Hey everybody and welcome to my new small side project! This story is going to be a series of unrelated one shots all centering around the season autumn! I will write around three-four of these before moving back to work on the Diaz Family Roadtrip. And of course what would an autumn themed one shot series be without a Halloween themed homage to EVAunit42's starcoween in his fic There's always a star and a hoodie! Go check his stuff out it's great and really fits with the season! Anyways this particular one-shot is going to be about Star discovering falling leaves, I absolutely love the idea so obviously I just HAD to write it. Hope you guys like the fic and the next one should be up relatively soon, -Unluckywrites

Star's long blonde hair whipped in the chilled wind. Her cheeks were flush pink from the cold air and around her eyes rested a black blind fold. She and Marco walked hand in hand down what she presumed to be a woodland trail.

Marco had brought her out here on stroll to the cabin they were staying at for the weekend. She didn't understand why they had to walk instead of drive, Mr and Mrs Diaz got to drive and why was she blindfolded! Another thing that bothered her was the fact Marco wasn't telling her what the crisp crunching sound beneath her shoes was...

"Marco are we there yet? Can I take off my blind fold?" She whined.

"No no no!" Marco replied tersely "We are almost there though."

Star sighed and her breath condensed in the cool fall air, to bad she couldn't see it.

After hiking up a long and grueling hill to which Star thoroughly complained they came to a stop.

"For crying out loud Marco are we there yet!" She huffed.

Yet nothing came from Marco, she knew he was still there as they were holding hands but he did not speak.

"Marco...?" She said with a little drop of worry.

"Ya... ya we're here." He said hushed.

The blackness of the blind fold fell off her face and Star let out a gasp of awe and wonder.

Before her eyes lay a valley filled with the vivid colors of autumn. Reds, oranges, yellows and browns flooded like a sea of fire cast against a silver sky.

And as they ice cold wind washed over them Star could see the leaves of the trees dance away in the wind. It was beautiful, it was majestic and it was certainly worth the hike.

"Marco what is this?" Star said with wondrous mystery.

Marco chuckled softly "It's fall Star! It's a season we have here on earth."

"Earth seasons are AMAZING! We don't get anything like this on Mewni!" Star exclaimed with wonder.

She yanked on his arm "Come on lets go check it out!"

"Yes yes ok!" Marco said smiling at her.

The two rushed forward into the forest of fall colors. Star oohed and awed at the marvelous sight. The leaves on the trees fluttering down onto the forest floor and into small still ponds were they lay and the sleek black surface of the water.

"Are the leaves the crunching sound that I heard earlier?" Star asked stomping around on the trail.

Marco laughed; he lived for moments like this, showing Star something new from earth and watching her eyes light up like fireworks "Yes Star that's what was causing the sound!"

Star twirled under the canopy of fiery leaves and giggled.

"This is so cool Marco!"

Marco grabbed Stars hands and she stopped spinning "I have one more thing to show you!" He said staring into her gleaming blue eyes.

Stars mouth dropped "Another thing!?"

Marco snorted "Yes another thing!"

"Oooo what is it, what is it!"

"Ok I will show you but first..." Marco smiled deviously.

He let go of her hands and raced bounded away down the trail "Race you to the cabin!" He yelled back at her.

"Hey!" Star shouted bolting after the boy.

The air rushed by and falling leaves hit her face. Each step echoed through back into the quite forest. Star burst off the trail and onto the lawn just after Marco, huffing and puffing.

In a small clearing sat the quaint log cabin the family was staying at for the weekend. Its roof was mossy and warped but one thing was for sure, it had spirit. Around it was a bright green lawn half moss half grass and towering above were painterly trees that had parted to let in the sky.

"Alright Marco you win... now show me the thing!" She said falling onto the soft green lawn in exhaustion.

Marco sat down beside her "Alright her it is..."

"Wait what are y-"

Before Star could finish her sentence a damp and colorful surprise was shoved into her pink and flustered face.

"Bleh! Diaaaaaz!" Star yelled spitting out the leaves.

Marco jumped up and ran away from her laughing his head off.

"Gotcha!" He shouted joyously.

"Get over here!" Star said racing after him.

Marco had a good lead so he normal wouldn't have been caught. His mistake though was turning around to glance back right before he was tackled into a pile of leaves by Star.

"Take this!" She yelled valiantly while shoving leaves into his face from atop the pile.

Marco spit them out still laughing his face off and pushed Star into another leaf pile.

Star burst out of the leaf pile giggling away and pushed him into yet another pile. Back and forth the two tussled creating more and more of a mess. Leaves soon covered a sizable area of the bright green lawn.

A while later they laid down together in the strewn out mess of leaves they had created. They gazed up at the branches as the leaves slowly drifted down. Soft breaths creating clouds above their faces.

"Man this is going to take us a long time to clean up..." Marco muttered eyes fixed on the steely sky.

"Us?" Star said laughing.

"Yeah us!" Marco retorted shoving her.

Star giggled and shoved back. And just like that the two were back at it, leaves in hand and smiles on their faces.