DIPPER'S POV

The journal laid on my sheets as I sat there with a blacklight and a pen in my mouth. As I chewed on the end, I scanned the page for anything that could help us on tonight's hunt. There was a small drawing of a goblin on the page. I studied the weaknesses and strengths column, looking for anything to help us. A buzz sounded off behind me, and I ignored it. Probably just dinner, I thought. It buzzed again, not 10 seconds later. I groaned and picked it up. The buzzes had been texts, from Mabel.

-Dipper, is it ok if I give Madi your number?-

-whatever i'm gonna do it bro-

Well ok then, it's nothing. I clicked off my phone and just as I was about to place it on the sheets again, it lit up.

*hey dude, it's Madi. Mabel gave me your number*

=Sweet! But how do you have hers?=

*We had a class together, and ended up giving each other them.*

=Oh, cool=

*but anyway*

*how'd you score a girl that good?*

=What?=

*cmon Dipper, your girlfriend*

=I don't have one, couldn't if i tried=

*Pacifica, i saw the way you two look at each other ;)*

=sHUT UP=

*dude reeeeeaaalllyy, it's obvious*

=Well how am i supposed to know that?!=

*heh heh*

=What?!=

*you're adorable when you're angry*

=Why am I still friends with you?!=

*cause, I'm great *cough* not at all *cough**

=There is it=

*what?*

=im not going to tell you=

*sure ok, but*

*just cause I don't have an ego to match Bill's doesn't mean I'm insecure. for the record*

I shut off my phone, wondering what either of us meant by what we had written. Glancing at the clock I realized it was 30 minutes till monster hunt, so I closed my journal to get ready.

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"C'mon Mabel! It's already like 6:15!" I shouted up the stairs. The bag on my back was lighter than I remembered, containing a water bottle, my keys, the journal and a blacklight.

"Dipper it only takes 10 minutes to get there!" She says, half tripping half sprinting down the stairs with her own satchel on her shoulder.

"Well do we want to be early or late?" I questioned, yanking to door open and gazing at the sunlit forest. It really was amazing. I grabbed my sister's arm and we began to sprint into the woods. The needles on the ground softened our steps, and the leaves partly filtered out the sunlight, making the sun pinpoint certain spots like a flashlight.

When we finally reached the place, there was no sign of Madi, but Pacifica was leaning against the tall tree that was the bunker. She looked like she was in discomfort, the woods probably not a place she had been often. I noticed a map with a red circle marked onto it sticking out of her purse.

"Hey guys!" She exclaimed, looking up at us. I wanted to say something but I still hadn't caught my breath.

"Hey...," My sister gasps, near as breathless as me.

"Where's Madi?" She asked confused.

"Bonjour!" A voice yelled from the bushes, and my friend tripped towards us, with sticks and leaves tangled in her hair.

"Well in that case, let's get going," We begin to walk through the brush and trees toward's Bill final resting place, Madi, Mabel, and Pacifica talking up a storm. When we finally reach his statue, and I can tell from Madi's squirming that she was pretty uncomfortable, and so I began to approach the old, weathered figure that had caused us all some major problems.

"Um... alright. There's something in his hand," I said slowly, and reached towards his crumbling hand, the girls screaming as I did so.

"Take a chill pill!" I said, grabbing the paper in his hand. It was crumpled and dirty, and looked like it had been there for years.

"After Mabeland, I will never again will take a chill pill!" My twin screeches, I forgot how much she hates when chill pills comes up in conversations.

"Ha! Dip, just warning you, there's a little girl over there," Madi whispered tensely.

"Mommy? Uncle Dipper? Auntie Pacifica? Madi?"

A pale little girl with lavender hair and blue eyes rushed toward us, tears pouring down her face. She looks maybe six? Questions cloud my mind, What is she doing out here alone? How does she know us? Where did she come from? And why does she have purple hair?

"You don't know me yet," She began to hiccup, looking very distraught over this. "I'm sorry. You don't know me. This might happen a lot. But I need your help. Bill... he's not dead," Her voice shaky with fear.

"And it's all my fault... Mommy..."

She runs over to Mabel, and wraps her arms around her legs, her tears spilling over my sister jeans. Mabel kneeled down to look the girl in the eye, but the girl leaped to hug her shoulders.

'I don't know what to do,' Mabel mouths to me. I looked at the child, confused.

"Hey, little girl, remember we haven't met yet. So how about you tell us your n-" Mabel tries to speak to her, grabbing her arms so she can talk to her normally, but Madi cuts her off.

"Hey, Sky come here," They both look at Madi, and Sky wipes her eyes, trotting over to my friend.

"Sissy," She began to speak, but stopped, looking at Madi.

"Umm... care to explain?" I asked, severely confused.

"Nope," She giggles and looks over at the child, and picked up "Sky", The girl putting her tiny hands behind my friends neck, and rested her head on Madi's chest.

"Sounds like something over here!" I pick up a faint voice, a very familiar one.

"Is is him?" the voices get louder.

"Hide! Now!" I snap. Madi takes Sky, and they hide in the dense brush of a pine tree. Ironic. Pacifica helps Mabel climb a tree, them helping each other get to every branch. They disappear into the thick leaves of the oak tree. I franticly teach for a place to hide.

"No, couldn't be. Chaos would be reigning if it was," Closer and closer they came.

"Any chance they're not after Sky?" Madi whispers to me, jumping down from the pine tree and rushing me over to the tree Mabel and Pacifica were hidden in. She jumps, tossing Sky up to Pacifica, who yanks her up.

I did the calculations in my head, "I'd say 12.52%."

"Gee Dip, stop being so smart!" Pacifica giggles from above, though her expression reveals how scared she really is. Madi looks at me and says,

"You coming?" She starts to reach for the branch, but I reach my arms around her waist and lift her up. She grabs on, and pulls herself up, with some hardship. She extends her hand to me.

"I'm going to get 'em off our tails. You guys stay here," I said, knowing that I was probably doing something really stupid. I take that back, I'm defiantly doing something really stupid. The FBI catching me was a terrible idea, but at least the girls would be safe.

"Dipper, don't." Mabel hugging the trunk of the tree to make sure she wouldn't fall. Madi began to stutter words that made no sense, while Pacifica stared, her eyes shocked, and terrified.

"Please, if you get yourselves caught, it'll only make this worth nothing," I looked up at Mabel. She stopped and looked at me too, her eyes beginning to well with tears. It drives a knife down my throat.

"Dipper?" She wipes tears away as Sky moves closer to her "mother".

"Stay!"

I could feel a splash of water trickle down my chin.

"I'm doing this for you guys, I love you... all of you." I did. Mabel, Pacifica, Madi... even Sky, she seemed so familiar, but yet, out of reach.

I walked away and quickly started to run, forcing myself away from them. They would do the same for me.

"I'll get them off our tails. You all get Sky to safety. I'll get interrogated and they'll-," I whispered, running as tears leak from my eyes, and trickle down my cheeks.

"Dipper. PLEASE DON'T GO."

The tears splash on my shirt and the hard ground.

"I love you, Mabel. You're the best older sister in the world. I love being your twin," It's getting hard for me to say anything else. The worst was... Mabel never heard me.

"I love you all," I cried again.

I run away from my friends like most my problems. It hurts more knowing that they were the solutions to most of them. I ran fast and hard, yelling as loudly as possible until they found me. When they saw me, the worry ran over their faces like plague. The last time we met, it was the end of the world and before that it was zombies... I still can find zombie parts in that old couch. They took me in for questioning, and my only thought was...

I hope the girls are okay...

Sky's POV

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"Mommy, where Dipstick go?"

"I don't know,"

I really missed Uncle Dip, but I saw the rest of them just standing there, crying, like they were never going to see him again.

"Dipper you never change... you always was about save others. But you never learned to save yourself," Auntie Pacifica whispered. But I didn't know what she was talking about.

"You know he's not dead..." I mutter. They all look at me, questioning. Wars seemed to rage in their heads. "He can't die. Geez. Now I'm the smart one!"

"What do you mean Sky...?" Mabel spoke, almost hopefully.

"I have to explain too...? Are you guys okay? Uncle Dipper can't die, because if he's dead I wouldn't be alive."

"Dipper's your father?!" Pacifica yelled. She looked confused and midly terrified.

"No! He and Mommy had a fight, and she left. I can't tell you the rest, because that would break time rules, and he can't die or Madi wouldn't be here either..."

"What do you mean...?" Momma and Auntie look at me quizzically, glancing at Madi as she looked down.

"You wouldn't be here," I spoke to her. "You're like me... out of your time, you don't want to be found. And that means that... It was future Dipper that saved you when you were trapped in Vide, not the 12 year old. So, Dipper isn't dead, he be can't. He saves to many to die today, and he knows that. That's why he left. So stop sitting here like lap dogs, and go save him!" I felt someone shaking my shoulders, but it wasn't them. I needed to talk, and fast.

"Save me!"

"What do you mean save you?!" Madi pleaded, concerned.

"Save me...," tears formed in her eyes as I began to fade.

"Save me! " It rang around the woods.

They all felt tears down their faces, but Mabel took it the hardest.

"I will kill who ever took my family! They will pay!" She screamed, "They will pay!"

The remaining three girls walked toward the bus station, and they were going to have to travel a long way. But Dipper needed to be found. They were all in for a frightful journey, with no way back.

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Will they get Dipper back soon?

Will the next chapter be long?

Is Italics a guy or girl?

The world will never know...

(I will dare all of you to guess the answers to these questions...oh yeah, and if you know for sure, don't answer, let the world guess... -Italics)

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So how's that for a chapter 3.?  I'm really happy with the outcome of the book so far.

So I hope you like this, if you want to hear more please tell me and I will start writing this more often. I want to know what you guys think of my stories? So leave a cOMMENT, fOLLOW, and vOTE.
-SkyCodes

The picture is perfection, Ford is also my favorite Disney princess. Yep. This chapter took so long to edit, jeez.

EDIT: JEEZ MAN. I didn't realize this yesterday but auto correct is killing me! Sorry this was so bad before, God. I just fixed countless grammatical and spelling errors. (While I was typing this, "auto" auto corrected to "shot". The fudge.)
-Italics