Thank you to anyone who kindly reviewed Chapter 2. (No rude comments please.)
Trust No-one because reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram.
After the whole story was translated to Stan, the four of them waited in silence as he picked up a Pitt Cola from the table and slurped it slowly.
"This does seem like a problem kids" Stan said after a while. "If that little devil takes over the shack this time I'm not living with Soos' grandma again. No offense Soos."
"None taken Mr Pines" Soos said, although the expression on his face said otherwise.
"What do we do Grunkle Stan?" Mabel asked worriedly as she stroked Waddles who was snorting in delight.
"I'm not sure kids. Dipper, isn't there something in that journal that could help us?" Dipper paged through his journal and shook his head sadly. "Bill is the most dangerous creature there is; nothing can defeat him."
"If only we knew what Gideon's plan was" Soos said thoughtfully.
"That's it Soos!" Dipper cried, looking through his journal as quickly as he could. "We may not be able to stop Bill, but we can find out what Gideon's plan is."
"How?" asked Mabel. Dipper pointed at a page in the journal and everyone leaned in to have a closer look.
"The future teller" he said and started to read a sentence from the book. "The future teller knows everything that will happen; and what people are thinking. He lives in the cave -" Dipper paused to look closer at the sentence. "The rest of the sentence has faded away" he said with a sigh.
"Remember that time when we tried to take a picture of the sea monster on that island and it turned out to be a robot built by Old Man McGucket" Mabel asked.
"Yeah and we had to hurry to that cave" Soos said, remembering that day when Stan had forced the twins to go fishing with him.
"Wait. Soos you're a genius!" Dipper shouted. "The future teller is in the cave behind the falls."
"Woah" Wendy said.
"I'm guessing we've got to go there now" Stan said already getting up.
"If we want to keep the shack" Mabel said as she patted Waddles on his stomach and picked him up.
"Mabel, keep that dumb pig here!" Grunkle Stan cried, sipping the remains of his Pitt Cola.
"Yeah dude its dangerous for a pig out there" said Soos, nodding his head. Everyone agreed and Mabel reluctantly left her pig rolling around on the rug.
"Bye Waddles" she said sadly as they all left the shack.
"Just got to put these unbreakable locks on the door" Stan said while he placed several locks on the door "just in case that little maniac finds out we're not here." As soon as Stan was done, the five of them hurried to the Gravity Falls Lake where Stan reluctantly hired a boat for them to use.
"This'll be fun" said Wendy as they sailed further away from the shore and journeyed towards the falls once again.
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"Has it always been this dark around here?" Stan asked. Dipper took out his flashlight and walked along the deck of the boat. An owl flew above their heads so close that its feathers brushed against Dipper's hat.
"I wonder if we'll see those beavers again" Soos said.
"Let's just find that future teller and get out of here" Stan replied. They sailed on for a while in silence until they heard a low growl coming from the water.
"Was that you Grunkle Stan?" Mabel asked fearfully.
"Not this time" he replied, throwing his Pitt Cola can into the water.
"Er dudes, maybe we should sail faster" Soos said in awe. They all nodded silently.
"How far is the falls, Dipper?" Mabel asked.
"I'm not sure, but it shouldn't be too far."
"Woah look at that!" Wendy said, pointing at a bat circling the air.
"Is that... half vampire half baby?" he asked looking up at it. The creature had a body of a vampire with big black wings and a face of a baby with big pointy ears and huge fangs.
"Keep the boat moving kids" Grunkle Stan said.
After a while of sailing with little conversation, they noticed the falls they had seen when trying to escape from the mechanical sea monster.
"Look dudes" Soos cried.
"The falls!" Mabel pointed at the rushing waterfall, trying to shout over the sound of the water that bounced off the rocks and splattered the deck of the boat with small wet puddles. The sound grew louder as they neared, and in the split second when Mabel thought her blue strawberry sweater would be soaked with water, and when Dipper clasped his journal inside his jacket and Stan held on tightly to his fez and Wendy thought that sailing full speed into the rushing waterfall was just about as cool as anything else she had done over the past weeks, they had passed the watery barrier separating the cave from the outside and their boat landed in the wet sand.
"We made it" Dipper said brushing off a few bits of sand that had stuck to his clothes. Surprisingly, none of them were completely soaked and they quickly dried off in the sunlight that penetrated through the waterfall.
"What now?" Stan asked as soon as everyone had dried off.
"Find the wizard man" Soos said, looking around at the bare walls of the cave.
"What's that?" Mabel asked, squinting at something on the far side. It was a wall of bright chalky rocks very near to the mouth of the cave, sprayed with water from the waterfall. Some of the rocks at the bottom of the wall had eroded and turned a grey colour; but the rocks at the top looked like they had been placed just a few hours before.
"Let's find out" Wendy said. They all walked towards the rock wall, stopping to get a better look at it.
"This must be where the future teller is" Soos said nodding slowly. He reached out a hand to knock on the wall and they all waited a few moments, holding their breath. Nothing happened. He knocked again, a little louder. Still nothing. This time Grunkle Stan tried knocking with both hands as loud as he could. But there was no sound of anyone except a faint low buzzing coming from the other side of the wall.
Dipper sat down, his back against the rocks, and sighed. He opened the journal to the right page and read each sentence again carefully, but with no luck, he merely closed the book and sighed again.
"Look dude" Soos said suddenly, pointing at a tiny blue circle on one of the rocks in the wall. He pressed it and almost instantly one of the large rocks in the wall slid to one side.
"A hidden door" Stan said, as if he had known it was there all along. The space was just big enough for Soos to squeeze through on his hands and knees. Dipper led the way, carefully crawling through and making sure that the journal hadn't slipped out of his pocket. Mabel went next, brushing bits of powder from the chalky rocks off her strawberry scented jumper.
As soon as everyone had crawled through, the low buzzing sound became louder and they found themselves in a large space like a room enclosed by the white bricks around them.
"What is that sound?" Stan grumbled, fumbling with his hearing aid. "It's definitely not my hearing aid!"
Mabel pointed at a large nest in the centre of the space. "It's coming from that" she said. Dipper edged closer and tip-toed to see over the side of the nest.
"Soos can you see what's in the nest?" he asked. Soos leaned forward, squinting; he nodded and turned to face him.
"It's one of those vampire baby creatures" he said nervously, stepping away from the nest. Dipper paged through the journal and stopped at a page with a picture of the creature.
"It says that the creature is dangerous when it's in water because that's where they get their energy from. When they're asleep they are harmless" Dipper read. Soos let out a sigh of relief and patted his head.
"It's asleep."
The low buzzing sound stopped and replacing it was a loud high pitched cry.