Queens of Mewni

Febe the Red One

"Okay, Marco, guess what do you see in this picture?" Star pointed the next tapestry, next to Crescenta's.

Marco looked closely at the tapestry of the 8th queen of mewni. A beautiful woman with a serene face with red hair and her cheekmarks are upside-down red crescent moons. She wore a red long-sleeved v-neckline dress with crimson moons embroidered on the bar and 4-pointed stars at hip height, golden crescent moon earrings, and a 3-pointed crown with a ruby moon encrusted.. The wand resembled that of Queen Moon, but with a moon-shaped ruby on top, pink butterfly wings attached to its golden handle, and a ball-shaped tip under it. She was standing below the red moon, the same blood moon that shined her.

"Hey, isn't that the Blood Moon?"

"Yeah, it is." Star sighed dreamingly. "Just read her pedestal."

The pedestal glowed as Marco read it.

Febe the Red One
"Losing her beloved soulmate
after the crimson light fell,
for no one to share her fate,
on the moon she cast a spell."

"Ever since she was a child, Febe's favorite color is red, well everything that is related to red," Star explained.

"Well, her father's name is Hawk Redbird, so that's explained it." Marco said.

"Red is not the only thing we know about Febe, Marco, she also has passion for romance. She also asked her parents and her Aunt Dirhhennia and Uncle Alder how they met."

"Isn't Febe a little too young to understand those things?"

"That's why her parents, and her uncle and aunt told her, in a lubic and totally abstract way, which ended with subtle and also abstract taunts between them. When she followed the training knights and their squires in the Forest of the Certain Death, Febe was stopped and encountered Rowan Forest, and accompanied her all the way back to the castle."

"And I'm guessing her could be her future husband and king."

"You'd be surprised if I'll tell you their love story. But before that, Febe earned her wan, and has lots of red spells that I casted, like Super Strawberry Shake Quake. She wanted to search for red magic in her spell book, like redgiant, cherry, ruby, but there wasn't a spell of her that contained no word about red."

"Can you get to the point about Febe and Rowan's love story, please?" Marco begged. "I really want to know how the blood moon affected their love story, and why it affected on... well, the couple who chose by the moon!" He didn't to mention about what happened between him and Star during the Blood Moon Ball.

"Alright, don't be in a rush, Diaz!" Star got irritated. "I remembered in her story that she was crowned queen before she got married to Rowan, but she advanced her marriage as quickly as possible before the Royal Council noticed her for being unmarried queen, but Rowan was very patience of her. One day, she and Rowan found the body of a young girl near the cornfields. The girl's father and brother said that she was attacked by a terrible creature. Febe offered a reward of 6 000 golden suns to one who captured or kill the beast. However, Febe was the one who captured the beasts, and immobilized them with the Raspberry Ribbon Lasso."

"Isn't that the same spell you saved me from cloudy's tornado?" Marco asked.

"Yep, that's the one." Star replied. "But the beast she captured were surrounded by another entourage... formed by demons."

"A demon."

"Okay, Marco, I know you're a little exaggerating about demons, but King Lucitor, ruler of the Underworld, invited Febe and Rowan to the Blood Moon Ball. It was a sign of peace between both kingdoms after Febe and Lucitor made an agreement about the beasts."

"If the Blood Moon Ball happened this year, that means it happened 667 years ago?"

"Every 667 years, Marco. When the king and queen are in the ball, the crimson moonlight fell upon them., so they danced that night."

"So, their souls bond together."

"It was, and it was suppose to be a happiest day of their lives... until that night."

"Wait, what do you mean, Star?"

Star's story-telling excitement turned to frown and sighed. "Unfortunately, the night that seemed to be of happiness to Febe ended terribly tragically. Instead of going straight back to the castle, Rowan and Febe stopped the carriage on a bridge that allowed a perfect view of the moon, so they could take advantage of the chance to catch a glimpse of the very rare event. Moments later, as she walked away, she saw that an arrow had crossed Rowan's chest, and didn't just kill her because of the necklace pendant he had given her on her 14th birthday! Rowan fell lifeless at her feet, and she can do nothing but cry."

Marco gasped and frowned. "That's horrible. Isn't there a spell to live again?"

"A wand never resurrected dead, Marco. Death is a part of life, so a wand can't fight it." Star said sorrowfully. "Febe stared at the Blood moon, and recite a spell in High Mewnian. To this day, what Febe would have done was discussed. The most accepted and widespread version is that Febe would have blamed the Blood Moon and would have cast a protective spell so that those who were moonlighted wouldn't suffer from the same cruel fate she suffered."

"But who killed Rowan?"

"They are called Mud Dwellers. Do you remember the time we travelled back in time and saw my mom and dad as tweens?"

"Yeah, we went too far back then."

"And remember that my mom was in trouble?"

"Those Mud monster who almost killed your mother are Mud Dwellers that killed Rowan?"

"Yep. Days later, Febe was so sad she considered committing suicide. She even wrote a letter naming her Aunt Dirhhennia as her successor, but after another crisis of nausea, Febe discovered through her mother's spell that she pregnant!"

"Well, that could be good, because she has a child."

"Sort of, Marco. There was a war between Mewnian soldiers and Mud Dwellers started as Febe sent her daughter away for her safety to the Silvan Kingdom, where she would be under the protection and guardianship of King Silvan."

"You know, Star, it was quite a sad romance story I ever heard from the queens." Marco admitted.

"Yeah, I was sad too." Star looked down sadly, feeling the same thing.