It was just a typical day for me at school. At least, as typical as it can be with Star Butterfly around. We were walking over to our classroom as I noticed I couldn't hear her footsteps anymore. I turned to see her staring at Oskar, her crush, as he played his keyboard guitar thing. "Mom don't tell me what to do, I don't have to listen to you!" He sang as he played. But, I wasn't paying attention to him, unlike Star.
"Star, time to go." I said simply. "You got some paint or something, right here." I added, poking the spot where a purple dot seemed to be on her forehead. Looking closer, I saw it wasn't a dot, but a perfectly shaped heart, similar to the ones on her cheeks.
She looked up at it, and pulled it right off her face. She then took a closer look at the mysterious heart. Her eyes seemed to widen a bit as she pulled it away from her face. "Marco, this is not paint." She said. I figured it was nothing important, just weird Star stuff.
Boy was I wrong.
"Well, looks like you got another heart." I remarked. "Quiet, Marco, this is serious!" I stopped smiling, now wondering what was wrong. "I think I'm going through.. Mewberty." She explained, as more purple hearts formed around her face.
She made a panicked noise and covered parts of her face with her hair.
"Weeeeeell, ooooooookay, uh, Mewberty! Heheh, that's.. nothing to be ashamed of! We have a similar thing here on Earth!" I explained awkwardly.
"DON'T confuse this with your earth things Marco! I'm from Mewni!" She exclaimed rather loudly. "Things are going to get really weird.." She lowered her voice down to a whisper. "You gotta keep me away from boys!" She said, desperately grabbing onto the straps of my backpack. "Something tells me this isn't anything near normal.." I concluded, judging by the desperate and panicked tone in Star's voice.
"Wait a second.." She said in realization. "Marco's a booooyyy…" She exclaimed, pupils turning into hearts and tilting her head to the side. My heart nearly leaped out of my chest and I did my best to hide the blush appearing on my face. Star's face exploded into more purple hearts.
"Hehehehe…" I awkwardly laughed as I escaped from Star's grip on my backpack. Her eyes returned to their regular, blue color as she was not in close proximity of me any longer, as I backed away a few steps.
"When you say things are going to get weird do you mean typical Star weird or, like, destroy the school weird?" I asked, changing the subject, with a strong feeling that it would probably be the latter.
"Destroy the school."
Well. Today is going to be fun.
"That's what I was worried about." I lead Star away, not touching her and staying a few feet away. "Oh no oh no oh no… okayhere comes a boy, you got this." She mumbled to herself. "You got this..-" She made a noise. "-avert your eyes, avert your eyes!" She said while starting at a random guy. She inhaled sharply as a popping noise was made, caused by more hearts appearing on her face.
"Marco, I don't think this is such a good ideaaa-" She trailed off. I couldn't hear her footsteps so I turned to see her closely watching some poor dude sipping from the water fountain. Her eyes were hearts again. Hearts rapidly appeared on her face as she watched.
She put her finger in the way of the stream and he opened his brown eyes and looked at her, confused. The hearts had spread to the arm that was blocking the stream of water, I noticed. "My turnnn!" She exclaimed in a sing-song voice.
"Woah, OK, let's go!" I said, grabbing her wrist and dragging her away.I didn't make it very far. Her arm suddenly turned completely purple up to her elbow, covered in hearts, as hearts shot out of her fingertips and latched onto the nearest locker. "Oh no." I thought.
"Waaaaaahh!" We screamed in unison, me pointing to her arm as we looked to her arm, to each other, and back to her arm."AhhhhhhhhhAHHhhh!" We continued to scream as I found the source of the sudden hearts, my hand still holding her wrist. I let go and looked at it, seeing it completely covered in my magical friend's hearts.
Star pulled back, trying to detach her arm from the locker, but only succeeded in opening it and sliding inside. I quickly noted that this was NOT her locker.
".. I'm stuck." She said, snapping me out of looking at my hand in shock. "Uhh, let me help!" At this, she quickly shut herself in the locker.
"NO!-" She opened the door."-Your little boy hands are part of the problem!" She closed the door after that statement. I looked at my hands for a moment, deciding to brush my hand on my hoodie to brush off the hearts.
"Isn't there SOME way I can help? Maybe there's something in your book of spells that can stop this!" I tried, hoping I could help in some way. "Maybe.." She replied nervously. "I'll go home and get it!" I said, jogging away.
I stopped abruptly as I heard Star exclaim,"It's not at home!" I turned to the locker she was stuck in, noticing I hadn't gotten more than a few feet away, as she had stopped me quickly. "I gave it to Ferguson!" She continued.
"WHY?" I asked. "I lost a bet okay?! Do you wanna help me or not?" She replied, panicking. "Okay, but we gotta talk about that betting thing later!" I said, running in past the locker to get to Ferguson's Spanish classroom.
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I ran through the halls after a conversation with the annoying blue man named Glossaryk and made my way back to the locker Star was trapped in. But, as I ran I noticed weird purple vines with hearts growing out of them all around me. I slowed my run to a walk as I observed my surroundings. I nearly tripped over a vine while walking backwards and decided to turn around. However, when I did, I saw a gaping hole where the locker Star was in used to be. The familiar purple hearts were piled at the bottom.
Oh no.
I walked forward to examine the crater more closely when a hand grabbed my arm. I turned to see the face of the poor dude who was at the water fountain staring at me, panic and fear written all over his face. He, and many other boys, were trapped in a cage of Star's hearts.
"Hey, you gotta get us out of here!" He pleaded. Suddenly, I heard a scream. I turned to find the source. Then I saw her.
Her skin was completely dark purple, and she had six arms and a pair of insect-like wings on her back. Her dress and boots had transformed, being mostly purple (Shocker!) now. Her headband has now been turned magenta, a pair of antenna with hearts at the end replacing her usual devil horns.
Her now light purple hair was styled differently and her eyes were completely white, glowing. Unlike when her eyes were hearts before and it was just her pupils, this time it was her entire eye, and she had no pupils.
Pretty much the only thing that was the same about her was her hearts that were on her cheeks. They hadn't changed a bit!
There was only one person who this could possibly be. Star.
"Whaaat the? Star?" I questioned. What had HAPPENED to her? My best friend was a flying boy-crazed insect! (Ironically reminding me of a butterfly.)
I watched as she tore off a locker door and started to make a cage for her new prisoner, the innocent boy who had screamed, out of her purple hearts that she now seemed to be able to shoot out of her fingertips at will.
"S-Star, you gotta get a hold of yourself!" I pleaded with her, but she seemed not to hear me. "You're scaring everyone!" I continued. She looked right at me this time. She then turned back to her target and shot his face with hearts, resulting in a small scream as she continued making the cage.
"I said STOP!" I exclaimed, grabbing onto her wrist. She turned towards me, and stopped to look down at her wrist, where I had grabbed her. She looked back at me.
"Oh no, you've made a terrible mistake…!" Said the poor kid she kidnapped. He cowered in the corner of his locker prison. I quickly pulled back my hand, realizing that I made a huge mistake, remembering how she reacted last time I touched her.
She stared for a second before she wrapped my limbs in her surprisingly tough hearts, pinning my arms and legs to the lockers so I couldn't move. This took a surprisingly short time, and I couldn't help but wonder why she hadn't put me in a makeshift cage or wrapped me up more tightly and instead just pinned down my limbs.
She looked hard at my face for a second before giving me a huge smile. "Marco!" Oh no. She recognized me! I was shocked that she had sounded exactly the same as usual. I got a shudder down my spine at her voice.
She still smiled the same smile I had always remembered before she started going through Mewberty, and it was extremely creepy to see that expression on the creature Star had become. It was deadly silent.
I would have never expected what she did next.
She leaned in, arms spread out… and she hugged me. I was shocked, and couldn't help the fact my face had flushed a bit. "What?!" My thoughts screaming at me. Suddenly, I heard a familiar Keyboard Guitar Thing playing. Oskar. Star moved back a bit and turned towards the source of the noise.
"Oskar…" She mumbled. She looked at me. Then back at towards Oskar's music. Then back to me. She then started to think. "Hmm.. Oskar or Marco?" She mumbled quietly. "What?! She has a CRUSH on Oskar! Why isn't she immediately going to him?!" My thoughts raced.
"Mmm.. can't I have both?" She whined. I shivered at her words. "Mmm...Marco!" She smiled happily at her decision. "Wait what?!" I cried out in shock. "WHY IS SHE CHOOSING ME OVER OSKAR?!"
She gently peeled me off the locker and tied up my arms and legs so I couldn't move. She smiled at me and picked me up bridal style. She then flew into the air, higher than the clouds. I screamed in fear, wondering when Mewberty would end. She stopped when she heard me scream.
"Oh no, did Star scare Marco?" She asked, seeming almost legitimately concerned about my well being. I noticed the odd way she spoke, but it was the last thing on my mind. I was too busy fearing for my life to care. Suddenly I heard an odd beeping noise, and looked to see Glossaryk holding up one of his arms to show me his watch.
It was beeping because of the alarm he had set marking the end of Star's Mewberty. "Looks like Star's done with Mewberty." Glossaryk said, seemingly reading my mind. "Well, I hope you enjoy the ride down from here." He commented, teleporting away with a "Poof!" and a puff of smoke before I could ask what he meant.
I looked up at Star. She seemed to be in a daze, zoning out and staring into space. Suddenly, there was a flash of light. I blinked, and when I opened my eyes I saw Star. But not the insect version of Star that had soared into the sky with me in her arms, but my best friend.
Star was back to normal.
I barely had time to process that the hearts tying me up had loosened and blew away in the violent wind. I would have been happy to move my limbs again…
If me and my unconscious best friend weren't falling out of the sky at a high rated speed.
I screamed my whole decent until I, surprisingly, fell safely into the remarkably soft pile of Star's purple Mewberty hearts that were in front of the locker she was previously trapped in.
I looked up as the now pale purple hearts (that fell off when Star transformed but fell considerably slower than us) falling from the sky like snow. I looked back down at the magical princess that fell next to me, now opening her beautiful blue eyes.
She sat up and groaned in pain from what I would guess would be a headache.
"STAR!" I cried out in relief and happiness as I gave her a hug. She hugged me back quickly. However, my hug with the princess from another dimension was interrupted by an odd buzzing noise.
Star pulled away from me. She pulled her hair off to the side and looked at her back. She made a noise in happiness and surprise. "Look, Marco! I got my Mewberty wings!" She quickly put her hair up in a ponytail so it wouldn't block what she was trying to show me.
Sure enough, there were two, tiny, insect-like wings on her back. I smiled excitedly. "Does this mean you can fly?!" I asked, excited at the possibilities of my best friend flying around with me. You know, NOT while she's completely lost her mind.
"Let's test it out!" She exclaimed excitedly, grabbing my hand with no negative consequences. She then jumped, flying through the air with me.
For about 3 seconds.
Then we fell on the ground."Nope."
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"So, do you remember what happened while you were going through Mewberty? Like, the part where you turned into an insane flying bug thing?" I asked. We were finally home, after getting Star's spellbook and my house keys back from Janna.
"Hmm, I remember bits and pieces." She replied, remembering what she could. "So, I kinda made this weird cocoon that I stayed in for a while, then I broke loose when a guy touched it. I flew around and kiiinda kidnapped a few people..-" She smiled sheepishly while explaining what she remembered.
"-OH! And then you came in and tried to stop me! And it was really cool! And then I tied you up.. sorry about that by the way." Star apologized.
"It's okay. What else do you remember?" I asked curiously. "Oh! Then I-" Star recalled what she remembered happening next and her face broke out into an intense blush. She swallowed hard before continuing. "Th-Then I recognized you and.. g-gave you a hug..for some reason… No clue why I did THAT..."
I blushed at this part too. She looked away before continuing. "And then I kinda just… took you away into the sky. Then I fell out of the sky and woke up.-" She suddenly smiled and got over her previous embarrassment and exclaimed happily,"- and THEN I got my Mewberty wings and we tried to fly, and you had to get your keys and my spell book from Janna and now we're here!" She finished her story.
"Yeah, that's pretty accurate!" I smiled widely, glad to see my best friend so happy again.
Author's Note
Summary for those to lazy to read the whole thing: If you want me to continue this story please TELL ME SO in your review (if you leave one, please do btw). Otherwise I'm only doing one more chapter, where the ship really sets sail. Thanks for reading!
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