Sorry this is late. I'm very busy this month with my school, project, assignments and exams. There's also a fight between me and a friend from Wattpad, that's why I'm not in a mood for writing. Since I have now, here is the next chapter. Enjoy!
Marco turned his head, and noticed the tapestry of the queen, who was a redhead potato-nose woman warrior riding a white-eyed black warnicorn, holding a giant light-hammer and wearing a helm, from which descend two long braids, and has red flames on her cheeks.
"Queen Moon, is this Celestia's daughter? She doesn't look like a happy queen when I look at her," Marco cringed in fear when he looked at this queen's tapestry. "And her cheekmarks are red flames, quite an opposite symbol from her mother."
"Yes, that's definitely Queen Celestia's daughter, Meteora the Relentless, the 18th queen of Mewni," Queen Moon answered as the pedestal rose up and glowed.
Meteora the Relentless
"This was Meteora,
hard and strong as her warhammer,
who spared no effort to protect
any mewnian from any monster"
Moon started to tell the story, "Meteora's childhood was something far from what everyone wants for their childhood. To begin with, the princess was remembered for being a chubby, unkempt, potato-nosed girl who, because of winter caused by her mother, wore thick skins that made her seem twice as heavy. Morever, for more than a decade, Meteora can never see the soil and grass that lay beneath the thick layers of snow. However, not everything was dismal in her life. Meteora was a loving, smiling and playful little girl, always carrying her favorite rag doll. She was a warm-hearted daughter to her parents, especially to her father, Jasper, and amused herself to her aunt, Dame Coral Stone. What she liked most was to skate on a frozen lake with her father. When she was 10 years old, Jasper returned to the lake where he had skated with Meteora to fetch the doll she had forgotten there. He had been found dead after two days without news by the search party Celestia sent. Meteora had spent days locked in her room, and by the time she had left, there was no trace of the little girl she used to be. It's said that Meteora had cried all the tears she had for a life in a week."
"Well, that is kinda sad," Marco frowned. "Sure I already know many children, even princess, had lost one parent, but this is bad for Meteora since her father died because of her mother's magic and retrieving her rag doll."
"It was really sad for Meteora since she's so close to her father. Ever since then, she came to her aunt and asked or instructed her to train her, and she changed a lot; from a chubby playful little girl to a taller, leaner and more athletic one. On the anniversary of her father's death, Meteora had gone with her Aunt Coral to visit the lake that used to skate with her father. At that point, Meteora disengaged herself from her aunt as she saw a group of four ragged bearicorns mocking the Mewmans and the Butterfly Family around a bonfire. Meteora approached the group asking if she could warm up, and one of them told her to leave. Just then, she offered him a silver coin and purposely dropped it on the ground. When the bearicorn bent over to retrieve the coin, the princess pulled him and stabbed him. The other three bearicorns stood up but were soon killed by her aunt. Then, weeks later, Meteora wandered the castle when she heard two servants chatting and one of them asked if the other was one of the supposed 'lover' of the late King Jasper. The princess questions the maid and she told her that they had been paid by the Houses Fox, Bell and Price."
"What?! Why would they do that?"
"Because Celestia haven't paid a debt, which she received letters from those houses. Meteora threw those letters into the fire. Meteora found out that her mother was fragile and unable to defend herself. So, with that, Meteora started some kind of war that is called 'Red Winter Rebellion', which she led her troops and army."
"The 'Red Winter Rebellion'?" asked Marco.
"It's a war of the Houses Fox, Price and Bell to the Butterfly Kingdom. More or less. She actually went to revenge her father's death and put an end on abuses of the Houses against her mother," explained Moon.
"Isn't Meteora a little too young for these stuff? I mean, she's still a princess that time, and still at young age. And the army still followed her?"
"As the Princess of Mewni, she is the 2nd with to have the power in the Kingdom's ruling. So, if the princess thinks the queen is unable of to do anything, she can assume the responsibilities. And her father's death and the hard winter made her a hard person."
"I think you're right, Queen. As they said: 'Hard times make hard people.'"
"But by the end of the Red Winter Rebellion, Meteora kept the ruins of the Price Hall and Foxhole as a mute warning to those who tried to defy her power of House Butterfly and her fame. That was the starting point of her title 'The Relentless'. Meteora never told her mother about this, until she revealed it told by Mara Bell, from house Bell who confessed that the rumors of King Jasper's affairs were not true, to Celestia."
"Wow, now I get why Meteora has that title," the human boy was impressed. "So, it happened before she inherited the wand?"
"Yes," Moon replied. "When Meteora inherited the wand, a very important event for Mewni's history had occurred the moment she touch the wand for the first time. Before this metamorphoses itself, the bell of her mother's wand ringed after two decades of silence. This result was a beam of sunlight streaming through one of the windows of the throne room, marking the end of the Long Winter. When a peasant appeared in the throne room saying his daughter had been killed by a group of bearicorns, Meteora decided to defend the citizens from the monsters by herself. She even has a warnicorn, who can wake up late at night, and named it Iron hoof. That's her warnicorn right there in her tapestry."
Marco looked at the tapestry again and smiled, "Well, that's a good name for a warnicorn. So, what she do next? What did she do to her wand?"
"Well, during her nocturnal vigil, most of her spells manifested themselves in two ways: fire and weapons, such as summoning blades of energy and turning the wand into spears, swords and hammers, like her axe in her tapestry," Moon pointed the axe on the tapestry. "Her spells proved as effective as her ability to confront monsters alone. She then met two boys, Charles and Alfred, and befriended them. It's like Meteora had her 'sweetness beck, until Alfred was ambushed by a monster. His death also led Meteora to lose any trance of her 'sweetness', becoming the sullen, furious figure that is known to this day. "
"I have a question, Queen," Marco raised his hand. "How did Meteora got her scar on her eye?"
"You see, Marco, after the declaration of war on all Monster Nations, Meteora initially dispersed the intense harassment of Bearicorn and Frog Men to the borders of the kingdom and obtaining in the same year an important victory that granted them power over Mud Moat, one of the only known accesses to the easternmost part of Forest of the Certain Death. In this battle, Meteora was struck by an arrow and was taken care of by a commoner nurse, Thayla. However, Mud Moat's fame to be 'easy to take, difficult to protect soon prevailed, and the Mud Dwellers, together with the Slimes and the Dogbulls, massacred a considerable part of the Mewman army, killing Thayla, and wounding Meteora's eye, who had to rest for a month and almost lost part of her vision. Norse Fields gave Meteora flowers after waking up from unconsciousness for two days, which she was allergic to them, and sneezed for a week. Meteora really hates Norse for pranking her like that." Queen Moon explained, until she heard Marco's laughter.
"Ha ha ha! That is funny," Then, he cleared his throat to stop laughing, "But, yeah, that's so bad."
Moon rolled her eyes and chuckled as she continued the story, "Back to the war, the occupation zones were very clear: the monsters, in a coalition of nine kings) controlling most of the North and Northeast, and the Butterfly, with the help of the Johansen, in the South and Southeast. However, the conquests, both monsters and mewnians, were only greater because after the Battle of Queensroad, came the Mewnian Flu epidemic of that year. Meteora was infected too. Charles goodwell and Lady Nelisse Cross discovered that the Slime Monsters have healing abilities. When the group led by Sir Norse and Sir Tormund Cross captured seven Slime Monsters and took them captive to the Butterfly Kingdom. After Meteora was healed, the queen offered an agreement that if the Slime Monsters heal the thousand of sick in the town, she would reward them. The Slimes accepted the offer, and, after 8 months, the epidemic had been eradicated. Meteora fulfilled her promise and 'rewarded' them with a non-painful death: putting them to sleep and then melting them."
"Ouch! Why would Meteora do that?"
"Queens before never had mercy on monsters. Besides, it's Meteora's job to kill monsters to protect the citizens of her kingdom. I also did the same when Toffee killed my mother, except, well, I didn't kill Toffee or any monster. I just used a spell to destroy someone immortal, but I shoot on Toffee's finger, which it never grew back."
"Don't worry, Moon. I get that part. I was there when you gave Toffee his finger back."
"Yeah, sorry you should see that. And then, I just realized monsters are like mewnians. They also fight to protect their babies and love ones."
"What makes you say that?"
"When I met Buff Frog when Star suggested staying in his house before we defeated Toffee, I figured out he does everything he can to protect his children, like I did with Star."
"Buff Frog is the best. He's been by our side ever since Ludo kicked him out or abandoned. He can't have Buff Frog back even when he gave him tadpoles."
"Wait?! Ludo gave Buff frog tadpoles?"
"Yeah. Where else did he get them? They're not actually his kids, but he treated them like his own."
"I guess I was wrong about monsters. Not all of them are bad. I guess if Star would be queen someday, she'll make the kingdom a better place for both mewnians and monsters."
"I guess so," Marco nodded proudly for Star. "So, is Meteora's story always about wars with monsters?"
Moon said, "Sort of, but not always. She can have a soft spot sometimes. I guess I won't explain all of the wars. Since her title is 'Relentless', Meteora has no mercy to kill monsters during every war. Although, there is one war she participated after she married Norse Fields, even if she hated him a lot, and gave birth to her daughter, Meteora found the scenario unfavorable. The forces of the Eightrings Kings, as was known the union between the 8 monarch monsters, had enlarged their zones of occupation, besides to take and to surround points that had previously belonged to mewnians, like standing siege to the Johansen, the Jaggy, and the Spiderbite kingdoms. Meteora then began a process of military expulsion and reoccupation, gaining support from the Mukwald, Kelpbottom and Ponyhead Kingdoms. It was a long process of intense battles, highlighting an event that occurred. During the confrontation near the forest of Probable Itchiness, the Mewnian troops found themselves surrounded. However, they were saved by… a flock of pigeons. Meteora saw them as a potential ally, taking a pigeon representative to military meetings and even building the Pigeon Lookout between the Butterfly and Mukwald kingdoms. During the celebrations of the Mewnipendence Day, an average battalion of monsters managed to invade the event to try to kidnap Meteora's daughter, but the plan of the monsters was thwarted by the unexpected reinforcement of the Lucitors led by the newly crowned king, Ragenald Lucitor, Tom's ancestor. When Meteora passed the wand to her daughter, she can slaughter more than 100 monsters alone using only ordinary weapons. "
"So, Meteora just kept fighting, even if, maybe, it would be risky?"
"It's her title after all, to her enemies, which is always been monsters. The monster she hates the most was a group of bearicorn. Norse was shot down by bearicorn at the Battle of the Dry Fields. Taken by tears of sadness and hatred. Queen Meteora granted her old friend, Niklas' permission to use 'Mewnian Fire', which was a flammable fluid created by the Niklas himself, against monster villages and camps. There had been no sign of Norse's 'executioner'. During that period, Meteora adopted a somewhat frightening practice. She went on to decorate the throne room with the skulls of the monsters behind the throne. She also went on to judge the captive monsters through Trials of Battles. When the knights captured the bearicorn that killed Norse, and seeing a chance to avenge her husband's death, Meteora sentenced the bearicorn to a Trial of Combat. Even though the monster was much bigger than she, Meteora managed with her agility to give small blows that were gradually crippling her opponent. At one point, she slashed through the monster's belly. But rather than finishing him, she tried to extract a confession from him. However, the bearicorn changed the tide of the battle and managed to surprise her by bear-hugging, and…" Moon stopped right there as she looked at Marco, who made an exciting face. "Uh, you don't want to know about this."
"Come on, Queen, tell that part!" Marco complained. "You know, Star hugged the monsters who used to work for Ludo and attacked her. She came out fine."
"Not for Meteora…" whispered the queen. "The bearicorn then slowly gouged her eyes, while he roared his guilt, and killed her by crushing her skull, spreading blood and… guts through the Throne Room before falling dead beside her!"
After hearing the cause of death of Queen Meteora, Marco felt dizzy, like he was car sick, and held his barf in his mouth with his hand.
"I told you wouldn't like it, and don't puke in the Grandma Room!" Moon instructed.
"Sorry," Marco swallowed his puke back. "It's disgusting."
Just then, they noticed a beam of sunlight streaming through one of the windows of the room.
Marco was frustrated, "Aww, it's morning already? I thought the winter ended, just like when Celestia's bell rang."
Moon chuckled, "That's good. You learned something. Do you want to listen to another story?"
The human yawned, "Maybe next time. I'm quite tired though. I'm sorry you missed your sleep."
"That's okay, Marco. It's nice to have someone to tell stories about the past queens," Queen Moon patted his back as she guided him towards the door.
Suddenly, Star kicked the door open, "Marco! Thank goodness, I found you! When I woke up this early morning, you were gone. I've been looking everywhere for you…" Then, she looked up, and saw her mother. "Mom, what are you doing?"
"I saw Marco here in this room in the middle of the night, so I agree to tell him the stories about the past queens you haven't told him yet."
The princess just had her jaws dropped, "You told him the stories?"
"Yeah. We just stopped at Meteora the Relentless," Marco replied.
"So… you already know the stories of Skywynne the Queen of Hours, Soupina the Strange, Galaxie the Clairvoyant, Venus the Fairest, Helia the Light of Power and Celestia the Queen of Winter, huh?"
"Yeah, but Meteora's story is kinda bit… violent."
"Yeah, it's a good thing I don't have to discuss all about her."
"Well, enough chit-chat now. Marco here needs to sleep, and I'll take a little nap before breakfast," Moon said.
"Ooh, and we should continue to the next queen when you wake up, Marco!" Star jumped up and down excitingly.
"Actually, Star," Marco held his hand up. "After sleeping, I decided to go back to Earth."
Star gasped, "What?! Why?!"
"Sorry, Star, Earth's callin', and I have a lot of things to do back home."
"But, what about the queens we haven't discussed yet?"
"We'll do that next time. Don't get me wrong. I love to know about the past queens' stories and the wand, but I have to go back to my parents, friends… and Jackie."
Star slowly nodded sadly, "I understand."
Marco put his hand on her shoulder, "I'll come back soon. I promise. I better get some sleep." Then, he turned to the queen. "And sorry I make you stay up late to tell me the stories."
"It's no problem, Marco. Now, get some rest so you have a lot of energy when you go back home," Moon smiled.
"Okay." Marco nodded as he turned back to the princess, "I'll see you later, Star." He said before walking through the hallway.
Star was devastated that her best friend will go back home soon. They were having a great time when she explained more about the previous queens, but, as his best friend, she understands him that he should go back to his home dimension. She felt her mother's hands on her shoulders.
"Just let him be, darling." Moon whispered, "We have to respect that. He'll be back to discuss more about our family history."
Star almost cried as she wiped her tears from her eyes and sniffed, "I know, Mom. I'll be okay."
Sorry that I didn't put all of the wars. There are so many wars! Sorry that I didn't put all of the information. Just any important things about Meteora. This is the last chapter… not the entire story, of course. From Urania the First to Meteora the Relentless happens before Marco left Mewni to Earth. I hope you liked this a lot. This chapter took place before the episode "Scent of a Hoodie".
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