I'm sorry it took so long and I'm sorry this chapter is a bit short. But I hope you enjoyed it anyway.
"Star, Star, dear are you there," Moons voice directed to Stars bedroom door.
Moon tried to open the door, but the door was locked, "Star unlock this door, so we can talk." Still no answer. Moon was getting a bit impatient, she loved her daughter very much, but even then she can't spend time getting nowhere when she has a kingdom to repair and not to mention the upcoming trial for Eclipsa, "Star unlock this door or I'll break it with my magic," Moon threatened.
A few seconds passed and nothing happened. Moon lifted her hand while blue magic was emitting from it, an ice shard was forming big as a barrel. Moon did a forward hand gesture and sent the ice shard toward the door.
"um... is this a bad time," Moon flicked her head towards the familiar voice, stopping her attack mid-air.
Moon glanced at a demon boy before she sighs exhausted and put up a sad smile. "good day Tom, no this isn't a bad time, in fact, you have the perfect timing... Star, the past week has been..." Moon struggles to find the words while putting the ice down on the ground. Existed there any word that could describe Stars behavior, that her little girl is broken, eating only a little of the food brought to her, crying coming from the room at random times, there is one but she can't get herself to say it.
"Depressed... I know... she won't answer my calls, when I text her she barely replies and whenever I wanna come over she denied... not only me, Ponyhead, Kelly, her other earth friends. She wants to be alone... but it's not what she needs." Tom said, looking at Stars door.
"Yes, I have come to the same conclusion... as much as it pains me, I will have to leave Star in your hands," Moon said, taking one last glance at the door before leaving.
Tom stood a few moments watching Moon, as he watched her leave, she was wiping her face. Watching that only strengthened his resolve, he silently swore to himself to stop what was or rather who was hurting Star, Tom couldn't get in contact with Marco and he wasn't near Stars side, which could only mean he was the cause of the problem.
"Marco I don't know the situation, but all I know is Star is suffering and you are the cause of it, you better pray that we do not cross paths." Tom thought before trying to open Stars door.
"Star it's me, Tom your boyfriend, please open the door." No answer, "I'm sorry to do this but you leave me no choice. Star, I'll go get-." Tom said before getting interrupted by the sound of a door unlocking.
Tom took a second before opening the door and walking into a room littered with used tissue paper, he quickly surveyed the pink room and saw a little hill of used tissue, there was a set of pajamas wearing legs poking out from the hill.
The silence dominated the air, Tom had come in with the resolve to help Star, but now that he stood there, he thought "how do I help her, what do I say."
Tom at a loss at what to do, simply said whatever came to mind when he looked around Stars room, "Um..how are you still covered in tissue when you unlocked the door." Tom asks nervously.
"Magic" Star said morosely.
That hit Tom, it was one thing through text but with Star's voice, it made it so much worse. "Starship, please, stop that... talk to me, you can tell me anything. What's troubling you, I can help you" Tom said with a hint of sadness.
Star noticing the change in Tom's voice from awkward nervous to sad, she rose and all the tissue paper on her fell off the bed. Star saw Tom expression which confirmed one thing, that Marcos diary stated. She felt bad and guilty, but she was determined to do this alone because Marco had to go through this alone, "nothing-" Star barely said before Tom interjected.
"Don't say nothing's wrong!"Star flinched a little at Tom's outburst, causing him to immediately regret and inwardly curse his emotions. "I-I'm sorry, I shouldn't have shouted, but there is something wrong and it's hurting you, it's hurting me and your parents, it's hurting all of your friends... because we all care about you," Tom said hurtfully while locking eyes with Star.
There was silence again. Tom looking into Star's tired eyes which raised some anger in him, "I bet it's Marcos damn fault," Tom voice full of anger.
"It isn't Marcos fault." Star silently said, breaking eye contact and looking down at her feet.
"Then who?" Tom asked a bit annoyed.
There was silence again, "Mine" Star finally said.
"How?" Tom asked skeptical.
"Because I'm a bad friend and now also a bad girlfriend and daughter, I-I'm a bad person aren't I," Star confessed, crying and hugging her legs.
"What no, Star you are not, Star look at me." Tom placed both hands on her cheeks and gently turned her head up so their eyes meet."You are not a bad person-" Tom reassured until he got interrupted.
"Have I not hurt the people I care about, you said it yourself... I'm a bad mewman being," Star said as she pushed Tom's hands of her, still looking into Tom's eyes with her teary eyes.
"You are not bad, sure you can be narrowminded and reckless once you want to do something and there's usually some collateral damage, but you always fix it afterward. You care about your friends, you help everyone you can and you make everything a whole lot brighter," Tom said giving Star a tight hug and Star in return gave an even tighter hug. "If you're a bad person, then none can claim to be good in all of the dimensions."
They spend a few minutes hugging."That was- quite- the speech, not like you," Star said in between her sobs, breaking their hug.
"Well I have been reciting it before coming here, so uh..." Tom confessed feeling awkward, but that vanished instantly when he saw Star chuckle and smile.
"Thank you, I really needed that," Star said, as she placed a kiss on Tom's cheek.
Tom sat beside Star, "so can you tell me why you have been in your room for the past week."
"I've been preparing the upcoming trial and my coming party and then I've been reading a very tough book this past week," Star said.
" So you been doing your projects and reading a book, that's why you have been shutting all of us out. C'mon, Starship, you can tell me the truth," Tom said with a hint of disappointment.
Star began pacing around the room, Tom sighed relieved, he knew what was about to happen.
"But it's the truth. I know before I could almost always hang out with you, but that was only possible because... I dumped all the work on him. I'm so stressed out I... cry myself to sleep, and it has only been a week and I'm not even doing half the work he did." Star said taking a deep breath and spoke again Tom could say something. "He did work on the Eclipsa trial, which entails learning about the law system, research and prepare lawsuits, interpret laws, regulations, and rulings," Star said in one breath. Star took one more deep breath, Tom didn't even try to say anything, he knew she needed it out of her system, "Then there's the party. Do you even understand how frustrating nobles can be? Not only them then there's the budget to regulate, the things to buy, were can they be stored, how much should I stock on. It's impossible."
"Okay... How do you know you don't do the work he could? It looks to me that you are pretty hardworking." Tom said after sensing Stars rant was done.
Star goes to her pillow and reaches her hand under it and pulls out a book, "this is Marcos diary, he gave it to me before he left-" Star said before Tom stopped her.
"So that book is why you have been crying and hurting," Tom interjected.
"yeah...I guess you can that," Star said silently.
"Okay, I hope you can forgive me, but this is for the best," Tom said seriously.
"What do you-" Star didn't get to say anymore.
Tom snatched the book from her hands. Star didn't even have the time to say anything, the book in Tom's hand caught flames and burned. Star needed a moment to completely realize what Tom just did.
"What the corn Tom! Do you have any idea of what you just did-" Star shouted before Tom interrupted.
"I helped you, that's what I did! That diary was nothing but suffering," Tom shouted back.
"Helped!? You burned the only way I ever could've become best friend with Marco again," Star shouted. "Now I...I don't know if I can look him in the eyes," Star whispered.
"Starship it's for the best, I mean look at your room," Tom tried to convince Star.
"Those tissues are Glossricks doing, I haven't been playing with him and he retaliated with throwing tissues," Star explained.
" But even if those were mine, you did nothing but destroy it all, do you know what that diary meant. It meant I could be his friend again, now I can't... you have taken my best friend from me. I-I want you out." Star said on the verge of crying.
"All I did was for you," Tom explained.
" All you did was taking my chance to get Marco back," Star retorted.
"Why do you think he ever will be your friend again? For all we know he did it as payback." Tom asked.
"Because Marco isn't a cruel person if he couldn't ever forgive me he wouldn't have given me hope to get his forgiveness," Star answered.
"Do you still want me out?" Tom asked a bit nervously.
"yes, I want you out," Star said pointing to the door.
After Tom left, Star hugged her legs and began crying. Glossrick successfully squished himself in between her legs and stomach.
"what is it Gloss," Star said tired and annoyed.
"Globgooooore, " was all Glossrick said.
"Corn you're annoying," Star shouted.
Glossrick retorted by summoning tissues on Star.
Marco came strolling down the road through the forest toward Glenn's settlement, looking at the ever dark the sky. The only way one could tell it was noon was the Solar eclipse. Marco was a tiny bit afraid, yesterday and the day before around this time, Star had burned a chapter. The pain he felt was usually bearable but the fact he never knew when it would come, but just knew it would come made it much worse.
Marco would normally have been waiting until the pain came, however, he would be in the presence of Glenn, Glenn Harker was the person in Luna's letter. She had recommended him in case Marco wanted to train.
Glenn was a devoted worshipper for the solar eclipse. He was a talented martial in his former country. Marco had wondered how he came to live in a gods dimension, apparently, he and a few dozen survivors of his country had been saved by Solis.
Marco didn't know Solis or Luna, but from what he had heard from the village and how they ruled, they value personal freedom above all else. Marco thought that there actually are too few rules to run a whole dimension, but all the different settlements can live in peace side by side, no discrimination.
Marco came to the gates of the town and saw a big, green scaly, humanoid creature, it was Glenn. He was in training gear and waved at Marco.
"what's up, chief," Marco said shaken hands with Glenn.
"Waiting for you, let's go," Glenn said slapping Marcos back.
They went to a building Marco would call a dojo, but Glenn just called it a sparing room.
Marco and Glenn were going to have a couple of sparring matches. First unarmed, then with practice weaponry. Marco didn't have a weapon preference, he had El Chopoo, but he had to give that back to seal something.
The others in the dojo were standing and locking arms with each other in a circle making a very colorful circle. Marco and Glenn's matches were pretty high level, at least to the spectators.
Marco nodded toward Glenn and he did back, now their match had begun.
Glenn moved first, he came with a big right hook. Marco dodged to the left, but was countered by a spinning kick, Marco had no choice but to block the kick. The kick sends Marco into the spectators, but they are more like a wall and bounced.
Marco used the bounce to get in close and deliver an uppercut, that barely gets dodged, Marco then spins giving an elbow but gets caught and Marco received a kick on the back.
"C'mon Marco, you can do better than that," Glenn taunted.
"Careful what you wish for," Marco answeared back.
This time Marco go in, but don't attack, Glenn throw punches, but Marco dodges and he keeps on dodging and when Glenn stop attacking, Marco attacks.
They go back and forth, punches and kicks that either gets blocked or dodged.
"Getting tired are we, old man?" Marco taunted after seeing Glenn being a little sluggish. Marco knew Glenn was annoyed he didn't even answer back.
Glenn the bigger and stronger man began feeling the fatigue a bit. Marco took advantage of it and did punch and kick combination even faster than before.
Marco got in an opening and was about to give a knee in Glenn's stomach when he went for it, he saw Glenn smile and at that moment he knew he messed up. True, Glenn tanked the knee and grabbed Marco and threw him in the ground, ripping his sleeves clean off.
"You are still to easy to fool, haha-!", Glenn said until he saw Marco squirming on the ground and screaming in pain, normally he would be up and ready to keep going. But it looked like he had trouble breathing, he clenched where his heart would be.
The spectators began to panic, they were confused at what was happening.
There were spawning black lines from Marcos right-hand shooting all the way to his shoulder, making a braiding pattern along his arm. Marco's hand was completely turned black, but there was a vicious and wicked grin with sharp teeth on the back of the hand.
"Get into contact with Solis Obscuratus or Luna Sanguis," Glenn shouted.
I got a question, what do you think of the pace? Is it to slow? Anyway thanks for reading my story.