Disclaimers: I do not own Gravity Falls
Author's Notes: Okay guys as I've already said this chapter is the foundation of both part two and three of this series. SO PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION!
(Back at the Penthouse...)
Disaster…
It didn't take long for it to come knocking on their door.
The disaster in question came up from the elevator in the form of a young woman about Lara's age!
"Lara I'm here!" Kate announced loudly bursting into the room.
Lara looks up from her work, she had been spending an hour washing, drying and folding her clothes. "Kate you're here, but how did you know?" Lara asked stunned.
"Oh your mom called, and said you left to come here, and well it didn't take long to find a house in your boyfriend's name. I mean Lucas Venroe isn't exactly a common name in Cali." Kate explained as she put her long red hair into a messy bun. "Now come on let's go times a wasting." She demanded.
"Wait my mom called you?" Lara was surprised.
"Yeah, she was worried about you, said she wanted to apologies for what happened." Kate explained. "Anyways let me give you tour of the city." She asked.
Lara couldn't help but smile, she was thrilled her mother had come to her senses. Not knowing any number to the penthouse it made sense she would call a friend she knew was in the area. "I would love to, but Will is asleep-"
"No I'm not mommy" Will exclaimed sleepily as he walked down the stairs and into the room. Will looks up at Kate and freezes, he doesn't know why, but he can tell that there is something off about her.
"And you must be William!" Kate exclaimed as she walked over to him. "Oh you are so adorable I could just eat you up!" she squealed.
Will ran away and hide behind his mother, he had a strange feeling that this lady did intend to eat him. Will looks up to his mother expectantly, but it becomes obvious that she does not realize the danger that they are in.
Instead Lara gives Kate an apologetic smile. "Sorry I have no idea what's gotten into him. William isn't usually shy."
"It's alright." Kate assures her. "Anyway how about it uh? We can go out and get a bite to eat, and see the sights?"
"Sounds like fun, but-" Lara hesitates, "I should really wait for Lucas or his friend to return so they know where I'm at." She explained.
"Oh just leave them a note" Kate told her. "After all who knows when they'll get back, besides if we wait too long it will get dark, and it's not safe to be out after dark."
Lara knew Kate was right, with the recent children snatchings going on; going out late was not a good idea. Besides she hardly doubted that Lucas would want to go sightseeing anyways. "You know what you're right let's go." Lara grabbed her bag and placed Will into his stroller.
Will obeys his mother and does not try to stop her, after all he could just be being paranoid. This Kate was a friend of mommy's after all, and Mommy only knew nice people. So he ignored the over whelming sense of danger, and allowed Kate to lead him and Lara down to the lobby; and out the door.
It is a decision that William will learn to regret…
(Back with Lucas)
The Library of Knowledge was a dimension filled with nothing but shelf after shelf of books, and scrolls as far as the eye could see. Books and scrolls that together contained all the knowledge of the entire multiverse. This small fact could be very over whelming for someone who didn't know what they were looking for.
Luckily for Lucas that was not the case…
The shadow demon floated down the aisles of knowledge with ease, never stopping until he found what he was looking for. It was an old dusty shelf that looked as if it hadn't been touched in centuries. Lucas took in a big gulp of air and then released it, blowing all the dust out of the way so he could read the titles of the books and scrolls; it didn't take long for him to find what he was looking for.
"The Children of the Stars" Lucas read the book title out loud to himself. He then looks around to make sure he is not being watched. Once he's satisfied that he is alone he opens the book and begins to read.
Out of all the worlds, and universes of the multiverse; there is one that stands out! Earth Realm, for unlike all the other realms, Earth Realm was plain, and did not possess any magic or power to defend itself. Its neighboring realms; who sought nothing more than to use their weaknesses for their own gain saw them as prey.
The great Time Baby seeing the danger that Earth Realm was in, decided to bestow a gift upon it's dominate species; the human race! Time Baby commanded that one child of every generation would be born of a star. Each human child would be born under the stars, and the brightest constellation on that given night would appear like crown on their head, marking them as one of the many Guardians of the Earth Realm.
These children were born with unmistakable power in order to defend their fellow humans from all threats, including their greatest threat; Demons!
The Demon and Human worlds lived side by side, and the demons offend used the human's gullibility to their advantage. Making dangerous deals with them that resulted the demon to slowly gain unimaginable power; but sadly it didn't take long for things to get out of hand.
The demons soon learned that once a Star child was at its peak in power, the Demons could trick the guardian into fusing their life source with them. Demons are forbidden to fuse, or bond with another magical being especially other demons! If a demon where to fuse with another demon they would become one of the most powerful forces in the multiverse; and if the demons were to separate they would become two halves of one very powerful demonic God, free to fuse and separate at will; but the act of two demons becoming one is strictly forbidden, and is against all laws of time and space.
And for good reason.
Demons who fuse together, and separate become bonded; and bonded Demons are able to reproduce their own young! This created a purer breed of demons than ever before, causing chaos, and mayhem at biblical proportions! So biblical that Time Baby declared that all these purer demons be destroyed along with their bonded parents. Slowly but surely the act was carried out, and the demons agreed that the purer breeds would stay in history, but that didn't stop them from finding new ways to carry out their legacies.
For the same reasons the rules apply to any demon that fuses with a being that possess any ounce of magic within them. A demon may choose to fuse with said person to gain their power as their own; but they are not allowed to separate from them and form a bond. Thankfully this law is easily followed due to the fact that demons rarely wish to share their power with lesser beings. Instead the demon consumes the other causing the magical beings subconscious to die leaving all the newly found power for the demon to will as they desires.
Not once has a demon separated from another magical being once they fuse with them. They believe it is a sign of weakness to share such power with one that is less superior then them. With that said if a demon wishes to have a child they will search for a powerful enough being that is full of magic. They will then ask permission to give part of themselves to an already developing fetus.
This is the way it has always been, and for centuries Time Baby allowed this to happen, understanding that at least this new generation of demons could never become as powerful as the purer breed before them. Sadly Time Baby's will to turn a deaf ear is what caused the down fall of the Star children. For once they had reached their peak in power, the demons could trick them into willingly fusing with them. Once they fused the Demon would swallow their subconscious whole granting them a power boost so great it made the purer breed demons look like weaklings.
Unfortunately by the time this fatal flaw was revealed it was too late! Time Baby could not erase what had been done, nor could he bare to take the lives of the remaining Star Children in order to stop the demons from consuming more. So in order to save the remaining children and the generations to come, Time Baby formed a society of protectors that would dedicate their lives to defend and protect the Star Children. The Guardians of the Stars were entrusted in teaching the Star Children to control their abilities, they also taught the children to never make deals with anyone, and to protect Earth Realm from the demons.
Sadly this did little to slow the demons down, and soon all known star children had been erased from history; but it didn't take long for the demons to discover that out of all the star constellations known throughout the multiverse all, but two where consumed.
The whereabouts of the Star Children Aries, and the Big Dipper remain unknown! Several believe that Time Baby took their lives and made sure another could never be born again. But others believed that the children had yet to be born. That Time Baby had delayed their births in hope that the Demons would believe that they were gone for good. So that maybe one Day Earth Realm could have a chance at a true protector.
Lucas smiled so not one, but two Star Children had yet to be found; and one of them was already in his grasp. But there was one problem, Lara didn't seem to be tapping into her abilities.
'Perhaps she just needs a little help,' Lucas thought to himself. 'If I convince her that she indeed has power within her, then I can teach her to use it in order to help protect William.'
'Yes and then when her powers are at its peak, I'll trick her into fusing with me!'
It was the perfect plan!
Lucas returned the book to the shelf, and raced out the way he came, feeling extremely good about himself.
Unfortunately he was about to learn that his good mood wouldn't last long…
(Back at the Penthouse...)
He was up to his neck in the worse trouble he had been in, in centuries…
'I should have never left her alone!' Shinigami thought miserably. 'The master is going to kill me!' The death demon trembled at the thought. He hadn't intended to leave the girl alone, but Lara insisted that Will, would be hungry when he woke up, and the penthouse had nothing to eat. This made sense to Shinigami after all Demons had no need for human food so the fridge and pantries where all empty.
So the death demon agreed that he would go get some food and be right back. The demon jumped as he hears the ding of the elevator door opening.
'I am so dead!' Shinigami trembles as the door opens.
Lucas knows that something is not right from the moment that he sees his trembling servant. "What did you do?" The demon king growled.
"Master I can explain-" Shinigami began.
Lucas looks around and notices the Lara's bag is gone from where she had placed it on the counter. He knew that she never left without it and always left t in the same place so it would be easier to find; and the fact that it was now gone could only mean one thing. "Where is she?" Lucas asked with a low growl.
"Master I can explain-" Shinigami repeated helplessly.
"WHERE IS SHE?!" Lucas yelled.
"Their gone master, I left and they were gone-" Shinigami spoke franticly as he coward in front of his king.
"They?!" Lucas asked.
"Master I-" Shinigami stuttered.
Lucas looked like he was ready to explode. "You let the mother of my child take my heir and leave without any protection!" the demon King screamed.
"Master I went to-" Shinigami tried to explain again, but it only fueled his Master's rage.
"And worse still you left them alone!" Lucas was fuming.
Shinigami pulled out his list in a last ditch effort to save his own skin. "Look master see there not on the list." Shinigami exclaimed.
Lucas took the list, and saw that it was true. The demon King grabbed the death demon by the collar and dragged him to the awaiting elevator. "Well for your sake you better hope it stays that way!" Lucas growled.
Shinigami trembled once more hoping and begging that this one small careless act didn't just cost him his life.
Chapter End Notes
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