Yep, this is my first fanfic. I like Tomstar, deal with it. In this story, my tense is very off, but I hope that doesn't stop you from enjoying the story. As you read in all the other stories, I do not own anything, expect the actual story itself, but other than that nope. Hope you like!

Star POV

Star Butterfly flops onto of her bed, in the Monster Temple, defeated. After having a huge fight with her mom and Queen Eclipse, Star didn't understand why they couldn't see her side of the story. After the remaining members of the Magic High Commission disappeared, and her mom agreed to come back to help, but she didn't plan to find them. She only came back to help lead what was left of Mewni. Star did not understand why they didn't send out soldiers to go looking for them. Sure, they didn't make the best choices. They did not like monsters and were horrible to them, and treated Queen Ecplisa worse, but they still deserved to be found. Her mom and Queen Eclispa forbid Star to go look for them herself, even though they knew that wouldn't stop her. Star knew that the Magic High Commission was in trouble because she knew that they wouldn't up and leave their duties no matter how badly they hated it. Omnitraxus Prime's channel went dead and they lost contact with him. Star hoped he was still in his dimension. Hekapoo never showed up and portals are showing up everywhere, Rhombulus's crystals are weakening. If she didn't find them soon, she didn't know what was going to happen. If her mom and Queen Eclipse would not help her find them, she would have to do it herself and she wasn't going to stop until she did. She grabbed her backpack and started to pack everything she needed.

"Clothes, check."

"Food? check."

"Battle Axe? Got it."

"Pointy thing? Check." Star went through her list until she had everything she needed, but there was one more thing that she needed.

"Mirror, call Tom." She felt a drop in her stomach as she waited for him to pick up.

"Star? What's up?" He says putting on his pajamas. She watched as he continued to finish his night routine. She didn't know if she had a right to ask this of him, even if he was her boyfriend. He was powerful and he could be useful, but she couldn't bare if anything were to happen to him. Star did not know what was going to happen on her journey, but she knew to have him by her side would make her feel less uneasy.

"Star? Is something wrong?"

"What? No, no, nothing is wrong." Star said. He knew her too well.

"No, no. Don't you… I know something is wrong. You get that look in your eyes." He started to grow agitated towards her. The two of them had history. They dated, then they broke up, then they got back together again. It was a cycle and each time they'd grow more resentful towards each other but also love each other more. This time the two of them were determined to make a change. They did not want this relationship to end like the others. They were devoted to each other. They had their hurdles and fights, but they cared for each other for anything else. They could read each other without talking.

"What look? I don't give a look." She said blowing air out of her mouth brushing off his comment.

"That look!" He said pointing to the mirror at her face. Star then dropped her forced smile and looked at the ground, fiddling with her dress.

"Tom, I… I need your help." She said rubbing her arm, avoiding his eye contact. Tom's expression softens when he realized that the girl who stood in front of him was in a vulnerable place and she needed him. He had heard about the High Commission going missing, but he did not know how much it bothered her until now. When Star gains the courage to look him in the eyes, Tom is out of sight, only hearing him rummage through stuff. Star watches Tom's shirt fly across the room before he returns.

"I'll be right over." He said hanging up.

Once again, Star flops back on her bed. Turning her head, she sees the picture "her beach day" with Marco, her best friend. That day was not what she expected. Sure, Star and Marco had an amazing time, but something happened that day that would change their relationship forever. That very day, Marco confessed that removing the Blood Moon curse did not work. He loved her with all his heart. He always had, ever since the first day he met her. For Star, she accepted her feelings for Marco when she saw him and Jackie together on her prom night. However, when her mom told her that she had to leave Earth, Star told him about her feelings. But he was too focused on his crush for Jackie to realize it. It took Marco while to accept his feelings towards her. Accept that his feelings were real. But he was too late, Star moved back to Mewni and continued her life. She no longer was focused on her feelings for him However, when Marco decided that he was going to join her on Mewni, Star never expected him to return to her after she left. Marco turned Star's life upside down when he climbed through her castle window and into her room. He had planned on telling her his feelings, but he stopped when he saw Tom walk in holding a burrito. Marco realized that Star had changed, grown up, take more responsibilities. And so he went back to pretending, pretending that nothing was there. Star might have had a crush on him, she might have liked him, but after they took the trip to the severing stone, and but when the Blood Moon curse was removed, and she only saw him as her best friend. Star had Tom, she did not need anyone else. Beach day, the day that was supposed to be the best day, he confessed and she rejected him. She knew she had hurt him because Marco started to hang out with Kelly rather than her. If he wasn't with Kelly, he was back on Earth with his new baby sister Mariposa. He had told her that he couldn't stay with her forever and she was ok with that.

Things were different now. It was her fault. Things changed the moment Star gave her wand to Eclipse. Star thought she could have made a difference, that she would change history, but now she felt as if she made a huge mistake that she couldn't get out of.

"Star?" Tom says entering from the balcony of her new bedroom. Star sits up and looks at him. As he enters, he eyes her backpack.

"Where are you going?" He asks sitting down next to her. Star avoided his eye contact, in fear that she would break down in front of her. He knew it too. Tom gently places his hand on hers and continues to be silent. Star was scared to ask him to come with her. He looked at her with worried eyes. She was afraid that he'd say no, and that she'd be alone again. Finally, she took a deep breath and jumped off the bed and faced him.

"I am going to look for the Magic High Commission." Standing up after her, his eyes were now full of fear, fear for her life.

"Star…" He said putting his hand on her shoulder, but she pushes away. He was going to say something, but Star cuts him off before he could continue with his sentence.

"I want you to come with me." She said holding her arms tightly against herself.

"Is that what you were afraid to ask?" She looked at him with pleading eyes. She knew it was a lot to ask. She looks ashamed, expecting the worse. She had known him, she knew that he loved her, but she wished that he'd say no, for his own safety.

"Star, You've got to be kidding me. Come on, you know me better than that. I'll follow you to the end of the universe if I had too." He pulls her into a hug and she wraps her arms around his warm body. This demon was changed, he was no longer filled with anger and rage. She had changed him, he was filled with love, love for her. Her heart matched the beat of his, and soon, Star found herself kissing him. He runs his fingers in her long blond hair and she lets her fingers graze under his leather jacket and shirt touching his Finally, they pulled away, breathless.

"When are we leaving?"

"Now." She said picking up her bag and setting it on her desk.

"Don't you want to say goodbye to your family." He said pointing to her bedroom door.

"They would try to stop me from leaving, I can't have that happen," Star said sitting down and pulling out a piece of paper and starts writing on it. No matter how distant Marco has been, he was still her best friend. He was still the same boy's family that took her own when she moved to Earth. He was the same boy that she danced with during the Blood Moon Ball. He was still apart of her life and she could not leave without telling him.

"Are you sure that he is going to get this?" He said as they walked over to the balcony.

"He will, I am sure of it," Star said pulling her inter-dimensional scissors from her pocket. Marco had lost hers and Hekapoo had given her a pair with the fear that she couldn't be there to protect Star if things got messy. She wanted to make sure the former princess could get away from trouble if she needed to. They both looked at each, knowing that they were going against everyone and would be on their own. Star cuts a whole and Tom steps through. As she takes her first step through into another dimension she hears her bedroom door fly opened with the voice of Marco screaming her name. But before he could reach her, she had fully entered the next step in her life.

Marco POV

Marco throws the door opened to just see Star's blond hair leave through a portal.

"Star! Wait!" He says running towards her. But he was too late, she had left. Kelly followed close behind him.

"Marco, slow up!" the teal hair Woolen comes running after him. By the time she caught up to him, he had already read it note.

"Star left with Tom… She doesn't know… how long she could be…" Kelly wraps her arms around Marco comforting him. She knew he still liked her, but she ignored the fact and kept spending time with him.

She'll be back before you know it." She winks and gives him a thumbs up.

"Oh no, oh no" As if the moment hit him at once, Marco's face grew wide in panic. "What am I going to tell Queen Eclipse? What am I going to tell her mom!" He started circling the room in a nervous wreck, he became covered in sweat. Marco started to ramble on about something that Kelly couldn't understand.

"MARCO!" Kelly shook Marco back to reality.

"You are going to march into that room and tell the Queen and former queen exactly what happened. They can't do anything to do, you have done nothing wrong." Kelly said turning Marco to the door.

"You're right Kelly, I am going to march right in there…. Oh, what am I kidding? Moon is going to rip my head off. There's no point Star's gone forever." He said shrinking into a corner.

Tom POV

Tom watched Star from behind as they rode Cloudy through Dimension X-103, in hopes of finding Hekapoo. The dimension was dark and grey as if it was it was a wasteland. The only one that lived there was Hekapoo, which is who Tom and Star were looking for. Star thought that if she was hiding from them, she'd hide in her own dimension. This dimension was also where Marco spent fifteen years in winning his own inter-dimensional scissors. He observed her light blue eyes and heart shaped cheeks. He could see the pain in her eyes. Tom knew the pain of being royalty, but he also knows how much she has gone through. He saw her desperate attempt to cover up her pain. He knew the stress she was feeling during her time on Mewing. It has not been a pleasant welcome home. She first had to come home, Finding out Eclipse lived, the destruction of Butterfly Castle, finding out she wasn't actually of royal blood. Star has been struck with so much pain. He wanted to away her pain. Tom and Star rode through the dimension in silence. A plan runs through her mind.

"If we can't find Hekapoo here, then we go to Crystal Fields of Interwoven Continuum. Omnitraxus Prime must know something." She shakes her head to try to stay awake. As the two of them watch their surroundings they didn't notice the nest of baby dragon cycle eggs that they just floated over. The baby-cycles cried under them.

"Sorry little Babies!" She said looking back and waving to them. Star turns back to face her path. Suddenly, a large roar erupts from behind them.

"Uh Star, you might want to tell Cloudy to fly faster," Tom said pointing to behind them, as a mother dragon cycle chases them, weaving through the tall trees. Tom ignites a flame in his hand and aims at the dragon-cycle. Star taped Cloudy as it sped up. Just as Star yells "rainbow blast" just as the Mother Dragon Cycle whips her tail. Her spell is thrown off as Tom leaps towards her.

"Watch out!" Tom wrapped his arms her as he feels a sharp pain on his shoulder as they hit the ground. Getting up from their fall, Tom winces. Star turned to it, looking guilty. Tom summoned another flame. The Dragon Cycle starts to circle the two of them, creating a dark circle in the dirt. Back to back, they prepared to fight. Star held out her hands ready to cast another spell. Star knew that they couldn't run away from the Dragon-Cycle, but if she could distract it long enough to get a head start that might be the answer.

"Jellybean Hallucination Mist" She yells as different colored jelly beans and green fog shoots out of her hands. Tom shoots a few flames as the Dragon-Cycle dodges in confusion. Tom watches as Star summons her spell, but then soon collapses to the ground. Just as the spell appears, dizziness overcomes Star and she collapses to the ground. Star tries to get to her feet as he quickly floats over to her, touching her cold skin. He gently picks her up and flies away from the scene, just as the Dragon-Cycle comes back.

As Tom carried Star in his arms, he looked at her with his worried eyes. She held him weakly as the wind brushes past them. His heart raced. Her eyes were closed now, but Tom knew that something was wrong. This was not like her. Star had always been stronger than this. She could normally defeat a simple dragon-cycle in a heartbeat. He had to get her back to the Monster Temple before anything else happened. He reached into her teal dress pocket to pull out the scissors but they were gone. Shit, she must have dropped them while they were fighting. After gaining little distance from the fight, Tom returns to the ground and sets Star against a tree. He was drained and knew he wouldn't last long before he lost consciousness. Tom had never seen her look so weak. She always had enough strength to always keep going, but now she looked so frail and pale. She opens her eyes and realizes that Tom had gotten her out of the situation.

"I'm fine," she said getting to her feet.

"What happened back there?" He said raising his voice.

"Nothing, how's your shoulder?" She said taking it, forcing him to wince again. She was hiding something. She always was.

"You know something," Tom said as flames started to show in his eyes. Star looks away, expecting for him to yell. Tom just expected it. After all, his anger made them break up. She knew he had changed, but maybe not enough. Seeing this her expectation, Tom takes a deep breath before speaking

"We agreed that if we were going to make this work, that we'd tell each everything. After all, you brought me on this trip because you knew that I could help, but I can't help if I don't know the whole story." He was not mad at her, but he wanted to know. Gulping hard, Star began to talk.

"When I gave up my wand to Eclipsa, but I never trained to use magic without my wand. So whenever I use a spell my magic isn't concentrated by the wand. My wand was sorta like a gatekeeper. It would allow my magic to be filtered. Without it, I can't control how much magic I release, but I can't seem to regain any of it back. Glossaryck says that I have an extreme case of Magic Deficiency."

Tom has never seen Magic Deficiency before, but he heard of it before. He knew it was painful and dangerous. He never thought of the consequences of her giving up her wand. He never recognized her signs until now. She was weaker, and her spells were too. She could lose her magic altogether or even lose her life. Tom loved her so much, he didn't want to lose her. He stood there shocked. He was also hurt that she couldn't tell him that. He let her use her magic at any giving time not knowing that it was fast forwarding her deficiency. He did not know what to say or do. He just knew that he needed to protect her. Tom realizes that Star noticed that he was still holding his injured shoulder. She walks over and removes his hand, revealing a large gash that ripped through his clothes.

"I think… you need to go back." She said as she tries to pull out her scissors. Her face goes blank when she realizes that she doesn't have them.

"Tom! My er-dimension scissors are gone!" She said summoning Cloudy and headed back the way they came.

"Star, stop!" He said flying in front of her. "We can't go back, the mother cycle is probably still looking for us."

"But I can't have lost them! We are stuck!" Tom sighs and sits on Cloudy with her. He didn't want to fight with her, not after finding her secret. They headed back through the forest, looking for her scissors.

Hours would past, and to no avail, Tom and Star had no luck as they traveled through Dimension X-103. The sun had gone down and they hadn't had a chance to sleep. The two of them had traveled for a whole day. Finally, they approached a cave.

"Star, stop Cloudy here. We are both exhausted. We need to rest." Tom said hoping off Cloudy and walking to the cave. He knew that she wouldn't agree to it, she was determined. He had to force her. Tom points to the cave and hops off Cloudy.

"We can stay here tonight."

"We can't stop now, I haven't found them!" She said. Tom stands next to her as she sits on Cloudy, with full intention to continue searching.

"You're exhausted. You can barely think." Sighing, Star knew it was true. She also saw Tom's shape. He couldn't continue, he had to rest too. She retracts her Cloudy Charm spell and enters the cave with Tom.

When they entered, the cave was dark and wet. Working together, Star summoned wood and Tom lit it with his powers. Sitting down next to the fire, Star curls into a ball. The light from the flames reflects off her eyes, showing her true sadness. Tom pulls her close to him as he lies down. They were on this adventure to find the missing members of the Magic High Commission, leaving home without saying anything, going against the orders of the Queen of Mewni and his mom and dad. Tom rubs her back as she laid there. He did not know what was to happen or if he was going to happen if they didn't find them or to Star. He was putting so much on the line for Star, but he did not care. He loved her. Star's breathing was light and he could feel her heart beat against his skin. He knew that she wasn't asleep. There was too much on her mind to relax. Star finally breaks him out of his thought.

"Why do you put up with me?" She sits up.

"What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean." She pushes him away and walks to the opening of the cave. She clenched her hand.

"I'm a bad girlfriend. I mean think about it, while at your family lake house, I got mad at you for needing to share your feelings. I didn't tell you about my kiss with Marco. I didn't tell you about my magic. I've lied to you about my feelings for him. And you? You invited me the blood moonball, even if you intentionally tried to bind our souls for life, protected me from Meteora, gave me space when I needed it during the Sliver Bell ball. Hell, you went through a Demonism!" She points to herself, she felt bad that she had taken this relationship. She had so much pain.

"What have I done for you? Nothing. I've been too caught up in everything. I forgot that you have needs too." He looks at her knowing what she meant. She hadn't been the best girlfriend. She lied and deceived him, but he still loved her. How could he not? He takes her hand and sits down to the fire.

"Do you remember, when we broke up? The first time?" He said looking her in the eyes.

"I was fed up with your anger issues. You'd get jealous if I even got out of your eyesight."

"I know, but you put up with me because we cared for each other. When we broke up, you needed time to yourself. You couldn't stay with me because I did not make you happy. That breakup made me rethink about life and what was important, which is why I tried my hardest to fix what was wrong, you are someone worth changing for." He holds his hand out for her to take it. "I did not go through the Demonism for you, but for me, because you made me want to be a better me." She looks at him where moonlight reflected off her eyes, and the flames from the fire reflect off his. The colors seemed to blend as he pulled her into a tight hug. She buried her face into him. Leaning her head against his shoulder, Tom spoke again.

"We both will have our problems, but it's up to us how we want to approach it." Tom leads to back to the fire, laying back down. She lies down on his chest and rests her hand on his chest.

She runs her hand through his red spiked hair. She knew she had to make it up to him, but it would take time and she was willing to do it, for him. Tom looks at her to finally see her sound asleep.

"I love you Star." He said putting a strand of her blond hair behind her ear. Soon exhaustion takes over Tom and he lets the darkness seep in.

Tom had grown strong. He had remained calm. He did it all for Star.