Star's Strife
Chapter 5: Wands vs. Swords
A Strife-possessed Humility unsheathed his sword, the wind blowing and the dusty sediments were cleared out with a single unsheathe of the Knight's sword, the crude-armor of the Knight cracked and screamed from the shear wind cleaving force of his sword, just being out of its case like some power limiter, chaining the sword with metal casing.
Star looked upon the sword with a sense of awe, it was definitely enchanted with some kind of magic, it felt like the sword was just as powerful as her magic wand, Humility began to speak, slowly moving his sword in front as the pure power of the sword began to rivet through the atmosphere
"Similar to the Queen's wand, we Knights have our personal weapons that are infused with great power, Humility's case is this curved bastard sword right here, a single swing with this can cause mountains to split in two, a single parry can result in a earthquake, and a single slash could cleave the air into the four winds of the north, south, east and west!" Humility explained as Star gripped her wand a little bit more stronger than ever before.
"Yet, with such great power, one must be contained to use it for good, this is the same lesson of how I taught your Great Grandmother's, Celena the Shy...Now, I will teach you the same lesson this day!" Humility roared out a beastly growl as he stabbed his sword in the ground, causing the ground to shake and shatter like the crackling of glass, Star Yelped loudly in shock as the ground began to split and erode into multiple pieces.
"Not if I have something to say about that! Take this!" Star said, blasting a beam of high concentrated energy against the Humble Knight, with nonchalance, the Knight deflected the beam with his legendary sword, the beam disappearing into figments of mist once it was blocked by the Knight's weapon.
"Emerald Dagger Storm!" Star called out, blasting a Fletcher buffet of Green-bladed daggers, with a roar, The Humble knight born from Strife began to spun his blade like a a windmill in the middle of a tornado, the daggers spun out of control from the explosive gale that the spinning blade was producing from the sheer speed it was being twirled around.
Star attempted to fire another attack with her wand, until she almost fell into one of the increasingly more poignant abyss-like crevices that were still forming from the tearing earth, Massive rocky spikes sprouted out of the deep chasms as they all seemed to attempt to skewer Star with their obsidian-shard tips.
"Watch your step! My Queen!" Humility said as he struck his sword against the ground several times, causing spikes of earth to erupt from the sand, Star swiftly dodged them, her nimble movement coupled with her thin and easy fitting frame helped her dodge the many spikes of sand and metal.
With a scoff, the Knight of Humility began to twirl his sword like some kind of flag, the sediments of the dirty air began to twist and shift in the same movement of the twirling sword, speed started to pick up, as the sediments began to form in a mighty tornado, the sediment tornado was black like the dust and ash it carried, Star felt her hair and clothes be pulled into the tornado, she stood her ground despite the deep insistence of being sucked into the black-scented vacuum, she screamed as she felt the wind slashing against her as slowly aimed her Wand at the Humble Knight.
"Submit My Queen..." The Knight said with a growl, desperately wanting Star to give up on her will to fight, she didn't falter but she felt the wind was grabbing her, wanting to suck the Princess into the sinister twister.
"Shooting Sky Shot!" She yelled, her wand glowing a quick blue hue before it shot out a blue beam of energy at the Knight, its stream was littered with white glowing stars sort of looking akin to the blue night sky, Humility gasped in surprise as he was struck right dead center on his chest, causing the Knight to screech in pain as the tornado began to dissipate from the lack of channeling.
Humility growled under his breath as he clenched the now burning armor-less spot of his chest, it seemed to bleed a sticky purple ooze out of the new wound that the Knight of Humility received.
"Not bad, My Queen..." The Strife-filled Humility knight said as Star looked more determined than ever, with a slow blink from the Humility Knight, he started to rush towards sword, his sword ready to slice the Princess into two.
"But not Good enough!" The Knight roared loudly, Star stood his ground, she quickly dodged the sword slash from Humility, she stumbled on her ground as the sword clashed to the ground, shattering the earth and causing it to split apart like a massive tremor, Humility did a horizontal to which Star quickly hopped over noticing that one of the spires from afar was cleaved in two by the sheer force of Humility's sword, before blasting her wand right in the Knight's face!
"Flash Bang Cannon!" She said, almost acting like a camera flash, the Knight was disoriented from the magical attack, quickly shaking his head as it attempted to clear its vision.
"Time to finish you!" Star said aloud as she blasted the Knight one last time before he could even recover from her flare-blinding spell, the Knight shattered into pieces of crude metal and scrap, his sword disappearing in the same black sediment that Strife's dimension was plagued with.
"Well done...Star." Strife suddenly said, returning back to his true armor, the formerly dormant and lifeless armor being brightened by newly-ignited flames within the ridges of the black suit of armor.
"Thank you Strife...That was...Pretty cool..." Star admitted as the Knight of Strife quietly walked up to her, before bowing to her, not in his usual way to display complete obedience, but in a way to imply that he respects Star, a bow of what a honor samurai would do when sparring against another.
"Despite your young age, you seem more, Battle-hardened in contrast to your past mothers and great ones." The Knight of Strife pointed out as he folded his arms in a stern manner.
"I guess fighting monsters at a young age really made me who I am today." Star said to herself, feeling somewhat proud of her fighting skills, Strife only nodded in response, simply agreeing with the Princess.
"No matter what you try to be, you will always see yourself in the mirror." Strife recited nonchalantly to the Princess as she looked around the desolate wasteland before speaking to the Knight.
"Can we go back to Earth? I feel really refreshed to be honest." Star said with a honest smile, the smile was genuine enough for the Knight to transport Star back to earth without a single word.
Meanwhile, while the Princess of Mewni and the Strife-born Knight of Humility were battling each other, Marco Diaz and Jackie-Lynn Thomas were spending time with each other, they just finished a movie, a scary movie actually, Marco sworn that he was going to get nightmares tonight, just like he did yesterday with that foreshadowing Knight.
It bothered Marco Diaz enough that he was being very apparent about it, enough for his girlfriend to notice.
"Is there something wrong Marco?" She said with a caring but chill tone, it caught Marco off-guard, not really wanting Jackie to worry about his personal struggle.
"Its nothing Jackie...Its nothing..." Marco said in a clearly unpersuasive tone, Jackie frowned in response, not being convinced in the slightest.
"You can tell me what's wrong, you know me, I won't judge you for it." She replied, giving her boyfriend a kind and crisp smile, Marco blushed in response but it made him a bit more comfortable explain whats bugging him.
"I don't know why I'm so Disgruntled Jackie...I had a really cryptic dream yesterday, but..." Marco paused, looking deep into Jackie's eyes for a single moment before he spoke once again.
"I shouldn't worry about you know? It's probably nothing anyway." Jackie smiled happily upon her boyfriend's words.
"Thats the spirit, by the way, how are you and Star?" Jackie asked suddenly, Marco didn't want to even think about Star Butterfly right now, simply wanting to focus more on his girlfriend than anything Star related.
"Eh, she's doing fine!" Marco lied, being obliviously on the conflict and intrapersonal pain that Star was currently going through.
"Strife will always come for you...And he will always get his way." Macro heard in a cruel whisper.
Right before Marco could realize what was just said to him, the sky began to darken as it started to rain like a storm, Jackie and Marco both shouted in annoyance from the rain fall, instantly getting doused by the heavy shower of rain, Jackie groaned in annoyance as her perfectly good clothes were drenched in the water.
"Why the sudden rainfall!?" Jackie exclaimed sadly as Marco almost wordlessly offered his girlfriend his hoodie, she smiled as thanks as she quickly put it on, being protected from the rain by the hoodie.
"Thank Mar-" Before Jackie could finish her sentence, A metal and clawed hand grabbed a hold of Jackie's neck! She screamed in fear and shock, but nothing came out as her neck ceased her vocals as its grip was tighter than a wringer, Marco gasped to what he saw within the blasting downpour.
The Knight's Armor was sharp but massive, his shoulderguards looked like spiked maces, his boots looked like curved hooks, his helm looked like a battle axe head, his gauntlets looked like bladed claws, his chest looked like a targe shield, his tasset looked like a gallery of daggers and knifes, all in all, he looked like a living magic-induced golem made of various medieval weapons serving as various body parts for the Metal Monster.
All of this topped off, with a pair of White soulless eyes, the Knight laughed hysterically as Marco could only stare upon the Knight and his hand that was crushing the neck of Jackie-Lynn Thomas.
"LET HER GO!" Was all Marco said as he sprinted towards the Weapon Knight, the Knight only howled with laughter as he disappeared within the trickles of the rain fall, Marco screamed in pain as he slammed the rippling puddles beneath him that collected due to the rainstorm, Jackie-Lynn Thomas was gone.
Star plopped on her bed as felt fatigued, the adrenaline she had during her battle dwindling down into a stubble of what it was, she sighed in a content manner, as the Knight of Strife simply stood by her side silently, not saying a single word as he was still folding his arms, Star yawned loudly as she spoke to her personal Knight.
"So Strife, What do you like to do on your spare time?" Star asked, the question was strong enough for the Knight to noticeably flinch, he didn't how to properly answer such a question that Star asked, he was used to asking his Queens the same question, not the other way around.
"I...Prefer...Peace, and picking flowers." The Knight responded awkwardly, the sheer honesty in his voice made the Princess of Mewni to giggle in amusement, a Dark Knight having a affinity for picking flowers and frolicking? It was comedic at best!
Some time later, Star Butterfly began to drift off into a sound slumber