Mabel’s Personal Diary
June 19, 2022 I’m having trouble remembering what happened yesterday. It all feels like a bad dream. All I remember is being comforted by everyone I know and love, which frankly, after everything I’ve been through the last few days, I feel like that was earned. Dipper and Ford caught me up on everything that happened. Long story short, I was almost a pawn in an attempt by Pacifica’s parents to create a copy of Bill to regain their fortune. Seemed like an awfully long way to go to get rich again. I guess you shouldn’t underestimate the greediness of some people. I was a little surprised to find out that Pacifica was semi involved in it. I really thought she had moved past the influence of her parents. But turns out, she very quickly turned on them during the ritual and helped Dipper and Ford. So, in the end, she really did move past her previous ways. I always knew it. She spent hours afterwards apologizing, even after I accepted it many times. I could tell that she really felt bad about it. After all that, I had an amazing night sleep for the first time in days. I didn’t have the nightmare, and when I woke up, I felt so rested. I guess Mr. Aster was right. I just needed to confront the trauma of the past in order to make it stop. In all honesty, this is what I needed. I had held onto the idea that I caused Weirdmaggedon for the last ten years. It kept eating away at me every time it crossed my mind again and again and again. But thanks to this, I know that it wasn’t my fault. What I did in the past is in the past. The only thing that matters is that I’m not that person anymore. Now the time has come to go back to my old life. The adventure is over, for now. We said a goodbye to everyone in Gravity Falls. I wished Soos and Wendy good luck in their lives. I’m just so happy that they’re happy with their lives. Now it’s time to find what will make me happy in my life. And it looks like I’ll be going back alone. Pacifica has decided to join Dipper and his friends on their adventure. She wants to make a new identity for the Northwest name by making big discoveries and traveling the world. I also think there’s something between her and Dipper. That really makes me excited. I can’t wait to see where this is going. So what am I going to do? I don’t really know. But now I don’t have the past holding me back anymore. I’m free to finally push forward to the future. Dipper’s Journal #3 June 19, 2022 We finally did it. We stopped Bill once and for all. Well, I guess we thought we did that ten years ago, so anything is possible. Though I hope he doesn’t come back from this. The most important thing right now is that Mabel is safe. We saved her from being possessed by a copy of Bill. I do wonder what kind of power that thing was capable of, but it’s best that we never saw that. I didn’t want my sister controlled by a demonic trickster. I don’t think I had ever seen Mabel so emotional after that, even though she says she doesn’t remember much from what happened. Maybe that’s for the best. But what she does remember was forgiving herself for breaking the rift. She finally accepted that it wasn’t her fault, and that it was bad for her to hold onto something that happened in the past. Then there’s Pacifica. Yes, I was mad that she would even consider helping her parents with something so terrible. But after she apologized to both of us for hours afterwards, I could tell that she was genuinely remorseful. She really has changed from her old, selfish ways. Speaking of her parents, it looks like they won’t be doing any summoning from now on. In the time since that summer, Ford had invented a new version of the memory gun that Mabel had smashed. That’s what he and Stan had been using in case their adventures led to anything too outlandish. Now he’s used it on them. He erased any memory of the summoning ritual and of Bill from their minds. Though they were still bitter about losing their fortune, at least that’s all they were. Hopefully they won’t try anything too insane like that again. In all this chaos, I almost forgot about our movie. Charlie and Katie had been documenting it throughout and got some good footage. But we’ve decided not to use any of it. It just seemed too personal a mystery to use in a movie that we plan to show in public. We were left with nothing in the end. That’s when Ford gave us an offer. He and Stan were heading down south to investigate supernatural phenomenons in the Amazon and asked if the three of us wanted to come along. He said it was an adventure that would work better with a larger group. Of course we said yes. We didn’t have the money to film anything outside the country, so this was a great opportunity. Surprisingly, Pacifica is coming with us. We didn’t think that this was something she would want to do. But she told us that she wanted to make something new of the Northwest name, and thought that adventuring around the world, making new discoveries and rewriting history, would be the way to do it. I’m actually really happy she’ll be joining us. I’m curious to see how she fairs in an adventure bigger than this one. Compared to where we’re going, this was nothing. It’ll also be nice to get to know her more. Maybe even… I mean…. um… Look, I’m just going to let whatever happens happens, alright. We all said goodbye to everyone in Gravity Falls, though this probably won’t be the last time we see them. We even made a deal with Soos to send him images of creatures and phenomenons that we find so he can add them to the Mystery Shack. He figured some international creatures would bring in more business. As for Mabel, she’s heading back to Los Angeles by herself. Only this time, she’s not scared about it. She’s actually quiet confident. She doesn’t know where her life will go, but she’s happy she won’t be hanging onto the past anymore. She’s free to finally make her way into the future. As for me, I also don’t know where things are headed. I’m excited about the new adventures we’re going on with Stan and Ford. I’m excited to be going on this with my friends. I’m excited to show Pacifica places beyond what she’s probably seen. But as for where this will all lead in the end, who knows. And you know what, there’s nothing wrong with that. I’m ready for a bit of surprise.
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Stanford Pines’s Journal #8
June 19, 2022 I had never seen Dipper so angry before. After discovering that note from Pacifica, he was completely baffled, going on about how he thought he knew her better and that he thought she had moved passed her parents’ influence. I had to help him collect himself so we could go after them before they could complete the ritual. I saw the Northwest’s taking Mabel as I was returning to the motel. We finally got the statue out of the whole, and I wanted to see if she and Dipper were OK. They left the site very angry with each other. I hadn’t seen them that mad at each other since right before Bill broke into our world. That’s when I saw two figures taking Mabel into the woods towards the site, and that note confirmed that it was Pacifica’s parents. It seems that they think bringing Bill back will help restore their family fortune. Well, turns out that the ritual isn’t quite like we originally thought. If done correctly, it won’t necessarily bring Bill back in the traditional sense. Instead, it’s designed to create a tulpa of him through someone else’s thoughts. When given enough power, the tulpa will have the power to take over a person’s body. So, in a nutshell, this copy of Bill won’t have the same powers as the original, and thus isn’t as much of a threat. However, if we don’t stop this, the tulpa can completely push Mabel out of her body and can wear her as a skin. That’s what we have to stop. We called Stanley, Wendy, and Soos to help. We all got together and returned to the sight, where we found Pacifica and her parents reciting the spell from the journal, with Mabel in the center with her eyes closed. The wind began picking up and Mabel’s eyes opened with a blue glow. Dipper didn’t waist any time. He was the first one to come out of hiding and confront them. While her parent’s weren’t willing to stand down, Pacifica wasn’t standing as strong. Dipper kept trying to convince her to stop. It did seem at first that she wasn’t going along with it, until she suddenly took a swing at her father, and everything stopped. The commotion aloud me and Stanley to come in and restrain them. It was Soos that noticed that Mabel was still under the control of the spell. Her eyes were still a blank, blue glow. The tulpa of Bill was still forming inside her head. The only way we could stop it now was to go into her mind and stop the tulpa from forming. So, me, Dipper, and Pacifica used my old spell from one of my lost journals and entered into her mind. We found ourselves at a weird and distorted version of the Mystery Shack. Everything was black and white, except for a growing yellow light coming from the woods. There was also that piercing laugh that I will never forget. We found Mabel on the porch, just standing there. She seemed frozen in fear. She was staring at the yellow light. We all ran up to her and tried to snap her out of it. The only way for us to stop Bill was for her to stand up to him. It was her memories of him that were powering him, and she had to let them go in order to stop him. But no matter how much we tried, she wouldn’t move. It was taking too long, and we could see Bill starting to slowly come together. I could feel genuine fear throughout my body. It was really looking like we weren’t going to make it. Finally, it was Dipper who stepped up. He told her that he forgave her for willingly handing over the rift to Bill, and that she needed to finally let go of the guilt she was holding onto. After a minute of silence, Mabel snapped back. She walked off the porch without saying a word and walked up to the forming Bill. Right before he finished coming together, she took a big swing at him, shattering him to pieces. The light started to fade and everything became quiet. We stared at her with smiles as we started fading back to the real world. Me, Dipper, and Pacifica woke up back in the forest. We sat up and looked at Mabel, who slowly opened her eyes. All of us surrounded her, asking her if she was OK. She didn’t say anything. It was hard to tell what she was thinking. She then turned to Dipper. Her eyes started tearing up and she leaned over to give him a big hug. Slowly we all went in for a big group hug, all trying to comfort her. It was a very pleasant moment after all of the madness we just went through. All of us took a collective sigh of relief. We had put a stop to what could’ve been a new kind of disaster; one where we could’ve lost Mabel. But we saved her. It was all over. Dear Dipper,
If you’re reading this, then you probably already know what happened. I know a lot is going through your head right now, but let me try to explain. It all started back during that summer. When my parents lost most of our family fortune, I was suddenly thrust into a new life I wasn’t really prepared for. Initially we were able to afford a good sized mansion; one that wasn’t as big as the Northwest Manor. Still, it was enough for my parents to continue rubbing their success in others’ faces. However, when it started going around that my father lost money by investing in “weirdness bonds,” the Northwest name slowly became a joke among other millionaires and billionaires. No matter how many times he tried to plead his case and explain what happened, no one ever believed us. It also didn’t help that, in the ten years since that summer, the public opinion on rich families has become so vindictive. Sure, it didn’t help that my parents never did anything to help out others, but that didn’t register with them. I thought people telling them how selfish they are would change their minds, but I guess if an ancient ghost can’t make them see the error of their ways, then a bunch of people on the Internet won’t do much better. The longer we had to deal with this, the more bitter my parents became. My dad did everything he could to try and get our fortune back. He invested in absolutely everything. The problem is when you do that, the more money you sink into things that never work out. As the years passed, we kept losing money. My mom even tried to get back into modeling, only to get rejected because nobody liked the way she looked. The world was turning its back on my family, and all they could do to just get angrier and angrier about it. They couldn’t let go of the idea that they’re better than everyone else, even as we continued to fall down the social ladder. This was a lot of the reason why I turned by back on them. I could see how selfish they were, and I came to realize that I wasn’t like that. Even though there was a lot for me to get used to, I eventually felt that I didn’t need the luxurious things that I was given my whole life. I tried many times to convince them of the same, but they just couldn’t let it go. So when I finally reached college, I decided that I didn’t need to be involved with them anymore. I wanted to try and make the Northwest name better and not defined by the greediness and betrayal. But I still hold onto the burden of where I came from. It’s hard not to think about all of the terrible things that my family has done. All of the lives they ruined just to get what they wanted. Sometimes I lie awake at night just thinking about it. So when Ford told us about the treasure my family stole and we discovered that secret room in my old house, that felt like the final straw. It was another chapter in the book of awful things they’ve done. And now I know that they once pledged their allegiance to an evil being that tried to destroy the world. I just couldn’t fathom how stupid my family is. I had a conversation with Mabel about this last night. She encouraged me to talk to my parents and finally confront these feelings. So I did. I went to their home and talked to them. At first, they weren’t all that accepting of what I had to say. I basically unloaded on them. They didn’t seem all that interested. That is, until I told them about what we found. I told them about the treasure and the worshiping of Bill in out family. That’s when they got the idea to try it themselves. Apparently my grandfather told my father about this in order to pass down a way to preserve the family fortune if anything happened. The one step that the journal didn’t mention was that in order to bring Bill back, you need someone who has the image of him in their mind. In other words, Mabel’s nightmares. I didn’t want to participate. My parents felt like villains trying to convince me. So I don’t really know why I eventually agreed. Maybe part of me just wants them to be happy again. Maybe part of me thinks that going back to the rich life that I once knew. I don’t know. So my parent’s have take Mabel to the statue to try and bring him back. I know what your going to think of this, and that you’re probably not going to forgive me once this is done. I just hope you’ll understand how my mental state is. Again, I’m sorry, Pacifica Mabel’s Personal Diary
June 18, 2022 I’m starting to wonder why I even came here. All I tried to do was give the best solution, and no one listened to me. We spent the morning looking for Bill’s body today, and we found it down in the dinosaur caves. In fact, it was right in the spot where the nest of the Pterodactyl that took Waddles was. I still remember that day, and how Stan faced the dinosaur head on to save Waddles. It was one of the bravest things I had ever seen anyone do. When we finally got down to it, Great Uncle Ford was determined to get it out of there so we can destroy it for good. But to me, it was already at the bottom of the cavern that no one even knows about. It would make more sense to just leave it there. But both he and Dipper disagreed. They wanted to make sure no one could get there hands on it. I think it was this arguing that attracted the Pterodactyl to where we were, and we had to fight it to get out of the cave. After that, I didn’t feel like helping out anymore. I felt like I wasn’t really being listened to, and because of that, we nearly died. If they had just listened to me and left that thing down there, then we would have gotten out much quieter without any trouble. It’s not like I didn’t respect Dipper and Ford’s opinions. It’s just that I thought my idea was better. I mean, seriously. Even if someone was desperate in trying to bring Bill back, how desperate would they really have to be to go down there to retrieve his body. Now I’m scared we’re just inviting someone to try and take it. Dipper and I argued about this as we headed back to the motel. We went back and forth for what felt like hours. Then he went and accused me of blaming myself for Weirdmageddon. He said that my paranoid behavior was me blaming myself for letting Bill into our world all those years ago. And well, he’s kind of right. I guess he never knew, so I told him. I told him that I gave Bill that dimensional rift in a desperate attempt to make summer last longer so I wouldn’t have to go back to California alone. It was my childish fantasy wishing that nearly got the entire world destroyed. How was it not my fault? He seemed really surprised. He had thought the rift had broken in his bag when I took it. Still, he tried to tell me that it still wasn’t my fault; that I was just upset. And also, I was just a kid. That was just a typical kid response. It usually just doesn’t involve evil demons who want to use that reaction to get into our world. This is also when I finally told him about my nightmares, and how I think it’s Bill trying to reach out to me. It’s what I wanted to tell him about before we got dragged onto this adventure. Even when we came back here, the nightmare has still been plaguing me. Maybe that lack of sleep is fueling my anger right now, but it still makes me mad that he’s not really listening to me. It’s just… It’s been hard dealing with this guilt. How am I supposed to forgive myself for something like this? How am I supposed to live with the idea that I was once so selfish that I blindly almost caused the end of the world because I felt like my world was ending? How am I Dipper’s Journal #3 June 18, 2022 Even as adults, Mabel still knows how to get on my nerves. After coming face to face with a Pterodactyl for the first time since our first summer here, Mabel and I had probably one of the biggest arguments of our lives. We had spent the majority of the morning looking for the physical body that Bill left behind after we defeated him. When we finally found it, Ford suggested that we take it to the surface and destroy it. That’s what he’s currently working on right now in the forest with Soos and Wendy. Personally, I thought it was a great idea. By destroying it, it would prevent anyone who might find out about the resurrection spell from actually trying it out. It’s better to just burn those potential bridges before anyone has the chance to cross them. But Mabel disagreed. She suggested that, because it was at the bottom of a cave that no one knew about, that we should just leave it down there. It was this arguing that led to the Pterodactyl to finding us and nearly eating us. Thankfully, Ford was able to put a stop to it and we got out safely. Mabel and I, along with Pacifica, Charlie, and Katie, decided to go back to the motel. For me, I wanted to really figure out what was going on with Mabel. She’d been acting very strange since Ford arrived in Los Angeles, and even before that. She hadn’t, up until that point, told me what she originally wanted to talk to me about. As our argument continued, I finally had to bring up what I had been thinking about for the longest time. I told her about how she had been blaming herself for Weirdmageddon ever since it had happened. I think what caught me off guard is that she actually agreed with me. She told me about how she was tricked by Bill, in the body of our old time traveller friend Blendin Blandin, into giving him the dimensional rift in exchange for more time in Gravity Falls. I actually had no idea about that. I just assumed that the rift broke in the bag after she took it. So yeah, now I can kind of see why she would blame herself for what happened. It was a very childish response to the idea of me staying here and her going back by herself. But I tried to tell her that it was a normal response, because she was a kid. She needs to let go of this because it happened back then, and she can’t let it eat away at her her whole life. After we got back, I actually sat down to talk with Pacifica for a little bit. She told me she understood where Mabel was coming from because she felt the same way about the horrible things her family did in the past. However, she also saw my side of the argument, and that she has been slowly trying to accept that the past is the past. I guess I also need to see it from Mabel’s point of view too. I can’t just force her to believe something else. She needs to work on forgiving herself in her own time. I just don’t want to see this eat up her life. I’m just trying to be there for her. You know, it’s funny. As Pacifica and I talked, we both seemed very comforted by what we were saying. It’s the most interaction we’ve had in quite a while, and I still never fully see the sweet person she actually is. Now we’re all just hanging out in our respective rooms. I’m planning to go back and help Ford after relaxing for a little… Ford just told me that Mabel’s gone! He saw two people taking her from her room and into the woods. We need to go after them! Stanford Pines’s Journal #8
June 18, 2022 What a day it's been so far. Today was the day that we ventured into the Gravity Falls woods in search of Bill’s petrified body. While I still can’t confirm Nathaniel’s spell that claims to bring him back can actually work, it’s better just not to take any chances. I’m not putting the world under Bill’s threat again. We all met up at the Mystery Shack early that morning. Our whole team consisted of myself, Dipper, Mabel, Pacifica, Stanley, Soos, Wendy, and Dipper’s friends. It felt like we were going on an old adventure from a decade ago. Even someone like me was feeling a bit nostalgic of that summer we all first met. But we had to focus. The possible fate of the universe was in our hands. Once we were all together, we headed off into the woods. We headed towards the part of the woods that Bill’s fortress was approximately floating over when he invaded our world. It was the best place to start. After about an hour of hiking, we came to the spot. There didn’t appear to be anything around there. We split up to see if we could find something. We scanned the area for quite a while. Then I heard a scream. I turned around to see Dipper and Mabel trying to pull Pacifica from a hole she stumbled into. Once she was safe, I looked into it and I saw it. Way down at the bottom of the whole was the statue, completely in tact. His stone hand reaching out for a handshake like he would do. We tied a rope to a nearby tree and lowered it down into the hole. Dipper, Mabel, and I were the ones who went down. We slowly got to the bottom. It was almost completely dark aside from the light from above. As I studied the statue, a flood of memories came flooding back to me. I remembered when I was first tricked by Bill back when I was still studying the town. I remembered the one-on-one battles I had with him in his home dimension. I remembered the nightmares that were unleashed into our world when he broke through. I was all coming back to me. I was already working out how we were going to get it out of the hole. Surprisingly, it wasn’t that heavy despite it being solid stone. We could easily tie it to another rope and rig up a pulley system that could haul it up. While Dipper agreed with this idea, Mabel didn’t seem to feel the same. She was suggesting that we just leave it, since it was already in a place where seemingly no one could reach it. I told her that I didn’t want to take that chance. We needed to make sure it would get destroyed, basically diced to pieces. Dipper tried to get her to see otherwise, but it didn’t seem to work. They got into a small argument that I had to put a stop to to get them to focus. Then Mabel began taking notice of the cave around us. She pulled out her phone and shined its flashlight into the darkness. We saw that we were actually on come kind of perch in a much bigger cave, with what looked like remnants of a nest around us and the statue. Dipper then suddenly realized where we were. He quietly told me that we were in the nest of a Pterodactyl that lived below the town. I remember speculating about that possibility during my initial studies, especially since many of the trees in Gravity Falls are excessively sappy. But I was never able to find any evidence to confirm this. That’s when I realized something kind of terrifying. We had been hearing what sounded like gusts of wind all around us. But now I know that that it was something flying around us. That Pterodactyl had been flying around us in the darkness this whole time. That’s when I knew that we had to get out of there. I tied the rope to Bill’s top hat and instructed Dipper and Mabel to start climbing. When I turned to Mabel, I saw that she had found the creature. She was shining the flashlight right at it, staring at it while it stared back. I told her to be very quiet as it got closer and started sniffing her. I pulled out the small laser gun I had and fired it at the creature. It screeched and flew off into the darkness. Dipper grabbed Mabel and we all started going up the rope. The creature made a few attempts to snap at us, and I fired at it every time it got closer. Once we got to the top, the others helped us out. I fired one last shot at the creature and that seemed to do it. It fell into the darkness, past the perch where the statue was. I can’t confirm whether or not I killed it, but at least I knocked it out. Now we have the setup for our pulley system, so we didn’t have to go back down there. Everyone seemed happy. Despite the dangerous situation we were just in, it did feel like we were back on an old adventure, and even I have to admit that it was exciting. However, things seemed a little tense between Dipper and Mabel. She had nothing to say and simply walked off. Dipper decided to go along with her back to the motel, with his friends and Pacifica following. So right now, I’m attempting to rig up our pulley system along with Stanley, Soos, and Wendy. We think we’ll get the statue out of the whole by the end of the day. The sooner we get this done, the better in my opinion. Mabel’s Personal Diary
June 17, 2022 Tonight was fun. We may have found out a way for Bill to return to our world, but we did get to catch up with old friends. That almost makes up for that. After our adventure at Pacifica’s old family home, we all got together at Lazy Susan’s Diner to catch up. We had made plans to do this before going to the mansion. If we’re going to see all of our old friends again, we’re going to find out what they’ve been up to all this time. Once we all got there, it immediately felt like old times. Where do I even start? I guess, first off, Soos is a dad now. We saw his little girl running around when we first arrived. It was one of the most adorable things I had ever seen. I always thought he would make a great dad. I mean, he put himself in front of any danger that came at us when we were kids. It’s nice to see that he has his own happy family. Wendy is also doing great. Turns out, after our battle against Bill, she embraced her family’s life of survivalism and working in the lumber industry. She now runs her own lumberjack business along with the rest of her brothers, which she says is really successful. She’s also love in life too. She told us about a local girl named Lauren that she’s been dating for a few months now. They have a lot in common and Wendy is really that she met her. I’m glad that she finally found someone. I still remember the long list of boys she gave me that she had broken up with when I was initially feeling bad about dumping Gideon. It’s nice that she finally has someone she’s happy with. She also told us what everyone else in our group has been up to. Robbie and Tambry are still together (thanks to me), and they both work at the Edgy On Purpose store in the Gravity Falls Mall. Lee and Nate are up in Seattle trying to be the next big comedy duo. Thompson is a full-time online gamer. The most surprising thing she told us was that Gideon was still here. He has started his own advertising business, offering his skills to sell himself to sell other businesses. I guess this was his way of trying to make up for all the bad things he did as a kid. At least he found a constructive way to use his own personal skills. Honestly, this was the most fun I’ve had in a very long time. It was so nice getting back together with the friends that helped define a big part of our lives. But the only person who didn’t seem to be having that much fun was Pacifica. Throughout the whole night, she hardly spoke. She answered questions that someone asked her, but other than that, she pretty much stayed silent. I talked with her about it later that night. We were staying at the Gravity Falls Motel, since Dipper and I’s old room at the Mystery Shack was now Soos’s daughter’s room. I found her sitting outside later that night and I went out to talk to her. She told me she was feeling terrible about all the new things we learned about her family, and how now they seemed even worse than before. I told her, as nicely as I could, that maybe she should go confront her parents about it. Through the little she has told me, her parents are still in town. I feel that holding onto the guilt about her family’s actions without confronting it is doing more harm than good. She isn’t going to go anywhere if she keeps hanging onto the past. Much like… OK, I’ll just say that I relate to her plight, and I don’t want her to make the same mistake I might have. Despite some hesitation, she decided to do that. She’s off to her parent’s new house right now. I hope it goes well. I guess I better get some sleep, we’ve got a big day tomorrow. Dipper’s Journal #3
June 17, 2022 It’s amazing how some places just never seem to change. It’s been years since Mabel and I have been back in Gravity Falls, and yet, the tiny town hasn’t changed a bit. Everything is pretty much exactly as it was the last time we left. Words can’t really describe how excited I am to be back. I’ve had a lot of adventures over the last few years, but this one feels different. We’re going back to the place that set me on this path of adventuring and weirdness exploration in the first place. I get to share the place that changed my life with my friends, and finish up our movie as well. And to top it off, I’m back with Mabel, Ford, and Pacifica. As we drove through downtown, Charlie and Katie were taken aback by how small and rustic the town was. For me, it was just nice to see the old sights; like the local arcade and Lazy Susan’s Diner. It’s not often you get to see a place so quaint. Then, of course, we made it to the Mystery Shack. The place where Mabel and I spent that summer. It’s good to see that it’s still in business, and also haven’t changed a bit since the the last time we saw it. Even with Soos in charge, it looks like he kept it in pretty much the same condition that Stan did, albeit in a way that’s nicer looking. Speaking of Soos, he was out front finishing up with a group of tourists when we showed up. He can still pull off the suit and fez look. The second he saw us, he ran over and gave Mabel and I a big hug, just like when we were kids. He was so happy to see us again. Honestly, even ten years older, Soos also hasn’t changed a bit. Well, except for the fact that he’s a dad now. He and Melody got married during our time away, and now they’re parents to a little girl named Becky. You know, I always did think Soos would make a great dad, just judging on how he protected us during all of our crazy adventures. He always put Mabel and I’s safety over his own. But reintroductions had to wait. Ford wanted to get down to business. Soos told us that Stan was already at Northwest Manor investigating clues from the journal page. So we made arrangements for all of us to meet at Lazy Susan’s Diner that night to formally catch up. I was very curious to see how Pacifica’s old house would’ve changed over the years. Ever since McGucket bought it, I’ve wondered how it was going to change. It was a lot more space for his various inventions. Turns out, quite a lot. The manor looked pretty much the same on the outside, the inside was covered with different kinds of contraptions. Ford said it looked like how the Mystery Shack did when it was his home. We also reunited with Stan, who already had some ideas on where to look for clues. He took us back to a room full of old paintings. In fact, the same room where Pacifica and I hid from that vicious ghost. We saw a lot of the same paintings that she discovered, all depicting times when the Northwest family tricked someone throughout their history. I could tell that she didn’t like seeing those again. Unfortunately, we didn’t find anything relating to the treasure in that room, surprisingly. So we decided to scour the rest of the house for clues. We spent a good while searching around the house for anything that represented the journal or the treasure. We kept looking through every last corner, but nothing was coming up. That is, until we found something very concerning. Off in a corner, we found a rather large tapestry showing people worshiping Bill. McGucket had no real explanation why he didn’t take it down. We found a button underneath it that opened a secret door to an old stone stairway. We followed it down to a room that was just full of Bill related things. It was basically a shrine to him. It was actually kind of terrifying. We had never seen anyone outside of our group even know about Bill, let alone actually worship him. We never thought he would actually have followers. On a pedestal in the middle of the room, we found a journal. It was the journal that the page had been ripped out of. It was only half full of entries written by whoever originally had the treasure (he never mentioned his own name). The other half was full of entires written by Nathaniel. He talked about how he was going to use the treasure to devote himself to Bill’s cause. There was never any mention of when he started worshipping Bill, but that’s all he talked about. He said the mansion was built to protect himself and his future descendants from Bill’s destruction so they could help him build his new world. The last entry was the scariest. It talked about how Nathaniel was trying to come up with a spell to bring Bill back if something were to happen. While it didn’t give any details about what the spell requires, that was enough for us. Whether he was serious or not, this meant that there might be a way for Bill to be resurrected back into our world. Ford had a theory about this. When Stan made the deal with Bill to allow him into his mind, Bill left a stone statue of his body behind. We weren’t sure if it was still there, as most of his influence was erased after we destroyed him. But we didn’t want to take any chances. We had to make sure that statue was erased, and if it wasn’t, then we had to destroy it. We had to stop any chance Bill had to return to our world. That’s why we’re all going out tomorrow to try and find it. Mabel’s Personal Journal
June 17, 2022 I can see the water tower. It still has the explosion graffiti that Robbie would always brag about. I can’t believe it’s still there. I guess it must have been really strong spray paint. The forests around us are starting to look familiar. They look just like how they did when Dipper and I left that summer. It seems not much changes within this valley. The air still smells like the same country air. I just can’t believe I’m almost back in Gravity Falls. It’s been so long. We did go back the two summers after the first. We had so many more adventures with all our friends. But once Dipper and I reached high school, we found ourselves preparing for adult life during the summer. So, it’s been about eight years since we’ve been back. We’ve still kept in touch with everyone; Soos, Wendy, and my besties Candy and Grenda. But we haven’t physically been back to the town for some time. At least, until now. So much has happened the past few days. Great Uncle Ford showed up in Los Angeles completely unannounced. He arrived literally the same day as Dipper did. I swear that wasn’t planned. That suddenly overtook what I wanted to talk to Dipper about. First and foremost was what Ford needed to talk to us about. We all went out to the T.G.I. AppleRucker’s Family Restaurant down the street from the university. Ford preferred someplace a little more private, but I mean, how private did he think the city was going to be. It was all we could think of. Once we got settled in our booth, we began catching up immediately. Dipper talked about all the things he and his friends had been videotaping around the country. Ford was even impressed with some of the things he was able to find. I could sense that Ford was still seeing Dipper as a kindred spirit of him. Even Dipper and Pacifica had a spirited conversation about what they were each up to. Man, I still remember when there was tension in their conversations back in Gravity Falls, but now that tension seems to be gone. They have real chemistry between them. Maybe something more… Whoa, I’m getting distracted. After a while, Ford finally got to the more important topic at hand. He told us all about his and Stan’s uncovering of treasure on a weird island in Newfoundland, and showed us this really old journal page that they found, which made mention of an ancestor of Pacifica’s. You know, the one who was originally thought to be the founder of Gravity Falls. Ford asked her directly if she knew anything about this. But she didn’t. Honestly, outside of the various misdeeds that some of her ancestors did, she didn’t know much about her family. From my experience, she doesn’t really like to acknowledge her family anymore. Ever since she came to realize the terrible people they were, and seeing how willing they were to pledge their allegiance to Bill (which led to their fortune getting destroyed), she’s tried to completely write them out of her life. She’s been trying to make a name for herself outside of the greediness that ran through the generations before her. So, she doesn’t like to talk about her parents, and I don’t even think she keeps in touch with them anymore. Obviously, these weren’t the answers that Ford was looking for. So, that brings us to now. He figured if Pacifica didn’t have the answers, then they might be somewhere in her old home back in Gravity Falls. He asked if the three of us would come with him to help solve this new mystery. Dipper immediately took to the idea. He loved that he would be able to go on another adventure with Ford again. He also asked if he could bring his friends along, thinking this would be the last mystery they needed to finish their project. Ford seemed a bit hesitant, but very quickly changed his mind. Pacifica, on the other hand, wasn’t as enthralled about the idea. She didn’t outright say it, but I think she was afraid of what we might dig up about her family. It was both Dipper and I that managed to convince her, thinking that uncovering this secret might make her feel better. As for me, well… There’s part of me that is excited to be going back. It’ll be nice to see all our old friends again after so long. Plus, it’s been so long since Dipper and I had an adventure together. We are the Mystery Twins after all. But I’m also kind of scared. I’m still having the nightmare, even had it last night. I still have no idea what it’s about, and I haven’t been able to talk to Dipper about it. I didn’t really get a chance to last night. Dipper did ask me afterward while we were walking down the street, but I just thought it wasn’t the right time. Maybe, like Pacifica, I’m afraid that this might provide an answer to my nightmare. I know that’s what Professor Aster said would be good for me, and maybe that would make things better. But I don’t know. I wonder if I even want to know the answer. I’ve spent so many years attempting to get past what I… But I want to be there for my family. Even if I don’t have the best feeling about it, it would look even worse if I tried to back out. So, here we are. Ford, Pacifica and I are riding in one car, while Dipper, Charlie, and Katie are in another right behind us. We’ve just passed into the town limits. I just hope the answers we get aren’t more than we can handle. Stanford Pines’s Journal #8
June 13, 2022 We’ve finally been granted access to the island. Stanley and I had been trying to get onto Duckling Island for months to try and solve the mystery of the supposed treasure buried there. Unfortunately, a Michigan carpenter named Matthew Lobertta and his brother Ron had gotten to it first. Worse yet, they somehow convinced the Used to Be About History Channel to tape them for a hokey reality show. They’ve been tearing up the island for years now, and somehow, they managed to top television ratings despite never finding much. That’s because they don’t know ancient mysteries like Stanley and I. I had been researching the Duckling Island mystery even before I ended up in Gravity Falls. I had been wanting to get on there and find what was at the bottom of the Treasure Pit for most of my life. In fact, that was one idea I had when I first received my grant money. So of course, when I finally get the chance to explore it myself, there’s an annoying television producer there telling my brother and I that we’re not allowed on the island. We’d been spending these last few months coming up with different ways to try and persuade them to let us on, but nothing seemed to work. That is, until Stanley managed to bribe them with most of our royalty money from that book. Who actually thought that stupid book would actually make us enough to bribe a producer, especially one with a title that’s equally stupid; “Dr. P’s Extraordinary Guide to Magic & Mystery.” I always thought turning my research into a novelty book was a terrible idea, but Stanley thought it would help make some income for our adventures. And you know him, always looking for new scams to mine profit from. Well, he was right this time. Who knew? Anyway, today was the first day we were allowed onto the island. We actually got to see their ludicrous operation for ourselves. It really looks like they’ve sunk a lot of money into this, and yet, they’ve made so little progress. I was able to share some of my theories with the Lobertta brothers. They had the whole thing videotaped for their show. I wasn’t a fan of that, but Stanley sure ate it up. He loved having the exposure. Even with cameras filming us, we actually had a great conversation about how to reach the bottom of the Treasure Pit. I was able to come up with a way to block off the water network that filtered into the pit. It was going to involve a complicated process that is way to complex to explain here. It’s a method I had been developing for years, just in case I was ever able to put it into action. We’re going to get started tomorrow. Hopefully it all works out, otherwise this would be all for nought, and we’ll be the laughing stock of the Duckling Island fan pages (even though I didn’t really care about that). June 15, 2022 It all worked out. Our method of filtering the water out of the pit actually worked. It was so much more effective than anything they’ve tried to do for nearly a decade. Even the Loberttas were surprised. We finally made it to the bottom of the pit, entering a semi-large cavern that was still wet from the water. At the center of the cavern was a large wooden box. We cheered with excitement. We had finally reached the treasure. We couldn’t wait to see what was inside. There was a small door on top, with a very old lock on it. It was no match for my watch laser. We got it off fairly easily and got the door open. That’s when we saw it. It was empty. There was no treasure to be found. Not even a single gold coin. It was completely empty, save for one thing. A strange sheet of paper laying at the bottom of the box. Further inspection from me revealed that the inside of the box was completely lined with strange material that basically made it waterproof. I’m still not sure what it was, but clearly they wanted to protect the treasure from all forms of threats. And whatever it was, it kept this paper perfectly preserved. It looked like a page ripped out of an old journal. It said: “My last entry. All of my crew have been driven away. I am being forced at sword point to bury the box without the treasure. I’m leaving this for anyone who manages to find the box. I can’t leave it where anyone will find it, or I will be killed. Just know that it was that traitorous Nathaniel Northwest that forced me to do this. He stole our treasure and forced me to setup this game for anyone foolish enough to go looking for it. Know that this was his doing.” Nathaniel Northwest. I hadn’t heard that name in so long. I first learned about him in my research into Gravity Falls. He was used as a cover to get rid of the town’s founder Quentin Tremblay. I had read that he eventually left town to prove something of himself after growing tired of being treated like the town’s waist-shoveling village idiot, but I was never able to figure out where he went after that. Until now. There’s so many questions that this raises. Of course, the Loberttas and their producer wanted to know if we knew anything about this, hoping to include it in the show. Stanley and I played dumb. We didn’t want them involved in this. So we left without another word. Stanley and I knew exactly where to go. We both knew that the Northwest’s youngest descendant, Pacifica, was in Los Angeles with Mabel. We thought about trying to reach her parents, but they’ve been almost completely off the grid ever since the Northwest family fortune was destroyed by Bill. We weren’t exactly sure if she would have the answers we needed, but we figured it was worth a shot. So I’m currently heading to Los Angeles. Stanley is going back to Gravity Falls to find out anything ahead of time. Our plan is to meet back up in the town, hopefully with an idea of what we’re looking for. That’s what I hope Pacifica can provide us. Dipper’s Journal #3
June 16, 2022 Our flight is on time. We should be landing in Los Angeles later tonight. Charlie is listening to one of his podcasts in the seat next to me, while Katie is across the aisle working on her screenplay. I know she’s asked me to read it over, but I haven’t really had the time. Also, a story about evil robots doesn’t really hit the same after going up against Gideon’s giant mech. I’m just thinking about Mabel. It’s been a while since we last talked, and she specified that she needed to talk to me in person. I’m still not entirely sure what it’s about, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it’s happening now. It’s been a whole decade since the summer we spent in Gravity Falls. What we experienced in that town has stayed with us forever. I mean, it’s entirely the reason why I’m traveling the country studying weird phenomenon. Even though I didn’t take Great Uncle Ford’s apprenticeship, I still wanted to follow in his footsteps. He told me that summer that Gravity Falls was a magnet for weirdness, which included him and me. From that moment on, I knew that it was what I was going to dedicate me life too. So, I basically went back to my original plan. I graduated from high school with a high GPA; one of the top students of my class at Piedmont High School. I also took the time to make little movies about any kind of weirdness throughout our town. It’s those movies that got me into the California College of Film in Los Angeles; a place that I knew would give me the education I needed to start my own exploration into weirdness. That’s also where I met my friends. Charlie was my dorm mate when I started. Just like me, he also had an interest in weird phenomenon. He witnessed a lot of it when he visited his family in India, but went most of his life with no one believing him. He was even nervous to talk about it with me at first, but once he did, we were both excited to finally find someone else who understood. We met Katie a few years later. Charlie and I were starting our last year when she first arrived. I was looking for someone to help direct some smaller scale documentation, and her flair for visuals seemed to have the vibe we were looking for. At first, she was skeptical of what we were looking for, but after an encounter with the legendary Mothman, she was fully on board. She’s just a fun person to hang around, especially along with her girlfriend and other friends. It wasn’t long before we started traveling the country. Our goal is to create a film that tries to bring wider attention to weird phenomenon and proving that curtain famous “myths” are actually true. Yes, there is a chance that many won’t believe that our footage is real, but we figured there’s no harm in trying. Although I’m proud of what we have accomplished so far, this journey does keep Mabel and I apart. I knew that eventually we were going to follow our own paths. We almost did when I initially decided to take Ford’s apprenticeship, and she wasn’t too happy about that. After our summer in Gravity Falls, we stayed together throughout our teen years. We really had an unbreakable sibling bond, even as we got older. It’s when we made it to college that a rift started to form. Going to different schools meant our schedules were very different. We didn’t have as much time to hang out like before. We did talk pretty much everyday, and made a point of hanging out at least once a week. But when Charlie, Katie, and I started putting our film together, that became my one and only priority. At least Mabel still had Pacifica. I still can’t believe how much she has changed through the years, as well as how close a friendship they formed. She’s a much more caring person now, very different from the self-centered rich girl she used to be. But even with her, I still got the vibe that Mabel wasn’t herself. To be honest, I think there’s a part of Mabel that never got over her reaction to the apprenticeship. She’s never said it, but I think she believes that she caused Weirdmageddon. It was her running off with my backpack, containing the dimensional rift, that allowed Bill to somehow break it and tear into our world. I think she feels responsible for almost destroying the universe. I often think that Mabel’s mellowing out was a response to this. Though she’s still a fun-loving person, she’s nowhere near the eccentric goofball she was all those years ago. I wonder if this was her way of trying to make up for what she thinks she did; by becoming more mature and actually taking responsibility. Again, this is all hypothetical. Mabel has never once actually mentioned anything of this nature, and I’m not about to confront her about it. I’m just afraid that I might be wrong and she could take it badly. I could just be reading too much into how she’s changed since that summer. I’m just wondering about what she wants to talk to me about. I really hope she’s doing alright. I guess we’ll find out when we get back. No way. Ford is here in Los Angeles. We just made it to Mabel’s school and that’s the first thing she mentioned. She didn’t even bring up what she wanted to talk about. All she said was that he wanted to talk with me, her, and Pacifica tonight over dinner about something very important. I’m not sure what it is, but we’ll find out soon. |
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