Mystery Universe

The Legend of the Gobblewonker

Steven woke up fairly late. The previous week had been pretty exhausting, just nonstop work. Who knew stocking shelves and talking to people took so much out of you? He went to bed immediately the night before and fell into a deep, dreamless sleep. By the time he woke up the next day the twins and Stan had already left for whatever they had planned that day. He walked into the kitchen and was fixing himself a bowl of cereal when Soos walked in.

"Hey dude, I was headed to the lake to go boating. I just had to stop by and pick up my tool kit I accidentally left here. Wanna come? I think the twins and Stan went to the lake to go fishing as well," he offered.

Steven smiled at him. He hadn't gone boating in a long time, so it sounded fun. Just relaxing in a boat and driving it around may seem boring, but it's actually quite fun.

"You know what, Soos? I think I'm gonna take you up on that offer, let me just eat breakfast and I'll meet you outside."

Steven quickly finished his cereal and headed outside. He offered to drive them to the lake, and soon enough they were on their way.

When they got there, Steven noticed a commotion at the docks.

"Hey Soos, I'll meet you at the docks," Steven said, already starting to walk over.

"No problem dude."

As Steven got closer, he saw a short, long bearded man frantically trying to get people's attention.

"I seen it! I seen it again!" The man smacked a sandwich out of someone's hands, "The Gravity Falls gobblewonker! Come quick, before it scramdoodles away!"

Steven spotted the twins as the man started to do a jig.

"Aw. He's doing a happy jig," he heard Mabel say.

The man stopped, "No! It's a jig of grave danger!"

Just then, a man came out of the fishing shop.

"Hey, Hey!" He grabbed a spray bottle and started spraying the old man with water, "Now, what did I tell you about scaring my customers? This is your last warning, Dad."

'Dad?' Steven thought. The whole situation just got a lot sadder.

"But I got proof this time, by gummity!" The old man scampered over to the end of the dock.

"Behold!" The old man pointed at a small, broken fishing boat, "It's the gobbledywonker what done did it! It had a long neck like a gee-raffe, and wrinkly skin like.." he pointed at Stan, who Steven just noticed was also there, "like this gentleman right here!"

"Huh?" Stan said.

The man continued, "It chopped my boat up to smitheroons! It shim-shammed over to Scuttlebutt Island! You gotta believe me!"

He grabbed at his son's arm, hoping he would listen to him.

"Attention, all units," Sheriff Blubs said, "we got ourselves a crazy old man."

Everyone pointed at the old man and started laughing. Steven frowned, this man obviously had seen something, and everyone was laughing in his face! How rude. Although, he was glad to see Stan and the twins not laughing.

"Aw, donkey spittle! Banjo polish..." the old man said as he walked off the dock in defeat.

Steven walked over to the man who sat sadly on a log away from the docks. He sat down next to him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"That wasn't very nice of them to laugh. I believe you."

The man's face lit up, happy to see at least one person not think he was crazy. Steven, in fact, really did believe him. After what had already happened this summer, it wasn't impossible that there really was some Loch Ness type monster living in the lake.