Hello everyone, I'm back to writing this. Its been a little hard to because school started and I'm only able to write a few hundred words a day, but the slow pace helped me develop the chapter a little more, because this chapter was way longer than I thought it would be. Now before we get into the next part of the story, let me address a few things I feel like need explaining.
Connie: Yes she will be in here, she's like Steven's Marco, the smart yet adventurous sidekick that keeps the main character balanced. Now because Steven is 9 now in this story, Connie is going to be about ten, maybe 11, mostly because I think the dynamic I will have going in this story will go better if that's the case and lets be honest, a few thought though that was the case before we learned he was 14 in the show.
The Gems and Greg: Like I could have a crossover like this without adding them. It wont be for a while, but they will meet up. I plan on having the explanation of Steven's arrival on mewni be something that'll pop up, especially when we get to episodes like freeze day, laser light cannon, and mewnipendence day. And when they do find out exactly where and who's been raising steven, the gems wont exactly be the most gracious of people when they meet up. Expect a lot of tension, especially from Moon and Pearl. Greg, well, I have something in mind for him, because I plan on making a big change for him, and it'll be, interesting for Quartz to find out exactly who he really is.
Steven's maturity: Yeah, this is the main thing in the relationship between Star and Steven. They get along, they are always happy, they have a great brother and sister relationship. But if I write them as practically the same character who always gets along, then their would be no real point in writing them both together. Plus it does fit Steven's character. Both are prone to making mistakes, and both are quite naïve at times, but Steven in the show, he take his mistakes and correction a little more seriously than Star does. Steven tries to learn from them, while Star is usually fine with making mistakes over and over again. This is kinda the driving point for Star to be a little more mature. But all in all, steven is still 9, something that will be shown often, like when I get to my version of Fusion cuisine.
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Silence. That was the only word that could be used to describe the moment. Within the Battle room, everything was dark, with the only shred of light being shined on only one, kneeling, central figure. He was a small figure with a bushel of curly hair. He wore some sort of armor outfit, looking like it was made for protection, but also looked pretty light for something made for durability. In the middle of it was a giant yellow star. On his soldier pads, their were two marks, on the left was a crescent moon, on the right was a small purple diamond. He was facing down with his eyes closed, as if he was waiting for some sort of sign or clue. Nothing but soundlessness filled the air. It was so quiet that the sound of his heartbeat felt like a banging drum, boom, boom, boom it went. He closed his eyes even tighter. He knew what was to come, and finally, after all this time, he would be ready for it.
Shing. Shing. Shing.
Two bright and shiny blast come out from the left side. They were like daggers of light, powerful, beautiful, and potentially life threating. They all pointed towards the little boy. They neared him, the closer they got, the more still the boy stood. Sweat begun to fall from his face as he felt the presence of the danger near him. He jut had to wait for the right moment. Too early and it would go they way he wanted, and too late he would be injured or worse. He gently opened his eyes, knowing that at this moment, it was now or never.
With all the reflex and speed he had, he tumbled to his left,, narrowly dodging the first four coming at him. He immediately jumped back up to his feet, dodging the next two coming with quick swiftness. Pulling out his shield, he angled it slightly just enough to reflect the last three blasts back to where it came. A slightly "hpm" was heard in result, though whatever that move did to affect the source, it did not hinder it long as more daggers came at him, this time, more than he could dodge, so he did the next best thing: run.
Turning the other way, the little boy ran towards the wall, seemingly trapping the young fellow as he head into it. But of course, he doesn't let that obstacle deter him as he makes a jump, and actually runs up it. Not stopping until he reached the top, he makes a sudden 360 degree turn as he launches himself forward, right after he pulled out a long and silver sword, and twirled himself in the air, knocking down any of the attacks that were in his way. He descended into the ground as he did, landing perfectly on his feet, right as he turned around and used his sword to block another attack from another sword. Pressing forward, he slashed away all the strikes made on him as he advanced his own offense. The attacks were matched with each other, none really showing any dominance over each other.
Knowing that this could take long, the little boy summoned his shield once again, this time he threw it to the side, making it bounce off the wall as it came at the attacker with mighty force. The attacker notices, and just as its about to hit its target, the attacker catches it with her hands, barely stopping it from hitting its mark. Before the figure could do anything else, the little boy held his sword next to the attackers head, just stopping it ever so slightly from making its mark. The figure, now revealed to be Moon, smiled as she had the lights turned on, revealing the little boy to be Quartz.
"Hm, it seems you finally caught me off guard." The Queen congratulated as they both lower their weapons and guards down. Each them giving off small huffs and puffs, smiling at each other as they headed towards the exit "You've down exceedingly well, my son. You've learned to control your abilities in a chaotic environment and even managed to get me by surprise."
"Does this mean..?" The little prince asked as stars formed in his eyes, knowing exactly what his mother was getting at.
"Yes, yes, you can get ready to go to earth. Star will be expecting you at lunch, so you better prepare now, you leave in two hours."
"YES! Thank you thank you!" He screamed as he hugged his mother with all the strength he had, which was quite a lot. The queen flinched a little when he did, knowing that he had a lot more in that little body than he thought. Quartz ran out of the room, excited to show off how much he had missed his sister, and how much he had learn in the past month. Moon smiled as she saw her son off. He may have been adopted, but he had all the Butterfly family traits, from her understanding, Star's endless energy, and River's boldness, all combined with his own kindness and love. She could only hope though that it was what they both needed to get through the times ahead.
Things at the Diaz residence had not gotten any slower or saner, in fact, with Star on the fritz with the whole brother visit, she was very on the edge, even more so then the exchange student fiasco. She and Marco worked day and night the rest of the day to get the house in shape, and by that, we actually mean Star used a microphone and shouted at Marco all day to prepare all the food while she used an abundance of spells to summon anything to fix up the place. It was times like this that Marco regretted his well known good boy nature, Star especially knowing how much he was willing to help a friend in need. Still, he labored through it as he made all the food for the brunch, some of the stuff that kinda made him queasy. He was pretty sure popcorn and chocolate syrup did not go well together, and who ever ate dry rice with cheese puffs?
"Okay Star, I did everything on your list, though I don't recommend eating the doughnut dogs." He said as he pointed to the hybrid food item, slightly wincing in disgust. Star meanwhile was hardly paying attention as she looked over the various snack items, inspecting the stack of waffles that had tons and tons of syrup and popcorn on it. It was smothered in whip cream, and its only "healthy" item was a strawberry, at which Star was starring at intensely.
"Marco, you need too put the berry directly in the middle! Otherwise he wont look at it!" She scream as she picked up the berry and made a big show out of putting it about a centimeter to the left. She ended up making a bigger mess than before, if the whip cream all over her face was any indication.
"Star." Marco said, whipping off the cream on his face and comforting his friend. "You need to calm down. How about you tell me about your brother before you make a mess, well, a bigger one at least."
"Well, I guess it all started when I wander off when I was five or something." She says with a rather lax tone. "I wanted to have fun, but then the cutest little baby came right up to me, and before I knew it, he saved my life from a monster with all of his baby magic!" She finishes with a dramatic flair, making Marco a little more confused.
"So he's adopted?"
"Of course. I actually don't know a lot about that. Anything about Quartz's past is unknown, except to maybe mom and dad. All I know is that his mom was probably some kind of significant figure to my mom and that theirs this prophecy or whatever about how he's suppose to save me from darkness or what not, blah blah." She casually shrugs it off like she didn't even hear the real weight of what she said, something that Marco begins to question. "What I want to know is why the snack sushi isn't right next to the dognuts! He has to have something salty and savory before having something sweet and salty!"
"Wait, what was that about.." He began to ask, when at that moment, a loud, thunderous roar ran through the air, shaking up the house as Marco ducked behind the couch for cover, while Star just stayed still, knowing full well what was going to happen next. Before she knew, out of no where, a giant pink circle appeared in the air of the living room, showing of its bright pink illuminance as both teens stare at it, Marco from shock and awe, Star from slight boredom. And right as Marco thought nothing else could stir him in that moment, a giant pink puff of fur leapt from the circle and landing right on top of the poor red hooded boy. "mmmmph. mmmmMMMMMMPPPPPPPHH!" He screamed as he pounded on the legs of the beast that sat on top of him, his cries falling deaf to the oblivious lion and scowling princess.
"Lion! You know better than to do that suddenly in the middle of a room! What if you slid into the food!?" She yelled, completely missing the real reason why she should be mad as Marco struggled to get his head free.
"Hello, being smothered to death by a giant pink cat over here! Man, what has my life become now?" Marco pondered rhetorically, knowing full well the answer to that.
"Seriously, if you weren't so adorable and awesome I'd have half a mind to tell Quartz to.." She looks around her area, now wondering where Lion's owner was. "Where is Quartz anyway?"
As she sais that, a rumble went through out the room, making everyone, except Lion of course, freeze in place as they try to figure out where it was coming from. Star turns her attention to the pink portal, which for some reason had not closed at all. The rumbling just got louder as she neared it, not sure what to expect now.
"Butterfly..." A loud echoey voice sounded in the air as the portal started to shrink. Just as the princess was going to turn away, a large, small curled up, thing of metal came out of the closing portal, right at the chest of Star.
"BOMB!" It shouted as it uncurled itself, revealing the little mewni prince as he held out his arms and wrapped himself around his older sibling. This however did not stop his momentum as he tackled her down as both collided into the oink beast. The Lion was completely unmoved as the two giddy royals slammed into his side, and continued to ignore everything else as the two fell the ground.
The little prince stood up in a daze as his sister sat up against the resting lion. Both ignored the boy on the other side struggling to squeeze himself out of the fluffy trap. "So how was that? How high was that score?" Quart eagerly stated as he greeted his sister.
"Hm, 10 on the surprise scale, 4.5 on the style-o-meter, and as if I had to say it, 3 out of three on the cuteness measurer." She stated ever so casual before embracing her brother with hug full of love. "I missed you so much! Oh, I never looked at ice cream or cats the same way after leaving! How are you doing! You look.." Star slowed down, looking at his new attire. From the looks of it, she guessed her mom was serious about the training. He looked exactly like a knight, but their was something else about it, something about the new look that felt, familiar. She didn't question it any further, already getting slightly uneased at the new look. ".. you look great."
"I know right!" Quartz responded back. "Mom had this specially designed and equipped for me. It allows to move a whole lot better while also adding protection. Watch." He said a he did a small jump in the air, and remained as he did a series of small spins a rolls. He laughed as he did, slightly getting dizzy as he continue you. One thing that Star noticed was that he didn't seem to float back down as he always did, in fact, he didn't move an inch down as he stayed in the exact same spot.
"Ohh.." Star said a little weakly as she saw her brother's display of power." I see that you've improved on your floating and stuff." She frowns as she awkwardly rubs her arm.
"Yeah. I can catch more air time now!" He said as he landed on his feet again, wobbling a little from being off the ground for a while. "So what have you been working on lately?" He questions, making Star all the more awkward.
"Excuse me, I have to,.." She tried to think of an excuse out of this but her brain was totally not there at the moment. 'come on, I did this all the time back home! Why must you fail me now?!' she mentally cursed, when she heard the moans of Marco, who was still struggling from under the belly of the colorful feline. Aha! "Help my friend, yeah! Be one moment!" She screamed as she ran over to the other side, where she stood above Marco.
"Thank you Star, I think the fur is giving me some sort of rash. What has this thing been rolling in?" He asked in relief, only for it to be completely dashed as Star got uncomfortably close to his face.
"Marco, I need I little help here!" She said, keeping her teeth closed tightly as she showed off her frustration. "Quartz is already showing off his magic training, and I can't focus right now when I'm unprepared for it! I need you to distract him while I prepare some more." She said in a loud hush, trying to make sure Quartz doesn't hear her.
"Prepare for what?" Quartz innocently stated as he leaned over and crawled on to his pink pet. Star immediately stammered back, not prepared to answer right away.
"Prepared to meet my friend over here. Come on Marco! Now's not the time to play with the kitty!" Star said nervously and purely on instinct, using all the strength she had in her to pull Marco out relatively easy, and shoving him to the side. "I don't care what you do, just make sure that he doesn't come upstairs!" She said almost threateningly before putting on her bright and cheery smile on once more and hugged brother tightly, a little more tightly than Quartz was used to. "You two boys have fun while I check on something." She smiled widely before dashing up the stairs and slamming the door to her room shut. Both guys stared at the sight for few moments, not quite sure what it was that they saw.
"So I see that she does that here to, huh?" Quartz opened his mouth first as he turned to greet the red hooded boy next to him.
"You have no idea." Marco agreed as he held out his hand. Quartz did the same, though he had a strong grip on Marco's making the older lad slightly uncomfortable as he tried to not show any signs of it hurting him. "S-o, so your the brother that Star was so excited to have over." He stated, silently praying that the kid would let go soon. Quartz did, making Marco blow cold air on the now slightly blue palm."
"Yep, Quartz Universe Butterfly! Knight in training and magical little brother from another dimension!" He smiled as he created a small spikey bubble that floated in the air to show off. "I would add friendliest face in space, but I believe that title belongs to someone else."
"Ooh, is that bubble made out of light or.." Marco said with curiosity, despite Quartz's initial protest, which came too late.
"No wait I,.." the prince said in vain, as Marco placed a single finger on it, and it immediately flared in a bright light. And soon, without any time to prepare for it, the two were covered in soot and ash as a small portion of the living room filled with cracks. "I, I'm still working on that. The bubbles I make can be very, very explodey." He said with a slight nervous chuckle.
Marco just wiped the ash from his face as he smiled at the little guy. "Yep, your definitely Star's brother." He laughed ass the little prince joined him.
"So your the safe kid that my parents decided to leave Star with?" Quartz bluntly point out once they stop, making the older boy do a double take.
"What!? They call her me a safe kid too? What is this?! Did someone out their label me the safe kid for the whole universe to see?" Marco complained.
"Oh, I didn't mean to offend, its just that when Mom and Dad left Star on earth they left the school with instructions to have a guide throughout her stay on earth that was, and I quote" he then pulls out a piece of paper and began to read it. "A knowledgeable and trustworthy person/people who has a clean reputation. Particularly one that has no association with anything bad, savage, dangerous, risky, or anything remotely resembling anything young ones consider 'cool'. Furthermore he/she should be by the books, be one to stray away from danger, cautionary.." Quartz began to ramble on, making the older bot both frustrated and whiney as the prince continued the drabble.
"Okay, I get it!" the frustrated Marco shouted, making the prince look at him questionably. "Just for the record, that is not me! I'm a total rebel, I totally embrace danger." He brags on, leaning on the nearest thing around, which just so happen to be the lion, who growls at the sudden feeling of pressure. Marco completely contradicts himself as he flinches back in fear and lets out a girlish scream, leaving the spectating prince chuckling. "I take karate! I can fight an army of monsters. Just ask Star, they constantly attack is all the time!"
"Oooh, really?" The boy said slightly impressed. "Care to show me something?"
Marco face sudden gave out a slightly smug smile. If the boy was anything like Star, all it would take was one well placed move and any image of being a safe kid would be removed from his head. "Okay." He said in the most sly like voice he could muster up, cracking his fingers as he turns to the nearest wall. "See this wall, totally sturdy, nothing, and I mean nothing can break through it." He explains, only for lion to get up and leap through the other side of the wall, most likely bored from everything that had transpired so far. "That was magic, so it doesn't count." He reassured the prince. "With one punch, I can totally make a hole in it." He crouches down, going in his stance, channeling all the little strength and manliness he had required in his short life. And with a mighty "heyeah", he pounced forward and drove his hand right into the wall, making a hole just like he said, generating a small, "wow" from the prince.
"Ahhhh" he started to wince in pain, only now noticing just how strong the wall really was. Quartz stared at him with curiousity, so he tried to make it look as cool as possible. "Ahhhhhaha, yea-eah, th-ats, that's right, I was able to do that, ha, ow." He rather lamely. Quartz offered no response as Marco try to pry his hand from the wall. "Now that the walls taken care of, I can show off my.." He begins, only for his arm to tug back at him. "Alright, all this need is a little elbow grease and..." He tries to convince the prince, and himself, that this was not a problem. He uses his other arm to try and pry it out, but to no avail. "So you want to play dirty, huh," he addressed the wall threateningly as he lifted his other hand. "Well lets see how you like it when you taste your own med.." He follows through with another punch, only for that hand to somehow go in deeper than the other one. "ecine." He frowns, knowing that this was the result he should've expected.
"Uh, do you need.." The little prince began to speak in a chuckling manner, finding this situation rather amusing. He covers his mouth as he fails to contain his enjoyment, something that doesn't really help with the teen's self esteem.
"No! I got this! All need to do is weaken the wall a little more and I'll be free." He irritably said as he raised his right foot and repeatedly began to kick the area below his arms. It looked alike for a moment that the plan was working, as the walls began to crack up a little, elating a small smile on the teen's face. This just so happed to be a celebration to early as just like the top limbs, his right foot was too stuck in the wall. His demeanor shrank as he turned to the prince. "Okay, you can help out now."
"Well, if you proved one thing, its that you should be glad none of Ludo's monsters are walls, or else you two would be doomed." He said sincerely as he began to pull out Marco's leg. "So exactly how did you guys meet? Star often has a tendency to befriend everyone on the first attempt."
"Heh, well it wasn't exactly like that, in a way." Marco chuckles nervously as he remembers that very first day. "Like you said, I was called to be Star's guide around the school, and, let just say I wasn't prepared for anything like Star. She was chipper, jumpy, and constantly spreading laser puppies and flaming rainbows."
"She's still doing that?" Quartz immediately perked up in worry. "Your town hasn't experienced any massive outburst of fire and mayhem, right?"
"Ah, no, at least, none that I heard of." He said a little hesitantly, especially when he see's the huge sigh of relief the prince gives. He made a mental note to ask Star about that later, and possibly start carrying around flame retardant materials at all times. "Anyway, I didn't really connect with the whole magic thing at first, especially when she ended up sucking my entire room into a black hole. But after a brief argument and a monster fight, we connected. She's amazing with that wand, practically anything she wants comes out of it, and its been, quite an adventure being friends with her."
"Yeah, she has that affect on people." Quartz said, stopping what he was doing for a moment. "When you're with her, practically everything you do is something exciting, something new, something, something daring." The smile on his face grows as he begins to reminisce. "She would plan everything, execute everything, somehow always knowing where to find the most crazy and fun places and areas, and she, she always knows how to lighten you up, and she always goes out of her way to do so, no matter what."
Marco looked at this and smiled. He knew exactly what he was talking about, having jut gone through a similar experience. Star would always find a way with to keep a smile on his face, even when it came at her own expense.
"That's, that's why I look up to her." Quartz continued. "She, she always manages to find a way to ensure good things, and she has determination like I've never seen. That's why I choose to take apart in our mom's lessons. I want to always be there for her, by her side, and I feel like I can never match the level of, of.."
"Sweetness? Magic ability? Excitement?" Marco guesses, to which the little prince nodded. Marco just chuckled at the irony. "I believe that this is something you don't need to worry about. I think its time that you two talk to each other. You have a lot to talk about." He suggested.
"Hm, I guess your right." Quartz said as he began to go off. "Ah, thanks for listening, and for the little show that you gave." He said, pointing to his still trapped in the wall limbs. "You seem like a great guy. Maybe not the most intimidating" he says, making Marco shrink a little, "but you look capable of fending off threats, and being a great friend to my sister, so, thank you for being with her." He said as he turned around to face the stairs. Marco smiles once again, feeling a little pride for that complement, though one thing still remained.
"Ah, could you come back here? I'm still stuck."
10 minuets before...
As that was going down, Star was up in her room, completely panicking. She was not prepared for her little brother's arrival to begin with, and she wasn't anymore ready now. She scattered about in her room, pacing back and forth as she contemplated her next move.
"What am I going to do!? He's here, and he already has more control over his magic! I can't let him pass me up! I, I got to wow him! That's it, all I need to do is one amazing spell and he won't be looking down on me!" She shouted as she immediately pulled out the giant old book from under her bed and immediately began to furiously flip through it page by page. "Come on! There has to be a spell that's awesome enough for him. Got to find, got to find.." She kept on saying as she forcefully went through all the pages, namely her own, well, at least the spells she actually bothered to write down. "Lets see, tiny pink floating high five whale? Cute, but not showy enough. Cheese burger backpack blast? Good, but we already have lunch ready. Bacon pancake buffet bash, okay, why did I make up so many food spells!? And why didn't I use them earlier?!." She shouted with fierce drustration as she slapped the book. "Why wont you give me what I want!?
She slapped the book, making quite a few of the pages turn as it did, suddenly stopping with a sudden thud. Star look down, and she stares at it intently. Her eyes widen at it as she ooed at the sight. "That'll definitely work. Though I'm going to need something to test it on." As if she was given answer, she her so ort of noise from the outside. Curious, Star walked over to her window, and what she was exactly what he had in mind.
Ludo and his minions where just right outside , right under the bricks of her room. Appartly they were trying to climb into her room, again to steal the wand.
"Haha, now this is perfect!" Ludo announced as he commanded all of his monsters to place steady a latter. "We know where she lives, so we'll just attack during the day, when she's too busy to even focus. Are you sure her brother is to visit today?"
"Yes, I specifically saw her freak out over it. She'll be too stressed to focus on us." Buff Frog announced proudly as he helped the rest place the later.
"Yes, oh yes!" Ludo laughed evilly. "This I it, this is finally the day I get the wand! Oh how I can feel its power surging through me!" He howled as he clenched his fist together as if he was actually holding it. "No really, I really can. It quite empowering. I should do this more often. Makes me feel better about myself."
"Ah, sir." The bear like monster spoke up, or rather, down at the little bird leader. "The prince has been trying to help me in the past month, so if we succeed, can we not use the power of the universe to destroy him? I really want to thank him for all the confidence he's helped me gain."
"Yeah, yeah, sure. I'll be sure to send him a fruit basket when I lock him in the dungeon." Ludo said absent mindedly as he scowled at his minion. "Now get back to work! I can't feel myself being empowered with you standing around!" He order, making the monster pout a little as he did as he was told.
"Yo, Dodo!" The mewman princess shouted as she stuck out the top half of her body and waved her wand out like it was a treat above a dog. "You look for this?"
"After her!" The little monster demanded, as all the monsters ran up the later, though the one in the head of the line, Buff Frog, stop at he turned to question his boss.
"Are you sure, Boss? She's telling you to come after her. Isn't that a little fishy, I think she may have.."
"What are you waiting for polly? Can't the little birdie tweet to grab his cracker?" Star mocked, knowingly mocking the little guy.
Ludo fumed as he pointed up at the 14 year old, steam came out of his ears as he tried to shove all of his minions on to the ladder. "After her, after her, after her!"
Star smiled as she just went back into her room, twirling the wand around as he prepared for the inevitable ambush to come. "That's right, come get the wand, suckers."
"So Star showed up, waved her wand, and made an entire room, just like that?" Quartz questioned as he and Marco walked up the stairs.
"Ah yeah, pretty much. She tried to do the same for my room, but, it lead to less than stellar results." Marco sheepishly as they approached the door of the princess's room. "You should've seen the time she tried to help us win the football game. Boy, were things chaotic there."
"Ha. So, what exactly is foot.." Quartz tried to ask, opening the door as he did, although he held his tongue as he saw the sight before him. What he and the older lad saw was a sight all to familiar to them. At the very edge of the room was a large gapping hole in the wall. Coming into it was a handful of weird and recognizable group of monsters, climbing through as they tried to surrounding the mewman princess. All their efforts were really all in vain as they were pummeled in every conceivable direction, being punched and kicked in several places both known and unknown to monster kind. The 14 year old blonde shouted in joy, enjoying the rush she always felt every time she landed a blow. The smile only grow as she turned around and saw the her little brother along with her best friend.
"Oh hey guys, I guess I didn't schedule the week's monster fight that well. Oh well, no sense in not fighting..."
"Star, watch out!" Quartz screamed, forming his shield as he jumped forward and released it. It shot forward and flew into the air with swift grace, cutting through the wind it stood against. Star bent backward, and saw as the shield flew forward, striking a trollish looking monster in the gut. The little guy wasted no time as he ran flew forward and planted his feet into the troll, knocking him down into the ground as Quartz grabbed the shield from the guys stomach.
"Star, why are there.." Marco speaks up as he jumped into the air and delivers a high kick into a monster's face. He charges forward and sweep kicks another. "..Monster's here? They don't usually try to be this straight forward."
"Ohh Marco, you and your crazy observation skills and misleading thoughts." Star shrugged off with a lame chuckle as she planted an uppercut on another attacker. "Lets not focus on whether or not someone did anything to provoke this attack and focus on bonding like a normal trio of friends." She said as she saw her brother run towards another monster, ramming him into a wall. "See, Quartz is getting it."
Quartz meanwhile was taking this all in one moment at a time. The last thing he wanted today was for another attack on his sister for something that she most likely caused. But that, that he was pushing aside. All thing considered, he was actually enjoying this time, fighting off monsters. Sure, he didn't get the exact same thrill of randomly beating monsters as his sister and father did, but there was moments occasionally were he let any morals and standards set aside. Plus this was the first time in months that he hung out with his sister, so he was going to take any bonding he could get. And as another plus, he could finally show Star something he's been cooking up for a while.
"Hey guys, this is a new move I've jut learned last week." Quartz announced as he closed his eyes and lifted his arms. From the palms of his hands, two bubbles formed as he opened his eyes, and began to twirl a little. He span around three times, quickly, almost as if he didn't do it to begin with. With the final spin, he let go of the bubbles, and let them fly. "I called this one, the ba ba bomb."
"Why would you ever call it that?" She asked with full sincerity, though with that, she soon got an answer. The bubbles bounced of the wall, giving off a giant "Bah!" as it did. They flew in the air with tremendous force as they connected with two monsters the sadly were in the way, giving off the same noise as the connected to the monster heads. The bubbles bounced once more, and they flew into each others path, connecting together. But instead of making the same sound as it always did, this time, upon making contact, it exploded in a bright and piercing light, sending quite a few of the monsters back as they fell through the hole in the wall.
"Wow, that was pretty impressive. And I see little to now damage was done with that." Marco commented as he side-kicked one of the monsters in the chest.
"Yeah, mom made sure to teach me how to contain any of the blasts to only attackers. Pretty neat, right Star? He said, hoping that it at least caught her attention.
Of course Star was paying heed to her brother. She stared intently as she saw the rather impressive display of power the little guy had just shown her. It was a marvelous sight, she could not doubt that, but that, as great as it was, she could not help but gain a sense of worry when she did. She knew she had to act fast, or she'd risked losing the opportunity, and potentially her brother as well.
"Hey, how about I show you something that I've been working on?" Star elatedly said, purposely ignoring her brother as she said it. With a rather stiff and rushed performance, Star twirled around like her brother did, only difference was that she almost fell over when she did. She span the wand also, twirling it along her hand as the star in the middle began to emit a rather dark purple glow. The very air seem to get heavier with every passing second as a sense of dread filled it. Before anyone could even ask what was happening, everyone froze as a small twister like shape began to form in the air. It flew outside, seemingly getting out of the way, only for Star to finally finish with the saying of her spell.
"Mega tornado sweep whirl attack away!" She announced as a dark beam of light shot out of the wand, the power being so great that it forced Star on her back. The small twister that once was suddenly became a giant, almost matching the size of the house as it began to sweep in all the debris from the attack. It started to come in closer, and as expected, it began to sweep in some of the current occupants of the room.
"No, no, no!" Ludo shouted as he began to fight it as he shoved his way out of the Tornadoes wind. He ended up pushing more of his own minions in the tornadoes wrath as he did, doing so without any real care or worry for his actions. He ended up grabbing onto Star's bed and held on for dear life. Marco was holding on to the door as he held on to Star's arm who likewise held on to Quartz's.
"Star, what did you do?!" Marco shouted, barley making his voice heard as the winds sucked out most of the volume of his voice.
"Oh, I just used what I knew from my tornado clean up spell, and added it with a spell amplifier, with a slight touch of impromptu on my half, because lets face it, I was not going to read that entire spell. It took up, like half a page. Who's going to read for that long?" Star said braggingly. "So, are you impressed? Is this great or what?" She smiled, facing her brother, who looked a little concerned about being sucked into a vortex of death, like any sane person would be.
"Ah yeah, this, this is quite powerful, a little much though." Quartz said with his eyes on the side, fully indicating that he wasn't enjoying it as much as star was. "So, when is it going to stop?"
"Hm, I guess since I used it to attack Ludo's monster's, it'll go away once they're all gone. But I don't see any..." Star trails off, as all three kids look on the same sight. Ludo was crawling on the floor, sticking the horns of his helmet into the ground and using it to keep himself in place. Instead of crawling to safety though, his selfish and greedy instincts kicked in, trying to grab the wand, which was now strapped to Star's side. He was about two feet away when he tried to reach for it, making childish and whiny grunting noises as he did. He finger was on the tip of grabbing ahold of it when the trio looked at him, giving him a 'are you serious?' look as he sheepishly chuckles.
"Ah, would you by that I was merely trying to grab on to your hand for safety and hoping that we could all be the best of friends?"
"Nope." Star blatantly says as she stuck her foot out, kicking the helmet away, and thus, sending the weak little bird man into the incoming storm.
"I'll get you for this, I swear on my l, no, on the lives of my minions that you will all pa..." Ludo's rant was lost on everyone as he was sucked into the twister, his voice becoming one with the rushing wind. But as the trio of kids side in relief as the winds died down, they only stared in shock as the tornado stayed, going out further, and somehow becoming even bigger than before.
"Star, why isn't it stopping?! Why is the freaky swirl of destruction not going away?!" Marco shouted as he waved his hand franticly.
"Oh, I'm sure this is nothing to worry about. It probably missed a monster, or something like that." Star said nervously, praying for it to be the case. All that hope died as soon as it sucked up an entire house whole, living nothing their, and the owner of said house, who was in the basement, complexly baffled as to what had just happened.
"Star, did you say that you used a clean up spell for this one?" Quartz asked nervously.
"Ah, yeah. Is that bad?"
"Yess!" The prince said fearfully. "A clean up spell like this is made to stay until everything is gone! You cast it outside, so, its not going away until everything outside is gone!" He said as he waved to the entire outside in general. Both of th teens realized immediately what he was getting at.
"So, the tornado wont go away until the whole town's gone!" Marco stated, with Quartz confirming with a fearful nod. Star got to her kneed as she squeezed her head, giving her hair a messy and frantic look.
"No, no, no." She said as she looked down with sorrow. "This wasn't suppose to happen. I, I, I was trying to make everything better. Ughhhh, this is my birthday all over again."
Quartz looked over to his sister. "What do you mean?"
"This, I, I was trying to show you how great I was at this. I knew you would be better I this, I knew that you, you would show up, being great at this whole, magic thing." She chuckles lamely as she stares straight at her brother. "I wanted to show you that I was good at that this thing. I thought, maybe if I showed you my skills, then you'd be impressed by me. I love our time together, and its the one thing I miss about leaving mewni. I, wanted to give you something to look up to, so that nothing between us would," she stops and wipes a tear from her face. "I wanted us to always be the same, to always be together. I'm sorry that I made a mess of things. I'm sorry that I keep driving us away." She expected Quartz to walk away, but she found herself wrapped in his arms instead.
"Star, you never had to do that." Quartz assured her as he deepened the hug. "Do you know why I try to be good at my powers?" He smiled as Star gave him a confused look. "Because you give me something to strive for. You are always taking me on every adventure, every obstacle, every wild and weird thing you come across. Your always saying that I'm the best part of it, so I'm always trying to live up to that. You always surprise me, and it doesn't take a super huge mega spell like that to do so. Hey, if you just set up a bacon pancake buffet blast, I would've bee cool with it."
"Oh, that's why I know so many food spells." Star ooed in realization as Quartz hugged her even more. Star likewise returned it as she got to her feet. "I guessed I got carried away again."
"Star, when don't you?" Quartz said in good humor as both of them laughed. Star looked around expecting Marco to join in at the touching family moment, though both stopped as they saw that the tornado had come back around and began to suck everything up again. Marco just so happened to be in the wrong spot, as he was hanging from the edge of the whole in the wall, hanging on from a thread.
"Oh yeah, totally forgot about that. So, how are we going to fix this?" Star questions, making Quartz smile widely.
"Okay, I have a plan, but in order for it to work, I need you to fire the craziest, most destructive spell that first comes to your..
"Okay done!" She shouted as she launched her narwhal blast. All that did though was send a batch of narwhals flying through the air. "Okay, that didn't do anything."
"..I need you to launch it at me." Quartz continued as if he hadn't been interrupted. "When I say go, you going to launch you spell at my bubble with me in it."
"Are you sure, cause that sounds like it wouldn't do anything."
"It was something I learned from mom."
"Oh, then in that case, lets do it!" She said eagerly as she sees her brother form his bubble. He gives her a small thumbs up as she prepares her spell once more. "Mega Narwhal Blast!" She shouted as both of them smiled enthusiastically. Quartz, as expected, was sent flying into the storm. Quartz, despite the speed he was going at, was getting a little thrill at the tossing and spinning he was going through. Soon he was the eye of the tornado, right in the perfect position to do his thing.
"Butterfly Bomb!
"So let me get this straight?" Star said as she confronted her brother on the ground on the lawn. Remnants of the tornadoes passing still stayed, that was for sure, but other than the three whole houses that were missing, everything was relatively the same, with no one, surprisingly getting hurt by the entire ordeal. "The butterfly bomb thing you always say was you practicing your powers?"
"Of course. Why else would I say it so often? " He said like it should've been obvious. As soon as that bomb had been unleashed, the tornado immediately dissipated in a flash of pink light, somehow being replaced by a swarm of, well, butterflies. "Mom saw how I was able to control the explosions, so she thought it might help with some of the more, messy magic mishaps."
"Wait, so everytime you said that, you've could've exploded?"
"Yep."
"And you never told me, or even gave me any warning?"
"Yeah, I could've went off at almost anytime, and none of us would've expected it otherwise."
"Do you know what kind of person does that?"
"You."
"That's right!" Star said as she once again scooped up her brother for an embrace. "I knew I rubbed off on you somewhere." Both young kids joined together as they shared another laugh.
"Okay, okay, so that happened." Marco came up to the smiling royals. "So one of you has a misunderstanding, so one goes overboard in trying to make the other happy, only for it to expectantingly go off the rails, and you two end up bonding over trying to fix it. Is that everything?"
"Yep."
"Pretty much."
"Does this happen all the time with you guys?" Marco asks again.
"Yeah, all things considered, this was a pretty average day." Quartz answered.
"Okay, I was just trying to make sure that was clear." Marco says with a small smile on his face, knowing that this was something he was too used to by now. All were pretty content with everything that had happened today, and they probably would've went back inside the house is they hadn't herd a bunch of muffling noises from behind them. All three turned around, and they once again saw the sight of the monsters. They were bruised, beaten, and one or two of them had a few dislocated joints, but all of them were somehow still standing. Ludo was right at the forefront of the group as he stumbled his way towards the kids.
"I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm still, still here, you path, path, pathetic ki, ki.." He stammered as he looked at them in a daze. "I, i'm goin to geh tha wan sum dye, jist yo wat an.." He holds up his eyes as he struggled to reach for his dimensional scissors. "Cme ooown, lets geh movin, will do this when the world stops spinning." He says as he and his group of monsters literally fall into the portal, none of them having the strength to walk any further.
"Bye bearnicorn. Don't forget we have that meeting next week. We need to talk about this latest relapse." Quartz said to the bear like monster, who gave him a dazed smile as the portal closes. Both of the teens stare at him, confused as to what he meant by that. "He's been having some confidence issues, so he comes by every now an again for conciel. I think we're on the verge of a breakthrough." He said with an earnest smile, making the two chuckle as they finally head inside.
"So, your not going to tell mom about this and have me sent to St. Olgas now, are you?" Star asks out of the blue with full curiousity.
"Is that what you were afraid of?" Quartz chuckled as he nudged his sister. "Star, I would never, ever even want you near that place. Besides, I think mom would be impressed if I told her how you came up with your own spell on the fly." A few bricks from Star's room fall from their place. "I'll just leave out the part of it going out of control and nearly destroying the town."
"Aw you. Now go inside. We have a lunch to eat." He said as she gently shoved her brother the house. She herself stayed inside, sighing in huge relief as she leaned against the door.
"So, whad'aya say?" Marco said ever so casually.
"Okay, okay, maybe I was worried for nothing, but everything worked out. I got to relive good times with my brother and were tighter than any peas." Star shouted in joy as she skipped into the house.
"Ah, I don't think you said.., you know what? Forget it, your happy, and that what's important." He relented as he followed her inside, not knowing that from this day forward, all the craziness he had encountered so far, could never prepare him for what lied ahead.
As it should be. Who could ever prepare for those two magical stars?
Whoooooaaaaaa! Now that was a blast to write. I'm a little burnt out though, so it might be awhile before I get back to this.
Now what should the next chapter be?
Steven's first encounter with Star's school, as well as his first meeting with Connie
or
Star and Steven meeting lion for the first time?