"You Back The Fuck Up!" Comet screamed at Marcia, his wand aimed at her.

"Just give me my sandwich and I'll be on my way!" Marcia screamed back.

I chuckled, "Just give her the sandwich Comet," I said, blowing my hair out of my face.

He turned to me, "You stay out of this Lexi!" he turned back to Marcia, "This sandwich mine."

"Oh, Like Hell it is!" Marcia screamed before charging her. Comet easily dogged, leading to her running into the wall.

Marcia jolted up and turned to Comet, he was examining his nails. "You should work out more," he said as he started to bite one of them.

"Give Me The Fucking Sandwich!" she shouted, tackling him. This time she had caught him off guard. They both went to the floor, the sandwich meat going across the room in the process.

The door burst open, I quickly turned to it. There was Ken, his eyes full of anger. "You're causing the whole fucking house to shake!" he screamed at all of us, but Marcia and Comet especially.

I jolted awake. I quickly looked down at my chest, thank god there were no boobs. I rubbed my face, "That was by far the worst non-nightmare yet," I said to myself. I looked over at Star's bed, she wasn't anywhere to be seen. I had gotten used to that. I thought her bed looked more purple than normal, but I convinced myself I was seeing things. I looked over at the clock, "12:00 P.M." it read. I turned away and scratched my face... wait a minute... "Twelve!?" I screamed. I turned back to the clock to make sure I wasn't seeing things, the time hadn't changed. "What the fuck? Why didn't anyone wake me up?"

I jumped out of bed and got my clothes. Seeing as no one was around, I changed right there. After that, I bolted down the stairs, nearly falling in the process. Kate was sitting in the living room, she had seen everything, "If you're not careful, you'll end up like me," she said holding up her still broken arm. The cast had a lot more signatures than I remembered.

"Kate?!" I said, I was still in a daze from my slumber, "Why aren't we at school?"

She raised an eyebrow, "It's the weekend, don't you remember?"

I looked up at the ceiling, "Oooooohhhhh..." I said in relief. She was right, it was Saturday.

She looked away with a smile, "Dummy," she said under her breath.

I recomposed myself, "You'd be right about that," I walked over and took a seat next to her. The feeling of me sinking into the couch was almost enough to put me to sleep right there. I noticed the absence of Star and Marco, "So, where's Marco and Star?" I asked her thinking she knew.

"I don't know, they were gone when I woke up," she said.

"Really? That's weird..." I thought about it for a second, "Did you wake up late too?" I asked.

"Yeah. It was about twenty minutes earlier than you," she said. Even weirder, I thought. Feeling bored, I decided to turn the TV on. I grabbed the remote and turned the TV on before flipping through the channels, nothing looked out of the ordinary. "Did your nightmares start up again last night?" Kate asked. I looked over at her, her eyes were firmly planted on the TV.

I turned back to the TV and thought back to my strange dream, my spine shivered in response, "No, but I had a really weird dream."

I looked back over at her, her eyes greeted me. That seemed to get her attention. "What was it about?" she asked, not blinking, might I add.

I looked back at the TV, I didn't feel comfortable looking at her this close to each other, "I was basically in this gender-bent version of our world. Star's name was Comet, Marco's name was Marcia, my name Lexi for whatever reason, and yours was Ken. It was really weird."

I could still feel her eyes on me, "Really? Cause I had the same dream," she said, causing me to snap my head at her.

"What!?" was all I could say.

"I know, I thought it was a weird dream too and who would've guessed it, you had it too."

I slowly turned back to the TV, "What is happening?" I said as my face once again faced the TV. I started paying attention to the channels, nothing looked odd at first but then I saw a sight I wasn't expecting on the local news channel. I had changed the channel so quickly that I didn't get the best view of it, but if my eyes weren't deceiving me, I saw the two news reporters slumped over on their desk. I quickly changed back to the channel, I hadn't made a mistake. There were the two news reporters, their lifeless bodies slumped over the desk. The only sign they were alive was the heavy snoring coming from the TV. "I don't think that's normal," was all I could think of saying, my mind was too caught up with what was happening.

Kate jumped up and got closer to the TV, "That's definitely not normal." She got up and examined the TV, "And I don't see any cords that aren't supposed to be there, so it isn't a prank either."

This entire situation had made me more aware of my surroundings. Somehow, I had just noticed the purple in color hearts that sat scattered across the couch. I reached over and picked one up, "What are these?" I asked, examining the shape. It felt like a flaked off piece of skin. If I pushed hard enough, it would probably shatter.

Kate looked back over at me, "I just thought that Star had used a spell involving glitter."

I examined it closer, "Well this doesn't look like any glitter I've seen." It didn't sparkle or shine, in fact, it didn't have any reflection. It was see-through, like a purple window. I must admit, I was baffled at what it could be.

"I guess we'll have to ask Star when she gets home," Kate said. She turned off the TV, "We should get some fresh air. It should help us digest all the weird stuff that's happened."

I flicked the heart away from me, "Yeah, good idea," I got up and dusted my now covered pants off, "I don't see a reason to say no."

We got out of the house and started walking. It was strangely cold that day. Besides that, nothing stuck out, it just felt empty. Echo Creak wasn't the biggest town and it wasn't the smallest either, it's just that there were normally more people passing by. Not today though. No passing cars, no joggers, you couldn't even see people in their houses. It was also very quiet, not counting me and Kate's footsteps, the wind was the only source of noise. It was weird, but nothing too weird. We walked in random directions, just trying to clear our minds of things. It was normal for the most part, but then we passed a worrying sight.

A car sat in the middle of the road, it's roof caved in. The windows were busted, scratches covered the outside, and the doors were ripped off, they sat not too far away from the car itself. Something orangish-red sat in the driver's seat. A subtle black trail of smoke leading to the engine put my protective instincts on. Kate took a few steps towards the car, "What the he-"

I grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back, "Don't get too close, it's smoking," I said, I looked around trying to find a source of the carnage in front of us.

She pushed my hand off of her, "It's a destroyed car! I got to check it out." Without giving me much time to react, she started walking towards the car again. Feeling like whatever caused this might come back, I decided to stay not too far behind. Since I was closer, seeing what was in the wrecked car became easier. General items sat scattered throughout the car but only two things caught my eye, the purple hearts from the living room and the sleeve of a hoodie. Kate seemed to be interested in the sleeve, "Is that...?" she said, reaching over and picking up the sleeve. She quickly sniffed it, her face cringed in response "It Is!" she turned to me and handed me the sleeve, "It's a piece of Marco's hoodie."

I examined the sleeve, she was right, it looked just like Marco's hoodie. A purple, gooey substance covered some parts of the sleeve. I looked back at the car, "And the purple hearts are in there too," I said. They sat mainly in the driver's seat, but they were also scattered about the car.

She reached over and picked up one of the hearts, "You're right!" She examined the heart before looking back up at me, "What does this mean?"

"Well, one things for sure," I looked down, a trail of purple hearts led into an alleyway, "Star and Marco didn't just go on a walk."

After a brief discussion, we decided that the best thing to do was follow the trail. We walked into the alleyway, it was covered in purple webs. On closer expectation, the webs were just sticker versions of the hearts stuck together. We kept following the trail out of the alleyway and onto a familiar road but not before covering our shoes with webs. No one was still in sight and I'm not sure if I preferred that. The trail was getting thicker the longer we followed it. Eventually, we were led to a fence, a huge hole with purple edges sat on it. After examining our surroundings, we realized that the fence belonged to our house's backyard. Seeing no other option, we decided to continue. It led through our house and into the basement I had forgotten we had. We walked down the creaky stairs and reached the bottom. Since it was too dark to see, we started to feel the walls for a light switch. After feeling whatever sticky substance that covered for a while, I found the light switch.

I flipped it on only to see that the basement was flooded with the hearts and webs, that's what I had been touching all over while looking for the light switch. A big sack hanged off of one of the walls, it twitched ever so slightly. What I can only assume was the book of spells sat on a table, a purple goo covered it, it was already open to a page. Being the idiot I was, I walked up to the sack, "What the hell?" I said, poking it. It began to twitch rapidly. I was worried it was going to explode when two lasers shot out of it, they just barely missed my head. The sack fell apart shortly after, Grim, covered in the purple goo, came tumbling out. "Grim?!" The puppy looked up at me and whined, I picked him up, "Why the hell are you down here?" I asked.

Kate rushed over to my side, "Aww, poor little guy," she said. She scratched his head, her fingers became covered in goo during the process, "The poor pup must have been terrified." The fact that grim was slightly shaking proved her theory.

I heard groaning come from behind us. I turned around, the book of spells greeted me, something was moving under the pages. Grim barked at the book as I rushed over to it. "Glossaryck!" I said as I turned to the last page, there was Glossaryck covered head to toe with the goo. He was laying down.

"Huh?" he looked over at me, "Oh, it's just you." He sat up, groaning in the process. He popped his back, "I see you found the dog. Thank god, his whining was getting annoying." He smeared the goo off of his face before levitating, "Now, what do you want?"

Kate rushed next to me before I could say anything, "Care to tell us what happened here?" she said.

"Mewberty," he simply replied like we knew what that was.

"What now?" I asked.

He sighed, "Mewberty, you know, what all mewman girls eventually go through. It's similar to..." his voice trailed off. He started snapping his fingers, "What do humans call it?" he asked himself. He finished his last snap by pointing at us, "Puberty. It's similar to puberty."

I looked around the room, "So mewman's version of puberty causes them to make webs and goo?" I asked.

He shook his head, "Oh no, it's a lot more horrifying than that. No point in getting into the nitty-gritty though, you'll find that out soon enough."

What does that mean? I thought. "Umm... okay," Kate said. Her face lit up like she remembered something, "Do you know why everyone's asleep?" she asked.

"What?" Glossaryck said. He didn't say anything for a second, "Oh yeah. Star and Marco decided that the best thing to do was to put a 12-hour sleeping spell on Echo Creek so, you know, the people of Echo Creek wouldn't see her like she is now."

I raised one of my eyebrows, "Then why did we wake up?" I asked.

"She messed the spell up on you two, so you only slept for six hours more," he replied.

"And where's Marco?" Kate asked.

"Wherever Star is, he wanted to try and stop it from happening." He looked around, "As you can see, he failed." It's like he could sense the question I was about to ask, "And before you ask, I think they're at the park.

"Ok! Thanks," Kate said before rushing up the stairs. Grim in hand, I followed her.

We knew where we had to go. We rushed out of the house and started bolting to the park. Something about this entire situation put a pit in my stomach. The closer we got to the park, the more clouds showed up in the sky. Eventually, it started to rain. Whatever was about to go down, mother nature was warning us. Grim started to whine when he saw the purple webs start to appear on the sidewalks but I was too close to turn back now. I was about to collapse due to the lack of oxygen when we reached the park entrance, it wasn't a pleasant sight. A huge purple cocoon-like structure surrounded the entirety of the park, it was about as tall as a two-story building. The entrance was blocked off by webs. Crashed cars surrounded the area, similar in condition to the first one we found. A purple hue hanged in the air and it was about as cold as a winter morning. The pouring rain didn't help either. Kate walked up to the entrance, "Great," she tried ripping off some of the webs but got her hand stuck to it instead. She yanked back hard, freeing her hand in the process but also causing her to fall on her ass. She looked up at me, "How we gonna get in now?"

I helped her up then thought back on the day. "Grim had shot straight through the web if I remember correctly." I looked down at the pup, "You think you can do that again?" He barked at me in response. I looked back up, "Okay, I'll take that as a yes."

I walked up to the entrance and held Grim just a few feet away from the webs. His tail started to wag furiously before multiple lasers came out of his eyes. After a while, Grim had completely cleared out the entrance. Kate walked up next to me and scratched Grim's head, "Good job little guy!" Grim seemed to enjoy the affection. She took a few steps into the park, "Okay, let's go."

Hesitantly, I followed her in, the park wasn't welcoming in the slightest. Sacks like the one Grim was in hanged off of the walls and webs were strewn about the place. It was considerably more warm than the outside and the purple hue had only grown in strength. Vines made up of the purple hearts hanged here and there. There were a few cars here and there, they were untouched compared to the ones on the outside. A pathway made entirely of the hearts could be seen, we decided to follow it. The deeper we went, the more sacks appeared on the walls. Grim was whining the entire time. Eventually, we reached the end. A nest-like structure greeted us, it was made of the purple hearts as well. A single sack hanged off of it, it was the only one twitching. I walked up to it, whatever was in it could hear me. Underneath all the hearts, I could hear the muffled voice of Marco.

"Holy shit!" I held Grim up to the sack, "Blast it!" A flurry of lasers came out of Grim's eyes, causing the sack to fall apart. Marco came tumbling out. I helped him up with my free hand, he was covered in the goo. His hoodie was missing a sleeve, "You okay?" I asked.

He wiped the goo off of his face with his spare sleeve, "Yeah, yeah, it was just hard to breathe in there," he looked at me, "Thanks."

I held Grim to his face, "You should thank this little guy. He's the only reason we've made it this far." Grim barked at him before licking his face.

Before Marco could say anything, Kate came over, "What happened here?" she asked him.

He looked around, "Oh yeah, I forgot where I was for a second," he wiped himself off, "Star did this. She's going through..." his voice trailed off "What's it called again?" he said to himself.

"Mewberty?" I hesitantly said.

He looked at me with wider eyes than before, "Yeah... how'd you know?"

Kate joined the conversation, "The little blue guy in the book told us about it." I almost facepalmed, how did she not know Glossaryck's name yet?

"You mean Glossaryck?" Marco asked, Kate nodded. "Weird. The only way I can get info out of that guy is by giving him pudding." He left us in silence for a few moments before turning to the heart path, "Anyways. We should probably find Star."

I walked next to him, "Any ideas?"

Marco walked up to one of the sacks and examined it, you could hear muffled snoring come from it. "Well it's obvious she's in the park." He poked the sack, it twitched ever so slightly, "But otherwise, no."

I noticed the absence of Kate. I was about to check behind me when I heard the flapping of wings. My body froze when I heard Grim emit the quietest cry. "Umm... guys?" Kate said. I watched Marco turn around, his eyes became wide when he saw what was behind us. Dread filled my stomach, I could guess what was behind me. "I think I found her," Kate finished her sentence.

Using what little strength I had left, I forced myself to turn around. Star floated above the nest-like structure, it was hard to recognize her at first because of how many changes her body had undergone. Her skin had become a dark purple and her hair was a light purple, it stood up like two antennas. She had "grown" arms, 4 to be exact, and if she was wearing makeup to cover her cheek marks, you couldn't tell because they glowed purple. Her eyes had become huge hearts, they glowed a bright purple. Oh, and how could I forget, she had wings. Marco was still taking everything in, "Not again," he said under his breath.

Despite Kate being the closest to her, Star's eyes were firmly planted on me and Marco, more specifically Marco. Grim hid his head in my arm, "Umm... hey Star," I said. "You look," I looked over her body and tried to come up with something nice to say, "...Interesting."

"Don't waste your time talking to her," Marco said, "I already tried that."

I looked over at him, "Then what the hell do we do!?"

"I'll tell you what to do..." Kate said. I looked over at her, she picked up a stick before throwing it at Star, causing Kate to become the center of her attention. Kate looked back at us, "Run!" she yelled.

Taking Kate's advice, me and Marco turned around before bolting down the path. Neither of us had any sort of plan, we just knew we had to get away from Star as fast as we could. We turned down one of the paths and ran, the park seemed to go on forever. After a while of running, we eventually found ourselves at the place our group met up at. I had no choice but to stop, my lungs had been completely drained of air. Judging by his breathing, Marco was in a similar situation. I looked around above me, I thankfully didn't see Star. I looked back down and took a few deep breaths, I could run far and fast but the recovering part always got me. I had started to relax when Grim cried again. I once again looked around, unfortunately for us, I saw Star steadily approaching. "Marco..." I said. I pushed him, still not fully recovered, "We gotta go."

Before Marco could respond or even react, webs came shooting out of the sky, gluing him to the ground. Star had approached a lot quicker than I had expected. I looked up at her, I was now the center of her attention. I shielded Grim and closed my eyes, bracing for impact... it never came. I kept my eyes firmly shut thinking she was just trying to trick me but still, nothing happened. When I heard someone collapse to the floor is when I decided to open my eyes. Star was on the floor, her hair had reverted back to it's normal color and had fallen over her face. Her purple skin was flaking off in small heart pieces, her normal white was under it. I looked over at Marco, the webs that had once covered him had turned to dust, the same applied to the goo and vines that once covered the park. The cacoon that surrounded the park was falling apart, each piece that hit the floor turned to dust, and the purple hue had vanished entirely. Also, the storm outside of the cacoon had turned into a sunny day.

I pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. After deciphering that I was indeed awake, I helped Marco up. "Ughhhhhh..." I heard come from Star. I turned to her, she sat up, her purple skin had almost entirely flaked off, "What happened?" she asked in a groggy voice.

Marco's eyes became wide, "Star!". He ran over to Star and hugged her, "Thank god you're back."

Star stared at me over Marco's shoulder blankly, I smiled and gave her a thumbs up. She smiled back before returning Marco's hug. I heard rustling come from behind me, I turned around, there was Kate. She was about to say something when I pointed at Star and Marco. She smiled before walking next to me. She leaned over to me, "I ship it," she whispered.

"You shut up," I jokingly said back. Grim barked at the two, causing them to snap out of whatever they had entered. They stopped hugging before they both approached us, "Just a heads up, you don't look good in purple skin," I said to Star, smiling.

She smiled back, "Oh, I had no idea," she said back, playing along.

"So, umm..." Kate's voice trailed off, "What's gonna happen to all the other people you webbed up?" she asked.

"Oh yeah... those guys," Star said. "They're on a twelve-hour sleeping spell, so we got a while until they wake up. And the mess I caused here is going to be blown away by the wind soon enough," she said. She was right most of the hearts had completely vanished. "So basically, nothings gonna happen to them. They'll wake up and go home."

"Good, I thought we were gonna have to wipe their memories or something like that," Kate said.

Silence filled the air. It's wasn't a tension-filled silence or anything like that, just a silence. Star was the first to break it, "So... race you guys home?"

"Oh, you're on," Marco said, zooming past us.

"Hey! That's cheating!" Star shouted as she ran after him, Kate following shortly behind.

I was about to join them when I felt a presence behind me. I turned around, only the oak tree greeted me. Nothing looked odd about it, but I for some reason felt the urge to stare at it. Grim barked at it a few times which I found strange. Nothing came from doing that at first, but then, only for half a second, my vision flickered into a completely different scene. It had gone by so fast that the details were hard to make out, but if I remembered correctly, I saw a house sitting in a black void, an oak tree next to it. It was on fire. I blinked a few times, readjusting my eyes. My body shivered, something about what just happened crept me out. Grim didn't seem to like what happened either because he was growling. I glared at the oak tree for a couple more seconds before running after my friends.

A/N

And scene. Good job on making it to the end. If you're feeling up to it, leave a review. I'm starting the year off strong, three updates in only the span of a few weeks, that's rare for me. But I promised myself I'd try and get far in this story this year. I'll give you a hint at what the next chapter is about, it has something to do with a red moon and a certain demon. If don't get it, you probably haven't watched the show. Have a great day/ night and I'll see you guys in a week!