Doggy Dog Days: This was a prompt given to me by a guest reviewer from the last chapter. Sorry it's been a bit since I updated, been kinda stressed out.

SuperShootingStar: Thank you so much! I'm glad you like my stories, and don't worry about making characters OOC. It happens to everyone at first while getting used to writing for them. Also, your English is incredibly good (better than some of my friends who speak English as a first language!). There is a Tumblr page called mlsubbing (that's a lowercase L) that has all of the episodes subtitled in English, and I think a few in Spanish as well.

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I don't own Star vs. the Forces of Evil. Before Toffee shows up.

GENERAL POV

"So tell me again," Alfonso said, his pointer finger and thumb squeezing at the bridge of his nose, "how you managed to turn Marco into a dog and then lose him?"

Star threw her hands in the air and paced the Diaz's living room in front of Ferguson and Alfonso. "It was just a dumb spell to feed the laser puppies!" she protested. "I didn't mean for it to go so wrong!"

The three of them glanced over at the laser puppies, who were munching contently on some kibble that Star had found under the cupboard (right where Marco had said it was in the first place, but of course she had to go and do the spell anyway).

"Yeah, okay, but how do we get Marco back?" Ferguson asked. "Is he still human on the inside? Can he communicate with us?"

Star groaned and flopped face first onto the floor. "I hab thno idea," she grumbled into the carpet.

"Well, then we must think like a dog would," said Alfonso with a shrug, leaning over to pry Star off the carpet by her shoulders. "We don't want him getting taken to a pound."

Star leapt to her feet, hands pressing to her cheeks in horror. "Do you think he would?" she gasped out.

Ferguson wobbled his hand in a "maybe" gesture. "Possibly," he confirmed. "Without tags on, he's way more likely to be tagged as a stray. Happened to my cousin Gertrude once."

Star and Alfonso just stared at Ferguson for a moment as he gazed off fondly into the distance, before snapping back to reality and getting up from the couch. "We should start in the park," he decided, leading the other two out the door. "That's where they found Gertrude."

"Any idea who he's talking about?" Star asked Alfonso quietly.

The boy just shrugged, and the three broke into a run, headed for the park that was near the school. Upon getting there, Alfonso suggested that they split up to cover more ground, and they each took off, whistling and calling for Marco at the top of their lungs.

"Marco!" Star cried desperately, bent over at the waist as she ran so that she could look underneath bushes and benches and play areas as she passed.

"Well, well, well, Star Butterfly," came a screeching voice from behind her.

Star groaned and turned around to find Ludo and his monsters behind her, and she crossed her arms over her chest. "Ludo, I don't have time for this. I'm looking for Marco."

Ludo frowned, scratching at his head. "Marco….Marco….who's Marco?"

"The karate boy," Buff Frog clarified for the smaller monster.

Ludo grinned wickedly. "Oh, good! If he's not here, then it will be so much easier to get that wand! Boys, get her!"

Star rolled her eyes and began blasting at the monsters without a second thought, still calling for Marco between lasers.

However, she soon realized with a moment of dread that Ludo was right; without Marco, she had gotten pretty bad at fighting on her own, at least out in the open where monsters could sneak up on her and she didn't have her partner to have her back.

The monsters overwhelmed her faster than Star would like to admit, and she was backed up against the tree before she knew it, holding the wand out and blasting it as quickly as possible.

With one swift move, she was tackled to the ground by the giraffe headed monster, Man Arm. The wand slipped from her fingers and hit the grass with a soft thump, and Star yelped, struggling to get away and grab it.

"Haha!" Ludo shrieked, jumping over and on top of monsters to get to the wand. "It's mine! It's finally mine!"

Just as his hand reached for it, the wand was swept up in a blur of dark brown hair, and suddenly Ludo found himself staring up at an incredibly large Brazilian Mastiff with the most intelligent caramel eyes, ones that held just a glint of mischief. The wand was clasped ever so delicately in his large mouth, teeth barely making an indent on it.

"Nice doggy," Ludo tried slowly, holding his hands up. "Give me the wand and-"

As Ludo reached his hand out, the dog growled fiercely, his lips curling back, and Ludo backed away. The dog immediately settled down and trotted straight over to Star, snarling at any monster that tried to coax the wand away from him.

When he reached Star, he ever so carefully dropped the wand in the grass next to her hand, meeting her gaze long enough for a grin to cross her cheeks, and then he tackled Man Arm off of her, rolling across the grass with the monster as Star got to her feet and started shooting again.

The dog-which Star knew was Marco-was incredibly effective at scaring off the rest of the monsters. One flash of his teeth had the entire group cowering behind Ludo, save for Buff Frog, who had backed out of the fight the second he recognized that the dog was actually Marco (he was the only monster who had put two and two together).

Marco trotted up to Star's side and gave the monsters a sly grin, his eyes sparkling as Star finished them off with a wave of miniature laser puppies. They retreated faster than expected, tiny dogs gnawing on their ears and arms and clothing as they did so.

The moment they were gone, Star knelt next to Marco and buried her fingers in his short fur, pulling him into a hug. "Thank goodness," she breathed. "I didn't think we'd find you!"

Marco chuffed softly, giving her cheek a lick before backing away and tilting his head curiously. Star got back up and gestured behind her. "Ferguson and Alfonso are around here somewhere. We split up, though."

Canine Marco woofed and pressed his nose to the ground, snuffling at the grass for a moment before darting off towards the playground section of the park, leaving Star to scramble after him as quickly as she could.

When she managed to catch up, she found him wrestling with Ferguson and Alfonso playfully, the two boys snickering. "Star!" Ferguson called, waving an arm above his head. "We found Marco!"

Star giggled and sauntered over, reaching a hand down to scratch behind his ears. "I see. You know, I kind of like him as a dog. Maybe I shouldn't turn him back."

Marco sent her a glare and nipped at her fingers teasingly, and Star pulled them away with a laugh. "Totally kidding, Marco."

He huffed in relief, his ears swiveling forwards as Star chuckled and began walking back towards the house.

"Or, maybe not."

She was going to get such an earful when she finally found the right spell.

Okay but actually a Brazilian Mastiff is a really cool dog, and Marco would totally fit its description if he was a dog.

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