Marco laid in Star's bed touching the tip of his tentacle arm while smiling with Star looking through the book of Spells with a somewhat worried expression on her face.
"Come on come on, it should be in here somewhere. Undoing curses like this should be her specialty… oh I think I found it!" Star turned to Marco. "Want me to shoot your arm back to nor… wait I should probably test it first." Marco looked up with a raised eyebrow as Star set a potted plant onto her desk and pointed her wand at it. "Returnio Armicus Normorificus!" The wand lit up its typical pinkish color and shot at the plant burning it to a crisp. The two stared in shock for a second looking at each other as Marco held his tentacle arm close to himself.
"As much as I appreciate it Star I don't think I actually need to turn it back now, I'm just fine with a squid's arm strangely enough." Star looked at him in concern as Marco got out of bed began heading out.
"Um Marco, I don't think you have fully thought this through." Marco stopped looking back at Star with confusion.
"Um why is this not a good thing now Star? I mean it was annoying but now it's actually proving helpful to me. Watch." Marco stretched out the squid tentacle to the ceiling and grabbed directly onto it with suction cups and pulled himself up. "Wait till Mavis and her cronies see us now, they'll run at the sound of my approach when I'm done with them." Marco smiled brightly but it began to fall as Star grabbed her tail and began rubbing it.
"The thing is these types of spells tend to have evil side effects when they don't work Marco, and I'm afraid you'll be badly influenced by it. Plus its smell has been changing every since it got attached to you, smelling more rotten and… corrupted." Marco stared at star for a few seconds until she added on, "I'm just worried for you Marco, please let me turn you back once I figure out how to do so." Star continued to rub her tail as Marco watched her go puppy-dog eyed.
"*Sigh* Well ok Star, if you view it for the best I'll do it." Marco let himself down from the ceiling. "I'm going to bed now though. Goodnight." Marco walked out the door as Star turned back to work changing more potted plants into… well Marco wasn't sure but he also didn't want to know what was going on with the plants.
Marco was trying to sleep but having trouble doing so for some reason as there seemed to be some sort of thought that he needed to remember but just couldn't for some reason. As he laid there the tentacle wrapped itself around him almost protectively like he was in a sleeping bag and snuggled up close to him as if trying to make him feel secure. Marco smiled and adjusted slightly in the arm thinking how great it could actually be and questioning why Star wanted it gone so badly. As he lay there about to sleep he began to hear a whisper in his mind that brought him fully awake.
"Who's there? Show yourself or I will think I am going crazy." Marco thought on what he said a second. "Maybe I could have put that better."
"No you put it just fine." Marco knew then that the voice was literally inside his head.
"Who are you? Are you the devil come to tempt me?" Marco looked around in fear as stories of El Diablo from his grandmother began circling inside of his head.
"*amused but friendly chuckling* No no, nothing so horrible Marco." Marco shuddered as he realized it knew his name. "I am you, or at least part of you. I am the piece that was given to you by Star." Marco blinked his eyes in recognition and looked down at the tentacle arm. "That's right Marco I am the arm. I do apologize for my behavior earlier with the food and the shower and everything else. Especially the orange juice, that was just mean on my part."
"Yeah that did seem particularly mean."
"I was not… familiar with the world around me so I just kept on reacting until I got a grasp of what was going on. The point is however I wish to help you and continue to be part of you. I know your friend Star suspects that I am evil and rightfully so since magic is unpredictable at times but I am your friend Marco." The tentacle unwrapped itself from around Marco and the tip pointed just a few inches from his face as if that was its face. "Give me the chance to help you prove it to Star, there is so much I can help you do."
"Like what?" Marco wasn't suspicious, but he was curious.
"I can get Jackie to like you the same way those girls like me." Marco smiled at that.
"Skipping the last two steps, I like it."
"I can help get you even with Selene and beat back those ruffians who come by frequently."
"Yeah." Marco smiled as he imagined how easy it would be to fight them off now.
"We can finally deal with those bullies who pushed you around for taking ballet classes." Marco looked at it in shock.
"How did you…"
"I am you Marco, I know everything about you; including what you know about Star's past." Marco's face saddened at remembering what had happened to Star. "Don't you want to insure she will never be hurt again?" Marco thought about it carefully.
"You're right, I will talk to Star tomorrow and show her you are a good guy and not one of the bad guys."
"Excellent, now go to bed and rest cause I'm guessing you need it after *ahem* what I did last night." Marco smiled and yawned curling up in the tentacle's embrace again and fell asleep soundly.
The tentacle chuckled slightly and a face did emerge on it about halfway up the arm with a sharp toothed grin and pale yellow eyes.
"Soon and very soon, I will get the entrails I desire. *evil chuckling*"
The next morning Star was still trying out spells and falling into a repetitive rut as she tried to find the right way to say the spell.
"Returnio Armicus Normoria." Star shot a bolt of energy at the plant turning it into a purple fungus like thing that looked like a foot.
She sighed looking at the dozens of plants she had experimented on with various results with most of them being burnt or blasted to bits. The rest were composed of various mutated plants, including one that tried to eat her, some forms of body parts that appeared twisted and gross, and a plant that did not change at all for some reason. She sighed again stifling a yawn as while she could stay awake for long periods of time it would take its toll eventually. She pulled out another plant and placed it on her desk pointing her wand at it.
"Returnio Armius Normal reeno." She shot a bolt of light at it with the plant seemingly disappearing and after a second an arm sprouted up growing out of the soil. Star gasped in shock staring at the hand until it gave her a thumbs up sign. "MARCO!" She grabbed the arm and ran out of her room to Marco's room smiling like an idiot. "Marco, I found the proper spell!" Star burst into Marco's room as Marco was doing a single handed pushup with the squid arm.
"676… 677… 678…67- oh hey Star there you are." Marco leapt off his tentacle landing gracefully with the tentacle standing at attention. "Something happened last night and I want to…"
"I figured out how to change the arm back look." Star showed him the plant smiling with Marco looking at in confusion . "Now if you would just present to me your arm…"
"Star, there's someone I want you to meet." Star stopped and stared in confusion until Marco pulled the tentacle out front. "My arm actually contacted me last night and talked to me Star." Star looked at the tentacle with a mixture of suspicion and horror. "He's not a bad guy and he even apologized to me for what he did to me. He was just born after all and was trying to learn his way in the world." The tentacle reached out for Star who shied back a step.
"So… you are calling it a he?" Star looked at Marco who appeared slightly frustrated with Star at this point.
"Yes it is a he Star, and he wants to convince you he is not evil. Go on and talk to her." The tentacle then moved up revealing the mouth and eyes to them both with Marco looking surprised as well as Star.
"Yeah I figured out how to do that last night Marco. Star, I am not an evil creature I am good just like you." It smiled in a creepy fashion at Star making her shudder.
"Look, I get that you are talking him up Marco and he seems relaxed but he still smells corrupted… *sniff sniff* bleh even more so then yesterday." Star held her nose as Marco got mad and the tentacle looked offended.
"Seriously, you are judging someone by their SMELLL!" Marco stepped towards Star looking mad as Star took another step back. "And here I thought you would be willing to accept him considering what has happened when people judge your appearance." Star took another step back wilting in front of his eyes. "I can't believe this, you are a hypocrite Star; all he wants to do is help me and in the process protect you from bullies and worse things!" Star wilted even further stepping away from Marco some more as Marco began stepping closer to her.
"Ok, I may have gone overb…"
"YOU THINK!?" Star wilted even further backing into the doorway with Marco really close to her. "You know what, you can just go away to wherever it is you want to until you are willing to apologize to my new friend. Got it?" Marco whispered the last two words to her as he slammed the door shut.
As Marco stood there panting letting the anger bleed off he looked at his tentacle with it looking right back at him as if saddened by the turn of events. They stood there for a second until the heard crying from the other side of the door moving away fast as Star went back to her room. Marco's anger dissipated to be replaced with a feeling of horror; he knew how sensitive Star was about these things and he had done the equivalent of flaying her alive emotionally. Marco went to get the door knob but the tentacle stopped him.
"She'll be alright Marco, let this blow over for a little while and then go talk to her. You will forgive her and she will forgive you and everything will be straightened up right?" He smiled at Marco with a smile that seemed to hide something.
"Well…" Marco thought about a moment and began hearing whispering in his mind again. "Could you stop that I'm trying to think here." The tentacle looked at Marco in shock as the whispering disappeared. He stood there for a few seconds thinking and came to a decision. "No, I'm going to talk to her now." He opened the door with the tentacle looking a might bit nervous.
"But won't she react strongly and just throw you out?" Marco sensed the arm was nervous now and fixed it with a stare as he walked to Star's room.
"Even if she does she is my friend and just wanted to help me out so I'm gonna do it anyways." The whispering returned to Marco's head with Marco getting annoyed again. He stopped trying to clear his mind to talk to Star when he began hearing some of the words clearly. "Meet other friends" "Don't need her" "Hypocrite". Marco stopped with the wheels turning in his head realizing what was going on at long last. He turned to the tentacle and fixed it with a stare. "I know I don't need Star, but she needs me and I want to be with her and that is more than enough." The whispering stopped as the tentacle realized what was going on. "And stop with the whispering thing it's like you want to influenc…" Marco looked at it as its appearance suddenly got dark as Marco spoke in a whisper. "You made me go berserk at Star. You are a bad influence." The arm drew up to its full height.
"We could have done so much Marco. You are pathetic." Marco looked up in horror as the tentacle reared back and struck at him.
Screaming Marco dodged with the tentacle breaking down Star's door with a clatter. The forward momentum of the arm brought itself and Marco into the room with the tentacle attempting to smash Marco against the walls with great success. As Marco was shot around like a ping pong ball Star looked up from her bed in shock with a tear streaked face. The tentacle grabbed onto Marco and began twisting him like a rag towel chuckling evilly but stopped as Star stood up from her bed her eyes cat-pupil and yellow with rage bursting out of them.
"LEAVE MARCO ALONE!" She shot a stream of energy from her wand that was a sickly green color as the tentacle dodged it effortlessly.
"Want to try that again mudblood?" The tentacle taunted her as Marco tried to get his bearings.
"Star I'm sorry about all that happened…" The tentacle slipped through the room dragging Marco with him while avoiding the blasts from Star. "… and you were right about him but if you keep doing this…" One blast got too close to hitting the tentacle making it throw Marco onto a chest to dodge it. " … *ow* you might hit me too." The tentacle laughed as Star continued to fire with one of the blows hitting Marco in the leg burning him. This made Star regain her focus and realized what she needed to do.
"Sorry Marco, Returnio Armius Normal reeno." Star fired her wand at the tentacle, the blast being its usual pink color, and blasted a section of the floor making an arm grow out of it. Star continued to do this blasting multiple areas of the room making arms grow as the tentacle dodged, ducked dipped, dived, and dodged. All the while Marco was dragged along like a rag doll smacked into everything left and right. At one point the arm got close to the plants and Marco got a face full of some sort of fungal pustule that smeared over his face.
Meanwhile, Angie and Raphael were making breakfast when they heard crashing from upstairs. The looked at each other in worry with Angie being the first one to speak.
"We should get up there and see what's going on right?"
"My thoughts exactly." Raphael got up and moved up the stairs with Angie right behind him. As they moved up the laser eyed puppies began scampering up right behind them eager to see what going on barking merrily. As the parents and puppies reached the top of the stairs they saw flashes of light coming from Star's room which had the door broken down. Fearing the worst they rushed to the door and looked in to see something they were not quite sure of honestly. Marco was being dragged by a tentacle arm around the room with Star trying to blast it with some sort of spell with an angry face. The two looked at each other in confusion as the tentacle passed in front of the door way with a blast coming out and striking one of the puppies. To their shock the puppy turned into an arm the same color as its fur with the other puppies gathering around it in concern sniffing carefully. As they did so the arm began barking and a red laser came out of the palm of the hand striking the ceiling. Raphael responded with the first question that came to mind. "How are we going to feed it?" Angie shrugged as the arm continued to dodge Star.
Eventually Star lowered her wand to catch her breath as the tentacle gripped onto the ceiling holding Marco up laughing at Star.
"I could do this all day Mudblood." Star stamped her foot on the ground and glared murder at it.
"It's too wriggly for me to hit. What do I do?" Star asked no one in particular as Marco tried looking for an answer. As he looked at the ground he was amazed at all the arms that had formed thanks to Star's spell and got an idea. He leapt up at the ceiling grabbing the tentacle and pulled down until the tentacle became detached falling to the ground. When the tentacle hit the ground, by reflex, the arms in the area clamped down on the tentacle pinning him down.
"Gah, geh, get off me!" The tentacle struggled trying to break free as the arms held fast with Star aiming her wand again.
"Returnio Armius Normal reeno." Star shot the magic hitting the tentacle head on causing it to shrink and contort.
"It's too late Marco; you'll never be rid of me as I am one with you." As the arm shrunk it began turning back into an ordinary arm with its voice getting stupidly high pitched. "You can treat the symptoms but you'll never cure the virus." Once it disappeared Marco slumped to the floor and just laid there. Star ran up to Marco knocking hands aside and knelt down to him.
"Are you alright Marco?" Marco looked up into her eyes which now looked bluish green for some reason and hugged her close.
"I'm sorry Star, you were right. That tentacle was a bad influence. And I didn't mean any of the things I said earlier." Star gripped Marco back as she helped him up.
"That's ok Marco, we all say strange things when under strange influences." They pulled back with Marco looking into her eyes again and noticed they were even more blue now, 'Wow they are really pretty in this color as well.' Marco thought to himself.
"Say um Star, is the arm really gone considering what it just said?" Marco rubbed the back of his head with Star looking around worried.
"Oh hoho, no need to worry about that Marco. I think at least." Star smiled while Marco got a horrified look on his face. A clump made them turn to the door to see Angie and Raphael come in.
"Ok, we deserve an explanation for this." Angie held up an arm that seemed to be barking and shooting a laser from its palm. Marco and Star looked at each other in concern
"Uhhhhmmmmm…"
Up next, one that most of you have been waiting for, "Quest Buy". And don't worry I am not going to just rehash all the episodes that I liked I am going to make original ones, it's just not the time yet.