Chapter 11

Marco opened his eyes seeing a beautiful blonde princess happily asleep snuggled against his chest. He slowly got up and walked out of the room and walked down the enormous corridor failing to realize he was bare chested. A female servant bumped into him.

"Oh I-" She stopped and began to stare at the young soldiers body as she began to blush and slightly drool. "Uh my eyes are up here." Marco chuckled, "R-Right I'm sorry master Marco forgive me." She begged.

"Woah Master Marco? I'm just Marco. I'm not royal just a soldier." He chuckled, "But have you seen my gun crew?" Marco asked quickly changing the subject. "Oh you mean the rest of your men? Yes they are in the medical hall. Its just down this hallway." She pointed, "Thank you so much." Marco said waving to her as he began to walk the hallway.

'Man this place feels like home for some reason. I feel like I belong here more than I do on Earth. Here I have a clean slate and no problems to drown in cheap booze and failed over doses.' He thought, "Excuse me master Marco, you will need to put on some clothes on." A deep voice said, "Huh, what I do... not have clothes on." Marco yelped as he covered his chest.

"Christ chief your hopeless." D said throwing him a tan T-shirt. "Ah thanks D what would I do without you?" Marco sighed, "you would be fired and kicked out of the army. But hey whatever man." D nonchalantly said sipping water from his canteen.

Marco groaned at how right D was, "Hows L holding up? Any changes on his condition at all?" "Well if you where here instead of screwing the princess you would know that we lost him. Whatever that lizard did to him fucked his insides. His gone chief." D said looking at his empty canteen.

I stood in silence as I sat down next to D. I felt tears building up in my eyes, "He was just a fucking kid. Damn it!" Marco yelled as he buried his face in his hands. "Yeah he was. Look chief I don't know about you, but we want to go home. My contract is about to expire and I miss my wife. I'm sorry chief but I ordered the rest of the crew to go on home." D said not even looking at Marco.

"What?! You sent the crew home without my consent?!" Marco yelled, "What the hell are you thinking? We have a mission to complete!" D looked at Marco with cold eyes. "No chief you do. We are just along for the ride. We lost L a few days ago we couldent find you to inform you. Your radio was off your the one whos integrating with this kingdom! We are the ones who are carrying out the mission while you screw with the princess!"

Marco stood silent again, "Chief I didn't want to lose any more guys especially out here in a land where we don't belong. I stayed behind to break the news to you. I'm taking my leave along with them. Goodbye chief, we left the howitzer here for your mission so your not totally fucked. Enjoy it here chief this place really suites you." D smiled as a servant opened a portal as D stepped inside. D turned and gave one last smile to his former chief as the portal closed behind him.

"Honey" Marco turned around seeing Star with tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry this is all my fault." Tears streaming down her face as she tried to keep her cool. "No Star, its mine I didn't follow my creed. I lost sight of my men, and I didn't place of them on my priority list. D was right if it wasn't for him I would have been fired and kicked out of the army." Marco walked up to her as he wrapped his arms around the blonde.

Tears continued to fall as they both embraced each other, "What will you do now Marco?" Star asked looking up at him with worry in her eyes, "Are you going after them?"

"No, I'm going to finish my mission and become your king. My soldiers know that this is where I belong they can replace me easily." Marco said kissing her forehead gently. Star's eyes lit up with joy as she cried even more with tears of joy and happiness. "I promise I will end Toffee and rule this kingdom with you."