"…and that's about all you should know. Now I suggest you get back to Star and guard the entrance incase if someone decides to break in with the intent of rescuing her. Goodbye." Toffee hung up leaving Marco, Janna, and Ferguson in shock and terrified about what might happen next. As they came back to reality that heard screams from people running in their direction. Turning around the trio saw girls running away from where Marco had put Star for safe keeping, with Marco's eyes dilating in fear as he spoke.
"No." He turned back to his friends, "Set alarms for 3:57, we need to save the school and Star from herself." Janna and Ferguson nodded setting alarms for 3:57 while following Marco. As they did so Ferguson spoke up.
"Ummm, what exactly are we supposed to do? I mean you can fight Marco but Janna can't do that much and I can do nothing." Marco turned back to him speaking as they ran.
"I may need your help in helping boys Star goes after as I can't' do everything. Now keep moving." Marco led the way with Ferguson and Janna not looking too sure about this.
As they got closer everything seemed to go quiet with even the insects and other animal being gone from the area. The trio rounded a corner to find a scene like something out of a science fiction/fantasy horror story. A thick cloud of greenish black vapor had condensed in the air above the school spreading slowly putting the whole scene into an early and eerie twilight. Strange black and green vines lay all over the place growing over the sides of lockers, into classrooms, and formed a strange rubbery carpet over the floor of the school. Strange heart shaped leaves were growing on some of those vines and tinkled in the wind like wind chimes with a delicate hollow clink like crystal. A thin greenish black fog lay in the school blurring vision slightly and smelling… what could only be described as a strange sweet-minty flavor that relaxed the smeller and made them drowsy. Marco shook his head looking into the fog and said,
"I'm not leaving Star or anyone else behind." And began walking into the fog pushing aside vines that got in his way. Janna and Ferguson followed grimly but were begening to show signs of fear.
After pushing through the mist for a little ways Marco found a curtain of vines that he recognized blocked off the hallway where he left Star to begin with. Peeking through cautiously he saw where the closet door had been pushed out of its hinges and thrown across the hallway denting the lockers. He shuddered because he knew Star was strong, she could bench-press nearly 350 pounds due to her Septarian genetics, but she was not THAT strong. He looked even further across the hallway to see a strange corral-cage-net combo holding what seemed to be a large group of boys huddling in fear. Marco withdrew from the curtain and turned back to his friends whispering.
"Ok, I see the boys out there and Star is gone. You two will sneak out and free the boys trapped in a strange mesh net of sorts Star has. I will wait to pop out and distract her should she come back, but once I do so run as I don't know how long I will be able to hold her." The two gulped and nodded in worry as Marco led them out through the net and down the hallway nearing where the corral was. As they got close they heard a strange buzzing and crackling sound that seemed like wings flapping and got into cover. Fortunately the number of vines meant that they could just pull some over themselves and watch as something came to a rest in front of the corral.
They could see some features of Star in there but they were muted and covered by what she had turned into. Her skin was no longer a shade of concrete grey but was a deep black with greenish stripes and swirls running through it almost making her blend into the mist. Her once silver hair was now a cool glowing green done up in ordinary pigtails but seemed to bend and wave with a life of their own like tentacles framing an emotionless face. Her eyes were now a solid shade of blood red with a heart shaped pupil in the center and seemed to hypnotize the trio as they watched her with her Mewni marks still recognizable. Even her clothes had changed to a more formal version of the Victorian gothic Lolita except it seemed to be adjusted for combat. The biggest change however were her wings, on her right side were two black dragonfly wings with a green bat wing between them and on the left were two black bat wings with a green dragonfly wing between them. Her arms seemed normal except for the fact that there were now six of them holding a large web sack of boys that she now opened. She began picking up the boys like toys going through them sniffing them and usually tossed them aside but occasionally smiled slightly and threw them into the corral before continuing.
Marco inhaled and exhaled before stepping out of hiding and walking towards Star with deliberate steps. The boys in both nets noticed Marco and beckoned him to go away with whispers of "save yourself" scattered among them. Star didn't even seem to notice Marco as she continued to go through boys like fruit at a super market even as he stood next to her and began speaking.
"Star, you need to stop this. I don't know what is going on in your mind right now but you have to at least listen to me." When she didn't notice he spoke again. "It's me Marco Star; your bestie. Don't you recognize me?" She still didn't respond frustrating Marco a little. "Notice me will you, I'm here to help." He grabbed one of her arms making her stop and stare at him with her red eyes dropping her net of boys making them scatter. "Star listen to me, I can help you. You just have to listen to me and trust me."
Star cocked her head to the side as if trying to make sense of things and knocked him into a wall with considerable force. Before Marco could respond Star opened all six of her hands and blasted a strange thread like substance out of her palms gluing him to the wall. Marco struggled but not to break free, he wouldn't be able to do that quickly, just to distract Star as his friends had rushed out to free the boys in the corral with them running away quietly. Star stepped up staring at him for a second as if confused and then ripped him off the wall sniffing him like she did the other boys, gagging like she had smelled something awful. She was about to toss him aside but paused and stared at him for several long seconds before leaning in to smell him again. After gagging again she pulled off his hoodie and threw it aside with some people behind her snickering with Marco's face going deadpan for a second. Star pulled Marco in sniffing him again and froze as if trying to process something important and looked him straight in the face.
"Marco?" Its voice was like Star's but dreamy and creepy at the same time, but what it said got the attention of everyone that was left behind her.
"Yes it's me Star, Marco. I've come back to help you; I'm never going to leave you behind." The creature blinked as if recognizing Marco's words and leaned in smelling him again.
It then gave out a moan full of pleasure muttering "Marco" in a dreamy voice and began inhaling his scent in deeply like it was a drug. Its six arms began rubbing Marco all over his body slipping through the thread bonds with ease without severing them. Marco began to get nervous as the rubbing and smelling grew more intense by the second and tried speaking again.
"Star what are you doing? You are making me feel uncom-" Star then set two of her hands to his butt and gripped the two cheeks forcefully making him squeal out the last bit. "-fortable!" Everyone behind Star began backing away with Ferguson actually speaking.
"Oh man this is big and bad, I can't watch!" He shielded his eyes with the boys that were left doing the same thing. Janna on the other hand,
"I can't… look away." Janna spoke in shock as she was hypnotized by the erotic display of Star and Marco.
Marco remained still, frozen in fear as Star was borderline molesting him inhaling his scent ever deeper like she wished to infuse it into herself. After a while she stopped pulling back staring at him with half lidded eyes like she was coming off of a high, or starting on one. As she did so her hair moved towards him slowly caressing his face sending shivers down his spine of both disgust and excitement. And that was when Marco realized, he was the boy she was looking for the whole time. 'But she doesn't like me that way, why would she…' Then Marco remembered, it didn't need to be someone she was romantically interested in just someone who would take care of her; and he had been doing that for Star every day since she first came to earth. Then her look got predatory and she wrapped Marco up in some more thread and began flying up holding Marco bridal style as she got up to the rooftops. She landed on the rooftop and just stared up at the sky as if relishing the moment vibrating her wings with Marco thinking a mile a second. Realizing this may be his last chance to get free he twisted and leaned backwards kicking Star in the face with his feet landing on his belly in a worm position. Star shook her head and stared at him with a hurt expression as he wriggled the thread off of himself surprisingly quickly. 'Wow this thread is weak.' Marco thought, 'It can slow me down for a few seconds but can't really hold unless if there is a lot of it.' He then faced Star and spoke,
"I'm sorry Star, but I can't just let you take me and stay in this form. I want the real Star back." He then took a fighting stance and faced Star down intimidatingly. She just blinked hurt and confused muttering,
"Marco." Then her face got predatory again like she was about to play a game. "Maaaaarco." She looked him up and down licking her lips as she shot more thread at him.
Marco cartwheeled away from the threads and backed away knowing he couldn't beat Star hand to hand even in her normal state let alone this state. He looked at his watch seeing 3:40; he didn't need to keep her at bay for long just long enough. He turned and ran to edge of the roof keeping low to avoid thread shots and leapt off of it to a dumpster down below. He didn't aim for the garbage though and instead used the balls of his feet, the area just behind the toes, to springboard off the rim ducking and rolling to burn off excess energy as he started running. He glanced back only briefly to see Star leap off the roof flapping her wings and soaring in his direction covering the distance between them fast. Marco then changed direction and ran directly for a wall with Star chuckling behind him taking aim with her arms as she got in close. She would have trapped him were it not for the fact that Marco knew how to free-run. He leapt up using the wall as leverage and his running momentum to carry him up a short distance as he leapt off right at Star who, as he had hoped, kept going forward but was too confused to grab him. He grabbed her shoulders with his hands and somersaulted right over her back driving Star directly into the wall with a solid thud. He landed and hit the ground running right back to where the others had been as Star had left him something that he could actually use to his advantage, he hoped.
Star shook herself off looking around with a cold predator's precision trying to find where her mate had run off to. As strange as it may sound, this creature was caught off guard and saddened but accepted that it had to catch and subdue its mate to prove her worth. She had Marco's scent so there was nowhere he could hide and after sniffing around for a few minutes it realized he had gone right back to where she had first found him. Smiling carnivorously she followed him back to her corral for the "lesser" males she had been going through and found him in the corral with the others gone. She swooped down expecting him to run but not running, allowing her to unleash her thread from all arms. Smiling she moved in close only to realize the thread already there had blocked her shots.
Marco then leapt out throwing some of the webbing in her face confusing her for just long enough so he could get a good kick in. He had a feeling Star could still heal if she put effort into it so he struck with a downward kick to one of her arms in an attempt to break it and was rewarded with it coming completely off. He stood there in shock as Star wiped the thread off and looked at the stump the arm on her left side. It smiled at him in an impressed manner and actually giggled in glee as she struck at him with the arms on her right side knocking him 20 feet into a locker knocking the wind out of him. Marco immediately ducked and rolled despite the pain that shot through his body dodging five shots of thread directed at him. He got up as the creature leapt at him in an attempt to bear hug him so he leapt a full four feet in the air and landed a solid kick directly into her right eye with himself wincing at what he did to Star.
The creature screamed in pain sounding oddly like a raptor from Jurassic park and rolled on the ground in pain for a second before taking to the air flying high up. Marco caught his breath waiting for it to make its move and was shocked when he saw it slam straight into the ground making a crater. He went over to the edge and looked in to see the creature was really ragged looking now with bits that looked like… the normal Star! As he gaped he saw Star's face and saw the eye he had kicked in was back to normal but the skin around it was slowly changing back into the creature. Star had tears coming from her eyes as she yelled out to him pleading,
"Marco… HELP MEEEE!" She reached up and pulled out one of her pigtails making her scream out like a raptor again.
Marco realized what he had to do, and was gonna hate himself for doing it. Taking a steadying breath he charged forward and started by ripping the other pigtail out eliciting another screech. The bat wing on her right side immediately began ripping up the dragonfly wings with one of her hands trying to stop it. Marco immediately cut down on the hand stopping the wing with a karate chop not severing it but still breaking it. One of the other two hands tried grabbing onto him but the other free hand grabbed onto that hand trying to pull it off Marco. Marco twisted and turned pulling the arm and Star around in a circle slamming her to the ground and somehow pulling off the whole arm which dissolved into the mini hearts. He then looked down in triumph only to realize the broken arm had healed and the detached one was already regrowing.
"Don't worry Star, I'm not giving up." He turned her over and, closing his eyes trembling all over, punched her in the left eye directly.
An ear splitting scream emanated from Star as he felt something shatter and then squish making him sick to his stomach. He was suddenly grabbed onto by two of Star's arms and the two bat wings immediately impaled the arm he used to punch Star. Screaming in pain Marco was grabbed and thrown to the side with a solid thud that echoed through his body. As he tried to get up Star flailed a bit slicing him up with her claws and bat wings forcing him back to the ground. He looked up to see Star scramble away from him as best as possible knowing she would heal up from this and that he would be unable to defend himself now. But his despair was interrupted when a bolt of energy flew through the air striking Star making her stagger. Marco blinked looking around painfully to see Janna standing there with a grime look on her face and some sort of magic staff in her hands. It was about 4 feet long and made out of pitch black wood with glowing pink carvings of ravens and pentagrams all over it and a hot pink crystal the shape of a shrunken head with whitish pink flames dancing around it at the end. Janna looked at Star sighing heavily,
"I'm sorry girlfriend, but this is for your own good. Azerath Meteron Zinthos!" Janna pointed the staff at Star sending a pink-streaked black raven flying at Star. Star just looked at in surprise as it hit her head sending her flying a good thirty feet impacting the ground heavily. Marco looked at Janna in shock speaking slowly,
"What is…" Janna answered him quickly.
"Star seemed to have lost her wand in the transformation so I picked it up for safe keeping." She then smiled slightly. "Look how cool it is when configured to me man." Marco groaned as he sat up with Janna realizing the beating he just got. "Oh God man, here let me…" but before she got any further a beeping sounded from their watches making them look down. 3:57 pm.
Marco immediately got up ignoring the pain and ran towards Star's position followed by Janna closely who held the staff at the ready. They got to the edge of Star's blast area to see that her features had indeed changed back to normal with a few features still melting off into a pile of not so sticky hearts now. Star seemed to be sobbing but when she looked up her tear streaked face was smiling at Marco relived.
"The voices are gone Marco, I can be a good girl again!" Marco limped over and hugged Star who hugged him gently as if apologizing. They sat there for what felt like an eternity happy that this was over when the felt a buzzing on Star's back. A wave of panic shot through them as they broke apart looking at Star's back which seemed to have sprouted three inch long replica wings that Star had in her transformed state. "I got my Mewberty wings, something good did come out of this." Star pumped her fist in victory as Janna spoke up.
"Say, do you want your wand back?" Janna held out the wand with Star eagerly taking it back turning it back to normal. "Say how is it that the wand was able to configure to me in the first place; I'm not a Butterfly or a Mewman?" Star chuckled slightly before answering.
"The wand will change for just about anyone actually, my dad even used it once to give my mom a healing spell when she was hurt. However if you're not a Butterfly and your intentions are not "pure" it can drive you mad with power." Marco looked at Janna nervously as Janna smiled with Star catching on. "And no, I'm putting a spell on it to keep you from stealing it in the future." Janna sighed in annoyance as Star looked around the area. "I'm gonna face a lot of fallout from this aren't I?" Marco sighed and nodded,
"Don't worry about that right now, can you heal me as I'm in a lot of pain right now."
To KairaB, your request for a MoonxToffee wedding is available under the title "The Full Moon Wedding". I hope I did a good enough job. ;)
And to answer the question I know I'm going to get, in canon it is possible for the wand to configure to everyone I did not actually change that. Lobster Claws was able to make it change for himself after all.
Just to let everyone know I don't actually hate ANY episode from Star vs the Forces of Evil, and this one isn't even on the bottom of the list of those I dislike. Sorry if I sounded too harsh earlier. *I hate being mean-spirited*
Wow, two dramatic chapters in a row that takes a lot out of you. I wonder what the pixies of "Pixtopia" have in store for a lighter hearted chapter.