OP: Um hippie, you need to work on your story... hippie? *Looks around in concern before entering the room to see me in front of the computer playing something with depressing music in the background and the room artificially cold.* Um... you ok?
WH: *turns towards Omnitraxus Prime with a haggard look on my face* We need more coal to keep the furnace running or we will all freeze to death, and we need more hothouses and hunters or we will starve to death! *OP looks at me concerned as I shake myself off and speak normally* Sorry, got really caught up in this new game called 'FrostPunk' what od you wan- THE STORY! *Leaps up and runs past OP speaking to him in passing.* Thank you for reminding me, I'll GET IT UP! *OP looks at me go with a look of worry in his eyes as he shakes his head and wonders off*
OP: I like this boy, but I worry about him all the time.
"Helloooooo Internet people. Star Butterfly here just reporting in on recent happenings." The video show comes to life a bit blurry and disoriented as the laptop camera focused in on the speaker which so happened to be Star Butterfly. "A lot of things have happened in recent days with my crazy and evil aunt Mavis trying to steal my wand by kidnapping Marco." The camera pulled back to Reveal Star was sitting on the bathroom counter with steam in the air as someone was showering in the back ground. "Twist is she wasn't the one behind it and instead a person who my parents fought against in the past was the one behind it. Twist is however he might not have been the one in charge and instead this… Monster body possessor of sorts might have been in charge. He kind of forced me to destroy m wand to keep Marco safe even though he didn't do anything once I had destroyed it. That guy was a douche by the way, bleh. Twist is however the destroyed wand destroyed him, I think, and it came back to life and now I have…" Star reached into a drawer in the counter and pulled out a hair brush. "… my new wa…" She blinked in confusion and put it back to pull out a hand mirror. "…my new wan…" Star blinked in annoyance and put it to the side and pulled out a beard trimmer. "… my ne… ok Marco do you know where my wand got off to? It was in this drawer." Star turned the laptop around to show Marco has stepped out of shower with a towel around his waist and his hair wrapped up in a towel. He looked at the camera and panicked running towards it.
"Staaaaar!" He closed the lid cutting off the connection to everyone.
A 9 year old Japanese girl with long black hair and wearing an oversized green sweatshirt giggled at the events that had happened and hug her rainbow monkey close to her saying "That was funny huh Mr. snuggaflix?". Elsewhere an 11 year old white haired boy wearing an orange t-shirt looked at the screen in confusion and sighed slumping back knowing he was getting nothing more today. Elsewhere a 12 year old girl with long brown hair, braces, and wearing a pink sweater with a shooting star having a rainbow behind said "Awwwww, he looked cute with his little mole… and those abs." Elsewhere again Starfan13 looked at her screen in confusion and tapped on the keyboard a few times to be sure she wasn't the one who was at fault for the lost connection.
"Star don't film me in the bathroom, in fact what are you even doing in here." Marco spoke covering up his chest feeling embarrassed around Star as Star chuckled and responded.
"Oh come on nothing 'bad' was seen right? You gotta take more confidence in your body as you're actually pretty hot." Start stopped when she realized what she had said and blushed slightly speaking up again really fast. "Anyways, do you know where my wand is? It was here a minute ago." Marco blinked at Star's words and feeling… strangely embarrassed; not more or less than usual but for a different reason. He stuttered a second before responding.
"No I know better than to touch your wand except for that one time at St. Olga's. Could you let me change before I help you out in finding…" At that moment the wand shot out of a nearby drawer and flew out of the bathroom on its own nearly striking Marco in the face. "… I almost died… but I found it." Marco pointed after it as Star leapt up running after it with Marco joining in with Star calling out.
"It's never done that before, the whole flying around the area like a possessed stick." They stopped outside of Star's room unsure of where it went looking around a second until it flew out of Marco's room with Nacho and the three laser puppies behind it trying to catch it with great interest. "Get it Marco!" Star leapt up trying to catch it but it avoided her grasp almost expertly only to slam Marco straight in the gut taking him along with it. "Marco! I'll save you!" Star leapt after Marco but his towel had flown off landing over her head. "GAHHHH, Marco's naked!" As Marco flew into the room followed by a disoriented and covered Star with magical animals in tow Star's magic book flew out from under her bed towards Star.
"Star look out!" Star pulled the towel off of her head only to be slammed by the book knocking her head band off in a shower or sparks and knocking her down. Nacho leapt at the book gripping onto it but it flew carrying him along slamming into Marco as well slamming them into a closet with the door closing behind them. After getting up from his ordeal and orienting himself Marco heard scrabbling as someone tried getting up from outside. "Star, are you ok?"
"Mitä tapahtui, minun täytyi todella parantua. (What happened, I actually had to heal back there.)" Marco blinked in confusion as he realized Star was speaking in her native language now. "Odota, oletko kaapissa? Älä huoli Marco, minä pääsen sinut ulos. (Wait, are you in the closet? Don't worry Marco, I'll get you out!)" Marco immediately realized Star was going for the door and realized he was still naked.
"No Star, I'm not decent." Marco scrabbled for any clothing he could find wrapping himself up in random bits of cloth as Star scrabbled at the door growling in frustration.
"Grrrr, tämä ovi ei ajaudu. (Grrrr, this door won't budge.)" Marco finished pulling random bits of cloth over himself turning to the door in confusion speaking up.
"Um Star, can you understand me?" The scrabbling stopped with Star speaking up after a brief pause.
"Marco ... miksi kuulet hiipivasta puupölyltä. (Marco... why do you sound like a chattering treehopper.)" Star then realized what was up when her hair fell into her face a little. "Odota, pääkaartaani! (Wait, my headband!)" On the other side of the door Star scrabbled over to her headband only to find it a blackened color like it had been burned in a fire. "Älä viitsi! (Oh come on!)" 'Ok Star, you can do this; you've been training in the background for months.' Star thought to herself inhaling and exhaling focusing on her mouth and spoke slowly in a thick accent. "Marco… devil band hurt." Star mentally slapped herself over how stupid she probably sounded to Marco who replied to her equally slowly.
"Do not worry, can you understand me?" Star perked up at the fact that at least when he spoke slowly she could understand him fairly well and spoke.
"Yes, but speak slow." Marco sighed in relief that Star's language learning had been paying off and slapped himself mentally for not trying harder with learning Star's language.
"Can you open the door?" Star moved over to the door scrabbling at the door knob and pulled at it. "Try the handle?" Star grunted in effort as she replied.
"Handle not coming, it stuck." As Star pulled it Glossarick pushed himself through the key hole from inside the closet and floated next to Star watching her struggle for a second before speaking up.
"What are you doing?" Star yelped and leapt back pulling off the door knob in the process and falling flat across the floor speaking up in Mewman.
"*Glossarcik?! I'm trying to get Marco and my wand out of the closet.*"
"Did you try the knob?" Star held up the detached door knob with a raised eyebrow before replying.
"*What do you think?*" Glossarick rubbed his chin in thought as Star got a random weapon from her collection and whacked at the door making the whole wall shake. "*Come on you stupid door, how hard is it to open you?*" Marco called out from inside the closet after recovering from the aftershocks.
"Um, is Glossarick out there Star because I think I hear him? Is there anything I can do?" Star blinked in confusion as if trying to figure out what Marco said exactly and Glossarick spoke up.
"Marco is asking after me Star, I'll be right back." He slipped back through the key hole with Star looking at the door in annoyance. "Say Marco, what is it?" Marco yelped at seeing Glossarick come in through the key hole and grabbed him pulling him through the keyhole.
"Is this some kind of training montage for Star or is there anything I can actually do to help her out here?" Glossarick got an annoyed look and rolled his eyes speaking up.
"Are they mutually exclusive Marco? Look if you want to help Star I'll give you a hint on what to do." Marco nodded in acceptance and kept quiet as Glossarick got an intense look in his eyes and stared Marco down with the light changing around him. "To reach the chunks of the hobo stew, find the secrets Star conceals from you." Everything went back to normal with Glossarick waving to Marco as he slipped out of his hand and went back through the key hole. "Good luck." Marco groaned in annoyance and turned towards the closet interior and sighed in acceptance.
"Well, time to see if there are any secrets in here that can help Star reach those… chunks I suppose." Marco pulled some of the cloth over his lower face and forehead and started into the interior only to be stopped by Nacho who was batting at the book of spells in concern. "Look Nacho, we don't have time to worry about the wand yet we just need to get out of here. We have a lot of stuff to go through so help me look." Marco walked away with Nacho casting the book a suspicious look before accompanying Marco.
Glossarick came out of the closet keyhole again to see Star trying to pry the door open with a sword now and not having any luck. Glossarick sat in mid-air and watched her smiling slightly as she pried so hard the sword actually permanently bent with Star looking at it in shock. Throwing it to the side she looked at Glossarick and spoke up with annoyance.
"Um could you help me out here Glossarick I can't get the door open." Glossarick rolled his eyes and replied.
"Tell me something I don't know. Well how do you normally get it open?"
"With my wand but I don't have it right now so I can't do magic." Glossarick rubbed his chin again and smiled at Star.
"Oh, you want to do the hard way then." Star blinked and just stood there for a second staring at Glossarick as he continued. "I get the feeling you don't know what I'm talking about so I will help you but it's going to get really challenging." Star turned towards Glossarick with a slightly carnivorous smile and spoke softly to him.
"This is nothing, teach me Glossarick." Glossarick chuckled and grabbed his eye forcing it as open as it could go.
"Ok then, the lesson begins inside my EYEBALL." Suddenly the world blurred around Star and she found herself standing atop a small platform surrounded by purple gem stones of sorts with a sparkly purple background everywhere. "Might wanna pay attention to this Star, no need to go off in lala land." Star shook her head getting oriented and found herself actually sitting on a log in front of a blue campfire with a gigantic pot of stew bubbling and boiling over it. "Imagine this universe is this big old cauldron of hobo stew with magic being the stew inside with your wand being the spoon." Star nodded at this with Glossarick actually looking a little shocked. "Wait, you just got that no questions asked?" Star shrugged and replied nonchalantly.
"I get metaphors, Marco has been teaching me quite a bit. What you think I would have kicked up my feet at the fact you were using a spoon instead of a wand, that's just stupid?" Glossarick blinked in shock and smiled chuckling before looking down at the stew and replying.
"Anyways, the spoon can only skim so much of the surface stuff being watery and unfilling." He tossed the spoon away and looked back up at Star. "But if you want to get to the chunks and the real 'meat' of magic…" He pushed his hands into the stew reaching down into it. "… you have to dip dooooowwwwwwn." He pushed his hands out of the stew with his hands having grown massive and now holding meat, carrots, and even a random bone. "Get it?" Star looked at the food with some drool coming out of the corner of her mouth before shaking her head to clear it up and answered.
"*Ahem* So what you're saying it I can do something that can allow me to use magic… without my wand?" Glossarick nodded smiling looking really proud of Star. "How do I do that?" Glossarick sighed and the world fell away in a puff of smoke leaving them back in Star's room.
"Look to do that you just have to dip down. You know, dip dooowwwwn." Star blinked in confusion and replied.
"That's not helping Glossarick; how do I dip dooowwwnnnn." Star did the movement of pushing her hands into the stew like Glossarick did and pulling something up from it. "You're being really vague you know." Star turned away from Glossarick and picked up one of the laser puppies pointing it at the door. "I will get that thing open one way or another." She cocked the puppy and shot it's laser at the door in a solid beam with Glossarick yelling out.
"HOT LASER!" Star stopped realizing Glossarick had intervened and got a hole in his hand trying to stop Star.
"Sorry but perhaps you could be more helpful like a teacher is supposed to be." Glossarick sighed annoyance and spoke up again.
"You just have to dip dowwwnnnn for the chunks." He slid back through the keyhole into the closet leaving Star to contemplate in confusion.
"*sigh* Guess I'll do it your way Glossarick." Her stomach grumbled at that moment making Star aware she was really hungry all of a sudden. "Why is my metabolism like this, I'm gonna eat the Diaz's out of house and home at this rate. *sigh* Might as well address my hunger and see if I have any backup headbands so I can at least not risk miscommunication with Marco throughout this." Star got up and headed downstairs with the puppies right behind her.
Glossarick floated over to the magic book hearing a snapping sound occur somewhere in the piles of stuff inside the closet. He looked over with a raised eyebrow to see Marco standing up and pulling something that looked like a mousetrap off of his hand and throwing it to the side. Glossarick called out to the boy giving him a strange smile as he spoke.
"How's it going over there?" Marco looked up in annoyance and replied rubbing his hand softly.
"Well just trying to find 'The Secret' in a closet of SECRETS man."
"You know I'm doing this because I love you and Star right." Marco stared at him with a wierded out expression for a solid five seconds before replying.
"That's kind of weird when you say it for some reason." Glossarick gave a full on laugh scaring Marco slightly before responding.
"Yes, I suppose it is. Now then I have work to do on this wand." Glossarick opened up the book and slid into it leaving Marco standing there gaping slightly before he finally got his wits about him.
"Ok, what secrets do I need to find?" Marco pulled up a random small wooden box and opened it looking inside to see… something. Inside was what appeared to be a narwhal but looking like it had been put through a mutation blender with a twisted and deformed frame, sickly and pale skin, three horns over its body and 15 eyes also scattered as such.
"Every moment I live is agony." Marco dropped the box screaming like a pansy and kicked the box away making it yelp in fear before he spoke.
"No wonder Star doesn't want people going through her stuff; you could get nightmares doing so unless you succeed a sanity roll." He looked over the massive piles and sighed rubbing his hands together and cracking his neck slightly. "Well guess I have to fall back on my 'safety instincts'; time to get organized right Nacho? Nacho…" Marco turned to see Nacho had just finished eating the Narwhal he had just thrown away looking at Marco in confusion. "No nonononono you don't just eat things like tha…" Marco stopped when Nacho suddenly got slightly bigger for no reason, only noticeable because Marco watched him actually get bigger with a slight blue sparkle like static electricity. "… how?" Nacho stretched smiling slightly and padded on over to Marco rubbing up against his leg. "*sigh* Ok I can give you scritches but we need to find Star's secrets." Marco rubbed Nacho's head feeling a sharp jolt like static electricity run up his arm before he settled into a rhythm. 'I hope Glossarick is actually doing something worthwhile now.' Marco thought sarcastically as Nacho moved Marco's hand to his belly and purred baring his four Oni-like canines from his Oni like face.
Glossarick stood inside the book with the inside appearing far bigger than the outside staring at the wand in concern rubbing his bearded chin. Whistling quickly two bug-like creatures crawled up and under his feet moving him forward so he could take a closer look at the wand. Putting his hand and the haft he rubbed it softly feeling the distinct texture that was designed for a proper grip frowning in concern. After doing this along the whole haft he leaned down to it and began sniffing along it picking up a strange tint to the magic on this part of the wand frowning in confusion before speaking.
"That's odd, it smells familiar in several different ways that shouldn't be together." Glossarick rubbed his beard thinking on this as he moved to a different part of the wand.
*update alert: consolidation of chapters will be put on hold indefinitely due to the author's unjustified anxiety. We apologize for his cold feet.*