Phantom Pines

by FrostyPines

It's been almost a year since they met Danny, and now Dipper and Mabel are visiting Amity Park to see him again. Unfortunately, Dipper gets a bit too curious about Danny's secret world... Will they be able to undo the damage before it's too late? (Sequel to Phantom Falls) -Currently on hiatus, I'm trying to get enough writing done to establish a consistent upload schedule-

1. Chapter 1

Dipper stared out the bus window at the unfamiliar terrain. Mabel was asleep in the seat next to him, wearing a dark purple sweater.
Dipper knew where they were going, but he hadn't been there before. It had taken a lot of convincing to get their parents to agree to this trip. The only reason they were going, according to their parents, was that Stan wouldn't be home from his "business trip" for another two or three weeks and Soos wasn't "qualified" to take care of them. As if Stan was. But their parents wanted them to get away for the summer and didn't have to money to send them to summer camp, so Gravity Falls it was. Plus this quick detour.
Dipper chuckled to himself. His parents had no idea what had happened last summer. Mabel had tried to tell them, but of course they didn't take her seriously. Zombies, giant robots, a demonic triangle and Stan's secret twin brother? What an active imagination. Of course, it had all really happened. And only one person outside of Gravity Falls would believe it- the one they were going to see.

As soon as Stan and Ford got back from their Arctic Ocean exploration Dipper and Mabel would be back in Gravity Falls. Dipper couldn't wait to see Wendy and the gang again- he was even excited to see Pacifica. But he had to admit that one of the people he missed most was a friend they'd made under very strange circumstances. Even stranger than usual for Gravity Falls.

They'd met him near the end of the summer, just before Ford reemerged and everything basically went to heck. Dipper and Mabel had only known him for about two weeks, but they became close friends. Close enough that Dipper and Mabel were two of the very few people that knew his most important secret.

And then there was the fact that he had saved their lives multiple times, along with many others. He also delayed Weirdmaggeon, which was good because they never would have gotten through it without Ford.

The more Dipper thought, he realized he had a lot to be grateful for. If he hadn't met Danny, he would almost certainly be dead.

A sign flashed by the bus window reading AMITY PARK: IT'S SAFE HERE! Dipper turned to Mabel and shook her awake.
"Mabel! We're here!" he said.