(A/N: Hey, everybody, we're back. I'm excited, are you excited. All our heroes are finally together, meaning it's time to put all the cards on the table and deal with Bill. Well, not quite yet, there's still some stuff they need to go over first, but we'll get there. Before we get to this this though, just wanted to remind everyone that I dropped the first chapter for my new Revolutionary Girl Utena story last week. So don't forget to check that out if you're interested. But if you're looking for the next update here, then wait not further, it's all here for you., Enjoy.)

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Chapter 7: Backstories To Share

"Well, there he is, Bill Cipher," said Dipper, holding out his hands. "Or what's left of him anyway."

Having led the group into the woods, the Pines twins now presented the others with the stone remains of Bill. Half buried and covered in moss, the triangular-shaped interdimensional being starred at them lifelessly, his hand stretched out as if to beckon them to shake it.

Those seeing Bill for the first time stared at it a little dumbfounded. While there had been a drawing of him in King's book, they had still expected a powerful and monstrous creature to be a bit more… well, more.

"So that's the OG Bill," said Luz with interest.

Dipper nodded. "That's him. He had to leave his physical body behind to enter Stan's mind. After we erased him, this was all that remained."

King stared at the statue, his eyes settling on its extended hand. "I kind of want to… shake his hand."

Dipper frowned. "Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. I mean, I know Bill's gone and this is just a statue, but still, best not to tempt fate."

Placing her hand and hook on her hips, Eda looked around. "Well, I guess this is as good a place as any for our last stand. Better secure the area, or something."

Mabel's face suddenly lit up and she turned to the others. "Hey, you guys wouldn't happen to have any unicorn hair on you, would you?"

Sasha raised an eyebrow, giving her a strange look. "Um, unicorn hair?"

Dipper crossed his arms. "It's one of the main ingredients used to Bill-proof something."

"Yeah!" Mabel cried, throwing her arms out excitedly. "We can create a barrier around the Bill statue so he can't get to it."

"Sorry, fresh out of unicorn hair," Eda replied. "Those things are the worst to deal with."

Mabel rolled her eyes. "Uch, tell me about it."

"Doesn't matter anyway," Dipper told her. "I don't have the list of the other ingredients needed or the instructions on how to use them. They were all lost with the journals."

Eda slapped him on the back, a little too hard. "Don't sweat it, kid. We'll make do with what we have."

"I'm not a kid," Dipper exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air. "Why do you keep calling me that?"

Looking amused, Eda just cut her eyes at him. "One, I only called you that twice. Two, because I used to be married to your great uncle. And three, you are a kid compared to how old I am."

"Come on, Eda, you're just past your mid-fifties," Luz told her with a smile.

The Owl Lady smirked. "I affectionately refer to them as the nifty-fifties." She tapped her chin. "Or is it the foxy-fifties?" She shook her head. "No, that was foxy-forties."

Mabel glanced at her brother. "Wait, fifties? Doesn't that mean that Stan is, like, twenty to twenty-five years older than her?"

"I would prefer not to think about Stan's love life," Dipper commented dryly.

Luz blinked at this before looking back at her mentor in shock. "Twenty to twenty-five years older!? Eda, eww!"

The Owl Lady just shrugged. "What can I say, the guy was a charmer."

"He was old enough to be your dad!"

Eda simply rolled her eyes. "And now that we've established that, let's get back to the matter with Bill. Now then, it sounds like we've got a plan. All we have to do is make it work. The hardest part will be immobilizing your friend long enough to send you into her mind to fight Bill. I'll need you guys to do that while I work on the spell. It's a difficult one and it'll be a little harder since I'll be relying solely on Owlbert since my own magic still doesn't work and we don't know the glyph combo to perform this type of magic."

Mabel cocked her head to the side. "Wait, why doesn't your magic work?"

The Owl Lady sighed. "Long story short, I'm cursed, so now I rely on my magic staff and glyphs to perform magic for me."

Luz suddenly did a double-take before turning back to Dipper. "Wait, I just realized something. You said that you performed a spell before to get into Stan's mind, right?"

Dipper gave her a questioning look. "Yeah, so?"

"But… you're humans."

"And…?"

"So you don't have a magic bile sac, nor do you have palismen. And you couldn't have used glyphs without a Titan or Titan's blood present."

Mabel raised an eyebrow questioningly. "Magic bile sac?"

Dipper seemed a little lost as well. "No, I just used some incantation that was written in Ford's journal."

Luz held her arms out at them. "But that's… It's… I…" She turned to her mentor. "Eda!"

The Owl Lady just shrugged nonchalantly. "There's all kinds of magic. Some of it is different from what we use on the Boiling Isles; that all originated from the Titan in one way or another. It's not so surprising that a way of using a different form of magic exists and was discovered, even by non-magic users."

Luz scowled, her eye twitching slightly. "I feel cheated somehow," she muttered under her breath.

Hunter crossed his arms. "So, what now?"

Sasha dropped down against a tree. "Now we wait, I guess. Not much else we can do until Bill gets here."

Eda sat down as well. "Blondie's right. Can't do anything without the guest of honor present."

Anne also reluctantly sat down. "Guess so. Hope he doesn't take too long. I want this whole thing to be over with."

"Oh, you think you have it bad?" Dipper asked as he and Mabel also sat, though there was nothing challenging in his voice. "We thought we were done with all this ages ago. Now we find out there's been this… this… mind clone of him who's trying to become the real Bill."

"He's the worst!" Mabel declared, slamming her fist on the ground.

"Yeah, well," Hunter mumbled, "if you think Bill's bad, you should have met my uncle. Now that was one evil man."

Luz's face lit up as she sat down and Amity took the spot beside her. "I know! To pass the time, how about we all share our stories?"

Dipper gave her a questioning look. "When you say 'our stories', you mean…?"

Luz waved her hand around. "You know, how the two of you got involved with the whole Bill thing and how you beat him." She motioned to Anne and Sasha. "How the two of you ended up in Amphibia and eventually saved Earth." She slapped her chest. "How I stumbled upon the Boiling Isles and defeated Belos."

Anne chuckled, knowing of Luz's love for such stories. "Dude, you and I already told each other our stories."

Luz motioned to the others. "But they haven't heard them. And as we learned, you and I apparently left out a lot of details from when we told each other our stuff. Come on, it'll be fun, it'll be fun, it'll be fun."

Eda smiled at Luz's enthusiasm. "So it's story time, huh? Alright, I can try not to fall asleep during that."

Sasha shrugged. "Sure, why not?"

"I'm actually dying to know everything about you guys." Dipper confessed, his eagerness apparent.

"Yes!" Luz exclaimed, punching the air. "So, who gets to go first?"

Eda smirked. "I'll decide. Eenie-meenie-miney-you."

She pointed her hook at Dipper and Mabel, and the former's face fell. "What? Why us? I wanted to hear about you guys."

Eda nonchalantly waved this off. "Because your story involves Bill, and that's worth knowing for what's to come." She gave them a cheeky smile. "Plus, as you ex-Grant, I'm ordering you to go first."

Amity raised an eyebrow. "I thought you didn't want to be called that."

"I didn't, but it is kind of catchy. It also works in my favor right now."

Dipper sighed. "Fine then. Here we go. It all started one day when our parents sent us here for the summer…"

From there, he and Mabel recounted their first summer in Gravity Falls, telling them select events from their time here, including discovering Ford's journals, their various encounters with the strange supernatural and paranormal creatures, becoming adversaries with Gideon Gleeful, bizarre events that occurred traveling through time, their different encounters with Bill, defeating Gideon once and for all, discovering the various secrets of Gravity Falls, learning about Ford, and wrapping everything up with Bill's rise to power and eventual defeat.

"And so we said goodbye to everyone as the bus took off to bring us home," Dipper concluded.

"But we came back every summer until we started college," Mabel added.

The others, who had been listening with rapt attention, were staring with wide-eyed fascination at the twins. With their story over, the spell seemed to break, and Sasha was the first to speak.

"Whoa, I never would have thought things like this happened on Earth," she commented.

Anne turned to her, looking shocked. "Dude, did you forget about the Newtopian invasion?"

"Of course not, but technically, that came from Amphibia, not from Earth."

Anne blinked. "Oh, yeah, I guess that's true…"

"It may not have all come from Earth though," Luz commented, and turned to the Owl Lady. "Eda, didn't you say that all those stories about supernatural things were a result of bits of the Boiling Isles seeping into Earth?"

Eda nodded. "That's true, but I can say that quite a bit of what they told us didn't come from the Boiling Isles too. Like the multi-bear, the spider woman, the shapeshifter, the gnomes, and the gulf ball people, and such, yeah, they likely came from the Boiling Isles. But the time travelers, giant robots, ghosts, dinosaurs," she pointed to Mabel, "not to mention your merman ex-boyfriend from the pool, they were products of this world."

Her smile returned, and she pointed at Anne and Sasha. "And speaking of other worlds, it's now time to hear about Amphibia. Frog Girl, Blondie, if you please."

"Quit calling me Blondie!" Sasha insisted. "And yes, this is my natural hair color."

Mabel glanced at Dipper. "What is it with blondes and insisting that their hair color is real?"

He shrugged. "I don't know, but Pacifica's the same way."

"Speaking of which," Anne said suddenly, practically lunging at him. "I absolutely love how your relationship with her developed when you helped her get rid of that ghost, and how she gave up her chance of eternal beauty and youth to save you and your sister. It was the ship I didn't know I needed until I got it. From now on, I'm calling the two of you Dipcifica."

Dipper wasn't sure how to respond to all that. "Uh…"

"His real name's Mason by the way," Mabel replied. "Everyone just calls him Dipper because of the birthmark on his head that he hides behind his bangs that looks like the Big Dipper. See."

"Mabel!" her brother scolded irritably, smacking her hand away as she reached over and brushed his hair back to reveal his birthmark.

At this new information, Anne looked thoughtful. "Hmm, but if that's your real name, maybe I should come up with an alternate ship name using your real one. Hmm… maybe Masifica? Nah, that doesn't sound right. Pason? No, that's even worse."

Turning away from his sister, Dipper cut his eyes at Anne. "Please don't call me Mason."

Reaching out, Sasha grabbed the Thai girl and pulled her back. "Don't worry about her, she's just a shipper freak. And, I believe it's our turn to tell our story."

Nodding, Anne sat back down. "Right, right. Ok, so, about ten years ago on my birthday, our friend Marcy found this strange music box…"

She then told of how the Calamity box had transported her, Sasha, and Marcy to different sections of Amphibia, starting with how she had met and was taken in by the Plantars. She then told them of the various adventures she and her adoptive frog family had in Wartwood until she had reunited and fought against Sasha before moving on to her road trip to Newtopia, where she was reunited with Marcy and met King Andrias before returning to Wartwood and went about recharging the gems, including making up with Sasha again, only to be betrayed by her once more, but then learning of Andrias' true colors and escaping back to Earth, where she and the Plantars struggled to find a way back to Amphibia while she learned how to control her new blue powers, before returning to Amphibia and joining up with Sasha to stop Andrias and the Core, ending with how she had sacrificed herself when she used the gems' full power to destroy Amphibia's moon, only to be resurrected and offered a job by the Guardian of the multiverse before she, Sasha, and Marcy were sent back to Earth.

Sasha added her portion to the story as well when necessary, telling of how she had been captured by Grime's army, but eventually won them over and rose in their ranks, then tried to build the army back up after its defeat, discovered Andrias' real plans and Newtopia's true history, helped raise her own army to oppose Andrias, confronted and defeated Darcy, and the part she played in fighting the Core after it had taken over the moon. She held nothing back in her stories, not even the betrayal she had done; it was something she had long since made peace with. And since Marcy wasn't present to tell her side, she and Anne did their best to recount what Marcy had told the of her time in Newtopia.

"And so we said our goodbyes and stepped through the portal back to Earth," Anne finished. With a deep sense of longing, she hugged her knees to herself. "And we haven't seen anyone from Amphibia since."

While at the end of Dipper and Mabel's tale, everyone had been wide-eyed and astonished, they now sat teary-eyed and heartbroken at the loss Anne and Sasha had suffered in having to say goodbye to all their friends, particularly the Plantars. Luz in particular was openly crying, and sniffed loudly as she wiped her eyes.

"That ending gets me every time," she whispered weepingly.

Dipper leaned back. "Wow, I can't imagine having to say goodbye to everyone for good like that. I mean, we at least got to come back here every summer and get letters from Stan and Ford, but that's just… I'm so sorry."

"It's the saddest, most beautiful story I ever heard," Mabel declared, sounding on the verge of starting to begin weeping.

Luz looked at her friends who had become like family to her. "I can't imagine never getting to see anyone again either. And I still can't believe I almost made the decision to never go back to the Boiling Isles."

Amity wrapped an arm around her and leaned against her. "As if we would have let you stay behind. You know we would have found a way to get back to you and drag you back kicking and screaming if we had to." She pressed a kiss to Luz's cheek before reaching up and wiping away a stray tear from her eye. "Or at the very least, I would have stayed in the human world with you."

Smiling, Luz reached up and grasped the hand that had wiped away her tear. "Aww, Amity. I love you, my sweet potato."

"I love you, batata."

They shared a kiss, causing Anne's eyes to widen before she just barely suppressed the urge to start squealing in delight while Eda just rolled her eyes. "Gross, public display of affection. I swear, between you two and the plant girl and bird boy here, I'm lucky I haven't gone blind."

"Hey!" both Hunter and Willow cried at the same time.

Mabel snickered. "You think that's bad, you should see what my brother and Pacifica get up to when they think no one's looking, especially after they have a fight." She winked. "They really enjoy making up."

"What!?" Dipper exclaimed, giving his sister a look of shocked embarrassment; this was clearly news to him. "Mabel, have you been spying on us!?"

She waved this off with a disgusted look. "Uch, no, gross. Why would I want to spy on my brother and my childhood rival-turned-friend doing that? Yuck! But do you think I don't notice how messed up your guys' clothes and hair are or how smeared her makeup is after the two of you sneak off together?"

As her brother turned beet red, Sasha let out a bark of laughter. "Ha! Your sister totally just exposed you, Pines!"

Crossing her arms, Mabel turned up her nose as she continued. "I also had the misfortunate of accidentally walking in on you two while you were both too distracted with each other to notice me more times than I care to count. Seriously, learn to lock a door."

"Learn to knock!" Dipper practically shouted at her in embarrassment.

"Knocking is for when doors are locked," she countered.

"No, knocking is for when doors are closed. Locking is for when you don't want to be disturbed!"

"So lock the door then!"

A smirk crossed Eda's face. "Now this is the kind of public display of affection I enjoy seeing, sibling bickering."

"Oooor," said Luz, nonchalantly averting her eyes, "I could tell my story."

This immediately pulled Dipper's attention from his sister to her. "Yes, yes, please."

Luz smiled. "Ok then. Once upon a time, there was an energetic, young girl named Luz Noceda who never quite fit in. So her mother decided to send her to a special camp where she hoped she would learn how to get along better with her classmates. But as she was waiting for the bus, something caught her attention…"

Then it was her turn to tell her story of her adventures on the Boiling Isles. Beginning with how she had followed Owlbert through the magic doorway, she told of how she had met Eda and King, and decided to stay with them for the summer instead of going to camp. She went into detail of how she had learned to adapt to the demon realm, eventually befriending Willow and Gus while forming a rivalry with Amity, learned about Eda's curse and discovered how she could use magic with glyphs, went on various adventures that led to her catching the Emperor's Coven's attention, was able to befriend Amity and get enrolled in Hexside, met and faced Belos and prevented him from getting to the human world by destroying the portal and saving Eda.

She even brought up how she had briefly stumbled into Amphibia and met Anne during the various times she tried to create a portal home, then went on to describe how she had first became enemies and eventually allies and then friends with Hunter, started a relationship with Amity, found out about Vee, learned about Philip Wittebane and how she had traveled through time to meet him, learned the truth about him being Belos and discovering the Collector, discovered King was the last surviving Titan, how the Collector was unleashed upon the Boiling Isles while she and her friends had retreated to Earth, only to be stuck there for months until they finally managed to find their way back, where she reformed the Collector and was able to defeat Belos once and for all.

"But with the Titan now finally well and truly dead, I found that the glyphs didn't work anymore," she finished. Upon her head, in beanie form, Stringbean stuck out her snake-like tongue, and Luz reached up to stroke her. "But that's ok, I could still use magic through Stringbean. Until four years later when King discovered he had his own glyphs to share."

Anne cut her eyes at her. "Which I still can't believe you didn't tell me about."

Luz gave her an apologetic look. "Yeah, sorry about that. Still can't believe it slipped my mind like that." Then she looked back at the others. "Well, that's my story. What do you think?"

Sasha, Dipper, and Mabel were staring at her in stunned disbelief, none of them seeming to know what to say in response to such a fantastic tale. Once again though, it was Sasha who broke the silence.

"Wow…" she muttered. "And I thought we had a fantastical adventure, but that was just… Wow."

"Yeah, no kidding," Dipper agreed. He then looked back and forth between Luz and Anne. "And I can't believe you both actually died. Like, what did it feel like?"

"Dipper, that's rude," Mabel whispered to him. She then gave the two girls in question a smile. "So, who do you think was more powerful, Titan-Hybrid Luz or full-powered, Three Gem, Calamity Anne?"

Her unexpected question seemed to surprise the others, and they all looked from Luz to Anne before sharing inquiring looks with each other as the two girls in question waited curiously for their responses.

"Luz," they all replied at the same time, even Sasha.

"Yeah, I thought so," Mabel acknowledged with a nod.

Anne threw her hands in the air. "Oh, come on!"

Eda smirked at her. "Sorry, kid, but you kicked the bucket destroying the moon. Luz gained the power of a Titan, which practically made her a god."

Sasha inclined her head at the Owl Lady. "She's got a point, Anne."

"My powers came from a god too," Anne argued. "A literal god, not a god-like being."

"A portion of a god's power," Gus pointed out. "Luz got the whole enchilada, as you humans say."

Grumbling, Anne crossed her arms and looked away with mild irritation. "Yeah, I guess you're right…"

"Yes!" King shouted, punching the air. "Luz for the win!"

The human in question chuckled. "It wasn't a competition, King."

Mabel wobbled her hand. "Eh, it kind of was."

Smiling, Luz nudged Anne's foot with her own. "Hey, come on, no hard feelings."

Anne couldn't resist smiling back at that and she let out a resigned sigh. "Yeah, yeah, no hard feelings."

At those words, Sasha suddenly inhaled. "Wait a second, hard feelings…" She seemed to be thinking for a few moments before suddenly turning to Luz. "Hey, Luz, remember the part of your story about how you and Lilith went back in time and met Belos when he was still Philip and Lilith punched him?"

The smirk that crossed Luz's face was undeniable. "Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure she broke his nose when she did that." She made two finger-guns. "Cool Aunt Lilith."

The blonde girl nodded impatiently. "Yeah, but do you think that Belos recognized Lilith from back then? Maybe that's why he was so dead-set on having her capture Eda, just so he could kill her, which would indirectly make Lilith responsible for her death since she delivered her to him. It was all just revenge for when she broke his nose."

Luz's eyes widened at Sasha's words. Slowly, all heads turned to look at Eda, but even the Owl Lady looked surprised by this. "Whoa, that's so twisted that it actually makes sense. I always wondered why he wanted me so bad; it's not like I was the only wild witch or the only one breaking the law." Smirking, she flipped back her hair. "I just figured he realized how awesome I was."

King just scoffed. "Yeah right. You just had it in your head that he specifically wanted you out of the way because you were the strongest wild witch on the Boiling Isles."

Eda pointed at him. "Which was true, by the way." She glanced back at Sasha. "But yeah, now that I think of it, that does make sense. The guy did show that he could really hold a grudge, and he had some serious manipulation skills. I certainly wouldn't put it past him to try something like that."

Willow glanced at her fellow witches uneasily. "Maybe we shouldn't tell Lilith about that; she still feels guilty for everything she did."

But Eda just scoffed and waved off this latest revelation. "Ah, it doesn't matter anyway. Everything worked out for the best for all of us. We all went on an amazing adventure, beat the baddies, and saved our worlds."

With a smile on his face, Dipper looked up at the stars. "And now we're all sitting here together, sharing our stories with each other."

Mabel punched his arm. "I know, right. Hey, they would make great TV shows for kids, don't you think?"

Dipper laughed at that. "Hey, yeah. Our story could easily fill, like, forty episodes." He glanced at Anne and Sasha. "Yours felt longer. You could probably stretch it to something, like, fifty-eight episodes."

Sasha raised an eyebrow. "That was an oddly specific number."

"I think most of their story would work best as two segmented episodes," Mabel commented thoughtfully.

Anne chuckled. "Well, most of the time, it certainly felt like every eleven minutes of my life in Amphibia involved some sort of craziness."

Frowning slightly, Dipper looked at Luz. "Your adventure in the Boiling Isles felt like it could also be forty episodes, but it felt like you glossed over a lot of what happened after you and your friends came to Earth, like when a show in unfairly canceled and they rushed to conclude the story in, like, three extra-long finale episodes."

Mabel scoffed. "Uch, I hate it when that happens."

Luz bashfully rubbed the back of her head. "Yeah, sorry about that. I guess I could have told more about our time in the human world." Then her face lit up. "But, hey, if you want to know more about it, you can buy my book."

Dipper gave her a curious look. "Your book? You mean Ruler's Reach, that book you worked on with King, or the one you tricked that publisher into reading so you could hit him with that light spell?"

Luz shook her head. "No, no, not those. I mentioned that it was my dream to be a writer, so I decided to novelize pretty much everything that happened from when I first entered the Boiling Isles to Belos' defeat."

"It's amazing," Amity bragged. "She's such a good writer. She's already searching for an agent."

Sasha made a face. "A different one than that three-eyed lizard guy I hope."

Smiling, Luz nodded. "Yes, yes. No more sketchy agents or magic contracts for this girl."

"That's really cool," Dipper told her. "Wish I could write a book like that on mine and Mabel's story, but novels aren't exactly my type of writing. I'm more of a facts and discoveries type of writer."

"Better than me," Anne chimed in. "Writing isn't my forte at all."

Luz inhaled loudly, her eyes widening with hope and excitement. "I would be honored if you would let me write your stories. Can I? Can I? Huh? Huh? Huh?"

Anne smiled. "It's ok with me. Sasha?"

The blonde girl shrugged. "Yeah, sure, go for it. I'm sure Marcy would like that as well."

"Yes!" Luz exclaimed, punching the air. Then she turned to the Pines twins. "What about you guys?"

Chuckling, Dipper gave her a nod. "Sure, that'd be awesome. What do you think, Mabel?"

She threw her hands in the air. "I'm gonna be a book character!"

Dipper flashed Luz a smile. "And once we beat Bill, you can write a big final book that crosses over the others involving this adventure."

Luz looked positively giddy at the thought of this. "I love that idea."

Hunter glanced over at the Bill's statue in the distance with a frown. This was ground zero for them. They had to make their final stand here. If Bill got to that statue, then it was all over. They had already known that Bill gaining a body would be bad, but after having heard Dipper and Mabel's story, they now knew that things were far more dire than they had initially thought.

But as he stared at the statue, a thought suddenly occurred to him. "Hey, that statue is just made of stone, right? If we need to prevent Bill from getting to it to stop him from returning fully, then why don't we just destroy it?"

He looked back at the others questioningly and was greeted by blank faces. They all glanced at each other, as if wondering how this simple solution had never occurred to any of them before.

"I'll do it," Luz declared, jumping to her feet, and Stringbean flew off her head and turned into a staff.

"How did none of us think of this before now?" Dipper asked, almost sounding angry with himself.

Eda just waved off his frustration. "Ah, don't worry about it, kid. Sometimes even the most obvious escapes us until it's pointed out."

Luz aimed her staff at the Bill statue. "Alright, one pile of rubble, coming up."

"Wait, wait!" Mabel suddenly cried, halting Luz's spell as she began to draw a magic circle. "Can we see you use your glyphs when you do it?"

Luz blinked. "Oh. Sure, no problem."

She reached into her pocket and pulled out the appropriate glyphs. Dipper, Mabel, Anne, and Sasha eagerly looked on as she slapped the glyphs together and a fiery ball of light appeared in her hands.

"Ok, as I was saying, one pile of rubble, coming up."

She threw the explosive ball at the Bill statue. The others looked on as the fiery ball flew towards its target. But then, just when it was a few feet from hitting the statue, what appeared to be a bullet of blue fire intercepted it, resulting in an explosion that fell short of hitting the Bill statue. The others recoiled from the blast, and as the smoke cleared, they saw that the statue was still intact.

"Hey what happened?" Mabel asked.

A deranged laughter was heard, drawing everyone's attention. They looked up at the treetops where the laughter was coming from, just in time to see the trees part and a Taiwanese girl with a menacing grin come floating in.

"Talk about a close call," the newcomer said. "Looks like I made it just in time. If that isn't fate, then I don't know what is."

Willow took a step back. "Who's that?"

"It's Marcy!" Sasha exclaimed.

"No," Anne said quietly, her eyes narrowing, "it's Bill."

(A/N: Alrighty then, we are here. The whole gang is together and Bill has now arrived. Now it's going to be battle to purge Bill from Marcy's mind before he manages to get to his statue. It really is too bad that the obvious solution Hunter had come up with didn't occur to anyone before now. Truthfully, were I in anyone's shoes from Gravity Falls I would have destroyed that statue on day one, just to be safe. But it's as Eda said, sometimes the obvious eludes us until it's made apparent. Too bad they ended up being too little too late, but they got a little invested with everyone's stories. But now that all the pieces are in place, the main part of the story is about to get underway. Don't worry, we still got quite a bit left to go, so stay tuned for more.)