A Prophecy to Fulfill

Tricked

Bill sat up and looked around. "Lila, stop messing with my location!" Bill's face looked annoyed as he fiddled with the dream projector, stuck in the forest he'd been last year with Dipper. 

"Oh, I'm sorry," a mocking voice came from behind him. "I thought you wanted to see me." Bill whirled around, his hand igniting with blue flames. 

"Lila," Bill spat, narrowing his eyes.

"The one and only," the demon said with an arrogant smile, floating off the ground. "You really messed up, lying to Kryptos you know. It was the perfect way for me to bait you. Now I get to beat the shit out of you, too."

"Shut up," Bill growled, launching a fireball at Lila's head. Grinning, she caught it in one hand. She looked at it disdainfully, and crushed it in one hand, a thin trail of smoke all that was left.

She smirked. "Geez, you've lost your touch, brother. I, on the other hand..." Lila grinned, her eyes flashing. Bill let out a startled cry as the ground became sky, gravity turned upside down. He began to fall, his legs and arms flailing. Lila let out a laugh.

"Laugh all you want, sister," Bill snarled at her, gritting his teeth. "But I'm not as weak as you think!" Bill pulled something out of his hat and threw it as hard as he could towards the ground. With a grin, Bill fell back towards the earth, his fist slamming into the dirt hard enough that it split, and Lila stumbled back, trying not to fall. Bill stumbled, unused to exerting so much magic.

Lila grinned, a blue lightning bolt forming in her hand. Off-balance, Bill could only watch as her hand flicked out, and Bill slammed into a tree, whose tentacles wrapped around him, securing him against the trunk. "What's the matter, brother?" Lila asked mockingly, her eyes sparkling with fake concern. "Stuck between a rock and a hard place?"

"That's what you think," Bill said flatly, slamming his fist into the side of the tree. It exploded, and he dusted his hands off, which were bleeding and covered in splinters. He walked towards her, his hair disheveled and his eyes burning. "I've been waiting for you to show your face," he panted, pulling something out of his hat. "Never thought you'd actually show up."

"Well, I'm here now," Lila gestured grandly, but her eyes were like ice. "I'm not a little girl anymore. I've changed."

"Yes," Bill agreed with a smirk. "But now..." he narrowed his eyes, something appearing in his hand. "Now you're human!" Bill launched the small object at Lila, who gasped as it hit her right in the chest.

Lila let out a shaky laugh, blood spurting from the wound on her chest. "Looks like you win, brother," she said, crumpling to her knees, her eyes beginning to cloud with death. "But..." she let out another wheezing gasp, her blood staining the ground. "I- I got the last- laugh," she choked out.

Bill's eyes grew wide with alarm. "The last laugh...?" He watched as his sister's body began to fade away, and Bill's face turned pale as he realized what that meant. "You're not the real Lila... What'd you do to my friends!?"

The illusion laughed, gurgling blood. "You'll see..." she smiled up at him, even as her eyes dimmed. "You'll see..."

"What's wrong with Bill!?" Dipper shook the demon, his eyes shining anxiously. "Bill, c'mon, you have to wake up! We need you! I need you..." 

Mabel looked at him, unsure whether he'd heard the last sentence correctly. She quickly shook her head. That could wait. "Look," Mabel said, pointing at the dream projector Bill clutched in his hands. "He's got the dream projector!"

Dipper's hand flew to his head. "Oh God, what's he doing in there!?"

"Ack!" Kryptos slammed through the wall of the Mystery Shack, plummeting into the soft grass below. Lila stood over him, not a speck of dirt on her, her appearance perfect as always.