Star walked down the isles with confidence as her friends followed stopping to stare at the wonders all around them. She smiled back at them as Ferguson found a fighting doll that he began cuddling until it punched him in the face. He then smiled and put it in his back pocket running to keep up with the group. 'I remember when I first came to Quest Buy.' Star thought back and smiled as her father had needed to buy a heat lamp for Star and brought her along to help him pick. She had been in as much awe as everyone in her group. She was brought out of her memory lane when Marco tugged on the shoulder cuff to her dress's sleeve.
"Say Star, do you come here often?" Star smiled and chuckled slightly.
"Oh not that often, usually my parents send servants to get stuff when we have coupons or a bargain price is available here. Never waste money from the royal treasury when there is a cheaper alternative that works." Star smiled in a knowing expression while the group continued to look around in awe with Alfonzo answering her.
"We also a phrase like that, A penny saved is a penny earned." He smiled as Janna groaned and face palmed.
"Are you going to start quoting Benjamin Franklin again?" Alfonzo smiled again as he replied.
"You seem annoyed, getting enough sleep? Early to bed and early to rise makes a man…" Janna punched him in the face making him go silent as she spoke to him.
"If you do that again, I will hurt you." Ferguson ignored the bickering and asked Star,
"Say, do you need like a charger for your wand?" Star laughed out loud at that question making everyone look at her in concern.
"Sorry sorry. This is an ancient artifact of my ancestors that stretches back millennia before the kingdom of Mewni and is directly connected to the wellsprings of magic. Do you honestly think it would need a charger to function?" The group looked at each other with murmurs of "that makes sense" among them as they continued.
"HALT PUNY MORTALS!" The group stopped as they gazed up at a giant Egyptian sphinx that blocked their path speaking with an eerie double voice. "Answer my riddle if you dare. "I do not breath…"
"A leg." Ferguson spoke up.
"…but I jump…"
"A leg." Marco spoke in annoyance.
"… and run…"
"A leg man." Oskar spoke in a tired voice.
"…and… wait you knew all that before I got even half way through my riddle?" The sphinx's voice changed to a British woman's mid-sentence.
"The internet." Janna spoke holding up her smart phone with everyone nodding.
"Internet?" The sphinx spoke as if the word was foreign to her.
"Yeah you should look it up, it's very convenient actually." Star smiled at her as the sphinx stared at them in confusion for a solid minute.
"*sigh* You may pass." She lifted up a section of wall allowing the group to run through. After they passed she lowered the section and looked around with no one in sight. "Now if only I had someone to tell me about the internet they were talking about."
Star led the group on a little further smiling and turned to them. "I do believe pet care and training is right over here." Star pointed proudly only for her face to fall making everyone confused until they saw what she was pointing at.
"Ghost repellent, extra strength Gnome heads? Did we just make a giant circle?" Marco asked in confusion.
"Hey man, isn't life just one big circle." Oskar strummed his keytar as Marco face palmed.
"Buddy, this is literal not figurative." Marco got even more annoyed when he saw Janna looking at the Gnome heads.
"I wonder what these actually do?" Janna smiled picking one up as Marco went over to stop her from doing anything stupid. Meanwhile Ferguson and Alfonzo were looking to Star like expectant children as Star went over how they got her.
"Let's see, we took a right turn, and a left turn, then two more right turns, then 5 left turns, then a right turn, then 2 more left turns… yep we went in a giant circle." Star jumped as a cart shoved into her and she turned annoyed only to double take in shock as Mavis was pushing the cart.
"Star Butterfly, it seems this store has everything a true queen and Mewman could want." Mavis smiled at Star arrogantly as the Barbarians behind her looked ready to fight. "Now hand over the wand or there is going to be a clean up on isle… what isle is this?" Mavis looked around with both groups shrugging in confusion.
"That's not my department." The groups looked in confusion as another humanoid sloth walked away nonchalantly. Mavis snorted in annoyance only to be hit in the face by a giant box of giant diapers.
"Big Boy Diaper Volley!" Ferguson screamed at the top of his lungs as he began hurdling box after box at the barbarians. One hit the bottom of the three barbarians on each others shoulders causing the whole stack to fall on top of one another with a muffled oof. Another went streaking overhead to hit Dumnorix in the face planting a diaper on his head which he pulled off with a dead-pan expression. The other barbarians jumped around the flying diapers with various success as Oskar, Alfonzo, and Janna joined in throwing diapers at the group.
Marco leapt straight into the fight kicking out the legs of one of the barbarians and landing a blow on his face making him clutch his nose while whining in pain. A second one leapt up behind Marco trying to get him in a bear hug and while he succeeded he did not take into account just how flexible Marco was. Marco lifted up his left leg into the air in a way similar to how a ballet dancer would and brought it back into the barbarians groin with a hard thunk making it let go of Marco and clutch itself painfully. As Marco turned back to face more the downed guy yelled out with a stupidly high pitched voice,
"Mavis is right, our armor does not protect us!" This made a trio standing in front of Marco drop their weapons and go to guard their "goods" from Marco's attacks. As they did so a diaper box flew over their heads only to be cut in half by Mavis's sword as she pushed past the trio.
"They might be scared of your move, but I am not." She smiled and feinted going low only to swing her sword high trying to catch Marco off guard. Marco managed to dodge it with a back flip but not without getting a slight cut on his cheek. Marco righted himself and went to strike at Mavis's funny bone and shin again but this time Mavis twirled her sword in front of her so Marco had to step back or lose an arm to the twirling blade. "Ha ha ha ha, that's not going to work again boy." She did a long thrust using its momentum to turn and try to kick out Marco's feet from underneath him. Instead of him leaning back or dodging to the side like she expected Marco did an impressive vertical leap of four feet into the air and kicked Mavis in the face knocking her down and forcing her to drop her sword. As Marco landed he was struck with a big boy diaper box that was thrown back by Dumnorix who was laughing at the fight.
"Come on lads, we aren't gonna let some diapers stop us now are we?" Dumnorix bellowed that out only to be struck in the face by a liquid rainbow that glued over his face. With a muffled scream he tried to pull it off with little effect as Star leapt under him tripping him and making him fall onto Selene who was coming in to provide aid. As he crashed down on top of her, with Selene giving a muffled scream as he did, Star leapt up and ran gathering up her friends. As Marco was about to protest Star spoke loudly and clearly in a commanding voice.
"We can fight them later Marco, our friends are not combatants like we are." Marco didn't respond because she was right, if the barbarians had closed their friends would have been fresh meat for them. The group ran through the remaining Diaper boxes making them fall in an avalanche providing a temporary barrier that stopped the barbarians cold. "Oh no, this is not familiar at all." Star looked around worried as the barbarians began pushing aside the diapers with Ferguson, Alfonzo, and Marco looking at a map for few seconds. Marco then turned around and pointed to a pair of some sort of elevators getting everyone's attention.
"Those should take us to animal care, let's move it people." The group moved fast piling into the elevator with Oskar playing chase music the whole time. The barbarians pushed through the remaining diapers just as the elevator took off with everyone groaning in frustration with Dumnorix, having pulled off most of the rainbow, leading them to the other elevator.
"They must not escape." He leapt in with everyone piling in clown car fashion until Mavis got up pushing everyone in allowing herself a bit of room. In the process pushing Selene so she was spooning with one of the male barbarians to which she pointed a dagger at him.
"You get excited, you die." He gulped in fear as the door closed and they followed Star's group.
Meanwhile, Star's group was heading up fast and they caught site of a big sign that said "Animal care" that the elevator was nearing. Marco smiled as he said,
"Sometimes it pays to get organized Oskar." Oskar sighed and replied softly.
"Ok man, I get the message. I'll get myself in better shape to better take care of Flyod." As he said this the elevator stopped and went dark. "Um, does that normally happen?" Everyone turned to where they thought Star was who replied,
"No, this is not normal. Help me open the door people." Everyone helped open the elevator door slipping out with Star knocking her head against an out of order sign hanging over the elevator. They were greeted by one of the sloth clerks who had his arm in a cast and bandages over his right eye.
"Sorry folks, the elevators are out of order from beyond this point. Welcome to the booby trap department." He pointed around revealing a wide variety of traps and devices that could easily kill or maim people. The group looked around in worry as Janna and Alfonzo pulled Ferguson out of the elevator as it was a tight squeeze for him. "Please watch your step as-" As the sloth turned around a accidentally stepped onto a giant mousetrap pinning him onto the ground with a hiss of pain from him. Everyone began moving towards him but he held up his hand. "Don't help me up, I get worker's comp for this." He smiled as the group looked at each other in confusion. After a second Janna asked the question on everyone's minds,
"Worker's comp exists in this place?" Before anyone else could speak though the elevator next to theirs opened with the Barbarians falling out like a pile of bricks crushing Mavis who was in the entrance. As the barbarians picked themselves up Star gather her friends close to her acting quickly.
"Ok, I think it's time to go. Magical hamster ball!" Star waved her wand and a gigantic hamster ball encased them and started rolling through the room crushing the sloth in the process who gave a muffled ow. As the Barbarians were picking themselves up Dumnorix and Selene were the first out of the group to chase after them stepping on the sloth as well as they chased after the ball. As Mavis got up she pointed to the ball with her sword yelling out to the others,
"Get that hamster ball." The Forest Barbarians charged forward with some of them stepping on the sloth with muffled ow's accompanying it. As Mavis stepped up to the sloth she looked down in concern and said "Are you in need of aid?" When he shook his head no she shrugged and stepped over him politely before charging onwards screeching like a Berserker.
As the ball rolled through the room various traps were sprung as the ball rolled by and as the Barbarians ran by they sprung the remaining traps. The Hamster Ball ran through a section causing axes and scythes to come out of the walls that would have sliced and diced them except for the fact that the ball seemed near indestructible. It did not stop the ball from being tossed around like a cork in a stormy sea smashing it against walls and tumbling the group around like a cup of dice. The Barbarians followed them dodging and weaving through the weaponry with some losses here and there. One was scooped up by an axe and pinned to the ceiling, another was tripped to the ground and had to hunker in a fetal position or get sliced and diced, and a third made it through but lost his hair and beard to twin vertical axes.
The next section was full of dart shooters that bounced right off of the ball like it was nothing although they were still bouncing around from the slicing section with several of their group looking very dizzy and nauseous. The Barbarians ran through this section at full tilt with them either dodging darts or deflecting them as best as possible. Selene twirled her daggers and leapt through the storm of darts with such beauty and grace it would have been perfect were not for the fact that 3 barbarians were knocked unconscious by her deflected darts. Dumnorix outright hefted two heavy pieces of scrap metal that were just lying around and used them as shields just as effectively deflecting as Selene did with less casualties as well. Mavis ran through it last using the body of an already fallen comrade to absorb the dart blows as she pushed onward.
Finally the two groups got to a section where 4 sections of wall were smashing in on each other repeatedly. The ball actually got stuck in one of the sections of wall for a few seconds before the slightly curved nature of the smashing parts shot the ball out of the booby trap department with the speed of a stone from a slingshot. As the walls smashed again Dumnorix got in line first and held two sections of wall apart so one of the sections didn't smash together while the others got through. Other barbarians tried holding sections up with less successful results most of the time. Mavis used her sword to prop the final section open so Dumnorix had a way out and made it easier for everyone else. Selene managed to get through and went after Star without looking back making some people gaze at her annoyed; especially Mavis.
The hamster ball containing Star's group finally stopped after rolling a little ways and dissolved piling everyone on the floor in an unorganized heap. They took a few minutes to regain their breathes with Marco pushing everyone aside and running to a garbage can and vomiting in it the whole time. Star finally got up and noticing Marco in distress went over to him rubbing her tail.
"Are… you ok Marco?" Marco looked up at Star with a gray face and burped slightly before speaking.
"I just get car sick easily in situations like that Star. Could I have some water?" A random employee of the store handed Marco some iced sparkling water which Marco used to first rinse his mouth and spit and then drank some slowly. "Thank you." Marco addressed the employee who nodded and spoke.
"Complementary for anyone who gets nauseous in any extreme environment. Welcome to the pet care department by the way." He gestured around revealing sections of wall with pet care books and supplies with everyone cheering slightly. Oskar stepped forward from the group and spoke to the sloth first.
"Anything food and training for trailer sized exotic birds of prey?" The sloth cast him an impressed look before speaking and pointing to two sections.
"Right over there we have pamphlets on care and training for birds of prey of any sizes though one of your size is unusual. Food is over there and I recommend an eternal meatball. It is big and heavy to carry around but will provide an infinite supply of most of the food your bird will need. I do recommend getting some bonemeal for it and vitamins at least once a week as it does not compose the full diet a carnivorous bird needs." After the sloth said that he walked away with rapidly approaching footsteps alerting the group to someone approaching. They turned to see a slightly winded Selene coming in fast looking mad enough to chew through steel ready to leap at Star.
As she leapt she yelled "You will not escape me THIS TIME!" As she leapt Marco tripped over his own feet, being dizzy from his puking spree, and knocked himself and Ferguson into Selene's path just as she jumped. Both sides tried dodging but Selene made impact knocking all three of them into a makeshift ball that was mostly Ferguson that rolled of a sharp incline that was about 10 feet from the group that led to an area marked children's clothes. The remaining four stared at it for a second before Alfonzo commented,
"How did we not notice that department?" The group was startled from their confusion by the sounds of barbarians approaching their area quickly. Star leapt into action and began issuing orders while getting into a fighting stance.
"Oskar, find the stuff the sloth dude was talking about and do it as quickly as possible. Janna and Alfonzo help him out in finding it while I fight these guys off. Understood?" Oskar and Alfonzo saluted before running away to find the items while Janna seemed torn at first before running off to help out the other two. Star turned breathing in and out as the barbarian group arrived at the department with Mavis at the front who began screaming at everyone.
"Get the wand and the girl's head, kill anyone who stands in your way!" Mavis pointed at Star while the barbarians charged at her led by Dumnorix shouting,
"JOHANSEN HO!"
Star hissed at them like a lizard would with cat slit yellow eyes and pointed her wand shooting a beam of orange light freezing three in place seemingly coated in orange sherbet. Dumnorix leapt at her trying to bring his fists down but Star nimbly stepped in close to him and slid up right through his arms leaving him paralyzed in shock for a few moments, wondering how she did that, as she climbed onto his back and leapt off fly kicking another barbarian to the ground. Another one leapt at her with Star jumping to the side and smacking him with her tail very resoundingly. One came at her with what seemed to be a squeaky chew toy equivalent of a nun-chuck trying to hit her. Star gave a deadpan expression as it just bounced right off her doing no damage and pointed her wand at him saying "happy slapper" with some sort of stuffed animal coming out and beating down the barbarian very effectively.
Meanwhile Alfonzo and Oskar were looking through texts to see which one was of birds of prey and not getting very far very fast. Alfonzo picked up one book that seemed to have fur on it and it began snapping at him with a mouth where some of its pages should be. As Alfonzo wrestled with the hungry book Oskar pushed aside some books on how to take care of mutant cow-dolphins and saw a book dealing with birds of prey and one dealing with birds of paradise. Oskar, not sure what his bird was, looked at the two books for a second until shrugging and just got both of them for himself turning around to see Alfonzo wrestling with the book.
"Just pet its spine man, it'll calm down fast. If you need me I'll be looking for meatballs." Oskar walked away with Alfonzo trying that tactic out and found the book calmed down quite nicely. As he smiled Janna showed up and gently took the book from him speaking quickly.
"Sorry I need this for a second." As she scampered off Alfonzo blinked for a second and shrugged following Oskar while wondering how Oskar knew about the book.
Marco, Selene, and Ferguson rolled down the incline at full speed until they got to some sort of launching ramp that flung them into the children's clothes section with a muffled bang and crash. After a few seconds of dust settling Marco stuck his head out and pulled himself out catching his breath and looked into a mirror to find he was wearing a pink and purple ballerina's outfit with tights and shoes included; he even had hair extensions 1 ½ feet long in a ponytail. As Marco gaped in shock a sloth showed up and began speaking,
"Sorry about that, our new automatic dresser is still in its prototype stages and can get a bit wonky." As the sloth finished speaking an arm reached out and pulled him into a dressing compartment with the sloth giving out a croak of shock as mechanical noises started from within. Marco shuddered slightly and turned to see Ferguson emerge from the clothes wearing a sailor's suit and diaper combo looking into the mirror for a second before smiling.
"I actually pull this off rather well." He turned to Marco and continued smiling. "You pull pink of rather well also." Marco stared at Ferguson for a second until a muttered curse got their attention as they saw Selene pull herself out of the pile. Marco chuckled slightly with Ferguson saying "You pull that off rather well as well despite your tomboy like nature." Selene blinked in confusion until she looked in a mirror and saw she was wearing a frilly white dress that would normally be found on dolls more than even little girls. And Marco had to admit it did suit her well hanging onto her child like body just fine framing her pale freckled face and unruly tuft of red hair.
Selene turned red faced and flustered lunging at Marco with her daggers drawn with Marco leaping to the side in a ballet pose with arms in a fighting stance ready to defend himself. As Ferguson stepped aside he knocked into an old fashion record player, 'Must be decoration despite the fact that it works.' he thought, and it began playing ballet music. Selene did a twirl and slash attack with both her daggers while Marco spun around her doing a forward kick that Selene ducked under, with her pausing a moment to admire how flexible Marco was to kick so high to the front. She leapt up going to punch with a bronze knuckle attachment to her daggers with Marco using his fore arm to deflect her punch and landed a blow on her cheek with an open palm so as not to break his knuckles. Selene took the hit and head butted his face going to kick his legs out from underneath him but only got one leg. Using this move Marco kicked upward throwing one of her daggers away and grabbed onto her other arm to keep himself from falling and to immobile it. Selene bent over under his weight for a second before getting back up and throwing Marco away with him spinning slightly to bleed off extra momentum. Marco then did a quick step forward and leapt up kicking at her which Selene dodged under and caught his waist trying to swing him around and throw him but forgot she was about the same size he was and was thrown by the momentum forcing her to hold onto him making them spin around in several circles before they finally separated. When Selene looked at Marco she saw he was holding her other dagger looking smug as he tossed it aside and leapt at her in his usual fashion which only now did she realize was surprisingly dainty. She twirled to the side and tried punching him but Marco deflected each of her blows as they circled each other on light feet that were on tiptoe for both of them. Marco seemed to sense an opening and threw a knuckle punch right into Selene's solar plexus making her breath come out in a whoosh. As she tried to steady herself Marco moved fast kicking up some cloth from the floor and twirled Selene in it to try and trap her as best he could. Selene fought back as best she could but once her feet were entangled Marco spun her away until she fell into some sort of closet with the door banging shut behind her and a lock clicking. As Selene began cursing Marco let out a deep breath and turned, still in a ballet pose, to Ferguson who was now applauding with several other onlookers. It was only now that Marco realize that Ballet music had be playing and he got red faced getting out of his pose addressing the crowd.
"Well… that's what several years of ballet practice since you were six can get. Now we need to head out and help Star." Marco grabbed his friend and pulled with Ferguson giving off a complaint.
"But what about our regular clothes and a second show?" Marco face palmed and continued pulling.
"We don't have time for either, we need to help Star now!" The crowd sighed in disappointment with one boy asking his mother if he could get a ballerina's outfit.
"Monkey Avalanche" Star shot a tide of monkeys that buried a quartet of barbarians under and became a pile of shrieking and biting creatures. Star moved her fist up into a power to the people sign smacking a barbarian out from behind her a solid 5 feet into a stack of kitty litter bags which promptly buried him. "Light dancer" Star shot a beam of energy the compelled one of the barbarians to start dancing an Irish jig that he couldn't stop and danced down an isle out of sight. Dumnorix came up behind Star but was stopped by Janna who looked up at him in a determined way to which he chuckled cracking his knuckles.
"Step aside girl; I don't offer warnings often but we both know I can…" Janna, not waiting for him to finish, lifted up a can of pepper spray and sprayed him directly into the eyes. "*painful screaming* Why does everyone keep spraying stuff in my face!?" Janna pulled out a taser and zapped him in the gut making him stagger then kneed him in the groin making him fall over in pain before speaking.
"Cause it's easy, and does a lot of damage." She smiled and turned to see Mavis coming up behind Star. Janna threw the book beast she took from Alfonzo at Mavis but one of the barbarians leapt in kamikaze style and took an angry book to the face. "Star, behind you!" Janna's yell only served to startle Star however as Mavis sliced off Star's arm with her sword and picked up the wand that came with it.
Star hissed in pain and looked to see Mavis holding her wand that was changing shape in her hands making a look of shock come across Star's face. With a shrill of laughter Mavis hoisted the wand as it turned slate gray with the haft extending to two feet in length. The orb shrunk slightly losing its wings and changed to be mirror like all over except reflecting dark and twisted images with what seemed to be a twisted 9 pointed crown made of black Iron on top of it that was badly made. Mavis laughed manically turning to Star and shooting a beam of silvery light that blasted Star against a book shelf making her collapse in pain. Mavis strolled up to Star and pointed the wand at her smiling and said,
"I heard you got healing abilities from your father; care to test them out?" Star looked up in fear as light gathered to the wand with Mavis laughing maniacally.
But before Mavis could fire a gigantic meatball rolled on top of her with Mavis giving out an oof in shock as the wand was also knocked out of her hand to skitter to a stop in front of Star. Oskar and Alfonzo ran up to the meatball as Star picked up her wand with her good arm making it transform back into its regular form. As she got up she felt arms around her picking her up and turned to see Janna and Marco, who was in a ballerina's outfit, standing right behind her with worried expressions on their faces.
Marco spoke to Star "Star, are you ok. I saw what Mavis was about to do but…" Star leapt over and hugged him sobbing slightly in relief as Marco held her close. "There there, it's all over now." They stayed that way for a few seconds with Star picking herself up and shaking herself off speaking to everyone.
"I'm fine, it's not the first time my live has been threatened but the fact Mavis could control the wand took me off guard." She turned to everyone who was now staring where her right arm should have been with Star chuckling at them. "Oh this?" Star focused her mind and got the arm to regrow with a bit of effort leaving her slightly exhausted. "Don't worry, I'm a quick healer." She smiled at them as they gave mixed looks of awe and confusion.
Janna spoke up "That was so awesome Star, how did you do that?" Star smiled answering her.
"I'm half Septarian; I can heal from any wound really quickly. And what's more my dad is renown among Septarians for his healing ability, which I have even though it takes a lot of effort to do so." Star smiled at them with Oskar thinking out loud.
"It's at times like these that I'm reminded you're not human man. You act like it so often I forget that you aren't." Ferguson, wearing a sailor boy outfit with a diaper for some reason, smacked Oskar upside the head reprimanding him.
"Isn't it clear Star is sensitive about this stuff? Don't think out loud unless if we have the ok from someone." Oskar nodded numbly looking ashamed of himself as Star chuckled slightly.
"I'm ok with that guys, I just don't like drawing attention to my… non Mewman features." Star brought her tail around holding it and rubbing it softly. Everyone smiled at Star with Janna bringing up the obvious question with Marco and Ferguson.
"So why are you guys dressed up like that?" Everyone chuckled slightly with Marco looking annoyed before answering.
"Children's clothing area. We were forcibly dressed. I'd rather not go into detail. Can we go home now?" Star smiled and motioned for everyone to gather around the meatball before raising her wand.
"Mystical exit beam." Star shot them forward with Marco ready with the scissors to cut a hole back home. As they were leaving one of the sloths called out to them.
"Hey, are you going to pay for those?" Star chuckled and yelled out,
"Oh, Mavis there has the bill. Just charge her." They went through with the portal closing behind them. The sloth turned to Mavis who was covered in meat and sobbing slightly lying prone on the ground.
"I had it. I had it in my hands and it conformed to me. It was mine." Mavis looked up as the sloth's shadow fell over her with him looking annoyed.
"So, you are the one paying for this mess?" He motioned showing barbarians in various states of hurt with a trail of destruction a mile wide. Mavis got up grumbling and pulled out a purse which she opened with a moth fluttering out of it. Looking in shock at her purse she looked up at the now very annoyed sloth in fear.
"*nervous chuckling* Guess either Dumnorix or Selene has the bill." She smiled nervously which quickly turned to fear as the sloth growled at her and leapt on her slicing with his claws and biting her fiercely.
"So it says here I need a hood too put over his head so he calms down whenever he is stressed." Oskar looked over the book and turned back to Floyd who was devouring the meatball at a pace so rapid he was actually gaining on the meatball's regenerative properties slightly. "Hmmmm, where to find a hood for you man?"
Marco and Star were watching as Oskar learned how to take care of his bird smiling in the process at how cute the bird actually looked when it wasn't trying to eat people. Marco looked at Star and his smile lessened when he remembered what had happened back at Quest Buy.
"Star, are you really ok?" Star smiled nodding and turning to him.
"I've actually been in far more dangerous situations many times Marco, I'm not made of glass." Marco's look became conflicted and Star looked down slightly. "I mean it may seem that way at times but I'm tougher then I look. All that was unusual there was that the wand conformed to Mavis which freaked me out a little." Star smiled up at Marco who asked one final question.
"Could she have killed you even with your healing?" Star sighed and looked down before answering.
"Yes. Unlike a full blooded Septarian healing exhausts me and if I have to heal too much at once I will enter the equivalent of a coma that could last indefinitely depending on the wound. Or if she had gotten my heart or brain I would be dead immediately. I also can't heal from burn wounds from a fire at Septarian speed as well." Star sighed and leaned into Marco who reflexively put his arm around her holding her close. "You know what, can I just go home and have some zen time. Trips to the store should not be this hectic." Marco smiled and nodded feeling a blush come on as he remembered what Star looked like in zen time. Star peaked up at him as they began walking and asked him "What exactly are you thinking about?"
"Nothing, let's go home Star." Marco walked briskly with Star right behind him chuckling at what she knew was in his mind.
Wow this was a long chapter, but I couldn't divide it properly so you are stuck with one huge helping.
One question I have gotten several times that I think I need to address with an answer, Oskar is in fact a homosexual. I thought the hints I provided would be enough but I guess I have to confirm it. I did this NOT to bump Oskar out of the way so he would not be a love interest for Star but to mix up the story a little and give a homosexual character some much needed center stage time; they are poorly underrepresented even today. And as a side note, I also made Janna and Oskar Marco's friends from the start to also mix things up as well.
Well now that all this is said and done, I think it's time for a vacation; a Diaz family vacation ;)