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Paris rounded a corner, before swiftly ducking down an alleyway in Bonesborough. An ensemble of heavy footsteps approached before the stocky forms of Conformatorium guards came into view.
"I think she went this way!" a guard yelled, pointing further down the street.
"No, she went that way!" Another guard argued.
"We came from that way Joe; how could she have passed us?!"
"Well, she could of."
Paris, having removed her mask and cloak stepped out of the alleyway, not an eye batted in her direction as the guards continued to argue which way she had gone.
Putting on a glammer charm earing, Paris smirked at another plan going off without a hitch.
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It had been a few days since Paris and Luz had visited the Library with the twins. Apparently, whilst Paris was... elsewhere, Amity had shown up not long after they had found her hideaway. Getting the wrong Idea, she yelled at the twins to leave whilst Luz tried to apologize.
Before getting attacked by a vandalized book, of course.
Paris only came in at the last moment, but it seemed that her faith in Luz was well put, as the younger human used one of the crono-reset glyphs she had given the twins on the monster's book to save both herself and Amity.
Paris Pulled out the Azura book she had borrowed from Amity, and, putting on her glasses, double-checked she had stolen the correct item. Finding it was right, she put both the book and glasses back into her satchel and headed to Eda's 'Human Collectables' Stand.
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"What... am I looking at?" Paris asked with a flat face as she stared at the glowing sign above Eda's stand.
"Oh hi Paris! Like the sign I made?" Luz greeted, not wavering from her usually ecstatic self.
"Sign? What do you..." Eda asked confused, before looking up at the overly-flashy sign that Luz had made. "LUZ!"
"Did I spell something wrong, or did I spell something right?" Luz asked suavely as Eda ripped the sign down.
"Stop that." Eda jotted a finger at Luz. "You may be forgetting something, Luz. I'm kinda... on the run! Remember?" Eda pulled up one of her wanted posters. "Every guard in town would be at my doorstep if I had my name in lights!"
"Isn't Paris on the run too?" Luz asked as she noticed Paris walking up next to her.
"Yes, except I have a disguise to hide my true identity, this," Paris gestured to the sign, "is the opposite of a disguise."
"Well, I don't see anyone right now. Maybe you're just being paranoid." Luz asked. "You're a powerful witch. Why hide when you can 'poof' all your problems away with magic?"
"Luz..." Paris rubbed the bridge of her nose. "That's not how problems work."
"Come on, Paris, what does Luz know about problems anyway?" King piped up "All she has is dumb teen drama! She doesn't understand how hard some of us have it."
"You're pampered all day like a dang baby. How hard is that life?" Eda asked.
"Well, I don't know if you realized, but I'm not a baby!" King ranted.
"Then why are you screaming like one?" Luz asked, smirking.
"My life is a living nightmare!"
"Guys, can you please just calm down, and agree that each of you has your own problems before Eda suggests... the thing," Paris asked.
"The thing?" Eda asked with a confused look before realization washed over her. "Oh right! The thing!"
Paris deadpanned. "I only blame myself."
"What's, 'the thing'?" Luz asked.
"There's only one thing to do when friends can't see eye to eye. Know what that is?!"
"Hug until we pass out?!" Luz grabbed King into a hug.
"FIGHT TO THE DEATH!" King waved his fist.
"Both of those, are horrible answers." Paris facepalmed.
"Nope!" Eda said, leaning closer, "Body Swap™!"
King and Luz looked at one another.
"...You sure you don't shoot venom?"
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"Ah, I love a good Body Swap™!" Eda sighed happily. "It's like demonic possession with the ones you love."
"We're doing that? That's possible here?!" Luz questioned excitedly. "It's just Like my favourite early 2000s movie, Freaky Fraturday!"
"Luz, to correct you're earlier question, you guys are doing that," Paris said. "Body Swaps™ and I do not mix well." She added with a shiver.
"...Okay then. But now that I think about it maybe we should consider this for a..."
"Body Swap™!" Eda interrupted, twirling her staff above the three of them as Paris stood to the side.
"Oooh!" Luz awed, forgetting what she was just saying as a wave of light fell down over them, sending smoke everywhere. "Did it work? I need a mirror!" Eda's voice exclaimed as Paris watched her run straight into a mirror. "Found one..."
"So I'm guessing Luz is Eda then..." Paris muttered.
"Oh, my gosh. It worked! I'm so old... and pointy!" Luz smooshed Eda's face before her own body walked up next to her. "Hot dog! It's me!" She then gasped.
"Yeah, it is. I'm the human now. Bow before my massive, meaty hands!" Luz's body announced.
"And King is Luz, meaning..." Paris looked to the remaining smoke that was dispersing.
"How do I look?" King's body asked, surprisingly having long eyelashes.
"I've got some very confusing emotions right now," King stated.
"All right, here's the deal," Eda made King's body step forward. "Whoever can prove their new body has the easiest life gets out of house cleaning duty. And you know what that means."
All three shuddered at the thought.
"Okay, today has been long enough for me without all..." Paris waved her hands at the three others, "this. So I'm just going to be using one of the greatest spells of all." Paris sat down in a chair and took out a glyph.
"Ooh! What's that?" Luz asked, intrigued.
"Sleep," Paris answered as she slapped the glyph on her forehead, falling unconscious immediately as the glyph disintegrated.
"...Well if you need me, I'll be getting pampered on a vacation fit for a king." Eda laughed as she left.
"MY LIFE IS NOT A JOKE!" King shook a fist after her before looking at Luz. "But yours is! Bap!" He quickly booped Eda's body's nose before scampering away.
"Heh, those two are clueless. I have this in the bag..." Luz said as she absent-mindedly made a spell circle that blasted a stream of energy, knocking her over.
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"Thank you! Come again!" Luz said as she waved away another customer from her magic-induced sale spree. "Man, I am on fire, Paris!" Luz said to the still unconscious human. "Yeah, that's right, Luz the witch is doing great!" Luz continued despite the lack of response. "There's a little something for everyone. Take it from me, Eda, the Boiling Isles' gift to magic!"
"Is that right? You're the famous Eda the owl lady?" A suddenly appeared cloaked figure asked.
"That depends. Are you a fan... of magic?" Luz asked, taking her top hat off and pulling out a bouquet of sentient flowers.
"No, but I am a fan of..." The cloak fell away to reveal a Conformatorium guard, "the law."
"Wuh-oh." Luz gulped.
"We're finally able to catch you in the act. All thanks to this little light show of yours." A second guard gestured to the brightly illuminated stand as the first slapped shackles onto Luz left arm.
"Gentlemen, whaddya say we forget this whole thing ever happened? Amnesia spell!" Luz made a spell circle that conjured a giant dummy in the second guard's mouth. "Haven't quite got the hang of this yet... Paris Wake up!" Luz shot a beam of magic at Paris.
"Reflect..." Paris murmured in her sleep as she held up a glyph that created a barrier that, did indeed, reflect the beam.
"Attacking an innocent? We'll have to take her in for questioning too." The first guard said as the second continued to suck on the dummy.
Luz gulped.
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"Look, guys, you got the wrong Eda." Luz tried to tell the guards that were watching her whilst still trapped inside the interrogation room they had put her and the still snoozing Paris.
"Hello, Edalyn." A new voice said as two people entered the room. Luz rotated her head to see who had spoken only to watch as Eda's sister sat down at the table Luz was already sitting at.
With Calamatis flanking her, arms crossed.
"U-uh, f-finally a-a familiar face!" Luz stammered as she began sweating a river, trying to keep her gaze away from Calamatis. "You're Eda's sister, right? Is it Libby? No. Limby..."
Lilith, blinked slowly, her face remaining impassive. "Your show of affection is touching. Do you know why you're here?"
"Well, as I was telling the guard, this is just a classic Freaky Fraturday mix‐up." Luz attempted to explain. Calamatis turned her head away as she barked out a cough, which Luz raised an eyebrow at.
"Sister, the charges against you are long and many. Operating a stand without a permit, owning a hocus without a pocus..."
"Yeah, that list goes on for a while..." Luz gave a weak smile.
"And, of course, being associated with that rat, the SpellSlinger," Calamatis growled.
Luz blinked as her eyes darted to Paris in slight confusion.
"And what is this person doing here?" Calamatis shouted at one of the guards.
"Uh, um, she was attacked by the Owl Lady, so, we had to take her in as a witness." The guard answered weakly.
Calamatis gave a blank stare. "Eagh, fine. At least wake her up, you idiots."
The guard nodded before going over to Paris and slapping the back of her head.
"OW! Luz what are you..." Paris began before she realised 2 things. 1: it wasn't Luz, and 2: she was in an interrogation room. She whipped around to Luz, an expression of fury blossoming on her face. "LUZ..." She growled.
"Eheheh... I can explain?" Luz shrugged, resuming her sweating under Paris' gaze.
"Well, I hope... you... do..." Paris stopped as she saw Calamatis. "Callie..." she whispered.
"Eh-hem." Lilith cleared her throat, drawing everyone's attention. "Look, we're getting off track here. Eda, these charges are serious. There's no more running away now."
"Yaga damn it, Luz..." Paris muttered as she groaned.
"I know. I can't just 'poof' my problems away." Luz averted her gaze, speaking more to Paris than Lilith.
"But we can!" Lilith's expression brightened. "You getting caught was clearly a cry for help. Join the Emperor's Coven, like we dreamed about when we were girls."
"Eda wanted to join the Emperor's Coven?" Luz gasped in surprise.
"Okay, Lilith, I only agreed to come to get information on my old associate." Calamatis interrupted. Then she pulled her hood back. Paris's blood ran cold and Luz gaped in shock.
"So," Calamatis began, tucking strands of silver hair behind rounded ears, "What. Do. You. Know." She leaned uncomfortably close to Luz.
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Luz drew out, still not over what she was seeing.
"Welp. I've had enough."
Everyone turned to see that Paris had taken out a large, A3 sized paper out of her bag and affixed it to the wall, a glyph sitting idle on top of it.
"Time to go, Luz." She declared, slapping a hand over the glyph, causing it to glow like molten rock before shattering the wall in an explosion, sending smoke everywhere.
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"Well, that was horrible," Paris commented, slamming open the door to the Owl House, leading everyone back in.
"Agreed." Everybody else concurred in unison as they all fell back on the couch with a large, exhausted sigh.
"Hey, Paris, I have to ask something," Luz asked, now back in her regular body.
"Ugh, what now, Luz?" Paris groaned, not even mustering the energy to look at her fellow human.
"Why didn't Calamatis Recognise you?"
The question proceeded to hang in the air heavily when Paris did not answer.
"Hey, yeah," Eda piped up, "Every time Ol' Red and Angry sees you out of costume, she has no clue who you are."
Paris sat up straight, still not looking at her friends.
"Well, I guess that's an easy answer." Paris frowned sadly. "I erased her memory of me. And cursed her to never remember me."
Luz gasped.
Paris continued. "I thought, I just thought, that if she forgot about me, she may be happier. But I was wrong. Whilst she did forget about me, she didn't forget the anger she felt for me, and that, that drove her to hunt what she remembered hating, my masked persona, the SpellSlinger."
Nobody spoke after that. Drifting back into silence.
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Yes. That was an Adventure Time reference.
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