Sky pressed her ear to the dojo door, trying to listen into the conversation, which was a little hard with Melanie trying to listen in too. Not that she minded, she was pretty nosy in wanting to know everything anyway, but she kept moving around, trying to find the perfect spot for her ear.

To be fair, Sky could pretty much guess why Hekapoo was here, the archives were gonna be discovered eventually, not like there was much she could do about it. Especially when you draw the entire universe to it by setting off traps, Sky was probably only surprised it took this long for them to show up at all.

Their voices were muffled, but when they yelled it was easier to make out their words, and boy was Hekapooo pissed.

Well, normally she was pissed almost every time Sky saw her, but that was usually cause whenever she did see her, her mom and her would argue. No doubt still not on the best of terms from times in the past and the Eclipsa trial. Honestly the commission was probably better off sending Rhombulus for this stuff, but then again he might've forgotten why he was here or spilled some secrets if he did show up.

Though he did yell louder then hekapoo.

"I can barely hear them..."

Sky Shhed her, listening closely, she heard only little bits and pieces, but she had what she could assume to be enough.

" THE ARCHIVES-...COMPLETE WRECK..."

"WELL-...LOOK-...THE WAND IS FINE!"

Sky grumbled, this was so annoying, if only she knew a spell for this...

"Mel, you got your phone?"

The girl's eyes shifted, "Er...yes?."

Sky sighed, "What's the catch?".

"My phone might be...dead?"

"MEL!"

"Aw c'mon sky you know how much i love mobile games...it's s addictingggg..."

Then someone tapped her on the shoulder and she grumbled to see Bernard handing her his phone, "Honestly it's probably bad for me to be helping you spy on a private conversation, but after witnessing magic, and a crazy weird demon lady exciting a fiery portal, sounds like this might be worth hearing about... tie something around it and slip it under the door after you hit record...". Before Sky could even begin to respond Melaine had already untied her whole shoelace, tieing it tightly around the phone, hitting the record and slipping it under the door to catch anything going on in the room.

"Thanks bernie!", He sighed, "Well, your phone went dead and there's no way her strange communication device is fitting under there..."

Sky stopped pressing her ear against the door, rubbing her wand with her cheek, "Um...thanks dude...?". He shrugged, "It's not a big deal, a friend of mel's is a friend of mine...as long as i get that phone back after you finish listening to everything...that's probably gonna take a lot of space on it...".

Sky stood up, watching mel clutch the other end of the shoelace to stand next to him, she pulled out her compact for new updates on her friends. She eyed the boy, "You know, you're taking the whole "Magic" thing a little too well...for mel i get it, you look..."

"Unfazed? Sorry, you missed my initial reaction the day the Diaz's grandkids came over and a blast of fire like a volcano brought about a demonic carriage with a bunch of half-demons inside, at this point I have no reason to be surprised...", She pointed at him, her voice becoming more awkward, "Oh...right...that...".

"I assume you come from somewhere similar? Though i will say you look nothing like a demon..."

"No, my kind, we live above that world...long story...we'll have to tell you some time when i'm not cut for time myself", he smiled before pulling out a small bit of rope from his pocket, and proceeded to tie it and tie it until he made a curious knot and placed it in her hands, "There, when you see that knot, you'll remember to explain to me...well, you'll remember me at least...". She awkwardly pocketed the trinket, "Um...thanks...", he didn't see to be bothered by her tone though, maybe he was used to that kind of reaction?

"I'm sure you're curious why i'm helping you spy?", Bernard crossed his arms, watching melaine as sky glanced to him. "Yeah, i think that's worth asking...you some sort of trickster?", he smiled, "Oh, i'm no trickster, never been much for pranks or messing with anyone...". He closed his eyes, smile remaining, "I'm mostly helping because whatever was going on back there...sounded like you should know about it. Parents shouldn't be keeping secrets like that personally...".

"You're helping because of that?"

"Ok, technically i may be helping because melaine would be upset otherwise if i did nothing, but to be fair, since you're a princess..right? Kinda seems unfair she'd kick you out of something should concern you too...", he wasn't wrong, sky shrugged, "It's something I'm used to, it's not fair, but it's what you get when you're the most incompetent princess ever..".

Suddenly Mel pulled the phone out and scrambled to get away from the door before it burst open, Star angrily stomping out first, Hekapoo afterwards, "WE NEED TO CONSIDER IT AS AN OPTION! STAR!". The queen turned around, furious, her face reddened, "NO WE DON'T! NOW LEAVE!".

The woman sighed, "Fine, we'll see what the rest of the commission and the other kingdoms have to say then!". Star grumbled at her, "FINE!", the other woman left quickly and Star turned to her daughter, "Sky, let's go home, it's getting late, we have dinner to get to, you're friends have things to do...let's go...". She reached out for her arm but Sky pulled away, she couldn't leave now, the recording! "Wait mom, let me just...say goodbye to my friends real quick...ok?", Star palmed her face, clearly still pent up about whatever she'd been arguing about.

"Sure...sure...go ahead...just...sorry...", She sat down on the ground, the redness fading and her voice growing more soft as Sky pulled the humans aside. Whatever she'd be yelling about, it must have made her furious. But Sky'd have to figure out later as she talked to the humans,"Ok, we can't listen right now with my mom there so here's this. bernard, send mel the recording, she can report back to me what it said, we good?".

"Spying on the business of people I don't know, meeting literal demons and queens, watching people conjure clouds from nowhere, I've only lived in echo creek for a little bit and it's already more interesting then back home.", Sky snickered, before holding out her compact to show him something, "Here, that's Landon's compact number, i dunno if it works with your phones but it's worth a shot...". He looked her over, suspicious of her actions, but his smile returned as fast as it went, "You know something...don't you?".

"Just write down the number, you and landon wanna clearly hang out again, and i'm giving you an offer, take it...consider it my sorta "thanks".

Sky probably should know better to get this new kid involved in any of this, but at the same time something about him felt trustworthy, it was odd. Then again anyone who was crazy enough to be friends with melaine was probably worth trusting to begin with.

The boy scribbled it on the back of his hand as Sky pulled from them, turning to her mom, "Ok...let's go...". Then melaine wrapped her arms around sky, hugging her, "Call me soon ok! I wanna know how the thing is going...". The princess sighed, turning around to give her a proper hug, "I'll make sure to tell you everything we learned when I can ok? In the meantime keep theorizing alright?". The human smiled, "Well I have been considering the idea of you from an alternate universe showing up here to-".

Sky hugged her to lightly hit her, "Ok mel, I'll see you soon...".

Star grabbed her daughter's arm and sky waved back at the human as she was dragged through a portal.


The sound of almost ear killing barking could be heard echoing through the dark corridors as Landon took his company down to Lucy's den. She was allowed to walk around the underworld when she felt like it but her size meant to always keep an eyes on where she was at all times.

Lucky for him, she was always waiting in her den when it was feeding time.

So i'm assuming based on the fact that your castle was moving earlier cause of her...she's pretty big?", the boy sighed, "Too big to handle honestly, we all wanted a pet but mom is allergic to cats and though my dad has like...ALOT or rabbits, we were kinda hoping for a pet of our own...so i guess dad thought..."HEY! Three boys? Three headed dog!"." He shook his head and though she couldn't see Celeste could tell he was rolling his eyes, "Dad's weird...though honestly Lucy's great...just...she was bigger then we expected. Though she is smaller then our grandmother, so i guess if she gets loose we always know who to call...". The brunette looked around as she descended some stairs behind him, "So...your mom likes living down here?".

"Likes it? Yeah kinda, Mom never minded Dad being like, a monster...they sorta got used to it after awhile. Mom even eats the food, though they kinda avoid anything that probably still alive...", He proceeded down the stairs, "What's it to you?". She rolled her eyes, "None of your business, your guests can ask questions y'know...", but he snorted, "Oh really? Then i suppose if you just ask to know all the secrets of the kingdom i'm obliged to tell you or something right miss teardrop?".

"Don't test me...", Landon turned right around at her words.

"This is MY kingdom!".

"Pfft, I thought it was gonna be your brother's kingdom...?"

Landon looked about to strnage her until Galexia suddenly popped between them, "Hey now, no need to get upset. We came to see the puppy right? I wanna see your puppy!". Landon huffed and turned around, "Fine, let's get back to chores before...my parents lecture me...".

He proceeded to give Celeste the cold shoulder as he approached a rather large door, opening it up to reveal a rather large room with a gigantic dog bed in the corner, and quite a few large dog toys spread about, only making the girls wonder where you got something like this on mewni.

Landon put a couple of fingers inside his mouth and let out a whistle, and before his fingers left his mouth the ground started to shake as a large three headed, black dog bounded it's way over. She was wearing a red spiked collar, she had pointed ears and dark spots on some of her eyes. Her middle head having spots on both eyes but the other two only having one, and not on the same eye either. She procedded to give landon a rather large smooch, one of her tongues being about the size of his head.

"She's...smaller then I thought...", the girl with the currently hidden tear cheekmarks remarked, "She's only four times your size...".

"Doesn't make her any less trouble...", landon said, petting one of her heads gently, "Hey girl...sorry judas got all lazy about your food today, but i'm here...". He looked back at the girls, "You aren't allergic to dog hair are you?".

Galexia shook her head, Celeste didn't bother to answer.

"Then go pet her...", Landon headed off to the side near her bowl as Lexi stepped forward and hugged lucy's third head, "She's so cuttteeee!". She patted Lucy's head as Landon tugged on a rope, hard, as a door on the ceilign opened up and a rather large pile of meat feel down into her bowl.

She practically knocked the princess out of the way as she excitably went over for her dinner, all three heads munching happily. Landon brushed his hands together as he walked over to his companions, "Ok, that's done...I guess we can head to the gardens now...".

"That was it?", Celeste's hands fell on her hips, "You dragged us down here for THAT?".

"I thought you didn't want to do my stupid chores?", he shot back as he opened the door to head out. They glared at each other, lucy munching in the background with all of her heads, "I didn't...It just feels...boring...like, you dragged us down here for what now? We didn't even do anything! ". He stepped back into the room, "Boring? Ok, fine...let me "Jazz it up" for you...".. He waved his hands at her as he made his way over to his Cerberus, the dog finished munching down to excitably turn to her demon owner. Tail wagging and eyes glowing in excitement, she looked positively adorable and it was almost hard to believe she caused such a ruckus that morning,

"Lucy, here girl!", She bounded over and the demon waved his hand, making her stop in her tracks and sit down in front of him. "We've trained her to do all kinda of things, even fight just in case of an invasion, not that you care..."..He pointed his fingers as a gun and the three-headed dog immediately fell onto her back, playing dead, as she got up the demon snapped his fingers and a dog treat big enough for the large dog was thrown into one of her mouths.

"We keep treats in their own special room otherwise she'd eat them all, but magic makes things better...", Galexia clapped her hands, "Oooo, she's so talented! Can we ride her?". He only shrugged, "Sorta? I mean me and my bros have been on her back but to be honest it's not recommended, you'd probably fly off her...".

"What else does she do exactly?", Celeste looked the dog over, "I'm sure having three brains probably helps store lots of tricks or...whatever dogs think about.". Landon patted one of the heads, feeling her soft fur under his claws, "Just a lot of tricks, but she also eats everything, wrecks the castle sometimes, gives kisses, and plays a lot...". He left a kiss on the pup's head, "She does what you expect a dog to do...though the two extra heads must mean she has a lot of thoughts...".

He glanced to her, "You sound actually interested for once, about something that's not nosy I mean...".

The girl walked over and pushed him aside to look up at the dog, who instantly gave her a long wet slobbery kiss, and considering the size of the tongue, it covered he whole face. Landon snorted and Lexi laughed next to him as the girl cringed, "UGHHHHHHHHHH!".

"She likes you...", he remarked, the girl stormed out, "Ok...let's get back to chores...i'm out of here...". Landon patted his puppy, kissing her head before following her out, "What? Don't like dogs?". The girl yelled behind her, "If she infects me, i'm blaming you..".

"Hey, you wanted to stay and meet her...", He quietly closed the door behind him to head back up the stairs and lock the door behind them,"And besides, consider it a blessing, a cerberus is kinda hard to befriend usually, they usually get along better with demons then mewmans...".

"Lucky me...", she grumbled.

"So garden time?", Lexi somehow already made it in front of both of them, "I KNOW WHERE THE GARDEN IS!". She was walking up the steps backwards, not missing a single step as she kept going up and up the stairs and landon gaped at her, "Uh...yeah, garden time, but can you let me lead? If you run off and get eaten by one of our plants i'm pretty sure i'll be grounded for life..". He rushed past her, "And...please...don't do...whatever you're doing...ok?".

"Doing what?", She reached the top and turned around, smiling.

Landon decided to drop it, no point in asking any further.

"Look, when we get to the garden, no magic and whatever, just...keep quiet and...", He froze, looking at Celeste with an odd expression, the girl stared at him with a annoyed look, "You mind?". He bit his lip "It's uh...just...your makeup?". Celeste felt her cheeks, the makeup have been licked off my Lucy, no longer hiding her cheeks like it was suppose to, "Oh, well that's fantastic...". She placed her hands on her marks, covering them with her hands to the best of her ability, "Ugh...y'know what, forget makeup...".

She reached out for her wand when a blast of light entered the room and she was sent back, falling down hard. She sat up, breathing heavily from the shock to see three familiar faces. "There you are...", Judas stomped forward to help the girl up, and she reluctantly took it as she was helped to her feet. Landon scoffed, "Let me guess, something wild and exciting went down?" and his brother rolled his eyes. "No we got my compact back soon enough, though I may have been a little too caught up to text our folks back right away...heh...sorry..".

"Why? You don't look beaten up...?", celeste looked them up and down, "Did you losers get captured or something?". Judas pulled out his compact, "It's dying on power, but i'll take care of that in a sec, anyways no we didn't get captured...we...might have stayed for a bit because Sunny wanted to...". He pocketed the compact, "Thanks for feeding lucy, wait...y-you did feed her right?", he gave his brother a look and Landon rolled his eyes and nodded. "Yeah yeah, we fed her, what happened to being the responsible one jude?".

"You know as well as I there are so many thoughts going through my mind...it can be too much, but don't worry, i told mom and dad i'm fine...hopefully everything should be...in order...", He was still in a bit of a huff, and he perhaps had a bit of a headache if him rubbing his head was anything to go by. "You weren't in your room, so i could only assume you were around here to feed lucy...", he took a looked around them to make sure no one was listening in, "Mom and dad...and...no one knows right?".

"Yeah, my mouth is sealed...you owe me a pretty good bow for this one...", He nodded towards galexia, "That one...that one's a wierd one...". Galexia waved, "Did you have fun?!", and the small demon spoke up before the older kids could.

"Yeah, it WAS fun, i got to eat bugsss and their queen is so PRETTY! I even got to color!", that last part seemed to make galexia happier, "Color?! Awesome we should color together!". They exchanged laughs and luna ignored them to focus on the fact two royal blue teardrops were fully present on Celeste's face.

"No one saw those right?"

"No, their stupid dog licked me and...ugh...you couldn't have given us something more moisture proof?", she looked down at her slightly wet clothes, "I smell like dog and rotten meat...". Luna came forward to pull out the make-up, "Hey, i pulled this from ...Sky's room, get angry at her she didn't have better stuff then this...". She had met so many strange people today she could hardly tell who was who for the most part, remembering these names were gonna probably take awhile.

She helped put it back on, "In the meantime...avoid getting wet, if someone saw them, well we'd be in a tight spot...especially since you're so reluctant to wipe memories...". Her brown eyes dimmed, "You treat mind erasing like it's something small thing to do...what if we did it and we erased all of Landon's memories before? How would THAT have made things better?."

"I've had to erase minds before...", Luna sighed, "It's not pretty, believe me...but sometimes it's the best course of action...". She finished putting on the makeup before turning to the tall boy with the purple skin, "Ok, what's our next course of action? We outta charge your compact and go through it to see where Angel tampered with it perhaps...".

"No no no...", Landon interrupted, "Mom and Dad are making us meet them in Mason's gardens to help with the plants and i'm not doing it alone, and these two aren't even allowed to use magic! We're getting that done so our parents don't get on both of us today...".

"Well, what about the compac-",Then he felt Luna snatch it from his hands, "How about this, you go help your folks, i'll hide in one of your rooms and charge and check your compact...it's no biggie, i can take care of myself.". The boys exchanged awkward glances and her confident smile fell from her face.

She looked them both over, "You both still aren't sure about trusting me, are you? Can't say I blame you...it's...". Then the compact started to ring and Judas snatched it back to answer it, "It's Sky, I gotta take this...", he walked off to a nearby wall and he felt a little relieved when he heard Sky from the other side considering god knows what Queen Star did for her "Training". She started talking as soon as he placed the phone to his ear and as per usual, she sounded upset.

"JUDAS! THE MALL, SHE TOOK ME TO THE MALL! And MEL was there! And then HEKAPOO SHOWED UP!", The boy had to pull it away from his ear a bit because she was yelling so hard, "S-sky...SKY! Hey, take it easy, what's going on?". She huffed, "I'm home, mom took me to your mom's like...old dojo, and then we got food, and mel and landon's boy toy were there, also he's cute but also a little odd and has no problem getting into trouble, maybe you should be concerned about landon's taste in guys, anyway...hekapoo showed up and she and my mom got into some kind of fight i could barely hear...but we got a recording of it i'll get back soon and-".

"Wait? Hekapoo?"

"Yes, HEKAPOO, red-head with horns and who has the weird relationship with your mom hekapoo. She busted in to talk to mom and mom seems pretty angry with her...she was raging at her! Like, what the heck even happened?! Mom wouldn't be so upset with her if she was just talking about the archives right?", Judas eyed his companions before glancing back to his compact.

"Where's the recording?"

"Bernard, like recorded what he could on his phone, but we didn't have time to listen to it, mel is gonna give me the details later...whatever it is, mom's not happy...what happened with angel? What's he up to?", Judas grumbled, "Wish i was any more helpful, i got my compact back but he got out of the room before i could question him, his parents may not be happy with him but they sure would never let me just go into his room and scare him until he says something...and we need a case here before we even try to tell him he's up to anything...".

"How's his parents?", her voice was more soft, and a little concerned.

"Well, his father is alright, as usual, though intimidating...but i think you really want to ask about his mom...we saw her, she's...well she doesn't say much, doesn't talk much, has a hard time eating and...she seems so distant...i guess..." the boy sighed, "But at least Sunny got a laugh from her, made her smile...so I guess that's something...".

"Huh...cool...so what now?".

"Well, me and landon are kinda caught up in something with our folks and we better not get grounded if we're gonna get wrapped up in your newest adventure, so...". He eyed luna, "We still need to see why angel needed my compact, and charge it, so luna...is gonna come to you, with my compact, and you two can look it over together...".

He heard sky groaning from her end.

"Not a fan of her?"

"Not a fan of being treated like i'm extremely stupid...".

"Well she's...not that bad, just work together on this and i'm sure you guys will be fine...", he heard another groan from sky and he sighed, "C'mon...you owe me, remember? Just work on this, you want dirt on angel right? We find out what he did, we might have a culprit...".

"Yeah but, we know he couldn't of destroyed the archives because you were there to see him stuck to the castle gates! Even if he somehow got in there's no way he could've done that much damage and be there at the same time!"., Judas smirked on his end, ears flickering.

"Yeah, but...if he needed my phone to make some kind of call...".

"Then he might have an accomplice...", Sky finished for him, "Ok, fine, i'll make a portal and bring her in...but it's gonna be dinner time soon, don't think we're gonna solve this mystery before the moon gets out.". Judas snorted, "Wow, What gave that away? Anyways, i suppose you'll have to take lexi and luna back in while I take in the other two for the night...like it or not...they're safer in a castle then anywhere else...". She huffed, "Yeah, I know...i'll...cover them up better this time...maybe say they're like...in training by me or something?"

"Training for what?"

"Uh...maids?"

"Eh...sure whatever, i'll try to figure something out with my folks over dinner...or maybe during chores... take my phone to my room after you finish with it, and text me what you found, good?". Sky sighed, "Yeah we're good...so where are you?", Judas turned to his group, "that spot right outside lucy's room, the one that leads to her stairs?".

Suddenly a blue portal cut it's way inside the room, the group stepping back to avoid it, "Yep, you got it...see you soon sky, you better bring me back my compact, i'm not losing it twice today...". She snickered on her end as he hung up and placed it into Luna's hand, "You and Sky go through it, bring it back and text me what you find, sky knows my password...don't ask why."

"What about us?", Celeste crossed her arms, "So she gets to leave but we're all stuck doing your chores? What about lexi? If she's staying on mewni why isn't SHE going?". The older teens shot her some dirty looks as judas pinched the bridge of his nose, "Look, would you rather sit in a room doing nothing? Or would you rather go into our gardens and deal with our plants? Luna Offered, and I'm going to guess Lexi here wants to see our garden?". Galexia nodded eagerly, and Celeste glanced to landon, who was giving her a challenging look, clearly thinking of earlier on her complaints about going from room to room.

"Look, if you have anything you can use to help them, then fine, go with them, but if you don't...then just stay close to me and our family, and help us deal with our plants. It's dangerous, but it's more exciting then you all being held up in Sky's room for the rest of the night...and you're staying here anyway so...".

"Fine, whatever...", She waved them off and kept her mouth shut as Judas resumed his talk with Luna, shaking his head. "Ok, compact, look for stuff that looks strange, Sky can help, we'll bring galexia to you after chores...see you later...", Luna glanced back at the group as he turned to the portal, taking a deep breath, "Just get through tonight..". She left through the portal and it closed behind her, Judas relaxing before leading what was left of his group down another hall, "C'mon...let's go...".


Luna found the blunette on her bed, staring at her in uneager anticipation.

"How were the lessons?", Luna started, noting the tension between them.

"I learned stuff, do you got the compact?".

The blonde held it out to her, "Well, judas really wouldn't send me here without it...". She took it from her hands, plugging a charger into it before opening it to type in his password, luna had already taken a seat next to the girl and she noted the typing of letters. "His password is password1?", sky snickered, "He wanted to be clever with his password but he couldn't come up with anything and thought the one would throw people off, pffft, he's kinda a noob...".

"How'd you figure it out?"

"He literally wrote it down and stuck it in his underwear drawer since he does his own laundry, and if you want to know what caused me to end up in his underwear drawer...well that's a story for another day...", She started to swipe the screen, "Ok, last calls is a good place to start...". She started swiped and looked to luna, "Y'know he should've started this already, it doesn't take much effort here...", and the girl shrugged, "I get the feeling your friend didn't want to be on his compact during our visit to the queen out of respect...".

"Yeah, i guess that would kinda be rude..considering the situation...", She kept scrolling, "aha here...ok so that's, well that's me when i called him just now but...ok that's kinda odd...". Luna's eyes dimmed, "Odd? What do you mean...odd?", Sky rolled her eyes and showed the number, "He used Judas's compact to literally order takeout...are you freaking kidding me?". Luna took the compact from her and sure enough, a restaurant was under the number, "Well, what if it's a cover up? C'mon going through the effort of taking a phone for this would be utterly stupid...".

"Like angel's that clever, c'mon he doesn't even own his own compact how do you think he's gonna come up with something like that?", The girl crossed her arms, "How can i think? I BARELY know him, we've known each other a day, I barely know YOU!". Sky started going through the phone some more, "This can't be it, there's gotta be something else here to this...". She started looking through pictures next, skipping through a bunch of pictures judas took of her, his brothers, his parents, grandparents, even a few lucy ones in there, but nothing yet of any suspicion.

Sky's frustration was apparent on her face and then luna took over, "Let's try a spell...my way...". She pulled her wand out, transforming from a ring to it's normal form and placing the compact on the bed, a blue beam shot out from her wand onto the device and it rose in the air as data was presented before the girl's eyes. Sky failed to try and look unimpressed as the girl 's magic dug deep into the phone to find anything potentially dangerous.

"So, this angel guy...tell me more about him? I'm assuming he's like...your enemy of some kind?", She glanced over to the princess playing with her fingers and heard her groan, "He's just this annoying prince who keeps messing with the kingdom to get my mom to listen to him, look, my family kinda hurt his family alot and he's still just kinda bitter about it...i mean...understandably bitter...but...it's complicated...".. Luna hummed, "So he's almost a bit of a thug kinda?".

"Maybe...". She scratched her cheek with her wand, "He's...not really an evil mastermind...".

"Well, I've dealt with thugs before...frankly...it's a good thing he's only a thug...rather not end up in some alternate reality where mewni is in ruins and in danger of a powerful enemy...", she glared as the phone swiped through more and more data, "Hmm...".

"Hmm?"

"There's...nothing...it's just...that call really just seems to be it...i'm looking at anything that was done within the time span he had it and that's about it...".

Sky stepped forward and snatched the compact, unplugging it, "C'mon, no...that's...". The girl in front of her huffed, "I hate false leads too, but this one looks like it might have honestly just been your prince there doing something...less then scary...".

"But it's like...it's angel!", Sky practically yelled, "I mean, sure yeah he's not that great at anything but taking a phone just for a bite to eat!? He's like...he's still a prince! He went through all that effort of taking his compact just to get food!?". She plugged the compact back in and resisted clawing her face, "WHYYYY, and i thought we might've been getting somewhere with thisss!". She fell on her bed and she felt luna take a seat next to her, "We still have the high commission...and frankly, they're more suspicious then him anyway if what you said holds any truth...".

The girl pulled her face off the bed, "Ugh...wel...Mel needs to contact me first...".

"What?"

"Hekapoo and mom had a fight, we got a recording of it, mel needs to send me the deets..."

Her brows lowered, "When did they have a fight exactly?", Sky gave her a dumb look, "While i was out today, when do you think? I'm gonna assume she and the rest of the commission saw the archives after we set off every stinking alarm we could on the way out...but...for mom to be pissed with her...yeah we need to know what she said...". Luna tapped her finer on her chin, "Well Hekapoo has made your...our...mom mad before, so it's not exactly out of the ordinary for her to behave this way but...how does mom usually act around them here?".

"Doesn't hate them, doesn't like em either, though she hasn't got that angry at the commission while I've been around since the time I lost the wand in the underworld and they considered maybe i shouldn't have it at all...", She tapped her fingers together as luna threw her arms up, "You lost it in the underworld?!" She was met with an awkward laugh, "Same story as the password/underwear drawer story, i'll have to tell it to you sometime, anyway can we get back to the point?"

"Fine fine, how soon are we going to hear that conversation?", Sky could only shrug, "As soon as we can get it i'm afraid...mel has other things to take care of as well, but...if anyone can help us crack the case, SHE can and i know it!". Luna looked doubtful, "She can? Last night she thought I was a shapeshifter! C'mon she can help collect info but her cracking this is probably unlikely...". The princess shrugged, "Well y'know, it might've sounded silly but it was totally possible!".

"Well what do we do now then? If one lead is busted and another in waiting what exactly are we supposed to do until then?!"

Then a strict knocking could be heard on the door, "Skyler darling? Dinner is starting soon, hope you can make it!". Sky froze, luna shutting her mouth right away, she managed to speak up only slightly to get her mom away from the door, "OK I'M COMING!". She heard footsteps leave her door and she turned back to the blonde, hoping her mom didn't hear the girl in her bedroom with her. She gulped, "Ok so...I guess I better head to dinner...then...".

"I'm coming with you...", Luna then said much to Sky's surprise.

"And before you say something, i haven't eaten all day...and I have an idea what we can do...".

"Do...what?".

"Question our mother."


The underworld wasn't much for plants,, mostly because honestly what could grown in such a hot and barren environment to begin with? Only certain plants ever managed to survive and even the the kingdom wasn't known for it's green thumb to begin with.

Unless you were Mason Lucitor-Diaz, the youngest brother of the ruling family.

Then, you were well known as the demon who held the most elaborate garden in the entire underworld.

It was in a dome of course, a dome that seemed to help with temperature and humidity of the environment, but a dome no less. The Lucitors always had a garden that was useless except for some barely living roses in the past, but now, they had more plants then they could imagine.

And every single one, was raised by Mason.

You had flowers, and vegetables and fruits, but then you had large thrones vines and potentially poisoness plants and plants that ate giant bug meat. There were plants mason of course wasn't supposed to have and would never be approved by his parents, but then again where those were planted weren't to his parent's eyes. His pointed ear twitched as he heard someone enter, turning around from his watering to see his parents walk in, ducking under vines and prepared for anything.

"Mason, hey sweetie...ready for some weeding? Or at least some trimming?", He put down his watering can and flapping his wings over to them before landing softly on the ground. "Awww again? But she was just getting bigger!". They exchanged looks, "Yeah bigger, big enough to start wrapping around the castle mason...we gotta trim her before she causes damage...". The boy sighed as his parents admired the garden around them, their touches delicate and careful.

"I know you're not a fan of it mason, but you knew it was coming...your plants get out of hand sometimes...". The small boy failed to try and ignore them, flapping his wings and obeying, "I know mom... but Ima loves to spread out her vines!, she just wants to stretch!". Tom closely examined a rather lovely rose patch, enjoying their scent, "Well, then perhaps we then find her a new home then, because if she's going to stay in our gardens we can't have he accidentally take down our castle or harm the rest of the garden can we?".

"Move her? Where?"

"You'd know better then us mason, if you really want to do it, we can, but for now we just have to give her her monthly trim ok?"

Mason nodded, understanding, though still saddened. Which lead to his folks wrapping him in a small hug, "Don't worry, tonight we're going to have dinner and maybe play some games together? I know ping pong always cheers you up..". The wings instantly wrapped around his parents, "Can I ref?".

"Yes of course you can ref, but no messing with your older brothers this time, got it?"

The little demon giggled as his parents stopped their group hug, "awwww fine...".

"By the way, We also called your brothers...hopefully they'll be here any-".

The door swung open and the trio watched as landon and judas, plus three extras, entered the room. Judas put his hands out before they could say anything or question the situation, "These are some...friends of sky's, we've been hanging with them all day and they wanted to help. Anyways i got my compact back...sorry for worrying you guys...". His folks quickly pulled him into a hug, hands brushing his hair, "It's perfectly fine, we're happy to see you...and don't worry, we've already met your knew friends...".

As they pulled away from their son, marco eyed Sunny, "Well, except for that one, but it's a pleasure to meet such a lovely young demon as yourself...". Sunny smiled happily at marco but her eyes were especially focused on Tom, with his long parted hair, gold cape, and dark outfit lined with blood moons. It must've been surreal to see her father look so different then he probably was back home, not to mention him being married to someone else with other kids.

"Thank you...", Marco smiled and returned back to their task at hand, "The more hands the merrier...alright so you see those red-greenish vines up there?". They pointed above them to some larger then normal sized vines spreading across the dome, "Those vines are getting lose and they need a trim, now lucky for us these vines themselves aren't dangerous, but the plant who owns them never enjoys being trimmed so best to be careful...we'll split into teams and an adult will handle each one to make sure everyone is safe, got it?'.

They all nodded, even Celeste, who still looked less then pleased to be here.

"Ok so Landon, and Celeste was it? Can come with me, Mason and this lovely little lady can work with Tom, and Judas? You and Galexia i believe was her name, can be a team, you two look about the same age anyways.". Judas eyes towards galexia who was in the middle of getting way too familiar with a stink plant, "Oh trust me, that isn't going to matter much...". Marco snorted as tom and them lead their groups off to a different part of the dome to teach them how to handle the plant and Judas pulled galexia away to his spot.

"Alright, the task is simple, he snapped his fingers to hand him and lexi a large pair of shears, "You're not going to be allowed to cut these vines slowly i'm afraid, when we cut them we need to do it as if pulling off a bandage, doing it slowly gives the plant more time to freak which makes it worse for us...". Lexi blinked, "But aren't all the plants in here safe?", he made a face, "Technically yes, they should be, but we mean safe for a demon, we can get out of this stuff in a tangle, but you can't use your wand, hiding your magic during a situation where you need it will...yeah...".

He gave her a comforting look, "It's fine, we've done it many times before, and the plant won't eat us...it more has a tendency to potentially strangle then anything...so just begin chopping at our level till all the vines in this section have been cut, then run with me to the next...got it?"

She nodded, seeming to understand much to the boy's relief, he got his shears ready and open and galexia followed his example, "Ok, wait for my father's signal...because we all have to go at the same time...and you'll know the signal when you see it...". Judas took a deep breath and only minutes later the two could feel something hot and bright behind them, which could only be the signal they were looking for, galexia followed judas's orders and cut through the vines in on sharp cut with him.

She could only assume these shears were enchanted to cut through things in one fell swoop.

Judas pulled on her arm as they ran to the next set of vines, which were moving much more then the last one, meaning the plant they belonged to was more then aware of what just happened. There was no waiting for a signal this time, Judas urged her to cut with them and they did before moving to the next vines, which were starting to retreat and attempted to wrap around the pair before Judas sliced through them. He panted, "Ok, that should be enough on this side...c'mon...we gotta check on everyone else...".

The chopped vines squired on the ground, and in a way it was kinda horrific, but at least they weren't going to get strangled with them like that. Judas carefully pulled her among the jungle of strange plants, careful of what he touched before they came to his father's group. Tom expertly sliced through, and though mason and sunny were equipped with the shears as well, it was clear the king was doing most of the work. Most likely in concern for his protective fatherly instincts.

Then again, he did take the two youngest kids with him to begin with.

Mason still looked sad about having to trim his plant but Sunny still was looking at Tom in immense awe. The king panted, "Last...one...", his ears twitched as his oldest son approached with lexi and nodded to him and then his attention drawled to where Marco was. "Ok, we're all safe so far...let's just...go check your mother and-". Then a scream came from the direction of Marco's group and tom's eyes widened as the kids all followed after to him to find Marco jumping and stabbing into a vine that was clutching onto Celeste tightly.

The vine fell quickly and the girl was freed, though both shaken up and scared.

Marco wiped their brow before turning to tom who looked both relieved and still impressed, "You've still got it...". The human smiled, walking over to help celeste up and check for cuts before walking over to their husband and kissing their cheek lovingly. "We've been married how long? You calling me old tom?", Tom wrapped his arms around marco and smooched their spouse right on the lips, much to the disgust of Landon and especially the beaten up brunette who almost got destroyed by a vine.

"Alright...good...good...now we'll just collect the vines we chopped and send them to the kitchens...",The mewmans in the room eyes him oddly and he explained, "Oh, these vines are edible, probably the biggest reason we keep this plant, it provides a good portion of food...maybe we'll have some for dinner tonight...though we'll have to call your parents first...". They unhanded each other and Tom started gathering up the vines surrounding them, "Let's get them in a pile and call for some servants to get them..".

It was much easier with such a large group to help him, but Celeste looked like a wreck, today had been a long day and it was only getting worse for her.

By the time they got everything in order, and the king called for a servant to pick the vines up, marco had already promised the girl to give her a new dress and had asked her a dozen times if she was sure about not needing to go the the medical ward. "I'm fine...", she wasn't even looking at marco, and her bitter attitude returned quickly after the queen started worrying over her. Marco was a parent of three, and boy did it show. Celeste swatted Marco away and they prompted maybe it was best they leave the girl alone before turning to their sons. Landon partially wanted to laugh at Celeste, but at the same time kinda felt bad for her considering her situation being topped with all this misery.

"Mom...about her parents uh...Celeste is, well her parents are out on this uh...extended trip, and er...we were wondering if maybe she could uh...stay with us?", the queen's eyes widened, "Stay with us? Doesn't she have another place to star? Certainly her parents didn't leave her behind right?". The Queen then felt someone tap her leg and she turned to find the small demon girl at her feet, "Our families are on vacation together and left us with a sitter, but the sitter got hurt and our parents are somewhere we can't contact them easily, can we stay here till they get home?".

Marco bit their lip, but couldn't deny the little girl's big puppy eyes and patted her head, "Well, we have plenty of rooms, i'm sure we can let you stay for awhile till we get in contact with your folks...". Sunny smiled happily and the rest of the kids looked shocked at how well she pulled that off. The queen tapped Tom ont he shoulders and whispered something into his ear and he smiled at the girls, "Ah guests eh? That sounds lovely! Been awhile since we had dinner guests!".

He gave a toothy grin before looking to his sons, two of which were nervous and one of which looked incredibly confused about what exactly was going on.

"But, since you persumibly invited them to stay, that means you're going to take full responsibility for them? Got it? I don't want to wake up one morning to find out your friends here got kidnapped or pickpocketed me or...who knows what..", Celeste looked slightly insulted at the notion she was a criminal but then again knowing her she'd probably say the same thing. And right now, she'd like nothing more then a room to lock herself inside and a clean dress.

Tom seemed to be reading her mind as he clapped his hands together, "Oh, and we'll make sure your friends here get some nicer clothes! It's the least we could do after the vine situation...". Marco took Tom's arms and they each ruffled their sons' hair before heading out, "Dinner will be soon, help the girls get settled and we'll meet you there!". The coupled proceeded to head out, most likely to get ot of their current more causual wear into something nicer for dinner.

Mason, being the only one left who wasn't in on what was going on, blinked at all the strange girls around his with his soft brown eyes. As if not even believing they were there, then again he wasn't exactly used to his brothers hanging out with so many girls so it probably wasn't a surprise.

Now as long as he didn't jump to conclusions or started looking too far into it, they'd be fine.

"So...who are y-", the boy started to ask right on cue.

Judas clapped his hands together, breaking interrupting his brother before he could question further, "So, rooms!".

Then Celeste spit on the dome's floor, stopping out of the room in a state of anger and frustration. Judas could swear she said something rather appalling on the way out and he put his hand out to try and stop her, "CELESTE!". But it was too late, she was already gone, and judas was about to chase after her when Landon stepped in front of him. "Dude, just...stop, i'll go talk to her...you'll just make things worse...", the older brother crossed his arms, glaring landon down, "Excuse me?".

"When you get involved in stuff like this, either it gets you into a stupid amount of trouble, or your lousy curse donks it up...", Sunny could see Mason visibly flinch at his brothers entering an argument, his soft brown eyes looking at the floor as Judas stomped forward towards his younger brother. "Landon i'm really not interested in dealing with your attitude today, my schedule was thrown away, i had to travel to another kingdom to get my compact back, and i got seriously injured and dealing with your uncaring attitude is not an improvement by comparison...". Landon was silent for a moment before speaking again, "I'm offering to go help and calm her down ok?"

"And how is that supposed to make me feel better?"

Landon sighed, eyes shifting, "Look, technically it's my fault she's so angry...so just...let me talk to her instead." Judas's frustrated face moved around, considering it as he looked at his brother, landon wasn't technically good with emotional situations, but then again he's spent more time with her then judas has. The boy gave in, brushing him off, "Fine, go talk to her...just...make sure she doesn't break anything...". Landon started walking backwards and shrugged, "Eh, she can't be more reckless then you..."

Judas grumbled as his brother left after as he turned his gaze over to Mason, who was looking between him, galexia and sunny.

"Ok, So what exactly did i miss this time?"


Sky went through an annoying amount of effort to pick a dress within her closet for luna to wear, but she supposed it was worth it to make sure luna didn't look like a mess when seeing her parents. She'd look more suspicious that way, not to mention he parents would ask her about why her clothes were such a mess in the first place and sky was lying enough as is.

Eventually he found a fitting blue dress with waves and little fishes that seemed to fit her fine and luna had already found her way to sky's make up and stuff to fix her face and hair. Sky didn't use makeup often so it didn't bother her too much, though she did roll her eyes a few times as luna scoffed at her taste in dark eyeliner and dark nail polish. Luna seemed more used to being well kept then sky was, who rarely made as much of an effort to look like a princess judging by how she got herself ready as if she did it daily. "You know, my mom's not gonna wait forever...", Luna stood up and ignored her comment, "Alright, now this time I'M making the cover story, we're not screwing this up again...".

"Well i may have said to judas you could pose as a maid in training?"

"A what?"

"Errrrr...", Luna crossed her arms before brushing it off, "You know what? Whatever, a maid is better then...whatever cover you had for us before...". Her face then twisted into a thoughtful look, "Actually...being a maid or servant does give me the excuse to listen to gossip and access anywhere...". Sky almost smiled, this was the closest thing to a real compliment Luna had given her since they met. Luna patted her shoulder as she headed for the door, "hmm, decent idea...i'll take it...though...your parents might find it weird i was invited to dinner...".

"Pffft...", Sky make a hand movement and laughed, "I've invited weirder people for dinner, if anything, you're an improvement...". Luna made a mental note to ask her about some of these bizarre "Adventures" as Sky opened the door for her and walked to their dining hall with her. Luna knew the way, making it clear it was still in the same place in her dimension, though that itself made sky wonder if meteora wrecked half the castle like she did there was well, which changed the dining hall's room a bit.

She didn't spend a ton of time thinking about it before, but she was indeed in the presence of someone from an alternate reality. An alternate reality involving her parents, and Judas's parents, and maybe almost everyone else she knew. Did her mom make her do crazy tasks? Did Luna feel pressured too? Did she go to the same balls and events? They weren't important questions for their task but they were in her head nonetheless, and she couldn't help but wonder justhow much was different.

Luna caught her staring and she gave her a look before walking a bit more ahead of her, which made sky's thoughts stop, focusing back on their current mission. Luna put her hands behind her back and ushered Sky to go first when they found the door. Sky stretched her arms before pushing the door open to her waiting mothers, already conversing happily with each other as their daughter entered. "SKY! HEY! Alright, now we can get some foooood in here!", Star excitably banged her hands on the table and Sky had to awkwardly raiser her hand to get her attention.

"Uh...moms? Wait I uh...", Star stopped her excitement to question her daughter's odd expression, "Sky? Did something happen?". Sky opened the door behind her, "Well,I might have brought a guest for dinner tonight...if that's ok...". Luna stiffened at the sight of her mother, thoughts running through her head. How different she looked, how surprised she was at the sight of her, how she was holding someone's hand who was not her other mom's.

It was a strange and uncomfortable situation to say the least, utterly surreal.

She'd normally see a scene like this and call it a dream, but this was not a dream, and her biggest concern by far should be for her mother to not be suspicious of her presence. Star blinked at the strange girl, but her lips soon curved into a smile at her sight, "Skyyyy, whose this?". The princess answered quickly before either of her moms jumped to conclusions, which her moms could be fairly good at. "This...is luna, she's a girl i met...and she's interested in...well...in working for us...and stuff like that...", man sky sucked at this kinda stuff, but luna made up for it with her polite demeanor as sh walked over to shake the queens' hands.

"Pleasure to meet you your majesties...", Star gushed and Janna smirked, eyeing towards Sky as if wondering just when she starting making friends like this. Sky huffed but then again in reality most of her friends seemed to be boys except for Melanie, maybe Coral, and kinda sorta Nora.

As long as her mom didn't get creepy abut it.

"The pleasure is all mine luna-?", Star's eyes twinkled, her day had been rough and seems dinner was only getting better and better for her. Luna took a seat politely at the table across from the ladies, trying her hardest to look normal . Sky took a seat next to her and star happily rung the dinner bell as servants poured in to place food down on the table There was alot of corn, as expected, but there was some turkey and some pudding, and sky happily piled more of that on her plate rather then the 10 different variations of corn laid out.

Luna didn't seem to mind all the corn though, as it took up most of her plate. She ate quietly and eyes to sky, they had some prep on how to speak to star, but how they were going to do it without worrying whether queens would be tricky. Though at least they both seemed to be rather interested in luna, so that at least was a good start. "So luna? What made you interested in working for the royal family? Tell me all about your talents..", the girl took a deep breath and remained calm as she spoke, careful of her choice of words.

"Well, you see, my family wants me to succeed, or rather...I want to succeed, and I simply feel as if my talents would be more useful here. I am...decent with my fighting skills, I believed to be well-informed on mewnian culture and history, and...I work really hard?". Star blinked at her for a moment but smiled, "Fighting huh? Well well, perhaps if you can give me a demonstration, a knight would be perfect for you, i mean jackie is still out but you'd be wonderful under her command..."

Luna almost spit out her tea.

"J-Jackie?"

"Jackie Lynn-Thomas, our head Knight, she's been out on a special job for us for awhile but hopefully she'll be back soon to train our new recruits! ", Luna was so in shock she almost lost her cover, still processing what queen star had just told her. She shook it off and replaced her shocked face with a smile, "Ah, lovely...can't wait to meet her...". Which wasn't a lie of course, but sky could feel the girl trying to figure out exactly how he mom ended up in such a position.

She was bound to have dozens of questions herself about this dimension very soon.

Sky took this time to quickly change the subject back to their investigation, "So mom...anything been crazy today? I mean, besides our lesson, and angel, and-". Star shrugged, "Nothing that concerns you sky, no need to worry...". Then luna spat something out from her cornbread as janna laughed, a gobstopper falling out of the girl's mouth. Luna shot her a look but janna looked more then pleased, "Good, i was wondering which one of us was gonna hit the candy i put inside..".

Star laughed and hit the woman next to her playfully, "You sneaky fox, that's why you went to the kitchens earlier didn't you?". They shared a cheery laugh and star took the loaf of bread to inspect it for more gobstoppers placed inside, they were so small you could barely see them, not to mention they were all the lemon flavored ones. Janna popped a gobstopper in her mouth happily in response. The girls didn't seem to feel as happy, both unamused and a bit annoyed.

"So, sky, what were you saying?", Sky relaxed to keep herself from getting upset or angry.

Luna was glancing at her, as if asking if this is normally how life was with her parents before politely laughing and going back to eating. Sky took another breath, no pressure right? She ignored her mom's silly prank and got herself back on track before they got distracted again.

"Like...y'know...about anything crazy? like have you dealt with anything...strange today?".

Star's face was half amused and half confused, she shook her head, "Sky, we deal with strange things everyday, what are you trying to ask about young lady?". The gaze luna was shooting at Sky right now wasn't helping, but Luna couldn't exactly ask this stuff without looking suspicious. Nonetheless, looks like she'd have to take matters into her own hands, "Your majesty? If i was to take your knight suggestion? What do you imagine i'd be involved in? Magic? Other dimensions?". Sky sipped her tea and happily answered the girl much to sky's slight annoyance, "Ah well? It depends on your skill, though we rarely need to send you all out to other dimensions, we don't end up in too much of those kinda situations.."

"Ah? Though I suppose you normally ask the commission for missions like that?", Luna scanned her kinda sorta mother, looking for any facial ticks, cues she could take advantage of. "Yeah, usually they're better for that stuff...though it's rare...", she took another bite of food, "Mostly because they kinda are the only ones that really can do it...wouldn't send a solider through most of the things they do...". Luna already knew enough from her moms back home Omni was the keep of alternate dimensions, she kept her innocent curiosity up, avoiding the gaze of a surprised sky.

"Understandable my queen, though...I know you've had troubles with them before...from Sky here, how come you can't replace them? You could train them!", Janna snickered and Star shook her head, "nope nope nope nope, if i could, i would, but glossaryck made them for their roles...and i can't really do that myself, only hekapoo can make the scissors, only rhombulus can do his weird crystal thingy, and only omni can manipulate other realities and stuff..".

Luna nodded, "fair enough..".

Sky made a mental note to herself, as the high commission only rised higher on her suspicion list.

Janna crossed her arms, looking over luna, "You're asking cause you wanna be the next MHC member? Trust me, i tried to make that happen myself, actually i'm still trying, but those guys are kinda butts." Star nodded in agreement, "So anyways Luna, If you're interested in working here, well Sky can find you a room for sure and you can sign of for knight training, when jackie gets back i'm sure you'll be a good student...". The girls glanced to each other, sky was going to have to ask what luna observed later.

"I will make sure of that...queen Star.."