Later, Luz walked into her workshop where she saw Amity.
"Uh, what are you doing?"
"You helped me, so I'm going to help you." Amity said.
This confused Luz as she stared at her sister for a few moments.
"Not that this isn't….. a helpful offer but WHY are you helping me and with what?" Luz asked her.
"You got me and Willow together, regardless if it was on accident. So, I'm going to help you make your invisibility armor."
"Really? You'll help me with it?" Luz asked.
"Of course. You said you needed to test it to make sure SOMEONE turns completely invisible, not just the armor. You can have me test any prototypes you make." Amity said, gesturing to herself.
"Okay, let's get to work." Luz said, tossing gloves, an apron, and goggles at Amity, "Put those on."
Nodding to Luz, Amity put on the apron, goggles, and gloves as the little sister pulled out what she already had on the armor.
"This is the only thing I have at the moment, a single arm." Luz said as she presented it to Amity.
Amity took it and looked it over as Luz got her safety gear on. Amity noticed a problem.
"This metal is magic immune; wouldn't that mean that it would prevent the glyph from working to its full potential?"
Luz dropped her pencil and notebook. She hadn't thought about that.
'I was so busy in making the armor, I didn't check it to see if it was anti metal or magic immune metal I was using.' Luz thought as she slapped her forehead VERY hard.
"Titan Damn it, I'm an idiot." Luz mumbled to herself.
"No you're not, you are the smartest person on the Isles." Amity said, "What if... we use cobble metal? It's lightweight, strong, and it's resistant to magic but can still allow the glyph to work."
"Hmm, cobble metal? That could work." Luz said as she began taking notes about this new metal. "If we have enough of it now, we could have a new limb before the day's end."
"I guess you will have another use for this, Mittens. My forge doesn't burn hot enough to melt cobble metal, which is why I don't use it, but your fire spell is the perfect temperature." Luz said, "Now, let's go to my shed and see if I have any."
Nodding to her sister, Amity followed Luz outside of the workshop to head outside to her materials shed. Luz grabbed the lock before looking at Amity.
"Turn around."
Amity rolled her eyes as she turned around to let Luz undo the lock on her little materials shed. Luz put the combination in and held the pad lock in her hand. She opened the doors, and they went inside.
"Let's see if I have any cobble metal."
Luz looked on the right side of the shed while Amity looked over the left side of the shed.
"For someone so smart, I thought you would've at least organized a little." Amity said.
"Well, I've been busy." Luz said, looking through the different types of metal.
"You should still have an organization system for this stuff." Amity said as she pulled out a sheet of metal, looking it over.
After a while of searching, they found a couple pieces of Cobble Metal.
"Well, this should be good enough to make an arm."
"And this should be a reminder that you need to order more if you want to make the suit complete." Amity said to her sister.
"I'll do that tomorrow, right now let's focus on making the new invisibility armor today." Luz said as they made their way out of the shed. "I can also use that failed one as normal armor."
Luz put the lock back on and they went to the workshop. With Amity providing the heat using her magenta fire spell, Luz worked hard to make the first part of her new armor and carve an invisibility glyph into it. With every piece of armor, Luz will carve a glyph into it and connect them once the full armor is complete so she can only trigger one to activate all of them.
'Until then, I have to put one glyph on one part of the armor at a time.' Luz thought.
Luz watched the metal melt before pouring it into a mold. Once fully inside, Luz began to hammer the mold to make the armor.
"Just a few more hits." Luz said.
Amity nodded to her as she kept up the heat in the forge. Luz landed the final hit and grabbed the burning metal with tongs, before dumping it into the water. She dunked it, letting the workshop fill with steam.
"Amity, could you open the vent?" Luz asked.
Nodding to Luz, Amity quickly went towards the far right of the workshop and opened the vent to the outside of the house.
"That should help clear the steam out." Luz said.
"Titan, it's hot down here. How do you handle this heat?" Amity asked.
"I usually wore shorts and a T-shirt before I got used to it." Luz said to Amity.
"Girls, when you're done can you come upstairs? Aunt Lilith is here!" Raine said.
"Aunt Lilith?!" Amity asked in glee!
Not only was she Amity's favorite aunt but she was her personal hero and the head of the Emperor's Coven. Luz had a pretty good relationship with Aunt Lilith, it was Lilith that found out about Luz being bullied when she was younger and came to her aid. It was her that Luz learned how to fight and defend herself.
'Wonder why she's here?' Luz thought as she focused on finishing the armor arm.
"Come on Luz, let's go see her!"
Looking to Amity, Luz saw her large smile and look of excitement to see Lilith. Who was she to delay Amity seeing her favorite aunt?
"Okay, sis. Let's go. I'm just about done anyways." Luz said to Amity.
Amity took Luz's wrist and pulled her up the stairs.
The way she rushed; Amity was REALLY excited to see their aunt Lilith.
"Aunt Lilith!" Amity said, running to hug Lilith.
"Amity!" Lilith said with a smile as she hugged her niece.
Lilith looked up and saw Luz. She gave Luz a soft smile.
"Come here, my Little Warrior, come give aunt Lily a hug." Lilith said.
Amity may be Lilith's best student when it comes to magic, but when it comes to physical ability, there is only one Luz. Smiling a bit, Luz walked to her aunt and gave her a hug as the rest of the family watched with smiles.
"Hi, Aunt Lily." Luz said, "What are you doing here?"
"I wanted to see my Nieces and Nephew. I was hoping to see how good you all have gotten at your respective skills."
"The twins even suggested duels to show it. Crazy as it sounds." Eda said as she tussled their hair.
"I think it's a good idea, what do you think?" Lilith asked the two youngest.
"I think it's a good idea." Amity said, eager to show what she learned since Lilith last visited. "What about you, Luz? You've probably got some weapons like the ice axe you want to show off."
"Ice axe? Now that does some interesting." Lilith said with a smile to her youngest niece.
"It's nothing special." Luz said.
Lilith looked at Luz.
"You know, Luz, I found something you might like."
Lilith pulled out an ingot and handed it to Luz. Luz has never seen this kind of metal before.
"Well, hello." Luz said with a smirk, examining the metal and knocking it to hear the ping, "Now this is a good piece of metal, where'd you get it?"
"It was found in an old mine from the Savage Ages. It was hidden pretty well, and we only recently examined the mine." Lilith said, "I figured you could make something out of it."
"Oh yeah, I can DEFINITELY make something good with this." Luz said as she turned to Lilith. "I may have a FEW weapons I'd like to show off. If that's alright with everyone about these duels."
They all agreed and Luz went to her workshop. She wanted to get a weapon ready, but she ended up going to her safe. She opened it and pulled out the picture she keeps in there. It was her and Lilith after their first training session, she was a simple six year old, afraid of her own shadow. A memory flashed inside of her mind as Luz thought back to the day when she wasn't as strong as she is now or realized that she could be strong without magic.
Luz was thrown to the ground by older kids.
"How's that feel loser?" One said, "The best part is there's nothing you can do."
"Yeah! What can someone without magic do?!" Another one said as they pointed to Luz!
One of them raised their hand to hit her and it was grabbed.
"What do you think you're doing to my Niece?"
The trio of older lips turned around and froze in fear, feeling Lilith's eyes piercing their souls as she glared down at them.
'N-N-Niece?!' They all thought as Luz rubbed her nose, which was bleeding.
"Aunt Lily…." She said, crying a bit.
Lilith walked over and kneeled in front of Luz.
"Come here, Luz, let me take you to my house and get that fixed up." Lilith said, turning to the group, "If I ever catch you messing with my Niece again, I will personally track you down and deliver judgment."
The bullies shivered under her glare and nodded quickly, running away as they didn't want to mess with someone related to the Emperor's Coven leader! Even if she was a magicless witch.
Lilith picked Luz up and hugged her.
"Come on, Luz, I'll bring you to my house and heal you."
Lilith carried Luz the entire way, thinking about how to help her.
"Luz, do you want to learn to defend yourself?"
"Defend myself?" Luz asked, her nose no longer blooding due to the blood dried.
"Yes. There are ways outside of magic where one can become strong." Lilith said with a smile. "With enough training, you could possibly become strong enough to knock a Slitherbeast beast out with one punch."
"Really?"
Lilith ruffled Luz's hair.
"Of course. I could teach you." Lilith said.
When they arrived at her home, Lilith cleaned up Luz's wounds and healed her with a spell along with patches. Afterwards, Lilith showed Luz the basics of self-defense and gave her a book on weapon wielding.
"Now, follow my movements." Lilith said.
Lilith made a quick punch motion to the air and Luz followed her.
For the next few hours, Lilith taught Luz the basics of fighting and corrected her if she made any mistakes.
"Alright, let's get you home." Lilith said.
'I'll have to speak to her parents about making this a regular thing.'
That day, Luz spent years training with her aunt and getting stronger. The last time someone messed with her, they got a broken arm. She was only ten. A year later, she took up blacksmithing to create weapons and train with them. She always had Lilith to thank for that, but she wishes they had something else in common.
"Luz, are you ready?" Amity asked.
"Yeah, coming."
Luz grabbed a sword handle. One of her new weapons, it looks like a simple handle, but it creates a blade out of lava rock and fire.
"So glad I found out this combo."
A construction/stone glyph, not easy to find but it was worth it, and she was able to combine it with the fire glyph to create lava!
"Aunt Lilith is going to get a kick out of this."
She also grabbed a small surprise and put it on her wrist. Putting it in an empty sword sheath, giving it the appearance of a full sword instead of a handle, Luz rushed up to her family as they left for a place to show their skills.
"So, where are we going to go?" Emira asked.
"I know the perfect place." Lilith said.
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