Powerful

The First Strike

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bill's Point of View~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"No." I said, as soon as Mabel tapped my shoulder to wake me up.
"Bill do we have to do this every morning?" She asked.
"Let me sleep and this won't happen."
"You would live your life in bed if you could, wouldn't you?" She asked, a tone of humor in her voice.
"Yes."
"Well you have to get up. Dipper and I were going to meet up with my friends Candy and Grenda. I want you to meet them to!"
"Fine." I muttered. She left the room as I got changed. I pulled on a golden shirt and some black pants. Just right. Except for I didn't have my vest...that's annoying. I put my top hat on, and headed out to where Mabel was waiting for me.
"Come on! My friends will love to meet you!" She grabbed me by the hand and dragged me outside into the bright sunlight.
"Do I have to come? Can't I just sleep?" I asked.
"All you ever do is sleep. Come on." I raced after her. We ran all the way to the town where we met Dipper in front of the post office.
"Hey Dipper!" Mabel called to her brother.
"Hey guys! So where are we meeting your friends at, Mabel?" Dipper asked.
"It's a secret." Dipper and I exchanged worried glances. She could bring us to a hair salon for all we know. We began walking down the side walk, to wherever Mabel was bringing us. Suddenly we heard a voice behind us. A voice that made me want to rip my ears off. Pacifica.
"Well well well. If it isn't the loser crew." She giggled. The three of us turned around to face her. "It's the dumb baby Dipper, the stupid pig girl with braces and one eye." I hissed at her.
"You shouldn't be talking you slut." She gasped at me.
"What did you just call me?" She asked in her annoying voice.
"You heard me slut."
"You didn't just say that to me." She growled. "You are really stupid aren't you? You dress like a freak, have one eye and hang out with those losers." She said pointing to Mabel and Dipper. When she said that something inside of me just...snapped. My eye began to turn red and an uncontrollable anger took over my body. I lashed out at her, punching her square in her ugly face. She let out a squeak of terror a feebly tried to punch me back. I tackled her to the ground when I heard a voice.
"Bill enough! Please stop!" It was the distressed voice of Mabel. My eye went back to normal and I regained control over my emotions. I got off of Pacifica, and turned to Mabel and Dipper who had horrified looks on their faces.
"That was a bit extreme, Bill." Mabel said softly.
"Y-your a monster!" Pacifica shrieked, clutching her now broken nose. She raced off, in the direction of Northwest Manor.
"Bill...you didn't have to do that." Mabel said.
"Sorry Shooting Star...I just was done with her..." My voice trailed off. Mabel put her hand on my shoulder.
"It's fine. Just don't do that again. Anyway, let's go see my f-."
"Mabel?" She was cut off as a voice interrupted her behind us. We all turned around. A tall heavyset girl a and a smaller one with glasses stood behind us.
"Candy! Grenda!" Mabel yelled, wrapping her arms around her friends. "Ok Grenda, Candy this is Bill!" She said pointing to me.
"Wow Bill. You are brave." Candy said, adjusting her glasses.
"Yeah! We seen you attack Pacifica." Grenda chimed in, in her deep voice.
"Thanks." I replied, rubbing the back of my neck awkwardly.
"Ok let's go to our destination now." Mabel said, walking forward. We all followed her as Candy and Grenda marveled over me.
"Wow Mabel you choose the cutest guys to hand out with." Grenda yell-whispered to Mabel. She blushed.
"Yeah I guess." I walked up next to her.
"You guess? Are you saying I'm not cute?" I asked with a smile. Mabel blushed even harder. Candy and Grenda laughed.
"Hey we're here!" Candy said, pointing to a sign. It read: The Gravity Falls pool.
Dipper and I glanced at each other. Neither of us had swimsuits. Although it seemed Mabel was prepared. She reached into the large pink back pack she had brought with us, and pulled out two suits. A blue and white one for Dipper and a slightly larger yellow one for me.
"Thanks Mabel." Dipper and I said in unison. We headed into the pool, and everyone went to the bathrooms to change. I put on the yellow swim shorts and pulled my shirt off. (Wow Bill takes his shirt off a lot in my book XD) Then I realized I had a problem. I still had my bandages around my chest. I went outside the changing stall to where Dipper sat on the bench.
"What do you suggest I do with these?" I asked him pointing to the white fabric.
"Uh oh. I forgot about that. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to take them off for a little bit. Anyway Wendy can put fresh ones on when we get back." I undid the bandaged and unraveled them, revealing three nasty scars that sliced across my upper back. The skin there was all red and swollen. Dipper gave them a disgusted look.
"On second thought, let's spare everyone from seeing those and just leave the bandages on." He said. He helped me redo the bandages and we went out to where the girls were waiting. All three of them gasped when they saw me.
"Oh my gosh Bill! I'm sorry I totally forgot about your wound!" Mabel said.
"It's fine Mabel. I'll live."
"What happened?" Candy asked.
"Long story." Dipper replied.
"Dang Bill you are ripped!" Grenda said, staring at me. I blushed a little. But really I had become accustomed to people telling me that. (Dipper, Mabel.) We all went into the pool, and Shooting Star handed us each a pair of goggles. We played a game of Marco Polo and started a game of water tag.
"Tag!" Mabel yelled as she lunged at me. Her fingertips brushed my foot. I quickly spun around, changing direction. I dove underwater and raced after Mabel. I went down the the bottom of the pool, and pushed up as Mabel went above me. I sprang out of the water, catching her by surprise. She giggled as I tagged her, then raced away. Mabel swam after Dipper (who was really slow) and tagged him. He leaped for Candy, but she narrowly dodged. Suddenly I felt my chest begin to tighten up. My lungs began to hurt. It was no wonder though. I had been swimming for an hour and a half with the others.
"Guys I'm going to get out for now." I said, swimming to the side, my breathing becoming more unsteady.
"Aww party pooper." Mabel said, splashing me. I pulled myself out, and headed over to where Mabel had laid out towels for us. I wrapped myself in the yellow one, and watched enviously as the others continued their game. After about a half an hour, Dipper got out and joined me at the poolside. I gave him a questioning look.
"Mabel suggested we played 'Who licked my foot?' Yeah...don't wanna play that." I laughed.
"So is your breathing still bugging you?" Dipper asked with a guilty look on his face.
"Yeah."
"Sorry about that."
"Pine Tree, I've told you a million times, it's fine." Dipper and I watched Mabel and her friends splash around a bit more, then I broke the silence.
"If someone a month ago had told me that I would be happily enjoying a day at the pool with my greatest enemies, in a human form I would have thought they were crazy...but here I am now." Dipper laughed.
"Hey your breathing sounds better, wanna get back in?" We both slid into the pool, and swam over to the girls.
"Bill! You come back in! Just in time to! We're gonna see who is brave enough to stick their head into the water filter!"
"How about we don't." Dipper said with a concerned look on his face.
"He is objecting to our plans! Kill him!" Mabel yelled pointing at Dipper. All of us lunged for him. He let out a girly shriek.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time Skip, sponsored by Bill Pickles~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I sat back against the pool chair, Shooting Star sitting next to me, my arm wrapped around her. We watched as the sun set behind a line of trees.
"This is a beautiful sight." Mabel whispered, laying her head on my chest. The cool night air flew around us in short bursts of wind.
"Ok lovebirds, it's time to go home." Dipper came up to us. Mabel and I both blushed.
"We're not lovers!" She objected.
"Yeah, we're just friends." I said. Dipper gave us a sarcastic look.
"Ok, come on let's go."
~~~~~~~~~~~Yet another Time Skip brought to you by Bipper~~~~~~~~~~~
I lay in bed, thinking. Not trying to fall asleep. Just thinking. What had happened earlier today between me and Pacifica? I couldn't control my rage...I just attacked. Something was very wrong. I closed my eye, and willed for sleep to overcome me. But to no avail. I stood up, carefully, to try to prevent from waking Shooting Star. I looked around the room to see that Dipper had left Journal 3 sitting on his desk. I walked over to it. Oh how badly I wanted it. I felt an urge to take it. To snatch it and run away. But I couldn't. I wouldn't. I sat in the desk chair and picked it up, staring at the Journal's cover.
"Bill?" A voice asked from behind me. I whipped around to see Dipper standing there. "What are you doing with my Journal?"
"Nothing. Just looking at it." I said quickly. A little to quickly.
"Bill were you plotting to steal it?"
"No. I just can't sleep and this was sitting here so I decided to look at it." Dipper grabbed the book out of my hands and stuck in his vest.
"Whatever. Just go to sleep." I sighed and climbed back into Shooting Stars bed. Luckily this time, I drifted into a deep sleep.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Authors Note~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ok so I'm going to alter their ages. Dipper and Mabel are 16 along with their friends, but it's still their first summer in Gravity Falls. They didn't come when they were 12, they came at 16 ok? It's just that Bill and Mabel are doing things a normal 12 year old wouldn't...so yeah. Pretend they've been 16 this whole time. So how was that for MaBill? Nice huh? Remember, reality is an illusion the universe is a hologram buy gold buyyyyy