This isn't the chapter I had planned to post next, and I know I promised blood, but someone asked for this and it was the perfect transition between the last chapter, and the next one.
Bill tossed and turned, his mind in turmoil. Dipper had yet to wake up, but that wasn't gona last long.
Ben Crypto towered over Bill in his nightmare.
"Well, well, well," he said; his voice grated on Bill's ears. "Looks like someone has found a friend in a human meat bag." The demons behind Ben, ones Bill used to call friends, the ones who had turned him human, laughed like it was the most hilarious thing in the world.
"You better not hurt him!" Bill yelled, trying to be brave, but despite his experience with the ancient being, he couldn't help but tremble under the angry piercing stare the older dream demon was giving him.
He might have been braver last time, but Ben wasn't really angry then.
"Hurt him?" Ben mused as if considering it for the first time. "Maybe latter, but for now," Ben Crypto snapped is fingers, and the line of blood thirsty demons advanced.
"They didn't get their chance to cause enough pain when your weirdmageddon plan backfired with the appearance of the time baby," Ben explained. "I showed them your hiding place, but they were over eager to employ my plan and turned you human before they could really get their revenge."
Bill frantically looked for a way out. He thought of everything he knew about Ben Crypto. He had been around for longer than Bill, in fact, he had created Bill to have someone to 'do his dirty work.' That was the reason he always gave Bill anyway; that self-absorbed pentagram would never admit he was lonely being the only dream demon this side of the multiverse.
Ben Crypto had been called many things through out human history, including Aedus, meaning fire, and Mortem, meaning death. Ben was just his current title, he changes them depending on his personal preference.
"Ben, stop this now!" Bill demanded, holding back the tremble in his voice.
"Oh Cipher, I would love to," Ben lied through his teeth, if he had any that is. "But I'm doing this for your own good." Bill changed tactics.
"Come on 8-Ball, Xanthar, Teeth, Keyhole, Anamorphous Shape, Pyronica, Pacifier, we were friends once before, what's stopping us now?" he nearly begged.
"Sorry Cipher," Teeth said. "But you're not our leader anymore."
"Yeah, we've got Crypto to lead us now," 8-Ball agreed. One by one the other demons agreed with this line of thinking.
"Good boys," Ben said, clapping his hands once. "Now get him," he said with utter calm in his voice pointing a finger at the condemned Bill.
"Bill! Bill wake up!" Dipper frantically shook the thrashing blond. His arms where flailing wildly, and he was crying out in pain despite still being asleep.
Mabel was scared, holding her pillow to her ears to block out his cries. Dipper could hear the stairs creaking as Ford and Stan rushed to see what was wrong.
Dipper tried to pin Bill's arms to his side, but only managed to get back handed in the eye. He knew Bill didn't mean it, but it still stung.
"What's going on?!" Ford yelled.
"Bill won't wake up!" Dipper said, one eye starting to blacken while both started to water.
"Stan, help Dipper hold him down!" Ford ordered. Without questioning his twin, Stan did as he was told. Together, the two managed to get Bill to stop thrashing. Ford pulled out a small flashlight. He opened Bill's eyes and shined the light in them.
"I think he is being forced to stay asleep by another dream demon," Ford said sadly.
"There are more of them!?" Dipper asked, not wanting to believe it.
"I've never encountered them, but I have heard they might exist," Ford explained. "I'm gona try to wake him up. Don't let go of him!"
Ford grabbed both sides of Bill's head and located his temples. (Don't try this at home.) With a firm, sharp strike, he hit the center of both with his thumbs.
Bill's eyes flew open, his whole body shaking in pain. Ford and Stan sunk to the floor in relief.
Dipper looked into his friend's eyes where all he could see was fear; fear of what, he didn't know. Slowly, recognition fill his face and he latched onto Dipper's neck, holding tightly and sobbing into his shoulder.
Dipper hugged him to his chest, whispering calming nothings. Stan, Ford, and Mabel left the two alone.
"They tried to kill me, they want to kill you," Bill blathered. Dipper had no idea what he was talking about. He just held him and slowly rubbed his back in what he hopped was a comforting way.
"They attacked me. Ben is gona try to hurt you," Bill mumbled.
"It's okay, nothing is going to happen to me," Dipper really hopped that wasn't a lie.
It was a long time before the once-demon calmed down enough to explain. But by then, Dipper insisted he didn't want to hear it until morning. So, holding the blond to his chest. The two lay back down and slept uneasily until dawn.
Do you like how I cheated an used every suggestion for Crypto's first name? I couldn't pick one, but when I wrote Crypto I was imagining a more modern name like Bill's, so that is why Ben won out as his current name. Leave a review and tell me if you liked it or if you have a chapter you want to see.