It Started Because Of A Mistake
AN:/ Hello again to another instalment of my story and I am happy to say that I have hit more 1300 views for both of my stories. Also a short thank you to the people who followed and favorited, Sally B Mcgill, Littlered951, Gaming Soldier 86, Abbiedobbie and QwertyBobbersonisbeingpossesed(Nice name BTW). They are the reason why I'm writing this chapter as fast as I can.
Chapter 2
Mewni was in a state of lockdown, in fact a curfew until 10 p.m had been placed on every non military personnel. The knights of the Butterfly kingdom patrolled every street and anyone found after 10.00 p.m would be cuffed and introduced to the cellars of a Mewnian prison until confirmed that they were in fact the average joe. It was harsh but such measures had to be taken in order to ensure security after all, Toffee the Septarian had declared war on all Mewnians.
And they all knew just how powerful that Septarian could be. And thus the rules had been forced on the people of Mewni. The teenagers who attempted to revolt were subdued quickly and effectively removing the chance of another ignorant revolt against the Kingdom's rules.
Queen Moon Butterfly sighed with weariness, her hunched back ached as she read over battle plans passed on by her generals. She grew more and more weary with every battle that had occurred under her rule. Her soldiers managed to combat the forces of Monsters. However they were growing weak and food supplies were running low.
Although they had stockpiles of food ready to shipped to the front lime of defence, Toffee was too smart for his own good and would plan a blitz to catch them off guard before killing the transporters of the goods and would take the food for his own growing army. It was futile trying to add security as he was unrelenting in his attacks. It had been attempted before and a description of the fight that had ensued was terrifying to say the least.
From the survivor's perspective, they had been attacked at the stroke of midnight. Under a cloak of darkness the enemy had begun their attack, destroying the wheels of the carriage so that they were unable to move and then with ruthlessness they barbarically cut down the knights that began a counter attack. The merchants themselves attempted to attack the monsters and for a while they did.
But then a small force of monsters attacked them from behind. As the Knights had to spread out, they were easily cut and disposed off by the monsters. The metal protecting them punctured through the force of punches and kicks by the Monsters. Fortunately a young Knight managed to escape and warn of Toffee's underhand tactics.
To say that it had caused a pandemonium in the Royal Court was a huge understatement. The more outspoken ones shouted words of outrage and treachery. Others bubbled with thoughts concealed by a mask of stoicism. Moon herself was calm in the storm of emotions and with a blast from her fingers had silenced them.
"Royals please calm yourselves of this foolishness, our generals and I have this situation under control and wish for you to keep quiet and understand the situation as it is, there is no point to over exaggerate the situation", Moon calmly said.
The Royals merely nodded their head in agreement and she removed the spell. "Finally we can explain some of our strategies to you and my Highest ranked General will be explaining it".
At that moment a largely built man walked into the room with a confident stride. He bowed to the current King, Queen and Princess before bowing towards the currently seated royals and said with a booming voice, "Ladies and Gentlemen I present 2 strategies to combat Toffee the Septarian. Here are as they follow, the first one would be to bait him. Using something that could possibly tip the war to his favour. And then we surround and conquer and force him to surrender".
Some of the Royals and even Star the Princess had nodded in agreement with such a plan. The General that continued, "Or we can do the more unconventional and negotiate with Toffee. However the cons would be that Toffee could just discard it and attack the messenger so to speak." Moon recalled Star frowning at that suggestion and took a mental note of that and to question her about it at a later date.
However some of the Royals agreed with this option as they were less keen to spill the blood of more living beings than necessary and felt that this war can be stopped with the might of the pen. After saying what he had to say he turned towards Moon and replied, "I shall take my leave your Majesty I still have much more work to complete."
"Very well General, you shall leave", Moon replied with a small smile.
"And now everyone, we shall have an impromptu voting session on the best decision to take".
After which it was shown that the first method would be the best option as the Royals wanted blood, especially Toffee's for he was the instigator of this meaningless conflict and the fact that so much Mewnian blood had been spilt because of this.
"After the checking of the votes we have come to an agreement of the first solution given by the General. This council meeting has been adjourned and you are all dismissed", Moon said in a calm and commanding voice. The Royals had immediately walked off without a protest, realizing the situation in a more positive light.
"Mother may I be excused to my room", Star asked in a monotonous voice.
She could only nod and put her fingers to the bridge of her nose at how broken her and Star's relationship had become. They had not been close but now they rarely spoke to each other and when they did, Star always spoke with a dead or monotonous voice. She knew that it was difficult for Star to leave a place that she called home for more than a year and to leave abruptly without a goodbye.
However she did not expect the move to have such a profound effect on Star as to be a shell of her former self. She noticed the dead look in Star's eyes and she knew immediately that it was love, more accurately broken love. How could she not have known such look when even she had experienced such a love before. But she had found River, her anchor against all the annoying and infuriating things a Queen of her prestige held. He was what kept her grounded. She could only hope that Star found her own Anchor and hopefully before it wasn't too late.
Perhaps she had misjudged the influence that Marco Diaz, the Earth Boy had on Star. As Star walked with grace unbeknownst to her she could feel her own mask falling apart. How could she keep it on as she saw with her own two eyes, her flesh and blood being broken down further and further mentally until there was nothing there. The normal sparkle in her eyes had dimmed to a murky blue, full of uncertainty and sadness.
She could feel the first few droplets of tears stream down her cheeks and collapsed down on her throne. Seeing this River was even more saddened than before. His two most important women in his life were slowly but surely dying inside and the most irksome part was that he did not know what to do, other than calm down his wife.
"It's okay Moon, I know you tried your best to do what to do what was best for Star. Even if she does not understand now, she will understand why it was necessary for her to be brought back. It was for her safety, we knew for a while that there were spies sending intel back to Toffee but we chose to neglect it as we care more about out daughter's happiness. But now, after the destruction of the Magic High Commission we needed to reconsider.", King River replied to his wife soothingly while patting her back slowly.
"I know that River but I just don't get why she is being so unresponsive", Moon said with weariness.
"Do you remember when you were as old as Star, you too had the same tendencies as Star. In fact they were very much the same. You too were as stubborn as her", River replied.
Moon chucked mirthlessly as she remembered how she acted when she herself had felt as broken as Star was currently feeling. She then relented, "I suppose giving her some time to recover would not be such a bad idea but thank you for allowing me to lean on your shoulders", Moon replied gratefully as she kissed her husband.
River merely smiled and said, "If I could make my most important woman happy then I would do anything for them to smile once again."
"And that's why I love you", Moon said with a loving smile.
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Marco was having a pretty shitty day. His best friend ran out on him before basically confessing her feelings and without a goodbye she had just left, poof and gone. He then said goodbye to his loved ones before leaving Earth and going to Mewni. The first thing that happened when he left was himself getting ambushed by a Monster. He then had to fuse with an enemy now friend to combat the brute strength of the Monster.
He was also running out of supplies as he only brought a bottle of water. He mainly survived on the berries that he found, his 'monster sense' helping him figure out which ones were fine to eat while disregarding the poisonous ones. He was having a mental conversation with Monster Arm who was slowly becoming his confident in this maelstrom of events.
He too talked off stuff that he did before getting sucked into the wand. Overall a very interesting conversation as he was able to see how old Mewni was like compared to the new Mewni and felt that nothing had changed in terms of having a monarchy. He then heard a rustle and a blur passing through the trees.
Shit what do we do now", Marco said with a hint of fear.
"Calm down Marco, don't forget you have inherited the skills of a decent fighter. Follow your instincts and you will be fine." ,Monster Arm said placating Marco.
Marco sighed as he took in a deep breath of air, keeping his senses wide open, a silver chain went flying through the air, whistling slightly and Marco noticing this dodged deftly to the side, he grabbed the iron chain and tugged on it causing the person to fall from the tree.
Another person threw knife with surgical precision straight towards Marco. Marco moved just in time to avoid getting by the blade. The leader then threw gas pellets on the ground which caused smoke to form. Realizing the gas was toxic he leaped towards a tree in an attempt to escape the Strike Team. The problem was that they blocked his escape by punching him hard on the chest.
This caused him to fall down in surprise and although the fall hadn't hurt as much as he thought it would have hurt. However the toxins from the surrounding air began to flood his entire body. His thoughts were hazy and he was very desperate. But he just couldn't summon the energy to move. Every limb felt like lead and he buckled and rested his weight on one knee. As he kneeled down he could hear the voices of a few monsters laughing.
"As easy as taking corn from a baby", one Monster replied with a mocking tone to his voice before he finally lost the battle and fell unconscious.
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Marco woke up to the blinding power of strong lamp burning the retinas in his eyes. He then heard a reptilian like voice that sounded familiar. "Finally you have woken up Marco, I was worried that my Strike Force had killed you.", Toffee the Septarian spoke in a disinterested tone.
Marco gritted his teeth in anger "What do you want from me Toffee, I don't want to play any of your stupid games anymore".
Toffee merely looked at him with an impassive look In his eyes. "What do you want? Hmm... a question that we all would like to know wouldn't we but the answer to your question wont be answered until a later time."
Marco remained silent, seething inwardly at how easy the Monsters managed to capture him.
Toffee began speaking again, "We are at the brink of war Marco, tensions between Monsters and Mewnians are at an all time high and we need to end this conflict as fast as possible in order to save as many lives as possible.
"And whose fault was it for this war to even begin.", Marco asked scathingly.
Toffee sighed, "I suppose I am a reason for this war to escalate but you fail to understand due to your ignorance that tension were starting to get worse. I was merely the catalyst not the products for why this war had begun".
Marco raised his eyebrow at that statement but took a moment to think about it and felt that tensions really had been high among Monsters and Mewnians alike. It was why a midget bird like Ludo was able to gain so many follower, with or without money it was still a substantial feat for him. And it was also why Star had such a deep prejudice against Monsters until he himself managed to snap Star out of it.
Toffee smiled at the look of understanding and then defeat at what he just understood. "So now you finally understand why this war could even begin to form. It has been centuries since the last big conflict and tensions between both parties have never been absolved. We need to destroy the government brick by brick and raze this petty Kingdom to ash and rebuild one of justice and equality", Toffee said with valour.
"I'll never join you Toffee, I will admit that there are tensions but War is never the answer. But if that's how the game is going to be played then I refuse to be a part of your army.", Marco growled defiantly. However way Toffee would have reacted, Marco never expected Toffee to cackle.
"Good choice Marco, I always like to break my foes down until they became a shell of their former selves. I forced myself to be more civil with you but after what you and Star Butterfly had done to me I will see to it that you both are tortured to an inch of your life. Begging for release from your miserable existence but never getting it.", Toffee said with a cheshire grin plastered across his face.
Marco attempted to break the restraints but it was to no avail. Toffee laughed manically and replied, "Try all you want Marco, even with your newly acquired Monster powers aren't a match for these restraints."
"Fuck you and your bullshit Toffee, you will pay for this with blood", Marco shouted with rage, his pupils turning into purple fire. His skin tinged more and more purple.
"Now now Marco those are the words of a person who has no more valid points to say. I must say you have really disappointed me with that abysmal performance .", Toffee said with mock disappointment dripping with each word.
The door to Toffee's private room opened revealing a scientist in a white lab coat with a curious yet clinical look to his eyes. "Ah Dr Davies, you finally have the chance to meet Marco."
"Ah yes yes Marco, I will take a sample of his blood for further testing and then he's all yours Toffee", Dr Davies replied absentmindedly. Marco attempted to move himself away from the offending needle about to pierce him but a firm grip from Toffee prevented that.
"Excellent, I will meet with you in 2 days time to show you what I have uncovered from his blood."
"Very well Doctor, I shall join you shortly.", Toffee replied politely.
The short man left immediately and Marco could feel his impending doom approaching. "With that settled we can proceed with the main course", Toffee said with what seemed to be giddiness and excitement. All Marco could think about was how he fucked everything up as he stared into the merciless eyes of his soon to be torturer.
AN:/ And that's a wrap up folks. I'm sorry for the delay, I've been very busy lately and I did my best to squeeze in enough time to finish up this chapter. Hopefully its been to your liking.
Have a nice week.