Author's Note: Okay, so you probably figured out that I changed the story a bit. It's MY STORY and I will do what I WANT with it. So there!

However, I'll stick as close to plot as I can.

Pacifica sat in her bedroom, in tears. Her father had refused to speak to her, and she was back right where she started. Again.

"Princess?" a voice came from the doorway.

"Gideon?" she asked. Sure, she hated the guy, but at least he was someone to talk to.

"I thought you might want to know that the vagrant who kidnapped you was caught," he said gently. "You're safe from him now."

"What?" Pacifica cried. "What are you talking about? I wasn't kidnapped, I ran away!"

"Oh… that's… that's very unfortunate," Gideon said, sounding upset. "If I'd known just an hour earlier, before the punishment was carried out…"

"What punishment?" Pacifica asked, suddenly very afraid.

"Kidnapping the princess is an act of treason."

Pacifica gasped. Death by beheading. That was the punishment for treason. "No…no! Please, please, tell me it hasn't happened yet!"

"I'm sorry Princess, but I cannot tell you a lie," Gideon said quietly.

"Did my father authorize this?" Pacifica asked, tears in he eyes.

"I… he… He was out…" Gideon stuttered. "I am exceedingly sorry, Princess."

"How could you?" she screamed at him. "He was just a teenager! You," she sounded halfway between tears and rage now, "are a monster."

With that, she ran off into the garden, tears streaming down her face like rivers.

She hugged Rajah tightly and sobbed into his soft fur.

"It's all my fault," she sobbed, not caring how pathetic or ugly she might look. "I never even knew his name…"

Dipper sat in an alleyway with Soos on his shoulder, reading an old battered book he'd stolen years ago from a shop, when a dirty man who looked to be about twenty or so came up to him.

"Hey," Dipper said, not looking up. "What do you want?"

"I know how you can get your princess' heart," the man spoke quietly.

Dipper's head snapped up. "What?"

"There is, you see, a cave of wonders, a few hour's journey on horseback, but only one person can enter and make it out alive," the man said. "I have searched for that man for many years, and I believe that you may be he."

"Great. What does that have to do with anything?" the younger man asked.

"Inside the cave, there is a Journal. The Journal, when opened, gives the reader power. You could use that power to become a prince; win your lovely Pacifica."

"What incentive do you have to tell me this?" Dipper asked.

"I, as well, seek to look upon the Journal. Only you can enter the cave; only I can show you the way. Do we have a deal?" the man asked.

Dipper eyed the man suspiciously. "What's your name?" he asked.

"Gideon Charles Gleeful," the man said. Dipper noted that all the man had said so far was true, and nodded, taking his hand.

"Deal."

Several hours later, after dark, Dipper, with Soos in tow, and Gideon were finally approaching the cave.

"Who is it?" the lioness growled. "Oh, great. Gideon. I'm still not letting you in, jerk face."

"What about me?" Dipper asked, stepping forward. The lioness peered down at him.

"Hmm… fine. Touch nothing, with the exception of the Journal."

Dipper entered, smiling bemusedly.

"Remember!" Gideon cautioned. "Only take the Journal! Then, you may have your reward."

"C'mon, Soos," Dipper smiled, as he descended the staircase into the lioness' maw.

"Whoa," he whispered as he saw the mountains of gold. "There's a sight that a street rat doesn't see every day."

Soos seemed to agree, racing towards it.

"No! Soos! We can't touch anything except the Journal," Dipper reminded him. He sighed, and went back to Dipper's side.

Neither noticed the carpet come waddling behind them. (A/N: Guess who?)

Well, Soos did. He began freaking out when he saw the carpet moving of it's own volition. He began shrieking in monkey-speak at Dipper, who turned around to see nothing but a carpet lying on the floor, and Soos yelling at it.

"What the hell are you doing?" Dipper asked, completely nonplussed. Then, the carpet got up and ran behind a pile of treasure. "Oh. That makes more sense then. Wow, a magic carpet!"

The carpet waddled toward them, seeming very friendly.

"Maybe you can help us," Dipper said. "Do you know where the Journal is?"

The carpet instantly motioned for them to follow it. Dipper willingly followed it, and after a nervous look back, Soos did the same.

The carpet took them to a room with a huge staircase, and a single shaft of light falling on a journal on the pedestal at the top. Dipper raced up the stairs, not noticing that Soos was being hypnotically drawn to a huge ruby that lay in the hands of a statue of a golden monkey.

Dipper grabbed the Journal, and raced down the stairs… just in time for Soos to grab the ruby.

"YOU HAVE TOUCHED MY STUFF!" the lioness yelled. "NOW YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY!"

The cave began to crumble around them. "Shit," Dipper swore as the stairs beneath him collapsed…

Luckily, the carpet caught him. The carpet swooped down to save Soos, and flew out through the top before being suddenly hit by a boulder, leaving Dipper clinging to the edge of the cave.

"Gideon, help me!" he shouted.

"Give me the Journal, and I'll help you up, and share its power with you!" Gideon shouted.

For a second, everything around Dipper went still. Then he gave Gideon a wry smile. "That's a lie," he said, and he let go of the edge, the Journal still in his hand.

As the entryway was closed off by boulders though, the carpet pulled out from under the boulder, caught Dipper and Soos, and let them down gently to the ground, where they lay in the dark.