Chapter 7: Star, The Mewman


Star's Point of View


Kinda wish I could punch Glossaryck, but a portal of fire already had split in the room, and my demon boyfriend was already stepping into the room.

"Heeeeeyyyyyy babe!" I said, putting on my usual happy face.

He leapt forward and hugged me tightly. "I'm so glad you're alright!"

"Well duh," I hugged him back, my guts twisting in guilt, "We just talked last night."

He pulled away and looked at Finn and the others in confusion. "Are these the guys you told me about?"

"Sup?" Finn asked with a small wave.

"Yeah, so that's Finn, that's his magic dog brother Jake, and that's Huntress Wizard." I said, pointing.

"Your name is-?" Tom began, but Huntress Wizard cut him off and said, "It's a title."

"Hey Tom," Marco greeted, sounding about as awkward and crappy as I felt.

Tom scratched the back of his head. "Hey man."

Finn must have picked up on how weird this was and clapped, exclaiming, "Ooookay! Come on guys, let's go forge a wand and kick the Lich right in the boingloins!"

Jake, still being a minecart, got up and grabbed the Crystal eye and walked through the fire portal, followed by Marco, Finn, and Huntress Wizard.

Tom shifted uncomfortable and looked at me before stepping in. "Hey, we need to talk…."

"Not now," I sighed, "Literally got a Lich breathing down our backs."

He frowned, but nodded. "I understand. Come on, let's go."

I felt a pang of guilt. This would be easier if Tom was a jerk about this, but that's not the truth. I'm the jerk. We walked into the underworld, into a bleak, desert-like landscape, filled with dead oak trees and lava ponds – the dead forest. Quite a far cry from Lava Lake Beach.

"Never get tired of this place," I muttered, flatly. "Love what you've done with it."

"I know! The dead forest is beautiful this time of year," he replied, excitedly, sarcasm going right over his head. The Underworld has it's charms, sometimes, but this is not one of them.

"So where do we got to go, T-bomb?" Finn asked.

Tom took the lead, avoiding eye contact with Marco. "Follow me, the entrance is well-hidden to avoid unsavory types."

"I mean...why be in the Underworld if you want to avoid unsavory types?" Huntress Wizard asked.

Tom paused. "I uh...no idea. It's just always been here?"

I think I preferred punching evil monsters with Marco or Finn than guilt and romance drama. Oof.

"Aaaaaand the hidden tree should be right…here!" Tom said, grabbing the branch of a nearby tree, causing it to click and then a stair case appeared in the dirt before us. "The Forge is right down here."

We pushed open a large metal door to find a blacksmith shop. I did a double take at who was running it.

"Hekapoo?!" I asked, shocked. "I thought you just forged scissors."

The Hekapoo in front of me rubbed her neck in confusion, but gave a friendly smile that looked out of place on her usually snarky face.

"Oh, I'm not the original Hekapoo," she explained. "She sent a bunch of us clones to go learn skills centuries ago, so she could re-absorb us and learn them in no time. She kind of just forgot about me, so I've been here being the ultimate universal blacksmith ever since."

"So you don't remember me, or Finn or anything?" Marco asked.

The Hekapoo clone eyes Marco up and down. "Can't say I do, but I wouldn't mind getting to know YOU, meat sack. You're pretty cute for a Human."

I felt my eye twitch and my fist clench, but I took a deep breath. Marco also shifted his eyes uncomfortably.

"HekaTwo," Tom said, "Glossaryck sent us to see if you could forge a new magic wand with the materials we brought you and with what he sent you earlier."

Jake tilted and dumped the Crystal Eye and Mithril onto the floor. "Here you go!"

HekaTwo inhaled sharply. "Aw man. That's what all the new stuff was for?! That guy never tells us anything!"

"Welcome to my world," I muttered, causing Marco to snicker. He gets it.

"Is there a problem?" Huntress Wizard asked.

HekaTwo cracked her knuckles. "Nope. This is the day I've been training for. This will take a while though." She began chucking hunks of Mithril into the forge. "Part of me never thought I'd see the day it finally happened."

"We don't exactly have awhile. The wand was taken by Eclipsa, whose been possessed. They're going to break through the castle barrier at any time, and when they do, it's game over for Mewni. Maybe even all existence." I explained. "Explosions, fire, rain of blood and slime. Maybe some spinny death-wind."\

"You mean a tornado?" asked Marco.

I snapped. "Yeah, that! Tornado!"

HekaTwo's eyes widened. "I'll work as fast as I can. But it still will take a day or so."

"We should go prepare for a fight then, with your mom," Marco suggested, "she's going to need all the help she can get."

"You really think there's anything we could do?" Tom asked. "We didn't stand a chance against Meteora, and Eclipsa curb-stomped her."

"That doesn't matter," replied Marco, "The Lich is coming. And if we don't do something..."

"Every one bites it." Finn answered. "Stay here, Tom, and bring us the wand when it's ready."

I smiled. I don't think I'll ever admit it to Marco, but that attitude is part of why I'm all confused about things right now. He's never hesitated to fight for the right thing.

But I don't have time for that!

Tom reluctantly nodded. "Alright. I'll do what I can."

He used his powers to rip a flame portal back to the castle. The others went through, but before I could walk through, Tom grabbed my shoulder. Again. Note to self: go through portals first.

"Star..." He started. "I'm sorry I was so dismissive about this Lich stuff."

"It's okay, Tom." I assured him, "It's been a wacky couple of days. And..."

Now's as good a time as any. Especially if everyone bites it... I'd feel terrible not getting this off my chest if something happened.

"I'm sorry about kissing Marco." I added, and I saw his eyes well up. "The truth is Tom, I don't know what I want. I've got a lot of mixed up feelings about you and Marco, and I think I need to figure this out. But...I want you to know, you HAVE improved yourself so much, and become such a better person. I'm proud of you and I never wanted to hurt you."

He turned away, shaking. I'm not sure from what, but he said, "Thank you for being up front with me. I'll bring you your wand. Just...I need to be alone right now."

"Dang son, this got intense," HekaTwo called from the forge. Kinda forgot she was there. Whoops.

"I'm sorry, Tom." I said, turning and running through the portal. I wiped my eyes as I stepped into the garden. I didn't have time for this.

Unfortunately, everyone was looking at me, including Marco who looked really concerned.

"Star, are you...?" He began to ask.

"Come on, I know where to find my mom," I said, feigning my usual upbeat attitude, and running past them.

I missed life back on Earth, with the Diaz's. Life seemed so much easier.

But we found Mom in the military hall, overseeing some of the knights' training for the upcoming fight. This is why I'm here, and not there.

"Were you able to get the wand?" She asked. Oof, I'll never get used to seeing my mom this freaked out.

"It's going to take a day to forge." I answered, playing with my hair nervously, "Tom will bring it when it's ready. We're here to help until then."

"Star, then you hang back for the wand. We will delay them The Lich as long as possible." Mom said, grimly.

"What do you mean-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooh." Finn cried out, looking out the past the lowered drawbridge.

"Well that didn't take long." Jake said.

"Oh snaps." I uttered. The storm clouds had spread all across Mewni, bringing green lightning to the magical barrier. I was about to transform when my mom grabbed my shoulders.

"Star, no..." She pleaded, "The only chance we have of matching Eclipsa's power is if you get the wand. It has to be you."

I clenched my fist. "I'm not going to sit here and send my friends to DIE,Mom!"

"Hey, rude." Huntress Wizard objected. "If anything, we'll kill Lich and you'll be all sad you didn't get in on any of this."

"Yeah, S.B.," Finn added, "We got this. No worries."

Jake morphed into a giant spiky monster. "I'm going to punch your not-grandma in the face until she's not possessed anymore."

"But what if the Lich possesses someone else?" Marco asked.

"I got a plan for that, M-Daz!" Finn smirked.

They charged after Mewni Knights, but I grabbed Marco before he left. "Marco Diaz, you listen to your princess."

He smiled. "What's up?"

I held him tightly. "Come back to me, okay?"

He squeezed me back. "Of course."

He took off running towards the others.

I turned to my Mom. "There's gotta be something I can do. I don't know if you've noticed, but sitting on the sidelines isn't exactly my deal."

"I've noticed," she replied, flatly. "Star, the wand is our only chance."

I noticed Eclipsa had finally emerged from the storm. Like with me, her eyes were black with slits, and horns bursting from her head. She floated against the magical barrier, and I froze. She wasn't looking at the army, or even at Finn or Marco, but she was looking past the kingdom, directly into my eyes.

She spoke, and I heard the Lich's voice in my own ears, as if they were next to me.

"No barrier can hold me child. Not even your mind."

I looked around. The room had gone black.

"Child. Even with a wand, you have already lost. You are no match, for dark power flows through this body."

I blinked, and the Lich, in his true form, the form I had seen in my mind, was a few feet away.

"All life is born to end, Star Butterfly. But today...Marco first."

The room returned to normal and I gasped. I was on the ground, for some reason, and my mom was shaking me.

"Star, what happened?" She was asking. I shoved myself to my feet, and morphed, flying as fast as I possibly could towards the others.

I flew over the crowd of knights, pushing myself as hard as I could go. Above me, the Lich raised the wand – which now looked nothing like the umbrella form Eclipsa had given it – and pointed across the crowds at Marco. The wand looked like a sickly green stick, dripping black ooze. In one green blast, the magic barrier around the castle shattered as it sped through the air towards him.

I was barely able to tackle Marco out of the way, the two of us bouncing along the dirt road as the green blast hit the ground, sending the others flying. As we stopped rolling, The Lich blasted at us again, so I hoisted Marco off the ground and took off flying.

"Thanks, Star." Marco muttered, shocked and still hugging onto me.

"I dunno if I'd thank me yet," I replied, weaving in and out of blasts that were leveling houses left and right. "We need to get her away from town. I'm going to need you to kick her in the face."

He flipped so that he was hanging from my top two arms. "Let's kick some faces."

Weaving between spells, we flew at the Lich rapidly, and I threw Marco as hard as I could. He kicked her straight across the jaw, cracking her neck, but the body did not flinch. But as Marco began to full and the Lich was about to point the wand at Marco, I yelled, "Narwhal blast!" hitting The Lich in the midsection with a direct hit, sending her across the sky. I swooped down to catch Marco as the Lich was already recovering.

We flew down into the woods, and I weaved through the trees as the Lich gave chase behind us. I zig-zagged harder upon realizing that the Lich was faster than me.

"This is kind of like that space movie you took me to see!" I yelled to Marco. A rather bittersweet feeling.

"Can't say I can really enjoy it at the moment," he yelled back.

Without warning, an errant green blast struck my shoulder, sending Marco and I crashing to the forest floor and into some bushes. Thankfully, I landed on top of Marco, but he groaned in pain as I rolled off him. I clutched my burnt shoulder and looked up. My heart sank as the Lich hovered above us. She raised her arm, but before she could blast us. A giant orange fist shot from the foods, punching the Lich out of sight. The fist retracted, and Finn, Jake, and Huntress Wizard ran up to us.

"Sweet moves, guys," Finn said, helping us up to our feet. "We thought maybe you kicked the Lich out of her for a minute."

We heard a roar of pain from deeper in the forest, prompting Finn to draw his sword.

"Today just gets better and better," I said, taking back to the air. We all rushed forward through the woods and came to the clearing where we heard the roar.

"Aw, come on!" Marco yelled as we got view of what had made the noise. "GET OUTTA TOWN, LICH!"

The Lich had found Globor, who had been hiding in the woods, apparently. Not the best hiding place. The Lich had attacked him, and had him sprawled across the clearing. She touched Globgor's head and said, "Fight."

Oh, this is bad.

Globgor climbed to his feet, dead black eyes, possessed just like Rhombulus had been.

"Let's see you protect two places at once from me, princess." The Lich said, before opening a portal and flying through it. On the other side of the portal, we could clearly see the Candy Kingdom.

I went to go fly after him, but Finn grabbed my collar. "Wait!"

"What?!" I whipped around.

Globgor went to stomp on all of us, but Jake grew his arms into some big, beefy ones and held his foot, pushing Globgor back on to the ground.

"Delegate, delegate," Finn said to himself, hitting himself in the forehead with his left fist. The rest of us gathered around him.

"This is what the Lich wants." Finn decided, "He's goading you into following him. Did he appear in your mind when you dived for Marco?"

Surprised, I nodded.

"He's counting on you to leave the kingdom and be further away from the new wand. I'll go after him. Stay here and help Jake beat Globgor! Come on, H Dubs, Marco!"

Marco glanced at me and I realized that he was asking if I was cool with this without words. Even in times like this, he takes being a squire seriously. I nodded and turned back to Finn. "Be careful. Jake and I can handle this."

Finn and Huntress Wizard gave thumbs up in unison before the three of them jumped through the portal to Ooo, and I took to the air to face down Globgor as he got back up. Jake grew himself in size to match Globgor's.

"Magic team up?" I asked Jake.

"MAGIC TEAM UP!" He howled, punching Globgor across the jaw.


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