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Marco woke to she sound of bickering coming from stars room. Something about someone needing a favour or something, Marco didn’t really pay much attention as he got dressed into his usual attire.
Marco walks groggily out of his room, cancelling his alarm as he did so, heading to see what the commotion was.
As he approached stars door, Marco jumped back because the door exploded off of its hinges in a fiery blaze before smashing into the wall and shattering into a million pieces.
“SORRY MARCO!!” Tom's voice comes through the door and the little fires the flaming door left behind extinguished
Marco peered into the room, where he saw tom, the demon's, eyes were glowing red and his body floating in the air, yet he seemed to be more frustrated than angry. Star on the other hand, was standing, wand raised, hair in a mess, looking absolutely irate.
“YOU BREAK INTO MY ROOM, WAKE ME FROM MY BEAUTY SLEEP, AND NOW HAVE THE AUDACITY TO ASK ME THAT!!!”
Marco didn’t know what star was talking about but it must have been bad, he didn’t even know star was capable of getting so angry.
Tom seemed to flinch at those words before quietly saying “it’s just a small favour”
“’A SMALL FAVOUR’? REALY, A SMALL FAVOUR, IF I DID THAT I COULD LOOSE EVERYTHING!”
“starship...”
“DONT YOU CAL ME THAT. GET OUT”
“but”
“OUT”
Tom reluctantly leaves through the now door-less frame, passing Marco quietly, not saying a word and looking completely dejected, Marco almost felt sorry for the boy. That is until he remembered what happened last time they met. Marco's face hardens.
Marco walks into stars room, cautiously, while taking in the surrounding scene. Books were thrown about on the floor, some half burned and still smouldering, scorch marks littered the room, on the walls, floor, and even the ceiling.
“What was that”
“Just tom asking me for stuff like he forgot we aren’t together anymore”
“what was he asking for, I don’t think I have ever seen you so angry before”
“just some favour or something, don’t worry about it Marco” the girl started smiling again.
“okay, well I’m goanna get ready for school now” he says, a little suspicious of star
Marco goes to school, and everything happens an usual. That is, until lunch.
Marco is called into the guidance councillor’s room for some reason. After telling star not to cause any trouble or go on any adventures without him, the teen headed suspiciously toward Mr candle’s office, thinking about what happened last time before entering.
“Ah, marco. Come in, come in, take a seat” ‘candle’ gestures to a soft chair in front of his desk
The boy sits, slowly.
“we never realy did talk about your future careers did we”
“I know your only here because of tom, what does he want” blunt.
Candle looks a litle surprised, befor it shifts to an amused expression “fine, fine. He wants a favour”
“Whatever it is, No is the answer”
Marco stands up to leave when a rush of heat comes up behind him and tom places a warm hand on his shoulder. Causing Marco's heart to skip a beat.
“Wait”
“what?” the boy said, now slightly annoyed
“I need help getting a magical artefact”
“why” the demon is acting suspicious
“Uh... why not? I’ll owe you if you do it, I’ll do anything you want”
“This isn’t about Star, is it?” Marco sounds hesitant
“No! No” he said quickly, maybe a little too quickly
Marco sighed before responding
“What do you need me to do?”
They went over the plan thoroughly, Marco missing lesson to help Tom scheme. By the time the final bell rung out, the two had an impeccable plan that would commence tomorrow.
Marco headed home as usual, meeting star on the bus
“Where were you! I had to suffer through math on my own” the girl produced a small pile of papers and gave then to Marco
“What’s this”
“homework, serves you right for diching me. It’s the weekend tomorrow, want to go to the bounce lounge, Ponyhead said they’re opening again”
“Nah, id rather not. I still don’t really like her”
“Suit yourself”
The pair get home, and Star goes to sleep. Marco, however, was waiting patiently, ready to begin his and Tom’s plan.
Another hour passes before a quiet, gentle ring of flames appears in his room. The blaze gently decreased to nothing, revealing a demon standing before him, dressed all in black. The boy couldn’t help but admit the demon looked rather hot like that, and not as in the temperature king of hot.
“Finally, your ten minutes late”
“yeah, sorry. My mom got distracted looking at the photo album and caused a lava storm”
Tom realises what Marco is wearing, a bright pink and purple dress much like what princess Turdina wears.
“Don’t tell me you’re a Turdina fan”
“dude, I am Turdina” Marco says as he puts his hair in a ponytail
“wait, realy?! Can you sign-“
Marco cuts him off “no, now let’s go, we’re behind schedule, the guards know were going, they should let me in”
“Oh right”
Tom slowly goes to hold Marco's hand
"May i"
"You may"
As tom grasps Marco's hand, Beth boys turn a completely diferent shade, but thus is quickly hidden by the roaring fire that arupted around them.
Marco feels like he is going down in an elevator, albeit one made of flames. Before long, they arrive somewhere in the underworld in front of two guards
“Princess Turdina?” one of the guards asks
“that is I” ‘Turdina’ responds
The guard opened the gate allowing Marco to walk through, but growling at tom as he passed through
“alright, we’re looking for a big vault”
“Like that one?” Marco points to a building, towering high above them.
“yes”
The two boys walk to the building and tom casts a spell to open it. Before leading Marco through twisting corridors and over deadly traps, eventually, the were met with a large iron door.
"You are after the pendant, you only have one shot at this"
Marco walks toward the door, it was large with intricate gold plated symbols carved into it. The scene showed a large demon, not unlike tom seeing the heavens ablaze. A small pendant lay forgot on on the ground.
Marco reached for the door, he felt a surge of magic flow into him and the door swung open.
Inside was pitch black, despite the door being open
“You have to go in on your own, demons physicaly canot enter the vault” tom holds his hand into the doorway to demonstrate and it begins to sizzle painfully before he quickly pulls it back
Marco enters the vault, instantly feeling the magic heavy around him, it was just black, that is until, Marco felt a tingling sensation on his cheeks as a faint glow emanated from them in the shape of Crescent moons.
This light iluminated the walls and he could see faint markings written in Spanish on the wall and pictures of moons in all phases, blood moon being above them all. From what Marco could read, the text said
‘Mother moon transform me,
Tell me a tale of God’s and demons,
Whose rage is great but caged too late,
Whose pure and white but not a delight
Mother moon transform me,
Give me strength to str---’
The text cut off. Marco didn’t have a good feeling about this but still, he walked on. Carvings of humans growing demonic tails littered the wall beside him. Marco reached the small room in the centre of the vault. His cheeks glow brighter and he can hear the magic in his his ears, painfully loud, he can almost taste the raw power emanating from the centre as he approaches
The pendant itself was nothing special, just a small cage strung on red yarn. The floor beneath the pedestal was carved and panted to show a large super moon surrounded by a deep blue sky.
Marco reached for the pendant, the sound in his ears became unbearable, his hand felt like it was going to explode, dissolve or both. He grabbed the pendant quickly and ran to the exit where tom was waiting, his senses returning to normal.
Tom hugs marco in happiness. “You got it!! Yes! I fucking love you Marco, I could kiss you right now!” tom realises what he just said and blushed a deep shade of purple
“I mean, like, as a friend”
Marco turns a deep shade of red despite the ringing in his ears
“It was so loud in there, like, I could actually hear the magic, what was that” the ringing subsided somewhat
“oh, that was the defence system, it burns demons alive, and some demons are like, really powerful so the closer you get to the centre, the stronger the spell gets”
“That... makes sense”
“should we get outa here?”
“Yeah”
Tom closes the vault door and teleports them both to his lair.
“Ping pong?”
“after last time? No way”
“your loss”
Marco looks at the pendant he still held in his hand
“What is this anyway, with how protected it was, I am kinda scared to give it to you”
“it’s exactly what it looks like, it’s a cage” tom sits down in front of his T.V. “it cages rage anger and stuff, it used to belong to a great demon king before he died. The god race, like the demons but pure white and A LOT less friendly, made it for him to stop him from getting mad and destroying his own kingdom. Of corse, one day he took it off and a God came down to talk politics with him, that annoyed the king and so, he burned their dimension to the ground.”
“wow, so you took this to help with your anger management?” Marco is interested in the demon history, but thinks Tom's intentions are more important.
“Pretty much”
Marco sat down beside tom and a silence fell over them for a while.
“wanna watch hand to hand to hand?” tom breaks the silence holding up a DVD.
“YES!” Marco said immediately
The two watched 3 separate Mackie hand movies before Marco checked the time and stood up
“I’ve got to leave, star and ponyhead will be back soon and I need to stop them from making the house sentient or something”
“Alright... uh, nice hanging out with you today, I’ll take you back”
"Don't forget, you owe me"
"I did say that didn't I, anything you want or somthing like that"
Marco's heart flutters at the thought. Anything. He stops himself before his mind goes down... that path.
Tom took Marco's hand once more and, like before, teleported them to Marco's room.
"Goodbye tom" Marco hands tom the pendant, their hands brushing for a brief moment causing tom to blush slightly.
"Goodbye marco" tom says softly, slowly slipping on his new pendant.