"Alright are ya here in body and bodyself mud brother?" Marco nodded at Mina's words with Star rolling her eyes. The trio was standing at the end of the line for a hotdog stand with Mina keeping her voice close to a whisper. "Then lesson number tray, gather intel… keep quiet about it as someone may be watching you as well. You gotta learn from your surroundings and not just wander off in your own little world." Marco nodded as he took notes of this with Star actually chuckling to herself at the hypocrisy of Mina's statement. Mina then turned around and poked a short old lady in the head making her 'hair' shift around a little bit. "Oh sorry didn't' know it was a wig. Say what is the name of your ruler again?" The older lady chuckled a little bit as she replied to Mina.
"Not from around her are you?" Marco immediately leapt in to cover for Mina.
"She's a foreigner. And I could have answered your question for you in that we don't have rulers like you do." The old lady chuckled as she spoke up again.
"Oh how exotic and yes we don't have any rulers here in the United States, we're free." Mina stared at Marco and the lady blankly as if trying to figure out if it was a joke or not before she spoke.
"So… who makes the rules around here?" At this the guy at the hotdog stand spoke up loudly.
"Oh we make our own rules." He ate half of the hotdog he was about to give someone before he gave it to the now miffed customer. "Through the radical process of VOTING!" He went to take the customer's money but the customer just gave him half a dollar bill. Mina on the other hand was looking around in shock mumbling to herself.
"Waaaaaa ah just trying to wrap my head around this. You people simply decide what you want to do without an authority figure telling you what to do?"
"That's right little lady." This was said by two figures simultaneously. One was a male cowboy figure wearing red white and blue with a bald eagle on his shoulder and a German Shepard at his leg. The other was a morbidly obese man on a scooter of some sort wearing red white and blue as well with a mini gun that shot fireworks mounted on the scooter's front.
"So you all mean… I can do this?" Mina leapt onto the backs of two people who were in yoga poses with the old lady responding.
"Yes." Mina then leapt off and began juggling random items she found on the ground.
"Or this?" Everyone around her nodded again with Mina pulling up a torch she found at random. "Or this?" She set fire to the hotdog stand with the owner of it chuckling.
"Technically that's arson." Mina then heaved her torch up high yelling.
"Freedom!" Mina began walking off with the crowd of people cheering her on while Star looked on in worry. "No limitations on freedom." Star spoke to herself as she watched the display.
"This is the democracy Ludo advocates for so much?" Marco turned towards Star shaking his head.
"No, this is a crowd getting hyped up on action. It happens all the time around here." Star turned towards Marco in confused shock. "What?" Marco was then yanked to the side by his neck as Mina spoke to him.
"I have learned there are no rules on this planet; it's an everything goes fight to the death!"
"Not exactly." Mina looked at Marco with a raised eyebrow as he detached himself form her. "There are a lot of small nuanced practices that make things more complicated." Mina stared at him blankly for a second before laughing and replying.
"Of course there are, why didn't I see it." Her face got serious again. "Now come, you have learned much already and have shown great potential; it is time I inducted you to the first level of warriors." Mina moved off to a hill at the center of the park with Marco going to follow but Star stopped him with a hand on the shoulder.
"Marco wait, you gotta stop this." Marco turned to Star confused.
"Stop what?" Star gestured to the burning hotdog stand, the destroy swing set, and the sunken mammoth. "Oh come on Helsinki was more destructive than that and she was 'sane' in comparison to Mina."
"But Marco…"
"Star I get that you're trying to look out for me but I need to seize on any chance to better myself all things considered. And besides Mina is a really fun teacher; I already learned how to perfect meditation better then Sensei had ever taught me." Star went to reply but was cut off by Marco. "Look I am gonna follow her and see what else I can learn from her as long as she remains manageable; or until its dinner time, whichever comes first." Marco kissed Star's cheek before he turned and walked off with Star staring after him for a second and sighed shrugging.
"Well, can't fault his devotion. Also, if you can't beat them join them; might as well see if Mina has anything to offer." Star took off after the duo as they climbed the hill with Marco talking to himself.
"Just stop thinking, make a weapon out of anything, and gather intel subtly." Marco made it to the top of the hill slightly winded noticing a group of nearby bystanders who had also followed Mina up the hill. "I made it Mina." Mina turned towards him and gestured to a circle of cute animals that were sitting on rocks.
"Come little mud face you must partake in the warrior's ritual; step inside the circle of animals." Marco nodded and stepped forward as a cat meowed. "Now repeat these words… and by that I mean the words following these words not these words exactly. That happens way too often." Marco nodded with a stoic look on his face as Mina raised her hands to the sky. "Oh great battle lords." Marco raised his hands in a similar manner.
"Oh great battle lords." Mina put her hands in a prayer position.
"Please protect us."
"Please protect us."
"Carry our foes off to the depths of space and time so they may forever lay in the ruins of our victory!"
"Carry our foes off to the depths of space and time so they may forever lay in the ruins of our victory!"
"Lead us to the battle and you shall bath in our conquests!" Mina then began doing some sort of battle shriek with Marco following suit. Star managed to make to the top of hill then and found herself smiling at the display with Mina grabbing Marco and hugging him close. "And now I embrace you initiate of the first circle of warriors, may you fly higher with every passing day mud brother." They parted with Marco speaking up with a sly smile.
"So what are the steps for the second circle? Does it involve 'The pleasure of crushing my enemies, see them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of their… followers?'" Mina chuckled and elbowed him good natured.
"You got the right idea. We will be fighting the mud folk and what few allies they have left to defeat them for good… after we are done conquering earth." Marco raised his fist to the air.
"Yea… wait what?" Marco's eyes went wide with shock as Mina giggled in a psychotic manner as she elaborated.
"The entities of this world are without any ruler, wild and unkempt running around destroying things willy nilly. If you are a basic specimen having gotten to the first circle in only an hour or so then this wild race has great potential. I will become that ruler and see them serve me in stamping out the mud-folk once and for all; and you will be by my side mud-brother seeing my will be done." She then flicked his nose in an adorable fashion with Marco giving a 1,000 yard stare before chuckling nervously.
"Oh Mina that's just crazy talk, enslaving an entire planet single handedly." Mina laughed boldly at that as she replied.
"Of course it's not; it can be done rather easily in fact. Your world is advanced but its achievements are brittle." She pointed to Star who was now looking back and forth between Marco and Mina nervously. "That girl bears the wand of the Butterflys for some reason and with it we can subdue all of humanity in a matter of weeks." Marco rubbed the back of his head now chuckling really nervously.
"Look conquering a whole planet seems a bit extreme doesn't it?" Mina laughed boldly as she smacked Marco's back.
"Of course not, it's not like I intend to rule earth for very long just long enough to finish off the mud-folk," Her face suddenly became grim as she stared at Marco. " and get my revenge against Queen Moon and King Toffee." Marco was now sweating nervously as he glanced towards Star who was rubbing her tail nervously with him replying to a once again smiling Mina.
"Revenge… what did they do to you?" Mina turned her back to Marco lifting up the back of her shirt exposing lines of scars, some of which were black colored and seemed fresh.
"They left me to die is what they did!" Mina's voice was now resentful. "I joined with Moon when one of my most promising Guardians told me we should listen to her when she flung accusations of this Shadow Clause. When they proved to be right I sided with her and stuck with her through thick and thin even overlooking the fact that she was romantically involved with a fucking Monster of all things!" She turned back towards Marco with an angry look in her eyes. "At the Ambush of the Thundering Falls I engaged literal nightmares so Moon could defeat the enemy general and suffered a horrible curse because of it." She went cross eyed and pointed to her head twirling her fingers in circles like she was loco. "I went crazy and even now I know I am not all quite there." She returned to her normal angry stance. "I was broken mentally and what did Moon do to help me? Not a Gods damned thing that's what!" She stamped her foot down to drive the point home making Marco take a step back and Star take several steps back. "She let me run off in my state of madness without so much as a rescue party to bring me back so she could help me. If I were any less a warrior I would have died in my broken state. Now I seek justice and retribution and I'll start by gathering the bugs of this world into an army that will lay waste to Mewni after I finish off the mud-folk once and for all!" She now turned towards the bystanders. "Kneel before me minions, for I am the greatest warrior that this world has ever known!" The bystanders looked at each other for a second before kneeling down in front of Mina as she chuckled and spoke to Marco now smiling. "See, simple words have given us a good start." Marco was looking on in shocked horror as he whispered to himself.
"I have made a terrible mistake." Marco looked around in panic mode before speaking to Mina. "I can't conqueror earth." Mina chuckled at that waving her hand at him.
"Pshhah of course you can you're a warrior now aren't' you?" She turned towards Star smiling. "Now let's get that wand from her so we can get properly started. Still have no idea why a Monster would be wielding…" At this she got a wide eyed look of realization and began chuckling evilly. "So Moon and Toffee did have a child after all. Preemptive strike, two birds with one stone." She stepped forward reaching her hand out but Marco intercepted her.
"NO!" Mina blinked in shock as he took a fighting stance. "I like earth, it's my home so I don't wanna conquer it and leave it a smoldering mess. And Star is my best friend and girlfriend; I won't let you hurt her!" The bystanders gave a sigh at how sweet his lines were with one girl speaking up.
"Well, guess he ain't a fuck boy." Mina stared at Marco in shock before her face got scary again and her voice changed to a deep double voice.
"I thought you wanted to be a warrior!" She began rising up in the air with a swirling vortex of turquoise energy encasing her. A burst of energy shot into her making her eyes go white and take on the body of a heavy weight lifting champion. She glared down at Marco as Star came to stand next to him pointing her wand at Mina. Marco's face took on a grim look as he spoke to her in a calm manner.
"Lesson one, stop thinking and just feel." Mina blinked in shock before her eyes narrowed and she made ready to attack them.
"Um excuse me." The trio looked over to see one of the people bowing down had raised his hand. "Don't we get a vote on this?" Everyone looked back and forth for a second before Mina spoke up.
"Ha, really? Freedom doesn't matter now as I am your all powerful ruler!" The man spoke up again.
"Ok all in favor of Mina ruling us raise their hands." A few people raised their hands with him counting quickly. "Ok now those against her raise her hands." Most of the people raised their hands with the man counting quickly. "Ok it's a landslide folks, freedom wins again." Everyone in the crowd cheered as Marco spoke up to Mina wiping the mud off his face.
"Mina I wanted to learn from you, and I did, but you are bananas in the bad way." Mina scowled at Marco but before she could speak a cop's siren and voice sounded out right next to them.
"Ok purple haired Schwarzenegger lady we're gonna need to talk to you." Two cops on were staring down Mina who simply growled before speaking to Marco.
"Humpf, if this is the way things are going I'm better off finding another world to aid me. You don't deserve this." She reached down yanking Marco's weapon away and leapt for a dumpster.
"My Kusarigama!" Mina turned back with a look of contempt in her eyes.
"Go ahead and squander your potential with that mud-blood freak, see if I care." She leapt into the dumpster closing it behind with the officers moving in speaking up to the dumpster.
"Alright come on out there's nowhere for you to go." They opened up the dumpster looking in with the officers just staring in for a second. "She's… gone." They looked at each other for a second before one talked into his radio. "Magic does exist, repeat magic does exist." Meanwhile the crowd was dispersing whit Marco sitting on the edge of the hill and looking out as the sun was lowering in the sky. Star came up standing next to him with Marco speaking up to her.
"*Sigh* You were right Star, Mina had no marbles." Star rubbed his head before leaning down to kiss his cheek.
"Well honestly I was caught off guard when she went off the deep end so quickly so you weren't the only one that was fooled." She continued rubbing Marco's head with him sighing in content before speaking.
"We should tell your parents about this shouldn't we?" Star nodded absentmindedly.
"Yeah we should. Wanna go check to see if there are any day old baguettes first?" She handed him the final doughnut in the bag she had with Marco smiling.
"Yes, let's." Took the doughnut and walked off with Star as the two clasped hands with each other.
Mina sat under a tree on Mewni staring at the Kusarigama Marco had made with a morose look in her eyes. She sighed before reaching down and placing a small smear of mud on the cheek of the face she had drawn in it. She shouldn't be feeling this way but the way Marco had immediately leapt to protect the princess made her both respect his devotion and hurt at his betrayal. She rarely sensed great potential but she had sensed it in him, a mere 14 year old boy who had mastered her initial lessons in under an hour. She stared up at the sky wishing he had followed her lead but at the same time finding herself respecting his choice to follow Star.
"*Sigh* Mud brother." She stared off into space feeling a hollow emptiness she hadn't felt for a while… until a sudden roar and whump came from nearby. "What in the name of candied yams!" Mina ran off in the direction the sound had come from and stopped behind some bushes before looking to see what had made it.
She saw what appeared to be a group of drakes and Mewmans gathered in a field with several Mewmans on the backs of the drakes. As she just took a second to comprehend this a Gronkle took off with a woman on its back and flew towards a blackened part of the field with the crowd cheering them on. As they got close the Gronkle began to dodge in midair as random items were thrown at it with the woman guiding it to a set location. As they got near it she hit the drake lightly on its head with it shooting a ball of fire hitting what Mina presumed to be some sort of target. The dragon turned in midair and fired another shot at another target before flying back while still dodging the items. As the crowd cheered a large man with long white hair and a beard and an eyepatch stepped forward as if to inspect the woman. After looking her and the drake over he turned towards the crowd and held up three fingers with the crowd applauding even more voraciously.
"Never seen this before huh?" Mina turned taking a battle stance to see Mavis standing right next to her with her arms crossed. "Well there are many firsts as of now such as the first usage of drakes by Mewmans, the first True Dragon following a Mewman, and the first time the Butterfly wand has turned against itself." Mavis then held up her wand with it glowing a green color.
"Wha-who are you and why are talking to me so calm like?!" Mina did not budge from her battle stance as Mavis spoke.
"*hehehe* Oh my dear no need to worry about fighting me, I am not your enemy." At this the wand seemed to flash a little with color making Mavis smile. "Oh right, proper introductions, how silly of me." She bowed to Mina. "Mavis Butterfly, mother of the true dragon, master of drakes, reborn of the void, speaker of the wand, and true queen of Mewni as she is." She righted herself with Mina losing her fighting stance. "I have heard there is something you want that I want as well; justice on the Monster whore cousin of mine Moon Butterfly." Mina blinked in confusion speaking up.
"Wait, who told you that." Mavis chuckled and held up her wand.
"Oh just the spirits of the wand of course." She leaned in close to Mina whispering. "I am the first one they have truly spoken to in generations ever since Rhina the Riddled." She stood back up with Mina blinking in confusion. "So now I wish to extend an offer to you Mina Loveberry, Unburnt master of slaughter, guide of the Guardians, protector of Mewni, and greatest of the Solarians. Serve alongside me, the true queen of Mewni and retake our home for its rightful inhabitants. Do so, and I will grant you the gift of killing Moon and Toffee yourself and one other request." Mina stood there for a second with the whispers bugging her.
These whispers didn't bug her that much anymore but they still did pop up at times pushing thoughts into her head. She tried willing them to go away as she needed to focus now but had trouble doing so for the first time in a few years. She began rubbing her temples and fell to her knees groaning as Mavis looked on now in concern. The wand flashed briefly with Mavis nodding and stepping forward to place the wand on Mina's head… but was stopped by Mina. Mina blinked as the voices began to clear from her head as the thought of a single person entered her mind; Marco. The thought of him and his devotion and natural talent to being a warrior made the voices go away as if they were nothing. She blinked in thought for a second and then stood up facing Mavis and speaking.
"You know of the warrior Marco, he who accompanies the princess?" Mavis blinked in confusion and nodded. "My request is that we capture him alive so I might teach him the error of his ways and make him a true warrior as he was meant to be. Agree to that and we have a deal." Mina put her hand out with the wand glowing for a second before Mavis spoke to it.
"No I am going to agree to it this, Mina seems to have met him already." Mina blinked in concern as Mavis turned back to her. "Agreed." They shook hands for a second with Mavis pointing to the crowd. "Shall we introduce you to your new comrades in arms?" Mina nodded and giggled with the two moving out towards the crowd.
Audience: Guest Reviews!
Sugarqueen97: Well thank you, that comment from the girl was an improve thing and the doughnuts being a date was something I HAD to put in there. And you're right, Marco is 14 just like Star he would act his age despite him being mature for it. The trick is doing it while making sure Marco is in character.
Book of Eli: Well Marco in this story I've made to be a bit more impulsive and reckless compared to the canon show as MonStar isn't... well Star too much.
WH: Well then folks, I was planning on extending the 'fluffy' bits by one more episode but I think some issues need to be addressed. It's gonna be a real Page Turner inside of the wand when we deal with 'Wands, Books, and Councils' coming soon. Psst, it's gonna be a long episode, I know this upfront for sure this time.