While Star was having fun with Tom , at the same time Marco was cleaning his own room from side to side , leaving no place unchecked , placing his messy stuff back to their correct position . Sure it was tiring , took him about half an hour to completely re-examine his whole room to make sure it looks good . He put his disgusting smelly hoodies into a basket and bring it to the corner of the room just to make sure he remembers to bring them to Sir Luvabo tomorrow . Or he might wash them himself
"I think I'm ready to go now" Marco searched and pulled his scissor out from his hoodie , ready to travel dimension and spend his job-free day . But before he could use it , his phone suddenly ring , he checked it and sure enough it was Star
"Hei , What's wrong Star ?" He picked it up and asked
"MARCO !! HELP !" Star was screaming , asking for his aid immediately
"STAR ! HOLD ON , Where are you ?!" Hearing this made Marco panic
"I'm in the ...ARGH !... that dimension with Rabbit Pirates !, remember ?! . I'm on the Island to be exact !" a sound of spell blasting and Star running can be heard clearly
"Rabbit Pirates ? Why are you there !? Oh forget it , HANG ON ! , I'm going !" he raised his scissor , open a rift in the air , and leap through it as quick as possible
After leaping through the portal , he found Star leaving the Island forest heading to the beach near the sea , chased by rabbits with each one holding a sword in their hand . But rather than the small rabbits , Marco was more concerned about the large muscular rabbit behind her .
"waaiiitt a second , I could've sworn I met that kind of rabbit before" Marco trying to recall his memories
"MARCO ! Help me get away from these rabbits ! , oh yeah and ESPECIALLY THAT BIG ONE ! . But DON'T HURT THEM !" Star yelled while running to Marco's place
"Don't worry Star !, I know how to handle these guys ... or animals ... or both" Marco took a stance , ready to fight
"You have plan ?" Star questioned while standing side by side with Marco
"Don't you remember ?" he said while his face is still facing the upcoming group , causing Star to lift one of her brow
"I always have plan !" he smirked a little before jumping to the air , landing on the big rabbit shoulder and made his way to its back
He closed the rabbit eyes with his hand , blinding the rabbit . It was trying to grab Marco but failed , it tripped over a rock under its feet , making it lose its balance and fall to the ground . Wasting no time he scrub both its ears with his hand . The rabbit was paralyzed over the pleasure it was given , took him over a few minutes until it sleeps deeply on the ground .
"Have a good sleep , fluffy animal" he jumped leaving the rabbit , landing on the beach sand
"Oh wait , what happened to Star ?!" Marco was too focused with that rabbit and forgot about the other rabbits chasing Star . He observed around the beach and found Star hovering on the rabbits with her favorite spell , Cloudy . She casted a spell and carrots suddenly popping out from thin air , it falls directly to the rabbits . Without thinking any further , the rabbit took the bait and start eating them . While they're absorbed eating it , Star pulled Marco's hand and take him with her on Cloudy . They fly upward to the sky , leaving the rabbits behind
"Man , that was ... actually fun" Marco said after settling on Cloudy, standing on it alongside Star
"I know right" they laughed a little
"Still ... I'm curious , how did you know that big-muscular-rabbit weakness is ... its ear ? And you just have to scrub it ??" she curiously asked after an unexpected sight was shown in front of her
"Oh Star , you'll never know what I've known after all this time helping Heckapoo across dimensions" he said that with pride and pleased expression on his face before he remembered of what he did in the end
"Oh , it looks like my good friend is trying to hide something from me again , huh ? You need to tell me your whole adventure story sometimes . From what I see , you've learnt a lot , teach me some knowledge would you ?" she pressed Marco a little to make him spill his secrets
"Oh ... yeah , the story . How I wish I could go adventuring with Heckapoo again ... if only I didn't break our relationship . It was a mistake . Maybe I need to fix that as soon as I could" Marco guilty feelings over his past mistake are relapsing back into him
"Of course I will teach you Star , it's my job as a squire to fulfill my knight request . And by the way , it sure have been a while since we had this kind of adventure" Marco looked back to their fun memories and ... he used the squire-reason unintentionally without him realizing it
"Yeah , an adventure that is NOT stressing us out" Star recalling their recent fight with Mina which involving the royal families and monsters
"And also Marco ... please don't call me a knight , I'm a maaagiiical princess remember ?" she added her statement while pointing her finger to her wand she carried around
"Okay okay ... haah , you know Star , I think I do can spend my days with you , I mean what can possibly gone wrong with it" Marco said with hope in his words
Without they realizing it they're still holding hands with each other ever since they left the beach . They looked at each other . They were still standing on Cloudy , flying over the ocean not far from the coast just beside the island . Gorgeous Sunset was happening on their side , but their eyes are still locked to each other as their attention can't be swayed
"This ... seems familiar , doesn't it ?" she broke the silent
"What is ?"
"It feels just like how when we were running away from that large living hamburger on Earth , remember ?"
"Ehmm..oh yeah , and it's also your own fault to begin with" he laughed
"How so ?" she asked as she tried to remember it again
"You were trying to enlarge the hamburger with your spell , which ends up horribly wrong like always" he recount the event
"Oh , guess I'm pretty messed up back then huh" they laughed together but then slowly the laugh stopped when Star shown her gloomy face and bring both her hands to cover her face
"aghhh.. I miss those days when we're still on Earth , Marco !" Star exhaled and gave Marco her piece of mind
"I know ... I miss the way it used to be too" he joined Star relieving the memories they had
"Hmmmm , kinda weird though , we had this conversation already didn't we ? . Guess ... it was not enough" Star recall the day when she left Earth
That day , they talked a little about their hanging friendship after the horrible Song Day , a day where Star indirectly confessed Marco . After that short talk , they come in term to spend the rest of their summer , together ... as friend . But not until her great enemy , Toffee shows up . It changes everything
Indeed , she could stop Toffee with her new butterfly power before something worse might happen , but it raise Moon , her mother fear over the unpredictable that might happen in the future to her daughter or anything around her . Accept it or not , she must stay on Mewni over her parents order . Even if that mean she had to leave Earth , leave her friends , and dropped-out from her current-school , Echo-Creek School , but what she afraid so much happen as well , it was to leave Marco forever . It was hard , but she knew it's for the best and accept the changes
While she tried to move on from Marco , and focused herself onto something else like ... her princess duty or her personal life with Tom , Marco suddenly came back . She didn't really want to forcefully push him back to Earth but she also didn't want him to be around as she feared he might become her reason to relapse or becoming her old self again after everything she had done till that point .
She turned their relationship from Best-Friends to Knight-Squire to keep a safe distance , but still , sometimes her heart is filled with anxiety and uneasiness over her own action to create that distance . Adding more salt to her already sad heart .
She like how it was ... before everything went down
"How I missed that day , just the two of us adventuring ... the two of us ... wait" they thought the same thing at the same time
"Wait , where's Tom ?" He asked first after realizing he's not anywhere to be seen
"Wait , wher ... Hey ! I was about to say that too !" Star looked at Marco while laughing a little
"Really ? Wow it's almost like that time after the Bloo ..." Marco tried to flashback before he was cut short by Star
"Not now Marco , we can flashback other time . We need to find him first" she tried to focus more about the disappearing Tom ... but also preventing Marco to say anything regarding the Blood Moon
"Oh yeah , right right" they looked around until they saw some kind of smoke in the middle of the forest on the Island . It was small , but the size increased fast
"You don't think , maybe..."
"Yep , he probably is in trouble ... or making one" Marco answered her question with the both of their head facing the forest on the Island
"Well , what are we waiting for ?! Go Cloudy ! to the smoky forest" Star yelled and Cloudy responded . They flew over the island , the scene around them including the sea , the sky , the trees are fascinating to see , but sadly they didn't have the time to enjoy it . They land just behind the rising fire , different kind of animals especially rabbits were running away from that place to save their own life . And from that same place , Tom appeared and shouted to Star
"Star ! , we need to leave now ! This place is burning down to ash" he rushed through the woods heading to Star
"Ohohohoho nononono , this is bad . Real bad , we can't leave it like this until it turned to dust . We have to stop the fire !" Marco panicked and faced Star
"Star , use your wand and pull out as many water as you can onto the fire ! Tom , control your anger and stop that fire bursting out from your hand !" He instructed both of them
"Marco , you're here ?" Tom saw Marco at Star side , questioning his appearance
"You can ask me that later ! Just look at your hand !"
Tom grasped the situation and control his fire until it stopped . Without second notice , Star hop on Cloudy again and went around the fire , showering them with water . Mostly the blazing fire on the woods are successfully extinguished but the few smaller ones are spreading fast , Star noticed this and screamed at Marco
"What should I do , Marco ?! The fire are spreading !" she knew she can't stop the rest of the fire while she's handling the other side of the area
"Can you put something to hold the fire from spreading ? , like dirt or waterline or whatever it is to contain the fire !"
"I'll try !" Star went to the far edge of each fire and then
"Mega Sticky Honey Blast !" large sticky honey are covering the woods stopping the fires from expanding , weird ... but it worked . After that , Star continue to extinguish the rest of the fire till the entire fire was completely gone . Star came back to the group
"Thanks Star , now the whole Island survived from the worse that might happen . Even if... the honey is troubling to see"
"It's alright Marco , the honey is organic and natural . The point is , the forest is safe . But still I'm curious , what happened here to cause the fire ?" Star displayed her dumb-face to Marco
"You really have to ask ?" turned his head facing Tom followed by Star
"eeehhhhmmmmm, I ... I can explain ,okay ?" his eyes were trying to dodge their glare
"Okay , do it" Marco folded his hands and Star waiting for his answer
"I was chased by the rabbits , then I don't know when but me and Star lost each other in the run . I was tripped and pinned down by one of them , a big one , it was going to punch me at my chest and unintentionally I ..."
"You're out of control and used your fire instead of running away and looking for Star ?" Marco continued his unfinished words with straight face
"Hey , that was a stress moment ! And it's for self-defense" Tom was defending himself
"Okay then , let me asked both of you , why did you two chose this dimension to begin with ? I thought you remember the last time we're here Star , the one time we're almost got killed on a ship even before we reached this Island"
"I ... do remember that , but I was really wanted to see the sunset Tom was offering . He said it's a beautiful scene to see , and... I can't resist" Star described her reason
"Whatever , what happened , it happened" Marco gave up on these two
"Tom , I'll be the one to choose the next dimension . And don't you dare disagree" Star told Tom about it with a confident and slight smirk or her face
"It's your choice m'lady , show me what you got . Oh and by the way , why are you here Marco ?" Tom agreed but then questioned Marco for his presence
"Star was in trouble , I can't just let it be can I ?" Marco filled his curiosity
"No need to worry about it Tom , I called him here to help me just recently . Anyhow Marco , wanna join us ? it'll be fun like ... what we just did" She defended Marco from Tom question , but Tom found something's odd cause she said the fun they just did
"What fun ?" But Tom can still hold himself down from increasing his own nosiness to ask them
"I ... I still can't Star , I haven't even done anything today except the cleaning part" Marco was declining her offer , he couldn't bring himself to watch her with Tom ... at a very short distance
"Oh come oooonnnn Marco , you just said it yourself you can spend your days with me" Star was pulling Marco so hard that its start to annoyed him
"I said that cause I ... was referring to other times in the future when we may have an adventure , but ... not today . You didn't give me this break-gift for nothing right ? I have my things , and ... please let me enjoy it while I can"
"Okay ... fine , but I can still call you if anything ... messed up again right ?" she needs his answer
"Of course , it's not like you're going to call me more than 3 times would you ?" he clarified and laughed nervously
"Anyway , I'm going to spend the rest of my days . So bye !" he used his scissor to leave that dimension , he left with a small low-spirited face . It was unnoticeable to Star as he left even before she could say goodbye
"Wait ... bye"
"What are we waiting for Star , we should head to my carriage now . I believe you planned it already didn't you" he used sarcastic voice and copy Star question when she asked if he had plan
"eeemmm ... of course I do . I know a lots of place Tom , I travel through dimensions like it's in my blood . Where's your carriage ? I kinda forgot where we left it ... oh right , your carriage , I hope nothing bad happen to it cause we left it with the rabbits"
"Don't worry Star , any creature to ever get close to my ride will feel discomfort and leave it . Only the people I allowed can set its foot to it . Let me take you there , I remember its place " Tom made it clear and take Star hand , taking her with him
They're walking toward the place Tom was heading to . Slight burn can be seen everywhere in the forest but it was not severe as it could be worse than that . Other than that , the woods around them looked normal enough as if there was just a wildfire ... maybe excluding the honey hanging at some point
"Ehmmmm , about before . Please don't lose control again , you can literally burn anything and everything . It'll bring more problem than you solved them"
"I know , It's just ... hard to keep my anger in check sometimes" he lowered his head , feeling guilty of what he did
"Oh don't let yourself down , your attitude and behavior are indeed improving . If it's you from the past , I'm pretty sure you'll burn this whole island the moment you step on it" she encouraged Tom , he then laughed over her last statement
"Thanks Star , that means a lot" Tom replied , accepting the compliment
They reached the carriage , open the door and bring themselves in . The heat in there may disturbed them a little , but it was still comfortable to feel nonetheless
"Tom , how do I pick our destination using this carriage . I hope it's not as complicated as it seems"
"Here , just touch this metal plate and imagine the place you want to go to . It works the same as the dimensional scissor , but just a little different in the way of using it . This carriage was improved so it'll be more easy to use" showing Star the plate on the wall
"That's surprisingly easy . Okay then , let me try" she imagine that place , and suddenly the carriage create a burning portal on the ground , they were transported to other place
"Now , behold Tom ..." ready to open the car door leading to outside
In other place , Marco got out from his portal to see one hairy girl and a giant monster-like-a-wolf fighting each other . He didn't want to interrupt them , so he just watched them holding their pace , attacking , and defending from the sidelines . One using its teeth and claws while the other one was using her large sword with a size that is the same as the user . It took about a few minutes when the girl finally recognized his existence
"Is that... MARCO !!" she screamed and waving at him
"Hey Kelly !" he replied back
There it is , the second chapter . The next chapter may won't be updated for quite some time , cause I got things and stuff in my life . But just keep your spirit up for it !
Reply :
"imhere4svtfoe" Your critic is well received . I improved my English in this chapter a little , even if it seems unnoticeable . For the awkward phrases , maybe it's my laziness to check my fanfic again from time to time or maybe it's just me bad at English . And also , yes English is not my primary language . Oh and thanks for the kind compliment , Kelly will shows up next time , maybe
"Oracle6044" Thanks for the kind words !