The scene began with an upwards view of a large pit with its opening having the sunlight beaming through it as specks of dust flutter about aimlessly and slowly around it giving the scenery a rather calm mood. However, when panned down the mood of the scenery quickly changed. For when reaching the bottom of the pit, there laying on a bed of yellow flowers were two figures. These figures, judging from their appearance and size, seem to be children no less than twelve years of age. One was a boy who has somewhat messy brown hair and relatively pale skin. He was also wearing a reddish-orange t-shirt, gray shorts, white socks with a red stripe, and black sneakers. Scattered a few centimeters away from him was a blue and white hat, with a blue brim and a blue pine tree on the front. The boy was laid down on his front atop of the flowers.
Next to him was a girl, who wore a sweater of sorts that had a light orange coloration with a darker shade of orange trailing horizontally on the lower portion of the sweater with a heart on the chest. She had a matching red headband, purple skirt, and black slipper shoes with white socks. She also seems to have round blushing cheeks and long brown hair that reaches her hips. Finally, she was laid down on her side next to the boy on the bed of the flowers. Just then, the boy's closed eyelids twitched slightly before letting out few groans of discomfort and pain. Gritting his teeth from the landing, he held his head before rubbing it. As he opened his eyes slowly, adjusting his vision, they were suddenly snapped open in realization and fear with a gasp.
He looked around very briefly before looking to his side and saw the girl. "Oh my gosh. Mabel! Oh no!" He cried out before moving towards her and turned her on her back, the girl now known as Mabel was still out cold likely from the fall. He shook her, but not too roughly, attempting to awaken her, "Mabel! Come on please wake up!" He pleaded as he continued shaking her. Finally, after a while, Mabel's eyelids twitched before she opened them slowly and her vision adjusted. She saw the boy above her blocking the beam of light from above from her view. "D-Dipper...?" She muttered weakly, and showing silver colored braces on her teeth. Dipper let out a sigh of relief, "Oh thank goodness. You're okay." He then slowly and carefully moved her up as she sat up while he was on his knees tending to her.
"Ow...my head. Agh, what the heck happened?" She asked as she rubbed her head with discomfort. Dipper sighed as he looked around, they were in a pit of sorts and were lying on a bed of yellow flowers. "We must've fallen down. And I think the flowers broke our fall somehow." He answered when Mabel opened her eyes fully, "Flowers?" She looked down to see that they were in a field of flowers, just then she had a braces-filled grinned, "Ha! See Dipper? I told you flowers would one day save our lives!" She said in a triumphant but rather goofy tone. Dipper though could not believe it, "Mabel, seriously? Is this really the time!?" He exclaimed but she was not affected, "It's always the time bro. Gotta keep the smiles a-goin'." She stated as she poked her own cheeks with a giggle.
Dipper sighed shaking his head, he could not argue with that. He looked to his left as he saw his hat before reaching over, dusting it off and putting it on his head. "I would keep them going if this wasn't your fault." He complained, and that snapped Mabel out of her happy state then looked to her brother accusingly, "Wait what? My fault?! Who's the dork that wanted to see the spooky, mysterious, oh-not-so bottomless pit?!" She countered, mocking imitating Dipper's self-proclaimed adventurous tone. "I told you I was gonna be careful! I'm not a baby you know. But then you just had to drag me away and make us both trip!" He pointed at her. "Dipper, what's the one thing I keep telling you not to do throughout the whole summer?" She asked as she put her hands on her hips. Dipper stopped himself from continuing, looking left and right in an attempt to find an answer but surrendered with a sigh, "Explore spooky mysterious places." He replied when Mabel continued, "And what did you do?"
"I explored a spooky mysterious place." Dipper answered once again, the scenario seemed like a mother lecturing her own son, which is ironic considering Mabel can be a motherly figure added with the fact that she is the older twin. "And why aren't you supposed to explore spooky mysterious places?" She questioned him again, causing Dipper to look down more with regret, "Because there might be monsters in those places that could potentially escape, chase us so they can try and eat us, and go on a rampage in Gravity Falls thus putting everyone in harm's way." Mabel's demeanor dropped to a satisfied one before she put a hand on her brother's shoulder making him look up, "Hey don't you beat yourself up over it bro bro. I know how much you love to go on adventures and stuffs. And I know you're smart too. But I just worry about you a lot so of course I gotta make sure you don't like raise the dead, bring video game characters to life, summon eyeball bats, make evil potions and- "
Dipper stopped her as he understood, "Okay Mabel I get it." He sighed but smiled slightly, "I guess I am just a big goofy dork huh?" Mabel thought for a second and shrugged, "Yeah. But you're my big goofy dork brother." She quipped putting him in a headlock and ruffling his hair causing him and her to laugh. Dipper chuckled but let out small 'ows' as his head still hurt a bit. "Wait a second..." Dipper's eyebrows furrowed, before he gasped in terror when he looked down to see that his navy blue vest was missing. It was not the vest, but rather what was in the vest. "Oh no, my vest! The journal!" He yelled as he immediately got up, ignoring the sores on his knees and legs, frantically looking around, "Where is it?! No no no no no! I can't lose that journal!" He exclaimed before Mabel too got up and held him by the shoulders firmly, "Whoa whoa whoa! Dipper! Chillax!" She said trying to calm him down.
"No Mabel I can't 'chillax'! Who knows what could be down here? Without that journal we've got no way of knowing how to beat whatever's down here!" He said with panic in his voice. "HEY!" He immediately stopped when Mabel said that. She then slapped a sticker on his forehead with a peace symbol. "Relax. Just let the sticker do its thing. Breathe in..." They both inhaled. "And breathe out." Then exhaled. "Now, all we gotta do is just find that journal. Piece of cake! Oooh I could for some cake right about now though. I'm thinking chocolate. Or ice cream chocolate cake!" Mabel thought quickly having her thoughts pushed away from locating the journal. Dipper slapped his face with his palm, "Oh man. We're never gonna find that journal. What a load of bum!" He said angrily, picking up a rock and blindly throwing it upwards. However, the rock struck something, that something was Dipper's blue vest as it hung off a tree branch in the midst of the pit.
When it struck, it caused a book to fall out of the vest. The book has a main color of burgundy with various rips and tears on the cover due to age, it has two gold lines on its spine and all four of its corners are gold. In the middle of the book, there is a gold hand with six fingers and the number 3 in the middle. As it fell, it crashed onto Dipper's head causing him to let out a shout of pain, clutching his head in the process. He opened one eye to look, but they were fully opened once he saw what struck him from above. "The journal!" He said happily as he picked it up and hugged it close. "Eureka! Those noodle arms come in handy after all!" Mabel cheered with her arms up, but her head was covered in flowers, occupying herself with her girly antics. Dipper then looked up to see that his vest was hung on the branch, and frowned, "Agh man. I really like that vest. How am I supposed to get it down?"
"Why don't you just throw another rock?" His sister asked him. "I could but uh...noodle arms remember? Plus, I got really steamed and that gave me a major headache." He replied rubbing his head. Mabel walked over to him and gave him a nudge, "Don't worry about it, Dip. We'll get you a new one. Better yet...I can make you a new one!" She said with excitement but Dipper did not share the same feeling as he eyed her, "Mabel, if it's gonna be a sweater with lots of question marks that have kittens riding on them as they shoot rainbows from their butts I'm not interested." He told her, but judging from Mabel's tone and her eyes going left and right in a suspicious manner, he knew better. "Whaaaat? Pssh. I'm not that girly, Dipper." She said as she turned her back to him, and discreetly scribbled off the design of the vest Dipper described from her note, before writing down 'needs more glitter and a heart antennas'.
Dipper sighed as he looked up once more, seeing that the rocks are not erected enough for them to climb, they have no other choice but to continue forward through the cave. "Well, looks like we're not going anywhere. Only way we're getting outta here is forward. Come on." He said as he started walking, holding the journal to his side as Mabel followed him. The twins walked away from the beam of light as their forms were slowly fading into the darkness as they ventured into the unknown caverns. However, unbeknownst to them, a single flower was twitching before it bolted down to the soil.
The twins continued walking within the caverns, glancing around as they witnessed numerous stalagmites above them, as well as various echoing sounds of water droplets dripping to the floor. It was dark, but not too dark, as they had their eyes squinted slightly in order for their visions to properly adjust. Mabel held Dipper's hand all the way so they would not lose each other. "So, um, Dipper? Do you have any idea where we are?" Mabel asked breaking the silence. "I've got no clue. But seeing as this is Gravity Falls, I'd probably hate to find out in the end." He replied ominously. "What about your journal thingy?" She asked once more pointing to the journal. "I dunno it might. But there's barely any light here so I can't see a thing." He said with annoyance before he saw a faint curtain of light in the distance through the cavern. "Mabel look! Over there! That's probably our ticket outta here!" He said with delight before he pulled her with him as they ran.
When they reached the light curtain, it revealed to be nothing more than another opening of a smaller pit above. Letting out a sound of frustration, Dipper frowned, "Agh, dang it!" Mabel patted his shoulder in assurance, "It's okay, Dipper. At least you got some reading light!" She said the last sentence optimistically. Dipper eyed her from the corner of his eyes, "Yeah. That's just what I needed." He muttered sarcastically as he opened the journal and flipped through several pages. "Before we fell, I remember reading about some kind of mountain that was said to house a plethora of supernatural beings." He began when Mabel giggled, "Heh. You said plethora." Dipper rolled his eyes but continued before stopping at the page he wanted. "There! According to this the mountain is called Mt. Ebott. It's described as being the largest mountain in all of Gravity Falls." He said as Mabel leaned in to look at the information. While she wasn't really as intelligent as her brother, she was nonetheless interested in the supernatural.
"It says here that during his investigations of the many paranormal incidents that occurred within Gravity Falls, the author picked up what he believes is a hot spot for supernatural activity." Dipper read with his eyebrows raising in excitement. "Hot spot? Wait so like we're in a volcano?" Mabel asked not really following that much. "No Mabel, it means like this mountain is like the biggest point for supernatural activity in all of Gravity Falls!" He told her like a fan boy. "So does that mean...we can have a monster party!" She shared the same excitement with a wide braces grin. Dipper's smile disappeared but smirked soon after. "Yes, Mabel. A monster party." He replied causing Mabel to jump up once before initiating some of her dance moves, "Monster partaaaaaay! Ooop! Ooop!" Dipper shushed her, "Mabel keep it down!" he whispered to her. But she chuckled, "Come on, Dipper. We haven't seen a monster in here for a while. What could we possibly run into if there's nothing here?" As she was talking, something small was rising from the ground a few feet away from them underneath the beam of light.
As it fully rose, it revealed to be a flower. But what was striking is that the flower had a face. A rather simplistic face at that. It mainly consisted of two dots for eyes and a smile. "Howdy!" The flower greeted them causing them to let out yelps of surprise. "I'm Flowey! Flowey the Flower!" It introduced itself to them. The twins paused, unknown of how to make of this. Their minds processed the current situation: it's that a flower is talking to them. Their eyes shifted to each other before looking back at the flower. "Hmm. You two are new to the Underground, aren'tcha?" It asked them. "Uh..." Was all Dipper could let out. But Mabel had different things in mind as he eyes widened with sparkles in them, squishing her rosy cheeks together, and grinning, "Oh my gosh! Omigosh omigosh omigosh!" She squealed. "IT'S A TALKING FLOWER!" She attempted to run over to it, only for Dipper to hold her back, "Mabel stop! Are you nuts?!"
"Dipper look at it! IT'S A TALKING FLOWER! THAT CAN'T BE A MONSTER! I WANNA HUG IT!" She said in a squealing happy manner. "Mabel no, we don't even know if it's evil. It could be trying to trick us." He warned her as he narrowed his eyes at the flower, but Mabel was too engrossed in how cute Flowey was. "BUT IT'S SO CUTE!" She exclaimed in her girly self. "Aw, golly, you must be so confused little boy! It's okay! I understand. Hey, someone ought to teach you how things work around here!" Flowey said in a rather cheerful voice. Dipper looked back at Mabel then back to Flowey. "I uh...I dunno, man." He said still hesitant. "Come on, Dipper! Just look at that cute little face!" Mabel said referring to Flowey's facial features, which seemed to indicate that he's completely harmless. Mabel went over to him and laid on her knees in front of Flowey.
"See, Dipper? Totally harmless! Hi there, Flowey! I'm Mabel." She greeted cheerfully before putting a sticker on Flowey's 'forehead' that had the word smile on it. "Womp." She said when placing the sticker. Flowey did not seem to mind. "Hi there, Mabel!" He greeted back in the same friendly manner causing Mabel to let out a squeal of happiness. Dipper could only stare in disbelief. What he thought was going to be a cavern of monsters, turns out it might possibly be a cavern of creatures that would originate from Mabel's imagination. "So Flowey, what're you gonna teach us?" Mabel asked in anticipation causing Flowey to smile wide. "I'm glad you asked, Mabel. Here we go!" It said before taking its two sepals, extending them out and tapped both Dipper and Mabel where there hearts are. Mabel giggled since that was ticklish as Dipper could only look with an odd expression.
A moment passed, and Dipper was about to say something when the area where their hearts are started to glow. The glow than beamed out from their chests, which soon took a physical shape into that of a stereotypical depiction of hearts. Mabel and Dipper could only stare in shock and awe, as they saw what they presume to be their own hearts manifested in front of them. Dipper's heart was a dark blue whilst Mabel's was a bright red. Their hearts lowered to where they can have them hovering in the palms of their hands. Dipper attempted to find the words to describe what was occurring right now. "This is...this..." But immediately Mabel sprung out of her shock, "SO COOL!" She yelled in awe as she moved her heart around as though it were a toy. "Mabel be careful!" Dipper told her, but she shrugged him off. "Hey! This is my sweet little heart! Worry about your own!" She retorted as she hugged her heart close.
"Oh those aren't just your hearts. Those are your SOULS. The very culmination of your beings!" Flowey revealed, Dipper looked at him with a stunned look on his face. "W-Wait what?! Our souls?! But how are we still alive?!" He exclaimed in a panicked tone. "Oh worry not, Dipper! Those are just manifestations of your SOUL. Your SOUL starts off weak, but you can grow strong if you gain a lot of LV." The flower explained further, calming Dipper down but his stunned expression was replaced with a confused one. "LV? What's LV?" He asked only to have Mabel put her SOUL on the side of his face as she answered instead, "LOVE!" Flowey giggled, "Right you are, Mabel! LOVE! You want some LOVE, don't you?" He asked them. Mabel held her soul close to her chest, as her eyes widened with sparkles in them. "A flower just asked me if I wanted love. I'm finally living the dream." She whispered causing Dipper to look at her confusingly. They may be twins but his sister would always surprise him with how weird she can be.
"Yes, Flowey. Yes I do want LOVE. I WANT ALL YOUR LOVE!" Mabel said proudly and excitedly as her pupils were comically replaced with hearts in her eyes. "Don't worry, I'll share some with you!" Flowey complied. He then released several pellets from the ground around him as they hovered above while the twins looked. Mabel was excited but Dipper narrowed his eyes with suspicion. "Down here, LOVE is shared through... little white...'friendliness pellets'." Flowey explained, however, Dipper noticed that Flowey was looking to the side a bit when he said. From the crime shows that he watched, he learned that people would look to the right when they make something up, raising his suspicions even more. "Are you ready?" Flowey asked them.
"Am I ready?! Flowey I was born ready! I was born ready to be showered with all the pellets of friendliness and love!" She proclaimed but Dipper stopped her, "Wait, Mabel! You sure this is a good idea? I mean...we've been here for like a couple of minutes and already we're meeting friendlies? Something doesn't add up here..." He told her, but Mabel shook her head, "Dipper, honestly, when are you ever gonna learn that with the power of love, anything is possible?" Dipper's eyebrows furrowed, as Mabel walked towards the pellets. He looked over to Flowey, and noticed that his expression was beaming as Mabel was getting closer to touch them. "Hey uh, Flowey? What was the point of getting our SOULs to manifest in the first place? I mean, don't get me wrong you seem nice and all but, why do it?" He asked. Flowey only giggled in response, "Oh, Dipper. Don't you see? I'm only showing you...how painfully you're going to die." And from there, Flowey's expression shifted to a malevolent one with his voice changing from cheery to deep and demonic.
Dipper's eyes widened with fear, "WHAT?!" He quickly looked over to Mabel as the pellets bolted towards her. "MABEL!" He yelled out to her and quickly sprinted, and tackled her to side causing them both to grunt, the pellets striking the ground with strong force creating small holes. "D-Dipper?! What's going- ?!" Her question was interrupted by the sound of cackling. Looking over they saw it was Flowey as he laughs maniacally, "You idiots. In this world...it's kill or BE killed." He said with a dark and chilling voice. "What the heck, man?! I thought you were gonna help us!" Dipper exclaimed angrily, but Flowey chuckled at the statement. "Help you? Please, there's no fun in helping sacks of flesh like you two. I mean, why would ANYONE pass up an opportunity like this!?"
The twins were then surrounded by the pellets as they rose from the ground, threatening to end their lives. Mabel looked around in fear as she moved close to Dipper holding onto him, "F-Flowey! Please! Don't do this!" She pleaded by the flower laughed her plea away, "Sorry, Mabel. I want to. Now do me a favor...and DIE!" It howled in a demonic tone. Commanding the pellets to bolt to them like bullets. The twins screamed as they held onto each other shutting their eyes preparing for whatever is going to happen, all while Flowey laughs in anticipation. However, just before it reaches them, the pellets are ignited in flames and reduced to ashes. Flowey stops laughing and looks over in shock. "What?!"
Its question was answered with a fireball zipping towards them and striking Flowey, singing some of his petals and knocking him away as he let out a pained yell. The twins opened their eyes and saw that they were still alive, and also that Flowey was gone. "W-Wha? What happened?" Mabel being the first to speak. Dipper was about to say something when he saw a large figure walking to where Flowey once was. Alarmed he held his sister close in a protective manner, also not caring for the fact that their SOULs are gone. "What a terrible creature, torturing such poor innocent youths." The figure said, and Dipper realized that it was female. She also had a motherly tone in her voice, calm and soothing.
She turned around revealing her appearance to the twins. The woman, was no woman at all. In fact, she was female but was not human either. Instead, it showed that her head resembles a white-furred goat of some kind, with droopy ears and short horns. She has a pair of visible fangs and long eyelashes; her irises have a dark red tint. She has an anthropomorphic body, with paws at the end of her limbs, and finally she seems to be wearing a long purple robe that displays a symbol of sorts on her chest. Noticing their expressions, she tried to calm them down and made sure that she meant no harm, "Do not be afraid, my dears. I am Toriel. Caretaker of the Ruins. I pass through this place every day to see if anyone has fallen down here." She introduced herself.
The twins stood as they looked up at her. "So, you're not here to hurt us?" Dipper said, causing Toriel to smile warmly and shake her head, "Of course not, child. Far from it. I am fully aware of the dangers that lurk about in the Ruins, hence why I saved you." Mabel smiled showing her braces, "Thank you, goat lady!" With her same goofy but adorable tone, causing Toriel to chuckle then pat her head gently. "Please my dear, call me Toriel." She examined the two of them for a moment. "Hmm. Interesting. You two are the first humans to come down here in a long time. Come! I will guide you through the catacombs." She offered them.
Mabel took a step forward but Dipper stopped her, "Hold on. How do we know this isn't some kind of trick?" He eyed Toriel but Mabel gave him a punch to the shoulder, "Ow!" His sister looked at him sourly, "Dipper! Don't be rude!" Toriel smiled at this though, "It is alright, my dear. I understand if your sibling would be untrusting of me. However, if you follow me, you will see that I mean no ill will towards you. And that is a promise." She assured, and while Dipper seemed slightly hesitant at first, he did notice that she could not harm a fly. Even though she did fend of Flowey, he could sense nothing but a benevolent aura emanating from her. Taking a breath, he nodded. "Alright. Lead the way."
Toriel nodded. "This way, please." She turned and walked as the twins began to follow her. As they did, they held hands disappearing into the darkness with Toriel once more. All while, Flowey emerged from where he was knocked as his petals regenerated from the fire with a look of sheer anger. But that soon gave way to an evil smirk before he jutted back down into the ground.
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