It's been a while guys! Since summer vacation has started, hopefully I'll have more time to right for you all. Enjoy!

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When Halley woke up on her bed with sunshine spilling in through the windows, she would have thought last night's events were just a dream. But since she woke up with a stranger's jacket, her face caked with dried mud, and her backpack thrown carelessly onto the ground with a sleeping Glossyrick and several empty pudding cups beside it, she supposed she did have a late night adventure with a cute boy who was probably insane.

Why on Mewni would he act that way? Like she and he were equals. Halley knew it as well as any Mewman did. She was not in anyway the equivalent to someone normal.

Halley sat up. It was painfully obvious that when she returned home she just collapsed in bed, filthy and all. The oversized jacket she wore was stiff with mud. Halley picked at a bit of mud on the cuff. That led her to think about Tucker. The tingling in her cheeks came back and she suspected that they were glowing.

She knew she was stupid for somehow developing feelings for him. Part of her told herself that she was an idiot and the other part told her to hold on to those memories. It was most likely the first and last time she'd ever get treated that way by a Mewman.

There was a knock on her door. Halley flinched and tried to force her cheekmarks to stop glowing.

"Yes?" She replied to the knock.

"Halley? Are you up?! You're late for school!" came her mother.

She looked over at the clock on her nightstand and realized she had fifteen minutes to get ready.

She tried not to sound to shaken up, "Oh! Okay, Mom. I just overslept, I'll be down in a second!"

"Alright then. And hey, don't forget that I'm giving my speech today at your school!"

Shit, she thought miserably. She forgot all about that.

"I didn't, Mom!" She lied.

"Great!" Her mother walked away.

Halley bolted to her bathroom and ran the sink. She started to vigorously scrub at her face. When she had finished, the sink was brown with dirt. Regardless she was somewhat clean.

Halley started to brush her hair. In the process she broke the brush in half. To her dismay, her hair was way too tangled. The princess looked at the clock. Nine more minutes.

"Crap." So far, she looked like she had fallen down a hill. Halley ran out of the bathroom in search for her wand. "Gloss! Wake up!"

The magical being stirred and finally woke up. "What is it?"

"Do you know if my mom had any spell to make me not look like crap?" She looked under her bed for her wand.

"Uh," He yawned. "I think so. It was the...uh..." He had begun to investigate the pudding cups again. "Radiant Shadow Transform."

"Right right... I remember now." She found her wand on the other side of her bed. Halley grabbed it and instantly recited the spell. She thought that she'd blow up or something, but as of right now she was desperate. Surprisingly when the smoke had cleared, she was dressed in denim shorts and a white t-shirt with lime green sleeves. Halley admired her hair that was placed in a large bun towards the bottom of her head. A pretty blue flower held a few strands of hair back.* She was a little bit too preoccupied with marveling at her success in the mirror to notice that she had only 6 minutes left.

She suddenly realized that she couldn't go anywhere in 6 minutes without the scissors and she couldn't tell her mother she had lost them. Halley felt like she was screwed until she looked over at the discarded jacket on her bed.

She took her bag and put it over her shoulder then put her wand inside. Halley hesitated but then tucked the jacket into her bag as well. She turned and headed towards her balcony. The princess stepped up on the edge and looked down. It was a long ways down and looked scarier going down instead of up. She clenched the strap of her bag and took a deep breath.

She jumped off and summoned the flames within her. And suddenly she was levitating in the air. Halley looked down at her feet and saw green flames shooting from underneath them. It had been a long long time since she had done this. The last time she had was with her father when she was very young. Once she entered the real world, Halley didn't want to embrace the demon in her anymore.

Somehow, something changed within her when she met Tucker. She was curious to see what she could really do. Halley steadied herself and started off towards school. It was a very bumpy ride but she made it, nonetheless.

With two minutes to spare she ran to her classroom. She was able to slip in unnoticed...like always. Halley sat in the back of the classroom and took a moment to catch her breath. The bell rang only seconds afterward, and with that came the announcements. Everyone gradually moved to their seats and quieted down.

"Good morning students," the principal cane through the intercom. "Today is a very special day indeed. Her Majesty Queen Star has taken time out of her busy schedule to come talk to you all in the assembly room directly after announcements." With that everyone slowly looked back at her. Halley shrank under their gaze as the principal droned on with his other announcements. Once they were finished, everyone left for the assembly room. Halley stayed back for a while.

She had gone to one student assembly in her life. It was in middle school and everyone just stuck wads of gum in her hair and threw paper balls at her. Halley had managed to ditch all assemblies for years. Except now, she promised her mother she'd come. She reluctantly made her way to the assembly room. To her relief she found Allison in the crowd of people.

Halley and her best friend made their way to their seats. She saw her mother in the center of the room, talking with a few teachers, smiling, being a wonderful Queen... Halley frowned a bit. How could she be that someday? Across the room, Halley saw James. Her mother did as well and waved at him. James slid down in his seat, thoroughly embarrassed.

Hm. Karma is a bitch. Halley smirked.

"Good morning, Mewni High!" The Queen began. "Thank you for joining me this morning. I have brought you here to talk about a very important subject that I haven't quite gotten to address with you. Monsters."

There were faint mumbled all across the room.

"About two and a half years ago, monsters were finally integrated into our schools, and so far it seems to have been a success."

Halley slapped a hand over her face. Her mother tea could be naïve sometimes. The monsters were on a completely different side from the Mewmans or not there at all.

"Although I know there still might be a little unfamiliarity between Mewmans and monsters, I have decided to start a super fun team building program!"

The room went silent. Her mother nervously smiled, "And here to give you a run down on the program is Yvgeny Bulgolyubov the royal monster expert."

"Thank you Queen Star." Buff Frog came to stand beside the queen. "It is great honor for me to be here today. I will be in charge of program between monsters and Mewmans. Program will require a team with an equal number of each. There will be challenges, all differing and will require team with strengths in all areas. Problem solving, athletics...choose your teams wisely. Team that wins receives the grand prize of..."

Halley's attention was drawn towards someone leaving the assembly. She didn't see them for long but when they opened the door and slipped out, she caught a glimpse of a head of curly black hair. By the time Halley tuned back in, the assembly room was buzzing with excitement. Apparently the prize seemed to appeal to everyone. A success for now, it seemed. Everyone gradually made their way to leave after Buff Frog informed them of the multiple sign up sheets around the school and to have them turned in by the deadline. Halley quickly grabbed her bag and headed towards the door that she had been watching. The crowd was beginning to grow and her possibility of finding him was shrinking. Halley ducked under arms and dodged anxious students. Suddenly she found the head of curly hair in the crowd. She all but pushed people out of the way to get to him. Halley finally made her way up so that she was inches behind him.

How would he react? She wondered nervously. What would he say? What would she say?

Halley told her conscience to shut up. She raised her hand and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned and Halley felt her heart drop.

It wasn't him.

"Um..." The kid trailed off. He was obviously uncomfortable with the Queen of Freaks coming and bothering him so Halley mumbled an apology and walked away.

She was stupid really. How could she ever think that they'd meet again? That night had been nothing but a dream and all dreams must come to an end. Halley walked to the bathroom and thankfully no one was there. She splashed water in her face and looked in the mirror. Her eyes made her way towards her horns.

"So like can ...you impale people with those?"

"What? No. I mean... I don't think so."

"That would be so cool." He laughed and she joined him.

Halley shook her head. His laugh was still echoing in her mind. She thought she was going to be sick. But in all honesty she had no reason to be. She'd known Tucker for one measly night and she suddenly felt like her life revolved around him? She was...stupid.

Halley took the jacket out of her bag and took one last look at it before tossing it in the trash.

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The feeling of disappointment followed her around all day. Even so, she could still feel that tiny flicker of hope that they'd magically run into each other in the hall or she'd see him when she was out in the kingdom. A good 95 percent of her stifled those thoughts. By the end of the day, she was in a pretty pissy mood. It really wasn't fair when you thought about it. That one good thing in her life was gone just like that.

It was Monday so she was going home by carriage. She trudged to the royal carriage and hopped in. She barely even acknowledged her brothers who were already inside.

Traffic was awful, as it always was when a bunch of rich people were trying to leave at the same time. They were at a complete standstill. Halley rested her head against the window.

Last night, she and Tucker headed to the castle together. They had quite a way to walk before they reached any type of carriage rental station. So they walked and they talked and Halley felt so at ease. No, she still really couldn't make any sense of how she'd become so enamored with someone so quick, but that's what it was. They talked about everything and nothing. Senseless things really. Not about her duties or her being a demon and all but they talked about normal things and it was like she could pretend that she wasn't a princess. All good things come to an end though. They approached a carriage station and saw a few left up for the night. Halley was about to step out of the shadows and to a carriage but Tucker had stopped her.

"You must really want to get caught, genius." He pointed to her horns.

"Oh," How could she have forgotten? She silently blamed Tucker for being so damn distracting. She quickly pulled her hair back into its buns around her horns though they definitely wouldn't hold for long with all the mud caked in her hair. She and Tucker walked up to a man dozing off in his carriage. He shot awake and looked at the two skeptically. He shook his head, not bothering to ask any questions and muttered something about "damned teenagers."

The two had hopped in the back, glad to get off of their feet.

"So, Princess," He had started.

"Please don't." She cringed. "I'd rather not talk about royal stuff."

"Oh come on, squirt. I helped you get all this way. The least you could do is let me ask a few questions."

She sighed, she really did not want to go into this but she assented.

"Okay so your dad's got powers right? Did you get those too?"

She nodded and Tucker's eyes lit up, "Really? Well now you've gotta show me."

Normally she would have said no but with hesitance, she raised her hand and summoned a small green flame. Tucker examined the flame closely. He even took her hand to draw a finger in the space between her flame and the palm of her hand.

"That's...amazing."

She put out the flame, "You're probably the only one to think so."

"I doubt it."

"My pyrokinesis is usually called dangerous. Dangerous and amazing don't usually go hand in hand."

"Well I think it's cool," he said as if that was all that mattered. "What else can you do?"

"Nothing much. People hate the whole fire thing so I never tried to look into my powers."

"What!? Halley that is probably the dumbest thing you've said all night."

"Wow thanks."

"Do you know how many people have what you have? Who are what you are?"

She shrugged.

"You're one in like...a trillion. I'm just plain old Tuck. One in fucking forty."

"Believe me," Halley scoffed. "I've never met anyone like you."

"Well you may think so but the way I see it, I'm just another drop in the ocean." He laid out across his seat. "I think I'd rather be a fish. Like you."

"A fish?" She raised an eyebrow.

"One of a kind compared to the ocean, Princess."

There was something that gave her chills when he called her "Princess." She rubbed her arms and told herself it was just the breeze. There was this invisible pull that lured her to these feelings. She knew it was dangerous, she knew it wouldn't end well because look at her but she couldn't resist.

"Halley."

She really missed him.

"Halley." She blinked herself out of her thoughts. James was trying to get her attention.

"Huh? Oh. Sorry."

"Phased out a little there?" He raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, a little."

"Hm. Well I was wondering if I could use your mirror phone. Mine's dead and I need to tell Aunt Etheria I'm going to be late."

"Sure..." She murmured. She awkwardly handed her brother her phone. The last time they had spoken, it hadn't ended well. Now he was acting as if nothing had happened.

She waited as he called their snobby aunt and he gave her phone back. They sat in an even more awkward silence. Traffic was not moving at all and she considered getting out and flying home, but given that her time bomb of a brother would be witnessing it, she decided to stay put. Phil was the only one who didn't seem to mind sitting at a standstill as he had his earbuds in and was playing a set of air drums. She and James seemed to inwardly groan at the same time. Their brother listening to music wouldn't be a problem if he kept the music down only to himself and maybe not played an entire array of air instruments.

Their irritation grew by the second as they tried to tune out their brother's antics but they both snapped when he started to loudly hum. Halley jabbed her finger into Phil's side. He opened his eyes and looked over at her.

"Too loud," She mouthed.

"What?" Phil said louder than necessary.

"Turn your fucking music down!" James shouted.

It was more than obvious that Phil had heard James. He shrugged "innocently" and continued his jam session. Halley looked to James and he looked just as irritated as she did. They looked at Phil, who was being excessively loud at this point, then back to each other. They exchanged a mischievous glance that the two hadn't shared in forever.

"What's the plan?" She mouthed.

James pointed to himself, then to Phil's phone and earbuds, then to her. Halley nodded and waited for James to take action. James lifted his hand and soon an aura of purple magic covered Phil's earbuds and phone. It didn't catch Halley by too much surprise that her brother learned to use magic without the wand, as ambitious as he was. James closed his fist and pulled back, ripping Phil's things from his grasp.

"Hey!"

"We tried being nice, Philharmonic."

"Dude give it back!"

James held up a finger and passed the phone to Halley. Now Halley saw this as more him good-naturedly handing her the phone. James was seeing what she could do. He was measuring her. Last time she had the wand she was learning levitation, a simple spell. He must have thought there was no way she could learn levitation without the wand at this rate. And that was the game, Halley realized bitterly.

Luckily for her however, she knew she was capable of using magic without the wand, it just took an extreme amount of concentration on her part. There was also the option of pulling the wand out of her bag and using that, but that would turn her brother against her quickly.

In that moment between James redirecting the phone to her and her taking it, she mustered up all of her will power and enveloped the phone in her own magical pink aura. She surprised herself and she surprised James. The expression flickered across his face for half a moment and was gone.

Halley brought the phone into her hands and tried not to show how much she had strained herself.

"Not so fast, Phil." Halley said as he lunged for his things. "You'll get this back when we get home. I can't take anymore of this."

Phil lunged for it again but James had taken it back using his magic. Phil then jumped for it and James gave it back to her. Halley was able to catch again it using her magic, to her surprise. It was now a game of keep away. Phil couldn't conjure up magic on his own, so the game was thoroughly entertaining.

"Keep at it Phil and I won't give it back," Halley teased.

"We'll see it about that," Phil smirked and before either of them could react Phil grabbed each of their hands. Both tried to retract their magic with no avail. Phil temporarily held their magic in place.

"Come on Phil, don't." James groaned.

Phil laughed manically, "Oh dear brother and sister, I have to at this point."

"Not fair!" Halley whined, trying to pull her hand from his grasp. "We asked you to quit being obnoxious."

"I'll have you know I was in the middle of a very good song and I don't take to well to you two ruining it."

"You dick—" James began but it was quickly cut off as red aura took over his purple one and her pink one.

"Mind finishing that statement, Jamie?" Phil smirked. With that a flash of blinding red light filled the carriage and vanished just like that.

Phil released his fellow triplets' hands and sat back down, a satisfied smile on his face. Halley and James both sat, drained to the very last drop. Halley could even feel the oncoming headache.

"Did you really have to do that?" Halley groaned.

Phil had never shown any extraordinary show of magic when he'd had the wand and he'd never shown any sign of being able to use magic without the wand. On a scale, he was relatively weaker than his brother and sister. That is until one day when they were around 15, Phil had shown the rare trait of being able to neutralize magic. They all naturally understood because Phil was the neutralizer if the triplets. The power wasn't really considered magic, Glossyrick explained one day. Phil was just redirecting their own magic. He possessed the skill render them drained for as long as he pleased. It was incredibly annoying at times.

"Probably not, but it's fun taking both of you down at once."

James glared at him.

"Oh relax, you've lost your magic for five minutes. You'll be fine."

There was, however, a flaw when Phil felt like killing their magic. He drained her magic not her pyrokinesis. Halley looked down and saw she held Phil's phone. She chuckled menacingly.

"You're always so careless, Phil."

She lifted her hand and engulfed his phone in bright green flame, burning it into nothingness. Phil sat slack jawed, obviously not having expected that.

James snorted and soon it turned to laughter. Halley joined in and Phil shortly after. She wasn't sure why they found the situation so funny but they were laughing their asses off. Perhaps it was the fact that they hadn't laughed together in forever and the feeling was nostalgic. She managed to open her eyes and see that James' swords and Phil's notes were glowing. Halley felt her cheekmarks were glowing as well. It was a feat that happened when they were together. As they had gotten older, that was more and more a rare occurrence. It was a bitter sweet moment, really. She knew they'd go back to their day to day routine of basically ignoring each other.

And so they did.

Once the carriage arrived at the castle, James headed towards the garden to meet with Aunt Etheria like he did every day and Phil went off in search of a new mirror phone.

Halley stood in front of the castle and looked up at the massive structure. This would all be hers someday. Whether anyone liked it, herself included, or not. She looked towards her room on the West side of the castle. Just last night she snuck in by scaling the side of the castle with a laughing Tucker underneath her saying she was going to break her neck. ("Be a fish, squirt!") When she had finally gotten what he was saying she nervously flew up to her landing and thankfully did not break her neck. She looked over to where James had disappeared. He'd given her a sincere "Nice job, Halley." for disintegrating Phil's phone.

Halley looked at her hands. If she was going to be a Princess she was going to have to do it her way and she was going to have to overcome those boundaries.

To do that, she was going to have to be a fish.

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Not my best chapter but still important!

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