I know you guys are all worried about poor Soos and stuff, but I need to answer things first.
Chi-Chi's Poptart: Alright, thank you so much for your input. You actually gave me information that I did not know before. It was super helpful. I'm sensitive about those types of things, but if it's more about humor then being super serious about it, then it's probably okay.
Neurtrino 2000: Glad you liked it. And I also hate cliffies unless it's me who's torturing people with them.
TylarSphinx97: Soos is a pirate ninja. Most of the time.
Kk: Since you reviewed, like, three times (thx btw!) I'm going to smush it all into one. #1) I totally understand when you get into a fanfiction and totally can't stop. Happens to me all the time. Then I squish all my excitement into one review. The result: An hour-long review. Really glad you're enjoying this. I love my little Nico, but I just couldn't see him fitting into the story. And alas, Thalia will not come into this either. This story is wrapping up. I'm getting to the last chapters. And the chances of new characters being introduced into this is very slim (though Chiron might come in through an IM). #3) YESSS! I MADE SOMEONE HATE ME! Mission accomplished! XD . #2) Yep. TMNT and Danny Phantom. Danny Phantom is about a half-ghost who's parents are ghost hunters and he tried to fight ghost. I wrote an one shot for it. But be warned: If I do end up writing it, I can assure you it's going to be absolutely terrible. Why? Because I don't watch either of the shows. Everything will be OC. I have a TMNT/PJ buried somewhere in my folders. Looking back, I realize I made the TMNT so OC it would burn anyone's eyes. I might go back and edit it. The story line is interesting. Percy Jackson gets captured by the Shredder. Happy stuff. But anyways! I'll add you to the votes!
I know my responses seem a bit rushed, short, and at times random. But I'm tired. Stayed up 'til three am writing this for you guys. On a school night, too. My goal is to get to bed by one tonight. So you better enjoy this... or else! *cues Garry the Snail playing an organ in the background dramatically*
Leo coughed, and he removed his hand to see blood spots. It seemed like the entire outside world was spinning. Or was he spinning? Or was this the outside world, and the other world the inside world? He didn't know anymore. He was fading. He was feeling his memories slowly being erased. No, not erased. No, they were faded. Erased means disappeared. Faded meant fuzzy. Wait, did faded mean fuzzy? What was faded? What was fuzzy? Was his name Fuzzy?
"No!" he screamed at himself, "Y-you are n-not named Fuzz-Fuzzy! Get ah-ahold of yourself-f, Valdez!"
Yes, yes. His name was Leo Valdez. His memories were fuzzy, not gone. They were hard to recall, but he could if he tried.
Leo was still recovering from his last 'Flicker', as he decided to call it. He had one, and the next thing he knew, there was a fat guy on top of him. 'Question Mark. His name is Question Mark.'
No, no. Not Question Mark. That was a nick name. But Leo didn't care. All he cared about was that he remembered.
He was slipping. Leo could feel it. But he couldn't let go. He didn't know why, he just couldn't.
No, wait, he did know why. His friends needed him. 'What friends?' The Seven, of course. 'Do they really need you?'
Yes, they did. No, wait…
Leo held his head in his hands, 'I don't know anymore.'
A stab of pain went through Leo. He moved his wrists too much. But Leo was used to pain at this point. Yes, yes. Lots of pain. Bucket loads of pain. And more on the way.
Bill was using too much of his energy. It was amazing he held on this long. It kept getting harder and harder, but Leo could be surprisingly stubborn when needed. And this was certainly a time needed.
He believed the only reason he didn't die yet was because his wounds remained frozen in place. It took up energy and he bled, but his body didn't react to it. He wasn't bleeding as much as he should, any hits to the head didn't knock him unconscious or damage his brain, and his heart wasn't slowing down or anything. His body was working exactly the same, but it still hurt like Hades. Since his body was at a standstill, nothing healed either. If he ever regained control over his body, everything will come at him at once. His brain would probably explode from the overload of messages it will get.
Okay, not really. But whatever will happen will not be good.
Thinking of brains made Leo remember all the awful things Bill showed him. He also showed him not so terrible things. But those were the worse. It was too much. Bill would overload too much in his brain at once. Way too much. It hurt his head. He couldn't even comprehend it.
Leo shook the memories off. So many memories…
"St-stop it you. St-stop th-thinking about it."
Great, talking to himself now. There's your first sign of insanity, Valdez.
Leo shook his head again and looked up, hoping to get his mind off things. Bill had somehow gotten out from under the human barricade and was raising a sword above him. Leo winced as he saw the sword go through Question Mark's leg. The man-child screamed in horror, surprise, and pain. Bill made it deep enough to wound him to the point of no longer fighting, but not so deep it would kill him. As much as that stab seemed random and unplanned, it was actually very calculated and precise. Bill even made sure not to stab any vital parts. But Soos was still stabbed by Celestial Bronze, and if left unattended, that fact alone could kill him.
Annabeth screamed in rage and tackled Bill to the ground. He pushed her off and raised his sword to block her attack. They got up and stood in defensive positions. They circled each other with their weapons of steel. 'Actually, it's Celestial Bronze,' Leo thought to himself. Well, yeah. But steel sounds cooler, He argued back.
Yep, he was defiantly going insane.
Leo forced himself to pay attention. Bill laughed, "JUST ME AND YOU, GREY. YOUR BRAINS VERSUS MY FLAMING SUPER BODY AND ALL-KNOWING INTELLIGENCE. YEAH, IT'S DEFINATLY GOING TO BE CLOSE ONE."
Annabeth glowered, "I've faced worse than you."
"AHAHAHAHHAHA! IF YOU'RE STILL BELIEVING THAT, THEN YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T KNOW ME VERY WELL."
"A-and you o-obviously don't kn-kn-know her very w-well either," Leo thought in a desperate attempt to scare Bill off.
"NO ONE ASKED YOUR OPINION, SPARKS. BESIDES, YOU CAN HARDLY REMEMBER GREY'S NAME, MUCH LESS HER POWER AND CAPABILITIES."
Annabeth interrupted them from their hourly arguing, "Are you going to fight me or stand there like the coward you are?"
Leo felt annoyance go through Bill, "ALRIGHTY THEN, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT. JEEZ, GREY. IF I WERE YOU, I WOULDN'T BE SO PUSHY FOR MY DOOM." Bill raised his sword and charged. Annabeth used her knife to block and rolled under his arm.
"NOT BAD, GREY. NOT BAD."
"Told y-y-you s-she ha-had skill."
"SKILL IS NO MORE THAN AN ILLUSION TO SEPERATE GOOD AND BAD CAPABITIES. IT'S RELATIVE."
"If y-you w-w-want to argue, you n-need to d-do it in non b-b-boring Eng-English."
"AT LEAST I CAN SPEAK A FULL SENTENCE WITHOUT TRIPPING OVER MY OWN WORDS."
Leo winced, "Th-that was a low bl-bl-blow."
"LOW BLOWS ARE RELATIVE."
Annabeth had no idea about the other conversation, but she did know Bill was momentarily distracted. Taking the opportunity, she charged and sliced Bill's arm. Bill laughed and swung Percy's sword at Annabeth, and she parried. The wound disappeared and Leo hissed in pain. This was a wound from Celestial Bronze. It was defiantly going to hurt later.
They were doing a full on sword fight now. Or was if knife fight? Sword/Knife fight? Whatever. A full on blade fight. It was full of blocks, parries, stabs, jabs, and all the other fancy sword-fight terms.
Grey—err, Annabeth—was good, but Bill had fire and million years' worth of knowledge on it. But the thing that slowed him down was that Bill never practiced the moves himself, he was just trying to copy the moves from memories. Bill was using most of his energy trying to remember, so Leo was seeing all the memories as well. He clutched his head and groaned. He saw everything on sword fighting. Every skill, technique, preference, and move in the galaxy. No, not just from the galaxy, from every dimension, too.
For a parry, he saw how to do it if you were left handed or right handed. Then he saw how to do it with different swords. Then he saw each person's preferences, like where each person placed the pinkie or how different people hold it and stuff like that. Then Leo would see how to say 'parry' in different languages. Then he will see… well, you get the idea. But all of this was processed under a second, and that was just for one move. Leo couldn't see how Bill could stand it.
"S-Shut up y-your f-f-freaking mind, B-Bill," Leo groaned.
Bill ignored him. He was too busy with not dying.
Annabeth finally found an opening and slashed Beo across the chest. Not deep enough to kill, but enough to hurt.
Bill kneed Annabeth in the ribs and looked at his wound in annoyance. He tried to make the wound disappear, but it only flickered and came back. When Bill tried the second time, it disappeared completely and reappeared on Mental Leo's chest.
"Wha… What does that mean?" Annabeth asked wide eyed.
Bill narrowed his eyes, "IT MEANS WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME."
Then he started to attack Annabeth with a new ferocity and focus Leo had never seen Bill do before. He usually did everything cockily and lazily, even when he was fighting Annabeth before he did it with a smile. But now… it was almost he was afraid of something.
Afraid of what, though?
Then Bill got an opening, and he stabbed Annabeth in her fighting arm. She let go of her knife and clutched her bleeding arm. She looked up, defeated. Bill smiled maliciously, "GOOD NIGHT, GREY." He raised the butt of Percy's sword and hit her on the head. Her eyes rolled backwards and she crumpled to the ground.
Bill stretched and yawned, "FINALLY! THAT TOOK WAY LONGER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE. I NEED TO HURRY UP OR SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE VERY ANGRY!"
One by one, Bill dragged the humans back to their places at the poles. The ones who were conscious or regained consciousness was too weak or dazed to fight back. Bill used Percy's sword to force them to move back to the poles. He didn't even bother tying them back up. They were too weak for even the possibly of escape.
Bill walked up to Question Mark and huffed. He passed out from the sword wound. Bill grabbed one of Question Mark's ginormous hands and pulled. "GEEZ, QUESTION MARK, LAY DOWN ON THE INFINITY PIZZA, WOULD YOU?"
Finally, everyone was at their places. Beo got the gasoline and poured a circle around the perimeter of the poles. Then he took out the rocks and made a smaller circle in the center of the area. He balanced a candle on top of each of the rocks and lit them on fire. Then he lit the ring of gasoline on fire too.
He took out the strange crystal, and reaching on his tippy-toes, managed to balance it on his throne-seat thing. The sun shone through it, creating a ringlet of light in the middle of the candles.
Bill got the sheet of paper and the ink, and wrote down strange symbols on it. The paper blazed blue for a moment but then turned back to normal.
Then, finally, came the stone and knife. Leo shuddered and Bill smiled.
Beo walked up to each person, taking their hand and carved symbols on the back of their palm. Dipper got a Pine Tree, Sixer got a hand, Percy got a fish, and so on and so forth. Then he would take the hand and almost used it as a stamp to mark the stone. Soon, the stone was covered in blood.
Bill took the paper and covered it up. He put it in the small ringlet of light from the crystal, and it lit in blue fire. Bill started to chant.
"Sanguine redemptum mandet humo, cruor terram. Ossa in pulverem, pulverem harena. Vita luto, luto ad vitam. Acceptes donaria, rursus restitui!"
The rock blazed and everything on fire turned blue. He took the knife and raised it, "Separata a reliquo mundo, da mihi potestatem, et ut adferremus magicae!" He took the knife and stabbed it in the ground. A large crack appeared and spread around perimeters of the gasoline, raising the area up above a few inches and moving it away from the edges. Bill's entire body flashed red.
"Ut harum entitatum conteram obice inter mundos, quod partum a rimula uirtutem per tempus et spatium. Create concactus ignotos solum habuisset, ut magni stellae cadent. Et erit terra in caelum et rubri maris et erit terra sitienti. Timeatis bestiae sicut uno oculo!" Storm clouds twirled above and changed into the color red. Small rocks and pebbles floated skyward. Bill drew the knife from the ground and raised his hands skyward, "Mundi absorbet hominis... Gravitas falls!"
Earth wrapped around his friends, nearly all of the regained consciousness by now. Those who were trying to stand were brought down by tendrils of dirt. Bill turned to them, knife in hand, and smiled wickedly, "Sacrificium tuum adducam potestatem."
Leo didn't need to have a Google Translator to know what Bill meant: its sacrifice time.
'Nother cliffy! You guys better get used to this. It's going to be pretty much cliffies here on out.
And sorry if this seems short and full of Latin gibberish. If any of you care enough to translate it to English, know this: it sounded cooler before it was Latinvised.
Anyways, yeah. I feel like the characters in this was choppy and the chapter was sketchy. I tried to make Leo and Bill more in character, but I think that just made it worse. But I don't feel like rewriting this.
You guys are very lucky to have this chapter. I actually gave up on this story. Seriously. I was swept away by Gravity Falls Blinded AU and couldn't stop thinking about it. Finally I was like, "Screw this story" and started typing to my heart's content. But after I let my creative juices out, I forced myself to sit down and type this. I also stumbled on a writers block for the Blinded AU thing. (Does anyone know why Ivan took Dipper?) But the point is, this story is back on it's feet and I'm no longer even considering giving up on this.
Speaking of AU's, I have an account on Deviantart. My profile name is, unsurprisingly, EmPro8. And I came up with a backstory for Bill. I'm drawing pictures and intro pages and everything. Super proud of myself :) . But if you guys want to go check it out, just look up EmPro8 on Google and click on the Deviantart tab thingy. I would really like it if you guys' checked it out and gave me your opinions. :D
Votes:
1. GF/DP: After having a very serious fight with a certain somebody, Dipper is transported to DP's dimension, where he is stuck for several years before finally meeting Danny. But Dipper's like, really untrusting and stuff. A LOT of hurt/comfort and angst. depressed!Dipper. (1)
2. GF/AvatarTLA: Ford is teleported to the Avatar's dimension, but because of his amazing abilities, he becomes very important to the Fire Nation. They force him to do stuff, and Aang finds him and tries to help him escape. I need to know which episodes of ATLA to base this in. Preferably when the Fire Nation is building many machines and Aang is somewhere near/in the fire nation. (2)
3. TMNT/GF: TMNT are captured by the GiW, and they meet a very depressed Danny. (2)
Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! And if you didn't, don't be afraid to tell me so! Favers and Followers are Great, but Reviewers are my Favorite! Review!
I do not own Gravity Falls, Percy Jackson, Avatar the Last Airbender, TMNT, Danny Phantom, Deviantart, or Google. If I did, I would be a billionaire. I am not a billionaire.