Gravity Heroes

Chapter 49

Gravity Falls Tuesday November 27th, 2012 9:30 AM

Woods

Having packed a some extra water, some protein bars Wildbill had left, a sandwich for each of them, and a few items from the Shack Dipper and Mabel had headed out into the woods a half hour ago. He was dressed for the colder weather in a brown jack, black shirt, blue jeans, and Wendy's hat for luck. Mabel was in a camouflage sweater she had knitted before they headed back to Gravity Falls for their next Mystery Hunt and a pair of black jeans.

They had just passed the bunker tree and were heading deeper into woods. Testosteraur didn't have a definite location, but he had a general direction. There had been a section of the forest that had been closed off by the wardens of the forest. Dipper theorized that this maybe the area that was being protected when Hauteur died. So they headed towards that direction planning on getting more directions from the forest denizens as they go.

"So how long do you think we'll be out here bro-bro?", Mabel asked as they trudged along.

"It all depends on how far we have to go and what we have to do once we're there," Dipper said looking over the map he had in his hand.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here boys?", said a brown furred cat like creature that stood on two legs. He was in a camouflage vest and a loincloth that looked like it was made from a discarded t-shirt. He was with two others of his kind as he continued, "Looks like we got us a couple of stragglers."

"I dunno Lem, they look like a coupla lost hikers ta me.", the one to Lem's right said with a smirk. He too was in a loincloth that was made from an old t-shirt. His has a faded Bubba Joe's Barbeque City logo on the front of it.

"I dunno, Pyle. Remember what the Gnome PD said after that lumberjack went missing last spring," the third said. He was skinnier than the other two and had what would have been a mulllet on a human. His loincloth looked like it was one of the panther shirts sold at the Shack.

"Quiet Cid, what those lil bumpkins don't know won't hurt us.", Lem said as he walked towards the twins, "But it just might hurt these two."

Piedmont, CA 10 AM

Piedmont PD Arson Division

Detective Niobe was sitting at her desk talking to one William Hauser aka Wildbill William Anderson from the OSW gym case. He had already filled her in on the fact that he had been out of town since the previous Monday and had almost a whole town worth of witnesses that could verify his alibi if needed.

"Alright Mr. Hauser, I now need to know if you have any enemies that may have wanted to cause you, your employees, or any of your of your students any harm?" Detective Niobe asked as she sat and looked down at the notes she had already taken and mentally added them to what she already knew about the case. It really was an interesting one there were four different flashpoints in the building and all tests for accelerants came back negative. And the burn patterns were definitely weird, they really didn't seem to follow any natural set burn patterns.

"Not off of the top of my head, at least none that would be up to this. I mean, like every business owner I have competitors but the most any of them would do is to try and book wrestlers I need for my shows.", Wildbill said as as he looked over at the Detective who was interviewing him. She seemed personable enough, if he had met her under different circumstances he may have even asked if he could buy her a drink sometime.

"We've already checked with most of your competitors," Detective Niobe said as she finished looking at the notes. She looked up at the guy dressed as a modern day cowboy, including the boots and hat, and wonders how a guy from Indiana would come to live in Piedmont while looking like that. She continued by asking, "How about any family, anyone there have enemies?"