Chapter 8: How it All Began
Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. Now things are going to get interesting and I know many of you have been asking about the family situations between my characters in comparison to Wild Wind Warlock and I'm not spoiling anything but know that it is not going to be the same. In the meantime I hope you like what I have planned. Please Review and Enjoy.
We find ourselves on the Boiling Isles, but it was in a very secluded area covered by a dense forest.
"Stay close to me Luz." A female voice said.
Walking through the forest was a young Luz no older than 6 maybe 7 years old.
Looking up she was holding hands with a woman with brown skin and glasses. This was her mother.
"Mama why did we have to wake up this early?" Luz asks rubbing her eyes.
"Because it's time to begin your magic training sweetie." Camilla said.
"But don't we have schools to teach me that?" Luz asks as they reached a clearing.
"Not what we plan to teach you." She said.
"We?" Luz asks as her mother points across from the clearing and we see a young Minato standing next to a man with spiky red hair and goggles hanging around his neck.
This was Minato's father.
"Camilla." He smiles.
"Miguel." She smiles back as they approached each other. "Were you followed?"
"Nope, everyone else is safe and secure." He nods before noticing Luz. "So this is your daughter huh? Minato say hi."
"Uh hi." Minato waves nervously.
"Hey." Luz said waving back.
"Kids, we live in a dangerous time, but sadly it's also a time where young witches like you two are robbed of their full potential and anyone who says otherwise is taken away." Miguel explains.
"But not you two. We're gonna make sure you both know everything you need to know about magic. All kinds of magic." Camilla declares.
Hearing this both kids couldn't believe what they were hearing.
"And from this day on you two will be learning magic together and hopefully you can be good friends." Camilla smiles.
Looking at each other both kids slowly smiled and shook hands.
Flashback End:
In the present time, we see the destroyed bus from the fight with the Thrasher being examined when Mr. X's ice cream truck pulled up.
"Oh mama. They really did a number on this thing." Mr. X said lifting up his glasses.
"I'm telling you the truth. A monster walked onto my bus and started attacking some of the people riding on it." The driver said.
Hearing this Lilith walked over. "This monster. Did it appear different like something out of a fantasy novel?" Lilith asks.
"It looked exactly like one. It had purple skin, horns and a machete for a hand." The driver explains.
While the other people around him thought he was nuts, Lilith was interested.
"Did you see who it was attacking?" Lilith asks.
"No I was too busy driving." He shook his head.
"May I have a look?" Lilith asks gesturing to the damages.
"Go ahead I gotta get the boss on the phone." The driver said.
As Lilith walked onto the bus, she
"Ooh, Lily come look at this!" Mr. X said getting her attention.
Walking over she saw Jenny on his laptop.
"Jenny found something. Turns out someone with a phone recorded the incident." Mr. X said.
Looking at it, they saw someone had taken a picture of the Thrasher from behind as two figures punched and kicked it.
"This doesn't exactly help." Lilith said when they climbed out the window.
"I don't know those kung fu moves are pretty good. Whoever those kids are they got moves." Mr. X said as they looked at the blurred images of Luz and Minato fighting it.
"Wait a second. That style…I've seen it somewhere before." Lilith pauses.
"Ooh, the plot like my mama's thanksgiving gravy thickens." Mr. X said.
Meanwhile, a few blocks away, Minato and Luz walking down the streets with annoyed looks on their faces as Willow, Akko, Gus and Ezra were walking behind.
"I can't believe it's been you two this whole time! I have so many questions!" Gus said.
"Why are you guys here? How did you get here?" Ezra asks.
"Oh my god! You guys were the ones who saved my life!" Akko realized.
"Will you guys keep it down." Luz said covering Akko's mouth.
"We said we would explain everything but first we're going to our place so no one can eavesdrop on us." Minato said.
"You guys are very sneaky and suspicious. You know that?" Willow asks.
"Yeah well when you've had the half the troubles we've dealt with you learn to be prepared for problems." Luz said.
"Oh man you guys are the coolest friends I've ever met." Gus said as they arrived at Eda's house.
"Eda we're back!" Luz calls out.
"Who's Eda? She like your servant or something?" Ezra asks.
"Me? A servant? Nuh uh I don't serve anyone but myself." Eda said picking herself up off the catch. "Who the heck are you kids?"
"Eda these are our friends from school." Luz introduces.
"Wait I know you, you're that lady from the Junk Emporium." Ezra recalls.
"All sales are final, no refunds, it was working when I sold it." Eda said quickly.
"What? I haven't bought anything I've just seen your store." Ezra said.
"Oh sorry force of habit." Eda said rubbing the back of her head. "So what you kids having like a study group or something?"
"Not exactly." Minato cringed.
"Eda they uh…they kinda found out." Luz said as both took off their beanies to reveal their witch ears.
Eyes widening Eda, slowly got out of her seat and walked to the windows.
"Uh Eda?" Minato asks not liking this silence.
As she locked all the doors and windows.
"Okay before things get ugly, I need you kids to tell me what happened." Eda groans rubbing her head.
"Wait she knows too?" Willow asks.
"Eda was the only one who knew." Luz gestures.
"And ever since we got here she's been the only one we can trust." Minato said as Eda grabbed the kids and forced them into the living room.
"Alright, I want butts on chairs right now." Eda orders.
"Uh look I don't really feel comfortable about the way you're doing this." Gus said.
Reaching into her closet, Eda pulls out a katana and places it on the table in front of them.
"You were saying?" Eda asks and immediately Luz and Minato sat down.
"You better listen she chopped off a monster's head with that thing." Luz points out.
Immediately they sat down next to them.
"Okay good to know you kids can listen. Now listen to this. What happens here does not leave my house." Eda said.
"Understood." They all said.
Groaning softly, King slowly walks in.
"Aww hey little guy. Where'd you come from?" Akko asks.
"Don't touch me. I just woke up." King said making them gasp.
"You guys have a talking cat?! Oh man you guys are the coolest!" Akko squeals. "Are you a witch familiar?!"
"No he's mine." Eda said.
"Yeah King didn't start talking until he accidentally got tangled in our magic." Minato said.
"So does he have magical powers too?" Gus asks.
"No he's just a talking pet now." Eda said.
"I am not a pet. I am a superior being!" King calls out.
"He's yapping again. Put him in his crate." Eda orders.
Walking over Luz picks him up.
"How dare you put me in that accursed prison." King yells as Luz put him inside and locked him. "At least bring me my squeaky mouse toy you monsters!"
"Okay you guys just keep throwing more and more surprises at us." Willow said.
"Hey you're the ones who didn't want us to wipe your memories." Luz said.
"Why didn't you kids just do it anyway? Save us all this trouble." Eda asks.
"Because we want to help." Willow said.
"You do?" Luz and Minato said surprised by that.
"Yeah you guys are heroes. You've saved the city and our lives on several occasions." Ezra smiles.
"Sorry uh we're still getting used to that." Luz said.
"Yeah where we're from we were more…well have a look at these." Reaching into their bags they pulled out their old Wanted Posters.
"Wait you guys are criminals?" Gus gasps.
"Depends on how you look at this." Luz chuckles nervously.
"Yeah the people we help say otherwise." Minato said equally nervous.
"So wait where are you guys from?" Willow asks.
"We're from a place called the Boiling Isles. A magical world born from the body of titan." Holding out her hand, Luz and Minato made balls of light and lightning to prove their points.
"All the myths and stories you humans come from us." Luz said.
"Really?" Ezra asks.
"Oh yeah werewolves, vampires, giraffes." Minato lists.
"Giraffes? But we have those here already." Gus said confused.
"Yeah only because we banished those things." Luz chuckles.
"So Giraffes are magical…you're coming with us to the zoo." Akko said.
"Yeah this I gotta see." Willow nods.
"Agreed." Gus and Ezra said as they all laughed.
"Let's stick to the subject, please. Get to the part with the giant, horrible dictator." Eda said.
"Wait what?" They all said.
"Eda we were going to gently nudge them into that." Luz said.
"Why do you think I added the tator?" Eda snickers.
Getting back on the subject Minato took over.
"However, we're ruled by a man named Emperor Belos who wanted to control all wild magic so he set up this Coven System to control all witches. There are 9 main covens in all: Abomination, Bard, Illusion, Beast Keeping, Potions, Plant, Construction, Healing and Oracle. Among those is the Emperor's Coven, the only coven where you can learn all types of magic. Those who didn't comply were labeled Wild Witches." Minato said.
"So is that why you're wanted? Because you didn't want to follow the rules?" Gus assumes.
"Hmm partly. It started with our parents." Luz admits getting Eda's attention.
"You kids never said anything about your parents before." Eda said.
"It's uh not a pretty story." Luz frowns.
Hearing this Owlbert and Ayden frowned both knowing why.
"Our parents were also Wild Witches and they didn't want our full potential to go to waste so they trained us in secret. Luz and I learned everything together and that's how we became such great friends." Minato smiles.
"Having him around did make the lessons easier to get through." Luz smiles. "This one time for Illusion spells we tried to have them do the lessons for us, but sadly they did not take very good notes."
"Boy were we in trouble for that." Minato chuckles.
"So how long have you guys been in our world?" Willow asks.
"A few months and we still have no idea how to get back." Luz said.
"Oh man your families must be worried sick." Gus said and instantly Luz and Minato frown.
"We've been worried about them for years." Luz admits confusing them.
"Years? But wait you guys said you've only been here for a few months." Ezra said confused.
"Wait does time move faster in the Boiling Isles?" Akko asks.
"Maybe. We don't know, but that's not the reason." Minato admits.
"You two are hiding something else." Eda said almost immediately. "Look I don't know what it is, but I know one thing no parent good or lousy wouldn't show some emotions when their kids have bounties with that many zeros on them." Grabbing the wanted posters she held them up for emphasis.
Cringing the two witches realized they were busted again.
"It's not a pretty story." Minato said.
"And not one we enjoy remembering." Luz said making Akko pause.
"Is…Is it because of them you became Wanted?" Akko asks and Luz slowly nods.
"Guys we can't help if you won't trust us." Willow said concerned.
Pausing they turned to Eda wondering if she had any objections.
"I kinda want to know too." Eda said.
"Bring me up! I want to hear it too!" King said from his crate.
Shrugging Eda kicks the crate closer making King yelp as he hit the bars.
"Can't you pick me up next time?!" King snaps.
"Well it happened about 3 years ago. Luz and I had just turned 13. It was day we made our Palismans. What was supposed to be a big day went down as one of the worst days of our lives." Minato starts.
"My dad was one of the greatest Palisman Carvers in the Boiling Isles and spent weeks show me and Minato how to do it." Luz smiles softly.
Flashback:
We see Camilla and Miguel watching from the training area as Luz and Minato sat with a male witch with dark skin, a mustache, brown hair and wilderness-based clothes. This was Darius Noceda.
In front of both teen witches Minato and Luz were carving their palismans from blocks of Palisman wood.
"Alright now you want to cut across the grain, but think carefully. Whatever you make will be your closest ally for the rest of your life." Darius instructs.
"Well besides us." Luz chuckles.
"Oh yeah." Minato said as they briefly high five.
Nearby Camilla giggles softly.
"I swear those two just love to make me laugh." Camilla said.
"You have quite the family Camilla. I just wish I knew where she disappeared to." Miguel frowns pinching his nose.
"Any word on what happened to her?" Camilla asks.
"No. Nothing." Miguel sighs.
"Don't worry. Momo will turn up sooner or later. Until let's just focus on those two." Camilla gestures.
Back at the tables, Luz and Minato were putting on the final touches.
"That's it kids. Slowly…" Darius said as Luz made the final carve making Owlbert come to life.
"Hoo? Hoo?" It said turning to Luz.
"I did it…I did it! I have a palisman!" Luz cheers jumping up and down with joy.
"So what are you going to name him?" Darius asks.
Pausing Luz looks at her little Palisman and picks him up.
"I'm gonna name you…Owlbert." Luz declares.
Smiling Owlbert hoots liking that name before turning into a staff for her.
"That is so you." Minato chuckles revealing his finished Palisman.
"Looks like we both wanted birds." Luz said pointing.
"Yep and I'm gonna name this little fella Ayden." Minato declares.
Cawing Ayden spread his wings liking the name.
"I think you two made the perfect Palismans." Camilla said as she and Miguel walked over.
"Yeah they're really cool." Miguel agrees.
"Winged creatures are often the most curious ones and these two are definitely curious." Dairus chuckles.
"Does that mean we're witches now?" Luz asks.
"No." Miguel said instantly making the two kids fall over.
"What?! What do you mean we're not?" Luz whines.
"We mastered every lesson. We know every spell." Minato whines.
"You kids didn't let us finish. You're not witches. Without these." Camilla reaches behind her back and pulls out two witches' cloaks.
"Our own cloaks?" Luz gasps.
"Made from Witches' Wool." Miguel smiles.
Smiling both teens hugged their parents. They had done it. They were ready to be real witches.
However, this beautiful moment came to a stop when they heard a noise.
"What was that?" Luz asks.
Little did they know several figures were racing through the forest.
"Darius, get the kids inside." Camilla narrows her eyes.
Not needing to be told twice, Darius grabs them and ran into the house. "Hey wait!" Luz yells.
"What are you doing?!" Minato asks.
Turning around Miguel and Camilla see dozens of shadowy figures surrounding the place.
"We finally found you." An Emperor's Coven guard said.
"You have been avoiding us for years, but today it's over."
"Come quietly or else."
Taking their staffs, both parents instead however released two blasts of magic causing an explosion.
Inside, Darius leads the kids to the back of the house before pushing aside a bookshelf and rug revealing a secret compartment.
"Get in." Darius said as Luz, Minato and their new palismans enter. "Now no matter what happens do not open this door and do not make a sound."
"Dad please let us help." Luz said.
"We can fight too." Minato said.
"This isn't your fight kids. Not yet at least." Darius said. "Look out for each other and no matter what happens. We love you kids so much."
Giving Luz one last kiss on the cheek Darius closed the lid, Minato and Luz could only hear the sounds of spells being casts, explosions going off and screams of pain echoing from outside.
Whimpering Luz and Minato held each other close in fear.
Hooting Owlbert snuggled up to Luz while Ayden wrapped his wings around Minato hoping they would make it through.
Hours later, Luz and Minato had fallen asleep in their same position.
Groaning Luz slowly woke up to see Minato's head was asleep on her shoulder.
Blushing softly Luz yelped causing him to wake up.
"What? What is it? Are we in trouble?" Minato asks.
"Minato…I-I-I don't hear anything." Luz said getting his attention.
Pausing Minato and the Palismans didn't hear anything. No spells, no talking, nothing.
Slowly emerging from their hiding spot, Luz and Minato looked around at the destroyed remains of their home and training area but there was no sign of their parents or anyone for that matter.
"Hello! Mom! Dad!" Luz calls out.
"Dad where are you?!" Minato said when he stepped on something.
Looking down he saw his father's goggles laying at his feet.
"No." Minato said in horror.
Bending down Minato picked them up and held them close to his chest.
As tears formed Luz hugged Minato close with Owlbert and Ayden joining in.
"They took them Luz; they took them all." Minato sobs.
"How did this happen? They were always so careful." Luz asks tearing up.
Having no idea what to do the two of them just cried in the sad remains of their home.
Flashback End:
"We never heard from them again. We don't where they are or if they're even alive." Luz finishes.
"After that day Luz and I did everything, we could to try and find answers and get back at Belos. Freeing prisoners, sabotaging his guards, stealing from his coven buildings. All the while looking for any clues on the whereabouts of our parents, but we never found anything." Minato frowns.
"Luz…Minato…" Eda said as Akko and Gus were struggling to hold back their tears while Willow and Ezra were sniffling.
"I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna cry." King said but ended up sobbing.
"So you guys were never criminals at all. You're two kids down on their luck and trying to make things better for people like you." Eda realized.
"And that's why all these monsters are after you guys. This Belos guy is sending them after you." Willow realized.
"The Thrasher said we stole something from. We don't know what but something in this city is allowing things from our world to come into yours, but the problem is we don't even know what it is." Luz said.
"And we don't know this world or where anything might be." Minato said.
"Well…then it's a good thing you have us to help you out." Willow declares surprising them.
"You guys want to help us?" Luz asks.
"Duh, you've been helping us for weeks fighting off criminals and magical monsters." Ezra smiles.
"Plus now that we know you're magic you can show us how to do magic." Akko smiles.
"Can humans even do magic?" Minato whispers.
"I don't know." Luz shrugs.
"I wouldn't mind learning a few things." Ezra said.
"Me too especially the plant stuff." Willow said.
"This is so cool; we'll be like your eyes and ears for the human world so when things are crazy, we give you a call and then you come in and save the day. It's perfect." Gus said.
"It might be nice to have some backup." Luz said.
"Plus now we can cover for you guys during school or when we're out." Akko said.
Hearing all the good points they were giving Luz and Minato were starting to like the idea of having a team.
"I guess we could give you guys a shot." Minato smiles.
"Although I feel we should warn you the things from our world are dangerous and we're not just talking about monster. The witches there are fierce too. So many powerful ones serve the Emperor and they will do whatever it takes to accomplish their goals. And they might use you guys to get to us." Luz said making them all gulp.
"Great…anything else?" Willow asks nervously.
"Oh yeah there's also the people in suits from this world who are after us." Luz recalls.
"People in suits? Wait the government is after you guys?!" Gus gasps.
"Oh damn now this just got interesting." Eda said loving these kids more and more.
"Last chance to back out guys. We won't blame you if you say yes." Minato offers.
Looking at each other, Akko, Willow, Gus and Ezra just smile.
"We're in." All of them said together.
"Seriously? They basically said you could die helping them." King deadpans.
"We're your friends. You've been there for us so we should be there for you." Willow said.
"And because learning magic from real witches is like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Akko adds.
"Honestly hearing your story just makes me want to help more now that we know how awesome you guys really are." Ezra smiles.
"So what other crazy stuff is your world like?" Willow asks.
"Where do we even start?" Luz chuckles.
Getting up Eda lets King out of his crate and walks to the next room.
"Well good to know I don't have to make 4 high school kids disappear." Eda said.
"At the very least I could use some more servants." King said.
"Still all they want is magic lessons? Man those kids think small?" Eda said grabbing a beer from the fridge.
As she opens it, she notices one of Luz's light glyphs on the table.
Pausing Eda looks to see the teens were too busy talking.
Picking up the paper she examines it curiously before it got the better of her.
Touching the center, Eda gasps seeing it turn into a ball of light.
"Eda…you just did magic." King said in awe.
"I guess humans can do magic after all." Eda said looking at it in awe before the ball disappeared.
Looking up at Luz and Minato, Eda smiles softly. Maybe she should show a little more interest in them. After all, if she could teach them to fight maybe they can show her a thing or two about magic.
