Where was Star? They needed to get out of here as soon as possible. And by that, Dipper meant right now.

"Come on Mable, can't you use your creativity or something to make this thing go faster!"

"I lost control of this place! I can't control anything!" After the trial, Mable decided to leave the prison and the place lost all pretenses. The sky turned blood red as the fluffy stuffed animals transformed into hulking monstrosities. Dipper didn't think teddy bears were supposed to have fangs.

Dipper cursed as a radioactive Care Bear got particularly close and he had duck to avoid its claws. He had his sister back, though, and that changed everything for Dipper- and not just because of Weirdmaggedon.

Dipper just missed his sister's ambience. The way she viewed the world with a never-ending stream of childlike wonder. It would be refreshing in the upcoming days.

"Look out!" A black mass dived down from above and tried to kamikaze itself into the Maserati.

Wendy swerved to the right and the creature's talons cut through the door like paper. Its eyes were slits with a yellow tinted sclera.

Bill.

Dipper screamed.

How many nights had those eyes haunted his dreams? This prison was his creating; he had unlimited power here. He was the true warden, not Gideon. Maniacal laughter filled the dome as the winds picked up.

The sky turned bright yellow as Bill appeared. He was massive, nearly blocking out the entire sky. His eye was as big as an Olympic swimming pool.

"Did You Really Think I Wouldn't Notice What You Were Planning?" His words made the Earth quake, as if it too feared Bill.

"Come on… Come on…." Wendy muttered to herself as she floored it. They were out of the city and the creatures were falling behind now.

They reached the end of the dome as a black arm came sweeping from the heavens. The car smashed through the barrier like it was a glass window and the whole thing exploded.

"Dipper! Mable! Are you guys alright!" Dipper groaned. He must've hit his head when the car crashed back into reality. The world was going in and out of focus. He heard his sister gasp and saw three Mable's staring at the newly decorated sky.

"It's like a big claw mark."

Dipper jumped up when the fog cleared from his head. Bill had been in there.

He searched for any sign of the sleep demon. Luckily he was nowhere in sight; crashing through the barrier must've broken his concentration or something.

"That was a close one, Bill almost had us back there, breaking the dome must've severed his connection."

"What are you talking about, Dipper?" He was too busy looking for signs of Star to notice the confusion on the others face.

"Well, Bills arm was about to smack us off the road, but when we broke through the edge of the prison he faded. Now help me look for Star, she should be somewhere around here." Dipper was about to start walking to the cliffs edge to see if she'd fallen over in the explosion but Wendy grabbed him and stared him in the eyes, deadly serious.

"Did you see Bill in there?"

"What do you mean? Of course I saw him – he nearly killed us!"

"Dipper, I never saw Bill." What? Dipper thought it could be because she was so focused on driving that she just happened to miss it but Mable and Sous seemed concerned too.

"Wha – he was so big he was covering the sun! How could you guys miss him!"

"He wasn't there, Dipper, you must have imagined it." Mable's words hit like bricks. He couldn't have imagined it, he was there.

A flash of yellow cut off in the corner of his eye cut off Dippers response. Bill was here. He ran after him, determined to prove he wasn't going crazy.

"DIPPER!" They would follow him; Dipper was sure of it.

Bill was always just ahead of him as he ran through the trees, like an afterimage of the sleep demon. He tripped on a tree root and stumbled into a clearing.

Bill was nowhere to be found, maybe he was never there at all. Dipper shuddered as that crazed laugh was carried over the wind. Dipper was actually losing it; he needed more sleep.

He noticed Star unconscious in the middle of the clearing. Why would Bill lead him here? Nothing was making any sense. He started to pull at his hair, what game was the sleep demon playing?

"Dipper!" The others had finally caught up to him, it seemed. Wendy recognized who was in the clearing. "You found Star? Is she okay?" Mable was confused by Stars presence because she had run away before they found Dippers sister.

He was too stressed to explain everything, so he let Wendy do it for him. Sous listened too because he'd only gotten the SparkNotes version earlier.

Star was starting to come to near the end of the story. Dipper thought about asking where she went in the sphere, but decided against it when he noticed the tears that stained her face.

No one was untouched by Bill.

Whatever happened must've been horrible enough for Star to break down again. Wendy motioned for them to give her a little privacy

"We freed Mable," Wendy said when they had gathered on the other side of the clearing, "There will be consequences. Do any of you know a place to hide?"

There was the bunker, Dipper thought, but Bill knew of that place and it wasn't impervious to his magic by any stretch of the imagination.

"Why don't we go to the Mystery Shack? The rainbow hair should still protect us from Bills… weirdness."

"Of course!" Dipper wanted to slap himself; why hadn't he thought of that? He'd been circumventing the Mystery Shack because he didn't want to see the place destroyed.

He'd been avoiding the absolute safest place in Gravity Falls. What an idiot.

"Marco didn't tell me Earth had unicorns," Star joined the group after making herself appear presentable, like she hadn't been a sobbing mess a few minutes ago. "Do they have bodies or is it just the head?"

"Yeah, Unicorns are big meanies." Dipper couldn't hide his smile, he remembered how the unicorn had been messing around with his sister just for the fun of it. It was funnier now that it was in the past, but apparently Mable still had a grudge.

"Guys," Wendy interjected, "We're getting off track, we need to head to the mystery shack."

"Lead the way," Dipper replied.

AN: Hey guys! Here's the next chapter, hope you enjoyed it. It's a little shorter than I'd like to be but I wasn't able to spend as much time as I'd wanted to yesterday. Don't worry, I'll make it up in the next chapter.

I'm thinking about trying my hand at a HTTYD fanfic in the upcoming weeks, what do you guys think? I'm not sure what the plot would be yet, but I like the characters a lot.

See ya.