Luz began to wake up and saw Willow and Amity looking at her. Luz looked away from them, afraid of how they'd act knowing this information.
"I'm... I'm sorry you guys had to see that." Luz said, knowing they were in her mind, "I saw you guys in my mind, and I know you went into... that memory. You must be horrified by what you saw."
"Luz, I've seen Boscha eat a rotten corpse when I seven, seeing something you had no control over isn't that big of a deal. You also did it to save your mom, how could either of us be angry or upset at you for saving someone?" Amity asked.
"She's right Luz." Willow said, "You saved someone, if you feel like a monster for doing something like that, just imagine what would happen if you didn't save her."
Luz looked up at them.
"The day I learned I was the Avatar was the worst day of my life." Luz admitted, "I actually didn't remember that for a while, so when I woke up and had the ability to Waterbend, I freaked out. It only got worse when my mom told me that I... I... I-"
"Bloodbended?" Willow said.
"Yeah, that." Luz said.
Willow put her hands on Luz's shoulders.
"Luz, if your dad even tries to hurt you, we will stand by you and make sure he doesn't get his hands on you." Willow said.
"You don't have to risk your life for me." Luz said.
"Luz, you've done so much for us." Amity said, "Willow and I are becoming friends again, Boscha and her gang have been fangirling over you so much they haven't been bullying people, and I... I can't imagine my life without a friend like you."
Willow looked at Amity, knowing that Amity was trying to say something else, but she was glad Amity managed to say something. Willow and Amity sat on each side of Luz.
"Nothing will ever hurt you as long as we're by your side." Willow said.
Luz looked at the both of them and smiled.
"Thank you... both of you."
"After everything you've done, it's the least you deserve." Amity said.
Luz hugged them and they hugged them back. At the Emperor's castle, Lilith entered the throne room.
"You called, my Emperor?"
"Yes." Belos said, "After some... thinking, I have decided that... you deserve to know what's going on."
"Any particular reason?"
"I remembered a promise I made around four hundred years ago. I promised Horace that I would keep your family safe, and attacking immediately would not only reveal you're alive, but also put your sister in danger." He said, "Now, do you have a plan?"
Lilith smiled.
"In fact, I do." Lilith said, "Send guards up near the Eye Socket Caverns, claiming to be looking for me. They'll find a false body and begin to look around, which is where they find the building, I was in. All of this must be done in complete silence and must be discrete. I will let Edalyn know about the plan tonight and she will help distract the other members there."
"And how will she do that?"
"She's the most wanted criminal on the Boiling Isles, she became his right hand just by joining. From what I was told, he's only there when there's a prisoner that needs to be interrogated. I was told that he demands to be present at all interrogations." Lilith said, "Getting back to my main point, Edalyn has the full run of the place. All of them need to listen to her, or she is allowed to kill anyone that doesn't listen."
"Very well, I shall follow your lead on this." Belos said, "Now get comfortable, I'm about to tell you the story of my past, it's a long story."
In another part of the Isles, Willow and Amity were walking back to their homes.
"You were right." Amity said.
"About what?" Willow asked.
"About me liking Luz. She's done so much for me, when she didn't have too, when I tried to make her leave me alone. She's such a selfless person and I get these... thoughts when I'm around her. She makes me feel things that I don't know how to express."
"Well, Grom is coming up, maybe you could ask her."
"I'll... think about that." Amity said, "I just don't know how."
"I'm sure you'll think of something."
Amity and Willow separated and went in the direction of their own homes. Amity walked to her front door, where her parents were waiting. They looked afraid of her. Alador had claw marks on the left side of his face. Odalia was missing an eye, had claw marks on the side of her neck, and she was missing a hand.
"Mother, Father." Amity said, walking past them.
The two of them just looked in different directions, while Amity went up to her room.
"How am I going to ask Luz to Grom?"
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