Chapter 60: The Boys and the King

In the Diaz house, Ace and Luffy were waiting for the call. Sabo's mission had finally ended. And once everything was done reporting wise he was going to call them for Luffy to open the portal.

Then Luffy's mirror rang.

"Hey!" said Sabo.

Luffy opened the portal and Sabo stepped through it.

"Where's Marco?" asked Sabo.

"He had to grab something form his room." Said Ace.

"He's taking too long." Said Luffy, "He's been up there for five minutes."

Inside Marco room he was staring at the thing he wanted to grab. He was unsure if he should just do it now, or when he really needed it.

"Should I?" he thought, "After what happened with the Celestial Dragon it's my best bet… but at the same time I have no idea what it will do… it might turn out useless."

"Hey Marco! Sabo's here!" called out Luffy.

"I'll use it if I have to." Thought Marco putting the item in one of his hoody pockets.

"Coming!" he called out.

He headed downstairs where they were waiting.

"All right are you ready?" asked Marco.

They all nodded.

They made a portal to the castle and found it was a mess.

"What happened?" asked Marco.

"Boys!" cheered River hugging Marco and Luffy, "Have any of you seen Foolduke's monkey?"

"Uh… no…" said Marco.

"So let me guess, wild party." Said Ace with his eye twitching.

"You're a mess!" said Sabo.

"What are you talking about! I'm perfectly fine." Said King River.

"That's a lie." Said Luffy pouting.

"No I am perfectly fine!" said King River.

"Do you know where Moon and Star went?" asked Sabo.

"No… sorry, she left me in charge of the kingdom." Said King River, "So I've been throwing a no stop party to keep morale up!"

"But did she tell you why?" asked Sabo cornered.

"No she didn't." said King River, "Did she tell you?"

The four looked at each other.

"Uh… she didn't but Star told Luffy." Said Marco.

"Let's talk bout it somewhere no one can hear us." Said King River.

"Are you sure anyone can hear us here?" asked Ace.

They looked and saw everyone in the room was passed out.

"Probably still a good idea to talk about this privately." Pointed out Sabo.

They went into another room where no one was.

"Do you know why Moon Pie left?" asked King River.

Sabo took a breath, even though he wasn't one of the ones who heard it personally.

"River, Toffee is back." Said Sabo.

"What!" cried King River, "No! No! No!"

The three that didn't know who Toffee was before the incident were concerned.

"That's why she left only leaving my outfits." Said King River.

"Leaving you outfits?" asked Marco.

"Every time Moon Pie leaves for a trip she leaves an outfit so that I can dress appropriately." Aid King River, "but…"

He showed them so many outfits.

"And with Toffee returning… can I do this?" asked King River, "I know I've been giving the kingdom hope with my parties…"

Sabo looked outside things did not look good. The people were screaming with fires burning.

"Uh.,.. are you sure it's working?" asked Sabo.

"Why yes a kingdom is happy if their king is happy!" said King River, "I'll show you!"

He went the balcony.

"People of Mewni!" he called out.

The people managed to calm down a little to listen to him.

"My… uh… daughters brothers ." Said King River, "Think that you're not having a good time right now. And I told them that you are! So of course you're having a good time with the spirits that I have been lifting! So are you having a good time."

However King River began to sob and break down before the Kingdom could respond.

"I'm sorry! I've just been given news that I can't pretend that my spirits have been lifted!" cried King River.

"Maybe we shouldn't have told him about Toffee." Sighed Sabo.

"You're the only who told him." pointed out Ace.

The people looked at each other began to panic.

After all they could deal with the King's goofy antics and be angry and annoyed but immediately knew that something was very deeply wrong.

"The garbage in the streets, the cottage is burning, there's a monster in the corn field and the King is acting strangely!" yelled one person in the crowd.

"We're all doomed!" yelled another.

The people began to panic. Especially because of the fire, the garbage in the streets and the giant monster in the cornfield.

"I'm going to stop the monster." Said Ace.

"I'm getting a fire extinguisher." Said Marco.

"Wait about the garbage?" asked Sabo.

"Do either of you want to handle it?" asked Ace.

Sabo and Luffy shook their heads no.

"Go comfort River, he needs it right now." Said Ace.

Sabo and Luffy nodded since they knew he was right.

However King River had shut them all on the balcony.

Thankfully Luffy was able to squeeze though the window and opened the door for Marco (so he could find the fire extinguisher) and Sabo.

"Moon Pie is gone." Said King River, "I don't know if she'll ever come back with Star… not with THAT monster there!"

"That's why we need to find them." Said Sabo, "Star needs us right now."

"Be we can't leave you like this." Said Luffy.

"Yeah… you're prettily our dad… no matter how we publicly deny it." Said Ace.

"You beat the monster that fast?" asked Sabo.

"Didn't have to." Said Ace.

(Flashback)

"Get out of this ordeal you monster or I'm going to have to kick your ass!" yelled Ace.

"Oh sorry… I didn't notice I was walking through the cornfield." Said the Monster, "My bad… sorry…"

"Oh…" said Ace he sighed, "Sorry about the threat."

"No it's all right." Said the Monster.

And the monster left.

(End of Flashback)

"So yeah… that happened." Said Ace.

"I can't find a fire extinguisher!" yelled Marco.

Then they heard a whooshing sound from outside and screaming.

"The fire spread to the garbage pile." Said Marco.

"What am I supposed to do!" yelled King River, "I've always had Moon to guide me. The people aren't safe and happy, the kingdom is going to burn."

"We all know you can do it." Said Ace.

"He's right." Said Marco.

"If you can teach Luffy how to survive the woods of Mewni you can figure out how to stop a giant garbage fire." Said Sabo.

"You have to lead your people to save everyone." Said Marco.

"But they hate me!" yelled King River.

"I think they're more freaked out by you're oppression right now." Said Ace.

"Oh yeah…" said King River.

"Look because you don't have a fire department, I don't know if there's any other way." Said Marco.

"All right!" said King River.

He went outside.

"My people!" yelled King River.

Someone threw a piece of corn.

"I know I haven't been a good king!" yelled King River, "And I am still freaking out right now… but we have to put out that fire!"

"How do we do that!" yelled someone in the crowd.

"I know for a fact that when you work together you can do extraordinary things!" yelled King River, "Construction worker and dentist! Remember when you worked together to remove that tooth shape from the road! And Blacksmith remember when you worked with the turtle sanctuary to make ion shells for the turtles in need. And you two weirdoes in the longest staring contest! We are going to show this fire and you don't mess with Mewmans." Said King River.

"How do you show fire that?" asked the towns people.

"Shush! You now he was possessed by a fire spirit, don't you!" yelled another Mewman pointing to Ace, "Sorry about him, he doesn't know."

"It's all right." Sighed Ace.

"But still Let's fight that fire!" yelled King River, "Foolduke! Get me my loincloth!"

"That's not a good thing to wear while fighting fires." Said Marco.

"You know he's not going to listen." Said Sabo.

"Yeah." Sighed Marco.

And so they began to work to put out the fire, with people throwing water on it, and some people throwing dirt on it.

"Keep at it!" yelled King River, "Use the catapult!"

"Can we use it that way!" yelled someone.

"Let's try it!" yelled another person.

They filed the catapult with as much water as they could and that actually put the fire out.

"Wow! That actually worked." Said Marco surprised.

"I know." Said Sabo.

"Awesome!" cheered Luffy.

"The king's idea stopped the fire!" yelled a town person.

"Three cheers for the king!" yelled another.

"Hip, hip hooray! Hip, hip hooray!" they cheered.

However as they cheered a green bolt suddenly hit Ace. Then Luffy. Knocking out both of them.

They all looked at where the green bolts came from, it was Ludo with wand hand.

"Hooray!" cheered Ludo menacingly.

Then the massive Rat army swarmed them all… taking over the castle.

And indeed Ludo had made his move and it wasn't good.

Next Time: Star and Moon escape the Magic Sanctuary once it starts flooding and deicide to lay low at Buff Frog's place, but when she discovers what happened at the castle Star must find a way to save her father and brothers. Will she be able to do it. Find out next time!