Our Complication

Avery: I wrote another chapter and I left you guys some cake, enjoy. I do not own this show.

The King is dead.

The room was silent. Queen Octavia sat on a chair sobbing, Prince Alexander paced around the room. Nero and Star's mother sat on opposite sides of Queen Octavia, comfortingly rubbing her back. Selene continued to stare blankly into space. What was she thinking about? What could she hear? What could she see? Star sat in the corner of the room, cross legged on the floor. She slowly began to pick the petals off a purple columbine flower. Its petals were soft to touch, like feeling silk. The flower smelled nice too, the scent reminded her of Mrs. Diaz's perfume. Star missed Mr. and Mrs. Diaz; they had been her Earth parents. And they were much better parents then what she had on Mewni. Star looked up at Selene and Alexander, who had just learned they lost their father. Star could see a tear in Alexander's eye, shimmering like a little crystal, desperate to fall. Star had always seen the Prince as emotionless, unfeeling. She then stared at Selene, she was still looking at a fixed point on the wall, at nothing.

"Did you see this?" Alexander yelled at his sister, who didn't move or react. "Selene, look at me!"

Selene continued to sit and stare, her nose began to bleed again. Alexander quickly grabbed a napkin and wiped the red liquid from her face. Selene didn't react to anything, not the pain, not to her brother. She just continued to stare at the wall, motionless, as if she were made of stone. Alexander shook his sister violently. Finally she stood.

"The sun is going out, the queen is coming." Selene muttered before collapsing to the ground.

Star recalled Selene saying that earlier. The sun was going out, but she didn't mean the sun in the sky. She meant Byzantium, Kingdom of the Sun.

Alexander held his sister's head in his hands, he lay her down on his lap, letting her exhausted body rest. The fabric of her long dress pooled around her, she appeared as though she had no legs, as if she were a mermaid. She was a beautiful enchantress, a magical princess. Star couldn't help but smirk, she had fancied herself a magical princess, and now all she wanted was to attend college and learn new things. Star tuned her back from the scene in front of her and slowly walked out of the room. She could hear Queen Octavia's hysteria as the door closed behind her. She thought of returning to her room so that she could tell Marco about what happened. As she trudged down the hall she repeated Selene's prophecy in her head.

The moon will rise bloody and red, come morning one will be dead.

Selene had allowed herself to bleed to warn Star about the future, and then King Constantine died. Selene had known that her father would die, and Prince Alexander knew that Selene saw it. He was probably angry that Selene had done nothing to stop it. If it happened, than it must have happened for a reason. Star turned the corner to her bedroom, only to find that her bedroom door had been ripped off its hinges. Star ran full speed into her room to find it in shambles. The curtains had been ripped down from the windows, broken glass was scattered all over the floor, picture frames lay broken on the carpet, the mattress had been flipped, even the closet door had also been ripped off its hinges. The scariest part? Marco was nowhere in sight.

"Marco?" Star called, even though nobody was in the room with her. "Marco!"

"I'm afraid that Marco isn't here, sweet Ophelia" A deep brooding voice said from behind Star.

Star turned around to see Nero. He wore a black suit, his hair was slicked back with gel as usual and he smirked evilly at her, his white teeth gleaming. He loomed over her, she stood in his shadow. Despite her better judgment she moved into a fighting stance, but stopped herself before making the first punch, sure she fought monsters three times her size and could easily take down her uncle, but Nero could have her beheaded for attacking him.

"I won't attack unless you throw the first punch Star." Nero explained.

Star stood her ground, she looked up at her uncle with a brave face.

"I am not Ophelia." Star spat at Nero. "Now tell me where you've taken Marco."

"Really? Your little scene proves otherwise." Nero said smugly as he began to circle around the young woman, watching her every move. "Or are you Prince Hamlet? Faking insanity in order to take revenge, very clever girl but you must remember that you are not the only person who has read Hamlet."

He was avoiding her question, Star grew angry.

"Where is Marco?" She repeated lividly.

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead." Nero replied with a devious smile.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were the names of Hamlet's friends, whom he left for dead and they were both beheaded. Oh dear, Marco was beheaded.

"What did you do to him?" Star yelled louder than she had meant to.

She was holding back her tears, she was breathing heavily, and her heart was pounding out of her chest. What would she do if he were dead? Give up? Go back to Earth and see if Mr. and Mrs. Diaz will still welcome her after she indirectly killed their son?

"Calm down, I have done nothing yet." Nero continued to smirk as he spoke. He stopped circling Star and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Tomorrow, after your wedding the traitors will die."

He took his hand off of her shoulder and walked down the hallway without looking back. Star collapsed onto the floor and burst into tears. Her wails could be heard thought the kingdom as she lay in a head on the floor sobbing. Tomorrow, the wedding. She would be forced to marry that little brat instead of the man she loved. And then she would be forced to watch the man she loved die. Why didn't he use the inter-dimensional scissors to go home? He could have been safe.

He couldn't leave you behind a voice whispered in Star's mind. Maybe it was just wishful thinking, maybe he would rather die than see Star be wedded off. Star could only imagine the fight that Marco had put up when the guards found him. Her Marco, trying to be the adorable dorky hero that he was. Star hugged her legs to her chest and leaned against the door frame, tears still streaming down her face. She could see Prince Alexander turn the corner and approach her, she didn't want to get up and greet him.

"A guard said that they caught the killer in your room, a human." Alexander said, spitting out the word human as if it were a curse. He stared at her, his golden eyes were now red and puffy, he had obviously been crying. The Prince then looked into Star's bedroom and saw the wreck that it had become. "Did a hurricane come through here?"

Star still sat on the floor, she shook her head.

"Good," Alexander said with a nod. "The guards suspected that Ludo guy too, they are going to his dimension to arrest him and put him on trial."

Ludo tried to destroy the universe multiple times and he is put on trial while safety kid Marco is locked up and will be killed tomorrow? That is not fair.

"I find it interesting," Alexander said, circling around Star. Looking down at her with fire in his golden eyes. "A human boy from Earth appears just days after a princess returns from Earth. How would a human boy even find his way to another dimension?"

Star looked up at him, he touched her forehead with the back of his fingers. She felt a small burning sensation, like touching a hot light bulb, it was as if his skin were made of fire.

"You wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you?" Alexander asked, kneeling down to meet her eyes. Star shook her head furiously and Alexander frowned. "Good, because if you did anything to anyone in my family, I would start a war on your kingdom. I can do that now, you know? I'm the new king. I just wish that I could go to Earth and burn the whole place to the ground."

The words echoed in Star's ear, start a war on your kingdom. Burn Earth to the ground. The sun will bring you war. Alexander was about to turn and leave, but Star spoke up.

"Maybe you should give Earth a chance." Star said meekly.

Alexander turned to look at her again.

"Why Earth?" He asked.

"Because I want adventure," Star said as she rose to her feet. "I want education and literature, I want poetry and art, science and philosophy, history and a future. My future, my own happily ever after. I am no longer a princess, I stopped being a princess the day I left Mewni. I am not a fairytale, I am a warrior, I am a genius, and I am the one who will reinvent happily ever after."

Alexander stared at her in shock, how much did Star wish that she could read minds so that she could tell what he was thinking. Was he angry? Disgusted? Was he going to report her to her mother? Finally Alexander sighed.

"I couldn't possibly understand," He said monotonously. "I've always been told that Earthlings were stupid and selfish, that they refuse to believe in the existence of aliens because that would mean that they are not the center of attention. But you've been there, I haven't. I wouldn't know what it's really like there."

He turned on his heel and began to walk away, but then he turned around. "By the way, the next time you fake insanity be original Ophelia, everyone in the universe has read Hamlet."

Star sighed and fell back against the wall, slowly sliding down until she was once again sitting on the floor. She probably should have foreseen the fact that Hamlet was a universally known play and therefore had been read by people all over the galaxy. So Star sat alone in the hallway, wondering what her next move should be.

She decided that she should try to see Marco, it was her fault that he was captured in the first place. She walked down the cold stone steps into the basement dungeon, it was chilly down there, as no heat reached this part of the castle. Everything was dark except for the flickering fluorescent light bulbs that lit Star's way. She saw two guards standing at the bottom of the stairs, they looked up at her and bowed their heads respectively. Star knew that she would need them to get out of the way if she was going to see Marco.

"The Queen is requesting that all of the guards protect the rest of the Byzantium royal family." Star lied. She had never been a good liar, but the guards obeyed her anyway, who were they to deny a princess?

As the guards hurried off, their boots echoing as they trudged up the concrete steps, Star walked down the dark hallway. It was hard to see anything because the lights were slowly flickering out and Star felt like she was walking on ice. It might have been wise to put shoes on before walking in the dungeon, Star mentally slapped herself for that. Star walked along the stone walls, passing unoccupied cells. Back before prisons were around these cells would be filled with traitors and renegades, they would be held until either they served their time, or until they were to be executed.

"Well, well." A grouchy voice said from one of the cells. "Look at who decided to visit me."

Star slowly approached the cell, she could see his short silhouette in the darkness. She touched the cold silver bars of the cell and peered into the confined area. He sat on the floor wearing black and white striped prison clothes, he looked up at Star menacingly.

"Ludo." Star said in surprise, she had hoped to find Marco in the cell. "Where is Marco?"

Star knew that Ludo wouldn't actually know where Marco was, but if Ludo had seen Marco it would help.

"They took him to another castle, princess." Ludo scoffed.

"Oh." Star sighed.

She sank down to her knees in defeat, she couldn't believe that this was happening. She began to hyperventilate, her heart pounded, and her hands became hot and clammy with sweat. She felt tears pool in her eyes, she refused to let them fall. It was an unspoken rule in crime fighting to never cry in front of the enemy. But she couldn't help but sniffle, her eyes grew red and swollen, and a tear found its way down her cheek.

"What are you crying for?" Ludo snapped at her. "This is probably your dream to see me behind bars, and I was told that you're getting married tomorrow, congratulations." Ludo rolled his eyes sarcastically.

"No." Star replied, wiping the tear from her cheek. "I don't want to get married, I don't want to be queen. My mother confiscated my wand but if I had it with me right now I would give it to you and let you destroy Mewni, I don't care, all I want is to be a normal human girl."

Ludo's face softened, as if moved by the young princess's speech. Star continued to frantically wipe tears from her face. She looked at Ludo, who was waiting for her to continue.

"I know that you didn't kill my father." Star's voice cracked as the words came out.

"That's correct." Ludo replied.

"And I know that you didn't kill King Constantine." Star continued.

"That is also correct." Ludo replied with a nod.

"So why didn't you come to Mewni and try to clear your name?" Star asked.

"It was my wedding anniversary, my significant other and I went to Beach Planet," Ludo replied with a shrug. "Even evil has to take a vacation."

Star nodded in agreement. But she still wished to know about what happened to Constantine, and maybe Ludo had the answers. Star felt like Clarice Starling going to interview the notorious serial killer Hannibal Lector, except there would be less cannibalism.

"Do you know what happened?" Star asked.

Ludo shook his head.

"I don't know, but you do." Ludo replied, Star looked at him, confused. "Think about it, why would someone kill a king? Either for power or to start a war. Who do you know that needs to start a war?"

Star knew exactly why powerful figures were killed in the past. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in order to start the First World War, and in history many sons were known to kill their fathers in order to gain power. Sons killing their fathers in order to gain power. Alexander. No, he couldn't have. Nero had to have done it, Nero had to have killed Constantine in order to frame Marco.

"You'd better leave princess," Ludo said, slowly sinking into the shadows. "The guards will be back any minute."

Star nodded and retreated up the stairs, her loud thumping footsteps echoing behind her as she climbed the stairs.

Avery: Did Alexander kill his father? Or is Nero plotting something sinister? Find out soon. And no there will be no Aladdin ending, Aladdin is based off Othello, not Hamlet.