It was an unusually cheery Monday morning. Well, it was for Luz at least, she was excited to get to school and excited to ask Amity to meet up with her. So excited, in fact, that she was literally the first student at the school, arriving just as the sun peeked up above the horizon. The anticipation was getting to Luz just a little so she decided to get a script together. She began rehearsing to a stone pillar "Something like 'Hey I know we haven't talked in a bit but I have something I want to show you after school'". Yeah! She liked the sound of that, casual, nonchalant, but to convey enough enthusiasm to perhaps convince her to waste an afternoon with her. She nodded and looked through her folder making sure all the glyphs were there. She ran through them, remembering all the tests she did to perfect them. She was absolutely filled with nervous eagerness as she sat on the front steps of Hexide, waiting for Amity. As students started to trickle in, Luz greeted them all cheerfully while scanning the crowd for the face of the youngest Blight. As the start of classes got closer and Amity still hadn't shown up Luz went inside to her locker slightly disappointed. She figured Amity was out sick or on some fancy smart girl field trip. There was always tomorrow she supposed.
Amity had woken up late. She'd mastered all the spells she discovered and was planning on using to get to space. She was confident in her casting ability and the satisfaction of completing such high level skills with such mastery had lulled her body into a deep, content, sleep. Something she hadn't had since before Grom. She awoke to the sun in the sky, and her twin siblings leaving for school. She groaned internally there was no way she was going to ruin her perfect attendance. She raced down the stairs casting on her uniform and magicking her books into her bag. She began racing toward Hexide, using a propulsion spell she'd learned for her planned space trip. On her way she thought about how to ask Luz to accompany her on witch-kind's first excursion to space. She barely noticed when she sped by her siblings sneaking off the path, no doubt trying to prank her. She arrived at Hexide with minutes to spare. She saw an uncharacteristically solemn Luz, gathering her things from her locker. It was Amity's chance to approach! Her chance to ask out Luz. but she never got the chance.
Luz turned around and her face immediately brightened. A causation that Amity was oblivious to, preoccupied as she was with her flustered blushing. Luz quickly approached Amity and stood pretty close before talking. "Amity! She said on her way over "just the sour lemon drop of a witch I wanted to see" Amity blushed, she missed being close to Luz, she had longed for her cute pet names and she loved seeing her face so close. Amity was mentally kicking herself for keeping her distance these past few weeks. Luz was a little off-guard too, she was already off script but the excitement of seeing Amity with news to share had completely occupied whatever mental space was available. "Anyways I've got something I want to show you! Wanna meet me at The Knee after school?"
Amity stared at Luz, confident that she had just said something but not having a clue in the realm what. But Amity had to say something, even if it was meaningless. She could feel the heat rising on her cheeks. "Uhhh-" Amity began "yeah i've been meaning to talk to you too" she said and before Luz could respond the bell rang. Amity was literally saved by the bell. As Amity turned to walk to her first class Luz waved after her and yelled "see you on The Knee after school then" Amity secretly thanked whichever of her lucky stars had made Luz repeat herself because knowing that's what she agreed to she would've been mortified had she stood up the cute human like that.
Luz spent the rest of the day bubbling with energy, even more so than usual. She was raising her hand for every question during class, even when she didn't know the answer. She was complimenting everyone's clothes, their hairstyle, their eyes, anything really. Luz brightened many people's day with her extroverted remarks that day. Luz was just so happy, her weeks of hard work were going to pay off and impress Amity. She was over the moon, and by the end of the day she'd be on it.
Amity spent the rest of the day trying to fight the butterflies metamorphosing in her stomach. She tried so hard to keep her mind on her studies but she couldn't help wondering how the night would go. Amity wondered what Luz was going to do on The Knee, Amity wondered what SHE was going to do on The Knee. her magic was ready, all it would take is for Luz to trust Amity. Amity had no doubts that Luz would trust easily, that was one of the things she loved. Amity had to make sure she sold it, to make sure that she swept Luz off of her feet. Tonight on The Knee was a perfect opportunity to do that. Amity's stomach sank for what must've been the thirtieth time that class as she wondered if her siblings would try to pull anything. Amity sighed and figured if that were to be, it's not like she could do much about it. Luz wouldn't have cared either way.
The menagerie of characters surrounding the couple could feel that the air was different. The first clue to the Blight siblings was the propulsion magic Amity used to blow past them this morning. They had looked at eachother and without needing to really say anything agreed to follow Amity after school. Or try to, they were seriously impressed at that propulsion magic.
Willow and Gus noted the over-the-top optimism oozing from Luz. Even for her it was a little much, Willow loved her friend but sometimes the cheerfulness could get a little overwhelming. Gus on the other hand felt perfectly whelmed, enjoying the unnecessary ego boost that having someone compliment your bow tie brings. They both, being privy to Luz's plan, wanted their friend to succeed.
After an eternity School let out. Amity sped to the top of The Knee using her rather handy propulsion spell. She was slightly wary of draining all of her magic, but even more wary of her prankster siblings of ruining things. Though it might've been a big risk Amity wasn't exactly thinking straight. The weight of what she was trying to attempt weighed on her shoulders and she knew that failure might actually kill them both. That'd be mortifying. Was she really willing to risk her life and make the history books just to impress her high school crush? Amity shook her head and waited for Luz, those butterflies still not under control and the blood rushing to her cheeks every few minutes as thoughts of that loveable dork entered her head.
Luz began hiking up the Knee as soon as she bid adieu to Gus and Willow. On her way up the mountain she was careful not to anger any wildlife. She went over her plan one last time, giant ice glyph to elevator up to the moon, fire spell to melt their way out, walk with Amity around on the moon and show her all of the pretty plants she put up there just for her. Then they'd stargaze and then Luz would ask Amity out. It'd be perfect!
Amity saw Luz first, not knowing what to do about it she turned around and pretended to be admiring the scenery. It was nice scenery, green luscious plants contrasting with white snow. Amity couldn't think about that though, she couldn't think about the baby blue sky or the perfect white clouds. All she could think of was Luz's brown eyes and hair, her caramel skin. Her smooth voice.
"Amity!" Luz's voice rang out so loud In Amity's thoughts the entire island might've heard it.
Amity somehow was caught off guard. "Ah Luz! What's up!" she said standing up to greet Luz.
Luz loved snow, she could tackle and hug anybody on it and nature's cuddly cushion was there to prevent injuries. So that's what she did, she hugged Amity to the ground. The snow gave a satisfying soft crunch as they landed together and Amity gave a satisfying slight "oh".
Luz giggled, bounced to her feet and offered Amity a hand up. Amity gratefully accepted and stood up. "What's going on-?" Amity asked very off balance, her cheeks were warm but she knew she'd be able to pass the blame to that off to the cold. Amity sweeped off the snow from her uniform shivering slightly, unsure of exactly what was going on.
Luz blushed, and with a shrug she said "sorry about that i've just been so busy and I missed you I guess."
Amity flushed a deeper shade of red. She was internally freaking out about being missed. She was at a loss of words again. Amity came to the conclusion that sooner was better than later when it came to showing off her weeks of work. After an awkward silence she began to try and respond. "What a coincidence, I too-"
But Luz cut her off, clearly a little nervous she began to explain why she'd called Amity up to the Knee. "so i've been working on something- eep" Luz clamped her mouth shut as she realized she cut Amity off. "Sorry" she whispered.
Amity laughed, "no it's fine go ahead and say what you need to you've got my full attention"
Luz was unsure, "are you sure? I can wait. My thing is- well it's pretty big"
Amity scoffed slightly, 'She has no idea' Amity thought. The universe scoffed 'she has no idea' the universe thought. Amity placated Luz "no seriously it's fine, you called me up here remember"
Slightly reluctantly Luz began, she took a big breath and then began to talk very quickly "well these past few weeks i've been working on a big magical project and I want to show it to you OH-WAIT" she yelled the last two words.
"What is it?" a panicked Amity looks around. She didn't quite catch every word of that, her brain was still working through everything Luz had just babbled out.
Luz looked uncharacteristically sheepish. "Um… Amity… Do you trust me?" Luz asked
Amity blinked and had to refrain from gushing too much about just how much she did trust Luz. "uhh-yeah?" was all she said instead.
"Ok, ok, I want to surprise you," Luz said. hesitantly she added. "Can you close your eyes?"
Amity blushed. She was completely thrown for a loop. Whatever was happening was not what she expected. Amity thought about it, she wasn't even sure what she did expect. Amity reluctantly closed her eyes. "Ok" she said softly.
"And no peeking!" Luz's tone had switched to accusatory.
Amity giggled, she couldn't help it. "And no peeking" she repeated.
"Alright then I'm going to lay down some glyphs and then cast them" Luz said explaining what she's doing so Amity knows she's still there. Luz placed down her outer shell of powerful ice glyphs. They were now in a small cage of ice columns that was airtight and reached all the way to the moon. Luz threw up a paper and tapped it, an ice roof over their heads so that if they crash landing into the moon wouldn't kill them. It was pitch black so Luz casted a regular light glyph for light. Luz carefully placed her final spell in the center of the cylindrical ice room. "Okay Amity I want you to keep your eyes closed and come-" Luz pulled Amity's arm slightly and positioned them both in the middle of the room. "Okay and boop" Luz casted the powerful multi-tiered ice spell that should propel their room all the way to the moon. Luz clung onto Amity, bracing herself for impact.
SHWOOOM Luz and Amity were launched into the air, higher higher and higher still.
Amity shrieked out of instinct. "Luz! What's going on" Amity's eyes were shut tight and she hugged Luz tight, scared.
Luz was excited, everything was going to plan. As they were being launched into the air, her instincts took over. She screamed "whee" like she was on a rollercoaster at the county fair. Of course, they weren't at a regulated roller coaster, they were on an amateur witch's space elevator to the moon.
"Don't worry Amity! We're almost there!" Luz said as she began to feel weightless. She did a flip and guided herself and Amity to be positioned so that they'd land on their feet when the moon's gravity took hold of them.
By chance Emira Blight was looking out of her window, wondering where her little sister had gotten off to when a giant Ice pillar shot out of The Knee. Her mouth dropped open and her shock psychically summoned her twin brother. Edrich burst into their shared room and rushed to the window. His eyebrows practically leapt off of his face. Silently they came to a conclusion, whether it was Amity or Luz, those crazy kids were actually going to space. Then the column of ice reached the moon. They shared one last look and began laughing. Then a faint shattering occurred and a light snow began to fall on the boiling isles in the middle of the summer. The end of the column of ice had shattered and the moon didn't look worse for wear. Though it did look…. Slightly green.
The air trapped above them and between the moon had saved their lives, just as Luz had planned. The air pressure had stopped their ascent and shattered the wall of ice surrounding her 'elevator'. What she hadn't planned on was the intense change of gravity knocking her out temporarily. Though she had lost consciousness she hadn't fallen down, Amity was clinging to her like a sloth to a tree. Luz glad she hadn't bungled the reveal covered Amity's eyes with her hands and removed herself from Amity's clutches.
"L-Luz?" Amity's voice sounded scared though she was obviously trying to keep her regal tone.
"It's worked!" Luz practically yelled, elated beyond belief. "I mean it's fine! Are you ready to see the coolest thing of your life?" Luz asked excitedly.
"Uhh I guess" Amity asked, a little unsure.
Luz removed her hands from Amity's eyes." Open up and behold" Luz said dramatically.
Amity opened her eyes and took in the scenery. The ground was a ghostly pale, the flora was colorful, the night was perfectly clear, without any clouds at all. Amity whipped around and turned on her heel coming face to face with Luz. Normally this would send Amity in a blushing mess but she was mostly just astounded. Astounded at the audacity and the execution. Astounded at the awesomeness of the feat and of the technical know how required to pull it off.
"Luz.." Amity began carefully. "Are we on the- where are we?" Amity asked softly in amazement.
"On the moon!" Luz chirped with excitement. Something about a plan escaping her head she suggested. "Let me show you around!"