Disclaimer: Okay, people. Chapters 1 through 9 have been edited and posted. I repeat, those chapters have been edited. This includes the introduction chapters, Tourist Trapped, Gobblewonker, and Headhunters.
The next group will include Hand That Rocks the Mabel, Inconveniencing, Manliness, Double Dipper, Irrational Treasure, and Fight Fighters. As of right now, 10-12 have been fixed. I might not get much revised until next week, since I work all weekend. I'll hopefully get everything up by next weekend... hopefully.
Lunar Moon Butterfly: Yep. The fact it's Bill and she knows where he was during the show is a big factor. However, he doesn't have a name for it yet, so Elaine names it herself.
Hourglass Cipher: I accept your applause.
RainbowCelin: Well, seeing that we already know who's monstrous form that is, and who flickers a yellow glow, I would hope you'd think that was Bill. If that AU comes around again, you'll be seeing just how different this Bill is from what we've come to know.
PorousBubbles: Depending on the voting I'll do after all of my ideas are posted, I'll see which ones should be expanded on. Personally for me, Elaine in both versions of the Nightmare Realm, Elaine in the past, and Elaine and Ford travelling across the multiverse are my favorites. I have my hands full with my Danganronpa story, and revisions are a slow process what with work going on. I'm hoping to have the sequel up next month. Even though it's being revised, things still might not be perfect, and I'm hoping that's okay for anyone who wanted it better written.
Now, for anyone who has read GFA, the first part of this chapter is taken directly from the original story. However, you WILL know when things start to change. I also noticed when I went to get the original, that there was this odd piece where 'Ford snapped back' was all shoved together, and I put 'they' instead of 'the' by mistake during the big erase scene. Don't worry, stuff like that's going to be fixed in the editing process.
One more thing. This is showing the less sweet goodbye between Elaine and Bill. In this case, we're seeing what would happen if Elaine felt zero pity for the demon being defeated. To be frank, after writing this I'm definitely changing that farewell scene in the story after writing this. Still a bittersweet moment compared to this, but I want to show that Elaine does not forgive him completely in the true chapter. A tiny part does, but for the majority, she's ticked.
"Speaking"
Thinking
Bill speaking
Elaine's POV
Bill Cipher. "Ha ha ha ho! This is just too perfect!" Bill Cipher. "Didn't you brainiacs know the zodiac doesn't work if you don't all hold hands?" Bill... n-no. No. No. Stan and Ford stepped back cautiously, exchanging a look of pure dread. "And what's better, you've brought every threat to my power together in one easy-to-destroy CIRCLE!" His arms swept out in front of him, unleashing a fury of flames from them. The blaze hit the floor and to our horror, burned the zodiac, catching the painted ritual on fire. O-our one way of finally ridding ourselves of him. Gone. A-all gone. Dipper screamed in alarm, and Pacifica and Robbie shrieked as their hair was caught alight. The two patted it out as fast as they could, managing to avoid burning their scalps. Th-those same red arms that I knew all too well from the Mindscape snaked around Stan and Ford, bringing them up into the air and in front of Bill. The men thrashed against the binds, but it was futile. Bill was too strong. "You guys wanna see what happens to your friends when you can't get along?"
"Hey! You give them back!" Fiddleford shouted, finally snapping the rest of us humans out of our shock.
"You've gone too far, Cipher!" Gideon added.
"Yeah! We're not scared of you!" Wendy grabbed her ax, as Fiddleford took out his banjo. Even Gideon, who had no more power or weapons to his name, held up his small fists. H-he was ready to fight that monster with his bare hands. W-when did he have a change of heart?
"Oh, but you should be." The demon's pupil was so small, it was barely noticeable. With a snap of fingers, everyone but me and the twins stiffened in unison, making brief choking noises. A demonic red glow covered all of them, and eyes glowed yellow as their pupils extended to that of a cat's, rolling into the upper parts of their head. Mouths drooping open, they were lifted into the air, over our heads.
"Oh no!" Dipper yelled as Mabel shrieked. I hugged the kids close to me as our friends were brought up onto either side of Bill. The demon looked down at us, glaring. "You know, this castle could really use some decorATIONS!" Tightening his fists, they all vanishing in a burst of light and reappeared behind him as he relaxed his hands. B-banners. Tapestries, of his success over the town. Everyone was staring out from their twisted cages, screaming in horror with their symbol displayed beneath them. Pacifica! Fiddleford!
"Looks like it's too late for your friends, Stanford." Bill pointed behind him as he turned to face Ford, and out from the ground, a pyramid blue cage rose up, snapping shut around me, Dipper, and Mabel. My hold on them tightened so much, I was certain I was going to cut of their blood circulation. Stan and Ford watched us, and I could hear Stan cry out from high above. "But you can still save your family. Last chance: tell me how to take Weirdmageddon global and I'll spare the kids!"
Dipper and Mabel broke out of my arms, rushing to the cage's walls and reaching out for their uncles. "No! Don't do it!" Dipper begged.
"Yeah! Bill makes bad deals!" Mabel added. Bill turned to face us in a flash of red, and I twitched in fright, foot moving back as my fight-or-flight response began to kick in. N-no! Not Mabel! Not-wait!
"Don't you toy with me, Shooting Star." I see EVERYTH-!" As fast as I could, I flipped my knife out from my bag and clicked it open, dashed forward. Using the cage as a footstool, I leapt onto a bar, pushed myself upwards, and stabbed my knife right into Bill's eye. I stabbed. Bill freaking Cipher. In the eye. Holy cr-I'm gonna die for this. With a grunt, I pulled down as fast as I could, and hit the ground with a thud. The gouge was almost a foot long, and the same inky black blood from before when the dinosaur sank its teeth int it sprayed out, staining the floor and myself. My hair was plastered to my shirt and skin, but I stood my ground, stained in the dark fluid. "OW! ANGEL!"
"That's for threatening my family!" I declared, as Stan laughed loudly overhead.
"Nice shot, sweetheart!" He yelled as the binds around him and Ford gave way. Without Bill's focus, the two crashed to the floor with a grunt. The demon's eyelids were closed, and he held it tenderly.
"I just regenerated that eye!" I snapped the knife back into its handle, shoving it into my pocket. Not so fun when you're getting tricked, is it, Bill? Is it!?
Dipper smiled at me, and took the flashlight out from his vest. Igniting the blue beam, he shone it onto the cage and let it grow several sizes until it was big enough for us to slip out through the holes in the walls. "Save yourselves. Run! We'll take care of Bill!"
Stan gaped at us without words, appearing to have multiple heart attacks at the command from his nephew. "What!? That's a suicide mission!" Ford shouted, thinking we were all clearly out of our minds and getting ready to run over to us. Maybe we were. But at this point, it didn't matter. We weren't going down so easily. I was ready to fight for my life. If I was going to die in this dimension, then I was going to die with my friends!
And Dipper... he seemed to sense the danger of his words too. But there he was, smiling, and ready to take on the demon one last time. "Trust us. We've beat him before..."
"... and we'll beat him again!" The three of us high fived before turning to look up at Bill. "Hey! Bill! Come and get us, you pointy jerk!" We ran underneath him, and heard the demon growl, his rage spiking to dangerous levels. Okay, okay, so now he's beyond ticked at us-scratch that. Me. Now we just had to run like heck and try not to die. Simple! Mabel paused to blow a raspberry at him before rejoining us down one of the endless corridors, and I couldn't help but throw an insult back at him.
"This way, you trigonometric reject!" Oh, I am so gonna die! Taking their hands, I pulled them down a hall on the left, just as a massive bang came from behind us. As Dipper and Mabel ran, almost pulling me along due to my limp, I chose to make the grave mistake of looking back. What I saw... was about of twisted, and grotesque as what I saw in the Nightmare Realm.
It was like the monster that lived inside that husk was trying to spill out. His form was divided into three sections, revealing blackened muscles and the same slimy, slithering tongues that I saw lap up the blood of the creature he snapped in half for his next meal. While he had only the one pair of legs, he had more than enough arms, resembling a horrific version of some kind of spider. All around the edges of the bottom and middle part of him, when it stretched to meet the next piece were those same, razor sharp teeth that could rip you to bloody shreds. Only the color suited his angry form more. His limbs were glowing yellow along with his hat, his body was red, and his slit pupil was golden in a sea of darkness. P-pupils. Each side of him had an eye, s-so no matter where we were... he was going to find us.
The pillars around us were torn down as Bill barged past, strength knowing no more bounds. "When I get my hands on you kids, I'm gonna DISASSEMBLE YOUR MOLECULES!" Holy-MOVE! Dipper took a sharp turn to the right, dragging me and Mabel with him. As we came to a stop below another hallway going upwards, Mabel quickly took out her grappling gun from her sweater's pocket. Hurry, hurry, hurry! "You've tricked me for the last time!" I saw the yellow glow lash out towards us, but Mabel brought us up out of his grasp before he could nab us. Screaming, we flew through the air as Bill gave a loud roar. With a swing, Mabel launched us down into a vent-like hall, snapping the cable back to her as we took off running again to put some distance between us and Bill. There was no way Cipher could follow us through that without shrinking in size, and it appeared he knew that too. His massive black and yellow eyeball lit up the entrance behind us, narrowed in angry annoyance, before moving on through the Fearamid.
"H-he's gonna find another way around," I panted, shoulders shaking. What are we gonna do now? No matter where we go, he's going to keep hunting us down, one by one. What are... we... hmm. "I-I have an idea." And it... wasn't one I was proud of. I knelt down to their height, resting a hand on both of their shoulders. "Listen, Dipper, Mabel, I-I'm gonna try and divert him away from you. Get him as far away from you while you go and find the rest of the town, o-okay?"
"Elaine, are you insane?" Dipper probably would have been screaming out the question, had it not been for the fact we were trying to hide from said monster at the moment. Monster. How much had our p-partnership changed to where I no longer saw him as someone I trusted. As the d-demon he really was. "Y-you can't go hunting him down! He'll kill you!"
I know... I know that very well. "But... but it's a risk I'm willing to make. I-I know for a fact, that the moment we started this plan that it was gonna turn into a suicide mission. W-we were all ready to give our lives for this town, a-and so am I. E-even if this wasn't my world at the start, it is now. I am ready to die, and if it means guiding the triangular devil away from you, then so be it." Mabel sniffed and launched herself at me, wrapping her arms around my torso in a death grip.
"Ellie, please. We can't do this without you," she mumbled into my collar. Dipper's face was torn. Part of him knew I had to do this, and that no amount of pleading would stop me. The other side... was the part that was my best friend, and the boy who had that massive crush on me. The boy who would stay by my side no matter what.
"I'm sorry, Mabel. I really am." I pressed my lips to her forehead, hugging her tightly before releasing her and sprinting off down the hall away from them. I heard her shouts behind me, begging for me to come back, only to be held back by Dipper. My heart beat loudly in my chest, from nerves and guilt. There was no way I could turn around, and see their faces now. I was so, so sorry. But I had put so much danger into their lives by making my deal with Bill. I had to make things right. I had to get him away from my twins... n-no matter what. The tunnel branched off again, and I darted off to the right. He was going to find me, no matter what. My brand kept burning, broiling my flesh with his magic. H-he was trying to locate me through our connection. He was trying to use me to find them. Just keep running, Elaine! Keep running! KEEP RUNNING! Whatever I did now, was reliant on trying to get as far away from Dipper and Mabel as possible. I had to get as far away from them as possible, to lure him away. The ground shook for a moment, and I stumbled onto my knees for a brief second. Don't stop, idiot! Springing up, I launched forward as fast as I could-
"GOTCHA!" The shriveled glowing hand lashed out, snapping around my body and yanking me into the air with sharp reflexes that I could not avoid. Shrieking at the top of my lungs as the fingers tightened around my form, pinning my arms and legs together, I was lifted high into the air and away from the safety of the floor. A tunnel, one I hadn't even noticed, was right above my head. A perfect spot for the spider to lie in wait for his prey. The eye stared at me, unblinking with such hatred and rage that I would have been dead on the spot. All of his arms were stretched out round the triangular hallway, keeping him high above the ground, with his legs dangling under him. "Angel," he voice was low, warning. His eye quickly glanced ahead of me, and narrowed when it returned. He was searching for them, and did not like it when he came up empty. "Where are they?" His hand clenched, and I gasped as the air left my lungs. The moment stars began to appear in my vision, he loosened enough for me to breathe. Barely. "Where. Are they?"
"Go... to... hell," I wheezed. "I will... never tell you... anything. Ever again." Fishing into my pocket with my hand pinned to my side, I carefully slid the knife back out. Giving my own small sadistic grin, I stabbed him in his hand and twisted the blade. The demon shrieked, dropping me in surprise. What I didn't count on was for another hand to snap out and catch me just as quickly. My knife was still in my hand, but with his tightened grip, I couldn't move it around again. The demon growled, bringing me straight up to his face as his red color deepened. Just ke-keep him distracted. No matter what happens, don't let him leave.
"You just don't know when to QUIT, do ya!?" His index finger traced my jawline, letting his claw draw a thin line of blood. Grimacing through the pain, I refused to let up. For the twins. For Dipper and Mabel. Y-you got this."Monster, am I? You must be an idiot to not have figured that out sooner. Well, tell me, my 'dear', is this enough of a monster for you?" His index finger traveled down to my side, shuffling the tank top and flannel under his nail before his eye gleamed.
And he stabbed the claw straight through the clothes and into my body, wiggling it to pierce it deep into my side.
"AAAHHHH!" Pain. Pain that I had never even imagined coursed through me, igniting every nerve, every feeling I ever had. My body wasn't my own at that moment, thrashing without my own thinking, going on its own work. Blood leaked from the wound, but it was his hand that still held me that kept me from possibly bleeding out right then and there. MASON! MABEL! HELP ME! HELP! My thoughts were not my own. They were screeching; begging for help, as I wailed uncontrollably in his grasp.
"Those two brats aren't gonna save you this time." His arms were twitching madly, grabbing at each other as to try and contain himse-contain? Wh-what...? The eyes on the sides, while the one on the back was unreachable to my blurred sight, showed the faintest, faintest form of regret. But the eye that was centered on me was the one in control, watching in twisted enjoyment. "You betrayed me. And I don't let my puppets leave that easily." His nail slowly retracted from me, letting the red blood begin to fall and stain my clothes. I sagged forward, no longer having the strength to keep myself upright.
Bloody and watery tears stung, blurring my vision. "B... Bill..." a loud boom echoed from the hall I was about to dart through, and Bill's eye twisted in a sick 'smile'.
Dipper and Mabel. No. No! "Found them," he mockingly sang. His arms released him from the roof, and he began crawling as fast as he could towards their direction. Pillars tumbled as he pushed off of them to propel himself forward, not caring for the destruction he brought to his own castle. As he gave chase, the demon kept me close to his face, watching the energy drain from away fro me. I-I doubted it'd be the death of me at the moment, with how he was keeping the wound compressed with his hand, but the blood lose was going to make... me... stay... awake...
My head slumped against his hand, eyes glazing over. "You... wanted power, Bill. You tortured... my friends and fam-family, you destroyed my town, a-and what you d-did to me... eugh... you wanted absolute power, and... you go-got it." I didn't believe I was aware of my own words. I think I was rambling out of my head right now; out of it altogether. "You're j-just as bad as the c-circles from your... world. H-heartless, and soulless, j-just like y-you... wanted. Hope you're happy, yooou sick... siiick..." the insult fizzled out with the rest of my strength, leaving me a rag doll in his hand.
I was still awake, yes, but only in mind. I was trapped inside myself, watching the demon hunt down my friends. My energy had finally depleted, but my mind was still active enough to function and watch. Every few seconds, Bill's red color flickered. From the deep shade of rage he was now, to a small speckling of yellow. Conflicting 'feelings', no doubt. But... did it really matter to me? I was semi-conscious. Semi-lifeless. Bill's demonic form shifted around me as I laid in his hand, reforming with several disturbing snaps into his familiar yellow husk. The three sections snapped together, twisting to reform his two dimensional body and retract the mouths and tongues. Arms were willfully vanished, and the four eyes, on on every side of his monstrous body, rammed together to recreate the one singular. His pupil darted to me, and I felt the tip of his sharpened nail brush a trail of tears from my cheek, tears that he caused.
Maintaining his larger size, he walked towards a ledge that fell at his eye-level, lifting me up to see my friends stare out in horror at the ruined Shacktron far below. Dipper. Mabel! Run, get out of there! "Peek-a-boo!" His eye lit up in a yellow light, and as he stepped back, my heart twisted as they were caught inside the tractor beam. His hand that held me opened enough to grab the children, and I heard Dipper scream my name as they were pressed against my bloodied body. The terrified brunettes shouted my name, but couldn't reach me in our current position. The three of us were carried back down the hall, and the twins fought against the blackened appendage, trying to us break free. Elaine, wake up! I internally screamed. You gotta snap out of it! Forget the pain! Forget what Bill's put you through! If you don't do something, Dipper and Mabel will...!
I blinked, multiple times, and felt my heart begin to speed up. Second wind. Finally. "Alright, Ford," Bill spoke. He ducked under the roof of the hall and stepped into the main room. Stan and Ford were trapped in a cage just like ours, staring up at us in terror. "Time's up. I've got the kids. I think I'm gonna kill one of 'em now just for the heck of it!" Wh-what!? "EENIE..." a red light shone out of the demon's eye, glowing around us, and I finally forced myself to spin around and look up at the triangle. In the dead center of the red glow was the pine tree symbol. "MEENIE..." a shooting star. N-no! Please, No! "MINEE..." the twins froze as they whirled around. The last word... ended on the shooting star. NO! MABEL! "... YOU!"
"NO!" I shrieked the word, and immediately... blood sprayed from my mouth in a harsh ragged cough. The demon stopped short, hand freezing inches from snapping his claws. Dipper and Mabel stared at me in horror, and I could hear Stan and Ford screaming my name far below.
"Elaine!" My body hung limply from the demon's hand, the crimson liquid dripping from my mouth and running down my chin. I'm... I'm dying. Blood was getting into my lungs from where he stabbed me. I-I was going to die, in this monster's hand with... with the twins watching.
"Angel?" I could hear the question in Bill's voice, and his hand's grip loosen. "Kid?" Oh sure, now you care?
"Heh... hehe... y-you win, Bill. Guess... guess that deal really was th-" another ragged cough, and globs of congealed blood came up and splattered against his blackened skin. "-death of me." I felt the wind rush past me, and I felt the cold feel of the Fearamid's bricks under me as I was laid down. Dipper and Mabel shook me, having been dropped as well, and I felt tears drip onto my red skin. Their faces hung over my head, and all I could do was stare up at them. Their faces were flushed, and tears were welling up in the corners of Mabel's eyes.
"Elaine, you gotta wake up, okay?" Dipper begged, hands on my shoulders while his sister gripped my left arm. "Look at me. You're-you're going to be fine." Mabel didn't speak, and between Dipper's pleas I heard the grunkles pound on the glowing blue cage, wanting to break out. Through glazed eyes, I looked upwards at the ceiling, past their heads. Bill, still at his larger size stared down. It was like everything that he just went through, hunting down me and the twins and threatening to off us just... stopped. Why... why did he stop trying to kill Mabel? Was it because I was going to die anyway, and that would be enough for him?
"Dang it, Cipher! Let us out! She'll die if she doesn't get that wound stitched up!" Ford snarled.
I heard a desperate shout from Dipper, and saw a blackened finger brush against the side of my face. "Kid?"
"All... your fault... hehe." I felt fluid well up in my throat, and I was tilted onto my side so as to not choke on it. By him, or the twins, I couldn't tell.
You know... I was very ready to die. When I thought tha-that I was never getting out of the Fearamid, and was to be doomed by the demon's hands, I-I had accepted death because I-I was broken. My will was drained, and I-I saw no hope.
But... I got out. I-I fell yes, but I got out. I found my friends, my family, and stumbled back to my feet. Broken? Yes. Traumatized? Definitely. But... but I wasn't completely destroyed. I led our way to getting the townsfolk back, and freeing Ford.
When I found out way back with the monster fight in the Mystery Shack, the one where Stan was away on Cash Wheel, that I could d-die there, I kept that in the back of my mind on every adventure. The risks were real, and I knew that. But... but I couldn't stop that. I had to keep going, and keep my friends safe.
But I'm... not ready to die... not like this. In front of Dipper and Mabel, and Stan and Ford. This image, of my bloodied and beaten body, carved into their minds.
A crackling sound, like static electricity, ripped through the air. My eyes, while glazed over, looked up along with the twins'. Bill's body, now it's smaller and familiar size, landed on the floor in a thud petrified in stone. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain sear across my head. Is he... what do you think you're doing?
I am NOT letting you die. You're mine, Angel. I don't care how you feel about it, or your protests, but I refuse to let this waste of organic cells give up so easily. I-I won't let you die on me.
"Heh... a-all according to p-plan..." the blue cage, without Bill's focus, descended into the ground. Stan and Ford sprinted towards us, sliding to a stop as my breathing turned worsened.
"Kid! Kid, you're going to be fine, alright? Just stay with us." My face screwed up in confusion at Ford's words, before a light bulb went off in my head.
"Y-you... you switched clothes. Y-you were going to let B-Bill possess Stan." Dipper and Mabel stared at me, and looked to their uncles in shock, who mimicked their expressions.
Ford, in Stan's clothes, was surprised. Did he really think no one would figure it out? Though, it didn't seem that Bill would catch on, as he was so wrapped up in the moment. "How did you piece that together?"
A small, but sly smile graced me. "Six fingers." He looked down at his hands, and chuckled. "I-I can't distract him for l-long. I-I-I'm trying to keep my mind bl-blank for as long as I can." I wrapped my hand around Dipper's wrist, keeping him in place. "You... you got to erase-"
"No!" Ford's shout cut me off, making Mabel jump and drop my arm. "Elaine, this fight isn't your own anymore. Just let Bill leave your mind, and we can take care of this."
I quirked my brow, somehow still managing an unamused look despite my pain. "Er... erasing Stan's mind is fixing it?" Dipper and Mabel now appeared to fully catch what I was saying, and stared at Grunkle Stan in horror.
"You were going to let your mind get erased?" Dipper almost yelled.
I didn't let Stan argue back, and pointed to the abandoned bags on the floor, where I knew the memory gun was. "Th... there isn't m-much time left. Bill's trying to maintain my body as we speak, h-healing it from within. O-once you rid him, everything wi-will reset. You... get me to a hospital as f-f-fast as you c... can."
"But what if that doesn't work!?" Mabel shrieked, tears running down her face. "Elaine, you can't just leave us here!" Her rapid breathing, coming out in sob-filled gasps paused as I lifted my other hand to rest upon her cheek.
"Th... then it w-" another cough, and I saw the blood splatter my wrist as it was held in front of me. "... it was worth... making sure my Mystery Twins were safe." I tiredly looked up at Stan and Ford, who kept quiet. Stan looked about to protest, but he saw that I was serious. I-I had to go through with this. "H-hurry..."
Ford got up without a word, and walked over to the bag. As he walked over, we saw him inputting the information into the dial. "M-Mabel... Dipper... p-promise me, that this won-won't stop you from ge-getting out there, and d-" I gasped, trying to refill my lungs. "Doing stuff, alright? Do-don't be scared."
"Ellie..." Mabel whimpered. Dipper, with his freed hand, took my other hand and placed it back over mine.
"We won't." He was so close to tears, but still kept calm. Mabel lowered her hands atop of mine, and we all piled them together. "M-Mystery Kids?"
"... Mystery... Kids." I locked eyes with Ford, and nodded. "Do it." You're going down, Bill. The last thought that faced through my head as the beam struck me, and possibly the last Bill would ever hear from me. Everything hurt as the bright blue light blinded me, but I did not scream. Scenes from the summer flashed through my head, as it was like they were ripped from my brain. ANGEL! He was furious. Enraged. But... but I was glad. I got myself away from a toxic relationship, and I kept my twins safe. What the hell do you think you're doing!? Get in here!
I barely had time to blink before everything finally went black, and I was booted into the Mindscape by the demon. Teetering on the edge of life and death was messing with my head, and letting myself get pulled in was not as difficult as it normally would've been. My mind, once a lush and active meadow filled with flowers and blue skies, was crumbling around me. Around the edge, and inching closer and closer was a burning ring of blue flames. The golden ponds were churning a black foam, splashing wildly and soaking the grass around their edges. And there, right in the middle and waving his hand around was Bill himself. "Why isn't this working!?" He shrieked, going to grip at his head. Suddenly realizing he wasn't alone, he whirled around to face me. "YOU!"
"Me," I stated, finding myself to be... calm. Deadly calm. "It's over, Cipher."
"Over!? You-you idiot! Angel, don't you realize that you're dooming yourself along with me!? You aren't going to survive this!" I nodded, and sat gently down on the grass. The crackle of the flames drew near, and Bill's form suddenly began to glitch. Twisting and shifting into disturbing forms that I had not seen.
"Maybe, yeah, but at least my friends will be safe. I... I have redeemed myself. Heh. Not much I can say about you though." The ring was closer now, and the demon screeched as it began to burn at his body. "This is what you get. This is what you deserve. F-for trying to kill my friends. For playing Ford for a fool all those years ago. For me," I growled out the end. "For all of the pain, and suffering I went through during these last few days. I let you trick me, but not anymore."
Bill's form was fading in and out, and in a last ditch effort flew at me, arm stretched out in desperation and fear. Fear. Huh. Never thought I'd live to see that expression in his eye. I-I did pity him, slightly. In all those nice moments, I did enjoy his company. But in these last few days... he crossed the line. He assaulted me, destroyed my town, tortured Ford... and tried to kill Dipper and Mabel. All of those have overpowered the good moments. And now...
"AAANGGEEEL!" He screeched, and just as he neared me... now... it's time to show I've won our little game, Bill. I slowly opened my palm, bringing my hand upwards with a deep breath... and used what little energy I had left to summon a fire spell, said in a faint whisper. "Ignis." The ball appeared in the center of my hand exploded, the blast scorching through his very being. "AAAHHH!" The red flames ripped through him, puncturing his triangular body until Bill Cipher, one of the most feared beings in the multiverse... was gone. Erased.
"Gone just like a... a thought in the head. Hehe... knew that spell was going to come in handy one day." Who would've thought that... the spell he taught me would be his undoing. The ring was closing in now, and I felt the heat wrap around me like a blanket. Closing my eyes, I sighed deeply. Those three mistakes that I thought about during our time at the pool and dealing with the merman... entering the wrong dimension, making a deal with the demon, and having the time of my life with the twins and... well, part of that third one was now incorrect, but... but the rest still stood fast. I did have a good time, and... and I hoped the twins did too. "Guess... guess I made a good choice in going against the rules after all." A final image of two brightened smiles; a shooting star sweater, and a pine tree hat flashed through my head... and everything went dark.
"... I... win."
This is the longest chapter of the anthology to date. Why? Because it's copy-and-paste, and an absolute feels trip. A chapter, in which Elaine shows little pity for the demon and offs him in Stan's place... I loved this way more than I should.
I have finally edited chapters 10 to 12 of GFA, but like the ones before it, they will be stored up until I reach chapter 20. By then, I'll post all updates. Got to say, I'm pretty proud of how it's going. Slow, yes, but the added details makes it more fun to read-in my opinion-and increased the word count. I've ended up surpassing 400 000 words by changing those last few chapters! If I get to 500 000 by the end of it all, I think I'm gonna scream.
Next chapter, we go into computers and demons. Until next time!
Angel