Opening File: Mewni
Long ago a group of humanoids settled in the dimension known as Mewni, seeking to escape the terror of their home dimension and made a settlement. One day, vicious monsters appeared to claim the Mewmans' land. The Queen at the time used her magic to transform the Mewman peasants into a powerful army, and they drove the monsters away. However, it has been suggested that the monsters were actually peaceful, and that the Mewmans drove them off the land that was rightfully theirs.
The Royal Family had an ancient secret that gave them a great power. This power was a special book with an immortal being bound to the book, created by the universe itself to give the Mewmans a better understanding of the magic that permeates the universe and create a council of powerful beings to govern the laws of magic that the Mewmans would follow. This being was known as Glossaryck or Sir Glossaryck of Terms who then created Lekmet, the High Chancellor of Magic to give Mewmans an understanding of the impermanence of existence and then Omnitraxus Prime to maintain the multiverse for Mewmans and explain to them the delicate strands of spacetime. He then created Hekapoo to provide Mewmans with the means of interdimensional travel and then created Rhombulus to serve as the council's 'muscle', and he judges certain individuals of the multiverse and determines whether or not they pose a threat to its safety.
The Queen of Mewni would also become a member of the council after proving her mastery of magic and leadership. The source of the Royal Family's power was a wand, containing the most powerful form of magic that allowed the hand who held it to wield almost any kind of power including creation and destruction. Only the Queen of Mewni was allowed to wield it and would pass down to the next wielder, a princess on her fourteenth birthday.
Solaria the Monster Carver.
Selena the Shy.
Eclipsa the Queen of Darkness.
Festivia the Fun.
And Moon the Undaunted who is preparing to pass the wand of her family to her heir, Princess Star Butterfly.
In more ways than one.
Close File
Xxx
"It's amazing how one simple change can affect more than one universe."
This time the person speaking wasn't TOM but a man in a purple cloak with blue skin, red eyes with a crescent shaped scar under one of them, holding a staff with a clock on the end, and a clock on his chest appeared on the other end of the room. However the most surprising part was that he had no legs, just a floating tail like...
"A ghost?" The man offered with a smile. "And the answer to the next question is that I indeed am taking over temporarily for TOM to offer my own sagely advice."
He waved his staff, showing images of the Ghost Zone and his Earth in many periods, some of them showing Danny Phantom in his past, present and future.
"If time were to be considered a parade then everyone would know it is only meant to go in one direction: forward. However a parade requires maintenance and who better knows the gears shifting inside than a master of time?" The spirit said as his man form shifted into that of an elderly man as he watched the image of a young Dani Phantom vanishing into a portal, followed by a few more ghosts. "Every once in a while someone tries to throw a wrench in the works and thus it is up to me to decide how best to fix it."
His form shifted again, becoming a baby.
"One must be extremely careful for if one gear is not in tune with the others the parade is ruined and results become unpredictable." He waved his staff, showing the image of a young warrior facing against what could only be described as a demon before vanishing into a portal. "For example: if one is propelled into the future by a tear in space and time the results can vary but it is often shown that by stepping out of the parade that is the time stream you lose the effect that time has on all beings. Another example would be going back in time to the exact instant you were sent through time and destroying what sent you through in the first place."
He shifted back into a man, showing the image of the warrior slaying the demon.
"Even if you destroy an Ultimate Evil time never makes exemptions nor does time ever forget. One result of this would be the creation of a paradox since if the evil one that sends the hero into the future is destroyed by the hero who travels back in time by using the evil one's power. Such actions causes a paradox since the evil one's power is what is used to send the warrior back in time but if the evil one is destroyed in the past than the power or being that allows the hero to travel back in time never exists and thus undoes all the hero's work when time corrects the paradox. At the same time it could lead to a second line, splitting the parade that is the timeline, creating an 'alternate timeline' since it is created by the alteration." The spirit of time said as he morphed into an old man. "However if the future the hero was sent to was created by the evil than the destruction of the past evil one would destroy that future, creating a brand new future. Time is absolute. It makes no exemptions. Even to those who have stepped outside of the time stream."
He waved his staff, showing the man who slayed the demon on his wedding day watching in horror as his bride vanished before his eyes.
"Stepping out of one's own current timeline to be thrown into the distant future or past can affect how one exists, making one immune to the aging effects of time and even able to retain memories of a future that no longer exists or even allow one to survive their past being erased by existing outside of regular time but only shortly before time corrects all anomalies." The elder became a child again. "And yet if one chooses to change oneself in the past it still alters the future, perhaps to an even greater extent."
The child waved his staff, showing the demon again; traveling back in time to almost before life began on Earth and changing all of history.
"If one were to make a script of all this it would perhaps be called a 'reboot' and this leads to the potential change of everything. Places, peoples and events stretching from the beginning to the end." The child became a man again as he smiled. "So imagine how you are in your original time, suddenly thrown into entirely new timeline where the circumstances of your life are completely changed. Do you believe you would be the same as before or would you be someone entirely different? But remember, no matter who or what you are…Time never forgets."
Clockwork, the Ghost of Time waved his staff and ended his lecture in a flash of light.
Xxx
"Man, that guy really likes his clocks." TOM said, having listened to Clockwork's lecture. "Well, you heard the man folks. Now let's get on with the show."
Xxx
Queen Moon Butterfly sat down in the chair, looking the tapestries of her family, the previous Queens of Mewni.
It was the only quiet place she could find when dealing with the natural disaster that was her daughter, Star Butterfly. Queen Moon tried her best to rein Star in and prepare for her for when she would become the next Queen of Mewni. The problem was Star was just too rambunctious, hyperactive and always sneaking off from her lessons to fight monsters in the swamps. She scared off any potential suitors even if she didn't mean to but no one of royal blood was prepared was for the walking disaster that was Star Butterfly.
The more this happened the more Moon was uncomfortably reminded of the headstrong young princess she once was.
'I did a lot of things that I don't want Star to be doing.' Moon thought.
The problem was Star was just as headstrong and shared her father's emotional mindset which made it all the more difficult. The Queen looked at the place where Star's tapestry would one day be and wondered what kind of Queen she would be.
Warrior?
Diplomat?
Scholar?
Tyrant?
Mewni had already suffered one Queen turning her back on its people in the form of Eclipsa, the Queen of Darkness who forsook her people in the favor of a monster she took as a bride because she sympathized with the monsters over her kind. Moon desperately hoped Star would not be the next Queen to suddenly abdicate the throne.
'Nothing River or I have tried has gotten through to her. She just doesn't listen.' Moon massaged her temples again. 'I was the same once and it took a war to make me change.'
A war led by the Immortal Monster who she fought and defeated. She learned some harsh lessons during that time and she wished that Star wouldn't have to learn the same way she had. She looked her tapestry, seeing herself as she cast her most powerful spell on her foe.
'I had wanted to do so much back then. I thought I could change things for the better but then you chose the path you took.' She looked at the image of the Immortal Monster. 'You were not wrong with your beliefs but the path you chose was built on the blood of everyone, monster and Mewmen. And then I only had River with me to help me through…'
Moon's eyes widened as she stood up from her chair. "Of course! That's it!"
The answer she had been looking for!
Xxx
"Find a what for our daughter?! Send her to another world?!" Queen Moon's husband River Johansen shouted in shock upon hearing his wife's suggestion. "Are you barking mad?!"
"River, just hear me out." Moon said soothingly, placing a hand on her husband's shoulder. "It has come to my attention that despite our best efforts Star may not ever be ready to become Queen. Her tutors can't hold her down for two seconds to teach her about being a Queen or mastering her magic and we can't keep her hidden from the world and hope the people do not notice she's not the perfect little princess they expect. Then I remembered that when I was little I was headstrong as well but I had someone there with me who helped me temper myself."
River's features softened. "Me."
"Yes. That's what I think Star needs. She needs a friend that can help her feel like Star Butterfly and not simply Princess Star Butterfly, a partner to share in all of her adventures and be the temperance to stabilize her recklessness. A confidant for her to share all of her feelings, frustrations and maybe even a few secrets she wouldn't want us knowing. And someone she can absolutely trust to be there for her whenever she needs them." Moon explained patiently. "It was the same for us when we were younger, River."
"Isn't she already best friends with Pony Head's daughter?" River asked, trying to find a way to convince his wife to abandon this plan.
"Best friends, yes. But not enough for Star since Pony Head's daughter is even more reckless than Star is. That demon Tom doesn't even come close to what I am trying to explain." Moon sighed and looked out the window. "Star can't become what we want her to be here in this castle or even in Mewni I am afraid."
"What about Saint Olga's?" River suggested but winced as Moon glared at him. "All right, bad idea."
That was an understatement.
"The last thing Star needs is an environment she finds to be more stifling than here in the castle." Moon turned around to face her husband. "She needs a place to break free and find out just who she really can be."
"Moon, you are talking more than just finding a new friend for Star. Are you trying to…" River trailed off when he saw his wife smile. "Oh no."
Moon held up her wand, symbol of the Royal Family's power that would one day be Star's. "I seek the one who is the destiny of my daughter, Star Butterfly!"
The wand flashed, casting the seeking spell that would go through Mewni and even through dimensions to find the one who Moon believes will be the one to help her daughter on the path to her destiny. The wand flashed again and projected the image of a planet to the King and Queen.
"The wand has found something." Moon said with a hopeful smile while River was shaking slightly.
No doubt feeling his fatherly instincts to kick whoever comes near his daughter so high they burn up on re-entry.
"This world is different." Moon mused as the wand's seeker spell zoomed in on the planet, showing lands that were different from anything she and River had ever seen. "A different world compared to the ones we have seen before."
The wand settled onto a single town called Echo Creek.
"Prepare the carriage." Moon said, deciding to see this new world.
Xxx
The carriage came through the portal, entering the new dimension on the world known as Earth. It seemed to be nighttime in the city. It was a admittedly beautiful sight with the street lights lining the street under a starry sky. Buildings were made of concrete or wood with strange vehicles off to the side of the street the carriage continued down.
"What a strange and alien place." Moon said, looking at the many buildings they passed.
"And you believe we should send Star here?" River questioned.
"The wand pointed us here." Moon replied.
A crashing sound caused the carriage to stop and the royal couple peeked out, seeing the window of a building shattered with several thugs rushing in and looting the place. They were dressed head to toe in red with black visors covering their eyes.
"A place full of hooligans!" River barked, ready to jump and simply use the thieves as an outlet for his frustration.
Moon sighed and seemed ready to give up.
At least until something made them stop.
"WHOO-HOO!"
The couple looked up, spotting someone on some kind of board shoot down and slam into one of the thugs. It was a girl, looking around Star's age with wavy, shoulder-length platinum blond hair with an aqua streak on the left side, mint green eyes, and freckles. She wore a green and white raglan shirt, an orange seashell necklace, cyan jean shorts, green and white kneesocks, and blue and white sneakers. A thug lunged at her but she somersaulted up through the air, her body splitting and becoming a pair of strange oddly shaped weapons that began shooting darts that exploded when they hit the ground, knocking the thugs back as she landed on the ground.
"By my beard!" River exclaimed. "She's about Star's age and I have never seen such skill outside of our family."
Moon had to agree, watching as the girl jumped back as the thugs rushed her.
"NOW MARCO!"
The thugs inside the building were knocked out onto the street, followed by a dark figure that landed in front of them. It was a boy with a slender build, tan skin, dark brown hair, brown eyes, and a mole on his right cheek. He wore a light gray shirt, a red hooded jacket that flowed to the back like a cape with a brown unzipped jacket that had rolled up sleeves, dark gray skinny jeans, black boots and black fingerless gloves.
"Robbing a Dust store huh?" The boy asked, unsheathing a pair of hilts that from sprouted thin blades. "Really?"
Moon took a look at the young man, finding him to resemble some sort or warrior or hero she had read about in the fantast books her mother had read to her as a child. The thugs pulled out staffs that sparked at the end with electricity and charged the young man. Moon and River were both ready to jump in and help but stopped as the young man named Marco elegantly dodged or parried their attacks with his swords, showing a level of expertise that matched a Mewnian guard. Even River had to admit the boy had potential but so far all he did was defend or dodge.
The thugs kept trying to hit him but he showed a skill that could match Mewni's best warriors one day. Just as the thugs surrounded him Marco changed tactics, allowing them to attack him before he counter-attacked. He ducked under one punch, slamming the hilt of his blade into a thug's gut before dropping and rolling through the legs of another, escaping the circle of thugs he had been trapped in.
"Now Janna!" Marco shouted.
A blast slammed into the thugs, knocking them down. River and Moon followed where the blast had come from and saw another girl standing on the roof of a nearby building. She was the same age as the having short dark-blue hair and brown eyes. She wore an olive green shirt, a turquoise jacket, a yellow skirt, brown boots, and an olive green beanie hat.
In her hand was a wand of some sort but was rather simplistic to the wand of the Mewni Royal family. It was black with a white end and the girl waved it before casting another spell, one that caused the ground to crack open and the thugs fell into the hole.
"You got the curse of Janna Ordonia, boys!" The girl laughed as she jumped off the roof, firing a blast from her wand that slowed her descent and allowed her to land safely on the ground.
"Nice work, Janna." Marco congratulated as he and the first girl walked up to the girl named Janna. "We finally caught those guys."
Moon watched as the young man interacted with the two girls, seeing that they were some sort of team. But they were too young to be any sort of knights or law enforcement. Still, they showed impressive skills.
The blond haired girl was impressive on her board that changed into a pair of strange crossbow like weapons that fired explosive arrows and she was quick and agile.
The dark haired girl seemed to have some sort of magic that she used for long range attacks, covering her two comrades from a distance.
And the boy was a skilled fighter, possibly the leader by the way he carried himself. He was skilled in the art of swordsmanship, fast, agile and intelligent given how he and his comrades effortlessly lured the thugs into a trap.
"What a good show!" River clapped in excitement. "Maybe we should stick around and see what more this dimension has to offer!"
Well, at least her husband was entertained but Moon felt something as she looked at the boy. There was something about this boy that made Moon think he was the reason they had come to this dimension. She looked down at her wand and saw it was glowing. She raised it and pointed it at the boy, seeing it glow brighter.
This was who they were looking for!
The one who could be Star's possible partner.
"Marco…" Moon whispered, remembering the name the blond girl had called him.
A strange sound from above ended the celebration of the team and they looked up to see an air craft hovering above the store. The side opened up and they spotted a woman looking down at then. She wore a black and green skin-tight outfight with black and green gloves and boots, long black hair with green highlights, pale green skin with dark green eyes. The woman stepped forward as she held up her hands and they ignited with green fire.
"I got this." Janna pointed her want at the jump ship and fired a bright pink blast.
The woman held out one hand and fired a large ball of green fire that collided with Janna's attack and cancelled it out. The blond girl aimed and fired but the woman only used one hand that was lit with green fire, incinerating the shots easily. Moon narrowed her eyes, her battle senses telling her this woman was too much for the children to handle and she also felt sinister intentions from the woman.
Her senses were only confirmed when the woman began pelting the children with green fire, forcing them to run to avoid being incinerated. The woman fired another large blast, this one flying past the three and hitting the ground in front of them, creating a wall of green fire that cut their escape route off. They turned around, watching as the woman prepared another large blast of green fire to finish them off.
However just as she fired it beam of light came from behind the children collided with the attack, cancelling the green fire out. The woman narrowed her eyes as she looked behind see who was responsible.
It was Queen Moon, the wand of her family in hand that she pointed at the woman. "Leave now."
The woman glared at Moon and fired another green fire blast that Moon cancelled out with a magic shield.
"You were warned." Moon said dangerously as she fired a beam straight at the woman and the drop-ship.
The woman brought her hands together and created a compressed ball of green energy and fired it. The green orb collided with the beam, creating an explosion that cancelled both attacks out.
'She cancelled out my spell!' Moon thought, her face consorting into a look of shock.
It took a great amount of power to match the wand of her family and seeing someone able to do so, even in a dimension they had only just visited was troubling. The smoke cleared and the ship and the woman were gone. They couldn't have been destroyed and Moon spotted the ship in the distance, retreating.
"Wow…"
Moon looked behind to see the kids still on the other side of the fire, their forms obscured by the green flames.
"That was amazing!" The girl named Janna exclaimed in excitement.
"Are you three all right?" Moon asked.
The boy named Marco nodded with a smile. "We are. Thank you for saving us. We thought we were cornering a street gang but that woman was obviously someone a little higher."
"Why were you three attempting to stop them if you don't mind me asking. Wouldn't that have been better left to any law enforcement around here?" Moon questioned as her husband approached and stood by her.
"Kind of hard to since those guys kept on evading the police. Guess they kind of have an excuse with a woman like that helping them." The blond haired girl admitted. "We thought we'd catch them since we're all Hunters in training."
"Hunters?" River asked, stroking his beard.
"Yeah, Hunters. You know, warriors trained to defend the innocent and all that. Superpowers and all that." Janna cut in. "You guys not from around here or something?"
"In a manner of speaking." Moon admitted.
"I'm Marco Diaz." He gestured to Janna. "This is Janna Ordonia." He then gestured to the blond haired girl. "And this is Jackie Lynn Thomas. We're Hunters in training. And well, we training to one day become Hunters."
"And what exactly are Hunters?" Moon questioned.
"Are you from another planet? Because just about everyone on Earth knows what a Hunter is." Janna said rhetorically.
"We're from…Far away." Moon said cryptically.
"Well…" Marco started, rubbing the back of his head, barely able to see Moon through the flames. "If you've never heard of Hunters or the Grimm you are really lucky."
Moon looked at her wand and saw it was still glowing, even brighter now that was closer to them and believed without a doubt that this boy was the one she and her husband had been seeking.
"Grimm?" River questioned.
"Yeah, Grimm. You know, monsters of darkness and evil that have been around for who knows how long?" Janna asked, unable to believe that they hadn't heard of the Grimm. "How far away do you live?"
Moon covered her husband's mouth, knowing he would say they were from another dimension. "Just far away. Thank you."
Moon waved her wand and disappeared along with her husband and the carriage, leaving three confused young Hunters in training.
"That was strange." Jackie said, pointing her pistols at the flames and used her Semblance to create water inside her weapons, using them as portable hoses to douse the flames.
This was Jackie's Semblance, the ability to create water as long as there were components capable of making it, pulling them into her pistols or even her hands and combining hydrogen and oxygen.
"Strange but they did still save us." Marco said, yawning. "Well, better head home."
"Yeah, don't want to end up sleeping in, Mr. Responsible." Janna said, laughing as she lightly elbowed Marco.
"I keep telling you not to call me that!"
Xxx
"What a strange place and yet filled with people having extraordinary powers." Moon said, back in the carriage with her husband. "Of all the places for the seeker spell to lead us to."
The carriage had stopped in front of the house that they had followed the boy named Marco Diaz when he thought they were gone. The carriage had been cloaked by an invisibility spell cast by Moon.
"We should speak with the young man's family. Without him knowing of course." Moon said, stepped out of the carriage.
River was uncomfortable silent, knowing that the one they had been seeking, the possible future love of his precious little girl had been found. Sure he had been amazed by how skilled the young man had been and even thought of asking him for a spar but this was the future of his baby for Mewni's sake!
"You finally came out."
Moon stopped and glanced to the side, seeing two people emerge from behind a tree in the yard of the house. One was a muscular man who had dark brown hair, brown eyes, a thin short black mustache, tan skin and wore a yellow shirt with two dark yellow and white stripes running down the middle, dark gray pants, and yellow shoes. The other was a woman with long and puffy auburn hair tied back in a ponytail, green eyes, red lipstick, and a light skin tone.
"You knew we were here?" Moon questioned, now wary.
The man smiled. "Of course. We were curious about you since you stepped in and saved our son and his friends after all."
Moon's eyes widened. "You are Marco's parents?"
The man bowed. "Raphael Diaz and this is my lovely wife, Angie. Thank you for saving our son. We were close by but wanted to give him the chance to learn more about being a Huntsman first hand."
"It is a serious life style and though we trust our son we will always help him in any way we can." Angie spoke up. "And I can see you are very curious about this place and our son. So why not come in and let us talk? I'll brew us some tea."
Xxx
King River and Queen Moon returned to Mewni late at night, both of them a little tired but stayed up a bit to process what they had learned about the place called Earth. They had spent a few hours conversing with Mr. and Mrs. Diaz who told them about Earth, Hunstmen and the Grimm and needless to say they were both interested to learn more about the world while giving them a bunch of books on Earth's history including history on the Grimm, Huntsmen and so much more.
It was an amazing story to learn about and River was fascinated with these Grimm, contemplating the chance to sneak back to Earth and fight these creatures or even spar with one of the warriors called Huntsmen.
In return the royal couple explained themselves to the parents, telling them about Mewni and it being in another dimension which they completely believed.
'When you have seen things we and everyone else on our world has you tend to believe anything.' Angie Diaz said.
It was even easier to believe since there wasn't anywhere or anyone on Earth who hadn't heard of the Grimm in some form or fashion. The royal couple then explained about their daughter, a princess who was rather…resistant to being the usual kind of princess and no matter what they tried they couldn't stabilize her into the kind of princess that thought of the future of Mewni or would be responsible enough to handle the powers of the wand Moon had shown to them and the power it wielded that would be dangerous in the hands of someone with an undisciplined mind. That's why they went looking for a place where she could learn to be more responsible and maybe even find friends or even someone to help change her for the better.
Angie at this point figured what they meant by 'someone' and let out a squeal with her husband at the thought of their son, a good and responsible young man who portrayed himself as a 'misunderstood bad boy' finding himself a girl, a princess at that. Things kind of took off from their and they would offer to help them since Moon did help save their son from a rather dangerous opponent and even told the royal couple that they even usually rented out a spare room to foreign exchange students. They even said if Star applied for Huntress training it would be a great way to channel her creative energy and love of fighting into.
It all seemed too perfect but Moon detected no lies from the Diazs.
They were a purely good family with good intentions and were teaching their son to be a responsible young man in addition to one day becoming a warrior.
It might even be a way for Star to channel all of her passions into something creative other than bringing chaos to the entire kingdom.
All that was left was to see if she could handle the wand's power on her fourteenth birthday.
Xxx
A Month Later
Star Butterfly looked rather distressed outside Mewni which was currently on fire and its civilians are screaming in terror. Star slowly shuffled away, deciding to hide at least until the heat was literally off. At the castle, King and Queen Butterfly and Glossaryck observed through binoculars.
"She can't handle it." They both said, lowering their binoculars.
Looks like Star was going to Earth.
Xxx
"Nooooo! I can be good. Please! Don't send me to St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses!" Star pleaded, her mind conjuring the terrible images of what happened if she was being sent there.
"Sweetheart, we're not sending you there." River said, calming his terrified daughter down.
This brightened Star considerably. "Oh!"
"Yet." Moon said sternly as a warning to try and keep her wild daughter in line.
"We're sending you to train in a safer dimension; a place called Earth." River continued, trying to keep things calm.
Star tilted her head, having never heard of such a place. "Earth?"
Moon pushed Star toward the carriage as she wailed.
"Manfred, open the portal." River said, remaining calm despite how upset he was to be sending his daughter off.
At least she would have the chance to have some fun, hopefully.
Manfred used a pair of dimensional scissors to open a portal.
The carriage moves through it as Star looked forlorn at her homeland. "Goodbye, Mewni."
Little did Star Butterfly know she would be in for the greatest adventure of her life.
Xxx
"Did you feel that just now?"
In the dark palace, deep in the land populated by only Grimm where no one would dare to tread, Sammael could only smirk at the yellow eyes of his associate as he appeared from the shadows. "Of course, I did. It seems Van Kleiss isn't the only one playing dimensional fishing."
"These interlopers appeared around the time of a simple heist in the town of Echo-Creek. I sensed a similar again. Whatever it is it is enough to pose a threat."
"Is it?" Sammael asked, running his fingers along the arm of this throne. "Echo-Creek is relatively isolated and has no strategical value."
The shadow tilted its head. "You intend to do nothing?"
"I didn't say that. If I recall the one in charge of Dust collection in that area had an encounter with the new powers." Sammael smirked coldly. "Shego, if I recall correctly."
"She has been efficient in her efforts and before now she left no trails to be followed by authorities."
"And she has yet to do so. There has been no transmission warning of her presence in that area. She can provide details on these new persons of interest."
"Shall I provide surveillance in Echo-Creek?"
"No. In the long run Echo-Creek has only a few Hunters residing there. We can afford to leave it unattended. At least until matters with Bill Cipher has been settled." Sammael waved off the question. "Has there been any word on the two missing Elementals?"
"The lack of reports suggest no."
Sammael closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. "I'd hoped they would appear on their own but I came prepared for that."
"Your strategy with Drago has merit but it was still risky."
"In the meantime what is the status in the other countries?" Sammael changed the subject.
"Japan and Russia maintain their rivalry while China remains at odds with America. Britain keeps its contact with America but the bond is not as strong as it once was."
"Good." Sammael inspected his hand idly. "In the meantime perhaps I should see what prizes Van Kleiss has picked in his little game of dimensional fishing. I already sensed the presence of several unique individuals, including one with a presence similar to my own. This could be very interesting to see if he's found a dimensional counterpart to Fallen beings like myself."
"Van Kleiss might not like the sudden inspection. If he feels threatened he might just call off the agreement he made with you."
Sammael grinned. "I know of his ambitions but so as along as he is playing by my rules he will know to fall in line and if not I can always entertain myself by blasting him to bits and watching his nanites try to put him back together."
The one who will reclaim the world or not it didn't hurt to seek some entertainment once in a while.