Based on the feedback from chapter 7, I worked on chapter 8 right away, just before school starts (tomorrow) So this might be the last chapter you'll get in a while ("a while" meaning a day or two more than usual.)

Gravity Falls: The Fourth Journal

CHAPTER 8

Dipper was writing an advanced mathematical equation in the dirt, and whispering the details to himself.

"okay, so if I use this when that happens, and use the product what of just happened to escape, or- hehe- excuse me, SUM of just what just happened, then I'll be able to escape." Dipper took a deep breath and readied himself for his escape plan. He'd only have one chance, and if it failed, Bill would most likely kill Dipper right then and there. He obviously couldn't let that happen.

Dipper looked around his shoulder to see if Bill was still there. "You're makin' me angry kid! Just let me kill you so I can go back to doing nothing!"

"Okay…" He stood up from behind the bush, and yelled, "HEY!"

Bill, out of confusion and anger, spoke "what?!" He immediately followed him down the long slope back to the downtown area. Dipper was running faster than Bill, and eventually Dipper was no longer in sight. Bill kept chasing anyway.

Dipper made it to his designated spot, and commenced his escape plan. A few minutes passed by, and after some feverish digging, Dipper was hiding, and Bill came down the hill to where Dipper had led him.

Bill saw Dipper's hat in the distance, lying on the floor. Bill approached the hat, and looked at it for a few seconds. "Hmm… Maybe he fell and died! Might as well… take his hat." Bill reached down for the hat, and opened the portal.

In a moment of extreme suspense and bravery, Dipper leaped out of the ground from under his hat, from a hole he dug up to hide in, and wacked Bill with the shovel. Dipper then immediately leaped into the portal, taking with him, the fourth journal, his hat, and his shovel.

He made it. Dipper almost had a smile on his face, and we would have a full smile, if it weren't for being in space. The portal to the other dimension began to open, and in it, Dipper saw the Gravity Falls Forest. He was floating towards the portal, and he was almost there, when a portal behind him opened, and Bill Cipher was in it.

"You can't get away from me this easily! You filthy human!" Bill Cipher came out of the portal and towards Dipper. Dipper was only a few feet away from the portal, and he had another plan if something like this were to happen. He flung his shovel back at Bill, thus distracting him long enough for Dipper to finally reach the portal.

He face-planted on to the grass, and slowly stood up. He had a black eye, but that was okay. He smiled, and heard the wonderful sounds of the forest. The birds, the owls, the crickets, the sound of someone watching you, and the sound of gnomes. "Gnomes?" Dipper looked to the left and saw a bunch of gnomes marching in a straight line.

'Hey guys!" Dipper shouted to the gnomes.

The gnomes looked at Dipper and the lead gnome spoke, "Oh, hey, uh, Mabel's waiting at our place, and she won't leave unless you're there, so… you're here, and… we're thinking she'll probably leave if you show up, so… yeah."

Dipper looked at them for a second, and started cheerfully walking to the gnomes' house.

"Mabel! Guess who's baaaack!" Dipper shouted to Mabel in the gnomes house.

There was a brief moment of complete silence followed by running and the knocking down of furniture, and then finally, the door burst open and Mabel and Grunkle Stan came running out of it.

Mabel went in for the hug/pick-up from the ground maneuver. "Dipper!" You're back!"

"Haha, yeah!- You're choking me though-" Dipper coughed a few times as Mabel let go of him.

"How'd you do it?!" Grunkle Stan asked as Dipper gave him a mutual hug.

"I- uh- Well I fought Bill Cipher in a different- like, mirror dimension and I… I tricked him into opening a portal, and then I jumped in, and then I'm here!" Dipper awkwardly explained.

Dipper was confronted with blank faces. Mabel finally asked, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah! Hehe, I'm okay!" Dipper looked at Grunkle Stan for a moment, thinking very intently.

"Uh, you're scarin' me, kid." Stan said, trying to look away.

"Wasn't there something I had to- ask you…? Or… something….?" Dipper struggled to remember what happened.

"Uh, no. Probably just what deodorant I use. It works really well and I wouldn't be surprised if you wanted to ask me about it." Grunkle Stan said. "Uh, we should probably go back to the Mystery Shack now. The customers'll probably want to know where the manager is."

(PSST! SOOS WAS THE MANAGER WHILE STAN WAS GONE!)

Meanwhile, in"Bill's Dimension."

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Bill was screaming in anger. "HOW COULD I LET HIM GET AWAY THAT EASY! I SHOULD'VE KILLED HIM WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE!" He hovered back and forth, trying to "walk" off the anger.

Now calming down more and more, he spoke to himself, "Should I just kill him right now? No, that's too easy…" He thought for a bit, "Oh! I'll use the Fourth Journal to conjure up something demonic, and THAT will kill him!" he said excitedly. "Now, where did I put that thing…" He reached his hand into his suddenly appearing portal/pocket and wiggled his hand around, reaching for the journal. He looked into it, and realized that it was missing.

"Hm?" Bill thought for a moment. "No…" He began getting mad, "NO." He realized Dipper's had it this whole time, and he immediately began plotting his ultimate revenge.

I want this story to have at least 10 chapters. Thanks again!