AN: Hello again guys!
Thanks so much for the love! It. Is. Amazing!
Thank you rcppcsPOTTER for the suggestion. Yeah, I really should go back and add that detail, maybe when I finish the story or something.
You should also check out The Fourth Journal. It's a Season Three GF fiction and good so far!
Now then! Last time Bill got Matthew's body and is now trying to kill the twins…
Oh dear…
In my mind, it went something like this…
…A-X-O-L-O-T-L…
Chapter Twelve: Cold Water
"Hey, Shoo—Mabel! Want to hear a joke?" Bill asked.
"Uh, sure!"
"What happened to the two kids who walked into the woods?"
"I don't know."
"They died! AHAHA!"
Mabel forced some laughter and went in stride with Dipper. "Matthew is really creeping me out," she whispered.
"Something's off," Dipper mumbled in agreement.
"But what?"
"I wish I knew."
"We're almost here!" Bill said humming cheerfully to himself.
The twins exchanged a slightly nervous look before following hesitantly.
"Hey, Matthew?" Dipper said.
"What up, Pine Tree?"
"You're acting—?" Dipper stopped and took in a sharp breath. "D-did you just call me 'Pine Tree?'"
"No," Bill said quickly. "Now come on."
Mabel gasped and she and her brother took a step back. "You're not Matt! You, you're-you're Billiam!"
Oh well…
Billiam laughed. "We're one in the same, Shooting Star! Matthew Pines is Billiam Cipher and Billiam Cipher is Matthew Pines! Not matter what you want that's the truth!" Billiam advanced towards the twins and they took another step back.
"We have the same goals! Killing you brats!" Billiam's palm filled with blue flames and he threw it at Dipper and Mabel.
They screamed and narrowly dodged the attack as the trees behind them exploded in flames, crawling along the forest floor like electric blue tongues.
Dipper grabbed his sister's arm as they ran from the flames and their maniac pursuer as he continued to throw fire balls.
"I knew it! Matthew wanted us dead all along!" Dipper exclaimed as the two of the ducked quickly under a burning tree.
"If he wanted to kill us why did he give his body to triangle Bill?" Mabel called back. They leapt over a fallen and burning tree.
"I don't know! There must be a reason—whoa, whoa, whoa!" Dipper skidded to a stop, grabbing his sister by the arm to stop her from falling into the chasm. Behind them was the burning flames.
"Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man!" Dipper said.
"What do we do, Dipper?!" Mabel backed up and helped when a blue flame singed her sweater.
"You die…or you die! Isn't that convenient?!" Billiam laughed as he stepped casually threw the flames.
The twins backed away from the grinning Billiam, his golden eyes full of mirth and his grin a perfect fit.
Dipper's foot met a dry patch of earth and it crumbled into the chasm, taking the surprised boy with it.
"DIPPER!" Mabel screamed as she tried to grab her brother before he could fall into the raging river below, but Billiam grabbed the neck of her sweater and held her up to his face. The girl tried desperately to break through from the laughing Billiam as she heard her brother scream.
"Let me go!"
"Do you know the cool thing about shooting stars?" Billiam asked. "They always fall and die!"
Mabel squeezed her eyes shut, only to hear Billiam scream in surprise. She then felt as if she was flying. When she opened her eyes, she wasn't flying, though. Just the opposite.
She was falling.
Mabel screamed as she slammed into the frigid river and was carried away with the current.
…A-X-O-L-O-T-L…
Matthew followed Billiam to the door before he stopped. Right, I can't do anything of real use without something to poses.
Matthew looked around the shack. He needed something big; it would be the fastest way to get to the twins before it was too late.
He swiftly flew around, trying to find something useful to use. "Come on, come on…"
He saw Stan giving a tour, he was showing them—
"The Gigantic Platypus Bear! It used to eat stuff alive, until I bravely killed him!" Stan said as people praised him.
Perfect. Matthew thought as he dove into the creature.
"I had one of my many guns and—HOT BELGIN WAFFLES!"
The people screamed as the bear yawned and stretched one leg, Matthew testing out his temporary body.
"Hi," Matthew said, speaking through the bear.
"It came back from the dead! It wants revenge! Run people RUN!" Stan screamed as they ran away from Matthew.
Matthew charged through the gift shop and crashed down the door as he charged into the woods. Panic seized him when he saw the blue flames burning the woods.
Dipper! Mabel!
Matthew ran faster, dodging as many burning trees as he could but his fake fur was already singed in places.
He then felt rage when he saw Mabel, squeezing her eyes shut as Billiam held him up to his face. Matthew rammed into Billiam, causing Mabel to slip from the demon's grasp, he then whacked Billiam into a nearby tree. Everything went gray as Bill flew out of his body screaming.
Matthew flew out of the bear attraction and into his own body, jolting awake with a start.
Quickly, without another thought, the teen leapt off the chasm and into the raging river after his sister, remembering too late that he couldn't swim.
The water was a shock to him as the water's force pushed Matthew under. The blonde swallowed a mouth full of water, as began kicking his arms vigorously to try and reach the surface, but it was all in vain.
Matthew crashed into a large rock, the force knocking all the remaining oxygen from his lungs and causing him to swallow even more water. At the last minute, he latched his arms around the rock and tugged himself up, inhaling a generous amount of air.
"Dipper!" Matthew screamed. "Mabel!" With a grunt of effort, Bill pulled himself on to the large rock, catching his breath before imagining a raft.
The raft appeared next to the rock and Matthew jumped on just as the river pushed it away.
"Dipper! Mabel!" Matthew called again.
He could hear Mabel scream.
The raft crashed against the rapids while its rider held on for dear life. There, clinging to a rock with one arm was Mabel, in her other, she was holding on to an unconscious Dipper's wrist.
"Mabel!" Matthew called.
Mabel looked at her brother, uncertainty in her eyes. Matthew grabbed on to a nearby rock to stop the raft, but the raft got buried with water and was brought away by the current, leaving Matthew to cling desperately to the rock. Quickly, Matthew imagined a boat instead of a raft, snatching it and pulling himself on before stopping it from going further by jamming the ore that came with it between two rocks.
"Mabel, get on!" Matthew cried.
Mabel looked at her brother's eyes. They were no longer gold, but back to the normal robin egg blue, they were also filled with worry, and pleading. He looked so sincere…
Mabel figured that if this was a trick, she had fallen for it hook line and sinker.
Mabel counted to three before letting go of the rock. She tried grabbing the boat but the current pulled her and Dipper away too fast. She was about to go under when Matthew grabbed her arm, pulling her and Dipper to safety.
The ore then snapped and the boat went barreling into the rapids, Mabel and Matthew screaming as they held on for dear life. Matthew held Dipper to his chest with one arm, so he didn't get caught in the river again.
"ARGH! Waterfall!" Mabel screamed as the boat went barreling towards it.
Matthew tried thinking of a rope. The light in his hand flickered then died. Huh?
The boat flew off the waterfall just as Matthew grabbed Dipper and Mabel and leapt off it. Mabel screamed as Matthew squeezed his eyes shut in awful anticipation…
CRASH.
The trio, along with the boat crashed into the now shallow water, Matthew banging his back on the pebbled river ground, breaking Mabel and Dipper's fall. Matthew and Mabel broke the surface and coughed out the water in their lungs. They wadded over to the river bank and climbed on top of it, Matthew dragged Dipper on top as well and shook him gently.
"Dipper," Matthew whispered. "Dipper, wake up."
Both Matthew and Mabel sighed in relief when their brother groaned, his eyelids fluttering open. After about a second he rolled over and vomited all over the grass. He then wiped his mouth and squinted at Mabel. "Mabel? Is that you?"
Mabel nodded as Dipper then locked eyes with Matthew…and screamed in horror.
"Hey, hey, Dipper. Calm down, okay? Bill's gone, it's just me," Matthew said reaching for his brother. Dipper pulled away. "Whether he possesses you or not, you are Bill."
Matthew flinched.
"Come on, Dipper. Give him some slack, he saved us from nacho Bill," Mabel said.
"He made a deal with Bill so he could kill us! Why would I cut him some slack?" Dipper demanded, scowling at Matthew.
"Dipper, I wasn't trying to kill you, I swear. Bill tricked me," Matthew said. "Look, you have to believe me."
Dipper looked up at his brother, seeing the pleading in his eyes. Either Matthew was a very good actor, or what he was saying was the truth.
Dipper looked away. "I-I don't know if I can…"
"Dipper," Matthew put a hand on his brother's shoulder. Dipper flinched but didn't pull away again.
"Sorry, Matt, I just..." Dipper looked down and pulled away finally.
Matthew bit his bottom lip while Mabel looked between her two brothers, her eyes full of sadness.
"I understand," Matthew said finally.
"I'm an asshole, alright? I admit it. You can hate me all you want, okay?" Matthew got up and sighed.
"Let's just go."
…A-X-O-L-O-T-L…
Dipper hugged his knees while sitting on his bed, Mabel knitted and Matthew read one of his novels. He then thought of a grappling hook and it appeared in his hand. Huh, wonder why it didn't work before.
"Here, Mabes," Matthew handed his sister the grappling hook. "I, um, forgot to give you a new one before."
Mabel gave her brother a grateful smile as she excepted the gift. Matthew then thought of a pine tree hat.
"Here, Dipper," Matthew said handing his brother the hat. "You lost your other one in the river, right?"
"I can get my own from the gift shop," Dipper mumbled dismissively.
Matthew tried to ignore the hurt he felt. "Right, okay. Mabel, get the light."
Mabel shot the lantern with her new grappling hook and the room became shrouded in darkness.
Matthew didn't sleep for a while, when he did sleep, however, he was once more greeted with the greyscale world.
"Get. The hell. OUT!" Matthew screamed in rage.
"That was a stupid thing to do, Welcome Matt," Bill said appearing in front of the team, his eye narrowed slightly in annoyance.
"You were going to kill her!" Matthew spat. "I wasn't going to sit by and let that happen!"
Bill scoffed. "You're so soft. I should've known you'd never see things my way. Go back to puking like the weak flesh-bag you are."
Matthew felt the all too familiar nausea return with vengeance.
Matthew jolted awake, clutching his stomach. He staggered out of the room and into the bathroom to throw up.
When he was done, he slumped against the wall.
Matthew gritted his teeth, he didn't want that bastard in his head or in his siblings'.
He was going to do something about that.
…A-X-O-L-O-T-L…
The next morning, Matthew woke up early, deciding to skip breakfast as he walked out of the shack. His fists where clenched in determination. If he was here, Bill wasn't going to trick Mabel or Dipper again.
After an hour of trekking, Matthew made it to the place he wanted to be.
He spoke the chant in a deep voice, just like he memorized when he told it to Ford.
There was a rumbling sound as sanctuary rose from the ground and a door appeared.
Matthew took a deep breath and opened the door.
"Greetings!" Said an extremely grating voice. "I am—,"
"Celestabellabethabell, yeah, I know, and frankly, I don't give a shit, give me your hair pretty pony," Matthew grumbled irritably.
"Such language!" Celestabellabethabell said. "There is no way you can be, pure of heart—!"
"Give me your hair," Matthew repeated. "I don't have all day."
"You probably didn't know this, but you must be pure of heart to claim my hair! You are not. So, come back when you are PURE OF HEART! NEH, NEH, NEH!" Celestabellabethabell said shaking her mane (at least Bill guessed she was female. After all, her voice did sound like a man doing a bad impression).
"I think we both know that's a scam," Matthew said, quickly losing his patience.
"Scam! How dare you—!"
"Give me your hair, otherwise, this grass is going to turn colorful with your pretty rainbow blood," Matthew spat.
Celestabellabethabell glared at the teen. "How dare you threaten me, pretty boy!"
Okay, now she did it.
"I warned you," Matthew said cracking his knuckles. I warned you…"
…A-X-O-L-O-T-L…
Mabel began bedazzling Stan's fez, much to Dipper and Wendy's amusement, and Soos' nervousness, when Matthew came back in, slightly limping and covered in rainbow liquid. But he was grinning sadistically and he had a bunch of glittery hair in his hand.
"What happened to you?" Wendy asked with a quirked eyebrow.
"I beat up a unicorn," Matthew said casually.
Mabel gasped in horror. "What?! Matthew! That's so evil!"
"I can take you to meet her if you want, she's not as nice as the stories," Matthew said limping into the gift shop and sitting on a chair rubbing his throbbing ankle. God, that pretty pony is tougher than she looks…
Matthew limped to the attic and took a bath before removing his clothes. Then, he sat down and squeezed his palm shut, creating a pendent that looked like a shooting star. Matthew gently weaved a strand of hair inside the pendent before creating a chain as well and attaching it. He did the same thing to an ankle bracelet with a pine tree symbol.
Just as he was finished, Mabel walked in, singing cheerfully to herself.
"Hey Mabel," Matthew handed her the necklace. "Wear this, it'll protect you from Bill."
"From you?" Mabel asked looking up at her brother.
Matthew flinched. "N-no. Bill, Bill. It'll also keep you safe from other supernatural magic."
Mabel put the necklace around her neck and it glowed bright pink before going dull silver again.
"Can you give this to Dipper?" Matthew said handing Mabel the ankle bracelet. "I don't think he'd accept it if I gave it to him."
Mabel nodded and took the piece of jewelry before frowning slightly at her brother. "You guys need to be friends again."
Matthew sighed.
"Whenever he's ready, Mabes. Whenever he's ready."
…A-X-O-L-O-T-L…
AN: And here's the twelfth chapter! The idea for the name Billiam was magicornis1's idea, so, thanks for that!
P.S Did any of you watch the Series of Unfortunate Series on Netflix? I watched it with my family because we love that series and ah! I loved it!
P.P.S re-writing Celestabellabethabell so many times was annoying. The things I do for you guys!
Fantasy Freak OUT!