Author's Notes: Hi guys, another episode coming at you. For reference I skipped the naysay episode, only because Dipper has already faced his fears and told Wendy how he felt, so it didn't make sense for him to suddenly be nervous about it. Also, him and Pyronica are sort of cool now so her cursing him also didn't make sense, so I cut it out for plot. With that said, thanks for reading and please review.
(Back with Bill)
It didn't take long for him to get his friends up to speed, in a matter of minutes they knew who stole the page from the spell book. They also knew, thanks to Dipper pointing out the obvious; a pretty good reason why Mina would want it.
"We need to tell Ford." Mabel said only for everyone to give her an incredulous look. "Oh come on Dip you're usually the first one to tell FORD everything!"
"Yeah, that was before he started keeping secrets." Dipper snapped as they sat around in Bill's room. "You heard Bill, Axolotl said he took an oath of silence, Ford, Stan, Bill's parents they probably did too. Something Fishy is going on and somehow I'm at the heart of it!"
"We'll figure this out." Janna said.
"We have to." Bill agreed, exacerbated. "Toffee and Tad keep getting bolder every day."
"Which is why we need to tell Ford!" Mabel argued.
Dipper knew she had a point, but he was still angry, still bitter that Ford was keeping him in the dark. "We'll figure this out and prove to them that we can handle ourselves."
"Agreed." Bill's response left no room for hesitation.
"Hey, you know I'm game." Janna said.
Everyone looked at Mabel, she sighs. "Look Dipper, guys, you know I've got your backs. I won't tell if you don't want to, but I don't like it.
"Me either." Dipper admitted. "But they have their hands full with Toffee and Tad, Mina can't distract them now!"
Mabel grew determined at his words. "You're right, we have to solve this one, but may I suggest we enlist some help?"
"From whom?" Bill asked.
"Buff Frog." Mabel answered. "He helped track down Tad, maybe his tracking skills can be useful again."
"Okay, you can clue him in, but only if he swears to secrecy, Pine Tree is right, my father has enough on his plate right now." Bill insisted.
Yes, it was decided, everyone was on the same page rather quickly. Even Buff Frog took little convincing in his part. Alas finding Mina proved to be harder. She wasn't at school the following day or the next. Four days had passed and nothing, making Bill fear that she had already used the spell.
"What if it backlashes on her?" He whispered as they stopped by their lockers. "She could be seriously injured, or DEAD!"
"I doubt she's dead." Dipper whispered back, "Or missing. Her foster family would be looking for her if she was."
"Then where is she?" Bill hissed.
"Buff Frog says he got a faint whiff of her sent around the shack, but it was too old, he couldn't follow the trail." Mabel answered from his left. "He's been by her house multiple times and no one is home, not even her foster family."
"So she has made a move, but why now?" Janna asked. "She's been going to school for days like nothing happened. Then somehow the week we find out she's missing, there's no way."
"Maybe she heard we were looking for her on Monday and figured there was only one reason why we'd be looking for her." Dipper guessed.
It made sense, and it really ticked Bill off. "Now how are we going to find her?" He kicked his locker with anger.
"What about a seeking spell?" Wendy asked as she walked up.
"A what?" Bill asked.
"Oh sorry, I read a lot of fantasy novels, maybe you call it something different." Wendy makes a thoughtful look. Now that Dipper and she were sort of dating he texted her on the regular and caught her up to speed over the phone.
Sort of dating, Wendy flinched at the thought. This magic business was really cutting into her time with Dipper. They were going to have to fix that soon, but for now she forces herself to focus. "You know a spell that can track an enemy or spy on them."
Bill looks just as thoughtful. "Don't know, but there is one person I know who may have some "sneaky stuff" like that in the spell book." he answered.
"Who?" Mabel asked.
"The maiden, Alana; you know the lady from the picture in my room." Bill said.
"You mean the one that I swear talked to me on the night of the blood moon?" Dipper asked, looking paranoid.
"Yeah her." Bill confirmed.
"Wait, she talked to you?" Wendy asked.
"Well…I thought she did." Dipper said, looking unsure. "I was pretty loopy that night."
"Please tell me you burned this picture." Wendy says to Bill.
"Nope, I can't get rid of it." Bill sighs. "My room in the shack is a copy of my one at home, and whatever happens to it will also happen to it at home, and My father would not be happy if I burned a family portrait…again…. I did cover it up though." He admitted with a shiver.
"Okay, as fascinating as talking portraits sound." Janna cut in. "How does she help?"
"Her pedestal made her sound malevolent." Bill answered. "She was called the "Maiden of Darkness". Spying spells are considered dark magic, so if it's in the family spell book, that's where we'd find it."
With that thought fresh on their minds the teens left the school and headed for the Mystery Shack. Once there they were hit with a rare sight, Stan was running the gift shop. "Wow he actually has a customer?" Bill said.
"Oh yeah it's usually open year-round." Wendy said. "But with you here well…"
Bill didn't need her to continue, him being here had been one moment of chaos after another, of course Stan hadn't had the time to run the gift shop.
"Ford gets a big grant for his research every year." Dipper informed him. "So, we're not hurting for money."
Bill gave a smile of appreciation, it did make him feel a little bit better, but not by much. All he had done since he got here was cause the Pines Family trouble. A fact that was really starting to grind on his nerves.
As if reading his thoughts Mabel gave him a side hug. "Hey customers mean things are getting back to normal." She reminded him.
"But Toffee and Tad are still out there." Bill said. "How can things be back to normal?"
"Because they have to." Dipper said. "We can't keep living life on pause, bills have to be paid, life goes on."
"How's it hanging Mr. Pines?" Wendy said as they walked in the shop.
"Business is good." Stan told her as his latest customer headed out.
"You think it will stay open?" She dared to ask.
Bill tried not to let her question hurt, but it made his guilt build tenfold. However, he tried not to let it bother him. He knew Wendy was only asking because she worked at the shack during the summer months. And with six younger brothers her dad needed all the help he could get, so of course she needed to know if she had a job this summer, or not.
"Yeah, things are starting to settle down." Stan tells them. "The threat is still out there, but the Magic High Commission has taken it out of our hands."
"Wait…what!" Bill exclaimed; the Magic High Commission never got involved in the affairs of the crown.
"Look, we don't like it either." Stan admitted; but Toffee is a Septarian, and according to Buff Frog he made it clear that his goals line up with his late master's. Worse, he has Tad who now has half of the heirs' magic ability. Things are not looking good, and no offense but your parents have nothing to show for their effort. So, they forced their hand."
"So, you're just giving up?" Dipper asked.
"No, we are taking a break, there is supposed to be some big meeting today so they can all form a new game plan." Stan answers. "Hannibal said he'll clue us in after and we'll go from there."
"And you are telling us all this because?" Mabel asked.
"Because I know you kids are up to something." San said, giving them the look.
Everyone opens their mouth to answer at once, but Stan holds up a hand. "I get it, you want answers, you hate being in the dark. You feel powerless, you feel like this is all your fault." He looks at Bill when he says this. "But it is not your fault, you are kids, you should be able to act like kids who don't have the world resting on their shoulders. So, whatever you're doing just stop, let us adults handle it."
The teens shared a look and without saying a word they all reached the same decision, even Mabel who was completely against said decision a half an hour ago.
"Thank you for telling us." Mabel said. "Did you need any help in the shop today?"
"Nope." Stan said. "You kids got plans."
"Magic lessons." Bill said with ease.
"Well, have fun." Stan said as he watched them go, he waited until they were gone to pick up his phone.
"Well." Ford asked.
"I told them." Stan said.
"And?" Ford asked.
"Their entire group of friends is here for "Magic Lessons." Stan informed him.
Ford sighed. "I just don't understand. Why are they pushing against us?"
"Because they're not little kids anymore, they aren't just going to believe everything at face value." Stan whispered.
"We took an oath of silence Stan, a pact made by blood, we cannot tell them." Ford argued.
"I'm not saying we should." Stan said. "All I'm saying is if we don't, they will find a way to the answer themselves."
And get into a whole bunch of danger while doing so. He didn't say that part, but Ford didn't need him to. If raising the twins taught him one thing it was, they always got their answers one way or the other. "Our hands are tied Stanley; all we can do is keep an eye on them."
"Well for their sake let's hope that is enough." And with that he promptly hung up.
Ford didn't blame him for being frustrated, because he was too, his only hope was the Magic High Commission would have a plan that actually worked.
(Back with Bill)
"Hey Axol!" Bill yelled as they made it up to his room.
"Please stop calling me that." The magical guide begged.
"Nope!" Bill chuckled.
"You know the more you hate it, the more he loves it." Dipper clued him in.
"You don't say?" Axolotl sighed and then grew serious as he saw the large group of friends. "So I'm guessing we have come to a conclusion about what happened in the spell book."
"Yep." Bill confirmed.
"And you all know I can't tell you anything?" Axolotl asked, no doubt thinking this was some kind of interrogation tactic.
"Oh we're not here about Toffee." Dipper told him with ease.
"Really? You don't want to know?" Axolotl asked.
"Oh we do." Janna said, "but we have more important matters."
"Like?" Axolotl asked.
"Magic lessons." Bill said, "And since I came to you, I get to pick the lesson."
Axolotl does not look convinced but shrugs. "Alright, probably going to regret this but, okay pick!"
The spell book materializes out of thin air and floats down to him, Bill wastes no time flipping through it until he finds what he is looking for. He shows Axolotl the page. It's locked by magic blue chains and a skull. Ominous music plays from…somewhere…
"Oh, no-no-no." Axolotl takes the spell book away from Bill.
"Hey! You said anything!" Bill whines, despite himself.
"Anything, but this chapter!" Axolotl corrects himself. " It's the most dangerous chapter in the book. It shouldn't even be in there. Your parents would totally freak out."
"Okay I'm sold." Janna said mischievously. "And I can't even do magic.
Axolotl looks unsure. "Oh, I don't know Bill, it could taint you."
Bill raises an eyebrow. "I am a demon, it insults me that you think I am pure enough to be tainted."
"Okay this is getting us nowhere." Dipper said.
"Oh I got it." Mabel said. "Let us learn or we tell Bill's parents that you've been dropping hints about you know what!"
Axolotl drops the spell book back into Bill's hands so fast. "You wouldn't."
"Try me." Mabel said, completely deadpan.
"Manipulation, a teens one true super power." Axolotl sighed, but pulls out a key and using his toe, inserts it into the skull. The skull falls to the floor."Now, I'm going to show you for a split second."
The teens held their breath, this was it, the answer to finding Mina was just seconds from being discovered.
Axolotl starts turning the page, but then he begins to buzz like a pager. "Wha... Bureaucracy of Magic?" He asked, stunned. Wasting no more time he picks up the call by putting his finger to his ear "Yes, this is he. Uh, this is…" He looks at Bill unsure.
"Tell 'em you're busy." He whispers
Axolotl starts again. "Kind of a bad time."
He grows silent, obviously listening to someone on the other end.
"Tell 'em you're busy." Bill repeats.
Axolotl gives him a look like, 'what does it look like I am doing?' "Are you listening to me?" He says "This is...not a good time. This is the worst time." He says but gets ready to leave anyway. "KIds, I'll be right back." He assures them.
"What!" Dipper exclaimed, "but lessons, nothing interrupts magic lessons."
"Just hang up." Bill yells.
"Look I won't be long, the Magic High commission just wants my say in the next course of action." He gives them a stern look. " Don't turn the page. Mason, I expect you to keep everyone in line while I'm gone."
Axolotl's eyes turn black. He shrieks as he falls into a starry universe inside himself. Bill peers in through his eyes.
"Uh, Axolotl?"
"Is he dead?" Janna asked.
"No, he's astroprojecting." Dipper answered as if it was obvious.
"Wicked." Janna poked Axolotl like he was a dead rat.
Meanwhile, Axolotl continues to scream as he falls; moments later he appears before a large tower. A security guard, named Sean, munches some Cornitos chips. Axolotl slams into the front door, still screaming.
"Oh, hi, Mr. Axolotl, sir." Sean says cheerfully.
"Sean. Oh. Hi" Axolotl straightens himself. "I was called in."
"Yes, they need your input." Sean said, confirming his suspicions.
"This won't take long will it?" Axolotl asked. "I was in the middle of something, and it was of ultra cosmic importance."
"Well it is a serious matter, but don't threat HR made muffins."
Translation, this meeting was going to take eons!
Axolotl laughs angrily.
"Uh, is everything alright?" Sean dares to ask.
"Alright?" Axolotl asked mockingly. "I don't know. Is everything alright? Did you get on the right flight? Are you running late? Are you cracked? Are you confused? Are you mad? Did you leave the heir to the throne and his friends alone with the most dangerous chapter of the Spellbook unlocked!" He screamed the last part before stopping to sigh heavily.
Sean laughs, obviously amused by the outburst. "Oh, Mr. Axolotl, you're so crazy. But you still have to go up and see the Magic High Commission."
Axolotl sighs " Hand me your radio." He orders,
Sean hands over the radio without hesitation, and a loud air horn blast knocks him back.
"Radio's on the fritz, heck everything is. You're gonna have to go up."
"The fritz?" Axolotl asked.
"Yes it's why they called you here, you're the expert on all things magical, they need your input on what's going on."
"Oh. very well." Axolotl sighs.
Sean smiles. "Great, head up the elevator and go all the way to the top." He advies.
Axolotl tries to float inside.
"Wait, wait, wait!." Sean slams the door closed. "No magic in the building. It's on the fritz you could get hurt, or worse hurt someone else! You'll have to walk."
Axolotl huffs "Fine." and floats to the ground.
"Have a magical day." Sean tells him as Axolotl sprints out of sight, and the door closes.
(Back with Bill…)
"So now what?" Wendy asked.
"Uh we take a peek." Janna answered as if it was obvious.
"Yes, let's do it!" Bill goes to open the book.
"Guys, maybe we should wait." Mabel says resting her arm on the book.
"Yeah dark magic is no joke, it's said that it drives normal people mad." Dipper agreed.
"Again you insult me." Bill looks hurt. "I am a demon Pines, Dark magic can not taint me."
"Yeah you." Dipper said. "Might have a chance, but thanks to her!" He pointed at the covered picture of the maiden. "You now know why you look human, she is human, a mortal."
"And she handled it with ease." Bill argued.
"Did she?" Mabel asked. "I mean she married Seth and from what I can tell she supported him in all his craziness."
Bill pauses. "Oh yeah she was off her rocker." He realized.
"Oh come on you can't look me in the eyes and tell me you're not curious." Janna said, giving the twins a challenging look.
To their surprise Dipper just shrugs, Dipper Pines the guy who hates not knowing honestly looked like he could care less.
"Seriously, you're not the least bit curious?" Bill asked.
"Dark magic just never appealed to me." Dipper said. "It scars the body and damages the mind."
"Yeah no thank you." Mabel agreed.
"Well I'm intrigued, what about you Wendy?" Janna asked.
"I don't know Janna, Axolotl seemed pretty serious about us not opening it." Wendy pointed out the obvious.
"Well we can't sit around waiting for him to return." Bil pointed out the other obvious point. "Mina could be doing who knows what with that page."
Dipper bit his lip, okay we give him 20 minutes, if he's not back in 20 minutes, Bill can peek, but only Bill!" Dipper stressed.
"Kill joy." Janna sighed and with that the teens waited for the return of their magical guide with baited breath.
(Back with Axolotl…)
This was not happening, Axolotl comes to a screeching halt as a long line stops him in his tracks.
"Please step through the magical detection machine." Another security gaurd, Mortain says.
A wizard carrying many artifacts jumps in front of Axolotl.
"Oh, come on!" Axolotl yells
"Are you carrying any articles of magic, sorcery, or occult objects of a mystical nature?" Mortain asked the Wizard.
" Uh... no." The wizard answered.
"Just step this way please." Mortain waves him on.
The machine flashes green as the Wizard steps through.
"Thank you. Okay, Mr. Axolotl. Your turn." Mortain says.
Axolotl runs through, setting off an alarm.
"Wait, hold on. Are you kidding? That other guy just walked right through." Axolotl complained.
"Technology, right?" Mortain sighed "I miss the simpler days."
Axolotl removes all of his belongings. "I think we're done here." He says as he walks through the detector once more.
"Have a magical…" Mortain is cut off as the alarm goes off again.
"Seriously? I'm a being of magic it's going to go off no matter what!" He complained as a security detail began to search him. "Mortain, work with me please. Cosmic ultra importance."
The security detail waves a scanner around Axolotl that beeps wildly, proving that it is indeed axolotl himself tripping the alarm and not anything he's holding.
"See it's me!" He takes off then yelling "Hello! Hold the elevator!" He jumps into the elevator as the door closes, which squishes him, but he still squeezes through.
"Oh, hey, Mr. Axolotl. Which floor?" the valet, a man named Todd asked.
"Top floor." Axolotl answered patiently.
Todd pushes the elevator's top floor button, but nothing happens.
"Uh, what's going on? The elevator's not moving." Axolotl looks worried.
"Uh, looks like the elevator's on the fritz too. Sorry. But hey there's muffins in the lobby."
Axolotl screams. "Which part of 'cosmic ultra importance' do you people not understand?
Axolotl moves Todd out of the way and pushes the top button until it lights up. Unfortunately, all the other buttons light up as well.
"Now we have to stop on every floor!" Todd laughs
Axolotl jumps out of the elevator just before the doors closes.
"Stairs!?" He looks around frantically until he finds them before racing up them as fast as his stubby four limbs will allow him to. Finally he reaches the top floor, only to open the door and end up back on the first floor.
Stairs are on the fritz too." Sean's voice can be heard laughing.
Axolotl growls angrily, eyes lighting up with magic.
Sean's voice begins to shake over the intercom. "Now, now, Mr. Axolotl. N-No magic in the building."
With a single blast axolotl destroys the "No Magic" sign. Axolotl then holds his front legs out and light envelops around him, and suddenly, the first floor smashes its way up the tower to the top. Axolotl opens a pair of double doors and floats to one side of a table. The Magic High Commision sits opposite to him.
"Axolotl you made it." Hannibal looks relieved as the magical guide sits down beside him.
"Sorry everyone, I would have been here sooner but the fritz." Axolotl sighed.
"Then you know why you are here." Hekapoo, a fire maiden said. Hekapoo, was the forager of magical scissors. The sole reason why people could travel across dimensions with ease.
"Children, the only thing I wonder is why you waste my time." Axolotl growls.
Luisa clears her throat as she tries to stop the train wreck before it can begin and rightfully so. Axolotl was a very powerful being, this was because he had mastered all forms of magic, such a feat made him dangerous, more dangerous than any of the demons. In fact only Seth may actually be stronger.
It was because of this that not any dared to test the aquatic lizard, well all but one.
"Don't call me a child!" Rhombulus; a muscular creature with a diamond-shaped crystal for a head and eye, and snake arms 're the child! I've got chest diamonds bigger than you!" Rhombulus' snake arms sizzle with magical energy. With the power of crystal manipulation the short tempered being had a bad habit of freezing anyone who ticked him off.
"Rhombulus…" Hekapoo warns. She sits to his left with the other members of the Magic High commission to her left.
Lekmet, a goat man of extraordinary strength and power, grunted his own warning.
Omnitraxus Prime the last of the Magic High Commission; a giant humanoid-like being with a skull-shaped face and a body made up of space, looked on in worry. As the largest member of the Magic High Commission, his great size prevents him from entering normal public places, so he usually appears via a crystal ball. Which rests on the table .
"Rhombulus, you still mad about my last visit?" Axolotl teased.
Rhombulus shoots energy from his snake hands encases Axolotl inside a crystal. The crystal doesn't last long though, as it quickly cracks open.
Axolotl yawns "Excuse me, sorry. Don't mean to be rude. Getting stronger though, huh? That's good."
"Gah. You always do this!" Rhombulus picks up the table and throws it outside, shattering the glass wall. He then attempts to attack Axolotl.
Axolotl dodges with ease, and continues to do so as he speaks. "Now you bring me here... while I'm at work doing my job...!
Axolotl projects a giant hammer with his forehead and is about to strike Rhombulus.
"Yes, Axolotl I did." Hannibal says.
The fighting immediately ends.
"That's exactly what we're here to talk about." Luisa agrees.
Axolotl bows to them "My liege, my apologies I was informed that the Commission sent for me."
"Sorry; my bad." Sean said appearing with a new table. He sets it up and slides it over them where the group takes a seat once more.
"The Commission has discovered a problem." Luisa said, wasting no time. " Something somewhere is sapping the power of magic from the universe."
"Yes, that would explain the fritz." Axolotl said. "You don't think?"
"That is why you are here." Hannibal said. "Only you can tell us for sure."
"Is he doing this?" Hekapoo asked.
Axolotl looks thoughtful. "I can't sense him, but with Toffee targeting the kids, well there can be no mistaking why."
"It's impossible." Omnitraxus Prime says from his sphere. "We made sure there was nothing left of him.
Omnitraxus has been searching for the cause." Hannibal explained. "Omnitraxus, what have you learned?"
The sphere cycles through various images, including Toffee, before stopping on a tomato can. Lekmet starts bleating and drooling.
"I can not say for sure." Omnitraxus answers as his face returns to view. "Everytime I try to use my third eye it's like something is scrambling the feed."
"That would explain the random images." Axolotl reasoned.
"Well, whatever's causing it, I want everyone to be on their toes." Hannibal cut in. "Especially William, I need you to accelerate his training."
"Yeah... no." Axolotl says cutting him off. "William needs a special touch when it comes to training."
"Why all the riddles? You were always very direct when you were training me." Hannibal reasons.
"I know you have a specific way of training everyone." Luisa tried to emphasize with him. "But we're in a bit of a time crunch." She added.
Axolotl sighs "Well, it finally happened. Every Royal wants to tell me how to do my job. "My training was different." He mocks. "You know what Axolotl hears? Me, me, me, me, me! "I'm going to pull my mentor away from his job so I can be in the spotlight again." The only Cipher to leave me was Alana the Queen of Darkness, whose chapter, coincidentally, you left Bill alone with when you pulled me into this wonderland of red tape."
Axolotl gives Omnitraxus Prime a smack and the sphere reveals Bill and his friends.
"Turn the page! turn the page!" The teens chant.
Dipper holds the spellbook to his chest as Mabel tries to keep them at bay.
"Seriously Wendy you too?" Mabel asked.
"Sorry I got sucked in, besides we agreed 20 minutes and we open it!"
"Turn the page! turn the page!"
"Pines, we need it!" Bill exclaimed. "Think about it one spying spell and we get all the answers."
"We don't even know if she had one!" Dipper argues back."
Everyone around Axolotl shows their displeasure openly.
"Please tell me that chapter is not unlocked!" Hannibal said with a shaking breath.
" You all did this." Axolotl lectured." because you don't trust them, and won't clue them in, they are looking for their own answers. My King, your training was different because Bill is different. You have to have faith in him to make choices that are best. And my job is to train him to use those choices to be a great king."
Hannibal sighs but nods.
Luisa smiles. "Go fix this before it becomes a mess, we will continue to look into this matter."
"I hate to confirm your fears, but Toffee would not bother with the boy if he didn't think Seth could be brought back."
"That's what we are afraid of." Hannibal voiced. "What if he's the one messing with the magic."
"He's gone, we made sure." Heckapoo said, her voice shaking.
"Well you missed his general." Axolotl said, referring to Toffee. "Who's to say you didn't miss something else." With that his essence leaves the meeting and reappears in his body back in Bill 's room. "Oh!" He freezes as he sees Bill is reading the spell book at his desk. " So?"
"Yeah?" Bill asked.
"You read the whole thing?" Axolotl asked.
"Yep," Bill answered.
"Find what you need?" He dared to ask.
"Oh yeah it's all in here, I think this Seeing Eye spell should help."
"And what did you think of the rest?" Axolotl went on.
"It wasn't all that. I mean, I get it. Power of darkness, forces of evil, eternal suffering, blah-blah-blah. But honestly, it didn't really affect me that much. Just wasn't my thing." Bill admitted.
Axolotl does a little gig "Yes!.. Wait no one else took a peak…right?"
"Janna." Dipper's voice suddenly made the magical guide look up as if on instinct.
Janna floats in the middle of a purple vortex of dark magic,her eyes completely black. As she mutters evilly.
"Please tell me you can fix that." Wendy said, looking shaken.
"Luckily, there's a spell for just that." Axolotl assured them. He looked at Dipper as he spoke. "Anyone else look.
"Nope." Dipper said. "Just Bill and Janna."
"Not even curious?" Axolotl said darkly.
"Nope, not even a little." Dipper said.
"This is about the monster arm, isn't it?" Bill asked, surprising him.
"You saw what that did to me." Dipper whispered. "The monster arm was evil, that evil, that darkness came from inside of me."
"Maybe." Axolotl said. "But look at you, you overcame it in the end." Axolotl said. "I really think you're not giving yourself credit."
"I don't care." Dipper said. "As long as I live I will never read that chapter."
"Pines Tree." Bill looks stunned.
"It's okay Bill, I'm glad it had what we need, this is just one mystery I'm fine with not knowing."
Bill nodded his understandment and together the friends braced themselves to help Janna, for once she was fixed, they were finding Mina and stopping her.
And they would, they would find her and all the answers they seeked, no matter the cost.
-To Be Continued