Marco Saves The Day Chapter 2

Marco awoke the following morning feeling refreshed. It was going to be a good day…. Or not. Marco looked at the glittery mess that once was his school uniform.

'What to do now?' Marco wondered. While still having a fair margin of time, he would not be able to clean his uniform before school started.

Marco was left with a tough decision; either he would attend school looking like some form of failed arts and crafts project, or he would have to do that.

In his time with Star, Marco had learned a single disguise spell, Radiant Shadow Transform. Marco had found that his usage of the spell suffered from a major drawback: if he push as much magic into the spell as he could, it had a fifty/fifty chance of either leaving naked, or in a dress.

The chance of it leaving him naked, made sense to Marco. The spell essentially made him a new outfit, and if it didn't have the required power he would get no new clothes. The dress, however, confused Marco how would putting not enough power into the spell leave him with more than he started with. Perhaps it was because he was basing his usage of the spell on how he saw Star use it. She had provided him with a dress to sneak into St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses, and that was how he subconsciously thought how the spell was supposed to be used: making dresses.

Marco pondered his conundrum: one was embarrassing, the other had the chance of running his high school career. Marco looked at the clock, he had been thinking too long, he was running out of time. He had to make his choice.

Marco closed his eyes, a heart began to glow weakly on his forehead.

Five Minutes Later

Marco opened his eyes, the heart on his forehead was only slightly brighter than before, and it would take too long him to gather the magic necessary for the spell. He needed to use an object from his past.

Going back into room Marco opened up the top shelf of his cabinet, quickly shifting through his underwear, Marco found what he was looking for. A small crystal heart with a gold port: Star's old charger.

The charger wouldn't provide Marco with more magic, but it would help him bring forth what little he had. The downside being that it would both shock him and burn him from the inside. Still though, teenagers could be far crueler than any charger.

Bracing himself, Marco put the crystal heart into his mouth. First a jolt ran through his body, Marco yelled as he was shocked. Then nothing?

'I guess, it does the burning thing the first time?' Marco thought none too sure.

Marco then returned to the living, still tentative over the thought of being randomly burned. Gathering his courage Marco uses the spell, "Radiant Shadow Transform!"

There was a poof, then the burning came, Marco ran around his apartment flailing. It was like his entire body was on fire! Marco spat out the charger, falling face first onto the ground.

"Never doing that again," Marco moaned to himself. Marco stayed on the ground for a few minutes before deciding to get up, and see what kind of mess he was at the moment.

On the bright side his got the uniform right, on the downside his hair was a mess, a faint heart was burned into his forehead, and his left arm was tingling. Marco looked into himself, yep he was also all out of a magic.

"Well there's nothing I can do about the heart right now, but at least it's not that noticeable." Marco quickly fixed his hair and left for school.

Kuoh Academy- Occult Club

"Rias why did you call us here, classes are about to start?" A blond haired student asks, with Koneko silently nodding in agreement.

"Someone has been using magic in the area, and given its usage this morning, and it's proximity to the school, I'm almost convinced that it's someone that attends Kuoh Academy. I want all of you to keep an eye out for anything strange among the student body. At the moment I'm not quite sure what is using the magic, it may be a stray devil, fall angel or an exorcist pretending to be a student, and given the possible danger to the general populace of the city. We have a responsibility to find this person." Rias states, before allowing her pieces to return to their normal classes.

With Marco

Marco's walk to class was much the same as it was the previous day, sans the fact that the second year was now yelling about how he got a date.

Marco's thoughts on the matter was somewhere between: that was fast and how was it possible that he got a date given his apparent perverted nature. Although asking these questions would involve actually interacting with the boy, which left a bad taste in Marco's mouth.

Classes was also pretty normal that day, except for the fact that the girl sitting next to him, Koneko, spent the first half of the day sniffing the air and the second glaring at him. During lunch he had attempted to ask the girl if she wanted part of his lunch, but she had hissed at him.

Yep all in all the day was pretty okay.

Kuoh Academy-Occult Club

"Sex Demon," spoke Koneko

"Wait what are talking about Koneko?" asks Rias, extremely confused at Koneko's, seemingly random, declaration.

"Diaz" added Koneko

Rias began to put the puzzle together, "Okay so you think that Marco Diaz is some form of incubus?"

Koneko shakes her head no, "Squid"

"Okay you think that Marco Diaz is some form of squid monster, but why did you call him a Sex Demon?" questioned Rias.

Koneko thinks for a moment before contributing, "Tentacles"

"After this we have to have a long discussion on what is, and isn't, considered a Sex Demon, but first why do you think that Marco Diaz is a squid monster," asks Rias.

"He smells like squid, and has a heart on his forehead that wasn't there yesterday," deadpans Koneko.

"There a lot of problems with that theory," states the blond-haired second year.

"Yeah like why would a squid monster be here on land, away from water? How would a squid monster disguise themselves, and what do squids have to do with hearts?" asks a black-haired third year.

Koneko begins to speak, but is cut off by Rias, "They're right Koneko, it's not Marco. It's Yuuma Amano. I've been following her all day and she is definitely not human, also there's the fact that I checked and she's not a student here. So the magic is almost one hundred percent her."

Koneko tries to speak again, but is once more cut off, by the black haired one, "Koneko, it was a dumb idea stop trying to force it."

"Yeah Koneko," adds the blond one as they all begin to leave.

'Some day they're going to regret this,' Koneko thinks to herself. Quite angry over the interaction.

Ha HAA. I'm surprised that I actually added another chapter, as I am extremely flaky.