"Ughhh!" Star groaned. "I'm bored!"
The beautiful princess said as she rolled all over the bed. Today was Sunday, the weekend when she and Marco would go dimension hopping and all kind of crazy stuff.
That if Marco didn't have to go to the store to buy groceries of course. She had been waiting forever.
Truth to be told, it's had been only 2 hours since he left, but for someone as relentless as Star, it's truly feel like forever.
And not even mentioned that it's been a week since they officially started dating. Star will admit that Marco was the best thing that ever came to her life.
She had seen many things, crystal dimension filled with magnificent colors shining under the black sky, laser shows from the most advanced dimension there is, dimension that is full of flying ponies, to even seeing those that Earth peoples call Gods, the list went on and on!
But Marco surpassed all of that.
He has always been there to comfort her, helping her through troubles, fighting monster for her, taking care of her and pull her out of the mess she made. His eyes, his smile, his personality, it's all perfect!
True, he could be a really "Safe Kid" sometimes, but he always did it to protect her. She may like bad boys before, but she was totally over that's 4 months ago, but Marco shown her what she truly wanted,
Truly needed.
To her, Marco was like the god of beauty, the angel of her life, her knight in shining armor.
And she will never regret the choice to be with him, not now or ever.
"I'm back Star!" Marco loud shout snapped Star out of her thought, and put an enormous grin on her face.
She immediately rushed to the boy, and before he could even reach her room's doors, she tackled him to the ground and planted a big kiss on his lips.
After a while of kissing, Star finally breaks the kiss so she and Marco could have some breath.
"He-hey Marco, ready to go yet?" Star said to a Marco who is still gasping for air, his cheeks burn furiously from the kiss.
Star can't help but chuckled at that.
"Cute." She added that to the back of her head. She loved it when Marco blushed like that, it's just so cute.
"Ye-yeah. Let's go Star!" Marco stuttered, still trying to cool himself down from Star kiss. Not that he complaining, but she is really going to kill him one day with her kisses.
"Well," Star asked, twirling her dimensional scissor around. "Where do you wanted to go today?"
"Hmmmp, I don't know. Maybe some where that is really new this time?" Marco shrugged. He would go anywhere as long as there is Star there.
"Okay! Let's me see, hmmpp…" Star cheerfully answered, before started to look in her mind for a place to go.
"By the way Star, I had always has this question. How does that scissors works? Doesn't it need like, you know, a power sources? And how does it take you to where you wanna go?" Marco questioned.
"Oh, that easy." She pointed at a gem in the middle of the scissor. "It all thank to this magical little thing right here."
"That? That small little gem is what held the scissor together?" Marco asked, clearly shocked by what he heard.
"Yep." Star replied, satisfying of Marco reaction.
"Wow, I wondered what would happened if we poured a lot of energy in the scissor."
"Well, it's may took us to some where none had adventure to before. That or it will explode." Star replied calmly, before her brain flared up an idea.
"WAIT! WE SHOULD TOTALLY DO THAT!" Star yelled in excitement.
"WHAT?" Marco yelled back. "Didn't you say that it may blow up?"
"Yeah, but I also said that it may get us somewhere awesome!" Star replied, her voice filled with enthusiasm.
"Yeah, and explode!" Marco shot back, hoping to stop whatever Star is planning.
"C'mon Marco!" Star moaned. "Please?"
And that's the moment when Marco Diaz falls, for Star used her ultimate technique on him.
She gave him the biggest puppy eyes she could muttered.
"Fine!" Marco groaned. No matter hard he tried, he just couldn't resist her puppy eyes, they are just too adorable for words to describe.
"Yay!" Star squealed in happiness as she planted another kiss on Marco's lips, making his bloods rushing up his cheeks.
"Now, let do this!" Star said as soon as she broke the kiss, waving her wand up in the air. She then pulls out her scissor and put it on her chair.
She held up her wand, charging up her spell. The wand started to glow brightly, magic statics ran around it.
After a full minute of charging up and Marco ran behind the door, pulling Star to it as well, she smile widely as she shouts her spell name as loudest as possible.
"Ultimate Charging Blast!" As soon as she finished those words, her wand shot out a blinding white beam, hitting the dimensional scissor head on.
The blast seem to keep flowing it's energy into the scissor, as the scissor began to crackle with power, shaking uncontrollably as it did so. Soon enough, the scissor begins to flow up in the sky, crackling with it energy, and enveloped everything in a blinding light.
As soon as Star can see again, she immediate looks around for Marco in fear of something bad happen to him.
Lucky for her, she found Marco slowly stood up, groaning and complaining about the bright light. She let out a sigh of relief at the sight of her boyfriend. Then she turns her attention to where the scissor was.
It was still on the chair she left it on.
She slowly stood ups, slowly lifting the scissor up, in fear of it might explode.
A few silence minutes later, still nothing happen. The scissor looks completely normal.
Well, to the normal outsider at least. But to Star, she could feel the scissor completely cover in power.
"Star, don't." Marco pleaded to no avail, for the second he finished, Star make a cutting motion in the air.
And to his surprise, a portal began to form.
The portal seem quite normal, it's swirling blue vortex look exactly like those portals that he and Star always go through.
But he knows better than to judge something by the way it looks. There something really wrong, really really wrong with that portal.
"Star, I don't think we should go in there." Marco warned, fearing of what might happen.
"Pfft, what? Really Marco? We should totally go in there!" Star said excitingly. Then she gave Marco a playful smirk and pulls out her trump card.
"Or… are you too scare, huh Safe Kid?"
"WHAT? I'M NOT A SAFE KID STAR! AND YOU KNOW THAT!" Marco denied.
"Sure," Star waved her hand around for more effect, smirking that he fell into her trap. "Whatever you say, Safe Kid."
"Grrrrr…" Marco gritted his teeth at the nickname. "I'm NOT a safe kid! And I will prove that."
To demonstrate his words, he hold Star's hand, much to her surprise and jump into the portal, pulling Star along with him.
"Woahhhhh…" Marco said as he takes a look at his surroundings.
They are standing in a wood with strange trees that is glowing, constantly changing in color. The entire wood is a big rainbow color, glistening under the dark sky of this dimension.
"What is this place?" he asked.
"Th-this is" Star stuttered, her mouth gasping as the magnificent sight just like Marco, before letting a loud scream full of excitement and joy like a child got her best gift.
"What-what is it Star?" Marco asked, concerned by Star loud scream. He takes a karate stand and raises his hand in a defensive state, preparing to fight whatever tries to hurt Star and him.
"OMG!" Star shouted in excitement. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS MARCO?"
"Ugh, no?"
"MARCO, THIS IS AN ENTIRE FOREST OF EMOTIONAL TREES! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!" Star squealed in joy.
"What an emotional tree?" Marco asked, confused.
"Emotional tree is the rarest race of trees in all of the worlds!" Star explained.
"Wow, really? What do they do?"
"Well, they can do a lot of thing." Star pointed at the tree leafs. "Do you see how those leafs are glowing Marco?" She asked, to which Marco nodded.
"Watch." She said as she put her hand on a tree trunk. The moment she did so, the entire tree turned pink. Marco's jaw dropped at the sight. The entire tree, from the trunk to the branches, turned pink. And to add to the weirdness, the leaf began to takes… heart shape?
"See that Marco? These trees take shape to the emotions around them. The stronger that emotion is, the tree will glow brighter and take more shapes."
"And the leaf can be use to do all kind of thing. For instance, a red leaf, one that is filled with anger emotion, can be use for warriors in battle, giving them a great boost in power to fight enemies. Or a blue leaf, one that is filled with hope, can be use to heal a person mental scar. A white leaf, one that is filled with will, can heal extremely serious wounds. But the most used one, is the pink leaf, represent for love. Those that is rich, wanted to take a girl or a guy heart can use this leaf to make it easier." Star explained, feeling pretty smart about herself.
"Wow!" Marco said in awe. "These trees must be really expensive."
Star grinned at Marco words.
"Of course. One tree like this worth at least three chests full of gold and jewels! And that is the lowest price ever! Even the richest royalty only has 4-5 trees in their possession."
"Tha-than that mean-!" Marco stuttered, looking at the trees around him.
"AND WE FIND AN ENTIRE FOREST OF THEM! WE HIT THE JACK POT MARCO!" Star squealed in excitement.
Marco however, was struggling to keep himself from fainting. His smart brain can't even imagine how much money is surrounding him and Star.
"Hey Marco, are you okay?" Star asked in concern at her boyfriend, who was standing still for the last 3 minutes and look into the nowhere.
"Ugh-ugh yeah! I'm okay! Just too shock that all." Marco responded.
"See Marco, I told you this was a good idea!" Star grinned, looking at the boy who is scratching the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Ye-Yeah. You was right." Marco responded, blushing in embarrassment, until he noticed something in the distance.
"Wait Star, there something I want to ask you."
"What is it Marco?" Star asked, wondering what he wanted to asks her.
"If pink is love, red is anger, blue is hope and white is will," he paused. "Then what does black mean?"
"Well, black is despa- wait, what black?" Star asked back, and Marco pointed at behind her.
When she turned around, she saw a dark forest in the distance. The trees there look like it was made completely out of shadow.
"Wow, we should check that out." Star answered.
"Yeah, but it's so far out away. I think we shouldn't." Marco complained, until he saw Star grinning with the wand in her hand.
"You forgot?" Star teased.
"Ughhh" Marco groaned. "I was really hoping that I won't have to do it."
"Pfft, ridiculous. Let's go Marco!" Star grabbed Marco hand, and chanted.
"Bunny Rocket Blast!" The moment she finished, a powerful blast of energies and bunnies shot out from the wand, lifting Star and Marco to the dark forest at a ridiculous speed, making Star squealed in excitement and Marco screamed in fear.
After a couple of minutes, Star and Marco landed safely on the ground.
"Wow, what is it?" Star was the first to asked, as she looked around.
The entire place look like a massive fire burned all of these trees down. There are charred tree trunks everywhere, and those that are not, look even worse.
"What happened here?" Star muttered.
She had never seen emotional tree that are this dark and black before. Mostly because black trees doesn't do anything other than caused despair and suffering to other, so it is nearly none existent. Black trees only been born from tragic things, such as a pair of lovers be separated, or some prince witness their loves and family died. All of them are extremely tragic, and been turn to sad, romantic stories that could bring tears to anyone, even demons.
But all those trees that she had seen, are only slightly dark, and are a bit of black mix with some brown-the tree normal color.
These tree however, is a completely different story. They look like they are built from darkness itself. She could practically hear scream and cries of despair came from them, and she is standing at least 20 yards from them.
Whoever caused this, must had gone through something beyond terrible, unspeakable thing. She felt bad for this person already.
"Ughh," Marco groaned, snapping Star out of her thought. "Star, what's that?"
"What?" Star asked, unsure of things around here.
"That right there." Star turned to looks at what Marco was talking about.
And her eyes widened at it.
"IS that?" She hesitantly asked.
"A sword? I think so." Marco answered. "We should check it out."
"Yeah, let see it." They began to walk toward the sword, eager to investigate it.
As they walked closer, they began to see it clearer.
"woahh…" Star and Marco both said in unison, clearly awe by it features.
The sword is at least 2 feet long. It's have the look of a long sword, but yet much bigger and stranger. The sliver blade illuminated under the dark sky, giving it a strange yet beautiful radiant white aura. Instead of a normal, brown metal thread wrapped hilt in leather like most swords did, the sword hilt was made from some sort of strange, bone-white marble. The sword guard was replace by two big sliver-looking birds, their gigantic wing poking out in each side, taking up a third of the blade itself.
But what caught the duo sight the most was the sword blade itself.
The blade had a strange sliver cross inside it, where the center of the cross laid a magnificent sapphire gem, which gave of a glimmering, but powerful blue light. The blade surrounding it however, is even more impressive. It's look like a flame made out of sliver being carved in the inside, giving it a magnificent look but still made it known that is can work perfectly, with the sharpened, perfectly smooth edge, that look like it can cut through anything with ease.
And the strangest of all, was that the tip of the sword was currently buried deep in the solid ground.
"Wow, Marco." Star said in awe, never left her eyes of the sword, as if some magic is calling her to it. "Isn't that like the Excaribbean sword back on Earth?"
If this was an anime, Marco would have fall over with his legs pointed up in the air.
"What? It's "Excalibur" Star, not Excaribbean!" Marco corrected.
"Oh,uh… I knew that! I-uh… I'm just testing you!" Star smiled sheepishly, trying to lie to Marco to cover her mistake, which Marco totally saw through.
"Sureeeee…" Marco was thinking about teasing her, but he decided to take care of the problem at hand first. "So, what are we going to do about the sword?"
"Hmmm, I think we pick it up and bring it home with us!" Star responded cheerfully, excited to get an awesome sword.
"Okay, let do it."
Marco walks slowly toward the sword, put his hand on the grip and pull it out of the ground.
At least that's what he expected to happen.
Instead, the sword refused to move even an inch, no matter how much force Marco put into it.
He don't get it, he know this sword is massive therefore it is definitely heavy, but he wasn't expecting it to be this heavy.
After a moment of watching Marco struggle to move the sword to the point his face got all red, Star got bored (although it is really funny) and decided to shoved Marco out of the way and take matter into her own hand.
"Pfft, get aside Marco, let the real man do the job." Star remark, shooting Marco a dirty look, much to his dismay. Satisfy at Marco embarrassment, Star put her hands on the grip, and pull it with all of her Mewnian strengths.
And surprise, the sword still refused to move. She tried again, and again, but with the same result no matter how hard she tried.
It was Marco turn to snickers, causing Star to flushes in embarrassment.
After a while of struggling and listening to Marco's snickering, Star got frustrated and decided to do what she do best.
She pulled out her wand, pointing it toward the sword and yell:
"Maximus Arms Levitation!"
As soon as she finished her words, a gigantic pair of muscular arms appears and starting to pull the sword from the ground.
And much to the duo shock, the sword still refuses to move.
Hell, it isn't even being shaking from the forces of the two mighty arms.
Frustrated, she pulled out her wand and started to chant even more spells.
"Rainbow Pulls!"
"Mega Helper Giants!"
"Mystic Black Hole!"
(10 minutes later)
Star collapsed from frustration and anger.
She had been trying every spells possible, from creating a bunch of giants and minotaur to help her, to creating black hole and tornado to pull the sword up.
But some freaking how, the sword still remain in one place. She tried to teleport it, but nothing happened what so ever.
Angry, she decided to use all of her powers and give it one last try. The heart marks on her face begin to glow white, and so was her eyes and her wand's star.
But before she can do it, a hand rest on her shoulder, stopping her from chanting her spell.
"Hey, wait. I think I got an idea." Marco said, as he walk toward the sword and gesture Star to come as well.
Curious by what Marco planning, Star rushed to his side.
"What are you planning?"
"I think we should both try as the same time."
"What?" Star asked. "That's your big idea? Marco, what make you think that we could pull it up?"
"Well," Marco scratched the back of his head. "I think this sword is like that Excalibur. Only through some special circumstances it can be pull up. It's definitely not about a person with noble heart or else one of us would have pulled it up. So, why don't we try the powers of love instead?" Marco explained.
"ohhh, that sound like a good idea! Let give it a try!" Star exclaimed, amused by Marco's idea.
"Okay, on the count of one to three." Marco said, putting his hands on the grip, followed by Star.
"One…" Marco counted, readying himself for the final attempt.
"THREE!" Star screamed, and starting to pull the sword as hard as she can. Marco startle by this, was quickly force to pull as well.
The duo grunted, applying more forces.
And to their surprise, the sword suddenly radiated a glancing white light, as they felt the sword being slowly pulled off the ground.
"IT'S WORKING!" Star exclaimed happily.
"I KNOW! KEEP PULLING!" Marco ordered, to which Star gladly obeyed.
And the more they pulls, the sword glows brighter and brighter with each passing minutes.
Soon enough, they could felt the sword almost being pulled off the ground.
They gave it all of their might, and with a final grunt, they pulled the sword off the ground.
*KABOOM!*
A massive amount of shockwave sent Star and Marco flying backward, followed by a blinding white light that enveloped everything in sight.
In a strange, unknown city, two men dressed in fisherman clothes could be seen talking to each other.
"Have you seen anything yet?" A man called out to his friend.
"Aside from a bunch of wretched papers, nothing yet!" the other fisherman responded, digging his way through a massive amount of rubbles of broken machine and computers.
"Ugh, these stupid machines and their ridiculous weight." The man grumbled, pulling off machinery that filled up the hall he is standing on.
Just as he finished, his shovel hit something that let out a bunch of *beep beep* noise, and a door slowly revealed itself, making all of the garbage in front of the door fall through it.
"HEY, OVER HERE!" The man called out.
"What? What is it?" The other man ran up to his friend, curiosity filled him.
"No need to be so excited you nerd. I just found a door, that all." The man grumbled. "C'mon, let's get inside and finished this quickly. This place is making my chest hairs tingling really hard."
They walk in silence, tension and fear filled the air as they walked in, ready to face anything.
Suddenly, the both of them stopped as an awful smell ran up in their nose, a smell that they recognized very well.
The smell of dry bloods.
The leading man gesture for his friend to stopped, making silent gesture that say: "Are you ready?" as he pulled a pair of golden knuckles and put it in his hand, readying in a boxing stance.
The other man silently nodded, as he walk inside first, leading the way with a strange-looking gun on his hand, ready to shoot anything that could attack him, as the man with the golden knuckles followed suit, looking behind their back.
The smell of dry blood only increase even much worse, making the two men pointed their flashlight forward, revealing the source of the smell.
"Great, just what I need." The man with golden knuckles grumbled in frustration. "As if everything else wasn't enough to be a horror movie already, this has to be here too."
Like a horror movie indeed, for the source of the blood came from a line of strange numbers that was written on the floor that say:
"Vs lbh ner ernqvat guvf, guna cyrnfr, jnea gur bgure. Jr unir hayrnfurq E."
"What the hell is this anyway? Some sort of demonic code?"
"It's an encrypted message Stanley!" The other man explained. "It's appears that they are using Caesar Cipher codes. Let me see."
"Hurry up Sixer. I don't want to know what happened to the guy who wrote this." The man known as Stanley responded.
"Yes, yes I know. Wait for me a moment, let me decipher this. It's will only take a minutes." The man who was called as "Sixer" replied.
"Hey, what do you think happened here anyways? This place look like it had been abandoned for a hundred years or some things."
"I don't know, but that why we are here to figures it out, right Stanley?" The man replied, hoping to cheer his companion mood.
"Yeah, yeah." Stanley shrugged. "Be hurry up Stanford, that blood look relatively new. I could still feel a bit of warm coming from it. Whatever cause this person to write that would probably still be here."
"C'mon Stanley, try to- wait, what did you just say?" Stanford turned around, a look of horror expressed on his face.
"There still some heat coming from it according to your weird high-tech machine Stanford." Stanley replied.
"Right, I forgot that I gave you the heat sensor. Be quiet for a bit Stanley, I'm trying to decipher this." The man said, before returning to look at the codes and start writing thing down in his notebook.
Decided to listen to his twin advice, Stanley turn silent and start inspecting his surroundings. He turns and look around, trying to put two and two together to figure out what happened here.
He remembered when he first came in here with his brother. They had to wear a diving-suit to get here and jumped in the water to look for this anomaly, and much to their surprise, they found an underwater city.
But instead of finding a golden city in it prime full of beautiful mermaid like he expected, life decided to kick him in the nut instead.
And here he is, in a city that looks like it got destroyed by a nuclear warhead, standing and guarding his nerdy brother.
Stanley may not be a detector like Duck Detector (man that duck is good) or something, but he wasn't an idiot to not noticed that there are many wrong things here.
The city was destroyed left and right, buildings falling apart everywhere, but there wasn't a single corpse to be found as fall as he know.
Maybe the kinds of peoples that lived here destroy their own body when they die, but Stanley gut is telling him that not the case.
A loud sound snapped him out of his thought, making him turn around to look at his brother, who had his notebook and pen fall down to the floor. Stanley was just about to questions his brother when he suddenly turned around, with a horror look on his face, alarming Stanley greatly.
Stanley had rarely seen his brother scare before, the only time he had seen it was back when they were trapped in Bill's pyramid, with Bill threatened to kill his nephew.
But he had never seen his brother scare to this degree before. Ford mouth open in shock and fear, his face paler than those vampires he had seen on T.V, his expression was like a child saw a monster under their bed for the first time.
In short words, pure horror spread across his face.
Before he could asked however, Ford starts picking up his notebook and pen, then said:
"We have to get out of here, now!" he demanded, before brushing Stanley aside and rushed out of the room they were in.
"Wait, but what-!" Stanley than realized that his brother had already run past him, unable to hear his words anymore.
He had no other choices other than started to running after his brother, yelling for his name as he did so.
"FORD! WAIT!" Stanley yelled as he run up to his brother, leaving the demonic room behind.
Unknown to them, a dark figure watched the screen unfold with a horrific smile, before disappearing in the darkness.
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