Star started to pace around the room, "What are we going to do?" she asked.
I picked up Marco and laid him on my bed, "I have no fucking idea," I said. I shut the room's door, picked up the puppy and put it in my closet. I shut the closet door to prevent the puppy from getting out, it shot a beam of red at me before I did, "Why Did You Summon A Fucking Laser Puppy?" I asked loudly.
She looked just as surprised as I did, "I don't know?! It just came out that way!"
I pointed at the closet, "Well now because of that puppy, Marco knows, and Marco is not good at handling stuff like this."
Star was about to say something but then Marco woke up, "Oh hey guys," he said, he stood up from my bed, "I just had the strangest dream," he pointed at me, "You were holding a puppy and then it shot a laser at me from its eyes," he dazedly said. I was relieved for a second but then the puppy shot a laser straight through my closet door, "Oh, so it wasn't a dream," he said. He nearly fainted again.
I forced Marco to sit on my bed before he could do anything stupid and sat down next to him, "Okay Marco, I know this is going to be hard to believe, but that puppy's magical," I said. He looked confused. "And something even harder to believe is that Star is from a different dimension."
Marco laughed, "First, a puppy that can shoot lasers out of its eyes and now you're telling me that Star is from a different dimension. Either I'm going insane or dreaming."
I slapped Marco in the face, "See, you're not dreaming. And you're also not insane. This is real and happening," I said.
Marco put his hand to his cheek, "Ow, that wasn't necessary."
"Yeah, it was," I stood up from the bed, "Now Star, show him some magic so he has proof he's not insane," she nodded. "Make sure this one can't be harmful."
She took a few steps back, took a few deep breaths and loudly said, "Super Big Strawbery Bean Bag!" Then a giant red blob came out of her wand and landed on the floor. When I got a good look at the blob I noticed that it was actually a strawberry bean bag, There was a smiley face in the center of it.
"There's all the proof you need Marco, you're not insa-," I almost finished my sentence when I felt something bite my foot. I looked down and saw the bean bag comping away at my leg, "Holy Shit!" I screamed. I kicked it off of me then I looked up at Star, "Do something!" I loudly said.
She aimed the wand at a bean bag and a giant red beam came out. When I looked down at the beanbag, there was a pile of ash where it stood. I looked over at Marco, he was even more terrified than he was before. "What The Hell Was That!" he screamed.
I recomposed my self, "That was a vicious bean bag," I said.
"Yeah, sorry about that, this wand doesn't always do what I tell it to do," Star said, cringing.
Marco rubbed his forehead, "This is insane," he said. He was going to say something else but right before he did, a portal opened in the room. Marco jumped out of the bed and pointed at the portal, "What The Fuck Is That!?" he screamed.
Pony-Head came out of the portal, "Hey B-Fly, I think I left my mi-," she looked over at Marco, "Great, another human," she said.
Marco ran into my bathroom and shut the door, I could hear him puking on the other side, "Told you he didn't take stuff like this well," I said to Star. I turned to Pony-Head, "Oh, look who's back. Did you miss me that much?" I sarcastically asked.
She didn't seem to get the joke, "Ew, no," she looked over at Star, "As I was saying. I lost my mirror, have you seen it?" she asked
"No, I haven't," Star responded.
Pony-Head floated down to the ground the way a human would slump down, "What am I going to do B-Fly, that mirror was one of a kind," she said, she was clearly overexaggerating her emotions.
Star patted Pony-Head's neck, "Don't worry Pony-Head, me and Landin will help you find it," she said.
I jumped up, "Wait, I will?" I said.
She looked over at me, "Yeah, and Marco will too," she said. The look she gave me told me that if I argued with her, I wouldn't survive the aftermath.
I tried to smile, "Of course we will, let me just go talk to Marco for a second," I was trying to sound enthusiastic, she looked back down at Pony-Head and I scooted inside of the bathroom.
Marco was slumped over the toilet, "Why is there a decapitated horse head floating in your room?" he asked, he seemed to gag at the mere thought of Pony-Head.
"Well, you see, that's Star's best friend," Marco shooked his head. "And we have to help her," I said, I cringed at the end.
Marco stood up, "Of course we do," he stood up, "You know how insane this is?" he asked.
"Yeah Marco, I do. But I would just accept it and move on."
"How the fuck do I do that? If Star is truly from a different dimension then everything that modern science has told us is a lie."
"Well there is nothing you can do about it, magic and different dimensions exist, no matter what you do, that will always be true."
"Okay, I can accept that but that doesn't mean I want to involve myself in it. I don't want to help a decapitated horse head."
"First off, it's a unicorn, and secondly, I think it's best that you involve yourself in it. If you don't, knowing you, you'll go insane over it.
He took a few deep breaths, "Fine. What are we doing?" he asked.
"We'll be looking for a portable mirror, but there's one catch, this mirror can call people from different dimensions."
"So we're basically looking for an interdimensional cell phone?"
"Basically."
Marco walked over to the bathroom door, "Let's get it over with then," he said. He opened the bathroom door and walked out, I followed him.
Star and Pony Head were in the middle of a conversation, "-we'll have to have to follow your footsteps, where was the last place you were at?" Star asked Pony Head.
"Let's see, when I left here I went shopping at Quest Buy for a new necklace since your 'friend' stole mine," she responded.
I was annoyed by her comment, "I didn't steal anything, I simply reclaimed my property," I said.
Pony Head floated over to me, she got inches away from my face"Oh yeah, where's the proof that you ever owned it!" she screamed at me, I felt her spit splatter on my face.
I opened my locket and pointed at the picture inside it, "You see that picture, those are my missing parents, this is the only picture available of them. I don't think this would be in a locket you owned," I said. My expression was stern
Star stepped in between me and Pony Head, "Enough you two," she pushed us apart, "If we're going to be working together, then you two need to get along," she said. I tried to protest but she gave me 'that look' again. She turned to Pony Head, "Pony Head, you said you were at Quest Buy," Pony Head nodded, "Did you use your mirror there?" she asked.
"Yeah, of course I did, that place is huge, I had to look up a map to get around," she said.
Star looked slightly confused, "Isn't their paper maps around that place?"
"Girl, you know me, I don't know how to read those things. It's all DPS for me."
"What's that?" I asked.
"Dimensional Positioning System. It basically tells you directions," Star said.
"So it's basically GPS except for dimensions?" I asked.
"What's that?" Star asked.
I realized we were in a loop, "You know what, never mind, it's nothing important," I said.
Star looked suspicious, "Okay Landin," she turned to Pony Head, "So you said you used DPS to get to the jewelry section of Quest Buy
Pony Head shook her head, "No, I almost got to the jewelry section but then this creep bumped into me,"
"What did he look like?" I asked.
"He was big and wore all green. He had this eyeball with wings in the center of his tunic. He was also a monster."
Star seemed curious, "What was so creepy about him," Star asked.
"Well he already looked creepy, but then he asked to speak to you like he knew I had your number. Now there's no way I'm going to give this creep your number, so I go 'No way creep,' and floated away as fast as possible. I looked behind me to see if he was still there and he wasn't, so I stopped to call you and I couldn't find my mirror."
Star looked slightly worried, "Maybe you dropped it while floating away," she suggested.
I thought it was obvious that the creep took it, but apparently not to Star, "Maybe the creep took it," I suggested.
"We shouldn't assume a stranger took it until we know that for sure," I could tell that for some reason she was panicking on the inside, "Let's go check there lost and found before we do anything else," she turned to Pony Head, "Could you open the portal?" she asked.
Pony Head spat out a pair of scissors and held them with her tongue. She cut into the air, you could hear a tearing sound while she did it, and then a blue portal opened, "I'll see you guys there," she said, floating into the portal. She dropped the scissors when going in, I was the only one that seemed to notice.
I turned my head to Star, "I should have asked this early but, What's Quest Buy?"
"A giant inter-dimensional supermarket. It's the perfect place to bring people that are new to inter-dimensional travel," she responded. She looked over at Marco, "Are you going to be okay? You've been really quiet," she asked.
Marco seemed surprised that Star noticed him, "Yeah, I just need to get used to the whole 'Magic and different dimensions exist' thing, but otherwise I'm ready," Marco quietly said.
"Okay, as long as your sure," she looked over at me, "You ready Landin?" she asked.
"Of course I am," I semi-lied.
"Alright," she walked up to the portal, "Going into portals can be a bit weird to newcomers, but you'll get used to it," she took one last look at us, "See you two on the other side," she said before jumping in. A sound I can't quite describe came from the portal when she went it.
I looked over at Marco, "Welp, newbies first," I said.
He raised an eyebrow, "But we're both newbies. Neither of us has been to a different dimension."
"True but I learned about magic before you did."
Marco sighed, "Fine," he walked over to the portal, "So do I just walk into it?" he asked. I shrugged in response. He took a deep breath, "Here goes nothing!" he said, running into the portal.
I walked over to the front of the portal and picked up the pair of scissors that sat in front of it, spit leaked down off the sides. James appeared next to me, "Those are Pony Head's, right?" he asked.
"I assume so, but there's a chance she stole these too," I dried it off and put it in my pocket, "She stole my locket, so I'll steal her scissors," I said. I looked over at James, "You ready?" I asked. He nodded. I took a deep breath before entering the portal.
Inside the portal was a void of sorts. The sky looked like earths except there was a hint of purple, stars shined bright throughout the sky. I looked down, I stood on a small platform, a golden liquid surrounded the platform. The liquid was the source of light for the place I was in. It sparkled. Dark purple gems poked out of the liquid. The place seemed to go on forever. A dimly lit portal stood a few yards in front of me. I began to walk to the portal. Even though I was ankle deep in the liquid, my feet didn't feel wet. The more I stared at the landscape, the more I wanted to stay. I tried to go and explore but there was an invisible barrier keeping me on a straight path to the portal. When I was halfway to the portal, I could barely think. Each step I took made me lose a little bit of myself. I lost track of time. Hours could have past and I wouldn't have even realized. I tried to talk to James a few times but my brain hurt whenever I would think about him. Eventually, I found myself on a second platform, a portal stood in front of me. I could barely remember who I was when I walked through it.
On the other side, I felt normal. I could remember everything clearly. It felt like hours had passed in there, but now that I was on the other side, it only felt like seconds. I was still in the middle of thinking about what had just happened when I noticed my surroundings. I found myself in a giant supermarket. The shelves stood at least fifty feet high and seemed to go on forever. Creatures of all sorts were shopping. The floor was tile and you couldn't see the roof. Star, Marco, and Pony Head were standing next to me. Marco seemed just as amazed as I did while Pony Head and Star looked bored. We stood in front of a desk, a sloth in a yellow shirt was on the other side.
The sloth sighed, "Hello and welcome to Quest Buy," he duly said, their voice sounded bland and average. "How may I help you?" He asked.
Pony Head floated up to the Sloth, "Hey..." she looked down at the sloth's name tag, it read "Greg," "Greg, we need to check your lost and found," she said.
The sloth sighed for a long time, "Fine, follow me," he said.
He went around the counter and walked down an aisle, we all followed him. I looked at some of the things on the shelves. There were impossible things on the shelves, or things that were impossible on earth. We walked for what felt like hours. We were still walking when I noticed a group of suspicious looking shoppers. They were following us. I noticed that one of them looked like the creep Pony Head described. They looked like a frog. The rest were just as weird. One looked like a bear except it had a horn much like Pony Head's sticking out of its head. Another was a very muscular blue person, they had bull horns on top of their head. There was so many that it would be impossible to describe them all. They were all surrounding something.
I made James appear, "What's goi-," I put a finger up to my lips and pointed at Star. He got the hint and started thinking to me instead of talking, "What's going on?" he once again asked.
"Do you see that group over there," I thought to him, pointing at the group. He nodded, "They're following us."
"Well, what are you going to do about it?"
"I'll tell Star when we get to lost and found. Until then, watch them for me." I thought to him. He nodded and turned to the group.
Eventually, we stopped at a door, a sign reading "Lost and Found" stood above it. Greg turned to us, "This is lost and found. Please make sure you don't take anything that's not yours," he said.
Pony Head didn't even give him a glance before going in. Star said "Thank you," and Marco said "Thanks," before going in. I pulled out a five dollar bill, "Not sure if Earth money is worth anything here, but you can still have it," I gave him the money and then went in. James followed.
Inside lost and found, it looked much like the normal store except it was filled with a bunch of junk. "Alright, where would they put portable mirrors at," Star said, she started to look through the first aisle. We all joined her. Sometime after we all started searching, Star looked like she got an idea, "We should be split into teams," She blurted out, "Pony Head and Marco will be a team and me and Landin will be a team," she said.
"But B-Fly, why can't we be in the same team?" Pony Head asked.
"Because Marco needs to get used to magic and being around you should do that," she responded.
Marco seemed open to the idea, "It does make sense."
Pony Head sighed, "Fine, but you owe me," she said to Star. She looked at Marco "Come on Earth Turd, let's check out aisle two," she floated away quickly.
Marco ran after her, "That's not my name!"
When they were gone, I turned to Star, she was already back to searching, "Star, I don't think it's here," I said.
She looked at me, "What makes you think that?" she asked.
"There was this group following us and that creep that Pony Head was talking about was in it."
She seemed panicked, "So what your saying is that creep saw us come in and got a group of people to ambush us," she pointed her wands at the aisles, "Come Out Creep, We Know You're There!" she screamed at the empty aisles.
"What? No! That's not what I meant at all!" I pushed her wand down, "I'm just saying that there was a group following us, but I don't think they're in here."
She started breathing fast, "Besides for the creep, do you know what the others looked like?"
I called out for James, he was sitting on the top row of the aisle, he jumped down and landed in front of us, "One of them was this bear with a unicorn's horn, another one was a really fat fly. There was this blue humanoid bull, I think I saw a small bird in there and-"
"You saw a small bird? What were they wearing?" Star quickly asked.
"I think he was wearing a cloak and some creatures skull was on his head."
I saw Star's pupils contract, she started to pace back and forth, "Oh no, this isn't good, in fact, it's terrible.
I was confused, "What's so bad about this bird?"
"That bird is Ludo Avarius. He's a new threat to my family. Before I got my wand, my mom had it and Ludo had tried to steal it multiple times. Eventually, my mom kicked him out of the kingdom for good. Now that I have the wand, he's going to try to steal it from me."
"What will happen if he gets it?" James asked.
"Nothing good," Star responded.
I heard something knock over behind me, I quickly turned around, "What was that?" I asked. Star got out her wand.
I slowly walked over to the source of the noise. When I got there, there was a broken portable mirror on the floor. I picked it up, the initials "P. H." were written on it. The screen was cracked and it was in two separate parts. I put it in my jacket pocket, "Star, I found Pony Head's mirror," I said. No response. I turned around, "Did you hear me Star, I found her mirror," Once again, no response. "Are you all right?" I asked.
I heard a deep voice go "Ow," then I heard Star scream, "Landin! It's Lu-" she went silent again.
I ran over to her as fast as my legs could move. I saw Star being held down by a giraffe. Her wand was on the floor a few feet away from her. A monster was about to grab it. Without thinking, I went over and right hooked the monster, then I kicked the wand to Star. She grabbed it and a beam of white came out of it. The beam grabbed the giraffe and threw it through a shelf. She ran next to me.
"Let's hope those boxing lessons payed off," I said out loud to myself.
There was a group of monsters in front of us. I ran to the one that was the same size as me. It was a bear. It lunged at me, I tried to roll out of the way but it was able to scratch my cheek. It felt like someone had cut me with glass. I aimed for a punch to the face but hit the chest instead. They showed their razor-sharp claws and tried to go for my neck. I ducked down and punched their stomach. They cried out in pain. I knocked them down and got on top of them. I punched them repeatedly in the face until blood covered them. I got up and looked at my fist, it was covered in their blood. I heard something charging at me. I looked over and saw the blue bull from earlier. Before I could react, I was sent through the shelf.
My body was aching, it was hard to move my left arm. Splinters covered my body. I looked over to my right and saw Pony Head and Marco. I tried to get up but the bull got on top of me. I kicked it in the balls but it didn't react. I felt like I was being crushed. I looked back over and saw Pony Head's horn glowing, "Get off of him!" she said. A beam of rainbow came out of her horn and hit the bull, it was sent flying back.
Marco came over and helped me up, "What's going on?" he asked.
"We were ambushed," I said. My head was stinging so I touched it, blood was leaking from it.
"Where's Star?" Pony head asked. She sounded worried.
Another monster was sent flying through the shelf, "Where do you think," I said.
Marco rushed through the hole the bull made, "Come on. We got to help her," Me and Pony Head followed.
Star had taken a considerable amount of the troops out but there was still a lot more and she was looking tired. A monster tackled her to the floor. We all rushed over to her. Marco kicked the monster in the face. It stood up and I tackled it to the ground. Pony Head came over and shot it in the face. I got up when It stopped moving. Marco helped Star up. We all stood next to each, ready to fight. There was a group of monsters in front of us. We were about to charge when I heard a voice that was similar to the sound of a scratching a chalkboard scream out "Enough!"
The group split apart, revealing a small little bird walking towards us. It stopped walking, "We have had too many casualties, we must retreat," it said to the group of monsters.
Star was furious, "No way Ludo, you're not getting away that easily," she said.
A portal opened below the group of monsters, "Oh, but I think I will," he said. All the monsters fell through, "Until next time," he said before jumping into the portal, it closed behind him.
"Crap," Star said. She looked over at me, "Nice fighting, that bear didn't know what hit him.
"Thanks," I said. I began to feel dizzy, "Hey Star, do you have any healing spells?" I asked. She didn't even respond, she just aimed the wand at me and a beam of light came out of it. When the light was gone, I felt healed, "Thank you," I said, she smiled.
"So did you two find my mirror because me and Earth Turd didn't," Pony Head asked. Marco seemed annoyed but he didn't say anything.
I pulled out the remains of her mirror from my pocket, "Here, the monsters destroyed it then used it as bait," I said, giving them to her. I felt guilty so I pulled her scissors out and handed them to her, "I also found these," I said.
She looked at it, "That old thing? You can keep it, they were my back up scissors," she said.
"Oh, wow, thank you," I said.
"Well, I'm going to go beg my dad for a new mirror, see you later B-Fly!," she said, opening a portal with another pair of scissors.
"Bye Pony Head!" Star waved at her before she went through the portal. She turned to me "Welp Landin, bring us home."
"Okay, how do I use this thing?"
"Just think about the place you want to go, then cut into the air."
"Alright," I started to think about my room, then I opened the scissors and cut into the air. I opened my eyes and there was a portal in front of me. "Huh, it worked," I said stepping through it.
I still had to walk through that weird place but it was a much shorter walk. I swear I heard something drop, but I thpught I was just hallucinating. Once I went through the other portal, I was in my room, Marco and Star were soon there too. I turned to Marco, "Did you have fun?" I asked.
"Surprisingly, yes. I would do it again if I could," he said.
"Then I'll make sure to invite you next time we go on another adventure," Star said.
I yawned, "I don't know about you guys but I'm tired."
"So am I," Marco walked to the door, "I'm going to bed," he opened the door, "Goodnight," he said.
"See you tomorrow Marco," I said before he left the room. I went over and opened the closet, the puppy came rushing out, "I hope Kate didn't notice we were gone."
"Yeah, I hope she didn't either," Star said.
A/N
Hey, thanks for reading chapter six. This one came out a lot earlier than most of my chapters and there's one reason for that, I had a lot more creativity this time. There isn't much to say so I'll just move onto the outro. Make sure you leave reviews. Thank you for spending your precious time reading my take on the SVTFOE universe, have a great day/night.