Sorry it took so long. I was just asking questions from jgss0109, and when the questions are answered, I finally completed it. This chapter happens after the episode, Sweet Dreams. Enjoy!

Some time later, Marco returned to Mewni because he missed this dimension and missed Star. He also missed the stories Star and Moon told him about the past queens of Mewni. As he returned to Mewni, he became a squire to his princess best friend. Being a squire is hard work, and has to study all about Mewni and its rulers. This is a perfect opportunity. While Star was dimension-hopping in her sleep, it's Marco's chance to go back to the Tapestry room to continue where he left. He slowly and silently closed the door behind him, and wondered in the dark tapestry room. It was so dark, he almost can't see. When he accidentally set his foot on a pedestal, it started to rise from the ground, and glowed, revealing the name of the queen and the description.

Hekatia the Necromancer
"In her quest for knowledge,
she eventually discovered
that there are spells
that should never be conjured."

After the reading the pedestal, Marco was confused and afraid at the same time since the place is so dark, "Whaaaaaat?"

"Oh, hi there."

Marco started in fear as he posed like a karate fighter, readying himself to fight whoever is going to attack him, "Who's there?!"

"Why, it's me!" the woman showed herself to be Eclipsa in her pink sleeping wear, sitting on a hole behind a small portrait.

"You again?! How did you know I'm here?"

"I didn't. I just come here to visit the grandma room. It's been a long time since I left this room. And then I noticed you here all alone, I wanted to say 'hi' to you."

"What do you want from me? Just don't come any closer!" Marco shielded himself with his arms.

Eclipsa found him adorable as she giggled and walked out of the hole to approach Marco, "I'm not here to sword dance with you. You're really scared that I'll get my evil cooties on you? No. I'm just going to tell about the past queens of Mewni."

"How did you know that? Have you been spying on me or gone inside?!"

"What? No. Star told me. She told me so much about you. If I have gone inside your mind, I would've told you..., and that's a joke."

Marco then slightly chuckled, "Oh, yeah, it is pretty funny...," Then, gotten serious, "No! That's evil! And I don't think you know much about the other queens
since you have been imprisoned for 300 years. Star told me so."

"That's so cute. You two were so close," Eclipsa commented, then turned to scan the tapestries around the room, "So, which of these queens you stopped on?"

"I stopped on Meteora."

"Ooh, that's a coincidence! Because she's my grandmother."

"Your grandmother? Wait, does this mean it's..."

"Yep. The queen after her is my mother," Eclipsa took out a flashlight from her sleeping clothes, and pointed its light to tapestry of the 19th queen of Mewni, "Hekatia!"

A tall pale woman standing on a way on a misty forest at night. Her eyes glares in red, and the wand as torch in her hand burning a dark flame. Her cheekmarks were three-faced moons, so as the real moons at the sky above her.

Marco's pupils shrank when he stared at the tapestry. She compared Eclipsa to her mother when he looked back and forth on them. He looked really scared, and shook his head, "Oh no! No, no, no, no! You know what, forget it! I really see the resemblance between you two. You both used dark magic, you're both evil, and you're both scary! I'm outta here."

"Do you want to learn more about the queens?" Eclipsa asked.

"Well, yeah," he answered.

"Then why don't you stay here and listen to me?"

"Why should I trust you?"

"You can trust me. I know so much about my mother before she... Well, gone."

Marco wanted to know so much about the past queens of Mewni, but he didn't want to be around Eclipsa because of her reputation of being "evil", but he has no
choice. He groaned and turned around, "Fine. I'll stay, but I don't want to touch or come near me."

"All right, all right. You're still adorable," the former queen chuckled as she started to tell the story of Hekatia the Necromancer, "There was a day which three moons of Mewni passed through Hekatism. It's an astronomical event in which the three moons meet in three different phases simultaneously, which the Mewnians 'celebrate' as the Day of the Dead It was also the day my mother was born. Do you have this event back from your home?"

"Technically, Hekatism is not part of our tradition, but Day of the Dead is. We celebrated that every November 2nd. It's an Earth thing," Marco replied.

"Good. My mother, Hekatia, was described as the tallest newborn in the history of the royal family. her height is different than the rest of us queens. Her early childhood was marked by the constant presence of her parents in her life, especially her mother, Queen Meteora, who had withdrawn from the conflicts against the monsters to turn to her daughter's rising. When the Great Monster War got worse enough to take Queen Meteora to the battlefield, she sent Hekatia to Elfendor since there's no place in Mewni would be safe enough for her. In Elfendor, mother learned 16 fluent languages. When mother returned to Mewni to celebrate Mewnipendence Day, as she does every year, she was taken by monsters, but was saved by newly crowned King Ragenald Lucitor. This, combined with her taste for mystery and her studies at Elfendor over the years, awakened Hekatia her greatest interest that would mark her life: the magical nature of death."

"Wow, that explains it. Coincidentally, her birthday is in the Day of the Dead," the human boy interrupted.

Eclipsa looked at her mother's tapestry again, "Yeah, and she was pretty scary here. Anyway, she went on to study more and more about this subject. When she inherited the wand, she put her years of study and theories into practice. In a matter of weeks, Hekatia demonstrated an above-average intelligence and excellent magical dexterity. In the final months, she created her first great spell, known today as a last resort... Almafinatia, a spell that blasted a purple spell that instantly killed its target."

"Isn't that some kind of... illegal? I mean, creating a spell to kill anything?"

"Well, that's the first dark spell that mother created before I did. 3 years later, Hekatia wants to study more of mysteries and magical nature of 'death' at Elfendor, three things happened to her during her studies. First, she was poisoned with Lacrimosa, but she was saved by her Potions teacher, and agreed with the rector not to tell thus to her parents. To this day, it's unknown who tried to poison her."

"'Lacrimosa'? That same poisoned that killed Queen Hemera?" Asked Marco.

"Yes! That's the one! How did you know?" inquired Eclipsa.

"Star told me Hemera's story that she was poisoned with Lacrimosa by her own sister," the boy explained.

"Yes. that's right," the former queen nodded, "So, back to my mother, the second thing is three students witnessed Hekatia 'projecting the figure of a ghost' in a college room that was known to the students as 'haunted'. Although she was accused of 'forging the haunted room story and ghost', and taking just a warning, Hekatia didn't seem to care that much. The last thing is she was expelled by the collegiate of Elfendor, due to the 'unethical use of dark magic of immoral and unnatural ends'. Although what had actually occurred had never been made public, the truth was that Hekatia had invaded the biology laboratory overnight and had been spotted by a student and a teacher while she made the lab corpse sit down at the table and make light noises. She didn't attempt to defend herself from her expulsion, but she undid the spell when she heard a student shouting in fear. She only told her parents that she made an explosion in class."

"Well, that didn't go well in school. She used dark magician school! If I have that kind of magic, I won't use that in school because I don't want to scare my... schoolmates and teachers.,"

"Very good, er…, Marco, right? Don't be like my mother. So, Hekatia restricted her studies for a while when she returned to Mewni, but she did many strange things, like whispering in her room with nothing, just like when you're talking to a ghost, which she did literally."
Marco had been waiting for the scary part, and here it is, "Okay, now that is scary. Who did she talk to?"

"I don't know. No one knows. My mother never mentioned who she talked to. Don't get me wrong, my mother is a very kind and polite princess with her subjects and servants. She even volunteered to help care for the wounded soldiers at cross Clinics, and that's how she met and befriended my father, Edmund Cross," Eclipsa explained, "She was even invited to a ball at the Kingdom of the Underworld. The ball in question had occurred in the Lucitor Kingdom and is still the stage of theories, mysteries, and assumptions. Testimonies indicated that the princess acted even weirder than she usually did."

"Like what?"

"Like she left my father on the dance floor, and came back. No one knows why,but it's very weird. It's a secret. A year later, my grandfather, King Norse, died, and my mother was sad. She was even sadder when my grandmother died and she passed out. You know, when Meteora…"

"Okay, okay! I know that part! Just don't repeat that part, please! I almost barfed myself when I heard that part of Queen Meteora's story," Marco tried to hold his barf in when he remembered that the cause of death of Queen Meteora.

"Okay, sorry," Eclipsa apologized as she continued the story, "So, my mother spent all day beside her mother's coffin, the first one which stayed closed during a Royal Funeral that night, she asked to be alone with her mother one last time. If today, Hekatia is the fascinating figure studied for being the only one who has really reversed death, it's not because of rumors, but because of what happened that night when she made a skeleton sit down and make noises. It had all started with the Magic High Commission, who had gone to check Hekatia when they found her... talking to the once dead Queen Meteora."

"Wait, you mean, Hekatia… brought her back to life?!"

"That's kind of it. Have you heard of it?"

"Oh, I heard a lot more about 'bringing people back from the dead' thing, but it's very different than what others expected."

"Oh, it is different. When my mother defended herself and Rhombulus would've crystallized her, only on her feet, Meteora attacked everybody except my mother, more in like a living dead . After realizing that that thing wasn't her mother anymore, but just 'the remains of her relentless side', Hekatia hit her with Almafinatia's red flash, killing her to nothing."

"But, if Meteora was brought back from the dead, what about her crushed head?"

"Still crushed, but I can't tell you the full detail. It makes you sick."

"Yeah, maybe. About Meteora, being 'not herself', that happens when you brought people back from the dead; the bodies were reanimated, but the souls have moved on, and a body with no soul is a demon's playground."

"Oh, where did you get that theory, Earth boy?"

"I just watch that in movies... You will know what movie is. So, go on. Continue."

"So, Hekatia surrendered to the Magic High Commission and was brought to stand trial in the Magic Bureaucracy, however, the Commission voted for her acquittal because the Butterfly Kingdom was in the midst of its greatest conflict with monsters since Mewnipendence. As Queen of Mewni, Hekatia inherited not only the typical responsibilities of the charge, but also the war that her mewnisters and allies of the neighboring kingdoms were fighting for her against the Eightrings Kings. Hekatia proved utterly inept on the topic of 'war strategies', in which she spent the next four years just saying 'keep it up' at war meetings, which generated some discomfort with some mewnisters, such as Lords Carnelian Stone and Finch Redbird. However, things began to change when the Spiderbite Kingdom threatened to remove their troops from the war for believing they were fighting a lost cause. To attempt a negotiation between the kingdoms, my parents traveled to the Forest of Unlikely Spider Bites. Intermediated by the king's sister, the first attempt at conversation wasn't successful. However, the King and Queen Spiderbites appeared to have changed their minds after a monster ambush on the way to Peter Park village. Although there's no official information of what had happened since all 20 knights of the entourage were killed, but the only known reports come from Princess Reclusa, the king's sister."

"What really happened?" Marco asked.

"According to her, when they were surrounded by 12 monsters, Hekatia whispered to her wand, like casting a spell on it, and the wand burned in a black spectral flash, the night was taken by a wintry cold and a dense fog formed around them. Suddenly, the monsters began to be consumed by shadows with black fire eyes. The monsters screamed until they were silenced. For a moment, the eyes seemed to look at us, but soon they vanished as mother fell to her knees, and massaged her wrist, probably because of the black veins like I have on my hands and arms," Eclipsa showed Marco her black arms and hands.

"Ouch. that's gonna hurt," Marco shuddered.

"I know. I felt this myself when I created my first dark spells," Eclipsa explained, "Back to my mother, the bodies of the monsters were dead on the ground, except to septarians, which were called 'The Lizards' which they fled to the forest. Close to the dead monsters the bodies of the Spiderbite soldiers, who had originally died a few yards away."

"So, this means, Hekatia rose the soldiers back to life and attacked the monsters?" guessed Marco.

"Seemed like it," Eclipsa nodded. "The spell wore off shortly. There was a time that rumors surfaced that 'the Mewnian army fell and rose again to fight', or, as the laity say, 'an army of undead'. However, such superstition had been created by conspiracy theorists and monsters, which referred to no more than muddy mewnians who hid under the earth and stood up during the battles as a surprise element. This means mother did brought people back from the dead, but only for emergencies... Or that's what I believe. It was in this battle that Hekatia rejoined the two septarians who had fled that night from the attack on the Spiderbite Kingdom and, with it, an interesting discovery: on of them was the eldest and the young one's personal guard, Seth, and the young one is Toffee."

"Wait, just a minute. Toffee?" Marco recalled that name, "I know him!"

"You know him?" the former queen asked.

"Yes, he kidnapped me to lure Star to him to destroy her wand, then suddenly, he dispappeared after the explosion caused by the wand after it was destroyed. And then, Star said he almost destroyed the magic, until Star restored the magic, and destroyed Toffee," Marco explained.

"That's how I'm free," Eclipsa whispered.

"What do you mean?" Marco heard her.

"You see, when Moon was Star's age, she made a deal with me that I should teach her to use a spell that can kill something immortal, at that might be Toffee. If he's killed, I can break free from my crystal prison, but I discovered she haven't killed him yet with the spell. But when you said Star destroyed him, the deal worked and I broke free."

"Wow. Now I have a lot learn about you guys."

Eclipsa giggled, then cleared her throat, continuing the story, "So, my mother went on pursue such obsessions. The first, a way to try to 'kill' the septarian warriors. The only effective medium known was the Lightbringer spell of Queen Etheria, however, Hekatia could never perform such a spell, because it's just too hard to do it, or maybe my mother used dark magic, and Queen Etheria has used light magic. That's how I believed it. Another medium, though not fully proven, was Ophidian Steel."

"What's an Ophidian Steel?" The Earth boy asked.

"It's a rare metal. However, such metal is extremely rare and there were only four swords forged in such metal throughout Mewni."However, such metal is extremely rare and there were only four swords forged in such metal throughout Mewni. Even with such a 'solution', mother kept looking for ways to kill a Septarian once and for all, but she also has another problem; having an heiress since she's 40 years old. Fortunately, she got me when she was 41. before I was born, records indicate that the day-to-day life in the castle over this period has become sinister and dismal. Servants reported seeing my mother wandering about the castle at night, disappearing without explanation, even from my father. Voices and noises in darker, isolated places of the castle, and a strange gloomy, icy, lifeless air that filled every aisle of the castle."

"Wow, that is quite creep, especially when you told me that story in a dark room of the castle!" Marco was about to scream loudly in fear.

"Don't worry, I'm here. I know all about the castle. I grew up here. The grandma room is not haunted. I assure you," the former queen promised that.

"O-o-o-okay," Marco stammered as he lifted his legs up to his chest on the chair, and hugged his knees, "Continue."

"After my birth, my mother may be scary, but she was a lovely mother. She cared for me and always had time for me. There was also a time when everyone, including myself, noticed my mother's disappearance. The Commission and the guards searched for my mother all over the castle, including secret passaged, until they found her, kneeling in a dark room like a dungeon, the Book of Spells with torn pages, burn marks on the floor, and ashes of burnt paper. Those burnt papers were four of my mother's spells."

"So, Hekatia burnt her own chapter of spells, why?" questioned Marco.

"No one knows why, to be honest."

"Before they were burnt, do you know what those pages contain?"

"I should imagined they were spells to talk to spirits, raise the dead, resurrect a dead one, and maybe a portal to the Dead's World. Curiously after this event, there were no more records of Hekatia's strange behavior, like 'walking through the castle at the night', but cases of respiratory problems began to bother my mother year after year." Although my mother's last years weren't very expressive, even after my father died, mother wisely used them to try to recover what she could of the years lost with me. I even gave her my drawings as my gift. I will explain to you that later in my story. My mother died as a result of the respiratory complications caused by the scars left by years of use of forbidden magic. According to me, my mother seemed at peace," after finishing her mother's story, Eclipsa's tears appeared in her eyes as she wiped them away with her sleeves.

Marco has tears on his eyes as well. He felt what Eclipsa was feeling right now for her mother, "You know, you're right about one thing about your mother; she may be scary, but she's a very nice person and a loving mother. I'm sorry for your lost."

"It's okay. That's 300 years ago," Eclipsa sobbed. She would never forget her mother.

"I wanna ask, who did your mother talk to, in your opinion?" Marco asked.
Eclipsa looked back at her mother's tapestry with a smile, if you look closer on the tapestry, what do you see behind my mother? She's not the only one or Glossaryck in the tapestry."

When Marco left his chair, walked closer to the tapestry, and narrowed his eyes on it, he noticed four queens, and they looked like their tapestries as ghost, "Hey, they are Solena, Hemera, Meteora, and Febe."

"Yes! They are the spirits of four of the queens who mother communicated with. She can communicate with any queen, except Urania. Since she was the first queen and the farthest ancestor, my mother can't reach for her."

"You know what I think? I think Hekatia communicate with Solena because she's the farthest queen your mother can reach. And then there was Hemera to learn the secrets of the castle. And we all know your mother can communicate with your grandmother. Lastly, Febe because of her experience of the party from the Underworld."

"When you say it, you're kinda right," Eclipsa thought so in agreement.

I finally finished the story! I hope you enjoyed reading it! I got the quote "Body with no souls is a demon's playground" from My Babysitter's A Vampire episode 1.

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