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The Bright Side Of Ecplisa. (Commission)
A 40$ Commission for 
MichaelGrey being this time a "Slice of Life" type of story about the character Ecplisa from the Disney show "Star VS The Forces Of Evil".
This is loosely based after the end of the Season 3 episode "Stranger Danger", so if it doesn't mix up with what happens in episodes after that one then remember that this is NONE-CANON!!!
Hope you all enjoy it as much as MichaelGrey did.
Star and Ecplisa belongs to Disney.
Watching our through the rose thorn covered tower Star Butterfly still couldn't fully grasp everything she had been learning today.
When just trying to capture her escaped baby Glossaryck (Don't ask) the Princess of Mewni ended up meeting a mysterious girl in a remote garden at the castle.
And no longer had she had time to say "Hello" to her before suddenly both her mother (The Queen) along with the members of the Magic High Commission had the strange girl surrounded and captured!
Upon asking what was going on Star got a real reality check as he mother told her that the kind stranger actually was Eclipsa, a former Mewni Queen that had also been known as "The Queen of Darkness" to the Mewni legends!
Barley had Star had time to ask questions like "Why is she here?" or "I thought she was gone and missing?" before she herself was forced to do a series of tests in order to see if she had any "Evil" inside of her.
Apparently this Eclipsa seemed to be so dangerous that her mother was demanding for her to be forced into a block of solid crystal, but what really caught Star's attention was when she heard her mother adding the word "again" at the end of her sentence.
"Wait a minute!...You took and shield her into a block of Crystal?!" Star asked her mother shocked, at which Rhombulus could be heard saying, "Actually it was I who did the "shielding into crystal" part, while the Queen just gave the order." from the background but Star wasn't listening.
"Well, I have to...She was dating a monster after all!" The Queen Moon Butterfly said as Star just looked dumbfounded and asked, "Dating a monster equals being in a crystal for the rest of your life?!"
"It wasn't just that, Star. She was also studying in Dark Magic, and even wrote down some of the spells she made in the Book of Spells!" Star's mother said in a very overly worried tone, to which Star herself just looked pretty deadpanned and asked "Did she ever use any of that dark magic to cause chaos?"
"Well, no...but in case she was planning to then we would have her kept away from causing any danger." Queen Moon Butterfly tried to explain, but this just all sounded so unnaturally cruel and downright evil thing to do against someone that was simply not like the others in the royal family.
Barley had they finished their little talk before Star's mother was on her way to order Ecplisa to be back into her frozen prison again, but Star quickly got herself in-between and demanded of Ecplisa to be given more of a "Fair Trial" over her fate.
"If she has not been caught actually doing something bad, then at least give her a chance to defend herself in court!" Star said as her mother looked very frustrated over her daughter's involvement, but she still gave in and said "Fine. I let her have her trial then."
The victory for Star was pretty short-lived however as then her mom said, "Given how a trial towards someone as dangerous as Ecplisa would be very complicated it will take a long time to get all the preparations ready for it, and therefore we sill require to have her locked up in a cell so she wont try to escape."
"Wait, escape?!" Star asked shocked as she still felt very upset over how hardly her mother was treating her new friend, while Ecplisa took it all very easy and said that "If I may, would it be possible for me to pick my own cell?"
So she ended up being locked into the abandoned thorn covered tower by the garden were she and Star had been meeting, since that had used to be her home back in her time.
Having still felt pretty sad for her situation Star came to visit Eclipsa very shortly after, and they both now was sharing a moment looking out over the garden from which they had met once before.
As they both were admiring just how wonderfully fantastic the view of the garden was from the top of the tower Star finally felt like she had a moment to just breath and collect her senses, and that was when all the thoughts about Ecplipsa was starting to battle themselves inside of her head.
"Was Ecplisa actually that dangerous? If so then why hadn't she tried escaping or putting of a fight when being found out? Had she actually changed after being trapped for so long? Was this all a big plan to slowly make Star go over to the dark side?!"
Star was at one point considering just slowly backing away and leaving Eclipsa to be were she was, but that only made her realise that she was starting to act out of fear just like her mother!
If she wanted to show her mom that there was nothing to be afraid of with Eclipsa then she needed to let her at least have a chance to prove that to her first.
The way the plants was placed, the way the sun was setting behind the tower and lighting up the closed up garden, and just the way all the colours and shades was working together made it all look like they were watching a living painting.
"Wow. This is really amazing." Star said to which Ecplisa added, "Yes it is. Really is all I ever wished I could admire while I was kept frozen."
"Wait, wait, wait. Are you saying you would be okay being frozen now?" Star asked confused, to which Eclipsa gave out a light laughter and said, "Of course not. But if I was to spend the rest of my days seal off then the least I could ask for would be to watch out over something pretty like this as time would pass by."
Thinking about it for a while it really hit Star just how having nothing then your own sight to entertain yourself when being kept a prisoner like that really must have felt like, as she suddenly felt very guilty to now make up for what her mother had done in the past.
"Ecplisa. I have made up my mind!" Star said as she made a very heroic pose and said, "I want to let you have a chance getting to see for a night everything that Mewni has to offer!"
"You would really do that for me?" Ecplisa asked surprised as Star said that, "If you are found guilty at that trial later then it will be straight back to the crystal! Would you really want your one true moment of freedom to just be you being inside this tower?"
"Well it is a very limited amount of space that I have been given the right to walk around in, so it is already more then I thought I would ever have." Ecplisa said honesty and almost feeling twice as sad and guilty for her now Star said, "Okay, I REALLY need to let you see what is outside of this tower now."
"But what about Glossaryck?" Star then asked as she still had the now infant minded spirit of the Spell book to take care of also. "I just can't leave him all alone for such a long time. What kind of responsible keeper of my wand would I be if I did?"
"I might have a solution for that." Eclipsa said as she picked up Glossaryck, placed one finger on top of his gemstone in his forehead, and whispered some kind of mystical spell to make him peacefully fall asleep.
"What did you just do?" Star asked confused as Ecplisa answered, "Just used some of my dark magic to put him under my control and become my slave now." to which Star's face became a lot more panic looking from what she just heard.
Ecplisa then was very quick to say "Got you!" before then bursting out laughing over how perfectly she had tricked Star Butterfly there. (Something Star herself now could also see the funny in.)
"Okay..." Star said a bit calmer before then immediately asking, "But seriously, what did you just do with him?!"
"I just gave him a simple sleeping spell so that he can just rest here while we do our thing." Ecplisa said before then politely asking, "So? Shall we start our night outside of the tower?"
Star was just about to open the door for Ecplisa, before remembering that it was still being guarded and the guards would most likely not let their prisoner take a quick visit outside.
"Okay, the he door is no option." Starlight said as she tried to quickly figure out another way to get them both out of this room.
"I could summon a Cotton Candy Cloud for us to ride on, but that would be very easy to see in the sky...Oh! Maybe a teleportation spell? But I am not fully able to nail just WHERE we would end up landing..." Star was saying to herself as Ecplisa started to make her way towards the open window in the tower.
"Or we can just do this." Ecplisa said before then making a sudden leap out, and Star quickly rushed over in panic over seeing her friend just jumping from a high height!
As she reached the window and looked down Star could see how Eclipsa was using the big rose thorns as platforms to bounce off one at a time, before then finally safely landing on the ground.
"Will you join me?" Ecplisa asked as Star, while being know for her own acrobatic skills, looked just a tiny bit nervous over trying to not risk getting impaled by those giant thorn stings.
Making a leap for it Star didn't do nearly as graceful of a journey down the thorn filled tower as Eclipsa had done (Missing to set her landing on the first one, and then just hitting her back and waist as she feel onto the other thick branches on her way down), but after some time Star eventually managed to land onto her own two feet next to her waiting friend.
Still feeling a bit hurt from that big fall Star had to give Eclipsa credit for how well she did it as she said, "You really made that look a lot more easier then it was."
Eclipsa herself smiled and said, "Sometimes you just need to see things in a different way to know that they might not be as dangerous as you may think." as now she (in company with Star) would finally get a chance to revisit Mewni again after all these years.
As they sneaked their way out from the castle and courtyard Star and Ecplisa was making their way towards the kingdom of Mewni, and while the previously trapped sorcerer of dark magic was curiously optimistic the Royal Princess was a lot more nervous about if doing this would put any of them into any trouble.
Most of this proved to be false fears however, as while the Royal family and guardians was studied up about the history of Ecplisa, the same could not be said about the "common peasant" of Mewni who just saw her as a "New friend of Star".
This was a major relief for the worried Princess, and for Ecplisa this meant that she could truly just be herself without any fearing of anyone getting frighten by her.
Given her time being forced to live within a solid block of crystal things like Stores, Street Vendors, and just other people fascinated her a lot.
Deciding to make a quick visit Ecplisa made her way to a vendor selling all kind of gross looking animal parts, and when seeing a cooking pot right next to it she got a very "prank filled" idea.
As Star was wondering what she was thinking Ecplisa started to grab things like "The Tails of a BullBert Frog, Claws from a Arkyn Wolf, 2 Verliculous Snake Heads, and The still beating heart of a Scrimopuls Spider" before then stuffing it all into the pot and putting the lid on.
"Hey! You better pay for those things!" The man owning the vendor shop said when suddenly the lid popped off and a truly monstrous creature emerged that had the body of a Spider, with claws like Wolves on all it's eight feet, with two Snake heads, and sticky tongues of a Frog that it used to capture the guy before then carrying him away!
Star seemed like this would lead to both Ecplisa AND HER to be placed into a Crystal block now, but Ecplisa saw her frightened face and said, "Don't worry. That creature only wants to scare folks, but after a while it will sees to exist." before then casually walking towards the next interesting thing she saw. (With Star just having to prey that she was true to her words about that monster not seeking to hurt anyone.)
Next place they entered into was an old looking book store, and Star could see that Ecplisa wasn't later roaming through some books.
"Oh, what are you looking at? Some Literature? Fantasy? Romance?" Star asked before getting a bit surprised when Ecplisa showed her the cover for the book and the Princess said confused, "A history book about Mewni?"
"When you have been encaged for about 300 years like I have, a good portion of the history that has passed you by would be seen as the most important of things you can read up about." Ecplisa explained, which when Star heard it did make a whole lot of sense.
"Do you think that I can take this book with me, and have to read while I am in my tower?" Ecplisa then asked as Star didn't see what could be so bad about that, and decided to try buy it for her by the counter.
The one running the shop turned out to be a very old lady, who upon seeing the two girls appearing first was honoured to see the Princess coming to visit her shop, but then looking like she had just witness an evil sprit right next to her!
"Y-You! I know you!" The old bookkeeper said as she pointed straight at a slightly confused Ecplisa.
"Are you saying that we two have met before? I know you look a bit on the older side, but I'm sure I was still in my "sleep" when you were born." Ecplisa said as she tried to play it off softly, but the lady did not calm herself one bit as she said that, "I have studies these books, and I know all about the evil it tells me of you!"
What me? Danger?" Ecplisa said as she was starting to feel a bit nervous over having someone starting to freak out over her, and the lady suddenly pulled out a pitchfork from underneath her counter and called for "The Evil one to vanquish!" as she forced both her and Star out of her store. (As Star quickly tossed a few coins onto the floor as payment for the book before they both were out.)
Feeling really sorry now for having possibly made Ecplisa feel like an outcast due to the frighten behaviour of that old lady at the book store, but Ecplisa said that "I was expecting that." but also added, "It did seem that most folks here didn't even know who I was, so that made me feel a lot better."
When Star then asked if there was something she could do in order to maybe make up for that little incident Ecplisa was thinking for a moment before then asking, "Would you be able to help me get close to the monsters of Mewni?"
Heading out from the boarders of Mewni things quickly started to get a lot more risky, as Monsters was known trying to attack lonely outsides and as the night was coming along darkness started to get a lot more presence all around them.
Still Ecplisa had been insisting for Star to take her to met some of the Monsters living around here (Given her past story about her once wanting to give her love and take a monster as her man), and the Princess had been taking some extra measures by wearing a cloak to hide herself so that the Monsters wouldn't recognize who she was.
Star had during one or two occasions needed to speak with Monsters either to get information about recent events or just to try and find a very certain monster to help in a very serious situation, so she knew about a place were you could often find Monsters that knew a lot.
Settled in a big dead a small (Or rather pretty large for being in a tree) Monster Bar place had been build inside, and as long as they just made a quick visit without drawing to much attention then they should be pretty safe there.
Had it just been Star herself entering it she wouldn't have been bother with a disguise since she would just have been able to defend herself perfectly fine on her own, but having now Ecplisa joining her made her very worried about the safety of her when entering a place were Monsters could be seen with knives, swords, maces, and all other kinds of dangerous weapons just casually being next to them.
Walking up to the bartender Star tried to do her best fake "Man" voice, as she took orders for both her and Ecplisa (Which she made sure to just call "Her friend") before then asking her if she was enjoying herself being at a place filled with monsters.
"I am somewhat glad, yes. But I honestly think it would be more fun if I got a chance to actually speak to one of them." Ecplisa said as one very "troll" looking being was walking up to her and saying "You seem familiar..."
"What?! No! No! NO! I can assure you have NOT seen her before!" Star quickly said to try and avoid the troll guy recognize her, but accidentally slipped up by adding "She's right. I have been sealed away for about 300 years after all." before realising what she had just said.
"I knew I recognized your face and your manners!" The troll guy said as he started to look a lot more upset now.
"You are Ecplisa Butterfly!" The troll guy said loudly, which caused literally everyone else in the bar to turn their attention to them!
"Y-You don't seem to like me here? I thought you would be h-happy to see the one royal from the royal Butterfly family that actually wanted to marry a monster!" Ecplisa said as she was genuinely shocked over having everyone seemingly hating her for no reason.
"You are also known as the one that was teaching Dark Magic to the Queen, and giving her a spell that could actually damage the otherwise immortal Toffee!" The troll guy said, as all the other bar monsters was now gathering up to take care once and for all on the one they had all since then been seeing as a "traitor to all monsters"!
That's when Star ditched her disguised and revealed herself with her wand, hoping that it would scare the creeps out. But as she looked around it seemed like they were truly surrounded, and no kind of spell she knew would be able to attack quick enough to take care of them all at the same time!
That's when Ecplisa suddenly started to chant some kind of cryptic language, and Star could see how her eyes got all dark and a very dangerous looking aura of pure darkness was forming out from her!
This made all the monsters super scared as they all quickly backed away to leave a clear way out of the bar, to which Star and Ecplisa used to get out of there and escape back towards the town!
Once back out of safety Ecplisa stopped doing her creepy chanting, and soon that strange dark magic being seen all around her vanished.
Star was now (Understandably) a lot more concern over what Ecplisa could do, as she was seen holding her staff hardly with both hands just in case she would be needing to be prepared for something else like that happening.
Seeing how scared and confused her friend was now Ecplisa apologized for what she had been letting her see before then also saying, "But when I saw how they were about to threaten not just be but you also, I just couldn't handle myself and needed to do something to keep them scared at a distance."
Hearing this Start started to lower her wand just a little bit before then asking, "So, you were never planning on hurting anyone of those with your Dark Magic?", to which Ecplisa answered "No. I never was planning to try and hurt anyone in there, but I did feel that the knowledge of Dark Magic still was something that would put fear into anyone that sees it, and that is why I used it merely as a scare tactic."
"So you were actually NOT being possessed by some demon from another dimension or something?" Star asked rhetorical as Ecplisa laughed a bit for the first time since leaving the bar and said, "When you have been practicing and learning yourself Black Magic at the same level as I have, you come to learn that it is just like all other sorts of magic but in a different way of using it."
This made Star feel a lot more relieved, but it also gave her time to get some perspective as she said, "I guess this little visit outside the tower wasn't a success then? Given that some folks ended up scared by you, and some monsters wanted to try and kills us both." but Ecplisa actually seemed a lot more positive about it then Star was giving her credit for.
"To be honest I did find it all to be a very fun and instructive time spent outside of my tower, and I couldn't be anymore happier to have had someone like you to guide me through it." Ecplisa said, as she could see that her kind words was making Star almost start crying.
"That means so much for me to hear." Star said as she was wiping some tears from her face as Ecplisa held out the book she got from the store and said, "And with the help of this thing I will have something to help me even more getting studied up about the 300 years I have been missing while I await my court section later."
"I just hope that my mom will be willing to give you a fair chance." Star said as Ecplisa asked her, "Are you your Mother's daughter?"
"Well...yes. I think so." Star answered to which Ecplisa smiled and said, "Then I think neither of us got nothing to fear really." as she and Star was embracing in a short hug before she made her way back towards the Rose Thorn covered tower.
From a distance Star could see yet again how this previous chilled down Princess was able to almost in a silly easy way jump herself back up to the window by jumping from thorn to thorn as a platform yet again.
Start herself simply used a teleportation spell to make her appear again in the tower room, before then grabbing the still sleeping Glossaryck under her arm and then knock on the door for the guards to let her out.
"Goodbye Ecplisa!" Star said as she was being let out and then having the door closed behind her, as the now once again trapped Ecplisa said to herself now, "Goodbye Star."
MichaelGrey being this time a "Slice of Life" type of story about the character Ecplisa from the Disney show "Star VS The Forces Of Evil".This is loosely based after the end of the Season 3 episode "Stranger Danger", so if it doesn't mix up with what happens in episodes after that one then remember that this is NONE-CANON!!!
Hope you all enjoy it as much as
MichaelGrey did. Star and Ecplisa belongs to Disney.
Watching our through the rose thorn covered tower Star Butterfly still couldn't fully grasp everything she had been learning today.
When just trying to capture her escaped baby Glossaryck (Don't ask) the Princess of Mewni ended up meeting a mysterious girl in a remote garden at the castle.
And no longer had she had time to say "Hello" to her before suddenly both her mother (The Queen) along with the members of the Magic High Commission had the strange girl surrounded and captured!
Upon asking what was going on Star got a real reality check as he mother told her that the kind stranger actually was Eclipsa, a former Mewni Queen that had also been known as "The Queen of Darkness" to the Mewni legends!
Barley had Star had time to ask questions like "Why is she here?" or "I thought she was gone and missing?" before she herself was forced to do a series of tests in order to see if she had any "Evil" inside of her.
Apparently this Eclipsa seemed to be so dangerous that her mother was demanding for her to be forced into a block of solid crystal, but what really caught Star's attention was when she heard her mother adding the word "again" at the end of her sentence.
"Wait a minute!...You took and shield her into a block of Crystal?!" Star asked her mother shocked, at which Rhombulus could be heard saying, "Actually it was I who did the "shielding into crystal" part, while the Queen just gave the order." from the background but Star wasn't listening.
"Well, I have to...She was dating a monster after all!" The Queen Moon Butterfly said as Star just looked dumbfounded and asked, "Dating a monster equals being in a crystal for the rest of your life?!"
"It wasn't just that, Star. She was also studying in Dark Magic, and even wrote down some of the spells she made in the Book of Spells!" Star's mother said in a very overly worried tone, to which Star herself just looked pretty deadpanned and asked "Did she ever use any of that dark magic to cause chaos?"
"Well, no...but in case she was planning to then we would have her kept away from causing any danger." Queen Moon Butterfly tried to explain, but this just all sounded so unnaturally cruel and downright evil thing to do against someone that was simply not like the others in the royal family.
Barley had they finished their little talk before Star's mother was on her way to order Ecplisa to be back into her frozen prison again, but Star quickly got herself in-between and demanded of Ecplisa to be given more of a "Fair Trial" over her fate.
"If she has not been caught actually doing something bad, then at least give her a chance to defend herself in court!" Star said as her mother looked very frustrated over her daughter's involvement, but she still gave in and said "Fine. I let her have her trial then."
The victory for Star was pretty short-lived however as then her mom said, "Given how a trial towards someone as dangerous as Ecplisa would be very complicated it will take a long time to get all the preparations ready for it, and therefore we sill require to have her locked up in a cell so she wont try to escape."
"Wait, escape?!" Star asked shocked as she still felt very upset over how hardly her mother was treating her new friend, while Ecplisa took it all very easy and said that "If I may, would it be possible for me to pick my own cell?"
So she ended up being locked into the abandoned thorn covered tower by the garden were she and Star had been meeting, since that had used to be her home back in her time.
Having still felt pretty sad for her situation Star came to visit Eclipsa very shortly after, and they both now was sharing a moment looking out over the garden from which they had met once before.
As they both were admiring just how wonderfully fantastic the view of the garden was from the top of the tower Star finally felt like she had a moment to just breath and collect her senses, and that was when all the thoughts about Ecplipsa was starting to battle themselves inside of her head.
"Was Ecplisa actually that dangerous? If so then why hadn't she tried escaping or putting of a fight when being found out? Had she actually changed after being trapped for so long? Was this all a big plan to slowly make Star go over to the dark side?!"
Star was at one point considering just slowly backing away and leaving Eclipsa to be were she was, but that only made her realise that she was starting to act out of fear just like her mother!
If she wanted to show her mom that there was nothing to be afraid of with Eclipsa then she needed to let her at least have a chance to prove that to her first.
The way the plants was placed, the way the sun was setting behind the tower and lighting up the closed up garden, and just the way all the colours and shades was working together made it all look like they were watching a living painting.
"Wow. This is really amazing." Star said to which Ecplisa added, "Yes it is. Really is all I ever wished I could admire while I was kept frozen."
"Wait, wait, wait. Are you saying you would be okay being frozen now?" Star asked confused, to which Eclipsa gave out a light laughter and said, "Of course not. But if I was to spend the rest of my days seal off then the least I could ask for would be to watch out over something pretty like this as time would pass by."
Thinking about it for a while it really hit Star just how having nothing then your own sight to entertain yourself when being kept a prisoner like that really must have felt like, as she suddenly felt very guilty to now make up for what her mother had done in the past.
"Ecplisa. I have made up my mind!" Star said as she made a very heroic pose and said, "I want to let you have a chance getting to see for a night everything that Mewni has to offer!"
"You would really do that for me?" Ecplisa asked surprised as Star said that, "If you are found guilty at that trial later then it will be straight back to the crystal! Would you really want your one true moment of freedom to just be you being inside this tower?"
"Well it is a very limited amount of space that I have been given the right to walk around in, so it is already more then I thought I would ever have." Ecplisa said honesty and almost feeling twice as sad and guilty for her now Star said, "Okay, I REALLY need to let you see what is outside of this tower now."
"But what about Glossaryck?" Star then asked as she still had the now infant minded spirit of the Spell book to take care of also. "I just can't leave him all alone for such a long time. What kind of responsible keeper of my wand would I be if I did?"
"I might have a solution for that." Eclipsa said as she picked up Glossaryck, placed one finger on top of his gemstone in his forehead, and whispered some kind of mystical spell to make him peacefully fall asleep.
"What did you just do?" Star asked confused as Ecplisa answered, "Just used some of my dark magic to put him under my control and become my slave now." to which Star's face became a lot more panic looking from what she just heard.
Ecplisa then was very quick to say "Got you!" before then bursting out laughing over how perfectly she had tricked Star Butterfly there. (Something Star herself now could also see the funny in.)
"Okay..." Star said a bit calmer before then immediately asking, "But seriously, what did you just do with him?!"
"I just gave him a simple sleeping spell so that he can just rest here while we do our thing." Ecplisa said before then politely asking, "So? Shall we start our night outside of the tower?"
Star was just about to open the door for Ecplisa, before remembering that it was still being guarded and the guards would most likely not let their prisoner take a quick visit outside.
"Okay, the he door is no option." Starlight said as she tried to quickly figure out another way to get them both out of this room.
"I could summon a Cotton Candy Cloud for us to ride on, but that would be very easy to see in the sky...Oh! Maybe a teleportation spell? But I am not fully able to nail just WHERE we would end up landing..." Star was saying to herself as Ecplisa started to make her way towards the open window in the tower.
"Or we can just do this." Ecplisa said before then making a sudden leap out, and Star quickly rushed over in panic over seeing her friend just jumping from a high height!
As she reached the window and looked down Star could see how Eclipsa was using the big rose thorns as platforms to bounce off one at a time, before then finally safely landing on the ground.
"Will you join me?" Ecplisa asked as Star, while being know for her own acrobatic skills, looked just a tiny bit nervous over trying to not risk getting impaled by those giant thorn stings.
Making a leap for it Star didn't do nearly as graceful of a journey down the thorn filled tower as Eclipsa had done (Missing to set her landing on the first one, and then just hitting her back and waist as she feel onto the other thick branches on her way down), but after some time Star eventually managed to land onto her own two feet next to her waiting friend.
Still feeling a bit hurt from that big fall Star had to give Eclipsa credit for how well she did it as she said, "You really made that look a lot more easier then it was."
Eclipsa herself smiled and said, "Sometimes you just need to see things in a different way to know that they might not be as dangerous as you may think." as now she (in company with Star) would finally get a chance to revisit Mewni again after all these years.
As they sneaked their way out from the castle and courtyard Star and Ecplisa was making their way towards the kingdom of Mewni, and while the previously trapped sorcerer of dark magic was curiously optimistic the Royal Princess was a lot more nervous about if doing this would put any of them into any trouble.
Most of this proved to be false fears however, as while the Royal family and guardians was studied up about the history of Ecplisa, the same could not be said about the "common peasant" of Mewni who just saw her as a "New friend of Star".
This was a major relief for the worried Princess, and for Ecplisa this meant that she could truly just be herself without any fearing of anyone getting frighten by her.
Given her time being forced to live within a solid block of crystal things like Stores, Street Vendors, and just other people fascinated her a lot.
Deciding to make a quick visit Ecplisa made her way to a vendor selling all kind of gross looking animal parts, and when seeing a cooking pot right next to it she got a very "prank filled" idea.
As Star was wondering what she was thinking Ecplisa started to grab things like "The Tails of a BullBert Frog, Claws from a Arkyn Wolf, 2 Verliculous Snake Heads, and The still beating heart of a Scrimopuls Spider" before then stuffing it all into the pot and putting the lid on.
"Hey! You better pay for those things!" The man owning the vendor shop said when suddenly the lid popped off and a truly monstrous creature emerged that had the body of a Spider, with claws like Wolves on all it's eight feet, with two Snake heads, and sticky tongues of a Frog that it used to capture the guy before then carrying him away!
Star seemed like this would lead to both Ecplisa AND HER to be placed into a Crystal block now, but Ecplisa saw her frightened face and said, "Don't worry. That creature only wants to scare folks, but after a while it will sees to exist." before then casually walking towards the next interesting thing she saw. (With Star just having to prey that she was true to her words about that monster not seeking to hurt anyone.)
Next place they entered into was an old looking book store, and Star could see that Ecplisa wasn't later roaming through some books.
"Oh, what are you looking at? Some Literature? Fantasy? Romance?" Star asked before getting a bit surprised when Ecplisa showed her the cover for the book and the Princess said confused, "A history book about Mewni?"
"When you have been encaged for about 300 years like I have, a good portion of the history that has passed you by would be seen as the most important of things you can read up about." Ecplisa explained, which when Star heard it did make a whole lot of sense.
"Do you think that I can take this book with me, and have to read while I am in my tower?" Ecplisa then asked as Star didn't see what could be so bad about that, and decided to try buy it for her by the counter.
The one running the shop turned out to be a very old lady, who upon seeing the two girls appearing first was honoured to see the Princess coming to visit her shop, but then looking like she had just witness an evil sprit right next to her!
"Y-You! I know you!" The old bookkeeper said as she pointed straight at a slightly confused Ecplisa.
"Are you saying that we two have met before? I know you look a bit on the older side, but I'm sure I was still in my "sleep" when you were born." Ecplisa said as she tried to play it off softly, but the lady did not calm herself one bit as she said that, "I have studies these books, and I know all about the evil it tells me of you!"
What me? Danger?" Ecplisa said as she was starting to feel a bit nervous over having someone starting to freak out over her, and the lady suddenly pulled out a pitchfork from underneath her counter and called for "The Evil one to vanquish!" as she forced both her and Star out of her store. (As Star quickly tossed a few coins onto the floor as payment for the book before they both were out.)
Feeling really sorry now for having possibly made Ecplisa feel like an outcast due to the frighten behaviour of that old lady at the book store, but Ecplisa said that "I was expecting that." but also added, "It did seem that most folks here didn't even know who I was, so that made me feel a lot better."
When Star then asked if there was something she could do in order to maybe make up for that little incident Ecplisa was thinking for a moment before then asking, "Would you be able to help me get close to the monsters of Mewni?"
Heading out from the boarders of Mewni things quickly started to get a lot more risky, as Monsters was known trying to attack lonely outsides and as the night was coming along darkness started to get a lot more presence all around them.
Still Ecplisa had been insisting for Star to take her to met some of the Monsters living around here (Given her past story about her once wanting to give her love and take a monster as her man), and the Princess had been taking some extra measures by wearing a cloak to hide herself so that the Monsters wouldn't recognize who she was.
Star had during one or two occasions needed to speak with Monsters either to get information about recent events or just to try and find a very certain monster to help in a very serious situation, so she knew about a place were you could often find Monsters that knew a lot.
Settled in a big dead a small (Or rather pretty large for being in a tree) Monster Bar place had been build inside, and as long as they just made a quick visit without drawing to much attention then they should be pretty safe there.
Had it just been Star herself entering it she wouldn't have been bother with a disguise since she would just have been able to defend herself perfectly fine on her own, but having now Ecplisa joining her made her very worried about the safety of her when entering a place were Monsters could be seen with knives, swords, maces, and all other kinds of dangerous weapons just casually being next to them.
Walking up to the bartender Star tried to do her best fake "Man" voice, as she took orders for both her and Ecplisa (Which she made sure to just call "Her friend") before then asking her if she was enjoying herself being at a place filled with monsters.
"I am somewhat glad, yes. But I honestly think it would be more fun if I got a chance to actually speak to one of them." Ecplisa said as one very "troll" looking being was walking up to her and saying "You seem familiar..."
"What?! No! No! NO! I can assure you have NOT seen her before!" Star quickly said to try and avoid the troll guy recognize her, but accidentally slipped up by adding "She's right. I have been sealed away for about 300 years after all." before realising what she had just said.
"I knew I recognized your face and your manners!" The troll guy said as he started to look a lot more upset now.
"You are Ecplisa Butterfly!" The troll guy said loudly, which caused literally everyone else in the bar to turn their attention to them!
"Y-You don't seem to like me here? I thought you would be h-happy to see the one royal from the royal Butterfly family that actually wanted to marry a monster!" Ecplisa said as she was genuinely shocked over having everyone seemingly hating her for no reason.
"You are also known as the one that was teaching Dark Magic to the Queen, and giving her a spell that could actually damage the otherwise immortal Toffee!" The troll guy said, as all the other bar monsters was now gathering up to take care once and for all on the one they had all since then been seeing as a "traitor to all monsters"!
That's when Star ditched her disguised and revealed herself with her wand, hoping that it would scare the creeps out. But as she looked around it seemed like they were truly surrounded, and no kind of spell she knew would be able to attack quick enough to take care of them all at the same time!
That's when Ecplisa suddenly started to chant some kind of cryptic language, and Star could see how her eyes got all dark and a very dangerous looking aura of pure darkness was forming out from her!
This made all the monsters super scared as they all quickly backed away to leave a clear way out of the bar, to which Star and Ecplisa used to get out of there and escape back towards the town!
Once back out of safety Ecplisa stopped doing her creepy chanting, and soon that strange dark magic being seen all around her vanished.
Star was now (Understandably) a lot more concern over what Ecplisa could do, as she was seen holding her staff hardly with both hands just in case she would be needing to be prepared for something else like that happening.
Seeing how scared and confused her friend was now Ecplisa apologized for what she had been letting her see before then also saying, "But when I saw how they were about to threaten not just be but you also, I just couldn't handle myself and needed to do something to keep them scared at a distance."
Hearing this Start started to lower her wand just a little bit before then asking, "So, you were never planning on hurting anyone of those with your Dark Magic?", to which Ecplisa answered "No. I never was planning to try and hurt anyone in there, but I did feel that the knowledge of Dark Magic still was something that would put fear into anyone that sees it, and that is why I used it merely as a scare tactic."
"So you were actually NOT being possessed by some demon from another dimension or something?" Star asked rhetorical as Ecplisa laughed a bit for the first time since leaving the bar and said, "When you have been practicing and learning yourself Black Magic at the same level as I have, you come to learn that it is just like all other sorts of magic but in a different way of using it."
This made Star feel a lot more relieved, but it also gave her time to get some perspective as she said, "I guess this little visit outside the tower wasn't a success then? Given that some folks ended up scared by you, and some monsters wanted to try and kills us both." but Ecplisa actually seemed a lot more positive about it then Star was giving her credit for.
"To be honest I did find it all to be a very fun and instructive time spent outside of my tower, and I couldn't be anymore happier to have had someone like you to guide me through it." Ecplisa said, as she could see that her kind words was making Star almost start crying.
"That means so much for me to hear." Star said as she was wiping some tears from her face as Ecplisa held out the book she got from the store and said, "And with the help of this thing I will have something to help me even more getting studied up about the 300 years I have been missing while I await my court section later."
"I just hope that my mom will be willing to give you a fair chance." Star said as Ecplisa asked her, "Are you your Mother's daughter?"
"Well...yes. I think so." Star answered to which Ecplisa smiled and said, "Then I think neither of us got nothing to fear really." as she and Star was embracing in a short hug before she made her way back towards the Rose Thorn covered tower.
From a distance Star could see yet again how this previous chilled down Princess was able to almost in a silly easy way jump herself back up to the window by jumping from thorn to thorn as a platform yet again.
Start herself simply used a teleportation spell to make her appear again in the tower room, before then grabbing the still sleeping Glossaryck under her arm and then knock on the door for the guards to let her out.
"Goodbye Ecplisa!" Star said as she was being let out and then having the door closed behind her, as the now once again trapped Ecplisa said to herself now, "Goodbye Star."
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