Hello everyone! I'm Axis26 and I will be Axis26 until I turn into Axis27 sometime next year. But enough about me, let's talk about the story I've written; now a few of you (maybe most of you) will know that I've already started a story not too long ago, but what you don't know is that I've also made this one at the same time. And if you are wondering about updates, I will be updating one per week, preferably Monday, and preferably alternating every week. Now one last detail about this story which is VERY important, I finished writing this a while ago, all 126 chapters of it … okay, there's not that much, but I finished it long before (SPOILERS) Star got back together with Tom, Marco became Star's squire, or Marco and Jackie broke up. So please, give me a little bit of leeway? Things like this happen a lot in my line of work.
Disclaimer: Star vs. the Forces of Evil characters belong to Daron Nefcy.
Beta read by Sabrina06
(No one's POV)
It was another ordinary day in the Butterfly castle, or as normal as it could be with Star Butterfly back. "Mega Rain Hyper Storm!" Shouted Star causing an explosion in her room with smoke that began to rise from her window. "Okay, that didn't work." She looked over the piece of paper again before holding out her new wand and taking another shot at it. "Mega Rain Hyper Shower!" Her room instantly filled with water that slowly drained out the window leaving everything saturated. "Okay, maybe another one then."
She began to flip through the scraps of paper before her, in the hopes of finding a spell that wouldn't be as difficult. With the battle for Mewni having ended only a few days ago, Star decided that now was the perfect time to resume her training, the only problem was that Gloserick was still nowhere to be found, nor was her spellbook, if either of them still existed. That meant that all she had to practice from were the scraps of notes left over from when all the past queens were still developing their spells, and the rough drafts for what was eventually added to the book. "Why does this have to be so difficult?"
"STAR!" Shouted a concerned boy in a red hoodie as he barged into her room.
"Marco?" Star asked.
"I heard an explosion … I … you're practicing ... explosions are to be expected."
"Yeah." Star turned back to her makeshift spell book and began going through it again. "I need to practice more in case something worse comes our way."
"What could be worse than Toffee?" Marco asked. "I mean … he is dead after all and I don't think anyone else is getting inside the wand."
"There are other dangers out there Marco." Star pointed out as she continued looking through the pages.
"Well yeah but …" He let out a sigh. "So, I was about to go out to help with the reconstruction for today."
"I have to practice." Star replied. "Maybe if I could find that levitator spell I could help but-"
"That's not what I was going to bring up." Marco interrupted. "You see … I thought we could talk about what happened before you left when you-"
"HEY!" Star interrupted. "Did you tell your parents that you'd be staying on Mewni for the summer?"
"Yeah."
Star looked from side to side as she tried to find another way to change the subject. "Well … did you tell your girlfriend?"
Marco paused for a moment then shook his head. "No … I haven't talked to Jackie yet."
"Well you should."
Marco and Star just stared at each other until Marco nodded and walked out. "Stupid Star." Star said as soon as Marco was out of hearing distance. "Sure, get Marco to tell his girlfriend that he's going to spend the entire summer with his best friend who is also a girl and has openly admitted to having a crush on him."
She dropped her head onto her book. "I should have known that I would be seeing Marco again, we're best friends and he has dimensional scissors, of course he would worry about me enough to end up in the middle of my problems."
She let out a sigh and looked at her book. "Maybe if I hadn't told him the part about having a crush on him … and that I was leaving." A thought occurred to her and she turned to a page that was made by Skywynne Butterfly. "Here it is." She read over the spell and smiled. "I can use this to make it so I didn't tell anyone about my crush on Marco." She took her wand in her hands as she read over it once more. "I could even prevent myself from letting Marco go to the dance with Jackie." She paused and shook her head. "No, Marco wants Jackie, not me. I should stick to undoing my confession."
After one final time of re-read the spell, she tightened her grasp on the wand and recited the magic words. "Chronle, Tempera, Shiftication!"
A wind began to blow through Star's room as light began to gather before her. "It's working!" She exclaimed. The light continued to gather until a giant ball of light appeared before her, almost like a gateway. "Now I can go back and-" She stopped mid sentence and began thinking about what she was about to do. "No." She sighed as she turned around. "I … this isn't right … I can't just travel back in time to undo my mistake." She turned back to the time portal and pointed her wand at it. "Close." She waited for something to happen but the time portal remained unchanged. "Huh? I said close!" Once again, the portal did nothing. She let out a grunt as she gripped her wand tighter. "I said close!"
The portal began to move backwards before darting out of the room leaving a very concerned Star looking at her open door. "That can't be good."
Star chased after it, running from her room and down the hall after the faint glow that was running away from her. "WAIT!" She shouted as she chased it. "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings!" The portal continued down the hallways flying by guards and servants alike as they jumped out of the way to avoid it.
Further down the hall, Marco was walking, trying to figure out what he was going to say to Jackie when he saw her. "Maybe I should just tell her straight up … that I'm going to be spending the summer with the girl who proclaimed her love for me. No, definitely not." He sighed. "Maybe … I could tell her that I volunteered to help with the clean up?" He paused as he thought about it. "No, that's just as bad, especially since I have my own scissors."
He slapped the palm of his hand against his face and began grinding his teeth. "And what am I supposed to do about Star's confession? I mean I'm dating Jackie and … now I don't even know how I feel about Star." He let out another sigh and looked to the side. "Or worse … maybe I do know." He let out a sigh as he grabbed his chest. "Damn … what do I tell Jackie? Do I still love Jackie?" He let out a frustrated grunt as he began yanking at his hair. "Why does this have to be so complicated?"
"MARCO!" Marco stopped at hearing his best friend scream his name.
"Huh?" He slowly turned around, but when he did, it was already too late. A massive ball of light was right on top of him and before anyone could comprehend what was happening, it engulfed Marco causing him to disappear.
"NOOOOO!" Star rushed to where he was standing and looked around for any trace of him. "He couldn't have just disappeared." She looked down at her wand. "The spell … maybe if I-" She stopped mid sentence, remembering what just happened. "No … that … isn't a good idea."
She ran back to her room as fast as she could and pulled out the piece of paper that had the spell on it. As far as she could tell, she had cast the spell correctly but there was very little information on the piece of paper other than what the spell actually was and how to use it. "Maybe I should use the spell … or maybe that would open a hole in space time." She looked at her wand again and took a deep breath. "I know." She ran over to her door and closed it before running over to her windows and closing them as well. "Now did I forget anything?" She quickly went over every possible point of entry and shook her head. "Nope, let's do this." She took a deep breath and pointed her wand outwards. "I summon the all seeing eye, to tear a hole into the sky, reveal to me that which is hidden, unveil to me what is forbidden." The wand began to glow purple as a circular magic window appeared revealing one of Rombulious's crystals which was cracked. "That's not it." She shook her wand and the image changed to Janna pouring soda into the principal's car engine. "Now that's crossing the line Janna." Star shook her wand again revealing Jackie sitting on her bed with a worried look on her face. "Not Marco." She shook the wand again and the image went blank. "Oh come on!" She continued shaking the wand but no new image appeared. "This isn't good."
Star ended the spell and looked at the page again. "Okay, so time travel, Marco was probably sent back into the past but where was he sent? … or … when? I was trying to go back to the night when I confessed, right?" She froze upon realizing what she was thinking about when she cast the spell. "No, I was thinking about the dance and when he got together with Jackie."
She face palmed before looking at the spell one more time. "I need to go back and fast." She paused as she remembered what had just happened. "Okay … so casting the spell might not be the best idea … lucky for me, I know another way to travel in time." She stuffed the spell into her bag then reached for her dimensional scissors only to remember an important fact. "I don't have dimensional scissors anymore … Marco does." She cringed at the thought of telling her parents what had just happened, especially after everything that had happened not too long ago. "Maybe I can dance around the truth?" She let out a sigh and began making her way to her parents room, one way or another, this was going to be difficult.
Her parents on the other hand, had their own concerns to deal with, mostly to do with the purple veins on Moon's arms that hadn't gone away. "I'm sure it's no big deal darling." River said as he tried to help his wife feel at ease.
"But the deal was that as soon as Toffee died, Eclipsa would be set free." Moon said as she looked at the purple veins.
"And you checked on Eclipsa yourself, she's still frozen in crystal so there's nothing to worry about."
"Does that mean Toffee is still alive?" Moon asked.
"He couldn't have lived through something like that, I'm sure he's gone. You probably had to be the one to kill him to complete your deal with Eclipsa."
"Then why am I still worried?"
Before River could respond, Star threw open the door causing both of them to jump and Moon to cover up her arms. "Star!" Moon exclaimed. "I … do you need help with something?"
"Uh … yes." Star said as she began rubbing her hands together. "You see, Marco had to make a trip to Earth and I forgot to tell him to pick something up for me so … could I borrow your dimensional scissors?"
Moon and River let out a sigh of relief. "I'll have Manfred open up a portal for you." Moon replied.
"Oh no, that's not necessary, I can open one, I just need the scissors."
Both Moon and River looked at Star with a suspicious look. "Star?" Moon asked. "What did you do?"
"What?" Star asked trying to pretend that nothing was wrong. "I didn't do anything, I just … need … to …" Both Star's parents were clearly not falling for it, causing Star to cave and let out a sigh. "Okay." She pulled out the spell and handed it to her mother. "I was going to use this for personal reasons but decided against it after casting it, but the spell wouldn't go away and it … took Marco."
"This was made by grandma Skywynne." Moon said as she looked at it. "Star, you know what this is, right?"
"Of course I do!" Star replied. "It's a time travel spell." She dropped down to her knees and began to beg her parents. "Please, you can ground me, punish me, throw me in a dungeon, just tell me how to get Marco back."
Moon let out a sigh as River rubbed his eyebrows. "Star, I was going to say that this spell isn't the perfected version."
"It's not?" Star asked.
"No, part of it is wrong and it's missing some words."
River began to stroke his beard, with a worried look on his face. "That means it could have sent him anywhere."
Star's eyes went wide with fear. "Anywhere? Are you … are you serious?" She shot up and began pacing. "This isn't good, this isn't good, this isn't good, I need to talk to father time NOW."
"Now Star, there's no need to get all worked up." River said as he tried to calm her down. "Just relax, I'm sure everything will work out."
"How?" Star asked. "My best friend was just hurled through time and we have no idea where he could have gone."
River looked back at his wife with a worried look on his face. "Well … that's not entirely true."
(No one's POV)
Marco woke up in a grassy field with a pain in his head. "Ugh, what hit me?" He asked as he sat up.
"Finally, you're awake." Said a boy with a British accent. "I was worried there for a moment."
"Thank you." Marco began to rub his eyes in the hopes that his headache would go away. "My names Marco by the way."
"I'm River." Marco paused as his eyes shot open to look at the young man in a periwinkle royal tailcoat with short blond hair and blue eyes standing in front of him. "River Johansen, and it's a pleasure to meet you Marco."
And so ends chapter 1 of this new tail, come back in two weeks to find out what happens in chapter two … yes, I said two weeks, maybe three. Now to work on another story.
Enjoy your day and please leave your tears in the collection bucket.
