I've updated twice today. If you haven't already go back and read the previous chapter. Thank you.
So this is usually the spot where I either apologize for taking so long between updates, thank people for leaving reviews, get my readers excited for the chapter, or rant about something. Right now I don't think that's necessary since I'm uploading twice today, so I'll just get straight to the chapter.
Disclaimer: I have run out of witty ways to say I don't own Star vs. The Forces of Evil.
Queen Circe had a wonderful time last night showing off her newest jewels, she supposed she should thank her daughter for disappearing and creating such a wonderful opportunity. Not only that but she could also look forward to a wedding soon, which meant even more jewelry!
'And I know just the designs I want.' the Queen thought as she swam to her daughter's room. Knocking on the door, Circe said, "Jackie dear, it's time for you to get up, we have shopping to do." When she didn't get a response, she knocked again and asked, "Jackie?" When the room remained silent, the Queen opened the door, expecting her daughter to be sleeping in, however the room was empty and nothing out of place, except for the folded paper on the foot of the bed. The Queen quickly read it before releasing a great scream that awoke the entire kingdom.
King Mano was the first to get to the princess' room. Upon seeing his wife holding a piece of paper, the king asked, "What is the matter my Queen?"
"Someone…someone….someone…" try as she might, Queen Circe could not form a sentence between her sobbing. Growing tired of his wife's stuttering, the king grabbed the paper out of her hands. As it was protected by the bubble spell, it was still readable. On the outside were the words, "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN." Inside was the simple message, "YOUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE!"
King Mano was angered by this, his daughter was what would grant him a larger army with minimal payment. Grabbing the nearest aid, he ordered, "Gather the council, we need to have a strategy meeting right now!" After his aid had swam off, King Mano realized his wife was still in tears, "Don't worry dear, we'll get her back."
The queen continued to sob but was able to form coherent sentences as she said, "Now I have to wait longer to order that new tiara for the wedding."
After turning off her alarm clock, Star stretched before getting off her bed and walking around her room as she said, "Good morning room, good morning wand, good morning Jackie-in-my-fish-tank, good morning clothes." Star suddenly realized what she said and rushed back out to her fish tank to find Jackie waving at her saying, "Good morning Star."
Once the princess' brain could once more function properly, she said, "Jackie! What are you doing here? Not that I don't want you here, but you weren't here when I went to bed and usually stuff doesn't appear in my room when I'm sleeping."
Star would have rambled on had Jackie not said, "Star it's fine. As for what I'm doing, I'm trying to decide whether to eat the breakfast Marco is making or to bite his hand off." Apparently she was still a little miffed at being in the tank.
Star was confused by the comment until Marco walked in carrying a plater with scrambled eggs, bacon, ham, waffles, sausages, and plates and said, "Good morning ladies." After dividing up the food and passing around the plates, the trio began eating. 'Okay, I guess the boy gets to keep his hand, for now.' Jackie thought as she savored her food.
As the group was eating, Marco noticed something and asked, "Hey Star, does your mirror usually blink in the mornings?"
As Marco had pointed out, Star's mirror was currently flashing a dull red. Seeing this, Star quickly got up and pressed one of the jewels on the mirror's frame, which caused a robotic voice to say, "You have…three calls…waiting. First call."
In an instant the mirror displayed a floating, blue unicorn head. "Hey B-fly, do you know why Earth Turd would be at St. O's late at night?"
Before Star could answer, Marco called out, "Come on Pony Head, I thought we were past that."
Said princess looked over Star's head to see Marco and Jackie continuing to enjoy their breakfast. "Dang! How did he manage to bag himself a mermaid? Have you two been partying without me?"
Before Star could answer, one of the guards came on screen and told the floating unicorn head, "Times up, you've been holding up the line. Your next opportunity for a mirror call is in two weeks."
After Pony Head's call ended, Tom appeared on the mirror. "Hey starship, I know you're still mad at me about the whole Blood Moon Ball thing, but I just found out something that I think you should know. I get that you're close to that human, Marco, but I saw him with a large sack earlier, I think he kidnapped a princess!"
Star didn't even look at Tom during her brief reply, "Don't call me that, still angry at you, already know about it and I'm cool with it." Before Tom could reply, Star ended the call.
The last call to appear on Star's mirror was from King Butterfly. "Star darling, do you know any reason why your friend would be in our dimension last night?"
"Uh…" not able to think of a convenient lie, Star just shifted her mirror to show Marco and Jackie eating breakfast. Upon seeing this, the king's eyes grew wide as he began saying, "Star, Marco, Jackie do you have any idea what cons…" however the call was cut off when a pixie appeared.
"I am sorry, but it appears you have run out of minutes."
"But I had enough for the rest of the month, and didn't I switch mirror providers?" Star asked.
"Your parents switched you back as our dimension provides the best deal. As for the minutes, three call waitings eat up a lot of time." Star grunted before she ended the call.
"Okay, well now that those are out of the way, we need to get ready for school." Here Star quickly shoved Marco out of the room before going into her closet, yelling out, "Hey Jackie you need to borrow some clothes?"
"Sorry Star, I'm stuck in this tank for the rest of the day, Marco said it's something about following the rules."
"Okay, see you later then."
As Star walked into the hallway she saw Marco waiting, full dressed but missing his back pack. Having an idea of what he was doing, Star asked, "You're not going to school today?"
Shaking his head, Marco replied, "It's possible Jackie and I can be tracked back to here. I have straight A's, so I figured I could take a sick day and just hang with Jackie."
Star nodded before walking towards the front door while saying, "Just be careful, who knows what her dad will send to get her back."
King Mano had just finished explaining the situation to his council. Understandably chaos soon began as everyone was blaming each other for allowing the princess to be kidnapped. While Mano would thrive in the chaos of battle, the chaos of bureaucracy just gave him a headache. Finally he had enough and yelled, "I demand silence!" Instantly the room was quiet, "Now we will find out who is at fault after she is safely back here. Now does anyone have any ideas on how to find her?"
The room was silent until a voice in the back said, "Why don't you allow me to find her?" The crowd parted to reveal the hammerhead Jackie was engaged to, Mano though his name was Fang. King Mano was about to tell him this wasn't child's play, but the young shark continued, "You have been very gracious to me and my people by allowing me to marry your daughter, why not let me earn the honor?"
"Fine," King Mano finally said after a minute considering his options, "take five of my men and search for my daughter while the rest of us figure out a more reliable answer."
With a bow Fang left the council room. After gathering his men, he began his search in the princess' room. With his eyes closed, he slowly turned his head back and forth. Seeing this, one of the guards whispered to the other, "What do you think he's doing?"
"Will you be quite!" Fang snapped, "I need to concentrate for this!" While all shark-people could sense electrical pulses to an extent, with their wider heads and more surface area hammerhead shark-people were more adapt at this and with a little magic could sense the past electrical pulses and follow a trail as long as it wasn't too old. Once he had enough focus, Fang could "see" a figure with two legs standing at the window and a figure with a tail hovering over their back. Having the trail, Fang turned to his men and motioned them to follow.
Soon the shark-people were at portal canyon. "Well that's it then," one of the shark-soldiers said, "that portal is random, not telling where they went."
"And you are a fool," Fang replied, "the trail goes past the portal, somehow the kidnapper made it past and opened a different portal. We must move quickly if we are to catch the culprit."
And more quickly they did, however while Fang and four of the guards made it past the portal, the last wasn't so lucky, but was somehow able to swim out of the portals pull. Once Fang and the remaining guards regrouped, the hammerhead yelled, "Well what are we waiting for, we have a princess to save!" and used his claws to reopen Marco's portal.
While the men gave a battle cry as they entered the portal, that stopped when they realized they were in Quest Buy. Unfortunately the multitude of people and electronics would cause interference tracking the assailant's "shadow". Fang expressed this frustration by pinching his brow and saying, "This is going to take awhile."
Star walked out of third period think how weird the day had been so far. When she first arrived at school, it seemed like almost all of the male students were waiting for Marco to step off the bus, only to release a groan when they found out through Star that Marco was "sick" that day. Of course when it became known that Jackie was also "sick" the rumor mill began to turn. Star did wonder what state the pair would have to run away to get married in, they were only 14!
Star was lost in her thoughts as she walked to her next class, only to be broken from them when Janna snuck up behind the girl and said, "So I guess Marco's plan is working."
Star shrugged her shoulders as she said, "I guess, he keeps going on about how he needs to follow the rules of something, but doesn't tell me or you know who anything."
Janna nodded her head before breaking out into a huge grin. When questioned by Star, the girl just said, "I'm imagining their reaction to the rest of that law."
Star raised an eyebrow as she asked, "What law?"
"Nope, not telling." Janna said before she started running away.
"Well that was weird." Star said to herself before she went into the classroom.
"You really started skateboarding a week after you got your legs?" Marco asked. He and Jackie were just ideally chatting with each other. They may have a connection, but they still didn't actually know that much about each other.
Jackie nodded her head as she leaned out of the tank. "Well of course I did, back then it was the only solid lead I had on you. I did get a few scraps and bruises and I didn't always do the best I could, I did run into you during seventh grade, but at least I never broke any bones like someone."
"I may have broken my arm twice doing karate, but my only skateboarding injury is my head."
"But on the tape me and Star saw you with a cast."
"Yeah," Marco scratched the back of his neck as recounted how he broke his arm the first time. "I had just broken my first board that day and when I got home I made myself a deal that if I could do it again then I would ask you to hang out. You can guess how that turned out."
It took Fang longer than he would like to admit to track the "shadow" to the next portal. He had gotten through the hall of traps unscratched, but the same could not be said for all of his men. "Now is everyone alright?"
"I got one of my fins chopped off!"
"Well put it on ice and we'll either reattach it or eat it later. Right now we have a job to do." Opening the next portal, the group were transported to the giant treadmill leading to Saint Olga's. However, Fang declined to listen to the guard and just opened the next portal. As soon as the group set foot in Tom's dimension, they started hopping due to the hot ground. Somehow the shark-men managed to move forward until Tom caught sight of them.
"Quickly!" the demon yelled, "The guy that took your princess should be through the next portal!" He still wanted revenge against Marco as Star hadn't reacted like he'd expected her to. Tom figured Marco had went directly back to Earth and while he couldn't currently go there to take his revenge directly, he could direct others.
With renewed vigor, Fang lead the soldiers through the portal and into Ludo's dimension. Seeing the tiny tyrant rallying his minions to launch another attack against Star, Fang cried out, "For the princess!" as he and his men began attacking Ludo's army.
Star now realized how boring school could be without Marco to distract her or Ludo to fight. She had briefly run into Ferguson and Alfonzo who feared Marco had perished during another Bro Code. Luckily Star was able to calm their fears but refused to tell them where Marco was. As the magical princess from another dimension walked to her next class, Star realized that Marco's parents would be home tonight, and they didn't know anything about Jackie being a mermaid or Marco's rescue.
'Okay, I've got to get home so we can come up with a plan.' Star thought to herself.
"Seriously though, trying to stop Star with a volleyball net while she was going through Mewberty, that was stupid." Jackie said as she laughed, she had been sick that day and only got some of the details from Janna.
"Hey I didn't know Mewni biology and Glossarcyk wasn't much help." Marco said, defending his actions. As a new thought popped into his head, Marco asked, "I'm not going to have to worry about anything like that with you will I?"
Jackie thought for a second before she said, "I might get a little possessive at times and you probably want to keep rare meat away from me."
"Feeding frenzy?" Marco asked.
"Feeding frenzy." Jackie confirmed.
It was a long and glorious battle between the five shark-men and Ludo's minions. After many hours, both sides were scrapped, bleeding, but somehow no one was dead. As the battle drew to a close, Fang crawled toward Ludo as he commanded, "We have defeated you, now release our princess.'
"What are you talking about?" Ludo asked.
"Our mermaid princess that you kidnapped, the demon kid told us she was here!" Fang yelled.
"Why would I kidnap a mermaid?!" Ludo screamed as he threw his hands up. "They have some magic yes, but it's all internal. I would never be able to harvest it!"
"Then where is our princess!"
"Perhaps I could shed some light on the situation." From seemingly out of nowhere, a tall, bipedal, suit wearing, alligator with a missing finger spoke. (A/N This guy is in the running of being my favorite character of the show.)
"Toffee!" Luco immediately sprung up to his feet. "Are you here to finish these guys off?"
"No, I am here to clear up this unfortunate debacle." Turning to Fang, Toffee said, "I believe you were misinformed, if your kidnapper could travel between dimensions, he obviously would go through as many as possible to stall any pursuers. He would most likely wait until he was in a safe place to open another portal, try the other side of Mewni."
Fang nodded his thanks as he and his men limped toward Mewni's dark forest. They had walked for perhaps ten minutes before they were surrounded by a group of knights and spearmen led by King Butterfly. "An armed group of shark-men has appeared in not only my dimension, but also my kingdom! This appears to be an invasion, this is grounds for war!" the king shouted, the shark-men didn't need to know that he knew of Jackie's kidnapping.
"Wait, please, this is a simple misunderstanding. We are only trying to retrieve our kidnapped princess, we believe she was transported thought this dimension." Fang pleaded.
"Then have your guards return home and only your leader continue onward." While it may appear that King Butterfly was helping Marco, something he couldn't do or risk his kingdom going to war, he was actually insuring the law was followed. The king had a good idea what Marco had done (even if he doesn't condone it), but also knew that Fang was violating the rules by having an armed entourage.
Fang reluctantly asked the king to provide a portal home for the guards while he continued on the quest alone. He soon came to where the "shadows" ended and opened up another portal.
Olaf had dragged Elsa, the ruler of the kingdom, her sister Anna, and Anna's boyfriend Kristoff, into the town's center where he had met Marco.
"Could you go over this again Olaf?" Elsa asked.
"Okay," the happy snowman said, "I was walking in the town square and Marco and his moving sack appeared and ran into that house."
Kristoff whispered to Anna, "Are we sure his brain hasn't melted?" only to be lightly slapped and told, "Oh hush you." by his girlfriend.
"Well that was certainly…interesting." Elsa said, use to Olaf's friendly attitude, although there would be some concern if what the snowman had said about a moving sack was true, someone could have been kidnapped. "I'll look into this Marco, but for now let's go home."
However before the group left, Fang suddenly appeared in the town's square, stopping just short of the wall Marco had run into earlier. He then turned and reopened another portal, all while never noticing the group. Once he left, Elsa stated, "Kristoff, I think we need to go talk to the trolls."
When Fang exited the portal, he almost fell off the roof, however his quick reflexes stopped him. Although it was difficult, Fang could see the "shadow" reappear on the street and run into an ally. After carefully climbing down, Fang ran in delayed pursuit.
Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, was currently standing in front of the ally where Marco had disappeared. He was in civilian clothes as he explained what happened to his skeptical friends, well those that weren't called off to save the world.
"Let me get this straight," Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, began, "you rescued a kid from falling off a roof, then heard a voice from his bag, then he skate boarded, which I still don't know what that is, down this ally and disappeared with a pair of scissors?"
"Yes!" Tony practically screamed. "We stopped an interstellar invasion once, defeated a robot that was smarter than me, what part of this doesn't make sense?"
"I don't know Stark," Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, began, "I got to go with Cap. on this one, it just doesn't seem possible."
Just as Natasha finished speaking, the group saw Fang in the ally. Steven and Natasha got ready to engage while Tony had a suit on standby, however none of this was necessary as the hammerhead shark-man stopped just short of the group and reopened a portal. A stunned silence fell on the group until Tony smirked and asked, "Believe me now?"
"Don't want to hear it Stark, let's just find Thor and see if we can get him away from Jane for five seconds, maybe he knows what's going on."
After all he had been through that day, Fang had expected to be launched into the middle of a battle when he stepped through the next portal, however he instead found himself in a peaceful backyard. He noticed four kids working on some contraption with a multitude of mirrors and crystals while another was busy working out a mathematical equation on a chalkboard. Not have the patience for this, Fang quickly found the exit portal and reopened it.
After the portal closed, Phineas put his head and asked, "Did anyone else feel like we just missed something?" only to be answered by a chorus of no's. After tightening down a few screws and checking the wiring, Phineas declared, "There, our dimensional refractor is finished."
"What does this thing do again?" Buford asked.
"Phineas explained it the first time Buford," Isabella began, "we shine light through the crystals, which in turn is shone on the mirror, which redirects it back on the crystals which will superheat and open a portal to a different dimension once it reaches a certain heat."
"Huh?" the bully asked.
"Crystals gets hot, portal opens." Ferb said.
"And I just figured out what temperature we need to go to the dimension where the portals end." Baljeet proudly declared.
"Okay then," Phineas started, "Let's get lunch then see if this thing works."
Fang was actually having a peaceful time when the portal opened in the woods. He was curious why the princess' "shadow" seemed to willingly go with her abductor, but that was a question for another time. The hammerhead shark-man became so used to the relaxing dimensions that the big city of San Fransokyo proved to be quite a shock. However, he was determine to prove himself and once more set off after the "shadows".
"Are you sure you weren't seeing things?" Honey Lemon asked in a concern voice. She along with Wasabi, GoGo, and Fred had gathered at the ally where Hiro claimed to see the other teen, Marco, disappear.
"I'm sure Honey Lemon. One second I'm talking to him, then Baymax tells me he has something that doesn't match any of his records, and the next second the guy vanishes."
"So you didn't see him disappear." GoGo stated.
"Well, no, but Baymax recorded it. Show them buddy."
As the group gathered in front of the robot to see the recorded footage, Fang walked into the ally. Fred was the only one to see him approach as everyone else was looking at the footage. After several attempts to gather their attention, Fred finally just grabbed Wasbi's head and pointed it at the hammerhead shark-man as Fang reopened the portal and stepped through. "Did anyone else see that or was it just me and Fred?"
After being told no, Wasabi walked over to the wall and muttered to himself, "How can I get you to reopen?"
Fred however heard him and said, "Wait, I know the answer to this one, it's just like in Commander Mantis issue 12!"
Fang hoped that he was getting close to the end of his quest as he walked the halls of Norrisville High. So focused on his task was he that he did not notice the looks of terror the students where giving him, or others running away once he was out of sight. While most students ran out of the building like they were instructed to do during the "Monster Drill," a chubby red head, Howard, ran to find his best friend. As luck would have it, said friend was right around the corner.
"Cunningham, we've got another person stanked! Must be a newbie, never seen someone turn into a shark." When his friend still wouldn't move, Howard gave him a shove as he said, "Well, what are you waiting for, I can believe I'm going to say this but, it's Ninja-o'clock!"
"Wait, Randy's the Ninja?" It was only now that Howard realized that Randy had been talking to his new girlfriend.
After briefly glaring at Howard, Randy turned to Theresa and said, "Yes I'm the Ninja. I promise I'll tell you more later, but I'm needed right now, okay?"
Theresa nodded and said, "Okay, but you're taking me to the movies this weekend." before she walked off. Randy wondered how he got such a great girlfriend before putting on the Ninja mask, having the suit spread outward. Once he was ready, Randy dropped a smoke bomb, appearing in front of Fang a second later. "Wow, it is a new monster, I expected Bucky to be stanked again before this happened. So what's your story? Exchange student being bullied by Bash?"
Fang growled before he answered, "I don't have time for this." As the hammerhead shark-man began to turn around, he was stopped when something red wrapped itself around his arm.
"Wow, you can actually talk in complete sentences. Are you really stanked, or are you one of Viceroy's pets?" Randy asked.
"You will pay for your insolence!" Fang then charged and tried to deliver a haymaker, only for Randy to dodge and retaliate with three fast hits to Fang's torso and face. The pain disorientated Fang slightly, but once he recovered he realized he was next to the portal opening. "Be thankful I have bigger fish to catch or else I would stay to finish you!" Fang declared before he ripped open the portal and stepped through.
"Did he just make a fishing reference?" Randy asked. Not waiting for an answer, Randy smoke bombed away so a deserted room to remove the mask.
Fang stepped out of the portal in front of the gym. While he was able to escape the fight with the ninja relatively unscratched, the last hit did cause a large amount of pain to his nose. Due to the pain, Fang was unable to concentrate enough to see the "shadows", coupled with the electricity in the air due to the telephone wires meant that Fang could not effectively tack. 'Well I have to start somewhere.' Fang thought to himself as he walked away, in the opposite direction of the Diaz house.
Star had to stay afterschool to serve detention as Principal Skeeves finally went back and watched the tape from when the mystery meat came to life. As Star didn't have enough money to bribe the greedy man, she was forces to spend two hours clapping erasers without magic. Once she was finished she had to walk home as the last bus had already left. Needless to say, Star was exhausted when she managed to climb the stairs to her room, only to see that Marco and Jackie had grown very close during her absence. The mermaid girl was currently leaning out of her tank, making out with the boy. After a minute of not being noticed, Star gave a sharp cough, which caused both teens to quickly separate, each having massive blushes.
"Hey Star, thought you would be home earlier." Marco said as he scratched the back of his head.
"Yeah, well Skeeves found out I was the one that brought the lunch meat to life so I had detention. How about you two, seems like you got close."
Jackie's blush grew darker as she said, "You could say that."
Although she found the entire event amusing, Star decided to bring up the real issue. "Hey Marco, do your parents know that you've kidnapped a mermaid?"
Marco went deathly pale as he said, "No, I guess I forgot to send them a text or a note or something."
"So what, I'll just have to hide for a while, right?" Jackie asked.
"Except Marco's parents have the best luck at finding things. I had a pack of jerky stashed under my bed once and Mr. Diaz found it within five minutes." Star declared.
"And it's not just finding things." Marco added. "I once busted a window at school, no one saw me do it. My mom knew about it before she even picked me up."
"Okay, so if I did hide your parents would think something's up and find me." Jackie said, then added, "So we just have to hide something else to throw off suspicion."
"Hey Marco, what were the exact rules of that law you're using?" Star asked.
"That the captured princess must remain within a castle of your residence in your home dimension. Why do you ask?"
Both princesses stared at the boy with wide eyes until Jackie screamed, "Are you kidding me!?"
"What?"
"Marco," Star began, "was there anything saying Jackie had to stay like she is?"
Seeing where his mistake was, Marco swallowed the lump in his throat before saying, "I kind of assumed that part."
Before anyone could respond, Star caught a glimpse through her window of of the Diaz car driving toward the house. "We don't have time for this," she said as she pushed Marco out of her room, "wait out here while I help Jackie!"
Marco waited in the hall as instructed, but was too nervous about what his parents' reaction would be to stand still. Marco's parents generally trusted their son to do the right thing on his own, thus the only real rule in the house was no skateboarding. Still, he didn't expect his mom and dad to be alright with him kidnapping someone, even if they didn't want to be where they were. As he heard his parent's car pull into the driveway, Star suddenly opened her door and said, "Make it look good," before he was pulled into the room as Star left it.
Marco saw that Jackie was finishing getting dressed. She was currently wearing a pair of black skinny jeans, a pair of dark green converse, and was halfway done buttoning up a similarly colored shirt, her seashell bra still visible. While she struggled, Jackie asked, "Is there anything else?" A quick look of the room revealed Marco's helmet and skateboard sitting on the floor in plain view. Marco kicked them under Star's bed, however some water left on the floor from when Jackie exited the tank caused him to slip. In his attempt to keep upright, Marco brought Jackie down to the floor with him.
"Hi Mr. and Mrs. Diaz, did you have a nice trip?" Star asked as she greeted the two down stairs.
"It was alright Star, but it's nice to be home." Mr. Diaz said. Mrs. Diaz, however, had not lost the strange look on her face since she had entered the house. It looked as if she was contemplating something before she suddenly became rigid and made a declaration.
"You and Marco are hiding something."
"What? Now that's just silly. What could Marco and I possibly have to hide?" Star asked as innocently as she could. The two adults seemed like they would believe it, had it not been for the loud thud seconds later. After sharing a look, Mr. and Mrs. Diaz started going upstairs. As they were approaching Star's room, the princess yelled, "Wait! Don't open the door!" However, her warning was not taken. Once the door was fully open, the trio were greeted to a shocking sight.
Marco was lying flat on the floor, Jackie straddling his waist. In the course of the fall, their lips had landed against each other. Heading Star's words, Jackie decided to, "make it look good," and snuck her tongue into Marco's mouth. Marco was at first shocked, but soon followed her lead, noting some of the girl's molars had turned sharp.
After a minute, Mrs. Diaz coughed lightly to get the two teens attention and asked, "Hello Marco, who is your friend?"
"Right, mom, dad, meet Jackie. Jackie, mom and dad."
"Hi Mr. and Mrs. Diaz." Jackie greeted as she removed herself from Marco and once more attempted to completely button her borrowed shirt.
"Nice to meet you dear." Mrs. Diaz said before turning to Marco and asking, "And will Jackie be staying for dinner?"
Marco was going to think of a response, but Star replied first by saying, "She kind of has to. We got assigned a group project in History and the teacher wants a bunch of work done before next Wednesday. We're probably going to have to have dinner in my room and work while we eat."
Mrs. Diaz nodded her head and said, "Well it's getting late, my Husband and I will get dinner made while you three work. Coming dear?"
"In a second honey." Mr. Diaz replied. Once his wife was gone, the man turned to the three teenagers and said, "This door stays open." before he left. The room was silent for a moment until all three teens started laughing hysterically.
Once he was able to talk Marco said, "I can't believe that worked. Good idea with the History project Star."
"Um, that wasn't a lie." Star said as she began to say, "We got assigned a project on the founding of Echo Creek when it was a gold town. The teacher wants a timeline, outline, five primary sources, three secondary sources, and at least one visual aid before next Wednesday, I think." Star said. Once she saw the questioning looks from her project partners, Star started walking out of the room saying, "Or I might have read it wrong, let me grab the requirements."
Once Star left, Jackie turned to Marco and asked, "Can I borrow your phone? I should probably get Janna and her mom in the loop so I can stay the night."
"Sure." After surrendering his phone, Marco asked, "Was the tongue really necessary?"
Jackie tried to hide her smile as she countered, "You weren't complaining about it earlier."
Marco blushed slightly as he asked, "And your teeth?"
"I got a little excited, sue me."
"It's no problem Miss Thomas, she's welcome to stay the night. Have a nice trip." Mrs. Diaz said before she hung up the phone.
"Who was that dear?" Mr. Diaz asked as he put the leftovers in the fridge.
"That was Jackie's aunt. Apparently she had to leave for a business trip this afternoon and would rather Jackie doesn't walk home by herself."
Mr. Diaz simply shrugged his shoulders before saying, "As long as Marco and her niece don't sleep in the same room I don't see a problem."
"What is the matter with you lately? You know our son, he would never do something like that with a girl he hardly knows."
"I know dear." Mr. Diaz reassured his wife. "It's just that I feel like there's something different with him and until I figure it out I don't want to take chances."
Knowing what her husband feared, Mrs. Diaz put a reassuring hand on his arm as she said, "You're a good father, but you worry too much. For crying out loud, he's been called the "Safety Kid" ever since the seventh grade. Now come on, let's see what has been has been happening since we left."
As Mrs. Diaz turned the TV on to the local news, the anchor said, "Repeating our top story, a bipedal hammerhead shark has been reported rampaging through out Echo Creek. Sightings are unconfirmed but citizens are urged to stay indoors."
The two adults were silent for a moment before Mr. Diaz called upstairs. "Star?"
"Yes?"
"Have you created any shark-men recently?"
"Not to my knowledge."
"Okay dear, just be sure to keep all your magical creations inside the house." Mrs. Diaz said.
Upstairs Marco and Jackie were having a conversation of their own. "So one of your dad's soldiers was able to track us." Marco said as he assessed the situation.
"I'd guess it'd be Fang so he could prove his worth to me as a husband." Jackie said before growing serious. "What happens if he finds me here Marco?"
"We'll worry about that problem when it presents itself." Marco answered. "I'm guessing the guy is probably around our age so he shouldn't be that difficult to fight. And we have your necklace." Looking at the clock and seeing it was past ten, Marco gave Jackie a quick kiss before saying, "Well I better get to bed. Don't worry about Fang, when you wake up tomorrow it'll all be over."
Jackie was in the middle of a nightmare. She dreamt that Marco's "rescue" had never happened, that she was going to be married to Fang, that she was forced to watch as her father and new husband waged an unnecessary war, enslaving countless societies just so merpeople and shark-people did not have to do any work. Worst of all, she dreamt of having kid's that wanted to follow their grandfather's example. After what seemed like an eternity in this nightmare, Jackie woke up screaming, only then did she notice her fins and tail. It appeared that in the course of her tossing and turning her necklace had managed to slip off. After throwing a pillow to wake up her roommate, Jackie asked, "Do you think I could borrow another pair of pajama pants, these got a little ruined." before she slipped her necklace back on. Star tiredly nodded her head before going back into her closet.
Halfway across town, Fang was getting tired with his search. He had believed he found the princess several times, only for him to grab several terrified ladies, and in once case a man, before he threw them away in annoyance. Just as the prince was about to scream in frustration, he caught a small whiff of a scent. To many it would be unrecognizable, but to natives of his dimension it was immediately recognizable. While it only lasted for a second, the scent pointed him in the right way. Smirking, Fang ran to claim his prize.
"What happened, who was screaming?" Marco asked as he ran into Star's room.
"Relax Marco, I just had a nightmare." Jackie reassured the boy.
Growing concerned, Marco asked, "Do you want to talk about it?"
"Only that this was a dream and I was still trapped in the nightmare."
Marco placed a comforting arm around Jackie's shoulder's as he said, "I promise, I'm not going to let that happen." Hearing this, Jackie smiled before she started leaning towards Marco. However before anything could happen, the girl was hit by a pillow.
"Get a room you two, just not mine." Star said from her bed. Both teens were silent for a moment before they started laughing.
Once Marco was able to compose himself, he said, "I should probably get back to my room."
"Do you have to?" Jackie asked with a small pout.
"There's no telling what my parents would do if they knew I was here." Marco then noticed the time as he got up. "I'm expecting a phone call anyway."
"At this time?" Jackie asked. "It's related to the rules you're following isn't it?"
Marco smiled as he walked out of the room and said, "I'll tell you in the morning."
It was half an hour after Marco left Star's room that Fang climbed in through the window. He was confused why he was able to follow the scent back to this house when he first saw Star, but then he saw Jackie. Although she was still disguised, Fang was able to see the similarities between the girl and the kidnapped princess. Seeing the seashell necklace, and having some knowledge of magic because of his family, the hammerhead shark-man quickly pulled the necklace off of Jackie, revealing her mermaid features. Smirking to himself, Fang threw Jackie over his shoulder as he made his way to the window.
However, this sudden action awoke Jackie. After screaming in fright and hitting her "rescuer", Jackie saw Star move out of the corner of her eye as Fang prepared to jump out the window. "Quick," Jackie told her friend, "get Marco!"
Not even a second after Fang and Jackie were gone and Marco was already in the room asking, "One of the shark-men found her?" When Star nodded her head, Marco dove under her bed to retrieve his helmet and skateboard. Star saw that Marco was about to jump out of the opposite window, onto the roof and asked, "Can't you just use the door?"
Marco shook his head as head said, "I've lost her once, I'm not about to let it happen a second time." He then jumped out the window, got his board under his feet, rode it down the roof, and jumped to the ground before speeding off.
This action understandably created a lot of noise within the house. Unlike Star, both Mr. and Mrs. Diaz were light sleepers. Curious as to what caused the loud thud followed by the scrapping sound, both adults quickly moved to the front door in time to see Marco skating after Fang and Jackie.
"It that Marco, on a skateboard?" Mrs. Diaz slowly asked.
Mr. Diaz could barely contain his anger as he said, "That boy is in so much trouble."
Fang was elated. Despite the setbacks of losing his armed escort, having his tracking abilities become next to useless, and the princess currently hitting his back, he had almost completed his mission. As soon as he stepped back into the ocean he could open a portal home where he'd be hailed as a hero.
Yet this was not to be, just fifty feet from the water's edge, Marco came soaring over the hammerhead shark-man. After jumping from a nearby elevated parking lot, Marco's board slipped as it lost traction in the sand, however the boy was able to quickly step off his board and quickly launched a round house kick.
The blow connected, causing Fang to lose his grip on Jackie, but the momentum caused the mermaid to roll until she was perhaps a foot from the water. Marco offered the girl a quick apology while Fang yelled out, "Well what are you waiting for? Get in the water!"
Instead of moving, Jackie propped herself up by her elbows and said, "Actually, I think I'll stick around and see how this plays out."
Fang snarled as he said, "You stupid girl." as he began to charge, only to be stopped as Marco caught his weirdly shaped head in his hands and said, "I think she's smart enough to know what she wants for herself."
Both combatants growled as they were deadlocked. This changed when the semi-silence of the tense atmosphere was broken. "Space unicorn, soaring through the stars." After hearing the ringtone, Jackie immediately started laughing as she asked, "Seriously Marco?"
"It's supposed to be ironic." The boy answered before launching a heavy punch to Fang's nose, disorientating the hammerhead long enough for Marco to answer his phone. "Hello? Yes speaking. Okay, yes as soon as possible." As soon as Marco ended the call, one of the guards from Saint Olga's opened a portal.
"Sorry about that, we had to deal with a massive rush of paperwork and no one was able to check your timer for the past half hour." Marco waved off the man's concern and was about to reply when everyone present heard a cry of, "Rainbow transit beam." After a flash of light, everyone now saw Star standing on the beach, her wand ready to be unleashed.
"Calm down Star, everything's over." Marco said.
"Really?" Jackie asked.
"Yes it is," the guard said before reaching into his jacket, "as soon as we finish this paperwork. Now please sign here, initial here, mother's maiden name here, blood type here, dimension of residence here, and sign here." Once Marco finished all of the signing the guard went over to Jackie and asked her to sign in two different boxes, then asked Fang to sign in one spot.
As the hammerhead shark-man finished, he asked, "Now may I take my betrothed home?"
"She is no longer yours." The guard said. "Mr. Diaz here applied for a class 1985 permit, more commonly known as a "princess kidnapping license." His application was reviewed and accepted. As of 11:03 P.M. tonight, Marco has had Jackie in his castle for a period exciding 24 hours, thereby successfully kidnapping her. As he has completed the objectives detailed in the law, and as you have signed this, then you and all parties connected to you have given up any claim on Princess Jackie."
Fang's jaw hit the ground before he asked, "It there anyway for me to overturn this?"
"You could file a protest, but given that Marco followed all the proper channels and that Jackie did not want to be in her home dimension, any action to overturn this will be for not." Seeing the anger in Fang's eyes the guard continued by saying, "I also highly recommend you do not act violently to the outcome of these events or there will be consequences that are much worse than what King Mano could come up with." After a minute, Fang accepted defeat and walked into the ocean. The guard turned to leave as well, but stopped and asked, "So that I don't need to make a return visit, what is the minimum age for marriage where you reside?"
"Eighteen, why?" Marco asked.
Instead of answering the boy, the guard nodded and said, "Then congratulations four years in advance." then returned to his own dimension.
"Well that was weird." Jackie stated. Marco was about to reply, only for a piece of red fabric to wrap around his arm and pull him away before what looked like a large round metal shield with a star in the center impacted where he was previously standing.
"Guess we're even know." Randy said as he settled into a combat stance to help defend his interdimensional friend. Standing across from the two boys were Tony Stark, Steven Rodgers, and Natasha Romanoff, each one suited up and ready to fight.
Tony moved first, launch a repulse blast at the boys, only to have it deflected as a large mound of ice appeared out of thin air.
"Hi Marco, where's your moving sack?" Olaf asked as he stood next to Elsa.
While the commotion was happening on one end of the beach, two more portals opened close to Jackie. Out of one stepped five children who were simply awestruck at the event surrounding them. Out of the other stepped three children, two immediately rushed off and started to try to get Jackie into the ocean while the third just observed the scene.
"Could you please stop, I'd actually like to stay here." Jackie said.
"But we're trying to rescue you from your kidnapper!" Dipper Pines exclaimed.
"Don't worry we'll have you out of here in a jiffy." Mabel Pines, his twin, added before asking, "Do you know Mermando?"
"Sorry kid, wrong dimension." Jackie responded.
Before things could escalate even more out of hand, another portal opened between both groups. "I can't believe that worked." Wasabi said.
"See, I told you!" Fred exclaimed, proud of himself. "All we had to do was revere the charge of the portal ions and it would link us to the dimension where the last portal was opened." Looking around and seeing Tony in his suit, Fred pointed to the man and said, "He knows what I'm talking about."
Seeing the questioning looks from just about everyone, Tony sighed before he said, "The guy's right."
When Hiro slipped past his group and saw Marco and Jackie, he mumbled to himself, "That actually explains a lot."
Before anymore fighting could be resumed, Star gained everyone's attention by yelling, "Hey! Could someone tell me what is going on?!"
"Well I had my family of trolls open a portal after me, my girlfriend, her sister, and our magic snowman friend saw a shark-man walk through our village and we wanted to make sure he wouldn't cause any problems. But as soon as we get here we see these two boys getting attack." Kristoff explained.
"Well one of them isn't exactly innocent." Tony spoke up to defend his actions. "I saved the brat from falling to his death then hear a voice from his bag saying she wasn't going to get Stockholm syndrome."
"We just wanted to make sure everyone was okay." Phineas said for his group.
"I tried to make those two just let it go, but they insisted on coming to rescue the mermaid. " Pacifica said.
"We were just curious how Hiro's new friend suddenly vanished and what he had that didn't match anything Baymax had on file." GoGo quickly said.
"I came to thank this dude for helping me get with the brucest girl and saw he could use some help." Randy explained.
Marco began to rub his temples as he asked, "We've got a lot of explaining to do don't we?" Jackie only nodded, feelingly like she was in for a long night.
20 minutes of explaining later.
"So you did kidnapper her, but only because you knew she wouldn't want to stay in her own dimension and wouldn't be treated well?" Tony asked.
"For the last time yes!" Marco yelled, the supposed genius was incredibly thick skulled. "Now do we have any more questions?"
While no one responded after a few minutes, everyone was in silent agreement that the situation had taken care of itself.
"Well if that's it then we should get back, Fury is going to want a report on this." Steve said before Tony nodded and started activating a portal.
"Yeah, we should leave too, Gruncle Stan might actually get slightly worried. Bye Star, thanks for the sweater ideas." Mable waved goodbye as her twin started drawing a series of symbols in the sand while Pacifica helped him.
"We should get back as well, a kingdom does not run itself." Elsa said as Anna pulled out some strange charm.
"Well it was nice meeting everyone." Ferb said as Phineas started messing with a remote-control like device.
"Wish we could stay and chat longer, but some villain's probably popped up back home. Come visit sometime." Hiro said as Wasabi and Honey Lemon started tinkering with a return pad.
"Well, thanks for everything. Ever feel like sparing stop by my dimension some time." Randy said before going through some hand movements.
After all of the portals were opened and everyone had returned to their dimension, the only occupants of the beach were Marco, Star, and Jackie.
"Well, it's certainly been some day hasn't it?" Marco asked.
"I'll say." Jackie replied before asking, "I wonder why the guy from Saint O's needed to know when people could get married."
"Let's see." Star said as she used her wand to summon the interdimensional law book. "Here we are. Capture of princess, relocation to home dimension, kept in captivity for at least 24 hours in a castle, notice of kidnapping, wed upon completion of kidnapping and when legally allowed, loss of responsibility for home dimension."
"Wait, what was that second to last one?" Jackie asked with wide eyes.
Star looked over that section of the law once more, before laughing awkwardly and scratching the back of her head. Marco was the first to recover and said, "So does that mean…"
Before the boy could finish his question, the groups attention was captured by the sounds of squealing tires. In the parking lot, Mr. and Mrs. Diaz exited their car, with Mr. Diaz marching towards Marco with a purpose. Grabbing his son by the arm, Mr. Diaz dragged Marco further down the beach.
"Hello Star, Jackie," Mrs. Diaz greeted the girls, unfazed by Jackie's mermaid features as she had lived with Star long enough, "I can see that you had an eventfully night. Jackie I know that we said you could spend the night, but due to some of Marco's actions it'd probably be best if you stayed with another friend."
Jackie nodded her head as she said, "I understand, can I borrow a phone to make sure someone's spare bed is available?" After Mrs. Diaz lent Jackie her phone so that she could text Janna and make sure the back door was unlocked, Jackie nodded towards the direction Marco and Mr. Diaz went and asked, "Marco's not going to be in too much trouble is he?"
"I really don't know dear, the last time he rode a skateboard he ended up getting hurt really bad. I guess me and my husband overreacted with the rule just a bit, but we just didn't want to see our boy hurt again."
"The one rule we have for you and you break it. I don't know what is in your head Marco Diaz, do you want to go brain dead?" Mr. Diaz lectured his son.
After listening for the past few minutes, Marco finally saw an opportunity to tell his side. "No Dad, I don't want to be brain dead, that's why I wear a helmet. Yes I didn't wear one all those years ago, and I was an idiot for doing so. But you know what, after spending years being afraid, I actually got on a skateboard and enjoyed myself. I know I might get hurt, but how often did you burn yourself when you first started using a blow torch, how often have you hit your hand because the chisel slipped?" After taking a moment to let his questions sink in, Marco continued, "Dad, you can make all the rules you want, but I'm not going to stop skateboarding, just know that I'm going to be safe about it and wear my helmet."
Mr. Diaz was silent for what seemed like an eternity before saying, "The first time you ride without your helmet I'm sending you to live with your Grandmother." After running a hand down his face, Mr. Diaz continued by saying, "It's been a long night and you have school tomorrow. Let's grab the girls and get out of here."
After walking back to the rest of the group, Mr. Diaz asked Jackie if she needed a ride somewhere.
"No thanks, my friend's house is close by. She already knows about everything so I'll just swim."
"But what about the shark-people?" Star asked.
"Thanks to Marco they shouldn't be a problem." Turning to the boy, Jackie had a slight blush as she remembered one particular point of the law before she said, "I'll see you tomorrow." and pushed herself into the ocean. Once the Diaz family and Star were sure that Jackie was in the clear, they all piled into the family car and drove home.
"Come on Marco it's time to get ready, it's Friday so the sooner we get to school the sooner it gets over!" Star yelled from Marco's door.
As he got up Marco told the princess, "It doesn't work like that Star, and we still need to wait for the bus." After he was finished getting dressed and was pulling out one of his hoodies, he heard a rock hit his window. Looking out onto the street, Marco saw Jackie waiting for him with her skateboard. After hurrying down the stairs and grabbing a piece of toast from the kitchen, Marco grabbed his own skateboard as he called out to Star, "Actually I'm going to go a bit early, see ya later Star."
Marco and Jackie skated in silence for ten minutes until Marco couldn't handle it and said, "Listen, I'm sorry about the marriage thing. I swear I didn't know about it when I applied for the kidnapping license."
"I'm not mad Marco." Jackie cut the boy off before he could say anything else.
"You're not?" After a moment of silence Marco asked, "So where do we go from here?"
"The way I see it," Jackie began, "you saved me from having to marry someone I would never even think about and got me out of a place I didn't want to live. So here's what we'll do, we have four years until the marriage becomes official, so let's date and if it doesn't feel right I can always "escape from my captor."
"You know, that doesn't sound half bad." Marco said before he noticed Jackie slightly shiver. It was getting to the colder months of the year and being the gentlemen that he is, Marco quickly took off his hoodie and offered it to his new girlfriend.
"Thanks." Jackie said as she quickly pulled her arms through the sleeves.
"I'm not getting that back am I?" Marco asked.
"Ask again in a few years." Jackie replied with a smirk as the two skated into the school's parking lot.
As the two had decided to take the scenic route, the majority of the student body was present. As the couple walked inside, Marco noticed that the majority of the male students were looking at him and noticing that Jackie was once more wearing his jacket. "Um, Jackie. Everyone's staring."
Jackie stopped and turned to face her boyfriend and said with a smirk, "Let them," before she pulled Marco into a deep kiss. While Marco was in heaven, almost all of the male students became enraged and started forming together for a Bro Code.
Once Jackie released Marco, he asked, "I take it that's revenge for the tank thing?"
Jackie only smiled as she said, "You know me so well." Marco would have responded but had to skate away as the Bro Code mob had formed and was out for blood.
"I can't believe you're dating a loser like Diaz." Brittney Wong said as she walked up to Jackie.
"Really?" Jackie began. "You think that one of the sweetest guys at this school, who's a blue belt in karate and can do something like that," Jackie motioned to where Marco jumped over Oscar's car, high fiving the boy in the process, in order to avoid Justin, "is a loser? I think you need to look again Brittney."
Brittney's mouth hung open for a few minutes until she grunted in frustration and stomped away. Jackie only smiled as she watched her boyfriend almost effortlessly avoid the perusing mob until the first period bell. As she walked to the gym, Jackie realized that this was the happiest she had been in a long time. She had her board, she had her friends, she had the love of the boy she had connected to so long ago. In that moment, Jackie came to realize something that she thought would never happen, she was glad that she ran away because she found her home.
Epilogue
Marco Diaz stared out into the ocean, nervous about what the day would bring. At 28 the only really change to the man was his growth. He had a substantial amount of muscle, however he took after his mother's side of the family resulting in his appearance being more of a swimmer than a body builder like his father. He was broken from his thoughts when a voice behind him called out, "Are you just going to stand there or are you going to help me with these boards?"
Marco turned to see Jackie, his wife of ten years, trying to untie the surfboards from the car's roof. Like Marco, the only real change to Jackie over the years was her height, although she had allowed her hair to grow past her shoulders. A lot of their friends thought they weren't making the best choice to get married during their senior year, but both knew there was no one else for each other. Sure, they had their disagreements like any other couple, but they were able to work through them and often didn't remember what the fights were about.
The ceremony wasn't that big either, just a small affair with family and a few close friends. After a long debate they did send an invitation to Jackie's parents, they never got a response. After they graduated High School, they decided to travel the country. Jackie just wanted to see everything since she was stuck in Echo Creek, Marco won a number of martial arts tournaments while he got his business degree online.
After a few years traveling, they returned to Echo Creek and bought a modest house. Marco now owned and ran a small dojo. It was large enough to provide a large income for Marco to support his family while small enough so that Marco could give each student individual attention and allow him to travel for the occasional karate tournament to supplement his income so his family could enjoy life.
As Marco admired how his wife's simple black bikini showed off her curves, he asked, "How did I ever get so lucky to get a woman like you?"
"You did something incredibly stupid, waited a few years, then did another incredibly stupid thing." Jackie said before she looked at her husband as he helped with the boards. As she grabbed her white board with a lime green racing stripe she said, "Marco, you need to relax honey."
As Marco grabbed his black board with a red racing stripe he responded, "I am relaxed, but I'm also worried. What if she gets caught in a riptide?"
"Then I'll let me tail out and swim after her." Marco and Jackie were extremely grateful that Janna was able to upgrade Jackie's necklace when she made the new ones. Of course everything had a price, the first necklace was for Janna being the maid of honor, Star didn't mind since she was sitting on Marco's side of the aisle. The second necklace was for having priority when choosing a babysitter. The third necklace was for agreeing never to ask the witch-in-training to babysit until the kids where at least four. "I really don't see what the problem is, you were skateboarding when you were only six."
"But what if she falls off her board? She could drown." Marco almost screamed. His wife only raised an eyebrow, as if to say, 'Really?' causing Marco to sight before saying, "Okay so I'm a little worried."
Jackie shook her head as she said, "Don't worry honey, she is our daughter."
"Yeah daddy," eight year old Isabella Diaz said as she got her black and lime green stripped boogie board out of the trunk, "I'll be fine. And you and mommy are here to keep me safe. Now come on." The girl had inherited her mother's eyes and her father's hair, even if it did have a green streak in it, three freckles were also present on both her checks. She was currently jumping from one foot to the other, waiting to try out her new board and one-piece swimsuit she had gotten yesterday.
Jackie gave a light laugh as she said, "Be patient dear, we have to wait for your little brother's sitter before we get in the water." As she talked, Jackie pulled her two-year-old son, Marco Jr., out of his car seat. The boy was almost a carbon copy of his father, the only difference being his blonde hair that, like his sister's, also had a green streak.
As the family of four stepped out onto the beach, a portal opened behind them. Turning around, Isabella cried out, "Aunt Star!" as she crash hugged the princess.
"Hello little Izzy, you've gotten so big since I last saw you." Star said as she returned the hug. After High School ended Star matured a lot. She still went out monster hunting, but she was much more responsible and was a kind and wise leader to her people. Knowing of her favorite couples plans, she left a small mirror behind so that they could keep in touch, and gave them a pair of interdimensional scissors once they bought a house. "Oh, and here's Junior." Star said once she saw the boy in Jackie's arms.
"Thanks for looking after him Star." Jackie said.
Star waved off her friends words, "Who else are you going to have watch him while you're in the water? Ludo?" Star then smirked as she looked to Marco and said, "Just remember I might ask you to return the favor someday."
The couple only chuckled, remembering some of the antics they saw Star get into when she was younger via the machine in Father Time's dimension. "Really, we appreciate it Star." Marco said.
"Just go have fun already." Star told the family as she took Marco Jr. out of his mother's arms. Isabella didn't need to be told twice as she charged into the water, Jackie following after to make sure the girl didn't go out to far. Marco only chuckled as he slowly walked into the surf. 'To think,' the man thought, 'I have such a good life because of something stupid I did as a kid.'
And that's the end of chapter 5, with 24 pages.
With the end of this chapter comes the end to my first completed fanfiction. I'm happy that I finally got an idea from my head from conception to completion. I hope everyone enjoyed my summer of focusing my attention on one fic. After a few days rest I'll get to writing a new update for one of my other fics. I'm a little undecided as to which story to update first so be sure to vote in my poll if you haven't already.
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Well that's about everything I had left to say about this story. Again, I hope everyone has enjoyed it. I think everything tied up quite nicely and I'm happy how I ended things. I might do a one-shot or two based on this story but that's in the future.
With this story complete, here's acw28 saying, "until next update."