"What do you mean that the people of Mewni will be very poor because of Helia?" Marco asked.

"We'll now move to the 17th queen of Mewni," Moon pointed the next queen's tapestry. "Celestia, the Queen of Winter!"

In this tapestry, Amid the snow, a blue-eyed woman with blue snowflakes on her cheeks, wearing a light blue dress and a white fur coat. Her hand wearing pink gloves holds a golden bell.

Celestia's pedestal rose up and glowed.

Celestia, the Queen of Winter
"One wrong spell,
brought an endless snow
and the queen's merry heart
froze with guilt and sorrow"

Marco got curious, "Spell gone wrong, huh? What kind of spell? What did Celestia do?"

Marco started the story, "You see, Marco, Celestia was born at midnight of the winter solstice. This explains her cheekmarks are snowflakes. She has a happy life and always making jokes. During the 2nd Mewnian War, Celestia was kept inside the castle walls. But, one day, he sneaked out to meet a friend, which putting herself and her friend in danger by a group of mercenaries Septarians. They were saved by Helia and reduced the septarians into ashes."

"I remember that part. Once Helia did that, people are quite afraid of her," Marco snickered.

"Yes, yes. It was," The queen chuckled, "Anyway, When Celestia turned 14 and inherited the wand, she wanted to be like her mother; incredible and powerful. Celestia had a great desire and eagerness to learn and create, which was excellent. However, Celestia had some difficulty in understanding more complex things, which made her spell performances somewhat difficult, something similar that had happened during her High Mewnian classes, which had resulted to the princess to fluency only in Low Mewnian language. Celestia already showed a good control in magic, even discovering that the ring of her bell worked as a counter-spell. When her mother died, Celestia cried and the princess's tears, which had created a thin layer of ice and frozen her pillow."

"It's like she has ice and snow power, even without her wand." The human boy said.

"She was born in winter and always like the cold. That's who she is." Queen Moon replied. "When Celestia became queen and married to Jasper Stone from the stone house, Celestia had three weeks of peace and rest, only to find trouble and more trouble. Letters from across the continent and kingdoms beyond the eastern and western seas began to reach the Butterfly Kingdom. The contents of all of them were the same: the golden and silver fruits given by Helia to the monarchs in the Great Council had faded to ashes, possibly because of her death. Most kingdoms were using the fruits as a means to re-stabilize their postwar economy, and there were still those who just felt cheated. Celestia agreed to compensate for the monetary losses that the kingdoms had, which resulted in a debt of 5 million golden suns… for each kingdom."

"5 MILLION EACH KINGDOM?! That's too much!"

"I know. That's why Celestia had faith that her plan would work, investing in accelerating planting and exporting corn. However, the crown could only pay 2% of its debt. It was then, after studying and realizing that the kingdom produced corn three times faster in the summer season, Celestia had her 'great' idea: mess with the weather."

"Isn't 'messing up with the weather' is against the law of nature."

"Celestia has no choice. She has to pay the debt. In her eagerness to want to, once and for all, solve the financial problems of the kingdom, and thus make her a great and forever remembered queen, Celestia only questioned Glossaryck how to make a spell have its most powerful effect. Knowing that she would ignore any warnings, like I did when I was Star's age, or Star herself, Glossaryck pointed out to her that she should recite the spell in High Mewnian. Although she knew that High Mewnian was one of her greatest difficulties, Celestia insisted on her plan. And a few nights later, after a brief more than basic study of the High Mewnian Language, Celestia performed the spell before going to sleep. The great problem, which she had unfortunately not noticed, had fallen upon the wrong pronunciation of a word: where she was to say 'veron' that was summer, she had said 'verno' that was winter."

"What's the difference between High Mewnian and Low Mewnian language anyway?" Marco asked.

"High Mewnian was created by the Ancient Empire and a common language to use back in the day. Low Mewnian was created by the peasants who escaped their masters." The queen answered.

"Ooohhh, so that's why it said 'One wrong spell'." The human boy said, "So, what happened next?"

"The next morning, Celestia woke up anxious to see the hot, bright summer sun, but all she found was the icy, pale winter blizzard. Frightened by what she had done, Celestia decided to remain silent and wait for the blizzard to go away by herself. However, the days became weeks, the snow was gathering, the rivers and lakes freezing, and the plantings dying. It was during this period that she had begun to ring her bell every night before bed. Celestia found her limit with the first news that peasants were dying from the blizzard, confessing in tears to her husband that she was responsible for the blizzard." Moon explained.

"Although it was really her fault, she really didn't mean it. Celestia just wanted to help, but she got the spell wrong."

"She also told her father and best friend, Glacia, about this too. However, the news of the winter only worsened: with the reports of the continent's kingdoms being covered by snow, and even a cooling in the underworld temperatures. The apex, though, had come when the peasants began to report attacks of what we call 'Snow Women'."

"Snow Women, huh? Never heard of that before, especially when Star told me some stories about monsters and knights and all."

The Snow Women only appeared in winter season if there was blizzards and snow storms. So then on, Celestia expedited immediately that all the villagers were emptied and the peasants were to go to the capital, lodging near the castles of the great houses. All the food possible was stocked and wooden ramparts were erected in strategic points of the town. A week later, the Dnow Women and their army of ice creatures emerged a huge blizzard on the horizon coming towards Butterfly Kingdom. The initial plan of the Mewnian army was to lock themselves inside the walls, but when the ice creatures began to attack and gradually to cross the barricades, Celestia ordered that a door of the walls be opened and the army attacked. With the help of Jasper, Glacia, and the other knights, Celestia and her group are attacked by a giant ice spider, which kills Glacia. This led Celestia to wake up her Butterfly form, which caused the dissipation of the heavy ice fog and led to a private confrontation between Queen Celestia and the Snow Women Queen. Celestia had almost been defeated after her wings had been frozen and shattered, but had been saved by long-forgotten and unlikely allies: the nearly 200-year-old dragonettes, which with their flames, arrived melting everything that was made of ice on the battle field. The battle went on, and seeing herself defeated, the Snow Women Queen retreated with her survivors, but not before saying out loud that Celestia had been guilty of bringing them to Mewni. The Snow Women then left, however, without taking winter with them. That's what the Mewmans think that the Snow Women Queen was the one who brought blizzard to kingdom."

"Well, that was a 'cold' war!" Marco laughed at his joke. "Get it?! Cold War?! Okay. So, it was a victory winning, huh?"

"Yes, but the victory had not been celebrated, though," Moon replied. "The great losses, among them half of the Butterfly army, 3 of the 8 dragonettes, and countless peasants, fell heavily on Celestia. In an attempt to solve the problem of peasants dying in the cold that increased every day, Celestia ordered that the whole system of thermal waters that kept the castle heated was reformulated and distributed throughout the subsoil of the town and the surrounding rural areas, which resulted in a decrease in reports of cold death and a slight increase in agricultural production. In less than a semester, came the deaths of the 4 dragonettes due to cold and age, her grandma Minguanta due to pneumonia, Asterion also due to cold and age, and her father due to hypothermia."

"Wow. Most of her friends and family died because of the cold. Didn't she just reverse the spell?"

"According to Glossaryck, the spell would be reversed when the bell rings, which it hadn't rang for years. Celestia was even sadder when her family and friends died because of the cold, especially when Jasper secretly left her with another girl. However, there was one time that he suddenly disappeared. He had gone to retrieve the doll that his and Celestia's daughter had forgotten in the lake where they had ice skated. After the day without news, Celestia sent a search party, until Jasper was found dead in the lake."

"Poor Celestia," Marco frowned. "Seriously, we all know she never meant to cause the everlasting winter. So, the winter will last forever?"

"Not until her daughter inherited the wand after the bell finally rang. The sound caused silence and strangeness at the moment, but not less than it came next, coming through the window of the throne room, something that hadn't been seen in years: a ray of sunshine. The Long Winter is over," Queen Moon finished the story of the Queen of Winter.

It's a little early for Christmas, don't you think?!

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