Authors Note
Greetings readers! How's everybody doing? Thank you all so much for reviewing, favoriting, following and just flat out reading this story! I'm amazed every time i post a new chapter! And thank you TRYharD-SHERLY for that absolutely MASSIVE review, I'm glad you like the fic so much and I will try to work in more of those special moments! Now onto this chapter, it's... intense. This is my first attempt at writing something quote unquote dramatic. Don't fret through because after this we will be to the silly light hearted adventures! I hope you enjoy and I will see you at the bottom of the page! (I own nothing!)
Marco was awoken with a jolt to the side. His eyes peeled open to the morning light. He sighed; Star was back at it again with her tossing and turning. Deciding it was no use to try and fall back asleep at eight in the morning he crawled over the sleeping Star and got up.
Star flopped over and smiled groggily with her bright blue eyes still shut to world.
"Marco why do have to keep waking me up?"
Marco chuckled "We've gone over this already it's you who wakes me up."
Star yawned and stretched out while Marco fixed his now greasy hair in the mirror. Showers are hard to come by on the road.
"You know what you can do to make it up to me?" Star began.
Marco smiled and rubbed his temples, she obviously was ignoring his argument. Marco decided the best course of action was to just go with it.
"What can I do to make it up to you Star?"
"You can make me some breakfast!"
Marco laughed and walked to the door satisfied with how his hair looked.
"One get on Star's good side breakfast coming up!"
Star giggled.
"Now that's what I like to hear!" She said with a fake authority.
Marco grinned and opened the door. He took a step into the morning air chilled from the night previous.
"Off to make the princess some breakfast." He said to himself.
Mrs Diaz stepped out of the Mewni style trailer and were surprised to see Star and Marco happily eating nachos for breakfast.
"Why are you kids up so early?" Mrs Diaz said half yawning.
"Marco woke me up!" Star exclaimed.
Marco rolled his eyes and Star giggled.
Mr Diaz stumbled out of the trailer and looked around "Nachos for breakfast? You kids sure are weird."
Marco laughed "Don't nachos count as breakfast?"
"Hey I'm not complaining!" Mrs Diaz said walking over to the picnic table.
Mr Diaz shrugged, "I don't see why not it is vacation after all!"
Mr and Mrs Diaz sat down with the kids and the four enjoyed some of Marcos super awesome nachos for breakfast.
A couple miles later...
Marco pressed his face against the car window. "Ugh more desert."
"Don't worry honey only a bit more desert left." Mrs Diaz reassured from the front seat.
The miles crawled by boringly but the peaceful drive was about to be interrupted. The sky was shifting, brilliant flat blue faded into a broiling dark grey cloudscape.
"Marco..." Star said looking in a combination of wonder, fear and excitement at the brewing storm.
"Looks like this is going to be a big one..." Marco mutters to no one in particular.
An eerie quiet befell the four, while waiting for the sky to pour. Still they drove on until all of the sudden it began... The sound of thunder rattled the sky; rain fell like bullets punching into the dry desert dirt and beating the metal vehicle as it drove. Star was utterly captivated, nothing on this scale occurred in Mewni.
"Wow..." Chills ran down her spine.
"Ya it's pretty awesome." Marco said staring at the swirling vortex of cloud and rain above him.
"The weather here is so, massive!"
Marco nodded.
After a bit of stressful driving Mr Diaz finally had enough of the weather and pulled over onto the side of the road. It was nearly impossible to see in the dim light and pouring rain.
"Alright everybody we're going to sit here for a while until this storm passes." He announced.
"Kids do you want some snacks?" Mrs Diaz asks Star and Marco.
"Ya sure!" They reply together and then look at each other quizzically.
Mrs Diaz laughs and hands them some granola bars "Here you go."
While waiting Star and Marco hum to the tunes quietly dancing out of the radio and Mr and Mrs Diaz read some old magazines they found in the glove box. After a bit the rain began to calm down, it seemed the storm was finally passing.
"Guys i think it's almost over!" Marco exclaimed.
Oh how wrong he was, oh so wrong...
"Awwww." Star moaned, she was quite enjoying watching the lightning and rain.
"Well I think it's time we get going again!" Mr Diaz said happy to get back on the road.
But just as he put the key into the ignition a massive bolt of lightning shredded open the clouds and down came the second wave. Not rain this time though it was hail.
Stars eyes grew wide as the balls of ice fell. Marco was shocked as well not by hail (he knew what that was) but by the sudden turn in the weather.
"Marco, Marco! Look the sky is dropping little snow balls!" Star exclaimed excitedly.
"Those aren't snow balls Star they're ice balls, it's called hail." Marco said worrying a bit, he had a bad feeling about this...
The hail came down in a quick burst. The sound of hail dinging off the car rang into the ears of the Diaz's. Unfortunately if the hail wasn't enough things were about to get worse...
All of the sudden the radio stopped pumping music into the air and the digital clock went black.
"What just happened?" Star asked, she had no concept of electricity, sure Marco told her about but as far as she was concerned it was all magic.
Marco stared into space grimly. "The battery died."
Star however had learned enough to know that the battery is where the electricity magic came from and if it died it stopped making that magic.
"Well what do we do?"
Mr Diaz joined the conversation. "If the battery is dead the vehicle won't start and that means we can't drive to cover if the hail gets worse."
"Once the hail stops someone will have to go walk to the nearest gas station and ask for a jump start." Marco said anxiously.
"I will go." Mr Diaz said heroically.
"I actually think it would be better if me and Star go that way we can be protected by Star's magic." Marco says not as heroically.
"I don't know." Mr and Mrs Diaz replied.
Star now voiced her opinion "Ya me and Marco could go, I can protect us from the wind and rain!"
Mr Diaz looks to Mrs Diaz for confirmation. She looked back with sorry eyes.
"I think it's the best option we don't want to be stuck out here if even bigger hail hits." Mrs Diaz says.
Star bounced up and down in her seat with lively energy, mostly because she wanted to see what the storm was actually like. Meanwhile Marco was racked with fear, this was the real deal and there was a serious chance of major injury or worse...
When the hail relented the two dashed outside into the storm. The rain rode the wind, slashing into the two with ferocity. The howling wind sucked the air from their lungs. Star instantly regretted wanting to go out into the storm, it was nothing like she imagined.
"Marco where are you!" Star yelled above the wind.
"Over here!" A voice called from the storm.
The two meet up at the hood of the car and locked hands, braving the storm together, and oh how bravery was needed. With all its might the storm lashed out upon the two.
"Use your magic!" Marco yelled into Stars ear.
"Ok!" She shouted back "SUPER STARFISH SHIELD ULTRA!" A glowing shield of magic appeared and took away the brunt of the wind.
"Let's start moving!" Marco weaved his arm between hers so that they would not be separated.
Mr and Mrs Diaz watched anxiously as the kids trudged forward into the gale, soon vanishing out of view.
Meanwhile Star and Marco were in a losing battle. Even with the shield it was still hard to keep moving. They were both soaking wet, shivering, their arms and legs numbed and face's wind burned. To make matters worse Star was having a hard time keeping the shield going for some reason.
"Marco I... I don't know how long I can keep this shield going!"
Marco pulled her closer "Just keep going you can do it! I know you can!"
His words were empty though, as in fact Star could not keep the shield up for much longer. It started with a flicker and then a few more and then finally...
"I'm sorry Marco!" Star yelled out.
The unthinkable happened, the shield failed. The wind came back with a blast and started to erode away their strength. Marco stumbled and the harsh wind pushed him over into the muddy earth.
"MARCO!" Star screamed out.
Marco lay on the ground shivering, his legs were weak and without feeling. He wasn't about to get up anytime soon. Star limped over to him with what little strength she had.
"Star you need go on without me. I will just be dead weight come get me later!" He shouted to her above the wind.
"Not going to happen Diaz! I'm not leaving you here like this!" She shouted back at him.
She lay beside him and cuddled up to preserve what shreds of warmth they had left. Star looked over and saw Marco's pale face, about to shut its eyes.
"No, no, no Marco stay with me!"
Marco did not let out a sound. Star shook him vigorously.
"No no no!" She said with fear, her heart was pounding and her tear filled eyes burned.
But there was nothing more she could do except succumb to the ever increasing storm. She closed her eyes for what she thought might be the last time cold, numb, soaking wet and right beside Marco...
Marcos opened his eyes and regained his consciousness. He was wet, cold and every part of him ached... and wait where was he? Looking around he could see he was inside cab of a truck lying lengthwise; Star was curled up beside him. The truck bumped up and down as they drove. He looked out the window and saw the pitter patter of rain on the window, the Storm was over. The storm... Something about a storm, that's when it hit him...
"STAR!" Marco jumped into action checking Star for a pulse and brea-
"It's okay kid she's alright, what were you doing out in the storm anyway... actually scratch that I don't want to know." A man upfront said in a southern drawl.
Marco was startled but shook it off "Who are you? And why are we here?"
"Saw you two passed out on the ground in the storm, right now I'm taking you two back to the gas station. My name's Leroy by the way."
A gas station... Marco thought to himself.
"This will sound kind of random... but do you have any jumper cables?" Marco asked the man.
A while later back at the trailer...
Star and Marco huddled together under a small red woolen blanket on the step outside the Mewni style trailer. They went outside to be by themselves, just the two of them. Inside Mr and Mrs Diaz were talking with Leroy, the man who found them. They had obviously apologized profusely to Star and Marco and said some stuff about never letting something like this happen again and whatnot.
Star wrapped her arms around Marco. She treasured the warmth coming from his body and most of all, his heart beat, the signature feature of being alive. It pulsed quietly and rhythmically in his chest.
"That was close..." Marco croaked into the damp air.
He looked up. The clouds were breaking apart. Cathedrals of light cascaded down to earth refracting in the drizzle left over from the storm. Star was also gazing up towards the sky and was just able to catch a hint of blue.
"Ya, two close." Star said tightening her grip on him, the thought of losing Marco never actually had come to her mind until today, it scared her.
"Hey do you want me to go get something for us to eat?" Marco asked the princess clinging to him.
"Naw just stay right here for now. This is more important." She said resting her head on his shoulder and closing her eyes.
Marco smiled, getting Star to let go of him was going to be a challenge. But this didn't matter because he wasn't about let go any time soon.
And that's it folks! Anyway like I said this was a first attempt at dramatic writing and I hope you liked it! As for Ludo's plan, there's actually a hint in the story it's kind of vague but who knows you might be able to figure it out. Till next time -Unluckywrites.
