Another day in the Owl House. Eda was busy away in the kitchen while Luz and Strix talked to their friends with a crystal ball. Eda hated to admit it, but it was strangely quiet and lonely around the house with her son and apprentice at school, but she knew she did the right thing to make them happy.

"So they said I couldn't remove my thumb, but look at that!" Luz did a magician's trick making her thumb appear to come off. "Whoop!"

Gus gasped. "You sliced it off," he exclaimed. "You sliced off your own thumb!"

Willow giggled. "You make doing homework actually fun."

"And they say humans can't do magic."

"Luz! Strix!" King hopped onto the table. "You've been talking to them all morning. Don't forget about the Luz & King comedy hour!"

"I was kind of hoping you would forget that," Strix mumbled to himself.

Eda, who was brewing a potion, was already groaning. "Please, no. Not the comedy hour..."

"This week I've been working with props!" He stuck a roll of toilet paper on his snout. "Oh dear, I've gotten a tube stuck on my nose! Will I ever eat again?" He slammed his face into the bread lice from Luz's sandwich. "Looks like I'm toast!" he laughed at his own lame joke and Luz joined in.

Strix just groaned and slammed his face onto the table. Eda said in annoyance, "It just goes on like this for an hour!"

"Heyo, dough boy, quit loafing around!"

"Why don't you bake me?"

Luz and King laughed again. Strix pulled on his ears and yelled, "Stop that! Please, stop that!" Suddenly, the crystal ball buzzed. It was eight o'clock. "Oh, thank goodness. Saved by the bell."

"School time," exclaimed Luz. "See you guys in class!"

"Bye," called out Willow as she hung up.

"But what about the thumb?!" Strix cut Gus off.

King sighed sadly. Luz patted his skull and said, "Hey, don't worry. We'll finish our comedy hour when we get home." She kissed him on the head.

He giggled, "Hee hee, oh you!"

"Try not to miss me while I'm gone!" Luz sang as she and Strix left. King ran to the door and scratched at it like a dog wanting its master to come back. "You...you really think they're coming back this time?" he asked.

Ed said, "Yes, they'll be back; they always comes back. It's cute you miss them, though."

"The King of Demons-" He paused to take the bread and toilet paper roll off his head. "-the King of Demons misses nobody! I wouldn't care if they came through this door right now!" Luz and Strix came back.

"Hey, you're-"

"You're back!" King ran up to the kids and hugged them both before climbing up onto Luz's head. "I didn't miss you at all."

"Yeah, school's cancelled due to a pixie infestation," said Strix.

"That sounds like a crumby situation," King laughed at his lame joke only to let out a "Gulp!" when Strix grabbed his throat. "Quiet," he growled.

Suddenly, Hooty appeared. "Hey! Guess what's been in my mouth that I'm about to throw up!" He barfed out some envelopes and a package. "The mail!"

Eda inspected them. "Junk, junk, death hex..." She tossed the hex into the garbage, causing it to disintegrate. Then Eda found a flyer among the letters. "Oh, a carnival's in town today!"

Luz looked excited. "A carnival? You know, I've been so busy with school lately, what do you say we take this comedy hour on tour? It'll be a Luz and King day!"

"That's my kinda day," said King as he put on a fanny pack.

"Please don't," pleaded Strix. "You'll kill everyone with those lame jokes."

Luz ignored him and said, "Let's all four of us go!"

"An adventure with friends!" hooted Hooty. "I'll go pack my stuff!"

Eda thought it over then formed a mischievous smirk. "Carnivals bring crowds and crowds bring suckers. This could be the perfect chance to try out my new get-rich-quick scheme. I'm in! To the carnival!"

"To the carnival," King, Strix and Luz said.

Hooty returned. "Good news, I'm bringing my knapsack full of games! Hello?" Took the dimwit a while to realize everyone was already gone. A fly buzzed by. "Ooh, a fly! Talk to me, talk to me!"

The Bonesborough Carnival was like your typical carnival. Full of rides, food stands, games, a fun house, a freak show and a killer petting zoo. Okay, so it wasn't a typical carnival. "Well, here we are, kids," said Eda. "Look at all that fresh meat." Nearby was a food stand that sold raw meat on sticks.

"And smell all that fresh meat," said Luz. She sniffed a little too hard and a fly went up her nose. She coughed and gagged until it flew out her mouth. "Fun!"

"I know it smells strong," said Strix. "But I suddenly have the desire to eat that raw flesh!"

Owlbert tried to fly off Eda's staff, but she stopped him. "No games for you, Owlbert, we've got scams to run."

"Besides, everyone knows carnival games are rigged. You don't win anything unless you cheat."

"My kind of games."

"Friends!" A small pig demon in a ringmaster outfit and top hat appeared. "Welcome!"

"Tibbles!" Strix exclaimed. Everyone got into defensive positions.

"I see you got my postcard."

"Tibbles? You sent this?" Eda looked at the flyer again. On its back was a picture of Tibbles and the words, "To my Owl House pals. From Tibbles." The little pig demon made an innocent smile. "Mmm-hmm."

"Aren't you mad at us for destroying your stand?" asked Luz.

"Ooh, and destroying his life," said King. "That was the best part!"

"No, no, no. I should thank you," said Tibbles. "After my stand was destroyed I reevaluated my life and found my true calling! I'm now ringmaster of...Tibbles' Tent of Tiny Terrors!" He presented the group a terrarium with tiny versions of monsters like manticores, unicorns and griffons.

Luz cooed at their tininess. "Aww, it's like a regular circus but adorably small! You're my friends now."

"I don't believe it," said Strix.

"Neither do I," said Eda. "What kind of con are you running?"

"No cons here, Owl Lady, only pros. In fact, why don't we toast our newfound friendship with this totally innocent bottle of water." Piddles held up a bottle with a purple liquid in it.

Eda took the bottle from him. "Oh yeah, sure! Why don't I just-" And then she threw it over her shoulder. It hit some random bystander on the head. "I'm okay!" he called out. Eda pointed to Tibbles and said, "I know poison when I see it; you can't scam a scammer! Now speaking of scams...beat it loser!" Eda walked to a random stand and forced the man working it out before setting her her own sign on it. "Step right up to...Eda's Human Horror House! Humans shed their skin and I've got proof." The Owl Lady held up a pair of Luz's leggings. Already she was attracting some potential suckers.

"I'm sorry Mom rummages through your clothes, Luz," said Strix, slightly disturbed.

"Yeah, you should really put a lock on your closet," said King.

"You know what, Eda can pick through my socks all she wants, because today is all about having a great time with my partners in crime."

"That's me! I love crime!"

The two kids and demon laughed as they walked into the carnival while Tibbles waved and said, "Have a good time, friends." Then he added to himself, "While it lasts."

"Dunk the skeleton! Win a prize!"

Strix took a ball from the dunk tank's owner and tossed it at the ball, dunking the skeleton into the tank. When the skeleton came out, he now had flesh and skin. He screamed in horror. "Ah! Aah! I'm covered in pores!"

Strix chuckled before catching up with Luz and King. "Now this is my kind of weird," said Luz. "So what do you wanna do first? We could brave the molar coaster, or eat a mysterious blob..."

"Ooh, what's that?" King ran to the prize counter and picked out two bracelets with halves of a heart. "Ah! Some kind of deadly string weapon."

"No, silly. That's a friendship bracelet," said Luz.

"Is that a type of deadly weapon?"

"A weapon of love," Luz explained as she brought the halves together. "It's basically a declaration to the whole world that you're the best of friends."

"Ooh! That's a safer way than becoming blood brothers! Luz, we must have those bracelets!"

The prize vendor took the bracelets back. "And yoink. Sorry, ma'am. If your bone son wants these bracelets you have to play the games and win the tickets. You know, carnival rules."

Strix made a look of disgust. "You think King is... EWW!"

King tugged on Luz's pant sleeve and whined like a little kid, "Beat the man and steal his things for me."

"Or let's just play the games."

"Oh, okay."

The trio giggled and chanted, "Games! Games! Games! Games!" until they met Willow and Gus.

"Friends!" Luz exclaimed, pulling them into a group hug. A group hug that left out King.

"Hey, Luz!" said Gus.

"Oh my gosh, I didn't think I'd see carniv-y'all here." Strix booed Luz's lame joke.

"I got an invitation from Tibbles," Willow held up a flyer similar to the one Eda received only this one said, "To the other two."

"Isn't it weird we all got invitations from the same guy who hates us for ruining his career?" Strix asked rhetorically.

"We figured it's a trap since we squashed his stand with a walking house," said Gus.

"But who cares," asked Willow. "This place has a Scarris wheel."

"It's like a human Ferris wheel but it gives you long-lasting nightmares."

"Yes! This mama is ready for trauma," Luz said with glee. King cleared his throat loudly. "Oh, yeah. We're on a very important quest to win a special prize for King."

"Oh! We can help with that."

Gus knelt down to King's eye level and made baby noises, "Aw. Does the little guy wanna win a prize? Uh, does he? Uh, does he?" He reached to tickle under his chin, but King slapped his hand away.

"Don't do that," said Strix. "Only I can do that. And Mom and Luz."

"What do you think, King? The more the merrier, huh?"

King said, a little downhearted, "Um, sure. Whatever you want, Luz."

"All right. Approval!"

The kids all cheered and ran off for some fun. And poor King tried to keep up with them, but his tiny legs made it hard for him to run.

The first game the kids played was skee-ball and they wound up winning a couple of tickets. But when King tried to play, the skee-ball machine spat the ball back at him.

Next, the kids and King stuck their heads into a photo stand-in for a photo op. The kids were clowns and King was...garbage. Kind of like what he was feeling right now.

Next, the kids got some cotton candy that oozed out purple slime every time they took a bite out of it. King only got the stick.

At a pop the balloon game stand, the kids gossiped about the comings and goings at school. "So the pixie infestation was actually caused when Boscha's pet pixie escaped its cage..."

King tried to play the game, but his stubby legs made it too hard for him to even see anything and he wound up falling flat on his face. "Curse these stubby legs." He looked up to see the kids having a good time. Without him. Even Luz didn't seem to notice him.

"King?" Strix walked up to the little demon, holding a stuffed toy. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"King, I know you're lying. What's wrong?"

"Nothing! Just go be with your friends!" King took off running.

"King!"

The little demon stopped running and came to rest near a fortune teller's booth. He sighed sadly at the sight of a poster that read, "Enjoy the carnival with your friends!"

"Oh, my, my, my. You seem troubled."

"Huh? Who said that?"

"It is I!" A small pig demon in a wizard's outfit appeared in the fortune teller's stand. "Obvioso, the all-seeing psychic."

King took a look at his face. "Haven't I seen you somewhere? It's almost so..."

"Obvious?"

"That's what I was gonna say. Wow! You really are psychic."

"That's right. And Obvioso can see that something is bothering you, little friend."

King made a disappointed grunt. "You got my number, Obvioso. Today was supposed to be about me and Luz, see? But now she's distracted by her cool new school friends."

"What if I were to tell you that there was a way to make all those problems disappear?" Obvioso asked.

"I'd say that sounds illegal. I would also say go on."

Obvioso took out a bottle, the same bottle Tibbles tried to give to Eda, and sprayed a nearby creature. "Behold!" In a flash, the creature vanished.

King was freaked out by this. "Holy bones! You poofed it. Call the cops! This guy's crazy!"

The little pig demon chuckled. "Hey. The spray is only temporary. I just give my cheeks a tap and then..." He tapped his cheeks with his hands and the creature returned, looking around in a confused state. "...it returns safe and sound." The creature let out a noise of shock and laid an egg which hatched. "Take this." Obvioso handed King the bottle. "Enjoy the carnival without the problems. Luz, Strix, Willow and Gus will be none the wiser."

"Whoa! You even know their names. Guess there's no use arguing with a fortune-teller. Thanks, Obvioso!" Obvioso, or should I say Tibbles, laughed evilly as King walked off. Then he came back and asked, "Hey, sidenote, in the future do I ever find love?"

"Uh...yes."

King laughed as he left. Tibbles let out a sigh of relief.

King looked down at the bottle as he walked back to Luz and the others. The more he thought of it, the more he started to have doubts about the whole thing. He put the bottle in his fanny pack. "Hmm, maybe I should think about this first."

At that moment, Luz, Willow and Gus ran up to him. "King," Luz called out. "Sorry we lost you back there, little dude."

"Hey, it's okay." Then he realized someone was missing. "Where's Strix?"

"He had to use the bathroom. Apparently, that fresh meat he ate earlier didn't sit well with him."

"Oh. Hey, let's go back to the games and win those bracelets while we wait for him."

"But we haven't gone on any rides and there's no line for the bumper carcasses," said Gus.

"Games!" snapped King.

"Bumper carcasses!"

"GAMES!"

"BUMPER CARCASSES!"

Luz's belly suddenly growled. "Food! I'm gonna crab some rotten candy while you guys figure this out. Bye!"

"When Luz and Strix come back let's go on the three-man cauldron spinner," said Willow.

"Or the triple swing," suggested Gus.

"Oh, and that's close to those photo booths that can fit exactly four people."

King's sadness and anger grew as he was left out once again. "But today was me and Luz's day."

Gus picked him up and cuddled him like a puppy. "Aw. Does the little baby boo miss his buddy Luz? Uh, does he? Uh, does he?"

"The King of Demons misses nobody," King shouted as he struggled to free himself. "I demand you put me down!" Suddenly, the bottle fell out of his fanny pack and sprayed Willow and Gus, who only had the chance to say "Wha?" before they disappeared. King panicked. "Oh, no! What have I done?"

Luz returned to discover Willow and Gus gone. "Wow. I guess they really wanted to ride those bumper carcasses."

King quickly put the bottle back into his pack before she could see it. "Actually, Luz. There's something I gotta tell you."

"No. There's something I gotta tell you, King. I said I'd help you win those friendship bracelets. So win them we shall, okay?"

King felt more guilt as she said that and he thought out loud, "Willow and Gus will be okay for a little while, right?"

"What was that?"

"Nothing! Now let's go!" King pushed Luz along.

"Ready or not, here we crumb."

"Yes! Ha, ha."

But what King didn't know was that Willow and Gus hadn't disappeared. They had shrunk, and were now no bigger than ants! "First, I'm growing out of my clothes. Now I'm shrinking? Dang, puberty. You're the craziest coaster of 'em all." Willow groaned at Gus' stupidity. Then he asked, "What happened to us? Did I black out on the molar coaster again?"

"Sketchy carnival rides are not to blame this time," said Willow. "King had something in his pouch that made us small."

Gus sobbed, "And I just got tall enough for the rides!"

Suddenly the ground shook and Willow looked up. "Gus..." Looming over them was a large, three-eyed creature with wings. It tried to take a bite out of them, but they hid inside a cup. "I think we're safe now," said Gus. He was proven wrong when the creature used its tongue to poke through the styrofoam.

"ENOUGH OF THIS!" Willow used her powers to summon vines that stuffed the cup into the creature's mouth.

The kids ran to a dropped cotton candy and Willow said, "Quick! We have to find Luz and get her attention before any more carnival animals hunt us down." She picked some cotton candy and whistled, attracting a fly. "Eat up, my steed!" She and Gus hopped onto its back. "Lead us to safety."

Gus cringed at the hairs on the fly's back. "It's so hairy. Why is it so hairy?"

"Because up close, everything is hairy."

Meanwhile, back with Eda, the Owl Lady was making a whole lot of moolah from all the suckers she sold Luz's junk to. "Round as the moon, her ears are, with mood swings as terrifying as night itself. Now, who wants to touch an outdated human reference?" She held up a fidget spinner.

Before more money could be spent, a frowning clown appeared and pushed the customers out of the way. "Okay, show's over. This witch doesn't have a license."

"I can't do time again! Run," the customers yelled, and the whole group fled Eda's stand.

Eda glared at the clown. "Ah, what are you? The fun police?"

"Yes." The clown pointed to his badge. "And you're coming with me." He took out a rubber bat and slapped it in his hand.

"Uh, excuse me, sir. I'd like to have a word with your staff." Eda pointed her staff at the clown, but nothing happened. In fact, it seemed to be missing its palisman. "Owlbert! Owlbert! Where are you?" Owlbert was over at the whack-a-giraffe stand, having the time of his life. Eda growled, "Owlbert, you're lucky I can't be mad at your adorable antics." She tried to run, but she didn't look where she was going and she ended up falling face first into a cotton candy machine.

"Hey, I caught her," said the vendor.

The clown put rubber cuffs on Eda's hands. "I hate carnivals," she groaned, cotton candy in her hair.

The same couldn't be said for Luz and King, who were enjoying themselves at the carnival games. At the skee-ball game, Luz decided to cheat a little by tickling the machine itself until it spewed out hundreds of tickets.

Next, they played the ring toss game, which wasn't really fair since the bottles moved out of the way whenever the rings were tossed at them. So King decided to toss a ring at the man running the stand. This earned him a handful of tickets.

And while this was happening, Willow and Gus tried in vain to get Luz's attention, but to no avail. Their last attempt ended with them landing in the cotton candy machine.

"We can't keep doing this," Gus said as they climbed out.

"We won't have to for much longer," Willow said, an idea forming as she looked over to the house of mirrors.

The clown dragged Eda to the caravan wagon of the carnival's owner, a male demon clown with green hair, a round red nose and wearing striped pants, red shoes, and a black jacket with a little rose on the lapel.

"Just when I thought I couldn't respect the law any less, it surprises me," Eda mused.

"So, I hear you're running scams at my carnival? That's my job. And I take my job very seriously." The clown's bow tie spun as he said that.

"Spare me the yuks. What do you want?"

"Since I'm a forgiving demon, I'll give you two options. I can pass you along to the Emperor's Coven and we'll throw you in the Conformatorium, or you can scam for me." He pointed behind his shoulder to a vendor's outfit and a caramel crab apples cart.

Back with Luz and King, they placed all their tickets at the prize counter where the vendor was counting the tickets. "1230... 1231..."

"Now, King, before you spend your tickets are you sure you want those friendship bracelets and not this bad boy?" Luz pointed to a demonic horse skull.

"I am the King of Night. And every breath you take brings you closer to darkness."

There was an eerie pause. Then Luz said, "This guy's a riot."

"Yes, Luz," said King. "I want the bracelets. It's kind of important to me, okay?"

"I can be important to you," said the skull. "I, who have seen the birth and death of countless nations..."

The vendor interrupted it by whacking it with a broom. "No, no. Stop it. Yes, where was I, uh... Well, lost count. Okay, one, two, three four..."

Strix suddenly returned, his face looking very green and for once, it wasn't because he was wearing the Mask. "Luz, can we go home? I think I got a tapeworm. That raw meat was lousy with parasites."

"Okay. After we get the friendship bracelets, we'll find Eda and then we can go home." Suddenly, a fly dropped some cotton candy in Luz's hair. "Ugh, gross. I'm gonna need a mirror. I'll be right back, King."

"I'll stay here with King," said Strix.

The vendor continued to count, "12, 13, 14..."

"COUNT FASTER!" shouted King.

Luz looked for the restroom, but stopped when she saw arrows made of cotton candy pointing to the hall of mirrors. "Oh, here we go!" The hall's mirrors didn't just distort her reflection, but also changed her reflection's appearance. One mirror had her look like a monster, another made her look like a manga character, and another made her look like a being made of stars.

Finally, the arrows stopped at the words, "You made it!" "Aw, what a supportive sign," said Luz. She looked up to see Willow and Gus. "Wait a sec. Supportive signs!" Luz ran up to them only to be bumped back. It wasn't Willow and Gus, just a mirror. "Huh?" Willow held up a sign. "Look down!" it said. Luz did so and gasped to see Willow and Gus in the flesh, no bigger than ants! "Oh, my gosh!"

Back at the prize stand, King finally got his wish when the vendor finally finished counting. "One million. Yep, I just counted to one million. The bracelets are yours."

"Yes. Yes! Now Luz and I will share a bond as mighty as these trinkets!" King and Strix ran to the hall of mirrors. "Heya, Luz. Good news. I got the bracelets."

But Luz wasn't happy at all. "King..." She held out her hand. In her palm was Willow and Gus, much to King's shock. Strix pointed to Gus and Willow and laughed. "They're so tiny and cute!"

"Don't call me tiny!" shouted Gus.

"Listen to his voice! He sounds like a chipmunk on helium! Now you know how King felt when you babied him!"

"This isn't funny," shouted Willow. "King splashed us with something to make us small."

"And now I can't go on the big boy rides," Gus said as he hopped up and down. "You monster."

"You weren't supposed to shrink," King stammered. "You, you were supposed to disappear." King stopped himself when he realized what he said but it was too late. "Ooh, no. Wait."

"What?!" Luz asked, outraged.

"No, no, no. Luz, I can explain. I wanted to win the bracelets and there was this psychic, see?" He took the bottle out of his pack.

"That must've been what did it. Give me the spray bottle, King."

"No, wait I-I-I gotta explain."

"What is there to explain, you stupid mongrel?" Strix asked as he snatched the bottle from King. "You sprayed Luz's friends out of jealousy!"

"But I.."

"No! You're done!" And with that, Strix smashed the bottle...and got himself, Luz and King covered in the potion. "Uh-oh." In a flash, they were now as small as Willow and Gus. "That was probably stupid."

"You think?" snapped Willow.

"Wait, I can fix it. Obvioso showed me how. Behold." He tapped his cheeks. Nothing happened. He tapped them again and again until his cheeks turned red, but nothing happened. "Why isn't this working?"

"I'd say it's working quite well." The kids and King looked up to see Tibbles smiling at them. Before they could run, he grabbed them and brought them to his Tiny Terror Tent. King was still trying to break the spell.

"Um, Luz, Strix, I think King is broken," said Gus.

"Tapping my cheeks is supposed to turn us normal," said King. "The psychic told me."

"Oh, did he?" Tibbles asked maliciously. "But, what if he..." He cast a spell circle and in a flash he was wearing his wizard hat. "...lied to you from the start? Hold on." He paused to put on his fake mustache. "Lied to you from the start? It's different."

"You fiend. When Obvioso finds out you stole his mustache..." It was then King realized he had been tricked. "Oh..." Gus face palmed.

"The potion was designed by me. Guess whose cheeks control it?"

"Why are you doing this," asked Luz.

"When you destroyed my stand, you destroyed generations of Grimm Hammer history," Tibbles said as he tore off his disguise. "Now it's time to pay." He brought them inside the tent and placed them in the terrarium. He spoke into a microphone to a large audience. "Welcome to the greatest show on the Boiling Isles!" A projector showed Luz and her friends in the terrarium. "Will these witches and demons survive feeding time? Let's find out!"

Tibbles rang the bell and the shrunken creatures the kids saw earlier slowly began to advance toward them. "Aw. At least he's still my friend," Luz cooed to the unicorn. The equine creature neighed demonically. "That's how friends react."

"Luz," said Strix. "That unicorn is of the flesh eating variety!"

The animals growled as they stalked toward their prey. Tibbles smiled at them with sinister glee. "You ruined my livelihood. So now you'll feed my livelihood." He said to the crowd, "Place your bets and enjoy the show!"

"Well, if I have to go, at least I'm with my best friends. And King," said Gus.

"Hold on. I'll get us out." Strix reached into his pocket, but stopped when he saw Eda selling crab apples to the people in the audience. "Uh...forget the Mask. Wait! I forgot about Selwyn!" He blew on his whistle, but the dragon didn't come. "Oh, man! The whistle is so small, she can't hear it!" The animals charged at the kids, forcing them to scatter in different directions.

In the audience, Eda was selling crab apples to the people watching the death show, completely unaware of the danger her apprentice, her son and their friends were in. "Caramel Crab Apples. Get 'em hot and pinchy."

"Hey! Over here!"

"Yeah, yeah." She grunted in pain when one of the crab apple pinched her left index finger. "Hold your spider-horses."

Gus cast a spell that created the illusion of a vacuum cleaner and used its noise to frighten the animals. Willow used her powers to bring the drinker down and the kids ducked behind it.

"We've gotta..." Luz was interrupted when one of the animals banged against the drinker. "...find a way out of here!"

King hit himself in the head as he chastised himself, "Ah, King, you idiot. This is all your fault. But I think I know how to fix it." He took out the friendship bracelets and took off running, allowing the animals to chase him.

"KING!" Luz and Strix called out.

King backed himself into a corner as he confessed, "Willow, Gus, I'm sorry for poofing you. And Luz, I'm sorry for taking away your friends. I know you'll eventually go home and now you're spending more time at school with Strix. I just wanna be around you!" Luz was stunned to hear him say that.

The animals jumped at him, but he leaped up and they crashed into a stack. King jumped on them like a trampoline until he was able to reach the top of the terrarium and climb out.

The audience booed. Tibbles, who was lying on top of a pile of coins, said nonchalantly to them, "No refunds." It was then he realized King was missing.

King twirled the friendship bracelets like bolas. "All right. I only have one shot!" Then he tossed them right at Tibbles' cheek. It didn't hurt, but it did cause a slight itch. Tibbles tapped his cheek. "Darn flies." It was then he realized he made a big mistake. "Oh, no!"

By this point, the audience was booing and jeering at the fact there was no blood shed. "Hey, hey. No discounts, buddy," Eda snapped at them.

"You guys owe me. There's nothing happening in this show."

"Not a single one of those dumb kids have gotten hurt yet."

That caught Eda's attention. "Dumb kids?" She turned and saw the projected image of Luz, Strix and their friends in the terrarium. "Those are MY dumb kids!"

In a flash of light, the kids, King and the animals grew back to their natural size, smashing the terrarium in the process. Luz said to Tibbles, "You shrank the animals too?!"

"It's the Tent of Tiny Terrors," said Tibbles like it was so obvious. "Something needed to be tiny."

The crowd continued to boo and jeer. "Finish the job! Get them kids! Feast!" They threw crab apples at the beasts, who proceeded to eat them. The audience realized that that probably wasn't the smartest idea. The animals roared and charged into the bleachers, chasing after the crowd and their apples.

Tibbles was furious. "They foiled my plans. You will pay for this! This time I'm gonna personally squash you!"

Before he could spray the kids and demon with the shrinking potion, Eda snatched the bottle out of his hands and said, "Oh, no, Tibbles. That's not how entertainment works. The bad guy always gets his just desserts." And she dumped a tray of crab apples onto the pig demon.

"Oh, no! Not desserts!"

"Oh, girls," Eda called out to the animals, getting their attention. She pointed to Tibbles. "This one's on the house."

The animals took one look at Tibbles and licked their lips. He screamed and ran out of the tent with his beasts chasing after him.

"Looks like we ruined his life for a second time," said Willow.

"We're on a roll," said Gus.

"Gus, Willow," said King, relieved. "You're okay!"

"All thanks to you, King," said Luz. She handed King the remains of the friendship bracelets, the halves broken into five pieces. "Here. It was all that was left."

King took the shards and said, "It's...it's okay. Because now there's a piece for everybody. If you'll accept it, that is?" He handed two of the shards to Willow and Gus. They took them as their way of forgiving him.

"Thank you, King," said Willow.

"Yeah. I've always wanted to own a jagged piece of cheap metal."

King handed two more pieces to Strix and Luz, keeping the last one for himself.

"That was so sweet of you, King," said Strix.

"It is," said Luz.

King said, "I'm sorry, Luz. Demons do crazy things when they've been missing somebody."

"And can I tell you a secret? I've been missing you too." She gave King a kiss on his skull.

King giggled then said, "Well, we still have a few hours of carnival left. Wanna hit those bumper carcasses?"

"You bread my mind."

"Yes! Bread puns. Bread puns forever."

"Oh, no," said Strix, a little impatiently. "We're going home! I can feel that tapeworm going to town on my intestines!" King and Luz looked at each other, nodded, then proceeded to give him the puppy eyes. "Oh, come on, don't do that! I got parasites in me! This is a medical emergency!" They still showed him the puppy eyes. Finally, he caved. "FINE! But if that tapeworm reproduces, you're paying for my medicine!"

"Yay!" cheered King.

"You coming, Eda," Luz asked.

The Owl Lady was covering herself in Tibbles' pile of money. "Nah. I think I got everything I wanted. Yep. Another great year at the carnival."

When Luz, Eda, King and Strix returned to the Owl House, they found Hooty chatting with a fly. "Boy, fly, we sure get into some wacky hijinks, don't we? Sure feel sorry for anyone that missed seeing us two rabble-rousers getting into scrapes." They decided to sleep in the garage with Selwyn. "Good thing I brought a camera. Yep. Hooty and fly. Together forever. You and me. Every single day..." The fly flew into his mouth and he accidentally swallowed it. "Now I know what friendship taste like. Yum. Taste like a bug."