Star's Strife
Chapter 3: Solaire of Justice
Star entered into the Marco Household with a small but fortunately sincere on her smile, finding enjoyment in bowling with her friend Janna, along with the silliness of The Knight of Strife accidentally crushing a bowling ball in his hands as he attempted.
All of her joy quickly shriveled as she spotted her love lying on the couch of his living room, she dropped of all her things in succession once she saw what Marco was doing.
Star's heart began to tear piece by piece as she saw her love, Marco Diaz openly kissing his girlfriend, Jackie-Lynn Thomas right in the middle of the living room, they weren't even being exceptionally romantic, not treating every single waking moment with each other like as if were there last, they were being nonchalant with their love, simple-minded and unextravagant about the ordeal of her romance, they kissed each other once again as they cracked several jokes at each other, giggling like two sickening sweethearts.
It only made Star quietly cry, silent flowing tears streaming down her cheeks as she escaped to her room so that her love couldn't see her in such a damaged and broken state. she threw herself on her bed as she tried to fight the tears of her heartache.
"Why...Marco..." Was all Star said, her words were spoken between heavy breaths and whimpers, she was starting to cry once again, but someone...or rather something stopped her from doing so.
"Remember...Star Butterfly...The happiness of one is greater than the happiness of none..." The Knight known as Strife recited, his voice being cool and crisp, Star turner her whole body so that she had her back on the covers of her bed, noticing that Strife was now carrying all of Star's things that she dropped when she saw Marco and Jackie embracing one another.
Her purse, the bowling ball bag that she borrowed from Marco's father...And her wand...
The wand morphed as Strife held it, it seemed like nothing change when the Knight of Strife held the wand, with the difference simply being that the wings were more bigger, more sharper and the pink hue was more of a purple color.
It made Star want to question the Knight of Strife but didn't do so as she soaked in Strife's words, without a single sound, the Knight of Strike slowly placed by Star's things, her wand being neatly placed beside her and her little bag within her bed's nightstand.
"What do you mean by that Strife?" Star asked as she hugged herself tightly, the Knight of Strife took a deep breath as he sat on the flow, crossing his legs and stretching his armored arms.
"It means...It would be best...For one person to be happy...Than no one to be." The Knight repeated, this time with a little more simplification.
"Are you saying that I should let Marco be happy with Jackie?" Star questioned, the Knight of Strife paused for at least thirty seconds before responding.
"I'm saying...Not everything is a knot, My Queen...Everything will unravel, everything will be torn apart...You must be patient...I have taught one of your grandmothers about the concept of patience...Its a difficult subject for your line to grasp it seems." it was the Princess's turn to be quiet, she considered the plan of waiting for Marco and Jackie to break up some time ago, she believed that it was never going to happen, he was in love with her since the very beginning and Star only met Marco a full year ago, she had no chances.
"What if I wait a long time...And he's still with her?" Star questioned the Knight, still doubting the Knight's wisdom.
"Then you must learn to let go." Star shadowed her face to avoid Strife from seeing her inner turmoil play out within her mind, she replayed the same words that Strife just told her.
'Let go...Let go...Let go...' was the only thing the Princess heard in her mind, as if it was as constant as her heartbeats, going faster and faster once she felt a sudden boost of anger inside of her.
"Its not fair!" Star said with a frustrated shout, without a second thought, Star quickly went for her wand, wanting to blast down her room into pieces and chaos once again, but before she could even grab her wand, her hand was grabbed the Knight of Strife.
"Let me go Strife! Let me go! Let me go!" Star demanded as Strife hung Star in the air by her wrist, Star attempted to kick Strife right in his helmet-covered face but to no avail.
"Anger is not the way My Queen...Only through Peace...And Harmony..."
"You're not going to solve this like you did with my grandmothers and my mom! I'M NOT LIKE THEM!" Star roared...Strife was absolutely silent...
"...Your words are golden...My Queen...Forgive me for my suffrage..." Strife softly let go of the Princess's wrist, causing her to drop to the bed, bouncing up and down for only a moment, the Knight of Strife sighed deeply as he kneeled down to his queen.
he bowed as he clasped his hands together, silently begging for forgiveness from the Princess of Mewni.
"I apologize...For my insistence, Your words are golden and yet my ears are tin...You are not like your mothers...And its my own part that I must see that." Star was quiet, a little bit ashamed of her outburst.
"I'm sorry too...Strife...And I forgive you." Was all Star said with a deep breath, Strife seem to ease up in his stance and mood once he heard his Queen's golden-glinted words.
"Perhaps...I shall...Try a different approach to help you through your path...My Queen...Tomorrow Morning and the whole day throughout, the road to happiness may be a journey around the world...or a quick visit to the forest."
"That sounds good...But...Can you leave me alone? I think I just need some sleep...I need to cool off..." Star as the Knight finally stood up, only to bow once again obediently.
"Have a nice rest...Princess." The Strife said as he suddenly disappeared in a puff of black smoke, the same kind of smoke that he first arrived in when Star was in her state of magical outburst.
Justice looked on to the corpse-ridden battlefield with a hidden grimace on his armored face, the Knight of Justice followed his queen closely, his height towering over the bald-headed Queen of Mewni.
Solaria growled under her breath as she was looting various things from the monster soldiers, pieces of metal armor and non-crude weapons were the main objects that were looted from the slain monsters, slowly handing the loot to the Knight of Justice so that he could carry all of the loot for her.
"Hmmm...Do you like it when the Monsters think they can defeat the two of us?" Solaria suddenly asked as she gave Justice a broken ironsword so he may carry, the Knight known as Justice spoke to his Queen, his cape bellowing within the dead sea of a battlefield.
"Only when they realize we are simply stronger than them." Solaria laughed at Justice's words, believing that they were said in a tone of snarkery, before the Monster Carver could respond to the Knights words with some approval or rebuttal, she then noticed a small group of figures far away at the ends of the dead sea, they were wearing heavy cloaks and were trying to collect several corpses of the slain monster army, despite the cloaks that they wore, Solaria knew for sure that those were monsters trying to collect the dead for proper burials.
"Oh! Looks like we have some unfinished business to deal with!" Solaria said with delight, her lazer sword glowing brightly as she began to sprint to the small group of scavenging monsters. Justice gasped loudly as he dropped all of the stolen loot he was carrying around.
The scavenging group of monsters stood in shock and fear as they noticed the Queen of Mewni charging at them with a pair of bloodthirsty eyes, she was close enough to slice the nearest next to her in one single swing.
"Time to die!" Solaria roared as she brought her blade down, there was no blood, no screams, no gore...For there was Justice.
The Knight of Justice's sword parried against the blazing blade of Solaria as the Knight got in front of the monster, effectively protecting the innocent bystander with his own well-being, The queen, she looked absolutely shocked, just as surprised as the cowering monster that Justice saved.
"What are you doing Justice!?" Solaria Screamed in the Knight's face, the Knight was slow and quiet as he spoke in a deep and serious tone.
"What a Knight must do." With a loud growl, The Knight of Justice pushed Solaria away causing her to tumble several feet back, she quickly recovered as her eyes were tainted both in anger and in wrath.
"Do you know why I'm called...Justice?" The Knight questioned as Solaria roared and sprinted once again, doing a jumping slash against the Knight's helm, with surprising speed, the Knight sidestepped out of the way before slamming the Queen with the hilt of his sword, causing her to yelp in pain as she felt the pommel bruise her back, she quickly got up and tried to spill the Knight's non-existent guts, to which the Knight rolled back two feet away, dodging it despite the heavy armor he wore.
"I am called Justice...For Justice is both a Sword and a shield." Solaria growled loudly as she quickly redirected to the now fleeing monster scavengers, with a wicked smile on her face, the Queen of Mewni threw her blade like some sort of throwing hatchet, without a single word, the Knight ran in front of the throwing blade, the lazer sword going through his metal chest.
"..." Solaria was absolutely silent as she saw what she just did to her loyal friend, despite her many battles, if it weren't for the Knight of justice, she wouldn't have lived to tell the tale and yet here she did, practically attacking her own friend in her bloodlust.
"Justice...Is when you have a sword...To slay evil, but a shield, to protect the innocent..." Justice still began to recite his sayings despite his newly acquired wound, Justice dropped down to his knees with a light groan, with the grip of both of his hands, the Knight pulled out the blade, it was covered in this black ink-like liquid, despite the Queen's mistake, Justice slowly handed Solaria her wand, despite the wound, he was still the loyalest thing that the Queen could ever have.
"Justice is the compassion of mercy, the way of the sword that does not seek blood, but seeks honor, victory and...Justice."
"I'm sorry...Justice..." Solaria said with a tone that implied regret, her strong and bold demeanor cooling off and showing a more lighter side, a more emotional side instead of the battle-hardened and heavily-feared Monster Carver.
"...There's no need to apologize...My Queen...Solaria..." The Knight slowly got up, groaning lightly as his new wound bled profusely.
"Perhaps...My time is not needed anymore...Remember Solaria...You are...Justice, not some Monster Carver..." The Knight known as Justice began to deteriorate as he bowed to his queen, his armor rusting bit by bit, Solaria watched in shock as the Knight began to wither before her eyes, his cape, once grand and heroic burned up like ash and scattered by the wind of the battlefield, his armor began to fall apart, the silver pieces dropping to the ground, rusting like a decaying husk before turning into clumps of dirt.
"...Justice..." Was all Solaria said to the Knight, the last words that the knight heard before fading into obscurity...The Monster Carver, the Queen of Mewni simply sat on the ground of the battlefield, the cloaked monsters slowly resumed what they doing, collecting the deceased so they may have a proper burial.
It went on for hours as they loaded the wagon, took it back to where they lived and traveled back to gather more, all in the while, Solaria didn't attempt to even brandish her weapon against them or even had the thought of hurting the monsters...In fact, she even helped them once or twice.
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Marco Diaz woke up in what it seems to be a wasteland, the sky was black like oil, the air sprinkled bits and pieces of blackened dust, when Marco took a deep breath, he gagged from the inhale of dust and ash.
"Where am I? How did I get here?" Marco said to himself as he got up from where he lying, the wasteland, it looked like an american dessert, loose slit and dirt was the main terrain of this strange land despite the fact that the Wasteland went out for thousands unto thousands of miles and yet there was nothing, like a whole plot of land that was inside of a black-tinted dome.
"You came here...Because of me..." Marco heard behind him, he turned around to see...Strife, the Knight of Strife.
"Well...Get me out of here or else!" Marco got into a fighting stance, ready to take on the Knight known as Strife, the Knight didn't even thought about unsheathing his weapon on his princess's lover.
"I will...But right after I must advise you of something." Marco curved an eyebrow as he still remained steady and ready to kick the Knight's metal-covered behind.
"Remember this...Boy...No matter how grand you feel...During the ecstasy of the moments...Strife...Will always come for you...And he will always get his way." The Knight turned into smoke as Marco woke up once again, this time he was actually at his room.