Magical Wand Quest.
A peaceful day in the Butterfly's house.
"Alright, once more." Marco told to himself. He aimed his wand at one destroyed pot. "Rethornios Lai- AH!"
A sudden call from Marco's mirror startled him. The spell came out and embrace the pot in a green light, erasing it from existence. Marco looked shocked at the result of his spell. He came back to his senses and walked towards the portrait of his parents and retire it to look at the mirror.
"PONY HEAD." Was the name appearing in the mirror's crystal.
"Ugh… Star, you have a call!"
Star was standing in front of the mirror in no time. "Thanks Marco! You can leave now, I can handle this." Star said excusing her friend.
"But this is my room!"
"But this is a girls' thing, now get out!"
"And where am I supposed to go?"
"You can go to my room if you want, just don't make a mess!"
"Alright, alright! I'm going now!" Marco said while closing the door.
"Answer please!" Star told to the mirror. The mirror connected the signal.
"Hey, B-Fly!" Pony Head greeted cheerfully.
"Hey, Pony! How have you been?"
"I have been doing great! What about you?"
"Same, thanks!"
…
Marco walked to Star's room.
"Alright, let's see what I can do here." Marco opened the door and watched with horror at the room.
It was the definition of mess itself. Stuff glued in the ceiling and scattered in the floor, different headbands laying all over the bed, lots of drawing and paintings hanging in the wall and her desk full of unfinished homeworks.
"Alright, time to get busy!" Marco told to himself while casting a gas mask and a pair of gloves on himself before entering the room.
…
"Hahahaha! B-Fly, you are hilarious!" Pony head exclaimed through her laughter.
"Why? All I did was put three wild possums on her locker! Besides, I needed to use my new freshly bought pink paint in something worth it! Don't you think?"
"Definitely! Hey, speaking of buying, have you visited Quest Buy yet?"
"Quest Buy?" Star asked curious.
"You haven't?! You don't know what are you missing, B-Fly!"
"What's that?"
"It's, like, the most awesome store EVER! They literally have everything in the universe in that place!"
"Everything?!" Star asked excitedly.
"Everything! There's nothing they can't possibly have!"
"That's so cool! I would like to visit that place! Imagine all the stuff I could buy!" A sudden realization came to Star. "Hey, do I need gold or something like that to buy things there?"
"Don't worry about that, B-Fly! Those guys accept all kinds of money! Even your filthy earth money would work to pay!"
"Nice! In that case, maybe I would go later! Imagine all the different things I could buy…" Star gasped excitedly in realization.
"Hey, what's up? Is everything alright, B-Fly?"
"Pony, I have to go! I'm going to Quest Buy, right now!" Star told happily to her friend.
"That's my girl! See ya later!"
"Bye!" Star said before ending the call. She ran directly to her room and opened the door. "Marco!"
"Hey Star, done already?"
"Marco, Marco, Marco! We need to go to… to…" Star looked around her room. "W... Marco…?"
"Yes?"
"What happened to my room…?" Star asked confused.
"I cleaned it up. You're welcome." Marco said proudly.
All the stuff that was lying in the floor was now carefully organized in the top of a table that Marco created with his wand. The headbands were perfectly accommodated in the head of the bed. The draws and paintings were perfect angled.
"Marco, I told you to not make a mess!"
"Mess? Excuse me, but your room was so messy that it could have been confused with the cave of a goblin or a troll. I organize it in a way that you can always find your stuff in the place it is meant to be."
"But it was my organized mess! Wait, never mind this, we've got more urgent things to attend!"
"We do?" Marco asked surprised.
"Yes we do! Where are my dimensional scissors?"
"Those are on your desk, alongside your unfinished homework."
"You had the time to disorganize my organized mess and not to do my homework?" Star said, mocking, to her friend.
"I'm not doing your homework for you!"
Star grabbed her scissors from the desk. "Whatever!" She walked to her bed and removed the sheets. She opened a little hole that was on the mattress side and retrieve a bunch of money from it. "Alright! Are you ready to go, Marco?" She asked while filling her little purse with the bunch of money.
"Go where exactly?"
"To Quest Buy!" Star said while opening the portal with her dimensional scissors.
"Star, you know I can't leave Earth."
"Yes you can."
"No, I can't!"
"Yes, you can! Let me show you!" Star pulled Marco with her into the portal.
The portal closed itself when the two of them went through. Star and Marco appeared in the middle of the Quest Buy dimension.
"See? What did I told you?" Star said smiling.
"Star! You know I can't leave Earth, and the first thing you do is to drag me out of it?!"
"Correction. You MUSN'T leave Earth, but that doesn't mean you CAN'T!"
Marco was about to argue with his friend but he stopped himself to think about Star's statement carefully. "I can't argue with that…"
"I won! Star one, Marco zero!" Star said happily.
"Anyways, could you tell me why are we here?"
"We are here to buy a magical wand for me!"
"…What?" Marco asked confused.
"What you heard! I want to buy a magical wand like yours!" Star said while jumping excitedly.
"Wow, wow, wow. Star, calm down. From where did you get that crazy idea?"
"Hey, my idea is not crazy. Pony told me that they got, literally, everything in the universe here. So why not a magical wand?"
"Because my wand has been in my family for generations. It's not something that my parents just bought for me! I'm pretty sure that Pony Head was just exaggerating like she always does."
"You may be right about Pony exaggerating, but how can you be so sure about not being wands for sale?"
"Look, I don't know much about Quest Buy, it's actually my first time here. But if I know anything about it, is that they don't have wands for sale."
"What makes you so sure?"
"For starters…"
"We will never know if we don't search for them!" Star said while walking away into a random direction.
Marco let out a sigh and followed Star.
…
"Hurry up and find it out already!" Ludo yelled to his monsters.
They were all scattered around their shopping cart. The giraffe monster approached slowly at the cart and tried to leave something in it.
"Don't try to sneak anything in the cart!" Ludo yelled while snatching the little box from his monster's hand. "Giraffro? What the heck is this?!" Ludo yelled while throwing away the hair product.
Bearicorn sneaked from behind and tried to leave a little pink dress in the cart.
"What did I just said?!"
"Aww… But you will look so cute in it!" Bearicorn said.
"Silence, we are only here to get a peak sharpener! It keeps my peak nice and clean!" Ludo said while showing his "perfect?" smile.
Ludo approached to one of the sloths of the store.
Bearicorn used the opportunity to leave the little pink dress in the cart without Ludo's noticing.
…
"Look at all this stuff!" Star exclaimed happily while walking around the store.
"Look at all this mess!" Marco said a little annoyed. "How do you even find anything here?!"
"You can't!" A little goblin said behind them, calling their attention. "This place is a mess! Is organized in a very ancient system! So ancient that not even the founders remember it! I have been here, ages, trying to decode it!" The little goblin sat down in the floor. "…"
"Alright… Good Luck with that, Mr. Little Green Man!" Star said while jumping away happily.
"An ancient system, huh?" Marco told to himself.
"Marco!" Star shouted.
Marco walked towards his friend. "What is it, Star?"
"I found it!" Star shouted happily while pointing at a little pink winged wand that had a golden star incrusted in the center. It was almost buried in a pile of dimensional teddies. "And it looks exactly like your wand when I grab it!"
"What?! How is that even possible?!" Marco exclaimed surprised.
"Don't stay stunned there! Let's go for my wand!" Star grabbed him from the arm and started to run while pulling her friend.
"S-S-Star! Let go! I can run for myself!" Marco yelled at her.
"Okey!" Star said before letting go his arm while still running.
Marco lost the balance and fall to the floor. He slipped through the floor until he stopped in front of Star.
"Wow Marco, I didn't knew you run like that in Meowni!" Star said mocking.
"I hate you sometimes…"
"Come on, even you know that isn't true!" Star helped her friend to stand up. "Now let's go and grab my wand!" Star said while pushing apart the dimensional teddies, searching for the wand.
"I still can't believe they actually have wands for sales!" Marco said while approaching at his friend.
"Hey, help me here. I don't find…"
"Hey boss, look at this! Can we keep it?" Bearicorn said while rising a dimensional teddy bear in the air.
"How many times I have to say it? We're only here for my peak sharpener!" Ludo yelled.
Star looked at the teddy dimensional bear in Bearicorn's hand… claws. The little wings of the wand could be seen from inside the teddy.
"Hey, that's mine!" Star shouted at him.
All the monsters turned to see Star.
"Will you look at that, it seems like Quest Buy really has everything you need!" Ludo exclaimed.
"See? Told ya Pony wasn't exaggerating… this time!" Star told to Marco.
"What do you mean?" Marco asked.
"This dude obviously got tired of trying to steal your wand and came here to buy one! But now he's gonna try to buy it before me…" Star looked at the teddy. "Hey, could you give me that teddy, teddy bear man? I mean… It's not like if you're going to buy it… Your little boss already said…"
"Bearicorn, give me that teddy bear, now." Ludo ordered.
Bearicorn stood confused between Star and Ludo. They both were glaring at each other, waiting for the other's first move.
A sudden shirt came flying through the air and knocked off the teddy bear with the wand inside, far away from them. The teddy bear ended up in the middle of the booby traps department.
"Yeah, this shirt canon will do the trick!" A goblin told to the sloth that was attending him.
"GET THAT TEDDY BEAR!" Ludo yelled. His monsters started to run towards the teddy bear.
"Come on Marco!" Star and Marco started to run towards the teddy bear as well.
"Star, go ahead and get the wand! I'll distract them!" Marco told to Star while running.
"Alrighty!" Star ran near a skateboard aisle. She grabbed one and started to ride it towards the teddy bear as the skateboard left a hearts trace on its path. She quickly got the lead of the race for the wand.
Marco speed up towards the monsters and advantaged them. "Royal Blast!" Marco knocked out Big Chicken out of thin air. He kept running. "Ice Snail Saliva Road!" The entire aisle was covered in Ice Snail saliva, making the monsters to slip on the floor.
Buff Frog managed to jump all the way behind Marco, avoiding the slippery path. Buff Frog resumed quickly the pursuit.
"Hey, come back here!" Marco yelled at him. His path got blocked by Big Chicken. The Ice Snail Saliva spell went off real quick and the monsters were now surrounding him. "Hey… No hard feelings about that spell… right?"
The monsters launched themselves at him.
"MYSTICAL RUNAWAY!" Marco shouted in desperation. A yellow light embrace him and made him disappear from the place.
The monsters collide with each other.
…
Star entered the booby traps department. The traps initiated to function the moment she entered. Flamethrowers launching fire behind her, almost reaching the skateboard. Giant spikes balls started to roll all around the department, she managed to dodge all of them. She was about to enter a mine field when suddenly, she felt someone on her back.
"Marco?! How did you get here?!" Star yelled at Marco that was now holding onto Star.
"I don't know!"
"Classic Marco!"
"Slow down, you're going to fast!"
Some mines exploded near the skateboard. The explosions woke up a guardian tree headed dragon that started to pursuit them.
"You still want me to slow down?!"
"Rocket Plosion!" Marco shouted while aiming his wand at the dragon behind them, a bunch of flames came out of the wand, speeding them far away from there.
They quickly left the three headed dragon behind, crossed the mine field and got right past the dart corridor.
"Woo-Hoo! This is awesome! Why you don't do this kinda things more often?" Star asked to her friend.
"R-R-R-R-R…"
"What are you saying? I can't make a lick of sense to your mewman language!"
"RAMP!" Marco shouted while pointing at the way in front of them.
A ramp followed by a lake of lava was laying on the path ahead of them.
Star gasped in surprised.
"Star, stop this thing now!"
"I can't, your rocket wand is too much for me to handle!" They started to get to the ramp real quick. "Brace yourself!"
Marco, unconsciously, casted a pair of helmets over their heads.
"Really?" Star asked before launching the skateboard was launched through the air using the ramp. The two of them were screaming and flying above the lava lake.
The skateboard landed in the lava lake, being slowly consumed by it. Star and Marco had a rough landing on the other side of the lava lake.
"Phew… That was close… What'd you say, Marco?"
"Why hanging out with you always hurts so much…?"
"Come on, don't be such a cry baby! That land wasn't that tough!"
"You're just saying that because of the helmet I gave you, and because you landed on me, again…"
Star looked down and saw herself sitting on Marco. "Ops, sorry. Are you alright?" Star asked while helping her friend to stood up.
"Yes, I think."
"Good, now let's go grab my future new wand before the little guy does it!" Star said before starting running towards the teddy bear.
The teddy bear was grabbed by a little gargoyle girl.
"What?! How did she get it first?!" Star asked surprised.
"Star, look behind her." Marco said while pointing at the alternate entrance of the department.
"Oh…"
The little gargoyle waved at them and leave from the department with the wand and the teddy bear.
"And here I thought this was gonna be easy." Star and Marco began to follow the little girl, but their way got blocked by Ludo and his army. "Too easy…"
"Distract them while I go for my wand!" Ludo ordered while getting away with the help of the bat monster.
The monsters began to attack the two teenagers.
"I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!" Star yelled at the monsters while rushing at them.
Marco aimed his wand at Star. "Giantical Star!" A string of light reach Star and a big light star embrace her, increasing her size and strenght.
The giant Star charged against the monsters, making her way through them. She ran right out of the department, searching for the wand.
Marco rush his way to the exit and blocked it with a magical invisible wall. But just like the last time, Buff Frog managed to get through the exit before Marco could close it.
"Hey, stop right there!" Marco shouted while running towards him.
…
Ludo was flying around the store, searching for the little girl that had the wand.
"Where's the little brat with my wand?! This is almost as annoying as those incompetent monsters of mine! Or maybe even more annoying than that hyperactive…"
"Lil' Ol'udo!" A voice called out with a rhythmical tone.
Ludo turned around furiously at the voice. "DON'T CALL me… that…" Ludo stayed perplex while looking at the giant Star quickly approaching at him.
"Guess who earned her Big Girl Body!" Star said with a gigantic smile on her gigantic face.
Ludo let out a scream before starting to fly away from her.
Star rushed her way towards the little monster and caught him with one of her hands.
"Gotcha! Now, what should I do with you? Oh, I know!"
Star reached out for Ludo's cart. Ludo stayed petrified in Star's hand. Star grabbed a pink dress from the cart and put it on Ludo.
"Look at how cute you are!"
"Hey, quit it!"
Star grabbed a teddy bird that was as small as Ludo. "Now, you can kiss the groom!" She said while pushing Ludo and the teddy together.
A light began to embrace Star, it slowly returned her to her normal size again.
"Aw come on! I wasn't done yet!" Star said before letting out a sigh. "Classic Marco magic…" She told to herself.
Ludo approached at her laughing. "Hahaha! Where's your Big Girl Body now?"
Star delivered a quick kick to Ludo, sending him flying against an aisle. "Right on your face, Lil' Ol'udo."
A light laugh was heard from behind her, she turned around and saw the little girl with the teddy bear. She was in a shopping cart in the middle of the quick sands department.
"Are you kidding me?" Star told to herself.
Buff Frog jumped above her and ran directly towards the little gargoyle.
"Oh no you don't!" Star shouted at him as she began to run behind him. Suddenly, Star felt how she began to float into the air. She looked down to see herself above Cloudy.
"Go and get it!" Marco shouted at her.
"Thanks Marco!" Star sat down in Cloudy. "Follow that frog, Cloudy!"
"As you wish, Star." Cloudy said cheerfully before speeding up, pursuing Buff Frog.
Buff Frog started to jump above the quick sands while entering the department.
Star floated above the quick sands with the help of Cloudy, while Marco was trying his best to hit Buff Frog with a Royal Blast.
Star and Buff Frog were approaching at full speed to the shopping cart. A big winged monster landed in front of the cart, dad gargoyle arrived with his daughter. Star and Buff Frog stopped right in the spot.
"What's up, sweetie? Did you miss daddy?" The big winged monster asked the little girl. The little girl spread her little wings and jumped to her father arms, dropping the teddy bear into the closest quick sand. The teddy was quickly dragged down by the sand.
The little girl let out a light cry.
"What's the matter? You wanted that teddy bear you dropped? Don't worry, daddy will get it for you!"
The girl's father jumped inside the quick sand with her daughter climbed on his back and made his way downwards.
Star and Buff Frog exchange looks before jumping into the quick sands as well. Star left Cloudy behind, that was absorbed by Marco's wand seconds later.
"Oh no, no way I'm jumping in there!" Marco told to himself while looking at a near elevator with a map of the shop right next to it. "You might be here? Really?"
…
The quick sands dropped them into the music box department. A ton of different music boxes were surrounding them. All of the music boxes started to play their own melody as soon as they arrived.
The bear was in the top of a white box at the end of the room.
The three of them started to run towards it before being stopped by one sloth.
"Shhh…" The sloth said quietly while pointing at a sign.
"DON'T WAKE UP THE PUPPETS!" was written with red letters on the sign.
Buff Frog and the gargoyle began to tip-toe their way to the Teddy Bear. But Star didn't understood the warning and kept running.
"Finally!" Star shouted with glee while raising the teddy into the air with a victory pose.
All the music of the boxes suddenly stopped.
The monsters stayed immobile in the place while the sloth ran away from the place.
"What's the matter, afraid of my new-?"
A sudden sound came out from behind Star, startling her a little. She turned around to see a little clown puppet coming out of the white box. "Oh, it was you little friend! Please don't scare me like that! I'm usually pretty easy to scare, especially with clowns!"
Star closed her eyes while patting the puppet's head. The puppet began to slowly grow.
"But you look really cute to be... a..."
Star looked up and saw the now big clown puppet gazing at her. The clown changed its smiley face for a mad face and showed some fangs coming out of his mouth. The box changed to black.
"CLOWN!" Star shouted before running away.
The monsters did the same when all the other puppets began to rise as well. The three of them were running and screaming towards the exit, except the girl, she was laughing at the puppets while being carried by her father.
...
"I finally got to the right department." Marco told to himself while arriving at the music box department through the elevator. "Now I only have to find-"
"AAAAHHH!"
Marco was interrupted by Star's scream. Star was running towards the elevator alongside Buff Frog and the gargoyle. The whole music box department was chasing them.
"What the-?!"
Marco was interrupted once again when the three of them tackled him into the elevator.
Buff Frog pressed frenetically the buttons to get the elevator moving. The elevator started to move just in time for them to escape.
"Star! Not so tight!" Marco told to his friend. She was hugging him, almost squeezing him.
"Clowns… clowns everywhere…" Star said with an unsteady voice and trembling.
Marco let out a sigh. "There, there. No more clowns here." Marco said while patting her head. "Hey, where's the teddy?"
The elevator door opened and the teddy fall outside.
"There." Star said while looking at it.
Everyone launched themselves at the teddy and started to fight for it.
"Gimme!" Star shouted.
"The wand is Master's Ludo!"
"Teddy!" The little gargoyle cried.
"Don't worry sweety, I will win it for you!"
"Get me out of here!" Marco demanded.
Everyone was pushing aside and trying to grab the teddy. The fight ceased when from the teddy, a pink winged circular thing fall in the floor, showing the golden star incrusted in the middle. The circular object opened itself, showing a little star shaped mirror inside of it.
Everyone went silent.
"W… What… happened? Did the wand just broke?"
Marco stood up and inspected the artifact. "Star, this is not a wand."
"What?!"
"This is just a portable dimensional mirror. It's like your cellphones back on Earth, just that you can call between dimensions with this."
"So this was waste of time!" Buff Frog exclaimed angrily while he stood up.
"Sorry, but yes. This was all a waste of time."
"It was not worth fighting for that." Buff Frog said while walking away.
"Hey, aren't you gonna try to steal Marco's wand?" Star asked while pointing at Marco.
"Star, shut up…" Marco said a little annoyed.
"By myself? No thanks. I do not stand a chance against you two, so I am just leaving, for now." Buff Frog said before hopping its way out of there.
"So, no wand?"
"I told you before, Star."
"Augh… I guess Pony was exaggerating after all…" Star withdrew her dimensional scissors from her little Cloudy purse. "Come on, Marco… Let's go home…" Star said while entering the portal.
"Coming!" Marco said while giving a sack of gold to one of the sloths.
"Thanks for buying on Quest Buy, hope to see you again, or not." The sloth told to Marco before he left.
…
Star was on her bed, lying over her belly while looking sad at the wall.
Marco was looking at her from outside the room. He felt bad for his friend and decided to go for advice with the most truthful being he knew about on planet Earth.
"Greetings, I came here to ask you some of your time to give me advice. You see, one dear friend of mine is really sad and I want to help her to feel better, but I don't know how I am supposed to do so. So please, give me the answer to this question, Master Tebee." Marco pressed the button of the T.V. to turn it on.
"…And totally CHILL YOU OUT!"
…
Star was still lying sadly on her bed when a knock was heard on her door.
"Who's there…?"
No reply.
Star stood up from the bed and went to her door. "I said, who's there?"
There was no one in the corridor.
Star looked around the corridor before looking at the floor. There was a little gift box in front of her feet.
"Huh? What is this?" Star lift the box and entered with it to her room. A note was attached to the box.
"Hey, Star.
I'm sorry about what happened in Quest Buy, you only wanted to buy a wand for yourself. But we found out that there were no wands on sale there.
But you know what, I managed to find it for you. I managed to find a wand just for you!
I know it's not magical, but it's a start.
Hope you like it!
Marco."
"A wand? Really?" Star said curious while opening the box.
Inside, a Banagic Wand with her name written on it was waiting her.
Star grabbed the Banagic Wand and smiled.
...
Marco yawned as he woke up. He stood up and looked surprised at his room.
It was made an entire mess. Everything was out of place, there were things hanging around in the walls and the ceiling, a note was attached to his Jam Jams.
"Dear Marco:
Now were even!
Enjoy your organized mess!
Star."
"Seriously?" He was going to Star's room to ask her about the gift.
A little bowl of yellow ice cream placed on his table answered his question.
Marco approached the little bowl and saw a note on its side.
"Happy 59th Day on Earth, by the way!"
Marco let out a sigh and casted some gloves and cleaning stuff with his wand. A sudden ringing sound stopped him. He looked up and saw his mirror glued to the ceiling.
"PONY HEAD."
"...Ignore."
