Yay! Extra long chapter today!

"Dipper, we won't get in trouble, it's just a syrup race." Mabel rolled her eyes. Dipper was just so paranoid and worrisome all the time.

"What if Stan gets upset, huh? What would we tell him, would we lie to him? I don't want to do that, Mabel!" Her twin panicked, scrunching up the magazine he had in his hands. Geez, her brother had more problems than she let on. He was always clingy and she had to literally pry him off whenever she wanted a sleepover. I mean, back with the gnomes he just felt... different.

"Dipper, no one ever gets mad over little things like this." She rolled her eyes. She moved one of the bottles around and mimicked a voice. "Come on, Dipper, you know you wanna eat me!"

"Mabel, I don't think a food would ask for something like that, and plus" He grabbed the other syrup bottle and pointed at the label. "Syrup." He put it back down.

Mabel groaned and pushed the syrup bottle further. "Eaaaat meeee!"

Dipper pushed it away and laughed a bit. "Fine, go Mountie Man!" He declared, swiping the other syrup again.

"There we go! Now, go Sir Syrup!" In unison they lifted their syrup bottles upside down over their mouths, mumbling a bunch of 'almosts' and 'yeses' until Mabel's finally dripped into her mouth when she tapped the bottom. "Caaagh!" She choked, coughing immediately. "I won!"

Dipper smiled, and sighed, happy he didn't have to eat the syrup. He put down the bottle and retrieved his magazine. He gasped.

"What?" She asked. "You freaking out?"

Dipper shook his head and crumpled up the magazine. "What? Pfft, no." He gave her a fake smile, but the corner of his mouth was twitching, so she knew what was up.

"You're trying to hide something from me." She said, snatching up the magazine and un crumpling it aggressively. She looked at the page and gasped. "Giant hamster ball!" She squealed.

"No... the other thing, but I don't want you to drag me back out, I mean, the gnomes were kinda fun to run away from, but I need preparation." He explained. "A thousand dollars is also hard to resist... especially if you think about how many weird monsters I see." He paused. "500 bucks each."

"I got this beard hair." Mabel said, putting it closer to Dipper as he backed away. Dipper shivered.

"Please. Don't." He practically whimpered. "It's really disgusting and vomit inducing."

Mabel laughed a bit and pocketed it.

Meanwhile, Stan was taking a look at the footage he got of Dipper. Why was he so emotional when his gem cracked? He didn't even know what it did! Stan ran a hand through his hair. He needed a break, hence sighed. In the footage he also seen Mabel when she picked out her piece of free merchandise. The girl grabbed a grappling hook. "Heh." He got up and greeted the kids in the kitchen.

Dipper shivered, curled up in a ball. Stan told them they were on a family vacation to and blindfolded them before they got into his car. "Blindfolds never lead to anything good." He held his knees tighter.

"I feel as if all my senses are heightened." Mabel said in a whispery tone. She started feeling Dipper's face and he laughed at the gentle caresses and pinches. Until the road bumped and she retracted.

"Grunkle Stan, um... are... are you wearing a blindfold?" Dipper asked unsurely, not wanting to upset anyone.

Stan laughed, "no, but with this cataracts, I might as well be."

Dipper gulped then whipped forward a bit, he was at least 67% sure they crashed.

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Gideon giggled, almost evilly as he practiced using the turquoise amulet. He lifted the cat's eye so it was integrated with his mirror. "Don't worry, kitty." He pet the jewel on the mirror. "You'll be free, eventually." He laughed this time. "Now, mirror mirror on the wall, who'd you like to fuse with out of them all?"

The mirror bubbled and a picture of a pink quarts gem faded in. Gideon rolled his eyes. "One of them I know, and that's in gravity falls."

The mirror turned black and red, while seeming to boil. A yellow form dripped out of it and looked like it was gasping for air. He looked straight at Gideon and screamed in assumed pain, it was horrifying, really. The scream was inhuman, it was similar to that of a dinosaur from Jurassic World.

The form was pulled by it's long hair back into the mirror. She showed up in the mirror. A dark brown lady, with blonde flowing hair appeared. She clawed at the surface if the mirror, with giant, well, claws. She had one brilliant blue eye, the other was her gem. "Rose was the strongest I've known of!" Tears ran down her cheeks. "Please, Gideon, I need to get out."

"Try cutting your hair, it was the only reason you got sucked back in last time." Gideon snapped.

Chrysoberyl shook her head grimly and low. "You need to pull me out, Gideon, you need to be my hero!" She gasped as she raised her head.

"I ain't falling for your tricks, Beryl." Gideon said, turning away. He knew this gem was seductive and a compulsive liar.

The gem growled, morphing her hair to be extremely short. "Fine, I'll just have to force my way out..." She clawed at the mirror and screamed in pain as her entire body turned yellow.

Gideon backed up. "What the?"

The mirror shook and finally fell over, the gem popping out. There was a male laughter emitting from the stone as light shone around it. It grew and bubbled until it stabilized a form. "Freedom! Finally!" The now he, said. He had orangey skin, passable as a human skin colour, and short blonde hair, that had bangs long enough to cover his gem eye. His claws morphed to look more human. He was also bulky, and decently unattractive. "I would've made my form prettier, given the time."

The gem pulled a large scythe from his eye and jumped at Gideon, scythe swung back. A loud, almost female, scream could be heard from blocks away.

Cat's eye laughed. "It's too easy to leave marks wherever I go." He smirked, letting go of his weapon and letting it vanish. "But I like how you think, kid, fusing ain't such a bad idea." A hologram of Hematite shone from his eye when he lifted his bangs. The grey female gem split into two. "and I know just the power source to do it." He cackled as he made another scythe and tore open the little boy's wall.

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"Kids, open your blindfolds!" Stan exclaimed enthusiastically. The young gems hesitantly did as they were told. They were met with Lake Gravity Falls, and a big banner that read 'fishing season' in a red text. "You're going fishing with your great uncle Stan!"

The twins both gave each other confused looks.

"Here, even made you hats." He handed them each a fishing hat with hooks and letters attached to them. Dipper's read 'Dippy' in blue and Mabel's 'Mabel' in pink. "That... That's hand stitching."

"I think he actually wants to fish with us." Mabel said quietly to her twin.

Dipper looked unsurely towards the lake and gulped. "Yeah, I'll pass."

"What do you mean? You'll pass?" Stan scoffed.

"Grunkle Stan, hundreds of ancient and urban legends not only revolve around water, but specifically revolve around lakes." Dipper said, glaring at the lake and hugging his sister's arm.

Mabel moved his head so he could see her eyebrow raised excitement. Her look was the suggestive look that read '500$?'.

He sighed and looked towards the lake and smiled. He was about to pretend to be upset about saying 'yes'. When he was interrupted by an old screaming man.

"I SEEN IT, AND I SEEN IT AGAIN!" The man yelled. He ended up getting yelled at by his... son? Neither of the twins knew for sure. The old man started talking about a sea monster.

Dipper tapped Mabel. "Mabel, we can get the picture!"

Mabel smirked. "Look who's got all excited-y all of a sudden."

Dipper's cheeks turned a darker shade of blue. "Well, we know what we're up against now... so, we know how to prepare, and stuff." He pulled his hat down a bit.

Mabel laughed. "Face it, you like adventures!"

"What? N-no I don't!" Dipper denied. Mabel poked him repeatedly. "Mabel!" He squealed, pushing her away a bit.

"Woah! that's a first, am I right?" She laughed a bit more. It was true, it was the only time she could remember Dipper actually pushing her away.

He sighed. "Fine, okay. You win." Dipper gave up. She gave him a victory poke on the nose. He sighed and started walking towards the small booth to get supplies.

"Got any... cameras or... I dunno, a big net... I guess?" Dipper asked, not sure what he was looking for.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure in the back." The man replied. "If you're looking to find all that bologna that old man fed ya, I wouldn't bother."

Dipper walked to the back anyways, ignoring the comment. He spotted it quickly, it was caught on the building and had vines growing on it. He grabbed hold and tugged as hard as he could. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get it free though. He ended up giving up and sitting next to it, holding his knees.

He heard a muffled laugh and looked up. A man curved around a tree with his mouth muffling his chuckles. He walked towards the kid and extended an orangey hand. "Need help, kid?" He smiled a sharp toothed smile.

"Uh, I guess?" Dipper took it and was pulled up.

"Name's Kato, but I prefer Bill much better." He said, pulling the kid a bit closer.

"Dipper." The unsuspecting blue gem replied. If only he knew the trouble he got in when he accepted that hand.