First of all I'll like to say sorry for the hiatus. Between College placements and leaving town I was unable to get the time to write anything for weeks.

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Star's POV

In the evening, Marco and I were relaxing in bed, lying worldlessly in each other's arms, when we were interrupted by a flash of light.

"What is it?", Marco asked, pointing at the holographic floating envelope in front of us.

"This is the magical messaging service, it's used for sending across messages within the royal family.", I replied.

I was almost as suprised as him on seeing this. I had only seen this a few times before, and that too only concerning official matters. This couldn't mean anything good.

I got up and walked over to the message, swiping up on the hologram. A voice started talking,"Princess Star, you have been summoned by the King to meet him in the Throne room.", before the message faded away.

"I have to go", I told Marco, with an unspoken request for him to tag along.

"I'll come with you, whatever it is, we'll face it together", Marco replied, taking my hand.

We made our way over to the damaged throne room, to find my father pacing about a table, with only the light of the stars to give him company on the clear no moon night.

He looked up as we came in, and for a moment his expression seemed to be filled with pain, before turning serious.

"Star we have urgent business to attend to. For the last few days Omnitrix had been searching throughout the multiverse for your mother, and unfortunately there is no sign of her. We have to assume that your mom is not coming back, and as such, we need a new queen.", He said.

This sudden revelation caught me off guard. While I had considered the possibility of this happening, I had never really payed it too much attention to it. I knew what I had to do. I composed myself for a moment before replying,"Dad, we can't loose hope, Mom will be out there, we will find her."

"But what if we don't? the kingdom needs a queen...", he started saying, before suddenly breaking down into tears.

I was at a loss of words. My father had always stayed brave, even in the face of death. To see him cry like this was unnerving.

To my surprise it was Marco who spoke up."River, we understand that you miss queen Moon, but we can't give up hope. We will find her. And till then the kingdom is not leaderless. Star is still acting queen, and she had me and our other friends to help her.", he said, with absolute conviction.

Despite the current crisis, I felt my heart warm up on seeing Marco act like this. like a future king, a thought said, but I ignored it for now.

"I hope you are right my boy, but if she's not back within the week, we shall have no choice", My father replied, composing himself. "You kids should go sleep, I have work to do", he continued.

We ignored the second part and despite his protests, led him over to his room to get some sleep. My mother was already gone, I didn't want anything to happen to my father as well.

Marco's POV

As Star and I entered her room, I could see her shoulders slouch,as all the tension of the day started leaving her.

She hugged me tightly and burried her face into my hoodie. I could hear her sobbing softly.

Hugging her back, I gently stroked her hair, hoping to make her feel better.

"What if my mother is truly dead, what am I supposed to do? I can't lead the kingdom alone. And what about my father, I've never seen him so broken before. How am I supposed to do all this if I wasn't even able to be a good princess. I failed everyone, I even failed you...", She started saying rapidly with tears streaming down her face, when I stopped her with a gentle finger on her lips.

"Star you are the best person I have ever known, and you are no failure. If it wasn't for you and your goodness, Mewni would have been destroyed by now. And you don't have to lead anyone alone, you've got me",I said, before blushing a bit on realising what I had said. "I mean you've got me and all your friends to help."

"I know what you meant",Star said, a small smile coming on her face.

For a moment we just stood there, wrapped in each other's comforting embrace. It was getting quite late though, and we needed to rest. We were human,mewman, insects, whatever after all.

"Let's gets some sleep. Things will be clearer in the morning",I said, and we retired to our rooms. Star had brought my room next to hers with magic, which was something I appreciated a lot.

I might not have shown it, but I was just as anxious about the whole situation. It felt like someone was playing us all. Someone powerful, someone to whom all of us were just pawns.

And with these thoughts in mind, I drifted off into the land of dreams.

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