My New Wand.
"That looks so cool!" Star exclaimed as she saw the new cover for her friend's wand.
It was a simple leather cover that had a red diamond design and a fine rope to tie it in a belt.
"I know. My father gave it to me because the crystal isn't the blade anymore. In fact, this blade is the real deal." Marco said while showing the bright and sharp blade of the dagger. "So this one is really dangerous." Marco stated before he slid the new wand into the new cover.
"Oh! So how does it works now? Does the magic blasts are gonna go out of the crystal? Or the tip is still the nice part?" Star asked with curiosity.
Marco opened his mouth to answer the question, but he stopped when he didn't knew it as well. "Well… I don't really know… I haven't use it since… You know."
"Oh, yeah, since the, kidnapping thing."
"Yeah…" Marco said as he scratched the back of his head. "I'm sorry about that."
"Don't be!" Star said as she gave him a friendly smile.
Marco returned the smile, feeling a little more comfortable.
"That's more like it!" She exclaimed cheerfully. "Now, what about if we try out your new wand?"
"That sounds good to me." Marco stated before realizing of something. "But I think this will not be the best place to do it…"
"Hmmm… What about your closet?" Star asked as she pointed at Marco's closet.
"That can work for now." Marco stated before walking to his closet and try to open it with his wand, but he couldn't.
His wand didn't respond to him.
"Huh? Well that's weird."
"What's up?" Star asked with curiosity.
"My wand is not working."
"Maybe it's… taking a nap!" Star suggested with glee.
In that exact moment, the wand started to levitate by its own. Flying across the room and bouncing in the walls.
Star and Marco ducked for cover.
"What is happening with that-?" Star was interrupted when she avoided the wand that almost thrust her.
The wand flew into the air once more.
Marco looked with concern at his friend. "Star…?"
"I almost die." She stated with a shocked whisper.
The wand bounce between the two friends before it started to fly in circles in the room.
"What is up with your crazy new wand, Marco?!"
"Do I look like I know?!"
Suddenly, the Sacred Book of Spells made his way out of the bed of Marco and started to float in midair. It fully opened, catching the wand in midair and starting to make its way to the closet that now had its door open.
"Oh no you won't!" Star exclaimed with a defiant tone before she jumped towards the book, grabbing it by the cover. "Gotcha!"
Before she could realize about her mistake, it was already too late. The book flew straight into the closet. The door quickly was quickly closed as soon as the book and the friend of the mewman prince were both inside.
"Star!" Marco rushed his way to the closed door. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine!" The cheerful voice of his friend came from the other side of the door. "I'm just… Nghh! A little stuck into something…" Star stated as she walked her way out of the closet's closet.
Marco tried to open the door. "Umm… Star…?"
"What is it?"
"I think we may have a problem with the door…"
"What? Is it stuck or something?"
"Something like that. It won't open without magic. And my wand is inside the closet… So…"
"Is that it?" Star interrupted. "Well, don't you worry your little head, Marco!" Star said cheerfully while making her way to the book of spells. "I will just grab it and open the door from the inside!"
"Do you even know how to use my wand?"
"…No?" She lied.
"Then how do you plan on getting out of there?"
"I can always try, can't I?"
"Yes, you can." A voice came out from behind Marco.
Marco turned around to find his mentor, floating just behind him.
"Glossaryck?"
"Why, hello there, Marco. Haven't seen you since last night."
"What are you doing here, weren't you always with the book?" Marco asked while raising an eyebrow.
"For what do you take me? For some kind of genie?" Glossaryck asked with a rather annoyed tone in his voice.
"Umm… Do I have to answer that?"
Glossaryck slowly raised an eyebrow.
Marco cleared his throat nervously. "Anyway…" He stated before resuming the conversation. "Could you please help me out with this?" He asked, pointing at the closed door of his closet.
"Hmmm…" Glossaryck floated at the door while examining it carefully. "Well, I am not an expert in doors, but this one seems quite fine."
"No, Glossaryck, I mean if you could help me to open the door?"
"Hmmm… I see…" Glossaryck floated towards Marco. "Did you tried the door knob?"
"For what are you taking me?" Marco asked with an annoyed tone.
"It isn't so nice when someone else does it to you, is it?" Glossaryck asked with a mocky smile.
"Glossaryck, I am talking seriously right now…"
"I am talking seriously too."
"Hey, Glossaryck!" Star's voice called from inside the closet. "Could you come here? I think there's something wrong with your book."
"Coming." Glossaryck informed before making his way into the closet through the keyhole.
"Great…" Marco told to himself as he rolled his eyes.
…
"So, what is it?" Glossaryck asked as he floated in Star's direction.
"It's your book. It won't open."
"It won't open?"
"Yeah! I have been trying to open it to get the wand, but it just won't-!" Star was interrupted by a clicking sound that came out of the book.
"There."
"How did you…?"
"Oh, it was my fault. I leave the book locked so no one could open it in my absence." Glossaryck turned serious. "I can't risk any of my pudding…"
"And… What about this?" Star asked as she pointed at the wand that was lying in one of the pages.
"If it isn't pudding, then you can have it." Glossaryck stated with a friendly smile on his face.
"Mine!" Star said cheerfully as she snatched the wand from the book.
But nothing happened.
"Huh?" Star shook the wand and hold it in her hand for some seconds. "Hey! Why isn't it changing?"
"I don't know." Glossaryck told as he shrugged.
"Then how am I supposed to get outta here?"
"I don't know either."
Star looked at the little magic man with an annoyed look. "Then what am I supposed to do?"
"I don't know, why don't you look around while I think on something?" Glossaryck suggested to the impatient girl.
"Look around? Look around for what?"
"For his secret."
Star was surprised by the commentary. "What? Secret?"
"What? Marco haven't told you?" Glossaryck floated slightly higher. "He has things hidden in here, but there is one thing in particular that holds his biggest secret!"
Star gave him a doubtful look. "Are you sure about that? Because, I mean, I am pretty sure that I know everything about my bestie!" Star said with proud.
"Are you absolutely sure?"
"I am!"
Glossaryck turned around and with a magic beam, he opened a little hidden door that was above the desk.
"What?!"
"Have fun!" Glossaryck said before going through the keyhole.
…
"Where is it?" Marco mumbled to himself while looking under his bed. "I am pretty sure I put it over here…"
"Why don't you just open the door with magic?"
Marco, startled, quickly turned around and found Glossaryck, swimming in thin air around him. "I can't… My wand is inside the closet…"
Glossaryck gasped excited. "Do you wanna learn the hard way?" He asked the mewman prince as his pupils got bigger. Big enough to turn his entire eyes black.
Marco looked with horror at his mentor. "Umm…"
"Good!" Glossaryck exclaimed quickly before Marco could say anything. "Now, pay attention! The lesson begins inside my eyeball." Glossaryck pulled his eye open, teleporting them both inside of it.
…
The two of them were suddenly floating around a magical and ancient place unknown by Marco.
Marco looked around confused before he turned to see his blue mentor. "Glossaryck, what the-?!"
"Now, pretend that this soup is the whole magic of the universe." Glossaryck interrupted while pointing at the cauldron in front of them. "And this spoon…" He clarified while materializing a wooden spoon out of nowhere. "Is your wand."
"What?"
"The wand only allows you to scrap the surface of the entire magic that exists in the universe."
"Glossaryck."
"But." Glossaryck threw away the spoon. "If you wanna get to the chunks, you have to dip down!" Glossaryck dipped his hands into the bottom of the cauldron and brought them back to the surface alongside lots of food that were hiding in the bottom of the soup.
"Glossaryck!"
"What is it? Do you have any questions?"
"No, I don't! I already knew all of this!"
With a poof, the whole place disappeared, leaving them right back in the room.
"Then why you didn't say it earlier? I could have save some time for my work."
"I tried! But you won't listen!"
"Then, if you know about that already, why don't you just open the door with magic?"
"Because I don't know how."
Glossaryck looked confused at the prince. "Excuse me?"
"I don't know how to dip down. That's why I have the wand in the first place." Marco clarified.
"Oh. Well, in that case…" Glossaryck slowly floated towards the door.
"Hey! Where are you going?"
"Um… Into the closet?"
"But, aren't you going to tell me how to dip down?"
"Well, actually no." Glossaryck replied with a friendly smile.
"What?! Why not?"
"Because I can't. You have to figure it out for yourself!"
"But-!"
"Bye bye!" Glossaryck interrupts before entering the closet through the keyhole of the door.
Marco let out a little growl of annoyance as he saw him leave. "Alright… Then I guess I am on my own." Marco sat down in his bed while staring at the door. "Dip down… Dip down…"
…
Glossaryck entered the room with ease before he made his way towards the opened book of spells.
A bowling ball fell from above, almost crushing him.
"Opsie! Sorry about that!" Star apologized to the little blue man.
"Ah, don't worry about it! I am used to handle heavier things anyways." Glossaryck replied with a calmed expression.
"Well, that's good to know!" Star said before she threw a hammer in his direction his direction, almost hitting him again.
"So… How does the search is coming along?" Glossaryck asked as he sat down in the book.
"Well, I am certainly finding some things that I didn't even knew that Marco had! Like that bowling ball!" Star thought about it for some seconds. "Now that I think about it. From where did Marco got a bowling ball?"
"I don't have the slightest idea." Glossaryck stated as he shrugged. "Hey, do you have the wand?"
"Yeah, here." Star handed the sharp wand to Glossaryck.
"Thank you!" Glossaryck floated back to the book of spells. "Now, if you excuse me. I have some work to do." Glossaryck waved goodbye to the blonde girl before the book closed itself with the wand and the little man inside of it.
"But, how am I supposed to know when I find Marco's secret?" She sighed. "Guess Ii will know it when I see it."
…
Marco was sitting with his legs crossed on top of his bed. He had his eyes closed and was concentrating very deeply. "Dip down…" He muttered to himself while breathing slowly. "Dip down…" He slowly extended his hands towards the door. "Dip… DOWN!" He shouted as he opened his eyes.
But nothing happened.
Marco growled with annoyance at his none-existent result. "This is going to be a lot harder than I expected…"
"What are you talking about, Marco boy?" River asked from the outside of the room, startling the young prince.
"Oh… Well, let me explain." Marco took a deep breath to calm himself. "I am trying to use magic without my wand. But I don't know how to do that in the first place."
"Wait. You can do magic without your wand?" River asked with curiosity.
"Well, yes I can."
"Well, I didn't knew that!" River looked around the room, looking for something that could look magical. "And… What are you trying to do?"
"I'm trying to… open my closet?" Marco said nervously.
"Huh? Just that?" River asked, a little disappointed. "Why would you want to do such an easy task with magic?"
"HIIIYA!" Star's voice came out of the closet alongside a big and loud hit.
But the door did not moved an inch.
"Oh, c'mon!" Star complaint was heard through the door.
"Darling, is that you?" River asked as he approached at the door of the closet.
"Oh, hello daddy! What's up?" Star asked with her usual happy tone.
"That's what I should be asking you. What is going on there?"
"Well, not much. Marco's door doesn't want to open so I am trying to open it with the stuff in here. By the way! Did you knew that Marco had a bowling ball?"
River ignored that last part and proceed with his interrogation. "And how did you got there, darling?"
"Marco's wand started to float out of control. The book ate it and I tried to catch it. But the book flew inside the closet and the door closed itself. So now I am here, stuck."
"And why don't you just open the door?"
"The door can only be opened with magic and I can't use Marco's wand."
River turned around slowly to give Marco a menacing look. "You don't say…"
Marco gave him a nervous smile before letting out a soft laugh with the same mood. "I-I'm sorry…"
River sighed once again. "Just get my daughter out of the closet." River started to walk his way out of the room. "I am trusting you."
Marco gulped nervously before River left the room.
Another loud noise came out of the closet. This time, it sounded like a metallic object.
"Hey, Marco. How do I use this cool magic sword?" Star asked from behind the closed door.
"Magic sword?" Marco asked with confusion.
"Yeah, the one that has all the cool looking golden things!"
"Oh, that sword." Marco exclaimed as he remembered. "Well, I don't know."
"What? You don't know?"
"No, I-!"
"Then why do you even have it in the first place?" Star interrupted.
"It's not mine. It was my dad's sword." A sudden realization came to Marco. "Wait, that's it!" Marco told to himself as he quickly made his way to the portrait of his parents.
"So… You don't know how to use it?" Star asked, not getting the reply she was waiting for. "Ugh, fine! I will get back to my search!"
…
While the two teenagers were busy in their individual tasks, Glossaryck was busy with one individual task as well.
Inside the Sacred Book of Spells, Glossaryck was checking all the aspects and properties of the cleaved wand. He was examining every single detail from it. Its smell, its shape, how really dangerous the blade of the dagger was.
Everything was completely normal, and yet, completely different at the same time.
Glossaryck finally got to check the part where the cleaved red diamond was lying on. "Well, this seems interesting…" He told to himself as he opened up the red diamond, checking the inside of the wand.
Inside the surprisingly vast space that the wand hid within, a single unicorn could have been seen in the middle of the nothingness.
The unicorn was running in a treadmill, powering up the wand with magical energy. Suddenly, the unicorn turned its whole head around to roar at the intruder with a death glare in his green illuminated eyes.
"Well, that's not good…" Glossaryck told to himself as he kept watching the dark looking unicorn.
…
Marco stood in front of the dimensional mirror. He took a very deep breath and let it go out slowly in order to calm himself down. "Alright… Here it goes." He told to himself with confidence. "Call Angie."
"CALLING ANGIE." The dimensional mirror spoke and, almost instantly, got the two dimensional signs connected.
The image of his mother appeared in the mirror, a smiley face greeting him.
"Hello there, Marco!" The Queen of Mewni greeted her son with joy.
"Hi, mom." Marco greeted with a nervous smile.
"Marco, is there something wrong? You look worried."
"Well… That's actually why I called you…" Marco admitted.
"What is it?" His mother asked with a concerned tone.
Marco took another deep breath while taking time to organized his thoughts properly. "Alright… Here is the thing. Star got locked in my closet alongside my wand. So Glossaryck wants me to dip down to get her out." Marco explained with a calmed and flat expression in his face.
"What? Dip down? I didn't learnt that until I was twenty!" Angie exclaimed with surprise, looking at the surprised expression that she shared with her son.
"Wait… Really?" Marco took some seconds to process the information. "So… I'm like… advanced or something?"
"Well… I suppose."
"…Wow." That was everything that Marco managed to get out of his mouth before the current situation pulled him back to reality. "Anyway, Glossaryck didn't give me any indications… So…"
"Well, that sounds familiar." Angie said with a nostalgic smile as she rolled her eyes.
"Could you please tell me how to dip down?" Marco pleaded.
"Well, I would love to. But that is something that you must find on your own." Angie admitted.
"Oh…" Marco said with a sad and disappointing tone.
"But… If you want…"
The words of his mother filled him immediately with hope.
"I could tell you how I do it."
"Please!" Marco replied instantly, trying to hold back his enthusiasm.
"Alright, alright! Just calm down a little!" Angie exclaimed with joy as she tried to control her enthusiasm as well. "Listen carefully…"
Marco went silent and focused all of his attention in his mother.
"When I dip down, I summon everything that I have important in my life." Angie raised her hand and materialize a beautiful crystal flower between her fingers. "It always works."
Marco looked at the flower with interest. "Summon everything?"
"That's right! Everything!"
Marco kept looking at the flower with interest before the idea processed correctly into his mind. "Alright… I think I got it now! Thanks, mom!"
"It was nothing, Marco." Angie said with a patient smile. "Call me if you need anything else, alright?"
"I will. Goodbye, mom!"
"Goodbye, son! Have a nice week!" Angie told to her son before the call ended and the two signals disconnected.
"Everything…" Marco told to himself like if he could saw the answer in front of him as clear as day.
…
"This was a waste of time…" Star told to herself as she sat down in the chair of the desk. "I checked everything in that stupid secret door, but not a single hint of that super hidden secret!" Star looked down at the sacred Book of Spells with interest.
…
Glossaryck kept examining the wand with extreme caution. Aside from the unicorn inside, everything else was completely normal for a wand.
"Well, this is kinda-"
Glossaryck was cut off when the entire book of spells began to shake up and down uncontrollably.
"W-What the heck?!" Glossaryck exclaimed with surprise before the book of spells shot open.
"Aha!" Star shouted with glee when she saw the little blue man bouncing out of the book alongside the wand of her friend.
"Star? What was that all about?" Glossaryck asked with a little of annoyance. "I was working."
"And I was looking for the secret you told me about, but I emptied the whole thing and there is no super hidden secret in there!" Star exclaimed with an annoyed mood as well.
"There wasn't? Well… That's curious…"
A bright white light started to came from the other side of the door, catching the attention of the two of them.
"And that is curious as well."
"What is that?" Star quickly made her way to the door. "Hey, Marco, what's happening out there?" Star asked, waiting for her besties answer.
But no one replied.
…
In the other side of the room, Marco was floating in midair while sitting in a crossed legs position. He was extending both of his hands towards the closed door and his cheek marks were glowing with a strong white light. "Dip down…" He muttered to himself slowly.
In front of his hands, a little bright key was starting to materialize out of nowhere.
"Dip down…" Marco kept muttering slowly to himself as he continued to fabricate the key of the door.
The key materialize slightly faster over time until it announced its completion with a bright flash that bathed the entire room.
Marco slowly opened his eyes and looked at the light key in front of him with surprise. "I did it…" Marco was filled with joy and raised his arms in victory. "I did it! I have it!" His joy went up as the glow in his cheeks went down.
In a matter of seconds, his cheeks were lacking of light, and the light key started to slowly fade away.
"What…?" Marco asked with confusion before the key completely disappeared. Before he knew it, Marco fell to the floor due the lack of magic.
…
A loud "THUD!" was heard from the other side.
"Marco, are you alright?" Star asked as she lied down in the floor.
"I had it… I had it in my hands…" Marco told with a sad tone.
"You had what?"
"The key! I had it in my hands and I lose it!" A long sigh was heard. "I had it…"
"So… No key?"
"No key."
"Well, don't worry about it! At least I am in the cool side of the room!" Star told, trying to cheer up the mood.
"No. I will get you out!" Marco exclaimed with a decide attitude. "I just need to try again! This time without losing focus!"
"That's the-!" Star was cut off when a notebook fell over her face. "Hey! What the big deal?" Star asked with annoyance as she took the notebook off her face and looked at it with curiosity.
It was a blue notebook with a big red diamond in the middle.
"Huh? Hey, Marco! I think I found something!"
"Really? What is it?"
"Wait, lemme check it real quick!" Star exclaimed as she opened it. "Oh, there is some nerdy stuff written in here!" Star cleared her throat before starting to read aloud the contents of the notebook in a serious voice. "Entry number one. My parents have decided to place me on the Earth Dimension to practice with my magical abilities in a safe place. The place they found for me to stay is really nice and the family that's hosting me is really polite as well. But I am sincerely doubting about this."
"Wait… Star, what are you reading?" Marco asked with concern.
Star ignored her friend and kept reading. "I am not doubting my parents' decision. But why do they send me to practice magic to a place where I have to keep the existence of it as a secret in order to fit in? I honestly don't see where this "great" idea came from."
"Star! Stop it! That's nothing important!" Marco pleaded with desperation.
"Oh, I beg to differ!" Star told with a cheery tone. "I think I finally found the secret that Glossaryck was talking about!"
"No, Star, you didn't!"
"Hold on! Lemme get straight to the juicy stuff!" Star said as she slipped through the pages.
"Star! Stop it! Stop it right now!" Marco said in desperation while hitting the door.
"Boring, boring, boring!" Star told in every page that was just filled with spells or other not secret stuff. "Wait!" Star exclaimed with surprised as she reached the page Marco was most afraid of. "Star entry number one?"
…
Marco's eyes started to shine in a pure white light alongside his cheek marks. Without realizing it, Marco was being pulled into the air by his own magic alongside other stuff in his room.
In the keyhole of the door, a key made out of magic materialized and opened the locked door before disappearing.
The door opened itself, surprising the confused Star that was sitting in the inside of the closet.
Marco snatched the notebook from Star's hands with his magic before it faded away, leaving him gently in the floor.
"What… was that?" Star asked to his friend as she walked outside the closet.
Marco looked at his friend and then at the notebook in his hands. A big smile formed in his face as he raised the notebook in victory. "I did it!" Marco started to laugh with joy. "I really did it! I have to write it down!" Marco was hit with realization. "And that reminds me…" He turned around to face his friend. "Please don't read my journal. It's confidential!"
Before she could say anything, the book of spells came out of the closet alongside the wand and Glossaryck.
The book opened and Glossaryck floated out of it alongside the wand.
"Well… This thing is broken." Glossaryck stated as he floated towards Marco. "But it still works!" He said while handing the wand to its owner. "You should give it a try."
Marco looked at the wand before looking at his mentor. "You know what? I think I had too much magic for today." Marco stated before sliding his wand inside its cover. "I just want a big bowl of nachos right now."
"Can I have a big bowl of nachos too?" Star asked with enthusiasm.
"Of course!" Marco replied the same way.
"Yay!"
"But first…" Marco interrupted the celebration. "Let me get this in a safer place. I don't want you looking around." Marco said before entering the closet alongside the journal that he planned to hide.
Star looked at his best friend with interest. "Well, now I am curious!"