Bill. Bill was in the room. A blue flame blazed up his right arm. He reached it out to Dipper, who was smiling menacingly.
"Y'know, I made a deal with a kid kinda like you not too long ago. Heh heh. But he pulled off the deal and left me in the hands of some very... clever people. I hope you don't abandon the agreement like he did," Bill told him, referring to our encounter with him a while ago. "I can sense something that reminds me of them nearby. Ha ha! Maybe I'm just imagining it!"
The triangle looked in my direction. I caught my breath and slid quickly away from the door. I peeked back in and he was looking away. I continued my eavesdropping.
"What? No. I keep my word. And I thought this was you're first time back in Levitation Rises. What do you mean you made a deal with someone not too long ago?" Dipper said to the demon.
"I mean just what I said, kid. Except I never said that they were here in Levitation Rises," Bill informed him.
"But this is place on Earth where someone can summon you," Dipper reasoned.
"Ha ha! You're funny! Don't think I would know that? No, no. It was in another dimension; a place called Gravity Falls," Bill explained.
It took a moment for Dipper to process that. After all it was the same place that the mysterious strangers he had taken in said they were from, a mix between him and his sister and their archrivals. I saw him thinking about what to say to that.
Now might be a good time to grab Mabel and run! I thought, but my legs completely ignored the demand.
"Never heard of it," he finally told Bill. I gave a silent thanks.
"I don't expect you have. And for now, remember: the universe is an illusion, reality's a hologram, bye gold, BUUUUUUY!" With that he disappeared in a flash of light.
"Huh. Gravity Falls. Who would have guessed," he murmured as he removed the amulet from around his neck. He placed it in a drawer and headed off to his bed. I waited for about fifteen minutes, hoping he'd fall asleep.
I crawled on all fours, hands and knees, into the bedroom. I slid open the drawer, and there lay the stone. I'd never seen it up close. Just around Gideon's neck the night he tried to kill me. Bad memories.
I stood up, and reached in to grab it. An all too recognizable and annoying voice interrupted my mission.
"Oh boy. Not you again!" the pyramid man's voice came from nowhere.
"Ugh, Bill! Shut up!" I ordered. "I'm doing something important!"
"Yeah. And I wasn't doing something important when you turned me into a total failure?" he asked me sarcastically.
"If he hears you he'll know that you were defeated, and that's he Gideon pulled the deal off, instead of him just doing it for no reason," I justified.
"Touche," he said as disappeared with a small blink of light.
I looked back at the drawer, but the mysterious stone had somehow vanished. I was pretty sure Bill took it with him somehow. "Argh!" I screamed in frustration.
A flash of movement from where Dipper lay caught my attention. It sent me sprinting back to the guest room, where I tried in vain to wake Mabel.
"Come on, Mabel! Get up!" I mumbled, pushing repeatedly against her arm. It was no use. Mabel could sleep through WW2 if she was tired enough. Which I guess she was.
The sound of footsteps launched me out of the already-open window. I climbed the chain-link fence and fell onto the side. There was one place I knew I could go to get help, in this town that was eerily similar to the place called Gravity Falls.