"Star? I'm going to go with Tom to train in the underworld," Marco poked his head into the throne room's balcony where Star had been spending the past few weeks staring at the kingdom below.

No response came from the former royal princess of Mewni. She just sat there, unfazed, even by the cold breeze brush by. Her hair just moved along with the wind. That was the only movement on her behalf. For a while Marco just stared at her, not knowing what to do nor what to say.

Star just shrank as she curled up into a ball and hugged herself. Her form heaved a bit as she began to sob.

"It's okay, Star. You'll find her one day. And I'll always be available to help you, even Tom promised," Marco sank down beside Star to try and comfort her.

He barely laid a hand on her shoulder when she buried her head into his sweater and wrapped her arms around her best friend.

"You've been the greatest help to me these past weeks, Marco Diaz. I don't know what I would do without you," her outburst made him blush.

"If-if you want I won't go to the underworld. I can" –Marco's face lit up like a firefly as he cleared his throat to suggest the next thing– "I could stay here with you."

Star stopped crying at the suggestion but couldn't stop sniffling.

"I, uh, I appreciate the thought, Marco. But, you have to go. You love training, and right now we don't have a way to find Mom. So you have to go train. For yourself, and just in case we need that training in the future," she offered a sad smile to Marco which he returned.

"I guess this is goodbye for now then. Right?" Marco's eyes watered.

"You can still visit whenever you want to. It's not like Tom will have you trapped in there."

With a nod, Marco gave her a tight hug before heading out of the balcony and out of her sight. He was off to another world, like always, but this time it was without his best friend. She too would have to deal with having two absent people in her life. Her best friend and her mother.

She slid back to the floor. The recent defeat she suffered was too much for her to cope with. Though she tried to be strong in front of others. Something she failed to do right now. She knew that Tom offered Marco a chance to train in the demon arts with him and she didn't like what she heard. But she couldn't be selfish right now. Her selfishness had caused her to almost lose her kingdom.

She let her emotions cloud her decision when trying to decide whether to rescue her mother or defend the kingdom from Meteora. Because she chose to go after her mom instead of Meteora, the kingdom was almost levelled to the ground. And all of its inhabitants had been drained.

Her butterfly form had been sacrificed to try and defeat the monster Meteora had become. And with it her identity. She was no longer the legitimate ruler of Mewni. She didn't know where her mom ended up. And she was useless in the reconstruction of her kingdom. She didn't know what to do anymore.

The chiming of the royal doorbell snapped Star from her wallowing.

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The ringing of the doorbell that Marco convinced my dad to install into the palace broke me from my thoughts.

Who could that even be? Everyone was busy rebuilding the houses that were destroyed in the battle against Meteora right now. No one even wanted to look at this place. It was still half constructed and looked ugly, even compared to the former shacks that surrounded it before the disaster.

With a groan, I picked myself up and made my way downstairs to the primary throne room as my shoes squeaked against the polished floor. I had no clue why this place even needed a throne room anymore, let alone a secondary one. But the High Commision had very weird interests. Especially Rhombulus. I had no clue what that guy even thought about half the time. Nor did I want to know after finding out he had a crush on my Mom.

The trek down the steps was a bit longer than I remembered. Though it might have something to do with the fact that I hadn't used them in a week now. I've spent most of my time upstairs in the balcony or blasting a random door to my room in an attempt to keep practising wandless magic.

So far that only included materializing puppies, nachos, and my room. I couldn't summon Spider in a top hat, Cloudy, All Seeing Eye, nor a simple Narwhal blast. Sometimes I found myself thinking that giving Eclipsa the wand was a bad idea, especially since she just took it and ran off. But it was her right to have it. It didn't belong to me or any of the Butterflies after her. It was the right thing and the least I could do after all the wrong that was done to her.

I finally made it to the door and opened it.

"Who are you?" in front of me was a strange girl about my age looking at me confused.

"Who are you?" I echoed back in confusion.

She looked familiar. Her hair was blue and was styled back with 2 strands hanging loosely in front and her bangs hung high above her eyes. But it was the marks on her cheeks that gave it away. Two diamonds, the same shape as my moms, decorated her cheeks.

"Mom?" my jaw dropped.

I'd spent the first week after Meteora looking for my mom everywhere I could. The swamp, every cottage, monster village, Ludo's former castle, Buff frog's home, other kingdoms, even the underworld. But I was never able to find her. Now she just came strolling to the front door of the palace!?! My eye twitched slightly at all that.

"Why are you so young?" I asked.

"Uh, what are you talking about?" my mom's accent had become a bit sharper than it usually was. "And who are you? What are you doing in my home? And why do you have Butterfly marks?"

"Mom. Don't you remember me?" something must've happened to make her unable to recognize me. Maybe she bonked her head on a tree, or worse, she spent too much time in the Magical Dimension.

"Stop calling me that. My name is Moon Butterfly, defeater of Toffee and the Septarian race. I am Moon the Conqueror of Monsters," either I imagined it or when she announced her name lightning cracked across the sky.

"More like Moon the Undaunted," I giggled.

I surprised myself, I hadn't laughed or even giggled in a long time.

"What?" she wasn't getting anything.

I grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her over to the grand hall where all the Tapestries were on display. A crash course on all of them was found necessary in order to get to her Tapestry. Thankfully, I had brushed up on the history of Mewni's rulers after finding out that I wasn't a true Butterfly. Then we arrived at her Tapestry. I always thought it was an awesome tapestry of my mom that showed her victory against the Septarian army. I never would've thought that I would be able to do something so amazing as that, but now I've faced off against and defeated Toffee and fought Meteora.

Though I don't count them as wins since I defeated Toffee while I was unconscious and Eclipsa was the one to defeat Meteora, I just saved her from being entirely neutralized by one of Eclipsa's dark spells.

"That's me?" my mom asked as she read the name under the Tapestry. "But, I'm not a queen. Not yet anyway. I still haven't accepted the coronation." My mom's head lowered in shame.

"You don't remember anything, do you?" I realized.

She raised her eyes up to me, "No, I don't."