Chapter 2
"Dipper! Wake up!" Mabel whispered frantically. Dipper slowly opened an eye.
"It's one in the morning, Mabel, this better be good." he said groggily.
"It isn't good at all!" Mabel sobbed. "It's Waddles! I can't find him at all! He's- he's gone!"
"Well... um... what do you want me to do?" he asked.
"Help me find Waddles."
"Where? Your pig could be anywhere." he said.
"Please help me." Mabel said.
"No, go back to bed." Dipper said impatiently. But Mabel wouldn't go back to bed. She just sat there, looking as sad as she could be. Dipper sighed. "Fine," he said, getting out of bed, "But you owe me one."
"Thank you thank you thank you! Now where should we start?" Mabel asked.
"Outside?" said Dipper.
"Sounds good to me!" chirped Mabel. When the twins arrived outside in the forest, Dipper checked a map cautiously while Mabel played with a moth. "He's so cute!" she whispered in awe. "Maybe we can put him in a jar and-"
"Mabel- shh!" Dipper interrupted. "What's that noise?"
"All I hear are crickets!" Mabel said loudly.
"Shh!"
"Well I don't know what you're talking about, Dipper. I don't hear anything!" All of a sudden, the trees swayed violently. The bushes rustled, and a pair of footsteps- big footsteps- echoed through the woods. Mabel took a step closer to her brother. "I-I hear it now." she whispered. The footsteps were louder now. They surrounded the the twins and engulfed the cold night air. Shadows danced, and the crickets were not heard.
"I want to go inside." Dipper said miserably. Mabel nodded fearfully in reply.
"What d'you think it is?" she asked.
"Something big!" Dipper replied. He turned around. "Where are we?" he asked.
"We must've gone too far into the forest!" Mabel said.
"We weren't walking that long!" Dipper exclaimed.
"Leave it to Dipper to get is lost in two minutes flat." Mabel muttered. The footsteps got louder. "Omigod!" she shouted. "We need to go!" Dipper sighed nervously. The bushes parted and he jumped.
"Run!" he yelled.
"Huh!?"
"Just run!" So the twins raced across the hard forest floor. Branches snapped at their wake, and thorn bushes jabbed at their legs. Was the thing even following them? Better safe than sorry, though. A dark shadow cowered by the bases of a large clump of pine trees.
"Waddles!" Mabel cried. But the shadow was only a bobcat. She frowned. That wasn't her pet pig? The darkness seemed to consume the woods. Were they lost? A certain passageway dumped Dipper and Mabel out by Lake Gravity Falls. "Should we jump off the dock?" asked Mabel. "That would be fun!"
"Eww, no. Do you even know what's in that lake?" Dipper asked. Mabel shrugged.
"I'm not feeling so good." Mabel gasped. "Can we take a break?"
"No. Can't... Stop." Dipper said through heavy breathing. All of a sudden, Mabel fell.
"Ow!" she cried. "It hurts! It hurts sooo baaad!"
"What does?" Dipper shouted in alarm. And that was when Mabel passed out.