Hey my comets! I hope you liked the teaser, but if you didn't then you don't have to read this. Anyways, I went and wrote some more! Just to let you know, I am not in a family like the one I am describing and I do not mean any offense to anyone in a family like this. Enjoy the story!
Bill: Yeah, enjoy it while you still can.
GAH! What are you doing here?! You shouldn't be out of that containment unit!
Bill: Oh, you mean the binding circle? I just had to call in some favors and it was easy to get out.
*grumbles* maybe I should have gotten Dipper's help with that.
Bill: *chuckles* Pine Tree couldn't keep me in there either! I just wanted to let people know, Arylia Scry does NOT own Gravity Falls, it belongs to Alex Hirsch *mumbles* (only because I possessed him to get the guy to make it)
What was that?
Bill: Nothing!
Mmkay… (I don't believe him) anyways, favorite, follow, and review and here's the story!
I awoke to find myself laid out on a faded emerald recliner and covered in ratty blankets. My first thought was to secure the perimeter, as that was always my first thought ever since leaving… them. I shifted a bit and felt a sharp pain rush through my side, nothing new.
After my… father… saw that I had violet eyes, he dropped me. Just dropped me. Unfortunately, I had been in the kitchen at the time and fell on the dishes (here's a tip, never roll around on spoons, they're much sharper than you'd expect.) and my father didn't pick me back up until he had fully registered my eye color. By that point I had gained a deep slash up my side, now twisted and morphed after I aged to look kind of like the swirl air symbol. Anyways, when my mother found out she was not happy and got me to an emergency room to have stitches. Let's just say that my father got a talking to from some very nice officers who had become similar to godparents over time.
I got up to assess the damage from last night and saw that I had several scratches along my palms and my ankles, most of which had stopped bleeding thanks to someone's impromtu bandaging skills. I looked around at my surroundings to find an old looking TV, a few pillows, a tank with an axolotl (I had always thought that they were amazing but my father had always hated them with a vengeance), and a door with the words "Employees Only" on it. I rubbed my ankles a bit to move the bandage (it was just a bunch of toilet paper with tape on the outside) to stay up instead of sliding down and walked through the doors to find the man and teen from last night, um, Soos and Wendy, talking in front of a cash register.
"We can't call the cops! Think about it man, you want Sheriff Blubbs and Deputy Durland to look for her parents. Not only are they incompetent, but she probably ran away for a reason. She needs to rest for a few days, maybe get back on her feet, then decide what she wants to do. C'mon Soos, you gotta admit that she was pretty banged up last night, and there was something going on outside. I swear, the girl was looking around like she was being chased or somethin'. Maybe we sho-" Wendy cut herself off as she noticed that I was standing in the doorway with my hair hanging over my eyes enough to block my eyes from sight but not enough to impair my vision.
Soos turned around and a smile spread across his face, "Hey dude! Glad you're up, are you hungry?" I nodded and glanced at Wendy from beneath my bangs, she seemed to be totally fine with me and not knowing much about me. I guessed that lots of weird stuff had happened to her and Soos over the years or they would probably be freaking out. Suddenly, I felt as if someone was watching me, a chill went up my neck and the air in the room dropped several degrees.
Soos stopped in the doorway back into the room I was just in, "Dudes, do you guys feel that? Feels like a ghost just came into the room." Wendy nodded and rubbed her arms, I looked out the window in time to see fluffy golden hair duck beneath the window ledge. My eyes widened and I ran to the door to see who it was when I felt an invisible force push me back inside with a thud. Wendy and Soos looked down at me in surprise while I grimaced at the pain in my hands, ankles, and side. Suddenly, the room became warmer again as the feeling of someone, or something, watching me faded away until I felt calm again.
Wendy squinted her eyes in confusion, "Umm, how did you get in here last night again?"
I rolled my eyes, now uncovered from behind my raven-colored bangs, "I came in through the door, how else?" Soos and Wendy just looked at each other, worry written clear on their faces.
"Uh, dude? Try going out the door again." Soos pointed at the open door. I cocked an eyebrow but got up and walked through the doorway with no difficulty, whatever strange force that had pushed me back inside was gone. I looked back at the pair inside with a curious expression, then went back inside. Soos shrugged and went through the "Employees Only" door, leaving me with the red haired teen sitting on the counter.
Wendy shrugged, "Sorry 'bout that, Soos and I just wanted to make sure that you weren't a demon; we have an anti-weirdness shield that keeps out demons and other weird things. By the way, what were you running out for?"
I shrugged sheepishly, allowing my bangs to cover my amethyst eyes again, "I thought I saw someone duck under the windowsill. Guess I was wrong."
Wendy sat up ramrod straight, "What did you see?"
I cocked an eyebrow, but the effect was lost on her on account of the bangs covering my upper face, "I thought I saw fluffy golden hair, why?"
Wendy relaxed, "There's this guy named Robbie Valentino who still hasn't gotten over me, we broke up a month ago but he won't stop coming to watch me at work and follows me everywhere I go. I don't know anyone with fluffy golden hair though, wonder who it could be." I shrugged and looked out the window at the surrounding forest. It seemed like it was around noon based on the shadows around the place, and when I glanced at the owl clock I saw I was right, it was 12:26.
"So, what are you planning on doing now?" Wendy got up and walked over to me.
I shrugged, "I dunno, I'm not going back to my family though, my father would probably kill me if he saw me again." I said this in a no nonsense way to let Wendy know that my father wouldn't hesitate to end my life if he saw me again.
"Well, you probably need a job and a place to stay. I can't speak for Soos, but the attic's open since Dipper and Mabel left for Piedmont. You could probably get a job here until you get back on your feet." Just then Soos walked in with a large plate of pancakes and a glass of some kind of pink, sparkly liquid.
"Hey dudes, I heard your entire conversation and I think it's a great idea! Here, I got you some pancakes and some Mabel Juice that we still have." Soos handed the items to me and I sat down on the ground to eat.
"Um, Soos, why Mabel Juice?" Wendy asked.
"Mabel Juice is good dawg, c'mon, ya gotta admit that it's good." He watched me as I took my first sip of Mabel Juice.
It felt like all my taste buds exploded.
My eyes opened wide and the air around us got very, very cold, then several items started to levitate and the electricity went out. Wendy and Soos began to float and they had shock on their faces, at least, they did until I did a spit take and the liquid went rushing out of my mouth. After that, everything went back to normal except for the taste of lightning on my tongue. (I was struck by lightning on my second day out in the wild, my mouth was open to put some food in it and lightning struck my tongue… never doing that again…).
Wendy stared at me wide eyed, "Um, dude, what was that?"
I looked down at the sparkling drink in that cup and pushed it away, "I think that was the Mabel Juice."
Soos shook his head, "Okay dude, no more of that for you. Anyway, how about it? You gonna stay here?" I looked at him, really looked at him, and saw that he had genuine kindness in his eyes. He really meant that I would be fine with me staying.
"S-sure. I-I guess." I pushed aside my bangs a bit to see them better, and to let them see me.
"Great, you can go to Gravity Falls High School with me and work here with Soos on the weekends." Wendy made a boo-yah gesture. I smiled softly, it seemed that things were turning out for the better for once in my life.
Jinx.
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I stood on the sidewalk next to Wendy, new bookbag on back and my schedule in hand. I took a deep breath and walked into the place that Wendy called Hell on earth. I had healed from my adventures in the woods enough to go to school for the first time in a while and, needless to say, I was nervous about what would happen. Wendy had helped me enroll as a sophmore and boy did I need her help; everyone was staring at my eyes if they caught a glimpse of what was underneath, and I'm pretty sure that the school nurse took pictures and is now uploading them to a blog (don't ask me what her blog name is, I have no idea). Soos let me use one of the bags from the giftshop, the one with the violet outlined diamond split into four different corners, each a different color. My favorite part is the white part because it shimmers like what I imagine angel's wings look like, but I also like the cyan part because I swear it looks like moving water. The other colors inside were a black that seems to suck in all light kind of like a black hole and a silvery white part that sort of lets off a cold aura and has little ice crystals on it (not glitter, I checked… Soos's tongue was stuck to it for the better part of an hour).
As I entered the school, I dodged several boys who were roughhousing in the hallway and a few bookbags lying on the ground. Wendy helped me to my locker number 667, just one step away from the devil; boy did I get lucky to not have locker 666, and showed me where my classes were. First hour was Chemistry, second was Geometry II, third was Choir (one of my favorite subjects), and finally was AP Literature (why did I do this, I hate literature).
After I put all my stuff away in the locker I headed to class, only to bump into a boy wearing a yellow-gold shirt; I fell to the ground, only to be caught in the boy's arms. I looked at him to see golden eyes with cat-like pupils, strange, but I was a friend of the strange, and a cute smile gracing pinkish lips. His skin was tanned, not mexican, but not caucasian either, and a handful of freckles were brushed onto his cheeks. His hair was golden, fluffy, and the bit that fell onto my face was extremely soft. I blushed slightly as I realized that he was looking at me in the same way I was looking at him.
"Hi." I said, trying to pick myself up out of his grasp.
"Hi." He replied, mouth twisting into a smirk, "Nice eyes." My eyebrows shot up as I realized that my hair was out of my face and he could see my dark violet eyes. I shook my head a bit to allow my bangs to fall, once again blocking my eyes from view. The teen's eyes widened and brushed my bangs away, "Don't do that, I like your eyes. They're like amethyst crystals that catch starlight, I'm Birch by the way." I shied away, this guy seemed to radiate some kind of… danger… I couldn't put my finger on it, but I didn't trust the guy very much.
"Excuse me." I mumbled as I went through the doorway behind him. He turned and followed me into the classroom, sitting down at a lab table near a window that overlooked a beautiful garden.
"Ah, miss, um, Arylia Scry?" I heard a voice to the right of me and turned to find a bald man wearing round glasses and what looked like a linen shirt; all in all, it gave him the look of Mahatma Gandhi.
"Yes?" I shrunk down a bit, trying to hide from prying eyes of curious students.
"How about you sit with… Birch Elpil." Almost all the girls in the room gave an audible sigh, it seemed I had gotten paired with the "hot guy". I glanced over at Birch who was doing something with his hands and whispering something, but I couldn't make out what. I sighed and walked over to the table, until I was tripped by some girl's leg and platform heel. I toppled like a building and my things went flying, along with my hair. When I got up, someone must have noticed my eyes because this kid started pointing and laughing, setting off a chain reaction. By the time I had everything in my hands, everyone was pointing and laughing except for the teacher, who was trying to silence the class, and Birch, who looked… angry? Why would he be angry?
Birch took a deep breath, "QUIET! Seriously, her eyes are pretty awesome, so unless you're going to complement them, shut up!" I looked at him in surprise, I was not expecting him to do that; I had never expected anyone to ever do that. I needed to start trusting a bit more. Class went on fairly well after that, mostly we were reviewing so the teacher could find out what to teach us.
After Chemistry, everything went pretty well, although I did get a bit of grief from some of the girls in the class on my way out (stupid platform heels!). When he and I compared schedules, it turned out that Birch was in all my classes, much to the dismay of me and practically every other girl in the school. Geometry II was kind of weird, he kept blushing every time the teacher brought up a picture of a triangle with measured angles, but who was I to judge. When Choir came around, I was jostled into the classroom by the girl in my Chem class.
"You! Listen here, punk, Birch is my boyfriend, so don't even think about trying anything." The girl whipped her wavy blonde hair over her shoulder.
"You go Tiffany!" One of her little hench girls said as they followed her, only to run into Birch.
He glared, "I'm not your boyfriend, and leave Arylia alone you plastic barbie-wannabe." Birch walked away from the girls, leaving a flabbergasted Tiffany in his wake. "C'mon, let's go before they process that I just insulted them." He held out a hand to me, wanting to lead me somewhere.
I stood there, "Why?"
He cocked an eyebrow, "Why what? There are several answers to the 'why' question, so be specific."
I huffed and rolled my eyes, still hidden by my bangs, "Why are you so nice to me?" Over the years I had learned to be wary about kindness from people I hardly knew.
He smiled, and I noticed that he had sharper teeth than most people, "Because I like you Diamond." I cocked my eyebrow and it seemed to reach him even though he couldn't see it, "Because of your backpack. Now c'mon, we're doing vocal testing." I smiled a bit, he already gave me a nickname. I guessed that it meant we were friends.
We ran to a set of risers, set down our backpacks, and sat down by each other, a smile on his face as he pushed my bangs back to reveal my strange eyes again. I shook my head to let the hair fall back into place, nothing and no one was going to get my eyes to show, not it this day and age. The teacher, Mrs. Fera, asked us all to come by the piano and line up, then began to hear our voices. When she got to Tiffany, the teen smirked and belted out some very high notes as well as some fairly low ones. I just rolled my eyes, she was just being a show off, well two could play at that game. When the teacher got to Birch, a beautiful baritone voice seemed to wrap me in it's arms and floated away all my fears and troubles. I barely caught myself before I moved my hair from my eyes, causing Birch to give a slight frown before going on with the notes.
What's up with that? I wondered, the reaction was so fast I wasn't even sure it had happened, but I could remember the crinkle of his brow and the downturn of his mouth. The strangest thing, however, was the fact that his eyes went a bit red before he smiled again. I shuddered as I heard a very non-talented singer go and botch all the notes. When the Mrs. Fera finally got to me at the end I smiled and floated several notes around to show that I was skilled enough, but when Tiffany smirked, I lost it. I began to use my skill to twist notes around each other and construct a melody from nothing, everyone seemed to be wide eyed and amazed as I wove notes high and low, telling the story of an ocean that could be called home, the story of the sky that reached infinity over the horizon, the story of a forest that grew from the hard shell of the earth, the story of a girl trying to find home.
When I finished, everyone in the room had either begun to rock back and forth with tears of sadness falling down their cheeks or were smiling with tears of joy in their eyes. Birch just stood there, shock and awe written clear on his face, until he snapped out of it and a smile covered his face and I noticed his teeth again. They were almost blindingly white with longer canines than a person should have, suddenly I began to have the fear that Birch was actually a vampire. But that wouldn't make sense, he had been standing in a sunlit patch earlier that day in the halls. I shook my head and smiled at him, suddenly the bell rang and we all headed off to lunch.
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When I met up with Wendy at the lunch line, I told her about Birch and she scrunched up her nose at the mention of his name.
"That guy hates me and I don't like him, he just gives off this weird… vibe? I don't know." Wendy shrugged and sat down at a lunch table with me, staring at the blue-green slop that the lunch ladies called "chicken fried steak".
I shrugged, "I dunno, he's pretty nice. Hey, do you think he's a vampire?"
Wendy looked at me with a cocked eyebrow, "Why would you ask that? And no, if anything, he's a werewolf."
I shrugged, "He has long, sharp canines and all the girls seem to swoon around him." Wendy coughed, "Okay, almost all the girls seem to swoon around him. I dunno, he just seems like vampire material."
Wendy chuckled, "Can't argue with that, and I wouldn't be surprised after all the weird stuff happening over the summer."
I cock my head a bit, "What kind of weird things?" Wendy rolled her eyes and began to tell me about her summer with gnomes, Gideon, ghosts, unicorns, fairies, a secret basement under the mystery shack (I was really excited to hear about that), a twin brother who was stuck in other dimensions for 30 years, and a dream demon.
"What was the dream demon's name?" I asked.
Wendy's eyebrows shot up and she leaned over to tell me, "His name was Bill Cipher." After saying this, she leaned back, "We're not supposed to talk about it because of the Never Mind All That act. I personally think it's stupid and that the next mayor should repeal it." I said nothing, this place was weirder than I thought; suddenly, Wendy's face became guarded and I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around to find Birch smiling.
"Mind if I join you ladies?" He asked, I waved as if giving him permission and he sat down. He tried to move my bangs to see my eyes when Wendy karate chopped his hand. "OUCH! What was that for Ice Bag?"
Wendy's eyes widened, "That was for trying to mess with my friend! She doesn't like people seeing her eyes, got it? And my name's Wendy, not Ice Bag."
Birch rolled his wrist and sighed, "Sorry Diamonds, I just like seeing your eyes. It's nice to know that someone else has eyes that are different and I just want to keep checking to make sure that they're real." His words seemed to tug a string in my heart, but I could tell Wendy wasn't buying it. I realized that he was doing something with his fingers and squinting at me.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing, I just thought… nothing." Birch replied as he looked back at Wendy.
"Seriously, what? Do I have food on my face or something?" I checked to make sure.
"What? No, I just thought that your wrist looks a little bare." He shrugged.
"Yeah, I don't have any jewelry and Wendy isn't a big fan of it. I need to get some pay soon so that I can go shopping." I sighed at the thought, something shiny would be really nice to go with the new clothes Wendy got me.
Birch smiled, "Well, I have just the thing." He opened his backpack and rummaged around a bit with a snapping sound to finally pull out a golden bracelet with black triangles and silver diamonds embedded in it. "I took a creative arts class after school and made this, figured I could give it to some kid who needed it, and it seems like you need it." He smiled his sharp grin again and my heart fluttered a bit. Wendy looked at the bracelet with concern but said nothing of it, so I took it and slipped it on.
As soon as I did, I felt a wave of cold pass over me and I could see wispy white breath in front of me. I looked around to find that people were shivering and cups of water were freezing over. Some of the teachers were talking and trying to contact someone with their radios, but they didn't seem to be working. I looked down at the bracelet and noticed that the black triangles were now red and the diamonds were glowing white, both seeming to heat up the bracelet. I undid the clasp and slid the bracelet off, when I did, the room went back to its normal temperature to the surprise of everyone in the room. Everyone, except Birch; he let out a low whistle and walked away, leaving me and Wendy to wonder what had happened.
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After Literature (which sucked by the way), Wendy and I headed over to the Mystery Shack for work when something rustled in the bushes. I looked at Wendy quizzically, then went over to check what it was. A bit past the bushes and into the trees was a tiny man with a bushy brown beard wearing a pointy red hat taking a bath with squirrels.
"WAH!" I shouted as I jumped away from the sight that would haunt my nightmares.
"What is i- OH MY SYCAMORE!" Wendy shouted as she saw what I had been horrified at.
The tiny man opened his eyes and gasped in shock, "What are you doing?! Don't you know it's not cool to watch a gnome take a squirrel bath?!" I said nothing, I was scarred for life and what was worse, my hair had moved away from my eyes.
When the gnome-man noticed them he let out a low whistle, "Hubba hubba. You know, us gnomes are looking for a new queen and you might just be the one." I cocked an eyebrow in disbelief, got up, and ran with Wendy right behind for dear life until we reached the shack.
Once there, Soos peeked out from behind a shelf wearing a large green shirt with a question mark on it and wearing a baseball cap instead of the usual fez, "Hey dudes! You're never gonna guess who showed up!"
Wendy looked back at the forest to make sure that we weren't followed, "Who Soos?"
Soos laughed, "It was Mr. and Mr. Pines, they came back because of some weirdness levels that they had sensed all the way from China! They need to stay for a while, so I'm giving Mr. Pines back the Mystery Shack. And guess what else?"
I rolled my eyes and covered them with my bangs again, "What else?"
Soos practically beamed, "Dipper and Mabel are coming back to Gravity Falls to stay! They're parents decided to move here to get away from the big city, I wonder if they're gonna keep searching out the mysteries of Gravity Falls? Now if you'll excuse me, I must find Dipper's journal to unlock the secrets of the universe." I smiled softly as Soos walked out the door, the guy was very childlike sometimes and this was one of them. Suddenly, a man with cracked glasses and sideburns wearing a brown trench coat and carrying a scanner walked into the room, then into me.
"OOMPH! Hey! Watch where you're going!" I rubbed my head after knocking it into the man's machine.
"Are you carrying any magical artifacts or strange tokens in that bag of yours?" The man asked just as another man who looked very similar to the one in front of me walked in through the door.
"Ah Stanford, right down to business with the girl. What's your name kid?" The new man asked as he put the fez that Soos always wore on his head and straightened his suit.
I gritted my teeth, I had never liked anyone call me 'kid', "My name's Arylia, and no, I don't think I am. Who are you guys anyway and Wendy, did that gnome guy follow us?" I looked over at my friend who shook her head no. I let out a sigh of relief.
"My name's Stanley and the grouch over there is my twin brother Stanford, but you can call me Stan and him Ford." the man with Soos's fez said.
Stanford shook his head, "No, you're carrying something. Can I see that bag of yours for a second?" He asked holding out a six-fingered hand in expectancy. I looked at the hand, that wasn't something you could cover up but he didn't seem to be ashamed of it, in fact, he seemed to be quite proud of it. I shrugged and handed him my bag, not knowing what I could possibly have in my backpack. I crossed my arms and looked back down at my bracelet that Birch had given me; after the room warmed up again I slipped the bracelet back on and nothing happened so I guessed that it was just a one time thing. The silver diamonds had gained a shimmering sheen to them and the black triangles had remained ruby red, almost as if they were angry at the world.
Stanford set down my bag with a heavy sigh and scanned the room again, "The weirdness signature is still coming from you, but you don't have any magic items."
"Not unless you count my 'exceptional beauty' a magical item." I joked as Ford's eyes went to my wrist and he sucked in a breath.
"Where did you get that?" He asked in a huff.
I looked down at the bracelet and shrugged, "My friend gave it to me, but it's not magic." Wendy gave me a look, "Well, mostly not magic." Ford cocked an eyebrow, a motion I was very familiar with. "The cafeteria got really cold today when I put it on, then warm once I took it off again. It didn't do anything after I put it on the second time." He seemed interested but did nothing else but scan the bracelet and shake his head again.
"No, the bracelet is radiating weirdness, but not the massive weirdness levels I'm detecting. I think that is coming from you." I cocked my eyebrow underneath my bangs and shrugged. Stanley squinted at me then walked up to me and brushed my bangs out of the way, exposing my eyes.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" I batted his hand away but not before they caught sight of the strange coloring. "What?" Stan looked shocked and Ford stood stock still for a few moments before collapsing.
Soos walked in and looked at the old man on the floor for a few moments, "Okay? Do any of you dudes want to tell me what's going on?
Ta Da! Okay, this was 9 pages long and was written in two days (most of it was written in one). My comets, PLEASE fave, follow and review! I need it.
Bill: She does, she ran out of coffee today and is on a low.
*shoves him* They don't need to know that!
Bill: *grins* I know, but it's fun to ruin your reputation while still making them want to read more!
*grumbles* whatever.
Wendy: Hey guys! Whad' I miss?
You missed the entire chapter! I can't believe it, where were you?
Wendy *blushes* None of your business!
e_e' you were hanging with your new boyfriend weren't you.
Wendy: No!
Mmhmm, kay, I don't believe you but I'll drop it for now. Ciao for now my comets!