Luna was in awe as she hopped off the cloud to get a good look at the wrecked room. She stared blankly at it, then her brows furrowed as she turned around to face the rest of the girls, They all remained silent. Even celeste looked actually upset and showed another emotion other then bitterness.
"Someone sabotaged this place...", She knelt down to examine some of the damaged papers and machine parts lying around, "I'm not sure how they could get in here since only so many know the password but someone just ruined 1000's of years worth of butterfly family history...".
Sky didn't know how to react, her first time in the archives and everything was wrecked before she even got here.
"What now?"
Luna sighed, "Well, i'd normally say spread out and see if there's anything we can use...however...". She pulled out her wand and sky watched a beam come out to scan her surroundings like some bizarre lazer device, "This destruction seems fresh, only hours before we got here...someone was here very recently..".
Sky bit her lip as she could tell where this was going, "Are you implying someone knew we'd come here?". The older girl shrugged, "It's certainly possible, if it's not some bizarre coincidence after all, but no one knows about us so far except for us, and those two strange friends sky knows..".
Sky suddenly remembered judas's texts earlier and stiffened.
Oh no.
The Celeste stepped forward, "Nope, not true, some other kid knows now too-", sky attempted to cover the girl's mouth but it was too late before Luna turned to face her in suspicion. "Who else knows? Did you tell us out to some foe of yours already?", Sunny then put herself in between Sky and Luna, defensively trying to keep Luna from getting upset with Sky "It's just her friend's brother!".
"Oh is it now? And you both didn't wipe his mind?!", She was beyond angry right now, "Do you have ANY idea how big of a deal destroying the archives is? I can't believe you two let some kid figure us out and now look at what you did!?". Sunny stared down at the floor, "I-I just don't like that spell...", she looked like she might cry.
Celeste didn't look upset however, Luna didn't seem to be making her feel any kind of guilt for her choice to not act.
Though her oversight that someone knowing about them might lead to something like this clearly seemed to have skipped over her mind entirely. But she stood her ground and walked right in front of sunny to stare at Luna directly in the eyes, "Hey? Prissy pants? How about we stop blaming each other for 2 seconds and figure out our next move before we get caught in here?".
Sky wasn't liking the look on luna face and proceeded to separate the girls with her hands, "Look, no, Landon would not do this...i'm gonna rat jude out for him knowing but i've grown up with the guy and he would not wreck this place...nor tell anyone about it. Landon can't even do magic! Like how the heck so you think one demon kid would be able to make this big of a mess?"
That seemed to be enough for Luna to back off a little, "Hmm, fine, i see your point...but that doesn't excuse the fact someone knows."
"Well-"
Before they could say anything else they were interrupted by the sounds of scrawling nearby. Luna, probably on instinct, pulling out her wand like lighting and turned to the source of the noise, only to find a long-haired brunette scribbling on one of the papers lying around.
"GALEXIA!", Luna pulled her off quickly, "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING!?".
The girl looked startled, but also confused, "I was just doodling...".
"THOSE ARE IMPORTANT PAPERS! YOU'RE VANDALIZING IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS!", She let go of her to grab onto the paper she'd been scribbling on, "What even is this? Is it a face? you didn't even give it a nose! My god this is a mess...ok, this is fine...I can fix this...".
Sky silently added "Neat Freak", and "Perfectionist" to her learned traits about Luna.
Luna mumbled some things under her breath and her wand seemed to have erased whatever Lexi had just drawn, mush to her displeasure. Sky couldn't help but feel just a tiny bit bad, "Hey it's...we'll get you some papers to draw on later...ok?".
"But...now it's gone...".
"But you can draw it later?"
She turned to look at her, "N-no i can't...it's gone now..".
"Ugh...this place is bad enough as is, now can we not make it worse?", Luna started pilling up as many papers as she could, "Hmm, maybe if we could use our wands together, we can repair and clean this place as much as possible..". Right on cue, Celeste spoke up to point out the obvious, "Really? because YOU are the only one that's been here before, we can't just whip our wands out to fix something we know nothing about? There's thousands of papers in here! Look, forget it, this didn't work..".
"No i can't "Forget it", this was one of our few tickets home! And it's one of the most important room's for mewni! You have no idea how bad this is!"
"Well, then maybe we should...leave before we get caught and blamed for this?", the demon tugged on Luna, who unhappily looked down at her, "We can't stay, sky's...our mom is looking for Sky right? I don't think standing here is a good idea...".
"Oh, and what is? Stabbing people?"
Sunny was silent to her words.
Sky, brows furrowed walked up to luna, "Look, that's enough alright? We gotta move here...last thing we need is to get caught in the middle of this mess...". But the blonde denied, "No, we came here for a mission, i'm completing that mission, not to mention i'm not leaving this place like this...".
"But...it's not even yours? You have your own back home!", But that didn't stop the girl from whipping out her wand to start cleaning, "Well you know what? I'm not wasting this trip! This is family history and i'm not leaving it like this...".
Suddenly Galexia spoke up, "She just told her friend to distract her mom".
"Wait, what? How did you-?", the spade marked princess gave her a look, was she spying on her compact?
"Perfect, that's a good start..", She motioned towards the others, "C'mon, help me out here!". But Celeste didn't budge, "Why can't we let the commission handle it? I'm sure they can find our who did this and send us home, wasn't that what you were gonna do anyway if you couldn't figure out how to send us home yourself?". She turned towards sky, raising an eyebrow, "Look, this has been fun, but i'm not spending today cleaning your archives, just let the professionals handle this and let's just go...".
"Well, i'm sure Sky would much rather try and help, unless she really doesn't mind getting in trouble with the commission and potentially losing her cursed wand does she?", Luna argued back, still working to clean and repair as much as she could.
Sky in question pointed at her, "Did, did you just-?".
"Maybe...".
"But this is my family history...you got your own family to deal with back home i'm sure...", that's when luna stopped scrambling and turned around, armful of papers and machine parts, "Well, she's my mom too...so...i just don't like our family history being tainted...we've had enough of that before as you're aware..". Then Celeste snatched some of the papers from her hand, "Dude, let go, we're leaving...i thought you were cautious or something, you trying to get us caught? With our mom out there and all this damage, we're gonna be caught any second...and then what? What if we don't get home? What if we aren't real? What if they can't take us home?!".
"I-I.."
"We could be living in a dimension where they eat brains for all we know! And you wanna dilly-dally over some papers? Look, if you wanna stay here and get caught...fine, get caught...but we don't have to listen to you and we're getting home one way or another...", luna was silent, before sighing and dropping what was in her hands, "Fine...fine...let's just...let's go...leave it to the professionals..".
"Thank you..", said the other girl, pleased.
Sunny was already sitting on the cloud, galexia by her side, clearly ready to leave themselves. Sunny looked rather depressed, but sky wasn't sure if it was because of what Luna said or because she just learned she might have to face the commission to go home.
Luna was the last to show up, lingering on the archives before they left.
She looked...sad? Sad over the archives.
She didn't look nearly this upset when it came to getting home.
It was...curious.
The girl sighed and made her way back to them, holding back her sadness and taking a seat.
"Let's go..".
But then a sudden noise made her jolt up, enough to see a floor panel she waled upon sink into the ground.
Luna froze, knowing exactly what that meant.
"We need to move...NOW!".
Honestly Judas didn't have to show up, he didn't have to help Sky through every ridiculous issue she went through, But he always did it anyway. Maybe out of moral obligation as one of her best friends? Or maybe he just couldn't stand not doing something when he could? but Sky was the main reason he ended up in tough situation or never had time for himself and that was clear.
It honestly was probably a combination of both the more he thought about it.
If Sky could keep herself in order, he wouldn't even have to help her as much as he did, but i guess he couldn't be upset at spending so much time with his best friend. He was already running down the halls, hoping to bump into Queen Star as fast as possible.
He had a plan of how to distract her already and he thanked his mom quickly for that one
Sadly, Judas only knew so much of this castle and the queen could be anywhere, and though he was royalty he wasn't exactly supposed to be around here without permission, even as sky's friend. He could feele people eyeing him as he strode the halls and he almost didn't notice Queen Janna sneaking up behind him and tapping his shoulder.
"hey squirt...", Judas turned around, visibly upset, he had enough freak outs today frankly.
"Queen Butterfly..."
She on instinct reached up to fluff the boy's hair, "What are you doing here little guy? You and sky have plans today? Cause i didn't know she was skipping classes already..". Judas moved his head away, "Actually i'm looking for your wife? Star? I uh...she was sorta talking to my mom about last night and i think it's best we uh...talked in person?".
"Oh you mean the cool wand blast sky did that's freaking star out? yeah...that makes sense...star spend like all night talking about it. Guess it's no surprise why, green magic is a bad sign in mewni, it does some crazy evil stuff based on how star treats it.", the boy shuddered, "Yeah...i know about the toffee and meteora things...it's uh...i'm sure sky is not...y'know."
"Oh we know, guess star is worried sky's wand is possessed or something now...actually that would be pretty sick if it was...", the prince new he was wasting time so he immediately started to back up, hoping to get out of here as fast as he could to find Star.
"Look, thanks for the talk,...but i need to find Queen Star...now...i kinda have...plans.."
"What's her name?" Janna asked with a smirk.
"It's not a date...i just need to do some daily prince stuff...can you at least help me find out where she is today?", Janna was about to say something when Judas felt someone tap him, "Looking for me?". He immediately felt embarrassed at the sight of Queen Star, who was laughing at his utter embarrassment.
"Q-Queen Star...I-I uh...sorry...".
"What are you apologizing for silly?", She reached out to fluff his hair, "I'm glad to see you, marco already texted me earlier but it's much easier having you here instead!"". She looked up to to wife, "Mind if i steal him away for a bit?".
She shrugged, "Go on ahead, i was just heading to the kitchens anyway...". Star winked, "You got some plans?", and the other woman laughed to herself which only meant trouble. "Maybe a little...all the chaos last night really messed up my plans so...might as well make it up today..".
"Well i'll make sure to catch it soon!", Star blew her a kiss before motioning to jude, "C'mon, we can talk in my office...". Judas looked back to Janna, who smirked at him before heading on her way. Judas silently hoped she wasn't onto him as she headed off, or...at least wasn't going off to find Sky either.
Star's office was just as grand and as colorful as the queen herself, and it matched her energy as she practically jumped into her large soft chair in from on her green desk littered with pictures and stuffed animals. Judas awkwardly took a seat in front of her, keeping a hand on his phone, waiting for texts from his best friend.
"Candy?", the queen took a bowl full of taffy off her desk to present it out to the prince, he politely took one and popped it in his mouth as she put it back. "I'm actually glad you showed up, i'm sure having your mom talk to you about this was probably weirder for you...", She adjusted her crown before placing her hands out in front of her. "We'll have to make this quick considering i have to see my daughter today, but i'm sure if it's important i can spare a little more time...you have no idea how worried i was when i saw the magic!".
"Did you...ask sky about it?"., the demon asked, "I'm sure she'd be better to ask then me...".
"Well, i didn't want to worry her just yet till we made sure the wand isn't...yeah. Telling her her wand could be corrupted when it could be just fine...could make the situation worse, but, it could just be a false alarm. After all green magic sometimes happens under other circumstances after all! We...just need to make sure..", She took out some papers and a pen, "If there are any issues pf concern i can attempt to make a trip to the realm of magic and take a look for myself...but we need to make sure..".
"So...", star started, "has sky been talking to her wand?".
"Uhhh...no? I don't think so at least?", he hoped to answer as truthfully as possible, the less lying he did today the better. Star scribbled on her paper, "Mhhmmm, and you told marco she hasn't been using any messed up spells or anything right?".
"Yeah, and she really hasn't...".
"Ok...good...and uh...how about negative emotions and stuff? Like, do you know if she's been feeling...jealous, or bad?".
"Well...i dunno, she might feel kinda bad because she's having a hard time with magic and meeting everyone's standards...but...that's all i can think about...", She kept on writing, "Ok ok ok ok...well, good thing i'm gonna be teaching her all i know from now on...".
Judas remembered what sky said earlier when it came to her mom wanting her to learn on her own and bit his lip. Queen Star wasn't one for teaching her daughter was she? Or at least, she sure had a much harder time helping her daughter learn then someone like her should.
The demon twiddled his thumbs together, trying to think of anything else to say to keep her busy, "Last night was fun, my parents seemed to really like the ball this year...". Star looked up from her work, "Oh i'm glad you think so! It's a shame about the chandelier, but at least no one got hurt...". She went back to writing, "Honestly i think I've done worse damage with my magic when i didn't mean to, so it's not so bad...nothing queen star can't handle..".
KNOCK KNOCK
"Come in!", Star called, and a panicked servant woman stepped in, "My Queen, Prince Angelus is back again today!". Star didn't look up from her notes, "Ok, well go let Sky know...", but the servant didn't move from their spot. "We can't find her Queen Star! And the boy has literally webbed himself to the castle door until you speak with him...".
Star let out a large groan, "Ugh...i guess i better go find Sky myself...".
Judas, on instinct , waved his hands.
"No no no , there's no need for that... i mean...I can go remove him if you need to! I'm sure i can make it fast!", then he stopped, sure he was keeping star from immediately going off to find her daughter, but he also just agreed to go handle another issue.
an issue, that would put the queen outta his sight.
Star stood up,"Oh thank so much judas! I appreciate your help! I think we're done here for now, thanks for your help!". Judas was frozen in place as Star ruffled his hair and kissed the boy's forehead before heading out, "I better go make sure everything is handled before I get sky, i'll see you Soon!".
"Queen Star wa-!"
She closed the door behind her, leaving judas in her office.
He quickly pulled out his compact to warn sky before heading out.
Guess he was on Angel Duty today.
He couldn't help but be a little bit annoyed at seeing star brushing the prince off on sky immediately the way she did. Sky hated dealing with something he mom should've taken care of ges ago and here she is ignoring a minor threat to her citizens to do something else.
He honestly didn't want to be handling the annoying prince and his stubborn attitude but he didn't even know how long sky would be gone, and now that he thought about it...angel was perfect for a distraction. A lightbulb formed in the demon's head as he teleported to the front of the castle to see an angry mob outside of it.
But it wasn't for the queen as Judas pushed through the crowd, but for the monster prince who had indeed, webbed himself to the door. Though one look at it and Judas noticed a detail that the servant left out, there were words written in webbing all over the monster's web.
QUEEN STAR DOESN'T CARE
THE BUTTERFLIES ARE MAGIC HOARDERS
The prince's eyes were closed, clearly unfazed by the crowd who was screaming at him. Judas stepped forward towards his enlarged web and crossed his arms, he and angel were only so familiar with each other, they weren't friends, but they weren't enemies either. They were more or less, acquaintances, but those who only could judge each other from the outside. The demon let out a large sigh, "Hello Angel...been awhile...", the spider prince opened all four of his eyes and looked over the other boy before smiling only slightly.
"Judas Lucitor-Diaz...what brings you here?", Judas rolled his eyes, "What do you think? I'm here because of you, you're literally blocking the door to the castle, c'mon now.". The monster closed his eyes again, and Judas remembered just how stubborn he was.
"Hey, give me some credit, at least i'm not webbing citizens to queen star's tower, give me some credit..."
"How about no?"
Angel didn't look surprised by his answer, frankly what else would he expect from sky's friend and someone so formal and stuck up?
"So are you gonna take me in? Or kick me out? I know you're gonna do one of those things, so might as well be honest with me before you do so..", The crowd behind judas had silenced as the demon prince created a flame within his hands, "I'd honestly prefer to do neither...".
He remembered his early encounter with the queen and he closed his own eyes, "Look, you deserve a meeting with queen star to talk this out and she needs to stop sicking others on you, but your beef is with the royal family, not with these people who just want to go on with their lives...".
"Well if i have to go through them to get to her...don't think i won't do it...".
"No I've kinda expected you to by this point...", the demon stared at his flame, "I just wish you'd find a better way then make things worse for others...". Judas got closer till he was eye to eye with the prince third eye staring deep into his, "Be better then this, your people need you, but not like this...".
The spider monster stared into his eyes, unfazed, "How's the arm?".
He wasn't even asking in a rude manner either, he sounded as if he genuinely wanted to know. Angel wasn't exactly the friendliest person out there but he wasn't a bully, judas was mocked and berated for his arm quite a bit, but angel never attacked this weakness of his.
Perhaps respect upon a fellow monster prince?
"Is this really the time to ask?"
"I can smell your fear, your arm got hurt didn't it?", he sniffed the air, "You were..bleeding...". Judas moved his flame to one finger, expanded it and before the other could say anything else, he used the flame to cut the boy from his web, causing him to fall down on his face before judas picked him up, grabbed his arm, and proceeded to move through the now cheering crowd to another part of the village. Angel looked slightly insulted, but not surprised in the slightest.
When judas got them to a place to talk in private, he stretched out his legs and resisted his urges to web the demon and leave.
Instead, he proceeded to grab onto the cursed arm in question before judas could protest and examine it, "Relax lucitor...i have no plans to hurt you...you just seem..troubled. Plus demon blood leaves a recognizable scent...our noses are quite strong you know...". He sniffed again, "You smell both stressed and scared, I assume your arm is getting the better of you again...fair enough i suppose, if my arm could come to life as it's own monster, it being injured or harmed would be rather worrying...".
Judas snatched his arm away, "Look, just leave alright? Enough about my arm today...".
"Fine fine fine, but i suggest properly cleaning up, the smell of blood is fresh on you and if anything else smells it...well you could be in worse trouble...", tugged on the sleeve of his arm as if trying to cover up his non-existent scar, "I'll keep it in mind...".
"Guess since you came here...sky is...busy i suppose?", as he looked judas over the demon hoped he couldn't smell pheromones of liars. "Sky isn't your concern, you're supposed to be back at your castle, and yet here you are...unapologetically blocking innocents..".
"You act as if i'd do something different the 100th time i've done this...".
"She literally tazed you dude! What will it take for you to stop?!"
"Taze?" You mean what she did where i felt pain all over yesterday and could've move? Huh, i didn't know it was called that...you know, what is that little device she used for it anyway? One of those could be nice to take down opponents...", he wouldn't went on, but a purple finger hit his lips to shush him. "Listen, angel, i don't expect you to stop, and i get it...but you really should spend time back home...you spend more time here then you do with your own people!". That was when judas felt angel bump past him, hitting is shoulder as he started to walk off, "You're just like my parents...ugh, i'm not in a mood to be lectured like a child right now..".
"You are a child!"
"I'm only a year younger then YOU!", he argued back.
"And yet, you act like a child!"
In seconds Judas found himself pinned to the wall by the prince, legs digging into the ground to keep him still, Angel glared at him with all four of his eyes. "I don't feel like fighting right now...you and sky do nothing but butt in my way and treat me like i'm some baby...all i want is to be respected, for my people's hurt to been understood and helped...and you mock me?".
"Queen Star's doing all she-".
"No she's not!", He let the demon go and sighed, "She's not doing enough! She just sits in her castle all day and ignores anything I have to say despite...", he closed his eyes and held back what seemed to be tears, "She's not doing enough...how can she say she cares about me when she pushes me off to the side, has her own daughter kick me out rather then just talk to me!? You're a monster too yet she has time for YOU...doesn't she? I-I...this ...she's not doing enough...".
"Angel?", Angel wiped his face and stood up straight, "Enough with this...are you taking me to queen Star? Or kicking me back to my kingdom?". Judas gaped but Angel already understood the answer, "I wonder how much she really does care about monsters...". Judas frowned, "Angel...she's responsible for bringing monsters and mewmans together, she helped your kingdom back on it's feet...how can you say she doesn't actually care at all? What more does she need to do for you?!".
"She won't ever know if she doesn't bother to try will she?".
Judas sighed, "Fair enough..."
The boy was silent, before he lifted himself up, "I'm going, I know how this all works, No need to escort me lucitor...I know my way home..". Judas was about to let him go before he grabbed onto on e of the monster's legs, holding him back, Angel turned and hissed.
"What Judas?".
Judas might regret this later, but if it bought Sky some time...
"I'll take you to Queen Star..."
"YOU SET OFF A TRAP!?"
Luna covered Celeste's mouth hastily, blasting incoming darts and traps with her wand, "UGH, BE QUIET AND JUST HELP ME OUT HERE!". Sunny was already surprisingly in action, and sky was overwhelmed at the demon's level of magical skill, she wasn't even saying her spell names, she just seemed to get them perfectly without them.
She couldn't have been much older then 14, how the heck she was about to do spells non verbally was beyond sky, even her mom couldn't perform as many spells as this at 14. One spell looked like a large flaming rabbit, which burned all the darts to a crisp in seconds.
Even Luna looked surprised, almost losing her focus as sunny's cloud went faster, trying to find it's way back out before the girls could be caught. The darts stopped coming, and they almost were about to relax when a part of the wall suddenly came froward and almost crushed the girls as the zipped past. Sunny looked right at Luna, a fierceness in her eyes, "You take the back, i'll handle the front...". She lunged to the front of the cloud and looked back at the other three, "Celeste, you help Luna, Sky, you help me, Galexia...".
The green-eyed gal blinked, and Sunny bit her lip, "Just make sure we can see where we're going with your lantern...ok?".
She nodded and Sunny stood up on the flying cloud, holding her staff out, her eyes glowed as well as her marks and sky watched in awe as parts of the wall that shot at them blew up into little peices, like they weren't even a threat at all.
This little girl was taking all these traps out like no one's business.
Luna forced herself to focus, leading her own powerful blasts without the need for words, but hers were less firey and more bright and angelic. Such as a while ray with butterflies coming out of it as the beam spread out into multiple beams to hit each dart.
Celeste didn't even bother to use her wand, clearly she wasn't needed here. Sky was less lazy however, and and fumbled around for her dimensional scissors, people couldn't use them to get into the archives, but s soon as thy reached the exit they could use them, they needed to get out, fast.
She grabbed hold of them, finding them in her pocket and raised them out, "I'm gonna portal us back to my bedroom! as soon as we hit the exit! Cover me! We're gonna need a big portal to get us all out!". Then Sky fell back as the lights went out, one by one, leaving the girls in darkness as the cloud slowed down.
"GALEXIA, YOUR WAND!"
The girls all turned around to find galexia's lantern starting to glow, fireflies flying out of it the lighten the room. The cloud begin to pick up speed and Sky got prepared again, Only For Celsete to raise her wand up, a bubble like energy field forming from it and around the girls.
"Why didn't i think of that...", luna grumbled, retracting her wand as the shield went over to block the darts, even sunny was moved back. A hold opened up in the fron and Sky stepped foorward, the excit in sight, "Ok guys, hold tight back there...we're almost out...".
She grabbed the side of the forcefield and in one quick movement with her scissors, make a large portal to her bedroom. The only problem was they didn't even bother to slow themselves down beforehand, and before they knew it the four girls crashed down into the bed and wall.
The portal closed behind them quickly and the cloud vanished, leaving five bruised and tired gals panting on the bed and against the walls. Luna was the first to get up, clearly angry and full of so many thoughts and questions, she started pacing and mumbling to herself.
"-freaking archives, how could someone just- and she's way too young to know that many spells at that level- crazy messed up world i'm in...", her tough powerful exterior seemed to vanish, and she was doing her hardest not to panic at the rough situation.
Celeste was recovering the best she could before giving the injured demon girl a strange look, "Y-you...how the heck did you do that!? Y-you're you have to be younger then ME and you know how to DIP DOWN!? You only could've had that wand for a few months! H-How..?".
Sunny clutched her wand close, "Well, i'm fourteen...but...I've had my wand for 2 years...I've just had a lot of time to train...".
"2 years? Wait? You got the wand at twelve?!", the small demon gave a slight smile, "Yeah kinda...". Celeste didn't look pleasantly surprised about this news, rather she looked both confused and almost irritated, though whether it was because of how powerful the girl was or because she was lucky enough to get her wand earlier was beyond Sky as she get herself together.
She let out breath by breath until her heart rate was normal again, "Well, so much for that plan...".
Galexia watched her fireflies return to her wand, and smiled, "It's ok...we'll find another way..! My dad always told me one person's garbage is anothers benefit!". The monster-hatted gal gave her a look, "I-I uh..i don't think that's the right quote for this current situation..".
Luna clutched her hair, "UGHHH What now!? Someone wrecked the frigging archives! Whoever had the galls to do something like that had some serious intent!". Sky clutched her legs against her chest, "I'll tell you what we have to do...time's up...we gotta talk to the commission...I failed...as per usual".
She didn't like it, and she was sure to be grounded for life with her wand being taken away, but she was running out of outcomes here to fix this bizarre mess and she already dragged judas into it and he's already been injured because of it.
But then someone grabbed her hand, forcing her to look up.
Luna
"We're not doing that...what if they're responsible for this? What if they're the reason we're here!? They've messed with those archives before and they would do it again if it meant getting what they want.", Sky looked surprised at her words before Celeste butted in, "Excuse me? That might be our only way home now and you're gonna block that off too?".
Luna glared at her, almost making Celeste back off.
"Someone destroyed the archives for a reason, we were brought here...for a reason, something is not right and what if we're walking straight into a trap? We can't go to them...this...this reads bad news all over it. We need to think about this..", she stood up and put her hands behind her back.
"Sky here seems too incompetent to be responsible for this, her wand's spell was erased from the wand's memory, and someone sabotaged the archives for the kingdom of mewni...someone is up to something here...and they needed sky's wand to do it...". She stopped her walking to stare at her own wand, "We need to be cautious about using magic or we'll be found out...at this time we can't trust anyone...we're not in our home dimensions and someone wanted us here...and had no plans to send us back..".
"So what? We're just gonna stay here?"
She was silent, before crossing her arms and letting out a sigh, "We don't have much of a choice at the moment...we need to figure out who sent us here, but until then we're not safe...". Sunny raised her hand, "But whoever they are have to know us! What if they already know we're here?".
"I don't know...but we are safer here then out there...for now..", She took a seat on the bed, "We have to stay close...otherwise whoever is up to something could pick us off one by one...or whatever they're up to...". She nodded to Sky's compact, "Call your demon friend, wouldn't blame him at all if he doesn't want to take those two back in since it seemed as though you kinda forced him into the situation, but if something happens...i'd rather at least some of us have a chance to find out and get away..".
"Wait, you want us to go BACK to the underworld?", Celeste got off the bed to stare directly into the girl's blue eyes, " Are you kidding me? Oh and what? Lemme guess, you're staying here on mewni with ole vandalism over there?".
"Here, i have more of a chance to find out whose after us...".
"I can help!", Sunny piped up, "I have a lot of experience with magic, and kingdom stuff, and monsters, an-".
"-No, you're better off in the underworld where you won't draw enough attention.", she said it almost forcefully, making Sky wonder if Luna felt a little bitter about Sunny overshadowing her earlier. "For now, let's just keep on the down-low...is everyone fine with that? Celeste?", the brunette huffed and turned her head away, "Fine Loony, but only because i'd rather not die or something...but i'm sure her friend won't be enthusiastic about having us back..".
Sky pulled out her compact, "Yeah, I-I kinda dragged Jude into this mess...guess i can't blame him, i'm asking a lot from him and he's probably pretty upset...I'll just...". She opened up the phone to type when she heard some voices in the halls.
Her Mom, and...Angel?
She immedatly got up and pressed her ear to her bedroom door, shushing the girls looking at her in question.
If Angel was here, it was worth listening to.
"Queen Star I-".
"Angel, I've had this talk with your parents multiple times, i'm doing everything i can here, and right now i need to find my daughter."
Then Sky heard a third voice into the picture she knew right away was the demon prince.
"Queen Star, I can go find her myself, and you and Angel here should jus-".
"Judas Lucitor Diaz, this is not something that involves you! I appreciated your help this morning but do not get yourself involved in these manners. You're not king yet, and this right now is my problem and I've already made my case on the matter." Sky frowned at her mother, she already could imagine her crossing her arms at him when in reality she was going to have to confront angel at some point.
"But don't his concerns matter too? He's been trying to get your attention for months! and i mean, yeah it's annoying, he's a pain! But Sky's been taking care of him for a long time and i think you should just talk to angel and just kinda work things out between you so-".
"I'm not having this discussion Judas, please escort him out of the castle...", Sky got up to put her ear against the door to listen in, "Queen Star, i know angel has never been...the best, but he has his own concerns about...his people and maybe you should...talk? Isn't talking better then kicking him out?".
"We have talked, but he is not thinking right, i cannot reclaim what his kingdom lost...".
"But-", Judas was just stalling of course, but he couldn't help but feel frustrated, just a little, about how she was brushing him off. Sky used to spend so many nights complaining about removing the prince herself because her mom refused to confront him herself and always brushed him off on others, and here she was doing it again.
"I've been made aware of his concerns but his concerns are nothing i'm capable of fixing, the past is the past, the best i can do is help fix what my family broke now...", the spider prince's voice sounded hurt and angry, "You have the power of time, of space, and you and your family can't do ANYTHING for my people? We lost so many lives! We're barely HERE!".
"Meddling with time and reality is bad news and you should know better, if i messed with any of that there's a good chance you may never have been born...look, i'm done talking about this. Your parents need you to take charge of your kingdom here and now, and they need you now more then ever, i understand your hurt but you're asking too much of me, and the past is something we have to live with sadly..now...i need to find my daughter...".
"Ok yeah fine, you're right, there is nothing you can do about the past, but this guy literally blocked the castle door this morning! Why don't you ever...do anything about him?! You always pawn him off on Sky when you yourself could handle this in one go! Why do you avoid him so much!? Even if his problems are not something you think you can fix you can't just pretend he's not there!"
"Judas...Enough...you may leave, right now i have my daughter to focus on...not these matters out of my control, you may leave, i'll make word to both your parents later...please don't do this again...", Judas quieted himself, "Yes, Queen Star...".
"Good, listen judas...you're a smart boy and i appreciate you care. But this is my problem, not yours. You need to trust that i know what i'm doing..", Judas crossed his arms and sighed, "Fine..". Star smiled, and the spider prince looked more upset, "So how i feel doesn't matter does it?".
"Yes, it does...what happened to your kind was messed up, it was awful...but you don't think through your actions. Leave these matters to me and your parents, i am not using time travel to fix this, you have too high expectations of me, and don't seem to realize the risks of these choices...we've had this talk before angel, and yet you persist and persist and won't give up. I can't meet your demands...just...please, please just go back home, your family needs you. You need to let this go...". The spider monster closed all his eyes as if holding back tears and the queen sighed, "Right now, we have other things to focus on, you have your family and kingdom, i have my daughter to find-".
Sky sighed, honestly she had enough hearing her mom beat down on judas...and even angel despite his attitude and quickly opened the door to leave, slamming it behind her so her mother couldn't look in.
"No need, i'm here..."
"Sky!", Star wrapped her arms around her daughter in a hug, "Where have you been? I've been looking for you for awhile, i was about to use the seeing eye spell!". She gave a fake smile, "Oh I was just...I was visiting the library! That's all!". Star blinked, "The library? You don't typically go there...", but then judas (Bless him) stepped in to save her quickly. "Oh last night she uh...she called me about your classes! Yeah, she was planning to y'know...prepare?".
Star seemed to take the bait much to sky's relief, "Ohhhhh, well i'm glad to see you're so excited! You ready for class? I spent last night making a list of my favorite spells! Don't worry, i'll make sure it's a ton of fun, like a cool mother-daughter thing!". Sky nodded, "Surrree, in the meanwhile...uh...judas, y-you left something...in my room, last night. You wanna go get it...?". He knew what she was trying to do, but then angel eyed him suspiciously and he nodded towards him, "Sure sky, B-But i gotta escort him out first...".
"It's fine...I can walk myself out, clearly...i'm not wanted here...your guards can assure my leave", the prince gave them a suspicious look as he turned around, "It was good to see you...Princess Butterfly...Prince Lucitor...good day.". His long legs lifted him up as he walked away in frustrated anger and silence, and Star motioned to a nearby guard to follow him, just in case. Judas coughed into his hand, "I'll just...go get that thing...um...good luck sky..".
She mouthed to him "I owe you big time" as he made his way into her room and shut the door.
Star excitably grabbed her daughter's arm, "C'mon, i got an awesome room to practice in!".
As soon as the door closed behind him, judas was met with small arms wrapping around him from a tiny blonde-pink demon girl. It caught him off guard at first, but he didn't seem to mind, Sunny pulled away and smiled. "It's good to see you again, guess your stuff kinda got interrupted...", he nodded softly, "I do alot for sky...".
"How are you feeling?"
"I could be better...", he rubbed his arm, "Don't worry about me so much i'm just...me, freaking out like this...it's normal...". He walked past Sunny to take a seat on the bed, "I'm going to assume Sky is uh...having a hard time fixing this little...situation?". The tall blonde looked him over, "What was your first clue? The fact we were still here?."
He didn't say anything.
Sunny sat next to him, "We're...we might be staying with you...", he sighed and closed all of his eyes. "No, we have to talk to the commission...I can't just keep your guys with me, my parents will discover you one way or another down there and it's already bad enough with landon knowing as i'm sure you've heard already...".
"Yeah...we heard..".
"I'm sorry...I just...", He felt so guilty about that, a pit forming in his stomach before trying to ease himself down, " Don't worry, after Sky gets back we'll get this all sorted out with the commission and you can go back home and we can all-"
"The archives were destroyed...".
Suddenly, He opened his eyes in alarm, "Wait, what?".
Celeste crossed her arms, "Considering taking us in now?".
"The archives...that's...serious..."
He stood up, his hands reached up to his head, "That's...ohhhh noooo...no no no, only so many people can access...and the thing is full of so much history and-". His anxiety was bad enough today, was it really just going to get worse and worse? He pulled on his hair, only to feel someone grab onto him. luna stared him straight in the eyes, well, two of them at least, and she didn't look happy with him at all as she wast trying to kill him with her stare.
"Oh we're panicking too...but...i have a question for you first...".
Her grip tightened and she got so close their noses were practically touching.
"Who is...landon?"
