Chapter 16: First Day

Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. I'm glad to see my latest ideas blew you away last chapter. My new character Ezra will definitely help add some more fun to this story. I hope you like what I have planned. Please Review and Enjoy

We find ourselves in a dark unknown location as Luz made a ball of light revealing her and Eda.

"I-I'm not ready for this Eda. Maybe we should go back." Luz said nervously.

"Nah kid, you got this, just do what we practiced. Besides the others are hanging tough." Eda gestures to Minato who was nervously adjusting his scarf, Lily was pacing nervously and Katara was sitting down doing breathing techniques. "Okay they're nervous too. Hey you three over here now!" Eda orders as they walked over.

"You guys nervous too?" Minato asks.

"Oh yeah, I've never done something like this before." Lily admits.

"Speak for yourself." Katara shrugs.

"What if I mess up? What if we all don't make it? What if we die?" Luz gasps.

"Hey. Calm down, calm down. I had to do the same thing when I was a witchling. It's like a rite of passage. Granted, I was a little more skilled than all of you put together." Eda smirks.

"Eda!" All four of them snapped.

"Right, right. Sorry, sorry. Alright Minato you're up first." Eda said.

"Knock'em dead kid." Dez said patting him on the back.

As Minato walks out he finds himself under a banner called Hexside Entrance Exams.

"I'm ready." Minato declares standing in front of Bump with a clipboard.

"Ha ha, starting off with the best one." Bump smiles.

"Time to show you I'm worthy of being in Hexside." Minato said holding up his hand about to summon an Elemental Abomination.

"You're in." Bump said almost instantly making Minato slip and bang his head on the floor.

"What? But I haven't shown you anything yet." Minato said fixing him.

"I've already seen you in action quite a few times. Welcome to Hexside." Bump said handing Minato his form.

"Uh okay." Minato said hesitating before walking to the back.

"Lucky." Luz whines.

"I'm not liking this whole special treatment thing." Minato said.

"What do you expect? Miguel was one of Bump's favorites. He gave Bump a 10th track for students for crying out loud." Eda said.

"Hey you got in that's all that matters." Dez said.

"I guess." Minato frowns.

"Next." Bump calls out.

"Alright my turn." Katara said.

"Knock his creepy socks off." Dez said as she walked.

"Hello there, I'm Katara." She introduced.

"Ah yes, the Calamity Imp's human. Show me what you can do." Bump said writing on his clip board.

Hold out her hands, Katara moves them in a wave motion creating water out of thing air before turning it into ice and throwing it up in the air.

Taking a deep breath, she breathed a cloud of steam melting the ice.

"Hmm at least you keep the chaos to a minimum. Welcome." Bump said giving her the forms.

"Thank you sir." Katara said walking backstage. "

"Oh yeah that's my girl!" Dez said making a flashing congrats banner over her.

"Despairo." Katara said embarrassed.

"So you have a breath attack too now?" Minato smirks.

"Well I've seen you use that a few times and figured it might be useful down the line." Katara said embarrassed.

"It suits you." Minato said.

"Alright let's make it 3 for 3. Tiger Lily, you're up." Eda said.

"Okay, okay I can do this." Tiger Lily said pumping herself up.

"You got this. We believe in you." Luz said.

"Alright Hexisde, get ready to witness the magic of Neverland!" Tiger Lily said walking on stage.

"Ah yes, the other humans. Against my better judgement I've allowed you and Luz to apply. I hope you are up to the task." Bump said starting to lose interest.

"Oh I assure you I am." Making her eagle pose, Lily summoned her orange spirt eagle which caws as it flew out.

"Spirit beasts?" Bump said mildly impressed.

Summoning her whip, Lily flicks it ordering the eagle to fly into the stands and bring her bow and quiver to her before taking a bow.

"What do you think of me now?" Tiger Lily smirks.

"Hmm decent. Welcome to Hexside." Bump said giving her the forms.

Finally it was Luz's turn.

"From the humblest of beginnings, a hero will rise. I have traveled from another realm and trained with a powerful witch to master dark and forbidden magic. I am...Luz Noceda!" Luz declares taking off her cloak.

"Dammit, I should have made an entrance like that too." Minato said totally jealous.

"Right. The human that wants to be a witch. But can you even do magic with all your... human parts?" Bump asks.

"I sure can." Luz reached into a fanny pack and pulls out paper. "It's said that humans can't do magic, but I discovered a lost technique that changes everything."

Grinning they watched as Luz made her ice and light glyphs. "Tada." Luz smiles getting Bump's attention.

"Spells cast with paper? I've never heard of such a thing. But is it enough to pass the exam?" Bump asks making everyone cringe.

"Quick improvise." Dez whispers.

"Um, I can do other things, what about... this?" Luz turns her eyelids inside out causing the other girls to look away in disgust.

"Ugh what is that?" Lily asks.

"Looks like something Sokka would do." Katara gags.

"Come on Luz." Minato said nervously.

"Ow! Ow! Eyelash!" Luz yells as she trips on her paper and lands in front of Bump.

Landing on a glyph a pillar of ice lifts her off the ground making her hang by her cloak until it snapped and she fell to the ground.

Cringing all of them were not liking where this was going.

"I failed, didn't I?" Luz assumed.

"Believe it or not. I've seen worse." Bump said.

"Seriously? You've seen worse than that train wreck?" Dez asks and Minato immediately elbows him shutting the little imp up.

"Welcome, Luz, to Hexside School of Magic and Demonics." Bump said dropping the forms on her head.

"Yaay." Luz said weakly.

They did it, they all got in.


A few days later, Eda was flying her staff with Minato, Lily and Luz all wearing gray Hexisde robes. Since they didn't have a track yet they didn't have colors. However, Lily still had her feathers in her hair, but Minato had to change things up. His scarf was tied to his right arm and his goggles were hanging around his neck instead of on his head.

"We gotta go back. This was a mistake! I'm gonna mess things up again and everyone will see, and—" Luz said nervously.

"Luz calm down. Deep breathes." Minato said trying to help her.

"What are you nervous about? You've been to school before." Eda said.

"Not me." Lily said.

"Really? You don't have school in that never place of yours?" Eda asks.

"Neverland. And no, we mostly just learned skills like hunting, fishing, sewing, gathering, stuff like that." Lily admits.

That's why I'm nervous, Minato and I didn't make good first impressions back home." Luz reminds.

"Oh yeah." Minato said getting nervous now. "I don't want that to be the same thing here."

"That's why on the first day you kids should beat up the first kid you see. To establish dominance." Eda suggests.

"Eda that's prison." Minato said.

"Only if you let it be." Eda said when they hear a barking noise.

Looking down Lily spotted Hachi barking at them.

"Hey it's that Palisman friend of yours." Lily said.

Landing near school, Minato saw Hachi run to him.

"Hey Hachi." Minato smiles petting him.

Barking Hachi wanted to go with him.

"Oh I'm sorry buddy but I have to go to school." Minato said making it frown. "Don't worry I'll be done in the afternoon when the bell rings."

Seeing the school clock, Hachi narrowed his eyes before running off.

"What goes in that thing's head?" Lily asks.

"No clue." Minato shrugs.

"Last chance to back out, and earn a new Bad Witch Coven patch." Eda said holding out a patch that said quitter. "Quitting. It's like trying but easier."

"Nah, I'll just earn it when I quit showering." Luz said.

"Oh no you won't." Minato glares.

"You do that we will make you sleep outside with Hooty." Lily threatens as they walked away.

"Hold up." Eda said stopping them. "Just try not to be too much like a goodey two shoes. You three got this."

"Ah obasan." Minato smiles.

"Thanks Eda." Lily said.

"Thanks Eda, in fact. I have written a heartfelt sonnet to commemorate this occasion." Luz said taking out sock puppets of her and Eda.

"Whoops! A gust of wind just got me. See you after school! Byeeee!" Eda yells ditching them.

"You're gonna do great kids." Luz's Eda puppet said.

"Thanks Puppet Eda." Luz smiles.

Making their way to the school they saw Despairo doing some checklists.

"Alright you got everything. Lunch?" Dez asks.

"Yes." Katara said.

"Books?" Dez asks.

"Yes." Katara said again in an annoyed tone.

"Alright and your emergency crystal ball in case you run into trouble?" Dez asks.

"Dez it's just school." Katara said.

"S-Sorry I'm just so nervous. It's your first day of school." Dez said acting like a parent.

"Katara!" Luz waves getting her attention.

"Gotta go." Katara said running off causing Dez to cry a little.

"Wow, having you around has really changed him." Minato said.

"I'll admit it's a little weird having someone be this nervous about me. But it's a good weird. He's kinda like my foster parent." Katara said.

"Hey Amity." Minato waves to her and her abomination as they walk over.

"Minato. I see you all made it. And none of you are in the baby class." Amity said.

"Thanks, hey look I know we didn't have the best start but I hope you and I can try starting over." Minato said.

"I don't see why not." Amity admits.

"Ohayou gozaimasu I'm Minato." Minato smiles holding out his hand.

"Uh what?" Amity asks not sure what that was.

"He's introducing himself. He literally wants to start over." Luz giggles.

"Oh…hi I'm Amity." Amity said shaking his hand but once she lets go her abomination shook his too.

"Uh thanks big guy." Minato said wiping the slime off him.

"Well at least she's nicer." Lily shrugs.

"Still keeping my eye on her." Katara said.

"Wow, my first day at Hexside. A chance to discover my true magical potential. And maybe meet a hot yet vulnerable upperclassman." Luz smiles at the thought.

"Dream on." King said coming out of her backpack.

"King? What are you doing here?" Luz asks.

"You guys are a free ride to the best buffet in town." King said jumping into a trashcan. "The trash cans here are filled with half-eaten gold." King comes out holding half a doughnut.

"Okay, but if anyone asks, you don't know us." Luz said as they walked away.

"Have a wonderful school day, person-I-don't-know." King calls out.

But when he turns around he sees an Abomination Student looking at him.

"I really needed to hear that." He smiles thinking King was talking to him.

At the staircase, Willow, Gus and Ezra were waiting for them.

"Hello fellow Hexoleios." Luz said.

"Hello classmates." Willow giggles when they noticed Ezra.

"And whoa I don't know you." Lily said.

"Whoa real humans and a hybrid, right in front of me." Ezra said amazed.

"Who's he?" Luz asks.

"Luz, Minato meet our new friend Ezra." Willow introduced.

"Nice to meet you all." Ezra said.

"How'd you guys meet?" Lily asks.

"They helped me out of the garbage." Ezra shrugs.

"So Ezra are you a demon?" Luz asks.

"Sort of. I'm only 1/4th demon. Hence the small things." Ezra gestures to his scales and tail.

"Cool." Minato smiles..

"Hey before you go in answer one thing. How do you feel about Big Time Rush?" Ezra asks.

"The band? Oh man they're awesome." Minato smiles.

"Yeah we used to watch their show all the time." Luz said making him gasp.

"They have a show?" Ezra smiles liking the sound of that.

"Yeah if you want we can show it to you sometime." Luz offers.

"Yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh man I already like you guys." Ezra said.

"Told you they were awesome." Willow said.

"You guys did it." Gus said making a banner but when it appeared it said Better Luck Next Time.

Narrowing their eyes Willow and Ezra glared at him.

"Sorry, I was, uh, covering all my bases." Gus admits.

"So do you know who those witches are?" Willow asks pointing to 10 banners. "Those are the head of the 10 main covens. Each one excelled at a magic school like Glandus, St. Epiderm and even Hexside. Are you prepared to enter these hallowed halls?"

"That's what we're here to find out." Katara smiles as they walked in.

"See you guys later." Gus said making another banner but it said Goodbye Forever.

"Not cool Gus." Willow and Ezra glared.

"You know what? I'm uh, I'm uh just get rid of these." Gus said nervously.

"So Ezra what do you think?" Willow asks.

"I think I'm gonna like hanging out with you guys." Ezra said as they walked in.

However just as Minato walked in a small gust of wind blew towards him messing with his hair and spinning the goggles.

"Huh?" Turning around Minato looked for someone. "What is up with this strange wind?"

"Minato! Come on!" Luz calls out.

Turning around Minato ran to catch up with his friends.


In Bump's office, he was watching the news on his crystal ball.

"A terrible development at Glandus High School. Students and teachers were found unconscious and without magic. The cause remains unknown." The newsman said as Bump saw the images of the students.

"Ha! Take that Glandus! Looks like this year's Grudgby match is going to be a forfeit." Bump smiles when the door opens revealing the 4 of them.

"Hiya Princy-B, can I call you that?" Luz asks.

"Absolutely not. Now today we'll be visited by the Emperor's Coven on a routine inspection. If we want to impress them, you'll need to join a coven track before they arrive." Bump said.

"Uh about that sir, we kinda wanted to try more than one." Luz said taking out a schedule but Bump just laughs.

"Studying multiple tracks at once? No one does that." Bump said.

"Well you're looking at 4." Katara said.

"No." Bump said in a serious tone. "According to the rules, a good witch needs to hocus-focus. You can only pick one of the ten tracks. And you do not want to embarrass me in front of the inspector."

"Geez I'm starting to see why Eda doesn't like this guy." Lily mutters.

"But all the tracks are so cool! Is there some sort of enchanted article of clothing that could sort this out for me?" Luz asks.

"Oh yeah like in Harry Potter." Minato recalls.

"Well there used to be, but uh…we had to discontinue it." Bump said.

"Why what happened?" Lily asks.

Flashback:

We see Bump holding a worn-out old choosing hat over a new student.

"Oh I'm so excited." He said as Bump put the hat on his head.

"And now…I feed." The Choosey hat declares before chomping down on the kid's head causing him to scream.

Flashback End:

"You don't wanna know." Bump shudders.

"So we only get one choice?" Katara asks.

"Yes." Bump said standing up and walking over.

"Well then I guess Elemental." Minato said making Bump smile.

"Ha. Knew you would pick that one." Bump said as Minato's sleeves and leggings turned Azure. "The legacy continues. I took the liberty of making your schedule in advance." Bump hands the paper to him.

"Wait, these are all advanced classes?" Minato said not liking this one bit.

"You're welcome. Now run along." Bump said pushing Minato out the door.

"But wait I—" Before Minato could finish Bump closes the door.

"Geez are you gonna let Minato ever think for himself?" Lily glares.

"What are you talking about?" Bump asks completely oblivious.

"You let him in almost instantly and you gave him a schedule you made for him. Did you ever think Minato wanted normal classes?" Luz asks.

"Normal? For Miguel Soulwing's son? Hardly, he can handle it. And when he's done, he'll be stronger than ever." Bump brushes off. "Now for the rest of you."

"Uh I guess Elemental for me then." Katara said as her sleeves turned Azure.

"Beast Keeping." Lily sighs as her sleeves turned orange.

"And you?" Bump asks turning to Luz.

"I don't know if I can choose just one." Luz admits.

"Then I'll choose for you." Bump said turning to the banners. "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe." Bump points to the Potions Track. "Ah yes, the Potions track. You humans are filled with liquids, right?" Bump asks as Luz's sleeves turned yellow.

"Oh, I guess I have always liked pouring things into other things." Luz said trying to find the bright side.

"I expect you all to be on your best behavior. Based on the costly repairs from recent incidents, we could really use a donation from the Emperor's Coven. Now, off to class." Bump waves his hand and magic leads the girls out.

Suddenly Bump heard a scream from the window. "The Choosy Hat. It broke free!" Bump gasps running to the window.

Down the hall the three girls were making their way to class.

"I'm really starting to hate this guy." Lily said.

"Well I guess I'm off to the Elemental Track." Katara sighs.

"At least you and Minato are together. Luz and I are all alone." Lily sighs.

Hearing this Luz couldn't help but twitch slightly. 'Minato and Katara…together?!' Luz thought not liking this at all.

"I hate this!" Luz yells startling them before covering her mouth.

"We know Luz, we know." Katara sighs patting her on the shoulder. "I think we all hate what Bump is doing."


Entering Potions 101, Luz sat down at a desk.

"Welcome to a new semester! Let's get stirring! Today we'll be making fog brews!" The Potions teacher threw a potion to the ground and it exploded making it explode in a cloud of smoke. When it cleared she appeared in front of them.

"See, Potions are fun. You could spend the rest of your life studying this, right?" Luz asks herself when she heard a noise.

Looking out the window she saw Willow facing off against an Oracle student.

Making a magic circle the oracle student summoned a spirit while Willow created tons of thorny plants and the two clashed.

"Oh wow the Oracle and Plant tracks are amazing." Luz said so jealous.

However, as she was focused on them she didn't pay attention to her cauldron untl the professor cleared her throat.

Yelping Luz went back to work.

"I hope Minato is having more fun than me." Luz frowns.

As it turns out he wasn't.

In the Advanced Elemental Track they didn't just focus on the practical aspect they focused on the theoretical aspect as well.

"Now class, today we will be learning about Lightning magic." The teacher said waving his hand and textbooks dropped down in front of all of them.

"Elemental Theory and Practices?" Minato cringed.

"Yes, to be able to cast an element you need to understand everything there is to know about it. And until you can pass the written portion you are not allowed to do the practical portion." The teacher said.

"What?" Minato said horrified.

"Don't worry if you were good enough to get into this class you should be fine." The teacher assures.

Pausing Minato opned the first page and instantly was lost. As it went on and on about the most necessary details Minato ended up holding his head in pain.

'Did Dad go through all this when they made the track?' Minato thought.

Looking up he saw Katara in the normal class who was practicing her element with the rest of the class.

"I should be in that class. That seems more my speed." Minato said completely jealous.

When the bell rang, Luz exited the class holding her shoulder in pain.

"Oh boy, stirring is the pits. What else is on the schedule for today?" Luz takes out her schedule to see everything was Potions. "Oh man, I'm sorry elbow."

"Yikes that looks tough." Lily said looking over her shoulder.

Yelping Luz turns around to see Lily some dirt stains on her robes.

"Whoa what happened to you?" Luz asks

"Griffin riding. Got thrown off once but it was pretty fun once I stayed on it." Lily said.

"Yeah well lucky you. My day was nothing but potion stirring." Luz frowns.

As they were about to walk away both girls spotted some Oracle crystal balls being put in a closet.

"A crystal ball. Maybe it can show me if I'm on the right track." Luz said.

"Whoa Luz hold on it's our first day. You really want to get in trouble for this. You don't even know how they work." Lily points out.

"Yeah good point, I don't know anything about spirits, but you do." Luz grins.

"Oh no I-I really shouldn't." Lily said nervously.

"Please Lily. I need to know before I'm stuck stirring cauldrons for the rest of my time here." Luz begs.

"Oh alright, it can't be harder than animal spirts." Lily sighs in defeat.

Walking over to the crystal balls, Lily picks it up.

"Mmm I can actually feel the spiritual power in this thing." Lily said impressed.

"Ooh let me try." Luz said touching it as well and suddenly a spirit comes out.

"You will be in trouble very soon." It warns pointing at them.

"Wow, wait what you say?" Luz asks.

"Ahem." Turning around both saw Bump glaring at them.

"Oh, that's what it meant." Lily cringes.

Grabbing them by the arms, Bump pulled them through the halls.

"We weren't studying other subjects." Lily said.

"Yeah we just wanted to ask a question." Luz said breaking free. "Fog brew!"

As she threw it to the ground she expected a cloud of smoke but nothing happened.

"Yeah. I figured that wouldn't work." Luz said.

"Wow Potions really wasn't the track for you." Lily cringed when King pops his head out of the garbage nearby.

"King! Vouch for our characters!" Luz yells.

"Oh uh I don't know you two." King said remembering that he wasn't supposed to know them.

Growling both girls glared at him before Bump brought them into a room where a teacher was looking at his scroll and three other students sat.

One was a boy with short brown hair, one was a girl with long brown hair in a bun and one was a dog demon with the face of a human on it. These were Jerbo, Viney and Barcus.

"What is this place?" Lily asks not liking it.

"This is the place where all troublemakers go. The detention track." Bump said turning their sleeves and leggings to gray.

"No! Detention Track but I thought—" Luz gasps.

"Yes. Actual detention still needs repairs. In the meantime, I am keeping all troublemakers far away from the eyes of the inspector. You may try for a new track next year." Bump said.

"But we'll be home by next year." Luz said.

"Maybe you'll do better there." Bump said closing the door in their faces.

"Lily I'm so sorry I didn't mean to ruin the good thing you were having." Luz apologizes.

"Well actually…my day wasn't going so well either. I lied I didn't ride any Griffins at all. I was just trying to impress you." Lily admits.

"But then what did you do?" Luz asks confused.

"Class was griffin riding but only if you could make it come to you. Since I use spirits, none came to me in time. So while everyone was having fun I had to clean up after them." Lily frowns grossing her out. "When the bell rang I ran out as fast as I could. But I knew how badly you and Minato wanted to come here and I didn't want to make it sound like I hate it."

"I'm sorry Lily. Looks like we're both not having a good first day." Luz said patting her on the shoulder.

"Well if we're stuck here for a year we better make the most of it." Lily said as they walked over to the other detention kids.

"Hello, fellow detentioners. Room for two more?" Luz asks but none of thme said anything. "I uh like the little spikes in your hair.

"Hey no talking or else!" The detention teacher said.

"Or else what? We're already in the worst class ever." Lily replies.

"Yeah don't blame them, I was the one talking." Luz glares.

"Oh goodey heroes." The teacher used his magic and two mops appeared in their hands. "Get cleaning."

Groaning both of them got to work, neither of them noticing Viney smiling at them.

Outside King was walking to the next trashcan.

"Time to scrounge through the trash." King said when the door swings open knocking him into the can.

"That's it! I'm sick of someone eating all the donuts in the teacher's lounge. I quit!" A teacher yells throwing his tie off and landing on King's head.

Struggling King tries to get it off but bumps against the can causing it to roll into the classroom.

As he stepped out the students saw King wearing the tie.

"Are you our substitute?" A student asks.

"Substitute? I ain't no desk jockey." King said.

"Look at his professional-looking tie. He must be." Another student points as King climbs onto his desk.

"Can it, Fangs! You don't know diddly dang about squiddly squat!" King said.

"Yes sir. Sorry sir." The student said bowing his head in apology.

"Obedience? Well, what is a teacher if not an authority figure? A king of children, if you will." King smiles liking where this was going. "Yes. I am your new teacher. You may call me Mr. King!"


In the Advanced Elemental Class, Minato hands the teacher the paper.

"Hmm not bad." The teacher smiles.

"Ugh finally." Minato sighs in relief but when he got his paper back it said D. "A D?"

"Yes but you forgot to show your work. Magic has special formulas." The teacher said.

"But I don't know the work. I've always made things up as I go along." Minato said.

"Well then you might need to read this one too." The teacher said giving him another big textbook.

"Will I be able to do any magic?" Minato asks.

"If you want to do magic willy nilly you should have applied for the normal Elemental Class." The teacher said.

Groaning Minato took the book and went back to his seat.


Back in the Detention Track, Luz and Lily were cleaning the windows when they noticed some kids walking by.

"Alright kids, who wants to go on a fieldtrip to the Astral Planes?" The teacher asks.

"I do!" They all said.

"I do." Luz frowns.

"Come on, Luz no complaining it only makes it worse." Lily sighs.

"Luz! Lily!" Running to the windows, Willow and Gus ran to them.

"Willow! Gus!" Lily smiles.

"What's going on? We didn't see you in any classes." Gus asks.

"Principal Bump put us in the Detention Track for mixing magic." Luz explains.

"The detention track? You can't do anything in there." Willow said.

"You'll learn less than you did before." Gus explains.

"No. I'm better than this." Luz whines.

"You guys gotta help get us out." Lily said.

"We sent Ezra to get Minato and Katara, but we'll get you out dead or alive!" Gus declares.

Glaring Willow shook her head.

"Okay alive it is." Gus corrects himself.

"Thanks guys." Luz smiles when they heard a chair move. "It's the teacher gotta go."

Both turned around only to see Viney in front of them.

"Shush." She whispers.

Pointing to the teacher they saw he was asleep.

Following her to the chalkboard, Viney traces a square with a lock and a door opens.

Surprised they see Viney climb in and follow behind.

"What is this place?" Luz asks.

"This is the last room you'll ever see alive." Viney glares before laughing. "Nah, just messing with ya. I'm Viney."

"Uh I'm terrified. I mean Luz." Luz said.

"I'm Tiger Lily."

"Thanks for standing up for us back there. Not many people would do that. Follow me! I wanna show you something. You're one of us troublemakers now, so you'll get special access to the Secret Room of Shotcuts." Viney opens a door and they see an entire room filled with doors.

"Whoa." Luz said blown away.

"This is like the Lost Boys home." Lily said looking around.

"Jerbo! Barcus you can come out!" Viney calls out.

Popping their heads out both look down.

"How do we know they're cool, man? How do we know they won't turn us in?" Jerbo asks turning to Barcus. "What do you think?"

Barking Barcus nods his head.

"Barcus says your aura is strong and silly, like a baby's laughter. And yours is a bright and tall like a wise elder. Welcome." Jerbo smiles.

"Okay this is pretty cool." Lily smiles.

"I love secret rooms. Where do these doors go?" Luz opens one and sees Amity pacing in the halls.

"So you two go to the same school now, that doesn't change anything." Amity said as Luz closes the door before she finished. "And the crazy thing is he wants to be friends now. Start over."

Back in the room, Luz looks to Viney.

"This place connects the different parts of the school. We found it after being thrown in the detention track. The witch who made it is known as Lord Calamity." Viney said gesturing to a defaced portrait and a wall of signatures.

"They started this troublemaker wall and we added our names in their honor." Jerbo explains.

"This place is amazing. I bet you guys could cause so much trouble." Luz said.

"Sure, we can, but we can also do so much more." Viney said.

At a door, Lily and Barcus were listening into the Oracle class.

"Remember, seeing the end of a life is the beginning of reading a fortune. We have to work backwards from it to see the truth." The Oracle Teacher said making a fortune folder.

Watching them Barcus folds one of his own before handing one to Lily.

"Thanks." Lily smiles.

"We aren't allowed to study any kind of magic, so we study every kind of magic in secret." Viney explains.

"Hey does this have a door for the Elemental classroom?" Luz asks.

"Up there." Jerbo points.

Walking to it, Luz saw this door had hearts carved on it.

"Hearts?" Lily said not expecting that.

"Ooh looks like Lord Calamity had a crush on someone in this room." Luz giggles as she opens the door expecting to see Minato blowing everyone away but to her horror saw Minato with tired eyes as he was still writing the paper.

"Ugh this is the worst. I can't do this the whole time." Minato groans before shaking his head. "Come on Minato pull yourself. Luz has been dreaming of this forever. You can't let her down."

Gasping Luz slowly closed the door.

"He's as miserable as I am with Bump's schedule." Luz said

"So what advanced magic means buried up to your head in paper?" Lily asks.

"Pretty much. They focus more on the studying than the doing." Viney explains.

"But Minato doesn't know how to learn the study way. He had to learn by doing." Luz said.

"Well…then he's in trouble." Viney cringed.

"We don't even bother listening to that one. That one's most impossible to learn any real magic from." Jerbo said when Barcus barks.

"Wow sounds like you guys really like school since you know so much." Lily said.

"Yeah, we might have liked it too much." Viney chuckles.

"I tried mixing plant magic with abominations. Bump was not thrilled." Jerbo explains. "Barcus makes potions with oracle magic."

"And I'll admit mixing healing and beast keeping was slightly unconventional. But Puddles was a great assistant, dang it." Viney said.

"Puddles?" Luz asks.

"My griffin. We all want to be in more than one coven track but Bump just says we need to focus." Viney said.

"He said the same thing to us." Lily said.

"Sounds like Bump's priorities are out of whack." Luz said.

"I'm glad you two are one of us. You've made a great first impression. Would you like to add your names to the troublemaker wall?" Viney asks holding out a marker.

"Luz? We're here to get you out of that horrible class." Willow calls out from the other side making everyone pause.

"Uh oh." Lily gulps.

"Uh they're probably looking for some other Luz." Luz said nervously.

Making her way to the hole, Viney peeks out to see Willow and Gus.

"Maybe they already booked it. She did say she was better than this place." Gus said.

Gasping Viney closes the door and glares at them.

"Oh. You think you're better than us?" Viney asks.

"What? No." Lily panics.

"No, no, it's not like that. I just didn't think we deserved—I mean none of us deserved." Luz stutters.

"Jacques! I should've known you'd look down on us. Everyone else does." Jerbo said as Barcus hisses at them.

"Look this all a big misunderstanding." Lily said.

"Save it. thought someone finally understood us. But, maybe you should just leave." Viney said pointing to the door shocking everyone.

"We understand." Luz sighs.

"Sorry we blew it." Lily frowns as they made their way to the door.

Looking at the sleeping teacher, Gus was impressed. "Man, this guy can sleep through anything. I'm gonna test that theory." Gus smiles grabbing a mop.

"No. We have to find Luz and Tiger Lily. If only these walls could talk." Willow said touching the chalkboard when it opens revealing a depressed Luz and Lily.

"Hey guys." Both frowned.

"Thank you walls." Willow smiles as they both climbed out.

"We found a way to get you out to talk to Principal Bump." Willow said.

"We have an expert disguise." Gus said grabbing some garbage cans. "Hop in. It's got holes for your gangly teenage legs."

"Normally I'd fight this idea, but right now is not the time." Lily said.

"Yeah. That's right where I belong." Luz said as they got in.

As they were about to leave Gus went back to the teacher and put a mop over his sleeping face but surprisingly, he didn't wake up.

"Incredible." Gus said.

At the front of the school a swirl of blue energy landed at the steps revealing the inspector.

"Welcome to Hexside, inspector." Bump said greeting her.

"Greetings, Principal Bump. If everything's in order, the Emperor's Coven will be happy to cover your repairs." The Inspector said.

"Excellent. Please come this way. We've prepared a show with some of our finest students." Bump said leading her in.


In the halls, Ezra and Katara entered the Advanced Elemental classroom to see everyone was gone, everyone except Minato who was laying on his desk.

"Ugh if I even have to see another Elemental Textbook I think I'm gonna barf." Minato groans.

"Minato." Katara gasps as they ran over.

"Oh man looks like you've had a rough first day." Ezra cringed.

"Why are you doing all this?" Katara asks.

"Because I can't do any magic until I do these stupid papers and I have no idea what any of this theory junk means." Minato groans.

"Alright you gotta talk to Bump this is ridiculous. You can't handle this." Katara said making some water and splashing it in his face.

Gasping Minato picked his head up and breathed heavily waking up.

"Don't do that again." Minato points before fixing himself. "But you're right, Bump hasn't listened to a single thing I've said since I got here. It's time I showed that stupid old man he can't push me away."

"Can't push you away." Ezra pauses before taking out a notepad and jotted something down mumbling a melody.

"What are you doing?" Minato asks.

"Song lyrics. Here check this out." Ezra holds out his hand and a guitar appears.

"Feel like the world don't love you

They only want to push you away

Some days people don't see you

You feel like you're in the way

Today you feel, as if everyone hates

Pointing their fingers, looking at your mistakes

You do good, they want great

No matter what you give they stilll want to take."

"Wow that's pretty good." Katara said clapping softly.

"You just nailed my feelings to a T. You're pretty good." Minato smiles.

"I have my moments. Ezra smiles proudly.

"Ezra you help me with my schedule and I'll help you with your music." Minato said.

"Sure thing but come on we gotta meet Willow and Gus for the inspector." Ezra said.

"Oh no the inspector, Bump wanted me to show off for them." Minato groans.

"Yeah well I think it's time that man learned the meaning of the word disappointment." Katara said as they walked out.


In the auditorium, Amity and her Abominations were showing off for the inspector.

"And that concludes the presentation from the Abomination track." Amity said.

"Pretty good Hexside magic huh? I saved the best for last." Bump said.

"What's better than that?" The Inspector asks.

"I present the son of the Elemental Track's founder, Minato!" Bump said gesturing to the stage, but nothing happened. "Minato….where is he?" Bump asks as Amity peeks backstage.

"Uh he's not here sir." Amity shrugs.

"Oh uh…he must have gotten held up at the moment." Bump said nervously.

"That's fine. In the meantime, I want to see if your students can put up more of a fight." The Inspector grins walking to the stage.

"Oh thank you that's…wait what?" Bump asks as the Insepctor's face turned scaley and monstrous. "Is, uh, this part of the inspection?"

"Abomination fight!" Amity points as her Abomination attacks but the inspector transforms into a large Basilisk swallowing the Abomination whole.

"The magic at Glandus High was tasty. But I hope yours will be more filling." The Inspector grins looking at Amity.

Acting quickly Bump ran on stage.

"Amity, stay back. She's an impostor!" Bump draws a magic circle but the Basilisk opens her mouth and sucks up all the magic from him and Amity making them both collapse.

In his classroom, King was standing on a student as he wrote on the board.

"Assume a coefficient of ten, carry the two, solve for Y, and that is the way to steal a pie from a windowsill. Also, you can eat trash." King explains.

"Finally, some skills we can really use." A student smiles.

"And now for my next lesson." King said when he heard a roar. "Seriously? It's not even fifth period yet."

Making his way to the auditorium, King opens the doors.

"Excuse me! Could you keep it down? Mr. King's trying to mold young minds here!" King said before noticing the basilisk suck up the last of Bump's magic.

"Oh, only 300 more years until retirement." He sighs as the Basilisk glared at him.

"I can see that I'm interrupting, so I'm just gonna…" Turning around King sprinted out the door.


In the hallway, Ezra and Katara were helping Minato down the hall.

"Ugh I swear all that was too much." Minato said when he noticed Luz, Lily, Gus and Willow. "Hey guys. How's your first day going?"

"Not too well." Luz sighs.

"I know what you mean. Mine is pretty bad." Minato sighs.

"Me three." Lily sighs.

"Mine has actually gone pretty well. I'm having a great time." Katara said as the three of them turned to her. "But uh sorry you three are struggling."

"I found Minato here buried under a mountain of paper." Ezra said.

"Well don't worry once we all go talk to Bump this'll be straightened out." Willow said.

"I guess, but what's the point if people get hurt on the way?" Luz asks.

"That is a fair question. Here's another question. What the heck is that?!" Gus points down the hall and they saw the Basilisk suck up the teacher's magic making them scream in horror.

"More cute morsels." It grins.

"We may be cute, but we're nobody's morsels." Willow said making a plant monster.

"Time for an upgrade!" Gus uses his magic to give the plant muscular arms

"This school isn't big enough for two snakes." Ezra said readying his guitar.

Strumming it loudly, large red music notes shot with Willow's plant right behind it.

Opening its mouth wide the Basilisk ate tehir spells draining the three of them of all their magic.

"W-What's happening?" Ezra groans dropping to his knees.

"I-I feel so weak." Willow groans unable to make another magic circle.

Acting quickly Luz runs in front of her friends. "Eat this!" Slamming her hand on a glyph notepad she throws it at the Basilisk who swallows the whole thing resulting in it exploding in her mouth.

"It burns!" She yells.

"Now!" Luz yells.

Taking out her whip, Lily flicks it making it explode upon contact.

"Don't mess with me ugly! I've had a really bad day!" Lily snaps.

Moving in Katara creates ice freezing it in place allowing Minato to charge.

"Sky Dragon Wing Attack!" Minato roars sending it crashing into the lockers.

"Come on, we gotta get them outta here!" Luz said as they grabbed Willow, Gus and Ezra while the Basilisk was recovering.

Kicking the detention track door open Luz brings them in.

"Guys we need your help!" Luz yells as Viney, Barcus and Jerbo look over.

"Oh. You're back." Viney narrows her eyes.

"Look we're sorry about what happened. We really are but something is going on." Lily said as they put Willow, Gus and Ezra down.

"What happened to them?" Viney asks.

"We don't know they were attacked by some creature." Minato said.

As Katara used her water, Viney looked at her impressed.

"Whoa, that's some interesting healing." Viney said.

"Thanks, but it doesn't seem to work. This isn't a physical injury they lost all their magic." Katara said in failure.

Looking around Lily opens a door and they see the basilisk draining more students.

"Don't let it see us." Viney said closing the door. "I think that's a greater basilisk. I heard about them in a class. My cousin at St. Epiderm said she saw one, but those things should be extinct."

"It must've attacked the other schools. We gotta stop it." Lily said.

"But if Bump catches us mixing magic again." Jerbo said.

"He'd kick us out of school." Viney finished.

"Yeah well if you don't use magic that thing will destroy the school." Minato said getting their attention. "Look I don't know what's going on but I did not go through all this just abandon this place on my first day."

"Minato's right! The school needs our help and we're the only ones who can stop it. We're troublemakers, right? So let's go out there and make some trouble." Luz declares.

Pausing the 7 of them share a look.


Back in the hallway, the Basilisk was draining every student it could find of their magic.

"Hungry! Still hungry!" It said when suddenly an ice glyph appeared under it causing a pillar of ice to shoot out knocking it to the ground.

Before it could even react a gust of wind blew it down the hall.

"From humblest of beginnings, two heroes will rise." Luz said as she and Minato came in wearing hoods over their heads.

"Trained in the arts of mixing magic we are—"

"Dinner!" It interrupts.

Yelping both ditched the cloaks and made a run for it.

"Seriously you couldn't even let us finish?!" Luz yells.

"I tell you Luz some people have no respect!" Minato yells as they ran down the hall.

"Viney, Lily! Do the thing, do the thing!" Luz yells.

From the adjacent hallway, Viney's griffin puddles and Lily's spirit eagle flew in and rammed into the basilisk.

Popping their heads out Viney and Lily highfive.

"Okay that was pretty cool." Viney smiles.

"You're not too bad yourself. Jerbo, Katara now!" Lily yells.

"On it!" Jerbo unleashes his plant magic while Katara makes water tentacles.

As an Abomination opens a door on the floor they both unlock a door right under the basilisk allowing the vines and water to wrap around it.

"Pull!" Katara yells as they yanked it down through the door.

Jumping down Luz sees the Basilisk try to hold on but she jumps on it making it fall through to the auditorium.

"Must find help." Bump groans when the Basilisk crashes on stage.

"It's all you Barcus!" Luz said as Barcus dumps a purple potion on its hand.

"Where am I?" It asks as Barcus' eyes glow purple and he yips. "What's he doing? What'd he say?"

"He's reading your palm. He says your future is looking bleak." Lily translates.

From the hole, Minato and his Elemental Abomination drop in.

"Cyclone Slam!" Minato yells as they slammed down on its belly causing the Basilisk to spit out all the magic it took from everyone.

"We did it. You guys are amazing." Luz smiles.

"You are—" Katara starts.

"Are in so much trouble. Leaving your homeroom, mixing magic and is that a secret hideout?" Bump points to all of them.

"Yeah it is. But let's think about this, Principal Bump. Why would kids in the detention track needa secret hideout?" Luz asks.

"I don't care to know the ins and outs of rascality." Bump pulls out a rulebook. "But if the Emperor's Coven can send an actual inspector this time—"

"Oh shut up about the rules!" Minato snaps startling everyone. "Would it kill you to shut up and listen for once? All you do is say what you think should happen but did you ever think to ask your students about what they want?"

Stuttering Bump looks to Minato not expecting this.

"I mean you didn't know I could make something like this." Minato gestures to his Elemental Abomination. "Or what classes I wanted. You just assumed you knew what we wanted not what we needed."

"Look we get you need money but what's the point if you have to hurt your students to get it?" Lily asks.

"They saved Hexside. They should be allowed to study what they wish." Katara said.

"But but." Bump hugs the rulebook close.

"Oh do the right thing you dingus." Gus said.

"Don't be a giant turd." Ezra calls out.

"Alright, I'm smart enough to know when I've made a mistake. Which tracks would you like to be in?" Bump asks surprising them.

"Healing and Beast Keeping." Viney declares.

"Plants and Abominations." Jerbo declares as Barcus barks Potions and Oracle.

"Beast Keeping and Oracle." Lily declares.

"Elemental and Healing." Katara declares.

"Then so be it." Bump said changing their uniform colors so each one had two colors on them. "But if any of you cause more property damage, I'm feeding you to the choosy hat."

"Uh me too Headmaster Bump." Minato said walking up.

"What? But you're made for the Elemental Track it's in your blood." Bump said surprised.

"I know but sir you're crushing me. Giving me all this special treatment and hard classes because of who my dad is. I appreciate it but I need to do things my way. Not my dad's way." Minato said making him sigh.

"I guess I was too excited having you here to realize what I was putting on you. I'll have you moved down to the normal Elemental Classes." Bump said.

"Thank you sir." Minato smiles.

"Is that all?" Bump asks.

"No I would also like to try a few extra tracks." Minato said.

"Which ones?" Bump said curious.

"Abominations and Potions." Minato declares.

"Well that's an interesting combination." Bump casted his spells and while Minato's sleeves stayed the same his pants turned purple and yellow.

"How do I look?" Minato asks turning to his friends.

"They suit you." Luz smiles giving him the thumbs up.

"And you Luz?" Bump asks.

"Oh, I still can't choose. Maybe it's crazy but I wish I could study a little bit of everything." Luz said.

Smiling Bump made a magic circle and a light engulfs Luz.

"What's going on? What is this?" Luz asks as all the coven track colors appeared on her uniform. "I-I'm gonna study everything!" Luz cheers excited.

"This is so cool Luz." Minato smiles happy for her.

"You know, only one other student wanted to study every track." Bump said making Lord Calamity's picture appear. "Unfortunately, she was never given the opportunity." With a wipe of his hand all the graffiti came off revealing a Young Eda.

"You know I'm honestly not surprised." Lily smiled.

"Shoulda guessed." Luz smiles.


Later that day, Bump was writing his report.

"The coven denies knowing about the basilisk, but that won't stop me from writing a very stern letter." Bump said when he past by King's class. As the students walked out.

"Alright. Read chapters three to five on the right way to scratch yourself in public. Spoiler alert: There's no wrong way. Days like these make being a teacher all worth it." King sighs holding his mug.

"You're not a teacher." Bump said looking down at him.

"Maybe not, but I care about these kids, and nothing can change that." King declares swinging his mug up splashing coffee in Bump's face.

Seconds later, King was running for his life squealing as Bump waves a broom at him.

Tumbling to the ground King groans to see Eda arrive to pick everyone up.

"What happened to you?" Eda asks.

"Teaching is not as rewarding as I thought." King groans making her chuckle.

"Been there." Eda said when suddenly Hachi came running up the steps to the school and stood on a small bench. "What's that thing doing here?" Eda asks when the bell rang.

As the students walked out Eda and King looked around to see Minato, Luz, Katara and Lily walk out.

"Hey kids." Eda smiles when Hachi barks getting Minato's attention.

Running up to him, Hachi ran happily around him.

"Hey Hachi, what are you doing here?" Minato smiles picking him up.

"Aw did you come all the way to bring us home?" Luz giggles.

"Has he been here all day?" Lily asks.

"No he just got here like a few minutes ago." Eda said walking over.

"You're kidding. And no one else brought him here?" Minato asks.

"No, he just showed up." King said.

"Wow, thanks buddy." Minato smiles as Hachi licks his face making him chuckle.

"Aww." The girls said at the sight.

"What? I'm way cuter than that." King said in a huff.

They made it through the first day now they have to make it through the rest of their time at Hexside.