Hello guys, Junior here! Sorry for the long wait, had a family crisis (An asshole father crisis, once again), and I got some bruises in my back.
Well, life goes on, and so does my story.
Before you ask, yes, I think I'll be updating Stardust (last chapter) tomorrow, and yes, some of you got the answer to the riddle correctly, but some of you did not, so we'll see how the tables turn for our heroes
Anyway… On with the Fic!
- Star, you are sleepy, maybe we can…
- I promised you a story – She said, yawning – And I'll give you a story
The knight didn't protest, but he noticed that, as she started her narration, the princess adopted a sad tone
- We were a couple at that time, not too long before I came here…
Star would wave her wand left to right, reciting as many spells as her mind could come up with
What he would suppose to do?
She would be surrounded by enemies, and seconds later, she would stand triumphant over all of them, the monsters covered in a pool of honey and glitter
How he could compete with that?
She would spin, smile, scream, dance and fly in the middle of the night, all at the same time, and she would land on the ground softly, still smiling, still happy and still safe
And all he had done until that moment was kick, punch, and scream hiya!
Luckily for him, the next attack occurred two weeks later
Star and Marco were sitting on the couch, watching and old movie, maybe a musical? Yes, of course it was a musical, after all, Star loved that type of movies, Marco wasn't particularly fond of them, but if hearing to Fred Astaire singing in the rain for the umpteenth time was enough to make his girlfriend happy, then he was fine with that
A loud crash outside the house interrupted her favorite part of the film, she tried to ignore it, but several car alarms started to flood the street soon after, she really didn't want to get up
However, she had to, especially after seeing the terrified face of Angie Diaz entering the house and closing the door, muttering:
- Kids… Monster… attack!... Careful!
Both teenager came outside and faced a giant, black octopus, without even presenting himself, the creature extended its eight arms to the couple, Star and Marco made an evasive move and she shouted:
- Can you tell Ludo that for once, I want a moment without monsters?
For all response, the creature let out a scream, charging against the Mewman princess
- Multicolored spear…!
However, she didn't finish her spell, Marco jumped in front of her, ready to defend the girl of his dreams
- Hiya!
The confident boy jumped towards the octopus face, his plan was to grab onto it, make the monster angry and confused, and cause it to start hitting its own head.
Easy, right?
What he couldn't predict was that the octopus was faster than he looked, it protected his head with four arms, with the other four, he grabbed Marco and smashed him to the ground. The teenage boy heard his girlfriend crying in anguish
And then, all he could see was completely darkness
Marco Diaz woke up in a very comfortable, familiar bed. Star's bed. The princess in question was standing at his side, arms crossed and face filled with… was that rage?
- I don't know what you are more – She said – Stupid… or cute
- You think I'm cute? – He asked jokingly –
- I also think you're really stupid. What the hell was that?
- What are you talking about? – He tried to pull off the "amnesia trick" but as soon as he saw Star crawl into the bed and sit in front of him, he knew it was useless –
- You have any idea of how much magic I used to defeat that monster, and then heal you?
- A lot? – He questioned –
- You have no idea – She replied, showing her wand –
Marco noticed that the left wing of the wand was missing, he tried to reach for Star's cheek, but she slapped his hand away
- Why would you do something like that? – She reclaimed, angry once again – Why would you put yourself in danger?
- I'm always putting myself in danger, Star!
- You know how this whole thing goes, Marco: A monster shows up, we tease it, we fight it, we confuse it, I use a spell and then you finish it off with karate!
- Well… - He replied, screeching his teeth – Maybe I wanted to make things different today, can you blame me for that?
- I will blame you, I am blaming you! You can't be that reckless!
- Pffft… - Marco tried to laugh, but noticed his body was still hurt from the fight – You're accusing me of being reckless? Have you seen yourself in a mirror recently? I mean, in the last 2 and a half years?
- I can be reckless, Marco, I have a magic wand to fix things, you don't!
- That's precisely the problem, Star!
Both of them made silence, they realized they were hurting each other, but the fight wasn't near as finished yet
- I have magic… And you don't…. That's the thing, right? – Star asked – What is this, a regression?
- What do you mean?
- Are you having another one of your stupid inferiority complexes again, Marco?
- Oh, so feeling less than the rest is stupid to you, too?
- Yeah it is! – She responded – Especially if those kinds of ideas make you act like someone you are not! I attack first, you finish the monster, that's your place, and it'll always be!
- You're a show off, Star – Marco accused -
- A what now? – She snapped -
- Lately you've turned into some kind of show off freak!
- I am nothing like that!
- Oh, of course you are! Every time we fought monsters, you just spin around them with a smile, jump over them with joy!
- It's my way to fight them!
- Tell me, could you for once, fight like a serious person? Put some effort into the dangers you face, and stop acting so irresponsibly?
The battle was over. Marco's argument was very convincing, he knew he was right. But suddenly, he realized that, as a matter of fact, he was the one who had lost the battle.
Because Star was still in front of him, her face filled with tears, her mouth was moving but no sound came out of it. He had hurt her, really bad.
Once again, he approached his hand to her face, and once again, she rejected it. The princess stood up and turned around, ignoring his plead and whispering softly:
- You used to like it…
- Star… I'm...
She faced him again and wiped her tears away violently
- You told me you like it, seeing me facing monsters with a smile, fighting without a worry in the world, you told me my smile, the sound of my voice and the way my hair flowed in the air were the things that…
- That gave me strength to fight, no matter how beat up I was
- So I guess that changed… - She said, embracing herself and sobbing again –
She made her way to the entrance of the room and left her boyfriend there. The last thing he heard before she closed the door was:
- I guess we changed, Marco…
Sir Adam adverted that he was crying
- What happened next? – He questioned –
But the princess didn't respond, she was already sleep, and strangely, she wasn't hugging her Marco Pillow, that was now on the ground. The knight picked up the item and put it right next to her.
He then took a piece of paper and wrote:
Good Night, Star…
For the first time in two weeks, Sir Adam couldn't sleep that night.