Well, this is awful, but you can read anyway. I was thinking over parts of ideas and settled on mixing two together. I've always liked Monster Falls. This is an awful attempt at writing it, partially because writing the characters is hard on its own, so I set it a year later, also other things can be attributed to the other ideas, but whatever. I doubt Ford or Stan will be in the first couple chapters.
Random Disclaimer that everyone should figure out on their own instantly: The ideas behind Gravity Falls do not belong to me. I believe Fey are public domain, as that is the only new character included deal with your lives. Also I do not care if you use the ideas in this fic.
Disclaimer that makes sense: Monster Falls is not mine, see that is something people might question, but no one is going to sit there and wonder, 'Hey is this guy Alex Hirsch' and if you were... I can't help you.
Chapter 1: Dancing in the Wind
The twins arrived again in Gravity Falls, they had grown since the summer before, the light brown haired boy was at least an inch taller, his clothing style had changed slightly as well, though he still wore a furred hat given to him by Wendy Corduroy the summer before, but his shorts were a darker grey and longer, he wore a t-shirt, and his vest was in a darker grey-black color, something Mabel his sister commented on unendingly. Mabel had grown herself, she had matured as well, people seemed to notice her just as much as normal, but not just for her strange clothing sense, she still wore thick sweaters, but for her now noticeable beauty, she was still as much a bundle of energy as ever before, unlike Dipper whose energy seemed to have been stolen away over the course of the school year.
As the two stepped off the bus they were greeted by a crowd of their friends, including Old Man Mcgucket who was now clean shaven, and noticeably less insane looking, Soos, who was dressed in the clothes matching those of their Grunkle Stan from the previous year, with the Fez included, Wendy Corduroy, she seemed shorter, but that was probably perspective based her hair was still a bright flame red, she was also wearing Dipper's Pine-tree hat from the year before, much too Mabel's discomfort Little Gideon was there as well, he still looked young, but he was slightly less overweight than before, and he was dressed in a t-shirt. Pacifica Northwest was there as well, dressed in her usual make-up and impressive clothing, which partially surprised Dipper, as the summer before most of her parent's wealth had been lost. Mabel's friends Candy and Grenda were in the crowd as well, when Mabel saw them she ran over and the three embraced tightly. Dipper moved slightly away from the crowd, who were filled with chattering excitement as Mabel and the others laughed remembering old stories. He found himself surprised to be next to Pacifica.
"I almost didn't expect to see you here." Dipper said as he stood next to Pacifica, whose blond hair was flowing freely, he noticed that for the first time she looked tired.
"I'm, like, over our grudge, anyway you saved me, and the whole town. I would have felt bad if I didn't welcome you and your sister to town." Pacifica replied, nervously twirling her hair.
"I also sort of thought you would, um, have been angry since your family lost, y'know, most of its money after Weirdmaggeddon." Dipper said nervously.
"Whatever, we sold our house, and some other stuff, and we're already back to almost our previous status." Pacifica said.
"Is that really what you want though? I think the happiest I've ever seen you was when you weren't playing arrogant rich girl." Dipper replied.
"I'm not like pretending to be anything, if that's what you think then whatever." Pacifica said angrily.
"I don't care who you are as long as you don't act like a jerk." Dipper replied tersely.
"Like, why should I care what you think?" Pacifica replied angrily.
"Maybe you shouldn't." Dipper responded almost instantly.
"I don't." Pacifica said turning and storming off.
A moment later Dipper found himself with Mabel leaning against his shoulder, "What's the matter bro-bro? Girl troubles, I see, well I shall teach you everything you need to know about dating, as I am an expert on love."
"Mabel, every relationship, all of them, have ended badly, Mermando got engaged to that Princess, Gideon actually forced you to date him, Gabe had that creepy puppet thing going, and Jeff kidnapped you. Was there actually anyone else?" Dipper replied matter-of-factly.
"Dipper you know that Mermando's engagement was forced, and the others we can just forget about." Mabel said falling over as Dipper started to move away, "Anyway this is different, I am a woman, I understand what women want in a guy, I am a master of psychology as well as dating."
"Yeah, you can try to sell me on that point later, right now I think we need to go." Dipper said pointing at the truck that Soos sat in waving at them.
"To the Mabel Mobile!" Mabel yelled from behind him leaping to her feet and jumping into the truck, grinning from ear to ear, Dipper sighed chasing after his fleeing sister, as he climbed into the truck he spotted Wendy with her feet up in the front of the truck.
"What's up man?" Wendy asked with a broad grin on her face.
"I'm great, so how have things been in gravity falls?" Dipper replied.
"Oh y'know, the stray Eye-bat or two, the occasional gnome attack, random things that must be Weirdmageddon aftermath." Wendy said grinning.
"Yeah doods, it's been super boring since you guys have been gone." Soos said.
"Hey, well not for you Soos." Wendy said, a smirk pulling itself across her face.
Soos blushed turning a tomato red.
"You want to tell us what you're talking about?" Dipper asked curiously, with one eyebrow raised.
"Hey if you don't tell them I will." Wendy added.
"Sooooo, I proposed to Melody, and she accepted, so we're getting married around the end of Summer, she's out of town right now though." Soos said hurriedly.
"OH MY GOSH, CAN I HELP YOU PLAN IT, WILL THERE BE SNACKS, TELL ME EVERYTHING!" Mabel screamed next to Dipper who covered his ears in pain.
"That's great man." He added quickly, shaking his head to get the ringing out of his ears.
The truck pulled to a stop outside of the familiar, worn and fading Mystery Shack, despite Soos's best efforts it still lacked the 'S' in Shack, leaving the large sign to read 'Mystery Hack'. The building brought back a warm and fuzzy feeling in Dipper's chest, despite all the dangers and problems of the summer before it all seemed happy, he and Mabel fighting Gnomes, and defeating Bill seemed to come back except without the fear, or the darkness. Dipper smiled looking up at the familiar structure, "Well, I'm home again."
He whispered the words beneath his breath, all the wonder of Gravity Falls surrounded him as he did. Then something snapped him out of it, a young girl, no a woman, or a teenager, was she his age, younger, or the age of Wendy, perhaps she was twenty, or ten, for some reason he couldn't tell, nor could he really describe her, her hair was red, or blond, or black, or brown, and her eyes glistened strangely a dozen different colors. Her ever changing eyes met Dipper's brown eyes and she smiled, Dipper looked over at Wendy, "Who's that girl over there?"
"No idea, maybe she's new? Or I guess I just haven't seen her before, I think I would remember." Wendy then shrugged, and gestured for Dipper and Mabel to hurry up. As the two ran up into their room Dipper thought over the strange girl, who he had lost sight of instantly after they had entered the Mystery Shack. Dipper sat their wondering who she was, some part of him was entranced by her, he could certainly never describe her, but he could confirm that she was most definitely beautiful.
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Dipper awoke late at night by a knocking on the window, he looked up to see the strange girl from before sitting their, a catlike smile on her face as he awoke. Her evershifting eyes seemed to glow in the moonlight, her skin was now a clear pale white, as if she was born of starlight. She gestured for Dipper to open the window, and Dipper found himself surprisingly doing so. He blinked drearily as she smiled, gesturing for him to follow her, "Follow."
Her voice was young, and the way she spoke childlike, Dipper climbed out onto the roof, somewhere in the back of his mind a voice was screaming 'No you idiot, don't follow the strange girl out onto the roof.' But he was in a trance following the girl, as she moved like a cat across the roof top as he followed her she smiled, sliding down the side of the roof and then dropping safely to the ground, Dipper did the same except much less gracefully, as he landed he hurt all over. He kept following the mysterious girl, woman, whatever, into the forest, she kept beckoning him, calling him forwards through the dark, moonlit area and after her. Dipper's mind was slightly in focus now, despite the part of him that contained most logic and reason being asleep, he observed the girl, she moved partially in a catlike manner as Dipper had originally thought, but another part of her movements seemed to be like she was dancing, almost certainly it was dancing, to some unheard tune, from a long forgotten dance.
"Why are you dancing, there isn't any music" Dipper asked, his mouth moving without any thought, his words were blunt and phrased poorly.
"There is always music, it is in the wind, and the trees, it is calling, you are simply too foolish to listen."
The girl's clothes were strange as well, instead of any common fabric they seemed woven from trees and moonlight, a crown of green leaves wrapped around her head, and, her clothes were not normal, she wore what appeared to be a type of night-gown, of green and white. Dipper began to wonder about the nature of the girl, when she suddenly stopped and stood smiling. Where she stood was a small moonlit spring of water forming a small pond, that was deep enough to go up to at least Dipper's shoulders. The girl smiled wading into the pool, still beckoning for Dipper to follow her, as he moved into the water he noticed how clear and beautiful it was, smelling of the sweetest things imaginable, it glistened with some light, as if it had captured sunlight beneath its surface. As Dipper moved in he noticed the place was somewhat carved from the light grey stone, he felt steps as he waded in. The woman then turned and smiled as she was all the way in, Dipper felt somewhat certain now that she was a woman, a young woman, but still an adult. As she seemed to be examining Dipper.
"Well Pinetree that was surprisingly easy." The woman said, her voice was melodic and sweet.
Dipper moved back, his mind now fully awake, only one being had ever called him pine-tree. "Bill? But you're supposed to be dead!"
"I do not think I have ever been mistaken for that specific demon before. No, I am not Bill, in a way I'm his opposite." The woman said with a smile.
"So, you're here to help us, is something worse coming, something worse than Bill?" Dipper shivered at the thought, despite the late hour the water was surprisingly warm.
"No, but something worse than Bill is here, I am worse than Bill. I am his opposite certainly, he was in your mind, a being of the nightmare realm, I, I am something entirely different, he was daemon, I am fey. I am earthly, of light and rushing through the trees, he was not of this place, he was of the nightmare realm,, of shadows and the gnawing fires of the earth. I am blood, he was smoke. You cannot understand how different we are, but that does not make me your ally, not right now at least. I am the Moonlight Dancer, Lady of Summer Nights, and Blood of the Trees, Bill Cipher is the Dark King, Lord of the Starless Sky, The Raging Flame. We are opposites. I am the Song of Life, and Bill the Tune of Death. We are different things, I am Mistress of Change, Queen of Blood, and I will ever dance in the summer wind. I am born of moonlight and summer breezes, I dwell in the forest and in wild places. I am nameless, and nameful, mistress of myself, and slave to all. I am many things Pine Tree, but I am not your friend." The woman said giving a smile that reminded Dipper far too much of the way a cat my smile at a mouse.
"Then why bring me here to this Spring? If you're not going to help me, why bring me here, you could have killed me long ago." Dipper said, then rethinking the last part of what he had said, he began to back away towards the edge of the pool.
"Because it is much more fun to have you know about it, for you to know that everything that is about to happen to you and your family, and your friends is your fault. To have you know that when it begins it will all rest upon your head, because you will not be able to stop me. I am not like Bill, I am not foolish, I am do not seek a great apocalypse, or some shadowy fate upon you and your family. No, I do this because I think it will be fun. I have no plan, and that should terrify you Pine Tree, because when you fall no one shall hear it, because the Shooting Star will come crashing down right away, and then perhaps the Ice shall melt, or should Goggles die? Perhaps Question Mark, or Llama? So many people to choose from, however shall I choose." For a second the woman's face seemed seriously conflicted, as if the issue of who she was going to kill first was becoming a major internal problem, her head was tilted strangely, as she moved again in her insane inhuman manner she spoke again, "It does not matter, all you need to know Pine Tree is that it will be all. your. fault." As she spoke the last three words she moved closer, tapping Dipper on the nose with an insane and twisted smile on her face, as if she was really going to enjoy every second of pain she brought him, Dipper had not seen such a look before, even in Bill the twisted demon he had more of a desire to make himself better than to really bring pain to Dipper specifically, the woman seemed ecstatic about all the possible ways in which she could hurt him.
Then the darkness came, taking Dipper's mind, he blinked as his thoughts blurred and froze. A moment later he launched upwards in his bed with a slightly girlish scream, breathing in heavily he looked at himself, his clothes were dry, the most water on him was some cold sweat across his forehead, perhaps everything he had seen a moment before had been a dream, he looked across the room to the window which was still closed, he breathed out, nobody could have closed and locked the window as they left, that would have been impossible.
So, yeah if you want to understand why the Fey/Woman/Girl/Main-Antagonist-ish? calls everyone by their Zodiac symbols, basically the quick reason is this:
So she is not like Bill, Bill is a Dream Demon, she is a Fey meaning she is worldly, but both Demons and Fey see the same strands of destiny, they look at the world and can tell a persons fate, so they basically only see that about a person. The Zodiac Symbols are a part of the destiny of the people involved, other people who she deems unimportant she might not even really notice, or she'll call them by another name (Still somewhat based off their destiny). Perhaps the 'Cowards King' would be a good name for Preston Northwest... 'The Loyal Fool' might be another name for what's his name, Thompson? Maybe.. Yeah, cause Lee and Nate are the other two...
Basically they see only the major part of that person, the part of them that is tied to their destiny, which is why the names are odd. Also please remember things about this while reading, it is eventually going to end up as a Monster Falls fanfiction, if I decide to actually finish it, or continue writing, whatever I do, you shall eventually know...
Also the reason this is a thing, and the villain is an Elf/Faerie/Fey, is because I really love the idea of the Fey, also notice that she does not have pointed ears, which is one of the ideas of Fairies, or Elves from Europe, I felt like she worked, as the Elves from old myths were often in control of sickness, health, and tied to nature, I felt like having the villain for such a story be someone who can actually manipulate magic and peoples bodies, opposed to Bill Cipher who had very little power in such respects until Weirdmageddon.
Also I like the idea that the villain is much more insane than Bill, who kinda wanted to rule all of eternity, while this person is very grounded and doesn't want to be a ruler so much as she thinks it would be fun to mess with them all. Actual motive, this is a villain who is just sadistic and insane, except that everything she does is based on a whim so she might help them later... Or not, we'll just see how this goes...
