Chapter 9- The Tragedy of Hekapoo

Hekapoo stood and made her way to the stand, as she walked her eyes were fixed on Eclipsa, neither of the two blinked as they stared each other out. Hekapoo took the stand and placed a pair of dimensional scissors in front of her, these were marked with Eclipsa's name and the handle was formed into the shape of a spade, much like the ones donning Eclipsa's cheeks.

"I present to you, Eclipsa's dimensional scissors" Hekapoo spoke in a rarther angry sounding tone, crafted by myself and given to the queen of Mewni at the time, She gestured towards Eclipsa who smiled and said sarcastically "And I didn't get you anything, I'm so embarrassed" she placed her hand on her cheek and smiled, the spades on her cheeks turning a faint red.

Hekapoo scoffed, looking away from Eclipsa, a disgusted look on her face. "Anyway" she said, trying to get back on track "I crafted these as I would any other pair of dimensional scissors, save for the ones I use personally, however" Heckapoo paused staring at Eclipsa once more who had an smile of childlike innocence on her face, for no other reason than to annoy Hekapoo of course. "These scissors were altered by Eclipsa using a spell that she could've only gotten by sneaking into my dimension and going through my personal journal"

"All knowlege is good knowlege sweetie" Eclipsa sang as she coyly looked up avoiding Hekapoo's piercing stare. "And it was so sweet to hear about your little crush on Prince Helvete of the Kingdom of Helios, yknow before it's tragic demise" She smiled a devilish smile as Hekapoo blushed slightly and slammed her hands to the desk.

"Enough out of you!" She yelled her flame increasing in size and heating the room up around her like an oven, Marco adjusted his uniform, "ugh this stuff was not built to breathe, I need to talk to Sir Lavabo about that" He said as he tugged at the neck of his uniform in an attempt to cool off without disturbing his demenor.

Star sighed taking up her wand she yelled "Winterstorm Hyperblow!" at which the star in the centre of her wand glowed and emitted a beam of Ice and freezing air which flooded the courtroom, this fixed the problem of the heat, albiet rather drastically. Marco, now frozen to the spot he was standing, spoke through his now frozen expression of surprise. "errrm thanks Star".

Star looked around the courtroom to see everyone staring at her, their expressions equally frozen and their skin now a light blue hue from the cold, all except Hekapoo whose flame had died down slightly but was still burning and melting the ice surrounding her.

"What?" Star asked, "Marco was too hot" she said as she gestured towards Marco, who rolled his eyes, "Well at least she tried" He thought to himself as he tried to shake the ice off himself. Hekapoo increased her flame again slightly, heating up the courtroom to a warm temperature to melt the rest of the ice, she then continued speaking clamly, having cooled off, litterally, from her argument with Eclipsa.

"You caused the demise of Helios when you used your modified scissors to seal off their dimension from Mewni" Hekapoo said, anger still clearly present at the loss, "Without their connection to this kingdom they had no support when the monsters of their dimension overran their nation and annihilated it" Hekapoo looked down with tears forming in her eyes "by the time I found out what you'd done and restored the connection there was nothing left but charred ruins and still smouldering crators".

The courtroom was silent, everyone shocked at what they had just been told, while they knew Eclipsa had a definate dark side they hadn't suspected she'd been the cause of something like this. They looked towards Eclipsa again.

"Well" said Queen Moon looking sternly from her podium "would the defence care to explain itself?".

Eclipsa adjusted her hat, cleared her throat and began to speak "I did allow that kingdom to be destroyed, however there are a few things you should know".

A/N: At time of writing the actual episode "Butterfly Trap" has just aired, I must say I loved it, however this trial is going to take a wildly different turn from that one. Hope it's still enjoyable :)