King Cipher

Ch.2: Trash

Once they had entered through the other side, they took in their surroundings. They were in a densely forested area with very tall trees. "Wow, this is a nice forest" Luz commented, appreciating the beauty of nature. "Nice? It's pretty boring if you ask me. It's just trees, trees, and more trees" The demon added, unimpressed with the scenery. Luz was a bit offended by this. "It's not boring, it's beautiful. The trees provide shelter to the animals, and Oxygen for all living things" "Eh, whatever, let's just get on with our mission" He climbed up Luz to sit on her shoulder. "Now onward, my noble steed!" He exclaimed, pointing ahead. "Sure thing, your highness"

As she started walking she noticed something in the distance that looked like a log cabin. "Hey King, do you see that? Looks like there could be some people ahead" "Really? Yes! A human civilization I can take over! Those humans will bow before me!" They continued toward the log cabin until it finally came into full view.
The part of the cabin that they were approaching appeared to be a back porch, an old couch sitting outside on it. This cabin had a very tall roof, and what seemed like a big sign on the side of it.
Remembering what they had come here for she took her focus off the log cabin and scanned the area for something they could look through, then spotted a trashcan not far from the porch. "Ah! A trash can. We might be able to find stuff in there" she went over to the silver can and removed the lid. Right as it was lifted a putrid smell hit her nostrils. "Aww, yuck! Ugh, this smells nasty" She dropped the sack she was holding and lifted her hand to plug her nose. King appeared to be unaffected by the nasty stench. "You think this smells bad? Try smelling a rotting corpse. Pretty gross if you ask me"

Luz set the lid aside and looked inside her sack, checking if Eda had thrown some gloves in. Luckily she had, spotting a pair in the bottom of the bag. "Oh, thank goodness Eda put these in here. They're really gonna come in handy" she really didn't want to rummage through garbage with her bare hands, and now she didn't have to thanks to Eda. She grabbed them and slipped them on her hands, now breathing through her mouth in an attempt to not smell the trash.
"Alright, now let's get started" King climbed down from her shoulder and lifted himself up to the rim of the can, half of his body hanging over it. They started digging through the trash can, looking for anything that could be interesting.
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The day was just like any other for him. He sat inside in the living room reading through his journal, adding in new things and editing anything that has been previously written. The only problem was that he was growing increasingly bored. He wasn't the only one though, his sister coming into the room out of sheer boredom as well. "Hey bro, ya wanna go outside and do something? I'm reeeaally bored" She was unable to think of anything else to do besides hang out with her twin brother. He looked up from his journal to meet his twin's gaze. "Sure, why not. There's not much else to do"

He closed up his journal and tucked it away in his jacket, then got up from his seat and went with his sister to go outside. As they were doing so their uncle called out from the kitchen. "Hey Dipper! Can ya come in here and take out the trash?" A bit annoyed he complied. "Sure" After grabbing the trash and replacing the bag he left the kitchen and went towards the back door. Suddenly there was a loud clanging sound coming from outside and then a shout. Immediately he rushed out the door to find someone at the trash can.

"Oh geez, are you alright King?" A small animal with a skull on its head popped out from inside the can. "No! I was nearly devoured by this stupid garbage!" It crawled out of the can. Something about this little creature's voice sounded weirdly familiar. "It'll be sorry for daring to defy me, the king of demons!" It proceeded to kick the trash can. Then it clicked in his mind. The creature sounded a lot like a certain dream demon from the past, that phrase sounding like something the triangular demon would say. Now on edge by this realization he confronted the strangers. "Hey! Who are you?!? What are you doing here?!!?"

Normal POV
The two stiffened as they heard him, turning to see a guy who looked to be around 20 with brown hair and dressed in a navy blue jacket and a red shirt. Luz wasn't sure what to say so she made something up. "Oh, we were uuhh... looking for something, that just so happened to fall into your trash can. But we found it! So we're just gonna... go now" she slowly grabbed her sack and King exclaimed, "The mission's been compromized! Run while you still can!" And with that the two began sprinting towards the way they came.

"Hey! Get back here!!!" Dipper shouted, dropping the trash bag he held and began a pursuit after them. He didn't care much for the girl, his focus more on the little animal or so called 'demon' that was with her. He had many questions racing through his mind about it. 'What was it?' 'Is it actually a demon?' 'Why did it remind him so much of Bill?' His thoughts returned back to what he was doing, running straight into the surrounding forest.

The pair were running as fast as they could to avoid their pursuer who was not too far behind them. Unfortunately King was falling behind, his little legs too short to keep up with Luz. He ran as best he could, the door not being too far away so he hopped he'd make it. But luck didn't happen to be on his side as he tripped over a rock and tumbled to the ground. Luz looked behind her to check on King, but she saw that he had tripped. She shouted out to him. "King!!" The guy that had been chasing them quickly approached King in his stunned state and grabbed him by the scruff of his neck before he was able to get away. "Gaah!! Unhand me you feind!!!" He yelled, squirming to get out the man's grasp.

"What the hell are you?" Dipper questioned, turning King so that he was facing him. "An almighty demon that will destroy you!!!" He replied angrily, trying to swipe at him. "Let me go!!!" He was highly suspicious that this little demon could have something to do with Bill. " No, not until you tell me who you are" King huffed and crossed his arms."I don't have to" "You've got something to do with Bill, don't you?" King was confused. "Bill? Who's that?" "Don't play dumb with me! Bill Cipher! The one eyed triangle demon?" Images of the dream he had last night flashed through his mind, a particular phrase playing in his head "Turn around and look at me you one-eyed demon!" He shook his head, holding onto it as a headache started afterwards. "Look pal, I have no clue who you're talking about. Just let me go already"

Before he could say anything else Luz had spoken up. "Release my friend, you stranger!" She picked up a nearby stick from the ground that was of decent size, ready to use it as a weapon if needed. "Put the demon down, or I won't be afraid use this" She threatened, holding the stick up like a baseball bat. "Alright, fine" He complied, not wanting to wacked in the head or something by a large stick. Slowly he bent down, keeping an eye on Luz, and released his hold on the small demon. "There, have your little friend back" King spinted towards Luz on all fours and jumped into her arms. "Thank goodness you're alright" She said to him and hugged King tightly. "Yeah, I'm fine, but that guy over there is out of his mind. He was interrogating me about some demon I've never heard of named Bill" "Who's that?" She questioned. "That's exactly what I said! He's got some nerves if he thinks he can treat me like that!" He fumed, venting to the human. "Okay, let's get going now" She glanced over her shoulder to see if the guy was still there, and saw him walking away in the distance. She turned her focus back ahead of her and kept walking until she saw the door. The pair stepped through the door and returned to the Boiling Isles.

(Wow, I've written over a thousand words here! This is probably the longest chapter I've written for a story. Im kinda making this up as I go so I hope it's good! Please let me know what you think about this so far! Edit: I forgot to add! Assuming that The Owl House takes place this year, the Pines twins would be 20 yrs old, turning 21.(I did the math)