Ch 17: Getting ready
Inside the castle, Marco was trying on different clothes.
"Star, do I REALLY have to go with you? Like, it's boring stuff! And you're just there for tradition, you don't actually have to say anything!" Marco said while taking off a dress shirt.
"This is a really important meeting! It's gonna be one for the history books, so you better look sharp. That's what mom told me." Star said from the other side of the bedroom door "This is probably going to be your biggest appearance in Mewni politics, and other than that you're a small blurb in a history book."
"Unless people find out about us, Star!" Marco put on a light blue dress shirt and a black dress coat.
"A tiny little scandal won't make an entire chapter in history, but this meeting will."
"What's so important about this meeting?" Marco said as he looked at himself in the mirror. He noted a distinct lack of color.
"This is gonna be the first time Mewni talks to another dimension's nation since mom took power. It's the people we got in trouble with before!"
"Wait, you mean the Nazis?" Marco stopped picking out his pants in shock.
"Yeah! Those guys!"
"Well, i'll be looking forwards to meeting them." Marco put on his eye patch. He figured that it would be best to keep his mouth shut.
Star laughed "Well, are you gonna finish up in there or are you still looking for that perfect suit?"
Marco put on some pants and stepped out and spinned around "What do you think?"
Star examined Marco "Well, it's a little… bland."
"I was afraid of that. That's why I got some poppies earlier!"
"You're really all over this flower, huh?" Star said as Marco put a poppy on his lapel.
"It's the first flower I gave to you, so it's like, sort of special in a way." Marco spun around again "What about now?"
"It's better!" Star said "Ok, now that I've helped you pick out your clothes I need to get to the throne room and sit in the big chair." Star took one step towards the door leading to the hallway, then was held back by Marco.
"What, no kiss?" Marco said
Star chuckled, and quickly kissed Marco on the cheek. She then left and Marco was left to his own devices. Marco took some time to ready himself for a boring few hours. He was told by Ginger Blossom that he had to go there because he was her legal son. Ginger hadn't been much of a mother, she wasn't cautious around Marco and barely gave him attention. Life would be much the same if she wasn't there personally. But Marco being her adopted son secured his place in the royal house. He wouldn't see Star much more often.
Marco checked that he had his dull knife on him. Weeks had passed since he started taking lessons from Walter. After Walter implemented the same tactic Marco used, the game became a boring, tedious, and dragging. Walter made Marco move on to self defense and promised that they would pick tactics up later. The dull knife was for training, but he brought it just in case. Just to be safe.
"Just to be safe…" Marco remembered his old school and how he would take every precaution to not get injured. Marco shrugged off this thought, as he didn't want to think of it any further. Instead he occupied himself with going to the meeting.