CHAPTER 1

1ST JUNE OF 2015

It had been three years since Weirdmageddon. The weird light and ancient horn sound phenomenon never happened again since then. The world had returned to normal and Gravity Falls returned into its own brand of normal.

Mabel hadn't been the same since Weirdmageddon, but why wouldn't she be? She lost her twin brother that day after all.

Explaining to her parents how Dipper was missing and possibly dead was hard, but in the end, telling them that Dipper disappeared in the weird phenomenon that people nowadays dub as Heaven's Light phenomenon (which was true) convinced them that Dipper's disappearance was not Stan's or anyone else's fault.

Still, even with the bad memory of Dipper disappearing that one summer, Mabel still went back to Gravity Falls every summer, if only because she was convinced that Dipper was still alive somewhere out there, and the first place he would come back to was Gravity Falls. Mabel herself didn't know if it was because she was in denial or if it was their twin thing.

Twice she had gone back to Gravity Falls during summer break, twice she had been disappointed because Dipper didn't- hadn't come back. She still didn't give up though and kept on coming back.

This year was the third time she came back after that one summer, and just like the last two years, her parents, Joseph and Mary Pines, will be accompanying her. They had only come because they were worried something like what happened to Dipper will happen to Mabel too.

The fifteen going on sixteen years old looked out of the window of the car, a mixed feeling reflecting on her eyes. Her instinct was warning her of danger up ahead, but the same instinct was telling her that something good would happen in the near future.

Mabel trusted her instinct most of the time. It never led her astray before. So she didn't tell her parents anything about her gut feeling.

Their car drove pass the 'Welcome to Gravity Falls' sign board, indicating that they were already in the town. Mabel noticed that some animals, normal ones for now, were running away from the town for some reason. She wondered why would those animals ran.

Her question was answered when the car suddenly stopped just outside the gates of the town, and she looked out of the window only to see Gravity Falls burning.

"No..." Mabel murmured. 'The town Dipper would come back to... it's burning! I can't let that happen! I can't let Gravity Falls burn! If I let the town burn, Dipper would have no place to come back to!' She thought, face pale.

She quickly opened the car door, despite her parents yelling for her to stay in the car and ran towards the town, leaving Joseph and Mary behind.

'It's burning, everything's burning! What should I do?' She asked herself. 'Ford! Grunkle Ford would know what to do! I need to find him and the others!' She thought as she ran toward the direction she knew Mystery Shack would be. 'Come on legs! Run FASTER!' she sent a quick glare at her legs.

It was so hot. People of Gravity Falls were running blindly in panic, shouting and screaming. It was hard to run in a place like this, but Mabel still ran. A few bumps and pushes and tripping from the panicking people didn't stop her.

She managed to get out of the crowd and entering the Mystery Shack area, considering the arrows on the trees with 'Mystery Shack' written on it. The flame hadn't reached the forest yet, but soon, it will.

'Please be in Mystery Shack, please be in Mystery Shack!' She thought.

She ran and ran and ran and since when did the Mystery Shack seem so far?!

And then she stopped.

Not because she wanted to, but because she was forced to.

A big silhouette of something inhumane appeared so suddenly in front of her. It turned and a pair of flashing red eyes glared at her. Mabel could see it more clearly now. It had the body of a human but the head of a goat. Its hands were talons, and its lower body was that of a tiger.

'What is that?!'

"My my my! Human! What a delight!" The thing drawled gleefully. "You are going to be a wonderful snack, human!"

'What is it? Some kind of hybrid? A demon?' She thought as she discreetly tried to reach for the gun Ford had made for her, one he claimed to work on most supernatural creatures, including low level demon.

She aimed the gun at the thing, but before she could even pull the trigger, the thing (definitely a demon, and not a low level one either) yanked her gun away with its telekinesis.

"You are a fool to think that you can kill me, meat sack!" The demon growled as its form began to grew more demonic by each seconds. A haunting terror ran through her vein.

'Am I going to die here?'

She was weaponless and powerless against the demon in front of her.

'I'm sorry Dipper...'

An image of her twin brother flashed through her eyes.

'I can't be here when you come back.'

She closed her eyes, hoping for a quick death.

'I'm sorry.'

And the sound of an ancient horn was heard once again, as loud as it did before.

Mabel opened her eyes, just in time to see something cut the demon into two as if it was just some kind of meat. A silhouette of a male, taller than her but not tall enough to be an adult, was seen behind the demon.

"Are you alright?" The voice was deep, not deep enough to be an adult's, but still deep. The voice was also familiar, somehow.

Mabel's eyes widened when the teen stepped closer. Said teen was wearing a white militaristic uniform with a red cape linked with a golden chain and an army hat. His gloved right hand was holding a silver sword. His calm brown eyes stared into hers, as if he was seeing directly to her soul.

There was only one thing that escaped Mabel's lips.

"Dipper?"


TO BE CONTINUED


A/N: Hello again there! Thank you for reading, following, favoriting (not a word, but whatever XD), and reviewing the prologue! Thank you for reading this chapter as well! It means a lot to me! I hope you like this chapter! Please give feedback, thank you!