At Hexside, Gus held a meeting with the Human Appreciation Society, wearing a paper crown with the word, "President" written on it. He presented the group with artifacts from the human world on the table, though they weren't exactly what he thought they were. One of them, an umbrella hat, had the label, "Food Bowl" written on it; another, a cheese grater, was labeled "Nail Trimmer"; and a Rubix Cube was simply labeled, "Weapon?".

"Behold. The wonders of the human realm. This little fellow is one of their most valued objects." Gus held up a little paper clip. "It aids in the compiling of printed wisdom, the scratching of gunk from under your nails, and my favorite‐‐ It even mimics the sounds of the human ocean." He gave it a twang. "Aah! The human realm. So beautiful. It's safe to say that the pay‐per‐clorp is a stunning testament to human ingenuity. Any questions?" The group looked incredibly bored and didn't feel like asking any questions. Then, a boy wearing the brown uniform of the Construction Track raised his hand. "Ah! Our newest member: Mattholomule."

"A‐Augustus, is this what the president of the Human Appreciation Society thinks passes as 'Human Artifacts'? Because at my old school, we had real treasures." Mattholomule shoved all the artifacts on the table and presented his own. Only they were even less convincing than Gus'. One was a rock painted to look like a cell phone, another was an egg with a skull painted on it and the last one was a shoe made from leaves. However, the group looked far more interested in them than they were with Gus' "artifacts".

"So real!" said a girl. "I want to touch them!"

"Go ahead," said Mattholomule. "In my club, we didn't have any dumb rules."

Gus gasped and patted the rules scroll like a puppy. "Shh. He didn't mean that." He frowned and snatched the artifacts from the other members. "Well, this isn't your club. Thankfully."

"Exactly, who thinks I should be president?"

To Gus' shock, everyone seemed to agree with him. He had to make sure Mattholomule wouldn't usurp him so he grabbed the artifacts and shouted, "These are fakes."

Mattholomule was taken aback. "Y-You can't prove that!" Then he regained composure and said, "You're just trying to distract these human appreciators. You're afraid of getting kicked out of office. It's your word versus mine."

The other members agreed with him again. Then Gus saw the newspaper clipping featuring Luz hanging on the wall and got an idea. "What if I brought in an expert?"

Mattholomule scoffed at him, "Yeah, right. Who can you find that's a bigger human expert than any of us?"

"How about a real human?"

That got everyone's interest. Mattholomule was not convinced, however. "Yeah. Uh‐huh. A‐And you've never brought your friend here. Why?"

"Well, she's busy. She's got a job. But I'll bring her in tomorrow. She'll prove I'm right."

"Ah, sure you will, Augustus. Sure you will."

Gus went to the Owl House after school and invited Luz to come with him to school. Luz, who was busy unpacking boxes of junk with Eda and Strix, declined. "Gus, I'd love to go to school with you, but I don't know how I can. Principal Bump banned me from Hexide."

"But nothing," said Eda. "Bump did you and Strix a favor. There ain't nothing for you at that dweebus factory. No offense, dweebus," she said to Gus.

Luz got up from unpacking and frowned at her mentor. "Well, I would love to go some day. Better than unpacking boxes in the Eda Coven."

"So do I," said Strix. "At least then I could actually have a better future than being a garbage boy for a lazy mother!"

"Oh, you two think you're clever, huh?"

"FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!"

"Can it, King! First off, it's the 'Bad Girl Coven' and second off, I guess you don't want in on the T‐shirt order, huh?" Eda showed them a doodle of a purple T-shirt with the words "Bad Girl Coven!" and a picture of Eda wearing sunglasses and a backwards baseball cap and riding her staff like a skateboard.

"Who cares about stupid T-shirts, Mom! I want to study magic just as much as Luz, but I can't do it unless you enroll! Heck, you never taught me at all until Luz arrived!"

"I mean, yeah, well-" Eda let out a grunt of frustration and slumped for the door. "I don't wanna hear another word about Hexside, unless it's 'Hexside is on fire' and 'let's grab front row seats'!" She slammed the door behind her as she left.

"Aw, look what you did," said King with feigned sympathy. "I'm gonna go rub it in," he laughed and chased after Eda.

Strix and Luz slumped down on the couch and sighed in disappointment. Gus had to think of a way to get Luz into Hexside, so he decided to give her what she wanted to hear. "L‐Luz, a‐about the ban, I, uh, used my H. A. S. presidential authority to pull some strings. You've been given a full pardon!"

Luz's eyes suddenly filled with hope as she turned to him. "You mean…"

"I got the ban lifted!"

"Holy gosh. Yes, yes, yes!" Luz let out a scream of joy, pulled Gus into a hug and spun him around. "Of course I'll be there tomorrow! Gus, this will be great! I get to see the school and save the president."

"What about me?" Strix asked, sounding a bit hurt.

Gus freed himself from Luz and said, "Don't worry, I convinced Principal Bump to let you in, too."

Strix didn't look as happy as Luz. In fact, he raised an eyebrow and said, "Really? Even after that little stunt I pulled in Potions 101?"

"Yeah, I heard. Swapped everyone's face cheeks with their butt cheeks. But, I talked with Principal Bump and he agreed to let you in. You still have to enroll like everyone else, though."

"He said that?"

"Yep. Tell you what, you can enroll after I make my presentation with Luz."

Strix thought it over. Then he nodded his head and said, "Deal."

"Great! I'll see you tomorrow!" Gus left the Owl House and as soon as he was out the door, he did a little victory dance. "Yes! You did it, Gus! You did it, Gus! You're the smartest! You're the best!"

"Sweet moves, little dude."

Gus let out a yelp when he heard Hooty. "I always forget you're there."

"I forget I'm here too. Boop."

Gus ignored him. "This is gonna work out after all."

"This isn't gonna work out at all," Willow said the next day outside school.

"Well, I feel like I took care of any potential problems."

"You lied to our best friends and told them you got the ban lifted. That seems like a potential problem to me!"

"You don't understand. The members were going mad. They were bloodthirsty. They were touching objects. I had no choice!"

"Really? What about all the wanted posters around school?"

"What wanted posters?" Gus opened his bag and showed a whole bunch of posters. "I also got this." He took out a Hexside owl. "To keep Luz undercover."

"And what about Strix?"

"There's this." Gus held up a face mask.

"Undercover from what?" Luz asked as she and Strix walked up to him.

Gus immediately put the cowl on her and the face mask on Strix. Albeit, backwards. "Behold your new cowl and mask!"

Luz readjusted it and smiled. "Whoa. I love it." She gave it a sniff. "On the Boiling Isles new things smell old."

"Yep. Put it on. Hide your ears," Gus chuckled. "Wanna keep you under wraps 'till the big reveal." Willow frowned at him.

"Oh, a showman. I totally get it. You bring the razzle, I'll bring the dazzle." Luz said, throwing confetti out of her pocket.

Willow raised an eyebrow at her. "Do you always have confetti on you or…"

Strix readjusted the mask and said, "Why do I have to wear this?"

"For it to be a surprise, of course! You want to let everyone know you're going to Hexside before the big time?"

"What big time? Gus, what's going on?"

Suddenly, Gus' stop watch (or rather, a little demon with a clock for an eye) screamed. Gus pushed the watch's eye to make it stop. "That's my alarm. Uh, we better get going. See you after school, Willow." He grabbed Luz and Strix and took them inside the school.

Luz called out, "Bye, friend. Be safe. Make good choices."

Willow sighed. That was something Gus should be doing. "Oh, Gus. I hope you know what you're doing."

"I'm trying to protect them," Eda ranted to Hooty. "Hexside chews up anything unique and spits out bland mush." She crushed a flower to emphasize her point.

"I chew insects," Hooty said stupidly. "I turn them into mush."

"But that's my beef. Do they need to draw their own conclusions?"

"My beef is insects. They're what I eat."

Eda made a humorous smirk at the owl door knocker. "You're just gonna be unhelpful, huh?"

"All I know is, you taught me and I turned out just fine."

As Eda watch Hooty try to eat a fly buzzing around him only to fail miserably, she realized that maybe Strix was right. She was undoubtably the worst teacher she could be for both him and Luz right now. "I gotta get those kids into school."

At Hexside, two bullies were playing keep away with a poor boy's backpack. "Hey! Give that back!" The bullies only laughed as they mocked him only for their laughter to stop when they were pulled aside by two men with stitched closed eyes and wearing black uniforms with blue hoods and upside down skull masks. They sniffed the bullies and let out a growl. "Trouble." They then proceeded to drag the bullies off with crooks.

"No," one of them shouted. "Not detention!"

The other shouted, "The only thing I'm guilty of is being too real!"

Luz and Strix watched the scene with mild disturbance. "That's new," she said.

"Well, they kinda showed up after your last visit," said Gus. "They smell trouble. Literally."

One of the creepy hall monitors suddenly turned his head in their direction. "Trouble."

Gus chuckled nervously and grabbed Luz and Strix. "Okay, time to run for no particular reason." They ran down a hall until Gus bumped into Mattholomule, who was drinking at a water fountain. The posters and his president crown spilled onto the floor and Gus picked up the posters quickly before anyone could see them.

Mattholomule sneered at him as he picked up the crown, "Augustus, you should really watch where you going. Don't want the president of the H. A. S. getting hurt on his last day in office." Then he looked at Luz and said, "This must be your human. Hmm. Looks like another witchling to me."

Strix frowned at him. "I don't like that kid."

Gus whispered to Luz, "Psst. Psst! Dazzle."

"Oh." Luz made a trumpet sound and took lowered her hood. "Ta-da!"

Mattholomule took one look at her round ears and gasped. "A human!"

"Not just any human. An expert human," said Gus as he took the crown back from him with smugness.

"Yeah. I've been doing this for years," said Luz with a smirk as she raised up her hood.

"She's here to authenticate your treasures. See you at the meeting," Gus said as he, Luz and Strix walked past him.

Mattholomule was panicking. There go his chances of being President of the Human Appreciation Society. "Oh, no, no, no, no! They can't know I lied. Then they'll never make me president. Huh?" He saw it. One of the banned posters Gus accidentally dropped. A wicked smile spread across his face. "Ooh, Gus, I have you now."

Eda stood outside Hexside, grumbling to herself. "Ugh. I had this nightmare before." However, in spite of hating the school that she caused trouble in, it was worth it for both Luz and Strix's sake.

"As president of the H. A. S., I should feel bad about dunking on one of our own members. But as a Gus I feel like doing this," Gus began to do a victory dance. "Oh, oh, yeah! Oh, yeah, what, oh!"

Luz and Strix saw the trophy case and walked over to it. "Well, look at that! Mom's got a trophy in Grudgeby," said Strix.

"Wow! Who got the trophy for the most bones?" Luz asked.

Suddenly, a hall monitor turned to her direction and sniffed. Gus gasped and grabbed Strix and Luz and ran with them. "We don't have time for this right now. We gotta get to the clubroom."

"Okay. But next time you have to give us a full tour."

"Yeah, next time," Gus said nervously.

Luz saw a familiar face. "Ooh. It's the abomination professor. I should introduce myself. Apologize for the incident." She walked up to the little man and said, "Hey, Mr. Abomination Professor. The 'abominominator.' Remember me? Roaaar!" The teacher just gave her a look of confusion.

Gus grabbed her and began to drag her and Strix off. "Oh, wouldn't you know? We certainly have time for a full tour of Hexside."

"I wonder if that potions teacher has forgiven me?" Strix wondered.

"Been quite a while since I've sat here, huh," Eda asked as she sat in Principal Bump's office, feet on the desk. "I gotta admit it's extra weird without you yelling at me for picking fights or stealing."

Bump used his magic to remove the chair from under her. "I can easily change that."

"Ow!"

"What are you doing here, Edalyn?"

Eda sat back into her seat. "I want to‐‐ Prft!" She paused to blow some hair out of her face. "I want to enroll Strix and my human, Luz, at Hexside. And before you get all judgy‐‐"

"That's not a bad idea."

"You no-good‐‐ Wait, really?"

"I think the student body could learn a lot from having such an exchange student. And Strix has a lot of potential, heard he's starting to use magic on his own now and without that cursed Mask. But before I even consider that, there's a lot to be answered for." Bump used his magic to flip her upside down as he dropped a huge folder full of files onto the desk.

Eda sat back in her chair. "All right. Yeah. I heard all about that abomination incident. And that incident where Strix swapped everyone's face cheeks with their butt cheeks."

"Oh, I'm not talking about Luz and Strix," Bump said, glaring at her. "I'm talking about the necrotic experiments, the graffiti, the scams, the cheating, Miss Jenkinmeyer's teeth." Eda shrunk in her seat. "The trouble you caused when you were here, Edalyn."

Eda looked at the file. On it was a label, "Permanent Record: Edalyn Clawthorne". "Huh. I thought there'd be more."

"This is where we play the sport," Gus said after he took Gus and Strix to the outside ball court.

The girl playing the sport with a griffin screamed as it carried her off and dropped her into a basketball hoop. "I hate this game!" she screamed.

Luz, Strix and Gus laughed and applauded. But Gus stopped when he saw a guard look in their direction and sniff. Quickly, he grabbed his friends and ran back inside.

Luz and Strix peered through the door window of another classroom. "Ooh. What's in here?"

"The Plant Homeroom," said Gus.

Inside was a greenhouse with all kinds of strange and unusual plants and fungi. They were being tended by students in the Plant Track, Willow among them. One of the plants tried to eat one of the students, but Willow managed to get it to spit her out. "Willow, hey!" Luz waved to her. Willow smiled at her and waved.

Gus smiled and waved at her. "Hey!" Willow stopped smiling and shook her head. "Bye!" He dragged Luz and Strix along.

"And this is where I spend my time, The Illusion Track Homeroom," Gus said as he pulled Strix and Luz to another classroom, this one had a lot of mirrors hanging on the walls and sitting on the desks. Luz and Strix immediately recognized two of the students, Amity's older twin siblings, Emira and Edric.

Emira cast a spell that made her legs taller. Edric cast a spell that made himself handsome. The teacher, a three-eyed purple demoness, gave them both good marks. The third student, a nervous-looking red head girl, cast a spell and...her face entirely disappeared. She let out a muffled scream until the teacher brought her face back.

Luz saw a strange sight: Gus' twin sitting on a desk doing homework. Since when did Gus have a twin? "Wait, if you're here, who is that?"

"That's one of my illusions. It takes notes for me when I'm not around," explained Gus. The other Gus held up a note that said "I'm not paying attention!" and laughed at him. The real Gus frowned. "He doesn't always do what he's told."

"That's impressive, Gus," said Strix.

"Yeah. I moved up a couple grades." Suddenly, Gus' watch screamed. "Oh! Time for the H. A. S. meeting."

"Wait," said Strix. "When am I going to enroll?"

"After the meeting I promise."

The trio left, but not before Gus glared at his illusion and gave him a "I'm gonna kill you!" gesture. The illusion gulped.

Gus put his crown on and entered the classroom, hearing the other members chanting, "Human! Human! Human! Human!"

"Human Appreciation Society..." he announced, twanging his paper clip. "...it is my distinct pleasure to introduce to you..." Luz moonwalked into the classroom and nearly tripped in the process. Then she took off the hood and revealed her round ears. "Luz, the human." Everyone exclaimed with excitement and asked for more. Everyone except for Mattholomule. "Luz, will you inspect the items?" Gus showed her the artifacts on the table.

"Of course, Mr. President. Allow me to determine if they're truly of my realm's origin."

Just before she could inspect the artifacts, Mattholomule suddenly shouted, "STOP!" and he shoved them all off the desk. "Don't make another move, human!" He paused then said softly with a hint of sadness, "I have something to say. I'm new here at Hexside. M‐Making friends has been hard so I lied. They're all fakes." Everyone gasped. "I thought if I was important enough people would like me. But I've caused enough drama. So, I'll go. I'm sorry."

Gus stopped him before he could leave. Luz said, "Hey, man. It's okay. You're only human. Well, you know what I mean."

"I'll be new to Hexside too," said Strix. "I'm probably going to go through the same thing."

"Mattholomule, you aren't alone. You have a place here in the H. A. S.," said Gus. The other members agreed and welcomed him into their folds.

Mattholomule smiled. "Thanks, guys. I knew you'd understand."

Eda let out a groan of annoyance as she was handed a bucket and mop. "I don't wanna do this!" she said through gritted teeth.

"There's the whiny rebel teen I remember," Bump said, patting her shoulder. "You'll need this to clean up all the hexed graffiti you left us. Good luck."

Eda stuck her tongue out at him as he left her with her work. But no matter how much she tried, the graffiti on the lockers moved away from the mop. At one point, the graffiti rearranged itself to say, "Mother, nooooo!" Eda groaned. It's all for Luz and Strix. It's all for Luz and Strix!

"Thanks for coming," the members of the H. A. S. said to Luz, Gus, Strix and Mattholomule as they left.

"Hey, Augustus, Strix, Luz, thank you for being so forgiving," said Mattholomule.

"We've all been the new kid before. Right, Gus?" Luz said.

"Yeah."

Mattholomule smiled. "Well, I just have one thing to say..." Suddenly, the door swung open and two hall monitors stepped in. "THERE THEY ARE!" Mattholomule tore off Luz's hood and Strix's mask. "THEY'RE THE INTRUDERS!"

"Trouble," they hissed.

"No, it's fine," Luz said casually. "The ban's been lifted. Tell 'em Gus." Gus just made a guilty face as she and Strix were grabbed by the hall monitors' crooks. "Gus! Tell them!"

Mattholomule smirked at Gus. "Oh, who's the liar now, Augustus?"

Back at Plant Class, Willow was having thoughts as she watered her giant mutant fly trap. "Maybe I've been too hard on Gus. I mean, what trouble could they get into?"

"HELP!"

"Huh?" Willow looked out the door and gasped when she saw Luz and Strix being dragged off by the hall monitors.

"AAAH! I DON'T EVEN LEARN HERE!" Luz screamed.

"Luz! Strix!"

"Where are you taking us?!" Strix shouted as he tried to free himself and Luz from the hall monitors.

"Detention," the one holding him growled.

"Detention?! We don't even go to this school!"

"Well," Luz said, afraid. "That won't be so bad, right?" She was proven wrong when she saw that the door to detention had three eyes and a gaping, salivating mouth with fangs. "AAAHHH!"

Back with Gus and Mattholomule, the latter was rubbing it in the former's face. "I can't believe you three fell for that. Like I'd actually apologize."

"What did you do?" Gus demanded.

"Ah, boo‐hoo. I'm sorry. 'I am the new kid. I want friends.' Ha! No. I want power. And I want drama. And I got one of those right now. So, what are you gonna do, Mr. President?"

Gus reared his right fist back and for a moment, Mattholomule thought he would actually punch him, but instead... "Executive action!" And then he punched the fire alarm.

The next thing Mattholomule knew, he and Gus were being dragged to detention. "But I didn't pull the alarm! It was Augustus! Are you even listening to me? I demand justice!"

The hall monitor dragged them into the monster door which slammed close. Willow watched from behind a locker.

Detention was a relatively small room with nothing but stone walls and floors. "Wait," Mattholomule shouted, pounding on the door. "Hey! Get me outta here! Open up!"

Gus saw his friends hiding behind two rocks. "Luz! Strix!"

"Gus," Luz cried. "You said the ban was lifted!" Strix said nothing but gave him a look of disappointment.

"Well, I..." Whatever Gus was going to say next, he was interrupted when the floor suddenly opened, revealing a cavern of flesh and teeth. Dangling from its walls were the bodies of students bound in jelly cocoons. Luz let out a scream.

"Hold on, I'll get us out of..." Strix reached into his pocket only to feel nothing. "Oh, right. Mom put another seal on the Mask."

Meanwhile, Eda had finished exorcising the changing rooms of the ghosts she placed when she was a child. She exited the room exhausted, covered in ectoplasm and carrying a bag full of ghosts. She dropped the bag and grumbled to Principal Bump, "There. The girls' changing room is ghost‐free."

"Are you ready to give up? You've barely scratched the surface," he said, flicking some ectoplasm off her hair.

Eda made a feral growl in response. Then she saw two girls talking to each other. "No, like this," the first girl cast a spell that created a fireball that turned into a snowball.

The other girl giggled with her as she cast the same spell. "Wow. Friendship is the real magic." The two girls let out another giggle as they hugged each other.

Eda let out a groan. "They're just as bad as Luz." She then smiled and chuckled. "She'd love it here. And Strix would make a lot of friends his age here." She turned to face the principal. "All right. What's next, Bumpikins?" He handed her a toilet plunger. Eda let out a groan. All for Luz and Strix, she reminded herself. All for Luz and Strix.

"HOW IS THIS DETENTION?!" screamed Luz. "THIS IS A DEATH SENTENCE!"

"I don't know!" shouted Gus. "I've never been in detention before!"

"You know what?" Strix said to Luz in fear. "I don't wanna go to this school anymore!"

Mattholomule laughed as he said with a smirk, "Welcome to my world. Believe it or not, in my old school I was in detention plenty of times."

"That isn't hard to believe," said Luz. "You're kind of a jerk."

"Well, down in detention, this jerk is king. So, if you wanna get out, you better do exactly what I say. But first, before anything else, we gotta‐‐" Suddenly, a snake with a human-like face spat a blue jelly that wrapped itself around his leg. "Already?" The boy let out a yell as he was cocooned and left hanging from the wall of flesh like the other kids.

Stryx glared at Gus. "You lied," he shouted. "You lied about the ban, you lied that you'd help me enroll into school! Why?! Just so you could keep that stupid paper crown?!"

"I was afraid," Gus responded. "I acted stupid!"

"Yes, you did," Luz snarked.

Gus explained sadly as he shimmied to Luz and Strix, "Being younger than everyone is hard. You're overlooked. Ignored. But at the H. A. S., I mattered. I could make sure no one would ever get left behind. I didn't wanna lose that. I'm sorry."

Luz and Strix gave him a sympathetic look and the latter put a hand on the boy's shoulder. "I get it. I just wish you told us the truth." Gus smiled.

Suddenly, more of those human-faced snakes started to crawl out of the pit. "Let me make it up to you, guys," said Gus. "I've got a plan."

One of those snakes hissed at Luz, only for it to get karate kicked in the neck by her. "I'm in. Where do we start?"

"By leaving no one behind," Gus said as he took Strix and Luz's hands.

"Do we have to?" Strix asked. "I mean, considering what he did..."

"STRIX!"

"Fine, Gus! Sheesh! Don't make me regret this."

The kids jumped down to the pit and found Mattholomule's cocoon. An eerie voice echoed from within it, "You will be a good student."

"I will be a good student," Mattholomule droned.

Luz tried to use her teeth to rip the bully out but to no avail. "You know, it didn't taste as bad as I thought it would. Oh, you're a witch. Do magic!"

"Oh, I'll use magic," Gus said as he took out the paper clip from his pocket. "Human magic!" He unfolded it and used it to tear open the cocoon.

"Am I...a good student," Mattholomule asked, dazed.

"Nope," said Strix as he put the boy over his shoulder. "Ooh, he's so light."

Suddenly, the snakes reappeared and hissed at them. "This is part of the plan, right?" asked Luz.

"Or the illusion of a plan!" Gus cast a spell circle and produced multiple copies of himself, Strix and Luz. The snakes struck at them, only to find they were just copies.

"A genius and a wordsmith," Luz complimented him.

The kids climbed up the wall, kicking and punching at the snakes every time they got too close. When they reached the top, Gus picked up a large bone and headed for the door. "We're gonna have to bust down the door."

"Right behind you," Luz said.

Strix followed behind them, still carrying Mattholomule over his shoulder. Luz and Gus lifted the bone up and charged at the door with a yell.

Meanwhile, Willow was right outside the door. She checked to make sure no one was around, then lifted up the door's latch. Suddenly, she heard Eda coming around the corner. "I washed off all the graffiti. Apologized to Jenkinmeyer for stealing her teeth. Caught all the wild cerebi. Ah, we should be good."

Principal Bump nodded and shook hands with her. "It will be very exciting to have a real human exchange student. And I'm sure Strix will be very happy to be here."

"And you won't tell the Emperor's Coven about this, will you?"

"No. Hexside School is safe for you both. I'm the principal, not a stooge. Consider your pupil our pupil. The same goes for your son."

Suddenly, the door to detention crashed open and Luz, Gus and Strix ran out, panting heavily. Luz realized her mentor was here. "Eda?"

"Mom?" Strix panted, just as equally confused as Luz. "What are you doing here?"

"Guess who got you both into Hexside," Eda sang with glee.

Strix wasn't sure he heard her right. He felt Mattholomule slip from his arms as he said, "Did...did you say..."

Suddenly, the snakes loomed behind him and Luz and they let out a scream as the snakes hissed at them. Principal Bump snapped his fingers and the snakes suddenly went docile. "Uh, sorry, Principal Bump. Sir," they said as they retreated back into detention.

Bump glared angrily at Luz and Strix. "What did you two do?!" He huffed at Strix in particular, "Like mother, like son. Nothing but trouble!"

"Ugh, kids," Eda said face palming.

Bump said to Eda, "To think that any student of yours would be capable of doing anything but create chaos... Eda, take your student and your son and leave! You are all banned from this campus!"

Strix's heart sank and he fell to his knees. "Strix..." Luz said, helping him up. Although, she was one to talk. She could feel the sadness in her heart as well. And after everything Eda did, too!

Eda just groaned. "Come on, kids. Let's go."

Strix felt tears run down his face. "I'm...so sorry, Mom..." Eda walked up to him and Luz and pulled them into a hug. The waterworks began and the two kids began crying.

Gus couldn't take it anymore. "Wait, Principal Bump. Don't blame Luz and Strix. I told them the ban was lifted. We were fighting over the Human Appreciation Society. I brought Luz in because I wanted to win and I told Strix he was allowed to enroll. This is all my fault."

Luz and Strix wiped their tears as they watched Gus confess to the principal who raised his left eyebrow. "If that's so, Augustus," he said sternly. "Would you be willing to accept their punishment as your own?"

Eda put her hands on her hips, impressed with the boy. "Huh. Dang, dweebus."

"Very well." Bump said to Luz and Strix, "In light of that, barring any more trouble, you shall officially be enrolled in Hexside School next semester." Luz let out a gasp of delight while Strix felt his face stretch into the stupidest grin ever.

"Uh, hold on. Hold on," Eda said to Strix and Luz. Bump turned his head away, this was a moment for her and her pupils. "I'm only doing this because I have faith in you. And I know you're too smart to fall for that One‐Witch, One‐Coven nonsense. You can learn a lot from the witches here. And maybe teach them some of that Bad Girl Coven magic too."

"I didn't hear that," Princibal Bump said. He then said to Gus, "As for you, I would be saying detention right now but that seems to be out of order. So, as of now, I'm removing you from the Human Appreciation Society." He took the crown off his head.

"Does that make me president?" Mattholomule asked, his voice a bit muffled from lying face down.

"Impressive. Still alive. Yes, I suppose you are." Bump nonchalantly tossed the crown onto his head.

"Yes!"

"Now, with that accomplished, Eda, we have some paperwork to fill out."

Eda spluttered, "Wait! I gotta do more stuff?! Ugh!" She followed after Bump, shoulders slumped forward. "You two better enjoy this place, kids."

Luz and Strix smiled at Willow and Gus. "Wanna finish off that tour?" Gus asked.

Willow said, "I can show you guys what plants not to touch in the greenhouse. And then I can let you touch them."

Strix smiled and nodded. Luz said, "Yeah! Let's go."

"You hear that, Hexside?!" Strix shouted with glee. "Strix Aluco Clawthorne is a-coming, babies!"

Everyone laughed and walked off to continue their tour. And as for Mattholomule? He was left behind. "Hey! Wait. Take me. I'm your president. Oh. Come on." Needless to say, the Human Appreciation Society wouldn't respect their leader after that.

Back at the Owl House, Luz and Strix examined Eda's old permanent record. In it was a list of all the pranks pulled by Eda in Hexside. Things like letting ghosts in the girls locker room that told horrible puns, starting a food fight in the lunch room with abominations after someone stole Lilith's lunch money (which had to be stopped by Eda, Lilith and the thief after the abominations gained sentience and rebelled), hexing the sound system to sing boy band songs nonstop, letting giant bugs lose and making a griffin puke up all over the Grudgby field after feeding it spicy snacks.

Luz said, "Wow! Bump was not exaggerating. You were a terrible student."

"I can't wait to top all this," Strix said.

"Hey, I didn't get you and Luz into school just to see you get yourselves expelled," said Eda before chuckling, "Besides, you could never top me even with the Mask. Which I'm not letting you have."

Strix smiled at his mother. "Never say never, Mom."