Updated 8/3/2015 - Corrected a few misspellings
Hello everyone. I'm acw28, here to welcome you to my new story!
So first off, to those who have read my other work and decided to give this story a chance, I say thank you. I understand that the show doesn't exactly line up with the previous fandoms that I've wrote about before. That said, I am a fan of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, it is extremely funny and has some of the best action/fight scenes that I've seen in recent years, which is why I highly recommend it to anyone who has yet to see an episode (they're easily found online). If I lost a person because of what show I choose to write, then that's their choice. I'm not going to force a person to read a story they hold no interest in.
Now to the fans of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, welcome to my story! This story is a result of an idea that popped in my head when I first saw one of the characters and is also partially inspired by some amazing fan art done by mgx0, feel free to look it up but be warned it may lead to spoilers. I'll try my best to capture the hilarity of the show in my writing, but I make no promises.
Now to everyone, I hope you enjoy the story.
Disclaimer: I don't have a witty way to say I don't own Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
It was a normal Friday at Echo Creek High School. Currently two students were walking in the hallway toward their next class. One, a blond girl wearing a light blue sleeveless dress with a decorative red belt, as well as blue stockings along with furry leg warmers above light blue sneakers. However, what truly made this girl stand out from the crowd was her devil horned headband and the pink hearts present on both of her cheeks. This is Star Butterfly, a magical princess from another dimension. As the girl started skipping, she said, "Oh Marco, how I love Fridays! The weekend is right around the corner but you still get to see all your friends from school."
"I wouldn't be too excited Star." The boy, Marco Diaz, said. The brown haired and eyed boy had tanned skin as well as a mole on his right cheek and wore a red, zipped up hoodie along with dark grey pants. While the two freshmen walked into the classroom, Marco continued by saying, "It's the first Friday of the month. That means that Miss Skullnick will have…"
Marco was interrupted when a large, green, red head troll wearing a purple blouse with the sleeves ripped off and leopard print pants yelled out, "Time for the First Friday Quiz. I hope all of you brats studied or are prepared to suffer!" With that, the troll began to pass out the quiz.
As always, Marco was doing well, answering the questions quickly and correctly, the class was only half over and yet he was almost done. Star on the other hand, was not doing as well. She had only answered the first half of the quiz, and she wasn't even sure if she got those answers right. As the princess chewed on her pencil in nervousness, the door to the classroom was kicked open. Moving quickly into the room was a small, green, bipedal bird-like creature with a small cow skull on its head, lead a number of other monsters into the room.
"Hello Star Butterfly," the creature began, "I, Ludo, have come to steal your wand while you are sufficiently distracted!" Ludo threw his arms upwards as he said this, then paused and turned to his army and asked, "She is distracted this time, right?" to which a number of his monsters said yes.
'Yes!' Star thought. 'I can get out of having to do this stupid quiz and I get to kick some butt before the weekend, this is a win-win!'
However, Star's hopes were dashed when Miss Skullnick got up from behind the desk and began commanding Ludo and his minions, "Get out of my classroom, the brats are in the middle of a quiz!"
Ludo seemed to shrink under the troll's words as he said, "But I'm trying to conquer an entire dimension."
"I don't care, you can wait out in the hall until after the rest of the students are done with their tests, then you can play with your friends."
Ludo looked ready to protest being Star's "friend", but a look from the troll made him to, wisely, decide to take his army out into the hall and wait for the bell to ring. Miss Skullnick nodded to herself, happy with her work. She then turned to see all the occupants of the room looking at her. "Well what are you waiting for?" the troll asked, "Get back to work!" Instantly all the students went back to their quiz.
As the bell rang, Star weakly got out of her chair. She was glad to finish the quiz, half the class never could, and just hoped most of her answers would be correct. As she was about to walk out the door, Marco call out, "Star, are you sure that's such a good idea?"
"What do you mean Marco, it's just Ludo, we beat him all the time."
"Right," Marco began, "but you're wiped from taking the quiz, and who's to say that Ludo hasn't set a trap for us."
"So then what do you suggest?" Star asked.
Marco pointed behind his back to the room's windows and said, "Let's not use the door to get out of here."
In the Hallway
"What is taking her so long?" Ludo questioned his nearest henchmen, Buff Frog, a large bipedal frog with spiked shoulder pads and a green shirt. The silent henchmen looked at his master and shrugged his shoulders. A voice from the back of the group said, "The Princess just slipped out the window and is heading towards the school's exit!"
"What!" Ludo yelled. Seeing how nobody was moving, the evil creature jumped on Buff Frog's head and said, "Well what are you all waiting for, an invitation? Let's go get me that wand!" With his last command, Ludo pointed forward as his army charged through the school's halls.
"You were right, Marco. It was so much easier just to sneak out through the window." Star said as she smiled at the beautiful day.
"You do know that eventually Ludo's going to find out we snuck out right?" Marco asked.
"Oh don't worry about it." Star waved off her friends concern. "It's been long enough that I'm not stressing out about that quiz now. I'll be ready for Ludo and his monsters now."
"We'll see about that!" A voice form behind the duo said. Turing around, both Star and Marco saw Ludo charging along with his monster. The smallest of the group then pointed forward and yelled, "GET THEM!"
As Star brought her wand forward, Marco settled into his karate stance. Marco jumped when the aptly named Big Chicken dive bombed him, only for the monster to be knocked out when Star cried, "Dagger Crystal Heart Attack!" and shot a multitude of sharp, half hearts from her wand. Marco then jumped away from Star as he dodged Spikeball's round spiked hands. After a few minutes of this, Marco managed to land a flip kick on the tall monster while Star used a "Narwhal Blast" against an equally large, blue skinned, horned, bearded monster.
As the two fought the invading monsters, a number of the students who were getting out of school gathered and decided to watch the fight. Everyone knew that this was an almost weekly occurrence, a byproduct of having the exchange student being from another dimension, yet few actually got to see the monster fights. The crowd got into it, cheering when Star hit Bearicorn in the face and warned Marco when Three-eyed Potato Baby tried to sneak up on him, which the boy responded with a flurry of punches to the monster's stomach, but had to stop when he heard Star start another spell.
"Nuclear Butterfly…"
"Star, Stop!" Marco yelled.
"What, why?" Star asked, wand glowing and held high above her head.
"We're at school," Marco explained, "if you do a powerful spell like that it'll destroy the place."
Star frowned, not seeing how this would be a problem, but said, "Fine." Before she smiled and went back to kicking Bearicorn. Marco smiled at his victory, but while he was distracted, he was pounced on by Buff Frog, who began to choke the boy. Marco tried to hit the henchmen, but the monster's head was out of reach and his legs were pinned. Not being able to call out for help, and with his vision fading, Marco desperately reached around for something. When his left hand made contact with something solid, he quickly grabbed it with both hands and swung with all his might, hearing a satisfying crack as the hands around his throat loosened.
Getting up, Marco noted that Star had defeated the rest of the minions while Buff Frog laid unmoving at his feet, while Ludo kicked the knocked out henchmen over and over muttering about all of them being disappointments. Eventually the tiny tyrant ran out of energy and, using his dimensional scissors, opened a portal back to his dimension that his henchmen limped through, with two monsters dragging Buff Frog.
"Marco!" Star said as she held her hand up for a high five. "We did it again!"
Marco smiled as he gave Star a high five, only then did he see what he had used to knock Buff Frog out with. Still being held in his left hand was half a light blue skateboard, half a heart in the middle where it was broken.
'Oh no, not again.' the boy thought. His fears where confirmed when a girl with blond hair that had a light green streak, light green eyes, three freckles on each cheek, and wearing a white shirt with dark green sleeves, a seashell necklace, shorts, and knee high socks held up the other half of the skate board and said, "Marco, you broke my skateboard….again."
"Jackie, I'm…" but before he could say anything else he was interrupted by said girl as she said, "Don't worry, I'll just deal with it." and started to walk away.
Marco hung his head in shame as Star walked next to him. "Broke Jackie's skateboard again?" She asked, not seeing the event happen. Marco nodded sadly. Putting a reassuring arm around her friend's shoulder Star said, "It was in the middle of a monster fight, I'm sure she'll understand." This didn't help Marco any, as he began to walk home.
Saturday
"Come on Marco, this is the millionth store that we've been to." Star exclaimed as she waved her arms dramatically. It was the weekend and she wanted to do something fun, like going to a party dimension.
"It's only the third store Star." Marco said, chuckling slightly at his friends antics before he began looking for something.
"Why are we even here?" Star questioned. "You don't even skateboard."
True, this was the third skate shop that Marco had dragged Star to that day, and the boy had refused to tell the other dimensional princess what he was looking for, always giving the same answer that he did now, "There's a reason why we're here but you'll have to be patient to see it."
Star however was not paying attention, having been distracted by a display that showed a video of light up wheels. Marco gave a small laugh before he continued looking. After a few minutes, Marco found what he was looking for and asked the clerk how much the item was.
"Sixty bucks kid."
Marco gave a slight sigh as he reached into his wallet and removed all of his cash. Even if he was now broke it was still the right thing to do. After collecting his purchase, and dragging Star away from the video, Marco stated walking towards the local skate park.
"Are you going to tell me what you got now?" Star asked.
"I got Jackie a new board since I broke her old one. Okay, happy now?" Marco asked.
"But you broke it during a monster fight, if a person watches those they know any and all personal property is at risk of being destroyed."
"Maybe in Mewni, but not here." Marco replied. "Besides, I never got her a replacement the first time I broke her board so it's the right thing to replace it now. Now will you help me find Jackie, the faster we get this done the quicker you can drag me off to some other dimension."
"She's over there." Star pointed to a group of picnic tables where a food truck was stationed near the ramp and bowl, Jackie was sitting at one of the tables and watching other skaters pulling off different tricks. Marco suddenly became nervous about talking to his crush, when Star saw this she rolled her eyes and decided to take the initiative. Dragging Marco behind her, Star waved her hand as she called out, "Hey Jackie!"
This immediately gained the girl's attention as she turned her head and called back, "Hey Star," and seeing Marco said in a lower voice, "Oh, hey Marco." When the two got closer to the skater girl, Jackie said, "Not to be rude, but I know you two don't skate, so why are you here?"
Seeing how Marco was still slightly frozen from having his crush actually talk to him, Star, either wanting to help her friend or cause him embarrassment, said, "Marco wanted to give you something."
"Oh?" Jackie asked. Raising an eyebrow at the teen, Jackie said, "And just what did you want to give me?"
Marco was silent for a few moments, not sure what to say. Finally, he just settled on saying, "Here." and held out his bag. Jackie hesitantly took it from the boy's hands and reached inside, pulling out a new skateboard identical to her broken one. "Wow, you found a board exactly like my old one. Must have taken you forever."
Marco shrugged his shoulders as he said, "It's Saturday and I've got nothing better to do, and I do owe you a board since I broke your last one."
"I may have been a bit bummed out about it, but you didn't need to get me a replacement," Jackie said as she took a step closer to Marco, "and it did get broken during a fight, it wasn't your fault."
Marco scratched the back of his neck as he said, "Maybe, but I did break the one before that." although he quickly regretted saying as such not wanting to bring back memories of that day.
"Don't sweat it, you were just having a bad day." Jackie said offhandedly.
"That obvious?"
"You had a black eye, had a newspaper covering your ripped hoodie, and had that annoying kid hovering next to you."
"Yeah, Jeremy really is a pain in the neck."
By now Star had her arms cross and was tapping her foot impatiently. It was Saturday, meaning she didn't have school, could goof off all day, and let her homework sit in her backpack until Sunday night. Knowing of her friend's crush, Star said, "Come on Marco! Ask her out or kiss her already, we've got things to do."
Marco quickly blushed and wheeled around, not noticing Jackie's blush, and yelled at his friend, "Star!"
"What?" the princess asked. "You know you want to, I'm just speeding things along."
Marco turned back to Jackie, by now both had their blushes under control. Scratching the back of his head, the boy said, "The crazy things that girl says," Marco continued talking as he walked backwards, "well see you later Jackie."
Unfortunately, no one in the group noticed a skater in the bowl had wiped out during the conversation. As he was walking away, Marco stepped on the abandoned skateboard. Somehow keeping his footing, Marco ended up riding the board down into the bowl while flailing his arms. Instantly both girls were concerned for the "Safety Kid's" safety and cried out, "Marco!"
What happened next could only be described as amazing. As Marco was on a collision course with the downed skater, he kick flipped over the other teen. Sticking the landing, Marco continued moving toward the other side of the bowl. Both girls feared he'd be hit by other skaters, only for Marco to dodge each one at the last second. When the boy came to the lip of the bowl, he did a quick grind before going back into the bowl and skating back towards the girls. When he was back on the side where the girls were standing, Marco popped up, did a back flip, and landed on his feet in front of Star and Jackie, board in hand.
Time seemed to freeze for a few moments as both girls stared awestruck at what they had just witnessed. As Star was about to recover and ask how Marco did that, said boy dropped the borrowed skateboard and ran to the nearest trashcan, depositing his breakfast into the metal bin. After cleaning his mouth with some napkins from the food truck, Marco calmly walked back to the girls, grabbed Stars arm and started dragging her away as he said over his shoulder, "Well, have a good day Jackie. We would stay and chat, but as Star said we have things to do."
Jackie could only stare at the boy and nod her head at what he said. After Marco and Star had left the park, Jackie was recovered enough to have some thought process. 'How could a beginner like Marco do all of that and not wreck?' Jackie asked herself. 'Could Marco be the person I'm looking for, could Marco be him?'
Well this turned out to be my shortest chapter yet at a little over six pages. That's probably going to be the pattern for this story. I tend to unconsciously write a little like the source material, and the show that this fic is based on is shorter and has less of an overarching story than my other sources of inspiration.
So how was the first chapter? To my regular readers, does it hold up to the expectations that you have for my work? To the Star vs the Forces of Evil fans, does it capture enough spirit of the show? Leave a review and let me know what you thought, I'll give an answer to any question that the first review with an account has, or if anyone has a question I feel warrants an answer (which is usually every question).
I know I've probably angered some readers with my choice to focus on this story, so here's a look into my crazy head with what I have tentatively scheduled as far as updates go. As I picture this story as being four to six chapters, I'm going to devote my full attention to it and get it done. Once I'm done with this, I'll begin alternating updates between Son of the Sun and A New Realm again. Based on the poll on my profile, and the number of reviews, follows, and favorites, I'm going to update Son of the Sun first as it seems to be my most popular story and I want to reward my readers who have to put up with my insanity. Then after I post chapter ten of A New Realm or get done with the Chunin Exams in said story, I'm going to start a new story. Based on the poll at the time of this writing, it appears to be Kitsune of the Moon. If you want to see something else published first, make your voice heard and go vote. I'm planning to leave the poll open until late August, early September, so you still have time to try to change my mind. So again, thank you all for reading my work and putting up with my insanity and I hope you enjoy my work in all its forms.
In other good news, I finished my summer course last week, and as long as I got a B on the last paper I should be passing with an A. Now I'm going to have a lot more free time to just relax/write.
So, now that this story has started, there are a few questions left in the air, such as…
Will Marco ever ask Jackie out?
How can Marco skate so well?
Who is Jackie looking for?
The answers to these questions and more will, hopefully, be answered in the coming chapters. But for now, this is acw28 saying, "until next update."
