Star vs The Forces of Evil: Beautiful Christmas

Chapter 1: Opening Act

Ahh, December. Everyone in Echo Creek knows what that means: the Christmas season was right around the corner. The leaves had all fallen off the trees, the wind coated with freezing sensation, the skys turning bright white in anticipation of a gorgeous snow storm, and for many, either the best or the worst part of this time of year: shopping for presents. Oh that glorious Christmas shopping.

This was shaping up to be quite the eventful Christmas season - unlike any that had come before - for a variety of reasons. The first reason: it was the first Christmas season for the newly created Earth-Mewni hybrid world. The second: It was her first season that wasn't going to be entirely revolved around the magical stump. And yes, everyone agreed: death to the stump. Thirdly: It was looking like it was going to be a major test as to how well humans, mewmans, and monster kind could all co-exist in the same world. In the months following the final end to the era of magic, life on Earth-Mewni had mostly continued on without issue. A few minor clashes here and there but nothing of major significance. The holiday season, though: that would be the big test.

And that brings us to Star Butterfly herself. To say that her life has been quite a ride for the past six months would be an understatement. After finally wrapping up her tenure as Eclipsa's royal advisor culminating with her coronation as Queen of Mewni (and somehow not collapsing from exhaustion), she then had to quickly turn around and help defend Mewni from the Solarian army attack, leading to her deciding to destroy magic, which lead to Earth and Mewni cleaving into one world so she could be with Marco...only for it to then turn out that the cleaving didn't destroy the magic, but rather gave it just to her and Marco and Mina...as well as revive Queen Solaria. All of this led to a shocking revelation involving a conspiracy conjured by the Magic High Commission that resulted in both monsters AND mewmans turning on them, which helped lead to the real, final end of the era of magic once and for all. Several months - and a lot of scattered moments of exhaustion and self-loathing from Star - later, here we are.

And where was Star now on this beautiful December morning? Sleeping peacefully in her bed at the former Butterfly castle. Long past any royal wake up call, she snored right through her own alarm clock without apology, though it wasn't like anyone was going to blame her for sleeping so late. After the two years she's had that (no pun intended) royally screwed up her emotional & mental health, nobody was going to let her wake up early. Her mother, Moon, walked carefully into her room, smiling at her daughter the whole time. She knelled down and caressed her hair, which unfortunately was enough to cause her to stir around and open her eyes, which then prompted Moon to kiss her forehead.

"...Mom...?" The groggy Star spoke, her vision not entirely aligned yet. Moon, without a word, picked her up out of the bed and hugged her in her arms, carrying her like she was still a little kid. Unfortunately, Star, not yet awake, wasn't prepared for this and yelped. "Mom!" She said, admittedly with a laugh. She didn't hesitate to return the hug, however. "You know I'm still not entirely used to this new, overly-affectionate Mom."

Moon chuckled. "Love you too, dear." They tightened their hug on each other.

"What's going on?"

"It's the holiday season!"

"Oh that's right, Stump Da-" She stopped herself. With magic now destroyed, did that mean the magical stump was gone too? Probably so. And everyone seemed to be in agreement that it was for the best. "Oh. That's right, no more magic. But wait, if Stump Day isn't a thing anymore...what do we do?"

"That's a good question. Perhaps your Earth friends can help us with that."

"Ooh, good idea!"

After dressing themselves, they both grabbed River and headed for the front entrance to the castle, opening the door to go outside. But upon stepping out into the open, they made an incredible discovery: they took their first step and found that the ground was now soft...and white.