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Stomco week - Day 3 - Fun with Magic

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This OS is taking place about a year after the finale; Star, Tom and Marco are an established triad and things have calmed down with Eclipsa. I hope you'll like it!

Star had been away more frequently than usual. Several times a week, she would be gone for hours at a time. It wasn’t a drastic change, but it was noticeable enough for Marco to get curious about it.

She wouldn’t tell him where she was gone. The only other person who appeared to know was Tom, and he was also trying hard to keep Star’s activities a secret. Marco had tried to get an answer out of them both multiple times, without success. He’d be okay if it was something he just was not supposed to know, but it wasn’t even that. They always managed to switch his attention to something else, until the next time Star was gone.

This had been going on for weeks and Marco was really starting to feel irked by it all. He knew Star needed her privacy, but the fact her and Tom were specifically keeping him from knowing was upsetting.

That day, Star had been away for even longer than she usually was, and even Tom was nowhere to be found. Marco had been left hanging around in the palace, killing time until his girlfriend and boyfriend were back. He didn’t mind free time but god was he in a sour mood. As the evening darkened the sky, he waited for them, playing video games in his bedroom, which was now more of a private space than the place he slept most of the time – that would be Star’s bedroom.

Tom and Star didn’t even get a chance to speak first when they came back. Marco was up and ready to call them out as soon as he heard their footsteps in the corridor. There had been a few false alarms so far, mind you. But not this time. This time, when they stepped into his room, he glared at them both right in the eyes and snapped. “Okay, that’s it, this has been going on for too long! I won’t back down until you tell me where you were today!”

“Okay, Marco.”

Star’s sudden compliance caught him off-guard and he stopped to look at her and Tom. He was wearing a tranquil, amused smile, staring back at him attentively. As for Star, she had the largest excited grin on her face, slightly bouncing on the soles of her feet and keeping her hands hidden behind her back. Their common glee completely washed away his previous annoyance, leaving him unsure and curious.

“We were at Eclipsa’s,” Tom said plainly, moving to go sit on Marco’s bed, glancing at the paused video game screen.

“Eclipsa’s?” Marco repeated. “The other times too?”

“Yup!” Star confirmed in her excited sing-song voice.

“Why?” There would have been no reason to hide that from him. After the former Queen had managed to free her monster love from his crystal prison, there had been a bit of ruckus, obviously. But after some adaptation and some broken fights, Globgore and Eclipsa were now living a happy marriage in their isolated castle, raising their surprisingly adorable de-aged daughter. Tom, Star and Marco would pay them a visit from time to time, and they were all on good terms, so why hide more frequent visits from him?

“Well, you know, catching up over tea, playing with baby Meteora, oh, and Eclipsa has been helping me work on my magic hands!” Star took her right hand out from behind her back and wiggled her fingers, a gesture she had gotten from the former queen. Star had been working on summoning her magic without the wand for a while now and was getting very good at it, even in her normal mewman form. She kinda had to, since she was insisting on letting Eclipsa keep the wand.

“That’s… It?” Marco asked tentatively, because there was no way that was all they had done.

“Well, Star kinda had this little side-project Meteora and Glossarick were helping her with, so today I went and helped them with the finish,” Tom said like that was completely normal.

“What kind of side project?”

Star almost started vibrating from excitement and bit her own lip harshly. “Take a guess!”

“Um…”

“Oh, you know what, nevermind, I can’t wait any longer!” Star cried out, shoving the thing she was hiding in her left hand into Marco’s arms.

He looked down to see what it was, but it suddenly emitted a blinding light and soared into the air, pulling Marco with it. It spun wildly for a moment, then stopped and floated back down a lot more gently, setting the dizzy human boy back on the ground. The light dimed out revealing a metallic green object akin to a very short dagger, but with a spherical hilt adorned with black bat wings and a small purple diamond-shaped stone. Marco’s eyes widened in recognition, his eyebrows soaring higher than the object had moments ago. “Star, is that your wand?!”

“No, not my wand, Marco!” Star had one of the happiest, most excited faces Marco had ever seen on her, and that was saying something. “This is an entirely new, extra-personalized magical wand and it’s yours!”

“Mine? What? How? Why?” Marco was extremely lost but Star seemed literally incapable of calming down.

“Isn’t it amazing?! We’re going to be the most incredible team of magic people in the entire multiverse!” she screamed, grabbing his shoulders and shaking him like a rag doll. Tom snickered, trying to not be too obvious about the fact he was having a blast watching them.

“Can someone tell me what’s going on?” Marco pleaded.

“Star has been making a new wand to replace the one she gave Eclipsa, and she wants you to have it,” Tom explained, getting up from the bed. He made his way to his two partners and gently pried Star away, keeping her in a back embrace from a dizzy but thankful Marco.

“We both made it, actually!” Star interjected, flashing a grin at the blushing demon. “That’s why Tom was with me today!”

“Okay… Wait, what? Why me?” Marco asked, finally able to think a little clearly.

“Because you’re awesome and we love you and we’re going to be an amazing magical team!”

“Because I already have my demonic powers and Star has basically mastered wandless magic,” Tom explained, and from the embrace where she was kept, Star wiggled her fingers. “So we thought it would be awesome if you could use magic too!” Even if he could manage his excitement a lot better than Star, Tom was as genuinely happy as his girlfriend.

“Oh god. Oh god, you guys, I… This is…” Marco struggled to form a coherent sentence. That Tom and Star trusted him with a wand, one they had made just for him… It meant so much. Without him saying anything, he was suddenly the center of a group hug and had to stop thinking for a moment in order to appreciate it. “I don’t know what to say,” he admitted.

“You don’t have to say anything,” Star said.

“Aren’t your parent going to be… You know, worried about this?”

“I don’t care. Now!” Star pulled back so suddenly Marco was pushed against Tom and the two boys had to found their balance again. “You gotta try it out!”

“Wait, I don’t know any spells or, are there any precautions I have to take first? How about…”

“Ugh, Marco, now’s not the time for safety!” Star slapped her hands over Marco’s cheeks and looked at him straight in the eyes. “You now have a tool of incredible power you must use and protect against the forces of evil. You won’t always have spells to rely on or time for precautions.” Her face closed in, uncomfortably serious. “So trust your guts and go for it.”

Sounds of people yelling and things breaking was coming from afar, far below them, at the foot of the castle. The air smelled like dust and burnt cheddar as Star, Tom and Marco stared at what once was the wall of Marco’s bedroom. There was no hole in it, the entire thing was gone and its remains had rained down the white stone façade like a waterfall.

“I am a very bad teacher,” Star remarked.

“No, don’t… Don’t say that,” Tom tried.

“I am very bad at magic,” Marco added.

“Hey, don’t say that either,” Tom sighed. He drew the two close tentatively, rubbing their shoulders. Marco was still clutching the wand, teeth clenched. Star looked like she was having St-Olga flash-backs. Tom felt a little guilty. He loved seeing his lovers happy and excited but maybe he should have stopped it before it went too far.

“It could’ve gone a lot worse.” Star smiled, and giggled nervously. “You didn’t set the entire castle on fire.”

“Because you did?”

“I was young and wild and a little cold.”

Tom and Marco looked at her and caught her infectious laughter. “I can second the wild thing,” Tom admitted. “But you were fourteen.”

“Which is young.”

“It was two years ago.”

“Maybe we should go and check if anybody got hurt?” Marco interrupted.

Tom and Star nodded. “Good call, let’s go.”