Archive of Our Own

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A scarlet red mask burning with the power of the blood that had been spilt to create it and pouring out with all the magic in it. Thousands of years ago, the crown was forged with the magic from the moon crystal and the blood of the moon goddess. Since then, it has been passed down through the royal family by generation. It used to be a symbol of royalty and brought love into the people’s hearts while also bringing fear into their enemies. Now, the crown was a piece of metal. Lost in the void, like the people that belonged to the crown and the city they once lived in.

Or people assumed so.

The location of the moon crystal is in the city of Halfmoon where the Magicats lived, which to all outsiders, is a dead city. It's believed that a threat appeared and killed the population along with destroying their city and kingdom. No one knows the true story except the people themselves and to everyone, they are extinct. The story of the Battle of Halfmoon is not in any textbooks and most people by now have forgotten about the battle eighteen years ago.

If anyone had paid more than half a second in going over whatever rumour was being spread around about the battle, people would have figured out it made no sense. The people of Halfmoon were no cowards and did not give up so easily. When something shows up that threatens the existence of a population, there is the choice between fight or flight. It would be obvious to anyone that they would stand up and fight back against the threat. But, no matter how powerful you are, some people are just stronger. The people of Halfmoon were agile and strong but their threat was smarter and had advanced technology. In this case, brains beat brawns.

The war was brutal and thousands died along with the towns and villages of Halfmoon, the only place standing was the main city. Anyone left standing did not give up until the inevitable happened. Someone slaughtered Queen C'yra in battle, Princess Irma was severely injured and the heir to the throne were missing. The heir was Irma’s child but C’yra had loved them like her own. The disappearance of them would have killed C’yra if she were not already dead.

In the end, you have to think about what is best for your people, your family, your friends, yourself. So if fighting had not worked, the best next thing was to retreat. The people of Halfmoon had built underground bunkers in case of a war, prepared for anything. The evacuation alarms rang throughout the city and anyone still alive fled to the safety of the bunkers. The enemy did not believe there were many left of their kind so they left as well with victory but they were wrong. Children, elderly and anyone else who could not fight were already underground when the battle had begun and that was around fifty percent of their population. Ten percent of those fighting survived. It was not a lot left but it was enough to keep the species alive.

Once the battle had ended and the enemy had left, the moon crystal, hidden away in its chamber, sensed the damage on it's home. It knew what it had to do. If the Magicats died, someone would find the crystal or it would die by itself. It was better to die doing something worthy. So, the moon crystal, draining its power, spread it throughout the city and created a barrier around the perimeter of Halfmoon to protect it. From the outside, no one would see a city and so everyone inside would be safe. And so the Isolation of Halfmoon began.

The main city of Halfmoon was Elara, named after their first queen. It was the only place that was not destroyed in the battle. The soccerers in the Magicat population spread an illusion spell across the city so no outsiders could find it. It didn't bother the enemy because he had gotten everything he needed. The royal crown and twenty children who would either be soldiers or sent to the labs for testing. Magic was a power the threat needed to have and the moon crystal had forged the crown of the queen itself, a strong magic.

It was funny how the enemy did not realise that the crown itself was not too important. All it did was hold the power securely. If the crown broke though, the magic was inaccessible but the strongest metal in all Eternia and could never break.

The real power was two gems, passed down to the heir or which ever child is next to be queen. On the seventh night after the royal child is born, three things happen:

One, a name is chosen by the moon goddess herself who had gifted the moon crystal all those years ago. It is not herself in person but her spirit. The name carves itself in the crown of the royal, on the inside at the top. On the right side of the crown, would be the name the child's birth given name chosen by the parents. When the child grows older, they will carve their chosen name on the left side. There was only one crown created by the magic crystal but the witches of Halfmoon forged many other crowns for the princesses and princes of the royal family. Only the queen, though, gets the scarlet crown. There were other gems as well that were carved from the magic crystal just like the first runestones were. They held less power but still made the royal more powerful then a citizen of Halfmoon.

Second, the magic examines the child and sees what is inside them, personality and ability wise. The two gems will then glow. One is blue, the colour of Halfmoon, and it is the stabilizer of the power born in the child. The crown gifts the royal with more power added to their individual magic and the blue crystal keeps it under control so it does not overtake the person. Without it, people turn insane with power and it is not a pretty sight.

The other does not have a specfic colour but will change when given to the next queen. The colour usually matches the colour of the child's aura. This gem is the power in the child. It controls the amount of power to make it comfortable for the magic holder. Without it, the blue gem begins to control other things and the person becomes unable to control themselves.

With both crystals, it is a power undefeatable. Some wonder why it is that Queen C’yra got killed with only a mortal sword but even gods get tired at some point. She is not forgotten by the Magicats and neither is anyone else who died. There is a room in Halfmoon with all the old queens statues along with the story of Halfmoon.

The war is there along with the death of Queen C’yra and kidnapping of the daughter of the throne, a mere baby. She was one of twenty children taken by the enemy who were not able to reach the bunkers in time before the evation.

No one knew where the heir is now, only that Queen C'yra and Princess Irma were the last to see her. The child was with the queen before she died and then taken by the enemy while the princess went to check if anyone was still alive but then she got injured. The two sisters planned to escape Halfmoon and go to the nearest village in hopes that the enemy would realise they were gone and leave. None of them made it there.

C’yra died, Imra hurt, and the daughter kidnapped by the enemy along with the queen's crown. She was taken away from their home and people assumed the enemy killed her. The war had destroyed many things but time passed on and so they moved on as well. But without the crown for the queen, the full potential of the royal family could not be reached. The Princess did not give up hope. But soon, she realised the heir was not returning and the new heir was born, another daughter.

It has been an old Magicat tradition that the queen's crown is passed down through the royal family. The Queen gets the same crown and the Princess or Prince choose a crown from many that the witches have forged. But, the crown must accept the royal. When it decides it is time, the crown will glow and the royal will place it on their head to accept it back. The gems are entirely different since there are only the two sets of gems. There has never been a need for more since there have never been more than two children born of royalty. The gems are yours to put into the sloats on the crown and use how you please.

Princess Irma and her children were no exception to this rule. When the eldest was born, her name was C'yra after the queen, but it was a surprise was the baby's magic immediately latched onto the queen's gems. Usually, they wait until they are older and their magic is more formed but it was as if the baby knew she wouldn't have the time to grow up and control her magic.

What was most was most unexpected was after the war, when the second child was born two years later, named Irma after the Princess. The baby sat there on the seventh day and reached out for the gems sitting on the princess's crown. It was a surprise for everyone and it sent Irma into tears, knowing that her first child was the same as her second, both having powerful magic.

There was a reason that the queen's crown was taken though. Queen C'yra knew her death was coming during the battle and so she took her crown off and threw it to the child. She hoped wherever they ended up, they could use the crown. It did not work out how they wanted, C'yra's gems fell out of the crown and were never found, lost in the void. It did not appear to her that the enemy might have one of their gems or the crown.

Queen Irma had sworn on her life that she would avenge her dead sister and her missing child and for everyone else that had died or kidnapped and for the destruction of their home. They would pay for making her eldest child grow up in a different world and for her youngest to grow up in the aftermath of a terrible war, with no sibling or aunt. Irma could feel in her bones that this was not the last time they have seen the Magicats or the crown and their power. She may not be able to stop the enemy but she knew someone else would. The enemy would not get away with what they had done.

The Horde, Hordak, would pay for what they did.