Something had began to hang over the town of Gravity Falls. People where beginning to act more aggressive to their neighbors, they started feeling more pulls to greed, and gave themselves a sense that they were better than the other citizens. It was as if a shadow was hanging over the town, pressing down on it's residents. What does this have to do with two very special humans, a fairy, and a incarcerated angel? Well…read it and find out, stupid.
At the Shack
Dipper, Mabel, and Trixie were sitting in the Shack, it hadn't been an entirely good day. People hadn't been very kind when Trixie put on her magic show, recently a lot of people had been acting like they were angry for no reason. The only thing that really stopped them from feeling worse was Mabel's buoyant spirit and brace filled smile.
"Smile. Smile... I SAID SMILE BRO BRO!"
Mabel yelled in Dippers face, and Trixie giggled seeing him, though mildly annoyed, still having trouble suppressing a grin.
"He, he… ow Mabel, that hurt my ears."
Mabel had told them that just a little smile would make them feel better, Trixie was still giggling, so she obviously was feeling happier, and even though Dippers ears were hurting, he had to admit, he felt better.
A bell rang as the door to the Shack opened and Sam walked in.
"Hey guys, how you feeling?"
"Well we were feeling pretty bad after what my audience said while I was doing my show, but Mabel's taken care of that."
"The key is smiling… and yelling in your brothers face until his ears hurt."
"I thought so."
Sam paused for a moment, then spoke.
"Have you guys been noticing that people seem to be acting more aggressive?"
"Nope!"
Mabel said this right as Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland got into such a heated argument that they became locked in each others death grip.
"See those two are hugging."
Mabel said this completely oblivious.
"Okay... Dipper, does your book say anything about seeing invisible things?"
"Um, yeah."*Takes out book 3*"It says that because some things in this town can't be seen by normal sight that he's included a number of ways to see them. Why are you asking?"
"Because I had been noticing the people acting strange lately, but today a fight broke out, and this kind of living black smoke flew away from it. No one else seemed to notice it, and because my powers let me see invisible things, I'm pretty sure that the people couldn't see it. So long story short, I want to find a way that will let you see these things, so we can identify them, and find out if they're causing the problems around town."
Trixie wasn't convinced.
"People are grumpy, so you suspect invisible black smoke of being the nefarious cause? Sammy, you sound just as paranoid as Dipper."
"Hey! I'm not paranoid!"
"Got to side with Dipper on this Trixie. He's been attacked by gnomes, wax statues, a videogame character, a grimoblin, and a whole lot more. He's also been beat up by supernatural means, kidnapped more times then I care to count, and almost had his tongue cut out with a pair of sheep shears. After all that, I don't think he deserves to be called paranoid."
Sam turned to Dipper and Mabel.
"If she's not going to help us solve the mystery, then are two going to help me?"
"Of course, dude."
"Yey! Mystery Twins, Mystery Twins!"
The three of them ran out the door so quickly Trixie wasn't sure what happened. A second later, she went after them.
At the Gravity Falls lake
The book said that there was many ways to see invisible things: such as being born the seventh son of a seventh son, looking through a stone with a hole in it that was from a river bed, applying a special ointment to the eyes. But because those methods took time and effort to achieve, they had fallowed a map to a pair of "magic goggles" that were hidden under a rock by the lake.
"Okay, lets see if these things work."
The goggles were made out of leather and had a series of lenses that could be rotated out to allow for the wearer to see different things. There was also dials on both sides which the user could adjust, but for what was unclear.
Dipper put them on and Mabel giggled at how much of a nerd he looked like. Dipper on the other hand gasped.
"Mabel, you look like a rainbow threw up on you."
"Thank you."
"Wait what are you talking about?"
Mabel always dressed colorful, but rainbow puke? Trixie didn't get it at all. So Dipper took off the goggles and put them on her.
"Wow!"
The setting the goggles were on let the wearer see auras, and Mabel's did look like a rainbow upchucked on her. She turned it to the two boys, they both had several colors surrounding them, but with a single dominate color that was most visible. Dipper was primarily a handsome shade of royal blue, while Sam was surrounded by this unique and deep blue/green.
"This is awesome. You guys look so… pretty."
She might have chosen that word to irritate Dipper, who did not like being called pretty. He took the goggles back and toyed with some of the settings and didn't get much out of it.
"Okay Sam, lets see if there's any truth to this black smoke."
Main Street
There WAS truth to what Sam had said, a lot of truth. A average person would never have noticed the black smoke flying around in flocks above them, but with the goggles on, it was all too obvious for Dipper that these things were nasty. Everyone else was oblivious to the creatures zooming about.
"Do you these things often?"
Dipper took out book 3 three and started looking through it while Sam answered the question.
"Sometimes there's a few, but never this many. Got anything in there about them?"
"About what?"
The boys let the girls take a look at them.
"Oh crud!"
"Those things look grumpy."
While the girls gocked at the creatures, Dipper had reach a page in the book about them.
"These are imps."
"What?"
Dipper read from the book.
"The smoke things are imps. They're spirits that poke at the emotions of other creatures, they normally are solitary, so if they're behaving in groups, then there's something giving them orders."
"If they're getting orders then how do we find who's giving them?"
"Um... fallow them around until we find something?"
"Works for me."
They went after another flock of imps, without noticing a man nearby who flicked his tongue in and out, tasting something in the air.
The man was dressed in shorts, and a black shirt, and somehow had almost nothing describable at all in his appearance. He walked around a corner and to the Town Hall. He went through the hallways until he came to a door labeled "Do Not Enter."
He turned its handle and went inside.
"Yes?"
The room was filled with a long table surround by chairs, that had replica of Gravity Falls in the middle of it. There was only one person in there, and he was wondering what Caw had come here to tell him.
"There was a group of children examining the imps, they seemed to have found a way to see them."
"Alright. I get the feeling that you have more to tell me."
"Yes sir. There was a taste of Pure magic clinging to two of the four children, and a third one giving it off."
The one who Caw had come to see walked up to him, he was significantly smaller than Caw, mainly because he was only 13, but despite this he still commanded respect, and a little bit of fear.
"Pure magic? Take the others, and go catch all four of them. A fairy could undo what we've been using the imps for."
"Yes sir."
With that Caw left his superior to alert the others of their orders, when he was outside, he turned himself invisible, and manifested the wings of a great raven, flying to where he was sent to. When he had left, the 13 year old sat down and thought to himself as he ran his pale hand through his dirty blond hair.
It was rare that a fairy could handle a demon, even a lesser one like Caw, but a few that strong still existed, that's why he had sent all the ones that recognized him as master. All that served him were lesser demons, but still had their full strength, and even with almost all of his power suppressed, they still feared him. They had good reason to.
The kid reached into his pocket and placed the contents on the table. There was toy soldier he had found on the street, a broken pencil he had snapped when he was angry, and some crumpled pieces of paper with which he had made notes to himself on yesterday.
He looked at all of the garbage laying on the table and concentrated. His grey eyes glowed yellow and all of it turned to ash, he smiled seeing this, for he barely had to concentrate at all. That meant he was getting better, soon he would be ready make them remember his name.
To make them remember Azazel.
Our Heroes
The imps had gone to an area near the outside of town, where less people were likely to be. The four kids had fallowed them as best they could, but because Sam was the only one who could see them without the goggles, the others were just going wherever he went.
The imps had turned and gone over a bridge, and Sam led the others, intending to cross over it, but they were stopped by a large man. Soon there was others to their right, and their left, and behind them.
"Hello dear children. My name is Caw, and my master has instructed me to take you to him."
There was an absolute silents from them for a moment, then Trixie spoke up.
"Uhm... That's not gonna happen."
"You are not being given a choice little fairy."
"What?!"
"I'm saying that you either come with us calmly, or we take you four. Your Pure magic will not help you, so please come, as much as I love a fight, we do not have to hurt you."
"Oh, really?"
Trixie clenched her fists and brought her arm up, then she made a motion like she was throwing something, and a orb of light blue magic went at Caw. She hadn't put much power in it, and that was a mistake.
He raised his hand and there was a flash of purple light, sending the attack away from him. He then gave her a glare, his eyes glowing purple, and Trixie doubled over in pain. Caw gave a silent command to the imps, and they started to come to them.
"Restrain them all."
The demons came closer to them, and hoping to get a strike in, Sam let out his wings and went for the one called Caw. It didn't go well, Caw sent him back with the force of his mind, then fired of a bolt of purple light at him. Before it struck, Sams right eye glowed, and a shield of royal blue light surrounded him.
"An incarcerated angel. If you were free of that body you might be able to beat us. Perhaps we can help with that."
The imps were getting closer, one of the demons that had come there with Caw, and who's name shall not be mentioned because he is about to make a mistake so terrible he is destroyed and really doesn't need any development as a character, had gone after Trixie and Mabel.
"Hey don't touch them!"
Dipper had jumped at the demon who is being kept nameless, he even got a good punch in, right on its nose. He stumbled away from them, and a moment later, his face was contorted with rage.
"Filthy animal!"
He brought his hand across Dippers face, and when Sam saw that and that he was about to strike again, white hot fury swelled inside. He felt his eyes burning with light, his mind not thinking straight, and inside his head it felt as if walls were coming down and power and memory started gushing forth from behind them. Attacking Sams best friend, and calling him a filthy animal, was the mistake that condemned these demons to defeat.
The angry demon was about to hit Dipper again, but was stopped by a much angrier angel. Sams face shined like lightning, his body looked like polished metal(and right now, was just as strong as it) that shined with a inner light, and when he spoke his voice quiet literally sounded like thunder.
"YOU DARE RAISE YOUR HAND AGAINST THE KING?!"
Sam grabbed the demons arm and tore it off. It wasn't as graphic as it sounds, he yanked and it came off turning into black smoke as it did. Sam then brought his fists down on top of it, and the now very terrified demon exploded into black smoke.
The other fallen had retreated back.
"HRARR!"
As the flock of imps finally arrived and passed over the bridge, Sam had made a motion up with his hands, and great cracks opened up in the bridge as water rose up and turned to ice. The imps were frozen, along with a demon, destroying its physical form and sending it away.
Sam then turned around to another enemy, the rage still controlling him, and let loose a inferno. The flames incinerating it. To his right, he fired a massive lightning bolt and took out a forth enemy. To his left he raised his hand as a demon with a dogs head and chickens feet (he had changed his form from a human one, to something a little more "practical") came at him. Turquoise light erupted from Sams hand and the demon was gone.
Sam then brought his head back and let out a sound so intense that any nearby glass would shatter, and charged the biggest one of his opponents.
This one took to the sky, but its black wings were built like a sparrows, and weren't made for fighting in the air like Sams hawk wings. Sam caught him instantly and brought him around sending him right at another of his enemies. When they crashed into each other Sam let a out a fireball so large they were both destroyed. Now there was only two left.
This demon sent a sphere of lime green light at the berserk angel, but Sam did something that not even and an immortal being as old as this one had ever seen. He caught the sphere and threw it back.
As this demon staggered back from the force of his own attack, Sam was upon him, striking the monster across its face. The demon went down and Sam punched him repeatedly with his metal like fists, bringing them together for a final blow, and he roared as his fist lit up with a turquoise light and were brought down.
There was a explosion of lime green light from the demon he had struck, and a imprint of the demon he had been burnt into the ground complete with wings spread wide.
Caw had been watching the angel fight, he new that this was an incarcerated angel, and even if he was berserk like this, the majority of his power was locked away from him, just like Caws master, and if he could bring out the rest of it, he could defeat a lot more then a few lesser fallen. This made him a danger to their plans, and had to be stopped.
Caws eyes burnt with purple light, and his body became like polished black metal. He spread his wings and went for Sam as he defeated Arun, a purple angel-blade formed in his hands. He new that he needed to catch the angel off guard, and would have to do more then just destroy his physical form, that would just send him away for a little bit and unlock his full power as he regained his memories and came back. To win he needed something that would cut deeper, into his angelic form, defeating him longer and making him wait while his power returned to him. That's what the angel-blade was for.
Caw came from behind grinning wickedly, he had never beaten an angel before, and now wasn't any different.
Sam turned and reached out his hand, then brought it over and down to the ground. When he did that, Caw became gripped by the 13 year olds mind and was hurtled around and pinned to the ground by it. A angel-blade appeared in Sams hand, and he pounced on Caw, bringing his sword down.
"NO!"
Caw exploded in purple light and and an imprint of his form was seared into the ground. Sam just stood there starring at the trace the fallen had left behind.
"Sam! Sam!"
Dipper, Mabel, and Trixie were running towards the still glowing Sam.
"YARR!"
Sam turned around, sword raised to strike.
"Wow!"
The all jumped back.
"Sammy it's us, come on, put the sword away, and calm down."
Sam stood stood there, a look of anger still on his face (Or maybe it wasn't. When your face looks like lightning, it's hard to tell), he breathed deeply and slowly the glow went away, and his eyes stopped burning with light.
"There we go. Come on, lets get out of here."
They moved towards him, but he jumped back. He looked terrified, more terrified then someone who had just defeated a group of demons should look. He then disappeared right before their eyes.