"Oh crud. Oh crud! Oh CRUD!" King hastily scoops up the Abomination concoction back into the pot. His eyes quickly dart to the stairs to watch out for either Amity or Luz to come down and see the mess he caused. Keeping his ears perked for any sounds from upstairs, King cleans up the spills before getting to the purple substance.

Fortunately for him, the abomination goop doesn't stick to anything and easily slides off the surface of the table and even from the floor. He arranges the bottles back to their positions from what he could remember, and the other materials laid out too.

King lies out the area as exactly as it was. He couldn't do anything about the chemicals and potions being smaller than before. He can only hope they won't be able to notice.

But the real issue is where all those contents have ended up in. King nervously stares at the pot containing their project he had carelessly ruined. Remembering the warnings Amity had given to Luz, he wonders if he should just fess up now.

"Oh," King groans at the dilemma, "Maybe it won't be so bad! Abominations are just giant dumb creatures. Slaves without all the moral conflictions that makes it weird!" But even he couldn't convince himself after seeing what they are capable of with a proper witch controlling them. What if it goes on a rampage? What if it attacks Luz and Amity?

But they'll think he did it on purpose because of their fight. Who would believe him falling off the couch and bumping into the table as an excuse? Luz got really mad at him for snapping at Amity. How would she react to him ruining their project?

"No," King shakes his head, "I should still tell her, this stuff could be dangerous. But… Amity did say it could just be a small mess too. If that's the case, then they'll just think they messed up and move on. Yeah, no harm in that. If something goes wrong, then I'll just fess up! Haha… ha…"

He sighs and hunches over in defeat, "Some friend I am… I should just tell her…"

"King?" Luz's voice calls from atop the stairs, "Is that you?"

The little demon panics and hurriedly scans around for the available exits. The kitchen can't work. She might be able to see him. He can't go out the front door either, she'll hear Hooty hollering. The only solution he could decide on in the small window of time is to dive and squeeze underneath the couch.

Luz makes her way down expecting to see King waiting for her. She frowns, seeing the little guy nowhere in sight, but could have sworn she heard his voice. "Right…" Luz sighs, "Guess he's still avoiding me…"

King stifles any noise from his mouth and carefully breathes through his nose. He watches Luz walking around the couch before sitting down at the spot right above him. The slight indent from the weight presses down on his back, but King silently takes the pressure without making a peep.

Luz felt the slight stiffness in the seat but shrugs it off, being a new couch and all. She glances back up the stairs knowing Amity still being up there taking a call from her family. Luz turns back at the table and rests her head onto her arm.

"Guess it's just you and me then," she said to the closed pot containing the Abomination, "Not that you're alive since Amity has yet to drop that wake-up juice in you."

King felt the pressure of her weight increasing as Luz tucks her legs to her chest. He lets out a silent gasp for air but still refuses to move or come out.

Luz sighs, unaware of her body weight pressing down on him. "I could really use someone to talk to though. I don't want to bother Eda with this kind of stuff again and I don't think King is still in a mood to talk… So far, things seem to be going great between me and Amity. Here we are. Talking about things, working together, and saying cute things like we're flirting… oh gosh we are flirting."

Please don't tell me this is how I'm going out, King worryingly thinks to himself. Getting slowly crushed is bad enough on its own without the last thing he hears is someone's lovelife.

"I wonder if it is okay with everyone though." King lifts his head at that, ignoring the pressure on his back as Luz continues in a somber tone. "King doesn't seem to care for Amity… I can't entirely blame him, after what they went through. But it's not her fault either, the more I know about her situation the more I feel bad for her. She has such a hard life compared to mine. I guess that's why I'm so focus on making her happy. Seeing her smile gives me a feeling different from others'. I don't know how to explain it… I guess it's like some sort of joy of having people laughing at your joke, but it only matters to me if she's laughing. As long as she's happy, then I'm happy. And I really want to make her happy. Geez, just listen to me… I bet if someone was listening, they probably think how incredibly dumb it sounds."

And to King, it was incredibly dumb. At first. Now, he's silently trying to hold back his tears and not break into a sob. A demon who gets visibly disgusted by PDA but is a closet sucker for romance. King may not care much for Amity, but he never meant to go against Luz's feelings. He should have learned his lesson from before with Willow and Gus and yet here he is hiding under the couch after possibly sabotaging their project. The guilt heavily weighs down on him like the pressure from the couch that is still squeezing down onto his spine.

"Are you still there, Luz?" Amity calls for her as she starts to make her way down the stairs.

Luz pulls herself out of the self-reflection moment she's having and hops over the end of the couch, finally giving King a chance to properly breathe. "Present!" she calls back.

"Sorry, my twins called to give me a heads up about our parents, but they mostly used it as an opportunity to talk my ear off." Amity leans over the couch and asks, "How are you feeling?"

"I'm good, thanks for saving my stomach," Luz said while patting her belly.

"You should be more careful next time, if I hadn't noticed-" Amity pauses to look at the table, staring directly at the bottles and dry ingredients. Luz checks her gaze and asks, "Whats up?"

"Did you…?" She ponders for a moment, not wanting to come off accusing but it was too late to pull back. Amity asks, "Did you do anything before I came down?"

Luz doesn't answer as she had just expressed her feelings about her to their yet-to-be-alive-abomination. She shakes her head and replies, "Nope! Just waiting for you!"

Amity caught the hesitation and feels her gut telling her that something is off this. But her heart is yelling over all thoughts in her head to shut up and sit down with your human girlfriend. Shaking away her doubts, Amity comes around the couch and sat down on the same spot King is under.

"Nevermind then. Now, Luz Noceda, are you ready to have your very own Abomination?" Amity asks, pulling out the solution vial from her pocket.

"Am I!" Luz beams. "The concoction needs something from an owner to have the Abomination be connected to them, right? Do I have to slice my hand and offer it my blood?"

"What!?" Amity stares incredulously at her for that suggestion, "No! No, of course not! Any DNA sample like a strand of hair or spit is good enough. W-why would you even suggest that?"

Luz pulls up her cat hoodie and blushes, "You know… just like the books when they use dark magic or do it to look cool… yeah it doesn't sound practical out loud, does it?"

"I assure you Abomination Magic is nothing like that." Amity shakes her head and chuckles, "Also, I hate to disappoint you, but the connection can only be established with those who have a magic bile sack. And since your human, the Abomination won't likely to listen you."

"Oh…"

"But," Amity raises a finger, "I was aware of that and tailored the formula to create an Abomination that can take orders from anyone. It won't be anywhere near intelligent as the usual ones, but it should suffice for your project. Sorry I can't do anymore for you. I know that must be disappointing to hear."

Luz shrugs, "Well, how can I be sad when I have a girlfriend helping me with my homework?"

Amity's brain shuts off at the word. Her muscles seized control of her body and suspends it from all animation. Her lips parted to barely breathe out, "G-g-girl…?"

"Perdonar! Was that too soon to say?" Luz exclaims.

"I-I don't know! Maybe? I-!" Amity tightens her grip on the solution and faces the pot, "I think we're stalling long enough! Let's wake this little guy up now!"

Luz watches as Amity quickly pulls the lid, pour in the solution, then slams it back down. She jumps as the lid nearly pops off from the chemical (magical?) combustion that is still sealed by Amity's hand who seems unfazed by the reaction.

Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, either for dramatic effect or to calm her nerves, she turns to Luz and proudly crosses her arms. "And now, behold. Your very own creation." She raises her arms and claps her hands with command, "Abomination, rise."

Luz waits with bated breath as her eyes glued themselves onto the pot, expecting to see a smaller version of the purple golem to climb out and strike a pose.

But nothing happens.

Luz's eagerness slowly fades to concern before shooting a look back at Amity who opened her eyes to see the pot still closed. She awkwardly looks at Luz and clears her throat, "Ahem, must have… not said it loud enough…"

Luz offers a reassuring smile as Amity preps herself for dramatic tension with the clapping of hands again. "Abomination," she says more sternly, "Rise."

Still nothing.

"Abomination, rise."

Nothing.

"Abomination. Rise."

Nope.

"Abomination!" Amity turns to the pot, now yelling. "Rise!"

You get the idea.

"Quit embarrassing me and rise, you stupid slop!" Amity takes the pot and shakes it with her hand before the lid tumbles down with a loud clang. When her eyes fell into the inside of the pot, she froze. Luz hastily moves over and peers over her shoulder to see what made her stop.

The only thing they both could see, is a broth of purple substance with bits and pieces.

"Hey, this is like what my mother described grandpa's beef stew as," Luz jokes.

The humor hasn't touched Amity as she is taken back from the sight. "This can't be…" she mutters, "We done everything right. It should have taken form and rise on my command."

"Maybe it just didn't work?" Luz shrugs.

Amity lowers the pot to the table and frowns, "Abomination Alchemy doesn't decide to 'not work,' Luz, it's a result of cause and effect. If it's not responding, then something must have went wrong."

"But we did everything you say," Luz reminds her, "You even wrote the steps we took down on that sheet there." Amity nods and takes the said papers in her hand and carefully goes through them.

Luz looks at the table and notice her chocolate bar sitting on its spot, still containing a sample of Abomination gunk she had accidentally ingested. She takes the candy and breaks off the contaminated piece, but still wonders if the rest is even salvageable.

Luz turns her head to ask Amity if it was okay but notices the pot nudging forward. "Uh… Amity?" she says.

"Yes, Luz?" Amity replies without taking her eyes off the paper. She felt a finger tapping on her shoulder and she turns to find the Abomination slime crawling out of the pot. The purple mass has no structure, no limbs, not even eyes or a mouth. It lurches forward, causing the pot to lean a bit before spilling it out entirely.

Luz doesn't seem bothered by it as much as Amity, she's rather thrilled about it. "It's… alive?" Amity questioned.

"It's aliiiive!" Luz repeated, dramatically. The two girls lower their heads to get a closer look at the slime. It doesn't seem to take notice of them and keeps moving forward. Luz admittedly couldn't maintain her excitement as she had expected an Abomination but one with a body and all.

"This doesn't make sense," exclaimed Amity, "My formula should have conceived a proper Abomination."

"Well, we got one," Luz noted. She glances at Amity with wonder in her eyes and asks, "Are we parents now?"

"Don't be weird, Luz."

"Imma name it Geoffrey."

"And you're being weird."

"But you like me being weird!" Amity can't argue with that, but her mind is too focused on how the experiment ended up like this.

"Amity, look!" Luz pulls her attention back to the slime. It stretches out one part of its mass forward like a tendril towards the piece of chocolate Luz broke off early and drags it towards itself. Amity watches with wide eyes as the slime assimilates the candy into its mass, making various sounds that could barely be described by words.

"Did it just… eat?"

"Wow," Luz commented, "Thought Abominations don't need to eat."

"They don't!" Amity bolts up to her feet and conjures a glyph in her hand. Flames burst from her palm, casting a rather scary glow on her face. "That thing is not an Abomination! It's… well, I guess an abomination in a different term but not the one that's… i-it's a failure! Okay! We need to get rid of it!"

Luz dives in between them and shields the slime, "No! You can't destroy Geoffrey for being a failure! What would you have done if other people called me a failure? Would you let them destroy me?"

"First off, you're not a failure and you tell me the names of whoever called you that and I'll make them pay. Second, stop calling it that! It's a school project that gone wrong. It's not a baby!"

"But he's our baby!" Luz whimpers, pulling the slime in for a hug.

The old Amity would have just pushed her aside and incinerate that being from existence before it could potentially cause any harm. But that old Amity fell in love with this dumb girl who is staring up at her with puppy dog eyes. The flame dies out in her hand as her cheeks go red like they had absorbed all the heat from it. Amity sighs and says, "Fine, but if it does anything out of line, I'm burning it. I'll go back and check over our notes and see if we missed something."

"You're the best!" Luz responded before dropping Geoffrey back onto the table. Its body flattens out from the impact like a plastic bag filled with water, before slowly forming back up in its softball sized form.

"Hi, little Geoffrey!" Luz waves at the slime, "Welcome to life. I bet you're real hungry since you were literally born just minutes ago, aren't you? Arentchu?" Amity rolls her eyes with a hint of a smile before resuming back to her notes.

Luz takes a bag of sea salt chips and fishes one out for the slime. She drops it next to Geoffrey and watches it curiously leaning towards the snack. It stretches out a tendril but the moment it makes contact, it recoils and scoots back.

"Oh?" Luz flicks the chips to the floor, just in front of King who quickly snatches it before anyone notices it. "Guess you're not a fan of salty snacks? You're more of a sweet tooth, aren't you little guy?"

"Luz, until we know for certain what this thing is, I advise against feeding it," cautioned Amity. She tosses the papers aside, now confirming they had taken all the necessary steps to the formula that should have resulted in a proper Abomination. Something else must have happened without her knowledge. But what?

Amity scans the work area again. Glossing her eyes over the papers, the snacks isolated one end, Luz's drawings of a ridiculously buffed Abomination carrying them two, until it lingers onto the materials where she had noticed something strange about them.

From underneath the couch, King could see where her gaze is attracted too and felt the anxiety building in his chest. But what comes next was much worse than he had expected.

"Okay," Amity mildly smiles and crosses her arms to Luz, "The jig is up."

"Who's a jig?" Luz replies as she accidentally drops the entire candy bar to Geoffrey. King watches the candy bar slowly sinking into it as it 'devours' the entire bar. The slime gurgles and shudders before expanding its mass. Growing. It idles for a moment before starting to make its way off the table with neither of the girls noticing.

"Did you tamper with our project while I was still upstairs, Luz?" Amity asks.

Luz frowns at the question and shook her head, "No, why would you think that?" King watches Geoffrey fall off the table without either of the girls noticing. He worriedly looks to the girls then back at the slime that's now making its way to the kitchen.

"Come on, Luz. You think I wouldn't notice how our leftover materials seem to have gotten smaller the last time I was here?" Amity pointed out, "I'm not mad, this is the type of thing you'd like to do. You obviously were curious of what would happen if you experimented a little and did it without me knowing. I'm not mad. But we do need to restart from scratch again for your paper."

Luz couldn't tell if this was an elaborate joke or if she was being serious. She hadn't noticed the materials at all, it seemed fine to her. "Amity, I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't mess with anything."

"Well, who could have messed with it then?" Amity pressed.

"Not anyone who lives here, that's for sure."

"Not even Hooty?"

"He doesn't even have hands!"

"Fair point," Amity frowns, not liking where this is going. Luz was the last one to be down here, but they were both gone for a moment. The only people not accounted for is King and Eda. Eda likes to act mischievous from time to time. It's hard to believe an adult would mess with a kid's project, but she does have a distaste for homework. Not a solid story, but it's something. King on the other hand-

"Maybe it's the formula?"

Amity's train of thought went off the rails by what Luz had said, "Excuse me?"

"You said you changed the formula so I would be able to use it," Luz suggested, "Maybe that's the problem?"

"You're saying it's my fault?"

"No!" Luz exclaims, "I'm not saying you did it on purpose! Just that maybe, you know, you might have… made a mistake?"

"A mistake?" Amity snaps, "Luz, I didn't make this off the top of my head. This formula is from years of research, experimenting, and trial and error. I'm the star student of the Abomination Track. How could you suggest this is even my fault?"

"Again, I'm not saying it's your fault! People tend to make mistakes!"

"I don't!"

This was taking a turn for the worse. King keeps eyeing the kitchen where the slime had disappeared to and back at the girls. He's not sure if he could slip out from underneath without them noticing but hearing them fight and not knowing what Geoffrey is up is almost enough to make him break. Almost.

King looks around for whatever he could use to draw their attention. He closes his eyes and takes a count of three before jerking his skull head against the bottom of the couch.

The noise was enough to catch their attention with Amity asking, "What was that?" She looks down at the table and found Geoffrey missing. "Luz!" she shouts, "Where is that thing?"

"You mean Geoffrey?"

"I am not calling it that. Now where did it go?"

"I don't know-wait, quiet for a minute." They both noticed faint sounds coming from the kitchen and decide to go check it out. The moment they left, King crawls out from under the couch with an aching back. "Ugh… finally… we seriously need to vacuum under the furniture more often."

"Geoffrey? Are you in here, little guy?" Luz checks to ask before the step inside the kitchen. Amity grabs Luz by the arm and pulls her back as a frying pan whizzes through the air along with various utensils and kitchenware. They lean their heads over to see Geoffrey with food scattered all over the floor. But it wasn't the mess that caught them off guard, it is the abomination slime that has somehow grown nearly five times its previous size.

"Did it just grow!?" Amity exclaims.

"Amity, look!" Luz points out the creature taking the Gumbo pot into its body. It shudders for a moment before it noticeably expands its mass before scavenging through more food.

"It's eating all the food…"

"Oh, Eda is not going to like this," Luz shudders. She watches it pulling the various roots and herbs hanging from the ceiling, "If Abominations don't need to eat, then what is it doing?"

"I think it's… breaking the organics down into basic matter to sustain its form. Abominations wouldn't have a reason to do that, let alone act on instincts. Luz, I seriously think we just created something new."

"Aw, so you're saying Geoffrey isn't a failure but our special little guy?" Luz is lucky she's cute, otherwise Amity would have hit her. This creature may not be classified as an Abomination, but it was made the same as them. Perhaps it could still be able to follow orders?

Luz seem to have the same idea as she tries to approach the creature, but Amity blocks the path with her arm. "Don't go near it! We don't know what it's entirely capable of!" she warns.

"But you said the formula should let it be able to listen to anyone, right? Maybe all Geoffrey needs is someone to calm it down. It's probably just scared and confused since we literally birthed it a few minutes ago."

True, it should allow the creature to obey anyone's command. But with it being obviously altered somehow, Amity isn't sure if that's still a possibility. "I don't know, it's too risky."

Luz cups her hands together and leans to her, "Aw, are you feeling protective over your new girlfriend?"

"Ei!?" Amity physically took the blow from that word. Luz took the moment to duck under her arm and chimes, "Yoop!" as she passes through to approach their slime. King peeks out from the kitchen doorway and bites on his paws as she gets closer to the strange thing.

"Hey there, Geoffrey." Luz cautiously walks up to the blob spitting out the emptied pot of Gumbo. Geoffrey stops and lurches the top part of its mass towards her, being devoid of all facial features but seem to be looking at her now.

Luz calmly clears her throat, "Look, I know you must be scared and have a lot of questions. Believe it or not I was the same way when I first came to this world. And yeah, it's terrifying. Smelly. And… really, really dangerous. But you'll find no better place than to call home. And in this home, we have rules to ensure everyone here lives happily together. Like, don't eat all the food in the house or else Eda will get mad and probably obliterate you. But you didn't know, so it's okay! Trust in me, Geoffrey. I'll do whatever I can to make you feel welcomed."

Geoffrey stayed still throughout her speech as if it was listening to her. Luz opened her arms and slowly comes closer for a hug, which made King and Amity about to call her name but notice the slime calmly spreads itself to mimic her gesture. She squeals with delight as she embraces Geoffrey with her arms sinking into its form.

"Aww, look at him, Amity! He's hugging me back! And he's surprisingly warm," Luz noted, "Really warm… and warmer. Oh, now it feels kind of hot… ow, ow, ow, OW, OW! IT'S BURNING ME! I CAN'T LET GO!"

"Abomination!" Amity summons her golem and commands it to pull Luz away from the slime. Geoffrey retaliates by lunging at the Abomination and absorbs it whole. It's body shudders before growing exponentially from its new meal.

Amity grits her teeth but rushes over to Luz to check on her. "Are you okay?" she asks before holding up her arms, revealing signs of irritation of the skin that could be caused by mild burns.

Luz blows on them to cool off the sensation and weakly chuckles, "Sort of… you know, I never did think what it must feel like to be digested by something. Now I do and I'm beyond terrified."

"Luz!" King couldn't bear to watch anymore and runs over to them. Luz was surprised by his appearance but gratefully catches him in a hug when he jumps on her. Causing the irritation on her arms to act up again.

"Oh, this hurts but I'm so happy to see you!" Luz cries.

Amity frowns at the slime and whips up a ball of flame in her hands. "I'll take it we're done with whatever this is so we can finally start over on our assignment?" She glances over to Luz for confirmation and receives a whimpering nod in return.

Without hesitation, Amity lobs her fireball directly at Geoffrey. But the slime reacts quick by leaping back, blasting a scorch mark into the kitchen floor. Amity gasps from the unexpected maneuver it made and notice it rearing back as it's about to launch.

"Get down!" Amity exclaims as she pulls Luz and King down as Geoffrey lunges forward. She conjures a large abomination hand to shield them from the impact. Luz follows up by carving a rune into the abomination hand and slams her palm against it. The gunk from the hand freezes over and travels through contact to Geoffrey. The sentient slime couldn't do anything as its entire form is crystallized.

The group all let out a sigh of relief upon seeing the creature unable to move now. Amity pulls away and thoughtfully grasps Luz's hand, "Once again, you do something insanely dumb but manage to pull off an impressive trick." Luz grins at the praise but it quickly dies the moment Amity's frown appears. "I told you we should've destroyed it," she scolded, "You saw how quickly that thing can digest! What if I couldn't get you out in time?"

"You were right, I'm sorry!" Luz waves her hands, mostly to cool off her hot skin. "I can get pretty sentimental, I guess. It's a shame it had to come down to this but I'm glad everyone is okay." She gives King another hug and buries her face into his fur, "Especially you. I'm so happy you came back. I'm sorry you had to see that though. It must have been a nasty surprise, huh?"

"HAHA!" King's not so subtle laugh causes the girls to nearly jump out of their skin, "Yup! What a surprise that was! Since I just walked in to apologize and not, you know, been hiding somewhere. This entire time. At all."

"… okay?" Luz wasn't sure what to make of that but she's happy enough to know they are past their fight from earlier.

Amity paid no mind to what King said as she is entranced by the strange creature that came from their abomination experiment. She walks over to the right at the frozen statue of the blob that tries to devour them. "We all saw what it did. It dodged my spell and immediately went for me. This thing is clearly intelligent. Way beyond the type of Abomination that was supposed to be."

"Does this type of stuff usually happen in Abomination making?" Luz asks.

"I heard reports, but they all are only done through accidents or miscalculations. But I checked through our test logs and I recall us doing everything right. It shouldn't have created… this." She turns to Luz and King with folded arms, "It can only mean that something happened to that concoction without my knowledge."

"Your knowledge?" Luz noticed.

"Luz, I admit I must be rash in accusing you. But if it's not you, then it would have to be either King or Eda." Amity glances at King who quivers before her eyes, "You just came in but you didn't seem surprised to see the creature…"

"R-really?" King nervously swallows, "W-well that's because-"

"Now hold on a minute!" Luz interjects, "You're not implying that King ruined our project, are you?"

"It has to be someone in this house, I was upstairs helping you expel that chocolate bar before I received a call. It can't be me. You and King did have a fight-"

Luz gasps at the suggestion, "King would never do something like that to us! He's a very good boy!"

King tries to intervene with, "Uh, Luz I-"

"And I don't appreciate you accusing everyone just because you don't believe you could have made an error on your part!"

"Are you seriously back to this?" Amity snaps back at her then points at herself, "Star. Student! Does that mean anything to you? Did you forget how I was the only one who knew right away that you weren't an Abomination when you snuck into our school?"

Luz didn't like the memory that came with it, how she nearly trashed the school and got banned for it. She wasn't aware she had already parted her mouth to retort with, "I remember you picking on Willow…"

Amity visibly flinches from that as Luz heard the words herself and covers her mouth. "Oh my gosh, I didn't mean that! I'm sorry-"

"Ugh! You are unbelievable!"

"Amity?"

"I know it was you, Luz!" Amity shouts, "You came downstairs before me. You were really excited to have your own Abomination and tried to play dumb when I asked you what you were doing while waiting."

"I'm telling you. I didn't do anything!"

"You hesitated before! If you weren't messing with our project, then what were you doing while I was busy?"

It was about how worried she is for Amity. How she wants to make her happy. And how much joy it brings her to see her smile. But being accused by her in this heated argument infuriates Luz so much that she couldn't bring herself to tell the truth. Instead, she folds her arms and said, "Just you… you know… stuff?"

Amity obviously did not buy that, "Gee, real convincing."

King's paws were pressing so hard into his cheeks he was almost ready to cut them. His eyes idly wander as the two continue their argument before it noticed the ice statue. "Uh, guys?" he mutters.

"Not now, King," Luz replies before continuing with, "Why can't you just trust me?"

"How can I trust you when you're obviously withholding something from me?"

"Maybe I don't feel like sharing it with you, is that wrong?"

"When something like this just happened, I say it is wrong!"

"Guys!"

"What!?" Their eyes turn to King who points at the section of the ice statue. A section with a hollowed-out cavity emitting acidic fumes at the edges. Geoffrey has escaped.

"Wha-where is it now?" Amity shouted as Luz turns her gaze to the ceiling. She tugs on Amity's shirt for her attention and points up. Where the devouring slime is hanging from, ready to drop on them.

"Run!" King cries as they all dive out of the way the moment Geoffrey dislodges above them. The slime splats down but jumps up in a ball-like state and bounces towards the livingroom. Amity looks up to see Geoffrey heading towards the front door. "It's trying to get away!"

Outside, and completely unaware of the events that were happening, Hooty is singing. "Straight hair! Straight A's, straight forward! Straight-" His song stops as the slime expands through every crevice of the door, with some coming forcefully emerging from his mouth and nose. Hooty gargles a horrified scream as Geoffrey spills out from him before it comes together in one form and resumed escaping.

Hooty coughs and sneezes, feeling the horrid sensation and bits of slime residue in his nasal cavity and mouth. He spits out the remaining Geoffrey bits and smacks his lips.

"… Straight path! I don't cut corners~ I make a point to be on-OW!" His song cuts off again as the trio swings his face into the wall as they continue their chase after Geoffrey.

"We need to stop that thing before it gets to town!" Luz warns them, "Hopefully, Eda can-"

Everyone stops and stares at Geoffrey suspended in the air with a yellow dome wrapped around him. They turn their heads to the sound of Eda casually sipping from her glass of lemonade in one hand while the other is keeping the magical telekinetic beam trained on it.

"So," Eda says while readjusting her sunglasses and stretches her legs before getting off the lawn chair, "Couldn't go one day without an incident, huh?"

"Oh thank goodness, I didn't feel like running today," Luz sighs in relief.

While keeping the slime at bay with her spell, the girls explains to Eda about what happened inside. From the moment it was born to the discovery of its non-abomination behavior. Eda was definitely not happy to know her pantry has been raided.

"I recall giving you girls all the proper stuff to make an Abomination," Eda explains, "How the heck did you end up with this thing?"

Amity and Luz glances at each other, both still a little heated from their earlier spat. But neither of them wanted to continue it either. Turning their gazes away from each other Amity steps up to answer, "We… we don't know exactly. Something went wrong, and we just want this over with."

Eda raises an eyebrow at the two girls who were just fawning over each other this morning that are now standing a bit too far apart and uncharacteristically quiet. She shrugs and comments, "Huh, if you say so. Still strange it turned out this way. I thought Abomination was your whole thing."

Eda failed to see King gesturing at her to stop talking as it sets off Amity again with her stating, "It would have been fine if someone had left it alone!"

"Nobody touched the stupid thing, Amity!"

"Oh, so now you think it's stupid!?"

"You know what I mean!"

"Alright, cut it out!" Eda sticks her staff between them to interrupt the fight, "Honestly, there are times when I forget you two are kids and then you go right back to reminding me. I don't care who did it, because I'm blaming all of you. You all should have been more careful with your experiment and you should have come to me the first thing something went wrong. But that can all wait. First, we need to put this slimeball on ice."

"What like a giant refrigerator or something?" Luz asks, clearly not getting the metaphor.

"Can't tell if you're being smart or cute." Eda shrugs it off and summons her staff before moving Geoffrey to the center of the open area facing away from the house. She breaks the orange tendril connecting to the sphere still holding Geoffrey in stasis. Eda spins the staff between her hands before pointing it at the slime with Owlbert's eyes glowing with magical energy.

"This is for wasting my food stamps, you overgrown pudding!"

"Wait!" Luz grabs onto Eda's arm to stop her. Amity was about to scold her for trying to save that creature before Luz says, "No, Eda. Geoffrey's my creation… I'll do it."

"Of course, you gave it a name…" The Owl Lady shrugs and tosses the staff to Luz who fumbles with it before getting a proper grip. "Alright, knock yourself out. Owlbert's all amped up so just point at the slime and give it a little jab. Guess today is the moment the student has become the master. And what a better way to showcase that than to end the life of a living being."

Luz walks up closer to the contained slime and watches it sloshes around the orb, unable to find a way to escape. "Hey, buddy… I'm sorry it has to come to this, but you did try to eat me. And now me and Amity are fighting because of you. It's not your fault… I think? But you'll always be my first abomination, and I'll be sure to remember you. As you'll likely appear in my nightmares trying to eat me alive. Goodbye."

Following Eda's instruction, Luz jabs the staff forward signaling Owlbert to unleash the stored power within. He spread his wings as yellow bolts of lightning crackles arounds him. Magic swirls in front of his of his beak and with a mighty "Hoot!" the channeled energy bursts forward with a form of an owl diving directly at Geoffrey.

Luz falls back from the blast as the magic collides with the barrier, breaking through it with a sound similar to the shattering of glass. The destructive energy combusts, covering the area with ash, smoke, and debris. Amity rushes over to help Luz up as Eda calmly strides closer to check on the damage.

"Bet that felt good, huh?" Eda asks.

Luz's arms are still shaking as she hands the staff back to Eda and weakly chuckles, "Haha… I keep forgetting how powerful you are…"

"Then let this one be a reminder. Now, let's get inside and clean up whatever mess that thing caused and order some pizza-!" Eda gets knocked off of her feet by a fast moving tendril whipping her in the chest. Everyone screams her name as she tumbles and crashes into the trees.

Luz turns around to see Geoffrey, not only completely unharmed by the spell but is even bigger than before. Amity cautiously pulls Luz back and stammers, "D-did it just… ate the spell!?"

King gulps and hides behind Luz's leg, "Are we going to die?"

"I think we're most likely going to die," Luz replies in a shellshocked expression.

"Hooty to the rescue!" Hooty springs into action and charges at the slime. He tries to wrap himself around Geoffrey but acidity from its body burns the moment he makes contact. Geoffrey slams itself against Hooty and grabs him by the neck with it appendages and pulls.

"Hoot! Hoot!" he exclaims in pain by the burning acid and the forceful pull of his neck. The trio tries to help by pulling away by his elongated neck, but their strength proved fruitless as Hooty's door is ripped from its henges, knocking the group to the ground.

Geoffrey pulls Hooty into itself to consume it, but it rears back as if it tasted something horrible. It tosses Hooty away to the side, who hoots sadly realizing he just got rejected. Fortunately, the slime appears less interested in attacking the rest of the group as it turns and bounces away.

But the bad news? It seems to be heading straight to town. No one could do anything know realizing what it's capable of except to go and help Eda.

"Ohhh…" Eda groans as the others ran over to help her out of the shattered tree, with thankfully no noticeable injuries except a killer everything-ache.

"Eda! Are you okay?" Luz asks. Owlbert detaches himself from the staff and flies to her shoulder to give her a comforting nuzzle.

"I think so… ugh, dang creature snuck one on me while I was distracted. I'd be livid if I wasn't a fan of such dirty tactics myself," coughed Eda, scratching her little companion under the chin.

Amity growls in frustration and glares at Luz, "This is just great! Not only do we have an all-devouring abomination, but it turns out to be able to absorb magic! Do you have any idea the amount of damage that thing could cause once it reaches town?"

"Amity, I know you think I messed with our project, but I would never intentionally do something that could put someone in harm."

"I'm not saying you did it on purpose, Luz. That's not the issue here. The issue is-" Amity stops her, still remembering the rampaging slime getting further and further away. "Nevermind, we can discuss this later. We need to stop that thing before it hurts anyone else."

Luz nods and helps Eda up to her feet, "Are you okay? Do you need anything? A glass of water or something?"

"Don't treat me like an old woman!" Eda remarks before feeling another surge of pain coursing through her sides, "Ooh! But uh… just give me a few minutes to recover, I'll catch up with you girls later. Now go on, every second that passes is another step for that slime."

They both nod before exchanging looks at each other. Both feeling upset for being in this fight with each other but knows they can't let that thing cause any harm to anyone. As they ran off, King goes to follow them, but his feet caught air as Eda hooks her staff under his collar and lifts him up.

"And just where do you think you're going, troublemaker?" Eda swings him around and drops him behind her.

"Troublemaker?" King panics at the word and tries to laugh it off, which only just made it even more suspicious if anything. "Who? Me? Oh, Eda, what could you possibly even mean by that? I haven't done anything."

"Exactly," Eda frowns, "You seem oddly quiet and really fidgety for someone who hasn't done anything wrong. Yet you seemed the most bothered when Amity and Luz were fighting back there."

"That's… cause… you know, fighting is…?"

Eda raises an eyebrow, silently asking him 'You wanna try that again?' King fumbles with his words searching for an excuse but the overwhelming guilt prevails. "Okay! I admit! I sabotaged their project!" He then quickly adds, "By accident!"

"Huh, so plot B is actually a plot A. A real pain in my rear that is!" Eda bops him on the skull with her stick, "So let me get this straight, you ruined their project and helped bring that monster to life. And you chose to lie about it?"

"I didn't want to!" King desperately explains, "We… we had a fight, and I was afraid they'd believe I did it on purpose if I told them!"

A fight? Eda honestly could not believe the amount of mess that was going on while she was trying to catch a few suns. How did they get from brain spiders to this? She rubs the bridge between her eyes and sighs wearily, "So you chose to let the girls blame each other for it instead of owning up to your actions. Great plan there, jelly baby."

"No! Don't call me that!" King cries, "Jelly baby is worse than jelly boy!"

"Too late, I'm officially demoting you from King!" Eda snaps, "Because of you, those lovebirds are at each other's throats."

King nervously taps his claws together. He couldn't have predicted them to turn on each other just because he fell off his couch. He didn't like seeing Luz or Amity being that angry with each other. But still, he mutters, "S-so? They like each other, don't they? Couples fight all the time, right?"

"King, let me give you a little lesson about teenage love." Eda taps the ground with her stick and draws in the dirt as she explains, "You have two highly emotionally-unstable girls just starting their relationship. Sure, they're head over heels for each other but with love comes anxiety. And with anxiety comes fear. Sadness. Anger. Normally, given time and room to talk, they can keep those emotions under control. But you give them a reason to fight? They'll fight. And anger is a type of emotion that can easily draw out the worse out of you. Words they don't mean to say will be thrown, ugly side of them gets exposed, and doubts start forming in their heads. Any couple can recover from a nasty fight, but what do you think will happen when they keep accusing each other for something that you did?"

King clutches his head in horror, "You're saying they could break up because of me!?" He didn't mean to let things get this far. But he couldn't bear to imagine what Luz or Amity will say to him now after letting them fight. If he doesn't tell them, things could get worse. If he does, Luz could hate him.

His eyes went to the ground where Eda carved and frowns, "So where does the tic tac toe game fit into all of this?"

"It doesn't, I hate doing nothing while giving lectures." Eda taps her staff to signal Owlbert to return to the pedestal. She hops onto the staff and floats in the air before looking down at King to ask, "So are you going to be the bigger demon or are you going to sacrifice Luz's chance of happiness?"

Her happiness… King should have realized it sooner. Luz always goes along with his antics and lovingly plays with him. She always tries her best to make him happy. And what is he doing for her in return?

He didn't care for Amity, but he should have made an effort like he did with Willow and Gus. She did seem sorry about their first meeting and for letting the spiders get into his head. And she does genuinely care for Luz.

"Come on, King!" Hooty calls to him from the ground, "Do the right thing!"

"Hooty, do you even know what we're talking about?" asked Eda.

He smiles proudly, "Nope!"

"You're right, I need to make it up to them! This is my mess, and I am going to fix it!" King runs off to follow the girls. Eda frowns and folds her arms as he disappears into the path. After a few seconds, he quietly returns and sheepishly looks up at her. "I, uh… I forgot you can fly… you mind… giving me a lift? Hehe…"

Eda sighs, "Anything for my jelly baby…" She telekinetically lifts King up to her staff and takes off but not without calling to Hooty, "We'll be gone for a bit, Hooty, so keep watch of the house!"

"Can do!" Hooty responds and watches them disappear. He slumps his head back down, unable to pick himself up or do anything about his being ripped out of the house.

"Man… I am in so much pain right now."

Author's Note:

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Next chapter will be uploaded within next week!