Trust no one

Amity was currently staring up at her bedroom ceiling.

Her homework was half complete with the pages laid out beneath her feet, her stomach was growling from the lack of food, and she undoubtedly looked like a mess.

She couldn't focus, thinking of the possible effects her parting words to Luz could have. Maybe Luz would let her explain herself and they'd go back to normal. Or maybe she took those words to heart and Amity might have to live the rest of her life without her. Amity felt her heart ache a little at the thought.

What made the whole ordeal worse was that Luz had just told Amity about her bad experiences with others in the human world, how nobody wanted to be her friend.

Amity lifted herself up, quickly turned around shoving her face into her pillow, and screamed as loud as she could.

She was mad at herself. While her parting words were true she knows she could have at least explained herself, but no. She ran away.

And now Luz is out on her date with Uzair.

Could things get any worse? Amity thought to herself.

Emira busted through her bedroom door. "Amity!"

Of course…

"Amity!" Emira grabbed her by the shoulders, making her sister face her. "You gotta get up!"

"What is it," Amity asked irritably.

"It's Luz, she might be in danger."

The younger Blight's eyes widened, now alert. "What do you mean?"

"Have you heard of the monster attack rumors lately?"

Amity shook her head no, she'd probably been too wrapped up with her current relationship with Luz to pay attention to anything but the human girl and school.

"Apparently people have gone missing late at night at the hands of some monster, but nobody has found any leads."

Amity's brow furrowed, "What does this have to do with Luz?"

"You wanted me to look up Uzair and I did. Well… there are no public records of him. He just appeared out of nowhere yesterday."

"Are you saying that Uzair…"

"He could be the monster."

"And Luz-"

"Could be the next victim."

Amity picked herself up out of bed and stood next to her sister.

"Let's get Edric and get going."

"He's gonna distract Mom and Dad while we're out, you can thank him later."

Amity nodded her head, ready.

We're coming to save you Luz!

"So, where we going," Luz asked.

"You'll see," Uzair answered.

Luz groaned, "Can't you just tell me?"

Uzair laughed, "Nope. That would go against keeping this a surprise."

Luz pouted, crossing her arms. She and Uzair had been walking for about twenty minutes now and have said barely anything to each other. Luz expected a nice walk through the woods with the one who asked her out to be filled with nice idle chit chat, but Uzair said he'd prefer to wait until the date actually started to get to know each other. Which admittedly… irked her, just a tiny bit.

...a date with him could be an absolute nightmare.

Luz shook her head, trying to get Amity's voice out of her subconscious.

With her date being uncooperative in making conversation Luz's eyes wandered to take in the surrounding environment. While one would normally think of walking through the woods at night as scary, Luz found it... enchanting.

Back on Earth the forest was the closest thing she had to the world of Azura. She loved the way the tall trees rustled in the wind, as if they were dancing or speaking to her in an ancient, mythical language. There was a certain charm to the sounds of insects, like there was always a close friend nearby. Luz imagined it was one of nature's forest spirits watching over her.

She liked to think that there was something out there helping her get back home, the amount of times she almost got lost after one of her expeditions was... well it wasn't a good thing. Thankfully she picked up some survival skills because of her deep ventures, learning to backtrack quite efficiently. Her favorite thing about the forest were those special moments when it seemed endless. As if there was something more, something undiscovered just out of sight, like she was just out of reach from a door to a different dimension.

It was definitely better than her boring everyday life of living in plain old Suburbia.

Luz smiled to herself, thankful for this new world she's now a part of. She made a reminder to give Eda another hug when she gets back.

"We're here," Uzair announced proudly.

They were standing near the edge of a cliff overlooking the calm ocean, the moon shining brightly in front of them. The grass trickled her ankles and the wind gently danced across her face. All while the stars above her twinkled brightly in the dark sky.

Luz's eyes widened, she turned around and saw the giant cherry blossom-like tree.

Amity, it's ok. What if I went to Grom with you instead?

This is where Amity saved her from the Grom monster, sacrificing herself and facing her own fear so Luz didn't have to. It was where she shared her first dance with Amity, working together to destroy the horrid beast, producing this beautiful tree in the process. Their tree...

Luz suddenly felt a little nauseous. This place felt sacred, as if it was very wrong to be here without Amity.

"Hey-"

"Tada!"

Luz turned around and saw Uzair standing in front of a picnic set for two.

"This place makes for a great first date, don't you think?"

Luz chuckled nervously, not knowing what to say.

"Now just wait right here, I'm going to go and get something and then we can get this date started."

Uzair ran off into the woods before Luz could protest. She sighed in defeat as he quickly escaped her sight, sitting down on the blanket…

Thinking about a certain green-haired girl.

"C'mon Emira, Luz needs us!"

Amity and Emira were swiftly making their way through the woods. They had been running nonstop for the past twenty minutes and it seemed Emira was starting to lose steam. Her longer legs had kept her in front of her younger sister, but while Amity's drive to protect Luz kept her going at her top speed, Emira was now starting to lag behind.

"You need to pace yourself Amity, you won't be much help to Luz if you're too tired to do anything when you get to her."

"Don't you worry about me, I've got plenty of stamina left to deal with that monster," Amity replied.

In truth she felt like her lungs were about to burst and her legs were made of jelly. But Amity could care less. All she needed were her arms to summon her abomination and her voice to command it to attack.

Once I get my hands on him I swear I'll…

Amity came to a screeching halt. There, about twenty feet ahead of her was Uzair, leaning against a tree looking at her with a smug grin on his face. She quickly scanned the area…

No sign of Luz.

"UZAIR! WHERE IS-"

Someone grabbed Amity from behind, locking her arms at her sides. Looking over her shoulder she saw Emira was the one holding her back.

"Emira!? What are you-"

"Calm down Mittens."

Amity returned her gaze forward and saw not Uzair, but instead…

"EDRIC!?"

"Tada!"

Author's Note

Uzair means "Helper" (*0*)

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