Bijal

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Bijal Vakil
Biographical information
Gender	Male
Age	12-14
Family	Mrs. Vakil (mother) Mr. Vakil (father)
Residence	San Francisco, California
Status	Alive
Physical description
Species	Human
Behind the scenes
Appearances	Winston Chu Versus the Whimsies Winston Chu Versus the Wingmeisters

Bijal Vakil is a classmate of Winston Chu.

History

Bijal was born to two meteorologists. If he would get in trouble, his parents would send him to India.

Winston Chu Duology

Winston Chu Versus the Whimsies

As Bijal and Cassa Kowalski are at Boba Guys, they see Winston Chu stumble on his skateboard after a squirrel lands on him and hits one of two men looking into a shop next door. The men run and he and Casa help Winston up. Maverick McFee runs after the men to apologize but they drive off before he can. Soon the shop’s owner, Mr. Pang, arrives and thanks Winston for scaring off the men. Mr. Pang digs through his pockets and hands Winston wet wipes and offers him something from his store. Despite his and the other’s warnings, Winston takes up the offer. Mr. Pang leads the four down a series of corridors and into a room filled with shelves containing various items. Mr. Pang instructs Winston that he will be given the first thing he touches, avoid anything with a red tag, and to be out be five. Mr. Pang gets a call and leaves. He and the others help Winston select an item and he sees a vintage trading card of Luke Slywalker from the release of the first movie. However before Winston can touch it, a bird flies over to them and knocks a broom into Winston's hand. Mr. Pang comes back, apologizes for his bird- Maggie, and sees Winston holding the broom. He, Winston, Mav, and Cassa try to protest that Winston deserved more then a broom and Mr. Pang gives him a dustpan and the four leave. As they walk back to Winston's house, it starts to rain heavily. By the time they reach Winston’s house, the storm stops. Winston searches for his key, only to realize he lost it and uses the spare. The four find the house uninhabited and Winston gives his friends dry clothes to change into. As Winston hides the broom and dustpan in a closet, his friends call him over. They reveal that they looked up the address, and find an obituary for a man named Ross Ping who resembles Mr. Ping and died in the seventies and owned a similar store. The four question if the two are the same. His parents pick him up soon after.

The following day they lose their game and as they eat tacos, Winston tells him, Mav, and Cassa, about the store vanishing. The three agree to help Winston investigate and Mav gets his older brother Monroe to drive them rather then his mother. In the car, Monroe asks Winston to set him up with Philippa, which Winston is unsure if it is possible. When they arrive, they find the store intact, much to Winston’s shock, and they try to look into the windows. As Mav discovers the store has no listed number, the robbers from the day before emerge from the store. The four witness the men fighting off a slice of pizza before running down to street. Winston and his friends start to get a bad feeling about the store. Mav takes some pictures of the pizza, but the slice comes out blurry in every picture. Monroe then arrives and takes them back to Winston’s apartment. He and the others wait downstairs as Winston and Monroe talk to Philippa. Soon Winston and Monroe come down with the broom and dustpan, ushers his friends into Monroe’s car, and has Monroe drive them to the peer. Once there, Winston throws the objects into the Pacific Ocean.

The following day on the first day of school, he and Cassa are selling gum as Winston says he is doing a duet with Dani Kim, much to their surprise. Later,, Mav has his brother pick up Bijal and Cassa and go to Winston's apartment and Winston explains everything to his friends. After opening the door to the laundry closet, they see the man and woman Winston saw the day before and Mav takes out sage to cleanse the apartment. After finding book with the Cowheard and the Cloud Weaver, Winston theorizes they are possessing the broom and dustpan.

The following day, after school, Winston, Cassa, and Bijal take the bus to his apartment while Mav's mother drives him. Winston explains the situation to them, with Coco being possessed, and they head to the closet. Winston asks the spirits what happened to his sister and belongings as Mav translates in Mandarin. The four hear a female voice telling them Coco is in the store as a male voice tells the first voice not to say anything. Mav devises a plan to trap the broom and dustpan a moves to Philippa's side of the closet. After Cassa and Bijal take Winston's comforter, they wait a few seconds until Mav bursts in from the other side and they try and grab the broom and dustpan, only getting the latter. As they shove the dustpan in Winston’s soccer bag and head to the patio, they threaten to destroy it if it does not reveal how to get Coco back. Suddenly lightning strikes the patio and the four are forced to retreat. After the lightning stops, the discover the dustpan is missing. As he and the others theorize what happened to the broom and dustpan, Mav theorizes they can turn invisible if they touch and they remember the doll in the shop to be Chang-Ah-Ling. They creak eggs, as changlings are said to hate eggshells, as Mav's mother calls and he offers Bijal and Cassa a ride home just as Winston's mother and sisters arrive.

The following day Mav gets an appointment with the landlord, Mr. Suresh, and he also the others meet up with them after school. Mr. Suresh explains that all tenants after the fire only occurred the space for a few months and have reported strange experiences such as being attacked by a bear. They go through a door into a leaky hallway and a security guard says he called to have the leaks repaired. The landlord leaves and the four question what to do next as the burglars enter. The burglars address Winston by name before saying they have business with Mr. Pang and shove the children out of the way. The four leave and see a green bird flying into an open window. They look up the business, an acupuncturist, and call. The receptionist says only one doctor is in and speaks to someone in the room with her. After that they head home.

That night as he helps his father run errands, he he’s the shop. The followed day, Mav tells him and the other to come to Fisherman’s Wharf. Bijal reveals he saw the store, shocking the others. Mav reveals he kept a marshmallow bird from the store and it is intact, he realizes that the marshmallow was feeding Mr. Pang information on when they were coming. The four find a cake stand owned by a former tenet of Mr. Pang's store. They speak with her and the woman’s mother comes out and brings them in back to speak with them. She reveals that she and her husband rented the location and used it as a bakery, but say strange things. She explained how she saw objects in a mirror for a second before they vanished and that her husband threw a stool at a wall after claiming to see a bear. However she was in the room at the time and saw nothing. The woman users them out and they buy cupcakes. The four sit on a bench and look at Alcatraz Island and Treasure Island, a former naval base. As they eat, Bijal theorizes that Mr. Pang is able to hide the shop and Mav decides to feed the marshmallow false information on when they will come.

The following day, Mave gets the key to the store and he, Bijal, and Cassa come to the Chu's with Cassa's fatherand his girlfriend Janelle Summers. The four go over the plan in the car and convince Mr. Kowalski to go to pizza rather than ramen. At the pizza place, Winston tells them they need to hurry and Cassa convinces her father to eat on the road. When they get to the theater, Bijal and the others sneak out and head to Mr. Pang's Whimsies. They melt the marshmallows and try to find the door. They find nothing until they remember the baker telling them she saw strange reflections and they use a mirror. They find the door and punch in the combination to get to the key hole. Once inside, they reach the shop and find a pool chair in the same shape and color as Winston’s lost keychain. When they find where Chang-Ah-Ling was, they find the spot vacant. They search the shelves for the doll but find nothing. They make their way to the office and find a large popcorn machine and Mr. Pang. They startle the old man and Cassa threatens to throw an egg of truth at him. Winston demands his sister back as Mr. Pang explains that Coco is misplaced, angering Winston. Mr. Pang says that he uses the popcorn machine imbue magic into objects from other things, hiding them. He explains how he did this with Cowherd and Cloud Weaver to hide them from Mother Cloud Weaver. Upon hearing Mr. Pang confess to working with Cowherd and Cloud Weaver, Winston asks again and accuses him of stealing objects. Mr. Pang makes a run for it and Cassa throws the egg of truth and the old man. When it it’s him, Mr. Pang is transformed into a magpie, stuck in that form for the next twenty four hours. Winston and the others theorize he sneaks into the shop as a bird to avoid suspicion. Mr. Pang flies off as the kids go after him. After looking around the store for things to use, they form a plan. Bijal pulls out candy bar to lure in Mr. Pang and Mav and Cassa trap him in a colander. The kids take Mr. Pang with them and, as they get into Cassa's dad’s car, say they want to go to Mav's house and Mr. kowalski agrees. As they head out, the adults hear Mr. Pang and Mav says it’s his phone. Cassa, having taken more eggs of truth with her, decides to toss one that lasts twenty minutes at Janelle despite the others telling her not to. As she tosses it, Bijal intersects and inadvertently redirects it at Cassa. It explodes but the blast vanishes as soon as it appears. When asked about fearing squirrels, Cassa says she fears abandonment and dreads the thought of her father choosing Janelle over her or growing close to Janelle only for her to leave. The boys do what they can to stop Cassa saying they have a bird as she says Winston has been pushing her and Bijal away since his father died and Bijal should be more honest with his parents. When they reach Mav's house, they exit and rush in side as Mav's mother speakers with Mr. Kowalski and Janelle. When they run into Monroe, Cassa blurts out her desire to marry him. They head to Mav's room and release the bird. Mav's mother comes in and asks about the bird, and they say they are keeping it warm. Mav's mother leaves soon after. Cassa apologizes to the boys for what she said and they forgive her. When Winston suggests using an egg of truth and Chang-Ah-Ling, the others talk him out of it as the results could be too risky. They agree to meet up at the store the following day.

The following day, he and Cassa take a jar of eyes from Mr. Pang's Whimsies. When Mav and Winston arrive, they find a bracelet with a name in it, Anna Ardith, in the machine. They spot a Pikachu toy on the desk and become startled when it moves and lights up. It stops moving and Winston touches it. Nothing happens and he puts the Pikachu back on the desk. Cassa activates the machine and when the bracelet comes out, it becomes duller. Bijal finds a box with Winston and Philippa's names and addresses on it and, upon opening it, the Chu's missing belongings fall out just as an alarm goes off. The four search for a hidden door and find one in the desk. Winston insists he stay behind to find Cico, but his friends pull him through the door. They encounter a security guard and tell him about the break in, but the guards only finds a broken window in an abandoned shop. Winston and his friends head out and- after Cassa reveals she took the bracelet and eyes while Bijal took Winston’s things- they go to return the bracelet to Anna. When they do, she says it looks duller. As the four walk to Winston's apartment, they theorize Mr. Pang uses the machine to make whimsies out of objects to sell them. As they reach the apartment, Mav's mother calls him. After he hangs up, he says Mr. Pang is gone. Mav says that his mom thought Mr. Pang was injured so she freed him and he flew out the bathroom window. Dejected, Winston sits down as Cassa hoists him up and pulls him to Coit Tower. As they climb the stairs, they hear a ranger tell a woman to be on the lookout as people have been reporting being kicked. As the four reach the top, they each take an eye and try to figure out how they work. Suddenly something kicks Winston and he drops his eye into the foliage below. He sees the kick me books from the shop and, just as one kicks Bijal, Cassa kicks one of the boots off the tower and the goes after the first. Looking where the eye landed, Winston knows he lost a chance to find his sister. As Mav tries to calm Winston down, Winston snaps at him and accuses him of letting Mr. Pang go. Cassa and Bijal try to calm Winston as well. Winston leaves soon after. In the morning, Cassa and her father come to his house to help him and his parents fix the room. Winston calls Cassa to apologize and they forgive him.

At school, he and Cassa are teaching Winston how to use the eyes, but the teacher catches them and confiscates the eyeballs. During lunch, Winston, Mav, Bijal, and Cassa are eating lunch when two seagulls approach them. Just then Philippa calls and reveals she and Monroe went to Mr. Pang's whimsies and saw two figures. Monroe tossed an egg at the front of the shop and they saw a door. They then threw an egg at the burglars and they turned into seagulls. As the four realize the seagulls before them are the burglars. Philippa says she and Monroe were bitten by a fire hydrant and says she was released while Monroe is being kept for observation. Winston asks his sister to pick him up and the others urge him to go alone. Soon Vice Principal Baton comes to their table and reveals he knows about Bijal and Cassa's candy business. Bijal begs Baton not to call his parents as Cassa tries to talk him out of giving them a detention. They talk their way out of it, but fail to get the eyes back. They go to Winston's apartment and see that Cowherd and Cloud Weaver have returned. The spirits explain that he was once Mother Cloud Weaver’s favorite magpie stead, Sorrow, but he was jealous of his companion Mirth and tricked him to be caste out of the heavens. They also explain how Mr. Pang owes Cowherd a favor for stealing a tear and they wanted to have him help them. Winston shows them the belongings taken from his house in a box with his address and the sprits become enraged. They decide to work together, but the spirits leave soon after. Winston gets some putty and offers it to Cowherd and Cloud Weaver, who sweep it into the dustpan and the seven strategize. Soon Winston sees the mustache deliver the far seeing eyes and shows the others. The spirits tell them they would need to find someone they can offer him, and Winston suggests his father’s dog tags, which he thinks might have regained their energy. The spirits tell them to watch out for the were-bear and to not say Ariana Grande in front of the break-free cactus as it will dance and is poisonous. Winston tells Philippa to stay home to cover for him and his friends and keep an eye on Chang-Ah-Ling.

After gathering supplies, Philippa wishes Winston and his friends luck and the spirits brush them into the store. They fan out and keep an eye out for security and find no sign of Mr. Pang. They reach the office and put the putty and Cloud Weaver’s hair pin into the machine. After it finishes, the hairpin looks like it is freshly polished. After Winston realizes something is off, he suggests they ask the Ask-Me-Anything Beethoven busts. As the four ask the busts about Mr. Pang's goal, the busts say Mr. Pang wants to harness the qi of the moon. As they question what Mr. Pang would do that, the fire-weiler, a fire hydrant that acts as a guard dog, and the wearbear appear. As Mav distracts the fire-weiler and Bijal and Cassa distract the wearbear, Winston asks the bust how to stop Mr. Pang, they mentioned the unicorn piñatas and not to mention Ariana grande. At the mention of the name, the break free cactus comes to life. The four fend off the fire-weiler and the wear bear, who run off just as the break free cactus arrives. They head to the office and try to get the escape door open, but it is stuck. Winston and Mav go for hold off the cactus, which leaves after a dance off and they bring four piñatas with them. They put the piñatas in the machine, along with Winston’s dog tags, and power it up. The piñatas comes to life and fly around. They mount them and fly off, but not before Cassa's is attacks by the were bear. Thankfully she uses teeth on a fishing pole to escape. The four arrive at San Francisco Bay just as it it starts to rain and Winston sees a label saying the piñatas should not get wet. Winston tells the others and says they need Dani. They find her house and ask for her umbrella. After saying it only works for her, Dani climbs on Winston's piñata and they set out. After seeing the furry ukulele Winston has, he tells Dani it makes those listening have a change of heart and he requests to play it. Winston hands it over as Mav forms a plan to have Dani play the ukulele to change Mr. Pang's mind and get him to return Coco to her body. They find him over Oakland and see him piloting a pool chair pulling the canoe. As they look closer, they see Coco in Chang-Ah-Ling.

Winston and Dani ride in closer to Mr. Pang, who is wearing the kick-me boots, as he and the others fan out. Dani starts playing the ukulele, but it has no effect on Mr. Pang. Mr. Pang reveals that he is using the qi of the full moon to banish his brother, Mirth, to the heavens by permanently transforming him into a magpie. Soon, Mav, Cassa, and Bijal move in to grab Coco, but Mr Pang fends them off. Mr. Pang grabs the doll and threatens to release her spirit, which will vanish as her original body is to far away. Winston begs Mr. Pang not to as his friends fight off the kick-me boots. One boot comes over to Winston and Dani, but their unicorn impales it. Mav tries to spray Mr. Pang with a fire extinguisher, but it is empty. Winston grabs Coco and tosses her to his friends as Mr. Pang starts to harness the moon qi. Winston takes the Pikachu out of his pocket. Winston syphons the qi as the piñata he and Dani are on disintegrates. Winston orders Bijal, who has Coco, to go to his house.

Bijal and Mav try to save Winston and Dani, but they fail as their unicorn piñata’s get wet. Winston scolds him for not getting Coco home, but he says he could not make it without Dani's umbrella. Eventually Cassa's piñata falls apart and everyone is drifting into the bay. As they say their regrets, Mav sees something large below the surface. Winston hears his name and realizes it is his fish Lucky. As the five stare at the giant goldfish in disbelief, they quickly shake off the shock and climb on. As Lucky heads to shore, the teenagers theorize that Mr. Pang got Lucky to grow by using a bead that grows in water. As Winston questions why Mr. Pang was sending him his things back, Mav calls his brother to pick them up. Once they reach the pier, Winston says goodbye to Lucky as he swims out to see. Monroe meets them at the pier and drives them home.

Appearance

Bajil is a middle school aged by with a round face.

Personality

Bajil is helpful but untrusting of strangers.

Trivia

• He plays soccer for the San Francisco Stealth.
• He is Muslim.
• His parents are meteorologists, with results in him usually being prepared for the day’s weather.
• He pretends to write letters to orphans in Tanzania.