The Owl House belongs to Disney.
Grim Tales from Down Below Belongs to Bleedman.
OOC-ness may be involved.
Takes place in episode 3 of the Owl House.
Let the chapter 3 begin.
The sun was bright and shinning over the Boiling Isles as a new day had started and Eda had taken her students to the shore for a special lesson she had in mind.
"Nothing like garbage scrounging to wake you up in the morning, huh kids?" she asked them as she nudged Luz a bit.
Right before them was a large, dead, monster of a brown sea slug with giant red bumps on it's back, with back spines behind it's head and a gaping five flapped maw with sharp teeth inside. Surrounding it's body was junk from the human society that washed up along with it.
"I...do not like this." Luz said as she leaned back from the dead monster slug.
"It's a good think I don't have a nose, or else this would stink." Junior commented as Eda walked up to the slug.
"Ah, noting gets me more excited than that of a trash slug." Eda called the giant creature as she told them what it was. "I makes a life for itself, surviving off what others cast aside into the deep." she began as she pulled a rubber chicken out of it's mouth and threw it to the sand before smashing her fist into her open hand.
"And then, BOOM! One wave of sea salt water later and it croaks! Leaving lucky souls like us to scrounge and sell the goods it ate." Eda said as she pulled out a pickaxe and offered it to the Junior and Luz. "So, who wants the first swing?"
Luz recoiled in horror as Junior seemed rather calm at the notion.
"Please, no." she said as she moved to hide behind Junior. "And how are you so calm about this?"
"Growing up in my home, I have seen a lot of things the don't compare to this. Our guard dog, Cerberus, alone tops this." Junior said as he took the pickaxe.
"Wait! The legendary 3 headed dog demon is your family pet?!" King said in shock and excitement as he was about to walk away.
"Yeah, he guards my mom's vault of trophies, some magical or taken from her enemies." Junior said as walked towards the trash slug.
"So cool! And lighten up Luz, it's just scavenging a carcass. No big deal." King said as he walked away, laying a beach blanket with a duck design on the sand.
Junior chuckled at the way King put it as he began taking off his fingerless gloves.
"Okay. Let's get cracking." He said as he put his gloves in his left pocket.
"That's the spirit! Better than something they'd teach you on magic school." Eda said, happy that one of her students was getting into today's activity.
"Magic school?" Luz asked as she got excited, only to recoil a bit as Junior swung the pickaxe into the creature's teeth and breaking them like they were glass windows. "Tall towers, adorable uniforms, and dark secrets that could cost you your life? That kind of magic school is here."
"Yup and the worst part about it is that they teach you how to use magic the "proper way."" Eda said as she pulled a slim ball out of the slug before dropping it to make air quotes. "But magic is far from "proper." It's the wildness and unpredictability that make it so beautiful. I mean look at me, I didn't finish that hoity toity school and look where I am now. I'm living the dream."
Too bad for Eda and the way Luz saw it, it seemed like she was living off garbage and she was a hobo.
"Though from my point of life you aren't wrong about magic being free and not proper, but you're painting a pretty picture for yourself." Junior said as he pulled something from the trash slug, a somewhat decent red strip down the middle, black surfboard with a few cracks in it.
"Hey Junior, didn't you tell me you already have a lot of skateboards back home?" King said, remembering a bit of what Junior told him about his home life.
"Yeah but I guess one more won't hurt. And this is a surfboard." Junior said, remembering how he found information about different boards online back home.
"Uh. . I'm going to go home and look at pictures of animals that are. . You know. . Still alive." Luz said, not really feeling pumped up for this lesson.
"You sure, Luz? I can try and summon up an animal skeleton if you want." Junior asked as he save Luz's look of unease.
"No no! That's okay, you don't have to do that." Luz said as she began to leave before Eda stopped her.
"Hey hey, wait." She said as she ran to her first apprentice, seeing her somewhat nervousness at the lack of flair with this lesson. "Here's a lesson that could save you in a tight spot. A witch must always be resourceful, using whatever she has on hand to turn the situation in her favor."
Grabbing her wrist, Eda plunged Luz's hand into a small puddle of green goop and had her root around in it before pulling back and allowing Luz to see what she had brought out of the puddle.
"A greasy slime ball." Luz said as she stared at the object in her hand.
"Use it wisely, young witch." Eda said before taking her hands away from Luz and turning back to Junior, who was placing the surfboard he found to the side to keep.
"Alright, Junior, let's hit the stink nodes." she said as she began to traverse towards the slug.
"Well, you two have fun." Luz aid as he began walking back, giving Junior a pat on the shoulder and King a belly rub. "Love you, you little peach."
"See ya, Luz." Junior said as he made his way to the slug, dodging a few things that Eda was throwing off of the slug's dead mouth.
One thing that Junior dodged managed to get stuck on King's head, causing him to panic wile trying to get it off. A baritone if he remembered correctly from his music lessons all those years ago.
"Hang on! I'll help." Junior said as he ran back to King, dropping the pickaxe and began pulling that think off.
Groaning in effort Junior pulled and pulled as King waited and hurt a bit from his effort.
"Oh, DO take your time! I'm loving it in here!" he sarcastically said
"I could just leave it on, snarky!" Junior said as he kept pulling it off the small demon's head.
Eventually it came off, allowing Junior to see that it had a bit of slime inside it from the dead slug and that King's head was covered in a bit of it.
"Well. . not as gross as Cerberus when he gets dirty." Junior said as he tossed the baritone aside.
As the instrument his the sand, Junior then thought a bit about why Luz didn't want to join in the scrounging of the trash slug. Maybe it didn't met the standards for her but it still gave her some useful information to use. Like the note about being resourceful. As she came out from the slug, Eda could see her second student's thoughtful expression and possible worry for Luz as she left.
"You know, if you don't want to help with the slug, you could go make sure Luz hasn't gotten herself into trouble in the forest." Eda said as she looked towards Junior.
You sure, Eda?" Junior asked as he saw her pulling something she thought of value out. "I don't want to leave you with all this work to do by yourself."
"Don't worry. I've been doing this by myself for a long time, as you can see by my limited help." she said as she pointed to King on his beach towel. "Besides, even away from the town, things can still be dangerous for her so go keep Luz safe, alright? I'll make sure to grab that board you like before heading back."
Giving a nod to his teacher, Junior turned and heading off in the direction Luz went in. Hoping that she was alright, even if she was just walking to the owl house.
Eventually he found her.. And saw another girl from a distance with a wooden wheel barrel and a brown cauldron on it.
"Huh?" Junior wondered as he saw the new girl, who had dark hair, pointy ears, glasses, and wearing red tunic with a small black, hooded cloak with purple loose tights under it and black boots, with some sort of mush monster.
The girl tried to command it but it just failed and fell to the ground in a mess.
"A golem?" Junior guessed as he moved a bit closer.
Junior could hear the girl being frustrated about it until he heard something coming towards her. Moving just a bit closer, Junior gave a small whisper to Luz to tell her that he was here but before she could answer, another person came in on a wagon holding a cauldron. She had the same clothes as the first girl and reading a book. She had two-toned, chin-length green hair that is brown at the roots and has a ponytail pulling the front hair out of her face. Her eyes are tan colored and she has pale skin. She also wears triangle-shaped black earrings and black nail polish.
"Oh, Willow. I didn't see you there." she said, looking down from her book to the first girl, Willow.
Something in Junior told him that he already didn't like this girl. Even if he didn't know her.
"Oh, hey Amity." the girl named Willow said as she turned away from the blonde girl who a kind of smug atmosphere.
"You know class starts soon. How's your abomination?" Amity asked as she jumped down from her cart.
A groan was heard and Amity turned down to see a pile of mush that was most likely Willow's project.
"Oh dear, Willow. How are you going to get a good grade if your abomination is like this?" Amity asked while gesturing to the mud.
"Witch drama." Luz whispered as she and Junior watched.
Junior said nothing as Willow pulled her uniform hood over her head, to try and hide her embarrassment.
"This is way you're always called "Half a Witch Willow."" Amity said before her cauldron began to shake. "Oh, it looks like you've got a friend who wants to talk."
Amity moved to her cauldron and took off the top, before stepping back a bit.
"Abomination, rise." she said with a smug smirk and crossed.
A monster of purple, pink, and gray began to form from the cauldron before facing Willow with it's green lifeless eyes. It it pointed it's finger to Willow as it moved it closer to the glasses wearing girl.
"You're a star." It said as it was commanded to by Amity or out of it's own mind, drew a small smudge in the shape of a star on Willow's forehead.
"Aw, it's just like mine." Amity said as she pointed to a star on her cloak, with the words "Top Student" on it. "Except a bit smaller and meaningless, but as the top student, it's my sworn duty to tell struggling witches like you to never stop trying. And keep striving for that passing grade one day." she said as she threw and arm around Willow and turned to her project." Abomination cower."
The creation then melted back into the cauldron as Amity left Willow's side to put the top back on before giving Willow a goodbye.
"See you in class, superstar." she said as she welled her cauldron away.
As the snooty student left willow, Junior and Luz glared at her for the falseness of her words and smugness of her attitude.
"Geez, what a witch." Junior said as Luz stuck her tongue at her.
"I hate when she does that." Willow said as she wiped the muck from her forehead. "I hate making abominations! I hate getting bad grades! I can't stand this!" Willow said as she wiped the muck from her forehead and letting out her frustrations, Willow began to shake as her eyes turned green with magical energy. "GRRAAHHH!"
Suddenly the plant life around her started to go wild, producing giant thorn vines from the ground around her. One on the headed for them and almost grabbed Luz.
"Move!" Junior screamed as he pushed Luz behind him, summoning his scythe and slicing at the vine.
Two swings chopped off large bits before it grew back and swung at Junior, taking him from their hiding spot and slamming him into a tree.
"Ugh!" Junior let out as Luz yelped as the vine grabbed her and dropped near Willow.
"Luz!" Junior said as he got up and ran to her, his scythe still ready to slice anymore thorn vines.
Hearing the shout, Willow turned around to see Luz on the ground before her and Junior running to her with a scythe in hand. This was enough to snap her out of it and replace her anger with concern.
"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry!" Willow said as the magic faded from her eyes and the plants stopped frenzying, rushing to Luz and undoing the thorns vines that trapped her legs.
"I'm alright, nothing but a few layers of skin were hurt anyway." she said before Willow leaned closer to her, studying her.
"Luz! Are you alright?" Junior said as he skid to a kneeling stop, checking her legs to see any significant damage.
"Yeah, I'm...mostly okay." she said as Junior looked back at her.
"I may not know much about flesh but I know it bruises easily." he said to her.
As the two friends talked, Willow leaned closer to gaze at them with curious eyes.
"All bones?" She said before gasping, "A Reaper?!"
Leaning closer to him, Junior felt a bit awkward as she studied his face and his arms a bit to see it.
"I read that Reapers are all bone but I didn't know how. Magic I guess but it's so much more amazing to see it in person." she said as she pulled his sleeve back, gazing at the gaps in her powers where flesh should be before turning to Luz. "And a human?!"
"Uhm . What human?" Luz asked as she tried to play it off.
"Your ears." Willow said as she pointed to Luz's round ears.
"Eep!" Luz squeaked as she covered her ears in a strange way.
Things were silent for about 2 seconds before Junior broke it.
"So. . I guess introductions are in order. He said but before they could be said, a large bell toll sounded through the forest, causing Willow's excitement to dwindle away.
"Sorry, I can't stay. I gotta get to school and fail." she said as she got up and walked away. "It was nice to meet you, reaper and human."
"Hey, wait!" Luz said as she and Junior got up, running to Willow. "That thing you did, with the flower and the thorns was great!"
"Yeah but it's not what I'm supposed to do." Willow said as she looked down a bit.
"What do you mean? That was great plant magic you did." Junior said as he pointed back to the to the remains of her plants.
"But I'm suppose to be doing abomination creating, it's the course my parents put me in at school." Willow said as she looked to the ground at her failed abomination.
"Like magic school?" Luz asked as she got in Willow's face, excited at the thought of magic school compared to Eda's teachings.
"Yes." Willow said with a nod.
"Sounds interesting." Junior said.
"Yeah! We have a teacher ourselves but her lessons can be a bit...unethical." Luz said with a wave of her hand. "Bet she wouldn't even let us enroll, but I wish I could spend just one day there just to see what it's like."
"I wish I could get a passing grade, just so people would stop calling me half a witch." Willow said as she gave her puddle of abomination a kick.
Junior gazed down at the muck of the abomination before he began thinking a bit, wondering if he could help Luz get this magic school fascination out of the way.
"Well...I think we can help each other out." He said as he felt an idea come to mind.
"As much as people would love to see a Reaper. Heck, Amity would probably kiss your ass, I can't just walk into the school." Willow said as she threw her hands up, guessing Junior's idea.
Luz and Junior turned to Willow in curiosity after she said that about Reapers.
"What now?" the human girl asked before Willow explained to him.
"Reapers are VERY well respected at my school from the textbooks we've read. No matter how powerful our magic is, it's nothing compared to the power of death." she said, stroking Junior's ego a bit at how the Boiling Isles represented Reapers.
Junior chuckled, liking that his limited kind was treated so well here.
"As much as I'd love to see Amity act like the dog she is, I have another idea." Junior said as he picked up some of the failed abomination's muck and spread it across Luz's face a bit before stepping back.
"Boom. This satisfies both your needs. Willow can get a good grade by having Luz become her abomination project." Junior said as he gestured to Luz before gesturing to Willow. "And Luz can see what the magic school is like by having Willow take her their as he project. It's a win win, just as long as Luz can be a convincing abomination."
Excited at the plan, Luz jumped for joy as she quickly agreed. So was Willow as she looked happy at the thought of it. Lying or not, she wanted to get a good grade.
"Thank you mister...?" Willow asked as she didn't know his name yet.
"Grim Junior but you can call me Junior." he said as he held his hand out to Willow, who grabbed and shook it.
"Thank you, Junior." Willow said as Luz took already got started, covering herself in the abomination muck from the ground.
"This plan is gonna be full proof!" she said before turning to shake hands with Willow. "I can't wait to see the magic school!"
"Hehehe. I think you'll like it, Luz." Willow said before trying to take her hand away, only for it to be stuck from the abomination muck on Luz's hand. "Oops, abomination goop."
The girls then began to pull away from each other and try and break the goop between their hands.
"Well, this is interesting." Junior mumbled as he saw them try to break the goop line.
After breaking the goop and seeing Luz fall into more goop, which actually helped save time in making her look like a passable abomination, Junior helped to put Luz in the cauldron and well her to the magic school. Even if he didn't want to go learn from the magic school or be swarmed by witches and wizards of all shapes and sizes, Junior could at least see it for himself. They walked for a good couple of minutes before a large white castle like school with a bell tower on the center building.
"Not bad." Junior said as he saw it, his hood up to hid his face in case a student recognized a Reaper like Willow did.
"Junior, this is Hexside School of Magic and Demonics. The starting place fro all wizards and witches on the Boiling Isles." Willow said as Luz lifted the lid to see it a bit.
"Oooooh." she said as Willow turned to Junior with a apologetic look.
"You know, you could still come with us. It might be fun to see everyone grovel before you." she said.
"I think I'll save that for when I inherit the throne from my father. I'll see you guys later after school." he said as he turned to walk away before turning back a bit. "And watch out for Luz's antics, she might cause a bit of trouble but she means well."
"Thank you." Luz said before processing it a bit. "Hey!"
Junior and Willow laughed a bit as they wen their separate ways, Junior back to the owl house and Willow with Luz to her abomination class. Once he got there, he saw Eda and King talking, curious about what they were talking about and about a few other things, like why was King holding a box of bone shaped biscuits with a little trash next to him. It was like he was training it.
"Oh, hey Junior!" Eda said while sitting in lawn chair next to a table, placing down a coffee mug that said "#1 Bad Girl" on the table. "I brought that board you were looking at earlier back with the haul I found."
"Thanks. May I ask what's going on here?" Junior said before pointing to King and the little slug.
"King and I have a bet." Eda said as she took a sip from her mug.
A bet?" Junior asked as he walked closer to Eda, seeing a pitcher of strange purple goop in the table.
"The bet is that if King can that little Trash Slug his loyal soldier in just one day, Luz will be his student to teach about demons. If he loses, I get to change his name to "Mr. Wiggles." And if he wins, I have to wear a shame hat and trade the owl house to live in a small shack." Eda said as she reached into her hair and pulled out a book. "Though, from our betting history, King has never won."
Opening the book to her second student, Junior was met with the sight of several bets they made in the past and each and every one had been won by Eda herself.
"Sounds like the bets my parents used to make all the time." Junior said as he gazed up to see what King was doing, giving a theory of how it would end. "How long until that thing tries to eat him?"
"My guess? By the time it's bigger than him and he runs out of treats to give it." Eda said as she took the book back and placed it in her hair. "On another topic, how has your control over Chronokinesis going? Any better since the first time you used it?"
Ever since the first time he pulled off stopping time and told Eda about it, Junior had worked hard to perfect it so the strain wouldn't be as much as the first.
"It's been going good. I've also been able to hold it up to about 3 seconds. Though it in stopped time, it feels like three minutes." he said as he made his way inside, hoping to find the surfboard he found from the trash slug earlier.
"That's good, Junior but I want you to be able to get it up to at least 5 seconds before moving on to your next lesson, okay?" she asked as she went back to watching King "train" the little Trash Slug.
"Got it!" he said as he entered the owl house, saying hi to Hooty before entering.
Looking around the house, Junior found the red strip black surfboard was leaning against the couch and he inspected it to see just how bad the cracks were so he could wonder how to fix them.
"Maybe there's something in town that can magically fix these cracks." Junior said as he turned it over to inspect the back fine, seeing how bad it is. "The fin looks stable enough but I should probably fix that too."
Putting the board aside, Junior sat on the couch and reached into his bag and pulled out a book her brought with him, a personal journal he brought to write down his thought about being here in the Boiling Isles, and and wrote down everything that happened so far today.
"Let's hope Eda doesn't get TOO mad about this." he said to himself as he wrote about Luz going to the magic school as Willow's project.
Junior didn't know why Eda had a problem with magic school and he had no right to judge her on it since he never went to magic school, but he hoped she wouldn't be angry at Luz for going to the magic school just for today. He had just finished writing everything down as Eda came into the house.
"Uh, Junior. . Where's Luz?" she asked him, curious as to where Luz is.
Quickly closing his book, Junior tried to think of an excuse to try and not worry Eda about losing Luz as a student.
"Uh...She's just hanging out with a new friend she made in the woods." he said, keeping the whole truth from Eda.
"Okay...but where is she and her new friend?" Eda asked as she stepped closer to him, the worry feeling in her slightly growing.
"Uh. . They should still be in the woods." Junior said as he placed his book back in his bag on the couch.
Narrowing her eyes, Eda had a feeling he was lying to her but he couldn't see it as much as she could with others. He didn't have any skin or eyeballs that would give the ever so noticeable twitch of lying.
"Okay...I'll go check on her then." Eda said as she turned around to look for Luz but actually to ask Hooty since he didn't lie at all.
"Hooty? Have you seen Luz?" She asked as she slammed his face into the wall after opening the door.
"I heard her tiny mouse feet. . But that might have just been some mice!" he said with a smile on his face, joking a bit.
"What?" Eda asked, wondering why he was trying to change the topic to mice.
"Anyway, I heard someone moving where my weather vane is pointing. Go out and see!" Hooty said as Eda moved away from the door to see the weather vane on top of the house.
"But that's pointing towards..." Eda said before gasping in shock and realization. "No!"
The owl lady then started running towards the direction to try and put her worries to rest, only for them to increase as she got closer. Junior seemed to hear Eda's shout and came to check it out. He came outside and saw where she was running, right where he came back from a couple of minutes ago. The magic school.
"NO! SCHOOOOLLL!" she shouted as it sort of echoed back to the house.
"Uh oh." Junior let out as he decided to wait for Eda to get back, a bit worried about just how she would be when she gets back.
Sitting on the front steps, Junior just waited as King continued to "train" his little slug, which was growing bigger and bigger with all of the treats he was giving it.
'That can't be good.' Junior thought as he saw the slug continue to grow.
"King. . You may want to stop." Junior said to him but it fell towards deaf ears.
"Ha! My pupil is almost at his peak! The world shall tremble!" King said to himself continued to "train" his little servant.
Junior just sighed in defeat as he continued to watch King feed the slug and it growing bigger and bigger with each reward meal. This went on for several minutes until Eda returned with crossed arms looking down, angry and defeated.
"Now. . Before you get mad. . I want you to know that Luz wanted to see what it's like." Junior tried to say to her, only for her to ignore his words.
King also noticed Eda's look and began to taunt her, knowing that the bet they made had been lost to her.
"So, I can guess by your look, Luz has sought refuge with the magic school, hasn't she?" King asked as he walked up to Eda. "And if that is the case, then that means, the winner of the bet is me!" he finished as he threw more treats up to his servant, the much larger Trash Slug, to celebrate.
"Yeah, yeah. You won. You got your soldier and I'm down one apprentice. Happy?" she said as she glared down at King, uncrossing her arms in a huff.
"Now now, Eda, don't be sad. You've still got Junior." King said as he walked up to her with his arms behind his back before whipping them out to show Eda a white cone hat with the word "shame" written on it. "And this! Ahahahahahahaha!"
Eda groaned as she snatched the hat from him, retreating to the shack beside the Owl House while Junior watched in paining silence. He knew what it was like to fail, what it was like to taste defeat against someone better than you. He felt that way his whole life with his multi talented half-sister, Minimandy.
"Eda..." Junior said as he watched her slam the shack door before turning and walking to a still laughing King. "That's not funny, King."
"Of course it is, I finally won a bet against Eda and I have a large minion to do my bidding. I don't see why you think this is a big deal to Eda." King said as he stopped laughing.
"It's a big deal because this really hurt her, even if it's just a misunderstanding, it really hurt her to see that one of her students in the place she can't stand or trust for whatever reason." Junior said before sighing, remembering that he had a part in making this happen. "And it's my fault too, but I'm going to fix it."
Junior then began to run off to where Eda came back as fast as he could.
"Where are you going?!" King shouted as he and his "soldier" watched Junior run off.
"To get Luz!" Junior said as he didn't stop, wanting to try and fix this so his teacher- no, so his friend would feel better.
Running as fast as he could, Junior dodged and ducked tree branches as he ran towards the magic school.
'I gotta hurry and find Luz.' He thought as he came a side of the school and began looking through windows. 'Come on, Luz. Where are you?'
Junior then came to a stop and saw Luz in a classroom with Willow, Amity and other guys, one with dark skin and a light blue version of the school uniform and the other was an adult with a strange creature on his head like a hat. Luz was currently laying on a table with Willow holding a scalpel while having a nervous look on her face. The adult and Willow were watching intently as Willow faced Luz, probably wanting her to dissect Luz in front of them.
"Oh no!" Junior said before seeing the dark skinned boy slapped 3 covered cauldrons to the ground and spilled the abominations inside out.
This served as a good distraction as Willow took Luz and ran out the door of the classroom. Junior almost let out a sigh of relief before seeing the man with the creature hat move to the wall and draw a magic circle for a spell.
"Oh no! I gotta get to Luz fast!" Junior said as he ran towards the front of the school, preparing to use his improve control over Chronokinesis to reach them before the effect of that spell set in.
Running towards the entrance of the school, Junior threw his hood over his head as he clapped his hands together.
"TIME OUT!" he shouted as he unleashed his spell, freezing the world for only 3 seconds/3 minutes as he entered the school to look for Luz. "Come on, Luz., Willow. Where are you guys?"
He raced pasted every corridor before he turned the corner to see them standing near a corner, frozen in what appeared to a talk about their situation. Junior quickly ran to them as he stopped to check on them.
"They both seem alright, just a bit tired." Junior said before looking around, noticing magic lines from the man's spell were spreading. "I gotta get you guys out and quick."
But before Junior could, he felt his stamina slip a bit as he must've reached his new limit with his Chronokinesis control.
"3 seconds are up, Time in!" he said as he started time up again, making it seem like he just teleported before the girls as they jumped in surprise.
"Junior?! What are you doing here?" Luz asked, her body still covered in abomination muck as they saw their friend with his hood up to hide his face.
"To bring you back to see Eda. She found out you were here and she's hurting." Junior said, gaining a sad look as he remembered Eda's mood before he left. "She may not show it, but Eda's happy to have you as a student and she's really down that she thought you chose this place over her."
"But...I didn't! I just wanted to see how this place for just one day, which is very lovely by the way, but I never planned to leave her for this place." Luz said, feeling a little guilty for Eda finding out about her being here.
"Then let's go tell her, before that guy does whatever I saw him start to do." Junior said before the magic lines moved around the corridors, placing red barriers in front of all of them.
"Too late, Principal Bump's already sealed us in." Willow said with a worried look towards a red barrier. "But there still might be a way out, come on!"
Willow took both of them by the hands, guiding them down the school corridors to find a way for them to escape. As they ran to find a new exit, coming up short as the barriers block them off at every turn, Junior remembered the advice Eda gave Luz this morning about being resourceful.
"Wait! Luz, remember what Eda gave you this morning?! With the slime ball!" he asked as they came to a stop at another barrier.
Luz then remembered the little slime ball from this morning as the monster hat man from before (that Junior now knows is Principal Bump) approached them with with his left hand forward, covering it in magic to use the abominations that acted as distractions from before at his command.
"Move!" Junior said as he pushed Luz and Willow to the right, running from the charging abominations.
The 3 kids moved towards a column nearby and took it for cover.
"I think I get what you're saying, Junior. She said that "witches must always be resourceful."" Luz asked as they sat down to rest, pulling it along with other things out of her pocket.
Willow let out a gasp as she took it from Luz's hand, observing it before explaining herself.
"This isn't a slime ball. It's a seed, I can use this to help us." she said as she smiled at Luz. "Thank goodness you had it with you!"
Luz smiled at her friend as she turned to Junior.
"Yeah, and I'm glad two people reminded me of it." she said as Junior nodded.
Willow placed the seed in her lap before drawing a magic circle above it before tapping the center, sprinkling it with her magic.
"Please, grow!" Willow commanded as she threw her hands in the air, allowing the seed to produce familiar thorn vines that shot to the ceiling and spread out through the school.
"Ah!" Luz screamed a bit as she and Junior ducked from the spreading vines overhead.
They spread at high speed, piercing the abominations before heading to Principal Bump, who gasped at the rush of plant magic as it wrapped around him and flung him to the ceiling.
"UH!" he let out in slight pain before gazing at the display of plant magic, amazed by it's speed, range, and beauty. "Incredible."
As magic school principal continued to marvel at Willow's plant magic, he unconsciously let down the barrier spell that he used to put the school on lock down and gave Luz, Willow, and Junior a way to escape.
"The exit's clear! Let's go!" Luz said as they made a run for it, with Willow placing the seed on the ground before joining them.
They had almost reach the last hallway before they were cut off by a familiar and smug but now angry face.
"NOT SO FAST!" Amity shouted at them, blocking their path with a look of rage on her face.
Junior groaned at her as he assumed this madness begun because of her.
"Not this bitch again!" he said under his breath.
Turning a glare to the hooded boy, not being able to completely see his face but did see a tone of pale white, Amity stood in front of them with a broken vine wrapped around her.
"I don't know who you are but I don't care! None of you are getting away until I get back! My! Badge!" she said as she threw the wrapped vine off her body to the ground and held out her hands. "Abominations! Seize them!"
An abomination rose from behind then, groaning as it planned to capture then until Luz shouted and punched it to mush. The trio then ran off again as Amity commanded the abomination to rise again to capture them.
"Why aren't you using your scythe?" Willow asked, remembering the big scythe with a screw in the top from this morning.
"I don't wanna risk hurting her or revealing that I'm a reaper." Junior said as they ran to the entrance, freedom within their grasp. "Besides, we're almost out."
They were one hallway short from freedom until two abominations rose and blocked their exit.
"GGGRRR! Enough of this!" Junior said as he ran towards one, jumping up and spin kicking it's head off before landing in a skid behind the last one.
The last abomination moved towards Luz and Willow as the young witch drew a magic circle, much larger than the last one for something big. With a cross of her arms, Willow commanded more vines to grow in the form of a wall to trap the abomination and give Luz a chance to escape.
"Go now! This is you chance to escape!" Willow said with glowing eyes, keeping her arms crossed while struggling with the spell.
"What about you?!" Luz asked as she was worried about her friend.
"I might get detention. But you might get dissected!" Willow argued as the abominations were able to slip their mush like bodies through the vines. "Just go!"
Willow commanded some vines to grab Luz and lift her to the door of the school with Junior not far behind. Once the vines had dropped Luz and Junior made it to the other side, the school door's shut themselves and left Willow behind to face whatever punishment she would receive.
"Willow!" Luz scream as she turned back to the door, worried about her friend. "We have to save her! We need to get help!"
"Then let's get head back, maybe Eda will help." Junior said placing a hand on Luz's shoulder before guiding her back to the owl house.
The duo ran back to the owl house as fast as they could, both worried about Willow and whatever punishment she had to face because of their idea. When they had gotten close enough, the duo was able to see that the witch in question was already out side and holding King.
"There she is!" Junior said as Luz began to run faster to her, the muck from before chipping off as she got closer to the owl lady.
"Eda!" Luz shouted as she suddenly hugged Eda and King by extension.
"What IS this?! I never understand when you do this!" Eda said, not familiar with being hugged.
Junior ran up to them as Luz began to explain and apologies for what happened.
"Junior told me that you saw me in the magic school and I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to make you think you weren't a good witch to learn from, you are the best witch to learn from!" Luz said as she broke the hug. "And what you said about the slime ball really helped save us but my new friends is in danger, we need to help them."
"Luz!" a familiar voice shouted as Junior and Luz turned around to see Willow and the dark skinned boy from before running to them.
"Willow! Gus!" Luz said in happiness as they hugged her, glad to see they were alright.
"Seriously? What is it with you and that...thing?" Eda questioned.
"You mean hugging?" Junior answered.
Once they broke the hug, Willow gave news that they didn't quite expect.
"You won't believe it, Luz. Everything is alright!" she said with a smile on her face.
"You're right, I don't believe it." Luz said with the smile still on her face.
"The seed, Luz! Principal Bump was so amazed by my plant magic, he placing me in the Plant Magic track at school!" Willow said before stepping back, snapping her fingers to change her uniform tights from purple to green.
"Sweet! Woooohh!" Luz cheered for her friend.
"But what happened to Amity?" Junior asked as he joined them while taking off his hood, curious to what became of the mean girl.
"Okay, 1st, she was asking if what she did today could count as extra credit. And 2nd, are you a reaper!?" the boy, Gus, asked as he began doing the same thing Willow did when they meet.
"Yeah, I am but just treat me like anyone else alright? I don't want to be treated like royalty here." he said as he held his hand out the him. "Name's Junior."
"Augustus but call me "Gus!" Luz gave me a nickname!" Gus said as he shook Junior's bony had a bit fast.
"Well, pleasantries aside, I can't wait to see you in action the next time I sneak in, Willow." Luz said as she placed her hands together, looking to the sky to envision the fun she could have and wonder she could see for a second sneak in.
"Oooooh." Willow groaned with a held a worried face to Gus and Junior.
"Yeah, about that? You and Junior have sort of been, how do I say this nicely?" Gus mumbled to himself as he pulled out two scrolls from his pocket. "You and Junior have been banned from entering the school ever again."
Unrolling the scrolls, everyone was able to see a picture of Luz, smiling and still covered in abomination muck, and Junior, with his hood up and face shadowed except for green eyes with the words "BANNED" above them.
"That's my students!" Eda cheered, dropping King as she held her arms up in victory.
"Oh well. I guess you can't have everything." Junior said with a shrugg of the shoulder, never too keen on the magic school to begin with.
"Says the Prince of Death." King muttered as he turned Junior.
While Luz was shocked by the bews, Junior glared at the smart mouthed demon and hoped Gus and Willow didn't here that.
"Even if you can't come back to, Me and Gus can come and teach you what we learned." Willow said, grabbing Luz's shoulder to comfort her on the news.
"Thanks guys, but no thanks." Luz said, gaining back her smile as she turned to Eda. "Junior and I already have a great teacher to learn from right here."
"I couldn't agree more." Junior said as he too smile at Eda, who was shocked to see that they had chosen her over the magic school.
The shock was gone in an instant as a smirk came to her face.
"Yeah, these two are off limits!" she said as she snatched the banned posters from Gus. "You snooze, you lose, academy twerps."
Willow and Gus laughed at her silly taunt as Eda then gained a wishful look as she stared at the posters, remembering her first wanted poster in her younger years.
"Baby's first wanted poster, I'm so proud." Eda said before turning to her apprentices. "Good job, kids. Looks like I'm a good teacher after all." she told them as she patted their heads.
"You are a good teacher, Eda. Just not traditional." Junior said, remembering how Eda described her teaching methods.
"Uh, pardon me, but I high five is done with hands. Not heads." Gus said as he popped up between them, ruining the happy moment with a lack of knowledge.
A silence followed as they stood like statues for a moment.
"Awkward." Junior mumbled as King snickered at the moment.
Scroll list:
Chronokinesis: slowing down time. (Successful and somewhat mastery. Time limit 3 seconds/3 minutes in frozen time)
Dreamwalking: entering people's dreams or subconscious.
Healing: transferring life force to heal injuries or sicknesses.
Invisibility: turn invisible to humans.
Necrokinesis: kill someone with a single touch.
Perception Alteration: manipulate human perception so they appear any way they wish.
Possession: Possessing human minds.
Resurrection: Bringing people back to life.
Soul Awareness: tracking souls.
Telekinesis: moving objects with his mind
Teleportation: teleport anywhere in existence or in mind.