Chapter 2

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"The kids been sleeping for a month now we probably screwed up," Bill sighed while sitting in an armchair.

"W-well w-we did b-bring him b-back to life, m-maybe his b-body is t-trying t-to adapt," Will chewed nervously on the tip of his thumb. Bill was on the verge of giving up such failure as the boy had been in a comatose state for nearly a month. Will, on the other hand, didn't want to give up hope as he is the more caring of the two.

"W-what do I-I even t-tell m-ma...I_I mean T-Tyrone a-as to why I- I've been d-disappearing a-a lot," Will muttered while pacing back and forth in a panic.

"Ugh, I can't believe you love that stupid Burningtree," Bill huffed and rolled his eyes, "weakling."

"...Y-you got d-defeated by n-normal Dipper and M-Mable."

" Why you little-," Bill growled out as he stood up but stopped when he heard a loud thud down the hall.

A few minutes earlier, down the long halls of the mansion, in a room with a large bed in the center, lays a boy with brown and light green hair that has grown to shoulder length over the long month of slumber.

"Why does my head hurt so much?" Macro thought as he carefully began to curl and uncurl his toes and fingers. Slowly regaining motility of his joints and muscle. His eyes finally fluttered open, blinking a few times to steady his vision. Cautiously sitting up, he winced at the pain that shoots down his neck. Feeling the source of pain and heaviness coming from his head, Marco reached up and felt hard, smooth, and thick bone-like objects sitting atop his skull. Three to be exact, all angled in different ways,"...Heavy," shot through his groggy mind.

Thunk! Thunk!

" Huh? What's that?" Curiously tilting his head slightly to the side only to quickly lift it back up--The thumping stopped.

" Erm...Oh, what's this?" Marco looked next to him to see a long skeletal appendage running from behind him all the way over the edge of the bed. Curiously, but with more caution, peeking over to get a better look, yet with Marco horns being so massive still caused him to fall face-first flat on the floor.

Thud!

There was shuffling coming down the hall getting closer. Appearing in the doorway, Bill and Will stared shockingly at the boy, still laying flat on the floor.

"Whoa, he's awake."

"A-ARE YOU O-OKAY!" Will exclaimed, running over and kneeling next to Marco, who groaned while being lifted up onto the bed. Marco whimpers and holds his head. Everything hurts! Tears prickled in the corner of his eyes and eventually ran down his cheeks from how tight he was squeezing them.

"S-shhh y-you're okay," Will said softly as he tenderly rubbed his head to try to soothe the pain. Marco let out little pained whimpers as Will continued to run his hand through his hair while gently massaging his scalp.

" Oh, quit spoiling the kid," Bill rolled his eyes as he walked over and studied said kids' appearance with a slightly bored expression," didn't do a bad job!"

At the loud exclamation, Marco's extra set of dog ears lowered. Will slightly glared over at his brother as he cooed softly down to Marco, " I-it's o-okay, he's n-naturally an l-loudmouth."

Bill growled and shook his enflamed fist towards him, "Will I swear I'm gonna—"

A low hurried "Sorry" was squeaked out from below them. Both dream demons looked down at the source and saw the boy in Will arm's shaking with his head lowered submissively.

"B-Bill!?" Will exclaimed voice filled with a mixture of irritation and anxiousness while pulling Marco closer," D-do s-something," Will gritted out.

Sighing, Bill crossed his arm and sneered at him, " At least he is cowering in fear like he is supposed too. Will stop babying him, he is supposed to be a beast not like yo-" Bill paused mid-statement as his words got caught in his throat by the sudden look that was being thrown his way. Now Bill has known his brother all his life and has never seen such malice and protective gaze grace the shy blue demons face. He was utterly taken aback by such a thing and only stood there quietly in shock for a few seconds. Giving in and sighing inwardly, Bill raised his hand and gently rubbed Marco's head. "Look here Marco--"

"....W-who...is Marco?" He shyly asked while slightly tilting his head to the side, looking genuinely confused. This caused the brothers' eyes to widen slightly and glance at each other.

"Well, this was to be expected," Bill voiced as he rubbed his chin as he thought, huh...Interesting.

"Oh, where are my manners!"

"What manners?" Will muttered while subconsciously petting Marco. Bill rolled his eyes and continued his sentence."The name's Bill Cipher, and that is Will," he pointed at said demon then grinned," but you can call us Master!"

Will looked a bit skeptical at the thought of being called master, given his past experience. He shudders a bit at the memories, which caused the boy in his arms to look up at him and tilt his head questionably like how a dog would cock its head sideways. Though he quickly tilts his head back up from the shot of pain going through his neck.

"Who...am I?" He looks up at his masters with a slightly dazed but innocent expression. The brothers looked at each other for a moment before looking back at Marco.

"Aureu aeq," Will says with a gentle smile.

"I wanted to name you something cool," Bill grumbled while crossing his arms.

"I wanted to name you something cool," Bill grumbled while crossing his arms

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(Some features are changed this was just a sketch)

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