(Back with Lara)

This is not where she suspected her life would end up…

No this was as far away from the peaceful happy ending that she had in mind.

Lara watched in horror as the army of witches charged towards them, she had known for some time that this day would come. She didn't know how she knew but somehow she knew today was the day her prophecy would come to past.

Today was the day she was going to die!

Lara looked to her son Will, he was busily taking part in a heated battle with the demon spawn that he had once called his friend.

Icarus bombarded him with a storm of ice, and Will dodged most of the blows with ease.

Most of them…

Others hit him dead on, temporarily freezing his body in a cube of ice; but that ice would soon be shattered by the force of William's own mind.

Will focused all of his energy on the world around him, bending it to his will causing metal to slither like snakes and ensnare his enemies in a deadly grip. All but Icarus who seemed to stay just seconds ahead of him. Will dodged as another ball of ice headed his way that one was close; too close!

"Give it up Will you'll never beat me!" Icarus taunted.

Will grimaced, he knew Icarus was right, after all Will was still human and had no chance of beating the now full fledge demon.

'No I can beat him, and I will!' Will vowed.

Will's eyes turned blood red as Will allowed his demon side to take over completely. "I'll give up when you're dead!" Will vowed and lunged for the enemy.

Meanwhile Lara was busy trying to put a dent in the swarm of witches that was coming her way, but with everyone that went down another one seemed to take her place.

"You can't win dearie" Sheba laughed. "You know how this ends."

"You are going to die today, so why fight?" Another witch asked.

"I maybe dying today." Lara agreed. "But I plan to take as many of you with me as possible!" he screamed, her eyes glowing purple as she commanded a storm of sand to bulldozer threw her enemies.

Lucas hissed as a mist of unicorn blood was sprayed on him by one of the inferior witches. He repaid her kindness by ripping her apart like confetti, but the small victory did little to insure him of their chances. The Futuristic agents, or the time police as they were called were not faring well with the army of witches who could deflect their futuristic weaponry with ease. They would then afflict the most painful of curses on them causing them to scream in agony until death finally came to release them from misery.

They were losing badly, and Lucas never took to losing very well.

Isaac ducked, dodging the oncoming curse by a hair as he dropped down to one of the officers sides. "Please can you hear me?" He shook the officer hopefully.

The officer moans but makes no effort to get up.

Isaac looks around and notices the Time Officers are all down, leaving only him, Lucas, Lara and the boys to fight the never ending army. Put one target out of that army stood out to him. It was Lord Bares, and he was charging straight for Lara. "Not on my watch demon!" he shouted blocking the demon lord's path.

"It would appear everyone has a death wish today." Lord Bares cackled and threw balls of fire at hit new target.

Isaac dodged the blows just barely, and chanted a rebound charm for good measure. All of Lord Bares blows bounced right back towards him leaving the guardian unscathed…for now! However Isaac knew he was at a disadvantage due to the fact that it was forbidden for guardians to use curses or any other form of black magic.

But he didn't need to win, all he really needed to do was stall Lord Bares long enough for the prophecy to be for filled. Yes it ached for him to have to let Lara die, but the sake of the Multiverse depended on it!

"Lucas we can't keep fighting like this!" Lara said as she used a force field to block several more of the enemy's attacks. "There's got to be something we can do."

Lucas looks at her with a grim look on his face. The two had been fighting side by side the entire time, but he had waited patiently for Lara to ask him for his help. After all she had to want this otherwise he would not be able to consume her completely. "There is one way." He told her. "But it's fatal for a human to do."

"Will it be enough to save them?" Lara asked. Lucas nodded.

"Yes."

"Then let's do it." Lara exclaimed.

"Are you sure?" Lucas gave her a chance to back out.

She didn't take it. "I'm sure." She said. "Now tell me what to do."

"Just shake my hand and say I give myself up to you." Lucas instructed her, holding out a fiery blue hand.

Lara eyed his hand fearfully, this was it; this was how she was going to die. She looked to each of her sons one last time.

First to Barcus, or Tad as he would prefer to be called now, he was busily jinxing every witch that crossed his path. Their curses would bounce off of him and backfire on them every time. He is laughing and enjoying himself fully.

She then looked to Will, who was fighting Icarus with every ounce of his strength; everything around him bent to his will and wrapped around the enemy like large snakes.

'They have both grown so much.' She thought, tears spilling from her eyes.

"Lara?" Lucas pressed.

"I know." Lara whispered and took his hand. "I give myself up to you." She said and shook it once.

"Take that!" Will screamed as he tried once again to ensnare the enemy in his web of metal.

Icarus dodges again. "You should really get rid of that meat sack." he taunted "It's weighing you down, your only half as good as you could be."

Will knew he was right, if he was full demon then all of reality would be at his fingertips to change as he wishes. Reality for him would have no limits, because for him reality would not exist. Everything would be like a dream, and completely subjected to change. But no matter how hard Bill tried to change him, Will could not let go of the last bit of his humanity.

His mother!

She was his anchor...

Suddenly Will froze as a loud scream fills the air...

He knew this scream, he turned towards it instinctively and what he saw made his world shatter around him, his mother shook his father's hands. The boy watches in horror as his father's blue flames climbed up her arm and begin to cover her entire body.

"NO, Stop leave her alone!" William starts to run to her aid. Icarus sees the perfect opening and lunges at the enemy.

He never got a chance to land a single blow for Isaac who was still fighting his father fired his pistol launching a purple bullet full of unicorn blood right into the young demon spawn.

Icarus screams and falls to the ground in agony.

"Why You!" Lord Bares strikes, slashing out with his claws.

Isaac dodges and empties the rest of the bullets into the demon Lord. He knows the unicorn blood won't kill the demons, but it would slow them down. Isaac doesn't wait to see if the lord has fallen instead he runs for Will and grabs him just in time. "William no!" he says. "It's too dangerous!"

The battle comes to a standstill as everyone begins to realize what's going on. Lucas' blue flames continue to engulf Lara until they seem to swallow her whole.

"No, let me go!" Will demanded. "I have to save her!"

"I can't let you!" Isaac yelled.

"Why aren't you stopping him?!" Will screamed. "You're supposed to be protecting her!"

Isaac felt the pain in his heart increase, but he did not let go. "This is the way it has to be Will." He whispered. "I know you're angry, but this is your mother's destiny. She has to die so that you can live!"

"No you monster! You save her now!" Will screamed fighting to get free. "Save her!"

Lara screams once more, and then vanished before her son's eyes as Lucas consumed her!

Will fell to his knees, stunned!

Tad watched his mother die, but he felt nothing… he was not wounded by the loss. But Will was! He just couldn't find the strength to do something about it!

Lucas laughed as he changed into his true demon form a demonic shadowy circle with evil red eyes. The Shadow demon grows in size as the new power courses through his veins.

"Now you will learn what happens when you mess with the King!" Lucas grabs Lord Bares (who is still withering in pain on the ground.) and sucks the energy right out of him.

His army of witches start to run to his aid, but before they can get to a real running start Lucas grows a second set of hands and uses them to control the witches' shadows as if they were puppet strings, forcing the witches to take their own lives.

They fall to the ground, all of them are dead; spilling their blood on the hard ground.

Lord Bares tries to summon his fire abilities but only manages to produce small black flames. He then tries to freeze the shadow demon, but his energy is so low that he can only make a small frozen mist.

Lucas laughs at his efforts, "You Fool! Don't you see? You're finished!" Lucas squeezed his large hands around Bares tighter and tighter draining him of his power more and more. "You are nothing, but a pathetic Lord" Lucas boast, "While I am A God!"

Suddenly a bolt of lightning strikes Lucas in the back, and he screams; dropping Lord Bares in the progress.

"Lord Bares!" Sheba catches her master's small fire ball form.

Lucas gains his bearings and whorls around looking for his attacker, but he sees no one. "Show yourself coward!" he ordered. "Don't you know who I am? I am Lucas Venroe King of the Nightmare Realm and God of this land!"

"You are no God!" A voice Boomed.

Lucas turned once more to see…

"Well, well, well if it isn't the all-powerful Time Baby?" Lucas scoffed. "Forgive me if I lack fear and respect, but you no longer deserve it!" Lucas laughed at his old enemy. "Your precious Star Child is gone, and I now have the power to take you out once and for all! And once the Big Dipper is born I will consume him too. And then nothing will ever stop me!"

"Enough!" Time Baby yelled. "I will strip you of your new power, and then I will make sure you demons never mettle with Earth Realm again!" The giant baby waved his hand and lightning shot out towards Lucas.

Lucas screamed as the Lighting consumed him.

"See you are no GOD!" Time Baby yelled. "To become a God you must bond with the Star Child not consume them!"

Lucas mentally kicks himself, seeing the flaw a little too late.

Will watched as his father's strength slowly faded away, but Time Baby refused to stop, it was then the boy realized that the baby was going to kill his father.

'No! He is mine to kill.'

Isaac screamed as he is thrown back by unbelievable strength. He hit a nearby building, falling to the ground with a moan. He opened his eyes and watched as Will was engulfed by a brilliant white light, and once that light faded a small yellow triangle took the boy's place.

'His true demon form.' Isaac realized. 'He has fully matured.'

Will turned red with anger as he charged for Time Baby, getting right in between his father and him, deflecting the bolt of lightning away with ease.

"What!" Time Baby yells in shock

Lucas struggles to stay afloat as he watches his son through two half lidded eyes, he is stripped of half of his power, and yet he finds a smile on his face. 'Finally it's about time you gave in, and here I was worried!'

"No one gets to kill him!" Will screamed. "That's my job!"

"That's my boy…" Lucas whispered.

"SHUT UP YOU!" Will screamed delivering on final blow to the demon king. Lucas's eyes widen in shock as the last ounce of his energy left him.

He's dead before he hits the ground.

"Brother how could you!" Tad screamed running to his father's side. "He was our father!"

"He killed her!" Will screamed!

"Brother." Tad said. "She was just a human let it go!"

"You traitor!" Will screamed. "She was our mother!"

"She was a tool for father's benefit, we are better now that she is gone." Tad said. "Even you have finally reached your true potential now that she is out of the way."

"You are dead to me!" Will screamed. "YOU ALL ARE DEAD TO ME! I'LL DO THIS ON MY OWN! I DON'T NEED ANYONE!" Will snapped his fingers and Tad screamed as he was transformed back into a…

HUMAN!

"You! You took my powers!" Tad screamed.

"That's right!" Will laughed. "You're nothing now, but a pathetic human with no power, cursed to never die! You don't even get to keep your memories!" Will snapped his finger once more and Tad fell to the ground unconscious. And Will know that once he woke up he would remember nothing but his name,

Tad Strange!

"As for you!" Will said turning back to Time Baby

"You dare to challenge me?!" Time Baby asked in a booming voice. "Who do you think you are?"

"My name is W-" Will stops, was it right to call himself William? Now that his mother was gone he couldn't see himself as human. 'No William Venroe died with his mother.' Will said to himself.

"Well?" Time Baby asked.

"The name is Bill Cipher!" He says, laughing maniacally as his demon nature takes over completely. "AND ONE DAY I'M GOING TO DESTROY YOU, I'M GOING TO DESTROY YOU ALL!" Bill laughs even louder as the new power begins to fill him.

"You have no power over me!" Time Baby yelled.

"HA!" Bill laughed. "Don't you get it you overgrown brat?! Don't you know what I am?" He asked. "I am a Dream demon!" he said answering his own question. "And while you are limited by your power, my own imagination grants me abilities that you could only dream of!"

"NO!" Time Baby watched as the world around them began to bend to Bill's control. Vines shot up from the ground and bounded him in place, and Bill created a large pair of scissors with the snap of his fingers and held them over the baby's head threateningly.

Bill laughed, his one eye mirroring nothing, but pure insanity! "This is going to be so much fun! It'll be like a Party!" he shouted as thousands of bubbles of madness filled the air, and fire rain from the sky.

Party...

The very word alone triggered one of Time Baby's famous visions, a vision into the future.

He watched as a world of chaos formed before him, a large rift filled the red sky, and demons and monsters of all kind rained down on his precious human subjects.

And above the chaos stood Bill laughing with the same insanity he was laughing with now!

"This Party never stops, Time is dead, and meaning has no meaning!" the Bill in his vision screamed as fire raged all over the land. "Existence is upside-down and I reign supreme! Welcome one and all to Weirdmageddon!"

"NO!" Time Baby broke through his bounds as the vision faded, grabbing Bill in his large hands.

"What the! Let me go!" Bill screamed.

"You shall never have this world!" Time Baby swore and then chanted. "By the power of time and space I curse thee Bill Cipher."

Bill watched in horror as a blank Zodiac appeared in the sky above him.

"I call upon the Pine Tree!" Time Baby spoke and the symbol of a Pine Tree appeared on the Zodiac! "The Shooting Star!"

Bill watched was the Shooting Star also appeared on the Zodiac, along with several more as Time Baby continued his curse. "The Scholar, the Question Mark, Ice, the Pentagram, the Stitched Heart, Llama, the Six Fingered Hand, and Finally the Crescent Moon! Curse this demon for all eternity so that he may never possess this realm!"

Bill screamed as the Zodiac fell from the sky and engulfed him, fusing with his being and then disappeared. Bill fell to the ground; he is out cold.

"Now be gone with you!" Time Baby ordered taking his rattle and using it to open up a rift into the Nightmare Realm.

Bill opened his eyes and got to shaking feet only to be swept away as the rift began to suck him in, along with the rest of the demons all over the world.

"Master!" Sheba screamed as the still unconscious Lord Bares flew out of her hands. "I will find you!" She swore. "I promise!"

"Father!" Icarus forced himself to ignore his pain and flew after his father and into the Rift.

"You haven't seen the last of me you Fat baby!" Bill vowed. "I'll get you for this, and then I'll destroy your precious Earth Realm just to spite you!"

Isaac watch in amazement as Bill disappeared into the rift, and Time Baby sealed the Nightmare Realm off from the rest of the Multiverse for good measure.

"There now one more thing." Time baby clapped his hands and a large force field covered Gravity Falls like a dome. "This barrier will keep him from doing too much harm if he ever manages to get out."

"You know he will." Isaac rasped; he expected the God to lash out at him for such an accusation.

But Time Baby looked down on him with only sadness, "Yes even I know that this will do no good." He agreed. "But it will keep Bill at bay until he realizes his true destiny."

Isaac tried to keep his eyes open, but it was useless. Still he fights to say awake for he knows if he closes his eyes he'll never wake again.

"It's okay." Time Baby assured him, "Your son is ready to take your place, you can let go."

Isaac stops fighting, and let's go,

His only thought was one last hope that somehow his son, and grandchildren would be able to protect the Last Star Child without him.


(Somewhere in the Nightmare Realm...)

"NO!" Bill screamed as he tried to tear a rift back to Earth Realm, but it doesn't work.

"It's no use sire." Teeth said puts his hands on his Bill's shoulders.

"Don't touch me!" Bill screamed facing him. He froze as he say all the demons of the Nightmare Realm looking to him. "What do you all want?" he snapped.

"You are our king." Teeth explained.

"We need you to lead us." Keyhole agreed.

Bill goes to burn them all but finds he is too weak! "What the hell Why can't I?"

"You are weak." Lord Bares explained as Icarus helped him to his feet. "You lack energy, you need to earn it through deals and souls."

"Then I will!" Bill exclaimed. "I will gained power and then I'll give Time Baby a piece of my mind." he vowed.

"And how are you going to do that?" Lord Bares taunted. "We're cut off from the humans."

"No you are!" Bill snapped. "I'm a dream demon, I can get to them through the mindscape!" he realized out loud. "And I can trick a pathetic human into making another way to Earth Realm, An interdimensional portal to our world!" Bill laughed wildly as the plan began to form. "Yes in their world I am a force to reckon with! I will reconnect our worlds and take Time Baby's Kingdom away from him." Bill said murderously.

Lord Bares simply laughed.

"You don't think I can do it!" Bill realized. "I'll show you; I'll show you all!" he raced away at once to begin his plans.

"Boss!" Teeth, 8 Ball, Kryptos, Keyhole, Hectorgon, Amorphous Shape, Pacifier and Pyronica ran after him.

Shinigami went to follow as well but was stopped.

"Leave them!" Lord Bares ordered feeling some of his power returning. "If he doesn't want to be King then I shall take the throne!" he said boldly.

None of the demons dared challenge him, after all they knew Lord Bares had several souls stored away in the Nightmare realm, and once he fed off of them he would regain all his strength. Everyone else had been weaken from the rift, and had not stored souls over the years, so if they wanted to eat, and survive they had to look to Bares for mercy.

"All hail King Bares!" Shinigami screamed.

"All hail King Bares; All hail King Bares!" The other demons joined in.

Icarus smiled; he was now Prince of all of the Nightmare Realm. 'I guess it's a good thing he didn't die after all.' he thought to himself.


(Following Bill...)

"Boss please stop!" Teeth exclaimed.

Bill stopped, turning on the group of minions in a huff. "What do you want?!" they had been following him for a while now calling out to him.

"The Kingdom, it needs you!" Keyhole answered him.

"Without you Lord Bares will take the throne!" Pyronica pointed out.

"Oh let him have it, besides once I'm done with Time Baby all of The Multiverse Will be mine!" Bill said.

"The whole Multiverse?" Kryptos asked in amazement.

"So that plan of yours could really work?" Hectorgon asked.

"Oh it will work!" Bill said and then stopped. "Say why don't you guys come along for the ride?" He said.

"Really?" Teeth asked.

"Sure I could use a group of fellow party animals!" Bill told them.

"Leave the Kingdom, and betray Bares?" Pyronica asked. "Are you crazy? He has a whole stash of souls if we want to eat-"

"If you want to eat doll face then trust in me!" Bill said. "Once I start making deals I'll gain energy, and I'm willing to share that energy with my loyal subjects." Bill assured them.

"You want us to serve you blindly into the unknown and depend on a plan that might not even work?!" Amorphous Shape asked.

"Sounds like you're getting all the benefits." Pacifier snapped.

"Yeah what do we get out of it?" Teeth asked.

"An endless party, with no rules, and no restrictions!" Bill assured them. "You will all be Kings and Queens of your own dimensions with me as your GOD! Well… If I succeed that is."

The minions looked at him excitingly. "What do we have to do?" Teeth asked.

"Just pledge your eternal allegiance to me and it will all be yours" Bill promised growing several arms each of them held out a blue fiery hand ready to strike a deal.

The eight minions shook the hands greedily and the deal was struck!

"All the Multiverse shall be yours in return." Bill promised them.

The minions cheered.

Bill smiled. "Yes, soon all the Multiverse shall be mine…"


Chapter End Notes

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