"Redemption was never really my thing, redemption…" I start to tear up, "The whole time, she never cared about redemption. She was only in it for the power the spring could give her!"

Then my tears turn to rage as I slam my fist on the old wooden table, leaving a dent in the old oak, "She didn't want me to succeed at all! All she cared about was getting to the spring, and if I died along the way she would've been happy! It was a win-win for her!"

All Nurse Joy does in response is watch with a surprised look on her face. It's like she's trying to hide the fact that she doesn't know whether or not to respond to my anger.

I glare at her for being so unsure of herself, "Then, just to show that she didn't want redemption, she took over Dipper's body! I just couldn't believe it!" I scream, "She stole Dipper from me, when I was so close to getting him back!"

"You mean…" Nurse Joy starts as she pours some lamb soup into a medium-sized bowl, "You mean that she took Dipper from you, right in front of your very eyes?"

I nod and continue, "Then she…"

She looked at me with a sadistic grin, before screaming, "And now, my vengeance is nigh!" Then she moved Dipper's hands down, before quickly raising them and declaring, "With the power of this sacred mirror I build the sacred kaleidoscope!"

Then, the mirror started to glow dark blue, before cracking and shattering, its pieces scattering around the spring.

"Rise crystals of the ice barrier!" She commanded, "And create the sacred triangle of ice!"

Then those glass-like shards dug themselves into the ground as a dark aura each and every one.

The shards began to grow, from just a tiny fracture from a small mirror, into fist-sided crystals protruding from the ground.

"Release!" She demanded, "I call upon the power of my darkness, and the dark light of this sacred spring; Sacred Magical Triangle of Ice, dispel your former light and draw your power from the darkness of the lost!"

The spring water turned murky black, and the cylinder of light above it began to dissipate, as Anima continued, "Through the power of the broken seal, I command you! Release and Dispel! Sacred Kaleidoscope!"

All I could do was stand back in awe and fear, as the light above the spring fragmented and split into hundreds of streams, that each hit a single crystal.

"Come forth and grant me your power oh sacred dragon. The most powerful of your kind!" Then an icy fog crept in from the forest, "Trishula! Trident of the ice barrier! Destroyer of worlds! Dragon of time! Release and grant me your strength!"

*Roar*

A silhouette of the massive dragon appeared behind Anima-Dipper, "Trishula! Release and Dispel!" Anima commanded, and the massive beast disappeared, as the light of the crystals focused on her. A few seconds passed, before an icy helmet appeared in front of her, sitting on a small pillar of ice and snow.

It wasn't much design-wise, It was shaped Trishula's main head, but with a hollowed-out underside, and protrusions coming from its sides.

"Finally." She whispered as she grabbed the helmet and immediately put it on Dipper's head, "After all these years, I shall finally have my revenge!"

Then she began to chant even more! I was starting to wonder if should be afraid or annoyed!

"Oh sacred armor of Trishula, give me your strength. Empower this vessel with your might as you draw your power from the shadows!"

As she did that, the helmet began to grow around Dipper's body. First it expanded to cover his body with skin-tight navy blue suit, before icy crystals began to form around his chest, shins, arms and back.

That's when the main body of the armor attached itself to Dipper, giving him a crystal-like white chest plate with spikes poking out on the shoulder plates.

The body half of his legs were protected by ice, before his now draconic feet. He now had Trishula's side heads attached to his arms like gauntlets, while his hands gained dragon-like claws on his knuckles.

Then she gained Trishula's Icy wings and icy tail. And that's when Anima opened her eyes and roared as if she really were Trishula.

The final piece of her transformation was the icy sword; the sacred mirror that shattered minutes earlier suddenly appeared in front of her. But this time, it had a short, purple handle extending from the bottom.

When she grabbed it, it gained a dark aura and a blade made of crystal-like ice grew out from the top of the mirror.

"Mabel…" She growled, "Thank you for helping me, for if it were not for your help I wouldn't control the power of ice, Trishula!" Then she pointed the sword at me, "But alas, you must die!"

Then the sword gained an icy aura around it, before Anima swung, releasing a wave of cold air at me.

Nurse Joy uses a silver ladle to scoop the newly finished soup into a small porcelain bowl, "Trishula… why does that name seem familiar?"

"I don't know, but what I do know is that I was terrified." I say.

She brings the soup over and places it in front of me, "Well, if you want to keep telling your story, feel free to do so. It's time to get you to eat, I don't want to send you anywhere with an empty stomach."

I nod, "Fine…" I take the silver spoon and dip it in the brown soup. I give the liquid a small blow before shoving the warm substance in my mouth.

It's delicious, warm, and honestly the best thing I've eaten all week. Tears fill my eyes as I cry, "Thank you nurse Joy, thank you!"

"Are you sure it's any good? I mean, I don't think I did-"

I cut her off, "This is the best thing I've had in a long while. And after everything I've been through, this is the nicest thing you could've done for me."

She gives me a calm half-smile as she pulls out the notebook and starts writing down more notes.

"Aren't you going to eat?" I ask as I scoop more soup and eat.

She suddenly pauses, before putting the notebook on the table closed, and getting up, "Oh my, I forgot to get some for myself didn't I?" She embarrassingly asks.

I jokingly nod as the pink-haired nurse walks over to the stove, grabs another bowl, and pours herself some lamb soup. Then she walks back and takes her seat across from me.

"Hey Mabel, why don't you tell me a little about yourself. All you've talked about since you came here is your story."

I hesitate for a second, "I just don't think I've done much to talk about."

"Oh come on Mabel," She says with a surprised tone, "You've had to have done something besides search for Dipper for the past year and a half!"

I shake my head, "Nope, everyday after school I searched the forest. I didn't have much time for friends. Candy and Grenda understood why I couldn't hang out with them anymore; I hope they did at least. Grunkle Stan knew why I had to search, he did the same for his twin brother for 30 years!"

Her eyes open wide and she leans forward, "So you mean you've done nothing, but search? Did anyone ever go with you on your trips?"

I sake my head, "I preferred to search alone so that nothing would be able to distract me from finding Dipper. Now spill, who are you?"

She sits back in her chair, before sighing, "My name is Paige Joy, I was born and raised in a really far away place."

I tilt my head in curiosity.

"My old sister and mother were really overprotective of me, so I just spent my days reading, studying, and the like. I was homeschooled, and left town to go to college. I wanted to see the world outside of my region, so I decided to follow the rest of my family and go to medical school to become a nurse. And after some soul searching, abandonment by my family, and getting lost in the woods; I ended up here."

"That's it?" I say with a slightly annoyed tone.

"Umm… yes…" She whispers with a meek tone.

I look at her with a bored expression, "Friends? Did you do anything besides study and stay?"

She shakes her head in response.

*Sigh* "You remind me of Dipper. He loved to study." I take another spoonful in my mouth, and swallow the tasty soup, "If she were younger, I'd expect her to be a heavy internet user."

Nurse Joy does the same and a few moments of silence pass between us.

Then, she decides to break the silence, "So what happened next?"

I stop eating, and just stare into the bowl half-filled with vegetables and lamb chops. I let tears run down my cheeks as I grit my teeth.

"I'm sorry Mabel… We can wait- I mean you don't have to tell me yet if don't want to…" Joy stutters

"Calm down Nurse." I wipe the tears from my cheeks, "I'm crying because of what happens next."

When Anima sent that wave I thought it would be the end, but thankfully somebody had different plans.

"Gem-knight shield!" A familiar voice cried, and a pink shield with a magenta gem in the center appeared in front of me. It was surrounded by three, petal-like protrusions and a single cord covered thorns. A glowing, white boarder surrounded the entirety of the shield.

And the person holding the shield up was the boy I had been searching for.

"Dipper!" I cried, "You're alive!"

He smiled at me, "Hey Mabel, you miss me?"

I had to tears in my eyes as I got up and ran for him.

But, before I could get to him, he glowed bright white light, and engulfed me in it.

I found myself floating in a starry place, yet unlike before, Dipper was standing in front of me with joyful eyes. And h8e wasn't wearing inverted colors this time either.

"Dipper! Is it really you?!" I cried.

He nodded, and I had to stop myself from pouncing, "How do I know it's really you?"

"I was afraid you'd ask that." Dipper then snapped his fingers, and with a poof and a cloud of smoke, Dipper was in a white lamb costume with a pretty pink bow.

"Well!" he started, "Who wants a lamby, lamby, lamby?" before pointing to me,

I was stunned for a moment, but I still whispered, "I do, I do…"

"So go up and greet your mammy, mammy, mammy!"

"Hi there, hi there…" I even did a little wave as he said that.

"So march, march around the daisies!" he took large steps to mimic marching.

I gave him the biggest smile I could muster when I finished, "Don't, don't, don't you forget about the babies!"

I didn't wait for him to take off that adorable suit. When he finished the dance I pounced on him, "Dipper! It really is you! Where have you been all this time?!"

He laughed with me, "Haha, I missed you too Mabel."

Then, the bright smile I had missed for over a year turned into a serious frown, "As for where I've been, I'll tell you later, right now we have to save you."

"Save me?" I looked at him as if he were crazy, "Didn't you just save me from Anima's attack?"

He nodded, "All I could do was create a temporary shelter to protect you from her." Then he created a small orb, "In fact, it looks like she's trying to break the bubble as we speak. It won't be able to hold for long."

"Oh no!" I screamed, "What'll happen when it breaks?!"

Without missing a beat, "Without that bubble protecting you, Anima will have free reign over you. Most likely, she'll just outright kill you and do what she did to me, Ragin and Sophia."

"What did she do to you?!" Then I realized, "And how do you know Ragin and Sophia?!"

"We can answer those questions!" The knight responded. Unlike before, he was wearing golden armor with black shoulder guards. He shining armor was decorated with red crests and black plating over his arms. In the spaces within the crests were decorated with royal blue.

By his side was the girl from lake, the one who turned into the gremloblin-thing. Her once disheveled appearance was now cleaned, and I have to admit, extremely cute.

She had slightly grown, messy brunette hair with two red beads on both sides, creating slight pigtails with her short hair. She wore a simple green dress, white stockings, small brown boots and a red blanket-like hood.

"Ragin! Is that you?!"

The man nodded.

I continued, "And is that Sophia?"

He nodded again.

"So what did Anima do to you guys?"

Ragin stepped forward and kneed down in front of me, "Anima lied to you."

I looked into his eyes, "Yeah I know that, but that doesn't tell me anything about what she did to you."

But, he just seemed to ignore what I said, "She wasn't leading you to the spring willingly, she was trying to lead you to your death."

"What do you mean?"

"Anima sent you on an impossible mission so that you'd die. And when you did, she'd absorb all of your magical power to become stronger."

That's when all the pieces started falling into place for me, "In the process of stealing power, the victim's memories would be taken too."

Ragin's already serious voice got even more solemn, "And because the resulting spirit would have no memories of their past life, except for the last things they did, they would be unable to pass on. That's how a lost soul is created."

"So she took your powers, and your memories?!"

Ragin nodded, "Yet, when Dipper died she faced a problem."

Dipper cut in, "When I died, she expected another easy take, but something was hindering her."

"And what was that?" I stupidly asked.

"Our bond." He answered, "Because we were so close, and because I just couldn't let go, Anima was unable to steal all of my magical power, so instead used the little power she could get from me to call for you."

"But wouldn't the same thing have happened to Ragin?" I asked.

Dipper shook his head, "You see, though Ragin was close to Sophia, his bond wasn't able to transcend life and death itself… Sophia running away into the forest in search of her brother after Ragin disciplined him didn't help their case either."

Then the starry space shook, and a small crack appeared above me.

"We're running out of time!" Dipper screamed, "We have to defeat Anima before she kills anyone else!"

"But how? I can't fight her on my own! And you guys are only powerless spirits, so what can you do?" I nervously cried.

Dipper smiled, and the bubble shook again, "You see Mabel, when Anima used my body to put Trishula's Armor on, she released her hold over the lost souls so she could absorb all of their power."

"But even then, how will three spirits stand up to Anima when she has the power of all of the lost souls, plus Trishula?!"

Ragin came up and answered, "Because though Anima's darkness summoned the armor of Trishula, our light can summon an armor even stronger than that!"

"But how?"

For a second it seemed like Ragin was about to tell me how, but the bubble shaking and cracking made him reconsider, "Just trust us." Ragin assured, "We know a way. Will you fight Anima? The fate of you, Gravity Falls, and possibly the world hangs in the balance."

I sighed, "I guess it's either fight Anima, or die and give her more power. I'll fight her."

"Then it's settled." Dipper said, before snapping his fingers.

In an instant I found myself floating above the murky spring water.

Dipper, Ragin and Sophia were standing in a triangle around me. Ragin pulled out his sword and buried it in the ground in front of him, while Dipper and Sophia extended their arms out.

Then Dipper cried, "With the power of light, we call upon the power of the stars, ancient forces near and far! Sophia, goddess of rebirth! We ask you to grant this girl your power so that she may defeat the darkness that lies in front of her!"

Ragin continued, "Clean the waters of this sacred spring, and use its magic and light to build the most powerful armor ever created!"

And Sophia finished, "Activate the sacred cycle and grant Mabel the power of light! So that she may be reborn as a warrior capable of defeating darkness!"

Then together the three commanded, "Sophia! Release and dispel!"

Hundreds of golden orbs appeared around us, and a golden diamond appeared in front of me.

"Take it in your hands Mabel!" Dipper yelled. I looked at him and nodded, before taking the majestic diamond in my hands.

In an instant, the once murky spring water under my feet purified, as the golden diamond's glow engulfed me yellow light.

"Good luck Mabel!" Dipper yelled as I shut my eyes.

And when I open them again. I'm no longer wearing my torn clothes.

Instead, I'm wearing a long, majestic magenta dress with dark pink skirt by my knees; it's decorated with flame-like markings. Another one of those weird purple and gold mirrors is around my waist like a buckle securing a seashell like skirt to it. I had two majestically crafted mirrors put together for a slightly revealing bra. On my head was a winged helmet that was orange on top and red on the bottom.

On my arms were light blue tattoos. My right hand was entirely purple after the tattoos, and had a purple and white core floating above it, while my left hand was entirely yellow and had a yellow orb with a black core above it.

On my back were transparent wings made entirely of light. Both started out as small colored stubs, before curving off. And both had triangular feathers floating near them. Though, the wing on my right was purple, while the one on my left was yellow.

And though the dress only reached my knees, and though my shins and feet were exposed, I felt warm, and ready to fight.

I floated in awe for a moment, and all Anima could do was step back in shock for a moment, before defiantly yelling, "Grr! How you received Sophia's blessing, I do not know. But I will not let you stop me from having my vengeance on humanity!"

Then she pulled out her sword and lunged for me.

I gritted my teeth and concentrated, before defiantly answering, "Thank you for helping me, and for that, I shall redeem you Anima!"

Then I concentrated, and the two orbs in my hands started to glow.

"1-12-12 20-8-1-20 9-19 7-15-12-4 4-15-5-19 14-15-20 7-12-9-20-20-5-18." ~20-15-12-11-9-5-14.

"13-25 14-1-13-5 9-19 13-1-2-5-12 16-9-14-5-19, 1-14-4 9 19-8-1-12-12 18-5-4-5-5-13 1-14-9-13-1!"

A/N Hey guys, it looks like something crazy is going to happen next chapter. I hope you liked this chapter, despite the reception last chapter got.

R&R as always

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