A/N: Sorry for taking a while again. These chapters are done, I swear haha. I'll explain later. For now...we continue the saga.
I own nothing except my crippling anxiety.
A Stand.
Housed by a human.
On Earth.
And that person is Brittney Wong.
And whatever power it has, it's causing harm towards people through the most unlikely events happening.
And now they had to apprehend Brittney, even though she may not even be aware of these powers for all they know.
Star, Jackie, and Marco met up in Star's room later in the day to discuss a proper method of capture with The Magic High Committee. They weren't sure how or why a human could produce a Stand. Unless Brittney's been shot with a high amount of magic or has been exposed to it, it should be impossible.
"Everything's going wonky, Moon..." Hekapoo shook her head while crossing her arms, "SOMEONE had to have gone there with a Stand Arrow."
"It's the only thing I can think of," Shizuka flatly spoke, looking down to continue pondering the thought, "But who? Who exactly is going around firing arrows? We have Heinous. We have Rasticore..."
"Do we have Heinous's henchman? Gemini? Because I bet it's that humpbacked weirdo..." Omnitraxus accused the weird ogre thing right on the spot.
Emporio sighed and shook his head, "No. We're still trying to find him. We have leads. I'm going out later today to continue the search for him. HOPEFULLY we find him soon. Because if he did this, then he has a pair of dimensional scissors we need to confiscate."
"I think I may need to do a recall on those," Hekapoo shook her head and shrugged, "Alright, 'Shining Stars', what's your big idea to stop this. You're the ones with the responsibility."
Star thought about this for a moment, wondering just what she could do, "Well...I COULD...y'see...heal Brittney? Maybe we don't need to arrest her. I have a spell that could heal her from the affects of the arrow like I did with Janna."
"Then that's the plan," Moon looked to everyone, "Star and her friends will keep an eye on Brittney, confront her when the time is right, and heal her of the ability."
"And leave ANOTHER human-one who, Star had admitted, isn't even friendly with her team-with a Stand?" Hekapoo raised an eyebrow, "No way. BAD idea."
"Well what else CAN we do? When a Stand dies, the user dies, and vice versa. You know this," Shizuka frowned, "It's the best we've got."
Lekmet bleats while shaking his head, with Rhombulus nodding in agreement with his goat mentor. "I agree with Lekmet! We can't let her keep that Stand! It's too much of a risk! I say we bring her here and let me CRYSTALLIZE her for the good of the multiverse!"
Lekmet raised a finger and was about to bleat, his face showing that he wasn't fully on board with that. After a second of his hand being up, he was close to lowering it. He pondered it, and wasn't sure if it was the worst thing now. Omnitraxus just stared at Rhombulus and groaned.
"That...is...not the most ideal..." Shizuka sweat dropped while shaking her head.
"She's a child, Rhombulus," Moon deadpanned, "We're taking that one off the table."
"Time out," Rhombulus was grabbed by Hekapoo and dragged over to a corner of the room for his punishment, "You know what you did."
Marco poked his head into the scene and raised a finger, "So um...question...can we try to find a solution to this before you all devolve into nonsensical tomfoolery? Just...asking. I think my life, Star's, and Jackie's are on a timer currently."
"Look!" Star raises her voice and shakes her open hands in front of her, "I'll just...try to find another way. There HAS to be a spell for helping people like this. There HAS to be. So maybe I'll go find it. Or I can develop it. Mom, if you have any ideas, please share with me. Glossaryck, same goes to you. But everything'll be fine if we just keep thinking of stuff. Okay?"
"Yes dear," Moon agreed with Star, "We'll help however we can. Do you have surveillance on this Brittney?"
"Oh yeah! The best security cameras not even money can buy!" Star gave everyone a thumbs up, assuring everyone that everything was okay.
-.-.-
Brittney, sound asleep in her room, hasn't noticed the weird teal tree watching her house from across the street. A horse headed garden gnome is also overlooking the lawn just in case, keeping an eye on everything around the area like a guard dog.
"Gave up going to The Bounce Lounge for this, girl got me trippin'..." Pony Head muttered under her breath in frustration, right before that all turned into anxiety when a stray dog walked over to her and raised its leg.
"STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!"
-.-.-
Another day, another school day for the group to attend. For Star, however, it was going to be a bit of a struggle. She had stayed up for a chunk of the night trying to find something in the magic book. Ms. Skullnick's attempts to keep her awake were not very fruitful, keeping her awake for just a little bit before she'd go back to sleep. Unfortunately for Star, the day was only going to get tougher. It was only morning. Janna tried to shove her awake a couple times, but she just let her sleep after the fifth time she shook her. It wasn't like Star didn't deserve a little bit of sleep, according to Janna. She worked hard last night trying to benefit the mission. Star didn't let them in on what she found. She kept falling asleep whenever she'd try to mention it. In her dreams, though, Star began to remember what happened last night.
=.=.=
Star had been looking through her book since Jackie and Marco left her room. Dinner was mostly Star looking through her book as well, barely even speaking unless spoken to; and even then, she spoke in short sentences or one word responses. Once everyone went to bed, Star continued on and on through the book in her room, digging fervently through the pages for just one sign of a solution. Glossaryck attempted to help her find something, but eventually even he needed to sleep...or at least take a break. After an hour of searching by herself again, though, her mother called.
"Hm?" Star looked at her mirror's caller ID and took in the call. Moon was in her sleep garb, and looked around somewhat nervously. Star raised an eyebrow while looking at her mom.
"Um...mom? What's up?" She asked her mother, who began speaking in a hushed tone.
"Star...I might be able to help you in your endeavor...but you'd have to come to Mewni...is that okay? Bring the book," Moon told her, "I'll meet you in the castle."
While confusing, Star could only take the help. She needed any bit of it her mother could offer, because she couldn't find anything. She grabbed the family book and cut open a portal to Mewni, thinking that this could help her out in her endeavors.
-.-.-
After meeting up, mother and daughter walked towards a door with a crown on it. Moon used her magic to unlock the door, and led Star down what looked to be a dark stairwell covered with cobwebs. The place smelled old and stale, as if no one had been down here in ages. Nevertheless, she was still mystified by the thought of a new thing her mother wanted to show her. What was it? What is this place? Why did her mom hide this? Is this where she did her pole dancing routine to stay in shape?
"Whoooa...mysterious..." Star wiggled her left hand's fingers while squinting and smirking, "Why'd you hide this from me, mom?"
"It's not something you should have seen until you were older and queen," A nervous Moon gulped, "But with the circumstances...I think you may need to see this now before anything else gets out of hand. Now before I show you this, you are not to tell anyone that I took you to see this...do you understand? At best, only Glossaryck can know. The Magic High Committee? NEVER. Your father, your friends, even Marco can't know."
"Whoooa...keep a secret from Marco?" Star wondered if she could even do such a thing, "I'm not used to that. I usually blab everything to hi-" There was ONE thing she hadn't told him, at least not in full. Thankfully, she didn't need to. Still, she guessed she could do it. "Never mind. I can do it, easy," She rapidly corrected herself, speeding through the sentence with a giant smile.
"Good," Moon sighed and opened one final door with her magic, putting a glowing hand on the doorknob and opening it, "What I'm about to show you has only been seen by the Queens of Mewni. The Magic High Committee knows of its existence, and they know the queens have taken a few things from it...but that's all they need to know. The Queens of Mewni have done more with this book than even the Committee knows. Most of the time, they had to use it out of necessity. Glossaryck is the only person who understands..."
"Wait..." Star stroked her chin and thought about what her mother could be talking about, "You don't mean-GAAAASP! IT IS..."
They walked a few steps into the room when Moon clapped her hands to make the candles on the walls flicker to life, and that was when Star saw it on top of a pedestal. It's cover was black, with a red spade symbol on the cover atop a brown umbrella. The book was dusty, but so was the rest of the room. So the carpet did indeed match the drapes. But what made it more ominous was that it triggered Star's "Menacing" vision, the entire scene changing colors while the katakana for "MENACING" radiated from the book. Star knew exactly what this was, and it made her all the more curious.
"ECLIPSA'S DIARY..." Star sandwiched her head with her hands in disbelief as he eyes grew two sizes larger, "MOM...this has been here since even BEFORE you were born!"
"Yes, dear, it's been here for ages..." Moon said, "Of course, there was a period of time it was missing...that was after Eclipsa's disappearance. We found it after a a few decades of it being missing, and stored it here for safekeeping. The High Committee knows this is how The Queens of Mewni learned Spin. But there's so much more in this journal...a lot more...less moral things..."
"I see..." Star tilted her head to the side, "Wow...I can't believe it...what else does it have? Something to help find a way to split a Stand from a person?"
"Well...yes...Star...Star...Star..."
Star turned to look at her mom, who kept saying, "Star...? STAR...? STAAA-"
=.=.=
"-AAAAAAAAAAAR!"
"HUH WHAT!?" Butterfly popped back up and stammered, rubbing her head while shaking it, "Wow...how long was I out?" She asked Janna, who pointed to the empty classroom around them. She also pointed to the slip on Star's desk that read, "EXTRA DAY OF DETENTION" in bright red letters.
Star just groaned and rubbed her forehead, "Great. ...Oh well. I probably didn't miss much. Just math," She shrugged it off flippantly. "So Janna...I have a way to split the Stand from Brittney. But we need to keep an eye on her for the entire day. If we lose track of her, she could do something crazy to Jackie, Marco, or me. How did you think when you first got hit with the arrow, Janna?"
Ordonia had to remember that one, since it had been ages since the incident, "Hmmm...well all I had on my mind was getting my hands on you, Star. Heh. That's all, really. Well...that, and I had some of my more deeper desires come out," Janna looked down, her arms crossed as she begins to contemplate how she was, "...Sorta wanted to actually have notoriety for once instead of just be, 'That One Girl Who Screws Around Too Much'...but that's it."
Star rested her chin in her hands and pondered that thought, "So your will to see your deepest desires come true motivated you and your Stand...what if that's what's happening here? Those tainted arrows seem to do that, so maybe it's doing that to Brittney too? And her deepest desire is to see us pay for out-voting her for the dance theme?"
Star got up from her seat and walked outside of the room to the hallway with Janna, still talking about the situation as they headed down the hall.
"I mean, it's petty...but then again, that's Brittney Wong," Janna chuckled.
"Oh? That's me, huh Beanie Girl?"
Janna grimaced while Star raised an eyebrow. Turning back, there she went. Brittney, in her cheerleader garb, stood there with Sabrina and Andrea. She flipped her hair while walking in-between the duo, not caring if she bumped into them.
"Well, rude people, I just want you to know that Hope unfortunately won't be here today for the meeting. She's in intensive care," Brittney's tone made it seem as if she couldn't care less about her, and that wasn't far from the truth knowing Brittney, "So it'll be five to five when it comes to the theme...and seeing as how I'm committee presideeent...I think we may be changing the theme back."
"What? You can't do that!" Star argued, "That's not even FAIR! We spent all that time pre-planning! We even figured out where the baby crocodiles are going to go!"
"Ooooh so saaad..." Brittney feigned tears, "If you think I care about you goofy feelings, you're dumber than bricks."
"You're sooo powerful, Brittney," Janna rolled her eyes and snarked at the rich girl.
"Hahaha," Brittney chuckled haughtily before smirking devilishly, "You have no idea, loser..."
Brittney's dark expression grows darker, and she smirks while walking away with her crew. Andrea, Ed, Sabrina, and Chantal follow her...and then Sabrina trips again. The others don't help, but Star helps her to her feet. Janna shakes her head at Ssbrina, who gets up quickly and shouts, "SORRY, BRITTNEY! COMING!"
"Just chasing popularity..." Janna groaned, "Was I that bad during my whole 'Toffee slave' moment?"
Star brushes it off and scoffs, "Nah, you were just really weird. Like-JANNA..."
Star immediately stopped talking once she saw her wand glow green. Something was nearby, and it put her on immediate defense. Janna took notice too, and quickly summoned her orange Ghostly Ripple aura.
"Where is it? You sense it, Star?" Janna asked her while she looked for signs of trouble.
Star couldn't confirm anything yet, still scanning the area for a Stand. "Nothing yet...I can't tell where it is..." Star backed up, then turned around to look behind her back.
Janna was doing the same, but then felt a tingle and winced, "Hey Star, I'm normally cool with you doing whatever with me, but maybe lay off the whole rubbing the back of my leg thing for right now?"
Janna turned around...and eyed down the princess, who was indeed rubbing legs with Janna. She nervously chuckles and says, "Sorry!" before walking away. Janna nods and turns around to look for clues again. Still nothing, but a sudden locker slammed shut makes her jump. "WHOA. Okay, this is getting ridiculous. How about you come on out, Wong! We know you're hiding around!"
Star looks back at Janna and shrugs, but then she immediately grits her teeth and lets her hair fly around out of shock! "JANNA!"
"SKEE SKEE-SKEEEEEE!"
The sudden snarling and Star's voice helped Janna react in time for her Stand to appear from her back and SNATCH something out of the air. She smirks, saying "Heheh...gotcha...now let's see what your pretty little face, Wo-oooooa...whoa..."
What Janna saw wasn't Brittney, but instead a small, orange gremlin creature with sharp teeth, pointy ears, big brown eyes, and a bumpy, keloid body. It sported four large bumps going vertical from the middle of its eyes to the top of its head. Whatever Janna and Star were seeing...
"...Least it's prettier than Brittney," Janna smirked, chuckling before having BMW sock it right in its face; though, it was punched right in the face after it released a ring of orange aura that spread out around Janna. "Aaand dealt with. That was easy Star!" Janna smirked, "So how about we grab it by the neck and snap-"
Janna's thoughts couldn't be finished. The floor began to crack, the loud noise of the ground cracking garnering her attention. "Uuuuh...Star!"
It gave way, collapsing under Star's feet and sending her hurtling downward into the deep abyss. Star's reaction time was impeccable, though, and she sprang to action by shooting her hand forward.
"STARDUST!"
Her little spider Stand appears on her arm, allowing her to fire a web from her hand that goes deep into the hole. Janna makes a swing with her arm, managing to grab the web with one hand. She hangs on, and Star quickly reels herself in thanks to Janna's help.
"PHEW..." Star had to breathe a sigh of relief once she made it to the ground, "That was...another sinkhole..."
"This is a dangerous one, Star," Janna couldn't even see the Stand anymore, "You telling me the Stand doesn't even need to be near its user?"
"It's probably one of those Automatic Stands," Star sighed, "They just do their user's bidding regardless of if the user is there. One of the worst for us to fight. And also...we have a hole in the floor. That's bad too, right?" Star looked to the side, wondering about that new sinkhole in the school. How was that going to effect their day?
-.-.-
"Hey at least we get a free day off, right?" Janna smirked and looked at the team. Jackie didn't seem to care, Marco stared blankly at the school as crews of geologists checked out the grounds. Star sighed a breath of relief.
"Hey! Least that means the meeting is postponed!" Exclaimed Star gleefully, "A small victory."
"Aaactually, butterface, that won't be true..."
"Ooof course..." Marco's face flattened out of exasperation.
Brittney was walking towards the sidewalk with her group, chuckling, "Oh...you guys are funny. The FUNNIEST. You should know that these committees NEVER rest! We'll be meeting at the rec center. Hope to see you three there..."
Star, Marco, and Jackie (along with Janna on her phone) frowned, though their frowns just made Brittney laugh haughtily. "OOOHOHOHOHOOO! Why so sad? Because your goofy little theme is about to be NEGATED?"
"Why are you so PETTY?" Jackie sneered, "You could be a lot better as a person if you just weren't such a...a..." Jackie muttered under her breath, and it wasn't a very nice muttering.
"Oh boohoo, Jackie," Wong rolled her eyes, "Not my fault. It's how the world works. Life isn't fair. The people in power make and break the rules. Live with it."
"Aaaah interesting..." Janna tapped her phone, her loud voice garnering people's attention...ESPECIALLY Brittney's. "Hey everyone. Jeff will be coming. And Leah said she would be here too. Texted them the info."
Brittney raised an eyebrow, but then quickly scoffed, "WhatEVER. It's just them. Who cares? It's still even, and I have special tie breaking powers."
"Aaah..." Janna wagged her finger in defiance of Brittney, "PLEASE, cherry pie, that isn't it. See, Hope may not be coming. BUT...I'm allowed to vote on her behalf!"
"WHAT!?" Brittney snarled, stomping towards Janna and getting in her face. She poked her chest while yelling at her, "I DON'T THINK SO! Look, NERDO, YOU can't vote on her behalf! SHE has to be here PHYSICALLY! It's THE RULES!"
"It may be YOUR rules..." Janna pushed her away slightly, "But the school committee rules DO state that when one person is out, another is allowed to vote for them as long as they vote how they want them to. So as long as I vote 'Yes' to keeping the current theme, I'm voting in-line of Hope's choice. Sooo...you've been overruled, princess."
Nothing did get to her quite like being outsmarted and outdone. Brittney's right eye twitched, concerning her group that began to converge on her. While she was about to blow, the Shining Stars snickered and giggled amongst one another. She kept a lid on her temper, though, and began to breathe in and breathe out.
"Fine...be that way. Isn't a guarantee you make it there, anyway..." The giggling stopped as soon as she said that. The group didn't like that ominous threat. Brittney kept talking as if she knew something, though. "Hope, Leah, Jeff...something happened to them. So something could happen to you too. See ya."
Bad signs all around. Jackie, Janna, and Marco looked at one another with concern. Star? She finally had to step forward. Brittney turned around to leave with her group, with Sabrina (sporting a black eye) following right behind them. The memories began flooding her mind once more...the memories from the night before...
=.=.=
"So what is it that this spell does?" Star asked her mother as they both observed Eclipsa's Diary on the pedestal, "...'Spirit Split Spell'...'Able to remove extraneous add-ons to the soul, such as Stands...a risky spell I discovered that can possibly split a Stand from a person's soul. Some Stands can kill, as I found out a while back. But with this spell, I can remove any Stand from a person. In theory. I have only experimented on Stand powered rats. Not on real people. I'd need more time with the spell before testing it out. I may need to go out and find a bipedal test subject. A few rats died during the experiments, however. Not recently, but still. Stands kept hold of the whole soul, kicking and screaming as I dragged the power out of the subject. Some whole souls were removed, leaving only empty husks."
"Isn't she such a scientist?" A male voice spoke from inside the book.
"AH! GLOSSARYCK!" Star quickly dropped the book out of surprise, letting the pages turn to where the blue magic man was sleeping, "You hear everything?" Star asked.
Glossaryck shrugged, "I mean, what do you expect? For me to be a heavy sleeper? I sleep sandwiched between two thick halves of a giant book. I'm not in the most comfortable of spots," His deadpan tone made Star frown up at him, but he was more focused on what she was reading, "Moon...I hope you know the risks that this brings. This isn't the kind of spell that she's used to doing. YOU aren't even used to it."
"It's our only option, Glossaryck," Moon stated, "Imagine if that Stand this girl has is silently hurting her? Or if she used it to hurt MORE people?"
Star had to agree with her mother, "She's right, Glossaryck...I...don't have any other options...Brittney's going to get hurt or get someone else hurt. I have to try this, even if it is risky."
All Glossaryck could do is nod and accept this outcome at this point. He shrugged it off, sighing while saying, "If that is what you want, your highnesses. Honestly, I'm down for experimentation with magic. Just wanted to warn you first. All good!" And with that, Glossaryck snapped his fingers and changed his robes into a night gown for more sleep.
"Thanks for the concern, Glossaryck," Moon turned from her old instructor to her daughter, "Alright, Star...a test run to see if you can memorize this spell..."
"Right," Star nodded and spread her legs, holding the wand in her hand in front of her waist. Her cheeks began to glow, and she closed her eyes before reciting the spell...
=.=.=
Star, who was doing the same in the present, began to slowly raise her wand to her face and recite the spell. Her friends all backed up, taking precautions to ensure their own safety.
"Inner soul, arise and reveal
The secret power you keep sealed
Allow my power to drag out
The extra piece you can live without!"
The rainbow sparks that were flowing from the wand with its myriad of colors swirled into one giant ball of white energy. Star spun around, and performed one final aim of the wand with one arm. Radiantly, the wand fired a bright white beam of light going right to the back of and unsuspecting Brittney. She never saw it coming.
And neither did Star.
Before the beam hit Brittney, that same green gremlin from before headbutts Star in her ribs! The beam goes off course, careening off of its path and engulfing a bird who was flying in its path. That bird's soul went on a journey, it being warped and twisted around inside of its own body; it was a sight shown via the multitude of colored afterimages that followed the twitching bird. Once the torment ended, the bird fell to the road and just smoked and twitched in pain. Star, witnessing that torture, bit her fingers and looked over to the gremlin.
"It knocked my beam away from her!" She shouted, bringing Stardust forth on her right arm and shooting a web to try and ensnare it. Brittney turned around again, finding the quartet just angrily glaring forward, and raised an eyebrow. Everyone in Wong's crew turned around, and their expressions ranged from the confused (Andrea, Ed), annoyed (Brittney), the shocked (Sabrina), and the apathetic (Chantal).
"What the heck are you all staring at?" She asked, "...Whatever. Just be there at the rec center in thirty minutes, or I'm marking you absent and we carry on with the new vote without you."
She turns back around and walks off, and Janna sneers at her. She shouts, "WHATTYA MEAN WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT!? Come get your Stand, you-"
"WHOOOA WHOA..." Marco's eyes grew with a realization, stopping Janna from a rant in order to share what he realized, "What did she say?"
"She ASKED us what we were looking at-HA!" Janna shot BMW out of her chest to punch at the gremlin, striking it with a missile-like punch. The strike sent it flying backwards and rolling on the sidewalk, but the gremlin still snarled and hissed at them.
"Yeah..." Marco said, "NOTICE something?"
Star was picking up what he was implying, "Yeah...Stand users...can see other Stands...and she can't even see this OR ours." Star's gasped and covered her mouth in shock, "THIS STAND ISN'T HERS..."
"What? You can't be serious..." Jackie raised an eyebrow, dodging the leaping gremlin but not able to dodge its energy discharge. A street light begins to tip over, its wiring snapping and its nuts & bolts beginning to rust. Jackie can't reverse the pole backwards, or else it would fall on a house; and she noticed it much to late to dodge it seemed. Thankfully, Marco noticed just in time and summoned a bubble to cushion the impact of the light.
"No, that's true," Marco wasn't sure what to think right now, "That is NOT a Stand owned by Brittney Wong. She'd know. She'd be able to see it."
"So wait, let me see if I get this...there's a CRAZY Stand attacking people, and we don't even know who it BELONGS to?" Asked Janna, noticing the discharge again, "Ha! Nice try!" Janna floats into the air with helium, smirking at the gremlin, "Can't get me with that this time..."
-.-.-
The school baseball team was still able to practice on their field. One of their best hitters was up to it, and they were practicing batting. The pitcher winded up, and pitched a fastball right for the batter. He wasn't worried. He had practiced this one for ages.
"Heheh...with this guy, we're UNSTOPPABLE," The gruff, 1980s coach with a tough yet warm demeanor shook his head, "Yes...this team is ready for spring...we can finally end our championship drought...we can restore glory to this once great school!"
The batter hit the ball as hard as he could, sending it FLYING out of their ball field and over the school grounds.
"AHAHAAA! THAT'S MY BOY!" Shouted the coach.
-.-.-
Janna smirked at the gremlin, who just turned around to leap for Star, and then said, "Alright guys...if SHE isn't the one with a Stand, then who IS-OOPH?" A baseball conked Janna right in the noggin, sending her for loop and sending her falling.
Star dodged the Stand, but another aura discharge occurred; Star had to look around for anything that could go wrong. She was prepared for the ground collapsing, she was ready for things to run into her, and she was even betting on something falling around her. Though she couldn't expect Janna crashing right on top of her. "AGH!"
The gremlin snickers and runs to hide, leaping through the arms of Safety Dance and jumping into a bush. When Marco searched through the bush, another aura discharge happened. "Oh no," Marco gulped, turning around in order to try and find something coming at him. Nothing seemed to be coming at the moment, so he continued his search through the bush. Unluckily for him, his arm gets stuck in the thorny brambles in the bush. "Huh? When were there ever THORNS in here? I'm STUCK! HELP!"
With Marco trapped, the gremlin Stand could leap up and attach itself to Marco's face. A few big fury swipes would do the trick, scratching and clawing at Marco's face in order to draw blood. As Marco screamed at a pitch high enough to make glass shake, Star shouted, "RAINBOW FIST!" to shoot a rainbow fist (what did you expect?) from her wand. It punched the Stand off of Marco, and then began to scurry away and hide elsewhere.
"We can't even ATTACK this thing without it using its ability to knock us for a loop!" Jackie groaned, trying to shoot a wheel of regression at the monster but missing.
"It can make bad things happen to us..." Star sighed, pushing a loopy Janna off of her, "...But...I think I have a few ideas on what to do...and whose Stand this is."
"What you got, Star?" Asked Marco, who was still trying to pull his arm from the bush.
"Easy, Marco! ...We can make it to that meeting and STILL vote...while interrogating who we need to interrogate," Star smiled smugly.
Jackie was confused by Star's tone of voice, looking around while trying to find the gremlin, "Star...what about the Stand? We can't just leave it here..."
"Nope! Buuut it isn't like we still don't have strength in numbers...pluuus...we have that gremlin's weakness," Star grinned wide, knowing exactly what she was doing.
-.-.-
The spirit team all sat in the rec center meeting room, silently waiting for the others to appear. Brittney was a fair brat, after all. She would give them thirty minutes to get there. But after twenty minutes of waiting, Brittney was beginning to get slightly annoyed.
"Of course. Give them a command, and they don't respect it. I SWEAR they are SOOO unprofessional!" She groaned, sitting back in her chair while crossing her arms; but the thought of what happens if they don't show up in the next minutes made her smile a bit.
The sight of them running into the meeting room with time to spare ruined her smile though. The Shining Stars ran right inside, out of breath from the speed they had to go at.
"WHOO...WOW...never knew I had that much stamina..." Marco wiped his forehead, "Wait...why didn't...we use the...dimensional scissors..."
"You...need the exercise...Marco..." Jackie smirked, patting him on the back, "Besides...we got here with ten minutes to spare..."
Star, after breathing heavy and holding her knees, stood upright and looked at Brittney, "And we'll need about nine of those minutes for something important. Because we have something to accuse you of...your Stand..."
"What?" Brittney raised her voice's pitch due to confusion, and shook her head, "What 'Stand'? What are you weirdos even talking about?"
-.-.-
The gremlin had been chasing The Shining Stars for a while determined to get to them and ruin their luck. Before it could touch them, though, a blue blur sped in front of the gremlin and halted its progress. When the dust settled, a big blue muscular body cracked its knuckles in front of the gremlin. It snarled in a low tone for a bit, trying to turn around but getting impeded by a rolling teal ball of hair.
"Girl...do I get first dibs...or do you?" Asked Pony Head, allowing Proclaimer to crack its knuckles.
Kelly giggled, rolling out of ball form and allowing her hair to spike upwards with Ripple, "I say you get it first...I'm patient."
"Then away we go!" Proclaimer dashed at the gremlin at blinding speeds, leaping over the aura discharge from the Stand. Proclaimer, unfortunately hits a flying drone that happened to be flying above it, and that halts it leaping attack. The gremlin, however, can barely dodge the line of green needle hair strands flying at it. It discharges another aura, which made Kelly trip and fall through a sewer manhole.
"AH!" Kelly's scream was heard, and it made the gremlin chuckle. But it couldn't dodge the quick fist of Proclaimer punching it right in the face! Proclaimer's speed was bar none, and it couldn't discharge an aura quick enough!
"LEMME BREAK YO FACE, UGLY!" Pony Head shouted, taunting the Stand while Stand rushing with fists that began to count into the millions with how blindly light speed fast they were!
-.-.-
"I did NOTHING, you WEIRDOS...so don't accuse me of doing anything," Brittney got up, getting in the face of Star, "Is this about Leah, Jeff, and Hope? That was NOT my fault! How could I even pull that off?"
"Not YOU..." Star rolled her eyes, and then directed her line of sight behind Brittney, eyeing up and down a girl who began to hold her stomach and face in absolute pain, "HER...SABRINA!"
Backintosh coughed up a bit a blood from what was happening outside, and she struggles to look up...but she eventually powers through the pain, glaring daggers at Star. Her eyes flashed a bit of purple, and the two sides stand off...
The mystery's first piece was solved. But there is a lot more to try and uncover...
⇐==TO BE CONTINUED===
A/N:...Does it not make sense though?
Brittney was no Stand user. SABRINA was. DUN DUN DUN.
Anyways, that anxiety joke was a half-joke. Anxiety can be awful. Kept me away from even editing this story. But I never abandoned it. I just hope I didn't make you guys bored and leave this story. I'm a lot better now though. Once again, sorry for the delay!
Also, STVFOE...2019...my soul is dying. I hope it is for January 2019. Disney. Please? A pizza with extra PLZ and Pepperoni?
ONTO REVIEWS!
Masque: Hope you liked the reveal! Wasn't Brittney...just her right hand butt monkey. But hope you liked this little gremlin!
Cross: My friend you were correct with Sabrina. The motive is...well we shall see. The names are wrong though. HINT: The Stand's name is VERY old. It's an old song. It's a name that fits Sabrina well if you think about the name of the song and the character that more or less shares the song's name. I'm being vague. Lemme give another hint. It's a song from the 50s.
reven: Star almost wishes they could be besties; Alas...that's a one way street that may now be turning into a fully blocked street ready for demolition.
Thank you guys for reading. Once again, sorry for the absence. School is starting up for me soon. Now you can expect chapters once a month for a bit. But hey, I promise to make them worth it. They'll be fine chapters. Adorable chapters. The cutest.
Thanks for Reading! Please Review! (I've been saying this tagline for years now...I wonder if it comes off as pleading)