Chapter 3 – Lost in the woods

A/N: Hi everyone! Sorry for not updating sooner I was really busy with school. Anyway here's chapter three and I hope you enjoy it.

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Back in Gravity Falls, Bill's TV show was the talk of the town! The kids in playgrounds and adults at work all talked about the same topic. Most people who watched the first episode were familiar with the kidnapped nine, but who is Bill? No one had seen him before.

Later that night, a crowd of worried families stood in front of the police station complaining at the sheriff including Pacifica's parents, Robbie's parents, Bud Gleeful, Wendy's dad Manly Dan, McGucket's son Ranger, and Soos' grandma.

"Hey, please now calm down!" Sheriff Blubs said. "One at a time!"

"Calm down? My daughter is missing! You saw her yourself she looks terrible!" Mrs. Northwest yelled at him, hands on her hips. The crowd murmured in agreement and joined her yelling at the two officers. Blubs and his deputy looked around nervously trying to calm the crowd before things get out of hand.

"Don't worry. Everything will be alright. Durland and I will start a search party tomorrow and we'll find those kids. I promise!" he assured. Everyone seemed okay with that and calmed down a bit though they didn't trust the two useless officers to accomplish anything. Soon they all went to their homes with hundreds of questions going through their heads. Are the kids okay? Did something happen to them? Where are they right now? They will have to wait until tomorrow and watch the new episode.

Bill meanwhile decided to commence his plan. He descended to the forest and into the cave, the scenery changing to black and white in his presence. Ignoring the other humans around him, his eye searched the cave and found his target.

The pines family.

Dipper was curled up between Stan and Mabel, sleeping soundly. "Aw they look so cute together, too bad that won't last." He thought as he became above them. Closing his eye to focus, a light blue fire erupted in his small black hands, giving their grey surroundings an eerie glow. He shoot too beams of light at the pines twins and a bright blue aura shined around them before fading away.

Smirking at this handiwork, the triangle being began making his way out of the cave. He made one final finger snap to wake the creatures inside the cave before he disappeared.

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When the morning came, everyone sat silently in front of their TV screen waiting for something to happen again. Meanwhile, Candy was in her house watching a movie with Grenda. They have heard people talking about a weird show yesterday, but they never caught up to it.

"Hey, have you seen Mabel around?" asked Grenda as she sat on the couch with her.

"No, I've been trying to call her but she doesn't answer, no one does." Candy explained. Suddenly, the TV screen began flickering and a blonde man in a yellow suit appeared, grinning at them.

"Hello civilians of Gravity Falls! Did you miss me? Admit it you've missed me." he chuckled. Scowling in annoyance at the weird man, Candy grabbed the remote and tried changing the channel, but to her surprise nothing happen! Sighing in defeat she placed the device on the couch and decided to watch whatever this was.

Bill continued. "I'm sure you all want to see what happened with the Pines family and all the others. Well you won't wait any longer. Here's day two where the fun begins!" Bill suddenly disappeared and the camera showed a small girl with brown hair sleeping along with eight other people.

"Wait a minute is that…MABEL!?"

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A strange sound woke Dipper up, feeling groggy he rubbed the sleep from his eyes and tried looking for the source of the sound. It was still dawn and the scent of fire still lingering. He gasped when he saw pairs of yellow orbs staring at him. He could see the outline of large creatures hiding in the dark slowly approaching them. Everyone else was still asleep though. Standing up, he took a few steps back.

"Uh…guys?" said Dipper nervously, few people from the group woke up and gasped in fear, the rest did the same.

"D-Dipper, what do we do?" Mabel whispered. The creatures were getting closer.

"RUN!" Wasting no time, Dipper took Mabel by the hand and ran as fast they could out of the cave, their friends, and enemies right behind them. The shady figure soon came into the light, revealing creatures with crimson brown fur. They had ember yellow eyes, sharp claws, and fangs. They looked similar to a pack of wolves but abnormally bigger.

Dipper, still holding his sister's hand, made his way through the woods with Wendy, Robbie, and Pacifica right behind them while Stan, Soos, McGucket and Gideon at the back. The tree branches kept hitting into them leaving small cuts on their skin but no one dared to stop running. The pack of wolves was still after them growling hungrily, the gap between them was getting smaller.

Soon enough Dipper spotted a lake coming into view and an idea came to him. "Everyone! Into the water, now!" he yelled as he dove into the water. Everyone did as they were told. Pacifica and Gideon however hesitated for a moment fearing the water might ruin their looks, but did in the end. The two preteens rose to the surface and gasped for air. Looking around, they sighed with relief when the whole group was here. The angry pack came to a halt when they got too close to the lake. The biggest one which was their leader growled viciously at them. Then it noticed a small objected was left behind…

"Oh no! My back bag!" Dipper gasped. All color was drained from their faces as the animal ripped the brown back bag to shreds with its teeth, dropping everything inside it on the ground. After searching through the pile the wolf gave one last growl at them before disappearing into the woods with its pack.

Seeing the coast was clear, the nine swam to the land and began drying their clothes and hair.

"What WERE those things?" Wendy asked, panting on the grass.

"I don't know, but they're gone for now," Dipper walked to where his stuff were and frowned. Most of them were broken and useless while would need some repairing. He picked up his broken compass and sighed.

"Wow, dudes. I'm so glad we made it out of there. Who knew those things would be living in the cave?" Soos stated relieved.

Dipper's anger grew. "Which is why we should have inspected it before sleeping it like I said, but you guys wouldn't listen to me! If we stayed any longer we could have been killed!" Dipper yelled. His family and friends looked down guilty while his enemies just huffed.

"If we're going to make it through this we need to stay calm and work together. Panicking will only make things worse."

"But where will we go?" McGucket asked.

Dipper rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "I'm not sure yet, we couldn't have gone THAT far from Oregon so there still a chance we could go back." he explained. "C'mon let's go,"

"Wait a minute, who made you the leader?" Gideon asked bitterly.

Dipper looked confused. "What? I'm not. I'm just trying to help!"

"Well you're acting like it." Robbie scoffed. "Look kid, I'm not taking orders from a twelve year old."

Bill watched in his triangle form as the three continued bickering. He could use this rivalry between them to his advantage in the future. Now for part two of his plan. Floating down behind a tree, he changed into his human form and took off his bow tie and top hat. "I can't let the pines twins recognize and expose me to everyone. If they did everything I had planned would be ruined." he said to himself as he peeked from behind the tree. Taking a deep breath, he walked from behind it and made his way to towards the nine humans.

"Mabel, Wendy, Soos. Can I talk to you for a second?" Dipper asked. His sister and two friends followed him. "How are supposed to survive if Gideon, Robbie and Pacifica won't do what we tell them?"

Soos thought for a moment. "I dunno, dude. Those guys aren't crazy about us."

"Don't worry Dipper. I can talk Robbie into listening to you." the redheaded teen stated.

Dipper smiled. "Really?"

"Yeah, no problem." she said coolly.

Mabel added. "I'll try convincing Pacifica too. She and I made some progress after that golf war thing happened!"

"Thanks guys." he replied. Just then they heard Stan's voice calling.

"Hey, kids! Come here quick!" he yelled. Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, and Soos returned to the group and saw the blonde stranger with them.

"Grunkle Stan, who's this?" Mabel asked curiously.

"This is Billy. He said he lives here and knows the way back to Gravity Falls, isn't that great?" His uncle exclaimed with excitement.

"So can help us?" Wendy asked. Raising an eye brow, Dipper eyed the man suspiciously. Something felt off about that guy, but what?

"Sure thing Red, but I'm not the one who'd help." Bill then pointed to the mountain far away from them. "There's someone who can help you get back home at the bottom of that mountain. You'll get there if in a few days if you go now." 'Billy' explained, the grin never leaving his face.

Everyone now was excited and eager to be back to their homes. "Well what're we waiting for, let's go!" Robbie was the first ahead followed by everyone else.

"Thanks!" Mabel said to the blonde and left with Dipper who kept a wary eye on him before following her. Bill watched as the group became out of sight with a full grin.

Now he just has to wait for everything to fall into place.

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A/N: What will happen to Dipper and the others now that Bill tricked them into going to the mountain? What did he do to the twins at the cave? You'll find out in the next chapters.

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