Butterfly In The Light

Training

It's been a week since I came back to Mewni to spend time with my parents. I'm so happy, I haven't had this much time with my parents in years, its amazing. But at the same time I miss Marco so so much. I miss stealing his red hoodie, and his super awesome nachos, and watching telenovelas with him. I dont give Marco enough credit, he makes my life so fun and he always knows how to make me smile.

I get out of bed and get ready for a day or training with mom and Glosseric, today they are going to teach me some new magic. Ancient magic from the blood line, that every princess gets taught.

I put on long pants and dark boots. And a red shirt, but I wear a jacket with a rainbow collar. Today I need the right outfit for combat magic, my normal outfit would do, but I want to be used to wearing more battle suited gear for any time in the future where I need it.

I walk towards the courtyard where we learn combat magic. I see mom and some guards standing around. There is also some weapon stands and a few targets for bow and arrows. Its been ages since I've trained here, even when I was younger I only came here to learn basic defense from the knights.

I get close to Mom and she begins, "Star, as a decendent of the Butterfly family, you will need to learn our ancient combat magic, which has helped us stay so dominant against even the strongest of opponents."

I had to wonder, with my own style of magic, would I be able to learn the ancient magics? Did I even need them? I'm pretty sure I'm strong enough to take on any opponent without a special technique.

Glosseric appears next to mom and gives me that funny look he has when hes teaching me. A squire runs up to him and hands him a cup of pudding. Seriously. Only Glosseric could eat at a time like this. He thanks the squire then turns to me, and after a bite of pudding he says, "Star, even though every princess has her own brand of magic, and her own type of wand, you will need to learn the two following techniques to be able to maximize your combat abilities. The two techniques we will be focusing on today will be the time slow and the butterfly sword."

The time slow? You mean I can slow down time? I once accidentally froze time but I didnt know that I would be able to slow it down at will? I wonder if this has something to do with Father time. Also a butterfly sword? That sounds pretty cool.

"First things first star, take out your wand and show us some of your techniques." My mom tells me.

We spend a good 20 minutes discussing my magic and what I can change and improve. When mom decided that I was ready to learn how to make the butterfly sword.

"Start by imagining a extremely hot sword in your hands, the butterfly sword is made of red hot metal, the energy of the red hot metal is converted into blunt force. This means that the longer you use it the harder it hits, making it the perfect deal breaker for a stale mate in a fight."

I think about what they said, the wand becoming a red hot sword. A deadly weapon. As I carry on thinking some molten metal falls from the wand onto the ground, melting into the brick tiles of the court yard. I panic but quickly reverse my spell. And fix the melted area.

"Slow down Star. Think about the shape you want, and dont think about melted steel, think about the sword heating up so that it could cut anything."

I sit for a minute imagining the blade. I think of a long sword, that has a straight blade and a triangle at the top, sort of like a trojan blade. It would be red, with a butterfly as the guard and a star shaped pommel. The metal blade would be so hot that it vaporized any water it touched, but the shape was strong and solid, far from breaking or melting.

Suddenly the wand morphs into the blade. The red hot metal with a wrapped handle in my hand. It feels so right. The weight isn't too much, so balanced. And the grip fits nicely into my hand, big enough to hold tight, but small enough to be maneuverable.

"Wellll donnnee Star, that's amazing, the princesses usually take 4 or 5 tries to get everything right." Glosseric smiled at me as he licks some pudding off his lip. Did I really get it right twice as quick as the normal princess? That's great, I hope I can learn quickly.

"Now Star, I want you to strike the combat dummy directly to your left." Mom points to a wooden dummy next to me. I turn and get ready, I pull my arm back and strike the dummy on the shoulder. The heat energy is converted into a blunt force and the whole dummy flies a good 5 meters to the left. My mouth drops open, this sword packs some serious punch.

"Great work star. With some more training you'll be able to either focus that power on a single point to make extremy deep and accurate cuts, you'll maybe be able to cut through 50cm of steel eventually, or use a blunt force and send dummies flying much further than that." As mom told me of the powers the sword had I stared in awe at the blade. It got hotter as I used it for longer and so it became stronger. This would be an amazing weapon in any fight.

"What happens if I touch it?" The red hot blade worries me a bit, if I slip it will burn through my body. That's a scary thought and a huge risk.

"The sword is made from your wand, the wand is completely under your control when it is yours and it can not hurt you or anyone you wish it not to hurt. It's a very safe weapon for you, the edge wont even cut you." My eyes widen. So this sword is an ultimate weapon, strong enough to send fully grown men flying dozens of meters and to cut through thick steel, but harmless to me.

Next my mother wanted to teach me to slow time. This spell would be a lot harder than the previous one. It required me to do a sequence of waves with the wand and say memorized line of words. And depending on how far I went it could slow down time up to 100 times slower for me. But it would only last for 30 seconds and I would move only 10% faster for each time it became slower. So of it was 20 times slower, I would move 200% faster in real like, or 3 times as fast.

My mother spent the next 40 minutes teaching me the full sequence of moves. First a infinity loop, followed by several specific strokes, then a x shape, a circle, another group of specific strokes, and finally a butterfly. This complete sequence slowed time down to 10 times slower, and I had to do 8 swipes in a specific order to add another 10 each time. The spell worked as I did it, and took long to perform, so I would have to get a chance to complete it in any battle I was in before I tried.

The words sequence I learnt was a line of old mewnian language. The actual words were something about fire and ice, and winds in the time realm. Perhaps the spell involved slowing down Father time?

After a long day of training I could complete both spells in a basic way and was very happy. I crawled into my room amd collapsed onto my bed. I've been so busy today but I really miss Marco. I take out the hoodie I stole from him and cuddle with it as I fall asleep. I'm being really unfair to Tom... I love him, but Marco's hoodie makes me feel safe and happy. Tom wouldnt understand because it would just make him angry. Maybe I should talk to him about that...

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Soooo, Star has learnt two new custom spells for later in the book. Yayyy. Will she get to use them soon? And how well can she control the spells in a real fight situation?

What do you think of her obsession with Marco's Hoodie? Is it just a nice hoodie or is Marco the magic here? I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Lucky you guys get 2 new chapters in 2 days. I've finished planning part one of the story, got 4 chapters to go for that, I'll try have that done within two week, then it might take me a while to plan out the next sequence of chapters but I'll have a lot more free time. Please comment and star this chapter.

Lotsa Love,
Nick.