Spells and Louds
Chapter 404: The tales from the Boiling Isles.
The Royal Fortress is somewhere within the sectors near Cretacia Island, and everyone onboard is keeping track of a Sea Emperor that is swimming by the island and providing some healing spores for them to collect and possibly use them to heal some of the injured and/or sick dinosaurs.
The Great Gate opens, and coming out is Neil, Leon, Sergei, Gwen, Lincoln, Linka, Loona, Sunset, Luna, Leni, Lori, Luan, Sam, Peter, Ember, Aggie, Jordan, Timmy and Boomer. The others are still back home and Loona and Sergei left their three pups at Spellman Estate to be watched over by Michelle Lewis and play with Lily, they just have to steer clear of Duchess since she's slightly sick.
They then make their way to the FutureTech base at the Defense Bureau. "So, any idea what the heck are we doing here?" asked Sunset.
"No clue, chances it could be a new mission" replied Leon. "The only thing we got from the message of Martin is that Gyro has something to tell us and it seems important."
"This should be good" replied Jordan.
They all make their way into the building and they enter the main meeting room and meet with the others. Martin, Victor, Jack Cyber, Tadashi, Penny, Carol, Becky, Dana, Wrathion and Hollow. Also there is Pyrrha and GLADIS is serving them some scones and drinks.
"Glad you guys came, the Guardian has been waiting to tell all of us something" said Pyrrha.
They all look to the Guardian, Gyro who is sitting on the main chair in the room. "Greetings everyone, glad you all came and you're all looking fine."
"What the heck is going on Gyro?" asked Lincoln. "What's so important for all of us to be here?"
"Is something wrong?" asked Leni. "Anything bad coming to the realms or something?"
"No, I just need to tell you guys that days ago I found the Boiling Isles and I went there all by myself and confronted the Owl Lady Edalyn Clawthorne" replied Gyro.
This shocks them, Gwen drops her scone and Sergei spits out his coffee onto Leon. "Why would you do that to me man?!"
Neil then sighs and looks to the Guardian sternly. "You?! You went to the boiling isles and confronted the most dangerous, most wanted and powerful witch in all the realms?!"
Gyro nods. "Yeah, I did and I may think we have misjudged her actions." Gyro then eats a donut and drinks some coffee. "She's not a bad person at all, we were wrong."
They were all confused even more. "Okay, hold up! Let's rewind this" said Luna. "Gyro, tell us what happened, tell us what the heck did you do and why did you even go there alone without us?"
Gyro sighs. "I knew she would be a threat, and as always to caution I took actions into my own hands so I wouldn't have to endanger you all if she would try something deadly. Recall when I was lost in Amphibia and Martin and Jack Cyber came to help me?"
"Yeah! And I almost died because of you!" yelled Martin as he also points to the pacemaker on his chest, replacing his heart. Becky was also not happy with that day.
Gyro sighs. "Yes, well just like that. I did not want any of you to be in any form of danger, so I did it myself and tried to take her down."
"Who the heck gave you the actual coordinates to her location? Did Ryze finally found where her realm is? Or was it from Doctor Strange and Doctor Faith? Alastor maybe?" asked Hollow.
Gyro then refills his coffee and drinks it. "None of them. My informant will be revealed soon, but now I should tell you all. Tell all of you what happened when I went to the Boiling Isles and what I did when I went toe-to-toe with the most wanted and powerful witch, Edalyn Clawthorne!"
"This should be good" said Aggie.
(Sunday, somewhere in the forest of the Boiling Isles.)
Gyro comes out of a portal in the sky and he flies onto the ground and morphs, he looks around the forest he's in. "So, this is it. The Boiling Isles, the land filled with demons and witchcraft and all sorts of weirdness. Sounds like my kind of place."
He then looks up and sees a half-pigeon, half-squirrel gryphon and it spits out spiders and flies off. Gyro is stunned. "Okay, so this place has some slight resemblance to that of Amphibia, and I am so glad I did not bring anyone else."
He then climbs the tree and looks around, he then spots the town of Bones Burrow and sees all the demonic, witch and monster citizens go about with they're day and also get eaten by some things.
"Wow. Messed up, and also chaotic. This sure looks like something Bill Cipher would like to do." Gyro then comes down from the tree and he hears some footsteps. "Someone's coming." He then morphs into a fallen log.
He sees two kids, well pre-teens. Both of them with pointy ears like elves. One is a girl with glasses and green hair and one is an African-American kid with brown hair and they both seem to wear a coven-style attire. 'Witches!'
They're names? Willow and Augustus (Gus). Students of Hexside school of witchcraft and demonics.
"Okay, so we go and check on Luz and see if she wants to learn from what we know from Hexside" said Willow.
"I can't wait to show Luz the new duplication spell I learned and she might even show us more earth things! Sure is a shame I'm not president of the Human Appreciation Club" said Gus. "But what matters is that I have friends! And chances Luz will make her way to the school soon!"
"Let's hope Eda is even in the mood to let us into her house" said Willow. They then make their way through the woods and use what they recall to look for the Owl House.
Gyro then morphs back and sees them. "So, they know where the Owl Lady lives, this is my advantage." He then morphs into the darkness and follows them to the home of the Owl Lady.
(The Owl House.)
The house itself is alive, well mostly the owl face on the door named Hooty. "Hoot, hoot. Time for another day to check on my friends." He stretches towards the kitchen and sees his friends are awake and tending to some things they found from earth, or what Eda calls them trinkets and junk top sell to suckers in the Boiling Isles.
"Hey guys, so what are you doing?" Hooty is then tossed a book onto him.
"Stay out of this Hooty, we're busy" replied Eda.
Edalyn Clawthorne – A tall and slender woman with ivory skin, ears, maroon lips and golden eyes. Her untamed hair is thick, long and layered with two-tones of gray. She has a single golden fang, orange claw-like nails and an oval amber gem on her sternum.
She wears a sleeveless two-tone maroon dress with ripped like hem design and gray leggings. Her jewelry consists of two orange spherical earrings and an amber spherical ring. For footwear, she wears maroon high-heeled boots.
Owlbert – a little owl that can detach from the staff of Eda, Eda made Owlbert from the branch of an ancient tree and they are bonded for like, he serves as the palisman to the staff and Eda will annihilate anyone who tries to hurt him.
Eda then sees a bobble head of a cheese man. "Huh, well this could sell. So glad Owlbert got these from your earth, anything on your end guys?"
Luz then finds an old Ukulele. "What country did Owlbert get these from? Some of them seem Hawaiian."
Luz Noceda – A Dominican-American, and only human there. 14 Year's old with tan skin, dark brown hair and hazel-brown eyes. Wearing a pair of ebony earrings, half-white and half-periwinkle hoodie with cat ears attached to the hood, high-waisted jean shorts, dark gray leggings and a pair of white slip-on shoes.
Luz then goes through the sack from which Owlbert brought earlier. "Some of this isn't even from the home I was in, what the heck is this even doing here?" She finds a big black and bushy hat that British guards wear in London. "Hey King, anything from you?"
They're third housemate is being lazy and lying on top of the sack. "Less talking more napping."
King – Almost canine in looks. Fur is dark gray. Although his torso and the tip of his tail are covered in light gray fur. He has three fingers and two toes that look like white claws. His mouth does not open, unless he's eating.
He wears a red collar with a yellow ta and has pink eyes with yellow sclera. The highlight of his appearance is a dog0like skull with horns and one of which is broken. He says he's the king of demons, sure right! Like we believe that cute little bundle of joy.
Eda looks to King and is annoyed by his ways and she uses her magic to make him hover and land onto the sack. "Stop being lazy and help us, bad enough you have to live here and sleep wherever you want."
King gets up and starts searching. "This is no way for a king such as myself to deal with!"
Then they hear a knock on the door. "Hooty go see who it is" said Eda.
"What's the password?" Hooty then sees the annoyed look from his house master. "Okay, okay. Sheesh. Learn to take a joke, hoot." He then goes back to his place and sees who it is and he calls out. "Luz, you're school friends are here."
Luz smiles and gets up. "Gus and Willow!" She then goes over to the door.
"Good, we could use some extra hands to help look for something useful" said Eda as she keeps looking through the box and she finds something. "Now, this will make me rich!" She found an air freshener the shape of a pine tree. "And it smells like some place I went to, what was it called? Gravity something?"
Luz opens the door and sees her two friends. "Hey guys, so whatcha doing here?"
"We came here to show you some new magic's you could learn and we look forward to seeing you in Hexside soon" said Gus. Then he sees what Eda is doing. "Human things! I wanna help!"
"Good, start with the sack here." Eda points to the large sack and this makes Gus happy.
Luz then looks to Willow. "So, does Amity know where Eda lives? Is she coming along too?"
"She said she had to try and finish her talk with the others, so I left a hidden trail for her to follow when she's done and it's gonna be nice to have someone be friends with, again" said Willow nervously.
"You still upset after what happened between the two of you long ago?" asked Luz. Willow sighs and nods. "Well don't worry, Amity is changed and I know she too would wanna be friends with you as well."
"Hey, what about that guy?" asked Hooty. They then see a mysterious figure in a hood coming out of the bushes.
"Ah. So, this is where she lives, very rustic if I do say so myself" said Gyro. "Now, Edalyn Clawthorne! Come out and surrender or be taken down with ruthless aggression and brutal force!"
Eda comes out and sighs. "You gotta be kidding me? Look pal, no refunds and whatever I did, I did not do anything wrong, yet. Also, how the heck did you know where I live?" She then looks to Gus and Willow.
"We don't know who he is, honest!" said Willow.
"We only let Amity know, she's Luz's friend and she also wants to talk about some book" said Gus who comes out of the sack wearing a propeller hat saying "Number 1 Baby Girl!"
Eda then looks to the stranger. "Who the heck are you? I don't know if you're new around here to I haven't seen someone as strange and mysterious as you around the Boiling Isles."
Gyro chuckles. "Let's just say, I'm the guy who's gonna take you down before you do any more damage!" He sends a bolt of arcane which Eda dodges and she creates a circle and it shoots out fire, but Gyro uses his cloak to shield him. "So, you have chosen more than one coven, very impressive."
Eda smirks. "Thanks stranger." She then summons her staff by her side, she spins it to look cool but she drops it and then picks it back up. "I meant to do that."
"But not impressive enough!" Gyro slams his staff onto the ground and makes a cloaking barrier around the house and a portion of the forest.
Meanwhile, Amity is following the hidden trail that Willow left behind. Amity Blight has the same attire as Willow and Gus, but it's in violet and she has teal hair and is around the same height as Luz.
Amity then dodges and makes it into the weird barrier that appears.
"Whoa! Something must be wrong." Amity gets up and she follows the trail to where the Owl House is and to help her friends.
Eda, Luz, King, Willow and Gus see the barrier. "What the heck did you do?" asked Willow.
Gyro then spins his staff and he places it onto his shoulder. "This barrier keeps everything in and everythin else out, and no one will know the fight that happened here. We're cloaked, besides." Gyro's eyes glow green. "If anyone is taking you down, then it better be me! Guardian of the Realms!"
Eda then thinks. "Guardian? Guardian? Guardian? Why does that sound familiar?"
"Eda, you know this dude?" asked Luz.
Then Eda realizes. "No, no I don't. Hey! Do you have a name stranger?"
"Yes I do, but you won't be conscious to know it!" Gyro sends a wave of arcane and Eda pushes the kids aside and she spins her staff to deflect it. She then teleports behind him, but Gyro grabs her and he tosses her away but she lands on her feet.
"Wow! Now this is a fight of equal might, kinda like my sister!" Eda then creates circles in the air that summon a tentacle columns with the face of an owl to attack Gyro.
Gyro smirks and he sends bolts of fire to destroy her summons. "Yes, yes it is. I usually have to deal with threats that don't compare to the might of a Guardian, and yet we have a witch with that same equal might!" He then summons a hailstorm of ice bolts from the sky.
Eda then teleports away and she tries to hit Gyro with her staff, but Gyro uses his staff to stop her and it turns into a melee between the Guardian and the Owl Lady. Owlbert is then deployed to attack Gyro's head, but he grabs the little owl and tosses him into the house.
"Owlbert! You're gonna pay for that!" Eda then uses her magic to make a slime abomination. "Abomination, attack!" The creature groans and goes after Gyro.
Gyro smirks. "Nice summon, but I can do better!" He summons a Sludge Monstrosity from Azeroth and it devours the slime abomination.
The kids are shocked at what this guy can do. "I think I'm gonna have nightmares, and not the food ones" said King, he cowers behind Luz.
Eda creates a wave of fire to destroy what Gyro summoned, but then she gets hit in the face by Gyro's diamond forged fist. Eda hits the side of her house and next to Hooty.
"Can you guys fight somewhere else?" asked Hooty. "You're making cracks on me! Hoot!"
"Can it Hooty!" Eda gets up and wipes away some blood from her mouth and she lunges forward to the guardian and her staff is now on fire, and her eyes almost turning black.
Luz sees this. "Eda! You're curse!"
Gyro then deflect her attack, he grabs her hair and he slams her onto the ground. His staff turns into a spear, and Eda dodges it and she sends a bolt of ice at him, but Gyro teleports the bolt and it almost hits Amity who comes out from the bushes. "What the heck?!"
Amity watches as the Owl Lady Eda is fighting someone who is making it hard for her to fight, so Amity intervenes and she also blasts some fire which hits Gyro on his arm, but does nothing.
Gyro looks to her. "Little witch." He uses his magic to ensnare her into some vines.
"Amity!" Luz and the others to over to free her. "Willow, use you're magic on the plants!"
Willow does this and Amity is free. "Thanks guys, but who the heck is this guy and what the heck is going on?!"
"He said he wanted Eda, possibly he could be a bounty hunter, but he said he's a guardian or something" said Gus. "Also, this barrier won't let us leave or anyone in, so we're all stuck here."
They continue to watch as Eda struggles to fight this guy. Eda is almost worn out, but Gyro stands tall. "You look tired witch, maybe you should lay down and give up!" said Gyro.
"No …. Never, and …..How the heck am I even, tired?" Eda uses her staff to support her.
"Life drain!" yelled Amity. "He's been using a life drain spell on you while you were fighting!"
Gyro smirks. "The kid is smart, but you're not Edalyn!" His hands glow and he has Fel Fire and his staff and hair glows and burns of Fel Fire. "Time for a finale! Any more tricks left Edalyn!" He lunges forward and is about to strike her down.
Eda uses her staff to hold off his hands and staff. "N-No spells, but …. But I do have one l-last trick up my sl-sleeve!" She smirks and her hair is suddenly looking like feathers.
Luz sees this. "Eda! No, the curse!" Willow and Gus hold her so she doesn't get hurt.
Eda's eyes and her amber turn black and her teeth turn razor sharp, she then smiles and she suddenly grows big and she now looks like some kind of Owl Beast, on all fours, wings on the back, a wolf-like tail and big ears. She roars at her opponent and tosses her staff aside. Also, she's wild and not easy to reason with.
Gyro smirks. "Finally." He then deflects her claw attacks and then pushes her back with a fist made of stones. Eda gets up and roars and charges at him, but Gyro ensnares her into some roots and then blasts her away with a bolt of flame.
Eda breaks free from her friends. "Eda! Stop!"
"Luz! What are you doing?! Get back here!" yelled Amity.
Eda gets up and charges at Gyro and tries to slash him, but he steps aside and grabs her tail, and with magical might he tosses her into the air and he shows his large raven wings and flies upwards and then he slams Eda back to the ground with a powerful Thunder bolt strike.
Luz then moves out of the way as Eda hits the ground hard. "Eda!" She goes over and sees Eda's cursed owl form fades and she turns back to normal. "Eda! Are you okay?! Please be okay!"
Eda tries to get up, but she falls back to her knees and Owlbert comes out of the house and goes to her. "Luz …. G-Get out of here, n-now. Y-You'll get hurt."
"No! I'm not leaving you Eda!" said Luz. She tries to help her up, but she can't help her since Eda is badly hurt from the constant attacks and the life drain aura effect.
"Luz! Eda!" Amity, Willow and Gus try to help, but they get caught in an isolation mana barrier, they try to break free but they can't.
Luz then sees Gyro land down with his large Raven Wings. "Now, to finish you off before something else comes to take your power!"
Eda coughs and looks to Luz. "Luz, go home. G-Go back to the human world, you're n-not safe here anymore." Eda then feels like collapsing, but Luz helps her.
Luz sees Gyro walking towards them, she sheds some tears and gets in front of him. "No! Stay back!" She then pulls out some paper and writes a symbol.
Gyro is confused. "Kid, what the heck are you doing?"
"Magic!" Luz touches the symbol on the paper and ice comes out, but Gyro makes fire to melt the ice.
"Okay, that was slightly impressive, but learning just that isn't gonna get you anywhere. Now stand aside, and let me take her down!" said Gyro.
"No! I'm not letting you hurt Eda! She may be a bad person to some people, but deep down she's not a bad person. She's wise, kind, sassy, awesome, cool and the best teacher I have ever met! And she believes that I can become a witch, just like her! We weirdoes have to stick together!" Luz gets in his way with tears in her eyes.
"Luz." Eda sheds some tears seeing how much Luz would help her, even from her most dangerous of enemies. Even Amity and the others felt touched at what Luz is doing.
Gyro sees this. "What's your name child?"
"Luz, Luz Noceda and I am a witch apprentice!" said Luz. She then pulls out another paper to make another rune, but Gyro stops her.
"That won't be necessary and probably won't work." Gyro then pushes her aside and he goes to Eda. Luz tries to stop him by hitting his chest, but he goes to Eda. "Edalyn Clawthorne, tell me why you contain more power than any kind of witch? What coven have you joined?"
Eda sighs. "None! If you're here from the Emperor's Coven to take me away, then might as well just finish me! I'd rather die than be turned into one of the Emperor's lackeys!"
"No!" Luz goes over and hugs Eda. "Don't Eda! Please!"
Gyro then sees things as they truly are and his hands glow bright yellow. Eda, Luz and everyone thought he might end her, but instead Eda sees her injuries are gone and she no longer feels exhausted. "What the? What the heck are you doing?"
Gyro then has her staff and he lets Owlbert back on top. He then hands her the staff back. "I'm not with the Emperor's coven, I came here because I thought you were a dangerous being who would end up sending chaos and ruin through the realms. But no, you're not. Instead I just see a common witch outlaw who just wants to be herself and not rely on covens to make her choices and live her life free from any form of rules."
"As a wielder of more spells, I too do not like it when a being wishes to do more magic, when they are told to only possess one by chosen coven. You inherit more magic than any witch I have ever known and I guess I made a mistake coming here to take you down. My apologies Edalyn Clawthorne." Gyro helps her up.
"So, you're not gonna kill me or turn me over?" asked Eda.
Gyro then removes the cloaking barrier and frees the kids from the other barrier. "No, but I would like to know more on how this human girl found your world and why she would want to be taught by someone like you."
(End Flashback.)
"So, she told me everything. Luz coming to the Boiling Isles after chasing Owlbert who took her book, the many foes they faced, teaching her some magic, dealing with her curse and letting Luz go to the school of Hexside. Eda is not a bad or vile person, she's just a witch who wants to be her own person and away from the laws that bind her" said Gyro.
They were all shocked and happy by this. "Wow. Nice, looks like things went well" said Neil.
"Yes, I told the others about her and they are also seeing she's not so bad after all" replied Gyro.
"Did you at least ask Luz if she wanted to go back home?" asked Luan.
"She said she'll think about it, in the meantime I'll be keeping tabs on Edalyn and her students and I even offered them a visit to our earth, and this made Eda happy and also those witch kids" said Gyro.
Lincoln chuckles. "Looks like we got some new guests coming to visit soon, we just have to remain cautious on when they're coming. You did make a Great Gate right?"
"Aye, I did lad" replied Gyro. "I even added two Scourge gargoyle statues to guard it, the gate is built behind the Owl House, and they can go through whenever they want."
"I guess what you did was nice to go to the Boiling Isle's alone, if we'd have come then we might have brought the whole Royal Fortress, or the Aegis Battlecruiser" replied Sergei.
Gyro chuckles. Yeah, that is true. And now to tell you guys who my informant is."
Then Bill Cipher appears next to Gyro. "Hey there everyone! Who wants a screaming head?"
He summons a screaming head onto the table and they all panic from the sight, and Luna impales it with her Runeblade, Sergei and Boomer are laughing at it though.
Gyro sighs. "Yup, I have a lot more to explain to everyone."
"It feels good to be here everyone!"
To be continued …..
A/N: Seems like Gyro took care of things with the cast from the show "The Owl House" and he has a lot to explain about their newest ally, Bill Cipher from "Gravity Falls" Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 7/27/20 – 7/28/20.