Alcor's Tale

Deal or No Deal

Dipper's POV

Let's make a deal I know you want to.

The voice was that of my demonic instincts. It had helped me adjust to life as a demon for better or for worse. This was definitely the worse. The voice would continuously goad me and interrupt my train of thought. The voice which had seemed like a whisper in the wind when I arrived back at the shack was now blaring in my skull. Meeting with so many people at once on seemed to intensify it became harder and harder to contain myself.

All I could think of was to just stick out my hand setting it ablaze and making a deal with just about everyone in this people. Saying things like "Don't you want eternal life?" or "Here have so much power your body can't handle it." Tricking each of them into some unfair deal. Oh, Cipher that would be so entertaining.

No dipper get ahold of yourself. I tell myself cutting off the thought. These people here are my friends and people I cared about. They are still recovering from everything that has happened it may seem like an eternity ago but to them, it was just yesterday. Throwing chaos into their life would only make trauma resurface no matter how entertaining it is.

As I continue my mental warfare with myself. I try to excuse myself from the diner telling Mabel that I was getting overwhelmed with everybody. She gave me an understanding nod as people were just about swarming us at this point.

"I'll see you in a few minutes dip-dot. I'm going to try and talk to everyone and work on calming things down a bit." She says to me before I get up to leave the table. I give her a thumbs up to tell her I understood and started to weave my way through the crowd using all of my energy just to keep my sanity intact.

As soon as I escape the crowd of the diner and head out into the streets of the downtown. I start to feel slightly better as there were fewer people to distract me and for my mind to imagine making a deal with. I walk a few blocks to the park where I try to unwind. The voice in the back of my mind made that mission unsuccessful it was still there not as loud but still their none the less. At least it wasn't blaring in my brain as loud anymore.

I look for a way to distract myself from the constant voice pushing my desire to form deals. I open up the leather-bound journal that was proof of my succession and flip through it. Each chapter in it seemed to be cataloged by each demon's personal notes and experiences. Some of them looked like old deal logs and other journal entries as I scanned a few chapters hoping to find why I made deals I came across bill's chapter. Which in itself contained an interesting entry

Recently I have been trying to figure out the mechanics of why we demons do the things we do. One of my favorite topics currently is deal-making. I myself enjoy the practice to a high extent but, it got me thinking about why I want to form deals. After a bit of research, I feel like the power is something we strive for but as we get stronger we are less tied to the rules of the universe making our existence harder to maintain physically. In the future, after I get a bit stronger I would like the test this theory and maybe find a way where one can still have extreme omniscient power but at the same time a physical form.

Well, Bill was certainly thorough in his entree's but I never imagine him asking questions about anything with how he acted he knew everything. Guess there are different sides to living creatures. It was definitely not what I need but a good enough start in finding a way to help get rid of the problem.

However, I needed a solution now which meant I needed to either form a deal soon or get sucked into my instincts of chaos and insanity. Neither of which seemed appealing at the moment. Deal-making was one of the things I hated most about being stuck in the void. It felt uncomfortable and brought up some bad memories with Bill. Not to mention all the preparation it took.

First I have to cast an illusion spell to create a deal-like scenario because it was just me in the void. Then I had to make sure I could create a loophole or some kind of unfair advantage to myself during the deal. I always felt very manipulative with it. Luckily or not I learn it quick enough to the point that I didn't have to spend as much time on it as other things like summoning etiquette and teleportation (That still makes me motion sick afterward sometimes).

So, here I am stuck putting these lessons into practice. I sigh to myself and look up from the journal scanning the streets for a possible target. At first, I was mostly getting distracted by the other magical beings' interactions with the humans. It was very amusing, to say the least. Mostly things like how mushrooms aren't acceptable currency in Gravity Falls and that technology was not an evil spell to brainwash humanity. There were a few strange conversations but it was fun to watch all the less.

I continue to glace around mentally trying to pick my first target.

Jeb, no I don't want to get involved with finding a queen after the whole leaf blower incident.

Multi-bear? No way I'd feel bad if I tricked him after all the dudes' music taste deserved enough respect after that Manotaur thing.

Looking from one side of the street to the next I continue this method until I finally found a decent enough possible deal. One that probably won't get me caught. There was a strawberry blonde girl with blue eyes talking to a very worried-looking ghost. Wait not a ghost it was a banshee they can sometimes be hard to tell apart depending on how they act.

"Well, this is going to be interesting." I chuckle as I get up and get ready for my first real-deal offer.

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"With that I have complete yet another chapter. This time I even made it longer than usual." ^(^u^)^

"Indeed and on time as well I'm so proud of you."

"Aww thanks mysterious voice your making me blush."

"Now lets talk accuracy........ Don't think I don't read the comments."

"UMMMMMM my accuracy is fine."  *tries sneaking away*

"Oh no you don't" *pulls author back to her place* "Now we are going to go over the basics of grammar and spelling again."

"Okay that doesn't sound that bad......"

"No cookies either and your know what no more sweets till you master it."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOUR DEMON HOW DARE YOU THREATEN MY TREASURE!!!!!!"

"Off we go you get no say until the next chapter" *takes the author off screen*

"SAVE ME I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT ME COOKIES!"