Discovering the Inexistent

Chapter I

The morning was normal - as normal as you could ask for in Gravity Falls at least - and the sun was shining. The weather would usually be met with bliss, but  Gravity Falls had been this way for a week and the grass was dry and the heat unbearable. The three Pines, Dipper, Mabel and Grunkle Stan, were all seated around the kitchen table. Mabel had concocted some sort of drink (it looked more like a potion) that utilized nearly everything she could find which unfortunately included glitter and cream cheese. Mabel was on her second glass, while Dipper pretended to sip his and Grunkle Stan "wasn't thirsty."

"Oh, come on Grunkle Stan! You gotta try it! I call it MABEL BLAST!!! I guarantee you'll love it or you get a refund!" Mabel said pleadingly.

"I didn't pay you for this." Grunkle Stan retorted quickly.

"Tomato, potato, Grunkle Stan-"

"Mabel don't you mean—" Dipper cut in.

"Come on!!! Please try it!" Mabel wouldn't drop it. Dipper hid a smirk behind his own 'Mabel Blast' as Grunkle Stan slowly brought his cup up to his lips. Lumps had started to form in the shimmery green liquid and a smiley faced ice cube clinked in the glass warningly as Stan moved the cup.

With one last glance at his great niece and nephew, he gulped down a sip and immediately started hacking. "What...the heck...was in that Mabel?!" He yelped in between coughs.

"You, Grunkle Stan, have been MABEL BLASTED!" She cheered and started laughing, quickly followed by Dipper and the hacking Stan.

"Yo dudes!" A voice called as the one and only Soos stepped into the kitchen, face flushed and sweating.

"SOOS!" Mabel and Dipper replied, jumping up.

"You'll never believe what just happened, dudes!" Soos continued, to which the twins shared a look that said 'try us.' "So I was driving along the woods and I thought to myself: hey, there's a nice stream up here! I should take a quick dip heh heh I used to go up there when I was a kid and—"

"SOOS!" Everyone urged.

"Oh, right, sorry dudes! Anyway I went down to the stream and I heard this weird chiming sound. At first I thought it was an ice cream truck until I remembered it doesn't run this early so I went to investigate. Then I saw it and it was crazy, my dudes, they were like fairies except they had bat wings and like purely red eyes and—"

"Soos, let me stop you right there," Stan interrupted. "There are no such things as fairy-bats or whatever you're describing, but knowing these two knuckleheads they'll believe you."

"But Mr. Pines—" Soos started.

"I'll tell you what though that is quite the imagination you have! Something like that could definitely be an attraction and come to think of it I think I have some spare batwings in the hall closet!" Stan was excited now. "Dipper fetch the wings - they're in there somewhere. Mabel get your crafting gear out and Soos go find some realistic doll or something to glue the wings to."

"Sure thing, Mr Pines!" Soos said and they all went to work.

Little did they know, a pair of little red eyes watched as they scattered before turning and fluttering away.