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Star vs. The Forces of Evil: Staring it up!

Chapter 9

Family

Part 1

"Star! Marco!" Zora leapt from her chair upon spotting the two as they walked through the door of the room, unable to contain her joy and excitement, and crashed into Star, wrapping her arms around the princes' waist and hugging her with all of her strength. Star returned the hug with equal fondness while Marco stood by Star's side and smiled a warm smile, then join in on the hug.

Upon separation, the two teens noticed a gleam in Zora's eyes, her smile now a light frown.

"That man over there just came and took me to this place." Zora cast a sidelong glance at the man in question. He was a youth wearing a fancy uniform and observing the three from a distance, a thin smile on his face. "I was really scared..."

"We know you were, Zora, but don't worry, he's not gonna hurt you," said Marco with a reassuring voice, albeit he couldn't mask his discomfort with the situation. Zora nodded, feeling a bit less tense but far from calm. Star took notice of this and decided to take action. She calmly made her way over to the said man, who didn't seem to mind her sudden approach.

"Um, excuse me mister police officer, but what-"

"Oh, I'm not a police officer," he cut in. "I'm from the CPS."

"Fine, whatever." Star dropped her polite attitude, unappreciative of being interrupted mid-sentence. "Why'd you barge into Marco's house and take Zora?"

"Because it's my job," the man replied coolly. "I got a call about a small girl living with a family without any legal paperwork. As a member of the CPS, it's my duty to look into such cases and take action if need be, and there was definitely a violation of the law going on."

"I don't care about your stupid earth-laws!" Star declared with a stern voice, crossing her arms and narrowing her eyes angrily at the man. "We found her and took her to Marco's house and have been taking good care of her! You had no right to take her away like that!"

"I'm afraid that's not how it works, young lady," the man chuckled, amused by her naive statements. "I had every right. You should consider yourselves lucky that I didn't file an official report, otherwise you and everyone else involved in the matter would have gone to court and possibly prison, and I doubt you would want that, would you?"

Before Star could respond, Marco, who'd made their way over to Star and were now at her side, spoke up, "Alright, look. I understand the law perfectly fine. I've got most of it memorised," The man cast a surprised look at Marco, seemingly impressed, "But with all due respect, this... isn't exactly your typical case, sir."

"Oh?"

"You see, we didn't really kidnap her or anything since there wasn't anywhere to kidnap her from. Star I kinda just found her out in the woods, alone and freezing to death." Marco added in a much lower voice, "She probably would've died if Star and I hadn't been there. She got really lucky we spotted her, otherwise..." Marco declined to finish his sentence, shuddering at the thought of what might have become of the girl were he and Star too late.

"What!?" the man looked at Marco in alarm, his eyes wide and filled with shock. "In the woods!? Alone!?"

"Yep," both teens said in unison nonchalantly.

"Well- where!? When!? And why didn't you inform the local authorities about it!?" The man's voice rose with each question, as did his anger. The thought of someone deciding to harbour a young girl instead of informing the authorities was an inconceivable stupidity. "Do you have any idea how- how-how foolish of a decision that was? Her parents must be worried sick about her! And yet you-"

"Uh, I don't think her parents being worried about her is gonna be an issue..." Marco murmured awkwardly, lowering his voice so that Zora, whom he'd told to sit on one of the chairs while he and Star settled the issue, wouldn't hear him. "Her parents and her home are kinda not there anymore... as in gone. As far as we know."

The man opened his mouth to say something but was at a loss for words, and rightfully so. From what he understood, two teenagers had found a girl in the forest, discovered that her parents were dead and her home destroyed, possibly during some disaster, yet insisted on stowing her away instead of taking a smarter course of action and contacting the authorities.

Glaring at them, he said, "And yet you have the audacity to come here and ask me such foolish questions? What you people did wasn't just detrimental for the girl, it was outright ludicrous!"

"Detrimental? Ludicrous" Star chuckled drily. Those were strong words, ones that couldn't have been more wrong. "Ever since she's been with us, she's had a better time than ever."

"Really now?"

"Don't believe me? Fine by me! We'll just ask her. Zora!"

The young girl heard her name being called and dashed over to Star's side, happy to be included in the conversation.

"Yes?"

Star smiled sweetly at the girl and knelt down, looking her in the eyes.

"Zora, have you been having a good time since we brought you to Earth with us?"

"Mn-hmm." She nodded.

"And is it better here than at you old place?"

"Definitely!"

"There ya go!" Star declared to the man with a smug grin and a confident tone. He was not impressed.

"That's all fine and dandy, but the fact is that neither you two nor the adults of the household had any right to allow her to stay with you. Rules are rules."

"She's not even from this dimension!" Star yelled, waving her arms wildly. "As a matter of fact, she's from Mewni and she used to be a slav-"

"Star, shh!" Marco silenced his girlfriend, placing his hand atop her mouth. Things were crazy enough already, so mentioning the years of abuse Zora had gone through was unnecessary. Nevertheless, she'd said enough to gain his not in a good way.

"Not from this dimension?" He gave her a sceptical look, unamused. "And where exactly is she from if she's not 'from this dimension', hmm?"

"I've told you she's from Mewni!"

"Mewni? I've never heard of a 'Mewni' before."

Star rolled her eyes at the man's statement.

"Duh! It's a different dimension."

"That's cute," said the man, clearly mocking Star. A different dimension? Kids' nowadays really did come up with the craziest of lies to help get them out of a sticky situation. But Star was persistent and nodded.

"Yep. And since she's from another dimension, your rules don't apply to her! So ha!"

Thinking she'd won the battle, Star grabbed Zora's hand and was ready to bolt for the door and take her home, but the man stopped her before she could even move a muscle.

"Alright. And where's your evidence of the existence of this so-called Mewni? Hmm?" His eyebrows arched sceptically and his arms crossed, the man didn't bother masking his doubt. Star took notice of this and confidently reached into her pocket, extracting a pair of scissors and pointing them at the man's face.

"Watch and learn!"

She put a finger in each hole of the scissors and began cutting the air with confidence, eyes closed, expression calm and composed. Once she was done, she spun around and said confidently, "What do you think of that?"

"Well, I'm not quite sure what cutting the air was supposed to accomplish, so not much."

"Huh?" Star spun her head around and was the surprising absence of a portal to Mewni. She tried cutting it open again but the thing refused to appear. "What the-" Startled, Star tried vigorously to cut open a portal to her home dimension, but the scissors refused to work.

"Lemme try."

Marco took them in hand and tried cutting open a portal, but the result was the same. The scissors, for whatever reason, weren't working.

Both teens bore perplexed looks that soon turned into looks of frustration. Out of all the times that the scissors could have decided to not work, it had to be now.

The man was staring down at them, tapping his foot impatiently.

"Ok," began Star, "Since this isn't working, I'll just use my wand to-" as she reached into her back pocket to extract the magical object, she slumped and made a dull expression of annoyance. "Right... Jackie took it..." Star slapped herself and dragged the hand down her face. "Great... Just great..."

"Uh..."

"Well then," the man spoke up. "If that's everything you two have to say, then I'll just be on my way and start making arrangements for a foster family for the girl. Now, please be on your so that-"

"We're not going anywhere without Zora!" Star snapped back, standing her ground and taking the girl's hand. Zora seemed both happy and nervous that the two - especially star - were trying so valiantly to get her back. While Star's approach was more direct and further angered the man, Marco chose a more diplomatic route as he cleared his throat and grabbed the man's attention.

"Could we list ourselves as a foster family for her?"

"After pulling that stunt, you should be thanking me for not filing a case against you people. Now I'd suggest you leave the premises before I change my mind!"

Star released Zora's hand and stepped closer to the man so that only a hairsbreadth now separated them. She looked up at him, her expression stone cold and without fear.

"No," she said with a flat tone. "Either she leaves with us or we don't!"

"The law-"

"I. Don't. Care!" Star declared, stressing every word. She poked the man in the chest with her finger, her fierce gaze still unyielding. "You are not taking her away from me!"

Something about her tone troubled Marco. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, but something was definitely off.

"Star," he said calmly, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Calm down. There's no need for-"

Whipping her head around, the irises of her eyes thin and oval shaped, Star let loose a maddened hiss, as though possessed by some strange demon. One couldn't really call Marco a coward for screaming a surprised yelp of terror and stumbling backwards onto his buttocks. Even the man CPS agent took a defensive step away from the Mewman princess, and the other personnel who were nearby looked at the happenings, curious to know what was going on. The only individual in the room whose reacting wasn't of the same sort was Zora, the little girl calmly remaining by Star's side.

"Did you just hiss at me!?" Marco yelled at his girlfriend, trying to find some logical explanation for her action, but looking for it was like searching for a puddle of water in the middle of a drought. Marco could tell just by looking into her eyes that Star Butterfly was absent, replaced by whatever the heck this was. To further solidify his suspicion, Star's skin assumed a deep purple shade and a set of purple wings sprouted from her back. At first, Marco thought it was just her Mewberty triggering again, but he soon noticed a few distinct differences as the princess transformed: instead of just the one set of three-piece wings, two additional sets sprouted from her back. Each of her now six arms became covered by some thin glowy membrane and the topmost hands featured a set of sharp claws that looked as though they could tare through sheet-metal. Her hair turned pitch-black and instead of two butterfly-antennas were two spikes, each resembling a morningstar. Her eyes were now those of a feral predator, and to complete her predatorial look was a set of razor-sharp teeth. The creature, for Marco could hardly call it Star butterfly at this point, let loose a paralysing shriek aimed at the CPS agent, and Marco noticed a rather awkward area of his pants turn a few shades darker.

"Oh my Lord!" a police officer who'd been watching them yelled, reaching for his gun.

"What is that thing!?" another added, a step ahead of his colleague, his gun loaded and aimed at the monster.

"Cool!" Zora exclaimed, her face beaming with amazement.

Before Marco could attempt to explain what was going on - or what he thought was going on - he heard a gunshot and looked towards his transformed girlfriend, fearing the worst. To his relief, relief being a strange feeling given the circumstances, 'Star' had reacted to the danger with an unparalleled speed, firing a blast of energy from her mouth that disintegrated both the bullet and the police officers gun. Before the other policemen could follow up on their colleague's actions, Star's eyes glew with an intense violet colour and all of the policemen found themselves unable to move or even blink, as if they'd been turned into stone statues. The only three people unaffected by the monster's power were Marco, Zora and the CPS agent, who tried making a break for the door. He never reached it, for Star picked up Zora with tender care and smiled a kind smile at the girl, hugging her close to herself, then bolted past Marco, knocking him over, and used another set of arms to weave some kind of purple lasso used it to tie the fleeing man up, then took hold of the rope with two hands and flew headfirst at the wall, breaking through it like it was paper, and dragging the terrified man with her, soaring high into the sky, flying rapidly away from the police station, baffling all onlookers who noticed her.

Marco picked himself up, rushed out the door and watched helplessly as Star flew away with Zora safely in her arms and the rope that was suspending the man in her clutches, the latter screaming in terror and begging her not to drop him.

"Oh boy... This isn't good..."

To be continued...


Momma Star is in da house :D!