From here onwards, certain chapter titles will be encoded. You'll need to decipher them. For this chapter's Title the Cipher Key is Four.
Chapter Six - Hergmrk Amxl Xli Hvieq Hiqsr
Hours later after their tour, Stanford kindly set up his old bunker in the Forest as a temporary room for the "Echo Creek-ineers". With a very busy two days, Star fell asleep and entered her Dreamscape. The possible whereabouts for Cipher. She had to get information out of him. Even if that means fighting him...
Her Dreamscape was just white and full of nothing. Everything was blank. No images, no places and most importantly, no Bill. The ground began to move. Rumbling. Shaking. She felt something rising from underneath her. Star rolled out of the way to see a huge stone shard rising upwards from where was a stood only moments ago. The ground stopped moving. She had no idea what this stone was doing inside her Dreamscape at all. She began walking up to the shard to investigate it and by investigate, she meant touch it. The shard lit up with black lights coming from each face of the shard. A banshee scream that should not be heard by any human came out of the shard. Star covered her ears as the scream continued to come out of the rock then the sound and the lights faded. The shard now showed images of Star's future. Not a bright future like what Bill showed in the past but a dark future. Everywhere and everyone she loved was in flames or dead. She looked around the shard to see various places. Gravity Falls? Destroyed. Echo Creek? Annihilated. Mewni? Obliterated. Her nightmares...they might becoming real. It was then she heard a very familiar cackle. Bill appeared out of nowhere behind Star.
"I see you don't like what your mind is showing you Dying Star." Bill joked.
"What's your endgame?" Star asked in a very aggressive tone.
"Easy there Dying Star, I think you need calm down a bit. Here. Get dressed up..." Bill answered before pointing at her. She looked down to see her usual outfit changed into her Blood Moon Ball dress.
"What the?" She stated in a very confused tone.
"...and have a dance." Bill continued before he grabbed Star. Her Dreamscape transformed into the Blood Moon Ball. Jazz music began playing to liven up the atmosphere. Star's eyes were locked onto Bill as he transformed into a yellow and gold version of Star's Ex; Tom. Marco was also in her mindscape dressed in his demon outfit.
"Why change my mindscape into this?" Star asked.
"Oh. I don't control your mindscape. I repeat; your mindscape. It's just transforming to make itself more...lively to you." Bill explained as the two continued to dance.
"So, why are you here Bill? What do you want? I've gotten closer to the Author and I think know where his Journals are hidden." Star asked. Marco sneaked his way around the party that was happening around him to get closer to Star without her or Bill noticing.
"As much as I like you Dying Star; I made a deal with a third party which I won't name for our deal's sake." Bill answered as he began to laugh. Marco overheard this and began to panic. Who was this 'third party'? Why does Bill have a fascination with Star more than him or Janna? Does she have something that Bill wants? All of these questions were spiralling around Marco's mind like a whirlpool. Bill stopped Star from dancing with him and transformed back into his usual self. His eye began to glow a very dark blue, similar to the flames he can produce at any time he wanted.
Star dropped to the floor to avoid Bill who was making flames from his hands which formed some kind of Encryption which was the following...
"Qnnm cqrb fjawrwp, Mhrwp Bcja! Ro hxd mxw'c jlc zdrltuh, cqn knc'b xoo. R'uu qjen cx vjtn hxda manjvb j uxc vxan brwrbcna rw xamna cx lujrv fqjc bqxdum kn vrwn!"
Star looked at the words and tried to make sense of it. Bill's eye stopped glowing and turned back to normal. He produced his cane from out of nowhere.
"What is this? Some kind of other language from another dimension?" Star asked. Bill leaned on his cane.
"I'll leave you to figure it out before you..." Bill began to answer before there was a large flash. Someone took a photo of the encryption. Bill turned from his usual yellow and gold colour to a very dark blood red. "Someone else is inside your Dreamscape. Hunt them down. They can't know about anything!" Bill commanded as the party turned from a lively calm atmosphere to chaos. Star began to look for anyone suspicious as Bill began to look in 'other' places inside the Dreamscape. She then noticed the Skeleton masked guest. Marco?!
"What are you doing here?" Star asked in a very worried but annoyed tone.
"I had to see what you did yesterday when Stanford, Dipper and Mabel took you somewhere. I had to know." Marco explained just before fire rained down onto the ball that Star's mindscape conjured up.
"I'll find you and I will make your nightmares real!" Bill warned as he began burning the guests of the ball until they were ash. Star and Marco hid underneath the punch table which was covered.
"We need to wake up some how." Marco suggested which made Star think. She remembered when she first met Marco and she tried to help expand his room. Light-bulb! That spell could wake them up and get rid of Bill out of their minds. She ran out of the punch table.
"Hey, Bill. I found out who's the intruder." Star announced to Bill.
"That's great Dying Star!" Bill said delightedly.
"Yeah. It's you." Star announced in a very smug tone.
"Wait...what?!" Bill's happy tone turned into a aggressive one. Star pulled out her wand and cast a spell.
"Mystic Room Suck Transform!" She shouted as a black hole opened up from underneath Bill.
"No. No. No!" He began to worry as the hole began to drag him into it but managed to grab the roof of the room to hold himself in. Star and Marco jumped into the black hole and woke up from their dreams. Marco immediately went to check his phone.
"What are you doing Marco? Bill is gonna make your lives hell now because of you intruding!" Star stated furiously. Marco fist bumped the air. He had it.
"I have it!" Marco whispered.
"Have what?" She asked as she came over to the only light in the bunker. Thankfully, Janna was fast asleep. On Marco's phone was an image of Bill's encrypted message that he showed Star in her dream.
"That looks like some sort of encryption. I've seen stuff like this before but I've never been able to figure them out for myself. Those twins and their great-grand uncle might be able to encode this for us." Marco explained.
"What's an encryption?" Star asked as Janna grabbed her leg in her sleep which Star easily stepped out of.
"An encryption is like a message but since the message is something you don't want anybody to know besides a few people, they change the letters to hide the meaning and the ones who want to read it need to know how to get the original letters back into place."
"So, it's like a mystery message?"
"Exactly!" Marco answered Star's question. He paused and went to check the time on his phone. 5AM. It's the time when old people wake up usually. He walked up to the entrance of the bunker and whispered "Come on. We need Stanford to figure what this means." Star followed Marco as the two quietly left Janna alone in the bunker. It's only a matter of time before Bill intervenes...
The Cipher Key for Bill's Warning is Nine.
Well, things are gonna get interesting from here. Are we at end game yet? Nope. I've still got more to tell before we hit that point. ;P
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