Mabel shook her head at Dipper's statement. In a way, it was kind of true. Dipper didn't have a hard time making friends. Despite his silliness, he was able to get along with others very well. It was different though for Mabel. She had a hard time making friends, because of her curiosity for the supernatural. People didn't like that kind of crazy, so most of the time they bullied her. It was hard during middle school, but eventually Mabel learned to ignore it. After all, she still had Dipper to talk to about all her troubles.
Mabel blinked out of her thoughts and glance at the door then back at Dipper. "Dipper, I'm going to go outside in the forest."
"Again?" Asked Dipper. "Don't tell me you're going monster hunting." He smiled at that statement. "Because if you're going, I'm going too!"
Mabel groaned. "Fine, but just don't make too much noise. You might frighten the monsters away."
Dipper laughed. "Ha! I'm sure someone as cool as me can't do that." Dipper jumped off the coach and walked to Mabel. "But let's be back soon mabster. The forest gets spooky at night like that forest in that movie we watched in class last week."
Mabel rolled her eyes at Dipper's nickname for her. He was always giving her new nicknames claiming that her name was too boring and needed pizzazz. Not that she really didn't care of course, but sometimes Dipper's nicknames for her were too weird.
"Dipper, you do know that movie was fake right?" Mabel said as she opened the door walking out with Dipper not far behind closing the door behind him. As they began to walk into the winterly forest, Mabel continued the conversation. "I mean, it obviously was fake because of the poor directing skills. You could actually see the boom mic in one of the scenes."
Mabel trudged through the snow kicking both small stones and branches away from the path as she continued talking. It continued on like this for many minutes. "And don't get me started on the poor acting, sets, and costumes. The zipper was actually visible on the costumes. That's how poorly made the movie was Dipper."
"Uh Sis."
"And the story of the movie was so unoriginal. I mean it was obviously copied from another movie."
"Mabel."
"And now that I think about it, the lighting and sound were horrible. You should never mess those things up in a movie."
"Mabel!"
Mabel turned around at Dipper annoyed that he interrupted her. "What?!"
Dipper pointed a small blue that was in a dark shade of black. It was shaking as well as the large trees that stood over them with their leaves brushing each other. Now that Mabel noticed, they were in a oddly dark clearing surrounded by thick trees. It was also colder than she last remembered. The wind made her teeth chattered and wrapped herself with her arms seeking for warmth. And as far as she knew, the sun hadn't gone down yet. Something was definitely wrong.
"Mabel, what's going on?" Dipper asked as he too wrapped his arms around himself from the excruciating cold.
"I don't know," Mabel replied as she began to look for the source.
Her eyes traveled from the bush to the thick trees. She observed them looking for anything abnormal when she saw something. There in one of the bushy trees were two red eyes staring back at her. Mabel's eyes widen and she immediately took the journal out of her coat pocket. As soon as she did, the eyes turned even a darker shade of a red and a large growl echoed throughout the clearing. In reaction, Mabel closed her eyes and covered her ears as well as her brother. When she opened her eyes, she felt a gush of wind and there standing in front of her and Dipper was a large black dog like creature with sharp canine teeth and eyes the color of blood. Mabel stared at the dog-like creature in awe and fear for several seconds until she heard it speak in a toneless voice.
"I know this scent. You two are Pines."
Mabel gripped the journal even tighter as she brought it closer to her chest. "Who are you?! How do you know us?!"
Behind Mabel she could hear Dipper asking her what she was doing, but she ignored him trying to listen to the dog-like creature. She was curious. And when she was too intrigued by something, there was nothing that could stop her from asking even more questions until she found out what she wanted to find.
"I know a Pines when I see one, child. Lord Cipher alerted me of your presence."
"Mabel!" Dipper half shouted and half whispered to Mabel. Instead of ignoring him, Mabel told him to shut up and continued the conversation seeking even more information. Especially about Lord Cipher.
"Lord Cipher?" Mabel asked.
