Author's Note: We're close, guys, really close… in fact, this may just be the final chapter! Or… not… I actually am not sure. Either way, I hope this chapter doesn't disappoint! Thank you!

Dipper reached for a sword from the pile if riches he had slid down, and balanced it with a smile. Years on the streets were good for learning how to handle a weapon. He swung the sword and struck Gideon, causing a decent gash.

"Rule them! Rock them! Rack them! Rake! Stick that sword into that snake!" Mabel shouted, dressed as a cheerleader and waving pom-poms.

"Sssstay out of thisssss!" Gideon hissed at Mabel, who pulled out a tiny, flimsy pennant with a G on it, and waved it tiredly.

"Gideon, Gideon, he's our man, if he can't do it, GREAT!" Mabel deadpanned.

Dipper used the distraction to hit Gideon again, and this time, he stabbed deeply. Gideon howled in agony.

"Now you will be sssssorry!" Gideon hissed, wrapping around Dipper, trapping him. "You really thought you could defeat me? Face it, kid, you're nothing without that Journal!"

Dipper smiled. "Wait a second… you know, Mabel has way more power than you'll ever have!" Dipper told him.

"What?" Gideon asked, furiously.

"She gave you your power, and she can take it away!" Dipper taunted. "Doesn't that upset you?"

"Dipper, what the heck are you doing? Leave me out of this!" Mabel said sounding highly concerned.

"I think you're the one who should face the music. You're always only going to be second best!" Dipper gave the final dig.

"You're right," Gideon said softly. "Her power does exceed mine… but not for long!" he twisted towards Mabel, who shrunk back, looking… not pleased.

"Naw, you're powerful! Dipper's just crazy," Mabel said, sounding very afraid now.

"Mabel! I make my third wish! I wish to be an all-powerful genie!" Gideon grinned.

"Great. And this, people, is why I will never understand why everyone thinks he's so smart," Mabel muttered, zapping Gideon. At that moment, Pacifica finally managed to break out of the hourglass, and ran to where Dipper lay, unmoving, from where Gideon had dropped him.

"YES!" Gideon cried. "THE POWER! THE ABOSOLUTE POWER!"

"Dipper," Pacifica whispered. "What did you just do?" she looked at Gideon, and Mabel, and suddenly saw something. "Oh my god…"

"THE UNIVERSE IS MINE TO COMMAND, MINE TO CONTROL!" Gideon yelled.

"Wait a sec, Gideon, I think you've forgotten something!" Pacifica shouted up to him, holding something in her hands… something that had appeared at Gideon's feet…

"What?" Gideon asked.

"Hmm… how's this?" Pacifica held up the black lantern in her hands. Black shackles appeared on Gideon's wrists. "You wanted to be a genie? This is the price!" Pacifica told him.

"No…NO!" Gideon shouted as he was pulled into the lantern.

"So I guess he was smart after all…" Mabel said quietly.

"Was?" Pacifica looked at Mabel.

"I…" Mabel's eyes filled with tears. "Look."

Dipper hadn't moved an inch since Gideon dropped him. He lay on the ground, like a marionette that's strings had been cut. Pacifica ran to him, and lifted his head.

"No…" Pacifica whispered. "I…"

She felt his wrist for a pulse, and stopped breathing for a moment…

"Nothing," she whispered brokenly.

"Is he…?" Mabel asked.

"I think…"

"Wanna know what I think?" a voice came from above them, and in a flash of golden light, Bill Cipher came down. "I think that we can cut a deal…"

Dipper woke up to see Pacifica's face staring hopefully down into his own. "Hey, Princess," he said scratchily.

"Dipper!" she hugged him tightly.

"How am I alive?" Dipper asked her. "I must have fallen thirty feet…"

"Well, you see, um…" Pacifica said, nervously. "We may or may not have made a deal with a demon to save you."

"Don't worry, Pine Tree," Bill said, entering the room. "I basically just asked out a girl…"

"Me!" Mabel said, ecstatically. Then she looked at Dipper. "Um… you know, there's something…"

"Yeah?" Dipper asked, standing up.

"Um… I… The day before yesterday, I found out your real name," Mabel said quietly. "Well… you're kind of… my brother."

Dipper looked at her. "I know," he said with a smile.

"What? How?" Mabel asked.

"I blocked off that whole part of my life," Dipper explained. "I must have started remembering you a few days ago, because I used your name… and when I died… well, I saw everything I'd forgotten."

Then he turned to Pacifica. "I'm sorry I lied to you."

"I already told you I don't care. You didn't lie to me anyway, you really were a prince at the time," Pacifica said. "I don't enjoy being lied to, but I love you… I forgive you…"

"But this is goodbye anyway," Dipper said sadly. "I'm just a street rat again."

"I can fix that," Mabel offered. "You still have one wish left."

"I made a promise," Dipper said. "I love you, Pacifica, but…"

"I know," she said sadly. Dipper opened the Journal and turned to his twin sister.

"Mabel, I wish you were free," he said quietly.

Her bonds all snapped at once. In a flash of light, she transformed…

When the light faded, a teen girl with long dark hair and big brown eyes wearing all pink with a shooting star mark across her top stood before them, glowing softly.

"I… I'm myself again," Mabel smiled, and hugged her brother tightly. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Dipper smiled sadly at her. "Any time," he said.

"Hey," Mabel said. "Look at me."

Dipper complied.

"No matter what, bro-bro, you're always going to be a prince. Well, to me at least," she told him.

"Truth," Dipper sighed, and hugged her tightly.

Pacifica suddenly got very ticked off, and marched into the next room. "Daddy, this isn't fair!" she said.

"You're right," her father said. "Life rarely is."

"Can't you do something about it?" she asked.

"I… I could…"

"Please, Daddy, please!" Pacifica begged.

"…I suppose he did save us," the Sultan sighed, and came onto the balcony. "Alright. From now on, the Princess can marry whoever has proven himself worthy," he declared. "I suppose saving the kingdom from a psychopathic sorcerer counts."

Dipper looked up, shocked and hopeful. "Wait, really?" The Sultan nodded.

"So…?" Pacifica asked.

"Yeah?" Dipper turned to her, beaming.

"Wanna get married?" she asked.

"Yes," Dipper agreed. "One-hundred-per-cent yes."

The two were inching closer…

"Okay, group hug!" Mabel shouted happily, pulling everyone tightly together, and then flying off on Waddles, arm-in-arm with Bill. The Sultan raised his eyebrows, and left, and Soos followed him.

"Exit: light," Dipper sang quietly to Pacifica.

"Enter: night," she sang back.

"Take my hand," they harmonized.

"WE'RE OFF TO NEVER-NEVER LAND!"

THE END