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"I don't want to wear it." Jane said icily to her mom who was just standing to the side and sniggering while trying to not be too much of a pain.
"Don't worry you look great!" She said as Star continued to fuss over the kids. Star moved to Thomas, licked her palm and forcefully ran it across his hair hard enough for him to wince and squirm.
"Okay. Looking good, looking great Looking cute." She said as she went from Thomas to Jaquelyn to Sol who was struggling with her big poofy dress. She frowned at her mom and then bounced around a little.
"Why can't I wear Jane's! It looks great!" Sol complained as Janna leaned against the hyperactive little blonde to actually keep her rooted to the ground.
"Sol I look like a beam of sunshine!" Jane complained as she gestured to her dress which fell around her like a dozen pieces of streaming sun breaking through a window.
"Exactly! An adorable sunbeam! I look too puffy!" Sol complained before gripping the collar and yanking at it like a dog on a chain and making growling noises. Star frowned and began to fuss with her daughters hands to keep her from completely shredding the dress. It had been a gift and she needed her kids to look their best! After all today was...today was going to be one hell of a day...
"Star...Sol's hair..."Janna said taking her wife gently and lovingly by the shoulders and almost untangling her from Sol's hair as Sol yelped and began to pet her long golden pig tails like they were living things and glowered at her mom. Star shook her head and then moved to a nearby chair. It was a big fancy castle. There was a chair every few steps, and people who would bring you a chair if you ever needed one.
"Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just freaking out a little bit. Kids you can go and relax in the corridor. We will be right out." Star said as she rubbed her eyes.
"But this is our wing!" Sol complained as the others slowly ushered her out leaving the two adults alone in the large marble room.
"This is going to be a disaster." Star bemoaned before leaning against Janna who rubbed her wife's head with a grin.
"I thought that you were always suppossed to be the bubbly one. What are you trying to make me the optimistic one all of a sudden?" Janna joked before she patted Star's very heavy and very hot head. "Calm down Star it's going to be okay."
"Easy for you to say. My mom is going to freak out and make this into an entire massive thing because she can never take anything without freaking out over it." Star said dejectedly. Janna gripped Star's chin and forced it up so that she would actually make eye contact with her.
"Okay listen up for a second gorgeous. Your mom is cool, she is over worked taking control of an entire kingdom but she is cool. And you are cool too and all of this is going to go well. Literally without a hitch. Do you want to know why?" Star rolled her eyes before standing up and leanning her head against Janna's and sniffing a little bit. But still grinning, she was blushing slightly but it was not from over work anymore but instead from being in such close porximity to her gorgeous wife.
"Please tell me. How is this going to go so well?"
"Because you've got us to help you out silly. That is probably one of the only good things about having a massive family of crazy people. We've got each other's backs. And trust me they are going to love her. Just give them a second to adjust to the shock and it will all be fine." Janna leaned up and gave Star a kiss to the forehead, teetering slightly on her cane. Star pulled her back down and gave her a kiss before rubbing Janna's cheek.
"Alright then. Let's go introduce a kid that just suddenly exists and her mom to the family." They wrapped their arms together and practically skipped out to the waiting kids and worked their way downstairs to the main ballroom. It was the only place that could actually fit all of the extended family members and the food and give people room to lounge around without feeling claustraphobic.
Stabby and Kelly stood in front of the main ballroom doors. Of course they were idiotically tall and fancy because everything in the palace was way too big and fancy. It was meant to be intimidating and the two were certainly intimidated. Kelly looked at her daughter before reaching down and taking her hand, giving it a squeeze and smiling down at the grim faced young girl.
"Hey don't worry. Everything is going to be just fine." She said with a hopeful smile. Stabby nodded before pressing against the door. She felt like she was going to explode from nervousness, but she had to keep that all under wraps. Mostly for her moms sake.
The two entered the full ballroom and were nearly barrelled over by Sol running past with three mischevious triplets who were giggling the entire time. The room was full of people. Hekapoo was standing with her mad scientist esque creator Glossaryck, Lekhmet and Rhombulus with a small floating black ball where Prime lived half the time.
Janna and Jane were catching up with a wrinkly looking woman who was talking loudly and gesturing wildly with a wine glass in hand. Marco's parents were making themselves very close and personal with Jackie's mother and father, who were still always blown away by the extravegance that the family lived in. It went way beyond anything seen on Earth. Or most other dimensions.
Star saw Stabby and Kelly enter. The two looked nervous and Star practically wanted to pass out from fear. But instead she rallied herself. She sighed and touched the side of her neck and cast a small spell that she had picked up from somewhere.
"May I have your attention please!" She said loudly enough to make the entire room echo with the boom of her voice. Everyone was silent. Moon was watching her daughter carefully. The ruling queen only had a few hours every day to relax and unwind and she had chosen to see her very large and very stressful extended family and ridiculous amount of inlaws.
She raised an eyebrow and looked between Star and the duo who stood beside the door. One was waving nervously and the other was playing with the strings on her hoodie. Moon sighed and closed her eyes inwardly wincing as she slowly began to figure out what must have happened. She was no fool and she could pretty much identify that stupid red hoodie anywhere.
"First off thank you all for making time to come and see us. I know that the kids have missed seeing their assorted grandparents and relatives and...aunt...cousin...thingies..."Star shook her head before getting back on track. "Our family is a rather large and unconventional one. One that requires a lot of hard work and love. And we have both in spades. But our family has grown recently, grown in ways that we never would have thought of. And we would love to introduce you to the newest additions to-"
"Star! Are you pregnant again!" Angie shouted in shock and excitement before bouncing on her heels. The entire room instantly burst into applause and excited shouting and talking of congratulations and River yelled about making it a real party before gripping his shirt threatening to tear it away in an instant. Star was standing flummoxed in front of it all blushing a deep red before she began to shout out all the other people who had eagerly began shouting and clapping.
"No! No! Why is that always your go to whenever I call a big family meeting!?" She said to the entire crowd. Moon just pointedly coughed and pointed none to descreetly towards the absolutely enormous hoarde of children who had just descended onto the large buffet that had been laid out. Star looked over towards it before rolling her eyes and groaning.
"Okay. Yes that does come up an awful lot but that is besides the point!" She pointed upwards to make a dramatic pose before finally she snapped her fingers towards the large doors that slowly began to open to reveal Stabby and Kelly standing behind them and nervously shifting from foot to foot while waving nervously at the horde of people that stood in the massive ballroom.
"Maybe I should probably explain this?" Kelly said nervously before entering the room and gesturing for the grim faced young girl to follow after her. She took a deep breath and waved nervously at everyone.
"Hi. So yeah. My name is Kelly. I know a few of you we've met before...and hooooo oh boy I really shouldn't have taken the reigns here. I'll try to summarize and hopefully everything will be coming out rationally. You see my daughter here...she is sort of from another dimension and came here to escape some sort of evil thing. And she is not just my daughter. She is also Marco's. I don't know exactly where I am going to fall in all of this. But we have all agreed that Stabby here should be living here with her siblings and Dad for the time being. And we are sort of taking this day by day just to see how everything is going. So we wanted to formally introduce her to all of you. So Stabby? Please come on forward and meet your familiy." Kelly said smiling hopefully and holding her hand out.
Stabby stood for a moment gazing at the absolutely enormous room full of strangers and felt her eyes begin to prickle and her hands sweat. She gripped the hem of her sweatshirt, turned and sprinted right away. Everyone stood watching after her silently before Star groaned and rubbed her eyes.
"Well that went probably as well as could be expected." Janna whispered over to Jackie who hushed her wife before watching after the young girl nervously as Kelly entered the room nervously to try and joy in the festivities.
Glossaryck floated closer to the green haired young adventure with a stern look in his small strange otherowrldly eyes.
"So it's like Gabby or Abby but with a ST? How original."
Stabby sat in the small alcove and began to pant heavily gripping her chest nervously as she squirmed and gasped and tried not to pass out from fear. SHe had to get under control. She had no idea why this was so scary, she had murdered things before! She had gone on adventures and seen friends and foes alike die around her in a burning sunlight of pure gold and green! Why was meeting some older people so horrible to her all of a sudden?!
She moaned and curled up fighting back her tears and shook her head in amazement. What was happening to her?
"Are you alright dear?" A clipped prim voice came from beside her. Stabby looked up to see a few older women standing nearby. Angie Diaz, Queen Moon Butterfly, Janna and JAckie's mothers...she could recognize them pretty easily. They looked almost exactly like their daughters and son except a little older. She wiped at her eyes and sat up nervously before composing herself.
"No. None of that dear." Moon said sternly as she walked and squatted beside her and rubbed her shoulders with clear intention to unwind the young girl. "You are stressed, and young, and need to let it out. So don't hold all of that back now. It is unseemly."
Stabby looked at her in amazement before attempting to scoot backwards a little before hitting the wall. She curled her legs up to her and lowered her head to her knees, her green hair rustling with every movement.
"Why are you talking to me? I'm not your kid."
"You are a member of this family though. Whether you want to be or not." Angie said sternly yet motherly as she moved and sat beside her and wrapped her arms around the young girl. "And it looks like you need a bit of help to get through all of this. You come from another universe correct? Then you definitely need some help. That's what we are for."
"Grandma squad. We are the best at guilting you into feeling better." Janna's mom said with a wicked grin and a cackle. Jackie's mother looked at the woman in shock before shaking her head in amazement.
"That is probably the worst way to phrase it. But yes. We just want to care for you little one. And we are always going to be there to care for you." She smiled gently and STabby peeked at the four women who stood around her and felt the fear and tears and sniffling begin to rise up again. She sighed and let them fall gently.
The women had the good conscious of not touching her and overstimulating her. But they did take turns rubbing her back and standing nearby just in case she might need them. Mostly for moral support. They sat and let her get all of the sorrow and terror and fear out with every back breaking sob. Just giving occassional cooing noises to help her on her way.
And it worked.
Ludo looked down at his garden critically. The former evil supreme overlord of evil and redundancies had found a lot of torn up and destroyed vegetables near his small cabin. He had retreated here in order to get himself in order.
And it had worked. He realized that the only way for him to get over himself and his horrible nature and way he treated others was isolation. Here in the wilderness with a few visits from his brother and his tiny garden he had found a strange sort of peace tending to the land. But now something was tearing up his land and abusing it.
And he couldn't have that. He was attempting to figure out what it was. The small bird like hominid crouched down and licked the dirt. He tasted leather and stood up and began following the footprints over the dirt and grime. He paused and sniffed. He was following a trail like a bloodhound through the winding places before he stopped and stood.
Something was not right. Right by the edge of his clearing. His entire universe...was a portal...to another one...
He gazed at it before looking around in confusion. A thump fell from the trees above. He turned and looked at the figure looming over him. The figure had dark eyes and a fierce beard. And was weirdly familiar. Then again Ludo had mental issues and thought that the air looked familiar sometimes.
"Do I know you?" He said in irritation as he studied the tall stranger.
"Mewni." The monstorous being growled out. Ludo snorted before pointing over his shoulder past his small hut.
"Like a dozen days that way on foot. Can't you read a sign post?" The being gazed at him cooly before departing rapidly walking then hobbling then running. Right over Ludo's garden. Ludo snorted before measuring the retreating bootprints. Yep that hobo had definitely been eating his garden. And didn't even pay for it!
Ingrate!
Ludo sighed before moving back to his garden. He needed to get to work. After all his little universe was depending on him. And if he didn't take care of it then who would?
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