His dad wants some alone time for the summer and his mom is busy, as always, so he ends up being sent to his Great Uncle Stan.
Stan, apparently, lives in a small town called Gravity Falls in Oregon. He's never been in a small town before, so he's interested to see what it'll be like.
He gets off the bus at the destination.
Gravity Falls is surrounded by a sea of pine trees. The town is small but not enough that he couldn't get lost in it.
Not many people disembark with him: there is a blond girl with a tall woman, obviously her mother, and there is a guy with more muscle than every other person on the bus combined. The girl seems very excited by what she sees.
There is a guy holding a cardboard sign with the words "Zane Pines". He approaches Zane with a smile.
"Hey, dude, are you Mister Pines' great-nephew?"
"I'm Soos! I work for him in the Mystery Shack, he told me to meet you here and wait until he picks us up.”
Soos pauses and thinks for a moment.
“Oh, and he also said that you better react fast, dude.”
A car comes down the road at fast speed, abruptly stopping in front of them.
The first thing Zane will notice is the giant stuffed bear on the passenger seat. The second thing he might notice is the driver, his Great Uncle Stan, saying, “What are you waiting for? Get in! Get in!”
He notices both things! He's very attentive.
He scrambles into the car as fast as he can, avoiding the bear.
"Why do you have a stuffed bear in your car, exactly?"
“This? This… is just something I found on the street,” Stan says, looking into the rear mirror and chuckling to himself. “Just something that was left for anyone to pick up.”
"I have no clue why you'd need a teddy bear, but whatever." Zane will stay silent for the rest of the ride unless something interesting happens.
"It was there for the taking. Which reminds me," Stan looks at Soos through the mirror. "Soos, we are going to retire the mummified two-headed mermaid exhibit. Now we are going to just have a mummified one-headed mermaid and the new abominable lake lagoon creature. I will think of something when the glue sets in."
“For the Mystery Shack! The best roadside attraction in the Pacific Northwest!”
The car slows down and parks in front of a house with a large sign on the roof that says “Mystery Shack”, but the “S” from “Shack” has fallen off. There is moss and weeds growing on nearly everything.
“Pretty great, isn’t it?”
"If you say so. Where am I sleeping? I've had a long journey, I'm a bit tired, I'd like a short rest."
“Kids.” Stan leads him inside. “You will stay in the attic; be careful with the splinters. Soos, help me with the new exhibit.”
"You too, Soos." Zane goes up to the attic, places all his stuff in the right places and flops on the bed for a bit. The noises downstairs are annoying but he's tired enough he can nap anyway.
A while later he emerges from the attic.
What. WHAT. That is very, very odd. It is probably a prank.
He goes downstairs to find somebody. Who does he find?
"Hey Soos, do you know who did this to me? Is there anyone here prone to pranking people? Because BEWARB is a really odd thing to spell, if you're spelling anything on anyone's arm. With fake mosquito bites. That. Itch like real ones. This is really weird."
"A werewolf? Why would a mailman be a werewolf? And how does that lead to me having BEWARB on my arm?"
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