After Fiddleford left Stanley went back to examining the journal. The red book would always haunt his dreams along with the screams of his brother being sucked into a whole other world. He knew this book must have been important, Stanford acted as if it was his whole life, it had to have some clues in it. Stanley poured himself a cup of coffee and settled down in the secret lab beneath the shack opening the thick book. The book was interesting but he saw no reason to hide it then again he was only on page two. Everything was about mystical creatures that lived in Gravity Falls and nothing seemed that harmful other than a couple troublesome gnomes and some creepy stuff. Why would Stanford want to hide this? He flipped the pages until he came across a page with just a part of a triangle drawing, "What is this?" there was no writing just some strange symbols. It was the only page that really stood out but something seemed so familiar about it.
"Holy shit!" Stanley had figured it out, the page was part of the design for the portal! He let out a happy laugh realizing that this was the very clue he needed. Now the only downside was that it was only part of the design but he remembered his brother saying something about the other journals being hidden.
"Ford you fucking genius" now he understood why these books had to be hidden. They held the directions to create something dangerous and if it was to fall into the wrong hands then lord knows what would happen.
Now all he had to do was find the other journals and put them together to form the whole diagram. Stanley had no idea where to start looking but he had a hunch one of them would be in the forest. It would make sense considering these journals were about the creatures that lived in the forest. Maybe he wasn't as stupid as people thought he was!
All he had to do was begin gathering the materials needed. He looked over the page noticing some things appeared when they were closer to a black light "Genius!" Ford had written stuff in invisible ink as a precaution! Maybe there was more information on the other pages that he had missed before. It was going to be a long night but now he wouldn't be staying up to avoid the things that plagued his dreams. Stanley Pines was happy to be staying up all night, he was going to find every secret about this journal and the portal to save his brother.