The Butterfly Effect - Part 3
Setting; Star Vs The Forces Of Evil
OC; Hope Honey; OC I have used before in other stories
Death; Has no idea and doesn't really want to know or care about it
Reincarnated As; Herself, just in a different setting
Pairings; Decided for the most part - I will put them up as more characters start coming in.
-Chapter Start-
"-then she froze me in a block of ice!" Tom Lucitor, the Prince of the Underworld, yelled out, flames surrounding him and setting the grass he was pacing over top of on fire.
There were many things that Nicole thought she would be doing on this lovely weekend. Finishing her homework, lazying around, and then hanging out with her best friend in the whole world, Hope.
All three things she actually did. What she didn't expect was the demon they met before showing up at Hope's house, asking for advice. Then, Hope and her somehow ending up in the backyard of Hope's home, listening to what had happened at the ball Tom invited Star Butterfly to.
Somehow she missed Tom giving Hope a little compact mirror that turned out to be some type of magical mirror phone or something and his number along with it, becoming friends with her.
This worried Nicole a little. Not because Hope made friends with a demon or anything like that, no, Hope honestly needed more friends in her life. It was the fact that Hope took the phone-like mirror and number without hesitation from a sorta stranger at the time. And it didn't help that this sorta stranger had anger issues like no other.
So, now here she was, lounging on the outdoor bench in Hope's backyard, listening to Tom complain about what had happened at what Nicole thinks of a sketchy ball of some kind, and wondering where her simple weekend plans had gone. Saturday had been fine, so why has Sunday forsaken her?
Hope, on the other hand, was wondering how much work was going to need to be done to get rid of the dead grass and grow some new grass in it's place. She can only hope that none of the flowers get set aflame, and that the small fire at Tom's feet doesn't spread out for whatever reason. She worked hard on this yard and doesn't want to see it on fire, thank you very much.
"Well, you were about to seriously hurt her friend." Hope eventually told the demon, making him growl lowly. Nicole straightened at the sound, looking on second away from tackling the boy, but Hope didn't seem to notice Tom's anger levels rising. Or the fire around Tom's feet growing in size.
"I mean, you tried to make everything fun for her, but you can't force love on someone else just like you can't punish someone for being in love." Hope went on to say, looking up at the blue sky in thought. "Whatever made you two break up in the first place, it might take more time for Star to come to terms with that and see that you are changing. Even then, there might be a chance that her feelings for you have changed. Meaning, she may not want to date you anymore. Then there's the fact that even if you two get together again, it's not going to be the same as before."
'Good advice from someone who has never been in a relationship before.' Nicole couldn't help but snort at the irony of it all. But, it's most likely those romantic fiction and healthy relationship books Hope reads in her free time. Why she does, Nicole has no idea and wasn't about to say anything about it. It lessens the worry that someone could come and take advantage of her friend. Also helps out to have someone with the knowledge just in case.
Tom meanwhile, was staring at Hope with his jaw on the ground and fire slowly going down with every word she says.
"So, the ball, dance, thing, whatever you called it, didn't work out. Not all hang outs or dates go perfectly or even good. Things happen. That's the chaos theory for you; What will go wrong will go wrong." Hope shrugged, now looking at a dumbfounded Tom - thankful to see no flames anymore. "The only thing now to do is focus on your anger management and decide if you want to still chase after Star when your better." Hope then frowned, a thought suddenly hit her. "Although, you should be respectful to Star's decision and choice on the matter - no one likes a stalker. No means no."
Face palming, Nicole couldn't help but start to chuckle at the silliness of it all. "Only you'd add a lesson on consent when asked for some advice." Nicole chuckled out, shaking her head gently as her shoulders shook from her laughter. "Saying "no one likes a stalker" like it's not a serious issue or big deal!"
"It is!" Hope quickly interjected, waving her hands around. "I just wanted to make sure he knew that following her around twenty-four seven wouldn't be a good idea!"
"It's just that you said it so casually!" Nicole slowly stopped chuckling, rubbing her eyes to get rid of the tears.
Huffing, Hope decided to just ignore this. She didn't see the big deal about it. Rolling her eyes, she looked back to the demon that was just staring at her with his mouth dropped open. At least the fire was gone, so Hope counted this as a success.
"Now, about that little pink bunny you talked about...." Hope trailed off hopefully, making Nicole snort and Tom jolt out of his frozen state.
Blinking, Tom looked at Hope's bright eyes, then at Nicole's amused ones, before sighing with a small smile.
"Alright, alright....The bunny's in the carriage, just let me go get it."
"YES!" Hope excitedly cheered out, fist pumping.
"Haha! Hope, you're too excited for a simple bunny. Do we need to go to the pet store for you or something? Maybe a big dog? Or a puppy?" Nicole laughed, picturing Hope being dragged by large dogs or being buried under a ton of different animals.
"Nah, don't have the time for one." Hope waved off the suggestion, but still bouncing in her seat.
The rest of the day was filled with laughter and peaceful fun.
The next day though, was filled with screams and shattering revelations.
---------------NEXT DAY; SCHOOL----------------
"I think I got everything...." Hope muttered to herself, walking down the hallway. School was just about to end, and she was busy with gathering homework for Nicole - who had to go to the doctor for a check up, so she wasn't at school.
Walking to her locker, light green bag strapped over her shoulders and some papers in one hand, Hope had to stop when a little light purple heart fluttered onto her glasses.
Now, Hope wasn't wearing anything purple. She knew she didn't dress in anything purple this morning when she got up. Any shade of purple. Her long sleeved shirt was a dark green plaid shirt, her pants were light blue jeans, and even her shoes were her green tennis shoes with wedges. Her glasses were green too, and nothing was on her head today - she decided to forgo any beanie or hat. So, she had no idea why something purple was on her.
That's when she finally looked around her, paying attention to the outside hallway she was in for the first time since walking into it.
"What the fudge...." Hope breathed out slowly, eyes wide in astonishment and fear.
Dark purple...stuff was everywhere. Some seemed to be vines of some kind, colored darkly purple, and little hearts were everywhere, but Hope wasn't for sure exactly what she was seeing. The tall teen couldn't tell what it all was, the stuff that seemed to overtake the whole area she was in, only that it seemed to be strong enough that no one can break it.
How did she know this?
Well, the many boys trapped in broken lockers with that purple stuff keeping them trapped in it was a good indicator on this fact.
Glancing around quickly, Hope found that many other students, mostly females, were at the end of the hall that she came out from. With quick eyes, Hope saw that some male students that weren't trapped were running for cover or trying to hide in the bushes or tree that was nearby. Taking in a deep breath, she wondered if this was the start of something she only thought would happen in either a sci-fi or horror film - or both.
Listening to the whimpering of others, the hushed whispers of fear, Hope could only curse that her natural airheadedness was used against her this time. Only she would be so ditsy to walk straight to her possible demise - because she was right in plain sight of whatever the hell has done this, nothing for her to take cover with, and it wasn't like she was a small target. A thin one maybe, but not small at all. - without even knowing or noticing the warning signs that were right in front of her face.
'How'd I not notice this sooner-!?'
*BAM*
Jerking, Hope's eyes went small as she quickly turned.
There, up in the air, was a girl that was colored in all purple - all but her heart shaped eyes that were a bright light pink. Long hair done up in pigtails and up in the air like horns, and some type of bug-like wings on her back. The girl even had six arms, and in said arms was a shivering boy that seemed to be pleading for his life.
Feeling her blood pressure just dropping when the flying-purple girl looked at her with those unnatural eyes, Hope did what any sane person would have done.
Reaching into her bag, Hope wrenched out the first hard thing she touched - which happened to be a pencil sharpener. Without even thinking about it, she quickly wound it like it was a softball and threw it with all that she was worth. Not even seeing if it would make it's target, Hope jerked around and ran like the devil himself was after all, praying that she wouldn't faint and make herself an even easier target.
'What the ever loving fudge H-E-Double hockey sticks is even going on!?!' Hope mentally cried, running past the hiding female students. The sound of someone dropping, a yelp, and the clattering of something plastic hitting the ground made Hope move her legs even faster. She wasn't about to turn around to check if she actually hit the strange being, that would waste precious 'getting out alive' time.
'Why did Nicole have to be gone of today of all times?!'
Rushing to get to a random classroom, Hope didn't notice Janna, who waved at her, or the little blue person she was feeding chocolate pudding to. Said little blue person did a double take when he noticed Hope, humming and narrowing his eyes in thought and wonder.
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Panting, Hope slammed open the door and slammed it shut within a fraction of a second when she was inside. Breathing heavily, Hope slowly slide down the door until she was sitting. Reaching up with a shaking hand, she locked it. But she knew that there was a huge chance that a locked door wasn't going to stop that girl if she was truly going to go after her.
Pulling her bag close, Hope shoved the papers that were in her tight grip into it, and then pulled out a little compact mirror.
Bangs, screams and yelling made Hope curl up and pray that she wouldn't be noticed.
"Ludo!" Hoe whispered into the mirror urgently. "Call Ludo, please!"
The mirror answered back.
"Calling; Ludo."
----------LUDO'S CASTLE-----------
"Call Incoming; Hope Honey." Sounded out from the large mirror that was in the main living space of the castle.
All Monsters stopped what they were doing, glancing at one another or looking at the mirror.
"That's weird, I thought Hope said that she had to be in school around this time." Ludo hummed out, scratching his chin. Toffee, who had been standing by where Ludo was sitting, just gave a short hum in reply.
Before anyone could say anything, the mirror suddenly showed dark green plaid. Blinking, Toffee looked close and saw that it was a shirt, and that whoever was wearing it was breathing heavily. In the background were muffled screams, sounds of people running, and a buzzing noise.
"Ms. Honey?!" Buff Frog called out, jaw dropping and eyes going wide.
"Um...H-Hey!" Hope's voice called out, the mirror shaking lightly as some of the screams grew in volume. "C-Could you guys maybe c-come pick me up from school? S-Seems like this-this magical girl? I don't know for sure - but she decided to w-wreak the place and t-take some boys prisoner-and I might have have threw something at her and I don't know what to do-!" She started to ramble slightly, fear tainting her voice.
A pause. Silence.
Then, chaos broke it like it was glass.
"WHERE ARE THE DIMENSIONAL SCISSORS!?" Ludo screamed out, making all the Monsters running around like chickens with their heads cut off, all looking for the scissors.
"It's not here Boss!" Buff Frog called out, lifting the couch and looking under it. Boo Fly took to looking on all the high, out of reach places, knocking a ton of things down. Bearicorn was crawling on the ground with a few other Monsters, looking for the scissors with grim and worried faces. Other Monsters tripped over them, soon making a pile of groaning Monsters.
Toffee, meanwhile, sighed and reached into his pocket - pulling out his own pair of dimensional scissors.
"Don't worry, I'll handle this." Toffee calming called out, cutting open a portal without even pausing. "Why don't you all put everything back in place while I take Ms. Honey home?"
With that and not waiting for a reply, Toffee stepped through just as Hope shut her mirror, ending the call.
----------ECHO CREEK ACADEMY-----------
Stepping into a random Earth classroom, Toffee stood straight and calmly - hiding his twitch at the commotion outside the empty classroom.
A quick glance around, and out the window, told him all he needed to know.
Hope was fine, no visible injuries as she sat curled up by the door, and the window was covered in a ton of little purple hearts. The boys that were trapped outside, covered in purple hearts, told Toffee much.
"Mewberty, huh." Toffee muttered under his breath. Glancing over his shoulder at the still curled up maybe-human, Toffee snapped the scissors in his hands, quickly making another portal. Only, this one lead to the Honey household.
"Ms. Honey, I've came to take you home." Toffee called out softly, not wanting to attract the attention of anyone else. He didn't look over his shoulder, but he did hear the sigh of relief and the sound of someone standing up.
Stepping into the new portal, Toffee had to sigh when he heard the buzzing growing stronger just before the portal shut once more, with Hope walking right into her own living room while the portal shut behind her.
"Ah, I had wanted to ask you something as well." Toffee slowly said, taking advantage that they both were alone. "May I know about your family's history? I'd love to know more about it. You don't look much like your parents; Do you take after a grandparent?"
'She might take after another close family member - the one that holds Mewmen blood.' Toffee's eyes narrowed in thought. 'If this is the case, it will give me something to look for.'
"I don't know much about the Honey family history to be honest. I mean, my parents were born in this city." Hope's voice came from behind him, a bag hitting the ground sounding out. She must have taken it off and put it down. "And of course I don't look like them - I'm adopted."
Eyes widening to dangerous degrees, Toffee swiftly turned around in shock. "What?" He breathed out, only to freeze as he finally looked up and saw Hope's face. On her cheeks were-!
"Yeah, I thought you all knew." Hope shrugged, rubbing her arm as she smiled. "I mean, it's like you said, I don't really look like them. I sure didn't get my height from them! All I know about myself is that I was left at an orphanage as a newborn with a note stating that my name is Hope. My middle name and last name came from my parents who adopted me."
Finally, a piece clicked together in his mind. It created a half finished picture in his mind that he could finally work with and have a theory of the finished product.
It was all slowly coming together with just a few pieces missing. Just a few more pieces and this mystery could be unraveled. And if it the theory he is thinking is true, then it would be the best thing that could have ever happened to him.
This teen in front of him was adopted, left with no one knowing just where she came from. It was obvious that this girl couldn't be fully human - not when it was plainly staring him in the face. He even now had an idea just who her blood family was. The only question is who in that family is Hope's parents or parent. Because there is a chance that she is the product of an affair or a scandal of some kind. He even knew where to start looking.
It must be a sign.....
"Huh?" Hope's brows frowned in confusion as she noticed his staring. Lifting a hand to her face and lightly touching it, Hope started to feel around to see if anything was on it. "Is there something on my face? Is it one of those purple heart things?"
Because what else could those now fading away pastel green butterflies on her cheeks mean?
{Outside, a green butterfly flutters against the wind.}
-End Chapter-
Yep! Hope has a pastel green butterfly on each cheek. I wanted it green because of it being the opposite of pink - showing a parallel between her and Star - and because it is Hope's favorite color. Butterflies because of her representing the butterfly effect - her just being in this story is a butterfly effect after all. Think about the picture in the first part, the green butterfly, the emblems kind of look like that on her cheeks.
I'm not going to put in the notes who her family is actually or talk about it until the truth comes out. I want it to be a surprise even if others figure it out.
And yes, after Hope and Nicole showed Tom to the office, they became friends. Hope is just mellow enough that even if Tom looses his temper, it's not going to make her scared or effect her. And Nicole is bull headed enough to meet him toe to toe if that happens. I thought they would make good friends because of these reasons. Although, this will get complicated as the story goes on for many reasons that I can't give away just yet.
If no one can tell, this Toffee is very different than his canon counterpart - or, his reasons for what he is doing is very different. His past is different as well. More on this in the coming chapters for this story.
In the next chapter, things really start happening. The first three chapters are more like a introduction arc you could say - a long prologue to get everyone into the setting. The next part, or the next arc you could say, is where things start picking up and where many truths come to light while more mysterious and denials unlike anything before come to life.
I hope you all enjoyed this so far! I'm really excited for this story because I have so many ideas for it and have already made art for it. But I can't show the art yet because it has spoilers in it, lol.
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