Chapter 8: The Alpha's Fangs

Hey everyone sorry about the long wait. I have had a very busy last few weeks. I barely had time to put in little by little when I could. Hopefully I can get the next chapter done by next week but if not sorry in advance and hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own or Claim Any Sort of Rights for Star vs. the Forces of Evil and its characters. All rights go to Disney and creator Daron Nefcy. This is for entertainment purposes only; I do add other character and choose to have a right to for the purpose of conducting this Fan Fiction. Scenes maybe too obscene for young readers; reader discretion is advised. 18+

A howl is heard within the forest that Kuro could swear that it was right next to her. She turned towards the others and noticed Marco standing up with his long sword drawn at the ready.

"Is that..?" Kuro asked when Marco interrupted.

"Yes. It's just him now." Marco said.

"The Alpha…" Kuro could barely swallow her words from the fear that overcame her when she heard heavy breathing coming from behind her. She turned around and noticed a big deformed beast covered in black ooze.

The ooze dripped off of it as you hear howls coming from not its mouth but its own body. Wolf heads spewing out of its back and sides along with humanoid feet and arms extended outwards of it. This terrifying thing in front of them would send anyone into a state of shock but Marco stood at the ready.

The many years he was in Heckapoo's Dimension he had to overcome many things to get close to her clones. He had to learn to survive and toss aside his morals and humanity at times since she wasn't the only enemy within those places of that Dimension. Marco tamed his fear of mortality within the first few years of his trial.

"Why is it bigger than yesterday? It wasn't this big before." Kuro was slowly dragging herself back but stopped when her back touched Marco's leg.

"When the Alpha is threatened to a corner it takes in its remaining troop and uses them to strengthen itself. So right now is the least wanted situation." Marco said as Kuro looked at him and held his leg. "Kuro… Grab Darwin and jump. The stream bellow is pretty deep so don't worry. I can buy you enough time to wake Higgs up as well and go." Kuro was about to object to what he said when The Alpha's roar silenced everything around it.

Higgs awoke from the Roar as she saw Marco standing in front of her ready for a fight. She was about to ask what made that sound when she glanced over to the thing that made her almost pee herself.

Before anything could be said The Alpha charged as Marco ran without hesitation. He jumped and appeared in front of it in the blink of an eye. His sword over his head came down as he swung his blade but before contact is made The Alpha dashes back and spins as its tail hit Marco into a tree.

The Alpha whips its head around and Kuro can't help but just want to jump off the cliff but she can't bring herself to leave anyone behind. She doesn't want to leave the others but she doesn't want Marco to get anymore hurt.

The Alpha roars in pain from Marco stabbing it in its back leg. "Where the FUCK you think you're looking bastard." Marco said as he pulled the blade downward opening the wound even more.

A wolf's head forms from the wound and tries to bite Marco when he barely reacted and jumped away before it did.

'Okay that was close… Ah…' Marco looks down and notices a branch pierced through his abdomen. He looks up and dashes away from the claw that was going to crush him. Marco circles around him and noticed arrows being shot at The Alpha. Marco turns to see Darwin standing up with his bow in hand barely able to keep his balance.

"I GOT YOU COVERED MARCO!" Darwin yells out as he lets loose another few arrows.

Marco charges in and strikes with his sword over and over again. He barely is able to dodge The Alpha's swipes but Darwin is able to help for a time being before his arrow supply is depleted. Then Marco loses his footing and is on the ground as he sees a set of claws coming down onto him Higgs stands atop him and is holding both her Rapier and Short sword upward stabbing into the palm of The Alpha making it roar in pain and dashes away from them both.

"I'm tired of you always rushing into danger and not giving us a thought. We are a team so rely on me… on US more." Higgs said as she kept her eyes on The Alpha. Marco smiled and stood up beside her.

"Okay… I get it so then Dame Higgs would you back me up and help me kill this ugly bastard?" Marco asked as Higgs didn't say anything but nodded in response.

The Alpha roared loudly that terrified the others to look on in despair as they saw it change form. It sucked the limbs back into its body becoming slightly smaller into a humanoid figure. This thing was the size of 3 bears and had monstrous limbs. It created a blade using its ooze, solidifying it into a halberd type weapon.

The Alpha reared its arm back and lunged towards Higgs thrusting the Halberd outward. Higgs barely was able to dodge it when she saw some arrows in The Alpha's arm. Darwin was still on back up with few arrows he had left. He began to screw flares and Thermite tips into his remaining arrows for better effect.

Marco and Higgs continued attacking from opposite sides as they turn The Alpha around for Darwin to fire off some flares into its eyes and follow up with Thermite to deal damage. The strategy seems to be working so far but little did they know that it was just pissing it more off. Phase 2 of their boss fight was going on but not because it was threatened close to death but because it was having fun playing with its food.

After a while Kuro would jump in with a few knives when she saw Darwin getting into his last few arrows. 'I can't leave them behind, I can't leave you behind… Marco." Kuro said within herself. She began to admire him since in her own way Marco seemed like Raven. Broken in many ways but always able to pull the pieces back together and even at death's doorstep they don't give up.

Darwin was appreciating the help from Kuro but his fatigue was low and the adrenaline was running thin. The wounds he sustained before were taking its toll. He didn't want to stop and let the others down or leave them to fight it alone. He was so focused at firing he didn't see or hear anything else which is why Kuro is seen pulling him to the ground.

Needle like Spike are seen passing them both and also being driven into the ground around them noticing The Alpha threw them from his off hand. He was able to make spikes and utilize them in its own way. It made a dash for them, Marco and Higgs wasn't ready for it and didn't react in time to stop him from drive his Halberd down onto them. It single out Marco and throws its spikes at him as he use his blade to block he is thrown back a few feet by the impact with shatters his Long Sword.

The Alpha turned to them again and went for a last attack but Higgs got to them first blocking with her blades. It was able to use both hands driving them down again smashing them all into the ground as Marco shot up seeing their bodies not moving laid out on the ground.

'Higgs… Kuro… Darwin.' The only thing that rang through his mind was them as he got up not noticing that the branch that had punctured him fell out and he was bleeding profusely. He drew his Short Sword and saw The Alpha reach to grab them from where they laid.

"KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF OF THEM!" Marco jumped up into the air and The Alpha's looked back with an emotionless face. Marco held his blade close to his torso and locked his body as the blade stabbed it in the shoulder. The Alpha moved its arm around Marco with its Halberd in hand when he noticed its skin was crawling like before when it formed the spikes that he threw at them. "Oh shit!"

Marco let go pushing his blade and using his legs to kick away and out of his hold from its arm. The skin then shot outward in hundred of needles and still caught Marco in his legs as he was falling back. Marco screamed out in pain as he was grabbed by The Alpha and swung around being throw against the stump near the others.

Everything was spinning and his vision was blurry from a hit in the head and the pain searing through his body wasn't helping. He was getting dangerously low on blood before but now his legs were bleeding and Marco was already at deaths door.

The Alpha roared into the sky almost mocking him and letting them know there was nothing they could do. The Alpha was showing that his victory was inevitable like they weren't even a challenge. Marco crawled over to the others and didn't know it but Higgs and Kuro was still conscious. While he was crawling over and bleeding out The Alpha was waiting almost to show how much lower they were to him.

Marco finally reached them as The Alpha lifted its arm and Halberd readying it to be brought down onto them. Marco sat up and waited for his demise holding his hands outward to show he was determined to protect them even at the end. It growled almost like it laughed at his show of pride. Then it drove downward as hard as it could but when it hit, it hit to the left of him and the others. He noticed an arrow with a few blown holes on The Alpha's arm.

Marco then saw more coming from the right of him out sight hitting The Alpha's arm and exploding into flames blowing the arm off as it roared out in pain and jumping backward into a trap of metal threads cutting into it.

Two shadows showed up next to Marco as one held a long bow that looked like an enchanted branch with golden trims holding and making it more durable. The other had curves of a female who held one curved sickle like blade and another that was wavy like a sacrificial blade he's seen once before. His vision was still going in and out of focus when he saw The Alpha fall with someone else atop his head clad in armor pulling out his two long blades out of its shoulders. He jumped off when the person to his left pulled the threads slices into The Alpha as the person to his right fired off Thermite and combustion arrows into it killing it for good.

Marco could barely stay conscious when all he heard were voices before passing out.

"We need to stop Marco and Darwin's bleeding immediately!" A man's voice is heard as a women's voice is heard coming from behind him next.

"Kuro… Come on beautiful you're stronger than this." The woman was very concerned for Kuro's health. During the last moments her and Higgs finally went unconscious.

"You did good Marco… Get some rest I'll get you and Higgs back alive. I promise this my friend." Another man's voice is heard and almost sounds like Sir Stabby.

Marco finely fully drifted into unconsciousness.


"You should have used me old friend." A deep voice says. "We are always together, always one. I am you and eventually you will be me. Sin to your heart's content. Say my name MARCO." The last bit its voice was distorted and scary. Marco awoke trying to catch his breath.

Marco looks around the room when he notices he is in a tent with a sleeping Higgs and Darwin across from him in their own beds. He can see a bed beside him but no one is in it yet the bed spread is rustled like someone was using it a while. Surprised from something moving around in his bed he sits up and moves the blanket away to see in a deep sleep Kuro within his bed.

"I don't know what you did but she is super attached to you." Marco looks the other way and sees Raven twirling a knife in her hand as she deeply glares at Marco.

"I promise you I did nothing of the sort. I just thought since Higgs was using my lap as a pillow then she was doing the same thing." Marco said as he lifted his hands to show he wasn't touching her.

"Calm down idiot Mar… Wait hold on what? Ugh… Never mind. She has always been attached to me since I took her in. She's really bashful but she's like a kitten who wants affection. So I will let this slide since you did great to keep them and her safe till the end." Raven said as she put the knife away and got up.

Marco slowly got up and could fill his whole body being pierced with pain. He was sore all over and still feeling the pain in his abdomen like the branch was still piercing through.

"Hey don't push yourself so much you're still healing. Just try and take it easy and make sure not to drastically move around. Also Stabby got you some new clothes. They're pretty much the same but new, also your gear is in there to. The armor you wore is amazing but you need to work on your physical body or just wear full plated armor to cover everything so you don't get hurt like you did. " Marco gave a thumbs up as Raven walked out.

Marco grabbed his bag of clothes when he felt a tug at his shirt. 'Seriously if she was this cute all the time I probably won't be able to resist her either.' He changed into his new clothes which was hard with his wounds and bandaging but eventually he was ready to leave the medical tent.


'I wonder what everyone else is doing.' Marco walked out of the tent and saw the others packaging the main carts to be ready for transport. He even saw Sir Stabby and Miles talking to Alfred about something. He began to walk over when he heard footsteps running over to him.

"Marco!" He turns to the call of his name and sees Star leaping into him and knocking him down to the ground. "I thought you weren't going to wake up. I'm so glad your okay."

"Hey Star… What are you doing here?" Marco asked as he was trying to hold back his tears from the pain.

"You were my squire so when you were brought back they sent out a small team to brief Queen Eclipsa and they gave us a report on everything that happened. Since I got my portals I can always visit you." Star opened and closed a portal to demonstrate.

"Now that you bring it up do you have my scissors so I can pop in and out of the city and my Dimension? My baby bro should be coming soon so I want to be able to see him from time to time." Star agreed and pulled out his scissors out of her small purse and gave them to him.

"Hey also there is going to be a coronation for Eclipsa and it'll be a public event. I'll have Tom and Janna pass out flyers and let you know the exact date of it." Star said as she opened a portal. "I also have a present for you." She goes in the portal and a few second later another opens as she comes back with something wrapped in cloth.

Marco took it in his hands and unwrapped it revealing a new sword. He straps it on his back and winced when it hit the entrance of where the branch pierced him.

"Oh sorry I should have done this beforehand." Star waved her wand and pointed to Marco as his wounds began to heal slowly. They healed quite a bit but didn't fully close his major wounds. Bruises disappeared and his cuts healed with faint scars. "Glossaryck has been teaching Eclipsa and since she rebuilt the book of spells I have been able to read more it and learned this healing spell, but yeah it uses your own stamina to heal your body." Star said as she noticed Marco fall to one knee and tried to help him up.

"Well that explains why I feel like sleeping again. Thank you Star, for all of this." Marco said as Star blushed and then looked at his sword.

"Oh yeah that gift was from a local blacksmith that Eclipsa said used to be a knight. His name was Bronson and he said he made this one to fit and be used by you only. He said to hold and press this and swing it downward beside you in one hand and you will see a surprise." Star explained as Marco unsheathed his blade and saw something on the hilt.

He clicked it down and jerked his whole arm to his side swiping the air bringing his right arm down to his side and saw the whole blade get coated in flame. His eyes lit up when Miles and Sir Stabby noticed this and quickly walked over to see what is was, and to see how Marco was doing. Star was awestruck from the display of Marco looking handsome and like a true warrior again like in Heckapoo's Dimension.

"Whoa Marco first you have Dragon Crystal armor and now a Crystal embedded blade." Miles said as Sir Stabby stood by him like he was going to say the exact same thing.

"Wait what do you mean Crystal embedded?" Marco asked.

"Crystals are able to hold a lot of things in a stasis like bubble." Sir Stabby said. "But when it comes to Magic it's way different story. Rhombulus' Crystals have the same properties these crystals have. He can trap someone inside of his crystals like Magic as well. But Magic doesn't stop once it is trapped." Everyone listened close to the interesting story he was saying but barely understood before Miles interrupted.

"Look he can trap people in his crystals and they don't age like if frozen. Magic is the same but never depletes or vanishes. Your blades core is probably a flame magic and the metal he used for the blade is a conductor for that magic. So when you use that your blade can always be coated in flames whenever it is needed." Sir Stabby rubbed his neck as Miles made it simple for them to understand.

"What he forgot to say is that to be found with a physical crystal and not being approved by the Magic High Commission will be prosecuted by the Queen and can be sentenced to immediate death." Sir Stabby said.

Marco was surprised and felt lucky he had someone looking out for him. "Wait that reminds me… Why didn't he bring anything for Higgs?"

"He did just he gave everything to the supplies cart that should be here by tomorrow but since I was going to come and see you anyways he gave it to me." Star said as she answered his question.

"How are they getting here so fast?" Miles asked.

"Queen Eclipsa has appointed a cart that has been given a Light Weight Spell along with some Warnicorn's to pull it. Also Eclipsa is very sorry for the lives that were lost and wanted supplies to reach here immediately." Star said hoping they wouldn't think that they could have gotten there faster if Star was around when the cart was leaving and get it to The Caravan instantly.

"Well Thank You Prin… Thank You Star Butterfly." Sir Stabby said as Star smiled back.

"Well… Take it easy Marco and I hope you feel better. Pop in whenever you feel like it and let me know when you see your little brother." Marco gave her a thumbs up as they spoke for a little longer as ended she left through a portal.


Sun was setting as Marco was standing atop a wall talking to Miles, Sir Stabby, Raven and Alfred telling them everything that happened during their mission. He didn't leave a single detail out and praised Kuro and Darwin's bravery which made Miles and Raven feel a lot better and gain respect for Marco as a leader.

He briefed everything and in return they told him everything they did to take out The Alpha in detail. After everything Marco was exhausted from the beginning since Star used that healing spell and now he just wants to pass out from the long day. Alfred told him that everyone had individual tents but were small so he was given a big tint that was an understatement from the inside since they were the main reason The Caravan didn't suffer so many casualties.

The entrance went into a living room area that also had kitchen and dining area together. Limited space was being used perfectly. The back of that tent had two little tints connected to it for bedding. The left and right side had one bedding each. The four of us had our own rooms but even then the beds themselves were pretty big and very soft.

'Well I guess since the girls might want to be together. I will just take the one on the right.' Marco goes in for bed but first looks around for where the bathroom would be at. 'Alfred said there is an outhouse with a sink and mirror for us as well.' He went outside and saw the outside right beside the building and quickly used the restroom and brushed his teeth.

'Finally that feels a lot better. Well that's enough for now. I am going to just go to bed now.' Marco began to walk over to the tent when he saw Higgs walking towards it along with Kuro. Darwin was still being watched over since his wounds were deep and they wanted to make sure he doesn't contract any kind of infection.

"Marco! Alfred said you were already ahead of us." Kuro called out as they both walked up to him.

"Hey, how are you both feeling?" Marco asked concerned since the image of them being passed out on the ground was the last thing he saw before waking up today.

"I'm a little sore and Kuro is the same. We both have cuts and bruises but what about you? You and Darwin were the worst of it." Higgs said.

"I'm a lot better and Star passed by to give me something and ended up healing me but she had to get back to planning Queen Eclipsa's Coronation. Even though she healed me but my abdomen is still open. Everything in it has been healed but the skin is still healing." Marco said as he began walking the tent and they followed behind. "So tomorrow I will be able to help around, also Alfred gave some info that something is in the castle grounds which is why they were waiting for supplies tomorrow to begin going through it."

"That sounds fun as heck… Just sucks Darwin won't be able to help until he heals completely." Higgs said.

They ended up talking but what they didn't say was they both saw him risk his life in the end to try and save them. Even though the others came to the rescue they still loved the gesture that he would give it his all till the end to keep them safe.

They all talked for a while and agreed to go see Darwin tomorrow before looking for some way to contribute and help everyone scavenge. Kuro and Higgs chose a room and ended up just talking as Marco let them know he was exhausted and just went to bed.


After an hour he could feel something heavy on him and slowly opened his eyes to see Higgs atop him looking down at him.