Chapter 3: Birthmarks and key staffs
"You agreed to what!?" Mabel practically screamed at Dipper.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time." Dipper replied.
"Listen shooting star, I'm your best shot at finding your family, now then do you know about the secret bunker?" Bill interrupted the argument.
"Hidden bunker?" Dipper and Mabel said in unison.
"Hmm interesting, follow me." Bill floated into the gift shop, and stopped in front of the snack machine.
The four of them followed the floating triangle into the gift shop of the mystery shack. He stopped in front of it, and punched in a combination, instead of something coming out of the snack machine, it opened revealing a hidden passage. He floated into the passage, and they followed him. He came to an elevator, and pressed yet another button. The elevator opened, and they all walked in. Bill pressed a third button, and the elevator went down 3 levels. They came to what looked like an ancient lab, and sitting on the desk were journals number 1 and 2. Bill floated past the journals, and Dipper pocketed them on his way past. Bill floated over to a small area. He stopped in front of a small metal box with no lock and no way to open it.
"Hidden in this box is the key staff." Bill said.
"The what?"
"The staff that is key to casting a specific spell, it was placed in here many years ago. We must prevent the creatures from getting it."
"How does it open?"
"Only one person could ever open it, and he is long dead."
"Who was he?"
"My best friend."
They were all in shock, Bill cipher, the dream demon, actually had a best friend once.
"He was a very powerful warlock, he wanted to help me regain my human form so I wouldn't be cursed, but unfortunately he was unable to find a way to free me. So he sealed the box using his birthmark."
"Birthmark?"
"He had a symbol on his forehead."
"A symbol of what?"
"The big Dipper"
"No way Dipper here has a birthmark of the big Dipper on his forehead." Mabel realized.
"Wait he does?" Bill said.
Mabel looked at Dipper with her best, I'm sorry but please just show it to them Look. Dipper lifted his hair to reveal his birthmark, but when he did this a symbol on the box started to glow. The box opened and a staff floated out, and into Dipper's hand.
"What just happened?" Dipper asked.
"The staff has recognized you as its master, now only you can control it." Bill explained, "Now we have the upper hand against the creatures of darkness."