I know this is really late in the story to be starting this, but I am going back to doing music in my work like I did in "A Tale of Moon and Monsters". When you see the youtube link and video/music name go to it and start the music. When you see the words (end music) stop the music and continue reading. Now this is completely optional but I find music helps to build atmosphere for the situation so I recommend listening to it.
Oh, and one more thing; if you like it tell me and I will see if I can incorporate music into earlier chapters; I actually have some pieces in mind for some scenes.
Along the dormitory hallway princesses were poking tin cups out of small windows on their doors and smacking them on anything they could reach. As they did so they chanted 'It's not criminal to be an individual' over and over again, with very few if any of the princesses sitting out of the protest. A few guards were walking down the hallway in a patrol fashion not bothering to stop the protest as it seemed that they would not be able to really make an impact with their few numbers. The rest were out looking for the other rabble-rousers scouring the whole school as best they could. As the few patrolled through the hallway however one of them suddenly noticed one of their few numbers was missing and let the commander know about it.
"Um sir, Michael in missing." The commander looked around and blew a whistle to rally the guards seeing that two additional guards were missing as well and spoke in an exasperated fashion.
"*groan* Seriously, are they slacking off. Find the three and get them patrolling now." The group dispersed with the commander rubbing his face in annoyance. "Now is not the time to be taking a break with the way infiltrators are running amoke and…" He stopped speaking however when one of the guards robotic heads rolled in front of him. "…could be right under our very noses." He pulled his whistle out and blew it to rally the guards with fewer showing up then they did even a few seconds ago. "The rabble rousers are here, circle formation and…" He stopped again but this time it was because of a long iron candle stick impaling him through the chest making him short out and fall to the ground.
The others turned to where the candle stick had been thrown and saw Marco and Ponyhead staring them down with murder on their faces. As the remaining guards charged multiple princesses leapt at them from behind beating down several allowing Ponyhead and Marco to engage from the front. Marco tripped one guard with a low kick and locked the arm behind another shoving him into a door with enough force to detach the arm. Marco finished off the two with Ponyhead shooting out lasers to confuse four more guards before charging in and impaling three before the last one finally got his senses about him. As he turned and ran to warn of the uprising a pixie princess blasted out of her cell and shot the head clean off the running guard. Ponyhead smiled in satisfaction seeing the other guards had been wiped out and more princesses were breaking free giving them a sizable force. Marco stepped up beside her and spoke slightly winded.
"I would say let's get the crystal down but we need to find Star first. Do you have any idea where the Solitary conformant chamber is?" Ponyhead smiled and went to nod before her face fell.
"Uh… no not really no." Marco groaned in frustration as princesses began gathering around him with the four armed sheep girl speaking up.
"Who are you fiercesome princess?" Shouts of accompaniment filled the hall as Ponyhead answered them.
"This is Princess Turdina." Marco looked at Ponyhead in frustration before speaking to the princesses.
"Yes, my name is Marcia Turdina and my individuality will not be crushed; and neither should yours." The princesses cheered him on as Marco continued. "But before we break out my best friend, Star Butterfly, is in the solitary conformant chamber and I need to rescue here. Do any of you know where that is?" The princesses whispered amongst themselves clearly recognizing the name Star.
"The half-blooded princess."
"The rebel queen's daughter is here?"
"I wonder if I could get to see Queen Moon."
"Star is so lucky to have her as mother."
Marco groaned over the princesses' fangirlisim until one, a human like girl with purple hair looking to be about 8 years old stepped forward and spoke.
"Um, no one knows where the room is. It's a closely guarded secret from outsiders and princesses don't remember where it is after they come back." Marco sighed but stopped as the girl took out a slip of paper. "I could use a spell to find it but I have no magic to power it." Marco then glanced at the cloth bundle containing Star's wand and unwrapped it with Ponyhead speaking.
"Oh no, that is a bad idea; and that's coming from me." As Marco pulled out the wand he retorted to Ponyhead.
"We are running out of options here and Star may not have much time." He pulled the wand out of the cloth with nothing happening for a second.
Everyone looked on in confusion until a cold blast of wind hit everyone and an eerie light emanated from the wand with Marco shaking as he held it in place. After a few seconds however everything stopped and the wand now had a light grey haft about a foot long with two spiked turquoise circles on the main part of the wand. On the main area was an upward pointing spike like a dagger with two bat wings sprouting from it and a pink diamond crystal at the center of the two circles. Everyone gasped as they recognized what that was given its ability to transform and how Marco had pulled it out when it was said magic had to be used. He turned back to the girl and spoke.
"Hold up the spell so I can read it." She unraveled the paper and held it up with Marco reading it holding the wand in both hands. "Open up a pathway up for me, lead me to where I need to be! Discover where I must go, no matter how fierce the foe!" As Marco spoke the spell his cheeks gained glowing crescent moon marks on them with the wand gathering energy. As he held it forward a blast of power came from the wand taking form like that of a giant horned stag ready to run. Marco, with the moon marks fading, then read the next part of the spell and spoke, "Take me to Star Butterfly!" The stag nodded and started running with Marco following. As he did so he yelled back at the crowd watching him with open eyes. "Follow me fellow princesses!" The princesses gave cheer and rushed forward eager to help their savior should anyone stand in their way chanting "Turdina, Turdina, Turdina". At this Marco thought to himself 'I don't know whether I should laugh at the name Ponyhead gave me or get mad.' "Don't worry Star, we're coming."
"A princess must always maintain her composure and keep her voice soft." Star twitched in her chair as the slideshow continued with Heinous chuckling behind the safety glass.
"So what is this Gemini, the fastest any princess has been retempered?" Gemini nodded before replying.
"She should be completely remade in a few more minutes Head mistress; I dare say this is record that could change the way people…" Before he finished however there was a knock on the door to the observation room with one of the guards bursting in.
"Miss Heinous, the princesses have broken out of their rooms and are charging in this direction. They are being led by a magic wielding princess by the name of Marcia Turdina. We are trying to stop them but nothing is slowing them down and we are taking heavy casualties!" Miss Heinous was blank with shock before she responded in a calm manner.
"Call up the reserves, every single guard that can be called up will be called up. Guard this room, the main offices, and the Tremorfidian crystal at all costs. Call for reinforcements from the kingdoms who have princesses here and tell them their daughters are uprising and need to be brought into line." The guard nodded and ran off shutting the door behind him. "Bar the door Gemini, I will have no one interfering with this one in particular." Heinous looked down at Star who's skin was turning white, her cheek marks were disappearing, and her eyes were going a dull greyish-green.
Star was floating in a strange void that was both alien yet comforting for her seeing nothing yet she knew her eyes were wide open. She could float in this realm forever and it felt like nothing bad would happen to her; a dark void where she would be alright. All Star had to do was let go of everything, hold onto nothing and she would be free to float here forever. Smiling slightly she felt memories and times slip out of her grasp and into the void and looked down to see herself turning into what seemed to be a full blooded Mewman. Sighing in relif she just let herself be taken thinking 'I am not a burden anymore; I can help people instead of being a burden.' Her family, her friends, everyone who had been kind to her had sacrificed so much at times; it was time she sacrificed for them.
Sabaton Resist and Bite ( watch?v=u0HtxsWaP-o)
"No!" Star blinked slightly as a deep male voice rang out in the void. "You dare to give up now after all they have sacrificed for you." Star looked out speaking softly in a princess fashion.
"I am doing this for the good of many, let myself be bound to others might live happily." The voice chuckled as it spoke to her.
"Living is hard and people will lose much standing up for you at times; do you think they want you to give in like this." As Star watched a very tall and very muscular figure emerged from the void with a flowing blond beard, receding hairline, and icy blue eyes staring at Star deeply. "I helped your mother and father start a rebellion so no one would have to be a pawn of the Shadow Clause making the ultimate sacrifice. And frankly I don't what happened to me as long as my precious Moon was alright." Star blinked as she finally recognized him from descriptions and artworks feeling her memories come back to her.
"Grandpa Odrick? But… you're dead." He chuckled as he continued.
"Aye, but just a wee bit as I still have some purpose here, not sure what though." His face got serious again as he continued. "Anyways, are you really going to give in now to despair after all these years when your knight has finally presented himself?" Before Star could stop them memories of her times with Marco flew by. Their various adventures, the trauma Marco helped Star through, even every single friendship Thursday they shared together since the shadows attacked. "He means a lot to you doesn't he, do you really want to repay his kindness by becoming a blank slate? The boy who means everything to you?" Star felt a fire burn in her that kept on getting stronger as she replied.
"No." Star felt another emotion stir up as well, something… powerful.
"Then don't give in. Keep fighting for your parents who want you to be free and happy! Do it for your friends who want you to be you! And most of all, do it for Marco!" She felt the emotion grow stronger and stronger until she couldn't' fight what it was. "Do it! For! The one! You! LOVE!"
Star's vision cleared now with her seeing the room she was thrown in with yellow-red veined eyes and began pulling at her bonds fiercely like feral animal would. After a few seconds of this she worked one her hands enough to squeeze it out, breaking the hand in the process. Hissing in pain Star healed the hand and undid the belt that held her waist down. She then reached up and pulled off the hat on her head and the arms keeping her eyes open with a sound of shrieking metal. She then reached over and, using her body's full strength, ripped off the other clasp throwing it to the side. Finally she grabbed the chair she was sitting in and ripped it out of the floor throwing it through the safety glass overlooking her treatment. Taking a second to catch her breath she leapt up through the safety glass and looked over Heinous and Geminin who were now looking at her in fear as they backed up against the door leading out of the room.
"No, shoo shoo; down girl." Heinous spoke in a fearful manner as Gemini pointed out something.
"Miss Heinous, your cheeks!" Star blinked in confusion despite the feral rage at the fact that two shamrocks, or maybe club symbols found on deck cards, appeared in a dark grey color. Heinous noticed this and began to panic.
"No NO! YOU SAW NOTHING!" She leapt down into the room and began exposing herself to treatment. "A princess always maintians the proper posture." Star turned to Gemini growling with Gemini scrabbling at the door for a second before Star grabbed him and tossed him aside.
"Let. Me. OUT!" Star grabbed the door and pulled it so hard the handle ripped off allowing Star to smash the door open.
"Nacho Shard Rain!" Marco pointed the wand shooting out a hail of sharpened nacho chips that shredded right through a rank of guards.
He stopped and panted after running for so long and looked back at the princesses still following him. Several of the princesses had spilt off to go to different parts of the school to collect items from the school vault, distract guards, and destroy certain things they had vendettas against. He smiled at the memory of seeing some princesses burning down one of the garden courtyards with the plants screaming in agony. Those that were left were smashing apart guards as he watched with vicious efficiency that made him marvel at how good they were at fighting. As he watched the sheep girl grabbed two guards and slammed their heads together making both heads roll, the young girl climbed up the back of one to stab something into the neck joint, the pixie blasted the head off of two at once, and a rat princess had bit the arms off of one making him run away in fear. Marco chuckled as he went back to following the stag which, as he watched, smashed through a trio of the guards leaving them dazed and confused. Rounding a corner Marco saw the stag pawing at a door before dispersing with Marco giving out a shout of triumph before yelling out to the princesses.
"I found her, rendezvous at the Tremorfidian crystal tower!" He turned back to the door raising the wand. "Now let's get you out of…" As he watched the door was smashed open from the inside so hard it fell off its hinges. "… there?" Marco watched as Star emerged with red-veined yellow cat pupiled eyes indicating she was suffering from a PTSD flashback.
"Um, what's going on with Star?" Marco looked over his shoulder to see Ponyhead looking on in concern. Before he could answer a group of guards were coming up from further down the hallway with Star looking directly at Marco before speaking slowly.
"Marco?" Marco looked down the hallway and realizing there was no time to snap Star out of her state, got an idea.
"Star, those guys are coming to hurt me! HELP!" Star looked to where Marco was pointing seeing the guards coming up and growled a challenge.
"LEAVE MARCO ALONE!" Star leapt at them screeching and began ripping them limb from limb with both Marco and Ponyhead watching the carnage nervously. As the dust cleared Star ran up to Marco grabbing him in a protective and possessive hug. "MY MARCO! No one touches him!" Marco reached up and began rubbing Star's head while speaking soothingly to her.
"It's ok Star, you can come back now; everything is ok." After doing this for a few minutes, with a crowd of princesses gathering behind them, Star finally calmed down enough to go back to normal. She grabbed on to Marco sobbing silently as everyone averted their eyes. "Are you ok Star?" Star looked up at him nodding her head before speaking.
"Yes. *sniff* Can we go home now?" Marco nodded and led the way with the princesses following closely. "Ponyhead, you're back to normal!" Star grabbed onto Ponyhead as they ran with Ponyhead chuckling before she answered.
"Of course I am, you think I was gonna let Princess Marcia Turdina do all the work alone." Star cocked her a confused expression as they parted. "It's a long story." After a few more turns they finally reached the courtyard with the crystal bearing tower. The princesses charged forward as a wave of guards came out from all around them looking to stop them from doing anything to the tower. Marco stepped up and handed the wand to Star before speaking.
"I think you might want this back." Star took it with the wand going back to normal. "Sorry, I was running out of options in finding you." Star smiled before hugging him again and replying.
"Oh don't worry about that, thank you for being there for me." The crowd gave an 'awwww' of happiness in the middle of the fight as Marco blushed slightly before Star pulled back. "Now to get us out of here, Raspberry Panzer Blast!" Star aimed her wand up at the tower with a rocket missile going out and striking the tower making it rock back and forth dangerously.
"Ok, I think you got it Star!" Marco yelled in shock as everyone dove out of the way as the tower fell, shattering on the ground. As Marco and Star looked up from their dodge they saw the princesses partying now with lights coming up from the tower like fireworks. "Oh, now that is a victory party if I ever saw one." Ponyhead was rocking out next to the duo as she turned to them and began speaking.
"Yeah, now this is my kind of party. I know you had plans for today gurl but they got nothing on this party going on right now." Star got up looking at Ponyhead in confusion.
"But… it's your birthday day."
"Yeah gurl, and you got me the best birthday gift ever, getting me my groove back. Now I need to make sure no one else suffers the same fate I did." She turned to Marco speaking happily. "And thank you for doing all this Princess Turdina, you ain't so bad. Want me to bite some guards on their faces for you?" Marco put his hands on his hips and moved like a sassy lady as he spoke.
"Gurl, get on with your bad self." Ponyhead chuckled before they head butted with Ponyhead flying off. "You know what Star, I think Ponyhead and I are friends now; not sure though." Star squeed in glee and grabbed onto Marco hugging him tightly.
"I knew you two would become friends. Now can we get out of here?" Marco nodded with Star opening up a portal with the scissors sending the two back home to Star's room. (end music) They just sat there panting for a minute with Marco finally turning to Star with a question.
"Say, how did you manage to overcome the conformation process that broke Ponyhead for a while?" Star thought back to what had happened in that dream like state and did not getting many memories but some overall feelings. At this she felt lightheaded sitting down before answering.
"I'm… not sure; I don't really remember what happened in there. And… I'm not sure if I want to remember." Marco smiled taking out the special comb and began combing Star's hair. "Oh Marco, you know just what to do don't you." Star purred slightly pushing into the comb as Marco chuckled before a phone ring interrupted them. Marco went over to his phone and looked at it going pale faced before speaking.
"*Gahhh* I forgot about my date with Jackie tonight! Sorry Star I got to run!" He paused looking into the mirror and the dress and ponytail he had on. "No time, this will have to do." Marco ran out with Star chuckling after him *Throb pang* Star felt the now familiar sensation, except it now had a sharp jab in it that left her feeling hurt on the inside. She shook her head and went downstairs to get some foo not wanting no more excitement or questions for the day. After eating to her hearts content she curled up on her bed after stripping off her clothes despite the fact that it was only 7:15pm. Nacho leapt up onto the bed with her and curled up allowing Star to grab onto him and cuddle him liek a teddy bear.
"…and if your elbows are on the table you belong in the stable. All better." Heinous sighed as she felt her cheeks had gone back to normal. She looked down at the floor seeing the bobby pin and picked it up looking at it in suspicion.
As she got up and left the room she saw the school was clearly lost at this point given the number of shattered guards and the damages done. Ignoring all this, and planning on how to regain it, Heinous walked calmly to the library looking for the needed book on metallurgy. Looking through the book she found the proper formula and whipped up a potion which she promptly inserted the bobby pin into making it turn green. Look over the guidelines of the potion of identification she discovered that the origin was the Terra Dimension. Smiling she spoke calmly.
"So that is where you are at 'Marcia Turdina'. I will find you and see you annihilated." She gasped at the word she just used and smiled. "Annihilate, that's the word I've been looking for!"
A figure wearing gold, green, and purple armor and a ragged lilac cloak hacked his way through a swamp with his long platinum blond hair lying limp due to the moisture. Coming upon a tree with nine trunks he looked up with his one good purple eye while he scratched at the left eye, which had an eyepatch over it. As he approached the tree an arrow landed not one foot in front of him as two figures came out of the brush to threaten him. As they approached him though they stopped and stared at him as if they had seen a ghost. Smiling pleasantly he spoke in a melodic hypnotizing voice to the two warriors.
"I wish to see your war chief Mavis, as I am sure she will be very interested in seeing me." One of the guards outright dropped his weapon as he spoke.
"It can't be! You're alive Lord Mildrew?"
That was... a lot to unpack. But no time to rest; we have a "School Trip" to go out on after all.