A/N: There's a few OCs in the chapter... which makes sense... as well... Sabo didn't have a canon crew so yeah... I'll talk about the ones that named after the chapter...
Chapter 23: Storm the Castle
It was a normal day for Star, Luffy and Marco… which meant exploring an unknown dimension. She was looking through the tubes of something and saw something.
"There's sandwiches in some of these!" said Star.
"Awesome!" said Luffy.
"Luffy! I can't reach!" said Star.
"Okay!" said Luffy.
"I don't know if we should be looking through these things." Said Marco.
"And waste a perfectly good sandwich? No way!" said Star.
Luffy got it out, Star was giving him a look.
"Luffy! Share it!" said Star.
"Okay…" said Luffy.
Before star could do anything to the sandwich the thing they got it from started moving… turned out it was a creature of some kind.
Luffy grinned at the creature.
"Gum Gum Pistol!" he called shouted punching the thing.
The creature glared at Luffy.
Ready to attack, however Luffy just grin and drew back his arms. "Gum Gum Bazooka!" he shouted giving the thing a double-palmed attack that sent it flying out of the cave they were in.
"All right! Sandwich time!" said Star, "You wand some?"
"No thanks…" said Marco.
"Your loss!" said Star.
She used her wand to cut the sandwich perfectly in half.
Luffy of course his half in one bite while Star savored her half.
"Oh you sure you don't want part of my sandwich it's really good!" said Star.
"I'm fine." Said Marco.
As they saw sat around eating, Marco couldn't help but to look at Luffy.
"What's wrong?" asked Luffy.
"I was just thinking about when you become a pirate." Said Marco.
"That's like 2 and a half years away!" said Star.
"I know… I know…" said Marco.
"What's wrong?" asked Luffy.
"It's just that I'm unsure what would have happened if you weren't here.: said Marco, "I mean you really laid the beat down on that thing…"
"I sure did!" laughed Luffy.
"What's going to happen when you become a pirate I mean…" said Marco.
"Look don't worry about it." Said Star, "Besides when we really need the help you know Luffy will jump at the chance to help us just like how Ace came over and help you with your beard."
"When you weren't arguing." Said Marco with a shudder.
"Look no matter what I will help you if need it, even when I'm a pirate." Said Luffy.
"I guess that's a good point." Said Marco.
"And it will be the same for me…" said Star.
Luffy smiled when she said that.
Later the Luffy parted ways with Marco and Star.
With Marco and Star going to the Diaz house and Luffy back to his tree house.
"Hey I have some homework to do." Said Marco.
"Eh… I'm going to take a nap." Said Star with a shrug.
"Okay… don't blame me when you get in trouble." Said Marco.
"Oh you!" said Star.
Star took her nap when she woke up she bemoaned her dream.
"Ice cream! Nachos? They're not real…" bemoaned Star, "Wait… or are they?"
She decided to look it up online using her pocket mirror.
"Oh my gosh!" she cried out.
She knocked on the door. But he didn't answer, so she peaked in and saw he wasn't in there.
"Marco! Marco! I discovered a recipe you have to try! Ice cream nachos! You coat the chips in cinnamon and sugar!" said Star.
But there wasn't a response.
"Mr. and Mrs. Diaz!" called out Star.
She looked down stairs and saw the two under blanket in the dark having some snuggle time.
"Uh… what you doing?" asked Star.
"Oh just looking at Rafael's old book of medical illustrations." Laughed Mrs. Diaz brushing it off.
"Weird." Said Star believing it, "Have you seen Marco?"
"I think he's walking the laser puppies." Said Mrs. Diaz.
"Have you tried calling his cellular telephone?" asked Mr. Diaz.
"Oh yeah." Said Star.
She called his phone using the house phone and they heard his distinct and happy ringtone Space Unicorn (it's meant to be ironic).
"It's coming form inside the house…" whispered Star.
She went up stairs taking the house phone with her.
She found Marco sitting on his bad while his cell phone still rang in the dark.
"There you are! Why is everyone sitting in the dark like a bunch of weirdy weirds." Said Star.
That was when Marco began to float up with no legs.
"Marco where did you put your legs." Said Star letting go of the phone.
"Marco" turned his head, revealing it wasn't Marco as all. But rather the Fly Like monster.
"If you ever want to see the boy alive again, bring your wand to Ludo's castle. And come alone." Said the Fly Like Monster.
The Fly like monster flew out the window.
"Hey kids! You're never going to believe but the phone punched me in the face." Laughed Mr. Diaz coming into the room.
He read the room and realized something happened, "Did you find Marco?" he asked while Mrs. Diaz showed up.
They called the cops, but they literally no help (the officer was condescending to Star about magic) and so Star realized she had to go rescue Marco alone and left to find him.
"We have to do something." Said Mrs. Diaz.
"Is there anyone we can call?" asked Mr. Diaz.
Then they realized a couple they can call.
They went up to Star's room and went to the mirror.
"Call Luffy." Said Mrs. Diaz.
"Calling Luffy." Said the mirror.
Luffy immediately picked up.
"Hey!" he cheered then realized he wasn't talking to Star.
"Wait… what's going on?" asked Luffy.
"Luffy… something happened." Said Mrs. Diaz.
They told him what happened and both of them were alarmed at Luffy becoming serious.
"And she's just going alone?" asked Luffy.
The two nodded.
Luffy gritted his teeth and hung up.
The two looked at each other wondering what was going on.
In the tree house.
"Call Sabo!" he told the mirror.
Sabo immediately picked up.
"Hey Luffy…" said Sabo then saw serious Luffy was, "What's wrong?"
"Can you do that thing where we can all talk?" asked Luffy.
"Okay…" said Sabo deicing not to make a remark about the fact that Luffy still didn't know how to do a conference call.
"Star and Ace?" asked Sabo as he fiddled with the mirror.
"Just Ace." Said Luffy.
Sabo knew whatever was going on had to with Star and nodded.
"Call Ace!" said Sabo.
It immediately split the screen on both mirrors.
"Hey!" said Ace, then he saw Luffy's face, "Okay what's going on."
"Someone kidnapped Marco." Said Luffy.
He told them the story he had gotten.
"It's clearly a trap." Muttered Ace.
"And I don't think this is Ludo." Said Sabo.
"Yeah…" agreed Luffy.
"We can't let her do this alone." Said Ace.
"I know!" said Luffy, "We have to help her!"
"Come on get us right away!" said Sabo.
"Okay!" said Luffy.
However what neither Ace or Sabo noticed is that both of their crews had listened into the conversation.
Meanwhile at what used to be Ludo's castle. Marco was being held in a crystal cage of some kind. He as strapped to a chair and struggled in it. The Lizard like monster sitting at the table nearby.
"Well looks like I said all the fun I had in here!" said Marco, "Oh wait!"
He spun the chair around and put his feet on a table.
"All right you got me! What are you going to do to me?" asked Marco.
"What?" asked the lizard like monster.
"Tell him what you're going to do to him Toffee!" laughed the fly like monster sitting on side of the chair that the lizard like monster was sitting on.
"Wait… did he say your name was Toffee?" asked Marco.
He remembered, remembered the name that Sabo told him.
The name of the monster that killed Star's grandmother.
"So you heard of me?" asked Toffee with a smirk, as he didn't expect it.
"Are you the one…" said Marco.
"Who killed Queen Comet? Yes, I am." Said Toffee with a smirk.
The monsters in the room looked at each other, confused by what was just revealed.
All color drained from Marco's face.
He thought he was dealing with someone like Ludo. He was dead wrong.
"What are going to do?" asked Marco.
"Nothing… if Star listens." Said Toffee.
Marco wasn't sure how to respond.
"I'm honestly surprised you know who I am… Star doesn't seem like the type who knows Mewni History…" said Toffee.
Marco didn't answer back.
"Now where did all that bravado go?" asked Toffee.
Marco still didn't answer. However that was when Toffee deiced to un-cuff him from the chair to allow Marco to relax a little.
"Would you like something to eat?" asked Toffee, "You should eat something…"
"I'm not hungry…" said Marco.
"Like I said, if Star does what I tell her, you have nothing to worry about." Said Toffee.
But Marco couldn't help but to worry… he had dealt with people trying to kill him before but those times he had Star and Luffy with him.
Both of their enthusiasm and brightness balanced it out, he couldn't help but to feel with those two around that everything was going to be okay.
He was all alone here… there was nothing to assure him that…
And he was terrified.
He could only wait for Star.
And she did show up in the company of Ludo, Buff Frog and a bunch of tadpoles that Buff Frog was carrying in a fountain.
Long story short: Ludo tried to bribe Buff Frog into taking his castle back with the tad poles (making him an adoptive father), but Star showed up, and the two decided to help with Ludo trying to get his castle back and Buff Frog having had to deal with Toffee and realign he was a danger helping him out of the goodness of heart for both Star and his found family.
"All right you damn lizard! bastard" yelled Star, "Give me Marco back or I'm going grid your asses into grass!"
"So you made it." Said Toffee.
However Star just blasted Toffee's arm off.
She glared at the army of monster ensemble.
However that was when there was a large explosion knocking down part of the wall behind Star.
Star turned around thinking it was part of Toffee's plan.
It wasn't.
Out the smoke of the explosion a large group of people and one large lynx appeared.
Star saw who made up the group, it was her brothers and their pirate crews, the Spade Pirates and the Blue Freedom Pirates.
"What are you doing here?" asked Star surprised.
"Marc's parents called me." Said Luffy.
"And Luffy called us." Said Sabo.
"We're not going let some monster take him." said Ace.
"Marco's one of us!" said Luffy.
Marco looked at the large ensemble group trying not to cry.
Ludo decided to use this distraction to try to steal Star's wand.
Star just lightly kicked him away.
"Why did I agree for his help." Muttered Star glaring at the kappa.
However several members of the ensemble crew looked at Buff Frog.
"He's actually trying to help so lay off him." said Star.
The monsters looked at the assembled group and decided they had no other choice but to fight.
"All right! Is everyone ready!" yelled Luffy.
The crews all nodded and the fighting began, it should be noted the combined pirate crews had more people than the monster army so a couple of them could break away form the fighting and do their own thing…
Which was important.
However that is to say that there wasn't any fighting.
One of the monsters were fighting the large lynx.
"Why is there is a large cat here!" yelled the monster getting attacked by the lynx.
"His name is Kotatsu!" said Masked Deuce.
"I don't care about that!" yelled the monster.
That was when one of the monsters took out a chainsaw.
However Luffy just used Gum Gum Pistol on the monster. IT was quite easy.
"Awesome work!" said Star as she turned one of the monster into an adorable ball of cuteness.
Luffy smiled.
Marco watched knowing that despite he was being held by a killer, this was what he needed.
That was when he heard a knocking, he turned and saw a rather large burly man with red hair knocking on the wall of his cage.
He then said something… however he had an accent that Marco sounded either Irish, Scottish or a mix of the two. But it was so thick he couldn't understand a word he was saying.
"What…" said Marco.
The man then took out what looked to be bombs.
He laid them around the cage, he then said something again.
That was Gregor, the bombs expert of the Blue Freedom Pirates.
"I'm sorry I still can't understand you." Said Marco.
"He said you might want to take cover." Said a woman with navy hair and pair of thick black glasses speaking in a somewhat monotone.
That was Darla, the doctor of the Blue Freedom Pirates, she was also one of handful of members that understood Gregor (along with Sabo among them, it was probably a really good idea for the captain to understand his accent).
Marco did so and the bombs went off, however it didn't damage the cage.
"Well that did a whole lot of nothing." Said Darla.
"Aye…" sighed Gregor.
Star saw this and knew she had to do something.
"Super Sonic Leech Bombs!" yelled Star sending out strange leeches at the cage. However once again it didn't blow up.
The monster army realized it was their chance and upped their attacks despite still being out gunned (with some of their opponents using guns).
At one pointed Buff Frog managed to stun one of his opponents (who was actually happy to see him, even if they were on opposing forces), however another one tired to attack him from behind.
However thankfully Koala managed to save him, with a punch that barely seemed to touch the monster but was able to send him flying.
"Oh thank you." Said Buff Frog.
"No problem." She responded with a smile.
She looked at the tad poles in the fountain and smiled at them.
Meanwhile Star managed to jump the chandler, and used her wand like a rocket launcher. However the explosion once again did nothing.
Everyone was in shock, after all it withstood a set of bombs and two explosive spells.
Star on the other hand was pissed.
She jumped back to the floor, she closed her eyes. Her cheek marks began to glow as did her wand.
She launched a spell that did destroy the cage.
'Marco!" cheered Star now that it was broken.
Star ran towers him and Luffy joined her.
She ended up accidently tackling Marco.
"Sorry got excited!" giggled Star, "Let's get out of here!"
Star was the first one to leave the remains of the cage.
Then the glass re-grown, trapping not only Marco, but Luffy as well.
"What! No! No! No!" cried Star.
"Star it's fine…" said Luffy.
He took out his scissors, however it's clear that it didn't work. Everyone's eyes widened when it happened.
"Are you done yet?" asked Toffee getting up.
Everyone watched in horror as he got up his arm completely rearmed.
"What the…" said Ace.
"A Septarian…" said Sabo, "They're one of the most dangerous monsters in Mewni."
"Why?" asked a member of their crew.
"Because it's nearly impossible to kill them." Said Sabo.
The crew's quickly realized that no matter how they tried, it was going to be an impossible fight.
"Very good." Said Toffee, "I take it you're the one that him about me."
"Wait… told him…" said Sabo.
Then he noticed that Toffee was missing a finger.
"Wait… are you Toffee?" asked Sabo.
"I am." Said Toffee with a smirk.
"Oh no…" said Koala as she and several members of his crew (who decided to listen him on his conversation with her about Mewnipendance Day and why things were complicated between Mewmans and Monsters) paled.
"Who is he?" asked a large female member of the Spade pirates named Banshee to Ace.
"I have no idea." Said Ace but realizing what ever it was, it wasn't good.
That was when Toffee took out a remote.
He took out a remote and pressed the button.
The cage began to slowly sink into the ground.
Star looked at the Cage and readied her wand.
"That cage is twice as strong as before." Said Toffee sitting back down, "Not to mention Dimensional Scissors won't work in there… but you already saw that…"
The fly like monster tired to bring in a stack of pillow but he glared at the Fly Like monster who flew away.
Most the pirates looked at each other, then Ace pointed at Ludo and everyone nodded remembering that used to be his castle.
Luffy had used Gum Gum Balloon to try to slow it down but it wasn't working.
Star jumped on the table dropping the wand on a plate in front of Toffee.
She didn't know who Toffee was or what he was to her family but it was clear… he meant business.
"Are you nuts!" yelled Ace.
Sabo gritted his teeth, he would have said something, but he knew for a fact that he was not agreed to kill them.
He let out his rage at what going on by going to cage and try to destroy it with his pipe… it wasn't going to work, but he knew had to do something.
"Take it! Let them go!" said Star.
However that was when Ludo jumped on the table trying to grab the wand, however one of the few monster uninjured from the fight grabbed Ludo by it's mouth.
"Do you honestly think I'm, like Ludo?" asked Toffee who then turned to the Chicken Like monster, "Just swallow it.'
"Why did you bring Ludo in again?" asked Ace.
"I needed a guide! Okay!" yelled Star.
He took a breath and pushed the wand to Star.
"I don't want your wand. Destroy it." Said Toffee.
"What?" asked almost everyone in the room in shock.
"Surprise!" said Toffee with a demented grin.
"But… but I don't' even know how." Said Star.
"Yes you do…" said Toffee, "It was the first spell your mother ever taught you."
"The whispering spell." Said Star.
"Exactly." Said Toffee, "Marco and Luffy are waiting."
Star looked at the cage. It was very close to crushing the two, as several members of both crews joined in trying in vain to destroy the cage.
"I'm sorry…" she said.
She began to whisper something to the wand as turned grey, the wings began to whither and the crystal turned black.
That was when the wand popped open and a ghostly unicorn popped out. The ghost wandered around Star then whispered something to her causing her to cry.
Star wiped away her tears.
"Now let them go!" said Star.
Toffee took out the remote, the cage returned to its normal height and a door opened.
Star ran towards the cell and shoved them both to the ground.
"Either come in here or run!" yelled Star, "Those are the choices!"
Gregor looked at the wand, and he realized something, he yelled out something then joined the three in the cage.
"He said that wand is going to blow!" translated Sabo.
The crews decided to join them in the cage.
Buff Frog grabbed the tad poles and decided to run. He looked at Star and nodded.
Everyone from both crews made it into the cage, it was an extremely tight fit but they did and managed to manually shut the door.
Toffee paid no attention to them however.
"Well Gentlemen… it's been a pleasure." Said Toffee with a smirk.
The wand began to shake almost ready to blow up.
The monsters all panicked with the chicken like monster running away while laying an egg.
Toffee just smiled at the wand as it got ready to explode.
And soon it did, completely obliterating the castles and everything in it… except two things, one was the cage, adept it was blackened. Thankfully the door opened and everyone left the cage.
"Look" said Star pointing to the other thing the survived the blast, the egg that the Chicken like monster laid, and it was about to hatch, "Nature."
However when it hatched it wasn't a baby chicken like monster but rather Ludo who was screaming as he hatched. None of the pirates winced (the Grand Line is one weird place), but the three teens did.
"Where's my castle?" asked Ludo.
"It's gone." Said Star.
"And the wand?" asked Ludo.
"That' gone too." Said Star.
"Everything?" asked Ludo, "We're no longer friends."
"We were never friends." Said Star.
"You are now my mortal enemy!" said Ludo taking out his dimensional Scissors, "This day I vow!"
She opened up a portal, and dumped both him and tossed his scissors away.
"Did you just toss away those scissors." Said Masked Deuce.
"I've already done so much wrong today! I'm not getting in tubule with Hekapoo on top of it!" said Star.
That was when something crashed into the ground nearby like a meteor.
Star ran towards it. With Marco and her brothers following.
Other members of the crew tried to follow woman with black hair and sky blue streaks said "Stop!"
She was Molly, the first mate of the Blue Freedom Pirates.
"It should be the family and the family only." Agreed Mask Deuce.
"What about Marco?" asked a man with extra long arms, he was Ganryu, a member of was what known as the Long Arm Tribe (they had extra long arms).
"I think by this point he should be considered part of their family." Said Koala.
"Plus you know… the whole getting kidnapped thing." Said Darla.
The other pirates nodded letting the family have their time.
With the family they came across the "meteor" which of was the remains of the wand.
Star looked at it, and Marco hugged.
That was when a voice said "Scusami" they looked down and saw a tiny horse who seemed to be having an internal monologue of some kind, he took out a horn out of a brief case, and put his hair in a ponytail, then walked towards the wand and entered it.
Everyone looked at each other all confused by what was going on.
Until the wand sunk down into the ground they all entered the crater to see if something was going on, then crystal emerged from the ground.
A large one seemed to have something in it, and it opened up.
Revealing the Wand was there. It was much lighter in color, with a purple ribbon like pattern on the handle, the wings were much bigger, the charger was now gold.
However the most important thing was that it was missing half of the center crystal.
"You got it back!" said Luffy with a big grin.
"Upgrade!" said Marco.
"Hey which is worse: Magic or the Grand Line." Joked Ace.
"Don't make me choose." Laughed Sabo.
That was when they all heard the sound of hoof beats. And soon they were surrounded by knights.
"Marco!" cheered one of the knights running to hug.
"Do I know you?" asked Marco.
"Marco it is me." Said the knight life the helmet revealing Mr. Diaz, "I am your dad!"
"My dad!" cheered Marco relived to see him.
Another knight rode in, which was Mrs. Diaz, "Oh my turn!" she said then she fell and was dangling upside down, "Just come here and hug your mother."
"This is so awkward mom." Said Marco not anting to hug her upside mom.
"It's not awkward, don't make this awkward." Said Mrs. Diaz.
"How are you here?" asked Star.
"The same way they got in contact with Luffy." Said yet another knight who lifted his visor revealing King River, "They used your mirror."
After briefly letting the crews back home so, the siblings joined Star in meeting with her parents.
After Queen Moon asked King River to not talk thanks to teeth whistling problem he had she approached Star.
"Star you have abused your magic, frightened Mr. and Mrs. Diaz and destroyed your wand. Did I leave anything out?" asked Queen Moon.
"Well there's a lot of other stuff you don't know about…" trailed Star.
Marco, Sabo and Ace all made various creatures to get her to shut up, while Luffy just laughed.
"No I think that's everything. But look!" said Star holding out the wand, "The wand's fine… mostly."
Queen Moon looked at the wand and grabbed it.
"I'll have it cleaned." Said Queen Moon.
"Please don't' be mad… that looks like a mad face…" said Star.
However Queen Moon hugged her.
"You're not mad?" asked Star.
"Oh I'm always mad…" replied Queen Moon with a slight smile, "But I'm happy your safe."
The horse that Mrs. Diaz was on whinnied and she knew she had to apologize.
"I'm sorry I made you worry Mr. and Mrs. Diaz." Said Star.
"We're just glad everyone's okay! I'm on a horse!" said Mrs. Diaz.
That was when the horse ran away taking her along.
Marco and Mr. Diaz ran after her.
"Uh…" said Star.
"Go after them." Said Queen Moon.
"Come on!" said Luffy.
Star, Luffy and Ace chased after them however Sabo remained.
"IS there something you need to tell me?" asked Queen Moon becoming concerned.
"I think you should at least know that one who kidnapped Marco was Toffee." Said Sabo.
Both Queen Moon and King River paled considerably.
"Are you sure?" asked Queen Moon.
"It was him." said Sabo, "And he did nearly kill both Marco and Luffy."
Queen Moon wasn't sure how to reposed to it.
"They're both fine… and in my profession that's considered a big win." Said Sabo with a shrug,.
"Wait… what is your profession." Said Queen Moon realizing that she had no idea what Sabo's job was.
"Oh! I should really help the Diazes…" said Sabo who then ran away.
"do you know what he does?" asked Queen Moon.
"No clue." Said King River who clearly lying.
She groaned but knew there were other things to take care of.
She called Glossaryck to tell him what happened. They told them that the Wand was Cleaved, he talked about how cleaved had two meaning bringing some together or tearing it apart.
For the sakes of everyone's sanities it best not mention how that worked.
However they realized that there was a missing part of the wand. And not only did they not know where it was… but they didn't know that it was somehow corrupted…
And indeed a new problem had arrived, one that would slowly but surely cause problems in the future.
Next Time: Star's wand is on the fitz! How bad it is! Well it flew into her secrets closet and pushed Marco and Luffy with it. Will she be able to get them out? Find out next time!
A/N: Okay the three named crew members:
Gregor: Out of the three named he's my favorite. A bomb expert with accent most of the crew can't understand he's a really nice guy and knows his accent is hard to understand and is happy that there are members who can understand him and translate for him. Sabo also put him in charge of punishments for the majority of the crew... it takes the form of having meals with him and "listen" to his story. Most of the time trolls the crew member and comes up with something random or just speaks gibberish.
Darla: A cynical doctor who speaks in a dull tone and is often tired of everyone's shit. She's also among the few who can understand Gregor (as shown in the chapter). Not much to say about her.
Molly: I literally created her on the spot... I wanted a first mate and mix it up by making her a woman. I knew his first mate had to have a role (no matter how small) but yeah... I have come up with ideas, unsure when I'm going to execute them though...
I hope you liked them! And onward to Season 2!