The Problem with Love Spells

>It all started on a relatively normal Friday morning right around when first period had just ended
>"Hey Marco, I'm gonna grab a snack real quick, see ya in class" -Star Butterfly offhandedly told her best friend Marco Diaz as she skipped away from their lockers
>"Ok Star, see ya in a few minutes. Might want to remember to bring your homework with you too, it's due today." -Marco tried to remind her, but she was already off and away
>"Nevermind, guess I'll grab it for you..." -Marco mumbled to himself as he grabbed her homework from her locker and started making his way to their next class
>Sitting in his seat before class started, Marco started skimming Star's homework, checking to see if she'd finished it last night like she said she had
>She had; causing Marco to smile in victory and fistpump the air. He was happy his late night tutoring efforts were having a positive effect on her study habits
>Just as he started to give his own homework a check, he heard a rather loud boom, then time itself seemed to slow down for a few seconds
>As he slowly turned to where he thought the sound was coming from, he distinctly felt...purple for a few seconds, then the strange feeling disappeared as quickly as it had come
>Shaking himself slightly, he turned to ask his classmate Janna if she'd heard that loud boom just now...and she was staring at him oddly
>"Hey Janna...can you hear me? Did your hearing get damaged? You ok...?" -Marco asked, somewhat concerned, as she wasn't responding to him at all, just staring
>After a few moments, she shivered and seemed to remember herself
>"I'm sorry Marco, did you say something? I must have been daydreaming..." -Janna dreamily stated while still not taking her eyes off Marco
>Just then, Star and Hope ran into the classroom, out of breath and looking a little worst for wear; Did Star's headband look a little singed?

>Quickly sitting down next to each other, and not in their assigned seats either, the two girls started whispering back and forth, making Marco curious
>When did Star and Hope become friends? Eh, not like you can have too many friends I guess...-Marco thought to himself, then got up to hand Star her homework
>"Hey Star, you forgot your homework in your locker earlier. Here you go, and good job finishing it, I knew you had it in you!" -Marco praised Star while handing over her homework
>Star quickly accepted the few pieces of paper, then started...giggling? Hope quickly followed suit, then a few of the other girls in the class did too
>This oddity caused a few of the boys to raise their heads and stare blankly at the giggling girls
>"Thanks Marco, what would I do without you, eh?" -Star said as she grabbed the papers and winked at Marco, then started giggling again
>Just then their teacher walked in, and the lesson finally began in earnest
>By the end of third period, Marco knew something very strange was happening
>Most of the girls in the school seemed to be following him between classes, and while in class, a lot of them kept staring at him, playing with their hair, giggling, or whispering to each other.
>Sometimes even a combination of all of the above
>Marco assumed that the loud boom earlier had been one of Star's spells backfiring somehow, affecting her and a large chuck of his classmates
>Thankfully the day was finally over, as Marco ran out the door once the final bell rang out and headed straight toward his locker
>Reaching his locker, he noted that there were a bunch of girls hanging out nearby, and they were starting to drift toward him at an alarming speed
>"Hey Marco, do the carpets match the drapes?" -Janna asked him with a strange twinkle in her eye while winking at him as he started dumping his stuff from his last class into his locker

>"Oh Marco....what's your favorite color? I'm thinking of buying some new panties tonight..." -Hope cooed at him from behind his locker door, making him jump slightly
>"Heya Marco, can you check and tell me if my skirt's too short?" -Star asked him while lifting her skirt up, showing that she wasn't wearing anything underneath
>"Oooook...something is seriously wrong with you girls, and I'm gonna find out what." -Marco said as he slammed his locker shut and started running, hoping that they wouldn't follow him outside
>They did
>"Why are you running away Marco!?! We just wanna have our way with you! It'll be fun, we promise! Janna brought some handcuffs!" -Star yelled at him as the other girls yelled similarly lewd things at him
>This only spurred Marco on to run faster
>He didn't want to get arrested for public indecency after all
>What would his parents think?
>Just keep running Diaz, you'll find a way to fix this somehow...-Marco thought to himself, checking to see if any of the girls had started gaining on him
>Star was slightly ahead of the pack, with Sabrina and a few of the other cheerleaders on her heels
>Looked like half the school's female population was chasing him!
>Not good...need to split them up somehow, reduce his chance of being caught, and if he was...lowered the odds of him dying from exhaustion
>Thinking quickly, Marco ran down an alleyway, then took a turn real fast, jumping over a chain link fence and gunning it past his favorite Chinese restaurant back exit

>I really need to stop by there more often...such good Lo Mein noodles -Marco absentmindedly thought to himself
>Looking behind him, it seemed that he'd lost a decent chunk of the girls in the alleyway, or they hadn't gotten over the fence yet
>Either way works in his favor
>Not too far from the house now
>He just needed to get to Star's spellbook and ask Glossaryck for help
>Maybe he had an idea of what spell had caused this situation and how to reverse it
>Worse case scenario, he could beg for asylum from King and Queen Butterfly
>He's sure they'd understand
>Looking behind him real quick, Marco sees a group of girls still chasing him. but he has a decent lead
>Too risky to just run into the house and lock the door, they'd probably find another way in too quickly
>So Marco just keeps running, eventually turning off into a side street and running back the other way toward the house, figuring he can jump the neighbor's fence to get back in
>Marco hides behind a nearby garbage container and waits to see if he can hear any of the girls run past
>After a few minutes he does, but it doesn't sound like all of them chased him this far
>Some of them probably got lost, gave up, and went home
>He hoped so at least
>After waiting for the gaggle of girls to disperse, Marco slowly started making his way back home
>Once he got close to his house however, Marco noted something odd
>All the lights were on
>"That's weird, Mom and Dad should still be at work for a few more hours..." -Marco mumbled to himself, sure that he had turned all the lights off before leaving for school that day
>Just to be safe, Marco decided to go in through the garage
>Collecting the hidden key from under one of the nearby cacti that they had around the yard, Marco quietly made his way into the garage
>So far so good, everything's pretty quiet
>As Marco moves into the kitchen, he notices that some of the perishables have been taken, and the refrigerator appears to have been raided as well

>He really hopes that they haven't been the victims of pantry gnolls again
>Walking into the living room, Marco sees that the front door is slightly ajar
>He's pretty sure he locked the front door before leaving as well
>Not like his parents to leave it open either
>Someone had been here, then appeared to have left after taking some food with them as spoils
>Not much he can do about it now though
>Taking a quick peek into his parent's room, he noted that nothing looked out of place, then headed back to the living room
>Closing and locking the front door, Marco started sneaking up to his room upstairs to finish his check of the house
>Finding his door also open, he peeked in, and gasped in horror
>Someone had stolen all his hoodies!
>His clothing drawers were open and empty as well
>Even his pillow and blanket were gone!
>Who would do such a thing?!
>Leaving his upended room, he checked on Star's room next, fearing that Ludo had been behind this latest misdeed to try and find an angle with which to steal Star's wand
>That might explain the missing food; minions had to be fed after all
>Maybe even the open front door
>Who would close the door on a place that you'd just pillaged?
>Fearing the worst, Marco slowly opened Star's door to find...that everything looked about the same as the last time he'd been in her room
>That's a little odd
>Why would Ludo only steal Marco's stuff?
>Not like his minions could fit into any of Marco's clothing probably
>This just deepened Marco's sense of unease
>But no time for that, he had to get to Glossaryck and figure out what was wrong with his classmates
>Marco quickly checked under Star's bed, finding the large and unwieldy book, and pulled it out and started flipping the pages at random
>"Ahh, I see Star's friend is back. To what do I own the pleasure of having you riffling through my pages?" -Glossaryck asked pointedly as he slowly floated up from the middle of the spellbook to lightly glare at Marco

>"Just the blue...whatever you are I wanted to see!" -Marco said, not sure what the little man really was or cared to know
>"Star's in trouble, along with most of the girls in my school, I think one of Star's spells must have backfired and did something to them." -Marco said, attempting to appeal to Glossaryck's apparent endearment toward Star
>"Star's in trouble you say? That's fairly normal for her, she's a rambunctious girl, always has been. What makes you think it was a spell that's causing this problem?" -Glossaryck asked as he started brushing his beard
>"Well for one thing, she started acting weirdly around me...more weirdly I guess? Not just her though, maybe half the school's girls started acting the same way, asking me...things..." -Marco said, somewhat embarrassed as he remembered some of the phrases they had used
>"What kinds of things? I hear you sometimes helping Star with paperwork of some sort, maybe these other girls also need your help with...whatever it is that you are apparently good at." -Glossaryck intoned as he started waxing his legs, to Marco's annoyance and slight discomfort
>"No, nothing like that...things of a certain...nature." -Marco mumbled, blushing slightly, and unsure he really wanted Glossaryck's help anymore
>Might be easier to just head to Mewni and live as a flying pig farmer
>"Considering your tone of voice and the fact that you appear to be blushing, or have red goblin's disease, leads me to believe that they starting asking questions of a sexual nature... just nod your head if I'm correct." -Glossaryck said, smirking slightly as Marco started nodding
>"That narrows what sort of spell might have been misapplied a fair bit...I'm guessing Star was attempting to either wake a Lotilador...or she was trying to cast a Love Spell on something, which isn't how those spells work anyway, causing it to backfire and affect her and any nearby females as well." -Glossaryck said as he stroked his beard, somewhat deep in thought

>"Yes...I'm guessing it was a Love Spell, which would make more sense. If all these girls are fixated on you, then you must have been the closest male to the spell's origination point. Lucky you, eh?" -Glossaryck said as he slowly started floating back down into the spellbook
>"WAIT, how do I fix this? Is there a reverse spell you can do or something?" -Marco asked, desperation and slight terror in his voice
>Glossaryck just looked at Marco, a small measure of pity in his eyes
>"There are three ways this can go. If you evade the girls you will save yourself, but at a very high cost to them. The longer you wait, the more crazed and passionate they will become. Eventually their bodies will shut down from hormonal imbalance and they will pass into a permanent sleep-like state." -Glossaryck explained, as Marco listened with rapt attention and growing horror
>"If the girls do catch you, they will despoil you, but in the joining of your body and theirs, they will be cured. They will return to normal but, depending on the amount of girls, you might be left a withered husk." -Glossaryck stated, not envying the poor look on Marco's face as he contemplated his options
>"But you said there was a third way, right?" -Marco asked, hoping for a better option than the ones before him
>"Yes, you could always just have relations with Star and, once she's returned to her normal state of mind, get her to cast a reversal spell on the other girls." -Glossaryck said as Marco's eyes lit up with something like hope
>"Then I'll do that! That way I get to live, and the girls don't have to turn into sleeping beauties! Why didn't you suggest it earlier?!" -Marco roared at Glossaryck, somewhat angry that he had not suggested this course of action in the first place
>"Good luck getting her alone; one of the spell's side effects causes those affected to roam in packs. Unless you split them into smaller groups, the outcome for you will still be...not good." -Glossaryck clarified

>"Oh, I sorta already did that earlier, a fair amount of the girls chased me way up the street, not far from the mall. I evaded them and made my way back here to talk to you..." -Marco said, somewhat relieved that at least some of the work had already been done
>"Tell me then, has anything of yours going missing since the spell hit? The worst affected tend to become...possessive of their focus and will start to gather things that remind them of their target." -Glossaryck asked Marco, who started pacing in place while looking out the window nervously
>"Yeah, almost all my clothing was stolen when I got home, even my pillow and blanket" -Marco said while starting to look more worried, if that was possible
>"Then odds are the most affected know where you live, not to mention how to get into your home; they might be coming back at any time to wait in ambush for you. I wish you luck in your current predicament, for I must leave you to inform River and Moon of you and Star's situation." -Glossaryck said as he disappeared in a blue flash, leaving Marco alone once again
>At this point Marco realized that he needed to prepare if he wanted to live through the coming ordeal
>Scavaging the house, Marco collected the supplies (food, water, viagra, etc) he hoped he wouldn't need later and stored them in Star's room
>He decided to make his last stand in her room, as it seemed somewhat fitting, and she had a much larger room than he did
>Then he started making and setting non-lethal traps, like he'd learned watching survival shows on the TV late at night
>If all worked out as he hoped, enough of the girls would be caught in his traps that he wouldn't have to engage in...close combat with all of them, increasing his odds of surviving he hoped
>As the afternoon started working it's way into evening, Marco was finishing the last of his traps and eating some leftover tacos from the night before when he heard it

>The sound of girls walking up and down the street, calling his name and other, less appropriate things
>Thankfully, most of the kids at the school didn't know where he lived, so he figured so long as he stayed hidden, he'd be safe
>He was only partially right
>He heard a series of loud knocks at the front door, then a crash as the door was broken down
>Here they come -Marco thought, as he got himself into position and waited with baited breath for the trial to begin
>"MARCO! WE KNOW YOUR IN HERE! COME OUT COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE" -Star screamed as she and some of the other girls started wandering around the house, looking for Marco
>"I'm up here Star! In your bedroom! Maybe we can talk this out?" -Marco yelled, somewhat hoping that it was all some weird misunderstanding and Glossaryck had been playing him like a fiddle
>"THE TIME FOR TALKING IS OVER DIAZ! IT'S TIME WE GOT THIS ORGY STARTED, DON'T YOU THINK GIRLS?!" -Hope yelled in a frenzy as the other girls started yelling obscenities
>Well it was a nice try, he just hoped they would be somewhat gentle with him...-Marco thought as steeled himself
>As the gaggle of girls made their way up the staircase, Marco heard a few of his traps going off, to the disappointment and rage of the girls caught in them
>But all too soon, Star's door slammed open and in waltzed a dozen very horny girls, dressed in a assortment of Marco's stolen clothing
>Marco quickly realized that he knew all of them, at least by name, if not by more
>He hoped if he survived the night, they wouldn't hate him forever for taking all their virginities at once
>As the girls descended upon him and tore their own and his clothing apart and flesh met flesh, Marco's last thought was about the condoms he'd stored in his now destroyed clothing, before he too fell into a haze of foreign and erotic desires and actions...

>Saturday morning was an odd affair at the Diaz house
>Not only had Angie and Rafael Diaz not come home the following night, but the Diaz household was temporarily playing host to a multitude of extra guests, who were just waking up and were somewhat confused, not to mention embarrassed
>Thankfully for all involved, Marco Diaz had played the host as best he could under the circumstances, handing out a breakfast of pancakes and orange juice while also passing out some of Star's extra clothing to give his guests a little dignity
>"Oh man, what happened last night? I had the most vivid dream..." -Sabrina asked as Marco was finishing up bandaging her arm that she had hurt during the night's activities
>"I know...I remember Marco playing an important role in my dream though" -Janna said as she winked at Marco, who just smiled tiredly and went about his rounds
>"Yeah...that was my bad...I sorta screwed up a love spell yesterday that I was trying to put together for Hope. I'm sorry everyone for this whole situation..." -Star explained while handing out the rest of the extra clothing to the girls
>"But no one was really hurt, barring Sabrina, and hopefully we can move on from this as better people and not with bitterness in our hearts, right?" -Marco asked while trying not to look at any of the girls in their eyes
>"Oh I dunno about anyone else, but I enjoyed myself last night..." -Britney said while trying to catch Marco's eye
>"Well I cast a reversal spell earlier, so we don't have to worry about any lasting effects thankfully. Speaking of which, how did you know what we had planned Marco?" -Star asked, somewhat curious as she didn't remember boobytrapping the stairs and hallway to her room

>"Ah, yes...I consulted Glossaryck about the situation, and he sorta laid out what my options were. I couldn't leave all of you in that state, so I did what I could to cure all of you while also giving myself a shot at not dying from exhaustion." -Marco explained, trying not to blush too much
>"Awwww, thanks for saving us Marco" -The girls cooed all at once, causing some confused looks, which quickly turned to snorting and laughter as they all joined Marco in a big group hug
>Just then, a portal opened up in the living room, and out walked both Marco's and Star's parents, chit chatting and laughing about something
>"Oh kids! We're home!" -Rafael yelled as he walked into the kitchen and noted the mess, waving at the group who waved back somewhat less excitedly
>"I'll drive you girls home if you'll give me a few minutes to get the car ready" -Rafeal stated as he walked into the garage
>"Oh Marco! Star! I'm glad to see your in good shape, and hello girls, hope you slept well." -Angie said as she hugged Star and Marco
>"Ah yes, good to see your home wasn't destroyed and both our children are in good health." -Queen Butterfly said as she waved at Star and Marco, who were still being hugged by Mrs. Diaz
>"To make up for your lost time and dignity, I'll be giving all of you girls a fair sum of gold in compensation. Sorry for your trouble, and please don't be too hard on Star or Marco." -King Butterfly said while handing out some gold from a chest that a servant was holding
>"Buying our silence I take it? Fine by me..." -Chantelle said as she winked at Marco and started doing cheerleader stretches to ease her muscles and give Marco a show
>"All good to go girls, if you would come with me, I'll take you home and explain to your parents what fun you had at Star's sleepover last night." -Rafael said as most of the girls followed him to the waiting car

>"So...your not mad at what I did? Or how Marco handled it?" -Star asked, somewhat anxious at her parent's attitude to the night's events
>"It's fine darling, the same thing actually happened to me when I was around your age too, mistakes happen, and thankfully no one was hurt. Besides, Glossaryck explained the situation to us and young Marco's plan. Then we explained it to his parents, so no harm done really" -Queen Butterfly said while giving Star a final hug and a kiss on the cheek
>After the King and Queen had left with a promise to sent more servants to fix up the house, Mrs. Diaz started cleaning up the kitchen while Star and Marco took apart the traps upstairs
>"Just so you don't worry Marco, I used a morning after spell on myself and all the girls, so it's one less thing to think about..." -Star explained, smiling at her forethought
>"Thank goodness! I was worried about that, all my condoms got ruined along with the clothing I was wearing last night." -Marco said, while sighing in relief that he wasn't going to father a dozen bastard children
>"Yep...but we did have a lot of fun last night...maybe I can get a private repeat performance sometime? If you want to, that is..." -Star asked, nibbling on her wand and staring into Marco's eyes as she remembered last night
>"That's my line princess!" -Janna yelled as she rolled out of the closet that she'd been hiding in beside the two teens, who both jumped at the sudden intrusion
>"Janna! I thought my Dad was taking you back home!?" -Marco exclaimed, surprised that at her sudden appearance
>"I'm sneaky Marco, you should remember that by now..." -Janna said, smirking as she held up the rolls of condoms that Marco had thought were destroyed in the night's events, then threw them at Star as she opened and jumped out the nearby window, cackling all the way
>"Man she can be weird" -Star said, collecting the condoms off the floor and giving them back to Marco

>"Yeah, no kidding...I'm gonna...go shower now, later!" -Marco said, as he ran to the bathroom
>"You can't hide from me Marco!" -Star exclaimed, laughing as she walked back to her room
>After all, out of all the other girls he'd had sex with, she was the only one who got to live with him