Chapter 1

-Rei's POV—

"Class!" I heard the teacher say. "We have a new student! Please, come in." I watched as a kid walked in. He had brown, blonde-tipped scruffy hair, and was wearing an orange shirt with a blue vest over it. His backpack was weird. Just plain white, with a few blue outlines, and a single blue pine tree in the middle. He had faint bags around his eyes. He also had a bit of stubble on his chin.

"Um… Hey. My name is Dipper Pines. Uh… nice to meet you." He said awkwardly. His voice cracks a bit. Personally, I find it amusing. He goes to take a seat. He sits down behind me. Some kid throws a book at his head.

"Tra!" The teacher yells. Tra stands and walks out into the hall, looking quite proud of himself. I turned around to Dipper. He was reading a book I've never seen before.

"Hey," I said. "What'cha reading?" I asked him. He looked up to me.

"Just… a little journal I keep with me." He said.

"Nice. Oh, the names Rei."

"Dipper." Is all he said.

"I know." I said.

"Hey, come to my place after school. We could hang out." I said to him. He looked up at me, and paused for a bit.

"Uh… Okay." He said. I nodded.

"Just meet me at the front of the school."

-Dipper's POV—

I walked down the halls of the new school. It was big, so I got lost a few times. I finally found my way to the front of the school. That kid Rei was there, waiting on me. I took a look at his backpack. It was originally white, I could see, but had a black skull spray painted on the side. On the bottom, top, and sides had a red ombre. In the middle had a centaur on it… no… a cervitar? I shuddered. I didn't like to be reminded of the monster incident. On the other side was an eyeball with an excessive amount of veins. I looked at the albino.

"Ya ready?" He asked me.

"Yeah." I said. I probably looked a little lost in thought. Of course I was. Bill wasn't too bad now, just annoying, since he lost all of his power. But, because of our little 'deal', he has my body from 6 to 1. I don't even know why I made that deal back then. It was so stupid. Rei snapped his fingers in front of my face.

"Dude, you okay? You look like you're in a different universe of something." He said.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I replied.

"Oh, I'm ordering a pizza for dinner. What toppings do you want? Oh, you're paying half the bill, remember that." He said.

"I'm just having cheese." I said. I'm not a huge fan of peperoni or anything.

"Ok. Oh, here we are." He said. He put his key into the door, and turned. A strong smell of… ramen… hit me.

"Why does it smell like ramen?" I asked.

"Oh, it always smells bad, so I stuck a bowl of ramen in the vents. I don't know how, but it worked. I also put a bowl behind a fan." He replied. He's about as weird as Bill.

For the rest of the time, we pretty much played video games and what not. Apparently, Rei keeps a journal on a bunch of mythical creatures. I saw a lot of Cervitars, though.

"So, is your favorite monster a Cervitar?" I asked him. He looked kind of shocked at first, then nodded.

"Yeah. This is the first time someone didn't call it a Centaur. It's my favorite because I was in the woods one day, and I swear I saw one. It even had a mermaid on him. No one believes me, though. If anything, I was just tired. But, that's the story." He said. Shoot! He must've seen me and Mabel in the woods during that little… incident. I looked the drawings over, and saw that they did look a bit like me. I noticed it getting a bit dark. Since it was getting close to winter, it started getting dark at 5:45 or close to that. I looked down at my watch. 5:50. My place was about 15 minutes from here. I wouldn't be able to make it.

"Rei," I said, looking him in the eyes. "This may sound weird, but I have ten minutes. Lock me in a closet and then I'll explain." He looked at me weird.

"Hey, dude, you okay? Need an energy drink? Cause we're pulling an all-nighter." He said. I shook my head.

"No. Seriously, just lock me in a closet or something. Just make sure all the windows are locked and stuff. Don't let me outside." I looked down at my watch. 5:52.

"Uh… Okay." He took me to his bedroom. He didn't have any windows in his room, and he locked his door. Perfect.

"So… now I need to explain, don't I?" I asked.

"Yeeaah." He said.

"This is going to take a while, so get comfy." He nodded

It took a while, but I explained everything about Bill. Leaving out about meeting him, Gravity Falls, and the incident. The whole time, Rei nodded.

"So, he takes over your body from 6 pm to 1 am, but he doesn't have any supernatural abilities or anything?" He said. I nodded.

"And also, considering he doesn't have a form, he finds pain… uh… 'funny'?" He asked. I was a bit shocked at this, since I didn't say anything about Bill finding pain funny. I nodded again. He took a chair and put it up against his closet.

"Wouldn't want him getting in there, then." He said. I looked at him, a bit worried.

"Ok…" Is all I said. I looked down at my watch. 5:59.

"I have about a minute before he takes over." I slumped on his bed. I kept my eyes on my watch the whole time. I watched the seconds. 57. 43. 28. I looked over at Rei.

"Here it comes," Is all I could say. 1.