It was another slow day at the Mystery Shack. Wendy had gone home early, so Stan left Soos, Dipper, and Mabel to watch over the gift shop. Dipper sat behind the counter, flicking through an issue of Wacky News in boredom, while Mabel played with a Magic 8-ball she found.

"Grunkle Stan told us not to touch anything, Mabel," said Dipper.

"I just want to ask the Magic 8-ball a question," said Mabel.

Dipper rolled his eyes. "Fine, but don't blame me when you get in trouble."

"Will Dipper ever loosen up?" Mabel asked the ball.

Mabel turned the ball around and looked through its tiny window as the answer revealed itself to her.

"Don't count on it," she read aloud.

Mabel giggled and put the magic 8-ball back where she got it, next to a stack of books, one of which caught her eye as she was returning the ball.

"Look at this! Fairy Tales and Other Stories for Children!" said Mabel.

Soos, who was sweeping up the floors, perked up at the sound of the book's title.

"My grandma reads those to me all the time!" exclaimed Soos.

Dipper and Mabel looked at Soos with confused expressions.

"I mean used to. Used to read them to me," corrected Soos, who then went back to sweeping the floors.

Mabel grabbed the book and blew the dust off of its back cover.

"Little Red Riding Hood? Hansel and Gretel? Snow White? These are some of my favorite stories!" gushed Mabel. "I can't wait to read it!"

"Yeah, yeah, read your fairy tales. Meanwhile, I'll be reading something intellectually stimulating," said Dipper, reading a tabloid with the headline: "I Married a Unicorn".

Mabel opened the book and put her finger on the first page. "Once upon a time…"

Suddenly, Mabel, Dipper, and Soos were in the forest.

"What the…" Dipper, who had been sitting, fell onto his back.

"Wow! We're in the story!" said Mabel.

"Can you get us out of the story?" said Dipper, standing now and brushing dirt off his back.

"I don't know how."

"Wait, I've got an idea," said Soos. "If we play out the fairy tale, we should be able to go home once we're finished."

"How are we supposed to play out the fairy tale?" asked Dipper. "I don't see a wolf around."

"Uh, Dipper…" Mabel pointed to patches of fur on the back of Dipper's hands.

"What?" Dipper saw the patches and screamed. "No! This is not happening! This is not happening!"

A few seconds later, Dipper's entire body was covered with fur.

"This is happening," he sighed.

"I guess that means I'm the lumberjack," said Soos. "See you guys later!"

Soos hurried off. Mabel noticed a basket of food in her hands, and Dipper, smelling it, licked his lips.

"Hey, Mabel, would you mind sharing some of that with me?" asked Dipper. "I'm starving."

"Oh no, I can't! It's for my grandma!" said Mabel, winking before she ran off into the forest.

Dipper growled. He tried to chase Mabel, but his feet got too big for his shoes, making him trip.

"Stupid wolf feet!" said Dipper, who tried to pull his shoes off, but when he couldn't, he used his sharp teeth to do it instead.

By the time he got both of his shoes off, Mabel was out of sight. Dipper wandered through the forest, occasionally putting a berry in his mouth and spitting it out due to the sour taste. When he could hardly bear his hunger anymore, he noticed a bunny hopping along. Without even thinking, Dipper lunged at the bunny and ate it whole.

"Hey! I saw him first!" said a voice behind Dipper.

Dipper turned around to find a bigger wolf with bigger teeth and bigger, yellow eyes looking down at him. Dipper tried to run, but the wolf grabbed him by the tail.

"Not so fast," said the wolf. "I didn't know there were others like me in this forest."

"I'm not from here," said Dipper.

"You aren't?" The wolf raised an eyebrow.

"No, my stupid sister brought me here. Listen, I didn't mean to go after your prey. I was just really hungry. Please let me go. I won't do it again."

"Of course. Anything for my fellow canine."

The wolf let go of Dipper's tail, and Dipper ran away as fast as he could. When he finally stopped, he noticed a log cabin in the distance.

"That must be grandma's house," he said. "Meaning it must be where Mabel is!"

Dipper ran to the cabin and pounded on its door. The old woman who lived in the cabin peeked at Dipper through a pair of logs.

"Let me in!" shouted Dipper.

"Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin!" said the woman.

"What?"

"You heard me!"

"If you don't let me in, I'll huff, and I'll puff!"

Dipper took a deep breath and then blew at the cabin, causing it to collapse.

"Oh, no!" said Dipper. "What have I done? I killed grandma!"

Meanwhile, Mabel was skipping through the forest as a group of birds dropped a red riding hood over her.

"Thanks, guys!" she said.

As Mabel reached the end of the forest, she spotted what was left of the cabin, and she hurried to it.

"Grandma? Are you okay?" she asked.

Dipper popped out of the wreckage wearing the old woman's clothes.

"Yes, dear! Nothing to see here!" said Dipper.

Mabel smiled. "Grandma! What big ears you have!"

"The better to hear you with, my child."

"But what big eyes you have!"

"The better to see you with."

"What big hands you have!"

"The better to hug you with."

"And what a big mouth you have!"

"The better to eat your goodies with!"

Dipper jumped out of the woman's clothes and grabbed Mabel's basket with his big hands.

"I'm glad you're getting the hang of this, Dipper!" said Mabel, taking her basket back.

"Gimme the basket!" said Dipper, pulling it his way.

"Sorry! Can't do that!"

"I'm not fooling around!"

As Dipper and Mabel tugged the basket back and forth, Soos showed up wearing a lumberjack costume and holding an axe.

"Hey, dudes. Like the getup?" said Soos.

"Tell Mabel to let go of this thing!" said Dipper.

"You two shouldn't be fighting," said Soos.

Soos raised his axe and used it to cut the basket in two, spilling its contents on the ground.

"There. Now you can share it," said Soos.

Before Dipper or Mabel could pick anything up, ants covered the food and left it as nothing but crumbs.

"Aww," said Dipper.


A man in a large castle watched Dipper, Mabel, and Soos through a crystal ball. The wolf from earlier walked up beside the man.

"Sir, we have visitors," said the wolf.

"I know," said the man, rubbing the wolf's head. "I know."


Author's Note: This is my first Gravity Falls fanfic. I started this back in August 2014 but didn't bother to finish this chapter until now. However, the story will still take place before all of the big revelations of Season 2, so you won't have to worry about spoilers if you haven't caught up yet. I plan for this to be a cross between Gravity Falls, Once Upon a Time, and maybe Shrek, but overall, it'll be its own thing. Definitely stick around, because there are lots of twists and turns in store and lots of fairytale goodness.