Did some art for the story, it's not the best but it's something.
Been updating other stories and doing the first chapter on some others. If you're interested in voting on what story I should post next, wait to the end!
Until then, enjoy the (relatively shorter) chapter.
Paris, tired from projects in her workshop, gave a stretch as she entered the living room. In there, there was King, who was sleeping, Luz, who was watching Eda and Owlbert play cards, and Eda and Owlbert, playing cards.
Hexes Hold'em, to be exact.
Paris stared at the room for a long moment, considering her options.
"Nope," Paris said aloud as she turned right around and headed for her room. Her journey was cut short by a shout from Luz.
"PARIS! EDA'S CURSE IS BACK!" Luz called.
Paris gave a long, drawn-out sigh as she turned around and headed back to the living room.
Somehow (LUZ!) being dragged to the market with the others, Paris sat with King and Luz as Eda rapped on a potion seller's grated window.
"Is there anything better than people-watching in the Demon Realm?" Luz said happily as she watched people waiting for the 'egg bus' as she described it, only for one to be left behind. "The curse of tiny legs."
"I know the pain." Kind inputted.
Paris made no effort to contribute to the conversation. She had no idea why she let Luz talk her into coming, there was nothing for her to do here, and it really wasn't all that exciting compared to what she did on a regular basis.
What did catch her attention, though, was Demon Hunters, back from a fresh catch.
"Whoa, that is one ominous parade," Luz said. Eda turned to see what she was talking about.
"That's no parade, those are demon hunters; dangerous nomads who capture and sell the most powerful beasts," Eda explained to the human. "Which is what I'm about to be if you don't open up Morton!"
"What do you think about the Demon Hunters, Paris?" Luz asked the elder human.
"Well, for someone who avidly promotes magical beast protection and conservation..." Paris folded her arms and glared at the hunters, who were shocking the beast into unseriousness. "You can get a rough idea of how I feel about them."
Luz backed away from the powerful magic-user as she radiated a deadly aura. He attention was diverted though when she spotted Willow and Gus, leading her to run over to them.
"Heya, friends!" Luz greeted, before noticing the downtrodden looks on their faces. "Wait, what's wrong? Who hurt my babies?"
"Them." Willow pointed a thumb over her shoulder. Luz looked over to see the quote-unquote 'Mean girls' standing there. "Amity's having a moonlight conjuring and invited everyone but me."
"And she keeps posting about it on her Penstagram account!" Gus added, holding up his scroll.
" 'It's conjuring night! No dorks allowed'? What a jerk!" Luz folded her arms. "What's a moonlight conjuring?" She quickly asked, realizing she had no idea what it was."
Willow seemed to brighten a bit. "You spend the night at someone's house, telling stories, playing games..."
"Like a slumber party! We have those!" Luz said.
"And then you bring something to life with moon magic!" Willow finished.
"...Like a wired slumber party!" Luz corrected herself, still ecstatic.
"Gus and I have never been to one; you need at least three people and..." Willow was cut short by Luz.
"I'm three people- I mean, we're three people, and we're way better than them!" She gestured to the mean girls.
"Sorry, you couldn't get an invite to the conjuring, Willow, only real witches allowed." The three-eyed witch, Boscha, mocked.
"Leave her alone; it's not her fault she was born without talent," Amity said, mostly ignoring the three friends. Her eyes did widen for a fraction of a second when she saw Paris standing behind them, much to everyone else's obliviousness.
"You three a doing a moonlight conjuring?" Paris asked in a flat tone, announcing her presence.
"AHH! PARIS!" Luz exclaimed in shock, jumping back much like Gus and Willow.
"I'm glad you reminded me that's it's a moonlight conjuring time, I was running low on... certain supplies." Paris vaguely stated.
"What supplies?" Luz asked, fearing the answer.
"Rocks," Paris answered.
"Oh. Well, yeah! We're going to do a midnight conjuring!"
"Are you serious?" Gus questioned, "This was on my bucket list, after owning a real human bucket!" He pulled out a list and ticked off the box next to 'Moonlight conjuring'.
"You know there's already a tunnel under Hexside, right?" Paris asked the young witch.
"There is?!" Gus gasped.
"Okay..." Luz looked side to side awkwardly. "I'm going to go tell Eda!"
Luz ran back tot he potion store where Eda was. "Eda, Gus and Willow and I are gonna do a moonlight conjuring and stick it to Amity, so can we..."
Eda quickly shot down the idea. "Not tonight, I'm going out. I need you to watch the house, I have many precious objects in there."
"Like me!" King cheered.
"You're coming with me; I need an extra pair of eyes looking out for pickpockets, and an extra pair of hands in case I want to pickpocket," Eda told the small demon, lifting him up.
"But can't Paris look after the house?" Luz asked.
Eda was about to point out a flaw in Luz's logic but couldn't find one. "Okay fine. But you'll have to ask Paris, and if she says no..."
"Yep got it, Eda, thanks!" Luz called as she ran back to Paris.
"PARIS! Parisparisparisparis, PARIS! Can you look after the Owl house so we can have a moonlight conjuring?" Luz pleaded. Willow and Gus took their human friend's lead and gave hopeful looks to Paris.
Paris looked at the three and thought. "Yes, but on one condition."
"Yes! Paris, anything!" Luz agreed hastily.
"You need to have it at the Owl house. I'm not having you running around where you can get in trouble." Paris then thought for a moment. "Well, trouble I can't get you out of, that is."
"Yes!" Luz high-fived Willow and Gus. "Moonlight conjuring baby!"
"Moonlight conjuring!" they cheered.
"Alright, I'm off now," Eda said as she threw on a maroon cape. "Paris, you're in charge."
"Got it." Paris nodded, wearing a black sweater and navy-blue pants.
"Luz, don't do anything stupid," Eda said to the smaller human.
"No promises!"
Eda narrowed her eyes.
"I'll try not to?" Luz shrugged with a weak smile.
"Best I'm getting. Okay, King and I are leaving now."
"Wait, where is King?" Luz asked, looking around and not spotting the small demon.
"He's right here." Eda parted her cloak to show King strapped to her chest, and completely asleep. "His little body just conks out when he's weightless. Look at this." Eda proceeded to sway from side to side, King's limbs following the motion like a rag doll.
"Aww, he's so dangly!" Luz cooed.
"Anyway, I really do have to leave now, before these feathers start sprouting up anywhere else. Bye!" And with that, Eda disappeared into the forest.
"You guys can come out now!" Luz called to the bushes. The bushes exploded into leaves, revealing Willow and Gus were hiding in them thanks to Willow's magic.
"I'm a sneaky sneakster!" Willow said.
"I've got leaves in my pants!" Gus announced. "And I like it!"
"You know you didn't have to hide till Eda left, right?" Paris pointed out. The three friends stared blankly at her, apparently not realizing that they could. Paris sighed. "Okay you weird little munchkins, I'm going to be in my workshop tonight. Please only interrupt me if something bad happens, or you cause something bad to happen, either of which I will solve, but not be happy to do so. Also, don't mess up the house, Eda won't be happy."
"Okay!" the three cried their agreement.
"Okay, what?"
"Okay, Paris!"
"Thank you, now goodbye," Paris said as she left to further into the house.
Paris sat in her workshop, carving out an idol from a piece of rock she had sitting in the moonlight.
"Heh, I never did specify to Luz that the rocks I was using were golem stones..." She chuckled to herself. Then she paused. "Do golems count as rocks? I mean, they're made of them..." Paris pondered before shrugging and returning to her work.
Setting aside the finished golem next to four others, she picked up the next rock one and began the work on it.
Was what she would have done if her workshop didn't begin shaking violently.
"What the..." Paris set her tools down once the shaking stopped and walked to the door.
Throwing it open, she was quite surprised by what she found behind it. Which, somewhat ironically, was nothing.
The Owl House was gone.
"LUZ!" Paris shouted into the night.
"I've never pranked anyone before. And now I have a taste for it!" Gus said after the friends had just finished prank Boscha.
"We should follow her to Amity's house to show off our conjuring," Willow suggested. "That will show her who's got no talent."
Luz looked over to the moon, which was dipping in the night sky. "Actually, I'm starting to think we should head back."
"Amity's updating her Penstagram." Gus said, having conjured his scroll and showing it to Luz.
"Shout out to my fellow witches. #Humans can bite it." Luz gasped "Let's do it."
It was at this moment that Luz's phone began ringing.
"Huh, wonder who's calling me?" Luz said as she brought her phone out to answer it. "Yellow?"
"LUZ!" Paris's voice blasted through the phone, causing Luz to wince. "Where is the Owl House?!"
"Whaaaa? What are you talking about? The house is where it always is." Luz tried to play off the question. There was no response for a few moments.
"Luz put me on facetime," Paris demanded. Luz winced again, bringing the phone away from her ear as she hit the video button, causing Paris' deadpan face to appear.
"Show me Hooty." She told Luz. Luz begrudgingly complied and turned the phone to the glowing-eyed house demon. Paris made a long, drawn-out sigh. "Yep, you animated the house. Stay where you are, I'm coming to get you."
"Wait, how are you going to find us?" Luz asked.
Paris deadpanned again. "Oh, I don't know, maybe I'll follow THESE GIANT BIRD FOOTPRINTS!" Paris turned the camera to show exactly that in the mud, leading away from the crater which the house left from. "Which reminds me. Keep on your guard, somebody else could have followed you." And with that, Paris ended the call. Luz looked to her two friends.
"Well, I guess sticking it to Amity is off the table." Willow slumped.
Luz's eyes flicked to the phone she was holding, before back to the green-haired witch. A smile spread across her face.
"Y'know, Paris won't catch up to us for a while, we still have time to do it," Luz suggested.
Willow looked like she could have kissed Luz she was so excited.
Luz had not thought what to do if they were captured. Maybe she should have listened to Paris.
"Take the house and rip out the house demon. We can sell it to restaurants as exotic meat." The head demon hunter told his subordinate.
"No! Hooty would taste terrible!" Luz attempted to sway the hunters.
"Hey, I'm a refined taste. Hoot! Hoot!" The tranced Hooty defied.
"What do we do with the worms?" One of the hunter's asked, referring to Luz, Willow and Gus.
The head hunter gave them a grin that was wildly unnerving. "Throw them over the cliff."
Paris flew through the forest, following the new tracks from a large wagon.
'Of course,' Paris thought to herself, 'Of course Luz had to not only take the house for a joyride but get herself captured in the process. I am honestly that close to just shoving her back into the human realm.'
Her train of thought was thrown off when she finally spotted the Owl House. The only major difference with it was the pair of chicken legs protruding from the massive clump of dirt at the bottom of the house. There were Demon Hunters surrounding the house, but where were the kids?
Paris silently touched down and knocked out a nearby hunter with a kick to the head. None of the others had noticed yet. Paris took a deck out of her bandolier and readied a gas spell. She edged around the wagon, using it to block the view of the hunters so they didn't see her.
Reaching a corner, she assessed the Hunters and decided which one to target. Rounding the corner, she stopped mid-swing when a thorny vine with a large leaf raised from the cliff, carrying Luz Willow and Gus on it. All the hunter paused to stare gob-smacked at the spectacle.
Paris chuckled. "Never underestimate dryads." She flung the spell card at one of the distracted hunters, gas quickly spreading out from the point of impact and enveloping him and nearby hunters. They all began coughing violently before dropping unconscious.
"Paris!" Luz cried happily.
"Not now Luz!" Paris called back, throwing a fire spell at another group of hunters. "You three need to get the house back where it belongs, Now!"
"Got it! Got it!" Luz said, running past the veteran spellcaster with Willow and Gus to get to the Owl House.
"Did we do it?" Luz asked her friends when they had successfully returned the Owl House. The door creaked open to show a dazed Hooty.
"Is the room spinning or is it just me?" Hooty chuckled. "Ah. Just a little house humour. Ooh." He winced, feeling exhausted.
"Sorry about that Hooty," Luz apologized, rubbing the back of her head.
"It's okay. I'm just glad I was included." Hooty replied.
The door was then quickly and suddenly closed By Eda, Paris and King standing next to her.
"Oh boy..." Luz said, knowing she was in trouble from not only her human mentor but her witch one as well now.
"You are so busted," Eda said to the young teens.
"Oh, man..."
"You animated my house. My house!"
"I did!" Luz admitted.
"You didn't listen to Paris, who I left in charge!"
"Yes!"
"No. Don't punish Luz. We're the ones who pushed her!" Willow stepped between Eda and Luz, defending her friend.
"If you're gonna eat me just do it now. Do it now!" Gus included.
"Hey, you didn't have to do that," Luz said to Willow.
"Yes Luz," Willow disagreed, "Yes I did."
"Well, you're all guilty, so you'll all be punished by cleaning my house top to bottom," Eda told them as she conjured cleaning supplies for them. "And another thing..." Eda turned back to the kids, who all gulped. "That was totally amazing. And I'm so joining you for next year's conjuring. Now get to work." Eda then fell back onto the couch as the kids scurried away to get started on their task.
"I can't believe they animated a whole house," King commented.
"Hey, yeah." Eda agreed. "Especially on their first conjuring. What do you think, Paris?" Eda looked to the Ruby-haired human.
Paris almost didn't hear her, instead intently staring at Luz. "It almost shouldn't be possible."
"Yeah, it does take some powerful magic to animate a house." Eda chuckled.
"Not only that, but they suppressed the will of a house demon as well, all unintentionally." Paris corrected. "Sure, I can do that all by myself now, but I've had years of training, and have a contract with a being of great magic." Paris continued. "If I had to guess, Luz has about as much magic as I would without my contract."
"Whoa, that is something." Eda was now staring at Luz as well. Paris meanwhile was thinking intensely. Moving to her cloak, she pulled out a card. On it was a light glyph, one of, if not the, most unmalleable spells.
"I wonder..."
Well, there's your chapter, hope you enjoyed it.
Now, here are some stories that I have an idea on posting, leave a comment saying which one you want!
Hilda (Carton) – Rose Wilderflower
One Piece (Anime/Manga) – Hydrophobia
Carmon Sandiego (Cartoon) – Carm0n Sandieg0
Kipo and the Age of Wounderbests (Cartoon) – Apex Predator
Destiny x Star Wars (Crossover) – Dusk before Dawn
Adventure Time (Cartoon) – Zoe Abadeer the Demon Princess
Tell me what you think should be next!