Well I just got back from my Christmas holiday in the Gold Cost and can't wait for the new year of 2019. So after this chapter the next one I'm planning on releasing will be Squire to knight, and that will hopefully come out somewhere in February.

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Ch 4 Morning sunshine

As Morning came Marco was the first to wake up for the day with Hekapoo still fast asleep. Look down at her he saw that Hekapoo was still holding onto his arm as if it was a teddy bear. And if you looked at her at the right angle one would be forgiven if they found Hekapoo to be somewhat cute in a manner of speaking. Baring the fact that this woman was probably older the Jesus Christ himself and could very much burn you to a crisp then yeah. She look cute right now.

'You know, this isn't so bad.' Marco first thought to himself as he woke up.

She didn't do anything to him, that he knew of. She didn't snore at all, her 'chest' was very soft and it felt nice sleeping beside her. Almost like a drink of warm milk before bed. The only bad thing about sleeping in the same bed as her was not trying to wake her up. She also started to bit his arm halfway through the night, well to be far on her it was more of a nibble, nothing too painful. There was also her smell, she didn't smell bad per say it was just that she smelt like smocked hickory wood chips. In all honesty, Marco liked it. It was nice and pleasant and was making him crave some barbeque beef for obvious reasons.

Trying and failing to get out of bed as it would seem Hekapoo has a hard time letting go of his arm that and he remembered the part of the chain attached to them. Marco tries to wake Hekapoo for the morning.

"Hekapoo, Hekapoo" he shakes her gentility to wake her up. "Wake up. Its morning and I have to shower and cook breakfast."

Hekapoo beings to steer in her sleep. "5 more minutes." She blurted out gripping his arm that she was sleeping with tighter.

Frustrated Marco grind evilly as he thought up a way to get revenge on the little demon for what she did last night. He reached for her exposed ear and rubbed it in-between his index and thumb. The effect was immediate as Hekapoo's one eye shoot wide. Now very much awake she quivered at his touch with a slight blush covered her pale white face.

"Let go of my ear you idiot." She squealed out like a little girl as she dug her claws into his arm she was holding. "It's sensitive."

Yelping in pain Marco lets go of her ear and as he does she stops digging her claws into his flesh but not too deeply as she still holds on to his arm.

"Hekapoo stop! That hurts!" he cries out in pain.

Immidenintly she lets go of his arm now fully awake and looks at him with hatred in her eye.

"Do that again Muscles and I'll for real rip your heart out and eat it." She threatened him and he believed her.

"Yes, I will. Just don't dig your claws into me like that never again."

"Good." Letting go of Marco's arm he looked over it to see the damage she caused to him.

Seeing him looking over his arm Hekapoo kind of felt bad for what she did.

"Don't worry about it Muscles, I didn't dig my claws that deep into your arm." She looks over his arm to make sure she didn't to any lasting damage to him, just to be on the safe side. "See, no blood. And if you're lucky and it scares. You can say you got it in a fight with me and lived, so you're welcome."

"Why should I be?"

"Right, forgot you don't really know a lot about me so let me fill you in on who I am a little. You see I'm one of the most well know power houses in the multiverse. There is hardly any dimension that doesn't know who I am, besides Earth of course. So just surviving a fight with me will get you a lot of respect in some places."

"Well thanks but I don't think I'll be using that any time soon and these claw marks you gave me are too shallow to cause scaring, so I'm good."

"To bad. A lot of girls like guys with scars. Makes them look like a badass worrier."

"Well here on Earth, a heavily scared person just looks shady. So don't talk to any of them while you're here."

"Fine." Hekapoo reluctantly took his warning of not talking to any person with a lot of scars. "So what are we going to do today Muscles?"

"Well first I'm going to take a shower." Marco answered as he got out of bed with Hekapoo following closely behind him. "And then make breakfast. Oh, quick question. Do you want to shower first or do you want to after me?"

"What's a shower?"

"Uh… do you happen to have running water where you're from?"

"Like in a river? Or water that can actually run like you and I can on land."

"Okay, I'll take that as a no." giving himself a seconds thought Marco came up with a way to explain it to Hekapoo. "It's kind of like bathing under a waterfall but just less water and you can also control the temperature of the water."

"Oh, that's cool. Seems like you humans can come up with some really interesting inventions. But no, I don't. What did you call it again? Right! Shower, yeah I don't shower or in general bath at all."

"Is it because of the fire on top of your head?" Marco pointed out the little flame that hovered over her. And now that he did he wondered how his bed didn't catch on fire last night.

"What, no. This right here is nothing really, I should have said I don't really need to bath" she clarified. "You see if I want to get myself clean I just set myself on fire to burn off any dirt and grime that's on me like so." Hekapoo raised one of her hands to click her fingers.

"Wait, No!" Marco tried to stop her but failed to do so in time.

With the flames now fully covering her it didn't take her long to burn away the dirt and grime she collected from yesterday away but also the hoodie she was wearing. As the fire died down she was no longer wearing the hoodie as it now was nothing more than a pile of ash on the floor leaving a very exposed Hekapoo in its absence.

Marco being in full view of the now mostly naked Hekapoo with only her underwear being the only thing on her that didn't burn away, as it was fire proof. Looking at her now saw more than any boy his age could hope to see in their short lives.

Marco's eyes widen in surprise upon seeing Hekapoo's naked form. So caught off by surprise Marco tumbled backwards unable to take his eyes of her. Because of this Marco took a miss step when he was backing away from Hekapoo he tripped over himself and fell rolling out of his room.

"Yeah, Marco." Hekapoo callout out peeking her head outside his door frame to see him on the floor in the hall. "You okay over there Marco?"

"Awwwwwww." Marco mounded out in pain. "Can you please put some cloths on, NOW!" he demands as he gets back up.

"Sorry, forgot that I wasn't wearing something fire proof but hey look on the bright side. I think the chain grow longer last night." Hekapoo pointed out as she noticed they could be further apart than before. "I think we got a good 9-10 meters now." She tested it out as she dusted off the ash that was on her before going over the dresser where Marco place her dress.

Opening the dresser she finds her dress and bra hanging neatly on the right hand side. She makes sure there is no more ashes left on her body and grabs her dress. Before she puts it on she looks over to her side and doesn't see Marco anywhere in his room.

'That's strange.' She thought to herself in her. 'Where's Marco? Marco, where are you?" she calls out to Marco.

"I'm right outside, beside the door."

"Why are you outside your room?"

"Are you still naked?"

Hekapoo looks down on herself and sees she is only wearing her underwear.

'Well, mostly I guess."

"Well then hurry up. I need to take a shower and then cook breakfast."

"Fine, whatever dad." She did what she was asked and put on her bra and dress as quickly as she could. "There done, you can come back in now Muscles. I'm all fully dressed now."

Upon hearing that Marco steeped back into his room and he indeed saw Hekapoo with her cloths on her this time. Looking towards the floor he saw both the ashes of his hoodie Hekapoo wore and a black scorch mark on the floor were Hekapoo did her own version of dry cleaning.

"Okay I'm going to have to start laying down some ground rules now."

"Wow what up, who said you were in charge of laying down the rules here?"

"This is my house, I can lay down the rules."

"Ah, correction. This his your parents' house. Not yours."

"Counter argument. I'm the one that takes care of the house and my parent would agree on the rules I'm laying down on you."

"Fine, point conceded. Just hurry up and tell me I'm starting to get really hungry right now."

"Okay then first is you need to stop setting yourself on fire. You keep burning the floor when you do that and we can't keep fixing it up."

"Then how will I clean myself then?"

"That's easy, you'll start using the showers. Come, I was going to the showers anyways so I'll show you how to use them."

Marco then leads Hekapoo to his bathroom and shows her what a shower is and begins to explain how to use it. Showing her which nob is hot and cold, the purpose of a shower curtain, explaining the difference between shampoo and conditioner and why you don't drink it no matter how nice it smells and pointing out the use of towels which she already knew about.

"Okay, that all makes sense and all but what is with this white seat doing over here?" Hekapoo asked as she walked over to the toilet.

"Oh, that's a toilet."

"What's it for?"

"Well you." Marco pauses as he looks away from Hekapoo "Do your business in it."

"What?"

"You know. Go number one and two in it."

"I don't get?"

"You… relieve yourself of your inner waste into it."

Hekapoo looked over the toilet once more then back to Marco. "You mean to tell me you humans crap and piss in this 'toilet' thing."

"Yes."

"Then why did you dance around the question like that. It's not like I'm some dumb royal brat or some bumbling King that can't understand something when it's explained to them or something like that."

"Sorry, I didn't mean it like that." Marco apologized. "It's just so weird to be explaining such things to. Wait a minute, do you even. You know, poop or pea?"Hekapoo smiled and even let out a small giggle at such a stupid question before answering Marco.

"Of course I do stupid but only like ones a week or so because my body usually burns off most things I eat so when I do I'd mostly just use a chamber pot, honey bucket, a bush or the classic holes in the ground. But looking at this thing I think I'll like it better than the other options. So how does this thing work and also. Why is there some rolled up parchment next to it?"

After one lengthy explanation on how to use a toilet as well as explaining the use of toilet paper. Marco was just getting ready to push Hekapoo out so he could finally start to take a shower.

"I see now but I still have one nagging question, where does it all go after you flush it down?"

Marco was about to answer her question on how it would go to a waste processing center but that would take too long and he really wanted to wash up and have breakfast so he decided to cut some corners in his answer.

"Nobody knows. Now out, I need to undress and wash up before I make breakfast for use."

"Fine then, but hurry up will you. I'm starving right now." Hekapoo groan as she walked out of the bathroom.

When Hekapoo did leave the room Marco began to undress his night cloths and then placed them in the laundry basket to be washed later. When Marco got into the shower and started washing himself he heard the door opening. Macro didn't even need to ask who was entering the bathroom because even with the curtains fully closed he could still see the silhouette of.

"Hekapoo! What the hell! Get out!"

"Sorry no can do. It's my time of the week and I want to try out this toilet thing."

"Fine then, but hurry up will you. It's wired that you're here."

"What, afraid you'll try to take a peek at my pink?"

"No, I'm afraid you'll try to take a peek at my D."

As of now an awkward silent filled the room with the only sounds being heard were that of the running water, on both ends with the odd plop in one of them. With Marco trying to block the sound of it as he did math problem in his head to distract himself. All the while he curses Janna for putting him this situation as he washes himself hoping Hekapoo doesn't do anything weird.

With nothing better to do as Hekapoo tries out the toilet for the first time in her live, which is saying something. She looks over to where Marco is showering, only seeing his silhouette. She can still see that he's franticly scrubbing himself clean as well as seeing the outline of his body. Which kind of looked off at certain angles for some strange reason, but she choose to ignore it.

'Does he think I'll try something on him? That kid really needs to learn to relax. I know, when I get back my scissors from Glosserick I'll take him to the Bounce Lounge and show him a good time on the dance floor. The kid needs it'

Finishing off her business she reached for the toilet paper roll and pulled off a few spares to clean herself off with the. Feeling relived she stand back up with toilet paper roll in hand Hekapoo couldn't help but admire the ingenuity of the human race.

"You know, when I get back I'm so going to make a mint by selling this to some royals and merchants in some dimensions. Oh, right that reminds me. Hey Marco!" Hekapoo called out.

"What?"

"I forgot what you do when you finish taking a shite?"

Marco really didn't like the way Hekapoo phrased that question but for simplicities sake he'd deal with it if it meant getting her out of here quicker.

"Just push the button that's on top of the toilet and also don't forget to wash your hands. I'll be done soon and I'll cook us some breakfast."

Doing as she was told reached for the button she saw on top of the toilet to flush it only for Marco to yell out.

"Wait! I FORGOT TO MEANTION THAT THE COLD WATER IS CONNECTED TO THE-" it was too late, Hekapoo hand already flushed the toilet. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

It all happened so fast that Hekapoo didn't understand what was happening. When she flushed the toilet like Marco told her but started to scream at her as if he was trying to tell her something important. Next second, Marco starts screaming like a girl and flinging himself out of the shower, along with ripping the shower curtains off with him.

Landing right in front of her with the curtain covering most of his lower reign she saw Marco was red in the face with his eyes wielded shut as the pain he was feeling was quite viable on his face.

"Marco! What the hell just happened? Are you alright?" as she bent down she was about to help Marco up he flinched away from her hands when they got close to touching him. "Marco, what's wrong?"

Marco now able to open his eyes looked towards Hekapoo with a dirty look of disgust and pain in his face and said. "Did you wash your hands?"

"You've got to be fucking kidding!"

She yelled out at Marco for making worry her worry about him. But seeing as he could still be so stingy about her needing to wash her hands before helping him. It showed that whatever happen to him wasn't too serious. So after washing her hands she went back and helped up Marco and helping him up he explained what had just happened and he then got dressed.

"So, are we going to eat now?"

"Yes, I'll be sure to make a big breakfast for us today because we have a big day ahead of us." Marco explained as they made their way down to the kitchen. Marco seeing the damage Hekapoo did yesterday was all fixed up. Hekapoo seeing the look on his face smiled with pride at her handy work.

"Yeah my clones got it all fixed up half way through the night, you're welcome by the way."

Rolling his eyes he walked over to the fridge to make something for breakfast.

"You're the one who burnt it down in the first place." He teased when he reached the fridge and saw a note from his parents attached to it.

'Marco sweetie. Your father and I are going on a little vacation and won't be back for some time but we trust you'll do fine on your own. Well not really on your own with Hekapoo there with you it'll be just like all those times with those exchange students we had before. So, while we have fun, have fun my son. See you soon. And don't forget, help Hekapoo get ready for school on Monday. And don't worry about the money, Moon gave us a lot of gold so we'll pay you back what you spent on her."

"What was on the paper Marco, anything important?"

"Nothing really. Mom and dad just went on some vacation somewhere. Most likely using the gold Mrs. Butterfly gave them."

"Oh, well… (stomach growling) whens the food going to be ready."

Getting to work Marco quickly got all he needed and started doing what he did best and what was cooking. With a crake of eggs and the sizzle of bacon along with other assorted food stuff. The air in the room began to fill with pleasant smell of food.

Hekapoo was quick to notice this was wondering what he was cooking as her mouth was watering like a waterfall but kept seated as she didn't want Marco to waste any time cook so she could eat sooner. It took a bit of time, more then she would have liked but when Marco stated walking over to the table with plates full of scrumptious looking food. She was no longer complaining about the wait any longer.

"Here we go." Placing all the plates of food on the table Marco saw the look Hekapoo was giving the food. Like a starved best ready devoured his pry whole.

"What is all of this?" Hekapoo asked in awe of the delicious food placed in front of her.

"Well, first off we've some pouched eggs alongside with some long crispy bacon strips and toast. Over here we have some Marco's epic homemade buttermilk pancakes with chocolate chips topped with again homemade whipped cream made by yours truly as well as a generous helping of Canadian maple syrup. And finally over here we had some sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes and more bacon. So let's dig in now."

"No need to tell me twice." Not even bothering to use the utensils Marco gave her Hekapoo dug her hands into every plate grapping a bit of everything before she shoved it in her mouth gorging herself to excess.

"Glad you like it. You'll be needing all the energy you can get."

"Vhat, Bhy?" Hekapoo asked with food bits falling out with every word she said.

"Because after this we going to the mall."

"Vhat's a gall? Blobo, bi der vennyor ov fid baycan?"

"Don't talk with your mouth full, it's rude and I can't understand half of what you're saying."

Seeing no other option she swallowed her food without shoving more in her mouth. "What's a mall? Also, is there anymore of this bacon."