A/N: Awesome news! I had to check out my TV Tropes page yesterday for another fanfic (There's a joke about my TV tropes page... it deals with Deadpool so makes sense in context...) and found out this has a page! So check it out and add some stuff if you want to. Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 13: Battle Before the Blood Moon Ball

Luffy laid on the roof of Echo Cheek Academy, taking a nap. IT was a nice sunny day. That was when he heard a noise that woke up. He got up and saw that the ground had opened up in the handicapped spot in the parking lot with flames shooting out.

Luffy's eyes winded as he saw a carriage popped out of the flames.

He knew only one person who could do that… well a few but the only who would show up at the school.

He took out his mirror and scissors. This required all three brothers.

The person who arrived in the fiery carriage entered the school causing many of the girls to practically drool at him.

Because he was a very teenage boy, in more ways than one.

Even if he had three eyes, purple skin, pink hair and horn.

"Hey Star, I'm here to take you to the Blood Moon Ball." Said the guy making a moon shape with fire.

She pushed him out of the school while repeating "Nope! Nope! Nope!"

She got the carriage and used her wand to rip off the door and pushed him into it.

"You need to leave right now! Take your fire and your carriage and your dead horse back to the under world!" said Star.

"Wait! I'm dead." Said the horse.

The two barely stared at the horse then went back to their conversation.

"Oh come on Starship!" said the guy who then used flames to pick up Star and drop her in his arms, "IT's the Blood Moon Ball, it only happens once every 667 years."

"We broke up! Period." Said Star.

Before the guy could say any moiré, he heard "Listen to her."

He froze as he turned around and saw the brothers, none were of them happy to see him. with Luffy punching his palm, Sabo hitting his pipe in his palm and Ace's hand on fire.

"Tom…" said Ace taking the lead as the oldest.

The guy named Tom laughed nervously then sighed.

"Look I get it, the whole older brother protecting the little sister." Said Tom, "And I was jerk but I'm in anger management."

The three brothers still glared at Tom.

"Look I've been anger free for 53 days." Showing off his button, "And I got a life coach, Brian."

A nice looing guy popped saying "Hey!"

"And a cute little bunny." Said Tom showing off a cute pink bunny.

"Oh it is a cute bunny." Said Star.

"Star!" said Sabo.

"Look I'm trying to better myself." Said Tom, "In fact if I tried to teach Luffy that… I wouldn't blow again."

""That's impossible." Said Ace.

"No as long as I work on myself. I won't blow at him like last time." Said Tom.

"No we know it's impossible because we've all been there." Said Sabo.

"It's hard not to get angry at that." Said Ace.

"It's like talking to a wall." Groaned Star.

It should be noted they're talking about teaching Luffy that directions don't work the way he thinks they work.

Since he was right there all of them knew not to talk about it directly.

"What are you talking about?" asked Luffy.

"Nothing." Said the four of them.

Luffy looked at Brian who shrugged.

"Look if I'm not genuine in trying to better myself, then may something strike me down." Said Tom.

That was when Marco suddenly showed up and karate chopped his hand off.

This angered Tom however Brian showed up to calm him down, helping him to walk it off as he was on fire and his eyes were growing and he was thankfully able to walk it off thanks to that that and petting his bunny.

"Marco calm down… this is Tom." Said Star.

"Wait Demon Ex-Boyfriend Tom?" asked Marco.

Then he noticed that her brothers were there.

"Okay… looks like you're here too." Said Marco.

"Nice to meet you Marco." Said Tom trying to be polite.

"Listen all he wants to do is take me to the Blood Moon Ball." Said Star.

"He wants to take you where!" yelled Sabo.

"You know about the Blood Moon Ball?" asked Tom.

"Just the basics… but I know what you're trying to do." Said Sabo.

"Oh boy." Said Tom.

Sabo tried to whack him with the pipe.

But Tom dodged.

"Look I know you're angry about this." Said Tom, "But I don't want to fight."

"Too bad." Said Sabo.

Luffy and Ace looked at each other and realized that Sabo would tell them later.

"Gum Gum Pistol!" called out Luffy going to punch Tom.

Tom caught the punch however.

"Come on Luffy! We were friends… you gave me that nickname Shawn! Remember." Said Tom.

"I thought your name was Shawn." Said Luffy.

"I know…" mumbled Tom.

Tom then had to dodge a fireball from Ace.

"You know…" said Brian, "Since you're just defending yourself you can fight back."

"Okay!" said Tom.

"Just remember to reign your anger in." said Brian.

"'I'll try." Said Tom said some surrounding himself in in flames.

Star watched and sighed grumpily.

"What's wrong?" asked Marco.

"We don't know if he's trying to pull something yet." Said Star.

"Oh come on their only trying to protect you." Said Marco.

"I know… you don't need to lecture me about how protective they are… I'm the same way towards them you know that." Said Star, "But this time he seems genuine."

Marco sighed when she said that.

"Look I'm going to give them a few more minutes." Said Star, "Then I'm going to stop them."

Marco nodded.

Tom meanwhile set out fireballs after the three of them, however, Ace counter with his own fireballs causing many explosions.

Sabo nodded to Luffy and the tow nodded.

They attacked Tom from behind. However he turned his head backwards.

"Dirty trick!" yelled Tom demonically.

"We're pirates." Said Sabo.

"I know!" said Tom calming down a little.

"You're a demon… why aren't you fighting dirty?" asked Luffy.

"Because I'm trying to better myself…" muttered Tom glaring at the rubber boy.

He shot fire at Luffy who managed to dodge by grabbing onto a nearby light pole.

"This is trying to better yourself!" yelled Sabo managing to get a good whack in with his pipe, "Trying to do that to my sister?"

Tom didn't answer. He just girted his teeth.

"Even if it does work, how do you think she'll feel knowing you did that?" asked Tom.

"She'll find out during the ball!" yelled Tom sending out fireballs at him, even melting part of his pipe.

However Ace managed to grab onto Tom and held onto him.

Tom looked and saw that Luffy's arm was stretched out behind him as Luffy ran towards him.

He watched in horror as Luffy's arm reached, and despite being held, he braced himself.

"Gum Gum Bullet!" yelled Luffy punching Tom hard.

Ace let him go.

That was when all of them were floating on the air.

"All right! That's enough!" yelled Star who was using her wand to make them all float in the air.

She took a breath.

"Okay I get that you three are worried about me." Said Star, "and I get that you're trying to a better person. But just let m think about going or not! It should be my choice."

"But Star!" said Sabo.

"I don't want to hear it." Said Star putting them down on the ground.

"Okay since the fight is over, why didn't you tell me I was dead!" said the horse.

They all stared at the horse, but got back at the topic at hand.

"Great! If you decided to go, just ring the bell." Said Tom.

He gave Star a little bell.

Tom went into his carriage and flames shot out of the ground. However he reached out with a little bell hammer.

"Oops, almost forgot the hammer." Said Tom.

With that the carriage went back to the under world.

Star looked at her brothers who looked away sheepishly.

Star pointed her wand at Sabo's pipe and magically fixed it.

She then sighed and walked away.

"Just give her time to calm down." Said Marco, "Don't worry I'll try to dissuade her from going."

Luffy and Ace looked at Sabo.

"I'm going to have to explain." He sighed.

"It would be a good idea." Said Ace.

Luffy took hos scissors and they went to Party's Bar (AKA Makino's place).

Makino looked at Sabo and Ace. She knew they would only come in if something happened.

"So what happened?" asked Makino.

"Tom showed up trying to win Star back." Said Ace.

"It's worse than that." Said Sabo.

Makino got the three drinks while he explained.

"I read about in the library, every 667 years the Blood Moon chooses two people to bind their souls together for all serenity, forcing the two fall in love." Said Sabo.

"Wait… then Tom is…" said Ace.

"Trying to basically brainwash Star into loving him." said Sabo.

"Why that!" yelled Luffy.

"You should tell Star." Said Makino.

"Well…" said Sabo.

"We already screwed that up." Sighed Ace.

"If we try to tell her right now she won't listen." Said Sabo.

"I doubt she'll even listen to Luffy, and everyone knows he can't lie." Said Sabo.

"Yeah." Laughed Luffy.

"Our only hope is that Marco disused her." sighed Sabo.

However it turned out Star did end up going… however Tom's plans didn't go as they went.

Sabo decided to called Star the next day just to see if anything happened at the ball if she went.

"Hey Sabo." Said Star knowing why he was calling.

"So did you go?" asked Sabo.

"So how was it?" asked Sabo.

"Tom was Tom." Grumbled Star, "And Marco showed up to protect me from Tom…"

"So did anything happen?" asked Sabo.

"Well when Marco decided to rescue me we ended up having this spotlight dance." Said Star.

"What?" asked Sabo becoming pale.

"What's wrong?" asked Star.

"It's nothing." Said Sabo deicing it was probably for the best Star didn't know.

"I just wish Marco would have trust me." Muttered Star.

"Sorry about yesterday." Said Sabo.

"It's fine." Said Star.

"I should get going." Said Sabo.

"Bye!" said Star, "See you soon for the thing!"

Sabo nodded knowing what she was talking about.

Sabo sigh once he hung up.

He would have preferred the Blood Moon not choosing her, but if it chose her to be with Marco… he can't deal with it.

In the short time of knowing him, Marco has already pretty much unofficially joined the family.

If his sister had to bound to someone, he was glad it was Marco. And he knew that the two of them would need his support in the future as they found out about the curse.

They might not be able to choose who they were in love with, but it really wasn't their fault… and it was something that Sabo knew and would never, ever blame Marco for it especially once the two would star to notice each other…

"My life is so weird." Sighed Sabo.

"We know!" said a member of his that was nearby.

"Hey I told you it was private time!" yelled Sabo.

Well he would put that all aside for now… because soon would be regular he and his family did. Something that might end up being very dangerous…

Next Time: It's time for a South Blue trip between the siblings and Marco comes along. However for some reason the island is swarmed with Marines. Why is swarmed with Marines and does it have to do with the reason why they're visiting the island? Find out next time!