Well this episode isn't COMPLETELY original, it is based somewhat off of "The Banagic Incident".

To 'The Book of Eli': If you are still reading this at this point, thank you for viewing this fic so highly. I really wish I could respond to you but, you know, guest comments and all that.

Enjoy.

Marco got his karate uniform on making sure everything was in perfect place as he finished off with a headband. He looked at himself in the mirror striking a pose as he looked at his green belt with two stripes. Today that belt was going to be replaced by a red belt if he had anything to say about it leaving him one step away from a black belt. He smiled in pride and struck a fierce pose turning around and slamming his fist through three boards of wood at once with a shout. Pain traveled up his arm as the boards split but found his hand and arm were still undamaged aside from some reddened skin at the impact zone. He pumped his fist in victory and charged out of his room down the stairs passing by Stars room hearing music come from it. He paused for a second recognizing that music as that from the PC game Star had gotten attached to "Medieval 2: Total War". He smiled at that and continued moving calling out to Star as he left.

"I'm going to karate class, be back by this evening. Remember, Our parents are out of town getting supplies for my dad's sculptures." He heard Star's muffled reply from her room.

"Ok Marco, see you tonight."

Marco leapt out the front door getting onto his bike and peddling off quickly hoping to get there early for some mediation before the trials to calm his mind. 'Form and training is what gives your body power, but a clear mind is what directs that power.' Marco thought remembering Sensei's words of wisdom in his mind.

Star was in her underwear sitting in her room playing her game surrounded by snack food as she got another victory with the Scottish finally defeating the English for good in her highest difficulty Scottish campaign. Giving a muffled cheer of victory Star consolidated her holdings by repairing her new city and now turning her eyes east towards the Danish and Holy Roman Empire. They were in a slug fest right now with Poland offering jabs here and there leaving them both vulnerable to Star meddling in on them and taking both kingdoms for herself. As she ate a snack letting the turns precede she realized that there was something off about this snack. She was eating cereal, that was not unusual, but it tasted very good compared to what she normally ate. Looking down at it the cereal began looking familiar making her worried. 'Please don't let it be that of all…' She looked over seeing she had almost completely finished off Marco's box of Sugar Seeds cereal with it still bearing Marco's sticky note telling people to leave it alone.

"BY THE POPE NO!" Star almost dropped the cereal and marveled at her curse words. 'Huh, the game must be getting to me more than thought.' Star finished off the cereal in her bowl and quickly saved her game and rushed downstairs to see if there was any more to replace that box finding none. "Oh man, Marco's going to be so mad with me." Star set the cereal aside while rubbing her tail before pulling herself together. "No no, it's not the end of the world; all I need to do is buy a new box of cereal, shouldn't be too difficult right?" Star then remembered that she had no idea where to find the cereal. "Hmmm, maybe the 'Internet' can tell me where to find it." She went back upstairs to Marco's laptop to take a look.

She didn't have Marco's password but she was able to use her wand to open things up to the main screen. Sitting down she opened up the search browser, Marco had shown her how to use it and she had used it A LOT in the time she was here, and typed in 'Where to find Sugar seeds'. When a search brought up movie times for a movie known as "Sugar Seeds" Star smacked her forehead and added in 'cereal' to the search bar before searching again. She saw a bunch of random searches belonging to manufacturers and factories which Star went past before coming to a map to something known as a grocery store. Star recognized that as the place Angie and Raphael said they went to get food every week prompting Star to give a slight cheer. She would find this 'Grocery Store' and get some Sugar Seeds and get back before Marco returned from his Karate class.

"But first I might want to get some clothes on." Star shivered slightly as she realized she was somewhat cold and ran back to her room to get dressed.

Marco pulled up to the front of the dojo parking his bike and locking it in stepping off and just stood there a second feeling confident about himself. He had progressed excellently along in his training thanks to his frequent bouts with the Forest Barbarians prompting jealousy from Jeremy. 'Well today I'm gonna be just one step below him. Beware Jeremy, Marco is coming.' Marco smiled stepping into the dojo to see several people of various levels doing random warm up exercises in anticipation of today's trial. Sensei had a strange sense of what it meant to 'level up' at times and threw random challenges and tests, or what he called trials, to see just how ready the kids were to advance. Sometimes kids would pass them and not get an advancement but Marco knew that if he succeeded Sensei would advance him; Sensei had actually told him at the end of the last class.

Marco got into one corner of the dojo and got into a meditative stance breathing in and out slowly taking his breaths in deeply. He didn't try to repress all the thoughts swirling along in his mind and instead just let them flow trying to let them all go. He also didn't try to disconnect himself from what he felt around him physically, that was impossible, and instead became one with every feeling. Every itch and warm blast of air against him was just left as is with Marco accepting it and letting the feelings sink in. He kept this up for several minutes feeling the world around him remain there but at the same time become distant, like it had grown beneath him for a time. His thoughts continued to swirl and fade away one by one leaving him with a single purpose, to improve his art and get his black belt so he might protect Sta…

'Wait, that wasn't why I started.' Marco thought to himself with, strangely enough, something in his mind answering back. 'It does not matter why you started, only why you continue.' Marco shivered a little at the voice and continued with his meditation. He felt his mind become clearer and the thoughts all disappear with the physical sensations becoming obsolete. However the feeling of perseverance to protect Star was still there as if it had been there the whole time ever since he started Ballet to get strong. He let the thought flow through him and let it settle as he brought himself out of his meditative state upon hearing Sensei speak from somewhere.

"Alright people, it is time for the trial." Marco got up and went over to where Sensei was with the other kids gathering around. He noticed much to his annoyance Jeremy was there and looking eager, which never went well for anyone; not even Jeremy half the time. "Today we will be focusing on channeling our emotions to overcome any challenge. Using the power of heart, as cliché and stupid as it may sound, is a very potent weapon that can be used to make one overcome anything; even to the point of feeling no pain." People shuddered at the tone Sensei was using with Marco facing forward with grim determination as Sensei stopped by him. "DIAZ! What is your emotion?" Marco answered back with quick confidence.

"Determination with some slight hunger." Everyone giggled at that with Sensei shrugging slightly while glaring at everyone until the quieted down before speaking again.

"Marco, to use you as an example, you will channel your determination and hunger into overcoming physical pain of any kind. Including the breath… OF FIRE!" He pulled aside a mat on the floor to reveal an 8 foot long walkway covered with burning coals making everyone gasp.

"Wait… what?" Marco asked in a worried voice as Jeremy chuckled at him.

"I wish I knew how to use the 'printer' so I would have a confirmed map." Star looked at the magical drawing she made of the location the "Grocery Store" was supposed to be located.

All the streets were really confusing given how the street name signs were not positioned so one could tell the street they were walking on easily. Not to mention the constant stream of cars going by made it difficult for her to focus on where she was going as the their roar made her defensive. At one point she was taken so far off guard she actually hissed at one of the cars passing by much to her embarrassment. Not helping the situation was the fact that many of the people she passed by were looking at her oddly; not disgusted like some people on Mewni would do, just oddly. But not being used to crowds the stares made her feel exposed and vulnerable to the world around her. She shivered slightly despite the warm day and moved faster trying desperately to find Main Street so she could get her bearings.

"Hey girl, you lost?" Star jumped at the voice and turned to see three tough looking boys coming up to her. "You passed by this area just five minutes ago so we were thinking of giving you a hand." Star felt worried just looking at the boys but then remembered how she probably looked to them given how they probably have never seen a Monster before. She took a deep breath and spoke to them politely.

"Um yes, how do I get to the 'Grocery Store' so I can buy some cereal?" The guys chuckled at her making Star frown feeling some anxiety build up. "Look I'm kind of in a hurry so… not meaning to be rude but-" One of the boys cut her off.

"We get it, busy life and such. You must not be from around here?" Star nodded at that prompting him to continue. "Well Main street is that way and if you turn left you should find it three blocks down and four blocks over to the right. We would come to help guide you but we too have a busy schedule, right guys?" the other two boys nodded at him with Star doing a polite curtesy to them before speaking.

"Thank you very much." She then turned and headed towards Main street quickly with the guys chuckling behind her with Star catching a few words between them.

"She's a strange one ain't she?"

"What gave you that idea? Her dress, the way she speaks, the fact she curtseyed, or the fact she's a humanoid lizard?"

"Eh, I found it kind of cute in a strange way."

"Of course you would find her cute; you find all girls cute."

Star hurried on both getting a little worked up by their words but at the same time amused by their words. They were people to just like her; she couldn't expect anything from them except for them to be themselves. At this point she began wishing she could have brought Marco around with her to give her a hand in moving around. She still hadn't been out on her own outside of the house despite being on earth for a very long time. She took a steadying breath remembering why she was out here and pushed forward finding Main Street easily then stopped cold. 'Ok, which way is right and left again?' Star thought to herself looking back and forth. She knew that she should know which was which but on Mewni they used different terms for directions given where you were facing so she was blanking on the earth terms due to pressure. She shook her head and went a direction moving along quickly intent on getting to the grocery store and getting some Sugar Seeds for Marco.

After a little ways she finally made to where she had to turn again and turned the opposite way she had turned from the previous section. She didn't remember much but she knew left and right were opposite directions at least. Moving along the road she came across a girl walking around 12 dogs who were sniffing around in a bored manner. Star moved to get across the street but too late the dogs spotted her and, more importantly, her tail which was waving slightly. The dogs immediately began yapping and tried pulling their walker towards Star with a fierce determination. This prompted Star to forgo any sense of decency and leapt onto four legs running fast to keep away from the dogs. She liked dogs for the most part but when they saw her tail the first thing most dogs did was try to bite at her tail like it was a game; which she did not need right now. People looked on in confusion as the lizard girl ran down the street on all fours with a dozen dogs, having broken away from their walker, either keeping pace or even slowly catching up with her.

"Mommy, why doesn't the girl want to play with the doggies?" Star ran past a mother and young son who watched Star in shock as she ran with her yelling back at them.

"Because the doggies play too rough for me!" Star leapt forward pushing her limits in speed.

She knew she could beat off the dogs easily with her wand if not her physical abilities but she didn't want to hurt them. Despite all this she made ground to the Grocery Store quickly and found the area to look different then what she was expecting. Looking around she saw a river flowing nearby with a small thing that looked like a restaurant where the store should have been. The yipping of the dogs behind her convinced her she needed to look inside just to see if it was the Grocery Store just in case. Closing the door behind her Star saw she appeared to be in some sort of pub or restaurant, she couldn't tell which was which, that seemed to be a den for pirates. She saw people wearing pirate outfits doing jobs around the store with one coming up to her and speaking in a bored voice.

"Ahoy maty, welcome to the Scallywag barnacle." Star blinked trying to figure out where she actually was while responding as best she could to the pirate.

"Hello… are you guys pirates?" The pirate nodded and responded in his bored voice again.

"Aye, that we are. Come with me and I'll show you to Davy John's fish locker." He turned becoming for Star to come with him with Star going out of reflex. She looked around trying to gauge the atmosphere and getting results she was not familiar with putting her on edge. "Please be seated and we will be with you shortly." The pirate gestured to a table that could likely sit two people with Star sitting down. 'Ok, what exactly is this place?' Star thought to herself looking around in worry. The more she looked around the more she began getting the impression that this was just a themed restaurant, but then again many a places that held pirates gave off inviting atmospheres. As a different pirate came up to her she decided to play along for now and if it did hold actual pirates… well they would get a taste of Butterfly magic.

"Me girl, I saw you did not have a menu so I acquired one for ye. Now, wish to parous our drinks quickly so we may get started?" Star blinked in shock opening up her… 'This is a menu?' Star thought to herself. 'Maybe this was just… no no got to keep a low profile. But what about Marco's Sugar Seeds?' Star shook her head trying to clear it making the pirate blink in confusion. She looked up smiling and answered him.

"I'll have this 'Root Beer' of yours." Star picked one item at random with the pirate walking off and Star thinking to herself some more. 'Maybe I could just sneak out. Yeah, try an invisibility spell.' She held up her wand and whispered to herself. "Magnificus invisirificus" A low light encased her for a second and then blinked out making some people look in her direction in confusion with murmurs going around. 'I think I did it, now to get out of here.' Star got up from the table taking a quick look at herself to confirm she was invisible, which she was, and started towards the door.

She stayed close to the wall avoiding contact with people as she moved towards the door hoping the spell didn't wear off too quickly. 'If this is just a restaurant I'm being extremely rude, but if not I'm home free now.' Star thought to herself giddily as she made it to the door. Opening it she peaked out to see much to her chagrin the dogs waiting right outside for Star to return. Before she could close it however one of the dogs smelled Star and pushed his head in to try and find out where she was. As it did so the first pirate saw the dog and seemed to groan going to shoo it off opening the door in the process. As he did so strong light filtered in giving Star a faint shadow that the pirate didn't see, but the dogs did. The dogs charged into the restaurant with Star dodging out of the way leaving the dogs to run over everything in their path.

Several customers leapt up to pet the dogs but these dogs were on the hunt for Star and just bowled over everyone in their path. Tables were knocked down, food and drinks were spilt, people were trampled, and pirates just stared in shock at the surprise reign of carnage that was going on. Star figured now was a good time to get out and opened the door to leave only for the person walking the dogs to run right into her. They both fell down with Star's spell becoming undone revealing her to the whole store and the dogs with everyone looking right at her. Star immediately leapt up and held her wand at the ready yelling out at everyone.

"Ok, if this is an actual pirates den, hit me with your best shot." Star backed to the door with everyone looking at each other in confusion making Star come to a definite conclusion. "So this is just a restaurant." The dogs immediately went for Star en masse with Star panicking and reacting in the process triggering a spell. "Mighty slappy doll!" Star shot out something that slapped the dogs aside and began running through the store causing even more damage until Star called it back. As she did so she saw that the "Grocery Store" was in fact just down the road about six blocks, seeing it thanks to the hill she was on. Star smiled and turned back to see some angry pirates and the dogs who were trying to get back up ready to go for her again. "I'll just be leaving now." Star squeaked out and turned running like hell was behind her.

"Get back here girl, ye be paying for the damages!" This was yelled out by a female pirate with the other pirates just yelling out as they chased her. The baying of the dogs filled her ears as well as Star ran from both groups trying to get to the store yelling out in frustration.

"HOW HARD IS IT TO GET A STUPID BOX OF CEREAL!" As Star ran she forgot where she was going for a second and accidentally ran into a woman pushing a grocery cart. This caused Star to fall into the cart propelling it at a really fast pace with the woman yelling out after Star.

"My baby's in that cart!" Star blinked in shock and looked down to see a baby with a binkie sitting right in front of her looking up in confusion. Star looked forward again to see cars rushing by up ahead at one of the intersections prompting her to scream.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH…"