Marco Diaz: The Sword of Mewni
Meanwhile, at the kingdom gates of Mewni.
a long line of caravans finally arrived at the entrance gates towards the enormous kingdom of Mewni, being towed by black-armored bulls and horses as the caravans seemed to heavily supplied with barrels of foodstuffs, vegetables, fruits and clean-cut meats.
It seemed absolutely normal, just another trading caravan party, that was until, with some well-guided inspection, all of the foodstuffs were rotten and spoiled, hole-ridden greens, sour-patched fruits and bug-filled meats caused the long line of caravans to smell like a moving trash dump, the guards were not willing to deny them entry into the kingdom, letting them reason why there willing to bring garbage into their kingdom.
"Purpose of Visit?" One of the Mewni Guards asked as he looked at an assortment of papers that the caravan leader gave, the Caravan Leader towered over the Royal guard, being inhumanly large and tall, the Kingdom Gate guards didn't bother to question such a suspicious appearance of the caravan leader.
"Visit..." The Tall Caravan leader said with an honest tone, repeating the Guards words, the Guard looked skeptical for only a moment.
"Hmph, why do you have crap in your caravan?" He asked in suspicion, the Leader was silent for a moment before he answered, thinking up of a decent answer for the Guard.
"Eh...Well, Peasants need to eat right?" the leader replied, the Guard was even more skeptical than before.
"Hmmmm...Okay! Cause no trouble!" The Guard said cluelessly as he allowed the caravan into the kingdom.
"Thank you, good things will happen since you allowed us in...Really...Good things..."
Marco tried to look as minuscule as possible as he sat by his best friend Star who was sitting by her loving Mother and Father, while usually pompous and regal, were acting like two love-birds, constantly praising one another no matter how menial of what they, constantly getting close to one another and openly showing her affection as their guests only cheered them on.
Star and Marco, the only pair in the entire dining hall that was over forty years of age were bored out of their minds, only finding the scene of Star's mother and father kissing each other as sick and weird rather than loving or sickeningly sweet.
"Thank you again Marco for agreeing to this, if it weren't for you being here, I would've rode a unicorn through the Dining hall already." Star whispered to her mundane friend, he simply shrugged in response but had a small sincere smile on his face, happy to be here with his magical best friend.
"Don't worry about it, it'll be over before you know it." Marco said, somewhat tempting fate a little but unknowingly of course, they were finally given several plates to dine with, since you know, despite the love between Star's mother and father, it was still a dinner after all.
"I never had Mewni-styled food before, is it any different on earth?" Marco asked his blonde-haired friend, pondering if Mewnian food was similar in anyway to mundane earthling food.
"Eh...A little different, its not like we're being served eyeballs or something for dinner." Star as our two heroes were served two covered dinner plates, with a metal dome over both of the two meals, the servants revealed the food to Star and Marco.
Marco almost shrieked in surprise upon seeing a fully-cooked possom-like creature on his plate, it looked like it was still moving as its eyes stared at Marco, he looked over to Star who was given a more regal and pleasant-looking meal than Marco's, being akin to something of Steak and potatoes.
"I guess the servants think you have different taste-buds since you're from earth, don't knock it until you try it Marco!" Star said as she happily ate her meal, a big smile on her face as the rest of the guests began to eat their meals with a controlled sanctity.
Marco couldn't help but poke at his food, wondering if the thing was even skinned before being flash-fried, with some reluctance, Our humane and certainly Mundane hero picked a small bit of the fried possum-creature, and with some hesitation, he took a bite of the meat.
He chewed and chewed, until he fully swallowed...To his surprise, it was just as awful as he thought it was, not wanting to be seen as uncouth or disrespectful, especially towards the many royals of nobles of Mewni, he continued to eat his meal, taking his time when it came to eating and asking for extra refills for his fruit juice that he thankfully was supplemented with.
While the rest of the nobles and family cousins were conversing with each other, Marco stayed absolutely quiet as he struggled to stuff his mouth with such an awful meal, getting more filled with Fruit juice rather than what he had to truly eat.
Star was completely done with her meal as Marco wasn't even a quarter finished, Star looked at her friend with some concern on her face, noticing how full his plate was in comparison to Star's clean one.
"Does it taste nice Marco? I hope it does!" Star said with her usual sense of optimism, Marco wanted to straight out tell hsi best friend that he was partically choking on the food in due to how poor-tasting it was, but he was just to nice, he only smiled in false honestly and nodded rapidly, Star smiled in response, believing her friend as Marco then asked for another refill of his drink, wanting to get the taste out of his mouth quickly.
There was a faint sound of commotion, coming outside of the castle, Marco was the first to hear it for it stood out amongst the bog-standard regal-twisted conversations that he was ignoring.
Suddenly, the doors to the castle was busted open, causing everyone to erupt in silence as the light from the opened door casted over the Figure that rudely barged in, the nobles and royals noticed that the guards that was protecting the entrance door of the castle was beaten as the figure slowly walked into the dining ever so unceremoniously.
The many guests and the King and Queen themselves gasped to see who it was as it slowly into the dining hall, a small group of spear-wielding soldiers behind him, being like runts to a leader of the pack, the smaller warriors stayed outside of the hall, not wanting to steal their boss's spotlight.
The party-crasher was big, towering over anyone by three or four feet, making him quite a giant, his weapon was massive just like him for it simply attached to his gauntlet like some sort of cannon, being able to crush anyone underneath it with a single smash, his armor was red like crimson and sleek like silver as it covered the party-crasher from head-to-toe, despite this detail, it was not overly bulky for the gauntlet that held his massive spike ball in place was as big as the entire arm the metal monster was wielding it with.
The whole room was entirely silent as the Red Knight finally spoke, to everyone's slight surprise, it was a sentence that they wouldn't expect from a Morningstar knight who just destroyed the entrance doors.
"Hello everyone...How are you all doing?" The Party-crasher asked with a casual tone, snagging the closest wine glass from one of the guests and pouring it down on his metal-guarded face, not really drinking a single sip of the liquid he poured onto himself with.
"Oh...No response then eh? I guess that's fair, seeing that I just barged in here with an invitational." He continued to muse, this time grabbing a half-eaten griffon leg from one of the dinner guests plates and trying to eat it despite the fact that his face was covered in a helm.
"Well, this is a little bit embarrassing...Anyway! My name is simply Moloch! and I have from another nation, we have finally decided to conquer your kingdom, now...There is two options for this, you can either all Surrender and live under us...Or..." His massive spike-ball finally released from the gauntlet's grasp, revealing it to be chained linked to the gauntlet.
"You can all resist us and LITERALLY live under us..." Moloch said coolly, despite his genuine threats, he was still treating this like as if he just inviting someone to the movies or to hang out.
"Guards! Seize this Party-crasher!" The Queen and King of Mewni immediately said, pointing their fingers at the nonchalant but well-armored individual as a whole squad of royal mewnian guards surrounded the morningstar-wielding party-crasher, the Red Knight was a little bit confused, not really understanding why would they be so hostile.
"...Hehehe...So be it..." Moloch said with a hidden smile on his face, he twirled his gauntlet around, in conjunction, the massive morningstar flailed in a twisting circle, instantly killing the guards as the spike ball collided with each of them and they exploded in a brutal set of delicious but certainly traumatizing gibs, the guests screamed out in terror as some were covered in the gibs.
"I mean...I did warned you guys..." Moloch said with a soft chuckle before he raised and his weapon-less hand, causing his fellow soldiers to storm the roar, their spears ready to skewer, after this simple incursion, the dining hall was in a state of complete chaos, some party guests were adamant and were willing to fight back against the soldiers of the Red Knight Moloch, some where catatonic in fear and was quickly slain.
Marco and Star looked at each other for only a single moment...they knew what they must do.
With a mixture of martial arts coupled with powerful Magic spells, our two heroes were determined more than ever to take out their attackers, kicking, punching and blasting out narwhals as they soldiers of the Red Knight was no match for the combine strength of our two heroes, The Red Conquerer, Moloch watched from afar as several of his minions were soundly defeated by the pair of Marco Diaz and Star Butterfly.
"...Magic user..." Moloch watched Star eradicate one of his poorly-equipped soldiers with a blue-tinted blast of energy, Moloch stood there, shaking lightly as his ire seemed to be heavily peeved right now,
"Magic user!" Moloch repeated with a now extremely audible growl, making way towards Star and Marco, retracting his morning-star back into its slot so it can act as a massive cudgel, slamming and killing whatever was in his way, may it be one of his poorly-equipped minions or one of the many guests that were being slewed.
"MAGIC USER!" Moloch roared as he was close enough to strike down Star, she gasped in shock as she narrowly dodged the mace swing from Moloch, the massive spike-ball crushing the floor beneath Star.
"MAGIC USER!" Moloch rorared again, this time grabbing ahold of Star's hand, keeping her in place and practicality putting her in her place.
"Let go of me you freak!" Star said as she blasted Moloch in the face with a magical blast...It did nothing for Moloch, in fact, it only made him even angrier than before, his red glowing glare burned brightly, he growled loudly as he was about to smash Star into a sticky red paste with his spike ball, that was until someone came to the rescue.
"Let go of my friend!" Marco said valiantly, instantly earning Moloch's attention as he turned head to see human hero, in a karate pose, a serious non-comical one of course, Moloch couldn't help but laugh, finding some enjoyment in Marco's weakling defiance.
"Your efforts will result in your death...For the Iron Inquisition will purge this world of its magic!" Moloch roared, from cool and nonchalant to cruel and aggressive, he was now willing to ignore Marco and continued as plan, not seeing as anything but a nuisance.
"I don't know who you are boy...You lack the magical stench of Mewman yet your nose is small, your eyes are calm and your hair is healthy...Nothing like monsters!" Moloch dismissed as Marco charged, letting out a battle-cry as he attempted to karate kick Moloch's shin, Moloch didn't feel anything as Marco kicked his armored shin, The Red Conqueror only scoffed violently before punting Marco away.
"Begone knave...You're not even worthy enough to be slain by my Morningstar!" Moloch said before laughing loudly, Marco was silent for a moment as he was recovering from being punted, groggily getting up from where he laid on for only a moment.
"Shut up...I'm not useless!" Marco shouted back, Moloch simply scoffed as he proceeded to walk out of the dining room door, wanting to leave the place with his prize, Star screamed in frustration as she continued to try to defeat the Red Conqueror with her magical attacks but to no avail, shrugging off every pittance of damage with nonchalant stride.
Marco could only stare at the struggling Star who was being taken away by the Red Conqueror as everyone else was to distracted with Moloch's warriors, it was now or never for the Human hero,
Star has saved Marco's skin many times, Marco simply just wasn't good enough to return the favor, she was a magical princess for goodness sakes, the only thing that Marco brings to the table was his karate skills and even then, he wasn't really amazing at it, Marco felt absolutely helpless as he saw his friend be taken away against her will, once again, for the Human Hero, he felt like he could not save his dearest friend from danger...He was not special in any way...
Marco glanced at the recently-gifted sword that was hanging on the seat when he had to eat the gross food.
The dragon-headed crossguard was practically asking to be wielded, without a second thought, Marco quickly grabbed it and unsheathed it.
Sorry for just an abrupt end to a chapter...I'm kind of suffering from writers block xD
Anyway, enjoy and review :D