As the sun started to rise a ray of sunshine broke through the small rectangle window in the basement of the Mystery Shack. The warm ray of light hit Skyla's face and made her began to stir. She eventually sat up and rubbed the sleep from her eyes making her more aware of her surroundings when she looked around she was confused and a bit afraid at first but then she remembered everything that happened last night. Her argument with Bill, her 'medicine' that she took and her talk with Ford. She looked down sadly at the bandaged arms noticing that they must have been re-wrapped as they were clean and there was no sign of blood. The door then opened and Ford walked down the stairs with a tray he walked to Skyla and kneeled down next to her placing the tray in front of her.
"Here you go I thought you might be hungry after the ordeal last night" Skyla smiled and took a bite of the toast that was on the plate after which she took the orange juice and drunk it all.
"I don't understand why your so nice to me" Ford gave her a confused face. "Well after what I told you last night I would of thought that I would be the last person that you would trust" Ford sighed understanding her point.
"Well at first I did start to question if I should trust you. But I'm afraid that would have made me a hypocrite if I assumed you were a bad person for making a deal with Bill" Ford looked at the Portal he had been working to dismantle. "Look I promised you that I wouldn't tell anyone of our conversation and that still stands but they might find it out themselves. Maybe you should just tell them anyway save yourself the trouble. But I can understand why you wouldn't so can I suggest that instead you go and bond with Dipper and Mabel so when the time does come then they might see it your way" Skyla thought for a moment before getting up and going to the stairs.
"Thanks Ford I'm glad that the twins didn't close the portal. Otherwise I would never have met you" With that Skyla walked upstairs and found Dipper and Mabel who were heading to the woods. "Hey guys where you going?" the two turned around Mable answering.
"Well with everything that's been going on we decided to just go and explore in the woods for a bit. You wanna come?" Skyla smiled at this of course she cared for both twins but secretly she liked Mable. This was because of the fact that she never had a sibling so this meant that she could be a big sister and be there for Mable.
"Sure sounds fun" The trio walked into the woods and took in all of the beauty and some occasional random creature would run past them. As the day carried on and a few hours went past the group came to a circle where there was no trees. Skyla had to try and not growl at the memory of Bill how they had first met each other in a woods just like this very one. They group decided to stop and rest for a moment resting against some fallen trees when Skyla heard something in the bushes looking around she finally saw a pair of bright yellow eyes glaring at her. She slowly stood up alerting the twins. "Guys start running. Now!" The three then ran as a large creature leaped out at them trying to slash them with its claws. Glancing back Skyla could confirm that it was a large griffin that was chasing them and she then remembered that Bill had once been teaching her how to stop them. Slowing down she soon came to a stop in front of the creature, said creature to stopped a few feet away from her glaring at her and flapping it's wings threateningly. Skyla could hear the twins yelling for her to run back to them but instead she hesitantly walked forward a few feet and then to the twins surprise she bowed to the creature lowering her head to look at the ground. After moments of silence the creature then walked towards the nearly trembling girl and as it was in swinging distance it let out a loud roar and pounced. The twins covered their eyes expecting their friend to be dead but to their surprise she was just playing with the creature as if it was a giant cat. Skyla was laughing and stroking the creatures head as it let her up Skyla yelled to the twins. "It's okay guys you can come here!" The twins walked to Skyla who was still playing with the griffin. Dipper asked her in shock.
"How did you know how to deal with it?" Skyla smiled and stroked the creatures head.
"Let's just say this isn't the oddest creature I've dealt with" The twins smiled and petted the griffins head. After a few minutes the griffin let out a playful roar and flew off. After a few hours of exploring the woods the twins set off back home as they came to the exit Dipper turned back saying. "Hey do you want to spend the night? it's getting dark so it might be dangerous to walk alone" Skyla smiled.
"That'd be nice" Skyla followed inside and joined Dipper and Mabel for dinner and as the night set it the twins had set up a sleeping mat for her on the sofa downstairs and as she fell asleep Skyla tossed and turned as a dream hit her.
In the dream
Skyla was in the woods again and as she looked around the wind picked up and the colors faded meaning Bill was arriving.
"Hello Bill" When Bill appeared he was laughing.
"Oh how sweet your trying to make the twins your friends so when you utterly betray them you think they'll forgive you" Skyla glared.
"what are you wanting now Bill?"
"oh not much I've just arrived to let you know that I'm finally ready to start Wierdmaggedon. I'm just needing one final thing" Skyla put her hands on her hips impatiently.
"And that would be?"
"The Rift that Ford has got in his lab"
"oh well that should be easy to grab" Skyla says sarcastically Bill glares slightly saying.
"well then grab it when the twins have it. I've looked ahead and I know that shooting star will have it in her possession soon"
"I don't want to hurt Mabel. I don't want to trick her at all" Bill thought for a moment.
"well then let me take control and I'll get the Rift you won't hurt her at all" Skyla thought.
"Fine but after this you give me my information" Bill sighed and rolled his eye.
"very well" with that Bill clicked his fingers and the world became a blinding white waking Skyla up.
