~ 3rd Person ~
Our Story Starts In The Middle Of A Heated Argument Between Our Hereos: Dipper And Mabel Pines. For Context, They're Sixteen And Still Living In The Same Attic Space They Have All Summer Long.
Dipper Is Now Taller Than Mabel By About A Foot And A Half, Making Him Intimidating To Her When Angry.
"You were never there for me when I needed you! You're SELFISH," Dipper yelled as he pointed a finger at her chest. Mabel, with tears streaming down her face, groaned in frustration. "We were twelve, Dipper! Why are you still mad at me? I didn't know I was hurting you," Mabel retorted trying not to yell at her brother now pacing the room, fingers tangled in his hair.
Dipper stopped dead in his tracks, pulled his hands from his hair, and slowly turned to his sister, dumbfounded.
"You didn't know??" He screamed "how could you not grasp that maybe, just MAYBE, I was hurting??" He pointed to himself.
Mabel sunk to her knees sobbing, "I'm sorry, Dipper! I really didn't know.."
He scoffed at this and turned to leave.
Mabel cried out, "where are you going??"
He stopped, turned his head to give her a sideways glance, and bluntly stated, "why should you care."
"Because you're my brother! I care about you!" She responded.
"Sure you do" he mumbled.
Engulfed in rage, Mabel screamed at the top of her lungs, "JUST GO THEN. I DON'T CARE ANYMORE. Just..GO!"
Taken aback, he stared at her for a moment, wide-eyed. Dipper snapped back into reality and put a hurt, but angry expression back on his face.
He turned and left the room, slamming the door behind him.
Realizing what she just did, she ran after her brother once the full extent of what she did sunk in.
Dipper opened the front door, exiting the shack and walking onto the porch.
Mabel, running behind him, yelled, "Dipper wait! Please, I'm sorry.. let's talk.."
"I don't want to talk."
And with that, he left, leaving a sobbing Mabel in the doorway.
Mabel watched as her brother stormed into the forest.
She walked out onto the porch and sat on the couch.
After a while, she seemingly dozed off.
As for her brother, he walked through the forest all the way to his favorite clearing. He sat against the base of a large oak tree.
He pulled his knees to his chest and buried his face into his hands, wishing he hadn't snapped at Mabel.
He realized his heart was racing.
He controlled his breathing and just sat there, contemplating his next actions carefully.
Dipper heard an all too familiar cackle.
His head snapped up and saw a tall, blonde man floating towards him.
Dipper's mind was racing.
"Ho- we- who.?"
The man stuck his hand up stopping Dipper from talking.
He laughed again.
"Pine Tree! It's been far too long!"
"B-Bill??" He managed to slip out.
The man laughed, "in the flesh! How do you like my new look, Pine Tree?"
Dipper stared up at him.
He managed to drag out, "H-how are you back? W-we defeated you!"
"You really thought I'd be gone for good?" He laughed. "Pine Tree, did you really think that stone could hold me forever?"
After a moment of a terrified Dipper just staring up at Bill, the brunette spoke.
"What do you want with me, Bill."
The dream demon looked down at Dipper, a creepy grin forming on his face. "Nothing you can stop." He laughed for a long moment before wiping fake tears from his eye.
"Okay. Serious now." Bill said fixing the gold tuxedo he was wearing.
With a snap of the demon's fingers, blue shackles latched onto Dipper's wrists.
The brown haired boy winced in pain as the shackles were tight around his wrists.
"Oh come on, Pine Tree! You didn't think that would hurt? I'm not here to play nice, you know."
With another snap of his fingers, Dipper was out cold. A blue cage formed around the boy.
Bill glided above the trees, the cage following him as he flew through the air.
He flew all the way back to the Shack to find a sleeping Mabel on the porch.
Bill landed in front of the porch, the cage right after.
The dream demon created a door on a cage wall and opened it.
He grabbed the hat off of Dipper's head, making his hair flop in front of one of his eyes.
Bill slammed the cage door shut with a loud BANG!
The door faded into nothing as it became a wall again, trapping the unconscious boy in once more.
Mabel awoke at once to the sound of the door slamming.
She jumped up and it took a second to realize where she was.
Once rubbing her eyes and stretching, she looked up to find Bill, and her brother locked away unconscious.
Bill, after laughing at Mabel's reaction to seeing her helpless brother, said, "I want you to get your uncles, Shooting Star. I want them to see this pathetic thing." He laughed at his own joke of calling Dipper a 'pathetic thing'.
Mabel ran inside yelling for her twin Grunkles.
Ford was the first one outside, followed by a concerned Stan and a sobbing Mabel.
The men looked in horror as they seen Dipper's state of living.
Bill laughed an awful cackle at their reactions.
"I just wanted you to have one last look at your Pine Tree before his untimely demise!"
The color drained from their faces.
"What kind of deal did you two make!?" Ford spat out, still in disbelief.
"'Deal'?" Bill repeated. "Oh!" He giggled, "there was no deal. I don't have to make deals to kill people Sixer. You know that as good as anyone!" He laughed once more.
"Take me instead! Don't hurt him!!" Mabel cried out.
Bill looked at her and grinned. "You aren't part of the plan Shooting Star! Pine Tree is a threat to my power and has to be stopped. But thanks to you kid, you made my job of getting him alone much easier!" He laughed at her face as the rest of the color drained from it as she remembered her brother storming out on her after he screamed for him to leave.
Bill snapped his fingers.
Slowly, Dipper woke up. He winced in pain as he looked down at his wrists seeing shackles bound tightly around them. He looked around him as Bill watched the family watch Dipper slowly realize what had happened to him.
The boy stood up and looked at his family in fear as he came to the conclusion there was no getting out of this.
"Bill let me go!" He screamed as he used the shackles to bang on the bars that made up the walls of the cage.
Bill slowly turned to him as grinned. He brought up his fingers and snapped them just as Dipper screamed, "WAIT!"
Dipper fell to the bottom of the cage unconscious. Mabel screamed in horror as she watched her brother fall.
Ford started towards Bill reaching for something inside his trench coat.
Bill backed up and stuck a finger up.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Sixer." He laughed, "might hurt the boy," he taunted.
A knife was brought up to the boys throat as he was lifted to his knees
Ford backed away.
"There you go," Bill sneered.
Stan, who had been oddly silent, started for Bill.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" Bill taunted.
Mabel yelled for her uncle to come back.
Stan was persistent in his now sprint towards Bill.
Stan yelled a battle cry and made a lunge for the demon.
Bill stopped Stan by in casing him in a blue aura.
With a blink of the demon's eye, Stan was thrown to the ground.
"Tut-tut Pines. Your actions will not reflect well for Pine Tree," he said playfully.
Mabel pleaded, "please don't hurt him! He didn't do anything wrong! Why are you dong this!?"
Bill pulled the sobbing girl towards him and placed Dipper's blue and white hat gingerly on her head.
"He won't be needing this thing anymore. Hope you like it!"
With that, he floated into the air and allowed the knife at Dipper's throat to disappear. He slumped over in the cage as it started to rise next to Bill.
Ford looked down deep in thought and sprung his head up.
"Take me instead, Bill!"
Bill looked at the confident Ford and then at the shocked family. The demon put his index finger a thumb to his face and stroked his chin, seemingly deep in thought.
"Hmm... no thanks! You aren't fun anymore, Sixer."
"What do you want from him!?" Mabel cried out.
Bill looked at the disheveled Mabel and grinned a wicked grin.
"Why should you care?"
Mabel's heart dropped as the demon laughed at her reaction.
"Well, this was fun! Cya around Pines!"
Bill turned and started towards the forest.
The cage glided after him.
The Pines family watched as Dipper was taken away from them.
Bill summoned a large, solid gold pyramid about half a mile from the Mystery Shack.
The demon turned and smiled one last time at the shocked family.
He turned back towards the pyramid and flew to it, the cage closely behind.