Landon was not considered the most powerful of his siblings, nor the smartest, not the most fun to be around, and probably not even the handsomest if his horrible self-loathing told him anything. Freaking Judas got to go off on these wild adventures (That he usually didn't ask for), and Mason was both adorable, fun, and had his own extravagant garden in the underworld. All Landon had was his stupid violin and his stupid tail, speaking of which he found it sticking out of his jeans only slightly before shoving in back inside.

Wherever Judas was, whatever he got himself wrapped up into, at least he was wasn't bored.

At least he couldn't say it wasn't a productive day in some regard.

The part demon stared into the mirror, sighing, this was where he usually spent his days, in his bedroom. Posters of famous musicians lined the walls, a few game systems leaning against the walls and a ping pong table in the center, dark and ripped clothes were strewn about till a servant came to pick them up, and of course his usual open closet, bed black sheets, and a table side with a lamp. He took a seat on his bed, opened his violin case to see his usual dark demonic violin.

Back to the usual he supposed, violin practice.

He snuggled his mother's hoodie a little before getting into position, only to stop as a bright light flashed before him, a blue portal.

A girl he'd never seen before stepped in first, her white blonde hair and blue eyes caught his attention immediately, followed by her strange mismatched cheekmarks. Then the demon girl Landon saw earlier passed in, followed by a rather grumpy brunette, then a forth girl popped in with long brown hair and green eyes that could put one in a trance. Before Landon could question it this long centipede of strangeness ended with the sight of his older brother judas, who both didn't look pleased to be here and kinda shaken up.

"Sorry landon, there were too many to just simply fire portal through...", the tall blonde gave a look to judas, "This is him?". Landon put his violin away and stood up, "Judas...what the hell are you doing? Why are all these girls in my room?!", Judas sighed, "We needed to talk and i knew you'd be here..".

The tall blonde stepped forward, "Ok, I know full well there's no way you could've destroyed the archives, be seen my Celeste and sunny, and be back here on time...but if we're letting you on this issue, we need to make some things clear here.." Landon blinked, "Wait...what? The archives? Who...ok, no, get out of my room!".

Judas got between his brother and luna to set his hands on his sibling's shoulders, "Landon, it's uh...these are sky's other...sisters, sorry they're all here but we needed to talk to you and leaving one behind is a bad idea...". Sunny waved to landon, who cringed, "Judas, are you freaking kidding me right now? I thought you were taking them home and-".

"Yes i know what i said, but things just got more...complicated, Sunny and Celeste, the girls you met earlier, they uh...they might be staying with us a little...", The younger brother was about to interject but judas was a step ahead of them, "I'm not happy about it either, but...there's a chance they might not be safe and this is all more scary then we thought there was and sky's wand was being used...and...look if you know about this secret, then we need you to help us keep it till we figure out what's going on...".

"Are you kidding me..."

"No, i'm not...".

"I knew you should've minderased him...", luna said softly.

"I beg your pardon?", Landon shot back, his three eyes almost lighting up.

"Look!", Judas put his hands between them, "I'm not happy about this either...i'm really not, but...we're in a tight spot here and between the both of us...w-we may be able to keep this under control till it's fixed.". His brother only snorted, "And by that you mean lie to our parents, grandparents, entire kingdom, and brother? You just don't know when to say no do you? ". But the brunette crossed his arms, "Landon, we both know full well you'd rather be going on adventures then sitting alone in your room...like i know i'm probably asking a lot from you...but...I got roped into this and...i just need someone else to trust at home..".

Landon grumbled, "Fine, but don't expect me to babysit or something...they're still your problem...".

"Fine."

"Like you need to babysit us...", Celeste stepped forward, "We're just here, because you have food, and well...it's better then living in the cat-face dimension or something...". She clutched her wand in her hand and tapped it against her other hand, "All you have to do, is just keep the secret, not like we're asking you to die for us or something...".

"Speaking of which...", Luna pulled out something from one of her pockets, "I picked this up out of...sky's room, we all need to cover up so there's no more...accidents..". She opened up the lid of the jar and stuck her finger in the goo before placing it over her marks carefully, "It adjusts to your skintone, normally it's to cover up blemishes, but for now...it's best we don't draw any more attention to our marks...". The reddish demon looked them over as luna passed the cream over to sunny, "Can't all mewmans get those things?".

"They can...with enough magic exposure, but the royal family gets a ton of it since they control the wand, not to mention keep the magic to themselves...unless in this universe everyone has magic marks...which i assume they don't, they're typically associated with the royal family. And last thing we need is for that to get us caught...we'll have to especially be wary of our wands in public as well, this...is going to be a very annoying task...but if i get enough time...we could get out as soon as 4...maybe 5 days from now...".

"And that's if no one murders us or something...", Celeste finished up her make-up to hand it over to galexia, "What if some creep is watching us right now? What if they're right outside the door, whoever you're assuming is responsible for this...".

"I-I don't know, we're just going to have to keep on our toes...for now...", luna regained her composure to look to judas, "So when does Sky's class...end exactly?". He thought for a moment, "You know, i don't actually know, Queen Star is...not always the best planner, lemme just...", he reached for his compact, only to find it was missing from his jacket's pocket. "Oh no...that's...no i had it recently, i...", then the realization hit him and his brows furrowed, "Angel...".

"Who?"

"That doesn't matter right now, he stole my compact, geez i knew him leaving so suddenly was peculiar, he pickpocketed me!", He checked his other pockets to make sure and sure enough, there was no compact in sight. "Great, now i have to go back and take out that little-", But the tall blonde roughly grabbed his shoulder, "Did you put anything incriminating to our situation on there...?".

He took a moment, "No, nothing too revealing, even if he read my texts, though i have a password, he wouldn't know what we were talking about other then we were up to something i guess...". Luna grumbled, "Ok how about this, "You, me, and...Galexia go and get it back, the others can stay with your...brother here.". Sunny raised her hand, "I can help! He's a...Arachman right? My daddy and eclipsa taught me all about his kind of monster! I can help get it back!".

"But i'm sure galexia can-"

"I'll be fine..."

Judas stepped forward to side with Sunny, "Actually yeah, if she knows about his kind she's probably better suited to go, i mean you'll both have to drop the wands to avoid suspicion but i'm sure you have demon powers right?", She nodded, and he clapped his hands together, "Then it's settled, we'll just collect my compact and come right back!". Luna didn't seem pleased at all, "But c'mon, what about...sword training? I'm a natural that that, i mean, i'm sure we'll just be fine with two even!".

"Trust me, she's already displayed she can fight without magic to me...", Sunny rubbed her arm, "I'll uh...i'll make sure not to stab anyone this time...". He held out his hands for them to take, "It'll only take a few minutes, and i doubt we'll need to fight anyone anyway, i'm just bringing you both in case angel tries anything, his parents are rather alright with me, so we'll probably be fine."

Sunny grabbed his hand, "The legs are the weak spots, they can easily lose balance, if they're using them to walk. Watch out for the mouth because they have paralyzing bites, and they're fairly weak at magic but still, make sure to keep an eye on their webbing abilities.!" Judas smiled, "Impressive, you really have been studying on monsters, have you?"

She smiled, grinning ear to ear, "I like to spend time with other monsters, i find out about all kinds of cool stuff! Plus mom and dad...they want to make sure me and my brother are safe...just in case...". Luna grabbed onto judas's other hand before he could say anything more and took a breath, "Fine, let's just go...".

Judas looked to Landon, who was still staring at them, unpleased with his current situation, but not even remotely sure what to say about it. "Just keep an eye on Celeste and Galexia, we'll be back shorty...". They disappeared in a ball of flames and Landon's three eyes wandered to the girls he was stuck with, one was giving him an equally dirty look, and the other was sitting on the floor lost in space.

He stood up and walked towards her, snapping his fingers in front of her to get her attention, she woke up quickly, blinking before smiling and looking behind him. "You play violin? I used to play guitar back home! My dad taught me!". Landon didn't say anything, but she giggled and stood up, almost prancing around the room.

"What...what the heck is with her?", He eyed towards Celeste, who wasn't even looking at him directly in the face. "Don't ask, just keep her away from any important papers you have in here...". Galexia fell on the bed face first, legs hanging off the side, "I haven't been to the underworld in awhile! Is Mr Tom here?".

"Uhhhhhh...yes?", He replied, "I mean, he's not off on a trip to another kingdom today to my knowledge at least?". The girl's green eyes sparkled, "Oh, can I go see him?". Landon exchanged looks with Celeste, dumbfounded, "No, pretty sure you talking to my dad is exactly the OPPOSITE of what judas and the bossy blonde girl asked of me...".

"Awww, but i like hanging around the underworld!"

"Well, apparently you're stuck in my room, so tough luck..."

Celeste bit her lip, "Well, you know, it's not exactly what they said, but... our marks are covered up, we could always just...go walk around or something...". She paced for a bit, ignoring Landon's confused expression, "I mean, i can't believe i'm being forced to live here but frankly, or that i'm agreeing with her, but personally i'm not very interested in constantly going from room to room and being stuck there and doing nothing untill i get out of this universe...".

"So...?"

"So, i have't eaten in hours, lets go do something while we wait for ou- your stupid brother...", She walked over to the bed and grabbed Lexi's shoulder, she wasn't easy to drag considering she was clearly way taller and way older then her but she managed. "Our marks are covered and if you just say we're friends of yours no one will bat an eye...".

"Well, Jude says he'll be back in a few minutes...".

"Well, we're gonna be living with you for glob knows how long, If i'm staying here, at least let me actually walk around...today's sucked enough as is...plus knowing your brother he'll probably go do something else then do what he was supposed to do...". He bit his lip, but ultimately followed her, "Eh, fine, why not...just don't touch anything i guess, like i need my folks on my back..."

The girl grumbled, "Yeah i know how THAT feels...".

Landon was about to close the door behind him, when he headed back right away to grab his violin case and sling it around his back before running up to catch up with the girls. " I'm gonna tell you right now, i don't normally go out and "Have Fun" with people. So I dunno if having me around is gonna make anything more exciting then us sitting in my room waiting for judas...". The chocolate eyed girl just shrugged, "Honestly i don't care...you can stay here for all i care, but i'm not. I want to eat, i want to use a bathroom, and i want to do something other then feel locked in a room, feeling sad because my stupid parents are probably freaking worried sick!".

He shut himself up and closed his bedroom door behind him.

"Whatever.."

-
Honestly Sky wasn't sure what she expected.

Maybe she expected some fancy outdoor training ground that she'd see in those kung-fu movies Judas would show her, maybe she expected this fancy holographic room that could create fake enemies like in a video game, heck maybe she just expected to train in an elaborate area. All of these things felt like what the great star butterfly would have at her fingertips.

And yet, Sky still managed to be surprised yet again when her mother pulled her to earth to the Echo Creek Mall and went to a clearly old and messy Karate class. There was even a class already in session and here her mom was, dragging her inside like she owned the place.

She let go of her daughter's arm to excitably walk up to the karate teacher, sky couldn't make out what they were saying but she she could see the kids of the class giving her weird looks and whispering under their breathe, no doubt wondering who these people were and why they were here.

Next thing sky knew the Karate teacher made an announcement, "CLASS IS ENDING EARLY TODAY!". And Sky watched as the kids packed up to leave, some happy, others giving her dirty looks as no doubt her mom was responsible for them leaving a class some of them probably wanted to stay for.

The teacher left quickly after and Star giggled excitably before using her magic to clean up the room, "Marco used to train here when he still took karate, but now, it's gonna be our training ground for today's spell class! Hopefully marco's "Magical spirit" will help you with your magic while you're here!".

"Mom...did you really just uh...interrupt a class to teach me in here? I mean, i'm sure there are better places to teach me, ones on mewni, that are closer to...things i need to take care of.", But her mother hushed her, heading off to the far side of the room, "No sky, THIS place, it's perfect!".

Sky pulled out her wand, "Ok...I guess...uh...how are we supposed to do this? Are you...are you gonna shoot spells at me or something?"

"No sweetie, you're just standing in the way!", Star nodded to the seat on sky's left and she awkwardly rubbed the back of her head before taking a seat. She was itching to text Judas, but her mom would easily grab her compact and keep it from her till they were finished, and that wasn't worth the risk, yet.

"Now, we're gonna start with something simple, Narwhal blast! Throw your wand to me ok?", Sky tossed her wand over and it transformed the moment it hit star's hand, back to the way it was when star gave it to Sky over over a year ago. These days Star only used magic using her hands, though her reliance on magic was minimum. She did a few stretches before checking to make sure Sky was still paying attention to her, "Ok, so you're gonna wanna hold your arms out like this, and get you feeties here.."

Sky was half paying attention as her mother cast her favorite spell, as her mind lingered elsewhere.

Someone sabotaged the archives, her wand malfunctioned and broke space and time, she had four new sisters to keep track of, and not to mention freaking Angel is probably suspicious as heck about earlier. There was too much to keep track of now, and it's only been a day!

She felt tired, hungry, and stressed out of her mind.

"Sky? Sweetie?"

Sky looked up and almost jumped as Star's face was WAY too close for comfort, "Everything ok ?I kinda don't think you were paying too much attention to the lesson...", she pointed to the narwhals flopping around on the floor. Sky shook her head, "Sorry, I...didn't really eat today, and had a hard time sleeping...".

Her mother placed a hand on her shoulder and frowned before putting a new smile upon her lips, her eyes shining up, "Well, we have this place all to ourselves for the rest of the day, you wanna go grab a burrito from one of the stands in the mall and eat real quick so your stomach doesn't ache?".

She stared down at her compact, thinking about it before answering claming.

"Sure, let's go."

Angel's kingdom was...something.

At least with Star's help the town was livable, busted up buildings were repaired, they had more kits for first aid, and in general the place seems much more cheery as it could get or a race of terrifying spider people. Lucky for them, they clearly had no intent to cause any real harm to them, going about their normal day.

Judas could almost count how many he saw on his hands, but to his knowledge from his own parents the town consisted of about 50 total citizens. Not the highest of numbers but it was much better then it was before he was born, not to mention it was likely some of their race chose to live in other dimensions for a better life.

A few kids ran past them, laughing and giggled and trying not to trip on all of their legs.

The place didn't seem perfect, but it was thriving.

Judas couldn't help but speak as they walked over to the front entrance of a very run-down, very small castle, "So...is it weird...if i ask...i mean, Arachmen are still around in your world so this all...different to you?". Luna was quiet, "Let's just get back to the task at hand...so this angel person, is he dangerous?".

"Not really...i mean, at least not for me or sky...".

"Is he evil?"

"Not exactly, though his demands are ridiculous, i kinda think of it more as him acting like a brat then anything...".

"What's the plan here exactly?"

"Simple, watch and learn", Judas stood in front of the door, the guards paid him no mind, and the girls could only assume that meant it was far from the first time judas had been there. Maybe stealing his stuff was something angel did on a regular basis or something?

The first assumption Luna had was he was about to knock, but instead the doors opened on their own for him, as he stepped inside with his companions. "They might look kinda intimidating, but they're rather formal and decent people when you get to know them, best not to judge them by angel himself..."

Servants closed the door behind him and they were greeted but a small throne room, most the castle seemed made of wood, cobwebs were everywhere and ripped tapestries lined the walls. Though Judas remained calm as he approached the two wooden thrones in front of him, one completely empty and void of the queen.

But the other holding a much large spider king, one who looked rather pleased to see the demon prince. "Judas! Always nice to have your presence in my home! I suppose Angelus er...did something again, didn't he? That seems to be usually the case for visiting me...".

"He might of gotten his hands on my compact...", the four eyes were wandering to the girls at his side and he could only assume sunny's tail was grasping it's dagger just a little tighter. "Oh, these are my...companions, Luna and Sunny, don't mind them, we were hanging out when my...well when i figured out angel snagged my compact, this is just a little detour.". The king didn't question any further, trusting the prince easily, he got up and off his throne, long spider legs touching the ground first before lowering so his normal ones could touch it.

"I'll go find angel, please wait here, perhaps help yourself to some treats..", a servant made it's way forward holding out a tray of what looked to be insect kabobs as the king left through a door on another side of the room. Luna flinched a little at the "Food", but judas and sunny seemed to have no problem politely taking it. "I'm good...ate awhile ago...", the girl said as the servant left, that was a lite of course, she was starving, but not hungry enough to eat..."Monster food".

Judas took a bite, "You remind me of my mother, it took awhile for them to get used to this kinda food as well...". But the girl only crossed her arms, "No...i'm just not, well what if their food is poisoned or something?". He swallowed and was almost tempted to laugh, "Ok for one, you'd be risking me and sunny dying in that case and two, this kingdom would be one of the LAST to want royal blood on their hands. If something happened to me, their kingdom would only fall, and it's not a smart move for them in the slightest..."

"Sorry, i'm...of course...", Sunny finished eating and licked the stick clean, "You ok?". Her arms hugged her body and she sighed, "I just haven't been in a situation where i feel so...useless, everything is so different here, it looks like the same place, but it's not. I'm...i'm normally a lot more...in charge, of my surroundings, i know how everything works but...now...everything is...new."

She took a breath, "But it's fine, I just need...I need to get myself together, focus on the task at hand. I...I need to just focus on something I know makes sense...". Judas tossed his finished stick into a nearby trashbag hanging on the wall, "Then I suggest to just focus on your task, right now, focus just on getting my compact...then afterwards...focus on the next task...". Her gaze turned to sunny, "I don't get it, you're taking this all so well then me, aren't you worried?".

"Well yeah but...".

"But-? "

"But it's only been a day right? Just one day, I think we can do it! I mean, you seem pretty smart, and judas does, i think if we all put our heads together, we'll figure this out! I mean, Ms Meteora always told me it's better to think positive! I mean...it's weird, and i'm so confused and nervous, but we'll get home! Let's just get through today first, ok?".

"Father I really don-", The party turned around as the king returned, pushing his son along gently. "Angel, me and your mother are sick of your antics! Now can you please hand over the compact so we can end this nonsense? You were supposed to be at your lessons today but you never showed up!". Angel didn't even look up at the part as he was pushed towards them, facing the ground with all four of his dark and red eyes, "I had more important things to take care of..?"

"Like stealing a royal's compact?"

The boy said nothing, his white pink hair failing to hide his face.

Curse his love of wearing a ponytail.

He looked up to face Angel, only glancing at his companions, he held the compact out in his hand, "Take it...". Judas grabbed it and pocketed it, "I'll check to make sure he didn't tamper with it...later, though why he went through the trouble to steal it only to give it right back is...questionable..". Angel, lucky for Judas, was a terrible liar. "Well, i don't have a compact of my own and i just wanted to y'know...see what it was like to have one...father won't get me one y'know..".

"Because we can't yet afford so, not to mention how irresponsible you are! Are you a prince or not?", angel grumbled but before anymore could happen another servant ran in. She looked frantic, "Sir, i'm sorry to interrupt, but your wife collapsed again..". His previously stern demeanor suddenly left, leaving a frantic one in it's place, "I'm deeply sorry prince lucitor and companions, me and Angelus have to leave. It was wonderful to see you and i hope our next meeting is under better circumstances..".

He started walking away, "Come Angel, I want you in my sight...".

"Wait!", The king turned around as the demon girl spoke, "Is the queen ok? Maybe we all can go visit her? I'm sure she wouldn't mind some company...". Luna grabbed her shoulder, "But Sunny, we er...don't we have other things to do when we get back, people waiting for us?"

Sunny shook her off though, whispering to her companions, "C'mon, we can spare some time! Sky's gonna be busy for awhile, and i'm sure landon and the others will be fine awhile longer. Besides...it would give you time to question angel on why he took your compact for real.."

Judas actually seemed to reconsider it judging by his facial expression and he answered before Luna could protest any further, "You know, sure, why not i suppose. i guess we can spare a little bit of time if she'll have us...we...don't have anything to rush back for...". The king looked surprised, but then his lips turned to a smile, "Well, then that's wonderful! I'm sure Arana would love to see some friendly faces, come...we need to go see her quickly...".

Angel was pushed to the front, his father behind him, most likely to make sure he didn't do anything to the group behind him who were following them around the small castle. It didn't take long at all to find the royal bedroom and the Queen being helped back into bed, and the king took his son's hand to drag him over to see her.

"Arana? Darling are you ok?", Looking her over it was clear where angel got some of his features, her own white-pink hair was the biggest, but she had a lovely fair pink skintone and a marking between her upper eyes, her nose was too small to be angel's though, and her eyes were white and not red, but the resemblance was there. She wore a red gown with little web patterns all around and some slippers to match on her normal feet, she look groggy and perhaps too tired to move to speak.

Judas glanced over to angel, who was forced to kneel by his mother's bedside, the boy was trying his hardest to avoid her gaze.

The woman didn't speak, thought if it was because she was sick or because she simply didn't want to was hard to tell. However her husband looked over to the three teens at the doorway and ushered them forwards, "Arana, we have guests, they wanted to see you...you remember prince Judas of the lucitor kingdom of course, and these are his...friends..".

They group got on the other side of the large wooden, web infested bed, upon closer inspection her spiderish legs looked weak. She moved only inch by inch, it was no surprise she fell down considering her current fragile state. There was food by her beside, all in little bites so she'd have an easier time eating, along with some water in a paper cup.

She slightly glanced over at the trio, but seemed to have little to nothing to say. The king sighed, "Don't be surprised if she doesn't speak, she's been doing less and less of that lately...it's nothing against you, it's...it's just something we're dealing with now...".

This was hard to watch, for Sunny the most, as she probably didn't know exactly how sick the queen might have been. But she still attempted to smile, "Hello Arana! It's a pleasure to meet you! I'm Sunny, I'm one of Judas's friends!". She didn't answer back, as expected, but that didn't seem to stop the demon girl, "I'm sorry you're not feeling well, but your family is here for you...and...i wanted to see you too...it's a lot nicer to have company when you don't feel so well...".

"Stop...".

Everyone turned to angel, whose arms were crossed, "D-don't...don't try to make it seem like everything is going to be fine ok?". It was hard to tell, but judas thought he saw tears leaking out of the prince's eyes, just a little bit.

"Angel...".

"Father, can i be excused? I have...lessons to take care of after all...".

"Angel, your mother-"

"She has them...besides, i have more to take care of then them..."

The king sighed, nodding to a servant, "Go with him, make sure he stays with his tutor...we'll be fine...". Angel was escorted out of the room without so much as a glance back, leaving behind his parents and the group of three. "Forgive my son, it's...", but he didn't finish what he was about to say.

Sunny glanced over to the feeble woman, before glanced to the king, "Hey? Sir? Do you have any paper and coloring tools around here?".

"So you spend all your time in your bedroom huh?"

Landon shot the brunette a look as he put his earbuds back in to listen to his music, he probably should've stuck to the private dining room for his family, but the castle dining hall at least allowed him to drown out the girl's voices from mocking him. No demons paid them any mind, though landon couldn't help but feel as if he was getting some looks simply because no one had ever seen him actually hang out with people other then his brothers before.

He closed all three of his eyes, feet perched on the table as he leaned back on his chair, Judas was taking an awfully long time on his mission, but then again since when was his brother not off on some kooky adventure at this point. He'd call him when he was getting home anyway, and at least this kept him from chewing him out for not waiting for him in his bedroom.

Celeste, annoyed at being ignored, poked him with her fork. "Hey, dude...c'mon now, rude to ignore a lady when she's asking you a question...", Landon pushed the fork away and she took another bite of the strange meat on her plate, she could only assume it was probably Gryffin meat, but the underworld was full of nothing but monster food for the most part.

"Just finish up eating...", he opened up one of his eyes to observe galexia, who was balancing a spoon on her nose. He was looking forward to dropping them back on his brother after this frankly, he was accustomed to being alone and stuff like this reminded him why.

He just wanted to sit here and listen to his tunes, but that was especially going to be a lot harder when Celeste pulled them out of his rounded ears. "Hey! What was that for?!", She gave him a look, "I asked you a question, and you're ignoring it...".

"I don't have to answer to you, just go back to eating, what? You suddenly care about me being here and talking to you?", She grumbled, "No, i don't, I wanted to know because frankly, you don't look like you get out much...i'm curious as to why". He grumbled, putting his buds back in his ears, "Just eat...". She went back to do so, occasionally staring at the red hoodie landon was wearing, she probably had something to say but instead she decided to keep her mouth shut, finishing her meal.

Landon was finally met with a silent break to his music, until he felt another poke on his shoulder.

"Ugh just STOP!", he pushed back the force angrily.

Only to find out the other force wasn't a fork.

It was his parents.

King Thomas and Queen Marco at first looked rather bothered at being brushed off, but then smiled at their son's clearly embarrassed face and he immediately took his feet off the table before they lectured him. Tom reached out to ruffle the dark reddish pink hair as he pulled out one of the earphones, "C'mon now landon, can't you be excited to see your own parents? Things got so busy today we haven't gotten to see you boys much all day!".

The king's three eyes then wandered to the two girls sitting at the table with landon, one whose hand immediately covered the other's mouth. Well, at least this time Celeste was making more of an effort to not spill their secret out to just anyone.

Though then again, maybe she was just embarrassed of the things Galexia might say in front of them, she only knew her for a day in a half and she knew well enough she was the one to keep the closest eye on. It was still kinda hard to tell whether she still thought she was dreaming, or not.

"Landon...whose your friends?", Marco was the first one to speak out and Landon watched Celeste specifically freeze at the sight of his mother. Landon shrugged, "They're uh...they're some friends of Sky's, so uh...sky got busy so they're hanging out...with me...".

"Oh wonderful! It's nice to see you hanging out with some friends your age...", Marco wrapped their arm around Tom, "We're landon's parents, it's a pleasure to meet you...er..?". Celeste's eyes moved away, "Celeste...and this is...Galexia...don't mind her, she talks too much...".

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet both of you...", Tom then proceeded to talk to landon, "Hey, you haven't seen Judas in awhile have you? We tried texting him but he hasn't said anything. He's clearly trailed off his usual schedule and that means his chores have kinda gone undone...". Landon mumbled, "Well, yeah i saw him earlier, dude lost his compact, he's getting it...or finding it". Marco sighed in relief, "Good good, at least he didn't end up in some trouble again...".

Celeste eyed Landon, as if to wonder how often exactly his brother got into these kinda situations.

"Untill he gets back, do you think you mind feeding Lucy? It was his turn today but he's not here and she's getting antsy...", Landon groaned as his mother placed a kiss on his cheek, "thanks sweetie...hey, maybe your new friends can help too, lucy likes company!".

"So...", Celeste glanced at them, "You two are the king and queen of the underworld?"" The tone of her voice was off, her grumpy voice was clearly there but at the same time she also looked a little bit uncomfortable, her voice even was a little softer then it usually was.

"Yep, don't worry about it, trust us...we're way more awkward in person then you might think...", Marco ran some fingers through their hair, "Last night was a bit...crazy, but now we're getting back on track to our normal schedule as long as nothing else goes nuts...".

Tom's eyes lightened up, "Oh, that reminds me, after you feed lucy, can you meet us in the gardens? Your brother's plants are starting to get out of hand again, we need to get rid of some of those weeds especially, it'll be easier with all of us on staff...".

Marco put their hands together, the crescent marks on their cheeks lighting up for a second.

"Then we can all meet up again for dinner tonight, your friends can join us if they want they seem lovely.", Marco didn't quite seem to know what to make of the girls, but their polite demeanor didn't waver, "Make sure and let your brother know, we'll send him a text so hopefully when he finds his compact he'll get it ...but just in case..tell him.". Marco's arm grabbed onto Tom's , "Been a busy day, hopefully after today's over we can get at least a little more of a break...".

Tom's hand reached over to rub his son's shoulder, "We'll see you soon ok ? Don't wanna impede on your little "get together", I've sure we've embarrassed you enough...see you soon ok?". Landon's face was slightly redder then usual as his parents winked to him and moved on to probably get a snack after...whatever they got into today. Most likely they just did paper work and meetings, but there were plenty of times they did end up on more dangerous encounters.

Celeste slowly removed her hand from the brunette's mouth, watching the adults leave before quietly going back to eat.

Galexia set her head on her hands, watching them go off, "They make a cute couple...is miss jackie anywhere around here too?". Landon just gave her a look, "Er, you mean head knight of the butterfly kingdom jackie? Uh...what?". Galexia blinked at him, and he crossed his arms, "Just finish your food, apparently i have chores now...", he plugged his earphone back in, "Guess you have to help me too...since you need me to get around...".

"Did you just force me into doing your chores?", Celeste looked tempted to almost take her fork and stab him with it but he only smiled, "Hey, feeding lucy ain't so bad, she's a good dog, the plants on the other hand ...wait...where did you put your wands anyway?".

Celeste raised up her arm, a bracelet Landon hand't taken much notice of till now was attached, a pink band with the face of her wand was attached. "I'm not leaving this thing out of my sight, even if i have to pretend it's not there till i get out of this stupid mess...". She helped raise Galexia's to reveal a purse on her arm, "She didn't seem to know how to do it herself so i had to fix it for her...". Her tone seemed a little more down then usual as her eyes shifted back to almost look at the royal couple talking excitably as they grabbed some cereal .

"Well, chores are still better then sitting in my room, right?", he smirked as she gave him a dirty look, "Hey relax, you'll be fine, i mean...probably...lucy is pretty tame, i'm never sure with mason's plants though, mom and dad never want him to have anything dangerous in there but half that stuff i swear might be poisoness...Though granted, it's probably my fault considering how many rare seeds I give him to keep him from spilling secrets and stuff...". Celeste finished stuffing her face and stood up, "Fine, let's go...i'd rather get out of here anyway, it's...people are staring...".

She grabbed the other girl's arm and nodded to landon, "Take us to your dog or whatever...".

He shrugged and got up, following them out.

But not before glancing back at his parents, biting his lips as he glanced at the grumpy girl motioning for him to catch up.

He was still missing something here, wasn't he?

Sky took a bite out her burrito, eyes darting away from her mother who sat across from her, "As soon as you finish up we'll head right back for lessons, mark my words...but honestly i think i needed a lunch break too! Been a hard day, but we found a nice new chandelier to replace the old one, so that's good at least...". Sky's face cringed, immediately thinking of something to change the subject, anything. "So...angel? right?", Her mother blinked, then she stopped smiling, "Oh, yeah Judas took him to see me...but i don't feel like talking about that..."

The woman took another bite of her burrito, "He talks about things he can't ever fully understand, time travel? Messing with the fabric of time and the universe? See this is why I can't talk to him, he has no idea what he's talking about!". Sky's brows furrowed, "And why i'm better handling him...right?". Star blinked before shaking her head, "What? No...I've told you sky, it's practice for when you become queen, handling threats, and dealing with other royals.".

"Right...that's what it is...", She needed to tone down her attitude before she got herself in trouble, she took a breath and went back to eating. This wasn't the time to get on her mom's case about Angel, there was other things going on now. Though what she was talking about couldn't help but spark her interest a little bit, dropping her frustrations, she thought...maybe she could get something out of this? She tapped her fingers on the table and looked up to her mother, "Well mom, how does...angel..think he could do something like that exactly? I mean, how could anyone do something like that?".

The queen bit her lip, "Well time travel is father time's deal, they'd have to get their hands on his wheelie thing and go in time with it...but...as far as the universe thing goes? I actually don't know...i mean, sometimes the universe can collapse if you don't do the thing you need to do but...i'm not an expert, but don't worry about it. Only Omnitraxius can mess with that junk, and there's no way Angel's going near him..". She almost pulled on her hair, "I swear with that boy, first it was stupid stuff like me re-writing history, then it was wanting my mom on trial even though the biggest queen to hurt his people was solaria, now it's this? Ughhh, i wish i could do more here but his parents need to control their son more...".

Her blue eyes examined their surroundings till she spotted something that clearly got her interest, her hand immediately waved to the person of interest and sky immediately recognized the dark curly hair and light streak within. Now that she thought about it, yeah, Melanie was out of school now, and by the looks of it, she came with a friend judging by the boy who had been speaking to her. Star called out Melanie's name and she bolted, dragging the strange boy with her.

"SKY! MRS QUEEN LADY!", her first instinct was to wrap her arms around sky and hug her, and that's exactly what she did, bringing a small smile to the girl's face. Smiling honestly felt good after all the problems that happened today, Star seemed to love Melanie, which probably came from the fact she was as bubbly and eccentric as Star as at that age. Mel hugged her friend, practically squeezing the life out of her before hugging her mother.

Then, before Sky could even ask, Mel pushed her new friend forward who only just waved awkwardly.

"SKY! This is bernie! He's new! He sat with me at lunch a few days ago and now we're buds!", The boy adjusted his vest and turtleneck sweater, "It's actually Bernard, sorry, i'm still kinda new...your friend's just kinda showing me around...". Sky's face shifted and she smiled, "Bernard? Wait, the Bernard living across from the Diazes Bernard?". He raised an eyebrow, "Uh...yes? Wait, do you know them?". The princess smirked, "I know them, but i know you because i know their grandsons personally, you talked to landon?".

His face shifted into a smile, "You mean the moody kid with the red hoodie, little horns, three eyes, and pink skin? Yeah i remember him, The Diazes were really eager for me to meet their grandkids, but he's the one who seemed to have the most interest in talking to me. How is he? ".

Sky was only so tempted to tell him about Landon's small obsession with the boy, but perhaps spilling that info about the kid who was also keeping a big secret for her now was a terrible idea. She instead just smirked, "He's alright, i'll let him know i saw you, maybe we can all hang out sometime together? He'd like that...".

"Yeah, that'd be cool...", Sky looked him over with interest, the boy was perhaps a little strange looking to say the least, but sky could get why Landon found him cool. He had piercings on his lips, tongue, and ears, his eyes looked more silver then anything else, and his hair was half black, and half brown, though which one was his normal hair color sky couldn't tell. His skin was fairly darker then sky's or her mom's, and his voice sounded rather friendly and smooth.

"What'cha doing at the mall anyway!?", the dark skinned girl asked excitably, "You should've called ahead of time, we could totally hang out and talk about...stuff...". She gave her friend a wink, and Sky turned to her mother who didn't seem to catch the girl's suspicious not-very-subtle behavior. Instead she smiled and put an arm around her daughter, "Teaching lessons, we're having her practice magic properly! Right now we're having a small break, wanna join?"

"Oh no no no, my mom's making dinner tonight and she'd be all like-", The girl scrunched up her face and made a mocking voice, "Melaine, how dare you spoil your dinner tonight! I spent a long time today making it and you're not even going to touch it!?". She laughed at herself before tugging the boy next to her, "Besides, my mom also wanted to meet bernie, she's so excited i have an actual friend AT SCHOOL! Buuuutttt, we can at least watch the rest of your lesson!"

"That sounds delightful, right sky? It'll be less scary with your friends there!", The girl clutched onto her wand, "Well I-I uh...". It might not be the best idea to have melaine around her mother considering how hard it can be for her to not talk about exciting things such as participating in an important mission, but at the same time, it gave Sky a chance to talk to her and gain some additional help.

"Uh...sure, why not? I guess when we're done eating you can join us...", the girl let out a squeak and Bernard seemed mutually to accept whatever the girl just dragged him into.

Sky could feel her compact buzzing inside her pocket, pulling it out, she saw Judas's texts.

Judas: At arachford kingdom, angel stole compact, suggest keeping an eye on him from now on.

She quickly slipped it back into her pocket before rejoining the conversation.

Judas sat quietly in the corner as the small princess started drawing little pictures with the queen, trying to make her smile. It seemed to work, and by that they meant she moved more then usual, eyes actually watching the girl draw small puppies or flowers for her.

Judas could only assume that where she came from, she was used to cheering sick people up.

Luna on the other hand, looked eager to leave. Maybe it was her uninterest in the gross food, perhaps she was eager to go back and get back to work on figuring this mess out, or maybe the place just in general gave her the creeps. But it was clear by her movements she was waiting for the cue to start going home.

She played with her ring, something judas hand't noticed till now looked an awful lot like her wand. Now that he thought about it, he hadn't seen their wands after they transported, looking to Sunny, he spotted a necklace around her neck he knew he'd never seen before now.

He must;ve been too distracted before to notice them.

How clever.

"I'm eager to leave too y'know...", He checked his phone again, looking over his parents' texts, "My parents are asking for me, i texted them i'm fine and ok, but i'm busy...and while that's true, i'm not exactly busy with what i should...as per usual...".

"You're going to be king next year?", the girl asked, not even looking up from her ring playing.

"Yes...", He said softy, "How'd you know...?".

"Because i'm going to be queen soon, back home of course...I know one when i see one...", She twirled the ring around her fingers, "You become concerned with balancing your life, you become the most familiar with your surroundings, you learn to become a leader...you're preparing to become king...".

"I-I uh..."

"Ok, fine, you just look too old to not be king soon, though you do remind me of what a future leader looks like...", He watched the demon girl by the bed hand the queen a drawing of a kitten and smiled, "I'll take that as a compliment.". His three eyes watched her play with her wand ring, "I'm sorry you've been dragged into this mess...well...all of it...today's been...insane so far...one problem after another...".

"Back home i'm not used to being under so much conflict at one...", She mumbled, "Looks as if i can't say the same for you...based on your friend...". He sighed, "Sky's my friend, and i'm always gonna try my best to be here for her...whether to cheer her up...or help her out. Been doing that most of my life...".

"Been involved in stuff like this?"

"Been involved with potentially worse, Sky got me into a few schemes...been in situations where i had to lie, or almost got killed, not fond of it. Never quite been involved with people from alternate realities however, this...this is new...and I don't think any of us know how to go about it...", He folded his hands together, "Everything is going by so fast today, that we can't even process what's happening, it's one problem after another...".

He eyed her, "But if there's anything I know from being forced to fight gangs, explore caverns, and steal from people we REALLY should've stayed away from...is if we put our heads together, we'll figure out something.", He smiled softly, "Right now, i just wanna enjoy the silence a bit...I think i needed a rest...".

Luna crossed her arms, head turned away, "I can't rest as easily...so many things went wrong, everything is wrong, it's...I want to get back and start as soon as i get back but...truth is...I don't even know where to start when i get there...". The two looked at each other as she continued, "How do you solve a problem when your reality isn't the one you know?".

"I wish I had the answer...", the demon took another glance over to sunny, "She's a pretty wise kid for her age...at that age i was still having nightmares... and hiding in my folk's arms because I just didn't want to be alone...". Luna nodded, "Yeah, I guess so...", she didn't sound so sure but he placed a hand on her shoulder, "We'll figure something out ok? It's...it's fine to not be ok...I-I can't imagine how you guys are feeling right now...".

There was silence for a moment before the blonde spoke again, "Judas?".

"Hmm?"

"I just want to make it through tonight first...like she said...at least if i can make it through one day, i can make it through the next, and the next. I'm angry, i'm upset, i'm...confused, and worried about...all of this, but...I-I..I have to remain cool...now's not the time to panic. I'm best when I focus on something and tonight...I just want to focus on making it through tonight...", She took a deep breath as the ring slipped back on her finger, "I have to remain strong..."

This seemed to calm her down and for what felt like the first time today, she smiled, "I'm going to be queen and this is not going to be the thing that stops me...".

The demon whispered to her, watching the king as he spoke, "Not to interrupt, but...if you want a lead, we need to figure out what angel's up to. Why he needed my compact, what else he's been up to by skipping classes. He may not be as powerful or as devious as the high commission is, but his current interest in time travel and dimensions...at a time like this...it's suspicious...".

She whispered back, "He might've snuck out this time, but when we get back we can take a good look at that compact. If he needed a compact, he must've needed it to contact someone, we'll have to track any new messages and calls...I mean...unless he has other reasons for your stuff...you don't keep anything cryptic in there...right?."

"Nothing that'd be any use to him...I can promise you that, unless he has creepy plans to download picks i took, cause without a compact knowing phone numbers isn't much use..", the girl's face was stern, but she seemed more clear of the mind, as if being a strategist and this kinda planning were something comforting to her.

Something familiar to latch on to, something that made sense.

Just like what she needed.

Then a laugh rang out through the room, and the two almost jumped as they looked towards the spider queen who had a smile parted on her face, a laugh escaping her lips. Sunny was giggling with her, she succeeded in cheering her up. Judas was about to ask her what she did to make her laugh when Sunny seemed to read her mind and showed him a picture she drew of what appeared to be...

"Is that... angel?"

Sunny nodded, proudly.

The image showed the spider prince making a silly face and the queen took it carefully from the girl's hands, she looked over it with her four eyes and spoke in a weaker voice then one might expect, "My little angel...he used to make faces like that for me a long time ago, where is he darling?".

The king was wiping tears from his face as her took her hand, "Angel left awhile ago to work...on his studies, i'll get him after they're done ok?". Arana smiled, and she even seemed to be crying a little, "Darling, I-I still feel...". She didn't finish what she had to say but it was fine, he knew enough, "Arana, it's going to be ok, we're here for you...these kids came to see you...". She smiled, "I like this one...she reminds me of how he was when he was little...".

She nodded to Sunny, who beamed, not even minding the fact earlier the woman hadn't seemed to notice her at all.

Arana's face seemed to have a little more life in it, though it didn't last much longer as her smile vanished a little later and she nodded off to sleep. Her husband sighed, "Well, it might not have lasted long, but it was so nice to see her smile for a bit...".

"Will she be ok?", Luna asked, making their heads turn to her as she'd been the most quiet upon entering their room. King Archford frowned, "I-I don't know...we...we hope so...", he tightly squeezed her hand before turning to the kids. "You three should return, i'm sure your folks are getting worried and I don't want to keep you, especially you prince lucitor...".

Judas gave a polite bow, "It was a welcome visit, sorry it was under...well...not the best of terms again...". Sunny got up and off the bed to get behind judas, and luna did the same, the prince smiled down at the woman, "If there's anything my family can do, well the underworld is always there...".

The king nodded, "I know...and thank you...".

Judas took his companions hands, and they burst off back home.

Sky wasn't sure if she was more nervous or less nervous with people watching her on the stands, but she was leaning to the former as Melanie cheered like the world's craziest fangirl, Bernard watching next to her and clapping politely. There were strewn narwhals everywhere, which might make it sound as though Sky had performed the spell successfully, but upon looking at the narwhals it was clear they looked less then...normal. Sky felt her mother's eyes watching her, as if deciding if it were sky or the wand.

She went for it again, this time with a little more success then before, the narwhal's horn stuck to the wall on the other side. But she could still feel her mother's eyes on her, suspicious. Sky gulped, but her mother smiled as she showed her a new spell to learn, jellybean hallucination mist.

An hour passed, And Sky desperately wanted the lesson to end.

Not just because she was eager to get home, not just because her spellcasting was embarrassing to have an audience for, but because she didn't enjoy her mom's eyes on her like this, it made her feel worse.

"One more spell, and we outta head home...", Her mother excitably pressed her hands together, "I was thinking we try...". Sky gulped, what? Warnicorn Stamped? The All-Seeing Eye Spell? Spider With A Top Hat Blast?."- CLOUDY!", Sky almost sighed in relief. But star wasn't done, "But not just ANY cloudy, YOUR OWN CLOUDY!".

"Wait You want me to summon a cloud? my own cloud?", she was relieved of course, just more surprised her mom somewhat downgraded her last spell for today and added a spin on it.

"Yep! I figure we should do something more fun for our last spell for today! You can summon your own cloudy right? You've seen me do it enough for my own, and you've summoned my cloudy before, but i think it's time for an upgrade!.", Sky could hear Mel cheering for her in the back, and she felt herself start to sweat before remembering the comforting words judas told her last night during the ball.

It was just a simple summon after all? No pressure, she just needed to do her own spin on it.

She's summoned cloudy herself plenty of times before in the past, it was nothing to scoff over.

She just...had to change it up a little.

She closed her eyes as she waved her wand and only opened them after hearing a brief poof.

"YOU DID IT!".

Opening one at a time, Sky saw her very own floating purple cloud out in front of her, with small bat wings and everything, and she felt herself start to smile. "That was awesome!", Her mother's arms wrapped around her, "See? I think this is actually starting to make a bit of a difference! We'll figure this out yet!".

Then another pair of hands wrapped around Them, Melanie laughing excitably. "THAT WAS SO COOL!", she felt her face turn bright red, "Y-yeah...that was kinda cool...". Maybe the place kinda stunk, or maybe having an audience wasn't fun, but maybe there was some hope if she kept this up.

Though as she looked at her wand, maybe not.

"So uh...does this mean we get to go home?", it was probably too soon to ask but Sky kinda felt she had to. Cool spell or not, she'd been gone awhile, it was starting to get late and she needed to meet up with the group again, the sooner she got back they better.

"Of cou-"

"QUEEN STAR!",the angry voice almost made Bernard fall from his seat as everyone turned around and jumped when a bright portal opened up, a woman with long red hair and white skin entering from it. She looked furious, and Star's face turned from one of excitement to one of concern in an instant.

"Heckapoo? What is-"

"WE NEED TO TALK, NOW!".