They made it to The Owl House as Eda laid the boy down on the couch and they were examining the boy for any signs of wounds or injuries. The young boy was muttering something while he was passed out.
"He's not going to need a shot, is he?" asked Luz a bit worried.
"Lets hope not or he might need a stress ball." said Eda.
Eda, Luz and King were examining him, looking underneath his shirt, his back, his legs, arms, but Eda volunteered to be the only one to look at the boy's personal area for any damages and they only found bruises and red marks on his torso, and parts of his legs and arms.
"Well, he looks like he's alright, just bruises and red marks. That evil clown looked like he beat the little guy up." said Eda looking worried.
"And his lower area, nothing wrong there?" asked King looking like he didn't want to ask.
"Trust me, nothing wrong there, and you don't want to look there, it's better an adult examines that rather than someone under the age of eighteen." said Eda reassuring them.
"I agree, I didn't want to look at that." said Luz blushing.
Eda placed her hand on the boy's chest and her hand glowed a gold light as she was looking like she was using her magic to look at something.
"Well, there's no damages to him on the inside. Nothing broken, so he's going to be alright physically." reassured Eda.
They all let out a sigh of relief after Eda removed her hand from him and her hand stopped glowing. The boy stirred a bit.
"He's about to wake up, hoot, hoot." said Hooty.
"Luz, what did the boy say before he passed out?" asked Eda curiously.
"He said help me. From that terrified look on his face, I can't say I blame him." answered Luz.
The boy let out a hiccup and his eyes were blinking as he was waking up. He let out a groan from exhaustion as his head barely moved.
"Necesito agua...necesito agua." he said slowly in a raspy voice.
"He said he needs water." translated Luz.
King pulled a gallon jug of water and gave it to Luz as Luz got up and opened it. She was about to place the top of the jug to the boy's mouth but he got up and grabbed the jug as he placed the jug to his mouth and began to chug it down.
"Wow! He was probably dehydrated." said Eda looking surprised.
The boy kept guzzling the water down as he was starting to guzzle it down in big gulps.
"Careful, you might choke." warned Luz.
The boy ignored her and was guzzling the whole jug down like his life depended on it. He guzzled it down completely within a minute. He dropped the empty jug and it landed on the floor, letting out a loud burp.
"That's one gnarly burp. I like a person who just lets it rip." said Eda with a grin.
The boy sat up and he looked at the floor, he didn't look at them as if afraid.
"Do you speak English?" asked King.
He nodded his head. Luz let out a sigh of relief as if she was afraid he didn't know any English.
"You alright? That demon clown looked like he did a number on you." said Luz worried.
"Is it dead?" asked the boy in English with his voice sounding better.
The boy had a bit of a deep voice for a teenager with a slight American Georgian accent that wasn't a ridiculous, stereotypical redneck accent as it was hard to tell if he had an accent at all since his deep voice was hard to tell. He was probably a southerner.
"Is the clown demon dead?" he asked again.
"Yes, Eda took his smiling face down." answered Luz.
The boy muttered something in Spanish that sounded like a swear word directed at the demonic clown. Luz blushed and was almost speechless.
"Lets try not to use those words here. But you are right about that." suggested Luz.
"What did he say?" asked Eda.
"You don't want to know but it was him directing an insult to the clown. Don't ask." Luz advised.
Eda seemed to be curious to what it meant but she decided not to ask. Luz walked up to the boy and held her hand out.
"Take my hand, I won't bite." said Luz kindly.
The boy placed his feet on the floor and took hold of Luz's hand as he got up on his feet, standing up. He was pulled into Luz's arms as she hugged him to comfort him. The boy hugged her back.
"You feeling alright?" asked Luz.
"Aching in parts of my body but I'll live, thanks to you." answered the boy.
Luz was happy to hear that as she hugged him a bit tighter but the boy groaned in a bit of pain.
"Can't breathe, too tight, too tight." he said weakly.
"Whoops." said Luz as she loosened her grip.
The boy let out a breath of relief as if he almost drowned.
"Who are you?" asked Eda.
The boy went silent as Eda spoke, he blushed and his heart raced. They pulled their arms off each other and the boy didn't look at Eda, he trembled a bit.
"Are you listening?" asked Eda curiously.
The boy gulped in fear and Luz placed her hand on his right shoulder as if to comfort him which worked as the boy stopped shaking.
"You wanna tell me?" asked Luz kindly.
"Maxwell!" he finally revealed his name. "Maxwell Logan."
Maxwell looked up at Luz and she smiled as she had a sympathetic look on her face.
"Nice to meet you Maxwell." said Luz.
"I'm"
"I know who you all are." said Maxwell interrupting. "Luz Noceda, Dominican-American, Latina decent. King, small demon warrior. Eda, the owl lady, most powerful witch on the boiling isles, your real name, I'll not say it out loud because I know what will happen if I do, and Hooty, the sentient barn owl-headed doorknocker, guardian of the entrance."
They all were surprised. How can Maxwell know who they all are without them telling him. Eda was also a little curious but she was also suspicious.
"How do you know us?" asked Hooty.
"Your minds are an open book and I don't know how I got that." answered Maxwell.
"You can hear our thoughts?" asked King surprised.
He nodded as Maxwell still felt a bit tired and aching. Eda walked up to Maxwell and stood in front of him. Maxwell's heart raced and he looked down at his feet as if he didn't want to look at Eda.
"Are you working for someone whose a foe of mine?" asked Eda looking serious.
Maxwell went silent and he shook his head briefly. He might not have looked like it but he was blushing deeply.
"Are you telling me the truth? You know lying is a bad idea." said Eda showing she wasn't kidding.
Maxwell nodded his head and he shook briefly out of fear. He muttered something under his breath.
"Could you speak up, Maxie. I didn't catch that." suggested Eda.
Maxwell was silent for a minute, he didn't feel very confident nor did he feel any courage at this moment.
"Please don't do it." said Maxwell finally as his voice shook.
"Don't do what?" asked Eda looking concerned.
"You need your dad, kiddo?" suggested King.
Maxwell's heart dropped with an unpleasant jolt of fear striking his heart like lightning.
"Not my dad." said Maxwell shaking all over.
They all looked at one another and wondered what he meant by that till they looked back at him.
"What did your dad do to you?" asked Luz. "You can tell us."
Hearing Luz tell him that provided a word of comfort to Maxwell and Luz took hold of Maxwell's hand to convince him to trust her.
"It's not safe." said Maxwell. "I can't really go back or I'm a dead man to him. I had no choice but to run."
Luz looked at Maxwell and at Eda. Eda, Luz and King knew that for what ever the reason was, if Maxwell didn't want to go home and he was showing signs of fear of facing death at the hands of his father or anyone apparently, than they knew they couldn't send him back.
"Maxie, I know you probably don't feel comfortable talking about it and for what ever reason why you ran off from your own home. We understand we can't make you go back." said Eda sounding like she was trying inject her sympathy into him.
"So does this mean the little tike is staying with us?" asked King looking a bit eager.
"Well, people like Maxie and the rest of us need to stick together. Regardless if we're a bit weird or if we stand out, if he's like us, than he's with us." said Eda expressing good news.
Maxwell looked up at Eda finally and just as Eda was about to reach her hand out to him, Maxwell looked away and closed his eyes. Eda placed her hand on Maxwell's left cheek and she was showing her compassion towards him. Maxwell opened his eyes and was looking right at her.
"It's alright Maxie, your safe with us. I'm not going to bite." said Eda with a grin.
"You all are a blessing from the lord." said Maxwell with a sigh of relief.
Luz wrapped her arms around Maxwell and hugged him. Maxwell hugged her back.
"Maxwell, we need to know this before anything else. Do you have any allergies or disabilities or even any past injuries? Hoot hoot." asked Hooty curiously out of concern.
"I got neither of that, well, the bruises and red marks from what happened to me today are the closest thing to injuries I got." answered Maxwell.
"Maxwell, while your here with us, you should know that this world is different from the human world so while your with me, you should do as I advise you to do since I know this world better than any human would. Kind of like a kid on their first day of school." advised Eda.
"Yes ma'am." said Maxwell.
Maxwell understood and he felt safe knowing that he'd be looked after by people who were going to keep him out of danger. Eda, King, Luz and Hooty understood that for what ever reason why he didn't want to talk about why he ran off from his own home or what ever the reason to why he didn't want to talk about what was going on between him and his own father, they understood that he wasn't ready to talk about it. The only thing on Eda's mind for now was one little thing. Why was Maxwell so nervous around her? She knew there was a reason but she decided to brush it off for now.