Sup guys! Natflash here! Brining you another oneshot-
Oh wait, wrong story!
Anyway, thank you so much guys for supporting this! I really do appreciate it. I hope updates will become more frequent!
But enough, DISCLAIMERS!
I do not own Gravity Falls or MLP, from which this idea for this AU was derived from. Each belongs to their own original owners.
In the last time we left the Mindscape, Bill was showing Mabel her room, and Dipper was struggling for a way to bring his sister back. Will Dipper succeed? Will he ever get his other half returned to him? Stay tuned!
Mabel once again woke up in a different room then when she started. She was once again baffled at the fact that she wasn't in her room, until she remembered she was stuck in the Dreamscape with Bill.
Speaking of the demon, where was he?
A maniacal, high pitched cackle that could only belong to the demon himself rung out inside the room. In a flash of light, Bill appeared cross legged in front of her.
"Mornin' Shooting Star!" Bill cried out to the girl, who yelped and dove back under the covers. "Breakfast is gonna be in the hall, so be there soon!" With another cackle and a crack, Bill was gone.
Mabel peeped out from under the covers to see her empty room. When she finally got out of bed, she walked into the bathroom, and opened the door.
It was nice and clean, and actually pretty similar to the bathroom she had at home. A wide tub that was surrounded by smooth stone stood in one corner, while a sink with a dark marble countertop stood in another. A toilet stood in another corner, as well as an ironing board and a closet for bathrobes. Oil painting s of undersea life and even a few mermaid portraits hung on the walls. The main thing that stood out to her, though, was that the bath was very deep and had multiple different taps.
She hesitantly tried one, and to her surprise found that it spewed out hot-but-not-burning-hot water and pink bubbles. She tried another, and found the same result, except the bubbles were green. She tried each of the taps until the tub was full of hot water and a rainbow of soap bubbles.
She shed her clothes as she thought of ways Dipper might come to rescue her – don't think she wasn't planning on escape. But she knew she was in Bill's domain, in which he could do what he wants, summon what he wanted, and see what he wanted to. At that last thought, she hurried into the tub a little more quickly.
She actually dunked her head under before coming up to bathe in her collection of rainbow soapy bubbles. She was almost sad she wasn't going to stay around in it sooner. She washed off the leftover suds as she took a towel and dried herself off. She went behind the changing panel that was incredibly detailed and switched into a light toga and Greek sandals. She brushed her hair before heading outside. She got to her door until she realized something.
"Where IS the hall?"
Suddenly, a little blue flame appeared in front of her that slowly meandered its way down a hall. Mabel, assuming it wanted her to follow it, promptly did so, and weaved through halls and corridors before finally coming to a set of French doors.
She threw them open and found herself in a grand hall. The celling was high with floor to ceiling windows on one side and a wall of paintings and tapestries on another. A large fireplace stood at the opposite end of the room, and a long table stretched out before her. It seemed more like something for a grand feast for one hundred, rather than just breakfast for two.
Bill sat on one side of the Victorian table, and Mabel sat on the other.
"So, Shooting Star, what're ya hungry for? Pancakes? Eggs? Quail? Cereal? Waffles?" At each option, Bill made the food of choice appear before swapping it with another one. Mabel thought for a minute before answering.
"Pancakes are fine?"
A snap from Bill and a small flash of light later, a stack of pancakes with butter and syrup on them appeared in front of Mabel. Bill merely chewed his eggs as he watched Mabel with interest, as she didn't notice him as she happily ate her pancakes.
Dipper was currently in the royal library with his crush. On a normal day, he would've been hyped beyond all belief. Today, however, was an exception.
"Sorry, Dip." Wendy called from one end of the massive library. "I don't see anything that can help us."
"There has to be something." Dipper shouted back as he flew from bookshelf to bookshelf. "We have to find something to help Mabel before something bad happens!"
"Speaking of bad," Wendy replied as she flipped through another tome. "You never actually told me who this 'Bill' guy is."
Dipper, realizing his crush was right, merely blushed at this realization.
"Well, Bill is a dream demon – he's really suave, but he's evil, too, and he has my sister!" That last bit came out a little more forcefully then Dipper might've wanted. "He's really creepy, too, and he has this weird fascination with deer teeth."
"Sounds like a real nut job."
"I'll say – which is why we gotta find a way to stop this guy!"
"So, Shooting Star, what do ya think of my mansion, huh?"
Mabel was quite confused with this comment, as she lifted her face up from the pancakes and raised an eyebrow.
"What do you think of the Mindscape?"
"Oh, it's cool! Lots of windy paths…"
"Shooting Star, you haven't seen half of it. So, what do you want to do after this?" Mabel seemed to perk at this.
"What do I wanna do?"
"Yeah!"
"Oh, well, uh… Mabel started as she thought – no one had ever asked her what she wanted to do. It was mostly just people talking about how big their mansion was or how lavish their newest piece of furniture was – it got terribly boring, Mabel admitted. "What do you do for fun?" Bill eyes widened slightly, since he didn't expect this answer – Shooting Star never ceased to surprise him.
"Hmm, well… want to learn Latin?"
"Boring."
"Expand the Mindscape?"
"How do you even do that – that was rhetorical, and DULL!"
"Stalk people?"
"Hmm… nope."
"Pull deer teeth from the breathing mammal?"
"Eww! No thanks! Do you have any yarn?" Bill raised an eyebrow again.
"Yarn?"
"Yeah, just normal yarn, preferably yellow." There was a small, blue spark, and a pair of knitting needles and a basket of white, yellow, and black yarn fell onto the table. The princess grinned as she cried out her thanks, as she scooped up the basket and needles and she ran out the large doors.
Bill was left at the table, blinking before smiling.
Shooting Star was something.
…
Which made Bill all the more fearful of HIM seeing her.
He could imagine his voice right then and there. 'You can't escape me, Cipher. You never will… One day, I'll become stronger – so powerful, not even you will be able to stop me…'
"You're wrong, Llib." Bill spoke openly, his voice reverberating around the room. "You're stuck. Banished forever."
'You think that pathetic little barrier will hold me forever, Cipher? Oh, how wrong you are. Forever isn't a timeline – it's a mere setback. Each day I sit there, I grow bigger and stronger…'
'… And one day, I'll break out of that wretched mirror.'
After almost an entire day of searching, neither Dipper nor Wendy had managed to find what they were looking for. Not a single book in the entire royal library had anything on demons - only a quick reference here and there, but nothing solid. Both of them were currently on the plush couches in the room, stacks of books towering above them, flipping through pages. Dipper sighed and slammed his book shut.
"I'll say it, Wendy – there's little hope for bringing Mabel back." Dipper was already missing her terribly – he needed his other half.
"Don't lose hope yet, Dip." Wendy comforted as she closed her own book.
"But I feel like I already have." The Prince of the Night moaned as he trudged toward a shelf, resting his hand on a thick book. "Besides, it's not like the answer is gonna appear before us." At that moment, the whole bookcase shuddered as the book Dipper was leaning against was brought inwards.
The bookcase slowly started moving to the right, revealing a long, darkly lit passage way made of stone. Light erupted as torches on either side started burning intensely, revealing the straight corridor.
Both members of the party stared at the entrance before them. Wendy, after getting over her shock, turned to Dipper and pointed.
"Did you know this existed, dude?"
"I can say I didn't know at all. I know this is the main library, and farther back is the scroll room, but nothing about this." With a cautious step, Dipper walked forward, with Wendy close behind them.
Whatever was down that hallway, it was something big…
Whooooooo! UPDATE!
OMG, I'm uploading this at, like, 1:40 in the morning. I wanna write more, so Chapter 3 might come sooner!
So yeah, hope you guys didn't think I abandoned this story! Sorry the chapter's so short – this was just trying to get everything set for the conflict later on.
Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter!
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