Summary: Star has been underestimated her whole life, either from her mother, her friends and even her own boyfriend; but that all changes when she dips deeper than ever to acquire the strength to reverse the mistake her mother made. Alternate version to how SVTFOE ended.


Chapter 2

Cleaved

Summary: Last time we left off was when Star told Marco that she was determined to stop the Solarian soldiers…


"You're gonna stop the Solarian soldiers? Is that even possible?" Marco Diaz asks, somewhat skeptical and worried about the whole idea. "Yes it is, I met the past queens of Mweni and they as well as Glossaryck have told me about a spell that should purge the soldiers and the effects they have done on the kingdom away." "Star, wait!" Eclipsa calls on Star with Meteora in hand, and Moon by her side. Star walks up to Hekapoo, who is sitting at the bar drinking a flaming drink. "Hey, Hekapoo. I need you to open the portals. I'm going to the magic realm". "Yeah, sure. [Snaps her fingers] Do whatever". Marco interjects, "Wait, Hekapoo, why are you so easily opening the portals, didn't you close it for everyone's safety?" "Look, if I'm being honest, I have a feeling that Star has a way to fix this train wreck that is happening right now, so I may as well let her do her rebellious thing" she gave her explanation with a slight smirk, that Star would understand.

Star transforms in to her Butterfly Form and opens a dimensional portal.

Eclipsa speaks now "Wait. Star. W-W-What if we all go and fight Mina tog-"Moon Butterfly interrupts to finally speak after hearing something interesting "Star, why is this talk about a Purge spell? And why are you going to the magic realm?" she asks, seriously not liking the answer that her stubborn daughter may give. "Moon!" Eclipsa tries to calm her down. Star sighs and explains about her time with Glossaryck as well as her plan to her mother, causing not just her but Eclipsa and Marco to go wide eye and nervous at the plan. "STAR BUTTERFLY, have you gone mad young lady? First it was the whispering spell fiasco, twice might I add and now you are going to destroy yourself by performing a ludicrous spell that has not been attempted in centuries, are you that foolish?" Moon finishes off her heated lecture, feeling awfully mad, which causes Star to shake visibly with anger.

"Yeah Star, isn't dangerous, from the sounds of this spell, you have to be careful and concentrate all you ha-" "I AM WELL AWARE OF THE PROCEDURE MARCO DIAZ" Star cuts him off with a heated reply that silences Marco and makes him feel slightly hurt. Eclipsa who has been listening but not wanting to disturb until "Excuse me but Star dear, how sure are you that you can perform this spell or if it will work?" she asks with not a hint of anger but worry, which Star could recognize. Star calmly replies "I understand your concerns Eclipsa but it will work, the past grandma's as well as Glossaryck have assured me tha-" cut off by Moon, "Star you seriously cannot be even thinking that this is a great idea? If so, it is only right that someone like me should perform the spell" "Wait what!" Star exclaims with shock.

Yes Star, you are totally inexperience with this and sorry to say but I don't think you are capable of even attempting this spell with this level of difficulty and precision, not to mention of this brash impulse to take on a task well out of your abi-" "I never asked for your permission let alone your opinion on this mother" she said with a lot of pent up annoyance. Moon who taken aback but regained her composure "Star I will not have you speaking to me like that, and even if you didn't ask, I am telling you as your mother to not be so reckless" that was enough to break open the damn gates. Reckless. RECKLESS! I assure you mother, the only reckless person I see here is YOU!" Moon gasps "Yeah, in case you've forgotten, You unleashed the solarian soldiers on to the land, just so you may get back the crown that initially wasn't ours. From a queen that has proven not to be the evil monster lover that people made her to be" pointing at Eclipsa who seems quite awkward at this point "May I also remind you that you entrusted that sort of power on to a person like Mina Loveberry, who has proven time and time again to be out of her mind" with that, Moon seems to be recoiling at the points her daughter is making "but you already knew that, right mum? But you could not stand how someone other than yourself could be queen let alone who sides with the monsters? And yeah Eclipsa may have sent you to the magic realm but she did that because she was trying to protect her daughter, something you can learn from"

Moon, who seems to have been backup against a corner, snaps out of guilt ridden trance "what does that mean young lady?" "It means, Mother, Eclipsa would never put her daughter in danger unlike what you have done, furthermore would not underestimate her abilities or her as person" last part was emphasized with a sad tone.

Silence engulfs the air as everyone has just heard the true feelings Star has been keeping for a while now, Moon, looked hurt, taking a deeper thought to what her daughter had said, for what she has done, even Marco feels a bit bad for there were times he has underestimated HIS girlfriend's abilities and knowledge; the only one not feeling guilt was Eclipsa, for she understood just how the young girl felt.

At that moment Star was shaking with anger and almost brought to tears, trying to gather as much of her will power to not cry. Most people could see she was holding back the treacherous tears but understood from the loud conversation why. Moon, though hurt tried once again to reason with her daughter again "Star, look you can't-" "ENOUGH!"

At that instant, without wanting to listen anymore, Star cheek marks shown bright for a quick second and she released a golden magical pulse that pushed everyone a few steps back, shattered some of the glass cups and managed to topple the pool tables.

Everyone was shocked at the sheer strength of that, but none was more shocked than Moon to the point she at reflex created a barrier to protect herself, though was slightly shaking at her daughter's strengthened ability. As Star calmed down, still in her butterfly form, she opened a portal and said "Mum, I believe in myself, even if you don't and I will stop Mina even if it is by myself. I am Star butterfly, princess of Mweni and will make sure those who live here are safe to do so, both Mewmen and Monsters" with such conviction and heart that made everyone around them pleased and some clapped. At that moment she extended her am to Marco and asked "will you help me?" she didn't need to ask twice and took hold of her hand "I will always stand by your side" with a sweet smile. Still stunned, Moon did not notice when Marco swiped the wand and it transformed "Let me get some practice with this shall I." So they walked through the portal, hand in hand, leaving a shocked Moon behind and a thoughtful Eclipsa holding her daughter 'that settles my decision then'.


On Mewni, Mina is gathering all the monsters so she can push them off the cliff, to symbolize the fall of monster kind, but stops, realizing that she needs the king of monsters to be front and center so that it can be a greater victory.

She ends up finding River with Globgor, as they make their way to the magic sanctuary, to repair the damages done upon the latter.

As she realizes what they were to do, she ends up having a diabolical idea to invade the realm of magic and procure it, as well as search for the treacherous queens; taking over Mewni in the name of Queen Solaria herself.

She calls upon 5 soldiers besides herself, to capture the queens and end this dance of hers, once and for all.


As Star and Marco walk through the portal, she looks for a spot to perform the spell, but before she does that, her senses start to go, only until Marco shoves some pudding in to her mouth, that Glossaryck gave him, to keep their mind sharp. As she comes to, she realizes that the straight forward Glossaryck has left the building and angrily wonders why he can't just be like that all the time. When she does find a position to start the spell, she is interrupted by a brainwashed Tom, riding a corrupted unicorn appearing to attack them. Marco assures her to go and perform the spell while he tries to knock some senses back in to their lost friend.

Star is left alone to perform the spell. As she chants, she feels nothing, she tries to regain her focus but still nothing; she starts getting frustrated and begins to splash the magical water asking why is she not able to do this spell, 'was everyone wrong and mum was right, am I not good enough to do this?' she thought to herself as tears formed in her eyes. At that moment, a hand reached over and patted her shoulders "Star, are you alright?" she was hoping for a second it was her mother but no, it was none other but Eclipsa herself.

"Eclipsa, Meteora, wh-wh-what are you doing here and where is mum?" she asks as she wipes away the tears from her eyes. "Oh dear, your mother said she wanted to be alone, she said you gave her a lot to think about" saying it as sweet as possible, "I guess she still doesn't believe I can do this spell, to tell you the truth, I am beginning to lose confidence in myself as well" with that said, fresh new tears start to form, dripping down her face. "Nonsense" Eclipsa says with a hint of disappointment "what ever happened to the speech about saving your people and monsters alike, you don't sound like that brave, bold, confident young leader that stood up for what she believed in, huh?" "I am not a leader Eclipsa, I am far from it, and this spell is not working, maybe I should have given it to mu-" "Oh no young lady, from what you have said, the past queens and Glossaryck chose you and you alone to complete this task, not me, or your mother. I can see why" Star perks at that listens to Eclipsa carefully now "Star, you have a great gift and it is not just magic but the beautiful heart that you have to accommodate all walks of life; that shows real potential to be a leader and I am certain you can do this spell."

Star perks up, deciding that she has shed enough unnecessary tears and will do this spell, no matter what. With that she turns to thank Eclipsa but finds that she has gone all loopy, she rolls her eyes and shoves a pudding cup, each in to their respective mouths; they regain their sanity and Star hugs Eclipsa thanking her for the encouraging words "Your welcome sweetie."

Marco comes back with normal Tom, but as they approach, there is quacking noise, at a distance, there lies the solarian soldiers coming down from the sanctuary well, swords at the ready with Mina in front of it all.

"Hahahaha, we have found them my warriors, now let us end this, for the glory of Queen Solaria" "FOR QUEEN SOLARIA!" they all said in unison.

As the soldiers quickly approach, Star gets ready to start a fight "alright time for a rema-" Eclipsa stops Star before she could finish "No Star, leave this to us, you just need to perform the spell and end this once and for all" as she approaches Marco, retrieving the wand from his possession, it transforms in to her parasol. "Leave this to us. Besides, I need to properly repay the soldiers for what they did to my husband" she concludes with an undertone of fury. Star wants to protest but sees Tom and Marco siding with her, turning their heads back to give a we got this look; encouraging Star to begin the spell. As she chants the spell, the others rush in to battle, with Eclipsa firing the first shot of her Mid-night Shriek spell at one of the soldiers, pushing it back and off balance. Tom and Marco take on Mina, trying their best not to get struck by her sword.

As the battle rages on, Star chants the spell, this time feeling a surge of magic flowing through her, each word she utters causes an increase in her own power thus amplifying the spell further. But with each chant succeeded, accomplishing 4 so far, her insides feel like they are burning up, she shakes in pain but not daring to stop for too long, managing to keep her composure. While trying to catch her breath, she notices her wings are starting to shred apart, meaning the effects are kicking in and if she is to successfully complete this torture, she needed to focus.

As the battle goes on, Eclipsa unleashes attacks after attacks, each one filled with more emotions than the last, it works to keep the warriors at a distance but it is still not enough to beat all 5 soldiers at once. Suddenly one of the soldiers dodges her next attack and swats her away like a fly, sending her wand out of her hand. "Aah, ouch." She barely adjust herself before a sword is raised up before it would strike her "Oh no" she closes her eyes, as she braces for impact, only to open them again to see her daughter in her butterfly form, blasting green beams at the said soldier, draining them of their energy. "Oh sweetie, thank you for saving me, my don't you look beautiful" Meteora just giggles 'dip down' at the sound of her mother's voice, not realizing a soldier snuck up behind her "METEORA LOOK OUT!" only to be immobilized, causing the baby to squirm and cry.

"Now you little monster freak, it is time you joined your daddy" saying that the soldier squeezed Meteora so hard that her cries of pain grew stronger. "GET AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!" suddenly, a dark intense beam struck soldier in to letting Meteora go, falling down only to be rescued by her own mother in her…BUTTERFLY FORM. There there baby, mummy's got you" soothing the once crying baby. "Oh my" she takes a minute to realize that she has transformed into her butterfly form, with purple wings, extra arms, antennae and alterations to her dress. Not just that, but her black veins have washed away, leaving her old clear skin unblemished. With this newly acquired form, she flies forward with Meteora in her two arms and unleashes two consecutive powerful spells at the 3 remaining soldiers, while her daughter laughs, also blasting beams of green light.

Marco and Tom barely hold up against Mina, given that the former is still injured from the unicorn stab and the latter is still disoriented from staying in the magic realm for far too long. As Mina seems to be getting the upper hand, she spots Star performing an incantation, not just that, but her eyes and cheek marks glowing a dazzling golden light as the magic water swirled around her, giving off rainbow sparkles in the distance. "So this was all a distraction, eh? WELL NO MORE" she declared, striking both boys out of the way as she blazed forward to finish the nuisance to her mission.

Star was entranced in the incantation, speaking very slowly now, as each word caused a great deal of pain, leaving her with too much power, as well as a frazzled torn butterfly form. Her hair was barely holding up tied, her butterfly wings were tearing apart and beads of sweat adorned her face. She was on the 8th casting of the spell when Mina slammed her against the crystal wall behind, knocking not just her out of the trance but the wind too "oomph". "You think you can distract me while you perform some mumbo jumbo on the sidelines, huh young butterfly?" Star was barely registering Mina's voice, over the pain of the spell backfiring as it was incomplete, unless she continues from where she stopped off; she would be destroyed in no time at all. As Star tried to stand up, she was immediately stomped back down by the heel of Mina's bare feet, increasing her pressure each minute, Star's grunts of pain were competing from both sides.

"Welp, it seems as though I win, hehe." "You. Haven't. Won ye-" "Shut up you little traitor." Silencing star with strong kick to her back "honestly, look around, don't you see that once my soldiers finish off the rest of you, I will rule this land back to the way it was meant to be all along, where monsters are beneath Mewmans and we live in peace" finishing off with a wicked laugh. "And there is nothing you can do about it."

"I believe she can do plenty" Mina whips her head quickly to the familiar voice, only to be met with neon whips wrapped around her "Now Mina if you would please. LEAVE MY DAUGHTER ALONE." Moon shouted as she spun Mina before tossing her over a far distance. As that was done, Moon rushed over to Star, to check if everything was alright "Star. Star, please are you alright? Gasps" but Star was not alright for her skin had cracks forming, each one more painful than the last. "Star, listen to me, you need to complete this spell or else you will die" "I can't, it hurts too much" "Please Star, just do it for m-" suddenly Mina came back, lunging towards them with her sword forward as screamed "JUSTICE!"

Moon abruptly left Star to the pool to sit up; she stood in front of Mina and blocked her attack with a magical barrier, barely holding against the deadly sword. "Give it up Moon, you're just delaying the inevitable" "You will not harm a single hair on my daughters head" she said as she tries to keep her at bay. Star through mustered up will power, stood up to lay her eyes on the scene, her mother was defending her from Mina's sword "Star, complete the spell and end this now" "But-" "listen to me Star, I believe in you and I will never underestimate you again" before Star could reply; something dark happened.

Moon's barrier shattered, leaving her open to Mina stabbing her in the chest with the sword. Time seemed to have frozen for Star as she just witnessed her mother being stabbed, she could not seem to say anything, only responding with a single tear. As Moon backed away from the sword, falling to the ground, Mina said "well that takes care of one pesky fly, haha, now on to the nex-" she looked up to see something that finally brought fear to the fearless fallen soldier.

Star's eyes shown with an intense glow, filled with such malice and hatred that could bring any monster to their knees, her aura was that of a raging tidal wave, ready to decimate all that was in her way. Her hair was swirling out of control, imbued by the aura. Transforming back in to her butterfly form clothes, with the torn wings, she raised both her arms directly at Mina.

"Mina, it is time for you stay the hell away from us now" with that she uttered her spell "Cataclysmic Total Extinction Death Blast" firing a nuclear grade beam at Mina, who tried to defend but was shot across the field, hitting 10 stone formations until finally knocked out. Star regained her cool, but raced to check on her mother "MUM! Mum mum, please please stay with me, don't give up just yet" staring down to see the scar was a deep growing one and all she heard were murmurs, she almost lost hope but a cloud of mist appeared around them, and out of the cloud were the past queens of Mewni chanting the spell that was meant for Star to do. She was shocked and a little surprised, then came Glossaryck emerging from the magical waters "Star do not worry for your mother, you must complete the spell, it will reverse the effects if you will it" "Glossaryck, are you sure?" managing to say through the sobs "Positive my fearless granddaughter" then came an unfamiliar voice, but as Star turned her head, she saw it was someone she had seen before and it dawned on her, it was Moon's mum, her grandmother.

"Do not fret, for you must complete the mission, do not let her noble sacrifice be in vain" saying that as she stepped forward to hold her daughter while Star stepped back to continue the spell. She took a deep breath under the guise of Glossaryck, and began.

"I summon the magic from the deepest depths and untold seas Harnessing it to fulfill my selfish schemes To envelope my body with untapped potential, Dispel my fears and let my strength grow exponential, l Unlock the magic that has long been hidden, Flow through my veins, and once was, shall be overwritten"

Star was rising in to the air, as she was doing so, her appearance metamorphosized: some of her hair twisted in to braids, tying each other, forming in to an elegant new style, her wings repaired themselves, becoming radiant than ever, her dress transformed as well, to a longer, more open royal gown. As it began she was trying to maintain her mind but shaking with frustration "No I can do it, I am not Star the Underestimated but The Rebel, and I will not back down, never happening" with that she took hold of her powerful form, finally finishing the spell. People in the distance were amazed by the beautiful, awe-striking being that was Star, Eclipsa was shedding tears of joy, Marco's jaw dropped in awe and Tom realized that he should still be nicer to Marco or else he would suffer at the hands of his ex.

Star raised all her 6 arms in different directions, and said in an overlapping voice "By The Power Vested in me as Queen, I cease the chaotic dark magic of the Solarian warriors, cleanse their mind, bodies and the people of those they have tainted" as Star finished, the pool of swirling magic shot up, engulfing her, but her eyes and cheek marks, shown through; the vortex of magic water turned white, spherical and expanded going forth and immersed everyone in the blinding light. It even made its way up the once damaged well and buried all of Mewni with it as well.


Mmmm, wh-what just happened" was all that Moon could say as she awoke to find herself outside the magic sanctuary that looks good as new, desperately she tried to remember what had happened. And she did, she remembered how she sacrificed herself to protect Star…"wait a minute where is Star?" she fumbled to keep her balance, trying her hardest to find her daughter, which did not take long, for her daughter was up in the air, still in her radiant form, looking down at her mother with a tearful smile "Mum, your awake!" she uttered with joy.

"Oh my baby girl, you truly have grown up" said Moon who also had fresh tears after seeing the wonderful being that is her daughter up in the air.


Okay, okay, this was a little too dramatic than the actual ending but don't be hating, I love it and while writing it, I could totally picture Star unleashing a can of magical butt whooping in this form; don't get me wrong, she is not OP, as this form is temporary, but you will have to see more for yourself in the last chapter coming soon. Can't wait. Yay