Meteora Butterfly

## Queen Meteora Butterfly

*"This was Meteora,*

*hard and strong as her Warhammer,*

*who spared no effort to protect any mewnian from any monster".*

Meteora Butterfly was the 18th Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. She is best known for ending the manipulation of the Butterfly House from its subordinate Houses, also known as the Red Winter Rebellion. Meteora also ended the Celestial Winter.

### Early Life

Meteora Primavera Heliana Butterfly was born 420 A.M. to Queen Celestia Butterfly and King Consort Jasper Stone, she was a night queen. She was born on the spring equinox during the Celestial Winter. She possessed red hair and olive eyes from her father as well as having red flames on her cheeks. Meteora as a child was a chubby potato nosed girl, who due to the Celestial Winter had to wear extra layers that made her seem even bigger. For over the first 10 years of her life she did not see soil or grass that lay below the layers of thick snow. However everything in her life was not dismal. Meteora was a loving, smiling, and playful little girl. She always carried around her rag doll. She had a special relationship to Dame Coral Stone and her father Jasper. She most liked to skate on frozen lakes with her father. Meteora first heard rumors of her fathers affairs when she was 6. However she believed them to be false claiming her father was a good man and saying he was far too silly for this kind of thing. When she was 8 she first heard of her mothers supposed affair with King Olaf Frost. Like the first time she did not believe this, but unlike the first time it made her angry to hear about such things citing they were unfounded. 430 A.M., when Meteora was 10, her father went to retrieve her rag doll she left at a lake while they were skating, and was found dead two days later. She spent days locked in her room, and by the time she left, there were no traces of the little girl she used to be. It was said she cried all the tears she had for her life in that week. After the Royal Mourning of her father, she instructed aunt Dame Coral Stone to teach and train her how to fight. Meteora drastically changed over the course of her training and by her 11th birthday she was taller, leaner, and more athletic. On the anniversary of her fathers death she went with her aunt Coral to the lake where her father was killed. She separated herself from her aunt when she saw a group of bearicorns sitting around a fire mocking Mewmans and the Butterfly Royal Family. She approached the monsters and asked them if she could warm up and they told her to leave. Meteora then offered them a silver coin which she purposely dropped. When one of the monsters bent over to pick up the coin, the 11 year old princess pulled him up and stabbed him in his neck. The other two monsters stood up but were killed by her aunt who had just found her. All her aunt said was “next time tell me first.” Weeks later, while walking through the castle she overheard two servants talking. One asked the other if she was one of the supposed mistresses of the King. The servant avoided the question, prompting Meteora to follow her home at dusk. She discovered she had a better life than the rest of the commoners. The princess questioned the servant and found out that she and many other servants were paid by House Price, House Bell, and House Fox, the houses that Celestia had confrontations with when they used her emotional state, to spread rumors about The King. Meteora returned to the castle where she found her mother singing new loan letters to Houses Bell, Price, and Fox. Taken by uncontrollable fury, she grabbed her mothers letters and threw them into the fire. Celestia threatened to rebuke her daughter, but Meteora for the first and only time in her life, raised her voice to her mother and accused her of being “a ruler without firmness and foolish attitudes.” Although she regretted this a lot she considered it an important decision. Meteora finally saw her mother was fragile and unable to defend herself. Meteora soon began her work reclaiming the crown's honor. The first thing she did was send letters to the 3 houses demanding the repayment of the owed, and if they could pay it, she told them to send hostages until the debts could be paid. The 3 houses refused. When Sir Fox went to the castle for satisfaction the young Meteora had him arrested. Queen Celestia let him go however, Meteora would forget the challenge to her honor and that of the Royal Family. Without consulting her mother, she ordered the houses to come to the castle in response to their disloyalty. The houses revolted in return to this. Meteora didn’t seek her mothers authorization or even inform her about her decision to lead the Butterfly Army against the rebel houses with the help of her best friend. The Bell House was the first to fall in the face of her wrath when the Butterfly Army fell upon the rebellion Bell village so fast they couldn’t even gather their allies. Lady Bell and her daughter foolishly rushed the massive Butterfly Army with her little troops and they were defeated in the bloody battle that followed. Lady Bell in her last breaths relieved that the rumors of King Jasper's affairs were created by the 3 houses after Jasper started preventing   the loans. The heads of the Bell Family were cut off and displayed at the front of the army as they marched towards the House Price village of Stoneheart. Lady Price ordered the gates of her small castle to be closed and sent letters to her brother who was in the House Fox village of Foxhole asking for assistance. Lady Price thought her walls would hold until help arrived. However the Butterfly Army used a new invention called Mewnian Fire created by House Firefly's chivalry house, House Flamel. This was a flammable liquid that could be shot out of a pipe and lit on fire as it came out, thus acting as a flamethrower. This burned down the walls. The blue fire burned for hours and killed Lady Price and her forces, leaving only the shell of Price Hall, but leaving the village and its peasants unharmed. The Fox Army of just 2,000 arrived just in time to see the burning of Price Hall. The Fox Army attempted to surprise the Butterfly Army but it didn’t work and Lady Price’s brother was forced to retreat back to Foxhole. This proved to be a greater challenge than Price Hall. The Fox Hall consisted mostly of an underground fortress of abandoned mine shafts. Lady Fox fled to the underground sending men to negotiate with Princess Meteora but she had those men killed. She had the entrances to the mine sealed and redirected the nearby lake to flood the mines. The Butterfly Army reported hearing screams but by dawn the mines were silent. The castle on top was burned down. These events would be known as the Red Winter Rebellion. By the end of it the rebel houses had been completely destroyed and their castles obliterated.  Meteora kept the remains of Price Hall and Foxhole as a warning to those who defy the power House Butterfly and that was the beginning of her title of the relentless. After this gold started arriving from kingdoms all over the continent. Upon her returning back home she told her mother about her father not having affairs, this caused the queen to tear up and smile for the first time in years. However Meteora was grounded for three weeks. This event became known as the Red Winter Rebellion. 434 A.M., Meteora finally inherited the Royal Magic Wand. When Meteora touched the wand a loud rang shot out and a ray of sunshine shone through the throne room, thus ending the long winter. The end of the winter resulted in the reoccupation of the rural areas of the Queendom that had long been abandoned. This urban exodus revealed the huge decrease in population of the Queendom, from 200,000 to 40,000. Thus brought the return of agricultural production and also monster attacks. When a peasant appeared in the throne room saying his daughter had been killed by a group of bearicorns, Meteora decided she would defend the citizens from the monsters by herself. To avoid her mother telling her no, she would go on her vigils after midnight. On her way to the stables she found all the warnicorns asleep except for one. A warnicorn of rare black fur and silvery mane. After seven attempts she was able to tame him, something trained stablemen couldn’t do, and after fifteen minutes in the silent dark of struggling madly she was able to gain control. She named him Ironhoof. Meteora during her night adventures was able to improve and create spells, which either took the form of fire or weaponry, such as summoning blades of energy and turning the wand into swords, spears, axes, and hammers. These spells turned out to be useful in facing monsters alone. It wasn’t long before the fame of a “protector who rode a black terror dyeing the lands with the red enemy at the end of the night.” Though her mother had known about this vigilant, she never talked to her daughter about this, whether she knew it was her daughter was this vigilant is still discussed to this day. Upon returning from one of her vigils Meteora discovered her favorite tavern, the charming cup. There she met a funny man named Norse Fields, who she met after he tickled her with a glade of grass after she fell asleep in the tavern. He said the night before she had started a fight, breaking goblets over the heads of two men, throwing a man out of the window, and kissing a waitress. Meteora recovered herself and simply returned to the castle but the knees of what happened the night before had already reached her mother. Her mother rebuked her for such behavior asking how her subjects would respect a queen with such immature behavior, Meteora responded by telling her to go ask the Prices, Bells, and Foxes. She was grounded for two months this time. 439 A.M. on one of her vigils she found two boys being attacked by a species of monster known as a frogman. She rescued the brothers by attacking the monster. During the battle the boys called out places where Meteora should hit on the monster. After the fight Meteora questioned the boys on how they knew this, in which they showed her their notebook of anatomical drawings of monsters. The two boys who were named Charles and Alfred would develop a close relationship with Meteora.

### Reing as Queen

441 A.M. Celestia passed away at the age of 47, leaving Meteora to become queen at the age of 21 after the Royal Two Weeks Mourning which she spent most of her time at the charming goblet and going out on her vigils. On two of these vigils she saved a girl from a monster and stopped a group of monsters from invading a farm. Two months later, Alfred went on a trip to the Forest of Unlikely Spiderbites. Meteora planned to scion the boys with nobility, naming them The Royal Monster Experts. But the boy however never came back. He had been a victim of a monster ambush north of the Queensroad. In honor of Alfred, she granted the title to Charles, who founded the chivalrous house of noble House Forest, House Goodwell. After Alfred’s death Meteora finally lost all the remaining traces of sweetness she had, becoming the sullen, furious figure we know her as today. This event also led to the law allowing “Any and all Mewman the right to use lethal force to protect family, land, country, honor, or even another Mewman of a monster threat.” The number of monster attacks was expected to decrease, but hostilities became increasingly aggressive, such as farm raids, crop burning, and looting villages. One of Meteora’s most staunch supporters was Sir Deric, the poison rose, a man stern and hardened by the Celestial Winter, Who was a picture of what Mewmans were  at the time. A week after Meteora’s 22nd birthday Sir Deric was killed during a monster robbery on the Butterfly Queendom village of Cornflakes. The next day she took Iron Hoof to the top of the hill of flags and stuck her family’s banner in the ground and gathered her supporters, the Houses of the Queendom, as well as the Royal Family of Johansen of the Johansen Kingdom, and declared a war on all monster nations. Meteora initially decreased the intense harassment by the bearicorns and Frogmen to the borders of the Queendom. During that same year the

   Butterfly Queendom got control over the Mud Moat, the only known east access to the Forest of Certain Death. During this battle Meteora was struck by an arrow and was taken care of by a commoner nurse. Soon the reputation for Mud Moat of being easy to capture, difficult to defend to place. With a combined effort of the Mud Dwellers, Slimes, and Dogbulls they took Mud Moat and massacred a good amount of the Butterfly Army. During this battle Meteora’s eye was wounded, who had to rest for the rest of the month and almost lost half of her vision. Two days after she got her injury she was sent a bouquet of blackberry flowers which caused her to have an allergic reaction. Meteora found out that Norse Fields had sent the flowers. Two days later Meteora crossed the town sneezing until she found stone. Meteora chased him with a club as he ran towards the town with his wheezing laughter. She kept sneezing for a week. 446 A.M. the zones controlled by the two sides were very clear. The monsters, who were controlled by 9 kings, had the north and northeast and the Butterfly’s with the Johansen’s controlled the South and Southeast. After the Battle of The Queensroad, the Mewnian Flu epidemic came. Meteora was infected 448 A.M.. Fear of losing the last living Butterfly caused a mass panic and search for the cure. The cure was discovered by Sir Charles Goodwell and Lady Cross after learning the reasons were healing faster where because of the healing properties of the slime monsters. A group led by Sir Norse and Sir Cross, the bonebreaker, ironic, were led to kill capture Slimes. They captured 7 slimes were captured even though only one was needed. After The Queen was healed she offered the slimes an agreement that if they healed the thousands of sick in the town she would reward them. The Slimes accepted the offer, and after 8 months the epidemic had been solved. As Queen Meteora

     promised, the Slimes were given a reward. The reward was  a non-painful death, putting them to sleep with magic and melting them. With the flu ended the fighting continued and with more aggression. Both sides were strengthened. The Butterfly Army was supported by the Mewnian Warriors, created by her grandmother Queen Helia the Light of Power. The monsters also joined forces with two new species of monsters, the size shifter and the septarians. 450 A.M. was the most stressful year for her, thought not due to the war. In her words, “That idiot Norse has gone insane.” Norse established a tent in the garden of the Royal Palace. He gave her flowers, which were unwanted, gifts, which were unwanted, company at banquets, which were also unwanted, massages on her feet, unwanted, these were just a few of his actions, which always ended with Meteora chasing him and him running with his wheezing laughter.  451 A.M. during the winter came the Battle of Bloody Snow, Meteora was hit badly in the back of the head by a Conjoinican, fainting soon after slicing him in half. She awoke after the battle was over in the arms of Norse Fields, who she was morally self-honored for, rescuing her. She invited him to a thank you dinner. What happened during this dinner is unknown but The Queen gave a roar of hatred and who was chasing Norse, who was laughing wildly, around the dinner. Then Meteora jumped over the table and pursued Norse with an axe through the halls which thundered with his giant laughter. A year later she announced her engagement to Norse Fields. The night is known as the night of spit, because all those present spit out their drinks when they heard the news. 453 A.M. came her wedding, no records of this event are known due to everyone being drunk or dying two days later at the battle that followed. During that battle two of Meteora’s greatest friends were killed. Weeks after the battle she discovered she was pregnant. Meteora would fight up till 8 weeks before she gave birth. 454 A.M. on the day of the dead she gave birth to her only daughter and heir Hekatia Butterfly. Although she sporadically took place in battle for the next 5 years. She only fully returned after those five years. Her figure of the furious blood-thirsty warrior gave way to the protective mother, often not knowing what to do but always doing her best. She showed an affectionate side to her family, something that was thought to have disappeared with the death of her father Jasper. When Meteora returned to the war she found the eightring kings, the union of 8 monster kings had expanded their borders. They took and surrounded points that had been previously occupied by the Mewmans. Meteora began a process of expelling and reoccupying the lands taken over by the monsters, gaining support from many kingdoms. It was a long process full of intense battles. Also during this time the Butterfly army was surrounded, but were saved by a group of Pigeon. The pigeons however had a large capacity for reasoning and understanding. Even though they didn’t speak, Meteora

    saw them as a potential ally, taking a pigeon representative to military meetings and building the pigeon lookout for them. During the celebration of Mewnipendence, 466 A.M. an average group of monsters tried to kidnap Princess Hekatia, but the plan was thwarted by the Lucitors and their newly crowned King Ragenald Lucitor. Although King Luctors marriage request to Hekatia was denied by Meteora the Luctiors stayed in the war. 468 A.M., Meteora passed the wand to her daughter. Many said she should keep the wand due to the war, but Meteora assured everyone she was capable with ordinary weapons and provided that by killing over 100 monsters at the Muddyshore Clash. 471 A.M. Meteora announced her daughter's engagement. 473 A.M. Norse was killed by a monster. Meteora overcome by tears and anger ordered the monster towns and villages to be burned down with Mewnian Fire. It was during this period she also began the practice of decorating the throne room with the skulls of the monsters the defeated, forming huge piles of bones behind the throne. She also began to judge captive monsters through trials by battles. 474 A.M. she captured the monster that killed her husband. Meteora sentenced the monster to trial by combat. Even though the monster was much bigger than she was, Meteora with agility and with her quick strikes started crippling her opponent. At one point she slashed the monster's stomach but instead of killing him she tried to extract a confession. However the monster surprised her

and bear hugged her from behind. He slowly tore her eyes out and killed her by crushing her skull. He threw her dead body beside her daughter, who was shocked, wept, and was sick. Meteora was dead at the age of 54 and ended her reign after 33 years as queen. She was buried in the crypts of the castle. Queen Meteora the Relentless started the Great Monster War, a loose war which would only end with Queen Star the Rebel after 404 years.

### Trivia

* Although she no longer had a fondness for dresses, Meteora wore two of these at her coronation and wedding ceremony in honor of her mother's will
* Meteora loved flowers, even though she was allergic to most
* The only skirts she used often as an adult were a Silvan leather skirt and a snow bear fur skirt
* A week after her father's death, Meteora held a public hanging and beheading ceremony for all of her dolls in the castle garden, leaving their "corpses" in the snow or suspended by ropes on a tree.
* St. Meteora's Day is celebrated as thaw day or the last day of winter