Marco glanced around the dimension, Star trekking in front of him.
"What...what are we doing?"
"You said you were hungry."
"Yeah? Uh Huh. Yes, I did. What does that have to do with this?"
Star skipped ahead and bounced onto a lump with holes in it.
"Ok Star. Might be time to tell me what's going on here."
"Some of these have sandwiches in them."
"Wha-How does that even make any sense?"
"Come on, you try." Star stuck her arm into the tube, and she was sucked in. Marco ran up to her and snatched her out. They sat on the ground, panting.
"This...is...one...of...many...reasons...why...we...don't...stick...our..bodies...into...holes...with...sandwiches..."
"What? We're both fine. Don't sweat it."
"That's it. I'm going home." Marco snatched the scissors and opened a portal, when he heard footsteps charging towards them.
"Marco..."
"Oh so NOW you want out of this mess-"
"Open the portal! Open the portal!" Star tugged at Marco's hoodie, and the sandwich monster rammed into them, knocking the scissors out of Marco's hand and sending the sandwich flying out of the monster. Star grabbed Marco and the sandwich, and sprinted away.
"The scissors!" Star yelled.
"I got em!"
"Well what are you waiting for? Open it already!" Marco cut open the portal and they jumped through it.
"What were you thinking?"
"What do you mean what was I thinking?"
"I had the sandwich in my hands."
"I was thinking of not dying you idiot!" Marco spit out the words before he realized what he was saying. Star crossed her arms and blinked back tears, before walking into her room and slamming the door. He ran across the hall and banged on her door.
"Star, I didn't mean it like that, I swear." He heard muffled crying and continued to bang on the door.
"Go away Marco."
"I'm sorry-"
"Haven't you done enough already?" Star opened the door, fuming. Her face was red from crying and she was a wreck in general. He stood there in silence for a moment before she began to close the door. He wedged his foot between the door and the frame.
"Star I'm sorry-"
"I hate when you act like this. It makes me wonder why I even told the principal I'd put up with you." He didn't realize what he just said until after the words had flown out of his mouth. Star kept her scowl strong until then, her mouth formed a quivering frown and her eyes wide and big and almost puppy-like.
"Wait-"
"Wait for what Marco?" He didn't respond for a few seconds and she started to close her door.
"What are you doing?"
"You clearly don't want me here so I won't make you put up with me." Star closed the door, the beginning of tears in her eyes. She packed all her stuff into a trunk instantly with her magic, and stared out the window. She saw the moon, even though it was daytime, and it was fading between white and red.
The next morning, Marco woke up to his alarm beeping, and he could hear a kettle whistling downstairs. He rubbed his eyes and got up. He changed and knocked on Star's door, and didn't get an answer. He went down to breakfast and saw the clock. He got up and opened Star's door. All her stuff was packed in a trunk, except her dimensional scissors, which sat on the floor.
He checked his watch, his eyes widened and he ran out the door. The second he got into the school was the second the bell rang, and Marco just made it into Miss Skullnick's classroom. The second she started teaching- if you could call it that, considering the lack of effort in her lessons- he pulled out his phone.
He asked Star where she was.
No Answer.
Then he looked up to see Miss Skullnick with her hand held out.
"No phones in class Mr. Diaz." Marco dropped his phone into her palm without another word. The second he got his phone back at the end of class, he called, and he heard static on the other end.
"Hello-"
"Marco, where are you?"
"School...?"
"Ok Good. Stay there. Don't leave Earth. Don't leave Echo creek, ok?"
"Star, what's going on?"
"It's too hard to explain right now. You know my secrets closet?"
"Secrets closet?"
"Yeah, my secrets closet. It's the closet in my room, it has a brown door. Open it up, there's something on the floor there for you."
"Alright. Are you ok?" Static flooded the audio and the call failed.
The second Marco got home he flung open the door to Star's 'secrets closet'. He saw something glowing from under the door before he opened it. The wand was laying on the floor, the spellbook laying nearby. Marco picked up the wand and it started glowing and spinning until it morphed into Marco's blue and white wand. He grabbed the book and flipped through it, until he came to it. The page was streaked with purple over the tan paper.
The all seeing eye.
Marco took a deep breath and recited the words.
"I summon the all seeing eye, to tear a hold into the sky. Reveal to me what which is hidden, unveil to me what is forbidden."
The yellow eye rose into Star's bedroom, surrounded by purple flames. Star sat curled up in a blue cube that appeared to be made of glass. There was a long table, a lizard with dark hair sitting at one end, a lady with a purple dress and hair that was white with a purple tint. A cloaked figure came up to them.
"Ok Toffee. I did your dirty work. Now tell me what happened."
"One more thing you have to do. Then all of our knowledge will be yours." The lizard, Toffee, said.
"How much do you know about this?"
"We know everything. We also know how we make things right."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Make sure that boy doesn't get her. He's going to come and rescue her."
"What if he doesn't?"
"Maybe he will, maybe he won't. If he doesn't it makes your job easier. As for whether he comes or not it depends if he's forgiven her or not."
"Fine. No strings attached?"
"Do I look like a puppeteer?"
"Do I look like I'm a Butterfly? Nope. But I am."
"I've seen that. You have too much magical potential to not. Besides, how else would that explain the cheekmarks? Now come here and eat a sandwich. That boy puts up a good fight."
"I'm good Toffee. Thanks though."
"How about you Princess?"
"Ok. I want answers. Who are you? Why is Meteora here? Who's in the cape and why did she say she's a Butterfly?"
"I can answer one of those questions." The girl in the cloak undid the white butterfly clip and slipped off the cloak before setting it on a chair. The girl was Star's age, with light blue hair like Moon, and blue eyes with pale skin. She had a light green amulet around her neck.
Oh no.
Marco had helped this girl bust out of St. Olga's.
"Toffee, I don't see why we don't go after Moon instead of doing all this." Meteora said.
"Moon's too powerful, even for the three of us. Besides, she's no good without the wand. Neither are you. Only reason I'm different is because I'm immortal."
"I'm right here." The girl said, slumping in a chair.
"Don't slump." Meteora frowned.
"Whatever."
"I think we should go after Moon. Kill the roots before the weed sprouts. This way Moon will find out her precious daughter is missing before we can do anything. We should go to her while she's vulnerable and oblivious."
"No. This way that boy will come before Moon does, and we can take the wand from him because she doesn't have it."
"But who'll get it?" Meteora asked, while the girl went back to slumping.
"Whoever survives to see it." Toffee replied with a sinister smile. This is going to be fun, he thought.
"Works for me." The girl tapped the scabbard on her belt.
Marco took a deep breath, stopped the spying, and tucked the wand in his pocket, before picking up the dimensional scissors and opening a portal to the room. He pulled out the wand and immediately he heard the sound of metal and the wand was knocked out of his hands and into the hands of the girl with blue hair, who stared at it as it transformed...
It merged into a wand with a light blue flower etched into the top, made of blue crystal. The handle was silver with studs of the blue crystal. She didn't take a spare second and aimed it at him.
Marco gulped.
They stood glaring at each other, before the Princess pulled out her sword.
Multiple spells, blasts, and 15 minutes later, they were both out of breath but not giving up anytime soon.
"Do you really want to do this? Star's your sister."
"I know, but look- Marco, was it? I need answers, we're on the terms she won't get hurt, I'll use Eclipsa's mind erase spell and send her back to Earth and nothing will have ever happened."
"You said you needed answers. Answers to what?" Marco stood on the floor, gesturing to her.
"It's a complicated situation." She said, kicking his feet off the ground. She grabbed his hood and dragged him to Toffee.
"Ok. I'm here. What do you want with me?"
"For now you'll join Star in the box. Soon enough they'll do their work. Best part of it all, you won't remember a thing." Toffee opened up a hole in the box and tossed Marco in it.
"Do the mind erase spell." Toffee told the girl, who looked at the wand.
"Wait- what'll it do?"
"It will erase their memories." Toffee replied.
"What memories?"
"Do you want to get caught?" Meteora snapped.
"No, but I'm not erasing their memories if it's erasing everything."
"Look, even if it erases something it wasn't supposed to, if it's about them, they're bound by a moon curse. They'll remember."
"But-"
"Now." Toffee said, sighing.
"Wha-I-uh-" She said, thinking.
"Hurry up already Princess."
"I...No."
"What do you mean no? You're going to turn us in? You'll be superseded, you moron." Meteora yelled, staying in her seat.
"Listen Princess," Toffee started, before the amulet around her neck glowed bright green and she stood up straighter. She took a deep breath before lunging at Marco.
He dodged, before taking off around the table, the girl sliding across to tackle him to the ground. She glued him to the ground and lifted him in the air above the crystal box, Toffee opened a hold just big enough for Marco to fit through, and she dropped him in.
"Now come here Princess." The girl walked up to Toffee, her hand on her hip.
"Ok. I captured him. Now hold up your end of the deal."
"Destroy it."
"What?"
"Destroy the wand."
"What? No. This is a family heirloom, I can't just destroy it. I don't know how. I know you can, but Mom never taught me how."
"Well figure it out. Who knows how?" The girl took a deep breath before pointing to the crystal.
"She does." The girl opened another hole in the crystal, lifted Star out of it, and dropped her on the table in handcuffs.
"What do you want me to do-"
"The whispering spell. Do it now."
"And why would I help you?"
"I'll think of a reason." She said, before stomping down on a remote, and the crystal box started to shrink, trapping Marco inside. She gripped the wand and held it where Star could put her fingers on it.
"Marco!" Star yelled, before turning to the girl.
"Why would you do this?"
"Because I need to destroy the wand and you need persuasion." The girl shrugged, and pointed to the crystal.
"You dress like a Lawyer, you're creepy, and you're about as deep as a kiddie pool." Marco said, pointing to Toffee, Meteora, and the girl holding the wand in turn.
"Hurry up Princess. Time is ticking." Toffee said, checking his watch.
"You don't have to do this Star. I treated you like you were stupid. You're not."
"How was I supposed to know that?"
"I'm sorry."
"Oh come on! You're sorry for what? Leaving me trapped here with a Sepatarian, that backstabber, and my deranged grandma in a box for 14 hours?"
"I'm sorry for ever-"
"We don't have time for this Marco." Star yelled, before putting both her fingers on the crystal of the wand.
She knew what she had to do.
"Break the bond, tear the fabric, cleave the stone, stop the magic. Break the bond, tear the fabric, cleave the stone, stop the magic. Break the bond, tear the fabric, cleave the stone, stop the magic." Star whispered, and a dark blue millhorse rose into the cool air, and it neighed, tender music rising from the wand into the castle stormed.
A castle stormed is a hero born,
with might as strong as steel,
Kneel the void before her,
And the crushing force she wields.
The wand started sputtering light red magic, sparks flying into the air.
"What's going on?!" The girl asked, covering her head with both her hands, a boot holding down the handle of the wand. Star got up, grabbed her arm, and stepped on the remote on the way out, opening a doorway in the crystal box, she bolted in and dragged in the girl, and all 3 of them cowered in place after closing the door, as the wand flickered from the blue scepter to a glowing red sword, red and blue sparks flying.
"What's going on?" Marco asked.
"I don't know!" Star screamed.
"It's the call of the queens..." The girl muttered, twisting the hem of her shirt.
They stared at the wand as it eventually lifted into the sky, and exploded, a blue and red firework, spewing sparks and golden magic. When they dared to take their hands off their heads, Star opened the door and stepped out, her fingers lingering on the side of the door. She stared at the crater, the castle surrounding them gone. Toffee and Meteora stood in the distance on a hill, shaking their heads. But that wasn't what they were looking at.
They were looking at the lady in the middle of the crater, examining something on the ground. The lady was wearing a brown and red battle gown, her red hair in a long braid with the sides shaved off, and a gold crown with a ruby in the center.
Queen Solaria Butterfly.
Star and the girl slid down the crater to her, and stared at what she was looking at.
"Wha-"
The wand. It was there. It was Solaria's red sword in all it's glory- and horror, laying on the ground. Solaria picked it up and offered it to the girls. Star shook her head, but so did the other girl.
"You can have it. After all you've done for it, it should be yours."
"It's yours by right. Why would you want me to take care of it anyway? After I betrayed you? I committed treason. I'm done for. I'm going to be superseded. Meteora was right. Meteora was right! I'm being superseded! I broke a family heirloom and committed treason! I committed treason! I'm the perfect Princess, the perfect princess who committed Treason!"
"She doesn't have to know." Star said, putting her hand on the girl's shoulder.
"She'll find out. And then I'll be superseded!"
"She doesn't have to know."
"You'll tell on me."
"No. You're going to open a portal to Earth, Marco and I will go back. You'll go back to her and tell her I tried to destroy the wand. She'll drag me right home and to everyone it'll look like you tried to stop me. I'm the screwup. It's less of a hassle if the screwup commits treason."
"You're not a screw up-"
"Yes I am. You know I am. Mom knows I am. I'm stupid, I couldn't last a month studying in another dimension with no distractions.
"I can't do that to you. I'll confess. If I plead guilty I might get out a little easier. I might be banished to St. Olga's instead of the Neverzone."
"And I won't let that happen to you. Just send Marco back to Earth and drag me to my Mom and tell her everything that happened."
"I'll take care of this."
She opened a portal, pointed to it, pulled her hood up, waved to Marco, who ran through the thing, and Star turned to her, looking defeated. The girl smiled, pressed the wand firmly into Star's hand, before shoving her into the portal and closing it, before heading to the castle to report to the queen.
"Star-" Marco started, his hands behind his back.
"Can it. I'm going to bed."
Star went into her room, and called Glossaryck with her mirror. He wouldn't answer to anyone but Moon or Star.
"Yes Princess?"
"Can you redirect me to-"
"What happened there?" Glossryck asked, pointing to the wand in her hand.
"What do you mean what happened? It's just my wand-" Star glanced down at her hand, to see the striped purple and lavender handle and the cleaved crystal. Itx was half Amberized silverglass, like before. But the other half was Blue Moonstone, a light blue.
"I don't know what happened. It was weird."
"Ok."
"So can you redirect me to the royal library please?"
"Of course Princess." Glossaryck said, before typing something in and redirecting Star, who stepped through the mirror when she was the familiar sight of the library. Dusty books in dull colors filled the walls, in the room where Moon attempted to teach Star, and where a royal portrait was hanging.
The portrait had her Mother, her Father, Star, and her Sister, the face of which scratched out. Star took deep breaths, trying not to think of that night. She ran her fingers over book spines before she saw a title that looked promising. Star skimmed the pages before finding the page. Star hesitated, looking around her for guards, before ripping out the page and stashing it in her pocket.
The Queens Call, it said on the front. And it talked about a legacy.
As Star snuck out of the royal library, the seeds of a prophecy were planted into the soil.
A prophecy that relied on 2 sisters- 1 blonde, one brunette, a cleaving, and a kingdom.