Transcendence

Chapter 6

--Time Skip and Mabel's P.O.V.--

I was eating lunch with my family sitting next to Dipper. After I finished eating, I heard a knock at the door.

"I'll get it!" I said quickly as I jumped out of my chair and to the door.

I opened the door quickly and saw Connie. "HEY! It's been a while since we've seen you!" I said as I hugged her.

"Heh, ya. You know, been busy helping around the diner and stuff, same as usual. But it's been really busy lately and Aunt Susan needed my help. But today I finally got a day off, so here I am!"

"Lazy Susan's diner has been that busy? Wow, there aren't even that many people in Gravity Falls," I was surprised to hear the news.

"Well you know. Summer break, vacation time, it's just this year there's been more tourists than normal."

"Well I'm glad you got a day off, Connie. We have to catch up! And I know you don't have cable, so we recorded the newest episode of Ducktective for you. Wanna go watch it? We haven't even seen it yet."

"Sure," she smiled.

"Dipper! Grunkle Stan! Great-uncle Ford!" I ran into the kitchen and they all looked at me, "Connie's here and wants to watch Ducktective with us!"

We all sat around the tv watching the newest episode, sharing a lot of laughs, and when it was over, Connie and I went upstairs.

--Connie's P.O.V.--

When Mabel and I were up in her room, I looked around strangely and closed the door quickly.

"Is something wrong?" Mabel asked, "You never close the door when we're up here."

"Mabel... There's something I need to ask you..." I kept my voice low, "it's something about Dipper..."

"Ok... What is it?"

"Well.... have you noticed something... strange... going on with him? He doesn't seem like himself..."

"What?" She laughed a little, "I think that show's getting to your head, he's no different than normal!"

"I'm being serious... He's acting different... When I came, he didn't even say hi, he hasn't even said anything all day! don't you think that's a little odd?"

"Well.... now that you mention it, it is a bit strange... But I'm sure he'll be back to normal by tomorrow. Don't worry, Connie, he's fine."

"We-" I sighed, "I hope you're right..." I didn't believe it, something was really wrong... and why was he wearing an eye-patch? Maybe I'll try talking to him instead...

I went downstairs and found Dipper sitting on the chair just looking at the blank tv. "Uh, hey Dipper..." he just kept staring at the tv. "Dipper? .... Hey, Dipper. ...... Earth to Dipper. ...... Dipper!"

"Huh?" He quickly looked at me, "Oh... hey... Connie....."

"Uhh... are you ok...?"

"Ya, I'm fine... why would you think otherwise?" He sounded slightly different...

"Well uh... you weren't responding and well.... you haven't said anything all day until now... and uh... what's with the um... the eye-patch?"

"I like eye-patches... And I had a lot on my mind today..."

"So your eye is fine?"

"Yes."

"Then can you take it off?"

"....... No."

"Why not?"

"I don't want to."

"Dipper," I sounded stern, "take it off." He just stared at me. It was really creepy, actually. It felt like he was looking into my soul... "If you're completely fine, then prove it by taking that off. If you don't, I'll use my powers to take it off for you!"

"YoUr'E rEaLlY pErSiStAnT, aReN't YoU?" His voice sounded really dark and echo-y, and everything turned grey. I gasped, Bill!

You got that right, kid! Dipper said in my head.

"WHAT!? HOW!?" I looked scared.

"WoUlDn'T yOu LiKe To KnOw..."

"Dipper.... what happened to you!?"

--flashback, Dipper's P.O.V.--

It seemed like I was getting back to normal, I wasn't as mean as I was yesterday. It was hard though I had to keep control.

Heeeeyyyy, guess who!

Bill! B-But, how!? I thought you died!

Ahahahaha! Oh boy, Pine Tree, that's what you thought! You see, I didn't die. I survived and I'm living inside your head!

S-so you can't do anything to me?

Oh boy you're dumber than I thought! I can and will hurt you, if you tell anyone that you're a demon now!

Wait... so that explains-

Yup! What happened to your eye! And we already know that Shooting Star has found out, and that's not good. I'm going to erase her memory about anything that she saw and won't allow her to know about you. And you will be turning evil very, VERY soon...

What!? No! I don't want this! I don't want these powers!

Well the powers are the only thing keeping you alive, so unless you want to die-

No! But I don't want to be evil!

Ahahahahaha! It's too late kid! You're already turning! The only person you really have to be cautious about is Lidia. She can find out in a blink of an eye!

L-Lidia? But... she died decades ago!

There's another, kid. And you know her. She's one of your close friends.

W-wait, who!?

No response. What was I going to do....

Hey guys, what did you think of this chapter? I know it kinda escalated quickly, but I didn't know how to ease into it. So again, who do you think Lidia is?

Also I decided to change the name of my other story from Life of the Depths to Rebels of the New World. I think that sounds much better, so please be sure to go check it out. It's my favorite story to write right now, I just love the character so much.

Also, Connie Is no longer canceled! Oddly enough, shortly after I said it's probably canceled, DeeDee4 messaged me on facebook and we started rping again, so yay!

And to be honest, it's killing me that I can't publish this right now, I have to wait until Monday... It's currently Saturday at 2:03 in the morning (yet I'm not even close to tired) and I just want you guys to read this right now so much... But hey, on the bright side, keeping a schedule and writing ahead means I don't have to rush and I can take my time with it before I hit the deadline so ya....