The wait is over! Queen Helia is finally here! Brace yourselves!
After learning about Venus' story, Marco turned to the tapestry of the next queen.
In the tapestry, A blonde woman with 6-pointed stars on her cheeks wearing a silver long dress and an elvish-styled crown, standing with a serious countenance in front of a porch with a figure of a humanoid butterfly as bright as the sun above her.
"Hey, Queen Moon, who is she and why doesn't she have her wand?" Marco asked. "She looks so… powerful."
"She does, doesn't she?" Moon chuckled. "That's Helia the Light of Power."
The pedestal of the tapestry rose from the floor and glowed as Marco read it.
Helia the Light of Power.
"The absolute power
of the brightest light,
like a blinding sun
in the darkest night"
He was confused about the title, "'The Light of Power'?"
"Just sit down and let me tell you a story about the 16th queen of Mewni. The most powerful queen of Mewni!" Moon began the story. "Ever since he was a baby, Helia has interest in Magic. When she was 4, she knows how to read and started reading books that had the word 'magic', which in the beginning were just children's storybooks until she passed to the academic ones. Helia tried to perform basic levitation spells while playing. Unlike everyone else, Helia doesn't want to stand up and get something that is far away from her, she used the levitation spell, Levitato."
"Isn't she a little young to learn those spells? I mean, she doesn't have her wand yet," Marco interrupted.
"That's what Venus was worried about," Moon replied. "Helia already possessed such an absurd control of her powers those days before her 14th birthday. Venus was already questioning herself or to Glossarick if Helia really need the wand. She's already powerful without her wand. Of course, as role of a princess, it would be better to protect the wand and dissect it to the maximum."
"But what about Venus? She still can protect the wand, right?"
"It can't be, Marco. A queen has lots of responsibilities for the kingdom and doesn't have time to watch the wand, except before her daughter's 14th birthday. When Helia inherited the wand, she doesn't seem to be happy for it. She looked at the relic in her hand in detail, until she whispered something. No one had understood until the wand began to ignite. Everyone in the room began to scream and threw themselves on the floor until a huge plash came after a rumble. However, there was no tragedy. Everyone all saw Helia containing an explosion as bright as a sun in her hands, until it disappeared."
"Wasn't that… The Whispering Spell? The same spell that Star used to destroy the wand?"
"Yes. Helia described the spell as an enchantment for a simple purification of the magical crystal, which is nothing more than a material portal to Realm of Magic. The spell, however, had certain care that made it lose its purpose over the years, from a purification spell to a simple emergency plan in case the wand fell into the wrong hands."
"So, what did she do to the wand now?" Marco asked.
"Helia really liked and has a lot of fun with the wand, creating spells like the 'Supernovae Radioactive Explosion and the 'Locker Spell'. However, she only used it actively for 3 months. After that period, Helia resumed her studies of manual magic, which led her several times to leave the wand somewhere. It was so until the day Venus scolded her daughter, telling her to be careful and that the wand was her responsibility. Helia had a 'brilliant' idea. She wrapped her wand in a bubble of light, and turning it into a tiara," Moon explained.
"Huh… that explains why she doesn't have a wand on her tapestry," Marco stared at Helia's tapestry.
"Her wand is a tiara. She doesn't need it since she already had magic on her own. When Baby evaluated Helia, she clarified: 'Her Royal Highness doesn't only possess great control and knowledge about Magic, she feels and seems to attach herself to Magic in its purest and most minute aspect. Magic flowed from her as if she were Magic herself'. Then, four weeks later, Helia noticed the first signs of mewberty as she reorganaized her mini-stars collection. She believed she could handle it herself. Reports of the knights point out that the princess was like a 'giant firefly' flying through the castle halls and ignoring all the biys she saw ahead… except for Clovald, her cousin who she was in love."
Marco almost fell off the chair, "What?! She's in love with her cousin?! She can't be in love with her own cousin!"
"Did Star ever tell you about Cosmica and Pyxar?" Moon reminded.
Marco remembered Cosmica's story as he settled down, "Fair point. Continue, Queen Moon."
"As I was saying," Moon cleared her throat to continue. "On her 18th birthday, Helia was crowned queen and her tiara is her crown. At the end of the ceremony at the Celestum, Helia said her famous phrase: 'The Crown Weighs.'" And weeks later, she married Clovald. A year later, Eric, died of tuberculosis, and, two years later, Venus died, Helia was so sad and cried. That's the first time Clovald saw her crying. While he comforted her, Helia told him that she wanted a family of her own, and so they did. The first days as a mother were a terror to Helia. He tried to manage to put her daughter to sleep. The problem, however, was that Helia ended up not giving the typical Stump Day honors, which earned her a visit from The Stump later that night."
"Uh, what's the Stump Day?"
"Why, it's a special holiday where we Mewmans spend time together. Surely you have Stump Day back on Earth, Marco."
"Well, no, but we have a holiday that's like Stump Day. We called it 'Christmas'. A holiday when we humans celebrate and spend time together with friends and family."
"That's great, Marco."
"So, what did Helia do to the Stump?!"
"The dreaded entity of cosmic powers, which was Helia, attacked its poor victim, The Stump, with disgust, ripping and giving back its magical vital essence as if it were lighting and extinguishing a candle. After suffering in the hands of the entity, the victim fled defenselessly. The Stump would never be seen again while Helia lived."
"That's great though that Helia was a powerful queen, and everyone seemed to like her, but this era is the Dark Ages. How the people of Mewni have a hard time with her in-charge?" The human boy inquired.
The queen explained, "It's because of this; as a mother, Helia was known to be extremely attached to her daughter, whom she carried in her arms for 24 hours every day until she was old enough to walk. One well-known occurrence is that the mewnisters complained about the queen's delay to a meeting. She neglected her real duties to spend time with her daughter, which eventually resulted in a corn shortage crisis in the kingdom's villages. Determined to discharge some of the burden and responsibility on her back, Helia made a controversial decision: she granted the administration of these villages to ramifications of the House Butterfly that lived in such regions. She even gifted the families with some gold and silver inedible fruits as a token of her confidence. Coincidentally, it was after this that the attacks on the queen's life began to appear, like the case of Roasted Pig-Goat poisoned with Lacrimosa, and a madman who tried to stab the queen from behind by invading the royal dais."
"So, the kingdom has hard time too when she's in-charge because she didn't take her duties as a queen responsibly?"
"Not everyone has a hard time with her. When Zedlord destroyed planets, Helia fought him and created a new dimension for the worldless people."
"Is that even impossible? A queen created a new dimension?"
"Possibly."
"It still doesn't make sense here. The kingdom needs a powerful queen to be protected by enemies, why anyone wants to kill the queen? Isn't she a hero?"
"She may be powerful and an important person to protect the whole kingdom, but some villagers were afraid of her. There was no knowledge at the time about Helia's condition, who made people see her as 'weird', which added to her great power, made them fear her or her being totally unpredictable. When a 'hunter' shot her with an arrow, Helia stopped the arrow a few inches from her head and 'returned' it to him… through his head. Details on the 2nd Mewnian War and without Butterfly's involvement in the war, Helia only went on to run the kingdom and go on missions with the Magic High Commission when necessary. Among these missions, the capture of Igor Ozzy, who surrendered after almost taking a moon to the head, and Vialactius, the Galaxy Drinker, who was defeated after Helia stimulated all the stars he had swallowed to explode inside him. Helia tried her best to keep her daughter from knowing the war outside, until the princess was attacked by a group of septarians. This invoked Helia, in her butterfly form and overwhelmed with anger. The earth withered, the plants withered and the heat was a thousand deserts. The arrows of the septarians were disintegrating before they arrived near Helia, which only common hand-shaking, reduced the battalion of 13 septarians to a heap of ashes. That evening, Helia talked to Clovald, who explained that the group was hired mercenaries from the Mushroom and Delphinidae Kingdoms, the last remaining kingdoms that had not yet surrendered. Helia sent a letter to the Mushrooms, whose troops were based in the Neuterlands. She received a refusal of surrender that wasn' polite. So, she flew to the Neuterlands to give them a taste of their own medicine. When she arrived, Helia decimated more than 56 000 invading soldiers, leaving very few survivors. No deaths of natives were recorded. The next day, the Mushroom Kingdom signed its surrender. Helia hoped the same was done by the Delphinidae, but they announced that they wouldn't surrender. Helia then once again tied her relentless fury against her enemies. Helia flew to the Delphinidae Sea, and a long-dormant submarine volcano took the Delphinidae Kingdom to its perdition. Such was the destruction, that the few survivors were forced to migrate to a new dimension."
After Moon explained the details about Helia, Marco started to stammer in fear, "Wow, for a queen so powerful, she's very dangerous!"
Moon said, "Indeed. Oh, have you ever heard of St. Olga's School for Wayward Princesses?"
"Umm…" Marco sweated and blushed. "Well… Just please don't tell Star that I told you this because I promised her not to tell you, but…" He sighed, refused to lie to the queen. "We went to st. Olga torescue Pony Head."
Moon chuckled slyly, "Well, Marco, you're very honest, but I won't punish you and Star for now, after you helped her save the universe."
"So, what about that school?" Marco asked.
Moon cleared her throat, "The most controversial, however, was the Regularization of the Reform School that would be recognized with St. Igor and St. Olga. This idea was proposed by Queen Helia herself. The Reform Schools will be under the control of the reprogrammed Smith automatons. And to ensure that all the monarchs left happy and without complaints or resentments, Helia sensed each family with a pair of fruits of her trees that contain gold and silver, Aurina and Argentina."
"Wait! So, you mean the schools are under controlled by robots?"
"If that's the word on Earth, then yes."
"How come Star and I didn't know that?"
"Probably you haven't known of it yet."
Marco chuckled, "Yeah. I guess so. Now I completely understand why Helia is still in the era of Dark Ages. She may be powerful enough to protect the whole kingdom, but she's still dangerous to someone who tried to kill her or threatened her, and to her enemies."
"Yes. That's true, Marco," Moon said, "When Helia passed the wand-crown to her daughter, she didn't stop studying magic even after passing possession of the wand and the spell book. On the morning of her daughter's coronation, Clovald realized that Helia had not woken up at the time she really woke up. In addition, he had realized that the mini stars in glass orbs had faded, just like Estelaria's hair stars when she died. When he tried to wake her up, Clovald realized that she was not breathing and her heart wasn't beating. Helia was already dead. The most powerful Queen of Mewni and one of the most powerful beings ever to have passed through the Universe died and was buried in the crypts of the Butterfly Castle. She was 39 years old and the causes and circumstances of her death remain a mystery without answers."
"Oh. Helia's too young to die, and her death remained unknown?"
"It looks like it."
"Well, I believe because of too much power causes her death."
"Mewmans have hard times in Helia's reign because she's so powerful, but they will be poor because of her daughter."
"What?!"
Cliffhanger… for the next queen.
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