Today was the day for Obscurial to leave the Nightmare Realm, which she has known for her entire life, and leaving to go to Earth. Bill told her that all her stuff was already in her new house, unpacked and everything.
She said one last goodbye. She did what she normally did when dimension hopping, she closed her eyes and thought about where she was going to go. She thought of Earth and everything she had learned about it. That it was round and not flat. That there was a clear substance called water, and exotic deserts she had never heard of. She thought all of this while seeing a blinding flash, and she knew where she was going.
She landed with a thud, which didn't hurt because she was pretty much immune to pain, because of being immortal and all of that. Like her father, her eyes are the one part of her body that can be injured fully, but they too heal at some point.
There was a giant sign in front of her that had "Welcome to Piedmont, California" in humongous, bold letters. Obscurial looked at the address on the slip of paper her father gave her. 2784 Allural Street. This sounded like such a fancy place already.
Obscurial teleported to the house. Well, it was more like a mansion. She took the keys out of her pocket, which she had retrieved before coming, and opened the door.
The inside was incredibly beautiful, with plants in about every corner. The furniture was her favorite color (yellow, no duh). There was a stick note that wrote, "School tomorrow, uniform in closet." There was no way that Obscurial was wearing a uniform.
She went into a closet, picked out a super soft yellow hoodie with little triangles all over it (just regular three sided figures, no eyes or anything). She went into the pantry and found some crunchy things that looked like one of her father's bowties. The box read "Bowtie Pasta". It tasted really bad. How do people eat this crunchy stuff? She decided she had enough for the night and looked for her bedroom.
Once you looked inside, it was more than obvious that it was Obscurial's bedroom. Everything was some shade of yellow. She jumped in the cozy bed, anticipating her first day of school.
Once she woke up, she decided to check out the uniform. It was red a red shirt with a logo and a black skirt. Obscurial didn't see any other bottoms, but this seemed like a pretty fancy private school, and she had to get closer to the Pines twins. She just sucked it up and wore it, just in case.
Based on the instructions Bill gave Obscurial, the school was five minutes walking distance from her house. As she was walking, she saw two people, a boy, who was very scrawny and wearing a hat that looked like it was made for the winter, even though it was still early fall. The girl had a lavender headband and a black moon choker.
"Hey Dipper, are you excited to be able to drive this way next week? I can't believe we're getting our license next week!" the girl exclaimed.
The boy, who looked rather upset replied, "I don't care about any damn license!" She could tell right on sight, that these were the Pines twins. The girl, who was Mabel, looked sad and didn't talk anymore on the way. Obscurial walked on the opposite side of the street as them.
When she arrived at school, the principal came right up to her and said a little too loudly, "Ah! You must be Miss Penny Maze. I am delighted to have you at our school. I'll have someone show you around."
Obscurial was really confused, but then it hit her. No normal parent would name their child Obscurial, so Bill Cipher must have enrolled her as Penny Maze. She'd just have to get used to it.
The principal led her to her office, where Mabel Pines was sitting. "Is this the new student, Mrs. Barnes? I'll go ahead and start the tour."
"Okay. Show her everywhere in the school and try to introduce her to some people. Go over her schedule with her too. She'll need all the help she could get," Mrs. Barnes explained.
"Hi! I'm Mabel Pines. You can call me Mabel! I can assure you that you will feel 100% at home. I'll show you around and introduce you to some people. Penny, right?"
"Right…" there was unsureness in her voice because she was so used to going by her real name. As they walked, Mabel pointed out important landmarks in the school.
"So, right there's the gym. Just to give you a heads up, it is really, really, really tiring. This is the Junior hallway, where most of your classes will be. It says here that you are also signed up for our Codes and Ciphers elective. My brother's in that. So here…" Mabel kept going on and on about everything. Soon, she had to go to class.
When she walked into the class, everyone stared at her. She saw Dipper, sitting at the back, with his head on his desk. He wasn't sleeping, but rather staring off into space. She really wanted to go into his head and read his thoughts, but she couldn't just disappear.
"Okay class, this is Penny Maze. She will be your classmate, so please treat her with respect. Any questions?" her new homeroom teacher, Ms. Frey told the class. Only one person looked interested, everyone else was talking.
"Where did you move from? I'm Lilith, by the way." the girl who looked interested questioned. Obscurial didn't have any idea about what to say. There was one city she remembered, though.
"Oh, I'm from New York City," she responded, because she learned that Broadway, a place where musicals were originated, was there. Bill once taught her about them. He always looked like he could be a tap dancer in one of those older Musicals.
A bunch of people screamed "Cool!". Obscurial was excited that she made a good first impression. But there was one person she really needed to get the attention off.
"Okay, Penny, you can choose your spot." Obscurial plopped in the spot right next to Pine Tree (that's what he heard her father call him sometimes).
"Hi, mind if I sit here?" she tried to make a good first impression, but he didn't respond, and instead just laid his head on his desk. Obscurial needed to see what he was thinking about. Bill described him as smart for a kid, but really stupid compared to us. But when he got his test back, she could see the first number was a five. Bill clearly needs some catching up.
"You look depressed, what's wrong?" Still no answer from Dipper. Obscurial should just kidnap him and take him to her house to read his thoughts.
Finally, he responded, "You don't want to talk to me. I'm really boring. I'm a stupid person. Just go away if you don't want to be embarrassed by me." This was going to be harder than Obscurial thought.