Chapter 28
Meanwhile, Dipper got down from the platform and everyone was cheering for him.
"Well well, Dipper Pines can sing," Wendy laughed as she patted him on the back. "Are you OK though?" she asked with sorrow in her face.
"All the hours of Disco Girl in the shower did finally pay off," he laughed. "Don't worry I'm fine." He shrugged it off.
"If you say so... Back to the bar or wanna bust the buffet?" Wendy proposed.
"Food sounds nice," he replied as both headed to the Orange room.
They ate and drank for a while then they heard someone talking through the microphone.
"Hello? One, two, one, two. Can you all hear me?"
"Whose voice is that?" Wendy wondered.
"Not Mabel's for sure... Come on this can't be good." Dipper put his plate aside and headed out to the main hall where Jennifer was on the platform.
"Fuck no..." he sighed.
"That's the girl you dumped right?" Wendy asked. "What is she doing here?"
In that moment Mabel came to them.
"I didn't invite her," Mabel stated right away.
"Everyone is invited, I just never thought she would actually come," Dipper sighed as they kept listening to their unwanted guest.
"Now that I've your attention! I've an important announcement to make! I need Dipper Pines to come over to the platform" the girl announced.
Everyone cheered probably thinking it was some kind of show. Dipper obliged and got as near as he could to the platform without actually stepping up on it.
"You are not invited, what do you want?" he yelled annoyed.
"I just want everyone to know who you are!" Jennifer yelled over the speakers.
"If this is because I didn't want to go out with you it's not gonna work!" he replied.
The guests laughed.
"Keep laughing! I will show you that Dipper Pines isn't what he seems to be!" She pulled out a bottle of what seemed to be water. "Dipper Pines is a monster and I will prove it! This mix is supposed to reveal the true form of any supernatural being!" Without any more words she emptied the bottle over Dipper's head while the audience gasped.
Dipper was rather unimpressed, just soaked. "I hope this is water... " he said as he sniffed his shirt.
"But this is holy water... " Jennifer murmured.
"Hey nut job! Get down!" Wendy yelled, throwing a plastic cup.
"The Pines ain't monsters you freak!" came from a random guest.
"The Pines family saved us from weirdmageddon!" another guest yelled.
"Weirdma..what?" Jennifer was confused. "I'm telling you! He is a monster!"
Everyone started booing her and a security guard packed, pulling her away from the platform and taking her out of the mansion.
Mabel immediately went back to the platform. "Sorry for that guys... Now please keep partying! DJ, hit it!" The loud electronic music started playing again and the crowd dispersed.
"Dipper did you do something to her?" Mabel immediately asked as she stepped down from the platform.
"I... " Dipper scratched the back of his head. "After the 60s party she wouldn't let me leave and I was drunk... So I kinda pushed her away..." he murmured.
"What do you mean with pushed!?" Mabel yelled.
"I pushed her away you know... " He made a flicking move with his hand. "That kind of pushed".
"You are not supposed to do that ughh," Mabel grunted as she hit her brother on the shoulder.
"Nothing happened so chill..." Dipper answered.
"Still just... This could have gone so wrong… Behave please... And go look after the police guys once in a while, they are creepy," Mabel uttered.
"I will... " he sighed.
Meanwhile outside.
A time police officer came running to the chief.
"Chief the culprit has been spotted in town..."
"What? Where?!" Dundgren was alarmed.
"Just a few miles from here, in the woods."
"Do we have any men in that area?!" the chief yelled.
"The purple squad should be there."
The chief immediately started talking to his watch.
"Purple squad, please come in."
Without an answer.
"Purple squad, status." He tried to reach them again.
"Chief! Zero here." There was finally a response.
"Status now!" He demanded.
"Culprit detected and recognized! The team has been wiped out! GO BACK ASAP IT'S NOT WORT… AGHH" There was a tearing sound and everything went silent again.
"Officer?! Come in!" The chief demanded again. "Zero! Come in!... What did we just get into..."
In that moment Dipper headed to the chief.
"Hey Dundgren," Dipper uttered.
"Its chief now," he sighed.
"Whatever... When are you and your guys going? I don't know what to tell the guests" Dipper said annoyed.
"You can't seem to understand the danger you are in!" the chief yelled.
"You ain't telling me what's happening so how am I supposed to understand?!" Dipper argued back.
Dundgren sighed, "Look kid... We are not sure... There is a sudden anomaly in this era and somehow your family is always involved."
"So it's just a guess?" Dipper answered unimpressed.
"Yes... But we have an idea who might be behind it and with time baby gone it could mean the end of the world as we know it."
"Aha... It's not the first time Gravity Falls has seen the end of the world, so call me when you know something otherwise stay out of sight!" Dipper demanded.
"But..."
"No buts!" Dipper yelled as he went in.
He sighed and headed to the main hall again where the dance floor was, he was already tipsy but not drunk. He started dancing with some girls; being the birthday kid sure had its perks.
Then, after a few minutes, the guests started looking out of the main hall windows.
"Are we getting a light show?" a random voice in the crowd asked.
Dipper immediately ran to the windows, seeing how the troops were already shooting with their laser arm cannons at an almost invisible target, which was walking directly towards the mansion.
"Shit... " Dipper said out loud, immediately getting Mabel, Pacifica, Candy, Grenda, and Wendy together.
He explained what the chief just told him and how they might be under attack.
"Pacifica you keep all the guests away from the windows! Keep them all in the east hall! They don't have to know about this! " Dipper ordered. Pacifica nodded and did as told, taking Grenda and Candy with her to help.
As the guests were all gone to the east hall far away from the 'light show', Dipper looked out of the window seeing the blood path the intruder was leaving.
"The rest find weapons! Now! Upstairs should be enough, bring them all down!" he yelled as he ran outside to see the last standing line of officers getting brutally slaughtered.
"Pines get in!" Dundgren immediately ordered as he saw the teen leaving the house. The second he looked away, a hand pierced through his chest leaving Dundgren stunned for a moment before he closed his eyes and was dropped to the floor by the figure.
Dipper ran back in, closing the giant doors behind him. In that moment, Mabel and Wendy came back with all the weapons they could find. Most of them were medieval but they would have to work.
"So what are we fighting against?" Wendy asked.
"I don't know..." Dipper sighed.
There was a sudden banging on the door, hard enough to almost break it. Everyone picked a weapon. Dipper decided to stick with the medieval two-handed sword.
As the doors almost broke in two, six black arms swallowed the doors, finally tearing them apart revealing the figure that was standing behind, this time visible with a wide grin on his face.
"Piiiiinetreeee~" the voice echoed in the room. The creature this voice came from was barely human; it resonated as two voices. Its form was humanoid, but with completely black skin with white lines that illuminated the body randomly changing colour. It didn't look like Bill, the six arms and long black hair definitely differed from Bill's original human form. A glowing yellow third eye especially caught Dipper's attention. The body resembled the look of Bill's pyramid in weirdmageddon... The same black with a glowing pyramid pattern… Just humanoid.
"Bill... " Dipper was petrified, almost letting his sword drop to the ground.
The demon simply laughed as he licked his blood covered hand. "Swords, how cute, do you really think that is going to hurt me?!"
"You... You are Bill... What is wrong with you!?" Dipper yelled in disbelief.
"Wrong? Pinetree I'm feeling better than ever! After years of being trapped in that stupid statue I'm finally free!"
"Dipper that isn't the Bill we know!" Mabel exclaimed.
"Oh... Shooting star I almost didn't see you there. How fun, it seems like I get to kill two for one!" The demon broke out in hysterical laughter, and with that the room slowly started being engulfed in total darkness, separating the west from the east hall of the mansion. The guests at the party would never notice a thing.
"To the upper floor now!" Dipper demanded from the two girls as he took his ring off. Mabel and Wendy immediately ran upstairs with Dipper tearing the chandelier from the ceiling so it would fall on Bill before running behind the two girls.
"Oh... New tricks Pinetree... How cute" The demon simply flicked the chandelier away with his hand, slowly going to the upper floor as well without actually rushing. "Did you give up on years of your life so you could seriously move a few objects with your mind?" he laughed.
Dipper separated from Wendy and Mabel so they wouldn't be in danger, slowly but surely reaching a dead end in the narrow west hall of the mansion. He could clearly hear the voice calling for him.
"Oh... Piiineeetree, come on out so I can play with you," Bill's voiced echoed through the hall.
Dipper was already in fighting stance when suddenly Bill appeared behind him.
"Found you."
Dipper could feel the eerie grin behind his back. He tried to slash Bill with his sword as he turned around, which was useless since the demon simply stopped the blade with his hand and threw it away. Bill pinned Dipper against the wall by his throat slowly lifting him up by it. Chains took over for Bill one on each extremity of Dipper's body and one on his neck leaving him defenseless.
Bill took his time looking at Dipper, slowly examining every inch of his body.
"Who knew that Dipper Pines would turn out to be a decent man one day." The demon laughed as he caressed Dipper's cheek, then slowly making a cut into it with his nails. "How about I keep you as my pet?" the demon offered.
"Just snap out of it... Goddammit Bill please tell me this is a joke!" Dipper begged as his eyes watered.
"You are acting pretty freely in front of the person that is about to kill you Pines" The demon leaned in to lick the blood off Dipper's cheek.
"Don't you remember the summer?! The time we spent together?! Are you telling me you don't remember us?!" Dipper yelled as he broke down in tears.
"Did someone hit you in the head Pinetree?" the demon asked.
"You ain't the Bill we know…" Dipper sobbed.
"Listen kid, I've been trapped in that stupid statue for 6 years thanks to your stupid family!" The demon pulled Dipper by the chain in his neck. "When I am done playing with you, I will move to your sister, then the rest of your family! This time I will be sure to kill everyone in this fucking town as I move!"
"Hey asshole!" Wendy announced before she shot Bill with one of the laser arm cannons. Mabel followed doing the same. The lasers hit Bill creating major wounds on the black body which immediately regenerated.
"Cute... " Bill grinned before he pierced his hand through Dipper's chest, making him grunt in excruciating pain. Mabel let out an awful shriek as she saw her brother being hurt, to the point where she almost puked and let her laser arm cannon drop to the floor.
"Run... " Dipper could barely talk.
Bill snapped his fingers which made the chains disappear, letting Dipper's body drop to the floor.
I'm sorry... I'm just putting more salt on the wound xD For those who haven't noticed I added some small notes on almost each chapter just like I do on AO3~
For those who don't know viciousxmistress is doing a comic based of this fanfic or her Tumblr and Deviantart.
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