Marco was the first to awake. He had no idea of the surroundings around him and started to guide his hands around the tent. The nylon of the tent was harsh as he paused his hand. Frustrated by his inability to be useful, Marco brought his fists to his chest as he clinched them together. Teeth grinding, Marco was about to let out a yell until he felt something next to him
It was Star, she had been at his side all night, in a deep slumber, evident by her loud snoring. By accident, Marco placed his hand on Star's thigh. He quickly started to burn up while he retreated his hand in shame. Unexpectedly, a hand had grabbed his withdrawn appendage. Marco froze, and a faint, barely discernible mumble came from Star while she was still asleep.
"I want more Marco, give me more, I want it, please." Star slurred as she let out slight moans in her sleep.
Marco's whole body went stiff, with the exception of his arm. The dreaming Star quickly placed Marco's hand on her thigh.
"Ahhhhhhhh, yeah Marco, yeahhhhh." moaned Star as she drooled.
Marco wanted to pull back, but he was shocked to the point of conceding to Star. She guided his hand into her panties as she let off heavy sighs. Marco's hand was led to her clitoris as Star turned it circularly.
"I can't do this anymore, at least not when I'm still blind." Marco said to himself.
Marco forcefully withdrew his hand from Star's panties. Star let in a heavy breath of air and mumbled, "No, not now, no." as she started to violently turn in the tent.
"STAR!" yelled Marco.
Star snapped out of her lewd trance and looked around for a second.
"Y-yes Marco?" said Star embarrassed as she covered her lower body with a blanket.
"N-nothing, just making sure you were still here, good morning." said Marco hesitantly.
Her face full of glow, Star shyly muttered a good morning.
"So how was your night." asked Marco awkwardly.
"It was alright, I took a look at a note a dead guy left near the tent, he even had a gun."
"That's good, I really hope you know how to use that thing Star, because I don't and I can't."
"I could try to find out" said Star as she looked down the barrel of the gun.
"I wouldn't look down the barrel"
Star shamefully turned to Marco, now thinking he could somehow see.
"Yeahhhhhhh, I would never do that."
Marco let off a few weak laughs and asked, 'So what did the note say?
Reddening, Star recovered the note from a bag, "Something about the world ending, fighting, and love."
"Love, really?" questioned Marco.
"Yeah, love." laughed Star.
"That's pretty odd, what exactly did it say?" Marco pressed. Marco wanted to continue on to see how far he could get with Star. He wasn't actually too sure what he was getting on to.
"Show them the love, you'd never shown them before" Star stammered out.
"W-wow, for a sad guy, that's pretty well put." said Marco hesitantly.
Star put on an awkward smile and blurted, "Yeahhhhh."
The tent was filled with stiff silence for thirty seconds, until Marco broke it.
"So, about getting to that house, how are we going to get there?"
Slightly disappointed, Star sighed, "We're going to have to walk, at this rate, I'm not sure how long it would take, but you know this area right?"
"In all honesty, I've never been out this far Star, I have no idea where we are at. When we used to visit my uncle, we just took the main road there." said an ashamed Marco.
"Ohhhhh, I'm sure we'll get there eventually!"
"Ha, if it's still there. I think he made it though, he doesn't live downtown, he has like a little ranch."
"A ranch, really!" cried Star in joy.
"Yes, Star… He has a ranch" replied Marco
"Yeeeeeee, does he have horses, or or or, does he have cute piglets!"
"I think so, I've only been there a few times!" said Marco in an annoyed tone.
"Let's go Marco! I really want to go now!" cried Star.
"Okay, okay, remember Star, you have a blind guy here."
"Pshhhh, it's okay Marco, I've got your back!"
"Ha, I know that, but Earth is filled with some really messed up people Star. You think those soldiers who passed by us where bad, wait until you meet people who have nothing to lose."
"Checkmate Marco, the guy near the tent said he had nothing to lose and he killed himself, it can't be that bad, you kill yourself when you have nothing to lose, right?" said Star as she crossed her arms confidently.
Marco brought his head up and faced the top of the tent in comical disbelief.
"Star, that's not what I meant. I don't know what the heck they do in Mewni, but here on Earth some desperate people like to do desperate things"
"Like what?" asked Star curiously?
"Like rob us, kidnap us, and murder us? Do any of those crimes ring a bell?"
"Yeah, your forgetting one Marco, they have rape here on Earth right?"
"Wha!? Star! I thought… NEVERMIND, let's just get something to eat and go!" said Marco as he blushed.
"I got you on this one Ph.D. Marco Diaz." star proclaimed with a cocky smile.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, just go find us something to eat!"
Star exited the tent with the gun.
"Hmmmm, so how do I use this thing" Star thought to herself.
"Ah ha!"
Holding gun upside down, Star used the trigger as iron sights and aimed it at a tree.
*Click* *Click* *Click*
"That's odd, it's not going off" Star thought.
"Marco! The gun won't go off" yelled Star.
"What does it look like?" replied Marco.
"Ummm, it has two pipes"
Marco lightly tapped his face with his hand and started laughing.
"It must be a shotgun then, the guy must have had little cylindrical objects near him right?"
Star hiked over to the tree, carefully searching the body of the deceased man. Inside his pockets were four shells. Star placed one shell into the barrel of the gun and fired again.
*Click*
"Marco! It's still not working!" complained Star.
"You have to discharge the spent shells first I think" Marco said sarcastically.
"Oh hush Marco!" said Star
"Oh, and hey, don't actually fire the gun, how much ammo do we have?"
"Four thingys."
"Yeah, you can try target practice later, let's get going, it looks like it's going to rain."
Before the two prepared to leave, Star almost forgot the wounds on Marco's face.
"Hey Marco, I have some cute bandages for you. Well, they aren't really cute, butttt, I'm sure they'll help out."
Marco smiled and nodded his head as Star applied the bandages on his mild wounds. After the application of the bandages, Star went in and kissed Marco's forehead.
In surprise, Marco yelled, "Star, why'd you do that!"
In sadness Star replied with, "You didn't like that? I thought kisses were supposed to heal things on Earth, like broken hearts."
"W-well, I guess. T-thank you Star." Marco said reluctantly.
Star flung the shotgun around her shoulder, while Marco carried the backpack full of supplies.
"Hey Marco, do you feel comfortable holding hands now?" asked Star.
"I-I guess, if it makes you feel more safe!" blushed Marco.
"Hehehehe, just messing with you Marco, here, grab my shoulders and massage me while we're walking on this long trip." giggled Star.
"Fine! Let's just go." declared Marco.
The two set out along the dirt road. Debris still hanging in the air, fires still smoldering all around the ruined cities and towns. Ironically this hell on Earth blossomed dormant feelings that Star and Marco started to act on. They both saw each other as friends, however those feelings started to morph into something else.
"Where is my massage Marco?" Star blurted sarcastically.
"Were you really serious?" Marco plainly replied.
"Why not, let me lower my shirt, so you can hit the point's good." smiled Star.
Marco turned his head slightly away from her, and started to rub Star's silky shoulders.
"Marco, you're being a little too rough, treat me like your homework, gentle." said Star while slightly moaning.
Confused, Marco complied and proceeded to caress Star's shoulders.
Thinking to himself Marco thought of how awkward the situation was unfolding.
"You are so weird Star, you are so weird Star, you are so weird Star." Marco repeated to himself.
"Hey Marco, let's take a break, it's been an hour." said Star.
Marco agreed as they both slumped behind a tree.