Amity held up her index finger . "The moon?" Amity stared at Luz in disbelief. Amity looked around, the landscape was strange, the ground was sandy, the sky was pitch black, and she felt very light. But there were plants everywhere, there were clouds in the sky and she wasn't frozen. This couldn't be the moon. "nothing i've read about the moon-" which had been a considerable amount over the past weeks. "Mentioned Plants! Or Air or…. Anything"
Luz grinned. "Well your textbooks didn't meet me" She said confidently. Seeing the continued confusion on Amity's face Luz explained. "Well you see, I heated the moon remotely to such a degree that it released gas from between the rocks creating an atmosphere and reheated the magma in the core"
As she explained more and more Amity bent down, it was warmer on the surface.
Luz continued "I then put a lot of water in the form of Ice here to cool it off from the sun. then I planted plants"
Amity looked in amazement at the novice witch with a whole new level of respect. "That's really smart," Amity said, finding it impossible to keep the surprise and respect from her voice. "So, You've been here before?" she was fairly certain at least someone would've seen giant ice columns.
Luz shook her head "no i shot the spells using thin ice columns and a delay spell I made then monitored the results remotely using oracle magic."
That's right! She's on multiple tracks Amity thought to herself. "That's seriously impressive," Amity repeated, her heart quickening slightly. "I-I could've helped you" she offered tentatively
Luz shook her head "Willow tried to help me, with the plants especially, but I had to figure out all the glyphs myself." Luz said dismissively "Besides I did this for you! It wouldn't be any good for you to help in your own surprise" Luz stopped and blushed in a rare moment of self control. "Never mind, I'll tell you more about that later, let's just" Luz shrugged and gestured to the entirety of the satellite. "Take a look around?" She asked.
Amity had to sit down, her mind was swimming. She was on the moon. The literal actual moon. She felt nauseous. Maybe from the ride up being so chaotic or from being so close natural and powerful magic. She wasn't sure what it was but she could feel its might. Amity looked around and began to make her way toward a crater with a large rock in it that looked perfect for sitting on. But as she tried to walk it became apparent to her that on the moon movement would be much more difficult than on earth. She smirked just a little bit and invited Luz "Let's go sit on that rock over there!" she said a slightly devious plan forming in her mind.
Luz nodded in agreement and amity couldn't help but grin. Luz had her chance to show off, and show off she did, but now it was Amity's turn. She made a circle in the air with her fingers and cast her propulsion spell and sped over to the desired rock. As she reached the rock she waved back to Luz "Hey!"
Luz waved back "coming!" Luz plowed ahead determined not to make a complete buffoon of herself. Her steps were oblong and funky, taking her three feet into the air and then plopping her down embarrassingly close to where she had started from. Luz did take a moment to appreciate the elegance of Amity's propulsion spell, turns out Amity was better prepared than Luz, as per usual, even in space. Luz closed her eyes and tried to think of something that would propel her half as well as that spell. She flipped through her folder of glyphs and found one for an ivy spike that she had developed to play grudgby with. She figured that almost any of her spells should do and as she landed she cast the glyph. A vine whipped out of the moon and immediately propelled her towards Amity's rock. Fast. too late she realized that she should've chosen a smaller glyph. she screamed and slammed into the rock.
As she fell very slowly toward the moon Luz looked up at Amity trying to suppress a giggle. Amity wasn't being mean spirited; she knew that but she still felt really embarrassed. Luz trying to at least build up a little romantic spirit tried the flirtiest line she could think of. "Wow, you knocked me off my feet" she said to amity hoping to encourage that laugh. If she's laughing i'll have enough time to emotionally recover from this embarrassment before asking her out officially Luz thought.
Amity chuckled and blushed. Mission accomplished. Amity then helped Luz onto the rock. Amity was touched that Luz endangered herself to come sit with her on a rock. Amity knew humans were fragile.
Luz climbed up onto Amity's Sitting rock and scooted next to Amity. "So what do you think?" Luz practically begged for an answer with her giant brown puppy dog eyes.
Amity looked around and said "this is great" sounding defeated. "I do feel slightly nauseous -"
Luz's cheeks tinged red for a moment, thinking that the ride up hadn't been super smooth. Luz interjected quickly "Sorry" She said.
Amity waived her hand dismissively and continued. "But I feel closer to magic here, it's weird. It's like being on The Knee times a thousand. It feels like i'm close to nature even though this" she gestured to a nearby plant "is all artificial"
Luz nodded, this wasn't really the conversation she wanted to be having right now but she indulged her friend. "Yeah i know what you mean, i can make out so many new glyphs here" she picked at a bit of rock and held it for Amity to inspect.
Amity didn't even bother, her eyes were trained on the moon's sky. Dark and mysterious, still an unknown factor. Amity decided her surprise could wait a little longer. She wanted to spend a little time here on Luz's project. To appreciate it. To appreciate her. Amity hopped off the rock and as she was floating down offered her hand to Luz "let's go exploring, I'll guide us around" Amity said as seductively as she'd ever said anything.
Luz blushed. Wasn't Luz supposed to be taking Amity out? But Luz took Amity's hand anyways and held on tightly.
Amity grabbed Luz on the waist and eased into her propulsion magic. The task wasn't draining any of her magic at all, at least it didn't seem that way. Amity guided the pair around the moon and it's artificial wildlife. There weren't any animals so it was weirdly silent. Amity was seriously in awe of her friend's work. She felt Luz was always saying and doing outrageous things claiming to want to achieve the impossible. The pure technical know-how required to do this, amity recognized, is pretty immense and she'd reckon that most grown witches couldn't even think about starting a project like this. Amity was reconsidering just how she viewed Luz. Amity had never had anything but respect for Luz, after that mess at the library of course, but now she was seriously considering the fact that she had just plainly and simply underestimated the human.
Amity was strolling around making all the requisite oohs and ahhs but in reality she was looking for something. No matter how good Luz had- what had she called it? - terraformed the Moon there had to be a large open spot somewhere right?. Though she was on a bit of an autopilot mode she was still in amazement. Everything felt so clear up here. Her magic. Her life. She could look up into the sky and see the boiling isles on the planet above. That really put everything in perspective. She realized what the most important thing to her was. And she also realized that she could hold it just a little bit closer. So she did.
Luz noticed Amity began to hold her closer. Slightly confused but certainly not complaining, Luz decided there was no time like the present to tell Amiy exactly why she had decided to completely change the moon. But before she had a chance to even speak up Amity came to a halt in the middle of a clearing. Amity separated herself from Luz and Luz found herself missing the Witch's warmth.
Amity was simultaneously missing Luz's warmth as well. Amity was trying to get up the nerves to try and show Luz just what she was working on. Amity cleared her throat. "So Luz, I love this and all and i'm not anxious to get back to the boiling Isles. But uhh how are we gonna get home?"
Luz began to speak and then as if something had taken the words and the breath from her lungs she faltered. "Uhhhh" Luz blushed in embarrassment again. A little late to realize she couldn't exactly use the same imprecise elevator method to get back to the isles. "Oof i uhhh-"
Amity raised an eyebrow. Luz had seemed so prepared. Old habits die hard, she guessed. "Don't worry about it now, I can take care of it if it's a problem" Amity said with confidence.
Tension visibility escaped Luz's body. Luz raised a hand to apologize for her fool-heartedness but before she even got a word out Amity had decided to try and surprise her in turn. Amity blushed and glanced at Luz. "So I actually prepared a surprise for you too," Amity said abashedly.
Luz's eyes went wide, hoping for a goody bag or some baked goods or something like that. "Cool!" Luz said with tons of enthusiasm. Her previous worries erased her mind.
Amity cast her eyes down, Luz was too cute with that face. "Well, you had me close my eyes for mine so would you?" Amity made a gesture where she wiped her hand in front of her face and closed her eyes as she made the request.
Luz nodded eagerly Closing her eyes and turning around Amity was left to do her magic. "This might take a bit of time" Amity said in a warning and apologetic fashion.
Amity set to work, summoning iron then lots of sand with some small spell circles. Then she began to heat the iron, which heated the sand. The sand began to turn to molten glass, forming around the large hump of metal. Amity summoned more sand, and the glass grew thicker. The molten glass bubbled through the outer cooler glass creating even thicker and thicker glass. Then she transformed the inside metal into waves- a trick that required intense use of magic and incredible skill. The metal was then dispersed throughout space. Amity breathed glad that the hard part was over. She caught her breath and enjoyed the cool breeze of the moon. Now to teleport the pair into her makeshift spaceship.
Luz's anticipation was building with every minute that passed. She heard such interesting sounds. Sizzles and pops, cracks and plops, whirrs and bloops. She couldn't imagine what sort of present Amity was cooking up. She wondered what sort of present the witch had prepared. If it was really difficult maybe that was the reason Amity hadn't talked to her in weeks? Maybe they were both so involved in creating an elaborate gift for each other that even just talking seemed too distracting. Luz hoped that was the case, it would be so romantic.
"Alright Luz, You might feel a little weird but don't worry" Amity's voice rang out against the deafening silence of space.
Amity drew in a breath and concentrated. The spell wasn't difficult but it was dangerous. Especially in space, well she didn't really know how that might interact with her magic but it couldn't help. Amity spun in place using her hands to cast a spell circle. In the next instant, Luz and Amity were on top of one another in a spacious glass bubble.
"Keep them Closed!" Amity half shouted as she prepared her propulsion spell. It was time for blastoff.
But it was too late Luz was opening her eyes. In her defence, you try getting teleported without opening your eyes immediately afterwards. Not the easiest thing to do. Especially when you get teleported on top of the girl you colonized the moon for. The surprise however was not ruined. As Amity propelled the spaceship away from the moon Luz couldn't help herself but press her nose to the glass and watch as the moon began to shrink. "Woah" was all she had to say.
Amity was pleased with herself, she executed each spell flawlessly, and wasn't even drained. It was weird, her magic seemed to have been helped along by not being on the boiling isles. If anything she would've expected the opposite. Well, it was no matter, it was time to enjoy the fruits of her labor. Sure space was cool but what she was really interested in seeing was Luz's reaction to the stars. Sure enough, as they floated through empty space Luz's face was filled with wonder, joy and appreciation.
Amity chuckled. If this was their first date what would their second be like. Then it occurred to her, they weren't actually dating yet. "Hey Luz?" she prodded gently.
Luz turned to face the truly magical girl that had made her a proper(ish) spaceship. "Yeah?" Luz asked innocently. Staring at the pale girl sitting cross legged in the transparent ship, Luz decided to mimic and sat down in the same style and looked Amity in the eyes.
Amity blushed, the direct eye contact was strangely endearing though. "Umm well I did a lot of work to bring you up here, I mean you helped a lot getting us to the moon but I could've gotten us up here from the boiling isles- anyways I was wondering, you know, just like, if you wanted to hang out more? As like… more than friends?" Amity was REALLY nervous, she hoped she hadn't talked for too long. she was suddenly self conscious of her sweat and body odor, her breath and her slightly wrinkled Hexide uniform. All things that were much more noticeable in close quarters and in the vastness of space.
Luz gasped. "OH MY GOD AMITY!" Luz practically squealed becoming the loudest thing in literal miles. She went to hug amity and then separated herself to speak. Luz took a deep breath and began talking "First of all: Yes." Luz said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Then she continued "I wanted to ask you the same thing on the moon! I wanted to show you I was strong enough to date you!"
Amity swooned "Oh Luz! You didn't need to do that!" Amity was touched that the human thought she had to prove something to be her girlfriend. Looking back on it, Amity might've had similar reasons for creating Witch-kind's first ever space ship.
Luz rolled her eyes "yeah, now you tell me!". Then she giggled. Then she started bouncing off the walls of the very small spacecraft in excitement. Then she stopped suddenly and turned to face Amity. "How much oxygen do we have left?"
Amity shrugged "about an hour? Less if you don't settle down"
Luz blushed. "Sorry, I'm just kinda- excited" she eyed Amity and smiled cluelessly.
Amity figured out the game a second before it happened. Luz embraced Amity in an intense hug.
Amity laughed in relief and joy. "So does this mean we're-?" she didn't finish the question, hoping that Luz would pick up what she was putting down.
Luz nodded enthusiastically and squeezed Amity. "Oh definitely."
Amity sighed, or at least she tried to. Luz's bear grip made that very difficult. "Alright I can't breathe" Amity said and Luz reluctantly released her from the death grip.
To make up for the lack of hugs, amity grabbed Luz's hand and asked for permission with her face. Not hesitating at all Luz interlaced her fingers with Amity's and they were holding hands.
Luz asked hesitantly "can we go back to the boiling isles?"
Amity smiled quizzically. "Why?"
Luz responded sheepishly "I sort of want to tell everyone we're dating now."
Amity smiled, she felt similarly. Amity adjusted the angle of the propulsion "You can just tell me lots of times, i'm having a little bit of trouble believing it.
Luz smiled and didn't say anything, she'd never felt so happy or elated. Which is really saying something because she was always happy. Instead Luz rested her head on Amity's shoulder.
Amity broke the silence. "You know we're the first?" she said softly.
Luz looked confused. "First what?"
"Witches in space. Nobody else has done what we've done." Amity replied proud of herself and of her new girlfriend.
"Weird," Luz said uncharacteristically contemplative. The demon realm came into view and grew larger. "People go to space back on earth occasionally."
Amity was curious about that but she was more curious about getting more hugs from her new girlfriend. Amity leaned her head on top of Luz's which was still on her shoulder. Luz was grateful for the warmth on her ear. The spaceship didn't have any heating.
Eda had to be sneaky. She was immensely curious as to the identity of the idiot that casted a giant ice pillar on the boiling isles. So were the official brats from the emperor's coven. Eda hid in a bush and listened to what she assumed was an official report from an emperor's coven grunt to a superior.
"Multiple instances of a simple ice spell casted on an elevated level, no witches in the area, no suspects as of yet". The grunt joined half a dozen others in casting a fire spell melting down the ice pillar.
Eda raised her eyebrows. Whoever did this might've been behind the other boiling isles pranks. Summoning a sun illusion spell at the same spot, turning the moon green. Eda grinned, she had to meet this witch. As Eda got up to leave, figuring there wasn't much more to learn something caught her eye. A small piece of paper. Eda had to hold her hand over her mouth. The idiot behind this was her idiot! Her heart swelled with pride, she'd have to do something nice for that girl. Eda looked up and something else caught her eye. A shooting star that seemed to be getting awfully close to where her house was. Eda left in a hurry.
The ship Lumity came into the demon realm slowly. Or as slowly as you can re-enter the atmosphere. Even with an additional force shield bubble from amity, the ship began to heat up and the outsides melted slightly. At first Amity wanted to guide them towards the knee, but her keen eyesight spotted the emperor's coven folk first. That was a disaster waiting to happen, being associated with that mess might've ruined her future career prospects. Instead, Amity looked for a safe haven and settled on the woods near the owl house.
Luz recognized where they were headed. "Aww you're so sweet, dropping me off at my place" Luz teased. "A true gentleman"
Amity blushed "shut up" she said as she crash landed just outside the owl house. The ship shattered and amity used a wind spell to blow away the glass and put out the fire.
They stood in the clearing for a while, neither of them wanting to say goodbye first. The eye contact was intense. They both wanted a kiss but neither knew if it was the right time for their first kiss.
Amity broke the silence. "It is a school night," she said.
Luz responded quickly. "Right! Of course it is! Are you just gonna go home?"
Amity nodded. "I can use that propulsion spell now, so it's not far for me."
Luz nodded. "Okay yeah then…. Bye?" Luz waved.
Amity smiled. "Yeah, bye" she turned and began to walk into the woods.
Luz watched her leave sadly, missing her already. Just when she thought her silhouette was disappearing Luz realized it was getting bigger again. Then she realized that Amity was coming back! 'SCORE!' Luz thought though she didn't know why amity was coming back so soon.
Amity sped towards her girlfriend as fast as her propulsion spell would take her, tackling Luz to the ground. Payback for all the times it had happened before the other way around. Amity had a twinkle in her eye as she laid on top of Luz.
"Sorry I forgot something," Amity said and winked before kissing the startled Latina on the cheek. "A goodnight kiss" she explained before speeding away, blushing and gushing all the way back to the blight mansion.
Notes: howdy! leave a comment please! i'd love to know what you thought of the story! i'd love to know any tips you have for improving! If you want a change of pace i'm also posting a prequel to my upcoming big project today! it's much less fluffy and more angsty but there's going to be a plot! and also consequences! and most importantly Lumity! ALSO: thank you to user UltimateAvengers for suggesting i include Eda's reaction! I don't know who this lilith character is though. (/s) seriously i'm still angy at her so she doesn't get to be in my fanfic :p
Me: Angst is my passion
Also Me: *writes 15k words of fluff in like two weeks*