Opening File: Ludo Avarius

Ludo experienced a very negligent and abusive upbringing. Whenever he speaks of his parents, he does so in a bitter, dismissive tone, and feels little love for his many siblings, at least one of whom had bullied him in their youth. Ludo was the runt of his family, and his parents were extra hard on him in order to toughen him up. However, this bore negative developmental issues in Ludo that resulted in him taking over the family castle. The only family member that Ludo feels any affection for at all is his younger brother Dennis.

Desiring to show he is the top dog in his family Ludo gathered an army of monsters to steal the magical wand of Mewni's royal family that had been passed down to Star Butterfly. However all attempts to steal the wand had failed with Ludo calling for an 'evil' efficiency expert to improve his soldiers but that turned out to be his biggest mistake yet.

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Hey there.

My name is Marco Diaz. Not sure why I am writing this but maybe it's because if I don't make it through the story of my adventures with a princess from another dimension and this is left for someone to find. Anyways, I could go on about how I am a special kid with a destiny but Momma Diaz did not raise me to be a liar. Truth is, I am just a normal kid who wants to gain his black belt in karate and maybe take up the role of being a Hunter to protect Echo Creek one day.

So I started doing little things to get me into an academy one day and eventually I got two friends who wanted to hang out with me along the ride.

There's Jackie Lynn Thomas, a girl who I have a crush on for…like forever. She's a master on her skateboard which she also modified to fly and change into high tech pistols. If there was a picture for the word 'rad' in the dictionary it would be of her.

And then there is the black widow, Janna Ordonia. That girl has been into dark stuff since kindergarten and if that wasn't enough she has a Semblance that literally makes her a jinx to anyone who gets her mad or to anyone she likes to play with. Don't ever say yes to having a day of fun with her or chances are something will happen to you that you can't remember. I still think her claim of hypnotizing me is a big lie but I always blackout when she says 'chicken butt'.

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Uh, where was I?

Oh right, my life.

Well, in addition to being part of a trio of wannabee hunters we now have a fourth member: Star Butterfly.

Officially she's a foreign exchange student but in reality, she's a princess from another dimension.

Yeah, I'm not kidding.

Ever since Star came to life with me and my family it's been one crazy day after another but I mean that in a fun way. Sure I have been called the 'Safety Kid' but Star and her magic brings a form of change that really makes every day fun and new in ways I can't get enough of. Sure, we fight monsters that come for her wand, there are some silly curses here and there that really messes things up for a whole but we manage. Since coming to Earth, Star has seen how us Earth folk have lived but there are times when she goes overboard, like going off to see what the Grimm are like and taking them on which leads me, Janna and Jackie to track her down and bring her back.

Apparently Star has warrior blood on her father's side and they act totally like Norsemen in the old tales where they would fight all day and then eat and drink to celebrate. That explains where Star gets her wild side from, no offense to Queen Moon. Anyways, our adventures don't just end on Earth but they stretch across entire dimensions. Heck, the other day we rescued Star's other best friend, Pony Head from a school where princesses are brainwashed into being…princesses.

I mean the old style, overly polite and completely harmless kind.

That terrifies Star a lot and having been on the near end of said brainwashing I sympathize. Today, though we are just looking for a sandwich.

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"What a pathetic display back there! You guys make me sick! No more milkshake privileges for you!"

Ludo couldn't believe this was happening. How was it that after all this time he couldn't get his hands on one stinking wand?

His henchmen groaned, and cringed as Ludo continued berating them. "I want you to use that time to think about what you've done!"

"Perhaps they should use that time to think about what you've done." Toffee suggested.

"Exactly! ...wait, what?" Ludo agreed at first but then realized what his efficiency expert had said.

"Let me ask you a question. What kind of leader throws you into a pit of hair, makes you do all the work, and shows you no appreciation for your sacrifices?" As Toffee spoke, he paced in front of the monsters, at one point taking the fly monster in his arms. He stood before the other monsters as he addressed Ludo.

"Are you talking...about me?" Ludo asked in a stunned voice.

"What kind of leader has all the power in the universe at his fingertips..." Toffee spoke in a mocking tone. "And gets tickled right out it?"

"Toffee, what are you doing?"

"Your soldiers deserve better." Toffee stated.

Ludo struggled to form words before he finally blurted out. "You are fired!"

"Let's put it to your soldiers. Who's the better leader: Ludo...or me?" Toffee gestured to himself.

The other monsters spoke up in favor of Toffee.

"You guys belong to me! Three-eyed Potato Baby, I am like a father to you. Beard Deer, I took you in off the streets!" Ludo exclaimed and pointed at Toffee. "Are you stupid imbeciles really going to listen to him?!"

Their answer came a few moments later when Ludo was thrown out the door and landed hard on the ground.

He turned and runs back to the door, where Toffee and his former henchmen were watching. "You can't do this! This is my castle! Those are my monsters!"

Toffee looked down at Ludo. "Not anymore."

Ludo stared up with tears in his eyes. "Toffee..."

Toffee slammed the castle door.

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In a strange cave, Star is looking down a tube, searching for something while talking to Marco and putting her arm inside one of the multiple tubes of the structure. "Mmm... Some of these have sandwiches in them."

Marco winced. "Oh, don't put your hand in there."

Star reached for the sandwich, but could grab it as it was just out of her reach.

"Are you sure this is safe?"

"I never said that.' Star answered while trying to reach the sandwich again. "Come on Marco, you try."

Marco would have but remembered his last arm adventure. "Uhhh, No."

"Suit yourself..." Star said unbothered before she was suddenly sucked inside of one of the tubes.

Marco reached and grabbed her. "I gotcha! I gotcha!" He uttered, trying to pull Star out.

Star managed to break free and grab the sandwich, but before the could say anything, all the tubes of the structure started expelling steam, which threw Star and Marco away. This thing revealed itself to be an animal, which then chased Star and Marco out of the cave and down the tall tree were it was located.

Marco then tried to climb down the tree slowly by the branches. "Let me just, hang o-!"

Star then pushed Marco off the treetop which sent them into a freefall. To survive the fall, Star casted an spell that softened the landing, but launched her and Marco very far away, straight into some tree vines. The monster also survived the fall and didn't lose any time in the chase, while Marco and Star were stuck in the vines).

"Star, we better get ou-STAR!, We gotta get out of here!" Marco started and then panicked upon seeing the monster approaching. "STAR! Pay attention!"

In the meantime Star was trying to reach the sandwich. "Just a little closer..."

Marco, frustrated, managed to get free from the vines and reached Star's dimensional scissors, which he then uses to cut the vines and opened a portal to the Earth Dimension. Marco then pulled Star into the Dimensional Portal, but she was only able to retrieve one half of the sandwich before the monster arrived. After the jump they appeared in the middle of the hallway upstairs.

"I had it in my hands Marco." Star exclaimed, referring to the Sandwich. "I have no idea what you were thinking." She then got up and walked away)

Marco, angrily approached Star. "I was thinking of not dying!

Suddenly, a green arm came out from the portal and grabbed Marco's leg. He fought it off with a flower pot and closes the portal.

"We went through all that trouble and this sad little scrap of sandwich is all we have to show for it!" Star angrily said.

"That's because it's not worth dying for a stupid piece of food!" Marco slapped the sandwich out of Star's hand and into the wall, where flies gathered around it. "Ah, I'm going to my room."

"I hate when you act like this. It makes me wonder why we're even friends." Star scraped the Sandwich off the wall with the hand. "Ugh, where did all these flies come from?"

Marco, angry at Star's overreaction, slammed the door to his room. Star also went to her room, where she jumps on her bed and screamed into her pillow, then fell asleep.

"Don't call me Butterflup..." She muttered in her sleep

Star wook up at midnight and sawthe Sandwich in her desk.

She ate some of it. "So good..."

A photo of Star and Marco fell from the corner of her mirror. She looked at it, and decided to go apologize to him.

"Marco... I'm sorry. I was a jerk, it's just I really wanted you to try this sandwich! It's kinda smashed and dirty, but it's still delicious!"

Star knocked on Marco's door which opened and Star looked inside, but Marco wasn't there.

"Marco? Hm, no Marco..." She went to the stairs and screamed. "Mr. and Mrs. Diaz?"

She went down the stairs and found Marco's mom and dad hidden under a blanket and laughing. "Uh, What are you guys doing?"

"Oh, Star! We were just looking at Rafael's old book of medical illustrations." Angie answered.

"Weird...hey, have you guys seen Marco?" Star asked.

"I think he went to walk the Laser Puppies." Angie answered.

"Try calling his cellular phone." Rafael suggested.

"Oh yeah, good idea." Star grabbed the house phone and called Marco.

She then heard Space Unicorn, Marco's ringtone, sounds from the upper floor. "The call is coming from inside the house..."

That was not a good sign.

Janna had shown her that movie.

Star searched for the source of the music, and found it in Marco's room, where she saw someone wearing Marco's hoodie sitting on the edge of his bed.

"There you are! What's up with everyone hanging out in the dark like a bunch of weirdy weirds?"

Marco's Jacket started to levitate, confusing Star and making her drop the phone). "Uh, Marco...? Where'd you put your legs?"

The floating jacket revealed itself to be the Fly Monster.

Star gasped. "What have you done with Marco!?"

"If you ever want to see the boy alive again, bring the wand to Ludo's Castle tonight. And come alone." The Fly Monster sad before flying away through the window.

Rafael was heard laughing outside the room. "Hey kids, you're never gonna believe the telephone punched me the face!" He laughed a bit more but then noticed that Marco wasn't there. "Did you find Marco?"

Angie joined him as both looked at Star for an answer.

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"And the little fly man was all like," Star stated to poorly imitate the Fly's voice. "'if you ever want to see Marco alive again—'" But then stopped in her normal voice. "Oh, wait. I just sounded Irish. He wasn't Irish. Write that down!"

The policeman stopped paying attention to her, but kept quiet.

"The thing is, Ludo has been after my wand ever since I got here, but he's never gonna get it. It's like my birthright, from like a gillion generations ago, starting with my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-"

The Policeman kindly cut in. "You like magic, little girl?"

"Uhh, I guess?

"Oh, me too! Heck, I used to go to Vegas every weekend, all for magic. The thing about magic is, if you don't use it wisely, you can lose everything."

Star looked confused, and Marco's parents looked scared.

"Anywho, not much I can do for ya. If he's not back tomorrow we'll send the bloodhounds for him." The policeman said before leaving the house.

"I told you he wouldn't get it." Star said to her friend's parents.

"Well, we don't get it either." Angie replied.

Star looked sad.

"Look, this isn't your fault, Star. If anything, we should have been paying more attention to the two of you."

"I can get Marco back from Ludo." Star walked to the front door.

"Great, we'll take the minivan!" Rafael said happily.

"No. The little fly man said for me to come alone." Star left the house before Marco's dad could stop her but then opened the peephole to talk to them through the door. "You're wrong, by the way. This is my fault. I'll take care of it myself."

"Oh Star, come on, don't be like...that." Rafael argued.

"Forgot my scissors."

Star opened a portal to the Mewni Dimension with her scissors and left through it, while Marco's Mom watched.

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"What a disgrace! This is what you get when you hire people from the swamp! Let's watch again..." The scene repeats multiple times with Ludo rewinding the scene, then playing it in slow motion, rewinding then slow motion again.

Buff Frog was embarrassed enough having lived through it. "I'm telling you! This thing!" He pointed at the Mace. "It didn't work!"

Toffee took the Mace and made it work. "It works fine for me..."

Buff Frog pointed at Toffee. "He sabotaged it!"

"I rescued you from a life in the swamp, I took you in, I gave you pants, and this is what you do to repay...Wait a minute..." Ludo stopped when he realized that Buff Frog was not wearing pants. "Where are your pants?!"

"Uh, well...uh..."

"Oh, get real! You brought shame on this house! Now go to your room."

Buff Frog went to his room, sad.

"I don't know what to do about that! Maybe I should take away his milkshake privileges?.." Ludo wondered to himself.

"Seriously? This was idiot-proof, I think you know what you have to do." Toffee suggested.

Ludo knew, and he got worried about having to do it.

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"No! Wait! Nooooo!"

Ludo watched as Buff Frog was evicted from the castle with Toffee through a window. "Well, that was pretty hardcore..."

"You did what had to be done." Toffee simply said.

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A sad Buff Frog was sitting on a log and Ludo was dragging a heavy bag toward him.

Buff Frog tried to catch a fly, but was too depressed. "Oh...why bother."

Buff Frog noticed Ludo, who hides behind a lonely door. "What the...?"

Ludo knocked the door, asking permission to enter, even when there were no walls)

"Why you bother knocking when you just walk through my living room?" Buff Frog asked.

"I'm sorry!" Ludo squawked.

"Go away."

"I just wanna talk, Buff Frog!" Ludo cried.

"Buff Frog is not even my name!"

"Really? Is it...Butt...Frog?"

"No, it's not Butt Frog."

"Is it Chad?"

"My name is Yvgeny Bulgolyubov."

"Oh, so you're foreign."

Buff Frog was losing his patience now. "What do you want?"

"Ok..." Ludo dragged the bag up to his former second in command. "At least let me buy back your friendship. You're going to love it." The bag moved and Ludo punched it. "Quiet!"

"Fine. " Buff Frog dropped the door, almost crushing Ludo. "Door is open."

With that, he walked away. Meanwhile Star arrived trough the portal at the monsters realm. She saw Ludo's Castle at the distance and leapt toward it

Ludo sar on Buff Frog's log and trying to convince him to accept the bag as Star ran past them. "You are not even going to open it? Wait what's that-?"

Star noticed them and threw an attack at Ludo and Buff Frog before they realized what was happening. "Marco!"

She rushed up to the bag and opened it, but only found a bunch of green shiny things inside it. "Tadpoles? Ugh..."

"Tadpoles?" Buff Frog before Star attacked him again.

"Where are my flip-flops?" Ludo asked, still dazed but then Star and got scared.

"Where's. Marco?" Star asked lowly and dangerously.

"I don't even know who that is!"

Star charged her wand and aimed it at the two monsters, ready to blast them off if necessary.

"She's talking about Karate-Boy. Please, no more laser beams." Buff Frog quickly answered.

"I swear, I have no idea where your friend is!" Ludo hastily answered.

Star was not convinced. "Then why did you summon me to your Castle?"

"It is no longer his castle." Buff Frog replied.

"He's right." Ludo said in distraught as he kicked the ground. "It's Toffee's castle now."

"Toffee?! I have no idea who that i..." Star stopped as she noticed that Buff Frog was playing with the Tadpoles.

Buff Frog stopped and looked at her. "Ludo gave me babies."

"Okay, I'm done." Star turned to leave but Ludo followed her.

"W-w-wait, wait, wait!"

"Ludo, I-I wanted to say thank you. For giving me the gift of fatherhood..." Buff Frog called out to him.

"That wasn't a gift you dingaling! It was a bribe. You see, the plan was, I buy your friendship with gifts because 'we're friends'. Then in return, you kick Toffee out of the castle for me because 'we're friends'." Ludo laughed. "But then Star showed up and I don't need you anymore, you big ol' meatball!"

With that he walked away.

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Toffee sat at a long dining table in Ludo's castle and Marco was trapped inside a large glass cage that he was currently trying to escape from.

Marco grunted as he struggled to escape the cuffs on the arms of his chair, and then gave up to glare at Toffee. "Well, looks like I've had all the fun I can't have in here. Oh, wait." He then spun in his chair, putting his feet up on a small table. "Now I'm done. Alright, you got me here, what do you want with me?"

"What?" Toffee barely looked at the human.

Fly Monster laughed while sitting on top of Toffee's chair. "Tell him what you are gonna do to him! Wait'll you hear this!"

"Um, do you mind?" Toffee shook the Fly off his chair, who flew away angrily and took off his jacket while Marco talked to him.

"Look, if you're after the wand, it's harder to get than you think. Lots of people have tried."

Toffee entered Marco's cage and left him a sandwich, similar the one he and Star had been searching for. "Eat something. Could be your last meal."

"Actually, I'm totally full. But if you're hungry, I'm a great cook. So why don't you let me out of this chair and I'll give you a taste?" Marco offered.

"Okay." Toffee simply said and freed Marco from the chair.

Marco stood up and punched what he thought was Toffee, but it was actually just his reflection in the solid crystal. "There's two of you?"

The real Toffee, who was behind Marco, grabbed him with his tail and put him back to the chair.

Toffee pushes the sandwich toward Marco "You really should eat."

"I don't want your stinking sandwich!" Marco threw the sandwich away, but the toothpick inside sticks in his hand. "Oh-!"

"You're a disappointment." Toffee simply said, walking away.

"Yeah? Well, you're boring. And you dress like a lawyer. At least that idiot came dressed for a good time." Marco pointed at Beard Deer, who was guarding the cage from outside who punched the cage trying to hit Marco, but hurts his hand like Marco did before. "I feel your pain."

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Toffee slipped away for a moment to answer a call on his wrist watch. "Yes?"

"She's coming."

"Good. I trust you are in position." Toffee answered.

"I am ready, waiting for the right time. Waiting for you."

"The time will come soon enough." Toffee said before ending the call.