"Oh. Okay." Star replied, not letting the words completely sink in.

"MARRIED!?" Marco and Star yelled.

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SonicELITE: Chapter 9: Ah, yes. The cliché is what makes each story extremely common. Thanks for the compliments to our story! And don't worry, I don't mind. Nymph will though. Chapter 10: Criticism is appreciated, I just wanted this to be a short one-shot, so I probably won't write anymore of this.

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Mr. EVAunit42: Chapter 9: Uh huh! Smitty is alive and so am I, and thanks again for the clarification, might take some time to get to it though. Then again, classes are pretty much over except for exams. Hopefully there's more time to write during the summer. Marco pretty much accepted it at this point, and Jackie is always happy to support friends. Oh, and hi to you too Mr. E! Chapter 10: Cute and awesome, just how we roll *slips on pair of sunglasses* thanks for the feedback, and the stove is probably off anyway. Psh, Safe Kid.

Anyways, here's part two of the Suitors arc.

The people within earshot heard what had been said, and stared at the general direction of the Butterfly's, intrigued by what they had to say.

"Whoa, wait, can you repeat that?" Star asked, still in a state of shock.

"Did I not speak clearly? I could've sworn I said my words correctly…" Queen Butterfly frowned to herself, internally questioning herself.

"Yeah, of course I heard you, just what?! Why am I getting married?" Star feverishly asked.

"Well, in approximately two years you are to ascend to Mewni's throne. Since the people still see you as the reckless, irresponsible princess, they don't think you're fit to rule alone." Her mother explained.

"But I've changed, it's been four years!" Star complained.

"Yes, but the people don't know that. And unless you can change the mind of the population along with a dozen nobles in the next month, you're getting married." King Butterfly argued.

"Is there anything we can do?" Marco asked, joining in on the conversation. If something that Star didn't like was happening, he needed to be involved.

"I'm sorry, but as a commoner in a different dimension, I'm afraid nobody will care what you have to say." Queen Butterfly told him.

"So I'm stuck marrying somebody I don't even know?" Star hopelessly asked.

Her mother and father could only nod, acknowledging their daughter's distraught.

Star needed comfort, support, so she grabbed the nearest object (in this case, Marco) and hugged him tightly.

Marco was caught off guard by the sudden hug, before melting into it and hugging back, comfortingly rubbing Star's back. She dug her head in the soft red fabric of his hoodie, shutting her eyes tight. This was a reminder that she had to leave earth, everything behind. Being betrothed to a stranger was what sealed the deal though.

King Butterfly stared at the two, rubbing his chin in deep thought. His eyes widened in realization, before crying our triumphantly.

"Huzzah!" He cried out loud, regaining the attention of the crowd.

"What's the matter?" His wife asked.

"I think I know a way to avoid this situation!" King Butterfly announced.

"You do?!" Star excitedly said, breaking her hold on Marco and turning to her father.

"Yes, it's quite simple actually. We hold a competition for your hand in marriage! Suitors from all around, competing for your hand!" River happily exclaimed.

"That's a rather old law, River. Is it still a liable method in the eyes of the nobles?" His wife asked unsurely.

"Who cares? Let's do it! Wait, won't I still have to marry somebody I don't know?"

"That's the second part of our plan, he-" King Butterfly pointed to Marco. "-will compete for your hand!"

Marco nearly choked on his own tongue, being put on the spot to compete for your crush's hand is quite the deal breaker.

"W-what? Why me?" Marco stammered.

"From what my daughter has told me and what I've seen with my own eyes, you're quite the warrior! You're the perfect candidate for this!"

"You would be the most reasonable choice, our daughter has made it clear she would trust you with her life, and vice versa."

Marco raised his eyebrows, surprised Star spoke about him to her parents. Rather highly, too. He found the look on her face odd as well.

"Well, just because I have a red belt with a stripe now, I wouldn't call myself a warrior…"

"She also goes on about how you're so smart, getting the best marks on tests – whatever those are – fixing people's minds without breaking open their skulls, and having a plan for everything. You're a mental champion as well." Queen Butterfly said.

"I wouldn't necessarily call myself a genius, I usually get caught with my pants down."

"What?" Both Queen and King Butterfly asked, confused with terminology.

"Earth expression. Anyways, Star, you talk to your parents about me?"

"Well, you are my guide on Earth." Star responded.

"Yes, she speaks very fondly about you. In fact, she rarely talks about anything else."

"Okay! Mom, that's enough!" She turned to Marco, her hands clasped together and her face making the puppy pout.

"Please, please, please do it Marco! You're literally my only hope right now!" Star pleaded.

Marco liked the sound of that, being Star's only hope. He didn't like the thought of participating in a Mewnian competition, the last few visits to the dimension not very assuring. The puppy eyes were prying him open though, so he rolled his eyes and dove right into the situation.

"Okay, I'll do it. But only for your free right to marry who you want." Marco agreed.

Star squealed and hugged him again, jumping up and down in joy.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Marco laughed and hugged her back, he could get used to being the hero for once.

"Great! Your training starts tomorrow." King Butterfly informed the young Latino.

"Training? Why do I need to train?" Marco asked.

"Let's just say some challenges you'll face will be…to the extreme. We need to keep your body fit and prepared for certain things that humans aren't used to."

"Alright. I'll be ready by tomorrow morning." Marco replied.

"Delightful! Meet me here tomorrow and your life-threatening trials can begin!"

"Wait, life-threatening?" Marco worriedly asked, but River had cut a rift in space time and was already diving through.

"Tallyho!" He cried as he disappeared through the swirl of blue.

"Happy Birthday again, dear." Queen Butterfly addressed her daughter. "Hopefully next year we come bearing a better gift." She joked before following her husband through the portal.

The party remained silent for a duration, before one by one returned to partying with each other.

Mrs. Diaz approached her son and Star facing the two. "So you're fighting for a girl's hand in marriage, huh?"

Marco braced himself for the scolding her would receive from his mother. What he got was much worse.

"I'm so proud of you Marco. From a little boy to a lady's man!" She began pinching his cheeks, much to his embarrassment. Star smiled at his situation, giggling silently at him.

"Mooooom." Marco complained, moving her hand off his face. He felt a pair of arms wrap around him and lift him up, shaking him around in the air.

"Agh! Who are you?" He asked, upset at who decided to pick him up and throw him around like a ragdoll.

"It is me Marco! Your dad! I'm so happy you're finally getting down with some chickitas!"

Marco and Star flushed at his comment.

"Yeah, yeah. Save your celebration, I haven't actually won the competition yet." Marco said as his father put him down.

"You don't need to focus on that now, though. The night is still young, go and party!" Mrs. Diaz told them.

"Don't need to tell me twice." Star said before dragging Marco off to the dance floor.

They started dancing wildly, happy that they could enjoy this moment before this whole "Suitors" thing took off. Marco caught Jackie's eye, who was standing across the backyard. She must've overheard what had happened, because he could read what her expression meant.

This is your chance.

Marco smiled as he thought to himself, I have a chance.

"You sure that you'll be okay without me?" Marco asked Star as he walked outside to the backyard.

"Of course, I know how to have fun without you. No offense."

Marco smiled as he slung his duffel bag over his shoulder.

"None taken. Just worried in case you get yourself in a mess without me."

"I can handle being alone with a wand. Your parents are always here to watch me just in case."

"You see, that's what I'm worried about. They seem rather…inattentive when it comes to magical problems."

"Just try not to destroy the town while I'm gone." Marco told her.

"Yeah, yeah. Don't destroy the town, don't use my wand irresponsibly, yada yada yada, just go and meet my dad." Star ripped open a portal with her scissors and shoved Marco into it.

"And don't-" Marco tried but got cut off as he travelled across space-time.

Star sealed the rift and skipped inside the house, a wide smile on her face.

"Finally! A chance to do whatever I want without fear of consequence!" Star exclaimed. "This is gonna be the best day ever!"

"This is the most boring day ever." Star said lying in her bed. "Hey Marco, I'm bored." She said to nobody.

"Ugh, there's nobody to complain to either!"

"He's been gone for less than an hour and I already miss the dork." Star said to herself.

"I wonder what awesome training he's going through now…"

Meanwhile, on a Mewni mountain peak…

"Uh, I don't see how this is considered training!" Marco cried out to King Butterfly.

"Just escape before you get killed, nothing too hard!" The king slammed the metal door shut, leaving the chained up Marco trapped inside.

"Oh, and it's rigged to explode in five minutes, so better be quick!" The king informed him.

"What?!" Marco exclaimed from his metal prison.

The king ignored him and pushed him off the cliff, a smug smile on his face as it sped down to the jagged rocks below.

"I agree with the boy; I don't see how this is training." The captain of the royal guard said to his king.

"Oh it's not, it's just entertaining for me." The king responded as the screams of a little girl echoed throughout the mountain range.

Back on Earth...

"What do you want to do today, Marco plushy?" Star asked the soft smaller version of her best friend.

"Hmm what's that? You want to go rob some space pirates again?"

She moved the plushy Marco's head up and down, making it nod.

"But we did that last week!" Star complained.

She moved the hand of the Marco plushy onto it's chin, as if it was thinking. She raised its hand, signaling it had another idea.

"Ooh! Visiting Father time is nice! We haven't seen him in a while."

"You know; it's said talking to yourself is the first sign of going crazy." A voice said behind her.

Star jumped up from her position on her bed, making a full 180 to see the source of the voice.

"Glossaryck, you don't just sneak up behind somebody!" Star scolded him.

"Sorry, I got bored." Glossaryck answered. "You don't happen to have some pudding, do you?" He asked.

"Kitchen, second cupboard." Star answered.

"Thank you prrrrincess! Have fun talking to a stuffed toy!" Glossaryck said, floating outside of her room.

"Marco plushy is not a stuffed toy! He's a soft and adorable doll!" Star retorted. "Don't listen to him, your awesome!" She gave the plushy a high-five, before hearing a ring coming from her mirror.

"Call from Pony Head." The mirror said in a monotone voice.

"Pony Head!" Star said excitedly. She ran to the mirror and punched the answer button, showing the image of Princess Pony Head.

"Heeyyy gurl, how's my bestest B-fly doing?" Pony Head asked.

"I was suuuuper bored until you called! How's it going in Uni?" Star asked.

"So much stuff has changed since I came back! By they way, I heard what happened. You getting married?" Pony Head asked.

Star's joyful expression was replaced by a frown, upset that she was being reminded of her betrothal. She brought the Marco plushy in her hand to her chest, hugging it tightly against her.

"Yeah, in a month. Everyone doesn't trust me to lead on my own, so I have a bunch of suitors lined up competing to marry me."

"Is earth turd one of them?" Pony Head asked.

"Yeah, how'd you know?" Star asked.

"I do know. So is there a thing happening between the two of you?" Pony Head asked.

"Huh? No, we don't like each other that way." Star answered, waving off the common question as if it was second nature.

"That stuffed version of him says otherwise." Pony Head responded.

Star hastily threw the Marco plushy away, mouthing a 'sorry' to it before turning back to her best bestie.

"I was bored! There was literally nobody else to talk to."

"Really? You have no other friends there? Nobody to talk to? Sounds to me like the only person you really want to talk to is earth turd."

"Well, I can't help it. He's a good listener, and always there when I rant."

"Where is he anyways?"

"Training for the competition with my dad."

"He must really care about you if he's crazy enough to do that."

"Well, the feeling's mutual. We would do anything for each other." Star stared off smiling, enjoying the fact that the most cautious person out there would risk his neck for her.

Pony Head stared at her weirdly, suspiciously looking at her best bestie.

"Are you sure there's nothing going on between you two? You seem too comfortable together."

"Well, we have fallen asleep together a few times."

"Uh huh."

"And we've shared a few dances over the years."

"Mm hmm."

"His clueless expression with that cute mole on his face is too adorable."

"And he looks great with glasses."

"You sound infatuated with him." Pony Head said.

"Oh hush your mouth, you don't know anything." Star responded.

"I know enough to know what goes over your head…" Pony Head muttered to herself.

Star's mirror began ringing again, saying in the same monotone voice, "Call from Dad."

"Oh, got to go. Dad is calling me."

"Talk to you later B-fly."

"See ya later Pony Head." Star said as she answered the other call.

"Hi Star."

"MARCO!" Star exclaimed.

"Miss me much?" Marco smugly asked.

"No, just surprised to see you using my dad's mirror." Star scoffed, hiding her excitement.

"Hope things weren't too boring without me." Marco said.

"Please, the house has been the life of the party."

"Oh that's good. Because I won't be back until next week." Marco told her.

Star felt a hot lump form in her throat.

"What." She said.

"Yeah, your dad has a lot more planned for me than I thought, and after being tossed off a cliff I need time to cope."

"But I'm bored! There's nobody to hang out with, no monsters to fight, and nothing to do!"

Marco chuckled. "Yeah, life of the party."

"I'll be back soon Star, just find something to do in the meantime. Go to another dimension or two. There ought to be something for you to do, it's a big universe."

"Fine, but you're cooking me the Marco Mega Supreme Nachos when you get back."

"The Mega Supreme Nachos? I haven't made those since-"

"Since we defeated Toffee, I know. But they're soooo good and you owe me for leaving me alone."

"Really? I would think you owe me for doing all this for you."

"Hmm? And what would you have me do?" Star asked

"I'll think of something. In the meantime, try not to miss me too much princess."

Marco hung up, leaving Star in a quiet bedroom once more.

"Yeah, that's going to be harder than I thought." Star said to herself.

This might not be the best we could've made this chapter, but hey it's done and we're lazy, deal with it. -Author Smimph