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Takes place in episode 19 of the Owl House.
Let the chapter 19 begin.
After Eda was captured, Junior and Luz explained the situation to King and Hooty since they didn't know what happened after Eda and Junior left. After it was over, they all went to sleep in a depressed, devastated or sad state knowing that their dear owl lady was captured saving them but they were not without hope. Junior's vow in his soul was still in place and he was going to keep it but before he could, he needed to know more about the enemy they would be facing. He needed to know more about Emperor Belos.
"I found it!" King shouted as he came running into Luz's room/closet, handing the book to Junior as sat in the middle of the room.
"Thanks." He said as he looked over the cover of the book and read it. "The Unauthorized Boiling Isles History."
"Eda always keeps this handy so she could remember the real story, not the fake one that was released to the public." King said as Junior nodded and opened the book.
"During the time of wild magic brought due to the titan's death, a single man appeared and declared the current way of magic use was wrong and that his way, the way of order was right. He became known as Emperor Belos." Junior said and read as he looked at an image of the emperor in the book.
'So this is the strongest wizard in this realm, huh?' he thought as he continued to read aloud.
"He developed the covens system to bring order to the Isles and limit the magic potential of the citizens, all who followed him were given his grace and protection while those who didn't were labeled as wild witches or wizards and punish for their resistance." Junior read as he saw a photo of men and women on their knees, frozen in stone.
"Maybe capturing Eda was part of his plan, part of something big." King said as he saw Junior close the book and toss it aside.
"Well, I don't care what he's planning with Eda. We're getting her back." Junior said as he turned to Luz.
The human girl, still thinking everything was her fault, sat in the windowsill of her room and gazed over the 2nd cloak of Witch Wool Eda for her. In her hands was a note that came with it, written by Eda for Luz.
To a young witch from her proud teacher. - Eda' it said as Luz put on a determined look and stood up, putting it over her shoulders and clipping it in place with a golden button.
"Agreed. We're getting Eda back, TONIGHT!" Luz proclaimed as Junior stood up and nodded to her, both their cloaks flapping from their sudden movement.
"If we're gonna do this, you're gonna need a weapon like how you used your ice glyph with that mace at Grom."Junior said as he was still impressed with how skilled Luz was with a weapon, even though she had no formal training.
Luz gave a single nod to Junior as she walked out of her room, with her friends following behind her as she went to a special room in the owl house. A very special room that Eda filled to the brim with dozens of weapons on the wall, from axes to swords and spears to daggers this place was like a weapons shop in an RPG.
"Guys, wait, we need to think about this!" King said as Junior and Luz walked into the room, looking around at the weapons.
"We don't have time to think, King." Luz said as she lifted an axe but could't hold it up. "Eda used up her magic to save me and is now with the emperor. Who knows what they're doing to her, we can't just wait!"
"But didn't you he-" King tried to argue.
"She did, King, and she doesn't care. Neither do I." Junior said as he looked over a sword, a black scimitar with a gray handle and guard. "Eda needs our help and we are going to help her!"
"But she's in her owl beast form! Will she even be able to understand you guys?" King asked them as Luz went to him and knelled in front of him, gently grabbing his shoulders.
"King, look at this from my view point. Eda was captured because of me and my choice to try help her, I gotta make this right and at least try." she said to him as Junior went up to her with the scimitar, now in a sheath belt.
"Then you'd gonna need this, you were pretty good with that mace so a sword should be easier for you." Junior said as he handed her the blade, taking it from him and wrapping it around her waist with the sword on her left hip. "Now, King, are you gonna come with us to save Eda or will you stay here?"
King looked away for a moment as he thought about is choice, staying her where it was safe and out of danger or go against the most powerful man in the realm and save his friend.
"I-I'm coming with you guys. Eda's just as important to me as she is to you, she...she's the only family I have." King said as he gained a determined expression.
"Well good but you're wrong about one thing, King." Junior said as they looked to him, seeing him give a small smile to them. "You have more family than just Eda. Me, Luz, even Hooty, we're all family."
King and Luz were surprised by this but they smiled warmly at him, so happy that he saw them as important to them as family.
"Yeah, you're right. Thanks, Junior." King said as he felt the pain of Eda captured fade a bit.
"Yeah, we needed that." Luz said as she got up and looked over them. "Now let's go, we've got not time to waste."
The trio quickly exited the house, giving Hooty a goodbye and promise to bring back Eda, and headed into town. They didn't know exactly where Eda was taken so they had to gather information from either rumors or any passing guards and they had their hoods up so no one would recognize them. About have an hour of sneaking past the other citizens, they came across a shop with crystal balls in the display window showing what looked like a news report. The man reporting looked a lot like Gus, possibly his father,and he was talking about Eda's persecution.
"This is Perry porter. Reporting live from the Emperor's castle. The criminal known as the Owl Lady, Edalyn Clawthorne has finally been captured after all these years and brought before Emperor Belos. We'll now switch to the emperor's assistant, Kikimora, for coverage of her crimes and punishment." He said as the crystal ball switched to a small woman with a strange clawed hand hairdo, large ears, and a coven attire with a high collar.
For the crimes of refusing to join a coven, years of unauthorized magic use, and attacking the leader of a coven, the owl lady has been sentenced to stone petrifaction tonight at sundown in front of the Conformitorium!" She said with two small eyeball bat creatures flying beside her.
"Petrification?!" Junior said in shock as the crystal ball switched back to a grim looking Perry Porter.
"Criminal or not, today is a grave day for us all, Bonesborough." He said as the crowd around the ball dispersed and left Eda's friends alone.
"Junior, King. Please tell me this isn't happening." Luz said with a hollow tone.
"I'm afraid it is, petrification is only for the worst of the worst and once it's done, nothing can undo it." King said as he rode on Luz's shoulder, looking at the crystal balls showing previous criminals as stone statures decorating the Conformatorium.
"No, this is horrible. I can tell they're still alive, trapped in a prison WORSE than anything ever before." Junior said in sorrow and anger, clenching his robe as he didn't want to gain attention with his identity hidden.
The Crystal balls then showed Lilith, angering both Junior and Luz before they each smashed one on the ground.
"This is all happening because of her." Junior growled out through grit teeth, feeling extreme hatred for her.
"She's gonna pay for this, I swear she will pay!" Luz said with a look of angry on her face.
"But first we have to get to the Conformatorium before that, we need to save Eda first!" Junior said, just as angry but keeping it under control as he nodded her back to the ally. "Let's get out of sight, I can fly us there on my scythe and keep us from being seen with my invisibility."
"Okay. Let's go." Luz said as she nodded to him, walking with him back into the alley. He summoned his scythe and made it float before them.
Junior step on the middle as Luz sat in front with King still on her shoulder, lifting up into the air and making them invisible before flying towards the prison where Eda was held. With Luz and King providing directions, Junior was able to find the menacing looking place easy and looked around for a suitable place to enter.
"Junior, down there." Luz said to him as she pointed to a convoy of sorts with prison carriages. "We can get in through there."
"Go it." Junior said with a nod before he flew them behind the prison carriages into the bottom level of the Conformatorium.
They got off the scythe and landed softly on top of a truck, staying together by Junior holding Luz's shoulder and King riding on the other. They looked over the edge and saw a coven wizard talking with a large man in a plague mask, a white sleeveless tunic with brass buttons, a leather belt with a brass buckle, and black trousers tucked into dark purple shoes.
"Who's that guy?" Junior asked softly as he was cautions of him, looking pretty strong compared to the other coven wizards.
"That's Warden Wrath, he's in charge of the Conformatorium." King quickly and quietly answered him. "He also had sort of a crush on Eda but that's a story for another time."
"If anyone knows where Eda is in her, it's him. We just need to get him to talk." Luz whispered darkly as she pulled out some glyph notes and grab the the scimitar handle, pulling it from the sheath.
"We move on three." Junior whisper as he held his scythe ready. "1."
Luz spun her weapon in hand before placing an ice glyph on it, making the sword a bit cold but bearable in her hand.
"2." Junior whispered as he and Luz got ready to jump.
'We're coming, Eda.' King thought as he clenched his small paws into fists, he wasn't a fighter but he will give them scratches for days.
"3!" Junior shouted as they jumped into the air, making Wrath and the coven wizard jolt in surprised from then noise before Junior lowered his invisibility.
"YAH!" Luz screamed as the plunged her blade into the ground, causing ice to erupt between Wrath and the wizard as they move to dodge.
"What is this?!" Wrath demanded before Junior swung him, forcing him to block the blade and gasp at who he is. "Y-You?!"
"Yeah, me!" Junior shouted as he pulled the scythe back and jammed the bottom into Wrath's stomach, making him groan over in pain.
"Warden Wrath!" the wizard said as he tried to help him but was stopped as Luz almost cut off his finger from drawing a spell circle.
"I don't think so!" Luz said to him as King dove at him and punched his face repeatedly, distracting him. "You're not gonna help anyone!"
Dragging her blade on the ground, Luz's glyph made a wave of ice sprout from the floor and push the wizard up to the ceiling while encasing up to his chest in ice. King jumped off after one last hit and landed near Luz before she went to help Junior with Wrath.
"Lord Junior, please! I meant no-" Wrath tried to beg before Junior threw a fireball in his mask covered face, making him stumble before Luz plunged her sword in the ground again to trap Wrath between spikes of ice.
"I don't care what you meant, you're gonna tell us what we want and you're gonna tell us now!" Junior said as he held his blade close to Wrath's mast, slightly stabbing into it.
"Where is Eda?" Luz demanded as she walked up to him, her scimitar pointed at him.
"E-E-Eda is being keep special holding cell! In the dungeon!" Wrath said as they slowly pulled their weapons back.
"Draw us a map!" Luz said as she sheathed her scimitar, pulling out a pencil and paper to hold out to Wrath. "Now!"
Using what little grip he could, Warden Wrath drew them the map to the dungeon and was left trapped as they left. Heading towards Eda's cell, Junior and Luz were able to take out the guards with extreme ease.
"If this is their best, I'm wondering how no one has broken out of her already." Junior commented as he looked back to see the guards trapped in ice, trapped in vines, surrounded by fire, or beaten to a pulp with shallow cuts on their bodies.
They kept going through the corridors before they came across a pair of doors with a look on it.
"This the place?" Junior asked as Luz pulled out the map Wrath drew for them.
"Yeah, this is it. King, watch the door." Luz said as she put the map away, walking to the door.
"We'll try to be quick." Junior said as he walked up to the door with Luz, seeing her place an ice glyph in the lock and freeze it.
The lock then crumble to pieces and allowed them to enter the door dungeon, making Junior and Luz use a light glyph or blue flames to shine inside.
"There she is!" Junior said as he pointed to Eda, still in her cursed form and sleeping on a platform.
"EDA!" Luz shouted as she ran to her with Junior following.
The sudden noise made Eda rise, knocking Luz back for Junior it catch as she turned to them and show she was collared and chained.
"REAH!" She roared as she charged at them but stopped when Junior made a circle of flames around them.
"Eda, stop! It's us!" Junior said as he held his hand out to her.
"Luz and Junior, you have to remember us!" Luz called out as Eda slowly stopped growling, shutting her eyes and opening them to reveal her normal golden ones.
"Kids? Kids! Wh-what are you doing here?!" She asked, somehow maintaining her mind while in her cursed beast form.
"Rescuing you." Junior said as he looked at his hands, remembering what happened to them when Eda was captured by Lilith on the bridge.
It would seem that his anger was the key to controlling his were-skeleton form, at least a bit but he had to be careful how angry he could get if he didn't want to lose control.
'I had never been that angry before but if I could do it again,...' Junior thought as he furrowed his brow, remembering that anger to try and force his curse out like last time.
"You can't cut through it, you're not strong enough! Neither of you. Just go! Get out of here." Eda pleaded to him as he and Luz shook their heads at her.
"I'm not leaving you!" Junior shouted at her as Luz agreed wit him.
"Neither am I!" Luz said as she pulled out her scimitar and placed a fire glyph in it, making a flaming sword. "Stand back, we're getting you out of here!"
Luz swing at the chain holding Eda but it wouldn't break and whenever the flames spread, the chain flashed and they died out.
"It's too late for me, but not for you two! You gotta go!" Eda shouted to them, making Junior angry enough at how she was just GIVING UP!
Eda has never given up before, so why the hell was she starting now!?
"I don't care!" Junior shouted at her, getting angry enough to force his claws out and scratch at the chain.
They still didn't break but Junior and Luz didn't quiet as they kept striking at it.
"It's my fault you were captured and it was my fault for stopping Junior from before! It's-" Luz said before Eda grabbed them both with each hand.
"Kid's, I need you both to listen to me. I got here with my choices and I can't let you two pay for them. I lived freely and by my own rules with no regrets, until you two came along and made my life even better." Eda said to them as she smiled sadly at them. "But that's why I need to you guys to leave, I have to protect you."
Eda tried to let out of them after she said her piece but they didn't let as they hugged her giant claw hands.
"But Eda...you're our family." Luz said as she began to cry.
"No, I'm not kids." Eda said as she forced them to let go, reaching into her hair for her portal key. "You both already have families."
Clicking the key, Eda summon the eyeball doorway into the dungeon and opened it for Luz and Junior to see a forest in the day time.
"You both need to leave and when you get back, destroy the key and the door." Eda said as she put the key around Luz's neck.
"Destroy it? Why?" Junior asked as Luz gazed at the door.
"Emperor Belos lied to Lilith about curing me, all he ever wanted was the doorway between dimensions and whatever he needs it for can't be good." Eda said as she pointed right at Junior. "And since you've got the potential to create dimensional portals like any reaper, I can't let him get to you either!"
Overwhelmed with emotions, Luz hugged Eda tight, surprising her before she hugged back.
"We love you, Eda." Luz said to her as cried a bit before looking to Junior, who just stood there gazing at the ground. "Junior?"
"...No." He said softly as his hand began to shake.
"What?" Luz asked as she didn't quite hear him.
"I SAID NO!" Junior shouted as he looked up and showed his heated tears going down his cheeks. "I refuse to just tuck my tail between my legs and run while someone I care about it needs help!"
"But Junior-" Eda tried to say before she interrupted her.
"Do you remember what I told you when you admitted your curse was getting stronger?" Junior asked her and answered for her. "You're one of the few friends I have, you mean so much to me. I said I don't want to lose you and I refuse to lose you!"
This statement made Eda smile sadly at him, not knowing just how much he cared for her until now. It was gave hope that she can get out of this alive.
"Heh, I almost forgot that kid." she said with a small chuckle.
"Now, what can we do?" Junior asked them, needing a new plan to try and get her out.
Before anyone could say anything, a siren was sound as the room began to flash read and the chain holding Eda transformed into a cage with magic energy bars.
"NO! Eda!" Luz called out as the platform she was on began to rise.
"EDA!" Junior shouted before he felt something inside him, something SCREAMING for him to let out and stop this!
Feeling his curse rising to the surface Junior screamed, soon becoming a howl as his anger grew! This was it, he was angry enough to force the change and become a hybrid wereskeleton form, he grew twice as tall with his arms and legs growing as well, and his skull became wolf like! But this time his flames burst from his body and gave him faux fur with his scythe bending to wrapped around his waist so it can become a bladed tail!
"No!" He shouted in a deep voice as he grabbed the platform, keeping it from taking Eda away and stabbing his tail into the ground to remain strong!
"J-Junior?!" Luz said in shock at his transformation. "How did you do that?!"
"Don't know, just angry but I don't care!" Junior shouted as he was slowly being lifted up before planting his feet into the ground. "I have to save Eda!"
Too bad for them, since King had failed to stop her from coming in, Lilith walked into the dungeon while holding the demon in hand and was shocked by what she saw.
"What is going on in here?!" Lilith shouted as Luz turned to her and glared at Lilith.
"You!" Luz said as she placed a hand on her scimitar handle as Junior was slowly being lifted off the ground but his scythe blade tail was keeping him from going.
"Oh no, no!" Eda said as she noticed Junior being lifted up with her. "Junior! No! You have to stop!"
"Junior?! That is Lord Junior/Junior?!" Lilith and King said in shock as they looked at the flaming bone beast, right before Luz jumped at Lilith!
"Yah!" She screamed as she drew her scimitar and slapped a fire glyph in it, making a flaming sword to swing at Lilith!
Lilith dropped King and raised her staff, making a wall of white flames to block the flames of Luz's sword. Back with Junior, he was halfway up with Eda as he kept trying to pull the cage back down.
'Come on, come one!' Junior thought as his claws dug into the platform, trying to stay on.
"Junior...I can't thank you and Luz enough for this but..." Eda said as she went to the bar, looking down at him with a sad look. "I'm sorry, you have to let me go."
"No!" Junior argued but Eda didn't give him a choice.
Using her beast like strength, Eda pried Junior's claws out of the platform and made it rise as he feel back to the ground.
'No, Eda.' he thought as time slowed down for him, watching as Eda disappeared through a hole in the ceiling.
He landed on the ground and stared at it, his emotions so tangled between sadness and anger before he took notice of Lilith and Luz's fight with King watching from the side.
'Lilith! This is all her fault!' Junior thought as his emotions chose anger and charged at Lilith, making her pay attention to him over Luz.
"RAH!" he roared as Lilith put up a barrier to block his claws, creaking it as the witch looked at him in shock. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
He slammed through the barrier and slashing wildly at Lilith, forcing her to constantly block before he swiped his tail, taking Lilith off her feet before he rammed her through the portal to earth.
"JUNIOR!" Luz and King shouted as they followed behind.
When they exited the portal, right outside of an old tore up house, they saw Junior and Lilith standing a good distance away from each other.
"My Lord! Please, stop! I don't understand!" Lilith shouted about all this anger he had towards her, she didn't think kidnapping Eda would effect him this much~
"Of course you couldn't understand! Someone who curses their family never would!" Junior said in rage as he growled at Lilith! "You should be in stone! Not Eda!"
At those words, Lilith became sorrowful as she lowered her staff and stared at the ground.
"I-I know." Lilith said in sadness.
Those made Junior stop his attack but still eye Lilith with rage and caution.
"What was that?" He demanded from her.
"I am well aware that I belong in Edalyn's place." Lilith said as she gazed at Junior, who started to calm down as the fire fur went out a bit.
"Explain." he simply said.
Lilith straightens herself as she explained her's and Eda's story, about how they were the best of friends before one fateful day and one stupid mistake tore them apart. Lilith and Eda grew up as the best of friends and dreamed of being the strongest witches alive, gaining spots in the Emperor's Coven would prove that but they ran into a problem, there was only one spot available. Both sisters knew that Lilith was the weaker of the duo and that would be a problem for their dream but Lilith thought she could find a little "help" to give her a better chance. Though, that just lead to more pain and sorry then they could've imagine as it was the very cause of Eda's curse and the start of her life as "The Owl Lady."
"Yes, I did but then after I found out it the truth when Edalyn gave up the match, I thought by working for the Emperor's Coven and capturing her, he would heal her but he lied to me." Lilith admitted as she fell to her knees. "I spent years hoping her would help Edalyn but he just used me so he could get something else."
"Like what?" Junior asked her with narrowed eyes.
"Her portal to this world." Lilith said as she pointed to the glowing doorway.
The more Junior listen to her, the more he calmed down to return to his normal form. he was still angry with her but his anger dismissed since now he knows it was a childish mistake fueled by false hope from a lying ruler.
"I don't know why Belos wants it but he is not getting this portal. As for hurting Eda, I promise you this, he dies today." Junior said calmly as his scythe unwrapped itself from his waist and returned to his hand.
"What?! You going to kill the emperor?!" Lilith asked in shock before Junior places his scythe near her neck.
"Yes, I don't care how powerful he is, no one can escape death. And you can either help me by saving Eda or just stay out of my way!" Junior said to her, not wanting her pathetic loyalty to a lying ruler to get in the way!
Though she wasn't surprised by his remaining hostility, Lilith gave a firm nod to him as her mind was made up.
"I will come with you to save Edalyn and I won't stand in your way if you wish to fast the emperor." Lilith said as Junior nodded to her and pulled his blade away. "And, to show my faith, I will return something I never should've taken."
Lilith drew a large spell circle and summoned two object's to her hands, Eda's palisman and her staff.
"Owlbert!" Luz said in happiness as she ran up to take the palisman and the staff, nuzzling the waking owl. "I'm so happy you alright!"
"Hoo." he let out as he looked happy to see her and Junior.
"I'm glad to see you, buddy." Junior said as he rubbed a finger on his head, petting him before he and Luz turned to Lilith.
"Listen, Lilith, I don't like your whole...thing but since you say you're gonna help up, welcome to the team." Luz said as Lilith gave a silent nod, accepting their trust.
Lilith rose from the ground as they all walked back to the portal but Junior and King stopped when they saw Luz looking over her world, taking it in after being gone for weeks.
"Hey, you'll see it again." Junior said to her as he and King waited for her. "Right now, Eda needs us. Let's go."
"Yeah, okay." Luz said with a nod as they entered the portal inside the tattered house, leaving Earth behind and returning to the Boiling Isles.
As they returned to the dungeon, Luz closed the doorway and hide it before they left to get to Eda with Lilith leading the way. Eventually, they were in a dark corridor with countless angel statues around them wrapped in strange looking vines or intestines of the titan before they stood before a round stone platform.
"This platform will take you up to the stage where Edalyn is being kept, you'll be able to get to her in time and stop the petrification." Lilith said as she gestured to it.
"Thank you, Lilith." Luz said as she held Eda staff in her right hand, Owlbert on it and resting as she, King, and Junior gazed at the platform.
"What about you?" Junior asked her as he and Luz turned their heads to her.
"I will stay in the coven and keep an eye on Emperor Belos, I'll do my best to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.." Liliht said to them with honest and guilty eyes, not wanting this to happen to her sister or anyone else.
"That's good to-" Luz tried to say before Junior stopped her.
"Wait, something's not right." Junior said as he looked around for anyone. "Why was it so easy to get her? If this platform is as important as you say, Lilith, why are there no guards around it?"
"Because I am here." A voice said from the darkness as Lilith and King have been wrapped in the intestines of the Dead Titan.
"Lilith!/King!" Junior and Luz called out as they were pulled away from the platform as a new light filled the cave.
The light was from an old throne with Belos sitting upon it, holding a strange yet technological staff in his left hand.
"Oh, Lilith. It's a shame that you had to chose the wrong side." he said as he commanded the vines/intestines to lift them up..
"NO!" Luz said as she tried to go to them but was trap at her feet as Junior jumped towards Belos.
"Let them go!" he demanded as he swung his scythe at Belos, who sat on the throne as a barrier pushed Junior back but he wasn't restrained like Luz.
"Little human and young reaper, the son of my Former master, I would like to have a word with the both of you." Belos said as he rested his head on his right hand.
'FORMER MASTER?!' Junior thought in shock as King and Lilith were pulled upward, right to the cage were Eda was being hold for her petrification.
"Junior, this guy served your dad?" Luz asked in shock and curiosity.
"Yes, I did. In my past, I served your father when he was a fine master. A reaper unlike any other. But overtime, I grew tired of being a servant." Belos said as he staid up straight up in the chair. "Especially after he began to serve that child he grew to marry. Who was that a- AH, yes! Lady Mandy."
"So, you're really a former servant who got mad at my dad because he married my mom?" Junior asked as Belos shook his head and chuckled at him.
"No, it's much more than that. I admired your father for his strength and his determination, no one could rival him except the other lords but all that changed when he meet your mother in her youth and was forced to become her "best friend forever."" Belos said as he voice grew grim and angry. "After that day, your father was no more than a plaything and a lapdog to her. He was no longer the pillar of strength and power I grew to see him as."
"And that's what made you quit." Junior finished for him.
"Yes, I refused to served a master who submitted to a child and from that day on, I swore I would serve no one and that all would serve me." Belos said as he turned to Luz. "But enough about me, let's talk about you. I see you have taken on a servant of your own with this human, hehehehe. How backwardly ironic."
"No, she's not a servant. She's a friend." Junior said as he pointed his scythe to Belos.
"Hm, I see. A human lover just like your father." Belos said to Junior as Luz blushed and grew angry at the comment.
Luz slammed the staff on the ground and made Owlbert unfurl his wings, flying into the air and escaping the vines/intestines.
"Let our friends go now!" she said as she flipped and slammed the staff into the ground, making ice spears sprout from the ground and head right at Belos.
They stopped right at his mask as it didn't look like he flinched with the mask on but they knew he didn't.
"Very well, children. I'll play." Belos said before he melted like water and vanished into the floor as Junior and Luz put their guards up, not to underestimate him since he served his father and he was the ruler of the Boiling Isles.
'Where is he?' They thought before Belos rose behind them.
"Let's see what you children can do." He said as he quickly drew a small, blood red spell circle, coating Junior and Luz in red magic before tossing them aside with the flick of his finger.
"AH" "WHOA!" they shouted as they back hit an angel statue, cracking it before the large axe it was holding fell towards them.
"MOVE!" Junior shouted as he and Luz dove to opposite sides.
Belos made numerous attacks at them but they were both able to defend themselves, Luz using her glyphs to destroy them before they hit and Junior using his "Necro-Flames" to burn them to ash and scythe to cut them. They both took tho the air, Luz on Owlbert and Junior on his scythe, and joined back together to launch a combined attack at Belos, who did nothing but stand in the same spot waiting for them.
"Luz, together!" Junior shouted as he held out his right hand filled with Necro-Flames.
"Yeah!" Luz shouted back as she drew her scimitar and slapped 2 glyphs on it, light and fire.
Belos just summoned a giant worm like creature from the ground around him and pointed it to them to eat.
"AHH!" Luz screamed before Junior grabbed her shoulder.
"TIME OUT!" Junior shouted as time froze before the worm could eat them. "FRY IT!"
Luz nodded to Junior before they both blasted the worm with their purple and golden flames, making explode as Junior unfroze time. They both looked to where Belos was but found nothing there.
"He's gone!" Luz said as they both landed on the ground, back to back as they searched for him.
"Hmm, impressive. You two have more fight in you then I thought." Belos said from the darkness as they looked around for him.
"Show yourself!" Junior demanded as he held out his scythe and Luz held her scimitar at the ready.
Soon, they were both strained to the floor with their weapons, including Eda's staff, dropping at their feet while Belos appeared from the shadows before them with his technology like staff in his right hand.
"But I'm afraid playtime is over." he said to them as they looked towards him, with Luz slowly smiling.
"Yeah, it is." Luz said as she moved her left hand, revealing she slipped an Ice Glyph on the floor and activated it to summon an ice spike.
"AAHH!" Belos screamed as it stabbed at his right eye hole, chipping a few piece of and cracking it.
Junior wasn't far behind as his necro-fire burned though his restraints and he grabbed his scythe, he swung at Belos and managed to get the entire right horn off before he was restrained again. This time with 3 times as much vines/intestines. An inhuman growl/groan come from Belos before he chuckled a bit and pushed his hand up his mask.
"Such spirit in you two, I like it." Belos said before he turned to them, revealing an eerie, blue glowing eye under his mask. "Try that again and things won't end pleasantly for either of you."
"You don't scare me." Junior said to Belos as the emperor began to pace in front of them, flicking his had to release them from their restraints except a vine wrapped around Junior's wrist.
'Huh?' Junior thought as he gazed down at it and tried to burn it off but it just glowed slightly and he felt a bit weaker. 'He's-He's siphoning my magic so I can't escape.'
"I know, but think of it like this. I am nothing but a simple messenger for the titan's spirit and will, his grand design is worth far more than the owl lady's life. Everything was going accordingly as he predicted, that is until the both of you showed up." Belos said as he stood before them, tilting his head down to them. "A simple human with magical potential and the son of my former master, throwing wrenches into the works. I will make this quick and simple, give me what I wish and the owl lady shall go free."
"And that would be?" Junior played dumb as he subtly reached for his scythe but the restraint on his wrist glowed again to stop him.
"I think we both know what I wish for, Eda's portal to the human realm." he said to them as Luz looked horrified at what he might do.
"But my home." Luz said to him before they heard a pained screech from above them.
"EDA!" Junior said in panic as they assumed the petrification had began.
"You probably think I want to invade the human realm but I do not." Belos said as he turned around and walked away a bit. "The titan's plan is not so boorish to come to simple conquest. You will both understand soon enough."
"Oh, I'm sure we will." Junior said with an eye roll, though he didn't have eyes.
"As for you, young reaper. There is also something I'd like that only you can give me." Belos said as he turned his head to look at Junior.
"And what could that possibly be?" Junior asked him.
"More time." Belos simply said.
"More time?" Junior repeated.
"Yes. You may not know this yet but a reaper has access to a being's hourglass, a magic item for all that represents the remaining time they have to live before the reaper comes for them." Belos said to as he turned around to face Junior. "It took quite a lot of my magic to break into this dimension and wield the great power of the titan, so much so that my hourglass is running out faster than it should."
"So that's why Lilith went to get the Bloom of Eternal Youth." Junior mumbled, remembering that con artist that he Lilith, and Eda beat the snot out out, but Belos could hear him.
"Yes but unfortunately it was a fraud. You are the only one in this entire dimension that could help me when the time is right." he said to Junior.
"But I don't know how. My dad never taught me how to access them." Junior said but Belos persisted.
"You'll find out how in due time but I would agree to my terms quickly or else it'll be too late for Eda." Belos said as they heard Eda's screeching continue. "Tick tock, children. Time is running out."
Junior and Luz looked to each other as Eda's screeches became more wild and painful, the process was bringing her suffering and they couldn't stand it!
"Alright!" "You win!" Junior and Luz said at the same time as Luz reached to her neck of her cloak, pulling out the door key and summoning it before her.
Belos watched in silent victory as it rose from the ground before Luz, who hugged it briefly to her body.
"Lo ciento, Mama." Luz whispered as Junior placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.
They both stood up before luz walked to Belos and handed the door way over to him in it's suitcase form.
"Take it." Luz said as Belos grabbed the handle.
"The titan thanks you for your cooperation." he said as he released Junior, letting his power flow in him once more. "Now, young reaper, as a show of good faith, I will not change my people's opinion of you. in exchange, I will still be waiting here when you do master that skill and add more time to my hourglass."
"Whatever." Junior said as he turned away from Belos, he and Luz picked up their weapons before stepping on the platform.
"Now run along children." Belos said as he tapped his staff on the ground, sending a command for the platform to rise and carry them to Eda, Lilith, and king. "Go play hero."
As the platform rose, Luz looked to Junior with a nod. Like they were agreeing on something they spoke of before.
'Do what you have to do, Luz.' Junior thought before he and Luz turned to Belos.
"I know we didn't win against you but doesn't mean we lost either." Junior said as he and Luz glared down to Belos, the human tapping Owlbert on the ground to activate something.
Back with the portal case, Belos looked down to at it to see that Luz has placed several fire glyphs on it and just activated them. The glyphs ignited and burst the case into flames, destroying Luz's only way home.
"Ahh!" Belos howled in surprise as he dropped the portal, now in tatters with only the golden eye left.
Belos glared up to them as they left, angered at their trickery!
'This. Isn't. Over!' Belos thought as he saw them disappear from his sight.
Leaving the fuming ruler behind, Junior and Luz focused as they rose before the cage Eda, Lilith, and King were imprisoned. They set their eyes on a strange, 3 faced Buddha like statue with sad faces and glowing eyes.
"Junior." Luz simply stated.
"Yeah." Junior replied as he reeled his scythe back, blazing it with necro-fire, and swing it at the statue.
The wave of demonic fire destroyed the statue as the crowd watching watching in shock. Eda screeched on last time in pain before the process stopped and she fell to the ground.
"Eda! No!" King said in worry as he turned to Lilith.
"I-It's alright, I can help her. The petrification wasn't complete, so there still a chance." Lilith said as she placed her hands on Eda, focusing her magic to help Eda return to normal.
"Young Lord reaper?! What is going-" Kikimora, who was heading the petrification, asked before Junior held his scythe up to her throat.
"No questions. Just release them." Junior said as he pointed to Lilith, King, and a mostly stone Eda.
Kikimora looked into his eye sockets, seeing nothing but a void of darkness and danger as she began to shack like a leaf in the wind.
"Yeah heard the man, release em!" Luz said as she held up a fire glyph, making a fireball in front of Kikimora.
"Ye-Yes!" She stuttered out as she quickly drew a spell circle at the magic cage, making it vanish as a nearly petrified Eda fell out.
"Eda!" Junior and Luz called out as they went to her.
"Eda, speak to us! Are you alright?" Luz asked as they saw the petrification slowly reverse and return her cursed body to normal flesh and feathers.
Eda opened her eyes, still golden, and looked down at her students.
"Good as I'll ever be." she said to them before the other wizards of the Emperor's Coven began to surround them.
Luz prepared to fight before Junior held a hand in front of her.
"I got this." he said before he burst out in flames, covering his body. "GET BACK!"
Junior stomped his foot and channeled his flames around the group, cutting them off from the coven wizards.
"Nice call, kid. Now let's get out of here!" Eda said as she lowered herself for everyone to get on before she flew them all away.
The crowd watching cheered as they left, soon vanishing from sight thanks to Junior coating them in his invisibility, but the coven wizards didn't not cheer as the owl lady had escaped the law again and Kikimora was glaring the hardest at the leaving group before she head someone stepping towards her. She turned around to see Emperor Belos was standing before her.
"My lie-" she cut herself off with a gasp as she saw the condition of his mask, the right side chipped and cracked with the horn cut clean off.
He ignored her gasp in shock as he walked before the crowd to address them.
"Children of the Isles! The Titan has told me to spare the owl lady's life but leave her in her monstrous form, her magic slowly draining away! As the young reaper, Lord Junior, protects her, there is nothing I can do but allow her time to come naturally." He proclaimed as he gazed down at his citizens, narrowing his showing blue eyes. "Let her curse be a symbol, a warning, of the dangers of wild magic."
As Belos promised he did not change the people's minds about Junior, but they were now a little bit concerned about Eda. If she lost all her magic, how would she avoid capture from now on? Back with Eda herself, she has arrived back home and crashed on the front dirt road as everyone got off of her.
"Eda!" Luz said with worry as she and Junior checked on her.
"Luz, go get her formula and mine! There could still be a chance to help her!" Junior said as he used his healing on her, it wouldn't help change her body back but it'll help with her exhaustion.
"I'm afraid that will do no good. No amount of elixir could revert her back after being in this state for so long." Lilith said as Luz and Junior looked to her.
"There has to be something we can do to help her! We can't just leave her like this!" Junior shouted at Lilith as she knelled next to him, gazing at Eda.
"I do know of one way but you will need to step back." Lilith said as she gentle held Eda's face in her hands, looking her in the eyes as Junior moved away from her. "I'm sorry, sister, for everything. For foolishly cursing you, for working for a deceitful ruler, and for not doing this a long time ago."
Lilith shut her eyes and placed their foreheads together as Junior, Luz, and King watched with hope.
"With this spell declared, let the pain be shared." Lilith said before a wave of magic over came them, lifting them into the air before their gems flashed brightly.
In mere moments, Eda's body returned to normal before her and Lilith descended back to the ground. The Clawthorne sister had their eyes shut before they opened them and gazed at each other.
"Eda!" Luz called out as they were happy to see her back to normal.
"You're back to normal!" Junior said before Eda and Lilith turned to them, showing noticeable changes after Lilith's "share" spell. "Ah- Almost normal."
True to Junior's words, Eda and Lilith had gone through some small changes in their appearances. They both now Heterochromia iridum, different colored eyes, with Eda's right eye being gold and her left being aquamarine as Lilith's eyes were the opposite with her right eye being aquamarine and her left eye being golden. Eda's gem color had changed and was now longer it's bright amber color, now the same dark black as if she was in her cursed form, while Lilith now had a gray streak of hair on her right side.
"Kids." Eda said as Luz, with King on her shoulder, went up to Eda and hugged her.
"You did, you fixed her." Junior said as he walked up to Lilith, giving her a small smile. "Not bad, still got a long way to go before you're fully forgiven but it's a good start."
Lilith smiled at Junior, giving him a silent nod as Luz broke her hug with Eda.
"What about your magic, can you still use it?" Luz asked as Eda pulled back to test her magic, drawing a small spell circle.
It didn't have the desired effect as it broke into small pieces and fell to the ground.
"That would be a "no." It's gonna take some time to get used to it if it's permanent." Eda said as she looked over her now magicless hands.
"I believe it is because of my spell, it took quiet a lot of magic to revert Edalyn back to normal." Lilith said as she stared at her own hands, feeling her own magic much weaker than before. "I also think my magic is greatly diminished as well."
"Hey, it's alright." Luz said as she pulled out a light glyph and put it in Eda's hand. "I think I can teach you both what I know. And whatever we don't know, we can learn together."
Eda looked at the glyph in curiosity before tapping it, crumbling it into a ball of light and letting it float off into the sky.
"I think I'd like that." Eda said as she Junior and Luz, who was holding King, into side hugs as they watched the starry night sky.
Lilith, though feeling a bit out of place, moved closer to them and enjoyed the moment of peace after a long and stressful adventure. As they watched the sky, Junior thought back to what Belos had told him about him and his father.
'Was mom really the reason Belos left or was it something else?' Junior thought as his smile slowly faded away. 'I'm gonna have to get in touch with him and ask because I got a feeling that guys isn't gonna quit that easily.'
Oh how right Junior was about that feeling as Emperor Belos wasn't giving up, not when he had at least one solid piece of the doorway to Earth left in his possession.
"The Day of Unity is almost upon us, Kikimora." Belos said to his assistant as she stood behind him, watching as his coven went to work constructing a dimensional gate way around the remaining eyeball of the old door. " And we still have much to do."
"And what of the young reaper? What shall we do with him?" Kikimora asked calmly to her master
"We will be keeping a close eye on him and the rest of the owl house inhabitants." Belos said as he turned to Kikimora. "And while the young Prince is powerful, he won't be that much of a problem."
"Understood, your highness." Kikimora said with a bot as he turned back to the portal.
"No one will be able to stop what is coming." Belos said as his eyes glowed through his mask.
'Not even you, Grim.' Belos thought as he watched his coven work.
Scroll list:
Chronokinesis: slowing down time. (Full Mastery, new limit: 8 seconds/8 minutes in frozen time.)
Dreamwalking: entering people's dreams or subconscious. (2 Attempt, Mastery.)
Healing: transferring life force to heal injuries or sicknesses. (Mastery.)
Invisibility: turn invisible to anyone. (Mastery)
Necrokinesis: kill someone or something with a single touch. (Mastery.)
Perception Alteration: manipulate a living being's perception of the 5 senses. (Mastery)
Possession: Possessing human minds. (1 Attempt, Mastery)
Resurrection: Bringing people back to life.
Soul Awareness: tracking souls.
Telekinesis: moving objects with his mind
Teleportation: teleport anywhere in existence or in mind.
New Combination Power: Blue Reaper Flames + Necrokinesis = Purple Cremation Flames, Necro-Fire.