Chapter 3: Monster Arm
Marco was lying on Star's bed lamenting his injury, he had broken his arm while training for an upcoming Karate Tournament.
"You shouldn't have tried to break so man y boards." Laughed Luffy.
"Yeah… I know." Muttered Marco looking at him, "How am I supposed beat Jeremy Birnbaum now!"
"Jeremy Birnbaum? Isn't that the talking bear that used to go through Star's parent's trash?" asked Luffy.
"You're going to have to tell me about that." Said Marco.
Star meanwhile was switching between pigtails and ponytails. That was when Marco looked at her and got an idea.
"Hey wait! You have a magic wand! You can fix my arm!" said Marco.
"I don't know." Said Star, "That's out of my comfort zone, I can give you a sweet set of pigtails."
"Pigtails!" groaned Marco.
"Or I could use the instruction book that came with my wand." Said Star.
Star grabbed a massive book from under her bed.
"Oh yeah! I forgot about that." Said Luffy.
"You have a book the whole time?" asked Marco.
"Yeah, all of the owners of the wand would write down spells they created, but it's a real mess." Said Star.
There was dust and bugs seen everywhere.
"It will take fever to find a bone mending spell!" said Star, "Oh wait here it is."
"Really?" asked Marco.
"It's written in some kind of accident language…" said Star then pointed her wand at Marco's arm resisting "Releasio Demonius Infestca!"
"I feel it working! My fingers re tingling!" cheered Marco as magic washed over his arm.
Then his arms turned into a horrifying tentacle causing Marco to scream.
"There's had to be something in the book!" yelled Star.
The tentacle began to move on it's own, causing problems.
It aimed for Luffy. However Luffy managed to catch it. He wrapped on his arms around it and started to punch it.
"Sorry Marco!" said Luffy.
"It's okay! I can't feel it!" said Marco who then realized at that Luffy, "Wait! Why can't I feel it!"
"I have an idea!" yelled Star franticly looking through the book.
"By the way! Do you think when we seprated from Marco that we can eat it?" asked Luffy.
The monster arm got even angrier and upped its attacks.
"Seriously?" asked Marco about Luffy's question.
After Luffy beat it up some more, they decided to talk about.
"This thing is bad." Said Luffy who was sitting on it.
"Well I can figure out a way to fix it." Said Star.
"Maybe I can go to school with you." Said Luffy.
"No!" yelled Marco, "Remember what happened last time you went with us."
"It wasn't that that bad." Said Star.
"Wasn't that bad!" yelled Marco, "He ate all of the food from the cafeteria, set off the fire alarm and mistook Miss Skullnick for one of Ludo's Henchmen and beat her up! Which is really weird because it was before Star turned her into a troll…"
"Be on your best behavior Luffy!" said Star.
"Okay!" said Luffy.
The smother warm began to writhe once again.
"Look nothing is going to change my mind about Luffy coming to school." Said Marco.
The next morning Marco was grumpy and scalded from an extremely hot shower, Star came down stairs looking worse for wear, and Luffy came in with a large piece of meat.
"You can come to school Luffy." Said Marco.
"Knew you would change your mind." Said Star.
They all went to school where Luffy kept to his best behavior, thankfully which mean slept through class thankfully waking up if the monster arm caused problems during class to beat it up.
Durring lunch however something else happened.
They were finding a place to sit down when they saw the school bully Lars beating up a rather nerdy boy named Francis.
Luffy looked at Marco and Star.
Both of them nodded, however before Luffy could stop the bully, the monster arm hit him.
"Who did that!" said Lars.
"Uh…" said Marco then the monster arm began to beat him up some more.
Lars ran away crying as the monster arm picked up Francis and cleaned him up.
The other students were impressed, even some of the girls taking an interest including the girl that Marco had a crush on Jackie.
Luffy stared at the monster arm still getting a bad feel from it.
Later at home the three of them hung out in Star's room.
Marco staring at the monster arm starting to like it.
"Yes! I found the spell!" said Star.
"Really?" asked Luffy.
"Uh… maybe you should test out first." Said Marco.
She took out a normal plant, pointed her wand at it and chanted "Returnino Armius Normaltecius!"
The plant then burned up, Luffy and Marco looked at each other.
"I'm going bed now." Said Marco.
"I'm going home later!" said Luffy, "Call me if Marco's arm starts causing problems again!"
Will do!" said Star who took out another plant to try it out on.
Over the course of the Star tried various variations of the spell until she found the right one, however Marco had come to love the monster arm due to how awesome it was.
Star and Luffy walked to the dojo where the torment was being held.
"Seriously?" asked Luffy.
"Yeah. Now he thinks the smother is cool after all I did to help him." said Star who was super exhausted.
"That thing is bad though." Said Luffy.
"I trust you… I think it's a bad influence on him." said Star.
They got to the dojo and sat next to Marco's friend Alfonzo a lanky boy in glasses and Ferguson, a rather fat red haired guy.
"You awful." Said Alfonzo.
"I stayed up two nights trying fix his arm." Said Star, "But does he thank me? No!"
The sensei introduce Jeremy who as it turned out was a little kid.
"That's Jeremy?" asked Star.
"He cant' be more than 8." Said Ferguson.
OF course Marco showed up seemly steeped in shadows.
"He has a monster arm! That's no fair!" yelled Jeremy.
"I know, isn't that cool." Said the Sensei.
The "match" was hard to watch, as watching a monster arm going again an 8 year was extremely one sided.
That was until the monster arm suddenly devolved a mouth.
"He beaten! Now finish him!" said the Monster Arm.
"What?" asked Marco.
"This is what you always wanted! Now devour his bowels!" said the monster arm.
"No not my bowels! I love my bowels!" cried Jeremy.
"I just wanted to win the tournament so he wouldn't make fun of me." Said Marco.
"If you're too weak to finish him, I'll just have to do it myself!" said the monster arm.
The smother arm ripped Jeremy shirt, and got ready to eat his bowels.
"Gum Gum Spear!"
That was when Luffy did a spear shaped kick to the monster arm forcing him to drop Jeremy.
"Oh I'm going to have fun devouring your bowels rubber boy." Laughed the monster arm.
Luffy looked at Star, it was to tell her to use the spell while he fought it.
However it turned out she was asleep, though to be fair which really shouldn't be that unexpected.
The monster arm grabbed Luffy and tossed him away.
However Luffy quickly recovered.
He stretched it arm in a way that it mimicked the way the monster arm moved.
"Let's do this!" said Luffy.
The stretchy arm and monster arm clashed, as Ferguson and Alfonzo tried to wake up Star, it took a bit but they splashed Alfonzo's drink her face to wake her up.
She saw that Luffy was fighting with the monster arm.
"Luffy!" she called out.
Luffy smirked when he saw that Star was awake, he jumped into the air and wrap his legs around the Monster Arm.
"Retunio Armius Normalrino!" called out Star hitting the monster arm with the spell.
"You can never get rid of me! I'm a part of you now!" yelled the monster arm as it slowly transformed back into a normal arm, "You can cure the symptoms but you can never cure the virus!"
"My arm! It's back to normal!" said Marco who then hugged it… then he realized it was still broken, "And it's still broken.'
"Don't worry! Milk will fix that right up!" laughed Luffy.
"Milk doesn't wok that way." Deadpanned Marco.
"Ha! A broken arm! That means I win!" cheered Jeremy showing it hand up into the air.
That was when what appeared to be a brass knuckle fell out his glove, and the sensei found it and picked it up.
"A brass knuckles? Really?" asked the Sensei.
"Brass? Really? That's gold." Said Jeremy.
"You two have brought shame to this proud and noble sport. Tis' a sad day for strip market dojos!" said the Sensei.
Jeremy stomped away eve threatening his own mother when she tried to cheer him up.
"What a turd." Said Ferguson.
"Should have listened to you two." Sighed Marco.
"Told you that thing was bad." laughed Luffy.
"Say… when it said it would come back that's nothing to worry about… right?" asked Marco.
"No… not at all!" said Star nervously.
And hopefully it would never return… right? Hopefully… At least Marco learned that it was evil… so there's that.
Next Time: How did Luffy get his powers as well as his hat... as well as getting his dream to becoming King of the Pirates? Find out next time!