Author's Note: Sorry for the long wait, I was contemplating over what I was going to do next, considering that I write on the fly with these, I was sort of having a deep writers block on what to go next, luckily, I was able to get an idea, So I hope you guys can enjoy :D
Star's Strife
Chapter 9: Going back home
The distance between Star and her love great twelves sizes that single day, its been a full week ever since Strife's evil half, Victory kidnapped and brutally tortured Marco's temporary girlfriend, Jackie-Lynn Thomas, to everyone's surprise, she was still alive and she was recovering rather miraculously, despite Victory's callous and cruel nature, it simply wasn't enough for the Knight to forsake his code of Knightly Honor and butcher a innocent maiden, or at least this is what Strife thinks.
Star sighed deeply as she was given a tray of breakfast foods as she slumped on her bed, Strife once again fed her breakfast, it was the same gesture throughout the whole week from Strife, a silent sign of desiring forgiveness for the reason why this whole ordeal even happened was due to the fact that his spirit lies within the wand.
Granted...Neither did the Wand Bearer nor the Knight of the Wand knew that splitting the wand into pieces also meant splitting the spirit of the Knight into two different lessons and knights entirely, it was a strange enigma in the anarchy of oddities that the royal magic wand possessed.
The two Mewmans were silent for the whole week, keeping in contact with anyone may it be Star's love or his supportive parents or her friends to a minimum, Star looked down on her well-made breakfast, not really understanding why she was even given something to eat to begin with.
With a deep Sigh, the princess began to eat, not eat for the sake of the taste or enjoyment out of it, but rather, eating it just for subsistence, chewing quietly as she gulped down the fluffy pancakes, her emotionless state not even changing in the slightest as she didn't seem to taste anything at all.
Strife was more silent than usual, back into his normal suit of armor, he was so still and stagnant that his armor didn't creak or squirm, almost like a stone statue, petrified and frozen.
"...Strife..." Star suddenly beckoned, the Knight finally made a move, walking slowly to the distressed Star Butterfly, she handed the Knight her tray of unfinished foodstuffs, almost as if she was rejecting a heart-felt gift.
"Thank you..." Star replied when Strife discarded the food by inserting the whole tray into his fiery visor, the pancakes and the plastic tray, burning and melting to a crisp within seconds.
"You are welcome...Star." Strife responded, his voice being more dull and toneless than before, his stoic nature becoming more prominent.
Star sighed once again as she began to hear a commotion downstairs, she didn't bother to even predict what was happening, she lied on her bed as the Princess emotionlessly stared at the ceiling of her magically-created room.
A full minute of silence passed between the two, that was until a portal opened, Star didn't even bat an eye, not even caring who was going to come out of the Portal, she didn't care if it was a kidnapper, assassin, or anyone really.
"Star! Get up!" It was her mother that came out of the portal, she was wearing a regal-looking suit of armor, something that a lady of war would wear into battle, despite this however, it was rugged and tattered, losing its shimmer and shine due to the battle it had to participate in.
"...Mom?" Star said with some sort of dulled confusion, turning her head slightly and being genuinely surprised to see her Mother come out of the portal, with a fatigued gait, Star's mother tried to get her daughter up and ready.
"We need to leave back to Mewni right now!" She said as she was able to make Star stand up, before the Mother of the Princess could speak some more, she quickly noticed that the Knight of Strife hat was completely silent and still, Star's mother looked into Strife's Visor, her attention now on the Knight of Strife.
"Moon..." Strife said suddenly, Star's mother was silent, gripping her hand on the warm metal visor, being heated by the blazing furnace that was inside of the Knight of Strife.
"Can't believe Star would need someone like you..." Moon suddenly said, her voice was surprised and a little bit shocked to see the Knight of Strife, not really understanding, why would her dearest daughter would need one of the Knights of the Wand to help her with her internal problems? She was Star Butterfly, a happy-go-lucky girl who had flaws of course, but it was flaws that Star knew and accepted with gusto, rather than denying them.
"What is your name, Knight of the wand?" She asked the Knight, with some hesitation, the Knight spoke.
"I am now called Strife...Moon." Strife said, Moon paused for a moment, before she quickly to see her emotionally drained daughter, with a pitiful frown, Star's mother slowly walked up to her Daughter and placed a hand on her head as the princess resumed lying on her bed, The Queen of mewni stroked her daughter's hair with a careful and soothing hand.
"We need to go back to Mewni Star, we're both in great danger." Moon said, Star didn't respond as naturally as she usually do, she didn't protest, she didn't argue, she didn't even shook her head in defiance, she was actually, obedient, simply obeying her mother as she stood up and getting out of her bed.
"How is Star in great danger?" It was Strife that questioned, despite being a living suit of armor and a physical moral lesson, the Knight of Strife was showing more emotion than Star.
"Because, Toffee has returned...And he's not alone..." Queen Moon forewarned.
In a Earlier time
"Toffee..." Queen Moon Butterfly said as she and the magical high commission stared at the now levitating Ludo, the eyes of the little green creature began to white out like a soulless husk, being replaced by the reptilian eyes of the formerly-dormant Lizard monster.
"Hello...Everyone..." Toffee said as he using Ludo's body as a vessel, the cleaved wand began to shift and morph, growing flesh as it bonded and combined with the Little Green creature, becoming one with Toffee.
"What is happening?!" Rhomolous said as he noticed that small pieces of stone and rock began to roll into a single pile, almost as if they have a will of their own, the pebbles, the cracks, the drudged pieces of stone began to mold and forge together, forming into a long and ram-shackle pillar of stone, the Magical High Commission and Queen Butterfly now had to deal with two dangerous beings.
The Knight exploded out of the cobbled stone pillar with a fierce dragon-like roar, a eerie took place as the Knight began to stretch its new body, the metal armor sparked against each other as the Knight grinded its two wrist-blades together like a kitchen knife to a whetstone, the Knight's muscular but bleeding flesh was red like crimson, his gaze was red like rubies, his armor was not armor at all, it was not forged by the sanctity to protect, it was not forged to save people, it was forged, bent and shackled together for the sake of causing as much harm as possible.
Brutal spikes protruding out of any form of stripped metal plates of the armor coupled with axe-headed wrist-blades, with the finishing touches of a hefty but intimidating trophy rack nailed and drilled into the Knight Beasts back, with three poles
"Oh its rather simple..." Toffee said with a wicked smile on his face as the Knight brandish something peculiar in the long line of knights, his weapon was not like a sword, but instead, it was one of the earliest tools and weapons ever created, the axe, with serrated ridges and a hammer-like back end, it was akin to Strife's weapon in terms of effectiveness and purpose, to both crush bone and cleave flesh without the need of a sword and cudgel.
"I would like to get my finger back from Star Butterfly!" Toffee shouted as his wand-infused hand began to charge up in power.
"For...We desire...Vengeance!" The Knight roared with beast-like vigor, his voice being crooked, crackling and deep, sounding like a dying animal that's holding on to its laugh breath as the knight readied its weapon against the magic users.