Hours have gone by and it was four hours after the afternoon started. Maxwell was feeling a bit better after King and Luz had managed to make him laugh. They were making their way back towards the owl house.

"Maxie, did anyone teach you about stranger danger?" asked Luz curiously.

"I did, but it wasn't from my dad." answered Maxwell.

They all looked a bit surprised to hear him say this. They expected someone he was related to would teach him that.

"Who taught you?" asked Eda.

Maxwell didn't really look Eda in the eye or face as he was still a bit nervous around her.

"An old man taught me." answered Maxwell. "He was an old man who was married and had children, even grandchildren but he was retired from what he told me was his job as a teacher in military school."

"That was nice of him." said Luz kindly.

Maxwell nodded and agreed. Just as he was walking with them, a scent in the air reached his nostrils and it smelled good. It smelled sweet.

"Anyone smell that?" said King sniffing the air.

"Someone must be cooking something. It's usually something like that." Eda guessed.

"Smells like something very sweet like strawberry pie from a bakery." said Maxwell dreamily with a giggle.

Maxwell looked as though the sweet smell was about to drive him crazy as he let out a little crazy, hysterical laugh. Eda could sense this was probably not good as she remembers that shiny objects get her going nuts but this was a different case.

"Snap out of it, Maxie." Eda commanded.

"Yes ma'am!" said Maxwell with a hiccup as he snapped back to reality. "Sorry Miss Eda."

Eda reached out and patted Maxwell's head as she grinned.

"That's my boy. I love it when he listens." said Eda giggling.

Maxwell seem to have the craving ignored like it never happened when ever Eda told him to snap out of it or anything about Eda and what she tells him seems to get him to listen to her or even get his mind off something like a craving for what he smelled. Eda seemed to notice but she was thinking that he probably wouldn't disobey her out of respect.

"It's alright, Maxie." said Eda with a word of comfort. "Sometimes we lose control when it comes to something we crave, but that's alright, it's nothing to ashamed of. I once got obsessed with the card game Hexes Hold'em but I managed to kick the habit."

Maxwell did seem to cheer up a bit from hearing her tell him that. As they walked off, the sweet scent got stronger and Maxwell smelled it. He tried to ignore it.

"Someone's hungry." came a female's voice.

Maxwell heard the voice speaking to him in his mind but he could hear it from a distance. He was hearing a female's voice in a whisper like it was whispering in his ear. Maxwell sensed this wasn't good.

"Corre tu casa." said Maxwell as he took off running.

As he took off, he ran faster than ever which left them surprised but giggling.

"He was racing us home." said Luz giggling.

"Challenge accepted." said Eda with a grin.

Eda had her staff laying forwards and it floated as she got on there, pulling King and Luz on there behind her. She slapped the side of the staff and they flew in the air towards the owl house as she raced her way there. They hung on.

"I'm gonna beat you there, Maxie waxie." laughed Eda.

"Looks like Eda likes Maxie." teased King.

"You do know I can do a loop da loop if you tease me." warned Eda.

King went silent as Eda warned him and she was laughing excitedly as she raced towards the owl house. She seemed to feel a thrill with seeing Maxwell showing confidence or even when he shows a braver side.

"That boy is such a tease." laughed Eda.

They saw the owl house and she swooped down and managed to make it to the building. She stopped the staff and they got off it. Luz and King managed to stand up.

"Yeah! I win, baby!" cheered Eda.

"What a flight, lets hope my stomach catches up with me." said King shaking his body in case anything got on him.

"That was fun, a little wild, but what a rush." said Luz.

They looked around to see where Maxwell was and he wasn't anywhere in sight.

"Come on out, Maxie. Someone's going to hug you." called Eda.

They didn't see or hear him as there was no response. They didn't know what to expect till Luz saw what looked like a piece of paper on the wall of the home with a strong and sticky webbing keeping it on there.

"Eda, what is that?" Luz pointed out.

They saw the piece of paper and Eda was the first to take it off there. She saw that it had a message written on there and she saw this wasn't good. She read it out loud.

I have something you want, Eda. If you want to see him alive in once piece and not pieces. You will come to me and give me what I want as a fair trade. I left a magical energy trail to have you lead the way, it'll disappear in twenty-four hours. Don't keep me waiting or your precious baby human is my dinner tonight.

Bellatrix

They looked up and were shocked. Eda was looking angry as she crumpled up the note.

"Whose Bellatrix?" asked Luz looking concerned.

"Bellatrix is this lady I knew from a while back. She blames me for supposedly stealing her man when I dated a guy we knew but long story short, this guy was not good for me or her. But she was a rival of mine, Bellatrix is also one of the competitors that I have from one of my small time businesses." explained Eda. "She's evil and dangerous, so Maxie in danger."

With an unpleasant jolt to their hearts, they knew this wasn't good. King sniffed the air.

"I can smell Maxie's scent from here." said King.

As King as walking around and sniffing the air, Eda knew that King could sniff him out.

"King, can you sniff him out?" asked Luz hopefully.

"Yes, that way." King pointed out.

As they got back on the staff, they flew towards the scent as King was sniffing out the air for Maxwell's scent.

"We're coming buddy!" King shouted.

Somewhere in what looked like the forest area where there was a Stonehenge like place in the center. Maxwell looked like he was strapped and secured to a rock like wall while he was slowly waking up as he saw he had strong rock like straps that kept his hands, arms, legs and feet strapped down.

"Ow, who bopped me on the head?" said Maxwell annoyed.

"Take a look and find out, tasty." came a lady's voice.

He looked up and saw the blue haired woman, his reaction was fearful as he tried to move but couldn't.

"Forget it, little human. Your body is strapped down tight." said Bellatrix.

She had her eight eyes showing on her face and what looked like fangs from her mouth. Maxwell's heart was racing from fear.

"What do you want from me?" said Maxwell afraid to ask.

"Take a gaze in my mind and find out." suggested Bellatrix.

He looked right at her and delved right into her mind and he saw flashes of memories about her and Eda and their rivalry.

"Bellatrix, you have a rivalry with Eda ever since she dated a man shortly after you tried to go for him, you and her were enemies ever since. Your one of her competitors that she warned me about." said Maxwell.

Bellatrix laughed and smiled as if she expected this.

"And that scent of strawberry pie is so easy to get you. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." laughed Bellatrix.

She was coming closer to him and this was causing Maxwell to struggle but feeling fear take over his mind.

"Don't come any closer. I mean it. Eda will come for me." Maxwell warned.

"That's the idea, lover boy." teased Bellatrix.

She got in front of him and Maxwell saw she was going in for what he thought was a kiss and looked away with his eyes closed. She stopped right in front of his face.

"What are you gonna do?" quivered Maxwell.

"I want you...to suffer." she told him.

She backed up and he opened his eyes as he saw her transforming from her form to looking like her body grew black fur all over her body, her legs formed to look like they formed eight coming from her sides, her lower body formed to look more spider like while her top body looked more human but covered with black fur. Maxwell was now shocked to see this.

"I beg of you, don't do this." begged Maxwell.

"Begging won't help." she told him in a demonic voice.

She used her human hands from her upper body and snapped her fingers, a blue and magic energy wave formed in her hands, looking like static electricity. She pushed her hands forwards and an electric wave blasted towards Maxwell and once it hit him, he was feeling intense pain from the static electricity shocking him. He screamed.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" screamed Maxwell.

"This is for Eda stealing my man and for stealing my customers for years." Bellatrix laughed evilly.

"Stop it! What does this have to do with me?" shouted Maxwell.

She made the shocks stop and Maxwell panted from exhaustion as he looked towards her in fear.

"It'll get Eda's attention alright, and when I extract the power from you, I'll become strong enough to defeat her." Bellatrix told him.

Maxwell shed a tear as he looked desperate for this to end.

"No! Don't do it. Eda, Luz, King and Hooty are all I've got. Please!" Maxwell begged desperately.

"Human's in pain and suffering make me hungrier." she teased.

She formed the blue energy again and blasted it towards him again. Maxwell screamed in pain from being electrified and the strength of the pain doubled.

"Eda, help me! Anyone!" screamed Maxwell. "I'll do anything!"

"Anything?" Bellatrix said excitedly.

Maxwell formed tears from the pain as he felt like he was about to meet his death from this torture. Bellatrix was enjoying herself as she tried to make the electricity stronger which hurt poor Maxwell more.

"Ahhhhhhh. Mommy, mommy!" cried Maxwell.

She stopped as the blue energy disappeared and the electric shocks stopped, leaving Maxwell panting, feeling pain all over his body, some small holes formed in his shirt. Maxwell was emotionally distressed, begging for this to stop to the point he called for mother.

"Baby want mommy." teased Bellatrix. "Momma's boy."

"Let him go, Bellatrix!" came Eda's voice.

Bellatrix smiled and turned to see Eda, King and Luz flying in as they landed and got on their feet. They saw Maxwell in his emotional distressed state. Eda was looking really angry.

"What did you do to him, Bellatrix!" snapped Eda.

"I knew kidnapping this cry baby would have you coming to me." Bellatrix answered. "Torturing him by having him electrified and he turns into a bawling little baby. What a scaredy cat."

Bellatrix laughed evilly as she used her blue energy to blast at Maxwell which the electricity shocked him and it made him scream in agony while crying tears of pain. This was shocking them as Eda felt a fit of rage kicking into her.

"Bella, stop it! This is between you and me. Release him now!" shouted Eda.

"Revenge is sweet." laughed Bellatrix.

"Eda, make her stop! It hurts!" Maxwell shouted in agony as he cried. "Mommy!"

Eda was enraged and she formed a firey ball of energy in her hand and blasted it like a cannon towards Bellatrix as it hit her on her head, causing her to jump and groan from pain. She had some of her hair coming off like it was a hairpiece. She growled in anger. The electricity she used to torture poor Maxwell stopped.

"My hair!" Bellatrix shouted. "You burned a bald spot."

"You were due for a trim anyway." Eda joked.

Bellatrix growled and looked ready to charge at her.

"Luz, you and King find somewhere to take cover. I'm gonna squash a spider." Eda advised.

Luz and King obeyed as they ran towards Maxwell and took cover. Eda and Bellatrix charged at each other and the spider demon tried to use her spider like legs to hit and lash at Eda but she dodged them as she was moving around as fast as Maxwell could run at super sonic speed.

"Your fight is with me, not Maxie!" Eda called out.

"Revenge will be so sweet. I knew that torturing him would lead you to me, now I can get rid of you once and for all." snapped Bellatrix.

She tried to spit at Eda but she deflected the spits from her with a gold force field, but the spit would make smoke appear as the spit was acidic.

"Ready to give up, Bella?" spat Eda.

"I wonder how sweet that country bumpkin taste. He's as sweet as he is delicious." taunted Bellatrix.

Eda had pushed her forwards and knocked her a few feet away. Hearing this made Maxwell enraged. That word again, it was like a trigger word. He looked up with an expression of anger.

"What did you call me, you bitch!" shouted an angry Maxwell.

The sound of him shouting caught all of their attention and his eyes turned gold, a powerful gold energy formed all around him as he shouted a powerful battle cry as broke free from his stone like binds. He landed on his feet, giving Bellatrix an enraged look. Eda smiled in excitement.

"Oh shit." Bellatrix groaned.

"Sock it to her, Maxie!" cheered Eda.

Maxwell charged at Bellatrix and she was deflecting every punch and kick he would throw at her but she was having a hard time keeping up with his speed. Eda looked thrilled, Luz and King were surprised to see how Maxwell can fight back.

"What the fuck is this boy's problem." Bellatrix said annoyed.

"Your his problem!" snapped Eda, Luz and King.

"Lets see, you kidnapped him to get to me, you tortured him till he cried and all to get to me. Boy are you in for it now." taunted Eda.

Maxwell managed to grab hold of Bellatrix's hair and swung her around which caused them to follow the movements with their heads.

"Not my hair! Let go, you dumb monkey!" shouted Bellatrix.

"Gladly!" snapped Maxwell.

He finally let go but when Bellatrix was sent flying, she used her legs to land on the wall of the stones and jumped towards him, blowing huge lipped smooches at him.

"Kiss me, big boy! I'm gonna have his kids!" Bellatrix shouted in defiance.

Maxwell shook his head as his fear returned as the gold energy disappeared and his eyes turned back to normal. Eda ran to Maxwell's side and got in front of him.

"Kiss my booty." Eda shouted.

Eda spun her staff around and gold fire formed as it spun like a tornado and blasted at Bellatrix, making her expression change and the fire surrounded her as it obliterated the spider demon into dust. Maxwell saw this was over and he was feeling so tired. Luz and King came over to Maxwell and Eda turned to see Maxwell. He was shaking all over.

"Maxie." said Luz.

"I'm afraid of spiders." Maxwell let out a breath.

He was about to faint but Luz caught him and held him in her arms as she hugged him, slowly rocked him back and forth in an attempt to comfort him. He hugged her back.

"It's alright, Maxie. Eda got her." said Luz. "Did she hurt you?"

"She grabbed me when I was half way towards the owl house and knocked me out. Than she tortured me by having me electrified." Maxwell confessed. "Please don't be mad."

Eda came over to Maxwell and Luz released her arms from him as Eda placed her palm underneath Maxwell's chin. He closed his eyes for a minute, afraid of suffering Eda's wrath but when he slowly opened one of his eyes, he saw a sympathetic look on Eda's face and opened his other eye.

"Maxie, your not to blame for this. Bellatrix is known for being a shape shifter and she held a grudge against me for reasons that were delusional, she blamed me for supposedly stealing a man she liked that I once dated but he told me wasn't into her, and I found out he wasn't my type, so she blamed me. She used you to get to me and I'm sorry this happened to you." explained Eda.

Maxwell felt relieved that she wasn't mad at him but he shed a tear. Eda sensed that he was hurting inside. Eda placed an arm around him and so did Luz, even King hugged him as they were hugging him in a group. This was creating a sense of comfort for him.

"Guys, does crying make me a cry baby?" asked Maxwell.

"No! Everyone cries and everyone hurts at times. What Bellatrix told you isn't true, your not a cry baby. Even big people feel pain." Luz reassured him.

Maxwell felt better from hearing this. As they saw he was tired, they lead the way and made sure to keep Maxwell with them as they all headed for the owl house. As they walked, they would help Maxwell keep on his feet.

"Eda, how did you find me?" asked Maxwell curiously.

"Bella left a note about her telling us she had you." answered Eda.

"And I sniffed out your scent and boy was it sweet." King chimed in.

Maxwell let out a cough from surprise while Luz kissed King on his cheeks.

"Thanks for saving me back there, you guys. I'm grateful." Maxwell said kindly.

"Anyone who tries to hurt you, we'll always come running." said Luz kindly.

Hearing this had Maxwell feeling a sense of love or the feeling of being loved. Luz pulled him in for a one armed hug which put a smile on his face. As they made it to the owl house, something inside Maxwell was welling up in him. He felt his heart beating faster but for who? He didn't know but he knew it was probably for those who are looking after him.