"What else have you been hiding from us!" Queen Moon sounded furious to Star. The Magic High Commission had been lying about their heritage! How could they just change the royal family like that! She could almost understand not approving of Glabgor, but what they did was treason. Filled with confusing thoughts, Star had stormed out of the court room. She was about to go find Tom or Marco but decided to eavesdrop instead. Only one way to find out what else they had done behind their backs.
"Nothing, I swe-"
"Romulus, if you lie to me, I will banish you from the Council and this dimension." The queen was not having it. Heckapoo sighed in defeat.
"There is one other thing about the history of the council that was erased from the records. There was once another member of the Magical High Council. He called himself Bill Cypher." The council gasped but Heckapoo continued. "He was a very powerful sleep demon from the second dimension."
Star was confused, in all her time wondering the realms, she'd never heard of such a place. Heckapoo stopped as Eclipsa gasped. Apparently, she'd heard of it though.
"The second dimension no longer exists. Bill burned it to the ground in his lust for power. When we found out what he did, we had to stop him. unfortunately, Bill was too powerful to kill so we were forced to banish him to a dimension that was so unstable it would collapse with him in it. We thought he would be contained there but recently it seems as if that might not be the case anymore..." As if knowing that whatever was coming out next would be bad, Queen Moon and Eclipsa took a seat, or at least what Star thought she heard. It's a little hard to know when you can't actually see what's happening.
"There have been reports that Bill has been using his powers as a sleep demon to contact people on earth in an attempt to free himself." Star's gasp was hidden as her mom bolted out of her chair. Her friends were in danger and the Council had said nothing. How could they?
"When I grounded Star, you knew that she would be in danger and you just let me send her off! You're lucky she's on Mewni right now. How could you let me do that." Star's mom was furious! Her baby girl could've been killed all because the Magical High Commission cared more about their reputation than the royal family.
"ahem, excuse me." Eclipsa said, taking control of the situation. Much to the dismay of Romulus, the rest of the members actually listened. "regardless of previous actions, this Bill must be stopped. You say he's stuck in a collapsing realm, so that means as a sleep demon he can only project himself into people's minds. All we have to do is make sure he stays in that realm until it collapses then."
"We cannot interfere, unfortunately." Omnitraxis Prime stepped in. "Earth is not fully aware of magic and, frankly, they aren't ready for it. As long as Bill stays in the realm he was put in, then everything will work out. The best he can do is cause a few nightmares."
Star couldn't listen anymore. The council refused to fix another one of their mistakes and this time earth was going to pay for it. Making up her mind, she went to go find Marco.
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Nothing like a good ol' plate of nachos and a movie to end the night, Marco thought. It had been a long day and he was looking forward to relaxing. Only one thing could make the night perfect. Unfortunately, Star was off at that trial that would determine Eclipsa's future. Oh well, at least the nachos wer-
"MARCO!" Star burst through the wall with a look of determination that Marco had rarely seen on his bestfriend. The only other time he could think of was when the two of them passed by an animal shelter and Star did not rest until every single animal was adopted.
"We need to go to Earth right now! There is a sleep demon that is trying to break free from a collapsing realm and he's been giving people nightmares and he was on the Magic High Commission so he has some powerful mag-"
"Star! Calm down. Take a deep breath and tell me everything." Much to Marcos surprise she actually did.
And by the time she was done, Marco almost wished he was an ignorant teenager back at Echo Creek. The whole earth was at stake as long as this Bill guy was around. Fortunately, he knew just where to start.
"Okay, so he appears to be completely insane and loves to make things weird right?" Star nodded, not entirely sure where Marco was going with this. "we don't know where he is, but I'm sure Janna can tell us where to start looking."
"Marco, of course!" Janna would definitely know where to start. "Sometimes I forget that you can be smart."
"Aww tha-HEY wait a minute! I'm always smart!"
Deciding bigger things were at stake than pride, the two quickly called their favorite weirdness tracker and after a long, and frankly tedious conversation, Janna told them about a town in Oregon that had a long history of strange occurrences. It was also on her bucket list of places to visit before she graduated high school. Unfortunately for her Star decided that less people involved, the better. Marco didn't complain, Janna still made him uncomfortable.
"Hey Marco, ar-are you ready?" He turned, expecting to see Star in battle mode. For her to be ready to face the world. Instead, he saw his best friend with on the verge of tears. Marco couldn't help but pull her into a hug
"Hey, don't worry Star, everything will work out. As long as we stick together, then we can handle anything this guy throws at us." Star loved that Marco always new just what to say to cheer her up. Wiping off her tears, she turned towards him.
"You're right. Let's do this!" They nodded at each other before Marco cut open the rift to a little town called Gravity Falls and they stepped through together.
AN: Yes, I know that the trial took place in the morning, but I wanted Marco to have nachos so...
It's so hard putting the first chapter online because I like to revisit my older chapters and edit a few lines every time to make it flow a bit better. eventually you gotta get it out to the public though so here it is.
I guess I should introduce myself too. I am the ArcaneSmith and I love reading so much I decided to try my hand at writing. I thought writing fanfiction would be a great way to develop my writing style and just seeing how people react to it. I mainly read Percy Jackson fanfictions but since I binged SVTFOE I just had to at least try this plot. I know this isn't a very popular category so if you liked it or hated it, I'd love to know.
Thank you so much for reading this story and I will try to update every Friday.
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