After crossing the portal, the first thing that Diana noticed is that her heartbeat spiked, and recovered after one minute. The second thing, and the most obvious, is that she was successful in getting on a new universe… and she was surrounded by two teenagers with guns.
- Who are you and from where? – The male teenager asked, without hesitation.
- I am Diana from Universe number 4541525448. Are we in universe number 4752415646?
- Yes – said the teenager again, putting the weapon down – we are going interview you, for securities reasons. Follow Mabel – pointing at the girl.
Mabel helped Diana getting up, and she escorted her into another room, that was down a floor. Their facilities were very big, actually, and it seems that they were in the water, as the floor moved a little bit.
When they arrived in front a door that read "Stanford Pines", she called his door. When he opened, she said that was a "Code 001 – Neutral Approach" and he invited me to go inside.
She sat on the only chair in front of the desk, and Ford offered her a cup of tea. She accepted.
- Well, from what universe are you from, again? – He said, while pouring two cups of tea.
- I am from universe 4541525448.
- I've never heard about that one. How did you come here? – He asked, approaching the desk with their cups.
- From a magic mirror – she received the cup – Thanks.
- Is there magic in your world? – He sat on his chair.
- Yes. In our world, Yggdrasil grew from the seed of creation, and gave rise to all the magic until the Great Age of Magic finished, with the slowly disappearance of the tree. The branches remained, and those gave magic to us through the Sorcerer's Stone – She liked the tea, she'd never tasted something like that – How do you have access to portals, if is not based on magic?
- Well… I'm the guy to blame for – he said, turning to a photo with the teens, but at a younger age - A demon convinced me to create a portal, and invade the world. He existed in a place called the "mindscape", a physical landscape of a person's mind, but he wanted to enter the reality. And he did, actually, but was destroyed after a weird sequence of events – Diana sipped the tea – Is it weird that you aren't surprise? – he returned to Diana.
- This is my first inter…dimensional travel that I take, so, I'm quite surprise by everything. Where we are?
- You're in the Giant Stan O' War, a cruise ship powered by water which is in the middle of the ocean. We are in the ocean because in our world there isn't any kind of magic; however there are places with anomalies in which something could go wrong, as people from other universes coming here. If you listened to Mabel, she said "neutral approach", but not everyone is neutral. In fact, you are the exception – after that, Diana was relief, a little bit – Why are you here?
- I am investigating other universes and their properties; maybe I could get something from here to get better, academically, in magic and as a person.
- I like the way you think… ehm, how is your name?
- Diana Cavendish
He choked when he heard the last name, but he recovered quickly and didn't mention what it was. He looked again, and he remembered that color hair and that look in her eyes. Definitely he knew from what family she was.
- Shall I go back into my world, and come back again? – she broke the awkward wall – There is someone worried for me, and she could something stupid if I don't come back and tell her that it's all okay.
- No problem girl, come with me.
They went back into the previous room, and opened the portal. It was totally different from her experience. It was a bigger portal, and the opening way was via computer. She crossed the portal and there she was. Her girlfriend wasn't worried or anything. Instead, she was quite surprised.
- Wow, you returned quickly. It didn't work, did it? – Akko said, teasing her.
- What? How long was I out? – Diana genuinely asked.
- You went out for like 6 seconds.
What. Diana almost felt off with that declaration. That meant that time passed differently between universes… that was a great opportunity to explore, actually.
- I was there for six minutes, actually.
Now the shocked one was Akko. Diana laughed.
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Ursulla sighed calmed when Diana crossed the portal within seconds. It seems that they received her quite peaceful, which was a plus. He left the room when the two started talking, and she knew that if Diana went back again, she would know how to come back.
She went to bed, as it was already too late. But before, she noted the number Diana shouted to the mirror. "Quattuor, septem, quinque, duo, quattuor, unus, quinque, sex, quattuor, sex".
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- I want to go inside for the entire hour, actually – Diana said, excited.
- Wait Diana, how much time is that? – Akko said, grabbing her arm.
- It's going to be 6PM in two minutes…
- We could go for… 62 hours, or like 2 days and 14 hours.
- That's a little bit too much.
- Well… you are going to lose the cruise ship for two days…
- What?!
Diana grinned, she got her.
- It seems that the people doing the investigation over there are in a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean… - she turned her head over Akko
- … Go on! – She broke her thick wall, and was excited as she normally is.
- From what I saw, it's very big. I want to go and investigate it a little more. Do you want to come over with me?
- Of course, silly! – Akko said, and he was worried again looking at the mirror – oh yeah, how I go inside the portal?
- Get in front of it.
Akko did what she said.
- Now, you have to say some magic words in Latin. "Ego autem stulti Diana".
- What does it means? – Akko said with excitement and fear
Diana pushed Akko into the portal, and immediately she crossed the portal by walk.
- It means "I'm Diana's fool", and welcome back Mabel.
Akko was as afraid as she could be. First, the heartbeat on the roof caused by the portal; Second, the image of two teenagers pointing at her. When Diana crossed the portal, they putted down the gun.
- I'm Diana, from universe 4541525448. She is Akko, my classmate and girlfriend. Akko, I do not know who he is, but she is Mabel – she noticed that this time, Stanford was in the door waiting – Oh, and the man over there is Stanford.
- My name is Dipper – said the teenager, and Mabel laughed softly.
Stanford approached to us.
- What are you two going to do?
- I was going to ask to investigate a little bit this new world with Akko for a couple of days.
- How many days?
- We shall return in two days and fourteen hours.
- Is there something that we could get from this… deal? – This time, Dipper was who questioned.
- I have not think about something we could give back, but maybe you could go to our universe, in a future. Or maybe, if you need our services as witches, we could do anything involving magic.
That was the first time that the world witch, and magic, was heard by Dipper and Mabel, and their reactions were different. Dipper reacted quite surprised, and Mabel on the other hand reacted very excited. They were real witches, with real magic.
- What do you say, Dipper? – Stanford asked the boy, and it seems that he was okay with the idea.
- I'm into it. It could benefit both of us – he was talking to Diana and Akko – follow me, I'm going to tour both of you to some parts of the ship.
Stanford went in the same path that I went with Mabel the first time, while Mabel and Dipper went to us to the third deck.