round ended.
"Yeah...actually, can we go? I have a new place… to show you."
"What is it?"
"It's a special place….I need to ask you something…"
He looked at her confused and gulped while getting a funny feeling, but it was due to something he had been looking at before. "Uh...where is it at?"
"Back at the caves with mushrooms… let's go." she spoke stumbling away while Dipper gulped.
'Alright Dipper, just stay calm. If your guess is spot on, then maybe you can talk to her into going for a different diet.' He thought, since he had done research into zombies and concluded Norma WAS one. 'Heck, maybe this relationship doesn't even have to end, she seems like she is mentally aware, I can reason with her!'
"Come on…. Let's go…."
"Coming." He spoke as he followed her out and headed down the street. 'Ok Dipper, you got this, you've gone over this scenario hundreds of times in your head, YOU CAN DO THIS!'
After some time they slowly came to the cave with Norma stopping and fiddling with the zipper. "Dipper, we've known each other for some time, that's why this is really important."
"I kinda figured." He spoke glancing at her and the entrance.
"That's why I think it's time you know the truth." She sighed before facing him with her hands up. "Just don't be freaked out ok? Keep an open mind."
"Norma wait!" He spoke as she grabbed the zipper with him rubbing his arm. "Truth is...I already know."
"You… you do?" She asked in surprise and confusion as she pulled down the zipper and dropped the coat aff as he continued, eyes closed.
"Yeah, but that's why I just wanna say I'm not all that tasty. I mean I get it, you're a zombie, the undead, and you want to eat brains, but-"
"Woah woah woah! A zombie? What made you think that?" Came her voice, but it was more higher and less slow.
"Huh?" He said as he opened his eyes in confusion only for his jaw to drop in shock. There standing on each other were five very tiny figures with red pointed hats and wearing colorful looking overalls with feminine faces while holding two fake arms. "W-What?! You're gnomes?!"
"Yep, surprise?" Spoke the one at the top moving her hair from her eye. "I know what you're thinking, 'Oh my gosh the girl I've known for a while is a bunch of little people!' first thing to come to mind, except for you."
"So wait...all those clues I looked at...I was wrong?"
"Well yeah. I mean why would you think we were a zombie?"
"Well, you groaned, moved stiffly, and I think your hand fell off at one time?"
"Well it's kinda awkward to move together while wearing those big clothes. I mean it was our first time, and we were lucky. I wanted us to wear something with more color, but nooo, the girls here thought darker colors would be more concealing. It tooks us a month just to get it together and not fall down." She groaned as she jumped down off the stack of gnomes. "And the groaning? Well stacking like that isn't exactly super comfortable to begin with, ya know?"
"But...what about the coffin with all those scratch marks on the inside?"
"Well I can't tell you anything like that. I mean we just wanted to walk through the fog and the graveyard just happened to be there. I don't know what that's about, but maybe there's some zombie wandering around, but that's just a guess." She said with a shrug. "This forest has some pretty crazy stuff in it."
Dipper shook his head and opened the journal to gnomes and looked between it and them. "But wait, the gnome in this journal has a beard, but you don't. Aren't gnomes known to have beards?"
"Yeah, but that's a MALE gnome, do we look like guys?"
"Uh...no."
"That's right, and there's a good reason for that." She spoke with a somber expression. "The last male gnome died off years ago, leaving just us women behind."
"Wait, how did they die off?"
"Well, they kind of got caught in a bunch of glue traps trying to steal pies? Male gnomes aren't that smart…" She admitted before shaking her head. "But that's not the important part, the important part is now that you know who we are, more or less, name's Janna by the way, we can tell you the whole reason we asked you out."
"Wait, is it to be the first person you open up to and tell all your culture to? Like the beginning of humans and gnomes living in coexistence?" Asked Dipper with eager.
"Eh, not exactly kid, and think about it, people already know about us, how do you think we got in that book? No, we want something else with you."
"What's that?" He asked, now lost.
"We need a king, so we're gonna marry you!" She smiled with Dipper's jaw dropping.
"Uh….say again?" He rubbed his ear. "Sorry, I could have sworn I heard you want me to marry you five."
"Oh no, not us five. Just all one thousand of us." She said as various other gnomes began to pop out from behind mushrooms, rocks, tree stumps and so on.
"Thousand!?" He gaped at her while she nodded.
"Well yeah. We figured if we found a guy who was into stuff like us, it'd be sweet. Besides, we got a chance to know each other, more or less, so what do you say?"
Dipper looked at her and the other gnomes before sighing and put his journal away. "Look, Janna is it? I'm flattered, really I am. I mean, you, er, girls were the first ones to actually date me, which I'm touched. It's just...well I'm a kid, you know? I've got my whole life ahead of me, and I wanna see what happens. It's not you, it's just I don't think I'm ready for something like that so soon."
"Huh, ok, well I guess there's only one thing to do now….tie him up!" She cried as several gnomes launched themselves at him, ropes in hand.
"Ahhh!" He screamed getting knocked down as others ran over to pin him down and found himself getting roped down to the ground. "Hey get off of me!"
"Nope, sorry kid, but this whole marriage thing isn't a request if you get what I mean." Spoke Janna shaking her head. "We all need a king, and we picked you. Relax though, it's not so bad. You get to tell others what to do, live in nature, and you get all the nuts and berries you could eat. Sounds like a pretty good deal huh?"
"No! I have to go back, I have a sister, a family!" He grunted struggling. "I'm too young to get married anyway! Wouldn't you want someone a bit older?"
"Nah, they would be to hard, plus between you and me the people who come here and live here are kind of idiots, but you actually seem to know what you're doing." She smiled while one gnome with her eyes looking to the sides was getting her hands tied up. "You, make sure he's nice and tight you….um...I'm sorry I keep forgetting your name."
"Schmebuleana." she replied.
"Schembulean, thank you." She sighed in relief before noticing a shadow going over her and turned around.
"Get away from my brother!" Yelled Mabel before knocking the gnome away with a shovel as Dipper smiled and the other gnomes turned to her.
"Mabel! Oh thank goodness you showed up."
"Yeah, I haven't seen you for a bit and saw that girlfriend lead you here, I was hoping she was taking you to her hot brother, but what's with the gnomes?!"
"Norma was a bunch of gnomes in disguise, and they wanna marry me to all one thousand of them!" He got out before one gnome covered his mouth with Mabel looking shocked.
"Wow...I was all for getting you a girlfriend, but this might be a little too fast."
"It's ok, he's completely cool with it!" Norma said quickly.
"Mmmmm!" Dipper let out squirming in the ropes.
"Nice try, but I know a lie when I hear one." Frowned Mabel. "Let my brother go or else."
"Or else what, it's a thousand gnomes vs you!" She growled, only to get a shovel to the face and went flying through the air before Mabel knocked the gnomes off Dipper and used it to cut the ropes. "Ow! Now that's just uncalled for!"
"You kidnapped my brother to marry him, if anything it's not enough!" She spoke as Dipper got up before the two took off running.
"After him, don't let them escape!" Cried Janna as the other gnomes roared in agreement. All of them took off after them with the twins getting in a golf cart with Mabel hitting the gas.
"Oh man Mabel, you really saved my butt back there."
"It's nothing, so… do they have any cute male gnomes?"
"...really Mabel?" He looked at her with an 'are you serious' look. "You're worried about that when I was nearly married?"
"Nah, you didn't get married so it's fine, right?"
"It's still a problem! And no, all the males are dead, something about pies?"
"Aw man! Just my luck."
"Mabel, I'm starting to think you might need to see someone." Groaned Dipper before they heard a loud roar behind them. "Uh, Mabel? Please tell me that was a bear."
"Um, nope.. Also we might wanna drive a bit faster!" She hit the gas and heard the roar, but closer, making them turn and gape when they saw a large monster made out of gnomes chasing them.
"Give us back our king!"
"AAAAAAHHHHH!" Mabel and Dipper screamed in horror as they drove away as fast as possible.
The large monster reared its arm back and threw out several gnomes that landed on the golf cart and snarled like animals.
"Augh! Get them Dipper, get them!"
Dipper tried to throw as many as he could off while one grabbed onto Mabel's face and scratched at it like a cat.
"Ah! Bad gnome, bad gnome!" She cried as Dippe tried to pry it off her face.
"Come on, come on, come on!" He groaned getting it off and throwing it off the cart.
"Give him back to us!"
"Never!" Called Mabel only for Dipper to scream. "Relax Dipper, they won't catch us."
"Mabel look at the road!"
"Huh? Wh-aaaaaahhh!" She cried as she looked ahead to see a massive hole. She tried turning, only for the cart to go skidding before they jumped out of it and saw it go falling in the hole. "Oh Grunkle Stan is not going to like that…"
"We run for it!" spoke Dipper pulling her to her feet as they ran down the road.
"We got you now Dipper, give up and join us!" Called Janna as the large creature followed them with them reaching the mystery shack.
"What are we gonna do, what are we gonna do?!" He panicked as he looked around desperately.
"I don't know! I didn't think that far ahead!" Mabel cried as the gnome creature cornered them.
"Last chance Dipper, either come willingly, or we take you." Called Janna from the top of the body.
"This is insane, can't we come to an agreement or something?!"
"Forget it, there isn't anything you can say that will...hey, do I smell pie?" She questioned sniffing the air with the other gnomes doing the same.
"Um, yeah, Stan bought one earlier, why?" Mabel asked as the giant creature began to fall apart as the gnomes sniffed the air.
"Oh man, it's been awhile since we had one of those. We stayed away after the whole...you know." She spoke with Dipper getting an idea before snapping his fingers.
"Wait a sec, I have an idea." He said before approaching her. "Look, I can't get married, but I can offer you something better, if you let me go I'll leave a pie on the windowsill at least once a week for you to take, does that sound good?"
"What? You're trying to butter us up with pie?" She crossed her arms. "What kinda girls do you take us for?"
"Uh...the kind who like pie?"
She narrowed her eyes and nodded. "Touche. I'll consider it, but only if we like the flavor, otherwise we'll take it AND you."
"Uh, deal." He spoke as the gnomes moved over and snatched the pie from the windowsill and drooled before they started digging into it like starved coyotes making pieces of it fly around and nearly hit the twins. "Wow, you guys really like pie, huh?"
"You kidding? It's so hard to come by we enjoy it as much as we can." Grinned Janna licking her hands. "Oh man, it's like there's a party in my mouth!"
"Cool… so are we good now, you'll leave me alone now?"
Janna crossed her arms and hummed in thought. "Well….alright, we'll agree NOT to kidnap you and force you to be our king, provided you stick with your end of the bargain. And don't try to trick us, we gnomes are more dangerous than we look." She said as they nodded. "And just keep in mind we know where you live, let's go girls."
The other gnomes nodded and began to head to the forest, with one tripping over a plastic wrapper for sodas and cried out as she got tangled in it.
"And try to clean this place up, those things are like death traps."
"Ok, ok...how did they survive so long?" Dipper wondered as a goat walked by and picked up the one tangled up in it's mouth as it kept walking.
"I don't know, but I know one thing. That is the last time I try to set you up on a date."