Chapter 1

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Marco's PoV

Laying under a pail of rubble, I try to stretch by hand out to my friends....help...it hurts. I see Tom staring in my direction, frozen on the spot. I try calling out his name, but not a single sound comes out. Boulders and flames keep coming down around me. Tom...help me...please...Star... In all the chaos that is surrounding us, I see a hand pull Tom into the portal before it completely closes. Leaving me alone in this madness, broken bones, crushed limbs, bleeding out. No...don't leave me. Why? Why am I alone? Why did they leave me behind without looking? Mom. Dad. I'm sorry...I'm weak...I'm afraid.

Letting tears silently run down my blood-stained cheeks, I let out a broken plea.

"I...I d-don't w-want...to d-die!" crying. Please help me. I'm scared to die! Why me? Why is it always me?!.... Some...one

Everything started to fade into darkness...No...

I heard a voice whisper in my ear, "Sure, its a deal, my pet."

Bill's PoV

Grinning at the boy in my arms, with a snap of my fingers, we arrive at my home. Setting him down on one of the beds in the extra rooms, I quickly get to work on re-creating him. Grabbing his face and opening one eye staring into it, I start to search through his mind. Erasing everything, reconstructing DNA, blood cells, and soul. I begin to hear a sizzling sound and look to see my symbol forming around his mole on his cheek, turning the same yellow as my eye glowing. Perfect.

His skin starts to mold, changing different shades and settling on a light brown tan. But that all that changes, his dying beating heart slows down even more.

That's not good.

Getting frustrated, I start to seep more of my power into his body. But it does nothing, it's only making me exhausted. Damnit, I guess I'm still recovering. Well, this was an experiment after all.

Stopping the process, I grumble and glare down at the human that was slowly descending into death.

"Damnit, stupid human!" I growled. Curiosity getting the best of me, I quickly go get my brother Will from the reverse dimension of Gravity Falls and pop us back here.

"B-Bill !? W-What a-are y-" Will stops stammering mid-sentence and looks down at the body on the bed," B-bill w-why is t-there a d-dead h-human h-here?!"

"Oh, just shut up and help me bring him back to life," I snapped.

"Why?!" Will exclaimed looking at me as if I lost my mind...I mean, I did quite a few times, but that's not the point.

"Because I wanted to experiment to see if we have the power to create something new, something different, something irreversible on a similar level as us. Besides, the kid was already dying anyway. Tom and his friends left him for dead. He didn't want to die, and I want a pet, simple deal. Now shut up and help me!" I said, quickly going back to the human.

Will hesitantly followed suit and started to concentrate some of his power into the boy. Slowly, the human's heart began to beat again. The mist of his soul appearing and reconstructing into something different. A skull of a beast? The energy flow of both Will and I encasing his body, turning into his own. Slowly the painful process of body modification began. I began grinning as the boy's face scrunched up and started withering in pain as his teeth becoming sharp and rigid, canines growing large along with sharp nails. Three sets of horns grew from his skull, a pair drooped encasing the front of his face, a pair atop curved forward while the tips curved in a little, and finally, a pair curled straight back.

Hmm... how odd. Great!

"B-brother are y-you s-sure this w-won't k-kill him?" Will question nervously looking down at him.

"Just concentrate. He's going to die either way," I replied, not looking up at him.

A skull-like mask encases over half his face covering one eye, ears shaping to a small point while another set of skeletal-like dog ears sits upon his head. Scanning down his body, a long tail appendage form covered in bones appear. Similar to a spine, each born is separated while still lining up with each other while a glowing green flow of energy can be seen between the alined bones.

"Just...what the hell did we create...I like it!" I thought while admiring my creation. Will just looked at me and simply rolled his eyes to exhausted to really make a fretting remark.

Looking at the boy's right hand, I see Will's symbol appears in blue. Damnit, why couldn't his appear in a less obvious place? I started heavily huffing because I realize I'm out of breath. Wow, that's new. Stupid human body. I look over and see Will in the same state. Well, at least it's done.

There was a quick but faint glowing light. Dispersing as quickly as it came.

Glaring down at the interruption of unwelcome light, I go rigid.

There lay where the human once was, was a three-headed dog-like creature.

"Now I see why he had three sets of horns," I thought out loud, running a hand down its spine.

"A-aw h-he's cute!" Will exclaims, cooing at the sleeping once human creature.

This ought to be fun.

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