Time for more Not A Unicorn!
Bill knew that he would be getting his powers back soon.
A week to be exact.
So, that meant he had seven days left at the Mystery Shack. But he wanted to stay forever. He quickly got ready and went downstairs. He ran into Mabel on the way there. "Hey Shooting Star! What's up?" He greeted.
"Bill you can't come down here!" Mabel whisper shouted. "Grunkle Stan doesn't know about you yet and..." She gestured to all of him.
"What? Why did you just gesture to all of me?" Bill asked.
"Well you look like the triangle guy! You know, the corn chip?" Mabel said.
"Do not call me Corn Chip." Bill said.
"Well, you can't come down here." Mabel said.
Bill smelt something from the kitchen. "Are those...pancakes? You're eating them without me?"
"I'll bring you some!" Mabel said.
"Fine." Bill pouted as he walked up the stairs and back to his room. "You try to kill someone once and everyone thinks you're the bad guy." Bill muttered to himself as he plopped on his bed. He could still smell the pancakes from his room. He groaned into his pillow. "I need some pancakes." He muttered.
But he had a lot more to think about besides pancakes.
His powers were coming back soon and he was going to have to leave. He was keeping his end of the deal.
But he felt like breaking it.
No, he couldn't break his promise with the Pine's twins. He was going to leave once he got his powers back and that was it.
"Hey Bill I brought the pancakes." Mabel whispered as she opened he door, carrying his long-awaited pancakes.
He just stayed on his bed, staring up at the ceiling. "Thanks Shooting Star." He said.
"What's wrong?" Mabel asked placing the pancakes on the desk.
"Dream demon problems." Bill muttered.
"Oh." Mabel said. "Well, here are your pancakes." She said.
"Thanks." Bill said from under his blanket.
"What's wrong Bill?" Mabel asked again.
"A lot of stuff." Bill replied.
"You can tell me Bill." Mabel said patting him.
"I'm getting my powers back in a week." Bill said coming out of the blanket.
"Oh...well that's not bad." Mabel said, trying to stay positive. She kept a fake smile on.
Bill noticed it though. "I guess." He muttered. "So, what are we going to do today?" He said trying to brighten the mood. He grabbed his pancakes and started eating them.
"Well I was planning on going to the mall again." Mabel said.
"Fine let's go." Bill said finishing his pancakes.
"Yay! The mall!" Mabel cheered.
"Whoopee." Bill groaned.
"Oh come on! The mall can be fun!" Mabel said. "Let's go to the food court!"
"But we just had breakfast." Bill said.
"There's a place called Only Sugar and I love what they serve." Mabel said.
"Lemme guess, only sugar." Bill said.
"Correct! Let's go!" Mabel cheered.
"Mabel I don't feel like doing anything today." Bill said shoving his hands in his pockets.
Mabel turned around. "Why?"
"Reasons." He muttered.
"Come on Bill, what's wrong?" Mabel pestered.
Bill couldn't take it anymore. "I wanna stay here! Like this! A human! I'm tired of being a stupid dream demon that's destined to be killed by none other than you and everyone else on the Cipher Wheel! And I-I...UGH!" Bill sat down on the conveniently place couch and put his head in his hands.
"You don't have to go." Mabel sat awkwardly patting his back.
"Your brother's gonna hold me to it. And if Stan finds out I'll have to go right away." Bill muttered.
"We'll convince them." Mabel said.
"I'm a dream demon Mabel. Plus your Grunkle and I go way back. He hates me." Bill said.
"Then let's make this week the best week of your life!" Mabel declared.
"What?" Bill asked.
"Let's do what you want! So, what do you want to do?" Mabel asked.
Bill thought for a moment. "How about we go on a mystery hunt with your brother."
"Sure! Let's go!" Mabel said dragging Bill out of the mall.
She ran all the way back to the Shack.
"How...can you...run that...fast." Bill said in between breaths.
"I'm on 20 shots of Mabel Juice." Mabel explained.
"Mabel Juice." Bill muttered.
"Oh Dipper!" Mabel called. "Me and Bill want to go on a mystery hunt!
"A mystery hunt?" Dipper replied sticking his head out the window. "Ok! I'll be right down.
There was a series of crashes coming from the Mystery Shack.
Dipper came out. "I'm ready!" He said. "I was looking at the journal and I found this weird page. It's a wheel-"
"A wheel?" Bill interrupted. He went over and looked at the book. Sure enough it was the Cipher Wheel. "That's the Cipher Wheel, Pine Tree."
"Cipher Wheel?" Dipper questioned. "Hey look it's the symbol on my hat! A...pine tree." Dipper said noticing the nickname Bill called him.
Mabel walked over to the journal. "Hey that's the...shooting star on one of my sweaters." Mabel said, also noticing the nickname Bill called her.
"And that's the symbol on Stan's fez! And the question mark on Soos's shirt!" Dipper exclaimed. "Bill, what is this?"
"This my friends, is the Cipher Wheel. A group of people destined to defeat me." Bill said.
"Oh..." Dipper said.
"You know what?" Bill said. "I'm not in the mood for a mystery hunt right now! So I'm going to my room." He said walking into the Shack.
"Bill wait!" Mabel called.
Dipper stopped her from leaving. "Leave him. He needs some time alone."
"But...ok." Mabel sighed giving in.
Bill plopped onto his bed. He had just given away the secret of how to defeat him. Like he cared. He would be in his demon form and he would rather die than hurt his Shooting Star.
"What am I going to do?" He muttered to himself.
He really wanted to stay. But if he had to leave, he would leave. Only for his Shooting Star.
Only for Mabel.