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PS: As I said in the summary, I accepted this challenge because I lost a bet with a fellow author and I am a writer of my word. That said, I have never seen, nor do I really intend to see, the show SvtFoE so most of the character actions and personalities will be based on what I can get off the internet. If you are actually are a fan of the show and see something wrong please let me know and I'll try to fix it.

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Curiosity Broke the Scissors

-Chapter 1-

"Star, I don't think this is a good idea." A teen boy with brown hair wearing a bright red hoodie said nervously. "You heard Glossaryck, Locked Dimensions are locked for a reason."

"And that just makes me want to see them more Marco!" A blonde teen girl with heart marks on her cheeks and a red devil horn hairband exclaimed excitedly, her arms flailing around with a wand that looked like something you'd find in a magical girl anime and an ornate pair of scissors clasped in either hand. "Just imagine all the amazing things we'll get to see and awesome adventures we'll get to have!"

These two were Marco Diaz, a Latino-American boy who tended to be overly cautious and a bit of a neat freak, and Star Butterfly, an energetic princess from another dimension who'd been living with Marco's family for the last few days as an exchange student while she learned to control the power of her wand.

During that time, Marco had to deal with some of the craziest and oddest situations in his life. A prominent example being when one of Star's friends Pony Head, a literal floating unicorn head, visited with the intention of having one last blowout before being sent to a reform school.

Afterwards, the bodiless horse left Star with the scissors the girl was currently holding, which were capable of cutting open portals to other dimensions… no, seriously.

Anyway, being the curious and excitable girl she was, Star quickly learned everything that she could about the handy tool, and stumbled upon an interesting related subject, Locked Dimensions. These were dimensions that almost all form of dimensional travel was blocked, whether it be from a naturally occurring phenomenon or intentionally sealed off because of the dangers they held.

And naturally, Star wanted to go to one of these places almost immediately after learning about them, despite the numerous warnings and people saying that it was an extremely bad idea.

"How do you even plan to do this? Everything you found on Locked Dimensions said that Dimensional Scissors don't work on them at all." Marco stated, before sighing as Star wiggled her wand in front of his face. "Of course you're gonna use your wand."

"Yep, if I channel the magic from it into the scissors, then it should boost them enough to work." The princess said while carelessly twirling the two magical items in her hands.

'Or it'll cause a huge disastrous mess that we'll have to spend all day cleaning up… again.' Marco thought with a grimace. "Fine, but why are we doing it in my room? I just finished cleaning in here." He said while gesturing to the tidy bedroom they were currently standing in.

"Sorry Marco but the laser puppies are napping in mine right now and I don't want to disturb them. Now stop worrying so much, I'll be careful." Star said, shrugging off the boy's concerns as she held her arms out in front of her and pressed the top of the wand against the scissor blades while Marco dived for cover.

…

…

*Bzzt-poof* "Perfect!"

Slowly peaking out from his cover, Marco was greeted by the site of Star grinning as she held up the Dimensional Scissors which now gave off a soft pink glow. Looking around the room, he was honestly amazed to find it completely unharmed.

"…That was surprisingly anticlimactic." The sweater wearing boy couldn't help but say as he fully stood up. "Looks like you're finally starting to get a hand on your magi-"

"Alright, let's give these a try!" Star cut him off as she jabbed the scissors in front of her and snipped the very air, causing a small cut to appear.

*KRAKACHZZZT*

"I spoke too soon!" Marco yelled as chaos erupted throughout the room. Lightning arced all over the place, igniting multiple things aflame and leaving dark scorch marks, powerful winds blew around practically everything not nailed to the floor, and random areas of the room were suddenly froze over.

Meanwhile, in the exact center of all this, Star firmly stood her ground as she struggled to continue cutting. With each snip of the scissors, the portal grew larger, but the destruction happening around her got steadily worse.

The temperature in the room skyrocketed, melting all the ice and causing the two to sweat profusely, before plummeting just as rapidly. Then, hot steaming water started pouring from growing tear, soaking the floor and causing the forming ice to crackle and hiss from the sudden warmth.

"Y-You need t-to s-s-stop Star!" Marco yelled with chattering teeth, clinging to his bedframe for dear life as his body was jerked around in the air like a ragdoll. "This i-is getting t-too f-far out o-o-of hand!"

"Just a little bit longer! It's almost finished!" Star yelled back, the hearts on her cheeks having turned into tick marks as she tried to make the last cut, only for the scissors to refuse to budge. Gritting her teeth, the princess dropped her wand so that she could grip the cutting tool's handles with both hands and squeeze them with all her might.

"S-Star!" The hooded boy screamed as a bolt narrowly missed turning him into an extra crispy fried teenager.

"Hold on Marco!" Star's hands trembled violently and sweat practically showered from her brow, but a wide grin spread across her lips once she started to feel the scissors close. "I'm… almost… THERE!"

With one last grunt of effort, the magic paper cutter finally sliced through the fabric of reality and the portal stabilized, turning into a blackhole-like vortex that lazily spun in the air.

"Yes! It worked! It worked!" Star cheered happily as everything settled down. "I told you it would work Marco! Now come on, I can't wait too-" *Crackle*

The blonde girl stopped midsentence as an odd cracking sound reached her ears. Following the sound to its source, her eyes widened in shock as she watched glowing fractures rapidly spread across the blades of the Dimensional Scissors in her hands.

Snapping her gaze back to the portal before her, the color rapidly drained from Star's face and her cheek marks turned into hazard signs as similar cracks were spreading across it as well. Realizing what was about to happen, she turned towards Marco and reached out towards him.

Then everything went white.

…

"…uhg," A weak groan escaped Marco's lips as the world around him slowly came back into focus and numbly took in the sight of his destroyed bedroom from the floor he lay on. As his brain kicked back into gear though, his shock swiftly turned to worry for his friend as he looked to where she had been and saw nothing but shards of broken metal laying on the floor. "…St-Star…"

Breaking into a heavy coughing fit, the boy tried to sit up only to find himself pinned from the shoulders down under the burnt remains of his bed. Not deterred in the slightest, he wiggled around as much as he could to try and get free.

After several minutes of useless struggling, Marco froze as a swirling circle of fire suddenly appeared right at the epicenter of the explosion. Thinking that there was about to be another blast, the hooded teen braced himself as best he could, only to once more be caught by surprise as a lovely woman with pale skin, long red hair, and two horns sticking out of her head wearing an orange ball gown and a black tiara with a small flame floating above it stepped out.

She looked around most of the devastated bedroom with a mask of neutrality on her face that only broke when she saw the metal pieces on the floor. With a deep frown on her face, she bent over and scooped up several of the scissor fragments with her hand.

Straightening back up, the demonic looking woman stared at the shards sternly for several moments before suddenly jerking her head to the side so she was looking straight at Marco with a powerful glare as the fire above her head flared. "Tell me boy, who's the dumbass that fucked with things they shouldn't have?"

-Meanwhile-

"Ah, this is just what I needed after all those stupid D-ranks." A boy with spikey blonde hair and three whisker-like marks on either cheek said as he sunk into the warm soothing water of a hot-spring with nothing on but a towel around his waist.

This was Naruto Uzumaki, number one hyperactive knuckleheaded ninja of the village of Konohagakure and jinchuricki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. He had just finished up several D-rank missions (aka chores for lazy civilians) with his team ands was now enjoying soak in one of Konoha's hot-spring spas.

After a few minutes of nothing but silence though, a bored sigh escaped the boy's lips as he glanced around the empty spring. "Man, I can't believe they all bailed on me."

He was supposed to be hanging out with a few of his guy friends, Shikamaru, Choji, Shino, and Kiba, along with their sensei Kakashi and Asuma so that they could chat about how their first week as official ninja had been going. It was a little thing that they had come up with to celebrate fully graduating from the academy.

Unfortunately, Choji ended up going to an eating contest instead with Asuma and Shikamaru tagging along to make sure he didn't go overboard… and to probably take a nap in the latter's case. Shino's hive got the bug equivalent of the common cold, so the quiet boy was on bedrest for the next few days.

Kiba was at home nursing his pride and face from the beatdown he got when he made a bad joke about his sister without realizing she was right behind him. Hell, even his teammate Sasuke was missing, but that was rather expected since unless it was training, brooding, or tomatoes, the emo was having nothing to do with it.

Kakashi was simply too lazy to even bother coming, enough said.

Not one to be deterred though, and not wanting to have wasted the money he spent to be here, Naruto kept trying to enjoy himself, letting the mineral rich hot water soak away the stress and soreness in his muscles. It wasn't easy however, as the splashing and yelling coming over the divider from the women's side kept reminding him how he wasn't getting to hang out with his friends like planned.

"Oh who am I kidding, this blows." He said with another sigh, sending the dividing wall a jealous look before sinking further into the water, somehow missing the pale lavender eye that was staring at him through a small hole.

'Poor Naruto-kun,' The owner of said eye, a lovely young girl with short dark blue hair, thought with a sad look. Her name was Hinata Hyuga, a shy kind girl and member of the highly respected Hyuga clan. Hearing more yelling coming from behind her, the bluenette briefly stopped her peep- er, checking up on Naruto to look back, where a girl with pink hair and another with platinum blonde yelled at each-other while a red-eyed raven-haired woman held them apart with a dull look.

"Sasuke-kun is mine Ino-pig!"

"No way forehead! He loves me!"

"Like hell he does!"

In order, these three were Sakura, Naruto's teammate and crush, Ino, Sakura's exfriend and love rival, and Kurenai, Hinata's team sensei. Unable to help herself, Hinata rolled her eyes at the sight while going back to discreetly spying on a bored Naruto.

"Eh-hem, and what do you think you're doing."

"EEEP!"

…or at least she thought she'd been discreet.

Jumping in surprise at the voice right behind her, Hinata spun around with a heavy blush on her face, before cringing as she found herself being glared at suspiciously by Sakura, while Kurenai looked at her with an odd mixture of amusement and disappointment on her face, and Ino smirked with a gleam in her eye.

"You were trying to peek on Sasuke-kun, weren't you?" Sakura accused while jabbing a finger into the pale eyed girl's developing chest.

"Oh please forehead, everyone knows she has a huge crush on Naruto." Ino said while shoving the pinkette back and pulled Hinata into a one-armed hug. "But who knew little miss wallflower Hinata had it in her to try peeping on him. I guess what they say about the quiet ones is true after all."

At this point, Hinata's face was literally glowing red and steam slowly rose from her ears as she tried to deny everything, only for her words to come out a jumbled stuttering mess.

"Really? She's actually into Naruto-baka?" Sakura asked with a raised brow. "I thought that was just one of those stupid rumors you started up for fun."

"Hey! I'll have you know that I only deal with authentic gossip." Ino said confidently, her chest puffing out in pride. "Speaking of which, I wonder what the boys are talking about…or how Sasuke looks without his shirt." Her smirk growing, Ino pulled Hinata out of the way as she excitedly took the girl's spot at the hole.

However, it took exactly .01 seconds for that eagerness to turn to confusion when she saw Naruto by himself, lazily splashing water at a nearby rock. "What the? Naruto's the only one over there."

"Say what?" Squeezing in next to the blonde, Sakura blinked in surprise as she saw the same thing. "The heck? Where is everyone?"

"They're probably still getting undressed." Ino said, before she and Sakura shifted in place so they were looking towards the changing room, hoping to see Sasuke as he walked out.

-Que Fast Forward Sound Effect-

"…Okay, they aren't here." Ino said as she backed away from the wall after five minutes passed with no signs of anyone coming. "Maybe something came up."

"For everyone but Naruto?" Sakura asked disbelievingly. "They probably just decided to bail at the last minute."

"Yeah, that's sounds like something they'd do." Ino said with a frown. "I kinda feel bad for Naruto though, I heard he was really looking forward to this."

"Meh, he'll be fine, just buy him some ramen and the idiot will forget all about it." Sakura said while sinking back into the steaming water, not seeing the small angry look Hinata sent her before the shy girl went back to 'checking on' Naruto.

"Amazing, such concern for your teammate's wellbeing, it's inspiring." Kurenai said sarcastically, giving the pinkette a disapproving look.

"That did sound sorta cold Sakura, even if this is Naruto we're talking about." Ino couldn't help but admit.

Sakura shrugged in response, her face not changing. "Maybe a little, but I'm not wrong. I've yet to see something that keeps him down for long."

Ino nodded, knowing what Sakura was talking about while Kurenai rolled her eyes before looking towards Hinata as the girl shook her arm lightly. "What is it Hinata?"

"T-there's something w-weird happening with N-N-N-Naruto-kun." The bluenette stuttered while suddenly pulling the raven-haired woman to the peeping spot. Surprised by the girl's actions, Kurenai didn't manage to regain her wits until she was already looking through the hole in the wall and saw what Hinata was talking about.

Naruto himself was fine albeit confused and on edge, the reason for such clear as the water around him was roiling madly while emanating a bright aurora of colors. "What the hell?" Kurenai muttered as her eye narrowed at the sight, before widening as the light started rapidly increasing.

"Get down!" She yelled, grabbing Hinata and tackling the other two girls into the spring.

*BOOOOM*

A massive explosion shook the area, blowing the walls of the hot-spring to pieces and sending hot water showering everywhere. As the effects of the blast were dying down, Sakura, Ino, and Hinata burst to the surface gasping for breath while Kurenai simply stood up, blood leaking from all their ears.

"W-What was that?!" Sakura screamed out once she finished coughing up the water she'd accidentally swallowed.

"What!?" Ino yelled back, unable to hear what the pinkette was saying.

Neither Hinata or Kurenai spoke, the former being too dazed to while the latter knew it was pointless to try since she recognized the pain in her inner ears and the disorientation she felt being caused by ruptured eardrums.

Well, that and they were both boggled by the sight they saw when they looked back towards the origin of the explosion.

Naruto sat in thee exact same spot, his face a mask of shock and surprise. He had various minor heat and scald burns across his body and his towel was basically a pile of rags, but other than that he was surprisingly unharmed.

Despite his lack of injuries though, he remained completely immobile and kept his gaze locked forward…

…where an equally shocked looking Star stared right back with her arm outstretched towards her fellow blonde.

…

…

…

"…Hi."

"…Yo."

-End Chapter-

AN: I hope I did well and that you all enjoyed it, thank you for reading and please review.