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Disclaimers: I do not own Gravity Falls
Author's Note's: Okay guys if you haven't heard all my stories are on hold until this one is finished. Fortunately I plan to be done with it by the 14th if Writer's block doesn't ruin it. So here we go with chapter 16!
(The next morning...)
Dipper groaned as he rose from his bed; stretching with a loud yawn. "Morning Mabel." He froze when he got no answer. "Mabel?"
"Di-Di-pper!" Came his sister's shaken voice.
Dipper's brow rose in confusion, why was his sister voice sounding so distressed? Dipper opened his eyes and soon got his answer.
He was floating, practically levitating off the ground. "Whoa!" Dipper exclaimed.
"Dipper what's going on?" Mabel exclaimed as she and their bed room furniture began to float with him.
"I don't know!" Dipper exclaimed. "I can't get down!"
"Me either!" Mabel screamed.
"Hey what's going on up her-Holly Moses?" Stan exclaimed as he walked into the room only to imminently start defying the laws of gravity.
"Grunkle Stan!" Mabel yelled. "What's going on?"
"It's happening." Stan exclaimed.
"What?" Dipper shouted in shock, Stan knew this was going to happen? "What's happening?" No answer.
"Grunkle Stan!" Mabel cried. "Do something!"
"Ford get in here and fix this!" Stan yelled over their shouts.
A sound of loud footsteps can be heard then suddenly Ford comes bursting through the door only to end up joining them in the air.
"Ford what's happening!" Dipper screamed.
"It's okay Dipper just calm down and focus." Ford assured him. "You can stop this you just got to focus."
"Wait I'm…I'm doing this?" Dipper was amazed. "But how?"
"Listen I'll explain in a minute, but right now you have to focus!" Ford warned.
Dipper could feel himself panicking, he could do magic, sure most kids would be thrilled; but not Dipper. For this magical power only reminded him of those dreams he so desperately tried to forget, and how the monster would tell him it was he who was killing those people. 'Did I really kill them?' he wondered. 'What if I did?'
'I told you it was you kid, but you didn't listen to me!' the monster's voice chuckled.
"No!" Dipper screamed.
"Dipper calm down!" Ford pushed himself over to him and embraced him. Dipper froze.
"It's okay Dipper." He assured him. "I am here, we all are."
Mabel and Stan pushed their way over to them and embraced them as well, and to Dipper's surprise he felt himself calming down.
Suddenly Dipper, the furniture and everyone else floated back down neatly to the floor. "See I told you, you could do it." Ford praised.
"Not bad knuckle head." Stan agreed.
"Wait, whoa Mabel here, hi I got a question." Mabel said calmly and then shouted. "What the flip is going on here?!"
"Calm down Mabel we can explain, in fact I think it's time we did just that." Ford said.
"Really?" Stan asked. "I mean I know the old lady said we could, but shouldn't we wait for the Order?" Stan asked.
"Old lady? Order?" Dipper exclaimed. "Stan Ford what's going on!?"
"It's fine, we'll explain everything." Ford assured him. "Over breakfast." He added.
"Alright squirts down stairs!" Stan ordered.
Mabel and Dipper do as their told, and follow the Stan twins to the kitchen where Doctor Michel is making plates of pancakes.
"AH Stan why is the doctor making us breakfast?" Mabel asked dumbly.
"Well I kind of lied about being a Doctor." Michel answered for Stan as he placed full plates of pancakes at their places at the table; they all sit down.
"Wait if you aren't a Doctor then who are you?" Dipper asked.
"My name is Michel Wormwood." Michel told him. "And I am the leader of a secret society. A society whose sole purpose is to protect Time Babies gift to our realm."
"Gift what gift?" Dipper asked.
"Long ago in a forgotten future, Time Baby took over our realm and others promising to unite the entire Multiverse in an era of peace." Michel explained. "But one Realm did not want to have peace."
"The Nightmare Realm." Dipper guessed.
"Exactly they tried to ruin his plans," Michel went on. "Putting one person against the other and causing mischief across the stars, but no one had it bad as Earth Realm. Being the closest realm to theirs the demons tortured our lives often, and unlike other realms we possessed no magic except the little that leaked into our world from others. We had no way to defend ourselves from the enemy, so Time Baby created a gift. He chose over six dozen constellations to be born in the Spirit of a child."
"These children were called Star Children." Ford cut in. "And Time Baby gave them the power to protect our world from demons, but the demons found a flaw in their design."
"What do you mean flaw?" Mabel asked.
"Well the demons found out that if they could trick the children into making deals with them promising to give the demon their body, mind, and soul; that the demon could consume them completely absorbing their power as their own, and killing the Children in the process." Ford said.
"In order to stop them Time Baby created the Order my Society, The Guardians of the Stars to guide the children through their destiny." Michel added. "But alas none of them reach their true purpose, they were all absorbed."
"All but one." Stan corrected him. "The Big Dipper."
"What-What are you saying?" Dipper asked. "Are you saying I'm-" he couldn't finish. How could he? "No I can't be." He muttered.
"But you are." Ford told him. "You see Dipper these Star Children can be identified by a distinct birth mark on their Foreheads. Their Mark is the set of Stars that represent the Constellation they come from."
"So you think Dipper is some magical being here to protect us all just because he just happens to have a birth mark that resembles the Big Dipper?" Mabel asked, stunned.
"Not think." Ford corrected her. "We know, after all if he wasn't Mekhi wouldn't have been able to awaken his powers."
"Wait you mean the Oracle from my dream did this to me?" Dipper asked.
"So you do remember?" Michel was amazed. "You are a strong one."
Dipper breathed a sigh of relief. 'If she just gave me theses' powers than theirs no way it's me killing those people in my dreams cause I couldn't use magic then.' He realized.
"Yes you'll make an excellent replacement for Time Baby." Michel went on his words drawing Dipper back to reality.
"Wait what!" he and Mabel exclaimed in unison.
"Oh come on now Time Baby could manipulate time, of course he knew one day Bill would kill him. He knew he'd need someone to take his place, however unlike him the other time giants were cruel and evil; he could not trust them."
"So he created you instead." Ford said putting his hand on Dipper's shoulder.
"But I'm only 13!" Dipper exclaimed. "How am I supposed to rule the multiverse?"
"We'll teach you kid." Stan assured him. "That is what the Order is here for to protect you, and teach you; until you're ready to do so for us."
"But you have to let us help." Ford said.
"What do you mean?" Dipper asked.
"Dipper the Oracle told us your prophecy." Ford answered.
"Prophecy?" Dipper asked.
"Tonight the rain returns, our hope is a new at the sight of the falling Dipper's bright light." Michel said reciting the woman's words from Dipper's dream. "But alas this joy will not last. His birth shall mark a time of serenity and a world of darkness. A deal will be struck with the king of dreams, gravity shall fall and earth will become sky, fear the beast with just one eye. As soon as the sky turns red, a broken promise shall cause the world's end. But the love of a brother will save us all. And Upon the day the mark is revealed, a resurfaced destiny shall bring the fall of a false god and the rise of what was once forgotten."
"That's my prophecy?" Dipper asked. "Ford what is Bill's Prophecy doing in mine?"
"Dipper Mekhi believes Bill is going to be the demon that tries to take you" Ford explained.
"That's impossible we destroyed him!" Mabel yelled.
"No we didn't." Dipper said. Everyone around him froze.
"Dipper how do you know that?" Ford asked.
"I…"Dipper began.
'Don't you dare kid!' the monster hissed. 'You tell them and it will ruin everything!'
He felt so stupid!
How could he not have suspected it before now! 'Bill?' he asked the beast rather dumbly.
'No you idiot it's some other demon you've ticked off!' the monster snapped.
"Dipper how do you know Bill is alive." Ford yelled. "Because he's the one behind the murders." Dipper said.
'I'm warning you kid keep talking!' Bill warned. "What?" they all exclaimed.
"I don't know how but he's killing them and taking their souls, I keep having dreams about it." Dipper exclaimed tears streaming from his eyes. "I know I should have told you sooner, but I just wanted it all to go away!"
'Now you've done it kid!' Bill hissed. 'I'll deal with you later.' He warned. And then he was gone.
"Wait did you say he was taking their souls?" Michel asked.
"Yes." Dipper nodded.
"Oh god how didn't I see this before!" Michel exclaimed. "
Michel what is it?" Ford asked.
"I should have known!" Michel said pulling out a few newspaper clippings.
"Michel what is this?" Ford asked.
"When you told me about the murders something stricken as odd to me." Michel admitted. "So I did some research and in both murder scenes the killer wrote seeming on the door."
"Three down, and Ten to go." Dipper said. "Seven down and six to go."
"Dipper how?" Ford was stunned.
"Ever since we got back home I've had dreams of watching him kill them." Dipper admitted. "I didn't know who it was, I couldn't see their face; I watched it all play out through the killer's eyes."
"He wanted you to think it was you?" Ford was fuming. "That monster!"
"Dipper why didn't you tell us?" Mabel asked. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I wanted to pretend it wasn't real, even when the media proved it to be so I just wanted him to leave me alone." Dipper admitted.
"Well it ends now!" Stan decreased, slamming his fist on the table.
"No it's just beginning." Michel exclaimed. "Don't you see it? Can't you see what Bill is doing?"
"Michel what are you talking about." Ford asked.
"The prophecy!" Michel yelled. "You didn't follow it! You chose a different way to defeat Bill instead of using the Zodiac. Don't you see? Only the Zodiac can destroy his physical form and you didn't use it. His body is still out there and if he gets all thirteen souls he'll be strong enough to return to it!"
"That's what he's doing?" Dipper gasped.
"It's a Resurrection spell." Michel explained. "It was created by the demon named AXOLOTL the Aztecs worshiped him as their god. AXOLOTL created this spell so that as long as even a molecule of a demons physical body was left behind the demon could come back from the grave. That's why Time Baby created the Zodiac curse it's the only thing we know of that can destroy every trace of their physical form."
"Wait I remember that name." Stan said suddenly remembering.
"What name?" Ford asked.
"The Aztec God what's his face." Stan said.
"Really?" Michel asked.
"Yeah Bill said it along with some other gibberish when we were being zapped with the memory gun." Stan told them. "And then he said "I invoke the ancient power of resurrection!"
"Oh god." Mabel said as tears began to fall down her face. "Then it's true, Bill killed all those people."
"We have to find his body and destroy it with the Zodiac before he can complete his work." Michel warned. "If he regains his physical form then it will be Weirdmageddon all over again, and Dipper isn't ready to face him."
"We defeated him before." Mabel assured him. "Well do it again."
"You don't understand." Michel argued with her. "Dipper knew what he was capable of then, but now he could lift his hand the wrong way and cause an earthquake!"
"I can?" Dipper was stunned.
"If we don't teach Dipper than more harm than good will come from him fighting Bill." Michel told her "And at Bill's current rate hell have all 13 souls before we can finish training your brother."
"Michel is right we can't let Bill gain a physical form if he does than he'll be able to consume Dipper, and take back the multiverse."
"We have to find his remains now and finish this!" Michel yelled. "Then what are we waiting for?" Stan asked.
"He's right." Ford agreed. "Michel we must assemble the order and search every inch of this town!"
Bill growled as he watched the Pines and Wormwood swing into action, the gig was up they knew his plans.
And it was all Pine Tree's fault!
"You will pay for this dearly Pine Tree." He vowed his eye narrowed onto Mabel. "Starting with your Sweet, and less impressive Sister…!"
Chapter End Notes
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