Sleep Spells

Marcia walked downstairs in her pajamas letting out a large yawn.

A flock of purple bird flies past her, squawking.

"Wha...?" Marcia said looking around.

The living room was covered wall to wall in fauna and various animals scurried around.

"Wow, Star's getting better at her magic. This is really peaceful," Marcia said

The peace was quickly ended when A lion-like monster with blue fur, four eyes, and a snake tail lunges out a bush. It catches Marcia in its mouth and shakes her around.

"Ahhhh! Help! Ahhhh!" Marcia yelled

"Mega Explosive Crystal Laser!"

Star makes a laser pointer with her wand and The lion monster drops Marcia and follows the laser pointer.

"Here, kitty, kitty," Star said

The lion monster follows the laser pointer away into the bushes.

"Thanks for saving me...again," Marcia said a little disheartened.

Marcia takes out a notepad and pen she flips it open. It shows two columns one with Star's face and 27 check marks, and one with Marcia's face and 4 check marks. Marcia adds a check mark to Star's column.

"That makes it 28 saves for you and...4 for me, man….." Marcia said

"Wow, Marcia! I just love what you've done with the place!" Star said

A purple bird flies up and perches on Star's head.

"Aw! So cute!" Star said

"Hahaha….What? I didn't do this," Marcia said

"Well, somebody did," Star said

"Somebody? Birds and rainbows and...whatever that is?" Marcia said pointing behind her.

A poodle-like creature with a horse body was standing behind Marcia eating a bag of chips.

"Sup?"

"This has to be you," Marcia said

"Sorry, it wasn't me," Star said

Marcia reached behind her and pulls down an entanglement of vines to reveal a stone sculpture of Star's head.

"Eh, looks more like your dad's work," Star said

Mr. Diaz appears out of the sculpture's mouth holding a hammer and chisel, "This was my work. Hahaha, But the rest of this, no. Look I made one of you to Marcia," He reaches over and pulls down a shrubbery revealing Marcia's face in stone structure.

Star smiles and walks off. Marcia tilts her head confused.

That night Marcia rolled over in bed but she immediately wakes up when something crawls across her bed. Marcia looks down her bed to see a large caterpillar inch across her bed.

"Huh?!" Marcia said jumping up and pulling the covers close to her.

Marcia hears a strange noise and gets out of her bed. She walks to Star's room seeing lights coming from it. She opens the door to see Star sleepwalking and also blasting off spells.

"Nnnnno...Get back…" Star mumbled out.

Marcia is blast back into the wall by a sleeping narwhal blast.

"Star? What are you doing?" Marcia yelled

"Lamp...Destroy…" Star said

Star zaps a lamp bringing it to life, it starts zapping Marcia with its plug.

Marcia screams and runs around, "Okay! Oh! Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa!"

Star bumps into her interdimensional mirror.

"Playing messages," The Mirror said

Queen Butterfly's image appears on the mirror.

"Star. Just calling with your daily reminder to behave like the queen-in-training that you are."

"Paper...Tornado…" Star said

"What?!" Marcia said stopping her running.

Star brings a stack of papers to life. The papers whirl and make a small tornado capturing Marcia. This also gave the lamp the chance to zap Marcia.

"Ow, ow! Star! Wake up!" Marcia yelled

"Beanbag...Monster...Metamorphosis…" Star said

Star blasts a beanbag to life. It roars at Marcia dropping stuffing from its mouth.

"Star!" Marcia screamed

Star wakes up, yawning, "Morning, Marcia. Morning, beanbag chair monster...Marcia! Lightning Turtle Rescue!"

Star blasts Marcia, turning the lamp, papers, and beanbag to normal.

"Oh thank you. You saved me," Marcia said

Marcia takes out her notepad and adds another check mark to Star's column.

"That's, uh, 29 to 4," Marcia said

"What happened?" Star asked

"You were spelling in your sleep! That must be why you don't remember turning our living room into a jungle," Marcia said

"Oh, no! You gotta fix me, Diaz!" Star said

Marcia lets out a happy gasps, "Now's my chance to save you! With psychology!"

"Psychology?" Star questioned

"Psychologyyyy," Marcia said

"Yeah. Psychologyyyy...What is it?" Star asked

"Psychology is like karate for your mind. I'm gonna dig deep in your brain to see what makes you tick," Marcia said

"Ohhhh. Yeah, we have something like that on Mewni," Star said

A man sits in a catapult. A doctor pulls the catapult's lever, and the man goes flying into the distance.

"Yeah, this is pretty different. Now, before we start, I must transform myself," Marcia said

"Transform?" Star asked

Marcia spins around. She puts on a pair of glasses and a sweater vest, and she takes out a textbook labeled Princess SmooshyYCH 101.

"Glasses! Paper! Clothes! Book! Dr. Marcia, Ph.D.!

"What does Ph.D. stand for?" Star asked

"Pretty hip dame," Mrs. Diaz said walking by the door.

"Mom!" Marcia said

Marcia and Star were now in the living room. Star lies on the couch while Marcia sits in a chair.

"All right, Miss Butterfly. I'm going to administer a series of psychological tests to uncover what's bothering you," Marcia said

"Ooh, tests. Sounds fun! Oh, wait. No, it doesn't," Star said

"Test number one: role playing! I want you to pretend to be someone close to you," Marcia said

Star was now wearing Marcia's hoodie and skirt, "Hi, I'm Marcia! My hoodie is awesomely awesome! My cooking is remarkable and os is my karate! I got this cute little mole!"

Marcia writes THIS ISN'T WORKING in her notepad.

"Test number two: art therapy!" Marcia hands Star a paintbrush, "Paint me a picture of your childhood."

Star paints herself being constricted by a snake with her mother's face, a three-headed monster with the heads of Ludo, Buff Frog, and fly monster also a unicorn.

"Hmmm. Such depth! So many symbols! What does it say about your childhood?!" Marcia said

"I was just drawing unicorns and monsters 'cause they're cool. Rawr! Aah! Rawr!" Star said

"Test three: inkblot test!" Marcia holds up and ink blot, "Tell me what you see on this paper."

"An ink blot! I win!" Star said

"Okay, no-no-no. What does this remind you of?" Marcia said

"A fat porcupine," Star said

"Oh, yes, that's good," Marcia holds up a different inkblot, "What about this one?"

"A little alien guy in a gnome cap. Maybe I'm sleep-spelling because I'm secretly a little alien guy in a gnome cap," Star said

Eh, no. I don't think that's it," Marcia holds up an ink blot that's just a small black dot, "Now what about—Ugh, wait. Hold on, this is a mistake."

Star gasps and her eyes widen, "That reminds me of my overbearing mother suffocating me with all the duties of becoming a queen for the rest of my life...!"

"Woah, I think we may have found the root of your problem. You have mother issues!" Marcia said

"Yay! I have mother issues!" Star said clapping.

"No, that's bad," Marcia said

"Aww. I have mother issues," Star said sinking into her chair.

"It's okay, Star. Identifying the problem is the first step to recovery," Marcia said

"Recovery...!" Star said with stars in her eyes.

It was once again night time at the Diaz household.

Marcia yelps as magic blast shoots through her door. Marcia screams as her bed turns into a giant cat balloon and floats to the ceiling with her on it. Star bursts into the room sleep sleeping.

"Aw, man," Marcia said

Marcia takes out her notepad and crosses out one of the check marks in her column.

"Get away...!" Star mumbled

Marcia hears a grunt.

"Huh?" Marcia said looking down. She sees an arm reaching out to Star, but Star keeps it away with laser blasts.

"Wait...What the?" Marcia said

Marcia's cat balloon pops, and she falls on top of Star.

A pair of underwear with cat paw prints on it floats over the two.

"Undy pants? Oh, no! Marcia's naked!" Star said

"No, I'm in my jamjams. Look," Marcia said

"I want your face!" A monster said

"Ugh, you weren't sleep-spelling. You were just defending yourself against that sleep goblin...elephant," Marcia said

"Wow! I'm hardcore!" Star said

"You sure are," Marcia said

"I came here for your face! To steal your face! You hurt me in my butt!" Princess Smooshy turns around showing her butt with a poor baby narwhal stuck in her butt.

Marcia shudders, "That poor narwhal."

"Could you...stop yelling?" Star said

"Well, I'm sorry. I don't have any ears," Princess Smooshy takes out her phone and poses, "Camera phone." She said taking a selfie, "I'm on the run from St. O's."

"Well, you can't stay here. I don't want to go to St. O's!" Star said

"Oh, you're going to St. O's. You see, we're both big girls. We got the same highs and lows, the same east and west. You can hardly tell us apart. Except for in the face. Camera phone. So I'm gonna laser finger your face off of your head. Oh, you can have my face. See, I'm gonna wear your face, and then you can go to jail. 'Cause you look like me. It's just a classic face-switch scenario," Princess Smooshy said

Star and Marcia look at each other before they burst out laughing.

Marcia Oh, yeah. Oh, that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

"It's not funny," Princess Smooshy said before grabbing Star making her drop her wand. She runs off holding Star.

"Star!" Marcia yelled chasing after them, "Don't worry, Star. I'll save you!"

Princess Smooshy and Marcia slide down the stair railing.

"Whoaaa!" Marcia yelled

Marcia pops out of the mouth of Star's head sculpture. She runs past Princess Smooshy, who hides her face behind a newspaper with the headline PRINCESS MONSTER ON THE LOOSE. Marcia calmly walks back with her arms crossed.

"Ahem," Marcia coughed out.

Princess Smooshy puts newspaper down and laughs nervously.

Princess Smooshy grabs a vine, and she and Star are pulled upward. Marcia grabs another vine and follows.

"Camera phone," Princess Smooshy said

As Princess Smooshy runs from Marcia, Star's hair snags on an antenna. It recoils back and smacks Marcia in the face.

"GAH!" Marcia yelled holding her nose.

"Nose grab!" Princess Smooshy said, she used her nose to grab onto another part of the roof and pulls herself up. She pulls out a pair of dimensional scissors to open a dimensional portal.

"Stop!" Marcia yelled

Marcia nearly slips on the roof tiles but catches herself.

"Be careful on this roof. It is slippery from the evening dew," Princess Smooshy said

"Let me go, you weirdy weirdo!" Star said

"Is Marcia small? Or is she just really far away? I can't tell. Laser finger," Princess Smooshy said starting to laser Star's face.

"Ahhhh! Marcia!" Star yelled

"Nooo!" Marcia yelled

Marcia tries to climb onto the loft roof, but she's too short to reach. As she falls back, she drops her Dr. Marcia glasses. Marcia puts on the glasses and sweater vest again.

"Glasses! Paper! Clothes! Book! Dr. Marcia, Ph.D.! You don't have to do this! I have an "A" in psychology! I can help you!" Marcia yelled out.

"No, thank you," Princess Smooshy said

Princess Smooshy approaches the dimensional portal.

"Use your mind karate!" Star said

"Listen to me!" Marcia said

"I already told you. I don't have any ears," Princess Smooshy said

"Well, maybe that's why you're in this mess!" Marcia said

"Okay, I do have ears. But I don't use them to listen to people. The only people I listen to is my mind. And right now, my mind is telling me to steal her face," Princess Smooshy said

"But you can't keep running from your problems. When you steal other people's faces, all you're really stealing is your future," Marcia said

"But...But I like my future," Princess Smooshy said

Star and Marcia smile.

"...I don't like my future! Camera phone. HAHAHAHAHAHA-!"

Marcia tosses the "Princess SmooshyYCH 101" textbook at Princess Smooshy and it hits her in the face. Princess Smooshy drops Star and falls off the roof. That's when The blue lion monster from beroe appears attacking her.

Star and March wince as they watch the lion monster attack Princess Smooshy.

"Wow, Marcia. You really saved my face," Star said

"Yes, yes I did. Now I can finally add a check to my side!" Marcia said

Marcia adds a check mark to her column on the notepad.

"I don't get it. Why is this tally thing such a big deal to you?" Star said

"Uhhh...well I guess it's because I don't know. I guess you're this magic princess from another dimension, and I'm just…" Marcia said trailing off.

Star puts on Marcia's "Dr. Marcia" glasses.

"Ahem. Star, Ph.D. Marcia, you are awesome. We don't need to get caught up in who saves who. All that matters is that we have each other's back," Star

"Yeah. I guess you're right," Marcia throws away her notebook, "But this time...I totally saved you! Woo-hoo! Whoa!"

Marcia jumps for joy but slips off the roof and hanging off the side.

"Okay since we're not keeping track could you help me please!" Marcia yelled