Gravity Falls: The Kids Are Alright

Chapter 1

Mystery Shack                                                                                                                                                            Gravity Falls, OR                                                                                                                                                                    Friday May 30th, 2031

"Ran get back here," Debbie Pines called as her brother exited the Mystery Shack.

His rapid departure took him around the outside of the Shack towards the back of the lot towards the bottomless pit. Though to be honest he was actually heading out towards the woods. It was one of the places he could escape his older sister's wrath. He had almost made it when while looking back to see if she had been following him he ran into something solid. Turning his head he saw that it was only Antonio.

"Where you off to so fast amigo?" the muscular teen asked his young friend.

"Well, uhmm, I was... Wait what are you doing out here? I thought you were supposed to be out helping Mom and Dad with the feud between the Manotaurs and the Gnomes." Ran asked quickly attempting to deflect the focus off of what he was running from as Antonio would probably make him head back in to face his sister.

"We finished that early, they were arguing over a little stream that flowed right on the borders of their two territories. Over the last couple of days Harry and I have been out there digging a secondary channel to run some of the water out through the gnome territory away from the stream and we finally finished it and broke through the bank of the stream today. And to make sure it wouldn't deplete your dad used that special flashlight of his to increased the size of the water in the pond the stream originated." Antonio said with some awe in his voice even though he had seen Mr. and Mrs. Pines do some remarkable things in his lifetime. He saw that Ran was still looking over his shoulder every once in awhile and decided to ask, "So what did you do to your sister this time?"

Seeing that he wasn't getting out of this one Ran said, "Well your dad was looking for new ideas for displays and so I..." He fiddled with the hem of his shirt for a second, "Uhm, I glued a pair of wings from one of her butterflies to a taxidermied mouse an gave it a painted cocktail sword."

"And you didn't ask for permission did you?", Antonio asked as looked up and finally saw Debbie clearing the side of the Shack.

"No." Ran said with a dejected look.

"Ok, head on. I'll try to calm your sister down some. maybe you should try and find her some sort of recompense, amigo." Antonio said as he moved around his friend to partially hide him.

"Thanks Tone, you're a saint." Ran said as he headed into the woods to see what he could possibly find.

Antonio started back towards the Shack before 'accidentally' running into Debbie.

"Ooof, Debs." He said as he rubbed his stomach, "Where are you heading in such a hurry hermanita?"

"After Ran, he broke into one of my butterfly cases and tore the wings off of my Danaus Plexippus. All so he could glue them to a mouse," Debbie explained as her face contorted in fury, "a mouse. As if the wings of a butterfly could carry the weight of your average field mouse. Preposterous."

"Did you ever tell him to not use any of your butterflies?", Antonio asked as he attempted to diffuse her anger.

Debbie looked up at her friend and paused, thinking. Finally she said, "Well no, but still I don't go through his stuff like this."