Hi everyone, welcome back ! I have nothing to say that time, so enjoy !

Please, remember that I'm french, so it's not perfect. If i do mistakes, please tell me, I only want to improve !

I do not own the characters or the universe of Gravity Falls

Dipper pushed away the big ripped piece of the tent that was blocking the entrance, revealing a very dark place and a cloud of dust. It seemed like the place was abandoned for thirty years even if Gideon only left it a year ago. Apparently tents were not very good at resisting the bad weather. He raised his light to lighten a bunch of metal chairs left behind and a wooden stage completely empty and silent. It looked like a decor for a bad horror movie. It made Mabel shiver a bit anyway.

She followed her brother as he started to walk around, fascinated by the ruin the Tent of Telepathy was now. Hard to believe they watched lil'Gideon sing and dance on that stage a few years ago, seemed like centuries now.

Mabel finally left his side to get closer to the stage. It looked bigger in her memories. She caressed the wooden floor of the scene. It was dusty but soft, the wood was polished and looked a bit shiny with the dust off. She jumped hearing the metallic sound resounding. She turned back to see Dipper kicking old chairs away. He looked a bit upset, pouting like a child.

''There's nothing here''. He sighed.''It's not funny.''

''Aw come on Dip' !'' Mabel tried to cheer him up by jumping on the stage and taking lil' Gideon's poses.''I thought you liked the widdle ol' me !''

Her brother loudly laughed, from the other side of the tent. Mabel smiled. The laugh sounded joyful but there was still that discomfort she couldn't get rid of. It was feeling exactly like she was watched. She was kinda used to that feeling with knowing that Bill was always watching, but in the tent it was feeling different. It was strong and creepy. She just wanted to go back to the shack and hide under her sheets. Dipper didn't seemed to feel it. He usually was the one to get worried.

''Come on, we have to take a look offstage !'' He pointed the big curtains behind her.

He jumped on the stage too, ignoring the small steps made exactly for that purpose. With his torch he cautiously pushed away the velvet, enlightening the darkness. Mabel took a peek above his shoulder, only to see a bunch of materials and stage equipment. Nothing truly exciting but Dipper entered too. She followed him close, rubbing her arm to make the shivers go away.

She felt the curtains falling back at their place behind them, in a silent and discreet whisper. The light of the moon couldn't reach them now.

There was a lot of advertising merchandise and posters left here like trash. It wasn't even stored or organized, just left here. Gideon used to make a lot of publicity for his shows around the town, he probably had ripped off all his posters when he suddenly decided to change his life.

Dipper suddenly burst in laugh when he found a life-sized cardboard image of Gideon. Mabel giggled seeing it too. It was Gideon when he was fifteen. She could clearly remember that year, it was the year he got out of jail and tried to get people's love back by dressing in pastel colors and making magicians tricks with animals. He really struggled to fix his image that year, and even if some people showed up, it was only tourists passing by. The town folks preferred to avoid the tent and the little show-off that was inside.

The young man dusted off the smiling cardboard face of lil'Gideon. He was really small compared to Dipper. He was still quite small today. The twins were approximately the same height and in Gravity Falls, the only one who could beat them was Grunkle Stan. Well, Bill was beating them too now.

''Hey do you see that ?!'' He suddenly exclaimed.

Mabel followed him as he made his way through the mess of the backstage. She finally joined him in front of a giant wooden target, with red and white stripes leading to the center. The thing was human sized, reminding Mabel of these old circus shows were they used to throw knives on this kind of target, someone tied in the middle. It made her shiver again.

''I don't remember seeing that kind of shows here.'' Dipper mumbled as he grabbed a knife still stuck in the target.

''We didn't see every show.''

He looked at the knife closer. It wasn't rusty at all and still shiny. The blade was reflecting the light of his flashlight on Mabel's legs.

''I always wondered if they used real knives for those shows. . .'' He wondered out loud.

''Try it then !''

He frowned, then grabbed the cold steel and opened his palm. Briefly, he made a single cut but it resulted in him letting the knife fall on the floor.

''Yes, it's a real knife !'' He moaned, looking at his bleeding hand.

''Ah, you're good for a kitty bandage !'' She giggled.

''What ? There's no regular bandages left ?''

''Grunkle Stan doesn't have any, there are only mine !''

''Ah, great. . .''

The cut wasn't big, but hands always bleed a lot. He sighed, feeling a bit stupid for doing stuff like that. He tried to keep his hand lifted as they continued to explore.

Mabel suddenly tripped on something and almost fell. She pointed her light to see what made her loose balance. It was only a pile of cables but she noticed something else. It looked like white paint, directly on the wooden floor. She pushed the cables to take a better look and noticed it was straight lines and there were others going somewhere. She followed the lines with her light and finally noticed it was drawing a gigantic star on the floor, with one eye in the middle. Just like the big sign above the tent.

''Hey Dipper, come check this out !''

Her brother walked on the star, a bit confused. The big sign above the tent was odd enough, and now that. That star was definitely standing for something, he wanted to know what.

''It's kinda cool don't you think ?'' He smiled.

He left his arm down. It was still bleeding heavily. A single drop ran along his hand, leaving a red mark, then stopped at the very end of his finger, then fell, silently on the wooden floor, right on the eye of the star.

The white lines suddenly started to oddly glow as a wind coming from nowhere made the tent move and wave terribly. Mabel rushed to her brother as we was taking a few steps back, he was completely frozen, staring at his blood on the floor. It was because of that, he knew it. Something was coming and it was because of his blood. Everything was telling them to run, but they were too fascinated by what was going on in front or their noses.

The star suddenly started to smoke heavily, a colored smoke, mostly purple and pink. It had a strong biting smell of old ladies' perfume, forcing the twins to close their eyes for a bit. When they opened their eyes, a bright light, like a projector, coming out of nowhere was enlightening something in the smoke. It was just a shadow at first but became more obvious at the smoke was clearing.

Mabel took a look around. The world was suddenly colorless. Only black and white, and the tent which was waving a minute ago was frozen. This brought her painful memories of meeting Bill, so she looked what was up there.

A tiny star as appeared, it looked exactly like the big one above the tent, with many colors and a single eye in the middle. The brunette really thought she was dreaming, it looked exactly like Bill in his triangle form, but it was a star instead, and its eye was closed.

Suddenly, the star stretched its arms, moaning a bit. The moan sounded a bit feminine. Finally the eye opened, winked a few times like the thing was waking up. Then it stared at the emptiness.

''Oh my ! Oh my !'' It suddenly exclaimed with a lady voice.''Would you look at that ! Me in the mindscape, who thought it could be true !''

It laughed a bit. The kids couldn't say a word, couldn't make a move. Did they just woke up another demon ?

The eye finally looked down, with a surprised expression.

''Pines twins ! Oh I have to thank you for the blood my kids, you have no idea how much you helped me !''

''How do you know us ?!'' The young man finally shouted.

''Oh I watched you coming to the shows, have you seen the big me, watching over the tent ? They really pictured me well on that sign. . .''

Like Bill, Mabel thought, it used its image as a peephole.

It floated down to them, they made a few steps back. Mabel felt Dipper starting to get angry and confused, she wanted to say something but she couldn't find any words.

''I hope you're not too mad at me for playing a bit with your emotions kids, but you know, when you're desperate like me you're ready to do anything !''

''W-what are you talking about ?'' She finally mumbled.

''I'm a demon who can play with emotions kids ! It's kinda great but sometimes it get people a bit confused. . . I had to use it on you two to get what I wanted, I hope you're not too mad, sincerely, I'm sorry.''

''Can we know who you are ?'' Dipper asked.

''Oh, Ardi is the name I chose for this universe, it's not as cool as Bill Cipher but it was already taken ahahah !''

''Wait ? You know Bill ?!'' Mabel exclaimed.

''Of course I do sweet peach, every demons know that dear Bill. Oh, he would be very mad knowing I'm here. . . You're not going to tell him right ?''

''Bill is gone, we haven't seen him in four years.'' He barked.

''Oh really.'' Ardi giggled

''So. . . you're a demon too ?''

''Oh yes, a very sexy one ! I've been waiting for so long to get into that world, I really thought I had a chance with that Gideon kid. . .''

''Oh, you're the one who was manipulating him then !''The brunette shouted.

''Yes, and I thought he would've been better at being my puppet, that's the hard life of a demon kid, if you want the chance to get in another world you have to wait for a stupid kid to accidentally draw you on a piece of paper, then you have a small hole you can pass your hand into but you still have to wait for them to summon you to get the chance to end up in that alternate reality they call the mindscape. . .'' Ardi sighed.

'' I did everything for Gideon, I helped him to get respect from other, I showed him where the journal was, I told him how to make a tent where tons of people would come to admire him. . . ''

She took a deep breathe and shouted the next words with a deep rage'' I watched his back and how did he thank me ?! He summoned Bill of course ! That stupid little brat, I should've let him get hit by that truck when he was five, it would have been better for everyone ! Then he just decided I was the devil and ran away from me as I about to reach my goal, I even made him do that stupid knives throwing show to make him get cut but that idiot never bleeds at the right place !''

The star covered her eye and sighed. Mabel pulled her brother's arm, she wanted to go away, but Dipper didn't cared about his sister, all he could see was that demon floating there.

''So, what are you going to do now ?''

''The same thing every demon want to do with that universe ! I'll try at least, Bill's been on that for way longer than me. . . Tad was too, I wonder what happened to that guy. Oh, I should go check out, goodbye kids have fun !''

She waved with her little hand and disappeared in a cloud of pink smoke. The twins coughed together before noticing they were back into the real world.

Dipper turned to Mabel, she could see in his eyes how terrified he was. His normal emotions were back at last.

''What did we do Mabel ?''

Mabel couldn't eat, couldn't sleep. Her head was completely messed up. She couldn't tell if it what because of that star demon's tricks still effecting on her mind, but everything was rushing in her thoughts and she couldn't think straight. What could that demon even do, what could she even want and how Bill would react about this. About Bill, meeting Ardi made her realize how little she knew about that guy. He wasn't even a guy, just a weird demon with obscure wants. She couldn't really actually tell what he was. A being of energy, not from this world, only looking human because he was possessing a body. . .

She couldn't even conceive that something like that could have a mind and feelings. But he was indeed in love with her. Her head started to hurt really bad and she jumped out of bed.

She ended up barefoot, walking on the road leading to the city, with only the moonlight to lighten her steps. She walked a bit, staring at the ground but suddenly felt completely vulnerable in the immensity of the night, all alone, surrounded by deep dark woods. It felt like there was millions of eyes staring at here from the shadows. Like a prey, she ran away in panic to join the town.

Gravity Falls was terribly peaceful, but it wasn't peace she was looking for. So she walked a bit in the cold streets, her feet starting to get painful because of the tar. Her desperate search for some animation and life leaded her to the parking lot were she liked to observe people. It was the very definition of death and silent and she finally gave up and walked to an old phone booth.

She was a bit surprised that thing was still working. She used the coins left in her jean's pockets and called someone she knew could listen. She felt a bit guilty for calling Pacifica so late in the night, but at this point her guilt was something she didn't had the mind to care about.

A few minutes later, the sounds of her friend's car approaching comforted her and broke the silence of the night.

''Here, I took you the socks you wanted.'' The blonde handed her as she got out of the vehicle.

Mabel sat on the car as her friend shut down the engine. Pacifica looked still asleep, yawning loudly. Wrapped in a blanket, she came to sit next to her friend with a cup of coffee. The brunette knew she could always count on her and smiled as she took a sip of the hot beverage. She didn't even liked coffee.

''So, what keep you up so late Mabelton ?'' The blonde kindly asked.

''It's so complicated Paz. . . It might take all night. I don't even know what time it is I'm sorry.''

''Don't worry about that, just talk to me, you're ruining your face with worrying so much.''

Mabel lifted her hand to take a look at the time. It was around one in the morning. She felt the guilt slowly attacking her but got distracted by something else. She looked at the shape of the watch and Bill's words suddenly came back to her head. Every image of him are a peephole. She couldn't let him hear about all the things she had to say, she had no idea how he would react knowing another demon was running free on earth. Ardi seemed pretty scared of him.

She practically ripped off the watch of her wrist and threw it as far as she could in the woods nearby.

''Hey, why did you threw you watch ?''Pacifica frowned.

''It's complicated, I told you, just listen to me. . .''

''Why did you threw my watch Shooting Star ?'' Bill's voice suddenly echoed behind her.

She blenched and turned back to see Bill floating by her sides. She felt terrified, caught in the act like a child.

''H-how did you got here ?''

''I used one of my portals. I had a very great spot to watch you with that watch, now I only have a view on some bushes, why did you threw it ?''

She couldn't find any good explanation for the demon and started to feel a terrible anxiety attacking her nerves. She could even feel cries growing in her throat. Fortunately, Pacifica took Bill's attention away from her.

''Oh hey who's that ?!'' The blonde asked.

''Oh hi Lama girl.'' Bill replied.

''Hey, why do you call me Lama ? That's rude !''

''Don't worry Paz, he has a nickname for everyone, he calls me Shooting Star.''

''Yeah, but your nickname is cute, mine is just offensive. Are you Mabel's boyfriend weird guy ?''

''Yes.'' He smiled.

''No ! Bill !''

''How cute ! What are you by the way ? You don't look like a human.''

''I like that human girl, she's smart.''

Mabel breathed.

''Pacifica, do you remember the triangle demon we told you about ?''

''Oh yeah. That's him ? He doesn't look like a triangle.'' Pacifica giggled.

''No, he's possessing a human body right now.''

''Sweet ! What's that third eye on your forehead ?!''

''It's my all-seeing eye, i can watch your world with that, and it does many other great things. It's where most of my existence and powers are concentrated.''

''Cool. Why do you have so many scars on your face ?''

''Lots of things happened to that body !''

''Are you protecting Mabel ? You said you were watching her.''

''I'll always protect Shooting Star, I love her.''

''Aha ! I knew you were her boyfriend ! I always knew she would end up with a vampire or something, there's no humans who could be good enough for her anyway.''

''Pacifica ! Quit encouraging him ! He's not my boyfriend he's only obsessed with me !'' Mabel suddenly shot, blushing a little.

''Ah come on Mabelton, you can't reject such a loving guy, you gave a chance to worst jerks before !''

''It's different Paz, you couldn't understand.'' She tried to whisper to her friend.

Mabel sighed and laid on the car. Pacifica gave a tender look at her friend. She could see on her face how tired she was.

''Maybe you should try to get some sleep Mabel. Being sleep deprived is no good for your face.''

''Yeah don't ruin your face Shooting Star ! I'll bring you back if you want !'' Bill offered his hand to the brunette.

Mabel took a look at the hand. It looked way better with gloves on.

''Just bring me back in front of the shack. Goodnight Paz, thanks for answering my call.'' She grabbed the hand and and waved at her friend.

The blonde watched Mabel and the demon disappear in a blue flame. What a night, she truly didn't got out of the bed for nothing. When it was with the Pines, she could always except the weirdest anyway. Out of the fact he was a triangle, she couldn't really recall what Mabel told her about that Bill. He didn't really seemed like a bad guy, but something was bothering Mabel about him. Maybe she would tell her more later. She needed some sleep too.

Hehehe, Pacifica ship them so bad. See you next time !