Bow woke up in the guest room next to Glimmer, who was snoring loudly. She was hugging her pillow and drooling in her sleep.

"Heh. And she says I snore" he kissed her on the forehead.

Stretching he walked to the kitchens, where the butler and bakers were preparing breakfast for the

guests. And of course, small food and fizzy drinks for Entrapta.

"Good morning, Master Bow" The butler presented him with a mug of coffee.

"Ah, thank you, baking brigade" Bow sighed deeply, inhaling the rich aroma.

"BOW!"

"AH!"

Bow splashed coffee all over his face. Luckily, it had cooled. He turned with a flat, annoyed expression.

Entrapta had appeared out of nowhere. Probably from the vents.

Good, you're awake, you have to see this!"

"Can't I finish my coffee first?"

"No"

Bow sighed.

Entrpata led him to the computer room. She leapt onto her office chair and spun around.

"This is what I found when I called your tracker pad. I think I've isolated the portal that brought your friends here. But there's a bigger issue" she pointed to an icon located above the whispering woods. It was a skull and cross bones in red that was blinking with a warning alarm.

Bow blanched. "Belos" he whispered. He gasped. "The woods! He's still there! Oh no! My Dads!"

"More importantly" Entrapta continued. Bow glared at her. "I've been tracking him all night. It just may be possible to send everyone home. Him too."

Bow nodded, swallowing hard. "Ok. Etheria doesn't need another Horde Prime. I'll go wake everyone up.

Everyone gathered, bleary eyed after a quick breakfast in the kitchens. Bow and Entrapta filled them in.

"Oh, Bow" Glimmer said as she and Adora gave him a hug. Catra gave him a pat on the back.

Anne looked up, sipping her coffee as Sprig bounced off the walls next to her.

"No more coffee, boy" Hop Pop said baldly, taking Sprig's cup.

"That's probably best" Luz said, taking a huge gulp. Hop Pop took her cup and Anne's too.

"Aw!"

"I'm getting apple blood withdraw" Eda complained.

"Wait" Anne rubbed her eyes. "Can this thing take us home? Like home, home? Earth?"

She glanced at Luz. Luz turned a pained look to Eda and King.

"Potentially!"

Anne rubbed her eyes again, this time wiping away tears. "Woah. Ok. Lots of emotions right now. Remember to text me, Luz"

Luz looked troubled. "Guys I dunno if I'm ready for…"

"Too late!" Entrapta pulled a switch and everyone screamed. There was a blinding flash of light, but the other worlders were not gone. In fact, there were three more people.

"Guys?" Luz said in wonder.

There on a heap, groaning in pain and confusion were Willow, Gus and Amity.

"Guys!" Luz squealed and hugged her friends.

"Ow" Gus groaned.

"I broke my glasses" Willow complained.

"Hey it's my other dumb kids" Eda said cheerfully.

Glimmer helped Willow up gently and drew a spell circle around her glasses. They repired and Glimmer handed them back.

"Thanks" Willow put them back on. "Woah, okay we are ina scary labyrinth. Nooo problem…"

It sounded like it was a problem.

"Luz?" Amity said, blushing. "Where are we?"

Entrapta turned on her recorder. "Update. Experiment is a failure. There are now more strange children than before"

"It didn't work" Bow breathed "Dad"

"No time to explain" Luz helped Amity up. "we have to go to a library."

Slowly, Amity grinned.

Bow led the way through the woods, his mouth a thin, tense line. Anne looked back at Luz and ribbed her gently in the side.

"So, that's Amity"

Luz blushed. "Cut it out, we're just friends"

"Riiiight"

"Anne!"

Luz chased her until they reached a large library.

"Lance! George!" Bow cried, bursting through the door. "Dad! Where are you guys?"

"No need to shout, son" George's calm voice answered. He appeared, Lance behind him.

"Oh hey it's Bow and the girls" Lance said cheerfully.

Bow and Glimmer, Adora and Catra all breathed a sigh of relief.

"And...other people" George noted, bemused. "Bow what's going on here?"

"Lance, George!" Bow said. "Thank goodness you're ok!"

"Why wouldn't we be ok?" George asked.

"There's a crazy witch named Belos lose in the woods!"

"Belos?" Lance asked. "Tall man? Wears a broken mask with deer antlers?"

"You've see him?"

"He was very polite. Asked to borrow some of our books on the First Ones and the magic of Etheria."

"Belos has always been good at getting what he wants, kid" Eda told Bow. "He has the entire Isles conned into his stupid coven system"

Luz and Amity, meanwhile were enamored with the books.

"Psh. Nerds." Anne called.

"Shut up Anne" Luz grinned.

"Heh"

"Bow never said his dads had such an amazing library" Luz marveled. Bow rubbed his temples and sat down on the couch next to where Luz was examining a scroll.

"Largest on Etheria" Bow told her. "Oh man I feel a headache coming on. Lance, George how could you guys be so careless?"

"Can I borrower some of these books too?" Luz asked. "If I could figure out glyph magic, maybe I could fins something in these books that can help us somehow."

"Please take all you need" Lance said, bringing tea and cookies into the library.

Amity selected a book and read the cover.

"She Ra, Princess of Power" Amity whispered. "So cool" she blushed "I mean, so lame!"

Willow raised her eyebrow and smirked.

Adora grinned and transformed. Amity's eyes widened.

Adora basked smugly in her awe.

"Ignore her" Catra said "She loves to show off"

Gus and sprig were stuffing their faces with cookies.

"Drink some of that tea boys before you choke" Hop Pop instructed.

Sprig gagged.

"Dang it, boy"

Lance brought out more tea.

Gus drew a spell circle and a blue illusion double of himself took the tray with a bow.

Lance laughed in delight as illusion Gus placed the big plate of chocolate chip cookies on the coffee table in front of Willow. Willow was holding Polly in her bucket and was idly making lilies appear in the water.

"Don't mind if I do!" Polly said. Her jaw opened unnaturally large and she swallowed all of the cookies whole.

Luz was so engrossed in a book it almost didn't register. Then her head shot up in alarm.

"Gus! Willow! You used spell circles!"

Luz took out an ice glyph "so it's not just glyphs that work here"

King squirmed onto Eda's head. "Except for Eda here. Weh!" Eda shook him off and he toppled onto the couch.

"Witches get their magic from the Isles." Eda said. "Sorcerers like Sparkles here get their magic from the earth. Same basic concept."

"Sparkles" Glimmer mouthed.

"Huh...I wonder…" Amity drew a spell circle and suddenly there was a bright flame. Everyone screamed and there was a slight commotion until Luz used her ice glyph to put the fire out.

Amity clutched her chest in fright. "Oh my gosh, why do I always default to fire?"

Anne went back to devouring a new place of cookies. "Um, don't wanna be a downer or anything but like…doesn't that mean this Belos guy can use magic here too?"

Bow turned to his dads. "Did Belos tell you anything about were he was going?"

"Now that you mention it he said something about Brightmoon being fa ailure and the next best thing. He was looking at a map…" Lance took out a huge map of Etheria. "Here"

He pointed to Plumeria.

To be continued...