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Marco Diaz could honestly say he was happy, right now.
He thought that he would have missed his original reality but he didn't.
Because he didn't have any time to think about what he left behind due to Dark Star and her none stop adventure's.
They had been collecting thing's from all over the dimensions and for some reason she had been building a machine with those thing's.
He asked what the machine was for but she just told him, that it was a surprise that he would know, when she officially introduces him as a Prince.
Maybe it wasn't a congratulations gift?
Even Toffee was tight lipped about it and always found some way to escape whenever the machine was brought up.
The royal dresser had come into his room a few days before, just to get his managements for the suit he would be wearing.
However, nobody in any reality was allowed to touch his hair and those who tried to tame it, was immediately kicked out.
And now he was here at the party.
And Sick of it.
9: Being Honest.
"ENOUGH!" He yelled.
His voice echoed across the interior of the castle and everybody stopped talking and turned to him.
He had been swamped by a herd of women who wouldn't let him speak and were touching him in places, he did not like.
"I'm going out for some fresh air" He said, calming down before ordering. "And nobody is to bother me"
He then began to climb the step's, anybody who dared to rush after him was immediately blocked by guards, on both sides of the staircase.
"Is that really Marco? He's certainly got the voice of a leader." Tom said, impressed.
Mr and Mrs Diaz tried to push their way to the front of the line on both entrances but the guards were like brick walls, refusing even a hair to get passed them.
They had been denied yet again from speaking to their only child.
Realising it was useless, they all pulled out of those crowds and with less people on a certain side of the room, Star found her group.
"Star" Tom said, rushing to her and Mr and Mrs Diaz right behind him.
"Okay, everyone. Handle up." Star said, as they huddled and she whispered. " How do we get past those guards?"
"I could blast them. That would give you any opening" Tom said.
"Are you insane, Tom?" Star said. "This place is crawling with guards and 'Miss Physio' over there isn't that far away from us. Who knows how fast you'll be captured and what they'll end up doing to you!" what's worse, was that she couldn't take out her wand.
"Then, it's up to us" Mr Diaz said, getting both Star and Tom to look at him with confusion.
"Star. Just get ready to dive when you see any opening" Mrs Diaz said, reading her husband mind, it saddens her but Star was the best choice to go up there and talk to Marco.
Star nodded and pushed her way through the crowd of people to the guards on the right side of the stairs.
Then it happened.
"THEIF!" Mrs Diaz screamed, getting everybody attention.
"Oh, no. Somebody just stole my beautiful wife Dimond Necklace!" Mr Diaz said, before saying. "And he just went out the door!"
The guards sprung forward, because they had been threatened by Dark Star earlier on, that the night would not be ruined and began to pursue the 'thief'.
"Their acting is really terrible, isn't it, Toffee?" Dark Star said, of course she know what was happening, she watched amused as her alternate self, climbed up to the top of stairs and went to find Marco.
"Yes, it is, my queen" Toffee said, right beside her before saying. "Should I stop the girl from reaching the Prince?"
"No. Let them be" Dark Star said. "There is nothing she can do to sway him at this point. By tomorrow morning. He will truly be the prince of this reality and I'll truly have my own Marco."
She had been planning this for months.
All she had to do was sit back and enjoy the show.
#Marco at the nearest Balcony#
"Mewni, is so beautiful looking here" Marco said, looking out to the very kingdom that he now heled in the palm of his hand.
To think he would go from a sidekick to an actually Prince.
"MARCO!" Came a voice, that made him freeze.
Wait.
It can't be.
How could she be, here!?
However, he know the difference between Dark Star and Star, just by listening to the tone of their voice.
It really was Star.
So, he calmed himself down and turned around, only to be surprised to see a girl he had never met before show up.
"Who are you?" He said, his voice as cold as ice making Star flinched. "How did you get here?"
"M-Marco. It's me. Star." Star said, removing her wig and mask.
His cold eyes, softened when he saw it was indeed her, before turning quickly around and saying.
"I'm not going back."
In his mind, she he had come here for nothing.
However, what Star said next, shocked him.
"Marco. I know. I just came to apologise." Star said, his eyes going wide.
What? Marco thought.
"I wasn't a good friend to you" Star admitted. "From the moment I met you, you looked out for me even when you didn't want to. I messed up and screwed up, time and time again. I didn't take anything seriously and often, you would be put in harm's way. However, I care for you. I exploded my wand for you."
Are you trying to guilt trip me down? Marco thought with narrowing eyes.
"And because I didn't want our relationship to change. I buried my feelings for you." Star continued. "It wasn't right that I told you, right in front of your girlfriend, that I liked you, at the very last second before I was being forced to leave." Marco couldn't believe his ears, but Star was far from finished. "I just heaped my feelings onto you without thinking and ran away. A large part of me, hopped that I would never see you again so I couldn't hear the words of you rejecting to me"
Marco was stunned.
"And then Toffee happened and when I saw how hard Tom was trying to change just so that I would like him even a little bit. Apart of me just thought, how easy it was to be his girlfriend again" She said, she know that Tom liked her, so there would be no heart break on her side. "Then you crashed back into my life and I panicked."
Marco found himself listening.
"And why shouldn't I panic? The last time we saw each other, I told you I liked you" Star said. "But I was dating Tom now. Things were different. I didn't want you to be there to reawaken any feeling's I had for you. I should have been honest with you from the very beginning. I admit, appointing you as my Squire was a pathetic attempt to make you feel welcome. I didn't know how you would feel especially when you found out how the others Squires had to train their whole lives to be one"
Marco looked down.
"And then I just took advantage of you because I thought I was doing the right thing, because I saw how excited you were about being my Squire but..." She didn't finish the sentence but he know what she meant.
Star then laughed hollowly and said. "Looking back now. there must have been times where you cried for help but I didn't want to see it. You did so much for me and not once did I listen to you or even say thank you. You even took my wand in your hand and risked it all just so that you can reach me in a magical realm. And what did you get? You didn't get one thank you instead I gave you a tongue lashing about using my wand. You could have died for nothing. I didn't deserve you. I'm sorry."
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Silence.
Wow.
Marco couldn't believe it, that was the realists thing he had ever heard her way.
It was something, he always wanted to hear but never got.
However, was it too late?
Marco turned around and Star hoped she had reached him.
"Thank you" Marco said. "That was all I wanted to hear from you"
She did.
Star did reach him.
"So, will you give us another chance?" Star said, was it too early to hope?
However,...
"Things aren't that simple, Star" Marco said. "I'm a Prince now. I have nothing back there. Here it's so much better. I can do whatever I want. Be whoever I want. The other you is amazing."
"Marco... How can you say that?" Star said, "She's terrible"
The pleasant atmosphere changed in the blind of an eye.
Marco eyes went ice cold and Star realised she had said the wrong thing.
"What?" Marco said, in a tone that scared her. "What's wrong with Dark Star?"
"Y-Your... know" Star said, she didn't know what to make of Marco sudden reaction but she was going to tell him the truth. "She's nuts! She killed her parents. She enslaved everybody. Have you seen Hekapoo? When I was on earth, everybody looked at me like I was a monster. A person like that, can't possibly be good"
"Funny, little princess" Marco said, his sudden nickname for her made her cringe. "Aren't you the one who is always blabbing about 'The decimation against Monster's because of how they look'? Aren't you a hypocrite? You're quick to judge somebody on what other people say about them, without even talking to her face to face for a minute."
"B-" Star began.
He couldn't honestly like her!
However, Marco began to step forward and Star took a step back.
"I admit it. She killed her parents. She admitted to that to me" Marco said, making Star shocked. "But she is the Star you will never be. She listens to me. She thanks me when I do something nice for her. She screwed up a lot less and takes magic seriously! She exactly wants me around and we go on kick ass adventures together. She allows me to act my age. She has given me so much when she didn't have to. She didn't have me, reach, my breaking point before she finally realised, she was a b*tch. UNLIKE LIKE YOU!"
His horns appeared on his head and wave of demonic energy sprung from his body.
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Silence.
Marco retracted back and his horns disappeared, when he realised what he just said.
Did he actually call Star a 'B*itch'?
Star stood wide eyed, her brain struggling to comprehend what Marco just called her.
When she did, her expression turned sour when she said. "Fine. I know I'm not wanted here. At least I don't plan to bond people at a party"
Marco looked at her surprised.
"Oh, she didn't tell you?" Star said, so she had one upped her other self. "So much for honesty. She plans to soul bind you tonight. You know the myth of the Red Moon."
"That's impossible" Marco said, he found it petty that Star was lying to him. "Dark Star told me, this reality doesn't have a Blood Moon. Bonding is powerful magic and when she undid it, I almost died."
"Wait. What?" Star said.
"It's too risky. Dark Star wouldn't risk it again, it also wiped her out." Marco said. Before jokingly saying. "However, knowing her, she would look for an alternative solution like b..." He trailed off, as he images of every adventure he had been on, flashed crossed his mind.
The objects that Dark Star collected.
The machine that was being built.
"M-Marco?" Star said.
"So, there you are Marco" Said, a smooth voice that sent chills down Star spine.
Star turned and was chilled to see the other her standing next to her.
Dark Star did not look at her.
"It's time for your surprise" Dark Star said before taking Marco's hand.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Star said.
"I'm sorry and you are?" Dark Star said, looking at her like she was trash, her voice deceptively smooth. "You have some nerve looking like that. I would have had you executed for trying to impersonate me. Who knows what lie's you may have spouted just to confuse my prince"
"Your Prince!?" Star screeched.
Then Dark Star seemed to be done speaking to her and said to Marco. "Marco, let's go."
Marco looked at her and then cleared his head.
She had done nothing to betray his trust so he choice to followed her.
Seeing that he was leaving, Star yelled.
Or she tried to.
Star was shocked when she found that she could not speak and her body wouldn't move.
Her eyes soon zeroed in on a little glint of a wand that was hiding inside Dark Stars dress.
Both Dark Star and Marco walked straight passed her and she could do nothing about it.
MARCO! Star yelled in her mind.
And then to make matter's worse, guards surrounded her lead by Toffee, they had been stationed to make sure that even if she could move, there would be people there to restrain her.
They moved in to find her wand and take it from her.
And then when she thought it couldn't get any worse, Dark Star made her truly realise what kind of a monster she was up against.
Dark Star touched Marco arms, pretending to dust something of him but in reality, she mouthed the words.
'Check and Mate'
To her.
Star realised, with horror.
Dark Star had planned it all.
It really was 'Check and Mate'
And scene!
Next chapter, Mr and Mrs Diaz along with Tom are wondering where Star is and why Marco came down with Dark Star, alone. Thing's get rough when the dance starts. Who will Marco choose? Dark Star or Star. I would love to hear from you in the review section. Review/fav and follow!
