Star let out a yawn after many hours of explaining about the previous queens of Mewni to Marco, but she has to stay awake to finish the 11th queen of Mewni. "Now, let's move on to the next queen, Etheria Butterfly.

She pointed the tapestry of Etheria. A pretty girl with lavender hair as her cloak, and purple eyes like her clothes and fleurs-de-lis on her cheeks. He wore parts of a silver armor, and rested on the blade of lilac light emanating from a purple wand whose appearance resembled a firefly. Around her stood seven knights; four men and three women in colored armor.

Etheria the Knight
"The sweet princess trained
for queen and knight,
decreed that henceforth her family
would learn to fight".

"Uh, is one of your great-aunts was also named Etheria? Your Mom's aunt?" Marco reminded, remembering Star's relatives at her family reunion.

"Yeah, but some relatives can use their ancestors' names." Star said.

"Yeah, that could be true." Marco nodded. "So, what's her story?"

"Alright, here it goes." Star was quite excited about this. "Etheria was the only child and daughter of Asteria. During her childhood, Etheria always showed admiration of the knights, as many of their stories as their fighting skills, and even idolized her mother when Asteria became hero. She was trained in sword fencing, but was rivaled by Germain Fields, who she hated the most of her friends. She also learned riding, archery, swimming, and mewnian fighting. You don't wanna know about that. During the years of training with her mentor, Sir Berry, who fought in the Second Mud Dweller Rebellion, she became friends with Sir Berry's squire; Eagle Redbird, Tirren Waterson, Emerald Stone, Amber, Lily Flowers, Linden Forest, and Gerold, Sir Berry's nephew."

"Wait, are Redbird, Waterson, Stone, Flowers, Forest, and Fields are the previous kings' last names?" Marco interrupted.

"Yes, but they are far distance from being relatives with Etheria." Star explained.

"What about Germain?"

"Still far, making them all not related to each other. Etheria and Germain never get along, even though they share the same friends. They also fought a lot, especially when they almost did that on her 10th birthday. Just then, Asteria arranged Etheria's marriage to Germain! Eteria has no choice but to accept it, since it is what her mother wants."

"I thought Etheria hated Germain."

"She was, but she wanted her mother to be happy so she accepted it."

"That was quite harsh."

"Almost. Then on, when Etheria received her wand, she practiced using it, and performed the spells in the Spell Book. And then, I think this familiar to you, Etheria and Germain began a discussion about who was stronger and faster. Etheria suggested a run up a nearby hill, but Germain added a rule of carrying a banner, or called a flag. Etheria accepted the challenge as she carried her family banner and ran up to the hill. While running, the two attempted to kill themselves with flags drew attention to the nobles who passed by. Neither of them won, but they just invented…"

"THE GAME OF FLAGS!" Star and Marco screamed in unison.

"That story was familiar!" Marco was surprised. "I remembered that I won the game."

"Well, I forgot to congratulate that day." Star said sarcastically. "Weeks later, after Festivia died, Etheria earned an animal friend, dragonette. They're not so harmful at all. One day, Etheria was quite happy for her friends, but a little jealous that they and Germain were consecrated knights, but Asteria consecrated her 'Dame Etheria Butterfly, Knight of the Butterfly Kingdom!'. And that's how she got her title as 'the Knight.' When she was crowned queen, Etheria's first royal act was the creation of her personal guard, that received the official title of 'Queensgaurd'. Etheroa chose her friends, Eagle, Tirren, Emerald, Amber, Lily, Linden, and Gerry, just to fight with them. 3 weeks later, Etheria and Germain married with no choice at all. Queensguard adopted its famous colors, Emerald became the wielder of the Emerald Sword, Gerry founded the chivalrous House Loveberry, and Etheria joined the Magical High Commission. In a Tournament, the kingdom received a presentation from the interdimensional ballet hroup 'The Smittens'. During the performance, attention was stolen by a 20-year-old ballerina, blonde hair, pink eyes aaaaand… pink rabbits on her cheeks. Her name was Solena Wyvern, and she was the princess of the Wyvern Kingdom, daughter of Queen Hope, on of the rare cases of cheekmarks born outside the Butterfly Kingdom.

"Blonde hair and pink rabbit cheekmarks? 'The Smittens'? Solena Wyvern?" Marco whispered as he tried to recall those pink rabbit cheekmarks and blonde hair. "Wait, isn't that?" He pointed Solena the Smitten's tapestry.

"Everyone was shock by that." Star yawned, almost getting tired. "Her appearance, her cheekmarks, and her dancing skills, her name, the name of her dance group."

"The way I understand that, it was probably reincarnation."

"Rein-what?"

"Reincarnation, Star. When one human died, he or she reborned to another body, either to another human or animal."

"Is that even possible?"

"That depends."

"Okay, then. Anyway, Ethera unintentionally commenting on her difficulty getting pregnant, but Solena told her the story of her grandparents, who had also married out of obligation and had only children after they had built a love. She also said 'Children are the fruits of love, not of obligation'. So, Etheria decided to try and had two children."

"So what happened to her relationship with Germain?" Marco asked.

"They finally like each other, and had two children. They already forgot their fights, and they both have in common, both lost their loved ones, and married whom they didn't want." Star laughed as well as Marco. "So, Etheria wrote a set of rules and principles that should be followed to raise princesses that should defend the kingdom and themselves with their own hands. This set of rules is called 'Code of Etheria'. We'll just discuss about that later. Then, there's gonna be a battle between Etheria and Emperor Lupus, who had conquered most of the kingdoms of the region. The battle became known as 'The Battle of the Gorge'. The only survivor of the war was King Lupus' youngest daughter, Princess Minerva, and appeared to be ill-treated by her family. In order to seal a Peace Accord, Minerva was forced to marry. Etheria and Germain attended Minerva's wedding with other monarchs from neighboring kingdoms. Queensguard has stayed in the Butterfly Kingdom to protect and assist the princesses. What no one expected, was the tragedy that was to come."

"What do you mean?" Marco asked curiously. "Tell me what happened next?"

"You wanna know?" Star questioned.

"Yes."

"You reeeaaally wanna know?"

"Yes!"

"Do you really, really, really wanna know?"

"YES! Please tell me!"

"Alright then, but you're not gonna like it as much as Hemera. At the end of the feast, before the newlyweds go to their wedding night, the music stopped and queen Minerva stood on the podium and pronounced her family motto, 'The Wolf howls and the Night falls.' No one understood at first, until… Etheria was stabbed in the back, literally! Before Germain, the knights and the other guest could react, lupine soldiers, disguised as guests, attacked. More than 60 people were murdered. Minerva revealed that she had never been mistreated and she loved her family, and that Etheria had taken them from her. Minerva killed Etheria, and this event became known as 'The Lupus Massacre'!"

"What? Etheria was killed? It was a trap after all?!" Marco gasped in horro with the story. Of course, he has to react when listening to a tragic story.

"Yep, after her family died and killed by Etheria during the war, Minerva avenged her family by killing Etheria, declaring to be the second queen of Mewni to be murdered." Star replied sadly. "Most of her friends were sad too."

"So, that was it?"

"There's one thing that Etheria decreed, and that since then, all princesses should be trained to fight from children... and this tradition continues to this day." There was a short silence, until Star broke it. "Oh, well! I think it's getting late! I'll go to sleep now. Night Marco." Star headed towards the door.

"What? You haven't told me about the other queens yet!" Marco exclaimed.

"Marco, there 30 queens in Mewni, including my mom. I can't tell you all in one day. Besides, my throat was dry, I've been telling you stories for hours, it's getting late, and I'm tired. We'll continue the story tomorrow. Night, Marco." Star left the room as she closed the door, leaving Marco sad.

He groaned exhaustingly, cannot wait for tomorrow for the story of the next queen. He glanced at the tapestries one more time before leaving the room.

Of course, Star already explained 11 queens to Marco, and it's already been hours. All storytellers are tired and thirsty for all the storytellings and all, so it's time for the princess to rest, but Marco want to learn more about the other queens that were not been told yet, but he has to wait.

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