Author's Notes: After the last chapter, I was asked by Christopherprime22 about giving Star some kind of variant on the spying spell to let her see what Ludo and such were doing while the story is going on to capture their parts of the episodes. I'm saying it now, not going to happen, for a couple reasons. The main reason is that it doesn't actually help the narrative I am trying to tell (how Ruberiot found out about the crush) in really any way and therefor adding those would me more work that I don't want to do. Also, the spell aspect would be me literally, retelling the episodes and part of the fun of this is trying to put it into Star's words.
I hope that clears things up. Enjoy!
Earth school was great. I had tons of friends and everyone loved me. One day, as I was wandering the halls after classes, trying to find Marco, people kept shouting out to me. People asked me to be their science partner, had baked goods for me, asked me to cast magic on them, and all sorts of things. I even had a super fan! She called herself Starfan13 and the inside of her locker was plastered with photos of me. Fortunately my locker was right across from hers so whenever she showed me the pictures, I could show her all my pictures of her.
Then, I saw something interesting, a line! I hopped into line and started bouncing with eagerness after exclaiming "Oh, a line? I love lines!"
After bouncing around for a couple moments and looking everywhere, I turned to the person in front of me and asked "Why are we in line?"
"Only for the most important social event of the year!" cried the girl nervously as she pointed to the sky. Flying over our heads was a giant balloon of some sort, Marco tells me it's called a blimp, and on the side of it the words Brittney Wong's Birthday Party were printed in giant glowing letters. Using my amazing powers of deduction, I deduced that the line was for her party. As I watched, the display swapped to a new sign that said No Losers Allowed with a picture of Brittney.
"I thought you said Earth didn't have magic?" said Ruberiot.
"Yeah, Marco tells me it's this thing called electricity and it's the same thing that power's their televisions, but I am still skeptical" explained Star.
"How interesting, I had assumed Marco's TV ran on magic like our Mirrors and phones."
"Apparently not, Earth is a really weird place, but still awesome."
As I watched the blimp, I heard a voice that could only belong to Brittney Wong and looking down I saw her walking down the line. When she got to someone, she would either give them an invite, or more oftentimes, not give them one. Eventually Brittney made it to the girl in front of me and after a brief pause handed her an invitation.
"I'm in! I'm in!" exclaimed the girl as she turned to me before fainting with joy.
Next, Brittney walked up to where I stood and I held out my hands in excitement, obviously I was getting an invite, everyone loved me. Brittney walked up and told me "You are invited when pigs fly!"
Easy enough. Smiling, I reached into my bag and grabbed my wand. I loosed a blast of magic into the air above us as Brittney laughed. With an oink, a flying pig materialized between us and as I put up my wand I told Brittney "Problem solved!"
"Anything for you Star" said the pig in a silky smooth voice before Brittney swatted at it with a grunt. "Flying pig don't need this."
With a snort, the pig flew away as I nibbled on my wand. Flipping her hair, Brittney walked away, forgetting to give me an invitation. As she walked away, I told myself "I'm going to her party."
Bending down, I woke the girl who had fainter earlier and got her to show me the invite she had received, explaining how Brittney had forgotten to give me my own. To my great pleasure, one of the stops for pickup was right near Marco's house. Speaking of, at that moment, he wandered over to where I stood and asked me how my day was.
I told him it was good and a standard school day but we had to hurry home. As he tried to ask what was going on, I pushed him to his bike and got him to start pedaling to his house as I told him about the party. By the time I finished, we were at his house and I ran off to get ready before he could ask any questions.
Before I knew it, it was time to leave. I had thrown on a cute pink dress and was ready to party. I walked downstairs to find Marco sitting on the couch in his normal clothes. I figured he looked good enough for the party, but realized he would probably look really good in a prince suit. Sadly there was no time to go home and get him one and he refused to let me magic him up one so the hoodie would have to suffice.
Grabbing his hand I led him out the door and to the pickup spot as he said "It's so weird that Brittney invited us to her birthday…"
"And all she wanted was a flying pig!" At that moment, the party bus rounded the corner and I pointed it out to Marco as I excitedly hopped in place.
"The party bus? But I get carsick."
Silly Marco. Grabbing his arm, I led him to pick up as I explained "It's not a car, it's a bus."
The bus had not stopped to pick us up and so I raised my wand a shouted "Rabbit, Rocket, Blast!"
With a blast of magic, Marco and I took off through the air as he screamed. With a smash, we landed on the roof of the bus in one of my better landings. Grabbing Marco I said "Come on, let's find a way in!"
We split up to look for a way in and I quickly found an access hatch into the bus. I called out "I found something!"
"I found the stairs!" called out Marco at the same time.
"My way is more fun!" I told him.
"I doubt that" he said as he wandered over.
"Oh you'll see." I ran and grabbed his arm, dragging him to my find. When I threw open the hatch, Marco tried to pull away in protest. All this did however was cause me to lose my balance and we fell through into the bus. Landing with a thud with Marco on top of me I looked at him and said "See? That was way more fun than taking the stairs!"
Then I looked around and shoving Marco off me said "Oh sweet! A little tiny hat! Cool! I can make those." With a blast of magic, I made an identical hat to the one Brittney had on.
"Star Butterfly, what are you doing here?" asked Brittney.
"Nothing yet… I just got here!"
While this was going on, Marco was slowly picking himself off the floor. When he was about halfway up, I heard someone ask him "Marco, what are you doing?"
It was Jackie Lyn Thomas and when Marco noticed her, his eyes grew to the size of dinner plates. Before he could say anything, the bus lurched to a halt and I could almost see Marco's stomach lurch into his mouth. Without answering, he let out a groan and backed away from Jackie.
I turned my attention back to Brittney and said "Let me sing you some birthday tunes with my mouth sounds." I launched into a wonderful birthday rap.
Before I could really get into the song, Brittney stormed past me, accidentally knocking me to the ground. She shouted "Driver! Pull over this bus at once!"
Picking myself up, I heard something about traffic and jets, it was hard to hear everything from so far away. Brittney came back over though and said "Okay, now to my invited guests, who wants to watch me open my presents?"
Nobody said anything until Brittney flipped her hair and said "I'm waiting!"
At that, everyone else started clamoring approval and raising their hands.
"Man, something tells me we were not invited to this party" I told Marco as I finally figured out I was not welcome on the bus.
"That's possible. Why don't we get off at the next bus stop?" said Marco.
"We can't do that, these people are miserable! They need us now." Everyone seemed to be having an awful time and as the party princess, I was not about to let that slide.
"Star, you don't have-" Marco started, before the bus lurched again and he doubled over, moaning in agony.
"Are you feeling okay?"
"I told you, I get motion sickness, don't worry, I just need to sit here, stare out this window and never turn my head" said Marco as he climbed onto a nearby stool.
Knowing he was okay, I set off to make the party actually enjoyable. With a playful jab in the shoulder, I told him "You do that homie, Imma get this party started!"
I heard a yelp from Marco as I ran off as he said "Who puts a swivel chair on a bus? With wheels! Seriously?"
I saw Brittney was busy opening her presents still and had just opened a cute little purse. She however seemed repulsed and held it at arm's length as she said "Ugh, It's not designer!"
She threw it away and it hit another girl in the face and she simply said "You're welcome."
I ran in to liven things up saying "Oh hey everybody, I just want you all to know that I can make little hats!" Channeling my magic, I summoned a puppy "And also dogs! Check this out!"
I held up the puppy and it fired lasers into the air to create an awesome light show that said Happy Birthday Brittney in the air above us. Everyone exclaimed in wonder at my show and I had a smile on my face as my plan started to work.
Brittney however was not impressed. With a derisive humph, she stood up and smacked the puppy out of my hands with a flick of her hair, ending the light show. Not cool I thought to myself as she stalked off. She made her way over to Marco and started admonishing him for something while I thought up a new plan.
"Hey Brittney!" I said, running over. "I know how to make your party more fun!"
Without waiting for a response, I dashed off to the center of the bus and shouted "Rubber, Castle, Bounce House!"
With a blast of magic, the inside of the bus tuned into a bounce house, and everyone started jumping around inside it. Everyone loved it was having a blast, well everyone except Marco, it just made his motion sickness worse. Unfortunately, at the time I was too committed to my plan of livening up the party to take Marco into consideration.
Unlike poor Marco, Brittney had no excuse as to why she wasn't enjoying herself. Instead of having fun with everyone else, she was just standing with her arms crossed and a scowl on her face. I bounced over to her, using my jumps to bounce her a little and said "Isn't this fun Brittney?"
And then I had an even better Idea. I ushered everyone to the roof of the bus, even Brittney. Poor Marco was left behind, hopefully with everyone on the roof of the bus his stomach would calm down some. Channeling my magic I cried out "Foaming, Twinkle, Bubble, Ripple!"
Amid cheers from the party goes, the magic shot from my wand and with a bright flash, created a magical clamshell hot tub. Even though it looked about 6 inches deep on the outside, it was actually about 4 feet deep when you were in it. With cries of excitement, all of the party guests leapt into the shell and started to party.
In the meantime, I slid through the access hatch to see Marco. He was resting on his stool in the corner and I made my way over next to him. "Oh Marco, its hard work making everybody happy,"
"Can you… make my tummy happy?"
Before I could try to help him however, the bus lurched to a halt. With a scream, Marco and I were sent flying to the front of the bus. As we lay on the ground, we saw everyone coming down the stairs from the roof, led by Brittney. She walked up to us and said "Finally, end of the line for the princess and the puke boy! Now get off my bus!"
"Oh thank you!" cried Marco as he crawled to his feet. Now that the bus was stopped, he was looking much better and already recovering. Stepping off the bus as I dejectedly made my way out behind him, he took a deep breath and said "Fresh air! Smells just like… monsters?"
My head snapped up in confusion. Standing by the doors was Ludo and his band of monsters. Ludo shouted "Get them!"
Before I could recover, they charged and one of them hit me hard as Marco and I retreated. I went flying into the bus and slammed into something. Recovering, I took up a fighting stance beside Marco. I knew I had hit Brittney when I heard her yell out from behind and below me "What is going on here?"
Ludo ignored her as he ordered one of his minions to take control of the bus. We watched as the monster ran over to the driver, threw him from his chair, got ready to drive. When he took a while fixing his hat, Ludo ran over and told him to hurry up.
Slamming his foot on the accelerator, the monster started driving the bus and everyone else from the party fell towards the rear. I however ran to where Ludo was and said "What's your game?"
Smiling as he used his beak to open a soda, Ludo said "I'm gonna bus jack this bus! Now that Three-Eyed Potato Baby is in control, he is going to drive it through a portal back to my castle!"
"That's a particularly stupid plan Ludo."
"It's a great plan! Shut up!" Ludo said after sputtering into his drink. Then he turned to his monsters and said "Just get her!"
The monsters let loose a battle cry and charged. I quickly took stock of the situation and decided that I couldn't fight in the main compartment. Marco was too sick to help and I couldn't endanger him. I quickly took off to the roof of the bus, knowing they would follow me.
I ran to where the hot tub sat near the front end of the bus as the monsters grouped at the rear. One of them advanced on me and with a twirl, I blasted him clean off the back with my magic. Another monster came at me then and swung to punch me. I leapt into the air and landed on his elbow before kicking him in the face and hopping to the ground in front of another charging monster.
As he swung at me, I dodged before blasting him and another attacking monster with my magic. The second monster, a giraffe like creature, managed to grab the back railing in his teeth and run along with the bus. Spinning my wand in my hand, I turned towards another charging monster who was trying to sneak around me and blasted him off the side.
I turned to fight the next two approaching monsters, blasting the first in the face as he swung at me. The second monster was a chicken looking monster that hopped up in my face and squawked at me. As I punched it, I saw the monster I blasted off the side of the bus earlier flip up onto the roof behind me. I cocked my fist back to punch, elbowing the monster off the roof before punching the chicken monster away from me.
The frog like monster that was always watching me at the Diaz house advanced again with the chicken monster. He swung a punch at me and as I rolled back and away from it, the chicken tried to pounce on me and missed. I came out of my roll near the hot tub and leapt up onto the back part of the clam shell.
I blasted the frog monster with another beam of magic as he charged me and he spun forward before falling face first into the tub. Leaping up, I came down on the shell and slammed it closed on him. He flailed as he tried to extract himself and I watched as I ran back towards the stairs.
Suddenly I slammed into something, or someone, and with a gasp turned to see that the giraffe monster had pulled himself back onto the bus. I turned to look for an escape and saw a bridge approaching. I smiled as he raised his fist to punch me, obviously having not seen the bridge. We slammed into it so hard, he made it halfway through the bridge before he came to a halt and was wrenched from the bus.
Turning, I saw a bear monster with a single horn charging me. I leapt over and kicked him in the stomach. He was tougher than anticipated though and quickly recovered as the chicken monster came up behind me. As they grabbed me, I saw that the bus was approaching the portal and realized I was running out of time.
Thinking fast, I jumped off the chicken monster into the bear and knocked us both down next to the roof hatch Marco and I had entered from earlier. Throwing it open and leaning in, I screamed "Marco! Quick, take the wheel!"
I knew I could count on the ever reliable Marco and as the bear monster got up with a roar, I pushed myself back to the roof and closed the hatch. Before the bear monster could recover, I leapt over him a launched a blast of magic at the chicken monster. While he was dazed from the hit, I leapt over to him and kicked him off the edge before turning and blasting the bear monster off as well.
I rushed back over to the hatch when I felt the bus start to accelerate, something was wrong. I leapt through it and tumbled to the ground headfirst. Picking myself up, I turned to see Marco struggling over the unconscious form of the Three-Eyed Potato Baby who had inconveniently fainted with his face on the accelerator.
As we hurtled towards the portal, Marco finally manage to gain control of the bus and jerked the steering wheel to the side. Not made to take sharp turn, much less at high speed, the bus started to tip. Marco was desperately trying to correct as we swerved back and forth on the road. Eventually we hit something and the bus went airborne. We flipped a few times in the air before crashing to the ground.
After a brief pause where everyone picked themselves up off the floor, Brittney's party guest got off and shouted with joy. As the monsters slowly made their way out, I went to pick up Brittney as Marco lay groaning on the floor. While I was exiting the bus, Marco suddenly jumped up and took off running, his face a nasty shade of green. He made it to a trash can and hunched over it, throwing up.
"Out of the way!" screamed Ludo who came tearing out right behind him. As Marco lifted his head, Ludo leaned in and puked as well.
As they alternated puking into the can, Jackie walked up behind them and said "Sick! Party animals."
I thought it was kind of weird that she would think the tandem barfing is weird, but I didn't want to judge, I didn't know her that well at the time.
"Have you gotten to know her better since then?"
"Yeah, we got decently close" Star said with a small sigh.
"Oh and what would you say about it now?" asked Ruberiot.
"I mean… it's just… it's kinda weird, but she's cool… I guess." Star said as an edge of sadness creeped into her voice.
Ruberiot knew there was something more that Star wasn't telling him, but he was smart enough to know he would have to wait to find out what it was. He was patient, he knew Star still had many stories to tell.
Brittney however was focused on the destruction of her bus and screamed "This is horrible! My party ois ruined!"
At that moment however, some of the party guests walked up and one of them said to her "Aw man Brittney! Hot tub, bounce house, laser puppies, and an epic fight? Best party ever!"
I walked over and told her "Just so you know, I also do quinceaneras."
With a groan of frustration, Brittney waved her arms in my face and then stomped away in huff. At that point Marco walked up and wiping his mouth on his hand said "Man Star, that party was the jam!"
He reached up and put his hand on my shoulder, but as much as I appreciated the gesture, I reached up and removed it while saying "Please don't, with your puke fingers."
"Oh yeah, sorry. You know, if I ever have a party, you're gonna be my party planner." After that touching statement, the moment was ruined as he ran back to the trash can to continue puking.
