"Please tell me it's not been another 200 years." Eclipsa coughed.
"It's only been a few hours. I think." Marco answers.
"I was talking to Star, and next thing I know, Rhombulus crystallised us." Eclipsa comments. "What's going on?"
"It's kind of a long story, and it's really hard to explain." Marco responded.
"I've got time." Eclipsa mentions.
Marco sighed and began to explain.
Later.
"... And then I hit your crystal with the shard and it shattered." Marco finished his explanation to Eclipsa.
Eclipsa let out a sigh. "Some things never change." She mutters.
"So what do we do now?" Marco asked.
"Your asking me?" Eclipsa shot back.
"Well yeah. Glossaryck must have sent me to free you for a reason." Marco answered.
"In case you haven't noticed, they've caught me twice, I'm not exactly all powerful." Eclipsa responded.
"What!? But I opened a portal and lost myself just by reading your chapter!" Marco argued.
"That's what happens when you don't build yourself up to the more powerful spells." Eclipsa shrugged. "Wait. Were you holding the wand at the time?" She asked as she pointed to Marco.
"No?" Marco asked with a confused tone. "Why?"
"You managed to dip down." Eclipsa said in awe. "How?"
"I just.. focused I guess. I was concentrating on your chapter, and then bam. Magic." Marco explained with little confidence in his tone.
Eclipsa hums in thought.
Later with Hekapoo.
Hekapoo strolled through the dungeon below Butterfly castle. She couldn't stomach this any longer. What they are doing isn't to save the kingdom, it's to save themselves. But they was causing nothing but chaos.
But she needed to know one thing first. Hekapoo walked into the dungeon Glossaryck was staying in. "What are you up to!? And don't start with the riddles, I want the truth." She demanded.
Glossaryck slowly turned around in mid air, wearing a straitjacket. "You can't handle the truth! Hehe, I've been wanting to say that." He responded. This only enraged Hekapoo. Glossaryck sighed. "Okay fine. My game, is to teach." He answered.
"Too, teach?" Hekapoo repeated with a confused expression on her face.
"Yes!" Glossaryck answered with glee.
"Why?" Hekapoo questioned.
"Hekapoo, I'm the living embodiment of magic. Teaching is the only thing that challenges me." Glossaryck calmly answered.
"Huh." Hekapoo muttered. "Let's go get the others." With that, Hekapoo left the room soon followed her, have effortlessly freed hims hands.
They fist entered Kelly's cell, where she was shackled the wall. "Even if I knew where Marco is, I'd never tell you." Kelly snarled at Hekapoo.
"Yeah that's great, now hold still." Hekapoo responded as she used one of her dimensional scissor blades to cut Kelly's chains.
"Is this a trick?" Kelly questioned with a raised brow.
Hekapoo groaned. "We don't have time for this." She moaned. "We need to get Rhombulus and go!"
"Globgor! Globgor!" Glossaryck called from behind Hekapoo.
"Hekapoo, what are you doing?" Moon asks behind Hekapoo.
"Uuhhhh." Hekapoo murmured.
"Queen Moon, we have a problem." Manfred called. "Eclipsa and Marco have stormed the throne room. Omnitraxus is trying to contain the situation."
"What?" Moon asked in surprise.
Hekapoo took advantage of the distraction as she opened a portal and pulled Kelly and Glossaryck through. They arrived in the throne room. Eclipsa had purple and black butterfly wings, and six arms. Eclipsa was firing a purple beam of magic at Omnitraxus as she floated in the air. Marco's cheek marks were glowing and he was surrounded by knights.
"Marco!" Kelly called as she pulled a sword out of her hair and threw it to him.
Marco caught the sword by it's handle. "Hollowed ground." Marco muttered before slamming the the sword into the ground. Purple, glowing cracks in the ground around him. Segments of the ground began to rise into the air with the bottom of them glowing purple. The knights stood back with a mixture awe and fear.
"Marco!" A female voice called from behind the knights. The knights stood aside to reveal it was Higgs, holding the sword of her own. "Why don't you stop using the power you've been handed, and actually show you are worth something." She challenged as she pointed her swords blade at him.
Marco gritted his teeth. "Marco wai-" Hekapoo tried to reason with him, but Marco had already pulled the sword out of the floating segment of ground he was stood on, causing it all to fall to the ground. Hekapoo quickly ran to Marco's side and multiplied to stop the knights from just overwhelming Marco.
"Alright Higgs. If it's a duel you want..." Marco grasped the swords handle with both hands and spread his legs. "...I accept."
The knights and Hekapoos gave the challengers space. Kelly caught up soon caught up and made her way to the front of the Hekapoos. Higgs entered the improvised arena and sneered. "I'm not bowing to you." She growled, and got into a stance of her own.
"Remember to keep up your defence squire!" Sir Stabby called to Higgs.
"Dose Marco even know what he's doing?" Kelly mumbled to herself.
"You wouldn't be asking that, if had seen what I have." Hekapoo answered as she spines Marco's dimensional scissors on her finger.
Higgs charged at Marco with a battle cry. Higgs put all of her strength into a broad swing, in attempt to push Marco's sword aside and make him stagger. But the exact opposite happened. Marco moved his blade out the and took a swing at Higgs. The slash cut a piece of Higgs's hair clean off, as Marco strode past her before turning around.
"Hey!" Higgs yelled as she turned around.
"Hey, I could have hit lower if I wanted to." Marco casually responded. "Give up?" He smirked as he moved back into his stance.
"Never." Higgs growled.
"Fine. We'll keep going until you're bold." Marco answered with a cocky tone.
This only angered Higgs further. "Fine, perhaps I underestimated you. But you won't be so lucky again." Marco was unfazed by her threat while the Hekapoos burst out in laughter. This made Higgs feel insecure, but she was quick to shrug it off. She had to focus. Higgs was more controlled in her approach to Marco than before. She took slow steps while keeping her stance wide. Marco did the same. The metal tips of the blade lightly tapped against each other, as both combatants challenged one another to make the first move.
"Come on already!" One of the Hekapoos yelled.
Marco and Higgs tried to attack at the same time, this caused them to come head to head as they tried to out muscle each other. The audience cheered. As they both lost grip of their swords and the fight became hand to hand. Higgs threw a barrage of punches at Marco, who blocked every single one. Higgs grew increasingly frustrated at how Marco was able to keep up with her. "We don't have all day Marco!" A Hekapoo yelled. Higgs noticed Marco's focused expression turn into a aggressive one, just before he grabbed her wrist and pulled her in close enough to knee her in the stomach.
As soon as the winded Higgs hit the floor, the knight charged Marco, but the Hekapoo's and Kelly got in the way. "How did Omnitraxus brain wash Moon?" Marco asked a Hekapoo at the back.
"Showed them all of the bad futures in his body." The Hekapoo answered. A object was flying through the air. The Hekapoo caught and handed it to Marco. "You might need these." It was his dimensional scissors.
"I guess I should give you theses back." Marco took out Hekapoo's old pair of dimensional scissors.
"Ha." The Hekapoo chuckled before they wordlessly traded scissors.
Marco opened a portal and walked through. He was now inside Omnitraxus. Marco quickly spotted a crystal large than the others, and jumped from one crystal to another to get to it. "Star!" He yelled once he was on top of it. No response. Marco noticed some of the crystals converging on him. Marco opened a portal and went through to the crystal room and pulled Star's crystal through. Once that was done he opened a portal back to the throne room. "Star's clear!" He yelled to Eclipsa.
Eclipsa sucked the soul out of Omnitraxus and caught his skull until it hit the floor. The knights stopped fighting at the sound of Omnitraxus's scream. "Drop your weapons!" Eclipsa commanded. The knights were quick to obey. "Now, where is Moon?"
Soon in the dungeon.
Eclipsa, Marco, Hekapoo and Kelly soon arrived in front of Rhombulus's cell to find a crystallised Moon in the doorway. When they looked inside they saw Rhombulus was still shackled to the wall. "Hey." He spoke.
The next morning in the crystal room.
After everything settled down, Kelly went back to bed, Eclipsa wiped Moon's and Star's minds of Omnitraxus's damage, and River arrived shortly after, having no idea that anything had happened.
Eclipsa was now stood in front of her daughter's crystal with her hand resting upon it.
"I thought I would find you hear." Marco said from behind her.
"Marco. Well yes, I wanted to see her one more time before I reunite with my husband." Eclipsa responded.
"Before you do that, well before you do that, I talked to my parent aaaaandddd: do you know what a godmother is?"
The End.
I had the idea of Eclipsa being Marco Jr's godmother before Divide and Conquer aired, and I'm glad I managed to find a place for it.
