Flipped Star

Star Comes to Earth CH.6

Marco stood under the bright sign of a convenience store. His back to the wall the boy was slowly sipping a bright green slushy. The sun was already long gone so Marco was staring at the infinite blackness of the sky.

His tranquil moment was disturbed by quiet footsteps. From the shadows came Star, eyes down, hands wrapped around herself. Seeing the girl Marco sighed.

"Gre..." The girl stopped and tightened hands around herself "Hi."

"What do you want?" The boy proclaimed disinterested.

"Well, I wanted to ask you something?" Star didn't dare to look at Marco.

"I am listening," Marco muttered, more concentrated on his drink then the person standing next to him.

"Do you... Do you hate me?" Star's head drop. "Because if yes I can move out and bother you no more."

For a second silence stood between the two. Star stared at her shoes, her sky blue eyes filling up with tears. The boy froze and frowned in disbelief. "I never said that I hate you."

"But you are always so displeased with me. Is that not how people express hate? Or at least annoyance?" Star looked at Marco. She was in tears, the harts on her cheeks now red.

"Star...Aa... you misunderstand, I-"

"Princess Star Butterfly," a pompous voice echoed through the parking lot.

The two kids turned to the source of the voice. What they saw was an array of beasts. Mixtures of animals, humans and things hard to describe. At the helm of all of them pointing at the princess stood a creature. It looked like a gigantic bipedal lobster wearing a pair of pants and a jacket with a popped collar.

"By the name of the great Lord Ludo," the Lobster continued. "I would like to nicely ask you to give us the royal wand. Or else." All the beast behind the monster screamed in a cacophony of bizarre noises and battle cries.

"In your-" Star proclaimed her voice determined. Before the princess could finish, Marco jumped in front of her.

The brown-haired boy was in a battle stance ready for whatever these beasts will throw at him. "Don't fear Star, I'll take care of them," Marco proclaimed a cocky smile dancing on his lips.

"Mar-Marko-," the princess tried to protest perilously extending her hand towards the boy, lost of what to do next.

"So the princess got herself a little knight" the lobster creature giggled maniacally. "Boys lets show this little human what it's like to deal with monsters." A tremendous roar filled the parking lot and a giant mass of monsters lunge at Star and Marco.

Surprisingly Marco managed to handle himself quite well against a dozen of monsters. A valley of swift kicks and careful punches managed to hold back the blind uncoordinated attacks of the beasts.

Yet, Marco was still fighting a dozen of grate beings alone. As he focused on a humanoid giraffe, a two-headed devilish creature snuck upon him. Two fists rushed at the boy's head. Marco noticed the sneak attack too late, he was too slow to do anything. But before the fist could collide with the boy, a streak of silver flashed. In a heartbeat, the monster was on the ground sliding into the distance as Star stood in its place. In her hand was her wand except now a thin silvery blade emerged from the yellow moon.

"Star you can fight?"

"Same question to you." Star lunged around Marco stabbing at the creature sneaking behind the boy. "We will talk later. Now concentrate."

The fight raged on as now Star and Marco fought together. Surprisingly the two kits were a pretty good team. They covered each other's backs making sure that no monster could catch them surprised. Working together to deal with the bigger, badder creatures.