Ah, summer break! A time for leisure, recreation, and takin' her easy...

Unless you're me.

Mabel, Dipper, and a light blue haired boy sit in a golf cart together, breaking a sign, as they are screaming and the boy drives them away from a giant gnome.

"It's getting closer!" Mabel screams, looking back at the giant gnome.

The boy sighs, "It doesn't matter!"

My name... is Dipper. The girl about to puke is my sister Mabel. The odd hair colored boy is our friend Will.

I'm sure you're wondering what we're doing in a golf cart, fleeing from a creature of unimaginable horror.

Rest assured, there is a perfectly logical explanation for this!

... or maybe not.

Our parents decided to ship us off to a sleepy town in Oregon called Gravity Falls to stay at our great uncle's place in the woods.

"This attic is amazing! Check out all my splinters!" Mabel shouted happily.

Dipper looks around the room, before turning around to see Gompers on his bed, he sighs in disappointment and annoyance, "Annnnd, there's a goat on my bed."

"Hey, friend! Yes, you can keep chewing on my sweater!" Mabel smiled, letting the goat chew on her sweater more.

"Dipper, they already know all this. Just get to the point," Will grumbled.

Dipper stared at him in confusion, the golf cart ride going a lot smoother than it was before, "What...? Oh, forget it. Fine."

And then there was our Great Uncle Stan, and also Will.

Great Uncle Stan had apparently turned his house into a tourist trap that he called, the Mystery Shack. The real mystery was why anyone ever bothered to check it out... and all three of us had to work there.

As for Will... well, we didn't exactly know why he was there. He was a bit shy, kinda like me. He never exactly talked to us, but he always seemed a bit nervous, scared, and paranoid. I had a few theories as to why he never talked to us, and most of those had to do psychological abuse, and the such. The only other odd thing there was the fact that Will had an eyepatch that he never took off. Whenever we asked, he just tensed up and said that it didn't matter.

It seemed like it was going to be the same routine all summer...

Until one fateful day...

"He's looking at it! He's looking at it!" Mabel grinned, watching from the bobble heads of Stan at the brown haired boy reading a note, who looked around in confusion, "I rigged it!"

Dipper sighed, "Mabel, I get that you're whole 'boy crazy' phase, but I think you're overdoing it with the crazy part."

"What? Come on, Dipper! This is our first summer away from home! It's my big chance to have an epic summer romance!" Mabel grins.

Dipper asked, "Yeah, but do you have to flirt with every guy you meet? Actually, forget that. You haven't flirted with Will at all."

"That's 'cause Will's different, Dipper! You can see how shy he is!" Mabel frowned, "I don't think I'd have a chance..."

The two both stare out at Will, who's just sitting down on the floor, with some sort of light that they couldn't see.

"Look, I'll show you!" Mabel smiled, walking out from where they were hiding, towards Will, "Hey, Will! Are you okay?"

Will gulped, closing his hand, before shakily getting up and turning around, "Uh... yeah, I'm okay! It's nothing for you to worry about, Mabel, don't worry!"

"I thought I saw a light, but it could've been my imagination. There's no lamp by him," Dipper whispered.

Mabel walked back over to Dipper, "Mock all you want, Dipper, but I think something huge is going to happen this summer! I wouldn't be surprised if the man of my dreams walked out of that door right now."

Stan walks out the door, much to Mabel's disgust and Dipper's amusement.

"Alright, alright! Look alive, people! I need someone to hammer these signs in the spooky part of the forest!" Stan shouted.

Will looks up at him, "Dipper and I can do it."

"Fine."

"Will... whenever I'm here, I feel like I'm being watched." Dipper speaks up, as they silently walk to the forest, Will holding all the signs, "Something weird is going on in this town. Just today, my mosquito bites spelled out beware!" Dipper holds out his arm so that Will can see.

He sighs, "It says Bewarb, but I'll believe you."

"Really?!" Dipper smiled.

He nodded, "Yeah."

"Why?" Dipper asked.

He doesn't reply. He just bites his lip and looks away.

After hanging up a few signs, Dipper tries to bang a nail into a metal tree. He manages to open the tree, and moves the levers a bit in confusion. A compartment opens behind him, and he takes the book inside of it, before blowing on it. It's the third journal. Dipper turns around, sitting down, with Will next to him, before he opens the journal.

Dipper begins to read a few things from the journal, not noticing that Will tensed up when he said, "Unfortunately, my suspicions have been confirmed. I am being watched. I must hide this book before HE finds it. Remember: In Gravity Falls, there is no one you can trust." Dipper repeats the last five words to himself, closing the book, before looking over at Will, who's shaking nervously.

"Hello! What are you guys reading?! Some nerd thing?" Mabel asked, popping out from behind the tree.

Both of the boys jump, before Will notices the symbol on her sweater.

"The Shooting Star..." He whispers to himself.

Dipper hides the book behind his back, "Uh... uh... it's nothing!"

Mabel mocks him, by saying the exact same thing in his tone of voice, before laughing, "What? Are you actually not gonna show me?"

"Uh... let's go somewhere private."

"It's amazing! Grunkle Stan said I was being paranoid, but according to this book, Gravity Falls has a secret dark side!" Dipper smiled, holding out a page to Mabel.

Will leans over Mabel's shoulder, looking at the page he was on, frowning, "It doesn't exactly matter... just because there's a dark side, doesn't mean you should pursue it."

Mabel gasped, "Woah! Shut up!" She pushes the book, causing her twin to move.

"... and get this! After a certain point, the pages just stop! Like the guy who was writing it, mysteriously disappeared!" Dipper smiled.

Will sighed, whispering quietly to himself, "That's because he did... well, not exactly, but still..."

The door bell rings.

"Who's that?" Dipper asked.

Mabel smiled, "Well... time to spill the beans." She pushes a can of beans over, "Boop. Beans. This girl's got a date!"

"Let me get this straight... in the half hour we were gone, you already found a boyfriend?" Dipper asked in disbelief.

Mabel giggled, running over to the door, "What can I say? I guess I'm just irresistible!"

"Hey, family and friend! Say hello to my new boyfriend!" Mabel smiled, showing off Norman.

"Sup," Norman greets.

Dipper frowns, "Hey... so... what's your name?"

"Uh... normal... man!" Norman shouts.

Mabel sighs, "He means Norman..."

"Norman... are you... bleeding?" Will asked, before Dipper just stared at him.

Norman shrugs, "It's jam."

"I love jam! Look at this!" Mabel smiled.

The two leave.

"There's something odd about Norman, Will," Dipper admitted.

Will sighed, knowing exactly why, but deciding not to freak the much younger boy out, says something else, "I know..."

"Is my sister really dating a zombie, or am I just going nuts?" Dipper asked aloud.

Will stared at him, "Well... it's kind of a dilemma. Again, I believe you, but still... how has he shown that he could be a zombie? Besides, he could be any other creatures in this-" "-any other creatures? Like what?" Dipper asked.

Will bit the inside on his bottom lip, "Well... gnomes, are one thing..."

"Either way, I need some evidence."

"Mabel, Norman is not what he seems!" Dipper pulls out the journal.

Will just stares at the two from between their beds.

Mabel smiled, "You think he might be a vampire? That would be so awesome!"

"Guess again, sister... shabam!" Dipper shows her the page on gnomes, surprising both her and Will, before looking at the page, before turning to the zombie page, "Shabam!"

Will breathes a sigh of relief that Dipper didn't actually know what Norman was.

Mabel just shakes her head, "A zombie? That is not funny, Dipper."

"I'm not joking! Right, Will? It all adds up!" Dipper starts to pace around the room.

Mabel just shoves him aside, running out of the room, "I'm not listening to your crazy conspiracies!"

"Yeah, I guess you're right. I don't have any actual evidence," Dipper sighed, rewatching the tape with Will.

Will frowned, noticing the small moment where Norman loses his hand.

"I guess I can be... kinda paranoid sometimes, and... wait... WHAT?!" Dipper replays that small moment, causing the chair they were sitting in to topple over. Dipper stares at Will, "I was right! We need to go save Mabel!"

The two boys run towards the golf cart, where Wendy was.

"Wendy... we need to use to golf cart for a moment. Can I have the keys?" Will asked, calmly, while Dipper freaked out.

Wendy smiled, dropping the keys in Will's hand, "Sure, man! Just make sure not to hit anybody!"

"I know! Thanks, Wendy!" Will smiled, as they both got into the golf cart, driving off to go save Mabel.

Dipper gets out of the golf cart, "What the heck is going on here?!"

"Dipper! Norman turned out to be a bunch of gnomes! ... and their total jerks!" Mabel screamed.

Dipper frowned, opening the journal, "Gnomes? I was way off... Gnomes... little men of the forest. Weaknesses... unknown."

"Ugh! Come on!" Mabel shouted in annoyance.

Dipper walks towards Jeff, "Hey, Hey! Let go of my sister!"

"Oh! Ha ha! Hey there! Um... you know, this is all just a big misunderstanding. See, your sister isn't in any danger, she's just marrying all one thousand of us and becoming our gnome queen for all eternity!" Jeff laughed.

Will sighs, getting out of the cart, surprising the gnomes, "Give Shooting Star back right now, or else."

"Or else what?" Jeff snickered, "Do you really want them to hate you?"

Will scowled, running up to the gnome, before he started to choke him, "Let. Her. Go! She's one of the ten! You know important that is!"

"N-never!" Jeff shouts.

Will lets go off him, as Dipper lets Mabel go, before they all run to the golf cart.

"You've messed with the wrong creatures, boy! Gnomes of the forest... ASSEMBLE!"

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"Hurry, before they come after us!" Mabel shouts.

Dipper laughs, "I wouldn't worry about it. You see, they have really tiny legs, so..."

"Dipper... now is not the time. They are coming after us," Will sighs, starting to drive the golf cart faster.

Mabel looks back at the gnomes, "It's getting closer!"

"Dipper! Take the wheel! No matter what you both do, don't look back! Just keep driving! I can handle this!" Will shouted, jumping to the back of the golf cart.

Dipper yelped, grabbing the steering wheel, and moving seats, starting to drive.

A gnome gets towards Dipper's face, and Mabel knocks it off, the gnome taking Dipper's hat with it.

"Look out!" Mabel shouts, pointing at the tree the giant gnome had thrown in their path.

The golf cart goes under the tree trunk, making them go to the shack, and the three all tumble out of the golf cart. The twins get up.

"Stay back!" Dipper throws a small rock, which does nothing.

The giant gnome corners them by the shack.

"It's the end of the line, kids! Mabel, marry us before we do something crazy!" Jeff shouts.

Dipper looks at Mabel, "There's got to be a way out of this!"

"I gotta do it," Mabel steps forward.

Dipper looks at her, "What? Mabel, are you crazy?"

"Trust me," Mabel tells him.

Dipper just nods, not saying a word, and walks backwards.

Mabel looks up at the gnome, "Alright, Jeff... I'll marry you."

"Yes! Eh? Eh?" Jeff points to the ring, and Mabel lets him put it on her.

Mabel smiled, as Will looked up, noticing her grab the leaf blower, "You may now kiss the bride."

"Well... don't mind if I do," Jeff turns to face Mabel, but only gets faced with the leaf blower, before him and the rest of the gnomes run after she hits the giant gnome.

"Hey, Dipper... I'm really sorry I was ignoring your advice," Mabel sighs.

Dipper smiles, "Well... you saved us!"

"Guess I'm just sad that my first boyfriend turned out to be a bunch of gnomes..." Mabel mumbled.

Dipper sighed, "Look on the bright side, maybe the next one... will be a vampire."

"You're just saying that."

Will frowns, watching them do their sibling hug, before they all go inside.

Stan stares at the two, "Yeesh... you two get hit by a bus or something?"

The two just walk away, not saying a word.

Stan coughs, "Hey, wouldn't you know it? I accidentally overstocked some inventory, so... how about you both take an item from the gift shop?"

"Really?!" Mabel smiled.

Dipper sighed, "What's the catch?"

"The catch is do it before I change my mind," Stan tells them.

Will watches Dipper put a hat with the pine tree on it on his head.

He frowns, "The Pine Tree..."

He looks over at Mabel, smiling when she pulls out her grappling hook. The two other boys are confused, but after Mabel uses it, they don't exactly care.

Later...

Mabel jumps on her bed, as Dipper writes into the journal. Will stares at them from the door way, before leaving to go see Stan, closing the bedroom door behind him.

"Dipper has the third journal," He admits.

Stan sighs, "Well... lets go see if we can try to fix it again."

"... I don't think so. I'm still not as smart as..." He stops, looking down.

Stan shakes his head, "Come on, kid, before the two upstairs hear you."

"I'm not a kid..." He mumbled.

Stan sighs, "I don't care. Let's go."

"... okay..."

A/N: Please leave a review! Reviews are the only thing that truly tell me that people are reading my story, and that i should continue! - K.