"Well, well, well! How do you like my monster temple? Pretty cool, huh? My wand told me where to find it." Smirking, Ludo enters the cell boasting about his new hideout, the monster temple. He cradles the skeletal wand in his grasp looking at the cot where Glossaryck is assumed to be laying in.
"Aah!" Startled, Ludo reels back at the sudden sharp light darting in from the window shutters above Ludo bursting open. Smiling, Glossaryck lies on the windowsill in his underwear, looking down at Ludo.
"Hellooo..." Calmly, Glossaryck greets him, in a draw me like one of your French girl's position.
"What are you doing?" Confused, Ludo looks up at the male.
"I was just out for my morning stroll." Casually, he informs Ludo.
"But then who is in your bed?" Confused, Ludo furrows his brow.
"Oh-oh-oh! Um... Easy. Easy. Don't shoot. It's, uh... It's just my robe." Chuckling, Glossaryck calms him down and puts robe on.
"Girls! Bring me the book!" Loudly, Ludo calls out as Spider scuttles in alongside the eagle, they both carry in Magic Instruction Book.
"I want you to teach me this...to make me awesome at this! You will not resist! Resistance is pointless!" Angrily, Ludo declares as he raises his wand, the wand glowing a familiar eerie green light as Ludo attempts to threaten Glossarky who simply arches a brow, unamused.
"Uh, you mind hopping off? Thank you. Okay! Let's get started!" Sighing, Glossaryck requests as Ludo gets off book.
"But... you're not going to resist? Even a little resistance?" Wary, Ludo furrows his brow.
"Look, it's your book now. I'm just here to help you. Or not. Up to you." Glossaryck tells him how it is.
"Really? You want to teach me?" Surprised, Ludo blinks in awe at the thought.
"Oh, yes. Sure." Glossaryck confirms.
"What's your game? You must want something." Suspicious, Ludo's yellows narrow at him.
"Oh, I don't have wants. I have a job. And that job is to help you reach your ultimate potential with this." Glossaryck explains to him.
"Well, then... Pudding! Someone just earned themselves some pudding. You, little man, you are going to make me the most powerful being in the universe!" Excited, Ludo grins, laughing as he places his arm around Glossaryck, who furrows his brow at the contact.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now, slow, slow, slow your roll. Look, all I can promise is to help you reach your full potential." Annoyed, Glossaryck warns him.
"Oh, goody! Is it going to be hard?" Hopeful, Ludo smiles.
"Mmm... Could be." Glossaryck shrugs.
"Exhausting?" Brightly, Ludo grins.
"Mmm... Quite possibly." Glossaryck considers.
"Almost unendurable?" Starry eyed, Ludo hops lying flat on his torso cradling the wand moving his legs up and down.
"Uh... Well, do you want it to be?" Glossaryck asks him.
"Oh, yes! I so want it to be!" Giddily, Ludo nods his head as the training montage begins of Ludo swimming with the book across the moat from carrying it up hill until finally, he reaches Glossaryck, reading a newspaper.
"This... is so hard! When are we going to start doing spells?" Impatient, Ludo questions Glossaryck.
"Whenever you want." Glossaryck shrugs.
"What?! Are you kidding me?! What was all of this?!" Angrily, Glossaryck demands.
"Oh, this? Well, I was only doing that because you said you wanted it to be really hard." Glossaryck confesses.
"I don't know what I want! I've never done this before! You know what my dad taught me about making my way in the world? Nothing! Zip! I was one egg out of fifty! Everything I've learned, I had to learn dirty! But for once in my life, I'd like... some guidance." Honestly, Ludo confides to Glossaryck, unfazed by Ludo's heartfelt honesty as he makes a paper airplane.
"Okay. We can do that." Lazily, Glossaryck throws the airplane into the air watching it fly.
"Really? So, when am I going to learn a Narwhal Blast? Pshew-pshew-pshew!" Hopeful, Ludo smiles as the two walk up the stone steps, towards the temple entrance as he uses his wand, animatedly firing out pretend shots.
"Oh, oh. Oh, that. Yes, well, mm-hmm... You see, Star made that up. It's not in the book. She just used her imagination for most things." Glossaryck answers.
"Ooh! What's an imagination?" Curious, Ludo questions making Glossaryck facepalm.
"Okay. Well, let's start with the basics." Tiredly, Glossaryck sighs exhausted as he snaps his fingers just the book of spells rolls up the stairs and stops in front of Ludo. Glossaryck opens it.
"Let's see... Oh, that's probably a little too advanced. Okay, okay... Oh! Here we go. Uh, why don't you take a look here? Now note the stance and posture. Basically, you're going to want to put your arm out and your feet... ahem... less out. You got that?" Carelessly, Glossaryck flips through a familiar skull lock page and one page displaying meteors crashing down as he makes it to chapter one, showing floating crystals and cats, labelled leviato.
"Okay." Straining, Ludo struggles at first, resulting in nothing happening making him furrow his brow.
"Hmm... Hmm... Would you just relax?" Glossaryck tells him adjusting Ludo's right arm a little higher and positions Ludo's left arm a little lower, he then pulls on Ludo's eyelids
"Oh." Embarrassed, Ludo bows his head.
"We're going to start with some simple object transfer. Let's have you try... LLLLLLevitato." Glossaryck begins.
"Levitato..." Humming, Ludo reads out loud.
"Now, when you're ready, I want you to bring me that apple." Calmly, Glossaryck instructs him.
"What apple?" Perplexed, Ludo questions him.
"That one." Glossaryck poofs a familiar ruby red apple onto a flat stone across from Ludo and Glossaryck.
"Levitato. ... Levitato—!" Frustrated, Ludo scowls as he narrows his yellows trying to focus only to end up receiving nothing. Angrily, he shakes his wand only for a green blast of magic to shoot out of the wand and burns the apple to ashes.
"O-kay." Tiredly, Glossaryck sighs.
"Oh! You see that?! How am I supposed to work with this?! I listen to my wand, but it never listens to me." Annoyed, Ludo grumbles.
"Look, kid, it's your first try. Don't worry about it. We'll just try again. Relax." Tired, he snaps his fingers making another apple appear on the podium.
"Levitato!" Focused, Ludo closes his eyes inhaling just as the wand shoots another green magic blast that drags a rat carrying building tools up into the air.
"Okay, okay. No, no. No. No. Stop. Look, you're really being sloppy. You need to really feel it. Say it with conviction. LLLLLLLLevitato!" Glossaryck declares.
"Lev-i-tato. It worked. Huh. Levitato." Determined, Ludo focuses as green hue envelopes the ruby red. Impressed, Ludo pulls his wand to the left, and the apple flies to the left. Glossaryck catches it.
"Hey! Now you're getting it. Nice job." Glossaryck praises him.
"Am I better than Star?" Hopeful, he smiles.
"Well, I... Well, I guess you're better at following the spell book…" Struggling, Glossaryck smiles.
"Are you... proud of me?" Tenderly, Ludo whispers vulnerability etched into his tone.
"Yeah, um... Yeah, you're doing fine." Glossaryck grumbles waving his hand dismissing Ludo.
"Could you say "proud of me", though?" Pleadingly, Ludo begs him shyly.
"Uh... huh. Uh... I'm proud of you." Awkwardly, Glossaryck chuckles praising him making Ludo giggle giddily.
Proudly, Ludo uses Levitato to levitate the book of spells uphill, over the moat, and back downhill. As then Ludo focuses on using magic on rocks on the ground. Levitato. Levitato. Levitato. Ludo changes his target to the pudding cup and catches a pudding cup in his hand. Hungrily, Glossaryck guzzles chocolate pudding, and Ludo imitates him. In the next scene, Ludo uses Levitato on eight apples at once.
"Levitato." Magically, the apples float down into a circle around Glossaryck.
"Yep." Glossaryck gives Ludo thumbs-up which Ludo happily copies as the sun begins to set, a orange hue now clouding the sky above the temple. "And you see, it's a complex theory behind the levitations...you'll be performing as a magic user. And they all lived happily ever after. The end." Sleepily, Ludo settles into bed, with Glossaryck at his bedside talking to him of the theory. Giddily, Ludo levitates the bed covers onto him as he levitates a glass of water and drinks from it, by his side is a pluff ruby red pillow where the wand seats itself.
"You'd better get some sleep. You have a lot of work to do tomorrow. Might even learn a second spell or something." Annoyed, Glossaryck huffs watching the giggling Ludo, levitate a candlestick and all sorts all over the room, abusing it.
"This was a really great day, Glossaryck." Ludo compliments him.
"I'm sure it was." Bored, Glossaryck mutters.
"Will you tuck me in?" Sweetly, Ludo smiles.
"Um, well, I... Uh, okay." Frowning, he tucks Ludo under the covers.
"And my wand." He asks hopeful.
"Uh..." Nervously, Glossaryck glances to the side at the skeletal hand lying on a pluff pillow of crimson by Ludo.
"Ahem... there you go." Frowning, Glossaryck complies glancing to the side, coughing as Ludo giddily giggles, making him unable to say no.
"And pat my head?" He smiles.
"Pat-pat-pat. See you in the morning." Quietly, Glossaryck pats his head.
"And say, "Good night, my darling." Ludo insists.
"Are you kidding me...? Um, good night." Annoyed, Glossaryck furrows his brow.
"My darling". Hopeful, Ludo smiles.
"Um, uh... My-my... My darling." Grimacing, Glossaryck mutters and picks up book of spells; floats away…leaving Ludo with his wand…
"Are you still awake? I can't sleep either! I'm too excited to sleep! Today was wonderful!" Gushing, Ludo confesses to his wand making it release an eerie green glow and a low hum.
"Why would you say that? Glossaryck is proud of me. He said I was better than Star!" Paranoid,, Ludo grabs his wand as it continues its low humming.
"What do you mean, he showed her something hidden? Don't be silly! We just started. I'm sure we'll get to it soon." Confidently, Ludo assumes.
"He kept it from me on purpose?" Ludo whispers hurt etched into his tone from his wands words.
"No. No, no, no, no. He'd never lie to me!" Angrily, Ludo shakes his head, tears threatening to fall from the wand's humming's. Urgently, Ludo picks up the wand and runs toward the book of spells.
"Levitato!" Frowning, Ludo levitates himself over short steps. "Glossaryck! Wake up!" Sternly, Ludo knocks on the book cover as said book opens to a page that Glossaryck is lying and eating pudding on.
"Didn't we just do bedtime?" Exasperated, Glossaryck grumbles.
"Glossaryck. I know this is crazy, but my wand told me...It's my... my wand, he told me there's a chapter in this book that you've shown Star that you haven't shown me. But that's crazy, right?" Scared, Ludo whispers, his voice breaking on the verge of snapping.
"No, it's true." Bluntly, Glossaryck confirms.
"What?! Why didn't you show me?!" Betrayed, he cries at his mentor.
"You know, you didn't ask." Simply, Glossaryck shrugs.
"Well, I want to see it!" Huffing, Ludo demands.
"You want to see it. You want to see... Well, you know, I don't know. It's really advanced. Um, you know, dark stuff." Warningly, he tells Ludo.
"Did you show it to Star?" Frowning, he demands from Glossaryck.
"Um, technically, I didn't show her, but, uh, she has seen it." Fairly, Glossaryck answers.
"Show me!" Angrily, Ludo orders.
"Okay, it's your book." Sighing, Glossaryck flips the book pages to Eclipsa's chapter.
"Secret chapter...! Unlock it!" Excitedly, Ludo squeals.
"Are you truly sure? It could taint you." He warns Ludo.
"Oh, I got plenty of taint already. Now unlock it!" Assertively, he orders.
"As you wish." Sighing, Glossaryck uses a key on his left big toe to unlock Eclipsa's chapter. The skull-shaped lock's jaw lowers, then the whole lock flies off the page. Ludo turns the first page into the chapter.
"H...mm! I thought there'd be more pict-" Screaming, Ludo cries out as a burst of black smoke drags Ludo into the air. Helpless, Ludo floats at the centre of a black magical void. His wand's face plate glows green. Ludo opens his eyes to reveal swirling pools of green energy, and he smiles.
"Hello, Glossaryck…" Slickly, a familiar voice greets the unfazed Glossaryck.
"Hello... Toffee." Frowning, Glossaryck looks up at him.
"Time to give it up, old man. You'll never get him on your side." Smugly, Toffee tells him.
"But I don't have a side." Honestly, he tells Toffee.
"You don't, do you?" Excellent. Lowly, Toffee chuckles, a sadistic grin crossing Ludo's features, his eyes a dark swirling vortex of green.
"You do know what you're doing she wouldn't want you doing this…" Coolly, Glossaryck voices out making his once bright sadistic gleeful smirk falter.
"And you would know? You left her when she needed you the most. You could have saved her…" Poisonously, he seethes, malice etched into his tone. Gravely, Glossaryck bows his head grimacing at the sad truth it's true he could have stopped it but if he did…history would have been rewritten, a history he had the duty to keep intact, even at the cost of the only few queens he had ever truly felt like he befriended.