Fumbling with the clunky remote Toffee had handed him, Ludo slammed his pointed little fingers all over every button in a frenzy to get his newest greatest villain trick operating. Lighting up the entire room Ludo struck the right button. Simply the power button. Illuminating himself and Toffee seated behind him in the little recon room.

"Look at this! Ah, it's working-" Ludo praising his own achievement of turning on the tv, he was ignorant as Buff Frog came in to address him, "Ahaha! Now we can-"

"Ludo, Master-" Buff Frog trying to announce himself. Of course taking a cautious step from the lizard who sat with contempt watching, book in lap and no words to add to Ludo's cheering.

"Yeah yeah Master blah blah! Look at this!" Ludo jumped giddy in front of the huge picture of the Dias's kitchen, "Now we can watch Star wherever! And she thinks nothing of the giant floating eye!" A clear assumption as Star had been seen many times poking at the device then waving madly into it. Very unaware it was monstrous intent and nothing of the royal court.

"But, Master-" Buff Frog frown, "It has but one eye, were I have two."

"Yeah yeah yeah whatever, but hey, now that you're free maybe you could get us some popcorn and milkshakes," Ludo nestled himself in the pillow throne he'd had made right in front of the blinding screen, "And you know, join us if you want. If you sit in the back."

"Hmm-" Buff Frog brooding over the change glanced back at Toffee. Clear distrust as he wasn't even looking at the screen like Ludo. Instead his intent was in some strange book Buff Frog could not see completely, "But Master I-"

"Oh and just change the channel! Look we can watch her anywhere, kitchen! Bedroom! Bathroom-"

"Huh," Buff Frog and Toffee at least looked up a little concerned about that last choice.

"Ok maybe we don't keep that channel," Ludo flipped back to the living room where it was Star motioning and explaining something in great length to the normal Marco and Elly as well as a handful of other assorted human friends.

Toffee did lift his face from his reading to look over at Ludo briefly before his flaxen gaze drifted up to the one thing that did not match in the little group Princess Star was amassing, "Sometimes, your greatest threat is right under your nose."

Dense as normal Ludo popped off quickly, "My nose is in my beak!"

"Mmhm," Toffee nodded a little dismissive as his eyes remained up on the only other non human amidst the screen.

Buff Frog taking the chance, snuck a glimpse in the book Toffee held open in his lap. For the most part illiterate, what the monster frog could take from the scribbles on the page were a jumbled mess of 'banishment' 'spell' and 'break'. Darting his amphibian eyes up he followed the lizard's gaze not to befall on the Princess like Ludo. Instead, Buff Frog confused as he saw the other blondish girl interacting with Star that held the newcomers attention so carefully. Slowly Buff Frog felt his senses telling him something wasn't right. But when he went to steal another look from Toffee's book, he was intercepted with a quick snap and the pages being closed in the depths of the book. Buff Frog jumping back a little when he realized Toffee's gaze was no longer on the screen but staring directly at the overly curious henchmen.

His instincts making ease out of the room to leave but Ludo hollering out at him, "Don't forget our milkshakes and popcorn you idiot!"

After bathing the syrup out of one's hair. Having to wait in a bathrobe that is not your own, in a house that one hadn't spent much more than a few hours in. Really puts a good comfortably stamp on a friendship. Though not ready to sleep within the walls of Star's residence, Elly had agreed walking to school was a nice change of pace than being alone.

Each day she would make the effort to get up and out early to meet the two of them outside Marco's house. Never ready to come inside, something Star didn't respect but Marco insisted she leave her alone about it. Elly was feeling, different, the days she spent with the human and mewman. Not as empty? It wasn't conjuable to the female. As much as she desired to applaud this new feeling. She'd worried her black reflectionless mirror to death. Seeds of doubt since the day she'd took her plummet of the building. Concerned she'd done something to displease him. No way she could ask. Simply worrying a sickness into herself.

That sour feeling bypassing this morning. Elly gawking as she came up the street not to a house. But to a god awful display of a fun house made entirely out of brown hair that cascaded out of every window and door in the house.

"Star?" Elly tiptoed around a large wad of hair laying out on the sidewalk. Too off put to even touch it.

"Oh where it is?!" Back end pointed up as Star was diving into knots and knots of hair, she was caught off guard when her walking buddy came up behind her, "Oh Elly! Ahaha, your early-"

"No...I'm on time-" Elly stopped and really looked around taking it all in, "What exactly-"

"Oh hahah funny you should ask!" Star laughed over her friend's words, "Well you see-! Funny thing-" She dove into another pile of hair but seemed to come up empty handed, "You know- Marco may or may not have told me NOT to use magic- But, hah now this is where it's funny!" Star frantic shoved her hands in mess after mess of brown locks.

"Star," Elly placid expression showed clearly she wasn't buying the escapade of a story Star was selling.

"Ok-" She groaned and sulked back spilling it all in one breath, "I used magic to help Marco grow a beard because Jackie liked someone elses and now Marco's beard is more of a monster beard and he's stuck in the house and I dropped my wand in the bathroom and Marco's going to die in his own beard."

Blinking a couple of times. Maybe processing the gargle of words she just vomited out. Or maybe just processing the fact what she was looking at was Marco's faux facial hair. But Elly finally came around to it and slowly nodded that she got it, "Ok....so what do you do when you don't have magic?"

"Argh you sound like Marco!" Star through her arms up, "Normal person this! Normal person that! Don't always gotta use magic you know Star?? Alright Marco we get it!"

"Ahem," Elly loudly cleared her throat to advise Star to get back on track.

"Right right right- Marco dying-" Star raised her hand and thoughtfully tapped her cheek, "Ok, normal person, what would a normal person do."

"Maybe we could just-"

"Ah ah ah! Normal person things!" Star expounded on herself without Elly's input, "Aha! I got it!"

"Uh Star-" Elly cautious when she watched Star dart into the garden shed. Only to produce a very large pair of hedge clippers.

"Normal person!" Star proclaimed as she pounced on the closest lock of massive hair blocking the door, "We're coming Marco!"

"Wait Star I'd rather-"

"We're coming Marco!" Star sung out again triumphantly as she yanked Elly in with her into the hair monstrosity head first.

Three beeps and the scanner produced exact coordinates of the lone wand lodged in hairy abode.

"I have location on the wand," Toffee tampered a little more with the dish like scanner to get the best image of the two humanoid figures on one side of the screen and the wand all the way out of their reach, "Its inside the house. And, it's ours for the taking."

"That's a house!" Ludo shrieked as he wrung his hands together, "It's covered in h-hair. Uh, maybe we should come back another time-"

"Of course," Toffee looked concerned at Ludo and then so surprised at the house, It's just, the wand has never been, unattended before."

"Ooooooh," Every monster behind Ludo awe about Toffee's so blatant call out.

Squirming and fighting, Ludo dashed his looks from his henchmen, to Toffee and to the hairy house he was being told only stood between him and the wand, "Eh- Ah- Uh FINE!" Ludo caved, "But you idiots are going to carry me!"

Grabbing a handful of the chicken monsters feathers Ludo didn't hesitate to crawl up the taller creature and saddle himself to the displeasure of his henchman. He swatted at his ride to go on and everyone moaned but followed suit. Falling in line as Toffee brought up the read. A quick glance around before he vanished with the party into the house.

Giving her a lot more credit than Star first thought, she was impressed with the grit Elly had mucking through pounds and pounds of jungle hair. Of course watching her new friend in action still left room for her to applaud her normal person actions.

"Man, not having a wand is so not that bad!" Star scoffed and swung in before Elly pulled a sheet of hair from their path. Instead chomping through it with her clippers, "I mean I bet we're almost-" Both females tripped and dropped right onto the Dias's couch, "What?! The living room?! We're not even close!"

"Star!" Elly called out.

"Yeah I know I should just be-"

"No Star!" Elly lurched up and knocked the monologuing girl off the couch. Mere seconds before a giant hairball crushed the poor couch, "...I meant watch out."

"Ugh this is pointless!" Star at her limit of normal people strife plunked herself right down in a messy knot of hair, "Why we're not even going to make it! No magic! This is all my fault."

Elly turned around when she heard the word dump Star just gave herself, "Hey, what's that crap now." Elly crossed her arms and looked down at her friend, "You said you didn't always have magic, so what gives?"

"What gives, is I have no magic," Star monotoned her demise as she grabbed a waft of hair and turned over with it, "No magic, we're never going to make it."

"So all those stories or wrestling beasts and sneaking out of the castle to hunt down monsters were lies?" Elly poked Star's stohic form with the toe of her shoe, "You can't do anything now? Heck I didn't even know I could move that fast when that big hair ball came! I didn't even know what I can do! But you, you know what you could do. You've done it. And more. And now you're going to lay down because of a bad hair day?"

"Heuheuheu, bad hair day," Star chuckled deep in her throat at the terrible pun. Elly thought her speech was decent enough but if puns work then why not, "Yeah....yeah you know what, you're right! I've arm wrestled swamp beasts! I've fought monsters with my bare hands! I'm Star Butterfly! Wand shmand! We can do this! Girl power to the-"

Cut short, Star's self speech was ruinied when a fist from a wall of hair suddenly revealed the monster mash before her.

"Ludo!" Star gasped seeing the little bird hitching a ride on his lacky, "What are YOU doing here?!"

"Huh?!" Startled he gasped, "Wh- It's the girl! Get her!"

Swarmed out of lush brown curls a hoard of monsters fell onto Star.

"Hiya!" Fists first Star flung herself into the fight. Knocking each one that came up to her to the side like paper.

"Wait," Toffee pointed up the stairs to Ludo, "The wand is that way."

"Uh- Uh- Don't let her get it!" Ludo screamed his order up the stairs.

"Wait-" Star knocked over when two monsters grabbed her ankles, "Oof-! No- No Elly stop them-!"

Rushing right towards her, Elly froze. Unsure what to do. What her body could do. Each monster having a good two hundred pounds on her. She feared her failure as they careened towards her. When Star's plea reached her ears though it was like a systemic reaction to an order. For what she thought was the first time in her life, Elly swung her fist only to hit a bullseye right between the monsters eyes. Thrashing it back from the stairs where the wand was.

"Woah...." briefly Star and her tussle with the monsters stopped in awe seeing what they thought was the pacifist of the group strike a monster OKed to the ground. Only needing that moment and Star whooped and hollered, "You get them girl!"

"Heh-" far more pleased with herself than she should have been, Elly fell into letting her body do what it wanted. Swaying out of the way of each fist that came her way like her body remembered the movements. Some sort of a bloodlust overtook the girl as she cleared a way back for Star to join her on the stairs. Each strike coming in the most efficient contact with booting the monsters away. Star feeding off it she laughed with a vaulted leap up the stairs banister. Praising her comrade for the epic fight she was putting up. A little ashamed Marco was cocooned in hair elsewhere to watch their kick butt girl fight.

A symphony of Elly reading and reacting correctly to Star's movements. Complimenting her in their battle amongst the follicles. Filling her with a joy she couldn't recount feeling but this distant sense like she'd done this all before. Elly and Star making a beautiful team until her eyes fell on the wrong target. On step up the stairs and to glance back to get Star's back, Elly locked eyes with serpentine man appearing from behind Ludo. Choked up, her body revolted against her mind shutting her movements down. Not a moment stalled and one of Ludo's henchmen took the chance. Knocking her down with a massive blow to her side.

"Elly!" Star bearing witness to her friend taking a rough tumble down the stairs, she fumed to storm down on the beasts who hurt her. But it could not last as monsters piled up on Star. She needed to get her wand. The hunters scrambled up the stairs. Ludo and his mount of a minion cackling madly as they winged their way up following Star.

Tussling thuds could be heard upstairs in the rafters. Elly reacting slowly to being thrown down the stairs as the aching pain settled in on her normally sedentary body. Head hung low with one hand rubbing her temples, Elly winced only to become noiseless when her eyes glimpsed the well polished pair of ebony dress shoes stop right beside her.

Screams, strings of battering curses and childish fighting over the wand could be head but a muffle on the second floor. Raising her head slowly, following the pressed seam of the black slacks all the way until she dropped back on her bum to get him in full view. Swallowing the hard lump in her throat only the worst scenario blew up in her mind. Ready to feel the sting of a reprimand for her imprudent behavior she knew she'd committed.

Rather than that, Toffee turned his head up to the commotion above. Clear without any help Star retrieved her wand. Ludo and his monsters could be heard screaming as the princess gave them a good walloop. His plan had not succeeded for Ludo but Toffee seemed apathetic about the punishment the dumb little bird was getting.

Turning his aloof expression down to the female who stayed sat and silent on the floor. Toffee raised a slight arch to his brow, "Get up." Hastily getting up to her feet she ignored the slight throb in both her legs from eating it pretty hard on the staircase.

Darting her tongue over dry lips, Elly looked up at the calm monster pocketing his little tracking device that led Ludo to his ass beating. Toffee deliberate in his motions tucking it away and patting down the pleats to his jacket. Her silence expected and standing still as he finished by adjusting his tie and slicking back the inky black hair from his face.

Dying to get a word or two in, only led to her knowing better. She watched him as Toffee fished into his dress shirts pocket. Producing the oddest item.

"Mewnian cyrstal," he answered her obvious confusion, "You'll need to charge it to allow for me to take you back."

Staring at the strung beaded bracelet in his grey hands Elly didn't understand. About to ask him what they were even for or what he meant by take her back. Toffee stopped her with his tell tale thumb on her lip. The rest of his hand coming into contact to cup her face. But not as firmly as his thumb on her sealed lips.

"Wear them, I will take care of the rest," Toffee motioned for her to raise her right hand. Obedient Elly offered without question her wrist. In a swift motion he swiped the clinking rocks on her right wrist and dropped the silencing hand from her mouth, "Good, Kathryn."

"Why do you keep calling me that?" against better judgement she popped off about the name without him being able to quiet her.

Toffee didn't looked surprised, instead quiet pensive, "Because my dear, that is your mewman name."

"But-" she began but caught herself when his yellow eyes indicate any more might be harmful. Quickly she shut herself up and lowered her face subservient to his unspoken rule. Toffee nodded. Praising her with a light touch of his claws tracing up her cheek to skim through her dirty blonde hair. Incapable of not showing the cold chill his touch caused to dance up her spine. That almost prey like reaction earned some change in expression. Barely the very corners of Toffee's tooth riddled maw turning upwards in the most roguish smirk.

Seeing his lips turn up washed over her in the most foolish ways. Swelling with pride without knowing what she'd done. But now she wanted more of that feeling. Cut short the commotion from upstairs took both their attention. Just as soon as there was one squawk and the hair started to retract around them. Jostled back Elly thought she had a moment more turning. Only to be alone. Heavy cold stones on her wrist. Elly stared down at the blue tinted crystalline beads she'd been instructed to wear.

Little time to think about it as Marco came rushing down the stairs. Now with only a chest length beard. Shrieking that Star not come towards him with her clippers.

"Marco! Marco let me shave you!" Star bolted down the stairs hot on his trail. Elly whisked by the panicked teen boy. He shoved past. Star suddenly stopped. Safety razor in hand and she looked directly down at her hand, "Hey nice bling!"

"Huh?" Elly lifted her wrist eye level with them both like she hadn't really realized they stayed on her.

"Ooooo pretty," Star almost hypnotized a second to Elly's bewilderment. Shaking it though when Marco crashed into a broken couch and his parents could be heard screaming their own startelement, "Wait! Normal person things!" Star seized back into the moment she dashed after Marco with her new weapon Mr Safety razor in tote.

Elly stuck staring at the almost alive quality the beads held. Heavier than what earth jewelry felt like. She gazed at them for a long time until suddenly her voice cracked through Marco's terror, "Kathryn-"

"Huh-" Marco pinned under Star, and Star perched over him like some giant predatory bird, they darted attention over to the other girl.

She looked up at both of them with a thousand mile gaze until slowly her words formed to hang heavy in the air, "...m-my name, it's Kathryn."