Chapter 41
I've Gotten What I Wanted
It had all gone completely according to plan. Sure, there had been a few bumps in the road, but Bill had easily ironed them out. Everything was in place and his plan had worked. He had to admit he was pretty proud of himself.
Bill looked out at the nightmare he had created in this world, in what had once been Gravity Falls. It was marvelous, and it was his. After so many years... I'm finally free of that wretched place. He had been plotting a plan to escape from the Nightmare Realm for more years than he could remember, and it had finally proven worth it.
He found himself laughing about the whole thing as he relaxed inside the Fearamid, watched his friends party around him. There were those who weren't able to attend such a brilliant celebration. Well, they probably were able, but it was just that Bill wouldn't let them attend. Of course all of the demons had the ability to come to this realm now, so that meant his friends, and the ones that had deserted him.
And they'd done exactly what he'd expected off them, they came crawling back to him. Saying they were sorry or that they'd made a mistake. But really, how dumb did they think he was? Did they honestly believe he would let them benefit from this? No. So he'd cast them out, told them to try and have fun without him, without the power he'd acquired. They were probably roaming around the town somewhere, but Bill didn't care what they did, as long as it didn't involve him in any way. Demons that he hadn't bothered to try and get to know came to him, some that he hadn't even seen before. He had nothing against them, so he allowed them to join in the party with his loyal friends. As long, of course, as they didn't try to do anything to bring Bill down from his throne.
Though there was one who Bill hadn't had the pleasure to see again. Astaroth. The one demon who had been the biggest annoyance to him in his plan, as at some point along the way the guy had found out about Bill's plan, and had intended on doing it before him. But what a clueless one he was. Bill was the smarter of the two, he doubted Astaroth could even count to a hundred. He was all brute strength and no brain. Where as Bill was all brain, and now all brawn. There was almost nothing he couldn't do. Maybe he had realised that for once, maybe that was the reason Bill hadn't seen him. He had no doubt that Astaroth was in the town somewhere, but if he was smart he'd stay away from Bill as much as he could. Because Bill was sure he'd be the only one to enjoy the meeting.
It had been three days now since Weirdmageddon, as he called it, started. What residence of the town that still remained were in hiding, the ones that Bill had found had been frozen to stone by the large eye-bats that had come from the Nightmare Realm with him and the others. And they were now working for Bill, collecting all the humans they could find and stacking them into a throne for Bill. Maybe to someone else it would be disturbing, but for Bill it was hilarious.
Bill thought as he sat on his throne, working his way through the a list of potential threats to his plan. So first was his little Pine Tree or Alcor, as he guessed he could keep calling him. He's completely out of the picture, there's nothing to worry about it. The kid was the biggest, if not the only threat to Bill's plans. He was an element that Bill couldn't predict, even with all the time he had spent monitoring him. It was almost a pity that he couldn't convince him to join Bill, he would have been an interesting friend. But he was too blinded by his humanity. Too blinded by the love for his family, and most of all his sister. Was Alcor that naive that he thought he could keep going on like that? Like when he was human? And if the kid actually thought their might be a way to reverse the effects of their broken deal, then he was even more naive than Bill thought.
But now he didn't need to worry about any of that, as he didn't have a possibility of ruin anything for Bill after what he'd done. He was quite proud of himself for what he'd been able to do, for what he'd been able to do to the boy. Bill looked to the side for a second, another laugh forming. Little Pine Tree can't escape from where I have him. Because who can escape from somewhere they don't want to escape from?
Apart from him, there was of course Shooting Star, but Bill didn't need to worry. Without her brother, she was useless. There wasn't a thing she could do without him. When he had been done with Pine Tree, he had left her to start things up with the whole oddpocalypse, so he wasn't sure where she was now. None of the eye-bats had turned up with a statue shaped like her, so she was still out there someone. But Bill didn't have a care for her, what harm could she possibly do?
And then there was Stanford Filbrick Pines. Bill was almost sad that he hadn't had a chance to have a proper reunion before the end of the world, he would have liked to have a chat, or see what he'd been up to in the last thirty years. But sadly you can't always have what you want. The man was someone that Bill had known well, but not much after he'd betrayed him. But from what Pine Tree had said, the man wasn't the most friendly person out there, those years had changed him quite a bit.
Bill had actually found the man on the first day of Weirdmageddon, or maybe he'd found Bill. It was kind of complicated. He'd been talking to his loyal friends at the time, when a shot of pure energy hit his hat, burning a hole right through. It had caught him of guard, so before he'd turned around who ever had fired had gone. Not that he needed to see their face to know who had tried the attack. The only person with the ability to make something powerful enough to harm Bill was Sixer, after all, he'd used something just like it to harm Alcor a bit back, with the same effects.
But with a device of that power, Bill doubted it would be operational again for a while, so Bill was sure he didn't need to worry about the old man. All he had was his hate, and nothing else. He was almost as useless as Shooting Star and this point. But, for the use he had been in all this, if Bill ever found him again, he was sure to turn him into a nice gold back scratcher as a reward.
Things wouldn't get much better for Bill, all he needed now was to take all of this worldwide, which would all come in due time once they were ready.
Dipper was swimming in darkness, though his consciousness was still intact. That was what was scary about this whole thing. it was times like this that he wished that he could drift away into the unconsciousness that he had once had. He wished he didn't have to cope through all this, wishing that he didn't have to think about all this, and instead have sweet, sweet dreams. But then, he was almost certain he'd have nightmares instead. Maybe that was the only upside to all this.
I wish... things could go right for me for once. I wish I could forget this living nightmare never happened. I wish that I could just be human again.
Dipper was woken up by the sound of birds chirping, that sweet sound of them singing their song. His eyes were heavy, but in the best way. The way that showed you had a great nights sleep. His eyes were slightly blurry as he stretched, trying to wake himself up. He looked to the side, noticing that Mabel wasn't in bed, but it looked a lot like Mabel had been there recently, as the sheets were almost the whole way off the bed. He couldn't help smiling at that.
He got out of bed and got dressed, slipping on his vest over his shirt. To top it off once his shorts and shoes were on, he put on his signature hat. He didn't know quite way, but he just felt so happy. Maybe he'd just had a nice dream? He jogged out of the room to the bathroom, the smile large and evident on his face. He looked in the mirror, as he brushed his teeth, seeing as his chestnut eyes sparkled slightly as the light reflected off them.
When he was done freshening up, he walked down the stairs, not even noticing himself humming Disco Girl. He found Mabel eating breakfast, but she had notice him first. "Dipper, you're up!" She had a smile on her face just like him. "You slept sooo deeply today, I was considering jumping on you, but you must have needed your sleep."
Dipper found himself laughing as he got himself a bowl, putting some cereal and milk in it. "I guess I did, I feel a lot more awake than usual. I guess I didn't have anything to worry about to keep me up."
"I hope you had some good dreams, you never seem to have any these days." Mabel giggled, slurping up the remainder of her milk and cereal, just as Waddles climbed onto the space next to her and she hugged him, lifting him up for Dipper to see. "And see? Waddles is happy too!"
He laughed slightly as he stated to eat his lunch, wondering what the day had for him. Maybe discover something new about the journal? Or just have a day of fun? There was just so much create stuff that he and Mabel could do today. He felt so free, like he had nothing more to worry about. Nothing that he had that could bring him down.
"Mabel, were you planning on doing anything today?"
She thought for a second as she hugged her pig. "Not really, did you have anything in mind?"
"Well, there's still so much in the journal we haven't found yet." He quickly finished his breakfast, before getting out the journal. "Here, you see if there's anything you'd like to see." He pushed it over to her, and she started to flick through. "Hmm... Ohh! How about the fairies? We only got to see one before Soos... Well... splatted it. I bet theres a whole town of fairies in the woods or something! Can we do that? Pleaseeeee?"
Another day, Dipper might have turned her down for it being too girly, but he just felt too happy to care about doing anything else. He just wanted to spend some time with her, and just be himself. So they could just be who they were.
"Fine, I guess we could... If you can catch me!" Dipper then snatched the book back off of her, and bolted out the kitchen, laughing happy as he heard her giggling as she ran after him. He had a feeling that today was going to be a great day.
So, it must seem weird hearing from me after a weak of silence, huh? Well, be lucky I got a chapter out! Ha ha, I was so wrapped up in all the awesome presents I got for Christmas. Well... Mostly just one, a gaming laptop I technically payed for myself. ;) I could finally play Skyrim and Minecraft, after a looooong time. But of course I also got the Gravity Falls game, which was amazing! The dialogue was on par with the show, making me laugh with every joke and reference to the show.
Well, of course I also got a drawing tablet, so I can finally get the most out of my devaintart, so expect some fanart there for this story, and the actual show. As well as some work I'm doing for someone else as well (which I must say is coming along great if I do say so myself... I think I've done the line art for it, so if you want to have a look at it, give me a yell, you know who you are.)
Oh, and before I forget, the story hit 50,000 views this week! I can't believe it's actually got this large a story, after all the work I put in. I really want to make a sort of tribute video once this is all over, but I'm not too sure what it would be yet...
So this all you'll get from me this week, haha ;) I hope you liked the chapter, and are excited for more next week!
