WARNING! This story will contain panic attacks, tense flash-backs, some Drama, Angst and other things.
If you can't handle reading these themes then don't read this!
If you can, then enjoy!
13 Years Ago; September 16, 2009 (NightStar's Family Castle, Lycantropolis)
It was night time in Lycantropolis, the castle hallways were quiet, very quiet. Aside from the sounds of pacing inside the living room.
Carolina, the Queen of Lycantropolis, is feeling distressed and worried about something. Her mother, Miriam, is there as she is sitting on a chair.
"Will you stop pacing so much hija, you'll end up getting grey hairs faster if you keep getting stressed." The former Queen said.
"I'm trying Mamá!" She snapped, still feeling anxious. "It's just so hard to try and calm her down every night. She keeps having nightmares of seeing her friends..." There was a pause, she wouldn't dare say the words. "She's only 5 Mamá, no child should have seen that... If I had keeped a close eye on her, maybe she would have never gone to that terrifying world..."
"It wasn't your fault, she was curious to go to new places." Her mother said. "Like we once did."
"But how am I supposed to stop the nightmares from happening again?!" Carolina said, on the verge of crying. "I don't want that one bad experiences affect her future..." Then she remembered something. "Unless..." She immediately walks out of the room, with her mother following her.
With a lantern in hand, Carolina walks in the castle library. She then used her magic to make it float as she looked through the bookshelves. She ended up finding the book she was looking for. Flipping through the pages, she found the spell she needed.
Miriam immediately understood what her daughter was planning to do. "Hija, are you sure you know what you are doing?"
"What other choice do I have Mamá?" She said in desperation. "If nothing else helps my daughter to become happy again, then I have to do it, for her own good..." She said with a determined look as she walked away from her concerned mother.
Present Day; October 4th 2022 (Heroes Squad HQ, Lycantropolis)
It was a bright and slightly cold day in Lycantropolis, as it was October, which meant Halloween is around the corner. The villagers were already setting their decorations up for it. Kids are seen wearing spooky masks for their costumes. Farmers are harvesting Pumpkins to either sell, make Pumpkin themed recipes or make some Jack-O Lanterns. But they wouldn't do it now since if they do, then the Pumpkin would have turned bad by Halloween and the Jack-O Lantern wouldn't be that good.
At the Lycantropolis Royal Family Castle, where NightStar lives, the castle staff are preparing to decorate the castle for Halloween as well. With Noriko leading the maids, while Bailey is leading the staff.
Meanwhile, NightStar was in the Heroes Squad HQ, hanging out with some of her friends. There were a bunch of boxes with them. They were looking through some of them, in search of Halloween decorations to decorate the HQ.
"Does anybody think this is a waste of time..." Rainbow Dash said as she got tangled in some Christmas lights. Sasha Waybright and Hunter were already helping her to get free from them.
"We've only been here for an hour, Rainbow Dash, don't be such a lazy pony." Isabela said, trying so hard to not roll her eyes. She was looking through some boxes with her boyfriend, Junjie. "Besides, I find this quite relaxing."
"Looking through some old boxes makes you relax?" The blue Pegasus responded. "Weirdo..." Before something hit the back of her head. "Ow!"
"Sorry, my hand slipped." Isabela gave a fake apologetic look.
Some of the others tried not to laugh. But failed to. Much to the Pegasus' embarrassment.
"You really should have these boxes labeled sweetie." Flo said as she and Ramone were helping NightStar with a box.
"Already doing it, just making sure of that." The wolf Princess was writing with a black pen in each box she looked at.
"Why didn't ya think of doing that before?" Applejack said as Pinkie Pie popped out from one of the Christmas decoration boxes. She is wearing a Santa hat and white beard.
"Never had the time to do so, I mean, have you seen these boxes?!" She waves her arms around.
"Point taken." Applejack replied.
Luz Noceda is seen looking through some boxes she carried in her corner to look at, with King and Amity Blight with her. She opened one, and then gasped. "Awwww! Look at this!"
She soon caught everyone's attention. Eventually they all saw what she found, an old picture of Baby NightStar.
"Awwwww!" Everyone cooed on how adorable she was.
"I didn't know NightStar was that cute." Cruz Ramirez said.
"We did." Pepa Madrigal said. "I even remembered what her first word was."
"What was it?! What was it?!" Pinkie Pie asked so eager to know. "Tell us! Tell us!"
"Bruno." Julieta Madrigal simply said smiling.
"Awwwww!" Most of them said.
"You had to tell them that..?" Bruno Madrigal said a bit embarrassed.
"Well I think it was adorable." Leshawna said.
"That's what happens when you babysit a magical Princess multiple times." Félix grinned as he laughed.
"Hey guys, why did you all stop looking?" NightStar said as she squeezed herself through the crowd. She then notices what they were looking at and snatched the box away. "Don't look at those!"
"Why not?" Mater asked.
"I just don't like getting praised for being such an adorable baby, that's all." NightStar blushed.
"But you were soooooooo cute!" Lindsay said.
"Nope! Stop saying that!" She said.
"What? Adorable?" Kitty said.
"Seriously, stop that!" She insisted.
"Would that be a bother if I say it?" Prince D said.
NightStar blushed at her Boyfriend. "Okay, you can say it. But the rest of you, don't!"
"Aw come on!" Geoff said as everyone else whined.
"Hey look!" Gus Porter pulled out a trophy, coming from NightStar's mementos from the Cars World.
"My first Junior Cup trophy!" NightStar smiled fondly as she held on to it. "My first win as a racer."
"Couldn't be more proud of ya when you got it." Doc said.
Gus then pulled out more things from several memory boxes. "My first scrapbook!" She opened her pop-up book revealing a 13 year-old her along with the Snack Pack. "My old Hexside uniform!" She pulled out revealing a Hexside uniform that had the Abomination Coven colors. "My Mini Stump Day stump..! Yay..!" She cringed at it.
"What's a Stump Day?" Sprig Plantar asked.
"We don't talk about Stump Day..." The Spy Team, The Toy Gang, Friendship Team (Minus Sunburst), The Mystery Twins, The Drac Pack (Minus Erica Van Helsing), The Core 4, The P.F.T Gang, The Crystal Gems and The Bird Crew all said a bit creeped out at the day they celebrated Stump Day in Mewni a few years back. Which didn't end well and nearly died because of an angry stump. Since then they stopped celebrating that altogether.
"Oooooookaaaaaay..." Sprig decided to not tell any further about it as he was a but creeped out by their scared expressions.
"So many things and memories..." NightStar pulled out an album containing pictures of the Heroes Squad growing over the years. "We sure did come a long way..." She may not have remembered some parts of her childhood, but these momentos helped her remember at least some of them.
"With these memories, it will be hard to not forget about us." Blues said.
"You got that right sister!" Rhythm agreed with her twin.
"So, are we gonna continue to search or..?" Marlene asked.
"You guys can keep on searching, I'll be in a moment." NightStar responded. "I'm gonna label these."
"Alright troops you heard her, back to work!" Brick McArthur said as everyone went back to look for the decorations. His girlfriend Nora Alvarez helped him push his wheelchair as he was sitting on it.
Marcy Wu and Mirabel Madrigal stayed behind to help NightStar with her memory boxes. "Woah, you sure made a lot of memories with all of us NightStar!" Marcy looked through the boxes.
Mirabel then pulled out a stuffed rat. She gasped. "Is that Mozzarella?! I can't believe you still have him!" Mozzarella the stuff rat was Bruno's childhood plushie.
"Yeah, I kind of forgot to give him back to Tío Bruno before..." NightStar paused. "Well... You know..."
"Oh! Look a twig!" Marcy pulled a twig out.
"That's not just any twig, that's the same one I got caught in my hair when I first met Brick." NightStar explained as the two looked at her confused. "Long story..."
Then Marcy noticed an old box that isn't like the others, it was beat up from not being opened forever. Curious, she grabbed it and flipped the sides open. Immediately, she went over to NightStar. "Hey NightStar, I found an old box with some stuff in it. Is it yours?"
The wolf girl looked inside to see some kind of old raggedy cape hoodie, she took it out of there to inspect it more closely. "That's odd... I don't remember having this."
"What are these drawings?" Mirabel pulled out a stack of drawings that were drawn in ink.
NightStar took one of the drawings and looked at them. They were all the same, only drawn in different designs. The more she looks, the more she is getting familiar with them. Like some old forgotten memory is coming back to her. She suddenly felt her surroundings starting to distance from her.
"Look there's a photo!" Marcy pulled out a picture frame. "Huh, that's weird, that little wolf girl looks just like you."
"Uh, Marcy, that is her!" Mirabel stated the obvious.
NightStar snatched the picture frame to take a look at it. One glance at it caused her to stop breathing for a moment. As the memories came back to her all at once. All of it was a haunting nightmare...
T͎͇̻̺̫̒͌̊̑͡h̻̟̝̘͙̃̔͗͗̕ē̼̳͚̫̪̎͂̕͡ ̢̫̪̳̇͐̽̋͂͢r̖̘̼̖̰͋͋̔̃͘ū͍̰̖̫͂̄̿̾͜ī̧̲̩͕͐͋͆͜͡n̛̰̗͈̞͐͑͆͞ͅe̳̺̤͆̾̑͟͟͠͡d͍̮̖̳͓̍͗͌͒͋ ̫̻͔͚͗̌̏͐̅͜E̢̪̪̮͌͒̑̑̃͢ą̠̯̳̘̀̀̍̋͡r̡̭̦̭͍͒̊̀̐͒t͇̦̜̍͊̐͆͟͟͝h͚̫͉̪̝́̂̓͋͡ ͉͇̹̀̏̇͘͡ͅͅs̢̰̺̹̫̍͋̂͑̌h̨̘̬͕͎͋̿͋́͗e̯̹̹̟͑̐̎̉͢͞ ͙̟̱̼͕̋̀̇̀͊á̠̠̭̠͛̌̽̊͟ć̢̧̛̺̥͆͊͢͡ç̡̞̞̙̈́̇̑͊̕i̱̞̞͚̼̊̑̍̒̎d̝̖͇̣͛̃͛̈́̐͟e̢̳͚͓͔͂̇̃̀̆n̹͕̱̦̻̓̅́͑͠t͉̲͚̟̉͐̐͑̚͢l̤̙̮̗̞̀̽̀̋̚y̧̦̬̖̾̈̆͘͟͝ ̨͚̦̱̣͒̏͆͑͡g̲͇̞͈̝͊̒̍͐̽o̧̟̞̮̾́͐̾͑͜t͍͉͔̬̮͗̐́̊͆ ̧̠̟̮̜̀̔̀̆͡t̛̼̤̰̗͋́̔̔͜r̛̠͕̪͇̯͊̍́͋ã͕͚̞͇̻̎̊̂̋n̡̟̯͈̯͒̔͐͂͝ş̩̞͕̻̉̎̋̾̈́p̢̠̰͇̍̿̓̈͠ͅȯ̭͈̭̙̩͗̽̍̕r̞̻̥͍̥̔̓̃͗͘t̤̼̪͔̞͐̓̽͗̆ȅ͍̻̙͚͍̑̂̓̔d̼̖̜̰̔̍̿̚͟͝ ̛͙̻͈͓̣͊͛́͡į͕̫̞̻̆̌̾͒̕ṉ̦̖͔̲͌͌̽̕͝.̻͓͚̰̐̑͂̂͢͝.̢̝̯͚͓͋͗̏̃͡.̢͙͕͈͎̍̇̓̐̑ ̰̼̝̒́͐̎͘͜ͅ ̺͉̰̥̳͒̅͗͐̉
T̡̛̖̼̞̼͌̽̈́̕h͉̫̻̦̥͛̇̋̚͠ȩ̛̛͕̲͎͍̎͘̕ ̨̝͕͍̦̓͐̇́̋ḑ͖͈̰͒̐͌͋͜͞ṟ̗̹̬͍̑̆̿͊̐a͖̳̬͔͌͐͑̇͡ͅw̫̤͖̙͕̄́͂̀͛i̡̗̖̠͍̓̾̕̚͞n̛̜̬̝̻̎͗͒͘ͅǧ̨͖̤̠͈͛͆̑̒s͈̮̰͚̾̄̅̏͘͟.̖̰̮̜̯͂̌̍̍͆.̼̰̜̗̠̈́̿̓̐͡.̳̙̣̞̖̄̇̿̂̿ ͖̖̭͖̱̊̌͑͊͒ ̖̭̩̤̬̓͆͂͆͘
T̘̠̱̰̳̆̽͑́̏h̢̡̭̼͆͒̾̈́̃͜e̲͖̲̭̤͛̓͑̒͠ ͔̖̘̥̙́̓́̍̚f͈̫͔̪͔̈́̄͐͋̊r̜̰̤͎̭̎̾̍̀̕ỉ̢̛̗̰̳̦̃̔́e̦̰͚̘̼̅̓͋͂͘n̯͙͇̘͕͊͗̑̒̕ď̯̤̭͈̥͊̓̈́̎ś̰̫̻̳͌͆͟͞͞ ̱̝̱̰̰͌̄̓͡͡s̳̘̳͓̯̐̀̈́̅̚ȟ͎̮̫͚̬̑̒̇̿e̡̞̝͇̰͆͗̔̕͘ ̨̝͎̮̻̍̍͛̏͊m̧͇̹̠̋͋̊͆͟͝á̫̱̜͕̪̈͆̈́͞d̳̲̦̪͎̓̓̍͊͑ë̝̘̳͎͖́̋̈̎̅.̣̝͉͉͑͒͑̐̆͜.̣͇̭̑͒͛̽̀͢͜.̡̫̥̟̲͐̏̀̏̕ ̲̲̝̪̻͆͑̓͊͛ ̫͎͓͍̦̒̆̃́͠
T̬̗͚̤̱͗̐́̒̕h̥̻̬̝̯͆̍̇̃͑e͈̝̥͒͒̌̚̚͟͢ ̥͔͔̺̿́̊̃̆͢g̖̮̯͎͙̓͋͑̌͘ḯ̫͕̱͉̉̎̈́͢ă̡͎̼̗͔̈́̆̒̀ń̲̬̥̞̉̊̿̂͢t̹̟͈̖̲͒̐̃͋̅ ̲̼̟͚̤̉͊̒̾͝m̡̟̰͓͙͐͊̅̏̚a̩̻̤̪̽̏̓̑̉͢č̖͖̰̗́͗͑̄͜h̛͉̹͔͓̟̍̊̅̑ȉ͍̞̙͗̊̒̍͢͜n̢̼̠̖͎̔̄̈̿́ê̦̱͇̗̔͂̒̑͜.͍̟̙͈̣̔͆͊̆̍.̧̧̜̖̜̔̿̂̾̎.͔̺̝̹͓̊́͌̆̚ ̢̧͖͖̠́̆̂̃̿ ̧̼̳̜̽͌̅͢͡͠
W͚̝̪͚̔̒̑͗͠ͅh̼̯̺̞̩̾̀̑́̑e͖̻̺͚̓̈̊͘͜͠n͓̼͖͙̓̔̽͟͞͠ ͍̪̜̖͂͂̑̚͘ͅs̥̦͕̀̏̾̓̕͟͜h̻̝͎͔́̔̈́̿͒ͅę̩̰̺̑̔̿͊̏͢ ͖̹̬̖̪͛̋̆̍͒ļ̪͕̟͙͌͑͊̓͠o̡̬͈̙̽́̂̔̒͟s̬̠̳̾͐̄̂̈͟͢t̺̫̯̻̂́̓̎̿͜ ͇̣͙̳̘͊̽̎̀͞ṁ̨̘̙̠̯͒́̋͋ǒ̠͚̗̰͓̈̄̓́s̬͕͉̦̦̋͋̎͌̕t̛͇̯̟̠͖̿̑͒̃ ̱̗̖̗͒̈͂̿͡ͅo͔͉̜͔̓̈́͒̌̚͜f̯̰̞̤̱̊̌͒̌͠ ̫̜̹̳̈̿͑̉͘ͅṱ̼̦̦̣̇͒͌̈͘h̨̘̟̩̭̀̐̉͂͞ĕ̙̭̞̭̼̀̉͌̚m̳͔͎̣̣̐͌́̌̅.̯̦̥̰͒̀̓͑̓͟.̨̧̣̼̥̏͋̿̆̀.̨̘̼̱̾̉̓̉͊ͅ ̢̛̼͇̘͖̓͌̐̉
̛͍̼̞͓̤̃͐̎̕S̪̲̹̼̙̀̃̔͌̊a̠̪̪̦̩͐̿̋̿͂y̢̲̭̰̑̓̽̓͊ͅị̺͈͕͕̔̆͌͝͠ṋ̢̮͚̥̌̾͘̚͘g̤̳̦̜̤̈̀̀̀͛ ̗̳̦̠́̎̐̿͊͢g͕̭͎̥̳̓̎̄͐̇o̱̤͍̖̺͆͒̎̀͡ǫ̹̹̭̓͗͆͐͠ͅd͇̦̠͖͆̽̀̊̚͟b͎̱̘̩͔͂̓͊̄̕ỷ̢͓̻͖͉͗̓͐̕ẻ̟̹͚̰̠̈̆̍̌ ̣̠̫̟̎̋̊̅̕͜ţ̨̠̟̦́͌̂̓̀ǒ̘͓̱͐̊̈́̓͟͟ ̛̥̱͇̳̈́̔̍͋͟t̢̰͖̩̖̊̕̕͝͡ḩ̠̞͎̣͛̈̆͊̃o̲͓̟̖̐̆̑͘͞ͅş̧̙̜̐́̐́̏͢ȅ̡̻͓͚͎̔̀̉͡ ̨̻͈̦̯͗̄̏͛͝w̛̱̭̞͈̏͗̋͢͡h̛͇͖̜̻͕̃̏̅͘ǫ̡̺̺̜̇̀̀̽͡ ̧̠͙͎̮̄̆͗̊͘r̡̥̭̝̱͗̓͌̆̔ę̪͈̞͆̑̀͒͡ͅm̟̻͉̝̰̓́͂́̕ă̯͙̦͉͐̐͌̈́͟ì̡͓̬͚̑̒̇̔ͅń̝̦͎̹̂͛̚͜͝é͔̖̮̲̭̊͛̓̔d̛͚̣̗͚̬̑͂̆̕.̢͎̰̤̮̇͊̿͛͂.̰̬͚̦͈̽̓͘͘͡.̡̨̡͕̲͛̑̎̔̚ ̩̳̫̗̍̌̀͘͟͠ ̼͇̫̺̓̽̑̒͜͞
Ẅ̧̩͕̬͍́̌͂̇̃h̙͍͇̩̩̀̈́̾͐̉è̺̬̱̫̩̅̍̈̋n̥̗̲̣̉̐̐͛͘͟ ̰͉̺̣̲͂̿͗̅̑s̰͕̙̖̍̋͑̌̈́͢h̛̪̺̲͈̥͆͑́͗ę̛̞̳̤͇͊̓͋͑ ͓̠͖͙͒͋͋́̍͟c̨͔͎͙̜̾̃̋͘͠a̤̞̦̖̞̿̓͌̚͝m̱̖̜͎̹̀́̔́̍ȩ̤̗͚́͂͐͒͝ͅ ̢̛̛̮͕̫̆̎̕ͅḅ̳̗̗̀̉͗̕͜͡a̼̯̤̜̫͑̂̋̕͠c̠̤̟̟̒̂͌͗͊͜k̡̪̜̲̫͒̎̌̀̕.̺̘̳͕̟̐̽̓̂̑.̡̱̪̹̭͆̓͘͡͞.͕̪̻̖̠̉͊͑̓̇
Her eyes were so wide, that you'd think that they came out of her sockets. Her breathing got so tense that she started to shake. A crying pleading of someone's life was heard echoing in her head, one of the old friends she'd lost. All of the tears she cried of grief for them came back streaming down her face. She tried so hard not to, as that was so long ago. But she couldn't. She now remembered them, and she had somehow forgotten about them. Her ears went numb for a moment, the only thing she heard was the sound of her own heartbeat.
'My friends...' Her inner thoughts went into overdrive as she gripped on the picture frame. 'They were my friends... How can... I couldn't have forgotten about them... Why didn't I remember them..?'
Before anyone could blink, NightStar ran off taking the cape hoodie and taking a picture with her. She didn't hear her friends calling out to her. Her mind went blank as she dashed out of there. She pressed the button to the elevator and went inside. The ride was fast as she was lost in her thoughts. Once she arrived back into the castle she made a run back to her room. Locking her door she leaned against it and broke down in tears.
Now she remembered them, and she had forgotten about them.
Somewhere in the universe, a strange hand made out of ink pen was drawing something on paper. It was a hooded figure whose face was covered. When it was done, they hung it on the wall with several other drawings of the figure in different versions.
"Coming back..." A male tone spoke up. "Coming back... Here... She will come back..." He muttered with a hint of hope with it.
So do some of you remember the 2009 movie called '9'? Well I do! I watched it a lot of times as a kid on DVD, not once it traumatized me, I watched it again yesterday online. Which was pretty nostalgic to be honest. There were some things I didn't understand back then. But I ended up understanding it in the end. I also had to do some character study of 9 and the other Stitchpunks to understand their traits and personalities.
I know what you're thinking about the last part of this chapter. Rest assured it will be explained as the story goes.
Originally I was gonna make a fanfic of the movies featuring my OC, but after watching the film again, I think that It might be pointless to do so. Since I don't see NightStar say a lot of lines in it and stuff. But I will be adding some flash-back sequences of them etc.
So till then see you on to the next chapter!
