Leaving Chapter 4: 4 (epilogue), a gravity falls fanfic

Here it is, the epilogue, in a completely new format! This is the last update I am planning to make to this story.

The website name in the body of the text is spelled out with 'dot com' because FFN deleted it otherwise.

Hope you all enjoy! I've certainly enjoyed tearing your hearts out!

Gravity Falls Gossiper, Sunday July 8, 2085.

Local Miracle

Maria Jimenez

Gravity Falls, Oregon. – On Friday, July 6th, the people of Gravity Falls became witnesses to a miracle.

A vacationing family noticed a young boy apparently in distress in the river that runs through Gravity Falls' forest and park and called 911. The paramedics were quick to respond and swiftly pulled the unconscious boy from the bottom of the river, where he was being swept along by the current. On-scene medics discovered that the boy had numerous wounds, most of them bruises likely caused by being swept into sharp rocks and debris by the current, along with some incongruous wounds, such as what looked like rope burn around his ankles and neck, and prepared to take him to the hospital.

That's when the extraordinary happened.

Around the time the ambulance was crossing the town border, the back doors of the ambulance flew open and the stretcher with the boy on it slipped out of the ambulance, crashing down onto the street and rolling into the woods, where it hit a tree and stopped.

The medical team feared that the boy would sustain further injuries from the incident, but when they found the boy, he was miraculously awake, apparently uninjured from the trip out of the ambulance and showing no negative mental effects as a result of being deprived of oxygen in the river.

He adamantly refused to go to the hospital, and the stunned paramedics agreed to treat his relatively minor injuries on the scene.

"It was incredible," paramedic Amanda Rush said. "We were worried he wasn't going to make it at all, being underwater for so long, but he seemed perfectly fine. Maybe falling out of the ambulance knocked water out of his lungs; I don't know how he survived all that. This is the kind of thing that almost never happens, and he's very lucky to have come out of this so well."

The boy in question left the scene before any paramedics could get his name, and could not be found to comment.

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6/24/2156

My Week in Gravity Falls, Day 2/7

After my talks with the locals yesterday, I determined that most of the weirdness in Gravity Falls resided in the thick, untamed woods surrounding the town itself. That is where the gnomes, cervitaurs, water spirits, shapeshifters, and the like are to be found—if you believe the people of the town, which I do so far.

Anyways, today I set out into the woods with my camera and some other gear to see if this town really was as supernatural as it's supposed to be. While I did spot a number of interesting and unusual plants and animals (I'll put up the pictures in a second post once I can sort through them), more interesting than even the two-headed lizard was a kid I ran into, who seemed to be researching the place like I was. He was carrying a practically ancient pen and even more ancient journal, apparently taking notes on the things he found in the woods. He seemed startled to see me, but talked a bit about the things he'd found in town, and warned me away from a couple areas of the forest he said would be too dangerous for me. He said he lived in the town, but didn't leave the woods much, and his journal seemed to back that up—the pages were crammed full of things the kid had found in the woods. All in all he was friendly, and getting to talk to a fellow paranormal researcher was what I thought would be the highlight of the day.

I headed back into town around sunset to grab dinner at the local diner, and that's when things took a turn for the truly weird.

Sarah, the waitress from yesterday, was on shift again today and struck up a conversation with me. When I mentioned the kid I'd met in the woods, though, she seemed to get really confused, and said that there were no boys anywhere near the age of the boy I'd met (who seemed to be about twelve) living in town.

I thought he might live in a neighboring town, and cross into the woods of Gravity Falls in his travels, but Sarah told me that Gravity Falls doesn't have any neighboring towns for a couple dozen miles, so the kid had to have walked quite a bit to get here if that was the case.

Then another waiter, I think his name was Raff, overheard and started talking too. Apparently his grandmother had known a kid who fit the description of the kid I met, a total recluse. He'd met someone his grandma claimed was the same kid a couple of times, always seeming about the same.

This left me with a couple ideas, of varying supernaturality:

- Somewhere in the woods there's a family of very similar-looking recluses who so rarely come out that most residents of the town don't even know they exist

- A shapeshifter or bodysnatcher-type creature has been assuming the same form for decades

- Vampire/ghost kid who wanders the woods of the town for some reason

I'll try and find the kid again tomorrow and maybe see what's going on with him, but in the meantime, do you guys have any thoughts or theories on what might be going on?

The Top 10 Spookiest Haunted Places in Oregon

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The Shack, Gravity Falls, Oregon

Locals' stories about this run-down haunted building hidden away in the woods of the town vary, but all agree on one thing: it's haunted by the ghost of a young boy. The most popular stories in town talk of him being beaten to death by abusive parents, accidentally drowning while swimming in the lake, and being killed in a burglary, among other things, all of which locals say would have happened well over two hundred years ago. The boy has haunted the Shack, and the woods of Gravity Falls, since then.

While the ghost is reclusive and stays to the least populated areas of the town whenever he can, he seems open to talking with people who do manage to find him, especially those who he perceives as being interested in the supernatural. He is apparently unaware of his death, and wanders the Shack and woods as if he is alive, eagerly seeking out the supernatural occurrences of the town to document in his withering journal.

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Oregon

Jump to: 2894 to 3006

2894 to 3006

In the year 2894, America finally lost the Great Niagara War with Canada, and gave up a number of its northwestern states to Canada in the resultant peace treaty(1). Oregon was one of the southernmost states to be offered, and was quickly assimilated, along with Washington and Idaho, to the Canadian government's system as part of the new Canadian territory of Pines, named after the Canadian general who won the Battle of Washington and therefore the Great Niagara War, Alisynn Pines(2,5).

Oregon was, for the most part, integrated without incident. Residents of Oregon were given a fairly standard thirty-day period from the transfer of ownership of the state to either move or apply for Canadian residency(1). A few riots and some looting took place during this time of transition(3), but this chaos was not long-lived. For more information on the few riots that broke out during the time of transition, see List of Oregon Transfer Riots.

The territory of Pines was split into twelve counties, largely divided along existing county and city lines(4) (see List of Pines Counties for more detail). Oregon was split into four counties, one of which shares land with the former Washington. These were counties 1, 2, 5 and 6.

All counties in the territory of Pines were under the governance of Canada, with elected representation in the Canadian government(4). For more information on the governance of Canadian territories, see Canada's Rule of Former States.

Oddities in County 2

Initial scouting for organizing Pines revealed a number of peculiarities in a town integrated into the new County 2(5,6). Scouts, surveyors, and land planners alike reported seeing impossible creatures and plants, as well as events that broke the laws of physics and reality, in a town the locals called Falls of Gravity(5). Canadian officials soon shortened that name to Falls and began deciding how to handle the abnormalities of the town to protect public safety(6).

It was quickly decided that the town, with its dangerous irregularities, was not safe for full integration, or any human habitation at all(6). The town was evacuated and sealed with fences and walls, and later energy fields, to prevent citizens from entering and potentially being harmed. Any entry to the town of Falls was declared illegal and criminalized with a punishment of up to seven years of jail time as a deterrent to potential entrants(6).

Some of the oddities described in initial reports include mythical animals such as gnomes, merpeople, and shadow creatures that follow travelers in the woods but remain unseen. Plants were reported to glow or grant strange properties to those who ate them, and crystals that grew and shrunk objects around them were also found.

In addition, several deadly creatures and other phenomena were discovered in the town that have been censored from public record so that citizens will not seek them out to prove their existence. It is these oddities that helped officials determine that Falls was not safe for human habitation and should be permanently sealed.

Into the Underground:

Urban Explorers of North America

Expedition to Fall, Oregon

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The Canadian government's 500-year criminalization of entry to a section of County 2 called Fall has lapsed in the last few months, which means that while deterrents to entry are still in place, looking around the place won't land your ass in jail (for the time being). We decided to take advantage of this lapse to explore the town.

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The energy fields and other modern methods of keeping people out of the town have fallen into disrepair lately. The primary field only operates when the sun is set, so we arrived early in the morning to have as much time as we could to explore the town without having to spend the night.

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Most of the buildings were in fair condition, still standing if worn down, which was much better than we expected before seeing the town ourselves.

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The sheer amount of time this town has been untouched is really obvious, especially when you take more than a sweeping glance and see all the details of the place.

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It's not just the ancient building materials, but also the omnipresent use of Old English for signs, graffiti, and all the other writing in town. Seeing it used outside of academic works and period movies was a bit trippy, like time traveling.

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What was really creepy about the town, though, was the old shack we found in the woods around it.

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A lot of the stories we found about the weirdness in Fall were centered around a shack in the woods that had a similar description to the one we found, but like stereotypical horror movie victims, we went in anyway.

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All the walls we saw inside were covered in Old English graffiti.

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One of the explorers on our team, Dave, took Old English in college, so he was able to translate some of the graffiti for us.

It was all repeating phrases, as far as he could tell at least, which was pretty much guessing because the writing was overlapping so much, and in so many different writing materials. The marker (and what looked like dried blood) were almost unintelligible, but Dave looked at what had been carved into the walls and came up with a few of the repeating phrases:

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"Remember then" or "Remember them" (Dave wasn't 100% on which of these it was)

"You're human"

"Alone forever"

Creepy, right? The place was giving us weird vibes from the moment we stepped in.

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We never made it up the stairs, because we'd been hearing weird noises from up there for a while, and when we started to go up, there was a vaguely human figure at the top of the stairs.

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This is the only shot we got of it, because everything went to hell once we realized what was there. We'd all read the stories about Fall before coming here, and this thing looked like the Undead Boy of Fall, so we booked it out of there.

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We explored most of the town, and I don't think we really need another run-in with the supernatural, so I doubt we'll go back.

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Obscure Gods: Alcor the Forgotten One

God of: Childhood, memory

Rumored to become visible in the woods of Oregon, the god Alcor takes the form of a young boy eager to explore and discover. He casually recounts events from centuries ago to those lucky enough to find him.

Invoke Alcor in spells involving children and youth, such as baby blessing spells, or in memory spells, like lost item or test prep spells.

Alcor should not be invoked in matters concerning adulthood or spells with negative effects, such as curses. The younger the age of the person invoking Alcor, the more powerful the effects are.

Top 50 Unsolved Mysteries we Left on Earth

Human habitation of the planet Earth outside of research work has all but ceased in the last century, and humanity has turned to living among the stars instead. Here's a list of some of the greatest mysteries we were never able to crack before we left.

3: The ageless boy in Fall

Photo, video, and holo records from a span of thousands of years depict a boy appearing around twelve years old with a unique birthmark on his forehead. The boy appears the same age in all records of him, and is apparently ageless and immortal, having lived through wars and a 500-year+ period of total isolation. How this is possible, or if science can explain it, is still unknown.

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Even the most fun toys get broken and worn-down eventually, and lose their spark. Even the best of puppets have a limited lifespan, in terms of being entertaining even if not in terms of actual lifespan.

And this one hadn't been fun for centuries.

Sure, Bill thought, at the beginning he was a riot. Watching him weep and wail and fight was even better than having a meat puppet to use for chaos, and watching him inflict on himself the pain he'd so desperately tried to avoid while possessed was sweet, delicious irony.

But all the life had died out of Pine Tree centuries ago, it seemed. After his sister, and her children, and their children, and any ties he'd had with civilization had died, he'd gone quiet.

While breaking toys was the most fun a demon could have, playing with the broken ones wasn't very entertaining, especially when they couldn't even be used with other toys.

Bill had puppets elsewhere, now, in other star systems, even. The symbols and notes this one had left had resulted in his image, and his power, being spread across the galaxy, and had made it so easy for him to make a few more deals, pick up the possession of dozens more people.

He supposed that Pine Tree deserved some thanks for that, and at the same time he could dispose of a broken toy.

And so, when the sun swallowed the earth in its dying heat, Bill cut the power he'd been using to keep the boy alive, and Pine Tree burned.