The Fall of a PineTree and Rise of a Star

Chapter 1

"I-I stopped Bill, but he burned these markings into my arms. I think he cursed me," I said, faking a hiss as she touched the markings on my right arm.

"Dude, what if these are on your arms when we wake up?" Soos asked.

"I'll figure out something to tell Stan," I said as Mabel released my arms.

"How are we going to get out of here?" Mabel asked before the three of us went fuzzy like static on a tv.

"Looks like Stan is waking up," Soos said.

"That works," I said before everything went black.

The next thing that I knew was waking up on the living room floor with Mabel and Soos with Stan waking up in his chair. I let out a choked gasp at the burning pain in my arms. I looked at my arms to see the marks from Bill coming into view. I felt a small weight drop into my vest pocket. I felt of that pocket and smiled faintly when I felt the vial containing a shred of Gideon's Mindscape. I sat up with a groan to see Stan talking to Soos and Mabel.

"What happened to your arms, kid?" Stan asked.

"I got cursed for stopping a dream demon, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that Gideon won't be taking the Shack anytime soon. And I have an idea for how to keep him out for good," I said with a groan as I stood up.

"What are you going to do?" Mabel asked as she and the others followed me out of the room.

"Anti-Gideon barrier spell," I said as I went up to my attic bedroom.

I walked over to my desk to grab the author's journal when I spotted a deep blue book resting on my pillows and a satchel filled with something. I picked up the book and smiled faintly at the silver pine tree emblazoned on the front cover and the matching silver fastenings. I opened the book and read the first page. I smiled faintly when I saw that the entry on the first page was a barrier spell designed to keep out a specific person with a piece of their mindscape. All I needed was the ingredients. I opened the satchel and my smile widened when I saw that the bag contained everything that I would need for the spell. I pulled the vial containing the piece of Gideon's mindscape out of my vest pocket and carefully dropped it into the bag. I carried the bag and the book downstairs and immediately headed outside. The others came out to watch me as I set up the spell, a process that took me over an hour to complete. I felt magic welling up inside me as I chanted the incantation. Once I was done with the incantation, a bright blue barrier slowly appeared around the grounds of the Shack until it formed a dome before it vanished. Not even a minute later, Gideon comes running out of the woods with a bunch of dynamite. I smirked as he slammed into the barrier and bounced back before landing on his fat ass.

"Having a little trouble there, Gideon?" I asked as he picked himself up.

"YOU! You turned my minion against me!!" Gideon spat. "I will have that deed even if I have to blow that shack to bits!!!"

"Yeah....you aren't getting through this barrier, kid," I said as I stood up, noticing that a journal was on the ground behind him.

"I'll find a way to bring this darn barrier down, Dipper Pines!" Gideon yelled before I tackled him.

During the fight, I managed to knock the journal into the barrier and out of Gideon's reach just as he punched me in the face. I felt my nose break under his punch before the others came running outside. I managed to kick Gideon off of me and scrambled back into the barrier. Gideon let out a yell as he banged his fists against the barrier.

"Dipper Pines! You give me back my journal!!!" Gideon yelled.

"No way, brat!" I yelled back as I wiped away the blood pouring from my nose.

"I'll get you back for this!!!" Gideon said as he stalked back into the woods as I picked up the journal.

I gasped quietly at seeing the number 2 written on the golden hand stuck to the front. I winced at Mabel suddenly poking at my nose. I hissed in pain and shoved her hand away.

"It looks broken, bro-bro," Mabel said as I picked up my journal and cleaned up the mess from the barrier spell.

"It is broken, Mabel," I said as I rolled my eyes.

"Whoa. Are you making your own journal?" Mabel asked.

"Seemed like a good idea at the time," I said as I headed back inside with everyone.

"Give the two journals to Fez. It will speed up our plans," I heard Bill's voice whisper into my ear.

I went upstairs and grabbed the third journal after I laid my journal on my bed. I walked back downstairs after grabbing a clean washcloth from the bathroom. I wandered around the shack until I found the others in the kitchen.

"Grunkle Stan? I have something I want to show you," I said as I sat at the table across from him.

"What is it, kid?" Stan grumbled as he drained a can of Pitt Cola and I laid the two journals on the table.

"Journal number 3 is what Mabel and I have been using all summer to fight off the various monsters we've encountered," I said as I flipped through the pages before shoving the journal towards him.

"And this other journal?" Stan asked before I flipped it open to the page that held the summoning spell for Bill.

"Gideon had it, but I managed to get it from him," I said. "He used this to summon the dream demon that invaded your mind. He wanted to get the code to the safe, but I stopped him."

"Geez, Kids. Now I where you're getting all this weirdness crap from. Mind if I take these for a laugh?" Stan asked before getting up with the journals in his arms.

"Not like I could stop you," I grumbled before I went upstairs.

I grabbed some clean clothes from my closet before heading back down to the bathroom and took a quick shower to rinse the blood and dirt from my body, being extremely careful with my nose. Maybe I could convince Bill to teach me a healing spell or two since I always seemed to be getting hurt. I stepped out of the shower and carefully dried off, before looking in the mirror to check on my nose. I made a face when I saw that it was crooked. I took a deep breath and quickly moved it back into place so it was straight again. I gripped the edge of the sink and breathed through the pain. Once I had gotten dressed, I grabbed a couple of Stan's pain pills from the medicine cabinet behind the mirror and went to the kitchen. After I grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge, I took the pain pills and went back upstairs to bed. I sat the water bottle on my desk and crawled into bed. I snuggled deeper into my covers and let myself fall asleep.