Glossarick tapped his foot in annoyance as he waited for his turn to go through the magic scanner in front of the elevator. As the guy in front of him went Glossarick rolled his eyes at how despite the fact that the wizard was carrying and dressed in multiple magical items he didn't set off the scanner. 'Wow security has fallen on hard times.' Glossarick thought to himself as he went to step through the scanner but it began beeping with Shaun speaking up.
"Sorry Glossarick, I'm gonna have to scan you?" Glossarick went to speak up but then just nodded rolling his eyes as he just wanted everything done with.
Shaun used a hand held scanner going over Glossarick making multiple beeps in the process and pulled out a small tray for Glossarick to throw stuff into. Glossarick began throwing any magical items he had on himself into it with exasperated sighs. He went to walk through the machine again but it began reacting to him again with Shaun holding out the tray again. Glossarick began throwing other items into the tray now fuming at what was going on. Shaun scanned him again getting an all clear and nodding for Glossarick to precede which he did… setting off the machine again.
"*sigh* Shaun work with me please this is of cosmic importance right now. And also how did the previous guy go through without setting off any alarms; he had a black hole difibulator in his arms!" Shaun shrugged his shoulders replying.
"Technology, it's all on the fritz right now. Now then…" He scanned Glossarick again and found nothing making him rub his chin in confusion. "Ok try going through it again." Glossarick did so setting off the alarms again. "Glossarick did you put a cloaking spell on anything of yours?" Shaun's cutesy tone of voice made Glossarick snap.
"Take a good look bitch." He ripped off his rope showing Shaun he had no cloths on underneath save of a thong. "Do you see anything?!" Shaun shivered at the abrupt disrobing with his eyes focusing on the gem on Glossarick's forehead.
"Well…"
"No, that stays." Glossarick pointed to his gem. "Now can you let me through or not, I'm in a hurry here." Shaun looked around nervously before handing Glossarick back his items. "Thank you for coming around Shaun." Glossarick put everything back on and rushed towards the elevator with Shaun shaking in nervousness. "Hold the door." He leapt up sliding into the door which closed around his head. "Just… a little more…" Glossarick shoved himself through popping into the elevator with Shaun speaking up.
"Oh hey Glossarick, which floor?"
"Top floor, we've done this hundreds of times." Shaun nodded and pressed the 'top floor' button with him and Glossarick standing still next to the wizard who had gone through before Glossarick. They stood there for several seconds with nothing happening at all, the elevator was not even moving. Glossarick finally groaned and spoke to Shaun.
"Um the elevator is not moving." Shaun rubbed the back of head nervous again.
"Sorry, it's on the fritz too; but there's free muff-"
"What part of cosmic importance do you not understand?!" Glossarick extended his arm stupidly far and began hitting the 'top floor' button several times until it and all the other buttons lit up. This made the wizard with them speak up with a creepy voice.
"Now we must stop on every floor. Haha HA hahahahahaha!" The elevator made it to the first floor with Glossarick groaning in frustration leaping out onto the first floor. He looked up towards Shaun, who was sitting at a greeting desk and spoke up.
"Stairs, now." Shaun pointed to the door marked stairs with Glossarick opening the door. "Oh sweet Archeons have mercy on me." Glossarick looked up the seemingly eternal staircase steeling himself. He then grew his legs so they were the size of an ordinary human's and began running up the stairs.
"… so now I am stuck in this Ghost Zone for whatever reason without any idea of how I could have even gotten here in the first place. I mean I thought the wand was connected to the realm of magic, not a land of the dead." Star sunk her head onto her pulled up knees as her new friends listened to the end of her story.
They were all sitting around a fake campfire with The Box Ghost holding his hands over the fire like it was real for some reason. Star was frustrated beyond belief as the ghost friends of hers had explained exactly where Star was, one of the mini dimensions of where dead spirits go when they aren't reincarnated. She knew of one in particular, The Underworld from Mewni, but this one it seemed was the largest that connected to all the others where the 'excess' were just thrown into; almost like a garbage dump of souls if you wanted to be insulting. As Star stared at the fake fire in frustration Sidney spoke up.
"Actually this may be the place where it would make most sense for you to go to." Everyone turned towards him as he stood up. "You claimed that the past queens of Mewni have an impact on the wand with their memories right? Well where are most of the past queens of Mewni now?" Star blinked in confusion as the wheels began turning in her head. "The wand probably assumed you were as thus a past queen of Mewni and sent you to where most of the past queens of Mewni were found, the land of the dead." At that Dorathea spoke up.
"But wouldn't the queens be somewhere more fitting then where every other dead soul is thrown into?" Sidney smiled at that.
"Perhaps that would be true, unless if the area was so hidden you could only access it from the Ghost Zone directly. With all of these mini-dimensions connecting to each other it would be rather easy to hide in plain sight if there was only one entrance." At that Star perked up.
"That does make sense as a security measure. Dang you're good at this Sidney." Sidney smiled taking a confident stance as Star grew concerned again. "Wait, how would this help me… unless if the past queens might be able to do something to send me back." Star's smile lasted only a second before falling. "But… will they help me? I mean I'm half-Monster, I know at least one of my ancestors I know of would kill me on sight." At that the Box Ghost spoke up who was now trying to roast a weenie over the fake fire.
"Well do you have any other options aside from just sitting here and waiting for things to change?" At that Star sighed standing up.
"I guess you're right. But where am I going to go?" Dorathea spoke up at Star's words.
"That is a good point, every single door leads somewhere and there are hundreds of them." She pointed at the sky that was filled with purple doors before she got a thoughtful look on her face. "Wait anything that would mark a doorway as belonging to your family, some sort of family crest or what not?" Star rubbed her chin in thought for a second before nodding going over things in her mind.
"Well my family name is Butterfly so that's obvious, but we also have strong connections to celestial features. It could have high Mewni writing on it or have some sort of clearish crystal embedded in it or be made out of some sort of clearish crystal…" The Box Ghost blinked in confusion looking up.
"Wait, what does High Mewni look like?"
"Anybody got a pen and paper?" Dorathea pulled out a quill with some parchment paper handing them to Star. "Thank you." Star began writing as best she could with her friends watching her for a second before Star showed them her writing. "While this is technically a dead language the queens are expected to learn it one way or another for traditional reasons sooooo…" The box Ghost spoke up again.
"I recognize that style of writing. It's on a door not far from here… but it's heavily guarded by some sort of defense network and a group of ghosts who seem really mad about something." Everyone looked at the Box Ghost who now looked nervous. "I mean even some of the more powerful Ghosts tend to steer clear of the area." Dorathea spoke up at that.
"Which is why we are going to help you." Star blinked in shock and was about to say something but was cut off. "No no no, you are our friend now, and if you wish to get back you will likely need help at least getting through the door. We won't be able to help you out much from there likely but still." The other two ghosts nodded with the Box Ghost speaking up.
"Besides, you need my help even finding the area in the first place; unless you want to spend years looking through the local area door by door." Star smiled at this speaking up.
"Thank you guys, why is it now in my life I suddenly keep on meeting such amazing people." The trio closed in giving Star a hug and this time Star accepted it. "Say are you gonna eat that weenie?" The group pulled back with the Box Ghost shrugging.
"Nah, I don't need to eat. You can have it but it is..." Star pulled it off the stick and snapped it up shivering a little. "… raw. Are you alright?"
"I keep on forgetting that uncooked food can be cold or raw but don't worry, I can digest raw food just as well as cooked food. No need to worry about Salmonella for me." The ghosts looked at each other in concern for a second before they shrugged and led Star off.
Meanwhile from the shadows a figure peaked out from behind a rock taking in the sight of the figures moving in the direction of the Queen's gate. The figure was short and somewhat rotund being covered in a dark cloak with the hood over its head. The only feature that could be noticed about her was a pink star mark on each cheek like Star's Mewni marks.
"Ok, that's an impressive image." Marco gazed at the photo of Skywynne as she summoned a stampede of warnicorns to crush her enemies. "But nothing in her chapter it seems." Which was honestly a shame as he really liked this queen as well as what she did and had to deal with while still coming out on top. She had to deal with unimaginable disasters like Pandora's box while still providing food for an entire kingdom through magic alone for years. He turned the page to find her chapter ended but there was a note from Skywynne there.
Hello reader, I hope you have learned much from my chapter. Regardless now is the time that you should delve into the past before my time, at least what I could find. Included in these pages are precious few images and words of Magical commissions and princesses that came before my time. Learn well and please do not damage these pages above all else, some of this information can be found nowhere else even in any of the Mewman libraries.
Marco nodded understanding that and saw a note from Star right next to it.
I have taken the liberty of rewriting these pages and putting them up for preservation purposes next to the originals. I was also able to 'photo copy' the images and put new versions of them up as well identical to the originals. Thank you for still being careful with them though. ;)
Marco smiled at Star's note and began looking through the 'chapter' of those that came before. There was a chronological chart of queens dating up to Skywynne with a few of the names repeated at the bottom: Stahlberg the Seafarer, Soupina the Mother of all, Etheria the Knight, Cosmica the Alchemist, and Artemis the Huntress. He flipped the page taking a look at Stahlberg's pages and read over her history and spells; at least what few there were. Her image in the book was of a tough almost pirate looking type woman with blue hair, pale skin, blue eyes, blue Mewni marks shaped like waves, and a trident/spyglass type wand. He found spells on how to navigate oceans, calm storms, remove curses (on treasure specifically), and magic for how to build and repair ships instantly. The history Stahlberg gave about the Mewman's arriving in Mewni was intriguing as it sounded like she and her followers were running away from someone as they had arrived. In fact most of it was of her adventures on the high seas with them lasting for years. He also saw a note from Star correcting what actually happened during The Great Monster Massacre when they did finally land on Mewni.
Artemis was next on the list and showed a dark skinned woman with green eyes, purple/red hair, white crescent moon shaped Mewni marks, a wand in the form of a bow, and practical clothes designed for hunting. For spells he found the same spell he saw at St. Olga's for tracking someone and a spell to heighten ones senses temporarily. Her history was vague at best, mostly talking about how she hunted wild beasts in the lands of Mewni. Etheria appeared to be a quiet and friendly woman wearing white armor with her purple hair, purple eyes, pale skin, purple fleur-de-le marks, and a wand in the form of a poll axe over her shoulder. Etheria didn't have any spells in her part but she did have a detailed part that outlined the code of Mewman Chivalry; which Marco promptly copied down every aspect of it. Cosmica the Alchemist's image was that of a woman wearing thick black robes with her brown hair and blue eyes showing on a pale face with… 'No Mewni marks?' Marco thought in shock. He read her history of a queen who could not work proper magic even with the wand she sought every means necessary to strengthen her own abilities, be they good or bad. There was also a note by Star that read:
The spells and methods Cosmica mastered here appear to have been ripped out by someone in the past. Whoever did it are bungholes... no further words needed.
Marco nodded in agreement with that and moved on to the most complete part in this area, Soupina's chapter. She appeared to be dressed in a nurse's outfit with pink eyes, pink hair, red crosses for Mewni marks, and had a wand looking like Hermes's staff with the serpents and wings around the stick. Her spells were a wide variety of healing spells dealing with plagues, scars, deformities, parasites, ordinary wounds of all varieties, and making water safe to drink and food safe to eat. Her history was the most complete of the bunch going into great detail of the great plague that overcame Mewni centuries ago leaving many people sick, dead, and deformed by its affects. Soupina had taken a hand on approach herself to heal the whole kingdom when she was a princess and queen to the point where she even healed Monsters, creating a temporary time of peace between the two groups. It also said she was perhaps one of the most popular queens to have ever existed and to this day people still honor her birthday as 'healing day'. He also saw a note by Star saying she wanted to be just like Soupina someday and that all princesses should strive to be like her which made Marco smile.
The next part of the chapter involved Glossarick giving a disjointed and short history of the cosmos that made no sense and mostly involved staring at two items to 'calibrate' your eyes for reading. But the end of those few pages had images of past 'Magical High Commissions' that had several figures standing together involving a queen of Mewni, Glossarick, and four to five other figures every single time. The one that caught his eye was one with the caption 'First Magical High Commission: Year 10 of the age of magic'. Next to it was a note by Star saying -3989 Queen's Calendar or 3045 Before Common Era, making Marco double take at the image thinking 'This was from before the pyramids were even conceived!'
The image itself had the names of the figures under their images including Glossarick who was unchanged in appearance. There was a young and spry goat-man with bat wings in light plate armor with a brown cloak over it and purple magic emanating from his fore hooves with the name Lehkmet the Awe Inspiring. There was a purplish cloud like entity with a lion's skull bearing antelope horns acting as the head named Omnitraxus Prime I. A giraffe in Greco-style white robes holding a massive scroll of some sort had the name Reynaldo the bald Pate. An entity that looked like a person going through Mewberty with purple skin, pink heart shaped eyes, heart antenna, six arms, Mewni marks shaped like silver six pointed Stars, a wand in the shape of a gauntlet with a silver star like her marks on the back hand, 6 dragon fly like wings, and was wearing white wrappings like an ancient Egyptian might have had the name Queen Galaxia the Chosen. There was a humanoid raccoon wearing a black cloak and wielding a blue crystal dagger that looked like half a pair of scissors bearing the name Sly the Mischievous. But there was one in the background that got Marco's attention inparticular, a creature looking like Cthulhu except it was wearing Greco-style clothing and had a look of friendly benevolence in its calming blue eyes as it held its hands like a Buddhist monk would. Where the name would normally appear was some sort of unreadable language that had a translation next to it reading 'The Gift Giver'.
"Well, there's a lot more to this 'book' then I suspected." Nacho mewed as if saying 'really, you did not suspect something big?' "Well I expected something but not something going back more than 5,000 years ago." He glanced at the wand that was still in his form with half of the purple diamond at the center missing. "Welp, back to finding out if we can change it back or not." He flipped the page starting the chapter on 'Jushtin the Uncalculated'. "Wait, a boy queen? Well if a woman can be a king then can't a man be a queen?" Marco shrugged and continued.
"And that's it." Star peaked over the rock at the Box Ghost's voice seeing the door.
It had only about 15 minutes or so of walking before they saw a door with a frame of Iron with High Mewni chiseled into the frame reading 'The Gift Giver bless you and keep you; let his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; may he look upon you with countenance and give you peace.'. The door itself seemed to be made out of some sort of clearish purple gemstone with cosmic symbols and a butterfly embedded onto the surface with copper. And surrounding the door were several gigantic stone statues of bat winged warrior goats that had glowing green gemstones for eyes. She looked back at her group with the box ghost filling her in.
"The statues act as guardians coming to life whenever someone gets to close and no attack can even scratch them…" He trailed off for a second with all three of the ghosts getting a nasty twitch. "Someone who has caused us a good deal of trouble is here." As Star cocked her head a voice called out from the sky.
"Ok who was the one that caused the cosmic disturbance and forced me from my finals study?" The group looked up to see an adult male with white hair, glowing green eyes, and wearing a full body black covering with silver gloves, boots, and a big D on his chest. "Oh god, not you again." The figure spoke in exasperation as he looked at the Box Ghost who replied.
"No, I didn't do anything this time. I just was hanging out with a group of friends and helping a friend." He pointed towards Star with the figure rolling his eyes.
"Yeah sure, your track record says otherwise." At this Dorathea spoke up.
"Look he's speaking the truth this time; he hasn't caused an incident in months at this point, and the last one was by accident." Sidney spoke up at this.
"Yeah, I get he's troubled you a lot in the past Danny but he's a changed person now. This is borderline bullying." Star glanced back and forth as the name Danny spurred her memory a little as Danny continued.
"Well someone caused a dimensional rift of some sort and I tracked you guys from where it happened… say who is that?" He pointed at Star as The box Ghost replied.
"That is our friend who we were helping to get back home." Danny moved in closer taking Star in before speaking.
"Who are you?" Star spoke up a little nervously.
"Um, I am Star Butterfly Princess of the Kingdom of Mewni." At this Danny went wide eyed.
"Wait, you mean the lizard girl from another dimension whose father threatened earth if we kept you in custody and whom Hell Boy has a soft spot for?" Star blinked in confusion as Danny lighted down on the ground. "What are you doing in the Ghost Zone?" Star shrugged her shoulders as she replied.
"I'm… lost. My magic teacher Glossarick was helping me fix my wand and somehow I got thrown here when some sort of drug trip earthquake happened." Danny looked at her wierded out. "I seriously could not make this up if I wanted to. So now these guys brought me to this door thinking that perhaps we could use it to try and get me back to my wand." Danny looked at the ghosts for confirmation with all of them nodding before looking at the door. "Say you wouldn't happen to know Mr. Lancer now would you?" Danny blinked in confusion turning back towards Star.
"Who are you talking… wait you wouldn't happen to mean Vice-principal Lancer?" Star nodded as she replied.
"He's actually the Principal of Echo Creek now, the school I'm going to. I help him out around the school all the time which he kind of needs as he doesn't understand his students that well." Danny blinked in confusion as he replied.
"Wait, you're friends with that guy?" Star nodded eagerly. "How?" Star blinked in confusion at Danny's words as Sidney spoke up.
"Um it's not so hard to be friends with the principal and teachers if you do what's needed of you ya know. I mean what were you doing in class, sleeping through it?" Danny glared at Sidney as he replied.
"I was dealing with you guys and that tends to dampen ones academic career, like you're doing right now by pulling me away from college studies." Star spoke up at this putting herself between Danny and the others.
"Wowowowowoha easy there people. Danny I think me being sent here is what caused the rift in the first place so no need to take it out on these guys." As she spoke her cheek marks suddenly lite up white making everyone stop and stare at Star. "What." Star's cheeks stopped their glowing with a shifting sound coming from the door's direction.
Everyone looked over at the door to see the statues had come to life and were now moving in their direction with pole arms held in both hands. Everyone looked back and forth worried with The Box Ghost whispering something about them not seeing you if you didn't move. The statues stopped about 15 feet from the group lining up and bowing towards Star. Star looked over the statues and ghosts in confusion before taking a tentative step towards them. The statues immediately stood up and moved back towards the door standing on either side of it in two lines like an honor guard would. Star looked back towards the ghosts who were now, all except for Dorathea, gawking at her prompting her to speak up.
"Could someone tell me what just happened because I have no idea." At that Dorathea spoke up.
"Isn't it obvious, the fact that you are Butterfly activated those statues and made them come to life allowing you to enter through the door as it is your birthright to do so." Everyone looked at her oddly. "What, it seemed pretty simple."
"Indeed it is." Everyone turned towards where the new speaker was and saw a figure wrapped up in a dark cloak step forward out of some shadows. "So it is true… that brat Moon did indeed take the puppet master lizard for her lover." Three more figures stepped out to join the first figure with what sounded like an old man speaking up.
"Tha blasted child went an rutted a Monster of all things, muddying the Butterfly line in the process. No matter, that issue can be solved rather easily now tha she's ere." The figures immediately drew forward weaponry of some sort stepping towards Star.
The statues immediately turned towards the group but the short and somewhat rotund member of the group turned towards them with Star shaped marks glowing on her cheeks. The statues went back to their positions with Star taking a few steps back. As Danny, Sidney, Dorathea, and the Box Ghost moved in around her defensively Star spoke up.
"Who are you people and how do you know my mom; and for that matter why do you hate her?" The group chuckled before speaking in unison.
"We work as darkness to keep stability, for without order all shall fall. As the Shadow Clause we shall protect Mewni."
The Croods- Dun Dun Dun (watch?v=5JSCbEKsguQ)
Will Marco find out how to fix the wand, will Gloassarick make to the top of those stairs, will Star survive her encounter with a long thought dead enemy and make through the door? Find out next time on 'Dragon Bal...' I mean 'Star the Monster Princess'!