Star sat not too close from the castle, but far enough to where anyone from the inside can see her. After the argument she lost against Toffee, she couldn't bear to let him see her defeat. She was weak. She was cornered. She took a loss.

As she sat on the sidewalks that lead to the castle, she looked at the pair of dimensional scissors. As clean as Marco's side of the bathroom, she saw her reflection through the blade. Keeping the scissors was one thing, but using it was a burden she'd never thought would happen. And here Star was, about to make the hardest decision she had ever made in her life:

Leaving Marco behind.

Before she made this decision, she spent all night trying to find him. The only two locations she thought Marco would go is the village of Mewni and the forest of certain death. Although Star was convinced that Marco was hiding among the villagers, if her parents found out about this incident, she would never hear the end of it. So she ending up searching all the ends of the forest, only to find nothing or no one that looked like the missing Diaz. The carnivorous plants, the bloodthirsty animals, the cave that had a hydra, all of it never led to him.

It is now morning in Mewni. Star is still holding onto the scissors, but her decision has not yet been chosen. She didn't mean to separate them apart. She always wanted to have fun with Marco after all. The smile on his face brought a fiesta to her day. Not to mention, he was always there to help her. But she never would've thought those days would be numbered. She crossed the line between them, and for all she knows, she could only find the dead body of a teenage human. Marco's beginning to fade away, and the chances of getting him back are looking grim, even if she really had feelings for the guy that accepted her.

A teardrop fell on the blade. A couple more tears fell off her face, but the waterworks can't be shut off. Her fate has been sealed, as well as Marco's. Star stood up from the ground and polished the tears off the scissors. She looked at her reflection once more, only to look at the waterworks flowing through her heart cheeks. There was no turning back from this. Marco has been lost.

Suddenly, the smell of burning wood was flying through the cold, Mewni air. She smelled it through these woods that almost looked like the forest of certain death. When she turned to where the smoke was, she found the woods. She also examined the smoke coming off; the smoke traveled through the branches of the trees and above the trees as well.

"Marco...?" she said to herself, sniffling. "Is that you...?"

She slowly waked towards the the entrance of the clouds of smoke passed by her face, making her cough momentarily. It was quite hard to see at first, considering that the trees and stems were bigger than the ones in the forest of certain death, but she was able to discover a fire that was far beyond her reach. Her sight may be unclear, but the hopes of finding Marco was very endearing to her.

"Oh, Marco," she said, "please tell me that you're here..."

Star began to search around the woods. She tried her best not to get hurt from the long stems that grew beneath the ground, but Marco needed to be saved as soon as possible. She even tried swinging through the branches to pick up speed, but that ended up short-lived, for some of those branches were unable to carry her weight. Nevertheless, her search was relentless.

In a couple of minutes, she finally reached the spot of the fire. The area had a small fire with a bunch of small twigs, a long stick with a tip burnt into charcoal, and two logs to sit on. Star knew it was him who had this base. There was no one within miles of the woods who could make a good place to survive out here. Admittedly, she was impressed with the way Marco took care of himself out in the open, but she would've been more pleased with the results if he was still here to greet her. However, she almost burst into tears of joy; the fact that he had been here gave Star even more time to rescue the missing Diaz.

After observing his little camping spot. she discovered some sort of message on the ground. It was portrayed next to the fire, so she can easily read what it had to say. She was even lucky to not have stepped on it during the whole observation.

With an arrow pointing North, the message read, "COME FIND ME."

Star wanted to scream in excitement. It almost felt like she was meeting him halfway. The thoughts of holding onto him tightly went quickly into her head like a blast from her wand. Everything was going in the right direction. Marco's still breathing.

She went back to reality. She was curious as to where that arrow lead to, and, to her disbelief, it pointed to a small village and a huge castle. Marco may be alive, but the possibility of him hiding in there frightened her. It's not just any village, nor it is any castle. That place belongs to her parents. And, here she was, with the hopes of avoiding a steamy mother has severely damaged. Risky or not, it was the only way to be certain that he is still living.

"Marco," she said to herself, getting ready to leave the base, "you'd better be worth the trouble..."