Helia Butterfly

## Queen Helia Butterfly

*"The absolute power*

*of the brightest light,*

*like a blinding sun*

*in the darkest night"*

Helia Butterfly was the 16th Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. She is best known for being the most powerful queen in the history of the Butterfly Queendom, and even across the dimensions. Helia also oversaw the Second Mewnian War and ended it.

### Early Life

Helia Veronica Albina Butterfly was born 372 A.M. to Queen Venus Butterfly and King Consort Eric Flowers at exactly noon on the summer solstice, thus making her a day queen, the third, the last two being her great-great-great grandmother Queen Etheria the Knight and her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother Queen Hemera the Builder. She possessed golden blond hair and silver eyes and possessed golden yellow hexagrams on her cheeks. Her name meant the sun in High Mewnian. When she was 9 months old, Helia was on her mothers lap while she was signing and sealing letters. When Venus took a second to rest her hands, Venus noticed that Helia was stretching out her baby hands to grab another letter to position it in front of her mother so she could sign and apply the Royal Seal to it. After Venus had done that, Helia placed the letter in the left hand pile and pulled another from the right hand pile. Venus described it was “cute and unexpectedly intelligent, but a bit scary.” Some important things to note, the servants said she did not like eye contact, not differing how she played, impatience for social events, and finally being very emotional. When she was happy she would jump, scream,

    or sing and when she was sad she would feel depressed. She also was found to be hypersensitive to sounds, smells, and textures. Helia asked her parents to put carpet on the floor of her room and asked no one step in with shoes. Helia’s interest in magic came when she stacked all the books from the shelf of her mothers Royal Office, and her mother put all the books back with magic. Helia, who began to read at 4, started to read any book with the word magic in the title. She started with children's books before moving to academic ones. Whenever Venus talked about magic she described Helia as being very ecstatic. The princess started to use basic levitation spells, making her the youngest Butterfly to use magic even without a wand. The first time her parents witnessed this her mother did not sleep that night. Four months later, 378 A.M., when her mother and her Mewnisters entered the council meeting room, they found the room dark and the blinds shut with large points of golden light floating through the air, and Helia, with her cheekmarks shining sitting on top of the conference table. When questioned, Helia stated “It's the universe mama, isn't it beautiful.” The princess showed her mother the center of the universe and how Mewni was close to it and that if you crossed it you would return to your starting point among other completely accurate information, Helia was 6. Venus didn't sleep that month. Helia did not live by magic alone. She developed an interest in gardening, when she discovered a garden of 500 rainbow flowers, spawned from the one her father Eric brought. That garden is still in existence to this day. Helia also started collecting gemstones after her cousin Clovad Butterfly, son of her aunt Lady Minguanta Butterfly gave her a ruby on her 8th birthday. Helia described Clovad as “the only sensible and reminded child in Mewni.” Clovad was the youngest of three children, the other two being twins, Jack and Crescenta. Helia thought her other cousins were dumb and useless, and she said she had a strong desire to levitate them into the sky but she did not due to Venus preventing her from using magic on people. She did not have to live with her cousins for long when they moved to the Clifford Kingdom when a marriage occurred. She described how Mewni became a civilized place. With their absence Clovad began to spend most of his time with Helia. Helia used to “play” by creating mini planets and model solar systems with magic, bringing life to her stories, cancel gravity in her room, cut objects with pure blades of

    magic, and even create mini stars in glass globes. She stated “Magic is like a great knit, connecting everything and everyone, from the people to the castle walls, from the ground to the stars.” 384 A.M. there was a strange noise coming from the princess’s room. When Venus and the knights investigated they only saw the princess holding a magic raccoon which was melting in her hands. “He came snooping around my dreams, so I grabbed his neck and brought him over here when I woke up.” Helia already possessed such great control over magic many questioned whether she needed the wand. Glossaryck told her it wasn’t necessary, but who would be better to protect it and dissect it to the maximum. Finally 386 A.M. Helia inherited the Royal Magic Wand, and her initial reaction was no shock or surprise. She began to inspect the relic and brought it up to her lips and began to whisper something. No one understood and the wand began to ignite. Everyone threw themselves to the group and screamed. After a rumble came from the wand a large flash came. However when the crowd lifted their heads there was no destruction and they saw Helia containing an explosion as bright as a sun until it disappeared. This is known as the whispering spell which Hellia described as a

    purification of the crystal Helia described the crystal as nothing more than a portal to the Realm of Magic. However in the future to this day the spell has lost its initial purpose of a purification spell to an emergency plan if the wand fell into the wrong hands. Helia had a lot of fun with her new “toy”, creating new spells like the supernovae radioactive explosion and the locker spell. However she only used the wand for 3 months before returning  to using her manual, or magic without a wand. Helia would just leave her wand anywhere. She did this until her mother approached her daughter with her wand in hand scolding her, reminding her to be careful and respectful of the object. After this Helia had an idea, she wrapped her wand in a bubble of light, and turned it into a tiara, this was the first magical change of the wand. She put it on her head and said “ready mommy” in which Venus laughed and fainted after she left. She also created two new trees, one entirely of gold and the other of silver, which gave silver and golden fruits completely uneatable. It was soon after this that Venus sent the godmother Baby to evaluate the Royal Princess. Baby noted that it was the most astonishing evaluation she had ever made. When princesses are evaluated by Baby they are asked to bring an apple across the room to her using only magic only. Helia levitated the apple to Baby and took its seeds and made them grow into apples all while writing a letter without even looking at the apple once. Baby states “her Royal Highness doesn't only possess great control and knowledge over magic, she feels and seems to attach herself to magic in its purest and most minute aspect. Magic flows through her as if she were magic herself. The level on which she stands is immeasurable.” On her 15th birthday on her mothers meeting with the Magical High Commission she asked to join the Commission which the took as a joke, and gave her a summer mission, which was basically to get a vending machine from a maintenance room, which resulted in her capturing Bobpisa, the barbarian baby eater who was sought after for decades by the MHC in which Helia caught in seconds. Helia was the first princess admitted as well as the youngest member in its history. In the same year Venus found a poem where Helia describes love as “The feeling when i see someone's smile and it illuminated my face as if it were being touched by the sun.” However Helia clarified it wasn’t a poem but it was a page in her journal about how she felt in Clovad’s presence. Her mother obviously acted with joy and taught her daughter how to conquer a man in thirty seconds, Helia kept this to herself. Four weeks later she noticed the first signs of Mewberty. Believing she could handle it she did not inform her mother of the situation.  However she couldn’t handle it, she ignored all the boys except for Clovad who she trapped in her web and suspended him from the ceiling and kissed him, which let out a laughter from Venus and a desperate cry from Minguanta. Embarrassed, Helia isolated herself from Clovad. Until after two weeks Clovad decided to talk to her, it wasn’t long before Clovad confessed his love for her. Helia responded with a large smile and hugged him. Helia’s 16th birthday is one to remember. Helia had disappeared without a trace. Venus ordered massive searches for her daughter, but no one could find her. Relief came when the Butterfly Royal Family found a large golden portal that Helia emerged out of in the middle of the throne room. Helia said she had gone to the heart of the universe to make a deposit.

### Reign as Queen

Two months later, 390 A.M. at the age of 18, Helia was crowned. At the end of the ceremony Helia said her most famous phrase “the crown weighs.” Although many interpret this as the queen was talking about the pressures of being monarch, the simple truth was that the st. Urania’s crown was literally heavy. Weeks later she married her cousin Clovad, bearing her typical monotonous expression however Clovad reported she had never been happier. In her first event as queen she was attacked by a group of monsters called bearicorns, she planned to immobilize her enemies but sneezed and reduced the 14 monsters to carbonized mummies.  391 A.M. Helia’s father died. It was reported that she was so sad she did not speak for days and when her mother Venus died she was seen crying for this first time and fell asleep crying in her husband's lap. This sparked her desire for a family of her own. Finally 394 A.M. on the winter solstice, Helia gave birth to her daughter and heir Celestia Butterfly. She tried to show respect for the Celestum and as a way to try a religious approach to her people, she named her daughter Celestia after the goddess. However this act wasn’t well regarded with her people. Helia’s first days as a mother were a terror. The constant cries from her daughter haunted. However, because of this, Helia missed the typical stump day honors. Stump Day was the celebration of the first settlers taking shelter around a giant stump uniting them as one, and every anniversary the people of the Butterfly Queendom pay tribute the the stump that still survives today, and if you don’t make the tribute the stump becomes magically alive and kills you and since Helia did not give those tributes the stump visited her, and after that one night the stump did not visit again during Helia’s life. She was known to be very close and attached to her daughter, whom she carried in her arms 24 hours a day until she could walk. One of the better occurrences of this is when her Mewnisters complained about the queens delay. Clovad went to see what the delay was when he found his wife and his baby daughter laying on the bed laughing. Clovad canceled the meeting that day. However her presence in her daughters upbringing also led her to neglect her duties as queen. That resulted in a food shortage in the Queendom's villages. Determined to get rid of some of the burden and responsibility on her back, Helia made a controversial decision. Helia granted administration of these villages to chivarly houses of House Butterfly, House Price, House Bell, and House Fox. She even gifted these houses magically created gold and silver as a gesture of her confidence in them. 396 A.M. with the Magical High Commission, captured the interdimensional thief Argold,

     the golden thief. She used the spell Aurum Cruciate Finger Pew which turned him into gold statues. She ordered he be melted down to make currency for the Butterfly Queendom. Attempts on the queen's life began to appear, starting with lacrimosa poison in her food and then to when someone tried to stab her. 397 A.M. her and the MHC set out on a mission to capture Zedlord, for his crime of blowing up a planet. Helia subdued him by using her magic to grab him and repeatedly hit him against the ground. The people’s planet who Zedlord needed a new home, which Helia provided, by creating a whole dimension, this was said to only have been done by the goddess. 399 A.M. the most infamous attempt on her life occurred. While having afternoon tea with her family an arrow flew through the bushes at the queen. Helia magically stopped the arrow inches from her head and magically pulled the hunter from the bushes and ordered him to leave and when her daughter was looking away she returned the arrow through his forehead.

    400 A.M. during the Butterfly Queendom Tournaments Queen Helia received new news about treaty breakdowns and armed conflicts in the north and the western sea. Helia, seeming only concerned about her promise to her daughter to get her cotton candy, only saying she did not want the headache and the Butterfly Queendom would remain neutral. Without Butterfly’s involvement in the war, Helia ran the Queendom and went on missions to the Magical High Commission. With the MHC she captured many interdimensional criminals, two criminals were captured by using her magic to break a moon and sent it flying at the criminal as well as capturing a creature of enormous size even larger than stars, of cosmic powers by using her magic to make the sun he ate to explode inside of his stomach. 402 year after

    Mewnipendence Celestia told her mother people were afraid of her with which she only replied that it was nonsense. 403 A.M., the Fahrmann Kingdom was attacked without warning of war, which prompted her advisers to ask, they did not have the courage to demand her to initiate some military action. Helia, who considered war to be a mundane thing, gave control of the military to her Mewnisters and told them to take care of it. Weeks later 7 kingdoms signed a pact, including Butterfly stating they wouldn’t stop fighting until the defeat of the Smith Kingdom, Florent Kingdom, and Mushroom Kingdoms. It was the first time the term United Kingdoms of Southern Mewni was used. Clovads sister Crescenta was killed in an attack on the Clifford Kingdom. Completely ignorant in war tactics Helia decided to educate herself by studying the life of her great-great-great grandmother Queen Etheria Butterfly. She found information about Etheria teaching her queensguard members Amber, Lily, Linden wandless magic. This information led to Helia to discover Dame Amber Stone founded House Loveberry. This house teaches its girl members wandless magic. Helia saw this house could be an advantage to the Butterfly Army. Helia decreed the creation of the Mewni Warriors, which was put under House Loveberry, as well as giving them some of her own magic, naming Dina Loveberry as the commander. Although their numbers weren’t impressive, 20 women between 16 and 32, and 9 cadets between the ages of 9 and 13, their presence would change the course of the war. Helia kept her daughter from knowing a war was happening while trying to be the best for her. Helia was successful until 406 A.M. when Celestia was attacked by a group of septarians, Her daughters scream sent Helia into her butterfly form full of rage. The land withered, the plants withered, and the heat felt like a thousand desserts. Before the septarian’s arrows could hit Helia this burned up, and with a simple wave of a hand they turned into a pile of ash. The group was sent by the Mushroom and Delphinidae Kingdom, the last kingdoms to surrender. Helia sent a letter to the Mushroom Kingdom troops stationed in the Neuterlands asking them to surrender but they refused. Three day later she flew to the Neuterlands in her butterfly form. The natives of the Neuterland Kingdoms report “at 8:15, a second sun appeared in the sky. Then came a blinding light, followed by a deafening roar and a thousand-summer heat.” Helia decimated more than 56,000 invading soldiers leaving very few survivors. No deaths of the natives were reported. The next day the Mushroom Kingdom signed its surrender. Helia hoped the Delphinidae Kingdomwould follow suit. But no such luck and she decided to take her fury to the kingdom. Helia flew to the Delphinidae Kingdom and activated a long dormant submarine volcano decimating the kingdom. The war was officially declared over the next day, this day is known as St. Galaxia’s day or the day of peace.

     A week later all the kingdoms were invited, or ordered by Helia to attend the Great Council of Mewni. This council lasted 4 days and resulted in the creation of the Mewnian Kingdoms Organization by the Charter of St. Galaxia, which outlined the Interdimensional Declaration of Mewnian Rights and War Crimes Trials. The most controversial was the creation of the reform schools that would be recognized as St. Igor's School for Wayward Princes and St. Olga's School for Wayward Princesses. These schools would create the “ideal” way a prince or princess should act and it would be for unruly royals. This idea was suggested, ordered by Queen Helia. This was done due to her believing that the last 2 Mewnian wars were caused by juvenile in-consequence. Helia also gave all the monarchs magical golden trees created by her. 408 A.M. passed the wand-crown to her daughter. Even without the wand and the spell book Helia did not stop using magic, using a booklet which she put her latest spells and discovered, such as the

    Seven Eternities Spell. However the whereabouts of this book are unknown to this day. On the morning of Celestia’s coronation, Clovad could not wake Helia up, he also noticed her mini stars had faded. He realized she was no longer breathing and her heart wasn’t beating. He called for help but it was too late. 411 A.M. the third day queen, the most powerful queen of the Butterfly Queendom to this day, as well as one of the most powerful beings in the universe was dead at the age of 39 and after 21 years as queen. Her death remains unsolved to this day, she was buried in the crypts of the castle.