AN: Wazzup guys? I just wanted to say that the number of favs follows and reviews I'm getting is so phenomenal! Thank you again for the support. And thanks Guest for the constructive criticism. I'll be sure to add more description into the story!
Also, I got rid of Maddison.
You hear that? The sound of rejoicing from my readers…
Yeah, I just figured she was indeed a useless side character that popped into my head (I was thinking about "pain comes in threes" or something). I just went back and edited her out of the story, hard, but it was worth it so, R.I.P Maddison Pines. You didn't contribute anything to the plot but you did a good job sitting there and looking pretty!
Anyway, hope you enjoy!
Chapter Four: Monster
Bill woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of Dipper's heavy breathing and whimpers.
The fifteen-year-old rubbed the sleep from his eyes before looking at his brother who was grasping the sheets tightly, his body covered in sweat.
Bill got up and rocked Dipper slightly. "Dipper," Bill whispered. Dipper gritted his teeth and began to mumble incoherently.
Bill bit his bottom lip before gently placing a hand on the shivering Dipper's forehead.
"Let's see if this works," Bill murmured, pushing his consciousness into Dipper's mind.
There was a flash of light before Bill opened his eyes. He scowled at his surroundings. It looked familiar, the obsidian brick, the nonsensical way everything was set up...Bill's eyes widened in realization. He was in the Fearamid.
But why was Dipper dreaming about that?
Then he saw the twins running away from a livid Bill Cipher from a distance. "I'M GOING TO REARRANGE YOUR MOLECULES!" The demon screeched.
Bill cringed. Wow. He was more sadistic than he remembered.
Bill watched as Dream Bill snatched the twins and laughed. He then turned back to the main entrance with the squirming twins in hand.
Right, he needed to stop Dipper's nightmare. Bill ran after them and into the throne room where Stan and Ford where. Now that Bill knew about their little switcharoo thing, he could see the slight differences in the Stan twins. Dream Bill didn't know that though.
"Times up! I got the kids!" Dream Bill put them in front of his face. "I'm going to kill them now, just for the heck of it!"
Bill's eyes widened as the twins squirmed even harder.
"ENNIE MEENIE MINY, YOU!" Only when Dream Bill rose his hand and was about to snap his fingers did Bill snapped his own.
The scene disappeared and they were instead in a lily meadow.
Dipper frowned in confusion. "Huh?"
"Dipper, you alright?" Bill asked walking towards his brother.
Dipper turned to Bill. "Matthew? Am I still dreaming?"
"Yes, I just got rid of your nightmare. Are you alright?" Bill asked again.
Dipper nodded. "Yeah...what was that?"
Bill swallowed thickly. "It was a nightmare, don't worry about it."
"Um, thanks for getting rid of it," Dipper said with a tiny smile. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight Dipping Sauce," Bill said with a smile. Though before he left, he played a bunch Dipper's best memories so he wouldn't get scared again.
Bill's eyes snapped open. He looked around, realizing he was on the floor. He got up and looked at Dipper who was sleeping peaceful with a smile on his face.
Bill sat on his bed and picked up the top hat again. When he had got the hat two days ago, it brought him joy to be reminded of his old self.
But now...now it reminded him of a monster he refused to call himself. For a while he knew that his past self was...well extreme when it came to getting what he wanted. He never concluded evil though. But seeing his past self-hurting Dipper and Mabel, who he was truly fond of, it made him realize that he was more than evil, he was a soulless monster.
Bill got up and looked at the triangular window, raising the top hat so it looked like his past self.
The window then grew arms and legs and an eye, it then exploded in maniacal laughter.
Bill dropped the hat and turned away, panting heavily. "I'm different," he muttered. "I've changed."
But yin, his old pal disagreed.
You can't change who you are, it hissed slyly.
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"Syrup race!" Dipper and Mabel said in unison, putting their syrup bottles above their mouths.
"Go Mounty Man!"
"Go Sir Syrup!"
"Go, go, go!" Bill smiled at the little competition, and laughed when Mabel hit the bottom of the bottle so the syrup could fall out.
"Yes!" She coughed. "I win!"
Bill continued to laugh as Dipper gave his twin an annoyed glare. The boy then proceeded to take up the newspaper. "Hey, guys! Check this out!"
Bill and Mabel leaned forward to look at what Dipper was talking about. "Human sized hamster balls? I'm human sized!" Mabel said cheerfully.
"No, no Mabel, this." Dipper pointed to another article.
"A monster photo contest, huh?" Bill said with a smile. "Sounds interesting."
"We've seen weirder stuff every day! Did we take a picture of those gnomes?" Dipper asked.
"Just memories, and this beard hair!" Mabel said showing off a white strand of hair.
"How'd you get that?" Bill asked with a quirked eyebrow.
"I took it from Schmebulock!" Mabel said proudly.
"Did it hurt him?" Bill asked.
"Quite a bit!" Mabel said.
"Ha! Good girl!" Bill said ruffling Mabel's hair. The girl giggled.
"Good morning knuckle heads! Guess what today is?" Stan said walking into the kitchen.
"Um, happy anniversary?" Dipper guessed.
"Mozell tov!" Mabel exclaimed.
"Your funeral?" Bill asked.
"I'm not married, one," Stan said crossing his arms. "Two, don't know what whatever Mabel said is, and three, I'm not dead."
Unfortunately, Bill thought.
"We're having family bonding time!" Stan said jubilantly.
"We're going to make counterfeit money like last time? Great," Bill grumbled.
Mabel shivered. "County jail is so cold…"
"Okay, I know I wasn't the best summer caretaker," Stan admitted. "But I promise we'll have some real family fun! Now who wants to put on some blindfolds and jump into the car, huh?"
Mabel and Dipper cheered while Bill scowled.
Dipper then blinked twice. "Wait, what?"
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"Uh, blindfolds never lead to anything good," Dipper mumbled.
"My senses are heightening! I can see with my fingers!" Mabel said patting both Dipper and Bill in the face, causing them both to laugh.
Then the trio cried out in surprise when the car jumped. "Are you wearing a blind fold Grunkle Stan?" Dipper asked.
"Nope, might as well be though," Stan said as they felt the impact of crashing into something.
"You think?!" Bill demanded.
The car came to a screeching halt and the three Pines lurched forwards in their seats, the seatbelts tightening. Bill's however snapped and he banged his head on the back of the chair.
"What the heck?!" Bill demanded rubbing his stinging face.
"Are you okay, Matt?" Mabel asked worriedly.
"Totally," Bill grumbled, staggering out of the car, only for Dipper to trip and crash into him. The two boys fell to the floor.
"I already hate this!" Bill growled.
"Okay! Blindfolds off!" Dipper got off his brother and the two boys along with Mabel, removed their blindfolds.
"Ta da! Fishing season!" Stan said posing. Bill had to admit, the place was beautiful, with its large cliffs and clear blue water. He saw a woman asking a fish to jump in her pan, and saw a family of red heads, who he remembered were related to Ice Girl.
"Fishing?" Mabel asked.
"What are you playing at, old man?" Dipper asked suspiciously.
"I told you," Stan said as they all walked into the fishing area. "Family bonding!"
"I think he really wants to fish with us," Mabel mused.
"I even made you kids some hats! Hand stitching, I pricked my hands a few times, actually," Stan said holding out three hats. Dipper's hat had "Dippy" spelled on it. The "E" Mabel was backwards with the "L" peeling off. And Bill's hat had the "M" upside down so it looked like "Watthew".
Still, it was obvious that he worked hard on it. Bill looked up at the grinning Stan and back at the hat.
"I also bought the joke book!" Stan said holding up 1001 Yuk 'em Ups.
"No, no!" Dipper screamed in horror, cringing.
"Please stick a blade in my throat and leave it there until the life leaves my eyes," Bill moaned with slumped shoulders.
"There has to be away out of this!" Mabel said in panic.
"I SAW IT! I SAW IT AGAIN!" The Pines found a crazy looking old man…with a bandage on his beard.
Ah, Spectacles. Bill smiled to himself.
"Aw, he's doing a happy jig!" Mabel said with a grin.
"No! It's a jig OF GREAT TERROR!" Spectacles exclaimed, he seemed to be advancing towards Mabel put Bill stepped in his path and glared at him until he backed off.
"I SAW THE GOBBLEWANKER!"
"Gobble-who?" Dipper murmured.
"Dad! What did I tell you about scaring the people?" A man with cap demanded as he sprayed Spectacles with a spray bottle.
"I've got proof!" The old man exclaimed. Everyone followed him to an old boat that looked snapped in half.
"It had a long neck like a giraffe and wrinkly skin like…this fellow over here!" Spectacles pointed at Stan who was busy picking his ear. Bill cringed in disgust. "It ruined my boat and shim-shammed over to Scuttlebutt Island! You gotta believe me!"
"Attention all units," A fat police officer, who Bill recognized as Officer Blubs. "We have ourselves a crazy old man!"
Everyone sans the Pines laughed.
"Aw donkey spittle, aw banjo polish…" Spectacles mumbled dejectedly as he walked off the dock.
"Well, that happened," Stan said. "Anyway, let's get back to some family bonding! I'll just untie this boat, and you'll be fishing with your Great Uncle Stan!"
"Guys! Did you hear what that old man said?" Dipper said with wide eyes.
"Aw, donkey spittle!" Mabel mimicked.
"Aw banjo polish!" Bill mocked in a pretend dejected tone.
"No, no. About the monster! We can take a picture of it and win the competition, then we could split it between the three of us!" Dipper said excitedly.
"That'd be hard to split," Bill commented as Mabel appeared to be daydreaming. "Dipper I am one million percent on board with this!" She said after Dipper snapped her out of it.
Dipper grinned and went to Stan. "Change of plans Grunkle Stan, we're taking that boat and going to Scuttlebutt island to win the photo contest!" He then turned to Mabel and both chanted, "Monster Hunt! Monster Hunt!" Bill grinned and then began chanting with them. Then Spectacles came out of nowhere and chanted with them. Dipper and Mabel looked at him weird and Bill scowled.
"I'll just go now…" The old man muttered.
"Hey! Did you dudes say something about a monster hunt?" A familiar voice asked.
"Soos!" Dipper and Mabel said in unison.
"Hey Soos," Bill waved casually.
"Sup dudes?" Soos said. He was sitting in a white boat with the words S.S Cool Dude written on it "You can totally use my boat for a monster hunt, it has chairs and a steering wheel."
"Basically, normal boat stuff," Bill summarized.
"Basically," Soos said with a shrug.
"Okay, okay, let's think this through," Stan said. "You can go on an epic monster hunting adventure, or you can stay and fish for ten hours with your Grunkle Stan!"
"You made the choice all the easier," Bill said hopping on the S.S Cool Dude.
"Alright, what about you kids?" Stan asked Dipper and Mabel. They looked at a grinning Bill and Soos doing a robot dance, then at Stan who was sniffing his arm pits, then at Scuttlebutt island.
"We made the right choice!" Mabel shouted as she and Dipper hopped on the boat and drove away.
"Hoist the anchor!" Dipper said as Soos lifted a cinder block with seaweed on it.
"Raise the flag!" Dipper said as Mabel held up a flag that said FUN.
"We're going to find that monster!" Mabel said.
"We're going to win that contest!" Dipper said.
"We're ditching Stan!" Bill said and the twins cheered.
"Do any of you have sunscreen?" Soos asked.
"We're going to get some sunscreen!" Dipper said as they made a U-turn.
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"Okay, think, what's the problem with most monster hunts?" Dipper asked, currently in leader mode.
"The girl's get attacked first and they can't fight, just so they can have a lame damsel in distress cliché scene," Bill said.
"The side character dies in the first minute," Soos said, then his face filled with fear. "Dude, am I a side character?"
"In my opinion? Yes," Bill said as Soos screamed in terror. "But not to worry, we'll make sure you don't die, right Mabel?"
"Right!" Mabel said.
"No, no. I meant—okay Soos, be big foot," Dipper said.
Soos held his hands out and turned around, pursing his lips.
"'Oh look! It's big foot!'" Dipper acted out. If he was in a movie he'd be a terrible actor. "'Uh-oh! No camera. Oh, here's one! Aw, no film!' You see where I'm going here?"
The three onlookers nodded.
"That's why I have packed eighteen extra cameras! Two in my sock, three in my vest, four of each of you and one in my hat!" Dipper said proudly. "Now, let's test them out."
Bill ran his hands through the lake while Soos took a picture of himself and accidently tossed the camera off board.
"It's okay, we got seventeen cameras left—," Dipper began.
"Ah! A bird!" Mabel exclaimed and tossed her camera at it, only it missed and fell into the lake as well.
"Sixteen, okay guys…"
As Dipper continued talking, Bill saw his reflection in the lake take the form of his past self, holding the twins in his fist.
"EENIE MEENIE MINY—!"
Bill screamed and tossed his camera at the reflection. The reflection warped and returned to normal. Bill leaned against the railing panting heavily.
"Okay, fifteen, don't lose the cameras!" Dipper said.
"Matt? Are you okay?" Mabel asked her brother worriedly.
Bill nodded stiffly. "I'm fine," he mumbled.
"Dude, did you say lose the cameras?" Soos asked.
"I said don't!"
"I just through two over board," Soos said jabbing a thumb at the floating cameras.
"Argh!" Dipper said in frustration. "We now have thirteen…" Dipper smashed another camera under his fist.
"Twelve, twelve cameras," Dipper grumbled.
"So, what do we do now? Throw away more cameras?" Mabel asked about to through her camera over board.
"No! No!" Dipper said in panic. "Okay, um, I'll be captain. Mabel and Matthew, you be look out."
"Aww! I want to be captain!" Mabel said. "What about Mabel huh? Mabel, Mabel, Mabel!"
"No."
"What about co-captain?"
"There's no such thing."
Mabel tossed another camera behind her back. "Oops!"
"Okay, fine! You can be co-captain!" Dipper said in frustration.
"Can I be co-captain associate?" Soos asked.
"As co-captain I authorize that request!" Mabel said cheerful.
"As first captain our main goal is luring the monster out with this," Dipper said gesturing to a barrel of fish food.
"Where'd you get that?" Bill asked.
"I bought it when we went to get sunscreen," Dipper responded.
"With what money?"
Dipper coughed. "Not important right now."
Bill smirked but didn't press.
"Dude, can I try this?" Soos asked pointing at the fish food.
"Permission granted," Dipper said.
"Permission co-granted," Mabel added.
"It tastes like chicken," Bill said with a smirk.
"Oh! It does?" Soos asked eagerly. "Oh man! Permission co-associate granted!"
Soos took a handful and licked it before gagging. The Pines siblings laughed. "Aw, Matthew, you said it tasted like chicken!"
"Did I say chicken? No, I meant barf," Bill said through his laughter.
"There is no better way to describe this!" Soos exclaimed as the trio laughed even harder.
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"Hey, how's it going?" Mabel asked a pelican.
"It's going great!" Mabel said making her voice deeper for the pelican while moving its beak up and down. "Bow wow, wow!"
"Mabel, leave that thing alone," Dipper scolded.
"I don't mind none!" The pelican "said".
"Look! I'm singing!" Mabel took a glass of water seemingly out of nowhere and gulped it down while singing Twinkle Little Star. Then she coughed and the pelican flew away.
"Aren't you supposed to be looking out?" Dipper demanded.
"Look out!" Mabel said tossing a ball at Dipper. Dipper whimpered in pain.
"Ha! But seriously, I'm on—."
"Wait stop!" Bill said as he saw the land.
Soos stopped the boat.
"See? I'm a great lookout!" Mabel said proudly.
"Huh, looks like the horror movies," Bill commented as they all walked onto Scuttlebutt island. It was foggy and the trees creaked ominously.
"Hey, dudes, check it out!" Soos covered "Scuttle" in a sign that said Scuttlebutt Island. "Butt Island!"
Bill and Mabel laughed.
"Hey, why aren't you laughing Dipper?" Mabel asked the boy. "Are you scared?"
"No," Dipper denied promptly.
"You are scared!" Mabel laughed blowing a raspberry and poking Dipper in the nose. "Mabel, quit it!"
Dipper dropped the lantern and a rat dragged it away.
"Our lantern! Uh, I can't see anything!" Dipper said squinting through the fog.
Bill held up his hand, letting a blue flame appear. "There you go."
"Thanks Matt," Mabel said.
Then there was a loud noise.
"A monster noise!" Dipper said excitedly. "Come on, let's hurry!"
The foursome ran deeper in the woods, then, in the lake was a silhouette of the Gobblewanker.
"Okay, ready? And…now!" Dipper cried.
Soos let out a battle cry and the rest of them followed, taking photos like crazy. As they got closer, however, it was clear that they were snapping photos of a bunch of trash…with beavers on it.
"What? Then what was the monster noise?" Dipper asked. They all turned to see an old rusty chain saw making noise as a beaver messed with it.
"Cool!" Soos said and ran after it.
Dipper's shoulders slumped and he sat on the grass with a sigh. "Maybe that man was crazy after all."
"He did say a bunch of nonsensical things," Mabel muttered.
"And he has a bandage on his beard," Bill said putting a comforting arm around his brother. "If it makes you feel better, we at least didn't have to sit on a boat for ten hours."
"Yeah, but…we still ditched Grunkle Stan for nothing," Dipper mumbled, tossing a rock at his reflection. It then warped and the water trembled with sound waves.
"Did you guys hear that?" Dipper asked as a colossal…thing tore through the lake.
"This is it!" Dipper said, his excitement returning. He took out his camera as everyone else backed up.
"Um, Dipper?" Mabel said.
"What's wrong, all you need to do is..."
Before Dipper could finish his sentence, Bill shot a fire ball at the Gobblewanker who roared in protest as the flames began to spread. Dipper dropped his camera in fear before he turned and ran with his siblings and the handyman.
The creature followed, though it was moving slow; The fire was taking its toll.
Dipper tried to take another picture, but then tripped on a root. "The photo!" He cried in horror as Soos grabbed him by the vest. "Dude! If it makes you feel better, I got lots of pictures of those beavers!"
"WHY WOULD THAT MAKE ME FEEL BETTER?!"
The four of them made it to the S.S Cool Dude and Soos drove away from the island.
"Soos take a picture!" Dipper cried as the Gobblewanker followed them into the water, the flames going out, although the paint was still melting—
Wait, what?!
"Soos what are you doing?!" Dipper screamed as Soos started throwing cameras. "Don't worry dude! I got one left!" As Soos threw the last camera Bill jumped off the railing.
"Matthew!" Mabel cried in surprise as the blonde grabbed on to the creature's neck. The Gobblewanker tossed his head left and right while Bill clung desperately for dear life. He could here Dipper and Mabel screaming his name in panic and the wind blasting his ears.
With a grunt, Bill hoisted himself on top of the neck, still holding on tightly. "Alright, you're going down you so called monster," Bill ground out as he punched the back of the neck with a flaming fist multiple times. Finally, there was an electric crackle and the Gobblewanker stopped moving, it's head falling into the water. Bill screamed as he crashed into the lake, moving his arms and legs sporadically as he tried to stay afloat.
He seriously regretted not taking those swimming lessons.
"MATTHEW!" Mabel screamed from on top of Soos' boat.
"Grab on dude!" Soos said tossing some rope and throwing it next to Bill who desperately grabbed on. He sighed in relief until Soos tossed his end at the drowning victim as well. Bill went back to panicking.
"Soos!" Dipper exclaimed.
"Sorry, dude!" Soos called. "I'll get another one!" Soos said looking around as Bill continued to kick his legs vigorously.
"Oh, wait, there's no more!" Soos said. But Bill didn't hear because at that moment he went under, Bill screamed in panic and got a mouth full of water in return.
Fate was seriously out to get him. I mean, come on! First, he died because he shook a five-fingered hand! Now he was going to drown!
Then, he felt a strong hand grip the collar of his shirt and pull him out of the water. Bill's hand found solid wood and he coughed out water as his savior helped him on.
"You alright kid?" A familiar raspy voice asked. When Bill finished coughing he brushed his wet bangs out of the way to find the face of a worried looking Stan Pines.
"Huh? What? Yeah," Bill looked to find a bunch of people in boats helping a soaking wet Spectacles out of the water. Where did he come from?
"Matthew!" The twins screamed in unison as the S.S Cool Dude drove beside Stan's boat. Mabel jumped off and gave Bill a huge sobbing hug, though he was very surprised when Dipper did the same thing, except he was only sniffling minorly.
Bill instantly hugged the twins back, soaking their clothes but they didn't seem to care.
"We were so scared!" Mabel sobbed.
"We thought we were going to lose you, I thought we were going to lose you!" Dipper exclaimed hugging Bill tighter.
"It's okay, I'm alright," Bill said quietly. It took ten minutes and a lot of reassuring words from Bill to get the twins to stop hugging him.
They pulled back, both wiping their eyes. "Never worry us like that again!" Mabel demanded. "You have to promise!"
"I can't promise that," Bill muttered.
"You have to," Mabel insisted.
Bill sighed. "Okay, I promise."
Bill saw a bunch of people dragging pieces of metal from the lake while Spectacles talked with his son. Then he turned to Stan and Soos who were silent for the whole time.
"Still up for some family bonding?" Bill asked.
Stan blinked in surprise. "Kid, you just had a near death experience."
Bill took his sopping wet fishing hat out of his back pocket. "Yeah, so?" He asked smiling and putting it on his already wet hair.
Dipper and Mabel smiled and did the same thing.
"You kids ever seen me tie a knot backwards?" Stan asked finally.
"Ten bucks says you can't do it!" Dipper said.
"Ten more bucks say you can't do it with your eyes closed and me singing at the top of my lungs!" Mabel added.
"Another ten says you can't do all of that plus me throwing water at your face," Bill said with a grin.
"Ha! I like those odds!" Stan said with a grin of his own.
"Say fishing!" Mabel said.
"Fishing!" They all said,
"Dude, am I in the frame?"
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As the Soos and the rest of the family drove home Bill looked at the back of Stan's head and smiled lightly. The same man that had killed him in his past life, saved him in this one. Wow. Life worked in mysterious ways.
You're going soft. Bill's yin said.
Bill smiled broader. I think I don't mind.
Then the boat bumped up.
"What was that?" Dipper asked. Mabel shrugged.
Bill looked down at the lake and saw the silhouette of something that was in no way a fish. Bill smirked lightly as the creature lifted its head a bit.
"What do you know?" Bill mumbled.
He could've sworn the thing winked at him.
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AN: So, the ending deviated a lot from canon. I hope you don't mind, I just wanted to add a bunch of fluff, and establish the fact the Bill can't swim. It could lead to possible drama in the future :3.
Remember to leave some constructive criticism and or, comments. I was also thinking about giving Bill a love interest, what do you guys think?
Fantasy Freak says, Happy New Years Eve!