Chapter 26: Love (Part 3)
Saint Olgma's Reform School For Wayward Princesses
The King's royal magic wand glowed greater and greater while the three didn't notice the energy the magical royal wand was collecting. Our heroine was simply just chatting with her niece, getting each other to catch up with their lives before they were separated from each other several years ago.
"Dad and Mom said you started a mercenary group, is that true?" Star asked the quiet Bearer of Envy.
"Yes...But...Not...For...Money..." The Bearer of Envy answered to his dearest niece. Star was intrigued, wanting to know more about the mercenary group that Mason used to lead.
"What did you fight for?" Star once again asked Mason. He thought for a moment to answer.
"To...Help...Others...To...Help...The...Deserving..." Star noticed her Uncle's hesitation to answer, questioning Mason if he was speaking the truth, and not just speaking words that make him seem like a hero to Star when he left. But she didn't question further, not wanting the Bearer of Envy to feel hurt due to Star's mistrust.
"I've...Heard...You...like...someone..." Mason said, Star blushed greatly as a response, her cheeks normal tint becoming as red as a tomato. She smiled sheepishly at the stoic Bearer of Envy.
"Yeah..." She answered, Mason smiled lightly in response, his cowl hiding his mouth and masking his smile, not wanting Star to think he'll disapprove to non-royal romance.
"What...is...his...name...?" The Bearer of Envy asked his niece in a polite tone. Her cheeks started to fluster in it's red tint, becoming slightly less red.
"Marco Ubaldo Diaz, he's from earth...You were there before..." Star said to Mason wanting to use Marco's full name, he once again smiled slightly in response, not speaking any words, something that made the Mewnian Princess worry.
"Your...Parents...Will...disapprove...of...him..." The Bearer of Envy said his face becoming serious, Star looked at him with a confused look, not believing the Bearer of Envy's words
"He's...Non...Royalty...And...Non...Mewnian...at...that..." Star sighed as she quickly realized this when Mason spoke his slow and tense words
"Do you disapprove of him?" Star asked her uncle, he looked at Star, tilting his head slightly, indicating confusion without needing to speak any words for he knows that Star can barely stay awake whenever Mason needs to speak a sentence.
"I care about your approval Uncle Masson, you did taught me that a person's background doesn't tell you about their personality..." Mason smiled at Star reciting of his words
"Marco's kind, sweet and incredibly smart, and he's willing to go the extra mile to make me happy, and he likes to protect me whenever something bad happens" Star said with a smile, Mason smiled back.
"He...Sounds...Great..." Mason said as a response to Star's claims, Star sighed happily, relieved that her uncle was approving of Marco.
"Still...Not...Sure...Your...Parents...Will...like...him...as...well..." Mason said to Star, despite gaining Mason's favor, Mason's favor is near useless to allow her to be with Marco, except for maybe emotional support, her parents favor truly mattered if she wanted to be with Marco without secrecy or trouble, if they disapprove of him, they'll surely keep her away from Marco, and probably make her be with someone else.
"Your right, he's like a normal villager back at Mewni..." Star said as she looked down to the ground, her mood becoming a lot less elated then beforehand. Mason frowned in response.
"They'll never let me be with Marco..." Star said with a heavy sigh. Mason looked at his dear niece in guilt, maybe he shouldn't have told Star the truth with great bluntness and with a incredibly direct approach.
"Star..." The Bearer of Envy said in a somber tone, Star looked up to her Uncle.
"It...Doesn't...Hurt...To...Ask...Them..." Star looked at him in doubt and disbelief.
"But you said that they'll disapprove of him! He isn't a prince of another kingdom! I know what my Parent's will approve of! He's just a normal non-royal person that I like..." Star said as she raised her arms up, clearing doubting the Bearer of Envy's advice.
"Even...I...Don't...Believe...My...Words..." Star looked at him, surprisingly with a glare.
"Don't say that to make me feel better...It's not that easy..." Star said, Mason looked down in guilt as a response, Star sighed in response.
"Sorry...Didn't mean to say it like that, just don't beat yourself up when you want to make me happy." Star said as Mason looked up to his niece.
"I'm...Happy...That...You...Are...Teaching...Me...Now..." Star smiled as a response to Mason's kind words that successfully elated Star's current mood. Proud that it's now his dear niece is now teaching him something instead of him teaching her something like it was several years ago when Star was just a child and Mason was not the Bearer of Envy.
"For...I...Am...An...Idiot..." Mason said with a surprisingly sarcastic tone wanting to lighten up the mood, Star laughed at Mason's joke, purposely not using Star's advice despite her telling him a moment ago. Mason smiled at Star's gleeful laugh, almost as if she doesn't care if she's in this Reform School, almost as if she doesn't care about her parents approval and only care about Mason's, almost like he was her real biological father. It wasn't true, but it felt true to the Bearer of Envy.
Mason was going to ask Star another question that is until he notice something that made him stand up from his seat now paying attention to the long and wide hallway that outside of the office was, he growled rather angrily at two targets that Star couldn't see, Star quickly asked her dear uncle what was wrong.
"Your...Parents...Are...Here..." Mason said, Star eyes quickly widen, quickly getting off of her seat and seeing her parents, and more importantly, the wand that was glowing rather threateningly to the heroine and her uncle. Krysta quickly looked at the situation and gulped loudly.
"I'll just keep doing the paperwork, I think you can work this out..." Krysta said, somewhat cowardly, but it is justified for Krysta does have a legitimate reason why she shouldn't transform into her Bearer form and decimate.
"Stay out of this Star!" Her father said as he pointed the wand at the Bearer of Envy, the Bearer of Envy did not falter and so didn't Star.
"Get behind your Father so I can kill your villainous demon without a worry!" King Butterfly said as suddenly Star's body began to be covered in this pinkish aura, and in an instant she was teleported to her Father's side surprising even Star, not knowing that you can do something like complete teleportation and more importantly do it without any words.
"Don't believe any words your uncle has spewed! He's a liar and a snake!" King Butterfly said defiantly to the Bearer of Envy, who only continued his loud and nasty growl, clearly not happy that his little brother is here.
"Don't hurt him! He's family!" Star tried to reason with her father but to no avail, her Father desiring the end of the Bearer of Envy.
"He's no Family! Anyone like him is no brother of mine!" King Butterfly said as his wand began to glow brighter and brighter.
"Restrain our daughter..." King Butterfly said to his wife, who did so with some difficulty due to Star clearly not wanting his mother to restrain her from not wanting her Father to hurt her uncle.
"You may know my brother through when you were a child, but he wasn't at all the same when you weren't in the picture!" The King said as his wand began to pulse even more magical energy.
"That...Is...Because...I...Wanted...Her...To...Not...Be...Like...You..." Mason retorted, the King noticeably flinched when he spoke that sentence, something that Star quickly took note.
"Shut your mouth you unclean, unsanitized, impure demon!" King Butterfly said rather angrily.
"I bear the wand now! You should choose your words wisely unless you want to turn to ash and smoke!" The King threatened, The Bearer of Envy didn't falter.
"Copy..." Was all Mason said without a second thought, and instantly in a puff of jade green smoke, a more devilish wand appeared in Mason's left hand, the wand design was of course, similar to Star's wand design, the only difference is that the colors were mainly jade green and black, and instead of angelic wings on the sides of the wand, it was replaced with demonic bat wings
"So...Do...I..." Mason said with a rather sinister smile, Mason's wand began to glow with a mixture of black and jade magical energy, something that greatly contrasted the King's magical wand aura.
"Star...Forgive...Me...For...Doing...This...Act...That...Will...Make...You...Hate...Me...Forever..." Mason said as he popped his neck with his free right hand his jade green eyes started to glow greater and greater with charges of unsaturated envy, most likely coming from Star's Father. Star knows exactly what her uncle is going to do to her Father. The king looked at the new wand in disbelief, not knowing how his brother can create a royal magic wand especially with little to no effort whatsoever. The two brother's wands started to glow, and before they can shout words that relate to blood and violence and inflicting harm.
It was the youngest Butterfly to intervene, she ran up between the two brothers, Mason's wand stop glowing as a response, but strangely, Star's own father didn't hesitate to charge his wand even further to a more deadly and powerful attack.
"We can talk this out! Why do you hate Masson so much Dad!?" She said, The King glared at his daughter as a response.
"Because..." The King said, his voice trembling with this rage, this rage that seems so out-of-place for the King was not a easily-angered Mewnian, Star looked at her father in horror, horror for that she never seen this bloodthirsty and aggressive side her Father was in.
"He was a better father than me!" The King Said as he pushed Star aside and blast a beam of pure white and blue energy to the Bearer of Envy, a powerful beam that seeks to destroy life, for that was it's purpose when in the hands in someone evil, or at least is in streaks of pure wrath due to large amounts of envy. Luckily, the King was calm enough to push Star out of the way, Mason's wand began to glow once more.
"NO!" Star yelled tears started to well up in her eyes for the fear of another death in the family, fear coursing through Star.
"Envy...Absorption...Shield..." Was all the Bearer of Envy said, instantly he pointed his dark wand at the beam of concentrated magical power, and what appeared in a puff of smoke was a shield that was essentially a giant emerald gem, the gem shield took all of the beam's powerful rays of blue and white, the shield, essentially absorbing the beam until the King quickly notice and decide to stop the beam.
"You, Shouldn't have done that..." Mason said as he wagged an armored finger to his brother and speaking like any other normal person, using the gem shield to absorb the magical energy and as a result empowering Mason rather greatly, the pure envy in the beam giving Mason a rather hefty boost in strength and power. He quickly took off his cowl, revealing his serpentine and Mewnian face, causing the King to almost gag from his revolting face of reptilian and Mewnian descent.
"Your Envy, was in every stroke of the wand..." Mason said with a rather sinister smile across his lips, revealing two rows of sharp and fanged teeth.
"Time to show you, the error of your ways, brother..." The King and Queen looked at the empowered Mason in disbelief and horror.
"For I am...Mason Butterfly...The Bearer of Envy..." Mason said as he prepared a magical blast pointing the wand at his brother.
"Shadow Strike!" Mason shouted, and instantly shadowy swords shot out of the wand, zooming quickly to our Heroine's Father, King Butterfly then casted a shield unto to him, the swords being broken when they made contact with the shell of the shield. The king laughed as Mason's offense was weak comparatively speaking.
"Entrapment!" Mason once again shouted and pointed at King Butterfly's feet, instantly in a puff of black smoke what appeared was jade crystals being connected to the ground and more importantly covering King Butterfly's feet making him stuck to his current position. Mason began to slowly walk up to the king of Mewni Queen Butterfly, being a good and protective wife, quickly got in front of the trapped King only to be grabbed the neck, Star gasp as Mason quickly lifted her mother up with little to no effort.
"Corrosive Dreadspider..." Mason whispered to his wand, quickly he placed the Queen against the wall of the wide halls and instantly Mason's wand began to glow, it then shot out a large spider made entirely out of jade crystals, he clicked and screeched and began to tangle the Queen in a web made of strings of incredibly warm jade web covering her whole entire body except her head. The spider then disappeared in a puff of green smoke before emitting a loud screech of arachnid glee.
"Mom are you alright?" Star asked as she quickly ran up to her mother and tried to rip the jade webs apart, luckily despite the webs being near sizzling with heat, it wasn't at all painful, something that Star's mother quickly point out.
"Absorption shield!" Mason said and in a puff of green and black smoke, the same gem shield appeared in the side of Mason's right hand.
"Jade spike..." Mason said and all of the sudden the top of his demonic wand began to grow a curved sickle-like blade that was about five feet long, Mason inspected his two mighty weapons and actually laughed as he saw his brother ready to cast another magic spell that will allow the Bearer of Envy to absorb even more power.
"Masson! Please don't do what I think what you're going to do!" Star pleaded to the Bearer of Envy, despite in this more frenzied yet empowered state, he was willing to consider the option to not kill his brother after causing him so much pain and so much heart-stabbing envy. He thought for a moment, only for a moment, that is until he was struck in the face by a fistful of magical energy causing him to take several steps back, he quickly looked at his brother who sported a rather mighty glare, Mason returned the glare back with the same hate in his jade-shot eyes
"Be the person I know you are and I know you can be..." Star said hopefully, the Bearer of Envy looked at his dear niece and then at his two weapons, should he kill his brother? Should he portray himself as the demon he already is? Should he disappoint his dearest niece? Should he give in to his envious rage and finally kill his brother and take the throne and be a good example of a leader? It is the thing that made Mason envious to his brother, to show that he can be a better leader of Mewni, besides having the parental ownership of Star of course. Should he give in to envious resentment of his brother and kill him?
"Your...Right...Star..." Mason said as his wand and shield disappeared in a puff of envious-colored smoke. Star smiled out of relief as a response. Her father on the other hand wasn't as relieved.
"Brother...I'm sorry..." Mason said, this actually got the king to stop glaring at the Bearer of Envy.
"I'm sorry that I shouldn't have interfered with you and your daughter, for Star isn't my daughter, and it was rude of me to tell think that my parenting was better then yours..." the Bearer of Envy said as he looked at his dear niece. The King consider Mason's apology.
"You were jealous due to my parenting and I was jealous that you had the throne to the kingdom for I believe I could lead it better due to treating Star better..." Mason said, swallowing his pride by admitting one of the other reasons why he is a marked man on Mewni.
"Let's bury this hatchet that we kept on hand ever since we were damn near born..." Mason said as he offered a hand to his brother for his brother to shake. The king looked at the Bearer of Envy's hand, he thought for a moment, he truly hated his older brother, he was everything that himself was not, tall, strong, direct and a bit impatient, and most importantly, he was a better father than him. But he does acknowledge that he is a better father for Star who was more focused on her having a life filled with both teaching and learning but also still having a childhood to cling on.
"What do you say Sol Butterfly?" Mason said, the King now known as Sol looked at Mason in surprised, surprised that he was saying his name, despite always being addressed as brother or king. Sol then began to realize something.
"We been at each other throats for inadvertently helping each other, you showed me how to take care of Star properly, and I relieved you of your wanderlust by allowing me to take the throne in return, but when you return...Your wanderlust faded and you wanted what was rightfully yours, for you are the first-born of us two. " Sol Butterfly said to his older brother Mason Butterfly who replied with a nod.
"I'm sorry, that I've kept the throne for so long..." Sol said, Mason actually responded with a laugh, mainly due to Sol's sentence being inadvertently silly to hear, Sol looked at his older brother in confusion as a response.
"I'm sorry-" Mason was quickly interrupted by a sword impaling through his stomach, Sol screamed in shock and so did Star and Sol's wife. Mason looked at the white sword that impaled him, he turned his head slightly to see Kassius, in her true bearer form, her armor was that of a high-ranking samurai, her armor was thick that compensated her petite figure she wore a mask that covered her face was that of a prideful lion, she wore a long tasset that has a lion tail at the end of the backside, and her sword was a mixture between a claymore and a katana, the length and weight of a claymore but with the blade of the classic katana.
"Apologies, Mason Butterfly, but Alistair want's me to combine with you so we can kill these three with ease..." Kassius said with a genuine sorrowful tone. Mason looked at his niece and brother in fear, they both looked at the Bearer of Envy in horror and shock that a long blade was through the Bearer's stomach. Instantly he disappeared in a puff of green smoke and brimstone, the smoke started to move around Kassiuses Body as she said to our heroine and her father.
"Maybe Mason should have told you this Butterfly's, but I am Kassius...Pronounced Kass-se-us, not Kay-sious, I am the Bearer of Pride, it is said that Pride can lead to other sins, and so that's my power, I can combine with other Bearer's to become stronger..." Kassius said, as the streams of jade and black began to cover her whole entire body.
"I'm truly am sorry, Star, Sol and Whatever your wife's name is...But Lord Alistair want's the wand..." She said, her voice being clearly tinged with guilt and regret.