Dippers deal

Finshed

The forest was filled with silence.

There was no wind whispering in the trees, no squirrels rustling in the thicket, even the birds had stopped singing in the distance. Only the sound of the powerful stream filled the air. Bill's flames died down around them with a satisfied flash of his smile. The citizens of gravity falls were left behind in hollow silence. Stan's shouts died down, while crystal blue water washed away the last traces of Mabel's life.

Finally, the water capturing their feet became liquid again, and the stream finally let go of the prisoners Bill had forced it to take.

Stan fell on his knees, leaving the water to soak the rest of his clothes, his empty gaze still lay on the spot where Mabel had vanished. He didn't notice when something hot trailed down his cheek until the tear gave in to gravity, melting with the crystal river below as soon as it hit it's surface.

Slowly and without a word, the citizens of Gravity Falls made their way back to the river bank, their gaze changed between Stan Pines, the spot where they just lost one of their most precious visitors and the possessed buck which still stood frozen on the shore, not moving an inch while his golden eyes were staring into the distance.

Wendy and Soos shared a look with red rimmed eyes, looking back to the broken man before them, when the redhead nodded, rubbing her eyes dry with the back of her hand only to make space for more tears. Soos just ignored the wet sensation on his chubby face, swallowing hard when he made the first step up to his boss before a strangled scream tore through the heavy silence.

The ear piecing scream withdrew the people out of their daze and even Stan's heavy eyes flickered to the demons figure when the wind began to grow stronger.

Bill's body was surrounded by lightning bolts, making him squirm and twitch in pain, while his single eye was wide open in horror. Even the omniscient know it all of a demon couldn't hide that he was freaking out about what was happening.

Another bolt of electricity made the demon's form spin and stretch in various directions, leaving him gasping for breath.

Wait-

Since when did he need to breathe?!

His eye grew large when he registered the warm feeling that seemed to steal away his power while flashes of light cracked around his body.

"NO!"

Bill screamed in useless anger, his voice loosing it's eerie eco in the forest.

He knew that awful sensation all too well.

"No! NO! We had a deal! That's not-"

Warmth was spreading inside him, making his form shudder and crack when a heart started beating where none should have been.

Pain flared in his body when he developed the three dimensional shape he had wanted to get just a little while ago, but he was gaining it at the rivers terms, not his own. His arms and feet were growing, while a torso seemed to expand from out of nowhere, leaving the demon gasping for air before his powers failed him completely, causing him to topple ungracefully out of mid-air, falling face first onto the dirt, unable to coordinate his limbs to catch himself in time.

A string of curses escaped the demons newly formed lips, and he demanded his powers to stop whatever was happening. But they failed him, leaving Cipher to watch how his fingers grew more defined, more human and less all mighty. Even though it twitched and burned in the transformation, he tried to snap his transforming fingers to stop it, to turn the day into night, or the grass into little green worms with razor sharp teeth.

He snapped them once, twice, nothing.

Reality refused to obey him any longer.

But the fact that was really causing his head to spin was that he didn't know why!