The Owl and The Athlete
Chapter 8: Lost in Langauge
By
Neztro
author's note:
hey everyone I want to thank you all for being so receptive to my stories and can't wait to give you another chapter… I am really excited for all your interest in finding out who is tristan's boiling isles relative… anyway let's get to to writing.
Another day at the owl house, another round of pampering eda.
Tristan did small circles as he rubbed eda's bare feet. Thank god she takes such good care of them. Otherwise this would be unbearable.
Eda didn't look like the type for personal grooming but looks can be deceiving because she loved making herself smell pretty and would spend a good amount of money on ingredients for oils and perfumes she'd make herself.
"Ooo, I'm in heaven, I died and an angel is giving me a foot massage." she moaned leaned back on the futon. Her feet propped up of the table while tristan sat on his knees rubbing her feet.
"Alright give me the other one." tristan gently placed eda's foot on the table and reached for the other woman.
"taking you kids in was the best decision of my life. You know some freaks like rubbing my feet too much."
"trust me, it's no walk in the park. I swear women you have so much callous and tension it should've crippled you." tristan noted starting on the second foot, this one completely in Knots.
"Oh tristan, you keep doing this good and I may have to adopt you."
"No thanks I got parents." He joked.
"I wouldn't be asking when I do it." eda replied in a serious tone but immediately bursting into laughing.
After tristan was done he gently placed eda's legs on the coach.
"Blanket, pillow, and milk please." she demanded, snapping her fingers.
"Yes master, anything else?" Grumbled, smiling at how needy eda can be sometime.
"Sing me a song." she replied smirking with a mischievous look in her eyes.
"Not gonna happen old woman."
eda frowned and waddled up one of her wanted posters. "coward," she threw it hitting tristan in the back of the head.
A knock came at the door catching both tristan and eda's attention.
"I'll get it." tristan called, he walked toward the door and opened it to reveal no one was there. He looked to the left and the right but didn't see anyone. He turned his gaze downward and saw that there was a basket.
"Okay, looks like I'll need to bring this to eda." he picked up the basket and found it was light. I wonder what's in this?
He took it to the table.
"who was it?" Eda asked, lifting herself by her elbow on the futon looking up at tristan.
"Basket, probably an offering."
Eda clapped her hands and jumped up full of energy. She ran to the basket. "ah, being the most powerful witch on the boiling isles has it's perks; power, offerings, and a loyal man servant who likes to make his master happy."
"kiss my ass eda."
skipping down the stair is luz with king on his head. "who was at the door?"
"someone offering eda something." tristan answered looking at the basket with an interest. He could swear that it was moving. He took a couple steps away from the basket and leaned against a wall. The boy knew if it was danger eda could handle it… she can handle anything.
"ooo, it might be snacks." king said hopping from Luz's held to the top of the table. He loomed over the basket and rubbed his paws together. He cackled to himself.
Eda undid the blanket to reveal a baby's face.
"Nope not eating that." Luz said her eyes big like saucers.
"ugh, witches eating babies is so sixteenth century."
"wait what?" Tristan asked.
Eda winked at him "I was joking." she chuckled before she leaned into king. "I wasn't but he doesn't need to know about that side of our history."
King chuckled as he grabbed a note from under the basket along with a coin purse. He read the note. "take care of my baby til morning yi yi… you will be handsomely rewarded, bat queen."
Eda's ears perked up upon hearing who the basket and the baby belonged to. "the bat queen, she's the richest demon on the boiling isles. You get in good with her and you're set. All we have to do is keep this thing alive for a few hours and we get paid… easy."
"Count me out, I already take care of this old bird whose losing her mind." Tristan said, earning a dirty look from eda.
Luz cooed at the baby and let out a soft moans.
"since you don't want to help, you two can take my books back to the library." Eda instructed using magic to levitate a pile of books to the two human's arms.
Tristan and Luz nodded their head as they were about to leave the house they heard a loud squeal.
The baby was revealed to be just a baby head with bat wings for arms and small bat talons for feet. It scream was like a blast of sonic energy.
"Actually I may need both of you to help." Eda shouted, covering her ears.
Tristan with smirk walked out and luz followed him.
The two ran down to the bonesborough and entered the library grounds.
"It looks so cool!" Luz exclaimed clapping her hands together.
"It's okay I guess but not as cool as the grudgby field at hexside… I really wish I could play there." Tristan didn't much care for the magic school but his years on the football team filled him with a love for sports even though his teammates made the experience less then ideal.
"Maybe you can join a professional team and who knows magic may be legal in grudgby."
Tristan's eyes widened and his mind warmed to the idea of being able to do sports again and not have to worry about cheating. In a world where magic was so ingrained with the people then of course magic and sports would be conflated together.
"race you to the top light bright." Tristan ran up the stairs already reaching halfway to the top.
Luz followed close behind. Though she was not psychically strong she was fast.
Tristan won the race but only by a hair.
The two teens were out of breath and laughed at each other.
"you f-forgot the books at the bottom." Luz commented, gasping for breath.
"well you know the rules… the loser has to do a request for the winner." Tristan replied, pointing down to the books. "Bring them up for me, please."
Luz shot Tristan a death glare as she stepped down to the bottom of the stairs and picked up the books in a pile taller then she was.
Tristan smirked as she reached the top and slammed the books into his open arms. "you did good Light bright." he said, the pile not hindering him.
"How are you able to recover from exhaustion so quickly? Is that a new magic ability."
"Yeah, it's called four hours of practice everyday for three years or as I call it training." Tristan replied stopping at the door.
Luz opened the door for her friend and he walked inside talking a couple steps toward the librarian. He placed the books on the desk and took in another deep breath.
The librarian lifted his finger and began scanning the books. He shook his head and listed off hundreds of problems with each one. "these belong to eda don't they?'
"Yep, she does not know how to treat her books properly." Tristan replied.
"i'll add them to her tab. If you are staying you need to know that we will closing early for the wailing star event." He said, in a monotone voice.
"What's that?' Luz asked looking up at the man with interest in her eyes.
""you're in a libray, read a book." He replied turning his back to luz.
"you're right. I am in a library, I will read a book." luz exclaimed dashing into the library.
Tristan followd after her smirking as he ran after her. That's light bright for you… always looking for the next adventure.
Tristan wondered how his mentor was doing. Even though she teased him relentlessly, he had grown accustomed to her and she made Tristan's training easier. The only problem is that he knew he would have to leave it all behind… leave her behind.
He didn't like thinking about it but he knew it was coming because they were already half way through the first month of summer… he hated having to leave this place. It had been two whole weeks nobody looked at him like he was freak… he felt normal… he felt… happy.
But he also knew that these were selfish desires because if he did stay… he would leave luz behind. He had no love for his human life or his teammates… and his parents are witches so they can come here to see him… but luz's mom would never let her daugther stay here in a demon realm.
Luz was his best friend and she was there for him when no one else would be. Luz was a charismatic girl and tristan would be lying if he said he didn't feel guilty about her having no real friends.
She was the girl known for being friends with the elf boy. Even when he was popular luz was seen as a social detriment by his friends and even though he wasn't exactly swimming in popular girls a lot of his female classmates wanted the status of dating a football star and there jealousy of Luz's closeness to him made them lash out with rumors, threats, and outright bullying.
Tristan shook his head. No, I can't leave her behind… I've ruined any other social life for her and it's my responisblity to be there for her even if it means that I go back to just being the elf boy.
Tristan smiled at his confirmation. He would never let Anyone hurt luz and if that meant he'd be a freak… then so be it.
Tristan decided to follow luz and discovered that he had lost her. He followed the path of destruction caused by luz's antics. He followed the loose demon decibel system cards, the buggy computers where one of luz's glyph notes was under a desk, and of course he saw her looking into the kid's corner.
Tristan followed luz's gaze and saw her… the bane of his existence and the worst thing on isles… amity blight.
Tristan glared at the witch and wondered what she was even doing here.
His question was answered as he saw her reading to children. They seemed to be in awe at her words and he shook his head. Probably doing this for extra credit.
Tristan didn't know he could feel the level in hate in his heart that he had for amity. But he did, and he swore that something about her just rubbed him the wrong way.
The boy walked up to his friend and tapped her shoulder. "Keeping tabs on thin mint are we?"
Luz blushed at his comments. "I know, it's weird. But I want to be friends with her."
"why?"
"she's cool and I know we can befriend our enemies if we try."
Tristan raised an eyebrow when Luz said that. "you her to roleplay hecate when you do your azura larp don't you?"
Luz's had a nervous twitch "whaaat? No… I just think if she'd want to play the role of hecate then who am I to judge."
"Uh huh, well count me out… she's just like amber." Tristan rolled his eyes. "all lunch times I wasted listening to her problems."
"Oh come on, I think you guys made a good couple."
"Say that again and I'll rip your tongue out." Tristan replied giving luz a nasty glare.
The girl chuckled at the fact she could still get a rise out of her friends.
"what are you two doing here?" Amity said, her typical scowl clear on her face.
"oh we were in the neighborhood and thought this would make a lovely place for a summer ho– what do you think we're here for? We came to drop off some books and waste sometime."
Amity glared at tristan who had a doofy look on his face. "don't patronize me earth witch."
"Wouldn't dream of it, mint witch." Tristan teased.
Smack!
"Ooow, what was that for?" Tristan said rubbing the back of his head from where luz hit him.
"Be nice," Luz growled through gritted teeth then adopting a forced smile as she turned to the witch. "Amity! I couldn't help but notice you were reading to children."
"Don't get any cute ideas; I'm doing it for extra credit."
"Maybe me and tristan can help? We do great monster voices." Luz said the last part in a robot voice.
"Don't volunteer me for that Luz. I hate reading for school, let alone for the pleasure of others."
smack!
"Okay, geez, you have a lot of force in those birds wrists when you apply them right." Tristan felt a sore spot on his head. "Oh god, this is gonna bruise, I know it."
"Human! Do I go to the owl shack and fry owls?" She said stuttering with each word.
Tristan was tempted to Say something about amity's speech but one look at luz who was already raising her hand made him keep his mouth shut.
"Look, I may not know what you do but I know whenever we get together you cause me trouble… so stay away from me… got it." Amity sneered turning from the two and storming away.
"good riddance, I hate the smell of snotty witches anyway… let's go luz." Tristan walked away from amity when he saw too tall teenagers both had green hair one in the same style as luz's and the other in a long ponytail that went all the way down her back they dressed in a similar style.
"are you gonna let her get to you like that?" The boy asked, a cocky smile on his face.
"And who might you two be?" Tristan asked scratching his chin. He swore that they looked familiar and he just couldn't place where from.
"we are well wishers on a quest… a common good… also we're amity's siblings." the girl said in a dramatic tone.
"say whaaa?" Luz asked jumping behind tristan to look at the two with amazement.
Tristan meanwhile used his fingers to a make a box and hovered it over each of the two new arrivals. "I thought you guys looked familiar… you have similar facial structure to thin mint."
"thin mint? Now that's a nick name for amity… but we have one better." The girl said nodding her head in approval.
"Watch this… hey mittens!" the boy called and reaching behind his back. "Mom says stop forgetting your lunch." he whipped out a cute bunny lunch box with the ears poking out of the opening.
Tristan took immense pleasure when amity froze up upon hearing the boys voice. "Mittens? That's what you call her!?" Tristan burst out laughing at the nickname. "oh, all fear the new head of the emperor's coven… mittens. Watch out that's mittens, you don't want to cross her… mittens! That's a cats name!" he laughed himself until he was out of breath.
Amity twirled angrily toward the boy and went red faced she then ran up to the group and snatched the lunch box from her brother.
"and stop being mean to your friends." The boy commented snirking at tristan's display.
Tristan wiped a tear from his eye and stopped laughing enough to get words out. "Yeah mittens, I don't think you appreicate us mittens." he roared laughing again.
"Say mittens one more time… I dare you."
Tristan stopped laughing immediately and leaned to be face to face with amity. "Mittens… what are you gonna do?" He replied his fists behind his back.
Amity glared at him and then looked around her. "you're lucky we're in a library or I'd put you in your place."
"anytime you wanna die trying… I'm game." Tristan replied with a smirk.
"Grrrragh!" Amity stamped her foot and ran from Tristan.
The boy chuckled at his handywork.
The two siblings began clapping their hands.
"Bravo, I've never seen anyone get mittens that upset." The boy said, nodding his head in addition with clapping his hands.
"agreed… I'm emira and this is edric… we are amity's siblings and we are twins." Emira introduced herself and walked up to pat Tristan on the shoulder.
"Tristan, it's a pleasure to meet two fellow troublemakers." the boy said extending his hand.
"we know about you tristan, mittens loves to bad mouth the witch from earth." edric responded taking tristan's hands.
"whatever bad things you've heard about me… there all true." Tristan said with a smirk.
The clearing of a throat caught tristan's attention. "what did I say about being nice?"
smack! Smack! Thwack! Smack!
Severel bumps appeared on tristan's head as he groaned.
The twins laughed at that.
"Nice to meet you human, we've heard about you too… from mittens of course." Emira replied giving tristan a thumbs up.
"you got a mean backhand Luz Nocenda." Tristan garbled as his head felt like jelly. He took a couple steps toward her but fell flat on his face as he took in several sharp breaths.
"Is he going to be okay?" Edric asked.
"He'll be fine, he just needs to learn his lesson about talking with potential friends." Luz replied patting tristan's back as he lay down.
"you guys wanna hang out?" Emira asked wrapping her arms around Her brother.
"Yeah! Come on tristan, get up!" Luz exclaimed picking her friend off the ground.
"I can swear I smell burnt toast." he said stumbling to follow luz as she was led by emira and edric.
The four did many fun activities. Erasing the non, in the non fiction section sign and watching one of the librarians lose their mind because of it.
They then used magic to replace the position of two librarians once again making them lose their minds.
A clearing throat and a familiar mint witch beside a librarian put an the end of their fun.
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after being roughly led out of the building by the guards tristan, luz, and the twins were pushed down the steps.
"you have made reading far too fun." the library called from the top of the stairs.
Tristan was the first to rise as he rubbed his back trying to ease the pain. "Who'd a thunk that guy would have such a strong grip… ah, I'm gonna a nice hot shower after this and knowing eda she probably hasn't paid the water bill."
Luz and the twins chuckled at each other. "Amity must be really mad at me now." Luz stated, getting up and helping her friends.
"Nah, when mitten gets mad, her face looks like this." Edric puffed up his cheeks until they red and he let blew out a violent breath. "woah, almost passed out there."
"forget about mittens, we are far more fun." emira said winking at the girl making her blush.
"can't argue with that logic." Tristan added.
"Hey, how'd you like to break into the library… there is a special book we forgot to check out." Edric asked, leaning in and whispering to the girl.
"I don't know… tristan what do you think?" Luz asked as tristan was dusting himself off.
"I say we do it… we used to sneak into the library all the time back in middle school… remember the time you forgot to return your library book and in order to avoid paying a late fee we snuck in and put it back in it's place." He chuckled to himself. "that was before we knew there was a return slot on the outside."
"Okay! We'll do it!" Luz exclaimed, with a brightness in her eyes.
"great! See you later tonight cuties." emira said walking away from the two teens with her brother skipping along the way.
"loooks like we made some new friend tristan."
"Yeah, I don't know about them?"
"what!? But you were so buddy-buddy with them… what do you mean?"
"I don't know, it's just there is something I don't like about them. Of course I was kind with them… for two reasons; the first being I may be wrong and the second being if I'm right I don't want them to be tipped off to my true feelings about them." Tristan explained helping dust luz off as well.
"well, I think you should be less conniving with them."
"no promises… let's go get ready for a break in."
––––––––––––––––
the two returned to the owl house to find it in a wreck. The shelves were off their hinges, smashed glass decorated the floor, and lying on the coach was eda cradling a baby.
"wow eda you look so motherly." Luz cooed, a couple happy tears forming around her eyes as she smiled.
"Better it then me." Tristan mumbled to himself.
"Say that again and I'll steal your tongue luz. Tristan, I need you to rub my temples, please."
"sure thing mom…" Tristan froze when he said it, and he shrunk under the watchful gaze of the people in the room.
"Ooooh, he said it… you owe me twenty snails eda." King snided.
Luz meanwhile moaned cutely as she began letting out some tears.
Eda meanwhile smirked at what he said. "mom huh? I can live with that? Now come here sweetheart." Eda teased.
Tristan red-faced stomped toward eda and rubbed her temple.
"Oh yeah, you know how mama likes to be touched, you have the magic hands sweetheart." she moaned leaning into tristan's touch.
"don't push it old woman."
"Now tristan is that anyway to speak to your mom." luz snorted at her joke.
"I love you my little man, you take after your mama in the looks department and you're almost as smart… you'll make some witch very happy… especially since you know how to handle a womans body." Eda moaned, meltling in tristan's grasp.
"Alright I'm done… luz you got your book bag?" Tristan asked glaring at luz who was video taping tristan doing this for eda.
"And you're gonna leave without giving me a kiss. Oh how my sweet boy's love is retracted." Eda bemoaned, faking tears and sniffles.
"you're really gonna push me on this?" Tristan replied, slightly annoyed.
"It's fine, you don't love me… I knew this day would come." Eda covered her face and turned from tristan.
The boy rolled his eye and one look from luz was all it took. Those smug eyes made him so angry but he knew that she would make fun of him anyway… so he might as well do her this favor.
Tristan gave eda a peck on the cheek.
The witch froze and turned grabbing tristan's hand as he walked away with her hand, pulling the boy toward her and assualting his cheek with kisses. "Love you, sweetie." she said, in a sweet voice.
Tristan mumbled agitated by Eda's words shaking his head.
Luz meanwhile chuckled. "I knew you thought of eda as a bonus mom."
Tristan glared at her. "can we just go?"
"Sure,"
"Tristan dear, don't forget to pack a sweater, stay safe, and don't talk to any strangers." Eda replied chuckling to herself as she looked at the bat baby in her arms.
The creature then spat up another bat baby who did the same thing as the other. Now there were three bat babies who all flew around with joy.
Tristan saw this happen and chuckled as he and luz ran out the door.
Karma strikes again. He chuckled to himself as he and luz made their way to bonesborough.
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the two reached the library as the sun was setting. Both Tristan and luz waited at the top of the stairs with luz leaning against the pillar and tristan sitting with his back to the door, trying to scan for threats coming from any direction.
Luz meanwhile was striking poses in an attempt to look cool for the older teens.
"You're ridiculous luz." Tristan commented smirking.
"I know, and you're adorable… especially when I have the proof that you're a big sweetheart for your mama." Luz then walked up to tristan and showed him the video of owl beast eda after she turned a couple days ago giving him a tongue bath. It made that sound whimper sound after tristan was clean and snuggled his face.
"I thought you said you'd delete that?"
"never! It's too pure." Luz replied, pretending to be offended. "I wonder how the twins would like to see this?"
"don't you dare." Tristan threatened his fists clenched at his side as he glared at luz.
"I think she should dare." Edric said revealing himself from behind a pillar with an evil smirk on his face.
"I agree… I am dying to see baby tristan as luz called it."
"you told them about that? When?" Tristan asked, feeling betrayed.
"while you were busy pranking the librarians I may have shown them some videos."
"Luz! Dang it! Those are so embarrassing… you promised not to show anyone." Tristan exclaimed shaking his head at luz.
"But you're so cute in them and I think it's only right to share it with the world." Luz teased, sticking her tongue out.
"Besides we already made copies and have them on our scrolls for future entertainment." emira teased coming from a pillar as well.
"can we just break in and get this book." tristan growled.
"oop, looks like someone is kranky. Do you need me to get your mommy so she can put you to bed." Emira cooed making both edric and Luz laugh.
"if a monster is guarding this place then you better pray your faster then me because I'm going to trip you otherwise." The boy gritted his teeth.
Emira then did a acrobatic leap and landed behind tristan lightly tapping his cheek with her hand.
"you have an atheletes gluts… nice."she purred making the boy blush.
The twins then converge and edric pulled a scroll from his bag.
"it says no trespassing but I'm allergic to rules."
"and diary."
"woah, just expose me." the boy said genuinely hurt by the comment.
Both luz and tristan followed close behind looking around in case they are spotted.
Edric then used the scroll to open the door with a whispered prayer. The prayer made the door open wide with a loud click.
Edric pumped his fist in the air. "it worked!" he excliamed, entering the place followed by his sister then the two teens from earth.
Tristan and luz could barely see in the dark of the library. The boy thought It looked eery but he knew that it was nothing he couldn't handle.
The door closed behind them as the familiar sound of crying entered their ears.
"what Is that?" Tristan asked and looked up to a window where the moon was out. He watched as a blue star shot forward and he could swear It was crying.
Weird. He thought as he took a couple steps back. He bumped into a bookshelf and a couple book fell down. One landed in a way that it opened and out of came the muscular arm wielding a dagger that swung at the boy. He kicked book closed and let out a sigh of relief.
"the star… it brought these books to life." Edric said smiling. "cool!"
"we're gonna have so much fun here." Emira replied grabbed tristan's arms and edric grabbing luz as the two ran through the library.
The first place they went was to the magazines and edric handed luz a witch fashion magazine.
Luz opened it and she was covered in a light which formed into an illusion of rip-off a video game character that tristan and luz would play. Complete with the oversized sword and all.
Luz immediately toppled over as the trio laughed at her misfortune.
The next thing they did was find a series of books called snowballs, a history and have a big snowball fight in the middle of the library.
They all laughed as they went to a comic book opening it but… nothing happened.
"that's weird?" Emira said and out of her mouth came a word bubble.
"cool!" They all said in unison with a word bubble shared between them.
The next thing that happened was that Luz and tristan snuck away and found themselves in the kids section. They then walked to a bookshelf and found the book amity was reading.
Luz opened it and out of it came a bunny man looking up at them expectantly. "friends?" he asked in a cute voice.
"sure thing pal." Tristan replied a smile on his face.
"Luz, tristan! Check this out!" Emira said with a book about ducks in her hand. She opened to reveal a duck swimming on the page.
"aw cute litle quackster." Luz cooed making tristan happy.
"Now watch this, ed." she called as he handed her a marker and she drew hairy human legs on the duck which formed onto the illusion making it quack in worry.
"what did you do?' Luz asked, sickened.
"Made him extra cute." Emira said, giggling.
Tristan hid the quivering otabin book behind his back.
"what'cha got there mama's boy." Emira purred a mischievous look in her eyes.
"None of your business, did you get your book or not?" Tristan was taken a couple steps away from emira unaware that edric was behind it.
The boy grabbed the book from him and threw it to emira.
"Hey! Give that back!" He yelled but used magic to bind his hands.
"Here luz, it's your turn." Emira said, handing the girl the marker as she picked up the book and looked at the quivering otabin.
Luz froze and turned her head to Tristan who was shaking his head at her.
"what are you waiting for… here let me do it." Edric grabbed the book and marker then used it to make bushy eyebrows and a scowling face.
"what have you done." tristan growled breaking the binding and jerking the book out of edric's hand. The boy pushed the green haired witch against the wall. "That was uncalled for!"
Emira's hand on tristan's shoulder told him he was going too far. "come on, we'll get the book and we don't have to see each other again."
Tristan looked at the frightened edric and turned his head in disgust. He loosened his grip on the man and turned his head in disgust, he released the boy, remembering when his bullies would slam him against his locker.
"see that you I run into you again." tristans voice had lost al fight in it. He stormed off following emira as she lead them to the place where there book is… the romance section.
"so we came to get you a steamy romance novel… what did you promise your mom you'd get it for her or something." Tristan rolled his eyes, his opnion on all the blights completely soured. They're all spoiled rotten brats.
Emira never lost that cocky grin when she grabbed one of the books and pulled it to reveal a secret door.
"ah, boiling isles library… of course there'd be a secret chamber in the romance section… crazy island." Tristan grumbled as he entered the place to see it filled with bookshelves, the only unique furniture being a desk with pictures, ink, paper, and other writing stuff on it.
Tristan wandered around and noticed something on the bookshelf.
"Psst Luz, come here." he beckoned to his best friend.
She followed him and looked to where he was pointing. She saw that there was four volumes of a familiar book series… good witch azura.
"of course They'd read that?' Tristan responded, rolling his eyes… in all the coventions that featured azura fans one truth was definitive of the fandom… the only good fan is luz.
"Cool. You guys have read good witch azura?" Luz turned to them a smile on her face.
The twins looked at the girl confused. "No, we don't but our sister does."
"Oh boy," Tristan realized then and there whose secret room is this.
"yeah, we are actually here for amity's diary… this being the only place where she could've hid it."
"and there it is… you rich kids make me sick. I don't even like amity and I know what you're doing is wrong… I won't stand for it." tristan was upset and he stormed out of the room. "luz these guys are nothing but trouble… I'm out of here."
Tristan stormed off from the secret hide out and turned toward his friend. "Light bright, you coming?"
Luz looked toward the twins and then back at her friend with a concerned look on her face. "Tristan… I'm sorry."
"what are you doing? I thought you wanted to be amity's friend? do you think this is how you're going to accomplish it?" Tristan had his hands at his side and his eyes pleaded with his friend.
Both emira and edric walked up to luz and placed their hands possessively on the girls shoulder.
"I think she's made her decision…" Emira replied smugly.
"you stay out of this! You're a bad friend and a terrible sister." tristan pointed his finger at the witch.
"at least we aren't trying to police luz's fun and telling her not to get back at someone who bullies her." Edric added, smirking.
"Whatever, Light bright, I'm going home." Tristan turned his back and slapped into Amity who fell backwards. "Oh no."
Amity picked herself off the ground. "what are all of you doing here!?"
"we were here to grab your diary obviously. Consider it payback for getting us in trouble last week." Emira said, rolling her eyes. "or that was the plan until Tristan had to act all noble."
"I want all of you out of my room here!" Amity said screaming at the four.
Tristan looked down and walked up to luz. "Let's go." He grabbed her by the arm and tried to walk away from the dangerous witch.
"wait, amity… I'm sorry. I wasn't going to grab your diary I was going to hide it, so they couldn't find it." Luz pleaded pulling away from tristan.
"human, save it! I was wondering what you are; a poser, a nerd… I now know what you are… you're a bully." Amity had tears In her eyes and that was a surprise to tristan.
The green haired girl ran away as fast as she could. Leaving both tristan and luz in awe.
"Hey, don't let her get to you." Emira said placing her hand on Tristan's shoulders.
"yeah, mittens, always ruins the fun." edric added. "wanna go goblin tipping?"
Tristan turned around and punched emira in the cheek. "get out and never come back! Don't let me catch you talking to luz again."
Emira's cheek was red as she looked up at tristan with fear.
Edric shook in fear and grabbed his sisters hand running away with her.
"woah, I've never seen you get violent with anyone." Luz replied in amazement.
"come on, we need to find amity and apologize." Tristan said and running around in the library.
"I'm sorry amity! I was wrong about you!" Tristan yelled as he ran around the library.
A violent scream filled his ears and he recognized the voice of amity. He ran toward the source and saw her getting grabbed by a weird purple monster that looked familiar.
"Otabin!" Tristan replied as he ran up to the creature. "what happened to you… edric and emira!"
Tristan watched as the creature held a giant book and began to place Amity inside tying her inside with string.
The boy used his purple missiles to hit otabin. "leave her alone! I was the one who let them change you… now I'm going to fix you."
Otabin growled at tristan who took a couple steps back. He looked up at amity who had fear in her eyes.
As otabin raised his fist to smash tristan, a book hit otabin's head and the monster turned it's head toward the source.
It was luz who held her azura book and opened it to form a costume similar to azura's. "eat this sucka!" Luz tried to use a spell circle but failed as she began to eek in fear.
While otabin was distracted tristan ran to amity and undid her bindings.
"why are you helping me? I thought you hated me?"
"you can ask questions after we are save" Tristan grabbed amity's hand and dashed away from the fight.
"come on luz!" He yelled from over his shoulder, he watched as the girl was grabbed and made a mental note to come back for her.
The boy led amity to the front door of the library. "you run home, I'm going to save luz."
Amity grabbed the boy's hand as he tried to run to help Luz "you shouldn't risk your neck for her… she's just a human!"
"That human just saved my life… and yours! I don't know how you think this works! But luz is a good person and all she wants is to do magic… but she has to deal with rascist witches like you and your mentor… you're why I hate being a witch!"
A dead silence covered the room as both Tristan and Amity looked each other in the eyes. The former with hateful distrust and the other with frightened pity.
Help!
Tristan with no more hesitation ran toward the source of his friends distress. The boy dashed through the halls to find luz being bound within a book.
"Hey! Otaban! Leave her alone! I'm the one who failed you and I'll be the one who is punished!"
"you are a true friend, our adventures will never end." The creature spoke in rymthing voice.
He dropped the book and started hovering toward Tristan.
Tristan did a spell circle to slap the book binder with three darts of pure magic. He then used his enhanced speed to dash forward and when he was within the creatures grasp, he fell prone and slid across the floor just under the creatures legs.
Tristan then picked himself up and ran forward to grab at the book's bindings.
"you came for me, thank you tristan." Luz said worry clear on her tone.
"of course I did luz, you're my best friend… and I would never leave you." Tristan felt a shadow fall over him. "Oh no." he said quick as he turned his head to see otabins fist being raised. Tristan closed his eyes and hovered over luz to protect her.
It came flying down… but tristan was not hit. He opened his eyes to see an abomination holding otabins hand.
"an abomination, that means…"
"amity!" Luz exclaimed as they both looked forward where amity was using her magic to commanded her abomination to hold onto the creature.
"Tristan use this to erase the changes that ed and em did." Amity called throwing an eraser which tristan caught.
The boy helped luz escape and then slide under otabin and used the eraser to erase the eyebrows and scowl… making otabin revert back to his cute self.
"friends?" He asked.
"sure thing pal." tristan picked up the book and smiled. He closed it and let out a sigh of relief.
"that was a nightmare." He sighed and leaned against a shelf sliding down.
Luz walked up and sat next to him. Amity took a seat across from them.
"look, I know I haven't been a friendly witch… and I'm sorry." Amity apologized, her head bowed.
"and we shouldn't have broken into your den to steal your diary." Luz admitted.
Tristan looked at and nodded his head. "I was wrong about you blight… you're not all that bad… and if you want… I'd like to be your friend."
Amity's eyes widened. "you want to be my friend?"
"as long as you keep being a good person… I will gladly be your friend."
Amity then rose and nodded her head "i'd like to be both of your friends."
"also, here." luz pulled out goodwitch azura book five and handed it to amity. "I noticed you only had books one thru four… so you can borrow it."
Amity blushed at this and took the book. "thank you… maybe you can be a witch."
Luz smiled at that and as amity walked away luz stood next to tristan.
––––––––––––––––
Luz and tristan returned to the owl house and found the giant bat queen who looked like an adult version of her babies fly off.
They entered the house to see eda in a cradling position and lying on her back with king sleeping at her foot on the futon. Tristan noticed a chest full of gold and skull whistle. He looked it over and it read as such "when you need a favor… I will be there… bat queen, yi yi."
Tristan chuckled as he watched eda wake up.
"where are the babies?"
Luz made a bird with her hands and showed they flew off.
Eda kneeled her head in disappointment "I just tuaght junior how to pick locks."
"I miss my babies!" king exclaimed, hugging eda.
"Hey, it's alright… I garuntee someday you'll have a kid of your own and they'll be the luckiest kid in the world… until then you can seattle with being me and luz's mentor." Tristan replied sitting next to eda and placing his hand over hers.
"yeah, I guess I can… and I can also do this." eda used a spell circle and threw it at tristan.
In a puff of smoke tristan was transformed and he was three foot tall, had a smaller version of his usual outfit and had chubby baby cheeks.
"what did you do to me?' he said in a squeaky voice. "is that my voice!?"
Luz cooed while looking at tristan. "you look so cute… let me get a picture of eda holding you."
"done and done." eda said grabbing the boy and putting him on her lap.
"change me back eda… now!" tristan demanded his face getting red.
"looks like someone's cranky… I think it's time we put you down for a nap… and don't worry mama will be there when you wake up with your snake."
"No! No! Change me back!"
The owl house laughed at the joke and eda smiled as she looked at tristan and her eyes began to glow black then turned back to normal in that split second between states… she had an epiphany.
It doesn't matter that he isn't mine by birth… tristan is my baby now, and I will not let anyone hurt him… or take him away even if they are his parents.
marbled gold
yeah I thought it would be funny and I can't take full credit for the thin mint nickname I've seen other fanfic writers have a character refer to amity as a mint themed nickname due to the hair and I just kinda added my own spin to it.
Son of the dragon:
you always have the best ideas… I plan to use your market idea as soon as the swap episode takes place and believe or not I do have a date night chapter for boscha and tristan and you just posted the perfect meeting the parents scene… thank you.
Alexc1209
Thank you good sir, I love writing the cursed mom eda moments too and there are gonna be plenty more mama eda posts… just like the one I put at the end of this chapter.