Ford wakes up in his bed, panting. He adjusts his glasses, "I have to warn them!"
"Are you okay?" Will asked, looking up at him.
He looks at his hand, "He's coming."
Will frowned.
Dipper opens a closet door and Mabel is rubbing her hands excitedly. The two look at the closet, which contains some stray items and board games.
Dipper looks around the closet, "Alright, Grunkle Stan's gotta have some decent board games."
"Let's see, "Battlechutes & Ladderships," "Necronomiconopoly," "Don't Wake Stalin"..." Mabel lists off.
Dipper picks up a game, "Hey, what's this? 'What Could Go Wrong?: The Board Game. The last players who opened this box never made it out alive'."
Mabel, after a short pause, "Well, I know what we're doing today."
"This should take up the next 21 minutes," Dipper smiled.
Mabel and Dipper walking to Ford, who has several scrolls tucked under his arm and is reading a book. Ford turns around and notices the two, putting the scrolls on the table. Will's sitting next to him, fidgeting with his hands.
Ford smiled, "Ah, children. Come in, come in!"
Mabel takes a seat and looks at a bag on the table, "Ooh, mysterious scrolls and potions! Are you going to tell us we're finally of age to go to wizard school?" She starts rummaging through the bag, "Is there an owl in this bag?"
Ford's snatches the bag away, "No! I can assure you if there's an owl in this bag, he's long dead Now, children, do either of you recognize this symbol? He holds up a scroll emblazoned with the image of Bill Cipher and several hieroglyphs.
Dipper and Mabel gasp.
Dipper frowned, "Bill."
"You... you know him?" Ford asked.
Will bit his lip, not saying a word.
"Know him? He's been terrorizing us all summer! I have so many questions and theories..." Dipper mumbled.
Ford sighed, "The fact that you've dealt with Bill is gravely serious."
"So, how do you know Bill?" Dipper asked.
Will looks at Ford, biting the bottom of his lip.
Ford sighed, "I've encountered many dark beings in my time, Dipper. What matters is that his powers are growing stronger, and if he pulls off his plans, no one in this family will be safe!"
Dipper and Mabel gasp.
"Fortunately, there should be a way to shield us from his mental tricks. A way to Bill-proof the Shack." Ford draws on a map of his lab, "All I have to do is place moonstones here, here, and here, sprinkle some mercury, let's see... I always forget the last ingredient!" He takes out Journal 1 and flips through it, "Ugh, unicorn hair."
Will looked down.
"That's not, like, rare, is it?" Dipper asked.
Ford sighed, "It's hopeless." He looks at Journal 1, before he adjusts his glasses, "Unicorns reside deep within an enchanted glade, and their hairs can only be obtained by a pure good-hearted person who goes on a magical quest to find them."
Mabel screams, "Grunkle Ford, can I please go on this quest? I am literally obsessed with unicorns! My first word was "unicorn," I once made my own unicorn by taping a traffic cone to a horse's head. Are you even looking at the sweater I'm wearing right now?! Not to mention that I'm probably the most pure of heart person in this room. So can I go on a mission to get that hair? Please please please? I'LL GIVE YOU MY BLOOD!"
"Very well. But it won't be easy." He gives Mabel Journal 1, "Take this." He hands Mabel a crossbow, "And this. I haven't been in this dimension for a while. It's okay to give children weapons, right?"
"Pssh, come on, dawg." Mabel fires the crossbow through the window, setting off Stan's car alarm. She pulls out her phone, "Candy, Grenda, Wendy, clear the afternoon!" She runs off. Will follows after her, not looking back at the two boys.
"So, what are the odds she gets that hair?" Dipper asked.
Ford frowned, "Unlikely. I've dealt with unicorns before, and if I had to describe them in one word it would be... frustrating."
"So, what are we gonna do about Bill?" Dipper asked.
"Follow me."
Dipper changes the sign on the Mystery Shack to "Closed." Dipper and Ford get into the elevator and get out onto the second floor.
"Welcome to my private study, a place where I keep my most ancient and secret knowledge. Even your uncle Stan doesn't know about this place." As Dipper stops to investigate a rectangular object covered by a sheet, "Dipper, come along! If we can't Bill-proof the Shack, we're going to have to do the next best thing." He holds up a helmet with wires on it, "We're gonna have to Bill-proof our minds."
Dipper gasped.
Mabel smiled, "It's nice to finally be out on a mission, just us gals!"
"Forget the gal talk! I'm here to meet, touch, and/or become a unicorn!" Grenda smiled.
Candy squealed, "I hear if you lick a unicorn's neck, it tastes like your favorite flavor in the world!"
"Candy, I will make sure you lick that unicorn's neck, because I care about my friends," Mabel smiled.
Wendy sighed, "Honestly, I stopped believing in unicorns when I was like, five years old. I'm just coming along to keep you kids from walking into a bear trap... also, to make sure Will doesn't do anything."
Will frowned, "I'm not going to do anything..."
"Stop! This is the magic part of the forest." Mabel opens Journal 1, "Let's see, the gnome tavern is over there, the fairy nail salon is over there, but it says that to summon the unicorn, one must bellow this ancient chant droned only by the deepest-voiced druids of old."
Grenda takes the journal, "On it! Oy-oyoy-oyoyoyoy..."
"I bet you ten bucks nothing happens," Wendy grumbled.
Mabel smiled, "I'll take that bet."
Mabel and Wendy both gasp.
A fortress rises out of the ground. Mabel, Candy, Grenda and Wendy enter it. Will just follows after them, and he immediately starts coughing.
Mabel gasped, "The paintings airbrushed on the sides of vans were true!"
Celestabellebethabelle neighs.
"Mother of mothers!"
"Queen of dreams!"
"No way."
Mabel reaches her hand up towards Wendy and makes a grabbing motion, "Eh, eh."
Wendy gives her a ten-dollar bill and sighs.
The unicorn rears her head, "Hark! Visitors to my realm of enchantment!"
Both Mabel and Candy gasp, and while Grenda is doing the same thing, a butterfly flies straight into her mouth causing her to gag.
Mabel starts jumping up and down in excitement, "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! What's your name?"
Celestabellebethabelle smiled, "I am Celestabellebethabelle, last of my kind. Come in, come in. Just, take off your shoes. I have a whole thing about shoes."
Candy, Grenda and Mabel take off their shoes.
Celestabellebethabelle scowled, "Ah, ah! I'm talking to all of you!"
Wendy grudgingly takes off her shoes.
Mabel smiled, "Celestabellebethabelle, we have journeyed far and wide-" "-About an hour!" Grenda interrupts. "On a mission to protect our family with your magical hair!" Mabel grinned.
Candy standing next to Celestabellebethabelle, "This is your chance, Candy. Lick the neck. Lick it..." She tries to lick it, but fails as Celestabellebethabelle stands her neck straight up.
"Very well. To receive a lock of my enchanted hair, step forth, girl of pure perfect heart," Celestabellebethabelle ordered.
Mabel smiled, "Presenting: bum buh da bum bum ba bum bum!" She kneels, "Mabel!"
"What? You? A unicorn can see deep inside your heart, child." Celestabellebethabelle Points at Mabel with her horn and her chest glows with a heart
"Ugh!" Mabel covers her chest.
Celestabellebethabelle frowned, "And you have done wrong. WRONG I say!"
"I guess I do make fun of Dipper a lot. And I did just shatter a window with a crossbow," Mabel admitted.
"Your bad deeds make me cry!" Her eyes well up, and a tear lands on a flower, killing it.
Mabel screams, "NOOO!"
"Come back when you're PURE OF HEART. NEEEIIGGGHH! Exit is that way. Shoes, shoes, take your shoes. This isn't some... some... shoe store," Celestabellebethabelle grumbled.
Will walks towards the her, still coughing, "Please? It's to protect them when... it... happens..."
"It?" Mabel repeated, confused.
Will bit the bottom of his lip, "We really need the hair. It's extremely important. I know there's a barrier that blocks all the weirdness out of the rest of the world, besides this town, but... we still need it. If... if there's a chance that... It happens... I just want them to be safe."
"Very well, William, I'll let you cut some of my hair... but it had to be you. No human is to touch my hair, understand?" Celestabellebethabelle asked.
Will nodded, "I understand."
Dipper and Ford are in the living room drinking Pitt Cola.
"Ugh, I'm so embarrassed about earlier. I'm such an idiot," Dipper grumbled.
Ford sighed, "From now on, no more secrets between us. We're not the first two idiots to be tricked by Bill, boy. But if we work together, we could be the last."
"But what about Bill? I broke the machine! Now we have no way to protect the shack!" Dipper complained.
Mabel grinned, standing next to Will, who's holding the unicorn hair, but also coughing, "Did someone say "unicorn hair"?!"
Candy, Grenda, Mabel and Wendy are behind them.
"Uh, no, actually?" Dipper stared at her.
Mabel frowned, "Oh. That would have been perfect." She smiles, "Either way we got some unicorn hair!"
Ford smiled, "It... can't be! This is a great day, girls! With this unicorn hair, we should be able to completely shield the shack from Bill's mind-reading tricks!"
"Is it okay?" Mabel asked.
Ford nodded, "Better than okay; it's perfect! You've protected your family. You're a good person, Mabel."
"Thanks, Grunkle Ford, but most of the honor goes to Will. He's the one who got it in the first place," Mabel informs him.
Ford turns to Will, but he doesn't say anything.
A/N: Aww... poor cinna bun... he never gets any praise. That's not going to do good later. Anyway... heeeheeeheeheeeheeeheeeheeheeeheeeheeeheeeheeeheee! Yes! We're finally here! (even though... i kinda think this story has turned dumb. :p) Anyway... poor cinna bun's worst nightmare is going to become reality. - K.