Dipper Pine's Prophecy

11: Mystery Twins Adventures

Dipper focused on his journal as soon as his Grunkles left.

He had offered to go with his Grunkle to help investigate, but Ford had refused, saying that it was unnecessary for Dipper to go. Though it was more likely that he just wanted to spare his nephew the nightmares a trip to the morgue would cause the young man, Dipper couldn't bring himself to argue.

Unfortunately, his journal entry didn't serve as a long term distraction from his thoughts on the murder and he quickly turned to the tablet Ford had given him. Though he had made no progress in translating it so far, he was hopeful that he would figure it out soon. Especially since he had a theory to try out now.

Dipper believed that this tomb was made by the Populi Veritatis.

It didn't seem like much of a stretch once Dipper thought about it, this tribe was dedicated finding the truth, as implied by their name, so it was more than likely that they learned about magic and 'mythical' creatures as well as cultures and languages. He believed that the Populi Veritatis had discovered the prophecy on Weirdmageddon, fled to an isolated island, and placed a powerful barrier abound it to protect themselves from that prophecy.

Dipper couldn't help but grin when he thought about how Bill would have reacted if he was right. There was no doubt in his mind that the demon would absolutely HATE the fact that he couldn't get through a TRIANGULAR barrier.

If he was right and had Bill still been alive, he would definitely rub that knowledge into the Dorito's eye.

Anyway, in order to test his theory, he was going to try translating the tablet like Will said. Which means he had to solve every symbol like a miniature riddle to find the letter it represented, then, in theory, it should be in Latin, which would be an easy translation.

Within the next twenty minutes, Dipper was certain that he had successfully translated the letters 'E' and 'T'. He was sure he was about to find another one when Mable skipped into the room.

"Dip, I'm BORED!" She exclaimed before falling onto his bed.

Without looking up from his work, Dipper gestured to unfinished hunk of paper mache and glitter that sat on the floor, "Then finish your project, whatever it is."

Though Mabel now had her own bedroom and the attic was Dippers, his sister insisted that Dipper's room had better lighting with the window and would often work on her art projects on the floor. He hated that it meant that glitter would still get into his stuff, but was secretly happy that they could still do their own things near each other and couldn't bring himself to kick her out.

"But I can't! I have no inspiration or motivation to do that right now and if I force myself to work on it, it'll be a disaster!"

Dipper sighed and turned away from his desk, he knew working would be a lost cause when Mabel was bored and demanded he helped entertain her, "So what do you want to do?"

She hummed and sat up, she stared at the wall for a moment before her eyes found the window and they widened as she grinned, "Let's go on an adventure!"

"Why? We've already explored the whole forest." He asked.

"Because we haven't done anything as the Mystery Twin this summer yet and since the Shack is closed and you don't have any not-dates, it would be a perfect time to. Besides, you should know even better than me how there's always something to discover, even when we revisit somewhere we thought we knew inside and out."

Dipper didn't argue, "That's true, so where do you want to go?"

Mabel walked to his desk and looked at the handmade map of the forest he had above it, "How about..." She placed a finger on the map, "here."