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Sky And The Forces Of The Multiverse, Chapter 38

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Mason was the perfect person to handle this.

He was a prince, so he could move around the castle, though he was under supervision.

He knew fae, he knew his grandfather who was questioning fae.

No danger, nothing too suspicious, it was more then perfect.

All judas had asked mason to do, was keep an eye on the situation and make sure fae split nothing dave couldn't know right now, and ask for the jar back so they had it in their hands for certain. With the potion back they could question everyone in the group for any foul play involved and check out every suspect on their list. To be fair, it's highly likely his grandpa would just return the jar to eclipsa, who might let them have it back.

But knowing his grandpa...he might also keep it, so better safe then sorry.

Truth potions didn't always help, but better in their hands then having it used and getting them exposed because of their own truth potion.

Mason skipped along the corridors to where his grandpa wanted to speak to fae, though actually, his grandpa knew he was coming. Mason having messaged him after judas texted him about the situation, and their grandpa loved their grandsons too much to really refuse them too much. Mason knew the girl he was speaking to and well, honestly after what landon said about fae the day before maybe he should have some help.

He'd worked with demons for so long, getting used to their habits and powers, making him quite remarkable as the first non-demon to truly rule the underworld.

But even he could still use help sometimes.

The mewman lit up at the sight of his grandson who approached him, giving the boy a big hug while minding his wings, "There's my little bat...oh hey...what'cha got there?". He unhanded mason and took a closer look at one of his hands, in which mason had a bag of seeds, "I wanted to give this to fae...so we could plant flowers together. Well, I guess I can't plant anything...but..".

But his grandfather gave him a hopeful smile, "Well, since you're helping me out, maybe your folks will lighten up a little more with those restrictions...ok?".

And mason's brown eyes seemed to practically sparkle, "Really?'

"Really.".

Mason flapped his wings as his grandfather faced the door, "So your friend's inside, she's young so we have to be gentle with her, we'll start with basic questions on the matter. Your grandmother is actually out to meet with her family for herself, so while she's out we're here to ask her questions and see if we can find out any more information...no more masked freaks are sneaking into my castle.".

"I don't think she's lying...", mason mumbled, his grandfather reassuring him.

'It's not that i think she's lying...but you never know if she hasn't said the whole truth or if maybe she has forgotten something..."., he patted mason's small head, "It's going to be just fine mason, for now let's just talk to her.".

"Ok."

Time to get to work.

"It's good getting to teach you kids, now you just keep an eye on your grandpa over here ok? I want you to watch my back", Mason saluted playfully back to his grandfather, dave nodding to the guards and opening the door. The room itself was small, not much except for a table, with chairs on either side. Considering they were speaking to a little girl they left her some juice and some cookies to eat while she was waiting.

Though mason did notice as they entered there was a little evidence of a few of fae's bad luck energy presence, scraps of what had probably been her previous chair around the room as she now sat in a more fire proof chair. Though his grandpa didn't seem to mind, his own family probably set more things on fire on a regular basis then an arsonist did in their lifetime, even by accident.

"Hope we didn't leave you waiting long young lady", The former king apologized as he took a seat in front of the girl, mason taking the seat next to him. "I hope you're comfortable, I don't want to make you nervous...I just want to ask you some more questions on the situation and-". Suddenly the mewman noticed the girl looked like she'd been frazzled, her hair wild and sticking out everywhere.

Before he could ask or freak out, the girl answered his question, "I had the hiccups...fire happened...". She said it so bluntly, was this supposed to be a normal occurrence for the girl? When tom was a baby he had accidents like that all the time so it probably wasn't that weird. He quickly cooled himself off, he was probably looking too deep into that considering the many other things he'd seen demons do.

"Alright young miss, so...you work in the stables right?", he fixed himself up and put on his best welcoming face. Though Fae clearly wasn't fazed or affected by it, she leaned back in her seat, munching on another cookie, "Yeah...I work in the stables to get more money for my family...It was the only job I could have here at my age...i'm too young to do anything else.".

"You been there long?".

Fae shrugged, "Not that long I guess...".

Helpful.

"So according to angel, prince angelus...he attempted to contact you through a note, you said you had accidentally burned the note, right? and you don't remember anything about what it said?", not that it mattered since they could just ask angel himself on the contents. Fae just snorted, "Yeah...pretty much, I don't know why you called me here, I've already talked about this stuff before.".

She took another bite, her one eye looking directly at the man, "You literally can just ask the guy himself what he wrote, not that it matters, he confessed he was asking for me to see him or whatever to give him help on their burglary...which apparently didn't end up happening because that one weirdo broke in without me or him. I don't know anything else really...".

"You sure?".

"What do you expect me to know? I never saw either of them in person before or after...well...knowingly of course...".

Mason looked to fae, before looking at the cookies the girl was eating.

Suddenly his face twisted in realization.

That's where the potion was.

Clever, he never would've expected it himself.

Though where the potion in the jar was, that was still a mystery.

Dave seemed to be trying to workshop what line of questioning to go too first before mason awkwardly raised his hand. "But wait...did anyone else ever well...mention anything about the break in when you were at work? I mean...any of the demons you were working with? I mean it was a big deal...one of them had to have said something about it right?".

"Well, of course they talked about it...when the robbery happened, all the castle staff was talking about it. In fact they questioned whether or not if someone snitched and we had a traitor amoungst our midst. But no one ever really found out if anyone was responsible. Though some people though it wasn't by the masked foe at all and was by just a random thief who worked here.".

"You didn't think anyone seemed suspicious?", Dave asked, piling onto his grandson's line of questioning.

"Everyone is suspicious around me...I don't really trust most anyone...but I've been out to get food sometimes and I could overhear other demons and monsters going off about the robbery too. Some going on about how sad it was...some impressed anyone managed to break into something so guarded and protected and then getting away with it...can't say they said much interesting...".

Fae's face then twisted, "But then again...I think maybe once I saw some cloaked woman eating at my regular shop, but i never saw her face, and she wasn't doing anything weird...just eating. The worst she did was anger some other demons who were chilling there but apparently she scared them off. I give her props, she must've been one scary chick.".

"How come you never mentioned her before?".

"Because I didn't see it as important, no idea who she was and had little reason to believe she was a criminal or anything...not like i saw her face. In the underworld people start fights and do stuff like that all the time, this isn't anything i'm not used to.". Dave looked to mason and they both looked to fae, what now? It could be a lead but it wasn't much of one either.

"Uh...umm...fae...could you describe her?", mason said, with his puppy eyes.

"Ugh...I dunno, black cloak that hid her face...only two eyes maybe...had magic...but monsters and mewmans can have magic so that didn't help at all. I guess because of the cloak they didn't want anyone to know who they were. I dunno, you'd have to ask the people who served her, they might of had a closer look on her face since I was further away.".

The former king was left in thought, this was a lead, but if it was a good lead was not very clear. They could track this woman down and find out it was some random demon who was just in a bad mood that day. It was clear they needed more and mason felt goosebumps, if his grandpa asked anything in relation to the rescue of nora or about the truth of the situation they were doomed.

Mason quickly but in with his own question once again, "Fae...uh...was this the only time you saw that person there? I mean I know you didn't SEE them see them, but you know what I mean". Fae shook her head, "I don't think so...I assume they were new because no one else seemed to recognize them, but like...I never saw them any other time I went there.".

"Any other suspicious characters?".

"Down here, everyone is suspicious, but like...I go to a coffee shop, not a criminal bar".

"Have you ever -", but mason cut the man off again, his wing blocking the way.

"Have you ever seen that mask anywhere before? Doll-like? with lipstick? Do you have any idea where they might've been able to get it?", he must've seemed kinda rude to his grandfather, but he had to be careful. Though his grandpa seemed to chalk it all up to his grandson being excited more then anything, moving the wing out of his way and waiting for fae's answer.

"Well, masks like that can be found anywhere all across mewni, some are magically enchanted, it's not that weird. But because they're anywhere you can't nail it down just anywhere. I only know about them because I live on mewni and the people of mewni can be weird sometimes. But whatever, I can't really clearly explain much about that without it.", in which dave looked to mason.

"We have pieces of it...we should have those closely examined, maybe figure out what the mask is made of."

"I guess we're done then...", mason started, "Not much else we can ask about...".

"Well hold up mason, give me a few minutes.".

Mason pouted and sat on his seat, looking at his grandpa more closely, "Alright, so this seems all good and dandy but I also want to know...". Mason felt sick, what question could he ask next to stop his grandpa? Something stupid would be too obvious of him and then he'd look more silly to the adults then he felt they already saw him as being. He almost wanted to hide in his wings.

"I wanted to know if you were interested in a different job here at the castle? Something more well paid?".

Phew.

Fae didn't seem nearly as phased she was under a truth potion, that or, she was actually so much of a honest person nothing felt off about anything she was saying at all. Though she did seem surprised by the offer, "Anything would be nice...though I kinda liked working with the horses...they're friendly and I can't ruin nearly as much there then anywhere else.".

"We'll talk about it further later on them...", the king smiled, patting his grandson's back, "Hmm, i want to question further but i'm not sure what I should ask. I don't wanna let this go until i'm sure we got everything, don't wanna have to keep calling this young lady back over and over. Mason wondered what he should do next when the desk on front of them collapsed, grabbing everyone's attention but fae's.

She seemed pretty unsurprised actually by this result, the most surprisingly thing was it feel apart instead of combusting into flames.

The former king was just thankful it didn't crush any of their feet.

After quickly checking mason and fae for any injuries, he quickly left the room and called for the guards to get the table out of here and cleaned up. Leaving mason with the small bad luck demon, if only for a minute or so till his grandfather got back. He awkwardly let his legs dangle in front of him before putting his arm out to hand over the seeds to fae.

Fae quickly looked between him and the seeds, wondering if he was serious.

"This some secret message or something?", she was probably expecting judas or landon to contact her since they had kinda been for updates but mason quickly shook his head to correct the matter. "No I just wanted to give you it...Cause uh...I want us to be friends...if that's ok? I thought I could give you a gift, so...here's some flowers...they're actually supposed to bring good luck to whoever plants and takes care of them."

Fae actually seemed surprised, and maybe even a little touched.

"You still want to be friends with me? I kinda got the impression I might've scared you off or was too mean to you to have you want to hang out with me again".

"Yeah, of course! I want to have a fresh start, so we can hang out without any of the well...stuff this time".

Fae took the seeds, "I'll probably burn them before I get back home though...you might prefer to keep them". But the boy insisted, "Nah, i got them for you, besides, they're fireproof! Only way you'll get them killed is through neglect...if you want...you could have me help you take care of them. I'm great with plants, so yeah, then we could hang out without it being...weird.".

She actually almost seemed smile.

"That's...really nice of you actually, especially considering your grandpops truthpotioned me.".

Her words made mason suddenly freeze in place, though fae didn't seem too surprised or offended by this knowledge.

"Wait...you knew?".

"I'm not an idiot..., of course I knew, but like...I have nothing to hide...so honestly waste of his time. With my luck if i tried to lie it would've come regardless, but I'll admit, hiding it in the cookies was a good idea."Well, at the very least fae wasn't taking much offense to the whole thing, so at least that was alright. "So I guess you came here just to give me the seeds?".

"Well...yes and no.".

She raised her one eyebrow.

"My grandpa doesn't know some important stuff you can't tell him about...ok?".

"Is that was this is about?", she huffed, "Well, geez...I didn't know you didn't tell him all this stuff, always guessed you lucitors were a lot closer and told each other everything." Mason tapped his fingers together, "It's uh...more complicated, I mean, mom and dad will probably tell him soon but y'know like...just not right now?". Fae gave him a smirk, shaking her head.

"You mean like how you were planning to tell your brothers how you felt? By hiding in the stables?"

"Hey no fair, they're entirely different!", his wings were outstretched in irritation and fae just let it go. She didn't even know the full story of everything going on and there's no way she could guess exactly why this was as big a deal as was. Mason calmed himself down, he needed to be more adult right? Take this all seriously and not get worked up about that.

"We'll tell him...just not yet...".

"I'll take your word for it mason...".

"Don't blame me...it's really important...I promise.".

Dave reentered the room once again, a new table with him, a foldable one so if it broke it'd cause less of an accident. He smiled upon seeing the kids getting along and seeing fae holding mason's seeds, checking the table to make sure it was sturdy before taking a seat. "Sorry about that...hope I didn't leave you kids hanging for too long, I've never seen a table break like that.".

Fae and mason exchanged looks.

"Anyways...fae...back to questions, so...I want to know something else if that's ok.", oh great, more questions mason had to worry about, "Fae...is there anyone else we can further talk to about what's going on?". Fae was quick to answer and mason felt his claws sink into his seat, "Sky or judas...maybe that nora girl, maybe landon". Though as the words left her lifts mason let out a sigh.

Those were all people his grandpa knew were involved to an extent, thank goodness.

"Well...I suppose if mason doesn't have any more questions...I'll hand you over to tom.".

Wait...what?

"What about dad?", mason said, tugging on his grandpa's shirt, now much more nervous. What was happening? Handing fae over to his father? He didn't know his dad was apart of this whole thing, did they talk sometime no one really had seen? His dad knew the stuff going down so nothing fae could tell him was dangerous or risked anything, but this came super unexpected for the demon.

"Well as i stepped out, I figured i'd let thomas give it a shot with questions, give you a break young man, we'll go out and get something to eat if you don't mind.". He was being so sweet but mason came here to make sure he kept track of the truth potion as well and there was no jar in sight with the stuff. His dad knowing about the stuff they got into? Sure, he already knew.

But now he was being dragged away from the actions and his task.

"Wait wait...but I could help papa! We don't have to-"

"Sorry mason, but papa insisted I leave with you and not get you too involved in a lot of this stuff...not that I agree with that...but I guess for now I have to listen to him because I can't exactly sneak you in here.". He patted mason's head, "I'll make it up to you later ok? I still appreciate you helping me out with this, we'll try and get you more experience later.".

Mason pouted, dave saying farewell to fae as they left, mason looking back at her with sad eyes.

The door was closed and outside was tom, mason's papa, smiling and standing before them, looking to his father for updates. "I'll be heading to my office to make a report based on my notes, be gentle with her, she seems like a nice kid.". Tom sighed, "I agree, though don't worry about me, i'm used to dealing with rather moody kids on the regular after all.".

Mason pouted, making tom smirk even further.

"Point proven.".

"You'll have to touch on some new angles, it was hard to get a lot out of her or get a lot of new leads. But we might be able to work with it...you might have to get star for further help with some aspects. You just update me ok?", tom nodded, they still seemed to be conflicted with each other, but at least having them work together was an improvement.

A common goal they could work together on.

Tom patted his son before entering the room, mason being forced away from the scene by his grandfather. He looked back at the door, did he do a good job or had he possibly failed? His grandfather was still unaware but he was still empty handed, what should he do? Ask him right now? Wouldn't that seem suspicious? Mason wasn't supposed to know right?

For now, one thing was clear.

He still had work to do.

"Alright, so you went into the queen's mind?", globgor tried to poor them more of his tea, though unfortunately by this point it was a lot more cold then the first time. Too much time talking to these kids and still waiting on eclipsa, the poor monster was friendly, but was having a hard time with these kids who weren't entirely pleased with his love right now.

Sky looked about ready to give up and leave actually.

"Unintentionally, but yes...".

"Eclipsa's been in my mind before, entirely different spell of course but yours was made for more then one person so it was more helpful in the long run since star doesn't really like using eclipsa's spells anymore.". He handed them their cups though sky took hers more aggressively, "But i'm glad hearing it worked out, i've dealt with those parasites before actually...".

"You have?", angel asked, taking a sip.

"I was in a war, they tried to use one on me, and even eclipsa had one sent to her, neither of us ended up affected but some of our friends...did...it's not a fun process...when the thing takes you over you become a husk of your former self, your body is a puppet for this new being to live in till it drains you entirely. The worst part is you never know until it's too late, you think someone's ill and then they're gone soon after...your mom's lasted the longest out of anyone, somehow still able to talk on occasion and remember.".

"I'm sorry to hear...".

"The worse part is i think the one sent to me was by Seth of septarsis, real nasty fellow...a fellow monster too.", he growled at the mere mention of the lizard, "You never know who to trust really...though I guess I should be lucky I never fully trusted seth at all, he was a shady fellow and it figured he would try and remove me from the picture quietly if he could.".

"Could someone be doing that to mom...?".

"Could be, could not be...if they are, we'll catch them though.".

Angel's ears pressed against his head.

"Life on mewni still isn't a perfect place...but it's far better then 300 years ago, that's for sure.".

"Still could be better though."

"That...I can't deny.".

"Well the commission are still terrible people", sky hissed, "Still just as bad as they were years ago, this time they just can't arrest whoever they like based on their terrible evidence and all that...yeah, sure, they're trying to do better...but...ugh...every time they touch a scene the first thing they do is look for someone else to blame and It's annoying.".

"Well you know how I feel about them...", globgor grumbled, "Perhaps if they really want to actually help...they might be better off not being in charge of these missions after all, just go out and find time to learn and pull themselves together. " He made a good point, those guys never really lived a day in their life not being in charge of the universe or magic or all that.

Well actually hekapoo probably did but still.

"Yeah but doesn't that mean all their jobs are left unattended? Like whose gonna work them?", the commission were made for the jobs they worked, no mortal being could really handle it like them. Then again, sky didn't know how much work they even did, and maybe having other people do their job differently could actually be a vast improvement...you wouldn't have immortal jerks taking advantage of their power and immortality to make everything how they wanted it to be.

Actually, that was a good idea, a really good idea.

Globgor could tell sky was thinking about it and smirked to himself.

"And the mewmans say you won't be an important queen, I don't see it. I think with you in charge we might finally get some changes even your mother couldn't get to happen, and I for one, can't wait to see what you come up with.". Sky's eyes then turned to her wand, especially the crystal in particular, before looking back to the kindly size-shifter.

"So...omni works with mutliple dimensions right? And alternate timelines?", she took another sip of her tea, her prince companion also looking at her curiously, before it came to him why sky would want to ask such a question. Globgor shrugged to himself though, leaning back in his seat, "I'm no expert on the guys sadly...but I believe that's what he does...indeed, after all you considered asking him to send your sisters back before deciding not to.".

"Just making sure...it just...reminds me of something".

"You think he did it?", he raised an eyebrow at the princess who didn't really have a proper answer for him on that one.

"Not sure...I mean we guessed maybe so we said nothing because of it to him...but I also feel like if the team were really behind it to some how put me in a crystal...they would've fabricated more evidence or something to get us in trouble. I mean, hekapoo CAN clone herself and that nonsense, and they are all have knowledge of the butterfly family but like...they wouldn't get caught like Her did, hekapoo can literally just portal in and out.".

"Maybe they wanted to get caught?", angel suggested, coughing, "I mean...I'm not an expert it's just...getting caught doesn't always mean a bad thing for a criminal right?".

"Hmm...I guess that's an option?".

"Well he's not wrong", glogbor chimed in to the princess, "It's easier to take themselves look innocent if they can pin it on someone else and make the person seem like someone entirely different from any of them. Getting caught can also mean putting everyone off the scent and go looking for someone else while the culprit hides in plain sight.".

"Who do you think is under the mask?".

Me?", the monster king scratched his head, "No idea...though a sick part of me wants it to be the commission, even before what happened when eclipsa took care of you and almost got you hurt, your mother and us were in debate about how to treat the commission for their misdeeds. Star of course elected to keep them working but under her foot, but me and eclipsa were a lot more strongly against it since well...they could abuse it again. Granted now, maybe she's starting to wish she agreed with us way back then".

"Not surprised...", sky muttered under her breath, " Well if you ever catch them just tell me I guess...you guys apparently have a secret place of your own, maybe you're secretly neighbors with them.". Her statement seemed to amuse globgor though he was more then happy to take care of the culprit if the opportunity arrived, whether next door or not.

"What exactly would you do If you ran into them?", globgor's eyes looked into sky's as she gripped her cup a little tighter then before, her voice darker and face angry. "Oh...next time I see them after what they put me through, what they tried to do angel, what they did to nora, and what they could do to judas, they're going to wish they hadn't bothered showing up at all.".

Even angel could tell she was serious, especially after how she acted when she saved him, he almost seemed a little scared as he kept eye contact away from her.

Though globgor was a bit surprised at sky's reaction, taking her teacup from her before she broke the thing, "Easy princess...go too far and the mewmans will only have more of a reason to not like you then before, I would know. Though you have every right to be mad, especially considering angel might not have been here otherwise...frankly we're lucky no one else has been critically hurt.".

"I don't think killing is exactly what they want...", angel said softly, "It would be pointless to do unless they felt they had to...and I had betrayed them and could sell them out and get them into trouble...I get the impression if no one was there to save me, they'd have tried to pull the whole thing off as some sort of accident. And no one would have thought any wiser...", he grimaced at that, no doubt imagining how bad that situation would have been

"Well at least that's good...maybe...", well it wasn't GOOD good, but at least they could feel better thinking maybe Her only got like that if they felt they had no other choice in the situation. Granted, it was still bad, but at least it put less people at risk. They just have to be as careful as possible crossing her path if they ever did anytime soon.

She wasn't hunting angel right now, but she'd be mad at him being saved, and that still meant the boy was in danger until they were caught.

Suddenly the door burst open and the three were soon accompanied by the familiar green-haired queen in her usual dark attire and looking rather excited to see the kids once again in her small tower. Sky almost wanted to give up and run out but she really just needed to suck it up and stop letting her messy emotions ruin her day, especially with angel next to her.

Before eclipsa could even speak or reach out to them sky already stated their business directly to her.

"We need a charm...like luna's...now.".

Eclipsa seemed a little taken aback, but not entirely surprised either by the greeting, still smiling despite the tension.

"Well um...alright...", she hugged and kissed her husband before looking around her room, though she was not going all that fast.

The room was deathly silent.

Awkward.

"Well um...globgor...how has your day been?", eclipsa said, going through her shelves, trying to make some small talk to make the situation a little less awkward if possible considering the situation. Not that sky was making it easy for her, sky held a grudge, angel new well about that, and right now she was way more mad at eclipsa then she was to angel.

"It's been...alright.".

That was probably code for "It was alright but not so much right now".

"Good...", they sure weren't speaking to each other like nothing was wrong, this was the most awkward they'd ever been around each other from the times sky had seen them together. Guess they couldn't exactly pretend sky wasn't in the room with them, still rather mad, it was pretty much a damper on the mood when someone who you betrayed was plopped down in your makeshift mini home.

Though Eclipsa did attempt to try and break the tension a little, just not to sky.

"Angel dear, how are you feeling?", eclipsa said in her sweestest voice, still looking through her things.

Angel didn't look sure if he should speak to eclipsa, or keep following sky's silent anger as to not possibly offend her in any way by talking to the woman who betrayed her. But he mustered up the courage to speak to the woman instead. As annoyed as sky could be to this, Eclipsa was partially the reason angel's life had been saved anyway and he did quite miss her.

"I could be better, considering the situation.".

"i heard...mind parasite huh? What a nasty little devil to have. Did globgor tell you we had to deal with a few back in the day?", angel nodded and slumped back in his seat, "Did...you ever save anyone who had them?". Eclipsa turned her head to globgor whose expression told angel any and all of the cures and spells to stop the creatures had come after their time.

How devastating.

"At least these days things have changed enough to help creatures who could only suffer back in the day, never thought I'd see the day the spiderbites would finally eradicate their own real spiderbites. Though their princess is luckier then most by already being immune to that kinda stuff, slimes are quite interesting that way...though personally I found them boring when i was younger...did you know they tend to only use the name "Slime"?".

"Look, do you have the charm or not?", sky was getting impatient here and they had other things to do today.

"Alright alright, hold on...I don't have nearly as many of the ingredients close by as I did the last time.".

She started pulling out a few books and a couple herbs from her shelves and cupboards, "When I saw poor luna on the floor last time I got the impression someone tried to take over her body and whipped one up to ward the spell away, but these things have rare ingredients. Otherwise I'd make you all a charm to keep you safe...though the magic only lasts so long anyway unless you keep enchanting it.".

"Does luna know how to re-enchant it?"

"Luna's clever, no doubt she either looked for it in the library or went though my books when I wasn't here when she knew it could be useful. Honestly I get the impression considering how suspicious she was of me she went through this whole room to see if she could officially clear me or not. Though even now i'm not sure where she stands on me, though honestly she has snapped at me as much as you have recently...".

"She snapped at you?".

"I might of went into her mind a bit, nosed around, she wasn't a fan.".

"Is anyone a fan of that?'.

Eclipsa only sighed to herself, "Probably not but I couldn't help but peek, she's got quite a mind that one. Truthfully what she needs is to stop working and connect, form friendships and bonds...her mind is nothing but work and if not that, it's about stuff she has to do in the future. She wasn't a fan of any of my suggestions and we didn't part on the best of terms.".

"Did...you see her before she left?".

"Yep...yes I did.".

Eclipsa and globgor exchanged looks and sky found herself suspicious.

"Do you...have any idea where she went?".

"Yesssss...nooooooo", eclipsa's voice and tone almost sounded playful and sky found herself more suspicious. "Hold up, yes or no? Since when have you guys had info on where luna went? No one has had any idea, not even judas. You knew something about this and never told me or my mom or anyone? Not that i'm thrilled to want luna back or anything but...seriously?", she stood up, facing the couple who shrugged.

"Well we don't know where she is...we...had someone well...keep an eye on her".

"You tagged her?!".

"Well, we had someone else tag and follow her around so...yes? As far as we know everything gone smoothly though luna may know she's being followed considering how smart she is.". Eclipsa was already standing, fiddling with her hands, "Me and globby though maybe to keep an eye on her and soon enough after she left they followed suit and have been watching her since.".

"Who...exactly?".

Then angel jumped in, coming to some sort of realization, "Hold on a second...wild guess but...could they be...katrina's partner by any chance? We never found out their mission and why they've been out, and surely you would know them since you know katrina correct?". Their faces were a dead giveaway, and sky had to be impressed with angel's new detective skills.

Even if this might just be another wild guess he took that just worked out for him.

"Well you see...".

Sky was dumbfounded.

"You sent a SPY after her and didn't tell anyone?! The two of you decided to keep that to yourselves when everyone's been worried and freaking out about luna just up and leaving?! I thought you and mom were-".

"Dear, they're a spy for a reason, they're supposed to be undercover...besides...you don't really want to force luna back here when she wanted to go out herself do you?", she wasn't wrong, sky didn't even stop luna from leaving. Now she was upset they could find luna and bring her back? She should at least be thankful luna was well...alive at the very least and they had some idea where she was.

"She's...ok right?", she said quickly, just to make sure before she relaxed.

"As far as we know, if she had been hurt we'd have told you right away.".

"Just...making sure...good..good...thank goodness...".

"We you worried about her? ", eclipsa said with a twinge of amusement in her voice, " She might not be the easiest to get along with but i think she'd be touched you care so much about her despite how much she cut herself off from everyone. That was probably true despite the girl's shell, though sky then remembered she was trying not to speak to the queen and was now trapped in conversation with her.

And quickly shut her mouth to go back to sulking.

Eclipsa came back with the necklace prepared and noticed sky's attitude and she seemed to look a tad sadder, "Dear...I know you're mad but I still want to help you, I still want to talk to you, it's ok if you're mad at me, you might be mad at me for awhile...but I do want to help you and I do want the best for you. I hope eventually you can learn to forgive me.".

Angel put down his cup on the table in front of him, stretching out his legs, "Well...um eclipsa...it might not matter but sky here wants this charm to well...help my mother. " This didn't seem to surprise the queen at all, in fact she actually seemed more delighted sky cared more about helping angel then she did about giving eclipsa the silent treatment.

"Well then, that's wonderful to hear angel, i hope this can help her if you truly think it might work.".

Though in her mind sky could hear the biggest reason eclipsa found it wonderful was due to sky's willingness to put angel over her current feelings towards eclipsa. She found herself rolling her eyes at the meer thought of it, and returned her focus to what eclipsa was doing. She was clearly enchanting the object, but it seemed to be a tad more troublesome then it appeared.

Eclipsa for one, put several small spells at it, then sprinkled it with magic, then did a few MORE spells on the charm. Was luna's this enchanted as well? And everyone said landon was too exposed to magic radiation these days. Luna we walking around with a charm that could burn dark magic by just touching it and melt it into nothingness like it was acid.

When eclipsa was finished, it glowed for a few seconds before becoming a regular looking charm, similar to luna's.

And Sky almost seemed...astonished in a way, at least for how quickly and how dangerous this thing probably was. Eclipsa smiled to herself and fixed her hair, clearly proud of how she got the charm ready so quickly. "Usually is you screw a single one of those spells up, the whole thing can blow up and I just got this place kinda cleaned up, so good thing we didn't have another one of those..", she brushed her hands together as sky took the necklace looking charm.

"You sure this thing is...safe?".

"Dear the only creatures who don't think it's safe is those with dark magic in their veins, if i still had my dark magic scars on my arms it would actually burn my hands just touching it, which is exactly why I enjoy my gloves. With those on you can make sure you don't get burned by anything of pure magic, soon that charm will wear out though, so i promise it won't be so magic engrossed for long. Pure Magic doesn't always counter dark magic, sometimes it's the other way around, but this one is extremely strong so nothing that bug could produce could fight back".

"Yeah...this...won't hurt the queen right?".

"Nah, just the bug, the queen herself has not dark magic in her system itself...", then she turned to angel, "She doesn't right? Because if you think she's in pain now that will be 10x worse on her.". But angel happily shook his head, "No nope nope...just the possible bug, thank you for that...uh...I'll make sure if i'm ever corrupted in the next few hours never to touch it".

"Good...anything else kids?".

"Nope, we're good.", sky was quick to head for the door, grabbing for angel to take him with her, though angel had used his legs to grip the sofa and keep sky from dragging them out of the room at all, the boy clearly not ready to leave yet. Sky seemed more then annoyed at this fact, but grumbled and leaned against the entrance, sulking, but not wanting to leave without angel.

"Angel? What's up?".

"Um...Eclipsa...if it it's ok for me to ask...have...you seen...my...father anytime recently...after the trial? I...haven't really properly spoken to him in a long time and I never saw him after the trial so...", well jeeze, now sky just felt bad for trying to make angel leave when he had something like that on his chest. The spider eagerly awaited an answer as eclipsa looked to her monster husband.

Globgor coughed, "We caught him recently actually...but well...he was rather busy...mostly interviewing for the paper about the trial and everything that occured, plus your kingdom right now is still dealing fresh with your mom's current situation and the trial too...so...yes".

"Oh...".

"However! I think he's going to attempt a visit to see you soon enough once he can.", Eclipsa said quickly, "Dear, your father misses you so much, he was emotionally drained after that trial but forced to leave to deal with the kingdom, it's just too much to deal with right now. ". The prince still seemed to be rather dissapointed though, wondering if maybe his father was still highly upset with him and just didn't want to see him at all.

It was hard not to get that impression at least.

Eclipsa's motherly instincts kicked in fact, trying to make the prince feel at least a little better, "Angel dear, I can assure you once your father is able to he will be here to see you and talk to you, I know It must be hard not being able to speak to your father at all with all this going on. But the situation has impacted everyone in many different ways, including him.".

"I just wish it felt like he was trying to speak to me...or that he wanted to see me...", this would've been one of those times a compact would have really come in handy to help the poor boy and sky felt almost like she should ask angel if he wanted to borrow hers. But eclipsa seemed to have read her mind on that and pulled out her own compact, "Do you know your father's number? I assume he might have a compact or a mirror?".

"I don't know his number...I never had to memorize it before...".

Right, that did makes things more difficult.

"Well, next time I see him i'll tell him to come over here and see his son...alright?", this seemed to put some light in the boy's eyes, he did trust eclipsa after all. He sent eclipsa nod her way as he followed sky out willingly, though sky did look back at eclipsa before leaving. The door slamming behind them as eclipsa and globgor exchanged glances from the interaction.

"You should probably talk to sky...", the monster took the teacups from the table, giving the tea a taste for himself. His wife seemed to agree, though she knew sky wouldn't be that easy to convince. "I know...but you know i only did it to protect her...and if she doesn't see it that way, that makes it a lot harder to really have us...well work the whole thing out.", she plopped down on the seat next to him, lying against him.

"Well...maybe you should regain her trust again?".

Eclipsa pressed into his body further.

"Well...how do you propose I do that?".

"SKY! ANGEL!"

"Yo nora!"

The slime girl hesitated before pulling sky and angel both into a quick hug, before nervously looking towards the spider woman still lying on the bed. "I've been by her side for hours, keeping an eye out on her. I assume you're either here to visit or have some news to help me?". And that's when sky pulled out the charm, the suddenness spooking the slimey girl.

Nora looked instantly confused.

"Isn't that...luna's?".

"No...it's just...a charm like luna's.".

Nora blinked at it, clearly remembering how this same charm literally burned and seemed to murder a dark magical charm during her rescue. She seemed a bit hesitant to be around it, but then again, she wasn't an expert on magic and magic already made her nervous so sky couldn't blame her too bad on this one. The other princess was quick to ease nora before she got further worried though.

"It's going to try and draw the parasite out a bit, weaken it, then we can deal with it further", she explained it like that was super obvious to nora and nora just had to trust her instincts on this one. "Well...I guess you can give it a shot...but I have to report this to my mother, she should know just in case...y'know", it must've been weird for nora to be helping her mom out like this.

Especially since she both had been doing stuff behind her back, and had blatantly attacked her, even if she gave that up to help.

It felt like...working for the enemy but also not.

"I guess that's fair...", there was no point in arguing with it, especially since Queen Spiderbite was trying to save the queen and Angel sure wouldn't oppose it either. Sky placed the charm next to the occupied bed, Angel just staring at his mom, "If this all does work...I'm...what if she really does end up mad at me for everything I did? I...I didn't even want to be in the same room with her like this for weeks...".

"Your still worried about that...huh?".

He nodded, "It's...hard to not be.".

"Angel...trust me...your mom really loves you...if...this does all work out...she'll love you no matter what.", the boy seemed to appreciate this coming from sky, and nora approached writing more notes in her tiny notepad. "So...tell m more about this charm...what uh...is it supposed to do exactly? I mean, i know it's to help...but...how does it...uh...work?", and the princess of mewni was left stumped.

Even she had no idea.

"Uhhhhhhh...maybe you should ask eclipsa...we got it from her.".

"Oh...eclipsa and you spoke? Wasn't that...awkward?".

"Yes...", she said bluntly, "Yes it was.".

"Oh...sorry.".

"Don't worry about it, anyway how are things going on your end...?", Nora put down her notepad, the girl shrugging awkwardly and not exactly making eye contact. Clearly her end wasn't going so much better, and it wasn't a surprise why. Her mom and dad were in troubled after what happened at the trial, and now nora was working with them to help angel and it was probably incredibly awkward.

Like, extremely awkward.

"Nora...she didn't say anything...mean right?".

"No...", she mumbled, "Nothing mean...but...y'know...there's a lot going on right now.".

Yeah no kidding.

"Is judas coming to join us soon?", she asked rather innocently, smiling, "I haven't really gotten to see him all day, I'm sure he's busy and everything...I...just like talking to him.'. Sky shrugged and took a seat nearby, "Judas hasn't gotten back to me actually...I asked for him to help get our truth potion back, but that's about it...he was with his brother I think...".

"Oh...ok...well I hope he speaks to me soon. You just let me know".

"I'll send him a text right now actually...see what he has to say...", she gave the other princess a hopeful smile as she sent a text his friend's way, hopefully things were going well and he could get back to her soon on any updates.", Angel had approached nora in the meantime, and she seemed happy to actually see him, not hiding from him nor worried he'd bring up their families's past.

"You look well...mostly...".

"You seem to be feeling a little better then before...", she noted, "Your hair seems looser then before though...". Which was true, Angel's hair was in a ponytail as it usually was, but it rested on his shoulder, and it wasn't as tight, almost an in between of his usual look and how loose his hair had been when he wasn't trying to make himself look good in his sadness.

"Judas said the same thing when I saw him last...well...this morning when I saw him...", angel looked down at himself, "I may be turning into him at this rate, i already smell and dress like him...". This got a chuckle out of nora, "Well, that's not such a bad thing, at least it's better then being dirty and naked around here, it's...nice to get our of the stuffy clothes sometimes.".

"I second that", sky said, raising her hand, "Some royals wanna wear dresses and suits everywhere but it's all so uncomfortable...even when I make dresses I try and tailor it to me...".

"That's pretty great sky!".

"I actually did offer to like, help make jude's coronation suit but like...he wants such a boring coronation i'm not sure anything I make will fit his tastes...though right now i think his coronation might be set back or cancelled with everything going on. Maybe he'll change his mind about his coronation and do something he really truly wants to do but that's on him...", the mention of this caught the royal's eye.

"You were going to make him a suit? Like his very own coronation suit for him?".

"He's my best friend...it's a big day for him, I make clothes, what better gift then give him the suit he'd be crowned in?"

She shrugged though, still typing, "But no word on that from him so not much I can do about it...plus so much else has been going on i barely have time to make anything overall.". This seemed to make nora sadder, thinking about just being unsure if he should have a coronation that he really wanted or one that just made him look better for the people.

"You should make it".

"Hmm?", sky looked up from her compact, nora speaking a little louder this time.

"Make him a suit anyway...he's your best friend, even if he won't wear it for his coronation...you should make it for him.". She was almost stern about it, making it clear it did bother her that sky would even reconsider not making something so special for her best friend. Though Sky was quick to catch on, "I might...It's...I don't wanna force anything on Judas right now...I just...don't think it's a good idea.".

"I kinda...", angel scratched his head, "Well...prince lucitor should be allowed to be happy but wouldn't be bad to go against what he wants?". Angel clearly cared about Judas himself but in different ways then sky and nora, sky was judas's long time friend, and nora was a more new friend who bonded with him emotionally. Angel was new and had a bit of an emotional bond but also was more practical, well, more practical then he used to be.

He wouldn't wanna force anything on judas either, he'd seen the boy stressed and frustrated enough as is.

And now he seemed to regret speaking up, both pairs of eyes looking towards him now.

"Uhhh...i'm not saying he might not want it, it's just...he...seems to have enough to worry about then dealing with his coronation...and everything with that.", Nora and Sky shrugged his answer off, sky instead changing the subject to avoid getting into a fight. "Anyway nora...so...It turns out, eclipsa's tracking luna, she sent a spy after her...apparently luna ain't as cut off as we thought."

And indeed, nora's expression changed and her mind focused elsewear.

"Wait...luna? Where is she? Is she close by?".

"No idea... I just know eclipsa has her tailed...I'm telling judas about it now, he's going to want to know this...he was pretty crushed about luna leaving without saying goodbye to him", not that judas would get back to sky right away, but this was worth mentioning to him of all people. If anything it might make him feel at least a little better knowing luna was probably ok for certain.

"Oh...he hasn't talked about her much since she left has he? I know they were at least a little close and everything".

"No...not really...he kinda had to think about everyone else at that point and just hope she came back...and I get it", Sky finished texting and put her compact away, "Angel however has gotten pretty good at figuring stuff out himself it seems...so...maybe...we outta ask katrina a few more questions on who her partner is that's tagging luna and try and contact them.".

"Wait why?".

"If luna knows anything, we should ask her, and only this spy person truly knows anything about that. We find the spy and then we talk to luna directly about what she found, if anything. She said she might come back but we can't promise that...so...".

"We saw her earlier, it probably would look suspicious if we headed back over there to prod her about her partner.", the prince was right about that, they'd have to give it at least a few days to come up with a way of getting that out of her. But it was a real lead, and that was better then nothing. The only real question was if they should ask her mothers for help.

After all, they held more power over katrina and despite how helpful she could be, she wouldn't just give them her partner's number in a flash. She would however, tell her moms if they so much as asked, but then again, luna would probably be very unpleased with them sending people after her. Telling her mom left a number of other problems to come into focus after all.

"We could try the truth potion...", she mumbled, "Maybe that would have less risks...".

"Yeah but...if katrina catches you doing that, your mom is probably going to find out about it...right? ", that was...also true, if anyone were to detect a truth potion it would be a spy of all people. Sky got up and off the bed, "Alright fine, I guess I just gotta inform mom about this whole thing and get her help...guess it's better then getting in serious trouble.".

Then her compact rang, pulling it out to take a look.

"It's judas.".

The others looked to her with mild concern.

"Everything ok sky?".

"I'm...not sure, he's coming over here now actually...", and soon enough the doors opened, judas entering, followed by celeste. "Mom and Dad came to pick up landon and we were allowed to leave while they talked, what's this about you guys knowing where luna is?",He looked a mix between panicked and relieved, part of him had probably been worried sick about her being out there by herself even despite how powerful she was.

He even startled everyone as soon as he opened the door.

"Judas...you ok?".

The demon breathed, before a smile came across his face.

"Yeah...I think...I'm finally happy to have some proper good news for once.".

Star was still processing this information, though sky wasn't exactly giving her a break or slowing down on it either. The queen had been in the middle of doing some research in her own office when all the kids burst in to tell her luna had a tail on her. Judas didn't even protest against telling the queen, perhaps feeling similar to sky in the fact she'd be more helpful to finding luna then not.

Though what was most surprising, was this didn't seem to shock star, not at all.

With everything she'd been through in her life it seemed nothing really fazed her as much as it had before, betrayals, attacks, magical mayhem, she'd seem most if not all of it and this was far from the first time she dealt with the former queen of darkness. Thinking back to all their past issues and wondering if maybe she and eclipsa had more to talk about then she thought.

Her face soon enough, became a grin as she leaned back in her chair and tapped her forehead.

"Of course eclipsa did...I should have known.".

She tapped at her face and shook her head, "Thanks for letting me know, i'm going to have a talk with katrina and see what she might add, she might not know the extent of her teammate and what they do but getting in contact with them and learning what they know sounds like a good way to get a lead on this. Plus we can make sure luna is well...safe out there.".

Sky wondered as her mother paused, if she was still processing the fact luna was technically her own daughter or not, though star quickly shook it off.

"I'll let jackie know immediately to help out as well.".

"Wait...jackie?", sky stood up from her seat inn front of her mother, leaning against the desk, "Isn't jackie staying here to help with the whole "Evil bug" thing? She's kinda your expert right?". Though star shook her head, "She's actually with Queen Spiderbite right now, telling her everything she knows on the matter, and she already made her reports on that journey. So once she's done, she's free to go on another mission.".

"I'm not sure that's a good-".

"Sky, Jackie is Luna's superior...well...was...even considering the uh...circumstances, jackie is the best one to handle this. We can't send just anyone out there, plus jackie knows her at least a little better then any of us do...in terms of her skills.". She wasn't wrong, Jackie was trained for this kinda stuff and probably could handle it just fine, though one reason luna probably left was to avoid confronting her other mom.

Having Star know was awkward enough, she probably didn't want to confront the other who she worked under for a bit.

"Does jackie...?", in fact sky didn't remember jackie ever talking about luna much since what happened and since she left, and she started wondering if maybe there was something up. "I mean i'd be weird but maybe not that much weirder then you all already knowing uh...the truth about them, though i'm not sure how that would make her feel...".

"Not yet...i've been on the fence about telling her, I mean, marco's actually all for it because they think jackie can handle it and it would help us to talk to her, but i'm not so sure.', the queen tapped at her desk, rocking in her chair for a bit, "I'm worried if jackie knew she'd have a harder time doing her mission, this situation's too important to have my top knight distracted and worried like that.".

She had a point.

"Is it...distracting for you?", angel spoke up among the small crowd, the queen looking at sky and then celeste, "Maybe a little more then i'd like to admit, there's admittedly something fascinating about meeting those from alternate realities, especially ones where I well...may have lived entirely different lives. Though i am trying to avoid dealing with it honestly...it's...gotta focus on the criminal right now.".

"So is jackie going to bring luna back?", judas crossed his arms, worried about exactly what the extent of having jackie be the one going out to get luna was. Luna would probably attack jackie, whether on accident or on purpose of she found out jackie was spying on her or tried to take her back. Even if luna didn't use magic she would still be hard to force anywhere.

"Not exactly...not yet...we'll talk to katrina's partner, get some info, and then we'll see about luna coming back. I don't want her out there alone with the situation at hand but I don't think we can force her back either when she wanted to go out and help." This seemed to ease judas a little bit more, though not entirely considering luna's fate was unknown still.

"How soon are you gonna send her out?".

"If possible, by tonight.".

"Went through all that trouble and mom confiscated our charm necklace..."

"At least she's considering using it at all, she just needs to confront the queen about it...you'll just let us know the results right nora?", judas looked over to nora, who clutched her notepad in her arms, "Right...I'll have to see what mom thinks of it...but...you still got it, that's pretty good if anything.". Though the girl seemed to be thinking of other things, her eyes looking in the distance.

Probably about her mom and the convo about judas earlier.

"How's landon doing anyway?", sky mumbled, looking to celeste and judas who exchanged looks. Celeste simply shrugged and Judas looked indifferent, "No idea honestly, we talked to him and well...we may of gotten to him a little but it's hard to say, he did however...want to take this fall for this because he didn't sneak into her office because of us...he did it on his own."

"Well...ok, I guess that's...something.".

"There are just...there's a lot of issues we need to work out between us...", that was the most simple way of putting it, "But this time he did help us...turns out...what he found...he found the mask. It apparently cracked and broke in the magic dimension.". Sky seemed rather shocked by this, after all, that meant the person was running around without their mask right now.

"Mom didn't mention it at all back there...", then again, who knows if anything would've turned up by now when they spent so much time dealing with literally everything else. Though as she was thinking about it judas seemed to have read her mind on his end, the demon patting her shoulder to ease her on her mother not mentioning it to her, sky was clearly still touchy about that.

"No need to, haven't had enough time to examine it...plus I think my dad told me your mother handed it off to your other mother to look over instead since she has more freetime.", mom janna huh? Guess that at least kept her from spending all her time pulling pranks and picking mushrooms and doing all the other stuff she did rather then her job.

"Your dad mentioned it?".

"When they came to pick up landon they mentioned they handed the "Artifact" up to janna, don't worry it's not because they didn't want to tell me what it was...I think they assumed landon told me already anyway...they are just trying not to speak too much about stuff like that in public...so that's their code word for it". Celeste sighed, huffing and closing her eyes as she caught up with the two chatting friends.

"I feel like this is my fault.".

"What?", the darker haired princess said, toning down her voice as they passed by some guards.

"I literally encouraged landon to be sorta like this...to go out there, and not care and do whatever he wants, I was the one who got him into our kinda group with luna and that made him mad and ugh look...I...I had good intentions...I just didn't think he'd put himself in danger...", her voice grew softer, celeste had been ok taking risks before but something seemed to have changed inside her.

"Celeste...?".

"Look I didn't meant for it to get so far but...this whole thing just makes landon more unhappy...i made him unhappy...".

She pouted, crossing her arms and hunching herself over, "And before you say it isn't...I know he was super mad about this before, but I just know he wouldn't be trying to be the hero If i hadn't gotten him into this mess in the first place. ", she refused to have sky or judas reach out to hug her or comfort her, shaking her head and grumbling to herself as they walked.

Holding onto her disguised wand-bracelet tightly.

This really bothered her, didn't it? No one was used to celeste getting so...emotional about stuff like this, at least beyond being mad or ticked off. Celeste didn't share how she felt much, nor did she really talk to anyone in general. No one seemed to know how to react but if on instinct judas's big brother instincts had kicked in at seeing the crying girl in front of him.

"Celeste...hey...you wanna talk?", she turned to look at judas, stopping in her tracks, "What else can i really say? People don't like me, I screw up every friendship i'm in, and i'm useless on this team to you guys...end of story.". She was back to being her usual angry self, though this time there was a hint of sadness in her voice, whatever this was it had been building up for awhile.

"Celeste...hey, hold up...", Judas was quick to stop her from leaving, "Don't talk about yourself like that...we don't hate you.". Celeste was sniffling, batting at her eyes, "Don't mess with me judas...I know people don't like me, I don't get along with people and I don't try to get along with people...you guys barely even speak to me...and that's because I didn't even really want to speak to you either...".

Then she turned around, red faced.

"Don't look at me like that...I-I just...I pushed everyone away and my only friend here is more miserable and angry and getting himself in trouble because of me...i'm driving myself insane, and I can't explain it...I'm just so...angry and upset and...I miss home.". She was breaking down and almost on instinct as a brother judas went in to comfort her, not hugging her right away but easing her into it.

How long had this been building up inside of her?

It felt like it had been building long before she even arrived in this universe.

The others watched as judas just let celeste cry into his shoulder, clinging onto her technical half brother and letting it all out of her system. Celeste wasn't much for physical contact, nor showing her emotions like this with other people, but at this moment she couldn't hold it in much longer and she found herself pushing her face further into his shoulder as the others came up behind her.

They joined judas in a bit of a group hug.

Angel and Nora didn't even know celeste super well, but felt compelled to join in, no doubt the breakdown affecting them just as much considering how many breakdowns they had or even sky and judas had during all this. The Hug went on for a few more minutes before it seemed celeste had finally calmed down, and while she didn't smile exactly, she did let out a small "Thanks" as everyone discarded from each other.

"We should get going back to the underworld, i'll check up on mason and sunny will join us soon i'm sure...", judas wrapped his arm around celeste's shoulder, "I'll update you guys soon, and you do so for me...just...call me if you need anything...or well...actually I should be calling you sky, considering your our new leader.". He patted his companion as nora went in for a hug with judas herself.

"Hope I see you tomorrow".

"Hope tomorrow is more normal so seeing each other won't feel incredibly awkward and scary".

That got a laugh out of her.

"Yeah...me too...".

Judas quickly pulled sky and angel into a hug as well, "And you two better not do anything stupid without me...but update me on luna if anything comes in, or if anything comes up from eclipsa that we didn't know before...". Sky and Angel smiled through judas's gripping demon strength, the demon taking celeste's hand before they flamed to the underworld.

"Guess it is getting late isn't it...", sky rubbed at her forehead before looking to her companions, "Care to join for a mostly normal evening again? This time you get to eat with my parents instead". There was no guarantee it'd be less awkward or any better then yesterday's dinner after the trail but at least it wouldn't have nearly as much tension as yesterday.

And her companions were quick to agree.

Walking with the princess down the halls together, hoping the worst was over.

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Little Miss CEO - (Billy Russo x Reader)

Heyy, so another multiple part fic here. This time its Billy Russo as the main man, and I just love writing with him, for real one of my favourites to write with. I know that there's so much I need to improve on while writing still. But I know this, and each fic is giving me more confidence.

Fandom: Marvels The Punisher

Pairing: Billy Russo x Reader

Word Count: 2500 ish

Warnings: Swearing, hella lot of swearing some anger.

Summary: Billy and Y/N get set up by their friends, but they clash heads more than they get on. He thinks she’s a gold digger bitch and she thinks he’s Mr Obnoxious, are either of them, everyone else thinks that they’re too stubborn for their own good and probably get on.

A/N: Hope you all enjoy, any feedback is welcome x

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Little Miss CEO - Part One

“Karen, why are you doing this again? I really, really, really don’t need to be set up”

“I’m not setting you up. We’re just going out to a bar, with a few friends”

“Your friends not mine” I whined whilst sitting on the couch and flicking through the channels.

My dear best friend and roommate is trying to get me to go out to the bar with her. She knows everyone that’ll be there, all I know is her partner Frank. I mean considering he’s a killer vigilante, he’s quite nice.

And apparently, the other two are both friends of his. One is Curtis, I know he works with those who suffer PTSD. And I have no idea who the final guy is. Let’s hope he’s as nice as Frank and Curtis are because if not then we’ll have problems. I Don’t know who else this someone else is. Mainly because she won’t tell me.

“Y/N!” She yelled, “Get your ass up, go get a cute jumpsuit on and let’s get going”

“It takes more than a jumpsuit to make me cute” I grumbled,

“I didn’t say you were cute. I just said get a cute jumpsuit” She said.

I glared at her, “Listen, if you want me to join you, you should consider being nicer to me. And let's not forget that I’ve got so much work to do. I don’t have time to go out. I see all my friends either at work, at home or scheduled in appointments”

“You’ve not got any work to do tonight babes. I know this, you have a day off and you mean it as a day off”

“Well, I need to go to the gym. Haven’t been since yesterday”

“You really don’t need to go gym either. Come on, let’s go get you ready”

I let out a whine, “I hate you”

“No, you don’t. Now come on”

I got up and she went to grab my clothes whilst I started on my makeup.

I didn’t do too much, mainly because I wasn’t feeling it tonight. Once I got changed and finished my makeup, I went out to join Karen.

“You look amazing. Now come on, we’re half an hour late already”

“You would’ve been on time if you didn’t drag me with you” I grumbled but we still left and took my car.

I honestly have a nice car, I have a good job, I work as a personal trainer and have got my own team of trainers. I also own a gym, where my team and I work. It’s successful enough, we all have our own high-end clients, we all train in different areas so there’s some of my team who are fighters, either ex-navy or ex-marines. Others are ex-fighters, used to specialise in MMA and then their own fighting style. Then there are others that went to college doing sports science, and enjoy sports and know how to train the body to lose weight or get in shape depending on the client. There are 20 that work for me altogether. But in the last few years, the team has really grown. And I’m proud of the company that we’re growing together, the brand I’ve created. But of course, I can’t do any work tonight because I’m being dragged out by my dear best friend.

“You haven’t got work tomorrow have you?” She asked when we were in the car.

“I’ve just got paperwork to do, a few collaborations with businesses, and need to get back to some potential clients, need to prepare a few things, I don’t even know”

“You overwork yourself you know. You need to find yourself a man, calm down a little”

“Ehh, I wanna work on growing my company first. I can find a man another day”

“Uh huh. You know you can multitask right?”

“Yeah, but I want to give it my complete attention to let it grow, a man will just be a distraction”

“Ok, well considering you’re working tomorrow are you drinking tonight?”

I smiled and shook my head, “Nah, I’ll be the designated driver for you and whoever else as long as they treat my car with respect”

“Uh huh. Then don’t give that open invite to anyone else”

I chuckled and we got there within 15 minutes. When we met everyone, well Frank looked at his watch and started laughing, “This has got to be the longest I’ve ever waited for you, you know” Frank said to Karen once they had both kissed in greeting. She sat beside him and I joined them in the circular booth and sat beside Curtis.

“Well she,” Karen said looking across at me, “Decided she didn’t want to join us, but I didn’t really give her a choice so getting her ready took forever itself”

“See, Bill decided he would meet us here and still hasn’t turned up”

“That’s if he turns up” Curtis added

“Wish I had that option,” I said smirking at Karen but sat down with them all, “But hey, how you both doing?”

“We’re good Y/N. How about you?” Curtis asked with a kind smile,

“Busy with work is how I am. But good other than that”

“And how’s business going?”

I nodded, “Good. Really good actually. Couldn’t ask for much more at this point”

“Yeah because all she literally does is work.” Karen said to them a small smile on her face,

“Sounds like someone else we know. Here he is, thought you weren’t going to show Billy Boy” Frank said to his friend, Billy apparently.

Billy is a tall, handsome bearded guy. He was wearing a very nice and expensive looking suit. He had scars running down the left side of his face but nevertheless was still incredibly attractive.

“Well, I knew that if I didn’t turn up you would be on my ass about never going out,” He said sitting down beside Karen as she and Frank moved across, and looking at us all,

“Who’s she?” He asked bluntly looking at me,

“Y/N, she’s Karens best friend and roommate, Y/N this is sadly my brother Billy,” Frank said introducing us both

I nodded, “Hi”

He grunted in response, “See if you told me someone else was here, I definitely wouldn’t have turned up” He grumbled.

I rose my eyebrows in amusement, isn’t he an obnoxious one.

“Karen, what drinks do you want?” I asked her ignoring him,

“I’ll start with a margarita” She smiled,

I nodded, and got up, “Get me a whisky” I heard Billy say I rolled my eyes but grabbed my clutch and went to order from the bar.

I ordered myself a virgin mojito, Karen’s margarita and Billy’s whisky,

“Can I have this come a few minutes after the other two please?” I asked while paying, I mean sure I’ll get his whisky, but he doesn’t need to know this right away.

“One Margarita and one Virgin Mojito?” The waiter asked with two drinks a few minutes after I had sat back down.

“Didn’t you get my whisky?” Billy asked.

“Oh, shit. You thought that you could be rude to me then ask for drinks?” I asked him, “Sorry sweetie it doesn’t work like that,” I told shrugged,

He glared at me and huffed out a sigh, “Karen you didn’t tell me that your friend was such a sensitive bitch”

“Oh did she not. Then I’ll quickly mention it. Karen's friend is a bitch so don’t treat her like shit” I smiled at him.

Franks jaw hung slightly open as he looked at Billy who was glaring at me, a few seconds after a waitress came with his whisky.

She placed it in front of him but he still had a glare on his face, “Ok wow. This has been fun and we’re only two minutes in” Curtis murmured while sipping on his own drink.

Billy took this whisky and necked it back, all while maintaining eye contact.

“Yeah, it’s going to be a long night,” Karen said adding on to what Curtis said.

Despite what the two were saying the night wasn’t that bad. I mean Billy, prick of the year let me tell you that. He’s lovely to his friends, have a few banterous jokes with them, nice to anyone in passing the people serving our food, but then so rude to me.

Not that I mind, I mean I know how to handle a dickhead or two. It didn’t stop me from having fun. But for real, he was nice to look at, if I’m honest. His beard trimmed to perfection, his hair slicked back nicely, and the suit he wore. Damn this man gave a different meaning to a man in a suit, shame that his personality turns him into something no one would want.

You could tell he was well off, the way he held himself, the things he was wearing, right down to his shoes. You could also tell that he served alongside Frank. But I’m sure that he didn’t get his scars from the war.

I don’t know how the conversation got to couples and partners, but it did. Well, it started off by Frank and Karen talking about how they ended up together.

“You got any guys lined up then Y/N?” Frank asked with a smirk on his face.

I grimaced at that, “Don’t have time for that” I shrugged.

“Oh come on, you need to make time, I mean I’m pretty sure we all know your type, what's stopping you from finding that” Karen had a shit-eating grin plastered on her face, both her and Frank waiting on answer almost from me. Curtis just laughed with a shake of his head and I rolled my eyes,

“For real, I don’t have the time or patience. I just about have time for myself, I mean like what is my type, for my type to be specific”

“Well...” Karen started,

“She likes a well-dressed man. Whenever she’s third wheeling and checking guys out. They’re always well dressed” Frank said pointing at me.

I snorted, “A good fashion sense is key, and excuse me. You’re the one who crashes my coffee dates with Karen. And then you guys make me leave, this is after I’ve paid”

“Shh, we live together it's ok. But the next point is a beard. She likes a well-groomed beard, you see anyone on anywhere that has a good beard and that’s it for you”

I rested my head back and let out a small laughed, “That’s true though. So true. It makes all the difference for me”

“What else is there?” Frank asked.

I lifted my head up and look at them, “How about no. That’s enough, there’s like no one in this bar that fits that criteria. And I honestly don’t have time for that type of shit”

“Listen, you work too hard and need to rest sometimes”

Considering she first-hand sees how hard I work. She’s always on my case about relaxing a bit. But I know as soon as I’m confident that my business and work life are where they need to be. I will relax. Until then I’ll prioritise my work life.

“Billy boy is the same aren’t you Bill,” Frank said, “No time to play just work, work and work”

“Well, when you’re running a successful business like I do. Then its justifiable”

“What do you do?” I asked him.

He rolled his eyes at me but still answered, “I run a business called Anvil. A security firm”

I nodded, I’d heard of it. Him saying that and I know I’ve heard of him before as well. Think his name is Russo. A dangerous man, who’s done a lot of bad things but redeemed himself.

I nodded at his answer, “That’s nice”

He had a glare set on his face once again, “You got something you wanna say?” he asked.

I shrugged, “Nah. Was just curious is all”

“I really didn’t think the two of these would clash like this” Frank muttered to Karen who laughed a little at this as did Curtis.

“What did you think would happen?” Billy asked them, he stared at them, and I just realised this was a potential set up, “Fucking hell. You’ve been trying to set us up, haven’t you? That’s why you were so adamant on me joining, and why you’ve been interrogating her”

The three of them were sat there with innocent smiles on their faces.

“I don’t need someone who’s probably a gold digger hanging around. And who says I’m ready for this shit after last time huh?”

“You walked into the last one yourself buddy,” Frank said to him whereas I just clocked on to what he said,

“Who are you calling a gold digger when I’m the one who’s been buying your drinks?”

“Well, clearly you are. I’ve watched how you’ve been drooling all over me, what I’m wearing. Probably trying to figure out how many figures I make, asking what type of business I run”

I snorted at that, “Oh sweetie. You really are an arrogant, obnoxious prick aren’t you?” I questioned leaning forward slightly.

“And you’re a condescending bitch. You don’t see me calling you out”

“You literally just did. And let’s not forget the comments you’ve been making towards me”

“All I’ve been saying is the truth princess”

“Right, a gold digger, a sensitive bitch? You got a little butt hurt because I let you wait for your drink rather than you being a demanding ass just because you didn’t get it right away”

“Yeah a sensitive bitch. I mean whenever someone starts talking about something you don’t wanna be talking about you completely swerve the conversation”

“Am I now? At least I’m talking you're sat there acting all moody because you didn’t get told that a stranger would be sat here with you guys”

“Well, considering the way you acted when I said I’m CEO of Anvil”

My jaw dropped, “How did I act huh? Tell me because I know for a fact you're imagining things now”

He had a grimace on his face and shook his head, “Nah, see you may have hidden it well. I’ll give you that, but not well enough”

“You’re actually the sensitive one now. Wow. And you’re overreacting. What is there for me to say anyway?”

He didn’t say anything instead if looks could kill, I would be dead right now. He didn’t like what I was saying, everyone else was shocked at what was being said and I know for a fact that this wouldn’t be diffused anytime soon.

“Listen I’m going to go pay what I need to pay. Did you want me to pick you up later Karen?” I asked her.

“It’s alright. I’ll probably stay with Frank tonight alright”

I smiled and nodded at her, I sad bye to Frank and Curtis, apologised to them both and went to pay for my tab before leaving.

I cannot believe I had to endure sitting there with such an obnoxious prick.

Little Miss CEO Part 2

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