A/N: This is a repost of my story from AO3. So if you read it on there you'll notice it is all the same. I thought I might as well post here as well since I have an account for reading fics on here too. XD
Warning: There is slight gore in this chapter.
The chaotic swirls of color that made up the dimension floated around the space that made up the void that was only filled up by the two slim figures and a huge sharp pendulum decorated with strange symbols around its sides that glows periodically before fading again. The pendulum remained unmoving as the figures looked upon it with a quaint look about them.
"Lv lw wlph iru Idwh wr vzlqj vlvwhu?" the first figure asked with a coy smile upon their lips. The second one looks at the first with a eye that kept changing its color like the swirls of color behind them.
"Zkdw grhv wkh Rudfoh ri Ghvwlqb vdb?" The second figure replies with a grin of their own as if they knew the answer to the question of the first figure already. The first figure lets out a bell ringing laugh that sends out a glowing rune towards the pendulum. As the final rune touches it, a triangle with a single eye appears in a blue glow in the pendulum's center and starts to swing. The first figure then shakes as if suffering from a seizure, eyes glowing pure white as it spoke with a strange echo.
Rrw pqgf Eiuhur Rzs,
Lh auyui lbty rki gmprp Fsflczcv,
Rwbbucu aaet rthv txtblj,
Xaet Qcvxagg nlg Jsmm ecyisea gfhmj Yiyj.
As the final word leaves the first figure's lips, both of them break out in peals of laughter as they watch the pendulum swing back and forth. Its movement has started, so all they had to do was wait, and waiting was what they were both good at doing.
Bill Cipher was growing restless in the Mindscape. Without Sixer, there was no one to really mess with that could understand what he was doing to them, and Fez was just boring... I mean really… Just watching him scam a bunch of meatsacks all day just isn't the same anymore as it was when he first started doing it when he pushed Sixer into the portal. Now that was entertaining!
"Yesh, what's a demon to do to get some action around here anyway? It's been what? Fourteen years since he disappeared already? Why am I getting bored in the first place?," he talks out loud to himself. He creates some nightmares and sends them out to random people with a flick of his fingers just so he was doing something with himself. The resulting echoing screams he heard in the distance sent a thrill of pleasure through his being as the energy from their fear was gathered to him. At least that never got boring to him. Suffering was always something to go back to when his master plan was getting slow, it's not like the first time this has happen. The last time he had to wait even longer for Sixer to find the cave he left for him to discover and even that the stupid meatsack almost ruin by his crappy latin at the time. Why if it wasn't for him, that stupid idiot still wouldn't know how to pronounce even a simple summoning spell right. Maybe he should leave a gift for Fez again in front of the Shack. The last time he open the door to find a pile a deer teeth sitting there in front of him. It was hilarious. He never seen Fez freak out so much.
"Ahahahahahahahahahahaha! Maybe this time I'll look for a head so I can make it scream at him. That always gets a good reaction out of people in nightmares," he laughs out loud to himself, "The idiot didn't even know I pulled him in the Mindscape for the prank."
It was then Bill felt a slight shift in the space around him. Nothing happens in the Mindscape without his knowing, and the shift just told him someone entered his realm. Something human it seems like. Strange, normally humans wouldn't be able to enter the Mindscape, not yet in this point in time anyway depending on how the timeline goes, but Bill is sure he knows how this timeline ends. He floats towards the intruding human to just see what it might just mean for him when he sees a small figure on the ground looking wildly around. It was a brunette young girl around the age of five or six wearing a long purple nightgown, she was clinging to a small tan dog in her arms that looked like it seen better days by the way the nose was made out of string that was sloppily done. Strange, usually physical objects can't be brought into the Mindscape. Bill rubbed his hands together in anticipation as he got closer to the girl above her. Welp, he wanted entertainment, and now it looks like he was going to get it at least for this moment.
"Heya kid!"
The girl pops up her head and stares at the triangle demon with wide hazel eyes while falling back onto the ground into a sitting position. The demon could tell it was more surprise than fear that made her fall back like that. Pity really that this girl doesn't even realize that danger she is in, but then again, it's more fun for him.
"Wh.. Who are you?" she asks, though he could tell in her mind it was more of a What are you? He lets out a chuckle as he floats around her head once and stops in front of her with his arm in greeting.
"Bill Cipher the name toots. I'm a Dream Demon," he greets as he glows with joy at the horrified reaction the girl gives from hearing the word demon from him. Six years old and already knows that demons are bad, wow that's a smart kid.
"A demon really? So you kill people and pull out their guts and stuff?" the girl asks after her eyes change from horrified to curiosity. Bill gives the girl a puzzling stare. Usually kids wouldn't even bring up that kind of stuff. Anything gorey would send them crying to their parents. Maybe he can give her a good fright.
"Only when I feel like it or get bored. Sometimes I do it when they get me mad though like I did to this guy," he repiles as he made a body appear in front of the girl with all the guts on the ground around it leaking blood. A scream was coming from a half ripped off throat as the body twitched all over.
At first the girl was surprised by the sudden appearance of the body in front of her, but then she carefully looked around on how it was presented and started chuckling a bit as she poked at one of the organs.
"Why are you laughing kid? You're suppose to be scared," Bill huffs at her. He didn't like it that the girl was laughing. The girl looks at him and starts laughing out loud this time.
"The organs are spread out like a triangle. I just thought it was funny that's how you mark your work," she finally said as the laughter died down. The demon looks at the body again and notices that the girl was right, he never noticed that before. He finally lets out a few chuckles himself before making the body disappear again.
"Why ain't you afraid of me kid? Don't you know I can give you nightmares or do worse to you than I did to that body?" he finally asks. The thoughts he tries getting from her head keep shifting or were strangely blocked off to him. He guess the blocked ones she was blocking from herself from thinking as well so that wasn't surprising. He wasn't digging in her mind so he isn't bothered to unblocked whatever she feels like repressing from herself. The girl looks at him with a deep sadness in her eyes, but Bill just keeps waiting for an answer, not like those types of eyes do anything to him anyway. This girl has been the most interesting thing that has happen to him for fourteen years, and he wonders how she will answer and how he can use her with that answer, because he feels he can use her for his plan in some way. Not for the master plan, no that will be fine as it is for now, but he feels she would be good for a contingency plan in case one of the other possible timelines occur. No telling what a not yet born Pine Tree can do when there are so many choices down Fate's Path.
"No offense to you Mr. Cipher, but honestly I like you better than anyone else I've met in waking life. I'll be sad when I'll wake up and find this was nothing but a dream," she says, "Plus you got good taste in art."
Bill was shocked, and that's rare for any demon to get. First the girl says she likes him, and then she says he has great taste in art. Wow, this girl has lost something in that mind of hers if she's thinking that already. He can't help but laugh out loud at the thought that this little meatsack likes his art with dead bodies. It was then he felt that shift again and he knew that the girl would be waking up soon, if he wanted to use her still, he needed to hurry things up now and do it.
"Looks like you'll be waking up soon kid to find out that," he says, morphing his bottom eye wrinkle into a parody of a grin. The girl looks sadly at him.
"Aww… I don't want to go. I don't belong there anyway. I always feel like I don't fit in that world," she cries out. Jackpot. He could use this.
"Well, how bout we make a deal then toots?" he casually asks, "You do me a favor in the future, and then I'll grant your wish and take you away from your world?"
"Can you really take me away from there?"
"Course kid. I'm a being of infinite energy. Moving your meatsack from one universe to another really isn't anything to me. Better hurry though, you're about to wake up any second and my offers don't last forever. So what do ya say kid? Deal?" He holds out his hand and let's the blue flames swirl itself around it, waiting for his victim to grab onto it. He can read her thoughts and know she is mesmerized by the chance to get her dream come true despite the cost. Suddenly she reaches out and grabs his hand and watches as the flames races up her arm.
"Deal," she agrees as she watches the flames flicker across her arm and then fade away. It was then the girl disappears from the Mindscape and Bill is left alone once again. With the energy he got from the deal he just made, Bill is just feeling all giddy inside. Now he has a backup plan just in case something happens when he sets off his master plan in about sixteen years. Oh he can't wait till then, Gravity Falls is going to be so fun with all his friends and the party he has been planning for the past thousand years. Rubbing his hands together Bill rushes off to another part of the Mindscape to savor the moments of the future, and make some plans for that prank he thought of for Fez earlier.
Unbeknownst to either him or the girl, in another universe a pendulum is swinging, now covered in blue flames and moving so slowly ever lower to some unseen victim below it.
Gsv Ertvmviv Pvb rh rm gsv Xzvhzi Xrksvi.