Star walked out of the class with disappointment on her face. "Now i have to wait till tonight' she thought to herself. She was rather down on the way home and it seemed Marco had noticed "what's wrong?" he asked as they left. "I think I'm failing my training" she blurted out without thinking. "Why? what did you do wrong?" - "i wasn't prepared" she said, she stopped. The thought of the figure haunted her. She would look at its bright red eyes and see her fears, everything she's afraid of come to pass. "For what?" Marco now asked. "Not sure" she said still trapped in thought of her dream, it was like she was slightly reliving it and it was vivid, very vivid in fact. "Are you okay star?" Marco said looking her in the face and waving his hand. She came to, barley, but enough to respond "yea just forget what i said". She quickly walked ahead of him and put in the headphones he gave her. She continued to listen to music the rest of the way home.

Marco followed quietly behind star as they walked. 'Is she mad at me?' was all he could think as he stared into the random patterns in the concrete sidewalk. With all the difference in attitude with her today he was at a loss of what to think. He looked up to look at her but was caught off guard to find something much worse. Marco quickly grabbed stars arm positioning him in front of her. He heard a faint "ludo" before some mutant green chicken thing screamed "get the wand" and all these monstrosities started charging straight for them. Marco could feel his legs shake beneath him. 'No time to lose your cool' he steadied his feet and put all his momentum in his right leg kicking the thing in the lead thing with antlers straight in the head tripping the monsters behind it. He quickly jumped to punch the monster to left and sweep kicking 2 more with his landing. He ran back jump kicking a monster about to reach star giving her enough time time to pull out her wand. As he rolled to the ground he noticed a pinkish red flash come from behind him. he turned to see colorful beams of rainbow and pink with a quite silly look for a magical fighting spell but worked all the same. He sat back for a moment in awe as she carelessly wasted these monsters, 'she even pretty wh-' his train of thought was broken by the sight of a monster sneaking up behind. He quickly stood up charging the monster and tackling it as he had no other choice due to its stature. Once he had it down he got up and away as quick as possible to give space between the monster and himself. He took stance as it slowly began to rise, it had 3 eyes and 2 horns on opposite sides of its head. He took a step back before lunging forward to kick the monster strait in the jaw. He landed as the thing stumbled back a bit, he wound up and released a punch that was caught by the stomach of the monster. The monster looked down at him and smiles while grabbing his arm, he flung him off the side and continued toward star. Marco hit the ground and felt a pain in his head on contact. He rolled a few times before he stopped in the middle o the road. He slowly began to get up looking to see the monster still behind star almost able to reach her. Marco gathered himself and quickly got up running as fast as he could. He looked to see her within reach so he leaped to knock the monster to the side and succeeded as they both fell into some bushes. Marco rolled out of the bush feeling pain all over, he began to get up as he heard star blast the monster next to him. He stood up slowly and looked at her, "are you okay" -"am i okay, you should look at yourself" she said back jokingly. He took a look at himself and began to laugh, his shirt was torn and he had dirt and grass all over his pants not to mention the pain. "Here watch this" she said quickly grabbing his hand. "I found this in the spell book a few day ago and i want to see if it works" she said waving her wand aver his palm, he saw she had her eyes closed and was concentrating. He looked back to the strange sight happening at his palm, there was a lasso type string running from her arm wrapping around his. He would've panicked if it were anything else, anyone else, but he felt calm as he felt this thing connect him to the wand, somehow he knew where he was, he didn't know how he knew but the was an instantaneous realization. He saw a dark ocean that began to flood him it got up to his chin when saw a golden door through the water and swam to it. He felt warm as he moved through, blinded as he came to see a fire, but there was also a shadow. The shadow looked lizard like but more like a walking alligator. Suddenly he was back and kissing star, she had her hands around him and had leaned in for a kiss while he was out. She stepped back as quick as it happened looking him in the eye. "You have cute cheek marks" she said confusing him quickly, but as he was about to respond she turned to face a small deformed looking chicken. "Leave me alone ludo, i don't want to have to embarrass you more" - "RETREAT" it shouted in a awful sounding voice, almost like a smoker whose dying or has a hole in their throat. "I will get that wand one way or another" he said to her before exiting through a portal. "Your letting him get away?" Marco asked star even more confused. "Let's go home" she responded providing him no answers. "What? What even just happened? Is this normal for you?" he started to bombard her with questions. she grabbed him interrupting him with another kiss. She released and responded with "ill explain at the house, now can we go?". She let him go as he responded "sure, but van you stop that please." 'Today must be the best day ever or the worst' was his only thought as they quietly walked the rest of the way home.

Star walked in the door and opted to immediately go to her room, she knew she owed an explanation to Marco, but then again there was a lot to explain. She was torturing the poor boy as it seems he hasn't had much experience with quickly closed her door behind her before bee lined straight for her bed. She sat down an composed herself, although Marco was cute and all she was beginning to wonder if he was gonna be worth all the trouble. She had her reasons to keep trying though, he was very caring and sweet and so far has seemed to be as good as they come. She had to admit he was growing on her and for good reason too. Her train of thought was derailed as she heard a knock at the door. She knew she had once again put off talking with Marco so sh hopped of her bed and headed for the door. She opened it to find Marco looking rather anxious standing there kind of nervously. They both stood there for a few moments in silence as they each were not sure what to say. Finally Marco tried to break the silence but star cut him off "come here" she said grabbing his hand and guiding him in her room. She brought him to her bed and they both sat down. She sighed and spoke "okay, i'm going to tell you about everything i think you deserve a bit of an explanation on, okay?" - "okay i guess" Marco responded nervously "first is st Olga's. About 2 years ago me and pony got in trouble and i got sent to st Olga's, which is like a..a.. a princess prison, a place where they like, brainwash you and try to tear away your personality and stuff. I was sent there for 2 years and i had just recently got out right before i came to earth" - "so that's why pony said you got outta prison?" - "yea' she responded quickly to his question. Star felt a bit relieved telling this stuff to Marco as it was dragging a bit of weight on her recently. "Now about ludo, he just wants my wand since its all powerful, so him and his goons try to take it every so often" - "was that the chicken guy?" - "yeah that's him" she responded. They were both quite a moment before Marco spoke up. "So why do you keep kissing me all the time? is it because i said i wouldn't flirt with you?" star was taken back a moment as she didn't realize he would ask her something so obvious. "Have you never met a girl before? it means i like you" - "what do you mean you like me?" - "duh, i think your cute, and really nice, are you slow or something?" she said beginning to laugh. "Probably, i mean i never really tried to talk to a girl before i just never knew what to say" star stopped laughing, she began to feel bad now as she realized that Marco really did have a problem talking to girls. She realized what she was joking with him about may have actually hurt him. She knew what she was going to do. She moved to the center of bed and grabbed all the pillows, setting them up against the back of her bed for her to lean on them, upon doing so she sat there and motioned for Marco to come sit in front of her. It took him a few hesitating seconds but he eventually came and sat down. "I'm going to teach you how to flirt, okay?" she said to him looking him in his eyes "okay" he responded with no hesitation. "Now the first and most important thing to do is be and act confident, there is no other way to flirt" - "but what if you know they will rej-" - "no, you can't get rejected because your confident" star snapped back as him giving him a smile. "Okay" he acknowledged. "Now try and compliment me and sound cool at the same time" she instructed. "You are the most beautiful girl i have ever seen" he blurted out making star laugh a bit. "That's not very cool but okay" she said with a laugh."sorry i just had to get that off my chest" - "that's okay, try again" she responded reassuring. "Your eyes are so ocean blue, i could get lost at sea just staring into them" he said with confidence. "Okay wow, that was good but kinda strong, were going for more playful and fun and less deep romance" she said fanning herself "that was a bit too romantic" - "i told you i didn't know what to say i just make things weird" - "its not weird it was a great compliment" she said trying to help him keep his confidence. "No i just make things awkward and I'm hard to deal with when it comes to stuff like this" - "awkward? Hard to deal with? Your talking to the girl who faked being asleep so i could lay on your shoulder and then i got tucked into bed" Star responded, laughing a bit as the said it. "You were awake the whole time?" - "yea you didn't think i would actually fall asleep then would you? That would be so rude. i thought you were being a bit passive aggressive " - "how is that passive aggressive?" - "do you have any idea how hard it is for a girl to contain herself when the first cute guy she sees in 2 years is being that nice to her?" - "i don't follow?" he responded. Star giggled a bit as she spoke "i wouldn't expect you to". "What's that supposed to mean?" Marco asked in a defensive tone. "Don't worry about it" she said as she felt she didn't want to sit there for 10 minutes explaining herself to him. This was a mistake as she soon would find out since they were now both locked in an endless silence. Star began to panic a bit as they both kinda just stared at on another. It was awkward, really awkward. Finally an idea popped in her head to break the silence "so where did you learn to fight?" she asked quickly. "It's called karate, its a form of fighting you van learn on earth" - "so anyone can learn to fight here?" - "yea if you have the motivation to do it" - "that's awesome, i had to teach myself how to fight when i was little" - "you taught yourself, how?" - "well a lot of monsters don't like my family and want our wand, as you could tell" she paused letting out a small laugh. "So i had to learn to fight the at a young age although my parents didn't quite agree with it" - "why not?" he asked. "Well my mom said it's not very princess like and my dad, well my dad goes along with what my mom says so there's that" - "well that's not fair, not every princess is the same, i mean I've only known you for a few days but you're pretty great just the way you are, even though your closed off in your head a bit". Star stood there stunned but what she was hearing, she never saw Marco speak his mind like that. She was taken a bit off guard and Marco seemed to pick up on this. "I'm sorry did i say something stupid?" he seemed to lean back a bit to distance himself from me, i knew instantly my mistake of not speaking. "Oh.. NO..no..no..no i just didn't expect that response, but thank you, i uh.. Didn't know you noticed" - "well when you shut people out for so long, it's not hard recognizing others who do the same". Star was beginning to feel happy and she couldn't place why exactly since Marcos statement wasn't much to be happy about. There was one thing she knew, she wanted to know more. "What happened?" she asked abruptly. "What do you mean by that?" - "why do you shut people out?" - "oh, uh well… you see i uh..people are always talking about me behind my back, and there are always rumors being started about me so to avoid the negative thoughts i just shut people out" - "why would someone do that?" - "well people aren't always as nice as you here". Star was still confused a bit on the concept of rumors, but she understood what that meant very well. Most people were nice to her but there was one person who was the most awful person she had ever met, Mrs. heinous. She would make you feel like nothing, mentally and physically. It didn't matter what or who you were, cause you were all the same to her, fresh meat to be slaughtered. So she responded with "i see". Star trailed off her mind a bit leaving the room silent. She was thinking about heinous until something randomly clicked in her mind. 'The training' she thought "crap Marco i forgot to do something hold on" she said lowering herself to hang her upper half off the bed "ok she heard as she hung down reaching under the bed. "Got it" she said grabbing her spell book. She dragged it out from under the bed and flung it on the bed over her head onto the bed. She spun her body over and bumped into Marco before pulling herself up to the bed again. She crawled over to the book and opened it. "Glossaryck, I'm here for my training" star spoke waking glossaryck. "You know princess if you don't want to train you don't have to, i'm not like your mother with all of this scheduling and such so you-" - "what are the dreams about?" star got straight to the point not wanting to deal with his jumping around and loose metaphors. "Excuse me what?" - "the dreams i had today, i know it's you glossaryck don't play, that's not the kinda shit you play about" she snapped back. But she knew she had to take a stance on this because those nightmares were awful. "Have i made you that paranoid? I honestly know nothing about your dreams, to think i can even influence them is a joke. I might be all knowing but I'm not all powerful" glossaryck with his snarky tone. "I am not playing this game what are the dreams about?" she asked once more, glossaryck suddenly grabbed her face and got close staring at her eye to eye. "LOOK AT ME STAR, ARE YOU LOOKING?" - "I'm looking" - "i can not mess with your dreams you got that okay?" he said with a smart tone. Star was frustrated so she slammed the book on him and kicked it to the wall. "I'm sorry Marco i need a break to think for a second" she said getting up to leave. She rushed herself out the door and down the stairs without a response. 'I have to figure this out on my own then' was the thought that hit her brain as she opened the door leaving the house.

Marco sat at her bed for a while trying to process what just happened. 'I must of said something. No, she doesn't think I'm weird does she?' Marcos mind was in a fury but he was trying to calm himself down. He heard a rumble come from the other side of the bed. Right as he was about to peak over he saw stars book fly up and hit the ceiling. It moved on the ceiling a bit before bouncing of the ground landing open in the bed. Marco spun around to face it. The glossaryck thing rose from the book and faced him. "I don't think i have introduced myself i am glossaryck, keeper of the magic book of spells, and you are?" Marco paused for a second seeing this thing, or guy want to talk to him. "Marco diaz" - "well Mr. diaz isn't it just pleasant to meet you" he said hovering around Marco. He started to pick and pry at him like an object "you know i was the one who recommended star come to earth" - "hey stop that" Marco spit out swatting him away as he tried to probe at Marco. "So if this goes south you know whose to blame?" - "you" Marco said aggressively. "You" glossaryck said with wit. "And then you'll never see star again" he whispered in his ear. "Okay bye" he said joyfully before sucking back into his book. Marco froze, nothing to say only thought, too many thoughts. Marco looks around getting off the bed, he slowly walks to the door and begins to makes the right and heads for his open door. Right as he closes the door he hears "oh mih- "which is cut off buy the door. He heads to his bed jumping on it laid out. 'I either did or am going to do something wrong, i can feel it'

Star was trapped in her mind as she walked her way down the street. 'I have to beat something, a loss? St. Olga's? Come on think!'star was so frustrated due to the stubborn crypticness of glossaryck. 'Why's he gotta be like that?' she wondered to herself. All she could figure from the dream is it would be something that would overpower her but she couldn't think what. 'A feeling? A person? A power? A spell? What is it? Dasbe!'she couldn't keep at it like this she had to find somewhere to rest. She checked her surroundings looking for somewhere to sit. She saw this metal couch with a little roof across the street so she went to it. She crossed without a problem, looking for cars like Marco told her. She crossed, rushing herself to the bench. She couldn't figure out where to even start to figure this out. She popped from relevant idea to relevant idea. Searching her mind she really couldn't come up with much and became more and more frustrated. she noticed the people began to look at her for her facial expressions, so she got up and kept moving. 'I wish i knew what to do' she thought for for moments before an idea hit her, 'i have to get home. She said turning and sprinting the way she came. She had noticed she didn't recognized anything around her. She began to panic as this continued for some ways around the street, 'well that's a bust' she thought coming to a halt. After she stopped she began reaching around looking for the scissors. It took her a moment but she realized that Marco had the scissors calling back to the conversation this morning. She quickly grabs out her wand upon realizing this.

She proceeded to open the all seeing eye. 'Focus on Marco' she thought as the eye focused in on march. He was currently laying in his bed staring at the ceiling, she chose to flirt. "Aw darling, you miss me?" she said to him. Marcos head immediately popped up, he seemed to be a bit happy to hear her voice. "Star" he spoke upon seeing her "whoa" he added noticing the eye spell. "Hey I'm lost can you scissor me home?" she asked quickly. "Well how am i supposed to know where you are?" - "here" she said angling the wand so he could see behind her. "Ok, imma try something" he said leaning over cutting a small rift. Simultaneously a rift opened behind her. "Oh, ok" she responded as he opened the portal all the way. She quickly collapsed the spell and went through the rift meeting Marco on the other side. She gave out a quick "thanks" before heading for the door. She quickly went through the doorway making the left to her room. She locked eyes on the mirror in the doorway and froze, she had second thoughts. 'Do i really want to talk to her?' star thought to herself. Although her mother was good counsel, they were on shaky terms after st. Olga's. She slowly walked to the mirror and stood in front of it for several moments, pondering her next action very carefully. Right as she lifted her arm to hit the button she heard a voice come from behind "um.. Star?" she turned her head around to find Marco leaning in her doorway. "I know i don't anything about magic but if you were having a nightmare and wanted to talk about it, you can talk to me" he was clever, maybe too clever, but those word for some reason still put a smile on her face. "Actually, yeah" she spoke out without realizing it. "oh .. really?" he said surprised. "Um, yea. I could kinda use someone to talk to right now" she said lowering her hand. 'Why didn't i think of that?" she thought to herself. She felt stupid for not considering Marco to talk to. Turned heading toward her bed, jumping on and putting her pillows up vertical so she can and Marco can lean against the wall at the back of her bed. She turned to sit as she saw Marco got on the bed with him sitting in front of her instead of next to her. "No sit here" she said slapping the pillow next to her. "Are you sure, it's kinda .. um, well close" he said nervously, stumbling to get each word out. "Are you a man or a boy?" she said giving him a look, she was understanding but this was very different from her previous interest. Boy was he a charmer, but star was kind of sick of that, she wanted a gentle guy, someone to stroke her hair till she falls asleep and to worry about her every time she gets in trouble."a man" he responding crawling his way over to the pillow. He turned around backing up to the pillow. As soon as he got settled she went for a move before her nerves got the better of her, grabbing his arm and snuggling herself to his shoulder. "What am i your boyfriend now" he snapped at her. "If you want to be" she said smartly. "So you want to start dating me now? Don't you think that's a bit weird?" - "chill, i was just teasing you, I'm just having a bit of fun, just relax, go with the flow a bit". it was quite for a second as she felt the muscles in his arms relax a bit. "Okay?" she added looking him in the face. "Yea okay" he paused for a moment, she didn't think ahead this far. She then began. "So during school today i had these really weird dreams, there was this shadow thing and it kept eating at you, your parents, my wand and then me. I couldn't do anything to stop it. It's so vivid when i remember it that it can't just be a dream. The weirdest part was it continues onto my next dream. I have to go back and finish it but i can't" - "Why?" - "I'm not tired" she answered abruptly. "Well I'm gonna have to say that it was a nightmare and not a part of your training cau-" - "it wasn't like a nightmare, it continued, and god was it vivid, I've never experienced something like that before" she said trying to get him to understand. "Just because you have never experienced it before doesn't make it magic, I've had dreams like that. Sometimes they go on for 2,3,4, or 5, nights" - "really? Its normal?" - "as normal as anyone can get" he responded. His words made her feel better, she felt comforted by him. 'Why didn't i think of this?' she thought, disappointed in herself that she didn't think to trust Marco. "It still doesn't feel like a dream, it feels to real almost" - "well that's because it was scary. That can happen sometimes, a dream really freaks you out and begins to feel more and more real as you think about it". Star stared at the wall across from them, she felt at ease by what Marco said. He seemed to know how to calm her down a lot like her mother could, she overthought things a lot and would get stuck in her mindset. She usually couldn't tell when this was going on though as this was her thinking process sometimes. 'A bit too eccentric and a bit too passionate' was how her mother always put it. It's not a bad description but something about it was missing and she could never figure out what. She spoke again breaking the momentary silence. "Hey Marco?" - "yea" he responded quick. "Can we have nachos and watch movies again tonight?" - "sure if you want". A smile came across stars face, she had very much enjoyed their time the first night here, 'especially the ending'. "I'll go start the nachos i g-" - "no" star snapped. "Just sit with me for a few minutes" - "why?" - "just do it" she snapped not wanting to give an answer. It wasn't Marco or anything, its just that talking about loneliness due to torture was not conversation she wanted to have with anyone."ok, just tell me when i can leave, i guess" he said laughing a bit there at the end. "You can never leave" she said jokingly"well that's gonna make it hard to make the nachos but i can figure something out" he said in a confident tone. "See it's not that hard to lighten up" - "what?" Marco said, looking at star with confusion. She looked at him back confused."what your not even trying?" she said not sure what else to ask. "Not trying to do what?" - "flirt, are you thick?" - "that's not flirting" he said straight out. "It was very flirty. See when you relax your fine, You just gotta chill" she smiled and kept looking forward, star turning her head back as well leaned her head against Marcos arm once more. She let silence fill the room as she snugged a bit closer to proceeded to stay there for a few minutes with not a word between them. Star didn't feel awkward though, she felt more relaxed, Marco seemed relaxed as well but star suspected it may not be just that easy for him. "Do you want to go make the nachos now?" she said breaking the silence. "I can just do it from here if you want" he said pulling out the scissors. Star looked at him with a smile. 'I don't deserve this' she thought to herself. She thought that this was a little to perfect. After st Olga's she didn't expect Marco to be her roommate. He was a bit timid at first but once you break that you see a caring person, someone begging to come out of their shell but scared to. She wanted to know why, but more importantly she wanted him to be more out around her. She liked that side of him, anyone would, it was the real him. "Your too nice sometimes" she said giving him a big smile. "Thanks" Marco muttered out kind of awkwardly. "But i'm gonna need my arm to make them still" he added. "Oh yea, sure" she said letting go. She did want nachos after all. "when do you wanna go downstairs for movies?" - "when the nachos are done" he replied. she leaned back, relaxed and let Marco make the nachos. After he prepared them and put them in the oven she resumed to hog his arm, after they were done they went downstairs and began watching a movie. 'Best day out of Olga's by far' she thought, wrapping herself around Marcos arm once again on the couch.

Marco turned of the tv and put the remote on the coffee table next to him. He looked to star, still wrapped around his arm but fast asleep. She wasn't faking this time as she snored a bit. 'Still hot though' Marco thought hearing someone coming down the steps. He looked in the direction, locking eyes with his mother who was frozen staring back at him. "Oh Mijo i didn't mean to bother you two i-" Marco stopped her "shes asleep it's fine, i was about to take her to her bed anyway" Marco informed her allowing her to unfreeze and continue down the steps. "Marco?" his mother questioned passing the couch as he laid star out in a position to pick her up. "Yea" he responded looking up. "Are you two.. Um.." - "no, star has just got a bit of a crush on me is all" he responded for her. "Oh.. well that's nice" - "i guess" he responded picking up star noticing his mom head into the kitchen. He saw her stop and turned back just before reaching the kitchen. "Do you like her?" - "we'll see" he said trying to be as vague as possible. Marco didn't want to lie to his mother but he wasn't very sure how to answer that question himself. He liked star but he still was getting used to having her around, although he would definitely date her given the chance 'who wouldn't?'. He started his way to the steps with star in his arms, hearing a "goodnight" from his mother as he reached the steps. "Goodnight" He replied, slowly making his way up making sure not to fumble or drop star. He noticed she was rather light although she seemed to be the same height as him. Now not be mistaken, she was heavy, but not as much as you would expect. He got to the top and continued to her room, heading through the doorway carefully and heading the rest her in bed. He put the blankets over her and positioning the pillows to be comfortable. He stopped looking at her for a moment. He noticed how cute she looked when she was sleeping, of course she's always the light in the room but somehow it was different when she was sleeping. Something about the sight put a smile on his face, small but there. He finished with the pillows and headed for the door. He grabbed the door handle stopping in the doorway, "goodnight star" he said softly before pulling the door closed with his exit.

AUTHORS NOTE: FIRST THINGS FIRST I WOLD LIKE YO APOLOGIZE FOR BEING GONE FOR SO LONG AS MY SUMMER HAS BEEN MORE EVENTFUL THAN EXPECTED AND I WONT BE ABLE TO POST AS OFTEN AS I WOULD LIKE SO ILL BE POSTING AROUND 3-4 CHAPTERS A MONTH BUT IN SO SEQUENTIAL ORDER. THAT BEING SAID I HOPE Y'ALL ENJOYED THESE 2 CHAPTERS AS THEY ARE THE START OF A CONNECTION BETWEEN STAR AND MARCO GIVING SOME ANSWERS IN THIS AU AS WELL AS SOME 'S ALL I GOTTA SAY OTHER THAN I WILL BE RE WATCHING THE SERIES THEN MAKING THE NEXT CHAPTER THIS WEEK IT MAT NOT BE OUT TILL NEXT WEEK BUT I'M NOT SURE AS OF NOW SINCE THAT COULD CHANGE.