Chapter 34: By the Book

Star had offended Glossaryck and he refused to talk to her. He was trying to teach her a spell that had complicated wand movements. Not only that but he locked himself inside a box of donuts and refused to come out. They tried many things, supernatural romantic comedies, making it seem like Star was getting attacked and other ideas.

They needed some outside the box thinking for this (pun not intended) and Star knew that Luffy was perfect… when thinking didn't hurt him that is.

He was blushing as he came up with an idea of how to get Glossaryck out of the box.

And that's when he came up with an idea however…

"I don't like it." Sighed Luffy.

"Well what is it?" asked Marco.

That was when it struck Star.

"You don't' mean?" asked Star.

Luffy nodded.

"Uh… what are you taking about?" asked Marco.

"You know how much Luffy love meat?" asked Star.

Marco gave her a deadpan look.

"Yeah…" said Star, "Well… let's just say a love of certain foods runs in the family…"

"Wait you don't mean…" said Marco.

"He loves crackers and donuts." Said Luffy.

"What…" said Glossaryck from the box.

"Okay… I have an idea… how to use him." said Marco.

"Uh…" said Glossaryck from the box.

Sometime later on a Marine Ship the box that Glossaryck was in sat on the deck. It wasn't any Marine ship however, it was Garp's ship.

Star, Luffy and Marco hid.

"Okay we have Garp open the box, grab Glossaryck and run out of here as fast as we can." Said Marco.

"Why is the book here again?" asked Luffy who was carrying via a backpack made of rope.

"He has to be in the same dimension as the book." Sighed Star, "He said that when we left."

"Why didn't we just leave it at the tree house." Said Luffy.

Star shrugged.

Garp walked passed the donut box when he saw.

He looked around and saw no one else was around. He grabbed the box and had a hard time opening the box.

"This better not be a prank!" yelled Garp.

After struggling for a few minutes, he finally got the box open.

"What the!" yelled Garp, "Why is there a blue man in a box of donuts!"

"I have my reasons for being in here… and if you want to blame any one blame that Princess." Said Glossaryck.

"Star! Are you here!" yelled Garp.

"He knows we're here…" said Star.

"This was a terrible idea…" said Marco.

"There you are!" said Garp finding the three.

"Son of a!" yelled Star.

However before Garp could torment them, a portal was cut open nearby.

Something flew out of it. No one could tell what it was, until it landed, it was a large eagle, holding on a very large spider… and riding the spider was Ludo now with a beard and wearing a potato chip bag.

"Ludo!" yelled Star and Luffy.

"Ludo's back!" gasped Marco.

"Yes am I." said Ludo.

"But I tossed you into the abyss!" gasped Star.

"She tossed you into the abyss!" gasped Marco.

"Yes you did!" said Ludo.

Star held up her wand, as Ludo held up his own wand. It was clear it contained the missing part of Star's wand now somehow green, it was also made of a hand bone holding the crystal embedded in a rock.

"You have a wand?" asked Star and Ludo at the same time.

"You both have wands!" gasped Marco.

"Okay, seriously Marco, that's getting annoying." Said Ludo.

"Yeah, he's right." Said Star.

"Star Butterfly you're coming with me!" yelled Ludo.

"What's with the Kappa." Said Garp glaring at Ludo.

"He's that guy who kept trying to steal my wand." Sighed Star.

"Who's the old guy." Said Ludo.

"Grandpa…" muttered Luffy.

"The one that did horrible things to you?" asked Ludo.

"Yeah…" grumbled Luffy.

"Hey!" yelled Garp, "What have you been telling people!"

"I'll have you know I heard it from one of my former henchmen who spied on your and heard he did terrible things!" yelled Ludo.

Garp began to walk away.

"I'm not helping you unless Luffy agrees to be a marine!" yelled Garp.

"Fine with me!" yelled Luffy.

"It's okay Luffy…" assured Ludo, "I know how it is with family relationships! You don't need him!"

"hey… shouldn't we be fighting!" said Star.

"Oh… right…" said Ludo, "As I was saying! Come with me or die Star Butterfly…"

However his wand caused him to be launched away.

Luffy took the book off his back.

"All right! You want the spider or the bird?" asked Luffy.

"How about you take on the bird since you can reach it if it flies. Said Marco.

Luffy nodded.

Garp's marines all heard the commotion and began to watch.

"What's going on?" asked one of them.

"A weird magic battle with Garp's not-grand daughter." Said one of the other marines.

"Oh year… magical princess from another dimension." Said the first.

"Rainbow Fist Punch!" yelled Star.

However before the fist could punch Ludo it deflated.

"No… no no… no…" said Star freaking out over her wand troubles.

"You call that a fist punch!" gloated Ludo.

Ludo began to shoot the wand at Star.

Meanwhile Marco was having a hard time against the spider due to the fact that well it could spin webs.

Luffy n the other hand was having an easy time fighting against the bird.

Glossaryck was watching the fight, he had a concerned look on his face.

"What's wrong?" asked Garp leaning against the wall next to Glossaryck.

"It's nothing." He said.

"Doesn't look like nothing." Said Garp.

"If you're anything like Luffy you wouldn't understand it." Said Glossaryck.

"Hey!" yelled Garp.

The wand fight still wasn't going well however.

"Heart attack." Said Star.

The hearts just covered Ludo, who then sent out a green beam at Star.

"This is the worse fight ever!" said Marco struggling in the web.

"Looks like she's having performance issues." Joked one of the marines watching.

All of the other marines scooted away from him.

"What…" said the Marine.

Garp punched the marine hard.

"Don't make a joke like that!" yelled Garp.

Everyone could tell what the real message of the punch was but no one said it.

Ludo managed to blast Star again sending her into a nearby wall.

"Now Princess, I give you a choice, come with me or die." Said Ludo.

Star managed to get up and shout "Warnicorn Stampede!"

However the spell just produced a tiny itty bity round unicorn.

"Fine it will be pretty hard to miss from here." Mocked Ludo.

He was about to attack however there was a shout of "Gum Gum Axe!"

Luffy leg was brought down hard on Ludo and he had a face full of deck.

"How…" whispered Ludo.

Luffy laughed and pointed to the eagle who was pretty beaten up.

Glossaryck knew he had to do this.

He whistled to the book and placed it at Star, it was the spell she was trying to learn.

Star knew that with her spells behaving as they were something with a complex incantation or in this case body movements might work.

She did the proper movements and then shouted "Warnicorn Stampede!"

A huge stampede of Warnicorns appeared and ran over Ludo.

"Awesome!" cheered Luffy.

"You did it!" said Marco.

"Yeah and all I did have read it from the book." Said Star.

"Well my work is done!" said Glossaryck going to dive into the book.

"Wait… I'm so sorry Glossaryck that I hurt your feelings!" said Star.

"It's fine… it was all part of the plan." Said Glossaryck.

"Wait… plan?" asked Star.

"You didn't hurt my feelings, I don't even have feelings." Said Glossaryck.

"What…" said Star.

"So everything was all part of a big plan." Said Luffy.

"You know what… none of it is important… Star learned the spell and everything's fine." Said Glossaryck looking right at Luffy when he said that.

He went into the book and Star, Marco and Luffy sighed.

"Okay… it seems like whatever's going is fixed… so unless all three of you want to join the Marines get off the ship!" yelled Garp.

"Okay! Okay! Fine!" yelled Star, "We're leaving!"

Star cut opened a portal and left.

However two things happened because of this particular fight.

The first is that Ludo discovered the book.

And the second was that Glossaryck was begging to realize something about Luffy.

And both of these things would eventually to come to a head soon… in fact at the same time… but that time was still a while away…

But when that time came... let's just say something big was going to happen…

Next Time: It's the Butterfly/Johansen family reunion. And of course Star brings her brothers and Marco. There's also a tradition of the game called Flags and this year Star is going to participate in a team with her bothers and Marco. But what happens when Star gets too competitive? Find out next time!