Chapter 2: It started fading away

I felt so weird suddenly. Was I going insane? I didn't feel good. I wanted to puke. I looked around me, and I found myself in a cab. A cab that was driving in the streets of New York and which also felt cramped up. On my right were Finn, Jake, Marceline, and Princess Bubblegum while Ice King was sitting at the front. They were asleep, but they looked more than just asleep. Finn was leaning on me, which made me blush. But he felt cold, like super cold. I checked the others, and even they were freezing cold too. I tried to wake up Ice King to ask whether he froze them, but he didn't wake up. I tried to look at the cab drivers' face but he was covering it. "Excuse me, Mr. Cab Driver, could you please tell me where we're going?" I asked. He turned his head 180 degrees and stared at me right through my eyes. That was a creepy sight to see. Now I was slowly losing my body temperature, just like Finn and the rest. That's when a scary thought came to my mind. Am I gonna die? And are Finn and the rest dead too?! I looked at them in shock. I turned to see the cab driver and I saw that same freaking smirk on that same bastards face. But he only had one eye on his face, wearing a top hat and a bowtie. I'm taking you to your destined destination, obviously. To your death! Xehanort yelled at my face, but he had a more high-pitched echo voice. I was so scared and felt so cold (even though there was no A/C). And he rammed into a car which was in front of us and I thought I was gonna die. But actually, I didn't. I looked out of my door window and saw a speeding lorry coming my way. THIS was how I was going to die….

I opened my eyes. I was in a shack. It was the same place I was in the day before. I didn't know why but, I wasn't able to scream my head off from that horrible lorry death. I looked around myself, slowly taking in the peaceful early morning scene. I found myself on the sofa, with a blanket stuck to my foot. "Good morning. Had a bad dream? I could tell you kind of did, with the kicking and all" Dipper greeted. He brought a plate with some pancakes and gave it to me. "Good morning to you too and thanks" I said. "Stan knows about you now. He asked whether you had a place to stay in but we said no, obviously. So he decided to let you stay but-" "In return help him in the Mystery Shack" Mabel cut in, while I was stuffing the pancakes into my mouth. What could I say? I was freaking hungry. "Mabel! I thought you said you were gonna sleep a bit longer," Dipper yelled. "And you said the same too! And I was gonna make the pancakes!" Mabel yelled back. I guess they were planning to sneak in to see me. "So Dhaanya, do you know how to go back to your original world?" Dipper asked. "No and I don't want to go back. And I think you're the first person to remember my name" I stated. "Hey! I remembered your name too you know!" Mabel shouted out. I gave a small giggle. They were actually really nice people.

"So, what am I supposed to do in the Mystery Shack?" I asked. "I don't know. We'll ask Stan, follow me!" Dipper said. I finished my pancakes and followed him. All this while I thought the Mystery Shack was some other place, but it was actually the same shack I was in. "The Mystery Shack is part of your home? This is awesome" I said with a smile. I saw an old man sitting behind the counter and counting money. Must be a stingy grumpy old man… I thought to myself as he still continued counting his money. And turns out I was right. "Good morning Stan. Here's the new girl." Mabel greeted. "Oh sup dude!" greeted Soos "If this was a 'good' morning, I still would have been in bed. And later we'll be going to the mini mart to get some groceries, and maybe even bring the kid along and show her around. I don't want anyone using the excuse of looking for her to escape. You'll be on part time counter duty, then maybe you can clean up here and there, there's actually more than enough lazy people working here already" He replied. I looked down at myself. I actually didn't realize that I was still wearing pajamas. "But I can't go around shopping in PJ's" I added. "Don't fret. Borrow Dipper's old shorts and keep that shirt on and you'll be fine" Stan said. That's when a 17 year old teenage girl came in. Even she was from that circle which was from the dream I had that day! I looked at Dipper and the first thing I realized changed on him was the color of his face. From normal skin color to super-blush-red color. And that's when I found out he liked her.

"Hey Dip, Mabel, Soos...is this the new kid you were talking about Mr. Pines?" she asked. "Uh, y-yeah. Err Dhaanya, this is Wendy, and Wendy well, Dhaanya" Dipper said, still glowing red. "Sup kid! Nice to meet you! And also, are you really gonna work in those PJ's?" She asked while Stan got off the counter and headed towards the door. "Dipper, give the kid some old pair of shorts or whatever there is and Wendy, Soos, take care of the shack while me Dipper, Mabel and the new kid are out." Stan told them. I went towards Dipper and whispered to him whether we should tell Wendy about me and he nodded. But before he could say anything, Mabel yelled out "Fun fact about the new girl, she's from another world!" Wendy eyes widened at first, and then suddenly burst out laughing. "Hahaha! Mabel, you still have your weird sense of humor! She does look new here but it's not like as if she really is from another world…..right?" Wendy said as her smile slowly faded away. Dipper and I exchanged looks and turned back to Wendy. Her eyes widened as she looked at Mabel, then to Dipper, then to me and back to Dipper. "Oh god, are you sure she's not an alien?" she asked. "100% confirmed not" Mabel replied.

Dipper led me to his room he shared with Mabel which was actually an attic. He reached a shabby looking drawer and pulled out a pair of shorts. "Well, here you go. You can use the old staff room for the time being though."

"Thanks Dipper. Not only for the pair of shorts but for making me feel at home" I said

"No problem. The whole shack had this sudden aura of excitement ever since you came over actually, so I should thank you too. We've never had that exciting feeling for a long time"

As we got out of the car, Mabel was still chattering on about her adventures with Dipper in Gravity Falls. I envied them for they had awesome adventures when they were 12 years old. All I had was a realistic nightmare about me losing my close friends, but thinking about it, I don't think it was any normal realistic dream.

"Okay, I don't want to waste time looking for things so Mabel, you take the new girl along with you and buy the stuff on this list. Dipper, you're with me" said Stan as he gave Mabel the list of things. As we entered the mart and started loading things in the trolley, I noticed a blond haired guy, just staring at me whenever he had the chance. I managed to see his name tag and all I saw was the name 'Bill'. Whenever he was around there was an intense aura, like as if I'm being pushed down. But after a while, he was nowhere to be seen. A few minutes later, I felt like as if gravity started rising on me, trying to push me down. Quite the opposite of what the town was named. Everything slowly turned black and white and I finally found that blond head guy. Everything around me was frozen, like as if time stopped. Complete black and white everywhere. The blond guy's body slowly changed into a 2-d yellow triangular pyramid with only one eye.He had a top hat on and a bow tie too.

Hello there Dhaanya! Wow, hasn't this place changed a lot! Oh yeah, I'm Bill Cipher, beware of Xehanort, blah, blah, blah. He is kind of invading your personal privacy now. And he's always gonna try to get rid of you, even in your dreams, and take over the world. It's quite stupid of him to try and kill you in your dreams, though. Ha-ha! I'm telling you this because he's in my way. I have my own plans and yeah, his work is stopping me. And just two reminders, this whole rollercoaster is just the beginning and also, use your freaking, stupid 'weapon' to fight. Remember; REALITY IS AN ILLUSION, THE UNIVERSE… ah that quote just got boring. Remind me to change it. BYE! And he didn't even let me say a word. Everything slowly went back to its normal state. The color came back, everyone moved around, but they looked like as if nothing happened. Mabel glanced over at me with a smiling face and said "Whoa, Dhaanya, you look like as if you've drank too much coffee. And you're shaking all over! You saw a ghost or something?" Thinking about it, she was actually completely right. But except for the coffee part.

After we've finished gathering the things in our list,Mabel went to the snack shelf and before she could exclaim in surprise, a boy behind her charged towards the shelf and shouted out "COOKIE CAT! I thought I'd never see you again! Pearl, can we buy it, PLEASE!?" he looked so familiar, same goes with the three ladies that were following him. I tried to recall but those memories only came in flashes. Then it finally occurred to my head that those four are also from my old dream. 15 down and maybe a few more to go, I thought to myself. "Okay, just calm down Steven! We're gonna buy this thing and continue with our mission, got it?" said that Pearl person. Her name really fits her well for that pearl on her forehead. There was another lady who was purple in color caught sight of me staring at them. I looked away, trying to make it look like as if I didn't look at them at all. They took their 'Cookie cat' snack and headed to the counter. I wondered how no one (including myself) was surprised by how they looked like. "Come Dhaanya, leads head to the counter and wait for Stan there" Mabel said as she put in packets of 'Cookie cats' in the trolley.

When we reached the counter, we saw Dipper and Stan waiting there. "Well that took you long enough. Come on, I want to head to the shack before Wendy and Soos make a war zone out of it" Stan said. We paid for the things and headed for the car. Before we even entered it, I heard a screeching sound coming from the forest. There was silence at first. Dipper, Mabel, and I looked at each other and then back to the forest. Suddenly, that same fucking gigantic snake-owl immerged from the forest and landed a few feet in front of me. I got worried; I felt my heart beating at rapid speed. I didn't want anyone hurt again. But then I saw those three ladies standing between me and the monster. "Amethyst, please do keep an eye on Steven. I don't want to miss another Heartless" said the afro lady with big fists, and then charged to the monster.

"And I almost thought the creatures in this town weren't gonna show up anymore" said Dipper as the fist lady and the Pearl lady started fighting it. These people are magical superheroes? I thought to myself as they continued fighting. "Come on kids! Put your big butts in the car! We're not gonna be involved in this shit, I'll say" yelled Stan from inside the car. But I didn't want to let those people fight that thing alone. "Garnet, this thing might be actually wearing a shield! Maybe that's why we can't finish it off," yelled out Pearl. "Move it people! Leave this to a professional gem here!" yelled out the purple lady and pulled out her whip and started attacking. But nothing happened. The reminder that the Bill guy told me was still lingering in my mind. 'Use your freaking, stupid weapon!' and I finally knew how to help.

"Dhaanya, come on! We got to get outta here before we even die!" Dipper yelled out to me, but I didn't really listen. I calmed myself down and did what I did to get my weapon in that old dream. And surprisingly, it worked. I looked over at Stan and saw his mouth wide open and his eyes looked like as if they were gonna explode. Same went with Dipper and Mabel's faces. "Um, guys, I think it's best if you go back first. I'll catch up with you later" I said. Within half a second Stan drove off, leaving Dipper and Mabel screaming "Good Luck!" from the car. I turned back to the superhero ladies and they looked worn out.

"Guys! Are you alright?" said the boy, concerned. "Well what do you think, Steven!?" yelled the purple lady. Then suddenly, that owl-thing grabbed the boy by the leg with its snake-like tail and tossed him in the air, ready to gobble him up. "STEVEN!" yelled out those three ladies. But I managed to save him by attacking that creature, making him crash into the forest. I looked all around for the boy but instead I found him slowly falling down while being inside a pink bubble, then it popped when he landed. That creature came back, pissed off. Time to put an end to your shit work I thought to myself as he came closer. I felt my weapon moving all around, like as if it was out of control. Finally I aimed at the owl-thing and a ball of white fire-like thing was coming at the end of my weapon and it shot straight to the things chest, leaving a hole in it. It suddenly froze there, didn't move an inch at all. A gem-like heart came out of it floating to the sky. And before the heart vanished, the big first lady jumped and put the heart in a bubble and made it disappear.

Mabel, Dipper and Stan ran back into the shack panting like mad. "Whoa, you guys had a race from the mart or something? Or are you just running away from the police?" Wendy asked. Soos suddenly burst out from the living room "Dudes, there's a crazy monster in front of the mart! And we also saw three weird women fighting it! Mr. Pines, did you see it?" Soos said, panting heavily. Wendy looked back at the group with wide eyes. "Wendy, now I'm not so sure whether Dhaanya is an alien or not..." Mabel said. Wendy jumped back in shock.

Everything was clear now. That thing is now of my back and the only thing I needed to be clear with was the people who were fighting that thing too. The boy jumped in front of me and his face was filled with excitement. "Wow! How did you defeat that thing?! Even we couldn't defeat it! Oh and my name is Steven" he said as those ladies were coming. "This is Garnet, Amethyst and this is Pearl" Steven introduced me to them. "I've never expected to see a Wielder of Hearts here, only keyblade wielders. But a pleasure to meet you kid" Garnet said. I felt relieved because now I didn't have to refer them as 'the ladies'. "Nice to meet you dude! What's your name?" Amethyst asked. "Um, I'm Dhaanya, nice to meet you too" I replied. "God where are those two jerks? We fight a monster for more than…. maybe like four to five minutes but they're still late!" Pearl complained. "Which two people?" I asked. "Oh yeah, they are the keyblade wielders we were actually waiting for. They're names are Sora and Riku. Those two will never take things seriously!" Pearl yelled out of anger. I still felt left out on what things were going on. "Could you please tell me everything?" I asked, as polite as I could.

Mabel and Dipper were walking up and down in their room, trying to figure out what was going on. "But why didn't she tell us about her…power thing?" Dipper asked. "Maybe she did it to protect us. You know, the cliché thing…" Mabel said. Dipper still looked shocked. Then he suddenly started scavenging the room. "What the heck are you looking for?" Mabel asked. "The journal….where is it?! Fucking journal…" Dipper said under his breath. "Hey! Watch your language mister!" Mabel yelled at him. The Mystery Shack door suddenly opened.

Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Steven and I came in through the Mystery Shack door and found that no one was there. "Um, could you guys stay here for a moment?" I asked as I entered the living room. "Of course we should" murmured Amethyst. As I entered the living room, I saw Stan, Wendy and Soos in front of the TV with their eyes glued to it. "Uh, guys, are you alright?" I asked, shaking all over for their zombie-like looks. Then they all turned to me at the same time which made me jump back. At that time Dipper and Mabel came downstairs, giving me some relief. "YOU MANAGED TO DEFEAT THAT MONSTER!" they all yelled. "Well yeah but with some help, duh" I replied. "I still don't understand anything" Dipper said while resting his head on his hand. "Don't worry; I got some people to explain something. Even I'm lost"

As we entered the shack, we caught Amethyst stuffing ice-cream in her face while Pearl was trying to stop her but failed. There was a short pause. "You're gonna pay for that you know" Stan said sternly. "Yearf'-we nrowf" Amethyst said with her mouth full, which probably meant 'Yes we know'. "Could you at least tell us what the heck that thing was?" Dipper asked. "Well that's why we're here. That thing was a Heartless, a creature that is born without a heart. Surprisingly, the usual amount of Heartless that appears here, which is very seldom, grew almost a million times more. That might be because Xehanort is trying to kill your friend here, who is a Wielder of Hearts" Garnet said. That's when two teenage boys suddenly burst in the room. "Sora! Riku! God, you finally appeared!" Pearl exclaimed. "We'd thought we could make a special entrance, Pearl! Oh and I'm Sora, that jerk is Riku and this whole group looks blank" Sora said as Riku punched his shoulder. We all stared at them while Steven and Amethyst continued eating the ice-cream. Garnet continued "Well these two are Keyblade wielders, strong but not as strong as Dhaanya, who is, well, a Wielder of Hearts. People like her are rare to find". I blushed a little as she said I was very strong. "Well why does….whatever his name is, want to kill Dhaanya?" Mabel asked. "That is because she is in his way to take over every world in the universe" Pearl added in. "Well, I think that's enough info for today and also that's gonna be 50 dollars for each popsicle you ate" Stan said as he headed to the living room.

"Uh, are we even needed here now?" Riku asked looking all over the place. "Oh yeah, Sora, Riku, this is Dhaanya. Dhaanya, well, Riku and Sora" Steven introduced me to them as they gave cheerful smiles. "Steven, we have to go back home to Beach City now" Pearl said. "Aww but I hardly got to hang out with them properly" Steven said with a sulky face. "HEY! Maybe we can all go out to the diner! Not a high class place but still a nice place to hang around" Mabel shouted out. Surprisingly, everyone agreed.

When we entered the diner, I noticed a gloomy 17 year old teenage guy just staring at us. No one noticed it though. The diner was quite empty, only us and that teenage guy. "Eleven sets of that pancake special, Susan" Wendy ordered. We had loads of fun, although we only had pancakes and chatted on. I never talked and laughed like this with my family and friends. It's like as if the haunting memories started fading away. But still no one noticed that teenage guy.

Suddenly, the ground started to shake a little. Then it became worst. Plates and cups were breaking all around and the place was about to fall apart. Then there was an abrupt stop. We looked all around us and boy, wasn't that place a mess. Within a second, something suddenly came out from the ground at the center of the diner. Everyone ran out and saw the most horrifying sight. There was a gigantic earth-toned dragon with three heads, one eye on each head. We all panicked crazy. But there was someone on its back. He managed to stab it, making it screech so loud. And it disappeared in a poof. "Not a Heartless, just a regular deadly Earth Dragon" said Pearl. I still couldn't believe my eyes. A dog came out and high-fived the boy "Awesome dude! Another one down" he said. We managed to get their attention. Their eyes widened as they saw me, and I obviously knew why. "Finn? Jake? Is that really you?" was all I could say. "Now people are gonna think I'm Macklemore because I'm like; what, what, what, what?" Mabel said while laughing.

Authors note: I'm very, very, very sorry I added the chapter late. You know, no summer in Malaysia and I'm not really allowed to use the laptop most of the time nowadays. There 'might' be a flashback about on the next chapter though. Even I'm not sure! Enjoy and PLEASE review!