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A/N. Hi! I recently binged watched The Owl House and now I'm obsessed. I thought of my own story and I had to write it so I might as well publish it.
Now, this story is an Alternate Universe fic, where Eda took Luz and King to mystery swamps the day after the "Wing It Like Witches". While there, they found something that'll cause the unexpected new adventure.
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Chapter I
It was a surprisingly peaceful afternoon in the Owl House; Luz sat on the floor in the space between the low table and the couch, doing her homework and stroking the small demon with one hand, King was spread across her lap like a cat - enjoying every minute. Even Hooty was busy talking to the spider that weaving a web in small window right next to the door.
'Why the write a essay must be so complicated?' Luz wondered, gnawing on the end of plastic pen before her thought ceased as the door was kicked open.
"Leave this boring homework and get ready to leave. We're going on a trip!" Eda shouted as she made her way into the owl house, ignoring Hooty's attempts to introduce her to his new spider friend.
"Trip?" Luz bolted up into a standing position, holding King in her arms. "Where?"
"The Motionless Bowels Swamp."
King yawned and then asked, "Why should we go there?"
"Because some rich nerd'd pay me 50,000 snails just for a potion of Entoloma Milkcap. And this swamp is the only place where we can find it."
"Is the Motionless Bowels Swamp anything like the Knee?" Luz asked.
"Yeah." The witch nodded.
The human girl smiled as she put a small demon down and begin looking for her messenger bag.
King just jumped on the couch, settling himself at the pillow before closed his eyes. "I'm going to nap. And when you come back, you can tell me all about your trip."
"Nope," Eda reaches over and picked King up by the scruff of his neck, eliciting a little squeal from the diminutive demon. "You're coming too."
"Me?" King shouted as she put him down. "Why?!"
"Because last time when I left you alone with Hooty. You "borrowed" a magic potion I made to bring your toys to life. And then you two make the most plush carnage in the living room."
"You don't understand what we've been through that day!" Hooty blurted out in his shrill voice, his face slipped through the window. Then he looked at the small demon. "We should do this again, King! So we can have a another bonding moment. Hoot hoot!
"On second thought, I think you two might need a brave demon to accompany." King said as he walked away from Hooty.
"That's the spirit." Eda said as she opened the door, summoning her staff and having Luz and King hope on.
The Motionless Bowels Swamp was flat, large wet forest in elevation on the left bank of the River Gut. The air was full to the brim with moisture, and thick steam was rising from every surface. Various shades of green covered everything, making it almost impossible to tell where the ground stopped and the trees started.
"Wow, this place smells worse than I'd expected." King frowned as they jumped off the staff. Luz looked up at the thick canopy of vines and branches overhead that all but blotted out the sky.
"So, what does Entoloma Milkcap look like?" Luz asked.
"It have a very distinctive appearance which certainly stands out from the boggy plants."
The Owl Lady just reached into her hair and pulled out a rolled up piece of paper, then unfurled and presented it to Luz. The plant looks nearly identical to the bladderworts. The only difference was that the Entoloma Milkcap has pure white flower in the shape of a nonagon.
"But you have to be careful not mistake it for a very similar flowering plant. The Deadly Sting, which paralyzes at the slightest touch." Eda said then put the scroll back in her hair and walked through the dense. "Now. Let's go to find it."
"How do you know this is a good direction?" Luz as they followed after her.
"I don't know," Eda answered. "But even a bad direction is better than no direction."
An two hours later, they were still walking through the swamp.
"I'm tired. Can we just take five minutes?" King asked as they neared a small clearing. This place was dryer and the trees were mostly covering the sky and the only light came from the fireflies. Well, those, and the eyes of the many swamp creature in water.
"No." Eda answered affirmatively.
"As a king, I'm ordering that it's time for a break!" King said strictly as he sat down rather hard on the trunk of the uprooted tree.
Then a sound like crunching twigs made the demon almost jump out of his skin. He looked around, searching for the source of the noise.
It was big turtle; it had blue-green skin with darker patches, small eyes, and brown feet that have three claws each. It also had a large shell covering its back. There was a single, oak-like white tree and two mushrooms growing around the outermost ridges.
"AAAAAHHHHH!" King screamed as he hide behind Eda, grabbing her dress in fear. "Monster! Eda kill it!"
"You have nothing to fear. It's just turtle." She said as the turtle came closer. "They are very curious and enjoy the company of witches."
"So you just want to a little company?" Luz asked and gently stroked turtle's nose. The turtle nuzzled her, and she couldn't help but smile.
'Now, where did that turtle come from?' Eda thought, keeping in mind that this kind of turtle feeding on plants, especially this one that plants they are looking for.
Turning to Owlbert, Eda gave him a look that he understood, and he flew off in the direction from which the turtle came. She followed with Luz and King close behind. A loud hoot signaled that Owlbert had found something. They came to what looked like a rock covered in vines.
"Where is Owlbert?" Luz asked. The small group was confused. Owlbert wasn't there, and this place looked like a dead end.
But a hoot seemed to echo from behind the vines. Reaching out, the Owl Lady realized they were concealing the entrance to a tunnel. She slipped inside with teenager and demon following, and they walked on until they reemerged in the daylight. They saw Owlbert fly past hooting, and as they followed his path, that's when they saw it.
A manor standing in the middle of a field, surrounded by high cliffs. The gravel driveway to the manor house was wide and has a large neglected hedge curving alongside it. The east side of the house was planted with plants and trees.
"The mysterious manor hidden in the swamp." Luz was excited about their discovery. And then let her imagination run wild as keep talking. "Maybe it's a secret base. And some mythical warriors, invisible to unworthy mortals, that are half-human, half-angel evil creature slayers living here."
"Your terrible books with the flowery language spoiling your head, kid. There's no such thing as the half-angels hunters." Eda's words easily killed Luz's weird image of this place.
"Plus, this building appears to be deserted." King said.
"Which means nobody won't mind if we get inside." said Eda.
They began walking until they were in front of the door. The large double door was damaged - one door leaf had multiple bite and claw marks, the other was lying on the floor. The trio ignored it and entered the manor.
The ground floor was big, the walls were mainly white with sections of gray marble and black details. The long vines hanging from the ceiling. The wooden floor was very cracked, and in some places, a small plants grew.
A slight wind entered the room through the broken windows, regulating the musty smell.
"Whoever lived here was one of these rich sad loners." Eda walked up the staircase, her staff at the ready, with the human and demon following close behind.
They came to an area with few doors.
"That's an impressive door. It's gotta go somewhere." The witch open the three doors down from the corridor entrance to find circular room.
It was infirmary—a huge room with an arched wooden ceiling with murals. Vines wrapped around the furniture, splitting the floorboards they had managed to grow through.
"What's this?" Luz asked, speaking more to herself than to them as she walked over to the windowsill. She ran his finger along a powdery-looking substance that covered the sill and put it in her mouth.
"Salt," she said, truly amazed. "There's salt. On the window!"
"It's on all the windows." Eda said that like it wasn't weird. "But we're not looking for the salt. We need to find a Entoloma Milkcap."
"I found it!" King said before he climbed up Eda's body, pointing in front of them.
Eda and Luz followed the finger.
There it was, on the top of the huge mahogany desk covered with ivy, shimmering moss and fascinating fungi, grow the Entoloma Milkcap plant.
The witch very quickly moved to the desk.
"Come to mama," The Owl Lady said as she drew a magic circle to get the plant.
"Mission accomplished." Luz said with smile, walking slowly to her mentor. She hardly take a step without tripping over a vines and trying to avoid put her feet on the cracked spot on the floor.
'How is this floor still hold the weight of our bodies?' She thought.
As if on cue, a deep crack opened up beneath her. She wasn't quick enough to get away.
The witch and a demon turned around and saw Luz falling through the wooden floor before a loud thump and a faint 'I'm okay!' could be heard.
"Where are you?" Eda asked, walking up to the hole.
"I don't know. It's pretty dark down here."
King leaned over the hole and dropped small rock into the hole.
"Wow, that was at least three seconds deep." He said before lost his footing and fell into the hole.
"I'm alright! I landed on Luz!"
Luz pulled out light glyph, tapping it with her thumb so she was holding ball of light. She made four more orbs, King perched on her shoulder, the two look at the room.
The dark brown bricks make up the walls of the huge room. It was something between the library and the basement full of useless garbage.
"I like this room." Eda said as she landed next to them.
"Oh! Treasure" King hopped to the ground, looking through the pile of knick-knacks.
Eda join him in one minute while Luz walk across the room.
The library room was hexagon, unlike the room abowe, and the shelves don't seem to have names. Most of the books lined on the wall were too big for a human girl to pull down, and the interesting ones she's seen don't have titles, or titles Luz can understand.
However, she noticed a few other things which she find interesting and put them in her bag.
Luz was in the midst of a watching a book with an ever-changing design on the cover when Eda came up to her.
"Alright, we're going home." Eda decided, discarding a some old trophy with a scoff. "It's only trash, and not even the good trash.
"You found the Entoloma Milkcap. So, we don't go home empty-handed." Luz enthusiastically replied that seemed to have made Eda smile a bit.
"Well, it's better than nothing." The witch agreed and then turned around to shouted. "King, where are you? We are back!"
"I'm here. It wasn't easy but I've found a precious worthy of a great demon." King jumped out of the pile of garbage and he pulled something from the pile, a rather old trunk with large padlock. It was a bigger than the small demon.
About an three hours later Eda and Luz sat on the couch in the Owl House, watching King smacked a baseball bat down on the iron padlock.
"Come on! Open up! The King of Demons commands you to open up!" said King, speaking each word as the baseball bat hit the padlock.
"Now!" The demon hit the padlock, one more time. And the baseball just split in half.
King threw it to the ground and started screaming in a high pitch like a tea kettle steaming.
"NYYYYYEEEEEHHHH!"
Eda bust out laughing while King get on all fours and charged at the trunk like an angry bull, still screaming in such a high pitch. Only to bounce off the trunk and fall on his back.
"I never get tired of that squeak of rage." The witch said as she wiped a tear from her eye with a snort.
Then a small demon scrabbled to his feet and ran over to them like a child running to his parent.
"Eda! I demand that you opened this padlock, so I can sack this trunk of all the treasures that's inside."
"Fine, I'll open it." She pulled out a pair of bobby-pins and picked up the trunk.
"Yes! All the secret treasures of the trunk will be mine." King laughed manically, rubbing his paws together.
"But I want 85 percent of your 'treasure'." Eda added and smirked at the glare the demon shot her.
"This treasure belong to me!"
"Then open it yourself, Mr. Wiggles."
King let out a another squeak of rage before said the deal's on.
And a few seconds later Eda unlocked the trunk and threw open the lid. Inside were few vials of silver dust, old tarot cards, sickle with engraved the triquetra symbol, some weird herbs, rainbow bismuth crystal, and a bunch of old cloth.
"I was hoping for something much more valuable than this. Thought it might be worth something." She picked up a one of vials and put trunk on Luz's lap.
Just to be sure, though, Luz dug around in the trunk to see if there was anything else. And there was.
She found a square object wrapped in an old white fabric. She unfolded the fabric and inside was an old book tied with ribbon and a black-gold seal on the front. Under the ribbon was a note.
The book was covered in comfortably worn dark brown leather. On the front and back cover, there was a golden design that look like a snake in a circular; but what made it absolutely unique was a sphere of dark glass with a swirling light inside it, that was inserted in the book cover.
'I've never seen a book like this before.' Luz thought and opened the note.
On the front was the word WARNING!
Inside it said:
DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!
No one should be reading this book. There is nothing in this book that is of value to you, and I promise you that nothing good will come from trying to delve further into it.
This is your only warning. Do not read this book. Find something else to becoming more powerful, or find something else to enact your terrible revenge.
Because if you take one fateful look, you barter at your life's expense, and face a deadly consequence.
King crawled up Luz and peered over her shoulder to see what was written on the note.
"So this book is dangerous and probably contains information of strike fear in the heart of any living being." King stated before he started wagging his tail excitedly. "I want to read it!"
"No!" Luz exclaimed as she kept the book away from King, holding it over her head.
"As the King of demons, I order you to get that book."
"This book have a big warning that said "Do not read it"." She tried to put the book back in the trunk only to lost it as Eda take that book out of girls' hands.
"And that is why we are going to do this." Eda said and opened the seal and the ribbon. As she did this, the book shook violently, and lit up a purplish-red light.
"AAH!" The witch just suddenly screamed in pain and threw book on the floor.
When it hit the floor, it made this loud clanging sound. Luz swore she could have heard something roaring in the distance. King let out a little squeak and hid in Eda's hair.
The book flapped upwards violently, a jolt of energy was released, but then book just fell back to the ground and became silent. And the glow of purplish-red slowly extinguish like a flame.
"What was that?" Luz finally asked after the prolonged silence.
Eda grabbed a broomstick and poked the book with it. "Well... it's over, anyway."
King poked his head out from the witch's silver mane. "I changed my mind, no reading."
Chapter end, Next chapter is on it's way. Feel free to give me the good, bad and ugly in comments. I'd appreciate any review.
I'm also new in this Fandom. So... I'm sorry if anything feels out of character. And If you have any feedback on how to properly create a good fanfiction story, please tell me that would be very appreciated