The Dazzle of Gravity
A Trace of Magic
Previous ChapterNext ChapterBill stared at the three attractive young ladies on his bowtie screen. There was something different about them (apart from their colorful skin, big highlighted hair, and punk-ish sort of fashion sense that somehow worked) that was intimidating and mysterious about them. Something that other humans (he doubted whether those girls were humans) from that new world he had just discovered only a month ago did not posses. Upon further inspection, Bill could also sense a trace of a magical aura from them. Not the goody-two-shoes type of aura that he'd seen earlier. A powerful, useful type of aura. He had to met these.....these....magical beings . But these auras told him that they were stripped of their magic.
No big deal! he thought. I'll just find some way to get it back for them! After all, this magic might help me when I need it most!
He'd use it on the Pines family. Bill only let them go because he knew that he would be defeated had he not. Oh, how he hated that family! Bill's body flashed a bright crimson red with anger from the thought of him. It took all of his self-control not to strangle Dipper Pines every time he saw him. But he knew that he'd have to be patient until those girls came. It seemed like they had stronger magic than he himself! Then, with a dawn of realization, a dangerous plan started to form in the yellow demon's mind.
Sonata was in the city park, skipping about the blossoming flowers and the cascading fountain humming a soft yet happy tune, when she was tripped. As Sonata tumbled to the sidewalk, her magenta eyes welled up with tears when small trickle of blood fell from her once blue (now red) knee.
A boy came over to her and smirked." You totally deserved that, you dummy! he taunted. "You don't even belong here!"
Sonata's tears threatened to fall, but she held them back and tried her best to think of some snarky comment, but the pain hurt sooooo bad. So she went with something that always made Aria's eyes go to her head:
"Y-you're a meanie!", she said with all her might.
The boy just laughed. Not a kind laugh like Dagi's when she was in a good mood. A cold, humorless laugh worse than Aria at her grumpiest.
She ran. Sonata ran as fast as her legs could carry her to the happiest place on the block: Sugar Cube Corner. By the time she got there, her legs were tired and aching. Sonata plopped herself onto the farthest seat from the entry, put on her hoodie and had a good sob. As she was running that boy was still shouting insults at her.
"Run!" "Go back home to your magical world, creep!", he yelled.
There were no words to describe how Sonata was feeling. The past few weeks had been hard on the three sirens, but it affected her the most. Aria fought with her on any subject whenever she saw her, and Adagio just acted like she'd given up on Sonata. And that made her sad. Really sad. Hide-in-a-small-cupboard-and-cry-for-a-jillion-years sad. Even worse, Dagi and Aria were at home being grumpy pantses, so she couldn't go home. If she did, it would get even worser. Now Sonata had to figure out what to do for a hour and a half with out using up her 20 dollars.
3 strawberry smoothies, 2 cupcakes, and 1 good ol' sob later, Sonata was back to her cheerful, ditzy state. She took two chocolate and vanilla sugar-free smoothies for her grumpy sisters and walked down the street, trying her best to whistle a happy tune.
Unbeknownst to Sonata or anyone else for that matter, an (currently) invisible triangular demon was watching her as she made her way down the street.
Mabel Pines was bedazzling another one of her sweaters when her twin brother Dipper burst through the door.
"Mable!" "You have to see this!"
"What?!"
"Come outside!"
So Mabel walked out of the door and into the woods muttering about how Dipper had to get a girlfriend and wasn't particularly concerned until she saw Dipper gaping a piece of cloth in his hand.
"What's so special about that cloth?" "Nothing, right?!" "Until now!" She pulled out her Bedazzling gun and quickly bedazzled the rag.
"There!" "Now it's sparkly, shiny, and special!" She beamed with enthusiasm.
"Turn around and look at that.....circle.....thing." Dipper was pointing at a fist-size rainbow doorway of some sort that was growing smaller by the second.
"Whoa! What is that? Mabel took a few steps back in awe.
"According to the book, it's a portal that can only be opened by dark magic. Once it's open, it'll shrink until its nothing, leaving no trace of it ever being there.
"Poke!" Mabel had picked up a stick and threw it at the portal, which was then immediately sucked into the portal.
"Where do you think it went?"
"I honestly don't know." "There's nothing else in here about the portal." "I guess the Author got bored and decided to move on to some other project."
Before the portal closed, Mabel swiftly put her hand inside it and moved it around. Her hand was apparently right above a sidewalk, and she felt a soft velvet bowtie. Mabel's eyes widened in shock when she realized just who'sbowtie it was. She hurriedly snatched her hand out of the portal with the bowtie clutched in it just as it disappeared into nothingness.
Mabel showed the bowtie to Dipper and then said in an very un-Mabel like tone: "Well, now we know who opened the gateway!"
"I'm going back to the Shack!", said Mabel in her normal high-pitched voice. "I've got tons more sweaters to bedazzle!"
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