Drifting Stars Gravity Falls Novels & Stories

The air in the canyon didn't just grow colder; it went completely silent as the heavy, rhythmic *thump-thump* of the automated drilling rigs was replaced by a low, sub-sonic roar that made the teeth in my jaw ache. Through the dense, pink-and-green neon fog layer above the lift spine, a shadow began to descend. It didn't move with the clumsy, weight-shifting slide of the High Council's battleships or the automated drift of Gidyon’s security drones. It dropped straight down like an iron anvil, its four massive, high-pressure gravity stabilizers cutting through the cloud soup with a high-pitched, deafening shriek that turned the falling white ash into a swirling vortex of gray mist.

"Then I’m going to help her fight!" --- ### The Gravity of Greed Rowan ran through the golden wheat, but the wheat was no longer golden. Everywhere a sphere touched, the stalks turned into gray plastic. The "Restoration" was being reversed. The Aethel-Group wasn't deleting the world this time; they were **Vacuuming** it. The air grew thin, as if the ship in the sky was literally sucking the oxygen out of the valley. Rowan’s lungs burned. His legs felt like lead. Every step was a battle against a gravity that felt wrong, as if the world was trying to pull him toward the sky.

"And I just figured out her math." I grabbed a piece of charcoal from a medical tray and dragged a heavy, screeching line across the pristine white tile of the Spire wall. "Gravity is an exchange of mass," I said, drawing a large circle for the earth and a smaller circle for the moon. "The moon pulls the ocean, creating the tides. The ocean is water, which is incredibly dense mass. For ten thousand years, the wolves have been riding that gravitational exchange. When you shift, you are literally pulling localized mass from the tidal tension between the earth and the moon."

Viviane smacked my arm, but I ignored her, because Jesus Christ, was this what we were doing now? Felicity’s eyes widened like she couldn’t believe he just said that, her lips parting in shock. But then, slowly, she blinked, collected herself, and said, “Astronomically speaking, stars don’t fall. They collapse due to gravitational instability.” Brandon choked on his drink. Viviane pressed her fingers against her lips, trying not to laugh. And Gabrielle? That little shit just grinned like she’d recited a love poem. “Damn,” he said, looking impressed. “Beauty and brains. You trying to kill me, angel?”

The Astrals had never expected Adrian to be so powerful. In a short span, he had leaped across five cloud steps in a single move. Though it seemed success was within Adrian’s grasp, the Astrals were determined to stop him. “Should we make a move now?” one Astral asked, his expression darkening. “If we act now, the gravity will likely target both of us. If the current force of fifty thousand pounds doubles to a hundred thousand, even we won’t be able to withstand it,” the other Astral replied.

As they walked toward a small food court outside that was settled between the science and history museums, Jaxsen wrapped his arm around Basil’s shoulders. Basil sat between Nizhoni and Jaxsen as the automated voice began its explanation on stellar drift. Basil was completely caught up in the teaching of how since The Big Bang as it is explained by metric expansion of space that most galaxies are moving away from each other. Basil was caught up in the showing of the constellations when suddenly he felt a small warmth against his hand. He knew Jaxsen was watching the demonstration with Nizhoni before lunch and hoped that there wouldn’t be any hard feelings because of it. But he realized that

She was sure of that. “Well, I could compare you to the stars as well. Should I?” he chuckled and then went on. “Sometimes so distant and far away they seem so untouchable. However, the lights they shine are timeless in the way we understand time here on earth. Sometimes they make things out of nothing, and others, they can destroy everything around them, but that doesn’t change how they look as they sparkle against the darkness around them. They are also a beacon of hope and have a calming effect on people like me and you. Knowing that we once came to this planet as nothing more than spots of dust on a rock. Their beauty is everlasting, and people will see them in lifetimes before and after

Gravity in the lab was behaving erratically; loose pens and papers were drifting toward the ceiling, then falling back down in slow motion. "It’s a Singularity Core," Jun whispered, his voice trembling with a mix of terror and scientific wonder. "It’s not an isotope. It’s a fragment of a collapsed star... or something not from this galaxy. It generates its own localized gravity field (a small, concentrated area where gravity is different from the world around it)."

Uncle Tianshu sighed in admiration. However, unlike the previous Starry River Boundary Formation, the galaxy in front of them no longer had only distant and tiny starlight. Instead, there were dozens of massive stars, resembling a dozen or so planets close to them. Standing on the edge of the desert, one could almost see the terrains and linear marks on these vast planets. "This Starry River Boundary Formation is even more terrible, because these massive planets can release strong gravitational force. If you're careless enough to go near them, you may be sucked in immediately, and cannot break free... It's basically the prototype of the Rules of Space in some parts of our universe."