Chapter 6: Overdue Problems

Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. I am so excited that new Owl House episodes are coming back and I think you'll like what I have in store. Sorry about the wait but I think you'll like it. Please Review and Enjoy.

We find ourselves at Eda's place. After Eda's training Minato and Luz were dealing with the worst possible torture an earth teenager can deal with.

"What kind of brain-dead human came up with the idea of homework?" Luz asks as the two of them were flipping through pages.

"This is torture." Minato groans.

"Didn't you guys have to do this stuff when you learned magic?" Eda asks walking by

"Learning magic was the difference between life and death. This isn't." Luz said.

"I think I got the answer to number 7." Minato said showing it to her.

"I think that looks right." Luz said a little unsure.

"Well at least you kids are finally getting used to acting like humans." Eda said sitting on the couch drinking a beer and watching TV with Ayden and Owlbert nearby. "Now you just gotta keep the act going."

"At least until we get home." Minato said when he noticed King looking intensely out the window. "Hey King what are you doing?"

"Hang tight. I'm having a staring contest with the cat across the street...HA! I won! In your face Fluffy!" King laughs in victory.

"Aw he makes such a cute victory smile." Luz smiles

"I am not cute! I am unstoppable!" King declares when Owlbert jumps off the couch and lands on his head. "MEOW!" Screeching King tried to shake him off when Ayden joins in.

"Yeah you're a real force to be reckoned with." Eda chuckles as both palisman laughed flying off him.

"I almost lost one of my 9 lives with that move!" King snaps.

"But you didn't." Eda snickers.

Chuckling Luz and Minato couldn't help but enjoy this.

It had been 3 weeks since the two of them had been stranded in the human realm. And thanks to Eda's combat training and the anime Soos has been showing them they were coming up with tons of cool tricks and ideas for their magic.

Suddenly Luz's phone rang revealing a video call from Willow.

"Willow. Quick hats!" Luz said as she and Minato put their beanies over their heads to hide their ears before she answered.

"Hey Luz." Willow said.

"Hey new friend, what's up?" Luz asks.

"Listen we wanted to know if you and Minato wanted to come with us after school tomorrow?" Willow asks.

"Maybe some other time Willow. This homework stuff is driving us crazy." Minato said.

"Oh Homework? That's perfect. We can have a study group together." Willow said.

"A study group?" They both said.

"Yeah we can go to the library tomorrow and as we hang out we can help each other with our homework." Willow offers.

"Hey that actually sounds good." Luz said.

"Great, see you guys tomorrow." Willow said hanging up.

"Oh great while you kids are off having fun I guess I'll be at my shop all alone." Eda said.

"Hey you can have King be your helper." Luz suggests.

"Meh I think I got a nap in the afternoon." King said.

"Hmm maybe I should have gotten a dog. Those are helpful." Eda raised an eyebrow.

"How dare you! I'm a million times better than any mutt!" King points.

"Oh please. All you do is eat, sleep and now thanks to the kids annoy. I bet you couldn't last one afternoon being helpful." Eda said.

"Challenge accepted. If I win you have to get me that crazy good fish I like." King said.

"Alright, but if I win you have to wear…this." Taking out her phone Eda shows a picture of cat costumes.

"You monster!" King gasps

"Aww. He would look so cute in those." Minato said.

"If I win you have to wear one of these costumes for a whole week." Eda grins.

"You're sick." King said.

"And don't you forget it. So furball is your little fishy worth all this?" Eda smirks.

"Absolutely." King said.

"Alright kids you heard it. Have your cameras ready because it's gonna be a fun week." Eda said.

"Ooh I wonder what we should dress him up as?" Luz smiles.

"Ooh maybe we should dress him like us." Minato suggests making her squeal.

"Love it!" Luz said.

"Better save your receipts because you'll be returning them." King said.


The next morning, Luz and Minato were on their way to school.

"Well at least this world has a few things we know about." Luz said.

"Yeah remember when we used to sneak into the library at night and borrow a few books?" Minato chuckles.

"Aw good times." Luz chuckles when they heard screaming echo from down the street.

Looking ahead they heard the sounds of gunshots.

"Minato?" Luz asks as Minato looks at his phone.

"Yeah we got time." Minato nods.

Unzipping their bags Owlbert and Ayden popped their heads out before they ran into an alley.

Down the way, we see a high speed chase going on between police and armed guns.

"Attention all units we have targets racing along main street in a large black van!" A police scanner said.

As the cop cars struggled to catch up we see Witch and Warlock fly in on their brooms.

"Uh excuse me!" Witch calls out flying up to the driver's seat.

Looking over the criminals see Witch tapping on the glass telling them to roll the window down.

"Hi there, listen I hope it's not too much trouble but it would really be great for all of us if you kindly pulled over. Okay?" Witch asks.

However, instead of doing that the driver took out a gun and fired at her forcing Witch to fly up over the roof.

"You could have just said no!" Witch snaps as Warlock flew in from behind her.

"Some people are just rude." Warlock said.

"No kidding." Witch said.

Looking ahead they saw a busy intersection not far from the school.

"We gotta move fast." Witch said.

Making a magic circle Witch blasts the ground in front of them causing ice to form making the vehicle swerve out of control.

Flying ahead, Warlock fired a large patch of abomination goo that caught the truck just before impact lessoning the damages from the crash.

"See this is why guys need to wear seat belts." Warlock said.

Flicking his wrists, the Abomination changed shape and yanked the criminals out of their car and drops them to the ground as the cops pulled up.

"All yours officers." Witch said as they flew off.

Nearby Amity was walking by and she noticed the wreckage.

"Whoa, did you see Witch and Warlock? They were so cool." Someone said.

"They took those guys out easy."

"Them again?" Amity mutters when from down an adjacent alley Minato stumbles out and almost bumps into her.

"Whoa uh sorry about that." Minato said before realizing who it was. "Amity?

"Oh it's you again." Amity narrows her eyes.

"Uh yeah hey sorry about that. In a bit of a hurry." Minato said when Luz came out behind him.

"Come on Minato! We don't wanna be late!" Luz said grabbing his arm.

Narrowing her eyes, Amity looked down the alley and saw it was directly across from the accident.

"Weird." Amity mumbles before heading to school.


At Eda's shop, Eda and King were in the middle of their bet where King had to be helpful.

As Soos was filling a bucket with water to clean the windows he looks to see King holding the wiper with his teeth.

"Aw thanks little fella." Soos smiles petting King on the head and taking it. "Hey Eda where are the little guys. I had some new anime I wanted to show them."

"I think they enough to last them a while Soos." Eda said putting money in her crystal ball.

Leaping up onto the counter, King stretched his legs.

"Why do I have to keep helpin Soos?" King asks.

"Because I make him do all the work. Meaning you're also doing all the hard work ." Eda smirks.

"Sneaky tactic Owl Lady." King said.

"This one is on you furball." Eda chuckles enjoying this. "Ready to call it quits?"

"Never." King hisses.

"Hey Soos when you're done with the windows mind heading to the back and clear out any spider webs." Eda calls out.

"You got it Eda." Soos said as King glares at her.

"He might need some help." Eda smirks making King groan.

Little did they know a few blocks away, Lilith was sitting with Jenny as Mr. X came back with a bag of food.

"Take out obtained." Mr. X smiles handing them each a box.

"Don't you think we should be searching the city for them? They were spotted earlier this morning." Lilith said.

"And they flew off right when the cops showed up. Besides after all those popsicles we need some real food." Mr. X said taking a big bite of his food. "Besides Jenny's got the equipment hooked up to detect the slightest hint of magic in the area. We'll find them."

"You do?" Lilith asks turning to him.

Finishing what he was eating Jenny typed on his laptop and the antenna on the hood of the truck moved around.

"Clever." Lilith said impressed before eating.


Later that day at the public library, we see the half of the portal key was leaking magic to the point all the words and pictures began to glow.

Down the hall, we see Minato and Luz sitting down with Willow, Gus, Ezra and Akko.

"Thanks a lot guys. This homework stuff has been a pain." Luz said.

"Hey we've been there." Gus said.

"We all hate homework." Willow said.

"Some more than others." Ezra hints towards Akko.

"Hey so I'm not the best test taker let it go." Akko said in a huff making them chuckle.

"Relax Akko we know." Willow giggles.

"Alright let's see if we can help you guys out of this one." Gus said as they all took out their books.

As Minato grabbed his pencil and started writing he saw the end was broken.

"Uh hold on a second. I need to sharpen this." Minato said.

"There's one over by the kids section." Akko points.

"Thanks." Minato said getting up.

"Hey Luz you mind if I ask you something personal?" Akko asks.

"Uh depends, what?" Luz asks.

"Are you and Minato…you know?" Akko asks pushing her hands together.

"What?" Luz asks.

"You know are you close?" Akko asks.

"Yeah we're pretty good friends." Luz said still oblivious.

"But are you more than friends?" Akko asks.

"What are you?"

"Are you two dating?" Akko asks tired of this dance.

"What?" Luz said surprised.

"Akko. Knock it off." Willow said.

"What? Those two do everything together. I was curious." Akko said.

"Minato is my best friend. We practically grew up together." Luz said.

"See childhood friends. There's your answer end of story." Ezra said.

However for Luz she couldn't help but wonder. I mean she and Minato had always been a team but together?

Making his way past the kid's section Minato heard laughter.

"Not in the house David." A familiar voice said.

Turning his head Minato saw Amity readying a book to the kids.

"Uh oh looks like David didn't listen. And broke a vase." Amity said pretending to be concerned.

"Amity reading to kids?" Minato said surprised.

"Come here David. Yes David. I love you too." Amity finished. "See even mean old David needs a hug from his mother."

"Yaaay." They all cheered.

"Well what do you know." Minato mutters.

"Now while I find us another book why don't you kids think about if you've been doing any bad things like David." Amity said getting up.

Thinking quickly Minato turned around to sharpen his pencil pretending he didn't hear anything.

Walking over to the nearby cart, Amity spotted the Otabin book but when she did she noticed Minato walking away.

"Really? You again? Are you stalking me or something?" Amity glares.

"What? No I-I'm here studying with my friends." Minato said quickly. "So uh…you read to kids huh?"

"Relax I was just kidding. Look I'm only doing this for extra credit. Don't look into it." Amity said.

"Those kids seemed to enjoy it." Minato points out.

"I said don't look into it. Just go back to whatever it was you're doing." Amity said grabbing the Otabin book off the rack.

"Nice to see you too." Minato said walking away.

Turning around Amity was about to leave when the half of the portal key fell out of the book.

"Huh?" Bending down Amity picked it up. "Hmm weird bookmark."

Shrugging it off Amity put the key down on a box of donation books and walks away.

A few minutes later a man comes by and grabbed the box.

Carrying it out to his pickup truck the man puts the box in the back before driving away.

At their table, Minato had rejoined the study group.

"Alright now try carrying the two and multiplying." Ezra said.

"Uh does this look right?" Luz asks showing her answer.

"Yep that's it." Willow nods.

"Sweet." Luz pumps her fist.

"How are you guys so good at this? I mean all these angles?" Akko asks.

Chuckling neither could say this was how they aimed their magic attacks.

"Just practice I guess." Minato shrugs.

Sitting down Amity waited for the kids to gather up.

"Alright kids, today we'll be reading one of my favorites. Otabin the Bookmaker." Amity said holding it up for them to see.

"Ooh." All the kids smile.

However when Amity opened the book all the pages suddenly began to glow bright much to her confusion.

"What in the?" Amity asks when the pages began to burn.

Flinching Amity drops the book causing it to double in size.

Emerging from the book Amity and the kids look in horror to see a large mouse monster with a giant needle.

"Otabin?" Amity said in disbelief. This looked nothing like the one on the cover.

"With claws and fangs and breaking bones, I found a friend to make my own." Otabin said causing all the kids to scream in horror.

"Run!" Amity yells as the kids ran out screaming.

In the study room, the group turns around to see the kids running out.

"Oof guess they didn't like the reader today." Gus said when Otbain burst through the door shattering it.

Screaming in horror all the people inside ran for their lives.

Catching up to Amity, Otabin grabs her.

"Help!" Amity yells

Eyes widening Luz and Minato looked to each other in horror.


At their truck, Jenny's machine went off getting their attention.

"Ooh we got something!" Mr. X smiles as Lilith looked to the screen.

"It's at the public library." Lilith said.

"Floor it Jenners!" Mr. X said as Jenny stepped on the gas and they drove away.

Zooming past Eda's shop we see King collapse on the counter in front of Eda.

"Well you look like you had fun." Eda smirks picking some dust off him.

"You know what forget it. Being helpful isn't worth it. I like being a lazy cat." King said.

"So you forfeit?" Eda asks.

"Yes I forfeit, just no more hard work." King begs.

"Hey Eda you have anything else you need me to do?" Soos asks walking in brushing dust off him.

"Nah Soos I think you two have had enough." Eda smiles in victory.

While Eda was enjoying her win, she had no idea the damage going on outside her store.


At the library, everyone was running in fear as Minato and Luz scrambled to their bags pulling Owlbert and Ayden out.

"You get our friends out of here I'll go get Amity." Minato said.

"Hurry, we can't use any with all these witnesses." Luz said.

Nodding both split up.

"Come on guys this way!" Luz said running to Gus, Willow, Ezra and Akko while Minato ran in the opposite direction.

Making his way to the kids room he looked in horror to see Otabin had Amity pressed against a giant book with his real one attached to his chest.

"Why are you doing this? I've read your book since I was a kid. You're aren't like this." Amity said in a terrified tone.

"Friends are what I've always sought and now a friend my claws of caught." Otabin grins sewing her into the book.

Pulling on the thread Amity sees her body merging with the paper.

Popping his head out, Minato cringed. He couldn't change until he got her out of there and he couldn't use any spells either.

'Alright Eda time for all your training to pay off.' Minato thought looking around for a way when he noticed a library cart.

"Hey furball!" Turning around Otabin saw Minato ram the cart into him knocking him into a desk.

"Minato?" Amity said surprised.

"Come on!" Minato said lifting the book up so they could run out.

"So what's your plan now?" Amity asks.

"Well…" Minato cringed.

"You don't have a plan?!" Amity snaps.

"Hey my only plan was get you away from that thing and I'm lucky that worked. I'm making this up as a I go along." Minato said.

Looking at him Amity couldn't help but giggle softly.

Suddenly Otabin's needle stabbed the book impaling the other side narrowly missing them.

"Jackpot." Minato said rubbing the needle against the binding cutting Amity free. "Now get out of here!"

"What about you?" Amity asks.

"No time! Just go!" Minato said pushing her down the hall.

Stumbling towards the exit, Amity saw Minato being chased by Otabin.

As much as she wanted to help, she didn't know what to do and ran out.

In the middle of the library, Minato and Luz reunited.

"You get Amity?" Luz asks.

"Yep, you get our friends out?" Minato asks.

"Yep that's everyone." Luz said.

"Good." Minato said as both turned to see Otabin stand across from them.

"Looks like it's just you against us Otabin." Luz said.

"Making friends, taking friends, never be without my friends." Otabin said gripping his needle tight.

"You are evil. You can't rhyme friends with friends." Luz points out as their staffs extended.

"Really? That's what you have an issue with?" Minato asks.

Making magic circles both of them transformed into Witch and Warlock.

"You squirm and fight, and scream and shout. But friendship always will win out." Otabin said throwing his needle at them like a javelin.

Acting quickly Witch slams her hands down making a wall of ice that the needle stabs through.

Leaping out Warlock flies along the thread and delivers a jump kick nailing Otabin in the chest making him skid back.

Using this opening Witch swings her staff whacking Otabin in the legs making him drop to his knees.

Swinging their staffs both were about to strike when Otabin blocks with his needle.

"Friends." Otabin growls shoving them back with his overwhelming strength.

As the two of them recover Otabin picks up a desk and hurls it at them.

Screaming both ran jump out of the way as it smashed down on them.

"He's too strong to deal head on attacks." Warlock said.

"Plan B then." Witch said as they both ran down separate book aisles.

Making multiple magic circles along every shelf they ran by the bookshelves turned to Otabin and fired all their books at him like bullets from a machine gun pelting him nonstop.

"Whoever said books never hurt?" Witch chuckles.

Roaring Otabin burst out of the pile.

"I don't think they hurt enough." Warlock gulps.

Turning around both hopped on their staffs and flew to the outside sitting area.

Out front, Amity looked around for any sign of Minato.

"Luz! Luz!" Willow calls out.

"Minato! Where are you?!" Akko calls out.

"Hey you guys!" Amity calls out.

"Amity?" Willow said surprised as she ran to them.

"Where are those two newbies who hang out with you?" Amity asks.

"Luz and Minato?" Ezra assumes.

"Yeah them. I thought they might be with you." Amity said.

"They were but now we can't find them." Akko said.

"Where did you last see them?" Gus asks.

"They were inside running from…oh boy." Amity realized.

"Wait, what if they're still inside?!" Gus panics.

Looking to the library they all cringed in fear at what could be happening to their friends.

Out back the truck pulls up and Lilith, Mr. X and Jenny stepped out to see magic lighting up the library from the inside.

"Oh mama we hit the jackpot. Is your stun gun charged Jenny? Tell me it's charged." Mr. X said pulling out his stun gun while Lilith pulls out a regular gun and they ran towards the building.

Bursting out of the back, Witch and Warlock exit the library and take fighting stances.

Breaking down the door, Otabin swings his needle at them but they dodge.

Swinging it like a sword Otabin goes on the attack but the two of them use Eda's combat training to block and dodge his attacks.

Skidding back Warlock noticed his book was oozing magic.

Getting an idea, Warlock created a gust of wind sending Otabin smashing against the wall.

"Aim for the book! That's where all the magic is." Warlock said as Witch nods in understanding.

Charging up, Warlock's right hand glowed while Witch's left hand glowed.

As Otabin goes in for an attack, both magic users thrusts their hands forward breaking through the needle and hitting Otabin right in the book causing him to scream in agony.

With all the magic from the book being released it exploded creating a cloud of smoke.

When the smoke cleared, we see Otabin was his normal small and adorable self again and his book was normal size again.

Groaning Otabin rubbed his head.

"Hey little guy you okay?" Warlock asks picking him up.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me." Otabin apologizes.

"Hey it's alright." Witch smiles.

"Will you be my friends?" Otabin asks.

"Of course we will." Warlock said as Witch opens his book sucking him back in.

"Well guess we better return this thing." Witch said.

"For a children's book character that thing was vicious." Warlock said.

"Freeze!" Turning around Witch and Warlock raised their staffs and magic circles appeared in front of them as Mr. X, Jenny and Lilith aimed their guns at them.

"Real witches. Amazing." Mr. X grins loving this.

"We have some questions that we want you to answer. Both of you." Lilith said.

"Depends, what are the questions?" Warlock asks neither of them lowering their guards.

"Ooh these ones are feisty." Mr. X grins.

"Whose side are you on? The good or the bad side?" Lilith asks.

"We're neither." Warlock said confusing them.

"Us? We just want to survive." Witch said.

"You're not exactly giving us the answers we want to hear. Are they Jenners?" Mr. X asks but Jenny shook his head.

"So if you two just want to survive then why is all this danger showing up?" Lilith asks.

"We don't know." Witch said.

"We're not getting anywhere with this. We're gonna have to ask that you come with us." Lilith said.

"Nope not happening!" Warlock said as both slammed their spells into the ground causing a small explosion and a cloud of smoke.

Covering their eyes, they wait for the smoke to clear only to see Witch and Warlock were long gone.

"Well so much for doing things the easy way." Mr. X frowns.

"This is far from over boys. We'll track them down no matter the cost." Lilith said.

"Hmm what do you think Jenny?" Mr. X asks as Jenny nods ready to help.

They have lost them today but they weren't giving up that easily.


Back at the library, Willow and Ezra were looking around frantically.

"I don't see them anywhere." Willow said when Gus and Akko ran back.

"We checked around back they're not there either." Gus said.

"Oh no, I hope they're okay." Akko said worried.

"Guys!" Turning around they saw Minato and Luz waving at them.

"You're alive!" Gus smiles as they ran to them.

"What happened to you? We couldn't find you anywhere." Ezra asks.

"Well after we got separated in the crowd, we went to the back to hide until all the craziness died down." Luz said.

"Lucky for us we found that fire escape and snuck out." Minato said.

"Don't do that to us. We were worried about you guys." Willow said.

"You were?" Luz asks surprised.

"We all were. You're our friends. We didn't want anything to happen to you." Akko said.

"Thanks guys." Minato said as they both smiled.

"Come on, let's get out of here. I think we've had enough excitement at the library for one day." Ezra suggests.

"Sounds good to me." Gus said as they walked away.

From nearby, Amity watched them leave and narrowed her eyes at Minato.

In the city we see the truck holding the portal key head downtown.


Heading back to Eda's place, both witches were exhausted.

"It was hard enough when we were being hunted in our world now, we're being hunted in this one?" Minato groans.

"We cannot catch a break." Luz sighs as Owlbert hoots in concern as he and Ayden popped their heads out of the backpacks.

Looking to Ayden he calls out asking them something.

"Thanks guys but let's face it. We're survivors. That's all we are." Minato sighs.

"We fight to survive, always have always will." Luz sighs.

Frowning both palismans felt sad for their owners. They both knew why the two of them thought this way and it would not be an easy task to convince them otherwise.

Opening the door to Eda's place, they heard a loud scream.

"No! No! You monster!" King yells.

"A deal is a deal furball!" Eda said chasing after him.

"Looks like King lost the bet." Luz said.

"Hey kids help me hold him down!" Eda calls out.

Smiling both ran in and seconds later King was wearing a sushi costume making them all laugh.

"Well King you wanted fancy fish and you got it." Eda laughs.

"A cat dressed like a fish. This world comes up with hilarious stuff." Minato laughs as she and Minato took pictures of this.

"I could just eat you up." Luz giggles.


The next day at school, Minato was at his locker.

As he put his books away, Ayden popped his head out.

"You did good Ayden. We're getting the hang of this world's surprises." Minato said.

"Hey you." Amity calls out.

Turning around Minato sees Amity approaching him and shuts his locker so she didn't see Ayden.

"Oh uh Amity hey." Minato said as she slams her hand against his locker.

"Lot of weird things have been happening and you seem to be there when it happens. Why is that?" Amity asks.

"Uh I guess I'm just in the wrong place at the wrong time." Minato said nervously.

Around the corner, Luz walked out to see Amity leaning towards Minato.

"So why'd you save me back at the library?" Amity asks.

"Well because you helped me when I was in trouble so I thought it was only right to help you." Minato explains.

"You're weird." Amity said as a smile forms on her face. "But lucky for you…I like weird."

Hearing this a soft blush appeared on Minato's face.

"Oh…uh okay." Minato said nervously.

Maybe he wasn't fully prepared for every kind of surprise.

Seeing this Luz's eye began to twitch as a cold feeling coursed through her.

She had dealt with a magical book come to life, some secret agents, but seeing another girl getting close to her best friend brought something out. A very protective and very jealous side of her.

'What is she up to?' Luz thought narrowing her eyes and tightening her fist.