Well that interview was stressful, but now it's over and I can work on my fanfiction until my next one. In other news, has anyone else seen the new clips for Blood Moon Ball? I did and I am excited and nervous because … reasons. Now to get to the reviews.
skylarheart87: Thanks but I actually posted the story when I came back from work, but thank you all the same.
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H. Mae: Yes, I know it's you, also I know I should probably not be saying that so much. Deep down, Mathew isn't a bad guy, he just loves Star as much as the rest of us. Oh, I have something interesting that you might want to see in the next chapter then. Actually Roy isn't going to explain what they are going to do with that until after the final chapter and he breaks out of prison on detention island and joins the redemption squad to stop Thailog as for his plan of what to do with her, well … he'll explain that in his final confrontation with Marco before killing him … I can't have a straight face while saying any of that. You will find out what will happen when I tell you, no sooner unless you figure it out.
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Disclaimer: Star vs. the Forces of Evil characters belong to Daron Nefcy.
Stella, Marcus, Lannister, Roy, Mathew, and story belong to me
Beta read by Sabrina06
(Star's POV)
(The next day)
I was walking down the school hallway as people began greeting me, with their usual greetings; some gave me pie, some bragged about how much they adored me, some asked me to zap them, and some asked if I would be throwing a party any time soon. "It's always nice when people stop to say hello." I said as I walked.
"I see you're enjoying yourself." I heard someone say. I looked to my side to see Mathew walking right next to me; which caught me by surprise.
"Mathew!" I exclaimed. "Where did you come from?"
"I was here the whole time." He responded. "You just haven't noticed me."
"Well please say 'hi' next time, instead of scaring me."
"As you wish." He responded. "So, what do you think of them?"
"Them?" I asked as I looked back at the other students. "They're nice and fun to be around I guess."
"Glad to see you are comfortable around them." He added. "I was afraid you would be ... uneasy."
"Why is-" I paused and looked back at all the students who were now on their way to class. "You mean … they're your section of the cult?"
"Most of them yes, like I said, very few follow me."
"But … I … I didn't expect them to go to this school."
He looked at me and laughed. "A lot of our group goes to this school Star, the only one I can think of that I know doesn't, is Roy himself."
I turned to look forward. "I … I guess I simply didn't expect-"
"That we would be so normal?" He asked. "The truly crazed ones follow Lannister or Roy because they have the truly crazed plan."
"Speaking of which, any more information on Lannister's plan? Or where Roy keeps his sterilized silver?"
"Sadly nothing on Roy, but if Lannister ever found out that Roy got back to working with sterilized silver without asking, then he would probably excommunicate him."
"He needs permission?" I asked. "I thought you all did your own thing."
"For the most part, yes, but we are still one cult and we are basically competing to be the leader. That being said, the leader would have the ability to remove anyone they want; if they had a reason. As such, we would like to keep a productive relationship with the others."
"But if you … 'win' then you would remove Lannister and Roy along with the other radicals."
He stopped and turned to look at me. "If I win, then you would be the one leading us, and you would be able to remove Lannister and Roy ... if you see fit."
"If they haven't been removed already." I said with a laugh.
"You mean when you thwart their plans?" He asked. "Exactly what do you plan to do with them after that? Sterilizing silver, although immoral, isn't illegal on earth."
"Damn." I said as I looked down. "Well what can we do with them?"
"An excommunication would only anger them; but Roy's only power comes from his men. Lannister on the other hand is crafty and if he has a plan, then you can be sure that unless he's taken out of the picture, he's going to enact it."
"That means I'll need to think about this."
(Marco's POV)
(After school)
I was exiting the school, along with Marcus and Stella. I recently had an idea about Roy's operations and I was eager to check it out.
"What are we doing again?" Marcus asked.
"I already told you, Roy has to have a forge if he wants to make any weapons out of his purified silver, right? So maybe he's using the abandoned mill on the other edge of town."
"You're kidding, right? You don't need a mill, you can smelt most metals in a garage if you have the right equipment, heck, I could smelt it in my garage if I wanted to." Marcus replied.
"True but why go after the supplies when they're already available." I answered. "It's still a long shot, but I think it's worth checking out."
"But he has dimensional scissors Marco." Marcus began. "Wouldn't it be smarter to work with the silver in another dimension to make it easier to hide?"
"If that's the case, why didn't he hide the purified silver there?" Stella asked. "Sure it's a long shot but it's worth a look."
"Fine." Marcus said in defeat. "But what exactly is this purified silver? All you've told me is that it's dangerous."
"It's silver that has had all its magical properties removed, and because of that, it … is … effective against magic?"
"How exactly?"
I shrugged. "I'm … not sure … that's what the label said."
"Right." Marcus replied. "For all you know this might just be a wild goose chase."
I took off my backpack and began fishing through it for the silver. "Well how about this?" I said as I pulled out a bag with the few chunks we had. As I held the bag, I felt the same emptiness I felt before; making me want to drop it, or throw it as far as humanly possible.
As Marcus saw the bag, he began taking a few steps away, even though the bag wasn't transparent meaning that he too felt the emptiness coming from the silver. "What the hack is in that bag?" Marcus demanded.
"A few chunks of the silver." I answered. "It's all we found but … you can tell that there's something odd about it."
"I get the feeling that you have a severed head in there or … no … it's worse than that."
I out placed the bag back in my backpack. "So you see why we have to keep the cult from making this stuff or turning it into weapons."
"Yeah, I see, but how are we going to get there? Do you expect us to keep walking all the way?"
"Actually, we're already here." I pointed out as we approached the building.
Marcus looked at it in disbelief. "How … but … we were at the school only a few moments ago."
"It was an exposition." Stella explained as she and I began walking towards the abandoned steel mill.
"Exposition?" Marcus asked. "But an exposition is an explanation, it is not, in and of itself, an explanation as to how we got here so fast."
"Right, sorry, it was dramatic tension." I replied.
"Still not right."
"He meant it was an cliffhanger." Stella answered again.
"You know being horrible at breaking the forth wall doesn't excuse you from breaking the fourth wall." He shouted as he chased after us.
When we got to the door, Stella and I quickly flanked it while Marcus stood further to the side, next to Stella. I opened the door, just a bit, to look inside to find it empty for the most part. "All right, let's go." I said before opening the door further and going in. Stella followed, and then Marcus. The building was big; but mostly cleared out. There were two second story catwalks and a few old machines built into the walls; but other than that, it looked empty.
"I don't think anyone has been here in years." Marcus said as he swiped some dust off one of the machines.
"They still might have been here for some equipment, let's take a look around."
I walked off to a nearby office, while Marcus looked at some of the old machinery and Stella looked around the floor. The office was as bare as one would think; a few filing cabinets, a desk, and a computer that looked like it was old back when dinosaurs ruled the world. What really caught my attention though was a piece of paper that was left on the desk. It was free from dust, meaning that it had to be recent and as I looked at it, it turned out to be a manifest of some sort. I could tell that this belonged to the cult based on the fact that purified silver was listed as one of the items. The manifest listed that they had at least half a ton of silver, but only a small portion of that was purified. "Why on earth would they have so little?" I asked myself. "According to this, they only have enough for … maybe five weapons."
"MARCO!" Marcus shouted. "I think I've found something that you'll want to see."
I folded the paper and put it into my pocket as I walked out the door. Marcus was standing in the center of the factory floor, and was looking up like he had seen a ghost. "What is it?" I asked as I walked over to him. He pointed to the second story catwalk and when I looked up at it, I couldn't believe what who was standing there, looking down at us. "ROY!" I exclaimed.
The blue haired cultist laughed as he looked down at us. "Hello Marco, I haven't seen you since you sabotaged my recruitment meeting."
"When did you get here?" Marcus asked. "I'm fairly sure we didn't set off any alarms."
"Seriously?" He asked with a smile. "You just happen to wonder into my place of business and not expect me here?"
"So this is where you're purifying the silver!" I exclaimed.
"So you know about that too then?" He asked. "Tell me, has Star brought you in on this yet, or are you working without her?"
"That's none of your business!" I shot back.
"You're right." He said with a smile. "If she had brought you in on this, then she would be here right now."
"Why are you purifying silver?" I demanded. "And what do you plan to do with half a ton of it?"
"Um, capture Star?" He stated sarcastically. "I need a prison if I want to hold her, and purified silver seems to work wonders on magic."
"She's not some animal for you to capture for your own wants, she's a living breathing human being!"
"We had this argument before Marco." Roy stated. "And I still don't care. Once I purify the rest of the silver, she will be mine, and you will be gone."
"Why wait?" Marcus asked. "Why not just purify the rest of the silver and start on your jail?"
"You don't know how hard it is to purify silver, do you?" He asked.
"I don't know much about it to begin with, so enlighten me, how do you remove the magic from silver?" Marcus replied.
Roy laughed. "You really don't know much, do you? We don't remove the magic, that's like trying to remove the soul from a living being. No, to get the magic out of silver you must burn it away."
"Say what?" Marcus and I asked simultaneously.
"I said the magic has to be destroyed from within, that's the only way to purify silver."
"That's sterilizing!" Marcus snapped. "It's not purified, it's sterilized!"
"That's what the other leaders call it, matter of fact, if they found out then they would be so cross with me."
"Then why tell us?" I asked. "We could go to them and-"
"Go to whom?" He asked. "Who are the other leaders of the cult? And on that note, does Star even know you are fighting us? Not that it would do you any good if she did, she already knows that I have an amount of the stuff but she couldn't do anything about it either."
Just then, Stella, who had been sneaking up on Roy while he was talking, tried to slam Roy's face into the guardrail, only for Roy to grab her arm and swing her into a chicken wing, while holding her over the side of the rail. "And did you honestly expect me to fall for such a cheap trick? 'Keep him talking so that our teammate can get the jump on him' I saw that one coming a mile away."
"Stella!" I shouted.
"Now be a good friend and surrender." Roy demanded. "And you." He said as he turned to Marcus. "Drop ALL of your fireworks right now ... or she goes over the edge."
Marcus took off his hoodie revealing the scars on his arms and began shaking it. From his hoodie fell three display tubes, five wheels, ten roman candles, and an uncountable number of rockets.
"Good." Roy said with a smirk. "Now I'm going to call my cultists and-" Stella interrupted him by spinning out of the chicken wing; and spinning him into one. As she was about lock him into it however, he threw his weight over the rail forcing Stella to let go; and for him to fall.
His fall was fast but frightening, sure Roy was evil but he was still human and when his body collided with the floor I couldn't believe what had happened. Before any of us could react though, he began to move and slowly he got up. "Man, that was exhilarating." He said as he got to his feet.
"What the heck!" Marcus exclaimed.
"He can't be human." I said as I took a step back.
"Or he has a patron." I heard Monster Arm say. "Kind of like I am to you."
Roy looked over at me and began to walk in my direction.
"I see where this is going." I said as I cracked my knuckles once.
"You should know when to run." Roy replied as he continued walking.
"I'm not running from you." I said as I cracked my knuckles again.
"I also see where this is going Marco." Monster Arm replied. "And just so you know, I have no idea who his patron would be, or how strong he is unless he demonstrates other powers."
I cracked my knuckles a third time and felt Monster Arm's power surge through me. "I am going to wipe the floor with you." I said with a leer.
"I'd like to see you try." Roy replied with a laugh.
"Then let's have at it!" Roy and I charged into battle.
And so ends the … wait … it's a cliffhanger? Man, we can't have that. I will post immediately, and by that I mean I will wait a week before doing anything with this story … Nah, I'll update soon … but not too soon … but it won't be that long … or will it? Anyway, I just got the next chapter back from my beta and she loved it so there's something else to look forward to in addition to the new episode only this will be coming out before that but you don't know when, so which one is more aggravating? Also I altered a chapter in one of my stories … and I'm not telling which one because the alteration is completely pointless and meaningless but I know that you will all hunt for it anyway even though it's impossible to find because no one remembers every chapter of all my stories.
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