*massimo handed the money from the deliveries to giulia*

Giulia: Grazie, Papà! Come on, we'd better hurry

Beatstar: Right behind you giulia

*beatstar and alberto followed giulia to a sign-up booth with a woman imitating a sea monster hunter*

Signora Marsigliese: Fellow Portorossans! it is I, Giorgio Giorgioni! Slayer of sea monsters and beloved purveyor of pasta!

Beatstar: *gulps* Slayer of sea monsters?

Giulia: Ah, that's just Signora Marsigliese, She works for the sponsor for the race *sighs* this is gonna take forever...

Signora Marsigliese: The finest pasta in Liguria at a price every family can afford-

Giulia: Get to the rules!

Signora Marsigliese: Enthusiasm, Love to see it

Signora Marsigliese: To win my famous race, your team must be the first to brave the treacherous waters of the bay, devour a mystery bowl of my delicious pasta, and ride to the top of Mount Portorosso and back!

Beatstar: Sheesh, that all sounds pretty hard

Alberto: Yeah, hard to lose, we're going to win

Giulia: I love your confidence, but don't forget, we're going to have to go through...

Ercole: Champion coming through!

Giulia: Ugh...

Ercole: Ciao, ciao! Hey!

Beatstar: Ercole...

Signora Marsigliese: Aren't you a little old, Ercole?

Ercole: Signora! i am 16!

Signora Marsigliese: You said that last year

Ercole: But this year, it's true

Ercole: You might want to save your money, ragazzi

Ercole: This year, Ercole's gonna break the record and make it six in a row

Ercole: *notices giulia, beatstar and alberto and laughs* Oh, no I don't believe it

Ercole: Spewlia, you teamed up with these vagrants?

Giulia: Ignore him...

Ercole: Oh, I wish for you that you could but i'm afraid your friends still need to pay the out-of-town weirdo tax

*ercole snaps his fingers and ciccio lift up beatstar by the back of her shirt and steal her headband*

Beatstar: Hey! Ercole! give that back!

Ercole: *goes into beatstar's face* what, this little headband is yours? well that is too bad because Ercole doesn't have to do anything, he's the Portorosso Cup champion, number one

Ercole: And number two, his life is amazing and everyone loves him

Beatstar: They don't love you, they're afraid of you!

Ercole: *sputters* Raise your hand if you love me

*everyone raises their hand*

Ercole: See? everyone

Ercole: Even you *boops beatstar* bop!

Alberto: Oh that is it! if you won't give it back to her i'll just take it back from you!

Ercole: Hey! This vagrant want to fight for his little friend's headband

Ercole: Wow! *remarks in italian*

Beatstar: Uh 'berto?

Alberto: Silenzio, Bruno, remember this is for our vespa so we can get you home

Beatstar: Okay...

Ercole: A Vespa? *laughs mockingly* Trash like you can't ride Vespas

*while ercole was distracted alberto stealthily took beatstar's headband from ercole ands hands it back to beatstar who puts it back on her head*

Giulia: Ercole, you're just afraid we're gonna put an end to your-

Ercole and giulia: Evil empire of injustice

Ercole: *sighs* Got anything new?

Giulia: Yeah, here's a new one; You look like a, uh... Uh

Beatstar: A catfish?

Giulia: A catfish!

*ercole scoffs*

Beatstar: actually catfishes are bottom feeders and they have two sad little whiskers....*smirks with her hands on her hips* Like you

*the crowd giggles while ercole gasps offended*

Ercole: *approaches beatstar* Listen piccolina, i eat kids like you for breakfast, i dunk them in my cioccolata and *mimics chomping* finiti! *makes a slitting motion across his throat while beatstar starts trembling with fear*

Ercole: *wraps his arm around beatstar* So, here, sign up, Mm? i'll make it my mission to destroy you

*beatstar whimpers in fear and hides behind alberto*

Ercole: *laughs* It's gonna be some race, huh?

Ercole: Sorry, no autographs today

Ercole: You can put your hand down now

Alberto: Beatstar are you scared?

Beatstar: N- no, i'm just nervous and i'm totally not scared at all *chuckles nervously*

*alberto glanced at beatstar worriedly, even though he could tell she was scared, he decided not to say anything*

Giulia: Ookay come on

*Alberto and Beatstar follow giulia to the sign up table*

Giulia: Giulia Marcovaldo

Signora Marsigliese: Ciao, Giulia, Team of one?

Giulia: Not today

Beatstar: Bambina Fiore

Alberto: Alberto Scorfano

Giulia: Okay, ragazzi, we have one week to train

Beatstar: *shrugs* Okay

*back at giulia's house*

Giulia: Now beatstar since you were starving back when you first were separated from your brother you're gonna be in for a real treat now, but there's something you gotta know, every year they change the pasta, you have to be ready for anything, it could be cannelloni, penne, fusilli, trofie, even lasagne!

Beatstar: Pfft come on giulia i could devour 5 pinatas in less than a second i'm pretty sure i can handle this

Giulia: Okay suit yourself-

*then when giulia turned around, all the plates of the pasta were empty*

Giulia: Wow nice work beatstar! you must have been super hungry

Beatstar: See? told ya

*at mount portorosso*

*Beatstar, giulia and alberto reached the top and beatstar looks over the distance*

Beatstar: Holy heck! how big is this mountain?

Giulia: It's not that high beatstar, now just ride with alberto down on the wagon

Alberto: Yeah it'll be just like riding the vespa we made back on the island

Beatstar: But what if i fall off?

Alberto: Relax it'll be perfectly fine

Beatstar: *sighs* alright

*beatstar climbs onto the wagon that was attached to the bike*

Alberto: Okay let's do this!

*alberto pushed off on the bike while beatstar clung on tightly but suddenly she lost grip and flung off when alberto skidded to a stop*

Alberto: Ooh, sorry beatstar!

Beatstar (dizzily): Don't worry i- i'm fine

*beatstar falls flat on her face*

Giulia: Ookay

*in the water*

*alberto and beatstar were on a boat while rowing next to giulia who was swimming*

Beatstar: Uhh i guess that's how humans swim?

Alberto: Ugh, that's embarrassing 

Beatstar: Wait hold on, you've seen me swim and you don't find it embarrassing

Alberto: Uh well i meant the way how humans swim *chuckles nervously*

Beatstar: I'm part human

Alberto (embarrassed):...Oh...right

Alberto (thinking): Ugh dang it alberto! you're blowing it with her! try asking some stuff about her! yeah that could work!

Alberto: So...do you have any other relatives besides your brother?

Beatstar: Oh yeah i do! i have 5 sisters and 5 cousins

Alberto: wait if you have 1 brother, 5 sisters and 5 cousins, that means you have...11 relatives in your family?

Beatstar: Yeah i'm the firstborn in my pack, there's my sister Rachel, Luna, Lavender, Shadow and Molly who's the runt of the pack

Alberto: Oof it must be hard for her then, since she's a runt

Beatstar: Actually molly is the most loved in her family, she's a princess- and to be honest me and my sisters are all royalty -has an amazing mom named Poppy, an ex-nemesis named branch who's now her Bud, i'm tellin' you the chick's livin' in paradise

Beatstar: And there are my Cousins; Lil' icy, Ana, Camila, Ariana and Jolene

Alberto: *chuckles* That's really uh interesting, so this means you're the alpha in your pack?

Beatstar: *blushes and giggles while rubbing her arm* Well i mean i wouldn't say that, more like an older sibling who the others look onto for advice

Alberto: Right but i gotta admit i think it would sound amazing to be the leader of a pack

Beatstar: Yeah but with me and my sisters and cousins, We're all play and no bark or bite

*beatstar and alberto chuckle and then they look into each other's eyes*

Giulia: Phew! alright i think that's enough training for today

Alberto: Oh right yeah

*beatstar and alberto row to shore while giulia follows them*

*Back in the town square*

King Trollex: Synth look at this place! it's riddled with humans! how are we gonna find beatstar here?

*then a ball rolled in front of trollex's flippers*

Child: hey! *speaks in itailian* kick it!

*trollex glanced at the ball then back at the group of kids and kicks it square into one of the kid's faces, making her land in the water fountain*

King Trollex: Ooh! sorry didn't mean to do that!

Synth: Oh my cod- i got an idea

*synth swims over to the group of kids with the ball*

Synth: Yo kids! can i play too?

*synth kicks the ball into a kid's head and he falls into the fountain*

Synth: Oh whoops! sorry about that, now...LET THE GAME BEGIN!!!!

*Synth began to kick the ball at the group of kids' heads and they all land in the fountain, then synth grabs a kid and throws him into the fountain, panting heavily*

Synth: Let's see somebody do something like that! *mimics air-horns*

*meanwhile*

*beatstar heard the air-horn mimics and turns to the fountain but nothing is there and goes into the backyard while shutting the door*

*at night*

*alberto and beatstar were sitting together*

Beatstar: Hey uh...alberto? I think i heard one of my brother's friends

Alberto: What are you talking about?

Beatstar: Well back in techno reef one of my brother's friends was an ambassador named synth and sometimes he'd mimic air-horn noises and when i heard them i looked and he wasn't there! maybe my mind's starting to play a bit of a trick on me...

Alberto: Hey beatstar relax, even if it was a mind-trick, your brother is still out there lookin' around for you, and i'm pretty sure he's swimming as far as he can to find you

Beatstar: *sighs* Yeah you're probably right...Oh! by the way i wanna show you something *stands up* follow me

*alberto followed beatstar to mount portorosso and she finds a platform and she sits down*

Alberto: Wow this is like your own little hideout huh

Beatstar: Yeah but that's not why i brought you up here, i brought you up here so you can listen to..this

*beatstar said as she pulled out a guitar*

*then she started playing a small melody*

Beatstar: This love it is a distant star

Beatstar: Guiding us home wherever we are

Beatstar: This love it is a burning sun

Beatstar: Shining light on the things that we've done

Beatstar: I tried to speak to you everyday

Beatstar: But each word we spoke, the wind blew away

*as beatstar continued to sing, alberto felt his face heat up from how beautiful her voice was*

Beatstar: Could these walls come crumbling down?

Beatstar: I want to feel my feet on the ground

Beatstar: And leave behind this prison we share

Beatstar: Step into the open air

Beatstar: How did we let it come to this

Beatstar: What we just tasted we somehow still miss

Beatstar: How will it feel when this day is done?

Beatstar: And can we keep what we've only begun

Beatstar: And now these walls come crumbling down

Beatstar: And I can feel my feet on the ground

Beatstar: Can we carry this love that we share

Beatstar: Into the open air

Beatstar: Into the open air

Beatstar: Into the open air

Beatstar: This love it is a burning sun~

*she strummed the last chord and opens her eyes*

Alberto: Wow! that was- Wow!

Beatstar: Did you like it?

Alberto: Are you crazy? that was amazing! who'd you write it for?

Beatstar: Well it's supposed to be for my future lover...if i ever find one for that matter

Alberto: What? beatstar come on, people would be crazy if they didn't wanna date you! you're smart, kind, sassy, beautiful, adventurous, curious, you're an amazing singer and you're royalty!

Beatstar: You think i'm beautiful?

Alberto: *blushes* Uh i meant it as an example, not that i didn't mean you're not beautiful, i mean you are beautiful but it's not like-

Beatstar: *chuckles* Okay okay you've proven your point, now let's get back to giulia's hideout before she notices we're gone