It's Where My Demons Hide

Chapter 30

Dipper

"Dudes," said Mike. "I've got good news and bad news."

The trio were in the cafeteria having evening meal, talking as usual. They were talking about Dipper's adventures with the journals, until Mike had mentioned some good and bad news. Dipper and Finnick glanced at each other uneasily, wondering what news was waiting to be given.

"The good news is that I have a jailbreak planned," whispered Mike, grinning.

Dipper and Finnick whooped, which received several glares and swears from the other groups. Dipper smiled sheepishly and apologised, before turning back his attention to Mike, motioning him to continue.

"The bad news is," continued Mike, feeling uncomfortable. "we need a lot of help. Just three of us doing it would take ages to even make the plan successful. And for some reason, most of the people here seems to hate you, which makes everything much harder. What did you do to them that made them so mad at you?"

Mike looked at Dipper for a response, but he didn't get any. Finnick shrugged and looked down at his food.

"I-I don't know either," muttered Dipper after a long awkward silence, and continued eating his mashed potato. Suddenly, there was an impact on his head. Someone had thrown something at him. Dipper heard gasps and some very "colorful" words coming out from his friends' mouths. He groaned.

Dipper touched his hair, then he realized it was some mashed potato. Who did it, Dipper did not know, but he suspected it was one of those big guys that had threatened him this lunch.

"Guys, it's okay. It's just mashed potato, not like it's some dangerous weapon or something," joked Dipper, trying to make his friends calm down and stop their cursing. His friends huffed and went on eating. Dipper sighed, before continuing eating too. "Hey Mike, so what's your plan?"

"We need to open our eyes, and make the others blind," whispered Mike, careful not to let anyone listen to his plan.

Finnick stared at Mike, confused. But Dipper knew what he was talking about. He had seen this plan being used successfully before in movies and history. It was simple, and they were lucky that the people in Gravity Falls were ignorant. It might take some time, but they could really escape with the plan. Grinning from ear to ear, Dipper patted Mike's back. "You're a genius! How did I not think of that?" Mike grinned back.

"So . . . you want us to make the others blind? Like literally making them blind? Dude, that is so wrong," said Finnick, which made Dipper and Mike laugh. "I'm so confused."

"It's simple if you -"

Before Dipper could finish, another thing hit the back of his head, interrupting him. He heard small laughter behind him and chose to ignore. After counting to one to ten under his breath, Dipper continued, "understand its meaning. We'll tell you later."

"Oh, is little Dipstick scared?" taunted a deep rouogh voice behind Dipper. "Do you want your mommy and daddy to come here and save you?"

Dipper continued eating.

"Guys, we've got a scaredy cat here!" sneered the man, as the others laughed along. "Still ignoring me? I'll show you -"

Somehow Dipper could sense a presence approaching him, and suddenly, he found himself grabbing a man's clenched fist. The man was the same man he had faced in the Yard, and his eyes were wide in surprise. Dipper had caught his fist from punching him. Dipper himself was pretty surprised too, so did the others who had witnessed the scene.

"That's enough," Dipper threathened, his voice dangerously dark and cold. The man seemed to come back from his shock and sneered.

"What are you going to do about it?" jeered the man. "You are a weakling after all."

That was the last straw to Dipper. He pushed the man with such a force, it sent the man flying to the opposite wall, his body smashing against it. Silence fell, and the only sound you can hear was Dipper's panting. It was silent, well, until someone shouted "Food Fight."

Soon, mashed potatos were flying around the air above, falling on top of people's head randomly. It was chaos. Shouts and squishing sounds were heard.

"TAKE COVER!" yelled someone.

Squash.

"Eat that potato!"

Swish.

"It's the Mashed Potato Monster!"

"Dude, let's mix some of our boogers into it!"

Dipper and his friends hurriedly dashed to a nearby table, and hid below. They wanted to avoid the mashed potato fight.

Oh no, I had lost control, thought Dipper. I lost my temper again! Dang it! Why did I have to push him? Yes, he was getting on my nerves, but it wasn't necessary to just let my anger out on him. Well, I couldn't just sit there waiting to be punched and do nothing about it! I'm not a coward.

Are you sure about that? You've been running away from your problems, hiding away all the pain, and too scared to even accept the truth! Don't that make you a coward? taunted the Voice.

Dipper was annoyed and very irritated. How dare the voice call him a coward! He had never been running away from his problems, or hide away his pain, more less not accepting the truth, even though Dipper himself didn't understand what the truth was. Was the Voice referring to the current situation?

"Hey, Dipper! Let's get out of here before we get attacked by the mashed potatoes!" whispered Mike loudly. He grabbed Dipper's and Finnick's wrists and ran outside back to the hall.

They ran back to their cell.

However, they haven't noticed that someone was watching them. Watching their every move.

"Level 1 completed."

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Hey Guys! This is the completed chapter 30. The one that's published few minutes ago, was not supposed to be published. I had accidentally touched the publish button. Sorry if you are confused.

Shoutout to @kidnapped_freak for deciphering the Prophecy before she knew about the already decoded ones in the future chapters. That already deciphered ones is already deleted now.

Another shoutout to @starfire31803 for the complete answer to the previous question of guessing the fandoms.

What did Mike mean when he said "We need to open our eyes, and make the others blind"? Comment if you understand it or have any idea what he was talking about!

Anyway, Thanks for 16.8k views, 1.15k votes, and 477 comments!