Hey there everyone! Welcome to the second chapter of our newest story The Tales of Blades and Magic! Now chapter one introduced you all to the Dayragon Clan, a group of mewmans who just like the Butterfly family bear cheek marks. But instead of magic, their more skilled in sword-based combat which can rival the Butterfly family's magic. We fast-forward to when Star gets the wand…. And soon burns down part of the kingdom. (Still wondering how she sent a rainbow on fire.) Anyway; Moon calls her old friend and former retainer, Angie who left with part of the clan to earth to help.
Now everyone up to speed? Good. Now let's get this show on the road yeah?
Chapter 2: Farwell Mewni! Greetings Earth!
Star had a number of different emotions and questions going through her mind at the moment, but the main ones that stood at the for front of her mind were surprise and excitement. Surprise due to meeting the person who was once her mother's retainer when she was princess, and excitement because out of all the families of the Dayragon clan, Star has never heard or met any of the ones who left Mewni. When she was around 9, Star was taught what each family of the clan did for not only her family but for the other royals and nobles. But when it came to the last family, she was only told what her mother knew which was not very much at the time. So the fact that her mother didn't know that much about them despite having one of their members as a retainer and friend made her want to one day go and meet them. Also; from what she had heard from a few members of the other families, the Minazuki family were said to have two other families. Which meant Star had three times the chances of making new friends.
"Umm hello? You okay there?"
Star was brought back to reality when she heard the voice of her mother's former personal guard.
"You're the person who used to be my mom's guard right!? She said that you were so cool whenever she saw you training!" Star said excitedly which surprised Angie at the sudden praise she was getting from her friend's daughter right now.
"Now Star, I never told you anything of that matter at all." Moon said.
"Mom I could have sworn I heard you say that the last time you were talking to me about your friend here." Star said pointing to Angie.
"I said that she was a very skilled and proficient in doing her duty as my retainer Star."
"Moon, you do realize that all those fancy words are just complicated ways of saying that I was the best retainer you ever had right?" Angie said grinning. "Honestly; getting you relax was like pulling teeth from a hydra."
"So mom was stiff back when you were her retainer too?" Star asked.
"As stiff as Rhombulus's crystal head." Angie said smirking as Star giggled.
"I don't believe I was that stiff Angie." Moon said.
"Uh yeah you were, why else would I call you Moonstone other than the fact that the name really suits you."
"W-wait, Moonstone?" Star said in between her laughter as Moon sighed and shook her head.
"Okay, okay Moon, sorry." Angie said as she sat down next to the queen of Mewni and patted her back. "You know I'm always trying to get you to loosen up more, right?"
"Well your methods leave a lot to be desired honestly." Moon said as she rolled her eyes. "If you and my daughter are done laughing at my expense, can I please explain why I called you here tonight?"
"You have the floor your grace." Angie said in mock elegance, making Moon roll her eyes again but with a smile this time before looking over to her daughter.
"Now Star; if it already wasn't obvious enough, this is my dearest friend and former retainer Angelica Minazuki."
"Or you could just call me your foster mom or Ant Angie or – "
"Ms. Diaz Star," Moon said cutting Angie off, "Or Ms. Angie."
"Okay fine, Ms. Angie works fine with me." Angie said as Moon sighed.
"Umm Mom?" Star said. "I still don't understand what's going on right now."
"Then before Moon here has the chance to make you more confused with her 'elegant words';" Angie said when she saw the look on her friend's face that practically said "That was not what I was going to do", "I'll explain so it's a lot simpler Star. Your mom here wants you to come with me to earth where the rest of my family is."
"Huh?" Star said making sure she had heard right.
"Yeah. See after I finally managed to get a dimensional mirror, I decided to surprise your mother her by calling her up and scaring the living corn out of her."
"I honestly saw my life flash before my eyes when you did that." Moon said to which Angie just smirked.
"Anyway; after your Moon recovered from her mini heart attack, I noticed she wasn't really in the greatest of moods. And I mean more than her being tired from her tasks as Queen. So I asked her what was wrong and she told me about how you set the kingdom on fire, if only a small part of it." Angie said which made Star look down as she absent-mindedly swung her legs back and forth.
"I-I didn't mean for that to – " Star said before Angie cut her off.
"Easy, easy, I know you didn't mean for that to happen. It was just an accident, which is why I don't understand why Mr. "Power is Everything" Hazuki thinks you should be sent off to some boarding school? Like that will fix anything, idiot." Angie said groaning.
"Angie I understand you are not fond of Sir Houichiro; myself included," Moon said, "But he has shown great merit in his duty of keeping Mewni safe."
"I'm not questioning his loyalty," Angie said, "just don't like the guy on a personal point. How he managed to get married and father a daughter still confuses me to this day. Anyhow; back to what I was saying, Moon told me how Hazuki had the Yayoi and Kisaragi families backing him. But also told me how the Apocalypse, Kaslana, and Mutsuki families had your back. Which I don't get why the heck Otto said that Moon had to pick if you stay or get sent away? I mean what the heck is that guy thinking? So anyway; to make things easier for everyone, I told Moon that she could have you come to earth and stay with me and my family for a time while you practice how to use the wand better." She finished.
"I'll admit the idea was actually very sound and reasonable," Moon said, "Which lead me to believe if maybe Angie had finally matured or if you were simple not feeling all that well." She finished with a smug and playful smirk.
"Did you really just say that?" Angie said. "Is it that hard to believe that I can come up with a good idea for once in my life?"
"So wait;" Star said, "instead of having to go to Saint O's, I'd be going to earth with my mom's former retainer to stay with her family and practice using the wand." She said before looking to her mother. "… how long would I be on earth for?"
"Well, hmm…" Moon said as she thought about it, "It would be until you've learned how to wield the wand masterfully. Then you'd move on to how to use magic without the wand, so it's hard to tell how long that would take."
"Well hey, I've got a suggestion." Angie said. "Star could train alongside my son and the other kids of my family."
"Wait, other kids?" Star asked.
"Yep, there are a few others like my little boy who are also learning how to properly wield their chosen weapons. Earth may be a safe place, but my family is sometimes called to help with tasks back on Mewni or in other dimensions." Angie said. "So if it's alright with Moon, you could also come along and use what you practice out in real combat."
"Wow! Really!?" Star said already getting excited before the sound of her mother clearing her throat cut in.
"Star, I believe my input is needed for you to be able to even be allowed to do this." Moon said as she looked into her daughter's blue eyes that were full of pleading. "That being said; if you listen to and adhere to the rules of Lady Angelica's home, you may participate in these off world tasks. But that will be the only time you will be allowed to leave earth. Is that clear?"
"Yes! Yes! Absolutely!" Star said excited as she hugged her mother and jumped off her bed and ran over to the closet where she pulled out a large suite case and began filling it with everything she might need.
All the while Moon sighed as Ange looked on with an amused smile on her face.
"Star, you'll have plenty of time to pack your things in the mourning." Moon said but saw that Star was too focused finding other things to place in her suite cases.
"I don't think she can hear you," Angie said, "she's caught in the tunnel vision of her own excitement."
"(Sigh), it would appear so." Moon said as she and her friend walked towards the door. "Hopefully, she'll remember to go to sleep when she's finished packing everything she needs for tomorrow."
With that, the two woman left Star's room as Moon showed Angie to a guest room for the night.
(Mourning, Butterfly Castle Front Gate)
The following morning at gates to the Butterfly Castle, a manticorn driven carriage was being loaded with Star's belongings as she was preparing to leave for earth with Angie.
Moon and River stood outside with Star who could hardly stand still with how excited she was about what could be waiting for her on earth. Right now they were waiting for Angie who was letting her husband know that they were going to be having housing a special guest. She asked if he could also let their son know, but remembered that he was at school right now.
Angie soon came out of the castle and arrived to see the three royals waiting for her.
"Hey there; sorry for the hold up, I was just letting my husband know about our guest's arrival soon." Angie said making her way over to the royal family.
"That's quite alright Lady Angelica," River said, "we were just loading the last of Star's thing onto the carriage."
Angie looked and noticed about several large suite cases on said carriage.
"That's… a lot of stuff for one little girl." Angie said.
"I told you Star," Moon said. "to only pack what you absolutely need for earth. It looks as if you loaded your entire room."
"But Mom this is the first time I'm going to be seeing earth and meeting the eighth family of our royal retainers." Star said. "I want to make sure I have everything I need for the when I meet them."
"That doesn't mean you need to take everything single thing from your room to bring with you." Moon said. "Lady Angelica said that earth is a very calm and peaceful place, so I doubt anything you packed that battle oriented will really be useful."
"But Mom," Star said before Angie stepped in.
"Moon you know the saying, "Always expect the unexpected"?" she asked the queen. "If you ask me I don't see any real issue if Star wants to bring any kind of battle gear, it's not like it's going to be a bother or anything like that."
Moon sighed before looking to the carriage and then back to Star.
"Well…. Since you've already went through the trouble of already having it packed anyway," Moon said as Star cheered happily and ran over into the carriage. "That girl sometimes…" she said before looking over at Angie. "Please make sure she doesn't get into any trouble."
"Right, right, you still worry too much Moonstone." Angie said as she walked over and hugged her friend. "I'll make sure she stays safe, I swear."
Moon was initially surprised, but returned the embrace.
"Thank you." Moon said.
As the two let go, Angie walked over and joined Star in the carriage.
"Manfred!" River shouted. "Open the portal!"
"Yes Sire!" the man servant said as she used a pair of scissors to cut open a blue swirling portal in front of the carriage. The two manticorns then begin to go through the portal pulling the occupants of the carriage with them.
(Earth, Echo Creek)
Inside the carriage, Star happily bounced in place while Angie looked with an amused smile on her face.
"I take you can't wait to see what my family is like, huh?" she asked.
"Yeah!" Star said. "So hey, are there like any kids my age in your family? And does everyone in your family live in one big house or do all live in mansion? Are you like the head of your family?"
"Whoa, whoa, slow down." Angie said as she placed her hands on Star's shoulders to calm the over-excited princess. "Okay first off; no I'm not the head of my family. That would be my mother Meifang Minazuki, the second if not the nicest and friendliest woman anyone has ever met if I do say so myself."
"Ooooh, she sounds amazing. Do you think I'll get to meet her?" Star asked hopefully.
"Absolutely," Angie said. "She sometimes comes over to my house for visits and the smoother my little Marco with affection which does embarrass him to the point where it's hard not to laugh."
"So you have a son?" Star asked.
"Yep." Angie said. "He's a very special boy; in more ways than one. He can be a little cynical at times, but at the same time he's very devoted and protective, and a little childish to the point that it makes him hard to not like him even more." She said. "And as I just said I live with my husband and Marco in a simple house on earth. The rest of my family live in similar places so sorry, but we don't live in a mansion."
"That's okay, I don't really mind to be honest. I bet it's still a nice place to live." Star said. "So aside from your son are there any other kids from your family? My mom said you have two branch families, right?"
"That's right, their the Rossweisse and Kohaku families." Angie said. "As for other kids from those families, the ones I've seen Marco talk to are a girl from the Rossweisse family and a young boy from the Kohaku family. All three go to the same school that you'll be going to during stay with us. In fact, we're right in front of the school now."
Star looked out and saw that they were indeed in front of a building with a sign that said "Echo Creek Academy".
"Ooooh, so what's this place for?" Star asked.
"Here on earth kids go here to learn about many different things like society, earth history, and lots of other things." Angie explained. "It's a little difficult at first, but overtime you start to get the hang of it. Now come, I've got to get you registered for here. Then I'll have the carriage go by my house and drop your things off before sending it back to Moon."
Soon Angie was in the principal's office with the school principal Skeeves who was going over Star's transcript as he sat at his desk.
"So Ms. Diaz, you say this young lady is the daughter to a friend of yours who's from another dimension, right?" he asked.
Before Angie could respond, the lights began to flick on and off. The two adults looked back and saw that Star was playing around with the light switch in fascination.
"And mom said there's no magic on earth." Star said as she continued to play with the switch.
"Yeah, I'm not sure this is going to work Ms. Diaz." Skeeves said.
Angie rolled her eyes before picking up a chest that River gave her before she left. She placed the chest on the desk and opened it to reveal it full of gold and priceless gems. Dollar signs soon appeared in Skeeves's eyes.
"She's going to love it here!" he said as Star continued to play with the switch until Angie told her to stop and come over to them, as Skeeves finally looked away from the treasure and acted like a professional again. "Now I assume Miss Butterfly here be needing a guide to show her around the school, yes?"
"Yes she will." Angie said. "But I'd like to request that you have two others be her guides as well." She said as she pulled out a piece of paper and quickly wrote something down and handed it to Skeeves.
When Skeeves looked at what was written, he looked back at Angie and then back at the paper.
"Ms. Diaz, are you sure this is really… necessary?" he asked.
"Yes. Trust me on this, you'll want to have them be her guides." Angie said.
"Sigh… very well then."
"Good." Angie said. "Okay Star, I need to head home and get everything set up for when you get there later."
"Okay Ms. Diaz." Star said as the older woman rubbed her head and left the office leaving the young princess with her new principal.
Meanwhile in a classroom, the students were either sleeping or just not paying attention at all while the teacher was painting her fingernails. This included three certain students as well; except the reason being that these three had already copied the notes that were on the blackboard.
One was a boy with a Latino-American of medium height with a slender build, tan skin, dark brown hair, brown eyes, and a mole on his right cheek along with a pair of white crescent moon-shaped emblems on both his cheeks. He was wearing a white, short-sleeved t-shirt with a metal arm strap on the left sleeve. He wore a hooded red cape with flame-like markings over his t-shirt and a black, fingerless glove on his left hand. Finally, he wore dark gray skinny jeans, and olive and white sneakers. This young man was Marco Diaz, son to Angelica and Rafael Diaz and member of the Minazuki family from his mother's side.
The next one was also a boy with yellowish-brown eyes and small, delicate, and feminine features which lead to some people calling him a "pretty boy". He had black hair in a styled bowl cut that reaches his cheekbones, and he stands only a few inches shorter than Marco. He wore a "jolting sapphire"-colored poncho-like jacket over a white t-shirt that had a flacon on the front. He wore black cargo shorts and blue and white trainers. On his cheeks were blue bird wing-shaped emblems.
The last person was a girl who looked to have the air of someone who belonged to high society. She had honey blonde hair that goes to about her neck in the back, with the front being slightly longer. reddish pink eyes and fair skin with a small mole under her right eye. She wore a black headpiece with white ruffles and what looked to be curved, black horns with a small, rose shaped clip attached. She wore a black uniform with a white collar, wears a short red tie. She also wears white gloves, a black and rose-colored skirt, black thigh high socks, and black ballet flats. On her cheeks were a pair of dark-red blooming roses.
These two were Hibiki Kohaku and Rita Rossweisse, members of the two branch families to the Minazuki family. They grew up alongside Marco's family; but he treats them both like they were his actual brother and sister.
'Okay it's official, this is now the most boring moment in my life right now.' Marco thought as he held his head up on his propped up arm.
The sound of the school PA soon came to life as Principal Skeeves spoke.
"Would Marco Diaz, Hibiki Kohaku, and Rita Rossweisse, please report to the principal's office. Again; Marco Diaz, Hibiki Kohaku, Rita Rossweisse, please report to the principal's office."
"Huh?" "Eh?" "Hmm?" the three in question said when they heard their names being called.
As the three were making their way to the principal's office, Marco decided to say what was on all of their minds right now.
"Okay, so do either of you guys know why we're being called to the principal's office?"
"Unfortunately, I can't say I know why we're being called." Hibiki said as he glanced over at Rita. "As far as I know; baring Rita's little… "disagreement" with Lars several days ago, you and I haven't done anything that warrants a call to the principal's office Marco."
"As usual, the only weapon that you managed to bring with you to school is that sword-like tongue of yours." Rita said smiling. "I wonder if you'd able to replace it like you do with your weapon during our sparing matches?"
"Okay you two, let's calm down." Marco said. "Hibiki, stop trying to aggravate Rita. And Rita, no threating to cut out Hibiki's tongue."
"I was simply stating the possible reasons for why the principal would want to see us, I meant no disrespect towards Rita." Hibiki said.
"And I was just making a silly little joke Marco, that's all it was really, hehe." Rita said with a small giggle as Marco sighed and shook his head.
"I swear you two sometimes," Marco said as he and his two cousin continued down the hall to the principal's office.
The three soon found principal Skeeves standing outside of his office cleaning his glasses before catching sight them.
"Ah, there you three are." He said as the three approached. "Sorry about calling you three down here out of the blue like this."
"Oh, it's no problem sir." Marco said. "Just wondering why we were called down to meet you is all."
"This wouldn't happen to be related with anything Rita may have down while we weren't looking, would it?" Hibiki asked before Marco elbowed him in the arm. "I was just asking."
"With that poisonous knife you call your tongue." Rita said.
"Could you both knock it off please?" Marco said. "Sorry about these two Principal Skeeves, sometimes it's like I'm babysitting them when they should cool it at times."
"No, no, not a problem my boy." Skeeves said waving off the concern. "Now back to the matter of why I called you three down here."
He then knocked on the office door, which soon opened as a Star walked out in her turquoise sleeveless dress with frilly light-blue shoulders, a purple belt, puffy white trim, and a picture of a pale green narwhal on the bottom left side, blue and purple striped leggings, grayish plum boots with pink tips with faces on them and dark blue soles, a magenta headband, and a silver spiked bracelet on her left wrist
"Allow me to introduce our new exchange student, Star Butterfly."
"Hello there! Nice to meet - " Star said happily before she noticed that the three in front of her all had cheek marks. But the ones that caught her eye, were the crescent moons that were on the boy who was wearing the hooded cape. (Look to the story cover picture for what I mean.) "Oh. My. Corn!"
"Your what now?" Marco asked confused until the girl named Star was close up in his face, smiling with excitement. "Whoa, that's a little too close." He said as he backed up a bit.
"Oh sorry about that," Star said. "I was just wondering, your named wouldn't happen to be Marco would it?"
"Uh yeah, it is. But how do you know my name already? This is the first time we've – " Marco then stopped and remembered that principal Skeeves said her last name was Butterfly. He then remembered what his mom told about his family and where they originated from.
"Did you honestly forget what your mother taught you Marco? How shameful." Rita said jokingly which brought Marco out of thought.
"I didn't forget, alright? I just… didn't expect this to happen, okay? Geez." Marco said as he scratched the back of his head.
"You'll have to forgive my cousin Marco Miss Star," Hibiki said, "he tends to get flustered when things happen unexpectedly like this."
"Wait, am I something unexpected then?" Star asked confused.
"Ignore him please," Marco said as stepped in front of Hibiki, "half the stuff he says will either confuse you or you just won't get it half the time. Anyway Principal Skeeves, did you call us down here to be Star's guides around the school? You could have asked just me come down."
"Yes well your mother suggested this, saying that it would give miss Butterfly here a chance to know the rest of your family early." Skeeves said.
'That and or she wants to get a good laugh at how I would react to this.' Marco thought wondering if his other enjoyed messing with him like this.
After parting ways with their principal who ran to the ice cream shop; Marco, Hibiki and Rita were showing Star around the school.
Well, more like Hibiki was pointing out all the places of the school since he actually memorized the whole layout when the three first started going here.
"Down that corridor, you'll find the art, music, and science classes. The right one will take you to the cafeteria. The one we are coming from holds the classes that teach history, math, geometry, meteorology and…"
"Hibiki," Marco said cutting him off, "your going to overload her with all of that. Slow it down, would you?" he said as he looked and saw Star with a confused look on her face trying to remember everything Hibiki was telling her about the school.
"I just want to make sure to be thorough so the Princess knows what classes are where." Hibiki said.
"There's little point to it if you just unload everything all at once on her, good grief." Rita said before patting Star on the back to calm her down. "Don't worry Princess, you don't need to know EVERYTHING about the school. Today we're just showing you around."
"Yes, really." Marco said. "While you'll have to know where the classes you'll be taking are, you don't need to have the info stuffed down your throat all at once." He said before looking over at Hibiki.
"I was doing no such thing." He said.
"Yeah sure." Marco said. "Like how you weren't trying to get me and Rita to memorize the notes for that last quiz when we already did?"
"And there's that childish attitude of yours's again."
"Call it whatever you like, I really don't care." Marco said. "Anyway Star, you can worry about classes tomorrow. Why don't we head over to my house now? I'm sure my mom has gotten everything set up for you by now."
"Yeah! I really want to see what your house looks like Marco." Star said excitedly.
"You should know that his place is nothing to write home about." Rita said.
"That's fine with me, I already told Ms. Diaz that I don't mind it at all." Star said. "I honestly would like to see how Marco's home is different from other families."
After leaving the school, the four walked for a while before coming upon a two story house with several cactuses in its front yard.
"Well Star; welcome to the Diaz household, hope you like it." Marco said.
"Ooooh, your house looks really nice Marco." Star said. "But what are these weird looking green things with all the needles sticking out of them?"
"Those would cactuses Star." Marco said. "It's a plant that you can find in the desert and can only survive there since it carries water inside."
"Wow, I've never seen a cactus before. In fact, I don't think we have them back on Mewni." Star said.
As they walked up to the door and Marco opened it, they saw his parents laughing about something…. With his grandmother Meifang Minazuki, who was also here.
She looked quite young for someone who was supposed to be a grandmother. If anything, she looked as if she were in her mid-twenties. She had fair skin, long black hair tied into two pigtails, and green eyes like Angie. she wore a white and blue traditional Chinese dress and two lotus flowers hair accessories on each sides of her pigtails, long black socks with white flats and a silver ring with a red ruby set in the center on the ring finger of her right hand. Just like Angie and Marco, she had a pair of crescent moons on her cheeks that were a sky blue color.
When the three adults saw the young teens walk in, Meifang quickly got up and caught Marco in a surprise hug.
"Oh, my sweet little grandbaby boy is home! I missed you so much!" she said joyfully as she squeezed the poor boy affectionately.
"Uh mother?" Angie said. "If you keep hugging Marco that tightly, you might just kill him that way. His face is already turning blue, see?"
Meifang looked and saw that Marco's face was indeed turning blue from his lack of oxygen. This caused her to quickly let go of Marco, which very much appreciated as he could breathe again.
"Oh my, I'm so sorry about that Marco." Meifang said.
"It's… it's okay… granny Mei." Marco said in between evening out his breathing. "I'm more or less use to your overly affectionate hugs by now anyway."
"Hehe, so you are." Meifang said before looking to see Rita and Hibiki. "Rita and Hibiki! It's so nice to see you both as well." She greeted, smiling at the two.
"The same to you as well, Lady Meifang." Hibiki greeted as he bowed his head slightly.
"A pleasure to see again, Ma'am." Rita greeted with a curtsey.
The older woman soon took notice of Star who was standing behind Marco.
"And who is this young lady here, standing behind you Marco?" Meifang asked as she looked at Star with a friendly smile.
"Oh, she's the new exchange student who's going to be living here. Granny Mei, this is Star Butterfly." Marco said as stepped to the side and introduced Star.
"Hello, it's very nice to meet you." Star said. "So your Marco's grandmother? Like really? Because you look really young, almost as if you could be his mom's sister."
Star soon found herself in a very tight and very affectionate embrace as Meifang began hugging the living daylights out of the princess joyfully.
"Oh my goodness!" Meifang said as she continued to hug Star while also swinging back and forth. "Where did this sweet, adorable, heavenly little angel come from? She has to be the most honest and cutest little moon drop I have ever seen!" she said joyfully as Angie and Rafael were trying and failing to stifle their laughter, while Marco was trying to free Star from the suffocating hold his grandmother had her in.
After about five minutes of getting Hibiki and Rita to help Marco free Star, and Marco's parents laughter calming down, Angie explained the situation to her mother.
"Hmm, I see now." Meifang said. "Well I must say Angie; I didn't expect you to offer the daughter of the current Queen of Mewni and your former charge refuge at your home… and didn't tell me sooner so I could come over and meet the this charming young lady here." She said looking over at Star.
"That was the reason I was going to call you, but you showed up suddenly before I could even reach the phone." Angie said.
"Well you know I'll take any chance I can get to see my darling grandson. Again, sorry for nearly hugging you to death like that dear. I sometimes forgot my own strength, haha."
"Oh no, it's okay." Star said happily. "I'm more amazed at how strong you are, no wonder you're the leader of the family."
"Oh stop it, you're going to make me blush." Meifang said.
'Or get yourself hugged to death again." Hibiki whispered to himself.
"Well Star, I hope your stay with my daughter and grandson is a pleasant one." Meifang said.
"Thank you very much! I hope so too!" Star said.
"Okay then, Marco why don't you show Star to her new room?" Angie said.
"Got it. Come on Star," Marco said as he grabbed one of Star's suitcases and started making his way up the stairs as Star bolted pass him.
"Hibiki and Rita, can you two help carry the rest of Star's things up to the room as well?" Angie asked the other two.
"Yes Ma'am." "Of course." They both said as they each grabbed one of Star's other suitcases and made their way up stairs as well.
Outside a humanoid-frog monster was watching from outside of the house before pulling out a pair of scissors, cutting open a portal and jumping in. What the monster didn't realize was that Meifang had been aware of its presence for a while.
Meanwhile upstairs, Star was looking around at the guest room she was given while Marco, Rita and Hibiki placed her things on the ground.
"So… this will be the room I'll be staying in then?" Star asked her host.
"Yeah. It is." Marco said. "Is something wrong with it?"
"Well not really; it's just well…"
"Very dull looking?" Rita said. "I can tell that's what you were going to say. If that's the case, why don't you just decorate the room for it to suite more to your liking then? I'm sure Mrs. Diaz won't mind if you do."
"Really?" Star asked before looking to Marco for conformation.
"It's fine with me Star, and I'm pretty sure my mom would be cool with it too. So go on and do your thing with room." Marco said.
Star practically jumped for joy as she pulled out her wand.
"Wait, she's going to – " before Hibiki could finish what he was saying, he was cut off as Star shouted "Sparkle Glitter Bomb Expand!" and the dull looking guest room was transformed into an colorful, two floor castle loft which jutted out of the side of the house. "Sigh, never mind." He said as he looked around along with Marco and Rita at the transformed bedroom as Star jumped on the large canopy bed.
"Now this room feels more like me." Star said as she jumped up and down.
"Well the room defiantly looks more like you too." Rita said as she walked around the room a bit. "But my one and only complaint is the… mess… I'm seeing here."
"The mess?" Star asked as she then noticed a couple of her things scattered around on the floor. "What about it? It doesn't look too bad."
Marco and Hibiki looked and saw Rita's eye twitch a little as she smiled at Star.
'Oh boy; seriously Rita, you and your habit of everything being clean and spotless.' Marco thought before he walked over and got in between the two.
"Hey, so Star, what do you say I show you my room since yours is all set and everything?" Marco said.
"That sounds great, I'd really like to see what your room looks like Marco." Star said as she jumped off the bed and landed in front of him.
"Well follow me and I'll let you see it." He said as he started for the door with Star right behind him. "Hibiki? Grab Rita and come on."
"Fine then," Hibiki said as he walked over and practically had to push the frozen girl out of the room as he followed after Marco and Star down the hall.
The four then reach a door that was just two doors down from Star's room that had a crescent moon with the Dayragon clan's symbol on it. Marco then opened the door and walked in so the others could enter. The room had a 4'6 double bed in the corner with red sheets, and a desk that had a lamp, a couple books and black laptop in the right corner of the room. In front of the bed was a large flat-screen T.V. that was sitting on a stand that also had a DVD/Blue-Ray player next to it. There was a closet, laundry hamper, shelves that had more books and what looked like action figures.
But the thing that caught Star's eyes the most in the room was the pedestal that was near Marco's closet. Sitting on the pedestal were two large swords crossed over one another.
The first sword was black with a sharp, rigid, jagged edge teeth on its single edged, red handle and gold pummel. There seemed to be a thin gap that went across the middle of the blade. The second sword was equally as large, but had silver details etched along the black blade. The guard was in the shape of a silver diamond with silver wings pointing downward and the handle of the sword was wrapped in loss bandages.
"Wow!" Star said as she looked around the room with excitement and curiosity practically pouring out of her. "Your room looks so amazing Marco! I can't believe it!"
"Really?" Hibiki asked. "Because compared to your room, Marco's looks rather plain in comparison."
"Your one to talk about plain, Hibiki." Marco said. "your room is just a simple bed, desk, closet… and that's it. And your calling my room plain?"
"I have suggested you at least add a bit of color to your plain box of a room." Rita added.
"And I have politely declined your suggestion. I see nothing wrong with my room, it suite me best in what I'm looking for in living arrangements." Hibiki said.
"You mean dull and boring then?" Marco said with a smirk as Hibiki rolled his eyes before they along with Rita saw that Star was staring at the two large swords intently.
"I can see your very mesmerized by Marco's swords, hmm?" Rita said drawing Star's attention to said boy.
"Marco, these are really your swords!?" the hyper blonde asked getting very close to Marco's face.
"Uh yeah Star." Marco said as he walks pass Star and picks up the sword with that has the rigid edge. "Okay; now this sword here? This one is called Crescent Moon Scar".
"Ooooh, such a cool name." Star said. "So what do you call the other one then?" she said pointing to Marco's second sword.
"Uh yeah, that one is no name." Marco said.
"It's called No Name?" Star asked confused.
"No Star; I mean that the sword has no name, I haven't given that one a name."
"Ooooh, well how come?"
"I don't know, I just… haven't been able to come up with a name." Marco said. "Or I should say; I haven't been able to learn the sword's name."
"Learn the sword's name? What do you mean by that?" Star asked confused.
"Allow me to explain, princess." Hibiki said. "You see when children of our main or branch families reach the age of 14, they go through a rite of passage in where the adults and senior members of the families perform a sacred ritual in where our weapons, which are the physical manifestations of our souls are drawn out of us."
"Wait hold on; so when the kids in your family turn 14, the adults do something and pull a weapon out of them?" Star asked.
"If you want to simplify it like that; then yes, something along those lines." Hibiki said. "Except the weapon isn't literally pulled out of the person, it manifests in front of them."
"Whoa, that's so cool. It makes me kind of wish my family did that when they pass the wand down." Star said. "But what does it have to with Marco not knowing the name of his second sword?"
"I'll answer this one." Rita said. "Well you see Star; during the ritual process the person who's having his/her weapon drawn out of them goes into a meditative state, in which they meet the spirit of their weapon who gives them their name. The spirit of the person's weapon is born either from a certain quality the person has or one they themselves were unaware of." Rita explained.
"Wow, that's a lot." Star said amazed at what she had heard. "Wait; if kids in your family manifest a weapon from their souls, then Marco how do you have two weapons then?" she asked the boy.
"To be honest with you Star, I was just as surprised as the adults when it manifested." Marco said as he lightly swung Crescent Moon Scar, causing the top half of the sword to fold in half and close on the other half, giving the weapon the look of a double-bladed axe and placed it back on the pedestal before picking up the other sword.
"My mom and grandparents are still looking into the reason why it happened, but so far they haven't found anything. Apart from not knowing my weapon's name, I haven't had any serious issues with it and I can still use it like any other weapon. Mom and Granny Mei say that the rest of the family think I may have something special in store for me, hence why I was gifted with a second weapon."
"Well I think their right Marco." Star said smiling. "I mean you seem pretty special to me already and we've only known each other for a couple of hours. Of course I think that Rita and Hibiki are special too, in their own way."
"Thank you for the compliment princess." Hibiki said as he bowed politely to Star.
"For the love, Hibiki? You don't have to do that. Pretty sure Star doesn't need you acting like a servant around her." Marco said with a sigh.
"Uh yeah, Marco's right Hibiki." Star said in agreement. "You don't have to do any of that around me."
"My apologies, but I feel it was appropriate to show my gratitude for the compliment." Hibiki said while Rita rolled her eyes.
"I still hold onto the notion that you were born with a stick up your – "
"Okay Rita, I'm stopping you right there before you say something that really shouldn't be said." Marco said quickly cutting Rita off from finishing her sentence. "Now if were done giving Star a tour of my room, let's take her out and show her the rest of the town please?"
"Very well then." "Fine by me." Hibiki and Rita said.
After leaving Marco's room, the four teens made their way downstairs where they found Marco's father on the coach, reading.
"Dad, me, Rita and Hibiki are going to show Star around town for a bit." Marco said.
"Okay hijo, just be careful out there." His father said.
"Okay. By the way, did mom go somewhere while we were upstairs?
"Oh yes, she left with your grandmother to help her with something. She said she should be back before dinner tonight."
"Alright then, come on guys." Marco said as he and the others left the house.
Star was beside herself at all the many different things that Marco and his cousins showed her while they explored the town. From the different stores to the many other people, she began to feel more and more excited about earth. After a while of walking, Marco lead the group to Britta's Tacos to get something to eat. Star was sitting and talking with Rita while Marco and Hibiki ordered their food.
"So your soul weapon is a Scythe, Rita?" Star asked.
"That's right; it's called is Aphrodite, named after the Goddess of Beauty. It took a bit of work for me to get used to it, but soon I found that it suits me best." Rita said.
"You mean because you consider yourself really beautiful and everything?" Star asked.
"No, not that. When I say that the weapon suits me best, I'm talking about the grace and focus one needs to be able use a weapon like the scythe. Remember this Star; sometimes the deadliness of a weapon lies not in the weapon itself, but the way the person wields it." Rita said.
"The way a person wields it, huh?" Star said as she began to think about what Rita said. Her focus was soon drawn to Marco who along with Hibiki, had brought their food over.
Hibiki had a salad with two churros, Rita and Marco ordered a taco and Star had a beef and bean burrito. As soon as Star took a bite, she instantly fell in love with the flavor of the food.
"This taste so AMAZING!" Star said as she began to devour her burrito ravenously while the others look on with a bit of amusement.
"I guess we should have expected that kind of reaction from her," Hibiki said, "Given that Mewni's main export is corn and everything especially food is related to it. They even make it into milkshakes."
"Honestly?" Rita said. "So the same things that go into a regular milkshake, they add corn into it on Mewni? That… doesn't sound too appealing to me."
"Well what if they use sweet corn in making the milkshakes?" Marco asked.
"We actually do use that on Mewni for the cornshakes, it's one of my favorites." Star said as she finished her eating.
"Hmm, I'll… consider trying it if I ever get the chance." Rita said. "At any rate, shouldn't you be getting Star back to your place Marco?"
"I guess so; I mean it's a little early before we have to go back home." Marco said. "And my mom is probably – "
Before Marco could finish what he was saying, he was cut off by the sound of something tearing open as portal appeared in front of the four teens. Soon a horde of monsters came flooding out of the portal followed by avian-looking monster who was carrying a staff and wore a green robe and the skull of an unknown creature on his head.
"Ah Star Butterfly, at last I found you!" the creature sneered.
"Ludo! Who did you I was here on earth?" Star asked the creature called Ludo.
"Hmph, wouldn't you like to know."
"Uh yeah, that's why I asked."
"Well Buff Frog... Hey! I don't have to tell you anything! Get her!" Ludo ordered as his monsters charged towards Star.
Right as a three-eyed warthog monster, a two-headed monster and a green-skinned frill monster came running at Star, Marco jumped in front of her and performed a high-kick to the warthog monster's chin before following up with an axe kick to his head, knocking him out.
While the other two monsters were distracted by what Marco just did, Rita dashed up to the two-headed monster and jumped between its two heads before grabbing them and pulling them down to the ground with incredible force.
"Hey! What the – " the frill monster started to say before he turned around and found Hibiki standing in front of him, before being sent flying into a lamp post and passing out.
Star, Ludo and his army just looked on awestruck at how quickly the three had taken out those monsters so quickly.
"Star, it would probably be best to close your mouth right now." Rita said as she closed Star's gaping mouth. "You wouldn't want a bug to fly into your mouth, now would you?" she said.
"Star?" Marco said getting the princess's attention. "To be honest, you really shouldn't be all that surprised. I mean, I figured there had to be some people out there who would be after your wand."
"What? Oh no, that's not what surprised me. It's just… you, Rita and Hibiki took down three of Ludo's monsters so fast before I could even cast a spell!" Star said still awestruck.
"I think it's best we save the talking for later," Hibiki said as his cheek marks begin to glow with a blue light.
Soon a black rectangular case with two white hilts at both ends appears on his lower back. Hibiki then draws both hilts from the case out to reveal a pair of expandable blades and holds then in a reverse fashion. "It's very rude to keep an opponent waiting."
"True, true," Rita said as her rose cheek marks glowed with a violet light as she raises her open left hand above her head. As she does this a white, black and crimson colored sphere appears in her hand, which soon transforms into a scythe with a white shaft, a black and crimson spike at the bottom and a white scythe blade with a rose and vine ornamental design on it. "Just be sure not to knock them into anything that will make a bigger mess."
"You do realize there's little to no chance of that happening, Right Rita?" Marco said as his crescent moon cheek marks glowed white as the serrated sword from his room appeared in his right hand. "The best you're going to get is possible no craters in the ground." He said as he flicked the sword, unfurling its full length.
"You guys look so awesome!" Star shouted. "Normally I would be a bit annoyed whenever Ludo shows up, but I'm actually glad he showed his ugly face for once."
"Hey!" Ludo shouted. "What are you idiots waiting for? Get me that wand!" he shouted as the rest of his army charged at the four teens.
Hibiki leaped towards four of Ludo's monsters and quickly disappeared in a cloud of black feathers before reappearing behind them and strike them in quick succession with his blades before they fell to the ground.
"Did… did Hibiki just kill those guys?" Star asked as she uppercuts a flower monster.
"Not to worry;" Hibiki said as he dodged a punch from a gator monster and back-flipped away. "I'm using the back of my blades, so their just knocked out is all." He said as the same monster came at his again, only this time Hibiki jumped over him and kicked him in the back of the head, knocking him out.
"Oh, okay then." Star said as she blasted another monster with her wand.
Meanwhile, Rita was practically dancing around the monsters as she dodged, side-stepped and blocked their attempts at trying to hit her.
"Hold still would ya!?" a goat monster said as he tried to hit Rita, only for her to side- step his strike.
"Now why would I want to do that?" Rita said as she twirled around with her scythe I hand. "The point of battle is avoid being hit by your opponent while also dealing hits yourself."
"Yeah! Well you haven't try hitting us at all!" a swamp monster yelled. "So what does that say about you then, huh?"
"Hmm… you make a good point." Rita said as she begins to twirled her weapon over her head while her cheek marks begin to glow. "Then… allow me to give you all the first… and last few strikes of this little fight then, hmm?"
"Wait, what!?"
Rita crouches low to the ground while holding her scythe in a reverse grip, before dashing towards the group of monsters. She then begins to strike and move around the monsters so quickly it's as if she's teleporting while also leaving behind multiple after-images of herself as she seemingly danced around her foes, before creating a swirling tornado of crimson rose pedals from how fast she was moving. The tornado was then sliced in half as the monsters fell to the ground with Rita standing in the middle of them; holding her scythe behind her back with a very sweet, but dark smile on her face.
"And there;" Rita says as she dusts off her skirt, "that is how one conducts themselves during combat. Please try and remember this, hmm?"
Star and Marco were fighting together with Star glancing every now and then to see how Marco was faring. It came as no real surprise as she saw Marco either jumping back then counter attacking with the flat side of his giant sword whenever a monster tried to blind-side him or him slamming the blade into the ground creating shockwaves to knock them back when they tried to surround him.
"Marco you're so amazing!" Star shouted joyfully as she back-flips over a monster that was charging at her, before blasting it in the back with her wand. "You're fighting is so cool, you make it look so easy too!"
"Well your no slouch yourself Star," Marco said as he blocked five monsters who were trying to attack him with his sword before shoving them off. "I just thought you'd be firing off spell after spell; but you're also throwing in a couple of good punches and kicks in too, not bad."
"Hehe, thanks Marco." Star said appreciating her friend's compliment.
"As enjoyable as this encounter has been," Hibiki said as he appeared behind Star and Marco, "shouldn't we think of ending this soon?"
"I'd also very much like to wrap this up too." Rita said walking over. "The longer this drags on, the more of a mess we'll be making. So Marco, if you could please end this little scuffle?"
"And why do I have to be the one to do it?" Marco asked his cousin.
"Because you're the one with all those very interesting and powerful finishing moves you came up with." Rita said with a mysterious glint in her eyes.
"Wait, Marco you have finishing moves!?" Star asked excitedly as Marco sighed, now knowing why Rita would purposely reveal that fact.
"I… wouldn't necessarily call them finishing moves Star, their just a couple of techniques I came up with to either end a fight when I felt it was being dragged out or to make an opponent stop fighting." Marco said.
"You realize that those are the basic definitions of finishing moves, right?" Hibiki stated.
"Hibiki, you are just one, one sentence away from me punching you right in the face, seriously." Marco said before he saw the sparkling in Star's eyes and sighed. "… Alright, I'll do it. But only because Star looks like she really wants to see one." He said as he walked towards Ludo's army. Or what was going to be left of it.
Ludo looked and saw the young Latino teen walking up to him and his army and couldn't help but laugh.
"Oh look what we have here, and just what do you think you're going to do to us, all by yourself, hmm?" Ludo said in a mocking tone.
"Nothing much," Marco said as he stopped a couple feet away from Ludo and his monsters, while his sword began to glow red along with his cheek marks, "just wrapping this fight up because it's gone on long enough."
The red light coming off of Marco's sword begin to glow brighter as some unknown force begins to start pulling Ludo's monsters towards him. They try and fight against whatever was pulling them towards the boy, but it was no use. It was as if they had no control over their bodies anymore.
"Just a heads up, this isn't personal." Marco said. Then right as the monsters were within his, Marco unleashed a flurry of devastating and fast strikes upon the monsters. "Arc Dragon's… Descent!" He said as he then swung his sword up and while holding it with both hands, slammed it onto the ground causing a massive geyser of scarlet flame to erupt from the ground.
After the dust settled down, Ludo with complete shock on his face, looked around and saw all of his monsters on the ground with burns and bruises all over their bodies.
"So Ludo was it?" Marco said as he stuck his sword into the ground and leaned on it as he looked at the small bird monster. "Are you still in the mood to fight?"
"Sigh… no." Ludo said as he pulled out his scissors and cut open a portal. "Come on, you dipsticks! Into the portal. Now!" he shouted as his minions limped or dragged themselves in. "I thought Buff Frog said she was un-guarded, for the love of corn!" Ludo grumbled as he jumped into the portal as it closed.
"Sigh, at least he knows when to leave a losing battle." Marco said before he was tackled from behind and landed face-first on the ground. "And now my face hurts, what just ran into me?"
"MARCO THAT WAS SO INCREDABLE WHAT YOU DID JUST NOW I COULD HARDLY BELIEVE IT!" Star said overflowing with joy as she tightened her hug around Marco from behind.
"I'm… glad you like it and all Star, but could you let me get back up please?"
"Oh, right, sorry about that." Star said as she released her hold on Marco and allowed him to get back up. "But still Marco that move you did was so cool! And Rita said you have more moves like that, right!?"
"Yeah, but I don't usually use them that much. Only during like training and stuff, and even then I rarely use them."
"By stuff, do you mean like missions you might get from the other families back on Mewni?"
"Yep, that's around the only time I would ever use moves like that. And I only ever use Crescent Moon Scar."
"So you don't use the other sword you have? Is it because you don't know its name yet?"
"Something like that Star." Marco says. "Anyway,we should start heading back home now. My mom is probably back by now."
"Yeah, okay." Star said.
Later; Marco, Star, Hibiki and Rita were making their way back to Marco's house. However, what they didn't know was that Meifang had been watching them from a neighboring building.
"Well from the look of things, it seems like the young princess knows how to really bring out my little grandson's childishness. I'm glad she's able to bring out that side of him more, it may help him in finding out the true name of his second sword." She said as a gentle wind blew passed and a smile soon speared across her face. "Now what will these passing winds bring with them I wonder?"
A/N: And done. Sorry this chapter took awhile you guys, a lot of stuff has been going with me. Anyway, Star has reached earth and has Marco and his Cousins and we got to meet Marco's gradmother and head of the family. Now since this story is an AU, it won't follow the canon as much. Star will leave earth from time to time with Marco, Hibiki and Rita in tow. That's not to say that they won't leave and have adventure on their own too. Blood Moon Ball will also be different in a way that was shown during Star vs the forces of Evil Battle for Mewni. Not going to say what it is, you'll have to wait. Anyhow, hope you all enjoy this wild ride of a story, See Ya! ;)