So any ideas are appreciated this is a continuation of the last chapter, hope you all enjoy. Sorry if this is a little on the short side, or on the long side.
Stabby was sitting in a big comfy chair in the middle of a circle of rooms, each door had a weird mark on it to show who exactly it belonged to. Thomas's had his name on a brass plate. GP had a bunch of scorch marks on it. Jane's was made out of what appeared to be metal because she was an over dramatic sci-fi weirdo. And Sol's was hanging on a hinge. Jacquelyn's was also very neat and tidy, it was similar to her biological older brothers. The toddlers and the twins shared an extra large nursery, she could tell because there was a large picture of a baby with the word nursery on it.
Stabby held her mom's sword closer to her chest and tightened her grip on the handle. She was nervous, and scared. And she wanted to go home and get out of this castle. She was normally very out going, or at the very least willing to go out and try something strange, some sort of adventure...it should have been fun...but instead she was scared stiff. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, trying to visualize her mother.
All she saw was blood, and fire, and heard screaming, and flashes of bright white and dark green going everywhere. She was shivering and the sword tip was clattering against the marble floor. She heard something squeak behind her and turned jumping out of the chair with her sword drawn at the ready.
Sol stood there in confusion holding a wand loosely in one hand.
"Dudette you okay?" She asked with such a naive innocence that Stabby was actually able to ignore the wand in her hand. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She had to keep on reminding herself that she was not in her own dimension. Maybe not even her own universe. Things were different here right? Things were better...they had to be...
"I will be. What are they going to do with me?" She gestured towards the main door that lead into the suite. Sol looked back and shrugged.
"You got me, I'm surprised that they put all of us in the same place. Especially when they said that weren't not really allowed to talk to you.
"Oh." Stabby said sitting back down slowly and depressed. She felt like a prisoner, or a child, admittedly this was a sweet prison, there were books, toys, weapons and video games absolutely everywhere. But a prison nevertheless.
"But that's a stupid rule. Do they have tacos where you're from?" Sol said plopping to the ground in front of her.
Stabby was of course taken aback, this girl was her age but she was also so...at ease...just completely and utterly unconcerned with what was going on around her. She seemed to just be having a good time. After all she was breaking the rules just by talking with her right?
"Of course there are tacos. What dimension doesn't have tacos?" Stabby said as she looked back down at...Sol? She thought that was her name.
"Good point. I don't think I introduced myself earlier. It's Sol. And you're Stabby, like Gabby but with a ST instead of a G." Sol spoke so happily and matter of factly that Stabby could only grin in response. Amazingly enough she felt completely at ease around this girl. Which was weird as she was bouncing on the floor and looked to be a big ball of energy.
"Yeah exactly like that."
"SOL!" Thomas snapped as he walked out of his room. The other bedroom doors opened and the other kids poked their heads out before exiting. Jane was snacking on some popcorn and there were lights on her eyes. She was clearly watching a movie. But she was a multi-tasker. GP reached for some popcorn only to get her hand slapped away none too gently.
"Sol you know that we were told to stay in our rooms." Sol stuck her tongue out at her brother before she pointed back at STabby.
"So what? She's cool I wanted to meet her. And don't lie so did you." Thomas attempted to argue but then put his hand back down, she was right about that.
"Fine but if we're caught."
"You take the fall as usual." Jane said as she sat beside Stabby and offered her the bowl of popcorn. "Hungry?"
Stabby grabbed the bowl, sniffed a kernel and began to devour the entire bowl before handing it back.
"Wow okay that was to share." Jane said in agitation. Stabby looked at her unashamed.
"Yeah but I ate them all so I don't think that you want them back."
"Valid point." GP said as she studied the girl. She resembled their father so much, the mole, the brown eyes, the nose, the stupid colored hoodie. But there were definitely differences, the matter of fact attitude, the cool fighting, and the sword of course. Also she seemed sadder, or at least she was bottling up the sadness.
"I thought there was another one?" Stabby said looking around her and counting heads. The four siblings exchanged looks before GP snapped her fingers.
"Oh yeah Jacquelyn. But she's the fifth wheel. You know, the weird middle sibling. We're the first litter." GP explained as Jacquelyn approached from behind and snorted in annoyance.
"Well that was unintentionally rude." Jacquelyn said in embarrassed annoyance as she sat down with her book and began to read. Pointedly ignoring her family.
"And abnormally sexual, I mean referring to us as a litter...do you just tell everyone that when you explain us? A littler?" Thomas said very creeped out.
"Well how would you honestly describe us?" GP said in annoyance. She didn't like it when her ideas were ridiculed. Especially in front of new people that might somehow be related to their dad. That was the really weird part, that she already knew their dad.
"Not as a litter."
"We're kind of like a litter." Sol said unhelpfully as she lay down on the ground and looked at Stabby, Stabby attempted to not look in her eyes, she had very big eyes and they resembled Marco's too much. It was very uncomfortable. It was like her father was with her again.
"So what are they going to do to me? Especially Queen Butterfly?" The five teenagers looked at each other in confusion. Jane chuckled a little before sneaking up close and in Stabby's personal space.
"They're probably going to string you up in the dungeon, and slowly poison your food supply, remove your fingernails and replace your-"
"Jane if you keep on talking like that you will give Sol nightmares. Not to mention it is weird and creepy." Thomas snapped at Jane who rolled her bionic eyes all the way back in her head in annoyance. Her brother always ruined her fun just when she was getting started.
"It's fine I can take the truth." Stabby said jabbing her sword into the marble floor. "I will probably take four of you yahoo's with me, I mean you weren't all that great at fighting." Jacquelyn stood up and began to exit the room, she could feel the tension growing and she didn't want to get caught in the middle of their dick measuring contest.
She wanted an eclair, there were probably some in the kitchen. Dinner had ended before anyone could serve up dessert.
"We could take you." Jane responded cracking her knuckles. Stabby merely chortled and shook her head.
"No way, I was giving you all maybe half my strength. I could wipe the floor with you all easily."
"Is that a challenge?" Sol spoke excitedly as she stood up and put her wand up, she was practicing a few new spells.
"Eh might as well." Thomas said as he stood up and took a karate pose, it was very relaxed, he always grew relaxed and at ease during sparing sessions, it threw his opponents off. GP floated off of the ground and bit at her lips in anticipation.
"Okay so start from the start and then keep going. Slower." Star said tapping her wand on the tabletop. She was trying to get this through her mind, but it was weird. At least weird for her, she had never really tried to pull something into their dimension that way, and the way that it was described was also off. She used golden portals to travel all the time, but she had never used a dark blue portal to travel.
"Well you looked sick, you went butterfly mode, then you opened up a weirder portal and boom a total stranger just came stumbling out." Marco said in distress. Janna glowered at Marco in annoyance.
"You really don't recognize her?" Janna said in irritation.
"NO! Why do you two keep on insisting that I would know her!"
"For starters she called you Dad." Jackie said softly "Secondly she has your favorite hoodie."
"A lot of people have red hoodies." Marco attempted to protect himself, he really had no idea who this kid was, he hoped that they weren't trying to push something on him.
"Not to mention she doesn't look like any of you guys either. Who else could I have had a kid with? I think I would have noticed if one of you four were pregnant with a fourteen year old." Marco pointed out. Jackie bit her lip and looked him dead in the eye.
"Yeah she doesn't look like any of us, and she is the same age as our kids. So if she isn't one of ours, but she is one of yours." Jackie said pointedly emphasizing each and every word. Marco thought for a few seconds then began to bluster and blush.
"I would never do that to any of you!" He protested.
"Only one sort of person needs to say that." Janna said ominously with a wide magical and dangerous grin.
"Well I've been trying to get in contact with the rest of the council to see if they could shed some light on all of this. But Lekmet and Rhombulus are out for their 'totally not an anniversary they've just been living together for almost a millennia' sort of thing, and Omni is always hard to call because he refuses to answer his phone." Hekapoo said in annoyance as she entered the room and closed her cell phone. "And I think Glossaryck is on a retreat or something so that will be near impossible to get him anytime soon. It looks like we're sort of on our own for now. Which could be in a worse state considering I'm actually here."
"Great what can you tell us about her and how she got here?" Marco asked excitedly. Hekapoo just threw up her hands in defeat.
"You got me, I know absolutely nothing about this kid, and I've seen just about every single being in existence in every single conceivable dimension. I can track and hunt down anything, I can sense who or what something is. To me it's like she was just made suddenly."
"What like she was just born or something?" Marco asked still not getting it.
"No like she just suddenly existed, first she didn't and then she just suddenly...did. When someone is conceived there is a ton of stuff leading up to it and then the actual conception and then the actual well existing I guess you could call it. She just sort of popped out of nowhere."
"Creepy." Marco monotoned.
"Again she is your kid, I mean obviously she looks just like you." Jackie pointed out "Don't call your off spring creepy. And tell us who her mom is so that we can actually move forward with this."
"I keep on telling you I have no recollection of ever having slept with anyone besides you four. Ever!" Marco hated how they looked at him, as if they didn't trust him, as if they expected the worst of him. He thought that they knew him better then that. He guessed that he expected a bit too much from them.
There came a polite knock on the large doors leading into the meeting room and Higgs the head of the Royal Guard of Mewni stuck her head through. She was also the personal bodyguard of the next in line to the royal family. Which meant that she had to take care of Star and Sol and their family members. A job that she took overly seriously and nearly got them all in trouble for on countless occasions.
"Your majesty? I thought you might want to know that we have a bit of a situation on our hands in the-" She was barreled over by GP and Thomas as the horned girl was thrown into her brother who had attempted to catch her. Higgs groaned under the weight of two teenagers as Sol ran screaming into the room with a burning torch instead of her wand. Stabby was right behind her with ropes tied around her face and torso. The ropes were attached to Jane who was trying her very best to slow the eager girl down.
"Taser her or something!" Sol shouted over her shoulder as Stabby continued to advance, seemingly uninterested by the bionic ropes wrapped around her.
"She did something to my hard drive all I can do is-" Jane was caught off guard as Stabby turned and advanced on her. With a yelp Jane retreated only to trip over Higgs.
"Enough!" Star shouted as the parents all moved forward and put their children in a choke hold. Star had Thomas, Janna had gotten Stabby, Marco helped GP up, Jane was flung over Heckapoo's shoulder and Jackie took the torch out of Sol's hands and held her back from attacking. Higgs was left moaning on the floor, too proud to let anyone help her up.
"What were you kids thinking?" Marco said in exasperation. The five children shrugged and looked away in embarrassment.
"Well she said she could take us in a fight and we were trying to prove her wrong but it got out of hand and well...we're in trouble aren't we?" Thomas said blushing and looking down.
"Big trouble." Jackie confirmed. She turned to Stabby and took a deep breath, she didn't want to blame the new girl for anything that Marco might have done...but it was hard, she looked so much like him and acted similarly...in little ways. She had his ferociousness. It was hard to separate the two.
"Honey. I think that it's time you tell us what happened."
"As soon as you all tell me what happened." Stabby said in annoyance. She was still posed for attack. "Why my Dad is with Queen Butterfly. Who you people are. Why she is still alive. And where even am I? And why did The Prime send me here."
"Omnitraxus Prime had something to do with this?" Heckapoo said in interest.
Marco gestured to the table helplessly.
"Maybe we should all sit down, talk this through, and actually get to the bottom of what happened to you. Maybe we can help." He gave a small smile and Stabby imitated it.
They all sat around the large table and she placed her hands on the surface looking around her nervously before taking a deep calming breath.
So that was that, please read and review, any suggestions are appreciated. Just leave them in the comments, sorry if this was a little on the short side or a little on the long side.
