Chapter Notes
Disclaimers: I do not Own Gravity Falls.
Author's Notes:
Bill: (Rolls his eye) Well it's about time you listened to someone's advice and focused more on the changes.
Me: Don't make me get out my dream catcher!
Bill:(gets all big, red, and scary) Bring out that little fly swatter and I will turn you into stone!
Me: (gulps) I mean here's the next chapter where Dipper struggles to choose between his uncle and Bill
Bill: That's what I thought-
Me: And choses Ford over him because he's a lying cheeps cape that never loved him!
Bill: THAT'S IT!
(Flashback to The Last Mabelcorn)
"Alright, Gruncle Stan's got to have some decent board games." Dipper says as he and his sister Mabel, look threw a random closet which contains some stray items and board games.
"Let's see, Battlechutes & Ladderships, Necronomiconopoly, Don't Wake Stalin..." Mabel said reading the labels of various games
Dipper picks up a game, "Hey, what's this?" He reads the cover. "What Could Go Wrong: The Board Game. The last players who opened this box never made it out alive."
"Well, I know what we're doing today." Mabel joked.
"This should take up the next 21 minutes." Dipper said cutting her off.
"Family meeting! Family meeting!"
Dipper and Mabel froze as they hear their uncle Ford calling out from the kitchen. They shrug and decide to check it out.
Ford gathers several scrolls and a bag on to the kitchen table as Mabel and Dipper walk in Ford turns around and notices the two, "Ah, children. Come in, come in!" he assures them.
Mabel takes a seat and looks at a bag on the table, gasping. "Ooh, mysterious scrolls and potions! Are you going to tell us we're finally of age to go to wizard school?" She opens the bag happily. "Is there an owl in this bag?"
Ford snatches the bag away. "No! I can assure you if there's an owl in this bag, he's long dead."
Dipper gave his uncle a weird look, but sits down.
"Now, children, do either of you recognize this symbol?" Ford asked and holds up a scroll emblazoned with the image of Bill Cipher and several hieroglyphs.
Dipper and Mabel gasp.
"Bill…" Dipper whispered.
"You... you know him?" Ford looks at him in disbelief.
Dipper bites his lip. 'What should I say? Yeah I know him and we're dating! Mabel would kill me!'
'And what about Bill?' His conscience asked. Sure Dipper knew him and Ford cross paths at least once. Since Ford had wrote about him in his journal, and Ford wrote warning about not trusting the demon.
But Dipper never bothered to ask Bill how they met, or what he did to lose his uncle's trust.
"Know him? He's been terrorizing us all summer!" Mabel shouted.
"Dipper?" Ford asked looking to his nephew with a look of worry on his face.
Mabel cut in. "You'll have to excuse him; Dipper's been pretty paranoid since Bill turned him into a living sock puppet."
Dipper nodded his throat suddenly feels dry.
"The important thing is we defeated him twice." Mabel continued. "Once with kittens and once with tickles!"
Ford gives her a weird look.
"It was a lot more heroic than it sounds." She assured him.
"The fact that you've dealt with Bill is gravely serious." Ford whispered gravely.
'I have to find out what this is about.' Dipper thought.
'Why so you can go warn Bill!' his inner voice challenged.
Dipper ignored it and stuttered. "S-s-s-So, how do you know Bill?"
"I've encountered many dark beings in my time, Dipper." Ford answered. "What matters is that his powers are growing stronger, and if he pulls off his plans, no one in this family will be safe!"
Mabel gasps.
'No not Bill' Dipper thought. 'He's changed!'
'Has he really?'
Dipper bit his lip; he had never questioned Bill before, but now…
"Fortunately, there should be a way to shield us from his mental tricks. A way to Bill-proof the Shack." Ford continued and draws on a map of the shack. "All I have to do is place moonstones here, here, and here, sprinkle some mercury, let's see... I always forget the last ingredient!" He takes out Journal 1 and flips through it. "Ugh, unicorn hair."
"That's not, like, rare, is it?" Dipper asked hopefully.
'Maybe if you tell Ford that he's change-'
'He'd never listen to you, just look at Gruncle Stan, Ford still won't forgive him!'
'Well if you don't do something you'll never see Bill again!'
"It's hopeless." Ford says looking helpless. "Unicorns reside deep within an enchanted glade, and their hairs can only be obtained by a pure good-hearted person who goes on a magical quest to find them."
Mabel screams. "Gruncle Ford, can I please go on this quest? I am literally obsessed with unicorns! My first word was "unicorn," I once made my own unicorn by taping a traffic cone to a horse's head. Are you even looking at the sweater I'm wearing right now?!" she gestures to her unicorn sweater. "Not to mention that I'm probably the most pure of heart person in this room."
"That's true, she has a point."
"I can't argue there." Dipper mumbled halfheartedly.
"So can I go on a mission to get that hair?" Mabel begged. "Please, please, please? I'LL GIVE YOU MY BLOOD!"
Ford sighed. "Very well, but it won't be easy; take this." He gives Mabel Journal #1and a crossbow. "And this."
"Oooh!" Mabel exclaims.
"I haven't been in this dimension for a while. It's okay to give children weapons, right?" Ford says looking unsure.
"Pssh, come on, dawg." Mabel scoffs, and accidently fires the crossbow through the window, setting off Stan's car alarm!
"AH! IT'S THE COPS! GUN IT!" Stan screams from somewhere outside.
Mabel pulls out her phone: "Candy, Grenda, Wendy, clear the afternoon!" She screams as she runs out of the room.
Dipper watches her go, his heart sinking. "So, what are the odds she gets that hair?" he asked hopefully.
"Unlikely. I've dealt with unicorns before, and if I had to describe them in one word it would be... frustrating." Ford shook his head.
Dipper sighed in relief without the unicorn hair he, and Bill could still see each other.
"So If we can't Bill-proof the Shack, we're going to have to do the next best thing." Ford cut in. "We're gonna have to Bill-proof our minds." Ford said as he began to lead the way into the secret basement.
A lump formed into Dipper's throat as he followed Ford, he wanted to protect Bill from these faults acquisitions, but…
'Is it really lies?' he asked himself. 'Can you be 100 percent sure that Bill has changed?'
'No'
Dipper's heart sunk with dread.
'He practically admitted to you that he still has plans, and whatever they are it's bad. Why else would Ford be worried.'
'He said he wouldn't hurt me…' Dipper argued with his reasoning.
'That doesn't mean he won't hurt everyone else. You know what he's capable of!'
'He promised me!'
'And if he lied to you?
'HE DIDN'T!'
'Let's say you're wrong; Are you ready to risk it all?'
"Dipper are you coming?" Ford asked interrupting his thoughts.
Dipper looked into his uncle's eyes for any sign of doubt, but there was only strict determination and…'He's afraid, he knows something, and whatever it is its bad.' He reasoned with himself. 'You have to help him; who know who else could be at risk.'
'He wouldn't-' Dipper tried to reason.
'He would and you know it, he's a demon: it's what they do! And you're a hero, and you have to stop monsters like Bill…it's what you do!'
"Dipper?" Ford looked worried. "It's okay to be scared, I am too!" he assured him. "Just take my hand, together we can stop Bill." Ford reached his hand out towards him.
'Don't take it!' Dipper bit his lip.
'This is what you do...'
Dipper stepped forward. 'I'm sorry Bill.'
And with that final thought he reached out and grabbed Ford's hand.
(End of Flashback)
Chapter End Notes
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