At the Noceda household, Amity and Camila arrived in the car. They had to rush back to the school to pick it up and get it back after the Belos attack.
"Remember, grab anything that could be useful." Camila said to Amity.
"Right." Amity said with a nod.
The first thing Amity grabbed was Luz's backpack, making sure to place the palisman egg in it. Camila on the other hand, grabbed a bat... and a gun.
A M1911 to be exact. Quick and reliable with a maximum reload capacity of 7-8 bullets.
'I haven't needed this in a long time.' Camila thought, checking the amount of bullets inside.
She bought it once after she was almost mugged a couple years before Luz was born. She hasn't needed it, but it's better to have it and not need it than need it but not have it. She was responsible though, making sure that Luz didn't know about where it was, what it was, and making sure she didn't even know it existed. She kept it in a lock box and the key was inside a safe on the top of her closet. She wasn't letting Luz so much as touch it until she has been trained, though now that didn't seem like it would happen since Luz is basically a god now.
Still, Camila hoped she wouldn't need it and the bat would be enough as she pulled out a gun holster and three sleeves of extra bullets.
She had no idea what to expect, no one did.
"Camila, are you ready to go?" Amity asked, walking up to her door.
"Sí. I'm ready." Camila said, putting the holster under her left arm and putting the extra bullet sleeves in her back pocket.
"Got everything?" Camila asked.
"I'm pretty sure I did." Amity said as Camila walked up to her. "Now, hopefully we can stop Belos from whatever he is planning."
"Agreed." Camila said, adjusting her holster as she hid it under her dress shirt.
'After what he did to my daughter, I might be willing to use this gun in him and him alone.' Camila thought.
They walked back to the cave, where everyone seemed to be back to full health. Luz especially as they all sat in a circle and talked to Masha about everything.
All of which made them...VERY confused.
A world where every supernatural mystery came from? Giraffes were from the demon realm? And a god child has done who knows what to said world?
"That………sounds like a massive drug trip on some VERY bad drugs." Masha said, holding their head.
"Trust me, you're not tripping." Luz said.
"And… and you're a… God?" Masha asked, pointing to Luz.
"Kind of. Titans had incredible power, enough so that when dead, their magic brought witches and demons to life." Luz said, rubbing her chin. "So they do treat the Titan corpse they live on as their almighty god, I guess."
"Don't expect us to treat you like a god just because you have god blood. You're still the same old Luz to us." Willow said to her, snuggling a bit next to Hunter.
"I don't expect you to but I still can't believe that I missed a confession!" Luz said, pointing to Willow.
"I can't believe you're still focusing on that." Gus said to Luz.
"Hey! Excuse me for wanting to be excited for one of my best friends getting a boyfriend." Luz said, rubbing her stomach. "It makes almost being drained of blood worth if."
"Speaking of that, are you sure all the Titan's blood wasn't drained out of you?" Vee asked.
"The glyphs worked, didn't they?" Luz asked, quickly drawing a light glyph and making a light orb appear. "Also, I can feel my body crave about thirty pounds of food, mostly because I haven't eaten all day."
"Of course you are." Willow said, rolling her eyes. "But still, allow me to whip something up."
Willow reached into her pocket and pulled out various types of fruit seed packs. Grapes, strawberries, cherries, oranges, mangos, pears; she made it a habit to always carry some for personal snacks. Maybe even grow human fruit in the demon realm too.
'Hmm, grapes will be good, they can get Luz's energy back, because I think we'll need her.' Willow thought.
Grabbing the grape seed packet, Willow put the others away before tearing it open and dropping them on the ground.
"Watch this." Vee whispered to Masha as Willow drew a spell circle, aiming for the grape seeds.
The spell hit them and massive grape vines grew from the ground. Luz didn't waste time and grabbed one of the grapes, quickly eating it.
"Whoa! Look at size of these bad boys!" Masha said in awe, taking a grape from a vine. "They're the size of a baseballs!"
"Yep. Plant magic is really an amazing thing." Vee said, grabbing one herself and eating it. "Just imagine, you could end world hunger and deforestation with just a finger's worth of plant magic."
"If only I could do that without immediate suspicion from everyone." Willow said, picking a grape for herself and Hunter. "So, what do we do now?"
"Eat and regain your strength. Because soon, we'll be going into the portal." Camila said as she and Amity made themselves known.
"Mom, you're back!" Luz said, before remembering what she said before leaving and turned to the portal. "There's... no telling what's going to be on the other side."
"We know but we'll face it together." Amity said, walking up to Luz and offering her her backpack. "I made sure to put your egg in there."
"You know, it's kind of fitting that it's an egg, because Titan's do come from eggs." Luz said, opening to see her palisman egg.
"You know this how?" Hunter asked.
"King. Went looking for his origins and found out he was hatched from an egg." Luz said, closing the backpack.
The others wanted to say something but decided against it as Luz stood up. They could ask questions about Titans after everything.
"Okay, we've waited enough. We need to go through the portal before Belos manages to succeed." Luz said.
"What is he doing?" Gus asked, eating a grape.
"He's going to possess the Collector." Luz said to them, turning with a serious expression.
"WHAT?!" Everyone shouted in shock.
"That's what he was monologuing when I was being drained. Somehow, he's going to get close to the Collector and possess him. Then use their power to pick up where the draining spell left off." Luz said to them.
"We can't let that happen!" Gus shouted, his mouth full of grape.
"He thinks I'm his biggest threat, which is good, because he thinks I'm dead." Luz said, smirking a bit. "We'll use that to our advantage."
"Still, we don't know how bad things are on the Isles or exactly where the portal will spit us out." Willow said.
"Not to mention who knows how long you guys will be gone." Vee mentioned.
"We know, but we have to do this." Luz said.
'I have the power to stop it now.' She thought, turning back to the portal.
"What about me?" Masha asked.
"You can stay here with Vee to help keep a cover story." Camila said to the young person.
"That's a good idea." Vee said, liking the idea of spending more time with Masha.
"But that leaves one more question." Amity said before looking at Hunter. "How did do all of that against Belos? I thought you didn't have your own magic."
"I……I don't know either but……I'm glad to be able do it." Hunter said, putting his hand on his chest.
"That's something we can deal with later, right now, we need to stop Belos. If he possesses the Collector, then we're dead in the water." Luz said to them.
'I have a theory but I'll tell it later.' Willow thought, quickly eating one last grape before getting up.
"Then we better got going." Willow said, wiping her lips.
"I agree." Camila said, patting the bat in her hand. "I am ready to show Belos what happens when you mess with my family."
'All of them.' Camila thought, thinking of Gus, Hunter, Willow, and Amity as her kids now.
Luz and Vee, who had signed the adoption papers, already were her family.
"So, you guys ready?" Camila asked one last time.
Everyone nodded to Camila as they stood before the portal.
"Wait, one more thing." Camila said before pulling out some keys. "Vee, Masha, watch the house and the car."
Both of them nodded as Vee transformed to herself, taking the keys from her mother. The group of six looked at the portal, unsure of what they'll see on the other side.
"On three, everyone?" Luz asked to everyone.
"On three." Amity said, grabbing Luz's hand.
"One." Luz said.
"Two." Amity said.
"Three!" Everyone said, walking into the portal.
Masha and Vee watched as the portal slowly faded, running out of power, as they stood awkwardly in the cave.
"So... want to go catch a movie or something?" Masha asked.
"... Okay." Vee said, blushing a bit.
