Do you want to know the scariest thing to happen to me as an author, people praising this episode so much that I was getting nervous that I would not end on a high note. I altered bits and pieces for the LONGEST time hoping for it to be perfect until I realized I might be making things worse leading to... well you get the picture. Now I'm posting it before I get even more paranoid about this. Anyways, this is what I have now and I am proud of it.
Before reading, I recommend you watch this for a better concept of what is going on in parts of this chapter. And if you don't want to, I recommend watching it regardless because it is just awesome. Just to be clear, I don't own this.
Woodkid - Run Boy Run (Official HD Video) ( watch?v=lmc21V-zBq0)
"After all that my parents got a therapist to see if they could help me in any way which he did a really good job of it. He claimed he was effective because I was so young and my mind could still be healed easily. I went into a stable state after that; in fact that incident at the football game was the only one in over three years aside from when I and Tom broke up."
Star breathed in the medication blowing some smoke out feeling spent after recounting those memories and a string of lesser ones that seemed to become one in her mind. She looked up at the ceiling feeling a strange artificial peace brought on by the medication that made her feel clear headed.
"Say Marco, why would all this stuff suddenly come up at me again after all these years. I mean wouldn't it make sense if say it occurred after the breakdown at Brittany's party?" She waited for Marco to speak but heard nothing. "You have any thoughts on…" She turned to look at Marco but stopped at the sight of Marco.
He had long since dropped his book and notepad and was just staring at Star with a look of sad horror on his face as he absorbed her words. Tears were flowing down freely from both eyes though not a sound came from his mouth as he just let the words and thoughts flow through him. Star blinked in concern sitting up as Marco leapt across the distance between them and started crying holding onto her tightly with Star, strangely enough, having to comfort him as he began blubbering.
"I'm sorry Star, I know this is unprofessional but NO ONE deserves what you had to go through!" Star comforted Marco feeling lighter and more relaxed knowing that Marco was here for her and the mere thought of Star once being in pain upset him so greatly. "I swore at the ball I would never let anything hurt my bestie again, that's what I'm going to do. *Sob* no matter what." Star smiled with a tear running down her face as she held him close feeling his warmth and snuggling in closer to him. After a few minutes of this Marco finally broke off the hug and sat back down in his chair trying to compose himself. "Well… *ahem* I can't directly figure out why the memories would all strike at you all at once causing you to have nightmares and spell in your sleep. That's a real mystery. If only I could look directly into your dream; that may provide more answers." As Marco spoke they heard a whine from the jungle cat who was pushing up Star's spell book turned to a certain spell.
They both looked down to see a spell known as "Dream Gleaning". They read the outline of the spell and it seemed to indicate that a person could use it to take a look into a person's mind while they are asleep and view their dreams. They could also use it on themselves allowing another person to take a look into their dreams. There was even a stanza saying that if done correctly, a person might even be able to influence the dream. They both looked up at each other with Star speaking the thought on both their minds.
"That is one smart kitty right there." The cat looked very proud of itself as it washed its face and head. "Alright Marco, I think the plan is I'm going to go back to sleep, hopefully, and you will watch to see if you can get any ideas of what is causing it through the dream. Is that a good plan?" Marco smiled and nodded.
"Honestly there is no real plan right now, but that is the best idea we have without contacting your parents. Let's see if we can set it up. Oh and Star, if it looks to be going to badly I'll wake you up immediately, got that?" Star nodded smiling as she was not feeling up to going back into the nightmare but knew their options were limited.
After a few minutes of setting it up Star used the spell on herself allowing a strange silver mirror to emerge above her head. While she did that Marco got her some warm milk to help her fall asleep, which she drank with a surprised eagerness. She looked up at him with a milk mustache smile and spoke to him.
"I never knew milk could be this good, can I have some more?" Marco smiled and chuckled as he got her some more.
When he got back Star was nearly asleep at that point so he put the milk on the counter and watched her as she fell asleep. Marco smiled and looked to see the jungle cat was lapping at the warm milk making him feel relaxed until it looked up and growled at seemingly nothing. It was then he realized that something was up as the shadows in the room seemed to be deeper then they should have been. As Marco stood up and looked around the shadows coalesced and formed into three figures that took the shape of knights in full plate armor colored a strange grey glass like color. Marco got into a fighting stance facing off against them but stopped when he saw them get on knees and bowed to him planting swords into the floor with one of them speaking in a hollow echoing voice.
"Do not fret guide and guardian; we are not your enemy." Marco blinked in confusion looking around not moving from his fighting stance as he spoke to them.
"Ummm, who and what exactly are you guys?" The three looked at him, at least he assumed so given how their helmets turned, and a different one began speaking.
"We are strictly speaking shadow entities; once we were minions of a group known as the Shadow Clause which controlled Mewni in an Iron grip with the Queens as nothing more than puppets. Created by the entity known as Sylvania to spy on the people of Mewni and act as a knife in the dark if need be. That is until Queen Moon defeated Sylvania in The War of Moonlight Shadow destroying her for good and freed what remained of us. While most of what remained fled from the Queen, some becoming her enemies, we three pledged our services to Queen Moon the Undaunted in gratitude for her freeing us. We are Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod; the shadow knights of Queen Moon." Marco blinked and fell out of his fighting stance.
"So wait, you guys serve Queen Moon?" They all nodded as Marco let the thought roll in his head for a minute. "So then why are you guys here?" Marco thought the third one responded to him but he could not tell the difference between them.
"We were instructed by Our Liege to hunt down rouge shadows that threaten the Kingdom of Mewni and our trail of a particular pair of shadows has led us here. We overheard the conversation you and the princess had and we believe that it may be influencing her dreams; for what purpose we do not know." As they spoke the mirror fluctuated to life with all five individuals looking at the mirror.
Star blinked looking around in confusion at the grey tinted land all around her trying to figure out where she was. She saw trees, boulders, and small fields of grass all around her in various shades of grey like a Vampyre had sucked out all the color for some reason. Star made a 360 and her eyes landed on a large white building that had a clock tower in it looking somewhat like a mix between a cathedral and a palace that looked familiar. As she looked at it for a little while she heard a strange *dong* noise that made her fully recognize it and she began backing away from it in fear and panic whispering to herself.
"No… no. Please no... not this... why now?" The dong noise happened again with Star looking around in terror and shaking in fear before turning and leaping on all fours running as fast as she could. To her horror, a voice started to sing.
"Run girl run; this world is not made for you! Run girl run; they're trying to catch you!"
Star looked around seeing the woods go by quickly as she moved as fast as she could, knowing all too well it would not be enough.
"Run girl run; running is a victory! Run girl run; beauty lays behind the hills!"
Star looked up to see a skeleton like figure made of blackened bone playing some sort of xylophone that was made out of bones and sounded like skeletal hands clapping. Shivering in fear Star kept on pushing as fast as she could trying desperately to get away as figures began emerging from around her pursuing her.
"Run girl run; the sun will be guiding you! Run girl run; they're dying to stop you!"
Strange shadowy creatures with bright red eyes nagged at her sides easily keeping pace with her like they were toying with her; which they were.
"Run girl run; this race is a prophecy! Run girl run; break out from society!"
One of the shadows slipped under her tripping her so she fell on her face with another hitting her side making her flip onto her back. Star stared up in horror as figures that were all too familiar emerged around her with the most prominent being an old man wearing peasant's garb holding a pitchfork with a look of disgust on his eyes.
"No… please… I didn't do anything to you." The man spat in disgust as the other figures laughed and cackled at her.
"Claims she did nothing has she."
"Did no wrong, gets no punishment."
"Begs and whines whenever we get to her."
"Like we are some evil creatures."
"But committed the greatest crime this girl has."
"A horrific atrocity."
"Yes yes, the greatest of them all." The man raised his pitchfork staring her in the eyes before speaking one word.
"Existing." And brought his pitchfork down to her eyes.
Marco saw Star running from the strange building and knew he had to wake her up as this was no longer needed and would only scare Star unnecessarily, but something stopped him. As if by instinct he got up and walked over to the comb, the comb he recognized but wasn't sure why, picked it up and began brushing her hair. The four other figures looked at each other in concern as the shadow Blinkin began speaking.
"What is that boy doing, what good is a comb going to…" But was silenced as the cat hissed at him and pointed with its tail at the mirror as they watched something happen.
As the pitch fork was about to make contact a grey mist like figure swept by shattering the red eyed man who led the mob against her when she was five. As that happened the music seemed to change tone.
Tomorrow is another day, and you won't have to hide away.
The figure took shape appearing to look like Marco except his colors were muted with grey tones with blazing green eyes.
You'll be a Queen, girl!
He reached down picking up Star and set her upright with Star standing shakily.
But for now it's time to run, it's time to run!
Marco then gestured with his hand as if signaling for more people to come. Star looked back to see more strange grey figures with blazing green eyes moving out of the woods towards Stars position attacking the figures whom Star recognized while taking shape themselves. She saw one take the shape of Moon who shattered the leader of the assassins in the canyon, Toffee took form and shattered Lord Rose and his daughters, Buff Frog took form and shattered her "knight" that tried to kill her, and many more. She saw Ponyhead, Kelly, Janna, Alfonzo, Ferguson, Oskar, Rico, Alexis, Tempest, Dennis, River, Bonibell, and many more emerge to fight the figures around her.
Run girl run, this ride is a journey to. Run girl run, the secret inside of you.
One of the figures threw Star her wand and gestured for her to run with them which Star began to do so.
Run girl run, this race is a prophecy. Run girl run, and disappear in the trees.
Several more figures surrounded her and began putting armor on her as the others fought off the shadowy figures trying to get at Star. As they finished Star began running on ahead of them smiling now in eagerness leaping on a rock and leaping upwards from it. As she leapt she saw she leapt far higher than she should have soaring more than 50 feet into the air looking down at the sea of figures that looked like it would overwhelm the figures on her side. She raised her wand and shot… something out of it that cleared out the evil shadows and was almost floating down now.
Tomorrow is another day, and you won't have to hide away,
She landed gracefully looking around to see a few evil figures whom she smacked out of the way.
You'll be a queen, girl! But for now it's time to run, it's time to run!
She raised her wand and waved it to rally the figures on her side and push forward.
Tomorrow is another day, and when the night fades away,
The figures followed closely behind Star with Marco and her parent's right beside her as they charged forward, Star nearly crying with joy as they pushed forward.
You'll be a queen, girl! But for now it's time to run, it's time to run!
Marco watched the performance in the dream with a shocked look on his face and looked down at the comb in his hand in shock.
"I… did that?" Marco blinked in shock looking at the shadow knights and cat with all of them shrugging in confusion.
"Yes, you did." All five of them looked up to see two black stains appear on the wall and detach themselves forming into strange blobs. "This is a rather interesting development to say the least." Marco blinked as he put clues together in his mind and came to a conclusion.
"Wait… did you do this to Star?" The things chuckled as they formed into some sort of 10 foot jelly like humanoids looking down on the five and the sleeping girl. If it weren't for the large room Star had they would have easily damaged the house.
"Of course we did, and what's more it was easy. Most people take weeks to break but your friend nearly broke after only a few days thanks to her past pain. A pity that you are helping to resolve it throwing the plans off balance, but when one door closes another opens." They moved forward with the shadow knights blocking them off speaking in unison.
"You will not even think of hurting the princess, let alone touch her!" The cat growled and joined them with Marco taking a fighting stance next to them. The shadows just laughed at them and one waved its fist in a wide swing sending them all flying across the room before speaking.
"What are you all going to do? In the day one of you knights would have defeated both of us alone but at night one of us can best all three of you. The cat does nothing but tickle my master's fancy for an exotic pet. And you boy, you are nothing; just a peasant guide for a princess." Marco looked up in confusion at what he had just said speaking back.
"You have master?" The shadows chuckled at Marco sending out a line of shadow to wrap around his leg lifting him off the ground swinging him casually in the air.
"Yes, Mavis Butterfly the true queen of Mewni. She told us to wait in hiding in order to avoid the shadow knights but brought us out to weaken Star. Once her mind was broken Mavis would have swooped in and took it without a fight. Of course you had to go and use your magical comb to break the spell we put over her so a change in plans is needed." It flung Marco to the side. "She is beating our spell and is probably even aware of what is going on around her at this point, but she is unable to wake until she is done leaving her in a vulnerable state. We'll just take the wand ourselfs and kill Star while she is in her vulnerable state and be done with it." One of them reached down to Star with Marco leaping back up going to cut at its hand but passed right through it like it was jelly.
Marco looked up in shock as the shadow knights charged forward trying to cut at to shadows with their swords and finding no purchase. Chuckling with amusement the shadows swatted them away like toys with one of them landing next to Marco. He knealt down beside it and spoke to it trying to get it up.
"Is there anything we can do to fight it?" It shook its head no as it stood up.
"Only a magic comparable to the Butterfly wand can really strike at it, and we can't get it from Star in this state. If there were a recognized knight of Mewni here us three could fuse with them and then we might stand a chance, but there are no knights here." The cat was thrown over their heads comedicly screeching in shock as the shadows seemed to be enjoying themselves. Marco then got an idea and stepped between the shadows and Star.
"I'm not recognized as a knight officially, but Toffee claimed my service to Star was worthy of knight hood alone. I am her best friend and neither of us would want it any differently in the long run; but since it is needed for this time if only for now, I. Am. Her. Knight." Marco faced down the shadows who laughed at him.
"What exactly are you going to do boy, a simple declaration won't…" They paused however as the shadow knights began coalescing around Marco forming a suit of silvery glass like full plate armor. "Then again maybe it will make a difference." It spoke in shock which turned into determination. "So the noble knight comes to save the fair princess from the evil spell cast upon her by a foul "witch" eh? Let's go all the way with this then. Can the noble knight slay the ferocious, mighty, and powerful fire breathing dragon?" The shadows stayed the same size but fused with each other taking the form of a stereotypical dragon with two wings and four legs with a long tail and neck, but was completely black with burning red eyes and smoke coming off of it all over.
A two handed great sword formed in Marco's hands that began spitting off blue fire from it making Marco step back in shock for a second. He shook his head to clear all doubts from it and was nuzzled by the jungle cat that gestured to its back. Marco smiled despite everything imagining how cool he would look and leapt onto the cat's back holding his sword aloft staring down the dragon. The dragon reared back and breathed blackish-red flames at Marco who held the sword in front of him with a blue shield forming blocking the flames. As the dragon reared back in confusion the cat charged and leapt at the dragon going for one of its legs which Marco sliced at. The dragon fell back going out of the house through the balcony landing hard on the front yard. Marco waved his sword in the air cheering as the cat roared in a challenge leaping down to the front yard to continue the fight.
The cut and fall seemed to have only made the dragon mad however as it reared back again and shot more flames at them in a more concentrated stream. Instead of blocking them they leapt out of the way with Marco waving his sword to almost taunt the dragon. Hissing in annoyance it charged at them swinging its tail around with the cat leaping over it and Marco leaping off of it and down to impale the tail with his sword into the ground. However the sword was so sharp that instead of pinning it he just cut off the end entirely making black blood spurt out with the dragon screaming in pain. It looked at Marco with real anger in its eyes now and swatted at him with its clawed paw forcing Marco to duck and roll out of the way. He then did a long thrust hitting the dragon's leg not doing much damage but forcing the dragon to back off a few steps as it tried circling him. Marco took the initiative and charged the dragon with the dragon smiling and swatting at him again almost playfully knocking Marco back a few steps. The dragon gave him no time to rest and shot some more flame at him with the cat knocking him out of the way just in time.
'Wow, how are we doing so well? I am not that skilled in this style.' Marco thought to himself and actually got an answer.
'Well you may not know all of the skills, but we can give them to you for a short period of time. Be warned, it will cost you once this is over.' Marco shook his head to clear it again after hearing one of the shadow knights literately speak in his head before replying.
'It doesn't matter; we all die at this point if we don't win.' Marco thought turning back to the dragon who looked at him in annoyance again as it reared back its head as if making to breathe fire.
Marco got ready to duck and roll but it was a bluff as it swung its shorter tail around again at Marco knocking him to the ground. It struck with one of its paws going to crush him but pulled back at the last second as it had to deal with something else. Marco stood back up looking to see the jungle cat had leapt onto the dragon's face and had scratched out one eye already. As it went for the other though the dragon swatted it off its face and grabbed it in its mouth crushing it and flinging it to the side with the magic it was made out of trickling out onto the ground. Growling in anger Marco charged forward and stabbed the dragon in the side close to where the heart was making the dragon roar in pain swatting Marco aside. Marco landed on his feet to watch the dragon try to pull the sword out of its body with Marco noticing that the sword burned the dragon when impaled. Smiling with an idea forming in his head, Marco charged forward and did a flying kick pushing the sword deeper into the dragon. Screaming in agony the dragon grabbed Marco in its mouth shaking him like a rag doll and attempting to crush him, however the armor held firm forcing the dragon to spit him out.
Marco got up shakily, bruised and battered, as the dragon gripped the sword hilt, burning itself in the process, and pulled it out throwing it to the side. It looked now at Marco with a strange mixture of desperation and fury as it blasted more fire at him… only to find the flames barely even got two feet with the dragon holding its side in pain. Marco faced it grimly and charged forward with the dragon attempting to grab him with a paw. As it did so though Marco ducked sliding low and slid underneath the dragon, punching it in its wound for good measure. The dragon staggered slightly as Marco reclaimed the sword and charged at the dragon again. This time however the dragon was ready; it leapt over the head of Marco in one direction and brought its tail up behind Marco smacking him off balance. Reacting Marco slashed his sword cutting off more tail but leaving himself open for the dragon to garb him. As it did so it also grabbed Marco's sword in its teeth, careful not to burn itself, and attempted to wrestle it from his grasp.
Holding on desperately Marco and the dragon played a strange game of tug a war with the sword until the dragon wrenched its head oddly and threw the sword into the sky. However, its grip weakened on Marco momentarily enough for Marco to use the momentum and fly free landing on Star's balcony. Screeching in triumph the dragon leapt up into the sky flapping its wings to gain altitude so it was looking down on Marco. As it made for a dive that was meant to finish Marco off however a voice rang out.
"Golden Lightning Bling!"
A string of magic shot out from Star's wand entrapping the dragon in gigantic golden chains with lightning zapping it heavily forcing it to fall out of the sky impacting the ground hard. As Marco stood back up he saw the sword was flying through the air again, this time in his direction with one of shadow knights pointing it out.
'The sword… is returning?' Marco looked up to see the sword was indeed flying back towards them like something had tossed it.
Running and leaping off of the balcony Marco reached for the sword and would have missed it if Star hadn't pushed some magic behind him to make him fly farther. Marco got to the sword only to have it hit him in the breastplate and nearly be lost due to the impact. Re-positioning it quickly Marco fell through the air as the dragon broke some of the chains to get free but saw that it was too late as its doom fell from above.
"Well… shit." The sword lanced down with Marco behind it impaling the dragon so far through the skull it came out the other side.
Screaming in agony the dragon flailed around and stumbled trying to just make sense of what had just happened. However this was a fatal blow for almost any creature including this fused shadows which slowly sunk to the ground. It finally collapsed with a soft *wuff* of wind and Marco stood up on its head catching his breath and looking around. He looked around in concern to see his parents at the door way and Star up in the balcony, all of them looking at him in shock. Star leapt down from the balcony coming over to where Marco was with Marco stepping down from the dragon leaving the sword embedded in the skull as most of the dragon's body began dissolving into a black mist that was dispelled by the wind. Star grabbed him in a hug and began talking a mile a minute.
"Marco are you ok? Of course you're not, you just went head to head with that thing. I need to get you out of that armor so we can tend to…" Marco caught Star and held her back with Star taking a few deep breaths.
"Easy there Star, I'm alright." Star looked at Marco eye to eye and began crying.
"You keep on doing so many things for me Marco despite it being life threatening, why?" Marco didn't have an answer but one seemed to come naturally to him for some reason.
"For you Star, anything." *Throb* Star looked at Marco with a slow blush growing across her face as her heart did that thing like after the Blood Moon Ball once more. They stared at each other for a few seconds more until Janna and Starfan13 of all people stepped out of the bushes with Janna speaking.
"You're welcome with the sword by the way; man you would have been screwed without it." Marco and Star looked up to see Starfan13 recording the whole thing with her camera speaking quickly.
"OMG it is just like a fairy tale!" Star and Marco blushed again as Marco's parents began talking.
"How sweet, Marco becoming an all-out knight to rescue Star." Raphael spoke with his wife smiling and responding to him.
"Good thing I also recorded the fight, especially that end part." Marco and Star broke their hug blushing profusely with Marco speaking.
"Ok, you guys can separate from me now." The shadow knights detached themselves from Marco leaving him feeling battered and bruised and exhausted as well. "And I'm done." Marco fell forward to have Star catch him as he nearly passed out. The shadow knights formed bowing to Marco as everyone else looked on in shock at them, except Janna who stared at them eagerly.
"Sir Marco the shadow slayer, we thank you for your service." One of the knights spoke as they all came back to a standing position. "You had no training and nothing to lose by letting Star be taken yet you were willing to lay your life down for her. When the time comes if you choose to be a knight for good, know that we will pledge our swords to you once the shadows are dealt with. That is, if the queen will allow it." They then formed into formless shadows and sped off. Everyone watched them go with Marco turning to Star speaking softly.
"Please tell me the curse is gone from you." Star nodded with Marco sighing in relief. "*whew* Ok, can we go back inside so you can get some much needed sleep and I can go to bed and heal from the solid thrashing I just received? And also, what are you two doing at my house?" Janna and Starfan13 smiled with Starfan13 speaking.
"I sensed something was up with Star so I came by tonight to see if I could spy through the window to see if you needed help." Everyone gave her shocked stares. "What, is that not how you find out about your friends problems?" Everyone groaned as Janna interjected.
"I leave some things in your garden shed Marco, last place most people would look for my stuff you know." She smiled as Marco stared both of them down before speaking.
"Go home, both of you." They both shrugged going home as Star picked up Marco carrying him bridal style back into the house.
The next day after school was a Thursday which meant it was a free evening for both Star and Marco. Good thing too because in addition to all the scrapes and bruises Marco had also suffered from a few pulled muscles and sprained joints; he even had a few cracked ribs. Marco sat on the couch feeling content and looked to the side to see the now bobcat sized blue jungle cat curled up with the remaining three laser puppies that had sprung up from the original group Star had created. After the battle the puppies had gone to the remnants of the cat in curiosity and the cat had "absorbed" some of the puppies into it in order to stabilize itself. Marco was strangely fine with that though as he had always wanted a cat but simply couldn't have it because of allergies; and it was far better then the laser eyed puppies in his opinion. He was happy until he realized Star had not come down from her room yet, which was strange as she usually finished homework fast. Getting up, groaning slightly, Marco trudged up the stairs to Star's room knocking slightly. The door come open with a click revealing Star was on the balcony smoking another one of her medication cigars with a sad look on her face. Marco came up standing next to her with Star looking up at him with grey-green eyes and sighed slightly.
"You don't need to worry about the nightmares Marco, I got through the rest of last night without anything going wrong. But… with everything going on…" Star stared at the medication with a sad look on her face. "… all those memories have come flooding back in like a tidal wave. I... need this... for now." Star took another inhale of it as Marco put his arm around her shoulder holding her close before speaking.
"I know, I know. Honestly I'm surprised you aren't in worse shape considering all that you have been through. You are a lot stronger than you think you are." Star smiled at him with her eyes returning to their normal green shade. "How did you get through all the pain anyways, there had to be something that kept you going aside from the doctor." Star continued to smile looking out across the neighborhood speaking softly.
"My family is amazing Marco, as are the few friends I do have; but it's not them alone that drove me on. It's a memory of sorts, of a little kid who I met long ago wearing a red shirt and had a mark on their cheek. I remember them saying they would one day be as strong as I am and return to be my knight someday. I don't know why, I don't even know if it is a real memory, but that thought has kept me going that someday I'll meet them again. The child who wanted to be just like me when every other kidd looked at me like a zoo attraction." Her eyes had gone a purplish-green as they stared to the horizon with Marco smiling and responding.
"Say, do you want to just take the evening off and curl up under a blanket and watch tv with me while binge eating snacks?" Star looked at him smiling her eyes not changing the color that Marco honestly thought was her most beautiful eye color. "I'll get everything set up…" Star chuckled and punched his arm making Marco wince.
"Of course not, I'll do it. My "noble knight" needs his rest after all." They both chuckled as Star skipped out turning back to look at him. "But you will need to make nachos; I don't know how to make those." Marco chuckled as he followed Star far more slowly down the stairs thinking to himself, 'I hope this becomes a thing, I think Star really needs this.' and started walking wincing as a rib creaked slightly. 'As do I.'
I know what you all are thinking, was this just a cheap cop out? Well look at it this way; Mavis is an internet "troll" sending the shadows or "hate messages" to Star destabilizing her. One single bad comment will rarely bring anyone down, but a storm of thousands will bring down even the strongest. As for the comb in the dream and Marco the knight, that was him helping undo the source of the pain so Star could begin recovery as often the victim can't do it alone; plus the image of Marco wearing smokey glass full plate armor wielding a flaming blue sword on the blue jungle cat's back was just awesome.
Also note, Star is not fully fixed at the end of this episode; it's going to take a long road of medication and Marco comforting her before she gets over everything that has happened here.
Well, I sincerely hope I did this the right way. I need a break from the dark stuff, and a "Royal Pain" needs to be taken care of. ;)
Also, the next few episodes will be mostly lighthearted so I am leaving ideas open for one shots. If there is a oneshot you would like to see done I will attempt to do it; eventually. This story is my first priority right now. See you soon.