Hello there! Thanks for passing by and reading this little fic of mine!
I've been reading a lot of Gravity Falls fanfics lately, most of them being MaBill fics. I adore the pairing, I even have a few OneShots going on about them- they're in spanish though! Feel free to go and give it a read if you want.
Yesterday, I stayed up late reading eternal1990's fanfiction; "The Serpent and the Mermaid." I absolutly adore it! I recommend every MaBill fan to give it a go. It's such a great fic... Heck, it inspired me to write this one right here!
Anyway, to the point! I'm a really big fan of mythology and monsters in general, and I have been thinking about writting a MaBill fanfic for quite a while now. I decided to use the Monster Falls AU, with a bit of a twist. I've always seen Bill as a hunter in the AU... so I wanted to do something different! And while reading TSATM, inspiration struck!
If Bill is a demon in canon, why not make him another creature in the MF verse? I hope you all like Fallen angel!Bill. Hes gonna be the first angel to ever fall on earth...
Anyway, this story is gonna have romance, and quite dark and slightly religious themes. Maybe popular fanon characters, like Tad Strange or Decarabia... I still have to think about it. I'll try my best to keep the characters as IC as possible.
Also! Please keep in mind that my first lenguage is Spanish! I'm still learning english, so some grammar mistakes and typos may have bypassed me, please bear with me!
Eh, Yes! That's pretty much what I wanted to say. So enjoy!
It was a violent sound, a harsh clash of a solid body and water that would have hurt anyone enough to break a bone or two. Water splashed everywhere from the center of the Eden lake, the droplets falling like rain for a few moments, disturbing the quiet peace of the place.
The young mermaid who lived at the very bottom of the lake was awakened by the harsh vibrations of the sound underwater, loud enough to make her forget her slumber and to make her cover her ears, she could barely see a body slowly floating back to the surface, their back to the bottom of the almost endless lake.
She can smell blood on the water, but it's not quite the scent of blood a human would have. Maybe another creature, like herself? It was possible, but what kind of creature would fall so harshly on her lake? It was right on the middle of it, too...
Uncoiling her tail, the mermaid slowly swims towards the lone figure floating between lily pads and water lilies, the scent of blood growing stronger as she gets closer, and dares she say, it even smells sickly...sweet to her, the faint smell of copper and caramel mixed together that almost made her want to gag. It was pleasant and disgusting at the same time.
"Who...What could have fallen so harshly right in the middle of the lake? They couldn't have been pushed…"
It's odd, she thinks, when she sees three pairs of wings first, white as the snow in winter. An avian creature would probably explain the fall, but she had never seen something like it. She wishes her brother was there with her, perhaps he would know what this creature in her lake was.
And as she finally breaks to the surface, she can finally see. It- He resembled a human, a normal human except for the broken wings attached to his shoulderblades and the odd remains of...of something around his head, the broken pieces of whatever that once was were giving a faint golden glow around her that flickered on and off every couple of seconds.
The man was deadly pale, his blonde hair sprawled everywhere thanks to the water, the pristine white suit with golden buttons he wore was now stained with water and blood, his own blood, she notices.
The young mermaid gasped, her hands flying to cover her mouth as she saw the other's injuries; An open wound going from chest to abdomen was bleeding slowly, staining further the white of the cloth and the clear waters of the lake, his fingers were burned, she could smell the faint odor of sulfur in the air, along with the sickly sweet smell of his blood. His wings, obviously broken thanks to the harsh fall, with feathers sticking and falling out.
But his eyes… His right eye had been gouged out, leaving a gaping hole in its place that was bleeding slowly, down his cheek, his neck and reaching the water. His left eye, blue as the sky itself, seemed open, vacant, staring up at the clouds in a emotionless gaze, or perhaps, at something far above them.
If not by the slow movement of his injured chest, she would have thought the stranger was already dead. It was a true miracle that he was still alive in such state.
Slowly swimming closer to the man, the mermaid could barely contain her worry and fear. What if she was wrong? What if this stranger was already dead? Or if he was alive, but feral, and attacked her as soon as he saw her?
"Oh Dipper, Where are you? I need you right now, you would know what to do…"
Despite her own fear, she couldn't just leave someone who was hurt, especially is she was able to help. Going back to the bottom of her lake would be cruel, she couldn't do it.
So she swam closer, pink scales shining as the sun gently kissed her tail. The young mermaid made sure to keep her emotions in check, she needed to be calm, panic would do no good to this man.
Tugging softly at the white sleeve, brown meets blue, and the mermaid can see a river of emotions flowing behind that unblinking eye; Confusion, shock, sorrow…
Anger
Betrayal
Wrath
But before she could even blink, the other's emotions were caged once again, and the unblinking blue eye was now looking at her in a vacant stare. Bloodstained lips twitching while trying to form words. The gaping wound on the man's chest seems to sew itself shut slowly, the blood dissolving in the water between the mess of flora and white feathers.
Scared out of her wits at this new creature, yet far too kind to leave him alone and too worried for the other's current state, the mermaid slowly cupped the man's face between her hands, tears pooling in her eyes and slowly falling down her cheeks.
The man tried to feeble swat at her hands, but the mermaid calmly shushed him, brushing the blonde hair away from his face.
"Please, let me help."
As the teardrops started hitting the unknown creature's wound, the mermaid begun to sing a soft lullaby, trying to calm him down as her tears fell on the gaping hole where his eye was supposed to be, helping it to heal faster as her voice echoed around the lake and near trees.
The deep cut that ran across his chest seemed to be healing much faster, the blood slowly stopped to seep through his clothes and she could finally breathe without that coppery smell making her want to gag. The wound on his face thought, that would take a bit more than mermaid tears for it to fully heal, but at least, it would do the job for now.
Once her singing stopped and her eyes stopped being blurry with tears, she looked down at the man, who was now staring past her head, back at the cloudy sky. The mermaid looked at the same spot the blue eye seemed to be staring, and after a few seconds, she looked back and the injured creature.
"I… M-My name is Mabel, this is my lake."
"..."
"Who… Who are you?"
The man suddenly looked at her, and the young mermaid stifled back a gasp at the sudden reaction, still cupping his face between her hands and making sure to keep his head out of the water, leaving the rest of his body to float along the lily pads.
"...William…"
She nodded. William. She didn't know of any William living back in town, so it was safe to say the creature wasn't from there.
The mermaid opened her mouth to speak, but closed it shut after a second. Asking if he was okay was stupid, he was not okay, the mermaid could easily see that. Both physically and mentally, the man wasn't okay.
Giving a few more false starts, the mermaid tried to ask another question, one that was slowly picking her curiosity away. Trying not to sound too rude, she returns William's stare.
"What...are you?"
The creature- William, opened his mouth, the answer was at the tip of his tongue when he suddenly blinked. Closing his mouth and blinking again, he shifted his head to look back at the sky, beyond the clouds, staring at something that only he could see.
Mabel waited patiently for his answer. It seemed that he knew, that he was sure of what he was but something made him stay silent, something made him rethink what he was going to say.
Silence reigned for a minute, William coming back to his unmoving state as Mabel gently pulled his bangs away from his wound. A growl escaped the avian creature's lips and the mermaid stiffened slightly, but soon enough began to sing again. The soft lullaby escaping her lips as it were liquid gold, making the man slowly close his good eye, letting the hypnotic and soft song capture him.
Mabel continued to sing for a couple of minutes, her voice going down to a whisper as William's lips started to twitch. She tried to ignore the anger and sorrow of his gaze, concentrating on his oddly neutral voice.
"I...I don't know what I am, not anymore."
She nodded and continued to sing. The nostalgic melody echoing through the lake and forest as the man closed his eye one more time, his words making an echo of their own inside the mermaid's head.
-"I don't know what I am, not anymore."-
Ah yes, this is a really short chapter. It always happens with me, the first chapters are always the shortests. I promise I'll work harder on the next one.
So, thoughts? Suggestions? Critiques? Those are always welcome here!
