Sky woke up to find someone poking her cheek, she grumbled, grabbing her pillow and slapping it at whoever as poking her.
"Hey hey! Spade sister! Are you up?!"
Sky snapped her eyes open to see one big bright green eyes staring down at her, and she practically jumped in response. Sky almost wished she'd have woken up to all the nonsense of last night having been a dream, but here was Galexia to prove her wrong and make her realize just how messed up her realty had become in a spam of one night.
After the shock, sky's brows furrowed, Galexia was clearly a few years older then her, in fact the girl looked to be Judas's age now that she thought about it. And yet, she was acting almost like a child, this is the kinda behavior sky imagined a younger sister to be like, not an older one.
"What are you...why are you in my bedroom?".
"Because scary girl wants to leave and she made me come get you!"
"Scary gir-?", Sky was about to ask before sighing, Luna.
She yawned before getting herself out of bed, she gave galexia a look before heading out of her room to the one across from it. On one hand maybe she should've let these girls stay in her room, but then again if her mom burst in she'd have a lot of explaining to do about why there were two random girls staying in her bedroom.
Yeah, maybe risking them escaping was a better idea.
Luckily, it appears luna had not attempted to escape, in fact she was sitting on the bed, twiddling her wand between her fingers and reading a book Sky could've sworn wasn't in this room before. She didn't even look at her as she spoke, "Good you're up, we can start getting us home now...".
Sky's brows furrowed, "Are you kidding me?".
"No, i'm not...I have things to do and i'm not staying here any longer, go call your demon friend, pick up those other girls i suppose...and let's finish this..", She was still staring at the book, but could tell Sky was tapping her foot in annoyance.
"I don't know how to send you back yet...I-I'm not even sure what got you here...", She blubbered out, and the girl on the bed wasn't impressed."Well, then get your wand looked at! You know the spell that allows you to check spells you've previously performed on that wand right?".
The girl shifted her eyes, "...Yes?".
Luna closed her book and stood up, her leg must've been feeling better as she walked seemingly normal all the way over to sky with her wand. "Fine, i'll do it, i can use my own wand on yours...", she pointed her wand at sky's and a faint glow shifted between them as sky's wand projected out some of her last spells in a holographic form.
There was of course the bubble prison she performed last night, her spells she was practicing from eclipsa's books, her presentation stuff, but then there was this static shape that didn't look like anything Sky performed recently. Luna raised an eyebrow, "Ok, that's gotta be the spell that impossibly brought me here...but it doesn't appear to be here...hmm."
"Hmm?"
"Well, You don't seem clever to know how to cover up this, and this looks far from normal...", she replied, "er...no offence.". Sky snorted, " I'm used to it by now...but...does this mean my wand is broken or something?". The blonde made a face, "Er...maybe? It's not something I've seen before but it must be pretty serious for it to be covered up like this...".
Then she eyed sky suspiciously, "Has your wand always been this screwed up?".
"Maybe, i dunno...i can't tell if it's broken or i'm just bad at using it...", Luna made a little "Hmm", before retracting her wand and turning her back to sky, "Well if we can't find the source of what brought us here, then getting back home will be a lot trickier i suppose...".
Galexia, who had been quiet this whole time, jumped onto the bed, face first planted into the mattress. Luna gave the strange girl a look, "To be honest, i don't want to think i'm in some bizarro alternate reality, and part of me is still doubting it, but the longer i'm here...the more i realize there is NO way i'm home.."
The blunette raised an eyebrow at her, "Why, what perfect world do you come from?".
"A world where i'm not forced to sleep next to her and where i'm in charge, that's what...", She replied back, "This place might look like home, but even i can tell something's not right about it...it feels less...orderly, and if there's one thing about my kingdom, is that it was as organized as it could get."
"Oh thanks...", sky's sarcastic tone was unmissed by Luna, "Just being honest, though i guess what do i expect from an alternate reality? At least i'm not in one where Toffee took over or my mother got killed or...", she shivered, "Ugh...I don't even want to imagine a reality where Meteora got her way once she got out of hand...".
Toffee? Meteora? how similar and different were their worlds exactly?
Her thought process must have been showing on her face as the girl looked at her and kept speaking, "You do know who those are do you? Or is this bizarre world so strange that they don't even exist?". Sky snapped out of her thoughts, and waved her hands, "Nah nah nah, Toffee is dead, and Meteora passed on when her 300 years finally caught up to her...".
"Oh...interesting...".
"How is that interesting?".
"Because that's not what happened in my world...", Luna went on, "Hmm, if that's different i wonder how much else is different...". She paced around her room and tapped her wand on her chin, "I mean, it's similar, but also different enough that it's curious...".
Sky was about to ask for more on the matter before she heard some footsteps coming down the hallway, and Luna must've had superior hearing as he grabbed galexia by the collar and hid them on the other side of the bed just for safety.
Sky froze in place, and relaxed when the footsteps passed. Alright, no more talking, it really didn't matter what kinda worlds these gals came from, all that mattered was solving this mess before they were found out or before the high commission could find them.
She was wasting time.
And Luna seemed to be thinking the same thing as she got up with Lexi and made her way forward towards the door, "Alright, no more dawdling, that method to find out some answers might have been a bust but i'm not staying here and wasting my time anymore...c'mon...lead the way..".
"To where?", the blunette replied.
"To wherever we can research some spells to get us back home, because as far as i know, the library i remember was swallowed up by a black hole in your "universe". The girl couldn't deny she had a fair point, "Well, no, no black hole, though i may of...damaged a few wings on accident with jude...".
"You what?"
"C'mon, let's just go, you're in a rush right?", Sky taunted, opening the door for her and galexia. Luna rolled her eyes and followed suit and galexia looked at sky as she followed her, "Maybe you damaged the wings but at least you didn't damage the beak."
Sky made a cringing face of utter confusion on whether that was a poor joke or the girl simply thought they were talking about a bird, then just shook it off.
"Let's just get this over with...".
She grabbed the girl's arms and motioned for them to wait, which lead to an eyebrow raise from luna.
"What are you doing?"
Sky opened her bedroom door and walked inside, "First that's first, I'm Changing, i'm not walking around in my jammies...".
Sky's new siblings were already starting to burden her day.
But Judas wasn't faring much better.
He sat at his family's private breakfast table, glaring at the two girls as they ate some food he shuck in for them from the kitchens. His parents, nor brothers had ran into him yet but in his head he was trying his hardest to figure out how he'd even explain the two's presence with sky's lousy cover.
Maybe if he were lucky he'd run into none of them and get these girls out of here before he saw any of them. But then again, he was judas, the child well known for being cursed and honestly he had no faith in how fast he could move either of these two.
How slow they were eating wasn't helping.
They made him feel suspicious, one of them looked way too chipper to the point in which he wondered if she was even normal, and the other looked like she's kill him with one look into her chocolaty eyes. Judas has raised his younger siblings of course, and babysitting wasn't odd for him, but taking care of these random strangers was set up for disaster.
The demon girl especially was weirding him out, what made her buy she was in another dimension so easily? Judas knew if he was in her shoes he'd be on his toes even if he had seen a picture of his parents with someone else or even if the castle has some suspicious changes he'd still be suspicious of his surroundings, she was taking it all too well and it made him nervous. He stared at them in awe, noting all the traits they shared with his own parents, it was scary.
Celeste didn't speak a word to him when he took her here last night, she clearly didn't like spending the night in a hot, dark, underworld room, but after mumbling some rather unfriendly things to him she accepted it. Sunny seemed right at home though, eating her breakfast happily and rather enjoying herself.
She must have noticed Judas's odd expression must have caught her eye though, as she stopped eating to talk to him,"You alright?". The boy cut his staring fast, "No, it's...i'm not alright, I-I'm still trying to process all of this...".
"Yeah...it's...it's weird...", Sunny added, "But it's ok! I mean, something just went wrong and we'll be home by tonight!". Judas didn't hide his worry very well, "Well, yeah sure, but don't you think it's just kinda...odd that...we're all...y'know?".
"Related?", The brunette mewman said, almost making judas jump, "Yeah no kidding it's super weird, like i can't even believe my dad or my mom would marry king lucitor but i guess some weird stuff went down if you both exist..".
"Er...well technically four of us...i have brothers...", judas added, "But that's besides the point...it's just...strange.". Celeste stuffed another egg into her mouth, "I'll say, this is like an utter nightmare and i'd rather i get out of it and forget i was even here..".
The boy glared at her but prompted to ignore any possible insults she might have been throwing at him, "After we finish eating you guys are going right back to sky and hopefully she can just fix whatever this mess is while i get back home...". The smaller demon frowned, "You're not coming with us?".
"I have things to do...", he said plainly, "I have my own schedule and every morning i do a workout routine, and do some studying, feed Lucy, I just can't afford to stick around. Besides, i'm not going to be much help, this is clearly not my kinda magic...whatever it is..".
"Oh..", sunny said, "Sorry...".
"No, i-it's fine, you guys have nothing to-", Judas paused when he heard the door open and a horned teen with three red eyes and dark pink hair stepped in with a dark t-shit and shorts. Landon paused at the sight of the two girls at the table and Judas felt himself start to sweat.
"Uh...", the middle prince stared at the girls, who both looked him up and down when they heard him enter. They seemed to tell alone by his looks he was one of the brother's judas was referring to, and before they could say anything judas immediately got up to pull his brother into the hallway before he got too close of a look at them.
Landon struggled against him but his brother was way stronger and he knew it, "Jude! What the-! Hey! Let go of me! Who are those gir-?!". The purple skinned boy shushed him and removed his hands from him, "They're just some of sky's...extended family...they needed a place to stay...".
Judas knew this lie was stupid, but it was all he had.
"Extended family..?", Landon crossed his arms, he clearly wasn't buying it and Judas didn't blame him, "Right? And why exactly is sky's extended family staying with us? Pretty sure mom and dad would've told us if we had guests..."
"Well...".
Landon smirked, "Well, if these two ladies are sky's family, i'll just go check up with mom and dad abo-", he turned to leave before judas grabbed onto his arm and forced him back. "Don't!", judas was pretty much blowing their cover but honestly who was going to fall for it anyway?
"Aw jude? But i'm sure mom and dad would LOVE to meet your little girlfriends!", the boy was smiling evilly and judas regretted teasing him so much yesterday,"Alright, how much do you want to not spill it?".. The boy shrugged, "Depends, what exactly are they doing here really? Like i swear to good if y-".
"Landon...", judas gave him a disgusted , "No, it's...they're friends sky needed me to watch, it's not a big deal alright?."
"If it's not a big deal why did you even try lying to me?" the younger demon stared his older brother straight in the eyes, " You never hide things from our parents unless it's a big deal, now spill it, or i spill the beans to our parents in a matter of minutes...".
"You won't believe me..."
"Try me..."
"Well, they're...", he bit his lip, "We think they're...sisters of sky's from alternate universes?"
Landon blinked all his eyes a few times and looked at his brother with a expression of pure confusion, "Yeah, you're right, i don't believe you..".
Judas rubbed his arm, "Look, it's weird, but i'm being serious! Sky's wand went on the fritz and they popped out apparently and they claim to be related to us!". Landon raised an eyebrow, "Yeah, so basically they're crazy then? Dude, that is the dumbest thing I've heard in awhile! And you believed them? Seriously jude?".
Judas huffed, "Look, i'm still suspicious about the whole thing myself, but they have wands, and markings, and they look like our parents! It's creepy!". Landon bit his lip, then proceeded to walk past his brother and back into the room in which the girls were still sitting there eating, sunny turning to look at the demon entering and Celeste keeping her back to them.
Landon walked up to Sunny as Judas reentered the room, sky was probably going to be upset Landon found out but granted her cover up wasn't very smart to begin with.
Then he took another look at Celeste, who gave him a dirty look.
Landon's skeptic face turned into one of interest as he stared sunny down then backed up to his brother, "Ok well, i guess it's a little off she has our dad's nose, or that that one has his horns and eyes, but it's still kinda a stretch to assume they're some weirdos from another universe...".
"Fine, whatever, don't believe me...I wouldn't either...", the older demon sighed as sunny went back to eating, "Just don't tell mom or dad, i'm taking them back to sky very soon, they'll be gone before tonight, i promise...it's like they weren't even here..".
Landon held out his hand, "Fine whatever, but you owe me a new violin bow...".
Judas grumbled, the things he did for Sky, "Fine, just keep your mouth shut...". Landon walked towards the fridge and pulled out an apple, taking a bite out of it before heading out of the small kitchen/dining room, "Whatever you say brother...".
The door closed behind him and Judas was about to sigh in relief only to see Celeste glaring at him, "Wow you suck at your job. You had one job, not tell anyone squat, and apparently you couldn't even do that for like a day...", the boy crossed his arms, "Well, you two didn't even try mind-erasing him. Like what was I supposed to do? The lie didn't work!".
Celeste shrugged, "Hey, He's not my issue, i didn't want to be babysitted anyway, i'll be out of here by tonight," but before judas could comment sunny played with the strands of her unusually colored hair, "I don't like that spell...if it backfired...".
Judas sighed, "Alright, well i took care of it anyway...now just eat up and let's get a move on before my parents walk in..because i can guarantee i can't convince them to keep this a secret". The girls exchanged looks, "Well, they're OUR parents too, i think we already know what they're like...".
the prince crossed his arms and stared straight at celeste "Look, you clearly don't like me, but can you just please keep quiet till you get home? I let you guys stay here because sky's my friend and you guys needed help, I really don't wanna be berated for it..."
Celeste rolled her eyes and finished up and Sunny soberly joined her, Judas pulled out his compact to text sky, keeping his third eye on his guests.
Judas: Sky, fyI landon knows now
Sky's texts came soon
Sky: WAT
Judas: I told you your cover wasn't going to work
Sky:What happened to mind-erasing or whatever?
Judas: I was lucky enough to end up with the two girls who refused to even attempt to do it
Sky: Ugh well, i'm not much better, i can't find the spell that got them here!
Judas: Well, you better figure it out soon! I'm going to bring them to you shorty, remember our deal?
Sky: yeah yeah, if nothing works i talk to the MHC
Judas: I'll see you shorty
Sky: K
Judas put away his compact to see the girls finished eating, and judas sighed in relief as he peeked out for anyone coming with no sign whatsoever of his folks. "Alright, now you've eaten, let's just get you back to sky and -"Judas almost stumbled as the ground of the castle started moving like an earthquake.
Celeste gripped the table and sunny almost feel out of her chair, "What the heck was that?!", the brunette girl spated at him. "Is this some kinda of trap?!", the boy held his wands out in front of him qucikly before she could draw her wand, "No no no...it's just...Lucy..".
"Whose-?"
Just then a loud bark could be heard echoing though the castle, and the demon stiffened . He coughed and reached up to mess with his hair, "Our cerebres ...sounds like she got out again and is looking for her own breakfast...don't panic, she's frendly!".
Sunny's eyes lit up and a huge smiled formed on her face, "A puppy!?".
"Well, she's about 4 years old, but...yeah...she's kinda like a big puppy..", he took a breath as the rumbling settled, "But right now don't worry, the servants will get her, right now we have to focus at the task at hand and i'm getting you both to sk-".
"PUPPY!"
Judas watched Sunny race right past him, pushing him aside to go out into the hallway, and judas had to act fast. He was intended to send her back using fire, but unfortunately that's not what happened. And judas sensed it before it even came.
His right hand started growing a deeper purple, his fingers became one, and beofr ejudas knew it his monster arm reached out to grab the girl and pull her back. Sunny almsot had the wind knocked out of her as somethign forced her back and on instinct something long popped out of her dress, wielding a knife ,and before judas could react it stabbed the arm.
Judas screamed, stepping back in pain as sunny was dropped.
She has a tail, and that tail has been holding onto a knife for god knows how long.
And she stabbed judas's cursed arm.
Sunny watched the boy fall to the ground in pain, her tail retreating back into her dress, no longer interested in the dog she ran over as judas's arm turned back into his normal right hand,."Oh my god...i-i'm so sorry it was an instinct and i didn't...and...i'm so sorry..!, judas was bleeding, "I-I...", he hissed.
Celset was standing at the doorway, having seen the whole thing, "how...what...?."
"D-Don't just stand there!",he said, " Get me some medical help I-".
His arm had a fresh wound in it, blood trickling down his arm, Sunny was starting to cry when celeste pulled out her wand. "Magical healing wound blast...", Judas felt the pain go away as quickly as it entered, his arm looking good as new and the blood gone.
"Move your arm, does it feel normal?", Celsete was still looking at him with utter lack of care, and it left judas flabbergasted as she seemed to have fixed him up on a dime. Though that didn't fix how sick he felt to his stomach about being stabbed in the arm, and he felt himself cough.
"J-Judas? I-I'm so sorry, i keep a knife on my tail for enemies, and i though you were an enemy and-", She raced forward and pulled the tall boy into a hug, "I'm sorry i'm sorry, i'm sorry". Judas got himself together before wrapping an arm around the girl till she stopped hugging him and Celeste got annoyed with their make up session.
"Ok enough, you wanna explain why your arm just got brig and slimy for some reason mr prince? Cause i just witnessed your freaky arm wrapped around her like some sort of-", Judas cringed, "Tentacle? Look...it's...it's not important...m-my arm ...it feels normal...we should just..".
He made a move to stand up and Sunny helped pull him up as he flt around his arm, Sunny bashfully was hiding her tail again under her dress and she guiltily looked at the boy, "Yeah...let's...let's go home...". Celeste seemed as though she still wanted to know what just happened but she dropped it for now as sunny made sure she had her wand and grabbed on to judas's hand to teleport.
judas couldn't help but stare at Celeste before they teleported out, how she just walked over and healed his wound in a flash.
Sky sure couldn't perform healing spells like that.
"Would you quit staring at me and get us out of here before you start bleeding again?", judas took his eyes off the brunette and grasped onto her hand tightly to teleport back to mewni castle.
This day was getting better and better.
Sky didn't spend a ton of time in the butterfly castle's library, mostly because of her lack of interest in schoolwork and studying, but Luna seemed right at home as she went through book after book. A large pile of books stacking on top of each other on her table, sky watched her face constantly shift from worry to frustration to worry again.
She clearly wasn't finding any results, even through Queen Skywynne's spell records, and she knew about time and space more then any other mewni queen!
And Luna not finding out a solution seemed to be killing her on the inside.
Meanwhile Galexia was searching through picture books of all things and the more and more Sky saw of her she wondered how she could possibly be as old as she looked, wasn't she even concerned she didn't seem to be home? She looked so unfazed it was kinda creepy, but then again sky wasn't much help either as she skimmed through practically any book handed to her and barely looked closely at any of the spells.
"This is ridiculous...", Luna mumbled,"All the stuff our family has been through and there are no records of any queens who discovered anything on multiverses ! I'm starting to doubt this is even what's happening, there's no way you somehow created this yourself!".
"Well it's better then other theories!", Sky argued back, "I mean...I'm sorry you didn't end up in some world with some super smart princess who knows everything, but i don't know anything about what's going on, my wand never listens to me in the first place..".
"Well mine does, and even if you can't do anything i'm sure getting out of here...", she closed the book, "We're getting nowhere, we're going to have to search your royal archives at this rate..". Sky's eyes widened, "Archives? Oh no no no no, i still barely know you guys and my moms would kill me if i took you there!".
"It's where they keep some of the most private records in all of mewni, you'll have better luck there then here, i can tell you that for su-", The doors to the library suddenly burst open as a disheveled looking demon prince with two girls walked in, Sky immediately got up to run over to her friend.
"Judas! Hey!", he didn't say anything, but Sunny looked sad and Celeste looked...well actually she didn't look any different then she normally looked, but she was looking at judas rather oddly. Judas didn't say anything the girls walked over to sky and Judas clapped his hands together, "There you go...g-good luck sky...i'll be...i'll see you soon..".
"Jude? You ok?", his friend asked, examining his troubled face, he didn't say anything but then a voice came from behind her.
"Sunny stabbed his weird freak arm..", Celeste was tapping her foot, arms crossed, and judas's face turned deep purple. Sky's mouth gaped, She grabbed onto her friend's arm on instinct and held out out in front of her, "OH MY GOD JUDE ARE YOU-...wait...", she flipped it all around, "You seem fine...".
"I fixed him..your welcome..", Sky shot Celeste a dirty look before turning to her friend, You ok?".
"Yeah...I'll be fine i'm just...", he cringed, "My arm came back...and ...".
"Arm?", Luna had somehow snuck up behind sky, "What do you mean an arm? What the heck is she talking about?". Sky shot her a look, "Look, it's not your business, just...we got other stuff to take care of...". Judas sighed and felt his arm some more, "Yeah I-I uh...I better go...".
"You gonna be ok?"
"Y-Yeah yeah sorry...I've just...I've never been hurt like that before and...We'll talk later sky...", He walked backwards slowly, "Call me...". He excited the library and Sky was tempted to follow him, only to see the flash of his fire portal him away through the door's cracks.
"I'm sorry...", Sky tuned to see Sunny rubbing her arms, "I-I didn't mean to...".
Sky took a deep breath, "Ok, look, let's...lets just focus on getting you home...ok?".
Luna brushed Sky's shoulder as she walked past and stopped, "So...we heading to your family archives or what?". Sky grumbled, I'll get in serious trouble if i sneak you in, I don't even know you guys that well, what if you break something? Heck i don't even really know how to get in! because my mom never told me!".
"Well that's easy enough..." Luna shrugged, "I know what to do...as long as nothing else has changed here as far as buildings go.."
"You could leave us here...", Celeste drawled on, "Not like I wanna go book hunting anyway...". Sky was considering leaving them behind but fought against it, "No, you all are still strangers living in my house, there's no way leaving you out of my sight will end well..".
"Look are we going to the archives or not? You're wasting all of our time!", the light blonde started tapping her foot impatiently, she was acting like a mother scolding her young child after they broke something. She let out a long sigh, "I'm not sitting here waiting for you to make a choice, i'm not home, neither are these other girls apparently, if we're getting back to wherever we came from, we're not going to be able to do it while you sit there and babysit us..".
Celeste joined in, "Look, i wanna just go home and see my stupid dad again, would you stop wasting me and everyone else's time already?".
Sky could feel herself grab onto her hair and pull, "FINE!, We'll go to the archives, but i swear if any of you mess with anything-". She was going to finish her sentence when the bitter brunette glared at her, "You'll what? Anything bad happens it'll be YOUR fault, not ours!"
Sky growled but turned around, "C'mon, let's go...no time to waste..just stay behind me..".
This was a bad idea, but it had to be better then nothing.
Judas was fairly strong, he didn't know if his workout routines were simply to be a stronger prince or perhaps to help distract him from other issues but either way they were a regular part of his day.
Well, they were when sky didn't change those plans anyway.
After this morning, he just needed something to do, something to think about. Anything was better then thinking about the wound and blood gushing from his arm. Thinking about what could've happened if Sunny was really trying to kill him.
Everything went by so fast, and he felt a little sick.
"Dude...you ok?", Landon took a bite outta his sandwich while he watched his older brother attempt to do some stretches on his floor mat, Judas looked distracted, which was odd for him as during his usual workoput session he'd always been the opposite.
The older boy gasped, almost jumping, "Landon? What? W-when did you-?".
"I literally just walked in...guess you were so distracted you didn't even notice huh? I guess something must be on your mind..."
Judas turned away his head and said nothing, lying down on the mat and bending his leg close to his chest.
Landon bit his lip and took another bite, talking with his mouth full, "Lucy roamed free for a bit, i'm sure you heard...dad had to wrangle her back to her room before she made a mess of the kitchen again...".Judas raised the other leg and mumbled under his breath, "That's great Landon...".
All three of Landon's eyes watched his brother in suspicion waiting for him to tick, Judas was awfully bad at pretending he wasn't bothered by something. He took another look at his brother's eyes to see him flinch just a little and smiled.
"Spill the beans Jude, something happened and you're being weird about it..."
"Don't you have violin practice to be at?", Judas sat up, preparing to do another stretch, "You have no reason to be creeping in on my regular workout session...". Landon shrugged, "Guess i'm not over this morning and your strange friends with the wands...usually i don't bother with...whatever you and sky do but i guess that one's a little more interesting since you're trying so desperately to hide it from our parents with really terrible lies...".
Judas laid down on his front, lifting his legs up in the back, "I'd rather not talk about it Landon...".
The boy grumbled, "They did something didn't they? The girls?".
"Landon, please leave...don't you have anything better to do?", Judas stood up now, grabbing a water bottle of to the side and taking a sip. Landon pulled his hoodie over his head, minding the horns, "No...not really, not like the middle child has anything to do with their lives...After all, i'm not the cute little brother with the wings or the next in line perfect prince...".
"Landon...".
The red-haired boy's eyes then wandered to the markerboard on the wall, Judas's accident counter.
It was at 0.
He smiled, "Your arm came back today...that explains it. Dude, i think you can just tell me if your stupid counter board is just gonna tell me itself..". Judas grumbled, "It's not my arm coming back it's just that i got stabbed in it!", His eyes widened before he covered his mouth.
Landon stopped smiling before looking at him skeptically, "Dude, don't lie about that, you know mom and dad would freak if either of us got hurt like that.". The older boy shook his head, "I-It's true...t-the demon girl stabbed my monster arm, and then the grumpy one healed it...". On instinct he grabbed onto his right arm and felt along it, "I just...I'm just a little shocked and and pain isn't fully gone...I've just...i've never been hurt like that before..".
"Sounds like there's a little more to it then that bro...", Landon said, "Though being stabbed does kinda suck, now if only it removed your curse...".
"Landon, just leave, i don't feel like talking about it ok?", He pointed towards the door, "Leave before i call mom or dad!". Landon sighed before pulling hoodie more and more over his face, pocketing his hands in it, and heading out, "Fine whatever...i'll be doing nothing in my room if you need me...".
He opened the door to head out to find his mother standing there, about to enter themselves. Marco was in more casual wear today and watched their son leave and closed the door behind them to see Judas sitting down against the wall, expression somber and mind wandering.
"Hey Judas, sorry if i'm interrupting, I wanted to talk to you about-..", Marco paused at the sight of his sad son, stopping what he was originally going to say.
Judas looked up to see Marco enter and cheerfully sit down next to him, "You ok honey?". The boy shrugged, "I dunno, some stuff happened and it just has me thinking about things...usually my arm of course.". Marco reached to put an arm around him, "Mijo? had another accident?".
"Sorta...".
"I'm sorry...", Marco cautiously kissed their son on the forehead, avoiding his third eye. "No no mom...it's just the expected again...wasn't expecting the thing to just go away y'know?". He rubbed his arm, "I-I...my arm got hurt by accident and i was bleeding for a bit...and uuh...can i ask you some questions?".
"Judas, i hope you're not thinking of anything rash...".
"No no...i'm not thinking of anything...extreme it's just...you never really talk...about your curse to me...", He sighed, "It's stupid i know, it's just...I've grown up with it for 17 years, trying desperately to be cured and...mom what if this thing kills me someday? Or...makes someone kill me..?".
Marco pulled him close in a hug, "We're not letting that happen to you...you're not letting that man from last night get to you are you?". The boy didn't answer, he instead rubbed his eyes and took some breaths, "I dunno...maybe...I'm just...I dunno...".
Marco held him close, "Hey, you're gonna be fine, curse or no curse...we'll make sure you don't get hurt because of it ok? Me and your dad have already been doing that since the day you were created..". The boy nodded his head slowly, "I-I'm sorry if i'm freaking you out mom, today's...well it hasn't been easy on me...".
"No it's fine...trust me, that arm isn't easy...just don't let it take over you, you're not the monster people perceive you as and you never will be...ok?", he nodded, "Yeah, yeah...thanks mom...I think i just needed to hear that today from you...".
"No one's laying a finger on my baby boy...", Marco kissed their son's cheek and judas felt himself blush, "MOMMM!".
Marco laughed, "Anyway's i came to talk to you about last night, with Sky." Judas could feel himself stiffen, even if it was only a little bit. "I've called Star about it this morning because we've seen that kinda magic before, but you talked to sky last night and i wanted to know if she's...learned any odd spells...or if you knew anything that was up?".
Man, Judas REALLY hated lying to his folks and not telling them what happened last night, his parents considered honesty to especially be important in his family and they would not be fond of Judas lying to them about sky's strange wand issues as of lately.
Judas held his breath and went from the half-truth instead to make it easier on him.
"L-Last night?"
"After she stormed off, you followed her soon after, was she ok?"
Judas mentally sighed in relief that his mother didn't know he snuck out after 10 and was just talking about the ball instead.
"Well, there's something weird about her wand that's for sure...she uh...she...she knows about as little as i do...she was pretty upset though...", marco sighed, "Star used to have instances where her wand busted out green magic as well, they just usually were tied into her emotions or corruption, star just wants to be sure it's not the latter..."
"You mean like the toffee issue?"
"Exactly..."
"Well, no, i don't think it's anything like that...or a least i hope not...", marco sighed in complete relief, "I'm sure star will be happy to hear that, it's just something to be concerned about...Luckily she's gonna be training sky today so hopefully any issue she was worried about will be fixed and we can make sure her wand isn't...corrupted. Honestly i'm relieved, i kept telling her Sky needs more guidance but star kinda brushed that off a little and Star's finally stepping up properly as her magic tutor!".
Judas had only been half listening thoughts now wondering if some evil force was responsible for sky's current situation, but then his eyes widened, "Wait what?". Marco's smile was still apparent on their face, She might be a little late to finally start helping her daughter train, but i think it's good sky finally is getting some help from her on a regular basis now. Your friend is very talented jude, but she's got alot to work till she gets where she needs to be and i know star can handle it, as long as she's serious about it...".
Jude bit his lip, did sky remember she has a class with her mom today? She was planning to spend all morning fixing her little issues and now her mom was planning to spend a good portion of the day teaching her things? The girls could be found, they could do something awful, they'd be entirely unsupervised!
He needed to warn Sky, and supervise the girls before they got away or star caught them.
"Judas, you ok honey?".
The boy gulped and he stood up, well mom it's good having you here but i gotta...i gotta go finish something real quick if that's ok...?"
Marco looked rather confused but complied, "Did you forget something jude?". Their son held their hands out and backed up, reaching for their compact they left on one of the desks, "Yeah, something like that, I-I'll get back to you ok!?"
Marco stood up and sighed, "Alright, i'll see you soon, if you need any help just call ok? I'll make sure to call myself since star might have more questions...". The demon nodded before closing the door behind him and tried to text Sky quickly. He needed to at least TRY to warn her first that her mom was gonna look for her, but in any case, someone would still need to keep the girls out of the woman's sight and out of any trouble, and no doubt if they got caught Judas would be in trouble as much as his friend.
Judas: Sky, my mom just told me your mom is doing classes w/ you now!
Judas: She's asking about about your magic and toffee and she's gonna come after you soon because of these classes!
Judas: Sky you still have all the girls and you have to hide them somewhere, get them out of sight, i'll be right there to help!
He pocketed his compact quickly before disappearing.
But not before being spotted by a dark-pink haired by boy wearing a red hoodie. Landon watched his brother vanish, before biting his lip and pulling his hood further over his head. His violin was n it's case, strapped around him, and he turned around and walked off.
"Jude...what the heck did you get into now?"
Sky had never been inside the archives before, she knew where it was of course, but she never knew how to get IN. Her mother occasionally went inside and so did grandmother moon and eclipsa, but apparently the whole thing was "Off-limits" to rowdy teenagers.
Honestly getting into the magic bureau was bad enough as is with a group of five, and sky regretted her choice to even take them the longer they stayed. There probably didn't belong here yes but at the same time she didn't know these girls, and she was letting them wander through through important and serious queen stuff.
She was just asking for something to go wrong.
Sky was leading the way of course, and she thanked glob there was practically no real security in this place cause she had never been the sneaky type. Didn't help she typically dressed up with an outrageous looking monster hat and half the time was in rather bright colors that made her pop.
Though she was sneaking, the girls following her...were less so.
Well Luna seemed on guard, but Celeste looked bored, galexia was daydreaming practically, and sunny still looked as though she was thinking about judas. Maybe sky would've been better off only taking luna and leaving them all behind...but then again, who knows what they'd get into without her helping.
Judas was out doing his usually routine, Melanie was at school, Sky didn't exactly have a ton of options here.
This was a terrible idea, completely stupid, breaking these girls in was literally going to do nothing better for her reputation. But then again, her reputation was bad enough already, if she was gonna end up dethroned for being the worst princess ever, might as well go out with a bang right?
"You must be really willing to get rid of us to really break into here..", Luna whispered to her suddenly, peering around the corner, "I mean granted, i would've went with or without you...but you've got some gumption if you're willing to get caught WITH us...".
"Look, i just need to keep an eye on you all-"
"Yeah, i've heard that a dozens times already, but honestly you bent so quickly into doing this, almost no argument...", the blonde suspiciously looked at sky, eyebrow raised and eyeing her from head to toe, "Any particular reason for that or did you secretly always want to break into the archives?".
"Why do you care?"
"Because if I were in your shoes, i wouldn't trust me either...", She opened a door to a closet and ushered everyone inside before closing the door. Sky gave her a skeptic look as she watched the girl move a rack of clothes out of the way to reveal a strange wall. Luna sighed, "I better hope the code isn't any different here then it was at home or we're in trouble...".
"The code?", Luna turned around to fave four confused girls, and Sky stepped forward, "What code? You telling me archives is...password protected or something?". The blonde turned fully around and crossed her arms, "All of you have never been to the archives before? Are you kidding me? ALL of you?".
Sky mockingly pointed to herself, "Remember? the girl who can't use a wand? What did you expect? My moms didn't bother to tell me...maybe it was because they knew something like this could happen...". Luna grumbled and turned around, she examined the wall before elaborately pushing buttons in such a way that sky was pretty sure she didn't actually know a password to this weird wall and was practically playing with it like some toy until there was a rumbling and the wall split into two, opening a doorway. The other girls gasped and luna's wand started to glow, "Follow me...".
"Great, another thing my parents refused to tell me about...",Celeste grumbled from the back of the group as Sky just was now resorting to follow the tall blonde lady with the glowing wand and the surprisingly good memory. "Honestly though, most princesses and queens are never allowed down here...so i guess i'm not surprised, i'm just lucky i suppose."
Sky resorted to ignoring that possible insult as she followed behind but she noticed Celeste clutching her fist a little more.
Meanwhile galexia was practically skipping, not to mention observing everything in sight, honestly she moved around so much sky almost think she'd need a leash just to keep her from wandering off down here. But despite everything she was staying with the group eerily well to the point in which sky was almost sure she could teleport.
She was about to say something when a small voice spoke up.
"I'm sorry about your friend...", Sunny was still staring at the floor, hands together and shoulders sagged.
"Hey no, it's ok...i'm sure it was a total accident..", Sky put her hands up, "Judas and i have gotten into a lot of scraps before, and you guys fixed his arm, so it's alright. I'm sure he's not upset with you, his arm popping up can always get a little...", She made a hand gesture, "Spooky..".
"But he looked so freaked out! I-I didn't mean to-".
"Hey no, it's fine. It's just...Judas has had that thing his whole life and it scares people a lot and i think you just brought up a lot of bad memories up for him, trust me, people have tried a lot of solutions to "Fix' him and it only made it worse for him...plus not to mention what pain and horror it probably feels to have some possibly living thing attached to you like that. It's like having a second more eviler head you didn't want, except that head could take over your whole body if it felt tempted to or something..".
"Oh...", this didn't seem to make the small demon feel any better, and Celeste soon caught up into the conversation.
"Honestly i don't care, but what the heck even was that thing? Did you curse his arm to do some freaky stu-", the girl in the monster hat blushed and resisted the urge to punch the girl, "NO! Alright, that's enough, let's just stop talking about it ok?"
"Easy enough...we've arrived.", Luna said, making sky wonder how much she heard as they approached a closed door with an eye on it, then luna walked over to a hole in the wall nearby, "We're going this way, ok? and do me a favor, be wary of traps...i'd rather not die because of you."
"Wait, traps?"
"Yes, traps, so just watch your step...".
Luna made her way through and one by one the girls followed suit.
"How are we supposed to get around traps if we've never even been here before!?", Luna was about to answer before Sunny perked up and poofed a cloud in front of her before hopping on top of it. "We ride through! Then you can't step on ANY TRAPS!". Luna made an approving noise before sitting on her cloud herself, "Hmm, i honestly should've thought of that first...", galexia jumping on after and sky following suit before celeste begrudgingly hoped on as well. The cloud was moving alot slower with all five girls on top but it was faster then walking at least.
They sat in silence before Sky felt her compact buzz and she opened it to see she has a dozen texts from judas.
Her eyes widened.
The classes! how the heck did she already forget about her classes!
If her mom couldn't find her at home she'd certainly find her soon if she used the seeing eye spell. She was in such a rush to get rid of these girls she completely forgot her mom would be out looking for her today. She rapidly texted back as quickly as she could.
Judas: Sky where are you?
Sky: Stall my mom, buy us some time
Her expression must've been clear on her face when the grumpy brunette next to her gave her a look, "What did you do now?'. Sky closed her compact and shoved in back into one of her packets, "It's uh...my mom...our mom? Might be looking for me soon..".
"Wait...what?"
"Look, it's fine...we'll just...we'll have to make this quick...".
"Oh that won't be hard...", Luna said suddenly, the cloud coming to a complete stop.
"Why-?"
Then sky stopped and gasped as they made it to what is presumably the archives, in a mess, papers torn everywhere, shelves trashed, and machine parts scattered everywhere. It looked as if a tornado made it's way into here judging by it's damage.
The archives, were wrecked.
"Someone got to here first...", she said, "And they REALLY made things worse for us..."
