Authors note: I'm just gonna say it right now, I'm sorry about the dog.

Marco's POV

I stayed quiet as the nurse bandaged up Jackie's stomach. Her ribs had received heavy damage thanks to the assualt by Jeremy. I didn't see what happened, I just came out from the restroom and all I saw was Jackie lying motionless on the floor and Jeremy standing in front of Star and the girls. I immediately snapped and beat the shit out of him.

I didn't even know what I was doing, I just lost my mind. He heart Jackie and he was about to hurt the rest of the girls as well. I wanted to protect them from getting hurt at the hands at that pitiful excuse for a human being. I turned to the girls who were watching Jackie get treated for her wounds.

They were innocent in this somewhat rivalry that I had with Jeremy, and they almost got hurt. I held myself responsible for this, I should've never gotten involved with Jeremy in the first place. That's not to say I didn't enjoy beating the living hell out of that bastard. The look on his bloody face as I was strangling him almost made me want to smile. Almost.

I wasn't happy about the fact that I enjoyed it though. I shouldn't have done what I did to Jeremy because now my love for hurting people has resurfaced. To help put the pleasent thoughts of hurting Jeremy in the back of my brain, I focus back on the girls. I never noticed it before, but they were all extremely pretty. Even thought I still think Jackie is the goddess in the group of princesses, they all had special features about them they that made them beautiful.

I avert my eyes from them with fear that I might be caught staring and be thought of as a pervert. When the nurse was done bandaging her stomach she said, "Alright Jackie, you should be fine as long as you don't run or do anything athletic. You just need to relax and take it easy, understand?"

Jackie nodded, "Yes ma'am."

"Good, now stay here and don't move, I need to call your parents.", the Nurse said. As soon as she shut th r door Jackie groaned annoyed, "My parents aren't gonna let me skateboard for months because of this", she said as she rubbed her injured ribs.

"Well which excuse do you prefer, I fell off my skateboard or, some rich asswhole attacked me and we can't do anything about because if we do then his family will definitely have us thrown out of town or have the police arrest us for some bogus crime?", Leah said spelling out Jackie's options.

Jackie sighed, "I see your point."

What Leah said was true, Jeremy's family was so wealthy that they could influence anyone to do anything for them. There have been many incidents where they have paid the police to arrest someone for just looking at them wrong. There was no doubt in my mind that I was probably gonna pay for beating the living situation out of their pathetic waste of life that was their son, but I didn't have any regrets. If I had the chance I'd do it again.

Suddenly, all of the girls turned to me, they all had mixed looks of anger and worry in their eyes. "What?", I asked.

Jackie decided to speak up first, "Didn't I tell you to stay clear of Jeremy.", she said.

I was stunned by what she just said, was she being serious?

"Are you serious? I just destroyed that douchebag for what he did to you, you should be grateful.", I said a bit offended.

Her look softened, "I am grateful Marco, what you did was incredibly brave and noble, but now you're pretty much fucked. His family is definitely gonna be out for you now.", she said, concern now showing on her face.

"Not to mention you nearly killed the guy!", Leah said struggling and failing to keep her composure.

"Leah's right Marco", Hope said, "We all want to punch Jeremy in that smug little face of his, but you took it to a whole other level. You actually beat him to where he was bleeding so much that you couldn't even see his face. You even started to strangle him! What the hell was that about!?"

"You must be completely sick to even think of something like that Marco! You seriously almost ended someone's life!", Janna said equally as outraged as Hope.

"Also", Star said, "You're really scary when you're angry." Her voice was shaky and she actually sounded like was scared of me.

Deep down, I knew they all had a point. I went fucking insane back there, but even though I want to apologize or defend myself, I just can't. I don't see the point. So, I just walked out the room, ignoring the girls calling my name and asking me to come back. I didn't feel like going to class and I once again walked out of school not caring what the consequences were going to be.

William's POV

Four days. Four long days she's been gone.

It's been four days sense Star ran away. I can't even begin to explain how angry the king and queen were when I told them the bad news. After they calmed down they came to the assumption that Star would stop this foolishness and return home. Obviously, things haven't turned out that way.

Ever since the royal couple got news of Star's disappearence they have been running the servants here mad. They've sent a dozensearch partisout to look for the princess, and that's just today. The search parties consisted of normal everyday citizens, soldiers, servants, and even family members of the royal family.

Things got even worse when Tom and his Father found out about Star's disappearance, seeing as Tom was supposed to marry the soon to be princess to become king, it's easy to say that they were enraged when they heard the news. In order to increase the chances of finding the princess, Tom's father sent out troops from his kingdom to look for her with no luck.

After 96 hours of searching there was no sign of Star anywhere. It's like she disappeared off the face of Mewni.

My posting threw this whole ordeal has been to make food for returning searchers. The reason I wasn't sent on a search party was obvious, Star liked me. I don't mean like as in affectionate, I mean like as in she thought of me as a friend. I guess that reason gave the king and queen a reason to assume that I had an idea of where Star is. Trust me I don't. Star wasn't very descriptive of where she planned to run away to, if she even made it at all.

As I was preparing the chicken soup for the famished soldiers I hear the princess call for me from the master bedroom, "William! Get in here!"

I groaned and walked to the master bedroom. When I got in there the Butterfly's were having a intense conversation with Tom and his father.

"This is getting ridiculous! We have spent four days looking for that ditzy daughter of yours with no luck! Can't you try calling the little idiot on her phone!?", Tom said outraged.

"You think we haven't tried that!? That was the first thing we tried, but she's turned her phone off!", Queen Butterfly yelled back at the angry teenager.

King Butterfly noticed me out of the corner of his eye and turned to me, "William, do you have a globe at your house?", he asked.

It was an odd question, but I didn't want to keep him waiting for an answer, "No your majesty, no I don't."

Tom's father turned to the king, "Why the hell would we need a globe? As if we need to waste even more time on foolishness."

"Silence!", the King Butterfly yelled at Tom's father, "There is no sign of Star, so a globe is our only chance of finding her."

The queen scoffed, "You actually believe that she made it to another dimension? The moron would need a pair of interdimensional siccors, where the heck would she get those?"

I gritted my teeth as I listened to them talk. It was not abnormal for them to talk about Star this way. They've always thought the poor girl was a bit of a fool and they would occasionally insult her behind her back. It didn't happen often, but it was still cruel nonetheless.

"She's just a teenager, I doubt she even knows how to use them.", Tom's father said.

"When I was her age I was slaying monsters, making love to women, dimension hopping, and killing thieves, you shouldn't underestimate what a person can do at that age.", the king said.

"But she isn't you.", the queen said a matter of factually.

The king ignored his wife and started to look for a globe. A globe was a rare object that only people of high class had. It was a map of the entire universe. If you write down a persons name on the map and a light will appear on the universe the person is located. It doesn't help much, but in a time like this, you have to make due with what you got.

Eventually the king gave up on trying to find the globe. "William, go to the market and buy another globe, if they don't have any then report back to me.", he commanded.

I nodded and turned my back to leave. As I closed the door behind me I heard the queen state loud and clear, "I still think this is a waste of time."

Marco's POV

I was calm. Calmer than I should've been to say the least. I wasn't sure where I was. All I saw was darkness. Pitch, fucking, black. I couldn't see my hand in front of my face.

My other senses weren't any help either. I couldn't hear anything, it was as silent as a cemetery. I walked around with my arms out to see if I could feel anything, but all I felt was air. There weren't any odd smells either, it was just plain darkness. But I was still calm, even though I had no awareness of my surroundings.

I decided to do the most logical thing I could think off at that moment, nothing. I just sat down and waited for something to happen. Anything. I'm not exactly sure how long I sat for, it was like I had no concept of time.

Seconds were like hours. Minutes were like days. Hours were like months. Days were like years. Months were like centuries. And threw all of this, I was still calm.

I actually didn't mind being here; it's a good way to make sure I don't hurt anybody.

Suddenly, I finally heard a noise. It was a bark. The bark of a puppy. I ignored it thinking that it was my fucked up psyche playing tricks on me, or me going insane from being in this solitary confinement type environment, but I heard it again. It started to bark a few more times now. The barking continued and it wouldn't stop. I tried to ignore it, but it just got more annoying.

I decided to give in and scream, "STOP!"

That didn't work, the barking continued. I was getting really angry now. Believe it or not, I usually don't mind barking from an annoying dog, but this was just too much. I was enjoying in the silence of what was sure to be my psyche, but that was ruined thanks to the stupid dog. As I was covering my ears to reduce the sound of the high pitched barking, I feel something on my leg holding onto me like a child would hold onto its mother.

I looked down at my leg and I saw the culprit, the barking puppy. The puppy continued to bark and I was slowly starting to lose it. I wanted the stupid thing to stop barking already.

"STOP IT!", I said screaming as loud as I could, but the retarded little animal kept barking. That's it, I can't take it anymore.

I picked up the puppy and brought it up to my face. It finally stopped barking and it panted while it stared at me. I would've killed for some chocolate at that moment, it would've been easier to kill the stupid thing. For some odd reason it started to whimper. There were tears in its eyes. It was almost like it was begging me not to kill it. It's not going to work.

I decided to make its death quick and painless and snap it's neck, but then I realized that the stupid thing actually stopped barking. My focus returned back to the mutt and it was now looking at me happily. I was confused by its sudden change in mood, but I didn't care, I was just happy that it finally shut up.

I put the puppy down and pointed it away from me, "Go away." It stayed where it was and it just wagged it's tail. I was starting to get pissed off. "Go away you stupid dog."

It just sat there looking at me with its overly innocent eyes and panted.

"Aw screw it", I said. I decided to walk away from the stupid animal and leave it there.

I continued to walk for a while until I was sure that I wasn't followed by the damn dog. I sat down again and enjoyed the silence of the dark abyss, but that didn't last long as I felt the furry arms on my back again. I tried to ignore it but it wouldn't go away.

I stood up and turned around to meet the dog's eyes. "Will you leave me alone you stupid mutt!?", I yelled in its face.

The stupid thing continued to stare at me like he didn't even hear me. To my displeasure the puppy started to bark again. That was it. With a loud yell I picked up the puppy and quickly snapped it's neck, silencing it for good. I looked at the dead animal in my hands for a few seconds, enjoying the now quiet atmosphere of my surroundings. I probably should've felt guilty about taking the poor things life, but my hatred for these things wouldn't allow me. I could only feel contempt for the animal.

Now I was stuck with the dead carcass of a puppy. Fuck. I had no idea where to put it. Then I realized that I was in a dark abyss and I could just leave it there and walk far away so I wouldn't have to deal with the smell. So I put the dog on the ground, turned my back to it and walked away from it, letting the carcass of the damn thing rot.

As I started to walk I smelled something that made me cringe. It wasn't the smell of the dead dog, it was a an even worse smell. It was a redolent of smoke. I looked around me for the source of smell, but all I saw was the cold darkness. I don't know why, but I yelled out again, "Hello? Is anyone there?" I got no answer.

Suddenly I saw a red light flashing in the distance. I squinted but it didn't help me.

"Hello?" I called out again. I once again got no answer. With nothing else to do, I walked toward the red light. As I approached it, the redolent of smoke got stronger, although I still couldn't see the source. I continued to walk to the red light until a ear piecing scream startled me.

"STAY AWAY!"

I stopped in my tracks immediately. That voice, there was something about it that bothered me. It was a teenage girl'so scream, probably my age. The voice sounded so familiar to me, I know I've heard it before.

I ignored the voices request and continued toward the red light. I stopped when I was right in front of it. It was a door shape hole. In the middle of a dark abyss. I was really confused now, nothing about this made any fucking sense. Why was this door shaped whole in the middle of nowhere? And why the hell was it giving off such bright red light?

The only way to answer this question is to walk inside the "door" and see what the hell is going on. I stuck my head in the door and look around. To my surprise, it was a small 15X15 room with black walls and a black floor. In the corner I could see what looked like a girl crying in the feetle position. I could hear her sobbing. I could tell by the smell that this room was the source of the smoke I was smelling, but I couldn't see it or any source of it. This room was bare, absolutely nothing was inside accept the crying girl.

My attention focused back to the crying girl, I assumed she was the one who I heard screaming. I stepped inside the room and started to walk toward her. I would've left her there, but I remembered what my mom said about leaving a crying girl alone. There was no way I wasn't going to disobey her. As I got closer to her she looked up at me and I finally saw a glimpse of her face.

"Please, just stay away from me, I'm begging you.", she said, her voice shaky.

Once I caught a glimpse of her face I was utterly terrified. Not because she was ugly, in fact she was quiet beautiful. The reason I was afraid was because this girl was none other than Jackie Lynn Thomas.

I didn't know what to say or do at that moment. Her beautiful face was unharmed, but the rest of her, it looked horrible. Her blonde hair was a mess and it looked like it actually had drops of blood in it. It looked like strands of hair were actually pulled out of her scalp has some of her hair was gone and there was blood coming from her head. Her long and shiny legs were now covered in dirt, blood, and bruises. Her skater shoes were one and she was now only wearing socks that are soaked in water on her feet.

Even though she was still in the feetle position, I could still see her torso. The shirt she was wearing was ripped up and I could see ugly cuts on her perfect body. For some reason, her face was unharmed. I sat down next to her, "Jackie, what happened to you?", I asked getting angry at the fact that someone hurt her like this.

She doesn't answer me, she just looks off into the distance, mumbling something I can't make out. I positioned her head to look at me, "Jackie, tell me who did this to you. Was it Jeremy?", I asked getting even madder.

She finally turned to me and stared at me silently. I stayed quiet and waited for her to say something to me, but she didn't. She just stared at me like she was admiring me. Her beautiful eyes studied me like she had never seen me before.

Finally, she said something to me, "M-Marco?", she said.

I nodded, "Yes Jackie it's me, please tell me what happened to you so I can help you.", I pleaded, grabbing her hand. I noticed that her hand was extremely hot while the rest of her body was cold.

Jackie layedo her head down on my chest, "Marco", she said dreamily, "Why couldn't you have stayed this way?"

I was even more confused now, but before I could ask what she was talking about, she started talking nonsense again, "You were so cute back then, I really thought you were awesome, but then you finally snapped and started to hit me and say mean things to me. You started to hate me. Why did you start to hate me Marco?"

What she was saying flat out terified me. It literally made no god damn sense. Why would I do this to her? And what did she mean by back then?

"Jackie what are you talking about? Me and you only met a couple of days ag-" I didn't get to finish my sentence as she slapped me in the face as hard as she possibly could. I wasn't hurt by the by the slap, but it did catch me off guard. I rubbed my cheek as I looked back at Jackie who was now smiling at me.

"You poor deluded fool. You don't understand what's truly going on here do you?", she asked me. I shook my head no. She sighed dreamily and hugged me, "I wish you could've stayed this way."

I was even more confused now. Nothing that has gone on today makes any sense once so ever. Hell, I barely even remember how I got here. I just remember waking up in the fucking dark!

Jackie broke the hug between the two of us and said, "Close your eyes." "Why?" "Just close your eyes Marco, please."

I decided to give in and close my eyes. It was silent all around me, the only thing I could hear was the beating of my own heart. Suddenly, I heard the sound of someone else breathing. I assumed it was Jackie, but for some reason it felt, off. She wasn't normal. It was hard to describe it. Whenever she breathed she made a high pitched sound that sounded like it belonged to an animal or something.

I decided to end this nonsense and open my eyes, but when I opened them, I didn't see Jackie, what I saw was Star next to me sleeping peacefully in my bed. I looked around and realized that I was lying in my bed.

I breathed a slight sigh of relief as I realized that it was all a crazy dream. I stared at the sealing thinking about the dream just had. I was thinking about what it ment and what could've caused such a bizarre delusion. I've had plenty of weird dreams before, but those were usually after i go to bed angry or after recalling the incident , but neither of those things have happened today. Also, why the hell would I dream about some random dog and Jackie talking like a mental case? None of this made sense!

I was about to go to bathroom to splash water on my face to wake myself up, but the minute I moved Star rolled onto my arm. I tried to move it but she was heavier than she looked.

"Fuck it", I mumbled quietly, I layed back down and relaxed. I didn't go to sleep seeing as I didn't want to have another dream (notice how he calls them dreams and not nightmares, that's gonna be important later), so I just stayed there and let Star sleep. She tosses and turns in her sleep, but I am not bothered by it. She eventually stops moving and her face is right in front of mine.

I'm not sure why I was able to accept Star as a friend so quickly, it just sorta happened. Normally when someone tries to be friends with me, I'm quick to shut them out and rudely walk away, but with Star, she somehow broke me. It's like she casted a spell on me and made me a softy. Maybe it was because she was so innocent that it seemed like she could even hurt a fly, but if she did, she would immediately feel guilty for it and try to nurse it back to health. Maybe it was because she was simply fascinating in the fact that she from another dimension. It seems like she would have stories to tell that would make a writer beg her to let him use her stories. Or maybe, just maybe, it was because she was crying and scared.

I'm a mean person, I'll admit that right now. I remember as a child I would steal lunch from other students bookbags and the teachers lunch bag. Me and family were really poor when I was young so they wouldn't let me pack a lunch to school for fear of running out of food. When lunch time came I just stole food. I took some diabetic kids food one time, needless to say he never even needed to go to school again. The point is I'm a bad person and I've never felt bad for anyone, hell I barely give a damp about myself, but with Star, I just wanted to help her.

Maybe it was because she was beautiful. Absolutely stunning. Star was a very angelic young woman. In fact she's the second most beautiful girl I've ever seen. The first of course is Jackie Lynn Thomas, there will never be a girl as beautiful as her. But Star was still incredible with her long blonde hair, her hypnotizing voice that could make any man melt, her, for lack of a better term, sexy supermodel like model figure, she's every boys dream. She's one of the only girls that have caught my eye and for that she's extra special. Or maybe it wasn't that, could it have been something else?

What was it about her that just made me want to protect her from getting hurt again? What was it about her that convinced me to let her stay at my house without even asking my parents. What is it about Star that drives me nuts?

Authors note: I realize this chapter is pretty weak, but I'm tired. Sorry about the slightly fucked up themes of this chapter, but it's only going to get even more disturbing as we learn about Marco's past. It wI'll all make sense in the end folks. Thanks for reading and please leave a review.