A Magical Midnight.

"Star, it's lunch time! Could you please come…" Marco was cut off when he entered his friend room and saw her sleeping peacefully in her bed. "Oops… Sorry… Sorry…" He whispered as he left the room and closed the door gently. Marco went downstairs back to the table.

"So… Where's my little girl?" Mr. Butterfly asked Marco as soon as he came downstairs.

"She's sleeping in her room. I didn't wanted to wake her up."

"Well… That's weird…" Mr. Butterfly said before taking a bite of his drumstick.

"What do to mean?" Marco asked curious.

"Well, Star usually doesn't take naps. She usually just sleeps at night." Mrs. Butterfly replied.

"She only started to take naps short after you came to the house. Any explanations?" Mr. Butterfly asked Marco while putting down his drumstick.

"Mmh… I can't think of any solid reason right now. But maybe it's because of Ludo?"

"Ludo? Who is that?" Mr. Butterfly asked.

"A little guy that wants my wand, he has been coming a lot with his monsters recently. Maybe the fights are what is tiring Star."

"Fights?" Mrs. Butterfly asked.

"Don't worry about it Mrs. Butterfly. Ludo and his monsters are pretty weak and easy to handle."

"Then why is she tired?" Mrs. Butterfly asked.

"I… don't know…" Marco sighed. "I'm sorry…"

"No need to apologize, boy! You are not the one getting our little girl tired! Besides, if she needs rest, she can gets all she needs!" Mr. Butterfly stated.

"She can always eat later too." Mrs. Butterfly pointed out.

"So don't worry about her, Marco boy! Just sit and eat with us!"

"But…" Marco was cut off when he was dragged to the table by Mr. Butterfly.

"No buts, only food!" Mr. Butterfly said as he shoved some food in Marco's mouth.

Marco started to chew and let the flavor to get in his tongue. "Man, I really love Earth food!" He said as he sat down and started his meal.

"That's more like it!" Mr. Butterfly said as he resumed his meal, eating aggressively as always.

Mrs. Butterfly just rolled her eyes and resumed her meal too.

…

"Are you sure you feel well?" Mr. Butterfly asked his daughter.

"I'm alrighty daddy!" Star exclaimed cheerfully to her dad. "You shouldn't worry too much, or you will sound like Marco!"

"Star, I'm your dad, I can't help but to worry about my family."

"Geez, you are really starting to sound like Safe Prince over there." Star said while pointing at Marco's closed door. "You know what you need? Some hugs!" Star embraced her father in a hug.

Mr. Butterfly let out a laugh. "Fine, fine. Just promise me that you'll tell if you don't feel well!"

"You bet I am!"

"Alright, sweet dreams darling!" Mr. Butterfly said as he walked to his room.

"You too, daddy!" Star wished a good night to her dad before closing the door of her room behind her.

…

In the middle of the night, a door opened slightly in the Butterfly's house.

Another door was opened as someone went inside the room.

Star entered quietly to Marco's room. She tip toed her way towards his bed and got the spell book slowly out it hiding spot under the bed. She pushed the book out of the room before going back for the wand. She approached the nightstand where the wand was lying and slide it carefully into a bag. She left the room while closing quietly the door before going downstairs with the two magical objects. She got out to the backyard and opened the spell book.

Glossaryck came out of it short after. "Oh, hello again Star!" The little magic man greeted the energetic blonde girl.

"Howdy!" She greeted in reply with a smile and a whisper.

"So… Are we ready to start tonight's lesson?" He asked while rubbing his hands.

"Almost…" Star retrieved the wand from the bag and raised it in the air as it changed its form. "Silesc!"

The spell surrounded the backyard into a covering force shield that didn't allowed images or sounds to go out.

"Nice one, Star." Glossaryck congratulated her as he looked at the magical shield surrounding them.

"Thanks, I borrowed it from Marco! It's really useful for these kinda things!"

"Oh, so this spell is Marco's?"

"Yup!"

"Well, I'm impressed! He did a really good job with this one!"

"I know! Now how about if we start!" Star asked cheerfully, finally being able to raise her voice thanks to the spell.

"Right, we don't have all night!" Glossaryck floated to the spells book and opened it. "Now let us start with, Levitato!"

"Ooooh! Levitato!" Star said excited.

"…"

"What's that?"

Glossaryck sighed and floated to her side. "Just follow my indications and it'll be fine, now, could you bring me that apple?"

…

Marco was sleeping peacefully in his bed, only his light breaths could be slightly heard.

The closed yellow flower in his desk opened abruptly, making the pot to make a little jump.

Marco was disturbed by this, letting go a little moan of annoyance.

The flower close again and opened the same way, with the pot now a jump away from the fall.

"N-No…" He muttered in his sleep.

The flower closed itself and opened again, giving the pot the necessary impulse to jump out of the desk and into the floor. The pot crashed against the floor, breaking.

"N-No!" Marco exclaimed in his dreams and rolled around while shaking his head.

The flower let out its pollen around the room as it slowly died.

…

"Narwhal Blast!"

A bunch of narwhals where launched out from the wand.

"Star, could we-?"

"Rainbow Fist Punch!" A big fist made out of rainbows came out, almost hitting Glossaryck.

"Star, I'm serious, could we just-?"

"Oh my gosh! There it is!" Star exclaimed surprised as she ran towards the spell book. She turned the page to find the Warnicorn Incantation spell. "I want to make my own Warnicorn!"

"Star, that is something advanced, I doubt you could even-!"

Star began the Incantation Dance. "Warnicorn Stampede!" She shouted as she finalized with a victory pose.

A whole Warnicorn stampede came out of the wand and tried to tackle Glossaryck before going back into the wand.

Star gasped once again. "That was amazing! Why Marco doesn't know this yet?"

Glossaryck floated down to Star's height. "He knows it, but he can't handle more than one Warnicorn. And it doesn't last long either."

Star put on a surprised expression. "Wait… So I'm like, advanced…?"

"Um… You could say so."

Star drew a smile on her face. "Oh, then maybe, I should be the one doing magic!" Star said in a mocky way.

"Yeah! You know what? I have changed my mind!" Glossaryck exclaimed.

"You changed your mind? About what?" Star asked curiously.

"When I agreed to teach you how to use the wand, I had planned to only teach you the basic stuff. But now you have proofed yourself. You have proofed that you can handle advanced magic without being a magic user!"

"Well, technically I just did what the little drawings told me to do."

"But you managed to summon a whole Warnicorn stampede!"

"You have a point!" Star smiled at her floaty friend.

"So maybe I could teach you everything you need to know about the wand! If you ever need to help Marco with it, you'll be ready!"

"…"

"You don't know what that means, don't you?"

Star's silence replied.

Glossaryck sighed. "The real fun is about to begin."

Star gasped excitedly. "Really?!"

"Yeah, but first…" Glossaryck floated in front of her. "Show me what you got!"

…

Marco was moving around his bed. "Get away…" Marco muttered in his sleep. "Don't… Please don't…" He pleaded. Marco tried to reach out for his wand that was supposed to be in his nightstand.

But found nothing.

"N-No… No!" He said while sleeping. "B-Back off!"

Some objects near him began to float slightly in the air as Marco's dream continued.

"Leave me alone!"

His own bed alongside him were now floating in the air.

Marco was struggling in midair when suddenly, he stopped moving.

His things and bed fall to the floor, but he was still floating.

Marco was now sleeping calmly in midair.

…

"Dagger Crystal Heart Attack!" Star shouted as the crystal hearts were blasted out of the wand towards Glossaryck.

Glossaryck dodged them with ease before he returned to the center of the backyard. "Hmm… This is very interesting!" Glossaryck exclaimed.

"What? What is it?!" Star asked impatiently.

"It looks like the female beings have more access and control over magic even if they are not magical. I'm only saying this because the power of your spells is even greater than Marco's!"

"You serious?!" She asked surprised.

"Yeah! I now know where to begin to train you now."

"You do?" She asked excited.

"Yes, but you really need to test your spells' control and durability in a real opponent first."

"Hmm… We could go to another dimension and search for a monster for me to battle!" Star suggested

"That is the only choice we have, do you have your scissors?"

"Of course, they're on my room! Let me go and get them!" Star said as she turned around and ran towards the door before encountering a very familiar silhouette. She stopped in the spot.

"Star, what's the holdup?" Glossaryck asked before noticing Marco's silhouette. "Oh…"

"I think Marco's awake…"

"Don't move, he may haven't see us yet…" He said, remembering the Silesc spell.

"Alrighty…" Star said nervously. She stood there totally quiet while looking at her… friend? "Wait… Is he?"

"What is it, Star?"

"I think Marco's floating in midair…"

"Floating? Well that can't be right. I haven't even taught him how to-!" Glossaryck was cut off when Marco floated towards them.

Star stepped away as she hold tightly the wand.

Marco stopped a few feet away from her.

"Oh… Hey Marco! It's a pretty… Nice night tonight, isn't it?"

Marco didn't replied.

Star smiled awkwardly. "Umm…" She looked down at the wand and then at Marco. "Look, I can explain…"

Marco didn't replied, but his hand extended at Star.

"Marco…?"

His cheek marks began to glow with an intense white light. The same kind of light came out of his closed eyes. Some magic energy gathered in his stretched hand as he aimed it to Star.

"Marco, what are you doing?" She asked nervous.

Marco blasted his magical energy to Star.

Star let out a scream while closing her eyes and preparing for the impact.

But Glossaryck got in the way and with a magic shield protected them both.

The blast managed to crack the magical shield a little.

"Star…?" Glossaryck called for her.

"Yes…?"

"I think I found a better opponent for you…"

"And who would that be…?" Star asked as she saw how Marco started to gather more magic in both of his hands.

Some rocks were being pulled upwards by the magic levels.

"Marco…" Glossaryck stated.

"Of course it has to be him!" Star shouted in annoyance.

Marco blasted his magic at Star and Glossaryck.

The two targets moved aside to dodge the blast in time.

The blasts managed to go right through the neighborhood fences in perfect straight lines.

Glossaryck looked amazed at this while Star just got ready to attack.

"Emerald Snake Strike!" A bunch of green snakes were blasted out of the wand towards Marco.

Marco raised a bunch of ground in front of him to cover from the snakes. All the little snakes stroke into the ground wall, disappearing short after. He then proceed to launch Star's same spell at her.

The snakes from Marco's spell were more big and intimidating than Star's snakes.

"Rainbow Flytrap!" She casted the spell in front of her. Luckily, it was strong enough to keep the snakes away.

Marco blasted energy at the flytrap and destroyed it, allowing his snakes to continue the attack.

"Narwhal Blast!" The army of narwhals flew towards the snakes.

The snakes and narwhals collided, disappearing with a poof.

Star ran towards Marco, trying to get as close as she could.

Marco started to generate little balls of light all around the backyard, and with a chask of his fingers, the lights launched themselves towards Star, exploding with contact.

Star managed to avoid some and Glossaryck protected her when the lights were too close to her.

Star got in front of Marco. "Jellybean Hallucination Mist!" The spell was blasted towards Marco.

Marco used one of his hands to absorb the whole spell, keeping it inside his palm.

"What?!" Star exclaimed surprised.

Marco extended his free hand and tried to grab the wand, but Star was fast enough to get away.

"Star, what you are doing?!" Glossaryck asked concerned from behind. "Why don't you use your strong spells?!"

"Hey! I don't wanna hurt Marco!" Star yelled.

Marco surrounded his free hand with magic and started to carry some parts of the ground in front of him. With a chask of his fingers, the amount of ground melt together and came to live.

The big ground monster roared before Marco gave him permission to attack. The monster rushed towards Star and Glossaryck.

"Star?"

"Glitter Dragon Offensive!" A giant snake like dragon was created in front of them.

The dragon smashed the ground creature into pieces.

"See, I don't need to fight Marco! I have everything under control!"

The little pieces of the ground monster began to shake before coming into life as well. The little swift monsters began to attack the dragon, tearing him glitter by glitter.

The dragon roared in pain before falling into the ground and exploding, leaving lots of glitter flying into the air. The explosion ended up destroying completely the little monsters as well.

Marco returned the ground to its natural place with magic.

"Star, you must fight him!"

"I don't wanna!" Star yelled a little angered.

"Listen, if something goes wrong I can fix it! Just use your spells to fight him!"

The ground began to tremble as two long carnivore plants emerged from the ground, summoned by Marco.

The two plants roared as they spit out a bunch of little red diamonds upwards.

"Then what now? How are you stopping that?" Glossaryck asked.

"Easy, a cartoon taught me that Bug its super effective against Grass!" Star jumped in the air. "Honeybee Tornado Swarm!" She casted before landing on the ground.

The Honeybees fly towards the giant plants to attack.

The plants tried to crush them with their fangs in vain.

The Honeybees attacked the plants before they slowly died and disappeared with a white light surrounding them.

"Super effective!" Star shouted gleefully.

The little red diamonds fall from above, striking down every single bee from Star's spell and getting stuck on the ground as they fall.

"No! My Bee-bies!"

Glossaryck face palmed. "Star, now it's not the right time for that…"

"Yes it is!"

The diamonds started to crack until they fully opened, releasing the little carnivore plants.

Star gasped scared.

The little plants started to spit magic blasts at Star.

"Smiley Face Shield!" Star shouted. A yellow shield surrounded her, drawing itself a smiley face as it finished casting.

"Oh, hello Sta-AHHHH!" The smiley face screamed as soon as the little blasts of magic impacted on it.

Star curled up inside the shield. "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry!" She apologized while covering her ears.

The little plants ran out of magic and disappeared with a flash.

The shield disappeared as well.

"So…?"

"Just promise me nothing bad will happen!" Star yelled panicked.

"You have my word." Glossaryck stated.

"Spider with the Top Hat Blast!" Star shouted as a little spider with a top hat came out of the wand. "You know what to do little friend!"

The spider nodded with a smile. "I am the spider with a top hat…" The hat transformed into a mini gun. "The Spider with a Top Hat Bl-!"

Marco released the retained spell on his palm and blasted it at the little spider.

The spell hit the spider, causing him hallucinations.

"Urgh… Where am I?" The little spider asked itself as it tumbled.

"No! Little spider friend!" Star said angst while watching the spider going unconscious. Star returned him into the wand.

Marco raised his now free hand and surrounded the entire backyard with a magic shield.

Star and Glossaryck looked worried at each other.

Marco closed his fists as they began to tremble. He clenched his teeth and let out a little growl. The ground began to tremble alongside Marco.

With a scream, Marco raised both of his fists and launched the entire backyard into the sky alongside themselves.

The clouds began to gather around the floating backyard, not able to cross the magic shield Marco created. The clouds covered the entire backyard and began to turn gray.

"Glossaryck! What is happening here?!"

Glossaryck looked around before replying. "The real battle finally begins!"

"What?!"

A long shadow started to emerge in front of them.

A three headed Nacho Hydra roared at them in anger.

Star screamed as she aimed the wand at the Hydra. "Rainbow Avalanche!" A giant mass of Rainbow came out of the wand, impacting with the Nacho Hydra.

Marco floated higher to dodge the avalanche.

The Hydra was disintegrated as soon as it touched the magic shield, turning itself into light and going back to Marco. The light entered Marco's body.

"Shooting Star Explosion!" Star shouted while aiming at Marco.

The multiple yellow magic stars fly towards Marco.

Marco extended his hand. The stars turned red and gather around Marco's raised arm. Marco set the stars on fire as they began to spin around his arm.

"Uh-Oh…" Star said lightly to herself.

Marco extended his arm at Star.

The stars were shoot at her with speed.

Star screamed as she manage to dodge them by running around the backyard.

The stars exploded in fire as soon as they collided with the ground. The whole backyard was on fire, leaving Star cornered.

"Mega Starfish Tsunami!" She casted in a rush.

A great amount of water went out the wand alongside some starfish wearing sunglasses.

The tsunami managed to cover all the backyard, extinguishing all the fire that was surrounding them.

"Phew, that was close…" Star said relieved before she let out a gasp.

Marco was gathering all the water into the air. He chasked his fingers and the mass of water came to life, turning into a giant water golem.

"You have to be kidding me!" Star shouted annoyed.

The golem began to rush at her.

Star began to rush at the golem as well. Once she got close enough, she jumped inside the giant mass of living water.

The golem stay stunned in the spot before starting to be slowly drained by the wand.

Once the water was all drained in, Star took some fresh air before shouting. "Mega Narwhal Blast!" Some bigger narwhals came out of the wand and fly straight to Marco.

Marco created a giant diamond in front of him. The diamond stopped all the Narwhals in the spot, cracking with every hit. The last narwhal managed to destroy the diamond completely.

"Ha! How'd you like… WHAAAAT?!"

All the little pieces of the diamond were embraced in a red light before turning into sharp individual diamonds.

Marco twirled his arm in the air as the diamonds gather above him. He then launched all the sharp diamonds in the air.

The diamonds managed to break Marco's own shield into pieces. The clouds began to get bigger and get inside the battlefield. The lightning thundered as soon as the sharp diamonds went upwards.

The lightning started to strike into the floating amount of ground where they were fighting. Some pieces of the battlefield started to levitate as soon as the lighting crashed on the ground.

The pieces of the backyard were levitating around them, forming a ring made out of it.

The diamonds began their fall towards the backyard.

"Boo Ghostly Transformation!" Star shouted as the spell turned her into a ghost.

The diamonds landed on the ground, destroying their way right downwards. The diamonds pass right through Star, leaving her unharmed.

When the rain was over, Star floated her way to Marco. "Wakey Upy Punchy!" She casted a glove on her ghostly hand as she closed it into a fist, ready to punch Marco, ready to end that fight.

Marco stretched his hand. "Levitato…" He mumbled in his dream.

Star was stopped in the spot by the basic spell. "Hey, no fair!"

Marco chasked his fingers, making the glove disappear and changing Star back to normal, still holding her into the air with the spell.

"Hey! What did I just said!"

Marco's skin began to change into a yellow color, he grew two pair of additional arms, his wings grew into butterfly like wings and his cheek marks began to shine with a red light, leaving the eyes shining with the same white.

Star gasped in amazement as she tried to collect herself to make a full sentence or thought.

Marco started to fly into the air while carrying Star with Levitato.

"GLOSSARYCK!" Star shouted in panic to the little magic man.

"Hang on, I'm coming!" He shouted before a green light began to form in front of him.

The light took a humanoid form with big muscles, snakes arms and a particular crystal shaped head. A cape hanging from its back. The being opened the single red eye that had in the crystal head. It gave a death stare to Glossaryck.

"Look, as much as I will enjoy destroying you, I'm afraid I have better things to do. So goodbye!" Glossaryck said while floating away.

The green being jumped and quickly punched him back to the ground. It got in a fighting stance as soon as it landed.

Glossaryck sighed. "I really hate you sometimes, Marco…" He started to float again and face his enemy.

The being aimed his snake arms at him.

"Let's do this…" He said as his purple gem began to glow. He launched himself into battle.

The green being rushed at him as well.

A lightning illuminated the scene before they were about to collide.

…

Meanwhile in the sky.

Marco was still flying up while still carrying Star with the spell.

Star was making a strange dance in midair. She finished the dance making a wing motion with her arms. "Warnicorn Stampede!" She shouted as the wand began to shine.

The whole warnicorn stampede came out of the wand. As soon as they began to fall a light embraced their back, giving them wings and the ability to fly. The stamped began to pursuit Marco through the air.

Marco stopped suddenly alongside Star.

The winged warnicorns where approaching at him quickly. They prepared for the upcoming charge.

"Royal Order…" Marco muttered in his dream.

The warnicorns stopped abruptly as they heard those words. Their eyes started to glow in a red light.

Marco stretched his hand in front of him.

The warnicorns, obediently, formed a perfect straight line formation behind Marco and bowed at him.

Star looked stunned at this scene. Her whole stampede and best friend were now against her. "HOW?!" It was all she managed to shout in the middle of the sky battle.

Marco gave the attack sign to the warnicorns.

The warnicors began to charge at Star as soon as Marco gave the sign.

Star screamed and conjured the first thing on her mind. "The Great Butterfly Army!"

A bunch of blue butterflies generated behind her. The butterflies were as big as the warnicorns and had heart shaped armor. The butterflies started to fly towards the warnicorns.

The sky was filled with the epic battle between a butterfly army and a winged Warnicorn Stampede.

The butterflies began to slowly be defeated by the violent winged unicorns.

"We need backup!" Star raised the wand in the air. "Butterfly-!" Before she could finish the spell, a purple magic ray hit the wand, knocking it off from Star's hand. Star gasped with whole widened eyes as she saw her only weapon falling away from her sight.

Her whole butterfly army was defeated as soon as she turned herself around to face Marco and the warnicorns flying in front of her.

Stars heart began to race as she tried to calm herself. "I am done…" She muttered to herself.

Marco raised a hand above his head.

Lots of red lights began to appear all over the air. The lights were turned into sharped diamonds, floating in the air while aiming at Star.

Marco pointed upwards with one finger before a lightning stroke in every single diamond, electrifying them.

Marco gathered all the energy he could in his six hands, forming a big ball of magic.

"I take that back… Now I am done!" Star shouted angst.

Marco and Star were floating in silence in midair.

Marco gave a nod with the head.

The warnicorns began to charge. The diamonds flew quickly at her. The giant magic ball was unleashed, making quickly its way towards Star.

"MARCO!" She shouted full of fear the name of her friend.

The shout reached Marco's ears, doing what they needed him to do. Wake up.

The shout caused Marco to wake up, shooting his bright eyes open.

An intense white light began to come out of Marco. The light expanded quickly through the entire sky. It soon surrounded the floating backyard as well. The light became so intense that soon enough, not even Marco's silhouette was visible.

…

"Good morning everyone!" Star greeted gleefully as she descend from the stairs to take breakfast with her parents, still in her pajamas.

"Good morning darling! How did you sleep last night?" Mr. Butterfly asked to his daughter.

"My night was great! I haven't had such an awesome night as this one!" She said energetic as ever.

"Well, that's good to hear Star!" Mrs. Butterfly said to her daughter as she put her breakfast in the table. "Could you please call Marco to breakfast, Star?"

"Oh right! He's not coming to breakfast today."

Her parents looked at her concerned before asking.

"Why not, darling?" Her father asked curious.

"He says he has a headache and Glossaryck said that he was gonna take care of him while he was sleeping. I still left some meds in the desk just in case Marco needs them!"

"Oh my… Is something serious?" Mrs. Butterfly asked concerned.

"Glossaryck told me that it was nothing we should worry about. He told me he was probably tired and needed some rest! That's all!"

"Oh well, then let us hope he gets well soon!" River said as he began to eat his breakfast.

…

"Oww… My head…" Marco said softly in his bed.

"Yeah… You should take some rest to lighten up the pain." Glossaryck suggested.

"It hurts worse when I closed my eyes." Marco stated a little annoyed. He blinked and his cheek marks glow a little while his eyes were closed.

Glossaryck sighed as he resumed his reading in the Sacred Book of Spells, but his attention was quickly caught by Marco's journal. He opened it and read all the content of it. "What do we have here? Hey Marco, care to tell me what is…" Glossaryck looked at the bed just to find a sleepy Marco lying on top of it.