Authors Notes

Hey guys it's me again! First off I'd like to thank everyone for all the reviews and follows and favourites and so on. This community is so supportive and great! Now I'm sorry to say that updates won't be as frequent as before due to school being back on and such. Hopefully I can aim for around a chapter a week give or take a couple of days. As for this chapter I wanted to have some emotional development in it and make it more angst-y in the beginning. I know that's not everyone's cup of tea but I thought I'd give it a shot. So please enjoy and read on! (I own nothing!)

Star paced around the campsite. It had been a quick four hour drive from the amusement park to where she stood now. They had come to stay the night at pine ridge state park, a small outcropping of forest in the otherwise empty desert.

Right around now is when she would be off exploring the park with Marco but this time she was deep in thought. In fact the very thing she was thinking of was Marco. They were steadily closing in on the destination, the wedding, and the closer they got the more she thought of this wedding, or to be more specific the dance that preceded it.

Memories of the blood moon ball came back like a wave every time she thought of it. Her feelings still not been completely sorted since then, if she likes Oscar then why did dancing with Marco feel so... perfect? And if that wasn't enough to top it all off the close quarters of the trip had been diminishing the already small amount of personal space between the two. They are literally sleeping in the same bed for crying out loud! It's almost as if a external force wants them to be a couple...

So here she was pacing her way round and round the campsite. It was a very nice site; it was spacious, got lots of sun and was relatively private. Also not being too far from the bathrooms was nice.

"Star are you ok?" Marco asked watching Star go round and round.

Marco had also been fretting about the approaching dance. He has been having conflicting feelings about it. On one hand he can't wait for it, and although the blood moon ball ended pretty badly the dance with Star was a blast. On the other hand he really doesn't want to dance with her, she likes Oscar and he likes Jackie, and the dance is romantic in nature. Although the blood moon ball was romantic and that was fun... This is all very confusing for Marco.

Star tenses at Marcos voice "Ummm yea I'm... I'm fine!" She says laughing nervously and blushing a bit unable to help herself.

Her mind races, what she needs is a distraction.

"Marco I'm bored we should do something!" She lies. Star doesn't like lying to Marco but what's she going to do, tell him what she's thinking? Not going to happen.

Marco gets up from his foldable camp chair and stretches "We should go and explore this place!"

"Sounds great, let's go!" Star says desperate to escape her thoughts. So with that two wander off to go explore the park.

15 minutes later...

"Man this park is small! It took us like only fifteen minutes to explore the whole camp and hike the mountain trail!" Marco exclaimed as they trotted back to camp.

"Ya I was expecting the trail to take a lot longer!" Star concurred.

Star was now back to her bubbly personality and her worries were all but forgotten, for now at least. But the days challenges had just begun. Star and Marco were yet to face their greatest adversary today. A mighty power looming over them like a mountain. The great enemy... boredom.

Star moaned. It had been an hour since they got back and she had literally nothing to do.

"Marcoooo... I'm bored!" She whined.

Marco was at the moment lost in a good book sitting beside Star. He had picked it up at the theme park. Trying his best to ignore Star's antics he willed himself to stay focused on the book.

"Marcoooo!"

Still nothing.

"MARCO!"

"Ok jeez! What do you want?"

"I told I'm bored!"

"You should have bought a book when i told you it could have been handy right about now!"

"But reading is BORING! We need to think of something actually fun!"

Marco closed his book and threw it on a chair beside him.

"Alright miss butterfly, what do you propose we do?"

"Hmmmmm..." Star began nibbling on her wand.

"Ahah! I got it!" Star exclaimed "Why don't I try magic spells on you!"

"Woah, hold up I don't think that's a good idea, remember monster arm?"

"Ya that did end pretty badly... Hmmmm... how about I teach you how to use the wand!"

"I don't know..."

"Awww come on I can't end THAT badly!"

"Alright then, still I don't think this is good idea."

"Don't worry Marco it's going to be awesome!"

Star takes Marco's hand and they wander off to an open field they found while exploring.

"Alright, the first order of business we need some test dummies!" Star begins "Super duper dummy blast!"

A group of small figures appears in the glittering smoke left by the beam. When the smoke clears it is revealed what they look like...

"A bunch of Jeremy's!" Marco exclaimed.

Star laughed "Ya it will help you focus or... something, anyway first grab the wand."

Star stretched out her hand and passed Marco the wand. Marco grabbed hold it and held it in his hand for a bit before it started to glow.

"Star what's happening?"

"It's transforming!"

The wand let out a flash of light and stopped glowing. It now had a deep red leather handle and the wings were now replaced by two black downward facing spikes. The main part of the wand was now red and black and instead of a star in the middle there was a flaming fist insignia.

"Woah!" Marco gasped.

"This is your version of the wand!"

"Cool! But... how do I actually do stuff with it?"

"Well... Basically just say a spell or whatever and it will do the rest." (As you can tell Star is an expert)

"Uhhhh ok how about... FIRE FIST FURY!"

A fist shaped pulse of fire blasted out from the wand and burned a Jeremy dummy to black ash. Star and Marco looked at each other with wide eyes.

"Star... that was... AWESOME!" Marco shouted, magic energy coursing through his veins.

"Marco magic..." Star whispered in awe. "Do another one!"

"Ok ok! Ummm... CATASTROPHIC KILL KICK!"

This time a glowing black ninja kick streaked out and vaporized one of the dummies. It was at this point Star and Marco began to get carried away...

"Do another!"

A seething red dragon with licks of fire coming from its nostrils eats a Jeremy.

"Another!"

A Phoenix bursts forth and its flaming wings consume two Jeremy's.

"ANOTHER!"

Marco and Star laugh like madmen. "NEGA NUCLEAR NUNCHUCKS!" The boy screamed.

A massive fiery blast of flaming nun chucks devastates area. The field they were in now reduced to nothing but ashes. Marco pushed himself up from the dirt and looked around the scene. A couple of splintered and ashen trees, zero grass and a small crater with flames scattered to and fro.

"Maybe its time we stop..." Marco said worried. The park ranger was due to show up any time now.

Star rolled over from laying face down in the dirt. "Ugh."

"Star we should go before the- " the sound of a door closing cut Marco off.

The two turned to see a very confused and very angry park ranger. "What in the name of..."

Marco gets up and slowly back away along with Star. "Star..."

In an instant the ranger turned and looked at them with pure hate "YOU TWO!"

"RUN!" Marco said bolting off with Star, the ranger following in hot pursuit.

But unknown to them the whole time they were being watched and the stalkers were none other then Buff Frog and Lobster Claws!

"Look the boy he can use the wand!" Buff Frog said in surprise.

"We should try and take the wand from him, imagine how happy boss would be!" Lobster Claws suggests.

"Good idea, we will strike tonight when one of them has to get up and go to the washroom!"

The two laugh evilly and skulk back into the bushes...

Later that night...

Marco shifts in bed.

"I shouldn't have had that huge pop the strange red man offered to buy me before bed!" Marco chastised himself under his breath.

He looked over to see Star sleeping peacefully and his heart fluttered. He rolled his eyes and sighed, blaming it on hormones. Crawling out of bed he grabbed his toothbrush (probably should have brushed his teeth earlier but hey what the heck?) and headed off to the bathroom.

The trailer door closed with a click and Marcos footsteps slowly faded away. Star opened one eye to make sure he was gone. She then proceeded to swap their pillows. She would never admit to it but the smell of Marco made her feel at ease. So every night since it happened by accident on the second night she would switch pillows if she had a chance. She sat in the darkness. Now all that was left to do was to wait for Marco to return so she could sleep in peace.

Meanwhile...

Marco stepped out of the camp washrooms having relieved himself and brushed his teeth.

He breathed in the fresh night air "Ahhhh all better!"

Then out of the bushes Buff Frog and Lobster Claws appeared!

"Got you now!" Lobster Claws taunted.

"Ya hand over the wand!" Buff Frog added.

"You two? I don't have the wand!"

"It's right there in your pocket!" Lobster Claws said pointing to the pink handle of his toothbrush protruding from his pajama pocket.

"No it's not th-"

Before he could finish the two assailants attacked. Marco would have used his karate but he couldn't see in the dim moonlight.

"AHHHH!" Marco screamed while fleeing in terror.

Back at the trailer...

Star was getting worried; Marco still had not come back.

"Hahaha don't worry he probably just got lost... wait that's also bad." She said trying to calm her worries.

Star decided to go check on Marco, hopefully if he still was in the washroom it wouldn't be two awkward.

She came up to the bathroom and no lights were on which meant Marco had left and something happened to him. She bit her lip.

"Marco... Marco where are you?" She called out into the silence, not even a cricket made a sound.

That was when she heard a faint scream echoing through the darkness. She instinctively ran towards the sound... directly into the forest.

"Marco?" She desperately called out.

"Star!"

"AHHHHH!"

She quickly looked around but there was no one there, that she could see at least...

"Up here!"

"Wait... Marco?"

Star looked up to see Marco in a tree silhouetted by moonlight.

"Quickly get up here!"

She climbed up the scraggly old pine and sat beside him on one of the branches.

"What are you doing up here?" She asked.

"Buff Frog and Lobster Claws think I have the wand so I had to hide up here."

"Oh... well what do we do now?"

"Do you have the wand?"

"Nope."

"Dang I was-"

Marco was cut off by the sound of Buff Frog taunting from below.

"Come out come out where ever you are!"

Star and Marco held their breathes and clung together up in the tree. But then out of nowhere a pan flew out of the darkness a nailed Buff Frog in the face. Soon after another pan hit Lobster Claws. The two monsters scrambled into the darkness and fled through a portal.

"Were saved!" Star exclaimed.

"Maybe not..." Marco said hushed.

A tension filled the night air.

"You can come down now!" Mrs Diaz called from below.

Star and Marco let out a breath of relief and climbed down the tree. When they got down Mr and Mrs Diaz were standing there.

"How did you now we were here?" Marco asked his father.

"We came to check on you guys when we heard Star scream from the woods." Mr Diaz answered.

Everyone laughed and headed back to the trailer. When Marco crawled into his sleeping bag he could swear that his pillow smelt like Star, he just shrugged it off and went back to sleep.

That's all for now, I'm planning for things to get more dramatic in the next chapter. Ludo's secret plan will finally be revealed! Thank you guys for reading and have good one!