Chapter 29
Mabel and Wendy ran as Bill started walking toward them. The girls left the narrow hall which barely had enough place for two people, running back to the base floor of the mansion where they still had most of the weapons, the demon following them slowly as well.
"Mabel stay behind me…" Wendy ordered as she held the gun pointing toward Bill.
"How about you two stop running…" Bill suggested in a mocking tone as he reached the base floor.
Wendy started shooting. Even when she hit, it didn't seem to have any impact on Bill. The wounds immediately closed, leaving Bill in hysterical laughter.
In that moment, Blendin came running through the door.
"Oh shit…" the small man in his grey suit exclaimed without actually being startled, simply looking at the state the mansion was in.
"Blendin?!" Mabel exclaimed, surprised why he was still here after the squad was eradicated by Bill.
"I'm so sorry…" he sighed as he picked up one of the swords that were still lying around. "Redhead aim for the eye…" he said in a low voice before he started walking toward Bill without hesitation.
"What?!" she exclaimed.
"Just do it…" he sighed once again.
"He is on our side Wendy!" Mabel exclaimed.
"Who do you think you are?!" the demon screamed as he started attacking Blendin with his arms, which apparently could extend to any length.
The small man deflected all of the attacks with the mere sword he had, actually cutting through the demon's flesh, which was quickly regenerated just as the shot wounds were.
Bill slowly started retreating to the stairs he just came down from as Blendin was slowly pushing him back, the demon could feel a ferocious aura around him.
"Pinetree, Redhead now!" Blendin yelled.
In that moment the demon was pierced from behind by Dipper, and with a spear Wendy was able to hit Bill's third eye, stunning him, and lastly, Blendin rammed his own sword directly through Bill's heart.
"You little…" the demon spurted blood from his mouth.
"That belongs to me…" Blendin said as the demon was stunned, he placed his hand on the demon's shoulder, and with that, the short man collapsed as the demon did as well.
"Dipper you are alright!" Mabel cheered as she ran to hug her brother.
"Yeah… The wound closed don't worry," he sighed as he hugged her sister and then Wendy.
"What the fuck just happened?" Wendy asked as she headed to Blendin and started poking the collapsed man.
"You are asking me?" Dipper answered sarcastically.
The unconscious man in a grey suit suddenly began moving again.
"Well at least Blendin survived…" Mabel sighed.
Blendin slowly sat up as he regained consciousness, he looked at his own hands for a moment "I'm back… finally I'm back," he pointed out in a very happy tone. Then he saw Bill's body lying on the floor.
"You deranged monster!" he yelled as he kicked the 'lifeless' body. "My body is my temple! And you have violated it twice!"
"Twice?" Dipper asked confused.
"Yeah! This psychotic piece of crap used my body to get his stupid hands on a time wish!" Blendin explained.
"Shut up Blendin… it's not like I like running with your meat suit…" Bill answered still lying on the floor.
"You shut up! You took my body without permission!" Blendin yelled.
Wendy and Mabel immediately took their fighting stances again as the demon slowly sat up, pulling out the weapons that were still stuck inside of him.
"You gave me permission… I kinda took it but it counts." Bill finally stood back straight. Without all of the holes in him, he started regaining his usual human form. It had some differences with the past body he had but roughly the same, this time with the long black hair turning back blonde, just as before, with black roots that left an ombre effect. Pretty much the same height, the same tanned skin tone as he had before, only a few more markings almost like tattoos were visible on his body before his elegant suit covered him, the same golden eyes with slitted pupils, his fangs were much more present than before and his ears were slightly more pointed.
Dipper was frozen in place, without being able to say anything. He just stood there open mouthed, staring at the changes in Bill's form. The demon stretched one final time, getting used to his body before he regained his composure. "Pinetree…" Bill said in a soft caring voice as he looked at Dipper.
The teen slowly began moving towards Bill.
"Dipper be careful…" Mabel faltered.
As they stood right in front of each other Dipper couldn't help but raise a sword to the demon's chest.
"I'm so sorry it took me so long…" Bill lamented as he took the sword by the blade, swiftly pulling it from Dipper's hand leaving him open.
"Dipper!" Wendy gasped, believing Dipper was in danger.
In that moment Bill simply leaned in to hug Dipper, embracing the younger man as he broke out in tears. Dipper was stunned, he couldn't believe what was happening… He just embraced Bill out of habit.
"Thank you for waiting…" the demon said as he kissed Dipper's forehead.
"Bill…" It was the only thing the brunet could bring over his lips, still shocked and in awe.
"Don't lose this…" Bill said as he put the ring on Dipper's finger which he had let fall while fighting.
"Happy birthday…" The blonde couldn't help but lean in to kiss Dipper who was still startled. The teen couldn't help but break out in tears and embrace his lover.
"I will pretend I did not see that." Blendin made a puking motion.
"Shut up…" Bill made a hand gesture which sent Blendin flying to the floor.
"Asshat!" the bald man yelled.
"Guys… Um… I don't know what the fuck is going on but we have dead police officers outside and over 50 people in that east hall!" Wendy interrupted.
Dipper distanced himself from Bill a little as he remembered what just happened…
"I'll take care of it…" Bill sighed as he did a simple counter clockwise motion with his hand. In that second, everything was put back in place, everything that was shattered in the fight restored and back to its place. The mess outside was cleaned as well, leaving everything just like nothing ever happened.
"What happened to my comrades?!" Blendin yelled as he packed Bill by the collar.
"They are fine and back in your era… I simply shattered all their time tapes…" Bill sighed, "They will come back for me anyway but this will buy me some time"
"Do you mind explaining what just happened?" Dipper asked still without taking his sight off Bill.
"Just keep the party running like nothing happened" Bill ordered. "Just meet me upstairs in a few minutes," the demon demanded as he swiftly headed to the upper floor of the mansion.
Mabel immediately headed to the east hall to inform the girls that everything was ok now. The party guests were still having fun, it seemed like they didn't even notice what just happened. Everyone dispersed again around the mansion, it was like everyone's memories of the past few minutes were wiped… They decided it was probably best for Dipper to go upstairs alone… At least for now, Blendin kinda just mixed himself with the party crowd, Wendy was caught by her girlfriend, and Mabel was busy explaining everything to Pacifica.
Dipper headed to the upper floor, everything was truly where it should be. He didn't have to search for Bill; he could hear some faint music coming from a room in the west hall... He followed the sound of the music which led him to the piano room of the mansion. Dipper stood there watching… listening closely. It wasn't a melody he knew, it was a rather dark but quite powerful piece at the same perfectly portraying Bill's madness somehow especially as he played it. Bill had a constant grin on his face, it did perfectly suit him though. The sound of the piano was echoing through the upper floor of the mansion, muting the loud electronic music from down stairs… He stood quietly there leaning against the door frame listening to the hypnotising music. Then there were the last tones, slowly becoming more faint and ripping Dipper out of his trance.
"It feels so good being able to play again…" Bill admitted, closing the lid of the piano still having that smug grin on his face.
Dipper was still kinda wary, even if he knew it was his Bill… The long haired blonde noticed this and approached his Pinetree, closing the door behind them and then softly cupping Dipper's cheek. Dipper couldn't help but lean into the warm touch of Bill's hands.
"Mind telling me what just happened…? I just can't seem to understand what we just went through…" Dipper sighed as he took Bill's hand.
"I'm sorry…" Bill apologized. "It was never meant to go this way…" He snapped his fingers materializing two armchairs for him and Dipper to sit in. "Just let me explain before you say anything…"
Dipper only nodded as he sat down as well.
"I never intended to stay away for so long…" he sighed. "My main plan to get my body back didn't work… After a few weeks I switched to plan B which was to use a time wish to get my physical body back; since I killed the Time Baby time travelling has become a lot easier… I simply had to mess with the head of the fat grey guy for a few weeks, then he kind of gave me permission to use his body again, I did twist his words though…" Bill admitted.
"A time wish? Those work for demons?" Dipper was surprised.
"They do if you use the wish right… I ended up in the time period of the last ever hosted Globnar game, of course winning it even with that body," Bill proceeded to explain. "Used his time tape to go back to this era without spending energy, still using his body of course. The time I spent in the future was counted and I landed on your birthday… I never realized I was gone that long …"
Dipper didn't even answer, he only kept listening to Bill with sorrow in his face.
"Well then… My time wish was that my stoned physical form would be able to hold my ethereal form once again… My old body had decayed too much to be of use… Thanks to that I had to get a puppet done for me to possess in the first place."
"I read something like that in the journal you gave me…" Dipper answered. "So in short… the plan you had by regenerating in my mindscape didn't work because you couldn't return to your old body… That's why you had your first human body made?"
"Exactly… You know exactly what my plans were back then…" Bill scratched the back of his head. "Anyways… The wish was made but, apparently there was like a minimal part of me stuck in that fucking stone."
"A part of you?" Dipper asked even more confused.
"Like a part of my ethereal form was actually still stuck in that stone without my knowing… It wasn't strong enough and since the body actually decayed it kinda simply got stuck… growing and well not being able to do anything… As the wish was fulfilled and my body was regenerated it took a will of its own without me actually using it."
"So that thing that attacked us was like… a rotten part of you?" Dipper inquired trying to digest what Bill just told him.
"Rotten… that's a very good way to put it, it only had the wish to destroy the Pines family, I guess that was the last thing that went through my head before my existence was shattered to pieces… but as you can see it wasn't strong."
"It wasn't strong?!" Dipper yelled.
"Didn't you notice it only used physical attacks?" Bill raised his eyebrow.
"I.. uh…" Dipper stuttered.
"You know exactly what I'm capable of Pinetree…" Bill said in a slightly pissed toned.
"I… I didn't think about that… I was happy to see you and that was all that mattered," Dipper commented.
Bill's smiled disappeared at Dipper's words, he immediately stood up from his seat leaning in to hug Dipper. "I promise I won't leave you ever again…"
Dipper embraced the demon. They didn't move, they just held each other for a few seconds without exchanging any more words…
"Come on… I can't breathe with your weight on me," Dipper joked.
"I'm sorry… " Bill stood up giving Dipper a last peck on his cheek before he sat back down in his own chair.
"Continue," Dipper smiled for no reason, he was simply happy to finally have his stupid demon back.
Bill finished explaining how that thing that attacked them was just a mere rotten part of himself that he lost control of over 6 years ago, that the Time Paradox Avoidance Enforcement Squadron had already tracked him down and fell to the hands of the deranged monster.
"It just had to be weakened for me to take over the body again… But running in that fatso's body wasn't an easy task believe me…" Bill complained.
Dipper sighed as the blonde was done with the story "Well… that's a way to celebrate a birthday," he laughed at his own words. "But in short… You have your body back… A real body, not one that will burst up in flames?"
"I won't go anywhere this time." The demon had a caring smile on his face.
"And… you remember everything? I mean our summer?" Dipper asked still with sorrow on his face.
"I remember every single moment I enjoyed with you." Bill pulled Dipper over so he would sit on his lap. "Every single kiss we shared," the blonde said as he softly pressed his lips against Dipper's.
Tears started to escape Dipper's eyes as he separated from the kiss. "I'm glad…" The brunet couldn't help but smile.
"The night is young, let's celebrate your birthday," the demon smiled.
Uh... Yeah... The song I picture Bill playing is: "The pianist" Myuu's version of it, just youtube it xD But you can picture him playing any dark song you like^^
Well then... Thank you for taking this journey with me... Next chapter will be the last.
Can I cry now? T_T