Key: This - (#) in bold means I'll make a note about later. This - -Chomp- is for sounds. This - '*' means to play the classic beep sound for cursing.
So I made the mistake of tossing away my Azura Goodwitch book in the trash, why I did do that? I was trying to make my mom happy and change for the better, but couldn't do it... Anyway, it doesn't matter. But would have been easier to get it back? It would have, had it not been for one factor. No, it wasn't anything normal like "I decided too late" or anything like that, nope, a fricken tiny trash-stealing owl with a sack that nabbed my book. The little owl can surprisingly hop like an Olympic champ. Sadly that cute little thief adorably hopped into a not-so-adorable house in the middle of nowhere.
I take a deep breath and march forward "Stop adorably hopp-INGNGNGN" I crashed to the ground as some unseen force launched me to the floor. My vision had to refocus and for some concerning reason, my legs felt funny. "Owww, my head what hit me?" I pushed myself up and I need to check my mental health, that or maybe I might be dreaming, or I'm in "The bad place"... No wait that wouldn't make sense. What caused the current questioning of my sanity, well dear friends, my legs are gone and have been replaced with a snake's tail(1). From the look of it, I say it most resembles that of a hognose. I got maybe about 11 feet worth of tail from the look of it. I gently touch it and it feels so real.
"I- I became a SNAKE LADY! A LAMIA! A NAGA! ¡¿Cómo me pasó esto a mí?!" I had to shake it off, let's start small and deal with the least stressful thing first. I'm gonna get my book back then head back wait for Mom to be gone, then sit and have a proper freakout session then figure out how to fix this. Surprisingly it wasn't too hard to move with my new tail and it was kinda cool to look at it while it moved to and fro. Heck, I wasn't even paying attention to where I was going which is why I bumped into a piece of cloth, removing the obstruction, a new sight behold me. An old lady with the sack of stolen trash and along with my book. Nothing out of the ordinary, except for the owl-like eyes, and some weird oversized club that use to be the owl(2).
OH NO, SHE'S SETTING MY BOOK ON FIRE!! I quickly snatch my book and run... slither as fast as possible back home. Sadly because of my new ficken tail, I'm not as fast as I use to be, there's a reason why pythons are slow, anyway the lady walked in front of me to say 'I wasn't going anywhere without making a purchase' and took MY book back! I tried explaining that her, wood bird thing stole my book and I was just getting it back, then the lady pointed out how she only taught her bird (Named Owlbert apparently) to "borrow" from trash, so if I wanted my book back. I shouldn't have thrown it away. So I try buying it, then it turns out I don't have the right currency, but she mercifully did accept my money. She did hit me with a question though "So where did d'ya get all that human money?" It was then I soon learned that she didn't have weird genetics as I thought, she told me (With confused hesitation) she was a Fuanus. I told her my whole story so far, I wasn't sure if I could prove I was a human without any credible evidence, but I went with the truth anyway.
She blinked and asked her to show her and popped the door back. I have no idea if that's gonna work like that, but it seems logical, so I tried going through the door and got launched for the second time. I wiggled and looked below "ME LEGS! Oh, how I took you for granted, Lo lamento. I will never skip leg day again!" then I remembered I wasn't alone. She whistled "You weren't joking, you are not a basilisk and this is not any kind of illusion work. You are human, mmm, say kiddo mind helping me with something?" I should've put more thought into it before agreeing. It wasn't anything bad, just helping sell authentic 'Human artifacts' and boom hoards of cash, all I had to do was stand outside the door and let people check me out while she sells the merchandise. She even let me keep some of the cash!
After selling most of the various nick-nacks plus a few photos of myself. She asked about my name and I asked hers in turn, she seems to have a thing for theatrics, "I am Eda The Owl Lady, the most powerful Huntress on The Boiling Isles, I am the most respected and Loved-" she got interrupted before she could finish. So apparently, She is a witch criminal vigilante then the guard turned to me "AND YOU!" then I almost got manhandled, the keyword almost. He grabbed me and pulled me out of the door then I was launched into him, I don't even know why he did that. While we were trying to reorientate ourselves, Eda quickly packed her things and high-tailed them out of there, but not without grabbing me first.
Now I know how spaghetti feels with the way I was grabbed, I don't know how she is not dizzy, the high-speed flying is also not helping my vision or nausea. I couldn't even question her, because of how bad it got, she told me to close my eyes and waited a bit, I will do anything to get rid of the sick feeling. Later when I felt less nauseated I opened them again and I was greeted by a much better sight. Towering bone-like structures, colorful plant life, and fantastical creatures. Then Eda and I got to chat a bit, so apparently this was where all humans got their myths from because their world is leaking into ours... which would explain the giraffes since scientists are so baffled by their abnormal biology.
It also sucks that I got one mythical animal wrong and that was "Well '*' a Griffin!" the quick dodge was the only thing that saved us. Its roar was so horrifically painful to hear, I swear my ear would have bled(3). I got to see what a real Griffin looks like; it had prickly-looking fur that was vantablack and the feathers also shared the prickly-to-the-touch theme, but were an intense Scarlett instead; the creature had various thick bleach-white bone plating that covered most of the vulnerable parts of the body, on the bones were beautifully intricate red lines, but in contrast with the vibrant scarlet, these lines were a dull blood red; finally were it's eyes, they were somehow physically painful to look at, I did get a glimpse though; They were a hellish orange. She quickly touched my forehead and for some reason, I felt calm. Then she just as quickly placed what I assumed were earplugs on me (Eda is wearing them too) then mouthed 'Don't worry your safe, you'll be okay.' we continued dodging and weaving the Griffin. At least I couldn't hear it anymore, but I still had to deal with the violent lurching from time to time. I also got to see Eda fight back with a ton of grenades.
She reached in her hair and grab what looked to be a jury-rigged explosive that had two crystals in the center that seem to hum, both were bright white(4). She tossed it and a bright electrifying explosion surrounded the Griffin. During its convulsing, it fell and I assume it was going to die from the impact... Nope, she chased after it! She grabbed three more grenades this time with red and bright white crystals. Tied them together and seemingly predicted when the Griffin was going fly back up.
We flew up abruptly as she tossed the grenade cluster, I looked down again to see it falling once more, but this time as a smoking heap. Once again Eda dives bombed after it, I swear she's just bullying the creature now, that or it's just that tough to kill it. She has an alarming amount of explosives in her hair, cause she pulled out another grenade with a pitch-black crystal and a whole bunch of the same white crystal I keep seeing on the other grenades. When this one hit the Griffin it was like a mini black hole spawned and crushed the creature into black mist. Just like that, the fight was over and she removed her earplugs and I did the same.
The older woman made a comment which suggested it could have been worse "Well dang, that was a mixed bag of luck, unlucky enough to have a Grimm not only be nearby but detected the negativity. On the other hand, we were lucky that not only it was a small one, but was for some reason alone. Anywho that is enough excitement of the day." we made our way to her humble home. I should probably try to get back home, after seeing a disturbing detachment of her hand plus the whole Griffin thing. I decided that this world is definitely, not for me... Ok never mind she wants my help still "I thought you said that's enough excitement for one day, what about that?" then only for the day and not the night. At least I got to see a cool house with an odd security system, a cool magical interior, and THE CUTEST ROOMMATE EVER!! No, I got taken away, but I to cuddle him forever!
Aw well, I thought about saying 'No' about helping them, but she's quite literally. The only way I know of back home. Eda wanted to show me why they needed help until King interrupted her when she said "Mighty king of-" cue interruption "Of Grimm, I'm the KING of Grimm!" she rolled her eyes. She tried to convince him otherwise "First off, your not a Grimm, heck your not even a Faunus and most certainly not a Florus." Thus I got to watch a debate between the two. He stamped his little foot "I have a bony face like them and my fur is black like them. So the science is in my favor, as it should be." rubbing her face she points to the obvious "Incorrect bone color; fur color; lack of natural intricate red lines, that you haven't try to paint on yourself; incorrect eye color; and you have a '*' Aurora. So I do not need to say anymore." and that ended the debate for now.
So she went back to the story, so we need to get back a powerful magical crown to restore King to his former glory, locked away by someone called Warden Wrath... Fun. Even wants to take me somewhere supper fun, yeah it wasn't fun, it was a place called The Conformatorium. A prison where they either force the criminals to be proper citizens or get turned to stone, yep I'm not looking forward to this. Wait things just got better "Will we need a disguise? I've been waiting for this! MEOW MEOW!" complete silence was my answer, which made me cry on the inside. Eda did make a good point though "Don't you kinda already fit in? I mean the odd thing about you is the ears." yeah admittedly I forgot about the snake tail.
And I had to agree to that "Yeah, you have a... You know what no, I've been waiting forever to use this! So I'm a snake cat? Cat snake? No wait, I'm a Snac." that caused Eda to laugh and King to roll his eyes "Sure Luz you're a Snac." King did not have to say oh brother. Anyway, we got on the club and granted it took me longer cuz of my tail. We flew to the window and our ride returned to the owl lady. You know, now looking at this place and the rest of The Boiling Isles, it has a sort of fusion design of medieval fantasy/modern-day/future vibes, kinda dig it. Upon looking around a girl got my attention "Okay I have to ask, why are you wearing that?" I turned to a cat girl... Wait "OH FRICK, I'M SORRY! NO PENSÉ!" that was embarrassing I quickly took off my jacket and now I just want to crawl in a hole and die.
I really want to just change the subject "So what are you in for?" I was not going to be prepared for her answer. "My love of fanfiction is what got me here. I write about food falling in love, but because my stories had my characters freely use magic and other nonsense. My fanfiction was 'A conflict with the Emperor's ideals' I was arrested. I like food, I like love, just let me write damn it! Heck, I'll even change the parts they're having a hissy fit over." and the tiny person with the nose like the elephant shrew(5). The fellow writer provided insight "Yeah she's a big conspiracy theorist, she made some theories that the guards felt like 'Threaten the good image of the emperor' not surprised as to why she is in here." then the spider guy with some missing eyes spoke up.
He spoke with great sadness "I'm in here cuz I like to eat my eyeballs" then proceeded to... Nope, not watching that. But I felt like this was a great injustice, I looked back at the wanted poster thinking how they were just weirdos like myself. Then I hear massive footsteps and was told that it was Warden Wrath, I slithered to the nearest cage and went inside, curled up and tucked King in the middle then waited. He came through the doors in a fully metal suit and I can see he had dragon-like features on him, just like the wings on his back. I got to see something both cool and terrifying, the metal on the suit melted and shifted into a hammer, which he used to hit my cage. He gave a demoralizing speech and took the Shrew girl away, I HAVE TO FREE THE REST!
With determination, I went to free them "Don't worry I can get you out heeeeega" Noooo M... Wait why use my weak nerd arms when a got snake muscle "Nerd arms you failed me, but snake body just might-" and it worked! But they are not leaving? The spider spoke their thoughts "Even if we leave Wrath will just nab us again and we'll face torment." The cat pointed out how he was right and I should just leave them and enjoy freedom while it lasts, I failed. I slowly slithered my way up to the top of the tower, I couldn't focus on anything, but my own failures. I should have inspired them to want to leave and let them know being weird is not a bad thing. I didn't even notice that we already made it to the door or that Eda was talking. I tried asking her for her advice, but we had to move before King hurts himself.
Ok, I can do this, I move towards the tower of light and... Couldn't pass through? Before I can question it, I was greeted by a robotic eye tentacle thing that reminded me of what I saw in 'Galaxy Wars' It scan me and stated 'Former human detected' and went back to the ground. The light disappears revealing a- I'm so annoyed right now, it was ficken Burger Queen crown on top of a book(6). Eda grabs the crown and book then takes one look at the book, and tosses it away, but gives the crown to King. Yeah, I'm giving her a judgemental stare, which I retracted after hearing her talk about how she and King are weirdos that stick toget- OH MY GOD SHE DIEEEEED!!!
Or I thought she did, that would have been good to know her head can detect beforehand. Checking with Eda she says she is fine, but I don't know if that was genuine or a lie to make me feel better. Well since the warden jerk is here, I have a question that he can hopefully answer, so I interrupt him "Wait, so if you trying to capture her, why place it in somewhere only humans can access?" he snorted. He did explain though "I hacked the security system to allow Eda entry, I plan on reverting it back later." wait that doesn't make sense. "But it opened for me, saying I was formally human." he tilted his head and flapped his wings "Wait really well that's- No No, I'm getting off-topic. I deal with you later" Then he grabbed me and held me up off the floor.
Now I felt a limp noodle, HE IS NOT EVEN HOLDING ME CORRECTLY! You know what... "Now I want-!? Are you trying to bite me?" yes, yes I was. I even say it to face "The Boiling Isles gave me fangs, so gosh dang it, I'm gonna use them. -NOM- -NOM- -NOM-" he shook his head. They pointed out why my plan won't work "First off, that's not my flesh. That's a liquid metal, my semblance is whatever metal I have direct contact with I can liquefy it and shape it to my will. I'm getting distracted again!" he composes himself. He finally states his true intentions and it's dumb "I want you... to go out with me." me, Eda, and King had to do a double take on that. When he went into his reasoning for falling for Eda... I found it so creepy I had no problems letting him know my opinion "I hate everything you're saying right now." he did not appreciate it, hints why my mouth is now covered in metal.
He continues his poor first impression, luckily Eda spat at his face, giving me time to retaliate. I could use the oversize club, but it's huge and I currently have nerd arms, note to self: work out more. I notice his arm is no longer covered in metal and me being a venous snake, it's a perfect place to strike. -Chomp- "AAAAAAHHHHF!!!" the warden dropped Eda and her body came in and knocked him out with the club. I was worried about King until Eda the head bit the dude on the ankle, which means we are all free and just need to flee.
We all got on the club, I couldn't get it to go, so Eda commanded the club to get a move on. We flew by the open cages "Guys we have him distracted get going!" hopefully they take it. The flying club was used as a battering ram to get past the doors, however, going at high speeds through the doors means we jolted rather violently. Our speed got reduced which allowed Wrath to catch up and knock us off with his metal tentacles. Then I got told by Eda to leave them behind, heck no I don't want to do that.
But she didn't give me a choice and got her club to fly me away. As I looked back I saw Warden Wrath take off his mask, which behind it was no surprise a dragon's head, he breathed out a fireball. Eda and the warden got covered in a golden light, when Eda was hit by the fireball and launched back, the same thing happened to the warden as if he was hit. He was hit with so much force that he hit the wall, it gave away. He back into the fight, but out of the corner of my eye I see the those same prisoners of before, they still haven't left?
Are their spirits really that broken... Ok no, I refuse to accept this. First I try point out that they can escape like right now, but they started say how they belong here, dang it their self-doubt seems like an inescapable prison. Alright then, Time for the most inspirational speech I can come up with "So you have a different way of doing things... a different way of seeing things, that might make you 'Weird' maybe, but it also makes you awesome! I'm helping you because us 'weirdos' have to stick together!" after being reassured by their cheering, I beckon them to follow me into battle. They knock him down and the spider eye guy was using some kind of magic to hold him down while keeping him from using his powers(7). Meanwhile, I was hovering, why am I still hovering?
Because the club is too heavy for what I plan to do, so I plan- OH WAIT! I got asked the thing -Ehem- "Do not underestimate me, Warden Wrath, for I'm Luz The Human-" Then I was interrupted. By Warden Wrath who's going to regret it later "You know without context, it makes no sense for anybody else since you do not look like a human." my eye was twitching, so I toss up the fireworks "EAT THIS SUCKA!!" I spin the club while in the air, and it lands the shot in his stupid mouth. Man I've been waiting to say the line in real life and he RUINED it, -sigh- next time. I meet up with Eda and both agree to skedaddle before anything else happens, we just need to find King, who seems to have scampered off somewhere. We find him digging in the dumpster when I saw him pull out a stuffed rabbit and say "You there! Nightmare critter, you shall be my minion in my army of darkness!" I immediately thought 'Demasiado lindo' and we bounced.
We made it back with thankfully, zero Griffin encounters and headed inside. She was going to honor her deal... And I was going to go home, probably back to camp. First I gave King a proper crown, -giggles- he loves it, as I approach the door I thought about everything since my time here. Then I had an idea, I went to try to convince The Owl Lady to make me a Witch Huntress "Ok first off not a witch, second off there is no way I'm teaching you to fight Grimm, I always felt they toss them to the Beowolves too early. Third and final thing is humans can't learn magic." ok maybe I should have started small. Let's start with magic "Ok about the magic thing, maybe there was no human wi- I mean magic user cause no one ever tried. If you teach me, I will do anything you want." boom I got her to agree.
I did had to sneak back to the house though for a sleeping bag though(8). So I got my own room and got changed... Now I'm just wondering where my pants go, cause they disappear whenever I'm a snake girl and come back when I'm human. Oh well, one less piece of clothing to worry about. I got a text from Mom, King came by to ask to sleep with me so obviously, I want to cuddle him to death. Once he settles down I curl up around him until he is nice and snug, he is so warm, I text my mom back and went to sleep.
Screw Potion Thieves Grimm Too.
I woke up the next morning and I'm ecstatic that it wasn't a dream. I wanted to go to the window to say 'Good morning' to the world, but I'm currently wrapped around King and it looks like no matter what I do, He'll be up. Might as well give him a good wake-up call, full of kisses and cuddles. I loosen up my coils, I scoop him up, and give him kisses while saying 'He's a little cutie pie' while he denies it. I place him down gently and went to the window. What I expected, was to say good morning to the open sky, but what I got. Is the sight of Hooty disemboweling some type of fish Grimm and him saying good morning to me.
I shuddered and closed the window without saying good morning to him, I will regret that later. I politely kick, metaphorically, King out to change clothes. You what, I want to wear my jacket, I just need to keep the hood down to avoid offending anybody. I went to look for the bathroom to freshen up, I found it and went inside and karate chop the first enemy I see... Which turns out to be Hooty, unfortunately, at least I didn't bite him. I apologize and got ready. I start hunting for witch clothes and to my delight, I found them in a closet, right where the brooms are at and she says she is not a witch. I went to look for Eda, I had to ask King where she is at and waited for her downstairs. Despite literally everything that happened yesterday, she doesn't recognize me.
We met up in the kitchen and I tried jogging her memory, but she cannot function without her morning... Apple blood? King clarifies thankfully "That is what she calls apple juice or Cider, no matter what." I assumed it was the latter she was drinking. I tried asking about what we were going to do today "Teach me some spells, Do I get my own magical familiar, was I supposed to bring my own magical runes, DO YOU HAVE A DANGEROUS MAGICAL QUEST FOR ME!?!" she halts my rant. She sips and answers me "First, what are you wearing?" my reply seems to have disappointed her. She sighs "Not a witch, that's King's oversized bathrobe, and what is on top of your head?" she grabs it, and blows on it, it turns out it was a dirty traffic cone. Yeah, I died inside "I want to keep you safe, so no dangerous Quest and magic can't be learned overnight." she drinks again.
She smirks "So a Palisman, you really want one?" When I reaffirm my belief, she calls Owlbert and we waited... And waited, and waited. It finally comes around the corner, only to hit her in the face, now this was an oversized club that's flying at high speeds. I'm not surprised that she knocked herself out, I'm just disappointed, I bring her to the couch and wait for her to regain consciousness. When she came to, she says it was early, I decided to let her have it "Now back in a day, before the emperor, one would be able to make their own Palisman during their time in college. However do to your unique situation, you might be given one early, but first... You got to work for it." She gently placed a bag of potions on the floor.
I grab the bag of brews and we 'walk and talk' towards the balcony. She was telling me how on the weekends she sells human treasure that can actually pass something not made by here, other days she sells the finest homemade potions, well now I wanna look. I grab a random bottle and pulled out, snake oil, ok weird even for me. We make it to the balcony and she points to a place called 'Bonesborough' and gives me the rundown "That is where your do all the selling, now it pretty safe, I murdered all my business rivals. Still be careful." And I promised her I wouldn't let her down. Then I dropped the bag of potions, off the balcony.
I did try to jump after it, thinking I could use my tail as a anchor, yeah snakes can't jump. Snakes can lunge, but not jump, I also reacted too slowly though. Thankfully Eda caught the bag before it can hit the ground with magic. Yeah, I did not reassure her, but at least she still decided to trust me. She did force me to take King as a guide and King also didn't want to come, but here we are.
There are so many interesting people and the sight of the town is amazing. King did berate me for rudely staring at people and try to convince me that this place was just a cess pool of despair. Well I'm gonna prove it's a cess pool of delight. My first target was a centaur, however I was staring at his chest, while I am a bisexual disaster... I was staring for a different reason, I can hear the man sigh "My eyes are up here." He looked embarrassed. I tried looking at his face "I know it's just, why do you have... That on your chest." He seemed even sadder now "I lost a bet and to get a dumb tattoo on my chest, I regret ever making that bet, over a staring contest." Like oof. Well I need to sell so "Well what has four hooves and needs a potion to feel better, this guy." He just walked away, oh the agony.
The next place was even worse, so there one very sharply dressed man who looks fabulous in makeup in a bowler hat and one short woman with duel color hair and eyes, both of which were pink and brown. They didn't have any animal traits, but did had plant traits, they might be the Florus she once her about from Eda. The man might be a maple tree?(9) Yeah she is not a plant expert, but tell the girl is mint because she smells strongly of mint, both have living leaves in there hair. I tried to sell them the potion and then I got robbed.
It was so quick, they stole all my potions, except for the one in my hand. They shut the door and I opened it, they were no longer there anymore, I looked all over the house... So I went back to King. I didn't pay too much attention to him, I just sat down and have a good cry. King, god bless him, couldn't sit by and watch me cry. He brought up, if we just show up with enough money then Eda wouldn't care that I lost the potions. I had to know "How are we going to do that?" He ask me if I still had the key, you know I forgot to return that. I knew exactly what he was thinking and he ran, to presumably to go get the magic door.
Later he came by and we made a lot of snails; showing people myself; letting them take pictures and I even gave small tours of the human realm. Things to note, they also change when crossing worlds too, except for King for some reason. When we made enough money to make up for the potions, me and King sat down to take a breather. Well he sat down, I had to curl up "Thank you so much king, I wouldn't have thought I was marketable." And in a 'King way' which was "Your praise pleases me human, perhaps I may continue to show my gratitude, if you continue to show undying loyalty to me." That's it, cuddle time! After my cuddle assault "I still want to sell this last potion before we head back, come on!" Although he was a bit reluctant to sell the last potion when we can just go home.
While we were walking/slithering, a heavy fog rolled in, King had to hop on my shoulder in order to see, upon moving further ahead. I SEE A MAGICAL CASTLE, I race towards the wondrous spectacle, King was being paranoid though "Luz the only person I know that lives in a castle is the emperor, while he is a man of fine taste in kingdoms, I doubt he lives here or you being able to sell him a potion of boil cream." The door opens to prove him wrong. Much more fog was pouring out of the doorway and as we walk inside, the fog doesn't seem to dissipate "Seriously, does who ever live here, just keep the window open? Or have a hoarding problem with Fog machines?" Well I think it's mystical. Then we were treated to a grand reveal, there was a wizard "A whack job who is an old man in Jim-jams." luckily King is cute so he is forgiven. Then I got asked who I was, but then he sense something unique about me, -gasp- He must know I was originally a human.
He summoned a table that had tea and scones and offered us a seat, I agreed "Luz no one dresses like that or refers to themselves as a wizard, I don't trust him." hmm. Time to trick him "But the stars on his cloak are sparkly and there is a baby fox in his beard, plus I see scones on the table." jackpot. Although he did complain that they were rock-hard when he tried to bite them, he was forced to cross his arms when he realized that I was going to talk to the wizard, no matter what. I wanted to get to know this guy more "So what do you do for a living Sir Wizard?" he chuckled. He gladly told me his profession, but ask to be referred to by name "Please call me Adegast and I serve the community by hunting down ancient magical artifacts." King however was not going to let his presence be forgotten, much to my frustration, cuteness only gets you so far King.
The little fur ball bellowed "You should be servicing me some real scones, you King demands it!" Ok, time for a timeout on the floor, he started coughing saying how it was hard to breathe. He jumped on my lap and proceeded to stay there, he is so lucky he is cute. As he doesn't cause any more trouble, I'll allow it "So what brings a human here of all places?" I told him my whole story, from the being to right now. He was stroking his beard "Yes, I know of Eda, she is very powerful and knows her craft well. As I recall, however, she has more in common with a lioness on the prowl than a mother teaching her cubs." I didn't know if I can argue with that, I mean it's only been two days. WAIT A MINUTE QUE- Oh never mind, just had a question "Would you like to go on a quest?" YES!
He handed me a scroll, the moment I touch it, I felt a prick and almost instinctly brought it to my chest. He started telling me how I might be the chosen one to take down an ancient evil. He was giving me all the details that the adventure would entail, I never more ready in my life "Neat story, anyway your food was terrible, so we're gone." Yes "We're gone... TO PACK FOR ADVENTURE!!" King really didn't like that. We made it back home and King was right, the money we made was more than enough to compensate for the lost potions and I even got a head pat for a job well done. Me went up to pack for the quest, well I did, King came up only for a nap. I being nearly finished with my packing, I ask King what kind of chosen one I should be.
Then Eda come up and was wondering what I was doing "Luz is being dumb, cause one wack-job said he was a wizard." Eda groaned "No one calls themselves witches or wizards, besides I wouldn't even trust a man in casual drapery, but whats that got to do with Luz packing?" That's when King started laughing, not gonna lie, that hurt. He was telling Eda how he said Luz was a chosen one, sadly Eda joined in too, though hers was more of a snort "Like some kind of anime protagonist?" I hid my face in my book. When King told her about the map she asked to see it. I was going to show her it, but then felt the familiar prick when I touched it, for some reason I didn't want to show her the map. I tried rationalizing my thought process, when I thought about it, memories of kids bullying me for my weirdness popped up.
I let go of the map "You know what, your right it was rather silly of me, to think I could ever be a hero... I'm just going to head down stairs for a drink." I didn't bother to wait for a reply and I also didn't hear to the kitchen, instead I went to the bathroom. It was more private and secluded, so I can look at the map in peace. I reach for it, when I felt the prick, I closed my eyes and brought the map near my face. It was a slight struggle to open it, my opened when I finally pried the sucker open, an explosion of dust filled my lungs and got in my eyes. After my coughing fit and blinking the dust out of my eyes, I looked at the map and knew where to go, I didn't even bother to get my supplies I packed before I left or notice the map disappearing in black mist.
Eda's P.O.V. just a little bit after Luz left.
I couldn't help, but feel something wasn't right "Well that was weird." King was dismissive about it. He yawned "Eh, she couldn't take a joke." That wasn't it "Not that, Luz went glass eye for bit... King what about the Wack-job?" Seems like he's going to be a brat. He scoffed "That he makes terrible scones?" I grab him be the scoff of his neck, ignoring the indigenous 'Weh' and brought him to eye level. I spoke slowly "King, I'm serious, what can you tell me about the Wack-job?" He agreed to talk so long as I put him down, he never did lack being held like. He started at the events that even lead up to running into him in the first place.
After they made back all the Snails that the potions would have cost, Luz wanted to at least sell the last potion that didn't get stolen. As they were walking along a sudden heavy fog rolls in... I'm already not not liking this, the about the castle and the indoor fog was the last straw "King show me exactly where that place." Get out my homemade gas mask and the spare, it will be a little big on King, but magic can fix that. I used construction magic to redesign the mask to better suit King, note to self: Make a new spare later, and making very clear to him that it STAYS on. I went out to window and slammed my fist into the building hard enough for it to shake the foundations while calling Hooty's name. He stretch over "OWww! Ok, Ok, I'm coming! What is it?" Good he is not going to be difficult.
He should be able to handle this simple task "Hooty, I want you to make sure Luz does not leave the house-" Hooty managed to my day worse with one simple sentence "She already left, she went to the for forest near Bonesborough." By The Titan. Only one thing to say to that "Well '*' me!" I get on Owlbert, grab King and head for the 'Castle' as fast as possible, I want to be somehow wrong about what happened to Luz. We made it to the alleyway and while King was surprised by what he saw, I was not, I march over to the abandoned warehouse that was once a 'Castle' with Owlbert transformed into a grenade launcher. I kicked down the doors and looked around, there was a bucket filled with something, when I got close I saw it. Grimm scrolls: they are black cylindrical objects with tiny scarlet spikes, they have the bone-like planting on the sides with teeth across where the two lines of 'paper' meet, their eyes are located on the sides.
I quickly smashed them into a black mist "Eda... What got Luz?" I don't answer him, instead I use my magic to track down Luz's whereabouts (10). I made a circle and a pink crystal ball started to form, then a specter like creature with one glowing eye phased out of the ball "Show me the most likely location Luz is at. And King hop on" we got on Owlbert and followed the Specter. King still wanted to know what got Luz and was persistent in his questioning, I sighed "The Grimm that got Luz is a 'Beholder' this Grimm has a unique approach to cause suffering.(11) Rather than cause suffering for the masses, they seek to spread negativity to a select few. Able to cause their soon to be victims to hallucinate and not realize they been kidnapped while slowly being drained away. Changes are we are flying into a trap, but I'll be damned if that kid dies cause I wasn't hunting thoroughly enough." I did reassured King that we will find her in time. Hours of flying and we end up in a most dreadful place, a town that's been 'Reaped' where Grimm manage to kill all the poor saps that once lived here. King looked around "I don't see her anywhere, are we too late?" I hope not.
I did need him to focus on finding her "Oracle specters, are able to calculate the most likely outcome, thanks to their 4th dimensional sight. That's also a problem though they can only calculate the most likely and not know for certain unless it's hyper-specific. I'm that it will get us close enough to Luz for you track down her scent." He nods his head and starts sniffing for lemons and young naive confidence, meanwhile I dissipate the ball and spirit to look for clues. I found detached corpse of a Beholder victim, that 'puppet' may have been on its last legs, but it may be our lead to Luz "King come smell this and see if Luz talked to it." Thankfully he did. He sniffs a couple of times "-Sniff- -Sniff-...I got her scent... It's this way!" Don't worry we're coming. Thankfully we spotted a path they possibly took and made a mad dash to get to her in time. I grab King and we fly as fast as possible down the path and then we spot it, The Beholder.
This was quite large, indicating it was a very old Grimm, it was three times my size. It resembled an octopus of sorts, only has bone plates around it's neck, a cracked dome of angry blood red for a head connected to black tentacles with red tips connected to corpses. One is connected to Luz, who is not looking too hot "King you-GAHHG!?!" The stupid Beholder's tentacles were buried in the ground and when I was grabbed, the thing made me drop my Palisman.
Luz's P.O.V. with everyone captured.
I tried fighting off the hallucinations of Adegast who turned out to be a Grimm, why do I seemed to be a magnet for these things? I managed to barely open my eyes, I see that Eda and King were stupid enough to come rescue me, they would have been safer if they left me. Now I might get them killed... My struggles intensify, then I felt dust blown in my face, I once again hear Adegast. He I can live out my fantasies if I just go back to sleep, a part felt that would have been nice, to live life like Azura The Good Witch. There just one problem, that would not have been real and I would have abandoned; Eda; King and mom.
I turned around, use my hands for a good grip and bit the tentacle attached to my back. I fell down hard, but it did cause it to let me and the others go, I feel so tired. -Weak chuckle- Apparently Eda keeps a first aid kit in her hair, King is tending my wounds while Eda fights the Grimm using nothing, but magic and the grenades in her hair. I wonder where her Palisman is, I black out for a bit. After who knows how long, I take in my surroundings, I don't think too much time has pass. I'm in the same forest and the Grimm is still alive, but it has King... Must have grabbed him while he was fixing me up.
Stupid Adegast is using him to keep Eda at bay, probably cuz she took a lot of his tentacles away. I have to help... I see her Palisman and start crawling towards it, a lot harder when you almost feel dead and have a biological anchor. I place my hand on the club and it floats up "Smash... His head, for Eda." It bolts and I hear a roar of surprise and I black out once more. The next time I time I open my eyes, things were a lot different: more time has pass, I'm back at the owl house, I feel like '*' still, but at least it's not as worse as before. Eda smile at me and King is sleeping on top of me "Glad your awake kiddo." I chuckled.
I had to wonder "Too expensive at the hospital?" She shook her head in anger, though I can tell it's not me "Guards would try to use you for bait to arrest me, they also would question you as soon as you woke, if they learn you killed a Grimm without 'The proper' license. They would have arrested you." I blew a raspberry which got her smiling again. I got sad though and sighed, she caught wind of it "I should apologize to you." That caught me off guard. I was confused "Why it's my-???" She removed her finger. Then she looked me dead in the eye "Don't you go blaming yourself, I'm a Huntress, I'm supposed to clean up Belos' mess and keep Grimm from becoming anybodies problem. I don't usually check warehouses, after this I'll mark them for regular patrols... You know your quite lucky, all evidence should have lead to your death. You're fighter through and through, I understand if you want to call it quits." I had to think about that. I didn't know "No, I'm just confused, this place isn't like I expected." She had a thoughtful look on her face.
She finally says something "Technicality you're supposed to have bed rest, but maybe... Hang on" she left me and came back with a blindfold. Eda wanted to take me somewhere while I'm still in bed, pretty weird to be in a bed in the sky. I heard a 'Weh!?' from King who didn't get the memo and got shushed. After a while King undid my blindfold, and I realized that we were never on land but a corpse, the sight was amazing though. She began speaking "Up close the bones of Isles can be slimy, stinky and gross, but if you look at it from a different perspective..." It can beautiful.
There was something I wanted to know, how she knew Adegast was lying "Look kid everyone wants to believe they're chosen, but if we wait for some prophecy to say we're special, we die waiting. That's why you need to choose yourself." I decided to try my luck by asking if that means she will teach me how to make a Palisman, no luck, but it was worth a shot.
Alright my first story notes:
1: So why did I make Luz a snake Faunus and why such a extreme animal trait. Well I decided to try to match it to her Palisman most (Not all of them) all other characters will match this. I also made it this extreme to see what kind of trade offs and gains would be. As her specific breed, they hiss and have a friendly personality, they also have venom (Callback to first episode).
2: Palisman are like weapons in 'Soul Eater' and Eda's weapon is Club/grenade launcher/mortar the embodiment of chaos. I was inspired from when she lost her powers and used potions like grenades. Young Eda was also a pyro maniac so pyrotechnics. Palisman eat dust for ammunition and give back to the environment so dust can form again.
3: I just wanted Grimm to be more Grimm-like. Creatures who very existence is to promote suffering, rather be just a another creature to fight. Now I'm not the greatest writer so I apologize if, I don't accurately convey this through writing. Griffin can promote widespread suffering through their roars (Inspired by how loud loins are). Their sounds can actually kill people too, if pushed enough.
4: So there are 9 pieces of Dust, each comes from the Titan's magic. The list is follows and I hope it's self-explanatory: Fire; Water; Earth; Air; Sound; Light; Gravity; Time (Rarest and uncontrollably); and Electromagnet (can be used to make lightning). The first four work like how 'Avatar' tv series works, want to manipulate plants, use water dust to manipulate the water inside. What does each dust look like: Fire is sky blue and hot to touch; Water is dark blue and cold to touch; Earth looks like it has moving lava in it and is hot to touch; Air is clear; Sound is echo shard from 'Minecraft' just cuz; Gravity has two types vantablack (Hard to let go) and brighting white light (Can't grab); Time is rainbow (cuz I didn't know what color to give it); light is just a white light, it's safe to touch; electromagnetic is the same, but it's the second brightest and shocking to touch.
5: Had no idea what to make her, had to look up animals with tiny noses, found this and felt it was perfect.
6: I decided to give that room more importance, because literally only a human can pass through there. That's the book of Belos' and it's going to be moved to a safer location.
7: Yes I gave him that semblance, only cuz I struggled how were they going to you know tie him up when he doesn't have tentacles to you know tie up.
8: so apparently the camp had a cabin which means she didn't really need a sleeping bag, so I thought, hmm why did she had a sleeping bag. Literally that sentence only exists just to give a logical reason to why she has a sleeping bag.
9: He is actually a sweet gum tree, mainly cuz they're huge victims of woodpeckers, and my bro got eaten by a griffin. Also let me know if you guys want to see more of these two.
10: She is the most powerful magic user, so she knows all forms of magic.
11: My attempt to make Alegast in Grimm form
And done I hope to continue this later, but for now byeeee.