In Another Life: Fandom Drabbles

Dream Demon in Training ~Part 1 of 3 ~ (Billdip)

A/N: Everyone who is a tween in the show is aged up to 16. Story takes place between Not What He Seems and A Tale of Two Stans.

AU: Dipper is sick and tired of Mabel, Soos, Wendy, Grunkle Stan and the entire town's teasing and when Mabel betrays him by believing Stan over him, so he runs into the woods and runs into Bill Cipher and makes a deal with him: to help Bill achieve his end goal if he can make him an emotionless demon. Can the Pines family get Dipper back from his choice or will Dipper forever be a demon?

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Narrator's POV

Running through the woods, Dipper ran as far as he could from the Mystery Shack.

Tears blurred Dipper's vision, he couldn't believe Mabel trusted Stan over him —they were supposed to be twins— and after everything he'd done for her!

He'd always put her first, her wishes, her ideas, but when he asked her for her trust just once, she'd trusted someone who possibly wasn't even their Grunkle Stan over him!

Dipper wiped tears out of his eyes, accidentally tripping on a tree root he hadn't seen and falling flat onto a stone tile that was covered with dirt.

He clutched his leg, that was bleeding slightly, some of the blood dripping onto the tile and revealing the carving hidden on it to be the Cipher Wheel.

It began to glow as the world around Dipper became monochrome and a triangle emerged from the harmful tree that caused this.

"Well, well, well, isn't that my favorite Pinetree!" The disembodied voice of Bill Cipher exclaimed

Dipper's heart began to race as Bill finally appeared in all his Dorito-like glory, "W-What are you doing here, Bill?"

"You called me, Pinetree, I forgot all about that old stone." Bill answered with a cackle, "It's been ages since anyone wanted to make a deal using that old thing."

"I don't want to make a deal with you ever again!" Dipper shouted, the Puppet Show still fresh in his mind

"Really? Not even when I know your greatest wish?" Bill asked, if he had a mouth he'd be grinning

Dipper gulped, "I-I..um...I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Oh don't play low IQ with me, Pinetree, I know all about what your biggest wish is: you want to be free of that pain you're feeling after Shooting Star betrayed you for Fez. Honestly, I could help you just for a small favor in return." Bill offered

"I won't let you use my body again!" Dipper exclaimed

"Oh no, your meat-sack is old news, Pinetree, I'd much rather have some help." Bill waved aside

"Help with what?" Dipper asked, staring to ponder accepting the deal

"It's nothing much, just to rip a teeny-tiny hole in the fabric of the universe." Bill answered, extending his hand as a blue flame appeared in his palm

Dipper started to reach out for it before pulling back, "And how will you help me?"

"Easy, I'll make a demon just like me, no more sadness. Hell, I'll even throw revenge against 'em in the mix for freeeeeee." Bill answered sing-songly

"Deal." Dipper replied, taking the extended hand

Instantly Dipper felt pain rush into his body, thrashing to the ground as his body changed cell by cell until the only trace of his old humanity was his appearance.

Dipper looked at his reflection in the nearby puddle of rainwater, seeing that nothing had changed, "What happened?"

"You're a demon, Pinetree, you're just in you human form." Bill answered

"And that implies you have one too?" Dipper said

"I do." Bill replied, gold smoke surrounding him momentarily before the form of an attractive possibly seventeen year old male appeared

Bill's human form looked mostly what Dipper had imagined: shaved black hair on the sides with blonde hair uncut in the front and golden eyes, a black eyepatch covering his right eye where his bangs mostly covered it; he wore a beige dress shirt with a black vest that had gold buttons, black slacks, and black leather gloves as well as black dress shoes.

(A/N: Pretend the shaved blond part is black.)

And almost sacrilegiously, his signature top hat and cane didn't appear as Bill asked, "Whatcha think, Pinetree?"

Dipper's face was blushed so he was tomato red, he had started to notice his attraction towards other males after noticing he didn't seem to be attracted to any girl recently and this confirmed his thoughts.

Bill chuckled, snapping his fingers, causing cyan blue smoke to encircle Dipper as he felt a slight tingling as he felt his form shrink and his vision moved from two eyes to one.

He was a cyan pinetree, all 2-dimensional like Bill.

"Woah." Dipper muttered as Bill snapped again and cyan smoke engulfed him again as he felt his form expand again but his vision remained the same.

He looked back to the handy puddle or to see his clothes had changed so he was wearing a white dress shirt and a cyan bow around his neck that was loosely tied, a cyan eyepatch the shape of a pine tree covered his right eye and black stocking were up his feet up to his thighs and black heeled Mary Janes were on his feet and most embarrassingly, he was wearing black booth shorts.

Dipper's blush quickly returned as he looked back to Bill, these clothes did nothing to hide his androgynous body., "What the hell, Bill?"

Bill shrugged, "I didn't do it. I can't really explain whatever magic gives us power decided to give you an outfit change. Oh yeah, speaking of that power, that reminds me, I have to teach you the stuff you need to now about being a demon, can't help me if you know nothing after all."

Dipper nodded, "Ok."

"Well, that power I just mentioned, us demons like to call it Axolotl, kinda like the human 'God', but unlike humans we know Axolotl exists." Bill began, placing a hand on Dipper's shoulder as he floated them deeper into the woods.