"I spent the next months fighting for my life in the Forest of Certain Death. And no one ever noticed me." Marco stayed in silence for a moment.

Star couldn't bear the silence that suddenly felt into the room.

"But… I am kinda glad that no one did!"

Marco was walking through the Forest of Certain Death, searching for a prey to hunt. But, he ended up finding something even better.

"What is this?" Marco asked himself as he picked up item from the floor. "A pair of scissors?" Marco inspected them with caution. Suddenly, he felt something grabbing him from his ankle. He looked down to see a murderous vine.

The vine pull him with force, making him fall to the ground. The vine started to make its way towards the big murderous tree where it came from, pulling Marco with it in the process.

Marco started to fight back the vine without any success. It was at that moment that he remembered the scissors in his hand. He used them to quickly cut off the vine from his ankle, but something else happened.

A portal opened before him.

The vine quickly made its retreat while Marco was processing what just happened.

He stood up and looked at the portal with curiosity. "What…?" He asked himself as he extended a hand towards it.

His hand passed through the portal.

Scared by this, Marco quickly got his hand out of it. After some more seconds of inspecting the strange blue portal, he had gathered the enough courage to step inside.

The portal disappeared as soon as he walked through it.

…

Marco couldn't believe where he was. An extreme joy came over him as a big smile drew on his face and tears ran down his face. "It can't be…" He said to himself before taking some steps forward.

A big sign was visible. "Welcome to Echo Creek!"

"I'm home! I'm finally home!" He shouted excitedly as he ran into the town. He ran with happiness through the familiar streets of his town, looking all over the place with a smile wider than he could manage. "Here's the park! And here's the Chinese restaurant! Oh, and the school!" Marco rushed to give a hug and a kiss to the possum statue of the outside. "I miss the school so much!" He shouted excitedly before running away once again.

From a window, the Principal Skeeves looked at the boy with a surprised expression. "Well, it's good to see that at least someone cares about the school." He said before walking out of his office.

Marco kept running around the town, bathing in the nice sunlight of Earth. He kept running before reaching his house. His home. He calmed himself as he swept away his tears and walked towards the door, barely holding his excitement. With a deep and determined breath, he knocked into the door.

Some seconds later, a man opened the door, receiving the boy with a cheery smile. "Hello there, what can I-?" The man was cut off when the boy jumped into him, wrapping his arms around him into a hug.

"Dad! I missed you so much!" Marco shouted as he started to cry again.

The man just stood there, not knowing what to do about the boy that just jumped into him. "Umm… Sorry, but who are you?" The man said while taking the boy off him.

Marco looked at his father with a confused look. "W-What do you mean? It's me! Your son!"

"No, you are not my son." The man stated with a serious expression.

"Wha… What do you mean? I am your son!"

"Rafael, is there something wrong in here?" Angie asked while walking to her husband's side, carrying a baby on her arms. "All those shouts are going to wake up our little Marco." She said quietly.

Marco's eyes went wide at these words. "Their little Marco?" He thought to himself while looking at the baby. "But… But I am Marco!" He shouted in desperation. He grabbed the man by the shirt. "I am Marco! Marco Ubaldo Diaz! Don't you recognize me?!" He shouted, tears starting to form in his eyes.

Suddenly, the baby started to cry. All those shouts had wake up the little Marco.

"Oh no!" Angie exclaimed quietly before turning her attention to her baby. "Shh… Everything is alright. Mommy's here." She said in a comforting way.

Rafael faced the boy in his doorstep. "Look, I don't know who you are, or how do you know my son's name. But if you don't go right now, we'll call the police." Rafael said before closing the door in his face.

"No! Dad! Please, listen! I am your son! I am Marco Diaz!" He shouted with angst while hitting the door with his fist. "Please! You have to listen to me! You have to remember me!" He kept shouting, but the door didn't opened again. Defeated, Marco fell to his knees and started to cry there. He cried alone in what used to be his doorstep for some minutes before the sirens of the police started to be heard from the distance. With fear and sadness, Marco opened a portal back to the forest and went through it.

"I was forgotten! By my own parents! I was kicked out of my own home like if I was a stranger!" Marco shouted angrily at Star, some tears coming down his face. "And it didn't stopped there! My teachers, friends, family… Everyone had forgotten Marco Diaz!"

Star looked at him with a shocked expression, not able to find any words to express herself.

"Oh, so you are surprised for that, huh? Well then, just sit tight, alright? Not everything in this story takes a sad route, y'know?"

Stolen corn, burned properties, countless murders and lots of information taken away. The criminal files of Mewni could have been filled with these incredible cases, if they even had a clue that those ever happened in the first place.

After some research, Marco had discovered something terrifying about his new life, something that he had used for his own benefit.

Because of some kind of magic, Marco Diaz was erased from the Universe alongside all the evidence that he existed and all the memories of him that the people may had within their minds. It was an excellent plan to get the people to forget someone that was presumably dead, but it turned out in the best way of survival for the enraged Marco.

Thanks to the spell, all the sins that Marco did were erased from every witness' mind. That includes the times he stole food for his survival, killed for the need of a house or when he used it to get a place for himself inside the Butterfly castle…

"You did what?!" Star exclaimed with surprise.

"Yes, princess… Don't worry, I left the place when I got the map of the entire castle. Calling you by "my queen" was starting to get me sick." He said coldly. "Well, that is not entirely true... I also managed to get that pathetic former king to spit the beans!"

"What?! What did you did to my dad?!" Star asked with rage.

"I only asked him in a polite way what the hell did her useless wife did to me. I mean, how did you think I was able to find this place if I didn't knew about her dirthy secret?" Marco asked with an expression of anger, but a big smirk on his face.

"You are-!"

"Dead?" Marco interrupted, surprising the queen. "Well, technically, I am. And speaking of dead people. Have you ever wondered where all those memories and corpses end up?"

Star looked at him with a terrified look.

"What? You really didn't expect that those things were just simply erased, right? I mean, they have to end up somewhere, right?"

"…"

"Well, queen, that somewhere is here!" Marco said while opening his arms, showing the entirety if the dimension they were in.

Star looked with horror at all the orbs that hold memories of the boy that were spreading across the never-ending nothingness. Alongside the memories, the souls of the victims of Marco were floating as well.

"Queen Star, welcome to the void! My own personal world where all my junk ends up! You should be honored! You are part of it now!"

Star stayed in silence while looking at the orbs, a doubt managing to get in her mind. "Dennis…" She muttered.

"Hmm…?"

"How was Dennis able to remember you?"

"Oh, well. That's easy to explain… Dennis is an idiot." He said before a soul appeared in the palm of his hand. "Or should I say… was?"

Star looked at him with realization before rage began to build up.

A sound was heard from the wrist of the man. He looked at it and let out a single chuckle. "Well… It appears I have answered everything you needed to know about me. Trust me, I would like to tell you how much I hate you and your stupid mother for casting this curse upon me…" He said coldly before throwing the chest with the wand to the queen.

Star looked at this act with confusion before she felt how her inner magic was starting to flow around her body once more.

"But it appears our time to end this sorry tale has come." Marco said as she withdrew a crystal sword and shield from behind the couch he was sitting before. "Queen Star Butterfly…"

At the hearing of her name, Star quickly withdrew her wand from the chest and took a fighting stance.

"Do your worst!" He shouted before launching himself towards his enemy.