(A/N: WAYNEHEAD! WAYNEHEAD! ...Sorry. Different series.
Anyways, back to the show! Also surprised no one caught the Dragon Ball reference in the beginning of the last chapter. XD
Nefcy, Araki, they own stuff. Not me. I'm just a rip off artist using their stories. What filth am I.)
"Sooo...she was saying all of that? That's creepy. Really weird, Marco. Almost as weird as you asking me on this date. But hey...I can't keep you off of me I guess."
Janna's flirtatious tone made this smoothie appointment very awkward for Marco, especially when he knows Jackie could pop in at any moment. He was always confused as to why Jackie was even friends with Janna. Jackie was cool and normal. Janna was some sort of occult/Wiccan stalker. Though they both are fairly relaxed people who barely ever get stressed. And he is asking Janna for advice on his bug DNA alien friend with magic powers. So he should be used to the weird.
"Janna, please cut the weird flirting out. I don't want Jackie to see this..." Marco hid his face, looking around as he keeps a watchful eye out for Jackie Lynn-Thomas. He didn't invite her, but she knew either A.) Jackie could appear out of nowhere, or B.) Janna would invite her to try and make awkward moments for Marco. It seemed Janna loved making him miserable. Though of course he made it easy.
"Oh geez, Marco. I'm just kidding..." She takes a casual sip of her smoothie, leaning back in her chair as she takes in the outside air. A free smoothie, making Marco uncomfortable, and doing it all outside with nature was all she could ask for today. "Okay...so what was it she said in her dream again?"
Finally back on track, Marco let out a sigh and tried to recall each name Star said in her sleep. "Okay...she mentioned...The Fool from yesterday...Hermit Purple...The World...some people named Iggy, Ka-koe-een..." He tried pronouncing, unfortunately butchering the name, "...and Avdol. She mentioned Silver Chariot, Star Platinum, Magician's Red...and something called...High Elephant Green?"
"'Hierophant'." Janna casually corrected Marco, taking another sip of her strawberry smoothie afterwards.
"Hm? You understood it that quick?" Marco asked before noticing Janna digging into her pockets. She threw down several cards, each with different images on them.
"I knew because The Hierophant is a tarot card. These are all arcanas in tarot. The Magician, The Hermit, The Star, The Chariot, The World, The Fool...just these have colors attached to them." Janna said, "Funny...the Star is a tarot card." Showing Marco the card, Janna chuckles at his blushing and freaked out expression upon seeing the bare woman on said card.
"Janna! We're in public!" He squealed, giving Janna a huge laugh as she pulls it back.
"Oh it's just a naked lady, ya big baby. You'll see one soon enough." Chuckling at the blushing Marco's awkwardness, Janna goes back to talking about the card. "The Star stands for renewal and hope. Looking to the future despite the bad that's happened to you. Also represents listening to your inner voice. ...Maybe Star is listening to some inner voices."
"Well...strange enough...her Stand was crying when she was." Marco said while his blush died down.
Janna raised an eyebrow, "Wait...so these strong spirit punching things have emotions?"
"No..not normally..." Marco stated while thinking back to other Stands he's seen. Proclaimers had no head...Tenacious D was a demon who mimicked Tom...Allison Chains was the same...and Mountain Man was a hammer. But Shining Star has been different from them. It makes facial expressions that show emotions different from Star's own emotions. But it seems that whatever it feels, Star feels as well. But why?
Then Marco had a thought about the other day, when they were watching TV with Hermit Purple and The Fool was brought up. "...The Fool was brought up...and it made Star cry...something tells me it made Shining Star upset. She mentioned a puppy. Iggy...a puppy...The Fool...Avdol...Magician's Red...you think these are names of people? Maybe...names of people and spells? Like Hermit Purple and The World?"
"People and spells? Possible." Janna shrugged. "Course I'm starting to think-"
"Hey guys!"
"AAAAGH!"
Out popped Star, clad in her sleeveless blue blouse with jeans and legwarmers, from under the table to send Marco flying out of his chair. Lying upside-down on Janna's lap, the girl decided to feed Marco some of her smoothie. Of course, not just out of altruism or some hidden crush (though one wouldn't blame you had you said that). No, Jackie Lynn-Thomas just skateboarded by and skidded to a stop upon seeing Marco being fed like a baby.
"Hey Star...Janna...er, Marco..." Jackie flipped her board up and held onto it, "...that a new kind of...Ripple thing?"
He spits the straw out of his mouth and looks at Jackie, wide eyed like a doe in headlights, while trying to find something to say to make this less awkward. "Um...yes...I uh...I call it. 'Public Humiliation Overdrive'. Shame helps Ripple increase." Lying straight through his teeth for a righteous cause was a sweat inducing job. Of course Jackie was skeptical, but didn't question it.
"Riiight...anyway, what you talking about?" Asked Jackie, "I found Star here trying to look for you, Marco."
"Yeah, where'd ya go? You never told me you were getting smoothies!" Star said, "Back on Mewni, we didn't have iced drinks like this! We had to punch our own ice and then punch our fruit-oh never mind, I didn't come here to talk about this. I can punch us some smoothies anytime. YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING AMAZING!? I ran into it on my way to find you, Marco! It's SOOO COOOOOOL! It's around the dumpsters where we wait for leftovers!"
"Erm, what?" A confused Jackie raised an eyebrow while Marco nervously chuckled.
"Aah connoisseurs of fine cuisine." Janna nodded her head in approval with her arms crossed, "The best food is free and off someone else's plate."
"Come on, let's go see it!" Star excitedly ran off to go show them what she found. The group followed her, at least interested in her discovery. Of course, when they got there at least half of the four were fairly unnerved by what she found.
A bare leg and a leg with a boot was hanging out of a dumpster in a back alley, unmoving. Flies were buzzing around the legs, drawn to the motionless corpse in the garbage. "Star...did you just show us a dead body?" Marco deadpanned while holding Jackie's nose.
"Oooh man that is sweet!" Shouted Janna, getting on top of the dumpster while pulling her phone out for selfies. "Something for the net!" She exclaimed, pulling the top open to reveal a woman wearing a brown warrior's helmet and a seafoam green dress similar to Star's. But instead of an octopus, it had a cat design on the top. Her purple hair had to buns atop her helmet with long strands of hair hanging down from them. It was obvious this woman was laying in this dumpster for a while because of the dirt all over her body. It made her seafoam dress dingy and soiled, and she was obviously missing one of her heeled purple boots. This woman was dirty. And Marco feared the worst.
"Oh man...what's wrong with her?" Asked Marco, beginning to go into a panic over this body. But Star grabbed his face and shook him about to get him to calm down.
"Nonono! Marco! Listen! This isn't JUST any body in a dumpster...it's MINA LOVEBERRY'S BODY N A DUMPSTER!" Exclaimed the excited Star, "She's Mewni's GREATEST warrior! Possibly the best Ripple user in HISTORY!"
"History?" Asked Marco, "I thought that was your dad?"
"Oh? Well I mean yeah he's great too. No doubt!" Star nodded, "But MINA...is another story! Mina once fought a HORDE of monsters with only her low amount of Ripple thanks to a monster puncturing her lung! She almost died...but she was able to win the day when her Stand FINALLY activated...I dunno what her Stand is. I've never seen it. But some say it is one of Mewni's most powerful non-Butterfly Stands! Oooh I gotta see it!"
Janna and Jackie look at one another, all the while Marco looked at Star quizically. This entire situation didn't make a lot of sense. "Um...okay...let's try to explain things then. Your idol...from Mewni...is on Earth? ...Whyyy?"
"I...don't know..." Star put a hand to her chin. "But whatever the reason is, it HAS to be good! Just need to wake her up is all!"
"May need to do more than wake her up..." Jackie commented while Janna poked Mina with a pole she found. Though wanting to end this saga early before it got out of hand, Marco smatched the pole from Janna and looked at Mina.
"Let's get today's wackiness over with." He bluntly stated before he channeled Ripple into the pipe. And with a swift jab to the diaphragm, Marco tried to induce Ripple Healing in Mina. But what Marco didn't expect was a quick shockwave of Ripple flowing back to his hand before the overload of Ripple sends the pipe flying like a popped cork from a wine bottle. Barely avoiding his head being impaled by the pipe, Marco turned to Mina with a very unnerved expression. "What the heck? How much Ripple does she HAVE?" That wasn't a normal reaction to a move like that. It was like Mina's Ripple repelled Marco's...as if she was alrady overflowing with energy. "How can she-"
"YELLOW!" The corpse sat up and immediately shouted, causing Marco to scream like a lady before falling into the dumpster with her. "Hello, humans! Have you come to steal my hotel room?"
"...Hotel room? Lady, the only hotel that could be is The Hobo Inn." Janna snidely remarked.
"Minaaa Loooveberryyy..." A starstruck Star observed her idol, now awake in all her heroic glory. Though she sees she's underdressed. "Oh!" With a quick twirl of her wand, Star transformed her outfit into the seafoam green dress that seemed inspired by Mina's dress. Mina Loveberry, I'm a Mewman just like you and I am SO inspired by you whenever I go out to fight monsters! YOU...are an INSPIRATION...every time I give a monster a concussion, I do it for youuu..."
"That sounded cruel..." Jackie quietly remarked, making sure Star and Mina didn't hear. Of course, the warrior nods her head with her crazed eyes wide the entire time. She pondered Star's words, quite happy to have another Mewman here to talk to.
"I see...good good. I remember my first monster kill! OH WAIT BREAKFAST!" With a quick leap, Mina jumped from the dumpster to the ground in order to try and catch a rat. "Oh you dirty rat! Sent by the evil I see! Well let me handle you-"
"Mina, what are you doing here?" Star asked her while following Mina out of the alley as she stalked the rat onto the sidewalk. Marco, lifting himself out of the dumpster, leans over the edge and groans.
"...Star...she's CLEARLY off her rocker...let's leave her alone-and she didn't hear me." Marco deadpanned, sighing before trying to crawl out of the dumpster. "Right." Though despite his apprehension to Mina being here and Star's willingness to follow a crazy person, he was still very curious about her Ripple. How much did she have in her body? She must be loaded with Ripple. But what could one person do with all that energy? Was that how she got a Stand? By having a lot of Ripple? He figured he could figure this all out more in-depth...once he got out of this dumpster.
And Star, following Mina, listened to Loveberry talk and babble about her reasonings for being on Earth. Most of it was nonsensical rambling about war and something about stress and work leave. Though Star paid little attention to that, though Jackie and Janna didn't feel like glossing over the tiny tiiiny fact that they may be talking to a war veteran with PTSD. This is not the universe to discuss these things anyway. Instead, they focused on what else Mina was saying.
"Oh it's my paid vacation! Doctor's orders! But of course there IS an ultimate evil afoot...something baaad cometh this way, and I have to keep my eyes peeeeeelled for it! I MUST ASSEMBLE MY FORCES FOR THE FINAL BATTLE!" She shouted. "But I need a right hand...someone who will do as I say...a disciple..."
Jackpot.
Star's eyes twinkled like a...her in the sky. The world stopped for a minute in her perspective. Everything seemed solely focused on her Mina. She wanted a right hand? A protégé? Someone to bestow her teachings upon? Despite the crusted dirt and filth all over her skin and clothes, and barring the offensive odor radiating from her person, she was Mina Loveberry. This was Mewni's greatest warrior. And she wouldn't let this opportunity slip from her fingers.
"Great evil?" Janna tilted her head, "Sounds cool. What kind of evil?"
"When's it coming?" Jackie nervously asked, not as in-tune to the weirder stuff going on in the town nowadays as the three friends were.
"Janna, Jackie...don't pay her any mind..." Marco rolled his eyes and stepped in front of them. "This isn't a real threat. She's being too vague. 'Something bad'? The 'ultimate evil'? Let's be real. She's just some nutcase spouting nonsense. Let's leave her alone-Star's following her, isn't she?"
Despite his mind telling him not to, Marco decides to not let Schroedinger's Cat be his judge and look over towards Star to see what's happening. And indeed, Star was saluting in front of Mina with her wand fully displayed. "Why Star?" He asked. It was rhetorical, but at the same time he was curious about her answer.
"Marco! This is my IDOL...I've DREAMED of the day I could work with Mina Loveberry!" She squealed.
"Despite the obvious psychosis?" Marco crossed his arms.
"Oh that's just Mina using her mind in ways we can't understand, right Mina?" Star turned towards Mina, discovering the warrior pulling a water fountain off its foundation.
"We will need water for our mission! Drink up, Star!" Commanded Mina, prompting Star to run towards the fountain and fill herself up with water.
Janna, Jackie, and Marco continued to watch this scene with little understanding of how to handle the situation. Star was going to follow Mina all day now. And Marco wasn't sure what he could do to break her free from Mina.
"Marco...maybe...we should..." Jackie was about to ask if she should leave now, but Marco put a hand up and shook his head.
"Nonono, you don't have to. Pardon Star. I guess she was really into seeing her mentor, y'know?" Marco shrugged. "It's no big deal. Honest. I'll get her free from her in no time."
Though once he saw Mina and Star bouncing around in the mud, and then Mina putting mud on Star's face, Marco had a feeling he had just jinxed the entire day. "Well dang."
Bufrog didn't know what was happening anymore. He saw the castle Ludo and his forces resided in as his home for the most part. Working for Ludo was work, but it kept him fed. He felt like he had a purpose here. Getting The Butterfly Family Wand is an evil task, yes. But is it any worse than a Mewman going on a hunt for monsters to slay? What they were doing is ten times worse. Or maybe they were all horrible beings whose mindsets were influenced by centuries upon centuries of racial tension. Either way you spin it, he found the jobs he did with Ludo to be enjoyable work. And it was fun...
...until he came.
Now he enters the castle, and all he sees are monsters constantly working out or training. There used to be down time for them all to get to know one another more. But no one wants to joke. It's all serious, even in downtime.
The food was replaced with vitamins, proteins, and other bulking food like protein powder and whey. Bufrog didn't even know what, 'whey', was. But he knew it wasn't something they normally eat. This was just culture shock to him. He missed the old days when he and a couple of monsters would just relax and eat some junk food.
But most importantly, he missed Ludo being in charge. No he was fairly incompetent in a lot of what he did. But that was Ludo. He was like a little kid still learning the ropes of villainy. Yeah he would be a bit green (and don't get started about his feathers), and at times he was unnecessarily cruel to the team for minor screw-ups. But you could tell that this was a crew who did have some level of camaraderie. But these past few months have been nothing but torture. They attack Star every now and again. But even Ludo says that the attacks mean nothing. All because Toffee said that it meant nothing. It was all training to get them used to the lay of the land in Echo Creek. There were attacks during the day, attacks during the night, attacks when they're at school, attacks when they're flying a kite. And he still has to go out and scout for Toffee and Ludo.
And speaking of Ludo, he's been busy training with Spin in his room for the past couple of months or so. He only comes out when he needs to talk to Toffee and lead his army. He wasn't sure if Ludo was getting any better at rotation, but he knew Ludo had to be improving in some way. Of course, Bufrog was also improving.
As he walks down the hall, he enters his quarters and looks upon the messy room filled with pictures of scantily clad frog women and a lot of mud thrown on the dingy green walls. He quickly shuts the door and locks it so no one can get see what he's doing. His desk, which he sits down to, looks fairly clean with no junk on top of it. But that's just because he hides the papers in his desk. Upon dumping the notes all over his desk, Bufrog gets back to work reading about Spin again. His studies had been going well. After a couple of months, he was able to harness the rotation in order to use Spin. And he is now able to imbue something with the Spin. But he can't control its direction just yet. But he knows he doesn't have too much time to learn. Whatever Toffee is planning, it could happen any day. And he needed to be ready to defend himself.
"Valentine the Wise wrote down many manuscripts about Spin, and they were all based upon dreams he once had when-"
"Bufrog...you really shouldn't leave your door open like that. Unless you don't care much for privacy..."
A chill runs down the spine of Bufrog. Toffee's calm yet sinister voice was like a snake hissing before it bites you. The smile on Toffee's face was one of calm and collected coolness. This unerved Bufrog, because he had been used to the fiery rage of the tiny Ludo. Knowing what the bad guy wants and is doing was comforting to Bufrog. But this guy had no such demeanor. The fact that Toffee didn't reveal any of his emotions outside of being relaxed made him even more uncomfortable.
Still, he couldn't let Toffee push him around. "My door was locked, thank you...how did you get in?"
"Hm?" Toffee raised an eyebrow, "If it was locked, then how did I get in?" The dry asked, getting a squint from the slimy amphibian across from him.
"You may have Lord Ludo fooled, but I-"
"Oh...studying Spin, I see, Bufrog..." Toffee tilted his head to look upon the scrolls and scattered notes on Bufrog's desk. "Oh my...an ancient scroll...and it looks like it is written by Valentine the Wise itself. He's a guy I am inspired by. Spin is such an...interesting power...you know the history behind it, right?"
Bufrog looks down, Toffee's cordial attitude making him more unnerved. Of course, Toffee didn't care if Bufrog wanted to hear or not. He just was loving the amount of fear he could put into the monster's soul with just a calming smile and some conversation.
"Valentine the Wise was an old Mewman, most likely a monster, with no record of events for his birth. All we know about him is that he took down notes for an energy he once observed in his life. Energy concerning rotation. Inside one is an energy that flows. How you use it is up to your discretion. But he spoke about how one can use their own energy to rotate things. Rotation was a tricky power to use. Mewmans know Ripple...but Ripple involves simply breathing...breathing and concentration. Spin involved a lot more concentration...and a lot more skill."
Toffee walked around Bufrog and put a hand on his shoulder before continuing the story. The frog wanted nothing more than to Spin Toffee's hand clean off his body. "Of course, Spin wasn't really created centuries after the...humanoids...took Mewni from us. THAT is when we got a visit from an unexpected disciple of the teachings of Valentine the Wise...Queen Eclipsa."
Toffee leans in closely, getting up close and personal with the tense and still frog. "You know...Queen Eclipsa...former queen of Mewni who married of monster. She didn't much care for the racial divide between monster and Mewman. She wanted to help monsters find a way to defend themselves from Mewmans and their Ripple. Herself a student of Ripple despite never using it, she began studying Valentine's ponderings. Instead of using your energy to make it ripple...why not make it...spin?"
Once Toffee removes himself from him, Bufrog let out an internal sigh of relief. Though the uneasiness was still there while Bufrog tried his best to not show how weirded out he was on his face.
"I assume you just were trying to research Spin, right?" Asked Toffee, garnering a nod from Bufrog. "There is no problem then. You got to have knowledge. Because indeed, knowledge IS power. You keep at it."
"...Thank you...you may leave now..." Still not looking at him, Bufrog keeps his back to Toffee as he makes his way out. He can hear the footsteps walking away, but the footstops stop at the door. No twisting, no opening...
"I said you may go." Bufrog, with enough bravery to face Toffee, finally turns around...
...and sees nobody in his room. Toffee completely disappeared without a trace. Though footsteps can be heard walking away from his door. The feeling of nervousness Bufrog was feeling earlier is now turning to dread.
"I have to learn this Spin...very...very soon..." Bufrog sighed before going back to studying.-
After about a couple hours of follow the leader for Star and Mina, Marco was finally convinced that he was right: Mina is a whackjob with no actual reasonings behind her actions. And he sipped on a smoothie while sitting next to Jackie and Janna. While Star made a fool of herself by following the crazy heroine, Marco had to keep track of everything they wrecked. They went into a mud pit during a tour, bossed around a few people, and even threatened the lives of others who wouldn't follow Mina into battle against the coming evil.
"Should we...do something about this?" Jackie asked Marco, who turned to her and chuckled.
"Jackie, I learned a lot of things while hanging around Star these past few months. And one of them...is to let her carry out her craziness before she realizes just how crazy she actually is. She'll learn." Marco took a sip of smoothie while watching Star and Mina nearly get ran over by a truck. The truck swerves and crashes into a light pole, though thankfully the drivers inside were not hurt.
The tall driver got out the car of the truck, holding his head. "Gonna have to tell the museum their shipment's gonna be late..."
"Yeaaah...this is gonna be a pain..." His shorter passenger groaned.
Now while the other things were dumb and harmless, the two nearly killed people with that stunt. So Marco, with a sigh, finally got up to try and end this before it gets worse. "Alright, I'm going in."
His walk had purpose, and his expression couldn't look any more annoyed. As he makes his way towards Star and Mina trying to subjugate Echo Creek citizens (the former not looking very into it while the latter made the idea in the first place), Marco saw how very upset Star looked. It seemed like she had already found out how bogus this entire thing was. Her forlorn expression, lowered head, and feet shuffling said it all. But if that's the case, why won't she say anything to Mina?
"Star?" Marco asked, getting closer to the scene. "Star, what is happening here?"
The princess looks at the boy and is about to answer, but gets cut off by Mina raising a finger. "AN ARMY! PROTECTION! In order to protect this world, I MUST control its people! The evil can come from anywhere, anyplace! And I need to be in charge here in order to watch for it! As your ruler, I will protect you as long as you serve me!"
"...Okay, Star, you can't HONESTLY believe anything she's spewing, can you?" Asked Marco. "This isn't a DICTATORSHIP."
This caused Mina to laugh, "Oooh funny Earth boy! Are you sure you want to try and challenge me? I can fight you for this place!"
"Wait, what?" Marco asked incredulously. "NO! I don't want to fight you! I don't want to fight ANYONE! Star! Control her!"
"You poor FIEND. Trying to deprive this realm of its protection from true evil!" Mina scolded.
Marco screamed so loud, his head practically grew from all the air he was spewing, "THERE IS NO EVIL, YOU'RE JUST A NUTJOB TRYING TO FIND A REASON TO TAKE OVER THE EARTH!"
"GAAASP A NUTJOB!? Oh you've DONE IT now, buddy boy!" Exclaimed Mina, who seemed somewhat offended by Marco's comment. "CITIZENS OF EARTH...ALLOW ME TO GIVE YOU A DEMONSTRATION OF HOW I WILL PROTECT YOU! THIS EVIL SHALL BE WIPED OUT IN UNDER A FEW SECONDS FLAT!"
"Wait...waitwaitwait what?" Marco looked around, trying to make sense of what Mina just said. "Nononono, wait a second, I don't want to DIE please! HOLD ON!" Shotued Marco, but it was too late for Mina to listen to reason (well...it's MUCH too late now).
The warrior gathered her Ripple, breathing in and out while the golden solar energy flowes around her. With cackles of Ripple bouncing around her hands, Mina points to Marco before she hops in the air. "YAYAYAYAYAYAYA!" She cried out. Star jumped in shock at Mina trying to attack, and herself was about to send Shining Star to stop Mina from attacking. But she saw Marco quickly poised to defend himself and backed off, knowing he could handle himself.
With his quick reflexes, Marco blocks a fist from Mina out of pure shock. But what blows his mind even more is how deep he went into the ground from the force of the punch. "Huuuh? OOPH!" And unfortunately, Marco gets kicked by a heavy foot to the side. The muddy, bare foot of Mina connected with even more weight. And then she jumped into the air and came crashing down like a lead weight towards Marco. He continues to expertly dodge Mina, rolling away from her before she unleashes a light volley of strikes that Marco continues to block with all of his might. He knew Ripple itself would do nothing to Mina, because she wasn't a creature of the night. Plus, she wasn't really evil it seemed. Just really out of touch with reality. He had to keep reminding himself she was a war veteran. She may be suffering from some heavy stress from working too hard.
Still, the heavy strikes that start breaking his defenses and initiate the pummeling of his body and face make him quickly forget that she should be felt sorry for. Mina quickly rolls forward and tries for an axe kick to the head of Marco. And unfortunately, he felt he needed to use this on her for his own health.
"RED RIPPLE OVERDRIVE!"
He puts his hands up, Red Ripple flowing from them both, and catches Mina's leg with enough heat to make her yelp and hop away from him.
"YEOWCH!" Mina held her foot, trying to cool it off by blowing on it. She channels some Ripple to her leg, trying to heal herself while glaring at Star. Marco turna to Star and sighs.
"Star, I HAD to. For my own health! She's waaay too strong for me to use regular Ripple." He said to her, and of course she understood. She nodded and was about to speak, but is once again cut off by Mina.
"I have NEVER seen Ripple like THAT before. What was it? EVIL Ripple?" She asked, glaring Marco down with squinted eyes.
"What? NO! I'm NOT EVIL! How many times I gotta tell you this?" Marco was getting very sick of Mina, and at this point he felt the need to call her out. "Maybe the REAL evil is YOU! You're ruining everything by being a whacko who thinks some fake evil is coming! But you're letting your own psychosis get the better of you!"
Mina, getting prepared to attack Marco again, listened in to his tearing her down while in a crouched position. The psychosis comment got to her, wincing upon hearing that.
"You probably hear VOICES in your head or something! You're a SOLDIER...SUCCUMBING TO YOUR OWN STRESS INDUCED HALLUCINATIONS! SEEK. HELP. And stop taking it out on these people! Does Mewni have good healthcare? Because you NEED SOME! Now just GET OUT OF HERE before you KILL somebody with your recklessness!"
The thought of everything she was doing on Earth being the result of some stress induced craziness caused by a mental breakdown was not something she thought about. Of course, she didn't think she was crazy. She felt fine. Heroic, even. It was the nutty earthling with red colored Ripple that was the weird one, right? Though upon looking around she could see that the people around her were very nervous around her. But why? She was trying to protect them from the evil that was coming...
...the evil that she thought was coming a for a week...and she saw in a dream...while she slept in a dumpster...on another realm...
Her final test before coming to a conclusion was to look at Star in the eyes and ask her, "Do you think I'm crazy? We did this all day, but I didn't think I was being crazy. ...Did you?"
She hadn't spoke the entire time Marco walked over. But finally, she said, "Well...at first, I didn't...but after a while...yeah, I thought you were a little bonkers. I mean...the people of Earth don't need to be conquered to be protected. Plus, you never once specified what kind of evil this is. You just told us to watch out for it. After a while...it gets hard to believe. I...ugh...I'm getting a weird feeling...but...maybe you should seek some help, Mina..."
"...I see..." Loveberry dropped her stance, letting her Ripple die down as she stands up straight again. "…I...I apologize for making things so WEIRD here. I um...I'll...I'll go on my way then...sorry for bothering all of you. This is no way for a hero to act. Maybe I do need some help. I've...I've had some pretty hard hits recently..."
Marco sighed in relief, happy to have this resolved. But he looked over at Star, who felt awful about Mina and her mental issues. It would just be awful to let her go back out into the world without some help. Plus, this was her hero. The idol she always wanted to meet is right in front of her, and maybe she needs a hero for once.
She wasn't sure how well this be received by her friend, but she had to try and convince Marco. With big, shimmering eyes and a whimper, Star holds onto Marco and begins "persuading" him.
"What the...Star what's wrong?" He asked her, "Why are you..." Though once he took a look at what she was looking at, he quickly turned back towards Star and frowned gruesomly to counteract her cute whimpering. "Nooo nonono. NONONO, STAR NO..."
She continued the cute game, keeping her gaze on Marco. "...Pleeease?" She whispered before gnawing on his arm. But he kept up his frown towards her.
"Nooooo!" He countered.
Janna and Jackie, from far off, watched the two go back and forth without so much as a raised eyebrow or a stare. They don't really have an opinion on this whole exchange. It was weird and out of the ordinary...so of course it worked for them.
"...You ever...wonder just how Marco got so strong?" Jackie asked, garnering Janna's attention.
"Um...I dunno. Why ask?" The girl replied, gettingg a chuckle from Jackie.
"Oh...nothing. Maybe it isn't important. I mean, I was curious, honestly. I really think Marco's gotten a lot more confident recently." Jackie brushed some back from her face. "Course maybe I still have that 'Blood Moon' deal still on the brain. He was so cool there."
"Yeah, he ain't safety kid anymore...though I gotta say, that Loveberry woman almost got him." Janna nonchalantly commented, casually referring to the fact that Marco could have died if Mina hadn't stopped fighting. But Jackie didn't want to focus on Janna's callousness. She was quite used to that already. She was more enamored by Marco himself. She felt like she had to keep an eye on him for later. Maybe the dance coming up soon. That wouldn't be a bad time to really try to get to know him better.
The girls continue looking at the duo have the world's worst argument, and move out the way of the truck finally getting on its way to the museum via tow-truck. This may take a while. But Janna had ten bucks, and the smoothie stand was still open. So they didn't mind watching the show.
After a long day of training, Bufrog wanted to go back to his quarters and rest. The same things were happening again: monsters training, Ludo training, Toffee confined into his room. He really didn't have much of a life at this point. The days of hanging out with his team were gone. And that was unfortunate, because he really did enjoy their old family feel. But he was also busy training these days, so why be hypocritical?
He goes back into his room and heads over to his desk as he normally does. He had been working on one aspect of Spin and that was the aim. "Maybe Valentine's scrolls have something about perfecting aim..." He said to himself while opening his drawer. Though instead of the scroll and his notes, he found nothing but a simple letter. Bufrog could be shocked, but he knew exactly what happened. It was obvious. Reading the letter aloud, Bufrog said, "'Keep your doors locked...anyone could break in'…"
The note went straight into the trash can, and Bufrog just sat quietly in his seat while lamenting the loss of months of hard work. His Spin training was hindered, and of course it was because of Toffee. But how did he even get in his room? Peculiarly enough, the smell of smoke came wafting through the air near Bufrog. It was coming from outside, as he could see a feint orange glow from his window. After opening the window, Bufrog saw a fire...
...he saw Toffee...
...he saw his training grounds burning...
...all the trees he used as target practice...
...and even his notes...
...it all went up in flames.
Toffee, his back turned to the castle wndow Bufrog was looking out of, kept a very serious face. As for Bufrog, he truly didn't know what to feel anymore. It was safe to say that Toffee was actively antagonizing him at this point. Toffee knew Bufrog didn't like hi and wanted to undermine his growing influence. So why not threaten the frog's well-being? At this point, Toffee was giving him death threats. Very serious death threats. And Bufrog could tell...his days were numbered at Castle Avarius...especially if Toffee had the last word...
But he couldn't let Toffee scare him. Yes his research and training is hindered. But he'll keep researching. He'll keep working. He can find a new place to train. It isn't as bad as it seems. Things could be much worse. All Toffee did was harden his resolve. He WOULD find something to combat Toffee with. But now he knew that he needed to make the first move and not give Toffee time to react. Because whatever Toffee had on his side, it was stronger than everyone in the castle. Maybe he should go find a more secluded place to train. Somewhere far from the castle. He may need to take a trip away from the castle...
He shuts the window and walks away from it to go back to work. And Toffee slowly lifts his head up while a devious smirk grows on his face. The aura flows around him again, while a shadowy slowly overtakes the background behind him...
"Hmmm...well...okay dear...we can send someone over to pick up Mina very soon." The queen said to Star via mirror.
Star, with a very fidgety Mina behind her trying to poke at everything in her room, nods and smiles at her mom while waving to her. "Thanks mom! It'll be a huge help to Mina! She really needs it."
"It is not an issue, Star." River chimed in, "I understand the plights of the soldier. I've talked with many of our Mewman troops. Many do need the mental help after ages of fighting for the nation. I think Mewni's...*whispers* second...greatest Ripple warrior deserves the help!"
"Thanks dad! And...uh...I'm glad Mina didn't hear that..." She said lowly while Mina was being corralled by Marco so she didn't try licking an electrical outlet. The call ends, and Star turns back to Mina while she's punching Marco in his diaphragm to induce Ripple healing.
"I don't get it! Where did that RED Ripple come from?" She asked, trying to punch him again. Though a raspy voiced Marco began trying to kick her away while also trying to catch his breath.
"LEAVE ME BE, WOMAN...I BARELY HAVE AIR LEFT..." He shouted like a deflated squeaky toy.
Star hops over to them and grins. "Hey guys! Mina, Mewni will come over with an escort for you tomorrow, okay? For now, you can sleep here!"
"Oh...thank you Star." She chuckled. "It really means a lot to have someone help you in your time of need. I know I need it. I apologize again for everything I did."
"Are you going to apologize to me for punching my insides into mush?" Marco, doubled over in pain on the ground, asked.
Loveberry completely ignored Marco, hugging Star and thanking her again repeatedly. Though while this went on, Glossaryck was lying on the pages of the magic book while staring at Star.
"Star...are you ready? New spell coming at you." He said to her, trying to get her attention. She always loved learning a new spell, and she couldn't wait to learn a new one from the "secret chapter". Marco decides to crawl out of the room and make his way downstairs where Jackie and Janna were sitting on the couch watching TV.
"Marco are you okay?" Jackie asked him, prompting him to try and make himself look cool in front of her by lifting himself up by the railings on the steps. With a smirk and a thumbs up, he assures her that he is fine...before collapsing to the ground.
"...Marco, dude, you don't have to try and impress me." She said, getting up from the couch to lift him up by his arm. "I already think you're kinda cool."
The warm feeling he got from Jackie saying that made him feel good, and blushing was very visible on his face. Jackie chuckled when she noticed it before helping Marco to the couch. "Y'know, what isn't cool about me? My Ripple..." He growled while saying that, getting a change of expression for Jackie from amused to bothered.
"That was cute, but please don't do that again." She quickly stated.
"Agreed." Marco nodded before moving.
Star and Mina come down the steps next, with Star happily spinning her wand while Mina just tries to understand what the talking box in front of the couch was. "Heeey guys, who wants to see my new spell-" She was about to ask before getting cut off by the sight of Marco and Jackie holding onto one another on their way to the couch. This was a weird sight to her, and it made her feel very awkward. Though she wasn't sure why, the angry glare Shining Star gave Jackie as it phased out of Star's body said everything.
"Huh? Shinign Star? What are YOU doing out, silly?" She asked it, getting nothing but a glare from her own Stand. "You ever smile?" She asked it, getting no response save for an "Ora."
"Oh nice ghost ya got there, girly." Mina said to Star before she went in front of the TV. Janna, who was watching what was on the TV, tried shooing Mina away from in front of it.
"Hey hey hey! I'm trying to watch TV here! There's a HUGE piece of news on a cool new exhibit. The same one you almost ruined..." She said.
"Janna? You? Museum? What kind of alternate universe is this?" Marco asked.
"Very funny, loverboy..." She fired back, getting more blushes out of him, "…but this thing looks cool. Literally." She said, pointing to the TV. "Something came crashing down from outer space and now scientists are trying to research it."
"Shining Star...seriously...why are you out?" Star asked her Stand as she walked to the TV.
Marco, noticing something wrong with Star and her Stand, asks her, "Everything okay, Star?"
"Yeah..." She nodded, "...I guess. Shinign Star randomly came out and I don't know why. And worst of all, that weird sick feeling in my stomach came back..." Holding her stomach didn't help make it go away, and she felt she had to sit down and stop moving for a second. So she opts to sit on the couch next to Marco until she felt beter. Though upon looking at the TV, the ill feeling got worse. And she even saw Shining Star begin to bear its teeth while growling. "What...what the...Shining Star, what's wrong?"
"What's the matter?" Jackie asked Marco and Star out of concern. "Is Star okay?"
"Yeah..." Star nodded, "...I think I am. I don't know...my Stand is angry...and I'm not feeling well...I'm sick to my stomach for some reason..."
Mina, looking at the TV now, was curious to see what the others saw. "What's wrong here? Wait...what is that?"
"It's a space fossil, they said. Some body was shot into space and then it froze. Scientists found it wandering near Earth and thought it was space trash." Janna said. "Heheheh...alien fossils...so cool."
Though Mina, observing the TV, snapped her fingers. "Oh there it is! What I saw in my visions!" She exclaimed, all the while Star bent forward as if she was going to throw up. And Shining Star began to growl upon seeing what was on the TV.
"Wait...what? What do you mean?" Asked Marco. "What visions?"
The warrior waved off Marco's not knowing as ignorance, and chuckles. "Oh silly Marco boy! It's the ultimate evil!"
"Wait...what? ...Wait, WHAT!?" He yelped. "Star she's going crazy again! I told you...Star? ...Staaar? Are you okay?"
Star, looking up from her bent over position, just glares at the TV alongside a growling SHining Star. While she wasn't sure why her Stand was angry, she at least could tell that whatever it was angry about was making her sick as well. But what could it be that made her so sick and Shining Star so infuriated?"
On the TV, the news reporter asked the head archaeologist of the project about what they were unearthing. Well they were technically unspacing, but that wasn't clever even when the news reporter asked that. The lead archaeologist just chuckled while shrugging. He didn't know what to make of everything either. This was an all new discovery. There were aliens, obviously. And they must have a very peculiar burial ceremony where they bury their dead and shoot them out into space. It's the only way this would make any sense.
"Whatever this being is, we are keeping it under strict control. We want to thaw it, but it may take some time before it unthaws. But we shall let it naturally thaw before we pull out the big guns." The scientist said to the reporter. "Then, we unleash the hot spotlights on the fossile to try and unthaw it. We must see what this person was lock before mummification."
The scientist gave a pat to his fossil, which was revealed to be an abnormally large being with long hair and an obvious humanoid face. It was bunched up, as if it was crouching. Whatever this being was, it was an obvious humanoid. Despite being frozen solid, it still seemed like a well preserved frozen specimen.
Though it looked weird to everyone else, it seemed Shining Star had a certain hatred of it. Star herself, not knowing what was wrong with Shining Star, tried to communicate with it telepathically. Instead of getting a verbal answer, she got a few visions instead. Visions of a man standing in front of the sun, basking in its rays as he absorbs its solar power. Whatever this being was...it was an ultimate evil...and Star could tell from the visions of said being attacking numerous people alongside two other similarly large people. This being was unknown to Star and the others. But still, she was able to mutter one phrase that made the entire group tense up. The ultimate evil...
"...He's back..."
Ayiyiyiii...
...was The Ultimate Life-Form.
-Cue "Awaken"-
⇐==TO BE CONTINUED===
[STAND NAME]: Jade Devil
[STAND USER]: Toffee
Power: ?
Speed: ?
Range: ?
Durability: ?
Precision: ?
Development: ?
Abilities: ?
A/N: Not much of an action based chapter. More served to push the story along. Thank GOD it wasn't a 10,000 word chapter. I couldn't do it.
This is set up for Ep. 8. We get our first true taste of the old JoJo world here in the new SVTFOE world...somehow, someway, he's here...
And as for Toffee's Stand, it is named after the Major Arcana tarot card, "The Devil". Fitting. Also, Allison Chains...Alice in Chains. But that one was obvious, I assume.
And five reviews and an extra follower! Welcome aboard, hope you enjoy the ride on the crazy train!
Now...for responses:
Reven228: If there is one thing I think I'm doing with mixing JJBA with SVTFOE, it's adding some more...heinous (pardon da punz) bits to villains here. Heinous running the school like a princess pimp practice was on the spot thinking for me. Figured it would fit with the tinge of JoJo this world has. It's tad dark, but she lost in the end. Also, yes indeed this...Valentine the Wise (who could possibly be a monster) was very knowledgeable. Wonder what he was about. ... :P The question I guess is pressing...is how the heck did Funny Valentine get in that world? Then again...how did Kars?
DiRunner: You can keep on guessing. Honestly, even I keep second guessing myself. I've kept the male and female as vague as I can because I tend to go back and forth. Haha...I am pure garbage.
I guess I know the people who they are...but the question is...how do they relate to Princess Joestar herself?
Cross177: Just the Joestar Stands, Cross. Imagine how overtly OP she'd be with Magician's Red fire or the speed of Silver Chariot. She already is OP with The World (Though she should use it sparingly so as not to frustrate or confuse Father Time...you know how he is) and Hermit Purple's psychic abilities.
As for me making things serious, I do hope that I add enough levity with the seriousness. I'd hate to make this story too doom and gloom. It IS still half Star Vs. Hence why I have refrained from swearing save for the obvious non-SVTFOE character of the cloaked male.
As for DIO...I say nothing. *Zips lip*
And not just them either. There's some Josuke in there too (mentioning Shigechi getting blown dafuq up by Kira).
And good, glad it wasn't just me. Hoping that alerts work now...
Coldblue: Hey my dude, ask as MUCH and say as much as you want. I can't guarantee an answer to every question. But I can try.
FYI: In this world, the star in the Butterfly Family Wand is made of the same meteor that the Magic Arrows arrowheads are made of. Fun factoid for BBA. *He says as if his fanmade world means anything*
I don't want to say much of anything, because I want you guys to have your own hypothesis and let you build them without me crushing them early. But for Joestars on Mewni...a Joestar has been on Mewni. I can confirm that. And that is all. What did this Joestar do? I won't say.
1.) The thing about JoJo Vampires from The Stone Mask is that they aren't very...good during the day. I'm sure Janna wouldn't mind being a vampire. But she'd have obvious weaknesses. But Jackie and Janna will be cool and involved in more action later.
2.) I won't lie...I needed something for episodes 7 and 8. I was going to introduce a character here, but I saw this and pondered it. I DO need to challenge them more. And it helps me advance the story. So why not? Kars. Maybe he can play guitar on Jackie's leg.
3.)…*Whistling*
4.) …*WHISTLING INTENSIFIES* *Won't say why though* *That's for Pt. 2*
5.) There will be tension. And of course, in JoJo fashion...it could reeeally screw up a lot. The simplest things could lead to some of the biggest consequences. George Joestar owed his life to a thief, and look what that started...
OMAC001: Where will it lead? Hopefully to Heaven, according to Toffee.
You guys got a question or just wanna leave a comment? Leave a review and I'll answer ya cause I like talking to you all. It makes me feel loved~
FUN GAME: There is something fun about Princess Star Butterfly's name that makes her a Joestar...and not just a Joestar like Jorge or Holly, but a TRUE BLUE Joestar action hero. Try to find the quirk in Star's name. HINT: you know Star's name is really short for JOEstar. So her first name on Mewni is her last name in the old world. So if Star is the last name...what's her first name? And how is she a Joestar? Think about it.
Anyway, time to bounce for me! Hope you enjoyed the update! Chapter 8...hopefully next week!
Thanks for Reading!
