Star and Marco were at school talking about everyday things when suddenly Marco struck a pose leaning against a locker and gave a "cool look" past Star.

"Hey Jackie, how's it hanging?" Marco spoke smiling as a girl pulled up on her skateboard.

"Just fine Marco, and how are you two hanging?" Jackie returned the question giving them a laid back smile as she stopped next to them. Jackie was a girl around their age with tan skin spotted with freckles, turquoise colored eyes, and platinum blond hair with a streak of turquoise through it. She was wearing jean shorts, knee high socks, and a green and white shirt with a sea shell on a string around her neck. Currently she was also wearing a skater's helmet and was standing on her skateboard.

"Oh just fine." Star answered her smiling right back as Marco seemed ready to ask Jackie a question.

"Say Jackie, would you like to come to my Tung su do tournament tomorrow? You know if you're free that is." Marco smiled at Jackie with a slight bead of sweat near his hairline. Jackie replied to Marco with interest in her voice.

"*chuckle* Oh course I would be willing to come Marco, I've always wanted to see one of those tournaments. I'm also surprised you haven't invited me earlier honestly." Jackie smiled as Marco blinked in confusion. "Well I have to go now, sorry I can't stick around. See you guys later." Jackie skated off with Star waving at her.

"Goodbye Jackie, see you around." Star stopped and looked at Marco smiling in Jackie's direction and punched his arm slightly. "Ohhh, I need to fix you up with her." Star smiled as Marco chuckled and shifted back to normal position.

"A year ago I would've agreed with you if you were good at matchmaking, which I have no idea if you are good at that." Marco looked at Star questioningly as Star's face dropped slightly. "But now I'm good, I used to have a 23 step plan to get with her but after some hard thinking and hard work I am now on step 21. Of course I skipped quite a few steps in the process." Marco smiled as Star looked at him confused.

"I usually don't like going out in public but even I know that what you had there is extreme for getting love." Star pointed this out with Marco sighing and nodding his head in agreement.

"I was a very different person at one point Star but now I'm over it." Marco took a brave pose but slammed his arm into the locker making him curse silently under his breath with Star giggling. "Ok then, how would you get with a person you liked?" Marco turned on Star making her face fall.

"I'd… rather not like to talk about it." Marco heard the tone of voice and patted Star's back smiling at her.

"It's cool man, it's all cool. Now, let's going as dad is making tacos tonight; and I do mean real ones not what Americans think are tacos." Star smiled at the prospect of food and the duo headed home.

"Can't we have a normal taco night?!" Marco shouted in frustration as he dodged another attack from a Forest Barbarian trying to grapple him.

He and Star were fighting Mavis and her minions again while his parents were just sitting in lawn chairs watching like it was a movie. 'Couldn't they at least call the police?' Marco thought to himself as he dodged a short fat Barbarian tripping him up and making him fall in the mud. Star shot a hail of crystals that bedazzled two of the fighters making them stiff and itchy so they were forced to scratch the crystals off. Marco then went head to head with three barbarians standing on top of each other like kids wearing an adult trench coat would and poked the eyes of the bottom one. He expected them to topple over onto another barbarian behind them but the top two leapt on top of Marco pinning him down.

"Star, a little help." Marco used his feet to knock down another barbarian approaching him but he knew that he would not last long at this rate.

"Don't worry Marco, 'Sonic Honey Bee swarm!'" Star shot out a massive swarm of multi-colored bees that swept through the whole battlefield attacking the barbarians.

Marco got free only to be plucked up by Dumnorix who looked pissed swatting off several bees and covered in bee stings. He then grabbed Marco's head with one hand as Marco tried to kick and punch at him with the same effect one would at hitting a tree and smiled at the others that were still standing.

"You know how I said I could crush a man's skull with one hand? Well, how's this for…" He did not finish however as Jalapeño juice sprayed into his eyes making him scream in agony and dropping Marco. Marco looked up as he fell to see Angie holding a squirt gun with an angry look on her face. She walked up to Dumnorix and pulled him down so his face was at her level.

"I'm just fine with you giving Marco a work out, but you do NOT go too far. You got that?" Dumnorix nodded numbly as Angie walked over and sat back down with the other barbarians laughing at him except for Mavis.

"What is wrong with you!? Beat her down as well!" Mavis drew her sword and charged Marco swinging it in a figure eight fashion to test him.

Marco deflected the blade easily and hit Mavis in the funny bone and on the shine simultaneously dropping her like a sack of potatoes.

"*Inhale* aaaaaah *Inhale* ahhhhhh." Mavis laid on the ground holding her arm and leg while trying to move as little as possible.

Star smiled at how good they were against these guys and shot a mega Narwhal blast at Selene who was trying to sneak up on her. Selene was counting on that however and leapt on one of the Narwhals to ride it over to Marco using the Narwhal to ram Marco to the ground and stamp her foot down hard on his elbow almost making it bend the wrong way with a noticeable crack. Marco screamed in a way that could be heard for nearly a mile around with random people passing by look towards their house in worry.

"Ha, how's this for dirty figh…" Selene didn't finish her taunt before Star blasted her with a spell that caused spiders to appear everywhere. After standing stock still for a few seconds she gave out a scream that easily rivaled Marco's making passing people even more worried. One even turned to friends and asked,

"Should we call the police man, this sounds bad?"

"Let's wait until we hear another one actually, this could be just people having fun… right?"

With Mavis, Selene, and Dumnorix out of the fight the few standing barbarians quickly backed down running for the portal like rats would by scrambling over each other. Dumnorix felt his way back as best as he could smacking head first into several objects and even running over someone who was bent over sending them to the side. Selene ran back into the portal swatting away spiders as best she could while clearly having a panic attack. Mavis hopped on one foot while cradling her arm and turned back to Star and Marco shouting at them.

"This isn't over and you know it. We will get that wand once you don't have mommy to protect you boy." Mavis then closed the portal behind her leaving them in the back yard as the sun was going down.

"Well that was fun; let's go clean up from dinner." Angie stood up with Raphael going with her to clean the dishes while Star went over to Marco.

"Are you ok because that sounded bad?" Star looked at Marco who was holding his arm and holding back tears.

"Of course I'm not ok she broke my arm." Marco got up as best he could with Star panicking slightly.

"Don't worry, you people do heal from these things right?" Marco saw Star looking at him with fearful concern not knowing how it would turn out.

"*Sigh* Everything is going to be fine Star, it'll just take a few weeks is all; no permanent damage done."

"But what about the match tomorrow?" Marco froze and almost began cursing when he thought of something.

"Wait, maybe you could heal it with magic."

Upstairs in Star's room Marco was cradling his arm while Star pulled out what appeared to be a book about a foot thick and two feet high that was brown and had a figure eight in the front with a bluish-purple gem in each hole of the eight. Star grunted as she pulled it out and opened it with pages going everywhere and dust spouting out of it with what appeared to be a cockroach running off.

"*Cough cough* Sorry sorry, this book has never been organized by the looks of things." Star began collecting papers while Marco looked at the book with curiosity.

"So what is that thing exactly?"

"Oh this? This is the collection of spells done by every princess and queen of Mewni since the wand was first discovered however long it ago it was. Even the history keepers don't know how long ago that was." Star began going through the book looking for a healing spell of some sort until she got to Soupina's chapter. "Ah, here is the section on healing spells. Let's see; how to cure the rat cough, getting rid of slime pimples, taking care of pineapple foot, preparing a dish of psalm soup…" Star stopped at that spell and began drooling slightly until Marco threw a slipper at her head.

"How can you still be hungry? You ate enough tacos for the equivalent of 4 people?" Star looked at him miffed at the slipper throwing.

"Well excuse me if I have a hearty appetite. Now where was I? Setting a sprained wing, draining a frog pustule, curing biker's syndrome, fixing a broken bone... yes that's it!" Star turned to Marco. "Present to me your arm." Marco held it out gingerly as Star touched her wand to it whispering something with the wand lighting up. After a few seconds Marco's arm lit up with a strange humming noise coming from it.

"Ohhhh, it's working Star! I can feel the bone healing!" Marco and Star smiled until the arm stopped glowing and turned into a squid tentacle. They both just stood there for a few seconds with smiles on their faces until they realized what had happened and just looked at each other in shock. Looking back down to the arm in question Marco sighed with his face falling. "As bad as it may sound Star, I kind of expected something like this to happen." Star looked at him with big eyes tears forming in the corners of them as Marco realized what he had said. "Not to beat you down Star but this magic stuff is unpredictable. I should have known what I signed up for when asking you to fix it." Star then got this determined look on her face.

"I will find the spell for changing it back no matter how long it takes!" Star promised but as she stood there the squid tentacle began flailing around and smacked the book into a wall making the wall crack. "Ok I better find it quick before you hurt someone."

The next morning Marco woke up feeling exhausted because the arm had not let him sleep well last night with the constant flailing about. As Marco got up for the day and went through morning activities the arm constantly proved an impediment for him every step of the way. It smacked the soap out of his hand and turned the heat to maximum in the shower as well as keeping him from leaving the shower burning him all over. As he tried to get his clothes on it actually ripped one of his hoodie's sleeves making him groan in frustration. At the breakfast table it knocked all of the food aside that was in front of him and then dumped some orange juice on his head. As Marco sat at the table tired, burnt, frustrated, and hungry Star came up looking just fine and looked at Marco in concern.

"Good morning Marco and squid arm. I was up all night trying to find the spell but I found nothing. Fortunately I can go without sleep for long periods of time due to being half Septarian. So how was your night?" Star's eyes went wide as the arm grabbed her orange juice and dumped it on Marco's head.

"Can we not talk about it please?" Marco sighed in tired annoyance as Star tried to eat her breakfast only to have it thrown to the side by the arm.

"No one takes my food from me!" Much to Marco's shock Star got the cat-pupiled yellow eyes like she did in a fight and leapt at the arm hissing in outrage. As Marco watched the two fought fiercely with Star winning after a few minutes by actually taking bites out of the arm to satisfy her hunger while the arm seemed to whimper. As Star calmed down she looked at what she had done and was about to start apologizing when Marco smiled at her.

"Thank you Star, that is the quietest it has been ever since your spell made it. Now I can eat in peace!" Marco got another helping while Star sat there dumbfounded until Marco turned back to her. "Oh yeah, I didn't feel anything in my arm while you were biting chunks off of it so no worries." Star nodded in confusion as she went back to her place at the table after getting more breakfast.

At the karate Dojo Star got into a stand of bleachers that had been set up for people to view the tournament to where Ferguson and Janna were sitting. The duo turned to greet Star but were stopped when they saw her wearing an outdoor jacket as she sat next to them. They just looked at her for a second until Star answered the unspoken question.

"I get cold easily and they keep this dojo pretty dang cold. Say, where is Alfonzo and Oskar?" Janna answered her question as Star sat next to them.

"Alfonzo had a family get together and Oskar I bet just forgot about the whole thing like he does way too often. But I see someone who Marco would be happy to see." Janna pointed out Jackie coming over to their group to Ferguson and Star.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Jackie sat down as Star fidgeted slightly.

"Oh just the sky and how are you?" Janna commented with the two laughing slightly and Ferguson pulling up his shirt to reveal the face was still drawn on his belly making it talk.

"Oh I'm just fine, don't know about Ferguson though but he seemed fine last I saw of him." This got the whole group to laugh, even Star though she did so nervously.

"Say Star, how is Marco?" Jackie turned to Star smiling at her with Star going deer in the headlights.

"Oh Marco's fine, just fine. Nothing to worry about with him." Star gave a big smile that the trio saw through effortlessly. Janna was the first to speak up about it but not in a good way.

"Don't tell me you turned him into a gigantic bug, although that would be cool." Star Immediately grabbed her tail and began rubbing it slightly with Ferguson asking next.

"Well I'm sure you didn't give him super strength or speed for the tournament, Marco would never allow that." Star rubbed her tail more intensely about to answer them but suddenly hearing a cool ringing in her ear as something was placed next to it.

"Take deep breaths Star and just listen to the ocean." Jackie talked calmly to Star as Star relaxed with the conch shell pressed against her ear. "Now whatever it is that happened it's ok, just tell us." Star looked at Jackie and realized why Marco liked her so much aside from her being pretty and athletic. Star sighed and tried looking at all three at once with some difficulty given how they were placed on the bleachers.

"Marco broke his arm helping me fight off some baddies last night and I tried to repair it but I accidentally turned it into a squid tentacle." The trio gasped slightly as Star held onto her tail again. "I know right? And what's more it has been making Marco's life horrible with no sleep and a difficult morning. I don't think he's in any state to win the tournament at this rate." Star looked down with the trio actually comforting her as best they could with Ferguson being the first one pulling out his belly.

"Don't be sad pretty lady, you did the best you could and no one can ask any more than that." This made Star giggle slightly with Janna putting her arm around her shoulder and pulling her close.

"Honestly given how magic works this might be a blessing for him later on down the road; if you know what I mean?" Janna waggled her eyebrows at Star as she slid away with Jackie coming up next.

"Let's just enjoy the tournament for now and see what you can do later. If Marco is as good as I think he is he will win this even with the arm and in his exhausted state." Jackie smiled at Star turning back to the fighting area where Marco's sensei walked out addressing everyone.

"Allow me to introduce our first competitor, Jeremy Birnbaum." The Sensei gestured with his arm to the right side of the floor to where a blue cloaked figure standing around 6 feet tall was situated with a butler on either side of him. One butler was holding a glass of water which the figure was drinking from while the other gave him a shoulder massage as if prepping him for the fight. The figure snapped it's fingers and the two butlers backed off pulling off the cloak revealing… a boy of around 8 or so standing on a foot stool about as tall as he was. He had blond hair and blue eyes and was wearing a white robe like one would see on a martial arts fighter but with a black belt and red finger-less gloves. He approached the center of the area with a carnivorous grin on his face smacking his gloved fists together with the quartet of friends looking on in confusion.

"That's Jeremy Birnbaum?" Jackie commented first as if not believing what she saw.

"He doesn't even look 8 years old." Ferguson commented confused by something.

"Wait, why is this important?" Star looked around with Janna leaning in close to fill in the details.

"He has been Marco's rival for quite some time with special equipment and private lessons constantly giving him an edge that Marco has had trouble beating. And in case if you hadn't guessed, he's kind of a bratty jackass when he wins given how Marco goes on about him and acts after losing." As if to push Janna's point home a person from the crowd called out to him.

"We love you son." Star smiled at how his mom was there to support him.

"Shut it mom!" Jeremy replied to his mom in a way that really pissed off Star making her smile fall and her eyes go cat pupiled and turned yellow.

"You better kick his ass Marco, NOBODY disses their parents like that when their showing support." Star's claws dug into the bleacher as the trio looked on at Star in concern. Jackie held up the conch back to Star's ear making her calm down again.

"Say, why do you carry a conch with you Jackie?" Janna asked with Jackie smiling in return.

"Because I like conches, in fact I have about 12 back home." Ferguson and Janna looked at her in interest as she acted a little sheepish. "Hey, just because I'm the "cool kid" as you all would put it doesn't mean I can't have odd quirks." As they talked they realized they had talked through Marco's introduction and turned to see him in a frazzled state with the arm flailing around at random. The audience had gasped in alarm at the arm with a few women looking at it smiling with an interest of some kind.

"I have to admit, that looks pretty cool." Janna commented before the arm slapped Marco across the face. "Oh, I see why that is bad." Jeremy looked like he had just entered a candy store and smiled as Marco tried to look dignified and failed wearing his white martial arts robe and green belt.

"Well this is going to be particularly easy loser." Jeremy got into a fighting stance while Marco did the same and replied back.

"I could beat you even with this arm working for you brat." The two growled at each other with the sensei holding up his arm to get everyone's attention.

"Let this be a fair match with no tricks on either side." He fixed a stern gaze on both the competitors before dropping his hand. "FIGHT!" The two leapt at each other with Jeremy getting the upper hand by lauching a punch-kick combo as the arm tripped Marco with the combined attacks sending him to the ground. "Point Birnbaum." Sensei waved his other hand as the fight continued. Jeremy launched a brutal triple punch attack that Marco had trouble blocking with one arm but did so anyway. With a look of grim determination on his face Marco did a high kick to Jeremy's head which Jeremy blocked with ease and punched Marco in the groin eliciting a gasp from the audience as Marco fell over not even screaming in pain. "Point Birnbaum." Jeremy at this point got cocksure about himself and picked Marco up with surprising ease setting him up right before launching another triple punch attack that Marco was not able to block this time. Taking the full brunt of the blows Marco staggered back using the backward Momentum to get and new fighting stance. Jeremey laughed and went for a flying kick at Marco that was stopped by the tentacle arm grabbing onto the leg and flinging Jeremy into the ceiling. "Point Diaz". Everyone seemed to hold their breath as Marco looked at his arm now seemingly ready to help him fight Jeremy for some reason and smiled as Jeremy came down from the rafters.

"Hey wait, how is he allowed to use a squid arm like that it's not fair." Jeremy whined to the sensei who looked at the arm in awe.

"I know, pretty cool right?" He spoke as Jeremy was picked up by the arm again and slammed into a wall and then the floor by the arm with Marco coming up slowly frowning at Jeremy in a disapproving way. "Point Diaz." Marco looked down at Jeremy with contempt in his eyes.

"This thing has been keeping up all night and making my life impossible handing you victory on a silver platter and you still can't beat me? Where are your private lessons now huh?" Marco had the arm encircle Jeremy's waist pulling him to Marco's eye level. "Yield now and we can part ways as equals." Jeremy responded by punching Marco in the face seemingly making Marco mad. "Oh, you did not want… wait no fist would feel like that." Everyone stopped at Marco's words as Marco used the squid arm to pull off Jeremy's gloves. "Are these… BRASS KNUCKLES?!" the audience gasped as Jeremy was revealed to have a pair of metal coverings over his fists.

"Pffff, as if. These are solid gold, nothing less for me." Jeremy smiled until he realized what he had done by saying this. Sensei walked up to Jeremy with disappointment all over his face as Marco let Jeremy down.

"Diaz's accidental handicap turned into an unfair advantage and he was willing to let you go as an equal but you came maliciously cheating." Jeremy seemed to wilt in front of the Sensei who spit to the side. "You have brought great dishonor upon this dojo and upon every strip mall dojo everywhere." He turned and walked to Marco lifting his non-tentacle arm up into the air. "Diaz is the victor." Everyone in the crowd began cheering especially Star, Ferguson, Janna, and Jackie while Jeremy slunk away cursing under his breath. Marco smiled looking around as some people from the stands actually came down to greet him, in particular a group of girls and women who had been looking at the arm in interest.

"Say, can we see your arm?" the group of 3 smiled at Marco with him looking around for a second before responding.

"Um yeah, sure." He let the arm down with the ladies surrounding it touching and rubbing it.

"Oh, can this be my boyfriend?"

"No I want it to be mine."

"I'm willing to share it."

The group bustled around Marco's arm as Star, Ferguson, Jackie, and Janna came down from the stands to meet him with Janna looking at the arm in interest as well. Jackie immediately went up to Marco and began talking with him with the trio just behind her.

"That was pretty cool how your arm leapt in to save you at the last minute and how you were willing to let him go once you were even." Jackie elbowed Marco in the side make him chuckle. "Plus the fight was just cool in general." Marco smiled and replied back to her with a hand behind his head.

"Yeah, I don't like having an unfair advantage in any fight like this even with Jeremy. It's just not who I am." Marco kept on smiling until he felt another pair of hands on his arm and looked over to see Janna. "Um Janna, what are you doing?"

"Getting a feel for this arm man, its super cool." Janna kept on rubbing it alongside the other 3 ladies with Ferguson, Star, and Jackie laughing at it while Marco played it cool smiling at Jackie in a "cool" pose.

'For once something strange like this wound up being exactly what I wanted.' Marco thought relived.

Also, by special request of KairaB, there is a "One shot" that is being called "Birth of the Star" that is now available on my channel. Basically it's MonStar being born and their reactions to her. Warning: rated A for Adorable. Send some thanks to KairaB and please do tell how well I did on that story.