"I'm sure he means well Dipper," I say as Dipper paces in front of me with a broom.

He throws his hands in the air- letting go of the broom he was holding, "You don't understand! He makes me do all of those stuff! I swear he's picking on me!"

Here I was.. passing my time in the gift shop with Dipper in front of me ranting about how Stan makes him do all the chores, "Maybe he's trying to make you understand about responsibilities?" I shrug. Even I didn't know what goes in that head of Stan.

"Then why doesn't he make Mabel do some of those then?" He grabs the broom off the floor again and started cleaning the floor.

"Hmm.. Look I know as much as you do about Stan. Which isn't really much." I grab a broom from the room, "I say- just trust your Grunkle Stan for now. I'll give you hand to get some off your back."

He takes a deep breath, "Thanks Will." there were some bruises on his hands and head from fighting a bat earlier. Mabel and Soos patched him up, so.. he should be fine.

"How 'bout we go on a Monster hunt with Mabel later?" I offer to him. "I was trying to find.. something in the forest. Like some kind of ruins." It seems like a good opportunity to have help in the forest. "Kinda feels lonely sometimes I go out there ya know?"

He smiles finally cheering up. "Ugh.. Yeah... I can't take more of this. I need a break away from Stan."

"He do be like that sometimes. I'm sure he has his reasons-" Before I could finish my sentence, Mabel and Soos came into the room panicking.

"Dipper! Will! We gotta help Stan!"

"What?" Both of us asked at the same time.

"This evil triangle guy said he's gonna break into Stan's mind and steal the combination to his safe!" Soos takes out a snack from his pockets, "Also we stopped for snacks on the way here."

"Can I have some?" I asked. He nods and gives me one.

"This is not the time for snacks!" I turn to Mabel while opening the food and munching on the snack Soos gave me... "We have to save Stan!"

"Sorry.. I was just hungry," I shrug. "Pretty sure I saw Stan at the living room." They ran out and went towards the living room. I followed after them still eating. We enter the room to see Stan still sleeping. "See! He's fine."

"There was that triangle guy though! He really did seem like magic!" Mabel explains.

Dipper takes out his Journal, "Wait.. Triangle guy? I feel like I've seen something like this before in the journal..." He stops to a page and reads it out loud, "'Beware Bill, the most powerful and dangerous creature I've ever encountered. Whatever you do, never let him enter your mind'."

"Ack! Ugh..!" We look over to Stan. Some shadowy figure entered his head and his eyes started glowing blue. He starts screaming.

Mabel takes the Journal from Dipper and reads out, "It is possible to follow the demon into a person's mind and prevent his chaos. One must simply recite this incantation."

I took the Journal after Mabel finished reading it. The page contained a drawing of a black triangle with an eye in the middle. It also had a top hat. It had thin legs and arms.

"Ugh, this is just great. I spend all day cleaning sinks and fighting bats for Stan and now I have to save him from some crazy brain demon?"

I nudge him lightly on the shoulder, "C'mon Dipper. He's still your Grunkle Stan."

"If we don't do anything Gideon might steal the shack! Or worse!" Mabel adds on.

He sighs, "Ugh... Fine... Get ready, guys. We're about to journey into the most horrifying, disturbing place any of us have ever been: our uncle's mind."

"That's the spirit!" I chuckle. "So, what do we do now?"

Dipper starts reading the Journal again, "Well it says we just need to put light sources all around and cite an incantation."

"Right.. Candles." I sigh.. I feel like that's just for aesthetic.

Mabel and Soos heads out to get some candles.

It only took a few minutes to set up- soon enough we were done. "You guys ready?" I said as I turned off the lights and lit the candles. They nod in response.

"Okay, guys, in order to save our uncle, we're gonna have to follow that... dream demon into his mind." He flips through his Journal, "Okay.. Let's do this." He puts his hand over Stan's head.

We all put out hands on top of his head, Dipper starts chanting. "Videntus omnium. Magister mentium. Magnesium ad hominem." Halfway through- the room started to turn blue, "Magnum opus. Habeas corpus! Inceptus Nolanus overratus! Magister mentium! Magister mentium! MAGISTER MENTIUM!"

After he finished everything turned white.

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William

"Ugh..." That's going to give me a headache... I feel the ground behind me, I get up and the others groaned and started getting up, I look around us. "Guys?"

They all turn to what I was looking at. It was the shack- well one-third of the shack. It seems like the back of the shack was broken- below it was an abyss with mist surrounding it. Above the doorway, there were letters scribbled onto it. It read 'PBVWHUB VKDFN' It was a Cipher- but I'm not familiar with codes, so I couldn't really tell what it said.

"Woah.."

"Wow..."

"What the..."

We all said surprised by everything. An eerie noise came from every side of the forest. It all made us shiver and gave us goosebumps.

The colors were drained from the surroundings. Everything was monochrome- the only colors were the shade of black and white. We walked over to the Mystery Shack and passed by broken items- like a swing? with some of the playground bits. There were also some chairs. I looked up- the golf cart was floating above the Shack. Everything seemed to be surrounded by pine trees. I couldn't even see the sky.

"This is Stan's mind?" Mabel comments.

I look around more, I felt somewhat disturbed by this, "Seems creepy honestly." I reply.

"I figured there would be more hot old ladies."

"True.."

We stop at the entrance of the Shack. Mabel looks at the entrance and says, "Remember everyone, we've got to look out for the triangle guy."

The triangle guy- speak of the devil, comes out of nowhere and says, "Yeah, look out for the triangle guy!" he says- actually how does he even say that without a mouth... Wait- Why am I questioning that part? He's literally a triangle...

Just like the in the Journal- he was a triangle, he had a top hat which complimented the cane he was holding. A gentleman perhaps? he had one eye and a bowtie below his only eye. He had some bricks engravings in the bottom half of his body.

Soos points at him, "It's him! It's the guy!"

"He really was a triangle..." I whisper to myself.

"You leave our uncle's brain alone, you isosceles monster!" She tries running towards the Dream demon and leaps at him and goes through his body- well triangle body. She comes back in a few seconds, "Gotcha! Wait, what?"

"Ah, Stan's family- Name's Bill Cipher, we meet at last! Question Mark, Shooting Star, Pine Tree, I had a hunch I might bump into you!" He points towards Dipper's chest and shoots it with a red laser coming from his index finger which opened up a hole in his chest without blood- Dipper screams and Mabel puts her hands through the hole as she says 'boop'.

Mabel and Soos laughs shortly, "Oh... It doesn't hurt."

He zooms in front of me, "And YOU.. Who are you kid?" he says as he floats around me looking at me with his.. creepy one eye, "I haven't seen you before..." he stops in front of me a few feet away.

"Name's W-Will?" I said nervously.

"I haven't even heard of you before. You seem rather familiar..." He looks at me more, it felt like his eyes- well one eye I mean, even with one eye it was staring menacingly towards me which felt like it sees right through me. I looked at his eye his pupil was like a cat. Then I felt it again just for a moment- my right eye felt a sting. He laughs maniacally, "Half of my kind I see!-" he tries approaching me again.

Before Bill could say more, the twins got in front of me in a defending manner. "Stop it Bill! What do you want with our uncle's mind anyway?" he asks.

"Oh, just the code to the old man's safe! Inside the shack is a maze of a thousand doors representing your uncle's memories. Behind one of them is a memory of him inputting the code! I just need to find it and Gideon will pay me handsomely." He explains.

"Not if we stop you!" Mabel says.

"Hah, fat chance! I'm the master of the mind." His whole body sets on blue fire as he says, "I even know what you're thinking right now!" He snaps his finger and two extremely tall guys appeared out of nowhere. Mabel looks at them surprised.

"You're out of your league, kids. Turn around now before you see something you might regret. Later, suckers!" He starts flying towards the Shack and breaks through the wall.

What did he mean by half of his kind? I'm not even crazy like him? What just happened...

Dipper snaps me out of a trance, "We're goin' in! Come on, guys!"

"R-Right..."

We enter the Mystery Shack. It was as monochrome as outside. Though there were some creatures here that looked like Stan- they repeat stuff that Stan would always say. There are also doors that lead to his hopes.. and his fears?

"Down there!" I said looking down at the bottom floor. There was a door which leads to 'MEMORIES'. We entered and we mostly saw memories of this year's summer.

"Great. Sure there's plenty of memories of Stan bossing me around, can't wait to see more of that."

Mabel shakes Dipper, "Come on Dipper, we've gotta find the code before Bill does!"

"Yeah! For the Mystery Shack- and for Stan of course." I try encouraging him as well.

He sighs, "Fine..."

"Let's go!" I said as we started heading forward opening doors and looking over them. Before I could open another one- I saw a hidden corridor below some stairs. I looked back at the group- thinking if I should go another way... "I'm sure they won't mind."

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To Be Continued

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Chapter End