Hi there everyone. I know it has been a long time since I have posted anything, so let me just apologize to people that were waiting for something. I honestly didn't have anything else to write about. Nothing was really that interesting and I was just moving on with my life. The reason I am back is I decided to start up writing again! My boyfriend of two years dumbed me and this was all I could think of to move on, which isn't a bad thing trust me! This is been fun I honestly forgot what it was like to create something, so I am excited to see how you guys feel! I have watched Gravity Falls before and instantly loved the show, then I started reading all about Reverse Falls and instantly fell in love with how creative everyone go about the life of these characters from a different persecutive. So thats my story. I have outlined my entire story line for this set up, so it will be completed. I already am finishing up chapter two so be on the look out! I hope you guys enjoy!
Today is the big day! Pacifica thought to herself as she stared out the window of the moving bus.
I am gonna finally meet Gideon after 10 years! I hope he remembers me. Pacifica tried to think back to the last time she saw her baby cousin. It was either he 8th birthday party at her 9th, either way, she recalls it ending in tears when Uncle Bud announced that he and Gideon were moving to Gravity Falls, Oregon to start a new life after the divorce of Gideon's mom. She begged her mom to talk to her brother but she said that it was final. Now here she was going to stay with him for a whole summer after she pleaded with her mom for a whole month, even told her she would stop collecting 80's vinyl so she could save up for a bus ticket. The day her mother established that she could go was the happiest day of her life, and she just turned 19 a week ago.
I hope this isn't gonna be to weird between us...we haven't spoken in so long. What if he has new friends, or worse no friends? That's okay I can make us new friends! I'll make everyone sweaters and then we'll have an 80's dance party and - Pacifica was thrown out of her thoughts when the bus came to a sudden halt. She looked out the window and saw that they had finally arrived at her destination. Pacifica practically leaped out her seat and off the bus, not caring that she probably knocked over five people on the way out. Once she was off the bus she scanned the crowd for a speck of white hair. After 5 minutes of rocking back and forth on her feet, she finally spotted her cousin trying to squish his way through the crowd.
"Gideon!" The blonde yelled as she saw his face come into view. She raced towards him with open arms and wrapped him in a big bear hug.
"Pacifica," Gideon choked out, "you're squeezing me a little too tight."
"Oh sorry," she said putting him back on the ground and tucked her arms behind her back, "I was just really excited to see you. It's been so long!"
"Yeah, 10 whole years huh?"
"I know! You've grown!"
"Hah Pacifica," Gideon said with forced laughter, "and you are still wearing sweaters in 90-degree heat."
"What," Pacifica said in defense, "sweaters are always comfy." Gideon laughed, this time for real, and grabbed Pacifica's bag off the ground.
"Come on," he said turning around, "my dad's waiting outside for us" Pacifica smiled and followed right behind Gideon to a blue Chevy car outside.
"Hi Uncle Bud," she said with a wave as his face came into view.
"Well hello Pacifica!" he said with a huge smile, "my you have grown young lady. You're almost as tall as your mother the last time I saw her." Pacifica nodded her head and crawled into the back seat of the car as Gideon slammed the trunk and came in on the other side.
"All right now? Everyone got their seatbelts on?" Bud asked.
"Yup," said the cousins together.
"Then let's get going!"
After thirty minutes of driving and listening to nothing but the radio, they group finally pulled up the house. Pacifica got her things out of the trunk and followed Gideon to her new room for the rest of the summer. It was kind of dull and boring, but nothing she couldn't fix with a bedazzler and some glitter glue. After she was all settled in she went to Gideon's room to ask if they could do something before dinner.
"Um we can go to the pool?" he suggested.
"Gideon it's almost 6," she said, "the pools closed by know."
"What about going downtown?"
"I don't know it's gonna be dark when we have to walk home."
"Well, what do you want to do?"
"I don't know. I have never been here before," Pacifica said with a sigh. Gideon let out a sigh too. It was frustrating to be close to someone yet still feel like strangers. "Let's just go downtown I guess."
"Great," Gideon said, "I know a shortcut through the woods!" Pacifica and Gideon grabbed their coats and headed out the back door into the woods. As soon as they were outside, Pacifica was kind of regretting the decision of this shortcut.
"Are you sure you know where you're going?" she asked hesitantly.
"Of course I do," Gideon said, "I've lived here for 10 years! I know what I'm doing." They walked deeper into the forest as their shadows began to grow. "It's just a left at this boulder right...here."
"Um Gideon," Pacifica said, "there is no boulder."
"That's impossible," Gideon said stunned, "I was here last week and there was a boulder here! Where did it go?"
"Maybe it got up and walked away?" Pacifica asked trying to add to humor to the mix. Gideon was not having it. Instead of laughing he started to pace back and forth and mumble to himself. "You could have taken a wrong turn back there."
"I didn't," he said in defense, "I swear I followed my footsteps exactly like I did last week. So unless someone moved it, which doesn't make any sense-" something in the ground caught Gideon's eyes as he was pacing where the boulder used to be. Pacifica heard that he stopped talking, and followed his eyesight to a piece of leather sticking out of the ground.
"What is that?" she asked as he walked forward.
"I'm not sure," Gideon answered as he stuck his hand on top of the dirt covering the item and began to dig around it. He pulled out the mysterious article and realized he just dug up a really old looking book. It had a gold six-finger hand on the front with the number three drawn inside of it.
"Well," Pacifica said appearing next to him, "open it!" Gideon opened up to the first page in the book.
"Property of...blank," he read. The name had been torn out of the book. He continued to flip the pages until he came across one with blue ink scribbles on it and big letters that said 'TRUST NO ONE'.
"Huh. That's not at all omnibus or anything," Pacifica said as she took the book from him and continued to flip pages. "Uncle Bud is gonna flip when he sees this."
"I don't think we should tell him," Gideon said, taking the book back from Pacifica, "at least not yet anyway."
"Comeon Gideon you're really not gonna show your dad this?"
"It says right there 'Trust no one'. So maybe we shouldn't"
"If you're not gonna tell him I will" Pacifica said with a huff as she turned away from him and started walking in the direction they came from.
"Pacifica are you insane?" Gideon asked as he watched her walk away, "you don't even know where you're going." Pacifica pretended not to hear him as she walked further into the woods on her own. Gideon sighed and closed the book as he realized he should probably follow her to check if she makes it back. Not even three steps away from the spot he was in he heard rustling in the bushes. Gideon stopped in his tracks and turned towards the sound. "Pacifica? This isn't funny." He began to close in on the sound and as soon as he was about to touch the bush the noise stopped. The whole forest was quiet, not even the crickets were making noise anymore. Gideon decided the wait was killing him, so with one quick breath he stuck his hand in the bush and pushed the leaves apart.
Pacifica ventured further into the woods still not allowing herself to look back and realize she was going the wrong way. After 20 minutes her feet were killing her and she deiced she would sit down for a while. She sat on the cold grass and just listened to the sounds of nature surrounding her. The owls hooting, crickets chirping, and a goat eating her sweater…
"Hey! Don't do that!" She yelled at the goat as it started to chew on her right sleeve. "No you can't eat my sweater. Now spit it out!"
She gave her arm a quick yank out of its mouth and the goat stepped back with a piece of fabric, still chewing.
"How dare you!" The goat decided it was time to go and started walking away from her, with the fabric still it his mouth.
"You get back here with that so I can sew it back on!" Pacifica yelled out to the creature, but it did not listen to her and kept walking away from her. Pacifica got up from her spot on the ground and followed the goat with angry footsteps. She maybe followed it for 30 feet until she lost sight of the goat behind some trees. Except one of those trees was not like the other. It was completely made of wood with no leaves on it at all. In fact it had faces of animals where the leaves should have been growing.
"What's a totem pole doing all the way out here?" Pacifica asked herself out loud. When she looked to where the eagle wing on the totem was pointing she saw it was leading her to, what looked like an abandoned gift shop, a tourist trap. Pacifica jumped up the broken steps onto the porch and stepped over the fallen door. Inside it was dingy and dusty with no light, but the moonlight coming in through the cracked ceiling. The only sound was the floorboards creaking underneath her feet as she explored the empty building.
Creak. Creak. Creak. CRACK!
Pacifica looked down at her feet and discovered she had stepped glass of an old photo frame. She bent down and scoped the picture up into her hands and saw that it was a photograph of Uncle Bud.
"What is this doing here?" Pacifica asked herself. She took the picture out of the frame in order to examine it some more and saw that Uncle Bud had his arm around two other people, but unfortunately there faces were burnt off, like someone intentionally set a match to just those two faces in order to hide their identity.
"This has got to mean something," she thought out loud, "but what? Did Uncle Bud do this to the picture?" Before she could come up with an answer, Pacifica was ripped from her thoughts by a boyish scream in the distance.
"Gideon!" Pacifica yelled as she dropped the picture and ran out back into the forest. The picture from her hand slowly drifting to the floor to be forgot again.
"LET ME GO YOU CRAZY THINGS!" Gideon yelled as he struggled against the ropes tying his body to the ground.
"Now please quit struggling you making this awkward for the both of us," said the creature, "Schmebulock will you please try a little harder to hold her down!"
"For the last time, I am a boy!"
"Are you sure? Because no boy puts that much jell in their hair."
"Pacifica! Where are you!"
As if on cue a bright, fluffy, blonde headed girl came leaping out of the forest and landed right in front of the mess that was happening.
"Gideon! Are you okay… Oh my god!" Pacifica screamed as she tried to register what was going on, "are those gnomes?"
"Yes they are!" shouted Gideon, "and they're trying to make me their queen!"
"What?"
"She's not in danger, she's just going to marry all one thousand of us and become our gnome queen for all eternity," replied the Gnome like the whole that was going on was completely normal.
"She? Never mind I'm just gonna start punching you," Pacifica said while shaking her head. She grabbed the journal that was left on the ground and began waking the gnomes one by one to try and create a pathway to her cousin. When she reached Gideon she pulled up the ropes tying him down, took a hold of his hand and they both ran down the path she came from.
"Oh my god Pacifica," Gideon said as they ran, "thank you so much I did not want to marry today." Pacifica opened her mouth to reply when she got interrupted by a groaning from the direction they ran from.
"Don't thank me yet," she said as she took a sharp left and hurried to the totem pole in the distance.
"What are they doing?" Gideon questioned as he looked back in fear of the noises that were coming from behind. Pacifica pulled him into a garden shed that was closed by and told him to stop asking questions while she peeked around the corner.
"Do you see anything?" asked Gideon as he shuffled out from behind her.
"I don't know," Pacifica replied, "maybe we lost them."
CRASH
"Or maybe not."
"Pacifica what do we do!"
"Um...find something in the garden shed that's useful. There has to be a weapon around here somewhere."
"I found this shovel!"
"And I found a leaf blower with ¼ tank of gas left"
"So we're doomed?"
"Not yet Cuz, follow me lead," Pacifica said as she slowly opened the door. They ducked behind a book and peeked between the branches to see a giant gnome monster that was… made out of other gnomes?
"Since when can they do that?" Gideon asked in shock.
"On the count of three go for the legs," Pacifica said, ignoring his question.
"What! No way! Not happening," he said, "how about I give you the shovel and you give me the leaf blower."
"Stop questioning me and do as I say!"
"Paz are you crazy!"
"You… you remembered," Pacifica said in shock to her old nickname being used.
"What?" Gideon said confused, "your old nickname? Of course I remembered, I came up with it on your 3rd birthday."
"Why haven't you been using it?"
"Because I thought you'd think it was to babyish," Gideon said with a small blush on his face, "you're almost 20 Paz, I didn't want you to think I was uncool. We have not seen each other in ten years."
"Gideon I would never think that. I thought you stopped calling me it because you grew out of it."
"This is a sweet moment we are having and I would love to rekindle are cousin bonding, but I think the monster heard us," Gideon pointed up at the beast as it stopped in its track and looked straight at the bush they were hiding in.
"Okay," Pacifica said, "ready? 1… 2… 3!" Gideon jumped out of the bush and whacked the left leg of the monster casing it to tumble forward.
"Come on guys! Get it together!" yelled the leader of the group. They scrambled together and started to rebuild the leg.
"Paz," Gideon said, "if your gonna do your thing do it now please!" Pacifica nodded her head at Gideon and ran full speed at the monster. She jumped on top of their little hats until she was able to kick herself to the top of the leader. She turned the leaf blower on suck and pointed it right at his face.
"This is for messing with my cousin!" she shouted as she hit the start button and sucked the little guy in. Then she backed flipped of the beast and landed down in front of it, pointing their leader straight at the monster.
"And this for calling me a girl!" Gideon yelled as he switched the switch to blow and it shot the little guy out into the heart of the creature, causing all of them to fall.
"Who's giving orders I need orders!" yelled one of the Gnomes.
"Schmebulock."
"Get out of here you freaks," Pacifica yelled as she started to blow them away back into the woods. The scrambled over rocks and roots until there wasn't a single one of them left.
"Well that was the weirdest thing I have ever done," Gideon said as he walked over to Pacifica.
"You said it Cuz," she replied. Pacifica put down the leaf blower and grabbed Gideon's hand.
"Let's go home Gideon."
"Sure thing Paz."
"Are you gonna tell Uncle Bud about the book?"
"Honestly after the day we had. I don't even know if he would believe us."
"Well I believe us."
"Me to."
They walked in silence back to the house, by the time they got back there the sun was already starting to peek up through the trees and a rooster started crowing somewhere. Gideon opened the back door for them and they walked inside expecting to get chewed out by Bud for not coming home. Fortunately he was still asleep on the chair in front of the TV, and neither or the cousins thought it would be best to wake him. Pacifica and Gideon walked back to their rooms and flopped down on each of their beds as soon as they got in there.
"I don't even know where to begin," Pacifica said as she got under the covers. She looked over at Gideon and saw him flipping through the pages of the journal. She yawned and sat up to ask him what he was doing.
"Look," he said showing her a page he stopped out. On it was a picture of a cute little gnome with a big white beard, "Gnomes are tree-dwelling creatures of Gravity Falls. Weakness: Unknown"
"Well that's a lie," Pacifica said with another yawn, "clearly it's leaf blowers and the occasional shovel." Gideon laughed at her comment while he picked up a pen and scribbled it in the book.
"There now it tells the truth," he said showing it to Pacifica, but she was already asleep snoring away. Gideon sighed to himself and closed the book before putting it under his pillow and switching off the light.
"Goodnight Paz," he said to silence. Although the book said 'Trust No One' Gideon was sure, as he drifted off to sleep, that did not apply to Gnome battling cousins in 80's sweaters and high pony tails.