Well, this took forever in updating. Life strikes at me with an overstuffed schedule and writers block making this a difficult feat to accomplish but I did it. Now that I have cleared out most of what was going on I should be resuming my chapter at least every 2 weeks but I am not sure. But know this, I will not give up on my story unless if I explicitly say so in one of my chapters.

Also as if this chapter I am doing music in my work like I did in "A Tale of Moon and Monsters". When you see the youtube link and video/music name go to it and start the music. When you see the words (end music) stop the music and continue reading. Now this is completely optional but I find music helps to build atmosphere for the situation so I recommend listening to it.

Spongebob narrator: And now, back to the story.

The next day at school everyone was abuzz at the coming game tonight with many talking about the slaughter that was going to happen to their team. A few however were talking about one of the janitors saying Martians visited the football field last night in some mist and did something but that was mostly passed off as him just being crazy. Marco and his friends were busy guarding Ferguson as the school day began with everyone beginning to chafe under Marco's desire to secure Ferguson from potential kidnapping. Janna was walking down the hallway currently a bit miffed about Marco's continued crackdown and the fact that Star seemed to have disappeared for some reason.

"First Marco begins to go overboard, then my parents sit down for another "talk" about my future, and then Star disappears to who knows where. I am so miffed that…" Janna stopped mid monologue when she saw someone rummaging through the garbage with cats screeching in it. "Hello?" Janna moved over to the dumpster and looked in to see Star gathering up feral cats and putting them in some sort of cage. "Star, what are you doing?"

"Oh hi Janna." Star looked up smiling revealing she had three more cages with birds, squirrels, and butterflies in each. "I'm just preparing counter measures against the warriors of the Silver Hill. This is for my Kitty-kat offensive." Star smiled at Janna who looked concerned but curious. "Now if you will excuse me, I have work to do." Star leapt out running off with Janna stroking her chin in thought.

"Would Star seriously… no she's not that naïve. Then again it might be interesting to see what she does with those things with her magic involved." Janna smiled in thought as she walked on now eager for the evening's game and feeling a bit lighter in her step.

Evening had come and people were sitting in the bleachers of the football field ready for the game and anticipating it to be a one way fight. On one end of the field were the Echo creek possums who did look well trained and ready except for the fact that they were staring at the opposite side of the field in fear. On the other side appeared to be an endless hoard of six foot tall men who were built solidly of muscle and looked ready for a fight even to the point of growling and smacking heads together. It's not that the Possums were a bad team; it's just that the Silver hill warriors were just better in every way. Currently the cheering teams on each side were going at it with the echo creek cheering group doing far better then the Silver hill group strangely enough.

"We flip, we cheer, we shake our booties well yeah!" The possum's group cheered getting the crowd hyped up even though they knew they were probably gonna lose while Ferguson was dancing on the field.

"Yeah, we're the mighty possum, Warriors beware." Ferguson danced with his bottom half actually staying up the whole time.

As the cheering teams filed back in for a brief respite Ferguson went up to his friends who were all waiting there minus Star. Marco was the first to step in giving Ferguson some water which he promptly sprayed across his face.

"Well you did nicely, I think." Marco spoke with Oskar jumping in.

"Hey man, he had no instructions on what to do; frankly he's doing fantastically well." Oskar smiled as Alfonzo spoke up next.

"I'm just surprised no one tried to kidnap him, usually they're more aggressive than this." Marco knocked on some wood as Alfozno spoke.

"Don't tempt fate, we have no idea what could happen…" Star leapt in out of nowhere wearing armor and brandishing a large Tetsubo that looked too large for her to handle, hissing in eagerness smashing a bench. "… to us. Star what are you doing?" Star smiled at everyone with them now realizing her heart marks were now black skulls with blood red flames.

"Making ready for battle obviously; those warriors will not swipe another victory from us again!" She whipped her tail back and forth which now had a spiked ball and chain attached to it for added effect.

"Everyone went silent looking back and forth between each other until Marco stepped forward to Star putting his hand on her shoulder.

"Star… what did you do?"

"Oh I booby trapped the whole field so the possums could take down the Warriors, with my help in flanking of course." Star pointed to the field which everyone looked at in shock.

Only now did they notice a wide number of laser lines and pit fall coverings all over the field with what looked like crystal land mines scattered between them. Oskar was the first to react to seeing everything in the field.

"How did everyone miss that?" Alfonzo and Ferguson shrugged in fear as Janna looked on in delight.

"Star, you do not disappoint. This is going to be fun!" Janna pumped her fist looking on in eager anticipation as Marco turned to Star in horror.

"Star, this wasn't actually going to be a battle this was just a game. Everything we were saying was just a matter of speech and not literal words!" Star's look turned to confusion and turned to Janna.

"You saw me getting ready for this early today and several times thereafter, why didn't you stop me?" Everyone then turned to Janna who was now looking a little guilty.

"I didn't think Star was that naïve and if she was I really wanted to see what she came up with." Everyone's looks turned to horror when she said that with Marco looking pissed.

"JANNA, Star is an actual fighter with destructive magic; people could actually be hurt!" Janna turned to Marco angry now herself.

"Well I didn't see you noticing anything mister "safe kid" and "Star's Guide". I thought you would have known how to read Star better than that given how you've gone on about her in the past." Marco's face fell slightly as Janna went on. "But no you had to focus all your attention on Ferguson and drive us relentlessly when in the end they wouldn't even kidnap him!" Marco was still mad though and shoved his face in Janna's.

"That still doesn't excuse what you've done." They growled at each other until Alfonzo finally stepped in between the two.

"Guys, we have a bigger problem right now." As if to push his point home the whistle was blown for the players to get into positions with one of the mines activating blowing one of the warriors sky high.

He flew through the air looking like a comet until he crashed with everyone on both teams standing in shock for a minute until they started running in a blind panic. The people on the stadiums just sat there and watched sickened but curious to see what happened next. The group of friends looked on in shock with Star now actually gnawing on her tail a little in nervousness as she began panicking.

"Come on people, we have to do something!" Marco ran out onto the field with Alfonzo, Janna, and Ferguson following with Star standing there panicking and Oskar began playing battle music (Bad Reputation - Joan Jett / with lyrics watch?v=pRu5wxl5frk) much to Marco's chagrin. "Oskar if you could just… you know what never mind!"

Star looked back and forth across the field in worry until she seemed to make a decision hefting up her Tetsubo while charging onto the field screaming a battle cry "Dlya nashego doma" and leapt to where she knew one particular pit was located.

The possums managed to get off the field relatively unscathed but the Warriors were faring pretty badly at the hands of Star's traps. One was sucked into some sort of black hole screaming in fear as he swirled into it like water swirled down a drain. Another two landed on a mine and were blown upwards only to be solidified in crystal about 10 feet in the air. The referee tripped while blowing his whistle and fell onto a section of the field that slowly pulled itself up releasing multiple giant butterflies, a few giant turquoise squirrels, a trio of flaming three eyed cats the size of buses, and one gigantic bird of prey plumed like a bird of paradise of some sort. The warriors scattered as the creatures leapt to attack them further setting off traps in the field that affected them.

Marco leapt in fly kicking a butterfly in the face and pulling on its antennae till it crashed on the ground in front of a trio of Warriors. Marco leapt up punching the creature in the eye before it had time to recover and repeated that maneuver several times until it seemed to shatter releasing ordinary butterflies across the field. As Marco smiled in triumph one of the squirrels leapt out and grabbed him in its jaws shaking him around like a toy until it froze dropping Marco as it squealed in pain. It turned in anger on its next opponent until it was sprayed in the eyes by something causing it to fall backwards onto one of the mines exploding into a group of squirrels that ran off. Marco looked up in shock to see Janna standing there with a Taser and pepper spray smiling at the scattering squirrels.

"Well no time to lay about man, let's get moving." Janna moved off with Marco actually smiling despite everything and got back up.

Meanwhile, Alfonzo was hanging onto the back of one of the squirrels in a blind panic as it tried to buck him off unsuccessfully. As he held on in a blind panic questioning why he charged out onto the field in the first place two butterflies converged on his location and tried attacking him but missed and hit the squirrel causing all three of the creatures to fight each other until they exploded into their basic forms. Alfonzo looked around in shock as he landed relatively unharmed from the experience and raised his hands in triumph until a cat scooped him up and swallowed him in one gulp licking its lips.

Ferguson was running around with no idea of what to do until he bumped into a trio of warriors in their own panic with both sides just staring at each other. The warriors, hearing a screech from behind them, run in Ferguson's direction making him run and blow his whistle in a panic.

"Stranger danger, STRANGER DANGER!"

He ran in a blind panic until he ran through a laser trip wire causing the ground to catapult him into the air flying over the field. At the same time the Possums cheering squad was running for their lives as Brittany pushed them aside yelling something about her being too popular to die. Ironically she ran into a mine just in everyone's path shooting her through the air to be caught in one of the cat's mouths and it spat her aside into another mine that glued her to the ground in glitter. The cat then turned to the rest of the cheering squad with the boys fainting in fear with the cheerleaders holding onto each other.

"I'm going to miss you Stacy."

"I'm going to miss you too Sabrina."

As they cowered in fear Ferguson came flying through the air falling on the cat's face making it yowl in a challenge as it clawed the air. Ferguson, caught in a desperate situation with no way out, leapt onto the cats back and forced it to run into one of the pits impaling it on several spikes. The resulting explosion pushed him and the cats it was made out of out of the pit in the cheer squad's direction. The cats piled onto the boys while Ferguson inadvertently took up a heroic pose swaying slightly in front of the girls. The girls, seeing another mine go off behind him outlining his figure, immediately imprint that he was a hero who rescued them and rushed to him clinging on in fear as the madness unfurled around them. Ferguson, dazed from the cat attack still, immediately began leading people off of the field in a surprisingly good fashion.

"Alright girls, grab the boys and let's get out of here before another creature picks up our scent."

In another part of the field Star was duel wielding her Tetsubo and wand as she stepped out waiting for the creatures to notice her which they did rather quickly. Four Butterflies attacked at once with Star smashing one with her weapon and blasting another with her wand's magic leaping into the air. The one that was blasted dissolved into Butterflies while the hit one smashed into the ground leaving a small crater. The other two slammed into each other confusing the two as Star smashed down on both of them at the same time into the ground. She then raised her wand and yelled "Sparkle Glitter Nuclear Doom!" making a mushroom cloud of magic that dissolved the three butterflies and detonated traps across half the field.

As she did this the remaining warriors stopped at the edge of the field and watched her smash them aside and looked at each other. As they stood there one of the janitors who was watching the game stopped running to see what was going on next to them and recognized the colors.

"It's them; it's the Martians who did this to the field! They wanted to make a spectacle for their own entertainment!" The Warriors, not exactly thinking straight, actually listened to the janitor's rant and turned towards the lizard girl in the field with anger in their eyes.

Marco fought with fierce determination as a pair of squirrels cornered him and Janna snarling with foam at their mouths. Marco and Janna looked at each other and seemed to exchange information with eye contact and leapt at the squirrels. Unfortunately, no information seemed to be exchanged as they were both caught in seconds with the squirrels chewing on them. Janna, thinking fast, pushed her Taser into the squirrels tonsil making to not only spit her out but vomit in the direction of the other squirrel after a few seconds. Splattering into the creatures eyes it screamed in agony letting Marco out to kick the squirrel in the groin making it fall on the other squirrel. Weakened from the electric attack to its tonsil it was unable to stand as the other one fell on it and rolled them both into a pit with some sort of horror in it. The squirrels they were made out of ran away in fear as Marco and Janna looked at each other in exhaustion.

"We need to work on communication don't we?" Marco asked in a tired voice.

"Yeah, it'll be good for both fights like this and ordinary life in avoiding disasters." As Janna finished the heard a snarling from nearby and looked up to see one of the cats closing in on them.

"Have at thee foul beast!" Janna and Marco looked up in shock as Ferguson leaped down from the field goal post with some sort of hammer.

The cat looked up in confusion as he fell slamming the hammer down on one of the cat's hind feet making it leap up on its hind legs screaming like a human would. Holding its foot in pain it leapt on one foot until it tripped and fell onto a mine with it exploding and making the cat dissolve into the cats that formed it revealing Alfonzo who had actually been eaten by the cat. He then fell over shivering while Ferguson stood heroically with the cheerleaders surrounding him and Marco and Janna looking on in confusion.

"Well, he did finally get attention from the ladies. Way to go man." Janna begrudgingly gave him respect as Marco just watched unsure of what had just happened.

Their attention was once more grabbed as the bird from earlier came swooping in from above slamming two butterflies into the ground making them dissolve. It let out a mighty screech of triumph as it held its wings wide looking down and the group at first challengingly but then seemed to calm down suddenly. As the groups looked on in confusion Oskar appeared from over its shoulder playing his keytar while smiling and spoke to them. (end music)

"All it took was music to sooth the savage soul of this beautiful creature." He smiled as Marco responded.

"How did you tame that… you know what, I've had enough for tonight. Let's just finish off what's left of them and go home." Marco walked away with his hands in the air while Janna move up to Ferguson and the girls.

"Say, where did you get that hammer?" Ferguson smiled wielding it as if it was weightless.

"I actually found it in one of the traps; must be magic because it weighs next to nothing. Or I'm just that strong." Ferguson tried flexing am muscle and failed making the girls giggle in a good natured way as Janna moved over to Alfonzo.

"Come on man, let's go."

"I'm dead is what I am." Janna blinked in confusion as he spoke.

"No you're not."

"Yes I am."

"Come on get up."

"I don't feel fine."

"*Grrr* Stop being such a baby."

"I can't walk."

"You're getting up and liking it."

"I feel unhappy, I feel unhap-(Annoyed thwack)." Alfonzo stood up after Janna smacked him and brushed himself off looking dazed. "Thank you, getting eaten by a cat must have put me in shock." Janna raised her eyebrow in respect.

"Well let's get going, I think Star is still fighting over there." Janna pointed to a large cloud of some sort of pink mist.

"Mega Narwhal Blast!" Star launched another wand attack into a pair of squirrels making them both collapse into the squirrels they were made of.

A final Butterfly came at her from behind trying to use the pink mist to strike at Star but did not account for the fact that it did not conceal noise. Star easily whipped her tail and smashed the creature across the face making it fall allowing Star to blast it with her wand. As Star looked through the mist trying to see opponents anywhere a rock came flying out of the mist hitting her square in the forehead enough to make her skull crack. With a muffled ow Star let the wound heal while suddenly realizing there were multiple human shaped figures coming at her.

"Martian!"

"We are not your toys!" Star saw it was the Warriros coming out of the mist.

"Guys I was trying to help you; yes I did set those up but it was a lack of…" Star had to block more rocks as people began throwing things at her.

"Go home!"

"Leave us alone!"

"Damn otherworlders!"

"Disgusting!"

"Monstrous!"

"Bloody Mudblood!" This insult made Star's blood run cold.

That was an insult many Mewmans used on half breeds like herself so how would anyone here know of that? Star tried to get here bearings but the Pink mist made it very difficult to do so or be sure what she saw was actually really there. Figures moved through the mist throwing things at her and some of them did look like warriors but others looked more familiar. People in peasant's garb or the new style mass produced linen shirts and frocks from the newly built factories in her kingdom. Were those people holding rolled up newspapers or unlit torches? Star began breathing rapidly as she tried to shiled herself from the barrage that was getting more intense by the second as she called out to everyone.

"I did something wrong but please let me fix this!" Star was hyperventilating now which only got worse when she saw a familiar figure emerge from the mist close to her.

"Go back to your slime pool girl!" An aged man with murder in his eyes wearing what appeared to be a linen frock wielding what seemed to be a pitchfork approached Star ready to impale her with it.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Star raised her wand and blasted a sickly green shot from it to the janitor who dropped his mop in fear as he was blasted back.