Hey everyone! So you guys are telling me season 2 is still ongoing and that Bon Bon the Birthday Clown was the mid season finale, despite the wiki and IMDB telling me otherwise, which only makes me more confused. Regardless, we all still have to wait a few months before the next episode so I'm still pretty bummed out lol

Anyway, I don't have a plan for this one other than 'I'll see where the next line of dialogue takes me'. Hopefully I end up with a good fic and not a sporadic spew of poorly written plot on the screen.

Today's going to be a short one sadly, sorry! Also I didn't beta this so there might be grammar/spelling mistakes.

Here we go!

The door handle shook before opening into the Diaz household. Marco entered the room carrying an armful of grocery bags. "Star, I'm back! I got your cookies!" He struggled to carry the heavy load to the kitchen counter. He placed the numerous bags on the surface, stretched his arms, and began to take out some of the food, placing them into the refrigerator. "I got you three boxes this time, so hopefully you can last the week! Oh, I also got some cheese, so we can make some of my world famous nachos!" He placed the snacks in the pantry, stealing a cookie from Star's stash. "Bad news, I have like three dollars left, so we won't be buying more ice cream anytime soon… unless there's an ice cream dimension you can take us to. That would be pretty awesome."

Marco looked at the box of cereal before placing it in the pantry. A dimension of ice cream… Star would love that. One problem with that idea. Star would love that. She'd probably eat as much as she can and get a sugar rush… again… "On second thought, maybe we shouldn't go there…"

He finished putting away the remaining plastic bags before entering the living room. The boy finally sat down on the couch and turned on the TV. "Oh, and I know you'll love this, Star. The annual town carnival is happening this weekend. Wanna check it out later?"

A couple seconds passed by without any answer.

"Star?"

No response. He muted the TV to see if he missed anything.

"Starrr? Did you hear me?" He looked around the room to see if she was hiding somewhere, doing something… Starry. "I told you before, I'm not doing Hide and Destroy. That game nearly killed me."

Marco expected to hear something from the loud princess, but all he could hear was the silence in the house. He began to worry. What if something happened to her... maybe Ludo attacked her! Star's strong enough to take down his group of monsters… right? She can usually do it without his help.

"Star! Where are you?" He rushed through the house, looking for any sign of the girl. Soon, he made his way upstairs and burst into Star's room. Maybe she left a clue there. "Star-" He stopped. A sleeping princess laid face down on her bed with a cup in her hand. His worry left him as he sighed in relief. "You're not in danger. That's good… but you are asleep in the middle of the day…"

And that was not normal. Star's never sleepy. She had tons of energy. Marco looked around for her wand to make sure this wasn't some sort of trap. It may not seem like it, but Ludo's surprisingly clever every once in a while. This could be one of those moments. He approached the sleeping princess and found the wand next to her spellbook near the bed.

"Well, at least those are still here."

Marco turned around when he heard Star stir in her sleep. She let out a small groan before slowly opening her eyes. She mumbled something incomprehensible before rolling over to her side.

"Star? You awake?" Marco asked, poking her gently. "Starrr?"

Star suddenly sat up straight, her eyes still half open and face… red? She scanned the room before she laid her eyes on Marco. "...Oh… hey Marco… how ya doing?" Star said with a grin on her face.

"I'm… great… how 'bout you?"

"Oh, you know. Just the usual… the saaaame old Star." The girl fell back on her bed, giggling at herself. She took another sip of her cup before frowning. "Awww… it's empty…"

Marco gave a confused look. "Yup. It's empty alright. Want me to get you some more water?"

Star shook her head. "No, no… no water. I'll have some more of that magical soda. It's pretty good…"

"Magical soda, huh?" Marco thought to himself. He was pretty sure they were out of soda this morning. He just came back with more. "I didn't know we had more."

"Me neither. But I found it. Finders keepers! Heheh… You can have some too, Mark-Mark. I put it on the desk. Also can you get me some more soda, please?"

Marco chuckled. "Yeah, sure." He grabbed her cup and walked over to the desk. It was rather messy. Papers and homework scattered everywhere; doodles of monsters could be seen on some of the sheets. "Not to nag you or anything, but shouldn't you clean up your desk a little?" He reached for the large glass bottle. "And I don't remember us having soda in this kind of-"

His eyes widened. "...Star? How much did you drink?"

"Yyyyyeeeeeeaah…. Not that much? Just about… one sip?"

"Starrr!" Marco looked at the bottle again. "Oh boy… Star, this isn't soda."

The princess sat up, almost falling off the bed. "Hmmmmm? Is this the end of Star Butterfly? Death by poison?" She narrowed her eyes at Marco. "I knew that soda was too good to be true. You poisoned me. Betrayed by my best friend. How could you do this to me?" Star interrogated playfully as she began to fall forward again.

"No, you're not poisoned… you're drunk. You can't drink this stuff, Star! You're only- wait a second, you got drunk off ONE sip of wine?"

"Mmph rrmm mmhh immr mph mmrrshmph."

Marco turned his attention to his friend who had her face buried in her sheets. "Uh… what?"

She lifted her head, letting some of her hair fall messily in front of her face. "I'm not drunk. I'm Staaaaaaaaaaar Butterflyyyyyyyyyy. You knew me for how long and you're still getting my name wrong? I see how it is, Diaz."

The boy sighed, placing the bottle of wine down on the desk. "Man, how did you even find this thing!? I thought mom and dad kept that locked up!"

"Aaaaand another thing! Who keeps soda locked up in a cabinet? You of all people should know, no place is safe from the magical princess!"

Marco opened his mouth to retort but stopped short. "...That's… actually a good point…" He walked over to Star and laid her back down on the bed. "Stay here. I'm gonna go get some water."

Star was unresponsive, staring lazily up at the ceiling. The boy quickly went back to the kitchen and retrieved a water bottle from the refrigerator. He returned to the room and-

"Mega starfish tsunami!"

Marco was met with a torrent of sea creatures and water. He was pushed all the way back against the hallway as water continued to burst out of the magical wand. Thankfully, the wave soon began to lose its force, and the wand had ceased its attack as Marco lay on the ground with starfish and other creatures flopping on the ground. Marco spit out a mouthful of water and gave an annoyed look at Star who was leaning against her bedpost holding her wand out with a dazed grin.

"Starrr! What was that for?"

"Wellllll, you said you were gonna get water, so I thought, why go get water when I can make water come to us! I hope it was enough, though."

"I meant water for you so that you don't get a headache when this is over."

Star blinked, looking back and forth between her wand and Marco. "...Ohhhhhhh. For me…"

"Yeah… for you…" Marco groaned as he got up. "But now we have to clean-"

"Mega starfish tsunami-"

"NO STAR! DON'T POINT THAT AT YOUR FACE!" Luckily, Marco interrupted the princess just in time. Star had her mouth opened for the water spell to come out of the wand but looked over at him. Marco sighed and shook his legs. "I have a water bottle right here… argh, and you know how much I hate wet socks. It's DISGUSTING! Torture, I tell you."

Marco walked over to the bed, trying to kick his socks off with every step. "Gross gross gross gross gross gross." With a bottle in his hand and socks off his feet, he finally reached the bed and handed Star the water. "Here, drink up."

"Ah! The antidote! Saved by my best friend! You have redeemed yourself, Marco." She drank the bottle, slowly falling back as she tilted her head back more and more. Marco put his hand on her back to stop her from falling even more.

"All this from one sip, huh? Guess no more alcohol for you. Ever."

"You're all this from one sip."

"What?"

"What?"

Marco narrowed his eyes at the girl who gave a smug look as she drank her water bottle.

"You're a real handful sometimes, you know that?"

"But I'm your handful!" Star said, wrapping her arms around the boy. Marco smiled and hugged back.

"Alright, I'm going back to my room and changing. And I'm taking the wine… and your wand. No more spells from you until you're better."

"Noooooooooo! Theif!" Star whined as Marco carried her belongings out of the room. Star stared at the open door, thinking to herself for a bit before responding.

"...Did you say you brought cookies home?"

Merry Christmas, Happy New Years, and don't drink alcohol kiddies :)

Still thinking of a title for this series. Give suggestions plz~