"We're back." Whispered Tate anxiously as he held his little sister, Gwenevere.

Tate took a deep breath as he stared absentmindedly at the scenery of the boiling isles, only stopping when Hunter shook him out of it.

"You okay?" Asked Hunter worriedly as Flapjack chirped on his shoulder.

"Yep, fine." Replied Tate forcing a smile before turning to the rest of the group. "Huh? Where's Luz?"

"She hasn't come out yet." Replied Amity worriedly.

Everyone held their breaths as they stared at the portal waiting for Luz to come out. But she never did.

"I'm pulling her out!" Exclaimed.Amity in a panic as she dashed into the portal and started trying to pull Luz with her abomination magic.

A few moments later, Luz finally entered the demon realm once again.

"Luz! You were in there for so long, we-we thought you got stuck behind! Are you… hurt anywhere?" Said Amity making sure Luz was okay.

"I- I'm fine." Said Luz tiredly. "I…saw something or…someone. But it was probably just in my head. Any sign of… him?"

"Belos has no reason to stay here." Said Tate tiredly. "He's long gone."

"Well, he better stay out of our way. This mama's HUNGRY FOR VENGANCE!" Exclaimed Camilla narrowing her eyes as she held a bad in her hands.

"Now that's a fight I'd watch." Added Gus cheerfully.

"More like a murder. Please don't actually fight him." Deadpanned Tate.

"C'mon, it was just a joke. No need to be so stiff." Replied Willow with a smile as she approached Tate.

Tate stared at her silently for a moment with a frown before turning around.

"I'm going to my grandparents'. We'll meet at Bonesborough." Said Tate calmly before dashing away in a blur.

"Tate! Wait!" Exclaimed Hunter before Tate completely disappeared from view. He quickly mounted his staff.in response. "I'm going after him."

"I'm coming too." Added Willow with a determined expression. "You guys can go to the owl house without us."

Amity and Camilla nodded as Hunter and Willow went out to find Tate.

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Standing in front of his grandparents' house which looked pretty run down, Tate stared at the building as his heart sank. He denied it in his head, the possibility of them being gone.

With shaking breath, he knocked on the door...

Only to have to dodge being attacked by a familiar palisman.

Tate began tearing up as he saw its owner ready to fight. It was a one armed Gwendolyn Clawthorne who froze upon seeing her grandson for the first time in months.

Gwendolyn immediately pulled Tate in for a hug that could break the ribs of any other person with tearful eyes and before calling for her husband who couldn't help but add to the waterworks as he hugged his grandson.

And Tate couldn't help but cry with them too.

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The Clawthorne house was a mess. Tables knocked down, broken furniture all around and mostly shattered windows. Even the Clawthornes themselves were a mess as Gwen had a missing arm while Dell had several new scars.

"I still can't believe it! After all these months!" Said Gwendolyn joyfully as she held Gwenevere. "We thought the worst had happened."

"Uhh, I wasn't affected by the draining spell because..." Said Tate knocking on his metal arm for it to make a metallic sound. "Then me and my friends got stranded in the human realm. But now I'm here and... I'm sorry I wasn't here to help." He finished staring at his grandmother's missing arm and his grandfather's new scars.

"Oh, this?" Asked Gwen shaking her missing arm cheerfully. "It was just me getting rid of that nasty sigil because of the draining spell. I even got all my magic back which helped against the dollification things made by the collector."

"The what?" Asked Tate in confusion.

Before Dell or Gwen could answer, a knock on the door was heard and Gwendolyn immediately got ready to fight.

"Stay here! Who knows what other creatures the collector could have made!" Whispered Gwen as she slowly approached the door with her staff in hand. Dell silently prepared for a fight as he brandished his own staff.

In one swift move, Gwen opened the door and yanked the two intruders inside before quickly shutting the door behind them.

Just as she was about to end the intruders, Tate caught her staff with his hands.

"Wait! Don't kill them! They're friends!" He said in a panic, causing Gwen to take a good look at the two intruders.

It was Hunter and Willow.

"Hello, Mister and Miss Clawthorne." Said Willow with a nervous smile.

"They weren't going to actually kill us, right?" Hunter whispered to Tate.

Tate who felt the impact of the attack on his hands did not answer and took the two upstairs.

"I need to talk with them in private." Said Tate tiredly before they headed to a room upstairs.

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"Hey, are you alright?" Asked Hunter the moment the three entered the room.

"Yeah, you just suddenly stormed off." Added Willow in concern.

"Am I alright? OF COURSE I'M NOT ALRIGHT!" Exclaimed Tate with tears in his eyes. "I feel useless! My palisman is gone, my grandparents are hurt, I don't know where my mom is and I'm afraid to ask anything and hurt them and Belos is STILL out there! Worst of all, I could've stopped this if I just dealt with Belos before...before *sob*."

"Hey, c'mon, it's not your fault." Said Willow reassuringly.

"Yeah, even with the coven heads and your palisman he still survived." Added Hunter. "There was no way you could've had a way to stop him beforehand."

"Well, I should have!" Exclaimed Tate angrily.

Willow didn't know the true meaning behind those words, but Hunter did.

Hunter wanted to reassure him that THAT didn't mean he could've stopped Belos, but he couldn't do it with Willow here.

Willow, on the other hand, stared at Tate very dejectedly, feeling useless herself.

Silence descended upon the room as no one dared utter a word.

It was only when Gwendolyn's voice was heard that the silence was broken

"Witchlet! Sweet flea!"

Without wasting a second, Tate dashed downstairs in a blur.

Hunter and Willow hurriedly followed after him only to see that he had already left the house.

"Edalyn and Lilith. They were on some...shooting star heading to Bonesborough!" Said Gwen holding her granddaughter. "Tate's going after them!" She continued remembering her grandson telling her to stay with Gwenevere.

Hunter and Willow got out of the house and rode their staffs heading to Bonesborough.

"How is he that fast on foot?" Asked Willow as she saw how much Tate was ahead of them by.

"We need to go faster." Said Hunter as he began teleporting using Flapjack's magic, leaving Willow behind.

Willow felt pathetic not being able to catch up in this situation and it began to eat her up.

Meanwhile with Tate, he managed to make it to Bonesborough before anyone else. The streets were empty and there wasn't a single soul in sight.

He anxiously walked around as he thought about the collector. The kid that moved the moon like it was nothing.

Could he do anything to someone like that? Could he even save his family? Hopeless thoughts filled his head as he aimlessly traversed the streets of Bonesborough.

"Tate!" Hunter landed next to Tate only to nearly have his head blown off by a punch from the red head.

"*Sigh* you scared me." Said Tate with a sigh of relief.

"Does nonchalantly almost killing others run in your family?" Asked Hunter in fear.

"You'd be surprised." Replied Tate calmly before hearing some footsteps. "You hear that?"

"Someone's coming." Added Hunter in a serious tone.

As Tate and Hunter raised their guard, Willow came falling down from the sky and crashed into the ground.

"I'm okay! I came as fast I could!" Exclaimed Willow nervously, exposing their location as the footsteps got closer and closer.

Hunter, Tate and soon Willow all got ready to fight the shadow closing in on them.

Until it was revealed to be Gus.

The three sighed in relief. "Hey, you're here! You saw Eda, Lilith and King too?" Gus said cheerfully.

The three soon met again with the rest of the group in the empty streets of Bonesborough.

Then, HE appeared.

The whole group hid as a large group of witches turned into witch sized puppets suddenly appeared in Bonesborough.

Willow and Gus saw their parents among them, but the two were forced into place by Tate as the collector himself entered the scene.

He did a roleplay with himself as a hero who saved Bonesborough from two wild beasts. The owl beast and Lilith's beast.

The collector mimicked Luz with her light glyph to supposedly turn the beasts back into witches, but they weren't Eda and Lilith. It was two old ladies Tate remembered from the episode "Once Upon a Swap"

The two badly mimicked Eda and Lilith's behavior, causing the collector to become frustrated with them and eventually turn them into puppets.

Thankfully, he soon left with King back to the castle he hadn't seen before above the skull of titan.

"O- Okay, okay. The eyeballs in the ground are normal, but the little space cherub is the danger?" Camilla asked in confusion.

"It looked like they were playing a game." Gus remarked.

"Yeah, with some kind of messed up version of my life!" Added Luz "King must have told them about our adventures."

"And it looks like anyone who doesn't play nice, becomes a puppet." Said Tate with a frown.

"Then we need to follow them." Said Luz staring at the collector's castle.

"I don't think that's a good idea." Said a familiar voice that made Amity's eyes widen. "How about getting some help first."

"Dad?" She asked before turning to the source of the voice.

And there he was with Skara, Mat and Barcus.

Alador Blight.

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