Mabel arrived back at the Mystery Shack, flinging the door open as she made her arrival. "Hey, everyone! Have you heard that the woods has some sort of a guardian-protector?"
"You mean like a park ranger?" asked Stan, busy counting how much money was in the cash register.
"No, some archer creature with an Elk head," continued Mabel, "His name is Hylaeo-something or other. And he's one awesome-looking guy."
"An awesome-looking guy with the skills of archery and some distinct features?" responded Soos, walking up to Mabel, "I think I've heard of his kind before..."
"Oh yeah", said Wendy, leaning her back against the wall with her hands in her pockets, "I think I used to hear a few stories when I was little about these Deer-headed things that protect the forest."
"You know, I think I might have an answer to what you met Mabel," said Dipper, right then racing upstairs to grab the journal.
"Ugh! More supernatural creatures revealing themselves and people believing it?" questioned Stan, "I seriously wonder if business ideas like that will never stop coming." He said this with the thought of more earned money in his head, making him smile.
Dipper was then back in the gift shop with the "3" journal and was already flipping through the pages. He finally found something on Elkron and asked the others to come over and see it, which they did, except Stan, for he was too busy with money-dreaming.
It said that Elkron are ancient and benevolent creatures, often respected by the local Native American tribes of the area. They are protectors of nature, knowing that every native life form in an ecosystem is precious. They are always ready to combat anything toxic to nature, whenever it comes to the land.
"The one I met, named Hylaeo-something-or-other," said Mabel, trying to remember how to pronounce Hylaeocervopus's name, "said that he was guarding something, protecting us all from a 'swarming horde.'"
"Swarming horde?" said Soos, intrigued by the mentioning, "Sounds like the time I had a serious case of countless Fleas biting me."
"Maybe he meant by concealing imprisoned giant evil bugs or something?" suggested Wendy.
"That might be right," said Mabel.
"That just raises a few more questions," said Dipper, beginning to pace back and forth in thought, "What is this Elkron truly hiding and why is it a threat to us all?"
Meanwhile, Lil' Gideon was marching through the forest, feeling frustrated about failing to conquer the Mystery Shack. He was so upset that it seemed as though his arteries would burst.
"It's just not fair!" shouted the boy in frustration, "If only I could claim the Mystery Shack with my own personal army!"
That is when he accidently hit his head onto the side of very tall boulder. The boulder stood almost as tall as the trees and a small inscription was carved into its stone surface. The inscription was written in some sort of Pacific northwestern Native American tongue. Of course, Gideon could not read it.
"Maybe this could be my key to possession of the mystery shack," he said to himself out loud, "Maybe the secrets to what this huge rock is hiding are literally lying beneath it!"
So he picked up a smaller flatter rock, about the size of a dinner plate, and began to chip away at the giant boulder's base, ready to uncover whatever it was hiding. Indeed his mad lust for possession of the Mystery Shack had driven him to be as insane enough as to uncover a forbidden secret. Control and power was all he could think of as he continued chipping at the great boulder's base violently.
Just at that moment, Hylaeocervopus the Elkron burst out of the undergrowth, shocked to see Gideon chipping at the buolder.
"HALT!" shouted Hylaeocervopus, his voice startling Lil' Gideon.
"Who are you?" questioned Gideon, "Some escapee from a freak-fair show?"
"I am Hyelaeocervopus of the Elkron," responded the Elkron, walking right up to Gideon, confronting him with a glare, "I protect this land from what lies beneath this boulder. So what do you think you are doing, little Human?"
"Why sir, I am only trying to find a way to take control over a certain museum-shack from a man named Stanford Pines," replied Gideon, glancing back at whatever the chipping had revealed (which was some kind of round and carved stone seal in the ground).
"Seeking control over others is a path towards hatred and suffering," said Hylaeocervopus, "And I know what I am talking about...DO NOT UNCOVER WHAT LIES BENEATH THIS CONCEALMENT!"
"Says who?" sassed Gideon.
Hylaeocervopus pointed right at the carved inscription on the great boulder. "It reads 'Do not uncover what lies beneath this massive rock. For at your own life's risk, you and others will suffer a deadly consequence.'"
Ignoring the warning, Gideon reached into his pocket and pulled out a small shard of sparking crystal. This was a fragment of a new sort of magical item called a paralysis crystal that he had collected from the woods a while back. "I knew this would come in handy some day."
And he aimed the crystal shard straight at the Elkron, out of it came a blast of energy that struck the guardian, temporarily immobilizing him. Gideon went back to work on chipping away at the stone seal now partly showing from beneath the boulder. He successfully broke a hole through the seal and looked down into it, seeing nothing but darkness.
"Heeelloooo?" Gideon called down the fractured hole, "Any destructive beings down here to serve as my own personal army?"
The echo of his call carried down into the darkened great chamber beneath the seal. And that is when several orange-colored eyes appeared from within the concealed darkness and starting making chattering-click noises. All of a sudden, they all charged forward, up to the fractured seal, using their numbers to push it open. Gideon helped them by getting out of his other pocket one tiny fragment of shrink-and-grow crystal he had kept with himself for a while and used it to shrink the great boulder blocked the seal. The seal then immediately burst into pieces, causing Lil' Gideon to fall over onto his bottom. He then saw long, Spider-like legs start to emerge from the lair belowground. The sight made Hylaeocervopus terrified out of his mind. "Do you realize what you have done?" mumbled the Elkron (mumbling since he was still under paralysis), "You have doomed us all!"
"At last!" Gideon cheered, "My own army to finally overthrow Stanford and conquer the-"
Just before he could continue his sentence, Lil' Gideon saw one of the things from below shoot a large amount of sticky silk webbing right at him, trapping him in place, unable to run away to safety.
It was one of the worst mistakes Gideon had ever made. The creatures from the underground chamber began to officially emerge, ready to finish what they had started so long ago...