Chapter 2: Artificial Monster
Star looked around the small room with wonder. Earth beds kinda looked like a Mewni couch without arm rests or a back rest and twice as wide, there were no curtains or roof as far as she could tell. There was a black box with a square piece of glass on one side and metal sticks on top pointed towards the roof at odd angles, there was a simple dresser and obviously non-magical mirror and a desk with weird curved black hard stuff chair atleast she could see the legs were wooden so she wasn't totally unfirmilular with it.
"Sorry I know that this isn't much and being a princess you're probably used to more but-" Marco began only for Star to cover his mouth, her pupils literally rainbow colored cartoon stars as she squealed in joy.
"THIS. IS. AWESOME!" She becried, rushing over to look at the TV. "What's this thing?"
"A Television. It shows us different events and stories." Marco explained, a bit confused as to how she'd not know that...then again she thought that the light was black magic.
"Ooh Television..." Star awed in wonder before she looked around the room again. "Hmm, no bookshelf. I can fix that." She nodded to herself as she drew her wand, Marco backed up a bit remembering the rainbow. "Mystic room magic expand!"
With a brilliant flash of multiple colors the room had changed into the interior of a massive tower with several floors. On one there was sets of armor and swords, another had a slide which led to ground lever, at the top there was a tire swing and book shelves. The bed had changed too, no longer was it a simple bed it now looked to be a queen sized bed covered in thick dooners with a canopy which held thick curtains, around the room there were a few pictures of her family but all on the upper levels.
"Wow..." Marco was practically at a loss for words here.
"Awesome I know huh?" Star smiled admiring her handywork. "Near exact replica of my room back home on Mewni, only thing that I've added is the Television there." Star stated, pointing to the the TV set which was against the wall now unplugged though due to Star not accounting for power.
"I have to admit, this is pretty cool." Marco replied honestly. He could leap at his maximum height and still not touch to roof without assistance from his Kagune.
"Oh, I can do your room too!" Star exclaimed excitedly as she rushed out her room and flung open the door to Marco's room. She looked around at the mainly spartan room. A simple bed, a bare desk and a dresser were all that decorated the room asides a pair of knee high goth boots similar to what her ex-boyfriend used to wear except this pair was black not red was a lamp. "Wow...no offense Marco but the decorations kinda sorta suck."
"None taken. I'm barely in here anymore, I'm more likely to be out at the Café Rabbit with mum or off training in the sub-basement." Marco replied simply as he carefully stood behind Star avoiding stepping her her tail by accident.
"Well let's fix that then!" Star grinned widely as she brandished her wand. "Mystic room suck transform!" At first nothing happened before a black vortex formed, sucking everything into it.
"A BLACK HOLE?! YOU MADE A BLACK HOLE IN MY ROOM!" Marco cried in shock as his four tentacle Kagune anchored into the doorframe as he slowly pulled star away from the most destructive thing in the universe.
"SORRYSORRYSORRY!" Star cried fearfully as the door slammed shut behind her making Marco fall backwards with her landing on top of him. Marco sat there shocked as Star had a breakdown, tears streaming down her face before she rushed off, leaping out the window. Marco bolted to the window to see star pull herself from the cactus patch.
"Star! Are you okay?!" He called in worry. He'd fallen on the damned things a couple times. Annoyingly asides Kagune and Quinqe it was the only thing to pierce his skin like he was human and had to remove the quills from his back.
"Leave me alone! I'll just make things worse!" She cried sprinting off on all fours into the bushes across the road at the park.
"Damn!" Marco cursed rushing down to the basement and grabbed a mask from behind the boiler and loose brick. It looked like a white dia de los murté mask with intricate patterns on the cheaks and forehead. He stuffed his mask into his pocket and rushed upstairs and outside after Star, slamming into his dark purple haired mother Touka.
"Marco!" She scolded.
"Sorry mum I got to get star. She accidentally made a black hole, don't go in my room by the way, and she bolted in fear I got to find her!" Marco rushed out the explanation before sprinting off in the same direction star had.
It wasn't until after the sun had set that Marco had found Star she was sopping wet and sitting outside of a gas station, he briefly eyed the man in a heavy trench coat with a suitcase standing across the parking lot from Star. He kept his hood up.
"Star! Are you okay?" He called as he rushed over to the young Septarian girl.
"My socks are wet! Wet!" She shivered. "It's freezing and I'm cold b-blooded."
"Oh damn." Marco uttered, he knew if reptiles got too cold they'd die, did the same apply to star. He took off his jacket and draped it over the shivering girl who had somehow changed her clothes from the Victorian dress to rainbow colored jeans and a green shirt with a purple chibi squid on it's front. "Here star, come on let's get you home before you freeze."
"I'm afraid, Princess Star is going nowhere." A voice mocked. Star flinched violently something Marco and mysterious person noticed. They all turned and noticed a tiny green bird reptile thing, a beafy blonde man in viking armor and an assortment of monsters and vikings behind them.
"R-river." Star stuttered fearfully, taking a step back.
"And I Ludo!" The small monster cackled.
"Eh who?" Star muttered making the smaller being facefalt in dispair.
"Ludo! Your arch nemesis and I will have your wand princess so I can rule mewni!" The tiny monster declared.
"Actually...that would be me twerp." The viking now identified as River snorted making the tiny monster rage. "ATTACK THEM!"
"Narwhal BLAST!" Star cried, firing a large narwhal at a group of Vikings downing them and the two monsters behind them.
"Morons! All attack her! Not one at a time!" Ludo cried out in frustration.
"Hey!" A voice called as a line of dust was kicked up down the middle of the fight that had barely started. "Pick on someone your own size!" The dust cleared to reveal Jackie with a tazer in hand and on her skateboard.
"Jackie! Get out of here!" Marco ordered harshly, he hoped he'd be able to give the investigator the slip once this was done but he couldn't leave Jaackie here, she'd be killed!
"Not now Diaz." Jackie snapped shortly as she rushed at the once again charging forces using her skateboard to maneuver through their ranks as she dropped them with a few well jabs from her tazer, Star was firing Narwhals at the monsters and vikings away from Jackie. A sudden spray of blood and twirl of a bone and muscle blade shaped like a massive whip made Marco flinch as the mysterious person, now obviously an CGC investigator joined the fray, targeting the monsters and keeping the attention of the larger ones. Marco swore as he rushed past Star, snagging the mask from her pocket and put it on. His two Kagune activated creating a flurry of whip like growths to sprout from his back as he ripped to shreds a boar monster who almost jumped the investigator.
"Reaper." The investigator growled in a sothern accent swinging the Quinqe to try and biforcate the young ghoul.
"I'm not here to cause trouble, I was just here to help a friend she freaked out earlier at a mess she made and bolted." Marco replied, glad his voice was muffled by the mask as he decked a cyclops with enough force to smash it's ribs. "I have no intention on feeding on her, got it dove? My family has a deal with your lot, we leave the general populace alone and you let us keep the mofia and black market out of town." He grunted, tossing away a humanoid giraffe who had charged him with a battle ax into a trash can. "If you check the list of my 'victims' you'll find they're all wanted for multiple murders, rapes and even one for an attempted assassination of the chief of police here." He ducked his head as the Quinqe darted above him, killing the giant botfly creature before they both jumped over a stray Narwhal blast which crushed a Viking into paste as organs painted the sidewalk. "Nice save."
"I'll still have to take you into custody." The CGC officer grunted as he blocked a hit from a short sword. "What's with these things anyway? They're obviously not your lot and these guys are vikings for Christ's sake!"
"From my dimension actually!" Star called as she knee'd a goblin between the legs with enough force to send it flying across the road. "I'm from Mewni a different reality to this one, I'm here as an exchange student, duck!" She cried at Jackie, unfortunately the girl was still hit by the club and sent flying into Marco, they soon crashed against the lamp post breaking it. Now while ghouls couldn't be injured by normal means, blunt force trauma was still relatively effective, hence why Marco coughed up a large spurt of blood which was currently running down his chin, Jackie laid motionless in his arms as he struggled to stand back up noticing Star was beating the monsters and vikings back with the help of the investigator. Marco hated to admit it but those monsters were rather strong, if they had been better coordinated he'd of been killed easily.
"D-damn." Jackie coughed, blood was running from her mouth and nose, the impact has severely messed up her internal organs.
"Shit." The investigator spat rubbing his face tiredly, Marco quickly realised he looked a lot like a prospector for some reason underneath that cloak. "Kid, why? Ya know I don't like you getting involved in this shit."
"Uncle M-Mcgucket" Jackie wheezed as star rushed over. "I...I'm" she winced, blood was now seeping through the side of her shirt, The man, Mcgucket lifted it to reveal a bloody shattered piece of rib sticking out of her skin. Star looked a bit white at that as she covered her mouth.
"Healer blast f-Fast." Star chanted blasting Jackie with the wand only for her eyes to go wide as she gasped. The blood from Marco's injuries had mixed with Jackie's and the poor girl was twitching in pain as she silently screamed.
"Ohnoohnoohno!" Star panicked. "I stuttered, bad stuff ALWAYS happens if you stutter when casting magic!"
"Oh hell." Mcgucket sighed. "Why does Magic always have ta follow me?"
"You know magic?" Star shivered.
"Yes now let's get you folks home. If you don't mind an investigator in your house that is?" Mcgucket asked.
"It's okay. Dad has a deal with the CGC." Marco reminded as he took out his emergency phone used to dial 911 or home and hit the Home button. "Mum, it's me we need help now, bring the car and something warm, Star's practically freezing and Jackie was hurt. Mum, we may have another situation like dad's one...good, I'll see you soon."
It wasn't long until Touka arrived, her red Sudan barreling down the street, screeching to a stop at the gore covered service station. She quickly looked over the situation. A Dove, Marco and the girl she assumed was Star was rushing over, carrying the whimpering form of Jackie. Toucka swung open the back door as they piled in and she sped off for home.
"Check her eyes." Touka instructed as the dove did so.
"One Kakugan, left eye, right eye remains human, instinctive nose twitches and slight movement of her eyes, she's a Ghoul and going into shock." The dove responded as he carefully pried open her mouth and dropped a hunk of human flesh into her mouth and closing it. If she were a human she'd of gagged and vommited by now but she instinctively began to eat it.
"You have human flesh on you?" Touka asked, slipping on he mask as before she glanced back, glad Marco had his on too. Even if they technically work with the CGC it didn't hurt to be careful.
"Sample from the Vikings actually, wanted to see if they're actually human or not." The dove shrugged as touka did a hard left, taking an old subway outlet to get into the underground network of tunnels, her basement just so happened to be connected to it and to the house of Britney Wong who's mother was Pro-ghoul and made masks for Touka and Marco whenever they needed new ones.
"We go on foot." Touka stated bluntly as she got out of the car, the dove did so too, holding Jackie in a bridal carry as Marco hugged the shivering Star who looked to be freezing, even with two jumpers on and a hot water bottle in each later. "Quickly now or we'll have to put up with the rats." She shuddered, the only thing worse were birds. She HATED birds.