After hearing what Mabel said, Ford immediately placed the notepad down on the table and walked to Mabel with a stern impression. "No Mabel. The Gobblewonker is too dangerous. It gets aggressively territorial."
"But-" Mabel started to say, but Ford cut her off. "I said no. Yesterday you and Dipper were attacked by the Shadow Wraith. When I found out you two almost died, it made me realize that I can't have you two looking for trouble. It's just too dangerous here for you and your brother to casually walk around here as if it was another day at an amusement park. I just don't want you two to get hurt again..."
Ford looked down as if he was in pain at that thought and sighed. "I'm sorry... Just don't go anywhere near that lake." He turned and walked out of the kitchen leaving the tooth and the notepad behind. Mabel watched him as he walked out and glanced back at the tooth sitting by the notepad. She knew she should listen to Ford, but the idea of seeing the Gobblewonker was too big to pass. After some thought, she decided what she was going to do.
"So why are we at Lake Gravity Falls Mabel? I thought we were going to take a picture of a monster." Stated Dipper as he held a bag of cameras over his shoulder that he had packed beforehand in his luggage. Before they came, Mabel opposed the idea of him bringing that much cameras, but now thinking about it, she was happy that he did. To catch a creature like the Gobblewonker on camera, they were definitely going to need more than one camera.
"We are. We're going to take a picture of a lake monster that lives here, the Gobblewonker." Mabel answered as she walked to the frozen water kneeling down and placing her hand on it. It was dark blue and freezing to her hand, yet very thick.
"The Gobblewonker? That doesn't sound like a monster to me."
"I know," Mabel said as she stood up brushing snow off of her coat and pants. "But it lives here. I just know it does." Mabel opened her coat pocket and took out a notepad out of it. She flipped the pages over and began reading them to herself as Dipper looked at it curiously.
"Uh, Mabel, where did you get that?"
"I borrowed it from Great Uncle Ford," Mabel answered as she continued reading the notes. After some time she closed the notepad and placed it back into her coat pocket. "It says in Uncle Ford's notes that the Gobblewonker should be by a frozen waterfall somewhere near here. If we can just get a picture of it, Dip, then we can win that $1000 prize."
"Okay, but I still think we should get a picture of a werewolf."
Mabel rolled her eyes at Dipper's statement and began to search for the frozen waterfall described in Ford's notes. Her eyes took note of all the rocky features surrounding the lake until her eyes fell on a small streak of blue in the distance in the middle of a rocky cliff not too far in the east. She smiled and looked back at Dipper. "Found it. Let's go find that Gobblewonker."
Mabel took off in a sprint not even giving Dipper a chance to tell her what he thought about this. All she could think about was finding the Gobblewonker. It boggled her at the thought of what it looked like and it would act towards her. Until yesterday, she never gave it one thought that there was so much to explore in Gravity Falls and the creatures that lurked there. It took the encounter with the Shadow Wraith for Mabel to realize how puzzling Gravity Falls was. And now knowing that, all see she wanted to do was to see all the creatures she could find here. Back at Piedmont, the only creature she could call interesting was a three legged frog in her backyard. There were no supernatural creatures there hunt unlike here at Gravity Falls.
Mabel continued running towards the frozen waterfall slipping occasionally along the icy shores filled with snow. Behind her, Dipper continued yelling for his sister to stop. He didn't think it was a good idea to go find the Gobblewonker. They had no idea what it looked like nor what it could do. For all they knew, it could be just as dangerous as the Shadow Wraith that attacked them.
Dipper shuddered at the thought. The Shadow Wraith was dangerous and it scared him that he almost died yesterday. In fact, he didn't really remember too much because of that. Everything else after he got bit was too foggy, but he did remember saving his sister from being lunch. How could he forget about that?
After slipping and sliding for a good few minutes through the icy snow, Dipper finally caught up to his sister when she stopped without any warning. He collided into her sending both him and her to the snow with Dipper falling on top of her. Mabel in response pushed Dipper off of her standing back up looking straight at the lake. Dipper sat brushing the white powdery stuff off his shorts.
"What's wrong Mabel?" He asked.
