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popculturebuffet · 2 years ago

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Owl House Reviews: For the Future: The Rise of Terrance

Hello all you happy witches! We're in the middle now, we're in the middle of the ride but every thing everything will be just fine but everything everything will be all right. But for now we're into my look at our middle part which like some middle parts isn't as good as the start or the finish but damn if it still wasn't great. Follow me undre the cut for a review ith full spoilers. And if your feeling jaunty I cooked up a playlist for the episode if you want to put that in your earbox while I go on and on about this episode. Let's begin.

Luz and Camilla: To Be Understood

As I figured, Luz's arc wasn't quite done yet, as while the pep talk helped enough to get her through the portal, she's still fully commited to going home in her guilt. Camilla tries her best to convince her but being on top of a giant corpse where people eat rats (you have to remove the inner heads), fly on brooms and behind every lampost is a new friend is a hard adjustment. It's not helping but you can't blame her: even Luz, as much as she wholly embraced the place, had a lot of adjusting to do. She's trying.

We also see lots of nice momming from Camilla as she tries to help everyone and does try to get Luz's attention it's just dealing with puppetgeddon, unruly teens and kiki

Means there isn't much time for it, but it's nicely there the whole episode: Luz pulls away from Amity's attempts at comfort as she likely feels guilty she's leaving but the rest of her guilt is too strong to stop. It's there. IT's hard to once again see Luz so drained of everything she loved. It makes it that much more cathartic when Camilla, after trying all episode finally DOES get a moment to get Luz to stop and listen.. even if Kiki is right on top of them

The following speech is .. beautiful and hilaroius as Camilla bluntly points out Luz can't keep beating herself up because of one mistkae. She's made mistkaes; having a root canal before her wedding, having road rage at luz's principal, and the one that deserves it's own spinoff selling energy drinks for a pyramid scheme for three years. Which luz is aware of. I.. I need to know everything about this. But the bigger one..was not standing up for Luz, was being so afraid of Luz having the hard time being a nerd she did as a teenager, that she didn't accept her for the werido she was. The show once again takes Camilla's less than stellar pilot characterization and spins it beautifully, making it Camilla's greatest mistkae and the thing that's apology finally gets Luz to realize what she wanted, somethign I heartbrekaingly understnad having been a neurdivergent awkawrd teenager myself: to be understood. It's the harest thing in the world to get.. to just have someone… try to understand you, to really get you. It's..frustrating as it can often feel like even the most well meaning person doesn't get you and that feeling of your parent really knowing you.. is one ot treasure.

Thus Luz unlocks her power.. which is both terrifying as it should be for her friends.. and glorious.. and also leads to this lil lady

ALL HAIL. I seriously have to look at that picture at least once a day. Look at her. She's perfect. As is Camilla cuddling with all her babies. Luz is finally herself again.. and just in time for a god's temper tantrum. But first, TERRANCE

Terrance: The Man? The Myth The Legend

Am I really dedicating an entire section to this presumibly one off blob on a light post?

Look I'm a man of many werid taste but I love a creature with a bunch of eyes, I love blobs, so an eye blob just sitting there int he middle of a creeply silent street and only just kind of .. blinking at camilla confused, possibly okay with what she just did, had me spining. We need 30 seasons of terrance. I think that's his work lampost and at the end of the day he puts on a little fedora, pulls out a briefcase and slithers home to another lampost just across from there. Has he been doing this since the titan first formed him? Probably. Does he have a family? Possibly. I stil lneed to work on my pitch to disney. The point is expect the year of terrance baby and feel free to hit me with yoru ideas.

The Collector and the King: Knowing Me Knowing You

So now we're actually back on the isle we found out what was going on, as my field reporter checked in

It's essentially been the COllector playing mario and luigi with king every day using terra as the boss until she finally snapped today and got puppeted. Everyone's a puppet now, including Willow's dads!

As you can probably guess being the plaything of a mad god hasn't been easy for King, whose job has mostly been "hanging out, down the street, same old thing we did last week".. only same old thing is "Keep the collector from doing far worse the best he can and hope they can find a way out of this". On the bright side Odalia has also been stuck in her own personal hell: having to actually be a parent while having on actual power while the collector apparently reguarlly taunts her with the puppets to remind her what happens if she keeps pushing him. Not even Belos wants to bodyjack her, she's fallen that low and I love everything about this.

The Collector himself though is as intresting as I found him last time. I also got a real sense of

Yes he's still a fairly terrifying little chlid making living persons into his playthings and he does need to be stopped.. but like me the show sees not just the terrifying power he wields.. but the child wielding them. He's like Anthony Belmont of It's A Good Life if the kid still had a possible chance to be taught empathy. Said vindcation also comes from @jess-the-vampire's biggest sticking point: The genocide. Even I coudln't really defend that but I figured it was more complicated or if he had then he'd be properly punished.

Turns out he likely didn't participate as the Collectors.. .WERE AN ENTIRE SPECIES. They were also deeply terrifying monsters, amazzing and perserving thigns much like this puppets.. and if a world objected well they got burned to the bone for their troubles. So the collector we saw do in the owl beast was likely not the one we know, not that it helped the creature rage against him less.. and the Titans clearly did not take them doing this as well, leading to their extinction but the collectors mostly going out. It also raises the question did King's dad seal the collector we know because they were that dangerous.. or because of that plus he didn't want to murder a child. Did he seal king as a counterballance? to protect him from the genocide? There's a lot of answers we don't have: the only promising one is King's magic CAN cancel out the collectors, so there is hope.

What we do know now is Eda is KINDA safe. The most danger is , as tended to be the case before all this started, herself as she can't resist triggering the security puppets to see Rahne again.

Also the design for the collectorfied puppets is both mildly unsettling and aweosme, especially Rahne who gets a spiffy haircut and new outfit…. proably for obvious plot reasons but still it's clear they put effort into every puppet not just his and it must've taken a LOT of time to design all these. It was entirley worth it and even as we approach the end I marvel at this series care and craft.

Lily is likewise helping and while her potions taste awful, the fact is she can make them from scratch, so their curses aren't an issue. WHat is an issue is both clearly plan to seal or kill the collector… and King.. dosen't want to do that.

And the reason is simple: King empathizes; Both are the last of their kind, both have tremendous power, and King… wasn't so diffrent. He also used to lack empathy, and what he had was thanks to having a strong loving mother to help raise him. Had king had what the collector has, he might never of gotten Eda to raise him the way she has and instead bullied her into submission the way the collector has. All the collector has had for parents is a race of genocidal entitled assholes, and a singular genocidal entitled racist asshole what manipulated him into working with him for centuries. He has no real sense of what's really right or wrong or even how fragile the beings he's abusing are. It dosen't remotely make what he's doing okay, he needs to stop and fix what he's done, but King can empathize with what he is. He needs to be talked down and talked into fixing what he did. It dosen't mean he shouldn't be punished, but it does mean simply locking a child away again wont' solve anything and may just leave it open for another oportnistic asshole to manipulate him.

It's really a message the show has slowly been building to: That kindness and empathy.. are more important than hate. That undrestanding each other is the most important thing at all. We can be better and are better than we think. Though it also has the hard truth to this: Some people can't change, won't change, and can't be reasoned with, and are just consumed by their hatred, bigotry and general stupidity. You all know wher ei'm going with

Belos: All My Sins Be Remembered

Belos thankfully did not have a great time for the first half of the episode for once, having to crawl with his legs giving out, and being haunted by appirtions, real or imagined, of his brother and all the golden guards he murdered. Chillingly and fittingly they dont' speak: they just stare at him, Caleb in paticualr having a bloody knife above him firmly confirming what we knew… and with belos weakly justifying it as "trying to save your soul". But Caleb says nothing, simply judging him silently, knowing that in his heart Belos knows what he did was wrong but can never admit it and thus never be free… as it should be.

Sadly.. Belos dosen't die, though it fits as he's the real big bad here: the collector is the main THREAT.. but as I said he's a stupid star children. The person who manipulated him, the person who caused all of this, the person who required FREEING him in the first place… is the one who should be the last threat our heroes face and being belos he falls back on the one tool he has: manipulating children. Using the Rahne puppet, he simply gaslights the poor kid again , making him think his powers made the puppet alive and then turning him against Luz and King. We do get the cliche only hearing part of it thing with collector listneing in on king but not hearing king wanting to talk.., but it works here: King is the only friend the Collector's ever had and this betryal would hurt deep.. witht he kid not understnading that of course King would want the rest of his family.. but it dosen't mean he dosen't care about the kid. Once again Belos has his finger on the triger and it's going to take a miracle to stop him… but he's loosing. That said WHY DID HE HAVE TO PICK RAHNE WHY WHY. DONT' LET THEM DIE FOR THE LOVE OF TITAN DON'T LET HIM D…

Huntlow (Featuring Gus): We won? We won WE WON!

We got a nice chunk of Willow Focus this episode, and it's nice she got some again before the series ran out. This one focuses on her tendency to be a pillar for her friends, and while it's an admirable trait.. you have to take care of yourself before you can take care of anyone else. It seems kind of obvious but between this, steven universe, encanto and countless other shows it's a common theme if one that bears repeating, and one even I struggle to take to heart at times against my better judgement. It's well done as we can see the pressure build, and Camilla, TRIES to help.. it's just the focus on you know, canceling the apocalypse means no one really noticies till willow puts everyone in plant jail. She's so focused on fixing Hunter's problems she can't see her own. Hunter isn't even to blame: It's understandable he's in a bad place emotoinally after belos and while his only drive right now is kick his green ass… he's not actulaly proceesing it. It's understandable she want sto help her sorta boyfriend not melt down but it's sad because you can tell things aren't oging to end well

The actual resolution is also sweet: Hunter finally opens up and admits he needs them both he's just not good with this sort of thing, and Gus gets willow to admit that sure she's a pillar to lean on but she needs people too. As a result.. the episode almost ends with hunter and willow holding hands, blushign adn willow basically confessing in short

Granted the Anti's are still a swarming but like.. shit's cannon now. It clearly was before but ther'es now mor ethan enough evidence. And look i'm not bragging becaus e"my ship's better than yours", ships are ships and unless their incest, pedophila or actively abusive, any ship is fine. But don't be a dick, and for the love of god don't be a biophobic asshole. Hunter being with willow dosen't mean he can't be into men if you want just as Luz being with a woman dosent' mean she's not attracted to men.. it's just who their with. It's what being bisexual means and I shoudln't HAVE to bring this up.. but I do because the biphobia in the fandom is obnoxious. YOu guys shoudl know better. Fucking stop.

A very well done arc. Now for

I Think Kiki Should Leave

So let's get this out of the way: Kiki should not be in this episode. She shoudln't. I get needing an action set piece to appease the mighty overlords who canceled the show in the first place, because Disney rarely makes sense. And I get it being a showcase for Luz's wand.. but my reaction to her coming back was the same as Luz's. It worked in season 2 both due to her constant humilations and her very personal rivlary with hunter, and her sad end, finding out her boss never cared about her and getting even was great. The problem is while she COULD be vital to this episode, as she did unleash the collector.. in practice she's just.. trying ot be belos. She has no ambition and thus there's no real threat. That might've been the intent but like.. when the character resolutions are so much more intresting and never really REQUIRED her to be…

Boshca by contrast.. was an unexpected elight, as finding out she's hung up on amity, and ruled the school was neat. And like.. if you wanted an ambointon for the boss just hav eboscha find one. It's not like Alador didn't make a LOT. I know Kiki's is a special model that's super powerful but like… Boscha is more intresting. Of course she'd put her own selfish desires over things, of course she'd have ptsd and whlie her face turn was suprising it was neat. Kiki by contrast does nothing we haven't seen and thus feels like sh'es just kinda there.

Other stuff:

Matt was amazing, from finding out his and Steve's last names are tholomule, to everyone's reactions to "Mantholmule": Camilla find sit adorably hilarious, Luz, Willow and Hunter are mortified and Amity and Gus are just done with this. I also love the super rad bump statue.

We also have Eldric, who looses every bit last shred of cool he had imitating the bandage guy from spongebob, and cheerfully describing how the well he fell down had rocks in it> I mean I love this new dork version of my newly adopted son.

So that about does it. This was an excellent episode and i'm sorry this review is so fucking late getting out. This week.. was a long mental struggle. Thanks for reading and i'll see you for the finale in apparently april!

#for the future #the owl house #owl house spoilers #disney channel #disney #huntlow

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darkcrowprincess · 2 years ago

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Hunger Games: Luz's outfit

Honey, on your knees when you look at me. I'm dressed like a fucking queen and you're begging,"please!" I rule with the velvet tongue, And my dress undone. And I'll get you lost but I'm having fun Holy, holy, holy, yeah Holy, holy, holy Holy by King Princess

Hunter is waiting for Luz with Eda and Darius. To keep with their stylists theme of light and darkness, Hunter is dress from head to toe in a dark midnight purple, almost black. With a white silver cape that looks like moonlight. Tiny see through silver cresent moons handstitched onto the cape. This color makes his skin and hair seem even more pale. Like he himself is made from silver moonlight. His appearance over all is handsome. Like one of those elven princes that Luz likes to gush and read about. He himself feels ridiculous and self conscious. He rather wear his own clothes. His own knitted sweathers, or his wolf shirt he took hours to make. The one his mother Evelyn was so proud of. She smiled so big when he showed her, " Your going to be wonderful seamstrist Hunter, a little artist just like your father! We'll have his wood carvings and your clothes all together in our shop. Our family business" He suddenly misses his parents with a deep burning longing. His father and his gentle smiles and his even gentler birds. His mother and her laughter, always smelling of mapel syrup and flapjacks. His anger at his uncle, President Wittebane grows deeper. He knows his uncle had his name chosen on purpose. Finally a chance to punish his parents for running off together. For being happy. So he'll take his revenge by killing their only son. Real proof of their love killed for the whole world to see.

Hunters dark thoughts are interrupted by Luz's bubbly voice coming down the stairs. "Finally," he grumbles, he goes up to look at her, "Took you long e-" he doesn't finish his sentence. He chokes on his spit as he gazes up at her. In one word she looks like royalty. Like a goddess honestly. He's reminded of the many religious statues he's seen in the Capital. Goddesses, gods and titans depicted forever in golden statues. Luz is her name sake. From head to toe she is covered in a golden light dress. The dress made from glowing golden stars. Or at least the stylist made it seem that way. Sparkley golden ballet shoes adorned her feet. Her face having little golden stars drawn near her eyes and over her eyebrows. Her wild natural curls pined up in a bun with stars sprinkled all over every bit of her hair. In one word she is her name sake. She is light, she is the stars, she is the sun to his moon. Luz smiles self consciously at Hunter, " Either I look really good or really bad," jokes Luz as she's finally at the bottom of the stars. Hunter stares at her dazed, still saying nothing. Luz worried waves a hand in his face and calls to him, " Uh Hunter? Hello are you ok?" Seeing her hand wave and fingers snap to get his attention, Hunter snaps out of it. Blushing red, Hunter turns away frustrated. " You look beautiful, you know you look beautiful." Luz at this finally smiles all relaxed. When Hunter finally turns back to her, he sees Eda handing Luz a plain black hooded cape. She puts it on, hiding her beautiful outfit of stars and light completely. Hunter confused asks, "Why are you doing that?" Luz looks to him from under the hood and explains, eyes looking up at him through her eyelashes, "Eda wants the outfit to be a big surprise for the interview. To dazzle the capital with this outfits hidden surprises." Hunter doesn't understand what she means by hidden surprises till later. When Luz is finally having her interview in front of millions. She gets up out of her chair. Unties the cape, it slowly falling and revealing her dress. The captial audience gasps and aww. Than Luz does something surprising. Having ballet shoes, she makes a pose with her arms, and lifts them into the air. As she does that she goes all the way to the point of her toes. Her yellow ballet shoes sparkles like stars. She lifts one leg gracefully behind her, and starts to twirl. Twirling her dress skirt as well. As she spins, the dress glows brighter. Stars appear and twinkle around her. She spins and gracefully dances here or there. The stars and light glowing happily as they follow her. Gone is the sad sweet girl Hunter knows. Instead here is a young woman. Happy dancing and lighting up the world. The crowd goes wild for this. Cheering her on and clapping. The jump to their feet calling out her name, throwing flowers and roses to the stage. Telling her to twirl and dance more. And Luz does. Smiling all the way. When her dance is finally done she bows to crowd. She's panting and sweaty, but still beautiful. Celestial even. Her hair has fallen out of her pined up star. Wild curls free and down her back. Stars still glittering in hair. She finally sits down. " That was certainly a show," the interviewer exclaims. "What did your designer call this dress?" Luz blinks her eyes and stares out into the crowd. Her eyes finally meets Hunters. When their eyes connect, her face changes. She becomes serious as she stares at him. To crowd she says this, but she's really saying this to Hunter. "My design is to represent that I am the queen. The queen of my name sake. The Queen of light. And as the queen, I plan not to only win this game. But be the queen of them." Hunter swallows hard at that. He is both aroused and terrified at the same time. " So your saying everyone should just give up and bow down to the queen of light ?" Comments the interviewer. Luz still hasn't turned her eyes away from Hunter. Dead serious, gone is the sweet girl and the queen is in her place, " Yes, I am the queen, and honey everyone needs to be on their knees for me."

#my writing #hunger games au #yes i'm a lunter shipper #the owl house #disney #cartoons #lunter #huntceda #luz x hunter #goldenlight #hunter x luz #goldenluz #huntluz #hunger games #Luz looking badass in her interview outfit #Spotify

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capsizedskeleton · 4 years ago

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- this episode was such a fucking trip.

- look at hooty’s stupid face here. god he is blursed

- king’s powers? more into demon lore? the decomposing titan CREATES demons??? hmm??

- that kind of puts some holes into the titan is king’s dad theory

- hooty and king is just alex hirsch talking to himself huh

- EDA DEVELOPMENT BRO IT’S BEEN TWO SLAPPING EPISODES STRAIGHT FOR HER HUH

- DREAM SEQUENCE DREAM SEQUENCE

- yo it’s kinda nice how the lighting changes here for eda’s hair to resemble what it used to be but also corruption of the setting and violence

- also that scene with her dad holy shit!

- the self is the monster thoughts...

- i wonder what lilith was thinking then...

- also like! acceptance! and still taking your meds! but eda learning to live with it and realizing that her treatment of the curse hurt raine more than the curse itself! there is so much going on in that dream...

- the letter washing up on shore bit. huh.

- GOOD FOR HER

- literally like. ultimate wild magic. anti belos . so sexy of her

- just realized belos is one letter away from bezos

- OH LUMITY. OH. OH.

- THE TUNNEL OF LOVE HFJSKHF

- TINY. LOVELY

- BRO LUZ’S FEAR OF BEING MADE FUN OF V. AMITY’S FEAR OF BEING REJECTED THAT ARE BOTH KIND OF THEM BEING AFRAID OF NOT BEING WORTHY OF THE OTHER PERSON. FIGHT

- but also don’t because communication

- lighting go brrr

- hooty sobbing as eda talks to luz shouldnt be as funny as it is fhjdhks

- AAAH. CONFESSION. “I DONT KNOW WHAT MY FUTURE HOLDS BUT IT WOULD BE SO COOL IF YOU WERE IN IT” HELLO TOH WRITERS I LOVE YOU

- THE THUMB RUB THE “WHY IS THIS STILL SO SCARY” YES THE INTRICACIES OF A GAY RELATIONSHIP

- we are getting so much good food. dana i owe you my life

- god luz and amity are so sweet and even hooty acknowledges it

- this is like. so good i want to write fic for it but on the other hand i would do it in a love letter kind of way not in a if only the writers were better supernatural queerbait way.

- there have probably been so many fics about an Official Lumity Confession but i bet no one wrote about hooty Owl Pelleting (oh yeah what the fuck was up w that) amity and creating a tunnel of love with his face everywhere.

- what if i just melt.

#this episode. i saw a few spoilers in that wonderfully lit scene and i was like holy shit some lumity? ill check it out later #and then i did #and it was so good #toh #toh spoilers #knock knockin on hootys door #lumity #edalyn clawthorne #king clawthorne #that is a tag i can write!!!#rambles

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tedturneriscrazy · 4 years ago

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🎶Knock, Knock, Knockin' On Hooty's Door🎵

I wonder if anything will happen in this episode.🙂

(I say as if I didn't watch the episode twice before going to bed and writing this post)

I don't think I'll ever not be amused by the way Hooty just...does things with his face

Seems like he found a thesaurus at some point

Okay so it's canonically spelled "Hootsifer," good to know

Also, this is really all we get of Lilith, huh?

His little hoot/coo at Lilith's letter❤❤❤

To borrow a meme format: If I had a nickel for every time Alex Hirsch was involved in a show where one of the characters was experiencing pubescent voice cracks, I'd have two nickels, which isn't very much but it's weird that it happened twice

Eda's face🤣

As much as this bit is played for laughs, Eda's clearly still shaken by what happened last episode

Jeez, Luz, priorities /j

Pictured: Hooty

The way King talks about being pelleted implies this is something Hooty does on the regular

Hooty's plan to help King is literally a Buzzfeed quiz? Okay then

Betcha never expected lore from Hooty, eh?

"DO NOT INTERRUPT"

Officially a "type of worm"

The dance being a grievous insult wasn't exactly from nowhere, but still funny nonetheless

WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE FUCKING COCCOON

Tiny Nose playing Switch definitely seems to be drawing from Dana's real life experiences

Wait, Hooty and Tiny Nose are friends?

Well shit, turns out she could use magic this whole time. Guess her going Super Saiyan wasn't just the power glyph.

I am extremely skeptical of your medical credentials, TN

I have so many questions about the methodology they used for the blood test(s)

I think Hooty may have misinterpreted what King was looking for

I'm still amazed at how King has had, and continues to have, moments in the show with some of the greatest emotional weight

Ooh, sound powers!

"IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CRUMBLE!!!"

It just occurred to me that that segment consisted mostly of Alex Hirsch talking to himself

Hello not-at-all obvious setup

Today I learned that Hooty is the baker of the house. Maybe he'd critique Amity's fairy pie.

Aaaaand there's the sleep inducing

Oh shit

In hindsight the Owl Beast being part of a dream sequence is rather obvious

Wow, Eda, tell us how you really feel about the Owl Beast

Oh we're just gonna ride aboard the Trauma Express today, huh?

Oh, I guess Lilith did make an appearance, after all

Damn, Gwen, not even looking

Oh shit dad issues

Sandy Cohen?! (To anyone who gets that reference, hi. How are your 30s treating you?)

Well, I know who Peter Gallagher voices now, anyway

Oh dear...

(Also, bright flashing lights triggering the curse? There's an epilepsy allegory in here somwhere)

Blood and eye injury? Gotta stretch that Y7 rating

Now we have some context for that look on Eda's face when Lilith mentioned their dad: good old fashioned guilt!

I desparately want to make a "Dude, you're getting a Dell!" joke, but I'm better than that

New memory! Raine!

Oh no...

I get the feeling I'll hate this part, too

They were exes!😢 Guess the fandom called that one

The reasoning for them being exes is understandable, all too real, and goddamn heartbreaking

That said, the fact they never stopped loving each other🥺😢😭

I do hope we can see Raine again under less...traumatic circumstances. Maybe that wedding that was mentioned?

Oh shit, are we getting into the Owl Beast's memories?!?! What a tweest!

Bet nobody expected Cloaked Moonface to show up in the frickin Hooty episode

(Also, holy shit I briefly forgot this was the Hooty episode)

Who is this mysterious cloaked figure? And why are they so tall and long?

So the curse was a sealed beast this whole time. Damn.

And it was just picked up as beach junk to sell as a trinket. So much for it being connected to Belos. (Not that people will stop trying to do so)

Who had "experiencing sympathy for the Owl Beast" on their Bingo cards for this episode? Yeah, me neither.

And here we have the necessary Eda coming to terms with her curse segment. More accurately, Eda and the curse coming to terms with each other.

Goddamnit why does it have to be cute

"It's like sandpaper" IT'S LIKE A CAT I FUCKING CAN'T

Insert Steamed Hams reference here to kill the mood

New transformation!

Oh no she's hot!

No, Hooty, you made it surprisingly much, much better!

She might have a problem pushing people away and holding onto guilt, but Eda always knows that she looks damn good

Oh right, Luz having girl problems. Fuck, so much is happening in this episode!

"Cotton-candy-haired Goddess" LUZ! 🤣

Attuned to other people's emotions = being a fucking creeper

Oh Luz, what happened to you back home?

Also, 99.999% certain Amity would love your cheesiness

That's...rather morbid, Hooty

So much lore development, including the fact the Owl House has a basement

Classic inanimate object silhouette fakeout gag. Subversion in 3...2...1...

There it is!

I can't imagine being pelleted is a fun experience.

Honestly I have so many questions about how Hooty got Amity there in the first place, but I'm not so sure I actually want to know the answers to any of them...

Cue much panicking

Wow, I'm really getting some Into the Bunker flashbacks

Oh this is gonna be amazing isn't it

I commend Luz for not actually dropping dead of embarrassment

Seriously, how can Hooty set all this up so fast yet not hold a pen?!?!?!

Poor Luz, she thinks this is destroying her chances

Meanwhile Amity is just "Oh, Titan, is this actually happening?!"

The way she's fixing her hair!❤

Goddamnit Luz let this play out, she's so clearly into this!

"Again?!" Okay who do I have to kill?

Luz is luzing it

Nooooooo....

JUST TALK FOR FUCK'S SAKE (aka how like 95% of issues in literally any plot could be solved)

Noooo Amity's so heartbroken right now💔

This isn't what either of them wanted!

To be fair, Hooty, Luz had a part in this too. Not that she can be blamed entirely. Poor thing clearly had some awful experiences back home...

Now Hooty is McFucking losing it

Why did I think he was gonna say "Looks like I'm gonna have to JUMP!" I think I've watched too much Homestar Runner (jk there's no such thing)

Those pulsating organs are still gross

Eda swooping in to save her son (No, really, he actually is now)

I'll say things get weird when Hooty gets upset!

Yes, King! Save them with your voice powers!

Damn that is some romantic lighting, and Luz is enjoying the eye candy (cotton candy, if you will)

Luz's reaction to Harpy!Eda is the family-friendly summation of how the fandom has reacted.

Hooty really just tearing up the landscape in remorse

Mother-daughter moment about love life!

I appreciate not just Eda's encouragement but her actually asking Luz what she wanted

God, Eda is best mom

Also, OH FUCK IS THIS HAPPENING?!

OH SHIT

THESE ADORABLY AWKWARD NERDS❤💜💙

"I'm not as cool as you think" could be interpreted as self-deprecating, but here it seems...oddly reassuring?

The way Luz eloquently says how she wants Amity in her future...beautiful❤

Luz making some good faces

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

YOU CUTE DORKS I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

THERE IT IS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

LOOK HOW HAPPY SHE IS

WE WERE LOSING OUR SHIT OVER A PECK ON THE CHEEK THREE WEEKS AGO AND NOW LOOK WHERE WE ARE HOLY FUCK

Awkwardness is still there, but that's to be expected

BET Y'ALL DIDN'T EXPECT THAT TRAILER SHOT TO BE IN THE HOOTY EPISODE HUH

THE WAY LUZ RUBS AMITY'S HAND😭😭😭😭😭

(And yeah, it's gonna still be scary, but only because it promises to be so wonderful)

Let's give it up for Hootsifer, goddamn!

Let'a also appreciate just how fucking funny it is that Lumity becomes official in the Hooty episode

Fus ro WEH!

Hooty actually saying "Luz's new GF" out loud...

In just about any other show the love interests getting together would be a climax/culmination of the entire plot. Here? It's actually used to advance the plot, and that is brilliant!

Dana Terrace and the crew really just knocking it out of the park again and again, huh

"They're adorable, and deserve all the happiness!" Well said, Hootsifer. Well said.

Probably for the best they had Hooty promise that. As much as what happened/progressed, there was a lot of property damage.

OH SHIT ONCE AGAIN

King's dad/relative! And he's voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson!

GODDAMNIT HOOTY

Wow. Just...wow. This episode.

King has voice powers! Harpy!Eda! Lumity are girlfriends for real!!!!

How do you pack so much into a single episode?! And so expertly?!

I had my suspicions before, but this confirms it: The Owl House is the greatest show of all time.

And we have two episodes left until the hiatus! And 11 episodes in the season after that! What are we in for?!?!?!

I, for one, can't wait to find out!

#the owl house #toh hooty #luz noceda #eda clawthorne #king clawthorne #lilith clawthorne #gwendolyn clawthorne #dell clawthorne #raine whispers #amity blight #lumity #toh s2 spoilers #the owl house s2 spoilers #the owl house season 2 spoilers #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers

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k7l4d4 · 4 years ago

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A New Perspective: Owl House AU Story Part 2

Hello all, this is the second part of the collaboration between myself and the talented Flamestar50, give em a hand folks!! To note, I’ve cleaned up and proofread the work they provided, but this is definitely the result of Flame��s hard work and skill. Everybody Clap Your Hands!!!

Eda and Luz stood stunned at the group of people that had managed to crush Lilith.

“Stay back Luz,” Eda warned, but as Luz continued to approach the group, Eda rolled her eyes at the brush-off to her warning.

“Oh god what the hell happened.” One of the people groaned.

“Are you guys okay?” Luz said, leaning closer to the group. As she took in the appearance of them, her eyes widened. “Gus, Willow, Amity? What are you guys doing here? And who are these other people? She asked, gazing at the unfamiliar faces. Suddenly, another face in the pile caught her attention. Wait, that couldn’t be, i-it was-

“IMPOSTOR!!!” Luz yelled, pointing a finger at, well, herself.

“Who are you!?” The impostor Luz yelled back.

“I’m you! Wait, no, I’m me, and you’re PRETENDING to be me. What are you doing, pretending to be me with my friends you, you POSER!” Luz spat.

“I’m not the poser, you are!!” The “impostor” spat back.

“Um, someone better explain what’s going on here, and soon,” Eda asked, completely ignoring Lilith’s muffled protests and complaints over being sat on.

“Alright, there’s only one way to see who the real Luz is!” King announced from the floor. “What is Luz’s favorite... BOOK SERIES!”

“The Good Witch Azura.” Both Luz’s answered confidently, and in perfect sync to boot.

“Okay, this is gonna be tougher than I thought.” King sighed.

“Um, hello.” A soft voice called from the door. All faces turned to it, and saw Amity entering the house, Gus and Willow following closely behind.

“Hi Luz, I came over hear for the study session, and- Oh my Titan...” Amity gasped as she saw a group of familiar and unfamiliar faces sprawled across the floor, and two Luz’s aggressively pointing at one another.

“OH MY GOD THERE’S AN IMPOSTOR AMITY TOO!?” Luz gasped. “How will I know who the real Amity is?”

“What are you doing to my Luz?” Amity glared at her second self.

“I didn’t do anything! It was your Luz who brought us here!” The other Amity shot back.

“*GASP*! Luz! Are you trying to make clones of me!?” Amity whirled towards Luz, a blush blooming across her face.

“What? NO, of course not, at least, I don’t think so... Wait, did I just clone everyone!?” Luz gasped.

“I’M A CLONE!?” “Impostor” Gus shrieked.

“Wait, if you all are clones, than who are you?” Luz asked, pointing to the scary older girl glowering at them beneath her beanie, a metal bat slung over her shoulder.

“What do you mean, that’s my, I mean your, actually our older sister, Victoria.” Alter Luz said, sidling up closer to Luz, a look of slight confusion on her face.

But, I don’t have a sister.” Luz stated.

“Yes you do, you have two.” Alter Luz countered.

“No, I’m an only child.” The two stared in blatant bewilderment at each other, before they started screaming in confusion, provoking a commotion of panicked yelling among the groups.

“Um, shouldn’t you do something?” King asked, looking up towards Eda, who was currently sipping her Apple Blood, snickering at the scene before her.

“Nah, this is kinda entertaining.” She snorted.

“EDALYN!” Lilith managed to shout over the ruckus.

Eda wryly blinked in her sister’s direction. “Oh, I forgot you were there. Alright, calm down kids, could you all get off my sister, you’re currently squishing her to death.” The group awkwardly shuffled away as Eda helped her sister to her feet. Lilith quietly mumbled out a thanks before muttering to herself as she fixed her messed-up hair.

Putting her hands on her chin, with a sly grin, Eda continued. “Okay, let’s start over. What exactly happened here?”

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Vela sat hunched on the couch, fidgeting nervously. After this world’s Luz explained about the Potion, and the shard, and her group explained about the portal that appeared and sucked them in, Lilith had retreated, muttering about needing to research, before excusing herself to find some books and do just that. In the mean time, everybody had split up into their individual groups.

Both Luz’s were currently talking to Victoria, who was smugly showing off her glyph inscribed metal bat. Both Willows and Guses were having a pleasant chat, while Sallix, their Willow’s older sister, was... asleep. Yeah, only Sallix Park could be the type of person capable of falling asleep while being sucked into a portal leading to another dimension.

Vela’s little sister, Amity, was having a conversation with her counterpart as well. Vela honestly couldn’t understand her younger sister could stay so calm in a situation like this. Speaking of calm, Amaryllis, Vela’s older sister, was currently chatting pleasantly with the Owl Lady. It was strange to see her smiling, as she usually had this cold demeanor that stopped anyone from approaching her.

But, back in their world, Amaryllis admired the Owl Lady, A LOT. Perhaps it was the same here? Most likely. Other than that, all that was left was Luz’s other older sister, Mari, who was... wait a minute, where was Mari!? Vela began frantically scanning the room in a panic. Mari was nowhere in sight.

“Oh no.” Vela whispered. Mari was a great person at heart, she really was. But, she was also insanely curious, to the point that she would gladly break into people’s lockers and sneak into their houses. Leaving her alone was probably the worst thing you could do. Vela quickly got to her feet, scampering over to Amaryllis, who was standing alone while Eda went to get some more drinks.

“Amaryllis, do you know where Mari is?” Vela whimpered.

“Why do you care?” The older girl responded with an annoyed glance, as though Vela was wasting her time.

“I-I just n-need to find her.” She stuttered. Amaryllis rolled her eyes.

“I think she went upstairs,” She said, jerking a thumb in the direction of the stairs, before turning and walking away. Vela breathed out shakily. She felt kind of dumb being scared of her own sister, but how could she not be? The only reason she asked Amaryllis is because she is ALWAYS watching her surroundings. She knows everything. Vela hurriedly padded up the stairs.

“Mari?” Vela called quietly. There was a slight shuffling coming from one of the rooms. Vela quietly cracked one of the doors open, only to find Mari going through the Owl Lady’s Nest!!

“Mari! What are you Doing!?” Vela exclaimed quietly.

“Huh?” Mari turned, spotting Vela. “Oh, Hi Vela. I’m looking through the Owl Lady’s stuff to see how different she is from the one back home.”

“Mari, we just talked about this last night, you can’t just do stuff like that.” Vela whimpered, grabbing the other girl’s arm and pulling her away.

“But Vela, it’s for the sake of research.” Mari pouted. As Vela and Mari exited the room, a figure before them made them both freeze.

“Hey, what are you guys doing up here?” Luz asked. As she didn’t appear to be mad, it was probably Counter Luz.

“We, um, were looking for the... bathroom.” Vela said quickly.

“Oh, it’s at the end of the hall.” Luz smiled, pointing towards the bathroom.

“Okay, thank you,” Vela said, pulling Mari with her, who was waving goodbye.

“No problem!” Luz said happily. Finally, once the two were inside, Vela locked the door.

“Mari!” Vela said, whirling towards the girl. “Are you crazy?”

“Vela, your overreacting. It was a simple scanning, nothing bad.”

“You broke into the room of a woman from another dimension!”

“Vela, calm down.”

“Calm down!? How can I stay calm at a time like this? We’re in a new world with your sisters, my sisters, Willow and her sister, not to mention Gus, and we don’t know how, or even if we can get back home!! Oh Titan, this is going to be horrible for my studies!” Vela started pacing, her breath growing more frantic. “ I CANNOT get another low grade. If I get just one more, Mom is going to kill me! She’s already so...”

“Vela!” Mari exclaimed, taking the girl’s shaking hand. “I need you to breathe, just breathe. Listen, we’re going to be okay! We have each other, and together, we’ll make it through!” Vela nodded, her breathing having evened out, as Mari placed a soft kiss on her forehead.

“Hey, I know, let’s go talk to Lilith. I’m sure she’ll have found something in her research that’ll make you feel less worried!” Vela smiled.

“Alright, but you have to promise you won’t go snooping around the house.”

“Fine. I’ll try.” Mari sighed. Vela nodded in content.

“Ready?” Mari asked, taking her hand.

“Ready.” Vela nodded as they stepped out of the bathroom.

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Victoria lay sprawled on the couch, watching as her youngest sister and her counterpart chatted away about magic, and Azura Book Clubs. It was honestly amazing how those two could fawn over a fictional book series, despite being from different dimensions. Even Amaryllis was making the most of the situation, chatting away with the Owl Lady. God, she is such a fangirl.

Victoria, on the other hand, couldn’t wait to get back home. As much fun as this unexpected visit turned out to be, she had her own life to get back to. Suddenly, Lilith, followed by Mari and Vela, walked into the room. At the sight of Lilith’s uncertain expression, all Victoria could think was,

“Oh no, what’s the bad news?”

“Ahem, if I may have everyone’s attention?” The whole room turned to look at Lilith.

“What’s up sis?” Eda asked.

“Well, after carefully studying the potion, along with a bit of research, I believe I have figured out how the portal occurred. You see, Luz’s Potion was designed to generate a portal between two points depending upon where the bottle was thrown. The door used to travel between the Demon Realm and the Human Realm contained a material known as Titan’s Blood, which opens rifts between worlds. The two interacting resulted in the portal opening to alternate worlds manifesting. The problem is, I have no idea what occurred to bring the children’s alternates and their alternate’s siblings here.” Lilith finished, looking slightly concerned.

“And what does that mean for us?” Victoria spoke up.

“Until I figure out exactly what occurred to bring you all here, I’m afraid I cannot guarantee you all a way home.” There it was, the news they had all been dreading. Vela let out a little hiss, while Amity and Willow exchanged concerned glances.

“So, what’s gonna happen now,” Luz asked.

“Well, you kids are gonna need a place to crash,” Eda stated. ”And I think its best if you kids split up.”

“Split up!” Mari exclaimed.

“Look kid, I like all of you, I really do, but there’s no way in hell I’m having everyone plus some total strangers crash at my place, and even if I wanted to, I don’t have enough space for everyone!” She said, throwing up her arms.

“I believe the most logical option is for everyone to take their counterparts and others home with them.” Lilith added.

“But, what about our parents?” Willow asked.

“Don’t you worry, I’ll help talk to them.” Eda assured her. After a bit more arranging, it was time for everyone to leave. Mr. and Mrs. Blight were out of town on business, which came as a relief to everyone. Eda and Lilith went to escort Willow and Gus home, giving them a chance to work things out with their parents.

“Alright Luz, take care of our guests, and don’t break anything while I’m gone. I’m trusting you!” Eda called from the door.

“Don’t worry Eda, you can count on me!” Luz yelled back.

“See ya in a bit kid,” Eda waved, before slamming the door shut, ignoring Hooty’s muffled shout.

“Well, it’s just us now.” Luz said, feeling awkward. She had been left with her counterpart Luz, along with her two sisters, Mari and Victoria. There was an uncomfortable silence between the group.

“Sorry about this whole mess, guys.” She said quietly, kicking her feet.

“Yeah, you should be.” Victoria snapped gruffly.

“Victoria!” Counter Luz scolded.

“What? It’s her fault we’re stuck in this mess. You think I wanted to spend my day like this!?” Victoria spat back. Luz’s expression fell, and Victoria instantly felt guilty.

“I’m gonna go downstairs,” She sighed, excusing herself. Once she was out of sight, Luz let out a small whimper.

“Hey, don’t worry about her. She just gets a bit snappy when she’s stressed.” Mari reassured, gently rubbing Luz’s back.

“I know, I just feel so guilty for dragging you all into this mess!”

“Hey, it’s okay,” Counter Luz chided. “We’re just going to have to make the most of this.”

“Yeah, we can do this, Lilith will find a way back for you guys soon, I’m sure of it!” Luz nodded. Now, if only she could convince herself she was right.

#the owl house #owl house au #A New Perspective AU #owl house beta #owl house pilot #lilith clawthorne #eda clawthorne #luz noceda #amity blight #willow park #king the owl house #gus porter #vela blight #mari noceda #amaryllis blight #victoria noceda #sallix park

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stupid-stew · 4 years ago

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in which eda dies.

i'm on a "what if eda died" kick so like why wouldn't i write it happening? major character death because i said so.

“So what's the plan?”

Eda sighed. She never thought it would get to this point. Of course she knew that by starting a rebellion against Belos there was going to be danger, but that didn’t mean she had to like it. She didn't have to like sitting in the living room of the owl house surrounded by the only people in the world she’d ever considered family, explaining to them her plan for the most dangerous mission possibly ever, and telling them that she needed their help to pull it off. She didn’t have to like asking her kid and her friends who were all children for assistance breaking into the emperor’s castle to steal the one thing that she knew he would have most protected. She didn’t.

What she didn’t like most of all? Their willingness to help. These kids, not even yet 15 telling her they were willing to go and get themselves killed for her plan. Eda knew that they needed the portal back, but these were children, what reason could they possibly have for throwing themselves into this?

“Look kid, it’s going to be dangerous. You could get seriously hurt, all of you could, you need to be absolutely sure that you want to help, I won’t ask you to do this if you have any doubts.”

She looked around at the faces before her, Amity, Gus, Willow, Lilith, and Luz, who was rolling her eyes.

“C’mon Eda, it’s not like we haven’t gotten hurt before-”

“Luz this isn’t just getting hurt.” Eda snapped at her, “You could die.”

Titan, they hadn’t even heard the plan and Eda already felt guilty, just asking these kids to put their lives on the line for her felt gross. Lilith, she had no problem asking her. But the kids…

“We know Ms.Clawthorne.”

Eda was surprised by that, she thought out of everyone that Amity would be the one to refuse.

“Are you all sure?” She asked again, looking each kid in the eye, slightly saddened to be met with nods all around. “Ok.”

She made eye contact with Lilith for a moment, seeing that her sister was giving her a look she’d only received a handful of times before, one she didn’t like.

“Willow, Gus, Amity, you should all be heading home. Amity, I know your parents don’t know where you are and I don’t want you out too late. Willow, you’re taking Gus home, do you think you could walk Amity as close as you can get to her house as well?”

Willow gave a hum of agreement before giving Amity a weak smile and getting up to gather their things.

“I want you kids to think about it tonight, I mean really think about what this means. If you’re still interested in the morning then be back here at 10, if not, if you have any reservations, do not come back until the same time next week. Nobody will think any less of you.”

All three teenagers gave her a nod before closing the door.

Eda put her hands in her head and sighed. This was going to be awful.

She heard Lilith clear her throat.

“Luz why don’t you head on up to bed, I want you to think about this too, you have no obligation to participate.”

“Eda I already know I wan-”

“Now Luz.” Eda lifted her head to see Luz raise her hands in surrender and go up the stairs, then looked at Lilith.

“Go ahead, say it.”

“Are you kidding me Edalyn,” oh boy, she was practically hissing, that’s never good, “what were you thinking, asking children for help, not telling their parents, you know how dangerous this is, Belos will never let all of us go if we get caught- why are you smiling?”

Eda was grinning at her, “You said us, you’re gonna come with?”

Lilith scoffed and gave a small smile “Of course I’m going to help, you’re my sister and I would never turn down a chance to piss off Belos, what do you take me for?”

They both laughed, but Lilith’s expression turned serious again and she went to walk up the stairs, pausing to face Eda, “I just hope you can live with yourself when it goes wrong.”

Eda waited until Lilith was well out of ear shot.

“Me too.”

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Eda didn’t sleep at all last night, kept up by just the possible consequences of her actions, what if one of the kids got hurt, or died, or worse, what if Belos caught them and didn’t let them go, if Lilith got hurt, or what if-

“Eda, they’re here.”

Lilith interrupted Eda before she could get any further with that train of thought.

“Who’s they?”

Lilith took a deep breath before answering, “The children.”

When Eda got downstairs, she was greeted by the sight of Luz, Gus, and Willow standing in front of the couch.

“No Amity?”

Willow was the one to explain, “She couldn’t, not that she didn’t want to, but with her parents and their role in the coven… if something went wrong… it was too much of a risk for her.”

“I understand. Smart kid.”

Eda took another moment to take it all in.

“Well, let’s get started.”

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Oh shit.

It had all gone wrong. Of course it had, why should she have expected anything less from her plan. She should have known that it wasn’t going to work, actually she did know, so why had she gone through with it?

Everything was going well, they had gotten into the castle easily enough, they had even made it into the room holding the portal, but why had Belos been waiting for them? How had he known? Eda didn’t have time to think about that, she had to save the kids. Titan how had Luz done this without magic?

“Luz, toss me Owlbert! Willow, cover her!”

The girls wasted no time, Eda caught Owlbert and saw Willow’s eyes begin to glow green before the young witch stepped in front of Luz. Eda caught the staff and took a run straight for the portal. She didn’t have any other option, they were too far in to turn back now. Belos was distracted by Lilith and Gus, that kid and his illusions did come in handy. Eda just hoped it was enough for her to get her hands on the portal.

She could barely see where she was going, all the dust and flashes of light made her feel like she was at a really violent rave, but eventually her sight settled on the unmistakable eye of the portal. Ah ha.

She almost made it. Almost. Before she could get her feet on the platform, she was in the air.

“Eda the owl lady.”

God his voice was so creepy.

“Bonehead.”

Belos gave her a creepy little chuckle and brought her closer to him with a tap of his staff.

“I always did love our little chit chat. Unfortunately, this time I do have to cut it short, it’s been fun but you see, I need that portal, I can’t let you have it.”

Eda didn’t respond, instead looking over his shoulder at Luz trying to crawl by him. What is that kid doin- oh.

Owlbert was still on the staff, but Eda had dropped it, directly below her, and Luz was trying to get to it. I need to buy her time.

“Well, you caught me. Looks like you won.” come on kid pick up the pace “what do you even need the portal for anyways? Aren’t you all big and mighty or something? Why couldn’t you just teleport yourself over there?”

“I wouldn’t expect someone like you to understand…” Belos kept talking, but Eda was distracted, where had Gus and Willow gone? Why weren’t they in the room? And why was Luz still here, where was Lilith?”

“...isn’t that right, human?”

That caught Eda’s attention.

Belos had noticed Luz.

That meant Luz was in trouble.

Much to Eda’s surprise, Belos dropped her. It didn’t provide her any relief, because he picked up Luz instead. Eda had never been more scared in her life than when she saw Luz being held in that ominous red glow, completely powerless, and Eda knew she had a mission to complete, but she froze. She just watched as Belos tilted his head at Luz and raised her staff. She opened her mouth and screamed. She Screamed like she had never screamed before, she couldn’t let this happen, she couldn’t let Luz be the one to die.

As if her prayers had been answered, a blinding flash of blue light came up from beside Belos and hit his mask, rendering him unconscious.

Lilith.

“Come on we have to go!”

Eda was broken from her trance and launched off the ground, running straight to Luz. The girl seemed mostly unhurt, she was alert and able to stand, and Eda took that as a sign.

“Luz, go with Lilith.”

“What? Eda, no we have to go, forget the portal, it’s not worth it.” Luz pleaded.

Eda didn’t want to hear it.

“Luz we don’t have time for this, I can still get the portal but you have to go. Now.”

Lilith ran up to them, “What is taking so long, Luz are you hurt?”

“She's fine.” Eda replied hastily, “Take her and go, I’m going to get the portal.”

“Edalyn-”

“NOW LILITH.” Eda got up and ran for the portal, hoping Belos stayed down long enough for her to get out.

Lilith shut her mouth and grabbed Luz by the arm, “Come on, we don’t have time to waste.”

“But Eda-”

“Has made up her mind.”

Eda reached the portal and grabbed it, it wasn’t in the best shape but anything would be better than Belos having it. Hello old friend.

She finally had the portal and was able to get it collapsed, she saw Lilith and Luz running for the exit.

Eda took all her energy and pushed it into catching up with them, “Hey guys I got the porta-”

Her words were cut off by a searing pain through her chest.

“Such a pity.”

Eda collapsed to the ground, and couldn’t hear anything, but she saw Luz’s face contort in pain. Oh no, is she hurt? She looks fine, what’s she so worried about? It was then that Eda realized she was the one Luz was looking at. Is she screaming? I can’t hear her, that’s weird, Lilith too? What’s going on? Her sister wasn’t screaming, but had a look of terror on her face, and were those tears? Eda was confused, what was the matter? Then she looked down at herself. Oh. There was a hole in her chest. That couldn’t be good. Eda was starting to feel drowsy, she closed her eyes, I think given the circumstances they might forgive me, “I’m sorry, Luz.” Was all she got out before there was a bright light in front of her eyes. So sorry.

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Eda.

What happened? Why was there a hole in her chest? Why was Belos behind her?

“Such a pity. It didn’t have to be like this.”

Belos.

Luz was too focused on Eda to pay him any attention. Why was it so loud in here? Oh, she realized, I’m screaming.

She wanted to run towards Eda but something was holding her back, Lilith had her arms around Luz and was keeping her from moving.

“What are you doing?” Luz hadn’t noticed she was sobbing until it was hard for her to get her words out, “Lilith we have to get to her, we have to save her!”

“We can't.” Lilith’s voice was sad, full of too much acceptance for Luz.

Belos was still there, what is he doing here? “You monster!” Luz growled at him.

The man paid her no attention, leaning down to take the portal from Eda’s hands.

“I’m sorry Luz.” escaped Eda’s lips before her body went completely limp. Luz saw red.

She didn’t know what happened, why was she glowing, what was this feeling?

“Don’t touch her.”

Belos still had his back turned, but she realized Lilith had let go of her.

“Oh? Or what, human?”

Luz was flying through the air, she didn’t know how and she didn’t care. She cared about Eda, how dare that creep even come near her?

Her fist made hard contact with his mask, a loud crack echoed through the chamber, but she wasn’t done, Luz felt energy leaving her finger tips, it was all around her, filling her head, fueling her. Belos tried to block her attacks, but she was too far gone, all she felt was anger. She didn’t even know what was going on, until she hit the floor.

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Lilith didn’t know what to do. It was too much. She had just watched her old boss kill her younger sister, her sister that she had just gotten back, and Luz? What had just happened? Had Luz just killed Belos? How? That shouldn’t be possible from a human, any witch at all, how had she done that? Luz didn’t even have bile, where was she getting her magic from?

She didn’t have time to think. She had to get to Luz, could the girl have even survived that? She ran, jumping over Eda’s body, hoping Luz wasn’t in the same state.

“Luz?” she grabbed the human by the shoulders, rolling her onto her back. She seems alive, unconscious, probably has a concussion, but she’s alive, how is she alive? Lilith picked up the girl and threw her over her shoulder. She set Luz down near the door, being sure to be careful with her neck and head, titan knew she didn’t need any more damage. Lilith stood up and walked over to her sister’s body.

Edalyn.

She didn’t even realize she was crying until she noticed the dark spots appearing on Eda’s dress. Eda, her sister, the sister she had hurt so much, her sister who had taken her in at her worst, who had tried her best to forgive her, her sister she had just gotten back. Lilith wiped her eyes, and removed her cloak. She rolled Eda onto her back, and ran her fingers down her face, closing her eyelids. She grabbed her sister’s arms and placed them to be at attention at her sides, then Lilith placed her own cloak over Eda’s body. “I’m sorry Edalyn, I’ll do my best to take care of them. I promise.” I love you.

She grabbed the portal from beside Belos and picked up Luz to resume her previous position before entering the hall where she had asked Willow and Gus to wait for them. Oh no, Willow and Gus.

As if on cue, Willow ran up to her.

“Luz! What happened?”

Lilith couldn’t find her words. How does she even begin to explain what had just happened.

“Lilith?”

The older witch couldn’t bring herself to explain.

Gus walked up behind Willow, and in the smallest voice she had ever heard the boy produce, asked “Lilith, where’s Eda?”

She felt a sob in her throat, and in a moment of vulnerability let it out. That seemed to tip off Willow enough to drop the girl’s mood through the floor, she gave Lilith an understanding look.

“We have to go, the coven guards will be here soon.” The younger witch spoke.

“But Eda-”

“Gus, we have to go.”

Willow looked at Lilith one more time, who gave her a nod. Willow grabbed Gus by the arm and they all broke into a run. Everything after that was a blur to Lilith. They were flying, they were on the ground two times before they got back to the owl house, then she was carrying Luz upstairs and lying the girl in her sleeping bag, the next thing she knew she was in the living room by herself.

“Lilith?”

King. She had forgotten about King.

“Yes?”

“Where’s Eda?”

Lilith couldn’t do it anymore. Her body was shaking, her face was wet with tears, when had King started hugging her? It took her a while to calm down, she was crying so hard she was worried she might wake Luz, but she couldn’t stop it. She had lost her sister today, right in front of her, right after they had finally just gotten reunited, years of memories came flooding back, Lilith in the coven, staying up at night writing apology letters she would never send, Lilith at Hexside having her lunch money stolen, and Eda unleashing hell on those who had dared to bother her sister, Lilith back on the bridge, admitting her mistake, Lilith that first night at the owl house when Eda had held her and told her everything was going to be ok.

When she was able to take a breath, she opened her eyes and saw King in her lap, his little arms doing their best to reach around her waist, failing miserably but the gesture was appreciated. “She’s not coming back. She’s gone. Eda’s gone.”

King let her go, “What do you mean gone?”

Lilith let out another sob, “She’s dead, King.”

The little demon looked at her with wide eyes.

“No, no she can’t be dead, I just saw her, she said she’d be right back, she promised!”

She was crying again, her head in her hands, “I’m sorry, so sorry, I’m so sorry, I couldn’t save her, Luz- Luz couldn’t save her, she was right there,” Lilith extended her hand as if reaching for someone in front of her, dropping it back to her side, “and then she was gone.”

King shook his head in disbelief and ran up the stairs, probably to find Luz, leaving Lilith alone to cry on the couch.

And she did, she put her head on the cushions and cried and screamed until she fell asleep, haunted by the memories.

********

Luz woke up and was confused. Why did everything hurt? Her head, god why did her head hurt so much, she couldn’t even think straight.

“Luz!”

She winced, whoever had just yelled really needed to lower their voice.

“Lilith?”

Luz opened her eyes, everything was blurry, what happened?

“Luz, thank titan you’re awake, what do you remember?”

As she tried to think, she realized that she didn’t really know. She remembered being at the castle, being in Belos’ grip- then her memory shorted.

Luz groaned in pain, bringing her hand up to her forehead, “I don’t remember, why are you here, where’s Eda?”

There was an uncomfortable silence. Luz didn’t like that. She tried opening her eyes again, this time able to make out Lilith’s face. She didn’t like that either.

“Lilith, where’s Eda.”

The witch next to her avoided her eye contact, instead looking at the ground and pulling at her fingers. Lilith opened her mouth to speak, but closed it again as if there was something stopping her from telling Luz what happened.

After a couple of minutes, Lilith got up and left the room, leaving Luz by herself in the dark. She welcomed the darkness, it being a relief to her eyes. Something must have happened, Eda isn’t ok, there’s a reason Lilith won’t talk.

She stayed there, alone in the dark for a while, she wasn’t sure how long, but eventually Lilith came back up the stairs and opened the door. The light from the hallway put some strain on her eyes, but Lilith must have picked up on it because she closed the door behind her.

The witch sat down next to Luz and handed her a glass of water, made sure Luz took a drink, took the cup away from her and looked the girl right in the eyes.

“Luz,” she took a deep inhale, “Eda, is dead.”

Lilith let the words hang for a moment, waiting for Luz’s reaction, and she got one.

As soon as the girl had processed the information, she shot up, injuries be damned. No no no no no no no no no no, she can’t be, I would have remembered. Luz’s entire body was in searing pain but she didn’t care, she rounded the corner and stood at Eda’s door, not wasting a moment to knock before pulling on the knob. Why is the nest empty, where is she?

Luz spent the next several minutes running around the house, calling out for Eda, Lilith running after her, yelling something about Luz being injured, she didn’t care, she had to find Eda. At some point Luz’s exhaustion must have caught up to her, because next thing she knew she was lying on the couch with Lilith next to her. “Tell me what happened.”

Lilith explained, she told Luz about the portal, about Eda going back for it, how Belos had killed her from behind, how Luz had gone ballistic- wait.

“What do you mean I started glowing?”

Lilith looked at her and shook her head, “I think you’d know better than I do, I’ve never seen anything like it, I mean I’ve heard of things like this happening but never with a human.”

“What do you mean things like this.”

Lilith sighed, “How do I explain this, you know magic comes from a witch’s heart, right?” Luz nodded. “Ok, well each witch has a slightly different level of bile in their bile sack, not that much, but it does make a slight difference. Witches like Belos,” she paused, “Eda, even Willow, those are witches who have more bile, it makes them more powerful. There’s also the other side of that, where witches don’t have a lot of bile, are you with me so far?”

Luz gave her a small nod.

“So obviously, magic comes from the heart, but in more ways than one. A witch’s magic comes from their bile sack, but is projected by their emotions. When someone is angry or scared or excited, their magic is amplified, that’s probably why your glyphs were more powerful when you fought Belos the first time. Sometimes this has even happened in baby witches, no baby has full control of their powers, so they tend to not use them at all, but there have been situations where a baby or small child has been in danger and carried out incredible feats of magic, it’s rare but they’ve been able to lift whole houses. The same thing has happened with those witches who have less bile, they’ve been able to pull things off that nobody else before has despite something that should have made it impossible for them to do so. That’s what I think happened to you, I don’t know how, seeing as you don’t even have a bile sack in the first place, maybe you pulled it from the air around you and amplified it with your anger, but it was quite impressive.”

Luz sat there for a moment, taking in what she had just been told, magic? Without a staff? A human? “What do you mean the first time I fought Belos?”

Lilith looked at her, and much to Luz’s surprise, she smiled, “You killed him.”

Luz lost it. It was all too much, Eda was gone, Eda was dead, they had the portal, but Eda- and she had magic? She’d used magic? And killed Belos? That isn’t possible. This can’t be real, it can’t be. Eda had died for Luz, gotten murdered for Luz, was she scared when she died? Was she in pain? Had Luz caused her more pain? And then it all came back, Eda running towards them, the flash of light, the hole in Eda’s chest, the screaming, then those words, “I’m sorry, Luz”, then her body was on fire, Belo’s mask, his body and hers clashing against each other, Lilith-

Her thoughts were interrupted by Lilith grabbing her and pulling her onto her lap, hugging her tightly. Luz was crying, so was Lilith, and they sat there for a while, letting it all out. Luz had fallen asleep, something she didn’t notice until she woke up in Lilith’s arms on the couch.

Lilith was awake, just sitting there, staring at nothing.

“Lilith?”

She must have snapped the witch out of thought quite suddenly, because Lilith looked down at her with wide eyes and gave her a hum.

“I’m sorry.”

This seemed to really throw Lilith off, “What could you possibly have to be sorry for?”

“It’s all my fault.” Luz’s voice was already breaking, “If I had just gone home in the beginning, if I hadn’t gone on the field trip, if I had talked Eda out of going, she’d still have her magic, she’d still be alive, she lost everything for me, she lost her magic, she lost her life, all because of m-”

“Luz, stop it.”

Lilith’s voice was sharp.

“It is not your fault, none of it. Eda was going to go, regardless if you came with her, and Eda was in trouble with the coven long before you came along, if anything, you’re the one who saved her. You’re the one who broke in and fought the emperor for her, and when he killed her, you killed him. Eda chose her own path for the most part, made her own choices, the only ones you influenced were her good ones. She was lucky to have you, she loved you, Luz.”

Luz looked up at Lilith, “I loved her too.”

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OWL HOUSE X CTHULHU MYTHOS: GODS AWAKEN (XIX)

Odalia walked into Emperor Belos’ throne room and prostrated herself before him and Nyarlathotep. “Lord Nyarlathotep, I have retrieved the book.”

Luz and Amity awoke in the original bodies and sprung back to life. “Uh? What happened?”

Amity groaned and fell backward her head throbbing with pain. “Why is my head spinning?” Her cheeks grew green and bloated out of the instinctive urge of retching whatever sour contents were churning in her stomach.

“So that is apple blood,” Luz spoke to herself, “after this, I’m never going to try that stuff again.”

Amity and Luz stared at each other surprised to find that they were back in their own bodies. They waved their hands in front of their faces and squeezed their arms until they took on a bluish hue. Their probing would only strengthen the notion that they were truly back in their bodies. But one thought came to their minds: if they were borrowing the bodies at the time, then what happened to the original host’s souls?

“Welcome back to the Isles, human.”

Belos had gotten off his throne and his large frame towered over the two. Unlike Odalia’s height at around 6 feet, Belos stood at a startling 8 feet. He eclipsed obviously Kikimora, his most trusted servant and right hand, but he was also an imposing figure when it came to the members of his imperial guards. This only accentuated the perceived majesty and authority he encouraged from his worshippers.

Luz stared at the Emperor with contempt manifesting on her face. “Belos.”

“I see that you are still bitter over our last encounter?” Emperor Belos asked. It was more a rhetorical question, really, but one he made out of amusement.

“Where’s Eda?” Luz asked.

Emperor Belos raised his hand. “Unharmed, I assure you, but we must keep her from interfering with our plans.”

He looked at the murals depicting the wild witches. “As you may have guessed I had...taken care of the wild magic practitioners...one by one.”

Luz internally shivered at the implications of what he was entailing. He raised his staff and carefully traced an invisible line through the savage witches on the murals. “The Day of Unity is now upon us.”

“How dare you send your hideous monsters to attack my home?” Luz demanded. Her fists shook and turned red to match the increasing anger in her face.

Belos chuckled. “It was more of a method of ringing you out; I knew that because of your compassionate heart that you would rather give yourself up than allow more of those rats to die in your stead.”

“Well, you got me now,” Luz stated never taking her eyes off Belos’, “so leave the Earth alone.”

Belos tilted his head. “The Titan proclaims that the Earth must be laid to waste before it returns to its full powers. There is no stopping the inevitable. The Earth will bleed a deep, gushing red, before it crumbles away to its slow, miserable, pitiable demise.”

Luz fought the urge of drawing a glyph to cave Belos’ head in. “Mami..”

Belos’ eyes flickered and glowed. “Oh, your mother? She is here.”

Luz’s eyes shot up. “She is.”

The metallic fingers of his gloves came together to create an echoing snap. Warden Wrath walked into the throne room alongside the Owl Spy. Luz’s eyes widened, her mouth hanging agape. A middle-aged woman with dark brown hair and tan skin was brought in with chains. A metal ring was fixed around her waist, and the heavy metal shackles around her ankles echoed on the floor in miserable tune.

She wore glasses topped with a red frame. From what Luz could see, she was a continually tired woman with heavy bags behind her glasses. Her hair was in a disarray as well as her uniform, one of those outfits you would see in hospital settings. Tears were crudely decorated on the woman’s uniform, particularly towards the bottom where the hem of her shirt was.

“Mom?”

The woman looked up to see Luz running towards her. “Luz!?”

Luz jumped and practically tackled her mother. “Is it really you?”

“It is me,” she stated. She tried to hug her daughter back with her limited capabilities. “I have been so worried about you.”

“I’m sorry, Mom,” Luz said, looking down. “I didn’t actually go to that summer camp that you wanted me to.”

“I am just delighted to see that you’re okay,” she replied, “when those letters stopped coming in, I almost had a mental breakdown.”

Luz felt moisture building in her eyes. She hated that she had to put her mother through that, but she had no other option in order to keep Belos from getting to Earth. She knew that at some point, the letters that she would send her Mom would soon drain up, but she was the optimist believing that she could find a way back home before her mother had the chance to worry.

Amity scanned the woman Luz was hugging. “Who is that, Luz?”

Luz looked back at the young witch her smile shining brighter than before. “This is my Mom, Amity.”

Her mother gave a smile, but it was more forced given the circumstances. Amity’s thoughts spiraled out of control. “My future mother-in-law?” she asked.

“What was that?”

Amity quickly caught herself. “Um, your mother and my mother in the same room.”

Luz’s eyebrow peaked. “Why are you here, Mom?”

Emperor Belos interrupted the reunion disgracefully. “Yes, why don’t you tell my grandchild why you are here, Camila?”

The room grew quiet with not even the sound of a pin dropping on the floor could spur any response. Luz eyed Belos sternly. “Grandchild? What are you getting at?”

“My, Camila, you kept this secret about yourself successfully hidden for years?” Belos asked again.

“Mom, please, tell me what is going on.”

Camila sighed. She exhaled sharply now looking at her feet in deep shame. “Luz, you love the Good Witch Azura books, don’t you?”

Luz nodded. “Me and Amity both; we bonded over them.”

“What if I were to tell you that there is some truth to those books?”

Luz couldn’t understand what her mother was saying at first, but it did slowly start to dawn on her. “Are you saying that you’re Azura?”

Camila snickered a bit and shook her head. “No, no; Azura is a fictional character...but I did use creative liberties when it came with writing the books.”

The thought that the events of the books, regardless of whether they came about as fictious stretches of the actual events, crossed Luz’s mind. “Why did Belos call me his grandchild?”

Camila sighed. “When I was around your age, I found myself in the demon realm much like you – I can’t for the life of me remember how if it was through some door or other means – but I was a foreigner in a world that discriminated against humans.”

Luz listened carefully not noticing that Odalia was singling for her daughter to be taken away.

“One day, Emperor Belos discovered me with some old scraps of metal and trash and decided to adopt me for reasons I did not understand at the time. He told me that humans were unable to practice magic on the Boiling Isles because of them lacking the bile sac necessary for it, so he placed a bit of his evil, dark magic into my body and took me as a protégé.”

“So that was why I was able to see those glyphs?” Luz asked.

“After being trained under him for some time, he told me of the Day of Unity. It was some weird, cultish holiday I had initially taken it. But I soon found out what intentions he had for the Earth, and I fought against him. With his own magic surging through my veins, I easily overpowered the Emperor and...I might have caused him to be in his current unhealthy state of being because I can sense now that Belos is slowly dying.”

Luz saw discarded palisman carcasses around Belos’ throne. “Was that why you wanted me to stop being obsessed with fantasy books and magic?”

Camila nodded her head. “It was a selfish thing for me to do, but I wanted to protect you from the knowledge that such a world existed.” She looked at her feet again likely fearful of meeting her daughter’s eyes. “That was why I was hopeful that the trip would remove that desire so you would never come to this world.”

Luz didn’t know what to say after being given such a bombshell. Her mom knew about the Boiling Isles because she had been there at some point only to somehow escape once things got sour. Now she learned that Belos took her mother in and how she was now his granddaughter. She had his malevolent magic flowing through her body. Her heart was pumping his unholy blood into her veins and through her bloodstream. It made considerable sense because, as was explained to her by Eda years ago, humans could not practice magic.

“Luz?” Camila asked.

Luz was still speechless and incapable of reaction. Belos laughed again and tapped Camila’s forehead with the staff. “I was hoping that I could take your daughter in and have her as a protégé to turn her against you, but that plan went awry.”

He glared at Warden Wrath. “Take her to the execution site.”

Warden Wrath shook his head and grabbed a hold of Camila. Camila’s legs shook but were heavily weighed down by the shackles. “Luz!”

Luz tried to run after Warden Wrath, but Odalia shot a blue stream at Luz; it ripped into the floor dividing it in half. “No wrong step, or I will slice you in two as well.”

“Mom!” Luz shouted. She shot daggers from her eyes at Belos. “Unhand her at once!”

Belos shook his head. “The sins of the past must be made to pay for.” He exited the throne room before turning around once he reached the exit behind the beating heart of the Titan. “I’ll have my master take it from here.”

Nyarlathotep, once more in his Black Pharaoh guise, approached the girl. “Hello once again, Luz.”

“It’s you!” Luz shouted and pointing her finger at accusingly. “Was this all your idea!?”

“I’m not a man who has pre-made plans just hanging there collecting dust,” Nyarlathotep said with a half-serious tone. “Odalia, give her the Necronomicon.”

Odalia’s eyes shot up. “Lord Nyarlathotep, why would-”

“That is an order,” Nyarlathotep replied. His voice went down a couple octaves.

Shaking, Odalia handed the Necronomicon to the human girl and made her leave. Luz had a weird feeling about this. “What game is this?”

“When you are literally older than time itself, it’s always best to play a game to take a load off your mind,” Nyarlathotep answered.

Nyarlathotep snapped his fingers. Above him was a column wherein a trap door opened. From there, she could see a large, glass cage descending. She squinted her eyes to make out the figures. Eda, King, and Lilith were inside. At the side of the cage was Hypnos, once more in his youthful appearance, flowers and all. He held the piece of horn in his hand.

“Eda!” Luz proclaimed.

Eda looked up happy to hear her apprentice’s voice. “Kid, you made it!”

King and Lilith also turned their glances to Luz. King jumped up and down much like how a dog does whenever they are happy to see their owner come back. Lilith smiled as well, but it was a small one. Luz slammed against the cage’s walls. “Youch!” Luz rubbed her injured nose with her hands. “You guys are alive?”

“Nyarlathotep took us as prisoners and had us as bargaining chips for you,” Lilith explained.

“Well, don’t worry, I’ll have you out lickety split!”

“Wait, Luz!” Eda screamed.

Luz smashed her fist on the glass only for it to bounce back. Thinking, Luz looked into the bag to find something she could use to break the cage. She scribbled glyphs on paper and activated them, but it only made the magical glass stronger. Luz turned to her bag again this time drawing out the jar containing the shoggoth. She tossed it at the cage, but, like with the other objects she tried to use, it rebounded and skyrocketed off the glass. It shot across the room and exited out the door when Kikimora opened it.

“Luz, you can’t break the glass; we all tried to break it ourselves, but there’s no use,” Eda said at last.

“There has to be something..” Luz lamented.

“Aye, there is a way, my dear,” Nyarlathotep answered.

“Why should I trust you?” Luz asked in a matter-of-fact way.

“The glass can either be broken two ways; either I can use my powers to free the three captives, or an Elder God can destroy it.”

“Well, I want you to free them!” Luz declared.

Nyarlathotep held his finger up. “Quid pro quo, my dear, quid pro quo.”

“Squid pro what?” Luz reiterated.

“I will free them and you will all go on to live happy lives if you gave me the book.”

Luz held the demonic book between her arms. “But I can’t just give the book over to someone like you.”

“Why not?”

“Because you’re evil; I know somehow you were responsible for the attack on the Earth; a lot of people could die if I gave you this book.”

“Are a million lives more important to you than the lives of your mentor; her sister; and your pet?”

“I am not a pet!” King remarked.

Nyarlathotep ignored the demon and kept speaking. “It would be an unfortunate occasion if they were ripped away from you.”

“Nyarlathotep, before you do your business with the three captives, do allow me the opportunity to give this demon his horn back.”

Nyarlathotep looked at the Elder God with suspicion, but flicked his hand. “At least he should be presentable before dying I presume.”

Nyarlathotep snapped his fingers allowing a small hole to form in the wall. Hypnos slipped the horn into the hole and it resealed after he removed his hand. Eda eyed the horn piece with curiosity. “It looks like it’s the size of your horn, King.”

She dropped the horn in King’s lap and he sniffed it. “Feels like it; smells like it to...how did I lose it again?”

He shrugged and dropped it over the crack of his horn. Before he could say anything further, the missing horn piece slipped in like a jigsaw puzzle. A green light glowed around the horn acting as an adhesive glue. In a flash, everything became crystal clear to King as his memories came blasting in at full force. An overtaking sensation. It all came flashing at once: the woman. The large, bat-like monstrosity with the one, three-lobed, bulging eye. The screams. And the smoky vapor – now he could perceive that it materialized together to form the appearance of a man. A tall man wearing a dark cloak. One who was bereft of any strand of hair and his skin darker than the darkest night. The green orb came out from a spell circle the hideous man drew. His mouth was stretched inhumanly widely into a twisted, ghastly grin.

“Well, what do we have here?” he asked.

King sprawled on the floor of the cage sweat beads rolling down his skull head. He retched but nothing came up. Panic was building within him writhing in anguish for release. He looked at Nyarlathotep with complete hatred. “You were the one who killed my Mom, weren’t you?”

Nyarlathotep looked at him with an amused smile. “You have to be more specific than that, child; I may be eternal, but that doesn’t mean I have an internal memory box that catalogues every individual scream.”

Luz gripped the Necronomicon with anger. “So you killed King’s mother and cursed him?” She looked at the despairing demon. “And you decided to take it as a memento to remember your kill?”

Nyarlathotep shrugged. “As I have said, I cannot be held to remember every one of my little endeavors.”

Nyarlathotep snapped his fingers again. This time, the top of the cage opened with a gush of running water dropping down. Eda and the others were not too freaked out in that moment, but they could quickly see that the more water flowing into their cell, it was accumulating quickly and already taking the shape of the cage. They looked at Nyarlathotep who in turn gave them a look of humor. They banged their fists against the cage’s walls, but it only rebounded on them.

“Nyarlathotep! Stop this nonsense!” Luz yelled. “You’ll drown them.”

“I will free them,” Nyarlathotep promised, “but you will have to give me the Necronomicon in return.”

“And how do I know that you won’t go against your promise?” Luz asked reasonably. It made sense for her to doubt the Crawling Chaos’ claims, but in her peripheral vision, she saw that the water was already up Lilith and Eda’s waists. King jumped on top of Eda’s head to keep his body dry, but this had the negative effect of pushing Eda deeper into the rushing water.

“I’m afraid that they don’t have long for this world, Luz.”

Eda and Lilith were up to their necks. “I always thought it would end by some overdose on potion,” Eda lamented.

Concern was in Lilith’s eyes, but she chuckled at the dark joke. “That’s my Edalyn, alright.”

Luz found herself in internal conflict. She truly wanted to save the three roommates she had, but she couldn’t just hand a book of such cosmic power to the bad guy. Nyarlathotep seemed to read her mind when he spoke again.

“I feel that you think that if something were to befall your teacher, you would be lost in the world.”

Luz squinted. “What?”

“If you were to give the book to me, I will make you my personal protégé; you will learn about all the secrets of this world and truly become the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles. Leagues above your mentor, and even Belos himself. You can reign by my side as I destroy this world and remake it befitting to our image. The universe and the gods themselves will look at you in favor and you would never have the need to want again. Is that a deal?”

Luz could admit that Nyarlathotep’s deal did have a kernel of her interest. Knowledge over everything could come in handy. While she did love Eda dearly, Eda was at a loss now because of her magic being at an all-time low. Maybe with Nyarlathotep’s help, she could learn a way of curing Eda of her curse and subsequently return her back to her previous state. As she thought, she took another glance at the cage now taken aback. The three captives were completely submerged in the water and were desperately hitting the walls of the cage in hopes of breaking them. Liquid was filling their lungs, cutting their oxygen supply sharply. They moved their legs back and forth in a fishy motion. Yet for every strike and punch they could muster, the cage’s walls jiggled back from the brunt force.

Luz turned to Nyarlathotep. “No; I refuse.”

Before Nyarlathotep’s eyes, Luz flipped the Necronomicon over revealing several fire glyphs on the back. Nyarlathotep’s eyes bulged from their sockets. “Mortal, please reconsider!”

Luz took another glance at Eda and the others and saw that their movements were screeching to a halt and they sunk towards the ground of the cage. Luz had made her decision. She slammed her hand on the back of the Necronomicon, and it erupted in flames.

“No!” Nyarlathotep screamed.

The flames licked the ancient, crisp pages of the Necronomicon and exploded. A shrill hiss filled the air to indicate that the malevolent spirit lurking in the pages of the banned book was dying. Dark green, eldritch smoke crawled out of the embers of the fire and ascended skyward. Luz heard the pages crackle and pop reminding her of the sweet smell of fresh popcorn like the kind you could get at movie theaters. With one final death throe, the Necronomicon crumbled into a heap of ashes.

Luz looked at Nyarlathotep spitefully. “You have lost, Nyarlathotep.”

Instead of seeing his hurt, irritated face, Nyarlathotep was once more smiling. He chuckled deeply from the darkest, deepest regions of his stomach. He held his hands over the burning heap that was once the Necronomicon and absorbed a black light that suddenly appeared. He grew larger with his arms and legs becoming more muscular and pronounced. His abdomen became gargantuan as well to accentuate his broad shoulders. No more did he resemble a human, even if a crude mockery of one. He was now a hulking monster with rows upon rows of sharp, jagged teeth.

A wave of dark power rocked Emperor Belos’ throne room and empire. It shattered the glass cage containing Eda, Lilith and King, and they were washed out on the floor. Eda coughed up the water in a wheeze. “That was close.”

Before she said anything else, she saw Nyarlathotep tower before them. Alerted, she looked at Luz. “Kid, did you destroy the book or not?”

“Yes, Eda, I did, but...something came up that I did not anticipate.”

The ceiling shook and debris started to sprinkle down. From the point of origin, the dark wave of evil magic wreaked havoc through the Isles due to its intensity. Many of the imperial guards were caught in the wave and effortlessly disintegrated. Buildings and houses crumbled from their destroyed foundations compelling the denizens to evacuate from their houses lest they were the casualties. Emperor Belos hid away alongside Kikimora.

“Sire, what happened!?” Kikimora asked.

“It is nothing to be concerned about, Kiki,” Emperor Belos replied. He eyed his throne room. “So it did work as planned.”

Nyarlathotep cackled his deep, monotonous voice shaking the floor. “It has been a thousand years, but it was completely worth it!”

Luz couldn’t comprehend what had happened. “But..but I destroyed the Necronomicon; you saw it.”

“I had already overseen the notion that you would refuse to rule by my side, but the good thing about it is that even if you accepted, it wouldn’t have mattered. I would still have reclaimed the powers that I lost. Even if you destroyed the book, that would entail that my powers would be returned to me either way.”

Luz looked down. “Then it is truly hopeless.”

Nyarlathotep raised his large scepter. “Before I lay waste to this world, I did promise Boscha that I would humor her little battle with your friend; may as well set the stage for it.”

“I’ll find a way to stop you,” Luz declared. It was a heat of the moment thing, but she truly did mean it.

Nyarlathotep chuckled. “After Boscha wins, I guess I’ll honor my deal with Belos and destroy the Earth for good measure.”

With that, Nyarlathotep transformed into a black wind and swirled out of the throne room cackling his head off.

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