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// A Night In The Woods 
// Story: My Little Gravity Foals 
// by SummerCandyPegasus 
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     I stared up at the ceiling above me. My twin sister, Mabel, snored quietly on the other side of the room. I looked at the clock, which read 11:38 in bright neon letters. Finally, I decided to go for a walk in the woods. It was dangerous to go alone, but Mabel slept lightly, like me, and I knew she'd wake up. She always did. I sat up and put on my favorite hat, the white and blue one with the pine tree. Then I put my black tennis shoes on, double knotting each with a neat bow. The wooden floorboards of the attic where we slept creaked as I walked to the door. Mabel sat up, trying to rub the sleepiness from her eyes. 

"Dipper, where the heck are you going? It's too late, go back to bed." she said, her voice thick with drowsiness. 

"I'm going out for a walk. I can't sleep." I responded. Mabel sat up on her bed and yawned. 

"If you're going, I'm going with you." she said with a determined stare. She pulled a black sweater- the one with a yellow lightning bolt- over her head, getting up to go put her shoes on.

We walked into the forest together, carrying bright LED flashlights with us. Mud from that day's rain coated the soles of my shoes, and water dripped from the needles of the pines. Raindrops batted at the branches, threatening to drench us. I'd had the good sense to not bring my '3' journal out into this weather. It was too valuable to lose. Mabel and I walked silently together through the woods, following a lazily curved path paved with pine needles. Of course, I was always a bit on edge, but who wouldn't be? These were the woods, in Gravity Falls, of all places. Dangerous things live here, but hey, the town's still here, so nothing could be too terrible. In the darkness I spotted a soft, orange glow, warm like a fire. In a particularly thick pine tree, a ring of golden light illuminated the night, surrounding a jet-black oval as big as a person. Mabel must've noticed it too, for she ponted to it and asked, 

"Hey, what's that?"

"I don't know, I've never seen it before. Maybe it's a portal." I responded, somewhat sarcastically. Mabel, however, didn't get it, and proceeded to walk right up to the portal and poke it with a stick.

In the blink of an eye, the portal started to suck her in like a vaccum. In the panic, we both dropped our flashlights as I raced toward her, grabbing her leg. Yet, pull as I might, I wasn't making much of a difference. 

"Aaaaaaaaaaahh!" we screamed as the portal swallowed us.