Chapter 29

Season's Greetings

Rei and Henry Conan are still lip locked and then they hear a noise. Rei recognizes that noise and has a small look of distain and then a smile.

Rei/Sailor Mars says, "I know that oncoming cheer."

Henry Conan then moves back and says, "Yeah so do I."

Both come apart and Rei sees Sailor Moon running to her in that giddy cheer toward her. Rei/Sailor Mars embraces barely keeps her balance as Sailor Moon almost tackles her but hugs her in joy. Henry Conan sees the sight and has a smile on his face and then suddenly he doesn't see it but she then pulls him in and has her hand around in a hug and Henry Conan is a little surprise by this and gives her a gentle pat on the back.

Dipper he then walks up and has a smile, and then soon some of the rest of the Inner Senchi Mercury, Venus, and Makoto they run toward Mars and Henry Conan along with Mabel, Candy, and Greta.

This is all watched on a monitor on a laptop from Gideon's computer, Gideon in frustration he turns it off and he is then chugging a glass of Tequila in mere frustration and after he had his chug, he then looks to a cork board with pictures of Dipper, Mabel, Adam, Darien, and every other picture on the board of each person he wants dead. He throws the glass at the board, and it shatters on the board, and he then breathes and then decides to go to the very place where he stored his Book of Azathoth along with a couple of crystals of power black and red brown, he had but he sees their gone and there is what looks like a flash drive along with a metal briefcase and a note that says, "Play Me."

Gideon, he puts on the data card into a slot of his laptop, clicks on the flash drive option, when he looks in it he sees a window which contains a video. He clicks on it and then he sees the face of Gordon Combs who is still in his samurai like get up. Gideon presses play and the message is relayed.

Gordon Combs says, "If you're listening to this then you already seen that your book along with your two crystals are gone, and as you may figure either now or minutes later that the game, I've put everyone though was really just one big diversion. Though I was either way on whether they would all survive or not. Doesn't matter now, point is your leverage is gone however despite your loss it is also a gain as you see there is a metal case.

Gideon he then opens it as the message is still playing and sees in it there is a stack of plenty of hundred-dollar bricks where each brick makes thousands.

Combs says, "In it there is about up to twenty million; don't say I'm didn't get you anything for Christmas; I'm always fair, you kept your part of the bargain and you've earned it, along with everyone else that's getting the same. But this money isn't just a present it's to hire you for another job, as you already know there are still plenty of those books and crystals of power. I will give you more details in time should you chose to accept the job and you'll have help from the people from our table and other associates should they chose to accept also. I know you must be sore now about the loss of your treasures as well as firing and missing Dipper, Mabel, and every other person you hate, including me. However, look at that empty display case not as a loss but an inspiration as another chance."

The message then stops and then the flash drive then smokes which means it self-destructed.

Gideon he is sore about what happens but then he looks at the collection of bills on his table and he then takes one of the brings and then flips them on his thumb.

He then says, "Well, at least these always ease my pain."

Meanwhile in a really big room with a big dining room table, Gordon Combs he has the Book of Azathoth in his hands and he walks and puts it on the table, he is still in his armor, but he takes his helmet off which reveals long black hair that flows down. He looks at the blood and opens some pages and he then feels a hand come to his shoulder along with another. Gordon, he has his hand on her's.

The woman has a black dress with a big collar, long sleeves with a slit on each with exposes a little of her arm and shoulders, skirt that is the length of her legs except for slits on two sides which shows both her legs and helps her walk freely. Her chest area has some cleavage exposed and hair that is in a ponytail and is red.

The woman in black says, "It's some fine reading."

"It is my dear, this book contains certain spells I need."

"What about these crystals?"

"These are the keys I need to open the doors."

"To where?"

"To where the old ones reside."

"And for my other fellow Witches."

Gordon has a small smile and looks at her and says, "Yes, it is about time we bring them back, raise the stakes, it will make things more interesting."

"What you've done and what you're proposing to do would be considered betrayal."

"Gideon and the rest have betrayed me before and were going to do it again; doesn't surprise me as by their nature their all untrustworthy, so I'd say what I've done makes us on even; also my in my blood line no one ever countermines it, any that do are severed upon our altar."

He closes the book and then takes her hands.

"But all that can for it's the holiday, so let Henry Conan, Rei and the rest enjoy this Christmas for it's going to be their last."

"Speaking of enjoyment shall we celebrate our way."

"Of course, Kaorinite."

Both then walk to one of the doors to celebrate their victory, the way they always do.

Meanwhile, after everyone leaves the West Edmonton Mall, instead of going home Talon and everyone decide after they're victory, they decided to celebrate by making one more cross-country trip straight to Toronto, Canada where they decide to take a vacation after everything they've been though and to celebrate their victory and Christmas, or at least a pre-Christmas celebration as they all have at least seven more days till Christmas. It is the daytime, and everyone is off doing their own thing with whoever they have along.

Silent Jim and Greta they are in Kensington Market they are looking at a Mural which is part of the Graffiti alleyway. Silent Jim is looking at a Mural which has a family of four eating at a table on Christmas time but each of them have Televisions for heads. With both the mom and dad having old bulky TVs from the 80's and the two siblings one male and one female having two flat screen TVs.

He then hears the presence of someone behind and he has a small smile.

Silent Jim says, "I know it's not a pick pocketer nor Z head, because I always recognize your footsteps, Greta, there practically stomps."

Greta says in her Irish tone, "Are you insulting my feet."

"Never and I think your feet are lovely to set the record straight."

"Alright Jim just put a sock on the charm and cover your eyes."

"Why?!"

"Hey, you know the rules of Christmas time, besides what is it without a surprise or two."

Silent Jim breaths a small sigh and does what she says, he has his hands covering his sunglasses after a matter of seconds Greta with her soft Irish tone says, "Alright you can open your eyes."

Silent Jim he puts his hands down and sees there is what looks like a "Micro Machine" set of a Red Ferrari which unfolds into a small city that looks like where they are Toronto. Once he sees it he has a smile on his face.

Greta says, "You need all the inspiration you can get."

Silent Jim says, "This is perfect in my idea to make a ride for the show "Just the Ten of Us."

"Wait a minute how can there be a ride based on that old 80's sitcom?"

"You'll just have to wait and see; I first need to take this around the block."

"Oh, really?"

"Like you said what is Christmas without surprises."

Silent Jim then sees Greta folding her arms and looking at him with a look like she's expecting something, Silent Jim sees it and puts on a small smile.

"Relax, I haven't forgotten you, doing that during Christmas time is a cardinal sin."

Silent Jim he then moves his hands left and right palms facing him. Then left and right palms facing toward Greta. Silent Jim hands moves so smoothly and face her eyes can't keep up until a box wrapped in green and a red tied bow.

Greta says, "How did you… never mind knowing you I'll never know."

Silent Jim, he hands her the gift and then she opens it and it's some sort of notebook. She is puzzled by this, and she opens it up and is surprised as she sees it's a collection of Wrestling trading cards, on wrestlers from different decades from the 60's to now. She then leaf's though some of the pages.

Greta says, "Wow, some of these cards are worth loads and some of them I've never been able to find, how could you have found and got them."

"It's a long-complicated story that would make volumes of a book series, I'll just say I've looked for the longest time and far and wide for those, for you."

Greta, she has a smile and says, "You're a weird one."

Silent Jim has a smile and says, "Better than being a moron."

Both of them hold hands, her hand is bigger than his which could crush his easy, but he doesn't mind as he feels the warmth of it over his and then both come side to side and they walk down the Graffiti alley of the market drinking up the sights of both wall while enjoying each other's company.

At another place, ROM/Orion and Makoto they are at Harbor front they are both strolling for a while, and they are coming up an old pirate clipper ship and then they stop at the balcony of it. Makoto looks at Orion curiously, Makoto looks at Orion, at times still can't believe that a general from the Negaverse took the human form of her significant other to infiltrate Earth but fell in love with one of Usagi's friends. But being with him just looking at his long brown hair how it moves and hits his shoulders but the feel of his hand holding hers just makes her feel safe and the need to be close.

Makoto says, "This walk, and this ship is all nice, but you haven't told me why we're here."

Orion gives her a set of his Sol Star Order Oversight which are shaped like a pair of binoculars and on top there are adjustment coordinate dials with digital readout. He also gives her a slip of paper that lists the coordinates. Makoto adjusts the dials in the right places and then looks up at the sky and can see space and the bright stars it's filled with.

Orion looks at Makoto and says, "Up there your kingdom the planet Jupiter."

Makoto looks up but still not getting what he's getting at.

"Beautiful view."

She then puts the Oversight away and looks at Orion.

"But I still don't understand."

"I have for some of this year have journeyed back to that planet, from all of the ruin I was constantly looking, I wasn't sure of what or even why. All I know was I needed to find something for you, that showed your kingdom wasn't truly gone, and that's when I found this."

Orion he then takes out from a small pocket one kind of flower, Makoto looks at it curiously and sees is round with multiple petals, but the petals are all jade green and the center of it there is a center that resembles the giant red spot of Jupiter but what's strange about it is it actual constantly swirls it's almost hypnotic.

Makoto then looks at him curiously and then says, "What kind of flower is this."

Orion says, "I honestly don't know as some of my memory of the silver millennium is unclear along with the limited memory banks in my space knight armor, but from what little I gathered this was one of the main flowers from your planet, one of the most beautiful of its kind.

He then pulls up a medium sized black leather bag, Makoto sees it and he hands it to her. Orion says, "Those are seeds from that flower but also a lot of other plant life from the planet I was able to gather, they can grow on this planet and given enough care and time they can multiple.

Makoto she then takes the bag and puts it near her left breast where her heart is. Orion sees this and has a smile on his face and then looks up where he pointed.

Orion says, "I wish I was able to bring you more from your planet but…."

Makoto she then hugs him from behind and Orion he feels her hand on his chest, he is a little surprised by this.

Makoto says, "You brought me enough, my kingdom will never be lost because of you."

Orion says, "I don't know about that I shouldn't….

"Shhhh, stop."

It is such a gentle tone and have her close to him scares him at first but then as he feels her warmth from behind that fear is gone and he closes his eyes along with her, have their heads up imagining the sky, breathing in and just taking in each other's warmth.

Eaton Centre the girls Mabel, Setsuna, Mercury, Venus are all shopping. Dipper, Michael, Gabriel, Urawa, Soos and Adam are all in another gaming store called "Argento's Red Hot Gaming".

Adam, Urawa, and Michael are playing a console multiplayer game of a fighting video game called "Lords of the Fight" and Urawa and Michael right now are playing against each other as they both have their two teams of fighters. Urawa it's the Fire Furies and Michael the Cool Bowlers. Both pound on the buttons and directions and constantly change characters along with Adam and Soos with the same video game console one another TV and same game but Soos has the Baseball Baracudas and Adam the Devils.

Dipper and Gabriel their playing an old "Pac Man" board game and Dipper he rolls and moves his Pac Man piece to directions to collect dots and away from the ghosts.

Dipper looks to Gabriel and says, "Do you think that Lucifer and Lilith are the ones like in the bible you read Gabriel."

Gabriel he then breathes in and says, "You know I'm not entirely sure just like with the rest of those creatures you told me about like Leviathan."

Dipper makes a roll and then moves one of the ghosts toward Gabriel's Pac Man character.

He then looks at him and says, "Still I wonder what the real plan behind all of this was."

"What do you mean plan, they just were all playing a sick game of either converting us or killing all of us."

"Maybe but I just have a feeling that we're not seeing the big picture, or even looking at the wrong picture away from the right one."

"I don't know Dipper, if that were true then we could still be in more danger than ever."

"Maybe, but you know something, I'm not going worry about it till Christmas is over."

"Yeah, I don't like doing that either, Christmas time is a time to drink, eat and party down."

"Well, that's actually just one of them and…."

Dipper he then moves the blue ghost spaces and tags Gabriel's Pac Man character.

"Tag, so long your gone."

"Blood hell, I'm now on my last Pac Man."

"Better hope I don't get you."

"You're on."

They continue playing and then Gabriel asks another question.

"By the way how did you know Henry and Rei wouldn't kill both you and Sailor Moon, both of you took one hell of a gambit."

"We didn't, I and Usagi only had our instincts and observations to work with, from how they were fighting and the wound you and the rest received, I figured along with Usagi that both were holding back. Both could of taking us all out anytime they wanted."

"And came very close doing it, especially both you and Usagi; despite both your orders to us you knew we would obey, we would never leave you both behind."

"You never have, just as we never left Rei and Henry Conan behind and as we've seen the evil never fully driven both of them away."

Dipper rolls his dice and moves his Pac Man and gets a power pellet, Gabriel tries to move some of his ghosts away from the Pac Man.

Dipper says, ""Wait a minute once the girls come back their going to want gifts from all of us, you have yours to Minako?"

"Of course, there is one thing on Christmas time I'm more afraid of than demons, and that's women."

"A cardinal rule, never scorn a woman on Christmas time."

A female voice says, "What was that?"

Gabriel says, "Eep, there here."

Suddenly he is grabbed from behind along with Dipper and the rest of the boys on what their doing and it's their significant others. Soos is surprised by this but sees it's just their significant others that have pulled them away for a kiss.

Soos he then just shakes his head, "Boy dudes and dudettes, you all have strange ways in celebrating the holidays."

They break off the kiss and then Mabel he then comes to him and gives him a big rectangular box that is blue with red bow, Mabel signals him to open it and he does, and he sees it's a skateboard which is all black except for the sign of one of his favorite 80's bands "Alen Parson's Project".

Mabel says, "Don't worry we never leave you out dude."

Soos says, "Ah, thanks dudette, I've always wanted to ride this."

Michael comes and says, "Well, I can teach you a little someday."

"Thanks dude."

Minako comes to him and says, "What are friends for."

She gives him a peck in the cheek and he just about faints from the overwhelming feeling of receiving a kiss from a Sailor Senchi his favorite. Most of the people in the room catch him before he does and there is just simply lots of good feeling in the room.

In another place, the CN Tower there is a great view of Toronto, Canada. Both Candy and Crimson Talon/Darrien they are at a table, Darrien is without his mask but has another which is a synthetic flesh replica of his old face where he uses to look like his brother Adam but a little older. He is also in a black suit with a black shirt underneath with black shoes, along with an artificial left arm which has a human hand which looks like a regular human hand and even feels like one. Candy is in a black dress which has two straps to her shoulders and it's a more conservative but stylish dress as it doesn't reveal any cleavage, but it does hug her body and show her slender figure. She has black high heels on and her glasses on her head. She is looking out at the view of Toronto and then she turns to Darrien who has a photo of a present that Candy has given him which is another in his collection of miniature arcade replicas, which is one of his favorite video games "Zaxxon".

Candy has a small smile and says, "Darrien."

Darrien snaps to attention and says, "Oh, sorry."

"It's ok a distraction or two never hurts anyone."

Darrien puts it away and looks at her and can't help but drink up the sight of her deeply, but also to be this close to her again.

Suddenly he gets two more arms around him, and he has a small smile, he immediately turns it off and he looks at Candy and says, "It's so good to be here and…"

Candy, she then kisses him deep. Candy says, "This is what I dreamed about every day, to have Christmas with you again."

"You know it only one day before Christmas Eve so its technique not Christmas."

"Well close enough."

"But also, you know I'm in disguise."

"It doesn't block my sight of you."

Both kisses again and then they talk once more.

Candy says, "Please don't go back to prison?"

Darrien says, "Don't worry I won't, never again; after what's happened, I realize you and everyone else are in more danger than ever before and I need to be free in order to protect you all."

"Of course, your truce with Dipper, the Mystery Shack Investigators and the rest is going to end after the holiday is over, they'll still try to stop you."

"It's ok I love the challenge, it's the people that are trying to harm them to stamp people like us and them out of existence they're the real enemies. Once we're gone, god knows what's going to happen to places like this."

"As long as we're all around that will never happen."

"But enough talk of business, just look at that view."

Both Candy and Darrien they look out at the gorgeous view where they can see all of the city of Toronto along with the Toronto Islands all laid out on the wide blue of Lake Ontario their laired on.

Darrien says, "You know this is what I dreamed of to spend Christmas with you also."

Both continue to be close to one another, Candy has her head on his shoulder and Darrien he has his right human hand on her left hand both continue to look out the view.

In one place in the Distillery district of Toronto in the Christmas Market there are two couples that are walking one person with short dark hair slightly tall with a green suit jacket and black shirt whom in his right arm has someone slightly short from his height holding onto it slightly hard, but he doesn't mind. This person is a young blond with two locks of hair that are about as long as a rope that go down with two meatballs holding them, she is walking with a pink dress shirt and jeans. The other couple consists of a girl who is in a red dress shirt and jeans and has black hair that goes all the way to her legs she has her arms around another arm that is about as hard as steel coil but has a warmth that flows fast to her. The guy wears a black T shirt with black jean paints and has long black hair. The Earth Prince and Moon Princess along with the Princess of Mars and Atlantean/Cimmerian warrior both come near one of the Christmas trees that are lighted up for all to see and for years to come.

THE END

Author's Note: This story is the technically the eleventh story I've written for Gravity Falls, as a cannon story its eighth one for the series I've written, and first novel length story. But also, this is the third and last in the Christmas Terror trilogy I've constructed for Gravity Falls; as much as I love the holiday I feel I've said and done more than enough for it in the Gravity Falls universe. I'll probably still write more stories based on the Christmas holiday, but it will be for a different series, what it will be well like any gift you'll have to wait and see.

When I wrote this story, I knew this was going to be the final Christmas for Gravity Falls for me, and if that was going to be the case I wanted it to go not just with a bang but right. I then thought of one of my favorite anime series "Sailor Moon" (classic version) and I wanted to make my own expanded universe on that show for some time because after the final episode it really left it open to the possibility of more much like "Gravity Falls". I thought of those two series, and it got me thinking why not both are fantasy shows, why wouldn't they take place in the same universe. This also added me another layer of thinking as I thought about a lot of expanded universes that certain other series had and it got me thinking why even more things can't be connected which got me to add in more like "Demon Hunters", "Inhumanoids", "Visionaries" etc but in a small and subtle (or as subtle as possible) way that makes it all fit to make one big picture.

This was all a way not just to help me get started on some of the other series I planned on doing but to explained upon the world of Gravity Falls, let alone create my own expanded universe. I've taken my first step and hopefully more, but other than that I wanted to do another fun Christmas story. In this one I knew the home teams needed a new challenge, in the series "Sailor Moon" sometimes regular people were turned into monsters but also I remembered the "Hellraiser" series and how Cenobites were created and of course it got me thinking what could the evil versions of the Senchi as well as characters from "Gravity Falls" look like and of course combined the two and there you go.

I also didn't want the characters to be in one place, I wanted to make it a big adventure and so I had them all go you can say cross country, well almost but at least they venture far. This was a way to help the characters go beyond their usual environments but also to help show that their worlds are a lot bigger than they've seen or imagined. The locations I used are real locations along with certain sites like "Pacific Lutheran University" in Parkland, Washington to them though not all of it is really like certain stores in the "West Edmonton Mall" don't really exist like the "Jolly Joker" arcade but this is a fictional version of that mall so why not; sidenote "Jolly Joker" was a reference to an old video arcade in Yakima, Washington (damn I miss that place).

Yes, I know that this story probably has several questions and there may 'be some confusion as to who's who and what happened before. Truth be told this story was supposed to come latter but since I'm writing my Gravity Falls expanded universe slightly out of order, oh well. But don't fret, there will be plenty of stories for "Gravity Falls", "Sailor Moon", and other series incorporated to clear the confusion and maybe even make this story better next time you read it.

Well, I've said enough, what more does the world/universe of "Gravity Falls" and "Sailor Moon" hold, what more adventures and challenges await them, which holiday will be next; well you'll just have to wait and see. This is me from the falls, signing off.

Map of the Falls

Freshmen Year

Unholy Night

Into the Demon Night

Junior Year

God's of the Dirt

Mystics of the Falls

Evil Greetings

Senior Year

Journey into the Dreamscape

Hell's Depths

Red Christmas

Non-Canon/Connected Stand-Alone Stories

Lock Down

Deadly Games

Gravity Falls Ransom

Christmas Terror Series Trilogy

Unholy Night

Red Christmas

Evil Greetings

Crystals of Power Series

Gods of the Dirt

Mystics of the Falls

Crossovers

Evil Greetings