Sorry for waiting, guys. I was busy in school, and waiting for more information about Skywynne, that's all.
In the middle of the night, Marco can't concentrate sleeping, thinking about the next queen's story, but he have to understand Star as she was very tired for telling each queen's story all day. Marco was quite impatient for waiting for tomorrow. He wanted to learn more about the other queens.
He wore a pair of slippers, wrapped a blanket all over him, took out a flashlight and tiptoed out of his room, slowly closed the door.
At the hallway, marco tried to find the tapestry room. He avoid every obstacle of the castle, and hid from the guards, who were guarding the hallway overnight. When the guards walked away for a short break, it was Marco's chance to find the Tapestry room.
Finally, he found it. He quickly entered the room, and slowly closed the door. The tapestry room was very dark. Luckily, Marco brought a flashlight. He switched it on, and pointed the light on the queen, next to Etheria the Kinight.
A redheaded queen with hourglasses on her cheeks, her pink dress being blown by the wind. Her wand consists of an alarm clock with wings down.
Suddenly, the pedestal of this queen rose up itself, and glowed.
Marco carefully walked towards the glowing pedestal, and read what was on it.
Skywynne the Queen of Hours
Ticktock the clock talks,
but secret are it powers.
The only one to break its spell
is Skywynne, Queen of hours
After reading it, Marco stared at the Tapestry, and observed its appearance. He understood why Skywynne was labeled 'Queen of Hours', because of her wand looks like a clock.
Suddenly, he just heard the door opened as Marco readied to fight and pointed the light at the strange figure. But as the figure entered, the light shined at Moon.
"Marco." Moon gasped as she switched on the light..
"Queen Moon!" Marco exclaimed nervously as he bowed down. "Sorry that I woke up in the middle of the night."
"That's okay, Marco." The queen smiled calmly. "What are you doing here and how do you know this place? Are you lost?"
"Oh no, Queen. I'm not lost. Star told me about the past queens and the history of the wand." Marco explained. "I was so curious in the beginning. And since the day is over, star wanted to sleep, but I can't sleep though, and I wanted to continue the stories of the next queen. We stopped at Etheria's"
"Oh, so you already know Etheria the Knight?"
"Yep, and we're now at Skywynne the Queen of Hours."
"Oh, her!" Moon chuckled as she sat down on a chair. "Well, how about I'll tell you a story about her?"
"Oh, Your Majesty, you don't have to do that." Marco felt embarrassed. "It's the middle of the night, and queens should be sleeping right now.
"Well, I'd hate to have come all this way here with no reason." The queen winked.
Marco can't argue a queen as he shrugged in defeat. "Oh well, then." He relaxed and sat on another chair, listening to the queen.
Moon cleared her throat, and began to tell the 12th queen's story. "When she was just a young child, Skywynne appeared to be much more mature then her age. She doesn't play with toys more often, and rather like to read books instead. She has a sister name Noturna. Skywynne began to be instructed in the teachings of Etheria's code when her literacy began. She used to be in music class, but she's not good in singing and playing musical instruments, she's good in dancing instead. She also began training with the personal guard of her mother, Queensguard."
"I have one questions, queen." Marco raised his hand. "It didn't clear to me why Skywynne was called 'Queen of Hours', and why her wand looks like a clock."
"Oh, this is the main part." Moon continued the story. "When she strolled through the fair, "Skywynne found the stall of a foreign merchant who had bought the first mechanical watched to the kingdom. She bought all the clocks and started to make a collection of them. Princess Skywynne was so fascinated when seeing the synchronized spinning hand, making her interested in studying the time. When her 14th birthday came, Skywynne inherited the wand, and the wand looks like that." She pointed the wand on the tapestry.
"Wow. Actually, that's a beautiful wand." Marco commented.
"Yes, because Skywynne loved clocks. But this part of Skywynne's story was very confusing and kind of a shocking part. Skywynne wanted to marry a boy from House Flower in the future, and there she met Filbric Flowers, and he came to Skywynne's feast that day."
"Why did she want to marry from House Flowers? She was too young for those things."
"Well, Marco, sometimes, princesses already made plans in the future, and they are sure they picked the right boys to be their kings. Anyway, Skywynne devoted herself wholeheartedly to the magical studies. The beginning of her magical training focusing on the spells that involve movement, more specifically, improving some of the spells of Solena the Smitten and creating new ones. She proved to possess an enviable magical ability, taking part of the power of her mother. Her first great time spell was to enchant every watch in her collection, turning them into little gadgets that allowed time bubbles to be created. However, an accident occurred and one of the clocks crashed, creating a space-time anomaly, arresting Skywynne and another 4,000 students and teachers in an infinite loop."
"Oh no! So what happened?!"
"Being against the quest of knowledge, Omnitraxus and Glossaryck agreed not to censor Skywynne's time spell. On the contrary, they have chosen to teach her more about how space-time works to prevent such problems from happening again. Whenever she found some free time between her classes, she traveled to the Plains of Time to learn from Omnitraxus. It was during these encounters that she met Father Time."
Marco then remembered about Father Time, but he can't tell Moon that he and Star went to the Plains of Time because of Star using the time-freezing spell, and disobeying of Leaving Earth.
"Did Star tell you about the Lupus Empire?" Moon asked.
"Yeah. She did." The human replied.
"Skywynne and Noturna hid in the sanctuary, where Asteria found, during the war. After two weeks, the sisters can go home. Later, their parents attended Minerva's wedding, but before they go, Skywynne said that she had a bad feeling about attending the wedding. Etheria said that nothing bad is going to happened, and she gave her daughter an orange watch, the most accurate clock in the universe, which she longed for since her collection began. 20 days later, she was crowned queen when Etheria dies, and, the next day, her sister, her sister's jewels, and her orange watch were gone missing."
"Did Noturna take them?"
"I don't know. Even Skywynne didn't know."
"So, if she's already a queen, what would Skywynne do now?"
Moon sighed. "The large Lupus army appeared when the Butterfly army came to their kingdom. Skywynne led them to avenge her mother. When the battle started, she positioned herself at the head of her battalion and conjured a spell she had only trained a few times with drops of water and warnicorns: The Slow Motion Spell.
"Huh? I never heard Star has that kind of spell."
"This is just a hard spell for Star. You know how she was. When the Lupus army showed itself to move super slowly, the Butterfly Army wasted no time in attacking. Even with Skywynne not supporting much and having to repeat the spell several times during the battle, earning some grey hair in the process, the Butterfly army managed to equate the combat. The battle ended when a few Lupus army soldiers turned on their own companions."
"And Minerva? What happened to her?"
"Minerva was found dead in her room with a knife nailed to her forehead with a letter that said 'A wolf or a butterfly, Death gives gifts to all.'"
"Wow, that's some war long ago, huh?"
"That's the age of heroes. That's why there are some many wars, Marco." Moon explained. "At the Firefly Library, Queen Skywynne discovered in documents brought by Queen Polaria that the Ancient Mewmans channeled magic through magic glyphs. Unfortunately, almost all the knowledge about it has been lost in time and information is scarce. The only known glyphs are the 'mirror', the 'hourglass' and the 'pyramid'."
"Oh, those are quite simple." Marco interrupted. "Let me guess; Pyramid from Hemera the Builder, Hourglass from Skywynne herself, and mirror… well, I can't guess that part."
"Actually, Marco, the 'pyramid' symbol was found cared on the same brick that opened the passage to the secret room that had been found by her grandmother, Asteria, so it's still related to Hemera's part. She carved the 'mirror' into a brush so she could magically touch up her gray hair. The 'hourglass' she used to create a security system in the Firefly Library, which would prevent any information from being stolen by arresting the thief in an eternal temporal loop until it gave up."
"I'm quite confuse about that, Queen Moon." Marco chuckled sheepishly
"You and me both, Marco." Moon laughed, then cleared her throat to continue the story. "One day, two knights reported the queen that there was girl claiming to be Princess Noturna wanted to talk to her in the gardens. However, when she got down there, she found no one, just a bundle on a bench. Opening it, Skywynne faced her orange that had disappeared along with Noturna."
"So, does thus means Noturna returned to return her sister's orange watch?"
"That's what everybody said, but she's still missing after that. Wait, do you know that one of Star's spell, Warnicorn Stampede, was Skywynne's last spell before joining the Magic High Commission?"
"No, not at all!" Marco exclaimed in surprise. He actually remembered one of Star's favorite spells. "So, is it over."
"There's just one thing left before we could proceed to the next queen." Moon said. "At the wedding of her oldest daughter, Skywynne received information that a group of monsters had surrounded the South and Southeast gates of the town. Without wishing to cause any conflict on the most important day for her daughter's life, Skywynne went against the group. All reports point that Skywynne would have left the gates and the monster group would have stood up and left without rebelling. In fact, it's real, but it's far from being just that. Skywynne cast a spell on a watch she carried to withstand a spell that trapped her and the group in a time loop, which would restart whenever she wished, we killed, or the watch destroyed. According to Skywynne, she would have died more than 80 times, all in different ways, always returning to the point where she left the gates to negotiate with the general. In the end, the group accepted the surrender after Skywynne said they would be her eternal prisoners unless they turned around and never returned."
Marco tried to understand what Moon just explain, but he still didn't understand. "Uh…"
The way Moon looked at him, she understood the human was quite confuse "I know, Marco, it's just too complicated to explain." Then, she continued. "Although she has more accomplished a great feat, the spell took its toll. Skywynne left the castle with salmon hair and a few gray hairs, and returned with gray hair and some salmon hairs. When Skywynne died, the Queen of Hours would be Queen Butterfly who lived the most."
Okay, so since star was tired, I decided to make Moon as Marco's substitute teacher about queens and wands.
Skywynne Butterfly belongs to Daron Nefcy
Skywynne's story made by jgss0109