SVTFOE oneshot part 6
Lekmet should have been the 2.17.2 episode
Marco and Star stood with Jackie kneeling in front of an old dog lying in a bed.
“Hay there Max. How are you doing today?”
The dog slightly lifted his head a looked at her, his tail wagged after seeing her. He then licked her face.
“Hahaha, glad to hear it. I brought a few people to see you.” She then gestured to the two people with her. “My boyfriend Marco and our friend Star. Can you say hello?”
Max turned to look at them and barked at them. Jackie then backed up and let Marco kneel in front of Max and began to pet him. “Hi there. Jackie told me about you. She said you have been with the family for as long as she can remember.” Max began to lick Marco’s hand then. “Well, you did a great job raising her.”
He then stood up and let Star take his place.
“Hi there Max. I am Star, a magical princess from another dimension. I got a treat for you.”
She then reached into her bag and pulled out a bone.
“My dad eats a lot of meat, and I got a bone from him after he was done with dinner for you.”
Max then started to happily chew on the bone, making Star smile at him.
“You like that bone, don’t you Max?”
She kept smiling at him as she stood up but then began to frown as she turned to look at Jackie.
“Are you sure you have to put him down?”
Jackie frowned at that before turning to look at the dog. “He is an old dog. The vets say that he has several chronic, uncurable, and painful health issues that are cropping up. It would be better to give him a peaceful end than force him to live through them just because we don’t want to say goodbye.”
Star looked downcast at that before her eyes lit up. Marco looked at her with a worried expression.
“Uh, Star? What are you thinking?”
“What if I can get the issues cured?”
Jackie and Marco shared a look before turning back to her.
“Are you thinking of using your wand?”
She just shook her head at that. “After giving Marco a tentacle arm that tried to take over his body? No way am I taking that risk again. I am going to call Mom and ask if she knows any. If that doesn't work, there is a member of the MHC that is in charge of healing magic that could help out.”
Star then turned to leave the house as Marco put a hand on her shoulder. “Star, sometimes things just end, and there is we can do but accept it.”
She paused and let Marco’s head rest on her shoulder for a bit. “Maybe.” She then brushed the hand off. “But this isn’t one of those times.”
She then left the house with Jackie and Marco looking at her with a worried look as she left. Marco then turned to look at Jackie who just held up a hand before he could say anything.
“Don’t worry about any boyfriend duties to help me with my grief. Go after Star and make sure she doesn’t do anything too bad, ok?”
He just sighed in relief and ran after her.
Star’s room
“Call mom.”
Moon appeared in the mirror with a worried look on her face.
“What happened? Are you ok? Is Ludo back?”
Star held up her hands as she looked at her in shock.
“Whoa, there mom. Nothing anywhere near that level Mom. A friend's dog is just suffering from several health issues and I wanted to know if you knew healing spells I could use.”
Moon’s face quickly shifted to relief before settling on downcast. “Unfortunately, Star, healing magic is one of those types of magic that requires you to know multiple variables. What kind of issues are we talking about?”
Marco then walked up next to Star. “Arthritis and other general side effects of getting old.
Moon just sighed at that. “I was afraid of that. Old age is one of those things that magic can’t fix, only soothe. I know a few spells that will make his time left more barrable, but you might want to seriously consider putting him down.”
Star stamped her foot at that. “No! I refuse to accept that there is nothing I can do to help my friend in her time of need!”
“Star-“
“End Call.”
The mirror turned cut from Moon and became a mirror again.
“Call Lekmet.”
Marco tried again to put a hand on her shoulder in a show of support, but Star just waved him off. “I am fine Marco. I just need to fix this.”
The mirror then turned to a picture of a goat man with batwings standing in a hospital.
“Yes Star, what is it?” he then turned to look at Marco. “Hello, Marco.”
Marco just blinked at that. “How did you know who I am?”
He just chuckled. “I am in charge of the magic of life, death, and rebirth. I know everyone’s names. Also, Heckapoo and Omnitraxus Prime are my siblings. Both of them have talked about both of you recently.”
Star just smiled at that. “Sounds great. Now, can you teach me some healing spells? I have a friend whose dog is about to be put down due to how sick he is and I want to save him.”
Lekmet turned to look at Marco who was giving Star a worried look. “The dog is old, that is why he is being put down.”
Lekmet just sighed at that before pulling out a pair of scissors and making a portal to his side, making one appear next to Star and Marco before he hung up.
Star and Marco just turned to look at the portal before he walked in.
“I think the best way to teach you based on what Glosseryck told me about you would be a field trip. Does that sound ok?”
Star smiled and gave him a thumbs-up. “Sounds great!”
Marco shot him a worried look, but Lekmet just shot him a smile and summoned a cue card where Star couldn’t see it.
Trust me, I am going to teach her about how death and endings are just a part of life.
Marco just sighed and stepped forward. “Should I come too?”
He looked at him with a puzzled look before nodding. “Sure, it might make the lesson work better.” He then snapped his fingers and made them all transparent.
“Woah” exclaimed Star, wiggling her hands in front of her as she examined them. She then tried to pass them through each other to see if they were intangible, which they were. She then grew a massive smile. “Cool!”
Lekmet just chuckled at that. “Yes, it is cool. Now, let's get a move on. We will be making 3 stops.”
Scene Change
Between one second and the next, they were in a hospital room at the side of a bald man with a breathing tube in his nose with a woman holding his hand. There were also some nurses around fiddling with some equipment attached to him
“Is he ok?”
Lekmet just smiled. “He is receiving treatment for cancer, but he is responding positively and they just did surgery to remove a tumor.”
He then turned to Star. “For your first lesson, let's start with revealing his physical health aura.”
Star shot him a confused look. “His what?”
Lekmet then turned to look at the man and waved his hand. The woman holding the man's hand suddenly turned into what was best described as an Aurora Borealis in human form.
“This is her physical health aura. Think of each color as a gage for each aspect of his health. The brighter one is, the healthier that part of him is. If you want to use magic to help someone’s health, then you use this first to figure out what is wrong in the first place.”
He then waved his hand again, making the woman’s aura disappear. “There are other versions of the spell that focus on different parts of the person's physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and other types of health.”
He then turned back towards Star. “To make it appear around the man, point the wand at him and say ‘aura of physical health.’ Don’t worry about them seeing it. the only ones that can see the aura are those that cast the spell, are naturally able to see them, or those under a spell to let them see them.”
Star then did as he asked, making another brilliant cascade of lights appear.
Marco then turned to look at Lekmet. “Did it work?”
“Yes, it did. Now Star, can you tell me what you see that is different from the lights of the women you saw earlier?”
Star just kept staring at the lights in front of her for several seconds before responding.
“some of the colors are dimmer than hers were, and the overall things are dimmer than hers were.”
Lekmet just nodded. “Advanced healing magic like what you want to learn involves looking at these colors and trying to increase the brightness of them without dimming any of the others. Simpler spells for things like healing cuts and mending bones also need this to a degree, but not as much.
“For now, let's point at him and say “Healer Helper.”
Star did as he asked, causing one of the colors, a dark blue, to be outlined. It was also the dimmest of the colors there.
“Healer Helper shows you which color is the dimmest, and warns you when the other colors are getting dimmer. After you identify the color you want to brighten with the second spell, point your wand at the person and say ‘physical illumination’ before saying the exact kind of color you want to increase the brightness of.”
Marco then raised his hand. “I am an artist’s son, so how specific do we have to be when saying the color name?”
Lekmet then reached into his robes and pulled out a large book before opening it up and showing a page with the color specified as Cerulean Blue and what its intensity meant in multiple different auras.
Stat just looked at the book like it would bite her. “Please tell me I don’t need to memorize this.”
Lekmet just laughed. “Don’t worry, there is a copy in the Butterfly Royal Library for you to reference when you want to do this kind of magic. For now, let's just heal this man.”
Star then pointed her wand at him before Lekmet put his hand on her arm. “When the Healer Helper spell tells you to stop, stop the healing spell. If a color gets too bright, it can make the other colors dimmer and cause other health issues.”
Star nodded before turning to the man. “Physical Illumination Cerulean Blue.”
The specified light then began to slightly brighten as Star kept the wand pointed at him. His monitors began to perk up, as well as the man himself.
“Stop Healing”
Star cut off the light in shock from the warning sound coming from the aura, leaving the light of the man double the brightness it was before, but still below what the woman’s was.
Lekmet was just grinning at Star’s reaction. “I love seeing a healer's first reaction to the Healers Helper warning.”
Star and Marco both shot him dirty looks before Star asked a question. “Why couldn't I make it go brighter?”
“Like I said, if the light got too bright, then his other lights would become too dim. With the poor shape he was in from the cancer and treatments, he could only take so much before your healing could kill him.”
He then examined the other colors intently. “It takes a lot of experience to know how bright you can make a color without affecting the others, which is why I had you cast that helper spell earlier.”
Star looked slightly disappointed but was relieved when the Nurses gave each other hopeful and happy expressions on the readouts.
“But he will get better, right?”
Lekmet nodded. “You did all you could with magic here. Now, we have another stop to make.”
Scene change
The group then appeared in front of an old man in a nursing home sitting in a chair and reading a book.
“Let me guess, use the aura spell and helper spell before increasing the color of the brightnesses again?”
Lekmet just nodded. Star then did the mentioned spells but was surprised by the results.
The man's aura was very dim, and the helper spell was instead highlighting one of the brighter colors.
“Um, Lekmet? Did I do something wrong with either of the spells?”
Lekmet just shook his head. “No Star, this man is in such bad condition that there is nothing magic can do to help him be better without causing further complications in other areas. The color your helper is highlighting is already being posted by the pain medication he is on, which is why it is already so high.”
Star just looked shocked at that. “What! But this is magic! How can it not be able to do anything for him?”
Lekmet just sighed. “Star, if there is anything the multiple disasters you and Marco have been involved with over the past months should have taught you, it is that magic can’t solve all your problems. Sometimes there is nothing you can do to help someone.”
Star looked downcast at that, but then Marco held her hand in support. “Hay Star, don’t worry. Just because you can’t make him better doesn’t mean you can’t make him more comfortable. I think your magic can help him with his pain better than the medication can, and with fewer side effects as well.”
Lekmet nodded at that. “Exactly Marco. That is what the helper spell is showing.”
Star looked up at Lekmet with a depressed look before casting the ‘physical illumination’ spell. The light’s illumination level didn’t change, but the spell kept going for a few seconds.
“Ok, I am sure something is going on now.”
“The spell is just purging the medication from his system and simulating the effects. Give it time and cut it off when the warn-“
“Stop Healing”
Star jumped again, almost dropping her wand. Luckily she held onto it and was able to stop the spell.
The light intensity hadn't changed at all despite the spell being cast, but a few of the other lights got a little brighter.
“See? He might not notice it now, but if you give him some time he will notice and be able to enjoy his life a little better than before.”
Star lit up at that and then noticed that another light was highlighted and pointed to it.
“Sometimes you can increase multiple lights in a single healing session. Go ahead, keep doing this until the helper stops telling you to heal things.”
Star did that, increasing a few other colors before it stopped highlighting colors to heal.
“Now, we have one last stop to make. And this time, we will be visible and tangible.”
Scene Change
The last stop was Jackie’s house, causing Jackie to almost drop her plate when the three popped into existence in front of her.
“WHAT THE? Oh, it's you two. Who’s the friend.”
Lekmet held out his hand. “Hello Jackie, I am Lekmet, the MHC member in charge of the magic of life, death, and rebirth. I was just showing Star how to cast healing spells and she was about to try on Max, with your permission of course.”
Jackie scrunched up her face in worry. “What would this entail?”
Star then turned towards Marco and cast the ‘physical aura’ and ‘helper’ spell on Marco before buffing the lowest color for a few seconds and stopping when the warning went off.
“That is exactly what would happen to Max. Ok?”
Marco shot Star an annoyed look at being used as a guinea pig without being asked but nodded to Jackie all the same.
“Ok then, but please don’t hurt him, or turn him into a monster, or worse.”
Star nodded before casting the two spells on Max.
His aura was like that of the old man, with the same color highlighted but a lot dimmer.
Star increased the brightness of it until the warning went off, then increased a few others a little before the helper spell gave an all-clear. She then turned to look at Jackie.
“Ok, that’s the most I can do.” She then turned to look at Lekmet. “Can you do anything else to help him?”
He shook his head. “Sorry, anything else I would be willing to contribute would only be slightly better than what you did.”
“What do you mean by ‘willing to contribute?’”
Lekmet looked at Marco before sighing.
“I have powerful healing abilities that can restore people to their prime, but it is a finite resource tied to my life force. After I use it all up, I would die”
Everyone in the room looked at him in shock. Star was the first to find her voice. “But the MHC is immortal! You guys can’t die!”
He chuckled at that. “You are right, just because I die doesn’t mean I die. Think of me like the phoenix with a bit of ‘The Doctor’ mixed in. I die and am then reborn from the ashes as a baby with my powers at their peak. I can recall memories of my past lives with a lot of effort, but for all intents and purposes, I die and am replaced by a new person with their personality.”
The group didn’t stop looking at him in shock after hearing this. It was Marco this time that asked the question. “How much time do you have left”
He just shrugged. “Depends on how much I have to heal. I am at 12% now, and healing Max back to full would drop me to 10%. As nice a dog as he is, turbulent things are going on and I need to conserve my healing for any massive battles or world-shattering events. I also don’t want to leave the MHC down a member until I get out of diapers.”
He then put a hand on Jackie’s shoulder. “I might not be willing to completely heal him, but I can help him die peacefully. I have several spells that can painlessly let you pass over to the afterlife while seeing visions that make you happy.”
“I’ll have to talk to my parents about that, but we might just take you up on that.”
He nodded and looked to Star, who was walking out the front door and sat on the front stairs. He walked over and sat next to her.
“How are you doing Star.”
‘Sigh.’ “I just thought I could prevent Jackie from losing her dog like I lost-“ she then froze up before continuing. “-something I cared about.”
Lekmet sighed at that. “Star, sometimes things just end, and there is we can do but accept it.”
“Marco already said that.”
He just laughed at that. “Maybe, but did he continue? Endings aren’t always a bad thing. Sure it stinks when the amusement park closes and you have to go home, but all that means is that you can go to the local playground with your friends and hang out with them. Summer ending is always sad, but it means you get to spend time doing things in school you enjoy.”
He then put an arm around Star. “It might stink that someone you love isn’t around anymore, but that doesn’t mean you lost them forever. As long as you remember them and keep them in your heart, they are never gone. There are whole holidays that revolve around this idea.”
Star smiled at that. “Thanks, Lekmet.”
“No problem Star.” He then stood up. “If you have time tomorrow, I can show you a few more healing spells for things like broken bones, burns, and other things.”
She smiled at that. “I would love that.”
Wow, this got away from me. Anyway, I decided to give Lekmet a dedicated episode so we can get to know him and feel the pain when he dies. As Pair of Ramblers (https://www.youtube.com/@pairoframblers3497/videos) said, it’s hard to feel sad about someone dying if you don’t know them. In the show he was just a goat man that Rhomulus cared about that just hung around and healed people before dying. With this, we can care about his death.
The “he dies a bit every time he uses his power” is something the Wiki said was in the “Star and Marco Guide”, but I didn’t see it in either of my copies. I decided to keep it because the idea of the representation in charge of life and death going through a phoenix-style rebirth with a Doctor Who regeneration added was too good an idea to pass up.
As for the healing spell, the only one we see in SVTFOE is the one that turns your arm into a tentacle that tries to take you over. The healing system I put here is a little rough, but I like the idea of manipulating the colors of the aura to affect different parts of physical health. Things like mending broken bones and burns would be the kind of things that have their own simpler spells to cast because of how common they are, but the more complicated it gets, the more you have to manipulate the colors. I might put a more complete version of this out later.
I decided for my New Year's Resolution to do one fanfic chapter a week for all of 2024. Who knows how long I will be able to keep this up, but next week's fanfic chapter is up on my Patreon. This is also being posted on Fanfic.com, AO3, and Tumbler.
Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=10132890
Fanfic.com: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14051718/1/luz-appreciation-week-2022-from-1228248
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52823413/chapters/133608991
Tumbler: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/brianedner
I am also doing fanfic info dumps, think wiki articles that go one episode at a time with some compilations at the end on certain topics that are sorted by episode.
Fanfic info dumps here: https://www.deviantart.com/1228248/gallery
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