Just as Mabel was about to talk to her brother about what to do next, the door to the Mystery Shack opened with a large man taking a step out of it. Mabel stared at the man in shock while her brother gawked happily at him. The large man had a scruffy face with a solemn frown on it. His hair was brown like Mabel's and Dipper's with white barely appearing on it. The man was wearing a long brown coat and he was giving a cold stare at the twins. Mabel mentally shook with fear and awe. This couldn't be their grandfather could it?
The three stared at each other for several minutes until the large man finally said something. "Are you two Mabel and Dipper?"
Both of the twins nodded slowly. Mabel wanted to say something, but it felt like her lips were sealed tightly to
gether leaving her unable to speak. But unlike her, Dipper's lips weren't. "Are... Are you our great uncle?"
The large man nodded. "Yes, I'm your great uncle. My name is Stanford Pines, but call me Great Uncle Ford." Stan rubbed the back of his head with his hand looking like he wanted to say something else. He shook his head and dropped his hand. Mabel could have sworn she saw six fingers instead of five fingers. "You two want to come in? I don't want you kids catching a cold on your first day here."
Both of the twins turned to each other at their great uncle's words giving each other a look. Mabel began to question herself if they should take their great uncle's offer. Mabel understood that they should since this was where they were going to live for the next few weeks, but it still felt awkward. She couldn't imagine how much more awkward it would be just standing in the house.
Dipper didn't get the memo, because as soon as he turned away from Mabel, he gave Ford a huge goofy smile. "Yeah, we would love to come in Great Uncle Ford. Just as long as they're hot chocolate involved," he said as he gave a wink.
Ford just shrugged his shoulders at Dipper's wink and turned his back towards them walking back into the house. Dipper frowned not being able to make Ford smile and gathered his bags. He took off for the house, but just before he entered it, he called out towards Mabel who was still in deep thought. "Come on Mabel! I know the snow looks like mashed marshmallows, but it's really cold. Let's go inside and see if we can have hot chocolate." Dipper gave a huge grin and entered the house.
Mabel wanted to argue, but didn't. Her brother was right. There was no reason for her stay any longer out in the cold. Mabel gathered her bags and walked towards the house entering it. She closed the door beings her and began to observe the house. The walls were made out of stones the color of a distinguishable gray color. There were barely any furniture around expect for a gray sofa right right by a skull of some kind of animal that was being used as a small table. What caught Mabel's eyes was the scraps of paper littering the ground as if they were tossed purposely. Scribbles and diagrams could be seen on them. Mabel couldn't make out what they were saying, but was growing increasingly curious as she gawked at them just feeling the need to pick them up and read them.
"Mabel! Look! There's a pink lizard in here!"
Mabel turned her attention away from the scraps of paper to Dipper tapping the glass of an aquarium making goofy faces. Inside it was a large salamander sitting on a large rock staring at Dipper with huge beady eyes. Mabel stared at it in wonder. Of all the pets there was out there, this was the one her grandfather got? This definitely made her grandfather a lot more interesting.
"Uh... Dipper. That's not a lizard. It's a Axolotl," corrected Mabel.
Dipper stopped making a face at the salamander turning away from it to Mabel. "A what?"
Mabel sighed. "It's an albino frilled Mexican salamander Dipper. You know, not a lizard but a salamander."
Dipper puffed out his cheeks at his sister. "It still looks like a lizard to me."
Mabel shook her head at her brother. There were times when her brother's logic questioned her. Like how he could not tell that the axolotl was clearly a salamander and not a lizard. Lizards were reptiles and salamanders were amphibians. What made the amphibian clearly distinguishable was it's aquarium. Obviously, lizards don't need aquariums as their home.
"Are you two warming up?"
Mabel gave a little jump and turned to see Ford with a stern face holding a silver tray with a kettle and cups on top of it. He placed the tray down on the dinosaur skull and began to pull the hot steaming liquid from the kettle into the cups. Mabel stared at Ford as he did that as Dipper kept bouncing up and down smiling at the fact Ford didn't forget about the hot chocolate.
