I went through the portal. Once there, I looked around me. I saw the red sky, the bloody dark ground, the horrific looking trees and... lots of demons everywhere, flying, walking, sitting... They were everywhere and I saw some who looked human, but a lot of them had no human form. Okay, I can feel the power who rushes inside me but it won't be enough, would it? How can I have more? Think Dipper, what did Bill say about the Nightmare Realm? 'The deeper you go in it, more powerful you become'. So basically I only need to find a way to go deeper in this but wasn't there something else about it? Ah yes, I will lose everything. It doesn't matter I need to heal Bill with more power.

I looked around me and tried to find a way and maybe some indications to where I should head. I found nothing, only more demons who tried to attack me and that I had to knock off. I need help from someone here. If only Bill was here. But that impossible because 1. He is injured 2. He made me promise to never go here and see Tad. Wait that's it! I need to find Tad! But how do I find a specific demon if I can't even find a way? I looked at the sky. Maybe if I fly I will be able to find something to help me out of this. But I don't want to float, it's too tiring. I looked around and saw a demon with wings. That seems not so tiring. I made appear some dark wings in my lower back with my magic and flew up in the red sky. I then looked down. There are only this forest with these trees, some demons and... is that a purple house in the form of a perfect square? Isn't that Tad's form? I flew down to it and landed in front of it, lightly knocking on the purple door.

"Who is it?" I heard someone call from the inside. "Whoever it is, go, I don't want to be bothered today."

"It's Dipper, Bill's boyfriend." I said loud enough for him to hear through the closed door. The door glowed and it opened. I stepped inside in a living room seeing Tad sitting/ floating in a chair, holding a cup of purple tea. I looked around seeing everything was purple in this house. I then cleared my throat and began speaking, looking Tad in the eye.

"I need your help."

"What is it Dipper?"

"I need more power." He stared at me, leaning back in his chair and letting his cup float back to a table nearby.

"For yourself?"

"No for Bill. He was injured."

"Can't you just heal him with your normal magic?"

"No, he was shot by my sister with a special gun. Only a being stronger than a god will be able to heal his injury."

"So you don't want the power for yourself but for someone else. You could be it." He taped his fingers on probably his chin, somewhere in his squared face.

"Be what?" He stared again at me, this time letting his hand down.

"You could be the one who will free us all and not Bill like we believed past then"

"What?"

"There is an old prophecy that a bunch of weird humans said a long time ago. They were even weird for us." He chuckled a bit. "They said that one day a demon will go into the Nightmare Realm seeking more power, but not for himself. They said this special demon would go where nobody else could and find such great power that he would be able to control everything and that when the day comes where he has a physical body again and his full capacities he will be able to rule over everything and that everyone trapped here will be free."

"Waouh and you thought it was Bill? But he went here for himself, for his greed. That doesn't make sense."

"We all sensed great power in him and thought the prophecy could be approximate and not be to 100% correct."

"And now you think I'm the one of this prophecy?"

"Yes, I can feel even stronger powers in you and you have a great potential."

"So you will help me find this spot where no one else was and I will be able to heal Bill?"

"Exactly, that's what we are going to do but first let me change." He snapped his fingers and a young handsome man with purple hair, purple formal cloths and an eye patch appeared. I gasped.

"I thought you haven't a human form anymore."

"Let me correct you. I don't have a human form in the reality anymore. It's the same as for my physical form. But I still have it here in the Nightmare Realm and in the Mindscape, I just don't use it very often and as I saw your form I just wanted to wear it again" He then pointed at the door, indicating me to go out.

Once we were outside of his house, he snapped his fingers and it disappeared. I looked at him, waiting for him to say where we are heading.

"So Dipper, I don't know where this spot, which is mentioned in the prophecy, is, but I will lead you down in the Nightmare Realm to the deepest part I know where you will be able to be as powerful as me and where Bill was before becoming this weak human demon again."

"Thanks Tad" We went up in the sky, him floating, me flying with my wings. After a while, I spoke: "How did you end up there?" I looked over at him. "I mean here in the Nightmare Realm with these powers and to where we are heading."

"After Bill came here in the Nightmare Realm and had this power, he came back to the Mindscape to see me." He smiled at that. "He dragged me here against my will and after a while, I wanted more of this. He led me down to where we are heading and this is how I ended up like this."

"So Bill was really powerful back then..."

"Yes, we considered him as our king. We all served him gladly knowing he would free us from this dimension, and now that I think again about it, he wasn't a bad king. He entertained us, he promised us the world domination and everlasting parties." We flew again silently over the dark forest and soon I saw a small clearing with blood red grass. Tad headed down there and I followed him. As soon as we were near it, I felt my body change. I crashed in the trees. I felt a stinging pain in my body and as quickly it came, it disappeared. I looked down at me and saw I turned into a blue thing.

"What?!" I screamed, panicking slightly. Soon after I saw Tad coming forward me and he snapped his fingers laughing. I looked at him, he was taller than before and at the giant mirror that he made appear before me. I looked at it and saw a blue pine tree symbol with tiny legs and arms and a top hat. Is that me?! I raised my arm and the pine tree did the same. Okay, it's me and it's why Tad seems taller. It's because I became tinier! I snapped my finger trying to concentrate all this rush of pure power I felt inside me. I soon had again my human form. Then I heard Tad still laughing.

"What?" I asked him, a little bit frustrated and confused.

"You... look like... a Pinetree!" He burst again into laughter, this time harder. I growled a bit.

"At least I don't look like a colored geometrical form". He stopped laughing and smiled at me.

"Touché" He said still smiling and he bowed. "Now should we go?" He showed the direction of the clearing, I nodded and we walked through the forest to the clearing. As we came nearer I felt the rush of power increasing. It feels so good! It's like a warm storm of power inside me! Dark power in addition. It is so... incredible, it's like I'm high and at the same time more conscious than ever. I need more! We came then to the clearing where the rush of power intensified. Tad stopped beside me but I went forward. He looked at me surprised as if he couldn't believe I could stand here in this blood red clearing. I looked back at him and then thought For Bill. I need to go forwards. I don't care what happens to me.

I was in the middle of the clearing, feeling all this power rush inside of me and around of me. A storm was taking form around me, a storm of wild, dark, unpredictable power. I could feel Tad's fear of it as I looked at him. Then I was completely surrounded by the power. I closed my eyes, letting it flow inside me, feeling it increasing my abilities and my own magic. It will all become mine for Bill's sake! I felt slowly my emotions and my sanity fading, except my love for Bill. I felt the power trying to go again outside of me but I contained it, making it all mine, mixing it with my own magic, absorbing even more of it and soon nothing was left of the power, letting me slide down softly in the red grass. I sat down, feeling exhausted but full of energy at the same time.

I saw Tad and smirked. I motioned with my hand to him to come forward. He slowly placed a foot on the now black grass. He came slowly forward. I felt again his fear, but this time he feared me. What an idiot, thinking I wouldn't feel it. My smirk widened. I slowly stood up looking straight at him. As soon as he was before me, he knelt down with his head down.

"You can look at me" I said with a mischievous tone. He looked up and gasped. "What?" I asked slightly annoyed.

"Your eyes..." I snapped my fingers and a mirror appeared in my hand. I looked at my reflection and saw that I now had almost dark eyes, in a dark blue tone and no more these clear blue eyes. I look more like a demon now. Good. I felt again all my magic inside of me and Tad's fear. Why is he so scared of me? Maybe is he right to be... But why didn't he go in this clearing with me?

"Why did you stop at the border of the clearing?"

"The clearing?" He asked still kneeling and looking at me.

"Yes, the clearing where we are standing right now" I looked at him with my face frowning a little.

"But it didn't exist before you sit there in the middle of this black grass"

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"It was a black area. Every demon that went inside was disintegrated almost instantly, even Bill stopped at the border and you... you just came and went in it as if there was nothing. It's the center of this dimension, the concentration of all of his powers, it's like a pure mass of power..."

"And now it's mine" I smirked again. "But I still don't understand something. Why are you kneeling before me?" Not that it bothers me. Actually, I like it?!

"I... don't know. It just felt right." He let his head down. "I was right. You are the one of the prophecy. You are our ruler. The new king." He said in a very serious tone and I could feel his fear growing a bit. He is right to fear me but he is wrong about one thing.

"I'm not a king. I'm an emperor."