Author's Note: I don't own Star vs the Forces of Evil or its characters, but only my OCs
Star vs the Forces of Evil belongs to Daron Nefcy
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The Untold Story of Serena Butterfly
Chapter 78: Total Eclipsa the Moon
At the Butterfly Castle...
Star was heading to her mum's office and Serena followed her from behind.
"Star, wait."Serena stated. "We need to be calm about this."
Star kicked the door open with a grunt.
Queen Moon screamed and fell over her chair.
"Star-"Serena said with a frown.
"Mama, we need to talk to you!"Star shouted. "We can't believe it!"
"Star, I'm in the middle of—"Queen Moon started.
Star tossed all of the books and papers off of Queen Moon's desk.
"It's blowing my beautiful mind!"Star commented.
Queen Moon's eye twitched as she stood up to pick up the papers.
Serena stepped into the room and started helping Queen Moon pick up the papers off the floor.
"I have been meaning to talk to you two as well."Queen Moon said. "We need to discuss what happened at the temple."
"Right?!"Star agreed. "Isn't it bonkers that Heinous is Eclipsa's daughter?! Mina told us everything!"
Serena handed Queen Moon the rest of the papers and she stood up, looking at Star in confusion.
"Mina? What are you talking about?"Queen Moon questioned. "Listen, I won't have you making up ridiculous stories to distract from the real issue here. The little party you two threw at the Monster Temple? I told you both that it was dangerous to rush the Mewman and monster relationship. You should have checked with me first."
"Yes, we should've checked with you."Serena responded simply. "But Aunt Moon, we're not lying about Mina and-"
"What? No Rena, that's not what I'm talking about!"Star commented. "Besides, you should've checked with me before you sent Rhombulus in to storm the whole place!"
"Rhombulus?"Queen Moon said. "I didn't send Rhombulus."
"Lies!"Star snapped with a glare.
"Star, maybe you should-"Serena said.
"You barge in here with ridiculous claims about Heinous, make a mess in my office, and then call me a liar?"Queen Moon scoffed. "I don't have time for this!"
Queen Moon casted magic to levitate Star out of the office.
"What?! H-Hey! No-no-no-no! I am not finished talking about this yet!"Star protested with a frown. "What are we gonna do about Heinous?! How could you do this to your precious baby girl?!"
"You're not a baby, so stop acting like one!"Queen Moon reminded and slammed the office door closed.
Serena flinched at the volume and watched as her aunt sat down in her office chair, muttering to herself.
"Trial ready...and she doesn't think...whew."Queen Moon muttered. "Baloo-balee, baloo-balow. I let you go, I let you go, I don't even know my own family..."
Queen Moon pulled out a bag of Cornritos and ate the chips, trying to calm down.
Serena glanced around and noticed the Butterfly family tree book sitting on a stand so she went over and grabbed it.
"Um, Aunt Moon?"Serena asked.
"Oh Serena, your still here."Queen Moon said in surprise.
"Um...I know Star was acting out a bit, but it's for good reason."Serena explained. "If you won't believe her, then could you trust me enough to at least try talking to Eclipsa about this?"
Queen Moon groaned. "Fine, we'll ask her."
"We?"Serena asked in surprise.
"Star may be the next Queen of Mewni, but your the mature one out of the two."Queen Moon commented.
Serena smiled at Queen Moon.
In Eclipsa's Room...
There was loud rock music playing as Queen Moon and Serena went inside the room.
"Eclipsa? I—"Queen Moon started.
Eclipsa was playing thrash music on a skeleton guitar.
"Oh hey, Queen Moon and Serena."Eclipsa said with a smile as she stopped playing her guitar. "Hi. You're in my room."
Eclipsa puts the guitar down and a winged rat-like creature next to her floats away in fright.
"Did you...make a...guitar...out of a skeleton?"Queen Moon asked.
"I work with what I'm given."Eclipsa remarked.
"This should be quick."Queen Moon commented. "Star just stormed into my office with some crazy idea about who your daughter is."
Serena cleared her throat.
"And Serena agrees with her though it sounds ridiculous."Queen Moon stated with a frown.
"Okay."Eclipsa said and shrugged her shoulders slightly.
Moon opened the 'Butterfly Family' book to Eclipsa's page.
"Look, I just need you to identify her from a picture."Queen Moon instructed. "Can you do that?"
"Hm."Eclipsa said sadly.
"What is it?"Queen Moon asked.
"It's just...I haven't seen my daughter in three hundred years."Eclipsa admitted.
Serena looked at Eclipsa sadly and glanced at her aunt.
It seemed Eclipsa has missed every moment of her daughter.
Celebrating her birthdays and her wedding day.
"Oh, I'm sorry."Queen Moon apologised. "I shouldn't have—"
"No, it's fine."Eclipsa assured with a weak smile. "I'm fine."
Eclipsa turned the book to Festivia the Fun's page.
"Is this your daughter?"Queen Moon asked.
"Festivia?"Eclipsa questioned in surprise by seeing Festivia's picture after hers. "No."
"Huh?"Serena said confusion.
"What?"Queen Moon asked. "Are you sure?"
"Oh, I'm sure."Eclipsa assured and sat by the window. "My daughter was Meteora."
"Well, the name may have been changed."Queen Moon suggested.
"But that's not her."Eclipsa responded. "My daughter had pretty little clovers on her cheeks and the cutest tail in all of Mewni."
"That sounds a lot like..."Serena started.
Queen Moon glared at Serena causing her to fell quiet.
"I'm sorry, a tail?"Queen Moon questioned.
"She got it from her daddy."Eclipsa giggled.
"But how is that possible?"Queen Moon asked.
"Well, when a queen and a monster love each other very much—"Eclipsa started.
Serena's cheeks turned bright red of what Eclipsa was going to explain.
"I mean, how could this not be your daughter?"Queen Moon asked. "This is the complete history of the Butterfly family! If this isn't your daughter, then who is she?"
"I wish I could tell you."Eclipsa replied as she walked forward. "The Royal Archive would have the truth."
"The Archive? In the Bureaucracy of Magic?"Queen Moon questioned. "Where they keep lunch receipts and office supplies?"
"Don't judge a room by its supplies."Eclipsa complemented with a smile. "The Archive has the real history, beyond what's in your book."
"Well, I don't have access to the Archive."Queen Moon stated. "Don't even know how to get there."
"What if Eclipsa went with us, auntie?"Serena suggested.
"That's a good idea."Eclipsa agreed.
"No, no, no. That, uh, won't be possible."Queen Moon commented and frowned. "I'd never hear the end of it if I took you out of here."
"Well, good luck."Eclipsa responded and walked up to the window.
Queen Moon and Serena started to leave the room.
"If you both find out what happened, please let me know."Eclipsa said worriedly. "I had a daughter. I'd like to know what happened to her."
Queen Moon let out a sigh.
"Fine. Let's go."Queen Moon stated nervously. "I can't believe I'm doing this."
"Yes."Serena whispered excitedly.
"Well, think of it as a girls night if that makes you feel better."Eclipsa remarked as she walked out.
"It doesn't."Queen Moon answered with a frown.
"To me, this is like spending time with an amazing aunt and a cool distant cousin."Serena complemented kindly.
"Don't encourage this, Serena."Queen Moon ordered firmly.
At the Bureaucracy of Magic Lobby...
Sean the security guard puts cupcakes on a tray and gets his hoof covered in frosting.
"Sean, you little pig. You made a mess."Sean scowled. "Who's gonna clean this up? Ahhh..."
Sean started licking frosting off his hoof.
"Hello, Sean!"
"Huh?"Sean asked.
Sean noticed Queen Moon and Serena entering the Bureaucracy of Magic.
Eclipsa hid under Queen Moon's gown.
"Queen Moon and Princess Serena."Sean said.
"Lovely day isn't?"Serena chuckled weakly.
"We're just, uh, just grabbing some items from my office, like normal people."Queen Moon remarked with a nervous smile.
Serena simply crossed the magic detection device.
But when Queen Moon crossed the magic detection device, it started to go off.
"Uh oh."Serena mumbled.
"Sorry, Queen Moon."Sean apologised. "Looks like I'll have to scan ya."
"Yeah, that's a great idea, Sean."Queen Moon threatened with a glare. "Why don't you scan me?"
"Uh...No, it's...I don't need to."Sean commented. "Uh...it's probably fine."
Queen Moon and Serena hurried deeper into the building and hide behind a corner.
"I can't believe I'm doing this."Queen Moon asked in fear. "What am I doing?"
"Your breaking a rule that's what your doing."Serena squealed quietly.
Eclipsa popped out from under Queen Moon's gown.
"Get out of there!"Queen Moon snapped. "Now, where's the Archive?"
"I dunno."Eclipsa responded.
"You said you knew where you were going!"Queen Moon retorted.
"Last time I was here, the Archive was just a stone cottage."Eclipsa explained.
"Well, when the years pass, most things usually change."Serena admitted.
"Wait."Queen Moon said. "Did you say stone?"
Queen Moon opened a supply closet with a coat rack and various objects.
"Oh."Eclipsa said. "It's a coat closet."
"I guess they must've moved it."Serena replied in disappointment.
"Don't judge a room by its supplies, dear."Queen Moon reminded with a smile.
Queen Moon pushed the coats aside to reveal a stone wall.
"Ta-da."Queen Moon said.
"Well, would you look at that? Let's see if I remember..."Eclipsa said and started pressing the musical stone panels. "Duh...duh...Mmm..Duh-duh-duh-duh-buh-bah!"
The stone wall opens to reveal a secret passageway.
"Oh my gosh, another secret passage."Serena chuckled.
"Aren't you just full of secrets?"Queen Moon said.
Then Sean entered the closet with a tray of empty cupcake cups and frosting all over his mouth.
"Did it again, Sean. Is that how you want to live your life? Those cupcakes weren't even for you!"Sean complained and throws the tray in the trash. "Oh. Hey, Queen Moon and Princess Serena."
"Sean!"Queen Moon greeted nervously.
"I...see you two brought, um...a friend."Sean said slowly. "And you two opened a secret door."
"Oh my boy."Serena muttered and rolled her eyes.
"This should be interesting."Eclipsa whispered.
"It's not—!"Queen Moon started and became concerned. "What are you doing?"
"I think I gotta report this, don't I?"Sean asked holding his radio.
"Put that down, Sean. Right now!"Queen Moon ordered with a frown.
"I'm...sorry, I can't do that."Sean stated and reached out his hoof.
Queen Moon grabbed Sean's radio away and ripped the cord.
The Queen of Mewni chuckled nervously.
Sean ran to the closet door, but Queen Moon cuts him off.
"No, wait, wait! Wait, wait, wait!"Queen Moon protested. "Look, the other members of the High Commission-they won't understand!"
"Why don't you wipe his memory?"Eclipsa suggested.
"What?!"Moon and Sean asked in unison.
"We can do that?"Serena questioned in surprise.
"Use your magic."Eclipsa instructed. "You know, just point and say Mind Eraser! Pew-pew!"
"What?!"Sean shouted. "You can't do that!"
"Well, of course she can."Eclipsa admitted. "She's magic."
"I am not wiping his memory, Eclipsa!"Queen Moon snapped.
"Eclipsa?!"Sean cried out.
"Well, I can't do it."Eclipsa commented. "I never learned magic without a wand."
"Ooh, I'll do it."Serena chuckled smugly.
"Yeah, please don't."Sean begged.
"Is this how you used magic?"Queen Moon questioned. "When there's a problem, you just 'Mind Eraser, pew-pew?"
Queen Moon accidentally wiped Sean's memory, leaving him in a vegetative state on the floor.
Queen Moon gasped. "What have I done?"
"Oh, come on."Eclipsa said with a smirk. "You did that on purpose."
"You and Star always get to do the fun parts, Aunt Moon."Serena commented with her arms folded.
Eclipsa pushed Sean out of the closet and he falls onto the floor.
Afterwards...
Queen Moon and Serena walked in the secret passageway with Eclipsa.
"I can't believe I'm doing this."Queen Moon mumbled. "I must be crazy!"
"Come on auntie, you told me you and mum used to break rules when you were young."Serena reminded with a smirk.
"Breaking from princess prison school was your mother's idea not mine."Queen Moon denied.
Serena chuckled. "That's not what Gruncle Lazlo told me."
"Dark is the hall beyond the pitch, oh, where could there be light?"Eclipsa sang.
"What are you doing?"Queen Moon asked.
"Oh, just singing a little song I wrote to help me remember my way."Eclipsa explained.
Eclipsa started running causing Queen Moon and Serena to follow after her.
"Wait, Eclipsa, don't run!"Queen Moon protested.
"Dark is the hall beyond the pitch..."Eclipsa sang.
Eclipsa, Serena and Queen Moon hop over a small hole.
"Oh, where could there be light?"Eclipsa sang.
Eclipsa used a compact mirror to reflect a beam of light at a door, unlocking it.
"It's this way."Eclipsa said and continued singing. "Not up nor down but three steps round..."
Eclipsa and Serena ran faster through the passageway.
"Hey, slow down!"Queen Moon called out.
"How many doors are left?"Serena asked.
"Two doors down!"Eclipsa stated.
Queen Moon, Serena and Eclipsa reached a statue of a man holding a torch.
"Her torch shall steer you right."Eclipsa finished and sighed happily. "Ta-da!"
Queen Moon, Serena and Eclipsa turn to face a large eyeball-shaped door.
Eclipsa jiggled the doorknob, but the door was locked.
"Locked. Hmm."Eclipsa said. "Have you got a hairpin?"
Moon gives Eclipsa a hairpin and she tucked it into her hair.
"That's better."Eclipsa commented.
"So how are we going to get in?"Serena asked.
"Right."Eclipsa replied. "So we're going to use the rat hole."
"What rat hole?"Queen Moon asked.
Eclipsa pushed a nearby rock aside to reveal a small hole in the wall.
"That rat hole."Eclipsa said as she went down the hole.
"Cool."Serena remarked as she bend down.
"I am not getting in a rat hole!"Queen Moon argued.
Eclipsa giggled mischievously. "It's so dirty in here!"
Serena went inside the rat hole.
"Isn't there–Isn't there another way?"Queen Moon asked.
"Quit complaining, auntie."Serena said with a smirk. "Just crawl in."
Queen Moon tried crawling through the rat hole, but gets stuck instead.
Queen Moon groaned. "Oh, I think I'm stuck!"
"Yeah, I think so, too. Looks like your gown is stuck."Eclipsa said. "We'll have to go around to pull you through, okay?"
"How long will it be before you're on the other side?"Queen Moon asked.
"Not long at all."Eclipsa assured. "No worries!"
"Just don't go anywhere."Serena instructed with a smile.
"I won't, Serena."Queen Moon reminded with a frown.
Serena followed Eclipsa to the other side which revealed to have a dark maze of stairs.
"Uhhh..."Serena said in utter shock. "You do know which stair to take, right?"
"Of course I do, Serena."Eclipsa responded simply. "It's this way."
Eclipsa and Serena started walking in the maze of stairs.
"So Eclipsa, are you sure that Festivia is not really your daughter?"Serena asked.
"Absolutely."Eclipsa replied.
"But Festivia is one of Aunt Moon and Star's great grandmothers."Serena explained. "So wouldn't that make her the daughter of you and King Shastacan-"
"Oh, no, no, no."Eclipsa said. "I never had children with Shastacan. Meteora is my only child."
A troubled look grew on Serena's face.
If Festivia isn't Eclipsa's daughter, what would it mean for her and Star?
"Here we are."Eclipsa commented.
Eclipsa and Serena arrived inside the royal archive through a small hole covered by a red curtain.
In the royal archive there was a giant clock with wings that controlled dozens of automatons writing on scrolls with quills.
"Whoa..."Serena responded in astonishment.
"Eclipsa! Serena?!"Queen Moon's voice called out. "Hello?!"
Eclipsa unlocked the eye-shaped door causing it to open.
Eclipsa and Serena notice Queen Moon was still trapped in the rat hole.
"Knock, knock."Eclipsa said and kicked Moon's leg.
"What took you two so long?!"Queen Moon demanded.
"It turns out, we had to go through a maze of stairs to get to the other side, Aunt Moon."Serena admitted.
"Are you okay?"Eclipsa asked.
"Yes, I'm fine."Queen Moon responded. "I just needed a little—Agh!"
Eclipsa and Serena pulled Moon out of the rat hole.
The trio entered the Royal Archive.
"It's...It's incredible!"Queen Moon complemented as she walked forward. "I had no idea this was here."
"No, no, no!"Eclipsa protested. "Watch your step."
Queen Moon stopped before stepping on a booby-trapped floor tile.
"You'll set off the alarm."Eclipsa warned.
"If I knew this room was here, I wouldn't spend most of the hours doing my studies."Serena joked.
"I haven't seen these little guys in forever."Eclipsa stated and waved to the automatons. "Hello! They've been recording everything that's ever happened to the royal family."
"7:59, King River reveals Star to be the Bogbeast of Boggabah?"Queen Moon read. "What? You know, this stuff would've made it a lot easier to build a case against you. Sorry."
"There's so much stuff here, it's impossible to find anything."Eclipsa commented with a smile. "Unless you know where to look."
Serena looked around the royal archive and notice a small blue book in a shelf that contained some large books.
The orange haired girl carefully took the book and saw the title of the book said 'Pamela's Diary Keep Out'.
"Mum's diary?"Serena whispered in surprise and shock.
In a large room of shelves with scrolls, Eclipsa climbed a tall ladder.
"Of course, I know where my scroll is."Eclipsa said.
As Queen Moon climbed the ladder, it suddenly rolled to the left.
"Aah!"Queen Moon shrieked.
Eclipsa rifled through the scrolls.
"Ah, here it is!"Eclipsa stated and pulled out her scroll to read it. "And so the daughter of Eclipsa and King Shastacan, Princess Festivia, was crowned queen upon her mother's imprisonment." They took her out. They erased all record of my daughter completely. Who's Festivia?"
"Don't worry, we'll get to the bottom of this."Queen Moon assured.
Eclipsa jumped to the bottom of the ladder and Queen Moon fell flat on the floor.
"Oof!"Queen Moon grumbled as she stood up and dusted herself off. "Once we're back at the palace, we can put—"
"Aunt Moon, look out!"Serena protested.
Queen Moon stepped on a booby-trapped floor tile.
"I told you to watch your step!"Eclipsa reminded.
The alarm sounded and the automatons throw their quills at Queen Moon, Serena and Eclipsa.
"Run!"Eclipsa shouted. "Run!"
"It's not the easiest thing in this dress!"Queen Moon argued.
A three-eyed spider dancing while wearing Moon's crown sees Queen Moon, Serena and Eclipsa running and noticed the scroll in Moon's hands.
As Queen Moon, Serena and Eclipsa dodged the flying quills, the eye-shaped door started to close.
"Oh, dear!"Queen Moon commented.
"The door is closing!"Serena panicked.
The spider suddenly swings into Queen Moon and knocked the crown and scroll to the floor.
Eclipsa and Serena jumped through the closing door.
Queen Moon grunted and picked up the scroll.
"You incorrigible—!"Queen Moon growled.
"Moon, hurry!"Eclipsa called out.
Queen Moon jumped through the closing door gap and used the spider and it's web like a lasso to retrieve her crown.
Queen Moon, Serena and Eclipsa duck behind a corner as Omnitraxus Prime, Hekapoo and Rhombulus run toward the Royal Archive and they safely make their escape.
Back at Butterfly Castle...
Queen Moon and Serena checked the scroll while Eclipsa sat on a chair.
"All right, so it's clear someone's orchestrated a cover-up."Queen Moon stated. "And I think I know who it was."
"They erased my daughter."Eclipsa said sadly. "I'm the one on trial."
"Eclipsa, I believe your daughter may still be alive."Queen Moon admitted.
"What?"Eclipsa asked in surprise. "But how?"
There was a knock at the door and Star entered covered in mud.
"Hey."Star said.
"Hey."Moon, Eclipsa and Serena responded in unison.
Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter:)
