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I chucked to myself as I sat on Marco's bed, watching him practice his karate. He was currently dressed in his white Karategi, his green belt tied around his waist, his face full of concentration and he held a hand over a plank of wood that was being held up by cinder blocks. He slowly breathed in and then out, raining his hand up. He swiftly brought his hand down and with a crunch he split the wood into two with a "HI-YAH!"
I heard a gasp coming from the door and I spun my head towards the sound, smiling when I saw that it was Star.
"Whoa, you hate wood too? Yeah, crush that wood!" she said, punching the air with her fists, "Wood's the worst!"
I laughed, "Oh, hey Star! Didn't see you come in!"
Marco sighed, "No. I'm practicing for my upcoming Tong Su Do tournament," he said.
"Yeah, he's pretty excited about it," I shrugged, "He's been practicing all month!"
"Oh," replied Star.
"You see, Star," Marco explained, stepping forward, "Martial Arts is all about honor, and discipline."
Star nodded.
"Which is why," he continued, "I'M GOING TO KICK JEREMY BURNBAUM'S BUTT!" he yelled, punching at the air
I snickered, "Really, Marco?"
"Well, yeah!" he said.
"Jeremy Burnbaum?" Star said with a confused voice, "Isn't that the talking bear that used to rummage through my parents garbage?"
"He's just this creep in my Dojo that is only any good 'cause his rich parents buy him fancy equipment and private lessons!"
I laughed, "Oh, he's nothing! He's just this-"
Marco cut me off, "It doesn't matter what he is! Cause this Saturday," Marco continued, picking up three planks of wood and stacking them on top of the cinder blocks, "he's gonna get a taste of this!"
My eyes widened when I realized what he was about to do. I quickly stood up and tried to get to Marco as fast as I could.
"No, Marco! Wait!" I shouted, but it was too late. With a 'Hi-Yah!' he brought his arm down and smashed it into the planks of wood. I heard a sickening crunch, and Star and I winced as Marco started to scream in pain.
"Uh! This is a nightmare!" Marco moaned as he laid on Star's bed. His arm now rested neatly in a fitted cast, signatures of 'Get Well Soon's' written all over it, "if i can't fight Jeremy, he'll say I woos'd out and he'll never let me live it down!"
I sighed and sat down next to Marco, "Well, If you want, Marco, I can fight him for you! You know I can kick his butt!" I said, nudging Marco in the arm.
Marco chuckled, but shook his head, "Yeah, you could, but it should be me."
Star, on the other hand, was facing her mirror and basting her head with her wand, trying to find the right hairstyle .
"Pig-tails! Pony-tails! Pig-tails! Pony-tails!" she said gleefully with each bast, her hair changing with each command. Marco sat up straighter, his eyes wide.
"Wait a minute!" he said, "You have a wand! You can just fix my hand!"
"I don't know, Marco," I replied with a worry, "When have Star's spells ever actually worked? No offence, Star."
"It's ok, you're right! But I don't know, Marco. That sort of spell isn't really in my comfort zone," she shrugged, "Oh! But if you like, I can give you a pretty wicked set of pig-tails!" she exclaimed. And with another blast of her wand, she changed her hairstyle back into pig-tails.
"Pig-tails?!" Marco exclaimed with a moan, flopping back down onto the bed.
Star looked down at Marco with a frown. I shrugged at her disappointment. But all of a sudden, her face lit up with a grin.
"Unless!" she gasped, running to grab something from under her bed.
"Unless what?" I asked.
"I could look up a bone-healing spell in the magic instruction book that came with the wand!" she replied, grunting as she pulled the heavy thing out from under her bed.
"Wait, what?" I asked as I stood up to get a closer look at this book. It was very large and very old. With tattered pages and pieces of paper sticking out from every side. On the front was a large design that looked like an 8 with a blue and pink gen in each hole, and on the side was a clasp that locked the book closed.
"What!" Marco shouted, "This whole time you had a magic instruction book?"
"Yep!" Star replied with a smile, "Whenever a previous owner of the wand mastered a spell, they scribbled it down in here!" and with a shove, she opened up the book. The front pages smacked on the ground with a 'whump' and dust and bugs scattered from the pages. I turned away and tried not to breath it in. Star coughed as she turned the pages.
"If it's full of spells," I said, waiving a hand in front of my face, "Why don't you use it more often?"
"Because it's a complete disorganized mess! It's gonna take me forever to find- Oh! Here it is!" she exclaimed, pointing at a page.
"Really?" Marco said with excitement.
"Hmmmm," Star hummed, "It's in an ancient language!" she said.
I started to get worried, "Uh, Star, are you sure about-"
"Releseeo Demonious Investica!" she shouted, pointing her wand at Marco. The bast from her wand hit Marco's arm before I could stop her.
"Whoa! Whaaa!" Marco shouted, "I can feel it working! My fingers are tingling!"
Suddenly the spell stopped, and out from Marco's arm sprung a giant tentacle that was at least 8 feet long. We all stared at it for a second, then Marco started to scream.
"Star!" I shouted, running over to the book, "Let me see that!" with a quick look at the page I soon realized what was wrong.
"Star, this is in Latin! It says that the bone will heal, but also give the host a virus!" I gasped, "Star! Change him back!"
"Don't worry!" Star said in reassurance as she started to flip through the pages of the book, "There must be a spell in here that can change him back!"
I looked over at Marco as Star shouted, "I can fix it!" the tentacle that was his arm was wiggling around frantically. I gasped as the arm suddenly swung forwards, knocking the book out of Star's hands and out the window. Star just stared forwards in terror.
I threw my hands up into the air, "That's it. It's too much. I'm going to bed."
l gasped as a red faced Marco walked down the stairs the next morning, the tentacle arm waiving in the air.
"Oh my gosh! Marco! What happened to your face? Why is it so red? Did your tentacle arm fling you into the sun or something!?" I half joked.
"Don't," Marco groaned as he sat down, "The arm turned up the heat in the shower this morning. All. The way."
I winced. As Marco picked up a slice of toast, the tentacle arm smacked it out of his hand, then knocked the orange juice, his cereal, and then his glass and bowl off the table too as Star walked up to the table.
She yawned, "Morning Tessa, morning Marco, morning Monster arm. I was up all night, but I haven't found a way to reverse the spell."
"I know," I responded, "You kept me up all night with you fanatically turning the pages of that book of yours."
Suddenly the tentacle monster grabbed Star's orange juice, and poured it on top of Marco's head, then returned to it's usual wiggling. Star and I stared at it in horror.
Soon, Marco, Star and I were at school and had just received our lunches. As we walked over to our table (Marco's monster arm attempting to make a grab at his food) a noise from afar diverted our attention.
"Hey, kid! I've got a joke for ya!" the three of us heard. We all looked over to the tall form of the school bully as he hovered over a smaller school mate, 'What's the most important meal of the day?" he asked. Our of the blue, he knocked the kid's lunch tray our of his hands and it fell to the floor with a smack, "It's breakfast!" he finished, and then started to laugh. The three of us winced.
The boy chuckled nervously, "That's a good one, Lars!" he said with fear as he bent down to pick up his tray. But instead Lars whacked the back of his head, knocking the kid into the messy pile of food.
Lars started to laugh again, but was suddenly cut off when Marco's monster arm punched him in the face. Everyone gasped.
Lars wheeled around, growling in anger, "Who did that?" he asked.
"Uhhh," Marco said nervously, pointing to his tentacle arm.
"No one hits La-" Lars started to say, but was cut off when the monster arm smacked him again, and then again and again until Lars ran off in tears.
The tentacle arm snaked over and gently picked the boy off the ground and wiped the food off his face. He stared back at Marco in awe.
The boy stepped forwards, "I, sir, am in your debt." As he was about to bow to Marco, Ferguson shoved him out of the way.
"You're a hero!" Ferguson shouted, raising his arms. Everyone around us cheered.
"Can I check out that arm?" asked Jackie Lynn Thomas. Marco blushed and nodded nervously, sticking the tentacle arm out. Jackie, Janna, and another girl walked forwards and started to looked at the arm.
"I want it to be my boyfriend!" said Janna.
"Me too!" said the other girl.
"Hi-five!" said Jackie. Marco smiled.
Later that night, Marco and I were sitting on Star's bed as she was searching through her spell book to find the right spell.
"Aha!" she suddenly exclaimed, "I found it! A reverse tentacle spell! I think."
"Are you sure it's the right one, Star?" I asked.
"Yeah," agreed Marco, "Maybe you should practice on something first." I nodded in agreement.
"Way ahead of ya!" said Star, and from under her desk she pulled out a plant.
"Returneo Armeus Normorenicus!" said Star. A bast from her wand hit the plant, and it burst into flames. The three of us looked at it in terror.
"Ahhh," Marco muttered nervously, clutching the monster arm with a worried look, "I'm going to bed now." and with that he got up from Star's bed and left the room.
"Don't worry!" reassured Star as she got out another plant, "I'll get it! Returneus Armeus Normoreni!" she shouted. This plant exploded.
I gasped and stood up, "And I'm going to sleep on the couch tonight." and with that I was out the dooor shouting a 'be safe, Star' as I left.
The next morning when I was nervously watching Marco do some push-ups with his monster arm, Star ran in with a big smile on her face and holding a hand in a pot in her arms.
"I DID IT! I DID IT! I DID IT!" she shouted, holding up the potted arm. I breathed a sigh of relief and ran over to her.
"Thank goodness!" I said, "That arm was really giving me the creeps!"
"Hey!" said Marco with a grin, holding himself up in the air with ease, "I think this monster arm might actually help me take out Jeremy!" And with a 'Hi-YAH!' he smashed 9 planks of wood with just his tentacle arm and I felt my jaw drop in shock as pieces of wood rained down on Star and I.
"Wait, you're gonna fight with that?" asked Star, using the hand plant to point at it.
"Yeah, Marco, I think that's cheating," I agreed.
"It sounds kind of unfair!" said Star.
Marco turned to us with a dark look in his eyes, "Oh! Funny, Star, how you never have a problem using your magic when it benefits you!" Marco said as he stalked up to us, "But as soon as it gives me an advantage, you want to take it away!" Star looked up at him in horror.
"Marco, I think that arm is a bad influence on you!" Star said meekly.
"Yeah, this doesn't sound like you!" I agreed.
"And I think you two should go," replied Marco, using his monster arm to shove us out of his room.
"Fine!" shouted Star, "But I don't-" but before she could finish her sentence, the arm slammed the door in our faces.
I scoffed and put my hand on Stars shoulder. She stared at the door in anger.
"It's ok, Star," I said, "Lets just go and get ready for Marco's tournament."
Star sighed and looked down at the pot in her hands, "Yeah, ok." she said, disappointment and exhaustion coating her words.
"Excuse us."
"Watch it!"
"Sorry."
"Hey!"
"Sorry."
"Ow!"
"Sorry. Sorry," Star said as we finally make it to our seats, sitting down next to Alfonzo and Ferguson. She had a dead look in her eyes, and her skin was clammy and grey from lack of sleep. She leaned her elbow on me in exhaustion and I held her up.
"Are you ok, Star?" asked Alfonzo.
"You look terrible!" said Ferguson., "And I have very low standards!" I glared at Ferguson when I heard him say this, and he cowered under my gaze.
"I've been up for two nights!" Star said with a yawn, "Trying to fix his monster arm! Then he gets mad. And then I gotta come here and watch him karate! You know?" she looked over at me and I nodded at her with a worried grin.
"Allow me to introduce," started Marco's sensei, "our first competitor, JEREMY BURNBAUM!"
Everyone looked over to see a tall figure wearing a cloak, sipping on a cold glass of water while a butler rubbed his shoulders. Then all of a sudden, the cloak was ripped off with a shout as a small kid standing on a stool was revealed, punching his two butlers in the face with a pair of boxing gloves. I scoffed and rolled my eyes as Jeremy yelled in excitement.
"That's Jeremy!" shouted Star.
I nodded, "Yep! That's Jeremy. Marco's arch enemy." I snickered.
"That kid can't be more than 8 years old!" Ferguson said.
"Yeah. I could totally kick his butt, but Marco wants to do it himself." I replied. Jeremy cackled as he walked to the middle of the arena.
"We love you, son!" shouted a rich looking couple in the front row, holding up a sign for him.
"SHUT IT, MOM!" Jeremy shouted back.
"And his opponent," continued the sensei, pointing to the other side of the room, "Marco Diaz!" And there Marco stood, his monster arm waiving in the air and a deep dark look in his eyes as he glared at Jeremy. Everyone in the audience gasped at the sight of him.
"Now that's an appendage!" commented Jeremy's dad.
"Hey, wait!" shouted Jeremy, "Hey's got a monster arm, that's not fair!"
"Yeah! Pretty cool, right?" said Sensei. Suddenly the monster arm grabbed Jeremy by the neck and lifted him over Marco's head, slamming him face-first into the ground. Back and forth Jeremy went, over the crowd, Sensei's head, slamming into a trophy shelf, and then through the ceiling before slamming back onto the ground. The crowd gasped and I stood up on my feet in worry.
"Point Diaz." said Sensei.
"where are your private lessons now, Jeremy?" Marco teased. Out of nowhere, a mouth appeared on the side of the tentacle and it reached over, wrapping around Jeremy's stomach. It lifted him off the ground and brought him over to Marco.
The mouth on the arm laughed maniacally, "He's beaten," it said, "Now finish him!"
"What!?" yelled Marco.
"This is what you've always wanted!" it continued, "Destroy him! Eat his bowels!"
"No!" screamed Jeremy, "Not my bowels! I love my bowels!"
"Hey, listen!" shouted Marco, "I just wanted to win the tournament so he wouldn't make fun of me!"
The monster arm frowned, "If you're too weak to finish him, I'll do it myself!" an with that the arm ripped open Jeremy's shirt, revealing his stomach. Jeremy started to scream even more.
"Star and Tessa were right about you!" said Marco, shoving Jeremy away from the arm, "You are a bad influence!"
"And you are pathetic!" said the arm, rising higher into the air. Marco looked up at it in fear. Suddenly the arm flung Jeremy across the room, slamming him into a punching bag.
"Point Diaz." said Sensei.
The monster arm growled, lunging at Marco with it's teeth bared. Marco dodged out of the way.
"Star," he shouted, "You can change it back, now!"
I looked over at Star, expecting her to shout the spell, but she was fast asleep on my shoulder.
"Star!" Alfonzo, Ferguson, and I shouted. Ferguson started to shake her as the monster arm started to slam Marco onto the ceiling.
"STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" Ferguson screamed in her ear as I smacked her face a bit. On the other hand, the monster arm had Marco pinned on the ground, using his other hand to smack himself.
"Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?" it teased.
"PLEASE! WAKE! UP!" Ferguson shouted.
"Come on, Star! Marco needs you!" I yelled.
"Here!" said Alfonzo, holding up a cup of water, "Try this!"
"Oh, thank you so much," said Ferguson and started to drink from the cup.
"NO!" Alfonzo and I shouted, "Use it on Star!"
"Oh, right!" and with that he poured it on Star's face. She gasped, snapping awake as Marco screamed. Star and I gasped when the monster arm wrapped around Marco's neck and pulled, cutting off his air supply.
Star screamed and took out her wand in a flash, "Returneo Armeus Normoreno!" she shouted. A beam of light blasted out from her wand at the monster arm, but it jumped out of the way before the spell could hit it, instead turning the punching bag behind it into a giant arm.
"Returneo Armeus Normoreno!" Star shouted again., and agin the arm dodged out of the way and the spell hit a set of weights, turning it into a grey arm. Again and again she said the spell, again and again she missed. Soon the whole floor was covered in arms and the monster arm was hanging Marco and itself from the ceiling.
The monster arm laughed, "I could do this all day!" it shouted.
Star groaned in annoyance, "He's too wiggly!" she moaned.
"That's it!" I shouted as I looked down at the abundance of arms below the two, "Marco! Use the arms!"
Marco smiled and nodded. In a flash he pried the tentacle arm from the ceiling and the two of them fell into the pit of arms. the arms quickly grabbed onto the monster arm before it could wriggle away.
"Now!" Marco and I shouted.
"RETURNEO ARMEUS NORMORENO!" Star yelled, and this time the spell hit the monster arm, and there was nothing it could do.
"You'll never git rid of me!" the monster arm shouted as it started to shrink down into a normal arm, "I'm part of you now! You can treat the symptoms but you cant cure the virus!" and with that it was gone, a regular, normal arm taking it's place.
Marco groaned in pain as Star, Ferguson, Alfonzo, and I ran down to him.
"Marco, are you ok?" Star asked. Marco looked down at his hand in awe and gasped as he waived it.
"My arm!" he shouted in excitement as he stood up and hugged his arm, "My beautiful arm, it's back to normal!" There was a sickening crunch from his hand and he hissed in pain, "And totally broken."
"Broken Arm!" shouted Jeremy, "HA! Well it looks like I win!" she shouted, raising his arms high into the air. But he gasped when something fell out of his boxing gloves and landed on the floor with a clatter.
"Brass knuckles, seriously?" asked Sensei with a glare.
"Brass?" Jeremy scoffed, "They're gold."
"You boys have brought shame and dishonor to this great and noble sport. 'Tis a sad day for strip mall dojo's everywhere." Jeremy growled in anger and walked off, kicking a couple of hands out of the way as he walked over to his parents as they waited for him by the door.
"Oh, bravo, son! Bravo!" his mother cheered.
Jeremy growled, "I wish I could fight you, Mom." he said. She whimpered at his retort.
"What a turd," said Ferguson, shaking his head.
I looked over at Marco, "Sure you don't want me to kick his butt for you?" I asked.
"No, it's ok," he said, shaking his head, "Look, you two. I'm sorry. I should have listened to you guys."
"We know," replied Star. I chuckled and punched her lightly in the arm.
"Hey, uh, when the monster arm said he'd be back, that's nothing to worry about, right?" he asked nervously.
"Uhhhh, probably not?" questioned Star with a smile, and Marco and I looked down at his arm in worry.
"Uh, let's not think about it, ok?" I said, "Let's just get you to a hospital."
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