In the darkened sky over the Kingdom of Mewni ruled by its Queen Star Butterfly a portal opened amidst the clouds and through it hurtled a pitch black shape wrapped in green flames. The meteor crash landed near the statue commemorating the defeat of the Septarian Toffee. The meteor shattered before impact releasing a black liquid the seeped into the ground burrowing beneath the statue to a small enclosure trapped beneath it. "It's been far too long; I should have regenerated by now!" A murky voice complained revealing the mushy skeleton of Toffee. His skeleton was complete from the waist up and robed in liquid flesh with his one reptilian eye shining in the darkness. Toffee had been here for years trying to regenerate, but whatever the former Princess of Mewni had done to him all those years ago it was taking an exorbitant amount of time to heal from.
As Toffee lay there feeling his skeleton regrow and his flesh turn more firm he looked up at the ceiling of his prison as a black liquid rushed down onto him smothering him in its murky depths. No I can't die like this! I didn't survive that damn princess' attack just to drown in ground water! Toffee thrashed back and forth trying to find the surface going so far as to start digging upwards but all of a sudden a voice rang out in his mind stopping his escape attempt cold.
Your body is quite interesting the perfect vessel for myself. I will take it. Do not resist it will only prolong the inevitable and bring you pain. Toffee felt the liquid begin to rush into him coating his body and invading his very consciousness. He saw it form in his mind eye a skeletal figure with twin ram horns sprouting from its head. There were no eyes only a green flame burning in this creature's sockets as it reached for Toffee in an attempt to crush him. Toffee hissed standing tall against this threat.
"I will not be your prey monster! I am Toffee of Septarsis the Immortal Monster and killer of Comet Butterfly!" The Septarian shouted jumping forward as both clashed in a battle of wills for dominance.
The 24 year old Queen Star sat in her room leafing through a few of the numerous pages that crossed her desk for approval. She was dressed in a blue skirt and a red Tshirt with a pair of sneakrs. She knew her mother would throw a fit if she saw her dressed like this, but she and her father had moved to the rainbow islands some time ago, so whatever. She sighed bored out of her skull. Being Queen was her birthright and she did enjoy it, but at times like this it was the worst thing in the world. She missed going on adventures with Marco, but her best friend was back on Earth pursuing a higher education. She leaned back putting her feet on her desk as she thought of all her friends.
Ponyhead was ruling the Ponyhead kingdom in her father's stead, same with Tom ruling the underworld. They had tried dating off and on, but it never stuck as more and more responsibilities were taken on by the both of them the less they saw eachother. They were still good friends and spoke at least once every few weeks. Star knew her citizens were antsy about her being without a husband and no heir but geez there was no time for that when every moment of her waking hours were stuffed with royal decrees, taxes and the balancing act she had to perform to keep monsters and Mewmans on the same page.
As Star ponders her current path she felt an immense magical presence enter Mewni. Star shot up from her chair knocking it over as she front flipped over her desk as she grabbed the royal wand and jumped out the window summoning Cloudie to fly her to this new magical disturbance.
The sky once more opened up above the kingdom of Mewni and through it entered another hurtling shape, but this one immediately cushioned its fall by throwing wide a dark yellow-orange cape using it as a parachute to land safely on the ground in the middle of the town square. Everyone looked at this stranger as they stood up being over six feet tall, the hood of their cape keeping their face hidden in shadow before this traveler took off at a sprint the cape flowing behind them as they made a beeline east. This immediately caught the attention of the city guard who pursued endeavoring to stop this visitor. "Stop right there in the name of Mewnian Law!" One guard shouted as he and several others created a shield wall to block the strangers path, but as if mocking their attempt the stranger grabbed hold of their cape throwing it forward where it wrapped around a signpost and shot forward over the barricade landing several blocks behind the soldiers and continuing their escape.
The stranger stopped at the statue of a lizard man being trod upon by a young girl. None of that mattered as the figure went to the base of the statue and ran its hand along it. "So this is where you're hiding, not for long you bastard!" The figure squatted down digging its fingers under the statue before standing up with a grunt and flipping the fifteen foot tall statue onto it's back revealing a dark pit underneath it. Just as the figure moved to reach into the pit they were kicked in the side sending them sliding back before turning to the one and only Buff Frog.
"You there stop with the destruction now!" His gruff voice shouted to the stranger who stood up their hood hiding their face still as they then ran forward throwing a punch with their right hand revealing it was covered in a large gauntlet with a gem on each knuckle. Buff Frog jumped out of the way, but was grabbed round the head by the traveler's cape which swung him around before slamming him to the ground before uncoiling from him. Buff Frog got to his feet slowly shaking his head as he glared at this stranger. "It will take more than that to defeat me!" He said as he rushed the stranger throwing punches and powerful kicks, but this person whoever they were, was quite skilled dodging his blows with ease before driving their elbow into Buff Frog's stomach and then back flip kicking them away before landing and holding up their gauntlet to block a magic attack from the Queen of Mewni.
"Laser Beam Blast!" Star shouted as it connected with the gauntlet letting out a massive shockwave that blew the stranger's hood off and dispelled Star's cloud dropping her to the ground as she landed on her feet looking into the face of her adversary. Standing before her was a man with blond hair rivaling hers in length. He sported a golden scruff across his chin and cheeks while his blue eyes were burning with irritation as he grit his teeth. He wore nothing under his cloak aside from blue jeans and black boots. She noticed the handle of a sword sticking out from over his shoulder. It was black with a yellow diamond pattern.
"What the flip is wrong with you people do you all have Poo Brain or something!?" Shouted the man as he shook his head and looked over his shoulder. "I don't care if she's a girl Jake she's in my way!" He shouted at no one.
"Whaaaat?" Star asked looking at this strange, but admittedly handsome stranger as he walked back over to the hole he was investigating.
"Cram that's just great he's found a body already." The man sighed as he looked to his gauntlet sliding up his sleeve to reveal four more jewels in addition to the four on each of his knuckles and the one centered on the back of his hand he had a total of nine.
"Who's found a body and who are you!?" Star said walking up to the guy as he thrust his gauntlet into the darkness of the pit coming out with it slightly covered in a dark slime like substance. "There was a hole under this statue I didn't know that, what was in it?" She watched as the guy stood up and pointed his gauntlet and watched as the gems began to glow before going dim once again.
"Perfect looks like I'm going to have to wait for him to surface. Just great I just want this to be over." He said before walking off as Star reached out and grabbed his arm.
"Hey wait a minute I'm talking to you!" The stranger whirled on her his blue eyes glaring into hers.
"Look I don't have time-!" Before he could finish his sentence he collapsed falling into Star's arms as the woman did her best to keep him from pulling them both to the ground.
"Oh no, no, no, no, no you are not passing out on me like this before I get some answers buddy!" She shouted before summoning cloudy once more and managing to roll her companion onto the sentient cloud. "Take us to the Hospital wing Cloudy." Star said as she and her unconscious stranger soared back to the castle to find out just who this guy was.
Star was sitting outside the hospital room and was fishing through her "guest's" green backpack. She didn't find much aside from food, and water, and then she found this family album kind of thing she guessed as she looked through the pictures. She found pictures of her stranger as a kid whose name she found out was Finn thanks to captions under the picture, which she was only able to read thanks to her Ommatidia eyes. He was apparently raised by dogs? Given the fact that the two dogs in the picture were his brothers named Jake and Jermain. "What kind of weirdo is this guy?!" Star asked as she flipped through more pages finding several more with him and his brothers and then with a pink girl called and Star couldn't keep herself from laughing; Princess Bubblegum.
It was at that moment that the head nurse came out to see Star. "Your Majesty I have completed my examination of Finn if you'd like to enter." Star closed the book and slipped it back into the backpack as she carried it back in with her.
"What can you tell me Mary?" Star asked as he looked at Finn. He was lying shirtless on the bed with only his blue pants and cloak on. She could see just how long his hair was and was a little shocked to see it was in fact longer than hers, but in much worse shape. Adorning his body were many scars some looked near fatal and to her surprise it turned out his "Gauntlet" was actual an entire prosthetic arm.
"Well he's completely exhausted if I had to guess I'd say he hasn't slept in a week. He has numerous scars, a couple of broken ribs, and at the moment he's suffering from interdimensional sickness." Star raised a brow at that last one.
"Interdimensional sickness what's that?" She asked sitting in a chair next to Finn as she noticed that he still wore his cloak. "Why does he still have that on?" She asked reaching for it as the cloak moved on its own slapping Star's hand away. "What the?!" Star shouted as she narrowed her eyes before reaching towards Finn only to have the same thing happen. "Is his cloak alive?" She asked as Nurse Mary Clarified.
"Yes I think it's sentient. It refused to be removed it was only after I spoke to it showing it I was a doctor that it allowed me to examine him." Mary explained to Star's amazement. "Also Interdimensional sickness is when one travels quickly from dimension after dimension without preparing their bodies for it. As you can see Finn is a normal human and I doubt he's done much interdimensional traveling, and in his current state of exhaustion and injury traveling from dimension to dimension only make him that much more susceptible to the sickness. He should rest for a couple days after that he should be fine." Mary said as she left her queen alone with Finn.
"Ok you, why are you here?" Star asked as she sat back intending to watch over him until he awoke so she could get her answers. She once more reached into his backpack looking for his album before finding some strange device. It looked like it was made out of gold with two dogs placing their hands on a long pole. Noticing a lever she cranked it before letting it run listening to the beautiful melody that played from it. Star noticed an immediate reaction from Finn's cloak it's on guard posture relaxed almost immediately as if it had fallen asleep. Star set the music box down and reached forward placing a hand against Finn's arm with no consequence or action from the cape. Finn also seemed to relax drifting into a deeper sleep as a sole tear leaked from his eye. "What happened to you Finn?"
Deep within the Forest of Certain Death the ground cracked open revealing a clawed hand pulling itself from the dirt quickly followed by another hand and then an upper torso and finally the form of Toffee, but different. Where his skin had once been blue it had turned to black with a green sheen. The sclera of his eyes were black as well with his once yellow eyes being a glowing green. The most prominent change was the pair of ram's horns jutting from his head. "Well that was unpleasant, but necessary." Toffee spoke brushing the dirt from his suit before walking away from the hole with each step the scenery began to die. "We must find the center of this world and kill it!" Toffee shook his head as he walked forward. "You want this world to die? I must disagree with that. I only want the deaths of all Mewmans and to take my rightful place as king of the monsters." Toffee said as he passed by a river seeing the bodies of dead fish and bugs float to the surface as the crystal clear river became dark and rancid.
"Who are you to command the Lich King I am a monster from before time itself began. My one and only purpose is to destroy all life throughout the multiverse". Suddenly Toffee turned feeling a pulse throughout his being as the Lich within him shuddered in what Toffee could only describe as fear. "What was that?!" Toffee demanded. "He is here the hunter he's destroyed me many times over only I remain, but I am more powerful for it. He will not defeat me nor keep me from my purpose. You want to rule the monsters Toffee very well help me to accomplish my goal of wiping out every other life on this plane and I will grant you the kingdom you wish."
Toffee scratched his chin in thought before smiling. "You have yourself a deal, but if we're going to kill everything we need an army and I know just where to find it." He said as he began walking again finding a cave that he walked down into. It was pitch black in this cave, but Toffee could see as plain as day as he walked deeper into the cave further downward into the earth before coming to a door shaped like a snake's mouth. Without hesitation Toffee slid the sleeve of his suit up and thrust his arm into the snake's mouth feeling its jaw slam shut on his arm crushing bone and tearing the limb from his shoulder only for it to grow back in moments. The door slowly opened having accepted his sacrifice.
"No one besides a madman or a Septarian could open this door." He stated as he walked into the large open cavern lined with numerous graves. "The Mewmans took everything from monsters, but the worst of all was Solaria the Monster Carver. She was the first queen to find a way to kill my kind. Dicing them into small pieces and spreading them far and wide. She took such pleasure in it being the butcher that she was, but her daughter Eclipsa was the one to truly find a way to kill us. Her Darkest spell along with her traitor husband Globgor slew many of my comrades and here they lay." Toffee said stepping forward to the most decorated grave and smiled. "You say you are death incarnate then surely you can reverse your effects correct?" Toffee spoke.
"Yes". Was the only reply the Lich gave before green energy flowed from him into the ground and to all the graves filling them with energy before they shattered revealing the remains of many Septarian warriors as they stood up alive again and ready to follow the orders of their general. The green light then flowed into the decorated coffin in the center revealing the name hidden by darkness and years of dust Seth of Septarsis. A clawed hand tore free from the coffin lid pulling with it an aged Septarian with white hair and fin like ears. He looked back and forth before laying eyes on Toffee and smiled.
"It's good to see you Toffee my boy."
A/N so this is the prologue to my new story. Just a little background as to why I made this. I once asked my brother who his top blond characters were. His answer was Terra from Teen Titans and Star from SVTFOE, I only half agreed my top two were as you can imagine were Finn from AT and Star, so I figured why not make them a top tier power couple. I hope you enjoy this and just heads up there will be a lot of Easter Eggs from various CN, Disney, and Nickelodeon shows so let me know in the comments when you find them and as always reviews and suggestions are always welcome.