Days and nights(part 2)
A/N: Ok, so, my the company that provides my internet got shut down yesterday, so, the earliest that I can get back up and running with a new service is Teusday afternoon at the earliest. It is now Sunday morning. So, hopefully I can have this one, the next one and a half chapter done by the time I can get everything all set up. So, with out further adu, enjoy.
Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with SVTFOE, just my OC's and the idea for this particular story.
Saturday morning, 3rd Person PoV
It was early in the morning and Marco was just waking up. Yawning as he walks down the stairs, he gets side sweaped as a bunch of alien tropical birds fly past him.
"Wait, wha... huh?" He says dumbfounded, as he takes a look at his new living room. Completely transformed into a tropical jungle, complete with a hanging mist, birds, critters and bugs, a completely new ecosystem sprouted up in his living room over night. "Wow, Star is getting better with her magic," he says to himself. "This is really peacfull-" he gets cut off as something roars and a lion like creature pounces on him. "AHHH! Someone! HELLLLLLP!" He screams as the giant cat thing has him in it's mouth, and starts to maw at him.
"Shiny crystal laser!" Star cast out of nowhere. A laser point appeared on the ground, catching the cat's eye, it spit Marco out, he landed somewhere with an "Ow!", and the cat started to paw at dot of light. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty," Star said with glee as she lead the cat somewhere into the jungle.
"Wow, thanks Star," Marco said as he got up. Then he reached into his shirt pocket and brought out a pad of paper and a pen. "So, that's 26 for you," he added a check on a divided paper by a line, on the side with a, really good, drawing of Star's head. "And 4... for me," he tucked the paper back into his pocket, "but, who's counting," he said rolling his eyes.
"Wow, Marco," Star says, not catching her boyfriend's tone, "I love what you've done with the place." Just then a big bird the size of her head landed and nested in her hair, surprising Marco as it let out a caw, and started pecking at Star's forehead. "Aww, so cute," she said with glee.
Marco snapped out of his surprise and said, "I did this? Star, how could I? This is clearly your work!"
"Mmm, nope, don't remember doing this."
"Seriously Star?" Marco said, smiling with humor, "Birds and plants, rivers and... whatever the heck that thing is," he pointed to a sentar looking thing with a poodles head eating chips. It said, "Sup," before continuing eating. "This is clearly your doing!"
"Mmm... I don't know," she said skeptically. Marco gave her a deadpanned look and pulled on some vines next to him, they fell down revealing a giant stone bust of Star, with a really wierd look on it's face. "Mmm, that looks more like your dad's work," she said.
And as if on cue, Mr. Diaz popped out of the mouth with a hammer and chisel and said with a laugh, "This is my work, heh heh, but..." he looked around, "the rest of this, no."
Star gave Marco a smug look, kissed him on the cheek ane went upstairs. "Hmm," Marco said as Hugo yelled out, "Guys! There's this huge cat, lion thing chewing on my foot! Please help!"
Somewhere else in town
"Ok, we may have a problem," Ryan said to the group at the breakfast table.
"Damn right we do," Michael said slamming the newspaper down on the table. "The Steelers won the game last night, this can not stand."
"... Anyway," Ryan continued. "There was a... disturbance, last night."
"What, are you a Jedi now too?" Felix said, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
"No, but I can feel the massive surge of magical energy throughout the night. And it's a very, very big problem for us."
"Really? How?"
"Because," Michael said getting up, he started pacing. "The magical energies can attract Shadows, and other things too. Not to mention that it'll cause a whole lot of problems for us, since we're probably gonna be the ones to clean up the mess."
"So what do we do?" Felix said, placing his, now, signature sunglasses on his face.
"Yeah, it may not be a problem now," Ryan said, "I put up some wards when I felt it last night, and worked on some spells that can disburse the dark energies that can create or attract them, but I was only able to cover a quarter of the town, and I'm beat now."
"Hmm..." Michael still paced in thought for a minute. "We'll go out again when the sun goes out, me and you, Ryan, and finish up the rest of the wards, and dispersal spells. So, eat something and get some rest. And Felix?"
"Yeah?" He said surprised.
"Go down into the basement. On my workstation, is another pair of sunglasses. Put them on."
"Uh, ok, thanks, but... why though?" Felix asked confused.
"Because I made some electronic sunglasses, with extra features."
"Such as...?"
"Well, wifi, facial recognition software, telescope, and a mixture of magic-science that can detect things like Shadows, Hallows, ghosts and demons. You know, standard equipment for things like that."
"Dude, I was sold when you said wifi, you said the basement right?" He didn't wait for a response as he ran downstairs.
"So, there's that," Ryan commented. "What now?"
"Like I said, you need to eat something, and get some rest. It's saturday, get some sleep, eat something, and we'll chill for the rest of the day. Come sundown, we'll head out and finish up all the wards. Besides I have a pretty good idea of where the excess magic is coming from."
Later that night, Diaz residence, 3rd Person PoV
It was pretty late, and Marco Diaz woke up. He thought he felt a light shining from behind his eyes, and when he woke up, he heard sounds of banging and energy blasts, and some 8-bit sounds that he attuned to Star's magic.
Getting up, he rushes to her room and throws open the door to his girlfriend's room, and sees something... odd, to say the least. Star is seen sluggishly walking around in a circle in her room, sleepily muttering spells and zapping things.
She's sleep spelling! Marco realizes. Then he tried to wake her up. "Star, Star!" He says, she just turns towards him, snoring and muttering with her eyes closed, "Narwhal Blaaa-" and a half assed Narwhal Blast hit Marco and shot him into the wall. "Ouch! Star, wake up!" He tries again and gets up.
"Lamp Destroy!" And she zapped a lamp, bring it to life, and it wrapped him in it's cord. "Star!"
"Meh" she said, shooting some papers that caused a tornado of stationary to hit Marco.
"Damn it Star, wake up! Woaaaaaaah!"
"Bean Bag... chair... metamorphosis!" She then zapped a random beanbag chair and brought that to life, complete with two little beady eyes, and a zipper mouth, and little arms and legs. It roared, stuffing flying out like rabid froth. And of course, it attacked Marco.
"Ah! STAAAAAAAAAR!"
That woke her up, she opened her eyes, stumbled a bit, and yawned. "Morning Marco, morning beanbag chair monster... MARCO!" She then brandished her wand and shouted, "Lightening twinkle rescue!" She zapped the Bean Bag monster, lamp and papers, and they fell back to normal.
They were silent for a bit, then Star said, "Uh, what's happening?"
"You were spelling in your sleep, WA_ZAAAH!" That last part was him kicking the lamp into a million pieces. He also scratched another check onto his pad of paper.
Star picked up a sleeping Narwhal, and turned to him. "I was sleep casting?" He nodded. "Oh no, this can't be happening, what if my mom tries to call while I'm having one of these-these... What do you call them?"
"Uh, episodes?" He said uncertainly.
"Yeah that thing! If my mom catches me while doing that, she is gonna flip out!" She ran over to her boyfriend and grabbed his shoulders and said, "You gotta help me Marco!"
Marco then gasped. "Then that means I can be the one who saves you now!" He said with sparkles in his eyes. "And I can do it with, psychology!"
"Psychology?" Star asked.
"Psychology!" He whisper-shouted, while waving his hands in the air.
"Yeah, Psychology!" Star did the same thing. "What is it?" She then said.
Marco came up from behind her and said, "Psychology is like, karate for your mind." He placed his hands on top of her head. "I'm gonna dig deep into your mind and see what makes you tick!"
"Ooooh, yeah, we have something like that back on Mewni." She said, glad to one up him.
"Wait, really? How so?" He asked eagerly. In response, Star fired up her wand, and showed him an image of a crowed, a sophisticated looking man in a doctor's coat, and a scared looking man sitting in a catapult. Just then, the doctor released the hold and the scared man went flying into the air, screaming his head off. Marco just stood there, horrified(I mean, who wouldn't be?) and said, "Yeah... this is pretty different. Now, I must transform myself!" He said taking a dramatic pose.
"Transform?" Star asked before Marco started to spin around, and putting on a pair of glasses, a sweater vest, and grabbing a heavy looking psychology textbook, while shouting out their respective categories, "Glasses, cloths, book." and finished off with another dramatic pose while saying, "Dr. Marco-Ph.D!"
Star bounced up and down clapping her hands, clearing enjoying the show. "Wait, what does Ph.D stand for?"
"Pretty Handsome Dude!" Mrs. Diaz said while walking from the bathroom back to her own.
"Mom!" Marco said, caught off guard and embarrassed. "Go back to bed!"
A few minutes later, the couple was downstairs in the junglified living room. "Ok, Ms. Butterfly, I am going to induce a series of psychological tests to get to the root of your sleep walking problem," Marco said.
"Ooo, tests! Sounds fun!... Oh wait, no it doesn't!" Star replied.
Suddenly Marco said, "Painting tests!" He then ran off somewhere for a few minutes. Later he came back with a canvas and about 5 different paints and a esil. Star was playing with her hair. He then shoved a paint brush into her face, bringing her back down to earth. "Here Star, I want you to paint a picture of your childhood."
Star, smiling at the prospect of doing something as fun as painting, took the brush and got to work. Soon, she had a portrait of her, being wrapped around by a snake with her mother's hair, and a bunch of other things I didn't bother memorizing from the episode because I'm lazy.(It's true, I procrastinate like crazy :P)
Marco was amazed, and said, "Such depth! So many symbols, what do they all mean?"
"Hmm? Oh! Nah, I just like drawing rainbows and monsters because they're cool! Rarw, raaaah! Meeeeh-"
"Test No.2!" Marco shouted. "Role playing!" He then shoved the painting and other stuff away and turned to Star. "Ok, now I want you to dress up like someone close to you, and act like them." Marco backed away, took out his pad of paper and got ready to take some notes.
Star tapped her chin in thought, then her heart marks turned into lightbulbs as she said, "Ah-ha!" She then tapped her wand on her head, and in a flash of light morphed her nightgown into Marco's everyday clothes, her hair in a ponytail, and her signature devil headband. "Hey I'm Marco!" She started to act out. "My skinny jeans are awesome, Ooooh! Here comes Jackie Lynn Thomas! I'm gonna impress her with my karate!" She did a few moves to shadow box, then finished with, "I've got this cute little mole!"
Marco grumbled and wrote, "This is not working". "Ok Star, first off," Marco said, "I only wear the skinny jeans every day because they're the best pants I have for fighting, it keeps things in place, and doesn't restrict my major movements too much, just tight enough to let me know my limitations so I don't go overboard, especially with that little fan club of monsters that follows you around everywhere," he pointed his pencil at Star, who smiled sheepishly.
And as if to prove his point, they heard a, "Ok, their distracted, get me that wand!" Star just zapped a beam in the voices general direction. They heard a squawk and a "Ok ok! We won't bother you tonight, geez, touchy."
Marco gave her a smug look, and said, "Second, I have you for a girlfriend now, why would I need to impress Jacky Lynn Thomas?"
"Umm..." Star shifted her feet sheepishly, her outfit sparkling back to what she was wearing before. "I dunno, unresolved feelings I guess?" She shrugged her shoulders.
Marco's eye widened. "Huh, guess I'm not the only one working on psychology," he muttered.
"What was that?" Star asked suspiciously.
"I said, we have one more test!"
"Which is-"
"Ink blot test!" He then ran back upstairs and then was back in less than a minute with a stack of flashcards. "Ok, sit back on the couch Star," he said as he grabbed a chair from the kitchen. Star did as he said, scooting into a corner of the couch. "Ok, I want you to tell me what you see on the cards." He held one up for her to see.
"And ink blot!" Star said immediately. "I win!" She said throwing her arms up and her nightgown shifted, giving Marco a slight view of her white panties.
"No Star!" He said, a little too loudly we might note, while fighting his blush, "Tell me what you think the represent."
"A fat porcupine!" She said.
"Ok, good! How about this one?" He flipped to another card.
"A little alien guy in a gnome cap!" She gasped. "What if I'm sleep spelling because I'm secretly a little alien guy in a gnome cap!?"
"Uh... no, ok, how about this one-oh, wait, how did this is a mistake." He flipped to a card that only had a splotchy one millimeter dot in the center.
But Star gasped. "That one reminds me of my overbearing mother, forcing the teachings and responsibilities of becoming queen for the rest of my life!"
Marco was dumbfounded for a second, then got a smile on his face, "I think we've made a breakthrough!" He said with glee. "You have mother issues!" He said with a little too much glee.
"Yay!" Star said, "I have mother issues!"
"No Star, that's bad!" Oh, wait, maybe not as much glee.
"Aww, I have mother issues," Star said, a bit depressed.
"Oh don't worry Star, finding the rout of the problem is the first step in recovery," Marco reassured her.
"Recovery!" She whispered. They gathered up their mess and made their way up to their rooms. Star planted a kiss on Marco's lips before going to bed.
Somewhere else
"Ok," Michael said, walking back into their house. "We have the perimeter if the town warded off, key streets the same, and dispersal spells in every teen angsty hole we could find, did we miss anything?" Before anyone could answer he flipped over the back of the couch and layed down on it.
"Uh, yeah, actually," Ryan said. "We forgot to ward off the Diaz residence, you know, the source of the reason that we had to stay up to this ungodly hour of the night? And a sleep spell on every living thing in that house so she doesn't accidently blast a hole in the roof? You know, that place?"
"... Oh yeah, damn," was all Michael had to say, placing his arm across his eyes.
"You are unbelievable," Ryan said, pinching the bridge of his nose in anoyance.
"And also," Felix said, walking in from behind Ryan. "I missed one."
"... What?" Michael said, taking his arm off of his eyes.
"Yeah, I managed to find, and dispatch a few Shadows, but one got the jump on me. I came back here so you can patch up this," he pointed to a long gash in his right shoulder, going down the length of his arm a bit, looks like a deep scratch mark.
"Huh, one got away..." Michael mused to himself, as Ryan took Felix to the kitchen table and got to work on him. "That is actually problematic for us... Oh well," he placed his arm back over his eyes. "We have the whole town warded and closed off like a maze, it's gonna be wondering around the town in circles for hours. We'll rest, and then hunt it down in the morning. So, get some shut eye, we'll leave an hour before dawn."
End Chapter 13
A/N:So, couple of notes, one more chapter before this bit closes off, and things get more... serious. That being said, I've decided to include lemon in a few chapters, so, in a few weeks this will be rated M. And don't worry, for you prudes out there, I'm not gonna be all gung ho, and turn Star and Marco into sex crazed deviants... which, they kind of will become, but some more important things will take up their time, like fighting for their lives. In reality, I'm only gonna be posting like, 3 chapters total with lemon in them in the entire story. So, even though it will have an M rating, if you wish, just skip over that chapter if you like the story. If not, well, you have been warned.
Second, sorry for the long wait. Job searching took up most of my time when I got new internet service, and a bit of writer's block as well. So, enjoy. This has been Bigmike33321, signing off!*BOOP!*